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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1926-01-07, Page 40. c. ni. e. sic lea ga,` lac- wa. Ani, • atew ails 'lie" ler'. k 15r, • D capmattc&.10.7.7., EDEN •PNULPQTT, utu$'T A-rce sy RW.SAtreWeIet0 ' BEGIN HERE TO -DAY. Michael, husband of Jenny Pendean, disappears from his home on Dart- moor. He is last seen in the company of Robert Redmayne, uncle to Jenny, when the two hien visit a. new bunga- low being built by Michael near Fog- gintor Quary. Blood is found on the fioor of the cottage and witnesses testify to hav- ing seen Robert ride away on his motor bicycle with a heavy sack be- hind the saddle. The sack is found in a rabbit hole a far distance from the scene of the supposed murder. Mark Brendon, famous criminal in vestigator, is engaged by Jenny to solve the ;mystery. Jenny goes to live with her uncle Bendigo Redmayne. Brendan calls at'Bendigo's home and meets Giuseppe Doria, who works there. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY. Bendigo Redmayne grunted. "Come in and see the letter," he said. "I .never thought you'd fall. It's all very terrible indeed and I'm damn- ed if I understand anything about it. But one fact is clear:. my brother wrote this letter and he wrote it from Plymouth; and since he hasn't been reported from Plymouth, I` feel very little 'doubt the thing he wanted to happen has happened." Then he turned to his niece. "We'll have a cup of tea in half an hour, Jenny. Meantime I'll take Mr. Brendon up to the tower room along with me," Mrs. Pendean' disappeared into the house and Mark followed her with the sailor. They passed through a square hall full of various foreign curiosities col- lected by the owner. Then they ascend- ed into a large, octagonal chamber, like the lantern of a lighthouse, which Surmounted the dwelling. "My lookout," explained Mr. Red- mayne. "In foul weather I spend all my time up here and with yonder strong, three-inch telescope I can pick up what's doing at sea. A bunk in the corner, you see. I often sleep up here, too.".. "You might almost as well be afloat," said Brendon, and the remark pleased Bendigo. "That's how I feel; and I can tell .- . you there's a bit of movement, too, • sometimes. I never wish to see bigger water than beat these cliffs during the south -easter last March. We shook to our keel, I can tell you." He went to a tall cupboard hi a corner, unlocked it and brought out a square, wooden desk of old-fashioned pattern. This he opened and produced a letter • which he handed to the de- tective. Brendon sat down in a chair under. the open window and read this coln- munication slowly. The writing was. large and sprawling; it sloped slightly upward from left to right across the sheet and left a triangle of white paper at the right-hand bottom cor- net': "Bear Ben: It's all over. I've done in Michael Pendean end put hind where Only Judgment Day willfind him. Something drove me to do it; but all the same I'm Worry now it's done—not for him but myself,' I shall clear to -night, with luck, for France. If I can send an address later I will, Look after Jenny—she's well rid of the blighter. When things have blown over I may come back. Tell Albert and tell Flo. Yours, "R. Re Brendon examined the letter and the envelope that contained it, 'neve you another communication something from the past, I can com- pare with this?" he asked, Bendigo nodded. "I reckoned you'd want that," he Answered and produced a second let- ter from his desk. It related to Robert Redmayne's engagement to be married and the writing was identical. "And what do you think he's done, Mr. Redmayne?" Brendon asked, pock- eting the two communications, "I think he's done what he hoped to do. At this time of year you'll see a dozen Spanish and Brittany onion Moats lying .down by the Barbican at Plymouth, every day of the week. And if poor Bob got there, no doubt plenty of chaps would hide himwhen he offered 'em money enough to make it worth while. Once aboard one of those sloops, he'd be about as safe as he would be anywhere. They'd land him at St. Maio, or somewhere down there, and he'd give you the slip," "And, until it was found out that he was mad, we. might hear no more about him." "Why should it be found out that he was mad?" asked Bendigo. "He was mad when he killed this innocent man, no doubt, because none but a lunatic would have done such an awful thing, er been so cunning after—with the sort of chEdish