HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1944-07-20, Page 3• SERIAL STORY
Murder on the Boardwalk
BY ELINORE COWAN STONE
Last 'Week: After agreeing to
meet 'the mysterious "Lucille" at
9, Christine keeps - her appoint-
ment with Mr. Wilmet. Bill 'has
been taken to police headquarters
after his keys were found to fit
Mrs, Talbert's car. 'His story
sounds very thin.
CHAPTER XIII
Christine spent the rest of the
morning in the last place where
she thought curiosity seekers would
look for the "Boarclwalk Mystery
Girl" — the public library — with
her too -well-publicized face buried
in a newspaper, her mind still
worrying about' the story Mr, Wil -
met had told her, her eyes impa-
tiently watching the clock,
At 12;30 she was to meet Bill
for lunch — that is, If Bill were
still "in circulation."
When she reached the restau-
rant, the worst of her fears were
realized. As soon as she asked for
Biil, a waiter led her to a table.
"Mr. Yardley has sent word that
we are to serve you at once, )liss,"
he told her. "And he sent this note
for you,"
"Sorry," the note said. "Can't
make it. Please leave reply with
Louis, the waiter who will hand
you this — and who is as safe as a
church — saying where I can find
you about 9 this evening."
Christine let the lunch Bill had
ordered cool while she composed
a reply which sketched an outline
of her plan for the evening with-
out betraying the confidence of
"Lucille." At the end she added,
as 'a possible line of communica-
tion, 'Am dining at Decker's with
Mr. Wilmet."
* *
Mr. Wilmet insisted on Chris-
tine's ordering the dinner, sitting
back without even glancing at the
menu, although he must have
known that Decker's prices were
appalling. The service was lei-
surely, and Mr. 'lVilntet, too, was
leisurely — and tiresome — with
n long acount of his persecutions
by the police and press.
He insisted on taking a wheel
chair back down the Boardwalk.
It was a closed chair with sun -
glass windows. Christine, who
hated being shut in, fumed as it
inched along under the guidance
of a decrepit old darkey.,. Suppose
she should be late!
When, a little short of the Paris
Shop, she insisted on saying "Good
night," Mr. Wilmet's face clouded
with concern.
"I really don't think you ought
to be alone on the Boardwalk," he
objected, "after what's just hap-
pened. Hadn't I better — ab — see
you to your destination? Of course"
— he laughed nervously -- "I'm
not exactly a fighting man, but I
might help in case of trouble."
"!'hanks," Christine said impa-
tiently. "There won't be any trou-
ble. I'm spending the evening with
a girl I've known for years."
She was afraid he might follow
her; but when she looked back, he
was 'going dejectedly into a tobac-
co shop.
* *
Christine had no difficulty in
identifying the girl, who stood be-
fore the shop window as if rapt
by a pair of silver sandals. When
Christine paused and removed her
sunglasses, the girl gianced up
with a flicker of recognition, re-
turned for a moment to her in-
spection of the sandals, and then
Strolled off along the Boardwalk.
Presently Christine folowed, saun
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tering as the other girl did.
At the top of a flight of stairs
leading to, the street below, the
girl glanced 'back before she de-
scended. She walked on a block,
turned into a side street, unlocked
a door, and went in, leaving the
door ajar.
For the first time Christine hesi-
tated After all, what did she
know of this girl except that it
was her voice which had first
sounded that ominous note of clan-
ger which had run like a motif
through the last 24 hours?...
Then her curiosity got the bet-
ter of her, and she passed through
the door.
* * *
She found herself in a poorly
lighted, inhospitable hall, from
which a stairway ascended into
darkness behind. Christine won-
dered if she were mistaken in
thiinlfing that something moved in
the shadows of that stairway.
The girl who called herself
"Lucille" was waiting
"Come in here, please, Miss
Thorenson," she said abruptly,
and opened the door upon a lighted
room,
Christine stood amazed at the
contrast between the bleak ugli-
nes of the hall and the quiet good
taste and comfort of that room.
