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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1929-08-08, Page 6a • Wellington Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Read Office, Guelph, Out EstabliShed 1840 Risks taltea on all ,elass of insur- ance at reas:onv.hle rates. ABNER Q08Eq\T8, Agent, Wingbarn • J. W. DODD O'fice in Chisholm Block FIRE, LIFE, ACCD)ENT AND — HEALTH INSURANCE — AND REAL ESTATE P. 0. Box 360 Phone 240 WINGliAIVI, ONTARIO J. W, RUSHFIELD • 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 Wingham, - Ontario J. A. MORTON ARRISTER, ETC. Wingham, Ontario DR. G. H. ROSS DENTIST Office Over Isard's Store H. W. COLBORNE, M. D. Physician, and Surgeon Medical Representative D. S. C. R. ' Successor to Dr. W. R. Hambly Phone 54 Wingham v`Dtt. ROB. C. REDMOND, M.R.C.S. (ENG.) L.R.C.P. (Lond.) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON DR. R. L. STEWART Graduate of University of Toronto; Faculty of Medicine; Licentiate of the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons. Office in Chisholm Block Josephine Street. Phone 29 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. Osteopathy Electricity Phone 272, Hours, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. A. R. & F. E. DUVAL Licensed Drugless Practitioners Chiropractic and Electro Therapy. Graduates of Canadian Chiropractic °nee. College, Toronto, and National Col- lege, Chicago. Out of town and night calls res- ponded to. All business confidential. Phone, 601-13. CartaktoriT t927 by The DOBBS-mERFULL 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 rants a cottage, the "Lone Pine" from an' island character, the "Captain," and his sister, Alice Andover, "administra- tor." Chapter IL—Gay finds the cottage is tenanted by an elderly lady, "Aunt- ahniry," who consents to move to an- other abode, the "Apple Tree." Awak- ing from sleep, Gay imagines she sees the face of a Chinaman peering in the window, but on reflection ascribes the vision to imagination. She settles down in her new home, anticipating months of well-earned rt and rece- perati on. staussaa. kits: •Chaptee an exploration of the islnad, Gay, standing on the sea- shore, is horrified by the appearance of the drifting body of a drowned man, which she nerves herself tc bring to the shore. • A bullet wound in the temple shows the man to ha re been murdered. Gay covers the dead face with a handkerchief, and makes her way to the "Captain" with the story. Returning with him to the shore they find no body there, and Gay's story of the incident is 6,own to an attack of "nerves." Chapter IV—Gay, unable to con- vince her neighbors of the truth draws a picture of the face 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 spent with "Auntalmiry," Gay finds the picture has been taken from the 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 J. ALVIN FOX Registered Drugless Practitioner CHIROPRACTIC AND DRUGLESS PRACTICE ELECTRO -THERAPY • Hours; 2-5, 7-8, or by appointment. • Phone 191. D. H. McINNES CHIROPRACTOR ELECTRICITY Adjustments given for diseases of .tai kinds; we specialize in dealing with children. Lady attendant Night calls Tesponded to. Office on Scott St., Wingharn, Ont. Phone 150 GEORGE A. SIDDAL. — BROKER — Money to lend on first and second mortgages on farrn and other real es- tate properties at a reasonable rate of • interest, also on first Chattel mort- gage$ on stock and on personal notes. ,A few farina on hand for sale or to ent on easy terMS, Phone 78, Lucknow, Ont. THOMAS FELLS 1 ACV' AUCTIONEER • al,' REAL ESTATE SOLD A thorough knowledge of Farm Stock Phone 231, Wingham • RICHARD J. JACKSON AUCTIONEER Phone 613r6, Wroxeter, or address R. R. 1, Gorrie. Sales conducted any where and satisfaction guata.nteed. • George Walker, Gorrie, can arrange slates. DRS. A. J. & A. W. IRWIN bENTI8T8 Office MacDonald Block, Winghant A. J. WALKER FURNITURE AND PtiNtRAL SERVICE A. Walker Liteased Funeral Director and Embalnier. Office Phone 106. Res, Phone 224. Atest Limousine Funeral Coach, CHAPTER V—Gay's acquaintance with Rand ripens into affection. She sees the Chinaman again 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 an the day of her dis- covery of the body introduces him- self as Ronald Ingram, like herself, a visitor on the island. "Auntahniry" 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 i known as the "Little Club," appar- ently unoccupied. Chapter VIL—Rand and Gay irreal- ize their mutual love, but the artist is not ready to give up her freedom and marry him. "Auntalmiry" is planning her Christmas 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 - pions are justified. • THE STORY Hours later he was awakened by the sudden sound of a motor, and cursing,' his negligence he sprang up. It was not yet full daylight, but the pale gray mist that creeps between day and night, holding a hand or each, lay over the island. In the driver's seat of the van a man huddled in a great coat, his cap drawn low, his hands encased in shaggy gloves. The motor was cold, and he was obliged to press the star