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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1940-01-11, Page 6PAGE SIX Agnes shook her head again nett placed the, letter in her pocket. "I can think of no one," she said in a low Voice. Miss Greeby did not entirely be- lieve this. as the sudden hesitation and the paleness hinted at some un- expeeted thought, probably connected with the forgery, However. since she had done all she could. it was best, as she judged, to leave things in the widow's hands. "I'm tired of , the whole business," said Mise Greeby carelessly. "It wouldn't do for me to be a detective. as I have no staying power, and get sick of things. Still, if you want me, you know where to send for nue, and at all events I've drawn Silver's teeth." "Yee. dear; thank you very much," said Agnes mechaniel.l!y. so the 'via- itor took her leave. wc.zdering what was rendering her hostess so absent- minded. A very pe'rs etent thought told ;ter Diet Agnes had made a die• cev .,ry is eenneetior. with the letter. but steee she won'.t3 :.e.. impart that thencat tiler.? was , . to 1, .. said. Mi. .% Miss the haus...- fuel a, .fel nee .. th:ding den:. the street. Agn tr+r it:,. ,tr n the 1'••7• ter 11,7,11,1: k• ...... rtrdrktl eC:,. sin,• of the ,:azul d .Tara • ly ilk- tri OWE:. ape yet :v„:•eider; I:,-',1 the ,ere tints .and ti "1 slit :'13 neva' bay, 7 way 7. 1 'Age `+ I kt. t - 1: ae Tan. Howew s, _w 1 ;.. .:zzad v- this t:wt'i' Lt_,r. letter in desk. \\h. :.vi his win 1. turned they r uta i singe h quiet aha. ,,.,3F. T: ltr,le man dor notice this. as he teok any t. erect it .tier t en :,utions. ..t his wwi-e esked rlu. ., 1 which she veeeived no anewere. and iron at. Agn . ur:,ashy. wnei-, she •. • that slit di -1 LOT oily dinner -.- speak o;. Lady Garvmet,,E was very fond of her kind i ,:t t t .iter•in :xwr. and we :ld have bee:. :teed to kreeve what was. troubling 1.e.. But Agn+-, kept i.•.^ v:oriie+ to herself. and r. i sisted ora: Jane sltc•uld go to •-. pantoserree as shesd arranged with i some i nds in ad' eneainrng home. tint when Ga7v1Laton moved! *O leave d' : :aura. attec a drit_ki _g hie :. ''d him. •:7 v.:: -t• . 1 t - the irh et"fila a lee• t ltielf : • ..... t.-1-• :i. -r., ., was - .. r.z.+; w•. y: -II to t t'. h•.h fiat L -oh. f'Howe it •,.),r ,• . 1 0 0 t :eini1 uilii ir. -:1:. He ff,ilowe: h. into ,he tic, vary: 0itol took his ,:eat at tiro writing "'Alio is the letter to?'' he de• menlec:. taking up a nen in a hurry. "Tu Mr. Jarwin. I want him to find -wt where Gentilla Stanley is. It's crly :-e formal letter. se write it and ei€n it on my behalf." Like an infernal ,secretary,' sigh- ed Garvington, taking paper and squaring his elbows, "What do you want with old Mother Cockleshell?" "Miss Greeby was here to -day and told inc that the woman knows some- thing about poor Hubert's death." Garvington s pen halted for a mo - anent, but hedid not look round. "What can she possibly know?" he demanded irritably. "That's what I shall find out when Mi- Jarwin discovers her, • said Ag- nes, who was in a low chair near the. fire. "By the way, -Freddy, I am -sorry you let the Abbot's Wood Cottage to Mr. Silver." 'Why shouldn't I?" growled Garv- ington, 'writing industriously. ";Noel didn't pay me a pound a:week, and Silver does." "You might have a more respect I is able tenant," said Agnes scathingly: "Who says Silver isn't respect- able?" he asked, looking round. "1- do, and I have every reason to say so," "01, nonsense!" Garvington began to write again. "Silver was Pine's secretary, and now• he's Miss Gree- by's. They wouldn't have engaged him unless he was respectable, al- though he did start Iife as a pauper toy -maker, I suppose that is what you mean, Agnes. I'm surprised at your narrowness." "Ah, we have not all your toler- ance, Freddy. Have you finished that letter?" "There you are." Garvington hand- ed it over "You don't want me to ad- dress the envelope?" .:Yes, -I do," Agnes ran her eyes over the missive; "and you can add a pesteerlpt to this, telling Mr. Jar - win he tan take my motor to look :or Gentilla Stanley if he chooses." Garvington did as ler was asked re. ;uctautly, "Though l don't see why J: sin can't supply his opal motors," he grumbled, "and ten to one hell ere put an advertisement in the it Mother Co,.