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W INGHAM ADVANC-TIMiV$
Wellington Mutual Fire
Insurance Co.
Head. Office, Guelph, Ont.
letabliched 1840
Risks taken on all class a:rf insur-
ance at reasonable rates.
ABNER COSENS, Agent, Wingham d
Office in Chisholm Block
FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT AND
HEAJeTH INSURANCE
AND REAL ESTATE
P. O. Box HO Phone 240
WINGHAM, ONTARIO
J. W. ]3USIFIELD
Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc.
Money to Loan
'Office—Meyer, Block, Wingharn
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. C. H. ROSS
DENTIST
Office Over Isard's Store
14. W. COLBORNE, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon
Medical Representative D. S. C. R.
Successor to Dr. W. R. Hambly
Phone 54 Wingharn
C reetteher teee eyl
The dOB S-reeekR lt. Co,
SYNOPSIS
Chapter L—On the verge of nerv-
ous collapse, due to overwork, Gay
Delane, successful New York artist,
seeks rest at Idle Island, She rents
a cottage, the "Lone Pine" from an
island character, the "Captain," and venture and love, Oh, what luck],"
his sister, Alice Andover, "administra- All day Rani] worked about the
tor. ! house perfecting his arrangements to
e.u.seevtcc.
statically, "at my age! To think of
living on sir sordidly, so sanely, so un -
excitingly, for so many years! And
then, when I ane almost an old wo-
man, and very sensible, to come to
a good little lazy island like this, and
stumble head -first •into mystery, ad -
only came for that—"
"1 didn't come for that. Let me be
honest. I cavae eniy to see you. As
a matter of feet, I came over this
afternoon hoping you would give me
tea and be nice to me, but I saw the
Cavalier i;hap hanging around, and
knew you would hold nae dearer in my
absence."
Ile talked pleasantly, smoking, told
her of his plans for the forest penin-
sula, complaining of the high prices
of labor ;and miterial.
"I feel like the Landingof the Pil-
grims, bare rock on every hand. It's
really a hard undertaking, too big for
nae, I arra afraid, for I haven't much
money. What does your Cavalier
chap do in the winter, Thereseems
to be •nothing going on, shops. closed,.
hotels closed, theaters' locked up—"
"Yes, everything is dead, and the
Cavalier, being addicted -to medita-
tion, is glad of it. He rests. He 'hi-
bernates."
"I'm sorry he chose the Lone Pine
for his hibernating this afternoon, He
cheated ale out of a pleasant hour.
Does he think best in the top of your
pine tree? 1 saw him perching there
as if he were quite at honee."
Gay laughed merrily. "No, indeed.
He was putting up an aerial. He is
building me a radio. No, he does not
hibernate in my tree top, and I wish
you had come in. You would quite
like him."
"No, 1 shouldn't like him.—Not surly
under any circumstances.—And I do
Chapter Il.—Gay* fields the cottage I insure her safety as well as he could,
is tenanted lay.an elderly lady, "Aunt-, and when he left at last, in the early
almiry," who consents gayly,
move to an -1 evening, he called back to her -. ,
other abode, the `Apple Tree." Awak- i in a loud voice:
ing from sleep, Gay imagines she sees i "Good -by. Gay. See you in the
the face of a Chinaman peering in the i morning! Eleven o'clockt"
window, but on reflection ascribes the i Gay' had expected him to come a- not enjoy other people's cooing; it
vision to invagination. She settles i gain in the evening, and wore* have riles me:'
!down in her new home, anticipating called inquiry, initation, after hien,.
months of well-earned rest and recti- i but he was gone.
d i;n ca
riess of liie wanderings, he was always
sharply•alert. for signs of life.
With powerful field -glasses he es -
ermined the cove from a distance, and
watched every day for a cloud of
smoke to tinge the blue above the :
woods, But all of his efforts wwerir
unavailing.
After the first few tingling, nerve.,
racked days, Gay excitement flagged,
her interest waned and all of her sue -
picions rested,
"Oh, it's just a bunch of ruin Fen -
tiers, if it's anybody at all," she as-
sured hire, half jealous of his immer-
sion in the mystery. "Pay attention
to nee• It's none of our business.—
Besides, maybe. he's right, after all ---
Ronald Ingram. Perhaps the Chink
is jest an artist from Boston."
