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John Ainsley,
Master Thief
by
Arthur Somers Roche
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or anything like that. I don’t ask
you to promise not to give me away
to anyone. You’d have to give your
self away. I just want the promise
I've asked.”
“And if I don’t give it?” I asked,
“I’m a killer,” he replied. “I can
only go to the chair once. You give
me your word within ten seconds
or I’ll kill you."
He meant it; there was not the
slightest doubt in my mind as to it.
It was the most humiliating moment
of my life. Moreover, in addition to
my humiliation I suffered the pangs
of hope deferred. For I had no trade
and no profession. On less than
three hundred thousand dollars I
could not hope to re-establish my
self in my home town, under my
proper name. And I milst divide
with this scoundrel!
What could I do? I gave him my
word.
I will say for him that, loathsome
though lie was, he knew blood. He
knew that I would rather have died
than break my word to him, even
though that word had been obtained
under duress.
He sighed with huge relief as
soon
“I
said,
does
have
’Tn the morning a,Y seven,” I r§j
plied.
“Has he a n-lephone?” Thomassen
inquired.
“She has,” I corrected him.
“Call her up and tell her — tell
her anything, hut .see that she don’t
come here to-morrow.”
Meekly I took his orders. Again I
ask, what could I' do? Thomassen
had the insolence t > grin at me
when I hung up.
“Sweet and simple, isn’t it?
this is a
ting out
dead for
I v.ill
nerve,
Sunday School Wesson
By CHARLES G, TRUMBULL, Litt, I),
(Editor of the Sunday School Times)
PAUL GARRIES THE GOSPEL
’ INTO EUROPE
Golden Text
Come over into Macedonia,
help us.—Acts 16:9.
and
15 YEARS AGO
The heaviest electrical storms of
the season passed over this district
on Friday night. Two fine haras
of Adolphus Hooper, of Hay Town
ship, were struck by lightning ar.d
completely destroyed. A barn own
ed by Edward Denomic, fiauble Line
and Robert Stanley, of the N. Bound
ary of Biddulph were also burned.
James St. Sunday School pi
Grand Bend was a big success,
ly 400 sat down to tables s
with provisions.
ghter to have auythug to do with af
man who could write such nonsensi
cal stuff to a girl. The girl them
gave the letter to her mother t<»
read and the
tame so quiet
the mosquitoes
verandah.
n
house suddenly bet*
that she could hear
hissing on the back.
The Accused—“I was not going;
forty miles an hour— not twenty-—
not even ten—in
ficer came up I
standstill,”
The. Judge—“I
you will be bucking into something.
Forty shillings.“ o
fart, when the of-
was almost at ato
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;ocThe first missionaries did not be
lieve in merely evangelizing and
then leaving /the new converts to
themselves. Paul said to Barnabas,
“Let us go again and visit our bre
thren in every city where we have
preached the word of the Lord, and
see how they do.” What the Scrip
tures call “babes in Christ” must be
brought up and built up on the Word
of God.
Now comes a severe controversy
between Paul and Barnabas over the
question of taking with them
again John Merk,
buck from their
ary journey and had failed the older
men (Acts 13:13).
not wise to take him with them now,
but Barnabas was determined to do
so. So the missionaries separated
and went in different directions.
Barnabas taking Mark and Paul tak
ing Silas. The Scofield Reference
Bible comments significantly that
Barnabas is heard of no more in the
Bible story.
Passing through Syria and Cillicia
on the northeast of the Mediterran
ean Sea, Paul comes to Derbe and
Lystra and recruits another young
man, Timothy, who was to become
prominent in the early history of the
church and was the recipient of two
of Paul’s insired Episles.
As Paul and Silas and Timothy
went on
journey,
churches
officially
Jerusalem,
week. Salvation was by grace alone,
and, believing this, “so were the
churches established in the faith, and
increased in number daily.” Per
haps churches would increase more
effectively and steadily today if the
gospel of sheer grace were preached
more faithfully, and not any form of
salvation by works.
Are there times and places where
God Himself may forbid us to preach
His Word? Our first impulse might
be to think that surely the proclaim
ing of the Word of God is fitting,
and sure to be blessed, at all times
and in all places. But (he. Scriptures
do not isay so; they plainly say other
wise. For after this missionary
party had gone through Phrygia and
the region of Galatia, being well to
the west of what we now call Asia
Minor, they naturally expected to go
on preaching the Word of God in
the Province in which they .found
themselves, then called Asia. But
they “were forbidden of the Holy
Ghost to peach the Word in Asia.”
