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E By Percival Christopher Wren THE GREATEST MYSTERY STORY EVER WRITTEN reakommeiwiwmiiimesiime (Continued from last week), cence and ignorance in the matter,;I 1 "Very well," said my aunt, "since had no option (especially in view of thefool ool won't leave his folly. my catching him at the spPt) but to Come here Claudia, . Have you conclude that Michael had been what touched the `Blue, Water' since the I had never known him to be before— Chaplain restored it to its place?" a fool, a cad, and a liar. She laid her hand on Claudia's arin; I could have struck him for hurting drew her close, and looked into her himself so. eyes. t . "Michael," said Aunt Patricia very "No, Aunt. " gravely, very coldly, and very sadly, • "No aunt," said Claudia again . • "I'm sorry. More so than I can tell "Of course not,", said Aunt Patric- you, Michael, Please put the `Blue ia• "Go to bed, dear. Good night." Water' back, and I will say no more. And Claudia departed, not without But 'I doubt whether I shall feel like an indignant glance, at me. calling you 'Beau," for some time." "Come here, Isobel," continued my "I can't put it back, Aunt, for I hav aunt. "Have you touched the 'Blue en't got it," said Michael quietly, and Water' since the Chaplain put it back my heart bounded. inits place?' "Do you know where it is Micla- fa No aunt, I have not,"replied Iso- ael? asked my aunt. bel. "I do not, Aunt," was the imanedi= Isobel turned to go and then stopp- ate reply. ed. "Have you touched the sapphire "But I might have done, Aunt, if since,the Chaplain did, Michael?" was the idea had occurred to me," ,.she the next question. said... "It is just a joke of course." "I have not, Aunt," was the quiet "Bed," rejoined her aunt, and Isobel answer. departed with a kind glance at me. ! "Do you know anything about its Aunt Patricia turned to Augustus. disappearance . Michael?" asked the "Come here," she said coldly, and hard level voice. with a hard stare into his somewhat 1 "I only know that I had nothing shifty eyes. "Please answer abso- whatever to do with its disappearance, Irately truthfully—for your own sake 'Aunt," answered my brother, and I If you have got the 'Blue Water' and was aghast, give it me .now, I shall not say anoth- i "Do you declare that all you have er word about the matter. Have you?" • just said is the absolute truth, Mich - "I swear to God, aunt. ," broke 'ael?" was the final question out Augustus. 1 "I declare it to be the whole truth, `WINGHA,M AlAr Wienmins Thursday, Dece b r 214,1<926. .of this room at midnight and keen. the think," answered Digby, and we three keys, except the key of that one." straightened the disordered room while Bring it to me Digby. . Thank you. Augustus, sullenly watched us, with an "This key I shall pat in the old .angry bitter sneer, and an occasional brass box on the ledge above thefire- snarl of "Beastly humbugs," or "Ly- place in the outer ball, The servants' ing hypocrites:" will have gone 'to bed and will know : "Come to the smoking -room, you anything of its where abouts; I ask" two?" said Digby to Michael and me, the ,liar, whois present, to take op- when we had finished. portunity of returning the sapphire "Yes—go and fi it up, cads," urged during the night, relocking the door, Augustus. r andreplacing thekey in the brass P g box. "Go to bed, Ghastly," replied Dig - If this is not done by the time I come by, "and don't forget the key will be down to -morrow, I shall have to cont in the brass box on :the • /edge over elude that the liar is a thief and act the fire -place in the outer hall. Bun' g accordingly. For form's sake I shall off." tell Claudia and Isobel." "For two damns I'd sit in the hall "Come Maurice," she added, rising all night, and see who comes for it," and tatting the Chaplain's arm.."I•do was the reply and the speaker glanc- hope you won't let this worry you and el at me. give you a sleepless night." "Don't let ipe find you there, or 1 The poor Chaplain looked too un- shall slap you," said Digby. happy, bewildered, and bemused to "No, 1 shouldn't be popular if lr speak, went there now and refused to budge, Having locked two of the doors, should I?" was the angry retort, Lady Brandon followed by the Chap- "Lord! It's a long worm that has lain, swept from the room without a no