Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 26, 1939 Page: 3 of 8
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SYNOPSIS
Richard Exon, a poor young English-
man, befriends elderly Matthew Gering,
■who at his death, gives him a statement
claiming he, Gering, is Rudolph Elbert
Virgil, Count at Brief, of ancient Austri-
an nobility who was betrayed 20 years
before by his twin brother, Ferdinand,
whose sentence for forgery he himself
served. Ferdinand appropriated his ti-
tle, property and daughter. Before he
dies, Gering tells Exon there is a family
secret, known only to the head of the
house, to be found in the great tower at
Brief, by a doorway none can ever find.
Exon inherits his uncle's fortune and sets
out to right Gering's wrongs. En route
he encounters Percy Elbert Virgil, son
■of the villainous Ferdinand and sees him
In conference with Insklp, a diamond
merchant. He engages a valet. Winter,
*who hates Percy and meets by chance
■at a garage, John Herrick, who is a
linguist and who as a youth served as
a page at Gering's wedding, and had vis-
ited Brief. Herrick agrees to aid Exon.
They establish headquarters at Brnn-
da Revoke's farm at Raven, a few miles
from Brief and make their plans. They
find the castle almost inaccessible. They
see a closed car occupied by Percy
Virgil, a chauffeur and a woman. Hear-
ing a dog scream, they see the chauf-
feur flogging It, Just as a horse with a
girl astride bounds along the path and
Is felled by a strung wire. The girl, un-
conscious, is picked up carelessly by the
chauffeur and woman, who then run
away, after dropping her. Exon rescues
the girl and carries her to his waiting
car. He identifies the girl as Elizabeth,
daughter of the disowned Gering, tells
her of her cousin's plot to abduct her
and takes her to Raven, where he tells
her the story of her father and promises
to go the limit to help her right her
father's wrongs. Incredulous at first,
Elizabeth gradually wins faith in her
benefactor. Percy Virgil brings the po-
lice to Raven, announcing that two stran-
gers are being sought for the kidnaping
of Elizabeth.
CHAPTER IV—Continued
—7—
The sergeant swallowed, and Vir-
gil put in his oar.
"You may be strangers," he said,
■"but that doesn't put you above the
Saw of the land."
"Nor, I trust," said Herrick, "be-
yond the traditional courtesy of its
inhabitants. What is your rank in
the police?"
Virgil flushed.
"I am not in the police," he said.
"Then why," said Herrick, "did
you presume to address me?"
"My name is—"
"I have no desire," said Herrick,
■"to hear your name." He returned
to the police. "You were saying
that the matter was serious ..."
Virgil looked ready to burst, but
the sergeant went straight to the
point
"I will be plain," he said. "A lady
(has been abducted—a lady of high
degree. She was kidnaped early
this morning upon her father's es-
tate ... at Brief . . . some ten
miles from here." He held up our
map. "I think you will hardly deny
that you know where that is."
"I have known where Brief was,"
said Herrick, "for 23 years."
The others stared.
Then—
"We are dealing with the pres-
ent." said Virgil.
Herrick raised his eyebrows.
"Allow me to suggest," he said,
■"that you should keep to yourself
such, er, discoveries as you may
snake." He turned again to the po-
lice. "Yes, gentlemen?"
The sergeant cleared his throat.
"In view, sir, of what has oc-
curred, I must ask you to explain
the markings upon this map."
"With pleasure," said Herrick.
"And I sincerely advise you to
tell the truth."
"You will And," said Herrick,
"that we have nothing to hide." He
Angered his chin. "I stayed at
Brief, as a child, in 1912. My moth-
er and the Countess Rudolph were
very close friends. Happening to be
at Innsbruck a week ago, I felt a
strong desire to visit the castle
•gain. For various reasons 1 did
not wish to leave cards. Much has
happened, you know, in 23 years.
My mother, the Count of Brief and
the Countess Rudolph have died,
the Lady Elizabeth has been born
and, worst of all, I'm told that a
vulgar blackguard, the son of an
have been turned to stone. Then a
shiver ran through him, and a hand
went up to his mouth.
But the police had no eyes for
him. The two were staring at Her-
rick as though they would read his
soul.
"At what times," said the ser-
geant, "did you enter and leave the
estate?"
"We entered at four and we left
about half past six."
There was an electric silence.
Then—
"I am bound to inform you," said
the sergeant, "that what you have
just admitted makes your position
most grave. The outrage was com-
mitted this morning at six o'clock."
"Perhaps." said Herrick, "it was
not committed by us."
The sergeant shrugged his shoul-
ders.
