N and Resumed, " If He Persists— Buckingham Was Getting Together, Had Set Trouble
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THE TEESDALE MERCURY. 011V , liar 1 eib May 10th, 1933. Is as short Stories. spite of everything. Playing with malig- They set off that evening with still another !love nant cleverness on the feelings of her chief addition to their party—a mysterious, RADIO. gaoler, a y5ung officer named John Fenton, masked and cloaked man about whom no- laREE MUSKETEERS. awakening the religious fanaticism that body knew anything but Athos and he BY " EXPERT." flowed' concealed in his veins—tor the Eng- declined to vouchsafe any enlightenment sto of Great Adventure. lish Puritans were furious against Bucking- just then. The stranger uttered not a word. INTERNATIONAL RELAY CONCERTS. ham—and firing his passion with an They found her along the road towards A notable development in international Jae. DUMAS (Pere). invented story of how she was robbed of Armentieres in a little isolated house on broadcasts was .made this week, when Fin- Br her honour by the Duke, Milady not only the banks of the river within a hundred land's contribution to the present series of ed bs Robert Buchanan.) achieved her own escape from prison, but paces of a ferry. They all entered the house. European relay concerts was made from itte101' sent Fenton to accomplish the Cardinal's " What do you want?" screamed Milady, Lahti. In arranging programmes for relay onnaued from last week.) purpose. her face displaying surprise and fright as to Europe as a whole, each country so far CHAPTER III. Fenton's deed is a matter of history. she recognised Athos, D'Artagnan and her has tried to present a complete picture of tins affair of the diamond studs, Forcing his way into the presence of the brother-in-law, Lord Winter. itself, relying on a number of its own vas by no means hopeless of Duke of Buckingham on the pretext that he "We want to judge you according to your artists and its own music, but this was the Ataal %oe over Ms• • enemy, the Duke w came with a message from Lord Winter, crime," said Athos. "You shall be free to first time that such a programme had been 31. ti-,,pat a, The siege of La Rochelle the poor misguided fanatic plunged his. defend yourself. Justify yourself if you devoted to one composer. The reason is • • • • the great military . enterprises knife into the Duke's side. oiOof can. Monsieur D'Artagnan, it is for you riot far to seek ; if we had to choose one One consolation at any rate was reserved • 0,..„;\ °ItOittal, who discovered that the to accuse her first." man by the votes of the whole population • ....ors about to send a succouring for the dying Duke. He collapsed into the D'Artagnan advanced. as the representative English composer of under the Duke's command. very arms of Laporte, the trusted servant " Before God and before men," said he, our time, Sir Edward Eiger would ,1 to thwart this at any cost, how- of Anne of Austria, who had that moment " I accuse this woman of having poisoned 'is't.e undoubtedly be the choice. Finland faced he called to his aid the arrived on the special mission of bringing Constance Bonacieux, of having attempted with the task elected Sibelius, without even ipfallIOUS. milady we have mentioned Her Majesty's warning of the menace to to murder me, of having urged me to having to stop and think. He is the national his life which she, too, had discovered—too murder Baron de Wardes, and of having laureate and most fitly represents the very at go to Buckingham," he late. employed assassins to shoot at me." spirit of Finland. It was unfortunate that her, " and tell him I am " Her Majesty charged, me, too, to tell And M. D'Artagnan passed to' the other this broadcast coincided with the B.B.C.'s with all the preparations he you that she still loves you," said Laporte. side of the room to Porthos and Aramis. own programme of " No " plays of Japan, will save time and but that they give me no un- " Alt," said Buckingham. " God be " It is your turn, milord," said Athos and and so prevented its relay in this country, remove the grease ee, at the first step he takes, I My death, then, will not be to her as the Lord Winter came forward. It will also remove .. ;th but the Continental stations which took the ed by its aid from t he Queen. I have several proofs death of a stranger ! " " Before God and before men," said he, programme included Brussels No. 2, Heils- or bright surface ler hands that would irretrievably Realising the importance of concealing as " I accuse this woman of having been the berg, Langenberg, Oslo, Prague, Schweize- ust