The Syracuse Journal, Volume 20, Number 4, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 26 May 1927 — Page 7

I The Leading Lady | By GERALDINE BONNER

STORY FROM THE START Whil* despondent over th* enforced hiding of her fiance. Jim Pallas, slayer In •elf-d*fenn* of Hoator Parkinson. Sybil Saunder*. (>••tu.'.ir uctress. is engaged tA. play Viola In a charity performance of Twelfth Night" on OuU island, on the Maine coast. After the play Hugh Bassett. Ann* Tracy's ftane*. tell* Jo* he has heard he la spying on Sybil to learn th* whereabout* of Jim Pallas and earn the- reward offered by the Parkinson family. The boy denloa It. To Anne h* betrays bls enmity toward Sybil.’ Stokes tolls Sybil he has news of Pallas, and to secure privacy they arrange to meet In a small summer house. Flora Stok** tells Bassett she saw Sybil shot but d.d not see h*r murderer. Bassett notified the sheriff. Abel Williams The latter suspects Flora Stokea Anne Tracy discover* Joe hiding on the Island, which h* was supposed to have left, and warn* him against attempting to escape

CHAPTER Vll—Continued to ( With that knowledge her outlook ’ changed. Her passive role was over i If Joe had done It and If he was on the island he would try to get off at low tide. It was safe to assume that 1 he was outside, hidden till the causes I way was open. To go out to find him would be useless, he would never re- i veal himself to her. and If she was i ,««. suspicion would instantly be i aroused. She must get somewhere that • would command the causeway and Its l approach**. The best place—the only ; j —was the living room entrance. ‘ i I'roiu there she could see In all directions. the balcony end. the kitchen I i V ing. the pine grove. She would try ] to yvave him back, possibly gel to him L •—,.r had to take her chances and . trust to Heaven. I The tide was at full ebb at mid- ( night At a quarter before she made toady. She took from the bureau a ’ book she had been reading—ls she [ , met anyone she could say she had come down to find It—and opened her door with the stealth of a burglar. A d. ad silence reigned as she stole down the stairs and Into the living room. At the entrance. pressed against the T door, she looked out It was a world ©( white enchantment breathlessly still She could see the patterned surfaces of leaves, the cracks and fissures of the rocks. Below, the > «hannel lay almost bare, pools glistening like dropped mirrors, mounds of mud casting inky shadows. . i she could hear the murmur of the tneu's voices from the open library > windows, and like the throbbing of a niu filed engine, the beating of her own heart Into that deep enveloping quietude came a sound, so faint so infinitely ' small and hushed, that only expectant ears could have caught it It came | from the room behind her. and turning. she slid back against the wall, her bvdy black against its blackness. The sound continued, the opening of a door the door into the kitchen wing. It seemed no door in the world had ever ojiened so slowly—creaking, stopping, resuming, dying away. She could see nothing, for the darkness of the gallery lay impenetrable over that furtive entrance. There was a footstep, light as the fail of a teat, and she saw him coming toward her in that high luminous pailor from the windows. He was like a shadow, so evenly dark, a shape without detail, moving with a shadow's poiseless passage. She saw the outline of the cap on his head and that he carried bis shoes in one hand. She came forward with a' hand raised for cantion. sending her voice before her in an agonised whisper: -Go back, Joe. The causeway’s watched. You can’t get over that way. <Jo!” He was gone, a fleet flying, vanishing back into the darkness under the gallery. Out of it came the soft closing of the door. the room swayed, pale light and darkness swam and coalesced. She knew she was near a table and put out her hand to steady herself by It, something solid to bold to forgone minute. The polished surface slid under her fingers and shd groped out with the hand that held the book. The txok slipped from her clasp, fell with a thud like a thunderclap, and a grasping snatch to save it swept a la; .;> trashing to the floor. Panic dlspeiled her faintness and she made a rush for the door. She had gained it. Her fingers clutched round the knob, as she heard the steps of the men In the hall and knew it was too late to escape. They burst in, thrust into the room’s dim quiet as if shot by a blast. “It's nothing.** she called, hearing her voice thin and hoarse. “Nothings happened. it’s only Anne Tracy." ° The lights leaped out and she saw them. Bassett with his hand on the electric button, stricken still, looking “ this way snd that. His eye found her nrst. backed against the door, a small green-clad figure with an ashen face. “What’s this mean?” said Rawson. “Nothing.” She was afraid the handle would rattle with the shaking of her hand so let It go. "I upset the tamp tn the dark. I didn’t aee It, that’s all." “What are you doing here*’ •I came down to get my boot. I forgot and left It when L went upstairs." She could get ter breath now and her voice was under control. She fWt strength eoutag back Into her body and with it courage. “You’re as white as a sheet," Williams blurted out. , -Did something frighten year de- . manded Bassett. e— •*• * ”S*k but a sort of fhfnm— came

