PAGE Focnr 5 JkzMwSm IS) iMr Copyright. 1957; by E. Phillips Oppenhelm INSTALMENT XXX. Frances shook her head. What impulse possessed her she never knew, then or at any future time She touched the spring which released the blind and stood at tht window, and almost as she did so. the tail form came stumbling by paused at the unexpected flash of fleht which streamed out across the pavement and stared In. Miss Brown's Htt'e cry was half of terror, half of frank amazement. It was Paul who stood there, supporting himself with his left hand against the wall, his dinner coat buttoned up to the throat, one side of his face covered with blood, hatless, and with a glare in his eyes almost of savagery. He stood swavlnsr a little on his feet, speechless. The clamor of voices behind seemed to grow nearer. His pursuers were evidently turn ing into the alley. Miss Brown tap Ded at the window and threw It Brown rejoined open a few inches. One of the men, whewas swihg- "Walt a minute,' 'she called out, ing a short, heavy stjek, pushed "I shall let you In." his way into the middle of the "Please do not," he cried. "They pavement. are all desperate.. I am off." "Look here," he called out, "the Frances was out of the room In 'police can deal with this later on. a flash. She unfastened the latch We want that man and we're go- and opened the green-painted Ing to have him. We're coming front door. Paul was already on , through your window down here if his way down the street. She sum moned him imperiously. Pom rmck. Mr. at one!1' you don't open the door." Miss Brown leaned a little fur ther out into the night and they "Don't be an Idiot!" Frances " wnat sne was nowmg in ner Insisted, stamping her foot right hand. They all scrambled QuickJv! Quickly, or I shall come i "" ""u e runaway. out and fetch you!" "I didn't mean," he , began, turning around "I had no idea n She caught him by the coat and dragged him in Just as two or three men appeared through the; openlner of the entry. In a moment she h4 the door closed and chained. She looked at hint In horror as she halt ipushed, Dili supported him into the room, 'r "Heavens, what has happened to you?" she exclaimed. He staggered into x chair and drew one or two long Frances, who had been during the war .saw that he was on the point of fainting. She- held her cup of hot tea to hi lips. "I ought not." he faltered'. Then he broke off and- said something in Russia. Tht foot-1 steps cause to a pause i, outside; There was a confused murmur' of vpiees. Miss Brown, who had already fattened the window, turn-, ed out the lights.' The electric bell oeaTed through the silence of the house, followed by a clamorous knocking at the door. Frances, who was bending over Paul, looked up inquiringly. "There's no one else In the house," Miss Brown whispered. "Mrs. Morton , went down to Brighton today for the week-end, and the two men who share the rooms above went away this afternoon for three days." "What are you going to do?" Frances asked. Miss Brown opened the drawer of her little dressing table and took out her revolver with its five chambers still loaded. Then she considered for a moment. "If I open- the door," she said, "tneyn rusn m. ir i open tnis win dow they'll do the same! thing. It we ring un the police we may find it's Mr. paui we're getting into trouble." "If I stamp on the floor, ring up Marlborough Street Police Station," Miss Brown enjoined. She stole out of the. room, ran HtfUly un the stairs, entered the vacant apartment above and threw opsn the window. Below. free men were standing. She saw them only indistinctly in the light from the distant street lamp, but they obviously had no kinship with the ordinary order of mid night marauders, "The first one who comes near the 'Window," she warned them, "I shall shoot, whoever It is. My friend below la ringing up Marlborough street at the present moment. If you say the man below Is a murderer, the police can have him. IV' seems to me from the state he's in that it's you they'll 'want; ' ' ' Thwfe was a momentary silence, Then , the v all' began to talk to one .another, and though not a Singh word was intelligible to- Miss Brown, she was- conscious of an breaths', j atmosphere of blasphemy. They a nurse ' drew gradually farther away, and lights- began to