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HE fa c t tha t bo th the Canad ian Pa cific Ra i lway and the Canad ianNa t iona l Ra i lways repor t increa sed business , and lower Opera t ingra t io ,

shou ld be a ma t ter for congra tu la t i on , as there is no betterind ica t ion of the upwa rd trend of cond i t i ons of trade and commerce in the

coun t ry .

The fac t is being used , however , as a fur ther a rgumen t for lower freigh tra tes , and i t is no t nea r ly as good an a rgumen t as migh t ap p ea r in a casua lthough t

. No considera t ion is given , for instance. for the lean yea rs , for thec la ims of emp loyees . and,

in the ca se of the C.N.R for the b i l l of debt whichdecreased ra tes mu st add to ,

wi th the Ca nad ian peop le a s a who le to foo t i t .

Canad ian ra i lways a re no t , of cou rse , free agen ts in the ma t ter of

fix ing freigh t ra tes . They a re subj ec t to the regu la t ions and rev isions of theBoa rd of Ra i lway Comm issioners , a Governmen t body rep resen ting the pub l icin teres ts

. The p resen t enqu i ries in to fre igh t ra tes a re a resu l t of group ag i ta t ion ,

la rge ly on the pa r t of fa rmers . If the agi ta t ion were successfu l , and the Boa rdof Ra i lway Comm issioners were to order a downwa rd revi s ion of ra tes , cer ta inc la sses of the commun i ty wou ld merely benefi t a t the expense of o ther c lasses ,a s there is p rac t ica l ly no ma rgin to work on . Ra i lway workers wou ld p robab lyfee l the

pinch of lower wages , or a t lea st be unab le to secu re the i ncrea ses to

which some of them feel en t i t led .

As i t is , freigh t ra tes in'Canada , pa r t icu la r ly on agricu l tu ra l p roducts ,

are sa id to be the lowest in average anywhere in the wor ld . They are con

s iderably lower than the ra tes cha rged on compet ing roads i n the Un i ted S ta tes .The cu t t ing of freigh t ra tes wou ld be very l i ab le to amoun t to un fa i r trea tmen t

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AF T E R TH E S UMME R - WO R K

OOKED absen t ly ou t of the ca r window the o ther day and my eye

sudden ly fe l l on a c lump of ta l l yel low- topped fl owers . Golden

rod !" l ga sp ed , sudden ly awed a t the sigh t .

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Summer is over .No ma t ter wha t the da te on the ca lenda r—whe ther the sea son be la te

or ea r ly— one begins to en ter ta in the med i ta t ive though ts of au tumn as oneSp ies aga in the

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dea r common flower tha t growes t beside the way , fring ing thedusty road wi th ha rm less go ld .

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Lank sp i kes of swee t c lover have rep lacedthe wi ld rose tha t perfumed the hedges of June , and instead of the l imi t lessgreen spaces of ea r ly summer the landscape is now a tapes try w i th the go ld ofripen ing gra in , the sof t grey- green of s tubb le fields and the snow tha t isflowering buckwhea t .

D ah lia s fl aun t thei r ga udy heads where peon ies b loomed two mon thsago and ho l ly - hocks stand in au stere d ign i ty a ga ins t grey o ld ga rden wa l ls ,whi le the evanescen t fragrance of honeysuckle has deep ened in to the p erfume ofp h lox— tha t odor which , by the me l low sun of noonday or the w i tchery of themoon , comes dri f t ing towa rds one in p a lpab le waves of in tox ica t ing sweetness ,ca l l ing up memories of romance in o ld—wor ld ga rdens of long ago .

This a ll means tha t the pa gean t of ano ther summer has fl oa ted in to thed im recesses of the pas t . Every day sees bronz ed ho l iday- ma kers wendingthei r d isconso la te way back to take up the th read of l i fe in the business world .

Offi ce rou t ine is p er iod ica l ly in terrup ted wh i le more or less bored ind ividua ls ,whose vaca t ion ha s long since faded in to a hazy memory , l isten to an ima teda ccoun ts of thr i l l ing bou ts wi th abnorma l fi sh or ha i r - ra ising ta les of ”

stepp ingon the gas

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and ann ih i la t ing d is tance in the la tes t mode l of the au tomobi l ist 'sa rt .

The a i ry fem in ine ap pa re l which flaun ted i tse l f in shop w indows a fewweeks ago ha s been rep la ced by the heavier and more sombre- hued toggeryfor au tumn

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s chi l ly days , and i l l im i ta b le spaces a re devo ted to the exh ib i t ion oftex t books , p enc i ls , scribb lers and o ther a ccessor ies ca lcu la ted to mo l l i fy thegr ief of young Canada as i t wends i ts do lefu l way ba ck to the c la ssroom .

D esp i te the va r ied gr iefs a t summer's pa ssing , however , brigh t Spo tsstand ou t here and there to compensa te for the dec l ine of the la nguorous sunba thed days of Ju ly and Augus t . For those whose recrea t ion is by cho ice ofa more V i gorous na ture the tang of an au tumn morn ing ,

wi th the p rospec t ofa strenuous l ike cross- coun try , which w i l l end by a b laz ing hea r th fire when theshadows of even ing fa l l , is wi thou t equa l for sheer mora l and physica l enjoymen t .

_And even win ter , rugged and au stere though he is , br ings w i th him

ma ny Joys . d ist inc tively h is own , which for some qu i te offse t the sever i ty of hisna tu re and even make h im desi rab le before the m i lder ma tu red mon ths .

D esp i te the cyn ic'

s la ugh and the boredom occa sioned by the though tof resum ing the da i ly gr ind , there is a who lesome exhi la ra t ion in the p rospect ofdomg an honest day

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s work and receiv ing a we l l - ea rned pay enve lope a t theend of the week. Moreover , the recrea t iona l hou rs of the co lder mon ths .though W i de ly d i ffering from those of summer

,offer Opp or tun i t ies for enter

ta i nment wh ich i n many respec ts su rpa ss in u l t ima te advan tage those of amore ca re—free na tu re .

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The Canad ian Paci f ic has done someth ing new in the wa y of faci l itating accommodation for i ts pas sengers sa i li ng fromthe port of Q uebec . A spec ial train. called th e

The 8 .8'

s . Empress of S cotland, Empress of F rance.i ng date. S teamsh i p S pec ial , " leaves Montrra l on the morning of a Q uebec sa ilMontroy a l, and Mont laur ier a ll clear from th at port.

Th is “S teamsh ip S pec ial" runs d irec t to the sh ip's side, and arrives in plenty of time to al low om ensers to look after

baggage and get com fortably sett led on board. The above photograph shows the Montroy a l alongs id e a CanadianPac i f ic shed and illustrates much bette r than words th e proximi ty of t he rails to th e sh ip. Th e photo a lso shows theimm igrat ion sh ed s in wh ich thousa nds of immigrants , who di sembark at Q uebec from boats wh ich continue up the riverto Montreal , a re eff icientl y handled and p laced in trains for th e West w ithout having to leave the cover of th e sheds .

ANADA is always aware when i t isopen season for imm igrants i n the

Uni ted Sta tes . The Repub l i c. is tak i ngpi ty on starving and st ricken Europc to the

(s i lent of permi tt ing those o f i ts nat iona lswho have been ab le to force their way to thefront i n the rush for passagcs to get i nto thestretch for American c it izensh i p , apparent lyon the princ i p le that the su rvi va l of thefittes t shou ld work both ways .Canada a lways knows a lmut it be cause

every day i t seems the heart rcnding pa rt icolars of some harrowi ng episode arc telegraphedto Canadian newspapers—the bruta l teari ngfrom its mother's arms of a three mon ths 'old infant wh ich was careless enough to beborn elsewhere than in the Uni ted States ;the separat ion of husband and w ife becausethe latter's c it izensh i p righ t di d not i nc ludematrimony beyond theco nfi nes of h is coun try ;the near rej ec t ion of beau ti fu l young maidenswho only manage to break down stoneyhearted oppos ition by soft vio l i n stra ins andare admit ted by s obb i ng offic ia ls on the freetari fl

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li st wh ich app l ies to art istes.Whatever be the truth of i t all, and thereare many qu i te i ntel l igen t people who regardthese ac counts, bei ng newspaper sto ries, asexceptions, the impress ion is created i n theCanadi an m i nd tha t E l l is Island is a part i cularly h ideous form of confinement and tortureto whi ch imm igrants vo lun tari ly subj ectthemse lves, much as the early Chr ist ians di d,

i n expectat ion of a commensurate reward. In

h is comparati ve vi ewpoint the Canadi an looksupon the operation of E lli s Island as a so rtof Spanish inqu isi t ion conducted in a blackhole of Ca lcutta and marvels that the UnitedStates can be s o cal lous and y et have moreco nt inuously coming up for punishment . Herea lizes , of cou rse , that the Repub l ic , w ith apopu lation of people, i n admitt ing more people from Eu rope, is merelycarrying on a sort of extension to i ts be nevolen t post - war work on that continent . Bu t

to anyone fami l iar w i th the processes of

Canadian imm igrat ion i t is as tonish i ng thatany nat ion , no matter how great , can get

away w i th it . In Canada a cross look to anewcomer is regarded as rankly unpatriot ic .Canada spends a great deal of money inadvert ising and other ways to secu re immigrants and once they have been preva i ledupon to embark and have set foot up onCanadian Soi l i t becomes her doubly di ffi cu l ttask to ho ld them. A lmost i nevi tab ly theyw i l l sooner or later hear about the fu l lydeveloped neighbor to the sou th wh ich so

frequen tly obtrudes i tse lf in a disconcerti ngway and upsets a l l preconceived calcu la tionsby unexpected tari fl

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s and other moves .Canada , w i th eight and a hal f mi l l ion peop le ,cannot afford to take the same chances . Theimmigran t is her hope of future nat ionhoodand consequent ly her E l li s Island is more

l ike the recept ion room of a roya l pri nce justcom ing i nto h is k ingdom .

Ow ing to the fact that th e St . Lawrencefreezes up so l idly for severa l mont i s of t i e.year and that water- borne traff i c is so muchchcapcr than a ll ra i l as to outwe igh a l l otherconsiderat ions, Canada 's El lis Island isdivided i nto two parts, or rather, there are

two complete El l is Islands . T i at for wi nteruse is at Saint John , New Brunswick, and forthe summer, at Quebec . Th is situat ionres u lts in the ni -cmsny for ma intaining twocomplete sets of immigrat ion bu i ldings and

the seasona l t-ransfcr of al l immigrat ionmach inery , including government offi c ia ls,ste amsh ip and ra i lroad sta fl

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s, and th e

various a ltru istic camp fo l lowers ben t on

complet i ng the newcomer's assurance of

weleomc .

A l l conncctcd wi th port imm igrat ion aff ai rsand they const i tute a goodly army , possesstwo homes or none at a l l , being merely S ( ascnal campers . Th is makes their uniformal lyurbane a t t i tudc towards tkc i r work the moreremarkab le .

In the fi sca l year 1923 - 24 Canada receivedimm igrants, an increase of 104 per

cent over the pre vious year . Brit ish immigra t ion i ncreased in the year by l04 percent

, and cont inenta l by 237 per cent . I t isverv c lear that the period of post-war deprt ssi on is passed, tha t the Dominion is benefit

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Large numbers of S cott is h m iners wh o are sick of the general s tr ike are tu rning theirthoughts to Canada.sai led from Glasgow to Canada on the Canad ia n IP ac i f i c l in er “Montclare. ”

Here are s ix representatives of a large group of m iners whoTh ese

men are bound for the min es in Ontar io and Alberta .

t ing to some exten t from the United Statesquota law , and that a ltogether a new erahas dawned for Canadian trans- A tlan t icimmigration . Sain t John conc luded thebusiest season i n the movemen t of people i thas exp erienced si nce the war and at thepresen t t ime a hect ic act ivi tv preva i ls at

Quebec . Peop le from a l l parts of Europe arecomi ng i n large numbers and Canada hopesto ho ld them - permanently .

Wi th all th is great anxi ety to secu re imm igran ts and the c “

cceding joy when they arega thered into the fold, i t must not be imag ined that Canada does not take certa i nprecautions aga i nst her future a t the handsof these people . Nor is she governed by

Sport i ve inst inc ts to gi ve preference to thosewho can fight their way to the fron t or whotravel on boats which cover the ocean morespeedi ly . Restric tions of various orders have,been in force si nce the conc lusion of the war,and even now, when wha t is considered anopen door preva ils, hea lth , mora li ty and a

reasonab le assu rance aga inst unemp loymen tand becom i ng a pub l ic charge are necessa ryqual ifi ca tions . The i nvest igation and examina t ion is throughout very thorough bu t isconduc ted i n such a way tha t so far fromresen ti ng i t the imm igrant is ra ther i ncli nedto congra tu la te h imse lf on h is good fortunein bei ng chosen for admission to such a selec tcountry . The en tire treatment wh ich fea turesh is admission supports th is .Considerat ion for these new c i t izens tha t

are to be Canada ’s, permanently , i t is hoped,is given even before they leave Eu rope .

Thearms of the Domin ion extend across the

ocean as if to assure them they have madegood choice i n thema tter of a new home, andto be of good cheer for al l wi ll be wel l . Animm igran t hostel , known as A tlant ic Park

,

has been estab l ished and is joi nt ly opera tedat Sou thampton , Engla nd, by the varioussteamsh ip compani es deali ng i n immi gran ts.There imm igrants from the conti nen t

,wai t i ng

for vesse ls to take them across the A tlan ti c,find temporary haven w i th all the comfortsof a home and all the privi leges of a c lub .

The hoste l is equ i pped w i th every modernconvenience for comfortable housi ng and

hea l thfu l recrea tion—second and th i rd c lassbedrooms , nu rseri es , di n i ng halls, gymnas i um,

tennis courts, study rooms, thea tre, showerba ths, and an apparatus for di si nfec t ingclothes . For all the pri vi leges of th is ve rycomp lete estab li shment imm igran ts pay seventy - five cen ts per day . I t is li t tle wonderthat many , espec ial ly those wi th a predi sposi tion to sea sicknes s, become so a t tachedto th is tempora ry home as to on ly w i thdi ffi cu lty be prevai led upon to leave i t .In the summer mon ths the welcomi ng,fa therly hand of the Domi nion extends upthe St . Lawrence to the vessel wh ich hasentered the gu l f . There _is a l i ttle vi l lageknown as Fa ther Po i n t

,many mi les below

Q uebec , where the St . Lawrence is st i l l anocean , i ts farther shore i nvisib le, i n wh ichninety- five per cen t of the i nhabi tan ts are

r iver pi lots . I t is from th is po i nt that thepi lot boat takes out the naviga to r who is togu ide the vesse l th rough the channel up toQ uebec, and la ter perhaps Mon trea l .But he does not go a lone. Fo l lowi ng h im

up the rope ladder at ta ched to the sh ip ’sside, w i th grea ter en thusiasm and on ly lessagi l i ty , is the personified glad- hand of theDom i nion in the shape of the colonizat ionagen t of the rai lway corrpany ,

an appoin tmen t wh ich test ifies to the psycho logical i hsigh t of a presumably sou l less corpora tion .

The coloniza t ion agent is espec i al ly se lec tedfor h is except iona l human qua l i ties and

Mara thon stami na . He must be a comb i nat ion of polyglot encyclopaedia and fat iguelessfoster paren t . Wherever th ere is any neces

si ty he raises drooping sp i ri ts, he radiatescheer left and righ t

,answers li tera l ly hundreds

of quest ions as the first indi vidual encounte redwho might know someth i ng at first hand

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same shed.

the room all worry about his getti ng intoCanada ceases and the immi grant 1188Mt tomake h is preparat ions to reach the particularpa rt of the Domin ion he has decided 8118”have the benefi t of h is presence. Hedescends

to the wa i t in g room below .

about th is cryptic land and generall y smoothesthe way for arri val at the immigration sheds,

Wh ere a co loni za tion agent has been weuchosen and is worki ng to capacity a previ ously downhearted party of immigrantswi l l arri ve at port worry ing themselvesfranti c over their true worth for the destinythat i s to be theirs.An immi grant is practica lly assured of

entry before he arrives. The examination ofreally ou tsta nding importance

, which is themedical, i s performed before the immigrantembarks and he is subjected to another onboard the vessel by the ship's doctor whomakes h is report to the immigration offi cer.The final med ical examination is very briefand the percentage of rejections is remarkablylow. Those unfortunates who have contracteddiseases on the voyage and have been detectedby the sh ip ’s docto r never leave the ship

,and

are transported both ways at the expense ofthe steamsh ip company . Where a steamshipcompany has brough t out an immigrantwho, in the first

_place should have been

refused on medical grounds, i t is subject to afi ne by the government.Sh ips bri ngi ng immigrants into Quebec

are”

run i n at the wharf right against the immigration sheds . In the cons truction of thisbu ildi ng a great deal of attention may nothave been pa id to archi tectural beauty

, but

they certainly have the appearance of solidcomfort and proof against the weather. Thelandi ng shed i tself comes right to the edge ofthe wharf so that the lower end of the gangway is inside i t . Save for the bri ef period onthe gang plank the newcomer is never for aninstant. exposed to the elements and shouldthe weather prove inclement i t is probablethat even the gangway is covered .

As the immigrants step ashore they areskilful ly and diplomatically herded into apassage way whi ch leads up an incli ne to theexami nation room . This requires a real studyi n human psychology and an in tell igent andd iplomatic handl ing of immigrants

,who are

fu l l of cheer,and hope

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i ng l ight badi nage as they toil upwardsweighted dOWn by al l manner of hand bag

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There is no black hole aspect abou t th is.The enti re building is 500 feet by 60 feet , thefloors are of pol ished hardwood , and the wal lsand ceili ng are painted a clea n gray . I t iselectric- lighted , steam - hea ted and well venti lated. It is well fi t ted out wi th wall andcentral seats and has a comfortable sea tingcapac i ty for 300 persons . Every considerationhas been given to the comfort and conven

i shee of the new settl er , who, wi thou t goingouts ide the bui lding, can make every arrangement there for conti nuing his jou rney fartherwest .

None but offi cials are permi tted i n the

buildi ng, and the immigrant sees no one elseuntil he has departed , so oppo rtun i ties forexploi tation of any ki nd are obvia ted .

The fi rst though t of even immigran t parents is usuall y for their ch i ld ren , and amodern nursery has been establ i shed and isoperated by the Red Cross under an expertnurse. There are electric sto ves on wh ichfood may be prepa red , and even certa inarti cles of di et are provided . The nurse incharge, who general ly seems mul tipl ied to

four or five, will even look after the ch ildrenwhilst the pa rents hunt suste nance themselves . Substant ia l mea ls are obtainable atvery low ra tes at the end of the ha ll.The next th ing is to make provision forthe ra il way journey , ra ther an awing affairto the immi grant wi th the form idable yardsof ticket instead of the famil iar square inchof pasteboard . Booths of the di ff erent rai lways are located in the same room and , furni shed wi th their tickets

,the travellers pass

on to another part of the same building wherethe baggage from the steamer

's hold has beenarranged under in i tial l etters so that i t islocated wi thout any di ffi cul ty . There arenumerous customs offi cers

, to each of whomis attached a railway baggage man

,and i t is

Canadi an Ra i lroada . Montrea l

Largenumbers of Scottish chi ldren an in cluded in the passenger l is ts of th e Canad ianPac if ic l iners. Here is a g roup which sai led from G lasgow to Canada on th e CanadianPacific l iner ,

“Montd a re”

.

Hawkk.

a matter of only a minute or two unti l theluggage is examined and checked and theimmigrant 's worry on this score ceases . I twil l be found on the platform at his destination .

There is only one thing more to be donebefore the arri val of the train and that isstock up with food for the journey . Formerlythis was the only i rri tating feature of the immigration sheds . The sto re for supplying immigrants with provisions was let to a privatecontrac tor who was not above taking advan

tage of the pecul iarly favorable circumstancesand exploi ting the immigrant , a prac ticewhich caused a certain amount of unfavorablecomment at all times. Th i s has now been

“Canada 's E l l is H au l " holds no fear for the“ youthfu l Br i t i shcn , arri vi nt to ou t

their lot an on: the folk at th e new world.

Th e g roup includes ch ildren from Porn o, Troon and

remedied . Th c store is operated by the government which sells everyth ing to t ..c immi

grant a t cost , and the immigran t who mayhave a large family and be travel l ing to the

other end of the coun try is assured of goodfood for the enti re journey a t the lowestpossible rates . The immigrant has been atthe sheds scarcely an hour and already hehas been accepted for Canadian ci tizenshipand is ready to proceed on his railwayjourney .

When the boat was yet coming up theriver spec ial trains were pull ing in at thetriple track at the opposite side of the shedto the landi ng wharf, and as he stepped off

the boat i nto the shed , so the immig rantsteps out of the shed into the train . Al together he is seldom more than from two tothree hours at the terminals, and at the endof that time the special trains are speedi ngwestward to distri bute thei r human contentinto every part of the Dominion . Canada 'sEll is Island is once more deserted and immediately makes preparations for the recepti on of the next immigrant boat .Everyone has been ana ious to do all pos

sible for the. new arri vals and make. them feelat home . At times there seem to be as manyworkers

,voluntary and otherwise, as imm i

grants . ln addition to the permanent government immigration offi cials there are interpreters , passenger and colonization men ofthe railways , nurses, ministers of al l denominat ions, and representatives from practical lyevery benevolent society . No wonder the

immigrant beg i ns to put a value on h imself.There is nothing wrong wi th Canada's

Ellis Island . Trainloads of happy people frompractical ly every country in Europe leave i tevery day

,full of confidence and hope.

Potentially they are good ci tizens already .

The cause of any subsequent seepage mustbe sough t in the economic condi tions whichl i e beyond .

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e t t e r o e

A D a y Af te r Trou t in the La u ren t i a n Mo u n ta ins ,

Its S ta r t w a s a Flivve r. bu t i t had a Whale of a F in i sh

Y business in Montreal was finishedand as I had a couple of days to

sparebefore I had to be back on the

job,I decided I would “go al ish ing

”. But

where ! ! I found i t qui te a problem . We , ofthe south

,have an idea that anywhere i n

Canada one has s

'

mply to go down to theend of the street

,drop a fly in the old swim

mi ng hole,and catch them by the score . All

tribute to the rai lway folders. But Montrea lhas grown away from that, and I was surprised to find that very few people one methad the faintest idea as to where to go . Thosewho knew

,maybe

,wouldn ’ t tel l . Well I

have al l kinds of sympathy with them , bu tI am not goi ng to fol low their example. Even

the, hotel people were poorly i nformed and Ialmost despaired .

However,noticing a striking d isplay of

fish ing tackle i n a spo rt ing goods sto re , Iwent in to have a look anyway and , talk ingto the proprietor

,got the fi rst authentic i h

formation. He was most courteous and after

giving me workmanl ike tips regarding thebest type of equipment for trout sa id :“Now I 'm going to ring up Mr. Poole , of theTourist Departmen t of the Canadian Na

tional Ra ilways, and tell h im I am turningyou over to him .

" That was all there wasto it . Mr. Poole had the whole matter underhis hat and suggested al l sorts of trips afterMuscallonge, Grey Trout , Ouanini che andSpeckled Trout . Northing but the latterwould do for me, although had more timebeen available

,I should have indulged in

my l ife long dream of capturing that si lverarrow of water

,the Ouanini che, in his tem

pestuous habi tat . As my time was l im ited ,however

,Speckled Trout i t had to be and

the matter was soon settled .

Mr. Poole telephoned to Ra wdon station ,i n the Laurentians, and made all arrangements

,and four o ’clock saw me in the com

fortable chair ear of the Canadian NationalRa i lways from Mores t i Street Station , boundfor the Laurentian Mountains in general andRa wdon in part icular .

For the first twenty miles the scenery wasflat and not very interest ing , bu t immediatelyafter we began to enter the footh il ls , I at onceawakened from the dose i nto wh ich I hadfal len and began to take not ice . The Laurent ians have not the awfu l majesty and imposing grandeur of the Ro ck ies, but have acharm all thei r own , and one seems so muchcloser to the scene wh ich gives i t a k ind ofpersonal appeal

,as i t were .

By R . S . GALLOP

The coun try adjacen t to these foothi l lsseems for the most part to be given up to thegrowing of tobacco , an apparen tly profi tableindustry

,as ind icated by the prosperous

looki ng fa rm houses surrounded by the field sof heal thy look ing green tobacco plants andflanked by drying sheds wi th thei r rows ofto bacco hung up to mature—the home of“TABAC CANAYEN” in al l i ts flavor .

Fl igh t in a Fl ivver .

The next hal f- hour proved al l too short , andafter snorting and panting i ts laborious wayover a h igh trestle bridge spann ing theOuareau R i ver , the engi ne stopped at Ran

-donSta tion .

Suddenlv appeared ( from Heaven apparen tly , as no one saw h im come) Joe R iopel ,of St . Emile de Montcalm . He ambled upin a disreputa ble looking Ford .

“Bo jour” ,

said Joe,“Gone bus ’

, eh I t was a gone’bus, but Joe did not inte ntionally pun . Joehad a l ook—”

fi nk she 's had job for sure .

"

Then appeared another car wh ich honked atus to move to al low her to pass . We hadbeen trying to move the th i ng for hal f anhour . Joe gri nned a most ingratiati ng grin ,and sto oping down grabbed the fl i vver andheaved the rea r end bod ily across the roadso as to c lear a passage . We fairly howled ath is express i on and Joe thought i t was a goodjoke, as though throwing Ford cars aroundwas his usual method of doing th edaily do zen

_

I took a chance ,—“Vou lez- vous retournez

a Lac Arch ambaul t Some request to aska man to turn and drive f fteen miles andback in wh a t was to develop i nto a partien

Joe a t the Wh ee l .

There’s a special providence guarding foolsand ch ildren and I guess Joe must have beenthe sole survi vor of triplets wi th three guardian angels all h is own . He kept them allbusythat night . We passed a rigll Joe didn

’

tsound his horn but sailed gaily into the ditchand out again without a pause. I asked“Why no horn “She’s gone bus' saidJoe. Later on I remarked :

“Your lights aren’

tvery bright

,Joe .

” “Thi s one gene bus’

,

too,

” repl ied Joe,pointing to the left one.

All th is time we had been heading straightin to what appeared to be a huge black wall

wi th l ightning playin g through it.

I had vision of the sto rm of a week before

when barns and houses were blown for yardsand I can tel l you i t was terri fyi ng. Suddenly

the storm struck us , and the wi nd blew sheetsof rain through that car, and the top shookunti l i t rattled again . I thought it wouldhave left us bodily . Suddenly, peering

‘

ahead

through the drift , I caught a gl impse of awhi te face, and yelled to Joe . We WEN

nearly on i t when Joe to ok another of his

sudden excu rsions into the bush and outaga in, and a horse and rig were swall owed up

in the blackness behi nd .

Dat brake she's not much good," saidJoe

That settled i t ! I had had some hopes of

winn ing through before, but now 1 W ed

myself to my la te. A rattle- trap Ford0 0 8

black beas t of a night with one piece of light;

There I found a fl ivver a—ra ring to go,

and a fter picki ng up three of the passengersand crowd ing them and thei r luggage into the’bus

, off the driver s ta rted en route for Lac

Archambau lt—the gem of the Laurentians .

For the first few m i les the road was fa i rlypassable as sand roads go. Then we strucksome pretty bad going wh i ch gradua l ly gotworse. Some of the hil ls were “ scari fy ing

”

,

bu t the final ca tas trophe was not yet . We

had got ha lf way from anywhere when,

striking a corduroy bri dge with a terrific

crash—our fl ivver gave out . Little wonder

after the horrible treatment i t had received .

We tried in va in to move i t , but the dr iver

figured the gea rs were all gone, or someth ing .

Anyway , we couldn‘t move the darn th ing

at all and there we were, fifteen m i les from

anywhere,a bad road and a storm brewing .

larly nasty nigh t, and over almost impassablemounta in roads ! Joe scratched h is head andthought a minu te, then grinned and said:“C '

est currec" —sure- So Joe swung his car

into th e busri and over a pi le of rocks andreappeared mi raculous ly going the other way,

How h is ti res were not punctured and his

a id es bent the Lord and Henry Ford aloneknow and I do not bel ieve the latter has thesli ghtest conception what h i s cars endure atthe hands of the Quebec habitant. Heought

to come to the Laurentians to see. I amsure he is miss ing his greatest advertisement.

After ty ing our baggage on the“bus

somewhere,in much the same way as a sailor

“ casts his anchor Joe hopped in and tried

h is engine a couple of times. Nothing doing !She

's cole," says Joe, and hopping out

pushed her a long to the brow of thenext hi ll,a few ya rds away , gave her a shove and

hopped in. Away she went and the engine

started wi th a terrifying c latter. Wecheered—Joe grinned somemc re and away wewent.

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no horn and no brake, on some of the worst

roads in the world, and ra ining hard . But

stop—that's not the worst . After plunging

under his own momentum down one hi ll weshot hal. -way up the other and swerved ba ck .

“Just put stone under wheel ,” sa id Joe.

“Dis

clutch not so good , got to fix her.

”So we

piled out into the ra in and put bou lders behind the wheels whi lst Joc ripped the entra ils

out of the car and fixed something with a

pair of pl iers and some hay wire.

We A rri ve.

On his way around the car he shook one of

the rear wheels which had been clacking con

tinually for the last mi le or so. Then he

smiled and sa id : D is ri m she’s pretty loose,but she correct, I guess . God help us ,

thought I ; there are two more chances forDavy Jones

'

locker, or wherever foo l motorists go. Yet the master driver brought usthrough floods and bushes

, over corduroy

ro ads, and rocks , up h i l l and down dale,

through streams and God knows wha tfif teen good miles, and landed us safe butwet at the camp we were bound for—thenturned round and started off back homenineteen mi les away with a promi se to comeback and fetch us the day after next. One

could not possibly go back on such a Sportsmanas Joe. We gave him a couple of dol la rsextra, which at first he refused to take, thengrinned that infectious grinn of his and sa id,“Merci M’

sieur, byneby you come back inFal l , we go for moose . I took sports last

year Lac Oua reau D am . One hour, one

moose, c'

est oorrec " ? I t sounded too good,but I believe hi m and next Fall I am going totry it out .

The other three passengers and myselfhad got fa irly wel l shaken to gether on the

way up, but over the supper table we gotfurther acqua inted , and I found them mostcongenial fel lows, indeed . Owing to the

fact that the four th member of their partVhad been unable to go a t the last m inute theywere actual ly glad to ha ve me make a fourthas they had two canoes and three cannot fish

from one canoe, and a single man in a canoein any kind of a breeze is almost as bad. I

protested that I was only in the way in a

canoe, but the one whose canoe mate hadnot turned up , over- ru led all objection.

“

Even if you can’t paddle I need some ballast

for the bow of the canoe, sa id he smi lingly .

That settled it ! I was to be the l iving bal la st .

That wasn’

t all—there was I , a perfectstranger, taken into thei r m idst, put into the

bow of a very wel l equ ipped and serviceablecanoe and to ld—“

to fish my damn head off,”

Whi lst thi s cheery sportsman paddled meround the li velong day ; took me to all h i s

favorite spots; cooked me a mid-day mea lthat the Ri tz could not equa l

,gave me the

big day of my whole li fe, just out of puregood fell owsh ip and seemed more than de

li ghted when I proved to him that I was ableto hand le my fl ies in a workmane manner,and rarely lost a fish after hewas wel l hooked !I won

'

t te ll you hi s name, lest you impose on

The F alls. at Rawdon, Q ue.

his good nature, but we wil l ca ll him Bil l , andI won’t say what I thought of him, lest his

ea rs burn,but deep down inmy most pleasant

memories is a very warm feeling of gratitudefor a real Sportsman, for he co uld fish as wel las paddle—but of that anon.

Canadi an Ra i lroader . Monfrea f

Skfmrni ng th e Lim pid Wa ters.

Dawnwas scarcely breaki ng next morning

whena sl igh t pressure under my ear awakenedme, and I at once recogni zed the old

“Shikari”

method of quietly rousing a sleeper, and out

I hopped and into my togs. Ina fewm in utes

we were skimm ing over the placid surface of

the lake to all seeming floating in mid a ir, so

l impid was the water and so calm the surface.

Every thing was reflected as from a mi rror;

a l ight m ist lay on the surface of the lake,which was stil l plunged in shadow, wh ilst thetips of the surroundi ng hills g lowed pink withthe r is ing sun. From far out by

“the nar

rows” came a fa int twittering, the“boch na

cherie" or red winged b lackbirds, nesting

among the submerged stumps. We afterwards christened them the Sergeant-MajorBir d , as close up thei r notes exactly im i ta tedthe

“Properly a t ease" of the batta l ion

sergeant-ma jor.

I had my tack le rigged and was trail ingmy fli es beh ind to soak the cast, when to mysurprise I hooked a trout right beside the

canoe. Veri fy , though t I, the yarn of the

man in these mounta ins who had to hi debeh ind a tree to ba it h is hook cannot besuch a flight of the imaginat ion after all.

Then Bi ll , who had been paddli ng silentlyalong, l ike myself, I imagine, wrapt in the

beauty of the morning, sto pped long enough

to ask me if I'd m ind—i f when we stru ck

the trout he could fish the same wa ter. He

sa id he would paddle and I could fish , but thetrout usua lly ran in pa irs or smal l schoolsand when I got a rise he wou ld “ l ike" to

fish the same wate r wi thout wa iting for me

to hook and land my fish . He had made

me free of his fishing haunts, and actual lyfel t he should ask me if he cou ld fish, too !Can you beat it ?

D ipping in and out among the submergedstumps we began to get fish , now one, now

two, Bil l all the time superbly handling thecanoe, and at the same time getting h is fu l lshare of fish . Just behind that sunken log ,he

’d say ,

“ I think theremig ht be one.

” Sure

enough , there he was right on tap of my ta i l

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as much as I could hand le and would takematters into

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h is hands the minu te he washooked—“ i i

" he were hooked . That wasthe ques tion . I t was soon sett led—my fly

had bare ly settled on the edge of the revolving foam when i t was engulfed and the battle

was on .

Land i ng 3 Bea u ty

For the next ten minutes my heart was inmy mouth . The first rush of that “

ol t imer

was to wards the bottom . I fea red my rodwould break before he desisted in that

attempt. I coul d imagine the chaoti c statethe bottom of that pool was i n , wi th logs

coming over the dear knows how manyyears—quite a few, I was sure, were sti l lthere, and the old fel low knew, too, as he

kept persiste ntly boring down . Then sud

denly he changed hi s tune and rushed to the

surface, and fur ther , exa ctly where the rush

of wate r from the chutes struck the lower

level . My line went slack,and my jaw

dropped, But no , the l i ne tightened again, this time to a worse strain thanever . The old boring ta c tics were repeatedthi s time, ai ded by the current and right

toward the jam of logs, at the foo t of thepool . My rod was as a reed shaken in thewind and I fel t that the end had come . A

quiet voice at my elbow said, “Try and veerhim into the eddy to the left . I t was Bi ll.It sounded foo li sh to try to veer that old

whale anywhere but where he wanted to go .

Like Ste ve Brodi e, however, we wil l tryanythi ng once, and, by Jove, i t worked !The old boy changed his mind and bea t i tback to the head of the pool

,but the old

force was abati ng and the strain was not sofierce . A couple more rushes across and backand he began to tu rn on his side . A li ttlelater and he showed wh ite and a momen t ortwo afte r that Bill had a net under him.

“Not so big, sa id he,“ three pounds . " Well ,

all the more honor to him for the scrap.

Three pounds of electrici ty backed by

approxima tely fifty pounds of water was all

I wanted with li ght tackle.

IS Canadi an Ra i lroader . Montrea l

Arth ur S tr inger. th e Cana dia n author. has sta ted that th e provi nce of Q uebec i s noted for twoth i ngs , the S t. Lawrence R iver and large fam i l ial . He m igh t also have added that the ag esatta i ned by these fam i l ies is another fea ture of no mean importance. The photograph showf lve genera tion of one F rench-Canad ian fami ly a t S t . A lphonso, Quebec—Photo, Canad i an 1?National Rai lways.

The other two arr ived just then and we

( for my part , reluc tantly) dec ided it wastime to make for home . The wind hadgone down and we dug in for home, sing ingas we wen t. Present ly the moon peeredover the hi l l, purpling the shadows, and making the paddle up the arm a trip through

fa i ry land, as each broadening ripple gleamed

in the moonli ght .That fin ishes my yarn—the res t was not

interesting, al though the hea rty supper anddreamless sleep were extremely sa tisfying .

At day-break the honk of Joe’s horn, now

duly repa ired, outs ide, warned us to be afoot

Wh e n p i ge o n s R a c e

Few people real ize the huge amoun t ofmoney that is invested in the sport of pigeonrac ing in England

.

I t is the most democratic of all sports. Any

one can part ic i pate,and races often inc lude

b ir ds from the Royal lofts at Sandringham andfrom the humble homes of mi ners or m il lhands .

There are nearly racing soc ieties, and

the King is Pres iden t of the National Fly ingClub . Nearly every to wn has i ts pigeon club .

Most of the bi rds are val ued at from th ir tyshi lli ngs to five pounds . Some would fetc h

fif ty pounds,and the sta r” b irds range up

to a hundred pounds .

For the Conti n enta l races , confined to overtwo-year-o lds

,huge contingents are sent from

Lancashire and Yorksh ir e to places l i ke Arras ,Marsei l les, Jersey , or Paris. The return jour

ney i s accomplished at a marvel lous speed.

With the wind, on a short journey, pigeonshave been known to atta in a speed of over ami le a minute . One pigeon accompli shed ajourney of 477mi l es at yards a mi nute,whi le another di d a fl ight of 517 mi les at

yards 8. minute . E. R . Y.

Th ere's a Di ff erenceLord Dewar said that most men di d not

wake up to find themselves famous ; theyusual ly dreamed they were famous, then

woke up .

—“London Morni ng Post .”

and wi thout further mi shap we were transported to the station and in due course to

Montreal.D o you know of a “better ’ole" If ao

go to i t.

Now—I am in a quandary . Wha t ahall ldo next year ? Get Mr. Poole to arrange atrip for me afte r Ouanini che, or go back toArchambault and stay over for a trip aftermoose wi th Joe Ri opel ? I rather thi nk itwi ll depend on whether I could connec t wi ththat arch-sportsman , B ill . Maybe I

'

ll do

both .

Portugues e i s the language of aboutpeop l e.

F ine Book by C.N.R .

Na t iona l Ra ilwaysissu ed a very inter

i nf orma t i ve book

wh ic h i s l ikely to be of va lue to a widel y

va r ied pub l ic . The t it l e , 9. mos t com

prehens ive one, i s self - exp lanatory“Maps and Informa t ion Issued as A id s

to the Development of the Minera l Re

sou rces a long the Canad i an Na tionalRa i lways in Nort h-eas tern Canada .

"

Libera l l y i ll us tra ted w ith cubs of i n

dustr i al plants in th i s sec t ion of the D o

minion, the pub l icat ion i s a m ine of i n

fromat'ion on th is , one of Canada's bas icindus tr ies .

Canadi an Ra i lroad” , Montrea l

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on t i nen t 5 a r e s t

September , 1926: Vol. X .No. 3

a rou n

Ja s pe r Na t iona l p a rk, Em b ra c ing S qu a re Mi le s o f Wi ldMou n ta in

Gra ndeu r. i s S e t Apa r t by the D om in ion o f Ca n ada

a s a S a nc tu a ry fo r Wi ld Li fe a nd a Va s t

HE Swiss A lps are known the world

over, but during the last few years a

vast new mounta in playground has

come into prom inence. World- travellers,sportsmen, mounta ineers and lovers of the

great silent p laces now rea lize that i t i s notnecessa ry to leave the American continent in

order to holi day among some of the moststupendous, awe- inspiring mountains in the

world , for up in the Northern Canadi anRockies is an A lpine playground equal to

severa l Switzerlands rol led into one, a

glorious mounta in kingdom, j ust as Na tureplanned it, all in i ts pristinema jesty, unspo iled and unmarred by man.

I t is JaS per National Pa rk, the la rgestnational playground on the continent, embrac

ing square m i les of wild mounta in

grandeur, set apart by the Dom inion of

Canada as a sanctuary for wi ld l ife and a

vast recrea tiona l retreat for man. I t l ies up

in the province of A lberta, on the transcontinenta l l ine of the Canad ian Na tionalRa i lway s, of easy access by through tra in

service from Chicago.

Num berless A t trac t ions

With in the precincts of this glorious A lpinePark you see Nature at the height of hersubl imity . In it are broad flowering val leysthrough which m ighty rivers go singing .

There are subl ime snow- c lad mounta ins,a

number of which have not even been named

and hundreds of which tower betweenand feet in altitude whi le MountEdi th Cavel l, the highest and most ou t

standing mounta in in the park , rises to an

a l ti tude of feet . I t stands as a

monumental shrine to the brave EnglishRed Cross nurse whose name i t bears .There are glaciers both smal l and great,forever ch iselling and fi l ing the grani te cliffs

into castle crags and mounta in cathedrals;wild mountain torrents , leaping through

gorges and tumbli ng in white foamingca taracts; snow fields and clear sparkl ing

lakes that gleam l ike l iqui d jewels am id thedark green pines and poplars tha t flank themounta insides. The swift- fl owing mounta instreams abound inDol ly Vardenand Ra inbow

trout and while no gamemay be taken in thepark , gui des may be procmed at Jas per ParkLodge to conduct parties to the big gamecountry , just beyond i ts confines.

Whi le in Jasper National Park the visito rmay l ive the l ife of the veriest vagabond and

Re c re a tiona l Re t re a t fo r Ma n

experience all the thri l ls of the ear ly explorer

and adventurer without any of the incon

veniences , for while the park is for the most

part just as Na ture planned it , hundreds of

JOURNEY ’ S END

By A l f red Noyes

NOW'

ST thou where tha t kingdom lies ?

Take no lanthorn in thy hand .

Sea rch not the unfa thomed skies ,

Journey not o'

er sea and land ,

Grope no more to east or west ,

Heaven i s locked wi th in thy breast .

Splendors of the sun grow dim,

Stars are da rkened by tha t l ight ;Though ts tha t burn l ike seraph im

Throng th ine inner world to - nigh t .

Set thy heel on Dea th and find

Love, new born, with in thy m ind .

In that kingdom folded lie

A l l tha t eyes bel ieve they see;

All the hues of earth and sky,

Time,Space and Eterni ty .

Seek no more in worlds apart,

Heaven i s folded in thy hea rt .

tra i ls wind through the va l ley s and aroundthe base of the mounta ins . There are a lsoa number of good motor roads wh ile on the

shore of Lao Beauvert , tha t l ies l ike a greatemerald in the broad va l ley of the A thabaskaR iver about three m i les from Jasper Sta tion,stands a rust ic A lpine Cha let, known as

Jasper Park Lodge, where the best of aecommodat ion is obta inable.

This attractive hostelry consists of a ma inlodge, conta ining a large lounge wi th hugestonefireplace, dining- room

,ba l l—room ,

bil l iard

room, barber sh0 p and twelve bedrooms, anumber of one- roomed , two- roomed

,four

roomed and twel ve- roomed sleeping cabins,set among the trees c lose to the main lodge.

Al l are bui lt of logs,their artistic rus tic

archi tecture b lending so completely withtheir rugged na tura l surroundings tha t they

seem to form part of the scenery . Al l areelectrica l ly l ighted with modern conveniencesthroughout and have a bath and rui ifiingwater in each room.

The Triang le Tour is formed by M0911t

Robson, the highest peak of the Canadlsn

Rockies; on the eas t , Prince Rupert , the

finest na tural seaport on the Pacific Coast.

and Vancouver . Combined wi th JasperNa tiona l Pa rk this fl iangle Tour offers t

he

most a ttractive hol iday ava il able in NorthAmer ica .

Obl ig ing i ts Folks

This p lant,

" sa id the gardener,“belongs

to the begonia fam ily .

I see, sa id the lady .

“How kind orit“

to look after i t while they'

re away.

“Progressive Grocer .

