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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1933-05-18, Page 2THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1933 THE EXETER T1MES-ADVQCATE I I t,.< i • TINY CARTERET A '. •/ * BY SAPPER i'llIIIIIHllIllIlIlllIllllllllllllllllIlIllIIIIIII SYNOPSIS Tiny Carteret was a free easy going young man extremely popular with both men and women and and with his income of five thous­ and a year enabled him to live in an up-todate apartment in the city of London. He received a letter one morning from a friend, Ron­ ald Standish, which bore a post mark Grand Hotel, at Territet. on the Lake of Geneva. Standish appealed to him to meet him at once as he needed someone who had steady nerve, could use a re­ volver and could use their fists if necessary. Gillson from Home Office calls Tiny and goes there before leaving. CHAPTER I 2Jl|e Exeter QJittiea-Aitaarate Established 1873 and 1887 f Published every Thursday morninc at Exeter, Ontario SUBSCRIPTION—$2.00 per year In advance. 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You know it?” “Can’t say I do, Colonel.” “You will f t one of the most delightful restaurants in Paris. Tbe homard a la maison is one of the wonders of the world. It is a small place, but travelling as you are by! the Golden Arrow, you Icertainlly be -the first that you will have no getting n table.” A “If there is, I’ll mention your name.” “Under no circumstances will you do anything of the sort, Carteret,” said the other quietly. “Under nc circumstances are you to mention to a soul that you have seen me to-day Do you remember that French notice in the war —‘Mefeiz vous. Taisez vous. Les oreilles de l’ennemi volis ecoutent.’ ” He smiled astonishment "My dear “don’t think atic. But in our trade the first rule and the last rule are all the same. Never say a word more than is nec­ essary. And to mention any name there would not only be unnecessary but might be suicidal. You don’t I suppose do you, that I am giving Per" you these detailed instructions mere- | ly to ensure that you have a good dinner?” “Well—no/? laughed 'Ijinj^ ‘‘I don’t. But you must remember Colonel, that this sort of work is I a new one on me. Anyway what is The he cop- know? Gillson. with a fre- I I I iwill alsimost arrival, so trouble over a little at the look of on Tiny’s face, fellow,” he continued. I’m being melodram- “Weil since I haven’t been ped in a night club raid, Colonel, I can hazard a pretty shrewd guess,” answered Tiny -with .a grin. The other man smiled faintly. “That’s a mattei’ for Scotland Yard. Incidently you were having a pretty good time at the Fifty-Nine last Tuesday.” “How the devil do you weren’t there, were you?” “I was not,” laughed Nature has endowed with nasal organ which renders me some­ what conspicuous. So I do not quent clubs of that sort.” “Then how did you know?” sisted Tiny. “Had you been stopping in Lon­ don,” said the other quietly, “now that I know you are a friend of Standish, I should have given you a word of warning about that club. “You assume I am not stopping gOjng t0 happen when I’ve got down on then,” said Tiny. “Naturfa'lly,”’ answered “A man with fifteen caps would gather verbally or in writing: which hardly be likely to.” | j q0 110^ .^now, and exactly when I “Oh! that’s rot, Colonel. But you know. If in writing commit it stll haven’t told me how you knew^0 memory and destroy the paper. I was there.” “I’vt got a .list, my dear boy of ev­ ery single soul who was in that club that night. Your waiter gave it to me.” “Well, I wish, had concentrated ing and less on slopped soup all “Seeing it was the first time he had waited I don’t suppose he was too bad,” said the other bad spot that, Carteret: sore. I don’t mean they out of hours: that by is nothing. But it is the He paused and lit a cigarette. “Well I wouldn’t be surprised if in the course of the next few weeks you didn’t find yoursefl back there again —shall we say professionally.” “This is all deuced intriguing, Colonel,” said Tiny. “Can’t you be more explicit?” j “All in good tme, my dear fellow Let us first get down to the imme­ diate future. I assume you are leav­ ing to-morrow. “Quite right,” “Provided I can Colonel Gillson in his desk. “I’ve got them calmly, “And your ticket as well.” “The devil you have,” spluttterea 'Tiny, half inclined “And supposing I ing tomorrow.” The older man steadily for a moment or “Then I should have made a bad mistake in my judgment of man nature,” he said quietly, mistake which would have appointed me greatly.” “Thank you, sir,” answered Tiny all his irritation gone. “That’s a very decent thing