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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1926-12-23, Page 6'r. '.3 WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES.. known . Sad, sad, sad! Give my 'eye to : Claudia. 1 Ever thine, Michael" It can't be true," I said. "It's im- possible," "Of course it is, fat -head," replied Digby. "He's off'on the romantic tack. Taking the blame and all that, ." Shieldinghis little broth - BUSINESS ,CARDS WELLINGTON MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE CO. Established 184o, Ie,ad Office, Gtielph, Ont. Risks taken on all classes of ins+ar- ance at reasonable 'rates. A$NER COSENS, Agent, Winglaam J. W. • „Ym Office in Chisholm Block FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT AND HEALTH INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE P. O. Box 360 Phone 24o WINGHAM, R - ONTARIO DE `I' LEY HOLMES BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC., Victory and Other Bonds Bought and sold. Office—Meyer Block, Wingharn R. VANSTONE BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. Money to Loan at Lowest Rates Wingham, - Ontario J. A. MORTON BARRISTER, ETC. Wingham, Ontario D . G. D. 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Osteopathy Electricity Telephone 272. By Percivaal. Christopher Wren THE GREATEST MYSTERY STORY EVER WRITTEN FIRST READ THIS "we shall all think of you, I'm sure The three Geste brothers, John, Anyhow, we are all sorry we were un - Digby and Michael, are inseparable in kind and suspicious." their 'boyhood and youth. Michael or "Beau" is the leader. They live with their aunt, Lady Brandon in En- gland. Lady Brandon owns the "Blue Water," a valuable sapphire. One evening Lady Brandon, the Chap- lain, Claudia, Isobel,, Michael, Augus- tus Brandon and John are together and someone suggests a look at the "Suspicious! You!" said Augustus,. "Huh !" "Yes—and I'm - sorry I searched you, Ghastly," put in Digby. , unsearch you by and by, if you're not careful," he addled. And then David and Burton came in with the next course, After lunch, feeling disgruntled and precious gem . Lady Brandon brings miserable, I went along to the billiard- it out. They were looking at it when room to knock the balls about, as one the lights go out and when they are could not very well leave the house in again turned on the sapphire has lis-! face of Lady Brandon's request, appeared. Everyone disclaims anyAugustus was oetore me and I turn - knowledge of its disappearance: Lady'ed to retreat. .1 was in no mood to Brandon gives the person who took suffer Augustus gladly: it until the next day to return it, but the next day it is still missing. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY I had restored to the box the brilli- ance which had been its before I soaped it, and was giving it a final ° 'Yes," said I, going out, "you could wipe with the silk, when the door hardly `believe' your ears, could you?" from the corridor swung open, Mich- and I am afraid that the anger I felt ael entered, and I was caught in the was almost entirely due to my con- act, eviction that he was absolutely inno- And then I saw that in :his hand cent. Isobel could not very viell.be was a piece of wash -leather and a sit- , rnistakep. 1 suppose that Augustus ver -duster, presumably purloined from !must have quite forgotten the inci- the butler's pantry! + dent until Isobel mentioned it or else "Ah!' he said. "Removing all traces t had never noticed it at all. Certainly of the crime?" :that was far more probable, than that "Sound plan too," he observed. ;'Isobel had made a mistake as to who "Just going to do it myself," and he she had clutched in the darkness, es - passed on. pecially as she did not leave go until Having finished my task, I placed the lights came on and :started us all the fingers of my right hand on top !blinking at each other: of the box, my thumb on the front 1 I went up to my bedroom, feeling and left as fair and clear a set of deadly tired after my wakeful night finger prints as I could contrive. and all the worry, and threw myself How could it possibly matter to me on my bed. if a detective identified them as mine? I was awakened from a heavy sleep I hadn't taken the `Blue Water," and by the entrance of Digby a couple of nobody could prove that I had. hours later . He held a letter in his And why was Michael so anxious hand. that his finger -marks should not be "Hi, hog," quoth he, "wake up and found there as a piece of evidence to listen. . .Latest edition," and he sat be coupled with the fact that I had himself down heavily on the foot of been seen, holding his wrist, above the the bed. glass cover, when the lights were jturned on? I went up to my room despairing, "Police come yet?" he jeered. "No you're safe for the present," I replied. "You heard what Isobel said at lunch," he