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>a b' \ IRR AT ANE Dh ren SL Ry No dd (GREEN Eo a Bo a 3 The by Stuart Martin GHOST CHAPTER I OUT OF THE NIGHT Out of the medley of vague sounds that formed the background of the dark West Indian night, came a noise --undefined and faint, almost too faint to be located; vet it was a dis- turbance that brought a sence of eerl. ness, Maud Barron lisened intently, She could not tell what had aroused her from sleep, nor whetlier this strange disturbance came from the inside of the big house, or from outside among the dark recesses of the surrounding irees. But it had come, and she lay thrilling from head to foot as one thrills when awakened suddenly and with a swift sense of fear, She got out of bed, drew her dress- ing gown about her shoulders, and turned to the mantlepiece where her travelling watch glowed in the dim. ness, The hands pointed to just past midnight. And as she stood looking at the illuminated face of the wateh the sound came again. She had almost expected it, and yet eho was startled again, It was a strange sound. Through the hum- ming silence of the night she heard A muffled thud, thud, thud, thud, like the dulled footfall of a man tramping down the mountain track, She had heard such a tramp in the interior, along the track towards the Blue Mountains on bright mornings when the negro women came down fo mar- ket with their baskets of produce on their heads. Their bare feet struck the dusty ground like that, giving a similar sound as she had passed them. Suddenly the girl smiled to herself, but it was not a confident smile. She knew she was wrong, though she pre- tended to explain the thing, "It was the dog," she murmured. "Of course it was the dog. He's pad- ding about somewhere--Ul] see." She went to the window and lean- ed out, searching the lawn with her gaze. But she did not see any dog. 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She thought of the secret cult of the Obeah, the worship of the green snake, the mysterious Voodooism with which the West Indies is satu- rated. She had heard tales of nightly ceremonies, of gruesome terrors, of orgies in the forests which whites approach at their peril. She had been long enough in the Indies to know that no white can pretend to know the islands with final understanding. Any negro might be a papaloy, any coloured woman might be a mameloy, priest and priestess of the cult that survives in spite of every attempt te smother it. "Perhaps a nigger making for the forest," she reflected; and again she knew she was merely making an ex- cuse and not an explanation. She looked out of her window again; and ker hand flew to her throat to stifle the grasp that surged up within her. Along the wall of the house, on a level 'with her window, something glimmered. It was opposite her father's study, but it was no light from the room. It seemed to hang in the air about a yard from the study window. Now it moved closer. . It was less than a foot from the window when darkness was 'split by a 'blinding flash that blazed from the study window and tore the black night with swift, white brilliance, dazzling and startling, Maud Barron screamed as she threw her hands to her face to shut 'out that piercing, painful light; and immediately her cry died there came' another, the second one hoarse and terrible; then a groan as from a man in awful pain. The groan galvanised Maud Bar- ron into action. She dashed towards the door of her room, threw it open, and ran along 'the corridor, calling aloud in her excitement. She reached her father's study and burst into the apartment, "Father! Father!" The room was in darkness, but she saw his form silhouetted against the 'pale sky. He was seated in a chair. The window was wide open. He did not reply to her cry. Her trembling hands searched for matches which generally lay on his table. 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A hush suddenly fell on them all; a hush that was broken present- ly by the moan that escaped from Maud Barron's lips as she sank un- conscious to the floor. One of the, servants tiptoed for- ward, fingers' on lips, hesitatingly, and perred into the face-of the man in the chair. He sat very stiff and erect, his right hand dropping over the arm of his chair. His eyes were wide open, his jaw had dropped, his mouth shaped as if he had tried to call for help and had been unable to utter the word. And on his face was an expression of terror, a fright- ful contortion as of one who has been stricken dumb at the sight of some awful vision, some dreadful paralys- ing fear that had struck his faculties to stone. One look was enough to reveal that he was past all human help. James Barron was dead. (To Be Continued.) Saved by the Modern Nose Picture the consequences if the powers of smell which once belong- ed to the human race were restored. There can be no civilization without smells. To warm ourselves ave burn coal and other fuel, producing smells which we do not notice; though if our noses were perfect they would be loathsome. In our houses there must always be tiny.escapes of gas, which luckily our modern noses do not 'detect. Nor are they offended by the smell of the wool or cotton of which clothes are made, or the leather of "our footwear and the thousand and one other odours which would become intolerable. A Word Of Praise I wonder why we are so prone to censure and to blame? for virtue and acclaim? I wonder why we always flaws and faults alone? Are there no virtues there? And are the faults worse than our own? 0, let us give a word of praise to those who daily plod; That word may be the ray of hope that lights a soul to God, see the GULF STREAM ~~ FALLACIES It Flows On Like A Real River, According To Long Study The maps give us a poor concep- tion of the Gulf Stream. They were made primarily to help navigators, who are not keenly interested in what goes on below the surface of the water. As the years have passed, those who make the earth their. special study have been more and more im- pressed by the theory of the Danish geographer, Nielsen, that the Gulf Stream flows like a real river, and this is without either diffusing much into the Gulf of Mexico or receiving much water from the Gulf. To test this view Yale University sent the schooner Mabel Taylor to the Gulf of Mexico in 1932. Instructions to the scientists on board: Determine the saltiness of the Gulf Stream at various points and find how it flows as a body. Give the world a three- dimensional picture of the Gulf Stream. Illuminate the chemistry of the Stream, STUDYING THE CURRENT At last week's meeting of the Ma- tionnl Geophysical Union in Wash- ington Professor A. E. Parr of Yale gave an account of the Mabel Tay- lor's findings. The schooner spent all of her time in the Caribbean current, which passes north from the Caribbean Sea through the Yuca- tan Channel, and in the Florida cur. rent-which flows through the llorida Straits. Thus was the problem of inflow and outflow studied--the masses and kind of water that enter the Gulf of Mexico from the Yuca- tan Channel and that leave it through the Florida Straits. It turns out that Nielsen is right. The Gulf of Mexico is saltier at the surface than the Caribbean current --exactly the opposite of what was supposed. The Caribbean current sweeps straight from the Yucatan Chanrtiel to Florida. Below the sur- face there is some Caribbean water which loses itself in the Gulf, but the so-called Gulf Stream 'is about ag independent of the Gulf of Mex- ico as the Mississippi River. Big Game Season Reduced To 11 Days Halifax. -- Big Game hunters in Nova Scotia this year will have only 11 days in the woods. Third reading was given to a bill in the Legisla- ture recently limiting the hunting season for nfoose, deer and. caribou to the period between October 20 and October 31. 