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'The DEVIL'S MANTLE: In the Cave ' They made their way along, 'hen, for a little while in silence. fhe cave had become so narrow 10w that were forced to walk In single file~Peter ahead with the lantern, Marion a step behind. And at times now the roof dipped sharp- ly, and they were obliged to stoop, and once almoat to crawl for a yard or so; but they ide quite rapid progress in spite of these difcul- ties and had traversed perhaps a quarter of a mile when Marion spoke again. "Peter, ** she sald suddenly, "you --you sald a little while ago, be- fore we came in here, that some- thing had happened tonight to make it almost an impossibility for you ever to--to prove your imno- cence; and yet just a few minutes agb you said you had found out tonight that Tajal Ali was one of those who----who killed Daddy Tom, I don't understand, Peter, Surely it is just the other 'way around----- since you know that Tajal All was one of the murderers." "Tajal Ali is dead," said Peter grimly, "That is the answer to your question, He died almost be- fore I grasped the fact that he was the man I wanted." "But, Peter," she cried, "even if he is dead, he was not alone at Daddy Tom's island, When you told me your story, you said there were a lot of natives and a ship; and if you know that he was there, then it must have been with this same ship and these same men who are here now. If we can manage TRUSSES "hen siie" Guaranteed to hold any. ° rupture Made in 10 different styles, both Elastic and Spring XARN THE DRUGGIST Phoge 878--next P.0, Abdominal Belts, Shoulder Braces, Elastic Hosiery and . Arch Supports Men's Dress Socks, 35c, $1 Special, 3 pair for , ,. 1.Collis © Soi Collis ons 50-04 King St. W, = Phone "83W Opp. Ceitre St. to get away from here, from this island, surely we can find our way back, and---and--bring the author {ties--and capture them." Peter shook his head, "We might do that," he said; "but there is no proot agats any one of them, and they've native cunning emough and to spare not to convict themselves. With Tajal All it was a different matter, | knew him to be the man, Not much in the way of proof--only a laugh-~but a laugh one could never forget, and=------" "I--I heard it tonight," she said in a low, strained way, "Yes," sald Peter~--and sudden. ly his voice was hoarse, and he laughed out mirthlessly, 'Well, Tajal All would mot have escaped trial and conviction--I would have seen to that! With Tajal All core nered, some of these others might have been made to talk if they thought they could save their awn skins. But with Tajal Ali gone--" "Yes; I know!' interrupted Ma- rion swiftly, "But there is always the connection between them." "Connection!" Peter cried out sharply--and laughed mirthlessly again, "And if there were! And if they could be brought to ac- count! And even if Tajal Ali were still alive! I am a fool! I have lost my head tonight because I heard Tajal Ali laugh, There is still the murder of Jaffray on board the Isis----and there is no connee- tion in respect of that, for Tajal |All wasn't there--and none of these men were there!" He felt her hand reach out and creep into his, "Oh, Petey--Peter,"" she whis- pered, "what does it mean?" But now Peter ghook his head again, and made no answer---only for a little while he held Marion's hand tightly in his as they went along. It was Marion who broke the si- lence again, "It isn't because I am afraid, Peter," she sald hesitantly, 'or be. cause I want to think of difficul- ties, that 1 am asking this; but, eyen if there is a way out ef this cave, what will we do then? This is an island, of course, and we wil! still have to get away from it." "I asked Aghar Pind the same question," "I don't blame you for asking it-- I only wonder that you haven't asked it before, According to Ag- har Pind the island on the other side of this mountain is large and thickly wooded, and so there should be no difeculty in keapiug safely hidden as long as it is neces- sary, He said that, so far as Le ur any of the crew knew, there is only June Bride's Silverware _-- needs IN E Holmes & Edwards way is both easy and inexpensive. You can start the June Bride on her way to complete silverware service, your gif Silverplate Statting Servicomone Of four successive sets which finally build into 2 complete service of silverware. 'The bride can later take the next step --add the Essential Service, always remaining faithful to the pattern you originally chose. The third step-- whenever convenient select the Ade- quate Service. 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And he said that sometimes from the deck of the brig; when the night was clear, he has seen the sentinel 'sailing back to the island in a large boat, He also said that there were a great number of islands around here, and some of them only a few miles away; and his was to make from one to another of these unti{ 'we-could find rgd men, and so get back to elviliaation, That's all I know, Marlon--~except that, somehow or other, we must get hold of that boat, and----" He broke off abruptly, with a sharp and sudden. -exclamation. "Look!" he said. They had turned a corner in the cave and were faced with a blank wall, "It doesn't go any farther!" Ma. rion exclaimed in dismay. "No," said Peter gravely; 'and there isn't any door or opening-- or any keyhole" "Perhaps," sHe suggested hope- fully, 'there was a passage that branched off somewhere there be hind us, and we Missed it as we came along." Peter shook his head, "No," he said decisively. "I was particularly on the lookout for auys thing of that sort. The, only pass- age is the one along 'which we have come, I'm afraid it's