The Phantom of the Opera BY GASTON LEROUX J banker, so h« sai«i! . . . When he !â- •- turned he found me with my face cov- ered with blood ... I had trM to ki:i iiiyiMlf by strikini: my for«h«iiMi ugHtnut tb« w»''.e." "Christine!" groanod Kaoul; and k* began to sub. "Then h« Lwund me, . . I am not n'.fowed to die until e'j>v«n o'clock to- nwrrow evening." "MademoiteXe," I declared, "th» inoraiter bound you . . . and he •bwll unbind yuu. \'iiu have only to play tho nccexsHry part! Remember that he loves you!" "Alaa!''^ we heard. "Am I likdly to CHAPTER XIV. â€" (Cont'd.) tako a resolution "nnd linow your own I "1 am KoitiK to hang by my hands !"'"*" ','"«"'' f-'"? "" livinK Hke this, forget it!'' from the edge of the 8ton*> and let my- > ii.'"' " '""''' ,'". " ''"•â- ["*' "?" •'"'"} "K^msmbfr it and smi'.e to him . . . «e f drop into his house Vou must ' rnumphaiil i.s lini.'.hjd; and now 1 entreat him ... tell him that your do exurtly the same. Do not be afraid. ^""^ K'-^'"'' ^''^^' «>"'â- > l«>dy e''«e and bonds hurt you." I will catch you in my arms " , '^*' *^"''* "'''' ""' <"> Ssun'Jays.' I But Christina Daae iiaid: Raoul soon hfsrd a dull found evi-' ^*<^" ♦''♦' "'on'l>- that accompanied! "Hush! . . 1 hear U)mething in the dently produced by the fa 1 of the' Per- ^"'^^ *"'"' °^ l<,v<''s litany increased. I wall on the lake! . . . It is hel . . . •ian, and then dropped down. I ^'^'•'? ."''^«''" ^^V} »"y<J}i"K "«>•â- « !*«: Go away! Go away! Co away!" He felt hiniselif c a.sped in the Per- sP^'rinjc; and iM. do Chatpiy and I; "We could not go away, even if we sian's arms » | '"ecogniied thiil this terrible kmenta- ; wanted to," I said, as impressively "Hush!" said the Persian. r'"" '"'""*' ^''°"' ^^"^^ himself. las I could. "We can not leave this! And they stood motionless, liBt4sning. ' . ..A"*^ ^* thought only of the possi-. And we are in the torture-chamber!" Hush!" whispered Christine again. Heavy steps sounded slowly behind the wall, then stopped and made the The darkne«« w«a thick around . '"•''*y <>' vmrning Christine Daae of them, the silence heavy and terrible. V""" P"^^"*^' "."'"^<'^ ^ ♦^ '"O"^**''- Then the Persian began to make We were unab.e to leave the torture- play with the dark lantern again «^bamber now, unles.s Christine opened floor creak once more. Next, cante a turning tht> rays over their heads' ^''* '*"'*'' ^ ""' ""*^ "^ *"* ""'y "" "*'* 'â- tremendous sigh, followed by a cry of looking for the hole through which* '"""'^'t''"' '*>«* w«-' could hope to help'hbrror from Christine, and we heard they had come, and failing to find it: l^""' '*^ *? did not even know where Erik's voice: •Oh!" hesuid: "The stonehasclos- '""*J^'''?'«*»';^- ., . ^ ^i "I beg your pardon for letting you ed ot itself!" i ^suddenly, the silence in the next see a face hke this! What a state I And the light of the lantern swept •â- *<"" was disturbed by the ringing of am in. am I not? It's the other one's dijwn the wall and over the floor | "n electric bell. There was a bound fault! Why did he ring? Do I ask The Persian stoor;d and picked up °" *'^* other side of the wall and , people who pass to tell me the time? K)Miething, a fort of cord, which he '='"«'« voice of thunder: He will never ask anybody the time examined for a sec<5nd and flung away ; "Somebody ringing! Walk in, again! It is the siren's fault." with horror. 'please!" Another sigh, deeper, more tremen- "The Punjab lasso!" he murmured, t A sinister chuckle. I dous still, came from the abysmal "What is it?" asked Raoul. I "Who has come bothering now? depths of a soul. _ _ The Persian shivered. "It might Wait for me here. ... 1 am going to! ;*Why did you cry out, Christine?" very well be the rope by which the l^" the siren to open the door.' \ Because I am in pain, Erik. ^^ man was hanged, and which was look-' Steps moved away, a door closed. li "^ thought I had frightened you. ed for so long." ; had no time to think of the fresh I 'Erik, unloose my bonds . . Am I And, suddenly seized with fresh horror that was preparing; I forgot not your prisoner?" anxiety, he moved the little red disk that the monster was only going out You wall try to kiU yourself again, of his lantern over the walls. In this perhaps to perpetrate a fresh crime;] , ',' "^^^ '^^^ given me till eleven way, he lit up a curious thing, the I understood but one thing: Christine o clock to-morrow evening, Erik." trunk of a tree, which