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3 mdxtliar i a trial will convince if ci ulmi mil the detective by arthur b reeve t84 is ot ocitialled by nny other tea being twins tho poet byron once atoned for all tho cynical things he wrote by two beautiful lines all who joy would win must share it lapplness was born a twin they enshrine in unforgettable fas hion tho truth that no one over attains happiness alone i suppose no one has over said from this moment ill shun all my fellowcreatures ill neither marry nor make friends no one will ever be able to say ho has over talked with me hefi- to heart and i shall see for myself ov far it is possible to go by being tufflclent to myself ibut iaaiiy men and some women have re ky lived their lives onthat creed they have not deliberately avoided marriage or friendship they because they wero following some par ticular end have simply lived in the spirit of kiplings dictum he travels tho fastest who travels alone and when love or friendship offered they have turned away because they feared to be hampered in their choice of a llfeandeavor of a career pursuing their object singly and blindly they grow old what have they then some have money some may have success and renown some are failures all are alone for it is even truer that he who travels alone arrives alone there is no more poig nant no more terrible fate than to be old and alone how much more than lonely is a man or woman without bappy memor ies who has run away from the hap piness that is only to be found in being to someone a twin the happiest old person i have ever ideri natch dick irom tne very nanus nau cumwu uui vii me running wjru captors in fact it may have and was hangingfar out as dick ran iiis plan into iu water as far as he dared the dick happening to glance up racer slowed up and the powerful fel- chapter xii contd kennedy was stih many feet behind kennedy quietly stepped out from dick and i was even further away the protection of the bathhouses i than kenondy easton was stll thought he was about to saunter casu- flouenng n the water trymg to ally down the dock suddenly spring avoid the second saiorthug into life and literally with our back- one of the men in the gray racer jing snatch dick from the very hands had climbed out on the running board of his c k been his but dick happening caught a full shot of kennedy dick ow on the running board managed to must have known more than the rest scoop dick up struggling but weak- of us he did not betray by word or ened and breathless after his long muscle what he had seen his mind swim and the chase must have worked fast this was the the dingy gray racer punged on time if ever to make his getaway through the sand as the driver gave before the arrival of the car caused it the gas its wheels spinning but tho us to bo outnumbered momentum carrying it on at last it without warning dick rose poised gained the beach road an instant on the seat of the tender kennedy fired at it trying to get and leaped i the tires but the shots went wild as man overboard sung out the man the car careened crazily the gray at the tiller as the other was tying racer was now off in a moment wo up at the dock i had almast had dick safe and he had we now emerged from hiding all been literally snatched from our very there was eo use in keeping under hands dick was still a prisoner but cover now besides so interested were on the land they in getting dick that they did not the tender from the scooter see us anyhow turned and picked up the sailor still my heart was in my mouth dick swjmming off shore and chugged omriot come up away as easton dragged himself- oh where was he drowned bad the sand- his head struck some sunken rock or j craig tcen arid myself sat down pile had he gone down and had we w easton as he stretched out in witnessed a tragedy the sun on the bulkhead to dry there it was nearly a minute that we were was no use to pursue by the time we in this breathtaking suspense all got our car the gray racer might have but ken our eyes glued to the spot ma a dozen turns in the network where the lithe body of the boy had of good country roads about the bin- disappeared i nacle there he is it was ken and he that we about t was pointing some thirty or forty feet- transfer of dick to the land con- away from the spot at which we were siderdo claig i doubt very much focusing our attention sure enough het th will keep him here there was dick bobbing up and strik- next move will be to transfer ing out with his powerful crawl for him either to the scooter again or the shore dmgonahy from the dock i some other j i feel sure he headed for the spot where the bulk- 1 lookcd about and his e rested on t head ended and the beach again began inn j itg large fl roof that i knew it dicks the best kid under radio room up there where we were water there is in the troop i ve known must some kind of hangout for him to