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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1929-09-06, Page 7=0 1 Y 11 .1 t fii El I--,-• 11 �Iw MIM W 4,?J -% c ii % mim . p t, eq ,V,,,&, % Sp ITIr Ik DUL ., &a 3 ,, •T''�I�ic, " ,I. m'raduate atn+�J¢1�%$ � WI ` 'r�ron o.a Vort� 1a1te aasuota ut New 701 -Ojph �u . Mel and Aural lastitaut o, �iaaoF01al' - TvYe -aaad Golden q utare 7 maat Hu0- tltals, London, ua _ . A't Co en' QR Total ea a $a)r tlA �1�Ar� � Q4na a � 11 >m each mraouatln, raDsan AA a.rnA. to $ esus do Waterlaso b -matt. .'�e"anuinh RiiVra RVA if -none 257, atratfuud. Next visit in SOptemmbare ]Rupture, 'Varicocele, V�'aricose Vol=, �dominal vJ'ea'kness, Spinal 17Def@drni- Q ConsuDtation Its r®e. �afll or Write. J. G. SMMTH IBritisk AADpli- =C0 Specialist, 15 IIDowul'Q Sit.,�trat- 20rd, out. gD �-25 ILIEGAL Phone No. 9A ZGIIN 1. HUGGARBBD ]Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public, Etc, Beattie Block - - Seaforth, Ont. R. S. RAYS ]Barrister, Solicitor, Conveyancer and Notary Public. Solicitor for the ]Dominion Bank, Office in rear of the Dominion n Bank Seaforth. Money to Roan. y BEST & BEST Barristers, 'Solicitors, Conveyan- ears and Notaries Public, Etc. Office stn the Edge Building, opposite The Expositor Office. VETERINARY JOAN GRIEVE, V.S. Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin- tury College. All diseases of domestic animals treated. Calls promptly at. tended to and charges moderate.`iTet- cerinary Dentistry a specialty. Office and residence on Goderich Street, one door east of Dr. Mackay's Office, Sea- 2orth. A. R. CAMPBELL, V.S. Graduate of Ontario Veterm* ary College, 'University of Toronto. All diseases of domestic animals treated [by t h e m o s t modern principles. Charges reasonable. Day or night calls promptly attended to. Office on Main Street, Hensall, opposite Town Hall. Phone 116. - - MEDICAL DR. W. C. SPRBOAT Graduate of Faculty of Medicine, University of Western Ontario, Lon. i don. Member of College of Physic- i flans and Surgeons of Ontario. Ofiica nn Aberhart's Drug Store, Main St., [Seaforth. Phone 90. ]DRB., R8. P. R. IDOUGALL - i Honor graduate of Faculty of c Medicine and Master of Science, Uni- versity of Western Ontario, London. a Member of College of Physicians and 1 Surgeons of Ontario. Office 2 doors I (Bast of post office, Phone 56, Hensall, f Ontario. 3004-tf DR. A. NEWTON-BRADY3 Bayfield. a Graduate Dubliin University, Ire- c Band. Late Extern Assistant Master , Rotunda 'Hospital for Women and Children, Dublin. Office at residence I Mately occupied by Mrs. Parsons. Hours, 9 to 10 a.m., 6 to 7 p.m. • 1 Sundays, 1 to 2 p.m. 2866-28 I DR. F. J. BURROWS s Office and residence Goderich Street, I (Bast of the Method -est Church, Sea- t 17orth. Phone 46. Coroner for the County of Huron. e I IDR. C. MACKAYI C. Mackay, honor graduate of Trin- I Sity University, and gold medalist of r Trinity Medical College; member of I Ae College of Physicians and Sur- t aeons of Ontario. e ]DRB. H. HUGH ROSS I Graduate of University of Toronto e (Faculty of Medicine, member of Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons of a Ontario; pass graduate courses in Chicago Clinical School of Chicago ; Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, London, t ]England; University Hospital, Lon- I don, England. Office Back of Do- s minion Bank, Seaforth. Phone No. 5. e Night calls answered from residence, i Victoria Street, Seaforth. i ]DRB. J. A. Bili UNN c Successor to Dr. R. R. Ross I Graduate of Northwestern Univers- t ity, Chicago, 'Ili. Licentiate Royal f College of Dental Surgeons, Toronto. Office over Sills' Hardware, Main St., I Seaforth. Phone 151. ]IDRB. F. J. BIECH ELY] Graduate Royal College of Dental t Surgeons, Toronto. Office over TV. R. I ]Smith's Grocery, 'Main Street, Sea- c forth. Phones: Office, 185 W; resi- dence, 1815 J. 3065-tf r CONSULTING ]ENGINEER 1 f S. W. Archibald, B.A.'Sc. (Tor.), f O.L.S., Registered Professional En- gineer and Land Surveyor. Associate I Member Engineering Institute of Can- e Can- ada. Office Seaforth, Ontario. AUCTIONEERS i THOMAS BRBOWIN c Licensed auctioneer for the counties ` of Huron and Perth. Correspondence arrangements for sale dates can be 9 made by calling The Expositor Office i 'Seaforth. Charges moderate, a n satisfaction guaranteed. Phone 302. OSCAR KLOPP r Honor Graduate Carey Jones' Na- ; tional School of Auctioneering, Chi- a cago. Special course taken in aura 1 ]Bred ]Live Stock, Real Estate, Boer- f (sbandise and Farm Sales. Rates 1n seeping with ppevailing market. Sat- , fidaction assured. 