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- T stood lonely and neglected;
the doors fastened; the win
dows closed: the flowers
tangled among the tall grass. The
sun shone down upon II, and the
wind whispered around Il. bring
Ing with II the scent Of the noun.
tains just a. It aid one morning
five years before when the tragedy
occurred which turned the little
house Of happiness into \ House OF
mourning.
Away from the tuinult and heat
of a big town, John Deimar and
his wife had come to the little
house among the hills. looking for
ward to the simple life with keen
pleasure, planning long walks and
quiet evenings which were never
to See fnlfiliment.
Just one week OF quiet joy-of
peace 20 great that they did not
realize its perfect happiness--then
the end.
It was 4 glorious day among the
hills. They arose and took q long
walk while the dew was still Upon
the green things. and the perfumed
air kissed their cheeks and stirred
their hair a. they walked arm In
arm. II was . pleasure to be alive;
and the woman lifted her face-a
face glowing with love and happi
ness; the man bent his head ana
kissed her; there was no need Of
words.
A they went into the little
house by the wayside. she turned
at the door and looked back at the
hills, and said:
1T is almost too bsautiful--so
beautiful that Il hurts."
And the man remembered
through the weary years which
followed the look upon her face a.
she said II.
He ran whistlins up the stAirs.
STOPPING to pick up q flower she
had dropped. Then he crossed the
hall softly to the room where the
babies were asleep In their low
bed. He Kissed thsm gently and
thanked God for his treasures ana
the quiet home among the hills.
Going to his own room. he sAt
down to look over the nssiectsd
mail which lay In . great heap
on his desk.
Suddenly. from the room below.
came quick, sharp cry Of pain;
then long drawn one OF IN.
tense agony. He leaped down the
stairs like one mad. for the cry
was that OF the woman he loved.
She stood moaning with quick.
sharp drawn breath, her face
white and drawn; ali the happiness
and radiant life sons out OF II. He
put a question, and she pointed to
a broken care on the table. Then
her head fell aginst his arm, ana
he remembered with q treat horror
the rO0~ taasf hN<~rA>s Na--,.
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The Great Bds,sboO

THE giant bamboo of India blossoms at the age of
: thirty years and then dies. II produces large
numbers Of seeds which the natives use for feod if
they can live until the crop natures.
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CHAPTER Nv.
The Guides Sacsafice.

The first OF those was the deed
Of Breuil, the Swiss guide from
Zermatt.
He had managed to support. by
exertins all his skill and strength
the weight Of the man falling; he
also was able to take the first
shock Of the fall Of the girl I'm
msdlately afterward. For during
some part Of an instant the drop
Of both the man and the girl was
arrested: they hung suspended
by the rope over the sheer; but
though Breuil was able thus to-
break their fall, he was not
placed to be able to maintain
himself with the weight Of the
two dragging on him. He had
been the one who was advancing
when the disaster started; the
second man, who started the fall.
had been supposed 10 be in post.
ton to aid Breuil II necessary.
The guides position on the
ledge had been the most difficult
OF all; and in holding against the
fall Of the man ana then arrest
Ing the fall OF the girl, too. he
had done all that he could. One
hand--the watchers through the
telescope could see II plainly.
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crack; with his arms he reached
high And his fingers found the fis-
sure overhead.
Far down In the valley below the
hotel the crowd grasped,
They're all on the ledge now!
They're all over the sheer;
BY George, II must bs bad. Look
at the way they move. Or
don't move. Yes: always one at a
time. There; they're farther out
Yes. 90. Say, what was
that? A slip? No; she's
caught hold again. II she did.
don't mean! mean the duffer
ahead. :. My God! Good God!
Hes goins! That
second feiiow-Grege! You see!
He's--and he'll Good God!
On. good God! Look atrhat! {.
Look at that. The Guide
Can he. Oh. Lord!
Look at that. Oh! Oh! Oh!'
While the four on the mountain
were over the center of the sheer
the second climber had made a
fAiss step: struggling wildly In
panic to save himself, he had slip
ped from the crack Of the ledge
ana fallen. A he fell his strusgl.
ing weight on the rope dragged
first and almost instantly upon the
bait Of the guide leading the party.
