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SMIIT !:1, British Appli- ance Specialist, 15 Downie St., Strat- ford, Ont. 3202-25 LEGAL 6 , Phone No. 91 JOHN J. 1HI'UGGARIID Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public, Etc. 1%:eattie Block - - Seaforth, Ont. R. S. HAYS Barrister, Solicitor, Conveyancer and Notary Public. Solicitor for the Dominion Bank. Office in rear of the Dominion Bank, Seaforth, Money to loan. :LEST & BEST Barristers, Solicitors, Conveyan- mrs and Notaries Public, Etc. Office in the Edge Building, opposite The Expositor Office. VlaliERIN ARY JOHN GRIEVE, V.S. Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin- ary College. All diseases of domestic imnimals treated. Calls promptly at- tended to and charges moderate. Vet- erinary Dentistry a specialty. Office and residence on Goderich Street, one door east of Dr. Mackay's Office, Sea - forth. A. R. CAMPBELL, V.S. Graduate of Ontario Veterinary College, University of Toronto. All diseases of domestic animals treated by the most modern principles. Charges reasonable. Day or night Balls promptly attended to. Office on Main Street, Hensall, opposite Town Hall. Phone 116. MEDICAL DR. W. C. SPROAT Graduate of Faculty of Medicine, University of Western Ontario, Lon • don. Member of College of Physic- ians and Surgeons of Ontario. Office in Aberhart's Drug Store, Main St., Seaforth. Phone 90. DR. R. P. L DOUGALL Honor graduate of Faculty of Medicine and Master of Science, Uni- versity of Western Ontario, London. Member of College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Office 2 doors east of post office. Phone 56, Hensall, Ontario. 3004-tf IID(';. A. NEWTON-BRADY ]Bayfield. Graduate Dublin University, Ire- land. Late Extern Assistant Master Rotunda Hospital for Women an'1 Children, Dublin. Office at residence lately occupied by Mrs. Parsons. Hours, 9 to 10 a.m., 6 to 7 p.m.; Sundays, 1 to 2 p.m. 2866-26 DR. IF. J. BURROWS Office and residence Goderich Street, east of the Methodist Church, Sea - forth. Phone 46. Coroner for the County of Huron. DR. C. MAC( AY C. Mackay, honor graduate of Trin- ity University, and gold medalist of Trinity Medical College; member of the College of Physicians and Sur - aeons of Ontario. DR. H. HUGH ROSS Graduate of University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, member of Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario; pass graduate courses in Chicago Clinical School of Chicago ; Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, London, England; University Hospital, Lon- don, England. Office -Back of Do- minion Bank, Seaforth. Phone No. 5. Night calls answered from residence, Victoria Street, Seaforth. DR. J. A. MUNN Successor to Dr. R. R. 1': i,ee Graduate of Northwestern Univers- ity, Chicago, Ill. Licentiate Royal College of Dental Surgeons, Toronto. Office over Sills' Hardware, Main St., Seaforth. Phone 151. uSe. F. .1. BECHELY Graduate Royal College of Dental Surgeons, Toronto. Office over W. R. Smith's Grocery, Main Street, Sea - forth. Phones: Office, 185 W; resi- dence, 185 J. 3055-tf CONSULTING ENGINEER S. W. Archibald, B.A.Sc. (Tor.), O.L.S., Registered Professional En- gineer and Land Surveyor. Associate Member Engineering Institute of Can- ada. Office Seaforth, Ontario. A UCTIONIEERS THOMAS BROWN Licensed auctioneer for the counties of Huron and Perth. Correspondence arrangements for sale dates can be made by calling The Expositor Office, Seaforth. Charges moderate, a n d satisfaction guaranteed. Phone 302. OSCAR KLOPP Honor Graduate Carey Jones' Na- tional School of Auctioneering, Chi- cago. Special course taken in e'ure Bred Live Stock,. Real Estate, Mer- chandise and Farm Sales. Rates ie keeping with prevailing market. Sat- igfaction assured. Write or wire, Oscar Klopp, Zurich, Ont. Phone, 18-$'3, 2866-25 B. T. ILUKER Licensed auctioneer for the Con . y of 1: uron. S.,'es attended for ' all parts of the county. Seven � ears' ex- perience in ),Manitoba and . 