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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-04-30

relative is a brother. Michael XeuO, OF
Bristol her husband having died two
years ago. The funeral will be held at
eight o'clock Friday morning at St. Jo-
seph's Church. with interment in Nit.
Calvary cemetery
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HOTEL WILL BE BUILT.

the overwhelming vote to exempt the
proposed new Barre hotel from taxation
for IA period of five years indicates that
the hotel Will surely be put up. The vote
In favor Of exemption was $50 and against
was ~.
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RS were uI'u III an Nctloh by NHllam
Clark against tho estate Of Edward W.
rk. Harvey r Ruttor administration
bonis non with the win annoxcd This
ion is the latost d,veIonrncnt I'm q sories
suits in connection Win tho pooh vii,
II which Mr.. Odlin has mad moro a., loss
do. The whole litiga,ion noe lastod
re- than ten wears rho casa is an an
from the rooort of the. c,,,,,,,,i,.l,,,,.,'s
rs Lyman and Fred Jorornott disoI.
The Washington herald., 1914-01-18
Uncle AShdOd Tells a
Story to Sea Detective
Return of the "Moner Lzer" Painting Gives Him a
Chance to Indulge In Delightfully."- Quaint
Explanation of the Manner the Clever
Slueth Follows a CleW.

|, craft had been passin' US just when
that main mast disappeared. and be-
tween you and me, he says, L wouldn't
wonder if the Portugee gave the main
mast a push and pushed it over and
snapped it off and threw it aboard
that low rakish craft when we wasn't
lookin'' Did you see any low, rakish
craft?' l asked. No. he says, but
don't like the looks of that Portugee.
He looks like the sort of man that
would be aboard a ship when a low
rakish craft passed by Well, the mast
is gone | says. That's how easy
goin' you are, Cap he says. He al
ways called me Cap because that
Because he didn't dast call you
want he wanted to-" said Sim Per-
kins, but ! amt afraid OF any pre-
yaricatin' ODD
but. as for me. Cap he says"
said Uncle Ashdod, 81 amt a goin' to
lets nobody steal main mast out of a
ship right when it's under my eyes.
No, SIR he says, Il amt! Why, ding
hang it'll he says, a main mast is Just
about the most important part of the
ship he says. A main mast is as i'm
portant to a ship as that Moncr Lizer
picture We saw once is to the Louvre
picture gallery. There couldn't any
body steal that picture he says be
cause there's a thousand detectives
watchin' it all the time, and it can't
be stole. And if it was he says,
there's ten thousand six hundred and
eight detectives-Look out. therer he
says sudden-like, sort of dodgin'.
What the NATTER asks him. Some
feller Jabbed me in the back with
pole he says. So he goes on talkin'
And stealin' main mast is like
stcalin' that Moner Lizer would be-
he says, because il can't be hid. A de-
tective could find that picture in half
an hour, and I'm just detective enough
to find that main mast And I'm goin'
to do itr So he turned around and
started to walk off and tripped over a
big sort of peeled pinetrec trunk that
was layin' on the deck. 'Gingerp he
says, Jumpin' up and down and huggin'
his toe. Where did that come from
Who left that here on deck" 'Pleeze,
meester, says the Portugee sailor. bu,
Mate wouldn't hear no more. Shut
up he says. I'm goin' to do some de-
tective work and | don't want to be
bothered"
The Washington herald., 1914-01-18
By KATE CLEVES

