HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1940-03-14, Page 2THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1910 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE
“MARK 1702”
I by Eardley Beswick
Visit to Mr. Evans
At once the waiter hurried for
ward, polite enquiry contorting all
his normally suave features. Cope
shook his head a little gravely this
time, and murmured to the man in
passing: “A little short on bouquet
and a trifle on file fiery side, I’m
afraid,” From his manner no one
would have imagined he had a prob
lem on his mind more serious than
the date of a* brandy. The waiter
seemed immensely impressed.
As they emerged under the
creeper-covered doorway into the
now less congested yard Hendring
ham saw his companion raise his
hands to feel about the harrow,
leafy ledge of the porch. The hands
came down with, the parcel of parts.
He dropped them carelessly on the
floor of the car, and wiggled into
the driving seat.
‘"So that’s were you stored them!
Funny I never noticed you do it,”
commented his companion as they
settled down.
“Not funny at all, seeing that I
chose a moment when not even you
were observing me. Those blokes
probably credit us with having al
ready dealt with the parts, and if
that is the case they may not be so
keen on scouting after us this trip.
To tell you the truth I’m beginning
to want a few uninterrupted hours.
We seem to have crowded rather a
lot into this morning, and I’m find
ing it decidedly wearing.” He steer
ed dexterously into the sunny
street, ran through the market
square and took the London Road.
“Here, this isn’t the way to Crow
der’s address,” his companion re
monstrated.
“(Several quite impressive buses
about Shalbridge ithis morning,”
was Cope’s only response. “Did you
see that blue one
wheels parked in
square? There might
houses race-meeting
Hendringham had
the car, and said so, and they drove
on in silence until, at a garage on
the side of a straight stretch of
road, ithey pulled up for petrol.
They had barely stopped before a
long blue car, a little battered, but
obviously very powerful, -came snort
ing past, obviously going less than
half out.
“That’s the one,” said Cope.
“'Looks like a powerful -bus.”
“It probably is. If I’m not mis
taken it won the 'Grand Prix at
Montl-hery a couple of years ago,
only I fancy it was driven by a bet
ter anan on ithat occasion.” He hust
led an attendant, paid for the petrol
swung in a wide sweep about the
garage pull-in, and, opening out,
streaked back into town. “Now
whereabouts is that address?” he
asked as he slowed into the traffic.
“Better
the right,
somewhere
Ignoring
up beside a traffic policeman and
enquired the way to Maude street.
His companion was silent uniier the
snub he imagined to receive,
“By the way, officer,” said Cope,
when he had been instructed, to
take the first’on the right, “there’s
an old blue Minotaur’ll be along in
a few minutes. Open racer with (two
fellows in it. You can’t miss it. If
you can find it in your heart to hold
them up a minute or (two longer
than normal I shall be delighted.”
He thrust something into the police
man’s discreet palm. “Bit of a bet
on,” he explained genially. Hend
ringham ceased to imagine ’that the
had been snubbed when he saw
■the policeman wink with sympath
etic understanding.
“Two problems solved.” remark
ed (Cope happily as he drove along.
“First I wanted to make sure he
’was tracking us and second I had
to provide for his being held up at
a spot where his speed would not
avail him. d’ve done ninety-nine
in this old thing, -but he’s done a
hundred and (twenty in his, so it
would have been a race anyway.” He
■with the disc
the market
be a round the
coming off.”
not observed
take the first turn on
That will bring us out
near Maude street.”
ithe advice, Cope pulled
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Hotel Waverley
Located on Wide Spadina Ave,
at College St.
£asy Parking Facilities
Convenient to Highway*
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Gldeo to the University,
Parliament Buildings,
Maple Leaf Gardens, *
Theatres, Hospitals,
Wholesale Houses, and
the Fashionable Retail
Shopping District.
A, M. POWELL, pRtstoEWT
bore off, following his directions,
. through a tangle of streets.
[ They found Crowder's cottage
s easily enough, but the man himself
t was not at home. His wife, a tidy,
L matronly little woman suggested
: they would probably find him at
; “Bert Evans’s.”
. “Isn’t that the man who set up
. for himself?” Hendringham asked
impulsively, recalling the name.
“That’s him, sir. My husband of
ten goes along to give him a hand
. when he’s got a moment to spare.”
, They thanked her and following
, her instructions, reached a narrow
, lane that ran .between the sides of
some
, what
yard,
sheds
and a painted board on the door
announced the occupation of AL
BERT
INIST.