'r skatche- wan. Ternan reasonable. Phone No. 1791 r 11 Exeter, Centralia P.O., R.R. No. 1. Orders left at The 19tuson Ex- positorOffice, Seaforth, ptiomnptilyt. at- - By Rag= v`Tds1IIAIl M' ( °entlr'na from kat vwi esr ) Their captor pat on the opposite seat, hie pistol on 1� ! a knees. Through the holes of the (black mask a pair of brown eyes gleamed malevolently. But Mr, Reeder's interest was in the girl. The shock had struck the color from her Face, but he observed with thankfulness that her chief emotion was not fear. She was numb with amazement, end was stricken speech- less. The car had circled and was mov- ing swiftly back the way they had come. He felt the rise of the Canal bridge, and then the machine turned abruptly to the right and began the descent of a steep hill. They were running towards Rotherhithe -he had an extraordinary knowledge of Lon- don's topography. The journey was a short one. He felt the car wheels bump over an un- even roadway for a hundred yards, the body rocking uncomfortably, and then with a jar of brakes the ma- chine stopped suddenly. They were on a narrow muddy lane. On one side rose the arches of a railway aqueduct, on the other an op- en space bounded .by a high fence. Evidently the driver had pulled up short of their destination, for they had to squelch and slide through the thick mud for another fifty yards be- fore they came to a narrow gateway in the fence. Through this they struck a cinder -path leading to a square building, which Mr. Reeder guessed was a small factory of some kind. Their conductor flashed a lamp on the door, and in weather -worn let- ters the detective read: "The Storn-Filton Leather Comp- any." "Now!" said the man, as he turned a switch. "Now, my false -swearing and corrupt police official, I have a slight bill to settle with you." They were in a dusty lobby, en- closed on three sides by match'board walls. " `Account' is the word you want, Ras Lal," murmured Mr. Reeder. For a moment the man was taken aback, and then, snatching the mask from his face: "I am Ras Lal! And you shall re- pent it! For you and for your young missus this is indeed a cruel night of anxiety!" Mr. Reeder did not smile at the quaint English. The gun in the man's hand spoke all languages without er- ror, and could be as fatal in the hands of an unconscious humorist as if it were handled by the most sav- age of purists. And he was worried about the girl: she had not spoken a word since their capture. The colour lead 'come back to her cheeks, and that was a good sign. There was, too, a light in her eyes which Reeder could not associate with fear. Ras Lal, taking down a long cord that hung on a nail in the wooden partition, hesitated. "It is not necessary," he said, with an elaborate shrug of shoulder; "the room is sufficiently reconnoitred -you will be innocuous there." Flinging open a door, he motioned them to pass through and mount the bare stairs which faced them. At the top was a landing and a large steel door set in the solid brickwork. Pulling back the iron bolt, he push- ed at the door and it opened with a squeak. It was a large room, and had evidently been used for thes.stor- age of something inflammable, for the walls and floor were of rough - faced concrete and above a dusty desk an inscription was painted, "Dan- ger. Don't smoke in this ' store." There were no windows except one some eighteen inches square, the top of which was near the ceiling. In one corner of the room was a heap of grimy paper files, and on the desk a dozen small wooden boxes, one of which had been opened, for the nail - bristling lid was canted up at an angle. "-Make yourself content for half an hour or probably forty minutes," said Ras Lal, standing in the doorway with his ostentatious revolver. "At that time I shall come for your fe- male; to -morrow she will be on a ship with me, bound for -ah, who knows here?" "Shut the door as you go out," said Mr. J. G. Reeder; "there is an un- pleasant draught." Mr. Tommy Fenalow came on foot at two o'clock in the morning and, passing down the muddy lane, his electric torch suddenly revealed car marks. Tommy stopped like a man shot. His knees trembled beneath him and his heart entered his throat at the narrowest end. For a while he was undecided whether it would be better to run or walk away. He had no intention of going forward And then he heard a voice. It was Ras Lal's assistant, and he nearly swooned with joy. Stumbling for- ward, he came up to the shivering man. "Did that fool boss of yours bring the car along here?" he asked in a whisper. "Yas-Mr. Ras Lal," said Ram with whom the English language was not a strong point. "Then he's a fool!" growled Tom- my. "Gosh! he put my heart in my mouth!" Whilst Ram was getting together sufficient English to explain what had happened, Tommy passed on. He found his client sitting in the lobby, a black cheroot between his teeth, a smile of satisfaction on his dark face. "Welcome!" he said, as