flah out from the houses opposite. As soon as they naa- turned tne corner, miss- crown descended" the stairs to fihe? Paul, nowi fully conscious, sitting up Witrfttts back to the wall. ' They've gone," she announced. It 'was significant of iier that she -asked for no explanation. Paul' however, promptly provided it. "I am very sorry Indeed," be be gan, "awfully sorry. You see, I went home from the Cosmopolitan with some friend who live near here. I stayed with them all the time and then when t left them lust near, the door of a house op ened, and out came Bretskopf, the man I spoke to you about, the man who has been the evil genius ot my family. "I had warned Bretskopf that if he stayed twenty-four hours in England he risked his- life. I met him face to face. He had been drinking. He was wearing actual ly wearing as he stepped out on to the pavement, the black pearls he stole from, my grandmother's house, and as I saw ,hlm there I remembered the rest, 1 took him by the collar. I had a. malacea cane ana I oeat mm. i neat mm every where. They came 'rushing out from, the house his friends. Two dr three of them tried to rescue nim. They cccuda't. He was mine. "When I had finished with mm, I .threw him into the gutter;. Then and then" r passed your, window." Miss Brown, very practical, was thinking, hard. "Do yoU think you killed him?" she asked. "No," Paul answered, "I am afraid not. Two of them carried him. back Into the house. He was groaning, but he was alive. No, I dAd.4JUWnulj3rQkc ..his, arm, I think, and perhaps his leg, but ' hadT not' time." Ue began to mumble iiFtances fetched water and towels and together the two girls , bound up his wounds. He had fal len .into a semicomatose state, half asleep and half uncouscloUs. "remaps youu ten me now, "We- are going to sleep in is. There Is nothing ejse for it. Ve can't turn him out into the streets. I should think not, Indeed! I Frances rested her .hand gently upon his forehead, adjusted a bandage and moved the pillow a little. Reassured by his regular breathing, she presently slipped off the remainder of her clothes and wrapped herself in her dressing gown, an example which Miss Browrr, after a moment's heslta seemed huge, almost colossal, the gloom of the room. The Guest Leaves in her clothes for the morning. Pre sently Frances opened her eyes Hazily and looked around her. 'Where's our escort?" she do-t. manded. 'Stolen away." Miss Brown re plied. "Left a note a P. P. C. Din ned to my pillow. There it is on the tablet rranes sat up ana ciaspea ner knees. "Pinned to your pillow!" she ex claimed. "As a prude of the first water. Miss Brown. I should think that the memory of last night, or rather this morning, will haunt' lyou to your dying day." It didn't keep me awake, at any rate," was the equable reply. "Do you mind if I have my bath first? I have to be down in Whitehall at half-past nine." Frances yawned. "I shan't go down until the 10:40." she announced. "You seem to treat last night's little affair very lightly. Edith. Is that sort of Miss Brown vouchsafed no re ply. She took her bath, dressed I with her usual simplicity, but with the same scrupulous care of detail, slipped out and bought some rolls- from the baker's shop, a pat of butter from the grocer's next door and a morning paper, which she sevVnlied closely over her breftkfa$t. .There - were still columns about I the Soiith Audley Street outrage TtHS DAll.T NETPS re throats Quicklyjelieved by rubbing on BCKS VapoRub In certain suspected quarters. -She searched through-the re malnder of the paper feverishly but found not the sHshtest mention of anv untoward happening in Clarges Street or their Immediate neighborhood. At 9 o'clock, while Frances was still sleeping, Miss Brown put on her Frances demanded, when tney nad rinnn. iiu an Honor ten mr iSd. a pillow under his head. ; Whitehall. She arrived at five f-nS t0 d i minutes b'-fore her appointed hour Three Of them were In evening J iiiree5r..eni .u u . g about this young man? ,Dnt found pessiter already awalt- Iress, and one of them, whose fin-! :er was still pressing tne bell. owing ner. dressin Kowns," Miss Brown sug-, (To Be Continued Tomorrow) PPmPd to her with his nolnted eemea to ner. wun nis pomtea ,,,,, ho fitnv mt,prn ho gested, "and he can an stay