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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1939-10-26, Page 2TWHSDAY, OC TOBER, 26th, 1030 THE EXETER TIM ES-ADVOCATE By Isabel Waitt Uncle Wylie scratched his scraggy head, windblown every which way. “Ain’t sartin he understood. I yell­ ed ‘Murder!’ again. ‘Order?’ he yells back, plain as day, ‘count of the land breeze. "Here ’tis. How’ll I get it over ' ” «< lice?” “'Sartin. ‘Get the police!’ I nearly split my throat. 'Cupped my hands and hollered.” My uncle’s eyes twin­ kled. He didn't often get the cen­ tre of attention. “Do hurry up, Uncle Wylie. What did he say?” I implored. “Hold your bosses, Judy. Let us get this straight,” he said, and my’again, uncle began to chuckle. “What makes i you so consarned polite all-of a sud- ' den, Wylie? I’ll leave the order right here and you can get it in a boat. That’ll learn you not to bust any more bridges on the Fourth." Then he went away laughing.” Albion Pottei* spoke up: “Left all those bottles of milk and cream standing in a row on the other side.” “That delivery boy isn’t over- bright,” I said. “Auntie has a lot of trouble getting special orders from him. Do you think he’ll notify the authorities ” “Him? Naw! Danged fool thought I said please!” “But surely he’ll tell every one he meets about the bridge,” Victor said. “Even if it believes it was a prank.” “Will if he thinks of it,” my uncle said, lighting his old corncob pipe. “Hop here. I “I loathe steamed clams,” Bessie Norcross grumbled, when she heard my auntie's luncheon alternative. Bessie had been cleaning the spot on her coat with some smelly fluid. Now she draped it over the hammock to (dry. Personally I thought she'd ‘And you told him to get the po- made it worse, with the encircling yellowish gray rings. I stooped to pick up a couple of Lily Kendall’s crystal beads. iLovely beads, they were; expensive. I hoped she’d saved enough to have them re­ strung, It was then I realized she hadn’t been with us on the Neck. I ran up and knocked on her door but, downreceiving no answer, hurried 4 . “Where’s Miss .Kendall?” Bessie shrugged. “Haven’t her. Been locked in my in, you folks. Nothin’ to do I got some clams to shuck.” Back to the Inn got in. “If you’d Mr. De Witt,” I them only wait- said, “he hear way We ed for could have made down to Rockville.” Victor gave an exasperated grunt. “Spilt milk, Judy. All of us together might. But the chances are even a nitwit will broadcast about the bridge. You know how accidents are—nobody in sight the minute they occur, an the entire populace crowding around the next. We must keep a good watch on the Neck.” “Didn’t you tell him we didn’t have a boat ” Hugh and Mr. Quincy ask­ ed the same question that was in my mind. “Don't know’s I did. Why should I?” Uncle could be so exasperating that I wanted to shake him at times. “Got a boat, ain’t we, up of the garage.” “Well, for the love of —why didn’t you say so? screamed the minister. “Didn’t say so because she—she leaks!” Their car made the difficult about face on the narrow road and I held my breath while Uncle Wylie follow­ ed suit. I didn’t want to plunge in-i**~*i' — to those swirling waters, dangerous [her? I at any time, despite the peaceful-p°r* ^or looking marshland beyond. ^ie I was wondering why my uncle Pictor’ seen room. Hughie called to me not to bother aibout the old bridge, so I’ve been right here. He thought I’d been overdoing. Look, they’re coming back from the garage.” “How’s the boat? Any good ” They all answered together. I ga­ thered it was unseaworthy. “Hole in her as big as a bucket,” Mr. Q. shrilled gleefully. “Somebody chopped it on pose,” Potter added. “If I find out who in tunket to do sech a thing—!” Poor Wylie, bantam Hugh sister. Our car of us had occasion to enter it.'’ I saw the clergyman ^.turn so pur­ ple I thought he’d have an apoplec­ tic stroke, while the artist’s jaw dropped ludicrously. “Open all the time, isn’t it?” Vic­ tor saved the day. “Sartin. ’Cept when I lock up at night. Keep my own old Fordie in there when she hain’t yard. You see her now, ed axle, et cetery.” “Anybody seen Miss cut in. “She’s not with us and she is not in her room.” CHAPTER XX pur- dared Uncle He looked like a little mad rooster. went up and sat beside his “Glad we came by train, Cis. wasn’t in that barn. Neither In the hack with a bust- Kendall?” I' Judy, Say just what you did before. She knew it wab there? Wliat “I don’t know, Something— some­ thing she thought you knew was down there—but, for reasons of your own, perfectly good reasons, of course, kept still about.” Was I making it worse? “I guess this pretty nearly clears things up, doesn’t it, folks?” Hugh said again. Then