t- er again and again. When the engine ran smoothly at last, the driver backed it around, care- fully, for the road was narrow and the rocky cliff rugged and preciPil taus, with trees jtitting dote. As it turned Rand saw the lictinSe Plates, Maine, Massachusetts, New jersey, New York, in conformity with the law which requires interstate vehicles to bear the license of each, and Rand had time to jot down the New ilamp shire number before the car was fin- ally banked away from hint. Rang looked at his watch. It was a (matter past six. The first ferry -went over at six tweritysfive, N,o.seavica "Well planned for a getaway," he thought, approvingly. "No time for Mary Malcolm to ask them any ques- tions," The guard stepped briskly down from the rocks and threw open the big doors in the rear of the van. A sudden jerk of his head toward the wood was evidently a signal, for on the instant appeared a line of men, small, stopped • and shuffling, who came in a sort of loping run down the narrow path from the woods, single file, their soft feet making no sound at all, either on the rocks or among the dry dead needles of the pines. The guard at the back of the car gave each a hand in turn, and swung them up, Sleflly, into the van, one, after another. "44 4:so And 'as they tarried about, facing him, to makethe lithe spring into the car, Rand saw their faces. They were Chinese, every one, twenty-five of them by count. • The guard hastily closed the door, snapping a lock upon it, and sprang up beside the driver, and almost before he was in his seat the car was rolling swiftly away down the cinder road. For one moment Rand was irresh- lute. He could telephone to the po- lice on the mainland, and a detail of them would meet the ferry at the pier and take the truck ,with its foreign freight into custody. But on after- thought, it seemed that the capture of these twenty-five little old Chinese., men meant nothing. It was the ring that counted, the band that had grouped itself together to mock at the law. Making his decision quick- ly, he hurriedly got out of the cot- tage and ran through the woods to- ward the Little club. Hastily selecting the trail in the rocks, where the descent was least difficult, a trail held in his memory from boyhood adventures years be- fore, Rand dropped swiftly down, from crag to crag, until he stood in the cove, The one great door be- neath the piazza was securely locked, every seam and crack impenetrably sealed. Reluctantly he abandoned hope of admission from below and made his way up the cliffs once IllOrC. Rand knew the construction' of the building perfectly, having assisted indeed in its erection. in the beginning there had been no bank of loose rocks be- neath the piazza other than those af- forded by nature, and there was a window to the basement on the east- ern side, opening just above ground. Later on, for the sake of warmth, small rocks had been thrown unde,, and although Rand felt some distaste for the task, he felt sure that by pulling out the rocks, he could get at the window beneath the piazza floor, and thus into the basement, It was unlikely that the small basement window would be subjected to such rigid sealing, sheltered as it was be- hind six feet of piazza floor well wall- ed with rocks. In spite of his profession of indo- lence, Rand was not adverse to labor when the end justified the effort, and he fell sturdily to work at a distance which he judged, and cori ectly as events proved, would lead to the base- ment window, It was a long time before his ef- forts were rewarded by a cleared win- dow, the usual small basement win- dow, perhaps two feet long by eight- een inches high, The glass was cov- ered on the inside with a thick black curtain, so that he gained no view of the interior, and the window itself he found, to his disappointment, not only locked, but sealed with a fine cement, or wax, along the four edges of it. CoaVinted,'however, that something of great value must be concealed there to 'necessitate these preeautioes, he resolved to gain adthittance at all easta, Wifh renewed dagerness he at- tacked the window with the stout knife which had served hint well a hundred times in the emergencies of boating, fishing and hunting, and worked it slowly around the edges, pecking at the cement which bound it in place. And •finally he felt it give, sway slightly beneath his hand, and drew it carefully Mit. Cautiously he thrust his band into the aperture, and drew aside the black curtain which veiled it. The ioo•to WINQH414 ADVANCE -TIMES room was in absolute darkness. He listened Jong, but •coals, hear no slightest sound in any portion of the house. Breathlessly, then, his revolv- er cocked alertly in his right hand, with the left he extended his pocket flash, pressed the button, and swept the yellow light into the 1.00111, mov- ing it slowly about, inch by inch, from wall to wall. The silence was like the grave itself. Rand felt the emptiness of the house, sensedlt, and unwilling to lose an opportunity he might not have again, he determined to go in, al- though realizing the