The Corrigan Press (Corrigan, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 13, 1938 Page: 5 of 8
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THE CORKlGAN PRESS
■BANNER SERIAL FICTION-
She Painted Her Face
A siouj o& Cwe and iMsjue ... DORNFORD YATES
O Doriifold Yat«i
WNU S«rrio«
Bloused Coat, Long Jackets
And Cape Suit Very Latest
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
SYNOPSIS
Richard Exon, a poi
man, befriends elderly
who at his de,
young English-
atthew Gering,
s death, gives him a statement
he, Gering, is Rudolph Elbert
icient
ori
claiming he, Gering,
Virgil, Count of Brief, of ancient Austri-
an nobility who was betrayed 20 ye;
before by his twin brother, Ferdinand,
for ‘
whose sentence
served. Ferdinai
approprl
and daughter. B<
ng g " “
cret, known only
house, to be found
Brief, by
property
Gering tells
forgery he himself
ipriated his title
lefore he dies.
there is
to the
in the great tower
Brief, by a doorway none can c
Exon inherits his uncle's fortune
out to right Gering's wrongs. En
unters Percy Elbert Vir
at
ever find,
and sets
route he
rgil. son of the
encounters Percy Elbert
villainous Ferdinand and sees him in con-
ference with Inskij
He engage
Percy and
’ * He;
res h
iskip, u diamond merchant,
valet.
John
as a yo
wedding,
meets by chance at a garage,
errick, who is a linguist and who
iuth served as a page at Gering's
g, and had visited Brief. Herrick
agrees to aid Exon. They establish head-
quarters at Brenda Revoke's farm at Hav-
en, a few miles from Brief and make their
plans. They find the castle almost inac-
cessible. They see a closed car occupied
by Percy Virgil, a chauffeur and a woman.
Hearing a dog scream, they see the chauf-
feur flogging it, just as a horse with a girl
astride bounds along the path and is felled
by a strung wire The girl, unconscious, is
picked up carelessly by the chauffeur and
then run away, after dropping
nd carries her
I up
n, wl
Exon
to his waiting
woman, who then run away,
her. Exon recues the girl a
s Wi
Elizabeth, da
s hei
I tak»
stor,
11m
wrongs. Elizabeth wins
factor. Percy Virgil brii
Elizabeth, daugl
tells her of her cousin'
to R
•r fa'
help
Elizabeth
car. He identifies the girl as
?hter of "
the disowned Gering,
er cousin's plot to abduct her
and takes her to Raven, where he tells her
the story of her father and promises to go
the limit to help her right her father’s
faith in
ings the police to
two
c:
i
N
if
rough Inskip. All realize the only solution
‘ - * of ~ *
Raven, announcing that
for tl
discot
enturi
s the |
• of tl
rgil.
pect Percy of having si
through Insl '
being sought
beth. Herrick discomfits
morning's adventure, names a
Max and hands the police a seali
3 the police
■ of the leai
with the name
tion—Percy Virgil. Exi
•rcy of
strangers are
>ing * ‘
ifirgi
nes
a sc
der
xon and
sold the family jew
kidnaping of Eliza-
Virgil, tells of
a r
•ale
in the at
and Herrick
the
man called
led envelope
the abduc-
errick sus-
nily jewels
the
erdir
Brief, which the
------- ----- not know. They
decide to take possession of the Tower.
Late one night after hard labor they
force their way into the Tower, with Eliza-
beth aiding Exon and Herrick. There they
r search for the secret doorway,
i silence against time The search
cret doorway is almost hopeless
until they find a sliding panel in a step.
working in silence
for the secret doorwa
CHAPTER V—Continued
—10—
As might have been expected, the
bolt was tight in its well, but it \vas
not cemented in, and after another
ten minutes I managed to wheedle
it out.
I then took the mallet from Her-
rick and tapped the rise. At once
the side I had tapped retreated be-
fore the blow, but the other side
started forward out of its place.
