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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1936-11-19, Page 14FAGB SIX WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES Thursday, Nov. 26th, 1936 em- the was Business and Professional Directory I by Lawrence A. Keating for a ruse As colwell hastily and Already lie in his hand (stand fellow in the lobby, see? Ask him to hold it for a Mr. Sweeney-— get the mnw? He’ll call for it in a He doesn’t know just I got a conference to wait down there You got it straight THIRD INSTALLMENT SYNOPSIS; Detective Dan Colwell .■£>f the Graber-Vale private detective agency is assigned the job of shadow ing lawyer Arthur McDonald whose wife fears gangster enemies are plot ting to murder him. McDonald is mur dered in spite of Colwell’s watchful ness. Dan is hot on their trail and Suspects a sinister plot. . . * * * It was not a new idea but it was a good one. expected, Bradshaw came closed the corridor door, had some gleaming object which he had whipped out of the lin ing of his coat. Already Quillen was on his feet, the heart attack forgot ten, his- long' oval face that ended in g lantern jaw wearing the crafty, SiKHiky look which proved they had merely wanted to get rid of that girl. 'Each time an elevator neared, Col- .well wandered around the elbow of 'the corridor. Then he returned, his hawk-like vigilance on that McDon ald suite masked as again he shifted weight and stared at the elevator sig- jtals or paced impatiently up and ’’down. 1-Ie Hid not care to go into the of fice, That wasn’t his game, He want ed to follow these fellows and their ■movements. A hard smile wrinkled the crow’s feet at the oute'r corners of his eyes. Dan sensed what they were up to. Something was in Mc Donald’s office that they wanted and they intended to get it before investi gators of the murder arrived. He felt a slight tremor. It slid along the floor and shocked his ank les just a little. Chance was, no one else in the building particularly not iced it. He was not even sure he heard an explosion. It was neatly, beautifully done. As a red light flashed overhead, Colwell lounged again to the eblow of the corridor. The car delayed its arrival by a long halt at the floor above. The sdoor of McDonald’s of fice opened and Quillen came out. He carried a square package done up in brown manila paper and corded, a package roughly six or eight inches by five by eight. The faint pungency of the explosive they had used to crack the hinges and lock of McDon ald’s safe wafted to Colwell’s keen nostrils, smelling like a disinfectant. The outside window’was open. The suite would be fresh as even when the girl returned from the pharmacy. Quillen’s furtive eyes found the cor ridor vacant. He stood motionless, his back half-turned to Colwell. When the elevator at least reached the floor Danz heard the operator and Quillen talk. “Say, Jack, want to earn a buck? Take this package down to the news- few minutes, where I am and on—haven’t time for him myself. —Sweeney ?” “Sure, boss; I the newsstand for Sweeney. Thanks!' The boy accepted the package by its cord. Colwell pictured the lad’s hap piness at so easily earning a dollar. The cage door clanged shut and Quil len turned away. The car and the package were gone. Dan waited. This time the Mc Donald suite door was left .ajar as it had been when .the men first entered. There was a hum of talk between getcha: leave it at i” out on tell the His friend Bradshaw had been unable to wait even as long as Quillen. Dan stepped to the newsstand. “You don’t know a man named Quil len in the building, do you? I’m ex pecting to meet him and • wonder if he’s in or out Thought you might have noticed him pass.” The old fellow peered over thick glasses. “No, mister, I don't know any Quillen. Sorry.” “Well, he was to bring a package here. Some samples. I’ve—” “Oh, yuu Sweeney?” Colwell Smiled and nodded. Did' he leave the samples with by chance?” The gray a morgue slab, Lefty would girl he could wait no longer. “Yes. you haired chap ducked out Bradshaw, alias Soup Catterby huddled grotesquely in alley filth. them, and as Colwell finally® walked for a red down-light he saw Brad shaw—a temporary name, of course— stooping in the inner office. The safe was closed as if it had not been tam pered with. Dau went down in the next elevator. .. He reached the* street through a haberdashery but walked back into the lobby. This was necessary to ef fect a proper entrance. He stepped near the newsstand and seemed to scan all the persons who came off elevators. He kept an expectant, somewhat irritated expression on his face. As a matter of fact, he was ex ceedingly apprehensive lest Bradshaw surprise him. Quillen, of course, must wait up there for the office girl's return. He would be “feeling better.’’ Protesting, he would accept a powder and a glass of water, rest a while, and finally, when\.MfDonald still failed to arrive because of course he was stretched TO BE MARRIED SHORTLY of sight. He came up with the man ila package which he laid atop a pile of magazines. “There you are, mister. Elevator boy told me to hold it for Mr. Sweeney and Quillen—Irish, hey? I'm Irish myself, name of ’McNa mara.” “I’m obliged for your trouble. When he comes along just tell him Sweeney got the package all right. Thanks.” Dan seized it and hurried out. Going through the doorway he cast a back ward glance that found Bradshaw, The man stepped from an elevator wearing a Chesire cat look of com placency ‘and satisfaction. He would have a sad awakening when he asked- the newsstand chap about that package. Dan hurried down the street aware that he must quickly get rid of this burden. It was worth—thirty thous and, probably, and it was too hot to carry around. Thirty thousand! He was walking on air. There was a cigar store on the near corner and lie turned in there, heading straight for the telephone booth. He dropped his nickel. “Cen tral 0576.” “Hello. Irita, please.” He waited a moment. “Irita? Dan again. Say, I’ve got a test shipment. That’s what it must be, and 1’11 bet a hat Mc Donald- deliberately forgot to men tion it. an,d nodded, how. He killed Mac to get it. Tell you later. Anyhow, T got it now. Good snow comes in small packages, eh? Yes. Send someone to the cigar store corner of Alton and Market right away. This thing is burning my fingers. So long!” He hung up but loitered a moment in the booth pretending to look up a number. Then he stepped out and purchased a pack of cigarettes, smoked and chatted a while with clerk until a Western Union boy tered. Dan took the lad outside, a few sharp questions, surrendered the package, and walked away. He felt exultant at the coup. It was a worthwhile capture of narcotics —loss of which would give Quillen and his pal a s’evere ache! Grinning happily, he yielded impulse to walk' back to the Lawyers and Doctors Building. It wpuld be good sport to see Quillen’s face, and Bradshaw’s. Probably they would be having plenty of altercations, calling ’each other liars and double-crosscis and dirty sneaks. He crossed the alley and walked on. Two thickset men brushed past him with the ah of knowing where they were headed and being in a hur ry, Colwell recognized two city plainclothes men, Harry Deane and Joe Harper, He realized they were on their way to the office of Arthur McDonald cn a routine checkup. The body had been identified, then. A sympathetic cloud crossed his face at thought of Miss Jetmlngs, the. office girt The poor kid was soon He did?’’ Colwell grinned “Lefty caught on some- He the en- put Lefty head to the Mary Pickford, sweetheart of the Screen, and Charles "Buddy” Rogers, streen star and orchestra leader, whose engagement has been anncume- ased from Hollywood, are shown they paused for a moment while out for 'a canteL to get a heavy blow, news of her ployer’s murder.* it would mean office closed and her job gone, Neither Quillen nor 'Bradshaw in the lobby. Colwell turned back the way he had come and slowly became aware that people hurried past him with an air of excitement and curios ity, Then a squad car siren whined and the vehicle twisted in a sharp right angle to plunge down the alley. Dan moved fasterr Sure enough ,deep in the alley was a close-packed knot of people. By standing on tiptoe Colwell could see over the heads of his neighbors two uniformed men who rose and stood aside for the squadmem “Soup Catterby,” one growled, “Somebody jammed a knife right through that pretty striped tie. Say, that’s the niftiest tie I seen today, aqd it*s iny birthday. Thirty-nine. T got two swell ties from Clara, and from— “What the hell—Catterby?’’ “How come Soup went out • from a knife. Who did. it?” One of the policemen shrugged. “Where’s the quack? I told Sarg. to shoot over one of them doctors. Not that he could do much: Soup was ’plenty dead when we found him.” Straining to see better, Colwell did at last attain a partial view. Brad shaw, alias Soup Catterby, huddled grotesquely in alley filth, his should ers against the brick wall of a sky scraper, A look of unspeakable agony etched lines from his twisted nose to his ,mouth, from the corners of his mouth downward, and in parallel grooves in his gaunt cheeks. He had the same terrible expression McDon ald had worn. A- knife, its handle slimy with blood wits sunk to the very hilt in his chest. “Betcha it’s his own?” one of the policemen 1 exclaimed. “Look, he’s wearin’ the scabbard under his pants, and it’s empty!” Colwell threaded* his way out of the crowd. It appeared that Quillen thought his pal had tried to double cross him—that he figlired Bradshaw, alias Catterby, had obtained that pac kage from the newsstand man by the magic1 name Sweeney, and had sent it to some hiding place by a confed erate. Dan felt genuinely sorry for Soup Catterby. It was his fault that lie had been murdered by the revenge ful Quillen jumping at conclusions. Although'the dead man himself had participated in a murder an hour or so ago; he was a rat. “I am very sorry, Mrs.