squealed, to ".What's up now?" I yawned, rub- bing my eyes: "We've got to use our wits and do and trying to recall what I had read sornething to help Beau. Show the" somewhere, about the method of ex- mettle of our pastures and all that. • amining finger prints . I believe they Bean's done a bunk. Left this note blow a fine powder on to them and then apply carbon paper, or tissue -pa- per, and take a photograph of the re- sult. Anyhow, if Aunt had been wily enough to polish the box, just where we would touch it, so that she could get the finger -prints of the person who opened it, she'd get mine all right and those of nobody else, when the detectives came. Aunt Patricia did not appear at lunch, nor did Claudia. The Chaplain was still ill in bed. A. R. & F. E. DUVAL': CHIROPRACTIC SPECIALISTS, Members C• A. ;0. Graduates of Canadian Chiroprac- tic College, Toronto. Office in Craw- ford. Block, four doors north of Post Office. Hours 2 to 5; 7 to 8.3o p. in. and by appointments. ` Special appointments made for those coming any distance. Out of town and night calls re- sponded to. Phones: -Office, 300, Residence x on 6o1. Bo J. ALVIN FOX k DRUGLESS PRAC'I'IONER CHIROPRACTIC AND DRUGLESS PRACTICE ELECTRO -THERAPY Phone 191. srs I0 -I2 a m•, 0-5, 7-8 p, m. or by appointment. . . el�, NES CHIROPRACTOR ' ELECTRICITY Adjustments given Mr diseases of all kinds, specialize in dealing with children. Lady attendant. Night Calls responded to, Office on Scott St., Wingham,. Ont. Telephone t5o. �, {,iijWi,, 1, 11Y,11111',.tl,iiY,YiY,1%„YliftYfl,Y1YtlY111/��tiMYliii'YIi1tlNR phones: Office xo6, Resid. a' A.. J. WALKER - P''fl IeIIICtIEE DEALER grid EUI EEAL DI1 .ECTO>k lltotor t4uipment "ING:&tAM, - ONTARIO ''elkYe,,exneklNsBrtl�arYetlbrE'toll!'!'uYf�lldM6e5tlNYIRIeNedelfAa1e86rWN61 1 ! As Burdon and a footman always waited at that meal, there was no general conversation on the one sub- ject of interest to tis all. It was a painful meal, to me at any rate, -though Digby seemed per- fectly happy, and Michael unconcern- ed. The only reference to the theft was during a brief absence of the servants. , "Did you tell Aunt what you pro- posed to tell her?'What did she say?" asked Michael of Isobel. "Yes. . .She said, somewhat cryp- tically, 'Virtue is its own reward( and nothin else replied Isobel. g se, .. re u "Gussie," said Digby, "Isobel has— one cannot say `bearded'' of a lady let us say faced—Aunt Patricia in her wrath, in order to tell her that you must be absolutely innocent of sin, and quite above or beneath suspicion." "What do you mean?" snarled Au- gustus. "She very kindly went to the lion- ess's den," continued Digby, "to say that she seized you and hung ,on to you last night while the ,lights were out --'and that, therefore, you could not possibly have gone to the table and pinched the sapphire, as she was hanging on to your aria. I sincerely apologize to you,, Gussie. and hope you'll forgive me." "My arm?" said Augustus, in' deep "arid genuine surprise, ignoring the apology ,and quickly adding, "Oh—yes —er---s,f course . Thanks Isobel,". We all looked at .hint, I had been. watching him when he spoke, and to me his surprise was perfectly obvious. "Then Aunt knows I didn't do it?" he said, "Yes—I thought you might have done soy" replied our Augustus, "Isobel is not so keen on exculpat- ing herself too, you see;" said I, glar- ing at the creature, "If she were'. holding your arum, she could not have gone to .the table herself. Proving your innocence proves her own," f "Wellshe might have thought of trio," he grtlnlbled, "She has,Gussie" said Michael, with David. Says he pinched the 'Blue Water,' and isn't going to face the police." "What?" I cried. "Read it;" said Digby, and passed. the letter to me. "My dear Dig," it ran. "I have told David to give you this at four o'clock, by which time I shall be well one my way to—where I am going. Will yon please tell Aunt that there isno furth- er need to chivvy any of you about the 'Blue Water.' If the police come or a nsystery-merchant from Scotland Yard, tell them that you knew that I was in sore straights—or is it straits (or crookeds?) for money, but that you think that this is my first offence and I must have been led away by bad companions (you and 'John, of an eye course). KEEP y on young g John, ) and toll him l hope he'll be a good boy. If I send you an address later, it will be in absolute confidence, and relying wholly on your utterly refus- ing to give it to ANYBODY, for any reason whatsoever. I do hope that things will settle down quickly and quietly, now that: the criminal is er.' . " "Which?" I. asked. "No," said Digby. "Me?" I asked. "Subtle mathematician; observed Digby. "But I didn't do it," I said. "Nor did I," said Digby, and added, "Let's say 'Taking the blame and .thinning he's shielding his little broth- er' then." "But, Dig," I exposulated, "do