Tommy closed the door. "We have trapped the weasel." ileiever mind about the weasel," said the other impatiently. "Did you find the rupees?" Ras Lal shook his head. "But I left them in the store-'- n thousand notes. I thought you'd have got them and skipped before this," said Mr. Fenalow anxiously. "I have something more important 7). inn t Ss r i T C1M1a :'pGQ loaf E0 *4044 WV474061, my rap tll+rP a.tairso i 1l d 4P l � Q 4r lag and' threw ope ISP q 4D4bn': t0i e&4aaa4il-+-•'? he Said, and.. sal more, "'Why, it is 1111g. Penalowi?' Said bir, J.G. One bend held a packet of almost life -like rupee notes; as for the her hand- "You osighter known he carred p gun, you dam' black (baboon," seed Tommy. "An' to put him in d room where the stuff was, and a telephone. 'He was being driven to the local police station, and for the moment was- attached to his companion by links of steel. "It was a mere jest or a piece of practical joking, as I shall explain to the judge in the morning," said Ras airily. Tommy Fenalow's reply was un- printable. a 40;t P oPgva �E P 74.14 mad. ons all flim ander laed indrre, wino •zt d ll 'C. ' 4 r4. "+N,i'1',1p. bow wro!bi; itra7/Qa to d 1�'41O ,'.le cm'd'* 'KT; 'NA, hoz nir atrin , at ,t,,;1! .,,arli roots arf Ow night , a Ii" � nw our aopem�o d y ; l id tri l lfifi e. ly bag, lay h, nr . lil Orr e41'1' Troch� Iltoa4. amid fogpd wsatankl his teb.ie a small flat Loy . k •- arrived, his hnonraehee»er told tnt am by post that afternoen bo label! was addressed in typewritten characters "John. (Reeder, asri.," and the post- mark was Central Londo , Re cut the thin ribbon which tied it, stripped first t 1,. r brown paper and then, the silver tissue, and enposed a satiny lid, which he lifted daintily. There, under a layer of paper shav- ings, were roll upon roll of luscious confectionery. Chocolate, with mr without dainty extras, had an appeal for Mr. Reeder, and he took up a small globule garnished with crystal- lised violets and examined it admir- ingly. His housekeeper came in at that moment with his tea-tray and set it down on the table. Mr. Reeder look- ed over his large glasses. "Do you like chocolates, Mrs. Ker - rel?" he asked plaintively. "Wlhy, yes, sir," the elderly lady beamed. "So do I," said Mr. Reeder. "So do I!" and he shook his head regret- fully, as he replaced the chocolate carefully in the box. "Unfortunately he went on, "my doctor -a very ex- cellent man -has forbidden me all sorts of confectionery until they have been submitted to the rigorous test of the public analyst." Mrs. (ferrel was a slow thinker, but a study of current advertisement col- umns in the daily newspaper had en- larged to a very considerable extent her scientific knowledge. "To see if there is any vitamines in them, sir?" she suggested. Mr. Reeder shook his head. "No, I hardly think so," he said gently. "Vitamins are my sole diet. I can spend a whole evening with no other company than a pair of these interesting little fellows, and take no ill from them. Thank you, Mrs. Ker - rel." When she had gone, he replaced the layer of shavings with punctilious care, closed down the lid, and as carefully -wrapped the parcel. When it was finished he addressed the pack- age to a department at Scotland Yard, took from a small box a label printed redly "Poison." When this was done, he scribbled a note to the gentleman affected, and addressed himself to his muffins and his large tea cup. It was a quarter -past six in the evening when he had unwrapped the chocolates. It was exactly a quarter - past seven, as he turned out the lights preparatory to going to bed, that he said aloud: "Marylou Plessy-dear me!" Here began the war. This was Wednesday evening; on Friday morning the toilet of Marylou Plessy was interrupted by the arrival of two men who were waiting for her when she came into the sitting -room in her negligee. They talked about fingerprints found on chocolates and other such matters Thia the'dei on it pt s in the dock did not resent. e 'taw all about it. lit was the edge's curt postscript which made Dais "Sou will be ke$ ilea penal servi- tude for twenty Yer:aV That Marylou loved .the man is op - 'R en to question. The probabilities are that she did mot; 'bunt she hated Mr. Reeder, and she hafted him not be- cause he had brought her man to his undoing, but because, in the course of his evidence, he had used the phrase "the woman with whom the prisoner is associated," And Wir. John Reeder could have put her beside