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D• McTAGGART Banker A general Banding Business transacted. Notes Discount- ed• Drafts Issued. Interest Allowed :on Deposits. Sale Notes Purchased. H. T. RANCE Notary Public, Conveyancer 'Financial, Real Estate and Fire In- surance Agent. Representing 14 Fite Insurance Companies. Division Court Office, Clinton. 'Frank Fingland, B.A., LL.B. 03ar'rister, Solicitor, Notary Public Successes to V4 r. Bryclone, K.C. 'Sloan Block — Clinton, Ont. CHARLES B. HALE Conveyancer, Notary Public, Commissioner, etc. Office over J. E. Hovey's Drug Stem CLINTON, ONT. B. R. HIGGINS Notary Public, Conveyancer General Insurance, .including Fire Wind, Sickness and Accident, Antn- ntobile. Huron and Erie Mortgage 'Corporation and Canada Trust Bonds Box 127, Clinton, P.O. Telephone 57. DR. .I. C. GAND.IER Office Hours: ---1.30 to .3.30 pen., '0,30 to 8.00 pan. Sundays, 12.30 to 1.30 poi. Other hours by appointment only. 'Office and Residence — Victoria St. DR. FRED G. 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'Immediate arrangements can be made for Sales Date at The News -Record •Ciintoh, or by calling phone 103. ;Charges Moderate , and Satisfactior Guaranteed, CANADIAN NATIONAL fAIi:WAYS 0 0t _• OacsO ouaT THE THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD TIE MARSH MUROER , 0024 O STORY OF A MISSING ACTRESS AND . THE TAXING OF WITS TO EXPLAIN HER FATE. TE. IIO BY NANCY BA.RR MAVITY db , O O SYNO1-SIS Ile could' scarcely recall a time be •Don Ellsworth's.wife, formerly the Inc the trial began; he , could- no actress Sheila O'Shay, disappears. look forward to the tunic wheni should be ended. He sat . throng.' Dr. 'Cavanaugh criminal'.psychologist ' '- learns their married life has been i the droning hours with half -aria unhappy. He identifies- a charred' eyes which yet saw with minute ole ppy'tall ovary aspect of the courtr"Ta body found in the rule.marsh as !.And out of the welter certain scene that of . Shiela. Barbara, his •laugh- fee, faints when she hears this. were stamped, bright and clear, in • his memory, When'ltfrs. Kane, Sheila's maid, is , arrested, she admits. that Ellsworth j The first of these was Don Ells - married - married Sheila under threat of breach worth on the witness stand Don of promise. Athreatening note Bin:worth facing with dilated, dere signed "David °rine" is found in -the perate eyes row upon row of preen ntardered woman's safe. Peter Pips correspendents, each scribbling in- er, a Herald reporter, trails Orme tently on pads, of copy paper. He no end arrests- hint. ` longer had the look of a sullen, viol - Then Peter. sees Bail/are destroy a .ant boy. The thing . that he had jewel,'ed comb whirl belonged -to fought and hated )pore than anything Sheila, Barbara refuses to talk and else in the world had happened, and Peter• realizes she is protecting he faced' it with 'tense composure, someone. Orme's trial for the mur, He stared before him like a inan fit der of *Sheila O'Shay comes up. front of a firing squad, standirte rigidly erect until he had twice been tad to be seated in the withal chair. "Will you just relate in your owe l way, Mr. Ellsworth, the- circum- stances of your wife's disappoaranctl front your home?" "I was first aware that' she had, gone on the morning of March 19," be .wound to write the rest of the Elleworth spoke in a hard, mecheu- CHAPTER XXXVIII. "There, Harry!" Peter thrust his Argos .of notes into the hand rsf the nearest of the Q and A twins. "Take care of this for me, will you? Phone it in to the office and tell Jimmy I'll story in half an hour. And if he tells you to remind ire there's n one o'clock deadline, you tell him if I miss it he can fire ire, and to go --anywhere you like." Peter nudged his way up the ais'e and vaulted the low railing to the enclosed seen, his eyes fixed on a email black hat just visible above the back of a ehair, "Barbara!" he exclaimed. "Why did you conte? How did you get in?" The little figure in the big chair faced him calmly. "Father gut a pass far me," site announced. "lie's to be an expert witness, you know, and I've never seen hint in action: I bold him 7 thought it might be interesting." Peter wondered if he would ever in the -world get over being astonished at Barbara. Except.?, for the tired lines about her• eyes, she was me nonchalant as if they had met in the lobby of a theatre instead of n eourt.rooni. "But you musn't stay. You musn't," Peter said in a low tone. "It's too much for you to stand. Anil it won't do anybody a partie?e of goad." "Won't you sometime ask the some- thing that I don't have to say 'No' to Peter?" For one moment her up- turned face was full of appealing