to say.” “Now then,” said the other “We­ Gillson. J' to the homard a la maison?” “A message will be given to you either verbally or in writing: which the damned fellow more on his wait- maiking a list. He over my trousers.” quietly. ‘‘A a festering sell liquor comparison centre. . ” answered Tiny, get reservations.” opened a drawer all here,” he saia to be hadn’t looked annoyed, been at two. go- him very : hu- “A dis- Norway Pino Syrup 9.10‘ train for reserved you a and it is more tha’t when you “Who will give me the message?” asked Tiny. “A man,” said the other. “Don’t ask me to,tell you what he will look like, for I haven’t the faintest idea. Have you got it clear so far.” “Perfectly,” said Tiny. “When you.’ve had your dinner you will go to the Gare de Lyons in time to catch the Switzerland. I have berth in a sleeper, probable, Carteret, come to inspect that reservation and all that goes with it you will con­ sign me to the nethermost depths of the pit.” “What do you mean, -Colonel?” said the bewildered Tiny. "You will find out in due course,” answered the other with a grin. “But there is one thing, young fell­ ow, and don’t you forget it.” The grin had departed. “Under no cir­ cumstances are you to alter your bunk—not even if the rest of the coach is empty. “Right you are, sir. I can’t pro­ fess to understand what it is all about at the moment, but I know an order when I hear one. I sleep” —he glanced at the paper in his hand—“in Number 8 bunk. Hullo! the ticket is only as far as Lauanne. “That is where you get out,” said Gillson. “ A room has already been taken for you at the Ou'chy Palace Hotel. Go there, and then Standish will take over the ordering of your young life.” He rose, to show that the inter­ view was over. “But, dash it ed Tiny, “can’t idea as to what Gillson shook “You will find out all good for you to know, at the when it is good for you to know. Believe me, my dear reticence doesn’t imply confidence on my part, are. certain occasions genuine ignorance is worth untold gold. Standish is playing the liana at the moment, and you are a very important card, It must be left to him to decide when he is going to play you. But if it is any comfort I can tell you one thing. I’d give a ' year’s screw if some divine Provi­ dence would blast away a lump of my cursed nose. For with that land­ mark gone I could have faked my face sufficiently to go in your place.’ “That sounds all right, anyway,” laughed Tiny. “Any messages for Ronald?” And as he asked the question the telephone rang on the dealt. “Wait a moment,” said onel, “Hullo!” Tiny watched him idly as there with the reciver to The lean hatchet face seemed a froz­ en mask, so expressionless was it; only the eyes were glowingly alive At last the voice from the other end ceased and Gillson spoke. “Can you come up at once, ter? You can. Good.” He replaced the instrument then stood motionless for more a minute staring out of the window “Any message for Ronald,” he said at length. “Yes, Carteret; there will be. You ’can tell him that Jeb­ son has been murdered in the same way as the others. Wait a little. Dex­ ter is coming and we’ll hear about it. incidentally you know Dexter You’d better dun him for another pair of trousers.” “You mean he was the waiter at the Fifty-Nine?” \ But the other appeared not tc have heard. With his hands in his pockets he was pacing up and down the office, his head thrust foi*ward his chin sunk on his chest, whilst Tiny leaned against the desk smok­ ing. He did not speaki again: he was busy with his own thoughts. So I there was murder in the business, was there?. . . And more than one at that. And almost as if it was an echo of what was passing through his mind Colonel Gillson suddenly ceased his restless pacing and spoke “Don’t be under any young Carteret. 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He’s been there three months and up to yesterday he was convinced that not a soul sus­ pected he was not a genuine waiter. I saw him at lunchtime and he told me so. He’s been waiting on two of the private rooms upstairs, and for over a fortnight nothing of any im­ portance has taken place. Just the usual young fool with the usual woman. But last night he told me he was expecting something of in­ terest. That little swine Giusepp! who owns the place had been run­ ning in and out of one of his two rooms the whole morning cursing and swearing and saying that this was wrong and that was wrong—a thing he never did for his ordinary clientele. And then Jebson, happen­ ing to pass Giuseppi’s office heard him on the telephone ordering mass­ es 'of orchids. Mauve orchids,” he added meaningly. Once