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a- hi by beldon duff ancient art ciu syvoisis ask no questions is in the leai which lvvs anuassa west ixssvssien f lii iluve a connecticut estate slyterious ueaths and uisupjharii ur liiss wests stable boy otto in murdered then ihc deputy who is icrt on guard suspicion points at john lia- motij owner of a ww york newspaper who tried to prevent ann from leasing itrides house ann is attracted to an individual who rescued her from a mor ass when she sought help from ihriek transon local veterinary the stranger david is suspected by the sheriff ann i ps a dinner invitation from diamond where she meets her former fiance ftate- iv terhune they are interrupted by the news that a moh is forming to lynch da- rid as the murderer ann tell diamond that david is his son they hurry to ijrides house as diamond sits in hi- mtemoiiie he is wounded by a shot from he roadside chapter xxii assisted by darling and terhune cropsey lifted his wounded employer from tha car the portly figure was a iead weight in their arms the head lolled drunkcnly its face a livid mask now that the guard of con sciousness had been let down that face shewed the ravages of age and f warring emotions hope despair nl fear staggering they carried their bur den to the house as the sill was grossed it occurred to the managing kiitor that his chief had said this vould be the only way in which they ould gel him into brides house was t significant that the shooting had ccurred just as that speech had been nadc was it too fantastic to bslieve hat a challenge had been deliberately sounded and as deliberately answered raised to a carrying pitch the mil lionaires voice would have reached farther than across tha road and the light inside the car would have made him an admirable target even for a poor marksman cropsey was still pondering over these disturbing ideas as they entered the living room and laid the wounded man on the couch miss barth always to be relied on to get you over here if you had only in an emergency had a basin of water listened well said noah evasively horses is more in doc cransons line hes only vctrinary after another insjxction of the wound cropsey announced we must have a doctor at once where does this man you speak of live j noah tolled one corner of his apron between thumb and forefinger downj the road a piece easy enough to find that is if hes in docs a great prowler especially at night the managing editor turned to gar- ling take mr ivabody to show you the way get the doctor and tell him to bring along some dressings ive put iodine on the wound and im going to bind it up temporarily hurry up now every minute counts when j they had gone wheres miss west t dont know said abby suddenly panicstricken she ran out when she heard the shot ard i havent seen her since then youd better ledk for her said the managing editor and to ter hune quick hes coming to give me some more of that brandy thats it now hold his head up a moment later john diamond opened his eyes wuts happened he asked feebly and glowing conscious of his shoulder am i hurt the veterinary had paused and now looked down on the pallid face his j own face and its emotions hidden from j those about him after a moment stooping he undid the improvised i bandages ard glarceu at thj wound i pistol eh with lower lip sucked in between toothless gums he examined j the hole where the bullet had entered j from a distance of not less than twenty feet i should say veil now i lets see deft as to fingers he ap- j plied some lotion taken from the black bag he carried saturating cloths with it at last liidiig one of the cloths into place with strips cf adhesive plas ter when the bandage had een ad justed he said to his patient there now youll be all right in a day or two but remember no excitement ro excitement to be continued gives added enjoyment to meals opinions if you crave peace and freedom go with f a mitchellhedges who has discovered a lost world of the mayas in central honduras fresh from the gard ens ready restoratives and some band ages is he dead she asked quietly cropsey shook his head dropping on one knee- he opened the shirt front and exposed the left shoulder just above the heart the shirt as thick ly stained with blood the shoulder already turning purple had a long tear that ran to the left ending in the big muscle of the upper arm a flesh wound he announced dabbing the cozing blood away with the wet cloth the bullet must have struck one of the ribs and been de flected its passed out through the deltoid leaving a nasty hole be all right if we can keep him froa bleed ing to death wheres the nearest doctor theres no doctor in the crossing unless you count dcrick cranson it was noah who spoke and there was a tenseness in his voice that made the fcur people standing around the rouch turn in his direction feeling their eyes upon him he added and mr diamond wouldnt want him from terhune why not in the evening dissolve i royal yeast cake in u c of tepid water scald and cool 2 c milk add 2 tbsp butter and 2 tbsp lard 2 tbsp suir and 1 tsp salt beat in the yeast and 3 c flour tills makes a spooc doufth let rise overnight in the morning cream to gether eg yolks 4 tbsp sugar 1 tsp cinnamon op- nothing to worry about said his 1oth