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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1928-08-02, Page 6r' inch ;niers P1 ",NEA Seg'vice lac\ _ ,1SZJ 11 IE I was rich. For the first time since that day when, starving, I had teased an airy farewell kiss to honesty, I was able, if T chose, to take up again a had told them the facts, plaice in the sunlit .world. It was one of those shocking crimes Yes, I whom you know as Tolrn that periodically make us wonder how Ainsley, the master rascal of my day, far man is removed from the beast, was so silly as to think that I could It sent a whole city into mourning, step from the shadow into the light and made detectives out of a hundred as easily, as swiftly as I had passed thousand citizens. from the light to the shadow, I And now the police had discovered thought I knew life. that Swede Thomassen, a notorious I thought that a man could change jailbird, was the murderer. The drag- net was spread, and the authorities were confident that the man would bo apprehended wlt.hin a day or so. I fer- vently hoped so; I would have killed Mtn myself and known no compunc- tion. I had read the sordid story of Swede Thomassen's career as the paper gave Ina recent memoir of mine I have told it. And I saw that he had begun as N' gift to her, Enraged at her request, he had struck her. Her parents had returned later; before she died, she loscharacteras easily as he changed his clothes. Well, I was to learn dif- ferently. But on this spring night I built my- self air -castles, I had been down to a certain section of the city and had closed a deal with a "fence," a man who bought from thieves their loot how I outwitted Armand Cochet the a cheap gangster, had graduated into notorious French criminal known rs petty theft, had then become a high - the White Eagle. Ile had stolen from wayman, and was now a red-handed Marcus Anderson, the milloinaire, a murderer. It was at this stage of my casket containing all the Anderson reading that I began to congratulate jewels. Iliad stolen the casket from myself because I was so different from Cochet, Thomasson, This difference made me I had waited a few days before at- the great success that I was. For tempting to dispose of any . of the other thieves visualized, in their mo - jewels. Anderson, unaware of his loss, ments of ease future thefts; I visual - had sailed for South America on the ized a life of righteousness, woods. mornin after the theft, But the pro- And now, with three hundred thou- I 'What woods?" asked Mrs, Prim• .._a dollars +n be mires next my e,.11 fits of this latest•venture of mine ad been so tremendous that I wished tc use more than ordinary caution it realizing them. I wanted to dispose o' the lot at one transaction. , I was sick of stealthy trafficking. I was a gentle- man, no vulgar trader, and I would rather accept less for the lot from one pian, than make more by peddling. So I had shown this fence the com- plete Anderson collection; and he bad offered me. three hundred thousand dollars, perhaps a fifth of their real value. But even that amount was too huge a sum for him to hand casually across a counter. It would take him a week to raise the money. And in seven more days I would be ind'epend' ent, freed forever from the necessity of crime! ( So I thought. I even congratulated myself that I was of such different clay from the ordinary criminal. For your everyday thief is potentially a murderer, and worse. Devoid of im- agination, he steals because stealing seems easier than working. Trapped, he kills, Oh I was a philosopher, as I sat in the window of my living -room and looked out upon Central Park, with its freshly green grass, its newly leaved trees, the lovers walking along the shady paths, or drifting in their boats on the little pond. I was unique in history. I was a and brought up, and where my family criminal who could rid myself of crim- was known and respected. I would inality at will, who could cut myself join my father's clubs; I would enter off forever from the ways of wicked- into the civic life of the community. nem. I felt more than savage wrath; I would even—and this was the com- I felt contempt, as I tossed away from pelling force behind my plans—marry. me the evening paper with its glaring It was spring; only a few days ago headline. I had felt the urge to lead the normal It was a sickening story beneath life of men of my age and tradition. the headline. It told of the discovery I wanted to take a pretty girl -motor- by the police of evidence indicating ing, to dance with her, to squeeze her the identity of a brute who had shock- hand, to kiss her, perhaps