”

Guides and ponies may be pmcured'

at the

Lodge and dozens of enchanting trips madeto va rious outstanding peaks , canyons or

cataracts . Adventu rous Spirits find real sport

ingoing off wi th a pack train, ona trip lastingsevera l days . Those who do not care toengage in so strenuous a journey may 'makethe tri p on horseback to Signal .Mountain,

Whistler Mountain, or Caledonia Lake =andreturn in one day , whi le those Who are

stopping over at the park for a few dayrfbniyenjoy the motor trips to Mal igne Canyonand Pyram id Mounta in. You may climb toyour heart

'

s content for there are d6zens of

mounta ins c lose to the Lodge that may be

negotiated by the inexperienced climber.

When wea ry of riding, hi ki ng, and climbingy ou may recline in a canoe and dri ft and

dream on Lac Beauvert, enjoy a swim in

the cool l impid wate rs of some Alpine. tam

or pack a lunch basket and go off'

to some

l i ttle lake to picnic or fish for half a day.

There i s a good tennis court at the Lodge,and dancing i s indulged in almost every

evening, but whatever you do, wherever youlook , are the subl ime, awe- inspiring moun

ta ins on guard .

Coup led with Jasper Na tional Park is theTriangle Tour of the Canadian NationalRa ilways, now famous the world over as

being the most beautifu l of all railway

journey s—a trip, combining the most mag

nificent views of Snow-c lad mounta ins.rugged canyons , rushing rivers and majestic

wa ter- fa ll , and a 550 -mile boat trip. through

the placid wa ters of the Inside Passage Of

the Northern Pacific Coast.

September , I926::Vol. X . , No . 3 l7 Canadi an Ra i lroader . Montrea l

ATHABASCA FALLS . JASPER NATIONAL PARK C Photo

E RE i t comes sparkli ng ,I t has tens a long confli cti ng strong ;

And there i t li es darkl ing .Now s tr iking and ragi ng ,

Here smoking and frothing , As i f a war wag ing ,

I ts tumu lt and wra th in.I ts caverns and rocks among .

—Rober t S ou they .

Canadi an Ra i lroader . Montrea lSeptember . 1926: Vol. x. No. 3

THERE IS A BUNDANT LOCAL COLOR IN THE BUSY LI FE OF THE MARKET FAIR

Somet imes y ou come upon color f ul ma rket fa i r s go ing on in the shady P la ce of the town, where, under hugegreen umbrel la s. are spread out the mos t tempting a r ray of g low ing f ru i ts and vegetab les , ha ts , shoes , pottery

and cheap jewel ry . The popu lace i s a l way s br i gh t and joc u la r , and f r iendly to the s tranger .

therm FranceBy ANNE. ME R R IMAN PECK , i n the Cuna rder

Illustra t i ons by the Author

RANGE i s a land of inf ini te c harm, w hatever wayyou take her , bu t she has spec i a l int imac ies torevea l to the travel ler who c hooses to leave the

beaten track . T here i s a sense of adventure, of gett ing rea l ly acqua inted w i t h the country and peop le,to be ob ta ined by travel l ing about th i rd c lass, w h i chmakes up for a certa in lack of creature comfort .Some know ledge of Frenc h i s necessary for t h i svagabondage s ince one encounters sma l l hotels and

t iny v i l lages w here Eng l i s h i s not spoken.

Last summer an adventurou s fr i end and m y selfwere among the many to take advantage of a l lur ingtouri st t h i rd cab in offers, d i scover ing t ha t i t i s poss i b le to have a most comfortable and jol l y voyage inth i s manner .

We were cons i stent in our sc heme from the sta rt ,tak ing a th i rd - c lass t i cket in the train from the boatto Par i s, w here we spent some happy days . Reason

ab le ones, too, for we h unted out one of the manysma l l hotel s w h i c h can be found on the Left Bankin suc h l i tt le g ray street s as rue Jacob , rue de l

’

Um

vers i té , or rue Bonaparte.

Our des t inat ion was Marsei l les and the South . A

t h i rd - c lass t i cket to Marsei l les saves about 100 francsover t hat of the second c lass . Last summer we D ald1 1 1 francs . A w i se fr iend had t i pped me off to the

poss i b i l i ty of reserv ing a seat w hen buy ing ones

t i c ket at the sta t i on. T h i s i s espec ial ly import-ant

w hen travel l ing t h i rd c lass s ince i t i s l i kely to be

crowded and a stra teg i c pos i tion by thewindow givesone some control of the vent i lat ion.

So, armed w i t h our reservat ions coin de fene

tre, and accompanied by“b ig box, l i tt le box.

bandbox, and bund le

”(we were d i spensing wi th a trunk)

we betook oursel ves to the Gare de Lyons for thenig h t tra in to Marsei l les . I feel a lways QU'te a

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thr i l l about the departure of nig h ttrains from the b igstat ions of Pari s .

They stand , wa i ting , all the l i tt ledoors swung invi t

ingly open. The

l ig h ts , the streams

of laden porters , theinvi t ing waggons offru i t , c hocolate and

cakes on the p latform, all g i ve a

p leasant exc i tementof travel . We foundour p laces and stowed away the bags ;then on the p la tform we watc hedgay , volub le fami lygroups , all come to

see of f some departing member, andwere i rres i st ing lytempted b y t h e

waggons of p i l lowsto be rented at 2

francs the p i l low for the journey .

shou ld never have a c hance to lay a weary head uponone, but we had hopes .

F ina l l y , a t the cry of En voi ture, s’

i l vous p la i t,we all scramb led to our p laces .

of the Frenc h eng ine we were of f .

th ird c lass i s not exac t ly a comfortab le t h ing , bu tlooked at in the l ig h t of an adventure, i t may be

found interest ing . We were g lad to see the dawn,

however, and to da sh out

on the p latform of some b igstat ion for a cup of coffeeand

“brioc hes .

”

About we reac hedMarsei l les . Refus ing the

bust l ing tax i s we packedourselves into one of the

ni ce j o g g i n g carr i ageswh i ch are so muc h morefun and were of f t h roug hthe sunny turbu lent s treets,deafening w i t h the con

t inual h i g h - p i tc hed honkhonk

”of motor horns .

I had been g i ven the address of a c heap hotel bya nice old man in a Par i sart s hop, the Hotel des

Colonies, rue Vacon, a t inystreet very near the V ieuxPort . It i s a funny ramshack le old p lace, but verycomfortab le. Rooms are

from 9 franc s up per daywi th “pet i t dejeuner " for

2 franc s 50 .

The V ieux Port i s a

p lace of end less fasc inat ion.

S i t at the Café sans Parei ld i rec t ly oppos i te the w h i tef lag - bedecked dock w here

ha lf O r ienta l . ha lf I ta l ian.

W i t h the s h r i l l hoot

I9

AN ARAB IN A MAR SEILLES CA FE

The St . Jean qua rter , i ts st ree ts swa rm ing wi th v iv id l i fe,i s

The Ca fé sans Pa re i l on the VieuxPort i s a p lace of endles s fa sc ina t ion.

Probab ly we

Canadi an Ra i lroader , Montrea l

the l i tt le boats leavefor the C ha teaud

’

If , and you maywatc h a ka leidosco

p i c crowd of humani ty stream by .

Ara bs in burnous orscar let capes , b lac kColonia l troops in

k hak i and red fez ,Frenc h sa i lors w i t ht h e i r rak i sh redpompons , Eng l i shand Ameri can sai lors, Or ienta l dignitar ies , f i shw i v e sw i t h baskets on

thei r heads,—all aremixed in a h ur l ybur ly of tramcarsand motors .

T here are manyattract i ve restau

rants oh the Port .We soon d i scoveredRestaurant Ba sso,

w here we sat on a

ba lcony above thestreet w i th the w ho le busy harbor before us , andate the best bou i l laba i sse”

in the wor ld , aecompanied by good w h i te w ine. That was a spec ia l occa

N ig h t in the

fl

TWO PROVENCAL TYPES

The l i ttle towns of Haute Provence teem wi th pic

turesqueg roups , a ll uncons c ious of the p i ctures they

make. The vi l la ges are most qua int and del i gh t ful .

s ion, for“au Basso

”i s not c heap and we were i h

tent on economi ca l l iv ing .

p lorat i ons we found some t iny restaurants in s i destreets

‘

, serv ing a decent mea l “pri x f i xe for f i vefrancs , wh i le up in the town on the lovel y shadyCours Belsunce are many restaurants offering din

In the course of our ex

ners for twelve francs . We

found one ni ce p lace w i t ha terrace w here we had a

del i c ious mea l for si x

francs .

D ay s of enc hanted ex

p lorat ion may be spentaround the V ieux Port .There i s the S t . Jean quarter, i ts steep torturousstreets swarm ing wi t h a

vi vi d l ife, ha lf Or ienta l , ha lfIta l ian, all f lavored w i thFrenc h . We d iscovered a

whole street of f i s hw i ves,h usk y f lamboyant creaturescry ing thei r wares in str i dent tones . And suc h gayf is h ! Rose- colored , s i lver,b lue, t hey looked as t houg ht hey had come out of an

aquar i um.

F r om Marsei l les we

started on a wanderingjourney a long the coast toward N i ce, stopp ing w henever we fel t inc l ined . Nothing cou ld be more p leasantin spring or ear ly summer .

The t h i rd- c lass carri agesare a i ry and not too

crowded , except w hen one

Canadi an Ra i lroader . Montrea l

encounters sold i ers or sa i lors on leave making for

thei r homes .

We a lway s managed top ick up conversat i on w i th

“

some of our travel l ing com

panions , the c harming ,

fr iend ly country peop le of

France. Near l y a lwa yst here wou ld be somet h ingenterta ining to watc h , suc has a pa i r of peasants whohad been into Marsei l les tosel l t hei r f i s h and were re

turning w i t h a l ive hen and

rabb i t repos ing on a bed of“ hari cots verts”

and lettucein the f i s h y w i cker hamper .

And one gay l i tt le womans hel led peas wh i c h she had

purc hased in the townmar

ket on the w hole returnjourney to her vi l lage.

We made a long stop atthe ch arming l i tt le f i s h ingvi l lage of Ca ss i s . From the

stat i on a lumber ing au tobus transports passengerst hroug h a country of stuccoed V i l las and l i tt le farms ,

ol i ve trees, and dusty w h i teroads , unt i l suddenl y at the

foot of the h i l l the sea appears , a str i p of intense b luebeyond the j umb led orange

roofs of the town. Here l i femoves at a very lei surel y rate.

There i s sw imm ing , from a

beac h j ust ou ts i de the town,

heavenl y sw ims in the cry stalc lear wa ter , so buoyant t ha tone bob s abou t l i ke a cork.

There i s all the da i l y bus inessof the f i sh ing to wa tc h— the

work w i th the nets , the de

parture for the sea in the af

ternoon, the return late at

nig h t or in the ear l y morningwi t h the ca tc h .

On S unday s and hol i day sf i shermen may be engaged totake peop le out on the sea to

vi s i t the famou s Ca lanques,t hose strange fjord - l ike in

dentat i ons of t h i s part of thecoast , where the sea runsdeep ly into the land , surrounded b y steep jagged c l i ffs .

They are very unusua l andfanta st i c , wel l wort h a v i s i t .Ha lf the fun i s the boat r i deover the marvel lous u l tramar ine b i l lows of the Med iterranean in the l i tt le rockingf i s h ing boat , even though i tmost unromant i ca l l y runs bymotor instead of s a i l .

There are severa l p laces tostay in Cassi s . If y ou are

They

F I SHW IVES IN MARSE ILLES

A CORNER OF OLD PROVENCECha rm ing old houses , i r regu la r i n l ine andmel low in color , make P rovence a ver i ta blep i ctu re- book . The pea sants , in di s t inc t ive cos

tume, add jus t the r i ght note of human interest .

September , 192611 61. X No. 3,

‘ 4 looking for a view chthe Hotel Panorama,

ed on a h i l l above the townlook ing over the sea. Wh i lem the town, and the centreof i ts l i fe, i s the amusingl i tt le Hotel Liautaud

, muchfrequented by Sunday banqueters from Marsei l les,and possessed of an outdoor Café only a few feetfrom the sea . We found itposs i b le in near ly all thel i tt le p laces where we stopped to ob tain pension ratesat w hatever hotel therewas. for from twenty - fiveto th i rty - f i ve francs a clay .

About ha lfway betweenMarsei l les and N ice therei s another del ig h tfu l fi shing v i l lage. S t . Tropez .

Th isi s a larger and much busierport t han Cass is, but veryp i cturesque. We left the.

ma in l ine at La Foux,tali

ing a l i tt le branch trainwh i c h wandered along 51o

husky crea tu res , c ry ing the i r wa res in s t r ident ly , but did f inal ly reach itstones . The f i sh are lovely in co lor—rose, s i lver and blue. dest inat ion.

S t . Tropez has a newtown, very much frequented.by Par i s i an Vi si tors, but i thas a lso fasc inat ing old fish.ermen

’

s quarters and a harbor.fu l l of p i cturesque browh;sa i led f i s h ing boats. Acrossthe bay wh i te peaks of theA lps r i se above the near - bycountry . If one wi shes tomake a long stay i t i s possi ble:to rent pretty l i tt le vi l las alt-g};low rate. There i s, too, a reaasonab le hotel , the Cont inents”?

The lure of these l ittlecoast towns a long the Mediaterranean i s great, but we?h ankered to exp lore the lrjfiland country of th i s romanticProv ince. It possesses afrc hant ing var iety . Windingw h i te roads lead you from oneadorab le v i l lage to another}?You wander along intimatigwa l led lanes overhung by siver y ol i ve trees, catchuig;g l impses th roug h h igh gri l ledga teway s of c harming gardensset abou t qua int pink an

creamy vi l las . Groups ref;

tw i sted decorati ve pinesv

.or

s l im ta l l c yp resses areby a palm tree ri sing frog}the mi dst of some gardéll s

Above the ol i ve orchards andv i l las ri se bare scrubby hi lt—1s i des fragrant wi th rosemal‘s

ré

and lavender, and great PB}c hes of scented golden brl iblp

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The P. L . M . runs au tobu ses on many interest ingc ircu i ts of towns . We used t hem somet imes bu tpreferred adventur ing on the back country l ineswh i c h took us into unexpected and l i tt le- knownp laces . We made Aix- en- Provence the headquartersfor much of our au tobus vaga bondage. Th i s s leepyari stocrat i c old town, anc ient cap i ta l of Provence,shou ld not be mi ssed . It has a lway s been a uni

vers i ty town and in i ts past day s of importancewas the home of many nob le fami l ies w hose inf luencei s st i l l apparent in t hese w i de- s haded streets w i ththei r many lovel y founta ins and statel y old bu i ldings . Here the famous poet of Provence, Frédér i cM i stra l , came for h i seducat ion. He and

h i s ent hu s i a s t i cfriends began herethe revi va l of the

Provenca l tong ue and

l i terature w h i c h hadbeen so long neg lec ted. On the Cour sM irabeau are two

reasonab le h o t e l s ,Hotel Negre- Costeand Hotel de France.

The Hotel Negre hasthe advantage of a

s idewa l k café w herei t i s p leasant to linger over coffee on a

summer evening . Ai xmay be reac hed fromMarsei l les by tra in or

tram ( the latter themore attract i ve way )and I bel ieve a l so b ybus in the summer .

We found severalbus l ines lead ing out

from Aix over a w i dec ircu i t of country .

We tried every one

and many an adven

turous happ y daydid we have in conse

i uence.

Somet i m e s we

came upon lovelycolorfu l market fa i rs ,going on in the s hadyp lace”

of the town,

where under h ugegreen umbrel las werespread out the mosttempt ing arra y of

g low ing fru i ts and

vegetab les , hats, s hoes , dress goods, pottery and

cheap jewelry .Wonderfu l old women look ing l i ke

fa i ry - tale grandmot hers in thei r huge leghorn hatswi th fri l led w h i te caps underneat h , caj oled the p3 3ser- by and joked w i t h t hei r neigh bors . From one

suc h old dame we boug h t fresh f i g s j u st dr i pp ingwi th sweetness to eat as we went a long .

W hen we

stopped to sketch in some such squarewe were over

whelmed wi t h popu lace, eager w i th interest and

want ing to know i f the sketc hes were to become

paint ing s for ex h i b i t ion and i f we shou ld sel l t hemfor large pr i ces in Amer i ca .

Or ienta l d i gnita r ies ,make a

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WHERE THE BOATS LEAVE FOR THE CHATEAU d'

l F

A ka leidoscopic c rowd of humanity st reams by th is wh ite, f lag

bedecked dock . French sa i lors w ith thei r raki sh red pompoms,

f is hwives w ith ba sket s on thei r heads, a ll

br i gh t pa ttern of co lor and movement.

Canadi an Ra i lroadcr , Montreal

Riez i s a point of departure for bus l ines going“

th roug h l i tt le towns of Haute Provence, adorab leVi l lages and most interest ing country of bare h i l lsand w i ld crags , of lovel y green va l ley s wi t h theirri vers and marc h ing pop lars, and occas iona l qua intProvenca l farms,

—a Country a l together d i fferentfrom the mel low land a long the coast .

R i ez has a decent l i tt le hotel for a nig h t’

s stop ,the Hotel des A lpes . It i s a lso famou s for the fourbeau t i fu l columns stand ing all by themselves in a

meadow outs ide the town, remains of a Roman tem

ple. T h is town i s the s i te of a bi g Roman sett lement , not h ing of wh ic h rema ins but t hese columns

pres i d ing in lonel ystate over p l a c i df i e l d s a n d l itt lefa rms , and anothergroup on a h i l l abovethe town.

Ramb l ings aboutProvence a r e n o tcomp lete wi t hout a

v is i t to Av i gnon and

Ar les , so in sp ite of

the wh i te hot g lare oft hese towns on a

summer day we p lanned to stop there on

our way b a c k t o

Par i s .

Av ignon has a

busy modern l ife going on w i th in i ts ah

c ient ramparts , and

i s overshadowed bythe tremendous Pa

la i s des Papes now re

c la imed from the

h um i l iat ion of beingused as a barracks .

From the stately impress i ve pa lace t h i sart i st carr ied awayone memory the

Pope’

s dress ing room,

a t iny p lace most del ig h tfu l l y frescoedw i th gay h untsmenand qua int anima l s,cours ing th roug h a

wood of del i ca te b i rdhaunted trees . Avignon i s a l so famous inall our minds for thebr i dge of the old

Frenc h song , Sur le

pont d’

Avi gnon, tout

le monde y danse.

Aries , of course,has many f i ne Roman ru ins,

but more fasc ina t ing to me was theMuséon Arleten,

the Museum in wh i c h has been preserved all the

anc ient beauty of Provenca l l i fe. Very near th i s

museum my companion and I , hot and h ungry , came

upon the h umb le l i tt le Hotel de la Poste w here wewere fed and cooled by a most fr iend l y propri etorand w here I am sure one cou ld spend a ni g h t reason

ab l y and comfortab l y .

W hen we arr i ved in Par i s the next morning ,

weary and d i rty , we fel t that t h i s j ourney was a f i t

c l imax to our th i rd- c lass wanderings .

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had to unpack and swim our horses. Fromhere we climbed five mi l es nearly north ,

The trail from here fol lows mountainranges till we get in to a b ig fla t country

.

We were out a week from Tacla Lake .

The country here is open as far as youcan see, the moun tains are not very high .

The country is full of small creeks andvalleys and all meadows.

We travel led about two days from hereto head of Thudada Lake, whi ch is the headwaters of the Peace and Findlay ri vers.This is on the edge of the b ig game count ry .

Thudada Lake is a long narrow stretch ofwater from one- half to one mile wide andsome seventeen m i les long wi th mountainson both sides .

The first day camping on the lake wecounted twenty head of goat on themountains. We shot three bul l caribouthis day . The next day we went aftergoat and got nine, were back in camp at5 pm . Wonderful sig ht from top ofmountain , as far as you can see—mountains and mostly al l covered with gras sand fine goi ng. We pulled out from hereand went west twelve mi les to Tatlatui

Lake . The coun try surrounding Tatlatuiis One immense game preserve . On ourway over from Thudada we saw numerousgoat and caribou . We shot one blackbear. As the party had al l the goat theywere allowed, we did not hunt for any

more . To the West of Tatlatu i Lake theval leys open up and the side hil ls are allopen grass.

Here you can see caribou and goat al lover the moun tains . We counted somefifty caribou one day . We were out ofluck as far as gri zzl ies were concerned .

Thi s was a poor year,no berri es i n the

country though i t must have been a greatberry country some yea rs . The bear haddown to the Skeena, fi shi ng . We saw

Th is Ind ian, who l ives on th e

rese rvation at Southamp ton , Ont

makes a l ivel ihood for h imself and

h i s fam ily by fashioning rust iccha irs.

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four and one of the party got one, alsotwo moose.

The to tal game bag of the party was :One grizzly bear, one black bear, ninegoat, six caribou and two moose .

We did not do any fi shing as we wererushed for time, but there are plenty offi sh in the lakes. There is no question ofany party who would take the time

, say

A ll ’s evidently not well with th e world so far

as this husky papooee of one of the Obj i bwoy

tr i bes of Northern Ontar io i s concerned .

three weeks,of getting a fine game bag

The country is ful l of ground hog andptarmigan .

On leaving Tatla tui Lake we pulled outfor Tacla Lake, taking ten days to arrivethere . We then picked up the gas boatand made Fort St . James in two days,arrivi ng the 24th of September .

Too Acc essi b l e to be R ea l

Ci ty Urchin ( in the country for the first

time)—“This i s j ust l ike grass , ain'

t itLi ttle Friend—“Why

,i t is grass, Chim

mie .

Urch in—“No ,i t ain’ t

,cos yer don 't have

to keep off i t . —“ Boston Transcript .

Canadi an Ra i lroader . Montrea l

A bron ze plaque memor ial to Geor geStephen son , f a th er of the st eam locomo

tive , subsc r ibed ‘b y Ar gent ine ra i l r oad

er s , was recentl y unvei led at Rosar io ,A rgenti na .

I t i s p redi cted that th e head l ight turbogenera tor w i ll , i n the fu tur e, be used notonl y for the operat ion of bel l r ing er s ,sand dr ier s , windsh ie ld w iper s, but evenelectr o- pneuma t ic “brake contr ol , wherebyth e brakes on each individua l ca r may beappl i ed a t th e same in stant .

i n an ef fort to improve ra i l r oad f ac i l iti es

,the Soviet Gover nmen t has 450 l oco

mot ives under const ru ct i on . Traff i c onSoviet ra i l r oads , i t i s r epor ted , hasr eached 86 per cent of the p re - warstandard and i s s tead i ly increa s in g .

GERMANS TEST HIGH PRESSURELOCOMOTIVE

Tes ts a re be ing made in Germa ny , aocordi ng to r epor t, wi th a super - pressu r elocomot ive ca r ry in g steam at 850 poundsper . square i nch . In th i s eng in e the f ir ebox walls a re f ormed of tub es , w ith asmal l subs id ia ry boil e r above the f i r ebox , in to wh ich water i s f or c ed by pumpand s team ra ised to the h igh - pr essu r e.There ar e two outs ide cyl inder s and

one h igh p ressu re cy l inder between thef rames . Exhaust f rom the centra l cy

l inder i s m ixed w i th the superJheated

steam genera ted in th e cyl indr ic al pa rtof the bo i l er and the m ix tu r e passes toth e low - pressu r e cyl inder s . Thus a twof old u se is made of th e st eam bef or e bei ng r elea sed as exhau st .

Ma x imum steam pressur e r each ed byany Amer ican or Canad ian locomot ive i s350 pound s per squar e inch

.

Canadi an Ra i'lroader . Montrea l

ng t e

ONG—DISTANCE air-mail service inwh i ch planes must fly by n ight is nowdefini tely a part of our postal establ ish

men t . Thi s wou ld be impossi ble, says Woodbridge E . Morris, writing in

“Ligh t (Cleveland) , wi thou t the progress in i l luminationthat has been made in the past few years .

He reminds us that the pilots now carry themail from coast to coast inside of th ir ty - threehours

,through heat and cold , rain or sh ine,

storm and snow and even sleet, as long asi t is physically possible to fly . He goes on :

People thi nk of i t as a risky business .It is . Bu t the service has been mainta ined now since July 1

,1925, with an

average prompt del ivery of about 93 percent

,and but two fatal it ies .

Revolvi ng beacons i igh t the routes .Emergency fields are stationed everytwelve miles from New York to Clevelandand every twenty—five miles west of that

,

The regular airports are equ ipped withfioodlights l ike Easter li l ies al l over thehangars and build ings, red l ights atopneighboring poles and barns, and boundarvl ights on the land ing fields and taxi—str ips .At the main airport , too , a

candle- power fioodligh t is mounted so asto throw max imum l igh t on the field and

none into the air .

The planes are equipped wi th regularred and green navigation l ights of 2 1candle- power on thei r wing- tips

,and ten

inch conical landing l ights,corresponding

to automobile headl ights, on either wing .

Also , two parachu te flares are carr iedunderneath the fuselage, to be releasedin case an emergency landi ng at nigh t mustbe made

When sprung, the “chute opens,the

flare l ights up three- quarters of a mi le ofterritory and sinks slowly to the ground

.

They are buil t to last several minutes,and

i f released from a suffi cient height wil lpermi t the pilot to pick ou t the l ikeli estlooking fi eld or open space

,swoop under

the flare , switch on his landi ng l ights, andmake a good landi ng provided he hascorrectly judged the wind direction

.

The flare has been used for years.

The landi ng l ight was worked out for theair-mai l servi ce i n 1923 at Nela Park byR . N. Falge, of the Nela laboratories . Onelamp, wi th smooth , concentrated beam ,

isa im ed practical ly level . The other has alens wh ich spreads the l ight through anangle of 30 degrees, and is ti lte d downwardto i lluminate the ground close to the planeafter the p ilot has leveled off to make h islanding . Both are sl ightly “walle yed

,

” asmai l - planes do not permi t vi sion straightahead .

They'

re pretty essential, fl oodligh t or

no fl oodlight , i n showi ng you where theground actually i s wi th relation to you

,

”

sa id a pilot . “That li ttle spot of l ight

Sep lember , 1926: Vol. X . .No. 3

flyer , i t reflects back at h im from M085,propel ler

,fuselage

,stru ts and evefl

’lhing

else . He feels as though he is si tting on Ppinpoin t out i n l imitless space.

He 15

l iab le to lose cont-rel. ”

fol lowing along wi th you acts as a kindof feeler .I got in early , night before last . The

hangars and red guard - li gh ts were l i t,of

cou rse, so that I had my proportions righ t,bu t the border l ights and fl oodlight hadnot yet been turned on .

Knowing the field,I d idn

'

t wai t,bu t

came right down and landed, Using just

my landing l igh ts . But I had es timateda b i t, short, and touched the ground justoutside the boundaries . My headl ightp icked up a bounda ry l ight right ahead ofme

, and I had to hop i t .The pilot to whom flying is just a job

was asked if he had ever had any nigh t

“Only once , he rep li ed .

“There wasabout 500 feet of fog on the Bellefonte field .

I could See i t when i t was directly below me,

but i t didn ’ t show up at all when I got ofl

to one side to land .

'

I tried for i t seven or eigh t times.

Final ly , I made i t, bu t I ran clear acrossthe field and into the fence the other side

.

Didn'

t hurt anyth ing,though

.

"

Another p ilot was not so fortunate. The

pilo ts fly high wi th the wind and lowagainst i t . On a black night

,th is man

,

head ing against the wind over mountai nouscountry , ran out of gas . He was perhaps500 feet up, and used up 200 of it t ryingto get h is motor started again

.

Fail ing, he d ropped a flare . It revealedthe rough , wooded hill - coun try , with a clearfi eld close to a farm house and ba rns

.He

turned and made the fi eld.

But the barns were r igh t ahead of h im.

Ra ther than crash into them at forty milesan hour or so , he swung short to the left .

His plane turned over and “cracked up,

but he was unhu rt.

Another p ilot mentioned a forced n ightland ing he made where he had to “hop "

two fences before he lost hi s momentum.

The mail - plane land ing speed is aboutsixty miles per hour .

Did you ever confuse sta rs wi th landl ight the men were asked

.

They smil ed .

“ Yes,

” said a couple.

Before you get the feel of n ight flying,

when you are up i n a low—visibi l i ty n ight,

you can ’t always tel l whether you ’ re flyingon a level and seeing stars or flying

,

balanced, i n a cu rve, and seei ng streetl ights . ”

What is i t l ike when a searchli ght isturned on you

You m ight almost as wel l shoot thep ilot,

” sa id a fi eld man. I nstructions have

been given operators of a powerful advertising searchlight on the roof of a h igh bankbuildi ng in Cleveland, Ohi o, never to turnthe li ght on a plane.

Why, when one of those l ightn ingstrokes of i l lumination h i ts h im

,sa id

Lieutenant Leigh Wade, round - the- world

Wha t Ou r Oceans HideRanges of Submar ine Mounta ins( By a Member of the Amer ican

Geograph ica l Soc iety)OST of us th ink of is lands asp iec es of l and surrounded bywa ter . So they are; but theyar e much more than that .

They a re, of cour se

,

wor ld a r e concea l ed vast cont inents verymuc h l ike th ose upon wh ich animal l ifel ives and f l our i sh es

.

Suppose the oceans to have gone dryand that we sta rt ou t by motor - car fromDieppe to ex plor e the A tlant ic .We shou ld sta r t running smoothly

down a gent l e h i l l i nto a wide, shal low

va l ley—the Channel Val l ey—and so form i l es w e shou ld travel para ll el withthe val l eys on the northern s idh t

‘

hec l iff s of Eng land , unt i l on our r ight wesh ou ld d i sc er n the range of mounta inswh ic h the southern coast of Irelandwou ld p r esent to u s .Then as we tr avel led westward 3. mar

vellous vi ew would sp read i tsel f at ourf eet , for the ground between us wouldb e seen to s h elve down into a vastcoun try some f ou r mi les below our car .I n f ou r or f i ve hou r s we should be on

th e f l oor of the A tl an ti c .St opp ing the car a nd l ook ing back we

shou ld see va st moun ta ins standi ng out

a ga ins t the skyl ine—Mount Ireland andMount Eng land, and the conti nentMounta in Eu rope.Ther e i s a p revalent not ion tha t the

f l oor of the A t lan t ic i s more or l essf l a t . Th is i s n ot so .

If we s teer ou r car south we shallsoon see on the hor i zon vast mountains,h i gher tha n any we have seen

.r ising

f r om the undu lat in g country about us.

A s Steep as Everes tSt . He l ena and A scens ion

, to our vis ion today , but l i ttl e i s lands, wi l l standrevea led a s th e t ips of vast mountainranges , so steep as to def y even a modern car and comparab le to the vastra nges of the H imal ayas .I f we tur n and travel month until we

r each th e nor th er n A t lan t ic we shall seeyet anot her vas t range of mounta insthe K i n g Edward VI I . range, om? t e

cently d i scovered by oceanographem, and

so h i gh tha t the i r summits,i f a l it tle

h ig her , would have been islands and

pr obab l y inhab i t ed by the human race?

September , 1926: Vol . X No . 3

BALL

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D VENTURE'

S fl eet , wi th fly ing sai ls,

Old ships ply dim ,uncharted seas ,

No moun tai nous i ce, no shrieki ng gales ,NO rocks afi

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righ t those argosies .

Proud bearers of old majesties ,

Carved caravels and curved biremes ,G ift of the gallant centuries ,

Old ships are cargoed with bright dreams .

What crusted gems, what si lken balesWhat scented wood of sandal- trees ,

What sleek- skinned slaves in glistening veils,

Lay h id in gal leons like theseSea- sa l t has gnawed those treasures ,Yet glamor

,j ewel - l ike, st i ll gleam

Where,full - rigged on some phantom breeze ,

Old sh ips are cargoed with brigh t dreams .

Canadi an Ra i lroader . Montrea l

SHIPS

F LEMING

l n man 's poor heart most Ven ture pales,

None keeps his fledgl ing ecsta sies,

Yet th is one magic never fails,

Old ships weave ageless sorceri es .

For, Io,in ships of all degrees,

Great merchantmen and oared tri remes

Men dared the sea's deep mysteries,

Old sh ips are cargoed wi th bright dreams .

L'

Envoy

Tall clippers from the far lndi es ,Crude coracles on inland streams

Awake man's ancient memories,

Old sh ips are cargoed with bright dreams .

Ca nadi an Ra i lroader , Montrea l

MOB of Omaha Sidewalk Fans weregaping at the local “World - Heraldscore- board

,as i t transla ted the pro

gress of a ba ll game a thousand miles or moreaway .

’Twas an attentive but undemonstrative mob

,suffic ien tly interes ted , as by i h

grained habit,but on the whole silen t , ex

pectant , wai ting to be shown . Suddenly ashout— a swel ling, spreading , roari ng tida lwave of del ight . The mob has awakened .

The. released l ife force flashes in i ts eyes ,thunders in i ts comp osite voice . What hascome to pass , a thousand miles or more away,to work such a miracle in Omaha, and doubt.

less i n many another place from ocean toocean ? Behold the answer on the sco re- board— Babe Rut-h has h i t another home run .

Wow ! The sun shines brighter . “God ’s i nhis heaven : al l

'

s right with the world . Anda si ngular feature of th is demonstrat ion , asremarked by a " World - Herald ed itorialwriter

,is that perhaps none of those in the

sidewalk bleachers had ever seen the. Nc ork

Yankee swa tsman. No ;“ he was only a

name to them , a name and a photo famil iarenough on the sport ing pages

,and a few

sti cks of type that indicate that this year hestands now better than an even chance ofsurpassing his famous 192 1 record of fifty - ninehome runs in one season . And the editorialproceeds to pay Omaha 's respects to the Babein these terms :

Ruth has been an errat ic figure,much

overtouted at times by industrious pressagents, but always a colorful and ratherengaging personal ity . I t has bee n possible ,a t one time or another in h is career

, to use

him as proof for all the platitudes . One

could demonstrate , for example , that apoor orphan boy needed only perseverancein his chosen field to win success

,or at

another t ime one could prove by h is fai lurethat. riotous living was ruinous to athletes.

This year , recovered from the slumpthat made him play so badly last. year

,

once more in the top of physical condition ,the mighty Bambino is slamming outhomers at a rate to quicken the imaginations of every baseball fan in the coun try

,

whether he be a parti zan of the sand - lotsor one who can actual ly see Babe R uthdo it . If this basebal l personal ity provesanythi ng a t al l , he proves that the Americanpeo ple love to worsh ip succes s, and thatthey get a whole lot bigger ki ck out ofseeing Babe Ruth smash a baseball recordthan they get , sav, out of a lower co st ofl iving, or more. reasonable taxes .All of wh ich gives point to the contention

of Mr. Ruth'

s most fai thful champions thathis is a migh ty , compell ing , and propi tiousi nfluence in the nat ional game

,and that he

is richly ent i tled to respectful sympathywhen he struggles sincerely to master thetendencies whi c

'

i got h im in to trouble las tyear . At the outset of a cordial articl e i nLi berty Hugh Fullerton inquir es :

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Can Babe Ruth , the Bad Boy of Basebal lcome backR uth , having been spanked , feel ing h is

crown sl ipping,has made the most deter

mined c fl '

ort of h is l i fe to reform and regainh is place as the greatest bal l player i n theworld .

Upon his effort depends, to a large extent

,the succes s oi the New York Yankees

in the pennant race of 1926, the, outcome ofthe American League race, and , to a lesserex tent

,the prosperi ty of professional base

bal l .I t means milli ons of dol lars to the Yankees

and other cl ubs . But , overshadowing thatin the interest of baseball fans, i t mea nswhether the greatest hero of the game canclimb back to his pedestal or whether heis to be just another example of the starecl ipsed by the bright l igh ts .

R uth—having th rown away more than aquarter of a Fni llion dol lars

,having been fined

more than the average man makes in a l i fetime , for violating the ru les of h is club ; withheal th almos t ru ined and blamed for thewreck of a great bal l cl ub—has reformedagain . He says seriously that he sees nowwhat a “ sap "

, a“boob”

,and a “ sucker he

has been .

He has worked this winter as he never hasworked before, with a determination to figh this way back to physi cal co ndit ion to playthe “game of h i s l i fe " during the comingseason .

Huggins, manag er of the Yankees, fi nedR uth nine thousand dol lars one time

,five

thousand dol lars another,and several times

one thousand dol lars . His suspensions without pay have cost him perhaps twenty - five

thousand dollars more . Besides,as Babe

says, he fined himself twenty - five thousanddol lars last fall by refusi ng to play exhibi tions.The big fel low seems sincere . When the

season ended last year, he, went hunting i nCanada, and was so weak he could hard lystand the hardships . But. he came through .

Then he went in to a New York gymnasiumand worked three hours a day . He dieted ,obeyed orders , and cut his weight down to

the Fnes t he had been in years . He had bu tone sl ip , and that brief , during the winter .He was converted .

Last fall , when Manager Huggins suspended and fined him , Babe was not at allconvinced he had done wrong .

Babe'

s standpoin t is not ours,and few

understand him . For,besides being the

greatest attraction i n baseball,he furnishes

one of the most in teresting studies of humanbeings . Lovable, big- hear ted

,simple

,care

less, reckless, eas ily led, seldom thinki ng orcaring for consequences, Ruth is j ust a b ig,overgrown , naughty boy .

The boy who came from a reform schooland rose to the greatest heigh ts and thehighest salary i n basebal l i s in teresti ng

,no

matter what he does . Babe 's naughti ness

S eptember . 1926: Vol. X. .No. 3

has such a human quality and he erresohumanly and frankly , i t must be as hard formanagers and owners to punish himas it isfor a pa rent to spank a mischievous chi ld.

Nor i s i t fair to Ruth to judge him as youwould judge other bal l players. He is differen t : a geni us. I f you know the story ofBabe ’s l i fe perhaps you wi l l be better ableto understand and judge him .

And here Mr. Fullerto n assumes the roleof historian to the Ki ng of Swat

,and enlight.

ens us in certa in matters which dispose afeel ing heart toward forgiveness and tolerance . Thus we are told :

Ruth was bo rn th i rty- two years 330 ,

His father was a butcher; a vi olent tempered , strong, and rough man . Babe's earlych i ldhood was one of pathos.When he was seven years old he was

taken to St . Ma ry ’s Industrial Homa inBaltimore , a home school under the controlof a brotherhood . The bas eball reportersusually speak of the home as i f i t weresome sort of a coll ege . Babe uses no suchcamouflage .

“ I t was a reform school—and that's allthere i s to i t,

" he says .

“But it wasn't aplace boys were sent for puni shm

'

ent.They were sent there for traini ng. Thebrothers did every thing in thei r power tobring out al l the good there was in a boyand give him a chance .

Babe grew up in that school . He lea rnedwhat he wanted to learn , but was not.in terested . But on the playground, wi tha basebal l bat, Ruth became a leaderconfident , aggressive . The inferiority complex resul ting from h is home surroundingsand the classroom disappeared . He developed.

In the school was an excell ent man,Brother Ben

,who knew sports—and boys.

As Ru th developed into the best ball playerthe best pitcher

,the bes t hitter in th e

school,the brother watched and coached

and encou raged h im . Probably never be

fore had Ru th been flattered, nor had herecei ved any special attention . He becamea wonderful player. When twelve yearsold he was as wel l developed as a boy of

sixteen and excel led older boys at baseballIn 19 13 Babe had developed into amag

nificent left- handed pitcher, rather wild,inclined to fight on the ball field (unless

the bro thers were watch ing) , untamed, un

d iscipl ined ; l ike a hal f- broken cub let loose.

Brother Ben bel ieved Babe was destinedto be a star , and some of these Catholi c

educators are as good judges of ball players

as any one in the world .Brother Ben

asked Jack Dunn , ma nager of the Balumore International League Club, to gm

Ruth a trial .Dunn is a clever baseball man .

He went

out to a. game at the school, and , before

five inni ngs had been played. wasen

thusiastic abou t R uth . He tied Babe“1 an

September , 1926: Vol. X . . No. 3

agreement to play bal l for him the nex tyea r , and in 19 14 , when Ruth was justturned eighteen , he was in a Bal timoreuniform .

Babe did not remain with Bal timorelong

,as before the season was hal f over he

was sold to the Boston Ameri can Leagueteam for ten thousand dol lars , and , aftera few days there , was sen t to the Providence team for further seasoning . He didnot remain long at Providence . His pi tching was remarkable , and before the end ofthe season he was recal led to Boston .

He leapt into the l imel ight in 1 9 15,

wi nning eigh teen and losing only sevengames and batting .3 15. His work great lyaided the Red Sox in winn ing thei r cham

pionshi p of the American League and incapturi ng the world 's championsh ip .

In Bosto n R uth met an influence,per

haps the best and greatest of h is li fe,in

Bill Carrigan , the manager . Carriganshowed how easily Ruth could be hand ledby those who understood h im . His devot ion to and his fa i th in Carrigan wasthat of a small boy in h is fat-her . Heseemed to spend time trying to find outwhat Carrigan migh t want h im to do inorder that he migh t do i t .

Here is an inciden t wh ich t hrows a sidel ight on h i s charac ter I t was during oneof the World 's Series in wh ich Babe hadbeen a hero of one game wh ich the RedSox had won before a b ig gathering . Thatafte rnoon I was kept late at the baseballpark, and the crowd had cleared away . I twas dusk before my work as a newspapercorrespondent was done.

A friend and I started to walk down- to ivn.

In a vacant lot a quarter of a mile from thepark a swarm of small boys were yell ingand shouting in great excitement . Westo pped to watch them

,and there was

Babe, a bat in h is hands, showing the kidhow to hi t a bal l , He had stopped afterall the plaudi ts of a world

'

s ser ies to playball with the boys . Yet they wonder whyhe is an idol of the youngsters !

That love of youngsters and love of basebal l are h is two great trai ts . He nevercared for money ; doesn

't now . I have asuspicion he never would even have arguedabout salary if h is “friends had left h imalone .

From the time he broke i nto the bigleague Ruth always wanted to play regularly . He was a fai rly capable ou tfi elder ,a good th rower

,fas t when under way ,

though a l i ttle awkward . He also wan tedto play fi rst base

,and was a fai r

,but never

compete nt, fi rst baseman .

In 1920 Ruth came into h is own . HarryFrazee

,who owned the Boston club , sold

him to the New York Yankees for a sumreputed to be one hundred and fi fty thousand dollars

,the highest pri cc ever pa id

for the service of an athlete . Becoming aNew Yorker was perhaps the worst (and ,in another way ,

the best ) th ing that couldhave happened to R uth .

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New York is a hero- worsh ipping city,

and Babe was i nstal led on Broadway 'spedestal .Ru th held h is head fairly wel l in the

face of the constant press agenting,and

he didn’

t swel l up . In fact,Babe never

has had a case of swel led head,and he

always has been the same. easy - goingfel low . He h as had rows with umpires

,

t i fl'

s wi th Presiden t Johnson of the American League , clashes wi th the owners of

ON GROWING OLD

By John Mase f i eld

E w ith me, Beau ty, for the f i re i sdyi ng .My dog and I ar e old , too old

for rovin g ;Man, whose young pass i on sets theS p ind r if t f ly in g ,

15 soon too lame to march , too cold forl ovin g .

1 take the book and gather to the f i re ,Tu r n i n g old yel l ow l eaves . Minute bym inute

The c l ock t ick s to my hear t ; a wi t her edw ir e

Moves a th i n ghost of mus ic in thesp inet .

I cannot sa i l you r sea s , I cannot wanderYour mounta in s , nor you r down lands ,nor your val l eys

Ever aga in,nor shar e th e batt l e yonder

Wh er e your young kn igh t the b rokensquadron ra l l i es ,

On ly s tay qu iet , wh i l e my m ind remember s

The beau ty of f i r e f r om the beau ty ofember s.

the club, and wi th Judge Kenesaw M .

Landis,High Commissioner of Baseball .

Ruth created a sensation by his h i t-tingin 1920 ,

the writer reminds us, and in 192 1“ leapt to the cl imax of h is fame " i n th i sh igh ly competent manner :

With the l ively ball i n play he startedcrashing "

,and changed the entire game

of baseball,upset all dope , ran up the

amazing total of fifty - nine home runs inthe season , and inaugurated an orgy oflong- distance h i tt ing such as never beforewas known“

.