cunning that gave birn *way from the start. Bet once he'd done what this twist in his brain drove Jelin todo, then I judge that his mad- ess very likely left him. If you caught him -to -morrow,' you'd possibly find him as sane as yourself -except on that ere subject. Ilea worked up his old hatred of Michael Pendean, as a shirk - ter iti the war, until it festered hi his head and poisoned his mind, so as he couldn't get it under. That's how I read it. I had a pretty good contempt for the poor chap myself and was. properly savage with my niece, when she wedded him against our wishes; but my feeling didn't turn my head, and I felt glad to hear that Pendean was'. an honest man, who did the best he could at the Moss Depot." Brendon, considered. "A very sound view," he said, "and likely to be correct. On the strength of this letter, we may conclude that when he went home, after disposing of, the body under Berry Head, your 'rother nest have disguised himself in some way and -taken an early train from Paigntoh to Newton Abbey and from Newton Abbey to Plymouth. Ile would .already have been there and lying low before the hunt began." "That's how I figure it," answered the sailor. "When did you last see him, Mr. Redmayne?" "Somewhere about a month ago, He, came ever for the day with Miss Reed —the young woman he was going to marry.!, "Was he all right then?" "Bendigo considered and scratched in his red beard. "Noisy and full 'of chatter, but much as usual." "Did he mention Mr. and Mrs. Pen - dean?" "Not a word. He was full up with his young woman. They meant to be married in late autumn and go abroad for a run to see my brother Albert." "He may correspond with Miss Reed if he gets to France?" "I can't slay what,he'll do. Suppose you catch him presently? How would the law stand? A man goes mad and commits a murder. Then you nab him and he's as sane as a judge. You can't hang him for what.be did when he was off his head, and you can't shut him .up in a lunatic asylum if he's sane." "A niee problem, no doubt" admit- ted Brendon, "but be sure the law will take no risks. A homicidal maniac, no matter how sane he is between tines, is not going to run loose any more after killing a man." f'Well, that's all there is to it, de- tective. If I hear agai t, I'll let the "Why should it be found that he was mad?" asked Bendigo. Robinson Crusoe's rudalaecarered gun, another sensation on the an- tiquity market in London, which has been insured foe $io,000 by the own- er, Charles. J. Sawyer. It is of 1700 vintage. _ dition must be one of great -torment and anxiety—to him -and for his own sake I hope he.wlll soon surrender or be found—if not in England, then in Trance." • "Thank you," answered the older man quietly. "What you say is true. I regret the delay myself now. If he is heard of again by pse, I'll telegraph to Scotland Yard, or get 'epi to do so at Dartmouth. I've slung a telephone wire into the town as you see." They stood again under the, -flag- staff on the plateau, and Brendon stu- died the rugged cliff line and the fields of corn that sloped away inland above it. The district was very lonely and only the rooftree of a solitary farm- house appeared a mile or more distant to the west. "If he should come to you—and I have still a fancy that he may do so —take hint in and let me .know," said Brendon. "Such a necessity will be unspeakably painful, I fear, but I am very .sure you will not shrink from it, Mr. Redmayne." The rough old man had grown more amiable during the 'detective's visit. It was clear that a natural aversion for Bren aons business no longer e -tended to the detective himself. "Duty's duty," he said, "though God keep me from yours. If I can do any- thing, you may trust trust Inc to do, it. He's not likely to come here, I think; but he might try and get over to Albert down south. Good-bye to you." (To be continued.) Childless Women. In cbfldless women's eyes A misery of lacking heal Under their gaiety is woe And this, one feels., they do not know: The glad joy of ,the blue bird- — ing— The. freshness of the morning sing- ing— 'Phe depths of roses brightly blowing— The soul of things they should be knowing ---- police know; and if you take him, of course you'll let me and his brother know at once. It's a very ugly thing for his family. He did good work in the war and got honors; and if he's mad, then the war made him mad." "That would be taken very fully into account, be sure. I'm sorry, both for him and for