Plessy i1Cr the dock h. ,.. he so wished: she knew this too and loathed him for his mer- cifulness. Mrs. Plessy had a large flat in Portland Street. It was in a block which was the joint property of her- self and her husband, for their graft had 'been on the grand scale, and Mr Plessy owned race -horses 'before he owned a number in Parkhurst Con- vict Establishment. Amid here Mary- lou entertained lavishly. A few months after her husband went to prison, she dined tete-a-tete with Mo Liski, the biggest of the gang Ieaders and an uncrowned emperor of the underworld. He was a small dapper man who wore pince-nez and looked rather like a member of one of the learned professions. Yet he ruled the Strafes and the Sullivans and the Birklows, and his ward was law on a dozen race -tracks, in a score of spieling clubs and innumerable establishments less liable to police supervision. People opposing him were incontinently "coshed't--rival leaders more or less paid tribute and walked warily at that. He levied toll upon bookmakers and was immune from police interference -by reason of their two failures to convict him. Since there are white specks on the blackest coat, he had this redeem- ing feature, that Marylou Plessy was his ideal woman, and it is creditable in a thief to possess ideals, however unworthily they may be disposed. He listened intently to Marylou's views, playing with his thin watch - guard, his eyes on the embroidery of the tablecloth. But though he loved her, his native caution held him to reason. "That's all right, Marylou," he said. "I dare say I could get Reeder but what is going to happen then? There will 'be a squeak louder than a bus brake! And he's dangerous. I never worry about the regular busies but this old feller is in the Public Prosecutor's office, and he wasn't put there because he's silly. And just now I've got one of the biggest deals on that I've ever touched. Can't you 'do' him yourself? You're a clever woman: I don't know a cleverer." "Of course, if you're scared of Reeder-!" she said contemptuously, and a tolerant smile twisted his thin lips, "Me? Don't be silly, dearie! Show him a point yourself. If you can't get him, let me know. Scared of him. Listen! That old bird-wo'n`t.-'lose his feathers and be skinned for the pot 'before you could say `Mo Liski' if I wanted!" In the Public Prosecutor's office they had no doubt about Mr. Reeder's ability to take care of himself, and when Chief Inspector Pyne came over from the Yard to report that Marylou had 'been in conference with the most dangerous man in London, the Assist- ant Prosecutor grinned his amuse- ment. "No -Reeder wants no protection. I'll tell him if you like, but he prob- ably knows all about it. What are yon people doing about the Liski crowd?" Pyne pulled a long face. "We've had Liski twice, but well organized perjury has saved him. The Assistant Commissioner doesn't want him again till we get him with the blood on his hands, so to speak. He's dangerous." The Assistant Prosecutor nodded. "So is Reeder," he said ominously. "That man is a genial mamba! Nev- er seen a mamba? He's a nice black snake, and you're dead two seconds after he strikes!" The chief inspector's smile was one of incredulity. "He never impressed me that way -rabbit, yes, but snake, no!" Later in the morning a messenger brought Mr. Reeder to the chief's of- fice, and he arrived with that inef- fable air of apology and diffidence which gave the uninitiated such an altogether wrong idea of his calibre. He listened with closed eyes whilst his superior told him of the meeting between Liski and Marylou. "Yes, sir," he sighed, when the narrative came to an end. "I have heard rumours. Liski'? He is the person who associates with unlawful characters? In other days and under more favorable conditions he would have been the leader of a Florentine faction, An interesting man. With interesting friends." "I hope your interest remains im- personal," warned the lawyer, and Mr. Reeder sighed again, opened his mouth to speak, hesitated, and then: "Doesn't the continued freedom of Mr. Liski cast -um ----a reflection up- on our department, sir?" he asked. His chief looked up: it was an in- spiration which made him say: "Get him!" Mr. Reeder nodded very slowly. "I have often thought that it would he a good idea," he said. His gaze deepened in melancholy. "Liski has many acquaintances of a curious character," he said at. last. "Dutch- men, Russians, Jewish persons - he knows a