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THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE THVHSHYX MAY SUt, 1080
SALADA
THE<ST0RY SO FAR '
Hugh Drummond and Peter Darrell
jare interested In Mr. Granger, who
ilves at Temple Tower, which he
bas strongly fortified. Miss Vern-
f ey accepts a position as private
•secretary to Mr. Granger and her
triend (Freckles) Tom Scott, is
•.-Staying with Hugh. John, aq old
friend of Hugh, has the plans q!
"Temple Tower but someone stole
; them out of his room. Freckles
i receives a letter from »Miss Vern-
'■-ey.iand before they go home Gran
ger-opens the panel in the gate
’ ” and while talking to them he sees
tt figure all in black watching him
and is greatly alarmed, Later
they go 'back ’ to Temple Tower
' again and a car pulls up with the
hoarder from Spragge’s Farm v^o
hauls out a rope ladder and hide*
’•it in the bushes,
WW. GO ON WITIf THE STORY
**Damh?” muttered Hugh. ”How-
Jet’s go on and have a look at,
Uh® chapel. Careful where you put
feet: it is'going th be awkward
SI someone sprains his jinkle.”
We crept on tilt we -came to the
jcrsimbling stonework. It was grass-
jgj’hwm and afforded treacherous
talking, rendered all the harder by
She darkness. Twice did I dislodge
point of suggesting to Hugh that we
should go, when there came from
the house the sound of bolts being
drawn. Someone was coming out*
« The door opened, and in the dim
light from the hall we saw for a
moment the outlines of Granger and
the servant. Then it clanged to
again, and we heard the bolt shoot
home.
“Nero; where are you, you brute?’
Gaspard’s voice came through the
darkness: evidently he had been
sjliut out of the house to find out
what had happened to the dog. Ho
went plunging into the undergrowth
calling and whistling, whilst we still
stood there undecided what to do,
“Nero, Nero.”
His voice was coming closer, and
Hugh signed to us to move back
under cover. And then quite sud
denly there came a shrill .scream of
terror, followed by a horrible chok
ing noise. The calls for Ndro ceas
ed abruptly: and- after a moment or
too.
our
the
had
caused that sudden scream of mor
tal fear?
Like a shadow Hugh glided- away
in the direction o£ the sound, and
we followed. Eveyy now and then
he paused and peered ahead, but in
two the choking noise ceased
The same thought was in alt
minds: what was happening in
darkness close by? What
when it heard me, it got' up and
vanished,”
"it strikes me *we are dealing with
a homicidal maniac,” he remarked,
and his voice was hard. "And with
that brand one shoots on sight, Let's
see if we can’t get a sight,
the ladder, and niovo.”
He led the way* and we
as quickly as we could,
keep up with Hugh in the dark was
an impossibility, and he was soon
up in front, and it was as we reach
ed jt that the sharp crack of a re
volver brought us all uj? standing,
It came from the direction of the
road, and a sick feeling of feai’ goi;
hold of me. Which of them hail
fired? '
"Hugh,” I called out, regardless
of who might hear. “Where aye
you?”
“All right, Peter,” came his wel
come voice, and to my amazement
I realized that he was on the same
side as we were,
“That shot!” I said. “Who fired
it?”
“I can't see through a brick wall,’
he answered, “so I don’t know. But
with luck we may find out soon. He
was over the wall when I got here,
and the ladder is on the other side.
Up you go, Scott, and' pass it back,”
Once again we repeated the per
formance of crossing, but this time
Hugh was off like a flash the in
stant he rea-ched the ground,
it was just as we
whether to follow
the final shock of
curved. A voice
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-s® sSbojie with my loot, and I was just ^he gloom of the undergrowth it
^beginning to wonder what good
SSugli hoped to do' when I heard him
give a gasp of surprise. I peered
.ixliead.- he ‘was bending over some-
■fiSjing on the ground. . s
“Peter,” lie muttered, “look at
33Ss/’
, ’“This” was the dog—stone dead.
St was an enormous brute, and iia
Jbndiy was arched', and its great fangs
gleamed white i'n a last death snarl.
And in-the air there hung the smell
jaf burnt almonds.