over me. there by the table, and 1 grabbed at it and upset the lamp." Rawson looked at the table with the shattered fragments of the lamp beside It. it was not far from the entrance door. “Did you see anything—anything outsider* “No, not a thing and 1 didn’t hear a sound." “What do you suppose made you feei faint'/” “Ob!“ She dared to make a gesture. upraised hands that dropped limply. "Hasn’t there been enough here to make anybody faint?" “You’ve got to remember. Rawson.“ said Bassett who thought the man’s insistence unnecessary, "what a shock this has been—especially to Miss Tracy who was Miss Saunders’ friend." “I remember.*’ Then to Anne: “Miss Tracy, if you should withhold any information from us you d get yourself into a very uncomfortable position.” “1 wouldn’t, I wouldn’t," she breathed. Rawson's glance remained on her, dubiously intent. Bassett noted it with a resentment he found it difficult to hide. “You can absolutely rely on Miss Tracy,” he said. “She would be perfectly frank with you If she had anything to telL" “No doubt, no doubt.” said the other, and walked to the entrance. “I’m going out to have a look around." On the sill he turned and addressed Anne. “1 gave some instructions to you ladies and 1 expected to have them followed. You’ll please remember them in the future." He passed out Into the brilliancy of the moonlight Now that he was gone Bassett felt he must make her understand. He had been astonished at what she had done. It was so unlike her. a disol»edience of orders at such a time as this. “You must do what they tell you. Anne. They have to make these rules and it’s up to us to keep them.” “1 will now, you can trust me. Mr. Williams, you can see how it was. I couldn’t sleep end my tuind was fail of this awful thing, and I thought if 1 could put it on something else—get free from my thoughts even for a few moments!” Williams grunted his comprehension. He felt rather tenderly toward her. she looked so small and wan and her voice was sb pleading. “Where was your book?” he asked. “On the table behind you. I was feeling round tor It and I think 1 pushed it off with the lamp.” “What was the name of it?" “ •Victory.’" by Joseph Conrad." He went to the table. His back turned, she and Bassett exchanged a [ long look. Williams picked up the book and came back with It. “Here it is.” he said, giving it to ber. “And Just make a note of the fact that you’re not to go round the bouse at night after books or anything else.” She assured him she would not. she would give them no more trouble, and opening the door she slipped away. They remained without speaking till she came out on the gallery and walked to her room. “Weil." said Wil llama, “her book was there.” Bassett stared at him: “Was there* Why shouldn’t it be? Good God! You have any Idea she was lying? If you have, get it out of your head. Fee known Miss Tracy for three years and she could no more ! say what wasn’t true than —welt, she couldn’t, that’s aIL" “I don't think she did. U sounded to roe a perfectly straight story." “It was. You can take my word for that.'* They were back tn the library when

Fir Tree Swallowed by Stronger Kindred

A correspondent of the Scientific American Magazine tells of a flr tree that swallowed another, that was brought into the sawmill at Springfield. Ore. No* long ago • butt flr log nearly four feet in diameter was brought Info the sawmill of the Booth-Kelly Lumber company. Springfield, Ore. During the proceaa of sewing it wu discovered that here was a tree that had evidently swallowed another one. Counting the growth rings, the larger outside tree was estimated to be 215 rears old and the little inner one. 15 inches in diameter. llt> years Md. at the'time of cutting. When and how the swallowing process to*g place is a matter of conjecture. bnt no doubt the two trees originally stood closely side by side, and in the course of growing came to press against one another to such an extent that they gradually became one. When the two trees first touched, both were young, the larger not much over 50 years old and the smaller around OW New YorJb CburcAes According to an enumeration given In "The Stranger’s Guide.” there were la New York city tn 1826. 96 places of worship of one kind or another. They were as follows: Presbyterians. 21 meeting houses-. Episcopalians. 18; Baptists, 13 buildings, with two unhoused sodetire; Dutch Reformed, IX The Methodist Episcopal churches nmohered T, not counting the Wesleyan seminary on Crosby street and two churches, “for Africans,” not officially Methodist Others were: Roman Catholic. 4 churches and an orphan aaytum; Congregational or Unitarian. S; LmßMraa. 3; Univerealtst 2; Friends’ joeeUM houses, t; Jewish synagogue* X and Moravian. 1.

