the

affair in
villages. No request for a subscription,
no good cause went unheeded by the
burly “philanthropist.” He graciously
gave ten pounds towards the fund to
place a clock in the Clavering church

social surrounding

tower in commemoration of the
coronation of King Edward the
Seventh. The tower still stands, and
the handsome clock still tolls the
hours.

Advertised for Housekeeper

They say “money isn’t everything”
and to Dougal this was gradually be-
coming monotonously apparent. Fe-
male society was lacking. To be sure
there was Mrs. Dougal, but then she
didn’t exactly stir the vital squire as
would, say, someone younger. So from
time to time, unknown to his wife,
Dougal advertised for a housekeeper,
someone, as he put it in one letter to
a prospect, “of cheerful disposition
and young.” There may have been
other ideas in his mind too, for in one
letter there’s the ominous remark that
the “present housekeeper will be
leaving soon.” Possibly he had ideas
about the disposal of Mrs. Dougal?
After correspondence with a few ap-

TWENTY-THIRD EDITION

Out of the cab in Holborn he made a bee line

for the bank.

plicants, luckily nothing transpired.
‘That is, luckily for them.

In December, 1901, just over two
and a half years since the luckless
Miss Holland had been crammed in a
hole in the Moat Farm ditch, another
16-year-old village girl named Kate
Cranwell came to work for the
Dougals. By this time Mrs. Dougal
seems to have accepted the long ab-
sence of Miss Holland as either a
quirk of the wealthy, or else Dougal

*

Sidney Caplin of
Nashville was hit
by a car and
rushed up to berate
the driver. The car
had no driver.
Furthermore, as it
turned out, the car
was Sid’s, broken
loose from where
he had parked it a
moment before. —
The Beat.

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