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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1930-05-22, Page 6THURSDAY. RIAV 1030 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE Verney is working. myster- Every fibre insulated with rubber One-— map— wa§ a STORY “I will £ yourself, Mr. Scott,’ quietly. “You alENEATH the rugged safety tread of toughest rubber, Fire$ton^.Tire$ have the strong est^ durable cord construc tion ever known. Layer upon layer of ccirds are scientifically «twistech for greatest strength and elasticity-- then dipped in pure rubber which protects every fibre against internal heat and friction. Gurj - Dipping doubles flexing life and adds thousands of extra rni|es of dependable, trouble-free service. OnM Firestone Tires are .G^rn-Dippecr—No other tire has it?/advantages. Because of this extra process, Firestone tires hold ail world records for mileage and enduranoe- See your nearest Firestone Dealer Firestone Tires arg,^old in,Exeter by. Chevrolet Salgl & Service ■j pro- SIXTY CANADIAN HENS . . 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Hugh and his three friends also go in to find the big dog poisoned arid the servant Gaspard 'choked to death. They meet Victor Mat thews, a member of the’New York police, who retuns with them and gives the history of this ious person in black. NOW GO ON WITH THE “All right,” he “answered, assume that you know nothing. And, as a matter of fact, gentlemen, I am very certain that you do know noth ing of what I. am going to tell yob. Because I am going back to the year of grace 1881. It was in that year that the, inhabitants of Bordeaux had an unsuspected honour accord ed them—so unsuspected, in fact, that most of them, are still probably unaware of it. Under the very shadow of the Cathedral of St'. An dre a male child was born into the world. The question of nomencla ture was a little difficult, since the mother had no idea who was the proud father, -but she compromis ed by calling the child Jean and giv ing it her own surname of Marillard. “From the very first, I sho’uld imagine, the child was a most un prepossessing specimen, normally ugly, and that ed with the sneers of its over the question of its bined to make its life _________ Anyway, it never had a fair chance, and as a result, the boy’s character grew from bad to worse. He was an incipient criminal from the start, and his surroundings nurtured the growth, until, at the age of sixteen, he was nothing more- o.r less than a savage young animal. And if you choSe- to turn up the archives of the . Bordeaux police you would there ■ 'finer recdiW'of positively -mxir’derous ; assaults perpetrated -by this yout^ ill many' cases <qn men years olefrir' than himself. He.was possessed o.f incredible strength,- and-at times he was. perfectly uncontrolable.. He al so possessed another strange char acteristic—a very soft and melodious voice.” ■ ■ The speaker smiled slightly and waved his hand in the direction of Spragge’s Farm. “Thus the propitious beginning jf Jean Marillard, now, as you will see, in his forty-seventh year. How ever, to -return to his earlier days. He was eighteen years old, as far as I remember, when he decided that he had had enough of Bordeaux and drifted to Paris, where he naturally became associated with the lowest type of Apache. And you must re member, gentlemen, that in those days t'he Apaches were Apaches—not harmless citizens earning an honest penny by dressing themselves up. for the part for the benefit of credulous tourists, as in the case to-day. Like to like: it was but in the nature of things that young Marillard should consort with whole tribe, he received Nightingale.’ “For the next year or so his his tory is unimportant. , He remained, submerged in 'tile underworld ol?- Par-is; a skulker -in dark*'--corners.. Andi., ^ben, with the invention of' raotoi’** cars; came’rife‘great oppor-', tunity. The thing,Jhaa,,been done,' of course, a'd’ hauseam since, but the,, first motor bandit gang waS the one of which the Nightingale was a prominent member. It is all a ques tion of proportion, and just as in these days a racing car, with its eighty miles an hour, has the advan tage over other users of the rpadj so, then, did some ancient Peugeot capable of only twenty, “Aud'.now I must leave him for q. moment and introduce you' to .some other characters in the story. Only importance, and It was ab- fact, coupl- companions birth, corn- intolerable. the m'ost vicious of the And .it was then that his nick-name of ‘the ■ajiy FOr Sale JBy The Ross-Taylor Company Ltd. A; Spencer & Son, Exeter, Ont* Hensall, Ont. two are . of of those two r He paused- dreamy look , “One of those two.’ is the niosj. powerful dhd dangerous , man in thi World to-day.; , I will take the other first. His origin is completely ob scure, ’ Half Englishman, half Heav en- (knows what, he was in liis Way. as dangerous -a man as the Nightin gale, But' it was a very different way. The Nightingale, to do him credit, feared no man. He fought in the open-?