The room was pleasantly lighted;
a soft Oriental rug covered the
floor; two of the walls were lined
with books; and there were com-
fortable chairs. It was a room,
somehow; to inspire confidence.
Yet Christine felt no confidence
now, even in herself, ;
Before she could speak, a man
she had not seen at first got up
from a desk that stood in a shel-
tered alcove. Chandra!
"I am sorry about all this mys-
tery, Miss Thorenson," he said in
a well -remembered voice. "But it
seemed necessary."
Christine thought angrily, "Of
course. I was right in the begin-
ning,"
* * *
He had shed every trace of the
Oriental mystic. Front his unob-
trusive appearance and rite quiet
precision with which he spoke and
moved, one night easily — as she
had that first night have taken
hint for a well-trained major donto.
FROM THE CHETNIICS
Reigning as millinery queen in
west coast fall showings, cover girl
Anita Colby models this original
Chetnik beret made up in a Stuart
dress plaid.
For Christine realized that she had
seen those tawny -brown eyes not
just once, but twice before.
"Yes," he anticipated her as she
tried to reconstruct that brief en-
counter on the station platform,
"you have seen ole before... The
first time you may not recall. You
thought your cousin might have
sent me — That disguise was a
good one. I did not expect you to
remember,"
"It was your eyes, not your
clothes, that_I noticed... You said
you were taking a train," Christine
said thoughtfully. "Yes — I see,"
* • *
"And of course," he said dryly,
"it will confirm your worst sus-
picions when I admit that I.dropped
off the other side of that train be-
fore it pulled out, and that I was
in the taxicab behind yours when
you got out at your hotel.... And
I ,was not the only one following
you, Miss Thorenson."
Christine broke out angrily, "I
was. crazy to come here. l guessed
front the beginning that this girl
was one of your spies."
".l. suppose that it's no use to
expect you to believe that 1 am
really Frying to be honest with
you," the clairvoyant went on
quietly. '"3111 it is quite true that
I was asked to keep an eye on your
movements by someone whom
your your cousin had expected to meet
you, but ttwlto was — unablb to do
so. I agreed to do it because" .--
he broke off as if searching for
words that might hold her atten-
tion - "because I know that I am
— partly responsible for Mrs. Tal
bert's death,"
"Are you so sure that yoti have
deceived the police," Christine
gasped, "that you dared to trick
ine into coming here and—"
"I said," lie interrupted with a'
MAIL FOR THE FORCES OVERSEAS
In Normandy, itt.Italy, wherever
they may be, Canadian forces over-
seas get mail front house quicker
because of the big Lancaster trans-
ports operated by Trans -Canada
Air Lines in the Canadian Govern-
ment's trans-Atlantic service. And
from the fronts mail comes quicker
to the folk at hotfe.
More than 50,000,000 letters hate
been carried in 05 crossings of the
Atlantic — less than a year's oper-
ation. With four aircraft in service,
three round trips are now, made
each week between Montreal and
the 'United I{ingdom. flights are
made direct, without intermediate
stops, and the distance, 3,100 stat-
ute utiles, has been covered in little
more than eleven hours.
In the big noses of the Lancast-
ers, as much as 8,000 pounds of
mail may be carried. Parts and
equipment of importance to war
effort are carrier! as freight. No
tare -pacing pa,$Cttaers are trans-
ported, but official passengers on
urgent war business arc sometimes
carried,
TABLE TALES
Three Good Breads
Borne -baked bread, biscuits, muf-
fins—all are welcome on any table,
and they can be as healthful and
good for you
to eat as they
are appetizing.
T h e follow-
ing recipe with
a slight change
or two, enables
you to prepare
three excellent
breads—giving your family a de -
faint smile, " 'partly responsible:
You see, Miss Thorenson, peo-
ple come here for such a variety
of reasons. They want, for in-
stance, to be told how to find things
they have lost; whet their hus-
bands are spending their evenings;
whether they will get the jobs they
want; whether that pain that wor-
ries them is what they fear it is;
whether the time is right to in-
vest their money... There are
some questions you cannot answer
directly if you are honest,
...You try, if you are wise, not to
complicate family troubles. or to
give advice involving large suns
of money., , There are other que-
stions you most not answer fully.
