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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1911-10-12, Page 2CLOSE J;?UARTES OR, THE HOUSE IN THE RUE RARBETTE OHi'4PT: , ix.—(ContTd) { "There is no use, sir, in fighting against facts," said the detective, siti dogged insistence, "This time luta are dead wrong, Mr. Talbot s -as recognized at Calais by a For - .T Of ee. messenger returning from France, Seeing him with a, Service when I succeeded to the es .adv, and knowing that he was net tates, and about the sante time Tarried, the messenger—Captain ,back entered the Foreign office.. t3aultier by name --•-olid not speak to That is three years ago. We have lien, especially as Mr. Talbot seem- seen each other constantly since, ` > l 1m recognition. CMP.., and, of course, widen I because en - lainter to avoid lain Gaultier thought nothing of gaged, to his sister our friendship the ?matter until this morning, when became, if anything, stronger.'} lie visited the Foreign Office on duty' "Nothing could be more adTnir- lnd heard something of the affair. ably expressed. Do you know, any - Ile then saw the Under-Seeretary, thing about his private affairs?" Ole sable gentleman who sent the "Financially, do you mean'?" Earle of. Fa/rhea/Ile to you, and told ;.heli, yes, to begin with," "aiau what bard happened, The Uns "He got a salary, 1. suppose,. ler-Seeretary atilt-§ hardly refuse front Government, but he h.as a I3ri, :o believe su.eh a erodible witness, vato aneoane 'oaf some tltcausauds a Rio teleraann were despatched to tine vear.x' embassy in Paris and the nola"ee r,Then he is not likely to be, e:n- at Rover, From Dover canto the ba,rrassed for money'?'' formation that exactly such a ""orris unlikely. He is a Parti= c�aupie as described. by Captain ca earl y � steady = chap—full of eager - Gaultier had eros'cd to France on y ,Huss to follow a, diplomatic career but I can answer questions lake a,. ,prize boy iu a Satnda;-sehool." "Well, in the first installers, 'have you known him many years `I" "We were at school together at Harrow. Then, I entered the Army whilst he had a ITniverstty tamer, My trustees made me give up the Tuesday morning; and a few hours axed ti at tort of flimsy., later a wile from Paris announced riff y a -were fold that he had the discovery of the registered names at the Grand Hotel. The bolted, with a nolicleseript yuan;; Paris telegram w n t'; sal, W(Znan, what would you say'?" f' s r*. ads o o ay h "Say 1'r vociferaated 1, airholnie, the, gentleman had told the nian- sger his luggage was followingfrom springing up from the stat ante the Gare <In Nord. and that his which he bad .subsided, "I would a h wife, and himself were going outto the man Win) said so that he for half au hoar, but would return tai as a ltaa ; tinle to dress, :for dinner. Wife ia "Exactly, Of course 1<lIt would, his traps arrived thee were to be et Beare are all k,iticls of l ople- taken to hits room. No luggage ever FeAreign eine° <ct317casa poicemen, easne, nor was either oaf the pairal elan nersKi s or the Brxtiela Em- — o swear seen again; but we will: lay bendsbaassy art Ia.s.rl s aearlym t • on them, never zear.r' perhaps to prose, of necessary, that Talbot and sante smartly dressed Brett took as hasty stride ear t + female went to Parisand down the room, ante openly area auq la y r� ,, lay` the clay service yesterday, olid, So roti think, he burst,ven took Bare' to announce esten- t last,"that, Mr. Talbot has xtOt tatiously their arrival in the French only taken part in some vulgar its- capital," trigue with, a woman, but that Ilo For a moment the two men faced. has also bolted with the Sultan's each other silently, the ono amused diamonds, sacrificing his whole ea- by the news he was imparting, the rear to a momentary impulse and other staggered by its scenting ab - imperilling his neck- £or the sake of tua ,lity". Then l,+airholmc flung; him- ' as few gems, which he cannot even self back into his chair. COTAvert into n oney a" ;."Why' not: It is not the first on, "ifjack himself stood there time 'n he history o' the world that t a t i tea y f o w d t t and scald me .that what yoii have �a. a lean has made a fool of himself said is true I would hardly believe over a 7weman, or even committed t." A note of agony came into his a murder in order to steal dia- voice, as he added: t'Do you know .pionds," what this means to his sister? hely ":liy dear Winter, do be reason- God, man; it will kill hea I" i 1 tl d "Look here, Mr, Brett," he went able. 