"I shall have to—"
"I think it is clear," said Virgil,
"that this gentleman is telling the
truth." The two police stared upon
him as though he were out of his
mind. "I mean, if he were guilty,
he would scarcely have made an
As the answer went down, 1 saw
Virgil wipe his face.
"One of the three," said Herrick.
"was a woman. She had a dog on
a lead."
"A dog?" cried the police, togeth-
er.
"A long-haired, black-and-white
dog: a mongrel, about that size."
Struggling with his emotion—
"Sir," cried the sergeant, "I beg
that you will forgive me if I have
seemed something short. I have to
do my duty, and your interest in
Brief seemed strange. But now I
know that you are telling the truth.
The dog you describe was found at
large in the park."
Respectfully thanking Herrick and
handing him back our map, the ser-
geant begged that he would describe
"the delinquents you so providen-
tially saw"—and Herrick complied
with a gusto which did my heart
good.
His picture of Percy Virgil was
actually taken from life. Lazily sur-
veying his victim, he drew a merci-
less portrait of that unprincipled
man: and I find it hard to believe
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That Evening We Spoke of the Past and Present.
admission which put the rope round
his neck."
As soon as he could speak—
"But, sir," cried the sergeant, "a
rope round the neck is harmless,
unless it is tight. If every rogue
was believed because he told such
truths as could do him no harm—"
"These gentlemen," said Virgil,
"have not the appearance of rogues.
It only remains for you to beg their
pardon and make a fresh cast. Good
God, man, when time is so precious,
do you propose to waste it in prying
into two strangers' private affairs?"
With a manifest effort, the ser-
geant controlled his voice.
"Sir," he said, "if you do not wish
to wait, you must leave us here.
I have a sow by the ear, and until
I know it's the wrong one, I will
not let go." With that, he returned
to Herrick. "You have said too
much or too little. You were at
Brief this morning from four until
half past six. Kindly relate what
you did there—from first to last."
"With very great pleasure," said
Herrick, folding his arms. "We left
our car at the mouth of the northern
drive—after instructing our chauf-
feur, first, to seek some petrol, and
then to wait in a wood a little way
off. You will understand that we
did not wish to be seen."
"Is your chauffeur here?" said
the sergeant.
"He is. If you would like to see
him—"
"Proceed, if you please."
"Before we had walked very far,
uncle of hers, has the run of the i wc heard a car coming behind us,
place.
A ghastly silence succeeded these
moving words, the police regarding
the gravel with goggling eyes and
Virgil, dark red in the face, sur-
veying Herrick with the glare of a
baited beast.
Herrick continued agreeably.
"We, therefore, came here from
Innsbruck on Sunday last. On Mon-
day we started out to try to dis-
cover some spot from which we
could view the castle, without go-
ing into the grounds. We only found
one, and that was—too far away.
Determined net to be beaten, we
tried for the next three days—with
the aid of that map. And all in
vain . . . Last night we reviewed
the position, and found it this—that
we must either trespass or else go
empty away.
"Now I do not like trespassing:
but neither, I frankly confess, do I
like going empty away. And in the
end we decided to rise very early
this morning, enter the park from
the north and have a good look at
the castle before anybody was up.
And so ... we did."
For a moment I thought that Vir-
gil was going to faint. All the color
was out of his face, which looked
peaked and thin, and he did not
icem to be breathing, but might
using the drive. At once we lay
down in the bracken until it had
passed."
His face like a mask, Virgil took
out his case and selected a ciga-
rette: but I saw a bead of sweat fall
on the gold.
"It was not your car?" said the
sergeant, plainly impressed.
Producing a notebook, his fellow
made r^ady to write.
"It was not our car," said Her-
rick. "Others were abroad this
morning . . . within the confines of
Brief."
"Describe this car, if you please."
"It was closed and its blinds
were drawn: its number-plate was
obscured—I imagine, with oil and
dust."
The sergeant turned to his fellow,
pencil in hand.
"Have you got that down?"
The other nodded and Herrick re-
sumed his tale, relating how the
car had been met and had then
been backed down the drive and
into the track.
"There three people got out, and
the man who had met them came
up."
"Would you know them again,
sir?" asked the sergeant.
"I should."
that a rogue was ever so trounced.
Virgil's tormentor then repeated
the horribly damning words which
Virgil had said to his creatures be-
fore they had entered the wood,
and when the sergeant seemed puz-
zled about the use of "the wire,"
suggested that it might have been
used to trip a galloping horse.
Protesting their gratitude, the ser-
geant requested our names, and
while Herrick was writing these
down, turned and exhorted Virgil to
enter and start the car.
