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TRAGEDY IN THE ROI GARDEN

He let her g0. She turned away from him and walked rather wearily across to a chair beside the ﬁreplace, and. sat down. The fltful guests of wind brought in almost imperceptible exchanges in voices which meant nothing to the most sensitive ear. All the doors between were open, out the hearing while they kept therr distance was too great for clear tempers. However, after ten sec- onds of this quiet he was aware that they were both listening with stretched nerves. catching at every hint of sound; and‘ that the voices were rising.

Snatches of words came in upon

the rose-laden air. “—-you. you to come hers and teach me my ———" Fury there of a half-

dut

hys erlcal kind, and over-riding it the strong wild anger of Charles: "You need to be taught—r.ilow you to ruin her life and not put a hand in—worth ten of alman like you!" Thea started up again wrth a little gesture of deqlalr.

"You see? They're both so stupid! Oh, why did Charles have to come here at all? It's so like him—and so useless."

Thea came forward impulsively and put her hand upon Jim's arm.

“I-Ie came in by the gate from the meadows. of course. Ha expects just to say chat there never was a wrong word spoken between us. and be believed. One might as well talk to a stone wall." I-Ier face was shaken by a tremor pain. "Please, Mr. Foley, let's go and see what ls happening. frightens me. I don't care wheth- er it's wise or not—-I must go.”

"Very well,” said Jim. “We'll go together."

l-le tucked her hand into his arm, and they went through the dim, breenerutfied hall. and out ilnto the garden. There were no longer any voices. In the doorway they paused, it was so quiet. Ami as they looked at each other with hurried, uneasy, sidelong glances. the scream came, sudden and wild and frightening—a long cry which tﬂllered away slowly into the sil- ence. Thea gave g cry which echo- ed the death of it. and began to

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breathe short and hardly, with a rattle in hcr throat. Jim “turned and took her by the ‘ arms. Go back into the house, and lit down, and wait for me. Please i do as I say. I'll come back to you , in a few minutes. But don't come any further with me." i She only shook her head. and twent‘ st him with a face white H5 "111 . and ran between the beds of roses radiant in the sun in the

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worst criminals in Canada today are between the ages of l6 and l9. ' according to Lt. Col. Wallace Bun- ton, head of The salvation Arm? Prison and Police Court services Department. ‘The next worst ago is from l9 to ﬁ-

group

“Veterans o! service With the armed forces have not bee-n re- sponsible for even the share of

crime that could be attributed to

i them on a percentage of population basis," he said.

', It is possible to trace back to the home BO per cent of the major crime in Canada, Col. Bunton de- clared. This does not always mean poor homes because some crimin- als coma from pros erous homes. Too much severity y parents in

isome cases. not enough in others. deception of children by parents. the bad example of low-principled

arenls and broken homes are the

‘background factors that develop young criminals, according to Col. Bunton.

‘The borne is first, the school second and the church third in

‘the proper upbringing oi.‘ the young," said Col. Bunion. "Home

- conditions are reflected i-n school conduct and where school conduct is bad there should be investiga- tion of home conditions. Then, tco.

' there ls not enough church work among young children.

The Salvation Army prison de-

partment has 92 officers across i Canada engaged in full or part- _ time reclamation work among

prisoners. Last year personal work ‘ was dons with 29.787 of them and more than 2.000 individuals were handed over to The Salvation Army by courts and prison olflc- lais, According to Col. Buiriton. 81 ' per cent of these are now going straight and efforts continue to I reclaim the others. , .__.__i__._

She turned on her heel without a word, and ran as if her feet were winged. Jim stood up and looked round the sunny corner of the garden. but no Charles was tnerc; and even when he went down to the gate, whbch gave upon the

l meadows. and opened it and pass-

ied through, he could see no sign

' of the man who had certainly been

,there only a few minutes before

iCharlcs had beaten a very hasty retreat.

Why? Because he had oaiteicd Austin Hart to death and had suf-

i ficient sense left to get awav from

, the scene of the struggle with all

‘speed? Jim could not think so.

tsomething bad had been said

, about Thea. and Charles had cer-

i tainly threatened the slander and perhaps if the offence had been

‘repeated-which was rather more

than likely-his temper had snap-

ped. and he had hit out, Bu! to continue the assault to this point

-No. if Charles i-n a blind rage

had dccic that. he would have been

here now. standing over the bc-dy

i direction from which the cry had far too arrogantly sure of Ills im<

come. and from which it did mo‘ munity to run away from what he - come now. A bleached hedge and s’ had done. Much more probable l ll-ne of little trees intervened] that Charles had run like a hare I and they could see nothing But‘; from the probability of murdering

I as she rounded the hedge, Thca‘

ing hand for her companion.