seemed still was clone behind the wall! | The footsteps dragged along the quite alive, with its leaves; and the' The Vicomte de Chagny was already floor again branches of that tree ran Vight up the calling to her: walls and disappeared in the. ceiling. "Christine! Christine!" Because of the smallness of the ium-' As we could hear what was said in ,., , v c Inous disk, it was difficult (at first to the next room, there was no reason ;'i'e, you know. . . . You have only make out the appearance of things: why my companion should not be <>"» word to say: 'No! And it will they .saw a corner of a branch . . .heard in his turn. Nevertheless, the at once be over with everybody! , . . and another leaf . . . and. next to it viscount had to repeat his cry time ! You are right, you are right ; why wait) nothing at all, nothing but the ray of after'time. til' eleven o'clock to-morrow evening? "After all. as we are to die together and I am just as eager as you yes, I have had enough of this Have Tou Tasted II mm GR££N TEA atm THose wHo lMkv« used Japan, Yotsa^ IlTSon or GrunpoiNrder Tea mtIII a]»pre» elate tKe euperlorltF of this delidjatie blendU aliNrays eo pure and ricb. Try it* ISLAND KINGDOMS FOR SAII IN ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND Hght that seemed to reflect. . . . Ra oul passed his hand over that nothing, over that reflection. "Hullo!" he said. "The wall is a looking glass!" "Yes, a looking glass!" said the Persian, in a lone ot deep emotion. And, passing the hand that helxl the pistol over hi.s moist forehead, he added, "We have dropped into the tor- ture-chamber!" What the Persian knew of this tor- At I&st, a faint voice reached us. "I am dreaming!" It said. Trus, it would have been grander, finer. . . . But that is childish non- "Christine, Christine, it is I, Raoull" i sense. ... We should only think of A silence. ourselves in this life, of our own death "But answer me, Christine! . . . In • • • the rest doesn't matter heaven's name, if you are alone, ans- 1 You're looking at me because I am all wer me!" |wet? . . . Oh, my dear, it's raining Then Christint-'s voice whispered cats and doga out.side! .. Apart from Raoul's name. I that, Christine, I think I am subject ' "Yes! Yes! It is I! It is not alto hallucinations. . . You know, the' dream! . . . Christine, trust me! We "^a" who rang at the siren's door just „ , are here to save you . . . but be pru-|nowâ€" go and look if he's ringing at! ture-chamber and what there befell dent! When you hear the monster, 'the bottom of the lake-well, he was him and his companion shall be told warn us!" I rather like. . . There, turn round in hLf own words, as .sot down in a| Then Christine gave way to fear. ' a""® yo" glad? You're free manuscript which ht; left behind him. She trembled lest Erik shodld discover i ^^h> my poor Christine, look and which I copy verbatim You're free now . _ at your where Raoul was hidden^ shetold us wrists: tell me, have I hurt them? . . in-«»./ew hurried words that Erik had , That alone deserves <leath. . . Talking CHAPTER XV gona quite mad with love and that he "^ death, I mu.st sing his requiem!" had decided to kill everybody and him- ' Hearing these terrible remarks, I self with everybody if .she did not con- received an awful presentiment .... sent to become his wife. He had given ! I too had once rung at the monster's lilte' I her till eleven o'clock the next evening 'loor ... and, without knowing it, „ „. which! for ""cflection. It was the last respite. , â„¢"st have set some warning current, with mirrors from top ' She must choo.se, as he said, between,'" motion. . . . .'^nd I remembered thej n tho corners, we could : 'he wedding mass and the requiem. I two arms that had emerged from the IN THK TORTCHK CHAMBER The Persian's Narrative. We were in Ihi- middle of i â- ix-cornered room, the sides of were covered to boUoin. 1 dearly .see the "join.s" in th<> glas.ses, } Ami Krik had then uttered a phrase the segment.