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surprise. Thomassen whirl
saw the intruders.
from his pocket, but the
Eagle fired first.
His gun
I heard
overheard by
a murderer in
to Ainsley's
Arthur Somers Roche
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, BEGIN HERE TODAY
.John Ainsley, a man of education
and breeding, becomes a master
, crook—preying upon other thiev*
, es. In arranging with a “fence”
to depose of a box of jewels which
< he stole from the White Eagle, a
crook. Ainsley is
• Swede Thomassen,
hiding.
Thomassen comes
.apartment and demands half of
the jewels. He makes himself
completely at home in Ainsley’s
apartment and waits for the mon
ey. Ainsley telephones the White
• Eagle, telling him that the man
who robbed him and a partner
Will be dividing the jewels at 9
o’clock in his—Ainsley’s —apart
ment. Then -he tries to hold
. Thomassen in his apartment until
the White Eagle arrives.
he
until I reached the window. And
aB I did so, the White Eagle, follow
ed by that companion of his who had
masqueraded as a hunchback the
last time I saw him, Lotier, entered
the room.
I uttered an exclamation of sim
ulated
ed and
leaped
White
Thomassen’s death-cry, and then I
went through the window, smash
ing the glass, I dropped to the
ledge below. I broke the twine that
secured the clumsy effigy in place
and hurled it to the ground below^
And as I fell, I emitted a shriek,
the despairing cry of a man hurt
ling to death, And then my,effigy
thumped upon the groufid. The
books with which I had weighed it
made it sound like a human body.
I heard an exclamation from the
room,
ledge,
Eagle’s face appeared through the
broken glass.
the shadows. below he saw a dark
■mass; he took it for me. Perhaps
you who read my memoirs under
stand now why I had to wait until
after dark. In daylight my bundle
of books and pillows and overcoat
would not have deceived him for a
moment. But it deceived him now.
He uttered an ejaculation of fero-
'cous delight. He turned back into
the room. And like a cat I rc/,e
upon the ledge, swung to the win
dowsill, and before Lotei’ cbuld cry
a warning, I was upon the White
Eagle, had wrenched the revolver
from his hand and dominated the
situation.
“The alarm will be raised in five
minutes,” I told them. “But unless
you give me two minutes’ start, I’ll
shoot.”
The White Eagle stared at me.
His deep-set eyes were bewildered.
“Nom de Dieu, why this? It is
you who telephoned me to come
here. I know your voice. Why?”
I swept the jewels from the table,
stuffed them into my pockets,
backed to the door,
story, my dear Due,”
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Clinging desperately to the
1 looked up. The White
He looked down; in
“It is a
I answer-
you shall
Due.
read
then
It wV
the en-
said or
and
and
’long
ed.
“Nevertheless, one day
tell it to me,” he threatened.
From the doorway I laughed at
him. “Perhaps, Monsieur le
Meantime—two minutes. And
tomorrow’s papers; perhaps
you will understand.”
Then I went through my living
room, through the front door, and
took the stairs three at a time. Out
side, I hailed a taxi. As we drove
into the park, I saw the White Eagle
and Lotier emerge from the building
But there was no other taxi,
could
catch
X was
been
White
I had merely intended, to see that
justice was done to Thomassen. The
.promise exacted from me prevented
me from exacting that justice with
my own hand. And I have explain
ed the obvious reasons why 1 could
not call in the police.
How had I known, that. I would
not be the victim also of the White
I had not known. I
chance
Why?
surren-
honor?
They
escape, but they could’ not
me—for both of which facts
extremely glad, for it. had not
my plan to jeopardize the
Eagle. *■
NOW GO ON WITH THE STOjRY
And Thomassen was shrewd
^enough to realize that any attack
-upon me would be 'better deferred
’until just as he was leaving. My
Servant, despite 'my instructions to
her, might come to the apartment. El$g£ric-light inspectors, the jani-
to/j—some one like this might call,
and if I were not present to re
ceive him, embarrassment might
•arise for the hiding murdered.
I had persuaded him that
W-would make no attack upon me un-
jj^i‘1 shortly before that hour. And
ythe White Eagle was due at nine.
