The Wingham Advance Times, 1927-12-08, Page 6ur
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Established 1840
ead Office„ Guelph, Ont
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J. W. DODD
Office in Chisholm Block
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WINGHAM, - - ONTARIO
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Graduate Royal College of Dental
Surgeons
Graduate University of Toronto
Faculty of Dentistry
Office over H. E. Isard's Store.
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Physician and Surgeon
Medical Representative D. S. C. R.
Perone 54
Wingham
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Dr. Chisholm'"s old stand,
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Graduate of University of Toronto,
Faculty of Medicine; Licentiate of the
Ontario College of Physicians and
Surgeonse,
Office in Chisholm Block
Josephine Street. Phone eg.
Dr. Margaret C. Calder
General Practitioner
Graduate University of Toronto
Faculty of Medicine
Office --Josephine St., two doors south
of Brunswick Hotel. ..
'.Telephones: Office 281, Residence e5e
DR. G. W. HOWSON
DENTIST
Office over John Galbraith's Store
l ij
b Yorke DaviA
Cooyr�8/aa", /926.
"Allright,' he said; folding tip the
note and thrusting it into his pocket,
"Make yourselves at home. Do you
plan to spend the night here?„
"Two or three nights, perhaps," said
the doctor. "We want to do a little
looking about.'
"Well," said Mallory, with jocular
sarcasm, "if you find the secret of
the old man's past, or meet up with
that mysterious woman that one of
the witnesses testified about at the in-
quest, why, let me know."
spend the night here
"You inean to h
yourself, don't you?" I asked.
"Well, part of it,•. perhaps, I've got
some looking about to do. But you
needn't mind me. ;I've got a key and
can let myself in at any time."
An hour later, after a bountiful but
vilely cooked meal at •a little restaur-
ant near the railway station, we re-
turned to the house and began our in-
vestigation in earnest.
Tete first room, of course, to attract
our attention was the room where the
murder took .place, the study on the
third floa`r. 'Across one end of the
room ran a rude set of homemade.
Whirl. Servi
pugnance forgotten, I took it in hand.
ns of one knot, the string: eon -
I
Instead
tained two, one near each end, the oth-
er about fifteen inches away. They
were tied, just alike, and were knots
of the fi 'ed loop veifiety, very like a
bowline:
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"Do you know what this is?' he
asked, For a wonder 1 did, and he
did not. That was a situation' which
arose but rarely. •
"It's a" patogr'aplr," said. I. "It's
used for copying on an enlarged or
reduced scale. You can set the scale
to anything you like,"
"That's what it "means, then," said,
the doctor, turning away from the
table, with a nod of satisfaction. "i -Ie
spread his maps • out here, and when
they weren't on a large enough scale
to suit hint, he drew them up bigger,
and then tore thein. up, No, that,
won't 'do. There's some intervening
process. He needed those Charts on a
larger scale than he could get, and he
enlarged thein until they seited.that
unknown purpose of his. But of that
purpose itself, we've found no trace:
W'eMay never find a trace, but: if he's
left a' clew to it anywhere, I think we.
may hope to finda'it.'
"There mtist have been some stand-
ard, some test that he tried those
coast lines hy. When they did not fit
it, he destroyed theta. That test or
"If there were only a knot at the standard may have existed solely in
end," said the doctor,"the rest of the his memory. If not, if it was a thin';.
S d
stringcould havebeendrawn through committed to paper, then we can find
it to form a noose; but, , of course, it, Whatever , it was, he must have
with this second knot of equal size' been in the habit of referring to it
that becomes impossible ,The iaait. constantly. In that case, I have no
was strangled, not by a noose at all, tdoubt that it's•somew*here in this room
but' by a tourniquet—a little stick -a Take the lamp and, hold it at the other
lead pencil perhaps—gun through the end of the bookshelves—so. Now
two P
loo p s and twisted' ' raise it so that the light will fall hor-
"Look
hexes"; he cried the next mo- izontally along the top shelf."
"". er's He had stationed himself at the op -
the'
with risingexcitement. ‘414.re's ment,
the' rrest of the instrument." posite end, from where I stood, and he
He held out for my inspection a sighted along the projecting edge of
long straight -stemmed briar pipe, and the shelf as I raised the lamp to the
I was able to see, just at the base of height he indicated.
the bowl, a shiny, circular indenta- "Try the next, one," he said. "—so.
tion.