again he paused and glanced at Tiny, as if doubtful whether to proceed. “Mr. Carteret undertsands, Dex­ ter, that any name he may hear mentioned In this office IS invid* late as if it was in confession,” Gillson quietly. “Very good, sir,” continued ter. “He at once appreciated possible significance: the flowers had been mauve orchids the time be­ fore.” “Mauve orchids,” said Tiny slow­ ly. “Mauve orchids! Good Lord! it’s impossible.” “What is impossible?” asked Gill­ son quietly. “Nothing, sir, nothing, only a wild idea through my mind, coincidence.” “The longer you . my boy, the more that nothing is impossible,” Gillson. “Well, Dexter: was it she? “That’s the, devil of it, sir—<wc don’t know. Jebson did—but Jebson is dead. We don’t know if it was Lady Mary.” , Gillson’s eyes were fixed on Tiny —a faintly quizzical look in them. “Nothing is impossible, Carteret, repeated quietly. “So that was idea that had flashed through mind.” 'No: no Colonel—nothing of the sort. Heavens! Nothing would in­ duce Mary Ridgeway to go to a pri­ vate room at Fifty-Nine.” “And yet she was therezsix weeks ago alone with a man,” said Gillson “Damn it, Colonel,” said Tiny angrily, “this is going beyond a joke Mary is a great personal friend of mine.” “Do you really imagine, CarteT- et,” said the older man coldly, “that I should take the trouble to make a statement of that sort about any woman, whether she was a friend of yours, whether she wasn’t, unless I knew it to be true? Well, Dexter?” “That’s all sir. That’s the sicken­ ing part of it. has been done Tiny took a “Look here, son. “I apologize for my remark-. But you cannot mean that even if Lady Mary was there you in any way responsible for Jebson’s death?” Most Gillson crossed person son’s death, is the man with whom Lady Mary—if it was she—was hav­ ing supper. And he is the man we want, or perhaps I’ should say—one of the men we want.” . * Tiny sank into a chair, his brain whirling. The whole thing was too preposterous. And yet — was it? Statements made in this quiet office seemed to carry with them a definite conviction Which shook him. And Gillson had quietly said in the most matter-of’fact voice that six weeks ago she had been to the Fifty-Nine alone with a mail. If so—-what about last night.? He had been dan'eing with her at a house in Berkeley Square, and it had struck; him more than once dur­ ing the evening that she seemed un­ usually distraite—so muth so, in fact, that he had pulled her leg that iJlust a It was flashed strange are in this job you will realize said mai- WOT- him- Dr. G. S. Atkinson, L.D.S.,D.D.S, DENTAL SURGEON Office opposite the New Post Office Main St., Exeter Telephones Office 34w House 84j Closed Wednesday Afternoons on the Society seemed the was Un- Dr. G. F, Roulston, L.D.S.,D.D.S. DENTIST Office: Carling Block EXETER, ONT. Closed Wednesday Afternoon he the his <(• Jebson, poor devil in.” step forward. sir,” he said to Gill- hold her this man answeredcertainly not,” at once. "iSuch an idea never my brain for a second. The who is responsible for Jeb- about it. And then at eleven she had pleaded a and left. Nothing much to far, it was true: but it was ter of the mauve orchids that ried him and that—he cursed self now for not having kept a bet­ ter guard .on his tongue—had made him say what he did, Mary adored mauve .orchids: all her friends knew it, half the world knew it evidence of aunt Tabitha in Snippets. And yet the whole thing too preposterous. She was undoubt­ edly an unconventional girl, but there were certain things at which she would draw a very fast line. And it seemed to Tiny that dining in a private room at a place like Fifty-Nine alone with a man most emphatically one of them, less she had to; unless she had no alternative. He lit a cigarette thoughtfully, and then conscious that Gillson was eyeing him shrewd­ ly he pulled himself together. His sudden remark could easily be at­ tributed to the matter of mauve or­ chids: for the moment at any rate he saw no necessity to mention what he knew of her movements the pre­ vious night, and JOHN WARD CHIROPRACTIC, OSTEOPATHY, ELECTRO-THERAPY & ULTRA- VIOLET TREATMENTS PHONE 70 MAIN ST., EXETER Dexter was speaking Tiny forced himself to listen. (Continued next week.) v ARTHUR WEBER LICENSED AUCTIONEER For Huron and Middlesex FARM SALES A SPECIALTY PRICES REASONABLE SATISFACTION GUARANTEED Phone 57-13 Dashwood R. R. NO. 1, DASHWOOD CROMARTY The M'ay meeting of the W.M.S. met on Thursday last in the base­ ment of the Church with a, good at­ tendance. The Scripture reading was taken by Mrs. .McLaren. 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