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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1939-11-16, Page 2THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1930 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllM “Please, won’t somebody help me down the ramp!” I heard Mr. Quin­ cy holler again, but this time I not turn my head. Further Confession Victor said, did By Isabel Waitt picked up the picture to put it in my room. A wet painting isn’t very easy to handle, but when it’s wet on both sides it is really diffcult. Potter had painted the entire back of the canvass an apple green, which was even wetter than part of the picture itself. I, too, got it on my hands, and just when I placed the thing un­ der one of the windows to dry, it fell over. I made a grab, fearing it •1 Science Should Continue In some quarters there is an idea that, an account of the war, there should be a cessation of activities in scientific research. France, which is closest the front, does not hold to this opinion. The Paris corres­ pondent of the Journal of the Amer­ ican Medical Association has writ­ ten,— “The general opinin of the French medical circles is that present war conditions ought not to interrupt the scientific labors of the nation. The limitation placed on medical research by the mobilization of Scientific investigators and their as­ sistants and by the curtailment of means of action and work are per­ haps partially compensated by the study of special problems caused by the war. Accordingly, all necessary measures have been taken for the continuation of medical activities. The large medical reviews will re­ duce their editions by about half, either appearing once in every two times or by combining two issues into one. “The numerous meetings which were to be h^ld during the autumn have been postponed. However, the large medical societies such as the Societe des Hopitataux de Paris, the Societe de Medecine de Paris and the Societe des chirurgiens de Paris have decided to meet as usual; some have even anticipated their regular date, The Academie de Medecine met September 12. Instead of the few members usually present the attendance was almost complete. Not only the small body that ‘“holds the fort" during the vacations was pres­ ent but all who happened to be in Paris came spontaneously, glad to meet one another in these grave times. Many of the academic stafr were in uniform, either already as­ signed to military duties or mobil­ ized in the hospitals with which they are associated. Some of those absent had already been called to the front. 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I seized the paper and tried to wipe off the place where my hand had been, messing up the back mis- .erably. Then I stood the picture up (again and raced downstairs to wash my hands. Never heard of painting ! a canvas on both sides before. Per- |haps the artists did it that way now, or maybe Potter had painted on the back of another picture. It didn’t mater, The thing was not to miss anything outside. I could see Mr. Quincy still wav­ ing his red banner at the dots in the harbor. The men were ham­ mering at the bottom of The Elean­ or. The boat, they called to me, was virtually water tight—they hop­ ed. The thing was to get it to the shore. Would I go and get Wylie Gerry to tell them how? It was too heavy to carry, and they were afraid they’d scrape the patch off if they just dragged it along. Weren’t there any rollers? “Uncle Wylie’ll show you. He’s at the bridge." If De Witt or Potter thought I was their Western Union boy they were much mistaken, I skedaddled over to where Victor was standing beside Hugh, who had just finished reading his sister’s letter. Now he held it out to Quade. “For God’s sake what shall I. do?” "You could destroy it." “You read it?” Victor nodded, me to sort of take charge, any way I con Norcross.” “But surely you don’t .Bessie? She wouldn’t kill Sbe’s afraid, that’s all. And stick to her story. You see, it I not do any good to destroy over She knows I’m guilty. You’ve believe me, man! I murdered Lane.” CHAPTER XVI “Hugh Norcross! 