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Office in the Kerr Residence, • be- tween the Queen's Hoteland the Bap- tist Church. All business given careful attention, Phone 54. P. O. Box 113. Dr. Robt. C. Redmond 1 .R.C.S. (Eng.) . L.R.C.P. (Load.) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Dr. Chisholm's old stand. wINGHAX ADVANCE -TIMES "Lady Renaresiilere!" he repeated. His eyes s ddenly turned .to the news- • � the Or, if paper in f spread o on the table; S te. Sties got h , lY ut she hasn't got the goods in hand, she keows where they are. Look' at this, now, and see if theeee's a flaw \in it Holliment and Quartervayne without "Sure! g goods! "Trey fetched me to that!" he said in a low voice. "I was there—at Lipe coin's. Inn Fields—within .half -an hour of the head clerk's discovery. doubt robbed Chub. Sin of the thing That Chinainan-if it was the. China which he'd robbed Mr. Chen • Holli- nianmust have been in' there for 1 andeamorel hours—hours! It looked as if he'd pleat, Quartervayne o examined every speck of dust in the place! And I'm wondering—did he find what he wanted?" He looked from one to the other of us. And it was Peyton who: ensw ered the question which he put. "I should say not!" he said, "No.' Jifferdene regarded him attentively knows where that thing :.whatever it and musingly, is—is, that soul's Lady Renardsmere! "Aye?—and what snakes you think And. , he'll go for her! Not, per- that, sir?" he asked. "You'll, have haps, this tiine, byrnurder." reasons?" , "Then he'll have to get out of Eng- "Good ones!" said Peyton. "Be; land," said L "Lady Renardsmere's cause I don't believe the thing—what- body of consequence about town; the on the Continent,' ever it is—was there to be found: Chinese gentleman he didn't, know, "How do you know that?" he sug Wasted time!". but like all journalists he was ready Bested. "She mayn't " 1 a:� n't be. From all "Where, then, do you think that enough to find out, and he was soon. u've told me, Cranage. I reckon this thing—as you say, whatever it is— told that he was Mr. Cheng, a Chin- ye old lady is playing'a fine game of may be, then, sir?" enquired : Defer - bluff! What I can't make out is just dene. "You're evidently well up in this—what's her game? What's this the matter!" thing she's got hold of? --for the possession of which murder's being done right and left? What is it? You tell me'she's amulti-millionaire! "I think the thing's in Lady Renards- —well. is there an thn she can't buy' here's that she lays a fancy to? What's this ' pocket!" y g Jifferdene sighed, and nodded sev- thing?" eral times—at nothing. • 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. Margaret C. Calder General Practitioner Graduate University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine Office -Josephine St., two doors south of Brunswick Hotel. 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'Walker. Telephone 150, 1 t111,111,1111111111,11a1,,ti,1 t,t11ti1111 tt1111111It11111,1111,111,1,11011 Phones: Office xo6, Resid, a4 A. J. WALKER UANITURE DEALER —and--- FUNERAL DIRECTO Motor Equipment , s WING1;iAIVI, ONTARIO GK1YAtlIrYYi011i1111ri1nnYiitl'tiiiYY,t"rurell'biiiulullnnlllYi"1'unYt1�. sold that thing to Lady Renardsmere for ten thousand pounds; Chuh Sin and,, his lot murdered Hollhnent, nuart.ervayne, Neamore and Pennith- Waite in an effort to recover possess- ion. But sure as we're breath- ing men, that Chinaman knows., by nowthat if there's one soul alive who "Oh, 1 did!—f,teft no' stoneunturn- ed to find her, because I knew that if I once got hold of her I could get some very necessary information out. of her," he .answered. "I-fowever, she got away. Well, as you know, soni:e days ago we decided. at headquarters to give the widest publicity to all this business, and to, take the press into full confidence,. and, accordingly, those long accounts of the whole thing, from our angle, appeared, first in the evening, then in the morning newspapers -just at the very date of ,your adventure with those three fellows whom I've seen this morning in Portsmouth Gaol, Wow yesterday I was called upon by the Paris representative\of the Daily Sentinel --he'd come over .toaLondon on business connected with his paper. He told me that the day before he left Paris he had' occasion to call at the Hotel Bristol, and that there he saw Lady Renardsmere in conversa- tion—with an old Chinese gentleman who was evidently .a person Of import- ance. He knew