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> Ifs Cooling "ZMJM 5) TEA MYSTERY STORY LOUIS ARTHUA CUNNINGHAM CHAPTEB XII "Wlio hadâ€"" Roger started to smile, but the smile died a-born- Ine. His lips were parted. He •tared hard at his aunt and saw no gleam of mirth in her eyes. A shadow there ,a hideous lurking curtain of doubt. "A moment," he said softly. "Just a moment! This â€" this was no play, none o( their malce-be- Mever- •'This was serious. We question- ed them. Meridel and Rudi scold- ed them. It was no good. °He is the one who killed Bonhomme Fri- <iot. And he laughed aftei-ward. I hate him, hate him, hate him!' My God, Roger I have been hearing that child's voice ever since. In the dark hours of the night when I waken and realize how old I am and remember you and remember him â€" him." "They could be mistaken. TonngBters like them â€" " "They are old, these children of the war â€" old and wise, Roger, I'm afraid. I've been afraid since that day. I can't think of It â€" can't bear to. You know how he felt about those people. He lived among them three years. He was formed by themâ€"" "Not to betray his country! Not to wear theirâ€"" "BT«n the scar on his chin" said the old lady bitterly. "His souve- nir of Heidelberg he called it â€" a saber cut â€" they remembered that." • * • "Don't! Don't talk about it!" Roger got up and walked to the window Just as the telephone rang softly, handy to Roger's el- bow. He looked inquiringly at ma- dame and lifted it when she nod- ded. He did very little talking, a great deal of listening. "Good! We shall see you soon, my friend!" And he put the tele- phone down slowly and looked earnestly, appralsingly at his aunt. "Order that coffee and cognac, madame. You are going to need H." "What â€" " she spoke through ttie house phone to G«sner, turn- ed then to her nephew. "Tell me. Who was that?" "Old Delorme, your confidential agent's clerk. That black devil iy>llet has skipped. There's a letter In his office there for you â€" and from what I could gather - not â- lucji else." "You mean," Madame picked up Iker stick and fingered the knob, "you mean to say that Gabriel Follet has swindled me!" for BETTER SIE£P„. BETTER DiSESmm.. BETTER HEMm.' HOTEL METROPOLE All Beautifully With Running Rates; Furnished Water. $1.50 up NIAGARA FALLS OPPOSITE C.N.R. STATION '-tMuatiumahfS ZOndSetUatlOt? ^ Did VDu know tlut â-  10c packasa of *^ WIISON-S H.Y PADS wiU kiirmore flin ^. thui C^OO worth of any other fly killer? The fUca do the work when you use '^ VHISON-S FL Y PADSI ISSUE 31â€" 194S "I shall go back to the city at once and see what's to be done. I'll get some good lawyer for you. I know that you wouldn't be in- terested enough to come with me." "Why not? It is a long time since 1 have been away from here. We shall go right after lun- cheon. Perhaps now that we are poor, Meridel and Rudi and the children will forget their pride and come back." The tiny back parlor of the Coq d'or held a gay company that night. The tavern was closed early and the little ones, as a very spe- cial concession .were allowed to stay up a full two hours after their bed-time. Roger was their hero. "You must come to stay with us," said Madame, "not just to visit. If I am able to remain there, Meridel, you and the child- ren must return to me. Now, you see, the shoe is on the other foot; It is I who am pour who am in need of good friends and cheery faces around me. You would not leave a poor, helpless old woman alone!" • * * She sat in the place of honor by Jules Goulon's iireside and be- nignly let Rudolph wait upon her, which he did with obvious plea- sure. "Ah, it is like the good old times, Rudolph," she said. "I fear it was not until you were gone that I realized what a treasure I had In yon." "Just as 1, until 1 became a bar- on, madame," murmured Rudolph, "did not know how pleasant Is the lot of a butler." The children surrounded Roger and Meridel, questioning Roger, asking him the meaning of the bright ribbons on his tunic, beg- ging him to tell them of his ad- ventures in the sky. He .waited, ai did Meridel, and madame also, for queries, some talk of Bon- homme Fricot, "that good man whom the laughing soldier killed." They knew Rosine and Pol Mar- tin were thinking of that, but something, some childish intuition kept their little tongues away from the subject. "You could not take captives from your airplane, could you?" asked Pol Martin. "Who takes those prisoners? I know: it's the soldiers on the ground. They take them and send them over here and put them in big wire cages. Gesner told us that there was a big one full of them deep in the woods back of Philibert. Roger sat at the fire with Meri- del after madame had retired, while Rudolph and Jules went over their acoount.s in the little en- closure in the taproom. Roger's dark eyes studied her face shyly. "This Is the hour I waited for," he said. "And 1 pictured it just like this. The\;e would be a fire and you and I would sit beside it and I would know such happiness as never before. To be near you is all I'd ask, to know that, by reaching out, I could touch you, that by bending 1 could kiss your lipsâ€"" She looked at him, then away. "But â€" liiit you do not?" "No, 1 do not." He, too, was in- tent on the blaze. "The mystic fig- ure that was between my love and me'â€" his voice held now a little of that same wryness that had been in it when he loarned of her previous meetinK with the red one â€""it has ciystallized into the very solid form of my brother. Michel." "Madame told you about the picture?" ••.