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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1928-03-22, Page 6Only teas grown 4 QO�0 7,00011Rve 4eif i evel tri "S4�A O Ow » Pekoe �ead— the flavour Is therefore da,ce :offaig_ tand Much Mere �lclQus 'that'll Other teas* :001Y 43c per. i -lib- —Rud► it at any tfrOcel stO r3; LEGERDEMAIN BEGIN HERE TODAY. John Ainsley, a man of education and breeding, whose war wounds left him unfit for manual labor, pawns Sin ivory miniature of his mother in order to pay hie landlady and to tuy food. A prosperous -looking bootlegger and all-round croak, takes Ainsley to his hone and attempts to enlist him as an accomplice. Insulted, Ainsley leaves the room. Ainsley is disgusted at the sight of a pretty young girl in the company of a gross.looking man in a restaurant. Later he sees the prosperous -looking crook join the man and the girl at their table. Ainsley finally recognizes the gross man as Daragon, a famous jeweler and roue, Daragon draws out a little cardboard box hnd hands it to the girl. NOW G0 ON WITH TFIE STORY. I saw my acquaintance reach. for the box; though I could not see his face, I knew that his eyes were shin- ing'with ill -suppressed desire. And then, as I saw his right hand drop into the pocket of his coat, I knew what he planned to do, even before I caught a glimpse of the white object that he drew from the pocket. He ....planned to substitute one box for the ether. • I smiled with amusement. Also I appreciated his cunning, Unquestion- ably he had made. purchases from Daragon. Probably he had let the jeweler understand that the purchases were gifts far his sweetheart Then he. had permitted Daragon to meet his lady. The lady had smiled upon the jeweler. Daragon had seen an oppor- tunity to combine business with plea- sure, the sort of pleasure that appeal- ed to him. And it was not unusual that, in trying to close a bargain, he should bring a jewel from his store. And the girl had been waiting for hint alone; her seductions were to hill Daragon's suspicions, if any might be aroused. I saw my friend's head shake in negation. Argument, presumably over the Brice of the trinket, seemed to arise. The girl pleaded with her lover. Oh, it was all well staged. * * 5 * Then decisively, my crook shook his head, He pushed the box across the table, as though the incident were closed. Daragon argued a few min- utes, seemed to make coneessfons which were not accepted, then slowly wrapped up the box and tied the string around it. R'e'placed it in his waistcoat pocket. I wondered how they planned to get it away from him, to substitute the box which, under- neath the table, the crook held in his right hand. Then I saw. My friend the crook turned in his seat and pointed toward the door. Daragon looked in that di- rection. The girl's hand shot out; deftly it flicked from his pocket the box which he had just placed there. No one but myself was placed so that the action could have been seen. I waited for the next move, which must be the substitution of the other box. But although the crook handed .the girl the other box, Daragon's atten- tion was not held by the incident near the door, which was nothing more than an altercation between two Add to the joy of the open road—this pleasure. Vii. giving refreshment. j A'sugar•coated gulp, that affords double value. Pep. pernaint flavor in the sugar coating and peppermint IlaVeref1 4411.11 ahai'fau: 4 ..' ' 60 64`1, Between �py��+' ��y; ! �,�(g oyy� yy/�SS��mokcom�es ��y� chi Prd ri�aa 0. 9a M V., t�/N ISSUE/ No, 11—'a8 guests of the restaurant, an alterca- I tion arranged,I suspected, for the sole purpose of affording time and oppor- tunity for the robbery of the jeweler,. He began to argue with the crook. His hand reached for his waistcoat pocket, to produce the jewel But the girl had not had time to effect the sub- stitution. She went dead white as Meagan leaped to his feet, overturn- ing his chair as he did so. For his' suspicions, never more than •slumber- ing, I imagined, awoke to full activity. Then, before he -could attract the attention of the head waiter, and the manager, I rose from my..ellaix and walked swiftly to their table. 'I had no particular sympathy fez' the girl and her crook companion. But I had even leas for Daragon. For while I watched him, I remembered 'some of the unpleasant tales that had been current about him in the years before the war. The girl was a thief, but Daragon was a filthy beast. I gained their table in three strides. i"Yeu dropped something on the floor," i I said. I spoke to Daragon, but look- ed squarely at the girl. If she had the quick wit of her kin, I could save her. She had it; as I bent over, groping beneath the table, her hand touched mine and slipped into it a box. In her excitement her shaking fingers relax- ed elaxed their grip of the second box. I got that, too, and would have been at a loss how to proceed, but for the fact that, leaning over until her face was close to mine,, she whispered frantic- ally: "The first one, the first one." I slipped the second box swiftly into niy pocket, arose and handed Daragon the first one. He took it from me, and immediately untied and opened it. He sighed with relief. "Much obliged," he said. "For a minute I thought—dant it, I didn't think! I know that. I put that box