The ghastly clearness of the And now the next, There; that'll do,
demonstration tration of the murderer's meth- We've got it, if I'm not mistaken,"
cd
r sickened me a little, and I dropped He walked over toward my end of
thepiperather quickly, the• case and pulled, a book out of the
,�
My'. chief was pacing up and down third shelf.
"Our thanks are due to the old wo-
man for not being too good a house-
keeper," he observed , in comment.
"The dust on those books is evidence,.
enough that.'he was not in the habit
of reading them. But this one shows'a
clear track in and out of the shelf.
'There's nobetter hiding place for a
sheet of paper than a book."-'
He balanced the book carefully in
both hands, and then let it open yihere
it would,
"Well, he said, .'I think we've
found it". for there between the two
Yellow pages was a bluish sheet of
semi -transparent paper, , folded.
He laid, down the look' and opened
up the paper. It was a map, too, and
as I' looked at it closely, I saw that
never did. With them .it was always
this." He caught up the string as he ! It was1't. was a,�ecute a hoop of on a averyyvnpax ary r1o necked
.
spoke, and, jerked it taut in both'peninsula. The soundings in the sea,
hands, "It's the instrument of ci re- # all about it were indicated frequently
mania murder. They usedto sen" Over widows out of the world this way,
occupied, perhaps, by two or the room, talking to himself. "I never
three hundred nondescript volumes. A believed in that noose—not really bei
rvery large, much -littered desk stood sieved in it."
'in the middle of the larger part of the "You are undoubtedly right about
1 room, while in the alcove was a high it,"
said 1 "but is the "discovery, im-
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real table of the sort used by draughts portant? Does it make any real dif
Hien. A stool stood before it, and a; fererice?"
swivel chair in front of the desk. "That depends on the,Point of view
In one of the numerous corners of said he. "To the late Henry Morgan,
the roam was an immense hamper,
I suppose it made no difference at all.
itk all the
To an ethnologist, make
pose of a waste -paper basket. The de- ff
which seemed to have'served the pur- h
d evidently examined the di erence in the world. The Cau-
tectrt.a na era en F, e a me
contents of it in their search for a
casian uses the noose. With him it
clue to the murdered man's identity; of murder and'of suicide.from true
'but had not thought the contents
,worth preserving. There was a litter
immemorial. But there are other
of small scraps about it, and that was
has, been the instrument of execution,.
that ne er heard of it. The
races v
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Office adjoining residence next to ;
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;lay about the floor in great roils. The
^oee or two I looked at, after my pre=
liminary glance about the apartment,
were of recent date ?red . bora. tile.
A. R. & F. E. DUVAL stamp of the British board of trade.
for would relight the lamp,
But before 1 bad said throe words,
the donspeiling grip of his Inusettler
hand thrust me back into fay chair,
and my sentence, trailed of:f into a ort
of gash..
So, for 'a motaiellt, we sat bre ath-
lass,
"Somebody's getting in,".1' t'lx;,
pered presently, "It louse be Mal,,
deeailor�y has a key';" he retun.,..,
"Listen*"
No, that was not Mallory, It ,was
not anybody trying to get in, for
sonieone had : already succeeder]-
somebody who;was already making
his way,. with swift, almost incredibly
stealthy steps, up the stairs from, the
second floor to #Jpe room where we
were sitting.
We drew basic into an obscure cor-
ner and stood close together, lialf-
crouchieg' eyeing the door•. ,
Presently we saw it opening, And
then there 'emerged frorn.its shadow a
face we both knew -a' face neither of
us is ever likely to forget. The eyes.
in_ that face we had never ;seen be-
fore, for they bad been closed the last
time we looked at it. Now they were
about all we could see. The •'' black
hair lost itself in the shadow which
enveloped :the doorway, and the olive -
brown skin was itself a shadow. Bu.t.
the eyes—they burned with the flam-
ing green* intensity of a leoaprd's.•
The. doctor and I. shrank back into
our corner and waited, breathlessly,
to 'see what she would do. The first
thing was curious, and little to be ex-
pected. Sle closed behind her the door
by which she' had entered. Then,"with
b'tisk certainty, but with no noise at
all, she moved toward the desk. That.
brought her a little nearer to us.
