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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1926-05-06, Page 6WINGHAali ADVANCE -TIMES Thursday, May 6t, 1916 Vin U XN1~4SS CARDS `'ELLINOTON MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE CO. Established 1840. !'r Head Office, Guelph, Ont. ;Risks taken onall classes of insur- stnee at reasonable rates. ABNER COSENS, Agent, Wingharn J. W. DODD Office in Chisholm Block FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT AND HEALTH INSURANCE -- AND REAL ESTATE P. O. Box 36o Phone 240 INGHAM, - - ONTARIO DUDLEY HOLMES BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. Victory and Other Bonds Bought and sold. Office—Meyer Block, Wingham 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 Graduate University of Toronto Faculty of Dentistry Office Over H. E Isard's Store. W. R. HAMBLY B.S., M.D., C.M. 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A. .1.,„'VVALKEll FURNITURE DEALER and ,w.., FUNERAL DIRECTOR : r Wotor Equipment • WINOIIAM - ONTARIO 1 • ,1,d1N1„ii,YIYYY.Al1Y,/IWI611MfiH,U,1,iVi.i,1v1,Ai,141,YYh114t",flf ve., "That's not been done by any Eui•- opean hand!" said Jlfferdene, "trium- phantly. "It's an Eastern thumb and Eastern fingers that did that! He took a drink of %water after his bloody work„.„ you are! Mr.` Cranage, we'll have to rake London to get that Chink, or there'll be anoth- er of these affairs. But -4110 will it be next? However -don't you get fri- ghtened. Stick to me in the daytime, and keep to your hotel after dark and.... ." I was not going to my hotel, thou gh I said nothing to make Jifferdene think that I wasn't. I got away from him, on a plausible excuse. Then, to put some heart into ine, I went and ate a good dinner, resolutely thrust ing away the ,gruesome recollections of what I had' just seen. And later I went off to 'a garage, and having plenty sof money about me and being. utterly careless as to know it flew, chartered a good car and got out of. London. And at close ori one o'clock in the morning, I made up the drive to Peggie Manson'shouse, resolved on seeing her. , CHAPTER XIII Miss Hepple Takes a Hand Manson Lodge—designed 'to his own tastes and ordered by Peggies father, the late famous trainer, was a big house, with more than one main entrance: But by that time I knew it well enough and made straight for a door that stood just beneath Peg gie's own bedroom, the windows of which overlooked-" the stables and their adjacent buildings. There was 6 a bell hi that door, an. electric bell, which communicated: with Peggies room, so that she could be summoned at any hour of the night: And I had just put a finger on it and had heard the sharp response in the room above, through a half -open window, when a man, tall, burly, seemed to start .up from nowhere—in{ reality out of the shrubbery close-by—and, laid an un- pleasantly strong hand on my arm. "`Hullo, • you!" he demanded: "Hullo, yourself!" I retorted ,start- ing back from him. • 'Who the devil are you? Take your hand off!" "Not till I know what you're after, young fellow!" he answered: "What. are you doing prowling round here, this time o' night? "What are you doing here—on pri- vate ground?" I demanded. "Tell me that!" '`That's my business!' he retorted. "What's yours?" "None of your business!' I said. "You let my arm go, or—" But at that moment a. vision. of whi- te draperies appeared at the windotiv above us and I heard Peggiie's voice. "What's all that,?" she exclaimed.. "Who is ,it?" I got in first. "Peggie!" I called, using her Chris- tian name in my excitement.: "It's I —Cranage! ,Colne down, and let me. in! I've motored all. the way from town to see you!