you, Mr. Redmayne." Bendigo 'looked sulkily from under his tangled eyebrows. "I shouldn't feel no very great call to give him up to the living death of an asylum if he hove in here some night." "You'd do your duty—that I will bet," replied Brendon. They descended to the dining -room, where Jenny Pendean was waiting to pour out tea, All was very silent and Mark had leisure to observe the young widow. "What shall you do and where may I; count upon finding yott if I want you, Mrs. Pendean?" he asked pres- ently She looked at Redmayne, not at Brendon, as she answered. "I am in Uneie Bendigo's hands. I know he will Jet me stop here for the present." "For keeps," the old sailor declared. This is your home now, Jenny, and I'm very glad to have you here. There's only you and your Uncle Al- bert and me now, I reckon, for I don't think we shall ever see poor Sob again." An elderly woman came In. "Doris be wishful to know when you'll want the boat," she said. "I should like it immediately," if possible," begged Brendon, "Much time has been lost." "Tell them to get aboard, then," directed Bendigo, and in five minutes Mark was taking his leave. "I'll let you have the earliest inti- mation of the capture, Mr. Redmayne, he said, "If' your poor brother still lives, it seems impossible that he. should long be free. His present con - The Job That's Mine. There's a joy divine in the job that's aline, However humble the task; Though it sheds no lustre whereby I „ shine, - It affords me all I can ask. There's the honest pay I receive each okay And the joy of 'each task begun, Which at night `is finished and put away • • When the day with its cares Is done.' There's the joyous thrill of the hours that fill All tate golden spanof the day, And a song that speeds me on,witii a will As I busily toil away. • It's. little I care if, I do not share in,,tlte boast of the world's acclaim, If along my way I may always' fare With the pride of an honest name. If the thing•I do serves a Jiirpose true, Then it's ever 1'1.1 be content, And bravely I'll strive my aim to pur- sue At the task whereon I am bent; Fox' I ask no odds' of the fickle gods Of ehance or good' fotrune that be; It's the path of duty he worker treads, And it's ever the path for`me. Oh, the heart of me singe a song of glee AsI busily ply my task, And I'm always as happy as I can be And have all I can honestly ask. All my days I spendin serving the end Which the skill et my hands com- bine, • Aa joyously over each task I bend In the glorious job that's mine! „ -Sidney Warren Mase. In thildlesa women's eyes There shines no glimpse of paradise— Their loss, who miss the high white 00055 Of motherhood, eternal loss. —George Elliston. Overheard In the Nursery. "And was mannna'a darling frighten- ed wheu it thundered?" "No, mamma, 1 "wasn't frightened, but nnrsle sae, ever so nmcb, I know, cos' daddy had to take her on his knee." Two Towns. There was a mighty City Upon the isle of Crete, Its palace had a thousand rooms, The Captains of its fleet Took tribute from all lands that lay About the narrow seas; The merchandise of half the -world Was piled upon its quays. It stood for twice a thousand years, Then passed in night and flame This much. the scholars' spades halve shown; But no man knows its name. There was a town called ilium; A village on a hill, Where yellow -haired barbarians carie To barter wool and 811 , Their open boats with beads and bronze And oily skins of wine. A little place, a humble place', With nothing great or fine— But Ilium's name is ringing still Like one elear bugle blown, And all the chiefs of Ilium Still -walk beside our own. Laugh and Grow Fit! There are physical cudtur-lets who; with other exercises for fitneSec have,; 'one for laughing. , They say that to enjoy animaginary laugh istobring into play certain mitsedes of the body which, by being used, yield benefit:- Laughing is a.n infectious toulc, On'e e'en 'seldom refrain from laughing when others are laughing, .Sornelhow it tr#ln'sgorms, a dull day into one of brightness, wntroinsfignresa drab en. .vironmient to vire of blitheness. So few of, teas know 'how to laugh.. We hae.rcl years'.ago, from one of idle Teets, of "The loud laugh' .that speaks the vacant rpind":. and Seine of :us` 'have refrained ''front it because we 0-0 not desire others to misjud!ge'as! But posts are often wrong. They some- times emp'haslze the exception rather than the,rale. • It clan ;be proved that laughter is. a. sign of health, fitness, buoyancy. A