"Pivoted,” breathed Herrick.
"It’s hung on a spindle, just like a
revolving door.”
One hand on my shoulder, Eliza-
beth lowered her torch.
There was now before us a gap,
where the rise had been. This gap
was split into two by the rise itself,
for this had simply been turned and
was now presenting its edge, in-
stead of its face. The torch im-
mediately showed that the gap on
the right was void—that is to say,
on the side on which the rise had
retired: but the gap on the left was
framing a block of stone. And sunk
in the face of this stone was a han-
dle, or rude, iron dog . . .
"Go on,” said Herrick. "Pull it.
If a genie appears, so much the bet-
ter. I’ve quite a lot of orders to
give.”
I laid hold of the dog and
pulled . . .
At once the block slid forward,
after the way of a drawer that you
pull from a chest. And, as you may
pull a drawer clear, so I drew the
block out of its housing, over the
tread of the step which lay, like an
apron to take it, in front of the gap.
The block was immensely heavy,
for it must have been 12 inches
deep, and, when I had drawn it
clear, it was all I could do to lift it
out of the way and on to the tread
above.
To do this, I had to stand up and
lift it between my legs; but the
others stayed where they were.
As I laid it down—
“Do you see it, too?” said Her-
rick.
"I—I don’t understand,” breathers
Elizabeth. “I mean, how can that
•be there?”
"What is it?” said I, and stepped
back to go down on my knees.
"It’s time we went home," said
Herrick. "That’s what it is. When
I run into black magic, that’s where
I get off.”
Never had idle words so specious
a warranty.
The block which I had withdrawn
had left behind it no room.
Though I make a fool of myself,
at least I will make this clear.
When you pull a drawer from a
chest and lay it aside, you leave in
the chest a space which is very
slightly larger than the drawer
which you have removed. But,
though I had drawn out the block,
there was no such space left. In
fact, the gap was now framing an-
other block of stone which resem-
bled exactly the one I had taken
away, except that it had no handle
by which it could be withdrawn.
And when I presently touched it,
the same indefinable tremor told me
it was not fixed/
"Can you beat it?” said Herrick,
shortly.
"On the face of it, no,” said I.
• But there must be some simple
reason for such a thing. I mean,
these doings are ancient: there’s
no machinery here.”
"There can’t be a reason,” said
Herrick, "unless you’re a conjurer.
If you pick a brick out of a wall,
you’ve a right to expect a recess.
Well, there’s the brick you picked
out: but where’s the recess?”
"There was a recess.” said my
lady. "There must have been But
now it’s been filled.”
"That’s right,” said I. "That’s
right. And I’ll tell you another thing.
It’s got to be emptied again before
we can put that block back in its
place.”
"Do you moan to suggest,” said
Herrick, "that a slab of stone of
that size, fixed or unfixed, can shift
to and fro on its own?”
"I have it,” said Brenda’s voice.
'The thing is a counterpoise. My
uncle has one at his farm. It is very
old, but its movement is silent and
sure as the flight of an owl.”
There was an electric silence.
Then—
"The girl’s right,” said Herrick.
"And there's the conjuring trick.
Beneath these steps there’s a bal-
ance; and when you drew out that
block you lightened one of its scales
—with two results. One was that
the scale you had lightened rose in
the air, and thus revealed to our
eyes the second weight on that
scale. That is it, there—in the gap.”
He got to his feet. "And the other
result was this—that the opposite
scale sank down—thus revealing
somewhere or other the doorway
we’re trying to find.”
That this interpretation was good,
there could be no doubt, and we all
began to go down the winding stair,
surveying the walls, as we went, for
some gap in their masonry. We
were too much excited, I fear, to
use our wits. Had we done so, we
should have perceived that there
was but one direction in which the
balance could hang and that this
would bring the scale which we
wished to locate very nearly above
the doorway by which we had en-
tered the tower. However, as luck
would have it, we now had no need
of wits, but only of eyes; and as we
emerged from the staircase into the
small, square hall, we saw directly
before us the interspace which we
sought.
