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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1921-3-24, Page 2itous" .41,t3vi of all wtio have artee t Er hove not tried send us a Pos ampest4tittg the price you., now paY 1)i -cit Green or Mixed Tea Addres arta t cardiar a free and if you use Salada Toronto By The Law of Tooth and Talon • By MERLIN MOORE rAYLOR 01-1,A_PTER, "The Gray Wolf" Lays His Plans: Louie Vbgel, gunman, thug, and leeder of criminals, Eat„ in the beet room of a ver Danny's" saloon and frowned perplexedly at the glass ce whiskey before him. For half an hour he had been there the liquor before him untested, much to the surprise of the white-apeoned bartender who popped his head Maid° the doer every few minutes. to see i the glass needed replenishing. Fox Vogel was acenstomed to tossing of the fiery draught at a gulp and imine diately requiring another. Moreover he was net the kind to relish being kept waiting when in his cups. Ther were times, though, when he ordered whiskey andetid not touch it. Thos who were intimate with him knew that. at sach times Vogel --"Big explained, but it required a cool head, a scheming brain and absolute fear- lessness. It was not something to appeal to a weakhng. I told this heibud t las I could p put him in toueh 'with tile -eery man for him if he was willing to pay," fia.ttered "Silver Danny;" "%viten Vogel, nosing around on the scent of the man who was back cf the play, finally 1 entered the saloon. "No, I dide't • mention yer name to him," as "Big ▪ Louie dieplayed signs of angel,. I tells him I would see t -he party I had in mind meaning you and if it was agreeable I would have him here at t seven bells to -eight. At that time come in. If it's 0. K. 1 gives him e the office to hunt you up in the back Toone. If not, 1 tips him the Mothin• • doin' sign ancl 1-ae beats it. It's up' o you." Louie" the police called him—eva busy with his thoughts and in 310 mood to be die-turbed. Perhaps it meant that plans wer being made for a new and daring raid upon the pocketbooks of those wh would not miss then; perhaps h • schemed a way out when the net o the law seemed to be drawing clos about him Certainly it never quite nad enmeshed him. For "Big Louie' played in what his cronies called "horseshoe luck," although he knew It was merely the reward of unceas- • ing calculation and everlasting vig.i- • His face adorned the rogues' gal- lery of police headquarters in many and varied poses, in violation of the law which prohibits the "mugging' of a man before he has been convected of a crhae. He knew the county jai a dozen police stations from the inside as a result of frequent deten- tions therein, but he had yet to do his "bit" behind the bars, ad the detectives who had camped on his trail for years and were morally cer- tain they had him dead to rights a dozen times, had alraost began to despair of ever sending him "over the road." Still they patiently bided their time, waiting for one of two things to happen. It is an axiom in police circles that no matter how clever a criminal may be, the day will come when he will blund'er, when he will grow careless and overlook some little trifle that will loorn like a mountain of accusation to those who seek to lay him by the heels. Also a veteran and expert French thief -catcher 'had once errpticany said, "Cherchez la femme,'. which translated into the jargon of the underworld is, "I.,oele f h' ." "Big Louie" knew these axioms as well as did the nolice.- If he had overlooked trifles in the past they had been so small that his pursuers had overlooked them, too, and had begun to despair of ever catching him when be did blunder. Of late they had be- gun to hope that the second saying might prove the right lead, For Vogel. • violating all precdents of erookdoin, here.tofore had fought eby • of all women, but for several weeks now he appea.red to be wayering in the direction of Stella Lathrop, eon/thy-horn and a puzzle to the po- lice because. of the suddenness and ease with which she appeared to have • become one of the intimatea of Vogel's aatellites. It was nob of Stella, however, that Vogel was thinkbig now. She knew nothing incriminating against him. But he had •been meditating on the fact that some day his luck would • turn, that he was long past due to make that one and fatal slip which would end les seeming immunity, Still the knowledge that it was bound to come mime thine did not serve to melee him the leaat bit timid. He would play