'Where is the market for dine "It will do nothing of the sort," monde. such as lei e are suppose cried Brett, "Surely you under -- Rio be? You know, even better than ;stand ilIiss Talbot better. Slee wi1.1 I do, that the slightest attempt to be the first to proclaim to the world. dispose of them at any figure 're-tt..h;tt you and I believe, namely, rnotely approaching their value will that her brother is innacent, no lead to the immediate: detection and innate the experiment.' Don't you save what 1 have learnedwithin the see, man, that the Foreign' Office: Last few hours, yet I stake my re - and its messenger, its Under-Seeie- putation on rho certainty that Ito -f-ary, your Commissioner, and the is in no' way connected with this Embassy: officials in Paris have been terrible occurrence save by'coin- completely and abjectly fooled - ,pulsion." fooled, too, in a particularly si11y "If gives .tie renewed courage fo .fashion by the needless registration: ,hear you speak so confidently," of names at the hotel'" said the earl, his face lighting with "No, I do not see it. One can- enthusiasm as he looked eagerly at not go against facts, but this time the other, whose earnestness had, ,the evidence looks so strong that for an instant, lifted the veil from I shall be mightily mistaken if Mr. features usually calm. and impas- Talbot does not swing for his share sive, betraying the strength of r o- nly character and masterful,u in the matter. Anyhow, 1 ha,�-e done hp p nay duty in letting you know what that lay beneath: the outward mask, has happened, so I must be off." "Is there anything else I can tell To .arrest somebody; of course?" you?" asked Fairholme. cried Brett, with an'irritating "You are quite sure that his was laugh; but Mr. Winter was already a nature that could not stoop to hurrying down the stairs. a, vulgar intrigue ?" said Brett. The more Brett thought out the "Remember that this relation the complexities of the affair, the more finest natures are prone to err. excited he became, and the longer From tong experience, I have learnt end more rapid were his strides up to place such slips in quite another and down the length of bis spacious category than mere lapses'of erim- sitting-room. This was his only out- inality. ward sign of agitation. When think- Of course, any man who knows Ing deeply on any all -absorbing the world must appreciate vont rea topic, he could not remain still. He sons fully, but from what I know of felt obliged to cast away physical Jack I am persuaded the thing is as well as mental restriction on the quite impossible. Even if it were lay of his imagination, and he otherwise, he would never be so play mad as to go off when he knew that would at times pace back and forth during unrecorded hours, in the so- .something very unusual and import- litude of his apartments, finally ant was about to occur with refer - awakening to a sense of his sir- ence to a special mission for the matter how black appearances may Arrest of the person rash enough to be, I have no knowledge of ltim roundings by reason of :sheer ex- successful conclusion of which he had been -specially selected by the hatHet waa,s not destined to reach this Foreign Office." nitiinate stage on the present occa- "Ah, there you touch on, the sion. With a preliminary cough— strange happenings of coincidence. for the •discreet Smith < was well Oirneumstantlal evidence convicts acrsedin 'his master's peculiarities many offenders, and it --has hanged kits servant announced the appear- many" an innocent man before to da, I could tell von a very re to- ance of the Earl. of Fa3rb.olme. q' „ Brett looked at his watch, and markahle'case in point. Once; was caught o in the act by his wand - But "smith appeared. to announce dinner, and Brett not. only insisted tor. Yes,' I know- we fixed on sev- that his new acquaintance should o'clock," cried the `impetuous dine heartily, but also contrived to ;young peel, "but I was simply,dy- divert hint from' present anxieties .ing -to hear the result of ,your an by drawing upon the' rich store- ing stens far, and 1 ,;ensured to house of his varied ee-perieeeas. call an hour earlier." The meal. therefore, passed pleas- 'IIio barrister explained that he enough. ' Both men arraneed p anter z, ou;, 'eight to learn the time as a rnat- to visit Sir` Hobert Fitziamcs' litr Ger:raf mere curiosity: "Indeed," ing the evening and decide on a tee- t -o write a le'eter telling his people, he ec1rlecl, `''Your appeax'ance at this, finite o;41,7;rse of action which would .nut to i warty; about inn. '`'•"I've`. rioter e >; patrtict early we1eo art;` "l receive ,he 'enp oval of the a tthole known few titin cases an my time, ..