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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1927-12-01, Page 6• "" WINGHAIVI ADVANCE -TIMES Wellington Mutual Fire Insurance Cp. Established x840 Head Office, Guelph, Ont. Risks taken on all classes of inSI,1r- *nee at reasonable rates• . ABNER COSENS, Agent, Wines.= J, W. DODD offke in Chisholm Block VIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT AND HEALTH --- INSURANCE -- AND REAL ESTATE P. 0. Box 36o Phone 24o WINGHAIVI, - - ONTARIO J W. BUSHFIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, "Etc. , • Money to Loan Office—Meyer Block, Wingham Successor to Dudley Holmes , R. VANSTONE , Looking up at him, for the first.time since we had stopped beside the girl's bed, I saw that his eyes were shining BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. with an unaccountable excitement. He Money to Loan at Lowest gates Wingham. - Ontario • bent down• over the pillow, his ear nor six inches away from the half -parted lip's. Tlien he saw that the lips were moving, and, in the suddenly enforced silence, caught the sound of a queer, droning, chant. It only 'lasted a min- ute. Then, with the sudden, lazy mo- tion of one deep asleep, she turned on beg :side, cuddled her cheek in her palm, and the chant died out in a sigh. - J. A. • MORTON BARRISTER, ETC, Wingham, -. Ontario DR. G. 1-1.. ROSS Graduate Royal College bf . Dental SurgeOns ' Graduate University of Toronto Faculty of Dentistry • . Office over 11, E: Isard's Store, H. W. COL M D. 'Physician and Surgeon Medical Representative "IX S. C. R. Phone 54 • Wingham Successor to Dr. W. R. Hambly •DR. ROBT. C. REDMOND IVI.g..C.S. (Eng.) L.R.O.P. (Lond.) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON • Dr. Chisholm's old stand. DR. R. L. STEWART Graduate of 'University of Toronto, Faculty of 1VIedicine; Licentiate of the Ontario College ,of Physicians and Surgeons. Office in. .Chisholm Block Josephine Street. Phone 29. • Dr. Margaret C. Calder ' General Practitioner f Graduate University of 'Toronto Faculty of Medicine Office—Josephine St, two doors south of Brunswick Hotel. Telephones: Office 281, Residence x51 DR. 'G. W. HOWSON DENTIST Office over John Galbraith's Store F. A. PARKER OSTEOPATH connections. ,But going to ask a favor 'of, yott.' Give Phelps' and me here a chance to make a little investi- gation.' of ,this case on our own ac count," • ' • .2'Anything you like," said Ashton heartily. "Go out to Qak Ridge and • hunt about all you like. even turn my impressionable Mr. Harvey over to •you after I've finished with him tomorrow morning though I can't guarantee there'll be much left o,`.1 him." • We went up in the elevator to- gether, and ally chief, With a nod, in- dicated that he wanted me to collie te his sitting room. • '• -• • When the 'door was closed behind us he filled his pipe and'Ibegan striding, slowly, up and 'down the room., But • he stopped before me at last, and with a preliminary "Hump" and a ,grasp :of. a muscular hand upbti xriy shoulder: he said.:• • • , • , "1 suppose some people would call "1-19.w:;•(19 yu kneW he'sgoing to that a doineiden'ee.' • . get, eff Rak ,Ridge?" I asked. ,. "Some connection, 'you mean, be- "He..stra.ightened up a little in his tween the woman Will Harvey testi-. seat,and began to readjust his -necktie fled he'PsaVand. the one we saw 1y, when the brakeman. called the nam'e 'r. ing there in the hospital?" • • • of the town." "Morgan lived in New Zealand, • When 1 had ina.de,,a,,pretext didn't he? An Ashton says he had changing over and sitting withthe doc maps, vast numbers of maps of the tor, I quite agreed, with his identifica- southern Pacific—large scale maps of tion. There, to the life, was the young • the groups of islands that are scat- man whom Ashton had described to tered all through it. It's fair to sup- us. I thought I could see traces upon pose, then, that he had some reason him of the grilling to which Ashton for interest in those far-off South Sea must have subjected him this -morning islands."• •His eyes were sullen, his color un - "The girl!" I exclaimed. "The girl stable and his hands fidgety. I was in the hospital !