in my pocket, and it couldn't have fallen out." "I picked it from the floor," I re- minded him. "It didn't fall there," insisted the jeweler. "Then• how did it get there?" de- manded the crook. "I don't know," said Daragon. "If I did, I'd call the police." "What do you mean?" demanded the crook. "I don't mean anything; 1 don't have to mean anything, do I • B.ut that box• didn't walk out of my pocket," snarled the jeweler. "Are you 'insinuating—" began the crook. Daragon interrupted hint. "When a fifty -thousand -dollar diamond ring leaves my pocket, I can insinuate all I damn please. If you don't like it, lump it. I was a fool to bring it down here anyway. My store is the place far me to do business." "Better be careful," warned the crook. "Don't worry about me. You said you'd give me forty thousand; you said you'd bring the cash here. I said I wanted fifty." "Well, what about it?" demanded my host of the earlier evening. "This much about it," cried Dara- gon. "I get suspicious, and you get sore. Well, if I'm wrong, 1'11 apolo- gize. Produce forty thousand in cash, and I'll give you the ring. You'll prove your good faith, and I'll prove my regret." He waited a minute. I thought, considering the vast amount of cash that the other man had shown me earlier in the evening, that he might be able to produce forty thou- sand. But if he could, he evidently did not ehoose to do so. "I guess that will hold you," sneered Meagan. "If I didn't hate scandal, I'd call the police." * M ** He turned on his heel, gave me a grudging nod of thanks, and walked out of the restaurant. I stood a mo- ment smiling at the creek. "You certainly do need me," I laughed, 'Tien, though having recog- nized me, he would have detained me, I walked over tomy table. What did I, who was about to die, have in'com- man with such a person? The thanks of himself, or of his pretty feminine companion, would not do me any good, I paid my waiter and walked to the. eheejc-froom. 1 will -confess that I '1vas Slightly embarrassed at my inability to tip the coat -boy, But I need not have been; for Daragon, just donning his overcoat, Saw me and seemed to. regret his lack of courtesy. He handed the coat -boy an extra coin. "Let me ,do that much," he said, "—even though you did me a shabby turn." I stared at him. "What do you mean?" I asked. We were at the cloak -room entrance now. Daragon,jerked a fat thumb toward the dining -room, "Don't you think I had that crook's number It was the girl' I wanted. I guessed their game, and played the cone -on simply to get her where 1 wanted her."- . "And where was tltaet?" I asked, He grinned. "She's stuck en him. But I figured that if I caught them with the goods, she'd forget how stuck she was on him if I didn't prosecute, Get me?" "I do," said I coldly. "I suppose she dropped it, and you. saw it fall. If you hadn't stepped in, I nodded farewell to him. I'd have had them dead to rights Oh, well, a pian can't get everything he thinks he wants." A sense of the monstrous injustice of life came to 1ne. That injustice could be remedied by mbneydl For in- stance, that jewel'in Daragon's pocket could he turned into thousands of dol- lars. Even 1, a gentleman, had heard, in recent month of poverty, of "fences," those hien who buy the loot of 'thieves; I even knew where one or two of them resided. The, skirts of poverty brush the feet of criminality. I was about to die, because I had neither productivie nor constructive brains. But perhaps I had the third kind, a destructive brain. If my fur- collared friend could n'iake a success of crime, despite the paucity of :mag- ination which his clumsy scheme for robbing Daragon had disclosed, what a tremendous success I could' achieve! Honor? Adherence to it led pie to the gutter, was about to lead me to the river! Daragon stepped aside to let me precede him through the restaurant door, I exercised the only talent that I had, sleight-of-hand. I substituted the second box, which the girl . had Silk Stockings Have stockings in the very newest shades; your old or failed stockings given any tint in the rainbow in five minutes; with i$fteen cents' worth of Diamond Dyes? but use dyes, not synthetic tints. And be sure they're true df(os. Try a pair to -night! Use Diamohd Dy es, and no one will dream they were tinted at home. 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And, I kissed my hand to the future, I was nothing within the law; I would be the greatest living figure outside the law, 1 w,auld make the supercriminal sainething more than the figment of -a policetnan'S imagination, I would bring to my new profession the brain of a gentleman, certainly fitted to cope with the intel- lect of a detective, T would` bring to MY new art the culture' of an aristo- crat. I would raise it from the sordid level to which such*people as niy fur - 1 collared friend repressed it. I smiled cheerfully as I set out to dispose of the diamond ring gained by my leger- denain. Beginning in our next issue "THE CLUB OF ONE -EYED MEN." The Wanderer Love conies back to his vacanttdwell- ing— The old, old Love that we knew of yore! We see him stand by the open door, With , his great eyes sad, and his. bosom swelling. He makes as though in our arms re. palling He fain woul4 lie, as he lay before; Love comes back to his vacant dwell- The old, old Love which we knew of yore. 