The Syracuse Journal, Volume 19, Number 40, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 3 February 1927 — Page 7

The GIRL in the MIRRUK

CHAPTER Xl—Continued "She dhin’ look lak no lady what was goln' ou no excu'slon,” he muttered, darkly. Laurie rushed back to his rooms with pounding heart and on the way opened and read at a glance, hlsj first note from Dori*. It was written in pencil, seetplngly on a scrap of paper torn from the pad be bad seen on her desk. -Long Island. I think. An old home, on the Sound, somewhere near Sea Cliff. Remember your promise. No police ” That was all there was tn It. There was no address, no signature, too dote, the writing, though hurried, was clear, beautiful, and full of character. In his rooms. he telephoned the garage for bls car, and read and rereaid the little note. Then, still holding! it *fi his hand, he thought It over. * Two things were horribly clear. Fhaw'a "plan" had matured. He had taken Doris away. And—thia wps the st o geering phase of the episode she •Mined to have gone willingly. At leijst she had made no protest, though a lucre word, even a look of appeal from her. would have enlisted Sam's help, and no doubt stopped the whole proceeding. Why hadn’t she ottered • that word? The answer to tills, too. seemed fairly clear. Doris htjd become ii fatalist. She had ceased to hide or fight. She was letting things go ••his way," as she had she would do. - I Down that dark avenue shir had called “his way" Laurie dared not even glance. His mind was busy ’ • making its agile twists In "and out of the tangle, Granting, then, tliht «he bad gone doriredly' to meet tjhe ul- , tlnrite l<sue «»f the experience.! whatevei that might be. she had netert holes* appealed tn him. Laurie, for help. Why? Anti why did she know approx-liio.tt-|y wiftore she was to be tj-.ken?" Why? .Why? Why? Ag.-dto nhd •gain the question »had recurred' io hilm.. and »lds limo ft dug itself 'fi. I‘••spite his love for her hr " fn ly realized that this was what it ‘ wits). despite his own exiwriejnce »f (he night bet <re, he had hardily been ! able to accept the fact that site was. must be. in actual physical danger lyiien. now. the breath of this realiza <iOn New over him. it checkedw his heart boats and chilled his very «<nil ; In th« in xt Instant something |n him. | • |:e n : end sm-ph !mj< ad dn ssral him like an Inner voire. iw w!I threaten " this! video •aid. "lie Will tight, and he will even ehlo.rfonn.' But when it comes to a showdown, to the- need of definite, fitml action of any kind, be simply Won’t be there. He Is venomous, he'd tjke to Idle, hut he has no f:dtg*. and { Oy knows l! * . j | The vision of Shaw’s face, When-she i hhd choked him during the Struggle of last night again recurred |o rie. He knew now the ineahlng of th* look in those projecting eyes. It ' was fear. Though he had carried off I • . ■- of -the inter*i-w m • t .• - assurance, daring that fight the creature had been terror-stricken. : “He’ll have reason for fear (he n»*vt • f!i, ' I mt h • ’ of ■ ' I t rd. grimly. Rut that fear jwas oft ■>, |,..t s>f Doria. What .nstirht not j Ihiris be undergoing, even npw? ■ He went to the little *».f»* in the wall of his bedroom, and took) front it : all the ready money be found there. Oh. If only. Rodney were at home! i Put Mr. Bangs had gone out. the hall ' man MtldL- He alab Inf->v.p-d Mr. Devon that hl* car was at the door. The n< is| of consulting Rodney inrreased in urgency us the difficulties torn- '' • c LsUrie teiepittohed to Bangs favorite restaurant, to Ep Wein's office, -to Sonya's hotel; At the I restaurant he was suavely i assured,) that Mr Bang* was not in the place, i •At the office the'voice of au Injured) office hoy Informed him th|t there i w-sn’t never noboifv there jllll halfpest nine Over the hotel wire Sonya'j | colorful tone* held enough surprise to ! ebtrind I : . •’ nt he c<-'i’d hardly tope that even Rodney’s budding romance would drive him to the rtde'of the lady so early in the njorhiuc Re hung up Che receiver With a of disgust, ®and busied himself fweklng s small bag and sejecting a grovreont for his Journey. Also, he went to a «’-»wer and took) nut the tittle pistol be had ‘aken atkay from Oorts in the tragic .iKUuent of thei.first n'.