the game safely as long as he emild and, when the time came to pay, be would take his medicine as it was dealt him without •squealing. However, he had no intention of hastening that day by carelessness.. That was why the whisky before him was untouched, Earlier in the day word had read - ad him through one of the multitudin- ous methods of communication known to his• kind that, there was big game in sight, and his for the taking. The reward was large for the one who agreed to a certain "job," as yet un - I• "How do you know it ain't a ,plant?" asked Vogel. " don't, ut tins bird looks nigh, to me," "Silver Danny" went on. He neglected to Ineation that a hundred - dollar bill tendered_ by the stranger °, had aided him greatly in reaching that decision. "You know me, Louie. f Inc always played on the square with all the beers and I'm not handing out any eurn steer. I think it's safe." Vogel nodded. "I'll be here when '• seven o'clock comes." The interview 1 • place in the baelt room where Vogel now sat. "I'll pipe him off when he steps into the barroom. If he looks like you say, he'll find me sittin' right here. If not,, I'll Ine, , gone by the time he gets the office:. Vogel was not merely killing time against the stranger's arrival. He was paying the way for washing his hands of the affair if he became suspicious of the other man when he saw him. He would not enter into any dealings with him until he knew what the game 'was and the size of the stake for which he would play. If it were wo-rth while, and the stranger did not say OT do something that savored of a po ace trap, Vogel would talk business with him. One suspicious move, how- ever, and no amount of money would. tempt "Big Louie." Through a crack in the door he -watched the stranger's arrival on the dot of seven o'clock. He SaW, also, the almost imperceptible nod with which "Silver Danny" indicated the ack room, and he studied his pros- pective employer in detail as the later crossed the barroom to the door of the bean: room. When the stranger pushed it open Vogel was again in his chair, back against the wall, fac- ing the doorway coolly. Beneath the table, however, one 'nand caressed the butt of a revolver. Characteristically, too, it was the left hand. Vogel could shoot with either one and he pre- ferred the right, the one which usual- ly is kept ready for action, to be con- spicuously in sight on the table. It served to disarm suspicion. He aaw a tail, !smoothly shaven Man NVIL.h Hack hair and deep, dark eyes that glowed in their sockets. They were cruel eyes, too, and the nose and mouth were those of a bird of prey. The hands were white and well -kept, the fingers long and sinewy —the fingers of a strangler. Thus , far his scrutiny had satisfied Vogel. Renaained one other point t� be taken into consideration—the feet of the stranger. With relief the thug saw that they.were long and narrow. It zeerns that the feet of those who play at hare -and -hounds in the underworld invariably are one of two kinds, and a policeman can disguise everything about hire but his big, broad feet. "110,s no bull," Vogel decided, His hand -came away .1rom the weapon in his lap and he motioned to the chair opposite. • - The stranger, too, had been taking stock. Now he spoke for the first time. •• , "What's your?" he • asked and started to press' the button in the wall at leis side. Vogel noticed that he spoke from the corner or his mouth and without moving his lips. It is a trick learned mostly behind prison walls, where conversation is under the ban but still is carried on at will. "I'm not drinkin' to -night," Vogel pointed at the glas of whiskey be- fore him, "I never drink when there's hitemess n. "That's good." Th a straegor Tub- bed hia hands together in approba- ion. "That's good, 1 prefer a man who has no time for drinke when he has other fish to fry." Catchall' conies before reyini re- lied Vogel. "I haven't seen no fish Used Au,,,,t;9„..." : ., )t ' gB1-440 _T . , , . , ' 't i ataidiniti oata of ell tY,aes; aut tiara mid mita, , !tot to aeliver_at up to _300 miles, 'or ta0? titut of! arena attabanoc a 70u artieh, fa im'' era or • ,pareaasea. ea purehase aka .aeffitia a ! ; ' . t latatai- mad ide., of 'your awe chotea ta foeirat 'aina overa tit Iola Xai ThO A*6 fOlk (44.-.V,Ati.,'. , raDreV2-74.ftlistn-wtlavs." 10.1 ahapeettert,"' vaiae feta. ate 'halide • , ' . , .... - tlreakere Deed r'74140,c0 , 12 reage Stacsfa - It 4") a ' a, e who lases hie head," he began. "1 ern told that youare that kind of a man and that I may Tely upon you lint illicitly." Ile paused as if for some ignan hfer \11, ell)? eo ng; Tvgos tseurteh outItzel t‘t..)