Those are the questions involving
life and death."
"This is very interesting,"
Christine interrupted impatiently.
"But why does it concern me
or my cousin's death?"
"Because Mrs. Talbert's case,
Miss Thorenson, was one of the
,'must -nuts: Partly on that tic -
count, and partly because bhere
were — circumstances I did not en-
tirely understand, I did not warn
your cousin of her danger."
' (Continued Next Week)
Rightful change in this "staff of
life- food:
Wheat -Meal Quick Bread
4 cup wheat -ureal
2 cups ntillc
2 cups sifted flour
4 teaspoons double-acting baking
powder
1 teaspoon salt
3= cup sugar
1 egg, well beaten
4 tablespoons melted butter or
other shortening
Acid cereal to milk and scald,
stirring occasionally. Remove from
heat and pour into mixing bowl.
Let stand 15 minutes to cool. Sift
flour once, measure, add baking
powder, salt, and sugar, and sift
again. .Add egg and shortening
to cereal mixture and stir well.
Add flour mixture, stirring only
until all flour is dampened. Turn
into greased loaf pan, 0x4x3 inches,
and bake in moderate oven (300F.)
1 hour and 10 minutes, or until
done.
Wheat -Meal Prune Bread
Increase salt to 154 teaspoons in
above recipe; add 1 cup chopped
prunes and 1 tablespoon grated
lemon rind to cereal -egg -fat mix-
titre.
Wheat -Meal Raisin Bread
Increase salt to 154 teaspoons in
above recipe, add 1 cup seedless
raisins or currants to cereal -egg -
fat mixture.
8,000,000 British
Women At Work
Eight million women are sup-
porting the war effort in Great
Britain. Of these, 10 percent. are
housewives working part time. Of
women between the ages of 18 and
40, 00 per cent, of those single and
80 per cent. of those married or
widowed are either in the nation-
al forces or in industry.
PICTURE OF NIP ABOUT TO DIE
ESEM
in the remarkable close-up above, smoke streams from a Jap "Kate"
torpedo bomber, hit by a U. S. Navy PB4Y over Truk, before the
plane smashed into the sea. The rear gunner stood up as -if to bail
out, but sat down again, failing to jump from the plane, which ex-
ploded when it hit the water.
Outstandingly Good
11®1CLES
®f GlittEll FARM
By
Gwendollne P. Clarke
• * * •
Looking back, last week seems
like several weeks rolled into one.
When it started we thought Help
for haying would be our only pro-
blem. For that reason we had
one of the farm 'Commandos out to
help—and we were very well satis-
fied with the result. It looks as
if city help has saved the day for
a good many farmers. Monday
saw all our hay hi that was ready
for the barn, Tuesday Partner
intended cutting again — and was
that ever a break, for nue, because,
011 that very day I was invited to
go to Toronto. Did I accept?
Well, if I hadn't I would probably
be stepping around with bare feet
by now. .As it is my feet are
anything hitt bare. You see I
went to a store that specializes in
"corrective footwear" and the shoes
they sent one hone with are like
"herring boxes without topses" so
I shall never ,be surprised if my
family renamgs 111„ "Clementine'.
Wednesday Partner was straigh-
tening out the mow all day in
preparation for Commando help
next day. But the Commando
help was cancelled because Part-
ner's brother arrived for the day.
Friday morning the real climax
cane when our son walked in, Or
i
maybe I should call it an anti-
climax, because, from a wire we •
had received from hint we surmised
he was down in Halifax, or maybe
half way across the Atlantic. How-
ever his visit was of shprt duration
— just a few days embarkation
leave—which was more than we
had hoped for. On Saturday morn-
ing another friend arrived from the
city to help with the hay and of
course I had phoned Daughter that
her brother was home so she cache
along too. Saturd ty afternoon I
saw a strange "bike" on the lawn
—young John, who used to work
here—had come up unexpectedly
for the week -end. But he had stop-
ped off at the hayfield and was
driving the team on tlte horse -
rake.