women would be going too then managing editor in a soothing voice turning to terhune what do you bullet wound only a scratch well j is keeping barth i hope no- have you fixed up in a jiffy darlings j tiling has happened to that child gone for a doctor you mean miss west the mil- diamond closed his eyes again i weak as he was had caught after a moment the demonstration t q its taken place then they told him yes adding that a if you mean the mob from hales j searcn w being made for her but crossing sir terhune with rtirprisj ne cou no rest until the door opened ing deftness had assisted cropsey ir ani tnc women apeared abigail barth fashioning a tournaquet using his soft j j tlie eai r mistress lagging be- leather belt and a paper cutter for the nind on unw feet purpose they havent shown up yet mr terhune the scotchwoman that story sounded fishy to me from j an ex tone youll have the start i believe it was just a trick f to take miss ann arm i her up i think shes out of her mind look dragging the girl to the light look at her clothes both men looked the gold gown was torn in several places the bro caded slippers were mudstained blue velvet that had once been a smart bow- dragged at her heels ann where have you been it was terhune who asked the question the girl did not speak her cheeks were pale her eyes round rnd bright some devastating emotion brought her breath in quick short gasps miss barth answered for her in the woods running about like a crazy thing im surprised shes a stitch left on her what vie brambles and such conic cropsey said drawing the girl toward him come into the kitchen i want to talk to you and when she seemed about to demur this confusion is not good for mr diamond still in that tragic silence miss west permitted the managing editor to lead her from the room but once in the kitchen she freed herself with a sudden passionate gesture o revolt i hate him she cried clenching and unclenching her hands i hate all men the editor of the daily free press faced her about and gently lifted her chin until he could look full into the gray green eyes come little lady he urged tell n e whats happened what have you discovered that makes you feel like this the bloodless lips moved stiffly he is the murderer came the tragic whisper ho murdered all three of them otto and the deputy and now mr diamond seeing the look of perplexity on the managing editors face oh dont you under stand david shot mr diamond i saw him the smoking gun in his hand after it happened mr toby will explain who and what he is an escaped prisoner- a sailor convicted of murder the police have been look ing for him hes been living here for months starving desperate 1 suppose oh lets dont think about it she fought the tears from her eyes her bowed head lifted i have solved the mystery of brides house tell mr terhune im willing to go back to new york as soon as his car is ready cropsey frownd and shook his head and the architect correctly in terpreting it as a warning to be care ful what he said lest he excite the pa- tionet unnecessarily subsided who shot me was daimonds next question we dont know someone from ambush the other side of the road there was a period of silence at the end of which the wounded man asked his voice tremulous im in brides house cropsey answered defensively that a wounded man could not be left lying on the road and that besides there had been the danger of the assassin finishing his job once more diamond opened his eyes and stared about him this room he muttered and then glancing to ward the fireplace this room where sc many terrible things have hap pened dont let that worry you advised cropsey it wont be twenty minutes now until we get you fixed up and on the way back to the towers as an i afterthought he mentioned grimly that gems from lifes scrapbook liberty liberty without wisdom is license burke liberty is not the right of one but of all herbert spencer truth brings the elemts of lib erty mary baker eddy reason and virtue alone can be stow liberty shaftesbury eternal vigilance is the price of liberty j v curran few persons enjoy real liberty we are all slaves of ideas or habits- alfred tie musset the god who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time thomas jefferson give me the liberty to know to think to believe and to utter freely according to conscience above all other liberties milton remember milton was free to create great poems while a slave to blindness shorts happiness in work lord macniillan as chairman of the court of london university delivered the foundation oration in celebration of the 109th anniversay of the founda tion of birkbeck college in the course of the oration he said that there was no use eating their hearts out because they could not all be prime ministers or millionaires these were two of the most miserable classes of men to bis mind there was more real happiness in some humble capacity than in the glittering prizes of life a man should strive for what he could legitimately aspire to the fullest enjoyment of his facul ties the man who underestimated him self was fore often surprised by fail ure he had never understood why work had been described as mans primeval curse or why to earn ones bread was regarded as a hardship workjwas the greatest source of human