"If you'll take us to Gabble, sir,
I can get on to Innsbruck from
there, and in less than two hours
from now every police station in
Austria will be alive with orders to
search for the people we want."
"Splendid," said Virgil, somehow.
He turned to Herrick and bowed.
"Please believe that I shall not for-
get today . . and that I am a
man who invariably pays his debts."
"Is that a threat?" said Herrick,
I saw the police open their eyes,
and Virgil in desperation let himself
go.
"It's a warning." he snarled. "1
do not believe your tale of the num-
berless car. That you saw a dog
this morning proves nothing at all-
except that you were at hand when
the outrage was done. And who
would think of so using a coil of
wire — excepj j a man who had
planned to emitfoy it that way?"
Come, comqjj sir," said the ser-
geant. "You sajd yourself just now
that these gentlemen—"
"I have changed my mind," spat
Virgil, "as ypu have changed
yours."
"I have just remembered," said
Herrick, "that one of the men was
called Max. Not the leader—the !
burly man, who got out of the car.
The leader was sharp with him, as,
indeed, with them all. I think that,
il you could find them, they might
give the leader away."
"And the name of the leader?"
sneered Virgil. "Quite sure you
didn't hear that?"
Herrick raised his eyebrows, be-
fore he returned to the police.
"You would not believe me," he
said, "if I told you the leader's
name. And so I prefer that you
should apply to Max. But I'll tell
you what I will do. I'll write it
down for you, and I'll seal it up.
And when Max has opened his
mouth, you may break the seal.
Thus I shall corroborate him, and
he will corroborate me."
"Sir," cried the sergeant, "I be-
seech you to tell it us now."
"I will write it down," said Her-
rick. "Or, better still, Mr. Exon
shall write it down. You will ob-
serve that I have not mentioned
the name: yet he will go off and
write it—which goes to show that
he knows it as well as I."
With that, he turned to me and
asked me to do as he said . . .
When I returned to the drive, Vir-
gil was back in his car, beside him-
self with passion and shouting down
the sergeant who seemed very much
surprised.
"And if you choose," he conclud-
ed, "to take your cue from a couple
of lying hounds who, if you h«d done
your duty, would now be under ar-
rest, you can take it alone."
With that he started his engine, let
in his clutch and swung the car vio-
lently round. With storming gears,
it squirted between the chestnuts
and on to the road of approach.
The police stared after the fellow
with open mouths: then they turned
to see Herrick with a hand to his
chin.
"1 gather," he said, "that you
find his behavior strange."
"I can't understand it," said the
sergeant "Ten minutes ago—"
"Quite so," said Herrick. "In fact,
ten minutes ago he did his very best
to get you away—because, whan he
heard the hour at which we had en-
tered the park, he did not wish you
to hear what I might have to tell."
He took the envelope from me and
held it out. "You may open that
now, if you please, and read the
name of the leader whom Max will
betray. After that, you shall have
some tea, and then, we'll drive you
to Gabble to take what action you
please."
The sergeant ripped the envelope
open, and he and his fellow together
peered at the sheet
Percy Elbert Virgil
I thought they would never look
up.
When at last they did, they
seemed dazed; and Herrick called
for Brenda and told her to give them
some tea.
It was strange to sit down to sup-
per later on with Lady Elizabeth
taking the head of the board, but
she seemed so giad to be with us
and fell so naturally into the ways
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forgot how she came to be there
and began to accept a relation which
seemed too fair to be true.
Enough is as good as a feast, and
after supper that evening we spoke
of the past and present, but left the
future alone.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
INSIDE
SEAM
OUTSIDE
FOR AN
EDGE FINISH
"PJEAR MRS. SPEARS: With
the help of Book 1, I have
just made a slip cover for a wing
chair. I never would have tried
it if your directions had not been
so clear. I am now planning an-
other slip cover and draperies
which I would like to trim in
fringe. Will you please show me
with a sketch how I should sew
the fringe? Also should the
draperies and chair match?—M.
J. N."
This reader evidently agrees
with the Chinese proverb, "One
picture is worth a thousand
words." So here are the sketches
showing how to apply fringe in
the seams of slip covers and also
for an edge finish. The raw edge
of the material in the lower sketch
is turned to the right side ancf
fringe is stitched over it.
If figured draperies are used,
the best effect is obtained if not
more than one slip cover in the
room is of figured material. Plain
slip, covers may match one or
more of the colors in draperies,
rug or wall paper.