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While 11 la well known that Aspirin means Bayer manufacture, to assure the public against Iinita- tfone, the Tabletswill be stamped with their "Bayer Cross" trademark. What a 'lifference ►. WIia£ a . delicious flavor the uncrushed fruit gives!, it's d Christie Secret. in the "store, lir on the 'phone always ask for Christie's Biscuits. Leacock Flays Allovie History. Too Much Arnericanispn and Lack of Facts, He Claims WAR PICTURES Declares Canada's. National History is Wonderful Unused Epic The illfluenoeof the Amerigan mov- ing picture en the historic sense and national patribtlsin ' of the children beim was deplored by Dr, Stephen Loacoek during the course of a recent address "I am not censuring the .Americana for it," Bald Dr. Leacock, "for they have nothing to do with.it, nor am I blaming; tire moving picture people who are merely, in the 'bnsiness,'as we all 'are ,its various businessee, .to make all the ntoney,they can. "But the effect is deplorable. If our children are allowed to go to the pic- tures, anis if the effect is not counter- acted. elsewhere, the;/ will grow up to think of bbs United States as the land:' of heroes; the only place where brave men are found and brave' deeds are done." The Movie War "The great war appears, as it has in three different pictures recently shown, as_ theGreat American War. It was occasioned by a quarrel between Wood- Trow'Wilson, whose only aim was to do go -id to everybody everywhere, found his efforts thwarted baa crowd of .peo- ple in Europe, At last he declared war invoking the blessing of God, of Abraham Lincoln, .the Southern Con- federacy and the Middle West. "A vast American army invaded' Europe. They first occupied France where the, French, people supplied a comic element lay selling cigarette°, waving Hage and by talking French, a ridiculous language forming a. joke in itself. •:tushing theough. the woods, trenches,' flames and trees," he said with demonstrative gestures, "the. Americans drove in front of them the Europeans." "Exacting nothing in return, they went back to the Middle West, where tleey were met on the porch by their mother, the spirit of Ameorican demo- cracy and the inserted shade of Lin- co111. Better Material. "Thepity of it Is that even in the commercial sense we have better ma- • aerial than they have. Our history. as told by a Francis Perlman, is up to thelevel of even the great Ameri- can epic of the Civil War, and makes the history .of the Middle West look as flat as mud. • So far we have only shown it hi stilted pageants and his- toric scenes. That sort of tihdng does e not go with the crowd; it is only for the culitivated few,—mostly so cults- vated that they won't pay to see. any- thing 'anyway. What we need is a story—using our history as a back- ground—a story with' a hero and a heroine, with, the personal element, and, bursting through it scenes' of In- dian war, and the battles of the Plains of Abraham, and the wonderful unused .epic of our national history. That is the kind of thing , that our children ought to be seeing. And ifsome pie• tore director will -step up from New York and. arrange it for us we ought to make him a baronet, and a senator, and an LL.D., and bury him, as soon as he likes, in Westminster Abbey. "But till then let us nail up the doors of the picture houses as far as the children are concerned. "I am not saying anything against the American pictures for Americans. In spite of faults and exaggerations they are fillet] with patriotic national- ism which Is the best thing thus. far obtainable or holding human beings together"' Slow• Up At Crossings. A reduction in the number of auto- mobile accidents at railway cross - hie should result from the an- nouncement of die Deputy Minister of Roads of this provincethat signs will be placed three hundred feet from every railway- crossing notify- ing autoists "that speed must be 're- duced to eight miles an hour." - Steps. are to be taken to see that this new rule is enforced. Experience has proven that the strictest regulations must be drafted in order to protect. - joyriders and "take -a -chance" chauf- ietirs against themselves.- Some con- ception. of the great danger of such crossings is realized -from . the fact that one motorist out of every nine thousand registered in the United States lost hie, life at these places'in a single Year. It is little wonder, with euch'staggering figures available, that 'the problem -of better protection et . these places, andthe call to drivers to exercise greater care, should- be causiug legislatures and other bodies to enact sterner safety : measures. Yet when all is done and said, It '15 the "human" element .that must be depe(ided upon; if there is to be any improvement In the roll of fatalities at crossings. The, spectacles of ,au- tomobles :'acing with raiiway Ioaoma- tives along extended stretches of even country roads, aha- attempting to reach crossings ahead of the on-' rushing train is far too Common, ,The, matinees of ,such a thing, is almost incomprehensible. It Is, 'hard to grasp the mentality of a driver wlio, with precious lives; in his obarge, would take such .appalling risks, "We still stand where we were.."•.. W. C. Bridgeman, Peet .,t Lorxl of the Admiralty.