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Wingham, - Ontario GE By Percival Christopher Wren TI -IE GREATEST MYSTERI -STORY' EVER WRITTEN oris fight, and how every Frenchman FIRST READ THIS George Lawrence, an Englishman is travelling back to England, and on the platform, at Kano, he meets an old friend, Major Henri de Beaujolais, an officer of the French Foreign Legion: The major then begins to tell the foll- owing story: A messenger arrives ex- hausted in the fort in which the major is stationed. He tells of an attack by the Arabs at Zinderneuf. Beaujolais goes to the rescue with his men. On approaching the fort, he finds no Ar- abs. Everything is quiet,; and men are visible in the embrasures,' with DR. G. R. ROSS Graduate Royal College of Dental Surgeons Graduate University of Toronto Faculty of Dentistry Office Over. H. E. Isard's Store. guns pointing.- out_ into the desert. There is no sound, and on riding , and fixed his friend with the earnest to his horror that' troubled gaze of his bright brown closer, he learns •• all the -men in the fort, propped in! eye • , I 'W e l, George, who killed hin-an. d the embrasures are dead. NOW GO WITH THE STORY 1wh"O?h Ancient Marsnex_, yawned Lawrence. "What? "I feel like the Wedding Guest." "You look like one, my George," his Post..smiled smiled the Frenchman. Arabs. Every man killed at The Arabs beaten off. The fort in "Get on with it, Jolly." violate, untrodden by Arab foot. The "How was the Commandant of that ates closed. Within—the dead, and fort killed?" life ~vitt a g b ► "Someone threatened 'his WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES %razed mind was asking itselfas I realized that the.fort had• never been entered. Had a corpse bayoneted :that sous- �� officer, returned to its post, and flung the rifle to the horizon, Scarcely. o Had an Arab—expert in throwing knife or bayonet as in throwing the matrak possessed' himself of .a French bayonet, after some desert massacre of one of otir tiny expedi- tionary columns? And had he got near enough to the fort to throw it? And had it by chance, or. skill of the thrower, penetrated the heart of the Commandant. of the garrison?" "Possibly," said Lawrence. "So I thought for a moment," re- plied de Beaujolais, "though why a ' man armed with a reech-loading ri- fle, should leave the cover of the sand - hill, trench of palm tree, and go about throwing bayonets, I'don't know. And then I _remembered that the bayonet went through the breast of the sous - officer in a 'slightly upwar direction from front to back. Could a bayonet be thrown thus into the middle of a wide roof'?" „Soldd again," murmured Lawrence. No, Iliad to abandon that idea. As untenable as'the returning -corpse theory. And, I was driven, against common sense, to conclude that the officer had been bayoneted by one of his own men, the sole survivor, who had then detached the rifle from the bayonet and fled from the. fort. But why? If such was' the explanation of the' officer's death—why on earth had not the murderer shot him and calmly awaited the arrival:of the relieving force? supposed Naturally all,. would have that the brave Commandant had been shot, like all the rest by the Arabs. Instead of fleeing to certain death froth thirst and starvation, or torture at the hands of the Arabs, why had not the murderer awaited,. in comfort,. the'honours, reclanie, reward, and the promotion that would most assuredly should clamour for the blood of his murderer, Only a poor 'sous -officer of the Le- gion. But a hero for France to hon- our, And I would avenge him.! Such were my thoughts, my friend, as I realized the truth -what are yours?" "Tune for a spot of dinner," said George Lawrence, starting up. Next morning as the two lay awake on' the dusty bedding, begrimed, tous- led, pyjama -clad, awaiting the next, stop, bath, and breakfast, de Beaujol- ais lit a cigarette, turned on his side, have been his? Obviously the man wl•t lusting for.bloctdand vdangeance on acourtt, of:some, real o faneieda wrong—could murder his superior at such, a moment, would be the very net esee the; beauty of getting a rich'',and glorious • reward as a sequel to his revenge . Without a doubt he would have shot him through the head, propped him up with the rest, and a.cecpted the. congratulations of the relieving force for having conceiv- ed and executed the whole scheme of outwitting and defeating the Arabs, Wouldn't he, George?" '(Continued Next Week) The Musical Ecklarts, swiss bell ringers and variety entertainers, will appear at tlr"e Town Hall on Wednes- day .evening .next. Was it any wonder that my jaw dropped and I forgot allelse sene! as I stared and ds stared. v0. X e concA h fort in the Sahara, beseiged by W. ''` . HAM LY B.S., M.D., C.M. Special attention paid to diseases of Women ani, Children, having taken postgraduate work in Surgery, Bact- eriology and Scientific Medicine. Office in the Kerr Residence, 'be- tween the Queen's Hotel and the Bap- tist Church. All business given careful attention. Phone 54. P. O. Box i13. r.r. Ro.