Babe's money is a constant source oftrouble to h im . Sharpers and gamblershave preyed on him . In the spring of 1923,wh ile he was in training camp at New

Orleans , a girl he couldn’ t even remember

sued h im for fi fty thousand dol lars . Babesays he

,has lost and been defrauded of

more than a quarter of a mil lion dol lars.

Nor do the ordinary rules of conditionseem to fi t h im . Two springs when heworked and devoted h imself to trai ning heplayed bad ball and failed to hi t . Once,in disgust over a hitting slump , he wentout

,mopped up a lot of dri nks, s tayed ou t

all n ight,and that afte rnoon crashed out

Ca nadi an Ra i lroad“ . Montrea l

two home runs , one the longest ever hi t,at the Polo Grounds .

Q ueer thi ng about Ruth '

s hitt ing abil i ty :his eyes are not good and they are out offocus . He can not read much wi thou tblurred vision , and the doctors do not darechange the focus , for fear they may spoilh is batting eye. But , perhaps, i t is just aswel l he doesn 't read what has been saidrecently about h im . To use his own words :When they

'

re off me,they ’ re 0 1? me ;

and when they 're on me,they 're on me .

I'

l l tell the world they are .

A careless, reckless , innocent-m indcdovergrown boy and alwavs trying to pleasewhere small boys are concerned

.At

Scranto n , Pennsylvania , he once umpireda game between two kid teams and had tobe rescued by the pol ice when more thanten thousand of them crowded aroundt rying to shake hands with him .

He has one of h is own,by the way

Dorothy . Hi s first two children d ied inearly infancy , and when the thi rd was

bo rn he and his wife kept. i t a secret . Thebaby was more than a year old before thereporters or the publ ic knew about it .

Then Babe had forgotten when she wasborn , and some one made a mvstcry of i tBabe said Dorothy was born Febuary E2 ,

192 1 , whil e his wi fe sa id June 7, 192 1 .

Perhaps never in h is Spectacular careerhas Babe started a season with such goodprospec ts as he d id last year . The teamseemed as strong as ever; Ruth went earlvto Hot Spri ngs and started work at hisusual gai t

,sweating and working off pounds

of surplus flesh . He flopped with the flu,

recovered,and settled down to work . He

seemed in better cond ition than ever,but

continued to eat, drink , and work at a ratethat took toll of his reserve powers . AtAsheville he coll apsed and became desperately il l . He started for New York , fel lwhile on the train

,arrived in New York in

convulsions, and was hurried to a hospital .There were many stories printed abou t

what caused Ruth ’s collapse . One wasthat he ate a huge beefsteak , fried potatoes,a couple of chops, on top of a lot of wh i sky .

Bob Boyd , a New York basebal l wri ter ,who ate with h im

,sa id Babe consumed a

very l ight meal—toast and eggs—andwas too sick to ta ckle much . Whateverthe cause, Babe was a very sick man .

Ruth 's collapse wrecked the Yankee teamfor 1925. Depr ived of Ruth 's great h i tt ingpower

,wh ich meant an average of nearly

two runs a game during a season , the teamwent to pieces , became discouraged , andsteadily fell behind ,Many of Ruth 's Cl‘ll lCS have scolded and

talked about how much money the clubhas i nves ted in l im and pa id h im and howmuch he owes i t . From a purely financialstandpoint

,Ruth doesn

‘

t owe the Yankeesa cent . He has been t h e best investmentthey ever made . He has drawn hund redsof thousands of dollars into thei r treasu ryand revived basebal l when it was te rriblysi ck.

Canadi an Ra i lroader . Montrea l

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l n

a rs on'

s pee p In to the Minds of the Crowd

By the R E V . C. A. STU D D E RT -KE NNE D Y , M.C. (“Woodb i n e Wi l l i e " )

In the London,England,

S unday Chr oni cle

We of ten say wha t. we th i nk of our pa r sons ; wha t do th ey thi nk of us ? A sea r ch ing limel i gh t is th rown am?”the lonely men i n the pu lp i ts of our chu rch es who face the tr emendous r espons i bil i ty S unday by Sunda y of delivey‘inga message to th ei r peop le . Mud is constantly bei ng th r own a t th ei r h eads . Th ey a re du l l and u n ima g i na t ive, men,

say ; i f the i r sermons are too c lever they are di smi s sed a s “hi gh - br ow ,

"i g nor i ng the r ea l i ti es of every da y li fe ; i f

th ey in troduce a.

l i gh t tou ch th ey are p lay ing to the g a l l ery .

”The p e rson i s a ll the t ime grop i ng for a defi ni te

opi ni

on a bou t h i s l i s tener s , and i n thi s a r ti cl e , the R ev. G . A. S tudder t - K ennedy ,who wi l l be known to all our readers

as“Woodbi ne Wi l l i e ,

” descr ibes the feeli ng s of the p r ea ch e r a bou t those who hea r h i s message .

HE ord ina ry man i s an e x tra erdinary per son , and i f you coulds ee i n to h i s m ind a t a ny g ive

moment,you would pr obab ly g et th e

shock of you r l i fe .

A cas ua l observer l ooks a t a c rowdand d i sm i s ses i t w i th a s'h ru g a s a bunchof ord ina ry, r espec tab l e people , bu t astudent and lover of human na tur e know sthat i t i s nei ther a s ordina ry no r as re

spectab le as i t l ooks .

I t i s th i s knowled ge tha t makes ap rea che r rt remble a t th e knee s and f eels ick ever y t ime he get s up to pr eachbhe e te rna-l mystery of men . God know swhat trag ed ies and comedi es a r e be in gp layed out i n the s i l e nc e tha t h e br ea ksby speech .

Tha t r espec tabl e -l ook ing bus i ness man

j us t undernea th the pulp i t i s dri ven toh i s w-i t s' end by the slump , and mor ethan once i n th ese l a st w eeks has contemplated su i c ide .

The homely look ing g i r l i n spec ta cl es ,so s ens ib l e and ma tter of f ac t, i s eat in gher h ear t ou t for r omance , and is s ec retly in love w i th her employer , a ma r r iedman wi th th ree ch i ldr en and a nagg in gw if e who nea r ly d r ives h im cra zy . Hei s i n chu rch , too, haun ted by a tempta

t ion to h i t h i s partner in the face becau se he i s so bea stly cheer f ul tha t hecou ld get on a nybody

's ner ves , a nd a l soby a dr eam tha t s ome sunny day h e w il lb e young aga in , and take a j ol ly g i rlf or a d r i ve -in to the c ountry, having gotr id of h is w if e w i thou t comm i tt in g murder .

Typi s t and Her Beau

The youn g man in the corner th er ehas b een bet t in g and ha s los t , and i sa l ways wonder in g wheth er he c ould keeppa r t of th e r ent s he col l ects and pay i tback later on.

Th er e's a man w i th a squ in t up th erin t'he g a l l ery , and he propos ed l a st w eekto th e li ttl e typ i st nea r the door , and a tt imes he does not know whether he wan tsto murde r h er or the good - l ook in g “boywho i s s tand ing by her s id e . The l i t tl etyp is t is th inkin g tha t b oy i s th ink in g

how pretty sh e i s, a nd he i s th i nk i ngwh a t a f ine f ell ow he i s.There ’ s a g rey - ha‘i r ed woman over

ther e who has per s uaded h er hu sba nd tocome to chu rch bec aus e h e ha s beend r ink ing

,a nd she hopes i t i s h elp i ng ;

and he i s th i nk i ng : Good Lord , whatbosh i t a l l i s ; my old wound hur t s l ik ethe devi l ; th er e can

’ t b e any God , or i fth er e i s He d oes not ca r e a damn for u s .

My old woman doesn ’ t under sta nd . I t i sa l l very wel l f or th i s pa r s on chap , he isnot t empted l ike ord i na ry men.

A nd the pa rs on chap i s a l l quak in gi ns ide, and c r y in g ou t to God f or hel pbecau se h e f eel s so bea s tl y h elple ss .

The g i r l w ho s i ts on th e s t ep of thefon t l ost her lover i n th e war , and shec r ies out to God for a bab y , someth i ngto rock i n h er empty arms , and a t t im esshe ha tes her f r iend w ho i s mar r i ed a ndIhas a ch ild , and says b i tte r th i n g s sheha tes to remember af terward s .

There i s a woman nea r to h er who hasf ou r ch i ldr en and dread s a f i f th , becaus

they cannot make both ends meet , a ndsomet imes sh e a lmost w is h es —what sh edar e not acknow led ge tha t sh e w is hes .Her husband i s w ith her , and he ha s

been d r i nk ing s ec r etl y and wonder swhethe r he can s top , b ecau se ther e w i l lb e a smas h un l es s h e does .The l i t t l e c l e rk u nder th e w indow i s a

v iol ent Soc ia l i s t who bel i eves tha t th er ei s bound to be a bl oody r evolut ion a ndtha t he w i ll meet h i s emp loyer a t th e.bar r icad es . Th e employer wou ld l ik e tos tra ngl e h i s bank manager bec au s e h eis so su r e of h im self , and cannot g ran th im a f u r th er overd raf t , and, bes id es , h es m iles a t you th roug h gold spect aclesand wea r s w h i te spa ts .

That p al e g i r l over th ere l ooks af t e ran inva l id mother , but would l ike to go

ou t to Ind ia or Ch ina as a m i ss i ona ry ,and be bu rn ed or murder ed for Ch r i st ’ssake .

A nd so on— a nd so on , ad in f i n i tum .

Men say you cannot l ove a c rowd,but

i t mus t be a du l l and s tup id man whodoesn ’t . Number s don ’t c ount

,men say

,

bu t 1 do not understand what they mean.

Number s mus t count , for every man andwoman i s d iff er ent, and every one of

th em a un ique and inf in i tely valuablepe r son .

Anyone wh o faces crowds and hones t ly tr i es to help th em comes in theend to love and f ear them ; love them beca us e of thei r endless var iety, and fearthem becau se they make him feel sucha help l es s , hopel ess fool . They dr iveh im back to God a t last, through Whom.

a lon e he ca n h ope to help unl ess he- J'

is

a fool who th ink s he is somebody, whic h

i s th e sur est p roof that he is ndliodyht'

a l l .

A BENEFACTOR IN DISGUISE?

Larkson—“I'

m going up to the jatl. I

want to ta l k w i th the bandit who took

my car

Pa rk son What ’s the use ?”

Larkson Maybe he’l l tel l me how he

go t f if ty m il es an hour out ofher .

L if e .

church bel l at Blandford ,’ Dorset, has hi ng

twice daily,at one in the afternoon and six

in the evening,for over eight hundred years.

Only for one short interval , in 1924 . was

thc bell si len t, the old cus tom being dioont inued on grounds of economy . But Blandford people hastened to offer the moneynecessary to keep up the tradi tion, and otheroh

'

ere to help came from abroad .

One nat ive of Blandford , now in Austral ia,S ent a cheque for the amount required to

maintain the custom for one year andofl

'

ercd to pay th is sum annually .

He has now repeated his ofi'

er, and it hasbeen accepted by the town council . So the

Blandford bell will continue to ring afte rnoon

and evening as i t has done for the last eightcenturies.

Scp lcmber . 1926: Vol. X No . 329 Ca nadi a n Ra i lroader . Montrea l

S to ney Lake, from V iumede Point, Kuwanhn Lakes D is trict. Ontar io .

HE fa ce of heaven, wh ic h , from afa r ,Comes down upon the wa ter s ; a ll i ts hues ,

F rom the r i ch. suns et to the r is ing s ta r ,Thei r ma gi ca l vari ety di fl '

use

And now they cha ng e ; a pa ler shadow s t rewsI ts mantle o’

er the mounta b le .

Byron.

September . 1926: Vol . X No. 3 3] Ca nadia n Ra i lroader . Monlrea

pa rty of trai l ridm u tt in g off along the shore of the Jade waters of h ke Lou ise for (l i e prec ip itouspu m of th o Rockles .

pp i es am e to

u s e

UEND ER and f rag i le— snow -wh i te , b lood- red , and a s ye llow a s the suna m i l l ion popp ies b low in t he b reeze s tha t sh ive r over the emera ldwater s of Lake Lou i se , and br ing a s many love ly d reams to w ear y

tou r i sts .Th ey g row , thes e beau t ifu l l it tle I celand f lowers , that are j u st a shade

mo re de l i ca te and fa i r y- l ike than ou r nat ive popp ies , down to t he verysho r es of Lake Lou i se, besi de the w i nd in g pa ths , i n among the rocks, andclose to the g rey wa l l s of theCha teau .

'In the even ing they a r e s i lve r andcoppe r and go ld in the moon l igh t , and th e i r mag ic ste a l s over you l ike ade l ic iou s d rows ine ss .

Th e re a r e a l l sor ts of legend s as to whe r e the popp ie s came f rom .

S ome say tha t the f i r st seed l i ng s we r e brough t to Lake Lou i se by abea ut i fu l p r i nce ss, wh i le othe rs tel l you th a t a myster iou s st range r sca tte r edthe seeds one n ig ht by moon-l igh t ; ch i ld r en are somet imes to ld tha t eachpoppy i s a t i ny d r eam , a nd tha t they a re put the r e by the fa i r i es whowan ted to be k ind t o the peop le who loved th e i r Lake Lou i se.

B ut i t wa s n e i ther fa i ry nor p r i n ce ss wh o ga ve Lou i se he r popp ie s o fye l low and r ed and wh i te. V i s ito r s to Lake Lou i se owe thei r poppy dream sto one M r . K rook , ‘hort icu l tu r i st of the Canad i an Pa c if ic Ra i l way

,who

sea rched th e wo r ld eyer for a f lower tha t wou ld g row and t hr ive i n theh igh a l t i tudes of the Rock i es . One day when he wa s t ra ve l l ing i n No r thernE u rope,

Ihe saw a f ie ld o f Ice land popp ie s and the r e f -lashed upon h i s m inda pi c ture of Lake Lou i se gay w i th popp i es of red and wh i te and ye l low .

He p r ocu red some seed an d on h i s retu r n to Canada p lan ted i t i n thenurse r ies a t Wo l se ley , S a ska tc hewan . In t he S p r in g of 1 9 1 2 , two thousan dIce la nd poppy p lan t s we re s h ipped to Lake Lou i se and tran sp la n ted . Out

of these ha ve been p ropagated the enormou s n umbe r to be found there today .

These gay l itt le Iceland popp ies , theirwh ite or c r imson or golden heads nodd ing

Befo r e M r , K rook in trodu ced the Iceland WN Wa t Lake Loms e, It wa s on frag i le stems. introduce a warm co lorrathe r an Ob sc u r e l i t/t ie f lowe r ; bUt to- day i t i s k now n f’he wo r ld over_ nou to an oth erw ise aus tere p icture of

made famou s by Lake Lou is e. Poets make verses ab out “35O

S lende r beauty frown ing cream and grey chutenu wa l ls.—8 r'tl S come to pa int i t.

Above “i s a S tlldy Of till? p0 pp les by a n 0_“t The above i l lustrat ion i s a reproduct ion

stand ing Ca n ad ia n a r t i s t, Robe rt Ho lmes, wh ich att rac ted gr ea t a tte n t i on of ” int,“ of ”m , fl ow, " by ML

when i t,appea r ed a t a To ron to art exh ib i t ion la st sp r in g . Rob " , “0mm

Canadian Ra i lroader , Montrea l

( Conf irmed f r om pag e 30 )

we are warned . Anglers a lways have known

that most of us,earl i er i n our l ives, used to

thi nk d iff eren tly . We simply did not, know .

We did not know that a trout must su rvivefor three years before i t reproduces the fi rst

time ; we did not know that the percentage

of su rv ival of the eigh t or So hundred eggs issmall and seems to be ca l cu lated not to

increase the supply grea tly but mere ly totake care of a modera te loss on ly ; we did not

know the many ha zards a fi sh must meetbefore i t reaches the age of reproduct ion .

Pra c t i s i ng Con serva t i on

Nowadays people in genera l do not wastetrout l ike a few used to do . There have beeninstances of immense catches of trout bei ng

made,photographed the fish d iscarded and

en In

32

the picture proudly kept to p rc the prowess

of the ao - cal l ed fi sherman . But such thi ngsare becoming rarer . We. are fi nd i ng o u t thatthe quant i ty of game k i l led is no t the proofof sportsmansh ip and that the method of

gett i ng them is .

Home die- hards ma y st i l l be found who

snort at t i e elabo rate care taken [ ivthemodern

angler, They profess to see no sense in l ight

tackle and what we cal l sportsman l i ke

methods . They cite i nstances of grea t catches

be ing made wi th any old bi t of gear from a

spear and p i t lamp to a headli ne . Rea lly fl y

fi shi ng and the o ther sk i l led ways of angl ingare comparable to golf . Our some cr it icscould easi ly tel l us we could go round the

eighteen ho les i n a lo t fewer strokes than wedo if we

'

d not bother about fo l lowing the

ru les . It'

s not so hard t o sink a bal l i f you

0 e rove a

By TOM WI LL I E , Gua rd on Roy a l Tra i ns Under Three S overei gns , i n “ Answer s

OYALTIES from al l over the. world

vis i t th is country (England) , and l

have co me into co n tact, wi th pract ical ly everycrowned head of any importa nce during thelast forty- five years .

One of the strangest of a l l those Rova l

visi tors was the Shah of Pers ia ,whose stay

in Bri tai n duri ng the reign of Queen Vit tor iais st i l l r emembered . There were

,of cf u z'sc ,

no motors in those day s , and. as he was very

inquisi ti ve and fond of going to variousplaces

, the Royal trai ns of each trunk l i ne

were much i n request .He was taken to W indso r for a great S tate

banquet gc n on h is beha lf,and expressed

an almost chi ldish curiosi ty concerni ng theengine . Ile wished to know how fast i t

could go,and what would happen i f i t, ran

off the l ine . When he got back to I’crs ia, hedeclared, he, would have a Royal rai lroadand a train of h is own .

I n those days many th imtri eal parties weretaken down as “specials" to W indsor

,as

Queen V i c toria had a great. l ove of the drama .

At many of these. performances, the Prince

of Wales (K ing Edward) was pres en t, andwas brought by Royal train to Lo ndon a fter

the performance .

I have. a c lear recol lect ion of the youngDuke of C larence, Queen A lexandra

'

s oldest

son . On one occasion he and our presentKi ng, dressed i n sa i lor su i ts, accompan iedtheir moth er to Portsmouth . A s a spe cialtreat, the, young princes were al lowed to havea short ri de on the foot-plate. of the eng intYears passed, and Prince G eorge became

Ki ng George . Duri ng the War he travel led

extens ively to vi si t mun ition cen tres,and the,

G . W . Royal train was often out . On one

occasion a journey was made, to the Swindon

rai lway works. When the trai n was ready to

go back to Swindon Town st ation hi s Majestysaid

-

he thought he should l ike to be a dr iverfor once .

Pr i n c ess Ma ry 's H on eym oon Tra i n

I thi nk my most wonderfu l experience wasthe Week I spen t on the Royal tra ins h ther ‘

were two of t hem—that conveycd K ingGeorge to the West, to inspect mun it ionworks and camps whi le the struggle withGermany was at i ts he igh t.The whole journey was made in absolute,

secrecy . As the Ki ng i n tended to sleep on

the train , the Royal sleeper " was borrowed

from the London North Western Rai lway .

But during the day , his Majesty used a smalltrai n of four beaut i ful coaches

,drawn b y an

engine su itable for cl imbing the gradientsround Dartmoor .

At. n ight, the Royal sleeping- car trai n wasput away i n spec ial l y constructA-d secret.sidi ngs . Every n ight for a week a diff erentplace was chosen .

Then , duri ng the day . the l i ttl e t rai n wasbrough t out. and journeys were made tovarious cen tres of waM -ime activi ty

.

One of the. most thri l l ing journeys I evermade in charge of a. Royal train was on June,zl st, 1922 , when the Prince of Wales returnedhome from his Indian tour

.

The whole di stance along the track from

Plym outh to Paddingt on was li ned by cheeri ng people, whi le at the station dense throngshad wai ted for hours . The trai n ran spec ial ly

through Br isto l—not taki ng the avoidi ng

spur li ne

Queen Vi c to ria was the first. crowned ltcad

to set foot i n a trai n , and in her early expert

c imes of the Iron Road trains were inf-hi:2

experimenta l stage . R ight down to the end.

she sti l l cherished the idea that drivers had

a fondness for excessive spead , that locomo

t iyes might. explode,and bridges were. liable

to col lapse .

I t is di ffi cul t to bel ieve that when Queen

Vic tori a fi rst tried the “new- fangled method

of travel”,there was no means of scentifically

heati ng her saloon carriage .Oi l stoves were

tried,but there were. complaints of the odor.

So the ladi es- in- waiting and o ther member?

of the household who made. long journeys-from

W indsor in the winter were often half frozen.

The dista nce from the works to the sta t ion

was exactly one m i le . Queen Mary was a lsoon the footplate, and the lu ng drow stead i ly ,

pu l l i ng up exactlv at the. mark on Swi ndon

Town stati on .

lu ng Edward also had a great fon dness for

eng i nes , and on one occas ion rode on the

footplate of the eng i ne drawing the Ro yaltrai n from Winds or to Bas ings t oke ; bu t , ofcourse this was t hought " very dari ng

,an d

cvervom' was i nstructed to keep a -t ahont

i t .

is inl i nt

than

for t

A

guard of the famous “Honeymodrln

which con veyed Princess Mary on hbrfifidi ng tri p w ith her hmband. Lo rd LgpqfiflWe ran from l’uddington t o

Wolverhampton . It was a veriand them were crowds qveigi

'i‘v

l ine tryi ng to catch a glimpse'

of thc'

fl rfflwfl

and her husband . The saloon in which ling?t ravel led was simply one mass of flow

To- day . the“spe cial precautionar) worldly

ru les” relati ng to Royal trains have lied)?

practica l ly abol ished . It is needless to em

phasi ze that a Royal special is worked withsc rupu lous care

,but that applies to every

trai n .

September. 1926: Vol. X . . No . 3 33 Canadi an Ra i lroader . Montrea l

THE OLD SWIMMIN’

HOLE

H ,the old swimm i n ’

- ho le ! Whare the cri ck so s ti ll and deep

Looked li ke a baby - ri ver tha t was ly i ng ha l f as leep ,And the y u rg le o f the wor ter r ou nd the dr i f t j est be lowSounded l i ke the laugh of someth ing we onc

’

t u sed to know

Before we could r emember any th ing bu t the ey es

O f the ange l s looki n’

ou t as we lef t P a rad is e ;Bu t the m er ry day s of yo uth i s bey ond our controle,

And i t’s hard to p ar t forever wi th the o ld swimm i n

'h ol e.

James Wh i tcomb R i ley .

Ca nadi an Ra i lroader . Mch lrea l

Office worries a re ovrr the hi l ls andfar away , so fa r as this j ol ly crowdi s concerned . Am id the green openspaces 1 nd the lea fy trees of Sa rtinthe members of the CanadianPac i fic Recreation Club concent rnbe

their energ ies upon the task of

determ in ing how much sheer en

j oyment can he crammed into one

country hol iday. This wa s the occa

s ion of thei r p icnic .

HE Canadian Pacific Recreat i on Gluh

of Montreal held a very successful

field day on their groun ds at Serti n,

on Domin ion Day and, judging by the. number

present, thi s occasion is becoming more popu

Iar each year . The clu b,wh ich now em

braces practical ly al l branches of sport, has

achieved to a very large degree the obj ect

for which i t was organ ized,namely

,to

provide recreation for employees of the

company on the Island of Mon treal at a

min imum cost . The summer activit ies in

S ep tember . I926:

c r e a t l o n

el ude basebal l , cricket, footbal l , softbal l and

tennis, wh i le the club house off ers excel lent

faci l i ties for dan cing .

In the fal l and winter seasons the art

nccdlcwm'k, dressmaking, basketba l l , howl

i ng, hockey, dramat ic , l i brary and radio

sections al l func ti on acti vely.

This year’

s field day provi ded the usual

programme of races, tug-o i - war, etc ,

i n

add ition to a tennis tournamen t and basebal l

and sof tbal l matches, whi le in the even i ng a

very enjoya ble dance was held in the club

house where a. good orchestra provided the

music .

Large numbers from the Windsor Street

and downtown offi ces,together with other

employ ees of the company,travel out each

even ing during the summer,and on Satur

days, particularly, the club house and grounds

pre sent a scene of keen activity,showing that

the means provided for recreation are enjoyed

to the, ful l .

Th is husky group const it utes the

Canadian P ac i f ic Recrea tion ClubBaseba l l Team for 1926. Evidentlyadhering to the time-honoredmaxim ,

“All work and no p lay. el f - i m“

lads per iod ica l ly dispel the worri flof business by n strenuous game on

the field.

September , 1926: Vol. X No . 3

HERE'

S NO ROYAL ROAD TOKNOWLEDGE, an d some of ou r

educators be l ieve that,as the road is

,

i t i s sui ted much better for walki ng than for

motoring . In fact, the Counc i l of Adm inistration of the Universty of I l l i no is announ ces

a regulat ion barr ing students from operat ingautomob il es at the State coeducational institut ion, effective September 1 . The Un iversi tyof Illi nois thus fol lows , though i t goes furtherthan the example of Pri nceton , which hasba nned the use or possession of motor - cars

by first-yea r men wh i le in res idence andl imi ts thei r operation by upper classmen .

The Princeton man who uses a car must carry

a spec ial card , and such a card is said to be

hard to get . A letter sen t by the au thori t ies

of the Uni vers ity of I l l i nois to the paren ts ofal l students and prospec t ive students advancesfive reasons for barring the use of automob i les .

To quote from the Wash ington “Post"

,

they are :

1 .

1'

The scholastic stand ing maintai nedby the majori ty of students own ing or

operating au tomobi les has been below the

average scholast ic standing of the un iversi ty .

2 . The own ing of automob i les has involved a constan t and serious waste of

time .

3. There have been numerous accidents

involving considerable damage and ser iousbo d ily in ju ry .

4 . There are constan t violat ions of local

and State laws govern ing motor traffi c,

and a whol ly un necessary and dangero us

conges tion of traffi c in stree ts adjacen t tothe campus .

5. The use of cars has con tri buted to

moral del inquen c ies wh i ch resu lted i n d ismissa l from the un iversi ty .

In discussing these reasons aga inst the useof au tomob iles by students , the New York“Sun” says i t i s l ike ly that those gu i l ty ofmoral del inquency wou ld be gu i l ty of i twhether they had cars or not

,and extrava

gance,i t thi nks

,can be checked ea si ly enough

by the parents . In th e matter of scholarshi p,however

,

“The Sun sees a harmfu l influr-nco

by the automob i le,in that. i t h inders the

progress of those who posses s the lu xury , andthus tends to decrease the effi c ien cy of thestudent body as a whole . Yet i t i s possible ,thinks “

The Sun that,after al l , the thi ng

of which the Un ivers ity of I l l inois compla i nsis on ly a symptom and not the real di seasc .

As “The Sun " sees i t :There can be no dou bt that most Ameri can

col leges and un iversi ties are crowded wi t hstudents who ough t not to be there . The

tremendous i ncrease i n to tal enrolment for

the last seven or eight years has pres ented a

problem of considerable perplexi ty . Entrance

requi rements are cont inua l ly being made

stiffer,but that does not deter new appl ican t s

for admi ssion . New burdens and respons

ibi li t ies have been placed upon the facu lty

35

u c a t i on

and questions of d isc ipl ine natural ly havebecome more co mplex .

“The popu lar American theory is that every

boy or gi rl who wants an educat ion shou ld

have a chance to get i t. The troub le with

th i s hypoth es is is that i t h as been stretchedto i nclude al l boys and girls who thi nk theywan t education—o r whose parents th ink theywan t i t for them- many of whom rea l ly wantnoth i ng of the kind . I t i s fashionable nowa

days to go to co l lege or to send one 's chi ldrento col lege . But goi ng to col lege and gett ing a

degree may be one thi ng when gett i ng an

educat ion is something ent i rely diff erent .

“

If i t cou ld be done i t might be wel l torequ ire al l s tudents to prove their zeal byimposi ng upon them certa in sacr ifices

,begin

n i ng with the luxur ies. The col lege ought not.to be a place of amusement bu t a place of

labor . The poor lad or weak ly gi rl who cannot manage to stagger under a load of books

for the hal f m ile or so between home andc lassroom , but needs must be transported in

an ex'pens ively upholstered mo to r- car shou ldbe in a san itarium , not in a un iversity .

Al itt le more walk ing and a l itt le less motor ingwould proba bly do most students good , Asfor pleasure ou tsi de work i ng hours, what

about a l i t tle wholesome tenn is or gol f,base

bal l , foo tbal l , basketba l l or a good musc lebu i ldi ng, blood- freshen ing tramp into thecoun try ?”

But the Maco n Dai ly Telegraph

thi nks that the prohi bit ion o fau tomob i lcswould serve on ly to provoke students to

rebel l ion and that i t “were much better i f

these I l l i noisan s would deny the c ar on ly tothose p roving themselves incompeten t tooperate one, or to those who permitted theprivi lege seri ous ly to impai r thei r col legiate

standing .

SONNET

I ’ere du doux repos, Somme i l , perc du songe

ccp , of dreams the si re,bt

'

s vast shadow hat-h

A humid shroud for air serene and dead ,Come

,fi l l m ine eyes, 0 S lccp that I desi re !

Thy t oo- long absence from my weary eyesRenders more sharp the pain I must endure.

Come w ith thy lu l li ng touch , 0 S leep , and h i reMy pain away by thine assuaging l ies .

A l ready S i l ence through the darken ing n ight.Loads hosts of wavi ng phantoms on the wind :

I on ly am unworthy in thy sight !

Come, Sloop desi red , my brow l ike thei rs to

bind ,For I have set a feast for thy del ightOf n igh t shade

,wi th thy poppies al l en twined .

—Pon tus de Tyard(Translated by Wm . A . Drake . )

Canadi a n Ra i'lroader , Montrea l

Last ly , these o ld hands at the game of

hunt ing turn their attention to the dogs .

The st i l lness is almost oppressi ve,the sleepy

song of b irds comes as loud as a brass bandto ci ty cars , and the bright ly colored woodshold ou t. thei r i nsistent i nvita tion . The

dogs,chained in the to nneau, have thei r

noses pushed as far out as they can reach in

the ir mad endeavor to wriggle thei r bodi esou t on the ground

,so wildly do they dash

around in thei r exc i temen t .

The Jo y s o f Hu n ting w i ththe "

Ha o u nd D aw g

AY, where

'

d you put my hunt-i ng

boots is the anxious inquiry i nmany a wel l - regu lated rural household,accord ing to a wri ter who discourses wi threl ish on the old- fashioned joy s of pot

hun ting . And he pictures the tumult thatensues as closets and att ics are ransacked

for the sweater and the o ld gray shirt,whi le

“ last year ‘

s red- fl annel underwear is cut

apart. to clean a gun ,

” Conti nu ing i n theRoches ter “Herald

"

, the wr iter reminds us :O ld- timers, of course, not wrapped up

in the dai ly routi ne of the business world,

have qu ietly watched the passing of theweeks , knowing fu l l well what was coming .

The ir plans have been under way for amonth or more . Not theirs the hurriedlast-minute preparations that fai l to givefu ll dign ity to their choi ce of sp orts, nowat last almost to be enjoyed .

On the fi rst moming that there is a smel lof frost i n the early au tumn air

,and there is

a ti nge of red in the leaves of the red

maple trees, the o ld- t imers unease thei r

guns and prepare to give them a thoroughoverhaul ing . A whole even ing must be

given to the process , with ta les of oldhunting days, recal led by the sight of theold gun , once again narrated , as the workgoes on . Then there must be carefu l

count of the left-o ver she l ls reposing i n thebotto m of the case , and much serious

thought and considerat ion given to themomentous question of whether the brandof she l ls be changed or the old sort usedfor another season .

Then just as the first rays are coloringthe sky

,c learing as i f by magic the fog—hung

woods, the dogs are al lowed to run , gett ingfresh scents before the, sun has time to

dry them .

Who can ever forget,says one hunter

to whom the first day of the seaso n is ofmore importance, says his w ife , than is h iswedding ann iversary ,

“ the joy of that fi rst

morn ing when the hustle and bust le of

town is left behind , when the irri ta tion ofincessan t noises can be forgotten in the

wonder of the sunrise ? "

So these glorious . golden days meanmuch to those who are hunters born . From

sunrise to sunset , through the co ld morning and the noont i inc heat , they follow

after the dogs , never seeming to grow

weary .

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Canadia n Ra i lroader . Monlrea l 36ep em er 01 X " No. 3

SHE D ANCES TO THE WATERFALLHE wond er fu l sett i ng of the li tt l e wa ter fall , known a s the G iant

’s S teps , Parad i s e Val l ey , near Lake [font

appa r ent ly ins pi r ed thi s na ture -da n c er wi th the sp ir i t o f l i fe , and wi th the song of thewa ter and the sof t Whi stlin

gof the bi rdp li fe abound ing in the woods around . S he was photogra ph ed whil e da nci ng to the mus i c of h"

Mis s Bozlee i s fr om Portland , Or egon, where she i s a p upi l of D eni s hawn . S he i s spend i ng a few weeks at the

Canad ia n Pac i f i c Ra i lway hotel, the Cha teau Lake Lou i se, fr om wh er e ear ly every mor ni ng she saddles a POW

and r i des to these fa l ls wh er e she can dance undis tur bed , w i th on ly the blu e sky and the mu lti - colored bi rds to see he?

and marvel a t the rhy thm of her movements.

September . 1926: Vol . X . , No. 337

Canadi an Ra t/reader. Montrea l

s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s sss s sss s s s s sssss s s s

By WILLIAM WATSON

land tha t l ies Eas twa rd the land tha t l ies West,

Nor th , the S ou th land, wh ich lovest thou best ?

ea s twa rd, to westwa rd

, to sou thwa rd I st ray ,

the Nor th has my hea r t at the end of the way

L ike a pea r l is the Eas t when the morn is begun

the West is a rose at the se t of the sun

w insome the S ou th is and go lden a ll dayBu t the No r th has my hea r t a t the end of the way

East has her st reams , and the West her wh i te

foam

the S ou th her bland we lcome to Spr ing t r ipp inghome

Bu t the Nor th has her moun ta ins, and clea rest are

they ,

"

the No r th has my hea r t at the end of the way

fi fi fi fi fitg fitsfizfit fl fi fi fitfitfitfitfitfi fitfi fitfi fitfi fi fi fi fl sfifi fi fi fi fi Si tfi gtfifi

s t e

39Ca nadi a n Ra f/reader . Mau lf aul

he Trans- Canada of ( 0 -da y

The fi rst t ranscontinenta l tra in in I886.

f i rst Tra nsce lebrated byIt was the

28th of June , 1 886, when the tra in pu l led out ofD a lhous ie Square , Montrea l , on i ts long p i lg r image of m i les ac ross the D om inion. Therewere Peop le present who were very pess imist i c ,but today they are proud of tha t memorab le dayi n June—for it marked the per iod when the var ious provinces of Br i t ish North Amer ica werebou nd together by a mater ia l bond.

At e i ght o’c lock on that day , passe ngers f i l ledWi th the exc i tement of the g reat adventu re boarded the t ra in, wh ich was composed of an e ng ineand ten cars , inc l ud ing two baggage cars , a ma i lcar, two f irst c lass coach es , two imm ig rant s leepers ,the sleepers “

Yokohama”and

“Honol u l u and the

dining car Holy rood.

"

As the news spread that the f i rst transcont inental tra i n was on i ts way , l itt le sett lements of

hardy p ioneers and I nd ia ns in all the i r grandeu r ,tu r ned out to watch the

“Wh i te man'

s f ire waggon

"

speed a long i ts new ly - la id sh ining“ r ight of

way .

The old locomot ive wh i ch pu l led the f i rst Atla n t ic Express into Port Moody . now Vancouver ,looks qua i n t to modern eyes . It bu r ned cordwood,

and w ith i ts b i g smokestack and generous disp layof pol ished brasswork, wh ich shone l ike gold, i ts

array of f lags and f lora l decorat ions i t made an

impos ing spec tac le . The eng ineer of the tra i n was“Bo

‘

b Mee"

, one of the b est known rai lroad men

of tha t t ime , and he pu l led into Port Moody , BC,

sharp on t ime , s ix da y s a fter it le f t Mon treal.Today we trave l across to Vancouver in 89

hou rs , w i th all the comfort and modern conveni

emees of th is age and conf ident of arr iving on t ime .

Ca nadi a n Ra i lroader .Montrea l 40

F i en S

D odging D i s a s te r o n The Ra c ing Tra ck

By CLAR E NCE W INCH E S TE R . i n Ti t—B i ts

F al l the thril ls that fa ll to the lot ofadvent urous man

,the greatest I know

is that of being hurtled round the

world- famous t rack a t B rooklands, England ,at a speed that makes an express train seemslow .

Easter marked the open ing of the autorac ing season

,and c ure again the pace fiends

compete with each other for the honor of

creat ing new records .

These men are not fools . They are the

world 's best drivers , and though you wi l lfind them touch ing a hundred and forty ormore miles an hour on the t rack

,they know

when to go slowly on tne publ ic highway .

A l l the same,they are bi tten wi th the speed

man ia , which is why thousands of spectatorsattend every meet ing and “

pu t a l itt le on"

with the oookmakers who flock to the eoum ‘.

Brooklands,indeed , i s the motoring Ascot

except that the prizes are sma ll , the compet i to rs racing ma in ly for the love of thegame .

It has been said toat dea tn is the ir peacemaker and that the spec tre of tragedy fl iesalongside t i zcm as th ey tear breathlessly roundthe two miles yards of concrete . Thereis no comparison between flying and motorracing, the latter sport providing more thril lsand risks in one mile than flying does in ahundred . I ncredible as this may seem

,any

man who has tried bo th sport s wi ll co nfi rmwhat I say .

Imagi ne what might be the appa lli ng consequences of a mechan ical breakage at a speedof over a hundred mi les an hour. I haveseen cars turn turt le and sli ther down thesteeply- banked track to the immi nent peri lof others following in thei r wake . And Ihave seen drivers wi th amaz ing ski l l avoidcrashing into the wreckage by a mere ha ir 'sbreadth . Cars, too ,

have somet imes thunderedover the top of the banking—and the everpresent risk of fi re has given many a driveran uncomfortable t ime when the flames havegot the upper hand .

M ad S peedCome wi th me on an imag inary trip round

this h ighway of lurki ng death . We begin atthe equival ent to the “start ing post

,

" namely,

the pneumat ic tube that is stretched acrossthe track and wh ich conceals the electri t

wir ing ut il ized for t iming the machines . Ourcar leaps away , climbing h igher and higherup the banki ng with every lap . The maximumhei ght of thi s banking is over 28 ft . , and ifwe take our turns at the co rrect speed al lfour wheels of our car will be pressing hardon the concrete in Spite of the fac t that weshal l be lying over at an acute angle

.

The trees and the telegraph poles at theside of the track flash by at a terrific pace

.

Tongues of fir e leap from our exhau st pipes ;the engine roars health ily , and occas ionallywe fa il to hold the track properly , skiddi ngand slipping downwards

,and a second late r

regain ing our posi t ion . For lap after lap theconcre te ribbon unwinds i tsel f. If we moveour head beyond the l imi t of the. pro te ct ionafforded bv the bonne t of the car the windpressure smacks us violent ly in the face andwe soon know all about i t . And there is thefee l ing that , any moment , something maybreak ! I f i t does

But , after many laps, we return to ourfri ends, and though they co ngratulate uhear nothing , for we are temporari ly deaffrom the roar of the engine .

When record breaking is attempted thet ime is recorded bv the ear itself . At certa inpo ints round the t rack then are sent ry - boxeswhich mark off a defin i te measurement of thecourse . These are. al l connected by te lephoneand are in the electri c c ircu i t of the ma int im ing box. For shor t records—the ki lometre

, mile, or any thing up to five milesinfiatc d rubber tubes are stretched ac rossthe hundred feet wid th of track .

When a car or motor- cycle passes overthem , thus pinching ou t the a ir , an electriccircui t is completed

,and the instant of

passage is regi stered on a del icate instrumentin the t imi ng box. The t ime occupied inpassi ng between any two strips is thereforere corded automat i callv, and the speed islater worked out on a special calculat ingmachine . As every second—indeed, everyfrac t ion of a second—is of moment, suchsc ient ific methods are essent ial to accuracy .

Th ree M i l es 3 M inu te

Cars that will travel at nearly three milesa minu te wil l be seen at the BrooklandsAu tomobile Ra c ing Club th is year . Mos tof the drivers keep in train ing before a bigrace . S ome entrants pilo t thei r own cars;o thers engage profes sional drivers

,whose

job i t is to try to win races . They are iealIvthe jockevs of the motor world .

The lateCount L. Z borowski , a weal thy Russian , kepta complete “stable of racing automobiles ;but, in the end, he found death h is peacemaker . His

" Chitty-Chit ty- Bang- Bang " willlong be remembered as one of the fas testcars of i ts t ime .

fi nal ly , motor—racing is a rich man 's hobbywith financial rewards ridiculously small incompari so n wi th those offered to keepers ofracehorses .

One of th e f i r s t attempts at locomo t i veheadl i ghts was the pu sh ing ahead of th eeng ine a car on wh ich a f i re was b u i lt.

September . 1926: Vol. X No. 3

STR INGLES S BEANS

Few know tha t the man who took thest ring out of st ring beans was Calvin N.

Keeney , of LeRoy , N.Y. Mr. Keeney Wentthrough the bean patch and picked out thebeans tha t Were minus th e strings. Whenever he found one he would save the beans[or seed

,repea t ing this year after year, and

eventual ly obta in ing a supply of 89mm "

stringless beans.

Hu ge Ra il Contrac tsProgramme of British Ra i lway Company

N o fewer than 400 new locomotivesand goods wagons are included int h e scheme of renewals andi mpr ovemen ts wh i ch has been authorizedby th e board of the Mid land and Scottis hRa i lway . Fu rther orders for passenger.

tra in stoc k , etc ., ar e in contemplation,

The work w i ll g ive employment to manvtrade s a l l over the country

. Locomotivesand wa gon con st ruc t ion w i l l involve anexpend i tu r e of n ea r ly Thisw i l l be carr i ed ou t pa rt ly in the company

'

s own workshops, but the greater

part of i t w i ll be undertaken by numerou s pr i vat e f ir ms . The order fornew wagons w i l l be of interest to trader s and manufac tu rers

, who have been

comp la in ing o f the delay of goods in

t ran s i t ow ing to the shortage of roll ing

s tock . Mess rs . Beyer,Pea cock Co , of

Gor ton , Manches ter , have secured an

orde r f or th r ee eng ines of the Garratt

type . These enormous locomotives , witha hau l i ng power of tons and capab le o f express passenger speeds

, are

p r ima r i ly in tended for work ing fast coa lt r a f f i c . They wei gh more than 140 tonseach , and w i l l have no fewer than 16whee l s , w i th tender s both f ront and rear

,

Thr ee n ew s teamers for the Irish

c ros s - Chann e l s er vice , and a large number of coaches for the London suburban

e l ec t r ic servi c e a re to be bu i lt . Victoriaand Ex chan ge stat i ons , Manchester, areto be r econst ruct ed and converted intoone va s t sta t ion , w i th the longest platf orm in t h e w or ld . I t wi l l be feet

in leng th , and w i l l be able to accommo

da te three tra ins at once. Importanten g in ee r in g wor ks to be car r i ed throughby the L.M.S . inc lude four schemes forw iden in g the ma in l ine near leeds,Cr ewe

,B irmin gham , and Belper . All

th e departmen ts in Crewe ra i lway worksw i l l go on f u l l t i me at once. More than

ra i l waymen are aff ec ted . They

have been work in g short t ime sinceWh it sun t ide . Ei ghty new eng ines are tobe bu i lt , and th er e is suf f ic i ent work towa r r an t the con t i nuance of full t ime fora lon g per iod .