—'id you mean that' half -inclined. to think there .might be she cornes from that part of the something in the theory Of Mallory, world? From one of those islands in the detective, after all. the South Seas" • Fvidently Doctor McAlister had no ? "The mark on her arm is enough to share in this idea, for he lost interest prove that," he answered. '• in the young man the moment he was He paused there, but I knew that satisfied his identification of him had was not all. been correct., When the train stopperd "That queer mumbled song of at Oak Ridge and we followed William hers?" 1 hazarded, • Harvey out of the car, the doctor He took .nother turn across the not cast a single glance after his re- treating figure, By rare good` fortune we found an• auto pulled 'up beside thestation plat- form waiting for the train, a flapping dilapidated, mud -stained, ramshackle affair, witha driver to match. • After 'a onoment or tato of cam y bargaining on the doctor's part. we found ourselves jolting along over a frozen, rutty road toward our destina- tion, "There's tile house," said the driver at last. "But you're pretty late or the funeral, if that's what you've come for It must be a.bovt over by this time." Neither of a had thought of the funeral, and the sight e.f a hearse and a single car, waiting there in the wind- swept road, gave us, with cur errand, a rather disagreeable sense of incon- gruity. That foeling was heightened when, leavang our bags in the hall, we were shown by the undertaker into a large, dim front parlor. Here we Saw death in its inost „con- ventional form, A little group of peo- ple sitting in rows in Allele folding' chairs, .a minister reading .the service, a quartette from the village, choir ready to sing another :hymn when he should have Iltrue. When, at the cad, of th•eservice, the customary opportunity was 'offered lien a last look at the body- \which lay there hi ;its biaCk casket, =My \corn., panion rose and, nodding to Inc to fol low him, took his place in the little procession that was filing round the coffin: • I could not do it; that act, some'. how, • seemed to put the crowning touch upon ottr intrusion, • "Oh, I know how you felt about it," said my chief when the Service was over, the people gone and, we were left alone in the old house -a -alone, that is with the addition of Mallory, "I'ni glad I. haven't to go through it again, though I'm glad I did, even at some violence to what th» call ottr better irtstincts: I wouldn't have missed my look into ihat,,face for a good deal." "You didn't recognize" I cried. "Hu isn't anyone you knew, long ago, out there in New Zealand." "Not individually," said the doctor with a arnile at my sudden excitement at the sudden recession of those "bet:. ter instincts" of mine, "'Not individu- ally, though that I might have was well within the possibilities, But he belongs to a tyPe that 1.knew all too well, Did it ever °emir t you to won - there may be another viii concerned .the business?" "Exactly that," he answered. "I mean that judging from that girl's condition tonight, it may very well be that the real murderer of that old man, was no nearer to the house in Oak Ridge the night the 'murder was committed than we are now." • CHAPTER II The next day Doctor McAlister and I each packed a handbag.With enough 'to keep us goirig, kr,'.0,Vo or three ,d4ys,, and aboul'zioOn set:out for Oak Ridge. The weather had been fine and' rattier mild for November; but sho'rtly,afier our re Urn from the hos- pital the night before, •the wiled, had whipped, round to the .north.., By morning it hacl;dei.eloped into a lusty gale, which drbve ''the fine stinging rain and sleet slantwie, from a leaden sky: By the, tinge we Were ready to stat;t, the 'rain was already turning to snow. •rode in the half-filled smoking car, and har;dly exchangel a word, un til after we had pulled out from a tiny suburban station and, the..brake- man, opening the door amid a hail of , • cinders, had cried out: "Oak Ridge aext," Then Doctor McAlister, who sat facing me, leaned forward. "Qur friend Ashton has a consider- able power of vivid description," he said. "Unless I'm altogether mistalie'q the young inan who is'setthig- three seats behind. You, on the other side of the aisle, is 'the witness of avlidni :he told us yesterday. I felt tolerably stare of it when my eyes. first lighted on, him. He's going tb get off at Oak Ridge and I think that Settles tt One small•town e.oeld hardly benat anoth'et like hi' . • ,," 7777.77' -'71' ?'11. 1 '9', • 1' Thursday, Pecember rst, 192/, and spectacles are always regarded, as infallible indications of benevolent re- speeti,biiity? But there's a sear be- neath that gray beard that was not der why it is that full gray beards come by in peaceful occupation; and, even without it, the whole construe - tion pf the skull and jaiv, the facial 'angle, the shape of th& ears, all pro- claim. him a rough customer -41, sot', of man who might well have a past that he was vainly trying to escape from. No, upon the whole, I am glad that Ashton left us free to work out this problem without holding us re- r.ponsible to him for our results." Our conversation was interrupted here by the appea.rance.of MallorTat the