Lady Renardsmere well enough by sight, for he'd been a journalist in London before taking up his duties in Paris, and knew every-, "Read as much as I could of it in. the papers, and Mr. Cranage there has told inc more," responded - Peyton. "My own belief is that it's some Not so sure that I don't think that myself, he said softly. "And of immensely fine stone -a priceless dia- or somethingof that sort" I course, if this Chinaman gets :on to mond, that, . . then .. LadyRenardsmere answered. "1 gold.. you site's a craze n and will be the next." acquring that sort of thing s at nothingtoget hold of what - before you haven't Iaid hands on him stops before he gets at her," said I. "But ever it is she takes a liking for. I've do you,mean to tell me Jifferdene heard queer tales about her in that way—since I came here. But in this instance --why all the secrecy? For He got up, holding out a hand as y if to stave off further remark, I'll bet anythingthat when she bon - ht this thing from Neazno're she did ""I've had a rare lot of experience, n'tg;know but what it was a perfectly'. gentleman, in my time," he said, itinate transaction—I mean she , "I've seen some queer things and l eg strange things, and I've done some didn't know that the thingt 1 en property." "When did she know that it was?" he asked. "I think, when Miss. Hepple and..I had` a talk with her, and when the two detectives came down and she gave them the. slip," I replied. "That was when she cleared out." "Um!" he said, reflectively. ""I. guess I know what she did, too, when she cleared out!" "I wish I did!" I exclaimed. "What did she do?" "Seems pretty ' plain, Cranage, I think," he answered. "She went straight to Pennithwaite's office in London, and took away that thing' from him. And I should say that wherever she is, she's got it in her pocket. And that makes the situa- tion---" Just then a knock came at my door and. a footman entered. "Mr. Jifferdene to see you, sir," he announced, I turned in surprise; Jifferdene, alone, was already entering the room: it seemed to.me that he looked unusually grave. I hastened to intro- duce Peyton. "Whose name you've seen'in the papers, Jifferdene, in connection with our affair of the other night," I. said, "You know how those three men were collared—" "I've just come along from seeing 'em, at Portsmouth Gaol," he inter- rupted, sitting down between us. "I went down there first thing this morning to have a careful look at all three." "Did you know any of I asked. "Not dne,! Never set eyes ona mother's son of 'em before!" he re - was stol- en o things myself that have been called both clever and smart. But I'll- tell you this -I've never come across the equal of this chap for diabolical cunn- ing! But you didn't see him! There's no doubt that he's been in London ever since that affair in Portsmouth in whichyou took part, Mr. Cranage; no doubt, either, that those three fell- ows I' saw an hour ago are his tools or his accomelices, or both, but the pian himself—Lord save us! he might be a disembodied spirt, and—" "I guess you'll find him very ma- terial flesh and blood -yellow," inter- rupted Peyton. "Disembodied spirits•. don't carry knives!" } Jifferdene nodded again—at noth- ing. Then, remarking that he'd a car at the front and must be off, he said good -morning to Peyton, and motion- ed. me to follow him out. On the terrace, he turned confidentially— "Mr. onfidentially"Mr. Cranage," he whispered, "a word for you alone! You say you don't know where Lady Renardsmere is? I don't ":now where she may be to -day, but I know where she was three days ago. In Paris! She was seen at the Hotel Bristol there, And guesshwith whom?—seen in conversa- tion with him," "Hang guessing!" I retorted.' "Say man!" "Mr, Cheng!" he answered, with a meaning look."Mr. Cheng -whom- Chuh Sin robbed!" CHAPTER XX The Park Lane Butler ,fie `"stood looting at each other, in ,Silence, for a full minute: then, al- though there was no one nearer than a footman who stood at the hall door and a taxi -cabman who waited -at the foot of the steps leading from the plied. "Of coarse, ae you know, one terrace, we obeyed a common impulse has been identified—renegade young and walked away from the house, medico who's been ,knocking about "How do' you come tot know that, Portsmouth ever since he was turned Jifferdene?" I asked. "I'll tell you, Mr. Cranage," he an- awered. "As you know, we've sus- pected, almost from the first, that somehow or other Lady