—I must see you at once. Come down—and bring Miss Hepple with you. And there's a man; here, prowling about your grounds r Oh! she cried, All right, Mr. Ro- b}ndale—that's Mr. Cranage, Lady Renardsmere's private secretary. ' I'll come down at once," 'Mr. Robindale, whoever he was, let my arm go, and growled. "Why didn't you say who you were?" he demanded. "Why didn't • you say who you. were?" I retorted. "And ' what're you doing here, anyhow?" He edged away from me in the di- rection of the stables. "Ask your mistress!" he muttered, He went off, still growling, and I went up to the door and waited. Some minutes passed; then a light ap- peareObehind the glass 'panels; locks and bolts were undone, the door op- ened, and there, wide-eyed with as- tonishment, stood Peggie and Miss Hepple, in dressing gowns, and carry- ing lamps. I made in, and with my own hand closed and locked the door: "Who's that fellow outside?" I ask- ed abruptly. "He's left the marks of his great fingers on my arm; con- found him!" Doggie, .still staring wonderingly at inc, shook her head. "Since',, yesterday, for some reason, or other only known to herself, Lady. Renardsniere has planted a couple of. private detectives on me," she answer- ed, "One's on the watch all day; the other all night, That's .the night g g Haan—Robindale. tut—you?" ""fake me into the dining -room and give lite a drink, first," S au wered,: "I've chine as fast as I could• --chat'- -Agent l'or tered a special ear—to see you and CUIROSS VIRE INSURANCE Miss Rennie before going to see La- L d f Insure in a Good Sound Company dy Renardsmere, Y,oti've no idea th, they told Nearnore of what they! 1 o* 267 Winghnni, Ont1 .r , g. r what I've of iCb tell ort all in con got. 5 y �, It was- decided; between the or Phone 276 r a! tinuation of that Portsmouth affair! There's murder arising out of that -- wholesale murder! And niy God—I Touring , . , ., . „.........$476 don't know which way to turn!„ . . '"Come into the Iittle morning Touring, Wlth starter 562 room," said Peggie. She bustled Coupe, with .starter ..:: , . , ' 705 about, lighting a lamp, : getting me il' whiskey and soda and biscuits, and Tractor with lenders commanding me,; to say no < more until', I had had a drink. Then, when she saw I was getting a bit calmer, she nodded re-assuringly, -"Now!" she went on. "Tell us Iall about it—and take your time—we're safe, here."' The three of: us, I dusty and travel - stained, Peggie in a smart dressing gown with her: great ,inane of hair coiled loosely, about her shapely head, Miss Hepple in a multifarious collec- tion of shawls and wrap$,,sat gather- ed around a table. And over it, look- ing from one to the other of the. two three, that--Neamore should sell it. the Blue .Room:" pairs of eyes. which never left mine, I Neamore is evidently a . man who I slept soundly for the remainder of knows things—anyway,it's. quite cer 'that night, at any ' told` the.full story of what had hap g rate. Something in ANNOUNCING The new tariii reduction in! Ford Car Prises, Tice lowest price the Ford car ever sold tor. w:- 1926 MODELS ' •:- Tudor Sedan, with starter ......$732 Fordor Sedan, with starter , ..... ' 796 ° Runabout, with starter 521 $580 We will ° have our show rooms open in the Holmes Block by Saturday, showing all these models, PATERSCN BROS. HOLMES BLOCK WINGHAM, ONT. pened to the since Spiller meltain that he knew of a certain weak- P ness of Lady. Renardsmere." away from Renardsmere House, not forty-eight hours before. - What weakness?' I asked. e I spared no detail, the thing took some time -to Miss Hepple glanced at Peggie, and tell: the clock - on the ; mantelpiece smiled. struck three as f made an end. I thought everybody knew of "`And that's that!'." I concluded: that!" said Peggie. "It's common "And --what am I to do?' "There's one thing I don't quite Miss Hepple's calm and commonsense view of things had pulled me togeth er, and I had no:visions of Holliment nor dreams, of Quartervayne. And when we all met at breakfast, at nine o'clock, I was grimly determined to have . things out with Lady Renar ?�- property!" mere—supported by Miss,, Hepple— "Evidently Mr. . Cranage doesn't;" and to 'impress on' her the danger in g remarked Miss Hepple, She.turnedwhich we all stoodwho are mixed understand, said Peggie. Why did -c d up n't you tell the. London'police all you to me again. Lady Renardsmere, in• any way with the theft of that•in= fernal Somethingl whatever it was, "Why have these detective chaps-- Quartervayne, hs s— P Quartervayne,:and.