-! intended to turn on their I which Christine did not quite under- gear; yes, I recognized them and I stand: recogni7.e<l the iron tree in the corner,] "Yes or no! If your answer is no, at the bottom of one of tho.HC segment* ^^'cryhody will be dead and buried! ' inky wjitors. What po!)r wretch had straj'ed to that shore this time? Who was 'the other one,' the one whose rpi|uieni we now heard sung? ^„. Krik sang like the god of thunder, the iron tr««s with its iron I But 1 understand" the s-entence per- sang a Dies Irae that developed us as â- â- " 'sponded in a terrible '" " storm. The elements seem?d to rage aroand us. Suddenly, the organ and the voice ceased so suddenly that M. do Chagny sprang back^ on the other side of thi? wall, with emotion. And the voice, change<l und trans- formed, distinctly grated out the.se metallic syllables: "What have you done with my bag?" (To be continued.) English Woman Walker, 70, Seeks Pedestrian Laurels. brancb, for the hanged men. ifectly, for it corresponded in a terrible .Sufldenly w« heard a noise on ourl^iann^'r with my own dreadful left. It .'â- ounded at first like a door thought. opening and shutting in the next ' "Can you tell us where Erik is?" room; and then there was a dull moan. ' asked. T clutched .M. de Chagny's arm more' She replied that he must have left firmly stiM; and then we distinctly the house, heard thes<' words: "Could you make .sure?" "Yoti must make your choice! The' "No. I am fastened. I can not stir wedding mass or the reciuiem mafis!",« limb." I ncogiiii'.ed the voice of the mon^ When we heard this, M. de Chagny ster. I and I gave a yell of fury. Our safety, There was anothei- moan, followed .tiie safety of all three of us, depended by a long silence. ion the girj's liberty of movement. I wa.s persuaded by now that the' "But where are you?" asked Chris- monster was unaware of our presence tine. "There are only two doors in •'^"'â- '•« <>erlni(lp HIchards. seventy In hi.s hou.se, for otherwise ho would "'y. room, the lyOuLs-Philllpe room of years aid, Is c.halleuglng the pedes certainly have managed not to let us which I told you, Kaoul; a doorjtrlan record of Edward Payson Wes hear him. He would only have had to | through which Erik comes and goes, 'ton, the veteran American wal'ker. close the little invisible window and another which he has never.open- 1 she recently completed a walking tour through which the torture-lovers look cd l)erore me and which h<^ has forbid- 'of 1644 mlUw through SeotlanU and down into the torture-chamber. Bo- ''l*n me ever to go through, because he ' p,'. •ides, 1 was certain that, ii he had '•ays it is the most dangerous .of thej „^^, known of our presence, the tortures ,<loors, the door of the torture- would have begun at once, chamber!" I The imrK>rlant thing was not to let; "Christine, that i.s where we are!" |ei>ri"K. \Vlien she sold her country him know; and I dreaded nothing so! "You are in the torture-chamber?" , home In 1023 she look up walking to niui-h as the impulsiveness of the Vi- i "Yes, hut we can not .sec the door." i amuse« herself. c»)mte fie Chagny, who wanted to ru.sh ' . "'>h, if I could only drag myself so "1 started at Land's Knd and set out Ba<l weather has clierkwl Mies Rlck- ] HPds's tour, but she will resume It next through the walls to Christine Paae, far! I would knock at the door and whose moans we continued to hear nt that would tell you where it is." intervals. j "Is it a door writh a lock to it?" I "The requiem maxs is not at all ««ked. gay." Erik's voice -resumpd, "whereas I "Yes, with a lock." the wedding mass- you ran take my' "Mademoiselle," I said, "it is abso- word for it is magnificent! You must Vutcly necessary that you should open , that door to u.s!" 'But how tearfully asked the poor girl for York at the beglnniing of my tour, but I went by highways and byways and not by the main roads," Miw Rlck- ards explained. "1 went to the south Cornish cou«t, Exeter, Bath, Olouoee- ter Warwick, Rugby, (hikhara, Qraat- ham, IJncoln and Doncaster, atudytng flora and fauna. In 1924 1 went to In- â- vernese, by way of }3(!iuburgh, and After Every Meal It doesn't take much to keep you in trim. Nature only askt a little help. Wrigley*«, after every meal, benefits teeth, breath, appetite and digestion. A Flavot fotBveii Taste We heard her utraining, trying to this summer I reached John o' Groat's, free herse f from the bonds that held p,„tlng In 186 days of actual walking." *"i know whe.^ the key is." she said.' , """' >"-'"'<l« "'^-^y" lunched on ; in a voice that K.H.med exhausted bj! '^''T .