catching sight of his sister. “Bessie, go back to the house. No woman is safe outside it.” “You mean she—” I went over to the rock and lay down and got a look at what I can never forget to my dying day. Poor Lily Kendall lay sprawled in the far I cleft of the Pirate’s Mouth. Even I, [who have heretofore seen practical­ ly no death at close range, knew she was gone. Her eyes stared sight­ lessly at the deep blue sky. Her body, too large to slide through the hideous rocky maw, had stuck gro­ tesquely. But the horrible thing—! A wave of nausea crept over me as I realized that the scarf around Lily’s milk-white throat was blue! “God Have Mercy On Us” Above me I could hear Hugh’s voice grow strident, accusing Victor. Others chimed in. Victor himself dragged me to my feet. “Go back, dear. 'Go with Bessie. We’ve got to get past you.” “Here, Norcross, make yourself useful. Take these two girls 'back to the inn and keep em there.” “And give you a chance to destroy some evidence! I guess not. You tied that scarf around her throat, and you know it.’ “What scarf ” Bessie’s haunted eyes sought mine.I I shook my head. It’s blue. A sort jof French blue.” Bessie turned and ran. She didn’t stop even when Mr. Quincy poked at her with his cane, as she passed his oncoming chair. The men were already making their way into the Pirate’s Mouth, all of them, except the minister, who kept mumbling beside have mercy on us! God on us!” Victor, Uncle Wylie, held me back while the others went Ph. I didn't like it, I )»ante(i to hear everything, and also, I’m not ashamed to confess, to keep with the crowd. If Lily Kendall could be killed for nothing like this — this maniac, how much more might he wish to get rid of me, who’d seen his handwriting, still had five hun­ dred of his dollars and the diamond ring, for all he knew. I began to puz­ zle about Lily’s death — her suspic­ ions of Victor Quade. He did have the ring. He had told me to put the money back in the drawer. He was, aftei’ all, a stranger. And now the title on his typewriter came flashing across my anguished brain —Murder on the Bluff! Was that just a coincidence? Or was he really .a killer, so daring that he even heralded his killings? All the while Hugh was talking to me, while the men went in a body across to the Castle drive. Hugh and I kept behind them, and once I quickened my pace to catch up. “Judy, you don’t think that scarf being tied around her throat means that I strangled the poor woman. You know me better than that, don’t you I couldn’t bear it if—if you suspected that—” He found difficul- ’ ty in going on; his face was in tor­ ment, “I swear that scarf—the spot on my sister’s coat ■— the fact that my golf club was found—” The men had broken into the boat house easily enough, via the pane De Witt had smashed with Hugh’s golf clu,b that night on the lawn. All they had to do was to reach in and un­ lock the garage window. But once inside the connecting door was very quickly thrown open to reveal two rowboats and a canoe — all with worse holes in them than Uncle Wy­ lie’s! I CHAPTER XXI “Well, gentlemen, does this tell you anything?” Victor asked the lot of us as we gazed, horrified, at the holes in the boats and canoe. “Looks like there’s a crazy man hidden around here somewhere,” De Witt said, picking up a doorstop. “I think we continue “You Potter’s Then he ought to arm ourselves and our search.” mean—the Castle, too?” hand twisted nervously, began hunting around .for me: “God have mercy ‘t Use specialized medication for nose and upper throat where most colds start Helps Prevent Colds Developing-Don’t wait until a miserable cold develops. At the very first warning sneeze, sniffle, or nasal irritation-put a few drops of Vicks Va-tro-nol up each nostril immediately. Used in time, Va-tro-nol helps to prevent the de­ velopment of many colds. 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A paint brush suited him better. Some of the men picked up rocks from outside. The minister opened a vicious-looking jackknife. I didn’t feel to badly when Victor asked if Mr. Quincy and I would watch the exits. There were only the drive­ ways hnd the sea ahead, but what should we do if a madman came leap­ ing out at us? “You neednt fear,” Victor said, divining my thoughts, as he so of­ ten had during this mutual exper­ iences of murder. “I’m sure find no one.” (To be Continued) (FEAR WINGHAM CATS MAY SUFFER FROM we’ll RABIES at Wing- the mat­ rabies sent to Dr. Jas. infected to the Although the authorities ham believe that they have ter of dogs suffering from well in control, they are now faced with another and more serious pro­ blem. The head of a cat Toronto for examination by McKague was found to be with rabies. This