So, with continued fine weather,
and plenty of hien around, Par;,.
her got in mute' a :;,i or nay —
but naturally not too much because
we didn't want to take advantage
of the help that was so willingly
given. Haying, plus !tot weather
can be hard to take. Sunday night
our visiting family were all on
their way again, and I must con-
fess Partner and I are feeling a
little limp.
SUNDAY
SCHOOL
LESSON
GIDEON'S FAITHFUL FEW
July 30
Judges 6, 7, 8
PRINTED TEXT, Judges 7:4-7,
16-21.
GOLDEN TEXT.—There is no
restraint to Jehovah to save by
many or by few. 1 Samuel 14:0.
Memory Verse: Thou, Jehovah,
hest made me glad, Psalm 02:4.
THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING
Time—The oppression of the
Midianites, Garstang places at
1161-1154 B.C., and the forty
years' judgeship of Gideon from
1154-1114 B,C.
Place. -The great battle in which
the Midianites were defeated oc-
curred, primarily, in the plain of
Jezreel, which is the plain of Me-
giddo in central Palestine.
Preparation For Battle
"And Jehovah said unto Gideon,
The people are yet too many, ..
This shall not go with thee. the
same shall not go". The Lord sur-
prised Gideon by telling hint he
must reduce his army, for Israel
is to be taught that the Lord is
their deliverer, all glory is to be
given to Him.
'''So ile brought down the people
unto the water . . , likewise every
one that boweth down upon his
knees to drink." Those who were
eager for the fight quenched their
thirst as quickly as possible. The
rest were glad of any delay in
meeting the enemy and thought
more of their need and comfort
than the cause of the Lord.
Interpretation of Dream
"And the number of them that
lapped, putting their hand to their
mouth and let all the people
go every man unto his place." In
the whole army there were only
100 heroes full of courage, self-
denial and d watchfulness, fit for
God's work, The Israelites were
to learn that numbers did not count
with God, however much they
may count with hien. Sometimes,
as in our last lesson, He uses na-
ture to overthrow the purposes of
mann,
"And h was so, when Gideon
heard the telling of the dreamt, and
the interpretation thereof, that he
worshipped: and he returned into
the camp of Israel, and said, Arise;
for Jehovah hath delivered into
your hand the host of lfidian,"
So wondrous, seemed the dream
in its interpretation that when
Gideon heard it he bent in silent
worship, assuredly knowing that
God had given them the victory.
Gideon's Stratagem
"And he divided the three hun-
dred fnen into three companies,.,
and they cried, the sword of Je-
hovah and of Gideon." Now we
see the clever stratagem of Gid-
eon. The three hundred are livid -
ed to give the idea of forces con-
ing from three directions to con-
fuse and perplex the pagan hosts.
Each man carried a trumpet and
a pitcher. The pitchers were used
to conceal the lamps, until by the
noise of their breaking and the
sudden appearance of the light, the
lfidianites would be startled, ter-
rified and thrown into confusion.
The success of the stratageras
depended on a perfect understand-
ing of what was to be done, and a
perfect unity of action, 'as I do,
so shall ye do.'
It was in the strength and pow-
er of the Lord that they were to
go forth against the Midianites.
His invisible sword and hosts
would win for them.
"And they stood every roan in
his place round about the camp;
and all the host ran; and they
shouted, and put them to flight."
The battle went precisely as Gid-
eon had planned, The surprised
army was thrown into utter con-
fusion. Everyone thought of treach-
ery and turned anis sword against
his fellow. Escape was the com-
mon impulse and the disorganized
host fled, pursued for days and
nights by the Israelites.
Defeat of Midianites
And SO the terrible misery of
Isrcal Was removed and the' op-
pressor's power broken forever.
All this was done by God, but done
by means of the three hundred
tested and chosen heroes,
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