^'."' ' o " '" '",' ''" """â- [the effort she had made. "But I am ""^ '""' '""â- """"'â- ""'"'^ '" '""^- ^^« fastened fo tight. . . Oh. the wretch!" , •"'>" *''*' never exi)erl«iueil the slight- And she gave a sob. jest luneKiiMW, and always knitted or "Where is the key?" I asked, ,<!ign- ; enibioldered whll» she was rertiing by ing to M. df Chagny not to .speak and the roatlsUle at lunch time. 1(1 leave thi' business to me, for we •> - bad not a moment to lose. j Another Alps Railway. "hi the next room, near the organ ; ,vn electric r.illway is lo be l.uKt to with another little bronze key. which.,,,,, ,„,„„,„ of the Z^K-.plt^ee FLARING SILHOUETTE RETAINS PRESTIGE. 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It le not given to all of a« to become a king in the sense that the King ot England or the King of Italy la, hat given a sulBcleatly large bank acooant, and not very large at that, tibera ia no reason why kingship on a mtnor scale cannot be attained. A few weeks ago Lundy, in the Bristol Channel, vaa sold for £16.000 to a London busiineea man who for thi» mere bagatelle ac- quired complete sway over an attrac- tive Island, with absolute freedom from Imperial taxation or county or municipal rates. Brownsea Island Castle. Now the news comes to hand that Brownsea (or Branksea) Island and Caetle are in the market, with wo- other opiMKuntty for someone of play- ing the role of island king. Brownsea Island ie situated at the entrance to -Poole Harbor in the IieaJt of tlM beautiful Dorset lakeland. The Island itself confiste ot 600 acre» of some ot the meet beautiful ecenery in the south ot England, and apart from the Caetie would offer many Induoemeute to quit the buay world for a life of quieit communion with nature. But to anyone who is not given to Thor- eau'e habits there Ie the Cattle, which was built In the time of- Henry VIII. aa a defense for Poole and to command all shipping going in and out of the harbor. This surveillance was irk- j some. If we may believe u complaint ]' dated 1581, which placed on record that "the Goovner ot Bronkseye doth moleete the Inhabitants of the towne, and will not suffer them to paeee Northaven Point, but doth threaten them to shoote at them, and violently doth take tbeir money from them, which la not only a great binrdranc to poor nm that were woonte to gayne that ways*, but als^ an infrynginge ot onr Ubertice, whereof we think' y1 very neceeoarye to be remedyd." Bought for a Shilling. Present possession. It goes without saying, doea not include the privfleca of molesttng the sturdy inhabitant* ol Poole. Since the Civil War tbe Castle haa been used simply a» a dwell- ing house, and a beautiful one it is, fit for any Island monarch who may wish to reside there. Given a sufUcieai figure, and Sir Arthur Wheeler, its present poaseesor, will vacate hla throne immediately and voluntarily go into exile on the mainland of Endand: In the latter part ot the aixteeth cen- tury the rental of the whole isUad stood at 8e. ; hut you wiU ha.va to pay more now If Lundy l>e unobtainable, and Branksea Im too dear, there are othei lelands round the British coast which offer the omwrtunity of becoming kinc â- at a smaU price They go begging at sundry intervals, and the auctiooeer i» ready to knock them down to the high- est bidder. Last summer a distin- guished novelist, who had lived for some years on the Island of Herm in the Channel Islands, bought an island off, tlie West Coast of Scotland, which had belonged to Lord Leverhulme. A few years ago Lord Strathcona pur- chased the Isles Colonsay and Oron- eay In the Hebrides, and at the same tlni^. an English general became the owner of one of the lesser Orkneys. Calday Island, off the coast of Penir brokeeblre, wae fornjerly in the pos- seeelon of the Rev. W. Done Bushell, a master at Harrow SchooL Probably the smallest amount ever paid for an island oft the coast of the United Kingdom was one fehilling. in consideration of whkJi sum an islet in Lough Erne. County Fermanagh, was, about 20 years ago, sold by the Com- missioners ot Woods and Forests. It Ie hardly possible tp become an Island king much cheaper than that! .Mr* he »!.•'<) forbade nie to touch. They , , are both in a liul.' leather hag which ' ""^'"''"^ he call.K tlif bag of life and death Raoul! Kaoul! Fly! Everything is mysterious and terrible here," and Eiis-' will soon have gone (juite mad. and y»>u are in the torture-chamber! .... (id back the way you came. 'There mu.st be a reason why the nioni is cjllivi i b) that name!" "Chiirtiiie," said the young m.nti, "we will go from here together or d'.c t.),,'eth«r: • "We uMi^l keep I'ool," I whipeitd. 'Why has he fasteneij you, ma.