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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1911-9-28, Page 2CLOSE QUARTERS OR, THE HOUSE IN THE RUE BARBETTE CHAPTER II% In less confident t nes inseseettr Walters reseuried his narrative: "On :Monday evening, eir," lie mid, "about eight cdeleck, his Ex- eelieney anel the two eecretaries were dining downstairs, and mat- tere had, ths far, gone ori with the aanIe routine aa was observed every preceding day. The workmen quit- ted work at six o'clock.. The three gentlemen went out for a drive as soon as everything was locked up, and came in again at a (Darter to eight. They did not ehange their clothes !or dinnerso there WAs no occasion to zearch' them, as no one had gone upstairs since they had 'descended soon after six. They had barely started dinner when eonte ope called at the front door, -"Well, now deee it not strike you; that tile Perpetrators thereof, who were not afraid to be, scrutinizect by yourself and by everal other policemen, and to be aearehed and further scrutinized by a, different set of officers when they eame out again, weeld be very nnlikelY per- sona to bear abeut them men dis- tinguishing Characteristice as wcoild lead to their nrreat by the firat yOUtIlfUl pOliee-nelastable who en- countered them? I do net want to be rude, or to indicate any lack of discretion on your part, but, from my point of view, I would vastly prefer not to be ished with any description of these three perzone, nor would I care to have seen them as they entered or !eft the house." 'Well, that is very curious,' said pect ;014 I w„,j5 Kr4t, for, do" bat Ineor Walters, dropping I may explain was always artawered his ads on 1u1:11" $11P" by aue, af the house "Tenets, aud amazement at 511P11 an n.ntra orcin - he, af necessary, admitted any per - sun who eame, elosing the door; but the visitor had te be examined by the policeman stationed in the pas4ige before he was permitted to •come any further, On this eeca, Bien 1 went out and found -three gentlemen et ending there . They were Turks, as could be easily seen by their attire, and appeared to be persons of some coneequelace." “What do you mean by the words 'their attire?'" interrupted Brett, "Were they dressed in European Mites or in regular Turkish gar- mente "Oh." said the inspector, meant that they wore fens; othar wiso they were quite accurately dressed in frock eoats and the rest, but they were unmistakably Turks by their appearance. Two of them could speak no Engliale and the third, who aeted as the leader the party, firet of all addressed me in French. Finding I did not un- derstand him, he used very broken, but fairly intelligible English, What be, wanted was to be taken at once to His Excellency, Mehe- met Ali Pasha. I said that his Ex- celleney was dining and that per- haps he had better *all in the morning, but he replied that his business was very urgent, and h could not svait. He made me un- derstand that if I sent in the cards of himself and his companions they would certainly be admitted at once. I did eat see any harm in this, so I took the three cards and gave them to Hussein, who was crossing the hall at the moment," "As the cards were printed in Turkish characters you could not of course, tell what the names :were," said Brett. A look of blank astonishment erossed the inspector's face as he replied : "That is a good guess, but it is so. The hieroglyphics on the piece of pasteboard were worse than Greek. However, Hussein glanced at them. He appeared to be sur- prised; he went into the dining room. Of course I had nothing arv statement from a roan whose clearness and accuracy ot percep- tion had been se fully justified by the incident of the tvindonahlinda "Aed 'now, Mr. Sharpe," said Brett, "what did you observe'?" came on duty at ten o'clock; posted my guards, and received from Inspector Walters an exact ,eount of what had taken place before my arrival. Inapeetor Wal- ters had hardly quitted the home, when one of the junior members of the mission came downstairs with a, note which he asked me to send at once by a constable to Mr. Tal- bot," “You are quite sure he was 000 of the members of the mission l" eaid Brett. Perfectly certain. I have seen bm every previous night for near - a month, as the gentleman often went out late to the Turkith Em- bassy, and elsewhere. I sent the note, as requested, and Mr. Talbot came back with the constable in about twenty minutes. Mr, Talbot