September , 1926: Vol. X . , No. 3

a cost of the new extenthe Tra ining F arm , Goudh u rst , Kent ,

Eng land, of Mr . F egan‘

s Homes was opened re

cently , by S i r Georg e McLaren Brown , E uropea nGenera l Manager , Canadian Pac i fi c Ra i lway . Th i s

farm of 367 acres w i l l now be ab le to hous e and

tra i n 150 orp’

h an and des t i tu te lads over 1 4 yearOf age for em ig rat ion to Canada , or farm work at

home . S ince 1884 , when the f irst party of lads we n tto Ca nada some F egan boy s have been sett ledthere , the maj or ity of whom are doing we l l .

.

S l I‘

George , who pres ided,in h i s address , pa id a h igh

tr ibu te to the l if e work of the late Mr . J . W. C.

F egan, the founder of the Homes , and speeches werede l ivered by the Revd. J. Cha lmers Lyon, Tr ini ty

4 lCanadi an Ra i lroader , Montrea l

New extension to Mr . Fegan ’

a Homes a t

Goudh ursvt , Kent, opened by S i r George Mc

La ren Brown , E uropean Genera l Manager ,Canadlan P ac i fic Ra i lway .

Fa rm s

S i r George McLa ren Brown i nserting key thatopened new extension. Mrs . Ma ry Fag i n and

Gi tbent Menti on. s rdsi iect , who una ided

opening.

P resby ter ia n Ch urch ,Hampstead ; Mr . D . C. Ap

per l y, Hon. Treasurer of the Homes , and others .

Mr . Fegan’

s Homes were founded i n 1 870 and

i t was in 1 884 he took a few boys to Ma n itoba ,

follow ing them in the same year w i th a party of

50 . S ince then, up to the ou tbreak of war , some10 boys went out every y ear to Canada , and s i n ceth en a cont inua l stream of boys has gone out to

the D istr i b u t ing Home they ma inta i n near To

ronto.

A large party of f r iends and supporte rs of the

Homes came down f rom Lo ndon and e lsewhereto be presen t at the ceremony , and were rece ivedby Mrs .

F ega n , and a fter the ope n ing ceremon y , in

spected the bu i lding .

Ca nadi a n Ra i lroadcr . Monlrca l

F the old - fash ioned w ife wa s ra th ertoo much inc l ined to look upon expectant motherh ood a s a sem i - in

va li di sh per i od , when you wor e tea

gown s and kept you r f eet u p , the n ew

f as h i on ed w i f e i s perhaps rath er p r one

to r u sh to the oppos i te ex t r eme by dec id i ng that she

’s going to ca r ry on exact ly th e same as u sua l .

”

I remember that before my f i r st babywas born , I rew lved I wou ld take lo ts

and lot s of exerc i se , say s a mother of

thr ee ch i ldr en . I wa s l i v i n g in the

coun try f or th e f i r s t t i me , and I th ough tpl en ty of wa lk s in th e swee t , f r es h a i rwou ld be a t r emendou s he lp to u s both .

But I was s u rpr i sed to f i nd that a f ter

the f i r st month—ye s , a s ea r ly a s thatI began to be very eas i ly t ir ed .

I f ought a ga i ns t i t—a s i l ly th i n g to

do But i t s eemed such ea r l y days '

to

g ive in”!

Wel l , noth in g dr eadf u l happ ened to

me or to the baby , as i t happened ,ex

cept tha t i t wa s a fa r s mal l er and“nau gh t i er baby than the two I have

had s ince . But I u sed to get te r r ib ly

depres sed and r est le ss , and I under stand

now why that wa s . Over - t i r edn ess of

any k ind sets u p “f a ti g ue po iso ns” in

t he b lood , and as i t was t h rou gh my

b lood tha t Baby wa s a t that t i me be in gfed, you can imag in e he wa sn

’t g ett i n g

exactl y f i r st - c la ss mea l s .

Natu r e Knows Bes t

I do th i nk tha t a g r ea t many of the

tr oubl e s w e hear o f among st qu i tehealthy youn g w ive s nowadays ar e dueto th e f act tha t they overdo th i n g s du r

i n g those f i rst few mont hs when you

look j ust your ord inary se l f bu t a rr ea l ly noth in g of the k ind . When you

get t i red , st op . Na ture knows best whatyou wan t .

I t’s a f un ny t h in g , but l at e r on , you

gener a l ly don ’t get t ir ed nea r l y so eas i ly

[in th e:

I HAVE a garden whi ch I tend ,Where flowers of ki ndness grow .

The l i ly of al l lovi ng deeds,

And sweet thoughts al l arow .

The rose of home a fl'

ect ion’

s there,

Red, for the cheeri ng smi le ,Wh i te for the l i tt le helpfu l deeds

Whi ch lonely hours begui le .

S eptember. 1926: Vol. X .No. 3

t .

Peop l e u sed to say to me, “You ’ve got

to eat for two now, you know .

”That

'

s

rath er a m i s - l eading not ion . A fullydeve loped new - born ba-by ’s stomach holds

ab ou t as much food as a hen's egg—saytwo fu l l tab le sp oonfu l s of mother's mi lk.

( Conc l uded on nex t p age)

The Ga rden ofMy Hea r t

I love to grow the flowers of joyBecause thei r perfume

'

s sweet ;

They bloom upon the sunny side

Oi my dear garden seat.

But. ah,the garden of my heart

Needs tending every day ,Because

,i f I neglect i t, all

Its sweet flowers fade away .

a s you d id a few mon th s a go . You f ee l

b r i gh ter, j ol l ier , and a l to gether more

ener g et i c .

A nd , of cou r s e, you d igest you r f oodfar bet ter . Ju st a t f i r st you ve r y p roba b ly loa th e the s ig ht of f ood . You e ither

a r e s i ck , or f ee l s i ck—un less you a r

on e of the ve ry l ucky peopl e who ar e

the i r normal s el ves the wh ol e t i me . I f

you ar en ’t , don’t wor r y , or f ancy your

se l f del i cat e . You know how the com

i n g of a baby “upse ts the whol e hou se—wel l , can ’ t you rea l i ze that t he l it t l enew l i f e “up sets the who l e hou se” o f

you r body un t i l i t get s u sed to th in g s ?

Tha t s i cknes s , that nau sea , tha t depres

s ion wh i ch even the mest baby - l ov i n g

of women know , i s j ust your anatomy“ set t l in g down” to the d isturbing elemen t .

I f any of th ese tr oubles become extremely bad, or go on a f te r the fourth

mon th ( gener a l ly they end sooner ) you

shou ld con su l t your doct or . But, in a

no r ma l ca se , don’t worry i f you can’t

ea t much—or keep much down —just atf i r st

September . 1926: Vol. X No. 3

Be D i ffe ren t

d to hcwa i l

happen to115 a pretty

face, remember this : A l l pretty women cannot be in teresting . Indeed

,many of the most

exquisi tely beautifu l women i n the Worldtl

‘C, and have been , in tensely i nsipid ! says

Marie Tempest, the famous actress .

Why was te our envy on the woman whois merely pretty—and probably deadly dul lwhen a

'

woman who i s in teres ti ng, vital ,“differen t,

” can ou tsh ine al l the pretty ones,

any day or n igh t of the week !Why be afraid to he diff eren t ?Most women are , I find . They seem to

have a sort of “herd ins t inc t,strongly

developed ; they simply hate to he “d ifferent. If “they” are said to be wearing

narrow- brimmed hats, tight sleeves, l argetigured si lks , boleros, etc . ,

women wi l l gailyarray themselves i n just those garments

,

whether they are becom ing or not !

DON ’

T TH INK YOURSELF ANINVA LID

Continued from previo us pageSo I th ink i f we ea t tw i ce a s much as

our usua l , Baby w i ll be somewhat over

fed , don't you ?

No , j ust ea t wha t you can manag e a tf i rst, and see tha t i t

’s nou r ish ing a s fa ra s i t goes—and th en l a ter on

, i f you f ee l

that incr ea sed appet i te some women

notice, by a l l mean s indu l g e i t in'

mod

crati on—o n ly don ’t tak e a l ot of l iqu idw i th your mea l s , or go in for hot s oupsand r ich mea t and f r ied d i shes and thenwonder why you ’r e very unhappy w i th

f latu lence and wate r b ra sh !“Li ttl e and of ten” i s p r obably a good

ru le in thos e la st few mont hs , heavy

meal s a re bound to make you uncomf ort

able.Bes ide s p r uden t d iet and mode ra te

regula r exer c i s e, you wan t p len ty o f

sleep .

Have you r supper ea r l y , qu i te two

hour s befor e your bed - t i me , and be a l l

tucked up by ten . Tha t m i ser abl e “ can ’t

keep st i l l fee li n g i s o f ten due to la ckof s leep . Perhaps , towards th e end , you

won ’t be ab l e to s l eep ve ry we l l . Nevermind , r e l ax you r body and m i nd, say toyou rse l f that you a r e hav in g a good res tanyway , and tuck a l itt l e p i i low or

cush ion under the s ide you a re l y ing on

if you don ’t s eem able to g et comf or table , I

’ve tr i ed th i s over and over a ga in ,and it does make a d i ff er ence— i t ’s sucha suppor t, and takes away that dra g

.

g ing f ee l ing .

Onc e a ga in,DON'

T WORRY . You’

r e

not go ing to have a su r g i ca l op er at i on ,

you ’

r e go ing th rough a per fec t l y na

tura l proce s s of Natu r e that i s as nor

ma l as ea t i n g or br eath i n g , and tha t

has wa i t in g a t th e end of i t a perfect i ylovely r eward .

43

In th is wholesale c lo thes contes t the pret tvg i rls of the World come off hos t

,invariably.

The plai n ones , or those who are less pretty,

i f you prefer i t so expressed,become sub

merged, because there i s nothing dist i nc ti ve

ab ou t. them . Thei r clo thes and hats do notsu i t them ; so thei r general appearance i snegl igible .

And thus the. plai n girl goes under,since s lu

lacks the pretty featu res and sparkl ing eyesthat draw momentary attention

,at least

,

to the good- looking girl,however unbecom

i ngly she may he dressed .

S t r i k e a Note o f You r Ow n

Bu t di rec tly the lcss- good- looking g i r lstri kes a note of her own—she takes her

place triumphantly in society as somebody.

She counts ; not because she i s beaut ifu l,

but. because she has the pluck to be “di ff er

en t, and to emphasi ze her parti cu lar formof “d iff erence " to her own advantage

.

Don’

t be afraid to be di ff eren t . Don ’ tbe afraid to str ike out a l i ne of your own.

Find your defects,“and proceed to make

capi tal ou t of them , instead of permi tt i ngthem to work ult imate ru in for you

.

I f you happen to own a long neck,don

'

t

t ry to hide i t i n a high,choking col lar

,wh ich

makes people wonder immediately why yousuoh m i les of material round vour

t hroat . Dress “for” i t, not against i t .\Vca 1

‘

This appl ies to the over - tal l gi rl,too ; i f

she is wise she wi l l make the most, of her

heigh t, instead of t ry i ng to minimize i t .Learn the value of restrai n t, both in dress

and speech .

Cul tivate a color - sense,for it is use less to

deny the immense importance of clothes i n

every woman ’s l i fe .

I f your ty pe is pert and wi tty , choose

c lothes and colors that accentuate these

points,in a charming but not too i nsisten t

manner .I f you happen to be a pic turesque girl , do

every th ing i n your power to l ive up to yourquain t pic turesqueness. Avoid hard tai lor

mades ; put as ide French heels and Paris hats .

Go back to the softer , more feminine sty les

of the England of a hundred years ago, andstart a vogue of your own. Make yourselfremarkable by being different—but be

modest about i t al l the time .

Dress to be interesting , and forget that

you haven ’ t a regular feature in your face .

Don ’t stay sixteen too long where yourwardrobe i s concerned ; but don

'

t bound for

ward to sixty too rapidly . So many peopledo one or the other ; just look round at your

fr iends and see if th is i s not the case . The

ages i n between are fu l l of good points, on ly

we are i nc li ned to overlook them .

To create and fol low a “differen t sty le ofdress i ng need not be expensive , i f c lothes arechosen wi th care

,and i f their wearer backs

them up by her own marked simpl ic i ty of

manner and dist inct personal i ty .

Overdressi ng smothers and stifles pe r

sonali ty ; clever dressing improves i t . Re

member that one real ly good, wel l - chosendress is worth half - a- dozen mediocre gowns .

Canadi an Ra i lroadcr. Montrea l

BAKED APPLE PUDDINGIngrml ients : Onc pound of apples ; half a

pound of flour; two ounces of bu tter; fou r

ounces of sugar; one teaspoonfu l of baking

p owder; quarter of a pin t of mi lk; one. egg ;sal t . Stew the apples wi th half the sugar

un ti l they are a soft pulp . Spread them i nthe bottom of a piedish

.

Mix together the flour,baking powder

,

sugar and a. pinch of sa l t . Rub i n the. bu tter.

Add the egg and mi lk beaten to gether and

mix well . Turn th is on to the cooled apples

and bake for forty minu tes in a good even.

S ift white sugar over and s erve cold .

UTILIZ ING VEGETABLES

A new rec ipe for uti l i z ing any co ldvegetables can be used for th is—p otatoesand peas a re a very good combinat ion

,bu t

carrots, turnips, caul iflower and spinach mayall he used if avai lable .

Rub them al l through a rather c oarse

w ire si eve and , to a pi nt of this puree,add

ha l f a p in t of whi te sauce,two ounces of

l iquid butter , one tablesmonful of tomato

catsup, and a good season ing of sa l t and

pepper . When thorough ly mixed,turn into

a buttered mou ld and steam for half an hour .Two we l l beaten eggs may he used in placeof white sauce

,i f more conven ien t .

Cut sl ices of cold beef into nea t fi l lets .

Season with sa l t and pepper and just brownthem in a pan wi th a l ittle bu tter . Turn

out the mould , place the fi ll ets round andserve wi th brown gravy .

LEMON WATER ICE

R equi red : One pound of lump sugar ; onequart of boi l ing water ; three or more lemons;four whi tes of eggs . Pu t the sugar andwate r on the fi re and bo i l them to a syrup ;skim wel l and boi l un ti l i t wi l l form a g oodthread between your fi nger and thumb . Let

i t get cold .

Rub three lumps of sugar on the rindsof the lemons to obtai n the “ zest. Then

add them to the syrup . When i t is coldadd half a pin t of strai ned lemon - juice

,and

half- freeze i t . Then add the sti ffly -whipped

whi tes of eggs, beat them well i n and con

t inue the freezi ng .

canal/ i an Ra i lroadcr. Montrea l

Fo

l

HEN I see husbands andtogether in publ i c I often wonderto myself

,

“Are they together be

cause they love each other, or hate each

other ?" because so often women say to me

He never takes me out un less I make h i m,

and oftener st i ll both men and Women tel lrue that they can

‘

t bear the other to go out

alone to dances or theatres or anyth i ng , says

Le onora Eyles . When I look around on

people and th i nk how this world of ours

Wo l l ltl sing and sh ine i f peo ple had free m indsand free souls

,1 could weep . So much

beau ty of spi rit so much kindness, a l l chained

i n b y j ealous\' and a sp ir it of p ossession tha t

makes an out i ng and a pleasure into apenance .

t i n g’

wive s

On ly this week I have had two long argulnenl s with women who came to me ready

to smash up their homes because thei r menlolk had taken another girl out . On on eoccasion the man and the young gi rl , both

very keen on po li t i cs , had sold programmes

a t a concert and , after the sel l ing was over,had sa t on the balcony steps l isten i ng to the

musi c.They sa t together on the same step .

The wife was so wi ld that she came asking

my advice as to whether to break up the.

home or not . “He‘

s always off to meetings,she said

,

“and I st ick at home .

In the end I got her to see that i t was her

sti cking at home” that was drivi ng her

man away from her . It wasn'

t easy to make

her see i t . I t wasn’

t easy to make her see

that y ou can't nag a man into bei ng i n love

with you . I would advise any woman who

has got i n to the stale time of marriage

after four or five years—i f she real ly lovesher man and wants to keep him to her , to

in terest hersel f in h is in terests; i f he i si nterested i n poli t ics , go with h im to meeti ngsand educate yourse lf ; i f he is i n a choi r, be

i nterested in his music . But be sure to do

somethi ng that wi l l bri ng comradesh i p to

take the place of passion . And remember

this—the. way to keep him true to you isby making him love you so much that he.

prefers to be with you to bei ng wi th any b odv

e lse .

If you scold him he wi l l go out of the

house to some other woman for sympathy .

Take S t oc k of You rsel f

When a wife sees her man gett i ng away

from her and the home , she shou ld take

stock of herself and find out why . Is she.

dul l Is she bo ring? Has she let domest ic

aff ai rs obsess her ? Above al l , has she le t

hers elf get jealous

That is a t the root of most marri age

problems and courtsh ip problems , to o . So

many people seem to think that an engage

men t ri ng or a wedding ring i s a symbol of

bondage and slavery , ty i ng two people

together so that they sha ll not talk to or

asso c iate with a member of the opposi te s ex

at al l .That may be al l very wel l when you are

a t the white- heat stage of love ; you wan t

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Hin ts fo r the Hou s ew ife

Ironmould S ta i ns

NMOULD s ta ins in c l othes canr emoved w i th Jave l l e wa ter ,

urchased f rom an y

dru g stor e , or g roce r’ s. Anot her method

i s to cover th e spot w i th sa l t , and thensqu eez e a few drops o f l emon j u i c e ove rthe sal t . Leave for ha l f an hou r , andthen wash in c l ean water .

Ivory - Bac k ed A r t i c l es

A paste of sawdust,water

, and lemon

ju ice is best for c lean ing ivo ry- backed toi let

art ic les . The past e. should be spread cVenly

over the surface, and then al lowed to dry on .

When i t i s perfec tly dry , i t shou ld he removed

with a sof t brush,and the ivory po l i shed

fi nal ly wi th a clean charnoi s leather .

To Clea n Fel t Ha ts

A whi te. beaver or fel t hat whi ch has

become too so i l ed for use can be easi ly c leaned

by means of powdered ca lc i ned magnesia .

The powder should be made i n to a paste

with a l i tt le co ld water and brushed well

over the ha t. When perfec tly dry,wel l

bmsh wi th a clean brush .

September . 1926: Vol. X. .No. 3

Pers pi ra t i on Sta i ns

I’ersp im t ion stains can quickly be removedby was h ing the goods in warm water, soapand a l itt l e l i o i 'a led Ammonia

.

C l ean ing Stoves

The bl a ck par ts of stoves should bepa in t ed w ith enamel , and then the labor ious work of blackleading does nothave to be done .

Be for e r e lacquer ing , the old lacquermu st be r emoved ; th is is bes t done bymean s o f met hy la ted spi r i t—and thenwa sh in g in very hot water .

D am p S ta i n s on Lin en

I f damp sta ins are observed in any linen

a rt i c l e which has been put away for any

length of t ime,these shou ld be rubbed wi th

fi nely - powdered cha lk , each spot beingseparately treated

,and the chalk bei ng

al lowed to remain on un ti l the material hasdried

.The l inen shou ld then be washed in

the usual way i n a lather made of warmwater and yel low soap .

Sa fe ty l n S i l enc e

Mann ishly- dressed Lady— “ D i d you catch

my fi sh , l itt le boyCount ry Boy—

“No .

M. D . L.

—“No what ?

l i cy (gazi ng dubiously at her rig)—“Dum

ed if I know .

—“Boston Transcript .

How dar e you embrace and ki ss my

daugh ter !‘l I

‘

I

’YI

She has to ld meYes .Don

’

t deny i t !

so hers el f !I t

'

s a lie ! Besides, she prom i sed not to

t el l !" —“ Buen Humor , Madrid .

"

“That wait er looked at you as i f you hadn‘

t

pa id!“ And I l ooked at him as i f I had !

"

Mele,Paris .

”

Pele

6 8 1 0 11 5 37

to In: with each other a l l the. t ime . And

whi le y ou wan t to i t. wi l l Work . l ’eople fi rst

i n love have eyes for no others but them

selves and each other . Later , when the flame

has died down , usua l ly on one s ide before

the other , them i s an attempt. made to c rea tt

And that is where fai lu re begins.

Lo ve is the most del i cat e th ing on earth .

If you impri son i t, i t wi l l pi ne and di e. I f

y ou try to compel pe ople to any course of

aet ion,the spi ri t of freedom i nst inc t i n every

human being wi l l make them resist . I t. wi l l

make them hate the one who compels .

bonds .

l would say to wi ves who are upset because

thei r husbands go ou t wi thout them , or

be cause they have fri endships with other

Women,

" Make yourself eveiy th ing to h im ,

then he wi l l not he so l i kely to go after

others .

" But at the same t ime I agree most

si ncerely wi th fr iendshi p between people ofopposi te sexes.

Where people a re free , where t hey a re not

i rritated by carpi ng c rit i c ism and unkind

new and an attempt to enslave , you usua l ly

fi nd that thev do not do horrid th i ngs ;there is a great att racti on about doing th '

forbidden . The minute the forbidden ceases

to he fo l-hidden , the m inute a jealous man or

woman makes an cfiort of wi l l and ceases to

be j ealous , the cause for jealousy di sappears,except i n very rar e cases . T rv i t and see .

C l ean ing Brass

The bra ss f ound on bedsteads andothe r s im i la r moun t ings is usua l ly lacquer ed . When new th is is best justr ubbed w ith a soft duster ; later on itmay be br i g hten ed by wash ing in warmsoa py wa ter , r ubbed w i th a l i ttl e lemon

j u i ce , r i n sed in cl ear water , dr ied and

po l i shed . Gradua l ly the handl ing and

c l ean in g w i l l r emove some of the lac

qu er , and i t becomes uns ightly. It

shou ld th en be r e lacquered.

S eptember , 1926: Vol . X No. 3

GEOGRAPHY

l’ON separate squares of paper write alot of geography quest ions , such as

“What i s the capita l of Spain ?" ' l n

what county is Ki lmarnock ?" Up on othersquares wri te the answers ; then shuffl e anddeal as though they were a paek of ca rds

,

keeping them face downwards . Each answer

is numbered wi th the same number as the

question .

Someone asks one of the quest ions i n hishands ; and he who holds the answer must

respond . This i s where one must have a

knowledge of geography ; fo r i f he does not

know in what Coun ty a certai n place may be ,natural ly he does not remgni ze the answer

when he sees i t .

To each player who answers correc tly one

mark is award ed ; and those who answer incorrectly lose one mark . If no answer to his

question is forthcoming , th e player who

asked the question ment ions the munber

upon i t ; and he or she who has the answer

loses one mark ,

After each question has been asked andanswered

, the question and answer are

pieced together , face downward , up on the

table. When al l the cards are upon the table

the game is fin ished,and i t i s t ime to coun t

the scores .

If a player happens to have both the question and the answer in his hand , he placesthem upon the table at the commencementof the game . Players must ask quest ions i nturn i f no one gives correc t answers ; but

if these are given, he or she who scores a

mark must ask the next quest ion .

KNOW

KNOW seven times table—nearly .

I do sums wi th borrowing ten .

1 know al l the capes round England .

And I can wri te with a fou n tain pen .

But I know something better than that ,i on ly found ou t. yesterday ,

And 'cause i t 's a secret I can’

t tel l ,But I know a place where the Fai ries

play i

45 Ca nadi a n Ra i lroad” . Montrea l

ntm g m

Be ing the Advent u res o f Chedda r Brow n Mo u se

R iddle -Me - R

lA'

l‘ i s the di fl

'

erenee between a hen

nd an idle music ian lay s a t

the other plays at leisure .

What is the di fference between a bankrupt

and a feather bed —The one is “hard up,

and the other soft down .

Why is a watchdog bigger by n igh t than

by day‘

f—Because he is let out at n ight ,

and taken in in the morni ng .

after a lot more hoist ing and banging abouti t said ,

“Where is that dog ? I want himto come and see his house .

Dog ! Cheddar nearly fain ted when heheard that Word

,for it sounds nearly as bad

to a mouse as“ea t He began to run

round and round,looking for the opening

,

but he ran so fast that every t ime he got

to i t he passed i t wit hout notici ng .

S oon he saw a large bolt w ith a noti ce , For Sa le

What is the diff erent-e betw'een an oak tree

and a tight shoc ? makes acorns and

the other makes corns ache .

Which let ter of the a lphab et Would beusefu l i f a coat. fit ted badly ? The lett erF

,because i t Wou ld make. i t fit .

What an imal most c l ose l y re sembl e s

a wol f ?

A nothe r wol f .

R . and MRS . BROWN MOUSE hadt o leave thei r hole . They 'd had 11

very nasty letter from their landlord ,say ing that now they had thirty chi ldren

they real ly must find a bigger hole .

“ A l l very wel l for h im to tel l us to findone , sobbed Mrs . Brown Mouse .

“But

where are we to look ? There'

s nothing to

be let , and i f you buy , pri ces are terri ble .

Mrs . Grey Mouse tells me that they had to

pay six hundred cheese ri nds for thcim.

‘

Now,Cheddar Brown Mouse , the eldest

son,had been l i sten ing to h is parents

"

eon

versa tion and when he saw them so worried

he. decided to go out and see i f “ he couldn'

t

find somethi ng .

So he Went strol li ng down the road and

soon he saw a large hole with a not ice“ For

Sa le up beside i t,so he popped inside to

see what i t was l i ke .

I t wasn 't qu i te l ike any other hole he'

dever been in

,but. all the same , i t was very

n i ce,and he 'd just made up his mind to go

and fetch h is father to look at i t when he

heard a huge voice outside say :“Yes

,I 'l l have that one . Put i t on my

car,wi l l you

A fter that,poor Cheddar had a most

terri ble t ime.The “ho le

"

was first of al l

dragged rough ly along the ground , then i t

was l i fted high up i n the ai r , then i t wen t

raci ng along the road as if five hundred cats

were after i t . Cheddar didn '

t know whetherhe was on his whiskers or his tai l by the time.

i t sto ppe d .But his tr oubles were by no

means over,for he heard the huge voice say :

“ I say ,come and give me. a hand wi th

( lrufi'

s new kennel , wi l l y ou ?" And then

Then the roof of the “hole sudden ly

l ifted up and a big red thing appeared .

“0 h , 1 say , i t shouted ,

" what sport !

There'

s a mouse i n the new kennel . Fetch

( lrufl’ quickly .

Bu t Cheddar didn '

t wait to hear any more .

Sudden ly he saw the opening and out hescu rried

,l ike a ti ny streak of l ightn ing, and

he, never stopped running unti l he found

himself at home .

And I may te l l you that the Brown Mouscs

had to find a new hole without his help .

for he neVer wen t house - hunt i ng again .

September , 1926: Vol. X . , No . 3

LOOD Y” snow does not fa l l fr om

h ea ven a s sup ers t it ious p eop l emay st il l th ink , but mant l es of

whi te occas i ona l ly do become “ red snowcover ing the ground . Pres s r epor ts ofred snowf all s are ther efore not unb elievable but exp la

’

ina lble. Many b lood - r edsnow - f ie ld s have been seen by a rct ic andmounta in expl or e r s i n Eu r op ea n andS outh Amer i can count r ie s . Not verylong ago cr im son snow was sa id to havebeen seen in ou r Northwe st . I n “Natu r eMagaz ine ,

" John I . Schoonhoven tel l s usthat the exp la nat ion of th i s s tart l ing ap

pearance is compa rat ively s imp l e

When sub jec ted to the t ests ofsc ience and the sea rch ing mag n if icat ion of the m ic roscop i c l ens , th i s ap

parently mi racu l ou s happ en i ng isfound to be fa r f r om a sup ernatu ra lv is itat i on or a d-r ead por tent . I t ismer ely a sma ll p lant f l ou r i sh ing onthe moi st , cold surfac e of the snow andflaunt ing it s br ight color qu i te a s i hnocen t ly as does the col umbine , nod

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KI L'D ARE CAPE , P .E .l .

How fresh was every sight and soundOn open ma in or winding shore! "

Canadi an Ra i lroader , Montrea l

photo.

—'I

‘

ennyson

surface . H enc e the ta les of mag ic,of

s ign s and wonder s abou t th is p lant .Other member s of th is a lga e family

ar e a l so p lan t co l on is ts , we ga ther fromth i s wr iter , who says

d ing its c r im son corolla on the sundrench ed h i l l s ide i n the New Eng landsp r ing.

Th i s t iny p lan t belongs to the a lgae ,the lowe st and s imp l e st in organ i zat i on in the p lan t wor ld, having no d i-st in ct i on of l eaf and stem . I ndeed itha s but a s ingl e c el l , l ess than onehund r ed th of an inch in d iameter . Toth is s i ng le c el l of p rotop la sm is addedth e red colo r i ng matter ca l l ed endochrome

,and the p lan t , sma l l as it i s ,

bea rs the im pos ing name ,“P rotococcus

n iva l i s . " When th i s cell i s p laced i nwater or in the p r esenc e of moisture ,it g rows by cel l d ivi s i on , each cel ld i vid ing in to two , four , e ight , s ixteenpar ts and so on , eac h d ivi s ion acqu i r

i ng a new cover ing befor e l eaving themother cell . A s each young cel lemerges it i s a comp l ete ind ividua l andrep ea ts the p r oce ss of gr owth and

rap id developmen t . Thus , only a f ew

hou r s ar e r equ ir ed for the sp r ead ofth i s p la nt over a w ide expan se of moi st

In the temperat e zone , we have ac losely r elated p lan t form ( S pharella

lacustr i s ) found in small r ock ba s in s ,pa rt icu la rly l imestone ledges , f i lled byra in or ooz ing water , but so sha l l owthat they ar e fr equen t ly ent i rely dryin summer . Another member of th isp lant fam ily ha s come into p rom in enceth rough its bizar r e and start l ing lysudden appea rance . The Gory D ew,

tha t over l i es the gra ss of the p la in s att imes , and ha s a la rmed t-he superst it ious , is st i l l anothe r alga ca l l ed “Por

phy r idi um cruentum .

" Thi s l itt le p lan t ,appear ing at Ha st i ngs soon after t he

famous batt l e , wa s supposed to be the

bl oody swea t of the ea rth cry i ng to

heaven for the vengeance of so gr eat

a s laughter .

Canadi an Ra i lroader , Montrea l

I S S O U I‘

I

AVING armed h im sel f w ith a

s l i ce of bread , the old man ledthe way to a pond about a r od

fr om h i s hou se. H e b roke a tw ig f r oma bu sh and “beat fur i ous ly upon thewater . ” Then he set up an incantat i on

,

”whi ch rol l ed a c ross the muddy

wa ters—“Come ca rp . come ca rp , comeca rp ! ” Thus had Farmer Govreau beenca l l i ng and feed i ng h i s t ra i n ed f i sh fortwenty yea r s , accord ing to Lou i s La Coss ,who te l l s the story i n the S t . Lou is“Globe - Democ ra t . ” Du r ing that per i odGovrea u

“has been on such f r iendlyt erm s w ith h i s ca r p and catf ish thatthey respond in stant ly to h is ca l l andea t fr om h i s hand .

” So en terta i n ing i sth i s per form ance that a vi s it to Govreau

’

s f i sh pond i s one of the favor i teSunday r ec reat i on s i n that pa rt of thecountry . Skept i cs who w ent to scoffhave rema i ned to ma rvel . Govreau

speak sI recol l ect a few yea r s ago a p r o

fessor f rom the Un iver s i ty of Ch icagobrought a coup l e of dozen studentsdown th i s way to study geol ogy . Theyhea rd abou t my f i sh and sa id itcou ldn ’t be done . Wel l , I just p rovedi t to ’em . I brought ’em all over h er eand I ca l l ed enough f i sh to f i l l a gunnysack . Yep , they wer e convi nced andI would have w on $5 fr om the p rofessor only he wou ldn ’t put up themoney after h e offer ed to bet .Of the f ish cha rm er h im self we a re

told :Govreau i s a fa rm er , bor n of old

F r ench s tock seventy - th r ee yea r s agoon t he ve ry p lac e that he st i l l cal l shome. H e i s the father of th re e son sand f ive daught er s . and h i s cr ed ib i l i tya s a pa rent , fa rmer and neighbo r ha snever be en que st i on ed . Twenty year sago he read i n a newspaper that re

ma rkabl e th i ngs wer e bei ng done byanimal t ra i ne rs and he dec ided to seewhat could be done with the f i sh thatswam in h i s pond . He ex pe r im en tedand w ith good resul ts . H e found thatafter a few l e sson s a doz en ca rp l earned to recogn i ze h i s ca l l . H e mer elywa lked to the bank , whacked the waterw ith a st i ck , y el l ed , “Come ca rp

,com e

carp !” seve ra l t im es , and the f i sh came

leap i ng to h im . He r ewa rded th emw ith a few morsel s of bread—and theywer e h i s f r iends . Each yea r a s babyf i sh were hatch ed they

,too

, wer etaugh t to know the i r ben efactor

,and

for yea r s the unusua l spec tacle ha sbeen p resen ted on the Govreau fa rmof ver itabl e shoa l s of f i sh an swer i ngto a human ca l l , n ibbl i ng the i r d in n erfrom the hand of a man and ev idenc i ngno fea r at h i s app r oach .

The r e may be so rc ery or mag i c i nit

,but Govreau i s not i n cl i n ed to be

l i eve that h e pos ses se s occu l t powe r s .In fact

,h e d i scla im s be i ng anyth i ng of

a w i za rd and exp la i n s h i s f r i end sh ipw i th th e f i sh a s be ing me rely the re

sul t of k indne s s on h i s pa r t .

September . 1926: Vol. X . , No. 3

and ca r efu l ly pu tti ng i n to servi ce .

A woman sa t on the p i azza of herhome , her pa l e ch eek and dr ooping f igu r e tel li ng of r ecent il l n ess .S he wa s wa tch i ng the raki ng ofl eaves f r om the g ra ss , and as the

man p as sed nea r her wi th h i s rakeshe a r ou sed her self fr om her lan

gor to sa y :“You keep the lawn

l ook ing so n i ce , John . I l ike to

see i t tha t way . H e wa s on ly (I

hi r ed man, a st ranger i n a st rang eland , and th i s wa s bu t one of a

scor e of du t i es tha t he was pa id fordoi ng . P r obab ly no one had eve rthough t of p ra i s i ng h im befor e ,and he had no an swer r eady . A

week later the gen t l e i nva l i d was

g on e— sli pp ed away sudden ly ou t

of enc i r c l i ng a rms , ou t of the wor ld ,

l i ke the van i sh ing of a snowwr eath . No one thou gh t of Johnas among the mou r ner s ; he wa s

only the dr ive r of the fam i ly ca r

r i d g e , whi ch ca r r ied some of the

fri ends , bu t to one of the se , wi thwhom he found hi mself a lone, hetold of the ki nd comm enda ti on,

the la s t words he had hea rd the

woman sp eak , and added, wi th a

vo i ce g rowi ng hu sky :“As l ong as

I stay th ere , the lawn w i l l be keptas she l i ked to see i t .

”Th u s i t is

shown that,by a few words eas i ly

sp oken, l oya lty to one ’s da i ly wor kis qu i ckened.

—T ru e V oic e .

Th i s i s Govreau '

s own exp l anat i on ofh i s feat :

I f i rmly bel i eve tha t every l i v i ngc rea tu r e has a bra i n

,o r someth i ng

that r esembl es that organ . F i sh canremember . I have am p l e p roof of that

.

They re spond to k indne s s ju st a s w i l la dog or a cat . They know I am goodto them and wi l l not hu rt them

.We

a r e fr i ends .

I start ed out to make f r iend s w iththem tw enty yea r s ago . I t took m ejust th ree days' to convinc e them thatwhen I hi t the wate r w ith a st i ck and

a r m e r

ca l l ed “Ga rp , I wanted to feed them.

W ith in a few days they were eati ng outof my |ha nd . I never k il l them andthey know tha t I w i l l not harm them.

They tel l thei r babi es tha t I am theirfr i end . I know they tel l them becausef i sh ca n ta lk . I don ’t know what theysay , but they ta lk just the same

.Andy

so every t ime some baby f ish are bor’we get acqua i n ted .

"

I n t ru e f i sherman ’s style the storyst r i ngs out a s Govreau descr ibes thefeed i ng scene thus

When they are al l eat ing it soundsl ike a bunch of l itt le p igs in a trough

.

A ca rp sucks its food . Maybe I shouldhave sa id it sounds l ike babies playi ng a k i ss ing game. Why

,I ’ve seen

them so th i ck a round me that thebank wou ld be worn sl i ck

.

Ca rp a re th e most eas ily tra inedof a l l the f i sh I have worked with .

They a r e r eal congen ia l and they al

w ays a r e jabber ing someth ing whenthey ea t . I gu ess they are try ing tothank me . Now , it

's different wi th acatf i sh—and the re a re a few of themin the pond . They an swer my cal l allr ight , bu t they a re t im id . They pokethei r head s ou t of the water , locateth e bread and then make a dive for itand jump away . I don ’t seem to beabl e to be a s fr i endly w ith them asw ith the ca rp . Last year I had somet r oubl e w ith a turt l e and a coupl e ofsnake s that got in the pond . Theyw ant ed to be fr i endly

,too

, but thatwas a l i ttle too much , so I kil l edthem .

The i n ter vi ew er f rom the Globe- D enimerat w inds up th i s f i sh story in t hisfa sh i on

I s it true , M-r . Govreau,we asked,

that some of your ca rp are so tametha t you have named them and

“

thatwh en you cal l them they jump in yourlap to be A nd is i tha s been reported , that one day laSly ea r when you r eturned to your houseaft er feed i ng your pets , you heard )!v i ol en t th ump ing at your frontand u pon invest igat ion found that oneof you r fr i end s had fo l l owed you all

the way fr om the pond and wanted to

spend the even ing w ith you ? And Is

it t r u e , as ha s been reported, thatwhen one of the ca rp d ied last summertwo of h i s brother s sw imming ”refi t

ca r r i ed h im on the i r backs and the en

t i r e f ish colony swam by you slowly " 1

r evi ew befor e he was cons igned to a

tomb i n the mud ? "

Govreau’

s eyes twi nk l ed .

“Don 't p r in t anyt h ing l ike that," he

sa id .

“That wou ld be a f ish story .

"

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n e s o n

The announcement was made a short time

ago that the grand tota l of Bell telephonesin operation in Ontario and Quebec had

reached the six hundred thousand mark .

Sim ulta neously wi th th is announcement ,representa tives of the Bel l Company gaveout some figures of te lephone developmentin Canada, j ust compiled by the sta tisticaldepartment of the organization. The to tal

telephones in opera tion in all Canada as of

December 3 1 , 1925, were an

increase of or during the fea r.Canada ’s development has now reachedtelephones per hundred of popu lation.

Oi the provinces , Brit is h Co lumbia sti llleads wi th te lephones per hundredinhabitants . Ontario is next wi th thenfoll ow Saskatchewan wi th AlbertaMani toba Quebec Nova ScotiaNew Brunswick Prince Edward Islandand Yukon

Quebec had the greatest ga in in 1925, vi z . ,Ontario next wi th and then

Bri tish Co lumbia ,

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49

e n c r e a s e

Of the Canadian telephone systems, theBell Company is apparently growing mostrapidly . For 1925 the company ’s increasewas and theBri tis h Columbia TelephoneCompany next wi thTen years ago (December 3 1 , 19 15) Canada

had telephones as compared with thepresent figure of —o ver 100 per centincrease wi thi n the decade.

In th is connection i t is of no l itt le interestto learn from authoritative sources tha t thecost of telephone service to the user in Canadais apparently less than in other co untries inwh ich any substant ial development of the

serv ice has taken place. In a recent address

before a meeting of the Canadian TelephoneAssociation, at Hal ifax, President C. F . S is e,of the Bel l Telephone Company , gave out

the following figures, for the year 1923 ,

showing the gross ea rning per telephone inleading countr ies of the world :

NetherlandsGreat Bri tain

Japan

NEAR CHAR LOTTE‘I‘OWN. P .E . I .

EN th i nk I of deep sha dows on the grass ,

Oi m adowa where i n sun the ca ttle g ra ze,

Where, as the breezes pa ss,The g leaming rushes lean a thousand way s ,

Of leaves tha t s lumber in a cloudy ma ss ,

Or whi ten in the wand.

—J . R . Lowell.

Canadi an Ra tboada . Mordreal

AustriaSweden

Swi tzerland .

Uni ted States .

Canada .

Teleph ones to Popu la ti on

Over sixty-six per cent of the world'stelephones were in service on th is wntinentof North America on Janua ry 1st, 1925, thela test da te at wh ich complete figures wereava ilable. The average development wassl ig htly more than eleven telephones perhundred of popula tion. The figures show :

Telephones per Hundred Inhabitants

Uni ted States . Nether lands .

Canada Fi nlandAustria

New Z ealand . ArgentineSweden 6 . 9 Belg ium 1 8

Norway Cuba, fi ance .

Austra l ia Hungary . 1

Switze rland . Japan

Chi le

Grea t Bri tain and Ita ly

Northern I reland

photo.

Canadi an Ra r’lroadcr . Montrea l

Res ea rc

as been frequently , and, we bel ieve,l ivi ng in an

read ily influenced by opinions and genera l

ities . There is a steadily growing demand for

substantia l proofs in support of theories and

doctrines , and where the matter is open to

demonstration the facts are demanded . As

a consequence of this menta l a tti tude bel iefs

and even fa i ths , hoary with ant iquity , justified

and defended by devout adherents, are sum

moned before the bar of reason to substantia te

the va l idity of thei r claims .

Th is growing tendency to scrutinize,analy se and invest iga te arises na tura l ly out

of the scientific spirit of the age. Science,devoted so largely to research work , the devel

opment of physical processes , and the investi

gat ion of the laws governing the externa l or

material world , has tended to m inim ize the

importance to the universa l order of meta

phy s i ca l relat ions. As a resu lt there has

developed an influentia l rational istic ormateriali st ic conception of the universe, whichdepreca tes, if i t does not completely ignore,metaphysical concepts and everyth ing rela ti veto rel igion and the spiri tua l l ife

,and l ife

i tsel f is deemed merely a functionof organized

mate ria l bodi es .

Thi s trend is reflected in contemporary

lite ra ture to a degree whi ch cannot safely beignored, particu la rly in consideration of the

fact tha t - society as a who le is in a state of

nervous tension. Every important socia lfactor, inc luding organic rel igion, is feel ingthe strain of this social unrest. There is amanifest tendency in certa in directions tobreak away from the old order and establ ish

revo lutiona ry systems, based upon purelyeconom ic and ma terial istic principles

, eradi

cating every element of rel igion and Spiri tua lidea ls , as manifest in the Soviet Governmentof Russia .

All such systems, methods and ideas are in

opposi tion to a fundamenta l law inevo lution,uni versa l ly indica ted in the principle thatthe new is ever builded out of and upon the

old order, and so conservative is nature, andso lo th to part with any element or functionthat may have served a useful purpose tha tshe will even conserve and bring in to the

new order rudiments wh ich are functionlessand evrn injurious, as exempl ified by the

append ix verm i forms in our own anatom ies .

In considera tion of these indubitable factsis i t reasonable to believe that a vague con

sciousness of occul t powers, arising wi th the

first faint gl immers of human intel l igence and

continuing to advance and develop inpotency ;that rel igion, instinctive in our natures, consti tut ing an oute r form or medium throughwh ich the spiri tual consc iousness finds ex

pression, can be brushed as ide and reprobated without injury and poss ib le di sas terto such sy stem, be i t government or o therso cia l organism

a n the( Cont inued from j uneNumbzr)

By j As . A . Wc HT

To ma inta in that rel igion is not only un

necessn'

y bu t a detriment to soc iety is to

fly in the face of universa l histo ry . Go ing

back as far as h istory extends we never fa i lto contact with some form of o rganic rel igion

which invariably occupies an influent ia l andtoo often a dom ina ting posi tion in all c ivi l

i za t ions. Can we doubt tha t if rel igion were

not an important, yes , an ind ispensable,

factor in the development of the ra ce tha t i t

cou ld have ma inta ined throughout unto ld

ages the exalted state in which we always

find it ?