Moor." The chief looked up quickly. "A Moor -you're thinking of the Nine Emeralds? My dear man, there are hundreds of Moors in London and thousands in Paris." "And millions in Morocco," mur- mured Mr. Reeder. "I only mention the Moor in passing, sir. As regards my friend Mrs. Plessy-41 hope only for the best." And he melted from the room. The greater part of a month seed before he showed any apparent in- terest in the case. He spent odd hours wandering in the neighborhood a 6 O a Three o'clock boomed out from St John's Church as Mr. Reeder accom- panied an excited girl to the front door of her boarding-house. "I can't tell you how I -I've enjoy- ed to -night," she said. Mr. Reeder glanced uneaoily at the dark face of the house. "I hope-er-your friends will not think it remarkable that you should return at such an hour--" Despite her assurance, he went slowly home with an uneasy feeling that her name had in some way been compromised. And in melodrama, when a heroine's name is compromis- ed, somebody has to marry her. That was the disturbing thought that kept Mr. Reeder awake all night. VII THE GREEN MMM I:A The spirit of exploration has ruined more promising careers than .drink, gambling or the smiles of women. Generallyspeaking, the beaten tracks of life are the safest, and few men have adventured into the uncharted spaces in search of easy money who have not regarded the discovery of the old hard road whence they stray- ed as the greatest of their achieve- ments. Mo Liski held an assured position in his world, and one acquired by the strenuous and even violent exercise of his many qualities. He might have gone on until the end of the chapter, only he fell for an outside proposi- tion, and, moreover, handicapped him- self with a private feud, which had its beginning in an affair wholly remote from his normal operations. There was a Moorish grafter nam- ed El Rahbut, who had made several visits to England, travelling by the banana boats which make the round trip from London River to Funchal Bay, Las Palmas, Tangier and Opor- to. He was a very ordinary, yellow - faced Moor, pock -marked and under- sized, and he spoke English, having in his youth fallen into the hands of a well-meaning American missionary. This man Rahbut was useful to Mo because quite a lot of German drugs are shipped via Trieste to the Levant, and many a crate of oranges has been landed in the Pool that had, squeezed in their golden interiors, little metal cylinders containing smuggled sac- charine, heroin, cocaine, hydrochlor- ate and divers other noxious medica- ments. Rahbut brought such things from time to time, was paid fairly and was satisfied. One day, in the saloon bar. of "The Four Jolly Seamen," he told Mo of a great steal. It had been carried out by a group of Anghera thieves working in Fez, and the loot was no less than the Emeralds of Suliman, the most treasured posses- sion of Morocco. Not even -Abdul Aziz in his most impecunious days had dared to remove them from the Mosque of Omar; the Anghera men being what they were, broke into the holy house, killed two guardians of the treasure, and had got away with the nine green stones of the great king. Thereafter amose an outcry which was heard from the bazars of Calcutta to the mean streets of Marsi-Karsi. But the men of Ang- here were superior to the voice of public opinion and they did no more than seek a buyer. El Rahbut, being a notorious bad character, came into the matter, and this was the tale he told to Mo Liski at "The Four Jolly Seamen" one foggy October night. "There is a million pesetas profit in this for you and me, Mr. Good man," said Rahbut (all Europeans who paid on the nail were "Mr. Good Man" to El Rahbut). "There is also death for me if this thing becomes known." Mo listened, smoothing his chin with a hand that sparkled and flash- ed dazzlingly. He was keen on orn- amentation. It was a little outside his line, hut the newspapers had stat- ed the bald value of the stolen prop- erty, and his blood was on fire at the prospect of earning half a million so easily. That Scotland Yard and every police headquarters in the world were on the look -out for the nine stones of Suliman did not greatly dis- turb him. He knew the subterranean way down which a polished stone might slide; and if the worst came to the worst, there was a reward of £5,000 for the recovery of the jew- els. "I'll think it over; where is the stuff?" "Here," said Rahbut, to the other's surprise. "In ten -twenty