We dined, the loathsome Thom
assen and myself off viands that
I prepared. And at a quarter to
nine we had finished and were
■smoking after-dinuer eiga^ets in my
•’bedroom. I had advise,d sitting in
here, because it was the most se
cluded room in the apartment. And
Thomaspen, as the hour for his de
parture approached, began to yield
to the strain of the situation. A mur
derer contemplating another murder
—I was certain that he intended to
Rill me and take all the Anderson
jewels—it did not seem absurd to
him that one room should be less
conspicuous than another,
the farthest room from
trance door, and anything
■done was less likely to be heard in
my bedroom. Indeed, he thought I
was playing into his hands.
- v At just before nine o’clock I parted an argument. I said that
he had taken the more valuable of
•the jewels and that we ought to di
vide them again. From his pockets
he produced his share. He was
glad for the dispute. He wanted to
work himself up, cold-blooded
though he was, to a point where my'
.murder would seem more justifiable
i, ^JJveii men like Thomassen have their
queer code.
I laid my share with his upon a
table. As I did so, I heard the
"faintest of sounds, the mere click
ing a lock as a. key was turned in it.
'And so I raised my voice, drowning j sen to escape the just penalty fott
the sound.
“Damm, it, Thomassen,”
f”you can’t get away with that.”
Eagle’s rage?
had taken deliberately the
that I, too, would be killed.
Have I not said that when I
dered honesty I clung to
Could I permit a beast like Thomas-
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| his dreadful crime? Could I aid in
I cried, such escape?
____ „ . ‘ I Had I expected to regain the An-
His blue eyes, slightly bloodshot, derson jewels once the White Eagle
turned upon me with a glare of set bis eyes upon 'them?
sneering wrath. " | in answer to that I can only say
“I can’t, er?” he demander. He that I had prepared myself to die
•hand went to his hip pocket. He jn their defence. For the money
•was in his shirt sleeves. In pre- that they represented meant rehab-
tended fear I backed awa.y from him. ntation, the abandonment of this
--------------------------Jife> An(1 j was stiii yQung enough
to think that miracles do sometimes
happen.
Of coulee, Thomassen’s body
would be found in my apartment.
The police would -seek for me. Sus
picion would inevitably be aroused.
Leedon might talk. Even in that
excited moment of my escape, I
realized that matters would not be
as easy as they would have been had
not Thomassen come to blackmail
me. Nevertheless I thought that
they would be easy enough.
I was a fool. But then, I was a
thief. And a thief is a fool. But I
did not look at future difficulties
then. I was wondering if the
White Eagle,- reading Thomassen’s
identity in the morrow’s papers,
would appreciate the fact that I had
deliberately made him. an instru
ment of justice. I thought that'he
would; the French are notable for'
their romantic imagination. >
White Eagle, if he knew all
facts, would appreciate them,
admire me.
Indeed, I admired myself. I
extricated myself from a nasty
nation with credit. Certainly!. I
consider that my execution of Thom
sen—it was "an execution'—is the
most highly commendable act of my
life. I had kept my word to a mur
derer, but I had also kept faith with
myself. 'My respected forbears
might condemn my mode of life, but
they would forgive me this chap
ter. For I had
rather than let
I ask no praise
but this time,
Thomassen, you
censure,
forgive.
I (To be continued.)
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The
the
and
had
sit
risked my own life
Thomassen go free,
for the things I do;
in the matter
must withhold
You who understand
I
of
in Thessalonica
many
remained in the
in humiliation, to .suf-
and His second coming
establish His Kingdom
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body
there
to
in
; 18-20
23.
Romans gives us
and purpose, as
its
to do
down
who
was
men
Cae-
JJy CHARLES G, TRUMBULL, Litt, D,
(Editor of the Sunday School Times)
Paul undoubtedly was preach
'another King, one Jesus,”
but there
THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE
nil i i if iiiin i i ' r—.“ i '
Jhe Ju nd ay Jchool Wesson
PAUL IN TESSALONICA
Sunday, September 2nd
Golden Text
The entrance of Thy words giveth
light; it giveth understanding unto
the simple. (Psqlm 119:130.