„,11100 an deliver VInkt he UndentalfeS eer- tin persons nre willing to pay--tive thousand d e' 1 ers." Still Vogel gave no- in.lieation that he was interested. An offer Of five hundred dollays would have been eagerly snapped up, Anythieg shert of warder in breed daylight on a crowded street could, have been ar- l'allgeti 'Cor the lesser SUM. If he neither batted, his eyes nor shifted them at the mention of tee times that amount it was through -sheet. surprise tat the hugeness of the °trey. Ile saw the whole deal falling through because the stranger was about to demand semet mrnpossib1e. In his eaoei- ienee nothing ever broached to him was paid, for at such rates. "Fiye thousand dollars," repeated the stranger. "One thousand pay- able as soon as you accept." 1 -Ie dis- played $ yell of bills in a fold taken from .his inside pocket. "Another thousand the day the trick is to be turned and the remainder when the job is completed. Are you interested now?" . "Go on," ordered Vogel briefly. "Five thousand dollars is a lot of money for a sniall job like this. It is net the. ability to do it that calls for such large pay. That could be arranged for a few hundred. Tlie rest is a reward for ability to forget it after it is done. Of course you can- not be expected to accept without knowing what it is." He leaned over until his face almost touched that of the gunman, his voice dropped to a whisper: "I want a man kidnapped," he concluded. "Give me the thousand," said Vogel, mid held out his hand for the neeneY. The -stranger counted aut ten 'crisp, new one hundred dollar hills and Vogel stowed watch pocket. away in his wate "Who's your' man ?" he asked. This time he was forced to put his ear almost against the lips of the other to hear the reply. Then he started to his feet, his head shaking, his face frowning, his hand straying toward the watch pocket, reatly .to retrieve the money and return it." "I'd sooner- tackle the devil," he said briefly, but his fingers paused' in the act of fingering the bills, "You have taken my money," point- ed out the other, noticing the signs a of wavering. ",Ithat, as I understand it, is binding ba all contracts." - Vogel's hand came away from his pocket and reached out to grasp the whisky glass. But he merely toyed with it, for a moment. - "All "right," he agreed. "What do you want done with...him'?" For ball an hour the stranger talk- ed in tones inaudible five feet away, Vogel listening intently and interrupt- ing only to ask- a question now and then. Then, as the other -concluded, he nodded. - "Saturday night, then," he said. "But God help es .both if that old devil ever has a chance to get even." The stranger rose anii.started for the door, But he stopped for a mo- ment, long enough to 'draw • a. card from a vest pocket and 'toss it tapers •thetab "Telelpeh' oneto that number 'When the job is done," he said. "It will not be neceSsa.ry to go into! details. Simp- ly say '0. K.' and the persoe who takes the message will unders-tand He made not a sound as he disap- peared into the barroom, edged around the • table and chairs in his way and softly passed through the outer.door into the street. Across the street Ralph Charlton, agent of the Department Of Justice, hesitated but a moment in his stride as he saw the -stranger's figure. 01.3t - lined against the bright lights of the saloon's interior, but .he crossed the street at an angle • and when, the atranger, without so much as a glance behind him, strode swiftly away, Charlton swung into• step a few yards behind him. • "The Gray Wolf, eh?" he said, softly to himself. --"Now, I wonder what the dieltens he's doing in this neighborhood? Guess I'll just trail along and see." But he had his pains' and a long walk to boot for nothing, for the man avhoin he had dubbed . "The Gray I2trolf" merely walked rapidly for a -couple of miles to a neighborhood Of hoardMg houses and dis- appeared behind the portals of a -weatherbeaten stone house. Whereat Charlton snorted in disgust and went in search of his delayed supper, for the bonze was well known to the De- partment of Justice as the boarding place of Otto Lebrune, -alias "The Gray Wolf," a man with ready Money, but no visible ineans of obtaining it, suspected of a great many things which were interesting to the Govern- ment, but who so far, never had been connected with any of them. - "He reminds me of an old gray wolf I tried to trap for ten years back 'On- the farm," a veteran Fecietal agent had said once. "He's right under your nose all the time, but the minute you think you've got ,hirn he's disappeared, only to bob up serenely some' other place another day." So "The Gray -Wolf" Lebrune had become to the agents, and The Gray 1Velf" he remained. .