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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1938-01-13, Page 2THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1938 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCA1E WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE 1 I’m so sorry!” Merry wailed. Merry donned a slim blue hojise 1 “Well, its over now,” 'her mother dress 'brushed back her hair and tip- Basil Norton, having escorted Merry consoled. toed out into the silent house. She Millington to Palm Gardens, a 1 . . . roadhouse, becomes intoxicated j along with his friends, Frank 1 Scarponi and Viola Wiess. Worth i Hunter, famous football star, J helps Merry when Basil spills cof-i fee on her dress. T home with Merry, drives into a! speeding sedan. In the argument I that fellows in the dark, one of j the occupants of the sedan shoots (Basil. A [State policeman finds Merry alone on the highway and •Basil dead. The officer, leaving his own car, takes Basil’s—with .Basil on the back seat, and orders t Merry to accompany him to the [ police station as a murder suspect, i A passing car turns its lights on' her eyes roving lovingly over the them and farther ahead its mask-• crisp ruffled curtains, the soft pastel ed driver holds them up, order- rugs, the inviting white sheets of her car and • bed. It was all dearer now—mow stranded' that the world outside 'bad become suddenly menacing. And between the co cl, kind sheets her bright head on a pillow, she told them about everything, forcinng her self shamefacedly to admit Basil’s drunkenness. John listened grimly and her mother held one of her hands. “It hardly seems possible so much could have happened in one night.” Merry sighed. “They ought to know -you would not kill anybody,” John stormed. He got up and paced the floor at the foot of her bed, frowning. “We can prove it. You haven’t got anything “Don’t feel bad, Merry. Look. I’ve never been such a hot brother, but “Why, John—” To her troubled eyes John seemed suddenly the best brother possible, and it dawned on her thinking back over hex* life that under the teasing he had been a of a rock of safety, 'Since their father had died he had been the ele ment cf security to which she and Mother had more or less uncon sciously turned. John, youi—»” “I know, I haven’t been so ihot, I guess I kind pf resented it because you were smart enough to stay in school. I always sort of felt you were bettei* than I was, and—-well, anyway, you’re the only sister I’ve got. Gee!” He grinned down at her as though she was still 4 or 5. “And you’re swell. They can’t you! I’ll—” He lapsed thoughtfulness, And there in the little with the shades still half drawn and last night’s atmosphere of menace lingering behind. Merry understood John for the first time. ;She pulsively, pushed back his dark hair and kissed him forehead. “You’re a dear, really,” she said softly and picked up the paper again. There was a picture of Basil on the second page which Merry stud ied with an ache of regret, a fleet ing sense of walking in a nightmare. She would wake and find that all last night had been a bad dream, that Basil was still alive, still all she had thought him before that date . . The story continued over on the second page, carried a vague des cription of Worth. “The ibandit was tall and well dressed. Kruger thought that he must be of medium complex ion. He did not see ihis face. If he was not an accomplice of the blonde police believed the only other explan ation for his strange hold-up is that he may have •himself who fore she had incriminating The story of the crushed was touched on lightly, and the fact that the bandit’s Ford had showed no signs of marks of a collision such as the blonde girl had described to Kruger. ra >0 FARMERS - - ATTENTION WE REMOVE DEAD HORSES AND CATTLE Call us for prompt service, Our Men will Shoot Old and Disabled Animals ONTARIO TALLOW CO. EXETER, telephone colleot—exeter 235 ONTARIO B Stye lExetvr ©imw-Atoratt Established 1873 and 1887 at fixeter, Ontario Published every Thursday morning SUBSCRIPTION—?2.0i0 per year in advance RATES—Farm or Real Estate for sale 50c. each insertion for first four insertions. 