,“Prussic aqid,” he said. “I won-
-stered what had silenced it so sud-
shealy.”
JLnd then he straightened up, and
Sils hand went to his revolver pocket,
1 “The dog is dead,’’ he muttered
gxunly, “but the man who did it—»
•JuuiT; Keep your eyes .skinned,”
Instinctively, we closed up; there
was impossible to see anything. And
it so happened that it was my lot
to- make the discovery. I was- t-he
last of the four, and quite by chance
I was staring at' a bush to my left.
And it seemed to me that something
moved.
I went nearer, and only Iby the
greatest self-control did I check a
cry myself. A great black object
was lying on the ground, and as I
approached it suddenly rose. It
seemed to unwrap itself, and I felt
instinctively that it was staring at
me. Then, with a sort of snarling
hiss, it vanished, and I saw what it
had left behind.
“Hugh,” I said shakily, and in a
second he was with me,
‘‘Good God{” he muttered-, and
pulled out' a tiny electric torch.
.____r__—¥, _____ ..x., - - . Gaspard was lying there, his face
■jB’ias something terrifying about thatjred and swollen, and a glance show-
bloomy, sllen't thouse an d^ the rank Jed that -heMvas dead. -He had been
umdeVgrowifiT even*without tile-‘ ad-■ throttled; the marks on his throat
tSlfional knowledge that we were not j were plain to see.
-five bnly watchers. The whole place J “It was the black figure,” J said,
osaaplt of decay, and I was on the “It was lying on top of him, and
And
were wondering
him or not that
the evening oc-
with a slight
came out of the
darkness from close by.
‘‘May I ask what you guys think
you are doing?” it said. Or would,
it be discreet?”
“Who are you?” I cried. ‘‘And
where are you?”
‘‘Who I am doesn’t matter at the
moment,” went on the voice. “Nor
where I am., But I have a gun in
my hand, which I shall have no hes
itation in using, if necessary.”
‘‘A game at which two can play?’
Hugh’s voice, doubly welcome this
time, showed that he
‘‘By the sound you
ones to me,”
said the unknown
thinking we’d better
light on the scene, or else someone
will be making a bloomer.”
‘‘Then I shall supply it,” snapped
Hugh.
He switched on his torch, and fo
cussed it on the stranger. He was
standing about five yards away, a
thin, -hatchet-faced man of about
fifty. In his hand' was a revolver,
but it was hanging loosely by his
side, and lie made no move to raise
it. For a while .he stood there in;
silence: then he smiled faintly apd'
spoke. / '*<
had returned',
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ious being in black.”
‘‘Throttled, of course,” said the
other. ■ ■ .
How do you .know that?”
Hugh suspiclously.
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factory,” he’remarked. ‘.‘But in qase
you . want anything more,’ • do /you;
recognij$e\that,?” ; s*‘
He, opened his coat, displaying
the badge
*‘I do,”
who fired
“It was
:•!< for Alberta* W^Wfe!
The congregation’ ;pf St Thomas
Church, Seaforth,/honoured Mt. dnd
Mrs. Browp with* a reception, in-the
parish hall. Mdy^r it. G? Parke 'act-
W*iib phdirhi^h‘thh,'d‘;'dlurihg the’ even-'
a purse of gold and Mrs; Brown with
a . beautiful bouquet of roses..
One night previous the clergy of the
Hjiron- Deanery gathered at the
Rectory and presented Rev. ' T. H.
Yjrown with a set of theological
hooks and Mrs. Brown with a beau
tiful 'silver cake basket. After 45
years, in the ministry and 18 years in
Seaforth Mr. and Mrs. Brown are
now leaving for Toronto where they 'Will mtfice their home.
of the New York police.'”,
said Hugh. ".Was it'you
that .shot?” ‘ ,
not,” answered., the other’.
“And if you will deflec't^your,
a little lower you will/ see
though yo.u will have to come
er.”
He was still holding his coat
and as we got close to him we
see a bullet hole clean through it
on a level with his waist.
“Touch and go, gentlemen,” he
remarked. “And now, if you have
satisfied yourselves that I am not
the villian of the piece, I would
strongly advise you to put’ out that
torch. There are people abroad to
night who are attracted to torches,
and next time it may not be through
my coat.” ■ .