to make her ed the city three days ago by the wan- love me, to love her, to marry. I could ton slaying of a child. The child had been alone in the apartment where she lived with her parents. A burglar had entered, and finding the girl alone, had killed her apparently for the sheer joy of killing. The crime had been justified not even by necessity. The child could have . ebeen bound and gagged if the man ! had feared that her outcries would cause his capture. But the little girl, seeing the intruder, had asked him not to take a locket which was her mother's chill at the sound. Then I mastered my panic. Soma neighbor might be corrin ,gon me, though this Was imp probable in New York. Or some one may have rung the bell by mistake, It was incredible that the police should suspect the quiet -living gentleman Wile dwelt on the fourth floor of the walk- up apartment building. And certain- ly the White Nagle did not know 'where tofind the men who had so deftly tricked him a few nights ago. So I put on a calm front as I opened! the door, My caller stepped swiftly inside, "I� came from Leedon," he said. Leedon was the fence with whom my deal was pending. "Doesn't Leedon know better than to send anyone here?" I demanded angrily. The intruder was in my living -room now and in the electric light I could see him. A big, burly, gross -looking man, with light red hair, belligerent blue eyes and a prognathous, stubble - Whiskered jaw, "I didn't say Leedon sent me; I said I came from him," he answered. "What de you mean?" I asked, "I mean that Leedon, for old times' sake, was hiding men when you were dickering with him today. I over- heard you talk. .And T decided that Cardinal of Rheims;•86, Flies Over His Cathedral Rheims, France: ---The venerable Cardinal Luoonhot Illieirne has just experienced the thrill .of his 80 Yeaa flying famous cathedral and the in an airplane astir the famos - . r'ouuding country, , "I should not helve risked it twenty yeare ago," he said oil land- • Ing. "People might have critielzed me and gossiped on the ground that It was not dignified, To -day every- thing is different, and one must keep up with the times. "It is worth it. How beautiful the old cathedral looked from the sky," he added. half of three hundred thousand would just about fix me up. Don't try to draw a gun; . I've gat you covered through my pocket," he declared.: (To be continued,) A local paper recently publlahed this . advertisement; "Expeirieneed Salespeople wanted, male or female. No other need apply." Sunburn? Use Minares Liniment. As You Hike It By Weare Holbrook, In "Answers" Mr. Plimsoll poised a piece of bacon planting its forepaws on his chest on his fork and sniffed the June air and licking his face, that came in through the open win- Then Mr. Plimsoll began to under- dow. _ stand. The warmth of the morning "What a day!" he sighed, "This sun had brought out the fragrance of is the sort of weather that makes a the chicken. The paper wrapping follow get out and tramp in the of the lunch box already bore the out- ward and visible signs of an inner grease. The dog was hungry. "Here," said Mr, Plimsoll generous- ly, "take it all!" He held out the box, and the dog muzzled it eagerly. Meanwhile, e stout man had strolled out from a roadside coffee -stall and was watch- ing Mr. Plimsoll suspiciously. "That your bog?" he asked. "No," replied Mr; Plimsoll. "People don't feed' strange dogs without a reason," observed the stout man signii{cantly. "There's been Bev-- eral dogs poisoned round here lately,- I think that anybody that would poi- son a dumb animal ought to be thrashed." Mr. Plimsoll straightened up and retreated a few steps, clasping the lunch box tohis bosom like a shield. "Are you insinuating—" ,r "I ain't insinuatin'—I'm tellin' you," interrupted the other, advanc- ing and seizing him by the collar. Mr. Plimsoll wrenched himself free and sprinted down the road deeper ately, with the stout gentleman in pursuit. The ]atter was not built for speed, but he had remarkable en- duranoe. The chase continued for more than a quarter of a mile, when Mr. Plim- soll finally eluded his pursurer by dodging ' behind a high fence and doubling back acrosssome allotments in the direction of the city. A mom- ent later he saw a sight which made his heart leap with joy. It was not a robin redbreast, or a babbling brook, or a violet behind a mossy stone. It was a pretty little yellow taxicab, Mr. Plimsoll hailed it and sank gratefully into its cush- ions. But he still had .a sense of the fit- ness of things, and just before reach- ing home he roused himself reluct- antly, stopped the cab, paid the driver and