wistfulness; the next, it had harden- ed into a look of weary fortitude. "Hew can I pcssibly know what will de any good, unless I stay to find out?" she said. - Peter's ilnprassiorm of the succeed- ing• days of the Orme trial were like e series of island mountain tops ern-' aging nut cf the sea. There were waste stretches which he did not re- member at ell, a{ltheugh at the close of each court session he hammered cut in the Herald local room that series of courtroom stories which held the foundation for hie renuta- tdcn as one of the most brilliant "apeeial""writers in the Country. If Orme was not guilty, Barbara, must .be. If Orme was found' guilty Barbara would walk with firm light steps into the ar'enaand let her body and soul be tarn while, the newsboys rlsouted "Extra!" and the crowd licked its lips outside, rather than allow him to' suffer unjustly. Peter, slumped. in seat 53, his eyes fixed on the small black hat just visible a- bove the chair -back where Bambara hat beside Dr. Cavasnaueh, felt his brei .clamped in a tight inescapable. circle of thought. Aml yet some ether portion of his mind functioned independently, automatically record- ing ecording names, addresses, incidents, pie - tura. He seemed to have spent an end- less lifetime. alternating between the court hone and the Herald office. THE McKILLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance -Company Head Office, Seaforth, Ont: President, J. Bennewies, Brodhag. en,. vice-president, James Connelly, Goderich. Sec.-treastuer•, D. F. Mc-. Gregor., Seaforth. - Directors: James Evans, Beech- wood; James Shouldice, Walton; When. 'Knox, Londesborc; Rabt. Ferris, IJul- lett; ,Tobin Pepper, Brucefield; A Broadfoot, Seaforth; G, F. McCart- ney, Seaforth. ` Agents: W. •J. Yeo; 21.11. No. 3. Clinton; Jean 'Murray, Seaforth; James Watt, $1yth; Ed. Pinchley, Seaforth.. Any money to be paid may be paid to the Royal' Bank. Clinton; Bank of Commerce, Seaforth, ar at Calvin~ Cutt's Grocery, Goderich. Parties desiring to effect . insur. anee or transact other business .will be promptly attended to on applica, tien to any of the above afficors addressed to their respective post or. flees, Looses inspected ley the three tor• who lives nearest the scene,' TIME TABLE Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as :fellows: Buffalo and Goderich Div. Going.. Bast, depart 6.58 aalt Going Fast depart 2.08 p.m. ..Going West, depart 11.55 n:m. „ „ <, 0.44 pan. London, Huron & Bruce. .(icing South 3.08 pan ,Going North 4.58 ani, ,ical voice, as if he were reciting a lesson by note. "My wife's maid came and told nue that—P "Never mind what anyone told you. Just relate whet you did," Ellsworth's eyes flashed' briefly from the rows of reporters to the Lawyers' table. Peter was suddenly reminded of a.bull being pricked b'i the lance tip of the toreador. Don opened his lips to retort, but thought better of it. "I went up ,to ray wife's boudoir. T found that the lights had leen left burning. Sn far as .I could tell, none of her clothes' were missing except an evening cloak and the dress which she had worn at dinner the night belolee," "And what did you do then?" "Nothing. I waited, thinking that sense natural explanation of her.dis- appearance would be forthcoming When she had not returned after sew erel days, the police were notified, That is ,all I can say of my direct knowledge." "Have you ever seen the defen- dant, David Orme, before?" "1 think not." "I will ask you to read this letter, introduced in evidence ac people's exhibit A. Wthat is. your interprota tion of this letter?" "I object, your honor. What the '.witness thinks the letter tneaes is incompetent, immaterial and irrele vane" 'If the witness ]:news any cir- cumstances which will explain the letter, he has the right to state them. You may answer the ques- tion," the judge rapped out with metronomic precision. "I had some reason to suppose that Mrs. Ellsworth had clone Orme ---or he thought she had done him --- some injury." • "What reason?" "She had Mho clone me what 1 eon. eider a grave injury and I imagine T am by no means the only one to suffer at her hands" "Your /tenor. I object. I trove the MIME!. be stricken- from the recatel as unresponsive." "7t uta- be etrieken out." "I 'withdraw the nuestinn. Did ynnr wife ever speak of Orme to you?" "She did," The bent hearts of the correspond- ents roselike a field of flowers turn-. ed, upward he the wind. There was a faint,. rustling sound of suppressed excitement. "Will you kindly relate the sub-` Malice of such conversation or con- versations?" "My wife told me that David Ornie was the name of the latest of her husbands previous to myself!" The dry bitterness