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The Wingham Advance Times, 1928-01-19, Page 6e iiugton iViatual Fire Insurance fce Co. Established x840 Head Office, Guelph, Ont.. Rinks taken on all classes of Instr. rce at reasonable rates. BNER COSEMS, Agent, Wingham J. W. DD Office in Chisholm Bioek FIRE, LIRE, ACCIDENT AND HEALTH INSURANCE /acuity --- ---- AND REAL ESTATE P. 0. Box 36o Phone eeo :'INGHA;M, .. - ONTARIO J. W. RUSHFIEL Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc, Moueyr to Loam Office -Meyer Block, Wingham Successor to Dudley Holmes R. VANSTONE !BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. Money to Loan at Lowest Rates Wingham.. - Ontario J. A, MORTON BARRISTER, ETC. Wingham, - Ontario DR. G. H. ROSS Graduate Royal College of Dental Surgeons t Graduate University of Toronto Faculty of Dentistry Office over H. E. Isard's Store., p COLBORNE,H. W. M.D. Physician and Surgeon 1h Medical Representative D. S. C. IL 'a Phone 54 Wingham al Successor to Dr. W. R. Ham* Pa DR. ROBT. C. REDMOND al M.R.C.S. (Eng.) L.R.C.P.. (Jamul) de PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON th Dr. Chisholm's old stand., ho D.R. R.L STE ''A T m sl Graduate of University of Toronto, . of Medicine; Licentiate of the eta ®atavic College of Physicians and sura N "I suppose," said. Ashton rather sar a .tr all c "that at you won't mind my tskiug permission to contribute a few - before. And yet, she was not pre- cisely, Jane Perkins either, not the storlgy, thick-witted- housemaid, who bad giggled with such unalloyed de- light as she fished for the doctor's knife in the vase of water. The girt who stood there looking at us had thoughtful, troubled eyes. Something —an elusive memory, a nameless emo- tion, a vague, fluid thing that would not crystallize was perplexing her. She was .trying to think, which is. om s etlting I am willing to wager that. Jane Perkins had never done in her life, Naturally, the first person I looked at when I withdrew my eyes from her. was Ashton. He was looking straight into her face, and it was the same face, in a purely physical way, that he had seen the :night he went. to the hospital with us. It was not until I saw the Iodic of blank indifference de- picted, upon his own that the reliza- tion was forced upon me that he would not recognize her any better than I had donee. From him my gaze round to the doctor, and on the way it took in Wilkins, Both of them were watching her, both, I guessed from their faces, had noted the same indefinable indifference that had struck me. It was the doctor who spoke. lnestions of my own to that examine - :on.., "Not at all," said. the doctor ,quite imply, "You may ask her anything Jou like." There was a little silence. Then Ashton said impatiently. "Well, what are you waiting for?" "'I'm expecting another visitor. ``hen I heard your knock, I thought hat you were he. It's none other than our friend Wilkins." Ashton laughed. "Wilkins!" he re- Bated. "What do you want of hint?" The doctor glanced at his watch. "I fancy- that he's coming now, Thy, Wilkins knows this girl, who is stupid creature and rather easily armed She'd be almost sure to be nit-sticken at the sight of these in- ruments. All ignorant persons are e same way." He paused and shot a risi e smile at Ashton. "They put em in the'category of black -art. and cus-pocus, and regard them with a fixture of contempt and terror. But e has confidence in Wilkins, and by s submitting to be harnessed in the e way we propose to harness her, which lie has agreed, to do, it will quiet Office in Chishobn Block whatever fears she may have" Josephine Street ph one zp' Ashton looked dubious. Already Dr. Margaret C. Calder WYWTilkins had tapped an the door. General practitioner"Stop a bit, Phel s" said p s d .any chief Graduate University of Toronto as I started toward the door. "Look here, Ashton! Use a little plain c mon sense for a minute. You . half believe yourself that this girl any guilty connection with the c. Faculty of Medicine °Ince—Josephine St, two doors south of Brunswick Hotel. Telephones: Office 281., Resideitee figs DR. G. W. • HO 1TSON 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 appointnie. Hours --g a.m. to 8 p.m. Osteopathy Electricity Telephone 272. A. R. �Z 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 Store, Main 'St HOURS: 2-5, 7-8.30 p.m., and by appointment Out of town, and night calls re-. *Deeded to. All business confidential. Phones: Office 30o; Residence 6or-rs. J. ALVIN FOX DRUGLESS PRACTITIONER CHIROPRACTIC AND DRUGLESS PRACTICE ELECTRO -THERAPY Phone tor. Hours:' 10-T21 aan., 2-5, 7-8 p.m., or by appointment. D. H. McINNES CHIROPRACTOR ELECTRICITY Adiiustments given for diseases of all kinds; specialise in dealing with children. Lady attendant. Night calls responded to. Office on Scott St., Wingham, Ont. Phone iso • GEORGE A. SIDDALL'. --�—Broker---- ;Phone 73. Lucknow, Ontario Money to lend on first and second mortgages on farm and 'other real es- tate properties at a reasonable rate of interest, also on first Chattel mort- gages on stock and;on personal` notes. A few farinas oar hand for sale or to relit on easy terms: THOMAS FELLS AUCTIONEER ;. REAL ESTATE SOLD A thorough knowledge of Farm. Stock Phone 23Z Wingham BO CE PLUIV/11INCI AND HEATING Phone 58 Night Phone 88 {0rtltr0l,"atl11111/9101YigtYr,l„orrrr„Irl!