swim under water seventyfive this sport cr0 of young people boards along the dock at home and we must figure out some way to find theyre wide boards too about and what goes on there dicks ruse had been good he had easton too had been looking at the not only gained a long start of them roof with the aerial on it in pursuit but he had fixed it so that theres no use going hack there they wont would plaits and lace effective for daytime dresses fashion dictates stress the import- o fu ij r j ln pursuit uuu uts uu haw ii ov uwui xneres no usu go ance of the plated- frock and since the were and he had the land asking questions jjecause you really live with your ci curtains they should he laundered in cveky hour of the day you see them if they have been poorly launder ed they are a constant annoyance lux laundering will keep them true in both colour and shape- will permit them to drape in sofbgraceful folds fibfis be careful to get the genuine lux it is sold only in packages never in bulk sunset on the lawn plaits are so smart tms little trock of all of the start he was answer any more than they wouq i m -jv- 1 irees n is innnneu cioseiy auoi i takes full advantage of tnis fact and ake a submarine you never could tell have done at the blue rooster theyve i s jf of en edges where beds of brilliant fi known was an old countrywoman she groups of p- f and back just wherehe would come to the sur- got to protect their customers what bee you sat day after day with a smile on her to a round yoke fashion also dictates face i about that wireless dictograph that face no not a vacuous smile but the the use of much lace and wide bands i once they had seen him however j ive been consuing you about mr smile that springs from contented j serve as a trimming for were not in f their kennedy thoughts when she spoke her words the front and lower edge of the skirt p heau mm off tne fellow at l it perfected asked craig were always of peoploher husband j as w as fashioning the round yokel tbi e i s si fina bu its her children and a multitude of the jong fall s gathered into and start up n h friends they had all gone but they j narrow wristbands and a string belt lived ln her memory and were more to her than riches she just the thing easton craig ex- shecoud to head dick off from go caimed do not knw u3 yet worth n i e i s ft r k ing t0 fa down j ac theother wem1 back the radio shack and hart 8lrdles tho fr0ck at he hlp hne no fellow still unmindful of us started it iretau rt here and usten in on uau is in sizes 16 18 and 20 years up the dock to gain the bukhead them when they dont realize it stored up well for her loneliness be- size 18 requires 3 yards 36inch ma- along the shore down which he was go- sp cause she was not loath to be a twin terialj wit 3 yards wide lace inser- ing to run to head off dick in that j by t time easton had dried out direction we climbed back into the car and soon the man m the tender had a bit of vrere on our way to the radio shack difficulty in spinning the engine but yes it may be true that you travel ti and yard ailover lace for yoke fast if you travel alone but what ls p 20 cents your speed worth if you pick up no treasures by the wayside there is another side to this busi ness of being a twin although strictiy speaking t ere are no 81ve tlle uressmoker wu una me iu smr isv f 0 irotessoi vario who was commf andtake bargains to be enforced in designs iu in our new fashion care of the thug on the seawall down t porch the world of affection and friendship bxk to practical and simp yet easton in his regardfor little dick no professor i am looking for there are very definitely debts of hon- maintaining the spirit of the mode of was quite unable to restrain himsef her myself or for every kind word every kind the moment p e the book 10 an on he waited as long as ho too bad i was going to ask her nedy has something he wants me to i heip on i hope youll pardon us if we run along out of my open window i can see a certainly it was evident thatlawn it lies like an oval pond of the two inventors were quite jealous i green water surrounded by heavy of oaehothor over ruth ken with it trimmed closely about the owers at last we were off sounded as i frop their petais ren ui is if he really thoueht that would be too stretch long sharp shadows for the soon chuckled ken evening sun is about to slip away bo- j easton silenced the boy with a hind the cloud pillows glance he was in no mood for chaf- the lawn is richly toned and richly covered and an impression of some- our return trip to the binnacle thing prosperous and stately rises to h h 7 must imy window something of abundance- be there before the late afternoon crowd began to gather j of true restfulness tho shadows of the coast was not as clear as it the bran are dignlfletl they fall had been the first time the waiters iilce tho fis ot a ladys train resting were beginning to gather craig