On the wall which faced us one of
the panels had sunk—not very
much, but five inches . . . exactly
the height of the block which I had
pulled out of the stair. The gap
thus shown was breast-high and 15
inches in width. Beyond was an
open space, and when I put in my
hand, I could feel a faint current
of air.
The panel hung on a chain, which
was, of course, attached to the bal-
ance above. And so long as it hung
on that chain, the panel could go
no further, because the counter-
weight had no room to rise. So I
took the weight of the panel, while
Herrick deftly unfastened the heavy
chain.
"Then I let the panel sink slowly
into some slot in the stone . .”
At last it came to rest, some six
inches still protruding and making
a sill to the doorway which we had
discovered at last.
This gave to a winding stair, pre-
cisely resembling that upon which
we had passed so many wearisome
hours. In a word, with the hall for
landing, the stair of the tower went
on down, curling slowly right-hand-
ed. into the bowels of the earth.
For the others I cannot answer,
but until the way was open and we
were about to go down, I had never
considered to what "the doorway”
might lead: but now that we were
about to discover the truth, 1 re-
membered the late Count’s words
and, with those for straw, began to
make fabulous bricks.
"It may be that you can use it..
I will not set down the pictures
my fancy drew. Enough that they
were all false. But I have this con-
solation—that not one man in a mil-
lion would have predicted the scene
which presently met our eyes.
Herrick declined to go down, but
stayed in the hall with Brenda, "un-
less and until," said he, "my lady
decides that she wants me on in
this act.” So I preceded Elizabeth,
torch in hand.
For 36 steps we went down. And
then we came to a chamber that
had no door.
On the threshold I stopped and
lighted a second torch, and my lady
looked over my shoulder, to see
what I saw.
The chamber was small—some fif-
teen feet by eight, and some nine
feet high. Its walls and floor and
ceiling were all of stone, and though
there was no window, the air was
by no means foul. (This, I after-
wards found, was due to two vents—
one low down in a wall, and the
other high up at the opposite end
of the room: but though I sought
for their mouths, I never was able
to find them, because they were too
well hid.) Towards one end of the
cell was a great oak stall, plainly
very ancient and finely carved, and
against one wall was a coffer, also
of oak. There was no other fur-
niture.
In the stall was seated a man—or
what was left of one. His pose was
natural. His head was up and was
leaning against the back of the stall,
his arms lay along its arms, and
his trunk and his feet were well and
truly planted on oak and stone. His
clothes were those of the Fifteenth
century. His tunic was of diapered
velvet which the passage of many
years had brought to shreds and tat-
ters, if not to dust, but a jeweled
belt was still girding the crumbling
loins and a chain was sunk in the
ruin about the neck. Hose still hung
upon the legs, which were skin and
bone, and a patch, that had been a
cap, was still crowning the thick
fair hair. This was inviolate. The
face and hands were withered, but
otherwise well preserved and dead.
The eyes, which were wide, had a
curious, sightless look and might
have belonged to a man who was
living, but blind; and the whole was
in no way offensive, because, I sup-
pose, there was no sign of corrup-
tion, but only of age. Indeed, had
the hair been white, the figure would
have been full of dignity: but the
color of the hair was fatal, suggest-
ing an old man’s efforts to seem to
be young—one of Time’s shabbier
jests, for the man had not seen old
age.
On the coffer were lying three
things. One was a skin of parch-
ment—or part of a skin. Upon this
had been written Latin, still to
be read. By its side lay the trans-
lation, clearly inscribed upon vel-
lum and made at some later date.
And between the two lay a massive
signet-ring.
As might have been expected, the
documents told us the truth.
"Here sits Elbert, Duke of Austria
and Carinthia, King of Hungary,
slain by his host and liegeman, Ru-
dolf of Brief, because he came upon
him defiling his wife.
