SpeSflUtt Cr/dSS M ATAIE OF SCOTUHD VABn c. ifpAf) rnrs rrnar: John Tint, stepson of wealthy Laity Tint, w» engaged to marry Lucy liurnham, a widow. in France, where the three were sojourning, i.ady Tait takes a dislike to Gillian jiundas. a beautiful girl, who, it is dtsclosed, is blackmailing Tait for a oast indiscretion. Back in London Tait becomes alarmed when his busi ness associate. Lord Mills, is found shot to death. Mrs. Burnham takes Miss Dundas "under her wing" much to Lady Tails annoyance, a luncheon given by Lady Tait in honor of Tait and his fiancee, and attended by John's cousins, Alysia, Etta and Claud Naylor, is a poor success owing to Tails apparent uneasiness. Tea is interrupted by the discovery of John Tails body on the sidewalk t,i front of Lady Tails home. Sus pecting he has been poisoned, Chief inspector Pointer of Scotland Yard investigates what appears to be mur ■ler and first questions the victim’s niusin, Claud Naylor. (NOW CO ON WITH TTTE STORY) CHAPTER 36 ANP THE MAN brought back !n a minute the mate to the glove that superintendent Dartmoor had taken from the room where Lord Mills had been found shot. Pointer sent It along at once to the superintendent at til** Yard after the man had initialed it, "In case it should get lost too,” as Pointer remarked. That done. Pointer was free to hurry to the spot where Tait had died. It was a bare three minutes’ walk from the house and. as he ex pected. revealed nothing except that Tail would have had to pass a cab r ink and a letter box at the turning. These two facts might or might not mean anything. Four of the men usually on the rank were away. Pointer left word for them to report to him should they have seen Mr. Tait that morning, and then let the constable return to his beat. So Tait w’as probably the man who had left those smudges on the mar ble outside Lord Mills’ door. Tait was certain that Mills had killed himself, according to his cousin Nay lor. and. still according to that young barrister, knew why. Quite a plausi ble reason too. Naylor would not have put It forward as the cause of Mills death unless he had every reason to think he could prove it. But what lay behind all this? Was the onr clue so far available—the top of the gold fountain pen, was it a last effort on the part of the dying man to name his murderer? It looked like it. But the two deaths, so closely fol lowing one on the other, seemed, on the face of things, to be linked In some way. Both men. though not business men in the ordinary sense of the word, were co-directors of companies started by Sir John Tait, the poisoned man’s dead father. A very good chartered accountant would go over the companies’ books. . . . Meanwhile, as he was not capa ble of following that trail. Pointer would hold to the bitten pen top and 'ee If it led to the city or away from it. Somehow it did not suggest a business woman as Its owner. Why had Tait passed on to his cousin only so Important a piece of Information concerning Mills’ death. It looked odd. Pointer would not feel at all surprised If the one man had killed himself to avoid some financial smash and the other had at first thought that he could pass that death off as due to morbid terror un til he himself was caught in some dark stream that ran into or out of the other—the first death. Yes. Pointer would not be at all surprised if the Yard accountant were not the man to find the right key to unlock the puzzle of the two deaths, but, meanwhile, he must follow up all other possible trails. Pointer sent up word that he would be much-obliged if Mrs. Burn Lifelong Finds Lasting Relief M. L. Legrange of Norfolk, Va. t Adds Her Voice to the Thoiutundß VVho Are Praiiting Miller’s Herb Extract Mrs. Legrange’s experience: SJnce I was two weeks old I have f'een taking medicines. 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AH the othei buildings are being built of juniper logs. All the logs being used now were obtained from the mainland * across Croatan Sound, since there was not sufficient timber on the island now from which to obtain them. When tne colonists landed, however, it is be lieved the island was much more heavily wooded than at present. The granite monument erected in 1896 in the center of the plot formerly surrounded by the original fort, wili not be disturbed, nor will any of the trees of the “Croatan Oak” also witn in the enclosure be bothered, Mr. Stick said. For the log bastions of the fort can be placed and the small block house within it built without disturb ing any of them. Work has beentemporarily suspend ed on the restoration work as a result of the abandonment of the Civil Works Administration program and the limited Emergency Relief allot ments made to the State during the past two months. For a time there was doubt as to whether the work could be completed with ERA