So they passed on to Mysia and made
their plans to go north into Bithy-
nia, on the southern coast of the
Euxine or Black Sea. Another sur
prise, for here “the Spirit suffered
them not.”
Why did the Holy Spirit, who had
commissioned Paul and the mission-
must stop this ovBEGIN HERE TODAY
John Ainsley, a man of education
and breeding, becomes a master
crook, preying upon other thieves.
In a deal with a “fencej” he ar
ranges to dispose of a box of
jewels which he stole from the
■White Eagle, a notorious inter
national crook.
-fThe doorbell of his apartment rings
A man steps swiftly inside. “I
cpme from Leedon,” the intruder
says. Leedon was the. name of the,
‘fence,’ “I was hiding when J
heard you dickering with him to
day. I overheard you talk. And 1
decided that half of $300,000
would just about fix me up. Don’t
try to draw a gun; I’ve got you
covered through my pocket.”
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
I do not think that I. am a coward
At any rate I laughed at him.
“I suppose you expect me to be
lieve you’d shoot?” I jeered.
“I guess you’ll believe it when I
tell you that I’m Swede Thomassen”
he retorted. Leedon gave me a
thousand dollars. But what’s a thou
sand dollars to me? I’ve got to have
iBHOugh money so that I can play the,
Apart of the wealthy gentleman who
has a whole suite on an ocean liner,
whose privacy musn't be disturbed.
I’ve got to have enough to bribe a
lot of people if I want to make my
get-away.”
“Extremely interesting,” said I.
“But why come to me? Why not
get. it from your friend Leedon?”
“Because as soon as Leedon saw
tonight's papers , he found out why
I was hiding, he made an excuse to
get out. I didn’t know he’d seen the
papers or I’d never have let him go.
I found the paper after he’d gone.
And there’s nothing I could prove
against, him. And anyway, whether
I could or not, he’d gone out to give
me up. But you—you’re different.”
“You can’t prove anything against
me,” I told him.
“I said you were different. Lee
don uiuld stand a scandal. He isn't
afraid of them. He claims to be an
honest pawnbroker. But you—what
do y.-u claim to be. Can you stand
.police inquiry into your life?”
He was more intelligent and bet
ter educated than I had gathered
from my newspaper reading. And
M he had me. Not merely literally, hut
a gun trained upon me. but figur
atively, he had me. The subterran
ean activities of such a man as
Leedon were so well known to the
police that fear of exposure by Th
omasson would not^deter the pawn
broker from delivering him up. It
was l.y sometimes aiding the police
that Leedon obtained a certain im
munity. But my case was different.
I could make no terms. And I was
quite sure that if I refused Thomas
sen, he would, whew captured, be
tray me out of that sheer hatred for
the world which made him the beast
he was. ,,
A man, then, whom T would have
considered it a pleasurable duty to
kill, had me at his mercy. And if I
chose to perforin that pleasurable
duty, the action meant the end of
my security. For even though I pre
tended that I had killed Thomassen
while he was burglarizing my apart
ment. the police would invariably
ask ine certain questions which I
would not care to answer.
“A sensible man knows when he’s
licked.” said Thomassen. “You look
sensible.”
“You expect me to hide you here
while I’m waiting for Leedon to
raise the money?”
The murderer shook his head. “I
am taking no chance like that. You
would he on the level. You’d have
to be. But I’m going to get out of
town tonight. Leedon isn’t the only
man who buys stolon goods. I want,
half of the jewels themselves. Get
out. the box.”
“Do you think I keep them here?’
I asked. “They’re in a safe-deposit
box downtown.”
“Go get them," he ordered. I’ll
be waiting right here.”
And now sheer wrath at his in
solence, combined with horror at
his (■’•hue, made me forgetful of his
three! of exposure—-or if not forget
ful, f.reless. But Thomassen was
not ■vreb’ intelligent; he. was also
shrc”vl. The hand that was buried
In 1 K jacket pocket was withdrawn
with movement so speedy that it
put t<’ shame my own gifts of leger
demain.