• (Continued in next iisue:) Women! Use ``I)larnond Dyes." Dye Old Skirts, /)resses Waists, Coats, Stockings, Draperies, ! Everything. Each pategage of "Diamond Dyes" contains eagy directions for dyeing any article of wool, silk, cotton, linen„ .or mixed goode. • Beware! Poor dye Strealts, spots, fades and ruins ma- terial by giving it a 'dyed -look." Buy "Ialaniond Dyes" only. Druggist haa. Color Card. around here:: Plainly lie wanted the-- other to make the first plunge Into • When You drop a whatever matter.e he had in mind to WOOCIS On leave your camp -fire, ;heave discuss. Evidently, the steanger veae it is dead ottet, Care With flrfe:.-,in 'ttle sattfle4 wIth ;LI" 1.;"";i'; c!;-- 'thie-hean ehettla ca't With enear tot* the Iead, "I have a Matter that - match in the "4-dconie to ineCiTa and- he ql-lieldY an 'Canadians, lever Man, a 44ring wan anti one FOR. ALL THE FAMILY OSI.ERY AT IVIA.6E IN CANADA BY CANADIAN PEOPLE Our Guarantee -on Every Garment Sold at 'Most Good Shops EASANTS BLOT OUT - SOMME SIJELLHOLES TRACTORS USED IN RE, -CONSTRUCTION,. SoMetimes Plows Hit Unseen • Shells and Farmer and Horses Perish. A miracle has been wrought, in a 'battlefield of the Somme regihn, the acene of ,constant action ever since , the first bettle of the Somme, writes Sir 'William Beach Thompson in the London Daily 'A good part of that spacious field yielded most excellent -Crops last au - tamp,' he says. "Even the' small fearn- eer, who loves 'to grumble, confeased that. Much of it has grown two "C'eops since the war. "An eager peasant whci had helped to produce the miracle gave me the details. "The first year a plague of mice and rats apaleared. 1 -le meemed to thhilt they_ had 'been spontaneously" bred frons &hells or feleased from some devil's !cavern by burrowing The rodents ate every other plant that pushed up. • When the Boy Groa-s Tall. Let interest, enceuragertlent and There conies a time in the he of sYmPathetie • understanding be the most boys wilerf.the interests of his -trinity of virtifes which will guide earlier childhood no longer appeal to the boy who is growing, tall thee -ugh hnimhisannclinhde altoolkeSasitrtgoiatihgleyydfaorward, these days of ,betwixt and' between. i atheyeeThey are hard days for him. Hes he shall ^ be a man in very truth- s Thi straining foiward -to meet he knows s Atidlonger satisfied with e i' his,isachciirlidaiisas:, atin.i,nuilese,mfoernttsh,e aynodu„otluirwagdarliis_ci not what. New powers 'are stirring for the home folks as -well. within hise. which he has not master- TileaboY dis . „H„body haa'not kept pace With evelopinent in other ways and and daeseierle„taforin.liamdv6ue.nritturoeislaj)i f euriios itye he is awkward and conscious of it da Before very long natural powers will to be led into paths 'mit wise fax him. to 2wallea His , judgment is immature and his experience lacking. The ones who have watched- him froth baby - hood scarcely realize that he is grow- ing tip, and stheyn are a bit huTt when he' begins to show Andepencience of desire and a marked disinclination 'to accept their jedgment 'unquestioned sany longer. He is no longer a: biddable child, but half child and hallawkward older boy. ''"Hoewill confuse those who have charge of him many filaiea by his extremesensitiveness on the -one hand and his stubbornness on the other. Ile must be held at this time by a keen knows when to let him alone, when to insist on obedience and when -to encourage the right kind of coalman- ionship -The one who is much in the company of the boy when he, is grow-, ing- tall must tay to get the boy's viewpoint. " It is in the unity of a common in- terest that the boy- can be held. Find something an which he is vitally inter- ested and be really interested in the same thing too. Never mind if the living -room carpet is retied arid bar- gains ,are shrieking unheeded to be embraced. Carpets and bargains will mean little, to the aching heart of father or mother if the boy ' goes • wrong. Study with him, experarrient with him end love him for his very boyish ceuditiesa Remember that in this evolutionary stage from