of the voice smote the courtroom like a blade of ice. . "(:Lad you any reason to ,suppose that yea wife might have loft the house voluntarily with her former husband?" "I object!" Graham, his round. boyish face crimson; popped to his feet es if sprung out of a box,. "What the witness supposes his wife might ham :done is incompetent, irrelevan'e and immaterial and calling for the conclusion of the witness." The weeds we>;e like the spatter ' of a shotgun. "Your banal" the district atter. trey .boomed .reproachfully. "-Surely the witness may relate any conduct en the part,of his wife directly bear.. ing nn circumstances'\of her leaving the house!" "Reframe 701». question." "Did your wile do or say: anything to indicate that she was in eomutuni- cati'sS with Orme?? My .-fife's :foster husbands were net a commit r topic of canver satb n between 'us." Again, the air Was .eutby'that .mead of ice. • A gest of laughte'r"_ran through the eclat-mom—the nervous exP lesiva laughter that is released from intol- erable. tension, "Silence in the entitlement, Please!" "Your honor, I move that the an - ewer: be stricken from the record as unresponsive,`. "It may be .stricken from the rec- cord,- Answer the question, yes of no,"- the. judge said with •bored sev- erity. "She did not." "That is ell, 114r. Ellsworth." •"You may cross exarnine." "I understand you to say," Graham; began cheerfully, "that you looked through your wife's clothes on the morning when she was first missing. Doesn't that indicate that yowl thought she !night have packed het clothes before leaving?" "I object," run bled the district at- torney," on the ground that the question is leading." "Objection overruled. The witness may answer," the judge said with hie usual curt weariness. - "et was taking the possibility into acenunt." "A.ncl yet you did nothing—nothing whatever—to discover your -missing wife's whereabouts for three days? Weren't you, to say the least, some- what anxious to know what had be- came ' of her?" The forced control of the manon the witness stand was suddenly shat- tered. .His hands gripped the arms "t the chair as if he would tone them from their supports. CHAPTER XX,XIX. "If you want to know what I thought, I'll tell you," Flsworth Said in a loud, rapid voice. "At first I thought it quite likely that she had run away with some one. If. I had known that Orme was about I might have suspected him, but as a matter of fact. I did not speculate. I diel nothing about it because if that was the case it released me from a situa- tion that I regretted with all my seal. But when I thought it over, T knew positively that that was one thing she v'n"dn't dn. 227 wife was, a very emotional wnnnan; .'hut sh' would never have deliberately (riven up sure money fns' the sake 'of env emotion. She might have relished the excitement of meeting Orme again, but she would never have giv- en up her financial position as try wife to go back to him." 'Graham and the district -attorney were both frahtiealby striving to make themselves heard above the storm, The gavel of the bailiff thumped lice a tomtom." (To be eetttinued.) Bear Baiting Alibi National (leorgraphie Editor 1)1s. covers Golfer's Hope in ,lasepr Golfers, ''ike fishermen, skate close to prevarication—to say the least -- when presenting the day's alibi at the 19th hole, Of all the "if's" and "but's," the latest and spiciest seems to be the alibi discovered in Jasper National Park, the largest on the North American Continent. Franklyn L. Fisher, chief of the illustration division of the National Geographic Magazine, made the dis- "overy. 'IIe spent several days in the Canadian Rockies, where once in a while the social centres are visited by some timid but curious bear cub. Mr. Fisher says; "A `beautiful Spot. with one of the best golf cour- ses in the country, But the bears are hard on the game. We totted several go'f bails the bruins had showed. Caddies said the bears of- ten pursued a long'drive—asnecially if it seemed headed towards the green—grabbed the hall and waddled off into the bush to -make grim of it." But to -meet this situation, there is it loem' rule which permits the golfer !n reams a ball which hes been carried off by a bear. Thrills no Frills on Freighter -Trips Canadian National Inaugurates 37,• Day Cruises to Winters Sunshine Abotird Cargo Carriers for Passen. leers Who Have More Time Than Money to Spend Reaching Haunts of Crusoe, "Comfort without frills; a :longer voyage at lower cost." That is the shortest way to describe novel ,frei, ghter-cruises just introduced by -the Canadian National;Steanmships for the .benefit of certain people who feel that the luxury and punctuality of .ntoctern .linen's has robbed tropical voyaging of all its romance and acrd venture.' Me .freighter -cruises will be made by thee Canadian National steamers, par:admit Pathfinder and Canadian. c .mishel, sailing• periodically 'from- Halifax :for Bermuda, the Enitish West Indies and . the French West lncl •xe s in 'the regale? ar course of their i m sston of -tatting cargo back and forth between Canada and these winter paradises: The two freigh- ter's were built during the World War for the Canadian Government and were later converted to carry a- bout 20 passengers, pendng the coin- Teton L �" I v the Lad liners niers - which now operate a regular Canadian -West Indies passenger service. Since the Canadian 'Pathfinder and her companion freighter are first and foremost carrier's of cargoes.. and since their schedules are not to be a matter of infallible punetua'ity; those ships will each take passengers on 37 -day cruises at a cost which a- mounts to half the usual rate charg- ed for a month's cruise aboard regu- lar . passenger ships. The.-ineals serv- ed will be about the same as those served regularly to officers and crew—which means that few better meals are to be found anywhere on land. There is an element of Robinson (Imam about these new voyages. They should appeal to .people who have more tiles than money to spend on a winter voyage and who put a high premium on escape front what might be :ailed the social require- ments of a regular cruise.. The piae- as to be visited by each of the Cana- dian National freightei:s on its sever- al voyayes from Halifax are: Ber- muda, St. Kitts, Antigua, Gaude- loune. Martinique (birthplace - of Nannleon's 7osephine) St. Lucia, Rarbadne (called "The Little Eng - lend of the Tropics), Grenada, Trini- dad lwheee aclioining island To., Ivens. is said to have been Robinson Creeee's seen of shipwreck) and initial Guiana, often called Denser- a1'a. - Red Roof A poem inspired by the summer home at Halfway River. Cumberland County. N.S., of Mr. and Kts. Joseph W. Potter, of Springhill, N.E, "Tet us find a lake all silver, With a hipping silvery ripple. Or ra nightie, a:' lovely moonlight, For a. path of golden moonbeams" Eire i•ho coating of tine White Man, In the dim and misty ages, In the land where hoary headmen Told their tales of Glooscap's king - done, In their lodges by the waters, Where all nature smiled upon then!, Lived the lords of lake and forest, Lords of mountain, plain and river, Lived a race of dusky stalwarts, Famous in the chase, and haughty, Tender towards their wives and chil- dren, Guarding well their wives and ehil, dt'eu. Sun and moon and stars unchanging Truched the spark Divine within them, Touched their hearts to adoration, Touched their manhood's vow to worship. Nature was their only teacher, Nature and the wise old chieftains With their wisdom and their cunning, With their sages oft repeated. Nature oft refines a pattern, Fashions it with speeiae fine•teas, Touches it with an enchantment, Marks it for an early fading. Se with gentle Evening Flower, Y Nature placed a marl: upon" her, Formed her supple -limbed and dug N- oared her' of a slender brownness, a c Str 1 ad a sheen upon ther h tresses, s, Made her tender -eyed and' trusting, Made her;' Id» to trces and moonlight. Kin to birds and bees and flowers, Made her keen in all her senses, Dyes and ears awake to beauty, Keen to catch the (Maine odors Flung by nature's alchemy, Made of her a thing for loving, Made her warm aril time and, tender, Finest of the braves, White Heron, in his prime of youth, and splendid, Wooed' and won this tender maiden, Wooed aril won her heart forever; Built far her a birchen wigwam, Numbered all the poles and name:} them, Named each fastening and cover, ' In the custom of his people. Btdlt his wigwens by the seaside, Close beside the sounding water, Close beside the.lapping wavelets, Close +beside his friends and brothers, On the strand where Glooscap's"foot- Where he walked and scattered je- steps De.hoed still, through all the ages, ele;' Agates, amethysts and opals. Evening Flower, here transplanted, Drooped and languished through the springtime, Sought to keep her heart from fail- THURS,y DEC. 31, 1931 Clear a space to build a'dwelling, :y, 'A)tswez' to myheart's desire. Let the fallen trees be use(. they To enclose n ore a hearthstone #tiendly. Roof it with the good red. ecdar•, Red against the forests' greenness; I have seen it in nay visions, Seen it in my longing visions,' In the time of lengthened shadows, • In the dim and rosy twilight, In•r the 1' od 'e upon n g theh 1 Pi. t op, 'Mid the glory oe the ,•;unset, Evening Flower's. spirit answered To a voice, insistent, calling.