“It was down there, wasn't it?_ in the sunken garden. But he isn't there. You see there's qo one there."

The cloudy lavender grey of (he roses covered the stony oval moml I181“. even the paved paths were‘ lost under the glow from gm; View Point. But Jiim passed her and ran down the steps. and plunged dovtni into the scented amphitheatre with: i a face grimly anxious. I-Ie was by ‘no means sure that Austin I-lart W8! not there.

Thea was at his shoulder wheni i he found him. There was s, hon-id ‘lmoment when the certainty of | something wrong forced itself upon : his mind with a beasts leap. The‘ smooth cloud of the roses‘ was rent and bent and broken. petalsl fallen upon the ground, stemsl BISBIRB heavy with shaken flow-i era across the path. Then he was‘ upon the sprawing body, standing over it. starting back from it to sweep Thea away ln his arms. |

"Go back! At once, do you hcari" Y1?" ml!!! E0 118(k- Dlease. I'll take] care of everything." |

But she ha‘d seen already, hndi how could she go back now? She leaned against the urging or his ‘Ym- "N°—Pleaae. I shall have to‘ kmw. you see. I saw him-he's there. he's dead, Isn't he? 00ml send me away; I can't go back anal wait, I-low can I?"

She did not go back. They ap- proached together all that was left of Austin Hart.

He lay among the frenzied ruin of his roses, sprawled on his face with his knees somewhat drawn up. and his hands clawing at the soil on one side and the rocks on the other. His grizzled hair was; darkened and glistening all do\vn one side, and there was blood upon] the stones. blood in drops and in| patches blood upon the fallen ros- es and soaking here and there in- to the sol .

Thea did not cry out again.- When Jim took the body by the i shoulder and carefully turned it over, when the clenched hand withdrew itself unwillingly from > the soil. making five shallow fur- ‘ rows in the brown earth, she shiv- ered but did not utter a sound. His face was convulsed, marked

here and there with bruises and earth stains. blood running down his chin in a dark red smear. I-Ie

was breathing, but so feably that it seemed the effort could not last

long. Yet at least it, was possible

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to assure his wife that for thegetwsgn- Why. sir-what's ha?‘ 1h 1| _ I ene ' ‘ main-all met which? said Jim, "Mr. Hart has been killed," said .,,,“pﬂy_ 1-5,, back "d ring up I Jim. "In the rose garden.”

Doctor Wayland. Tell him to hur- ry. Say there's been an accident."

Hart if he stayed. But in that case

t who had murdered him? This as

! no innocent case of a fatal fallmp-

Ion the stones. The roseberls were threshed to pieces in the struggle.

‘and the ground spsttered with blood.

BACK TO THE BODY

He went back to the body. It was little more than a body, the head a concave blood clot on one side, and several ribs to the best

_- h_is judgment, broken zind piercing the rrght lung. Jim did not touch him again.

The police would want to see how he had died; for dcad he was even imagine that he could be saved by any miracle was the mcrest folly, Hrs head was smashed. Already Jim had raised his head and shoulders from the ground, and the suffused face had paled a little towards its normal colour. There was no more to be done. and even so mucn ef-I fort was wasted. Imperccptibly

the shallow, hard breathing hadl slowed and stopped. Slowly Jim withdrew himself

from the sunken garden, and went

up towards the house. Dr. Way- land, if Thea had managed to catch hi-m at home. would not

have far to come. and accordkigly might be here any moment.

Jim turned the corner of the clipped hedge, and stopped short in mid-stride. The gardener. Wood- ford, with leisurely deliberate movements, was setting i.i at the far end of a short step-la der, and mounting lit. shears in hand. His face was contentcdiy blank, as if no cares lay heavy on his mind, while the smooth sun caressed his flowers to kindly.

Jim approached him deliberate- ly, and was met with a pleased smile. Certainly Woodford was in a good mood to-day.

"Why, Mr. Foley. Who'd have thought of seeing you here. I nev- er expected as you meant ao pay your compliments in person, so to speak—--" '

"Have you been here long?" ask- ed Jlm abruptly.

"On this hedge, you mean. sir? Why, no; I've just this minute comc round from the far side of; the house. Why would you be’ asking?"

"You didn't hear anythlngl-or see anyone ln the garden?"

"Why no, slr- not a sound. It would have to be a middling big sound to carry to me there on ac-l

count of the bulk of the house in

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