'WHAT DOES Your HANDWRITING REVEAL 7 Liy Ceo st Ci . (Editor's Note: Many of -our readers have already obtained 'a character study from their hand- writing. Have YOU? "The revela- tions will certainly interest you and they may surprise you. The author renews his invitation to readers fol- lowing this week's article.) * x = I have another letter this week from a young lady--she is 21 years of age--who says she has fallen in love with a married man, and, to use her own phase, "simply cannot give him up". Well, of course, the decision as to her future course of action must come from herself, but. as she has written to me about her problem, I deduce hat she is worrying over it, and I am therefore going to give her my candid opinion. Her own handwriting shows that she is very affectionate and of a markedly sympathetic nature. She responds very readily to emotional influences, and I have no doubt that it was, in the first place at least, this eager readiness to sympathise with others that led her into her present attachment. However, she also sent me some of the writing of the man in ques- tion, also that of the man's wife. And from my inspection of all three writings I cannot but come to the conclusion that this girl is making a very grave mistake. Apart altogether from the moral angles to this question, the writings tell me that this is the case. Both the man and his wifé are of the self- eHabltOl Totton Conte interested type. They look after their own interests firstly and last- lv. I would say that the man and his wife are well-suited. But I cannot say the same thing about the girl who writes to me and the man. I do not think that the man is seriously in love with her. 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Small tin, 36¢; Large tin, 60c; Extra large bottle, 6c, Proprietors, Scott & Turner, Ltd., Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Eng. < «(CELEBRATE \ 1 . } Writing in the Manchester Guard jan Commercial's special issue in celebration of the Empire Tea Cen- tenary, Samuel Hoare, Secretary of State for India, says: "A hundred years ago the Indian tea industry was founded; today if is the largest organized industry in the country, providing employment for nearly a million workers, "and among the producing countries of the world ranks highest. We here in Great Britain consumed more than the rest of the world put together and tea-drinking--at once a solace and an inspiration--has become part of our national life to an extent not always realized." It is well known what the nation al drink of Scotland is, or at all events what it was before there was imposed on it a tax of 72 shillings sixpence ($17.50) per galllon. The national drink of England is well re- cognized, too, despite the 'savage' --according to general complaint-- tax upon it. But the great drink of the United Kingdom is, without question, tea. It is the daily house- hold beverage. Before the year 1934 China sup- plied the world with tea, and it was in China that tea had jts origin Now there are teas and' teas. have Ceylon tea, Indian tea, Java tea and China tea. The more scien- tific methods adopted in Ceylon and India in preparing tea for market- ing gradually reduced the China tea trade. Today, however, more pains are being taken in China and the response is a better demand for her tea. Certainly, if China had given the world nothing else, we should owe her gratitude for her tea. There is a ritual of tea-drinking in China, as there has been for thousands of years about every de- tail in the taking of nourishment, though the foreigner never learns more of it than not to touch the cup till the business of the interview is ended. Drinking tea is a fine art in China. The late Lord Li Chingfong, when minister in London 25 years ago, objected to the custom of pute ting the saucer under the cup, whereas the Chinese put it on top. are served together in.a little howl, into the top of which the saucer fits. Gripping the bowl with thumb and outer fingers, with the middle and first finger you adjust the saucer to hold back the leaves us the liquid flows out. Brick-tea is made mostly for Ruse sian ana Mongolian consumption, 'The leaves are damped and coms pressed into blocks about ten inches square to one inch thick. Hard as a stone and almost ine destructible, they travel all over Asia on a camel; when you want a glass of tea, you chip off a bit with a knife, as the old-time traveller in China, cuts bits from. his silver "shoe" to weigh against purchases, Tea was known 3,000 years B.C., and though by the thirteenth cen- tury it was a universal drink in China it was not until nearly 400 hear of tea through the Portuguese and the Dutch. The first English man to mention tea was a Mr Wick- man in 1615. He wrote from Japan to a friend asking for three silver porringers in which to drink tea. Tea was first sold publicly in England in 1657. fifteen to fifty shillings a pound in the leaf. It was also sold in liquid form, made, so the vendor said, ac- cording to the directions of the most knowing merchants and tra-~ vellers in the East. In 1711 the "Spectator" recom= mended all well-regulated families who set apart every morning ah hour for tea, to order the news- paper to be punctually served uy and to be looked upon as part of the tea equipage. : There were, however, organized efforts aginst the growing custom of tea drinking. The most political ly adroit of all the objections of that period was that raised by Dun- can Forbes, Lord President of the Scottish Court of Sessions. He are gued that tea drinking reduced beer drinking and so diminished the yiel from malt duty. The deterrent measures he demanded were finally defeated after a lengthly debate. One item from the Forbes scheme reads as follows: "The excessive use of tea is now become so con mon that the meanest familieg, evel the laboring people, particularly ih burghs, make their morning meal of it. The same drug supplies the laboring women with their aftgys noon's entertainment, to the exclu= sion of the twopénny." 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