Rel igion has not been imposed upon man

kind, nei ther i s i t a form nor method , norsystem ,

devised by some supernatural agency

and imp lanted in human relations. Rel igion,

consti tuting a veh ic le through wh ich the

Spiri tual consc iousness functions, is bothhuman and divine, therefore, i t is not sur

prising that the l uman c lement secures andat times mainta ins an influence, more or lessderoga tory , to rel igious progress . Spiri tual

idea ls , which a t their inception may have

been of a h igh order, become sta tic; progressceases ,

supers ti tion inte rvenes and decay

sets in, as evi nced in the rel ig ions of the

Orient, both extant and hi sto rica l , vis ib leeven wi th certain developments in organicChristiani ty .

We shou ld now appreciate the inca lculab levalue which must accrue to organic rel igion

through scient ifi c knowledge of immorta li tyand intercommunion, especial ly in these daysof doubt and scepticism and m is understanding relat ive to the Christian sta ndards, a

scepticism tha t cannot be a l layed, much less

sa tisfied, wi th pla us.ble arguments or deductions from histo rica l records , wh ich in veryimportant respec ts are open to cri tic ism ,

thereby shorn of much of thei r evidentia lvalue and force of conviction.

The two most important and fundamentalelements in Christiani ty are a bel ief in the

existence of God and the immorta l i ty of the

soul or the surviva l of persona l i ty . The for

mer must appa rently rema in a ma tter of

fa i th ; the la tter , a fact in human experience,is amenable to investigation. It is indeed

fortuna te that th is fundamenta l princip le i sdemonstrable in that i t consti tu tes a unify ingelement between Science and rel igion and wi l lultimate ly bring these two grea t humanizingpowers into harmonious cc -o peration.

The opinion, so frequently expres sed byour orthodox Christian friends, tha t rel igionand science occupy distinct and separa tefields of observation, is erroneous and evenmis chievous . Bo th being concerned with thetu torage and wel l- being of the race, theyshou ld cc -o pera te. Science i s especia l ly interested with the investigationof the laws andprinciples governing the universe

, and par

t icularly tha t latest branch of science,

psychi cal research , is dedi cated to the studyof the deeper or occul t

, mental and sp ini tual

u rvrva O

Scp lember , 1926: Vol. X . No. 3

erson i ty

facult ies demonstrating the profound truththa t man is more than a mere mechanicaldevice, pr in cipal ly occupied in satisfying hi sphysical wants and propagating his Species;tha t there is a deeper nature enfolding heretofore unsuspected elements , and Qualitiesparta ining pa rticularly to this spiritual sideof his nature, facts which organic Christiani ty mus t ultima tely endorse and adopt

, andthus be p laced in a position to demonstratethrough sc ientific evidence to a doubtingworld , hungering for light and leading, thesubl ime truth of l ife ete rnal .The facts rel ied upon to support a belief

in the surviva l of personali ty are so abundantand cover so wide a field as to render it somewha t emba rrassing to condense within the

l imits at our di sposa l more than a mere summa ry of the da ta avai lable.

Even a cursory review -of the voluminous

l i terature publi shed during the past halfcentu ry or more indicates the widespread

interest mani fest in thi s highly im portant

subject. Works desig ned to elucidate the

various as pects of the movement, philosophi ca l, re ligious and scienti fic, issued fromthe press on both sides of the Atlantic.The wri te rs were actuated by a common

purpose—ins is tence on the contigui tvof the

two wor lds and the fact of in tercommunion.

Authors of the verv highest professionalstandi ng in relig ion, sc ience and li teratumhave braved the opprobrium of their classand the sneers and ridi cule of the unthinking.We could fi l l a page or more of thi s magazine

with the names and published works of

reputab le authori ties, the majori tv of whom

have a chieved dis tinction in thei r .various

profess ions .The advent of modern spir itua li sm during

the mid-Vic torian period has been considered

bv not a few writers a provi dential intervention at a time when organic religion Wfaced by a cu ltured and mi li tant materialism,

openlv as wel l as insidi ouslv attacking her

most cherished doctrines , in cluding, pOGS iblV,the most important, a belief in the immor

tali tv of the sou l , which could not be efl eo

t ivelv susta ined bv fa ith alone. Among the

writers of tha t period we have selected the

followin gz—Andrew Jackson Davis, “Vb?

“

inspirationa l writings, including “D ivme

Revela tions " , were of the greatest value to

the infant movement; Dr. Hare, Professor (ifChem istry at Ha rvard Universi tv,

“Pk g?"

menta l Investigations of the Spi rit Manl.es

tat ions, Demonstrating the Existence-

oi

Spiri ts and their Communi cations Wi th

Morta ls” , Phi ladelphia, 1856; Judge Ed'

monds , of the Supreme Cour t of New York.“ Investigations into Spiri tualism,

1851- 1853

Professor Buchanan,“Manua l of PBVCh'Qm

‘

etrv"

; Professor Denton, AmericanGeologi st,“The Soul of Th ings , Hon. Robert

Dale Owen,“Foo t- falls on the Boundme“0!

Another World " , Ph iladelphia, 1877;“The

September . 1926: Vol. X No. 3

Debatable Land between th is World and the

Next”, New York and Ph i ladel ph ia , 1 871 ;A lfred Russel Wa l lace, the eminent bio logist ,“Defence of Modern Spiri tual is m”

,London,

1874 ;“The Scientific Aspec ts of the Super

natural London, 1866;“On Mirac les and

Modern Spiritual ism London, 1873 ; Pro

fessor Zollner, German a stronomer whoseinvestigations into psychica l phenomenawith the American medium , Dr . S lade, werepubli shed under the ti tle of

“fi anscendenta l

t s ics"

, 1865.

In addition we may mention the fo l lowing

authorities among the ea rly wri ters, a ll con

vinced bel ievers and advoca tes of spiri t communion: Professors Britten, Wel ls . Brvant

and Bliss, all of the univers i tv of Pennsvl

vani a. Our space wi l l a l low us onlv to men

tion a few of the manv later and contemporarv aut hori t ies z—S ir Wm . Crooks

, recentlv

deceased , oneof the world's foremost phvsic ists

and chemi sts. Shortlv before'

his dea th hesta ted, in effect, that after thi rtv r ea rs or

more he found no occasion to a lter hi s con

victi ons relative to the facts of spiri t communion: “

EXperimenta l Investig a tions on

Psvcnic Force London, 1871 ,“Researches

on the Phenomena of Spiri tua l ism”

,London,

1894; F. W . H . Mvers ( 1843- 190 1 , Engli shpoet and essavist , one of the founders of theSocietv of Psvchical Research , autho r of“Human Personali tv and i ts Surviva l of

Bodi lv Dea th”

; Giovanni Virginio S chiaparelli ( 1835 I ta lian astronomer . One of

his most rema rkable achievements was the

diseovervof the“ cana ls " on the planet Mars .

Hedevoted a grea t dea l of time to the investi

ga tion of spiri t phenomena . H is convic tions ,entirelv favorable, were pub l ished principallv

in continenta l journa ls ; Camil le Flammarion( 1842 French as tronomer, a brilliantpopular wri ter on astronomica l subjects, andfor manv vears a confirmed Spi ri tua l ist ,“Apres la Mort , Paris, 1922 . The la teProfessor Crawford, D .S c . , Bel fast, I reland ,whose investiga tions wi th a non- professiona lmedium, Miss Ka th leen Goligher, conductedduring severa l years under strictly scientific

control , consti tute an epoch-making series of

inves tig ations. Full particu la rs may be had

in his books,“Experiments in Psy chica l

Science (Watk ins,“Psychic Strue

tures at the Goligher C ircle (Posthumous ,Watkins

,Professor Wi l l iam James

( 1842 American Psy chologist, Professor of Phi losophy at Harvard gave

much attention to the investigation of psy chical science,

“Human Immorta l ity th irdedi tion, 1899; Professor James H . Hy slop,Ph . D . ,

LL.D . ,Secreta ry of the American

Society for Psych ical Resea rch , PsychicalResea rch and Surviva l , London, 19 13 ;“Science and a Future Life

”

,1905,

“Psy chicResearch and Resurrection

"

,1906,

"

The

Border land of Psy cnic Resea rch " ,1 906 ;

“Enigmas of Psych i ca l Re search 1906;

M. Aksakofi'

, R ussian publi c is t,“Libre des

sciences psychologiques 1902 .

I t will sca rcely be necessa ry to furni sh anydeta i led particula rs concerni ng the characterand sc ientific achi evements of S ir Ol iver

Lodge, in both phys i ca l and psych ical science

S I Canadi an Ra llroadcr . Montreal

In bo th fields he remains an outstandingfigure of in ternational reputa tion, as investiga tor, author and lecturer, undete rred by theopprobrious cri ticisms of h is ma te ria l ist confreres or the opposition, discourtesy and un

rea sonableness of the man in the street :“Science and Immorta l i ty

”

, New York, 1908;The Surviva l of Man New York , 1909 .

Another courageous and eminent exponentof modern spiri tua l i sm, Sir A . Conan Doy le,an indefatigable worker, devoted to the

demonstra tion of inte rcommunion, requiresno further introduction to our readers. H isbooks and lecture 1 have reached a widespreadand discrim ina ting publ ic : “

The Vi ta l Message Hodder and Stoughton,

Ltd.

“The

New Revelation"

, Hodder and Stough ton,Ltd .

A recent convert to our cause, Mr. Robt .Bla tchford , em inent journa list, l ife- long agnostic , and of ra tiona l ist views

,

through his invest iga tions in spiri tual is m has

found every reason to reconstruct his attitudetowards a future l ife. Ina recent contributionto a symposium, edi ted by S ir James Mar

chant, LL.D . (Life after Death ,according to Christianity and Spiri tua l ism,

Cassel l Co. , Mr. Bla tchford in hisconcluding paragraph sta tes : I haveanaly sedthe evidence of surviva l over and over aga in.

I have weighed and tes ted all the a lternativetheories, and l have not found any adequa teexplana tion of spirit phenomena that coversall the fac ts except the explana tion which

spiritual ists put forward and bel ieve. As for

te sts and cha l lenges of the conjurers, theyseem to me utterly valueless and si lly . The

conjurer is a psychica l ‘fl a t ca rther’ . Pother

ing about over his cha l lenges is a fool ishwaste of time.

"

In conc luding this all too brief summa ry of

em inent exponents of the phenomena of

modern spiri tua l is m we wish to draw partienlar a ttention to the volum inous work of

Charles R ichet, Ph . D ' “Thirty Yea rs of

Psychical Resea rch (The Macmil lan Company, To the student or intendi ngstudent of psy chica l science this publi cationwil l prove invaluable. The h isto ry of the

movement i s briefly sketched . T i e record of

his personal investiga tions is very ful l , as

well as the independent investig ations of hisconfreres and other savants .

An interesting circumstance in connection

with his work is the announcement that,a l though fi rmly convinced as to the veri tyof the phenomena , he rema ins unconvi nced

as to the su rvival of personal ity after dea th ,

an a tt i tude di ff cult to understand . A dis

t inguis hed phys iologis t, he apparently cannotreconcil e the facts of surviva l he has so in

dustri 0 usly accumula ted wi th hi s strong

mate ria l is t bias , rema rking a t times a fterdescribing a scientifically demonstra ted factof psychic phenomena ,

“ tha t the spiri t

hypothes is is a sa tisfactory explana tion but"

for example,“There is ample

proof tha t experimenta l ma te ria l ization (ec toplasmic) should take definite rank as a scrap

t ific fact . Assuredly we do not understand i t .

It is very absurd , if a truth can be absurd .

Spiritua lists have blamed me for uslnz thisword

‘absurd

'

and have not been ab le to

understand that to admi t the real i ty of thesephenomena was to me an actua l pa in; butto ask a physiologist, a physi c is t, or a chemistto admit tha t a form tha t has a circu lation of

blood , warmth and muscles, tha t exha lesca rboni c acid, has weight, speaks and thinkscan issue from a human body is to ask ofhim an intel lectua l eff ort that is rea l ly pa inful .

“Yes, it is absurd, but no matter—i t is

true.

”

(Thirty Yea rs Psychica l Resea rch ,pages 543

I t was our intention to have culled fromhisto rica l records a few of the wel l attestedfacts of spiri t phenomena but space wil lpermi t only the briefest reference, and al

though these facts may not possess a stri ctlyscientific value nevertheless we must recognize tha t m i racles and prophesies and angeli c

visi ta tions consti tu te the founda tions of all

rel igions; in addi tion, such well attested factsas the daemon, or, as we would say today ,spiri t guide of Socra tes, advising h im as to

conduct and informing h im of com ing events;the spiri t controls of Joan of Arc, heavenlyvoices, she contended, tha t inspired her fromea rly childhood and certa inly posses singevi dential value when studied in connec tionwith the facts of today , and above all othem,

the most rema rkable of books, the HebrewChristian Bible, replete from cover to coverwi th records of Spirit phenomena , il lustra tethis . Should the Bible not possess an addedsignificance, in consideration of the confirma

tory evidence furnished through modernphenomena ?

Afte r thi s brief and imperfect summa ry of

the li te rary evidence supporting the fact ofthe survival of persona l ity after dea th and

the certa inty of communi ca tion between the

two worlds, may we not appea l to our cri ticsto approach this tremendously importantsubject with an open mindTo prove the widespread interest, manifest

throughout the weste rn world , we have beencareful to select representa tives from Grea tBri ta in, Uni ted States, France,

Germany ,

I ta ly and Russia.

Is i t reasona ble to believe, tha t all of theseeminent advoca tes are the victims of selfdelusion,or thedupesof fakers and consc ienceless frauds ? That not only those we havementioned, but very many o ther di stin

gu ished investiga to rs are a lso self-d eluded ?

To adm it such a possibili ty is to cast discredit on the value of scientific evi dence. To

contend tha t the ten m il l ion spir itua l ists ofAmerica and Europe, peoples of the mostadvanced and enl ightened civiliza tions of theworld, are incapable of apprec ia ting a fact,unable to discrimina te between a tru th and

a pa lpable counte rfei t, is , to say the leas t,not complimenta ry to the acumen or the

logi cal facul ties of our critics .

In cons idera tion of the forego ing and in

considera tion of the moral and rel ig ious condi t ions in the world , particula rly the loss ofprestige and the weakening influence of

organi c Chris tiani ty with the masses, is thetime not Opportune for the Church as a bodyto reconsider i ts atti tude and endeavor to

Canadian Ra i lroad" .Monlrea l

remove the cause or causes of th is widespreadapathy

,and pronounced indiff erence to i ts

behests, a condi tion , unfortunate ly , by no

means confined to unbel ievers ? There are

too many nominal Christi ans and even churchadheren ts who are not on ly apathetic , bu t

who express dec ided objections and even di sbel ief in certain of the dogmas , and manyable minds and leaders wi thin the church no

longer pretend to defend them .

I t may be very sa tisfacto ry to the popular

preacher to po int to his wel l- filled pews and

satisfied congregation and to the beneficent

efiorts of the so cial workers of his church ; all

very proper and very usefu l , in a way . But

al l such activi ties are loca l and restr ic tedand fai l to reach the masses , to arouse them

to a sense of thei r moral and re l igious responsibi li t ies , and stimulate their innate spiri tual

susceptibi l i ties .

Should we not recogni ze that we are l ivingin an en tirely differen t world from that

existing when the c reeds were formu lated ;that th is i s an age of sc ience and generalen l ightenmen t and that whatever exi sts,benefic ial to the soc ial order , wi l l be conserved

and that which is ou tworn and decaden t

must u l timate ly be el im inated ?Is i t not a fact that the church is unable to

present a un i ted fron t ? That it i s distractedby dissensions

,hampered by di spu ta tions , i ts

i nfluence weakened and i ts beneficent workretarded through these in ternal di scards ?

Why not res ume the i nterrupted glorious

work of the apostol ic m iss ions , and, l ike theapostles and their immed iate fol lowers , opendi rec t commun i cation wi th the angelicapheres

They are not guided by the ratioc inationsof an an tiquated order ! They communeddirect wi th the m ighty souls of the past

,re

ceiving in spi ration and spiri tual knowledgeand gu i dance from the prophets and seers ofIsrael ! Do not the gospels hold ou t every

promise of a con tinuation of these glor ious

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privi leges ? Are we not admonished to developsp i r i tua l gifts Then why leave to theSpir ituali sts the sole monopoly of these te-egtab.lished spiri tual forces ? They belong by rightto Chri stian ity , a heri tage from the apostolicchurch .

Why not es tabl ish w ithin our theologicalco l l eges cha irs of psych ical research andlaborato ri es for the sc ientific study ofoccu lt- spiri t facul ties

,and develop spi rit,

medi ums wi th i n the church, under the

con trol and prote ction of the church andthrough thi s mediumship

, hold communionwi th the great, noble souls who in earth li fewere devoted to the spiritual welf are of theirflock ; who are deeply concerned and stronglysympathetic , and who appre c ia te our spiritualneeds ? In the l ight of the ir enhanced knowledge and Spiri tual growth they are qualifiedas never before to advi se and guide theirear thly confreres. Surely a consummationdevoutly to be w ished .

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S of"

Ra ils ta ff, w i th

th e i r fam il ie s . e nj o yexh ila ra t ing ho lida y in

the Lau ren tia ns .

The camp ing ground at Rawdon, Q ue.

A youthfu l but very enthus ias ticmember of the party .

The thri l ls of camp l i fe aren’ t by any means exclusive to the gypsy tribes .

Even dish-washing, tha t; most ma l ignedof domestic tasks, takes on a s inner m The spoi ls of the chase.

such ci rcums ta nces as these.

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CHAPTER I

A Dangerou s Wom e n

James Batt iscomb&distri ct offi cer atRembakut—emerged from the l i t tle courthouse that formed the groun d floor of hisbungalow , d irected his monoc le upon agroup of nati ves that st i l l l ingered in theclearing

,and, turn i ng abrupt ly on his heel ,

negotiated the fl ight of steps that led to theverandah .

At the sound of h is vo ice Vera Battiscombe rai sed her h ( ad from the cush ionupon wh ich i t had reposed

,greeted her

husband, and langui dly asked i f he had hada busy morning . Ba tt iscombe groaned .

He moplped a large red face wi th a colored

handkerc ief .

“Confound it ,” he repl ied , I shou ld say

i di d and then , old th i ng , to cap i t all, Iwas forced into an unseemly dispu te w ith amost extraordi nary creature . He drew acrumpled vi si ting card from his pocket andread ‘Dr . Abu

“Wha t was he l ikeOh

,a tal l thin chap wi th a blue serge

sui t and a red fez,a brown face and an

enormous pair of tortoise - shel l spectac les .He told me that he was an expert in

tropical di seases and intended ofi'

ering hi sservi ces to the neighboring plan ters as such .

“When I told him there wasn ’t a chance ofhis getting i n he started to grow abusive,so I booted h im out !”

!Quite an exc i ting morn ing !” rejoined h i s

wr e.

“0 h l qu i tet My blood was up—and I le t

h im have i t hot .Mrs . Batt i scombe smi led .

“My cave -man !” she murmured, and patted his sleeve wi th a wel l - simulated affecti onthat prompted the magistrate to squeeze herarm to indi cate that i n him also the fires ofromance were not en ti rely burn t ou t .He produced a cigarette an d tapped i t

thoughtful ly on h is thumb - nai l .“ I ’m runn ing in to Jeselton th is afternoon ,

he remarked sudden ly .

“Coming“No

,I promised to ride over to D ick

Moberly ’s to i nspect the new clubhousehe

’

s erected for his assistants .

"

A shadow crossed h i s face. “ I say,Vera ,

aren'

t you seei ng rather a lot of D ick Mo

berly ?“You 're not suggesti ng that there’s any

thing—wrong between Dick an d me murmured Vera, wi th an odd imi tat ion of wounded dign i ty .

A l igh t flashed sudden ly i n h is eyes anddied down as qu i ckly as i t had come .

“Good heavens,no ! On ly—wel l, people

w il l keep talki ng . I suppose i t ’s becausethey

’

ve noth i ng else to do .

“Wel l ? What have you heard ?That you del i berately pushed in between

Mrs . Moberly and Dick— and that that waswhy sl‘e wen t home so sudden ly .

"

Her eyes flashed .

“How wicked !”

Damnable ! And of course I don'

t bel i evei t, but I do thi nk , Vera dear , that youought to be more carefu l about your assoc i a

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Canadi a n Ra i lroad" . Montrea l

chr istened the ves t- pocket adventuress andwhom the Corr missioner of Pol ice label led asa damned dangerous woman .

She rode oh'

presently through the cocopalms and took a path which led throughfields of rectagonal pools where vivid greenpaddy - shoots thrust their heads timidly abovethe surface . Great water- buff aloes

,browsing

in the open , raised their broad snouts at herapproach ; ugly , formidable creatures wi thlash i ng tai ls and a legendary objection tothe whi te man because of his fondness forsoap? But Mrs . Bat t iscombe had passedthese particu lar beasts a score of times andgrown to regard them merely as familiarlandmarks on the road to Buki t- Serang .

On the white wooden bridge which spannedthe Ayer Ri ver she met Dr . Abu - Samar .He was standi ng at the far end of the

bri dg e, a cigarette between his l ips and histortoise- shel l glasses reflecting the rays of thetropical sun . As she drew closer

,she saw

that he was tal ler and more powerfu l i n bu ildthan her husband had made i t appear ; h isfingers were long and tapering and his complexion was sal low rather than brown .

CHAPTER I I

Th e Lu re of A bu - Sam a r

Good afternoon , Mrs. Batt i scombe, AbuSamar said .

“ I have been wai ting for you .

You are on your way to see Mr . Moberly of

Buki t- Scrang . I am a doctor here , you know,

and Mr. Mober ly has an appointment at myhouse at three . He instructed me to en

deavor to intercept you and escort you thereto meet him .

”

Mrs. Batt iscombe was gazing down at themuddy waters of the ri ver . She looked upsudden ly .

“Very well, she returned slowly .

" I W i llcome with you .

"

Upon hearing her consen t,Dr . Abu - Samar

turned abruptly on his heel .“ If you wi l l permi t me, I wi l l go on ahead

and show you the way .

"

She touched her pony 's flank W i th her heel .Is i t far ?” she as ked .

About half a mi le,

” he said over hi sshoulder

.The path by which her gunde

took her was i l lmarked, and after the firs ttwo hundr ed yards or so she was forced todi smoun t to avoid the overhanging branches .They came presen tly to a smal l ope n

space,waist h igh for the most part W i th

lalang,in which stood a broad , squat house

wi th a freshly - repaired roof of sago thatchand walls of dri ed reeds . A verandah hadbeen added to the original structure and neatwooden steps

,painted white, led up to th i s.

At the foot of the steps a native gi r l W i thsarong of bottle- green , and long Ci garettebetween her fingers, lounged idly against apost

,favori ng the whi te woman Wi th a look

of i nso len t curiosi ty mingled with somethingVera Batt i scombe di d not al together understand .

Abu - Samar waved an eloquent hand .

“Here is my humble dwell ing, Mrs. Battiscombe

.Shall I take your horse ? or wou ld

you prefer to tether i t yourself

t i ons . Cut down your v isi ts to Buki t- Serangto , say , once a mon th , and blow in occasional ly upon_

some of those faded women whohave possnbly

O

had a hand in sett i ng theserur

sri

firs m

ln

do

fuo

bl

le smi e ee and s reaMust I

y p d out her hands .

_ The magi strate patted her shoulder affect i o

‘

n

Iately .

t seems a rational sor t of th in to do .

Lord, Vera , if we could afford it , Ig

’

d clearr i ght ou t of here, bu t as i t is we

've got tost i ck to our guns.She nodded rather vaguely .

A ft er Ba tt iscombe had left for the afternoon Vera wen t up to her room and regardedherself in the long mi rror of the wardrobeJ im Batt i scombe had taken so much troubleto i mport for her there . She found time toreflect that , after al l , there were consolationseven for havi ng married a fool . She had

once calcu lated on there bei ng other conso lat i ons, bu t these had been speedi ly modifiedby the sudden ly revealed meanness of JamesBa tt i scombe sen ior and his on ly too eviden tin ten tion of l i vi ng to a ripe old age .

She bi t her l i p . In spi te of the easy wayi n which he laughed thi ngs off , an inbornei nstinct to ld her that doubts were beginn i ngto form in her husband ’s slow - working brain ,and these germs

,once firmly seated, had an

unpleasan t habi t of i ncreasing with an alarmi ng rapi di ty . The thought made her angry .

She had contemplated a pleasan t afternoonin Moberly ’s bungalow at Bukit -Serangand now all those cheri shed moments wouldhave to be devoted to a ti resome revi ew ofthei r respecti ve posi t ions .

A second survey of her own image in theglass gave her food for further reflection .

Drop Dick Moberly ! I t wasn ’t quite sucha stupid suggestion after al l . I t would haveto come to an end sooner or later and therewere times when his i ncessan t protestationsbored her i n tense ly . Vary things a bit , Jimhad suggested . Well, why not There weresti l l a score of loopholes for escape from themonotony of Rembaku t . Her husband wasagi tate d solely on account of her vi sits tothe planter

,and her insatiate desi re for

admi ration and conquest swift ly turned herthough ts i n other direct ions .

After al l,there were more attractive men

in Borneo than Dick Moberly !

The pic ture that her blue eyes were surveying so cri t i cal ly was that of a sl ight, sl imwoman in the early thirties, wi th al l thefreshness of a gir l of n ineteen , an aureole ofl igh t fl ufiy curls , and pouting l ips that requi red on ly the sl ightest artificial at tention tokeep them amaz ingly red .

Her rid ing- breeches of white dr i l l added acertain piquancy to her appearance of wh i chshe was not entirely oblivious, and the broadwh ite solar topee she affected became herwonderful ly .

Delir iously attracti ve , dari ng to the poin tof recklessness

,such was she whom the

adoring J im Batt iscombe persisted i n regardi ng as his devoted better - half , whom Cran ley—who had a gift for apt expressi ons

~ had

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He shouted someth ing i n a_dialect unknown

to her and the brown gi rl , W i th a flash of herwhite te eth , fl ouneed off towards the back ofthe house .

Vera tapped her ridi ng- boots W i th herstock .

“Do I go up here she i nqu i red .

If you please .

”

She found a cane chair and took possessmnof i t wi thout invi tation .

The doctor off ered to re l i eve her of herhat and whip , but she shook her head .

No,thank you . I t

'

s already after threeand I don 't suppose Mr. Moberly wi l l wan tto stop very long .

She accepted a cigarette,however and li t

i t from the match he held towards er .He fl i cked the match airi ly i n to space and

strode off to the far end of the verandah ,from which he con t i nued to stare at her unt i lshe began to feel profoundly uncomfort able .

“Have you been here long ?" she demandedat lengt h .

“Not long, returned Samar br iefly .

At three- fi fteen she grew uneasy .

“You are u i te certain Mr. Moberly ls

coming here t i s afternoon“He is not , confessed Samar w i th aston is h

ing frankness .

“ I am afra id that the wholeof my story was noth ing less than pureinven tion

,designed to i nduce you to do

something which you wou ld not otherwisehave consented to do .

“Oh !" she sudden ly ejacu lated—making forthe stairhead . The doctor barred her path ,a th i n hand resti ng on e ither pos t . Hisdisarming smi le exposed a perfec t row ofwhi te tee th .

He smi led again .

“Very natural ly you assumed that I wan tedto make you suff er for the insul t your husbandput upon me this morn ing . I can assureyou such is not the case . I am a cul turedman

,Mrs . Ba tt iscombe, not a savage . Con

fess,you don

'

t in the least mind being here .

"

Mrs . Ba tt iscombe laughed nervously .

“Not i f you play s uare . I ’m in rather ahurry though , rea l ly .

’

Samar ra ised hi s brows mocki ngly .

“To find Mr. Moberly—o r return to yourhusband

,who happens to be in Jessel ton

“ If you are going to insu l t me, Mr. Samar

“ I do not wi sh to . I merely desire tohow you that I know everyth ing. I am a.trange man , Mrs . Batti scombe, with anextraordinary history and extraordinarypowers.

“After much travel ing I have come backto my home and my people

,to the island

the white races have taken from us,and

,i f

they could but real i ze it, so great are mypowers that i t would pay them to treat mewi th respect . ”

She glance d at her watch and held outher hand to h im .

“Wel l , good - bye, Dr . Samar . I mustn 'treally stop a momen t longer . Your storyhas been so i n teresti ng that I feel almostinclined to forgi ve you for hav ing lured mehere under false pretences . ”

Again that queer l igh t had crept i n to hiseyes .

“You are going to do more than that,

Mrs . Ba tt i scombe he assured her i n a voi cethat had dropped to a whisper . “You arecoming here again and again . At firstbecause I shal l cal l you , and you wi l l be.compel led to comeh and later because youW i l l have learn t to prefer my house to thebungalow of the l i tt le p lan ter at Buk itSerang . Now i n parting won ’ t you let megi ve you a l i t tle souven ir ? "

So say ing , he reached in h is pocket an dbrought forth a pendan t in the form of abutterfly, magn ificent ly carved from a red ,transparen t substance the color of ruby

,with

emerald eyes and swung from a chain of gold

fi l igree . I t was as thi n as a wafer, and ,almost before she was aware of i t

, he hadc las ed it around her neck .

S o stared at h im wi th fr i ghtened eyes .

You mean me to keep th is 7"

He fol ded hi s arms.“The Cr imson Butterfly , he sai d softly .

A ta l i sman to whi ch nat i ve superst it ion hasattri bu ted strange powers . I t is said thatthe wearer has but to express a wi sh—andi t wi l l most su re ly be accompl ished . Helaughed easi ly .

“ I warned you t hat I wasa magic ian

, Mrs . Batt iscombe. Even ourfr iend Mr. Moberly would scarcely be able

to provide you wi th so wonderful 8. gi ftln return for the many favors you so graciously bestow on h im !

"

The events of the afternoon had playedthe deuce wi th Vera Ba tt i scombe

'

s nerves ,and she was on the verge of hysteria .

Her face dropped sudden ly in to her handsand

,wi th a W i ld ou tburst of sobbing , she

staggered through the cu rta in i n to the clearerair of the verandah .

" How dare you l—How dare you insu l t mel i k e th ie l—That man is nothing to menothing

,I tel l you l—I W ish he were dead !

Something made her look up .

Abu ~ Samar was stan ding at a l i t t le di stancefrom her

,an d the stairway to her pony was

w i th in easy reach .

“One has to be ca refu l what one wishes,the doctor rem in ded her

,

“when one hap ensto be the wearer of the Cr imson Butter y ! "

She tore herse lf from h is gaze wi th aneff ort

,and

, runn ing madly down the stepsuntethered her moun t w ith trembl ing fingers .

Half an hour later she stumbled upon thewhi te wooden bri dge and rode headlong backto her husband's bungalow , haun ted wi th thememory of Abu - Samar's mocki ng eyes .

Her servan t ’s star tled gaze di rec ted at herchest drew her atten tion to the butterflypendan t that sti l l hung there , gl ari ng magn ificent against a wh ite background .

She shuddered involun tari ly and tuckedi t ou t of sight .

CHAPTER I I I

A K i ss and a Su r pr i seMi chae l Armourer, col league of Battis

combe at Jelandang, surveyed the two figuresin the primi t i ve thatched station who wereapparen tly wai ti ng for the dai ly train toJesse lton . But the t-rai n had left an hourbefore .

So Armourer ap‘proached Professor Stan

don and h is da ug ter Joyce apprised themof their misfortune and

,a ter i n troducing

h imself suggested that they had better consider themselves guests at h is home nearbyunt i l the morrow . After a great deal ofpow- pow and many apologies from the professor, A rmourer succeeded in pursuading thestranded pair to accept his hosp ital i ty .

The professor cal led to Joyce .

“Do you hear that

,my dear ? Mr.

Armourer says we've to put up with h im,as

there'

s nothing to take us to Jesselton unti ltomorrow .

Joyce gasped and spread out her hands .

“But I haven ’t brought a th ing—~ not even

a tooth - brush ! "

Armourer laughed .

“We can fix you up with that all right,

he assured her .“

Dick Moberly , a fri end of mine , has anesta tewi th in a mi le of my house . I f there ’sanyth i ng else you real ly requ ire

,you had

better wri te a l i t t le note to Mrs . Ba tt iscombeat Remhakut—and I 'l l run over before dinner .

Joyce , who was by th is t ime thorough lyreconc i led to the prospect of a n ight speri tW i thout her

_luggage and secret ly exul tan t

that the acc i dent had put an end to Whathad prom i sed to be a dul l and uni n teres t ingafternoon , agreed to fo ll ow Armour er .

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You ’re j ust it ch ing to get back to her !"

she concluded for him .

“All right , he sa id;

“I'l l sto p. One ofJ im 's men can take the stuff .

“ I t 's awful ly ood of you . Just a minute

an d I ’ l l get the t i ngs . Do you want to sendany message ?”

Armourer rubbed his chin.

“Better te l l the professor I'm delByed hereon business

,but hope to be across in an hour

or so . He needn'

t t rouble to wai t ti punless

he wants to . Shal l I wr i te i t down ?" Oh

,no . I

'l l see that Corporal Kuramansends somebody wi th intel li gence .

A s she passed the long mi rror she looked

in to i t and smi led .

As they crossed the wide stretch grassl an d in whi ch h is home lay,aogii ple of

tem era bounded down the steps and cameSCl

ilTYlng to mee t them.

t was somewhere between tea and (i ithat Armourer , return ing from an excur

r

iiii iito Mober ly ’

s estate sho fouon the veran dah .

p nd Joyce alone

He dropped qu ite a fair- sized parcel intoher lap .

“Wel l , there

’

s your tooth- brushWhere ’s the professor ?"

he md'

She shook her head .

“I haven

’

t the leas t idea . He’s wanderedout somewhere .

”

“But he wi ll come back,of course?

i nqu i red A rmourer wi th mock anxi ety .

“Of course . Don'

t you want him to ?“My proper answer would be~ yes, most

certa in ly ; but what I real ly want to say isthat, i f I am to be employed as a left- luggageoffi ce by absen t- m inded professors of poisonsh er—wel l , i t occurs to me that you’re ratherthe

‘

sort of baggage I should l ike to be leftbeh i nd and never c laimed ! Now that wasreal ly c lever ; wasn

'

t i t ? Do look at thatsun set !”

The glory of the heavens—now that thesun had gone —left her breathless and trembling .

She looked up at h im .

I have never seen anyth ing li ke itshe murmured .

“ Isn't it just wonderfulf“By Jove , i t is ,

" averred Armourer buthe was l ooking at her , and for him the gloriesof the Eastern sunset were forg otten .

I t was towards n ine o'clock when VeraBa t t iscombe, immersed in the contents of apaper- covered volume , was pleasantly sur

pr i sed when Michael Armourer timidlyascended the steps and came in to the radiusof the lampl ight . He extended a large hand.

How are you , Mrs . Batt iscombe? I’ve

come over on rather a del icate mi ssi on Iwas going to dispatch an orderly on the Job,but got i t i nto my head that he mi ght muckit up . I shou ld never have forgiven myselfi f I 'd rol led up wi th a pair of Jim

'

s pyjamasinste ad of a mgh t ie !

"

“What on earth are you talki ng about ?This

,said A rmourer

,and thrust a sealed

en velope i n to her hand .

“ I 've visi tors at myplace . They missed the train and didn'

tbri ng any luggage . I managed to fix up theold man ; but the lady presented di ffi culti es.

"

Mrs . Bat iscombe perused th e contents ofthe let ter wi th an amused smile. Then shesudden ly sighed .

“ I l oathe si tt ing up here al l alone,"she

said .

“And J im won'

t be back unti l late ! Ihaven

'

t spoken to a soul except Hoon-Ki t

si nce tea . Be a Chr ist ian and si t down andtalk for a bi t . "

“Sorry,Mrs . Batt iscombe, but I have got

to get back to my guests. Besides you'

re forgett ing the parcel !She came right up to him, putti ng every

ounce of p leadi ng she knew how into her eyes .“Half an hour !”

He picked up his hat .“Can 't be done . You see, Mi ss Standens

probably ti red and waiting for her ki t, and

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When she returned, Vera possessed hersel fof an arm and led Armourer towards thegramophone.

“Let’s dance. Let'

s pretend we’re in a

real ly smart restaurant in a real ly big townand that we

've had a rea l ly nice dinner !”From tha t moment his enthusiasm grew

until they raced back to the mach ine a t theconclusion of each tune and the records overflowed on to the table and the floor as theywere played and disca rded .

A sudden thought made him lancc at hiswa tch . They were in the midd e of a one.

step, and she held h is wrist , try in to stophim looking. He succeeded at lengt and hisface fell.

“What is it ?"

she asked .

Qua rter past eleven.

"

I t can't be.

”

It is, by Jove!"

He held it so that she could see for herself .“Just one more, she pleaded .

He hesitated .

“Ri ght- ho ! The very last , mind .

They ran to the gramophone and hisfingers sou ht the handle a second only afterhers . In t e exci tement of the moment heallowed them to rema in longer than he hadintended .

“Michael ! "

Hewas aware of the sansa t ion of somethingcold trickli ng down his spine. He turned tofind her upturned face so c lose to h im tha t hefel t her warm brea th on h is cheeks . Thosel ips of hers were the very devi l !He hadn

'

t the remotest idea why he, did it .Never in his wildest imaginings had he everintendt d to supplant D ick Moberl" li e

cou ld have sworn that , without any effort onhis art , those l ips came closer—unti l tltouc ed hisA voice came from the sta irway“Hel lo, you two ! Wha t on earth are. you

up toArmourer brought his head up with a jerk

and turned awkwardly to greet James Batt iscombe.

Vera was coo lness itself .“Hull o, Jim ! Back at. last ? I didn't go

over to Buki t - Serang after all. I was stoppedhere on my own

,unti l Mr. A rmourer rode

over for some clothes for a girl who'

d got

stranded with her fa ther. He told me the

tra in was late and I made him stop . We'

vebeen dancing .

Her husband stood in the centre of the

floor, hi s topee at the back of h is head ,swi nging hi s monaele on its string .

“So I see,

”he remarked , in a tone that

was entirely new to her. He nodded to

Armourer .“Well, Michael ! P laying the good Samari

tan The younger man fel t uneoi r fel l ab le.

“ I had to dec ide,

”he managed to sa y ,

“te

tween my unexp ected guests and Ml s .

Batt iscombe.

“You had no difficul ty ,I take it , in coming

to a decisionVera frowned .

" ‘

I persuaded h im to stay .

He thrust his hands in h is pockets and

looked at her.

“ I'l l wager you did ! Wel l , goodnight ,

Michael . I 'l l t ry to drop over and see you

one of these days . I hope you're not too tired ,Vera , because I

’

ve, quite a lot I want to sayto you.

”

J im I”Wel lShe came c loser .Why were you so rude to Mr. Armourer

Look here, Vera,"he excla imed, how

much longer is th is sort of thing to go on?

57 Canadi an Ra i lroader . Montrea l

D o you expec t me to be pol i te to theseha rmless acqua intances of yours for aneterni t y ?Comp letely bewildered , she racked her

bra in for some c lue to the solution of herhusband

'

s changed atti tude.

Dec i d ing a retrea t would be strategic shemade a sudden inevement towards her room .

If you’

ve noth ing but these vile, vagueaccusat ions to level a t me, I

'

m go ing to bed.

"

He.stepped between her and the door .

“

L i sten to me,”he sa id stemly ,

“veu ’renot gomg to leave th is verandah unti l you

'veheard every th ing I ’

ve got to say .

"

She tried to push past him,but he caught

her by both a rms and forced her into a cha i r .She sprang out of it. aga in

,her cheeks very

wh i te, her eyes blaz ing .

“How da re you t reat me l ike that ! How

dare you bul l y me!"

Her lower l ip quiveredand she buried her face in her hands . Sheco l lapsed in the cha ir aga in seeking refugei n tears,

“You—hurt—me.

Remembering something, he di ved a handinto a side- pocket and threw a bulky packeti nto her lap .

She glanced at i t through her f ngers , butdid not move.

You wi l l find some of y our own lettersthere,

”he to ld her hoarsely

,

“letters fromMoberly to his wi fe suggesting a divorce andletters from Mrs . Moberly to the Governor .I am counting on you to exp la in why Moberlyshould have imag ined his wife had groundsfor obta ining a divorce.

“

$hat was why he wanted to see you

es .

She dabbed her eyes wi th her handkerch ief .And you bel ieve all these - horrib le

fabrications“What else am I to bel ieve ? “

You say

you didn't go to Bukit -Serang th i s after

noon“No

Why not ? I f you are go ing to tell me i t.was out of any sense of

_decent feeli no for

me,I'

m afra id I can't bel i eve i t .

She was dangerously near tea rs aga in.

Jim,why are you such a beast to me

Why are you such a beast to me?"

“ I'

m not , she sobbed . I’

ve‘

ust tried toamuse myself, tha t

's all. I did iss Mi chaelA rmourer . I made him kiss me. You don'tsuppose I did that because I cared about him ?

I was just bored tha t was all. You ’re luckytha t ’s all that has happened ; but i t i s

honest ly !He glanced down a t hi s hands.“ D o you swear tha t he

presently in a low VOi ce.

She rose with a sudden movement and

leaned aga inst him ,smoothing the lapels of

his jacket between finger and thumb . She

looked up a t h im , her blue eyes that seemedso honest brimming over with mute appea land Jim Ba t t iscombe succumbed .

“ I'

ve been a l it tle rotter to you ,t

Jim ,

she whispered .

“You must. be firm W i th msin future—ever so fi rm ;do you understand

?

Her husband nodded . He was so utterlyovercome, so profoundly optimi st i c that thei rmarried l i fe had found its second Wi nd , tha the forgot she had evaded h i s questi on.

“Poor l ittle woman!"

he murmured pre

sently .

“I'

m afra id I ’ve been very much to

blame.

" He caught sight of the pi le of

letters in their bindi ng of offi cia l tape thathad fa l len to the floor as she rose.

‘ “We

'

l lburn those damned letters—every blessedone of

’cm . Anyhow ,

”he added fiercely ,

th is afiai r’

s shown up Moberly In;

h i s truecolors. You won

't want to see h im aga in.

I sup se he’

s given you presents—brooches

and t'

ngs“You want me to send them backRa therl—every one!

"

demanded

She was sti l l nestling inhis arms andthere was a gap between her frock and herneck .

“Hullo l” he exclaimed ,“what’s this ?

Hi s glance had fa l len on the cha in of goldfi l i gree, and before she could prevent him hehad drawn the Crimson Butterfly from i tsh id ing-

place into the lamp- l ight . “ I'

ve neverseen th i s before.

"

He groped for the fastening with his grea tfingers .

_A moment la ter he held the pendant in

h is pa lm and Vera stood a l i ttle way fromh im cudgel l ing hcr ferti le brain for someexcuse to account for its presence there.

As he pawcd i t wondering] strue'

i

momentari lv dumb bv the sheer ieauty o fthe thing, a queer feel ing sto le over h im .

He cou ld have sworn that he was hand l ingsomething unutterably unclean.

He looked up sharplv.

“Did he give vou this, too ?

Mrs. Bat t iscombe hesita ted . She was on

the po int of expla ining how Abu-Samar hadsto ped her, induced her to go to his housean forced her to accept the gift , when sherea l ized the diffi culties besetting anv suchconfession. She had a lreadv to ld him tha tshe had refra ined from embarking upon herproposed dition to inspect Moberlv

'

s

newlv-e recte club- house. She would haveto correc t that statement

,which would be a

remarkablv bad beginning to a rather improbable storv. Jim had doubted her oncetha t nigh t , and having put these doubts tofl ight , it would be a p i tv to risk arousingthem again.

“E r—y es . I t

'

s pret tv, isn't it ?

He dropped i t on the table.

“Extraordinari lv so. Wonder where he

got i t ?She gave the fa intest shrug t oher shoulders .

In some bazaa r in Columbo or Singapore,

I fanev. He did not tel l me.

Batt iscombe s l id from his perch , and ,

foraging for some moments in a cupboard ,unea rthed a sheet of brown paper . Hespread it out and placed the pendant on it .

“Tha t’ l l make a good sta rt , anvwav.

Trot out a ll the other l ittle tokens of sfi'

ec

tion, dear, and we'l l get this job of? our

chests .

”

She sighed deeply .

Must we do i t tonight ?

For once he was firm.

Absolutelv. I t won'

t take vou a moment. "

She went to her room.

