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of potassium is not easly soluble in cold alcohol, and whoeveyrprepared the mixture must have heat&d the liqueur. A woman about to takef her own life would not be very like@y to do any- p or El LA, js the purest and most scientifically prepared tea, sold today. -- Try it. HBEOO 2 The Hidden Hour BY J. B. HARRIS-BURLAND CHAPTER VII.--(Cont'd.) "I must burn the hat," said Ruth to | The maid put down the tray on a herself. She looked at the fire that i iously and i d-| had been lit an hour previously so Bo 0 the = was now burning brightly. i had expression of relief came into Ruth's | been lit more yor its com orienie a eyes. At any rate the woman had not PoAranse Bien for RY OT ne removed the coat for other eyes to see.| W20'€ ou d b yes But when had she gone to the ward- temperature of 65 degrees by centra robe 'and why had she gone to the Beste: Bul fof 200% te fre Foun wardrobe? p > Fletcher brought forward the coat Ruth slipped oust bed, Jocked ihe and laid it on the bed and answered | 900%; and opene © grawer where y i he had placed the hat. He Saesions before Ruth had asked ® But the hat had vanished. Ruth « : » he stared blankly at the place where it a days should have been. No longer had the ago to take more care of your lady-|8nY doubt about Flejcher. No TF Se ship's furs, and, knowing that you could have Jeken J e oN ro Ls went to the theatre last night, and not; cher had seid nothing Wagtcver a in the car either, I thought that per-|} haps your ladyship's beautiful coat might be rumpled, and those cabs aren't always very nice, are they, my| lady? So when I came in to draw up! the blinds this morning, my lady, I had a look at the coat, and I'd have taken it to my workroom if it hadn't been for the tear. I thought I'd bet- ter ask your ladyship about that." _ It was a reasonable explanation, and it was quite true that Ruth had asked her maid to pay more attention to the furs. Ruth could only say, "Oh, that was very nice and thoughtful of you, Fletcher. But this tear--oh, it is dreadful! I can't imagine how it hap- pened. I must have caught it on some- thing. Sir Alexander would be furi- ous if he knew. One of the skins is torn, Fletcher." Fees? A Siw 'Ruth searched everywhere, but still she could not find the hat. Fletcher had simply removed it. And she, Ruth, could not ring the bell and ask Flet- cher about it. She unlocked the door and crept back into bed. She was shaking with terror. If at that moment her hus- band had come into the room she prob- ably would have confessed everything. But later on, when she had had her bath and had dressed herself, refusing to allow Fletcher to help her, she re- viewed the situation more calmly. She saw what it would mean to John Mer- rington if she told the truth. CHAPTER VIIL thing of the sort, even ig' knowledge. solves it easily. need say about the medifal evidence in this case, except tha {must have taken the poison between 9.30, the hour at whicnd Sir Alexander Bradney left the flat, time of the maid's retujn. can narrow down the an hour--from 9.30 to §10 o'clock--for the deceased showed r at 10.20. dence, it is a matter Mr. John Merrington | present. As you have {rington met with a m this way to stay with Ardington, at Dedbury} |ton has not only lost AL day éhe coruinar's court had been she had the She would have put the r, which dis- hink, is all I oisonous salt into wa "That, gentlemen, I the and 10.20, the Indeed, we period to half signs of life _ the other evi- 'or regret that s unable to be ieard, Mr. Mer- ior accident on his friend, Mr. Mr. Merring- is memory, but according to the lateS§~report, lies in a critical condition at fhe house of Dr. Trehorn. We have lisjened to a state- ment made by one Tythe best brain specialists in London jo the effect that possibly Mr. Merringtpn will never re- cover his memory of Ji certain period in his life, and I may} say that I have been guided by that ytatement in my decision not to adjoydn the inquest in the hope of getting Fir. Merrington's evidence." "Now with regard t (To be contknued.) ---- Hill Born. I have grown wea of .this languid land; Sick of the low hori Like a great somb death / Of rose and laurel, ¢icalyptus, palm, line that flows : river; sick to Brooding in lavish jweetness. I am mad E: For the harsh glory of my own