\\\ about it." "And you think?" "I think with you and with luy aunt: it is a thins too awful, too monsticiiRly appnllins, to be be- lieved" "But could itâ€" could it be? Your brother- how could he live among them, .serve with themâ€"?" "You mean could ho get away with it? Yes, he could readily. He was educated in Germany, spoke the language well, had many friends there. He knew the politi- cal setup and admired some of the things about it. There! I swore I wouldn't talk about this business, and here I spoil our first moments together by dwelling on It. I won't mention It againâ€" even though I know you keep his photograph and â€"pray to It." (To Be Continued) Ages-old symbols of mystery met when the comely member of the British Array's Auxiliary Territorial Servi-e, pictured above, went sun-bathing in the desert with the Sphinx as a backdrop. She was on leave from her post in Cairo. WHAT SCIENCE IC â- a (C!NC Silver Luster Spoons and forks, plated accord- ing to a new British process, re- tain a lustre equal to silver without any treatment bej'ond washing in foap and water. This process, called speculum-coating, has been developed by scientists. It can be im o) Xipajip puE X|diuis' poi[Udt.' metal, giving exactly the appear- ance of silver. Tests have shown, however, that spulum coated metal, which has the same reiiectivity as silver articles when new, regis- tcri 400 percent higher reflectivity In one month's exposure under identical conditions. Acids such as lemon juice, and beer, have ab- solutely no effect on its silver Iub- tre. Other advantages of the coat- ing are that it does not scratch or flake, even when articles are sev- erely bent or twisted. It is so tough that an average coating of one-two-thousandth of an inch is adequate to give excellent pro- tection. Speculum plating is already be- ing used in the United Kingdom on a wide range of products includ- ing all types oi household jfoods and fittings. How Can /? ay Anne Ashley Q. What can I do for an oily •kin? A. Wash the face in fresh water to which the juice of half t lemon bad been added. Apply this treat- ment once a day. Q. How can I remove chewing gum from children's cothing? A. It can often be removed with- out injuring the material by ap- plying a piece of ice. This will har- den the gum and cause it to crum- ble. Q. How can I make a remedy for poison ivy ? A. A little potassium perman- ganate and a little water in an ex- cellent remedy for poion ivy. Have solution prepared by druggist. Q. What is a good tooth wash. A. Old-fashioned cider is etill considered to be one of the very best tooth washes ever discovered. Q. How can I make the white of an egg beat to tlie required stiff- ness? A. When it does not beat to the required stiffness, add a pinch of baking soda while beating. This also will make it more fluffy and prevents falling if it must stand awhile after beating A Tall Tale of Tall Trees Out in California the natives are mighty pixud of their state's giant icdwood trees, and occasionally their stories about tlicm are as tall as the trees themselves. Here's one: "Big trees? Why, out our way they felled a hollow tree over a ravine that was too deep and wide to build a bridfic acros.-!. One day while I was driviuK through this tree with a trailer I met a big moving van coming through from the other end. 1 couldn't hack up or go ahead, so I just edged the trailer into a hollow branch and let the othei fellow go past." Valuable Wire Tungsten filament wire for three-watt lamps is drawn through diamond dies to a diameter ot 3/10,000 inch at the Westinghouse Lamp Division. A pound of this wire onc-ttuth the diameter of a human hair, stretches 282 miles and costs thousands of dollars to manufacture. Modern Etiquette By RoDertf Lee 1. When answering a wedding invitation what form should one use? 2. Should the bread and butter plates remain on the table through- out the entire meal? 8. Is it permissible to termin- ate a conversation that has grown too tedious? 4. What is the proper way to point the prongs of a fork when cntting food and when eating it? 6. Is it necessary for one to give a wedding gift to a woman who is being married for the second time? 8. . Is mourning s'tationery with black border still popular? ANSWERS 1. Thi( same form should be used as when replying to any formal invitation, and should be written on the first page of good, white note paper. 2. No; they should remain until the dessert is served. S. Yes; quiet dignity and tact will succeed invariably. 