- '"1 have words to' say, my husband, Ere I pass into the shadows, F,'re I tread the path of moonbeams To the Land of the hereafter;. I have hearer the voice which calls ma And :tlie spirits wait upon me." Then her voice grew bow with weak-, nese. "There is more that I would tell you; Of a later day and people. Lo! a fair and blue-eyed people Shall in after days ealne hither, Own our lands, and Clear our forests, Climb the steep paths we have trod. There is one, a blue-eyed maiden, Who in after year's is coming, She Will know this rounded hill -top, llnow the answer to its calling; I would leave to Nature's keeping All that here I hold most dear." Raised her arms in quickened feeling, Slender arms in invocation: "Hear mo, Nature! Take my dwell- ing, Give it to the winds and blizzards, Clothe again the place- with green - Keep it safe until her coming nese, With her husband and her children, With her Settle playing children. Here upon my Hill of Silence Shall arise a fairer dwelling, Once again a red roof glowing, Glowing 'midst the forest's green- nese." reen- ness" Then she touched White Heron's shoulder Rowed with grief and bitter weeping. "Promise, when I have departed, • To return unto your people; Go and seek another maiden, Who will live among your people, Who will like the noise and feasting, Who will bear you stn?wart children, ' I am weak, my strength is failing, I must hasten on. Beloved." Titus the gentle T.venine Flower Passed away into, the shadows; Left her hill -top safe in keeping; Left it safe in Nature's keeping. Tried to smile her fears away. Heron watehed her, sorely troubledl Oft returning from his hunting, Sought to soothe her troubled spirit; Sought to win her helm her brooding. Then one evening in the twilight As they walked beside the waters, livening Flower broke her silence, Gave her doubts to words of plead- ing: "I am weary, my beloved, And ny spirit no more rises To the sights and sounds around m To the murmurs of the springtim I am weary' of the voices, With their meanness and unkindnes I am weary of the voices, Like the wind among the grasses. I am weary of the ocean, For I o£times hear its menace. I an: weary of the ocean. For I fear it and I tremble, I am weary of the feasting, For I find no pleasure in it, I am weary of the feasting, And T turn away in loathing. Came away with Inc. my husband, To the silence of the woodland, To the silence and the sweetness Of the green and lovely woodland. Let us find a lake all silver With a lapping• every ripple, Or on murmuring slays 'of summer Mirror for the skies and forests. Or on nights, all lovely moonlight, For a path of golden moonbeams; Or on nights of velvet starlight Twinkling stiars to float upon it. Let us seek a noble hillside Clad with dark and sombre cone trees For their comfort and their promise Through the dark and stormy .win. tern. e, e. Let us go where hardwood ridges Top the spruces on the hillside, ° Reaching towards the golden etoon- light, Reaching towards the clouds of sum - me: , Let oo seek these hardwood ridges For the greenness of the springtime, For their fresh and '.ovely greenness, For their glory in the autumn. Build for me a lodge, Beloved, 7n the green and leafy coolness, In the silence and the shadow, rn the shadow of the tree -tops. Let us find a place enchanted Where the tree -tops meet and mur- mur, pounds two ounces, * v r dust a fancy caught at evening Of am earlier time and race; Just a fancy caught from Nature In a green and lovely pIaee, --Bertha Isabel ,Scott In Forest and Outdoors NIPIGON slTIELp TO LAr EHEA ANGLER The Nipigon Shield, awarded, an- nually by the Canadian National Railways Hotel Department to the angler, guest at Nipigon Lodge who 1tapes the largest square -tailed spec - tiled trout from the Nipigon waters, ttt goes this year to H. A. Leitch, of 102 Winnipeg Avenue, Port Arthur, Ont., according to an announcement by I A. S. McLean, General Superintend- ent of Hotels for the National 'Sys- tem, Mr. Leitch gained the award with a trout weighing seven pounds five ounces, with a length of 21) itches and measuring 1515 inches around the girth. The runner-up wary Dr. A. M. Northrup, Secretary of Labor and (industry, Harrisburg, Pa. who landed a fish weighing seven A First Aider to the Rescue "I wast going, towork on my motorcycle," explained the victim of a serious accident as he lay on a snowy hospital cot, when an auto came out of an alley, threw me to the pavement, tearing my hoot off and severing an artery. Fortunately a Bell Telephone man was passing. He stopped the bleeding, made a tourniquet and had me in a fine shape when the ambulance armed.' 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