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The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-02

moment'I stuffed bathing suit into
my bag"
Good! But you won't need it till
tonight
Helen Bertel ostensibly was simply
a stenographer at the Sutherland
agency's principal Offices; as a matter
Of fact she was one of their most
valued operatives.
He recounted for her benefit his.
tory of the case, and also his expert.
ences since coming to Mackinaw.
''Would you be afraid to try to ex-
anime the ledger" he asked.
"Why, Of course not" came the
prompt response, respectfully if you are
to be close by. Examining lodges in
the depths of Lake Michigan is the
best thing do.
Here's what I'll need; A knife, a
tifty-pound weight that can fasten to
one foot in such way that I can in.
stantly release myself from it'll
want my arms free, you know-and an
electric torch that can use under wa
ter. I know how to fix the weight"
Every we'll. I've arranged with the
sheriff for him and couple of his dep.
uties to be on Pigeon island tonight
to watch the hut, and to be in readi
ness to come to our assistance in case
we should need them. Let's go and
get some supper.
The night was moonless, but clear
and starlit. AS Hazards little craft
drifted slowly before the impulse of a
light breeze, he trailed line over the
bow to which was attached a weight
Little by little, as the rocky bottom
fell away, he paid out the line; then
all at once the plummet went down
abruptly and stopped. A few minutes
more he devoted to sounding, and
again the weight dropped abruptly.
Here we are!" he announced, quiet
ly easing over the side heavy stone
to which stouter line was made fast
This was their anchor. Helen came for
ward and peered down into the depths
particularly noting the slant of the
anchor rope. Then she laid upon 9
thwart the electric torch, long
bladed hunting-knife and leader
weight to which was attached looI
fashioned from a strip of canvas.
With a few quick, 1.-the movements
she Invested herself of skirts and mid
dy blouse, and emerged a lovely figure
She hung the torch around her neck
by a cord; to her waist she fastened
an end of line; then picking up thu
knife and slipping her slender righ'
foot into the weights canvas loop, she
stood poised at the gunwale like
Aphrodite newly risen from the foam
"All ready, Felix" she softly an
nouncsd.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-02

Felix counted the seconds of the first
minute. The rope played through his
hand at first and moved this way and
that, indicating that the girl was max
ing the best use of her time. Then all
at once 1t settled into a steady pull
had she stepped off the ledge?
For a second or two longer he paid
out the rope; but the persistent pull
did not lessen. The seconds sped on.
Suddenly the strain relaxed and he be.
gan to haul in the loose rope as fast
as he could move his arm. At last
she was coming back!
And then-the awful shock of it,
the rope end, clean-cut, without Helen,
slithered across the gunwale and fell
into the boat.
He was stunned, stupef1ed. A noise
between a sob and snarl burst from
his throat. The seconds were golden
now; but God could not stay them.
Fifty-tifty-tive- sixty-the two min
utes were gone! Ten more seconds
fifteen-then it occurred to him that
she had cut herself loose. With his
heart pounding furiously, his burning
glance darted here, there, everywhere;
there was light enough for him to have
deserted any floating object for con-
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-02
by Charles Edmonds Walk

piled. "The bank is not after us to
recover the money; they have divers
there now to do that, and it ought to
be dead easy-only it isn't"
Hazard cooked an interrogative eye.
brow and the other continued:
They tell us they're being constant.
ly hampered in their work-under wa
ter, y understand-and they don't
know what to make of it. They
haven't found the slightest trace of
the money-or Perky either. Supersti-
tious lot, those divers; believe some
kind O. jinx has got 'em, and they re-
fuse to go down any more. Meanwhile
the bank and the bankers insurance
people are throwing one fit after an
other. It's up to us to find out who's
queering the salvage work, and stop
the interference"
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-02

