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aN THE TIGER TRA Edison MatSall « Jiussations by Mu men ph i $5 23588 ii th g at once. Dn, Emest go out on the in the rain looking for the tracks of a tiger that Ernest tracks, Later E Long see a wling creature in the hall of outhley Downs, This frightens the elder Hayward, who alsa sces it. Ernest begins to feel that Ah- hd Das is perpetrating some The elder Hayward is later found dead, his meck broken as if by a giant's blow, The coroner and police arrive in order to investigate, Because of the murder, Dr, Long must vemain at Southley Downs, All the persons Here are tion y, Inspector Freeman, "or. Long becomes jealous of the love he believes to exist be- tween Vilas Hayward and Jo sephine During the course of in. vestigations of the evime Dr, mes suspicious of a o determines to watch him, , Robin turns out to be Alexander Pierce, the detective, Now read on-- "But it seems you trusted every one else," I glanced toward South- ley and his daughter, "Naturally Mr, Southley knew it. I came at his invitation--and your own, of course, too, Long. Miss Southley learned the truth just this evening, and I consider it a distinet reflection on the ability of her father and myself to judge character that we waited so long in making her an ally, But I will say--its more her father's fault than mine." "You must remember that my ac- quaintance with my daughter was somewhat slight." Southley explain. ed. "She has been away to school so much--only here a few weeks. Be- sides--she did know a few things, I'm sorry 1 didn't tell her more." Father and daughter exchanged smiles. Josephine herself seemed changed. It was curious that I had not noticed it the moment I step- ped inte the room. There was a new ight in her eyes, a rising of the delicious color that plaved ever in her cheeks, Again 1 saw tne smile that I had marvelled at that night in the drawing-room long ago. Evi- dently there had been developments in the mystery of which I was not aware, "Remember, we will need your son too," Alexander told my host. Alexander and I walked together into the drawing-room, and we had a minute's talk at the foot of the stairs, "I'm going to my room now," he explained. "It's a maid's room on the third floor, but it fits my purpose perfectly, I have a iew chemical ex- periments to make." "Of course it was you who de- stroyed the evidence on the white stone." "Not destroyed it. Merely gathered it up. 1 wanted to make some blood tests. And it pained me to cause you and the inspector so much disap- pointment."" "I imagined it would!" Then we had a little gether, It was all too plain that a deep professional jealousy existed between such free-lance experts as Alexander and staff detectives like Inspector Freeman, "But why in the world did you tear that piece from Ahmad's shirt?" I asked, Alexander laughed again--a boyish, joyous sound that died quickly in the silence of the room, "I'm afraid that is evidence of my quixotic nature," he said, "But I had fo have a sample of the blood- stains; and I knew it would break Freeman's heart if I took the whole shirt, So I just tore out the piece." He sobered and became very busi- nesslike, That was one of the mars vels of the man, One minute he was the best of comrades--boyish, laugh- ing, irresponsible, The next, he was the cool-headed, tireless sleuth with every nerve and muscle alert, "There's work for tomorrow," went on swiftly, "You'll have your part to do, So will Southley have his part, and his two children, To- morrow I'm going to take the boat on a little expedition--over to the plateau, You are to meet me on the path at my return--just after night- fall, You can have the inspector with laugh to- he THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1928 you if you like. Southley and his daughter will be close about, and they will know their parts. The hour to strike is almost here." "And Vilas? What about him? And Ahmad?" . "Ahmad is the suspected murderer, I'm afraid Vilas won't do." "But - Josephine Southley would think otherwise," I told him with some bitterness. "You must know-- thatgthey are allies. You couldn't have missed that point." "Allies?" he echoed coldly. "What do you mean?" "She's going to marry him--that's what I mean, And she's bitterly against me, Thinking that her lover might be accused of the murder of his father, she told the detective things that implicated me and got him to hold me here." He turned and started up the stairs, "Sometimes, Dr. Long," he told me slowly, "your mental grasp is quite astonishing--for its perfect and abounding aptitude to make a fool of yourself." And he left me to ponder in the halls 'below, Inspector Freeman -- who had learned the truth at last -- and 1 walked down to the shore with Pierce at eleven o'clock the next morning, The rowboat waited for my friend, and in it were two strong colored men to row, Alexander had put on hip-boots and was armed with a heavy rifle. And it was plain to sce that Freeman was entirely con- temptuous of the whole proceed- ings. "You're a funny one, Pierce," he spoke jokingly--and at the same time meant every word he said. "In the first place, coming with all that stage scenery on yourself. It takes one of you correspondence school detectives to do stunts like that, I suppose you thought that the murderer would re- cognize your. determined face from your picture in'the newspapers--and make himself scarce before you could get out the handeuffs." "Rather a different reason, my dear inspector," Alyexander answer- ed him as he began to slip the great cartridges into the magazine of the heavy rifle. "It wasn't the murderer I was so frightened of. In the first place, I didn't want you to leave the scene in disgust as you might have done upon recognizing me, You were doing too good work." "You needn't have been afraid of that, The man was already in my hands, And I'm glad you appreciate the work I have done." "Perfectly, Freeman, perfectly, Tt was particularly clever the way you found the shirt," "Of gourse, you were in the hall all the time." Service on the Jum Call US on the telephone if you have battery trouble. We will be on our way to YOU on the jump. You will be on YOUR way again in a jiffy, Perhaps this is the time to tell you that very few of our "regulars" have battery troubles, We sell them WILLARDS, and we take care of them after they are sold. Yours service, Yours for saving, for Ontario Battery Service King St. W. Phone 925 "Of course. 