ITS.
The
from the interior of the shed was
that Mr. Evans’s business was less
urgent at that moment than he
might have been expected to con
sider desirable. The single line of
shafting was running light, the
belts on the loose pullies, and there
was little or no work discernible on
the tables of the idle machines. But
to Hendringham’s experienced eye
it was by no means a bad little
plant, the machines, though far
from new, being of excellent makes
and scrupulously cared for. Crowder
was sitting on a bench smoking a
cigarette and talking with the pro
prietor, a worried-looking little man
with a dark complexion and little
bright Welsh eyes. The two sprang
off the bench at the sight of the
visitors.
Crowder at once recognized them
and when he introduced them to
Evans, who wiped an oily - hand
along the leg of his overalls before
shaking hands, they quickly got to
business.
Hendringham naturally did the
talking explaining that he wanted
the parts they had brought with
them copied.
At once Crowder, asked jealously
what was wrong with them. They
had been all right, he asserted, at
seven o’clock that morning.
“Well, they’re fitter’s scrap now,”
he was assured.
“Go on!” lie cried. “Who did
they put on the job?”
“Fellow called Grossmith seems
to have been responible for butcher
ing them up.”
Crowder glanced at his companion
and the two of them spat with sim
ultaneous precision of a salute. Evi
dently they were not surprised.
“If you'd call back an hour or two
I could give you a price for the
whole job ...” suggested the
proprietor, scratching his black hair
and looking more worried than ever.
“The price is twenty pounds pro
vided the parts are finished com
pletely by noon tomorrow, and that
no one learns a word about the
job outside of this shop.” It
Johnny Cope speaking for the
time and there was a decisive
about .his voice.
“I couldn’t promise that if I
•to work all night, sir, though I
wouldn’t say as the money wouldn’t
be welcome. /Kind of set me up,
but is isn’t any good. There’s best
part of a week’s work in this lot.”
“Suppose I was >to work along with
you, Bert. It doesn’t matter to me
about losing a day at the (Gresham,”
Crowder suggested brigh-tly. "‘Any
thing to get even with those dirty
blighters.”
“We’d hardly do it then, mate,
only the two of us.”
Hendringham and Cope exchang
ed glances. “I’ll bear a hand my
self,” said the former as a result of
the agreement thus tactfully arrived
at. “Part of the time anyway.”
“At that rate we might just do
it, sir.”
“You’ve damn well got to do it,”
said Cope amiably.
For the next five minutes they
were working out a program, Before
the end of ten there was metal on
three machines, and the shafting
was -beginning to steady under its
unwonted load.
Cope, for once the only unwanted
member of the party, looked a't his
wrish watch. He stood beside Hend
ringham. and shouted in his ear: “I
am going to have a doss in the car.
Be sure you don’t let me sleep more
• than two hours. It’s now twelve and
a uarter minutes to four.”
It took Hendringham all of that
two hours to get the feel of the work
again, but his fingers took to it
kindly, and before long he was en
joying the soothing regularity of a
{turner’s job, after the excitements
I that had crowded one another Since
j the previous night. He forgot
about the overshadowing of an
j ternational
days had
leader writers with Cassandra
warning. He forgot the striving,
I worrying week that had ended so
cottages and came out into
must once have been a stable
From one of the dilapidated
came the sound of machinery,
EVANS to be ■that of MACH-
TURNING TO FINE LIM-
impression they received
far as he was concerned in nothing
but failure, forgot the existence of
Mr. Mench and of Messrs. Morgan-
thau, Pamphlett and Co., forgot his
druggings and the scabbing discom
fort of his face, forget everything,
in fact, but a cheerful, efficient
woman who had succoured him and
about whose attractive personality
it was refreshing to let his idle
thoughts play. But presently even
those thoughts failed him t
just sank into the oblivion of clean,
rhythmic work, watching the chips
curl from the point of, the tool, feel
ing the diminishing diameters with
his callipers, keeping the oil-can drip
well over the job. He entirely for
got the existence of Johnny 'Cope,
fast asleep in the big car outside,
until a quarter to six something in
his brain recalled him to the exig
encies of being leagued with that
dynamic gargoyle of a man, and h&
straightened his shoulders and went
out into the yard.
Jphnny was curled up in the driv-1
ing seat, a rug rolled into a pillow
for his head, hi$ long legs sprawling.