Five m inutes la ter he carried 0 5 a l i tt leoblong parcel to the back of the house. He

came back smi l ing .

“And that 's the end o f R ichard Moberlv!

I’ve given it to Kuraman, and our worthyp lanter will find i t when he comes on to

the verandah for an earlv breakfast . It'

l lhelp him to sta rt the dav wel l !

She surveved h im doubtfullv.

Oughtn't I to have writ-ten?

He shook his head .

“ In future , whenever the necess i tv arisesfor anyone to write to D i ck Mober ly ,

i t'

sgoing to be your lawful husband !

"

S he was a rranging her ha i r in front of theglass when J im ’s hea d and shoulders cameround the door .

“ I say , Vera !"

Yes she responded through a mouthfullof pins.

“ I didn'

t tel l you , did I ? TheCommiss ioner

's instructed me to watc h thatblack fel ler closely .

She looked around .

B lack fellow ?"

I'

m so t i red .

Canadi an Ra llroader. Montrea l

Why,

es; the chap who sty les h imsel fDr . Abu mar. I happened ‘

to menti onour l i ttle encounter th i s morni ng and he

t qui te exci ted . As far as I canmake out ,ar

’s not a doctor at all. He

’s a revo

luti onary of a most dangerous type and has

a lrea dy gi ven troub le in Sarawak . He’s

beli eved to get a hold over the nati ves.

byshear lU‘

pnOtJ SID . He can make ’em bel i eve

amrth ing . Well , good nigh t, l i ttle woman.

Sleep well .The door c losed softly .

CHAPTER V

Vera's Dream

Tha t night , Vera Batt iscombe dreamed a

pecul iar dream—a dream so vivi d tha t uponawakening it was hard to bel ieve she had notundergone the experiences her subconsc i oussense had seemed to lead her to.

After closing her eyes she seemed to havefloa ted away to Abu - Samar's where he heldher a capt ive and to ld her the legend thatyears ago h is compatriots worsh i pped a

white girl who wore the butterfly pendantand whose ki ss was dea th . Many moonspassed and the goddess disappeared, but now,

AbuS amar e pla ined , since she wore thependant he could make her the goddess a t

the shrine of the Crimson Butterfly .

“Listen,”

she screamed . This i s all a

tri ck, an act of vengeance because my husband unfortuna tely insulted you when you

came to h im yesterday . I am an Engl ishwoman. I was born there. I shou ld neverhave come to this wretched island if I hadn'tmarried . Now take me back.

"

“Goddess of the Crimson Butterfly heseemed to taunt her,

“ I have summoned youfi and you have come. The dog is stil l sleepi ng, the l ittle soldi ers in the round ha ts havenot sti rred . To Abu - Samar those th ings areas nothing . You have sent my gift awaybut it wil l come back to you ; i t wil l a lway scome back—and the Ki ss of the goddess i sdeath ! "

S he c lapped her hands over her ea rs toshu t out the sound of his vo ice

,and, turning

on her heel , ran heedlessly into the darkness .

The. night a i r was cold and moi st, and sud

dcnly she rea l ized tha t she was standing on

the soft earth at the foot of the long flight ofsteps that led up to her own bunga low .

I t was a lmost l ight now and the fea therytops of the palm trees showed l ike phantomcrea tions above a sea of bil lowy mi st .She was about to sei ze the wooden ra il and

comrr ence, the as cent,when she discovered

tha t her hands were fu l l . S he was staringwi th startled ey es upon a brown- paper packettha t had somehow become broken open andfrom which protruded the Crimson Butterfly .

The sound of quick footsteps above made.her thrust the packet into the pocket of thepy j ama Jacket she wore.

_Jam_es Bat t i scombe, h i s face very whi te,

h i s ha i r on end, peered down at her.

"Vera ! Where on ear th have you been ?

You gave me the shock of my l ife.

"

He hurr i ed down the steps and carried herup .

.

A minute la ter she was in a long cha ir,

Wi th a blanket wrapped around her, making

faces at the brandy he insisted on forcingbetween her l i ps .

“

I thought I heard you moving and wenti nto your room, he e\ :pla ined, tapping thecork ba ck into the bottle.

“You weren't

there. I didn’

t know what to think.

I toccurred to me that , after the row we hadlast ni gh t, you

’

d got snorky an'

d bol ted .

He rested h is hands on his hi ps and beamed

h im .

She rema ined , a hand on ei ther door - post,star i ng through the opening between thebl inds . The color had comeback to her cheeksand there was a triumphant l igh t in her eyes .

Septunber, 1926: Vol. X ..No. 3

CHAPTER VI

Tragi c News

Hu l lo ,young people! Sorry I ’

m late fort i f

‘Ii n.

”

The professor came up the stairs breathi ngheavily . H is face was very red and gli stenedwi th moisture , his tunic was open and he

was mudded up to his knees.Joyce sprang to her feet and ran to meet

him .

“Father ! Where on earth have you been?”

He kissed the top of her head and waveda pecul iar object over her back at Armourer.

“Wha t d’

you think of thatThe magistra te removed h i s pi pe

’

from be

tween h is teeth and observed i t curi ously .

“A bu tterfly net ,"he suggested .

Exa ctly—and if I'd had i t half an hour

ago ,I 'd have saved myself a lot of unnecm

sary exer tion.

"

Hi s daughter took i t from him.

“I t

’

s very nice, of course, but I don t see

wha t use i t i s. "“No ,

” sa id her fa ther,“ I don

'

t for one

moment suppose you do. I shouldn t myself,if I hadn’ t caught sight of the butterfly. l

swas a unique spec imenfl lar‘ge and red an

_

articularly clumsy in fl igh t. Well , I saw theButterfly and fol lowed it for about a coup e

of m i les . I had nothing Wi th me exce t m)’

helmet, so I dipped my handerkehi e I

’

l

Il‘

h

fl

stream and knotted i t over my head .e

crea ture fl ew low and a dozen times 1 ‘

t s

wi thin an ace of ca tching i t—bu_t I di dnt.

The D o. nodded sympa theti cal ly.

“Where was this ?”

d aQui te near the bunga low you showe U

in the trees .

”

“Mober ly ’s pla ce! "

down at her.

“You don 't usual ly walk inyour sleep do you

“NO ,

"she as sen ted weak ly , “ I don ’ t th ink

I 've ever done i t before .

"

And then an irresistible drowsiness steal ingover her she fel l asleep .

Mrs. Bat t i scombe bl inked and looked up ,some hours later .

She was sti l l I in in the long cha ir on theverandah and the IJIue sunbl inds had beendrawn . There fi l tered up to her through themorn ing air the chattering of natives, thecon tented clucking of hens, the ring of an axein the forest .She yawned and was abou t to turn over

and con tin ue her slumbers when her fingerstouched the pocket of her pyjama coat andev tracted the parcel wh ich should have goneto Mober ly at dawn .

She held i t at a rm ’s length , and , as she di dso

,the ghas tly detai ls of her nightmare buil t

themselves up in her imagination wi th avivi dness that set her trembl ing . I t had notal l been a dream

,could not have been , for

here was a portion of i t—glaringly concrete— within her fingers . She was weary , too ,thoroughly exhausted , as if she had undergone some stupendous fat igue .

Her watch had stopped . Stil l holding theblanket round her

,she crept to the l iving

room door and saw , by the clock that hungon the wall

,that it was ten minutes past

eleven .

Jim would be coming from the court- houseat noon .

She unearthed a fresh sheet of paper andmade the parcel up again . A strong impulseassai led her to withdraw the butterfly pendantand di spose of i t in some manner when herhusband was away , but she fough t i t down .

The thing frightened her . She must get i tout of the house or she would go mad .

I n the seclusion of her own room she scrambled in to some clothes and penned a hastynote to Dick .

“My Dear ,Jim has come to h is senses at last and

,

for a time at least,we must put an end to

everyth ing . Keep everyth ing you find here .

Some day I hope to be able to see you andexplain—Vera .

She was about to fold i t when force ofhabi t made her add her inevitab le posts cript .An awfu l scene last n ight ; i t made me

dream . Rotten , isn't i t —V.

She pushed i t between the folds of thebrown paper and rang the bel l .In her exci ted frame of mind

,i t seemed an

eterni ty before Hoon - Ki t shuffled to the doorand knocked .

Give this to one of the Tuan - Hakim 'smen and tel l hi m to take i t immediately tothe Tuan Moberly ’s house . I t is the parcelthat should have gone earl ier th is morning

.

He need say nothing to the Tuan - Hakim .

TahuThe man grinned and wi thdrew .

In five minutes he was back again.

“The man has gone,

” he reported.

She heaved a deep sigh of rel ief .The man was very g lad , resumed Hoon

K i t ,_looking down at h is feet .

“The TuanHakim gave h im the packet last night—andth is morn ing he could not find it . He fearedthat the Tuan would be angry .

”

“Ba i . :- lah, Hoon -K i t

,

" and she dismissed

Th ings had turned out better than shdared to expect . Moberly ’s presentsehisgone back to h im , there was no danger hewould return the Crimson Butterfly, and Jimwould never know the parcel had been delayse

éi .

e started violently . Throu h thatmg at the head of the stairs Vi

gherem:21

1

i,threw a. rectangle of yel low l ight across theboarded floor there fluttered an enormouscri mson butterfly . I t circled for a momentin the sunl ight, beat against the bl inds thensettled on the table by her cha ir .She stood there, rooted to the spot, her

eyes drawn to i t by a strange fascination. It

swooped in to the ai r again and flew straighttoward her .

She uttered a wild scream and Hoon -Kitwho had been laying the table for the midday meal , hurried on to the verandah.

The mem is i ll ?” he inquired blankly.

She waved her arms frantical ly.

Drive i t away,

” she cried . Quickly !that cush ionE—a ny thing l

—i t's horrible~ horrible ! "

Hoon - Ki t reached behind him for a tablenap kin and hi t at the thing as it passed .

He missed i t by inches and stood staringafter i t as i t wheeled into the open again andwas gone .

“The Crim son Butterfly !” she exclaimedin a Voice that was barely a whi sper.The Chinaman nodded .

“ Yah—a butterfly ; that’s al l ! The mem

does not l ike red butterfli es he suggested.

She endeavored to conju re u a smi le.Thank you , Hoon- K i t ,

” s 8 said.

“Itwas very stu id of me . I did not see it wasa butterfly . l

)

thought i t was something else.

Bring me a bottle of lager for your master;he wil l be here very soon now.

"

As soon as he had gone, she sank into achai r .

“ I t had green eyes,sel f

,I saw them .

she muttered to her

Seplemba . 1926: Vol . X . . No. 3

I think that was the name you to ld us.I was rom ted to call and ask if any th i ngl ike i t ad been seen there before, but I remembered i t was lunchtime . The fi rst humanthi ng I met was the Sikh—a picturesquefellow wi th curl ing beard and an elaborateturban . He told me hi s name was GholamSingh. He had wi tnessed my wi ld career afterthe butterfly and knew exactly what I wanted .

So he made me this net . "

His daughter smi led .

“But why do you st i ll want i t, she asked .

He drummed wi th his fi ngers on his knees .“To go after i t again , of cou rse . Butterfl ies

breed quickly and where there is one thereshould be others. He glanced sharply atArmourer . “Have you ever seen oneThe D .O. shook his hea d .

“ I don't remember ever notici ng one tha tanswers to your description , but then , yousee, I

'm not a natural ist.“But you couldn't miss a thing l ike that ,

the other insisted , nobody could .

"

“And you are qu ite dete rmined to get oneof them before you leave Borneo ?Most certainly .

"

Armourer rubbed his hands together .“Then that settl es i t . There's only onething for i t . You 'l l have to tel l the people atJesselton to send your barang up here , andgi ve me the pleasure of your company foranother week at leas t . Mi ss Standen , I amcounting on you to be a sport and back me

up .

It certa inly sounds very tempting,” s‘.

admitted .

“Doesn 't i t,daddy ? ”

“Well , Armourer , answered Standen ,now I want to stay

,but I don

't want to bethought a sticker !Joyce looked at Armourer .“Wha t he real ly means to say is tha t he

knows jolly wel l we oughtn 't to bother youany further and that our obvious du ty is toget back to Jessel ton th is afternoon , but hedoes so wan t to use that butterfly net !”

Afte r lunch Professor Standen retired to

hi s room to change his sui t for one Armourerhad lent him .

Joyce sti rred her coffee though tfully .

“Do you real ly want us to stop , Mr .

ArmourerThe D o. looked up .

“Ra ther !HonestlyOf course . To tell you the truth , Mi ss

Standen,I ’m so grimly determined to keep

you here that I 'm iss u ing instructions to thenatives to swat every red butterfly in theneighborhood and so dispose of their corpsesthat your fa ther'll never find ‘em .

’

She looked down at the cloth .

That wouldn't be fair, would i t ?No, but it wou ld be frightful ly effect ive .

We couldn ’ t stay here for ever, you know .

Father counted on being in Borneo for amonth and then going on to the Phil ippines .We’ve been here more than a week al ready .

”

Armourer fi l led his pipe .

“ I suppose i t 's really rather selfish of meto try and kee you anchored in one spot .You see

, Miss tanden , when one is forced tomove in a restri cted area one forgets thatvi si to rs

,wi th a l im i ted number of days at

their disposal,want to move around and see

everythi ng there is to be seen . You 're prettyfed up Wi th me

,aren ’t you , for using the

crimson butte rfly as a lever to persuade yourfather to stopThe gi rl flushed .

“Oh no . I wanted him to stay . I hate just

rushing about,etting glimpses of hundreds

of laces. I t re uces one to the level of the0 h ary tourist . Whenever I look back onthis one real big adventure o f ours, I want toremember that I li ved , for a while at l east ,exac tly as the peo le do who have to be hereall thei r li ves . I

)

shall always rememberJelandan

gand your tha tched bungalow

and the ogs . Lots of other thi ngs, too.

10

59 Canadi an Ra i lroadcr . Montrea l

CHAPTER VII

said Vance .

“Er—Ar

A shadow crossed Armourer‘s face .There

were some th ings he would never forget ei ther—that mad dance at Rembakut the nightbefore, those cursed l ips of Vera's and theunex ected arrival of her husband

.Somehow

or ot.

er , he d idn 't want Joyce to meet VeraBa t t i scombe.

“I haveh

every reason to be grateful foryour m i ssing that tra in

,

" he sai d .

“ I tscarcely seems possible tha t i t could onlyhave ha ppened yeste rday . Just fancy

,we

have only had one look at the bay together,

one walk up the slope and one sunset—andyet, to me at leas t, i t seems as i f we havenever been domg anything else . Twenty- fourhours ago I was feeli ng unutte rably lonely .

I was bored With myself,bored wi th my job

,

fed to‘

the teeth wi th everythingThei r eyes met .“Were you real ly ? You poor thi ng ! Then

we were ac tual ly doing you a good turn incom ing to stay with you ?"He pushed back hi s cha i r ." I should just thi nk you were ! I hadn't

seen a decent- looking whi te woman forheaven knows how many mon ths . "

_

“

Except Mrs. Batt iscombe,

" she reto rtedw ickedly .

“Oh , you can

’ t deny she‘s verybeauti ful and frightfully attrac tive . Anybo dy Wlll tell you that . Even I kne w it , andI'

ve Only been in Jess elto n a week! And Iheard you ride back las t n ight , you know .

He was staring at her awkwardly , endeavoring to frame some form of defence , when afigure appeared suddenly at t h e doorway . Itwas Vance Moberly ’s fi rst assistant .

“Sorry to butt in on you l ike this, Armourer .but rather a to rible th ing ’s happened .

"

What's the trouble ?Vance rubbed his chin and looked from

Armourer to Joyce .

“ You 'd better come inside and I 'l l tell you .

"

“ I ’l l come now. You ’ l l excuse me, Mis8Standen

“Certain ly .

He fol lowed the other on to the verandah .

“Well ?"

Moberly ’s dead !What !”

He's dead,said Vance again . Trevor

found him just after lunch . He was doubledup in hi s cha i r on the verandah . Trevor sentfor me .

”

Armourer glanced at his watch .

“ I'l l r ide over with you . Any idea of thecauseVance p i i rscd up his l ips .

“He was poisoned,of cou rse . There

'

s no tthe least doubt abo ut that He'd gone aghastly color . It 's a queer business altogether .There was a piece of paper between h is fingersand an opened packet on the table at h isside

.

” He lowered hi s voice. “You know , ofcourse

,that Mrs . Ba tt iscombe used to run

over there pretty frequen tly . Well, the aperappeared to be a note from her an

_theeket contained some brooches and thi ngs

c’

d given her .The magistrate picked up his hat .“She turned him down .

”

I t looks l ike i t . ”

And you suggest he poisoned himself ?’

The planter frowned .

“ I don ’ t know what to think . There’

s ahorrible crimson mark right ac ross h is leftcheek

,l ike a ghas tly birthmark , and shaped

l ike a butte rfly .

"

The Red Dea th

As they rode up the slope towardsMoberly 'sbungalow a short dark man came down thesteps to meet them .

“Hello, Armourer ! Glad you've rolled up .

Ro tte n busi ness , isn’t i t

Armourer had caught sight of the huddledform in the chair .

“I’

m fri ghtful ly sorry . Poor old Dick ! I tlooks l ike poison .

They moun ted the steps and as they stoodbeforethe body , Vance was the firs t to breakthe S i lence .

“T here’s that mark I to ld you about ,

" hesa id huski ly .

The magi strate went forward .

Control l ing his nerves wi th an eff ort, hetook the dead man ’s shoulders and pushedh im gently from his huddled position unti lhe lay outs tretched . R ight acress h is leftcheek, from the fringe of his hair to the baseof the jawbone

,ex tended a vivid crimson

ras h where the skin had come up in lumps,as if stung by a nettle .

There was a letter between the fingers ofthe right hand

,and from the diminutive parcel

on the table dangled the Butterfly pendant,sus nded from i ts chai n of gold fi l igree .

rrnourer stared as he recogni zed i t as thependant Mrs . Ba t t iscombe had worn theevening before .

Armourer glanced at the packet again anda sudden thought struck him. He withdrewthe remaining few links of the chain anddangled the pendant in front of Moberly ’sleft cheek .

He looked back at the others .

“Anything strike you he asked .

Vance started .

“Yes,by Gad ! I t s practically the same

thing in miniature .The magistrate found an old envelope andtucked the ornament into i t .

“ I don't know what to think ,” he admitted ,

but I 'm going to take charge of this untilI 'm satis fied i t has no beari ng on the causeof Dick's sudden death . I t ’s a confoundednuisance the docto r's away .

“How about that black fellow , AbuSamar suggested Vance .

Armourer rubbed his chin .

“Lord ! I must be daft ! Here , Trevor,send somebody over to my place at once andask Profes sor Standen to come across. Youcan get your black fellow too , i f you l ike .

Trevor shot down the steps and called toa tal l Sikh who was coming up the slope, tofetch Standen and Abu-Samar .

In the mea ntime Vance and Armourerpossessed themselves of Vera

's note andscanned i t hasti ly .

“Jim has come to h is senses at lastwe must put an end to eve th ing .

Keep everything you find ere.Some day I hope to expla in . An awful scenelast ni ght, i t made me dream .

Ro tten , is n't i t ?”

Their eyes met.“ I t bea ts me,

mourer ! "“Well ?I don ’ t know exactly how you ’ re inclined

to regard thi s busi ness, but I think we cansafely leave J immie Batt iscombe out of it .Can 't we keep our mouths shut about thatletter ?"

Armourer assente d .

Their hands gri pped .

“ I ’m glad you think tha t, sa id Vancebrokenly . Suddenly a so und broke upon

'

h i s

ears and he sat perfectly st i ll, l isten ing .

“What's that ?The magistra te had gone to the rai l .“Somebody coming through the trees on

horseback—ri di ng l ike the devi l . He caughtVance ’s arm and pul led him up.

“Here,qui ckly !

Canadi an Ra i lroad” . Montrea l

Wha t'

s the ma tter ?I don’ t know.

” He threw open the firstdoor he found and drew the other through i t .“Don’ t utter a sound .

"

They stood in the shadow with the doora er.JAlmos t before Vance cou ld co l lect himself ,

the rider had dis mounted . He hea rd a voice—a woman’s voi ce—ca l l ing.

" D i ckl—D ickl—Are you up there ?I t was Vera Batt iscombe.

Suddenly she laughed, s tanding before h im .

Why, he

'

s as leep ! " she murmured and

went forward as if to shake him .

Then two piercing shrieks and Vera'

sagonized voi ce.

“ I t was true, then! They have ki l led him !He told me The Crimson Butterfly ! "

Her hands c lasped to her ears, she ran,panic stricken, to the sta ir- head .

She turned suddenly , controllin her nerveswith a stupendous eff ort , and wal ed deli bera tely to the packet on the table. Her trembl ing fingers to re at the paper, sca ttering thecontents broadcas t .

“Gone ! " she mu ttered hoarsely .

“Theyhave found it ! "

She reeled, one arm bent over her forehead ,and fel l heavi ly to the floor in a dead fa int .A moment la ter Vance and A rmourer had

placed her on a bed upsta i rs—then Michaeldas hed downsta irs as he heard Trevor, AbuSamar and Standen enter the house.

The magistra te sent Sama r, the a l legeddoctor, up to minister to Vera, whi le he

e'xplained thewhole case to Professor Standen,

omi tting no deta i l and dwel l ing upon theghastly coincidence of the butterfly rashand the pendant .A few minutes later Vance came down

sta irs .“Mrs. Ba t t iscombe

'

s come around all

right ,"

he announced ,“but she seems in a

pretty bad way . Wc’

d better get J immieover here.

Armourer set his jaw Frmly .

“No . We'

ll have her ca rried to my placeand advi se him from there. I 'd l ike Trevorto see her sa fely over . You're a med ica lman, of course, Profes so r ?Standen glanced over his shoulder .“Oh , yes ; I

’

m a doctor right enou h .

He stripped off his jacket , ro l le up hi ssleeves and ripped open the dead man's tunic .

“ I tel l you wha t, Armourer , I'

m not leaving Borneo unti l I l ave secured a spec imenof t] at particu lar type of insect. It

'

s mostpro vident ial l was on the s t when thisoccurred . We are undoubted y on the verge(

fif a great discovery—a poisonous butteryArmourer looked up and saw Abu- Sama r

in the doorway .

“Wel l , doctor, and how's your pa tient ?She is deli rious, he replied .

“S

'

ie kee sasking for a certa in a rtic le of jewelry whici t appea rs , she has lost . I t m ight helpma ttci s to give i t her.

Ai mourer looked hard at Trevor .“Oh , yes !

"

he returned eas i ly .

“What so rtof ornament , Dr . Samar

“A ruby ornament on a go ld cha in—wi themera ld eyes ,

” sa i d Sama r,

“ have any of

you seen i t

Nobody admi tted having seen i t.Samar looked at his wa tch .

I am.

go ing away now. I ropose lookingback th i s evening to see if t ere is an improvement . She W i l l be all fight until t en.

"

Armourer smi led p leasant ly .

“You needn't bother, Dr . Sama r . Mr .

Ba tt iscombe wi l l be over short ly and Iexpect he will want to send for his ownmedica l man. I

’m afra id I was res nsible

for troubl ing you in this case an you’d

better apply to me for your fee. Goodafternoon, Dr . Samar . Thanks very much .

You ’ l l send that chit to me, won't you 7

"

They ca rried the planter between themto his own room,

and Trevor accompani edMrs . Batt iscombe to the magistra te

’

s bunga low .

I t was five o’c lock when the three rema in

i Eng li shmen sa t in consul tation round theable upon which the trinkets had oncereposed .

“Poi soned by some insect—the exact natureof which is unknown,

" sa id the professorsuddenly , as if he had been tu rning the

phra se over in h is mind for some time.

The magi stra te looked up .

“You would give a certificate to thateff ect ? "

Standen sprea d out his hands .Most certa inly . Wha t else cou ld one

sayNothing, of course. I was only interested

to learn how you wou ld put i t .”

Armourer ca ught Vance'

s eye.

“Well, tha t'

s settled . I'

m awfu l ly obl igedto you , professo r . Vance, old son, you can

'

tdo any good moping about here. Come overand have dinner with us . We

'

ll meet Trevorand make him join us .

"

They rode through the trees, the professo rmounted onMrs . Batt i scombe

’

s pony . Theywere within a qua rter of a mi le of Armourer 'shou

’se when Standen whee led round on the

pat“Wha t

'

s the matter ? " asked the magistrate. The professor frowned deeply .

“ I f you young men wil l excuse me, I'

ll go

back and have another look at Mr. Moberly .

I don'

t expect to bemore than ha lf an hour .When the professo r returned they were

all si tting on the verandah . Joy ce had justcome from her room, where Mrs . Ba tti s

fiombe now lay , and Tre vor was ta lking to

er.

Thc professo r beckoned to Vance.

“Are you quite sure of your men hedemanded .

The p lanter sta rted .

“Yes, I su pose so . Why ?Beca use i

)

feel convinced tha t somebodyl ad been in Moberly ’s room between thetime tha t we left and when I got back there.

The body was not in the same posi tion,

there was a pecu lia r pungent odor hangingeverywhere—and the mark on the fa ce hadent i rely vanished !

CHAPTER VI I I

A Ba ttl ing Mystery

Armourer felt Joyce at his side.

“I'

m th imt ing for informa tion, she expla ined softly .

The magi stra te smi led down at h“Wha t. do you want to know ?Oh , hea ps of things: Why Mr. Vance

came for you in such a hurry after tif’f’in;

why you sent for daddy ; why Mrs . Ba ttiscombe fell i l l so suddenly—and why you allpersist in indulging in whispered conversations ? ls somebody dead ?

"

A rmourer started .

“Yes ,"

he fel t bound to confess .

“T'

:e

planter who owned tl a t nice bunga low inthe trees died this a fternoon—very sud lcnl

'

l .

There was no doctor l‘andv so we sent, forProfesso r Standen. Mrs . Ba tt iscombe rode

September , 1926: Vol. x. .No. 3

over to see Mr. Moberly, and~ well the

mai den news tha t he had pegged out upset

Armourer was not feol in anforta ble at tha t moment .

gHemamtha t Vera Ba tt iscombe was in a high few,

and_a l i tt le afra id to what extremes her

deli ri um mi ght carry her. Above all hehad no desi re for Joyce to lean fromherravmgs exact ly what happenedat Remba " i i ton the prev ious evenin In his keenness

'

toso l ve the my stery of t e Crimson Butter-fl “he had forgotten unti l that moment thaiBa tt iswmbe had surprised them on theverandah and would be inc lined to regardthe presence of Vera—i l l and at Armourer'shouse—W i th suspi c ion.

There ensued a long pause, at the end ofwhich Joyce sa id :

“ I must go back to her now.

She was on the point of ent°ring t‘i emorn

when the magistrate cal led to her softly :“Mi ss Standen! "

What is i tI want you to pay particular attention

to any thing Mrs . Bat tiscombe says abouttha t bu tterfly . Make some sort of note ofher remarks , if you can.

"

She smi led wistful lyA l l right ; I wil l .When she had gone Armourer went dowu

the steps and joined the others .

The professor was leaning against a poetVance looking particularly dejected

, s

wi th his hands in hi s pockets a couple ofy ards away ; Trevor was si tting on theground .

“Have you sti l l got that ornament onyou ?

"

demanded Trevor, as Armourer cameup .

The magistrate felt in his pocket andpassed the envelope to the rofessor, Whowithdrew the pendant and eld it to thel ight .He g lanced presently from one to the

other .“ Astounding ! And you say it was on

the table when the poor chap di edVance nodded .

“We are taking Standen into our con

fidence,"

he expla ined to Armourer. " Itwon’ t go any further. You don

't mind, doyou

“Not a bi t, sa id Armourer, who thento ld the professor the sto ry of his trip toRembakut the night before and all thesubsequent events .

“ I was so keen on my'

oh , he concluded,tha t I actuall jotted own what she saidthe moment s e rea l ized that D ick wasdead .

”He glanced at the back of an en

velope.

‘I t was true then! Theyhave ki l led him ! He told me The

Crimson Butterfly !‘They have ki l led him , repeawd Stan

den.

“You are qui te sure she said that?"

“Qu ite. You heard i t too,Vance.

The planter inc l ined hi s head and spoke.

“Wha t's puzz ling all of us at th i smomenti s who to ld Mrs . Batt i scombe that D i ck _wasgo ing to be ki l led . There

'

s another thing,too : we’ve all of us been out East a goodspel l and not one of us can re member ha fl ng

heard of a isonous but terfl y—and yet 8139

referred to he Crimson Butterfly as if shedknown i t all her l i fe. I

'

m not incl ined to besupersti t ious, and I take any nati ve yarn Ihea r with a pinch of sa lt, but I

'

ve got an

idea a t the back of my sku l l that that damnedornament had everythi ng to do Wi th Moberly

'

s dea th .

“ You're getting morbid ,

” declared the

second assistant.“Very l ikely—but I def anyone to think

deeply about anaff air l ike t'

sWi thoutgulps

morb id . Look at the factsz'

Mrs. attra

combe sent tha t ornament to D i ck, andabout

the fi rst thing she did when she found heWdead was to try to get it back.

It s um !

the tragedy tha t knocked her out—It Wu

Sep tember . 1926: Vol . X . . No. 3

the knowledge that somebody had found tha tpendant .

“ If i t were merely one of Dick 's presentsto her why shou ld she want i t back ? Whowas the accompl ice who, fearing tha t theresemblance between the ornament and the

mark wou ld be noticed , sl ipped into Moberly's bun alow andemployed some mysteriouschemica preparat ion to remove the mark ?

"

In the wierd ha lf- l ight h i s long fa ce lookedmore than unusua l ly sa l low .

“Don't you think,

”he continued

,level l ing

a finger at Armourer,“ tha t in the li gh t of

recent developments, the butterfly ProfessorStanden thought he saw i s our one stumbli ngblock to the so lution of themystery ?Withou tthat, i t seems pretty c lear sa i l ing . Dick andMrs. Batt iscombe were abou t a good dea ltogether . I t's possible he may have offendedsome vindictive nat ive and tha t she hea rdhim threaten the chief . More li kely sti l lDick migh t have taken tha t ornament fromsome obscure sanctua ry to give to her. Youknow these queer rel igions . The guardi anof the shrine, or whatever you l ike to cal lhim,

cou ld have poisoned Dick , made the

mark with some corrosive fluid and“ It won

’ t work,” broke in the magis trate

gravely .

“You see, Vance, the ornamentwas left behi nd . He wou ld hardly haveto tten that . ”

The rofessor cou hed.

An he insiste “ I di dn’t merely thinkI saw a red butterfly . Persona l ly I adhereto the opinion tha t tha t pa rticu la r insec ta four- Wi nged monstrosi t mas queradi ng as

a butterfl y—was responsible for the tragedy

we are now discussing . With regard to thefresh compl ications that have since arisenconfess myself mystified . You know

Vance, the longer I l i ve the less anxious Iam to jump to obvious conc lusions . When~

ever there are two sides to a question, Ilike to probe both very thoroughly . Idon

't know the lady in question, of course.

I'

ve been on this island only a matter of

days. But I have i t on excel lent authori tythat Mrs . Bat t i scombe was celebrated for

her beauty , her easy - go ing d isposition—i fone may ca l l i t so— and her quick-wittedness .

She came up the steps to Mr. Moberly’

sverandah , saw the dead man and the sca r

on hi s face, and uttered a perfectly na tura lexclamation—‘The Crimson Butterfly !

’

I twas a crimson butterfly ; i t was shaped l ikeone and i t was crimson in co lor . At tha tpoint she remembered the trinket and,recognizing tha t i ts unfortuna te resemb lanceto the mark would be bound to a ttra ct notice, decided to conceal i t . I t came as a

shock to her to discover tha t the resemblancehad been noticed and the ornament removed .

The other uroly hysterica l ejacula tions Ishould be isposed to wash ou t al together .What does a del ightfu l , butterfly crea turelike Mrs. Batt iscombe, know about ki l l ing !

"

Darkness fel l suddenly and they foundtheir way one by one to the verandah .

Standen found himself next to Armourer .How does that strike you he demanded .

The magistrate wrink led hi s forehead .

“ I'

ve l i stened a ttent ively to bo th si des ,he announced .

“I'

m a lways do ing i t ; i t'

s

my job l—I'

vc nothing to find faul t Wi th i n

your earnestness or your elo ncoce; bu tneither of your so lu tions is in t e least b i twatert ight . Wha t do you say to a dr i nk ?

CHAPTER IX

Samar 's Esc a pe

When James Batt iscombe arrived at

Armourer’s he was to ld , by Mi chae l and

Professor Standen,exact ly what had transp i r

ed a few hours previ ously . No detai ls were

omi tted—and i f Bat t iscombe'

s feel ings were

n0 t spared, at least he was g i ven to under

6! Canadi an Ra f/reader , Montrea l

iggd tha t as,far as the facts warranted the

mp ion, era was not difor Mober ly 's death .

rectly responsi ble

When he had heard everything he wantedto be allowed

rhto see Vera , but Standene professor then exeu

h imself and begged leave to see the pat izi

iii.aga i n, to ascerta in her condition.

Bat t i scombe then settled back in hischa i r and, puffing his pipe, addressed Ar.mourer .

“

Wel l , Mi chael , your ha rrowing narrativehas a lmost ma de me for t tha t you and Ihave ot toarrest Abu mar. That's whythe mm i ssmner was in such a bl inkinghurry to see me.

"

“Arrest AbuS amar. Wha tever for ?For being an imposter, incendia ry , and

the Lord knows what . He'

s wanted in Sarawak

, Suma tra , and Federa te d Malay State s—and possi bly in Timbuctu ! Wherever hees he sti rs up trouble—and trouble is thest th ing we want here.

”

A rmourer grinned, as Professor Standen re

ente red the_room, report ing tha t Vera was

fast hnprovin under Joyce's excel lent care.

0

He rubbed is hands together when theyi nformed h im of the latest trend of events.

“Now, wha t about th is expedition

Batt i scombe indicated Armou rer ." Better consul t the mag istrate in whose

area we now are. He's in cha rge .

“Oh no,

" protested Armourer, cheerfu l ly .

“Abu-Samar's your bird—not mine. My men

f and my own valuable assista nce—are en

t i re l

yat your d isposa l . Professor Standen

wou d l ike to jo in us. ”

“Good enough ! How about you, Vance?Any stomach for nocturna l adventuringThe fi rst assistant, who had been sta ring

gloomi ly into the nigh t,shifted hi s position

on the ra i l .“Oh

,I 'l l come. I

’

m not in a mood fors tanding abou t and doing nothi ng . fi evor

’

dbetter s top wi th Miss Standen. One of usmust be here in any case .

Bat t iscombe began searching for his hat .

“Then tha t ’s settled . We’ l l push off now

and get i t off our ches ts. Anybody seen mytopeeAs the procession moved oh

'

into the nigh tthere was a st i ff breeze blowing from the sea

and the nigh t ai r was p leasantly cool . Theinimi table Kuraman—s hort and thick etwent on ahead with the lam 5Batt iscombe

and Armourer came next , w i le Vance followed wi th the professo r . A short dis tancebehind ,

three of Armourer's men and two of

his col leagues tumbled along with their riflesslung

,smoking and cha ttering in an under

tone.

The pa th led them westward , turningpresently south in the direction of the AyerRi ver .

“Have you got that but terfly afl'

ai r Wi th

you suddenly asked Bat t iscombe.

Armourer started and began search i ng all

his pockets in turn.

“Damn! I left i t in my other clothes.He peered th rough the gloom at h i s com

panion.

“ Is vour servant hones tAs

'

honest as most. Tel l me about AbuSama r .

“A s far as my informati on goes, began

Bat t iscombe,“he

’

s no earthly right to any

of the letters he sticks afte r his name. He

began l ife somewhere about here as a sort of

medicine- man and made such a good thi ng at

i t tha t he saved enough money to get h im to

Ceylon. There’s a gap in the reco rds extendi ng over about three years , when Abu cropsup aga in in Anam. He seems to have droppedhypnoti sm and gone in extensively for drugs .

How Abu left Anam nobody knows . Heappea red a l ittle la ter in Singapore, stirredu

pnati ve trouble there, ski pped by the skin

0 his teeth to Dutch tem to ry—S uma tra ,

organi zed a band of freebooters that fa irlyterrori zed the island—a nd, finding the pla cetoo wa rm for h im

, decided to transfer hisa t tenti ons to Sarawak . Then he came here.

"

There fol lowed a long silence.

Suddenly Vance whistled softly and thetwo di stri ct officers ha l ted .

“Wha t’s u demanded Ba tt iscombe.

“Anyone hurt“The pro fessor has just noticed a fire of

some so rt or other right ahead of us . No, notwhere you ’re looking; further to the left .There ! Got itBatt iscombe ca lled Kuraman.

“Kuraman, wha t’s tha t light ?

The brown corpora l sh ifted hi s round ha tto the back of his head and stared in the

d i rec tion his ma ster was po inting .

“ I t is the house of Abu-S ama r, Tuan, he

announced present] “ I thi nk it is burning.

”

At the bend in e path they broke into a

s trot . As the trees thinned out , the

trut of the co rpora l ’s sta tement revealedi tself. They caught gl impses of a blazinginferno,

where reed, wa l l and sage roof wereenveloped ina sea of flame tha t soared roaringto the skies .

“Spread out , shou ted Batt iscombe a t the

to p of his voice.

“Vance, you ni p round to the

right and take a coup le of men with you ;profemor, d

’

you m ind bei responsible forthe left ? You can have

I

I

‘

l

guri sman and the

other . Tha t leaves one each for us, Michael .I want you to get on the far side. S top anybody you hnd. If there's any serious di fficu lty or you see Sama r, fire a couple of

rounds in the a i r and we'l l concentrate on

that spot .Suddenly as they stole to their posts

through smoke that enveloped them l ike a

choking fog , two shots rang out .

The l l shifted , and at tha t momentevery 0 jcet in the tiny clearing stood out

as in the li ght of day .

Batt iscombe was standing quite c lose to

the house, with h is man a bare yard behindhim. Vance had just appeared from the t rees .

A figure, that had la in hidden behi nd a fa llen

port ion of the structure, sta rted suddenly to

i ts feet and—in tha t fleeting secondArmourer recogni zed Abu-Samar . He carrieda la rge basket, held together by a strap, anda portion of i t appeared to be smouldering.

He drew himself i ery erect and sto od , immobile as an ebony sta tue, against a background of l iving flame. An arm shot upwardas if in splendid defiance —and the smokedescended aga in, blott ing out every thing .

Ba'

t iscombe fi red aga in—three rounds inqu ick succession—and Kuraman, droppingto one knee, emptied his maga zine into the

darkness .

There fol lowed a wi ld el‘aot ic stampede, apause for breath in the immedia te wi c i ni ty of

the furnace—and a sca ttered so rti e into the

night-shrouded forest .An hour or so la ter they co l lected round

Kuraman'

s lamp.

“Tha t fellow bears a charmed l ife, decla redBat t iscombe, gasping for breath .

“A very amusing evening , concededVance ;

“but,from your po int of view, a

decided washout . "“Not at all ,

”answered Standen.

“I have

here the basket Abu-Sama r was trying to

take wi th hi m. There was a good deal ofb lood on it when I i cked it up and it hadbeen badly tramp! I t looks as if one of

you fi red pretty accurate ly . The basket con.

Septa nber. 1926: Vol . X No. 3

Only Mai - Heng moving about i n Armourer ’s room .

"

He remained for some moments l istening.

“Mai-Heng l” he cal led .

For answer there came from the magistrate’s bedroom a pecul iar gurgl ing noise andsomething cras hed heavily to the floor

.

They came to their feet together .“Stop where you are , M iss Standen .I

don't suppose i t'

s anythi ng .

"

He threw open the door .As he did so , something as large as a bat

brushed his ear and fl ew past him on to theverandah .

The room was in darkness and,feel ing h is

way across it, his toe kicked against something soft. He struck a match and droppedon h is knees besi de the l ifeless fo rm ofArmourer ’s cook - boy .

The match burned out,and Trevor

,with

trembling fingers fumbled for another .A second inspection of the dead servant

revealed that he held the pendant in his lefthand, i ts chain of gold fi l igree trai l i ng ac rossthe floor .Trevor rose from h is knees to fi nd Joyce i n

the doorway .

“ Is anythi ng the matter ? she asked,trembling.

“Nothi ng much ,

” he dec lared fi rmly.

Mai-Heng’s met wi th an acciden t. D ’

youmind just sl ippi ng down the passage to theback en trance and cal l ing for an orderlyShe hesi tated and thens oke .

You’

l l have to go s e declared.

“ Ican’t speak a word of Malay .

“I hadn’

t though t of that. All ri ght,you

step berth aud mind , I don’ t want you to

get into tha t room . Wi ll you promise ?”

Very wel l . ”

He was on hi s way back from th e men ’sua rters, when a pierci ng scream broke upont e sti llness of the Eas tern night

.

He completed the rest of the di stance atbreakneck speed and upon hi s return wasconsiderably reli eved to di scover her st i l lthere, al though half fai n ting i n a chai r, stari nas if by not i zed at somethi ng on the walbeyond t e lampl ig ht .He bent over her .“I t was you who screamedShe nodded .

You opened that door !”She began talk ing rap idly, exc i tedly,No, no I d idn

't even go near the room.

I was fri htened,horribly frightened ; the

shadows ri htened me . I remembered thatthe others 8 ould be on thei r way back andwalk ed to the rai l to look for them . As Ipas sed the lamp an enormous i nsec t fluttereddown from the cei li ng and c i rcl ed round i t

.

I saw i ts outli ne at fi rst and though t i t was ahuge moth ' and then I real ized i t was a butte rfiy—an saw i t was red ! I t ’s over therenow—don ’t you see i tShe clutched at h is arm and a cold sensa tion

passed down his spine,bu t the approach of

the magistrate’s men brought him to hissenses .The two black sold iers shuffl ed on to the

verandah butto ni ng up thei r coats and looking profoundly uncomfortable as they recei vedTrevor’s instruc tions i n Malay to removeMai-Heng ’s body.

Suddenly a remark from the girl arousedhim to ac tion .

“

I t’

s crawli ng up the wal l,

Look !His lance fell upon a butterfly net . He

plucke i t from the shelf upon which i t layand hooked a small chair through the l ivi ngroom doorway

.

Trevor placed the cha i r a couple of fee tfrom the wall and moun ted i t

,whi le Joyce

possessed herself of a tennis racquet andwatched breathlessly .

The insect had crawled in to the angle thecei ling made wi th the wall , a posi tion thatpresented di ffi cu l ties .

she cried .

63

To the girl i t seemed countless a es beforehe brough t back h is arm and the ngt wi th i trema ined motionless

, as if taking carefula im, and brought the frame of the contrivanceaga inst the boarding.

The uppermost edge of the frame scrapedagai nst the ceili ng and Trevor hi t a coupleof inches too low on the wal l

.A fraction of

the body rema ined impri soned for a fleetingsecond , and before he could make the useessary movemen t to ensure his capture theinsect had struggled free and fluttered outinto the night

.

“Damn !”

He stepped from the chair

,regarding the

net ruefu ly .

She inted in to the darkness .

It ew out there. She contrived to speakeas i ly .

“

Anyhow , you ’ve dri ven i t away.

"

He put the chai r back in i ts place andthrew the net on to the table

.

Joyce frowned .

“

That was the crimson butterfly,declared .

“ I bel ieve so .

She ben t forward .

‘Was it that that caused Mai- Heng’sacc iden t

“

You ought to go in for law,he repl ied ;

you’

d make a charming and effi cient barrister .

“But you haven ’t answered my question .

He racked his brains for an evasive reply .

“I don’

t th i nk i t wi se for an of us to'ump

to conclusions until we’ve ad a 10 0 atMai- Heng in the morni ng .

”

“You di dn ’t send for a doctor.No , because there isn ’t one avai lable at

the moment . "

She looked stra igh t into hi s eyes .Mr . Trevor , why take such elaborate pre

cautions to try and deceive me ? I know thatMai- Heng is dead -and that he di ed as Mr .Moberly d ied thi s afternoon . I t ’s true

,isn ’t

i t ?”

The ass istant rubbed his ch in .