turning," cryptically remarked Dig - "Good night," to any of us. by, as Augustus took what was meant 1 I think we heaved 'a sigh of :relief, to be a dignified departure. "And a 1 as the door shut. I certainly did. long lane that has no public -house," And now, what? he added. Digby turned to Augustus. "Either that lad's innocent, or he's "Oh, you unutterable cheese -mite" a really accomplished young actor," I he said, apparently more in sorrow observed, looking after the retreating than in anger. "I think de -bagging Augustus as we crossed the hall, is indicated. . And a leather belt," where v'e said "Good night," to a he added, "unless anyone's pumps are yawning footman, and made our. way nice and swishy." down a corridor to the smokng'room. I said nothing. It was not the hand "Well, my sons, what about it?" of Augustus that I had caught feeling said - Michael, poking up the fire, as for the cover. we threw ourselves into deep leather He glared from one to the other of 'armchairs and produced pipes . us like a trapped rat, and almost "Pretty go if the damned thing shrieked as Digby seized him. isn't there in the morning," said Dig "You lying swine," he shouted. "Who was by the table when the light failed and came on again? Who • •"You need not swear to God, nor i and nothing but the truth," was the was grabbing who, when Isobel ti rn to me Augustus," was the cold reply. final answer. ed it on?" What was I to think? Certainly I I looked at Michael, and Michael could not think that Michael was ly-looked at me. "Yes," screamed Augustus, seeing the look, and wriggling free. "By Jove!" said Digby, "if he pinch- ed it, he's got it. .Come to my arms, Gus!" and in a moment he was sitting upon the prostrate form of the "Yes or No. Have you got it?" "No, Aunt! I take my solemn oath L . . ." the unhappy youth replied ing. Equally certainly I could not vehemently, the cold voice interrupt- forget. that I had caught his hand on ed: the glass cover. "Have you touched the sapphire since On the whole, if I had to doubt ei' the Chaplain put it under its cover?" ther Michael or the evidence of my "No, Aunt. Really, I haven't I as- senses, I preferred to do the latter. sure you I. . . ." began Augustus, When we got out of that terrible hysterically indignant youth, and 'eel- sto be again interrupted by,the cold room, I would go to him: when he ing the pockets of hidinner jacket question: was alone, and say, "Beau, old chap, from the out -side. "Do you know where the 'Blue Wat- just tell me you didn't touch the Not in his breast -pockets. . , side er' is now?" thing—and if you say you didn't, • .Waistcoat. .trousers no— the "No Aunt," promptly replied he, there's an absolute end of it?' And beggar hasn't got it unless he has "upon my soul I don't. If I' did, I'd so there would be as far as I was swallowed it," announced Digby. Then jolly well. concerned. . "Might have shoved it behind a "John," said my aunt, without fur- On hearing his last words, any aunt, cushion or clopped it somewhere. sat andstared at Michael. At length ther notice of Augustus, "do you know Come on, out with it, Gus, and let's where the stone is? she began to speak in a low frozen get to bed." "No, Aunt," I replied, and added, voice."You` filthy, lying, beastly cad," "nor have I touched it since the Chap- blubbered Augustus in reply, showing lain did." the courage of a cornered rat. "This is inexpressibly vulgar and disgusting," she began. "One of half aozen boys and girls, who have 11 practica y grown up here, is .a des - likable liar, and, apparently, a comm- on thief—or an uncommon one. I ani still unable to think the latter. Listen. . .I shall leave the cover where it is and I shall lock the doors She 'favoured me with a long, long d .1 don't think he had ever defied or look, which I was able to meet quite insulted either' of my brothers before calmly, and I hope not at all rudely. .in his life. As I looked away, my eyes met 'Mich- I expected to see him promptly suf- ael`s. He was watching me queer- fer grief and pain at their hands, but ly. Michael .did the unexpected as usual - Then came Digby's turn . He said "Wiry, I believe the little man's' in - quite simply and plainly that he knew nocent after all," he said kindly. nothing about the jewel's disappear- +� "You know I am, you damned hypo- ance, and.had not touched it