She had got within arm's reach of
the swivel chair, when suddenly; like
aa'flash, all the motion;of her body
was arrested. Her' attitude had some-
thing, of. the frozen•e.lertness that one
sees in a setter dog • when he points
1 d 3 the surface' of the land itself,
' were various 'little numerals; which
til the British government put a stop 1 ,had their explanation in a legend in.
to that etiquette." the corner, One had only to read a
Then, and only then, did I, realize :little way down. this explanatory.col
Licensed Drugless Practitioners, ; I vas holding one of them out in he• importance of the discovery. ":\n'd umn to see with what minute care the
Chiropractic and Electro Therapy. my hands and poring over it, wonder- the girl at the hospital:" I questioned ;'map had been drawn; and on how
'Graduates of Canadian Chiropractic in•- rather idly what po$silrle interest "Would those two loops be familiar to ;large a scale. Such unimportant ob
College, Toronto, and National Col- this group C r tiny' tl could her?" J geographer's
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He nodded ,gravely ., 111 to 1 � uu t e � s a granite bow cr ora as
c poi -
e -i St. ry Morgan had lice, here in this'villagc this," said he, '"I'rn glad I'm under nu ; tree had their position indicated.
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t i tion from Doctor McAlister drew m I
Out of town and night calls re- 'Then' he di a characteristic thin'•. was clear:
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Spon e He put the thine; back in the drawer "It's a,' tracing, you see, Doctor
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I'l.' 'teas 1trei',ling cl'ise beside a big
green -shaded lami, .and bending o"c:r
si,:,nn•tlhinw *bleb he. bad just taken
. "
fr >iri the top rlr tr,. r of the desk, . I'
1,shi've:r"'cl a little. when I saw what it
was. violin
i"lt. ,..JF, .arra! on ,the doctor's face,
• 1:,' ttnYrn d, tow id hie, betrayed
til",1h .,lr,';itatiCrn PIA c .:eitrsoe:nl. "Tint
rCK4,t, rSti�'1i' r"f crime milt /sewsren the
basis that te'rlrr,,"tii'c' trw.ir.li s� :t•r a : .7'
fliii'it.? tri da,,; tinct a hart does tell_ the
11r•itth eldest; lit: me 11S t<a,lrc' The
1siete who ramie Up here aeon ieeund the
body of i'3eary 'Morgan, testified that
11i had been ,",tralittittl by a noose•,
f tiey lhosfebt it r, truer, becoruse
i strangulaticin by a' ,triose is the only
!kind they ever heard of. got look at
tlrt�r,''
He held it i,rtt;t Stier, arid, my recernett,:
where he had found it, closed the
drawer; straightened up, with a shrug
of his broad shoulders, and said, in
obviously good faith: "Colne, let's .be-
gin.'
Rather to my -surprise the doctor
made straight for t`he waste -paper bas-
ket, growled a little at the "fools” who
had emptied it, and patiently gathered
'teigether the few scraps that }were left,
some clinging to the interstices of the
basket, some littered' about the ilcsor
outside.
As I bent over to help 'him, he held
out an irregular bit of thick white
paper for my. inspection,, "He was a
queer geographer, sure enough," was
his comment. "He tore up his maps.
This is :part of one, 'There's a fact
which might well have struck previous.
investigators as curious, but apparent-
ly 'did not. If he tore thein, up, it was
because he was through with thein.
]And if he could get throughwith them.
so that he' cottld„be sure he wouldn't
]want them any more, it was because
they were meant to serve him some
'single, definite tpurpose. When they
lo'1r4o eerx"ed it, or had failed to serve
'it, then he destroyed, thein to get then)
eta of the' eat'. That's logical, isn't
its"
"Absolutely, set far cis I can see,"
Presently he carried another Scrap
over to the dtalighting, table, s'cruti-
nizcd its bare surface rather minutely
and then offered this second morsel of
]raper for my inspection.
"Well, that's one thing he did with
his maps.. He pinned, them down 00
this tableof his with thumb -tacks."
Ie pulled open a little drawer in
the table,' tock out first some .pencils
ieiders and compasses, and finally e
rectangular conttevanee risade of wood
015 reds, with flexible joints at the
ij
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McAlister ,observed. "'He's got the
original locked away somewhere; now'
But, do you notice, there's nothing on
the sheet, .anywhere, to indicate in
what part of the world this"bit of
land lies? ' There's no latitude -: er
longitude indicated. We'll. have to get
the, original to find that."
''At that, the explanation of the whole.
mystery of this wilderness 'of` maps•
flashed across my,mind. •
"No,"-cric•,1, "he hasn't got latitude
tli lingritude on the original eithe rl
He, never knew, go the day :of his
death', any better than we ]chow now,,
itato what sea • that iitttle peninsula
juts its ]read. That's what he spent the
Iast .three .year of his 'life btinti'tig
for'."
Doctor McAlister nodded gravely.