But ,Rand would not be drawn.
from the pursuit. The mass' of evi-
dence was too' convincing. And now
that his suspicions were fully aroused,
he marveled that he had never before
realized how completely the Little
Club was adapted for secret criminal
exploitation -as was the island itself
for that matter, securely, bedded;in
sanctity as it seemed.
The ocoupation.of the stammer col-
ony continued but for a scant three
months of the year, and with its go-
ing the' entire northern peninsula was
deserted. Except for the Lone Pine
on the hilltop and the Apple Tree in
the orchard below, there was no resi-
dence within a mile of the cove, which
was admirably protected, shut in
snugly by high cliffs to east and west,
while directly before it lay the white
rock -girt dome of Punkin knob: And
while• the cove offered a perfect land-
ing fpr small boats, it lay to; the west
of the course taken by ships going.
in and out of Portland harbor.
•Examining those' locked doors and
windows afresh, with his suspicions
aroused, Rand saw clearly that it was
now far more securely shut" in than
it had been in former years of its de-
sertion. Every crack and seam of
the frames that covered windows and
doors lead been sealed from within.
It was locked from, chimney to solid.
rock' foundation, as tight as a drum.
Often, in wandering about, both in
the woods and,near the club, Rand
had a feeling that he was watched,
but all his efforts to discbver the "se-
cret source of this were unavailing,
Gay admitted that she, too, felt: wat-
ched sometimes. Slie said it was the
troubled spirit of the body that had
come to her in the cove.
And then, after. three weeks of
keeping .a watch so strict that 'he
would have sworn that nothing un-
toward could" possibly wave °occurred
in the island with his knowledge, it
was not, after all, the result of his
assiduous guard that brought• result,
but the idle curiosity of the Females
Vlrallace, the thing that Rand partic-
ularly disliked and took pleasure to
decry,
"Rand," began Miss Lida timidly,
as they sat at : supper, "you don't
know who is moving off the island,
do you?,'
"No,". he said briefly. "Is any-
body?"' •
"Well, a big furniture van came by
this afternoon. It went up toward
the point. I walked up'to the end of
the lane, but it was'out of sight, and
I don't know if it went down the back
shore or up to Colony corner. But
it didn't come down.
Then for the first time Rand turn-
ed around with some interest. "It
didn't come down," he repeated. "It
•
must have come down. There's cru
"'We don't coo. Fancy the state of
'When ar e_s had fallen she wish- Maine cooing;."
tperatian.Ronald Ingram reverted again
p III,—Onexploration ,r� ed for hive =greatly. The eery pre of land.
". ROE�T. C. REDMOND tive ralnad, Gay, standing on the they had taken tended to
not yet sure what he really wanted to
Chapter
an nwodily to talk the an . He' was
+tile• cautions. ..'..
gtg,R C.S. (ENG.) L.R.C.P. (Lord.) r shore, is'horrified by the appearance . make her nervous, ill at ease, so that do with it, he.said, red if he
., AND SURGEON of the drifting body of a drowned she started painfully at every real or would not be wise to sell it outright.
PHYSICIANsound, and every, low con
man, which shenerves herself te fancied I haven't enough money to finance
bringto the shore bullet wound plaint of the rheumatic trees in the rings ore a big scale. Of course if
things
DR L. STEW k :T' ; to1 woodland set her quivering
R. in the temple shows the man ha
:e the boom ever comes—and it 'ought
When at last carne a quick knock
Graduate of University* of Toronto,. been murdered:.- Gay covers the dead « to boom—it seems the logical sum_
Rand's a unnt:
efrigerator, for New York and
Ontario College ge of Physicians and her way tote, "Captain"th tl e whistle, for the first time, her
thoughts lea ed naturally to the pia Boston, yes, even for \Vashington. 1
surgeons. thot it
Office in Chisholm
Josephine Street.
Medicine; Licentiate of the handkerchief,and makes at the door, without an
Faculty of face with a tree r
o eIn with
r �� rig ,.
story. Returning with him to the
shore the • find no body there, and.
Gays story of the incident is' • ^t
down to an attack of "nerves."