«*-:.ig. H i u*hly hand, hto hesitated. Heretofore, throughout his short but varftsl life, young I«evos h«d deprhded upon his well-trained fists to protect him from the viob nCe of others, Rut when those others! were the kind who went in for chlbrofom—ind this time there was iHorta to ttsiuk of. He dropped the revolver Into his pocket, and shot info the ele *- "’j enter and out on the ground flow wi:h the exi»edttio«» to which the oper ; < r wa« trow be«sus'|ug accustomed. . Hh» car was a two-sea ted “racer." »f sender and beautiful lines. As he took his place at the wheel, the max’ rldne pulsated like a Uvjng thing, punlinz with a passionatet desire to be off. Laurie's wild young heart felt the sa he Imiging. but hip year in New Y*-»rk hod taught him Respect-for Its traitor laws and this was uo time to take cham-es. Carefußy. almost sedately, he made Ms way to Third avenue, then up to firttlge, and across that'raftghty rnn- , way to Long Island Here his stock of ikatience, slender at* the bent- wa * exhausted. With a -deep (breath hr "fiet her out’ to a singing speed of sixty mils* an hour. p A cloud had obscured the sun. quite appropriately, he ratwonsclmudy felt, •nd there were flakes of spow In the air. At ha sped throughxbe stay atmospbere. the familiar little town# he knew seemed to come forward to meet hlm. x like rapidly projected pictures on aVreen. Flushing. Bayside. irntde the run of twenty-tv o miles In warn-thing under thirty minutes s to the ZJted urge*!'"invltatioX tn hr.» to slow down. One cd these

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to obey; but just aa the heavy hand of the law was about to fall, its representative recognised young Devon, and waved him on with a forgiving grin. This was aot the first time Laurie had "burned up" that atretch of roadway. At the Sea Cliff station be slowed up; then, on a sudden Impulse, stopped Ids car at the platform with sharp precision and entered the tiny waiting-room. From the ticket window a pretty girl looked out on him with the expression of sudden interest feminine eyes usually took on when this young man Was directly in their line of vi’siim. With uncovered curly head deferentially bent, he addressed her. Had she happened notice a dark limousine go by an hour or no before, say around half past eight or nine o'clock? The girl shook her head She had not come on duty until nine, and even if such a ear. bad passed she would hardly have observed It. owing to the frequency of the phenomenon and hjer own exacting re•ponslhilities. Ijturie adndttrt) that these responsibilities would rtaim all .he attention of a’-y mind. But was there any one around who might have seen the car. any one, say. who ma<le a specialty of lounging on the( platform and watching the pulMtlojns of the town's life 1q this It* throblbing center? No. the girl explained, there were no station loafers around now. The summer was the time for them. < Then p» rhaps she could tell him if there were any, nice old houses for rout m Sea t'liff. nice old houses, say. overlooking! the Sound, and a little out of the town? Laurie’s newly ! acquired will power was proving its strength. With every frantic impulse fn him crying for action, for knowl--dce.' for relief from the Intolerable tension he was Under, he presented t” the girl the suave appearance of a youth at peace with himself and the hour. The abrupt transitions of the gentleman's Interest seemed to surprise the lady. She looked at him with a suspicion which perishevl under the -xpression in bls brilliant eyes. What he meant, Imujrie solmrly explained, was the kind of house that might appeal to « casual toarist who was passing through, am who had drop|»e«l Into the station anil there had suddenly realized the extreme beauty of Sea Cliff. The girl! latighed. She was a nice girl, he <lje<-ided, and he smile*! hack at her; for now she was becoming helpful. ! Yes, there w|is the Vnrlck place, a mile out and right on the water's edge. And there was the old Klehl |dme. also on the Sound. These were close toge-her and fiotlr for rent, she had heard. Also, there was a house in the opposite direction, and on the water's edge. She did not know the name of tlmr h« <i*e, hfit she had observed a •To Let” slgnj on it last Sunday, when she was out driving. Those wore all the hpus* - she knew of. She gave trim explicit Inst tactions for rem-hing nil tljirve, and the interview ended in an jatmMphere of mutual regard and re|gret. Indeed, the ladk even left her ticket office to follow the gentleman to |he d<H»r and wntcj) the departure of fiis chariot. , Laurie raced In turn to the Vhrick - Suspected. ha<| probably rented tw»me such place, jui«t ns he had rented the East stole offit'e. Hut a very cursory