where he ilack beard and sallow complex- on, vaguely familiar. He was rearing a silk hat and a long ,oat with an astrakan collar turn ed up. At the sound of the open-' wonder 'H7w if he's quite ff. .,. comfortable. rfnw' m nf the window he raised hl.t ; head, and Miss Brown immediately recognized mm. It was Malakoif. "What do you want?" Miss 3rown demanded. "I want the man whom you' let Into this house Just now," was the promnt reply. "Why?" There was a confused murmur of voices The faces of all five men were upturned, and Miss Brown was thankful fdr the obscurity in which she stood. "He's murdered a man in Clarges Street," Halakott declared. "Youre not tne police, Miss MARTYRST0 BE HONORED Catholics Who Died For Faith England to Be Beatified By Church plot, in 1678. Some were put l months in prison in a vain effort thing happening to you all the 1 to make him reveal the names of Ume? If so. I'm a permanency ! Catholics. At the end he was con- here., even if you nave to feed me.,annea ana nangea as a traitor. I like the stir of if CLOCK KEEPS TIME REGULATED BY THE SUN WHEN SHINING SYDNEY, Australia, Dec. 9: A clock that seemingly never can register time incorrectly as long as the sun is shining upon it is installed .n Sydney observatory Sun- 1'imt sninmg tnrougn a pinnoie iaus unon a. sca-re. oearea t- nanas in a they, all eame fdr me and one of and an announcement of the fact) manner that they register the time tnem nit me rrom oenma. -mere uiai tne ponce were in possession , on tne face 01 tne clock to fractions were others streaming out of the of tne premises from whicn the 1 of a minute, housaslx or seven of them bombs had been traced and had The timeolece weighs two pounds, they'd been having a debauch seized sufficient explosives to blow It was buUt by Prof. W. E. Cooks. X suppose so I ran. I didn't mean up half London. As regarded 'any former government astronomer of to come to you. I never thought possible arrests, the police were New South Wales. He savs that in of it at all. I turned down the uncommunicative, but great un- srveral years of testing the device entry to put them off the scent, settlement was reported to exist never has been Inaccurate. FOREST ACTIVITIES OUTLINED BY THE DISTRICT FORESTEK SHOWS SOME IMPROVEMENT IN LOGGING OPERATIONS', (Continued from pajre one) ' terlor and on the coast is as describ ed in our report of last year. gat f Crown Timber - It is expected that the sales of iirowpAtfjmber will approximately equal those of last year in nuinbe. of sales and value. We can expect a decrease in sales for railway tics, but that will be counter-balanced by the Increase for sawlogs on the coast and for cedar poles. Special Investigation and Studies An extensive reconnaissance was made in tha summer of 1929 to obtain general information concerning forest resources in areas in the headwaters of the Skeena and Kis-piox Rivers and in the vicinity of Bear Lake. A complete report is not yet to hand but it should be available shortly. Fire Season The fire season in 1929 was attended with an early dangerous in hasard opening the latter part of April and continuing tnrougn way and the early part of June. From that time the fire hazard was never VATICAN CITY. Dec. 9: Over 8reat toT anV lengthy period, inter-two hundred English Catholioe. mlttent showery wrother and pert- nr1ct.a onrt lavmon mnrtvrfv? tnr 1S Of high humidity making it pOS- tion and with more clrcumspec-1 1 w nh ; th, twinH htown sible to control the situation with tion, followed. !15o4 -nri 'ifi7o. will be solemnlv negligible cost and damage since Once more they turned out the hratifWi in 8t Peter's basilica June l- A toUl of 159 fires oe-llght. Paul, stretched at full length, with Imposing ceremonies soim c.u" 'n Prince Rupert forest time during December. In another cerettonv of the same sort, the ?n8t2.LaplS y in Othei rvh,, nni ntnJ, To..,if suppression measures. Miss Brown opened ner eyes in who vu e " Xh oiiI Railways, nffilSf't spent $5573.48 in .Jmiinriv will broad daylight and lay quite still I same time, be similarly flghting fores? flrerin this district, for several seconds struggling with! ' , mnimi,.,,nH fim,. A totel 5700 acres ,tttre burned a confused haze of recollections. LJAe PP S??MCU0"S ."