be washed and ;se her." long as possible the news of the assassina- means of the assassination of the Duke of rischer Landessender, Strasbourg and War- which a disinfectant objected the lady, " if in spite of tion for fear of discouraging the Rochellais, Buckingham and of the death of my brother, which with their wide range of wave- n house-fly lays its saw, therefore be clean reasons the Duke does not give the King of England, Charles I., closed all her husband, who died, three hours after lengths were quite sufficient to give the ed English ports and gave orders that no vessel warm soapy e ate,. ad continues to menace France ?" making her his heir, of a strange disorder average English listener an opportunity of ■ • ■•••••■ •■••■ persists--" His Eminence made should go out until the army which which left vivid traces behind it all over receiving this programme without much ae .....n and resumed, " if he persists— Buckingham was getting together, had set trouble. the body." I shall hope for some one of sail, taking it upon himself, in default of And Lord Winter ranged himself by the Stepping-up the Voltage. ,,Ctrs which change the destinies of Buckingham, to superintend its departure. side of D'Artagnan, leaving the space free I have mentioned on several occasions the the accessories that But as he did not think of giving this order for another accuser. importance of the audio-frequency trans- until five hours after the event, two vessels fashion experts have jtas---? " It is my turn," said Athos, trembling. former, which steps-up the voltages it can express our own IL then. for example, in 1610 for a had already left Portsmouth. One carried " I married that woman when she was a receives at a radio which depends on the le additions and gay similar to that which moves- Milady ; the other bore Lord Winter, now planning of our new shoat young girl ; I gave her my wealth, I gave number of turns on the second coil com- before. The first • the King Henry IV. of glorious sworn to exact vengeance on the woman her my name ; and one day I discovered pared with the similar number on the first our choice shall lie tv was about to invade Flanders and who had caused first his brother's death that this woman was branded ; this woman coil. Technically, these coils are termed t with a swing line, e attack Austria on both sides—well, and then the Duke of Buckingham's. was marked with a fleur-de-lis on her left the secondary and the primary coil skirt, two- or three- :rt not happen an event which saved About this time, D'Artagnan, having dis- oth are in the vogue. shoulder." respectively ; the word " coil " being under- is ideal. For more covered that Madame Bonacieux, who had " Oh !" said Milady. " I defy you to find stood, it is usual to speak of them as the the longer coat and a Eminence means, I presume, the been missing for some time, was hidden at any tribunal which pronounced such an secondary and the primary. This stepping- r this choose a plain a1) of the Rue de la Feronnerie ? . the Carmelite Convent in Bethune under infamous sentence against me. I defy you up of voltage is accompanied by a corre- right colours, plaids, I will find someone to carry out this the power of the Cardinal, obtained leave to find him who executed it." sponding reduction in the amperage of the ve important sleeves, of absence to go there and rescue her. He eeve line this season. :. But in teturn I ask your assist- " Silence !" cried a hollow voice. " It is current—everything has its price in radio 'sts, important tucks, it dealing with two enemies whom I proposed doing this alone but met with for me to answer that." And the mysterious as well as in other activities. The increased rist, these are some in serving your Eminence." determined opposition from Athos. man in the red cloak tame forward in his strength in volts is at the expense of the left without cuffs or si are they ? " "This is a task for us all," declared Athos, turn. strength in amperes. It is from this fact match the neckline quietly but firmly. " The Cardinal has novel idea. Gloves, is a little intriguing woman " The executioner of Lille ! the execu- that the transformer obtains its name. It ie frills or are made d to the Queen—Madame Bonacieux; arranged to meet at Bethune his woman, tioner of Lille ! cried Milady, a prey to transforms a current which has a certain e worn to match the Le is ner lover, a man your Emin- Milady, who wherever she goes brings wild terror, and clinging with her hands voltage and amperage into one which has a ve are more popular lees well, for he is the evil genius misery with her.