"With the fear of death upon her,
Helen of Brief declared the follow-
ing facts:
"That the King and she were se-
cretly married, before he wedded
the Queen and before she deceit-
fully wedded Rudolf of Brief. In
proof whereof she offered her mar-
riage lines signed by the Cardinal
Gaddi, lately dead of the plague,
whom God reward,
"That the first and third of her
children, whom Rudolf believed to
be his, were both the sons of the
King.
"Rudolf made haste to apprise the
Queen of the truth.
"For the sake of that injured la-
dy, he undertook, on conditions, to
hold his peace. Between them it
was agreed:
"That he should hold to his witness
the corpse of the King, himself pro-
viding another to take its place and
be interred and entombed as though
it were that of the King.
"That since Otto, whom he
thought his first-born, was now IN
TRUTH Duke of Austria and Carin-
thia, King of Hungary, he and his
heirs should FOR EVER hold the
right to call upon the heirs of her
body in any stress, whose help they
shall have WITHOUT FAIL by
showing the King’s great ring,
"That her heirs shall be so in-
structed in perpetuity.
"By Rudolf’s order, Gollanx, a
chemist of Innsbruck, preserved the
corpse of the King. This he did ac-
cording to a certain prescription
which he had of a learned Venetian |
whose son he had saved. His rai- j
ment also he dipped against the cor- j
ruption of Time.
"Dated the ninth day of March
in the year of Our Lord one thou- j
sand four hundred and thirty-nine
(the King being dead on the sev-
enth, having lain in state till now i
and to be replaced this night) 1
and written down word for word !
as my lord Rudolf hath command-
ed by his unworthy servant and
clerk
"GABRIEL of LITTAI.”
"Whom I slue whiles his ink
was wett for he hath a long
tongue and I have need of a
boddv as he hath saved.
"RUDOLF OK BRIEF.”
The original postscript was labo-
riously written in German and poor-
ly spelt. The translation was done
in German from first to last, and to
this had been added two lists—one
of the Lords of Brief and one of
the several Heads of the other
House.
Elizabeth was trembling.
"Oh, Richard, d’you know what
this means?”
"It means you’re a queen,” said
I. "But then I knew that before.”
"No, no.” She dabbed at the
parchment. "That last name there.
Not my grandfather’s—the other.
Harriet Vincentia Saying, Duchess
of Whelp. She’s still alive—and she's
bigger than any queen. She’s al-
ways known as 'Old Harry.’ Her
mother was English—as mine was,
and if she’ll take up my cause . .
"She must,” said I. "It’s a case
of deep calling to deep.”
"She’s a law to herself,” said
Elizabeth, thoughtfully. "But if she
does—well, next time you come to
Brief you won’t have to force any
bars.”
"That’s right,” said I, feebly
enough. With a sudden movement,
I set a torch in her hand. "And
now I’ll go for a pen. You must
write your name here at once. Shall
Herrick come down?”
“If you jflease.”
I left her there and mounted the
unworn stair.
The thing was absurd and child-
ish, but now that I saw what was
coming, my heart sank down. The
"rough stuff" was over, and so—
my service was done. From now
on, steps would be taken by a lady
of high degree. Pressure would be
put on the impostor: ways and
means would be used which were
out of my ken. And when the game
had boon won, I should be invited
to Brief . . . where a servant would
hold the door wide and another
would take my hat. I should be
ushered—I . . that had broken
into the place, to set a queen on
her throne. . . . And then I should
be presented to Her Grace the Duch-
ess of Whelp, and the Countess of
Brief would tell her how good I had
been—I that had held a King’s
daughter against my hammering
heart ...
I suppose that my face was be-
traying my state of mind, for, as I
stepped into the hall, I saw Herrick
throw up his head and clap his
hands to his eyes.
"Oh, I can’t bear it,” he groaned.
"Don’t say that after all this—”
(TO BE CONTINUED)
IN SELECTING your fall and win-
* ter apparel you can be ns
"choosy” as you like, for the air is
rife with exciting new silhouettes,
new trends, new materials and new
details.