a cul de sac, The natives are full of this sort of romancing#-a cave that is opened with a key!" "But the opening, or exit, if there is one," said Marion quickly, "need not necessarily be here ex- actly at the end of the passage® We merely took it for granted that it was, didn't we, and so weren't look- ing for it anywhere else?" \ Peter's lantern was sweeping in all directions around him---and suddenly he stooped and picked up something fromy the ground, "No," he sald sharply; "if it's The Burnt Match Clue "Warion leaned forward, ' A burnt match!" Her brows gathered, and she stared at Pe- ter, Yes!" sald Peter, and there was a note of excitement in his voice now. "Somebody has been here, and Aghar Pind.sald that no one except Tajal Alli and some of the other chiefs were ever allowed to come into the cave, and there {is certainly nothing inviting epough about this spot to bring them this far if the opening were farther baek," "Then it is here!' eried Marion eagerly, "I'm sure of it now! Search, Peter! Search every inch of the walls! Give me the lantern and you use your matches!" Peter nodded, handed the lan- tern to Marion, struck a mateh, aud bent close to the sgetion of the wall nearest him, passing the little flame slowly and carefully over the sur. face of the rock until the match burned his fingers and went out. He struck another match--and an- other, And suddenly it all seem- ed an impossible, madd and insane thing that he was doing! Just sol- id rock everywhere, seamed and scarred, and jagged! A little way oft from him Marion's lantern flickered up and down-----and some- thing of her eagerness and the as- surance with which she seemed to carry on her task eame to him again, and he went on gayly, dog~ gedly, lighting more matches, Theye were not many matches left, He counted them. Eight! He dared not use them all, Well, two more then--that would leaye a little reserve for any emergency and "Peter!" Her voice came shaken with excitement, "I've got it! I'm sure I have! Give me the key, Pe- ter! Quick!" He ran instantly to her side, "Where?" he asked tensely, as "What have you found?" "See!" she said--and held the lantern close to what appeared te be no more than a minute fissure or tiny fault in the rock. "Let me try the key! I know it will fit!" She seized the key, and, with trem- bling fingers, thrust jt into the lit. tle aperture. "It's moving!" she cried. "See, Peter----see! We've A Way Out! A great irregular slab of rock. as though it were falling away from the wall where its seams ran silently inward--and Peter stared like a man bereft of his senses. The other side of the slab was wood covered, obviously a section of a panel; and, through the opening which was some 4 feet high apd 3 feet wide, he could see into a room which was flooded with moon- light. Marion's voice came in an awed. almost frightened whisper now: "It into a house. Peter. What does it mean?" "I don't know." Peter answered in an un- dertone, "except that we must take care not to make any noise." He took the lantern from her hand and extinguished it, then returned it to her. "We'll get the trick of this panel first--in case we have to boit back in here." He pressed gently at first, then with all his strength against the slab of rock, but could not moye it--nor did any manipus- tion of the key have any effect up- | found it1" re," + Yi A ", Peter answered quietly. anywhere, it's here! Look at this! Out there she breath- "Look, Peter--look! through the Window!" ed wildly, The window, low-silled and give ing on a veranda, was at one end of the room quite close to where they stood. It was wide open, and, through it, Peter's startled gaze fixed upon the placid surface of a lagoon a short distance away, where, bathed in the moonlight, a ship lay at anchor a few vB yards out from shore. "I'm not mad, am I, Peter?" she breahed again, "You know what boat that is! Tell me I'm not mad, Peter!" "It's--it's the Isis!" pered, The Other Side of the Island OR a moment they stood as though spellbound, staring out through the window; then Marion spoke again: "Then--~then they've brought the Isis here, too, and father n But Peter had become suddenly aware of a low murmur of voices from near at hand, and now he laid his fingers quickly upon Marion's lips, In the few seconds that had elapsed since they had entered the room his eyes, riveted there in startld amazement, had not left the window; but now he looked erities ally around him, It was a large rodm, a very large room, and in the moonlight he could see that around the walls and making two aisles down the centre were long rows ofrglass cases, while the walls themselves were hung with all sorts of native objects--like a room in a museum, he thought. A little way down the room on the other side was a partially opened door, titrough which there seemed a faint glow of light, and it was from this doorway, he now discovered, that the voices came, Perplexed furrows gathered on Peter's forehead. here was somes thing here that he did not.unders stand--like pieces of a puzzle that would not fit together, If Taal Ali had intended to make captives of everybody on the Isis, and even bring the Isis to the island, why Peter whis- bad he not left' Marion on board? - |{She would bave been eqaully in bis besides power and A voice, no longer » a murmar, but as though raised in exaspera~ tion and impatience, came suddenly from the room with the partially closed door: "Curse it, what's keeping Ta)a: Ali? He should have been here by now!