Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 60, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 July 1922 — Page 5

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CHAPTER L It 'was because of dainty, little Patricia Drake, who was seated opposite him in his private offiice, that Attorney John Wells had telephoned to police headquarters and summoned a tall, dark-haired young man with the respectful but bored manner of a presumable son of the elect. “Sergeant Miles. You sent for me?" John Wells gave him a swift glance of appraisal and with a gesture indicated o*st only his youthful, feminine client, but a vacant chair facing the cold light of early spring. “Miss Drake, this is Sergeant Miles. I should advise you to be as frank with him as you have with me. Be seated here, sergeant, if you please.’’ “How —how do you do? I would have consulted an alienist rather than my father's attorney had it not been for the fact that I feel I, at least, am still sane, Sergeant Miles. Dc —do you know anything about psychology?” “Psychology” from a big-eyed. 18-year-old kid! Owen Miles, university graduate, pauperized by his father’s mining operations and member of the police department through an innate passion for criminology, pricked up his ears, repressed a smile and replied gravely: “A little. Miss Drake. Enough. I think, for practical purposes.” I It was John Wells' turn to conceal surprise at the cultivated, veiledly amused accents of this most extraordinary esmissary from headquarters) but the girl merely hesitated a moment and then spoke In a quick little rush. “Then perhaps you can understand why, with no insanity in the family, three dignified, middle-aged gentlemen, brothers, should suddenly become victims of the wildest hallucinations, like ■—like three Mad Hatters, and do such queer, ridiculous things that they are the talk of the town?" There was a hint of tears in her voice. “I suppope this will seem disrespectful when I tell you that It Is of my father and my two uncles I am speaking, but it Is the truth!” - “What sort of hallucinations have they. Miss Drake?” “Perhaps,” the attorney Interposed In his urbane, well-rounded tones, “it will be well for me to tell you a little of Miss Drake’s family. She is the daughter of Hobart Drake of the New York Stock Exchange. His wife died when Miss Patricia, here, was bom, and she was brought up by his maiden Bister, Miss Jerusha Drake, a lady of the soundest practical commonsense. They have always lived in the old family residence out on Long Island: at Brooklea.7 “Five years ago Roger Drake, the oldest of the family and a scientist of world-wide reputation, returned from Europe to the old home at Brooklea and a few months since the other brother. Andrew, came back from Australia —where he had amassed a | fortune in sheep-ranching. You can see that the three brothers are widely dissimilar in character and temperament, yet a very great affection has always existed between them. I have known them all since they were mere boys and I can speak from personal observation.—Pat,” Wells turned to the young girl, “did all three exhibit the symptoms at the same time?” “No Poor father was the first to —to break out.” Her lips quivered. “People put the most—most scandalous construction on it, connected with the wine cellar and I know that it wasn’t true! “For the last month or two I have fancied that father was worried about something. I don’t think very seriously about it until that dreadful time a fortnight ago when in the middle of the night we were ail awakened by a local knocking on the front door and finally Carter, the butler, went down and opened it'. “I was leaning over the balustrade, and what do you think I saw? Our local policeman, Sam Clark, was bringing in a stout figure, dressed all In flowing white like a ghost, that reeled as it walked. ‘l’ve brought Mr. Hobart home,*Carter,’ Sam said. ,’l’d get him to bed real quiet, but In the morning you tell him if it happens again we’ll have to confiscate what he’s got left in his cellar.’ “ 'He was down in front of the soldiers’ monument,’ Sam explained, ’rigged out in these here bed-sheets, and spouting like a Fourth of July orator that he was Julius Caesar. I Lucky it was so late or he’d nave had the whole town ’round him. Boon’s I touched him he seemed to sort of collapse and he come along home without any trouble. He’ll likely be all right in the morning.’ ’* Patricia had given an unconsciously graphic imitation of the country constable. but as she paused and covered her face with her hands there was nothing of amusement in the expressions of either of her hearers. “Did you get a closer view of your father, Miss Drake?” the latter asked after a moment. “Yes, I heard a sort of gasp behind me and turned to find Uncle Roger there, staring down at father with such a shocked, horrified expression that # I thought he was going to have a stroke or something. We stood watching them bring father upstairs.” “And where was your other uncle, Mr. Andrew Drake, during this time?” “Uncle Andrew slept through it all.” Patricia paused. “He is awfully jolly and the next morning he tried to make light of it, but when he learned how really ill father was he was terribly worried.” “Your father was seriously ill then?” “Yes. It was a week before he went to his office in Wall Street, and he hasn’t gone to the village once—l don’t blame him!” Her small gloved bands clenched on the arms of her chair. “The things that were said and the horrid Jokes that have been made! I was ashamed before—but It is even worse now!” | “You mean that your uncles have exhibited similar signs of—er—eccentricity’?” the detective asked. Patricia nodded. “Not exactly similar, but they have We Will Help You to Save Safely jfletcfier ferting* anb Cruat Co*

done things that It seems to mo only people whose minds were deranged would do!—And Aunt Jerusha’s attitude is the most inexplicable of all!” “My dear Pat!” John Wells ex claimed. “You cannot mean that she also——!” “Oh, ho. Aunt Jerusha hasn’t gone crazy, too, but she Insists that there is nothing wrong. When I suggested an alienist this morning she was angrier than I have ever 6eep her. "Nothing more happened for the

