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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1940-04-18, Page 6THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATETHURSDAY, APRIL 18th, 1940 it£11 by Eardley Beswick When the dooi’ closed, Ml*. Hend­ ringham carefully disentangled him­ self from the scrollwork and drop­ ped easily to the roof of the porch. "Surprised at you, Johnny,” he re­ marked pleasantly as he entered by the window. “Half an hour late for your appointment at least, and ly­ ing in bed gossiping, too!” "You’re entitled to that. It’s your turn all right,” replied the bound one magnanimously, “Lock the door first and get these cords off my ankles before you start the ragging if you don’t mind. They’ve been pulling ’em as tight as the bedposts would stand in an effort to emulate the mediaeval racketeers. It’s been hard work to keep pleasant while they were adding all the other crud­ ities their clumsy technique admit­ ted of and I must confess I dislike being tortured by amateurs.” When the bonds were cut he sat up and rubbed his joints, groan­ ing peevishly. But his mind was evidently as alert as ever. "I sup­ pose it was that nice little cigarette case of Morganthau’s,” he remarked “As highly civilized a firearm as I seem to remember. Makes me glad I gave it to you. Even keepsakes can come in useful if you stick to them long enough. By the way, you never told me that it fired more than the one shot Morganthau ad­ mitted.” Hendringham had no more thought of ragging. The face of his friend forbade the use of his op­ portunity on this occasion. He had never seen Johnny Cope looking so pallid, nor with such obviously sweat-beaded temples. He decided that the best thing to do was to go on talking while the man recovered. “I didn’t know myself about that until a moment ago,” he admitted. “I heard something ratcheting in­ side after the first shot, and when I examined it a bit closer it was ob­ vious that there was another cart­ ridge ready and the used shell eject­ ed into the cigarette part of the thing. I didn’t want to have to fire another in case it was the last I had. That’s where your bit of patter came in handy.” "I never did stand for unneces­ sary bloodshed and as you know I abhor firearms. I always say the tongue is mightier than the gun provided there’s a brain behind the former.” He was sitting on the side of the bed now, massaging his an­ kles, and with the relief from pain his tone had grown more normally didactic. It was once more the old Johnny Cope, consciously philoso­ phising his favorite pose recover­ ed his mind alert. “What an ac­ complished liar Morganthau is,” re­ marked Cope with his usual quick jerk to a new’ object. “It almost justifies us for not keeping our ap­ pointment in Geneva.” He rose from the bed and moving to the wash bowl began to cleanse his hands, after which and an unusal- ly careful brushing of his lank hair, he resumed: “Must look spruce for profes­ sional visits, you know. It’s time to render such poor aid as within our powers to Messrs. Marsden and James. Thoughtful of them to come and live next door, wasn’t it? If all patients were like that I might resign myself to the life of a General Practitioner. Sure there’s no dan­ druff on the back of my collar?” Hendringham found a brush and began to valet him. “You haven’t told me yet how they managed to get you, Johnny?” he remarked, and added subtly; “But perhaps you don’t like to talk about it.” “Oh that, a particularly neat trick this time. They’d had plenty of time for preparations, you see and while I was engaged in conflict with Mench’s barbarians they evi­ dently made good use of it. They’d rigged a bobby trap inside my door only not the usual sort *of thing with a soaked sponge or a water jug, you know, something infinite­ ly neater having, I fancy, classical analogies. The fact is they netted me, ordinary herring net from the smell and until you’ve been draped •in one you can have no idea of the Agonizing Eczema (Salt Rheum) i No rest, day or night, for those afflicted with that awful Bkin dis­ ease, eczema, or salt rheum as it is commonly called. ,The intense burning, itching and smarting, especially at night, or when the affected part is exposed to strong heat, or hot water, are almost unbearable, hnd relief is gladly welcomed. To get rid of eczema it is neces* sary to have the blood cleansed by the use of a thoroughly reliable blood medicine such as Burdock Blood Bitters which during the past 60 years has met with great success in relieving such diseases by its blood cleansing and purifying properties. The T. Milburn. Co., Ltd., Toronto, Ont, helplessness that descends on you when three pretty robust assailants are playing fisherman to your herr­ ing. There were certain things I could have done, violent things for the most part and therefore against my nature, so the course. I chose was to endeavour to charm them