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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1927-12-22, Page 6aling;tQ1<uMutual Fire rte` Co. Established x840 I cad Office, Guelph, Ont. Risks:taken on all classes of insur- ce at,reasonable rates, SHIER COSEN'S ':Agent Wingham J. W. DODD Office in Chisholm Block FIRE, LTE}.} ACCIDENT ANIS HEALTH --- INS 'URANCE--�- AND REAL ESTATE P. 0, 13oK 36Q Phone 24o TINGHAM, - ONTARIO• J, W. BUS FIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money to Loan Office—Meyer Block, Wingham' Successor to Dudley Holmes R. VANSTONE BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. Money to Loan at Lowest Rates Winghain. Ontario J. A. MORTON BARRISTER, ETC. Wingham, - Ontario DR. G. H. ROSS Graduate Royal College of Dental Surgeons Graduate 'University of Toronto Faculty of Dentistry Office over H. E. Isard's Store. H. W. COLBORNE, M.D. Physician and Surgeon Medical Representative D. S. C. R. Phone 54 • Wingham Successor to Dr. W. R. Hambly DR. ROBT. C. REDMOND K.R.C,S. (Eng.) (Load.) PHYSICIAN AND• SURGEON Dr. Chisholm's old stand. DR. R. L. STEWART Gte raduate of University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine; Licentiate of the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons. Office in Chisholm Block Josephine Street. Phone ag. Dr. Margaret C. Calder General. Practitioner , Graduate University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine Office—Josephine St., two doors south of Brunswick Hotel. Telephones: Office 28x Residence xgx P , DR. G. W. HOWSON DENTIST Office over John Galbraith's Store F. A. PARKER OSTEOPATH All Diseases Treated Office adjoining residence next to Anglican Church on Centre Street. Sundays by appointment. Fours—g a.m. to :8 p.m. Osteopathy Electricity Telephone 272. A. R. & F. E. DUVAL Licensed Drugless Practitioners, Chiropractic. and Electro Therapy, Graduates of Canadian Chiropractic College, Toronto, and National Col- lege Chicago, Office opposite Hamilton's Jewelry Stare, Lean 'St. HOURS: 2-5, i--8.30 p.m., and by appointment. Out of town. and night calls re- sponded to. All business confidential. Phones: Office sea; Residence 6ox-x3. J. ALVIN FOX DRUGLESS PRACTITIONER CHIROPRACTIC AND DRUGLESS PRACTICE ELECTRO -THERAPY Phone lee. Hours: xo-is a.m., 2-5, 7-8 p.m., or by appointment. D. l-1. MCINNES CHIROPRACTOR ELECTRICITY Adjustments given for diseases of all kinds; . specialize in dealing with children, Lady attendant. Night calls tesl?onded to. Office on Scott St., Winghate, Out, GEORGE pq•�, gyPhone x�s+oq p� q y GEORGE A. SIDDALL -a—Broker-- Phone 73. Lucknow,, Ontario Money to lend on first and second mortgages on farm and other teal es- tate properties at a reasonable rate of interest, also on first Chattel mort- gage5 on stock and on personal notes. A few farms on hand for sale or to rent on easy terms. • • THOMAS FELLS. AUCTIONEER .-- REAL ESTATE' SOLD A thorough knowledge of Farm Stock Phone asz, xiJinx harp ,..a+...nrw.rsuat<c,r...k.v..w,re,.«. wv W. J. BOYCE PLUMBING AND HEATING Phone 58 Night Phone 88 •`,'A4,"rlel7irttere,el,",1lrrret","l11111111„t„I fltIf4}II”/Y}!I$ I'lI Phones: Office rob, Resid. 224 A. J. ' TALKER 'tIRNITURB DEALER and .w pU'Nr t DIBtii:C'POR Motor Ecltilpescrrt HAM -'ONTARIO ,proAe,irtrllee,rn rYeApreNrsri f MtlYPtln,pluryitetven:: .PAY"n,"Crte ri Davis.Cop yriehe, 1526. WINGHAIVM ,ADVANCE-` MES Three or four numbers .down the scared look in his eyes, but besides list. came another word, Map, which that, he was evidently extremely Might have drawn -a significant reply angry. The instantaneous association which- •- it brought up, however, was Europe. After that came a succession of words, straight inventories of articles to be found in various rooms in the Morgan house; but they all drew blank ' Never once was there a moment's hes- itation. So far, our test proved clearly and exhaustively, that, in his testimony at the inquest, our young man had meant to tell: the troth. , I'was re- minded of the doctor's words on the night of our return from; the `hospital.