doctor's elbow. It was rather amusing to watch his face as be reaxi, the note from Ashton that the Doctor handed him. It was easy to s.ec, from his suppressed smile of contemptuous amusement, that the district attorney had represented' us as 'a couple of harmless cranks who might safely be permitted to amuse themselves upon the scene of crime as they chose. (To be continued) . " Doctor McAlister straightened up suddenly, walked away three or four paces, then wheeled and cam,' back, Ashton and I watched him curiously. "You started to show me her arm," he said to. Doctor Reinhardt. "Is there a. mark there?" • All Diseases Treated With a nod, he pulled up the sleeve room before he answered that ques- Office adjoining residence next to Anglican Chuxch oti Centre Street. and showed us, high on the forearm a tion, "Yes, I understood it," he said' Sundays by appointment. queer little bit of tattooing in red and at last. "That song as yoti call it, Hours -9 a.m. to 8 p.m. blue. "I know something of tattooing" was an old Maori death chant." Osteopathy Electricity he said, "but that mark'and the way! Doctor McAlister .had resumed his Telephone 272. it's executed puzzle me as much as !thoughtful patrol of the room. • "Of her language does." ' course," he said half under his breath Doctor McAlister merely nodded. ',"it may be a coincidence, just that and He had. understood, the language; I I nothing more" would almost have taken my oath to "No," said I, "No, I can't believe that, frorn the expression his face that. There must be some stronger, wore as he bent over her, listening.- connection than mere chnace; between I wondered if he understood the mark the murdered body of that man in the too. •;house out at Oak Ridge and the death "You say you've been trying to ' chant of that girl at whose bedside we wake her, and haven's succeeded?" I stood tonight. It must be more than "Yes, and I confess I'm puzzled, be- ciance." cause there's nothing trancelike a- But my chief turned upon me sharp - bout her pulse oa her respiration." I ly. "Don't make the mistake of think - Doctor McAlister made an examina- ! ing that," he said. "There is no tion on his own account, but it was greater source of error in the world very swift, and I should have called , than the belief that unlikely things it perfunctory, yet it was clear enough • can't happen. They happen every day, that this queer patient had, only a 1 coincidences against which the charm - moment before, excited his keenest es are a thousand to one. Still," he interest. But h'e did one thing which paused in his stride and plowed his I think must have surprised Doctor hands through his thick gray hair— Reinhardt as much as it did Ashton i "still, to put it • conservatively, it's and me. He turned back the bcd vastly more likely than not that there clothes and examined, rather minute--; is a connection; that this girl has ly the girl's feet. 1 some place in that unknown past of "Well, I'm much obliged to you for his, which he thought he had, sponged bringing me out for a look at her," he ,out so completely," said, tcd, to Doctor Reinhardt, as he Wed,99. said I, "if she was any place straightcncd up and prepared to leave , at all, isn't it altogether likely that th'e ward. "She's been that way, you ' she is the person who committed the say, ever since 'she was brought in?" !murder? And if that's so—well, what "Yes," are we going to do about it? Tell "Site's in a hynotic or subjective Ashton?" condition of, some sort. I'd be very glad if you'd keep me inforrned, over the 'phone, concerning her condition. If there's any radical change, I'd like to tome out and see her again. "If you don't mind rny suggesting It sure we understand if. And 1 mean I believe it would be a good thing to by that," he went on, looking at me take her ant of the ward and put her fixedly, "I mean a good deal more in a private room where she could be than merely proving she was the wo- under constant supervision. If she man whom Will Harvey swore he saw says anything, in any intelligible lan- in silhouette upon the shade; until guage, it might be well to irtake 4 note we've proved More than that it 'was of it." her hands that pulled teat ttle catgut With that and a brief nod of good !string around the old man's neck." niglit, he strode away, and Ashton,and 1 "What more than that," I asked utt- I followed, him, he looking dOrnpletely steadily, "can you hope to prove, or mystified, and 1 feeling scarcely less want to prove?" so, We drove back to The Meredith I "This," lie said, stopping before me A. R. &.F. E. DUVAL Licensed Drugless Practitioners, Chiropractic and Electro Therapy. 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