in-|tection of the two old houses convinced him thkt they were tenantlesa. No smoke rathe from their chimneys, no, sign of life surrounded them : also, he wa* sure, they were hot sufficiently remote from other houses to suit the mysterious Shaw. '* The third house on his list was more promising in apitearance. for It stood austerely remote from its neighbor*. But on Its soggy lawn two soiled yhil dren and a flog played In carefret* lon. aftd from the -Ude of the hon-e came the piercing whistle of an underlifig cheerily engaged in sawing wood ami shouting cautions to the children. Quire plainly, the c!os<*d-up. shuttered plqee was fn charge of a caretaker, whose offspring were Intemporary po**es<!'*n of Its grounds l-aurie Inspected other hntiaefl ttaNM of them. He made his way Into strange, nevf roada. N«»where was there the slightest clue leading to the house he sought. It was one o’clock In The afternoon when, with $n exclamation of actual anguish, he swung his car around for the return Journey to the station. For the first time the hopelessness of his mission came home to him. There must be a few hundred houses on the Sresnd near Sea Cliff How was he to find the right one? Perhaps that girl had thought of some other places, or could direct him to the best local real estate agenta I’rrhaps hr should have gvue to them fn *he first place. .He felt dazed. Incapable of cle’tf thought. "As the car swerved his eye was caught by something bright lying farther up the road, in the direction from which he had Just turned F«w an instant he disregarded It Jhen, on second thought, he stopped the machine, jumped nut. and ran hack There, at the right, by the woyside. lay a titty jarred stripl of silk that seemed to blush as hr stared down at it. ! Slowly he bent, picked II Up. and. spreading It across his palm, regard ed It with eyes that unexpectedly were wet. it was a two-inch bit of the Roman scarf, hacked off. evidently, by the same hurried scissors that had severed tbe end in his pocket. M<* realized now what that cutting had meant. With her hnnwind-houmfs' experience In mind. Doris had cut off other, strips, perhaps half a dozen or more, and had un<k*nbtedly drop|>ed them as a trail for him to pick up. Possibly he had already tmseeingly passed several. Rut that did not matter. He was on rhe right track now. The house was on this road, but farther

started back. He drove every slowly forcing the reluctant racer to craw* along, and sweeping every Inch of th« roadside with a careful scrutiny. bu ! he had gone more than a mile befort he found the second scent. This war another bit of the vivid silk, dropped on a country road that turned off th« main road at a sharp angle. With * heartfelt exclamation of thanksgiving he turned into this It was narrow, shallow-rutted, and apparently little used, jit might stop anywhere, it might lead nowhere. 11 wound through a field J a meadow, a bit of deep wood, through which ha saw tbe jgieam of water.y Then, quit* suddenly, it again widened into a real road, merging into an gvenue of tree* tharTad In turn to the entrance of s big dariNgray house, in a somber set ting of cedars. ; Laurie stofqo-iljils (car and thought fully nodded lofiimself. This was the place. He felt that he would have recognised It even without that guld Ing flame of ribbon, it was so absolutely the kind of place Shaw’e melodramatic instincts would lead him to choose. * There wns the look about it that clings t<> houses long un'«*n:inte<l. a look not wholly due to Its unkempj grounds and the heavy boards ovet its windows, It had been without life f<»r a long, long time, but somewhere in it, he knew, life was stirring now Frori a sj<fc. chimney a thin title of smoke curled upu'ard. OB the se«’<>n<l floor, shutters. newly unbolted, creaked rustily In the January wind And. yes. there it was; outside of on» “f the un-huttered windows, as if dropped there by a bird, hukg a vivid bit of ribbon. Rather precipitately Laurie backed his car to a point where he 1 could turn It. and then raced back to the main road. His primitive Impulse had been to drive up tn the entrance. fMumd the door until some one re sponded. and then fiercely demand the privilege of seeing Miss Mayo. Rut that, he knew, would never do. He must get rid of the car. come back on foot, get into the house in some manner, and from that point meet events as they occurred. Facing this pros|»ect, he experienced an incredible combination of emotions —relief and panic, recklessness and