"Yotl ate quite,right,".. he' said;'"right
beyond a doubt. There's no knowing
what t1i rc 'is to b.e found on that bit
of headlan'd,\;but whatever it 'is, he
wanted it,liadlyr"
It was iiatur•a;l that we'should both
fall. silent 'just •then, natural too, that
ie our excitement over the discovery;
otir nerves were higher strung than
usual. It lied grown pretty' late.
'l•he re was tl •"seed, stillness within' the
]olsi. The :ouly sond, save the
tide.
ing of a'clock, that cam6 to our ears
,was the baeasidnal moan: of a gust of
wind through th.c -trees arid, ?rotted'
the corners -of the house. So it was
statural that ww bade started violently
wheel ti3Oast of wind blew open one i,;:
the windows, with a bang, and caused
ottr lernp'to flicker and liven go 01.11.
1 laughed nervously, and wiped iiry
f oreltead... with the back of ray hand:
It was wet. Then I rose, or eethely
sarted to rise, and Spoke at the seine
ti,nsa- 'bel art to speak, at erly tette.
"What I had in mind to say was, that
'1 'w.ould doss, the lwiticlow if the clarw,.
game, VTe could see her Saco better
naw; it was turilil:d squarely toward
J)ut; apparently, she did not see
ns., Tina was natural, for we were
deep in the shadow, But she knew we
W42,^„ then", . 1.114 ntlxl illornY„rlt,;ll)ei-
1,civtd thin she knew by virtue of the
,ame sense that 1110 setter uses. She
.ad caught Litt• scent Her heed ween
;Jack . little, "er nostrils dilated, and
•'Iso seemed to be drawing in a deep
brcatit,;
1. have no command of ]English to
rlescr•ibc the suddenness and unex
pcciedness of the thing that happened
then, She stood there before u5, as
I'have said, like axle; frozen, so still
was 'she. And then, with no prelim-
inary notion whatever, no crouch, iso
visible gathering tip of the forces for
aspring, she flashed across the room
toward, the open window; like a danc-
ing shadow. For just an instant I saw
her etclierl. in profile as she poised.
upon the sill. And then she was gone.
I had followed her to the window
as swiftly as my clumsy, human mo-
tions would permit, and looked down,
expecting to see her lying bruised and
broken on the frozen ground. Instead
of that, I saw the fleeting. shadow of
her moving swiftly across the snowy
lawn toward the gate.
A moment later, bare -headed, bare-
handed, was' running at top speed
down the rough, frozen caauntry, road
in the direction.I had seen her take,
"Before' I , had gone fifty yards, .I
heard, ot'her footsteps pounding along
behind me, anda momentary fear that
my old chief had been reckless enough
to risk his, bones in such a chase,
caused me to pause and turn back. It
was not Doctor McAlister, however,
but the detective, Mallory, and as he
panted up alongside of me, he said,
"I saw her coming down the rain
pipe ` .She ,might almost as . well have
fallen, she carne down sb fast, -.What
Was she like? I don't suppose you got
anything of• a look at her though.”
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a"No," I said ""Tie 'svin'd had just
blown cult the lamp, and we was
there e ra the dark when she eea
fe' lr
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"It 'doesn't matter," he said briefly,
as we plowed along, side by side. "I'll
know what she's, like well enough
when I come up with dreg; But there is
no use in your keeping up the chase.,
I'll get her alone, never fear. Nothing
that wears skirts can outrun inc."
1 was already half "inclined to take
his advice and turn back, for the pace
was beginning to tell on me, when I
tripped over something' and fell head-
long,,
By the time I had picked myself up
and shakensome of the loose snow
out of my sleeves, he was already a
hundred yards 'ahead down the road.
1 was about, spent, so, regretfully, T
turned back,
But for one moment I J,iaused:curi-
ously to investigate the cause;' of my
fall. It fiat] 'been somethingsoft,
something that gave a little'as illy foot
struck it, and then clung; It had been.
entirely covered by the snow, which
hrad fallen out here in jse country to a
depth of nearly six inchbs.
I scuffled around in it with my feet
until I found it. Then I stopped and
picked it up. It must be a shawl or a
blanket I -thought, as I shook the
snow out+' of its folds and held it out
in both hands. No, it was neither. It
was ,a cloak, a green cl-oak, and the
collar was cut high in- the back.
I cast a glance over my shoulder,
ldallory' was already out of sight in
the distance. I ^threw the cloak over,
my arm 'and trudged 'back to th
house. '
(Continued' next, week)
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