• when he had warned Ine, against fall- ing into the error of thinking that the unlikely could not happen. His old theory of associative illusion, which had been made to look so fan- tastically improbable by our discovery of the cloak, was practically proven true ire the very teeth of its improba bility by this test of ours. But who was the girl Harvey knew =tlie black -haired girl who wore a green cloak, with the collar cut high in the back? We were as far as ever from the answer to , that question. And, so fr as I could see none 'of his associates. with the successive words in my :list• brought out anything of .significance, \Apparently we were drawing blank ccerver. At the same time, I was .aware that .something or other had made my chief extremely thoughtful. The way he was opening and shutting his hands and staring out of the window, the perplexed frown which knitted his brows, Made it clear that there was only one link:lacking. in some chain of association of his own. At last as I glanced at him in the half second interval. between my word and Harvey's; I saw that he had got it; saw the sudden flare of excitement kindle in his eyes and his two clenched hands come down softly on the arms of his chair. The next moment the word'Dance in My list brought the unexpected as- sociation .Policeman from 'Harvey. At' that the doctor rose and inter ruptd the test. "I think, Phelps," he said, "that those negatives of yours Must be done. I'll go oe and read this other list to Mr. Harvey:" ' 'l'h,, errand be had proposed to me was purely fictitious and the . sheet of paper he held in his hand was blan.; so I interpreted his interruption as iii - tended, for the mere purpose of giving hint a chance to catechise Harvey along some new line Without causing; him to suspect • the reason for -ilio change. To give `calor to the excuse, -I left. the room for a few moments, but it will be easy to believe that I returned: as soon as I plausibly could. I found Doctor McAlister pronouncing a suc- cession of .words -rather attire rapidly than I had -read them from my list, and the young man's answers had, quickened, too, so that to the rear they were almost instantaneous. The w„rds were a list: -'of the features of the human face. Ears was the first one, I heard,: and its association instantly, Coral; probably a reference to ear- rings,• I thought. Eyes produced, the adjective Black, Lips, ludicrously enough, brought the involuntary ad- mission, Kiss. Amid at that our sub- Jett' went flaming . red. His perturba- tion was made perfectly evident the next Inotnent, 'when he waited four seconds after the word Hand, only to: produce the rhymed association, Band Nothing could have been clearer than that,,beinrg on his guard, against mak- lug another involuntary admission, he had rejected -whatever word bad come first, and consciously and laboriously thought up another. 'The next word Face, brought, as •I rather gdicker response, the adjective Nice. d t did, not occur to rite at the Byrne that this; was a rhymed associa- tion .also; that Somebody he knew pronounced it "lice." ' But that the doctor's ttii'Yid had jumped to this con•• elusion was made clear when for his heat' word, be hi/itself: gave out the word, , aigrish,: This got fan an.sw'er, but not the ltinid of answer we were expecting. Our ` witness) jumped to : his feet, knocking overwthe little telephone, be- fore hint, as tic -lid so, there was a L. "Now look here," he said, "what business is it of yours whether I go around with. Jane Perkins, or not? She's :a respectableirl she's a lady. g , J. ,What right have yougot sticking your noses into my affairs?" - For myself,'I was too much aston- ished by the,result of the doctor's ex- periment to say anything. For that matter, my chief 'Might as well have (been silent for any affect his words had in calming the subject of our test He wouldn't sit down. He wouldn't answer questions. He . was through with us. completely. This he made quite clear as .he struggled into his overcoat and clapped on his hat. . "Well," 'said 1 when we were left alone, "I 'don't mind admitting that I'm rather behind the procession. We've discovered Jane Perkins, :but who she is, or what :she is, I don't know. And I certainly can't see what gave you the clew that led you up to I her so directly." "Do you remember his association with the word Sign? It 'was Wood- land." "Yes," said, I. "It struck me as .cu- riouS.' "It struck me as rather `store than that," said the doctor, `•b,ecause I had. an, echo of the same association my- self, and I spent ten solid minutes trying to place it.:t suppose mydiffi- culty came froth the fact that it took • me so close to home.' ' "Wobdland avenue you mean?" :1. questione'l.>That ,was the street '1'hc Meredith' was on. "Closer than that," lie said, i1Do you•remernber our own corner and the street sign that marks it?