•k1--shell aver saw • .:kwspaper," retorted his sister. • ri,. thank yon. Fraddy, you ate • Slit" welts owl when h,• handed -h„ letter in a newly addressed v.",pe:; "no, don't go. 1 want t0 -ev elf to you about 3Ir. Silver." eevingtolt threw himotdf with a wwi into a t•hei'. `•I don't know any. :;bolt slim except that ire's my he complained. s la 'n it is time you did. Perhaps ▪ are,. not aware that Mn. Silver to blatkntail me." -What?" the little man grew pnr- d exploded. "Oh, nonsense!" "Ire anything but nonsense." Ag - Lee 11,s,- and went to her desk to get The forged letter. "He frame to nee a , na time before Christmas and said that Chaldea found this." she flour• ,hw3 the letter before her brother:s yet, "in Hubert's tent when he was eequerading as Hearne." A letter? What does it say?" Gal, ;i futon stretched out his hand. Agnes drew back and returned to • seat by the fire. "I can tell you content ' she said coolly. "It is ,},posed to be written by Inc to Noel ,.211 makes an appointment to sleet him tt the blue door on the night of -„,h.•rt'e death in order ti elope.” "Aimee. yo11 never wrote emit a ..- cried Garvington. jumping up ,lei+ as furious red :acv. His sister did not answer for a 1110- _,• -ret. She had takenthe letter just ..21001(1 to Jarwin by Garvington and .,_a comparing 11, with that, which °.Ii s Greeby had extorted from tin- t.. "N0," she said ina etraingt• a ce and becoming white, "1 never ..,:rote such a letter: lint 1 should he }ricr to know why you did."- " • 1 did?' Garvington retreated and his fate became as white as that of th wr;nlan who confronters him, "what the devil do you mean?" "I always knew that you were clever at imitating handwriting, Fred- dy." said Agnes, while the two letters shook in her grasp, "we used to make a joke of it, I remember. But 'it was no joke when you altered that check Hubert gave you, and none when you imitated his signature. to that mort- gage about which he told me," "I never—I never!" stammered the detected little scoundrel, holding on to a chair for support. "I never----" "Spare me these lies," interrupted his sister scornfully, "Hubert showed the mortgage. when it came into his possession, to me, He admitted that his signature was legal to spare you, and also, for my sake, hushed up the affair of - the check. He warned you against playing with 'fire, Freddy, and now you have done so again, to bring about hie death," "It's a damned Ile." "It's a damned train" retorted Ag nes fiercely, "1 got you to write the letter to. Mr. Jarwin so 'that T might compare the signature to the one in' THE SEAFORTH NEWS D. H. MCiNNES CHIROPRACTOR Office — Commercial Hotel Electro Therapist — Massage Hours—Mon, and Thurs, after. means and by appointment, FOOT CO'RRECTION by manipulation—Sun-ray treatment. Phone 227. the forged letter. Agues Pine in one and Agnes Pine in the other, both with the same twists and twirls— very, very like my signature and yet with a difference that 1 alone can de- tect. The postscript about the motor I asked you to write because the word motor occurs in the forged let. ter, Motor told motor—both the same." "It's a lie," denied Ua'vington again "I have not imitated your handwriting in the letter to Janette" "You unconsciously imitated the signature, and you have written the word motor the same in both letters," said Agnes decisively, "I suddenly thought of your talent for writing like other people when Clara Greeby asked ole to -day if I could guess who had forged the letter. I laid a trap for you and you have fallen into it. And you"—site took a step forward with fiery glance so that Garvington retreating, nearly tumbled over a Chair—"you laid a trap for Hubert into which he fell," "I never did—I ,never did!" babbled Garvington, gray with fear, "Yes, you did. I swear to it, Now I understand why you threatened to shoot any possible bungler who should come to The Manor. You learned, in some way, I don't know how, that Hubert was with the gyp- sies, and, knowing his jealous nature, you wrote this letter and let it fall into his hands, so that he might risk being shot, as a robber and a thiel." "I---1--didn't shoot shim." panted the man brokenly. "It was not for the want of trying. You broke Itis arm, and probably would have followed him out to in- flict a mortal wound it your melanin lire in the