'Vrite or wir0, Oscan Rflo", Mm-lclk, Ont,, IPhormae, A8 28. 256- . Ra IT, i0mm i lA wneed auatiotd 2&i ` Shu COW�p , 08 Huron. Salon , AICA. 0 , , to . l 21 , 0x the coun.w. '0eb©Mt pt+ t3 carr • CJC�!Y,tt1II�. gTofi° na �Sak".„+ F� Itw Ono ��pp�.,q��. ' NO'�7N 1't 1 '6dxi0v,J6a �, k aep 1s`uoJ ' A• rzafld,s-e Beau fs� �. c"I x� lam tps&tosr � - I0*h t. rr a I , , Ont -KIM. -_-, J; mom.. :a..�, y i.1. "I" u: ` 11Q IJ I -I G-. A . I e , erl­ I 'd Re '' - � . +Oy ��0Al� IW4l4&acEl QCo a , � kit �D Mrs. Hambleton told how griesnda-•- aand they a arid- khat there Wee sae fool hike an old fool, and that mar. ria,ps •b twean tlAe old -and thea youusnZ invariably and in the divorce eour8 Q'Rlecanfoar v way ind July). she used to leave copies of a favorite Sank day newspaper on his table, where h0 could not fail to see the 4ariang headl- Dinw: Old Man's Wedding Romance Mire's 'Perfidy ]Brings Grey Hair in Sorrow to the Lava' Courts. Whether Mr. Reeder perused these human documents she did not know. He never referred to the tragedies of ill-assorted unions, and went on meeting Miss Belman every morning at nine o'clock, and at five -five in the afternoons whenever his business per- mitted. He so rarely discussed his own busi- ness or introduced the subject that was exercising his mind that it was remarkable he should make even an oblique reference to his work. Pos- sibly he would not have done so if Miss Margaret Belman had not intro- iuced (unwillingly) a leader of con- versation which traced indirectly to ;he disappearances. They had been talking of holidays: Wargaret was going to Cromer for a 'ortnight. "I shall leave on the second. My monthly dividends (doesn't that sound ,rand?) are due on the first-" `Re der slued round. Dividends in nost companies are paid at half- rearly intervals. Dividends, Miss Margaret?" ,She flushed a little at his surprise ind then laughed. "You didn't realize that I was a voman of property?" she bantered Sim. "I receive ten pounds a mmith -my father left me a little house >roperty when he died. I sold the cottages two years ago for a thous- tnd pounds and found a wonderful nvestment." Mr. Reeder made a rapid calcula- ion. "You are drawing something like 2% per cent.," he said. "That is ndeed a wonderful investment. What s the name of the company?" She hesitated. "14m afraid I can't tell you that. 'ou see -well, it's rather secret. It s to do with a South American syndi- ate that supplies arms to --what do ou call them -insurgents! I know it s rather dreadful to make money that ray -I mean out of arms and things, ut it pays terribly well and I can't fford to miss the opportunity." Reeder frowned. "'But why is it such a terrible see - et?" he asked. "Quite a number of espectable people make money out f armament concerns." Algain she showed reluctance to ex - lain her meaning. "We are pledged -the shareholders mean -not to divulge our connection rith the company," she said. "That s one of the agreements I had to ign. And the money comes regular - y. I have had nearly £300 of my zousand back in dividends already." "Humph!" said Mr. Reeder, wise nough not to press his question. 'here was another day to -morrow. But the opportunity to which he Coked forward on the following iornin'g was denied to him. Some- ody played a grim "joke" on him - ie kind of joke to which he was ac- astomed, for there were men who ad good reason to hate him, and nee - r a year passed but one or the other ought to repay him for his unkindly ttentions. "Your name is Reeder, ain't it?" Mr. Reeder, tightly grasping his mbrella with both hands, looked over is spectacles at the shabby man who tood at the bottom of the steps. He ras on the point of leaving his house i the Brockley Road for his office in Vhitehall, and since he was a metho- ical man and worked to a time -table e resented in his mild way this in- �rruption which had already cost him fteen seconds of valuable time. "You're the fellow who shopped Ike Talker, ain't you?" Mr. Reeder had