walked the rest of the way with an air of brisk energy. "Web," he said, rubbing his hands heartily, "here I am again!". Mrs. Plimsoll did not look up_from her sewing. "What's the matter?" she asked. "Did you forget something?" Mr. Plimsoll looked at the clock and realized that he had been away for exactly forty-five minutes. "No," he replied defiantly, "I didn't forget anything. I'ee. bad a good stiff walk in the country;, that's all. Covered about nine miles altogether." "In forty-five minutes?" inquired Mre. Plimsoll. found it filled with clamorous Boy, Just then the bell rang. Mrs. Plim- soll went to the door, and returned with the hunch box. It was soiled and misshapen, but still intact. "A taxi-driver gave it to me," said Mrs. Plimsoll, with one of her sweet- est smiles. "He said you left it in his cab," Since that day Mr. Plimsoll's enthusiasm for country "hikes" has declined noticeably, He still walks from the sitting -room to the; front gar- den and back every Sunday morning, but the old wanderlust has left him. —Answers, a plans became clean-cut, definite, not nere chaotic hopes. It would be sim- ile. I would go to Australia. I would stay there two or three years. Then I would return to America. I would go to that city where I had been born "Half of three hundred thousan would fix pie." d "Any woods," he replied recklessly, "where one can feel the living earth nndr foot and smell the fragrance of green, 'growing things." "Darling," said ,Mrs. Plimsoll, "I wish you wouldn't talk With your mouth full." Mr. Plimsoll pushed back Ms chair and stood up, "It's a crime to stay indoors on a day like this," he announced. Upstairs, he found his- plus -fours a trifle snug about the waist, but strug- gled Into them gallantly. "Well," he remarked gaily, "I'm off!" "It's a good thing I thought of this," said bis wife, producing e. large box wrapped in tissue paper and tied with ribbon. "Here's a little lunch for you." Mr. Plimsoll looked at it in dismay. "Before the forenoon is over you'll be glad to have a few pieces of chicken and some potato salad and a dozen sandwiches," said Mrs, Plim- soll. "Is that all?" he asked hopefully. "I put in some. hard-boiled eggs," added his wife, "just in .:case you wanted hard-boiled eggs." Ab, Mr. Plimsoll mused, hard-boil- ed eggs! What would an outing be without them? Nobody' knows, for nobody has ever had a chance to find out. Ho, for the open road!" he said. He had no definite destination in mind. That is the way of the glpsY rover—and be was ready to rove. But his first impulse was to get rid of the lunch. It cramped his style. He could not picture himself as a care -free vagabond, lugging a pack- age full of sandwiches over hill and dale. What did Martha think he was? Around the corner a large dustbin yawned invitingly. Stopping beside handy packs c Here is a treat that can't be beats Benefit and plea- sure in generous measure" Pe>elpermint Flavor 1$SUE No. 80—'28 possibly do all these things now; but it, he shifted his burden .and glanced if I were not honest, I was at least over his shoulder cautiously His honorable. I could ask no girl to en- eyes encountered the old, inquiring tangle herself with a man upon whose gaze of a policeman. Mr. Plimsoll was caller a policeman might any day overwhelmed by an unaccountable place his heavy hand. sense of guilt. He tucked the box un - But in the few days that had claps- der his arm again and walked rapidly ed since I felt the urge of spring, my down the street. circumstances had changed.. I was The best course, he decided, would rich; if I left America and stayed be to ride out to the end of the away awhile, then returned and gave tramway line. From there be could out that I had amassed a fortune in walk into the open country. And he far-off Australia, who would• doubt could leave the lunch box in the car me? All danger from the police would.' when he got off. have vanished in that time. My &-Boarding the car, Mr. Plimsoll predations Would have ceased, and the police would have assumed that the mysterious criminal who had baffled them so frequently, had died. I would be running no risk of entangling an innocent maiden in my peccadilloes. I would invest my money in my -home town; I would choose some sweet find lovely girl for my wife. I am personable; I have the Ainsley man- ner. Other men win charming wives. Why could not I do so? I had created an Eden for myself; I had peopled It with a lovely Eve, and with our children. And into Eden came the snake. , , . The doorbell rang; my servant was gone fpr the day. I was too cautious to keep any curious person around my apartment all the time; so the wo- man who prepared my meals and kept my apartment in order always left shortly after dinner, So I must an- swer the bell myself. rt was the first time that it had ever rung save in the daytime, when tradespeople called. I felt a sudden Only teas grown 4,000 to 7,000 feet abive sea level are used In ` 4SALADA" Orange Pekoe mend— the flavour is therefore richer, more fragrant and much more delicious than other teas. Only 43c per uy it at any grocery store. ORANGE. WLE DE 291 , vfaG'iurns,ranAd•vvac,�rnvan •'rmev�vr ,• aiaatuarlma..