HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1940-05-02, Page 2“MARK 1702”
by Eardiey Beswick
A quarter of a minute latei- he
remarked: “I suppose I ought to
say I’m sorry for having been so
beastly. That fact is, well . . .it
would upset me rather -a lot if any
thing happened to you.”
“But what about me? I mean it
is you that’s going to be in danger!’
she cried at that. “And, well , . .
there isn’t going t be much time to
say things apparently, but . .
There was not even time for her
to finish the halting sentence. From
the hall outside arose sounds of
altercation, of a scuffle, a sharp
•cry, a shout of “Stop him!”
The loungers herded toward the
entrance. Miss Silvane rose and
tossed her handbag on Hendriug-|
ham's knees. Then she followed the ‘
crowd through the entrance, only,
as she passed the switches, out went
the lights.
Hendringham had mentally lo
cated the piano sconces so that he
could have laid his hands on them
in complete darkness. But there was
not complete darkness, the evening
being not sufficiently advanced for'
that and the twilight filtering thro'
the high net curtains. Quickly he
lifted the candles from beneath
their shades, recognizing as he did
so the peculiar feel of celluloid and
indulging a flash of enjoyment for
the audacity that had so publicly,
but so efficiently, concealed them
where they could be seen by every
one without
single soul,
the handbag
trance. As
with the tail of his eye the impres
sion of a pale face pressing
the window from the outside,
the moment it disturbed him,
there was excitement without
as soon as he had reached the
his momentary uneasiness was oblit
erated by the sight that met him
there.
Adventure Begins
In the midst of a crowd Johnny
Cope, a trifle dishevelled, was vol
ubly explaining how he had been
most audaciously jostled and plun
dered. The Boots, a huge fellow
in braided livery, was trying to get
the Police Station on the telephone.
The crowd was excitedly commenting
and explaining one to another. Be
fore the telephone call could be
completed, a more effective member
of the company hurried in with a
policeman from the street, and
thereupon there began a series of
official enquiries and note-takings
in the manner typical of the British
constable in action. Hendringham
who had moved to stand beside Miss
-Silvane, and was silently and not
without a certain enjoyment, find
ing a secret pleasure in pressing her
handbag into her grasp, was aston
ished to hear Cope declare the stolen
parcel of little consequence. ‘A small
sample of machinery, Officer, quite
useless, I was only keeping it in
order to investigate how it failed.
Fellow was tall about six feet, with
fair hair and a rather long face.”
'Ey the time he had succeeded in
satisfying the policeman’s thirst for
details, however unreliable, the thief
had had plenty of time to get clear
but did not seem to concern Johnny
Cope in the least. “Excellent fel
lows policemen,” he remarked as
they made their way back to the
lounge.
(Strangely enough Hendringham
still had Miss gilvane's bag in his
hands. “Oh your bag. You left j
it on the chair, and I thought, with
thieves about, I’d better take care
of if for you.”
She received it a bit awkwardly.
She might have been ‘feeling
■conscious, or she might have
intentionally handling it as
contained
not used
“About
as they
their chairs, “On the .Sheiffield road
there is a cross-roads. If you pull
up by the signpost there and ask
a black-haired man without a hat
to tell you the way to Hamilton
Lodge, he will hand you a parcel
-exactly like the one I lost just now.
any-
Cope
have
clear,
don’t
time
rousing suspicion in a
He slipped them in
and made for the en-
he did so he caught
against
For
but
and
hall
self-
been
if it
wasdynamite and she
to dynamite.
a mile out,” said Cope,
re-settled themselves in
Worry Saps
The Nervous System
Worry over business or household
duties, sudden shock, the insane
quest for pleasure, the foolish at
tempt to put a week o£ normal life
into twenty-four hours, feverish ac
tivity, the demand for Sensational
literature are all conducive to the
aggravation of wear and tear on the
nervous system.
If yon are tired, listless, nervous,
and worried why not give Milburn’s
Health and Nerve Fills a chance to
help put you on your feet again.
They are a body building, nerve
strengthening tonic containing the
essential elements for the nervous
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I
Hamilton Lodge remember, and you
should be at the cross-roads pre
cisely at ten o’clock.”
Her lips moved as if she were
silently memorising the insti*ue-f
tions. Then she rose and held out
her hand. “Thank you both for
an enjoyable evening.” she said. “I
wouldn’t have missed it for
thing,”
When she had gone Johnny
ordered another braudy. “We
precisely fifteen minutes
Geoff,” he said.
“I’m afraid there’s a lot I
understand . . .”
“We shall have plenty of
and more privacy for explanation
on the road,” Cope told him, and
for the remaining minutes they sat
in silence. Cope sipping his brandy
supprecia lively.