siderable distance; but the lakes
bosom remained unrufned save by the
gentle night wind
There was no ground for doubt:
hope was shouldered out by despair.
The minutes grew. The tragedy was
simple: Helen had gone down into
the water, and she had not come up
again.
Now while the man was undergoing
his awful ordeal alone upon the wa
ter, things had been happening over
on the island. An uproar that he was
deaf and blind to broke loose, and as
quickly subdued. But all at once,
with the keen incisiveness of razor,
cry cut through to his dulled senses.
Loud and clear and high it rang in
prolonged "Coo-oo-oo-ee-e-e-e!"
There was no mistaking that sweet
voice. It was Helen's!
Toward the island the little boat was
pointed, and the engine spurted furi.
ously as it pushed the craft along
faster than ever it had moved before
A minute later there was a splinter.
ing crash as the light she'll dashed it.
self to kindling- wood upon the bowlder
lined beach.
In twinkling Hazard was clawing
and stumbling over the rocks, up to
the level ground, where, utterly spent
with the reaction, he dropped culver
| ing to bis knees.
Helen stood there, her tall form
draped in an outlandish bedquilt. His
hands CROPPED blindly for her; he
| could not utter sound.
With rare comprehension she bent
| swiftly down to him. One beautiful
white arm went around his shoulders
and held him tight; it was such an
embrace as mother instinctively
would think of to comfort a heart
| broken child.
Felix" she said tenderly. my
| poor, dear Felix"
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-02

Pigeon island comprised rough, ir-
regular area of possibly two hun
dred acres. Except where sheer walls
of rock and here and there tiny
stretch of sandy beach presented bar
riers to the lake, the entire expanse
was densely wooded. To Hazard, who
had cautiously circumnavigated it, it
seemed uninhabited.
The explorer had been warned
against the danger from submerged
not to go too close until he knew
more of these strange waters; the
south side offered no. landing place
against which he was willing to pit
his inexperience, so he contented him.
self with a long-range inspection of
the wooded irregularities of the is
lands surface through a pair of high
power binoculars.
Not a sign of life could he detect.
After a while he pointed his boats
nose toward St. Ignace, killing his en-
CINE so that he might drift slowly over
the spot where the divers had been
working. Then a sudden impulse
made him look back at Pigeon island.
He snatched up his binoculars and
brought them to bear upon figure
that stood upon a pinnacle Of rock,
silhouetted against the azure of the
| sky.
1t was the doctor he had seen some
hours earlier at Mackinaw!
Once more laying aside his glasses,
he brought his boat about and again
made the circuit of Pigeon island,
with view of discovering if pos
sible the craft in which the doctor had
come and where it was anchored.
BY and by he deserted tor it's
stern, rather, for all the forepart of
the boat was hidden by a tall slab of
granite which, at distance, blended
| with and seemed a part of the un-
broken shore line, but which in reality
effectively screened an opening to a
deep, quiet inlet and a gently shelving
beach.
This much Felix Hazard made out
and then his attention was roughly di.
verted. A sharp metallic click from
his engine made him look that way
Upon the cylinder was lead-colored
star-shaped scar where, Enthusiastically
bullet had just impinged. And then
he heard the distant crack of a rifle
His explorations for that day. ended
Their and there. Within the next min.
ute he was heading for MackinaW
with all the speed he could coax from
his engine.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-02
! ! .

Upon his arrival at Mackinaw, Fe-
lix Hazard did not at once make him.
self known to the overseer of the div
ing crew, young man of the name
OF Fowler. He wanted first to map out
the lay of the land-or, to be more pre-
else, the Water-and to discover for
himself whatever might be discovered.
Some twenty-five miles more or less
west of Mackinaw lies a group of is
lands of which Beaver island is the
largest and Pigeon island is perhaps
the smallest. 1t was not more than a
cables length off the rocky, pine
crowned shore of the last named is
land, and almost exactly on a line with
st. 1gnace to the northeast, that Perky
and his precious freight went down.
The detective was informed by a
boatman that Hog island was the div
ing crews base of operations.
"Why not Pigeon island?" he asked.
Its nearer, isn't it, to where the man
sank?" (The real aim of the diving
operations was disguised behind an ad-
vertised purpose to recover Mr..
Perky's body.)
"Yes," the informant acknowledged;
"but Pigeon island doesn't offer as
good a harbor for their barge. This
season of the year the prevailing
southwest and west winds pile up the
lake and make treacherous currents
among the islands and half submerged
rocks. Hog islands safest and not
much farther away
All at once Hazard became aware
that passer-by had halted close be-
side him and the boatman, as if his at
tention had been arrested by some
thing he had overheard, and then
hurried on.
who's that?" Hazard demanded.
The boatman CAPPED after the depart
ing figure.
who? Him." said he. "Why, he's
a doctor-from Sheboygan, I reckon;
he don't belong round here. He's
been going to see a fellow over on
Pigeon island what got hurt"
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In the f1sherman's hut Hazard
scarcely could drag his eyes from
Helen. From chin to feet she was
swathed now in her own bath robe;
waiting to dry" as she expressed it.
She sat huddled and star-eyed on an
upturned soap box.
With their backs against the wall,
securely manacled together, three dis
consolidate, scowling figures sat upon
the floor. Near by the two deputy
sheriffs stood guard over them. The
sheriff sat on a deal table, swinging
his legs. The girl was talking.
Il went straight down." she was
saying, Into the current, and the in
slant felt the powerful suction ]
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-02