risk he ran. To get in he was obliged tO replace both his flash and his revolver in his pocket, and drop dCiwn, defenseless and in the dark, but this was a chance he felt be was obliged to take. And after that breathless moment of his descent, when he flashed his light in- to the roam again, it seemed surpris- ingly comonplace, just what one would expect to find the basement of an old abandoned clubbouse. rough dishes. There was fishing, tackle strewn about, old magazines, and in a corner cupboard a few rough ends of food: beans, coffee, salt and of substantial and inexpensive make. There was an oil heater in a corner, and a large tank nearly full of nil beside it. There was an oil cook stove, also, with pans, kettles and bottles. The ftwititure was scant, and There were no guns, no casks, no Some canned things, too, and a if 1 Eice. oNozi. •iiL Hurriedly He Threw the Stones Back Into Place. piece of salt pork. There were old pipes lying about, cigar stubs and scattered tobacco. The room in every respect was exactly as it would he left by a group of fisherman, lumber- men or hunters. • Officers, inspectors, any one might step into the room, examine it from ceiling to rough rock floor, and find it above suspicion. Yet Rand knew that within a space of two hours fully thirty men had left that very spot. With revolver and flashlight ia hand again, he -left the basement room and went to the stairs. Heavy cur- tains thick' and wide, covered every door and window so that no possible ray of light from within could be - seen from without.' On the upper floor were sleeping rooms, six in all, and two baths, al- though the water was not connected and the tubs were dusty and dry. One of these rooms, the one on the north looking down to the cove, Rand knew had been occupied, although but rough blankets were thrown loosely on the bed. Still it had the feeling about it of recent occupancy. "Gay's gentlemanly Ingram," he thought with a boyish. grin. "Could- n't staid it below with the Chinks, No wohder his eyes are sad." Satisfied at last, he went down, careful to leave everything behind him as he had found it, and clam- bered up through the narrow base- ment window again, not without great difficulty. Once mare he' was obliged to crawl out, head first, and return in order to replace the window as he had found it; which he did carefully, edging it tightly in, and blocking it loosely with rocks from without. Then he made his fitai exit. "t hope nobody bangs me on the head before I have a chance to argue about IC" be tholight rather anxious- ly, as his legs sprawled out from be- neath the piaaza:Into the open air. 'Evidently, however, the intrusion had been unobserved, and very hur- riedly he threw the stones back into place to give the same appearance as before his entrance, Then he crossed the woods toward the tone Pine. It was after nine o'elock. Rand was not shaved, his face and hands wete scratched and bleedig, his hair was matted with dust and bits of earth and moss, his clothes were grimy, He glanced down at himSelf, smiling. But be went on. "1 have no right to cheat her out of such a thrill as this," be decided. But he hurried his steps, for he bad no desire tO explain his appearance Her amazement at his appearance at her door enualed his expectations. "Rand—Rand," she gasped 'weakly. "Let me in, let me in," be urged laughingly, "Don't leave ine out here with the burden of erime upon me, for the first Chink to take a pot shot at." Hurriedly she drew hirn into . the room,closed and locked the door be- hind hini. "Rand — Rand what have s ou done," she whispered. She listened silently while he told, in sketchy fashion, the events of the night. Her eyes Upon hint were ter - rifled and trobbled. When he finish-' ed his recital with a jaarray' tritun- pharit gesture, she tented on aim pas- sionately,. "Y-ou shouldn't do such things," she cried thickly. "You should not! You have no right to, take sttch chan- ces. Oh; Rand, what de they: care. for Murder? Think of that -poor boy—.7" It was not until he had been well fortified with strong coffee that she, asked him gently, ,for' her, sake, to give up this ridiculous, dangerous en- ferpriae and pay no more'attention to the activities in the Little club; She said she was Sorry she had aNtl: told him anything- about the affair in the cove, she:. felt she had led him into terrible danger. • "I keep thinking of that boy, Rand. They are utterly unprincipled, un- scrupulous • I know they .are. They Would stop at nothing. If anything happens, to you, it will be My fault." Rand tried to reassure her, prom - 'sed to take, every preCaetiOn, but he would not consent to give up the un- dertaking. He was Sure he had itis finger on a thread that would unravel, a vast network of intrigue and fcrime nvolving many thousand s of dollars, perhaps hundreds of lives. Hewas going tohave the reward the unravel ing- would entail, bot 'more important than that, he was going to have the sport of :unraveling. He would not yield to her. • , • "And first of all. I'm going to show up your sad -eyed