At a quarter-past nine they set
out from the yard, having ascertain
ed by an examination of the parcel
that was still in the dickey that it
had not gone unexamined in the in
terim, a discovery which made Cope
laugh.
“Evidently,” he remarker as he
took his seat, “you can’t fool some
of the people all the time, even if
they are engaged in secret service.
On this occasion they had a look
first to make sure. They’ll be a
little bothered to know who stole
the other parcel ... all the better
if it confuses them.” He was run
ning easily out of the Market Square;
as he spoke.
“It confuses me, I must confess.”
“Well, o'f course; you weren’t
there to see the thief. If you had
been you might have recognized
Evans rather better than from the
description you heard me give to
the police. It's Evans who’ll hand
over to Miss Silvane at the cross
roads. I fixed
afternoon.”
“Good God!
coming to the
time, knew she
drive?”
“I had a hunch she would,
admit,” said Johnny Cope, “tho’
the details had to be left to work
themselves out in practice. Don’t
be angry with me, Geoff.” he pro
tested. “I couldn’t see any other
way at the time and there’s a lot
at stake.”
“If it’s all right I suppose I'll be
an ass to bear malice, but if any
thing happens to that girl, Johnny.”
“I know, I know. But nothing’s
going to happen to her. If it did
I’d be just as upset as yourself.”
There was silence for a mile or
two, then Hendringham said, “I
suppose you’ve been exercising your
clairvoyant faculties again, eh?”
“Well, why not? One can’t af
ford to, neglect any faculty, you’ll
admit, in a job of this kind. There
are people, Geoff, particularly nice
people as a rule, with whom I’m
easily en rapport. She is one of
them. When I heard her voice on
the ’phone the other night I could
have described her, well, to say the
least of it, a great deal more ac
curately than I described Evans to
the policeman. It’s much the same
with yourself. Sometimes I don’t
need to see you to know what you
are doing. If the thing would only
work like that when it’s a case of
dealing with men like our friend
Pandolfius I shouldn’t have to do
much thinking on a job of this kind.
But there it is, the faculty is so- use
ful, even when it is confined to
one’s very special friends, that it
would be churlish to be dissatisfied
with its limitations.” He was talking
in his level, soothingly loquacious
manner as if with the aim of giving
the other man time to cool down,
to consider reason.
They were speeding by now along
a wet road in the last of the even
ing dusk under a cloudy sky, their
headlights making a lane of vision
between the
driving with
recklessness.
“We’ll go
marked presently,
as if we
after all,
them too
line is to
or rather
yard to spare,
versation our nice young friends re
ported so efficiently they will have
men planted near the A,A. tele-
phone.s to report our progress.” He
drove on, talking easily as they
swung along the miles ticked off
monotonously on the speedometer.
Lulled by the sense of security he
always felt when driving with John
ny Cope, Hendringham dozed in his
bucket seat.
it up with him
You knew she
hotel then all
would offer
this
was
the
to
I’ll
dark hedges. Cope was
all his usual controlled
by Knebling,” he re
look
and,
give
best
trap,
“It won’t
had any suspicions
there’s no call to
much trouble, -Our
run slap into their
to pull up with about a
Judging by the con-
The Trap
roused after about an
Cope’s voice saying!
Geoff. It's from herb
. There’s
He was
hour by
“Knebling,
we begin tn take notice .
an A. A. telephone about four miles
nut of the town and another at the
cross-roads, nearly seven miles far
ther on . , Unless I’m very much
mistaken, we shan't reach the sec
ond tonight.”
Hendringham was wide awake at
once, in time to see the ghostly
houses of a little township caught
for a moment in their headlights,
vanish as if jerked into the black
ness behind. He began to watch
the speedometer tick off the miles
his mind puzzling as to the sort of
devilment they were heading for
so confidently.
Cope said: “There’ll probably be
a Minataur on the roadside some
where near the first telephone box,”
and sure enough there was, a long
grey car with the well-known rak
ing bonnet. Someone was sitting
in her as if waiting, “Seven miles to
go,” thought Hendringham and
resumed his speedometer watching.
At the sixth mile Cope dropped
from sixty to something near forty-
five, remarking that it would be,
awkward to overshoot. At that pace
the last seemed to Hendringham the
longest mile in all England, He
ceased to watch the speedometer
and stared ahead instead.
Telephone wires ran in swaying
clusters on their near side and the
poles stood up bleakly in the beam
of their lights. Presently too in the
far distance the beam caught the
shadowy lattice of a huge pylon.
For perhaps fifty yards Cope ac
celerated. Then he braked sharply
and skidded skilfully to a stop a
yard or two from the point where
the pylon's cables crossed the road.
Something black and ropelike
was swinging in the air before their
radiator, descending as it swung.
