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try this flavoury mend when next you order tea tea fresh from the gardens jfie red house mystery ty avmilne chapter xix contd antory rave bill a smile and was silent for a little thinking is there another inn at stanton fairly closo to the station the flough and horses just at the corner where the road goes up to the station is that the one you mean that would be the one i suppose you could do with a drink couldnt you rather said bill with a grin good then have one at the plough and horses have two if you like and talk to the landlord or landlady or whoever serves you i want to find out if anybody stayed there on monday night robert said bill eagerly i didnt say robert said antony smiling i just want you to find out if they had a visitor who slept there on monday night a stranger if so then any particulars you can get of him without letting the landlord know- that you are interested leave it to me broke in bill i know just what you want i dont assume that it was robert fj stl i had worn off and ho was able to spare a little time between tho mouthfuls bill gave an account of adven tures the landlord of the plough and horses had been sticky decidedly sticky bill had been unable at first to get anything out of him but bill had been tactful lorblessyou how tactful he had been ho kept on about the inquest and what a queer affair it had been and so on then i said carelessly that it must bo very hard to remember any body whom you had just seen once so as to identify him afterward and he agreed that it would be middlin hard and then give me three guesses interrupt ed antony you asked him if he remembered everybody who came to his inn thats it bright wasnt it brilliant and what was the re- sult the result was a woman a woman said antony eagerly a woman said bill impressively of course i thought it was going to be robert so did you didnt you it was a woman came anybody else let them describe i quite late on monday night in a ear the man to you dont influence them unconsciously by suggesting that he was short or tall or anything of that sort just get them talking if its the landlord youd better stand him a drink or two right you are said bill confi dently where do i meet you again probably at the george if you get there before ae you can qrder dinrer fir eight oclock anyhow well miet at eight if not before good he nodded to antony and strode off back to stanton again anlony stood watching him with a little smile at his enthusiasm then he looked round slowly as if in eearch of something suddenly ho saw what ho wanted twenty yards farther on n lano wandered off to the left and thero was a gate a little way up on the righthand side of it antony walked to tho gate filling his pipo as he went then ho lit his pipe sat on the gate and took his head in his hands now then ho said to himself lets begin at tho beginning it was nearly eight oclock when william beverley the famous sleuth- hound arrived tired and dusty at tho george to find antony cool and clean standing bareheaded at the door waiting for him is dinner ready were bills first words yes then ill just have a wash lord im tired i never ought to have asked you taid antony penitently thats nil right i shant be a moment halfway up tho stairs he turned round and asked am i in your room yes do you know the way yes start carving will you and ordes lots of beer ho disappeared xound tho top of the staircase an tony went slowly in when the first edge of his appetite driving herself went off early next morning did ho deseribs her yes she was middlin middlin tall middlin age middlin color and no jusspy feeling now when 1 drive through nothing relieves tension 80 effectively as wrglcy the act of chewing as motorists have 3ucov ered has a gentle soothing effect the healthful cleansing action of wrlfclcys refreshes the mouth and meadics the nerves in the morning there was a letter for him so on doesnt help much does it but still a woman does that upset your theory antony shook his head no bill not at all ho said you knew all tho time at least you guessed wait till tomorrow ill tell you everything tomorrow tommorrow said bill in great disappointment well 111 tell you oro thing to night if youll promise not to ask any more questions but you probably know it already what is it only that mark ablctt nid not kill his brother and cayley did thats another question bill how- over the answer is that cayley didnt cither then who on earth have some moro beer said an tony with a sfile and bill had to be content with that they were early to bed that even ing for both of them wore tired bill slept loudly and defiantly but antony- lay nwake wondering what was happening at tho red houso now perhaps he would hear in tho morn ing perhaps ho would get a letter ho went over tho whole stcvy again from the beginning was thero nny possibility of a mistake what would tho polico do would they ever find out ought he to have told thorn well let them find out it was their job surely he couldnt havo made a irnistake this time no good wondering now he would kriov definitely in the morning in tho morning there was a letter for him are not wholly out of tympathy with me but whether or not you sympa thize at any rate you will want to know and 1 want you to know the exact manner in which ablctt met his death and the reasons which made that death necessary if the police havo to be told anything i would ra ther that they too knew the whole story they and even you may call it murder but by that time i shall be out of the way let them call it what they like i must begin by taking you back to a summon day fifteen years