Chapter IV—Gay, unable to con-
e -ince her neighbors of the truth
draws a picture of the iace of the
dead man, intending to send it to the
authorities as evidence of the appar-
ent crime. She meets a stranger, ap-
parently another, visitor, to whom she
tells the story and shows the picture.
He asks her to let him take it, but
Gay refuses. Next day, after a night
lectricity spent with "Auntalniiry," Gay find:
Osteopathy 8 m the picture has been.taken from the
Phone 272, Hours, 9a•m• to P cottage, "Rand" Wallace, wanderer
and considered something of a "black
sheep," by the islanders, expecting to
find "Auntalmiry," surprises Gay at
household tasks. She likes him at
once.
CHAPTER V—Gay's acquaintance
with Rand ripens into affection. She
sees the Chinaman aiain and this time
it sure it is not';imagination. Rand
leaves the island on business. Gay de-
termines to stay: for the winter.
Chapter VI.—The stranger whom
Gay had met on the day of her dis-
covery of the body. introduces him-
self as Ronald, Ingram, like herself,
a visitor on the island. "Auntalmiry"
tells Gay of her son, "Buddy," who
has been :missing for years. On
Rand's return Gay tells him of the
Chinaman. He is impressed, suspic-
ious of Ronald Ingram, and appre-
hensive of some evildoing in a house
known as r the "Little Club," appar-
ently unoccupied.
Chapter VII.—Rand and Gay real-
ize their Mutual love, but the artist is
- not ready to give up her freedom and
marry him. "Auntalmiry" is planning
her Cbristanas party, her'annual fes-
tivity. It is arranged to have it,at.
the "Lone Pine." Rand becomes cer-
tain all is not right concerning In-
gram and the "Little Club" house, and
investigation .convinces him his sus-
picion, are justified.
Block have two companies ;figuring on it,
Phone 29 y b d h tol in her desk, and she ran for it
What would you think of a Chinese
group, irritation bamboo stuff, pago-
das and all that? I know a Chinese.
artist from Boston, Aloy Sen, his
name is. He's been up a few times,
making sketches for me. Clever chap
he is, for a Chink. He.was here yes-
! terday. He thinks we can swing it
bi•g..'
:.rercurially,, Gay was fully in -sym-
pathy with him again. By his' can-
dor he had entirely stilled the suspi-
cions that Rand had stirred to life.
How' frankly he `spoke of the Chinese
artist. How natural his explanation
of the little foreigner's presence. In
the face of his disarming, ingenuous
outspokenness, his honest admi's;un
of his financial limitations, how very
petty and narrow and mean appeared
the, - cold suspicious nature of. New
England.
He said he was obliged,to return
to Portland on the Early boat, and
Gay went with him to the door. His
voice was anxious again.
"You are very game, I know, but
do, please, be careful. Keep yourself
Aerial." locked in and everybody else 'locked
"He Was Putting Up an , you?" r
out, wont
it in nervous fin-Thegenuineness of his solicitude
quickly, grasping
touched, Gay. `"I will be careful,"she
said. "I wish ypu were staying all
winter.' You are such a' pleasant in-
terlude."
"Interlude between: Cavaliers," he
said regretfully. "Still it is some-
thing to see you, to touch your hand.
I am grateful for that. You are very
-sweet. You will not forget me, wall
you?", •
Half an hour later Rand came, and
without waiting for a word from him
Gay launched' at once into a long and.
fervid defense of Ronald Ingram.
"You may be right about some`.
things, but on Ronald Ingram yon are
totally wrong. He's really a nice fel-
low, and you'll like him. Perhaps
he'll let you be Chief High Priest of
his Chinese pagoda,"
Rand laughed at her,
The next day he went to the city to
soak up the records, of real-estate
transfers. Td'e found that the entire
property of the Little Club had been
bought outright, for cash, by Ronald
Ingrain of New York city, and that all
publication of the transfer had been
withheld from the press at leis re-
quest, presttnhably for business rea-
sons. Birt the date, of this perches!,
was not within. the past month, as he
had explicitly stated to- Gay, but
nearly two years earlier, since wiriclt
time the place lead .not been offered
either for sale or rental, and all Lazes
had been promptly paid.
DR. O. W. HOWSON
DENTIST
John Galbraith's Store.