smile le not the sante as a:laugh. It may be more, polite and rellsied, but refinement is not necessarily Natural. Wheneverr.tfhere is recession .there its also a teriilency to pose and deprive oneself of a natural emotion. I have nio,ticed'tha't the people who laugh • the most are .tire healthiest. their out look on life is bright; they are alWaye -faxing the sun, and they .have learned to, leave the; ahadews he- hind ahind and see the bent In all things and allpeople. It is piwverbiail that disano,is rare- 'pant in. .darkness. In -sunlight :and: fresh air the microbes parish. , Cannot -ire learn frown that to live in ever sense so that, if there le any- thing to laugh at, weoriel-laugh and, become • better fitted for; the, battle of life? A good laugh dares one good; that is why we always. have 'froom for our F. W. Thoreases`an,d John -Henrys. Writing a few weeks ago of Oharlte Chaplin, a journalist said: "He !seethe greatest man of hie time, dispensing medioine'to t*elve militate of people every day." - So let us 'laugh! Even if we have nothing to laugh' at, let uo laugh be-' Cause everything is beyond tlie-'"s'tate of being isughted at!, It whit stand us in good stead when this machine of our•body ie wearing down:: Long ages ago, Soloman said; . "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine," We a1'1 know this to be true. Spend less on medicines; nave money by leaguing to laugh. O great forgotten eity, Sleep in your nameless tomb! Nor ships, nor gold, nor fighting men Could turn. aside your doom. 0 little town of Ilium, You live among the dead Because a blind man made a song With,which to win his bread. Take warning, mighty cities; And kings of splendid lands: 13e geed to. singing beggars; Your fate is .in their hands, —Ralph Lintone Not Afraid to Face Powder. "She seems to p -refer artily men to all otbel's." "They're not afraid to face powder, I ,guess." Seventy-five million whitefish eggs have been collected in Lake Winnipeg for the hatchery et Gull Harbour, states a report of the Dept. of Marine and Fisheries: PHICAL CLE Rev. 7'. 'Walton, of St, Aa1d1'ewv, Lambeth, England, not only floes his own repairing irin but also prints• hie own cards and handbills on ti,prii:ting messeee which he made himself. He printed the Christmas cards for h'ig whole, parish. RIC One Hundred' Years of Buses. One hundredY ears ago an omnibus was;seen for the first time et Nantes, in' France: Tb -day" this father of all buses has -38,200 descendants In Lon- don alone. It was not until 1829, however, that the first omnibus appeared in London, therefore the celebration of their cen- tenary should not take place till 1929. Women never travelled on top in the early days. It was considered un- womanly to -do so, and certainly crino- lines would have been -difficult 0 ne- gotiate on the little iron step -plates that did fluty as. stairs. When '1110 London General Omnibus Oompfrwty began to run omnibuses pro- vided with stairs women travelled on top, but then a difficulty arose, for the women's ankles could not be conceal- ed from the view of people walking in the streets, and, as ankles were not then fashionable, "decency" boards, which now'endlose the upper part of the omnibuses, were invented, and these concealed feminine ankles from the public gaze. The last horse-drawn General omni- bus. made its farewell journey between London Bridge and- Moorgate Street on October 25t11, 1911. Alchemy. When Norah, played the concertina What did Norah see, Red-handed Norah in the kitchen chair Jiggling a tired knee? When her mouth opened and her hair fell loose And :her blue eyes stared at space What broughtthe wild rose pink to. her cheeks And Rhone like a light in her face? Holy Ireland, 'green Ireland She was praising with jigs and reels, Its sheep- upon the furze -bright hills., Its roads, -deep-cut with wbeele, Its round gray bridges, fairy trees, The Hedge with washing strewn, The :Shouting In the market place, The great round Irish moon; With tappings of her Korn -toed shoes,, • With wagging of her bead She was praising Ireland's llviag She was keening Ireland's dead— When Noneei played the concertina Then was she changed .and stirred, Oh,: she was the lamb of white Saint Bride, Saint Patrick's singing bird! -Ellzabeth Coatsworth. 