with my conversation until you came upon the scene.” “You expected me then?” “Obviously, I knew you would begin to wonder when I proved half a minute late, and felt sure you would initiate an investigation be­ fore the delay had extended to five minutes. I had therefore only to amuse them until some five minutes after eight, allowing for your time walking here. Actually, as you will have realized, that proved in the event somewhat of a task. The fellows where impatient or else my conversational charm for once fail­ ed me. Anyway they were on the point of becoming very objection­ able indeed when you did actually intervene. Could anything more per­ fectly illustrate the value of a reputation for strict punctuality? Once again the time-schedule is vin­ dicated in these affairs, and that reminds me we have no more than time for the simplest of field dress­ ings, no chance of extracting a bul­ let, if our friends actually decide to admit us. I shouldn’t be surprised if the ungrateful blighters refused our professional services but it is the least we can do, isn’t it?” Sample Completed His surmise proved correct. A knock at the door of Number 16 produced no reply. A silent turning of the handle proved the door lock­ ed. 'Similar results obtained at number 18. Messrs. Marsden and James 5X61*6 “not at home.” Cope . affected to resent the slight on his professional skill, and conoled him­ self with the reflection that if they prepared to treat their own wounds they must accept the responsibility for any unfortunate consequences. He said this rather loudly as they left the corridor, adding that no one would regret it more than he if the bullet-holes suppurated. Hend­ ringham let him talk on. He had no inkling that the last halt hour had been for him a much worse time than his flippant manner ad­ mitted, and he knew that it was by chattering affectedly that Johnny Cope either got himself in hand or helped someone else to do so. Within half an hour they were again at the Gresham Works. Mr. ■Mench, so the janitor informed them had not yet arrived. The parts in hand in the toolroom were still very far from completion, and Ferris genuinely in despair at the slowness of his men. Evidently Mr. Mench’s promised date was now the one for which they were openly working, and nothing that a foreman could do or say would make any differ­ ence. He hinted as much to Hend­ ringham, who nodded, grimly and pretended to be resigned. Mr. Mench was still absent when they left the Works. It was not late in the morning and at Cope’s suggestion they de­ cided to avoid anothei* meal at the hotel. A shopping tour in the town provided him with all that was ne­ cessary for what he called a gentle­ man’s lunch and loaded with .his purchases, they returned to the workshop uneventfully. Here Evans and Crowder were patiently finish­ ing the last of the urgent parts. Evans grinned as he reported a vis­ it from Mr. Mench himself and an offer of double whatover the job was bringing them if they would ‘make a mess of it.” “I suppose you told him to clear out before you spoilt his face for him.” commented Hendringham, sure of his men. “Not a bit of it!” declared Evans robustly. “Oh! What did you tell him then?’ “Promised to do what he wanted and got a fiver in advance out of him,” answered Evans with a wider grin. "I reckoned as that’d keep him quiet while we got on with the rest of it and I didn’t want to have him sending his bullies to wreck the place'for us. I’ll send the fiver back with Bert Evan’s compliments when it’s all over, I reckon.” Cope gave him a look of admira­ tion. “Good for you,” he said. “I mean for your idea of strategy, not your altruism. If I were you I should consider myself entitled to stick to anything of .his I could get hold of, if only as compensation for the insult. Amusing to see our friend Pandolfius reduced to simple bribery, though,” he said in an aside to Hendringham, as the mechanic turned once more to his machine. “It means his mind is in the very devil of a turmoil. When he finds this last move has failed he’ll be doubly dangerous, foiled men al­ ways are.” They lunched superlatively as a preparation to the task of complet­ ing the assembly and after the meal they set to work, Johnny Cope prov­ ing adept as any of them now that it was only a matter of screwdrivers and pliers. An intensive afternoon’s work yielded them towards six o’clock the first complete satisfac­ tory sample since the explosion that had wrecked the original one and had thereby, given rise to so many adventures. Hendringham’s chest swelled, when he saw it lying on the bench before him at last, perfect mechanically and ready for its in­ sulation tests, an ugly, bullet-nosed fass with a little propeller airscrew projecting from one end. He wrap­ ped it in sacking and bore it in triumph to the big car, and stood on guard beside it while Cope paid the proprietor of the little works. “I