she would tell it MI tc Elmer Chesbro-
it would be humiliatiHC. but it would do
her gcOG. she told herself.
So in hIltinC words she confessed 20
Elmer Chesbro-how she had resented
his criticism of her Is "a little kid and
how she had ,Gst twisted the little red
car around to scare him and make him
feel foolish-and now she was the only
one that felt foclish-she was perfect
idiot-so there,
Chesbro had turned away his head and
was looking out of the window so that
Dulcie could not see his face She
she admitted to herself that she cared
more for his Gcod opinion than for any
thing else in the world.
I've been in love with him all this time
that's why it hurt me so when he called
me that she thought with sudden
horror:
I-hope-youn forgive me- MIR. Ches-
bro she quavered. as she arose to go.
He turned swiftly and came to her
taking her little gloved hands in his own
Il have an explanation to make" he
said in curiously repressed tone. 81
have never forgotten the moment / met
you first-I fell in love with You then
and there, but when Beth teased me for
al you knO" DIE
brothers don't like to tell their heart
secrets to little sisters. so 1 just said
that you were :. cute little kid in an
off-hand way-rever dreaming that mis-
chievous Beth would repeat it to you.
And I've never lost sight of you dur
ing the years-rve been frightfully
jealous Of many fellows and l saw you
the day You took Enderby Dawson up
the bank by the butternut tree! l was
passing in my car and heard you laugh
ing at him. oh. I'm a very bearish sort
of fellow where the girl I love is con-
cerned and, because I was too diffident
to WOO you myself, 1 was jealous Of every
chap that came near you-well. Miss
Dulcie Whitmore, I've made my con-
fession. too-so we're quits" He looked
down at her ruefuIly and there was pain
in his kind eyes.
Dulcie had listened with downcast eyes
and flushing cheek.
rs that alI?" she whispered at last,
her eyes still lowered.
You want to hear the Test?'' he cried.
leaning down to look in her eyes.
"Yes-there might as well be happy
endingr' confessed Dulcie as she felt his
arms about her.
The Washington herald., 1914-01-18
THE HAPPY ENDING

planned Chesbro. do you feel pain any,
where?'
Dulcie shook her head.
"No-only so dreadfully-dreadfully
Her eyes closed and to all appearances
Miss whitmore has lost consciousness
again.
There's only one thing to do" said
Chesbro to himself; land that is to take
her to the, nearest house and summon a
physician"
Bracing her about with cushions. Ches-
bro sprang TO his steering wheel and
started his car gently do to the summit
of Quaker Ridge. The first open gate
led into the grounds surrounding a red
gabied cottage, and in five minutes Elmer
Chesbro was carrying the limp little form
up the stairs of the cottage and into a
chintz-hung chamber.
The two little old ladies. who had ad-
mitted him had screamed at once at sight
of his unconscious burden.
why, it's Dulcie' shrieked the gray
haired one. Telephone for DR.. Vann at
once, Sarah"'
Sarah, the black haired old lady, hasten
ed to do her sisters bidding. wringing
her hands distractedly as she ran.
linen, you hHOW NILES
asked Chesbro curiously as he turned
away.
"She is our grandniece-I knew she
would come to some harm with that
wicked little red car! Tell me how it
happened-Biddy, bring me another basin
of cracked ice.''
Miss Hannah Lees had removed Dull
cie's bonnet and now the golden brown
curls tumbled around her lovely little
face. making her look more childish than
ever. II one could have looked behind
Chesbro's goggles they would have sur
prised a very tender look in the gray
eyes.
Chesbro related the astonishing acci-
dent-how the red car had been coming
smoothly down hill when 1t suddenly be-
gan to wabble to and fro and finally ran
up the embankment, throwing Miss Whit
more to the ground. He thought the
steering gear must have broken-he would
go back and investigate. If there was
nothing more he could do now.
Miss Hannah thanked him and shook
her head, and SO Chesbro went back to
the little red car which he managed to
right with the help Of a a-passing farmer,
and presently the big yellow. car was tow
The Washington herald., 1914-01-18