Renardsinese had got mixed up in ' this business: You know how she gave me the slip when I came down here.' That, of course, made 'things ' worse—why should she have wanted to get oat of my way unless she'd something to conceal? We tried to find her hi London,' at her big house in: Park Lane, then at . dee or, two fashionable hotels where she sometifnes stops no good at any of these places!' She may have been ---probably was -at her Park Lane 'house for an hour or two that afternoon of evening' that she slipped off from here, but after that there's no doubt she made off to the Continent, by way'of Dover -I got information that she'd been " seen at Dover, at the Lord Warden Hotel, that; night." "You did!"' I exclaimed. them?" eription of Chuh Sin from peotle at the Hotel Bristol who remembered him. He succeeded in doingso— very easily wand he's furnished me 1 with their account of the t to iirtan• we want so badly: if Mr. Cheng had been frank and open with us, . ,.:e might have been spareda• lot of trouble and there'd have been fewer of these mur- ders. Tliis Chuh Sin is one of those Chinamen who, they say, might very easily • pass for a European: he was given to dress very fashionably .,in Paris, and few people, in their `opin- ion, would have known hien for a Chinaman—though, to be sure, : they added,' whenseen in native dress, which he sometimes wore, the differ- ence' in his . appearskce was striking, Asfor the rest of :shim, he speaks French and English perfectly, English witheut a trace of accent, and is a very astute, ready -mannered person altogether. The hotel_ manager, who had a good deal of business to trans- act with him, spoke of him to - this journalist as . being a very clever,nian indeed—and I' think, Mr. Cranage, we know -him to' be so!" "We also know,(Jifferdene, that he's markedly disfigured," I said. "And so plight to be easily indentifable." "Aye!—at close quarters!" he agreed.. "But nobody's ever been at close quarters with hila -yet. How- ever, we're at work: But—what do ese financier of very high standing. you, suppose Lady Renardsmere was Now, this man had; of course, read up to with this old Cheng?" • all about these mysteries in the Lon- "I'm not going to speculate, Jiffer- don papers, .and had . seen Lady Re- nardsimere's name mentioned, and Mr. Cheng's, so he was naturally interest- ed in " seeing' them together, and, knowing that he wascoming over to London within a few hours, he deter- mined to call on us at. Scotland Yard and tell us what he'd seen. But, as hthen hada little time tc. spare, and out by a doctor who'd employed hitt, and upon whom the police had had an eye for spine time. But the others--- ii:obady's got a notion about their identity, yet. Tirne for that, though, Mr. Cranage, The thing is—there's no doubt they're members of that gang—the Chinarnans," "The thing—the real thing, Jiffer.- dem, is that the Chinaman's at lar- ge!' I said, `"Xfe"mti.rdered Mr, Pen- nithwaite! One Chinainan—with the lobe of an ear gone—against the en- tire resources of the London police!" He nodded, as if in full comprehen- sion of my meaning, -, but he looked neither ,offended nor crestfallen. And instead of making any answer or cont- inent, he suddenly Leaned forward and tapped my knee. „Cranage!" he said, "Do you know where Lady Renardsmere is?" "No!" I answered promptly. `"I don't! ]Do you" He made no answer to that, either. e*aswell up -in the case, which had keenly aroused his interest, he also determined, being on. the "spot, to give us a bit of practical help. And he did?" • - "How?" I asked. "What• practical help?" 'Well," continued Jifferdene; - "if you read the newspaper story, you'd see that it told straight out that Mr. Cheng was staying 'at that very Hotel' Bristol in Paris when he was robbed of some extraordinarily valuable ar- ticle—God knows what it may be, for -we don't -by his secretary, Chuh Sin. This' journalist—smart fellow! —thought he'd try to get some des - dene," I 'answered, "Lady Renards- mere has her own way of, doing things and she 'dislikes and'won't ha- ve interference, And—she reads the newpapers-•--a' great reader—and she'll know, therefore, what' going on, and her own danger." ' 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 mortga- ges on stock and on personal notes. A few farms •oni hand for sale or to rent on easy terms. JAS. GILMOUR Agent. For— CULROSS FIRE INSURANCE Insure in a Good Sound Company Box 267 Wingham, .Ont. or Phone 276. r 2 