think on the whole I’d rather you did send Mr. Mench’s fiver back to him,” 'Cope said. "It’d hurt his feel­ ings more.” As he spoke he was adding five pounds to the twenty in Evans’ black hand. Evans thanked him kindly, and Crowder volnteered: “We’re sort of gathered, Mr. Cope, as you’re not entirely out of the wood, so to speak yet. So iBert and I just been say­ ing that if there’s anything more we can do before packing up you've only to let us know.” It was the sort of thing that both Hendringham and Gope found na-' tural, coming from meh of this type and their refusal was in a sense re­ luctant. It was, on Cope’s part, a strangely couched refusal, involv­ ing “nothing beyond existing ar­ rangements,” and as he said the words Evans seemed to catch his eye and nod understanding^. CHAPTER XII "A Lady to See You!” “‘A good day’s work, demands a good dinner,” said Cope. ■“Rather a better one than we’re likely to ob­ tain, I’m afraid. However . . An untidy parcel in a sacking wrapper under his arm, he entered the hotel from the yard. He had left, another, similar parcel in the dickey, which was locked, in case, he explained, with his usual satiri­ cal smile twisting those loose ugly lips, there could possibly remain anyone unsated with substitutes. Throughout the meal he kept the untidy parcel between his feet, los­ ing in his solicitude, no doubt, some of the prestige his palate for vale- udinarian brandies had. secured him with the waiter. They were waiting the arrival of the soup when the Hall Porter ap­ proached Hendringham. “A lady to see you in the lounge, sir,” he said. “I said you were at dinner, but she said it was urgent.” “A lady?” He glanced at 'Cope, who pursed his mouth and nodded sagely. “I’ll be there in a minute,” he told the man. “If she has not already dined I suggest you ask her to join us, that is if it turns out that the surmise we evidently share as to her ident­ ity is correct,” 'Cope said. For some queer reason the young­ er man flushed. “I’ll go and see who it is” he answered offhanded­ ly. “By all means do.” Cope wickedly copied his intonation. In the lounge Clare Bilvane was pacing up and down. “Is there anywhere we can talk?’ she asked after a conventional greeting. She looked strained apd her gloved hands fidgeted. “Nowhere very private in this place,” Hendringham answered, his mind for the moment playing with the idea of inviting .her to a stroll. But a moment later the sense of strategy he had inevitably imbibed from association with Johnny 'Cope overruled the ..impulse. “The best thing,” he said, “would be for you to accept an invitation from 'Cope to dine with the two of us. He ac­ tually made it, guessing it was you. That might excite comment perhaps in certain circles, but probably less than anything else one can think of, and one can talk more privately in a public restaurant than almost any- were else . .” He hesitated, “ac­ tually Cope. I know, would be de­ lighted fand I —well, I - hope you will, that’s all.” 'She, too, hesitated before accept­ ing, but presently Cope was order­ ing another place to be laid at his table. “I believe I am going to en­ joy this meal after all, Geoffery,” he said when the waiter had left them. “I was getting a bit tired of purely masculine society as a matter of fact. The beauty of a dinner table conversation,”, he went on in his easiest, his most loquacious manner, “is that one can choose one’s time for the things one really wishes to say and can intersperse them with a great deal of the plea­ sant sort Of chatter that means nothing but in the right company, is so peculiarly agreeable. I suggest my dear, that we talk theatres, or novels, or If necessary fashions—I can even find something to say on that subject-—while the waiter is MAKE THEM This Year Hogarth Chicks HIGH QUALITY, BLOOD TESTED CHICKS AT REASONABLE PRICES Once You Try You Always Buy From Hogarth BARRED ROCKS, WHITE WYANDOTTES, WHITE LEGHORNS, NEW« HAMPSHIRES, JERSEY BLACK GIANTS, COCKERELS, PULLETS AND STARTED CHICKS CUSTOM HATCHING HOGARTH CHICK HATCHERY EXETER, ONT. Phone 266 handy enough to overhear us. The really important things can be dealt with when no one is within range and even then can perhaps best be told with heads close together over the table and accompanied by bursts of laughter as if we were sharing a funny story.” He chose a wine with all the philosophical deliberation such as choice demands from men know­ ledgeable in wines and, when the waiter had departed,' he leaned for­ ward. “I should like to hear you tell a story, my dear, he suggested. Their three heads approached confidentially. MisS Silvane said: “I overheard Mr. Mench telephoning today. As a matter of fact I can overhear him rather easily when he is on the pri­ vate line to his house. I have only to lift my receiver. I suppose the wires are crossed somehow. When I found it out a day or so ago I meant to report it but, well, after what