„ r1Yorill)11Qolt,1/rnirr•. Photaes: 'Office xo6, Il.esid, /s I A. ;L WALKER, RNITURE DEALER.: "-'' tDIRV,t Tt R Equiptrtent TING 1�AM ON'TAR'IO i0.01,L'k9”/tilAlYl Hitiett111r,Yfoi laitolltrikarM fi,ilY1”„YYlrt Which way will you find out most? By making this girl fee/ the.re's nothing to be afraid of; we're simply investigating, and accusing her at all? Or lay put her through an old, -�lsioaae'd 'third -d gree?” "All right," said Ashton; ""haw your own way, only I'Ii have ma- t omorrow." "There" won't be any need of t said any chief. "The. Oak Ridge tern- is going to be solve tonight in this room: solved down to the'1 detail. Open the door, Phelps," I imagine that Ashton himself not more surprised by the docto prophecy than I was. To be sure had penetrated further into them. ttry than Ashton had. I bad spar Perkins' strange other sA:if; I kn t IU lave i I n p 0 0 $ ti in I ni to he to I be ex th h ra ng 10 Ye ca UC n "Perkins," he said, "here is Mr. Ashton. He is one of the assistants to the district attorney, and he and I an r. helps here are interested in om- trying .to find out something about don't the murder which took place at Oak has Ridge a few nights ago," rime. "Murders" she cried with a gasp. the "I' don't know nothing about any that m;urderr, sir." that "No," said the doctor, ""I'm quite not sure you don't. But we think it pos- ting i sible that you know soave things e which will help us to find out who the murderer is. Are you: willing to _e it help us?" waY 1 She hesitated a moment, then turn- ed quite frankly to Wilkins. stat," "Is it all right, Mr. Wilkins?" she mYs- asked. Then quickly turned back to and the doctor. "I beg your pawdon ,sir, asz for askin' such n.question but 1 know Mr.Wilkins, and if he says it's' all seas right s. -'s "It's ail right, Jane," he assured her I "I came up here a purpose so that Ys- there'd be nothing for you ° to worry ed about." ery "All right sir," she said, turning en more to Doctor McAlister. "I'11 glad to tell you anything I know. m sure though I don't see how what now can help much, unless—" She owned and rubbed the back of one nd across her forehead. "Unless what?" "Noth}n' sir,. I seem to be thinki.n' hat the mysterious, savage creature in 0 infilling an oath, which to her must be ave possessed a religious ;sanctity, I !tad committed what our more civil- k zed society called a` crime. And yet fr felt sure that Doctor Mc'tsiste' hau leant more than that when he:had romised Ashton the whole solution f the mystery; The heart, the essence f the mystery was still unsealed. By ome process of reasoning, or intui- on, which I had -not followed, my. hief: held that secret, still unsolved, the hollow of his hand, and he iteant to reveal. it to us before the ght was out. I opened the door and told Wilkins come in, I had an impression that started a little at the sight of Ash - n; and I didn't at all wonder since remembered the tacit understanding tween ourselves and hire, that this amination of the girt was to be for e purpose of shielding her against e district attorney, rather than of be dying her to him. But I had very little leisure for re- cting on Wilkins' fears or .lnisgiv- s, because almost before I had sed the door behind him, I heard doctor call out, "Perkins," Well as I understood his expert- nts, and confident as I was in the cess of therm, I found it hard to go breathing steadily while Iwaited the response to the call that was conte from the inner room: Would e Jane Perkins in her own ,proper rson who would appear in the door in answer to the call, or wound. occupant of her body prove to be other, wilder .soul? ken site answered, "Conning sir"'ewin a doep broth of'relief, for as the voice of the girl who used abused English as her another- gue, The next moment she was in doorway. She was not t anettna, the girl who, with green, blazing , had. fltteg :that defiant chsllcttge t at the dotter only a few atafmites for to 7F b n way the ttat ItW itw and ton the riot eyes bati 520 Don't neglect achest colds .Apply a hoarnemade mus. lard plaster to your Chest the moment you notice the cold. This is the remedy• which, doctors recommend d as tittick and sure tend there is probably a tin of Keel's Mustard in your pantry, To Make a Plaster mix two tablespoonfuls of the dry mustard with six of Linseed meal or flour into a paste withgold water, spread .on brOtarri paper and cover with muslin. IAS ADVA.IVCE-TI ES of all