FAGB FOUH INSTALMENT TWENTY man came forward. Promptly the Picaroon stepped directly behind the long library table. "J resent this sort of treatment," he complained. "You call me with the realization that Sum mow was not such a fool. "Suppose you tell me one thing," Summers Added. "How did yoirknow the pearlswere in that Thrilling ' Mystery Story In 30 chapters HEMUN UN DON dered the night you dropped the cigar band in the house." The Picaroon was speechless again. The woman had worn the pearls the night she was murder- urlt Tfo wim pnnnptnm rtt anmo- slrange names and make the most tn(ng nreatening dosing in about s curious Insinuations. I don't like M ' it, and I will not be insulted." ! , , "Keep still," growled Summers' ine cigarette impatiently. "Can't you see, you're "I tn& the ta.xlcab driver who caught? Stalling wqn'l do you any f took. Mrs. erryma,n to this house good. You're only wasting time, in the night," Summers went on. Of course, if you preferwe'll ("She wore a Jong wrap, parted In search you at the station . You are front, and he saw the pearls going to be booked on a charge of (distinctly when she paid him his murder, anyhow." (fare. She was murdered on ac- "Murder?" It was the voice of count of those pearls. There was Martin Dale that spoke. The word no other motive, slipped out before he could dis-j "The murderer followed her to gu'Ufc it. , Ithjs house. Probably he, didn't ("Ah, that gave you S jolt, didn't 'intend to kill her, but we know if? You forgot your phony flatp how such things happen. She ter for a moment. Mlghl as well' resisted him, screamed for help, gvo in, Dale.; I said I wjpld ge,t and he lost his head. To silence th PJcarooSv some day, and now i her he killed her, grabbed the I've got him. Didn't expect to get pearls 'and started running.- But! him for murder though," Aifin. something Interrupted him I there was a fnini trace of regret , haven't discovered yet what it in his tone. Iwas before he could get to the "Murder?" the Picaroon forced door. Murderers get panicky and a laugh. His mind was in an up-j do foolish thing sometimes roar. Murder? It was beyond without realizing it. him. "I think you must have taken j "There he was, with the poarls leave of your senses," ho declared .ln his pocket and his escape cut .tUVi n attitiltf "U'dn Vina Knan - - l- -A it. mui ottiuft, iiiiu " mvu mi, JIB UC IIIUUKIIV a b UIU WIIIC. murdered?" "Mrs. Ferryman, but you know He dashed into the library and hid the pearls in the hole in the that. You were in this house the i wall, meaning to come back for night she was murdered, m-mem- them later." Summers jyjnned ben the cigar band?" The Picaroon smiled serenely now. Did Summers expect to con vict him on the strength of a cigsr complacently. "Tonight he came back, and I wqs waiting 'or him. When I found the pearls yesterday, I band? ,t was ridicuhfis, but at nuggested to Mr. Ferryman that the same time he was impressed; he let them remain in the hole and that we keep a watch ovep the house. I convinced him it was the quickest and surest way to catch the murderer of his wife." The Picaroon meditated. There holts In the wall? YJHWgre (n the were weak links In Summers' room only a few minutes. You chain of reasoning, but on thfi must have gone right straight to whole he had made out a re' it. How .did you knpw where to'upnable CAie, find the pearls?" I "Now will you tell me.' thp The Picaroon was silent. He captain jabbed the words at perceived a surprise of some sort! him, "how you knew tho pearls, was on the wny. Summers ap- wera In that hole?" proached, with automatic sternly The Picaroon smiled faintly, leveled, and he glided easily to the, i haven't admitted that I Jiave end of the table. Each moment the pearls," he protested. ''Yau gained might mean a reversal of.nre ageing many strange quea-the situation. . . tioqs.. Now- let me-ask .one. Jfow Summers growled Irritably, did the murderer know there was a . hole in the wall in which to hide the pearls? You tell me he jiad to hide them In a .hurry. Hp had no time to search. How did he find the hole so conveniently? Are you in a position to tell im i that 7' ,QhsaiLjunwrs.