He cp-me awake sharply at a touch,
his eyes immediately alert, his thin
lips quivering in a smile, His first
action was to consult his wrist
watch. “Right on the dot,” he re
marked approvingly. "Gad, but I
wish I could have slept for a week.
AU this getting chivvied about is
tiring when you have missed your
proper sleep. How’s it going?”
Hendringham said they were well
into the job, -but were beginning to
feel ready for a meal,
“Tell the lads to keep on steadily
and leave the commissariat to me,”
Cope instructed him. “(Suppose we
say seven-thirty sharp for a meal
and in the meantime I’ll put in an
appearance in the toolroom —- it will
look bad if we neglect that alto
gether. I want to get in and out of
and he j here without attracting too- much
* attention too. We’ve lost the hunt
for the time being and I don’t want
to fall in with them again too much,
until we’re through with that sample
at all events. I’d rather keep this
particular backwater a secret too
until it no longer matters.”
He scrambled out of the car, look
ed round for a .moment and then
climbed a descrepit fence by means
of an old rusting tank. The last Hen
dringham saw of him as he himself
turned again towards the shop was
a bent, awkward figure slipping un-
of
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first
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obtrusively along the hedge,
rough field in the distance.
(To be Continued)
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theSlowly the raft drifted with
flow of the sea. One of the ship
wrecked sailors looked into the sky
and called: "‘Cheer up. We can’t be
far from civilization, ‘cos a couple
of bombers just gone over.”
Awarded $950
In Supreme Court, Goderich, late
Wednesday afternoon of last week
Justice Kelly, without a jury,
awarded Miss Jennie Buchanan, 40-
year-old Hensail spinster, $950 and
cost of the action against Dr. Alex
ander Moir, algo of Hensail. The
claim, arising out of motor accident
on the evening of March 26, 1939,
was for $5,144.
In summing up Justice Kelly
held that Dr. Moir, because of the
rain that was falling at the time was
driving blindly and therefore negli
gently because his only vision as
he made , a wide right hand turn at
the corner of King and Albert streets
Hensail, was through the limited
area on half of the windshield pro
vided by a wiper. His Jordship also held that Dr, Moir, 'because of
the wide turn he made due to park
ed cars, was on his wrong side of
the road. He ruled that it was the
duty of motorists to see ihat ped
estrians get safely over a crossing.
At the noon recess the judge sug-
, gested that counsel, Campbell Grant
and Frank Fingland, K.C. for the
plaintiff, and F. W. Gladman, Exe
ter and his son M. F. Gladman, of
(London, for the defendant, try an
get together on the question of da
mages, but the resultant conference
failed in its purpose, the case con
tinuing in the afternoon.
Miss Buchanan, was injured as
she was proceeding on foot to the
church, while Mr. Moir, in his car,
was bound for the Same church. It
was a misty, rainy night and Miss
Buchanan, dressed in black, also
carried an umbrella over her head, i
The judge commented that the
head, shoulder and knee injuries
which Miss Buchanan sustained
were not permanent to the extent
plaintiff’s counsel represented.
The $950 award includes plain
tiff’s out of pocket expenses, med
ical aid, etc. which were about $100.
WORKMEN’S COMPENSATION
^J’ATRMENT
During February there were 5.-
502 accidents reported tp The
Workmen’s Compensatien .Beard, as
compared with
ary and 4,333
year ago.
The benefits
to $563,790.42,
OiOi was for compensation and $112,-
267,42 for medical aid?
5,542 during: Janu-
during February a
awarded amounted
of which $451,5'23.-
ZURICH RED CROSS
The following work, done by the
women of Zurich was submitted to
the Red Cross in the February ship
ment: Three quilts, six pairs pillow
cases, 37 pyjamas, 11 hospital gowns
24 triangular slings, 12 “T” band
ages, 12 abdominal binders, 18
pneumonia jackets, 72 pairs of socks
pine sweaters, 36 scarfs and 36 pair
wristlets.
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The installer comes — in a matter of
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so he works around the house, then makes
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He means, of course, that he has con-
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people, like the grocer, the butcher, the
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DIRECTORS
W.. H.. COATES ................. Exeter
ANGUS SINCLAIR ... Mitchell, R. 1
WM. HAMILTON... Cromarty, R. 1
T. BALLANTYNE ... Woodham, R. 1
AGENTS
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Solicitors, Exeter
Our Prices are the Lowest they
have been for several years.
If you are building it will pay
you to call and get prices.
Just think Matched Lumber at
$35.00 per M. feet
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Phone 12
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