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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1933-09-14, Page 6THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1933 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE •’I 1 TINY CARTERET BY SAPPER i CHAPTER VIII I For suddenly there had come a ghastly strident shriek of agony, and( it had seemed to proceed from thej house they were watching. A win­ dow was flung up behind them, and a man peered out. With a quick pressure on his arm Standish indi-, cated to Tiny that they should walk on. But the scream was not re-; , peated, and after strolling a feW( yards, they’ retraced their steps. “Was that from Blake’s house?” said Tiny. “Sounded like it. We must wait now for a bit: it’s probably alarmed the neighborhood. Hullo! what’s this?” Once and the a tree, gate of the shadow of the trees was walking \ rapidly towards Devon Avenue. It was quite impossible to recognize him: a hat pulled well down over his forehead obscured his features even if they had been visible at the dis­ tant But not till the sound of-his steps had.died away did they move.' “Our friend would seem to have other visitors to-night,” said Stand­ ish thoughtfully. “Things grow in­ teresting.” “Well, the alarm doesn’t seem to have spread,” remarked Tiny. “And| the place is deserted. What about it?” They crossed the road some fifty; yards from Blake’s house, and stroll-] ed gently towards it. The man who1 had looked out had shut the window] again: the moment was propitious.] And with one quick glance around! Standish tunned in at the gate, ano. moved swiftly’ towards the garage. There was a space of nearly a yara between the garage and the wall that divided Number 12 from the next house, and in a second they were both standing on it. It afforded perfect cover, -and gave them a di-' rect approach to the ■the slightest chance certain amount of collected in it, and his way carefully: time to play football with old tin cans. But nothing untoward occur­ red, and they reached the shadow or the trees without misshap. j To their right lay the garden: in front of them and a little to the left was he back of the house. It, too,J was in complete darkness, and after, a while they began to creep cautious-' ly towards it. “It’s the room with the big French wiadows,” whispered Stana- ish. “The second one i They were dose to paused suddenly, and ing at him, could just was frowning. “Why are the window* he breathed, “when there is no light in the room? There is something damned funny about this show.” | They could see ing gently in the sound came from seemed ominously they both shrank a telephone bell was ringing in the room. “Back to the trees,” said Standish urgently. "Someone will probably answer it.” But no one more abortive tor gave it up. again he gripped Tiny’s arm' pair stood motionless under A man had come out of the Number 12, and keeping in garden without of being seen. A old rubbish had Standish picked- it was not the we come to.” it when he Tiny, glanc- ; see that he open, Tiny?’ the curtains mov- slight breeze.. No inside: the place quiet. And then against the wall: the al- se- thc- did, and after a few attempts the opera- Silence settled once again save for the faint rustle of leaves above their heads. They lowed five minutes: then for the cond time they crept towards window. There was no good delay­ ing: every moment of time was val­ uable. “I’ll get on to the safe at once, t 11= my acquaintance with Bessonian pol- :== ] itics is microscopic. AU I can tell S you is that both Ronald and that = • fellow Andy Macintosh, who I was S1 telling you about, view the case as = ' hopeless if Berendosi gets hold oi E=i | that negative. And now that we've i drawn blank in Blake’s safe it might ==. be anywhere." Ss Simmonds opened the door, and = entered yith a card on a salver. “Tiny,” cried the girl, “it’s your u ' pal—Mr. Standish, Show him in atllii^ I Exrter ©mwa-Abnnratr Established 1873 and 1887 Published every Thursday morntn* at Exeter, Ontario SUBSCRIPTION—?2.00 per yeaT in advance. RATES—Farm or Real Estate to> sale 50c. each insertion for firn four insertions. 25c. each subse­ quent insertion. Miscellaneous ar­ ticles, To Rent, Wanted, Lost, or Found lOp. per line of six word*. Reading notices 10c. per line. Card of Thanks 50c. Legal ad­ vertising 12 and 8c. per line. In Memoriam, with one verse 50o. extra verses 25c. each. Member of The Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association THAT DEPRESSED FEELING IS LARGELY LIVER Wake up your Liver Bile —Without Calomel You are “feeling punk" simply because your liver isn't pouring its daily two pounds of liquid bile into your bowels. Digestion and elimination are both hampered, and youf cutiro system is being poisoned. What you need is a liver stimulant. Some­ thing that goes farther than Balts, mineral water, oil, inxativo candy or chewing gum or roughage which only move tho bowels—ignoring the real cause of trouble, your liver. Take Carter's Little liver Pills. Purely vege­ table. No harsh calomel (mercury). Safe. Sure. Ask for them by name. Refuse substitutes. 