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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1926-06-10, Page 6WINORAN ADVANCE -TIMES 'Thursday, Jure loth., x926 BUSINESS CARDS 'WELI,+INQ'TON 1VIITTU,A,L FIRE INSURANCE CO. Established 1840. Head Office, Guelph, Ont. Risks taken on all classes of insur ;nee at reasonable rates, ABNER COSENS, Agent, Wingham J, W. DOD11,/ Office in Chisholm Block FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT AND HEALTH -- INSURANCE --- AND REAL ESTATE P. 0, Box 36o . Phone 240 WINGIIAM, ONTARIO DUDLEY HOLES 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. 11O "' TON g BARRISTER, ETC. Wingliam, 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. HAMBLYA B.S., M.D.; C.M. 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WALKER FURNITURE ,r DEALER s and ,w.. 1+1J1r1'Ii,RAL IDIlIa.EC"I`OR Motor E'tluitiirnent VV`YNOiTAM, - : ONTAP.IO til ual sisoo i ineasoilitYm"io Iiiieumoin4niumasuouo4 ...01101111, "Rippling By J. S. Fletcher 1.11114.0.111.04111111.11W1.1111.10K.1111.3.11111.41 COW.. 011.111•04M. "Go through them, Burton! Move his-aud the big tettoo'•tnark on his a finger or a toe, any one of you; wrist? ,And—I suspected him for a three; and, ...." ( bit, after he'd been to Renardsmerel One of the constables cased his re- i Mystery!' But let's get down to Mall- volver and went through the three `ant and hear all about it, Peggie!" captives in a fashion that was as l "What?” she asked, as we moved thorough as it was speedy, Within a away down the lane. minute—literally .a minute—he had! "Do you feel queer," I asked, with whipped the Weapons which had rob- a laugh that came a bit shakily. bed Walker of half his wits out of "loot now," she answered. "But— I carne down this way, and I've got/ an idea." to .stroll around a' bit: fortunately',. too; I'd left my wheel on the other side of the, grove. So I stole suietly across—Ifrn an :old hand at woodcraft —and I got"that wheel down the side 'of a hedge. and into a road, and I made tracks for the nearest village, I'.d` the luck to hit on a policeman there that was a right smart man. We got on the telephone to the pol- ice -station at Mallant, a . few miles away, and within: . half -an -hour that sergeant was along, in a fast ear, with the other men,' and allwere armed. And... , we just carne up 'here, Say! --who do you suppose those fellows are? Because I've been read- ing the papers more than usual since the men's side pockets and had thrust'to-morrow--" them into my hands; within another "Never mind!" I said, "Tomor- came the rattle of a second order row—" from the police sergeant. "Car ready, sir," shouted Walker, in "Hands out! Quick, now!" something—only something—like his We stood, fascinated, staring, as usual` voice. "Difficult spot to turn the prisoners mechanically dropped in, though, sir. If you and Miss their arms and shoved out their Manson'll walk down the road----" hands. There were gleams- of some- We walked down to the road. But thing bright in the moonlight: there just as we turned a sharp corner of were quick, sharp metallic clickings the lane, a few yards from its mouth, of steel the policee relaxed their Peggie suddenly clutched my arm tense attitudes and drew back a .little. But they still -handled their revolvers. "Off with those mask's, Burton!" or- dered the police -sergeant. "Let's see their faces!" I drew still nearer, in spite of a protesting whimper from the still trembling Walker. I, too, wanted to see those faces. As I have already said, there was' one man whom I thought might be a Chinaman. But as Burton deftly tore away the stripes was already head over heels in love of cloth, I saw that there was no with her, I wouldn't have cared a Chinaman there; all three were white damn if Peggie had thrown her arms men. And the leader was a hand- around his neck and kissed him. some fellow, with good, well-bred fea- And then, after the manner of Anglo tures, "and a look of braininess and Saxon folk,' before either •of us, said power, but with the most sinister a word, he and I pulled out our pipes; eves I had ever seen. The