happiness and lack of it the greatest curse in the world of the intellect there could never be a shortage of work no man work he ever so hard could became the master of all knowledge nothing promoted so much satisfac tion in thedayss work as a wellordered program and nothing promoted great er efficiency method however was an excellent servant but a bad mas ter they all had a pathetic belief in lists books to read things to do but he prayed them 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and tho lodge keeper escorting the diminutive veterinary surgeon between them entered it by the other overtook him just agoing into his house exlained noah and to cran son theres your patient doc hop to it the doctor aproached the couch on which john diamond lay more than ever annassa though did the little man resemble a spider he was so wiz ened and spry and so revoltingly hairy- the gleam in the beady black eyes that swiftly took in one after another of the assembled company had something hungry about it she glanced toward john diamond and taw that for al the interest the millionaire took in the proceedings he might as well have been dead how bridge began recent alterations in the laws of bridge have stimulated interest in the origin of what is now the most popu lar of card games under the name of briteh bridge was played in constantinople in the seventies of last century from there it spread gradually to cairo the ri viera london and new york every where it went it ousted its parent game whist tho actual first game of bridge seems to have been played at the villa coronia on the upper bosphorus in august 18 its inventor m serg- hladi a gentleman of rumanian orig in was one of the four players on this historic occasion none of these four now survives of course tho laws of the game have been altered a good deal since then file first normal code was drawn up in the seventies by a committee of members of a constantinople club a who invented work anyway k vou neednt worry youll never infringe on his patent issue no 9 31 rain falls on 1c4 days n a normal year i agricultural estates in england be- longing to the crown lota up tu j- 9s0 acres there are about 2000 fully qualified ships officers out of work in england people who live until their hun dredth year are never bald according to one expert photographs are taken at tho rate of 40110 a second by a new camera invented by two american professors cows in britain are yielding more milk lor tho year ended iast june the average yield per cow was o9 gal lons in seventy parishes in tiie diooese of london the clergymans income is less or little more than 1500 a year measuring only onefortieth of an inch a spider native to australia is claimed as the smallest insect of this class black blottingpaper is being used in some new york banks so that there will be no risk of crooks copy ing customers signatures from their blotted impressions stockings and socks which have shrunk lint they are too tight are said to do more harm to childrens feet than illfitting shoes the worlds record in rainstorms was probably that which occurred at assam india when nine inches of rain fell in thirtyfive minutes the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in london in twentyfour hours was on june loth 1917 when 410 tons to the acre fell in north kensington snakeskin shoes so populartoday have created a record in the import of this material last year south ameri ca provided 4000000 skins africa 2- 000000 and india 1250000 road vehicles licensed in britain last year numbered 2239567 motor cars showed a big increase but the numbers of taxicabs and motorcycles were lower than in 1931 indians of the amazon use ants to stitch wounds the insect is made to bite the sides of the wounds in its powerful jaws and bring them to gether then the body is broken off and the head remains as a stitch i londons latest office building the shell mx house contains l4sfi win- dows 700 wooden doors 3g5 steel doors and over twenty miles of hot and cold water pipes the lifts can carry looou people an hour as orangeeaters britain heads the i list for europe at any rate the j average annual consumption is twenty pounds of this fruit per head france and germany eat only eight pounds per head toy railways are almost as old as tho real thing a model of stephen- soils rocket with tracks and lines j was made in england in 1s29 and i sent as a present to goethe the fa mous german poet by some english friends any language taught in eighteen hours is the claim made for a new- system devised by i american uni versity as a start only 300 words are learnt and students must write each one of these from nine to twelve times and pronounce it from twentyfive to thirty times a comparison of timetables shows that on an average trains in great britain travelled faster in 1s9g than they do now in that year the best booked time between kings cross and edinburgh includng three stops was seven hours twentyfive minutes last year the nonstop flying scotsman was still taking seven and a half hours peace seek the forests and the hills from the hurt of things hound about the heart of you peace shall fold her wings trees know not of jealousies hills know not of hates only high tranquility enters through those gates succ9ss success