At which Butts rubbed his nose.
"Magic he groaned. "There's nothing else for it."
When they had got Butts safely locked up in the cells, the three offi cers repaired to the senior officer's room, where immediately he plucked from his pocket a letter bearing the Liverpool postmark.
This he passed to hig brother officers, who read:
The Chief of Police Scotland Yard.
1t does not pay to scorn a woman. They bite worse than snakes. I have been scorned and am biting. Make it your business to k the Clerk to the Auburn Hill CouteM what he did with certain public fuhüs that are in his possession.
Possibly it had been an emergency fund in days gone by.
The Mayor for the year kept the key of the box, but it was doubtful if any Mayor of Auburn Hill for the The letter was unsigned. The chief officer frowned as he tucked it away.
"I wonder who she is?" he mused.
"But mostly I'm wondering how she found out. He's so dead certain that past 30 years had had any very clearfnobody could know. Then how did idea of what the key was for. she know?"
Taking pictures at night round the campfire is a lot of fun and the results very pleasing and out of the ordinary.
Since the introduction of the photo flash lamp there has been a tremendous interest in campfire pictures for this lamp is so simple to operate. The photo flash lamp is sim-liar in appearance to a common electric bulb and can be screwed into a special holder resembling an ordinary hand flashlight tube. These boldo: are very inexpensive and can be purchased at almost any store selling photographic supplies. The flash is set off by pressing a button, as on an ordinary flashlight, and it gives an intense light without any noise or smoke.
This is how you take a campfire picture. The people should be grouped as close to the fire as comfort will permit. The arrangement of the group can be viewed in the finder of the camera by having someone hold a pocket flashlight or firebrands at each side of the scene. This will indicate just what and who is included in the picture.
And let me warn you—be sure you have everybody in full view in your finder or else in the finished print you may find the decapitated body of a dear friend appearing in the shadows of the night as the reincarnation of that famous character in Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"—the Headless Horseman—who scared the daylights out of Ichabod Crane.
It is well not to have the fire too bright, nor yet allow it to die down to embers when the picture is made.
With the camera resting on a tripod or firm support, set it at stop 7.8 (U. S. 4) or largest opening on slower lens cameras; open the shutter, Hash the blub and then be sure to close the shutter immediately. When using the photo flash bulb, hold it to one side of the camera, and slightly back of it. This position prevents possibility of lens flare from the flash. Here's one simple precaution:—see that the camera is placed where possible smoke from the fire may not be blown towards the lens or.between it and the subjects.
Remember, too, it is not necessary to own an expensive camera to take campfire pictures at night. You can take such pictures—and good ones—with a box camera by using the largest stop.
So if you are planning on an outdoor party at night, be sure to be prepared to take some fascinating outdoor photo flash pictures.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.