NOTE: Now is the time to give
your house a fresh start. Crisp
new curtains; a bright slip cover;
a new lampshade; or ottoman will
do the trick. Make these things
i yourself. Mrs. Spears' Book 1—
1 SEWING, for the Home Decora-
tor, shows you how with step by
step, easy to follow sketches. Book
2—Gifts, Novelties and Embroid-
ery, will give you a new interest
for long winter evenings. It con-
tains complete directions for mak-
ing many useful things. Books
are 25 cents each; if you order
both books. Patchwork Quilt Leaf-
let is included free; it contains 36
authentic stitches illustrated in de-
tail. Address: Mrs. Spears, 210
S. Desplaines St., Chicago, 111.
n TIPS to
Lrardeners
Rock Garden Advice
SELECTION of flowers and their
location in the garden can
make or break your rock garden.
Therefore, descriptions on seed
packets must be read carefully
when seeds are bought, and the
plan of the rock garden must be
carefully worked out.
Creeping plants, for instance,
should be allowed to make carpets
of color in the larger soil pockets.
Erect plants may be used in flat
spaces. Trailing plants should be
allowed to droop over the face of
rocks, or they may be placed at
the top of a bank or wall.
In smaller crevices, tufted
plants with rosettes of foliage and
short flower stalks are suitable.
Ordinary garden or bedding plants
should be elirh nated from con-
sideration ft. *u,e rock garden, it
is advised by Harry A. Joy, flower
expert.
True rock garden plants grow
less than 10 inches ti'l. Use only
low-growing annuals and perenni-
als that grow among rocks in their
native haunts—those that belong
by nature among stones.
Smart Advance Fashions
TPHESE pretty dresses will be
exactly as smart for spring as
they are right now! So get a head
start on your sewing for the com-
ing season by making them while
the winter weather is keeping you
indoors so much anyhow. These
designs are so easy to make that
you'll enjoy working with them; a
detailed sew chart is included for
the guidance of beginners, and
you will enjoy your clothes much
more when the fabrics are of your
own selections.
Blouse-With-Skirt Fashion.
Here's a smart design that you
will repeat time and again in dif-
ferent fabrics for every season of
the year. Blouse - with - skirt
dresses, like all two-piece styles,
are much in favor right now, and
this one is unusually smart and
becoming. The skirt flares from
a lifted, princess waistline. The
blouse, on classic shirtwaist lines,
has bosom fullness and high-
shouldered sleeves to make it
more becoming. Make it for right
now of flannel or wool crepe, and
later on, in tie silk or flat crepe,
or with a silk or cotton blouse and
wool skirt.
Monastic Dress for Girls.
This is the success of the sea-
son—the most exciting of all new
fashions—and it's the easiest thing
in the world to make with the dia-
gram. It hangs loose and straight
I from the shoulder yoke, and
drapes into soft, graceful fullness
i when the belt is fastened round
| it. Every girl who wears 10-to-16
sizes should have this charming
; new fashion—in silk print, flat
crepe or thin wool.
1664 is designed for sizes, 12, 14,
16, 18, 20 and 40. Size 14 requires
1% yards of 39 inch material for
short-sleeved blouse; 2Vg yards
for long-sleeved. 2 yards of 54
inch material for the skirt.
1661 is designed 'or sizes 10, 12,
14 and 16 years. With short
sleeves, size 12 requires yards
of 39 inch material; with long
sleeves. 4 yards: % yards for con-
trasting collar and cuffs if desired.
2*A yards of braid.
Send your order to The Sewing
Circle Pattern Dept., Room 1020,
211 W. Wacker Dr., Chicago, 111.
Price of patterns, 15 cents (in
coins) each.
Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
ACTS FAST
TO BRING RELIEF
FROM COLDS
This Simple Way Eases
Pain with Amazing Speed
*
1« To ease pain and
discomfort and re-
duce fever take 2
Bayer Tablet* —
drink a glasa of water.
2m If throat Is raw
from cold, crush and
dissolve 3 Bayer
Tablets in H glaaa of
water •.. gargle.
Use Genuine BAYER Aspirin—
the Moment Your Cold Starts
The simple way pictured above
often brings amazingly fast relief
from discomfort ana sore throat
accompanying colds.
Try it. Then — see your doctor.
He probably will tell you to con-
tinue with Bayer Aspinn because it
acts so fast to relieve discomforts
of a cold. And to reduce fever.
This simple way, backed by
scientific authority, has largely sup-
planted the use of strong medicines
in easing cold symptoms. Perhaps
the easiest, most effective wry yet
discovered. But make sure ytu get
genuine BAYER
Aspirin.