caution, fear and' elation. He ha<l found he,r. For' the time being, he frantically assured his trembling inner self, she was safe. The rest was up to him. and he felt equal to it. He was intensely stimulated; for now. nt last, in his ears roared the rushing tides of life. CHAPTER XII The House in the Cedars Less than half a mllq hack, along the main road. Laurie fppnd a country garage. in which he left his car. It was in charge of a silent bn* Intelligent person, a somewhat unkempt and haggard middle-aged man. who agreed to keep the ®fi»ehi»e oat of sight, to have it ready at any moment of the day or night, and to accept a handsome addition to his regular charge in return for his discretion. He was only inrere-h'd tn his new patron, for he had classified him without effort. One of them college boys, this yxmng fella wsa, and up to some lark. Just what forqt that lark might take was not a problem which stirred Henry Burke's sluggish hnagination. Less tiian twenty hours before his seventh had l»een born; and his wife was delicate and tuiik was seventeen cents a quart, and the garage business was not what it had been. To the victim of these obsessing retlectlons the apt*earance of a handsome youth who dropped five-dollar bills around as If they were seed potatoes was in tbe nature of a miracle and an Overwhelming relief. His mind centered on the i.veito'Har bills, and hl# lively interest in them assured laturie of Burke's presence in the garage at any hour when in.ire hills might possibly be dropped. Wlsiie’he wa» lighting a e garette. laiurie asked a few quest;<ns'. VX bo owned the big house back there In the cedar grove, on the bluff overtaking the sound? Burke didn't know. All he knew, and freely t4ld. was that it had been empty ever since he himself had come to the ueighl*»rhood, most two years ago. strolled oo» of tbe garage with a well-assuraeff air of tndlfferto the perj lexises of life, but his heart was racked Ay them. As he hesitated near the c '* l ';in<-e. uncertain which way to turn he saw that behind the garage there was a toot shed, and foll«»wiug the side path which tesl to thia, he found In the re:.r of the shed a workman's bench, evidently little used In these cold Janu•ir\ days. Tacitly, it incited the discoverer to solitude and 'hierlitation and Laurie gratefully dropped upon it. glad of the tqiporttinlty to escape Burke's eye and uninterruptedly think things out. Rut the daisied l»aitl» of calm reflection was not for him then Theoretically, of course, his plan would be to wait until night and then, sheltered by tbe darkneaa. to appnwtch the house, like a hero of melo drama, and in some way secure en trance. But even as this ready-made campaign present**! /Itself, a dozen objection* to It reared up in his mind. The first, nt eoiirre. was The delay It was not yet two o’clo-k in the afternoon, and dariKness would not fa-ll until five, evwi unwisely assuming that it would be safe to approach the place as soon as darkness came. In three hours all sorts of things might happen; and the prospect of marking time during that interval, wliUe his unbridled Imagim tion ran away with him. waa one Laurie could aot thee. -r- RK CONTIKVKD I Word for the Back Seat The statistics show that married men reaUy do live considerablv longer than single ones, which seems to establish the fact that tbe hack seat is not nearly so fatal as It often seetus 1 as if it would be.-Ohio Stale Journal

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COMPLEX FEEDS FOR DAIRY COW

When an animal is well It does not * need medicine, and when it is Slrt. H ; needs specific treatment for its disease. For this reason, dairymen who buy complex mineral mixtures to feed to their animals are not only wasting their money but may be harming their ' cattle as well, according to Prof. L. A. Maynard at the State College of Agri- j culture at Ithaca. N. Y. Aside from common salt the only minerals that are needed as ment to ordinary farm rations are cal- | cium. phosphorus, and sometimes io- , dine. Mixtures containing such sub stances as glauber's salts, epsom salts, copperas, potassium chloride, sulphur. Iron oxide, and other condiments have no Justification from the standpoint of nutrition, and the continued feeding of them may be positively harmful. Magnesium. Iron, potassium and sul- : phur, which are included in most mineral mixtures, are valueless ingredients because common rations arc sufficiently rich In them. Laxatives; copperas. sodium bicarbonate, and sulphur