25c. each subse quent insertion. Miscellaneous ar ticles. To Rent, Wanted, Lost, or Found 10c. per line of six woTd», Reading notices 10c. per line. Card of Thanks 50c. Legal ad vertising 12 and 8c. per line. In Memorlam, with one verse 50c. extra verses 25c. each. Member of The Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association toed out into the silent house. Merry’s eyes widened, suddenly, had almost reached the living-room “Mayioe it isn’t! Maybe it’s only be- when she heard a muffled rattle of gun.” paper. John and Helen stared at her won- ■ .For a moment she stood in the deringly. ; hall, her heart beating strangely- Who could be rattling paper in the rtom? Why.? For a long time she listened and waited. Not another sound. [ Igo many horrors ihad she suffered in the past twenty hours, so many unpredictable perils still hung over her, no wonder she stood pale, round-eyed listening with dread. The paper crackled again. Resolutely Merry forced herself silently forward, At the doorway she halted and peeked around .cau tiously. Then in spite cf herself, she smil ed. Smiled in ridicule of her own foolish fears. It was John. John in pyjamas and bathrobe, hunched over on the davenport reading the me rning paper. IHe looked up when she came in, putting the offending noisemaker quickly behind him and 'grinned a little sheepishly. “W’hat are you doing up?” he de manded and Merry thought she could detect a hint of gentleness under his gruff exterior. “(And why shouldn’t I be?” she smiled. Then: “John, what do the papers say?” John ran his hands slowly from his chin up over his face, his fingers "(Are you too tired to listen to all Basil, starting that happened? It’s such a mess!” I Merry Tells Hex* Story | They weren’t of course. But John [silpped out and started the percu- I lator and Helen went to change iher ‘clothes while Merry slipped into her i soft blue pyjamas and bathed her I aching eyes and throbbing temples. How wonderful and secure home was! With a great rush of appre ciation, Merry stood for a moment, ing Merry into his leaving the officers without key or gun. Once out of sight,, he removes the mask. It is Worth Hunter, who had left Sue at home, borrowed a friend’s car and turned ‘up the license plates planning to fake a hold-U|p to get Merry away from Basil who, he knew, was too drunk to drive. GO ON WITH THE STORY They were on the porch. The latch rattled. She couldn’t move! Even as she saw the door swing inward she couldn’t move. (She couldn't ar ticulate. “Merry!” Mother’s voice. It was Mother’s head that appeared. Mother Suddenly Meri’y felt the room grow dark as if some one had turned out the light. She felt herself grow clammy and a great, aching weari ness closed in, suffocating her. She could hear Mother’s voice calling to some -one else. Like the crazy house at Jantzen Beach the floor and walls swayed . . . She was terribly tired. Somethin cool was moving over her face. “Wait, John!” her mother said. She opened her eyes into Mother’s troubled gray ones. She was in 'bed in her own room. Mother was bend ing over her, wiping her face with a cool cloth. “There!” Helen Millington said. She regarded Merry with an anxious smile. John appeared suddenly in the door—John in his garage clothes his dark eyes anxious, frightened. “Don’t you want me to .call the doc tor?” he asked. And Merry began slowly to re member Palm Gardens, Basil, the police, Worth. “Wait,” Mrs. Millington said and, turning to Merry, asked with all the anxiety accumulated in those waiting night 'hours: “Are you all right, Merry?” “Yes” Merry said, pulling herself up to lean against the pillows that John and her mother had fixed. “What happened to you?” Helen Millington asked with such dread in her voice that Merry suddenly un derstood the agony those long hours must have ibeen to her mother. And forgetting iher own troubles, she be gan contritely to reassure her. “Nothing happened to me, not rfeally,” she said. “Nothing at all. I’m all right. But—•” she turned a stricken face suddenly toward them. “You didn’t go to the police about me? Oh, yo.U' didn’t, did you?” 