This story throbs with real
ism in the words narrowest
meaning. 1t is a faithful rem.
dering Of an authentic expert
ence in the career Of a hiah
official of detective agency
whose name is a household
word throughout the English
speaking world. Real names Of
persons and places are some
times disguised. In all other re-
spects the amazing, often thrill
ing, always gripping facts are
recorded just as they happened.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-02
v .

Felix Hazards experience in a div
ing suit was SO uneventful that it need
not be enlarged upon. He saw no
monster OF hideous mien, nor even a
t1sh-not living thing But he did
see something and felt something else
that set his brain to mulling over the
most amazing kind OF con1ectures:
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-02

Before he could offer objections she
took the bright blade of the knife in
her teeth, lifted the weight on her
foot over into the water and let her.
self gently down until she was hang
ing to the gunwale.
"Bye.bye, Felix" she called. Then,
without sound, the waters closed
over her head.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-08-01
Short Speeches in 1860.

On the third day of the 1860 con-
vention when other business had been
disposed of and nominations were in
order, Mr.. Evarts of New York, in few
err than 80 words presented William H.
Seward for the nomination, the Phila-
delphia Telegraph observes. Mr.. Judd
of Illinois was equally brief in present
ing Abraham Lincoln. The names of
William L. Dayton of New Jersey; of
Simon Cameron of Pennsylvania of
Salmon F. Chase of Ohio; of Edward
Bates of Missouri, and of John Nc
Lean of Ohio were presented, but few
er than two dozen words were used in
any instance.
1t is not by elaborate and eloquent
nominating speeches that the choice
of presidential candidates is deter
mined. The reasons influencing dele,
gates are of a different character. But,
if speeches much be made, reason
able brevity will make them all the
more effective. Two of the best re-
membered nominating speeches ever
made in a national convention were
by Robert G. Ingersoll for Blaine in
1876 and by Daniel Dougherty nom-
mating Hancock in. 1SS0-one a Re-
publican, the other a Democrat-and
neither speech occupied more than
ten minutes in delivery.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-08-01
Put Life Into Living Room.

We spent weeks and weeks after
we had got our new home on paper
in planning the color scheme and the
wall decorations, and in deciding just
how we could make our old furniture
fit into its new environment, remarks
writer in the Houston Post. We had
started out ten years before with mis-
sion furniture-it is so satisfactory in
living room when there are growing
children--and so we shut our eyes to
the delight of the colonial mahogany
and white paint, and built our room
around the old things.
We had the woodwork stained dark
brown and brown paper with light
err brown figure in it put On the walls.
The fact curtains were cream scrim
and the overhangings were brown
easement cloth.
There were three windows at each
end of the room, and French window
opened on the porch at each side of
the fireplace. So the room was very
light, but somehow when we got this
far we were diSappointed-it wasn't
the cheerful, cozy room we had
planned.
After studying the problem for
some time we decided that it was too
heavy looking, and so much brown was
monotonous. 1t lacked living color.
We wished we had chosen a gay
chintz for hangings instead of the
plain brown. But as we hadn't
thought of it till too late we set about
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-08-01
Adapt Fashion to Person.