Office ove
F. A. PARKER
OSTEOPATH
All Diseases Treated
Office Adjoining residence next'to
Anglican Church on Centre Street.
Sundays byappointment.
A. R. & F. E. DUVAL
Licensed Drugless Practitioners
Chiropractic and Electro Therapy.
Graduates of Canadian Chiropractic
College, Toronto, and National Col-
lege, Chicago.
Out of town, and night calls res-
ponded to.
llu b6usiness Confidential,
Phone,
J. ALVIN FOX
Registered Drugless Practitioner
CHIROPRACTIC AND
DRUGLESS PRACTICE
ELECTRO -THERAPY
Hours: 2-5,, 7-8, orby
appointment, Phone 19
1.
D. H. McINNES
CHIROPRACTOR
ELECTRICITY
Adjustments given for diseases of
all kinds; we specialize in dealing with
children. Lady attendant. Night calls
responded to.
Office on Scott St., Wingham, Ont.
Phone 150
GEORGE A. SIDDAL
_. BROKER —
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 fauns on hand for ,ale or to
rent on easy terms.
Phone 73. 1 ecknow, Ont.
THOMAS FELLS
AUCTIONEER
REAL ESTATE SOLD
A thorough knowledge of Farm Stock
__..__.Phone 281, Wingham
RIC -HARD B. JACKSON
AUCTIONEER
Phone 618r6, Wroxeter, or address
R. R. 1, (iorrie. Sales conducted any-
where and satisfaction guaranteed.
George Walker, Gorr`ie, can: arrange
dates.
gers.
"Who—is—there?" she asked nerv-
ously as she crept to the door.
"It is I, Ronald Ingrain. 'Nothing
important. I will come another time
if you are busy."
"No."
Mindful of Rand's instructions to be
friendly, and her fears instantly as-
suaged by the pleasant voice, she
bravely opened the door. "How nice
of you, lir, ingrain. I was lonely to-
ni ght."
His eyes went quickly to the pistol
in her hand: "Something frightened
you," he said keenly: "Has anything
happened?'
"No." She laughed lightly as she
slid the pistol back ,into the drawer.
"Nothing' has happened, but you have
THE STORY all warned me so much about the
That day Rand put, extra patented
locks on all Gay's windows and doors,
and 'connected an attachment to her.
electric wiring which he carried up
intothe highest .branches of the tall
pine 'at her door, where, he .placed a
small,rose-cr,lor.:d light bulb, arrang-
ing it among the branches where it
wntild.throw its light to tlic tipper
windows of his grandfather's house:
This he connected with two switch
buttons inside the.,cottage, one by her
ii RS. A. J, 't A. W. IRWIN bed upstairs, .and' one in the window-
ENTISTS
seat in the living room where she ustt-
Office MacDonald -Block, Wingharn t ally sat sat her easel. Tliis light :she
was to turn on at the slighest sus -
pick n c f any unusual, stirring about
A. J. WALKER
~UI NITURE AND FUNERAL
SERVICE
A. 3. Walker
Licensed 'Funeral Director and
'Embalmer.
Office Phone 106, Res. 'Phone 224.
Latest Limousine "Hernial Coach.
deadly. danger I ani in that first thing
you know you will have me fright
the hoarse, and lie, on the hilislope be-
yond, would keep watch for it.
Gay professed herself frankly
thrilled with these Precautions for her
protection. She said she had never
loved Lone Pine so much, she said
she could never bear to go away from
the island for a minute' now', for fear
Elie cotrintissioe of a crime would oc-
cur' in her absence, '
"Oh to think elf:it" she cried ec-
ened." She laughed disarmingly.
In face of his disarming friendli-
ness, his regardful interest, Gay felt
her: suspicious of him slip away from
her, A t•ang'in the cove, yes; a band
of murderous criminals, yes; the
watchful Chinaman, yes, - But never
Ronald Ingram with the affection-
ately friendly eyes and the frank
voice.
. ,
"You are the pluckiest girl I ever
saw. 13ut do, please, be careful. You
are too young, and far, oh, far too
pretty,: to live here alone when the
island is deserted."