so close. And that was a mighty good
cap, and | would have hated to lose
it. But / didn't. got it yet. I'll le,
you look at it some time. l can show
you the spot where that rubber tree
almost hit it. Right on the starboard
side, little bit forward, and an inch
Sou u'-by-Sou-West from the button on
top"
"Speakin' of detectives" said Sim
Perkins reminiscently. Il knew"
$50 did l." said Uncle Ashdod, Il
knew it was a bad storm, and / begun
TO think I'd leave off knittin' if il got
much worse, when up come the First
LMatc. He was Frenchman. and his
face was mighty white. Cap he says,
meanin' me and not my headgear. We
was both called Cap me and the cap
both. They called my cap a cap be-
cause it was a cap, and they called
me cap"
"Speakin' of detectives" said Sim
Perkins again, Il knew
Gap says the First Mate" said
Uncle Ashdod, "and his face was white
as snow, he was that scared, Cap, the
main mast is gone. We'll, that was
some news. 'Tutl tutp l says, 'prob'ly
blowed away, didn't it?' The First
Mate shook his head IF | thought
that he says, wouldn't worry a
bit. Main masts blow away, and so
do mizzen masts and fore masts, and
other masts too numerous to mention,
and its the luck of the esa, and can't
be helped. If l was sure that main
mast blowed away, I'd feel better
about it. But l can't be sure I'm
afraid maybe it was stole"
"Was it at night the mast got
away asked Sim Perkins.
Broad day." said Uncle Ashdod.
"How could anybody steal main
mast ont Of ship in broad day when
hurricane was blowin'?' asked Sim
Perkins Oh an unpleasant tone.
That's what worried u.s." said Uncle
Ashdod. 1T didn't seem hardly pos
siblc. ] told the First Mate so. Mate
l says, it don't seem possible No.
he says, it don't That's fact. But
I've got my suspicious, he says. I
didn't like the look of that Portugee
sailor when you hired him, and
don't like his looks now,' he says. Be
tween you and me- he says, L think
it wouldn't be strange if a low, rakish
The Washington herald., 1914-01-18

he did 60 and do that with il, what
ever it was. So first off he took a
knife and cut open the butter ball to
see if the main mast was hid in it, and
it wasn't and he said that looked
mighty suspicious. It showed that the
main mast was somewhere else. So he
started in to shadow the Portugee, to
see If he could find out where the
main mast was hid"
"And did he" asked Sim Perkins.
He did!' said Uncle Ashdod. AT
first it looked as if he wouldn't. He
Kept runnif around behind the Portu-
gee, and fallin' over the main mast,
and skinnin' his shins on it, and
bumpin' his knees on it, and / don't
know but he'd be doin' the same yet
If it hadn't been for the Portugee. for
the Mate wasn't a story book detec-
tive. He was French detective, like
those that tried to find the Moner
Lizer picture. He couldn't find nothin'
nowhere nohow. But the Portugee
was a hot-tempered feller, and he got
mad bein' follered like that, so one
day he took the Mate by the back OF
the neck, and bent him down over the
main mast and rubbed his nose into it.
Then he throwed the Mate down and
throwed the main mast on top of him.
Hellor says the Mate, I've detected
where the main mast is! And a fine
piece of detective work itis,' says he"
We'll" said Sim Perkins scornfully,
what about it,
"Nothin'! Only, that's how them swell
French detectives found the Moner
Lizer picture"
The Washington herald., 1914-01-18
(Copyright, lsli.l

The big yellow car started up the long
incline to Quaker Ridge just as the
little red car stopped on the summit and
glided slowly down the well-oiled road.
The occupant of the big car was a
big young man. whose strongly marked
features looked very forbidding unless
one could see behind the concealing
goggles; then the kindness of the gray
eyes discounted the sternness of the lips
oh" breathed Dulcie Whitmore from
her seat in the little car; its Elmer
Chesbro's car-gruff old thing, Shall L
ever forget what Bert Chesbro repeat
ed to me? Never! He said l was "a
cute little kid! Cute. am 1? HIM. He
always blinks his eyes and looks so
surprised when he sees me-just as if he
couldn't remember his sisters dearest
friend and college chum, Three years
ago-and I haven't forgotten. Well. Mr..
Man, its your turn to be foolish now!'
whereupon Dulcie's little car sudden
Iy began to act in the most eccentric
manner. 1t wabbled uncertainty from
one side of the road to the other until
the big car came to a stand still half
way up the hill and its occupant leaped
to the ground
Head me of, will your chuckled
DuIcie at the very moment that the little
red car twisted around and ran up a
slight embankment at the side of the
road. 1t backed into the ditch where
it gently rolled over to one side.
When Elmer Chesbro reached the scene
he found Dulcies graceful little form in
a huddled heap beside the car. A little
blue motor bonnet framed her pale, ex-
duisite face from which the color had
fed, and the white lids covered her brown
eyes. 49,
sChesbro snatched the girl into his arms
and carried her to his own car, where
he tenderly placed her in the tonneau;
then he brought out a pocket flask and
poured some of the contents between
DuIcie's tightly closed lips.
whereupon Dulcie promptly choked, and
sneezed. and opened her brown eyes
dreamily and inquired what had hap
pened
You ran your car into the ditch. :" ex,
The Washington herald., 1914-01-18