ago when i was a boy of thirteen and mark a young man of twentyfive his whole life was makebelieve and just now ho was pretending to be a philanthropist ho sat in our little drawingroom flicking his gloves against the back of his left hand and my mother good soul thought what a noblo young gentleman he was and philip and i hastily washed and crammed into col lar stood in front of him nudging each other and kicking tho backs of our heels and eurring him in ouiv hearts for having interrupted our game he iad dfoided to adopt one of us kind cousin mark heaven knows why- he chose me philip was eleven two years longer to wait perhaps that was why well mark educated mo i went to a pubac school and to cambridge and i became his secretary well much more than his secretary as your friend beverley perhaps has told you mark could never live alone thero must always be somebody to listen to him i think in his heart he hoped i should be his boswell he told me ono day that he had made mo his literary executor poor devil and he used to write me the absurdest long letters when i was away from him let ters which i read once and then tore up tho futility of the man it was three years ago that philip got into trouble he had been hurried through a cheap grnmnar schooi and into a london office and discovered hero thit there was not riueh lm to be got in this world on two pounds a week i had a frantic letter from him one day saying that he must have r i undred at once or ho would he ruined and 1 went to mark for the money only to borrow h you understand he gave me a good salary and i could have paid it back in three months but no ho saw nothing for himself in it i suppose no applause no ad miration philips gratitude would be to me not to him i begged i threatened we argued and while we were arguing philip was arrested it killed my mother he was always her favorite but mark as usual got his satisfaction out of it he preened himself on his judgment of character in having chosen me and not philip twelve years before i later on i apologized to mark for i the reckless things i had said to him and ho played the part of a magnani- mous gentleman with his accustomed skill but though outwardly we were as before to each other from that day forward though his vanity would never let him see it i was his bitter est enemy if that had been all i wonder if i should have killed him to live on terms of intimate friendship with a man whom you hato is dangerous work for your friend because of his belief in mo as his admiring and grateful protege and his belief in himself as my benefactor he was now utterly in my power i could take my time and choose my opportunity perhaps i mould not have killed him but i had sworn to havo my revenge and there he was poor vain fool at my mercy i was in no hurry two years later i had to recon sider my position for my revenge was being taken out of my hands mark began to drink could i havo stopped him i dont think so but to my im mense surprise i found myself trying to instinct perhaps getting tho bet ter of reason or did i reason it out and tell myself that if he drank him self to death i- should loso my re venge upon my word i cannot tell you but for whatever motive i did genuinely want to stop it drinking is such a beastly thing anyhow to ho continued china unlocks remote parts by road system motorbuses penetrate to back ward regions as long- distance routes open jyipiug cblneso officials arc con sidering proposals for reconstruction of tho wartorn country but tho money for them is net forthcoming ono project however has made head way during tho past year and that j is tho construction of automobile highways la several provinces which open up hitherto isolated districts to tho outside world some highways havo been built undor the direction of the china in ternational famine relief associa tion with its american engineers but perhaps moro significance may be at tached to thoso which havo been built by the chinese with no foreign advice or assistance the chinese bureau of economic information reports that five great highways have been opened to motor trafile during the past few months and that 13 other highways havo been partially completed and will be fin ished during tho summer chinese engineers havo also drawn plaits for 11 others and when theso have been completed china will have a finer highway system than in the most prosperous days of empire chinese officials have been impres sed by tho fact that the highways already completed have paid for themselves within a short time in a country where labor is so cheap the cost of construction is not great and highway building la especially useful in times when so many men and wo men are out of work as a rule tho provinelal governments which build tho highways havo shared in tho purchase of motorbuses which use them and the profits from these en terprises have been quick and sub stantial the chinese farmers havo taken readily to the new vehicles and automobile buses now run into districts which had never seer such conveyances a year or two ago some of the greatest progress has been made in shansi which has been known as tho model province un der the beneficent rule of marshal yen hsishaii some 3000 miles were completed before the civil wars stopped the work since then art ad ditional 1000 miles has been complet ed and another 2000 miles is con templated during the summer port of agadis long closed is now semiopen coastwise traffic imports ad mitted to moroccan city exports barred london agadir that longclosed pott south of tho atlas mountains in morocco which figured so prominently in the earopean diplomatic disputes