you think Beau seriously supposes for one moment that you or I would steal a valuable jewel—and from Aunt Pa- tricia of all people?" "Somebody%as stolen it, +haven't they?" said Digby. "And` I tell you I what, my lad,", he added; "you say that Beau would never seriously sup- pose that you or I would steal itz:: but you yourself seriously- supposed" that Beau had!" "How do you know?" I asked, ag- hast, "By the way 'you looked at him—oh, half a dozen times." "I had reason to suspect him," I said. "What reason—except that you caught hold to his wrist in the dark, when he was probably doing just what you were doing, trying to catch Gus- sie in the act of putting it bac? asked Digby. "I'd rather not say any more about it, Dig," I replied. "It's Beau's bus- iness after all, and. `` . • "You?" "Don't be a colossal ass," interrupt- ed Digby, "Of course it's Beau's bus- iness, and that's what we are talk- ing about. The more we both know, he is guilty, Which, of course, he isn't the more we can help him to get a- way or come back. . . .1f we knew we could draw red herrings across his trail; and if we knew he is innocent, which he is, we Could lay for the real thief and catch him out." - " 13eau doesn't want him caught out, evidently," said I. "What—not if it's the miserable Gussie?" asked my brother indignant - 13r. "It isn't," said I, and eBau knows it "Well—let's have those reasons, and we'll get to work," said Digby. "You needn't feel as though you were giv- ing Beau away. There is no more harm in my knowing than in your knowing, and there may be some good. ' I am not asking you to tell Aunt, or the police, am I, bun -head. This was true enough. No harm could result from Digby's knowing all. that I knew. Moreover, if, as ♦Digby assumed, Michael were shielding somebody else, presumably he_would welcome any ev- idence that strengthened the. case a- gainst himself. 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"1'11 eke the etle, there is aterhatg and shove imine on too, and fog ' like the telephone. After alli. go your voice is you! - the Sherlocks. . .But yoti really arc a goat," he went. on, "Don't you see that Beati was probably going to, do precisely' what you were doing? He was going' to polish 'the beastly thing clean of all foot -marks, and then' jab thisown on." I "Why?" •I asked. "To shield the real culprit, o'I Thursday, December 23rd, tea6 a � 1►111 mr i Iruun �i�'i l l � 1 He'd heard all the Radios then he bought a Rogers [Batterylessl HE first . tune he saw and heard a Rogers he decided that here—at last—was the radio. JIt provided a Christmas thrill supreme!' of installation and ease, tone quality and volume of operation; Eliminatign of batteries,'simplicity. 1 of these features. See —the new' 1927 Rogers Batteryless is the only Radio that embodies al and hear it before you buy. 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"Going to see if the 'Blue Wter' had been ,returned," I replied. "Anyhow, Beau hadn't returned it, had he?" grinned Digby. "No—but at the time- I aturally enough, thought he had," said I "and I suppose it fixed the ideaa in my, mind. I .first got the idea -naturally enough again—rvhen I caught his hand hovering over the glass cover in the darkness." "Anything else?" asked Digby. "Yes, the third reason I had for suspecting Beau—though I -put my faith in him before all reason—was that I found hirh going to the brass box with 'a leather and duster to rub out the finger -prints he had made in taking and returning the key." Digby whistled. "Ingenious," he • murmured. . "As artful as our Auntie, if she had the idea. . .Detectives would have the idea anyhow." ' "I think she diff have the idea," I said. "I believe she went straight from the drawing -room and polished all the finger -marks from the lid and front of the damned thing." "And how do you know that Beau was on to the dodge?' asked Digby. "He said so. He came into the hall with the cleaning -things in his over the telephone mean a great deal!" $'Indeed they do! As soon as I reeognizecl 'he voice, I real-, - ized what it really means to be able to say that distance is no longer a barrier. It's wonder- ful to be alive in this age of marvels, when one can sit at - home and chat with friends miles away!" course," said Digby patiently: "He didn't know," answered Dig- "Yes—but why?" I repeated. "Why I,by. "But isn't it as clear as mud,. should Beau be a gratuitous ass and : that sipce it wasn't .Gussie or Isobel, take the blame instead of Gussie, it was you or me—or 'else Claudia?'". I was silent. "Now, look here; John," went ons Digby. ."'NIX said, and time to do. "Because he knew it wasn't Gus- something instead. But first of all, sie," replied my brothersolemnly.' do you still suspect Beau?" "Who •then?" I asked. - (Continued on Page 7) for example? 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