sit in the hurricane rocker on the
bridge of the ship and knit hose-'
@Socksa' asked Sim Perkins.
"Hose," repeated Uncle Ashdod.
Fire hose, because the fire hose on
| that ship was rotten. So knit fire
hose, and the Second Mate he rubber
plated Il inside and out. We had a
rubber tree aboard ship just for tina,
purpose-to get rubber to plate the
hose with. So the carpenter made the
rocker without any rockers"
'sWhat kind of a dumb nonsense
rocker was that" asked Sim Perkins
Hurricane rocker" repeated Uncle
Ashdod. 1T was screwed to the
bridge of the ship, and it didn't need
rockers because / only sat in it when
there was hurricane, and then the
whole ship rocked, and that was plen-
ty of rockin' for me. Why, once she
rocked so far she rocked clean over
bottom side up and on around and up
the other way. So l was sittin' in my
hurricane rocker-any remarks"
Nor said Sim Perkins grufHy. "Sit
and rock till you're blue in the face if
you want to-
Il was sittin' in my rocker. knittin'
fire hose" said Uncle Ashdod, "and
UP come the worst part of the hurri-
cane. / knowed it was bad blow, be-
cause the rubber trees como hurlin'
through >the air just over my head.
Like to knocked my cap off, it come
The Washington herald., 1914-01-18

Il bet know. too" said Uncle Ash
dod, because that sort of peeled pine
tree trunk the Mate had stripped over
was it. 1t was an awful mess, that
main mast was-ali rigsin' and aspsrs
and sails and everything, all sprawled
over the deck-and' it interfered con-
siderable with the Mate when he tried
to find it. 1t was considerable trouble
for him to climb over it when he was
huntin' for clews. He used to sit on
it whilst he was thinkin' up clews to
foller. One of the best clews he fol-
lered was "a button with piece of
cloth still clingin' to it. That's one of
the best sort of clews, and the Mate
follered that two weeks, until he found
it was off his own pants and then he
stopped follerin' it and sewed it on
where it belonged. And then he found
a finger print clew That's a good
kind of clew, too"
Whose hnger-print was it, and
where did he find it?' asked Sim Per-
kins.
1T was the cooks" said Uncle Ash
dod, 'and he found it on butter ball.
The Mate said that if he could con-
meet a couple of links he'd solve the
mystery in no time All he needed to
do, he said, was to connect the butter
ball with the main mast somehow, and
find out how the POrtugec bribed the
cook. and what in tunket he bribed
him for, and what the dickens a but
ter ball had to do with main mast
anyhow, and why the Portugee stole
it. and what hi did that with it for, if
The Washington herald., 1914-01-18

smile break the pure gravity of ner Inns
when he had turned toward the bed II
was to meet the mute impassivity of heI
face and the brown eyes were closed
Trickery"' he had muttered to him.
self and now yhe had proof Of it in Miss
Hannahs statement that Dulcie was ar
expert driver and given to reckless prac-
tical jokes.
Il will make inquiries tomorrow" he
said as he left the house. Il trust Miss
Whitmore may continue to improve
Dulcie, lying meekly in the chamber
heard his parting words and she read
something beneath their polite exterior
He had surprised her glance in the mir
ror-he knew!
She covered her burning face with her
hands and cried, because she realized how
cheap and shallow had been her actions.
What could she do to set herself right
with him?
Her aunts made her remain in bed for
several days after that. for they declared
that Dulcie looked feverish. so Dulcie had
many hours in which to repent of her
Stiffness.
"A lady to zee you, Mr.. Chesbro," said
a clerk, appearing at the door of Elmer
Chesbro's private office.
Elmer Chesbro glanced at the card.
Miss whitmore." He frowned and a
red flush came under his eyes.
Show her in, Jones'" he said.
Dulcie whitmore came in. looking very
pale and subdued in golden brown velvet
and furs
Chesbro looked down at her with un-
friendly eyes, but he greeted her with
formal politeness and brought her a low
wicker chair which he reserved for
women clients.
Dulcie found It difficult to begin She
felt very mean and small in this grave
office so obviously given over to the
of weighty business matters.
She felt a vague sense Of gratitude that
he had consented to see her at all.
Mr.. Chesbro. 1 am so sorry-but-there
is something 1 must tell you" stAm-
mered Dulcie.
Yes he spoke encouragingly.-
ITS about-that-accident last month" :"
"The-er-accideht All. yes"
Then you knew II wasn't an accident?'
blurted forth Dulcie.
II guessed after awhile-Fve wondered
ever since why you did IL" said Chesb.o
gently.
Dulcie pressed a handkerchief to he-
wet eyes. She had promised herself that
The Washington herald., 1914-01-18