• It was pulled around diagonally and bent iii 'to a most disreputable angle as a Hal lowe'en prank two weeks ago. So the association was a perfectly 'natural one to anyone who, during the past two weeks, has been in the' habit frequenting our part of the town. "But," Said I "how ,lid you infer the existence of Jane Perkins from that?" "Of course, that was only the start- ing point," he answere'd,. "His whole train of associationsmade it evident that he had been 'going around' as he said with somebody. The place in the social scale occupied by 'that . souse- body was pretty' well 'determined by the neighborhood of the street sign: It's quite the smartest part of town, for blocks and blocks all around there and it would be 'preposterous to as- sume that Will Harvey calls at the front door of any house thereabouts, The young ladies who use ,the fiofit doors of the imposing residences in our neighborhood don't go to the sort of dances that would call up the as- sociation 'policeman' in -any $'tinny man's mind. At any rate, it seemed a reasonable inference to nae that ;our ;;,'oang friend had been carrying on a harmless flirtation. with sonic house-- maid, This scene of this affair was so far ailvay from his -owe home, ;Jan Perkins was so utterly'. disassociated in his own mind from anything per-, taining to the Oak Ridge mystery, that his naive descriptionofthe'blacic bait; and the green cloal', of the wo- man whose silhouette he 4,4w 'Upon the shade becomes possible.' "Well," said I thoughtfully, after a little silence, "it's perfectly evident that we've clone Harvey a service, al- though he isn't grateful for it just now. We've cleaned hire, to out own satisfaction at least, We've found an English housemaid, named Jane Per- kins. She is, no doubt, the girl of whom the profile on the shade remind- ed him, The next thing to do is to look her up, discover; if 'possible, whether she happens to Possess a green cloak, with that particular kind of collar. It's likely enough, I sup- pose. There are probably hundreds of garments like that being worn in the city this season. In thedepartment stores they make what they call 'spe- cials' of 'those things, and sell them in "hundred lois, all exactly alike." The more I thought over the situ- ation, the 'deeper my perplexity grew. The test upon Harvey had utterly de- stroyed my hope that we could get from hint any clew to the identity of the strange, wild creature we had seen. in the hospital, Instead, it had led us to a trig, snug, undoubtedly re- spectable English housemaid named Jane Perkins; and leading us to her, it left us 'face to face with a coinci- dence, or rather, a series of coinci- dences almost incredible. , "Well," I resumed, with a sigh, "there are lots of young women with; black hair, and I suppose a good l many of them wear green cloaks, But that a girl should have a'profile like that of the extraordinary creature we saw in the hospital' and later in Mor- gan's study -a profile like that and the samecolored hair and the same sort of cloak, and still obviously a differ- ent person altogether, is 'rather dis- concerting. Ashton at least would' laugh at us if we told himwe believed it." doorjust then, and as it swung open, eve saw Ashton standing there, CHAPTER VI After our conversation with Ashton in the Morning, which bad, terminated with a practical declaration of war, on our part, upon him, his visitto our labratory ' took us rather by .cu' - prise, I think, perhaps that he io` n .- ed it that way, and that there have been lurking in the bottolu his mind the idea that by coining upon us in that unexpected way, lee might surprise some secret we were holding back from him. • "Well," he said clreeit£uliy in an- swer to our greeting, "I just met Har- vey coming away from here in Mello - GREEN CLOAK Galley Three .....: ,.. ry's convoy. I suppose with such an array of instruments as this," he wav- ed his hand to include pretty •much ' everything.:in the room, "you've suc- ceeded in getting the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth out of him. How about it? Is lie innocent or guilty? His mockery was perfectly goal -- natured, but the depth of his skep- ticism made' it possible for Doctor McAlister to be perfectly' frank with him. .. "He is innocent," said he, "He had no more connection with the Oak Ridge murder than you had." ' "He says so himself, I presume," ob- served Ashton. . "Exactly," replied the doctor. The telephone bell rang just then and I answered it. I heard a voice from