1 — I don’t be- ■ believe you," I gasped, tears smart­ ing my eyes. He didn’t have the— the courage, I was thinking, j (To be Continued) “Boloney, You couldn’t get that in fiction. Imagine a police court. Besides, her object was to cover -up for her brother. She'd have either fished the scarf up or poked it.down into the water below. But the big thing is—who on earth would want to tie it around the dead woman’s ’ neck if she were already dead? No one but the murderer, wishing to incriminate Hugh Norcross!" We'were walking back rapidly to where the men were working on the boat. Thaddeus Quincy had man­ aged the ramp somehow, and was wheeling himself toward us with his table cloth tied to his cane. He passed us, giving me a reproachful glance, I thought. “Don’t forget what I told you, Judy.” And he shot a warning nod 'at Victor. Then he stationed him- !self in the middle of the road and began waving his signal. “Hurray for the Fourth!” boom­ ed the minister. “We’ve got to find Norcross and tell him about this, Judy." "He’s around somewhere. I should think the scarf would eliminate him from the suspects, wouldn't you?" "Perhaps.” “That makes you and me, Bessie and Hugh, Aunt Nella and Uncle Wylie, who aren’t on the list, it only leaves Potter and De and Quincy!” "Sounds simple, doesn’s it? you forgetting your Uncle knew Miss Kendall hadn’t strangled, at a glance, but person­ ally I had to make an examination, to be sure.” “Now, who’s crazy? Maybe he made an examination, too!"’ I rushed up geon. Perhaps deus Quincy’s advice. Victor Quade ' giieM only’'confess all seemed to say things like that every 1 little while, which forced me to sus­ pect the suspicioner. Wylie Gerry! Bash in his boat? Kill Old Man ■ Brown. Or even Roddy—over a few dollars and a boundary line? Let alone one of his wife’s hoarders, who could have throttled him with one hand! I could still see the dot of his figure down at the broken bridge. Victor made me furious. Hugh Wants the Letter Hugh Norcross was coming down the stairs. He came directly toward me. ‘Bessie says she gave you a letter for me. I don’t know what’s gotten into her. She won’t speak to me. Locked herself in.” Was she afraid of him? I was glad I could see the men across the road and hear my aunt’s movements in the kitchen. Then Bessie’s despair made me forget my own fear. “You didn’t give her any more of that sleeping medicine?” “I’ll say I didn’t. She takes far too much of the stuff. Why, an over­ dose—” “Exactly. Don’t let her have it. You will understand when you—” I nearly said when he’d read the letter, which would have been an admission that I’d done so myselS. “You’re sweet, Judy. My sister’s nerves are an awful care. Go up and see if \ou can get her to quiet down, will you? I wish she was out of this mess. And you, too. When it’s over there’s something I want I to say to you. Just now all I dare confession, !say or think of is—be careful.” He ...... ....... .... __ „ __ he (was squeezing my hand till it hurt. Take the wind itself, for in-[“Where’s the letter?” 1 “Mr. Quade has it. He’s with the (others at the barn. He told me to tfind you. It’s important, Hugh,” He [took a few ' " j “You tell [will you?” j "Sure," I pest, always bragging about her niece — that Gloria Lovelace, and trotting out her pictures. Gloria was her whole life, but I hadn’t come to the Massachusetts coast to hear Hugh and I couldn’t all me she but of :>■ about her. [take a walk but it was Gloria horrible story-the way- 1 knew Lily had seen my motive was -eai‘lier that fatal evening when ago Roddy ^ad gone to watch the sunset, a Summer’s I before reaching the church, I course. I knew she’d seen me wear- lj"g Hugh’s blue scarf around my ‘head. I’d lost the scarf while I | was with Roddy. When you all went i to the bridge to connect with the milkman. did I. • ward the sea. ’picked up my scarf and thrown it I into the ocean, but j blown it back into : Mouth. ~1_ __ I | killing Roddy. I g> re- i Professional Cards “Let him quilt,” stiming the letter: “To make this short, I’ll say that vengeance. Five years Lane jilted me after courtship in this very place. My bro-|;’- ther was just a boy, but he saw|^» me have a nervous breakdown and vowed he’d get even with Lane some day. I’d reserved that same pleas­ ure for myself. I take the Rock­ ville paper just to keep track or Roddy. When the auction of the church was would show cation here, could again ■broken heart and wound didn’t bleed) any more. Hugh fell for it. He'd been a good brother to me, I told him the sight of the Castle, where I’d laughed and danced and had my romance, didn’t give me a pang any longer. It not true. “ ‘When Roddy walked into dining room at Gerry’s all the bitter-sweet love came back again. And he didn’t even pretend to recog­ nize me! I’d never wronged him. I don’t have to bare my heart any more. The old adage about a wo­ man scorned is enough. I determin­ ed to go through with it. He’d never live to break