However, there are certain char-
acteristic features that are outstand-
ing and which may be regarded as
guiding posts along fashion's high-
way. Three significant trends are
shown in the illustration, namely
the coat that has a bloused top and
slenderized waistline, the long cape-
suit or costume of stunning wool
that is gorgeously furred and the
suit with jacket that takes on longer
length.
The softly styled blouse coat that
is full above the waistline, and has
a narrow skirt and neat slender
waistline is the talk o’ town. Full-
ness above a snugly belted waist-
line makes a smart silhouette for
the black wool town coat shown to
the left in the picture. It is bloused
even more at the back than is here
shown, front view. Loose bracelet-
length sleeves add fashion interest.
These coats glory in exquisite
woolens, the velvety surfaced such
as duvetyne being favored: Even
the latest fur coats are being styled
in small-waist semi-fitted lines, that
are being offset with full blouse
tops. These are developed in such
supple fabriclike furs as kidskins,
seal-type pelts, fine caracul and Per-
sian lamb.
With the cloth coats so slenderiz-
ing and ladylike in appearance,
huge muffs will be carried later on.
Then, too, an interesting style angle
is the cloth dressmaker coat with
blouse top that has fur sleeves. The
Street Car Blamed for Discharging
Cartridge and Wounding Pedestrian
How a man could be shot on a
downtown street in broad daylight been impossible if the shot had
with several nersnns walkino within f come from the window of a car.
with several persons walking within
a few feet of him, and yet none
of them seeing anybody shoot at
him—this was the mystery that the
police were called upon to solve
when Christian Knoll received a
bullet wound in the hip while walk-
ing through the business section of
a leading metropolis, reports Wil-
liam C. Dudgeon in the Detroit
News.
The first important fact that the
officers discovered was that, while
several had heard the report, none
had seen any flash, indicating that
the bullet must have come quite a
distance. As Knoll had been shot
in the side next to the pavement
it seemed certain that the shot had
been fired from across the street.
This latter probability was not
borne out, however, by the testi-
mony of persons who had been
walking on the other side of the
ptreet. In fact, they were all very
positive in their assertions that the
sound of the shot had come from
the side of the street where the
injured man had been at the time
he was shot.
In their endeavor to reconcile
these seemingly conflicting state-
ments, the police were just about
convinced that the shot had been
fired from a passing automobile
when word came from the hospital
that the bullet, when it struck
Knoll’s hip, had been traveling an
upward course, which would have
How, then, had the man been
shot? One of the officers discov-
ered the answer when, in walking
across the avenue, he found an
empty catridge lying on the street
car track. It had apparently been
discharged when a street car
passed over it.
The Northern Lights
The Northern Lights or Aurora
Borealis is an atmospheric phenom-
enon seen in the northern hemi-
sphere. It appears in the form of
arcs, rays, bands, patches, etc., in
various colors, across the northern
sky. Its cause is not known for
certain but is believed to be some
kind of electrical charge or magnet-
ic disturbance. One theory is that
electrons from the sun encounter
such gases as* krypton and nitrogen
in the upper rarified atmosphere.
There is some connection between
brilliant auroras and magnetic
storms, also with the number of
sun-spots. The theory of Arrhenius
is that the sun emits a flood of
corpuscles of a nature similar to
X-rays, cathode rays, electrons,
etc., and that these corpuscles on
approaching the earth are acted
on in the direction of the lines of
its magnetic force, around which
they describe helices.
Revive Hoopskirts
For Formal Wear
The new fashion program stages
just one excitement after another.
Just to mention a few, there’s the
revival of hoopskirts. Yes’m, real-
ly and truly hoopskirts! To be sure
they are for formal wear only and
just to calm you down a bit we
don’t mind adding that some of the
hoop contrivances are made detach-
able, for they are to be worn
only with the new wide-skirted gala
night frocks.