-so-on? It'll have h d bl private or-.otherwise—been shoved,, on i she continued, "has a :perfect passion knew -about Neamore,.'and the lure- ! for buying -precious stones Sh - cheon at the Ritzy with Ilolliment and She st have spent a const era a amount ziv out." of the vast fortune which - i 1 to come w h S r William you?"I asked- of Peggie, seeing gone.. out through rite, I 'answered. "You! Y hem for! she Bradgett, "Lady Renardemere's idea, earth may be moved in the attempt; but nothing will get it out of her!"" "Not even the fear of murder?" I exclaimed. "I don't think' she knows what°°£ear is," said Miss `Idepple. "She's utter- ly indifferent to all that sort of thing. Still—to use a slang phrase—pile .it on when you tell her of all you saw _in London." We found LadyRenardsmere in her • e et business room. She seemed much surprised to see `Miss Heppel, but on my immediately explaining that; Miss Hepple had come that ate niy,particu= lar request, to speak to her on my be- half; she became 'unusually amiable' and expressed not only willingness but curiosity to know. what it was all about. • "Shut. the door, then, Cranage, and eft her iner- ly i• y of them crossing' the grounds with <, knows what she bus t see, if I'd told 01 that at once, how s doesn't wear'them. Nobody knows, of course?" either, . where she keeps them -unless did`I know that before I could warn . - .it's at her bank or at some Safe' De - placed Lady Renardsmere mightn't be .D 1 posit- But some of her purchases p aced in some danger?The news have been notorou —I should have would have gone . beyond the police— s it might havegot "into thethought you'd have heard of them, g papers, Mr: Cranage.. She bougliit the Met - and then this Chinaman and his gang i- chnikoffi Diamond, some years ago: —for there must be a gang. would -a fabulous price. Nobody's ever have got to know—lots.of 'things that y I hope they don't know now." + een it since. She' possesses' the mo- "He did right!" st marvellous rope of pearls in the, remarked Miss Hepple suddenly. T'Hecmust tell La -,world -to complete it; some little ti- dy e , me ago, shegave some foreign deal- ! dy Renardsmere all that hes told us, g ' g take . care there's' no interference. 1s if with great approval: "Of course!" she- answered. "She "sit you both down and go ahead!" she never even consulted ane. t'inerel. sent'said. "I was goingi '1 y but it'll me word that henceforth,. right up to 'wait. What's it all about, my lad?'.' Derby Day, these two men would be 1 1 told her. It took, , just an hour J here, one for day duty, the.other for and_twenty minutes to tell -by the night, and that Rippling Ruby was to clock. She behaved beautifully. be watched' night and day." There was a box. of cigarettes -strong "Does she fear:any interference?" I black, rank things that she imported P. asked. 1 rout somewhere—and she smoked "Don't know what she fears, or one after another, listening attentive- thinks, or anything!" said Peggie. "I'll ly. And when I'd finished she nodded• and leave her to inform the police."' er a tremendous sum for three pearis " ,., •said to:be unequalled for' size, and Of what: asked Peggie: ! :, purity. h • ' p y.. O ,it's. all well known. And I think the whole thing is very ; , » it's my opinion that t is:. stolen arti- simple, replied Miss Hepple; who, it's .: had observed, had followed my story,cle, through the successive thefts of with concentrated:and. e which men are getting murdered, is even absorbed .r so rareestone, m so a that attention. It seems so to me; at any and Neamo re„ Holliment, and Quartervayne -offered rate. Mr. Cheng, the wealthy and ap- r, parently influential Chinaman, is rob -.it and sold it to her. I think she bed ' in Paris byhis secretaryhuh rob - ; brought it home with her from Lon- ' a C don that night, and sent Si; of some exceedingly valuable ar- ! g you back to London with it, to Mr. Pennithwaite . title: we don't know what. Chuh >f Sia with thisnext day. That, Mr. Cranage, is' w t in his possession; es r ! ,, ,where it is, concluded Miss Hepple, capes to England, and comes to 1'od-: Pp ' ge