another trusting heart. “ ‘I left the table, passing but not speaking to him. I couldn’t bear it if he greeted me like an old friend, in the casual, sneering way of his, which was the way he treated his castoffs. I’d studied his career and found it full of things he’d neglect­ ed to mention, such as his wife! I’d never dreamed he was already married while making love to me. “ ‘I picked up the club Mr. De Witt had been using on the lawn and went for a stroll. Everybody, nearly, had gone to town, thought. Hugh was in his room. I j saw Roddy coming down the Castle drive. He wanted to talk to me, he said, to tell me how miserable j he’d been—the mistake we’d made j of our lives. Could we ever forgive ourselves! And begin again! | “ ‘I had to steel myself against his passion. All the old feeling came rushing back. I was beginning to melt like sugar. He had to get something out of the church base­ ment before it was auctioned off, he said. I asked him if he’d meant it when he said at supper he was going to buy it. ‘Buy it? What for?” he said. "I only came to the Head because I knew you were down here dear,” I knew that was a lie. Hugh and I had only just arrived the week before, quite unheralded. We went into the church—the door was un­ locked—and he told me to wait but I followed him. "Roddy, are you asking me to marry you again?" I said. He took me in his arms and kissed me. Foi' a moment I happy. Then hp said: "No wedding bells for me. Sort of panionate, maybe, darling." were standing at the top of basement stairs. I was so mad I gave him a push away from me. He fell down the stairs and must have struck his head on the granite floor. Ugh! I can see him now—all smash­ ed, I dragged him to the closet and somehow got him in, I forgot about the golf club, which must have fallen down into the pool of blood. I heard somebody on the steps—Miss Kendall, or maybe it was Judy and Mr. Quincy. Anyway, I ran o-ut the basement door and home. Judy will remember she heard the door squeak, so I must have not quite closed it. I didn’t know what to do. I considered jump­ ing into the sea but hadn’t the cour­ age.’ ” "Poor Victor Lily didn’t go. Neither We took a walk together to- told me she'dShe > GLADMAN & STANBURY (F. W. Gladman) BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, &c Money to Loan, Investments Made Insurance Safe-deposit Vaults for use of ou* Clients without charge EXETER and EDEN SALL advertised I hoped he up. -Got Hugh to va- ostensibly to prove I visit the scene of my show him the was the old the wind had the Pirate’s ■She accused me openly of jot her to show (me where, and gave her a little push [too. She fell you know where, and I rolled her toward the slit in the rock, where she stuck. The hand- ■ kerchief was there, all right, but I [didn’t tie it round her neck. It slip­ ped out of my fingers beyond reach into the crevice. I had nothing to fish it out with, and hoped when the tide turned it might be washed away. But some wretch tied it round her neck to make it look as ‘if my brother did it. I didn’t [strangle her. She died, just as Rod- ■ dy did, from the fall. If she hadn’t [said I killed Roddy because he jilt- ied me I wouldn’t have pushed her I in. That word jilted finished me.’ ” “She's crazy!" I gasped. Victor said. it.” And he explanation CORNELIUS TOOHEY, FORMER BIDDULHPH, FARMER, DEAD Why, Witt Are Wylie been “You all invited I’ll help “Just a read the of that "Oh, no,” little more of last pitiful {awful night. I “ ‘I was afraid I might be seen, so I crept out of the Pirate’s Mouth, I up the other side, the steep way, crawling around the cliff back of the church, and down to the strip of beach to the woods back of Gerry’s J barn. I got across the road to the ! inn and back to my room without s0 (being seen. And that’s all, I'll try ■to answer police questions—if I’m i awake. But, before God in Heaven my brother is innocent!" “How dreadful!" Victor sighed. “Yes, how dread­ ful. What does she mean—if she’s awake? Does she take sleeping me­ dicine all the time?” He jerked around and started back. “Hurry, Judy. She’s pretty desperate." “Don’t worry. She begged me to beg Hugh for another pill or tablet, or however veronal comes. And I heard her say he’d refused to give her any—damn him. Hed words, not mine.” “How she must love him!" “Sounded pretty mad at him through the door." “Poor girl! No wonder she wanted sleeping tablets after writing all this." “Wasn’t she brave to confess!" “Confess? Why, you innocent little baby! This document lets her off scotwas