-,. easily, "the Picaroon has a special sense for trueer-hiding- pla-ces. Ho cy smell them in the dark.'' "YoV flatter him. One more question, please. You say some thing frightened the murderer, deciding him to get rid ot the pearls. How do you know? You; haven't told us what frightened him. It merely fits your theory,: doesn't it 1" i ; i- For a moment Summers was nonplussed. A doubting impression camp into Ferryman's eves I J U 1 1 II i.l . I I .' iir, il.l. 1 1L.1II H. i ooiiifiiuiiH in nun, nn "Don't care to answer my ques? mumbled. "Ypur .theory falls to Unn oil? Tknn lAf 1 1 rilopna Partfflln fllimmort llnlnOw , v t Htll cii lilt; kCII JVi) t' I n'V fJH.tirtit.iH, m.i.v..' Awkward Moments something. I foun4 the pearly you. cm Prove that the murderer 1 "ew 8&ld Sqmmers. yesterday aftern.PPn-fQUnd them had a good reason for hiding the The Picaroon's card. It never right in that hole oyer there. 1 1 pearls Jn a. hurry?" xaiis to mrn up wherever the showed them to Mr, Ferryman and' "Oh, my theory Is all right xiearoon nas neen. lies made me he identified them Immediately as The officer qn this bent knows tai a ioi or erow with mat card of belonging to his wife " hi. There's an inscription on it,. Dale started. A dim upder-sn t there? Thought so. I know; standing was knocking al hi it by heart. This is how it runs: brain. Somehow he had been mis-I trust you will pardon my little taken. The pearls did not belong joke and- ito Dr. Moffett, but to the rriur- And Summers, in a mocking dered woman. But hpw, why? lie tone that testified to many, taunts looked at Ferryman, and Ferry-1 . , . " . ... una frfnaa raHart f Via (na.ilr.t Inn " '"v "-"'i"""' man looKea uacK at nim With a i , 80ng' U8Picion of anger in his eyes, "vr . J "I don't care about the pearls," Not quite.' Ferryman adjust- he was saying. "But the murderer edhisgjassea and studied the the murderer shall be punjshed. cTanged" Parth39 Hl'V'WW-ca.. cnanged. (previously weak from heartbreak- Changed? Well that's some, (ng grief, took on a firm and men thing new. How has it been acing qualityr ..then jIeaven he,p C fed.7 ,. IV0' I' lond you to your "The last sentence has u been gravel" ' sincKen oui ana someining sud-. The Picaroon's ey nvn. Ml TM. that the house s unoccupied, ext cept for an old caretokpr. He has a habit of trying the outer cjpor when he comes hy here on hit round3- That was probably what frightened the murderer. Besides this map," and be indicated the Picaroon, "hasn't told us yet how he found the pearls so easily, "True," Ferryman murmured, and his hard, accusing expression came back, "Perhaps you will tell us?" The Picaroon had had time to recover a. part of his comppsure, "You might ask poctor Jloffe'tt." he lightjy suggested. "Dctor who?" Summers bark ed out. fell "Yes, sir.'' ! "Well, put the key In your right now. Get your gun ready." The hlge policeman drew his pistol from the holster and came toward the group at the table. The Picaroon's eyes narrowed The steel Jaws of the trap wen closing. From one side of th .ble approached Smumers. from the other Carrjgan. Axelson stood at the door while Ferryman looked grimly on, "Get him. Carrigan!" Sum mers cried. At hfpi, his Hps dngllm opep in surprise-jit ws A most extra prdlnAry 'thT' man to do, "It's a trick!" Summers cried "I know this bird, tricks." ' iou are ridiculous, my .1 II 1 .1 11. THE DAfLtf NEWS Tuesday, Autrunt CANADA niDS FOR KEY-BOARD TITLE Here are Irma Wright of To ronto (above), world's amateur champjon typist, and Louise "fhev1 T ! ,s ve"' peculiar." paid warcHew, of Vancouver, cham stituted in pencil It reads , n, .u - li ? rJTJi n 2'?" 'M. mp" awlwpr.d' "? Ferryman thoughtfully. "The Mr. Pion f Canada, who are prac ..... . f . , 1 . i ucvusiaiiiiK moment, in nis ca-,nfli Dale who ,, called au0A u.. here A 1 A --.