upon a rich carpet almost in the singled out the head waiter and was half light one might fancy the treas quite convincing with his story that to be gentle personages standing to- rersing in undertones thought that we receive from our twins we are in honor bound to re- turn as good as wo have been given if wo give a little more than we need our twin is spurred to give even cents the copy how to order patterns write your name and address plain ly giving number and size of such more in return and in a short time the patterns as you want enclose 20c in world is an infinitely richer place than j stamps or coin coin preferred wrap it carefully for each number and address your order to pattern dept wilson publishing co 73 west ade laide st toronto patterns sent by return mail either of us had dreamt it ever could be byron i think wrote truer than he knew heart trouble the young woman travelling with her sternlooking father was evidently not in the best of health she was de cidedly pretty but her cheeks were pale a kind if inquisitive passenger sitting opposite leaned forward and ad dressed the stern parent your daughter seems very ill ho romarked sympathetically yes replied the father it is an affection of the heart dear me aneurism oh no only a lieutenant in the navy thought was prudent then he leapt j to play a little golf you seem worried like a tiger at the powerful thug who about something mrs adams can i was running to head off dick craig be of assistance forged ahead now in the effort to get worried over ruth and that to dick as he scrambed out of the ro has upset me water on the beach dick was stnk- j mo3t thoughtfully he tried to re- ing out lustiy as the tender decreased assure her his lead over it j its not tho jewols after all i turned with an effort to see how j professor she confessed at length easton was getting on i had had no better to lose them a thousand times fear of that football herobut i had than to have ruth go to the dogs tho not counted on muckerism and his op- way i fear oh whycant she listen ponent was a mucker the thughad to easton why cant easton do actually extricated from his packet a something with her s i srtall blackjack easton had broken vario did not relish that much tho force of the blow but it had struck easton evans was his serious rival for him hampered him next he had man- ruth i thought he was one of tba aged to wrench tho thing away from crowd he hazarded tho man but had not been able to hold i mrs adam3 shook her head posi- it it fell in the water i started to- tively no 1 am sur he is not i ward them easton was recovering wish if you should happen to see him a bit but was groggy as the thug that you would tell him id very much perceiving me made a lungo at him j like to see him they grappled an instant then both v promised readily ho was toppled into the water from the topi very ingratiating with the mother of of the seawall i glanced over the the j ho w0u like to win mrs plunge had quite revived easton ho adam3 excused herself and vario had his man out of the running any- started thoughtfully toward the radio how and was striking out for the shack downstairs craig left ken with a whispered injunction to keep the head waiter busy so that we might be free to do our quick work on tho roof to be continued contented to know ho had it dad you dont know on which side your bread ls buttorcd young man bad boy and i aint goin to drop it to find out neither ill say- j- was bobby to blame saving time brown is very fond of his young son wehad arrived at the shack by this j he was talking to a visitor about the kennedy was leaping along to pm t and had let ourselves into eas- wonderful intellectual development d then there seems to graceful movement of bow of a head or the al- flutter of a fan from side to side of the lawn can bo traced a mowers pattern light and dark light and dark and where the oldest tree rises in the middle there is a circle i cannot now detect that most reminiscent of scents that rises from freshly mown grass maybe the morning claimed it for its own the air rather is full of evening no special scent but a breath of some thing golden and brilliant and purply- blue high in the mauve sky a tiny moon is resting the trees look up and rus tle their fine gowns one of thcm i think has dropped a diamond upon a blade tip tomorrow i will rise very early maybe i shall find it a keep it in a yardmaster was interviewing ap plicants for the post of driving of a motorbus and among the volunteers was an irishman can you drive a car asked the yardmaster can 6i drive a car repeated tho irishman scornfully well run tho bus into tho shed pat climbed on the trembling vehicle he looked around spat on his hands beach where dick was headed i kennedy was leaping along to pull time and had let ourselves into eas- i wonderful intellectual dick out tho moment his feet touched tons laboratory up on tho second