“Mai- Heng is dead ,” he admi tted,

“but asto how he met his end—that’s a doctor ’saffair, not mi ne . D

’

you mi nd if we di scusssomethi ng else .

"

“Not in the least; but I should li ke to sayjust one thing. I ’m not for the defence ofmy sex now , Mr . Trevor . When you told meabout the other aff air you seemed incl ined toassociate Mrs . Batt is combe with the cr imsonbutterfll l D id I H

“Well , you di d, di dn’t yo Now th is

second tragedy proves her innocence con

elusively . Her ornament—whi ch you foundnear Mr . Moberly when he died—could h ot

possibly have been near that wretched Ch inaman.

“No , he conceded lamely,could i t ?”

At that moment one of Armourer ’s mencame forward .

“Tuan,

” he stammered .

“When we carriedMai - Heng away we di d not see i t; but wefel t i t as we put him down . It was fixedbetween the fingers. ”

Joyce,bending forward exci tedly, saw a

ruby ornament on a gold cha in pm from thesoldier ’s grubby brown hand to Trevor spalm .

she

i t couldn ’t,

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CHAPTER X I I

A Stra nge Ph en om en on

Trevor looked at Joyce and there was aWealth of meaning in h is eyes.

He waved h is hand to ind icate to the orderly

.that the interview was at an end and

rema ined silen t unti l he was out of hearing .

“How does the counsel for the defence feelnowThe girl winced .

“

Ro tte n !” she returned ;“decidedly rotten

.

But tell me, do you think Mai- Heng meant tosteal the pendant ?He shru ed his shoulders

.

“ I scarce y know what to th ink .Armourer ’s

discarded clothing was lying al l over the floor,

and i t ’s just possible he left the Butterfly ina pocket and Mai-Heng had only that momen tdi scovered it . Whichever way it was

,h is

luck was badly out . ”He rested hi s elbows on the table and buried

hi s head in hi s hands .

“ I haven ’t the remotest idea what i t allmeans,

” he announced suddenly;“have you

“How should I ?”

No, that’s just i t . How should anybody ?

This cursed charm appears to be at the bottomof the trouble .

”

She glanced at i t apprehensively,while her

eyes sparkled .

“ You can ’t imagine any sensible woma nrefusing a gift l ike that . ”

Tre vor blinked .

“How d ’ ou know it was a gi f t ? She mighthave boug t i t .Joyce smi led .

“Women like Mrs . Bat ti scombe don 't haveto buy pretty th i ngs; there is always somebody ready to buy them for them .

”

Why only women li keMrs . Batt iscombe ?The girl colored sli ghtly .

“Oh , I don’t know . She ’s just a type . The

majority of women won ’t accept presents ofthat sort from just any man .

”

“And you suggest tha t she does ?I suppose that was rather a catty th ing to

say and not at all consistent with my defenceof- the-sex idea ; but I don ’t clai m to be anymore consistent than most other women .

Everybody in Jesselton was talking about herwhen we arri ved .

”

Trevor al lowed the li nks of the fi l igree cha into fal l from one hand to the other .

“And you think Mr . Moberly gave herthis pendant ?” asked Joyce, her eyes on thechai n .

“She sent i t back to him wi th a lot of otherthi ngs, so I suppose he di d.

”

“Then how and where di d the real butterflycome inTrevor threw up hi s hands .

“Ask me another !” He glanced at h iswatch .

“Jove ! they’re la te ! I wonder i fthey ’ve struck any snags .

Joyce was not to be thrown off the mai ntopic of conversation so eas i ly“Oughtn ’t we to do someth ing to preventthe butterfly coming backTrevor wrinkled his forehead .

“I don ’t suppose i t’l l want to after thatswipe I gave it .

“There may be others .

He shuddered .

“Don ’t let ’s get too morb id . I was j ustlul li ng myself to sleep with the thought thatour fri end was a rare and un ique spec imen .

“Can't we do something wi th i t ?”

She was looki ng at the pendant .We ’l l have to keep i t unti l Armourer

comes back , otherwise I should suggestburying i t as far away from any humanhabitation as possible. "

Joyce nestled back in the cush ions andsighed .

“Doesn ’t i t seem a pi ty —to have to burya beautiful creation l ike that ? It ’s so wonderful

, so utterly unusual . I know a dozen

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women at home who would cheerful ly risk thet rai l of tragedy it seems to drag after i t onlyto possess it . And it 's got to be stuck in theground and have nasty damp earth stampedall over i t !A perfectly obvious retort occu rred to

Trevor,but he refrained from express ing i t .

“I t

'

s an uncomfortable possess ion ," he sa id

instead,and tossed the thing deliberately

into the farthest corner of the verandah .

“ Idon ’t know that even that. is a safe precautionaga inst follow in in the footsteps of Moberlyand Mai—Hengfimt I feel a great deal morehap y with i t at a d istance .

l)

t hap ens to be outs ide my door, shereminded im .

“ I don ’ t th ink that matters very much .

I t ’s closed—and the others are bound to

want to look at i t again when they hear what's

ha pened .

”

e stared in to the ni ght.Hello ! there ’s a li ght at last . They ’ l l be

here in a few minutes . ”

Both of Armou rer ’s terri ers pri cked upthei r ears

,shook themselves and plunged ,

barki ng down the sta i rs .

’

I\-evor rubbed hi s hands together andsmiled queerl

“Wonderful thi ng , a crowd, Miss Standen !I t ’s di fficul t to imagine wha t any or all of

’emcould do if the butterfly rol led up again ; butthe arrival of a bunch li ke that undoubtedlypromote s a sense of securi ty !

”

He crossed to the sta ir- head and Joycejoined him there .

Maki ng a megaphone of his hands he ca l led :“Hello

, therel— Are you al l right ?”

A fain t cry floated back to them .

The girl glanced at her companion .

“Who was thatArmourer

,I fancy .

What did he sa yI didn ’ t catch ; but the tone sounded

cheery . I wonder if they ’ve brought the blackgentleman with them . Judging from the timethey ’ve been away , they ought to havearrm ted an enti re vi l lage ! "Something made her turn her head . She

clutched at Trevor ’s arm wi th bo th hands .

“What is i t ?”

His eyes fol lowed the d irection of her gaze .

“An arm,

” she wh ispered fearful ly ,“a

white arm came through the doorway andwent back again .

He laughed uneasi ly .

“Which doorwayThe far one—my room , you know—and

the pendant ’s gone !"

He went a couple of paces and bent down ,staring at the floor .

“So i t has , by Jove !She c lung to the rai l for support .

Wl at do you think i t was if "

Mrs . Pat t iscorr.be walking in l cr sleep .

l i nt why d id she take the Butterfly Sheco i i ldn t possibly l ave known i t was there .

“One wouldn 't i i r agino so .

"

S i 0 leaned back , gasping for breath .

It’

s l orrible! I ’m so glad the others arehere .

‘

“Here , p_ul | yourself together, said Trevorsternly . I ou've got to go into t i at room andfind out what ’s happened .

”

I daren 't . ”

“ I’

m coming with you . I t 's no use waitingabout for the rest . If i t was Mrs . Battiscombe , so much the better . She has had theth ing before —and not-hing kil led her . There ’sjust the faintest chance i t might be somebodyelse—and I rather hope i t is . I t’d help toclear up a lot of th ings .

”

He t i toed across the verandah andopened t e door to its fullest ex tent . Thelamp was st il l burning within

,and

,on a

bed at the far end , he could just make out theou tl ine of a slumbering woman behind mosqu it'o curtains.He beckoned to Joyce.

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Come on.There’s nobody here . I wan t

you to draw back those curtains”

She looked past him li ke a fr igh tened ch i ldpeering i n to a dark cupboard and fearfu l ofbogies

,then walked to wards the. bed .

They s tood presen tly sndc by S ide, gaz ingdown at the sleeping form of Vera Batt i scombe .

There was no t a s ign that she had st i rred .

She was breathing regularly, there was aheal thy color on her cheeks, and the soft fa ircurls enc irc led her head l ike a wond rous halo .

Joyce u ttered a l i t tle c ry and poin ted toher throa t .The fi l igree cha i n was clasped securely

round her neck and the Crimson Butterflynestled i n the gossamer folds abo ve a gen tlyheaving bosom .

CHAPTER X I I I

An Im por ta n t Cap t u r e

When the others arr ived , Trevor and Joycei nformed them of the red bu tterfly , the recen tdeath of Mai—Heng

,and the. myste rious trans

ferri ng of the Crimson Butterfly from thedead servan t to the sleeping Mrs. Bat ti scombe .

Armourer and Mr . Ba t t iscombe wereaghast a t the news, but Professor Standenl istened with sc ien t ific in terest and whenfi evor fin ished he propounded a new theory .

The professor announced as hi s idea thata red poisoned butte rfly constantly fol lowedthe pendant itself and added that all who worei t o r were near i t were doomed—ecxept Vera ,who certainly seemed to be immune . I n extenuat ion of his theory Standen asked Armourer to bu ild him a hu t in the forest, wherehe planned to equ ip a rough laboratory .

“ You see,” expostulated Standen , as

Michael nodded in agreemen t. “ if San arbreed s these insec ts he rr ay one day le t t i emloose by the mill ion to p ick off humanity aslocusts pick off grain ; and to discover an ant idote one must know one‘s po i son fi rst . 1 sf allkeep the c l arm hang ing there, c0 \ er t! cwindows with nett ing and S H ear tl e outerwal ls wi th wha t is commonly known tonatural ists as treacle . If t! ere is sometl ingabou t the talisrr an wl i cb attract s t i is fe rmof insectf li fe, the ori ir son butterfly shouldobviously be attracted to tl at spot .

Then, as there was noth ing rr ore they

could do that n igh t,at Armourer ’s instiga

t ion , everyone went to bed . Trevor,who

announced that he l ad had enough of the,bungalow for one even ing , rode back to l isown d iggings .

The'

ne zt morn ing , as Mrs . Ba t t i scombe’s

cond i tion was sti l l sei ioi zs , Professor Standenannounced tl at l e would run in to Jesseltonthe no

‘

.t day and get some appliances from ahospital .

“l t

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ll mean spend ing LI 0 n ight there,said

Armourer .“ I

.

must pu t up wi th t l at . Your ownmed ica l men should be here by then

, and. Iknow my daughter is in good I ands . I t 's anextraordinary world altogetl

'

er. Wl ioh of usWould have imagined , when Joyce missed thetra in the day before yesterday

,that we

should al l be involved in a problem l ike thisWi th in a few hours ! "Armourer laughed .

“I bel ieve you ’re thoroughly enjoving yourself , professor ! "

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In some respects I suppose thatcas e . My small share in the task whi ch

s

chll:fronts us is one afte r my own heart an

ust beginn ing to find a long perioddo

i

i ts

farness a l i ttle ir ksome. If I actually lackedincenti ve , a momen t

's reflection on the enor.mous i ssues at stake could not fail to provide

mia hi t . So there you are ! "

8 soon as hi s clothes arrived, Batt

'

breakfas ted and rode back to Remfifie

Armourer descended a few moments after hisdepar ture and took up his duties in a sweltering and somewhat primi tive court of justice

,

The professor fidgeted upon the verandah fora matter of threequarters of an hour

,then

stuck the but terfl y - net under one arm andsaun tered out in to the bril liant sunshine.He said l it tle at lunch and disappeared

again shortly after the meal was finished .

At a quarter to four he came slowly up thesteps, and Joyce and Armourer, who dozed inlong chairs at separate extremes of the verandah , glanced up simultaneously .

For the first time in my whole exi stence,

Standen announced ,“ I find the secrets of the

Orien t worthy of atte ntion . What magnificent conjurers these fellows are ! It wouldalmost seem as i f their normal audiences hadgrown so cri tical that it was necessary toconstantly increase the wrap ings of mysteryaround their art ifi ces to enafile them to con

tinua to deceive . Because,” he added deh

ant ly ,“ they are only tricks, you know, pi c

tures ue, elaborate tricks However imroba le i t may seem to you , there is a satisactory , rational reason for everything .

”

Joyce gave ven t to a chuckle that waslacking in respect towards an elderly and dist inguished parent .

“Daddy 's been forced to change hi s mi ndabo ut something, she told Armourer,

“andis endeavori ng to justify his first opini on ! Hedoes so hate being wrong !”

The professor tapped his pocket signifi

cantly .

“The crimson butterfly flies to its imagel ike a common or garden moth to a flame.

"

He found a chair and leaned back in it, fann ig himself with his hand .

“I'

ve really had amost successful afternoon . h e proved conelusively that the ornament and the insect,as we more than half suspected last night,act in concert . Whenever it is free to do so,the animate fl ies in search of the inanimate .

"

“ I t sounds frightfully impressive," broke

in Joyce,

“but what does i t really meanBefore the professor could embark upon

his explanation , Armourer spoke .

“You say,whenever It Is free. Do you sug

gest. tht n,

that there are times when the

creature is not free“Yes, most decidedly, I hope I sfall never

be forced to admit that an insect. can discriminate between man and woman . Si nceth is e." traordinary sequence of events began,there have been two victims—8nd both of

them males . Mrs. Batt iscombe wore thependant W i th apparent impunity. The custodian of the butterfly

,the man who di s

covered the part iali ty of the insect for tf atpart icular type of stone must obvi ouslyassure himself as to the approx imate pos itionof the penda nt before he releasrs the butterfly on i ts mission of vengeance.Abu- Samar . ”

Standen nodded .

“But how do you know all thi s inqiured

h is daughter .

“Because,

” sa id the professor,“a crimson

butterfly in a rather battere d condi tion foundi ts Wfl )’ to the spot where I buri ed the ornament . And I have i t here now ! "

During the week followi ng the dismveryof the butterfly Professor Standen found i tnecessa ry to go down to Jesselton twweand on the second occasion he took Joyce.

Armourer had pres sed him to do this because he fel t certai n she desi red a change, ifonly for a few hours .

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Mrs. Ba t tis combe

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s i l lness , prolonged as i thad been , had taken a decided turn for thebetter, and in the case of an unexpecte drelapse D r. Macnal ly was now wi th in casv

cal l .The magistrate saw them off .

“Have a good time,” he said to Joyce, and

don ’t let your father drag you around wi thhim .

" I shan 't,

” declared the gi rl . “ I shal l callon Mrs . Anders on and st op at her house unti lhe chooses to fetch me . I know what fatheris when he gets with med ical men .

”

Standen patted her arm aff ectionately .

‘You shal l do just as you l ike , my dear,and if you care to stop be hi nd unti l I ’

ve

finished my task you ’ re qu ite at l iberty to

do so .

”

He strode to the far end of the co ach toblow an obstr uction from his cigaretteholder.

“Why,don 't you want me to come back?

"

she asked Armourer softly .

She looked up suddenly and he fel t himself crimsoning to the roots of his hair .I do

,

” he sa id earnes t ly .

“ It 'l l be rottenup here without you . I only suggested youmight stay away for a bit beca use I wasafraid you would have a breakdown . You

’

w

been dancing attendance on Mrs . Bat tiscombe for days and your system can 't poss ibly have had t ime to accustom it self to ou rclimate .

”

The train jolted forward and Armourerswung himself off .

“Good- bye,

” he shouted,keeping pace for

some yards with it . “ I 'd l ike to come with you .only I dare n ’t. show my face in Jess elton unt i ll'

ve achi eved someth ing ddi ni tc .

Joyce leaned out of the window .

CHAPTER X IV

Alone w i t h Vera

“( food- bye . M ind you look after yoursel fand Mrs . Batt iscombe !He sta red after the jolt ing l ine of white

coaches unti l they were lost to V iew amidju le—c lad ba nks .

0 tucked his malacca under one arm andturned to regain the ath .

“Now what on cart d id she mean by that 2”he demanded of h is inner—and presumablywiser—fl ee" .

He was becoming desperately infatuatedwith Joyce Standen and her thrust had foundits way home with an accuracy that, wasasto nishing. Nobo dy real i zed more than hedid what an uncomfortable guest Mrs .

Ba tt i scombe was to a man in his po si tion ,

and the fact that Joyce had reminded him ofthis , hurt . For more than a week he had beentry ing to l ive down that other incident onthe verandah at Rembaku ,

when Vera Batt iscombe had somehow bewitched him intoki ss ing her—and J im had surprised them infl nt delicto .

lnless Vera had told her in an ou tburst ofco nfidence

,Joyce co uld not possibly know

anything about that . Lo rd ! how co ntrarythis wicked World was ! He had tried to keepVera and Joyce apart

,and , following up on

‘

thc

heels of this desire,Fate had landed them in a

prox imi ty that was too close to be pleas ant .

He. thanked his stars a s he strode thro ughthe undergrowth

,that Ba tt i scombe was

coming over to sleep . To spend a night Wl l llonly the bewitching Vera under h is roofwould be tantamount to provok ing a scandalthat would elect rify the island !He was beginning to wish he had never

bro ught her there a t al l . When she fainted onMoberly 's bungalow he. should have d ispatched her instantly to her husband

'

s hous e

and left i t for J immy to cross—ques tion her asto her knowledge of the Crimson Butterfly .

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CHAPTER XV

Th e S i ren Speak s

As for the redoubtable Abu-Samar,he had

V8mSht‘d as completely as if the earth hadswallowed h im up

.

A Jury , hastily scraped together .had Slmlmfl f‘d of b oth cases under the vague0 ! i t." M isadventure and had

followed th is swdt ly dec ided verdict bydrink ing Vance s cellar nearly dry . The Comm i ssioner had put into circulation a typoWri tten order advising al l sett lers to take

Preca utions to protect themselvesaga inst a new and p oisonous type of butterflyand requested an immediate report in theevent of a further spec imen being SCt'h , A

reward of $250 was, moreo ver, offered forinformat ion which might lead to the a phens- ion of Mr Abu Qamar—a reward w i eh ,

in V iew of Samar's former es capades (andWith dol lars rating a t 2s , 4d ) , was pronouncedby the indignant Batt iscombe. as grosslyinadequate .

In an interview with Professo r Standen theCommissioner had declared that

,whi le. he

was inst ructed by the Governor to sanct ionand ass ist h is researches for such a time as heshould deem rew mab le, he was by no meanssa t isfied that the absconding pseudo-doctorwas in any way responsible for the recenttragedies . He looked to the professo r to

s i t ply infom i a t ion,if possible , as to the

ha i ts and breed ing- places of the new insect ,the nature of the poiso n i t exuded and the

type of ant idote to be employed—and suggested that a month or

,at the most , six

weeks Would be ample time in which to furnish the zequ i rcd data .

The task of hunting down Abu-Samar herel eg ated to his local magistrates and a sortof flying squadro in of native infantry under afresh-c omer from England . named Lindsay .

It should ,perba i s. he recorded here that

Lindsa y ’s handfu of brown-skinned so ldierscertainly flew

, but beyond that achievednothing—a fact which , considering theirleader 's l imited experience of Borneo ,

was

scarcely to be wondered at .

Armourer was greeted on his arrival a t thebungalow by a shor t missive from lla t t is

combe .

“Dear Michael,

’ i t ran , I had intendedto be with you this evening , but Fate—a nd theCom i i i ias ioner—willed it otherwise . I am embark i ng forthwith upon the nine ty and nmewild-goose chase into the inte rior . S omeoptimistic vi llage headman, Wi th an eye to

the main chance, bel ieves he has located ourfriend Abu

.Of course he hasn 't but, that ’

sneither here not there ! The interwtmg factrem ains that I've, to go

—a nd I'

ve a draw ] ofa l iver !

1 h t" Ex ain t in s o era .

Hegven knows;when I shal l be back ,but

a t some point or other I shal l get covered m

Ieaehes ; I feel i t i n my bones ! ou rs everJ immy .

Armourer read i t through twice , cru mpledit up between his fingers, smoothed It outagain and perused it for a thi rd t ime .

Damn ! “ he e'

aculated savagely , M id

wedged the letter i etween two volumes onthe shelf .Five minutes later he scribbled a l ine to

\'ance and handed i t to an orderly . Whateverhappened he was not, go ing to be left alonewith tha t woman . Since h is eXperieri ee at

ltembaku t he had a pious horror of \ eraeven when convales cent !It was two hours before a reply came back .

Vance was s orry he couldn'

t get away . but

he was send ing Trevor who would ride ovc i

some t ime after di nner . They were shorthanded and very busy and there was a gooddeal of si ckness in the coolie—l ines

.

Armourer stared at the ceiling.

After di nner ! That mi ht. mean ten o'clockand i t was now barelyEve. Five long hoursw ith \'era Batt-isoomlm; the prospec t madehim shudder . She would profi t by her privi leged posi tion as an inval id to wear as fewclothes as p ossible—and she would commenceproceedi ngs by call ing him MichaelWhat a pleasant evening i t was going to be !The only sensible move would b e to go out

unt il dinner ; but he remembered to his disgust that she was stil l regarded as on the si ckl ist and could not be left to the tender merc iesof a new cook- bo y .

Vera did not appear at tea, an occurrencewh ich , far from raising his hopes, merelyaroused suspicions . Like a sk ill ed genera lmed i ta ting a surprise attack , she was plann ingto commence her assaul t at the hour whenshecounted she Would find h im at hi s weakest !He was having his fi i s t whisky of the even

ing and meditating a hot bath , when the dooropened .

The sun ha d dropped—a flami ng ballinto the western sea , and in those few fleetingmoments of half—light the universe seemedhushed . Beyond the pal l that was swiftlycreeping over everything big stars werealready showing . There came a timi d murinuri ng of insect voices ,

working up l ike adi stant orches tra in some frenzied Russ ancomposition

,unti l the atmosphere seemed

full ( if it .A great hour this—s eco nd only to the dawn

and Armourer saw in i t Vera ’s zero- hour.She appear ed to sa i l towards him out from

the gloom,pale

,beautiful , ravishing .

He could see that her checks were as whi te as

marble and her l ips as crimson as the fatalButterfly .

He stood there trembling, aghast at theimmensity of her beauty , powerless .She dropped suddenly at hi e feet and hetouch of the crepey substance of her pale, bluekimono on his wrist set his teeth on edge .

Michael,she murmured treinulously

why have you kept rue hereWhat have vou done with myButterfly ?"

beautiful

Your butterfly left my [ s i ssws ion Somedays ago and will probably never come intoi t m a in , " announced Armour er, with fi rmness .

She sl ipped from her perch and came rightt i p to him her eyes never leaving h is face .

You are lying to me, she cried hoarsely .

You have it here—~ in the house somewhereI must have i t . I tel l you i t belongs to me .

She threw a glance round the verandah as

i f contemplating a thorough search for themissing ornament .Armourer felt for his pip e“ I tel l you I haven ’t got it he sa id .

But you have ; you can t haVe s ent itaway

.You found i t over there—where Dick

d ied .

He pressed the tobacco firmly home w ithhis forefinger. He was begini i ing

'

to feel h imself again and was rcli ev d to d is cover thatth is new Vera seemed a good dea l less da ngerous at. the outset than the old .

That ’s p erfectly correct . I found theBut terfly on Moberly 5 table and brought i there

; but it's not here now and hasn

'

t be enfor some days.She clutched at h is arm .

" Michael ! Stop teasing me ! You havelocked it away in some drawer . She beganpleading w ith h im ,

fondling'

h im,coaxui g h im

w i th all the nauseo us pers istence of a confirmed drug- taker “You don

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t understand

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what i t means to mc—th is thi ng . I t is essential to me for my heal th—for everyt lung .

Without it I believe I shal l d ie .

This fresh atti tude of her presented tooood an opportuni ty to be allowed to pass by .

file resolved to ignore the professor ’

s adv iceand endeavor to glean a li ttle i nformation .

“D idn’t Moberly gi ve you the Cr imsonButterfly ?"

l iNo.

"

0

It came from a man you d i sl ikedYes "

)

Then why are you so morta l ly anxi ous tohave i t back agai n ?

”

Armourer looked round to find Mrs.

Battiscombe in tears , as she tried to eVade h isques tion .

U“Now look here,he sa id sternly , I

haven ’t got this wre tched ornament , and forreasons whi ch I bel ieve you partly understand

,I never want to handle i t aga in . The

best thing you can do, in your own interestsand those of your husband , is to make a cleanbreast of the whole matter . I want you “)

tell me how the Butterfly pendant lu l led D ickMoberly .

”

She stared at Lim wildly .

What do you mean ? Why do'

you stareat me l ike tha t —I didn 't kil l h im; surelyyou don ’ t think tha t ?”

“The professor has the pendant, _ sa ldArmourer at length .

“He is employ ing i t forsome experiment in the l i ttle laborato ry wehave managed to fi x up for him . I am sorry ,Mrs Bettiscombe

,if I have upset you . None

of us actual ly supposed that you k i l led D ickMoberly . I sha l l be able to tel l them that y ouwere merely an instrument . "

She bent forward .

Whose instrument ? " she inquired fea rfUHY. trying to dis cover how much he knew .

“Abu said Armourer stead i lyand Vera Bettiscombe hid her face .

A few mi nutes later she partly recoveredher composure and retired to her room wh i leM i chael went upstairs to his bath .

After he had dressed for the even ing meal ,feel ing clean and refreshed after the bath ,

Michael strol led out on the verandah .

As he leaned there,gazing out into space , a

famili ar sound broke upon his ears .

He drew himself erect l istening intently .

There was no doubt about i t. Somebodyon horseback had al ready left the trees andwas cante ring towards the house .

Five minutes later he moistened h is l ipsand cal led .

Hullo , there ! That you , TrevorThe lanter

’

s ass ist nt came up the steps .

“Hul o, Arm ourer ! Here I am and here's

my ki t .

"

He unhitched a haversack and let it fal lto the floor .

“Just in time for makan ; we're late to

night . I let my bath- water get cold andChang-S i had to boil me some more . Howare you ?Trevor found a chair .“First class, thanks . How's the mystery

progressing ?”Armourer lowered hi s brows .“Slowly .

”

And AbuHe ’s sti l l at large . Ba tt iscombe should

have been there to night,but he's gone up

country . That ’s why I sent for one of youfellows. ” He lowered his voice

.

“J immydoesn ’t seem to mi nd much how or wherehe leaves h is Wife; but I do. You follow me

,

don 't youTrevor w i nked .

" She ’s stil l here, then ?Oh, she ’s here right enough ; though I

don ’t supposewe shal l be favored with hercompany tonight . She has signified herinten tion of d ining in her room . The proi es.sor and his daughter are in Jesselton .

”

They strol led i n to d inner .

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the bottle on the table and gro ddepths of a

Opoeket . There was

ifina

l-

limit]

?on the tray in the lady 's mom.

”

‘ He handed Armourer a note addremed toh imself .

CHAPTER XVI

Th e Hu t in th e Forest

Armoure r read the miss ive through andhanded i t to Trevor .

“What do you make of that he demand

The other scanned i t .“

Dear M ichael , i t read ,“I_ can bear it

no longer . Whenever I close my eyes Isee him . I see the rocks in the wildernessthe red l ight from the li razieh and him

,

beckoning me . This evening your pi ti lesq'

catechism broke down the last rampart. ofmy resistance . The call came aga in—and Icould only obey . A mysterious somethinggu id my pen and I have had to forcemysel f to write even these few lines .

I findit impossible to inscribe his name

,but you,

who have gu essed so much already, wi ll

understand . The wretchexlness that myfol l ies have brought to everybody hasdescended at last up on myself. What ghastlyfate awaits me in the beyond I know not ,but i f i t is because of my looks that he hassought me I pray that some horrible diseasemay mar my features before I encounterhim alone .

“Good- bye.

And so , murmured Trevor as Chong-h'

i

set. down the soup,“the dist ingmshed ma

g istra te has found it necessary to seek mora lsupport .

”

“He has, indeed !”

Hc fl icked an insect from the rim of hispla te wi th his thumb—na il .Trevor looked thoughtful .“Wel l

,I can't say tha t I b lame you .

Mrs . B . would be the most del ightful womanin the world—i i she were a l i ttle less cosmopol itan in her tastes . But a fli rta tion losesha l f i ts cha rm when there

’s every possibili tyof i t developing to something more serious .

After a ll,there's no particu lar fun in a ttempt

ing to conquer something that’s in a constant

state of su rrender . Ra ther clever for me,

wha t“There are t imes, dec lared his host,when you verge upon genius l

—Have some

more s oupNow i f i t had been Mi ss“No , thanks .

Standen instead of the a foresa i d fema le,

things would have been very di fl ercri t .

Armourer looked up sha rply .

“How so

You wouldn't have sent for me.

Trevor stared a t him ha rd .

“A rmourer,”he announced a t length ,

you ’re bitten! You have fa l len a vict imto the innocent cha rms of y our dark-ey edvisi to r . Now isn

'

t that just my luck !"

A rmourer was crimsoning beneath the tan.

“You are jumping at conclusions . "

They don't need much jumping at . I

supp ose I ought to offer my congra tula t ions !His glance fell upon the bo tt le before him .

“ I sa y , are we suppo sed to celebra te an

occas ion l ike th is with beer ? "“Trevor

,

" sa id Armourer,co ld ly ,

“

you are

not a genius ; y ou never were, and I see no

reason to suppose that you ever wi l l be !You can have champagne i f you l ike; butI can frankly assure y ou at the same timetha t there’s no need for any celebrat ion.

Miss Standen is merely an extremely welcome

Igne

stat Jelandang,nothing more and noth ing

ess .

He rang the bel l .“Which means

,sa id the irrepres s ible

Trevor ,“ that the lady has not yet been

consulted on the subject ! Nevertheless,I

simply refuse to refra in from drinking yourhea l th in the only fluid worth drinking it in.

Taking into consideration your undeniab ledash and elan, I regard the forthcomingengagement as a fa it accompl i . Tell ChongSi to make i t two bott les ! "

The servant. shuffled in from the kitchen.

“Chang- S i,”

ordered Armourer ,'

bring metWo bo tt les of champagne. He detached a

key from a ring and tossed it to the cookboy .

“And, oh—just a minute. You

'

dbetter ask the mem if she would ca re to

take wine. Tahu ? ”

Chong- S i made off .

He was back aga in in under two minutes ,a bottle in either hand and a look of conste rnat ion on his face.

“The mem has gone ou t

,Tuan,

mered .

The magistrate came to h is feet .

“Gone out“Yah , Tuan. As I went to the cup

board I saw someth ing pass the door of thestore-

room . I looked down the passage

and found tha t i t was the lady ,w i th some

th ing wh ite thrown over her hea d . S hewent out by the back doo r . He placed

he stam

Trevor sta red at his friend in amazement.Ho ly Moses ! what 's it all mean3

"

The him ,

"

sa id Armourer,

“ is Abu-Samar,It was he who gave that ornament to Mrs .

Bat t iscombe .

”

Armourer’s fi rst move was to turn out his

men and d is pa tch them with instructions toscour the neighborhood thoroughly .

“We'l l try the path through the trees first,

he to ld Trevor ,“ fol low i t as far as y our wine

and come back by the professor's shack.

She’s only ten minutes start of US .

”

The other nodded .

“S he can'

t have got far and the whitething over her head should render her fairlyconspicuous in thedarkness . Going to ride?

"

Armourer reflected .

“No . Poni es wi l l only be in the way ifwe have to leave the track . We shall befar more comforta ble on foot .They strode on in si lence, fi ll ing their pupa

as they went .

“ I hope we find her all r ight, sai d themagistrate, suddenly .

“ I feel kind of responsible for this .

”

Trevor glanced up a t his compamon,“Tha t’s pretty good nonsense, i snt

'

i t?

Jim couldn't expect you to spend your time

in her room .

“ I know all about that; but, you see,

I asked her a lot of questions about thependant just before makan, and the profes sorhad previously warned me not to doso. It

might quite easi ly be sup sed_that

my

at ti tude was responsible for er fl i ght. You

remember wha t she sa id in the letter aboutmy pi tiless catechi sm.

"

Trevor stru ck a match and pUl’Ted t

'

llfl OllS l.V

for some seconds .

I shouldn’t sa y anythi ng about lhl t

lette r. I t stru ck me as being rather in timate .

I t sta rted Michael , I mean—and finishedVera . And the professor and MISS Sta nden?Supposing they get to hear of it

The ma gistrate held out his hand.

“Give me the ma tches, Trevor . Thanks.You

‘ve a pa rticu larly im tat ingway of hi ttingthe right nai l on the head . I m not golns

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to commi t myself to des troy ing or w ithholding anything, but I sha l l certain ly th inkover the wisdom of d ivu lging the conten tsof that confounded note .

”

A hundred yards farther on a man wi th ahurricane lamp stepped sudden ly from thebushes.

“Who ’s that,cal led A rmourer sharply .

Sembi lan,Tuan

,

” came the start ledresponse

,and a l i t tle black pri vate came

respectful ly to atten t ion .

“Sembi lan,is it ? Have you found the

whi te lady" No

,Tuan—Hakim . The mem is nowhere.

to be seen ; but I have found this on a thornbush .

He he ld be fore them a wh ite si lk wrapwith a long fri nge .

Armourer recogni zed the scen t which st i l lclung to it long before he had t ime to exami nethe te xture of the materi al .

“Where di d you find thisThe soldier pointe d be hind him .

“Just there,Tuan

,but a few moments

before you came . The grass had beentrodden down and the track points this way—acrom the ma in path and into the t reeson the other side .

”

“Carry on,Sembi lan co mmanded Ar

mourer, we w i l l fol low .

They foll owed their gui de through denseundergrowth

,parted in places as if something

had recently passed that way . Mosquitoeswhined everywhere

,monkeys crooned sleepi ly

overhead , and presen t ly a pa tch of coo l ai rbrought them to the bed of a trickl ing foreststream.

Sembi lan came back , holdi ng h is lampabove hi s head , and po inted exc itedly at theground.

" B Jove ! " murmured Trevor we'

re onthe ri ght track . That 's a Woman '

s hee l orI

’m a Dutchman . See ! There i t i s agai n .

”

Armourer fol lowed the di rect ion of hisgaze .

“Tnank heaven for that !" he announced

pie/sently .

“We’vc di sco vered something !

n'

t hang about there, man , gibber ing l ikean inferna l ape ! Get on wi th it !

"

The. native grinned and moved forw ard .

“W hat the dickens made her take to thejungle ?

” asked Trevor after a long pusse .

“Don ’t know,

” responded the other .Perhaps she’s fol lowing some course dictatedby that scoundrel Abu . She must be i n asort of trance

,or she su rely wouldn

'

t haveleft th is shawl behind .

Trevor was th inking .

“We'l l hunt up a map when we get back ,he said

,

“and draw a l ine on i t from yourplace to thi s poin t and on to infin i ty . I fshe's bound to steer a d irec t course to wherehe now is

,we mi ght follow that li ne un ti l

we find him .

” He dug Armourer in the ribs .

" That ’s pretty sound rea son i ng, eh“

fidarvelous ! Any idea where we are now ?

Well,how are you going to fi nd i t on

the map ?“Don ’t know . 1 was l eav ing that to you .

Do you know where we are‘

I"

The magistrate SUCk( d at an empty pi pe .

“We ’re about a hundred yards from the

pro fessor’s la bora tory ,

and Mrs . Batt is combe

in her wander in has covered three partsof a c irc le . Ra t er knocks your theory onthe head

,does’nt i t

Thi s sudden reve la t ion left Trevor utterlyunabashed .

“ It wm very stupid of me ,” he announced

cheerfu l ly .

“ I had forgotten to al low forfemi n ine instabi l i ty of character !

"

'I\vo minutes brought them to the hut .

Armourer uttered an exc lamat ion and ranthe final ten yards .

“What's up ? " demanded T reVo r, fol lowingsui t .

“This,declared the other, and swung the

door to and fro on i ts h inges.“The pad lock

’

s

67

beins

e

iliofot ced ofi

"

. bcmb llan! br i ng that lamp

Trevor , picking his wav in er lgreeted b y an odor of chemii -alg that

“

fis

th im coughing .He to uched his compan ion 's arm .

There’

s a_bott le been knocked down

here , he sa i d . 1 shou ld be carefu l howvou go . Some. of these things burn .

"

Armourer held the lamp s o that. i ts ravsi llum i nated the roof . He pointed to a fewl i nks of gold chain that st i l l swung from ahook .

“That ’s what she, was after

,old son . She

plagued me for i t th is even ing . You see thependant ’s gone .

”

Trevor gasped .

th

u

B

lit

!pan aliv

g, she. didn

'

t know where.e 5 ac was , 5 e cou ldn

'

t ss ibl havforced that door

po Y 0

The mag istrate waved his arms in the air .

“i t

'

s no use asking or imply ing questions .A l l I can tel l y ou i s that the Cr imson Butte rflyhas gone , that she

’

s got i t on her now—andgot to find her and bring her

iac

CHAPTER XVl l

The G oddess— in Person

After a br ief con ference , Trevor andMichael decided to divide forces—the formerand Sembi lan

, the nat ive guide , to continuethe search for Samar and Vern whi le Armourerwas to reconnoit re from the hut itself .When the others had gone , Mi chael sa t

st i l l in the hut , smoking . Five . ten .

fifteen m inutes passed and then he wentto the door

,sli pping the torch into his

pocket. Moon light was fi ltering through the

trees,throwing ghost ly patches of jet shadow ,

des crib ing a barbari c patchwork of blackand gold .

He stepped qu i ck ly back , feel i ng for th eautomat ic at h is hip .

Some large object had pas sed be tween

two trees not a score of feet from the bu t .

i t was coming he cou ld hear i tsoft

.addi ng steps i n the open .

He bazarde a look .

A vague indefinite body ,that. m i ght have

been a man or even a giant ape, stooped andgrunt ed a lmost on the thresho ld .

He leveled his pisto l and flashed on the

torch at the same t ime .

A shr i l l scream pierced his ears , two armsswept wi ldly heavenward , and

.

a_nat i ve

woman stood erect before him , wr i th i ng andmoan ing in mortal terror .She was l i the and better look i ng than the

major i ty of her kind ; there were ornamentsof si lver and gold at her ears and wr i sts and

the Cr imson Butterfly , the ends of i ts cha i nheld toge ther by a st rip of leather, hung

at.

her throat .

He caught her arm and threw her roughlybehind him i nto the shack . He fixed the

sw i tch of hi s mket lamp and rested i t on

i ts side on the )ench .

The. magi st ratetucked h i s revolver out of

sight .“Who are you ? he asked .

She held herself proudly ,the crimson

ornament spark l ing at her neck .

“I am she whom men cal l Dara , whose

home is where no trees grow , where. there i s

Canadian Ra fhoada . Montrea l

a tall hi l l and a fire that never bum s out .1 am the goddess of the Crimson Butterfly .

Armourer scratched his ch in.

He stood for some moments look ing ather, then picked up his torch .

Presen tly a smi le i l lumi nated his featuresand a great hope rose wi thin him ,warmingh is blood and surging to his head l ike strongWi ne .

“Come with me, D ara, he said so ft lyl have been seeking you for a long while.Arnold Tre vor, hot on the t rack of Abu

Samar’s men,found i t increasingly difficult

to keep up with his guide .O They came presently to the summit of a.h i l l and stood ga z ing across a stretch of opencountry bathed in yel low moonl ight , pittedW ith holes . tossed and denuded by some far-ofi

'

volcan ic shock. A hundred yards to theeas tward yawned a gaping chasm and, onthe far side

,two fig ures had just emerged ,

carrying something swung from a pole thatst retc hed between them .

Before Trevor could sto p him Sembilanhad unslung hi s rifle and fired . A secondshot followed the firs t and the nearest nat ivestumbled forward on to his. knees , droppinghis end of the P ikul to the ground .

H is co mpan ion crouched low and , shouldering the rough hammock , pole and al l , sl iddown a steep bank out of sight .Trevor and Sem i lan came to their feet

together and ran for al l they were worth .

The brink of the chasm held them for acouple of minutes , for i ts de ths defied themoon l ight and the path by w ich the othershad travellerl was d ifficul t to fi nd .

By the t ime they had crossed , the ir quarryhad reached the trees.The lanter paused by the side of the man

whom mbi lan had shot and marvel led at

the accuracy of the soldier ’

s firing . Thenat ive was sti l l kneel ing, his head againsta boulder, and it took but a moment to

disco ver that he was dead .

Trevor looked u to se e, that his duskycompan ion was st i l press ing forward , andthat he was in imminent danger of losingsight of h im in the forest towards which hewas now heading . In a few minutes he didlose sight of the nat ive and for half an hourTrevor plunged blindly about in the darkness ,Then Trevor stumbled upon two dark

figures wrest l ing on the ground—and one

of these he recogn ized as Sembi lan .

As he plunged with a wild cry to hisassistance something swept h i s check soclosely that he felt the breath of i t—andthe lamp, which he had picked up frombeside the st ruggling figures was dashed fromh is hand .

The impact of the blow sent him stumbl ing .

Support ing hi mse lf on one hand , hewrenched h is revolver free from the pocketin which he carried it , and fired into theshadowy mass that hovered over him .

The mass swayed away from him , utteringwild

,unearthly yel ls that woke the hai ry

den izens of the trees and sent them screaming and wh in ing in chorus .

Seinbi lan then cal led to Trevor, who re l itthe l ight and observed that the native hadki l led his man.

Trevor rested his back aga inst a tree andmopped hi s forehea d . He was conscious of

acute fat igue and an aching vo id W ith i n , bu tit went badly against the grai n to give upal l hope o f rescuing Mrs . Ba tt i scombe.

“How far are we from dawnThe native consulted a patch of sky justvi sible through the trees .

“More than three hours, Tuan , answeredSembilan , who then thrust an arm throughthe sl ing of his rifle and be gan threadi ng hisway through the trots .

“Where are you going asked Trevor .Back to the open again . There is no

good to be done here . It is not“

so m y toshe et a man when he h ides beh ind a tree

Ca nadi a n Ra i lroad” , Montreal

If Ahu -Samar ’s men come in search of us,there are holes out there where we can l iein ambush for them and pick them off

bef ore they find us with thei r blow- pipes .

’

The planter hesitated and then agreed .

He reached over suddenly and knockedout the light .Five minutes later , when they were in the

open again,with the stars shi ni ng reassurmgly

down on them ,Trevor turned to Semb ilan .

“What di d you thi nk you saw he asked .

I saw shadows,” said the so ldi er, l ong

patches of shadow that were swi f tly closingin on us—and the shadows had eyes !”

“There are apes in the forest,” sugges ted

Trevor .“Those were not apes , reto r ted Sembilan

grimly .

He cast an apprehensive glance over hi sshoulder and

,catching the planter ’s arm ,

drew him behind a boulder as a shower oftiny objects attcred at the ground l ike thefi rst drops 0 a thunder- shower .Without waiting for a second occurrence

of th is phenomenon they ran un ti l they hadplaced the chasm between them and theirunseen enemy .

“Apes do not. use the sumpitan announcedSembilan

,as they came to a halt .

They were stari ng back at the trees, try ingto get a glimpse of the attack ing party , whenthe soldier—who seemed to have eyes al lround his head—touched h is companion andpointed to two figures swinging towards themfrom behind .

Trevor gripped his revolver—butt tightly,thinking for a moment that the enemy hadoutfianked them .

A reas suring remark from Sembilan sethim laughing .

“ It is the Tuan-Hakim ’s men , he said .

He has sent them after us .”

They ran to meet them .

The tal ler of the two men saluted andhanded Trevor a note from Arm ourer :My Dear Old Thi ng,Use your own judgment . If you have

any ho e of success , take these men withyou an go ri h t ahead . I 'l l square thi ngswith Vance . f

,on the other hand

,you

have come to a dead end , come back herea t your leisure . I am sending some grubalong . I daresay you can do with i t !”

“M. Armourer .The second man handed him a basket .I t conta ined a loaf of bread

,some bu tter

and cheese, a ti n of salmon , a tin-opener, andan assortmen t of cutlery .

But the thing which amused the plantermost was a glowing tribute to Armourer ’sthoughtfulness and sense of humor : i t wasa bottle of ch ampagne, the gilded neck ofwhi ch to wered above al l the othcr contentsof the basket !

CHAPTER XV I I I

Da ra Dec i d es

Armourer posted a man at ei ther entranceto hi s house, and, by dint of patient reasoni ngwith thebrown gir l , eventual ly succeeded inpersuadi ng her to accompany him to theverandah .