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Rawson reappeared with Shine. Shine 1 unable to sleep, had been sitting by hl | window when Rawson, scouting. ha< ‘ stopped to Inquire if he had seen any ; one. Shine had not. but bad volun i leered to join tn a bunt and the tw» l had been about the house and the im mediate vicinity. Nothing bad beet discovered and Patrick had seen m ! sign of life or heard no sovud. Nos they had coma back for the electri« ; torch and were going to extend their ! search. A person concealed on thseaward side of the Island might be moving at this hour whefi the cause ■ way was free. Ha.-sett said he would go with them and the three men left ’ the room by one of the long windows. I Williams opened the library door | and turned off the lights. The noise l of the departing trio would suggest to • anyone on the watch that the house was tree of police supervision an.i ■ there might be developments. He took the desk chair as easier to rise from than the deep-seated leather one* ■ and settled himself to a resume ot what they had so far gathered. He was convinced of Mrs. Stokes guilt and ran over the reasons. A hysterical woman, frantic with Jeal j ousy—that alone was enough. But { ihafcwoman had been the only mem : ber of the party who at the time of ( the shooting had been some distance { fn.>m the house. She had taken the t { pistol with the Intention of using it if ( an occasion offered. The occasion had ( offered. Miss Saunders, unafcle io re slst the beauty of the evening, had ( gone to the Point alone. He set ; j no store by Rawson s opiates that the ( woman’s state of mind was too gen : uiuely distracted. He considered it ! , as part of a premeditated plan car i ( ried through with nerve and skill. She would have known that the report , of the pistol would have been’ heard I < at the house. This, when Miss Saun ■ ders did not return, would have sug j gesied foul play. And she, Mrs. | Stokes, was the only person out on the I ] island. A later entrance, with an as- ( sumption of ignorance, would have ■ ( turned suspicion on her like a point- ] ing finger. She was too intelligent j for that. |1 It was at this Juncture that he sud i ' deniy cocked his head and let his i hands drop softly to the arms of the chair. From the stairs outside came ■ a faint creak, a pause and then again, step by step a bare or stockinged foot j, tn gradual descent. | The Mg man arose as noiselessly as he could and made for the halt But his bulk and his boots were not adapted to rapid movements er silent surprise. As he reached the hall he heard the pattering flight of light feet and cursed under bls breath as he felt for the electric button. Her room— I the one 1* had seen Misa Pinkney put her in—was Just beyond the stair- , head to the right. And her husband's he turned and faced the tecretlve I panels of Its closed door. Williams dropped his head and trod thoughtfully back to the library, but this time he left the hall lights on. Also he Ut the library ones and allowed himself the solace of a cigar. “She won’t try that again tonight," he said to himself and dropped Into an easy chair. Then Stokes must know. They had had opportunity for private confer-1 ence In that hour after the murder when the others were out of the housl She had either told him or be had accused herj for all they knew he might have seen ber do it. Any-1 wav she wanted to get speech with him and it might be support, counsel, the matching up of their atorie* —but whatever It was she must have been fa dire straights to take such a risk Withams smoked on. eornforiably sprawled in the deep chair, tbii-klng out a line of attack on the Stokeses. (TO BE COXTtNVEP >

35. The larger and more powerful' slowly enfolded the smaller until it died from want of sun and air. afte' a struggle of many years’ duration. Then the larger tree evidently fled with tts victory, kept on growing I until the woodmen’s axes laid it low about 75 years later. Ouf of Reock There to a darkey in Mobile who has ! been forever In trouble with his wives He is how getting a divorce from his third. Not lung ago his employer, a bachelor, remarked to a friend: “Why don’t I marry and settle down? Well, Will. I’ll tell you. Pm tn the market but I come high. When I can find a nice, sweet girt with at least $200,000 in ber own name. I’m going to grub her-” The victim of three matrimonial shipwrecks, who was scrubbing the office floor, straightened up on his knees. “Mlstah Harry," he said, “ ’case me. but it suttlngly do look to me lack yon is hoidln* you’se’f mighty cheap, for a handsome *w*lte gennuman sech as yo* Is. Two hundred thousand dollars—huh ! Es 1 ever gits out of de mes* I’m In wid dis heah present nigger woman. Fae gwtne to be priceless!” Hit Shattered Romance He was of the stern, lean variety, but. having reached years of discretion and acquired > substantial bank balance, be Ml In lore. She was very beautiful—but a paar scholar. How eagerly he waited for the flrst tore letter, and with what free ay of anUdpatioa be tore It open I “My darting angle face." he read. That was too much for him. Even she made fun hla Infirmity I So a

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•“' w * Dedicated by Coolidge and Wales

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The new peace bridge connecting Buffalo and Fort Erie, Canada, which was dedicated by President Coolidge id the prince of Wales to the one hundred years of peace between Canada and the United States and as reminder that no fortifications or naval defenses exist on either side of the border from coast to coast.