|> "loisrlie? \ou can't escap,-- froMi I'l.-i lu'use; iiiid he knows it!" "J tried to commit suicide' Tiu' mon.iter went nut last nig'hf, after mountain in ihe the liavarlan INECTO RAPID l$9UE No. r-MfS. carrying me here faint in)j and half chloroformed. He wa." going to hi*. Tha hair world's b««t tint WiU n^ •tore mnj hair t« ita natnnl color in Is miaolM. •mall tin, ^M by mall Oeubia alM, IS.SO by mall The W. T. Pcmber Stores LlmltMl IM Yens* >•• Tsrenia Not Serioua. "Don't you think she's rather Iwo- faoed?" "Ves, btht it wa-s.h«B off every night." . > ... ..... Minard'a LInlmsnt for tor* throat. -« Eligible Peer Deserts Society. London society has lost one of Its most eligible young bachelors by the decision of Lord HoUart. only ton of the Earl and Countess of Ducklngham- shlre. to desert England for the great open space sof Australia. This youth- ful peer, not yet 20, is riding In the bush BB a cowlH>y In Quwnsland, while I>ondon mothers and debutantes with designs on a dlAtingui.'ihed title are re- gretting his defection from Mayfalr. I/oril llobart left Eton a Hifle while ago with the IntentUm or going Into btislnetia, but a chort i>erltÂ¥l In a count- ing house convinced him he was ineMnt for some other career, so h<' eml>arked on a freighter bound for Australia. There he became a i-owboy and now looks forward to a career in the cattle buslnes*. His family owns thousands of acres of coal land in Kite and had hoped to Indnee tho heir to take up a conventional life in Eng',and. ♦ Age of Umbrella. The umbrella Is unilnubtedly of liiRh antikiilty. appearln,^ In varl<Tu.H forms ujion the sculptured monuments of Egypt, Assyria. Greece and Konie; ami In hot countries It h«s lieeu used since ihtydawn of history «,<« a sunahnde- a use Hgnlfled by Its name, derived from the atia umbra, a shade. Music Championed by Mem- ber of Parliament. American men of the conunerclal and political Nwoi-W have given high praise to music -its influen'oe and values. Now conies from lyoudosi the opinion of a Minber of Pairllament, The R^ht Honorable J. R. Clynes, and what he lielleves music ciui do. He freely expresses himself In the follow- ing: "Music plays a very Iait;e part in the lives ot most of us. hei-e are, H is true, people who are not influenced by It and take no pleasure In if. but they aire a small ni'.norlty compared with the hosts uf those who, generation af- ter gejieiiition, are moved in some de- gree by the appeal of music. Enjoyed as a pleasure, puT6»ied as a hobby, or studdled as an art, it has the Interest and the affectitin of the vuKt majority of the human race, .\moug the many forms of muB<Ic which inttluence the minds and hearts of men and women a.nd children, the music of the home Is perhape the most valuable and the be»t loved. "It will be agreed by all that the home, the life of the hoim<». the spirit of tbv familiy, are, above moat things else, of crucial Importance to tlie wel- fare ot the State; and it that l>e so. If the life ot the famUy ta the malnepgrlnc of the life of th* osAlon, tt fbtlows' that every influence which «an benefit the faniHiy life, whloh can help to unit* the members of the faniHy In real com- panionship, which can give them a coninu)n Interest, which (>an maka their Bfe together more p!ea-s«nt by making It more enjoyable any In- fluence wlili-h can do this is an Influ- ence of great natkmal value. It draws the fainUy more ck>«ely toKc-lher. It eases the cla«h of competing Individual desires wltMn the famiay circle. It seete up an interest appealing to aU. It does that ineetlmablie good to family llf«â€" »t increases the family's iwwei to hang together for nmtual advant- age. Music Is such an laHuence. Music in ths home pdays the part of a social r^ formerr. It improves the standaid ol the mental, the emotional, the spiritual lifo. When you have got music in the home you have made less rc.om for In- ferior iotereets. For orfe thing, ytw bring to bear uiwn the younger mem- bers of the family an influence that may be of lifelong benefit to thetn. Soon enough, ajid inevitably, valueless and injurious influenoes will- be play- ing ui)»>n them. Give them musicâ€" have music played and s^mg to themâ€" - have them taught to sing and pkky music for themeelveeâ€" and you wIH have done eonnething to counteract the danger of unwholesome Influences to which they are certain to be expossd." 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