(111 nai win oe communicaiea to you reer. The threats did not mat-,,U.e ' . 'ter. but he had conceived a ljking II m Summers stroked h s for Ferryman, and he did not rel-jaw with his free hand. "That's jh belng )ooked upon as the mur-a queer one. first time the Pica- dereii 0f his wife roon hA8 sprung anything like, Ymi . are mistaken,'' he said that. Well, nc . matter ell spon (,uy Fdrryman wjth a iron out that little wrinkle. The Jeyel glance and again speaking pearls must be in his pocket. lMh$ centa of tlle Pcaroon . Dont leave the door, Car rigan I $wear . : j didn't murder your iou search him, Mr. Ferryman, wtfp '' slick bird- m . .ti.i . . i t . last night tisin n a" eort wiU greater was making inquiries about a 'aurels at the twenty-fourth In-certain Doctor Moffett. If this ternational Typewriting Contest is the same Mr. Dale, as you 3t Toronto in September. Miss seem to think, I am now inclined Wright aspires to the world' to believe that the Inquiries werp open tie- and M,8S Marchese only a pretext." to Wright's international "Of course I" Summers grunted "mateur cr0W1L with great certitude. ''He was 1 . . ' . . nosing around for the pearls laRt laRt while I keep him covered. He's a "Then how did vmi Icnnw!0 tne policeman at the door, f ' I Ikni J 1 I . - 1 -me BiicKesi i ever ran wV,pr(, to look fnr 1ip npflrl?" up against." Summers demanded. "As I told Ferryman stepped forward re- yoU( j found thcm Jn the hoIe laf'A y ? ! ,eri ft.tertay.M Mr, Ferryman identic who called here last I night, cn 'v fied thepi. His wife had theni uuuee ne is a criminal, air. uaw wj,h her when she disappeared impressed me asa thorough she ( jojtfJKtarjUKO, and was wear-gentleman. in ihfim thd nlirhf ht wan mur- r- l 1 l f . l i 1 T . " -y onaKing nis neau siowiy, rerry' it l nmirn riAim night. Oh, Carrigan," he called IMflllVH MINN that door locked?" DEFEAT GYROS pocket, and come ' here. We'r going to settle this little matter Exhibition Came U Night Was featured Ry Many Hi(s nnd Huns Owing to the fact that two of the Gyro' players had gone to Apyox with, the Elks' ball team, the City League baseball game last night was postponed and an exhibition tjame was played. The game was a very .poor exhibition in which the Sons of Canada defeated the Gyros 14-5. Brick - ai - t j The policemans heavy paw Z , nf T , , on , Pi.rnn. orm L i tss rVe fw viuu mi4 K"- O"" uiuii 4 I V n agie iu twjst the '... for the first two innings, but in with an quarry darted away, The only direction that offered unhampered move ment was toward the corner In the third 15' batter faced him, and the Sons netted themselves 11 runs. The Sens turned the the back, It gave him hut tem- 2r.ff A!, ifl with the Gyros throwing the ball porary pspite, but each added moment of freedpm might brinjr hia salvation. Into the corner h sprang, pwung A heavy chair In all over the lot, had a royal time. Eddie Smith did the hurling for the Sons, and had great difficulty ? f uZa".: ": finding home -plate at times, pursuers wUh 7 g a' JM JIT faintly mocking smile. V'H'f ,' f (,,n Bf,v"al tw-b"e . smacks into left field. tii n c i Idiot t Summers a n a r 1 e d.l . Dn ThuFsday, however, , a good WP.-VflaJMnlt ypuare jrotJfatno , p;om8ea,' wheri the Sons lu K""' " lnal inenit Elk. Iittl it nut fnr th irons on him, Carrigan!" With a purposeful air the big policeman drew a pair of heavy steel Jinks from his pocket, but the massive chair blocked his progress. With his pistol in one hand and the manacles in hp other, he sought to shove the obstruction away with his foot. "Carefull" Summers cried "Watch opt!" A very simple And yet quit n. part had i,!,in.ni,1i inspired iu the wn,n warning cry. He had merely taken a flat case from his pocket and from it had evtracted a cigarette. Now. with an air of utter unconcern, he struck a match, lighted tin slender cylinder and began to smok. , Carrigqn desisted And stared (league leadership. Sport Chat A. D. Cruickshank of the Western Canada AirwAys Ltd. astou d g acon K Pic." cfnJoSUd big game hunting