went upstairs accompanied by Hus- in ; Hussein came clown, was searched, went down to the kitchen, brought up inore coffee, and never appeared again. The next time saw him was about noon yester- day' when we broke open the door, andfound his dead body. At 11,25 Mr. Talbot, accompanied by one whom Inspector Walters has de- scribed as the spokesman of the strangers, came down the stairs. Mr. Talbot looked somewhat puz- zled, but not specially worried, and submitted himself to the searching operation as usual. The other man seemed to be surprised by this pro- ceeding, but offered no objectioo when his turn came, and said some- thing laughingly in Freneh to Mr. Talbot, when he had to take his boots off. The two gentlemen went outside and called a, cab. Mr. Tab bot got in, and the constable at the doer heard the foreigner tell the driver to go to the Carljon Hotel. He repeated the address twice, 50 as to make sure the man would else to do to let them in, which I make no mistake. did accompanying them myself to "Then they drove off, and there the door of the dining -room, and making sure, before the door was closed, that their presence was ex- pected," "How did you do that?" said 13rett. "Well, although they spoke in what I suppose was Turkish, it is not very difficult to distinguish by a man's tones whether his recep- tion of unexpected visitors is cer- dial or not, and there could be no doubt that the visiting cards had cenveyed such names to his Excel- lency as warranted the introduc- tion •of the party into the house. The six gentlemen remained in the dining -room until 9.17 (I have the time noted here in my pocket- book). They then came out and went upstairs in a body to the ante- room where they all sat down'as I could tell by the movement of. the chairs overhead, and in a few min- utes Hussein was rung for to bring cigarettes and coffee, This -was at 9.21. Hussein was searched as he came downstairs after receiving the order, and again at 9.30 when he returned after executing it. I was relieved at ten o'clock, and beyond describing the three geatlenaen, I know nothing more about the busi- t, nese. "They were well dressed " in- quired Brett; "they impressed you as Turkish gentlemen by their fea- tures, and they wore fezes ?" said the policeman, with smile ; ''but there was a little more than that. "Et is of no importance," said Bre1b. -was no further incident to report until five minutes past twelve, when the other two foreigners came down- stairs. Then we had a bit of a job. They knew no English, and one of our men, who could speak French, found that they did not understand that language. However, at last in dumb show we got them to per- ceive that everybody who came downstairs had to be searched. They submitted at once, and I took special care that the investigation was complete. There was nothing upon them to arouse the slightest suspicion, no weapons of any sort beyond a small pocket-knife car- ried by one man, and not much in the, way of either papers or money. Before going out one of them pro- duced a small card on which_ was -written, 'Carlton Hotel.' "I took it that this was their re sidence, so I instructed a constable to see them into a cab and tell the driver where to take them. I also showed them how much money to give the cabman. None of the gen- tlemen upstairs put in an appear- ance, nor did I hear them retire to rest. To make quite sure that all was right, 1 and a sergeant who looked in a little later went up- stairs and tried the door of the ante -room. -This was locked and everything was quiet within, so we returned to the, hall, and the night was passed in the usual manner. Hussein always made his appear- ance about eight o'clock in the morning, -when he came down to procure coffee for his Excellency and the others. As he did not show, Eight Years 01 Bad. Eczema en Hands )flssMT7 aanenttez a atontrZat Cured by attic= Soap and Ointment alias Mary A. Dentley, 03 University St, Montreal, writes, In a recent letter: "Some nine years ago I noticed small p mines break- ing out on the back of my hands, They became very irritating, and gradually became worse. so that I could not sleep at eight, consulted a physMian who treated me a long tinie, but it got worse, and I could not put MY hands in water. I was treated at the hospital, and it was Suet the same. I was to/fat that It was a very bad ease of eczema- . The four bodies were carried to the mortuary in Chapel Place, and the .fourteen workmen were conveyed to Seotland Yard, not because we have any charge against there, but the Commissioner thought it best to keep them under surveillance tho Turkish. Embassy has set- tled what was to be done with them, in the matter of paying such wages as were due and sending them baek to Amsterdana. The men them- selves, I may add, were quite satis- fied with our aetion in the matter. That is really all I have to tell you." "It is quite clear, then," said Brett, "that two men succeeded in murdering four and in getting away with their plunder and arras without creating the slightest noise or exciting any suspicion is your "That is so," admitted Inspector Sharpe ruefully. "Then," said Brett, "there is no- thing else to be done here, IN ill ' you come with. me, Mr. Winter?" "Where to, sir?" insired quired the Jet "Well,IJust kentonusingeversdhina that I "To find Mr. Talbot of course come for nearly eight years until X. was "Easier aid than done," re - advised to try Caticura Ointment. did so, in.a.rked IhSpeetor -Walters, as tho and faunal atter a few applications the burning sena.ationa were disapI peariag. could aleep Weil andid not d have may itching door elesea behin4 the viaitior. during the meta, a began after a while to Inveetor Sharpe was less septi use enteura Sean, 1 stock to the Cutinera treatment, am t h might if 1 count use other remedies for ever seven Team 'with no remit. “He's a very mart ehap mut after Only baying nfew applications and finding easo !mu C"unorira ointment, it j Brett," he said. "Neither you nor dgAerved a fah Old 'vftl' 4 severe and stlib- I thouolit of punehind that wire s did wer born case. I used the Caticura Ointment mid Soap for Porny sta. moat ts, am Ain niad to alla" that I have banda aa dear as anyone, It is ins' wisl, that yeti publish this letter to the wolV, awl if anyorte doubts it, let Mem write -me,' Catiettra Soap and Ointment are Sold by druggists and dealata everywhere. For a hberataaninle each, with:32-P, 4091c. 5_end to Vetter Dreg 4: Chem, Cern, nein. C/P. 13ostoa, U. S. A. three Belgians. Taking a con- stable with me, I wept Upstairs, and ascended to the eeeorid story, where I knew his Excellenay's suite was situated, and where1 expeeted to find Hussein asleep on GI mat in ront of the bedroom door,. The mat was there, but no Hussein. Then I -went higher up to the rooms cupied by the ti,vo assistants. I neeked, but received no answer. One doer was locked; the other was open, so I went in, but the room was empty, and the bed had not been slept upon. This'seerned no strange filet I knocked loudly at the other door, with no result. I returned to his Excellency's floor and hammered at the door, which was looked, sufficiently to wake the soundest sleeper that. ever lived. This again was useless, so 1 rt. turned downstairsand sent off two messengers post haste—one to Mr. Talbot, and the other to the Com- missioner of Police at Scotland Yard. The man who went to Mr. Talbot's house returned first, bring- ing the startling information that Mr. Talbot had not been home all night, and that his uncle and sis- ter were anxious to know where he was, as they had received no mes- sage from him since he quitted the house the previous night at 10.15. The Commissioner of Police came himself a little later. By that time Inspector Walters had reached here for his turn of day duty, and after a hasty consultation we decided to break- in all the doors that were looked, commencing with that of the second assistant. His room was empty, and so was his Excellency's, neither apartment having been oc- cupied during the night. We then returned to the fuel floor and forc- ed the door of the ante -room, which, -we discovered, was only se- eured by a spring latch, the lower lock not having been used. As soon as we entered the 'room, we found the four dead men. Hussein, the servant, was neareit the door and was lying in a crumpled -up position. He had been stabbed twice through the back and once through the spinal column at the base of the neck. His Excellency and the two assistants were seated in chairs, but had been stabbed through the heart. The instrument used must have been a long thin dagger or stiletto. There was no sign of it anywhere in the room, and most certainly none of the men who came out the previous night had such a weapon concealed upon him. "Doctors were at once sent for, and the first medical gentleman to arrive said that each of the foul' had