- McDonald,” Dan reported over the telephone lat er. “I have some very bad news and I don’t know how to tell you. Brace yourself, Mrs. McDonald. It’s very bad indeed. z “If you want it straight out then, something lias happened to your hus band. I thought perhaps the police had been there? Something very ser ious. I’u sorry, Mrs. McDonald, but your husband was murdered an hour or so ago!” He waited. Several gasps came to his ears and a wailing “Oh dear! Oh dear!” She went through her act, but it did not strike Colwell as a very good act. She never could earn a liv ing in the smallest stage part that re quired emotion. OLcourse, when one poses as the wife of a man who lived and died a bachelor. . . There was no Mrs. McDonald and never had been. Colwell had been aware of that from the first. ' • He listened attentively, putting in a word here and there. Gradually the lawyer’s imposter wife calmed her* tumultuous grief that should, to be convincing, have been a trifle less tumultuous and a bit more hysterical. “I know who the murderers are, Mrs. McDonald.” That stirred her! Colwell had ex- ; pected it would. She was breathless an instant “You do?” “Yes. But I haven't informed the police yet.,, We’ll have to, soon, of course, but your instructions in Mr. Graber's office— Yes, there were two. Tt was with a knife, in a taxi-cab dur ing a traffic tie-up, Corner of Broad way and Alton. “What’s that.? No, but I’d know them. Later, one killed the other with his own knife. Both desperate charac ters,” Dan’s eyes roved to the cor ners, That jarred her too! “I thought there might be some little thing, un important, of course, which you might not care to have get out?” Mrs, McDonald was very disturb ed that he knew the remaining killer, , . Colwell had the impression she paused to confer with someone at her elbow, although he could not be cer tain. “1 have your 'phone number but haven’t looked up Mr, McDonald’s home address yet; will you give it . to olI me? Oh, I sec.” Cohvcll nodded the mouthpiece. 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Philemon had evident ly become a devoted, .thorough-going Christian whose love and faith , were known to many believers. Slavery was a cpmmon and accept ed thing in the Roman Empire, and Philemon had had a slave named. Onesimus. This slave had gravely wronged his master, having stolen money front him. and then having fled. A fugitive from justice, Onesimus had come to Rome and in some way had come in touch with Paul.A The famous apostle-prisoner was now an old- man, but lie told Onesimus about Jesus Christ, and the runaway slave found a new Master, the Lord Him self, and became a devoted believer. The miracle occurred in his life that, “if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold ,all things are become new” (2 Cor, 5:17). He now was devoted, not only to the Lord, but also to the Lord’s apostle Paul, and in .Paul’s Epistle to the Colossians he speaks of “Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you” (Col. 4: 9). And now Paul dares to write a let ter to Philemon about Philemon’s personal property Onesimus! He does .not send this letter by Roman post, as he might have done, but he asks Onesimus to be the special messenger carrying it. In the letter Paul asks Philemon to receive, his former slave as no longer fi slave, but now as “a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto them, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?” Philemon had come to mean much to Paul as “dearly beloved, and fellow laborer.” Paul loved him and believ^ cd in him, Philemon looked up to Paul, as well he might, and respected him as a recognized leader of the church. Paul had every right,to tell Philemon his Christian duty in this matter—but he would not do so, The apostle frankly said, “I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee”— that is, to .demand that you do this, But he took an entirely different line. 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He continues in his Qnesimus: “who once able to thee, but now is profitable to thee and to me.” And Paul pleaded with his friend: “thou therefore re ceive him, that is, mine own heart.” Then the apostle went still farth er.- “If he hath wronged thee, Or ow- eth thee ought, put'that on mine ac count; I, Paul, have written it with mine own hand, I will repay it: albiet I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides.” So Paul voluntarily assumed the obligation of the money' that the slave, before his conversion, had stol en from his master. We may well be lieve that Philemon never allowed Paul to pay it, but that he rejoiced his aged friend’s heart by responding gladly to Paul’s plea: “Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the, Lord.” There arc very stirring contrasts throughout this lesson. The runaway, unconverted slave was “unprofitable”; the converted, re turned slave was “now profitable.” Onesimus had been a liability—now he was an asset, He had been a loss —now he was a gain. Paul counted on Philemon to nothing in this matter “as it were necessity, but willingly.” The slave had left his master as for a season”; Paul sent “that thou shouldest re- for ever.” ( z away a servant; he came do of he “departed him back, ccive him He ran back a brother beloved., Philemon owed Paul everything, but Paul voluntarily assumes a money ob ligation to Philemon. ■ Paul asked Philemon to do much, but he asks this, “knowing that thou wilt do more than I say.” It is indeed a lesson in the mean ing of the miracle of Christian bro therhood—something possible to men only when they have been born into the family of God by faith in His Son as their Saviour. 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