There is the new high-on-top-head-
hair-do! Gaining right along though
many are loath to give up the youth-
ful, practical bob, be it long or short.
With the amazing new "doll hats”
high hairdress is correct answer.
Sleeves! Just watch them! Leg o’
mutton types, dolman styles, sleeves
that are strikingly in contrast to the
dress via embroidery and other or-
namentation, full bishop sleeves,
bracelet length sleeves, wrist-length
fitted sleeves, short sleeves, fur
sleeves in your cloth coat and so
on and so on.
dressy long coat that has a yoke of
sleek fur is also ultra chic.
Another smart fashion and one
that shows off this season’s rich and
beautiful wool weaves to perfection
is the long cape costume. A lux-
urious full length tuxedo collar of
wolf embellishes the sweeping lines
of the unlined cape of the distin-
guished wool costume centered in
the trio of wool fashions here shown.
The cape and the straight slender
skirt are of soft wool in a novel
weave in deep taupe color and the
softly tailored blouse is of sheer
wool in an open homespun fabric.
The cape theme plays up dramat-
ically in a newcomer on the scene
—a full-length picturesque cape
made of richly colorful plaid wool.
The suit, which completes a stun-
ning threesome, is tailored of mono-
tone wool trimmed with plaid
matched to the cape.
Capes are very important in the
evening mode, some of them are
quite voluminous as they are de-
signed to weaf over full hoop-skirt-
ed formal gowns. To vary the pro-
gram some of the evening capes are
three-quarter length done in black
velvet.
The big news in regard to jackets
is that they are longer and fre-
quently double-breasted as you see
to the right in the picture. These
longish coats bespeak the last word
in swank. The model shown is a
new plum color wool with the
voguish longer jacket that tops a
panel pleated skirt. Which reminds
that unexpectedly pleats are con-
tinuing in the fall and winter mode
not only in groups and panels but
the all-around pleated skirt is con-
sidered high style.
© Western Newspaper Union.
Use More Ribbons
In Late Fashions
When in doubt fasten it with rib-
bon bows, which is exactly what de-
signers are in a mood to do. It
is not only that fluttery bows in pro-
fusion adorn the new fashions, but
ribbon is employed in every con-
ceivable way, perhaps running
around row and row on parly
frocks, or making a big corsage of
wide ribbon in lieu of lace jabot
or flower boutonniere.
Multi-color bands of ribbon trim
youthful felt hats. Bed-jackets are
made all of ribbon. Blouses have
bands of ribbon coming from sleeve
and underside seam that tie in bows
up and down the front opening.
Youthful princess dresses have lit-
tle ribbon bows traveling from neck
to hem—and the half of the ribbon
story has not yet been told.
Silk Cord Motifs
Dress Black Suit
For a smart black suit Marjorie
Dunton suggests elaborate silk cord
motifs wound over the front of the
jacket, sometimes stitched over
patches of short black persian lamb.
A much simpler way of dressing
up the suit is to put it over a barred
blouse of metalic cloth or over a
sophisticated blouse of black and
white striped satin.
Touch of White
A generous bow of white water-
marked taffeta ribbon perches on
the left lapel of a new black wool
crepe tailleur.
Feature Brown in
New Combinations
Brightening the brown horizon for
fall are the deep rusts and hennas—
one, to be specific, being Jean Pa-
tou’s new "Cornelian" shade. "Ta-
bac," launched earlier in the year,
continues popular along with sta-
ble golden seal tones.
Combinations of brown and other
colors are a keynote of many a col-
lection.
Sequin Scarf
A few gold sequins make a border
on a white organdie scarf, the
whole tied into a big bow to wear
scarf fashion around the neck of a
navy wool suit.
New Competition
Brown, for once, threatens to
compete with black in fall ward-
robes
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Harris, Mrs. B. Gerson. The Corrigan Press (Corrigan, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 13, 1938, newspaper, October 13, 1938; Corrigan, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth643837/m1/5/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Livingston Municipal Library.