floor and future possibilities of the little erabbed the biggest leir and pulled it 1st author so youve come to live bottom suddenly a bulet clipped onco the loft of the former evans fellow for was worth ap shn went in in new york at last jthe sand ahead of kennedy i haif bonthouse over the hangar where he 2nd author- yes one gets ones iu down the shore road now was housed his radiohydroearoplane the tho anlmala by proper scientific mss back in so much lese time anhg a gray racerl g scout here in tho parapherj n o g w a m uuuuioucrfj uvei mc nuugur wnoiu ij not two years od yet and he knows turned down the shore road now was house his radiohydroearoplane the roaring a gray racerl sca scout here in tho pan i ran faster ken was now strug- naia of this complete radio laboratory j l vjjwisssi x hnw igling to hurry up to me as dicks easton hurried to assembly the parts naturalist hero let me show feet evidently touched bottom and he of his wireless dictograph the batter- true politeness ceremonies are different in every began to drag himself to shoio just ies antenna wire and so on it did country but true politeness is every- ahead of the oncoming tender the not take long arid we had just about where the same ceremonies which tender turned not a moment too soon stowed the stuff away in tho back of take up so much of our attention are- pvcst it running aground off it kennedys car when yario drove up circled i sorry youre eaving he remark- only artificial helps which ignorance but dick was not safe not yet he cd by the way evans mrs adams a gentleman usher goldsmith the citizen of the world in assumes in order to imitate politeness wos some flfty feet down the shore just asked me up to the clubif i hap- whlch is tho result of good sense and f kennedy and bid seen the ao- pened o roe you to say that she wants good nature a person possessed of proaching racer in battleship gray he to talk with you as soon as you can those qualities though ho had nevor sensed trouble he started to run see her i thought idrun over that seen a court is truly agreeable and along the shore perhaps you wero interested in some if without them would continue a thc k tacar swooped off the mw work i am doing clown though he had been all his llto ha road on to the wet sand and came what is it easton was fidgeting on down the shore firing at kennedy n did not wish to offend vario who ahead as it rapidly overtook the boy was hkoly to become a big man in tho and his pursuer radio field yet thoro wero many other who would get to dick first imoro opportune times to talk about radio devices still ho wanted to be chapter xiii polite the wireless dictocraph i why its my new wavemeter o wildly dick was running in his calibrating device so that amateurs heavy dripping clothes along the mor easily find tho wave lengths shore gradually forced down toward j stations broadcasting tho water by tio gray racer as it i should think it would bo very platinum for london swooped off the beach road on the useful easton was impatient to get platinum for london beadhn pursuit ho could not take i certainly am interested platinum to tho value of 250000 to the water again without endanger- j would you mind if i dropped over at arrived in tho thames from russia re- ing his recapture by tho thug in tho the station to seo it ill ring you contly by tho steamer zero j bander of tho scooter up very soon but just now j ken- tho ruler there can be no pleasure equal to that of feeling at onco the joy of thous ands all mado happy by wise adminis tration samuel johnston to the shed pat was a bit put out he saw trouble ahead and guessing what would happen reversed the lever out she came in again- out agiin the yardmaster yelled i i thought you said you could run a motor car but pat had an answer ready j 01 had it in here three times why j didnt ye shut the door mlnards liniment for dandrirf ho took a book of natural history from the bookshelf placed bobby on his knee opened the book and showed him a picture of a giraffe whats that bobby horsey said bobby j next a tiger was exhibited and bob- by said pussy then a picture of a j sig o loin wass shown and bobby said dog- husband to wife driving a naif by- however do you expect to drivo a and vhen a fullpage picture of a na the wa ft cthea bruah7 chimpanzee was dlsplayod bobby ex- for goodnms gnke uto your hcad claimed enthusiastically daddy dear easy j i dont believe in learning german spanish french or any foreign lan guage said a man why ho con tinued i lived among a lot of ger mans and got along with them just as well as it i had known their language but i didnt not a word of it how did you manage well you see they all spoke eng lish i 0 minarda liniment for insect bites while in toronto wo cordially invito you to in spect our latest cars at our ex hibit or with our guaranteed used oars centrally located at 809 bay street willy8 overland salk8 company