Suppose you have wide, awkward
hips. Will you be so foolish as to
adopt the pannier skirt and give your
self the appearance Of awkwardness
the extra fullness is bound to pro-
duce? Or, if you are five feet ten, will
you wear your skirts SO many inches
above your boot tops that you will of
necessity appear absurd-like a lamp
post in q ruffle?
Not in appearing conspicuously diff
ferent or overemphasized lies the
charm of dress. Not in following the
mode so slavishly that you look like a
replica of everybody else you meet,
lies any of beauty; but in so adapting
current fashions that they seem to be-
long to you rather than you to them.
So, too, for hats. A tiny little tur-
ban pulled down over small and ex-
pressionless eyes and topping a long,
ill-shaped nose only accents the lack
of beauty of the features below it.
While a large, graceful hat may throw
kindly shadows over tired or hollow
face.
Don't buy hat because it is smart
or the fancy of the moment, or be-
cause someone you know looks well in
that model. Try on hats with an hon.
est eye to yourself as an Individual
Christian Science Monitor.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-08-01
Wells find FAVOR
WILL BE SEEN IN PROPULSION AT
SUMMER RESORTS.
Many Novelties Are Offered For the
Delight of Fair Women-lllustra-
ton Shows One of Those
Best Liked.

Wells of all sorts will play an impor-
tant role this summer at the fashion
able seaside resorts. For example,
the long floating veil which is thrown
completely over a wide-brimmed hat
and then turned back in front, jeweled
pins being used to hold it in place. Or
the quaint little hounce veil, which is
attached to the bgim Of close-fittina
turban and which reaches only to the
tip of the nose.
I have illustrated one of the latest
summer wells. This smart veil is
made of bronze tulle traced over with
silver threads, writes Idalia de Viii
liers, Paris correspondent of the Bos-
ton Globe. Both Paquin and Lewis
are making these, which come under
heading picturesque" The model
was created by Georgette and the
charming little toque was made of
raspberry pink taffeta, with pieot rib
bon in the same color circling the
crown and tied in large bow in
front. The veil, which was very large
and fragile, was made of dull blue
shadow lace.
1t was thrown over the crown of
the toque and allowed to fall careless
~ over the left shoulder. Wells of
this order are effective when made of
fine shadow lace in such colors as Chi
nese blue, heliotrope, myrtle green,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-08-01
Evening Gowns for Summer.

In the selection of evening gowns
for summer it is not easy to find a
fabric which Will look cool and at
tractive and at the same time be
firm enough to stand the wear and
tear of summer activities.
Embroidered linens, tulles and chif-
fons are all right if one can afford
them, but they are very destructible,
and if they cannot be used, the choice
is limited. Some of the silk and cot
ton fabrics have proved very desira-
bic, having much the same appear
ance as silk, but selling for much
lower price. Chiffon, silk and cotton
chiffon, crepe de chine and silk and
cotton crepe de chine, the two mar
quisettes and wolfe show the differ
ence in price rather than in appear
ance. So if one feels unable to pay
81 yard for material, she may buy
her gown for quarter Of that price.
The dress will be more durable and
almost as effective.
The chief feature of summer gowns
this year is to be ribbons in loops,
bows, bands and ruffles. These add
color and a look of quality to mod
erate-priced material, and there is no
country where ribbon may be bought
more cheaply and in such variety as
in the United States.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-08-01
descend to torture and shame her in

descend to torture and shame her In
like manner.
The average woman loves devotedly.
TO her, her hero is god. His toler-
ant glance is worth any other mans
most considerate devotion. Unless a
man can be the first tenant of q maid
ems heart, he must take his chances of
after happiness should his persuasion
influence her 10 wed him.
Even after marriage to a good true
husband, there are women foolish
enough to sigh over a scapegrace they
have fortunately missed. wondering if
the happiness they are tasting is real
happiness or if they would have been
more contented had they wed the man
they loved first A husband finds it
mighty hard to please that kind of a
wife.
She. would never believe she had es-
capped a hard life of it by not getting
the man she liked best. If the old
flame flickers ever so slightly in her
breast the husband finds out at last
that he is welded TO a woman who
should have remained single. Both
men and women should be absolutely
sure old loves are weeded out Of their
hearts ere they contract new alliances.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-08-01
Goes With Summer Frock.