4. The prongs of the fork should point downwards when cutting the food, upwards when conveying it to the mouth. ». Not unless the bride is a very close friend.. «. No, though it is still used by some people. What We Need Today Canada needs reassur- ance that ihe arena of industrial development will still be open to free enterprise, states the Montreal Star. We stand on the threshold of a new era. We are destined to become a far more numerous na- tion than we are today, and unless free enterprise can have fair play we rfiall not be able to keep our place in the march of the nations along the road of progress and prosperity. The people of Canada as a people have a keen appreciation of what free enterprise has done to help this Dominion forward. They realize that without it we could never have become the leading Dominion of the British Empire, and certainly never have come to our present recognized, international status. The average human thigh bone can support a weight of lyj tons without breaking. CHRONICLES of GINGER FARM Uy Gwendoline P. Clarke What a lot of <lifference it inal<es on a farm when there is siifiicient â€" and efficient â€" help. With Bob and young John both working like Trojans we were really able to get somewhere with the haying last week. Given a few more dry days and all our first cutting of hay will be safely stowed away in the barn. Partn.-r has been helping too, coiling mo.'.-t of the time. Son and 1 have both been urging him to take it easy. He pay some attention to us for awhile and then first thing we know he is back in the field again, * • * Just imagine, with all this haying I haven't had to drive the horses on the hayfork once. And believe me, that has been a great relief to this woman. You might think after all the years I've been at it that I would be used to it by now, yet the fact remains it botliers me more inslead of less with every passing year. Just old age creeping on, 1 suppose. 4 4 * .Next week it looks as if the wheat will be ready to cut â€" and next week we also hope to have our first picking of peas from the garden. Yes. they're a little late, but bettf-r late than never. You rememtier we had some ram in the spring that prevented folks getting their gardens in early. However we mustn't count our peas before they are picked because there is just a chance some visit- ing pigs ma> clean up on them first in â€" which case I shall feel like cleaning up on the pigs. * » • One moi iiing last week Son and I made a hurried trip to the city â€" we were back home again in time for dinner. We both had shopping to do but for all wc were able to get wc might just as well have stayed at home. For the life of me I can't see why there The romantic story of "boy- meets-girl," told in a new and amusing way. Stitches are simplest embroidery, gay in bright kitchen colors. You'll have a kitchen full of guests admiring your laugh-making towels. Pattern 778 has 6 motifs. 8J4 X 7 inches; stitches. Send twenty cents in coins (stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern to Wilson Needlecraft Dept., Room 421, 78 Adelaide St. West, Toronto. Print plainly pat- tern number, your name and ad- dress. bluiiildn't be less of jhe m-.-.-cs- bcntial garments made and a few more of those that go next to the skin. .And 1 also fail to see why a ci-rtain amount of sjnthctic rub- ber shouldn't be reserved for mens', women's and children's undergar- ments. I wonder if it would be poMsible t'j make an appeal to the powers 'hat be â€" and f so, whether it would have any effect. * * * But we were on a trip to the city ... we traveled along the hiKliway and as I didn't have to drive 1 had plenty of time lor observation. And my observations were anything but encouraging. We parsed acre-; of orchard land and never in all my life have I seen less fruit on the trees. It just wa.-^n't There Onl- in one orchard did 1 .'ee an cherries â€" and very few at that. Api'es, pears, plums and peaches were practically non- existent. Here's hoping this fruit famine is not quite â- / bad in the Niagara Peninsula â€" at least we have been told that a fifty per- cent peach crop is expected. • .« » As for wild raspberries â€" show me a patch where there are some and I'll be there with a milk pail in either hand. The most we can hope for around here is a few blackcaps, .^nd of, course there won't even be a good crop of honey to fall back on. And then our ton comes home from Europe and in response to a few inquiries as to what he would like to eat he replic-.â€" "Well, I can tell you Mom, you needn't be afraid of giving me too many fruits and vegetables!" He also asked if he could have some bacon for breakfast. But he has learnt a thing or two since that second day home, especially since he went shopping for himself. » » • Isn't it a strange thing that there should be a shortage of so many things when an abiuidancc is so greatly needed? One wonders is it part of the Master Plan. 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