happened the other night I just thought it might be as well not toz As soon as I heard \the mumble of his voice on the telephone—you can just hear that much through the partition—I take off my receiver and if he’s on the private line I can hear him. I ask the operator for the number of a friend who .happens to be away so that if I want to I can hang on without getting any re­ ply at all. If he happens to be on one of the public lines I ask .her for one of the departments—there is always something you can ask about in a work, you know. I’m talking as if I’d done a lot of this, actually it hasn’t been oftener than three times and the first two were quite ordinary conversations . . .” “Haw, haw, haw*-!” laughed Cope and /‘Ha, ha ha!” Hendringham echoed him. Miss Silvane trilled a little more lightly. The waiter, removing theii* plates, must have thought them a jolly party. He mov­ ed" away and- they bent forward again. “He was talking to a man this time,” she went on, “and the man seemed upset about something. I didn’t get the start of course, but the first thing I heard was the other man saying something about it being all right if they went to Knebling but there’d have to be plenty of warning if they took the other road. Mr, Mench said in­ structions would come from the A.A. telephone box at the cross roads and if it was the other road it would mean getting across to Hailsford in quick time. Hailsford was just as good,” he said, “and once there, the arrangements ought not to take more than a couple of minutes, that was the beaut of the whole scheme. The other man said that what he didn’t like was the *ourhing. “It’s pretty ghastly, isn’t it?” he said, and then asked what would happen if. everything was burnt up.” She shrugged her shoulders distasteful- | ly. "It sounded horrible,” she said. (To be Continued) Your Next Visit to TORONTO Try Hotel Waverley Located on Wide Spadina Ave. at College St, Easy Parking Facilities Convenient to Highways • n _ Single - - $1.50 to $150KRteS Doubla : ■ 5150 to 55.08 Four to Room, $5.08 to $1.88 Close to the University, Parliament Buildings, Maple Leaf Gardens, Theatres, Hospitals, Wholesale Houses, and the Fashionable Retail » Shopping District. A. M. POWELL, PRESIDENT DEAD AND DISABLED ANIMALS REMOVED PROMPTLY Phone Collect: Seaforth 15; Exeter 235; Lucan 12 DARLING & CO. OF CANADA LTD. HAY COUNCIL The regular monthly meeting of the Council of the Township of Hay was held in the Town Hall, Zurich, on Monday, April 1st, 1'940, with all members present. The minutes of the March 4th meeting were adopt­ ed as read. After disposing pf numerous communications the fol­ lowing resolutions were passed: That the plan prepared by S. W. Archibald O.L.S., of the Lake front of part of (Lot 31, L.R.W.', con., Tp. of Hay, owned by Mrs, Andrew Turnbull, be approved by the coun­ cil and the Reeve and Clerk be au­ thorized said plan on behalf of the Township. That the resignation of Reinhold Miller as assessor for 1940 owing to illness be accepted by the council and that W. H. Edighoffer be appointed assessor for 1940. That the auditors’ report as pre­ pared by Monteith & Monteith, char­ tered accountants be accepted by council and that the Clerk have 75 copies printed for public distribu­ tion. ’ That Monteith & Monteith, char­ tered accountants, be appointed to audit the Township accounts for the year 1940. Remuneration to be fixed at $150.00. , That Tax Collector be authorized to continue the collection of 193'9 unpaid taxes and shall return the Collector’s Roll next regular meet­ ing of the ’Council. That the Tender of Craig & Eis- enbach for operating the Township crusher and trucking gravel onto the Township Roads for the season of 1940' at 58 cents per cubic yard flat be accepted and Clerk prepare necessary contract forms -and bond for execution by the contractors and the Township. That no meals be given to tran­ sients after April 1. That upon the recommendation of the Department of Highways so as to permit Township Road ac­ counts for preceding month to be presented at regular monthly meet­ ing of the council, the date of the meetings of the council be fixed for the second 'Monday in each month instead of the first as formerly. That accounts covering payments for Relief, Hay Telephone System and general accounts be passed as follows: Unemployment Relief: L. Hend­ rick, rent $5; W. Hay, allowance $40; H. Thiel, transients $33. Hay Telephone System—Montieth & Monteith audit $35; Bell Tele­ phone Co. tolls Jan. to Feb. $18.- 63; T. H. Hoffman monthly salary ^$191.66; A. iF. Hess, quarterly sal­ ary $87.50; Econ. Fire Insur. Co., insurance $7.20; E. R. Guenther, cartage 5 0'c; Nor. Electric Co., ma­ terial $43.&5; H. G. Hess monthly salary $17'5.00; Dept. Highways trailer license $2. General account: Monteith & Monteith audit and setting up new system, $1.40; A. F. 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