boyhood to manhood the outspoken, harsh phrase may itself be the result of extra effort -to hide little -understood emotion. Be patient not expecting that the boy is going to merge into a Teasonable, mature adult. overnight. Beware of the jealousy which forces inaey a boy into himself because. the folks at home take a haihrilesa friendship with some girl ,comparnon as a serious affair. Go back into the storeroom of your own youthful memories and be diplo- matic whensit is necessary to exercise firmness. Perhaps the etery man wham you are hoping and praying that your boy will be like the' main was Intieh the same as he:is at the same age. Give him the highest ideals through association with the best of edmpan- ions', and especially with those who are older and worthy, whom he can and does admire, It is essentially the time when the boy craves masculine eamaraderie which is more experienc- ed than he is. It is the time e-Jien can be drawn into team work of the right kind, and so organizations properly directed aro much safer than the street -corner ,gang. - Let him see and' keetv that you expect the best of Ithirat all times and "the nobility that in him liet wffl -rise „Minard's Liniment Relieves Oolcie, ets, e aUO3) sympathy and understanding which be co-ordinated, a_nd one' will look back surprised that the time seemed long. The Backyard Ship. The Backyard Ship has goodly masts, It doubtless is a clipper, And every week it braves the blasts With Mandy Jane for skipper. With churning suds upon its trail 'Tis always booked for Monday; It spreads 'much canvas to the gale, Enough to drive to Fundy. Yet while it starts its countless trips As eveTy boat should hanker, More prudent than the other ships, It never weighs its anchor. Hints ,,to Housekeepers. An easy way of breaking crackers or nut meats is to put them in an empty salt or sugar hag and ran the rolling pin over them several times.— If children object to the "scratchi- ness" of woolen underwear try iron- ing the garments on the wrong side with a moderately hot iron while they are slight1yddanip',-4 M. T. To make my own, vinegar, I save apple parings and place them in ,a three -or four -gallon stone jar,cover with water, add enough sugar to sweeten slightly and place the jar be- hind the range. After itahas stood for two or three weeks, I pOur ,a littie syrup over strips of brown wrapping paper and drop these into the vinegar toform a "mother." Two or three weeks later the vinegar.will be ready to drain off and use.—Mrs. C. C. If a cloth garment is torn or snag- ged'while visiting. or travelling, make immediate repairs before more serious damage is done., Take a piece of court plaster as nearly as possible the color of the garment and stick 11 on the reverse side of -the -goods over the tear. This will- prevent ravelling or the enlarging of the -rent —L. M. T. In these times of expensive mater -4 ials, we -want to Utilize everything we ' can. You will find. discarded curtains or muslin underwear may be" folded any desired thickness and, used as a padding inside 'a quilt.—Mrs. W.B. S. To preveht raisins,, currants or cit- ron from sinking to the bottom of the cake, varm them well in the oven be- fore' adding them to, the batter.—Mrs. J. J. O'C. 4.• Princess Juliana Sees Her • Firit Movie. The -little Princess Juliana, only child of queeu winielminii and Prinae Consort Henry, who may one day suc- ceed to the throne of the Netherlands -11 has just been permitted • to see herIn at motion picttu 0 . shoo, 'patch from the Hague. She is 1.1! years old Mid is being reared in the ' sheltered faahion cha.eaOIeristic of the home life' of Queen Willielmina. The little Princess, however,' -ie being train- ed in music and abhor arts as well as in the duti-ea of a housekeeper. Hee first motiett pietare" show was of the educational type, a South Pole picture. Queen Wilhelmina rarely appears at fetes, public rece,ptione or patriotic celebrations. In fact, she is seldom seen in public except when walking through -the woods or driving in one of her carriages or automobiles. She prefers, dignity to display, and her re- sidences could hardly' be called pal- aces. Minard's Liniment tor Burma ete. Opportunity is two --veining bends, one alert brain and one strong will. COARSE SALT LAND SALT Bulk Carlots TORONTO SAL -r WORKS . C. 1. CLIFF - TORONTO WHY" LOOK OLD?. • „.2 "The second year they ya.nishoch mys,teribusly as they came. ' This'peasantha}- his sto-cic housed, satire under lean-to