Horse Soldier Is Passing Away - .... - —

* Modern Condition* of Warfare Make Cavalry Obso--4 lete as Fighting Arm. London.—The cavalry as an arm of the British fighting forces is to be reduced tn number and eventually may be abolished. The tank, armored car. airplane, machine gnn and increased power and range of artillery have combined to make the horse soldier obsolete under modern conditions of warfare, and many military experts in this country have condemned hint In a recent statement before parliament Sir L. Worthington-Evans, secretary of state for war. foreshadowed the decline and fall of the cavalry in these words: “There is a responsible body of opinion holding that, in principle, the day of the horse is over, and that the duties of the cavalry should be performed, and would be better performed. by airplanes and by troops mounted In rapidly moving crosscountry vehicles, such as light fast tanks and armored cars. On the other hand, it Is urged that there are many military situations possible tn various parts of the world in which. con>pared with the adaptability of the horsed unit, a mechanically transported nnit would be at a great disadvantage. The Best Solution. . “At present an unbridged river presents an unpassable object to tanks and offers but few difficulties to ■ cavalry, and there are many rivers in countries tn which our army must be prepared to operate. I believe the truth is that we Lave not yet got the data upon which to make an irrevocable decision as to the kind of military force which is to do the work ! hitherto done by the cavalry. For the present the best solution seems to be a combination of the two. “Last year I asked a committee of military experts to give me some ad- ’ vice as to the cavalry requirements of the army. They directed my attention. In the first place, to two grave defects in the cavalry as It is organ- | lied and equipped today. To take its place effectively in a modern army, the cavalry regiment has neither suffi- ( cient mobility nor adequate fire power. The lack of mobility is due partly to the excessive weight that the Hoop force has now to carry. This seriously reduces a regiment’s speed and range of action, and the already narrow radius of action is still further limited by its dependence on Rs ponderous and slow-moving transport. "The lack of fire power Is partly due to an insufficiency of machine guns and partly to the unsuitability of the Hotchktsa gun. The army

Germany Ban Long Visits of Jazz Bands Berlin. —Germany, like . many other European countries, has put up the bars against the hordes of foreign Jazz band artists who come here to play tn movie theater, restaurant and coffee house orchestras and rob thousands of unemployed German musicians of a chance to earn a living. The foreign office has Instructed tts consulates abroad that no visas are to be given'to mnJctans for a stay of more than hix months in Germany, unless municipal authorities issue an employment permit The order does not apply to conductors or orchestras desiring to tour the country.

DIG UP GUNS HIDDEN FROM - “DAMN YANKS” BACK IN ’6OS

Cache of Confederate Muaketa and Ammunition Found While ExcavaV ing Bridge In North Carolina. Raleigh, N. C.—Seven feet below the bottom of Deep river a cache of Confederate muskets and ammunition was brought to light by a force of the highway commission when sxcsvatlng for a bridge between High Point and Greensboro. The woodwork on the musketa was excellently preserved after lying in the mud and water for half a century, according to Charles Rosa, assistant attorney general assigned to the highway commission. Five and ten-inch shells as well as cannon balls, still packed in the boxes in which they were shipped, were Included tn the ammunition found. The flre-inch shells had wooden plugs which had allowed the water to seep through and wet the powder Inside. Some of these were emptied, but the