“No, you won't, " he jeered. ‘Noi-
ih'1’' no”’ r*’” Ja+i»r! You're’ a sen
sible man. Mr. Ainsley, or whatever
you call yourself, as I said a minute
bullet
And I
brain
you’ll
know
Mr. and Mrs. Luther Braun
called to Exeter owng to the
of the latter’s mother, Mrs.
and while here their infant dr
became ill and died at the Jr
Mr. and Mrs. A. Hastings.
d we
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iught
nine
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iry
of the
if
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ago. You won't stop into a
when You haven’t a chance,
know what’s going, on in that
■of yours. You’re figuring that,
take mo off my guard, But I
a gentleman when T see one. You're
a gentleman; I’m a killtp’. You give
mo your word of honor that you
won’t try to bump mo off yourself,
■that you won’t slug1 me or drug mo
.king
who had turned
first mission-
to
as I had spoken.
haven’t slept for two days,” he
’‘I’m going to hod. What time
your servant — I suppose you
one-—-get here?”
whole 1>J' better than
of New York tonight.
sleep.”
say for hk.n that he
And
get-
I’m
could not.
think
beast
exam-
prom-
them
I had
to kill
or drug
I would
had
even though it might have
n born of desperation or exhaus
tion. For, demanding to be shown
a bed, he hurled himself upon it,
and was sound asleep in a moment,
leaving me alone with my thoughts.
They were not pleasant thoughts.
Aside form the shattering of my
dreams of rehabilitation, there was
my vast self-contempt at becoming
a confederate in the murder of Th
omasson's victim. Yet I had given
my word, and the Ainsloys do not
break their word.
And then, because I
sleep, and because I could
only of the presence of the
whom I sheltered, I began to
ine the situation to study the
ise which I had made. I had said
that I would bring the jewels here
in the morning and divide
with my unwelcome guqst,
said that. I would not try
Thomaseu, or to strike him
him or anything like that,
T had not promised that
not betray him to the police. He was
so confident that I would not dare
to do that thing, that he had exact
ed and promise. I reddened as I
thought of this. He believed me to
be so lost to decency that I would
aid a filthy murderer to cheat jus
tice rather than risk my own prec
ious liberty.
Well. T would surprise him. I
would slip outside, telephone the
police and then—what? Thommasen
captured, would describe me in de
tail; he would betray my acquaint
ance with Leedon. That worthy, pro
fessing of course, that he did not
know that I was a thief, would give
an even closer description of me.
I would be a hunted, fugitive, in
stead of a gentleman who plied his
surreptitious trade without suspicion
(To be continued)
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I went to a specialist and he said I
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Paul thought it
in this second missionary
they delivered to the
the decrees that had been
given by the Council at
which we studied last.
aries’ work, and who was plainly
guiding these missionaries, forbid
them to carry the good news of sal
vation irno the Provinces of Asia
and Bithynia? The, Scriptures do
not tell us why, and, therefore, we
cannot know. But there is striking
evidi-m-f That God has definite plans
for the evangelization of certain
countries at certain times. This
work Is not indiscriminate and pro
miscuous; if it i’s done as God di
rects. it is sure to have blessed re
sults; if it is not done under His
guidm.vi. it may be useless, or worse.
He riomises that His Word shall not
return unto Him void, but shall
pros;;* r in the thing whereto He
sends it. (Isaiah 55:11). But
He d'-s not send it we have
right to expect it to prosper.
As -’if missionaries yielded
the JI >ly Spirit’s guidance they pass
ed by Mysia and came down to the
coast st Troas. Here Paul had his
vision by night, as a man of Mace-
dona stood by him with the plead
ing call, “Come over into Macedonia
and help us.” Dreams and visions
may m>t always be from God, but we
may always know whether they are
or nut ir we seek God’s wisdom con
cerning them, and if we are ready
for IBs leading at any cost. Paul
was assured that the Lord was call
ing his party to preach the Gospel
in Europe; they sailed from Troas
straight to Samothracia, and then on
to N'uipolis and Phillippi, having
crossed the Aegean Sea.
As always, when He leads us in
any given direction, God had gone
ahead and prepared the way in ad
vance. At Phillippi there was a
group of devout women who wor
shipped God and met together re
gularly for prayer. Paul’s mission
ary party found its way on a Sab
bath Day to this place of meeting,
just outside the city, by a river side.
A business woman named Lydia,
who was a dealer n fine purple, and
whose heart the Lord opened, listen
ed eagerly to the good news pro
claim! d by Paul. She believed in
the One of whom Paul spoke, Jesus
of Nazareth, the only Saviour of men
She and her household were baptiz
ed, and she asked the group of mis
sionaries. if they judged her to be
faithful to the Lord, to come to her
house and abide there. Gladly they
accepted this Christian fellowship
and hospitality. It was the begin
ning of the evangelization of Europe
and of the Gospel opportunities that
have (oine. down through the cen
turies to us.
It is interesting to note that up
to this point in the Book of Acts the
personal pronoun “they” has been
used. In verse 10, however, the
word “they” is changed to “we”; the
text reads: “After he had seen the
vision, immediately we endeavored
to go into Macedonia, assuredly
gathering that the Lord had called
for us to
them.” It
change in
Luke, the
Acts,
Troas.