^ s. you nnan ` things •pn-dot from a ne--' ,t< fro ss_ S � c rico. Armed wit n= mendate but �.hsone-- ". '1'."-IJot." i . the Iuoreiin Office Brett. et.11...1 .eo. ,.. The xCul ?nferof Air. Winter's n7nrainrs... frome. :tine efrt1on:-9tsr+n1manryhintvPraSytp away,";:said Far-01mo. ter anon his task without .fear nr solak (1U3 was Post in tyre sr asrocll t,�r' h3+3a"r'f1, e ge a s +s ,innlp Yard, 'F.t1'd,'. lntei oienee from ,Dfaald cio No ':':a,rding a passing LI).• : se,inning � ,.., �eacltement o,,f, bo thing further could be done that omnibus, for this Iatest item of night, as the private ;inquiry agent news must be conveyed to the Yard could not possibly complete any with all speed. Portion of his house-to-house sorts- (To be continued.) tiny' ar the vicinity ef" the Carlton until the following mot•ning,at the earliest:. They smoked and chatted quietly until 7.3o p.m., when Inspector Winter again put in an appearance, announce that the coroner's jury had brought in a verdict of "Wilful murder by Berne two or more, per - sone unknown." The detective was somewhat eter fn manner now that the sen- °ationai,turll of eventsin Paris had! r MMcEvoy will write for assimilated with the outer remark -a able features- of the crii}'-t_e, More- this paper a 2aries of letieas' over, the presence of ;a peer of the from the west.'They will realm had a subduing influence up- appear from time to time un-: on him, and he had tete good taste der the above heading, and .not to insist too strenuously thasN Lord Fairhaline's prospective bra -1 will give a picture of the `cher-in-law was not, only an .acces-: great Canadian west from sory to a foul murder, but also a' the standpoint of a younc fugitive thief. . One new fact: Ives established by?iltal'1Q mad going out tiltere the post-mortem examination. ' of to make his way. These tet- the victims. Considerable violence tars should be fun of interest had been used to overcome the for every Ontario father.] struggles of the servant, Hussein. His neck was almost dislocated, and there was a largo bruise els his back which might have been eaused by the knee of All aas:sailaut endeavor., ing to garrotte hint. They wore discussing this discov- cry and its possible significance when ;Smith entered, bearing a lady's visiting -card, which he si-., lently handed to his master. Brett read the name inscribed` thereon. Ho merely sa;d, "Show the leely in," Then he bulled to the Earl of Fairhothne, electrifying the latter by the words: ";ilio-:. Edith. `Talbot is here," Au instant later Miss Talbot cane into the room. The three inen: knew at she brought momentous, per- nee direful, intelligence. She catlfly pale, Her eyes- were uriilly brilliant, her mouth in tense resolution, No. s. itiarie°iiver. Sept, t?Sst, '1911. fy Dear Dad: Hero Tam u:t the end of to ' journey, thon„b not as far West as I Pat,and to go before returning east,. It is only tour' and a half hours by bona frein here to Victoria. the genital, tat` the "rorince. > o', I shall- try and get there for a day or'. ''1oro Starting for home, Thele snot a at the station when I Cot; me right up to their home iew 'for breakfast, Aunty and ins were there, of course, and a &react wC1CQ 5C, Then Certain - geed to Me, and they hai•o e best bedroom An the pease Ash :ab outlook over the acts to tlzc tiro John "Mr. Brett," she said, after Ingle glance at her lover, "we hav iveda letter from my brother,'' 1. letter from d'aek," cried. Fair- e, Noll, T never did '" ejaculated Mr, "Winter, But Brett only said---, "Have you brought it with you, Miss Talbot'," "Yes; it is here. My uncle, who was too ill to accompany lne, thought you caught to see it at once," and: she handed a torn en +elope to hiva. He glanced at the post -mark. "It Woes posted in Paris last ev- ening," he said, his Cool utterance sending a thrill through the listen- ers. "Is the address written by hitt ?" he added. "Oh yes. It is undoubtedly from jack." Here was a woman moulded on the same inscrutable lines as the man whom she faced. ;Seldom, in- deed, would either of these betray the feelings which agitated there. Then he took out the folded letter, It contained but three lines, and was undated, "My dear Uncle and Sister," it ran, "1 am in a. position of some difficulty, but am quite safe per- sonally. --Ever yours, Jack." Mr. Winter was the first to re- cover his equanimity. He could not control