1 wondered what you and my good friend Long were going to do. "I suppose you know that the shirt is going to put the noose about Ah- mad's neck?" "One can never tell, inspector." "It's a piece of evidence that can- not be questioned--although 1 admit the final tests as to the authenticity of the stains has not yet been made." "And besides, Freeman--there .are other reasons why I thought it best that certain occupants of this house didn't recognize me," Alexander went on seriously, "It would help out in the end. I confess I don't care for disguises as a rule. - And now I must bid you good day, and go search vonder jungle for the murderer of Hayward." Freeman laughed uproariously. "With a rifle, too!" he exulted. "I'd think vou were going elephant hunting. - Of all the quixatic enter- prises! You can't believe that the murderer is still at large, when 1 haye him under my constant super- vision in the house! Pierce, I have every admiration for your qualities, but I assure you you are making the mistake of your career." "Every one has to make mistakes sometimes, inspector," Alexander re- turned quietly. "Besides--I don't suppose you remember about the breaking of the levee--how the mur- derer would have time to cross the isthmus to the plateau, but couldn't possibly go farther?" "I remember that perfectly, But the real murderer didn't try to cross at all. He came back into the house." % "Then there's the matter of the scratches--and the legend, and the rest of it, None of these things must be overlooked, Freeman. And I'll meet you both soon after dark." We watched the negroes row away across the dark swamp water. He was gone all afternoon. Once it seemed to me that I heard the far- off echo of two rifle shots, but I couldn't he sure. Freeman continued his investigations. Vilas walked about on the green hillside like a hunted man. The long afternoon waxed hot, the shadows lengthened, the sun cast its glamor over all the waste of the marshes, Twilight dropped like a white mist, and the stars began to erop out of the sky. The night life of the marsh awakened--insect and wind and bird had their chorus. I don't know where my thoughts were that long afternoon, I tried to read for a while. It wasn't a suc- cess. I knew that my stay at South- ley Downs, so often threatened, was at its end at last. Tomorrow we would all cross the marsh to testify at the coroner's inquest; and I would never return to Southley Downs again. The mystery and the charm would go out of my life to stay, as the swamp-water glided beneath the boat, (To be centinued) IL DUCE AND POPE FOUND IN ACCORD Mussolini's Address to the Editors Finds Approval at Vatican Rome, Oct, 16.--As a sequel to Premier Mussolini's recent address to Italian editors, in which he said it was the duty of the press to draw attention to enemies of the Fascist regime, the Italian public has been witnessing the rare spec- tacle of the Vatican and the Chigi Palace ranged side hy side on 2 public issue, Sine 11 Duce made his speech, provincial newspapers have again been attacking the Masons and urging their uprooting, The news- papers allege that they no longer have lodges, meetings and publica- tions in Italy, because Fascism has wiped them out, but they continue, there are still large numbers of Masons in the country who are making every effort to vilify the Fascist regime, In Agreement For once ,this viewpoint express- ed in the Fascist press, coincides with the views of the Pontiff, whose anxiety about Masonic influ- ences has been voiced in Catholic periodicals. Rotary Clubs are particularly ear-marked by both the religious and lay press, as the thinnest cloaks for dangerous Masonic prop- aganda, aimed both against the Holy Sce and the Fascist regime. The Y. M. C. A., Italian organiza- tions are also cited as Masonic centres in disguise. Hence the alignment of the Pope and the Premier in public expressions ot their disapproval of alleged Mas- onic influence in Italy, FIRST WINTER STORM CAUSES ONE DEATH -- Denver, Oct. 18.--Winter made a flying assault on the miiddle and southern Rocky Mountain range Sta- tes yesterday spreading a thick man- tle of snow over the area, as the season's first storm was driven down from the Northern States of Montana and Wyoming by rising temperatures and sunny skies. The greater part of Colorado was blanketed in white, moving swiftly from the North, where it left one man dead and hampered rail and mo- tor transportation. The storm belted the Colorado mountain and plaia ar- cas, and made itself felt in Northern New Mexico and adjoining States, TOO MANY PEWS MAR CHURCHES London Minister Thinks Architects' Plans Obscured By Too Many Seats London, Oct. 15.