sergeant filled and lighted them with apparent went close, and looked at him,and the unconcern and fell to smoking e , g man Iooked back and suddenly open- "You might introduce us, Jun!" ed his lips. said Peggie, suddenly. "Damn you!" he said in a low, I introduced them, with more cere- mocking voice. "You never saw me mony than was necessary, and, with. in your life before!" : an apology for ray lack of good man - "I'11 see a good deal of you in my ner's. life to come, my lad! -for a while!" "At such a time as—as that," 1 retorted the sergeant. He ,turned to- wards ine. "Miss Manson and you all safe, Mr: Cranage?" "We're' quite safe, sergeant, thank. you," said I. "But it's a wonder! Those fellows—" "Never mind them, now, Mr.,Cran- age," he interrupted. "We've got 'em thanks to Mr. Peyton here. Now then, that's your car that's down there, isn't .it?—we found it, as we carne up. We've got another, bottom of the lane. These chaps have one somewhere about, and we'll not trou- ble to ask them where it's hidden, just now; the thing at present is to get then under lode and key, Well take 'em off right away, and do you follow in your car to Mallant—you'll hear how we carne to be here when you get down there to the police -sta- tion. Now then, you three, march!- and remember here are five armed men round, you, and that 1± you make the slightest attempt to escape you'll be shot down. 'Get a move onl— straight to the bottom of thjs lane! Smart, now!" In another second this grim :pro- cession was moving; in another min- ute it was vanishing into the shadows,'. and we three, left there, stood staring after it. I believe Walker began to say his prayers, or to utter his thanks- givings; he was certainly muttering something that sounded like devout words, But I roused him out of that. . "Walker!" I said. "Can you start that car? Or is it—" "Well—and what is your idea?" I asked. "My idea is that those three are mired up with these London murd- ers," he answered. "There were cry- ptic references in their talk—I heard a name mentioned." "What name?" "Hollment! That was the first man who was murdered." "1 don't think there's the ,least with one hand and pointed forward' ,doubt that these three fellows are with the other. There, in the middle members of the gang," 1 said. "I've of the road, stood a man, half-obscur- felt sure of it from the moment they ed in the shadow of a great elm stopped us." which towered between him and the 'Just so!" he agreed. "I'm certain moon. We both paused; he turned, of it, too! But, as I tell you, I've saw us, and called out cheerily— lately read your newspapers closely, "Come right ahead, Mr. Cranage. and followed up these cases, and It's only. I, Peyton!" • granting that these three are mem- w We went right ahead! we shook bers of the gang, there's now a -big hands with him, solemnly; :although I question strikes me. Does it. strike He jumped like a cat as I laid my hand on his shoulder: I veritably be- lieve he had forgotten the car, "The car, Mr. Cranage, the car, sir? Oh, yes, sir, I can start the car," he quavered. "They only made me --oh, yes, sir, I" can start her, But, ole Lord! Mr, Cranage do you think. they've really gone? -is there no fear, Mr. Cranage—" "Get that car to rights!" I' said. "Come on'now!—pull yourself togeth- er—we don't want to keep Miss Man- son standing here all the rest of the night. Get at it!" He suddenly recovered his senses and shot off to the car, and I turned to Peggie. We stood silently look- ing at each other for a good minute. "Is this real, Jim?" she said at last, I drew a very long, big breath. "Real, enough!" I answered; ' Phewl" "Yes," she said. " `hat's it! What's just how I feel. ?howl Thett -,vie stood silent again. "I wonder!" 