—fought like a beasi perhaps—face to face. Also he was loyal, to • his pais, which was just .what the other was not. A slimy, mean, creeping little beast,- who .contjarmed to no standard at all gave'wliat Stilted himself best. They called him le Crapeap^ which I al- and came a strange, almost into his eyes. , ways thought was an insult tq such tin intelligent beast as the toad. And rinleps I am not* mistaken—the Toad is your next door neighbor, who how passes' under the name of Grange?/- When I say 'pusses under,’ for all J know, Granger may really be his liame.” » * “Do you mean,- to say,” shouted freckles, “that that is the man who. Bat—who Miss for?” ’ “Don’t alarm said Matthews ready have my word for it that your fiancee is perfectly safe. (Moreover, I think it'is -more than likely that you will finally come to the con clusion that the luckiest thing she ever did in her life was to go there.” “What on earth do you mean?” gaid Freckles, staring at him blank ly. “May I finish my .story, and I think you will see what I mean?’* •said Matthews. “Where was I? Ah! yes.—the Toad. There were three other members of the, gang, who do not concern us at all now, since they are all dead. For the sake of clearness, however, I will give you , their nicknames. U great/hulking brute of a was called the Butcher. He slaughterer pure, and simple:’ a man with no brain, but of great strength. The. second was ,a deadly shot with a revolver, who was known—^why I can’t tell you—as the Snipe. And the last calls for no particular des cription. He had no nickname, and was called Robert. “Now, I do not propose to weary you with a full account of their ac tivities. Many of them were quite insignificant: many were even stu pid. . Remember that motor-cars( were brand new toy “then foi* everyone, and our friends were no exception to the rule. They be-, haved, in short, on frequent occa sions like children, who are show ing off, and they were treated ac cordingly by the authorities. Until the day came . . . .” ’ Once again he paused, that same dreamy look in his eyes. “Gentlemen,” he went on quietly, “you may think that what 11 am about to tell you is an exaggeration: that I have a bee in my bonnet on this, particular subject*. You*! may •tlifnk’'that such6 a being aS a? master j criminal is merely part of the stock “ in? trade of - the sensational novelist —a fiction of the films. You are wrdri'g. It' was1 iri • 1'8 9 8 • that' a strange sinister influence began to make itself felt throughout the un derworld of Paris, and not only” the underworld, but „ through that sec tion of -society that reacts instantly to it—the police. At first fluence was vague—more a tion than a definite force, ible rumours flew around, one knew what to believe. lice, as a body, scoffed openly at tbq whole thing: so did some of Apaches. For gradually these mours'‘crystallised into one central . idea: that a power had arisen which' was definitely controlling the^crim- ' inal activities of Paris,'-and controll- , ing them for,its own ends. • “What' the power consisted of ho. ; one knew: who1 wielded it, no one . knew. But after a year had. passed . the scoffing ceased: the thing , a proven fact. An • intelligence „„„ - at work more powerful’ than fhe ■ police, more cunning than the ' Apaches. J “How came the proof,, you ask? ' I will tell you. Not' by any single dramatic stroke, but by a series of incidents, which, though -small in themselves, when taken cumulative ly, afforded ’irrefutable evidehadV Men who had received orders from an" uulfiiWii Source; hHd’’h’Kd"<nsi,e-‘ gardefl t-hqnr, ,Were.’foun;d ‘.dead-: arid no one knew the hand that had.; struck them down. The police, too, did nof escape: gendarmes who had interfered with the unknown’s plan were killed. Some were shot: a few knifed, but his favorite method was to strangle his victims. In fact, a reign of terror started, the more terrifying because of the air of mys tery that