friend. He's -a Crook, and I'll prove it to you. IHere and There 11 (282) „A. fine steel piano wire runs now /264 miles from Newfoundland to the Azores. This is not to provide the mermaids with strings for their harps, but to measure exactly the distance between the two points. A cable was laid recently and it was impossible to otherwise deter- mine the precise distance travelled by the cable -laying ship. Travellers aboard the Canadian Pacific Railway's crack Summer flyer, the Trans -Canada Limited, Will be surprised this year to find colourful upholstery, green tiled bathrooms, sofas, settees, a glassed - in conservatory and other unusual features. Special sleeping, dining, and lounge - solaritim cars have been designed and built at the eompany's Montreal Angus shops for this de luxe trauscontinental train, which will be one of the fastest and finest long distance trains in the world. Construction of the 18 -storey Marine Building on the corner of Bnrrard and Hastings streets, in Vancouver, has begun. When com- pleted this will be the tallest building west of Toronto, where the greatest building, the new Royal York Hotel, of the C. P. IL, is 23 storeys in height. A monument to one of the build. ers of Canada is planned for Van. couver. Sir William Van Horne, first general manager and second president of the Canadian Pacific Railway, was' responsible for the selection of Vancouver as the Western terminus for the trans- continental line; a decision that resulted in the growth and pros- perity of Canada's second greatest seaport; and the citizens of the city propose to commemorate his foresight Every Year tilt, Canadian Pacific spends about $2,600,000 in advertis. Ing its services and Canada's indus- trial and tourist attractions throughout the world, 0 In view of the present prosperity of Canada and a the Canadian Pacific, it is amusing to recall the item Published in London Truth over forty-five years ago. "The Canadian Pacific Railway," it runs, • "has begun to launch Its bonds,. this railway, If it be ever finished, will rim through a country frost - bound for seven Or eight months of the year, and will connect with the eastern. part of the Dominion province which embraces about. as 'forbidding country as any on the. 'face of the sartb. British Coln/xi. 'lila Is a barren cold mountain 'country that is not worth keeping /t would never have been inhabit- ed 4 all =am, by trappers of the Hudson Bay Compa.ny had `gold 'fever' not taken a party of adven- turers there. Fifty railrV oads ntild ,not galvanize it Into prosperity, the ratutit-tooted Manitoba settle - 'Mont Will not hold out 'many years, The *people wbo 'have gone there 'cannot stand tbe oldness of the 'winters. Men and Cattle are 'frozen Ito death in tunnbert0rthat wotild ;lattdOnish the intending settter if he lie, and those Who are not killed .lontrtgbt are often maimed ,tor IIt by frootbites. • . • Thursday, skagust • Sportsman's — PROTECT IT AGAINST FIRE Green forests ensure an even flowof clear run- ning water; burned timber means muddy torrents in flood time and, stag- nant pools in dry weather, It' The good sports- man, in his own interest, is care- • ful with fire In the woods, allinamoriO Issued by authority of Honourable Charles Stewart, Minister of the interior. • and his sad eyes!" "Randie,' dear," Gay said, her hands in his hair, drawing his face toward. her, "did any one ever tell you that your eyes are sad, too? They arc. Very sad. Your lips are merry- and • LT your voice is light, but your eyes are always wistful. The voice is what one makes it—but the eyes-- Yes,, open windows to the soul. Stal, vcs-y sad." (Continued Next Week.) allin.0111.1011•111111• .1.1.1•006•10..•••ftsemarMal. Every icture Has Its Story oe Oet'e;, ig•.1`,•;*•.f.,111. tsaitssassssSas .wwwwomfrzwywvt- UP in the "North Country" of Algonquin Park, they start their fishermen young—and the ubiquitous barefoot boy with the alder pole almost puts to shaine the tourist angler with his split bam- boo fly rod and all the other expen- sive trappings of the game. The barefoot boy at. Daventry, a sta. tion on the Canadian National Railways in Northern Algonquin Park got bigger fish, if not more of them, than did the tourist with the bamboo outfit—and they catch fair-sized speckled trout up in those waters. To the right is "Andy", Grant, one of the Park ,VAVA.Vi.VAVAVAVALVAVAVAVAVAVAI rangers, breaking in his youngest fisherman at the tender age of "half-past-two."—Canadian Ka- tidnal Railways photograph. Canada's Future Fruit Champion , •,‘ • 'V;4`. 13clieved to be the tallest than in Scotland, Andrew Kelliglian, of Les, maliagow, height '6 feet 1014 inches, decided he'd become a eltampiot fruit picker, and that Canada was the plate for his triutaph. Accordingly joined the first party t train in farming at Carstairs, Scotland, under the Scottish Ministry of Labor's scheme to equip future Canadians. He arriVed this sumtner along with hundreds of other Scottish irbridgrantslvho erosSed aboard the big Scottish ocean liter Letitia, front Glasow. His pal is midget by tomparison. ••