the note of trureph in. his voice. "What do you think of it now, Mr. Brett `i" The barrister ignored him, save for a glance which seemed to ex zu leg t at night. .. best 'pa! c, the Fraser eci through oat it is ono of so 1 snail ar- cute br the Toronto Ex, which laves the C, 1'; R. station sre at nine o'clock in the morning anal goes through the valley by daylight, fly taking this train I shall have aeort all the mountains, as what I .shall spies en this train I shall have scop coming out on the Imperial Limited, T like Vancouver fine. what I have seen qI it. The Wiliness. Portion of tho town is well paved and has some fne, solid buildings, It has more prosperous stores for, its size than any place Z have Leon in, and they bac° the art of malting heir windows attractive downto the last word. 'There aro one or two hills and steep streets in the down -town sec• titin, but for the most part it is levet, Quito a largo portion of the up -town part is cut dr from down -town by False Creek. an arm of the .sea, which: reaches inland for over two miles, At high tide there is twelve feet of water In the creek, which is crossed by three long bridges.. At low tido Otero is practically no water in the creels at all. and the mud fiats aro exposed. with only puddles of water here and there. The first time I saw it, it looked quite like a harbor, for there were small boats with rafts of logs ly ing close to the sawmills, which nue :the banks of False Creek. The mills all have their piles of lumber characteristic ct this lumber country, and all have great furnaces, as big as houses, where the SOUND SLEEP Can Easily be Secured. "Up to 2 years ago," a, woman writes, "I was in the habit of using press philosophical doubt as to both tea and coffee regularly. whether Mr. Winter's head ooa- "I found that my health was be- . tained brains or r>avvdust ginning to fail, strange nervous at- gnng 1 "You are quite positive that both tacks would come suddenly upon letter and envelope are in your me, making me tremble so exces- brotlier's handwriting?" he said. sively that I. could not do my_ work "Absolutely positive." evhile they lasted; my sleep left me "There can be no doubt about and I passed long nights in restless it," ohimed in Fairholme to whom, discomfort. I was filled with a in response to a gesture. Brett had nervous dread as to the future. passed the damning document. `` friend suggested that pus sibly tea and coffee were to blame, and I decided to give them up, and in casting about for a hot table bev- erage, which I felt was an absolute necessity, I was led by good fortune to try Postum. "For more than a year I have used it three titres a day . and ex- pect, so much good has it done me, to continue its use during the rest of my life. "Soon after beginning the use of "Then this letter simplifies mat- ters considerably," said Brett. Miss Talbot looked at him un- flinchingly as she uttered the next question: "Do you mean that it serves to clear my brother from any rsuspie- ion?'' "Most certainly." "I thank you for your words from the bottom of my heart. Some how, I ;knew you would say that. Will you please come and Help to , Postum, I found, to my surprise, explain matters to my uncle? Harry that, instead of tossing on a sleep you will come, too, will you' not?": less bed through the long, dreary The sweet, gentle voice, with its night, I dropped into a sound, sad mingling :of hope and despair,' dreamless sleep the moment my sounded so pathetic thattheimp head touched the pillow. petuous peer had some difficulty in "Then I suddenly realized that restraining a wild impulse to clasp all my nervousness had left me, and her to his heart then and there. my appetite, which had fallen off Even Mr, Winter was moved not before, had all atonce been re - to proclaim his disbelief. stored" so that I ate my food with "T will see you in the morning, a keen relish. sir, he xnutttrecl, "All the nervous dread has gone. Brett nodded and the detective I walk a mile and a half each way went out say>iti r to himself as lie' ,to my work every day and enjoy it. reached the street— I find an interest in everything that „Nerve ! 