Breuil. ihstantaneously. prepared
for meeting the shock dug toes and
fingers FAR into the cracks and dis
itributsd His weight upon all holds
ss evenly ~ he could. He man.
Assd to hold. therefore. against the
1irst terrific attack Of the falling
man; he seemed even to shoot some
warning to the girl. roped on the
other side Of the failing man--to
spur her to such strength N she
might exert. but the barest frac-
ton of q second after the guide
had supported the shock OF the
fali II tore at the girl-the drop
ping weight OF q man. Her finger
holds in the little icy cracks over
head at once gave way-this could
be plainly seen through the tele-
scopes a. she fell backward-her
feet jerked from the fissure below
and she fell also. Then. while
those In the valley stared up un-
breathing and gaping. followed al
most instantaneousiy the next two
acts.
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KEEP THE ROPE TIGHT!

Brsuil moved slowly and care.
fully out over the sheer: he stop.
ped. commanded wythe to follow
him; he halted Wythe. moved q lit.
tie farther himself; then ordered
Wythe farther out.
"Madamoissller' The Swise hsd
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Glare Claremont, niece Of Martin Dale,
M nhown as wealthy society and club man,
night Of Clare's coming u party, en-
lists the services Of the famous Craig
Aennedy In u~nravelins the tangle. The
case is apparently n of suicide, and
collars. and Dale's own fortune have M
to blackmailers. She enlists,, nrst. the aid.
q Ravenal, famous detective. and lack
man, aids her. a letter signed ~ eth
Black Menace" warns her to call. on: these
two assistants. Ripley CRANKY, New
re Rsni S.vD Gr. writes hS Clare; cr.n !,
= letter that she had done right, to secure
the services Of Kennedy, Is found dead;
from 2 rurkestan drug. Glare is..to NEST
Crystal Palace, but 10 kidnapped and tax
en- to q private suite. Later Kennady and
his party overtaks the .~kidnappers; and
Through a mysterious telephone call.
ct the garaxe who're the kidnapping
taxi-drtver was believed to have COMB
from. Kennedy finds his way. to q ,niys-.
progress. and where he overhears
conversation that makes him believe
Clare has been sent. q poisoned letter.
as he surmised, contained anthrax germs
and was sent by the Black Menace to,
Clare. Clare n Speed are molested on,
the way home. and shots are fired. They
scape
Ravenal gets into the mysterious
mansion. n nnds there BreshakAya,, an
actress, who had the rooms at the hotel
whore Clare was enticed. Kennedy sue
ceeds in running dow the mysterious
figure near the mansion, and finds that
it is Werner, q well-known lounge lizard
Werner commits suicide; Kennedy gets
into the gambling house, and Is interest
ed In why young Thorne, an ad1mirof of
B~rtshakaya- has to leave suddenly.
A .Mrs. James whom B~reshakaya in,
PRODUCES, warns Kennedy's partner to
get him out of the palace ut once They
summoned. presumably to the palace.
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his ambition, but he began work on an elaborate
program Of Popularizing himself HI had plenty
Of money, and he spent.it freely: He gave money
literally to churches and societies Of various kinds,
and his generosity quite naturally created a favor
able impression. Presently his candidacy -for a
congressional nomination was announced, and the
members of the organization which had been the
'bene6eiaries Of his bounty naturally felt kindly to
ward him. He had bought support that he could
not have obtained in any other way, and yet those
whose support had been won were entirely innocent.
Not a dollar had been spent in an illegal way, but
the plan was to buy a seat in congress. 1t happened
that the ambition of this man was not realized, but
the use which he made Of his money, entirely proper
so far as the statutes go, tended to give him an adj
vantage over another candidate who had less money
to spend.
The primary law has been criticized for placing
q premium on the expenditure Of money. Doubt
less it does operate in this manner in many cases.
But the fault is not all that Of the primary law.
Under the convention system it is possible for !
man, by the skillful use Of money in various forms
Of publicity to create such a strong popular demand
for his nomination that it would not be safe for a
convention to ignore it. No matter from what
angle the problem is viewed it is a difficult one. and
if there is a satisfactory solution it has not yet beea
presented. e..
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A R WATER.