shrubbery had not lawn beforehand with you:" "Agnes. I swear that. I tools fine for a burglar, and 1 don't known who 1,11ot. Illus. Really. I that!" "You liar!" said Agnes with intens.. scorn. "When your posted your. aeconlpl----., She had no titmice to lluisit the word. for Garvington broke in fnrt• 0u ply and made a great et'l'ort to as- sert himself. "I had no atrnulplice. Who shot Pine I don't know. l never wrote tate letter; I never lured hint to his death; he was more good 10 ole alive than dead. He never— --" "He was not more good to you alive 111x1 dead," interrupted Lady Agnes In her turn. "Por Ilubert de- spised you for the way in which you tried to trick hint out of money, He thought you little better than a crim- inal, and only hushed up your 'wick- edness for my - sake. You would have got no more money out of him, and you know that much. 13y killing him you hoped that I would get the fortune and then you could plunder rte at your leisure. Hubert was hard to manage, and you thought that 1 would ho easy. Well, I have got the money and you have got rice of Hub - fee. But I shall punish you,'' "Punish me?" Gervingion palssnd hIs tongue over his dry lips. and look- ed as though in hie terror he would go down on his knees to plead. "Olt. not by denouncing you io the polite•." said his sister contemptuous• ly, "For, bad as you are, I have to consider our family mune, But you had Hubert shot so as to get the mon- ey through me, and now that I am In possession I shall surrender it to the Person named in the sealed envel- ope," "No! No! No! Not Don't—dou't—" "Yes, I shall. I tan do so by marry- ing Noel. I shall no longer consider the financial position of the family, 1 have sacrificed enough, and :I shall sacrifice no more. Hubert was a good husband to me, and I was a good and loyal wife to him; but his will insults 111e, and youhave macre me your enemy by what you have done," "1 did not do it. I swear I did not do ft." "Yes, you did; and no denial on your part will tape me believe oth- erwise. I shell give you a few drys to think over the necessity of milking it confession, and in any case 1 shall marry Noel." "And lose tate money. You shan't!" "Shan't!" Agnes stepped forward and looked fairly into his shifty eyes. "You are not in a position to say that, Freddy. I am mistress both of the situation and of Hubert's millions. Go away," she pushed hint toward the door. "Take time to think over your position, and confess everything to me." Garvington got out of the room as swiftly as his shaky legs could carry 11in1. and paused et the door to turn with a. very evil face. "You daren't split on me," he screeched. "I defy Yell! r cleft' you! Yon daren't split on nee." Alas! Agnes knew that only too well, and when he disappeared she wept bitterly, feeling her impotence, CHAPTER XVI Lady Agnes was inaccurate when she informed Miss Greeby that her cousin had taken a house in Kensing- ton, since, like many women, site was accustomed to speak in general terms, rattler than in a precise way. The young 111an1 certainly slid live in the subtu'h she mentioned, but he had simply rented a furnished flat in one tit 111e cheaper streets. He 211(8 the pons tit of all the Lamberts, and could scarcely cely pay his club suhserip- ti1ns, lntleh loss live In the style his ancient name demanded. The St. James's chambers had merely been bout to hint by a friend, and when the ow'luer returned. the temporary occupant had to shift. Therefore, on the sc011- of 010110nly, he hired the dingy flat and brought tip Ars. 'Trish to lock after it. The little woman, on her nla:tinee account, wtls disgusted wird the mean surroundings. - "When you ought to be living is a1 kited of Buckingham Palace. Master :Noel, as 1 should declare with my dy- ing yfug breath," she said indignantly. "And have the title, too. if things was as they ought to be." "I shouldn't be mttiat better eft if 1 did have the title, .\Irs, Tribb," replied Lambert with a slung. ''It's common knowledge that 011111nglan can scarcely keep his head above water. As all old family servant you should knew." "Ah, Master Noel, there's manly things as 1 know, as I'm sorry 1 do know," sad Mrs, Tribb incoherently. "And theca lords as is dead and bur- ied did waste the money, there's no denying. But soiue of your cousins. Master Noel, have gone into trade and made money, Vlore shame to them." "1 don't see that, Mrs. Tribb. I'd go into trade myself 0 I had any head for figures. 