since it crite," shouted Augustus. "Weren't was passed to him by Clatdia, and you and John fumbling at the 'cover OPPORTUNITY Local representative wanted by lar- ge Montreal Banking House. Re- ply in ow;n hand, writing stating age, experience f and ', a free to' de- vote whole time. Unusual opportunity for energet- ic man ofgood standing. Reply by S1 letter to Sale Manager Room 524 INSURANCE EXCHANGE BLG, MONTREAL, P. Q. handed on by him to Isobel when she turned the light on—you There remained Michael. He was cowardly blackguards." the culprit, or else one of us had told Digby's hand closed on the scruff a most deliberate, calculated. and c.ir- of the boy's neck, cumstantial lie, inexcusable and dis- "If I have accused you wrongly, graceful. Gussie, I'1 humbly apologise and make I felt angrier: with Michael than I it up to you," said he. 'But if -we had ever done in my life, yet I was an- find you did do it—oh, niy little Gus- grier rather for him than with him. It sie. . .!"" was so utterly unlike himto do such "And if you find it was Michael, or a stupid thing, and to allow all this John, or yourself? sneered the`dis- unpleasant undignified inquisition to bevelled' and shaking Augustus, ' go on, when a word from him would DENTIST Michael looked. hard at me and I have ended it. looked hard at him. ' Why, must my idol act as though Office Over John Galbraith's Store "Look here," said Digby, "presum- lie had feet of clay, -or, at any rate, ably the thing is in the room. Aunt smear clay upon his feet? The joke - wouldn't pinch`Iher own jewel, The Make your home brighter with Del- was unworthy, but the lie was really co Light.The dependable farm Chaplain has no use- for it nor thirty painfully so.thousand pounds. No one. supposes I have no objection to the good Electric Service. Isobel did it—nor 'Claudia. That p t thatvery present Get our new glow price and easy leaves us four, and we l aven't been thumping lie, is "a terms, help in time o£ trouble," told at the out of the room. ''Cosine o'ki, find it HENRY JOHANN right time and in the i"iglit cause (such Gussie, and I'll swear that T put g as to save the other fellow's bacon.) Delco Light Dealer there," and Digby began throwing But I have the strongest distaste for Crlennannan Ontario. cushions from sofas and chairs, tnov- a silly lie that merely gives annoyance ing footstools ,turnnig up rugs, and to other people, and puts blame upon GEORGE A. SIDDALL generally hunting about, the while he an innocent person, encouraged himself, and presumably —Broker---- From. the moment I had caught DR. O. W. HOWSON Y Phone 73. Lucknow, Ontario. Augustus with cries of "Good dog! , him in the act of trying to return the Fetch 'em boy! . .Seize 'em Gussie! jewel secretly, I had felt sick with in- Money to lend on ;fiarst and reward Sick 'em pup! Worry 'im Gus!"' and di nation y physically mortgages on farm and other real es- joyful barks. g , and literally , .d tate properties ata reasonable rate of sick when hisc effort i fit to t . a edn bytc • 'Michael r�el an d I searched ine Interest, also on first Chattel mortga- methodically he had pretended innocence, and held and minutely, until it was perfectly on for another opportunity of return- ger on stock and on personal notes. clear that the "Blue Water" was not A few farms on, hand for sale or to ing the thing unseen. in the room, unless far more skilfully rent on easy terns, Had I not thyself caught him in the concealed than, would have been pos- very act, he was, of all., of us, the last sible int the dark and in the few min - person whom I should have suspected, JAS. GDLMIOU Utes at the disposal of anyone who He and Isobel, that is to say. 1 shouldR i •.' yLICENSED AUCTIONEER wished to hide it. have strongly suspected Augustus, and Sales' conducted at reasonable rates, "Well, that's that," said Dgby at his innocence established" 1 :should Sati faeti last. "We'd better Push off s noon Guaranteed. . i before laat'e strongly supposed that Digb'v —APor— Atint conies down to lock the d l e our. I had fallen a victim. to his incurable. gent don't want to s CUL1tOSS FIRE XNSURANCE ee her' again to -night, love of joking -.though :I should have. rnsirro in a Good Sound Coliapatt Damned if 1 don't' fool guilty as Soon y „ een greatly surprised. • 1302 26y Wingham, Ont, as she looks ate me. TIS$ Digby then been proved innP� or )Phone 216 r a "Perhaps you are!" snarled Aligns- cent, I ant afraid I should have sins tus. pected Claudia of wishing tditurn the "You never' know, do you?" grinned THOMAS FELLS Digby. limelight on herself by an innocently • :" naughty escapade—before - « . p fo should ev AUCTIONEER Better tidy up, a bit before we g eI er have entertained the idea taf •Tvlich- — REAL ESTATE SOLD =— go," suggested Michael "Servanti ael doing it and denyingit, A thorough aowlldge of Rum will Sle!l a rat if it's like ke this 'to• lgow that all had firmly and tate- Stock hetet grieally declared their absolute nao- mor rov;" . 