been dead for itiany hours, but they also imagined that the coffee, the remains of which we found ie some clips on the table'had been drugged. So, before disturbing the room and its contents in any way, the Commissioner sent for Dr. Ten- nyson Coke. After careful investi- gation Dr. Coke came to .the same conclusion as the Other gentlemen. He bellevesthat his Excellency and Ms two assistants were first stupe- fied by the drug and then murder- ed as they sat in their chairs, whilst the appearance of Hussein and the nature of his wounds seemed to in- dicate that he had been nnexpet- edly attacked and killed before he could struggle effectually or even call for assistance 'Of course, the diamonds had Vanished, w-hilst in the safes Or ,on the tables we found the keys which had evidently ,been taken from his Excellency's pockets. We \vete all puzzkd to account for the disap- pearance o2 the diamonds and the dagger, but you have clearly shown the moans wlmieby they were con- veyed orf Lico piemis0. r. Coke mostly Dutchmen, wan, ithask, took away the coffee for analysis, leston. '‘But really it inust be," urged up I vs,ondered what had become of the inspector. One' .o. them, she him. Vaen nine o ,lock came, 1 man who spoke to me, had a bad determined to investigate, matters. ,sword -cut across his right cheek, By that time she diamond cutters whilst another squinted horribly ; had put in an appearance, arid were laaanclaa, they wane all elderly nien." gathered in the hall, undergoing a 'Pardon mo, inspector,'said , slight search preparatory to their Brett '`but yOu admit, no rioubf, day's work" that this as a very rernarkral)Je "Hon/ ninny of these , men 0.1",rne 1 am investigating.' there ?" broke in Brett, "it shoals-, lust think' it is, sir."°sixteen exactly. They wexe a,s the 0,,:OzW0E... were A 4;1 (To be eon -tinned.) , A HIT. What She Gained by Trying Again A failure at lrst makes us esteem final success. A family in Minnesota that now enjoys Pestum would never have known how good it is if the mother had been discouraged by the, fail- ure of her first attempt to prepare it, Her son tells the story: "We had never used POSt11111 till last, spring when father brought home a package one evening just to try it. We had heard frem our neighbors, and in fact every one who need it, how well they liked it the next morning Mother brewed it about five minutes, just as she had been in the habit of do, ing with coffee without paying special attention to the directions printed on the package. It looked weak and didn't have a very prom- ising color, but nevertheless father raised his cup with an air of ex- pectancy. It certainly did give him a great surprise, but I'm afraid it wasn't a very pleasant one, for he put down his cup with a look of disgust. "Mother wasn't, discouraged though, and next morning gave it another triah letting it stand on the stove till boiling began and then letting it beil for fifteen or twenty minutes, and this time we were all so pleased with it that we have used it ever since. "Father was a confirmed dyspep- tic and a cup of coffee was to him like poison. So he never drinks it any more'but drinks Post= re- gularly. He isn't troubled with dyspepsia now and is actually growing fat, and I'm sure Posture is the cause of it All the children are allowed to drink it and they are perfect pictures of health." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read the little book, "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. "There's a reason. Ever road the above letter? A new on mi appears frosts still clinging about them. They front time to time. They are genuine. true, and fun of human Interest. seemed to lift themselves above and out of the world, and to be altogether apart CARE OF CHICKENS. from roan and the little things that All the old birds, a.ncl young, too, busy him. They were solitary, remote, should be examined frequently and there was no sign ofia during the hot months, because near them. And in betweenlti?en gs o It chmi 1 lag, then it is that the lice and mites thrfivecU It bone or chopped meat is fed during the summer, extra pre- cautions -must be taken to have it perfectly fresh. Many birds die from eating bone and meat scraps which have been allowed to lie around exposed to the heat and the flies. In feeding chickens always re- member that they are provided for to produce fresh eggs for human food and, therefore, their own food should be just as pure as