36c. at 311 druggists. 53. burnt.” > Alt length he straightened up. “He didn’t get it, Tiny, and that . means it isn’t here,” “Then what do we do now?” “We collect these papers,” said Standish quietly. “Every one of them) probably means some poor devil’s' ( happiness. <Our burglary shall have1 . some result anyway.” He crammed them into his pockets till they bulged, while Tiny stood by him. Some result perhaps—but it was only a side issue. As far as they were concerned it had all been' watsed; the negative was still hi ex­ istence. And a damned good man -had been killed. Of Felton Blake’ he gave no thought: men such as he deserved to die. But in his imagin­ ation he could see the youngster going feverishly through the safe: he could feel the despair that must have gripped him as lie drew blank. And then—the end—the ghastly agoniz­ ing end. ,(Tiny.” He glanced up at the sharp wliis- per: Standish was by the window looking at the floor. “What is it?” “You didn’t tread here, did you?” “No.” He crossed joined the other. “Look there,” said In the crimson patch, clear and distinct was a footmark. “Someone has been watching us,” he continued gravely. “The waters grow deeper.” Tiny,” whispered Standish. “You lock the door, and then stand by the window. Great Scott! look there.” He had parted the curtains and was crouching down staring at the ‘ floor, The wood was of a light col­ our inside the w’indow, the stretch­ ing out from the edge of the carpet a dark stain was visible. And even a they looked at it, it altered its shape. With a sudden exclamation he switched on a small electric torch; then his eyes dilated. “My God!” he muttered. “It’s ■ blood. For Heaven’s sake be care­ ful where you tread.” I Holding his torch in front of him'- I he stepped into the room. And there they stood, motionless: the failure ' to answer the telephone was explain­ ed. i Lying on his back, with legs ana ' arms sprawling was Felton Blake, and driven up to the hilt in heart was a welled out. and finally though now “That scream we heard,” mut­ tered Tiny. “It must have been his.”, But Standish shook his head. “No man killed like that would scream. It was instantaneous.” He bent and felt one of the deaa man’s hands. “He’s been dead for some time. Hold those curtains to­ gether: I’m going to get some light on the scene.” He crept noiselessly away and in a moment there came the click of a switch. And once again they stooa motionless, too stunned to speak. For the door of the big safe was open, and the contents were flung in wild confusion all over the carpet. But it was not empty. Lying half inside it, his head wedged in a corner, with teeth bared and only the whites on his eyes showing, was Joe Denver.] No need to ask the cause of his death j both of them recognized it only too, well. Somewhere on him they would find the death scratch: he haa been murdered even as Demeroff and the others had been murdered. Ana it was his dying scream they haa heard 'from the other side of the road. “So that’s what he meant when he said he’d get the negative some­ how,” said Standish gravely. “Poor­ young devil! And J don’t know that I blame him.’K | “You think he killed Blake?” saia Tiny. I Standish pointed to the key which places, and I think he thought that was in the safe door. “I think that he killed Blake, and then took the key from him. Blake has been dead for more than an hour and Denver for less than a quarter.” “And the man we saw leaving' killed Joe?” I “Possibly, though we have no proof.( Possibly there is some infernal de-( vice in the safe itself.” He was draw-, ing his gloves as he speke. “But now! we’ve got to get a moVe on. We don't want to be discovered here if we can avoid it. The first point is—did he; find the negative?” | Gently they pushed the twisted, body on to the carpet, and t~_ swiftly and methodically Standish went through his pockets. “No sign of it,” he muttered. “If he’d found it he would navfe, destroyed it,” said Tiny, but though! once, Simmonds. Do you -think thought of something new?” “We’ll soon hear if he has,” He turned as Ronald Standish came in and it seemed to him as if there was a certain surpressed ex­ citement in the other’s face. “Something fresh,” he cried, by the way you two haven’t have you? 