at Holliment's Temperance Hotel. with a gentle smack of her hand on n Portsmouth. Holliment and Quar the table: "And I'm sufficiently in- n (never mind) what: Quarter- tquisitive'to adinit that:I wish I knew, vayne says to the contrar or does-' what- it is!" n't say!) undoubtedly possess' `them-' "So do T1"' said Peggie. "Another selves of the stolen article. Chuh Sin big diamond, I should think" goes in pursuit, arid presumably en- lists the as istance of some English lentlp• crooks --isn't that the word? Holli -1 "1 daresay you're quite right ,in' all w i meat is tracked and murdered, But you've said, ma'am,' ° I remarked at Lord!—as if Bradgett and I haven't -"Very well put; my boy!" sh-said. kept a perpetual watch on the filly "Neat, precise;" concise, well -arranged!' for long inontb.s! No, I .don't know -I don't know but what youought to g what her idea iso What I do know is have been a barrister. We'll have a somethingelse.'.'; I alk about ' � that, Cranage, for -you're "What?" I asked. still a child. But now—what do you. Peggie involuntarily lowered'her want me to say?" X voice. , For the life of me, when it came to "I hear, things!" she murmured. '"So it, •I didn't know what' I wanted her does Bradgett. Lady<Renardsmere is : to say. backing Rippling . Ruby no end! Ba -1 I: I wanted you to know every - eking her to win a perfect fortune! I hing, Lady Renardsmere," I stam- hear. that there's scarcely.a principal mered, bookmaker that slue hasn't done busi- I "Well now I know she said. "And ness with... Colossal' business!—never —I don't, mind saying that I did buy been anything like it!" 1 oniething from. those three men, be-. ' "Well, you say Rippling Ruby's de- lieving they'd a right to sell it" ad certain to win?"'I said,, "so—" I "What was it?" I asked unthinking - "I'm as dead certain of that as a ly.' mortal can be certain about any -1 "That's my business,. my `boy! she thing!" she answered quickly. "If retorted. "I can be:as close as your there is.anything that can beat her, Mr. Cheng on that, point. I'm not go it'll: win—but I don't believe there is! ing to tell anybody!" *� I believe, she'll win in a common can- I "In that; case," said I, "these chaps.• they didn't find the stolen article on Ilast,.turning to Miss Hepple. "And I ter—I'd plank my` ..last penny—no, —for there mast be moa -e than one, him. So they tracked and murdered think I m right in.saying t tat the be- that's nothing! --I mean, I'd put down with, Chuh: Sin as centrepoint and in- Quartervayne, Now," concluded Miss st and the fust thing for inc to do everything I've got, money, • house, spirer--these chaps, Lady• Renards- land, on her, and never have a se- mere, will go for every single •:One of bond's fear. But I don't bet, And—" bus tt's been connected with the af- "Well?" I asked, after. she had pati- fair, I Land we niay as well prepare to sed awhile. "What?" Hepple, Igoking .hard at me through to tell Lady Renardsmere all that I've her spectacles, which she had not for - "Of you to=night. Eh?" tr Of cot se! the `'replied, { r to ethe . gotten to assume in her hurried dress- •„ Xg ing. "Did they find it on him?" !You can do nothing else., • 'And at "God knows!' said I. But I rec- once! kon—not!" "I don't think they did,"_ she said, nodding with judicial emphasis, "I do not think they did. Therefore—" `"They're still on the. prowl?" S sug- gested. "Exactly!'." assented' Miss . Hepple.. And we shall hear of another mur- will; go with you! She's the proper der!" person --and just the person! When Peggie drew' in her breath with a you've told your tale,. Miss Hepple Ren - budder of"horror_ But Miss Hepple will point the moral' to Lady Ren trdsmere. Take her! to her about this business!