The report of Dr.. Sinclair on the examination of
the Fargo city water plant made by representatives
OF the Grand Forks city government, and his COM
parison of the work done there with the work per-
formed at the Grand Forks plant makes interesting
reading. No criticism is intended in the presenta-
ton OF any of the facts. Our Fargo friends have
been doing substantially as we have done, using
what they believed at the time to be the best meth
DDS available for supplying to the people one Of the
necessar1es OF life, an abundant supply of safe
water. They have experimental, as we have done,
They have made some mistakes, as we have done.
When mistakes have become apparent they have
taken steps to correct them, as we have done. and
as we should continue to do.
At times complications have arisen in connec-
ton with our water supply. Sliding earth has brok-
en- intake pipes excess of silt has rendered the work
OF precipitation difficult; unusual pollution of the
raw supply from surface fowage has rendered
neio'c measures necessary in the application of pur-
ittylng agents. At times it has been necessary to
choose between unpleasant taste and odor in the
water and highly dangerous bacteria. Sometimes
we have been inclined to be critical and imnatient.
ana when an unpleasant ,odor was noticed in the
drinking water, highly uncomplimentary remarks
have been uttered concerning the city administra-
1on-whichever administration happened to be in
charge for the time being.
When we find our feelings being ruffled from
such causes, it may tend to restore our eouanimitv
to recall that we are merely dealing with the same
problems that other Communities have to meet. and
that IN the main we are handling them as we'll as
our neighbors, and in some certain instances better
The handling Of a water supply demands intellig-
Ience and eternal vigilance Nature has supplied
us w,thtwater thatsis.,npleasantly hard. BY the APP
'Pilcatlon of the most effective methods known to
science we have succeeded in removing much of
that hardness, leaving a water. that is much more
desirable for general use. Our water, like the
water supplied to most other cities, is unsafe for
domestic use in its raw state. Again the best
known scientific methods have been employed to
remove the elements of danger. Practically all of
the time the water supplied to the people of Grand
Forks is 100 per cent free from injurious bacteria,
and there have been removed from it all of the min
practicable method. The element Of safety should
be, and we believe is, always considered first. If,
occasionally, it is possible to SECURE that safety only
at the expense OF. flavor and $odor, we are suffering
no greater Inconvenience than others must suffer
occasionally, and at such times a little patience will
go a long way toward making life more comfort
able.
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here to tell you that I had a brand
new clue, but James said you had
gone. Then I tried to beat you to the
station, but I must have missed you
though I had your name PACED. I'm
off for a day or so on this thing"
added Ravenal rather proudly. Per
haps I may be wrong, but at least T
think I have a hint and I'm going to,
try it out. If it fails-no matter. II
it succeeds, then the credit is mine-s
A Quick Glance.
Speed shot a quick glance at Kena
nedy, but Kennedy shook his head 40
if to caution silence. I wondered
whether. after all; there might not BE-
a tinge of professional jealousy in the
young detectives nature. One could
hardly have blamed him. To have
beaten Kennedy and to have all the
credit was surely not to be scorned.
Nor was it the first time that we had
found detectives persistent in follow
ing out their own Interpretation Of,
cases. 3'
knnedy excused himself, leaving
Sped and me with Ravenal, who
soon took his departure.
AS for us. it made little difference
whether he played a lone hand or CO.
operated with us.
CONTINUED Tomorrow EvenincA
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Milbank Fund To Aid.
The Anti-Tuberculo.is
Workers In New York

Washington-A large part of the
income from 10000, 900 for the next
lew years has been set aside by the
MAbank fund to demonstrate in sew,
eral New York state districts how
tuberculosis can be controlled IN
american communities. Between
100000 and 100000 annually for
n next i've or more years will b.
available for the demonstration.
Inls announcement was made to.
Gay by John A. sKingsbury, secretarH.
