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row-windowed parlour, with its low "I don't think I can agree to that," blackened ceiling. They sat down she said. "If wo go together that's Just the one chance of clearing up to a ton of scones and cakes, with a the whole misunderstanding. If egg each for Janet and. Ross. Ross goes alone, ten to one things When they had finished the two will be just the same as they were men Bt their pipes, and Janet before, perhaps worse."
bolled
brought a cigarette-case out of her "You've little trust in Ross, that's Vanity-hng The older people clear."
watched her closely as she lit a "Nay mother, there's 'no' call for| cigarette with a match borrowed that," Angus protested. What do from Ross. Uncle Angus was you think Ross7 Tls for you to enormously interested, oven awed: decide.".
Koss sat for a moment in thought, Auntie Meg's expression had some thing of the thin concentrated atten- drawing deeply on his pipe.
"I've a feeling Janet's right, tion of a hen's, but added to this a a frown of disapproval, which said at last.
could only be human. It was Ross who first expressed the thought that was in the minds of three out of these four.
Next morning at ten o'clock Ross and his uncle were pushing a row. bost over the slip-way of piled rocks
Improved Police Methods How's father, Uncle Angua" towards the sea. Janet, hatless and
Crime
Reduce Cr
SCOTLAND YARD'S GOOD YEAR
The fisherman took his pipe out wrapped in one of Angus's ollakins, Auntle Meg WBS of his mouth and prepared himself was looking on. to answer. But his wife was watching from the door of the cot- quicker
tare. She still disapproved of this "Much as you'd expect. We can expedition. There blew a fresh In London's history of the
Given up breeze from the south-west, and war against crime, last year do nothing with him.
curdled white clouds sailed cease- will be written as a chapter of trying."
"Still rampaging over at Tar-lessly across the blue dome of the success.
jaky. The weed-shagged rocks of There has been an unusually nera?"
"Ah. Rampaging's the word. the shore. the waters of the sound, large number of murders in Lon-
eight and in only one Lord of the island he wants to be, and the greenish-brown Bank of case has the mystery remained, and is without a doubt. Won't let Tarnera Mor, a mile and a half on unsolved that of Robert James anybody set foot on it, not his own the further side, were all flooded Venner the New Cross tailor brother here, nor you either, I've a with sunlight, which was eclipsed for brief intervals overy now. and who died as the result of an at- good notion."
There "We'll have to see about that," then by the sailing clouds. tack in his shop.
was a dancing sparkle on the sur- "Only two of the convicted mur- said Ross, with a smile at Jenet. derers were executed..
By this time Uncle Angus had face, of Loch Kilbréck, and the Features of Scotland Yard's thought out his answer to Ross's radiance of the morning flashed
brilliantly on the snow-white plum-· work during the year have been question.
don -
jed.
the use of faster motor-cars and "James is a queer one," he said are of a company of terns, as they the extension of the telephone and slowly, "and he geta. queerer.jhovered before diving with a spurt wireless systems. Reductions in Tisn't good for any man to live of foam. Ross Imparted a final the number of, "smash-and-grab" alone on an island, with no company shove to the boat and jumped aboard Wednesday, 20th Mar, at 1 am raids, attacks by footpads, and but sheep and a dog. Broods in on with a knee on the gunwale. Then, Monday, 1st Apr. at 2 a.m handbag snatchers have follow-himself, 1 reckon, I've not set eyes grasping his uncle's calloused palm Wednesday, 17th Apr. at 10 a.m..
on him for a long time now, not with one hand, he held out the other Scotland Yard's reputation was since last time I tried to land on for Janet. She stepped sure-footed enhauced by the successful ar- Tarnera and he swore he'd sat the on to the centre thwart, and settled rangements for the Royal Wed-dog on me. Had a gun in his hand, herself in the stera. Her husband ding processions.
too You know Ross, my lad, how rested the cars in the rowlocks, and the 'wrath rose in him when you as he turned the bow of the boat out! married-begging your. pardon, to set. the wet blades Dasbed in the Janet my dear. Got it fixed in his sunshine, He began to row with head that all of us here plotted long, steady sweeps. Ross's marriage just for to spite Janet was like a child enjoying him."
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"Ross has told me about father," said Janet,
"Ay, ay. Tie a great pity." "You think he's going mad, cle," asked Ross.
his that she sat perfectly still. The half smile of tranquil enjoyment never left her face. She trailed her Un-fingers in the water, shaded her
eyes against the glaring sun-dance:
The proposal to build houses "Nay, not that. James never did on the sea, peered over the side at on the banks of the Thames op-anything without a reason, though the strange, glimmering submarine
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to be seen; but chiefy her gaze was
"Eccentric?" suggested Janet "That's be it.”
on the far shore of Tarnera, now
a committee of Eton Rural Dis"
slowly approaching, and in her mind the continually trict Council recently, but no de- "Well, Ross and 1 will go across there hovered finite decision was reached to-morrow and seen him. I'm just thought of Ross's father, the soured Afterwards the chairman of the longing to visit those lovely islands. recluse, brooding in solitary pro-
council. Mr. A. F. Drew, denied that the council had scheduled the area. In his opinion, he said. it with a national matter which should be dealt with by the Na- tfonal' Society for the Preserva- tion of Rural England. The Ru- ral District Council had not the power.
Is Tarnera the biggest of them?"
"Ay.
prietorship over his island, with its
Tarnera Mor wo call it, one white house, its scattered abeep, There's Tarnera Beag and...."
His wife broke in sharply. "I think you'd batter not do that. Janet."
"Why not?".
"Well, you've heard how he's
When the Ankerwyke estate at queer, and how he was dead set Wraysbury, opposite Magna Car- against Ross's marriage.
There's
its barren wastes of rock and Bea ther. She caught her husband's eye. "What are you thinking oft" ba asked:
"Of your father." "Can you see him yet?”. "No, but I can ses his house in a dip of the ground, with the land rising behind it, and there's a black dot moving about, which is the dog, I expect. There's a big pile of souse
ta Island, was sold in November to knowing what he'd say or do."
"That's why I want to go" the purchasers announced their intention of erecting houses “Eh!" there. Because of the district's "Because he was annoyed at brown stuff near the house. Whist
it is, Roan?" 23rd Mar. historic associations, an effort is Ross's marrying, I mean... 10th Apr. being made to preserve it as an "Don't you understand, mother?" open space and beauty, spot. This said Angus. "She wants to go so proposal has the support of se- that James can see her and, .......” veral authorities, including the "Ay, my good man, I understand. 21st Mar. Thames Conservancy, Bucks That's as may be. That's as may 23rd Apr. County Council, Eton Rural Dis be. I still think she'd be unwise to
trict Council and Wraysbury Par-xo. Let Ross go first, my dear."!" ish Council.
For the first time a shade of an-1 noyance clouded Janet's face. That
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