'CHAPTER VIII Helen Millington looked across at John and back to Merry, not com prehending. “N-no,” she said. “We were just on our way to the police station when we thought maybe we’d better come out ’here one mere time and see if you’d got home. Why?” For the first time since she had left Palm Gardens, Merry relaxed. “It’s a long, horrible story,” she sighed. “But are you all right?” her mo ther reiterated anxiously. “Rpally I am, Mother, perfectly all right. Only I’m tired.” Dawn was beginning to crawl over Mount Hood, a gray, tired dawn which gave no gay promises to the new day. “We’re all tired,” Helen Millington said. And John quietly yawned, ihis clean dark garage-attendant’s garb strange against the pastel feminity of Merry’s ruffled bedroom chair. “You can’t teach today,” he said abruptly to Mrs. Millington. “Afraid I’ll have to take a day of mv sick leave,” she agreed. “And I caused all this! Mother, I i closer, enfolded Their lier hands and drawing’ her lips met for a brief mo ment of utter bliss Obstinate Coughs and Colds The Kind That Stick May Become Dangerous Dr. Wood’s Norway Pine Syrup to be afraid of. They have to prove yo.u did it, an’ they .can’t do that.” “But, John,” Helen reminded him kindly, “of course she can prove it. But what we especially don’t want is to have her named .as a murdei* suspect. W don’t want her mixed up in a disgraceful scandal that she really had nothing to do with.” A scowl of worry and impotent anger darkened John’s face. “Go to bed, dear,” Helen admon ished softly. An hour later the house was silent every one in it asleep—even Merry, who had slipped frategully down into the cosy protectiveness and soft comfort of her bed, completely ex hausted. 'The ringing of the telephone wak ened her. Somehow she felt it had been ringing for a long time. She sat up stupidly brushing back the stray curls that fell about her face. She must answer. Then she heard footsteps and John’s low voice. John spoke in monosyllables. All was quiet again. Funny the phone should ring. She’d thought it was on vacation rates. Merry lay back stretched luxur iously (picked up the little yellow gold watch that lay on her bedside table and suddenly sat up. Another Scare Three o’clock! What was she do ing in bed at 3 o’clock in the after noon? Then slowly it came back to her. Basil! The police! Worth Hunt er! IShe saw everything again with fresh horror. Then-—a balm to the dreadful ache—came the memory.'—• their kiss—hers and Worth’s on the front stops. How much she owed to And what about the police? they secretly traced Worth’s borrowed car? Would they? do this to into sullen living-i* oom rose im- towsled on the John— been the murderer spirited her away be- a chance to give any evidence against her.’’ fender lis- the and fol- her and Mother’s Advice “What’s going on down here?” Helen Millington’s voice came sud denly from the doorway, Helen forc ing igayety to iron out the lines of worry and grief from her face. Mutely, Merry handed her the paper, casting down her eyes like a child waiting for punishment. A long time they silently waited for Helen to peruse the sensational details, waited for her verdict, and Merry realized vaguely as she tened to the solemn ticking of hall clock, that she was waiting for something else. For what? Mrs. Millington rose suddenly hurried down the ihall. Merry lowed her, bewildered, followed as she entered Merry’s bedroom with businesslike strides crossed it to the closet door. “What are you going to do, Mother?” she breathed. Helen tossed upon the bed the yellow dress, the dark evening wrap which Merry loved so much. “I think, my dear,” she said, and a faint, worried smile troubled her face, “that yo.ur cousin, Margaret, in Iowa would like <—if we can get to her.” Merry’s eyes You don’t thing the police would—” “Hey, Merry!” John called from his room. “I—forgot to tell you. You had a phone call a while ago.” CHAPTER IX this dress and wrap them safely mailed widened. “Mother! Will Help Bring Relief < T. MILBURN CO., ITO, PRODUCT Worth! Had little the police traced the liold-up to him? Dubiously she watched John leave with the carefully wrapped clothes the police were describing. “But if that man saw me again, Mother, he’d recognize me, yellow dress or not,” she protested. And her mother, looking up, saw that she was wan and nervous; that the singular beauty of her face was enhanced by the depth of pain in her eyes. She laid a reassuring hand on Merry’s slender shoulders. (To be continued) GREENWAY a lias re- on Sun- the fun- (Too late for last week) Mrs. C. H. 