Thursday, Jene 24th., ze26. "Danger!" lie said. "Aye—if it's 'as I suspect,,that she' got mixed up with. this, she is,in danger, as long as that Clunaman's going, We're con- sidering sending over to Paris sidering about t se g v to see and warn her—but , ." "You'd . probably find „her • gone when you got there," I said. "My, own belief is that she'll not be seen here until just before the Derby." "The Derby !" he exclaimed. "To be pure, she'll 'come ,home for that! Well there's time for a lot of water to run under London Bridge before that comes', off, Mr. Cranage, though` It's getting near at hand. Now I'in go- ing." Ile shook bands and turned to- wards his ,cab, but''paused again, nodding at the house. "It's a won- der," he said in a confidential whis- per, "a wonder—to me—that there's been no attack on thail—on her, while she' was in' it. But -it's maybe that. he—or they—have only recently known that she was .concerned. Sup- posing—" up- posing--- "Supposing what, Jifferdene?" I asked. "Supposing you got a nocturnal visitor in the shape of the, Chinaman?' he suggested. ""It's 'possible!" e in the' areplentyof'men "There house—and firearms,.too," I answer- ed. "As for. myself,, I've carried a revolver in my hip -pocket for the last 'week." ' "Well, I thinkyou're wise" he re - 1 W , ,. marked. "Murder stalking at large, eh? Well, we can only do our best, Mr. Cranage. We're trying, whatev- er you may think." He went away then, and `I returned to Peyton, and to the , interminable discussion. Peyton had become pro- foundly interested" in, the affair into which he had been accidentally pitch - forked, and being a man . of means and leisure had made up his mind to see it through. Indeed, he could not very, well get away from ' it for a time,' for his evidence was necessary at the repeated bringings-up of „ the Imiscreants who were on remand, and whom he and I, Walker. and Peggie had to confront from the witness -box until we grew sick :of seeing their sullen or defiant countenances. As I could not extend Lady Renerds mere's hospitality to him for:. ever, Peyton took up his quarters at the Renardsmere Arms, a convenient centre for` keeping in touch with me and the police. As I had little to do at that time, he and I were, much to- gether, and we spent a great part of each day at, Manson Lodge, where • Rippling Ruby, guarded day and: night as if she had been . some Em- . ' press whose life and throne were1n danger, was completing her prepara- tions' for the Derby, This sort of thing was going, on when we arrived! within ene week of the Derby, And the situation then was this: The . Chinaman had not been found, nor. had the police spine across one single , trace if him, On :the strength of the evidence brought against them, in which the memoranda found .on the leader largely figured, the three men . had been duly )charged• with the mar - dere of Holliment, Quartervayne and' Neamore, and conunitted for trial at the next assizes: the identity ,of the leader had been fully established; as for the other two, they still flatly re- fused to give themLelves a name, and: tip to then the police had not : suc- ceeded in finding, out who they were. (Continued next week)' NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice is' hereby given, pursuant to. Section. 56, Chap. 121, of the. Revised'.' Statutes .of Ontario, that all :persons • having claims against the estate of Peter McLaren, deceased, who died on or about the twenty-thirdday of April, A. D. 19'26, at the Town of Wingham in the Province of Ontario, are requir- ed to send by post, prepaid, or to de- liver to R. Vanstone, Wingham, On- tario, Solicitor for the Executrix, on' . or before the twenty-eighth day of , June, A. D. 1926, their names and ad- dresses, with full particulars in writ- ing of their claims and the nature' of the securities (if any) held by them duly verified by a statutory decrara- tion. And further take notice that : after the said twenty-eighth day of June, 1926, the said execitrix will proceed. to distribute the assets of the. said es- tate among the parties entitled: thereto, having regard only to the claims of which she shall then have had notice, and the said executrix shall not • be liable for the said assets. or any part thereof to any person o€' whose claim she shall not then have received notice., DATED at Wingham this first day of June, A. D. 5926. R. VANSTONE, Wingham, Ont. 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