1 muttered, I won- der'----�-" "3 know what you're thinking," she broke in, "How did that American ratan, Peyton, track them?" "We shall hear," I answered, "He'd nd time to tell me, when. But did- n't you sec him give rite a nod and a witik as they went off? Attd did you see how he watched those fellows-» and • that ",nasty -looking revolver ; Of you?", "I should', want to know what it is before I could answer that," I' said. "What is the question?" He looked from one to the other of us, and in the moonlight his keen fa- ce took on a keener expression. "Where's the Chinaman?" he said, "The Chinaman who broke into Holli mment's store at Portsmouth, and com- pletely disappeared immediately af- ter? For ....the Chinaman's at the bottom of ;all this! The Chinaman's Behind those fellows! They're ... . instruments!" Walker had come up with the car. added, "manners are apt to go by the He was plainly impatient to be off, board." and 3 knew why. That neighbour - Peyton nodded towards the gaunt hood had its terrors for him never ruins high above us. again would Walker' come round "Pretty hot time up there, I about the Admiral's_ Polley if he could guess?" he questioned, help its He was nervous still, and Hotter than we cared for—for a suspicious of Peyton, and he made so while," I answered. "It's a wonder bold. as to nudge my elbow. Peyton our chauffeur isn't a raving lunatic! saw the action and turned on him. But -you seem,from what the ser- "Make yourself easy, my friend!" geant said, to have been our saviourl he said with a laugh. "There are no How did it come about?" ,more bandits about, and if there were "I stopped behind, now, to tell I've got a little instrufnent in my hip - you," he said. "It struck me that as !pocket that would quieten them. those three fellows were pretty ` ti- !Look Here! just you take your car ghtly handcuffed—one of your police- I nice and softly down to the bottom men told me that these new handcuffs i of that dip. You'll see 'a grove- of are no joke, once on!—and that trees there—my wheel's inside the they'd got.a guard of four pretty de- i gate. Put her aboard your car -and termined and well -armed men, there ,we'll join you in a minute. Now," he was no need for me to dance attend- � went on, as the chauffeur. promptly ance any longer, though I'll certainly obeyed orders, "that's what I say, go down with you to this Mallant ' Miss Manson and Mr. Cranage— the sergeant spoke of. How did it: where's the Chinaman? Those three come about?" he went. on. "Well, it Mellows are his instruments—partners came about because your humble ser-'factotums—but he's the boss! Your vent is a bit of an ornithologist, and police have got them but he's at large—eh," • "Just so!" I agreed as we slowly followed Walker down the hill, "The "Do tell us all about it!" erclaimed Chinaman is without doubt at the bot Peggie. "What had a nightingale to tom of it. But -you seem to. know do with it?" r "Just this!" he replied with a laugh. "After Mr. Cranage there had shown me over Renardsmere the other day I went wandering' about country, a I He paused, looking at me in aston- bit aimlessly. And in aft inn that I ishment. struck early this evening, somewhere "What?" ., he exclaimed. "You away down there, I got talking to a haven't seen the London evening pa- pers, then? No?—well, I bought some at seven o'clock Mallant rail- way depot as I passed it. Your po there, there were nightingales to lice headquarters - in London—Scot- hear, in plenty. So as it came dark, I wheeled up here, had a look round, put up my machine in a safe place, and hid myself in a grove of trees, meaning not only; to'hear but to see was secretary to a swell compatriot, nightingale and observe his little ways one .Cheng '.and he's supposed to have had never in his life had the luck' to hear a nightingale! That's how it came about—just!" more about it, insome ways, than I do. I -for example—I didn't know that so much had come out to the public about ,.the Chinaman?" man who was, like myself, a bird - lover. . He told me that away up here in this valley, just below that old ruin land Yard—have resorted t'o publicity. '.Chore's the whole story there—you're in it—from start to finish. The China- man is a fellow named Chub Sin, who Well, without -„going into over much detail, those three Hien came along in a car—I know where it is; And, all unsuspecting that I was within a few feet—literally—of them, they sat down on a bank just behind the hed- ge