far hills, J For the stern mas ulinity of home. They do not have'sunrise or sunset here; t Rather the shamefiliday slinks cower- ing in } Over gray waste (1 waters and gray land, 3 Under a muted, nslancholy sky. And never does ithurn away in one Swift, splendid bist of sanctifying flame As day once did, lat shambles grayly past Under the mantle I the leper fog, To the dull stuporof a starless night. O God--for splendi dawn-- spaces in this {every detail is burned upon my mem- deceased |. The Great Disillusion. Disillusion, alas! comes to all of us. My first disillusion, says Mr. Arthur Porritt in the Best-I Remember, came when I was a boy of nine years, and ory. At my day school in a Lancashire town the boys had a mad eraze one year for a particular form of sweets. All our pocket money went on a sort of sherbet, which we ate dry with a spoon, and which we called "kal." It was sold in little flat wooden boxes, and there were several varieties, lem- on, orange, pineapple, and so forth. Opinions varied sharply as to the merits of the various kinds. One boy praised lemon kali; another cared for nothing except orange; and a third vowed that all other varieties of the sweet were simply uneatable com- pared with pineapple kali. We quar- reled and almost came to blows over the relative merits of the flavors. We formed groups of orange kali boys and felt bitterly toward the avowed cham- pions of lemon and pineapple kali. In fact, we boys blindly elevated the kalis into real party issues. Now the summer holidays came while our differences of opinion were at a height, 'and I went to visit rela- tives in an East Lancashire town. 'While there I had the supreme joy of being taken over the factory where the kalis were made. On my round I entered a room where four giils in white overalls were filling the familiar flat wooden boxes, which were already labeled; there was a mountainous pile of the toothsome powder on a huge round table. I looked at the boxes; they bore colored labels, yellcw for lemon kali, red for orange kali 'and green for pineapple kali. But all the boxes were being fllled from the same pile! Aghast, I asked one of the girls if a horrible mistake was not being made. "Aren't you putting orange kali into a lemon kali box?' I asked in a tone that must have sounded hor- ror-struck. "Oh, no," she replied; "there's no difference in the kali; the difference is only in the labels on the boxes." I left the factory, a sadly disillusion- ed boy. ---- Minard's Liniment foi Dandrufh rm fn. Woman's Tool. Engine-Driver--"The reason we are kept waiting here, ma'am, is because the engine has broken down. I have examined it, and if I only had the proper tools I could fix it in half an hour." Helpful Old Lady--"Here's a hair- "Yes, my lady," said the serv-at, Srosvaed, 25d the Samos ah in it wos For glimmering Wstness -- for the i FH A= bat sug fingering he Reeve of the a light. and a degse moisture clung to thg win-! wind Ligls pgs ne - rr Pp --shic puUT for a ur after hour wit malt a ol 4 on or come forward, given their evidence, answered questions, and vanished into obscurity again. Doctors, policemen, Trehorn, Sir Alexander Bradney, friends of Paula Merrington, the servant--these and others had pieced together the tragic story of Paula's death. And yet, curi- ously enough, in spite of the awful nature of the tragedy, a dull mono- tony, the possible result of law and she replied sharply, "Nonsense, Flet-|order and ceremony, lay heavy over cher!" and held out her hand. the proceedings like a pall. The She examined the twig as though it greatest tragedy of the greatest had been some curiosity from a mu-| dramatist of the world would seem seum. It was no more than an inch | lifeless if it were told by witnesses to in length, but it was stout and it had 2 coroner and a jury. a rough sort of point. It was not a|. vhen the last witness had said the thorn. If she had been pitched into | 12st word, answering the last question, a thorny hedge she would not have| the coroner turned over his notes, come off so lightly. cleared his throat, and looked at the "It must have been there for ages, JUIY: Fletcher," she said. "How could I| "You have heard the evidence, possibly have torn my coat last night gentlemen," he said in a brisk, busi- on a twig ilke that?" | nosslilie voice, "and it is now my duty | moment--*"so as no one woul i it, but it wouldn't last. oo Roties Her fingers were thrust between the silk lining and the leather of the fur, and she suddenly withdrew them and held a small pjece of broken twig be- tween her finger and thumb. 