Cope dropped into reverse and back
ed gently away. The thing hovered
for a moment and then seemed to
sweep the road surface with a fierce
blue flame and in an instant the
cables overhead flashed into vivid
arcs and the black ropelike tentacle,
writhing, seemed to dissolve in fiery
smoke.
Dazzled by the fierce blue light,
they sat for a moment or two as
if spellbound watching a few fiery
threads consumed upon the ground.
Then Cope spoke.
“Extraordinary thing!” he said.
“They ought not to carry cables over
a main road if they can’t be sure of
them not coming down at odd mom
ents.” His voice had a musing tone
that his companion knew to be de
ceptive. He was acting the part of
the innocently puzzled observer, and
acting it for someone’s benefit:
“Well, I suppose we’d better get
on. It's no affair of ours if the
breakers are out at the power plant,
and half the Midlands plunged into
darkness.” He pressed the starter
petal and the motor charred brisk
ly. He let the clutch in, and the
big car began to move. Then there
was a sharp cry of “Stop!” and
from the darkness men sprang at
the running boards on each side.
The dashboard light dimly lit up
their hands and the bluntnosed au
tomatics they held.
“What on earth?”
“Get out, both of you, and stand
by the ditch with your hands up,” a
voice demanded.
Cope rose leisurely from his seat.
“Well, of all the impudence!” he
said.
“Line ’em up,” ordered the voice,
“and one of you keep ’em covered,
while the other goes through their
pockets. We’ll take care of the
car. 'Switch off the headlights
one of you.”
Now the two stood by
side -while expert hands
over carefully, and quick
ported “Nothing doing”
searchers on the car.
“Nothing here either,
look of things,” a voice
“-One of you keep ’em covered while
the other lends a hand here/
'“.Might I suggst. that you
overlook the petrol tank.”
said helpfully. “It has a wide
orifice, like most racing cars,
want to get the stuff in quickly, you
know, at the pits.”
“None of your lip,
man who seemed to
but nevertheless he
be heard unscrewing
presently there was .
pocket torch, from
hood of the tank.
“Perhaps if you would
what it is you are looking
began Cope sweetly, but was cursed
into silence while the search con
tinued, one of the men even lying
on the road and flashing a torch
along the undercarriage.
After about a quarter of an hour
Of this, the searchers withdrew a
few yards, and began a low-voiced
argument, in which they were in
terrupted by the sound of footsteps
from ahead. The footsteps, ap
proaching were presently augment
ed by the whistling of a few bars
from a popular tune.
“iBrady,” said one of the men>
and the little group which had fall
en apart gathered together again.
Uneasy About the
“Phone from Number
nounced the newcomer,
make for . . .
“.Shut your mouth!”
man in charge violently,
At once they began to converse
THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE
sivoly along the verge towards them
was brought up by the jab of a gun
in his ribs and a “You keep still,
mister,” from the guard. The
seemed to have decided on a
of action, for they came back
car from which there shortly
ated a sound of splashing
strong scent of petrol,
“That’ll do. You can leave ’em
now,” the leader told the guard.
“We’ve got to get a move on.”
At this all five walked rapidly off
and from a distance a few minutes
later came the unmistakable hum
of a big car’s exhaust.
“Well, that’s that,” commented
Johnny Cope, thoughtfully. “Next
thing will be to get some water to
re-fill the radiator and to see if
they've left us a sufficent drain of
petrol to make the nearest garage
with.” He thrust a hand into the
tank. “Plenty of something here,”
he said, “but it’s more likely to be
water than petrol, I imagine.”
It was, water from the radiator,
Cope mused. “If we can. push her
about a hundred yards we ought to
be on the verge of a long downhill,”
he said. “Further we get her
less someone’ll have to walk to
next garage. Feel like it?”
Hendringham had never felt
like it in his life, but he pushed
with all the weight and strength' of
his powerful young body and, Cope,
aiding him, between them they;
sweated and strove, driving the
heavy body a few yards at a time,
until
more
both
It
ICE BOX FLOWERS
as
the road
felt them
voices
to
re
tire
thefrom
grumbled.
don’t
Cope
! filler
. They
” growled the
be in charge,
at once could
the filler, and
a flash of his
the neighbor
tell me
for . .
others
course
to the
eman-
and a
rd
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the
the
less
it began to move more and
easily under gravity when they
sprang aboard.
was quiet running engineless
downhill, an
transit after
Hendringham
ache seeped 1
muscles. He ;
ness when Cope asked throughtfully
“Quite sure no one saw you pinch
those candles, Geoff?” Now he re
membered the thiug he had forgot
ten to mention, the sight of that
flat, ghostly face peering at the
window.
“HellI” said Cope. “That accounts
effortless, restful
their exertion, and
relaxed while the
blessedly out of his
started into wakeful-
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Association
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SIX-LEGGED LAMB
On the farm of Henry Esplen, 4th
concession of Arran, one of those
freaks of nature, which occur once
in a blue moon, appeared among
the spring lambs. This lamb, with
four good and perfectly formed legs
on the left side and two normal legs
on the right, is gambling about just
as if nature had not endowed it with
a lot of extra equipment.—Port El
gin Times. .