where I was hidden, : and they talked, A good lot of what they said was comprehensible to nae, but I made' thisotit—that .they were very animus to get holden of Lady Renards- mere, and that as she'd vanished, they'd laid a fine lot to entrap her se- cretary that very • night and were go- ing to wdylayhim just above as he returned from a fool's errand to Winchester on which they'd sent him!” •. "Ah1" said I. "So that vvas their work!" "Scents so," answered Peyton, "Well,. I heard enough to know that you and Miss Manson were in danger --they wanted to question her, too, about Lady, Renardstaicr•e, Fortunate. ly, instead: of sitting in one placo all the time, they ,got up and begat.' stolen some extraordinarily valuable object—jewel, maybe—from Cheng in Paris, and escaped to this country with it, and had it stolen from him, and new he and a gang that he's got togetherare after the stolen thing and stopping at nothing to get it back, Chtih Sin! a.' Chinaman who's GEORGE A. SIRIDA.LL *Broker"-- Phone qg, Lucknow, Ontario; Money to lend on first and second mortgages on farm and other reales» tate properties at a reasonable rate of interest, also on first Chattel rnortga- 'ger on stock and on personal notes. A few farms on hated for sale or to rent ott easy terms. JAS. GILMOUR Agent Forr-, C1:JLROSS rialZ INSURANC:IE Insure in 'a Good &Med Co?npany ox 267 Win'ghatn, Out. t ott0 0/81e 2 ri.itwP.441 lost the Tobe of his left ear!" "Ah!"' I said, remembering Mr. Cheng' tardily-=-giyen information to Jifferdene and myself at the Lang- ham Hotel. "So that's in the papers, is it?" "That, and a lot more," he replied, "I've two papers in my pocket. Evi- dently, your police see that the wid- est publicity is -the only thing, and they're enlisting the press in their service. Oh, there's no end! -L tell you, the tale's told from your'doings with Iiolliment in Portsmouth right up to the last murder. W ell,` I guess here's another . chapter to -night!— those three fellows are the China- man's accomplices, or some of 'ear. But . , where is he? For, so long as he's alive. , ." He made an expressive gesture, and we looked enquiringly at hint. "What?" asked Peggie; "There'll be more murder!"' he an- swered. "For craft and subtlety.. • , but let's get down to this Mallant place and hear if the police have got anything out of those three men:" Walker, fearfel of every shadow in the moonlit road ran tis down - to Mallant in half -an -hour. The little town was fast asleep;; there was not a footfall in its deserted streets, and the lights had long gone out in the win- dowb of its quaint old houses. But there were lights in plenty at the police -station, and uniformed'_ men enough in the corridors and passages. One, immediately on our arrival, us- hered us straight into a private office, where we found the sergeant and two other men,' evidently superior officials. On the table in front of them lay a miscellaneous collection of articles—I guessed what they were before the sergeant spoke. "These are what we found on them, Mr. Cranage," he said. "No end of ready, money, as you see. Good wat- ches—personal appointments—all that sort of thing. Bu the main thing's this,'y he went on as he picked up a tiny pocket -book. "This was on the leader. There are entries in here about Holliment, Quartervayne, Nea- more—addresses in London. There are some memoranda .about all three which we haven't made out yet, and some entries which refer to you and Lady Renardsmere. knd there's- no doubt these three have been concern- ed in those London murders!" "I think you may be certain of that,": said I. "I've been sure of it SPLENDID OFIFERINGS IN BAKING REQUIREMENTS—WONDERFUL SAVINGS 98 lb.Bag $33.x85'. 24 lb.. Bag .7 I c "White Satin"Pastry► FLBest ?for OUR Pies Domino j�,1 A Brand �1 NG Pyr' . No Attain COCOANUT Desiccated 23& SEEDLESS RAISINS 215oz.2i9�Y�c ,Pkts. SH CLARK'S EANS No. 2 Size 2 TINS 25c eg. 23c C TIN TEAS are our Specialty Always unifm'« RICIIMELLO 7911 SELECT 9 - SELECT 73g. D.S.L. MILK 6r, Finest Messina LEM NS Etz. Toy Pail 16 oz. 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