ing the little red car up to the cottag,
where he had learned that Dulcie wa.
visiting her aunts.
Miss Hannah Lees met him IN tn.
veranda.
The doctor says there isn't a bon,
broken-nor even a bruise. She seems tC
be suffering from shock! Oh, dear, VIII,
will girls attempt to do such reckles:
things, In my day-we wouldn't dream
Of running a-a-wheelbarrowr'
Il am glad Miss whitmore is not in.
Jured.'' said Chespro heartily, then ne
removed his goggles and looked down al
the little spinster.
Was Miss Whitmore a skilful driver?''
"She is considered SOL have been told
that she is very careful. but something
happened last week-that made me
change my mind
"And that was?"
''She took young Enderby Dawson for
a spin tas she called it, in the car For
some reason Dulcie does not appear Ia
like Enderby, although he is a most
proper young man and has a perfect
horror OF automobiles, but she persuaded
Enderby to go, and when he returned he
said that his nerves were shattered"
What happened?" asked Chesbro. with
interest.
L uOH l hIOW all tudl HdpptneQ. DuI
it seems that the wicked child made a
wager with Enderby that she could drive
the car UP the embankment by the but
ternut tree"
by the butternut tree?" interrupted
Chesbro quickly.
"Yes-up the embankment and down
again without accident. OF course he
protested against such a reckless risk
OF life and limb. but Dulcie did 1t safely:
but when they returned Enderby de-
clared he would never ride with her
again and he has gone back to town, al
though we all knew that he came pur-
posely to-er-well he has been devoted to
Dulcie and he belongs to a remarkably
rich family" sighed Miss Hannah.
Elmer Chesbro had met Enderby Qaw-
son and he felt some sympathy for Dull:
Gle. but instantly his heart hardened
when he remembered the cruel trick
she had played upon him for no reason
whatever. He had found the little car in
perfect condition-the steering gear was
faultless in action. Then-then-when he
had stood there in the chintz-hung cham
Der talking to Miss Hannah he had faced
a mirror that reflected the four-post bed
and he had seen Dulcies lovely eyes
open for an instant and he had seen .
The Washington herald., 1914-01-18
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.lCos1right. lell.l

"
6k@ EEMs to me- said Sim Per
- kins, "ifs kind q funny,
~ with all these here French
Sherlock Holmses and other kinds OF
detective folks workin' on the case,
that the only way anybody got. that
Moner Lizer picture back, that was
stole from the Louvre, was to have the
thief fetch it around and wave'it un-7
der feller's nose, as you might say.
If l was detcctive-"
You'd have found it the next day
before breakfast. if not that same
night before supper" said Uncle Ash
dod agreeably. "When we lost the
main mast of the Sally Ann
There you gop said Sim Perkins
irritably. 'Losin' the : main mast!
Where did you lose a whoppin' big
thing like main mast of ship, I'd
like TO know"
AT sea-" said Uncle Ashdod. Lost
it right in the middle of the all-fredest
storm l ever heard tell of. / was
sittin' in my cane rocker
''Sittin' in a cane rocker while a
storm like that was BLOWN ?" sneered
Sim Perkins. Mice place for thescap-
tain of a ship to be in storm, want
it, cane rocker
at was hurricane rocker explained
Uncle Ashdod patiently. "The carpen-
ter made it for me because my feet
were too sore 10 stand on. / used to
The Washington herald., 1914-01-18

Il bet | know where that main mast
was,' said Sim Perkins.