�tt. C. �.edmofd (Eng.) L.R.C.P. (Loud.) M.R.C.S. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Dr., Chisholm's old stand. . L. STEWA ';T 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. Telephones: Office 281, Residence 151 one of them ;slain by a French a� onet while he held a loaded revolver in his hand! the fort inviolate and un - ,your help. 1 must get to the bottom But was trodden by Arab foot? If so, w .hat of his. Where did I leave off.. . had become of int- trumpeter? Might ."God knows. I was asleep." n r,. the Aiabs be hiding below, wait - "Ah! I was on tile roof, pinning my *iter opportunity tc catch the r�`liev- ,Croiti on, .the breast of the brave ing: force unawares? might not there man I have ever met. Your General be an Arab eye at every rifle slit? Gordhumble soul had kept his obscureniature! This count - Might not the caserne, rooms, offices, and Flaghflying, as that sac count - sheds be packed with them? i try s an Absurdly improbable -and why did at Khartoum, and, like him, he should they have slain the Cominan had been relieved too late. Taut ..yes,I dant ,With a French bayonet? Would and there it flapped above my head, ' they not have hacked him to pieces • and recalled me tomyself. with sword and spear, and mufila LI I rose, drew my revolver, loaded it, and decapitated every corpse in the and walked to the door. As I was place? Was it like the wild Touareg 1 about to descend into that silence I. today so ,clever a trap with the prop- � had a little idea. • I looked at each of ed -up bodies, that a relieving lire the Watchers in turn. No. Each might fall into .their hands as well? man had his bayonet, of course I Never, Had the Arabs entered here,lhad not really supposed that one of the place would have .been a looted, I them had stabbed his officer and then blackened ruin ,defiled, disgusting,' gone back to bis post, and died •on strewn with pieces of what had been his feet! He would have fallen—or men.No, this was not. Arab work.' possibly have hung limply through the These Watchers, I felt certain 'had; I raised my weapon and been compelled by' the dead man, who t descended the stairs -- expecting I lay before me, to continue as defen-' know not what, in that sinister still- ders of the fort after their deaths. He ness—that had swallowed .up my tram was evidently a man. A bold resour- peter. And what, do you think I ceful, undaunted hero, sardonic, of found there my friend?" a macabre humour, as the Legion al- "Dunn ,," said Geo George and onnce ing. ways is. As each man fell ;throughout that Not even the manwho had fired two. long and awful clay, he had propped shots of. welcome! As I had felt him up, wounded or dead, set the rifle sure, really,all along, no Arab had in its place, fired it, and bluffed the entered the fort. That leapt to the Arabs into thinking that every wall eye at once. The place was as tight and every embrasure was fully mann- shut as this fist of mine—and as emp- ed. He must, at the last, have run :ty of Arab traces . The caserne was from point to point, firing a rifle from as orderly and tidy as when the behind its dead defender. .. Every now i men left it and stood to arms --the and then he must have blown the al-;paquetages on the shelves, the ,table arm that the bugler would never blow de I the 'apparatus is ande cleaning-bagshanghanging cb a the, again, in the ,lope that it would b gr and hasten the relieving force and im-I heads of the beds, the bedding £,, i - press the Arabs with the fear that! ed and straight . Therehad evidently the avengers .must be near. !been room -inspection just before the No wonder the Arabs never •charged sentry on the look -out platform had that fort, from each of whosee walls a' cried, Aux armes! Aux. artnes! Les rifle cracked continuously, and front' Arabes!' and all had rushed to their whose every embrasure • watched a' posts. fearless man whom they could rtot1 No, riot a thing was missing or aw- kill—or whose place seemed to be talc- • ry. The whole place might just have en, at once by another, if they did been made ready for an outgoing gar - kill hien. I rison ,to be taken over by the incom- All this passed through my mind in • ing garrison. No Arab through scaled ed a few seconds --and as I realizedl those walls nor wriggled g e what he had done ,and how he had 1 keyhole of the gate. The stores were f t murdered untouched—the rice, the biscuits„ the railway -share?” "Be serious, little George. I want Thursday, September 23rd, i 6 Farming Scholarships ASHFIELD Mrs. Rolston and son, of Clover Valley spent Sunday with the form; er's daugi;ter, Mrs. Cyril Campbell, Lanes. Mr .and Mrs. Graham and Reta, of Goderich„spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Roy Alton, Belfast. Mr, and. Mrs. J. 0. 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