section Aroynd Tirg for a cornered Fishing Lake near the headwaters of the Fin'aj Itlver north of I'rJnce Geprge. Bar, goats and shpep abound, he sAys. The lake can be reached in A few hours from Prlpcp G.eprge by plane but Is practically Inaccessible by any othef mode, of trAve.1. The in&mnarablP Babe Ruth', record irftjie 'fly ot 8WAt recently. At New Yprk the othpr IT-I. ..11 - iy lib (til l MIVH V"M V ' sent' thai' jiphcre A distAnce qf in v . ' r- . . . . . . ATT .ft rA., llln thnt ftrm.lfl T1J picAroon. T Hy f . .. . -A..', J. . ntrar 4Vl the Acrp rn , .t.Mii. li. look. blflL'fAlHnff pver rr; r , , i w m ?.round .t toward the celling. "Surely you don't begrudge me a cigarette. It may be my last." To I(e Continued Tomorrow thb rock pjle UBea to be, where For quick results try a in tne Dally News. HOME RUNS IN BIG LEAGUES INEFFECTIVE two Teams Lost When One pf Their Stye Got Homers -HI NEW YORK, Aug. 13; pono-hue held the Giants to five hits for Cincinnati vesterdav. He pitched fine ball, bringing a well earned victory to his team. Frederick's homer in tho tenth ?ave Brooklyn the victory over Pittsburgh, the score being four I to two. Boston heat the league leading Chicago Cubs jn 10 innings, O'Doul's twentv-second homer failed to save his team from the onslaught of the St. Louis bat ters. Although Philadelphia made five runs, the opposing team got seven. In the American League. Ruth hit his thirty-first horwr but the Yankees oould not mati h the hitting of Cleveland and they went down to defeat by a spore, of seven to eleven. MacFayden held Chicago to i to l. A second game is to be played this afternoon. The local team, accompanied bv a party of .supporters, will return -o I he city on the Prince Charles Thursday morning. CATHOLICS GET AWINDFALL VANCOUVER. Aug. 13. Bv the will of Mrs. Annie McNeelv. an old-time settler at Ladner, pro bated today, the bulk of the estate valued at $558,000, is devoted to charity work In the Unman Catho lic Church, mainly in British Co- urabia and her native province of Nova Scotia. After al bequests re settled the estate is beaueath- B(l to fhe Roman Ctholle areh-bishop of VAnoouver to be used It his discretion in educational tnd charitible purposes in Van-;ouver diocee. FOREST FIRES ROUND SPOKANE SPOKANE, Aug. 13. The for est fire Hituution in eastern and central Washington is extremely serious. Hundreds of fires ar burning with large property loss The blaze at Dollar Mountain Is being fought by 800 men, including 300 Doukhobors recruited from Grand Forks, B.C. The fire has already razed 12,000 Acres of valuable yellow pine timber Hot weather and .winds today fanned into fury blazes believed to have been At the, big meeting last night special menlion-was made of the splendid threatro in which the meeting was held. This bullillnir lr was erected t by a . former Prince . jimport resiutnt, ai. Aivazoff, and ia iimnugvu uy a rcui oiu-umer 01 Frince Rupert and the comment of the visitors is a compliment to the met connected with the building. WINS KING'S PR!?E FOR CANADA mree nits ana uoston buntped. . hits In the first inning for the IIere ,s the most rei:ent Prtrait of Lieut.- f ; three runs the team got. of Vancouver, who captured the King's Prize, the r, Walberg shut out Detroit with iroPny Ior maiviuuai snooting in xne worm, at t. five hits while Simmons hit a I CQ!nel P'3 beat Lieut. Burke of Ottawa in th. b-homer in the sixth for Phiiadel-' f,nal Rta&e of the 8eries- phia. Yesterday's scores were: National League CipcinnAti 5, New York 2, Pittsburgh 2. Brooklyn 4. Chicago 3. Boston 4. St. Louis 7, Philadelphia 5. ' American League Philadelphia C, Detroit 0. oston 3, Chicago 0. New York 7, Cleveland 11. Washington 3, St. Louis 2. ' RUPERTWINNER BASEBALL GAME Local Elks' Players Defeated Anyq by Score of j to 1 Yesterday Afternoon Word hs beeq received In the city that the local Elks' baseball team which is visiting the smelter own beat Anyox nlavers in the first game yesterday by a score of mm n i m