�� A MATCHLESS NATURAL RESOURCE nerimm enmaffnr/ iessearsamium:Sr e s ersz mince ivaimi einimareasunW'>ermentremaumniunt 0' Among the natural assets of North to Canadian, industry and commerce America none . is more noted than the to -day is furnished by the. series of St. Lawrence -Great Lakes choir}, form- cities and towns aligned along its ing colleetii,ely the world's largest body course. According to the last census of fresh water. Every student of Cana- • there were roundly 2,800,000 people in dian exploration and settlement is Canada living in cities with 'a popu- familiar with the unique role played lation of 10,000 or more. And nearly by this waterway in Canada's early 60 per cent of this aggrega'tc was deveiopmeut. Its modern contribution accounted for by the numerous cities to the economic life of the Dominion which are situated along the • .St,i 'is equally remarkable, though it cannot. •be measured by financial figures such. as those for the annual wheat crop, gold output, luaiber-cut and so on, which so vividly reflect the productive -value of the prairies, mineral regions, forests, and other great natural sources • 'of wealth. ' Perhaps the most striking testimony to the vital - relation of this waterway. Snouts. At the terminus everyone got off. Mr. Plimsoll breathed a sigh of satis- faction as he made his way through the crowd and thought'of the lunch box under the car seat. It was a relief to be rid of it, "Hey, mister!" a voice sounded be-' hind him. Turning around, Mr. Plim- soll beheld a small boy struggling with the lunch box. "You forgot yer parcel!" the lad exclaimed breath- lessly. One Boy Scout had clone his good' deed for the day. Clutching the box, Mr: Plimsoll continued oil his way. As he trudg- ed along the pavement he became aware that he was being' followed. He looked back nervously. A large dog was' trotting close behind him. Mr, Plimsoll stopped; the dog stop- ped also, It sniffed hopefully, writh- ed for a moment in an ecstasy of tail - wagging, and then pounced upon him, Everyone Flying in North C` retry Trips of Weeks 'Duration Are Cut Down to r-iours "FUR IS FLYING" Competition is Keen for Use of Available Ships Spectacular interest surrounds the airplane rush into the North these days. Men and freight are being sent daily into the 'Beason Bay country by' this method. Trips of 1,000 to 1,500 miles, continuous flight, are not nn- common. ,Machines that will carry 'five tone of freight and three orfour paseen gers are ill use by three different com- panies operating out of Winnipeg- From The Pas; 60 miles : north, the of Western Airplane Co. has ;a fleet six machines constantly in use for re- mote points north; even as far as Forts Churchill and Nelson, on Hud-. son Bay. Routes' that were matters of Weeks to negotiate with loads a year ago are now traversed in a few hours. Dog trains have Proved too slow in the Lawrence -Great Lakes system and whch' owe their progress largely to e! industrial and -commercial advantages ofi such a location, The towns and cities strung out at varying intervals between' Quebec and the head of the Takes are credited with more than half of the, total value of Canada's annual pr'oduo- tion of manufactures. A Strange- Argument Vancouver Province (Ind. Con.): (In his campaign -speeches for the British Columbia election which took place recently, the Premier has re- peatedly suggested that he and his Liberal Government are the only peo- ple' eople' that can make a bargain with Ottawa about the P,G.E.) Mr. Dun- ning, in reference to another railway matter, that of the projected C.N.R. hotel in Vancouver, takes the position "that both as a matter of law and otherwise the position is one to be adjusted by the Canadian National ]railway and not by the Government." In other words, Mr. Dunning says he is going to keep the Canadian National out of politics. If he takes that stand in reference to railway hotels in Hali fax and Vancouver, he must logically WHEN IN TORONTO Stay at the Royal Cecil hotel Cor. Jarvis and Dundas Stu. Every Room With Private Bath Rates $1.50 up — Garage at Hotel . 