—int ress: and I appeared to be fellows in the p: tern art of looking facts in the face.' "Will you be so good, ma'am?"' I her with its dangers,' "Neamore—next?"' I said, glancing 'asked. "I'm glad' Miss Hepple's going with at her. ' 111 go with you, answered Miss ine" said I:' ``Glad isn't the or „ ,y He le witha word,' I should " PP , , spinet! ing very like al- s lou d say so, she replied. If ,, thouglil I'm intensely •grateful— and they know --what you know." acr•ity. We 11 go straight there 'af- relieved, Lady Renardsmere isn't ex - "And if they go working back;" I er breakfast. And in the meantime, actly he sort of person' to tackle said, "then --well, Lady Renardsmere as it's half -past three o'clock, I sug when a queer affair like this' turns next?" gest that we go to bed., Come_lvith up." "Then," I said, turning to Peggie, 'You come with me! It isn't that I'm fraid of tackling her alone, but it will be better to ; have soiree—moral import" "No!" .answered Peggie, She point- d across the table. "Miss Hepple "There's" many' a slip 'twixt cup and lip," she quoted, with a shake of the head. "You never can tell,. after all; What 3 say is that granted all goes. right Rippling Ruby will win the Der- by as sure as niy name's Peggie Man- son!" "In: which case Lady Renardsmere will-" "Rake in.another. mountain of nion- ey!" she said, quickly, "Queer wo- man! Well—.mind you two stand up But Miss' Hepple shook her head, ine, Mr. Cranage, and I'll Put you `in Presently iviiss. Hepple and I set "No!"' she answered "I think that' out.' We discussed Lady Renards- -if the can ` a onIget inside y y i side know -mere as we crossed the valla and ins- CxEORE A. SIDDALL �' led a �+• 7 the nextwill be e . h de, '�1 knit waitC; --$coker---- for the house. the solicitFor or. I h avtn r "There's the sli-TI e c, s a certain 'n ai t thr you've got v phone L cknow�Ontario. thing g u ghtest doubt that the article—which 73• s must be o ncof m s o t except}orial, val- ue and importance considering what's being done to regain possession of it --is now in :Pennithwaite's bands! " i "You think i carried it to� him?"1 suggested. "I do!," she assented. "I put it in this way, Ilollhnent, Quartervayne and Ncatnore were all known to each other, before this affair began. When Holliment and Quartervayne 'went to London, after fleeing from Prtrtstnott-' Money to lend on'first and second` mortgages on farm and other real es tate properties at 'a'reasonable rate of interest, also on fitst Chattel mortga- ges on stock and on personal notes. A few farms :on hand for sale or to rent on easy tennis. JAS, GILMOUR to und'e'rstand about Lady Renards- mere in relation to this matter, Mt. Cranage," said my companion as we opproached the grounds, "I told you early this morning that in my opinion that some precious stone was at the bottom of all 'this, and that Lady Re- nardsmere had nb doubt acquired it rout Neainore. Now x'11 tell you oniething that's well known—Lady Renardsmere is superstitious about ,precious stones, to the very last de- gree of superstition! And ifshe's get hold (Si this, and has some stran- ge superstition about it, heaven and have our throats slit!" "Cheerful!" she said, with a satiri- cal laugh: "But ,I'm not a bit un- pressed, ;Cranage, I'm 'not afraid!" "I'm horribly afraid!" I retorted with emphasis, "And I'ni not ash- amed to say ;so, either! If you'd seen what I've seen, Lady Renards- mere, you—well, I 'think you'd throw that thing, whatever it may be, into the nearest ditch!" She smiled, in her queer grim fas- ion, ands glanced at my companion, till "According to you, my lad," she said, ='if .I` did, ;they 'd only .cut' my throat.to make me tell which ditch I'd. thrown it intol But come!—what's Miss Hepple got to say about it? You're one of those eminently sensi- ble women, Miss Hepple; aren't you?" "I should like to have a few words with'you in 'private, Lady Renards- mere," said Miss Hepple. "I'm sure Mr: Cranage won't mind? --he knows - me by this time." I left them together and went out. on the terrace: Miss Hepple remain- ed with Lady Renardsmere a long time. When she came out she gave me a reassuring look, (Continued next week) • MORRIS Mr. and; Mrs: R. Colley andfamily motored to Kincardine last Sunday.' Mr. and Mrs. Duncan Campbell,: spent Sunday with their ' daughter,. `• "' Mrs:Berg esse.Wheeler of rave. J g Mrs. A. MacEwen is visiting her brother -Mr. L. Gourlayof St. Georg ,ge, Mrs. W. 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