rm.i in la R, V. rNews or me ivimes AROUND PRINCE RUPERT Cold Found Early in This District; Georgia Hiver Development Satisfactory; Working on iHclvm uroup As early as 1848 gold was discovered in t,M; d -' . i? 1.1. .i l. ..1 ii.. n... Charlotte Islands and continued for a year or tn brr the enteVpriijeijwas abandoned owing to the tKffit.,. which the: njintrs had to encounter. In 1850 Indiana fr . I... 11 A L i . nur. ;in hxihmiilkiii wn on sul uul lu iiiiii me rauiie i . which it canie'mdt with failure. H . A . Hey wood, one of the locators of the Terminus property on American Creek, .has returned to Stewart from Victoria, where he spent rnotit of .past winter, and intends working a crew throughou'fthe TuWhiiSr on the property ot:j4he!pywoed Miniijg & Develppmftni Co., consisting W I 14 claims in the vicinity or tne I Mountain Boy and the American j Creek Mining Co. on American ! Creek . The work will consist principally of stripping and surface cutting a series of veins that traverse the property. The grpund Is well situated and Mr. Heywood believes it will develop into a valuable property. W. B. George, pioneer prospector and property owntr of the Portland Canal district, returned outside recently after spending several months prospecting n round the headwaters of the Stiktue and Flnlay Rivers, covering all tfje territory between those sections and Telegraph Creek. He" tinaovered quite a section of the great mln eralized belt lying to the east pf the contact between tho dimnv. fytTe rfrft'thp third mineralized zone by which British Columbia Is traversed. Development is proceeding well , of the Georgia River Gold Min. Ltd. Diesel plants are now Inj operation delivering air to tho ; machines in the tunnels. Three' adits are being driven. NO. H adit has now obtained' a depth of J50 feet on the vein, No. 2 is 220 feet below this, and No. 3 200 feet further below. Results ob-( tained frm work last winter In No. 1 level fully justify this p an of develppment, which is app ijp-' able both to the mining of "the southwest vein as well as to the exploitation of the Bullion vein und of the high grade shoots of ore which are known to exist in tho main vein. A good deal of work has yet to, be done n;the way of providing Improved c;arpP and office facilities and the present plan is to centralize a l'thi -work at the engine room and portal of No, S adit, so that work may be carried on durin? the win- ter without suffering any loss of , time or effort on account of aJ-j verso weather conditions. The trail to the Black Hill prop-i ertv. near the head of Glacier I Creek, was recently completed to I 1 L It-.l II nn exiepi inni enauiuu uiu equiu-I$iirnWt pf a -romp nnd thp de livery of supplier n :, ment might start T Metals HoldiriK Synl .low control." the i i contract for fur - i,' trail, in order to u I'lrKt-clBM pack tr.v' Camp has been i the Melvln group. I'orte;- Idaho on oft Marmot Riv-r. from the Pro-!" tunne! has been -'.r shifts work i nr. drift commHH l I.: vin carrying !i The present plan i-d.ift for 200 to IT," drop down the lin tunnel to cut come out of the P"i go into the M'!in l under tho managt-n mot Metals Co , u the Melvin. The-e Is gn-af u the central interior . of the provincial d pg'bllc works in rulJ" ... Tor slanhjng and ; route reeentlv "in new road into tin- nrr. fields. It is undi1 -government intend-?30,000 on thi.H new this season. Slnro the 8a!c of h mine by F. II. Tu.vi mins interests n staK developed in that .: dlstrlet, confined area adjacent to Ou' extending from the I-Ootsa.and Whiti'aii I the vicinity of Fin number of prospe.' ing claims. The management Cltfaw nrnnorfv lit. Sf dc ne t v L lire that drift No. C:iG. ' , a to No. 4 level on the " " ... been following a 5r ' .' ( shoot for 120 fect 1,r'1. J probably stope ten w i: with a-n overage nf v-gold and silver undr Afterielllngwohun, million P2un.n i M "SALADA", Tea Jn litence, the Sa,Vwf Company ha at w llthed a new ,eC"Jji0 selling over tyv ti poundt ln the last wcekf.