VI me M7lbank fund, at the annual
meeting of the National T~ubercuiods
association. 49,
The Milbank fund was establishes
by MRS Elizabeth Milbank Anders6n
OF New York city and the demonstra-
IONS are to be in the nature of q,
memorial to her. Edward W. Shel-
aon, OF New York, is president Of thu
lizard OF trustees Of the fund and ~
aSsocaated with him several promi.
rent Q York financiers ara
Mr.. Kngsbury said the Milbansr
runo proposed to initiate a series of
Ho' more than three demonstrations
~ xeW FORK state cities and COM
nnara ~ which would assist in their
strataNon n support. The demon.
sessful experience Of the p t,abe .ns sue
ti,,n ns.ratfons conducted, for the lasf
the dSs S Ssa5o at birmingham nanaa Mass. s.
on n me Home Hospital exnerims.S
ooT1uc1ed in New York. a1NS
vha as purpose is to determines
wnetner any American comnnn;4H'
snan proper organization and ~ 1res.
cuIosi. sapense, can reduce It's tunar.
num- m ;a apa IL to = nominal MINI
.%sanisation and per cap i pr cdss Or.
citiea andeftakinss applied to isa.s
l1 In N ana .T rural communities. -
Wail be eligible for consi y SO community
Il IL announced that only thosa %bo =
Wiling ih ! agencies g enn,h public Or private sn oss
greatest possible a.si s assuring the
seaeeted for the .demonstrae,orw VIII rs e
bercu,o Md,l ne done through local tas
agencies. ~autnortttes ana
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EXPLOSIVES.

Usually IN thinking OF explosives we connect
them up with war. Tits in warfare that explosives
are used in the most spectacular manner, and. the
manufacture of explosives is usually connected IN
thought with the firing of cannon and the detona-
ton of shells on the field of battle. The United
States is not at war, and has not been for some time,
but we are producing explosives in enormous guam
titles, and shall continue to do so. The nanufac-
ture of explosives goes hand in hand with the con-
structive work of the country. The combinations
whose purpose is to rend and tear are inseparable
from the work of, mining, railroad construction,
land clearing, and construction work of all kinds
where obstacles are to be shattered and removed.
The quantity of explosives used in the United
States during the calendar year 1921 was lower by
more than 80 per cent than the amount consumed
in 1890, according to the Bureau of Mines. Reports
received by the bureau show that the total sales
amounted to 372, 1ov, SOB pounds, as compared with
537, s54, $50 pounds the year before. Of the total
amount sold 160, 021 $50 pounds (43.0per cent? was
black blasting powder, 10, 952, 402 pounds (45.9 per
cent? high" explosives other than permissible ex-
'plosives, and 41,133,85l pounds Oil per cent? per-
ceding year these figures indicate a reduction Of
37.2 per cent in sales of black powder, 25.4 per cent
in high" explosives, and 1888 per cent in permits
sibles- Permissible explosives are those which, be-
cause of having passed certain tests prescribed by
the Bureau Of Mines, are considered reasonably
safe for use in gaseous and dusty coal mines.
The ~coa-mining industry is always the largest
consumer of black powder and permissible explo-
sives, the consumption usually comprising about IS
per cent of the entire amount manufactured. In
1921 the coal mines used 5,613,4 35 kegs or 40, 1885,
875 pounds of black powder, 1921 ,542 pounds of
high explosives, and 3s,o55,e5 pounds of permits
sibles, representing decreases of Sc per cent, 8 per
cent, and 16 per cent, respectively, a~s3compared
with 1920. Y
Metal mining and all other mining operations
Excluding coal) used 1s4,7s2 kegs or 4,61e,soo
pounds of black powder, 50,s77,366 pounds Of
high" explosives, and ss1, no pounds Of permis-
sibles, indicating decreases of AZ per cent, 43 per
cent, and rs per cent, respectively, below the year
1920.
Railroad and other construction work was the
only branch Of industry using a larger quantity of
any kind of explosives than in 1920. This class of
work consumed 1877, 1913 pounds of dynamite and
other high explosives as compared with 5,O52, COS
change in the quantity of permissiblees, while the
consumption of black powder declined from 1885,
1H kegs in 1920 to 1884, 88 kegs in 1921.
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CHATTER XXI.
The EnreM Note,

Morning came but with it no word
yet from Glare. Nor was there any
clue an to the whereabouts of Minnie
Oakleigh, il, by chance the use Of her
name might have meant anythinx.
Telegraphic inquiry developed that
she had left Palm Beach three days
before. She had had plenty of time
she was not at. home. rs9
What were we to do? Quickly
Kennedy reviewed the events OF the
previous night.
"one thing stands out" hearemark-
ed. Somehow, Tn convinced that
there was IN effort to keep us out at
Heaton Hills while Clare was carried
OF. And BreshkAyA knows more
about it than we think. ITcan't soc
anything to do but to watch her.