surr.oun.ded it. Men spoke together in bated whispers, glancing fearfully over their shoulders, for no one knew who was a spy or who was not. The King of the Under wood,-Had arrived.” Victor Matthews paused to light a cigarette, whilst we waited eager ly fqr .him to continue. Amazing though the story was, it .was his quiet way of telling it that made it so impressive. “It was in 1900,” he continued, “that, a further development took place. He was cunning, this man— and clever. He knew to a nicety the French nationality: his psychology whs jieffect. Up to date, he had maintained his air of mystery: from now on he would give them some thing concrete to catch hold of. And so it was that there gradually came, into cirCiillioh a series of exquisite* ly drawn little pictures. A man yrottld find one in his pocket when he came to undress, with ho idea as to how it had come there. And the in- sugges; Incred an d no The po- the ru- with each of them would be some definite order, written in block cap itals. , And if Jhose orders were dis obeyed, the recipient would later bo found dead, with the same devico pinned to Ills coat. Here is one that I kept for many years.” . • . ,H.e> prilled out * his. pocket-book, and oven as he> had 'it in his hands, his eyes ■dilated, and he sat motiion-1 less, staring at.a. tree just- my seat. ■ ■ - ; ■ “My God..!” he muttered;' at that.” “What the and then he was. sitting, stared ,at «a \yip'ght‘ve^d failed to notice in opr absorption' up till then, It was .about’ two inches square, and1 .was •fastened to the tree by a drawing pen. And in the centre of it, drawn in'ink,; was a perfect’representation of a jiuheh'back. ' . , ‘ “Is that the ’device you mean?” said Hugh quietly. . For answer Matthews unfastened his pocket-book, and from it he took the exact replica of the paper* pinn ed to the tree, save that it was yel low with age. But the drawing was the same—a hunchback, “I took this one,” be s^id gravely, “from the body of a mal^ who was found strangled1 one morning bo- hind a lot of crates in the Gare de Lyons, He had in his pocket a 3rd- class ticket for Marseilles, but he had not caught his train.” For a while, we were all silent each busy with his ..own thoughts, This sudden verification of Mat thews’ story, coming, as it were, out of th© blue into a sunny English garden, seemed wellnig,h uncanny.. Almost, mechanically' Hugh went; to the telescope and stared, through, ip And after a while he swung round and faced us. . ., ‘How the devil did that get there?’ he said. Matthews gave a short laugh..;. “Your activities are evidently known, Captain Drummond, .and are no£ approved of. Le Bossu Masque miist^-haye put it there himself.” ,“^fasque?” I cried, and (Matthews nodded. “"Yes: I was coming to that ■when ’this- somwehat dramatic in terruption occurred.” ‘‘‘bamn the fellow,” spluttered Hug'll. < “Having the gall to come into my garden and stick his cursed bits of'paper all over the view. If I-*.catch ^4he blighter I’ll turn his huiyp.int’o a goitre in his neck. How ever, j\Ir, Matthews, please pardon the natural annoyance of a respect able English householder. Let’s hear some more.” “Well, as I was saying,” contin ued the other, “it was in-1900 that that' design began to become famil iar with the popuiatio'n of Paris. That it was a further development of the1 same • than, we' knew; his methods remained exactly similar to those he employed when he was' unknown. grow more orders had in writing: issue them . course, was seized on as a golden op portunity by the police. In every community th§re are men who can be bought, and the underworld of. Paris is certainly no exception to the rule. And so as ft.oon as this new development became known plans were laid. very, carefully to catch him! ■ With great1 secre cy, and thro’ the most .trustworthy channels pos sible, it was cohimunicated to cer tain likely quarters that in the event of .anyone receiving a message from le Bossu, with instructions to meet lijm personally, the police were to be ’ fit'once communicated with. And a the behind “Look Hugh,devil,” began came oyer to where I And, in silence we all small piece of paper was was the 2tye (Tintru-Aiiuuratt Established 1873 and 1887 Published every Thursday mornlmu at Exeter, Ontario " $ * SUBSCRIPTION—-$2.00 per yea? irf advance. A RATHS—Farm or Real Estate sale 50c, each insertion lor flrat four insertions. 25 c. each aubaa- querit insertion. 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