Have you noticed that everybody
carries a bag? OF course, you have, if
you keep your eyes open. For the bag
is one of the earmarks of the summer
frock.
Not the ordinary handbag is this bag
OF 1916. No, indeed. 1t is new sort
of bag with a very quaint and time
Worn element in it's makeup. For it
is bag modelled on the chatelaine
bags worn by medieval ladies, bag
modelled on the little puffs of silk and
velvet that hung from the high waist
line of Napoleonic beauties.
Very often the bag is of the same
material as the frock. There is the
taffeta frock, for instance, with the lit
tie shirred taffeta bag on drawstrings
OF ribbon. There is the frock of stripes
In Palm Beach cloth or linen, with
matching bag of striped material.
There are parasol and bag sets, too.
Some of them are of cretonne, and
sometimes there are sets of bag, skirt
and hat of cretonne, and sometimes
there are sets of hat and bag. These
are for beach or mountain wear.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-08-01

out the other. When they are away
from each other. notes, which might
well be called letters, fly thick and
fast between them. Even the tele
phone is resorted to to keep in touch
with one another almost every hour
of the day. $3.50
The winning stranger soon becomes
possessed of the other woman's inner
most secrets-that she has little or
no hold, perhaps, on her husbands
heart-or of her longing for children
which have been denied her; that her
relatives-in-law were not pleased over
her marriage with the idol of their
family, openly declaring that he could
have done better than wed a girl who
was obliged to make her own way in
the world.
The agreeable stranger dimes at her
new-found friends home almost every
evening of the week. At last she is
invited to come there altogether. From
the outset, the husband uttered mild
protest against his wife becoming q
friend too quickly with one of whom
she knew so little. His better half
thought differently. Womanlike, she
lOnged for a companion to whom she
could pour out the story of her trou-
bles, fancied or real, feeling sure of
sympathy and caresses.
Being thrown constantly in the
strangers company, morning, noon and
evening, he finds his prejudice against
her surely but slowly melting. He
feels ashamed within his own heart
that he mistrusted so charming a crea-
tu-e of being insincere in her likings
or intents. But mushroom friendship
which blows hot TOO quickly cools as
suddenly. Such wives find that the
attractive stranger whom they have
established in their homes is in real
lily more of stumbling block to their
happiness than a soothing confidant.
When a stranger becomes possessed
of the secrets a good wife should keep
10 herself the wife is in that other
Woman's power. Her husband may
turn to her for her opinion on mat
tiers on which he should properly con-
suit his wife only. Even the servants
have to be corrected for taking their
orders from her. The wife is sorely
tired. She fears to make a disturb
ance about it, for the woman who
has gradually usurped her place with
her friends in general might divulge
the confidence reposed in her. She
realizes she has been 20 blame in max
ing a friend of an entire stranger all
too quickly.
Some friendships are costly. Many
a woman has paid for them with q
loss of peace, happiness and hope. The
woman too ardent of nature should
take heed, remembering that the new
found friend who smiles the sweetest
can also frown the darkest if she
fancies occasion demands it. The
honeyed-tongue can also utter sheer
ing, aye, bitter words that cut to the
heart all the deeper because they are
uttered by one who was thought to be
a friend. Real friends are not knit
together in day.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-08-01
A cIose-Fitting Toque of Raspberry
Pink Taffeta over Which Is Thrown
Long Dull Blue Veil.

bronze or pearl gray. In some cases
the edge of the veil is worked over in
picot stitch, with gold or silver
threads.
The latest hatpin has mushroom
head covered with multicolOred bead
embroidery. The Partisan miIliners
have brought bead embroidery to a
high state of perfection indeed, many
of the bead trimmings seen on the new
hats and toques are beautiful enough
to deserve place in the glass case of
museum.
The mushroom-head pins have outer
rims of fine paste, and they are so dec
orative in themselves that no other
trimming is needed.
Very large sailor hats covered with
crepe de chine and lined with fine
straw will be popular at Biarritz in
the months of august and September.
And it is said that the ''clou'' of the
PLACE season will be the tricot 'sweat-
err richly embroidered with metallic
threads and lined with printed silk.
The Parisiennes have gone quite mad
on the subject of sweater coats.
These bright-colored sweaters look
charming over white linen or muslin
dresses. And it must be admitted that
a well-cut sweater is exceedingly be-
coming to the average figure. For
early morning wear the sweater must,
however, be severely plain.