funds a; all. But present indications are thai Mrs. O’Berry is trying to get addi tional funds so that the work can proceed as soon as possible. Highway Fund Os Million Is Sure lOontlnued rrum Page One.) automobile license tax through April for the first ten months of the pres ent fiscal year amount to $19,386,698. according to figures just announced by the Department of Devenue. The total appropriation for the Highway and Public Works Commission, includ ing $8,613,000 for debt service and $6, 900,000 for maintenance of both State and county roads and 7,700 prisons in 83 prison camps, amounts to $16,700,- 000. So on the basis of ten months collections, and without taking into consideration the amount to be col lected within the coming two months, there is a surplus in the highway fund now of $2,686,698 in excess of this year’s appropriation and based on this year's collections alone. In addition to this, there is a surplus of about $2, i 500,000 in the highway fund carried over from last year. So there is no doubt about there being any lack of money in the highway fund to be di verted into thegeneral fund. On the other hand, the revenue col lected for the general fund so far dur ing the first ten months of this fiscal year amounts to only $18,685,988 which is $6,499,337 short of meeting the general fund’s budgete dexpendi tures of $25,185,325. And wwhile the Department of Revenue is bending every effort to collect this more than $6,000,000 difference during May and GULF WINS MORE “HILL TESTS” THAN 32 GASOLINES COMBINED .£ : ■■ . , , , SS'-''" j I / I ' i won more Hill tests than 32 other t* HOW ?3 GASOLINES RANKED (-J.SU) A BORROWED FORD tests: 12 competing All gtuollnei letted, except a few "third grade" brand*, tald far approximately the *am4 price a* That Used Ms. Each brand i« denoted by a letter. gasolines on Muldrough Hill, njsar West Point, TEST | WlNNEß |2Hi> PU cE|3><>puCE|4'<«PUtE|s»MACE|«~nJlCE|7»lua]r"nME|9"niC||lo»PUa|ll«nMX|» m rU(f(t3«nMSE ■ Ky., to see which gas can pull the car and .* . 2500-lb. load farthest up hill in’ high gear. 1 ** i>l A B 5 !? ? F ° w * J * # a Manx* X K B P M N A C O . - H #3 P Ban C P F O K $ 1 K ~ N Z» ' ■ #4 Kim « F C P N P O K • ■ ' ■ f # 5 COHB PCDBFQNK i ~ I DRIV£ IN AND TRY ÜBg-; ; ; ; « 11 M KFU #8 T IdMJ M F K U Q N V W **" X BH WT #• • Y I GUO I Z P J Z* z. ~l* !z» X* z* I f Jj #io c Bug n a m » f k --■ ; -■ ■ ■ ■ | J#H Ctlig P F M C A il EACH OF THE BRANDS of gasoline tested is indicated on the chart by a letter, Ato Z 6. Note I that Gulf gas was uniformly best! Other high-ranking gasoline varied widely in different tests. &--MJ €> l»4, OULP MPININa CO., PITTSSURSH, PA tkenei in THAT GOOD GULF GASOLINE June, the egeneral belief is that col lections will fall short at least $1,000,- 000 or even more, making it neces sary to take the $1,000,000 from the highway fund to me«*t general fund tippHq D [ EOM|IE J. H. Bridgers Conveys Pro perty to J. B. Hicks, Both as Trustees A deed filed yesterday with the register-of deeds covered the transfer of the property of the old Townsville Reilroad, a short line running from Man son to Townsville, a distance of about ten miles, in this county. It was given by J. H. Bridgers, trustee, to Jasper B. Hicks, trustee, and the consideration was named as the bontvs of the railroad as held by the pur chasing trustee. The rarJroad has been in litigation for several years and is now seing dismantled. Tdwnsville township on two .different occasions issued bonds for the road in the aggregate sum oi more than $75,000, much of which still constitutes a burden on the townsnip. The only other deed filed Wednes day was that in which A. A. Bunn, trustee, sold to Cora Hawkins l tor $630, property in the “Mobile” section o? the southern part of the city. WASHINGTON I at a Glance By CHARLES P. STEWART Washington, May 2.—lt’s hard to ex plain, but the obvious fact is that there is a decided public reaction away from President Roosevelt’s re covery program, with apparently no public reaction whatever away from President Roosevelt. Contrariwise, it wouldn’t be good betting that he isn’t actually gaining strength. NR A unmistakably is disintegrat ing. CWJA is on its way into the dis card. AAA is fizzling out. General Johnson is a punctured balloon. The ibrain trust's stock is below par. Not a. cabinet member has scored conspicuous success; some of them none at all or even less than that, criticized or outrightly denounced Administration policies are severely But the President, accounts from every direction indicate, is popular as ever; tremendously popular; in creasingly popular, maybe—which is saying a lot, considering the majority he was elected by. * * * Congress, to be sure, is resentful of him, including numerous lawmakers of his own party alignment. 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