indeed "shopped" zany men. He was by profession a hopper, which, translated from the rgot, means a man who procures ne arrest of an evildoer. Ike Welker e knew very well indeed. He was a (ever, a too cleverd forger of bills of xchange, and was at that precise roment almost permanently employ - d as orderly in the convict prison at )artmoor, and might account himself ortunate if he held this easy job for he rest of his twelve years' sentence. His interrogator was a little hard - aced man wearing a suit that bad vidently been originally intended for omeb-ody of greater girth and more ommanding height. His trousers were urned up noticeably; his waistcoat ras full of folds, and tucks which my an amateur tailor would have ared, and only one superior to the riticism of his fellows would have corn. His hard, bright eyes were xd on 'Mr. Reeder, but there was o menace in them so far as the de- ective could read. "Yes, I was instrumental in arrest - ng Ike Walker," said Mr. Reeder, a] - lost gently. The man put his hand in his pocket nd brought out a crumpled packet nciosed in green oiled silk. Mr. Ueeder unfolded the covering and ound a soiled and crumpled envelope. t°That's from Ike," said the man. He sent it out of stir by a gent who ras disabarged yesterday." Mr. Reeder was not shocked by this evelat$an. Ilia knew that prison ules were made to be (broken, and hat worse things have happened in he host regula dl jails than this items ,f a smuggled fetter, Re opened the se his a eg on t envelope, 1 erp'iaag F he nan's face, took out the Crumpled Iheet and read the ,five Or sixr lifaes If Writing. Dear Readea re ifi ar ibit 04 va i ea: fox g'i<AUB T%at odder peopaO hta'M got, YOU - r -` . ,.: ,r Il' ;�; 3 i r., r11'�!'. I , a , y 4 to vft,,�', 940nd ift VA&MIrwa• (doing a twolve stretch bea:c um, you went can too. witneas attalr4+ az4l tofu at 0 11 to � 0.. �) ,Br. 20,edor loollmd up 044 Moll eyes: meet. 417our Wand Is as little ma, one, thinks?" he asked onto ly, "He ain't a 2rien of mmine..A "geui asked me to bring it," said the mes, $angerr. "Onthe contrary," said 29re Reeden Pleasantly, "he gave it to you in Dort - moor Prison yesterday. Your name Is Mills; you have eight convictions for. burglary, and will have your ninth before the year is out. You were re- leased two days ago -b saw you re- porting at Scotland Yard." .. The man was for the moment alarmed and in two minds to bolt, Mr. Reeder glanced along Brockley Road, saw a slim' figure, that ' was ,standing at the corner, cross to a waiting tramcar, and, seeing his op- portunity vanish, readjusted his time table. "Come inside, Mr. Mills." "I don't want to come inside," said Mr. :Mills, now thoroughly agitated. "He asked me to give this to you and I've in give it. There's nothing else --- )a g 'Vier. Reeder crooked his finger. "Come, birdie!" he said, with great amiability. "And please don't annoy mel I am quite capable of sending you back to your friend Mr. Walker, I am really a most unpleasant man if I am upset." The messenger followed meekly, wiped his boots with great vigour on the mat and tiptoed up the carpeted stairs to the big study where Mr.. Reeder did most of his thinking. "Sit down, Mills." With his own hands Mr. Reeder placed a chair for his uncomfortable visitor, and then, pulling another up to his big writing table, he spread the letter before pian, adjusted his glass- es, read, his lips moving, and then leaned back in his chair. "I give it up," he said. "Read me this riddle." "I don't know what's in the let- ter-" began the man. "Read me this riddle." As he handed the letter across the table, the man betrayed himself, for he rose and pushed back his chair with a startled, horrified expression that told Mr. Reeder quite a lot. He laid the letter down on his desk, took a large tumbler from the sideboard, in- verted it and covered the scrawled paper. Then: "Wait," he said, "and don't move till I come back." And there was an unaccustomed venom in his tone that made the visi- tor shudder. Reeder passed out of the room to the bathroom, pulled up his sleeves with a quick jerk of his arm and, "urning the faucet, let hot water run over his hands before he reached for i small bottle on a shelf, poured a iberal portion into the water .and let nis hands soak. This done, for three minutes he scrubbed his fingers with a nailbrush, dried them, and, remov ing his coat and waistcoat carefully, hung them over the edge of the bath. He went back to his uncomfortable uest in his shirt -sleeves. "Our friend Walker is employed in ;he hospital?" he stated rather than asked. "What have you had there - scarlet fever or something worse " He glanced down at the letter un- ier the glass. "Scarlet fever, of course," he said, `and the letter has been systematical - ,y infected. Walker is almost clev- m" The wood of a fire was laid in the ;rate. 