» council has decided to take steps Immediately to remedy the defects, so far as possible, by providing mechanical vehicles for the first-line transport and eight ma<-hine guns instead of font as at present, to be carried in mechanical vehicles. Instead of on pack horses. “At present this reorganization will be confined to the six-line regiments only, hut the intention Is to extend the new organization to ail the cavalry as funds become available, subject to such rmwiificntfons as experience may snggest More research and experiments nre newssary before we come to a final decision. Seek Suitable Vehicle. “To mechanize the cavalry' completely with an unsuitable vehicle—and there is no suitable vehicle at present—would be a most exi»ensive mistake. The horse may not be all that it should be. but. in the meantime. it is better than a vehicle that is all that St should not be. But I can assure the house that the provision of a suitable cross-country vehicle is the subject of continuous research and experiment. “Meanwhile. the reorganisation which provides for the ineehanixatfon of the first-line transport and the carriage of the machine guns enables ns to increase cavalry mobility and fire power, and at the same time to reduce the number of men and horses.” Ttie last sentence tells the story. By utilizing a little machinery, the number of men and horses is reduced by hundreds, and the reduction Is accompanied by a »lecided increase tn both fire power and mobility. It Is strange that England should be the first great power tn come out unequlvix-ally In its condemnation of cavalry as a suitable arm for modern warfare. No one can d«»nbt that the statement of the secretary of war is a condemnation. If the statement is a trifle veiled, that I* a conivssion to the British army’s lingering devotion to the cavalry. Cavalry ruled the British army and ruled It poorly, according to many critics and observers, being responsible for many blunders.

At D. A. R. Convention in Washington

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The presiueui general w! the Daagiitera ot the American Revolution. Mrs. Alfred J. Brosseau. and ber personal pages at the owning nf the annual D A. R- convention In Washington. The pages are Barbara Wright and Mildred NorvelL

Me shells presented another problem These were pluered with pewter or lead, and the workmen were not at all wire that the moisture had penetrated them, hence the fear of striking a percussion cap had prevented any of the big shells being opened when Mr. Bean left the scene. “They pm some of the sheila and cannon balls In my car to haul them up to the top of the hill, and 1 was right relieved when they took them out." Mr. Ross stated. Local tradition.has it that two carloads of ammunition was shipped from Richmond during the Civil war, but the “damn Yankees” succeeded In burning the railroad bridge at this point before the train hauling the supplies could cross it. The Confederate soldiers loaded afl tbs ammunition possible on wagons, and then threw the remainder tn the river to keep the Yankees from using it

Today the war office seems convinced that the horse soldier belongs only to the past and. being convinced, is—in the words of one military writer —“gratifying!.* enthusiastic in its championship of the new methods of •mechanization.’ ” Horse Outdistanced. Continuing, this eritic4>l»serves: “The change Is. of course. Inevitable. It Is only one Item in a process which has been altering the outward life of the civilized world since the age of mechanirttl invention began. In the s|>eeding up of modern warfare—B si»eeding up which entails the mechanical transportation ot infantry —the horse has been hopelessly outdistanced. He has been beaten on his own ground; he has become an ‘also ran.’ "Cavalry Is. In fact, superseded, not only by the greater stability which certain aspects of modern war take on. but also by its greater mobility when trench warfare is ab/indoned Reconnoitering Is now done by the airplane. the charge by tanks, the transport of men and materia! by lorry: even the guns are brought up by tractor. The horse has bidden farewell to the battlefield and on all bnt picturesque grounds we may be thankful.” Soldiers win regret the passing of , the cavalry. To them It is a beautiful artn of the service, colorful and dauntless. Its morale Is always high, for it Is very proud, and it is steeped in traditions of valor. There Is no military specta 4e comparable to a cavalry charge. There Is no military ceremony comparable to a cavalry review. Who, having l»een a cavalryman. would not again thrill at the command: “Fuss In review. Column of platoons on first troop, first squadron. forward, guide right, column right I How-w-w-w!“ Swallows Rivet Puxico. Mo. —Solomon Johnson. Jr. farmer, swallowed a rivet from a mow ing machine. Hia condition puzzled physicians for sixteen days, as his fever was extremely high and he refused food. Finally he gave a mighty cough and the rivet was thrown trow his lungs. Wrong Way Avoca. N. Y.—An attempt to extinguish a bonfire by driving over It with a wagon loaded with hay proved costly to Frank Van Housen. The wagon and h»ad were destroyed.

Four Presidents Held Unwelcome as Students Princeton. N. J.—Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson. Benjamin Franklin and Grover Cleveland would never have received degrees from modern American universities. In the opinion of Prof. Walter L. Whittlesey nf the politics faculty of Princeton university. “It Is not very likely that Lincoln would have come to college today." Professor Whittlesey said, “for the cost would bare been prohibitive. Moreover, a mind like bls would bare outrun all bounds and been unwelcome in the average university." The mind of Cleveland, who arrived at conclusions deliberately and well, was too slow to answer the giibnem demanded by educators today, accord* ing to Professor Whittlesey. Jefferson and Franklin would have been “fired" early in their college careers, Profteaer Whittlesey beUevea, because they probably would not have submitted to the restraint placed upon present-day student*. _

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