that we eat ourselves. The hot sun will cause young gos- lings and ducklings as well to top- ple over and die. Provide shade for them until they are strong on ...'N'IV.011.Rilt0.11.'egdatite....'Wateits. I a stop the, meanest, nastiest, most pe'rsistent headaches la half an hour or less. We gatarantee that they contain no opium, Morphine on other poisonous drugs, 25c. a box at your druggists' or by mail from •Nabsoal rfrust win Chemical Con of caeada„. Limited. LETTERS OF A SOH IN THE MAKING TO HIS DAD. 29 • scale of creation, These tremendome ..N1 monuments of rock have been tossed about at some time as the plaything a some frenceuclous power, Their very naatas and, weight comPels thought a the incom- paebensible violence which has of old tor them rem their place and reared, them up on end. At one place where we camel —By REX McEVOY aloag to -day, right at the, foot of Mount' - Macdonald, the rock rises sheer up fromic [Mr. McEvoy will Write.for this paper a s3ries of letters from the west. They will appear from time to time un- do.. the above heading, and will give a picture of the great C'attadian west from the standpoint of a young Ontario man going out there to make hisway. These let= ters should be full of inte,est for every QAtario fahord Tie 5. Eafl1QQ4s Sent, afy Dear Although tbie letter is dated Naraloepa Ye have inat left that place and am get- ting further froin it every minute, wntiixig thie in a caraer Of tha ar- NerVatian ear on the Imperial Limited, the name the 0. 1', R. gives the train that runs through from Montreal to Tall, couver. The observation car nas a dean Idatform neltind where Yon Call Sit it on camp tools and wateli the seenery without and glass or window fraMea to interfere With the view. You get tbe real mouateln sir. UM, sta the train elides patt 010 silept. pealte, and while going Lkreugh one of the nine -1011g tunnels to- y I heard the $s)b,b a an undergronnd stneam, and felt the drip of tho water. where I aus eitting there itt a writ az dealt, and close beside It la a book natio with a couple of hundred braika to choose from if nou want to read. notice that they aro not Med much, didn't Imo wayone reading them the scenery is too attraetive for that. The magazines, howener. 'which belong to the library, were much In demand, Well, it bas been a wonderful day for me. I WaS up.early. for the traltt leaves Calgary at 3,15 a.m. right on the dot, TItat's one thing that has surprise1 roe on title trip. While a local train in On- tario may he anywhere from half an hour tr., an hour late, ,these trains whiela make a run for nearly three thousand miles pitll out of the station rigbt on time. Of course, they must lose in ter when when the snow drifts. Then a train may be excused for being a day behind tinac. We ran out of Calgary in the dark, but it was daylight by the time we reach. ed FSrsluw. then you are right close up to the mountains. ilere I noticed a num- bar of long, dustY-looking buildings. They are part of one of the largest cement works in Canada. Then we went through what is called "The Gap," right into the heart of the mountains. It was at Canmore that I first realized what mountains were. I aimply cannot describe the feeling of awe that is ex- perienced in looking on theta for the first time. The other side of a level valley, perhaps some fiVO miles away, they rose up, up, up, grey. silent, majestic in the grey light of early morning, with the 191/, their. pegs, ONE PIE FOR 70 GUESTS. Seventy guests banqueted on a single pie at Gorle.,ston, and there was plenty to spare when they had finished, siays London Sketch. Tho pan qsnao Isom eeaes pee sul weighed a hundredweight and A half. It was made in three sections or water tight compartments and each hold had a substantial bulk- head of erust. Its interior was packed with six rabbits, six kidneys, twenty-eight pounds of- beefsteak and potatoes, turnips, carrots and sprouts. The sea pie, assit is call- ed, is boiled, not bakedand its builder, Skipper Harman, made thei cookingprocess an eight hours watch. This three decker provided a savory meal which more than sat- ; isfied the guests, and its wrecked ; and dismantled hull provided ter gallons of excellent soup that was gladly welcomed by the Gus - grey peaks, miles beyond, a glimpse might be caught of another. higher peak, saaw..aevered, gilded with the bright, fresh sunlight of early morning. , They were grand. I just hung on to the rail- ing at the back