™ Peter felt his arm grasped quick- ly, almost convulsively, as though Marion was suddenly unsteady on her feet and was clinging to him for support. He looked at her anx. fously, Perhaps it was the effect of the moonlight, but her face seems ed to have gone deathly white, "That's Mr. Rand's voice!" she whispered tensely, "Peter-Pe- ter!" She was trembling violently, Don't you understand, Peter? And this is' his house--here--and con- nected with that awful place back '| there!" And Peter stared at her--and his brain for a moment was in tur- moil, Rand's voice~--yes! He rea. lized now that it had sounded vaguely familiar, It was Rand's voice, of course--and Rand was asking for Tajal Ali; but the house "How do house?" he citedly, "Because of his, room," she an- swered instantly, "I am sure of it. Look at all those glass cases, and those curious objects on the walls! It can't be anything but a museum, oy part of one! Don't you knew that Rand is recognized everywhere asa an authority en na- tive life, and that his collection of all sorts of things pertaining to the manners and customs of the va- rious races in this part of the world is quite famous?" "No," said Peter--and his hands clenched siddenly at his sides; *1 didn't know it." "Phat--that was really the pre- text for our visit--to spend a few days on his island and see his cel- eletion." Marion was staring wildly now across the room at the lighted door. way, 'Oh, Peter!" The hlood was racing madly now through Peter's veins, Snatches of what Aghar Pind had told him pounded at. his brain: The chief that was above Tajal Ali * * * the chief who was a white man, but who was always disguised as a na- tive aboard the brig. Yes! And there had been a white man there that night at Murchison's island-- a white man's voiee. The voices were again. "If it's true!" The words came in a mad, low rush from Peter's lips,, "My Cod; if this is true, then Rand is the head and front of these beasts, and the real murderer of Tom Murchison--and it's no won- der Tajal Ali's lair has never been found, for the whole island here is camouflaged hy Rand's selentific reputation, Who could ever search this island for the hiding piace of a hand of cutthroats under sneh conditions? And it accounts "for you know it's his whispered back ex- murmuring |, he pulled the key from his pocket, | Splendid Quality Electric' Range Faft--Efficient--Durable Just think! Al she kill, al tin sapesicace grined, through years of study in mange manufadure are of this HAPPY, THOUGHT 1 diene A Co, Cod od Vid Rags od Wi 7 --We for it any- BASSETT'S, Jewellers, 1 Simcoe Street South -- Oshawa E. BURNS, 23% Simcoe Street South + Oshawa A. O. FELT, 14 King Street East ~ Oshawa FELT BROS., 12 Simcoe Street South -- Oshawa But Marion was leaning througa the opening. staring into the room beyond; and mow, suddenly, she reached back, and, clasping him forward mumtil they both i in Jthe room itself. SE -- Sold in Oshawa by A British Empire Product EEE THE OSHAWA /A DAILY TIMES, MONDAY. MAY 26, 1928 more---something Captain Mumm told me---of many crimes that have been committed im the last few years where certain mecessary ime side knowledge was first obtained in a way that no one could fathom, Rand would have had the entree anywhere and woulld have welcomed and even lionized by men of standing wherever he went." "And--and if it's true," said Ma- rion~--and now there was a sudden hororor in her voice and eyes, "he was responsible for the whole trip and the capture of the Isis, though I don't see how he did it; and-- and--he even asked me to marry him, Why---why did he do that? Why is the Isis hcre now? Where is father? Peter, Peter, what are we to do?" "We're going to se who'" vhe Ir there with Rand, if we ean, Pe- er answered grimly, 'Be careful now--don't let them hear us!™ To Be Continued FOUR MONTHS TO REACH KINGSTON Flight Officer B. G. Cam Harris Writes from Hudson Straits A letter just received from Flight Officer B, G. Carr-Harris, who is with the Hudson Strait Expedition, reached Kingston after a four months' trip, It was dated Wake- ham Bay, January 22nd, and was carried by an Eskimo dog-team to Payne Bay, Chimo, Fort McKenzie, from whence it was transported by Indians in a canoe to Seven Islands, in the St, Lawrence and from thence by Air Mail to Ottawa and from Ot- tawa to Kingston by rail, reaching here in four months and three days. Mr, Carr-Harris said that the thermometer to that date had aver- aged 20 below, and that they had not experienced much inconvenience from cold as they wore cariboo "cou- letangs,"' seal pants, boots, mitts, and flying helmets, The quarters were very comfort: able and they had succeeded in lay- ing in a good supply of cariboo and Avetie salmon-trout. This was - a treat for they had been months with- out fresh meat, he said, They got a ptarmigan occasionally and lots of seal liver which he declared goes very well with bacon, Wageham Bay (which is between Ungava and Hudson Bay) is is level as a billiard table, and about ten miles square, On a clear day they can look across the Straits to Baffin Land, a distance of sixty-five miles, "The work had been most success ful and we have discovered many in- teresting and valuable things re. garding ice conditions," he writes, They may continue operations for another season but will get a relief of personell if they do not wish to remain, They are establishing an- other base at Churchill, "We have an A-1 radio short wave, The reception is not as good in the spring as in the winter months, 1 am having lots of experience in handling dog teams and lots of skiing and never felt: better in my lifef," Mr. Carr-Hafris concludes, LOST on STRAYED--A RIVER Trujillo, eru, May 27.--By the road from here to Salaverry, the nearest port, stands a costly con- crete bridge spanning dry ground. 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