We borrowed q roadster from
very quiet and careful shadowing of
Breshkaya- Evidently her perturba-
ton outsat the Mansion Of Mystery
the night Of the kidnapping had some
meaning and Kennedy was deterrnin-
ed to discover what It was.
We found ont that she lived in q
very fashionable apartment on Cen
trail Park West andAtook up a pod-
ton on the conner below It, whore We
SOOt0} 60S WAeI1VUL 00AuB 0S0Is luSE0
was. Of cOurse, the front entrance,
but there was also back entrance
down the dde street and we knew
that We would have to watch both. II
she suspected that someone wan shad-
owing her. ssss
From our point Of vantage We could
sealboth entrances. and fSshe left by
the front entrance she need never
know We were Watching; Il BY the
back entrance, she might 9 usrif We
did not catch SIGHT Of her first. .$g
AaQuet P1aco.
But there WaS mo- evidence that she
even suspected that abe was being
watched. It wa very quisteaboutfhe
apartment, yet ! Waa sure that the
,quietnesg was only on the surface. The
longer We watched the more con-
vinced We we're that We wers atalast
very excited . something,
" No one who has never been upon
4 shadowtng. Job known the Difficulty
OF even such 4 aimplestaak - We had
Set ourselves. s1t 10 most 1rksorne to
keep ones attention glued on one SPOT
and q the eAxaesstiuaS 5be alsrt for oth-
~ .thtng1 gt1iGtI mSys happen. Even liz
the! fp0nsa6A4oMe6sd0 es mot know
itashs may Aiip ont IN tust that IN.
9St1nFnt. Of Eslaxktiens and once ont your
AftSnfl0n being ffxsAS rather on thu en-
trance that the street couple of
!h0n6en away, thesqnaFfySisa ~ rood ~
gone. Acc0rdingy Ksnnsdy aud {
took turns IN watching tho onkrNDces
and - knsw thatsshs had no 81
II - sarty ID tie FORENOON .that,
We were rewarded ~ seeing Bfeeh,'
hayess speedseer dftyensgpto the door
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had passed.
I'm sure I'm right" murmured
Kennedy. "But Breshkaya has es-
capped u.s." .. "
He pursued ahead a couple of miles.
but 1t was apparent that we were now
getting nowhere. Nothing but a
thorough search of the neighborhood
of the river from this point on up
would be likely to net US anything
Tor that we were not Immediately pre-
pared.
Its a clue, thought" he cried, try-
ing cheerfuuy to buoy up my W
tagging spirits. Suppose that some
where In this wild region about Rock
cli1 there may be a hut or shanty on
the mountainside which is really a Sc
cret hiding place? Could it not be
that it is there that Glare has been
abducted?"
There was nothing to do but to re-
turn to the city for the present, meet
Speed. and prepare for a more thor
ough search Of the region. Reluctant
sly we turned back. while Kennedy de-
v1sed means of prosecuting the search.
Evidently there was more than the
Mystery Mansion to the Black Men
C band. And as we returned I re-
Elected on What small value it seemed
to be even to catch one of the band,
when no sooner was he caught than
Werner. q *st=t" ma .s1'A =
1t seemed as almost as though our
very absence from the city was DOOM
ed to bring disaster either to Clare or
some n connected with her.
When we returned our first impulse
was to seek out Speed and tell him
what we had uncovered. We called
up the Star. but they told US that he
had not been there. It seemed strange,
Q IN his hunt for Clare one would
have thought that he would take adj
vantage. first Of all, Of his newspa-
per connection. Indeed, If I had not
considered that that would have been
done by him I. shouldn have gone
down to the Star myself.
Very Suspicious.
We lost no time in hustling aroma
to his apartment. There we found
his valet, James, who told us thai HE
master had received a. note from a
Mrs: Oakleigh n had just left to
keep an appointment.
Where's the note?" demanded
kennedy. who by this time was be-
coming suspicious Of all servants.
The valet opened q small writing
desk and took it out. Just after he
he added, handing the note r.
us. Mr.. Ravenal came in. He asked
where Mr.. Speed was, just as YOU did.
and I told him. He shook his head
and hurried away.
Mr.. Speed:
You can learn something to YOUR
advantage by meeting me out NJ tha
Trocadero Inn at Eastbury.
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