of the observation car and gazed, and gazed, and gazed. All the time I was drinking in the wonder of the mountains I was think- ing that I bad never before realized what a mountain was. Pictures give you no idea at all any more than a portrait of a person can speak to you, And I was thiaking, too, what a pity it was that all my folks could not be with me to see anti appreciate this wonderful bit of our Canada. Perhaps one, of the things that makes the mountains impressive is that they help you to understand the vast 1,C4,f4,7 the tracts a raile in the air—as far gg. from our place to the school:lease set up en end, I was out on the back of the train till we got to Pield, when 1 went in to tho dining car for dinner. The mountains all the way were unutterably grand. In pla"ces they were a aeries of Make, with Snow gleaming like crowns or necklaces about there, in other places they wore in areua piles. In on place, for instance, there is wbat looks, inst like a Caetle cAt . out of the roan, Arab doorways, turrets?, and all. It is on 4 tremendous anale, Eel:no eight miles long- After passing' that, yell run oUt along the side of tbe4 mountain With a valley below Yon and s' riven rettnitag tiirengb it. You aen brhlges nisd tracks some; diatange below; Ue I track your trala is on, anti running) parallel, Then you run slap bang into a; tunnel and rAn along for a ratle in tha: dark, When Yon cOme out yea And that' you have turned right roand with thel traek yen were en befone above you. Therl ute another tennel, mad you Ape time you have tanned again, the track leaping' round in the saint rook. Title whale ciAtur "S," some seven tulles loag, cost $1,5e0.000, Severity,Ave ear loads of dynamite eostime $240.000 were used in blasting the tun." 15 The watalere that the engineere4 bare acComplislied iu putting tho rail) road tnroegit la next to the wonder 4 the uniuntaina th'enl&elrea. Attar SOU, aye been running in Des Feriae of bille. vItole day', yen 'vender that ntiaal ho3r even fOund their way throtighlet' ono build a railroad. When tbe twinels are left behind. Tau) eosmx exit a1on the Iiielting Ilorae Riveg. The a along a narrow ledge nut In the ide of the mountain witb the ver far bolOW, hunclreda of feet. Gra. dually the track gets lower and lower, till it is running (non, beelde the leaping, dashing. greeny -white water of the river. At Glacier I got my first lino view Of one of the glaciers that feed these moan - ion rivers. It was sweltering hot where We wero at the station, but up on the side of the mountain lay a great ens:ante of snow that glistened in the atin. You, and mother ellatild Come through )era and Bee thin country. but if you do, bei sure you bring a clietionary with you, or you will run out of adjectives before you Itave beeu iu tho mountains Verr long. In the evening, after passing Sieamouo Junction, where the line branches off to the Okanagan Valley—the peaeli stud grape belt of the province --we ran along; beside Sliushwap Lake, and the sunset lights and reflections in the still calm/ water were nery peaceful, and contract - 1i with the rugged beauty of the mama./ tains. The lights were lit when we rani into Kamloops, aad the town was ont-11 lined with bright dots where the street lights stood in the darkness under the shadowy mountains. Good-bye now, Dad. / have quite a piece to go yet, but I'rn not tired of travelling. as I expected to be, as there's always something to see. Your loving son, JIM. COLOR-BLIND. A form of defective vision which will impair, the usefulness of any- body, no matter what his employ- ment, is touched -upon in this pithyl conversation : Inquisitive Passenger—What has become of Stokes, who used to be, a conductor on this line? Conductor—Why, the company, laid him off some time ago. I Inquisitive Passenger—Laid him off 7 What for? Conductor—It was found upon investigation that he was color- blind. Inquisitive Passenger Go] or - blind? What difference did that make M a coriductor? Conduct,or—A good deal. Ho couldn't tell the differe.ice between the color of his money and the company' s. PRESERVING EXTRA GRANULATED SUGAR "THE SI9GAR OF NEARLY 60 YEARS STANDING.," Tramainmearre,lanara• Since 1854 -this prime favorite has made the preserving season as fruitful source of pleasure in thousands of Canadian homes. ORDER FROM YOUR GROCER., TCPJLDI StIqAR REFININqco, LimiTzp, fal on -treat Eetablished hi 1354 by .John Redpath. ruzatz*nossismatmemerafgamm 41 ,