Acts 17:1-5; Romans
Thessalonians 5
going
It was the synagogue
his day, and there he went regular
ly on the 'Sabbath day, meeting and
fellowshipping with the Jews, God’s
chosen people, of whom Paul was
such a. prominent and widely recog
nized member. We cannot safely
cut ourselves off from God’s people,
nor can we safely lose the habit of
church going or of observing the
Lord’s Day. (Heb, 10:25.)
But Paul had a. startling message
f6r the Jews. For three Sabbath
days he “reasoned with them out of
the Scriptures,” their own Bible,
which is our Old Testament, and he
showed them three facts that must
have amazed his hearers. One was
the fact that the Old Testament
plainly reveals that the Messiah, or
the Christ, when. He came in fulfil
ment
must
from
Jews
were
lures, had failed to recognize this,
and had thought that their Messiah,
when He should, come, would come
in glory and would at once establish
His Kingdom. Even many Christ
ians of today fail to distinguish be
tween the two phases of Christ’s
coming, so plainly set forth in the
Old Testament and in the New: His
first coming
fer and die;
in glory, to
on earth.
Paul showed from the Scriptures
“that Christ must needs have suf
fered and risen again from the
dead.” The word “must” is of tre
mendous importance. It declares
that the Lamb was “slain from the
foundation of the world,” (Rev. 13:
8); and that He was “delivered by
the determination, counsel and fore
knowledge of ^God” (Acts 2:23).
But the “must” includes equally
Christ’s bodily resurrecton from the
dead. If the Savior had only been
crucified' to death, and had never
taken. His physical, human
again, restoring it to life,
could have been no salvation for any
sinner (I Cor. 15.)
Yet most startling-of all to those
Jews was Paul’s declaration that
“this Jesus Whom I preach unto you
is Christ.”' They might have fol
lowed his arguments from the Scrip
lures concerning the death and re
surrection of the Messiah, when that
Messiah might come; but for Paul
to say that the despised prophet
prophet from Nazareth, out of which
could come no good thing, the Gal
ilean named Jesus—and this was
quite an ordinary word among the
Jews—was the glorious and long-
awaited Messiah, was too much for
most of them to believe. We read
that “some of them believed”; but
that of the devout Greeks or Gen
tiles a great multitude believed and
also many of the chief women. Is
it not true that God’s greatest^bless-
ings are usually offered to us
through His revelation of truths and
facts that cut directly across our
prejudices and our human concep
tions (I Cor. 2:14)?
The Jews who were unwilling to
receive God’s 'truth instigated an. at
tack on Paul. Unable to reach him,
they attacked other Christians, in
cluding a man named Jason. They
made' false accusations before the
city rulers, alleging' that these
Christian leaders were teaching men
Of
your
may
THURSDAY, AUGUST 1928
Paul had the habit
Church.
of Old Testament prophecy,,
suffer and die and rise again
the dead. Apparently many
of that day, although they
earnest students of their scrip-
to “do contrary to the decrees of
Caesar.” How false, this was is seen
from Paul’s teaching in Romans 13, which enjoins a^ a Christian duty
oui* obedience to Governmental pow
er,
ing
was to come again
nothing in this that turned
away from the rightful laws of
sar.
Another charge brought against the
Christians was unquestionably true,
Critics of Christianity often utter
unconscious truths, Caiaphas did
so when he gave as a reason for
crucifying Christ that “it is exped
ient for us that one man should die
for the people, and that the whole
nation perish not” (John 11:50-52).
These persecutors
said the Christians “have turned the
world have, turned the world upside
down.” That is exactly what Chris
tianity is for. “The wbrld lieth in
the wicked one,” and it is high time
it was turned upside down. It is
wrongside up now. Every human
being who is saved by faith in
Christ is turned blessedly upside
down and sees true values for the
first time, for all life is wrongside
up until Christ is given control.
Patil and Silas were sent away by
night from Thessalonica by their
Christian brethren, and they escap
ed harm. They went at once to
Berea, where Paul went to the syn
agogue of the Jews and gave the
same teachings. There follows' an
immortal word about the Berean
Christians which may well be graven
in the hearts of al'J true believers:
“These were more noble than those
in Thessalonica” (Acts 17:11). If
we would make that the rule of our
life, opening"*our hearts and . minds
to the Lord as we read His Book,
and asking Him to show us
meaning and then enable us
His will, Heaven would come
to earth in our lives.