'There's no ' disgrace 111 tt'ade." 'Nn fel' them as isn't Lamberts. Master Noel, and fit' he it from me to say so, gentry not being so rich as they used to he when nay um,ther was THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1940 a gal, I don't hold with it though for you, sir, But now Lady Agnes having millions and billions will make things eesiet' 1101' y011" "Certainly not, Mrs. Tribb, How could I take money from Tier?" • "And why not, Master Noel? if you'll excuse my making so free. As a child she'd give you anything in the way of toys, and as a grown-up, her head is yours if not her heart, as Is---" "There! there! Don't talk any more," said Lambert., coloring and vexed. "1 Haven't annoyed you, sfr, I hope, It's my heart as speaks." "I appreciate the interest you take in the family, Mrs. Tribb, but you had better leave some things unsaid. Now, go and prepare tea, as Lady Agnes has written saying she will be here 1111s afternoon." "011, Master Noel, and you only tell me. now. Then there ain't time to cook theta cakes she dotes on." But Lambert declined to argue further, and Mrs. Tribb withdrew. murmuring that she would have to make shift with sardine sandwiches, Her tongue was assuredly something of a nuisance, but the young man knew how devoted she was to the family, and since she had looped after 11hn when he was a child, he sanc- tioned in her a freedom he would not have permitted any one else to in- dulge in, And it is to be feared, that the little woman in her zeal some- times abused her privileges, The sitting room was small and cramped, and a•tralciomsiy 'furnished in an overcrowded way. There were pat- terns on the wall -paper. on the carpet, .on the. tableclloth and curtains, until the eve 4h -el 2111 -0 clean surface with- out a design. And there were r0 many illmatchc•d colors, anisuacd for decora- tie Purpeses. that Lambert shudder- ed to the core of his artistic soul •221,(1 415 beheld titeltt. To neutralize the glaring tints, he quilled down the hluds of the too wtindnws wrhicb fetor: ed on to a dull etelm 1.2(1 roadway, and thus shut (tnt the weak -nns•him. Then he threw 1,2(1110111 int., aur011rom- fortade armchair and ,ought .uter his .briar rent. The future aa, dare:, the present Wae d(.agreeable. ami 11, pact .would not hear thinking 521 intimately dill it deal twit11 the aur. der ,if ]line, the threat- .,i 1ile,e, and tole nursery .,i ea,i ,mod y' 1115' .,n 1 i-t'i' ,21 :\ se's to the until}- irtisil. it aal• 111 'h e• 1t(Tn4 Strati'. mind to .eat England f2rilmit 1 :our begin 11 n :, life. t th.unp'rcd Uy formerer maid: . and prc.ent .;rievanee, Balt :1'nt. r, nuked help and cnu'd not n. 1 -lrtih,71I' unaided, 10 1.amlwrl v“led tteitin. as 1e had totw,d o •o:, to ,12(11 1y her to Ilse end, Vet so ! he was enable to see -201111 th1 1', 1 would 11e, \\•bike be thus contemplated the un- piea.wt.ness o life he !thane On 11.1 - that the 100111 thlOt bell cue. riu21111 and he heard Mr,. Prilvh hurrying al- ong the passage. c, thin acre 111• 101111",..a1d so near the door that ` A, heard also the hots elutpe'. eifn i1 w5elc, isle, which w'a. est ,hart 177 a (has;) t11 surprise.. Lambert idly •,‘ (m.1 (-red- what eeu1,ed the little w1111(01 astonishment. Inn sin•ctlily learned ellen Agnes appeared in 'the room. 1\\'it11 rare disor tion Mr,. •1'rihd) us11- criu the visitors and then fled to the kitchen to wander mliy The widow had discarded her mourning. -And him only ;planted sis month, as yon 1111.;'12 :ay. rottrnrured the ,pttztled wont', "Whatever will ,Marler Noe say sn,'h ,:0illO 0n 'r (To Be Confirmed Q.—"How do bees dispose of their honey?" 1. "They cell it,” Lend n� the (1110:" ,C t •:is�t.'.r:. The King Among lis Soldiers in the Front Line itch War tee:ice Photo-Crawn Copyright reserved -Courtesy Collodion Pacific '<.;ty ,rrceii.tly Matto -atlicr ,u -ll !r r e•t,loni:of the l;nipire's fighting forces in 1''rance. - Here he is ' Laing 0227' an ;ant*-aireraPt gun and its crew weir forward in the battle line.. ._ PROFESSIONAL CARDS- MEDICAL ARDS MEDICAL SEAFORTH CLINIC Dr, E. A. rNNit:Master, 11,8„ Graduate of University of Toronto. J. D. 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