On Sunday the congegation
James St. Church were favored in
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Andrews, Mss Chowan, Mr. Andrews
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In tlm evm>
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Rev. Mr.,
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Sunday last,
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Wickett, of London,
James St. church on
His wife and daugh-
visited
Mr. J. Johns. Mr. Wickett
supply during the absence of
pastor Rev. W. G, McAllister,
is away on vacation.
is reported that one of ourIt
popular young ladies played a cruel
joke on her mother recently. She
accidently found a love letter* that
her father had written to her
mother. She read the letter to her
mother substituting her own name
and that of her lover. The mother
raved with anger and stamped h^r
foot n disgust forbidding her dau-
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the wagon how-
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hoy was not injured at
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than ten new
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more to be built
progress,
dwelling
this sum-
occurred to Ml’.
50 YEARS AGO
Mr. and 'Mrs. J. P. Ross were pre
sented with a large handsome family
Bible by Rev. Mr. Mitchell, on be
half of the Methodist church, as a
slight token of services rendered by
the recipients in the choir, the lady
having been organist for some time
past. .a
On Thursday morning last a horse
belonging to -Mr. Wm. Fenwick, of
Exeter, driven by his son, 12 years
of age became frightened and start
ed to run. When the horse came to
Mr. Fenwick’s gate the boy pulled
the linesk and turned him in, think
ing to stop the animal. The horse
stopped for an instant, and then
leaped the gate
ever caught
horse. The
all.
Centralia
no less
houses have, been
mer, with several
before winter.
A sad accident
Win. Freeman on Lol 29, S. Bound
ary, of Hay. about, a mile and a half
west of Dashwood, which proved fa
tal. Mr. Freeman was engaged
along with several other of his neigh
bors logging and somehow the hand
spike struck him which resulted in
his death a few days later.
Weddings in Exeter sometime ago
wire of very rare occurrence, but
three weddings have taken place
this week already and it. is difficult
to say how many more there may
be before the week is ended.
The pulpit of the Presbyterian
church was occupied on Sunday af
ternoon by Rev. Mr. Cameron, of
Kippen, in the absence of Rev. Mr.
Hartley.
Two boys of Credit on named
Motz and Holtzmann had a serious
accident. Friday evening. They were
working in Schnarr <fc Welker’s flax
mill when one of them placed his
hand on a large horizontal shaft
revolving with fearful rapidity. The
other boy playfully placed his baud
on top of the. other when immediate
ly both arms wore drawn around
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is believed that the
pronoun indicates that
author of the Book of
joined Paul's company
the shaft. Motz had his arm broken
above and below the elbow and bad
ly torn. Holtzmann had his arm
broken above the elbow while be
low the elbow, it was bent almost
in a semi-circle. Dr. Rollins was
called and the boys are now pro
gressing favorably.
25 YEARS AGO
A large and enthusiastic meeting
was held in Kirkton on Monday ev
ening for the purpose of forming
and erecting a telephone line from
Exeter to St. Marys, Mr. J. G. Jones
was elected vice-president and Dr
Rollins one of the directors. ■
Mr. A. P. Smith, who has filled
the position of teller in the Sover
eign Bank snee its opening has re
ceived the managership of the Bank
at Marmora.
Miss Elizabeth Wynn met with a
painful accident, on Monday. She
was standing on a box picking some
plums when the box tipped, throw
ing Miss Wynn upon her face. The
force, of the fall burst a blood ves
sel in her head.
Mr. Robert Sweet has disposed of
his boot and shoe and harness busi
ness to Mr. G. House, of Goderich.
Rev.
visiting
several
day.
On Thursday
wind blow the
grist mill.
Among those
issue of August
Rowe & Atkinson,
T. Hawkins
Dr. Hannon, who lias been
his son in the Northwest for
weeks, returned home Tues-
afternoon the high
smokestack off the
advertising in (he
13, 1903 we notice:
furniture and
undertakers; T. Hawkins <.C Son,
hardware; E. J. Spackman, general
store; W. C. Huston, furniture and
updertaking; W. Johns, tailor; W.
W. Taman, tailor; Jas. Murray &
Co., foundry. Samuel Martin, music
store; Jos. Cobbledick, warehouse;
Harvey Bros., grist mill; Dr. Kins
man <& Son, dentists; Dr, Anderson,
dentist; Dickson & Carling, Barris
ters <fc Solicitors; H. Brown, Au-
tioneer; Gladman «fe Statibury, Bar
risters & Solicitors; Ernest Elliott,
Rud Estate <fe Insurance Agent.
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