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According' to •estitnaites,tanada har- vested some 42,344,000vt. potatoes from 142,710 acres in the 1920 season - A shortage of -1;11,000,000 bushels in the United States crop catenated with 1924, :as well as a decline in the Cana dian acreage in 1925, ,wil result, It is, , �, expected, In increased profits far Cana- diatr-'potato_.growers,' partioularly' .1n •- the'Maritinie' Provinces; Where, grant• lug that marketing: is carried • out 'ef- fective'iy, it is to, be:•aesermed that pro- ducers will realize much. More; far their,sltort crop.01 1925 than they did for the large crop_uf 1924. -In fact ,the best_: profits ever realized from"'the Maritime potato crop are aspected' this The progress :of commercial potato growing and export in Canada has been a fairly rapid one, ..developing from a growing recognition of the high quality of the Canadianproduct both .. for seed and table purposes'. The Canadian .Potato, which twenty years ago had achieved no dietlnetion, ,is now favo ably•known on many world markets and• is constantly widening' this reception. In 1905 total Canadian - potato shipments amounted to .713,504"- b 713,504" b h Is din 1910 to 1 923 595 bush - use an - els. In the lase -three fisoal..years ship- ments were as follows: 1923, 3,793,842 bus. valued at 01,857,075; 1'24, 3,030,- 328 bus. valued at $2,856,742; and .1925, 3,957,857 bus. valued at 32,992,290. : Maritime ,Area Pre-eminent. The two important protato-groivi$g areas of Canelo are situated on either end of the continent 1n the Mariti-rp,e Provinces and British Columbia. former has long established its pro- duct, both table and seed, in a sound manner on many world markets and the demand is assured. The latter Is starting out to achieve the same dis- tinction_ with seed along the Pacific - ' coax and is. making Marked progrese, From the standpoint of export, the Maritime Provinces constitute the really significant area. Many years- ago Maritime potatoes won a Canadian renown for their hardy qualities and moved all over the Dominion for seed purposes, as • they "'PPS .continue to do. They next penetrated' into the Eastern States, where even famed potato regions acknowledged the superiority of the Maritime .pro-; duct. Gradually they have expanded the scope of their market until to -day they are moving in quantities to the United Kingdom, United States, Bei, mule, British. Guinea, Barbadoes, Jn - maim, Trinidad and Tobago, and otter British West. Indies, Cuba, Iiawaii, Newfoundland, SC Pierre and Mime- Toni, and other countries. A greater volume moves to Cuba than all other countries combined though large quan-, titles are moving to the United States. Progress In. British Columbia. A new market, is expected to open up rials year in Brazil, where, accord ing to the Canadian Trade Commit• stoner, there ls-•lllcellhood c rite"rile'^ of con iderable Cf,<gores. Before the trot, .Bassa',' iinportcd something over. a rnikkion bushels , of potatoes, principally from France, Portugal, Ar- gentine, and 'Germany, but adverse ex- change conditions in the post-war period" have tended to the decliuc of imports -with the passibility of Canada furnishing the difference. British Columbia is devoting great attention to potato growing at the pre;, sent time and is fast becoming estab- lished as one of the chief potato -pro- ducing Centred of the Pacific North- wess't. Climatic and soil conditions' in the province are very favorable for potatoes, and British Columbia clause, Pram Government compiled statistics, that it, is capable of producing more potatoes to the acre than any other province in Canada, or any state In the Union. At present the province is concentrating on the production - of„ pure seed, and its rrtatus as'a cdYnmer- eliel producer _ helongs largely to the - future, though reasonably assured. In drawing attention to the British Columbia Potato Show and the an- nual meeting of the British Columbia Certified Seed Potato Growers' As- sociation, the chief agronomist makes the claim that 110 other Election of the North American continent is so well adapted for the production of ,suma wide variety of eeeds as is t'1te Cana- dian Pacific ooast province, He palate. _. out that. British. Columbia's most valu- able field crop. le the .potato, and that • as: seed potatoes prd+hced in northern sections are always, tuper•ior to those grown ku• the south, the province - slroitld in tune . be. exporting large quantities of seed potatoes. annually. Sailors Don't „Care. A certain cook' in the Navy was noted for his absent-ntindedneeo. 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