more com- We the free." CHAPTER confessed to I could see 1 XXV save—•him! ” it, now that During “She Even Victor had pointed it out. the reading, I’d noticed a few dis­ crepancies in Bessie’s c._. .. but nowhere near the number had. stance. It couldn’t have blown the blue scarf back into the Pirate’s Mouth because there was a land breeze before the tide turned, and the place was entirely sheltered. “We’ve got to show it to the po­ lice." “And incriminate the brother she tried to save?" the steps in high dud- I’d better take Thad- things like that every steps forward. Bessie I’ll be back soon, % Bessie!" I murmured, turned the last page. Is Bessie Guilty? “ ‘I never intended Lily Kendall any harm. -She was a bore and a Backache-Kidneys Most people fail to recognize the seriousness of a bad back. The stitches, twitches, and twinges are bad enough and cause great suf­ fering, but back of the backache and the cause of it all is the dis­ ordered kidneys crying out a warn­ ing through the back. A pain in the back is the kidneys ’ cry for help. Go to their assistance. » Get a box of Doan’s Kidney Fills. A remedy for backache and sick kidneys, “Doan’s” are put tip in an Oblong grey box with out trade mark a “Maple Leaf” on the wrapper. Refuse substitutes, Get11 Doan’s.f ’ The I. Milburn Cd., Ltd., Toronto, Ont, said, glad to .escape his j devouring gaze of his haggard Lucu w I 1 knocked on Bessie’s door. “May not incriminate him,” Vic-[was crying, said. "It’s the cleverest thing I' “Hughie? ever read. What Bessie says about {sleep!” her light not showing from the path ■ "It’s to the bluff; little things like that, (cup of And her timing’s pretty good, too. ' only she’s forgotten Mr. Quincy was sitting on the, piazza all the even­ ing, until she wheeled him down to the church. He saw her go >up to her room, before dark, and she did not come down again. But Hugh, did, he admits. I think it may have been Hugh you spoke to, later. “Another thing: Miss Kendall went down to the Quaker Church early, and fell asleep, she claimed. Bessie and Roddy couldn’t have failed to see her. Do you think Lily wouldn’t have waked up at the sounds Of a man falling down those rickety stairs and the scream any human being must have given at such an accident?" “She didn’t mention the ring. I ............. .. can't imagine a girl like her 1 on a newspaper, where Albion Pol­ ing that ”------J *’’”'**’ *nnA hand," Wii at "Nor I, the fire and the bridge should tie in. According to this cOnfessioh they don’t. Just coiftcidence. Well, it won't wash. Neither will leaving that blue scarf behind." “It slipped through her fingers." diamond from his dead About Uncle Wylie? But the thing Is, Judy, I can’t sleep! I eyes. She can’t Judy. Want me to get you a tea?" thank you. Did you givd myj “No, brother the letter?” | ‘He has it now." , I heard a scrambling off the bed. .“Did he give you the medicine?" j “No. Said you couldn’t have any ■more till night. Do let me in, Bes­ sie—'Miss Norcross. I’ll rub yotir ihead if it aches so badly." ; But evidently she’d flung herself on the bed again, for muffled sobs { were her only reply. I gave It up ‘finally, tiptoeing past poor Lily Ken- jdall’s room and on up to my room. I “I Murdered Roddy Lane" ( The picture of the now hateful ;old church stood in a corner of the .hall near my door where Victor had 1 moved it when he’d gone to see if [the $500 was still there. It stood ter had thoughtfully placed it to ’save the floor. I didnt pick it up [Until I’d made sure of the money, It was still where I had left it! Cef- | tain peculiarities in the letter came -to my mind, and it occurred to me 'at least Bessie had given me some ■ handwriting to compare, only I had­ n't examined It closely. I’d go down and try to take a look. But first I I think—? an ant! she’ll would this, again, got to Roddy ■ Cornelius Toohey, a farmer in I Biddulph Township most of his life and for the past two years a resi­ dent of London, died recently at the home of his daughter, Mrs. M. No­ lan, 146 Ann Street, London. He was in his 70 th year. Mr. Toohey was born in Biddulph, a • son of the late Tim,thoy and Mary Toohey. He lived there and was a well-known farmer until removing ’ to London. His wife died IS years ago and he is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Nolan and Miss Elizabeth Toohey, both of London. Another daughter Miss Martha, was fatally injured in a motor car accident in the city years ago. There is also grandchild surviving. 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