'My fellow-criminal, he's his dagger. The blood haa soaking into the carpet reaching tht woodwork, it had ceased to flow, we heard,” in the blood the room Standish. and would appear as all the other deaths have appeared to be, due to heart trouble. “Then comes the one thing he had not anticipated. Instead of us ap­ pearing, Joe Denver turns up. He as I say, was not there: he was pro­ bably hanging about somewhere tc see what happened. Nothing at al) might have occurred, in whidh case he would try again next night. Sud­ denly he hears the scream, and goes in. To his horror he finds Blake murdered and the wrong man deaa in the safe. He waits only to re­ move whatever there was in room to' cause death to Denver, bolts.” “But, Mr. Standish,” cried girl, “j don’t quite see how all helps. Even if you are right, man Zavier has the negative, that’s all that matters.” “Sorry to be so long: I’m coming to that now. As you say, that is an that counts, but I wanted to start j from the beginning. As I said, he I then bolts: we knew that—we saw him. Which brings us to the secona I very peculiar incident, as peculiar in And that fact is that!its own way as the killing of De*ver- I What Tiny Mary, blood return?” “How do you know it was the same man?” said Tiny. | “Well, it can’t have been a police­ man or any ordinary outsider: in either of those cases the alarm wouia have been raised at once. Therefore if it wasn’t the same man it was at any had one was cerned what object was served in his coming back? This morning I got1 a possible answer. “You remember, Tiny, that I took away all the papers from Blake’s safe. This morning I went through them with Gillson. Ye gods! the i half of that man’s vileness has no. 1 been thought of. There were letters in his possession belonging to people . whose names are household words I and who he has been bleeding to i death. .Needless to say we burned the lot, with tihe exception of one most interesting one.” He toolt from his pocket a legal- looking document. “This is the lease of 11 Gregory- Street. 'The landlord is or rather was, Felton Blake: the tenants are three in number.' A bookmaker has! an office on the first floor: there ls| a branch of some ware store on the basement is let to with a somewhat strange name—The Universal Benevolent Society. “At first sight admittedly there Is nothing very peculiar about it, but when we studied it a little closer an ineresting point emerged. The first two ‘lets’ are drawn up in the orth­ odox legal fashion with rent and al) the usual conditions stated, but for the Universal Benevolent Society the document is simply worthless. From a busine&s point of value whatever. In lease.‘ “Knowing Felton teristics, this seemed strange, wals not the type of man to let the Universal or any other benevolent so­ ciety have an office without paying for it. And when Gillson’s secretary who was in the room at the time happened to remember where Gerg- ory Street was, the matter began to take shape. To cut it short, this house abuts on to the back of the Fifty-Nine Club, and the basement therefore is on the level of the dance floor. (Continued next week.) “On: met, Mary, “Mr, Standish,” she said eagerly “you look as if there was a new de­ velopment.” | “I won’t go as far as to say that, Lady Mary,” answered Standish, ‘but we have just obtained a piece of ln- > formation which plight lead us some­ where. May I smoke?” “Please do.” I-Ie lit a cigarette, waited breathlessly. “Tiny, of course, you everytihng that night. How young interview Blake in order to get the negative, and when Blake refused to ! part he killed him. He took the keys, opened the safe, and later was murdered himself. >So much is clear From now it becomes a question or | surmise, with only one fact standing j out as certain. And that fact ia that the man we saw leaving Blake’s house shortly after we heard Den- ! ver’s scream was either the murder- , er or knew that he had been mu.r- dered.” I “Now that action on his part Is understandable: he would naturally clear off for fear the scream wouia attract people to the place. But what is not so understandable is why they • should have murdered Denver at all. CHAPTER IX “iSo it’s hopeless, Tiny: beaten us.” “I must say, Mary dear, the moment it looks rather It was eleven o’colck the follow­ ing morning, and the two of them were in her boudoir, her the whole I happened since they last met, ana she in her turn ■two blanks. “You see, Tiny,” she sgid, “I knew1 the man was a sweep, and I can’t pretend that in one way the news orj his death isn’t a profound relief. At| the same time J did think he was genuinely