J For a moment or two Hugh 'resi-
tated, then he switched off the light.
“May I ask what your name is?”
he said.
“Certainly, though I fear it will
not convey much to you. My name
is Matthews—Victor Matthews* Am
I Tight in supposing that you are
he gentlemen who were wandering
around Spragge’s Farm last night?”
“You can suppose any damned
thing you please,” snapped Hugh.
“Wh^t I want to know, Mr. Mat
thews, is “what you are doing prowl
ing about here?”
The other laughed.
‘‘I have always heard,” he said,
“that offence is the best defence.
But really/sir, don’t you think yohr
remark Is a bit cool? You may re
member the badge I showed you,
which, at any rate, gives me an of
ficial standing. But ias far as you
gentlemen are concerned, I fail to
see that you have any—certainly
none that permits you to break into
the private grounds of a house in
the dead of night. However, you
need hot fear: I shall say nothing
about it. In fact, I am profoundly
relieved to See you. I have played
a lone hand long enough. And If
you are prepared to assist me, no
one Will be more pleased than my
self. Did you find anything of in
terest inSide .fljlere’to-night?”
“We found,.” said Hugh gravely*
“a dead dog hnd a dead man.” <•
“Dead man!” cried the Other
“Who! le Rossignol?”
“The how much?
prizes for
ed him.
“The
thews. •“
Spfagge’S
der.”
“No: It Wasn’t hlin,” said Hugh.
“It was Gaspard, Granger’s servant,
Afid he had- been killed by a mystef-
Frehch have
Nightingale,
The
Farm
torch
w’hy,
near-
open,
could
cried Hugh:
hitherto elud-
Said Mat*
man you saw at
, making that lad-
a few months in the Mispion' field.
1 ^Thdt/W. (M.’iS.‘of KiJox Church,
Goderich/ donated, knitted, "sha’wls,
cushion's,,'chair back rests and" candy
■etc. to xtheo inmates of the County
Homey Clinton. ' <
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Thb engagement is announced of
Helen, eldest daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Archie Kerr to Mr. W. James
McClure, youngest son of Mr. and
Mrs. John McClure, both of McKillop
I)r. and Mrs. J. W. Orme and
daughter Lois, of Toronto, (formerly
of Crediton) called at the home of
the former’s brother Dr. T. D. and
Mrs. Orme of Lucan, on
of last week.
Thursday
Mrs, William
was hostess at
honour of Miss
Dobbs, of
a shower
_____ ___ Helen Kerr. About
twenty of her girl friends gathered
to extend their best wishes th the
bride who received many beautiful
and useful gifts. ' —
\ The death occured at her home
in Clinton of Mrs. Robert Fitzsim
mons, the end coming as a shock to
her family and friends. She has re
sided in Clinton for oyer sixty years
She 13 survived by her now bereaved
husband, one dhuglfter and thfree
■ons.
McKillop*
given in
A large number of friends of Mr.
•nd Mrs. Angus MacDonald met to
gether recently in the parish hall,
Wingham, to say farewell to them,
prior to their departure -for Detroit.
.During the evening Mr. and Mrs.
Mrs McDonald were presented with
a handsome silver service and a set
of beautiful military brushes for
•their son Rodger.
Mr. James Stewart* of Stewart
fiors., Seaforth, has been awarded
first prize in a Dominion wide com
petition for the best window display
of Royal'York Clothing. There were
hundreds of entries the prizes award
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Seaforth; -2nd,Punlops,
ton Sask.* 3rd, W. A,
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son of MrMr. Elliott McVittie,
ftfid Mrs. Henry McVittie, ot Goa*
eyich,‘ met with a distressing acci
dent at Fort Col borne. While towing
the Kilmer and Barhour dredging
apparatus which leff^Godericht on
Sunday, Mr. MqVittle’s foot became
caught in the tow rope. He was tab-*-
en to Walkerville hospital where it
was found necessary to amputate the
foot it being so badly crushed.
> Mr. J. J. Hall, baggageman on tne
the C. N. R.» Goderich, met with a
Wrlous accident at the statical sus
taining a fractured -skull and head
injuries, They Were
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