01' course 1:e has nerve, goes en 5iuouu me that makes life It's in, the family. Just" look at a plessurc. All this,1 owe to leges girl ' Still it did re .Ctwire sonic Ing oft tea and coffee and the use' oE` that t, � , Poston, for C have taken "no medi grit tosign his name, i79 the hotel ,,, .r �, �•e g'ster and then calmly tit' clown cine. 1 acne given by -Postum r gl Y r- Hattie Creek, IVTic n. >, There's a ren,sori, and it is r, trlained. -'3 the little" laoelt." "fele: Be t.d ekgs: Ever 'read Arlo .gnour. letter? .2 view' one 4o --t1:. Safe investments haying broad markets are available for any individual des r- ous of placing surplus funds to obtain a satisfactory return of interest -4V2 per cent. to 6 per cent. There is every advantage in belying standard bonds which are readily mar- ketable ar-1etable and on ,which income is regu- lady received This company offers Bonds of such character. The prospective investor inay be thoroughly informed and may personally investigate these securities by having our Statistical Department sub- mit the results of our own iravestzga- tions. Lists of Bonds for special p>:lrpaso,i furnished COR waste from tlio mills is burned. ylarues are constantly leaping out Of the open tops of these furnaces, which are fed from a. sort of spout wbieb projects over fhow, There is a constant >atreasn st Splinters and lath=like pieces; of weed fat. line ireul the spent to feed the damns, To thea south of Y;aneenver on esite a bill are tlso ;residential districts lnoii•n raudriew, Fairview, and Shaaa.la'nessy . FFrom Um latier place you: A mariacent view Baa over vasaeeuve: ct peyond Iurrard. Inlet, the barbers orth, Vancouver and the anountains, We have heard of the Yellow reel et, anti you realize what is .meant n you get to 'Vancouver. where sora are 11,000 Asiatics out of a total Pot nulatioet of 110,500. Chinamen aro hero. in great naanbers. They iu'o employed Quito a lot as house servants, Often whoa going through a Wood residential district, I bane seen a Chinaman comp out of the kitchen door on to the side verandali, busy onscene domestio ditty.. They go aboet, some of theta. as char women do in tbo East, and .they get 62 a day for enols work. They arc liked better than tele Japanese, as they .seem to he better workers, The Jap boy knows the minimum work the can do and the mnsimum wage he can get, so they say. Tisa Chinese aro great market gardeners, too, and all tiio vegetable peddlers 1 bavo seen out hero have been Chinese. Some 05 them aro Tory well cif, and own fine horses and waggons, while there are many who carry their goods in bas1-ets swung ono at each end of a bamboo pole, Just as you see in pictures of Chinese coolies. 0f course there aro mer- chant Chinese hero wlio aro very well off. 'Uncle John took me to dinner with ono of then who goes home to China every year. Ile came to Vancouver twenty eight years ago, and, was here when the place was called Gastown. Ile bas taken advantage of his opportunities, and must be worth a great amount. , Another section of the yellow peril Is formed by our fellow subjects the liin- doos. These you see everywhere, and they are easily distinguishable by their turbans, which are of nil colors, some pink, some red, some white, some yel- low -I don't know what color I have not seen. There were ten of these chaps in the trolley coming home from New West- minster yesterday. They seemed quite at home and were laughing and jabber- ing away among themselves the whole way back to Vancouver. I am told that the different colored turbans indicate dif• ferent castes, and that the men work for the most part in the saw mills. They are very swarthy. and for the most part aro black -bearded men. Coming home from New Westminster I saw something that would surprise :any- one from the East. Passing Ifastings townsite, I saw the way they clear the land here when they are in a hurry. They have a powerful donkey engine, and by asystem of pulleys they hitch cables to the trees as they stand and drag them bolus -bolus to a pile in the centre of the au. y are clearing. If the tree is too!, it is cut iutQlogs, and the logs ares, d on to the pile, a saw some loos; o, to three feet through, Some of the,'. ilex aro tarty to fifty foot bleb. w bene :.e pile is a9 high ee they aro gums; to alio it they start another, dud: so get,'( Iles, These piles aroy 000 of tiz©sa et on n Ubangi:me fr� eo iu n1. o tr QP fire 000 x88: The flame tat a solid Sony feet into the air, and( lurnineil the whole district, d<byo for the present, 3Itt, S.- I hare aliened this to explain; that! I laevo carried this letter around in lot for a weeli, Yea Rice, I wrote ,t5{ on clectien day, and 1n tbo excitement' down town. that night I .completely for "� got to post it, and it has bean in my, Pocxet ever since, -J. so S8 a of.Ctttiour;a OintspcJet : Ctired Baby's Skin 'Junior. 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