'It pricked me," she said, "and it must have been that as did it, my lady." : Ruth 'needed all her self-control as "I cannot say, my lady," the servant | to Present it to you as clearly and con- answered stiffly, "but I don't think it. cisely as possible, so as to help you to can. have been there very long, my, come to a decision. The medical evi- lady, because the wood is quite Fresh | dence is plain enough. The deceased and green." | was poisoned by cyanide of potassium, Ruth Bradney could stand no more and enough poison was found in the of this. It was almost like a cross-' bottle of liqueur to have killed fifty examination. What a woman! With !Ppeople. Death probably took place the eyes of a lynx. Nothing had Within a few minutes, and insensibil- escaped her notice. jity might have occurred within the "Well, it doesn't matter, Fletcher," Space of a single minute. The fact, she said with a smile. "The coat 7g therefore, that the deceased, who was torn, and there's an end to it. Youd 2lone in the flat, did not cry out for better stitch it up now and I'll take it Pelp or run for assistance does not down to the furrier's myself. I shall Necessarily prove thet she had taken have to see the man about it. the poison of her own free will or that The servant placed the tray outside] She Wished to be left alone to die. the door and returned for the coat. "Against the theory of suicide must "I'll take it to my room, my lady," be set the fact that the poison was in she said, "and bring it back in half, the botile, and not merely in the glass. an hour. Your ladyship can rely on| Now a woman wishing to take her own me to do the best I can for you." life would not put the poison in a full "Thank you so much, Fletcher. 1, bottle, but would put it in the glass. really don't know what I should do She would not wish to endanger the without you." lives of other people. The maid left the room and fiath] "Against the theory of murder, how- closed her eyes. The light from the, Ver» We have set this--that this pois- window seemed to hurt them. She 0ROUS salt has a very bitter taste, and concentrated her thoughts o.. Fletcher. | it at once produces a feeling of burn- The woman had been in her service R€ heat in the throat. It also has for five years--a thoroughly reliable, 2 Strong odor of almonds. Anyone honest, and pleasant woman. How was 51PPing this liqueur would at once no- it that Fletcher had seemed--well, just tice that something was wrong with it, a little different this morning---not though not perhaps so readily as if quite so pleasant, perhaps? Surely the poison- had been mixed with any Fletcher would not imagine that her other form of spirit. Noyeau itself is mistress had not gone to the theatre, Made from the kernels of peaches and One can tear one's fur coat anywhere contains a small amount of prussic If one is careless enough. But that acid. And you must take this fact into twig! How shar) of Fletcher to have consideration, that there may have found it--how wonderful of Fletcher been an intention to disguise the taste to notice that it had een recently of the poison as much as possible, and, broken off some shrub or tree! 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Hearts that have followel the wind Beat with a wingid insurgence till they spur The timorous flesl to skyward trails again. And mine to-nightis wild with all re- bellion; Blind to all other beauty--hungering only For hill horizons aid a coyote moon-- Sage in my nostrls--milling, mave- rick stars-- And then the flame clad riders of the dawn Loping across the sky with hoofs of thunder. --Ted Olson. ---- eee Minard's Liniment Heals Cuts. He Helped. The train was gohg up a very steep grade, and with unisual difficulty the engineer succeeded in reaching the top. At the station;lcoking out of his cab, the engineer siw the new brake- man and said with § sigh of relief: "I tell you what, my lad, we had a job to get up here, didot we?" "We certainly did" said the brake- man, "and if I hdn't put on the brakes we'd have slipped back." 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