somewhere inquiring if this was Doctor McAlister's labratory, and . on my answering in the affirmative, the voice asked if Mr. Ashton .had arrived yet. "He's here now," I said,. • want to talk withsi •him?" Then I turned away and called Ash- ton to the phone. As he started across 1 the room my chief spoke to him.. "I see an evening paper sticking out of your pocket," said he."Let me have a look, will you, while you are at the telephone?" Ashton handed it to him, then crossed the room and picked up the receiver. The doctor beckoned to me. For the moment he seemed very little con- cerned with the ' nws, ; for he turned the front pages rapidly until he came to the lost and found section in the ' classified •advertising. Once •there, his eye pounced like a hawk, ` upon the "Yes," said the doctor, "Ashton would laugh. He laughs rather too easily, that young man." Then, for the first time I looked long and searchingly into myold chief's face. His eyes were bright with Y g excitement, his cheeks flushed and his big, restless hands beating out a 'tri- umphant tattoo upon the table top. He did, not look like a man whose plans and -theories:; had gone awry. "There's something," I said curious- ly, "that don't see yet.' ' "You will soon," he assured me, "be fore another +daY is out, unless I'm mistaken. Have a little patience." There came a sharp knock at the • "Do you bony m itt 4 a,'Hrg ' fire rt;•r iaiteointetl it outnteclto me:islor "Found—A green cloak, Owner eaa have same by nideeittifyiug and paying' cost of th;ls ,insertion.'' "I wonder if that bait has brought any nibbles this.'ltfternoon," the doc- tor whispered. l,'hen, before I could reply, he grip - at: my arm tightly, and 'Iod'tteel to - Ashton. "A woman you say" [heard �him exclaim with:every 'appearance of excit'e,ment, of, she identify it?" "What sort of woman?, Anything un usual about her? " ( There was a little silence while he Ilistenecl for •the description. Then in •an incredulous tone we heard, him ei- claim: "An English housemaid. And she gave her name as Jane Perlrins! Did she identify 'the cloak •beyond a doubt?" "What address did she give?" (`What's that? ~ Three—seven-0 tWoallandi Why, you idiot, thats' my I own address! That's .the Meredith. I And youlet her walk .oft' with that cloak over her arm after she had given you that address! He waited for no answer, replaced 'the receiver on the hook, with a jerk, and whirled around upon us, his face red with anger. "Gentlemen, don't you think you have carried.: this joke a little too far?" he demanded. I. suppose the unwarranted accusa- tion 'fight have made me angry if I had had leisure to indulge in such an emotion. But allhnly other feelings were swallowed up in astonishment, That one additional detail supplied by Ashton's conversation over the tele- phone stretched, an already hardly credible coincidence to the breaking point. Jane Perkins not only had a green cloak with a high collar, but she had lost it; and 'seeing it adver- tised as found, had promptly gone and identified it, and had gone away with it over her arm, But the address -- well, I' admitted to inyself,' that re- duced the whole thing to a farce. For a moment all my belief in Doc- tor McAlister's theory, in the validity of -the test we had performed, upon Harvey, in every scientific law I had felt sures of ten minutes, ago, tot- tere'd, on its foundation. Sonie one Thursday Deet tuber Pend, spa somewhere in placid security from our sespicinns, and from the possibility of our' detectioe was .ldinecting_ this ghastly farce' and was permitting hint- self amself to laugh at us. That girl in the liospftal had been shamming; Harvey, had been sl,m ming; )'ane Perkins,. who had identifled the cloak, was,: perhaps, a myth altogether, 1 coupe.' . imagine whoever' played the part,. laughing, ' aeshe walked away with. that cloak over her arm, and Picturing' the ,effect upon: us all when we should learn the address she had given, lint to the district attorney the situ- ation had a very different look,• He had no doubt at all—and on second.: thought.I coeld not blanale hint -that we onrselves were the centre of . a plot to make him look ridiculous. I got the shock of another surprise when I turned to- look at Doctor Mc-, Alisler, Instead of the indignant re- buke which I expected him tie, mete oat to the young man who had just se- en sed, hint, he spoke very quietly and: with a mocking twinkle in his eye. 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