sorts of .curious things, as if irly. mints was tryin' to wander The doctor laughed, "We're all that way sometimes," he said, "Sit flown in this big chair," She obeyed, a ,little reluctantly. Whether it was a half -memory of it that troubled her, or merely the in- stinctive hesitation of one of .her class to make herself comfortable in our presence, I did not know. The doctor busied himself with his instruments. The girl watched him. rather nervously, "I beg pawdon, sir," she said. "Are you goin' to do anything with those? I don't exactly like the looks of 'errs, `sir; all those queer lookin' machines Is' it anything like gain' to the dent- ists?" "Nothing in the world," laughed the doctor. "These .machines don't hurt, Here, Wilkins, sit clown in this chair beside her, and we'll harness you up, too," He hung before the girl one of the pair of little telephones that we had used in our association test one Harvey: Then he turned his attention to Wilkins, who had, 'seated himself readily: enough in the chair the doctor had designated. "That's a very impressive looking achine, sir," the man cornmenetd. May I ask what name it's called by?" "It's name is just as impressive' as is," replied the doctor. "It is called recording phonopneuinosphygmo- raph. Up to that moment Ashton had kept rfectly quiet, but. at the sound of at portentous word he burst into a ar of laughter, which Wilkins' de- rously and respectfully echoed. I ghed frankly myself. "What the rpose of the :instrument might. be, had no idea, but the prodigious me which the doctor assigned to it uck 'e as nothing more than a ht of his rather grotesque fancy. 'Well, sir," said Wilkins, "it will ve to accomplish a good deal to live .to that name." hat my chief had, by no means, ex- sted his store of surprises, became dent when his examination of the began. There was nothing ychological about it. He questioned very much as Ashton would have e. His first questions were about the k; where she had bought it, and ether, so far as she knew, there e a good many others like it. The 's whole interest, as shown by her ies, appeared to be to perfect her tification of it. She admitted, re- antly, that hundreds of them had sold in the' city that fall; admit - that she herself had seen dozens the street, the counterpart of it ut and in color. But this particular k, she protested, she knew without ubt to be her ower. It was badly mpled and had been exposed . to weather, was hardly'fit to wear more, but, notwithstanding these , she knew that it was hers: as it in good condition the last you ware it?" looked as good as new.'" ' hen how can you be sure that the which was advertised as found, is ame one?" ell, she was sure, and she pro- d to demonstrate the,fact by a tude of details—some of her own g, and a patch on the'' lining t she could not mistake. ow 'dad you' come to lose the don't. know, sir." she answercd, t wish I did. I think one of the housemaids stole it, sir, or bor- it and didn't bring it back. 1 se they thought because I was wouldn't have any use for my I didn't know nothin' about it today, Then I looked for it and. s gone, So I begun askin' the girls about it, and at last one of said—she was a girl who had, notice and was readin' the want ns every day --she said there green cloak advertised found. svertt and got it. But I'd like to ld of the girl that borrowed it. ke her' take it and buy me a e, or I'd have the law on her" on had listened o this speech show of somewhat greater in - Evidently' it occurred, to' hint 1 inquiry as to whothe girl's ed of having taken it might ductive of results. She could e induced to tell all she knew he other employees in the ho - much was clear. But when, in - f following up this lead, Doe_ cAlister cha,ngcd the subject. a Aahton dropped back in his with: a little gesture of inipa- yse:. if, the doetor's course Pea- profoundly. e - profoundly. That 'a11 this ex - n was a mere pretense, was, e, obvious to rne, We knew all ane Perkins, infinitely morecr than she knew about her- e knew she had worn the new that she, or the woman, who had for a while inhab- body,. had actually nuirctere, gun. Aad if the object of the Were to keep Ashton amused „ it a g pe th ro co lau nu I na str flig ha up hau evi girl Ps. her don cloa whe girl repi idea luct been ted on in c cloa a do ru the any facts „W time "It -1 one thes 'd cede multi eewin *hick cloak "I "1 jus other rowed suppo sick I cloak. until it wa other then! given colum was a So I get ho I'd ma new on Asht with a terest, that 01 suspect be pro easily b about t tel, So Stead o tor M bruptly, chair tierce, ;[+or in elect me aminatio Of cOttr$ about . abatlt h self, 'V'V cloak; it rather, ited her old Mor pmtertse to rtzake hire believe that it was .lead- ing stint to a possible solation of the mystery, then it had signally failed Ashton was borers, and rather jis- ;usttwl, But it was slot like my chiYe1' to