--Rev, T. P, Stevens, a well-known South Lon. don clergyman and a recognized authority on church furniture and ornaments, is provoked into a vig- orous protest against the undue erawding of so many churches, otherwise comely, with pews and other kinds of seats. "Go where you will in England, he writes, "you will find churches so crowded with seats that half the beauty is gone. Unnecessary seats are the ruination of our churches; they obscure the idea of the archi- tect time and again, There is a church near Oxford whieh would seat the whole of the population, and there are several other churches in the town. Yet I could gearcely fight my way into the building--it was pewed to the doors, Then o,f course, there are the choir stalls. "In a tiny church in Kent, the chancel was so filled with seats that the choirboys on one side could asily shake hands with their brothers opposite. The stalls were of material suitable for a bonfire, but to, my horror, the vicar sajd: 'Before 1 retire I want to see those stalls built of oak." My heart sank, Here was a lovely little building serving a very small population, and that part of it where space is wanted above all others, the dear clergyman is going to put in stalls to stand for ages." Others besides Mr, Stevens have remarked regretfully upon the same thing.. But in many places there are evidences that a better degree of taste is now being exer- cised. At Ely Cathedral, for in- stance, it is pleasant to find that the greater part of the nave is free from either pews or chairs, This enables the beholder to ap- preciate to the full the noble char- acter of this great church, and the view from the nave towards the lantern and the choir is aléio im- proved immensely, One of the Byrds flying south this winter is hogging all the pub- licity,~--Brandon Sun, COMPULSORY TO TEACH WELSH Campaign Started to Pre. serve the Native Language in Wales London, Oct. 15.--The campaign for the preservation of the Welsh language has entered upon a new and intensive stage the slogan of which 1s, 'Capture the children and the language is safe." The preliminary skirmishes have been fought and wom in the day schools, particularly in Glamorgan, where the teaching of the native tongue will be compulsory after the end of this year, and no teach- er will be engaged who is not pro- fielent to teach the customary school subjects in Welsh, The pioneer authority In the movement is the Rhondda Educa- tion Committee, which has prepar- ed an elaborate syllabus of Welsh instruction with which the teach- era are expected to eomply, Other authorities are contemplating simi- lar action, J Aid The Movement Latterly, the Eisteddford itself is being requisitioned in aid of the movement. For some years past, mainly as the result of the endea- vors of the late Sir Owen Edwards, chief. inspector of Schools for Wales, one day is devoted entirely at the National Eisteddford every year to children's competitions, and so successful has heen the ven- ture that "Children's Day" is now looked upon as the most attractive feature of the week's proceedings. But the leaders of the movement feel that if the children are to re. tain the native language and cul- ture something more than "one day's show" at the National Eist- eddfod is imperative and se there is to be a Children's National Bist- eddfod, run on the same lines as the older festival, and meeting in North and South in alternative years. Sponsors The new venture is to be spon- sored by the League of Young Wales, an organization founded by Ifan ab Owen Edwards, a son of Sir Owen Edwards, The League, which Is now in its seventh year, has a membership of between 12,000 and 15,000 Welsh boys and girls. Dons Zhe a List and is o 9 polish or! It has branches in every village and hamlet in Wales and vies in popularity, particularly in the more rural areas, with Boy Scouts and Girl Guides. It has a rigid set of rules one of which enjoins the speaking of the native tengue whenever and wherever possible. Its rally at the last National Eis- teddfod at Treorel, was attended by boys and girls from every part of the principality, Headed by two brass bands and with banners fly- ing, they marched in procession through the streets, 3,000 strong, and as they took up the places spe- cially allotted to them in the Pa- villon, the huge audience rose in enthusiastic greeting, Prepare Program A few days later hundreds of them again assembled at the two summer camps held in the neigh- borhood of Llanuwehllyn, near the home of the founder, who person- ally supervised the whole of the arrangements, A Children's Eisteddfod will be held next year at Corwen, Merion ethehire, and will last two days. An influencial committee, drawn from North and South Wales, is al- ready at work preparing a compre- hensive program of competitions which will include vocal and in- strumental musie, recitations, ac- tion songs, play-acting, ete. OPPOSE MacDONALD London, Oct. 18, -- H, Pollitt, secretary of the Minority Move= ment, will be the Communist eandi- date for Seaham Harbor in oppos- ition to Former Premier Ramsay Macdonald, Labor party leader, at the next general election, It was recently announced that Mr, Mace donald would retire from Aberaven, where he was faced with Commun- ist opposition and transfer to Sea- ham, a seat held by Sidney Webb, who is retiring, N Have you hegun saving to buy your aeroplane? We are informed quite a few are doing fit, - I finish -- in all Canada, - T is really remarkable that tailored -to-measure clothes of such fine quality can be pur. chased at the Tip Top store for such a moderate price, Finest imported and domestic woolens-- careful tailoring and teed satisfaction \--these three factors make Tip 'Top Clothes the greatest value Come to the Tip Top store today and see for yourself! wun "Ihats a good looking suit Jim Bet you paid enough for it / 0 [EFFI = ps