which preceded tho great war is now semiopen according to a report of the britsh viceconsul at mogador a considerable import trado ka3i sprung up in certain overseas imports av t n t lowed as soon as agadir into morocco between casablanca and nnen b agadir particularly in tea and sugar atlas into sous two of which are actually open that country must play prominent part in moroccan agri cultural and commercial development its chief products are cereals al monds gum wool goatskins olives and arghan oil tho last is peculiar to this region but ha snot hitherto been used outside morocco owing to shortness of supply of this of late however morocco has been importing considerable quantities of soya oil the price of which is cheaper than olive oil the sous is very rich in copper and according to the report of tho mannesmann brothers rich also in other materials but no official te ports aro yet availablo on this point nor is it yet open to prospecting tho er will no doubt be al- is thrown ully open minards liniment relieves pain i and consequently the port of agadir i has been kept open for coastwise traf fic imports this is not likely now o be altered rs in the middle of this summer the consul believes that agadir will be thrown open to deep sea imports and exports on the lines of the other moroccan ports at present the government does not permit agadir to export at all direct but as for the past 12 years the inhabitants of sous havo to take their produce across tho atlas mountains to the- port of mogador the leading mogador merchants whose trade must be heavily hit once agadir is fully open have already secured sites and in many cases put up buildings at agadir the latest development is the opening by some of the mogador mer chants of a subdepot at- sidi mokhtar about co miles east of mogador on the road to marrakeesh in order to inter cept there cereals from sotia destined for marrakeesh great building activity generally is now going on ai agadir and land values tt the port which is naturally sheltered and tho only sea outlet for a coasilino several hundred miles long have risen very rapidly with tha completion of three motoring roads which tho frnncomorocoan govern- ircnt is now driving over the southern canadas river quebec action catholiquo ind the st lawrence is an inheritance ol great value a potent key to wealth we must not barter it away no matter that we aro offered in return certain advantages theso advantages are likely to prove only temporary a postponement in tho raising of tho american tariff can bo nothing moro than a postponement there is nothing worse for music than to have it all day and every day until at last it becomes as familiar as the central heating of the house sir hugh alle theres always a trick in it they sell you a car or a phonograph on credit and then demand cash for gas and dance records they call woman the weaker sex but did you ever hear teil of a barber talking ouo into a shampoo when she ciune in only to get a haircut books waited old canadian hooks documents etc highest prices offered adviso what you have j m sutherland 839 dupont st toronto ont when in toronto eat and sleep at scholes hotel 4cc irch or cupper a specialty yomge st opposite eaton hotel rates 1 per day and up issue no trade with russia washinaton post tho experience of tho british should sllcnco those who aro working for soviet recogni tion by tho united states stahllns government is sparing no effort to en tice tho united states into an arrange ment through which american capital would bo poured into tho coffers of tho soviet in tho hopes of expanding trado loans and credit besides dip lomatic recognition of tin insecure communist government which is a deadly enemy of tho socalled capital istic natlod is the offer that has been hold out to england and america propaganda as to tho advantages of trado with tho soviet la a poor brand of trickery through which tho rods hope to flnanco their communistic schemes tho kusslau peoplo have nothing with which to buy thoy havo been ruined by tho fool theories of ono dictator after another any amount of capital would not nssuro tho reconstruction of tho country as chapter xx my dear mr gillingham tno rccon3lrlltuu i gather from your letter that you lon ns ho n6l8 rr0 n comro have made certain discoveries which i you may feel it your duty to communi cate to the police and that in this ease my arrest on a charge of murder would inevitably follow why in these circumstances you should give rac such llam beac ample warning of your intentions i do not understand unless it is that ioft lte mlnardt for the rub dswn the steppingstones to scientific knowledgo principally consist of tho errors of past professors sir wll- f m peru when cxnilo oil is so plentifully available here in north america why docs imperial oil limited so 4000 miles to pern for the crude from which marvclubo is made it is because peruvian crude has lubrication properties which mnlto it particularly desirable as a base for a superior motor oil that is why marvclubo is giving aircraft operators longer periods between engine overhauls and a greater margin of safety marvclubo meets the needs of the modern highspeed motor in tho air or on tho road becauso its carbonfrco and heatresisting su periorities are created by nature herself ict morvelube give you the benefits of better lubrication thero is a grade of marvclnbo rcfijacd to meet exactly tho specifications of your car truclc or tractor see tho mar vclubo chart at imperial oil deal ers and service stations wmm fas persia cwwiies a better chtwie f ebsjasie a feefsea uibots- ml m m b rvfl e vemv w here m cam x e o am