minutes I could lay them on your hands, Mr. Good Man." Here seemed a straightforward piece of negotiation; it was doubly unfortunate that at that very period he should find himself mixed up in an affair which promised no profit whatever -the feud of Marylou Plessy, which was to become his be- cause of his high regard for the lady. When a woman is,'bad, she is us- ually very had indeed, and Marylou Plessy was an extremely malignant woman. She was rather tall and handsome, with black sleek hair, 'boy- ishly shingled, and a heavy black fringe that covered a forehead of some distinction. Mr. Reeder saw her once: he was at the Central Criminal Court giving evidence against Bartholomew Xavier Plessy, an ingenious Frenchman who discovered a new way of making old money. His forgeries were well-nigh undetectable, 'but Mr. Reeder was no ordinary man. Be not only detected Half an hour later a dazed woman sat in the cells at Harl'boro Street and listened to 'an inspector's recital of her offence. At the following ses- sions she went down for two years on a charge of "conveying by post to John Reeder a poisonous substance, to wit aconite, with intent to mur- der." To the last Mo Liski sat in court, his drawn, haggard face testifying to the strength of his affection for the woman in the dock. After she dis- appeared from the dock he went out- side into the 'big, windy hall, and there and then made his first mis- take. 1Mr. Reeder was putting on his woollen gloves when the dapper man strode up to him. "Name of Reeder?" "That is my name, sir." Mr. Reeder survey him benevolent- ly over. his glasses. He had the ex- pectant air of one who has steeled himself to receive congratulations. "Mine is Mo Liski. You've sent down a friend of mine " "Mrs. Plessy?" "Yes -you know! Reeder, I'm go- ing to get you for that!" Instantly somebody behind him caught his arm in a vice and swung him around. It was a City detec- tive. "Take a walk with me," he said. Mo went white. Remember that he owed the strength of his position to the fact that never once had he been convicted: the register did not bear his name. "What's the charge?" he asked huskily. "Intimidation of a Crown witness and using threatening language," said the officer. Mo came up before the Aldermen at the Guildhall the next morning and was sent to prison for three weeks, and Mr. Reeder, who knew the threat would come and was ready to counter with the traditional swiftness cf the mamba, felt that he had scored a point. The gang leader was, in the parlance of the law, "a convicted per- son." "I don't think anything will hap- pen until he conies out," he said to Pyne, when he was offered a police protection', "He will find a great deal of satisfaction in arranging the details of my -um -`hashing,' and I feel sure that he will postpone action until he is free. I had better have that protection until he comes out,-" "After he comes out, you mean ?" "Until he comes out," insisted Mr. Reeder carefully. "After -well -um -i'd rather like to 'be unhampered by--um--police protection." Mo Liski came to his liberty with all his senses alert. The cat -caution which had, with only one 'beak, kept him clear of trouble, dominated his every plan. 'Cold-bloodedly he curs- ed himself for jeopardisin•h his em- erald deal, and his first step was to get into touch with El Rahbut. But there was a maddening new factor in his life: the hitter conscious- ness of his fallibility and the fear that the men he had ruled so com- pletely might, in consequence, at- tempt to break away from their al- legiance. There was something more that► sentiment behind this fear. Mo drew close on fifteen thousand a Av,agga 23 kp Septzgraber 79 1929 RRANGE your vacation for the last week in August and the first week in September, Come to Toronto and take part in the spectacular Empire Year celebra- tion of the Canadian National Exhibition. Enjoy a distinctly d • 1; erent, never - to - be - forgotten holiday combining education and recreation at the world's ' rgest annual exhibition -a diversified 14 -day program of agriculture, in- dustry, science, music, art, sport, pageantry, entertainment -a vivid, colorful expression of Canadian, Empire and international progress and prosperity. Reduced railriwi., steamship and airways rates. Perfect highways. Ampbe accommodation. r,. THOMAS IBRADSHAW President 1-1 W. WATERS General Manager Opening of the new $1dIlZ,0,0130' Automotive Building 4th Wrigleq Marathoi, SDim his two events -Friday, Aug. 23, (women). and Wednesday, Aug. 28, (open) for $50,000' and world championship. Inspiring daily concerts by the Goldman and other famous bands. - Four concerts by the 2,000 - voice Exhibition Chorus -Aug. 24 and 29, September 3 and 7. Stupendous military and naval, grand stand spectacle !Britannia's Muster" $125,000 Agricultural Prize List. Trotting and Pacing Races and $5,000 Futurities. International sport program on land and water featuring Can - adds oldest track meet and out- board motorboat races, National Aircraft Show and Carnival of the Clouds- tlj year from his racecourse and club- house victims alone. There were pickings on the side; his "crowd" largely controlled a continental drug traffic worth thousands a year. Which may read romantic and imaginative, but was true. Not all the "bunce" came to Mo and his men. There were pickings for the carrion fowl as well as for the wolves. lie must fix Reeder. That was the first move. And fix him so that there was no recoil. To beat him up one night would be an easy matter, but that would look too much like carrying into execution the threat which had put him behind bars. Ob- viously some ingenuity was called for; some exquisite punishment more poignant than the shock of clubs. Men of Mr. Liski's peculiar calling do not meet their lieutenant in dark cellars, nor do they wear cloaks or masks to disguise their identities. The big six who controlled the in- terests serving Mo Liski came to- gether on the night of his release, and the gathering was at a Soho restaurant, where a private dining - room was engaged in the ordinary way. "I'm glad nobody touched him whilst I was away," said Mo with a little smile. "I'd like to manage this game myself. I've been doing some thinking whilst I was in bird, and there's a good way to deal with him." "He had two coppers with him all the time, or I'd have coshed him for you, Mo," said Teddy Alfield, his chief of staff. "And I'd have coshed you, Teddy," said Mr. Liski ominously. "I left or- ders that he wasn't to be touched, didn't I? What do you mean by `you'd have coshed him'?" Alfield, a big -shouldered man whose speciality was the "knocking -off" of unattended motor -cars, grew incoher- ent. "You stick to your job," snarled Mo. "I'll fix Reeder, He's got a girl in Brockley; a young woman who is always going about with him -Bel - man's her name and she lives nearly opposite his house. We don't want to heat him up --yet. What we want to do is to get him out of his job, and that's easy. They fired a man in the Home Office last week because he was found at the '95' Club after drinking hours." He outlined a simple plan. (Continued next week) In a Wiltshire churchyard is to be seen the following amusing example of rustic grammar: "Her shall not return to we, But us do hope to go to shee." And that is really how they do talk, in Wiltshire. AVERAGE AUTO iHIAS SIX YEARS TO LIVE The "life" of the average antoino- bile is six years and nine months. The average cost of operation for a four cylinder car is 6.43 cents per mile and for silt -cylinder car 8AO cents per mile, based on a normal annual mileage of 11,000 miles. These statistics were announced re- cently by the American Motorists" Association from data supplied by motor manufacturers and by study- ing the records of 800 typical auto- mobiles. Maintenance, followed by depreciation and gasoline consump- tion, led the cost items. LONDON AND QJIINGEAM North. clam. p.m.. Centralia 10.36 5.511 Exeter 10.49 6.04 Hensall 11.03 6.18, Kippers 11.08 6.23 Brucefield 11.17 6.22' (163) (165) Clinton 11.53 6.52 Lon diesboro 12.13 7.12 Blyth 12.22 7.27E Belgrave ..... 12.34 7.33 Wingham 12.50 South. Wingham Belgrave ... Blyth Londesboro Clinton Brucefield ii ppen a ensall Exeter Centralma a.m. p.mm.. 6.55 3.05, 7.15 3.25 7.27 3." 7.35 7.56 7.58 (162) 8.22 8.32 8.47 8.59 C. N. IIB. TIME TABLE East. 8.4'7 4.1®' 4.28 (164)- 4.38 164)- 4.38 4.48 5.05 5.17 Goderich 6.20 2: 6/ Ero!''mesviIle 6.36 2.37 Clinton 6.44 2.50 Seaforth 6.59 8.08 St. Columban 7.06 8.15 Dublin 7.11. 8.22 Dublin St. Columban Seaforth .., Clinton Holmesville . • Goderich West. a.m. p.m. p.m 11.17 5.88 0 .7 11.22 5.44 .... 11.33 5.53 9.50' 11.50 8.08-6.53 10.041 12.01 7.03 10.13 12.20 7.20 10.30 C. P. R. TIME TABLE East. Goderich Itfenset lr/fcGaw Auburn Blyth Walton fvlcblaugh.t Toronto Weal, Toronto il/1eitTaught Balton Myth Atibburn RUG== NteYr;oy3t ... a • ..........645. ectvlel a.mn. 525 0.041 0.11 0.20 0.416 1®.n