tarpaulins, seine under bits of tin and weed jutting' „lilt:yes:n;(1, isnliaathteult•eldvitthvailltiss. fa.nifiey. himself Interiag Patriotism of the French. " 'What would you?' he said, eA mart levee his „eountrya. • "He. meant not France, but his hit of country; his parish, his, plot; and in this sense Ialoubt whether any people in .the world have such passitin as the French for their land as Such. "The state, with a $ilniplicity that inarks tbe best French work, sent out men tvith spades and twe,ezers. After cutting the lmittless wire into two- Y'arcl lengths they went to work.'like Darwin's earthworms, so patiently, so eedffoionli vbeyl Y8. paDdae'ela'ynds hsehllolheoll;e was a as110.- thoroughly done ' that. there is na, cracked shrinking to denote the crater. The unlocal and "casual road - Men W110 fill up holes eear the road leave '.,vife stialting out, and after , some days a subsidence is very plain, aft is not so at all on the farms. rough tractor. fellows .the long -hand-, led evades; and thea, the tanners get te weak with those verraliallow plowe of theirs, tha,t regard only the surface, bat a -re by no means superficial.• worlt up by degeeet't when found are put up conspicuou cr stacked and flagged for the engin- eers to collect and explode. Seine - times they -are bit before being scan,t when good -by plowman, plow and horses; but for the sake of ,the land that risk is run. • "If a class prize were giVeu for _re-; eonstructien energy the French farm- er'-'71°Itillidergee6wiet;e a village conapetitioa I should pick from the Very many vil- lages. I have seen -Viliers Bretermeux as prize winner. "lt would please eery Australian, especially ,the people of Melbourne, who have adopted it, to see already built a large and well equipped Lac• tory, a new chateau with many archl. tectueal triinminge :and a miniber of real brick houses under construction. The village' saw the, death of German hopes. When with a rank or two the AuStralians stoppea the German ad- vance there, what au•iaeurable mess of ruin the village was—of brielthate, bemuse...am/Ike, girders, 'airplane sheds "and bits of tanks; of clea,d things en-, tombliig dead life. "It is DOW aliVe again, with rich farms 'around it and a cheerful peea „. pie." • The Povier of 1 hought. If a thought can in an in.stailt of time dilate Or eOntril.q a:blood vessel; it it cae iumesase or decrease the se- cretion et a it can hasten, or `etard the actien of 'the heart; -if it can turn the hair gray' In a'single lighte if it can force tears from the eyes; if it -can produce ineomnia; if as lias often occurred, it can tring .1-u- stantaneOlIS death,—then. is'it not natiti.al for us to 00110111de, without leirtlier argument, that it may • brills about a mare or less continuous de- amgament of the. physicalt organism that we call disease? I have seen the most weederful ef- fects follow a lit of anger. After an outburst of passion the _function of -every gland in the body Is impaired. Time and time I have "eliaerved acute Mimss. iii an infant when' it was permit,ted to nurse immediately after the mother had engeged in a quarrel, and On InOTO than one oeca- saigfnewI hhoauvres. s,eeu death follow withia' • The , standing innly of the heinan body iS the corpuscles of the blood. Upon them we depend to teal the wounds, haild new tiasue and attack ttlloeoln/taeisroloitoill:s;,vbsateellnllist.leat attempt Thought pro(' u os efts e eoattr3e of its action on tho corpuscles- of the blood. 'I'hese coleuseles e.re wontlele fully influenced les the An tilt' raged conscience; hate, envy, anger and ear erush the vitality oat of them and leave the eitadel Of lite ex- osed, But faith, hope happinCSS and OVO Create ihOin and send them ewerneing through the body tial every far:Charles' anbort Paataa, 1 'When one applica- tion of W1lion,x1 Itair RestoratIve every 2 months keeps the hair natural. No oil, co dirt; the hair can be washed when desired. Try it. BlacIE or Tirown. •Price, $2.00. Sent prepaid to any address in - Canada. - ... /O. oarnoolian, Powell Jive.. Ottawa So many daily uses' • In 2, 5, and 10-1b. tins s it is served in some form at every meal, and keeps indefinitely, many thrifty housewives order several cans of Crown Brand at a time. Thus they always have a supply on hand. How pleased they are to find that no emergency calling for cooking, baking or candy -making finds them unprepared. it is economical, THE CANADA- STAIICH CO" LIII/TEDs, UONTREAL rcowrit 3orrlip •he Ocae Swetener" 26 •