is full of promis till men get it and then it is a last years nest from which the bird has flown q3 pure wholesome and economical table syrup children love its delicious flavor the canada starch co limited montreal nothing is achieved bef re it bo thoroughly attempted sir iuii grey every man is as ileiven mc iiim and sometimes a great deal wofe cervantes the progress of man is measured by endeavor as well a acliiev meu ur temple what we think about the tbirgs that ate greatest will determine how we do the things that av least jowctt no sootier are we supplied with everything that nature can deraaud than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites ur johnson affection is an awkward and forced imitation of what should bo genuine and easy wanting the beauty that ac companies wiiat is natural locke the surest and the shortest way tc make yourself beloved and honored i indeed to be the very man you wish tc a ppea r socrates wisdom and insight come not from the number of things done or the poignancy of things felt but from the depth and quality of the afterretle tion on them canon streeter although men are accused lor not knowing their own weaknesses yet perhaps as few know their own strength it is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of swift when you come right down to reels bottom american husbands are th best providers peggy hopkins joyce the trouble with many of our mod ern unbelievers is not that they have i thought too much about the matter 1 but that hey have thought too litle bishop wm t manning economic financial and emotional differences between individuals are not settled equitably by fists harry el mer barnes a man does not have to experience emotions in order to write of them john masefield there was an overproduction ol optimism in the united states charles m schwab i go to my people and talk with them directly when there is some thing i want to know king carol if evolution is to hold its own against revolution capitalism must somehow manage to transfer to labor some of the benefits of technological progress edward a filene it is confidence which develops consumer purchases and puts people back to work roger w babson it is not natural or normal for a civilization to move as fast as we moved for two- generations carrie chapman catt we exalt tradition but tradition i only a steppingoff place for th fu ture lady astor i think nations and governments should conform to the individual not the other way around john erskine the masses are nothing bit a herd of sheep so long as they are unorgan ized benito mussolini we have reached a point where the machine must be utilized for its great est social purpose the production t leisure will h hays some men and women fight colds all winter long others enjoy the protection of aspirin a tablet in time and the first symptoms of a cold get no further if a cold has caught you unaware keep on with aspirin until the cold is gone aspirin cant harm you it docs not depress the heart if your throat is sore dissolve several tablets in water and gargle vou will get instant relief theres danger in a cold that hangs on for days to say nothing of the pain and discomfort aspirin might have spared you all druggists with proven directions for colds headaches neuralgia neuritis rheumatism aspiri thadcmark reo in canada the tale of an m i am only a letter of the alphabet one among many yet i play a very im portant part in the composition of a smalltown weekly to begin with 1 have helped to her ald the birth of many a newborn babe for instance mr and mrs john smith announce the birth of an eight- pound son named mark or a 7 daughter named mary very often i enjoy myself with a party or other form of gayety as when master jimmy mckee celebrated his fifth birthay or miss margarel jones entertained with bridgo often times i have wished you a merry xmas i have shared in the happy cere mony of marriage with my brother and sister cap ms listen on monday may 1 miss mildred moore became the bride of mr milton martin the ceremony was performed by the rev m a morris in the m e church tha bride is tho daughter of mr and mrs ervin moore and the goom is tho son of mr am isaac martin the happy iike their home in marysville but life i i full of gay things for i am called upon to announce tho very serious illness of mrs madalino morrow or again to tell of the pass ing of what that most respected citi zen mr john manners you can sec that my life is a very useful one for it does seem that there are so many marys everything hap pens on monday and thero is always master miss mr mrs not to men tion mcsdames and messrs when i work on a handset paper j often hear my boss say now i am oq my last item but thero is need of ona moro cap m for melissa what will i do then i pop my head up from tho corner of tho box and ho sees ma with a glad exclamation of relief yes i am used at least 60 weeks out of the year along with all ray brothers and sisters and i am never left tied up in a dead form my life is such a happy ono that sometimes i get tired of being ran over so many times by tho cruel press but upon reflection i am glad that i am a useful character and not as lazj as my neighbor tho cap z ruth mor- gan of tho quaker city ohio home towner a little help is worth a great deal