3 Minutes Walk -to Shopping DI'strict. • THERE is nothing that has ever taken Aspirin's place as an antidote for pain, It is safe, or physicians wouldn't use it, and endorse its use, by others. Sure, or several million users would have turned to something else. But get the real Aspirin (at any drugstore) with Bayer on the box, and the word genuine printed in red: Aspirin_ ie the trade mark_ ttmrtletered in Canada) indicating Bayer Manritanture. while it 1e. Tell known that Aapirin means Bayer mann- Wyeataro to anaure ilia cella against i'mftatlone. et Tabrete win be eteuiped With coin " $syer... Oman" credo (nark, mad rush for development over' a re- gion 1,000 miles square. Bundles of rich furs that have come down by the slow process of canoe and dog sled - from the Hudson. Bay Co: for a cen- tury are now being shipped into Win- nipeg °by'tnese returning planes. Wireless Orders. Daily wireless orders are received by merchants at Winnipeg for sup- plies to be rushed out the same day by this or that plane, In several cases this winter injured men have been transported to the local hospitals by the air route from remote points, and last week a wireless was received' from the Central Mining region re- questing a plane to Bring a doctor and return with an injured man. So much competition has been in- troduced that passenger fares by plane aro not more than four times the railway tariff. For freight the charges are proportionately heavier than other means of transportation, but not so high that fur companies, mining enterprises and kindred indus- tries cannot afford -to pay the in- creased price. Engineers and investors from Tor - • onto, Montreal, New York and Chi- cago arrive daily, having wired in ad- vance for their plane reservations and within an hour after their arrival .are on their way northward. Last week and order for delivery of 1,000 pounds of beans, a ton of mis- cellaneous canned goods and 500 pounds of bacon was received for de- livery by plane to Old Lake, 800 miles north in the Hudson Bay section, The jobber who filled the order had diffi- culty in finding a plane without a full charter to make the journey. Before the ship left another order for an electric drill and other machinery weighing a ton hadbeen received for shipment by the same plane. England's Landmarks The damage which fine, old build- ings in the City of London suffer ap- • Pears to increase ,each year, accord- ing to a report presented to the So- ciety for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, which held is fifty-first annual meeting recently The report contained a note of Warning, accord- ing to a London dispatch to The Manchester Guardian, which says it is often thought that the cause for which William Morris founded the society fifty years -ago has been won. Although declaring that this, in a sense, is true. The Guardian dispatch quotes the report as saying: "The need for the society Is as great as it ever was, and the possi• billties• for usefulness are unlimited; Owing to the rapidly increasing traf- fic faclities, the country side is tak- ing on an appearance which before the war was confined to the suburbs of great towns. The widening of old. roads, as well as the making of new ones, causes the disappearance of buildings to which we have become accustomed, and which for long years have been b lf-eonsaiously admired aa fixed features of the landscape. Where these are not entirely de- etroyd, they are often left isolated and stark among the new, crude and unfriendly neighbors . •' "There has never been such a Mine," it was pointed out at the meet- ing by C. It: Peers, Chief Inspector of Ancient Monuments, "for the con- struction of roads, railways and elec• trio and water supply- systems. One of our most serious problem; is the relation of the new roads to the old bridges. A sensible number of old and beautiful bridges, when ,preeerv" ed and widened, will be left with lit- tle ittle of ,their ancient fabric in tact. Un- forunately, the construcion of alter- native bridges is not' alwaye pos- sible." The necessity for some centrad authority • Is urged by Mr. Peers. "There are streets in some of our•,• country towns in whichevery house Is worthy of preservation," he said. "Such things aro national monu- ments, but they are at the mercy of munipical authorlies. Local govern- ment is these maters is better in theory than in practice, and it must be more closely linked with a central authority before it can be trusted." take it in reference to the much more important question of the sale or lease of the P.G.E. to the Canadian National. 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