brings front the problem of cats suffering from rabies infection. iSo far the au­ thorities have released , no public statement but it is believed that they will order all cats locked up until further notice. “My wife is very extravagant.” “Mine is the very opposite. The other day I saw her boiling my shirt collars amongst the potatoes to get them starched.” KIPPEN EAST W. I. On Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. J^s. Smillie the Kippen East W, I. opened their meeting by singing the Institute ode. This was followed by a Thanksgiving poem read by Mrs. Martin. The motto, “Be kind and thoughtful one to another.” •was given by Miss Sarah Sinclair, and a paper on “Little courtesies ' worth observing,” was given by Mrs. IW. Caldwell. Roll Call was a sugges­ tion for a bride’s hope chest and was ; answered by many ideas for the bride-to-be. It was decided to have our annual banquet for tlie members at the home of the president on No- vembei’ 15 th. 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The nausea had gone, but it. return­ ed later when Mr. Quincy’s wheels hit my feet. • “What the hell’s going on down there?” he demanded, thumping the rock. It must have been terrible for him not to be able to get out and see for himself, but there wasn’t a thing for him to cling to but the clergyman, shaking like jelly. “It’s Miss Kendall. She fell over!” De Witt’s voice no longer boomed. It fairly trembled. “Judy, get up!” commanded Mr. Quincy. “Get Up this minute!” Automatically I got catching at his chair rolled us both over the “Keep by me, child,” shaking his head at De Witt. “Don’t get near the edge again—with any­ body.” He whispered the last two words, but the minister wasn’t pay­ ing any attention. I saw him hold down a hand, and presently Uncle Wylie’s head ap­ peared. Hugh came next, then Pot­ ter and Quade, the last without his coat. The questions Thaddeous Quincy hurled at those silent men! “Did she fall? How did it hap­ pen? Speak up man, can’t you The down, heard finally Once I thought Pirate’s Mouth- the most gorgeous spot in the >vorld—a place where one could commune alone with nature in all its beauty, secure in the sheltered rocky shelf, provided one was careful, with the wild Atlantic sending up its feathery white spumecrested waves in muted rhythm. But now—oh, poor, kind Lily Kendall.! What had she done to deserve -such a fate? Forevermore I shall shudder with horror at the very mention of the Pirate’s Mouth. Tho Boat House Again Let the others answer questions, Victor walked with me. “Now, we’ve got to do something. Break in the Lane boathouse, I’ d suggest.” “There’s an idea,” Potter said. 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It was quite possible Aunt Nella had sicked him on to being Horatio on the bridge just to keep the police away a little longer in the hopes that some of the mystery would solve itself. I said as much to Victor. “He, yes, and his wife, too, can’t ■wish to ,keep quiet about what’s Under the tarpaulin.” Aunt Nella Aunt Nella was standing in the; doorway waiting for the milk for her j chowder. Did she think they could I throw it across “You might have breeches buoy!” she There! She struck came to the bridge, if the boat could not be made seaworth right away, couldn’t we rig a breeches buoy of; some sort.? But Victoi’ didn’t lis- , ten to me. He and the men went i across to the old barn where the old ' ■boat was stored in the loft. i rigged up a accused. it. If nobody Another Bad Night Could Get No Rest To the thousands who tosB, night after night, on sleepless beds and to whose eyes slumber will not come. 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Even Bessie Norcross regained enough energy to tag along, with poor Thaddeous Quincy rolling him­ self down the 'bumpy path, last of i all. Aunt Nella was the only one (who stayed on the job at the inn. j I could see Victor passing the steps , of the Quaker church as I came by 'the gruesome body in the charred ’place where the fish house had been :He wasn’t going to the basement !then. Now, he was making for the ;ledge above Pirate’s Mouth. I could 'see him throwing himself at full [ length, jhim. ’ jthem lay down. What had found? What had they found! | I came up to where Potter 'the minister and Hugh were hying on the ground, as Victor turned Saud saw me. | “So you’ve seen it She knew ■was there. She thinks you put I there!” | “What, in heaven’s name?” j The others came scrambling (their feet. Hugh said. dall thought Quade put something down there?” Gosh, he was mad. Hugh pulled me away and stood back himself, as if he expected Victor to push one of of us over the cliff. 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