trying to get it.” | “But how cence fall in manded. “My dear short laugh, love. He had story of what I while the others will have tola happened last ] Denver went to- 1 brought him back again? has we by that ana the this this Ana As probably told you, Lacly saw his footprints in tn& the window. Why did he ryrrwrui r i hi rrrrnrm Professional Cards GLADMAN & STANBURY BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, &o. Money to Loan, Investments Made Insurance Safe-deposit Vault for use of our Clients without charge EXETER and HENSALL CARLING & MORLEY BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, LOANS, INVESTMENTS INSURANCE Office: Carling Block, Main Street, EXETER, ONT. At Lucan Monday and Thursday 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 B4J CLOSED ALL DAY WEDNESDAY Dr. G. F. Roulston, L.D.S.,D.D.S. DENTISTthey’ve tihat at I “Perhaps Joe had found it,” saia like it.” j Tiny, “and he murdered him to get it back. "The first thought that occurrea to me, but there is one insuperable difficulty. We know that poison and its method of working. Demeroff: take other cases, quires at least a quarter of an hour to act. hour ; tive, ! have ' derer, then, dare I The film was far 1 him than killing the last thing he to kill Denver: ue to the other “Anyway he did kill him, Ronald —so there is no more to be said.” “But did he mean to, Tiny?” “You mean it was an accident.” “Yes and no. He meant to klB someone—but not Denver, the wrong man.” “But, good Heavens, old impossible. And anyway, he mean to kill?” “Me,” said ‘Standish quietly. “Ana possibly you.” “But do you mean to say he didn't know he was killing Denver?” “That is what I mean to say. ) admit it sounds wild—almost fan­ tastic. Nevertheless, can you give me any reason whatsoever why the other side should commit such a sui­ cidal act from their point of view as to kill a man who was vitally impor­ tant to them?” “I can’t. But neither can I give you any reason why they should have imagined we were going to be there at all.” “Let’s go on with our surmise and put ourselves in the other bloke's place—in Zavier’s place. Zavier knows that we are fully aware of the tola haa had filled in one or dared such an love with you?” man,” she said “I don’t know Take jt re­ excres- he de- with a abour But he was received in a lot During that quarter of an if Denver had found the nega- he might and probably would destroyed it. Would the mur-' to have risked it? more important to Denver. In fact.J wanted to do was he is much more val-! side alive than dead. I rate someone who knew what happened and so must have been of the gang. And Mnce the film safe as far as they were con- Office: Carling Block ‘ EXETER, ONT. 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Satisfaction as­ sured, write Osfiar Klopp, Zurich, or phone 18-93, Zurich, Ont. “Can’t Mr. Standish suggest some­ thing?” “I haven’t seen him to-day,” said Tiny. “He was going round to see Gilson, and J told him I was coming '-existence of that negative: he knows here.” “I wish she had seen him once.] we are in London, faint smile as she saw the puzzled] look on his face. “I’m jumping a bit this morning: nerves all on edge.” ] “It was impossible, my dear,” he( answered gravely. “Every other person y6u meet there is a spy.” “And to think he did it for noth­ ing: that is the wicked part of it. Oh! Tiny, we can’t let it be in vain;! we can’t.” “The Lord knows, dear, that those are my sentiments too. aid’s too, But it’s the < of a proposition,” “And it will be the things if that photo is It was a question, but he co.uld see she was clutching at a straw of hope.] away. And if tho plan * “My dear,” ho said, ” as you know Slake is safe, because Blake’s charac- He And Ron- devil and all I end of ali published?” I <r we connect Blake with it: he knows Surely his first assumption would be that we wouia seek an interview with Blake and do our best to get it. He may not have thought we would go as far as burg­ lary, bu he must assume on our try­ ing to obtain it. He therefore layu his plans accordingly. He instructs a subordinate—or possibly that was Zavier himself last night—and pro­ ceeds, -is some mysterious way, which I frankly admit I cannot explain, to! lie up for us. First .he removes the negative to avoid any possibility of danger to it; then probably in con- hibition and junction with Blake he sets the scene ed into a bridge near He obviously cannot be present— Harry Newell was the only person in- that would give the whole thing' jured and he was removed to the comes off) Orangeville hospital and will be my death home this week. 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