. The result was inevitable;
of tjfe Jews who di’d this became be
lievers in Jesus as their Savior and
Lord “Honorable women from the
Gentiles,” also believed, and a great
■mq.ny men of the Gentiles. How
the hearts of the missionaries must
have been lifted up with thanks
giving to God for the ingathering of
lost soul into eternal life.
Satan always counter-attacks
when God is working powerfully,
and the Jews of Thessalonica, learn
ing what was happening at Berea,
'actually made the journey thither to
Stir up the people against Paul and
Silas.ii*iPaul was sent away by the
brethren to safeguard his life, while
Silas and Timothy
city.
The last verse in
Paul’s heart desire .. .. _
he madejt his rule so far. as possible
to preach the gospel where Christ
was unknown. This is true pioneer
missionary 'work, and surely we
should pay tat God will trust out
into the mission fields a great num
ber of such ambassadors of the Cross
eager to give the name of Jesus to
those who have never yet heard it.
In the last chapter of Thessalon
ians Paul gives us a series of inspir
ed exhortations that are searching
indeed. It will be profitable for any
class and any individual Christian
to read slowly and prayerfully
through those verses and ask God
to show .whether they are being car
ried out n. their own lives. The ben
edictions sounds too good to be true;
but it is the word of God, and God
can bring it to pass in any life that
depends, on Him. “And the very
God of peace sanctify you wholly;
and I pray God your whole spirit and
soul and body be,preserved blame
less unto the coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ. Faithful is Ho that
calleth you, Who also will do it.”
Barnett
A LUCKY ESCAPE
One of St. Marys prominent mer
chants, Mr. H. A. L. Anderson, of
Anderson & Stewart, was the most
surprised man in ten counties on
Sunday afternoon. Mr. Anderson
took a drive over to Stratford in
company with Mrs. Anderson, his
mother, 'Mrs. John Anderson and
sister, Miss Mary Anderson, of And
erson. He remembers driving into
Stratford and the next ^tiling he
knew he found 'himself sitting at the
steering wheel in the bottom of a
ten foot ditch. A miraculous fea
ture of the incident was that after
taking a perpendicular drop the car
landed right side up with little da
mage and none of the passengers
injured. The explanation was that
Mr. Anderson went sound asleep at
the wheel and must, have driven the
car forty rods in that condition be-
,'fore the auto Struck the filmsy rail
ing over the small creek opposite
the Whyte Packing Plant and dropp
ed to the bottom. The driver of a
car behind stated that Mr. Anderson
had slackened to about fifteen miles
an hour by the time the “buss”
struck 'the railing. When it dropp
ed into the creek it. missed a big
tree by two Jteet. To go over the
steep drop with so little damage,
seems Miraculous. M'r. Anderson
considers himself lucky and has no
wish to repeat the experience.-—The
St. Marys Journal-Argus.
TO BUSY TO LTV®
hadn't
hadn’t
hadn’t
hadn’t
time
time
time
time to give a smile;
to
to
to
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to dream or muso;
to train his mind,
to
to
to
to
to
time
time
time
time
time
time
time
time to act his best;
hadn’t
hadn’t
hadn't
hadn’t
hadn’t
hadn’t,
hadn’t
hadn’t
hadn’t time
hadn’t time
hadn’t time to pen a note,
hadn’t time to cast a vote;
hadn’
hadn’t
hadn’t
hadn’t
hadn’t
hadn’t
hadn’t
hadn’t
hadn’t
hadn’t
hadn't
hadn’t
hadn’t time to lend or give,.
time to really life;
time to read, this verse,
time—he’s in a hearse.
be just kind;
write his folks;
eat a meal,
deeply feel;
take a rest.
to
to
help a cause,
make a pause;
't time to sing a song,
time to right a wrdng;
time to send a gift,
time
time
time
time
time
time
time
time
time to serve his God,
hadn’t
hadn’t
hadn’t
to
to
to
to
to
to
to
to
practice thrift,
exercise.
scan the skies;
heed a cry,
say good-bye;
study poiso,
repress noise;
go abroad,
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