'Curts is recovering from serious attack of pneumonia. The nurse, who was in charge turned heme. Mrs. IF'rank Steeper left day for Saskatoon to attend eral of the late Mr. Jas. Armand. Miss Ula Ulens has been appoint ed pianist in the United Church. In connection with the communion service in the United C'hurch the pas tor Rev. J. B. Moore conducted a very interesting baptismal service for the infant daughters of Mr. and Mrs. ,L. Wcodiburn and Mr. and Mrs. E. Mousseau, of Kippen. The water used was from the River Jordan. Best wishes are extended to Mr. and Mrs. McNaughton (nee Thelma Sheppard) who were quietly married at the manse, Grand Bend last week, forMrs. 'C. Rickhorn is acting Miss Mae Wilson who has been suf fering from a heart attack. Miss Dorothy Belling has return ed from Union and reports Mr. Ed. Bloomfield is not recovering as rap idly as his friends would like. Mr. James Geromette has opened his chopping mill for the season, working on Tuesdays and (Fridays. The roads and yards of homes have been very icy. Corbett Cream ery put in the season’s ice supply last week, the second time in their history to complete the ice harvest in the old year. Miss Mary Corbett’s friends will be glad to learn she is recovering from her recent operation for pendicitis. 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Merry felt herself trembling again “But I—d’ve got to know.” ■Reluctantly he drew the offending papers out. “Yeah. I suppose you have,” he mourned, and held it up to 'her mutely. “MISSING BLONDE CLUE IN NORWOOD MURDER. “Masked Bandit Who Wrests Girl Prisoner From Police Thought To Be Accomplice in Sensational Killing,” were the headlines. Then followed a lurid story of Basil’s death. “Witnesses at Palm Gardens shad noticed Basil and his blonde com panion quarreling previously in the evening at the roadhouse. She was found in th act of either picking iup or laying down t'he death gun, using a handkerchief to avoid fingerprints which police thought was evidence of guilt. There was no fingerprints On t'he gun. “According to the description giv-’ en by State Policeman Kruger, the young lady being sought possesses unusual beauty'—a natural blonde with fair, clean skin, large blue eyes delicate features. She was dressed in a yellow forpal and a dark evening wrap. To all appearances, Kruger states, She is a (cultured girl—pro bably from a good family.” “Then wouldn’t ped. why' don’t they know you shoot a man?” John snap- Brotherly IX>ve “Oh, John,” Merry sank down be side him in such utter dejection that :he flung his arm awkwardly across | her shouldw, Merry turned from watching her Mother bundle together the yellow formal and the evening wrap she had worn; from the realization that Mo ther must feel the police might find their way to the white English door. With heart throbbing miserably, she answered. “A phone call for me, John?” (That had been the one which had wakened her, then) “What was it?” She could hear him walking about upstairs. He came down now, tying his tie, looking clean and rested. “It was that Hunter fellow.” “What’d he want?” “I don’t know. 1 told him you were asleep. He said he’d call later.” “Mother, how co.wld he call? Isn’t the phone on vacation rates?” “They went off yesterday, lamb.” “Oh!” She stared miserably at her mother. “How awful!” Last night she could have phoned. Perhaps everything would have been different if she had known! Then her thoughts returned to Worth and she looked from Mother to John thoughtfully. “DO' you think I should phone him?” Helen lifted the half-wrapped par cel for John to finish tying. (And, see ing the wistfulness in Merry’s face, agreed. “It wouldn’t do any harm, she said. Merry hurried down the hall, hope , awakening in her heart at the thought of hearing his voice; joy—, faint ibiut not dead—stirring in a remote room there. Disappointed t the woman who answered the i said Worth was not at home. I not he back until late. And ’ turned away, disappointed, moved restlessly about the (But phone would Merry She i house, wondering where worth could he, what he had wanted. 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