"WHAT SORT OF HALLUCINATION HAVE THEY, MISS DRAKE?” first week after father’s strange attack except that Uncle Roger seemed to grow more deeply troubled. He had promised to give a lecture on archaeology at the high school on last Wednesday. If I had only known!” “Was the lecture not given?” “It was!” Bitterness sharpened her soft, girlish tones. "And the next day the village was talking worse than It had over father’s behavior! Sergeant Miles, that lecture was the most hideous travesty Imaginable! Had It been sheer drivel it wouldn't have been so bad, but It was a clever satire, ridiculing the archaeological discoveries of recent j’ears. The audience didn’t know whether to laugh or to feel affronted at his Insult to their intelligence." "The next day no one told me anything until Mr. Grayle came over. It was awful!" “Who is Mr. Grayle?" queried the detective. "A neighbor, a naturalist,” Patricia responded. "He and Uncle Roger have been great friends ever since he bought The Rose Tree, next to the Kemp estate— ’’ She paused and a deeper flush suffused her face. Sergeant Miles glanced at the attorney, who smiled and nodded almost Imperceptibly. “■What was your uncle's explanation?” "He made none.” She shrugged. “He looked dreadfully worn and ill. hut he was as dignified as ever and merely said that he regretted his disburse had not met with. the approval of his hearers. On Saturday when the paper came out there was a perfect furore; the editor intimated that the lecture was the work of a disordered mind and recalled father's oration before the soldiers' monument, Insinuating that they had both fallen victims to some strange aberration. In the very face of It Aunt Jerusha made me go to church with her yesterday and I never thought I could go through such an agony of mortification. “I made up my mind I would come

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to see you today, and then when Uncle Andrew was found this mornShe broke off onoe more as though too overcome to continue. The detective and attorney glanced at each other before the latter remarked: “Go on, my child. Tell the sergeant exactly what you told me.” "Early this morning, Edward the houseman found Uncle Andrew sitting on the drawing room floor in his pajamas playing like a child with somo ornaments which he had taken from the cabinet and mantel, and when he saw Edward he ran toward him on all fours growling as though he were pretending to be some kind of an animal. Edward has never gotten over being shell-shocked. This morning was the last straw and he gave immediate notice, so Aunt Jerusha sent me Into town to engage another houseman, and a gardener. That gave me my opportunity to come and consult Mr. ■Wells." She hesitated once more. “I don’t know, though, what she will say when she sees you, sergeant.” “She need see in me only what she sent for—the new houseman!” Sergeant Miles announced. Patricia’s blue eyes opened very wide. “Oh, could you?” she breathed. "I want an assistant outside as well.” Interrupted the detective. "You say that a gardener Is needed, too?" "You —you don’t know any deteotive who Is a gardener, too, do you?” "I know the very man!” Sergeant Miles exclaimed with enthusiasm. Patricia glanced from one serious face to the other. ‘‘Then you don’t think It Is just that they’re losing the’r minds, my father and—and my uncles? You don’t think my aunt will he tfie next to go and then—perhaps f’ (Continued In Our Next Issue.) Cut By Windshield Rechie Kern, 8, Ben Davis, was cut by the windshield of an automobile driven by Robert Patterson. 1234 Cornell Ave., when it ran Into another machine. Lose Your Fat, Keep Your Health Superfluous flesh is not healthy, neither is it healthy to diet or exercise too much lor its removal. The simplest method known for reducing the overfat body easily and steadily 1* the Marrool* Method, tried and I endorsed by thousands. Marmola Prescription Tablets contain an exact dose ol the famous Marmola Prescription, and are sola i bv druggists the world over at one dollar ! for a case. They are harmlese and leave no wrinkles or flabbiness. They are popuI lar because effective and convenient. Asa your druggist for them or Mnd price direct to the Marmola Cos.. 4612 Woodward ATe., Detroit. Mich, and procure a case.—Advertisement. “1C” GLADDENS SORE, TIRED FEET “TIZ” makes sore, burning, tired feet fairly dance with delight Away go the aches and pains, the corns, callouses, blisters and bunions. “TIZ” draws out the acids and poisons that 7VW puff up your _. rf\ feet No matter how hard you work, how long 1 A \\ you dance, how .■ f , ~i far r° u or how long you remain on your _\\ feet “TIZ” brings restful foot comfort "TIZ” Is wonderful for tired, aching, swollen, smarting feet. Your feet Just tingle for joy; shoes never hurt or 6eem tight Get a box of “TIZ" now from any druggist or department store. End foot torture forever —wear smaller shoes, keep your feet fresh, sweet and happy.—Advertisement

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