'ii g attt' .. Smcli a herd of elephants; I sh0tald by. "I wonder if she'dsend to Scot- land yard?" he added, blowing a long cloud of smoke towards the ceiling. "Filthy business," said Michael. "Fancy a fat mystery -merchant prowl- ing about here and questioning every- body! "What a lark!" chuckled Digby. "Jolly glad the servants are out of it all right, poor beggars." "Beastly vulgar business, as Aunt said," observed Michael. "And a bit on her too—apart from any question of thirty thousand pounds," said I. "Shake her faith a bit in human nature, what?" said Digby. "But, damn it—the beastly thing will be there all ring in the morning." "I hope to God it will," said I from. the bottom of my heart, and found that Michael and I were staring at each other again. "Reconstruct the dreadful crime,"' :suggested Digby. "Wash out Aunt and the Chaplain." "And the girls," said Michael. "If' anyone even, glanced at the possibil- ity of Claudia stealing, I'd wring his beastly neck until he could see down his beastly back." "I'd wring the neck of anyone who even glanced at the possibility of Iso- bel stealing—until he hadn't a head on it to see with," added Digby. Wouldn't it be too silly to be worth noticing at all?" I asked. I was think particularly of Isobel. 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Ballot -Box Box for the Pony' comes- t0• /, ■ tants. Look over the list of popular boys and girls in Wingham ■ . ■ entered in the Contest and vote for your favorite. ■ ■ • ■ • • MI■ 111MI■ it," said. Michael. "Nothing but gen- a tame injured innocence would have giv- ■ en him the pluck to call us 'Filthy ■ liars," and 'Damned 'hypocrites.' You • 'know, if he'd been guilty, he'd have im ■ ■ been conciliatory, voluble, and. tearful —oh, altogether different. A much more humble parishioner." ' "Believe you're right, Beau," agreed Digby. "Nothing like; a sense of in- justice to put you up on the bough. 'Sides young Gus hasn't the guts to pinch anything really valuable, .and if he'd taken it for a lark, and hadn't been able to put it back, he'd have hidden it behind a cushion till he could . I quite expected to find it in some such t place..That's 5 wlay I gave him the chance. . . If he has got it, he'll shove it back to -night," lie ad- ded. "He hasn't, said Michael—and, again Michael and I"fund ourselves looking at each other., "Well—that leaves tis throe then," said I. • "It does," said Michael. a: u can Yo count: me outold son," grinned Digby. "Search me." "Which .reminds one, by the way, that we didn't search otirselves, or each other, when we searched Gussie,' said I. "it would have been fairer." `Most undignified and unnecessary,' eSSat"y,' put in Michael. "So Gussie seemed to find," chuck- led Digby: - "Then that leaves you and me, John said :Michael. "Yes', it leaves me and you, Beau," I agreed, and again we stared at each, other, 'I did not take the `Blue Water,' Beata,' said, "Not did 1, John," said Michael, "!.Chen there's a misdeal somewhere a remarked Digby, "and Gussie must hive ,done it , Anyhow—it'll be put baelt h the !night, , ` Must bei" (Continued Next Week), Every Store in the- Contest is making special offerings each • rpt week for you to take advantage of and at the same time will sup- ■' ply you with, the Pony Votes.' Donk miss this opportunity of hel- pingthat boy or girl win the Pony." ■a H. E. ISARD & CO., Dry Goods, Ladies,' Wear and. Men's Cloth- ®i ing 'and Furnishings. GREERS, (The,Good Shoe Store) R. A. CURRIE, Furniture. T. H. GIBSON, Central Bakery RAE & THOMPSON, Hard're. NORTH END GROCERY. W. C. REID, •Garage,, RUSH MILLINERY STORE. McKIBBON''S DRUG STORE; Druggists. 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