15 rOR 12 TABLETS
2 FULL DOZEN 25c
Few Hard Knocks
Lady—You poor man! Does no-
body offer you work?
Tramp—Yes, lady, now and
then. But generally speaking I
meet only with kindness.
Don't Aggravate
Gas Bloating
If your GAS BLOATING !• caused bf
you — .
Adlerika. Thie 35-year-old remedy is BOTH
carminative and cath&rtio. Carminat»/e«
that warm and tooths the stomach and expel
GAS. Cathartics that act quickly and gentV.
clearing the bowels of wa&ta^that may have
caused GAS fiLO11??
gestion, sour stomach and nervo pressure f<
month*. Adlerika does not gripe—is not
habit forming. Adlerika acts on the stomach
_ ..
ng. Aai
and BOTH bowels. It relieves STOMAC'
GAS almost at once, and often removes
wastes in less than two hours. Adlerika
been recommended by many doctors fot
years. Get the genuine Adlerika today,
Sold at aU drug stars*
bowk
A. -
Acknowledging Faults
It is a greater thing to know
how to acknowledge a fault than
to know how not to commit one.—
Cardinal de Retz.
CHILDREN'S
COUGHS
(due to colds)
Don't let distress of chest colds or spas-
modic croupy coughs due to colds go
untreated! Rub Children's Musterole on
child's throat, chest and back at once.
This milder form of regular Musterole
penetrates the surface skin, warms and
stimulates local circulation. Floods tha
bronchial tubes with its soothing, reliev-
ing vapors. Musterole brings such speedy
relief because it's MORE than "just ft
salve." Recommended by many doctors
and nurses. Three strengths: Regular,
Children's (mild) and Extra Strong, 4<M>
Approved by Good Housekeeping Bu-
reau. Ail uiuggiaU.
CHILDREN'S
Aviators Meet Few Birds Flying Above
An Altitude of Five Thousand Feet
How high do birds fly in their sea-
sonal journey? Actual evidence
above the earth is still scanty, and
only since the development of the
airplane have definite altitudinal ob-
servations become available, writes
Eleanor Allen in the Portland Ore-
gonian. Earlier observers main-
tained that most normal migrations
took place at heights above 15,000
feet. They attempted to justify their
theory by an uncertain belief that
flying became easier as altitude was
gained. Aviators, however, are op-
posed to that theory, as it is found
that with greater altitude there is
increasing difficulty in maintaining
speed and height.
From a considerable number of
records based on the experiences of
airmen, it has been found that it is
exceptional in flying to meet with
birds above an altitude of 5,000 feet,
and that the bulk of migration is
performed below a height of 3,000
feet from the earth.
Birds occasionally fly at great
heights. Dr. A. F. R Wollaston, when
on the Mount Everest expedition in
1921, recorded godwits and curlews
at 20,000 feet. It also has been re-
corded that an observer making pho-
tographic observations of the sun at
Dehra in India obtained a photo-
graph of geese estimated flying at an
altitude of 29,000 feet.
Although it has been definitely es-
tablished that the birds follow cer-
tain routes on their journeys to and
from breeding grounds and winter
homes, it is not generally understood
that these routes arc followed by the
same groups of individual birds dur-
ing successive years. This fact has
been determined by the banding
method carried on by the biolog-
ical survey.
LARRY KURPIEL holds op
one of those easy-rolling,
extra-tasty P. A. smokes
he's talking about. He goes
on: "Out of every Prince
Albert tin, I'm getting
around 70 of the mellowest,
smoothest 'makin's' smokes
ever. They're so rich-tattin.'
and fragrant that I know
P. A.'s better tobacco 1"
Prince Albert's specially
cut, too ("crimp cut," we
call it) to roll quick and
trim-to smoke slow, cool.
Dry Falls Greater Than Niagara
Historians claim that over 100,000
years ago a cataract 40 times great-
er than Niagara thundered over the
400-foot face of the Dry Falls of
the Columbia river. The Dry Falls,
preserved as a state park, has a
vista house on the brink of the cliff
where visitors may look three and
one-half miles across the chasm to
its opposite side. It is located at
the lower end of the natural Grand
Coulee. Geologists claim that a huge
river once drained the territory east
of the Appalachians into the Paci-
fic, and that the great glacial age
changed the prehistoric channel and
left the Dry Falls.
P. A.'# the real
thing in tasty
pipe-smoking too
fine roli-your-own
cigarettes in every
2-oz. tin of Prince
Albert
THE NATIONAL JOY SMOKE
Owtlcbt, iw», R. 4, BerwMs ToUoce Co., Wtostoo-Sslws, Mi Q»
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