"The united state of Maine agrees
with you," she cried, "I am afraid
you men are losing your nerve,—We
woruen nowi" she cried cockily:
"Youwomen are getting downright
foolhardy. Some of :you have paid for
your"folly, and `more will .pay. But I
don't want you to pay." The honest
voice was cordial, intimate,
He asked if she had by any chance
reconsidered about selling the cottage,
and she denied it rjuickly; "If you
CHAPTER VIZI
I, r M1 • �,
'hursday, August 1st, 192!)
Madura Transportation
Speed nothing to this young Englishman, son of the Winnipeg
�,peecl means not g
aviator, M. Hollick -Kenyon. He is seen this summer arriving aboard.
the Cunarder Aurania to join his dad. His mother and sister superintend.
.his early efforts. The Cunard Line taught him some aeronautics as the
Aurania passed under the famous Quebec Bridge, clearing it by only
a few feet
body on the Back Shore, nor up at
the Colony either. It'must have gone
back to' town on'the last ferry."
"No, it didn't, Mary Malcolm was
watching for it,' to ask the driver."
"If I hear anything about it, 1'11 let
you know," Rand said, with unusual
kindness.
Quickly he excused himself from
the table and -rent out. At the end
of the lane': 'he paused to consider.
The Back Shore was a long open.
road, subject to traffic. If a strange
motor van went that way, it had legit-
imate business there. But the Colony
corner, although nearly half a mile
from the Little club, which stood at
the other end of the forest, was sepa-
rated from it only by thick and im-
in his pocket a small electric flash_
But like no other islander, lie carried
also a revolver on his hip." -
As he neared the end of the road,
where it fell abruptly awayto a steep
decline of rocks, he skirted wider int a
the woods behind the Shingle shack,,,
and drew up slowly to the fringe of
the woods. It was very dark, but dis-
tinctly he could make out a huge
bulky shadow against the trees that
outlined the end of the road, It was
the motor van, beyond all shadow of
doubt. ;There was no light attached
no sound from within, no stir: of life.
Rand held his breath to listen, but it
was silent as a tomb. Suspecting the
presence of a guard, he dared n rt
venture on exarrrination, but as he
penetrable forest. It was. not the knew the van could not possibly, get
off the island until the ferry at six
twenty-five in the morning, he felt
he had plenty of time.
nearest point from the club to the
motor road, but it was by all odds the
i-nost desirable for one who desired
secrecy.
Anyone, then, who wished to re-
move something from the Little c sub
without attracting undue : attention,
would most certainly run a car to the
end of the road at, Colony corner ,for
the road ended there, and carry a se-
cret burden through the clerk and de-
serted woods to that point .
With this in mind, Rand turned up
to the Colony corner on a dead run.
Like every other islander, he carried
Gingerly, then, he worked his way
to the rear of the cottage, with which
he was familiar, and let himself into
a ';basement window and up through
the cellar stairs to the front room.
There with blankets from .an adjoin-
ing bedroom, and pillows from the
conch, he made himself comfortable
on thefloor beside the window -too;
conifortable, for he fell sound alseep:
(Continued Next Week.)
Rand kept a jealous watch over the
Little Club, and over the bit of for-
est land that served so effectually to
coiiceal it from curious eyes. Every
day, with his gun lie tramped the
woods and shore, coining <<often tipon.
the old house, at if by inadvertence,
sometimes tryitne the doors tentative-
ly, as did all casual strollers who pass-
ed that way. But in spite of his seem-
ing tiorrchalance end the lazy armless.,
Toronto Greets Ottawa by Air
err
WHEN the Canadian Pacific Air,
Express service was inaugur-
ated on ICing's Birthday between
Toronto and' Ottawa, Mayor Samuel
McBride of the Queen City sent a
silver tray to Mayor. Arthur Ellis
of the capital in. commemoration ,
of the event Photograph shows
IV, Somers, Toronto City clerk,
banding the express package to
Captain Earl Hand, pilot of the
plane, which is shown at the tea-
' side Airport, Toronto, ready to.
start. On June 0, Hamilton Air-
port Vas opened with similar cir
cumstanCe and at this function
also the Canadian Pacific_ Express
was "'represented and carried a
riunnber d packages, Opening of
ihese airports indicates a Wide eic-
tension of airplane service in this"
country and a proof of the grow-
itrg aairrn.indedness" of Canadians