?ule! over, causinir damage &Umated at Suddenly she remembered every-1 ra:,ii!S Sr'iiJS; $12,360.. Orily 158 acrbs of mer- thlng and pulled the somewhat i"""A.V ,T,.t,Ti ,tlr. w 5 chantable timber were destroyed disordered bed-clothes up to hcrlfjfjl' L wS?h.SL nLiJ" with a net sturapage loss of $553.00. chin. Furtively she turned her j $"IVa ir.8 f?L n?, The value of forest products, build-head toward the hearthrug. The ! S,, Vmi?zE?l' and other forms of property pillow was still in its place, but fr0HbeiL Uf 4J?.i JSJJ2S" destroyed by these fires amounted there was no sign of Paul. Frances, j f ,?,d S;,2J?E?!Sk tJ approximately $6000. The causes ,uv, ,t,.. tioni began under Queen Elizabeth n tvf minHf nt on either side, was sleeping peace- ndT L ? tr,b"ted to campers, travellers, fuUy. Miss Brown sat up in bed SiJJj n SSSf t A"d ""l and land clearing opera- and looked timidly around the 'f5S? t,ons- 47.7 miles of fire trails and 1:3 tT9atl recurrence of executions tienches were built in room. Pinned to the corner of her combatting pillow was a roughly scrawled Oatcs ""?"u;"' "T r"T?i Iorest "res m 1929 note which she hastily read: I am so sorry. I am quite well and I have gone. I hope I shall not wake either of you. You probably saved my life. How shall I speak of my gra- tll..J T1ATTT i to death on the gibbet at Tyburn. Sawlogs, F.B.M. j others hanged in the cathedral 1 Total sealed to October towns or the English counties, and 31, 1939 90,408,585 still - others were left to die in animated November and prison- , ' December 18,000,000 in,.au, mere are victims 01 Miss Brown swung herself out of !!? Jn BjJ bed. started the geyser going in L lZnr lZZ I w the little apartment at the end of tminnliPr,0LJLle d2L?5SSf2l5 the corridor, filled the kettle and !?:S?U tJ?riRL-C0?KW2! lit. thf ntnvn- ThPn shp aolwtprf viau. uib. rope said to have been tortured during Tatal, 1919 108,408,585 Same period, 1928 91,289,323 Pole and piling, LP. Total sealed to October hlmfelf being present. Owing toi . the difficulty of establishing the 1 November and MPBtitioa r Mimrai nf MuT u. December 1.000.000 tims, and doubt as To whether or) notr tvrdotni not all of the 244 will be Same-period, -1M8 3,659,14Q accorded beatification, but in any Tlas, Mar- . , cp it ia Mi-tain that tho honor Total sealed to October will be given to at least 200 of tneir number. A pilgrimage of Scottish Catholics will come to- Rome for the beatification of Father John Ogll-vie. fcnown by the title of "venerable' since the seventeenth century. Father Ogilvle was brought up w a CsMnlst. but converted at the University of Lou vain. He entered the Jesuit Order, was ordained priest in 1413, and at his own request was sent into Scot land as a missionary, knowing that a price was on his head. Af ter nine months of preaching in Edinburgh and Glasgow, he was betrayed by informers, and was 91, 1VW Estimated November and December ' Total, 1B0B' Same period, 1926 Cordwoog. cords Total scaled to October 31. 19 Estimated November and December 100.000 1.041358 942.792 1.819 100 Total. 1939 1.919 Same period, 1938 1.940 Raw material and products quasi manufactured exported from Prince Rupert forest district January 1 to December 31, im: Boonatielca, FJJAI, Total to October, 31. 1939 52J210 Estimated November and December Total 52.210 Same period. 1938 218,517 poies ana piling, u.r. Total Xo October 31, 1039 2,843,793 Estimated November, and December 300,000 Total I." 3,163,798 Same period, 1926--. .--340,199 Ties, JNo Total to October 3 f. 1939 7G4.S1W ssiimatea November, and December ,A ;., 70,000 EMBARASSING MOMENTS Jzft& Vout VOOiMteeftep Ta AMC Up Fca (HE tMiF& iMRowew - you r-7yp our he's MBACi-SKrHtEPP HAS tEFT HIS SfCS'- vw . . . via y50Sf ug Tlie Ae men s sTibhoiinRTerapiiH-itJ r 4.; .ou TEtFw 1u nun luiua x i im Boys' Leckie Boots Navy Elm Sizes lAo 5. Temptation Sale " 2$ Q C ' CHICAOO, IlL. Nor. 15 -auatt of cancer depends 0.1 ftrpe." This statement is made, no- ART SILK I ! Temptation Sale Gabardines All our Men's Gabardine Coats are made in England and are of the highest grade. We are sole ngents fur these makers. Temptation Sale Price, 25 Per Cent Less. 6Ws Socks "arobfe rand i Men s pantty bnt by way of dignify- , tot labors of record t.i. 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