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Girl
One,” an-
“We*re to
cried the
slide easily into sharp detail and in whispers. Cope, edging unobstru-
what?”
I’m beginning to
for it.”
“Accounts for
“For the fact that they’d no fur
ther use for us.
wish I’d not let that girl take it on
after all, though what else could
anyone have done?”
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Who is donating these appliances to
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soon as it
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A new industry has sprung into
being, or rather an astonishing de*
velopment of a very pld industry, It
is the making of Ice Box Flowers.
Years ago there was no difficulty
in telling whether the flowers in a
lady’s corsage or J;he little decora-
tons in
evening
Even at
ference,
the night wore on but the artificial
varety remained sprightly.
There is an ice box flower
in Toronto, which so, far
Bureau of .Statistics knows,
only one of its kind in Canada, It is
said to be the-largest in the British
Empire. The industry is only about
six years old. It began in a private
home’ with a family of three the
working staff. Today the business
is housed in a factory and there are
about one hundred workers.
'These new artificial flowers are as
close an imitation of the real thing
as can be made. The blossoms are
perfumed, A very wonderful thing
about them is that, when the flow
ers are crushed, as flowers will be
at a dance, they can be restored to
their pristine elegance by confining
them in the refrigerator for a little
while. Thus there is another use
for that modern complement of the
kitchen. This ability to come back
to life under cool and moist condi
tion is what has given the name “ice
box”4 to those artificial flowers.
What has made this industry pos
sible was the discovery that the
pith of the tushia tree could be used
for making petals. Tire tushia tree
grows on the Island of Formosa off
the coast of China, familiar to many
Canadians as a centre of missionary
activity. The pith is soft, velvety
texture and .when dyed resembles
both in touch and appearance petals
of natural flowers.
There being only one firm manu
facturing these Ice Box Flowers, the
Bureau does not make public the
production -figures, but an indication
of its extent may be gathered from
the fact that some 1,500 Canadian
brides last year* wore them at their
weddings.
the lapel of a gentleman’s
coat, were artificial or not.
a distance there was a dif*
foi* the real thing wilted as
NO APPEAL TO MINISTER
factory
as the
is the
Students who fail to obtain stand
ing in middle school work this year
will have to appeal to the Minister
of Education except in cases of
illness or special circumstances, ac
cording to announcement of the De
partment of Education.
This June is the first in the his
tory of 'the Department that there
will be no department middle school
examinations. Students are to' ob
tain standing in the- middle school
classification if they secure fifty per
cent, on their various papers during
the year. In 1941 all candidates
for upper school certificates will be
required to write departmental ex
aminations.
According to the time table the
tests will commence in the upper
school on Friday, June 14, and will
end two weeks later. “There shall
be no appeal,” the announcement
says, “the the Minister from tlfe de
cision of the principal and staff in
the case of any candidate who has
not been given at least 50 per cent,
on a middle school paper or 66 per
cent, on an upper school paper, but
the special revising board will give
consideraton to cases in which by
reason of illness or other special
circumstances such consideration is
warranted.”
Middle school standing will be
granted to pupils in attendance at
the day or night classes of any col
legiate institute, high, continuation,
or vocatonal school if the qualifica
tions of the teachers concerned and
the provisions made for teaching
middle school courses shall be satis
factory to the Minister of Educa
tion.
At the end of April each candi
date for middle or upper school
standing must fill out and submit
his application as in former years.
If a candidate fails to make appli
cation before the first of May he
shall pay a fee of $1. The methods
of procedure of determining the
standing of candidates are left to
the discretion of the principal and
the staff of each school.
Gratitude and Faithfulness
in•Near Greyfrairs churchyard
Edinburgh, 'Scotland, stands a mem
orial fountain and statue, erected in
honor Of a little Skye terrier nam
ed Greyfrairs .Bobby.
'For 14 years after the death of
his master in 185’8, Bobby guarded
his grave day and night, protected
from the weather by a simple shel
ter fed by a restaurateur. One day^
he was found, lying across the
grave, dead.
In tribute to his lifelong loyalty
and devotion, he was buried be- i
side his master.
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And departing Lee IB. Hindus
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TROUBLE IN THE OFFICE
The pencil has made a number of
pointed remarks about the sponge
being soaked all day and the waste
basket’s being full.’ The scissors
are cutting up and the paper weighty
is trying to hold them down, while
the mucilage is sticking around to
see that the stamps get a good lick
ing. The Ink is well, but appears
to be blue while Bill is stuck in the
file an’d the calendar expects to get
a month off. The blotter has been
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