fail, and certainIy tlitre was no loos, of tiefeat about his face. Ile rs t5 c 1 complislting something, 1 felt si though I could not Oven g ue< that something was. His next question seemed to nut: c.. be getting semew tat nearer the point although it was the very one that made: Ashton drop back in his chair with that gesture of ;impatience. "Are your parents living, Jane.” "No sir, Neither of them." "Have you lived in this country long?" "Five or six years, sir," "You're from New Zealand, or Aus trdl1a, aren't you? T aUr e Eng- lish?" - F g lish?" That question made Ashton sit up at any rate, that anal, the girl's' answer to it. "Wellington, New Zealand,' sir. But how did you know?" The answer had come instantly, but the nekt moment, with eyes perplexed and with a vague gesture of her hands across them, she said: "It's queer. It semis as if I had dneanned of talking to you about that" "You knew, didn't you, Jane, that this Morgan who was murdered was a New Zealander? Oh, New Zealand has produced some great men. You're young, and I suppose you don't re- member, perhaps leave never heard of Bully Franklin and Josiah Haines. Old Morgan knew about them, though I'll wager." He stood for a minute in silence, like one who tastes, in reminiscence, the flavor of an old story. Then he pulled himself together and began asking the girl a series of rapid and, to me, rather meaningless ques- tions. They were chiefly about Will Harvey, her acquaintance with hinx, how long ago it had begun, and, in a general way, to what length of in- timacy it had gone The girl answer- ed all these questions freely enough and with no appearance of hesitation. "You knew he lived at Oak Ridge, didn't you," the doctor asked finally. "only two or three: blocks from the house where Morgan was murdered?" "You don't think. he had anythin' to do with the murder, do you?" she asked. And then she laughed a little. "He wouldn't do nothin' of that kind, sir. He's just a silly." "I'm inclined to think Perkins," the doctor commented, "that that's a good diagnosis. I don't believe Will Har- vey, even if he showed us revery thought within that rather empty head of his, would ever take its very hut'sday, January ztth, t9e At one time people could get oltilY b¢aIB tea --tea r• posed to air—flat flavour—Then came" ALA° A" ----sealed In ltli'potl;i l •---f Cl-C!n9i&>au red fre spm--degicl. oil,lis•—.chaSt-free— 0W people ase,,, A,A( A""..f esu grads -75e to $1.05 i;Y ee• i iN close to old Henry Morgan with hhis room. snaps and his nmystreries," i (Continued next week He turned' awaythere rather sharp- ly, ) 1 his back to all of us; tossed his ONE MILLION READERS head :back once or twice, with a ges- ture very familiar to me as charac` Canada' has one institution at least teristic of his periods of intense that compares favorably with an - y thought. Then turning back, he spoke's thing of the kind the world over. It is to Ashton, that great weeks paper T „ "that :. y" he Family D}d we tell you, he asked aHerald and Weekly Star of Montr }' yea Phelps and I have discovered - one with its 72 big pages each week of trap which you detectives had evi- the very choicest material and all for dently overlooked, an odd sort of map, one dollar a year, It is marvellous from -a geographer's point of view, how its editors fill its pages with such drawn On a very large scale? And the interesting and valuable n wsstork SY , les, queer thing about it was that it farm news, and hundreds of other showed neither latitude nor longitude features that please and delight il g its There was nothing about it to ind.i- great army of :senders, every week. tate what part of the world it repre- There are thousands of'thomes in sented. I brought it away with me Canada where thatgreat this morning, I'll 1paper has g stow itto you pre- been a regular visitor from generation sently if you care to look at it. It's to generation. The Family Herald there on the table in that big manilla has been money maker and a mo e ya envelope." saver to its readers andsonY „e dollar in. I beg your pardon, sir"— it was vested in a year's, subscription is the Wilkins who spoke—"I wonder if you best investment any family can make. could spare me now, sir. I'm supposed It is said to have' one million rleaders to, be'in the dining room at this hour" in the Dominion. The capacity of a trained servitor like Wilkins for eliminating himself, WE TAKE THE RISK transforming himself into a mere piece1 Un ess Mrs. Sybilia Spahrs Tonsil - of furniture, is somethingextraordin-itis is a success treating your Sore ary. He had sat through the whole throats, Cough, Croup, Whooping examination with a countenance of the cough, Head colds, Catarrh and Dis. same wooden imperturbability that he : eased Tonsils. Try it. C. H. McAvoy always wore on duty in the dining i Wingham: J. R. Allan Wroxeter. 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