He to ssed a cush ion on to the floor and shesquatted down on i t, never for a singlemoment withdrawing her gaze from his face .

The c iga rette- tin caught h is eye and he heldout to her .“The Tuan- Hakim is ki nd

,she murmured ,

extracti ng three .

“How do you know that I am a magistratehe asked.

The gi rl smil ed .

“Because of the so ldi ers,’

1\i an,and because

Knee "

I li ved in a house not very dis tant fromere .

7 on

68 S eptember , 1926, Vol. X . , No. 3

Abu—Samar sShe exhaled a wreat h of blue smoke and

nodded .

For some m inu tes the magistrate smokedin silence .

Dara was not. quite such an en igma afterall . She had l ived wi th Abu-S amar and i twas probably i n his bungalow tha t she hadlearned to smoke cigarettes . Already he wasoeginning to see hopes of drawi ng her out .

“And yet you are the goddes s of theCrimson Butte rfly ? ”

She started .

" Yah , Tuan , that is so .

He looked at hi s hands .“Tell me

,

” said the magistrate,al ioutr

" About what , Tuan ?”

About Abu- Samar and the temple m the

wilderness where there i s always a fi re bumi ng . Tell me how you came to leave thatplace and go wi th Samar . ”

She set her l ips obstinately .

I cannot . ”

He played hi s trump—card .

“Listen,Dara : Tonight there was a wh i te

woman in th is house and Abu-Samar cal ledto her and she went to hi m . Poss ibly sh ewil l li ve i n his house

,as you have l ived ; she

wil l wear the ornaments that you have worn .

He wil l take her to the temple and sa y tothe people who worshi there : ‘See , th iswoman is very beaut i ul , more beau ti fu leven than Dara . She is the real goddessof the Butterfl y !

’

The na tive girl started .

“Great Tuan , I was goddess of the CrimsonButterfly . I wore the ornamen t at my throatand the big red butt erfl ies flew in the l igh tOf the brazi er , hoveri ng there to protect me.

There were no o ther butterfl i es anywhere ;on ly those. Then Abu came and saw me .

He came many times after that . He broughtpresents and presen tly he spoke to me . Heasked me to leave the tern Ich to go awaywith h im , and I was a fra i because of h iseyes . I told him that the ki ss of the goddesswas death

,becau se the butterflies watched

over her, and he wen t away . He was gonefor many moons and sudden ly the butterfl iesl eft the temple and flew away . Then Abureturned and took me .

”

Armourer cru shed ou t his cigarette andfel t for his piHow did his make the butterfl ies go .

She shook her head .

Who can tell,Tuan ? Abu has a magic

that i s very powerful . One morni ng whenI woke I found that the ornament was gonefrom my neck. I spoke to Abu and he saidthat he wanted i t for his magi c . When wewere in the house in the trees that wasburnt , the whi te lady came .

The magistrate crossed his legs .

“Oh

, yes —Many timesOnly once , Tuan . Abu made her come .

He. sen t me away,bu t I watched through

a hole i n the wall . He took the CrimsonButterfly from a box and fastened i t aroundher neck . She was very frightened and ranaway in to the trees . Bu t she kept theButterfly .

”

“Where is Abu- Samar now .

She clasped her hands over her ea rs androcked to and fro .

“Do not ask me, Tuan . I f I were to tellyou , Abu would most surely kil l me .

Armourer leaned forward .

Dara , he sa i d earnes t] “in a li

iv)

ou wi l l find here an old3whi te nutrilivililli daeeard who has a mag ic more powerful thane ither Samar or myself

. We shall go toAbu together, the old man and l

,and voushal l take us to him . We shall take wi thus

many men and guns. We shall take thiswh i te lady from Abu and send her across thi.black waters in an engi ne-kapal . Abu wpsha ll bring back in chains. The servants ofthe Bri tish Raj w ill sit in judgment over himand hang hi m from a tall tree—and you willbe the goddess of the Crimson Butterfl iaga in .

”

He watched her keenly,anxious to discover

what impression he had made.

She squat ted there , still swaying a littlegaz ing thoughtful ly at the boards

.

“germ;

she ca me ,” she said softly

,

“ I was cvervthingto Abu . He made me many promises. Heswore to me tha t with the magic he hadstolen from the. butterfl ies he would drivethe white peop le from my count Whenthey were qu i te gone he would ki ng~and I h is queen . The chieftains would begrateful to him and give him gold and ivorvand precious stones—and I should havewonderful things to wear . ”

“A ki ng has many Wives,

magistrate .

She looked up at him and her face brighten

suggested the

Tha t is true, Tuan ; but I was to be hisfi rst wic —always . Now she is there—andI am alone . Would that I had waited forher in the hut in the trees—and killed her!"She rose suddenly and came acres to

where he sat . Dropping to her knees byhis chair , she clutched at his sleeve.

“ If I lead you to him,Grea t Tuan

. willyou swear to do al l that you have promised ?He su rveyed her steadi ly .

“By the word of an Englishman I swear it.'

You wil l send her away on a boat thatmoves without sai ls, s o that she may nevercome back to himHe nodded .

“And to my pee le in the wilderness youwi

'

l say : “This is ara—the real ddesstha t was taken from you by the vi ! Oneaga inst her wil l . See

,I have brought her

back to you .

’ Then one of them will sayto you : ‘Th is is not so , for it is written thatthe ki ss of the goddem i s dea th—that hewho takes hei h dies .

’ And vou will showthem the body of Abu!Armourer suppressed a smile wi th difficulty.

It amused him to hear this chi ld of the forest.diitat ing to him the l ine of action he should

ta e .

“ I shall take you back,Dara

,he. agreed

wi thout committing himself too far. “I shalltake you to the temple and talk to the wisemen . After I have spoken

,they will keep

you there . There wil l be re’

oi cing in thevi l lages and they will light res and beattheir gongs because you have returned. It

wi ll be hari besa i—a great day , Dara.

She stretched out an arm an ‘

gazed_at

the many bracelets that hung from her wrist .Adreamy look came. into her eyes and herAPN SS IOII so fte ned .

Many men wil l des ire me,

” she murmured .

And the red butterfl ies will come backt i protect you

,he added

,calling upon his

imagi nati on .

She sighed .

Hari besar ! and Abu will be dead ! It ISa great pi ty

,Tuan . I loved that man more

than all others .

”

‘ Armourer recognized that they were mnn ing into dangerous waters .

“The ki ss of the goddes s is death." he

remi nded her quickly .

“While he lives thewise men wil l not believe that you wentaway unwil lingly . Abu has tra velled far.Perhaps even he wil l seek out the white lad) ’again—and for t you .

”

She tremble visi bly .

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Abu must die!” she cried hoarse ly .

see that he must die .

”

The magistrate tried not to appear too

eager .“ I 'm afraid so , Dara . In a day or two

you will lead me to whei c he has taken thewhi te mem .

"

“Yah,Tuan - Hakim ; she. responded slowly,

I will lead you—and you and the otherwh ite man wil l protec t me against him ! "Armourer promised .

He reached over and rang the hell forChongnS i .

CHAPTER X IX

The An t i d o te

When Trevor and h is com an ion reachedMichael ’s bungalow later 1 at n ight andapprai sed the latter of thei r adventure

,

Armoure r , after relating his own importantnews about Dara , decided to wire the Commissioner for permi ssion to organize a regu larex t i on to hunt Abu-Samar .he Commi ssi oner ’s reply was br ought to

Armoure r at a l it tle before seven in themorning.

Like the greater port ion of offi c ial messages,

it was at once h ighly sat i sfactory and intensely i rri tating , bu t i t gave consen t to theexpedi tion and provided eleven addi tionalmen who were to arrive soon . Cases of ammuni t i on and rations would be placed on themorning trai n, and the magistrate was ad

vised to have bearers weit in at the. nearesthalt in re adi ness to receive t em .

The Commiss ioner was cndeavori i i g to getin touch with Ba t t i scombe , and Armourerwas enjoined to leave a su itable g uide a t

Jelandang who would proceed to Batt iscombe

,as soon as h is party had been located ,

and br ing h im along in support of the mainbog e dela ' i rr itated h im . Bu t argue with

himself as e m ight , he could not deny the

Wi sdom of wai t ing for those eleven add it ionalmen . Then there was the questi on of thecases to be fetc hed from the ra i lway . Thetrai n was due at the. halt at ten m inutes pas televen . More than probably i t wou ld be late—and the goods l ad to be hand led andbrought across to the start i ng po in t. Moredelay . I t meant postponi ng thei r departureunt i l afte r lunch

,and perhaps t i ll the eveni ng

if they lost thei r way .

Chong-S i brought i n the tea .

Armourer poured ou t two cups and , o n

i ng the door of his own room, carried t emto where Trevor was sleeping . The planterstirred as the mosquito curtains parted, andlooked up sleepily .

“Hul lo, old son !Hullo repondei l the magi trate .

“ l Iow

d’

you feel?”

Trevor sat up .

O K . thanks . What ’s the timeSomewhere around half past seven .

"fi evor sl id his feet to the round and tookhis cup . He sti rred i t thoug tfully .

“Suppose we’l l be pushing oh' soonArmourer shook h is head .

“ I don ’t see the sl ightes t hope of sta rt ingbe fore evening.

Stewart wants me to wa it formy relief to arrive . That in i tself is damnablyannoy in bu t he ’s bringi ng us eleven men ,for whi c I suppose we ought to be. thankful .Then there's a lot of junk to be fetched fromthe rai lway . I t won 't be there before elevenand I thought , if you don

’ t mi nd , that youmi ght take the bearers over and see thatthi y won

’t hang about on the way .

fi evor fel t for the sl ippers he had broughtover in his haversack .

" Ri ght you are ! I'

mgame .

"

“ I shall leave two of my own fellows W iththe new cha p and a third to joi n Bettiscombeand bri ng hi m along after us as soon

as the

Commi sswner loca te s him . That lea ves us

69

knee .

“That ’s just how I fi gu re it out . You see ,Trevor

,that al l th is confounded delay ,

although intensely annoy ing, means that weshal l have time to co l lect our wits and or

ganize. We shall move as a well- equipped ,well - provisioned column

,instead of straggling

along in l ittle detachments that might cometo grief

,if suddenly surrounded and cu t off

by Samar's men .

"

Trevor began spreadi ng the conten ts of h isli aversack over the bed .

“ I ’l l get dressed a t.

once,

" he announced,

“and you ’d better turnin for a spell . "

Armourer smiled .

“l shan ’t attempt to sleep before lunch ,"

he said .

“ I f by that time I see no prospect ofan early departure

,I may try and squeeze

in a couple of hours . There’s a deuce of a lotof s adework to be got through yet .

”

The planter was su rvey ing h is mud-s tainedgarments of the n ight before .

“ I ’m afraid I'

ll have to borrow someclothes

.I f you happl

en to have a suit that'

sshrunk in the was so much the better !You 're a good deal bigger than I am .

“ I ’l l see what Chong—Si can do for you ,laughed the magistrate .

He shouted for the servant who appearedat the door .

“The Tuan Trevor wan ts some. clothes,said hi s master . “ Bring everyt hing vou canfi nd and let h im choose for h imself.The Chinaman reflected for a moment and

be gan pull ing open drawers and dwi ng intothe inner mysteri es of a zinc- l ined trunk .

When Trevor met the train he found notonly the cases he had come there to collect ,bu t the genial professor and h i s prettydaughter .Standen was i n grea t sp i r its.

Morni ng , Trevor,” he shouted fro m the

coach .

“So Vou'

ve been raked into th is l ittle a fl'

a i r

too

The younger man hurr ied forward to aS S IS lJovce.

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CHAPTER

In Sama r ’ s C l u tc h es

Wh en Vera Batti scombe came, to her senses ,

she found herself lyi ng on a sort of hammockmade from the ent ire ski n of some animaland fas tened at ei ther end to a wooden framcby means of lea thern thongs .

Presently she raised herself on her arms andendeavored , from a mingl ing of memories

,

thoughts and fears, to discover somethingthat might account for her presence in so

primi tive a dwel ling .

At the foot of her bed , a strip of mattingconcealed what she surm is ed to be the only

fi fteen men—e leven of Lindsay ’s and four ofm ine. J immy 's probably taken half a do ze non his little jaunt , so we. ought to have amplefor the gobTrevor bl inked .

“( iot plenty of a i nimini t iouI ve. an a ir supply a lready—and there

'smore on the way .

“And the brown girlArmourer nodded h is head towards the

verandah .

“

She’

s sti l l out there. As far as I can gathershe seems fi t and shows no signs of want ingto go back on her barga in.

”

.

He took Trevor’s empt cup and,having

d i sembarrassed himsel f of oth,perched him

sel f on the foot of the bed.

“I ’ve been trying to reason my self into a

sensible state of mind regarding Mrs . Battiseombe’

s predicament ,”he co ntinued .

“ Shewas only conva lescent when she bolted fr omhere, and

,a l though j immy insists that she

has a wonderful consti tution, I’m co nvi nced

that thi s last experience has brought on thefever aga in.

”

“Yes ,”

agreed Trevor,“I fancy y ou

'

reright there. Bu t even if she went away in

some sort of a tranee, she must have come toher senses by now,

and be, sca red into the

bar a in.

”

e magistrate placed a hand on either

As soo nas both were on terra fi rma,Trevo r

turned to Standen.

“You know what ’s happened 7”

he suggested .

The professo r nodded .

h

“The Commissioner sent me new/s last

ni ght , and I made arrangements to returnimmedia tely . It

’

s a regrettable state ofa ffai rs, of course, and I fee l extremely anxiousabout Mrs . Bat t iscombe ,

but the incident hasbrough t the Samar business to a head , and Isuppose tha t’s something .

”

“Give me your barang, sa id Trevo r ; my

men can carry it up with the rest of the stuff .How d

’

yon do, Miss Standen You 've,arr i ved just in t ime to see the. start of wha t.promi ses to be a real ly interesting adventure.

"

A man poked his head from a window andcal led .

Say , Trevo r. tell Armourer that youngLindsa y with the reinforcements is on h isway now and should be a t h is place this a fternoon. He'l l understan d.The planter waved an arm .

“Al l right , Ba rnes, and many thanks . He'

llbe g lad to hear i t . You keeping fit

“Fit as a fiddle. You look wel l .The t ra in moved on.

They were on their way up the slope witha straggling l ine of bearers behind them,

when the professor spoke aga in.

“ I suppose there is such a thi ng as link .

he decla red suddenly .

“AbuS amar’

s had i tall on his side up to within the last couple ofdays—and now i t

’s swung around to ours. "

Trevor glanced up sharply, a puzzled ex

pression on h is face.

“lt

'

s swu ng round , hasIt

Abs olutely . He tapped a la rge waterbo ttle which was slung from his shoulder ona leather strap.

“Every thing depends on theco ntents of th is flask . I _hit on i t y es terday .

after countless futile experiments . Joy ec andl are joining your eit ped i t i on—my sel f be causeI bel ieve my presence is essent ia l , and my

da ug hter because she refuses point blank tobe left behind .

”

Trevor gasped .

“You don

'

t mean to sa y

y ou ’ve found an antidote”There's not the least doubt about i t.Joy ce la hed.

“Poor ol daddy ! " she sa id .

“He

’s so

pleased wi th himsel f. Everylmdy's been

praising him and trot ting round after h imand he does just love be ing pra ised andtrotted round after !”

The professor shook his head delighted ly .

“There’s a daugh ter for you , Mr. Trevor !l ler sole object in exi stence is to hold her or

old father up to ridi cule—bu t we’ve founiro

he

ant idote my boy , and that’s all that reallv

matters .

Lindsay reached Jelandang at four and a t,

fivck thi rty Armourer rode out. a t the head of

his column,with a fierce sun on its downward

course'

and a pleasant breeze shaking the topmost leaves o i the pa lms .

Joyce rode between her father and Trevor .and Lindsay leaning over the verandah ra i lwith two rebel l ious terriors tethered besidehim,

wa tched them off .

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At the end of the fourth big hosti le shower ,he waved his handkerchief and shou ted at.the top of his Voice :Fix bayonets ! l

'

p—a ll of y ou- w and let

’cm have i t !

"

There were casualt ies then—three of them,

but they had the sat isfact ion as they ran.

crouching low,to see big bunches of men

break from cover and scutt le l ike rabbits,

tumbling one over the other .

A hundred yards and the Governmenttroops had flattened out again , precedingtheir antagon ists b y m inutes and wreaki ngfearfu l havoc before the knots had gainedt ime to disperse .

A couple more simi lar manoeuvres,and

blow- pipes had been flung aside for parangsand krises . A brief determin ed stand

,and l

r

the rout which Armou rer had fervent ly hopedC !M TER XX I I

f” be gan to set " L Ba t t i scombe Br i ngs NewsAt the fall of darkness

,Armourer's Wh ist lt

bro ught. together Bat t iscombe and twelvemen

,and a few moments later the professo r ’s

l itt le rear-guard joi ned them .

Better see what ’s i nside that long bu tover there, Batt iscombe suggested—an dthey moved forward again .

They advanced wari ly unt i l the clump oftrees and the bui lding which ran be nea thwere completely enci rc led .

It was a long hut wi th a door at ei ther end .

Armourer tr ied the neare st one withoutsuccess

,but Trevor

,who had moved round

to the far side,cal l ed ou t :

“ I say,you fel lows, we can get i n here ;

i t'

s propped open .

"

Armourer se lected three men , sen t themforward to reconnoit re

,and joi ned Trevor . said the Eng l ishman

“Be careful how you go ; there may be atrick here .

” He remembered sudden ly that.he had not not iced Ba t t iscombe for someminutes .

" Seen J immy , anybody he asked .

Yes,

" sa id Trevor,

" I caught sight of h ima short whi le back . He was sending one ofthe fel lows up that ladder to see i f the shackup there was inhabited .

”

Armourer sh outed for a lamAs soon as One was brong t , he kicked

open the door and,holdi ng i t open with one

hand,stepped inside .

Trevor was at h is heels .

The planter, who was stari ng round curi ously , sudden ly uttered a c ry .

Look out ! There’s one of those eon

foun ded butterfl ies !”

He made a shot at it with his hat and i tfluttered pas t Armou rer , who snatched upthe piece of wood that had held the dooropen and knocked i t to the ground . Beforehe could ut his foot on i t , i t had crawledout i nto t e darkness .

“Sta nden , he cri ed at the top of his Voice ,one of Samar ’s i nsects has got loose .

"

Heheld the lamp through the

don 't see it anywhere,but I know I h i t i t .

He stepped back into the bu t and thedoor swung to behind him .

There was someth ing unpleasant ly defin iteabout the way i t c losed that made Armourerattempt to open it again . He t ri ed i t severaltimes

,then i cked up the, lamp and hold i t

c lose to the ock .

“Wha t's up ? ” asked h is compan ion .

Armourer looked at h im .

“We ’re locked in,old son, l ike. the pai r

of idiots we are .

The planter shrugged his shoulders.“ It

'

s not made of cast- i ron ; we can soonbreak our way out .

”

Armourer made h is way down the centre.of the bu i ld ing .

“It'

s not that that worries me ,”he informed

him,

“but the fact that there may be a lo t ofunpleasant su rprises in store for us baton

» we

can bre ak out . Lord ! what’

s al l th i s ?

He held_t he lamp unt i l i t s l igh t fe l l upon

t iei upon t ier of broadwood en t rays,st rewn

W i t h fresh ly- pi cked gree n leaves.

T ic y or jxmsessed h i im elf of a leaf and,dropp ing i t qu ick ly , pu t his foot on i t .

Caterpi l lars . he de c lared .

“Nastv stri p

cth i ngs , W l i ll horns ! "rinourer st u c k an em ) l \’ i e be tweetee th .

1 p p n lm

I t e l l you wha t,old son,

he sa id,we ’ve

st ru ck an uncommonly leasant l i t t le pa ckett h i s t ime ; we 're in h i s fireeding- hous e !

The c o lor left Trevor's c heeks.

“Wha t 's tha tThis is where he b re eds t he cri rmum

bu t terfl ies .

The plan ter tu rned on his hee l .“ I n t ha t case We’

d bet ter ge t ou t beforethey make nasty - limking pat terns al l over us .I l l see how a round or two ’

ll i n fluence h ispaten t lock.

“All righ t ,” re turned the mag i st rate

,carry

on W i th i t . I 'm go ing to see what t here isat the far end . Ile b lundered in to a woodenpart i t ion and opened t he door i t con tai nedcarefu l ly . There was a l igh t i nside , and heset down h is lamp on the fl oor beh ind h im .

His au t oma t ic and h is face came in to the

open ing toge ther,and

,as t hey d id so

,he.

c augh t sigh t of a figure st andi ng erec t , onehand on a wooden bar . I t was D r . AbuSamar .

“Hands up,Abu ! "

c oo l ly .

“ I 've got, you .

“Not yet,0 Eng l ishman ! "

mu t tered reply , and at thatl igh t wen t ou t .I t was on ly t hen that: he real ized why

Samar had wa i ted .

The wal ls were l ined wi t h count less smal lcages, all of wh ich were now open , and t hea i r was al ive wi t h the fl apping of wings .He p lunged qu ickly to h is knees, anddraw i ng h imse l f th rough t he aper t u re of t het rap

,t h rust in an arm and pu l led t he boarding

ba c k into p lace . As he did so he fe l t a sharpburn i ng sensat ion a t h is wri st . He c rushedthe bu t terfly against the ou ter wal l , but.al ready t he damage was done .

H i s shout brought a sold ier to t he spo t ,and almost immedia te ly afterwards the. profossor

, Joyce and Trevor .They found h im pi t ched fo rward on toh i s arms

,and in those last few se c onds of

consc iousnes s he recogn ized them .

“They are al l i n there ,” he mut teicd,

“the

but terfl ies—don ’t open any thi ng—S amar go tou t firs t—o ne. of the li ru tes s tung me .

"

He rol led over on his side , and the professo rf e l t for h is hypoderm ic sy ri nge .

Ac t i ng on the pro fesso r's inst ruct ions, t heybrough t down t he. rough bed tha t had beenVera Ba tt iscombe'

s couch such a short. t imebefore

,and lai d A rmourer on i t .

The bearers,led by a minner, had al ready

jo ined the ma in body , and a brown canvasten t was qu ick ly erec ted over t he S ick man .

Therea fter Trevor—in t he absence o fBat t iscombe,

who had mys t erious ly di sa p

peared—took charge .

Trevor real ized t hat an advance in t o host i lec oun t ry before dawn wi t h so small a c ompany Wou ld be d is t inc t ly unw i se .

At leng t h the profes so r c ame ou t andTrevor add ressed h im .

How is he asked the younge r mananxious ly .

The pro fess or ru bbe d h is beard .

“Oh , we 'l l pu l l h im through all righ t .You can 't a c compl ish these t h ings in a fewm inu tes , but we go t h im in t ime . I’ i tyt ha t Sama r fe l low sl i pped th rough ou r ring .

Have you found Bat t is combe.

‘7

Trevor shook his head .

c ame theinstan t t he

Standen st ru ck a mat c h and looked a t hi swat c h .

Near ly n ine,li e

abou t some foo d “

f"

Trevor pi loted him to a spo t where ahu rri cane lamp s tood on a case with am i sce l lany of ename l led ware and c ut leryen c i r c l ing i t .They were l igh t ing t he i r pipes when

Ba t t i scombe appeared from nowhere andgrabbe d at a hunk of bread .

"

Jove ! I ’m hungry ! "1 ! evor rai sed hi s brows .“Where. the deuce have y ou been ? " hedemanded .

“ A d i ckens of a way . 1 too k c harge ofthose t hree men Armourer sent ou t . We

scoured the Count ry pre t ty t horough ly andeven t ual ly got in to touch wi th a sco re or soof

,

d is conso late t ribesmen . who capi tu lat edw i t hou t off ering resistance . I think theyImag ined We had the whole Br i t ish armybeh i nd us . Lo rd ! t hey were s c ared .

"

The profess or b l inked.“Welloh. we, had a long palaver, condu c ted

mos t ly by signs, un t i l I disco vered t hatt he i r leader understood some Malay . A f tertha t we go t along famously . I t 's queer whatfa t - headed not ions some eople ge t into thei rheads !—t hese c haps wora i ip that confoundedBu t terfly , you know ! "He munched for some i i toments i n si len c e .

“ A l l I wanted to know was what hadhappened to my wi fe . It seems tha t t hisc onfounded Samar prom i sed t hem a whi t egoddess i nstead of a b la c k one they al readyhad . Vera was to be the goddess . They 'r etaken her up t here now and there's to be noend of a b ig c eremony ton igh t . I explainedt ha t t he lady i n ques t ion was my wi fe , t hech i ld of qu i t e ord ina ry human b ei ngs , andt hat I cou ld Vou c h for t he fa c t tha t shehadn 't at any t ime dropped from the ski es .Tha t se t t hem t h ink ing . They gi bberet l

away for some t ime and t hen announ c edtha t t hey

,perso nal ly , had lost al l fai t h in

Abu - ga inar and wou ld c heerfu l ly exert thei ri n fl uen c e on our behalf up on t he i r fe l lowt ribesmen . I 've brought 'em back wi t h me .

" This is a t ime for ta c t , ’

Bat t iscombe

further de c lared .

“We ’ l l leave hal f ou r menhere

.and tak ing the remai nder wi th us

proceed d i rec t ly to where t h is g igan t i cjambo ree i s be ing he ld . We'l l carry arms ,of co urse , bu t I don 't think we shal l requ i reto use t hem . One of t he most importan tpo i nts agai nst Abu-Samar is t ha t h is newgmi des s i sn ’

t weari ng t he pendan t . Sheca n ’

t be ,be cause I no t i c ed i t on t he brown

g i r l th is even ing . Abu’

ll have his say, andthen I ’ l l address the meet ing t h rough ani n t erpret er . I 've had one or two exp eriencesof t h is so rt before—and I ’m st i l l here t ote l l the t ale . Le t ‘s see wha t A rmou rerth inks abo u t i t .Trevor to ld h im the news—and his fa c efe l l .Hang ing's too good for a chap l ike Abu

Samar,

” pu t i n Standen .

Ba tt iscombe sc rewed up his face .

“ I wou ldn 't l ike to t e l l you how I fee labou t i t ,” he sa id .

“ I f I hadn 't had somet hing t o keep me from t hink ing too mu c h ,I fan cy I shou ld have gone mad .

Standen nodded grave ly .

You 've taken you r grue l ling bet ter thanmost men

,and I adm i re you for i t . I know

t he st at e your nerves are in and t he efi'

ort

you had t o make to persuade yoursel f toco me. ba c k here to us i nst ead of goi ng onaf t er Mrs . Batt iscombe. I f you 'l l l isten t ot he adv ice of an older man , and one whohas had some exp erience , you 'l l stop fidget ingab ou t and si t down .

"

The mag i st ra t e plan ted h imse l f on t he c asenext to Trevor .

“And wha t 's you r next adv i ce, pro fesso r

announ c ed .

“What

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"F i nish you r mea l slowly , ta ke a good

strong to t , and l igh t. your pipe.

—l! ow soonhave we. to sta r t ?"

“I shou ld l ike to get away a t once, but

we’

ve ample time i f we push'

ofi'

in half anhour . As far as I can make out , nothi ngusefu l can be accomplished before midn igh t .Somebody

's got to stop here and look afterthese chatteri ng n iggers . Who

'

s i t goi ngto i t)

Standen looked at the plan ter .Under any other ci rcumstances , I shou ld

have. cheerfu l ly Voluntee red ; but my experi

e li ce as a leader of men is insign ifi cant andt heremay be more of the insects at the temple .

" I see ,

" said Trevor .

" You mean thatthe. antidote may be requi red again .

“Precisely . On the other hand , of course ,there ’s Armourer and our wounded men tobe considered . I could make them bothcomfortable before I started and leaveinstructions with my daughter how to acti f ei ther took a serious tu rn for the Wors e .

“I'

ll stop," dec lared Trevor prompt ly .

I low long are you l ikely to be away ? "

Batt iscombe frowned .

“We ’ l l be back eforc dawn , in any case ,he decided .

“I'

m sorry to disappoint y ou , Trevor ,aid the rofessor.

The at er laughed .

“ I‘m not grumbling . I'

ve had more thanmy share. of the exc i tement , and—wel l, t here

'

snothing else for i t , is there

? We ca n manageal l right here—and i t 's more than l i kely y ou

'

ll

be wanted up there . Take Dara with you .

She'

s the real goddess of the Crimson But terfl y and you can

'

t very wel l depri ve thesepeople of one of them without return ingthem the other.Batt iscombe started .

By Jove,Trevor ! he ejacu lated; that

‘

sthe t icket ! I didn

'

t know that she was theimportant personageHe rubbed his hands together““ If some kind pers on

'

ll obl ige me w iththat tot

,we

'

l l get busy . He looked fromone. to the other . “ I f any harm

'

s come toVera ,

” he added fiercely,

“ I’

m not altogethercertain that Mr. Abn- Qamar wi l l come backwith us al ive .

CHAPTER X X I I IPl ot t i ng and Plan n i ng

James Batt iscombe’

s long e tpc rienee as amagistrate in remote dist ricts had taught h imthe value of stage- management where nat i verel igions were concerned .

Co nsequent ly , when he and the i rofessor,wi th the ir handfu l of men

,joined t e tri bes

men who squatted outside the breas twork,he.

led Dara forward,holding a lamp so that its.

l ig ht fel l upon her face and shoulders andupon the sacred emblem that gl ittered a t

her threat .

The nati ves , who had arisen at the irapproach , stared in hushed amazement ather comi ng and present ly prostrated themselves before her .

She folded her arms and addressed themi n the ir own tongue

,and the fervour of their

mingled responses i nspired the mag ist ratewith hope .

The g ir l turned to him .

“ I have told them , she said i n Malay,

that I was spiri ted away from them byAbu- Samar; that he is a bad man and that,before the sun rises again i n the. east

,he.

must di e.

”

Bat t iscombe nodded .

“And the men said , pursued Dara,that

my words were wis e ones and that theyWould take me back to my temple and tellthe others what I have already told them

.

They moved forward presently,under a

vio let dome where stars hung l ike jewel ledornaments amid windblown c louds .

The first half - mi le was rough going , andthen , on the far si de of a gorge, they whee ledon to a

'

recogni zed track , whi ch, in spi te of

fragments of stone occurri ng a t fru lucntinte rva ls

,off ered them better foothold .

They cl imbed a sti ff h i l l and began des cending into a val ley where a keen wind metthem

,carryi ng to t he ir cheeks the spray

from an adjacent cataract .

A nat ive who spoke Malay caught them up.

“We wi l l stop at the foot of the slope ,Tuan . On the other side of the hi l l is theroad by wh ich our people must pass on the irway to the temple .

“ I3a ik,

' rep l ied Ba t t iscombe short ly , andpressed onward .

They cal led a hal t in the hol low and theprofessor se lected a bou lder upon wh ich heprompt ly sa t , Dara rec l ined at h is feet ,whi le the mag ist rat e st ro l led o ff to interv iewh is gu idWhen he returned he expla ined the ir

posit ion to Dara and Standen . A lso he set

Dara'

s mind at ease about her p osit ion .

“We are mov ing on in but a l itt le wh i le ,"

he told her.“and when the wh ite mem has

been restored to me ; I sha l l see that thesepeople be l ieve and take y ou back again .

She observed h im doubtfu l ly .

“ I f Abu does not die , she declared , ver}sure ly they w i l l k i l l me after you have gone .

Ba t t iscombe d id not answer“S ome of their fel lows have gone ahead to

expla in the pos it ion to any of their friend sthey may encounter in the road . he remarkedto Standen .

" If they’

re not back in a quarterof an hour

, I‘

m start ing without them . Myinterpn

‘ter thought. it best to get a decentnumber of

‘

em on our side , in case our miss iongot m isunderstood and we were attacked .

On the whole I fancy he'

s right .

“ It appears very sound to me,

other .

“We want a good backing , contin ued themagistrate .

“We'

re not go ing to put i t i

much of a show,if i t comes to fighting , wi t 1

seven men and a bunch of others who won'

tknow qu ite on whose s ide they are . Theyte l l me the far side of the ridge is just teemingwith the black - skinned b l ighters . Wou ldn

'

tsome of our padres at home give the ir cas so cksand waistcoat buttons for a congregat ion l iketh is ?

"

“By God,they would ! chuckled the. profes

sa id the

And th ink of the col lect ion !”

Standen blew h is nose V i gorously .

“ I suppose thev have one ?

You bet they do . Witch - doctors, j u j umerc hants and h igh - priests of nat i ve cu ltsdon

'

t j ust hang around producing my ster iesfor nothing .

'

What form do vou suppose i t takes . Imean thev wou ldn ’ t br ing monevx

“No , sa id Ba t t iscombe,

“they probablytrot along a bunch of bananas, some nuts ,or a cocoanut or two - and the Pr iests awaitan o p ortuni ty and disrms e of i t in bu lk to

the rs t merchant that crosses the interior .There

'

s usual ly a commercial side to al l theseth ings , Nobody grumbles as long as there 'sa good show . Your nat ive l ikes h is show .

That'

s why Dara'

s posit ion presents compl i cat ions . We

'

ve got to conv ince the pr iests—o r whate ver they style themselves thatshe

’

s the genuine art ic le - and we'

ve to

convince them in such manner as not toarouse too many suspic ions in the nat i vemind , Their pr inc i a i creed is that thebu tterfl ies protect t. ei r goddes s and thatno man who tampers with her survi ves thec ;per iment . We can ’t produce a butterflyand make it st i ng Abu - Samar

,and we haven

'

tt i me to find and d is pose of h im and tattooon h im a fa ir imitat ion of t-he mark theBut terfly makes when i t does st ing . I fwe

’

re driven to ext reme measures , we ma yhave to pick the beggar off wi th a rifl ebu l let , j ust to show

’em that the man whoabducted Dara d id die

,anyway . Hu l lo !

here are some of our men back . We'l lfal l the fel lows in and get on .

5mm ” . 1926: Vol. x No. 3

for thei r advocate .

to Standen .

CHAPTER XX IV

A t t h e Temp leThe summ i t

.

of the ne \:t.

h i ll revealed tothem a vast c i rcu lar amph i theatre fr om thecen tre of wh i ch a path led up to the

, spotwhere , at the

.

top of a huge mound, aneno rmous bra zrer was burn ing . Behind thebrazner they could just make out the entra nceto what ap ared to he a cave and

,standing

before i t , t ree figures .

Packed close ly into th is hollow, partly in

the moon l ight and partly in the. shadow ofthe cl iff s , was a mult itude of crouching forms ,The mag istrate unhitched a ir of bino

cu lars and focussed them on t c temple,

“Vera'

s there ," said Batt iscombe huski lv,

and Samar . There'

s a black chap with their)w ith nothing much on but paint

.

Their gu ide halted before them.

“ It i s t ime,Tuan

,he said

.

They beg an to descend and came presentlyby way of a winding path ,

to a flight of stepsrough ly hewn from the bare rock

.and ten

m inutes later they embarked upon the twosect ions of worsh i ppers a t. the shrine. of theCr imson Butterfly .

Ba tt iscombe was within twenty yards ofthe shr ine itse lf when the. nat ive who spoke.Malay appeared at his side and s igned toh im to stop .

Just above them a man was speaking inthe queer , d iscordant dialect these. peopleemployed .

“He says . expla ined the guide , f‘that this

is the n igh t. of al l n ights,that the prophecy

has been fu lfi l led and there is once. more xiwh ite goddess at the shrine of t-he Butterfl y .

"

The gathering was on its knees now andrumbled in that vast hol low like thunder

.

The murmuring ceased and in the grims i lence that fol lowed

,Batt iscombe caug ht the

gu ide '

s ey e.

“Ask h im where the token is—the ornamentthat the goddess should be wea r ing .

”

The man raised h is arm and shouted .

The priest was about to res nd whenAbu - Samar sprang in fro m o him andlevel led an accusing finger at Ba tt iscombe.

“ It is he who has stolen the ornament,"

he screamed .

“The white man who has

come to rob the shrine of its goddess hastaken the Cr imson Butte rfly ,

”

“Th is is beg inn ing to look awkward,wh ispered the profes sor in the magistratesear .

“Can’

t our black friend do somethi ng ?“Tel l them

,Ba t t iscombe shouted to the

gu ide,

" that Abu -Samar is a l iar and the sonof l iars ; that he came by ste alth and Sto leDara—the goddess—from the shrine;_that

the white woman they see, u there i s no

goddess,but my w ife whom e t ook away

from my house when she was lll Tellthem that i f the receive me

‘

i n peace—alli s wel l ; and if t hey :eet me Wi th spears, thehi l lsides wi l l flash Wi th fire and there Wlll beman y dead in the val leys .

The man in the leopard sk i n waved hi sblow - pipe above, his head and presently lht‘

shout ing di ed down .

S eptember , 1926: Vol. X . , No . 3

O,wise one !” he began inMalay , assuming

him to be a man of su r ior education .

Dara—the goddess of t e Butterfly—ishere .

”

The priest regarded him suspic iously,

while Abu - Samar, sti l l in the European garbhe aff ected, drew h imse lf erect .

“Batt iscombe,

” he cal led insolently,

“youare a brave man and an optimi st

,but Abu

Samar holds your fate in the holl ow of hishand . Yes , I stole your wi fe from Jelandang .

You can shout i t to the people aga in andagain , but they wi ll not bel ieve you . Theyhave waited for a white goddess all theseyears and, now that I have brought her tothem, do you imagine they wil l let you takeher away ? In a moment I shal l move onefinger and you and your l ittle party wil l beblotted out . I am lending your wi fe to thesepeople . They shall keep her unti l I am readyto spirit her away

,as I took Dara the brown

girl . ” He pointed at Batt iscombe’

s bandcon temptuously . I t wil l take more thantha t to arrest Abu - Samar . Seven l it tlesoldi ers in round hats ! I t is an insul tthe second time vou have, insul ted me

,

Battiscombel’

The magistrate held h is head on one side .

“ I'm afraid I shal l have to infli ct a thirdinsult on you , Abu - Samar

,for tonight I

take you back with me—to be hanged l ikethe d i rty cut- throat you are !Samar drew in a deep breath and his

eyes flas hed .

“Dara ! " he shouted to the crowd . Whereis she ? They, who say they have broughther back , cannot find her . I t is a l ie, a

K i l l ! "

And then , as Ba t t iscombe’

s automat icleaped from his pocket

,as gr im l ittle men

gripped their rifles and a shrieking mas shesitated before sweeping down on thema da rk figure sl i ped from behind a rock and

,

drawing a long nife from her ha ir,bur ied i t

to the hilt in Samar 's back .

Abu - Samar dropped forward on his kneesand Dara waved the dripping blade aloft .Greetings, my people !

" she cried,

“Behold ! here am I ! I have. come back to you .

My whi te friends have brought me hereand he who stole me from you is dead ! "

They grovelled before her now moaning,

chanting, beating their heads upon theground, and Bat t i scombe, darting forward ,snatched Vera up in his arms .

“We have won , Tuan ,” sa id Kuraman at

the professor 's side .

“The Tuan - Bakin haswon~ and the mem is safe again . He is awonderful man !”

Standen smiled .

Kuraman ,” repl ied the professor, you are

all wonderfu l men—al l of you ; do you understand ? ”

And he l it a cigarette .

73 Canadi an Ra i'lroader , Montrea l

THE END

CHAPTER XXV

The Happy Retu r nAs the dawn was coming up

,Trevor

,red- eyed and weary,saw them straggl ing

back among the rocks .

“

Hullo !”he greeted them ; what luck

Batt i scombe threw his arms in the air .“

The very b f’s t . We’ve brought her back,unharmed .

“

Splend id ! How di d you manage i t ?The professor laughed .

“

We'

l l tel l you al l about i t as soon aswe

'

ve found somewhere comfortable to si tand sometlung warm to dri nk . We've hada most successful and memorable outing ;bu t i t was touch - and - go at one time , was n

’ ti t , Bat tiscombe?”

The magistrate grinned .

“And Abu- Samar ? "

He 's dead ; Dara kil led him .

Dara ? "

Yes, stabbed him in the back at a verycr itical moment . We ’d talk ed ourselveshoarse and i t wanted somethi ng very decisiveto convince ’em of our bona- fides . Darasupp l ied it !”

The last trace of anx iety left the plante r ’s face .

“Wel l , that’s about the end of our job ,

isn 't i t ? We can burn his jol ly old breedi nghouse at our leisure, and march comfortablyback to hear the plaudi ts of the multi tude !”They al l laughed .

“How 's Armourer ?" asked the professor,

as they approached the te nt .“Fine , apparently . The last time I saw

Miss Standen she told me he had recogn izedher and spoken quite sensibly .

"

The professo r rubbed h is hands togetheras he stopped outside Armourer ’s tent .

“ I could sleep the round of the clock ! "

he declared .

Batt i scombe placed his hands on his hips ." I can give you four hours . I ’m breaking

camp at nine and putting as many miles asI can between us and any ssi blc afterthoughts on the part of our co ored friends .”

“ I don 't blam e you ,‘ said the other , and

went in to look at his patient .By nine o 'clock al l that was left of the long

hut and its loathsome contents was a heapof smouldering ruins.

I t amused Standen to compare the atmosphere of the return march to the outwardj ourney of the expedi tion . The men thebearers

,the leaders themselves, laughedand

chattered as the long l ine wound i ts waywestward . The fact that their mission wasaccomplished and that Abu - Samar was deadhad taken a weight from every mi nd , fromthe highest to the lowest . He wonderedwhat would have happened if they hadfai led

,if the breeding- house had broadcasted

its thousands, if Samar had been free topursue h is campaign of hate !

“What ’s up,professor ?" laughed Trevor .

You look as if you'd someth rng on yourmind .

I had , confessed the older man ;“but

,

thank heaven , i t isn’t there now ! "

Onthe second day Vera was able to ride.“Jim ,

" she asked suddenly, addressing the

man who walked by her side,

“are you real lyglad to have me back

“Rather ! " he sa id . When I heard that

he’d taken you, I nearly went off my rocker . "“But I ’ve been such a beast to you .

I t ’s no earthly use your shaking your head .

I'

ve treated you frightfully badly . Sherested a hand on his shoulder . But Ididn ’t know you, Jim . I didn ’ t know youcould do th ings l ike. that . I was so frightenedbefore you came . I was more frightenedsti llfi for your sake—when you walked rightthrough that ghas tly crowd . I thoughtthey ’d ki l l you .

“So di d I, repl ied her husband cheerful ly .

But you weren ’t afraid .

"

Wasn ’ t I , though ! I was in a deuce ofa panic , if you only knew .

"

”I don ’t bel ieve it,

” she declared .

“ Iabso lutely refuse to believe any such nonsense . You were ah absolute hero—a great

,

fat, dear old hero—and I don ’t deserve youa bi t—But honestly

,dear

,I mean to stick

to you l ike anything after this. ”“You ’ve jol ly wel l got to ,

" sa id Battiscombe .

“You don ’ t suppose I indulge injaunts of this sort j ust for the fun of thething . In future I ’m rul ing my householdwith an iron hand—By the way ,

I ’m sendingmy resignation as soon as we get back .

”

Vera gasped .

“You 're not throwing up your career be.cause of me ? "

“Not altogether . You see, Vera . the oldman pegged out on the day I left Rembakut .

I got the news when Armourer's man caughtme up .

”

“Jml !”Yes ,

” he continued slowly,“ I haven 't

told a soul about i t yet ; I was saving it upfor you . I t'l l mean a lot to us . You 'l l beable to have some decent frocks now and theonly occupation I shall want is somethingto help me keep my fat downl—I

'

m so rryI wasn ’t home when i t happened , though .

I t was a week before Armourer ta lked sensi bly aga in . He opened h is eyes wear i ly andreal ized that somebody was bendi ng overhim. It was evening and the air was pleasantly cool .He reached out with his hand and touched

a white arm .

“ Is that you , Joyce ?" he asked , in so

natural a. tone that it startled her .She had somehow p ictured their firs t

intimate conversation as someth ing entirelydi ff erent from this .

“Yes,Michael

,she sa id , w ith j ust a

catch i n her vorce ,“You didn ’ t th ink i t

was anyone else , did youHe drew her hand towards h im and pressed

his lips to it .

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