are drugs rather than feeds and should not he fed to a well animal. Some companies argue that epsom salts and glauber’s salts are njeeded in the feed for farm animals because of their laxative action. In atosp-er to this it should be recognised that the best way to make a ration laxative is to select property the feeds included in it. Furthermore, the small afiiount of these purgatives in the mineral mixture cannot possibly have the desired effect when an animal is constipated. Cod liver oil. which is sometiraes in- | eluded in mineral mixtures, helps cal ciuni assimilation in growing pijrs. but It has been proved ineffective sos dairy cows. Also, when cod liver oil Is fed at all, it should be purchased unmixed with other materials, since it gradually loses its value as an aid in calcium assimilation when mixed. Coinpottuds of calcium and phosphorus which are suitable for feeding may be purchased at from one to three cents a pound. Complex mixtures always sell at much higher prices than this, and the manufacturers try to just if. their price by exaggerated and untruthful claims about their value. The complex products are ajctualljy worth less than the mixture containing calcium and phosphorus alone because the percentage of the Reeded minerals is lowered by including the other substanceto which serve only as a th (er. Pumpkins Useful as Cow Feed During the Winter Where pumpkins ate exten * ely grown they are used for sow feed in the winter months. Pfissibly they could he kept all winter under proper conditions of cold storage, but they are such’ a bulky food that a large place is required to store ot them to last a large herd through the winter months. They are not only hollow inside, but their shape makes them space consumers in storage. The putupkin is nearly equivalent to silage for teed, tout when we have the prob lem of feeding many cows, it is muct easier to build a silo than to build a receptacle for several tons of pump kins. Moreover, the pumpkins must be cold enough to prevent them trots decaying, for the air Will get into any receptacle in which they can ite placed With silage, the temperature makes little difference lf.it does not reach the point where it fn*eges. In the feeding of pumpkins about 40 pounds per day per cow may be fed to advantage, and with st*me cows the milk, production will be greatly increased. Willi some <.ow*. however, tfre effect of feeding pumpkins is to cause the cow to lay on fat and decrease their milk production. Dairy Hints <xxxx>o<><x><><x><x><xxx><><><><x><xx Calves should have fresh water even though they are receiving milk • • • Dairy barns need good floors. Con crete is a fine material for this pur- ■ P‘>-e. ■ • • • To insure fait freshening get cows with calf between December 1 ant March 1. • • • Cows that are given a rest of fron six to eight weeks and liberally fed before calving usually prodore more milk during the succeeding lactation period than cows that calve tn thin condition. • • • Most cream separators will do a much-better Job of skimming the miik when it is warm. ... Drinking cups 1n tbe barn are a good investment for most rlalrymen Cows need lots of water and it should be supplied liberally. - Select a bull of good individuality. A bull should be equal to, or better in every regard, than the cows he Is bred to. or his offspring will be bred down and not ap. • • • Do not allow the cows to stray out of doors until they are chilled; pro vide a comfortable shelter. By breeding the cows so freshen in the fall, a farmer may provide profitable employment for the farm labor during the winter month*. • e • * When taken from the cow, a calf should not be fed for 12 hours, when It will be very hungry. Then feed it about two quarts of its mother’s miik. fresh and warm.

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he persisted in kissing me and holding my hands.’’ Belle-" Why get angfy over such petty things?" Sure Sign “Helen." said Mr. Hill, “I think that basr.ful boy friend of yours is out on the porch trying to make a call.” “Why, father,” exclaimed Helen, “J didn't hear anyone ring.” -Neither did I,” acknowledged dad. “But 1 hear bis knees knocking together.”

Tagged Again “I asked a policeman, like you told me.” “WellF - . ‘ “He said I was on the wrong side of the street, so I left the car there and walked over.’* Reason for a Reputation “How did Thompson get the reputation of being a dog fancier’” “Whenever he sees a pup that is particularly ugly he refers to it as a beauty.”