'He carried the letter and the dotting paper to the hearth, lit the cindling and thrust paper and letter nto the flames. "Almost clever," he said musingly. 'Of course, he is one of the orderlies n the hospital. It was scarlet fever I think you said?" The gaping man nodded. "Of a virulent type, of course. How very fascinating!" He thrust his hands in his pockets and looked down benevolently at the wretched emissary of the vengeful Walker. "You may go now Mills," he said ;ently. "I rather think that you are nfected. That ridiculous piece of oil - A silk is quite inadequate -which means 'quite useless' -as a protection against wandering germs. You will lave scarlet fever in three days, and will probably be dead at the end of ;he week. I will send you a wreath." He opened the door, pointed to the stairway and the man slunk out. Mr. Reeder watched him through ;he 'window, saw him cross the street and disappear round the corner into ;he Lewisham Heigh Road, and then, ;oing up to his bedroom, he put on a newer frock -coat and waistcoat, drew )n his hands a pair of fabric gloves ind went forth to his labours. He did not expect to meet Mr. Mills again, never dreaming that the gen- tleman from Dartmoor was planning i "bust" which would bring them a- ;ain into contact. For Mr. Reeder ;he incident was closed. That day news of another disap- pearance had come through from po- lice head -quarters, and Mr. Reeder was waiting at ten minutes before Rve at the rendezvous for the girl who, he instinctively knew, could give him a thread of the clue. He was de termined that this time his inquiries >houM bear fruit; but it was not un- til they bad reached the end of Brockley Road, and he was walking Slowly up towards the girl's boarding house, that she gave him a hint. '"Why are you so persistent, Mr. Reeder?" sbe asked, a little impatient- ly, "Do you wish to invest money? Because, if you do, I'm sorry I can't help you. That is another agreement we made, that we would not introduce neve shareholders." Mr. Raeder stopped, took off his hat and rubbed the back of his head (his housekeeper, watching him from an upper window, was perfeetly certain he oras' proposing and had been re- jected) . "I am going to tall you something, Miss. Belman, and if hope­wthat I Bli all not alarms YOU." 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H ..._,,. , ,, ry,�,.,.:,, , friend had mentioned mn name, "F; fA d �. . ^' . -, , � ^ L' , - o pd y meg auaai "'She left at b4if-past 9040,, was ao a wail is ausara r s1 f4 sa :a ^'iv, t a, Spy u� ���nr�d .r lt�a ; . gave full partioulara of the Invest. the surprising news, "Soarmeksand tele- '� � , '� �' �, ' �� ��r :F� Al, "����u+ �1 ;:�t4d�y 4;Zt . ` atsent,9f steps flue to i s r d11D u ?„ . ? .v" r e t , plaonaal Bier arae sine asised ssa© aff a lea �A� f � . ,?l �k��, � kcA�� ,,k?vW, a'I lro you that Rc r?°° sin® mm3glat Cao sear& :' t >��rpp, �P ' :4iP� � 4 ^'* "�"l`` ',, ,�i ,; t r I—- , r.'ha .lao®1C I1aer lea £ A P5 hY'f 9 J fir' rd$ n°E o f „'r i fr:. ti SWyf...+d r 47 # �dt� ins i. ,t •°N�a I was a partlwa�rly asked to 'D sand PJdr. a r blcasalzly slouu9. roau&ad auaaIl tui A k,r is � (He did not go to bad that mriCaht9 upon t'he spea�lscar, It l4� w� , � bring It with mss errla. a II went to see but sat up iia a small room at Scot- Belmm`ara, who basil;F n gsy y ay 7PO tbemm. Although, in paint oQ feet, I land Yard, reading the 'brief reports of sacks whore She toop ,40 Asda, never diad see them," smiled the girl. which carne flan from the various di- "I'm aFrod, I've, dot yeas Into' =V "X wrote to their 1 rorgers- will you visions. And with the morning came bad trouble," she said, gsadl lap =Vt wait I have their letter." the sickening realization that War- velled at her ,mlm. Mr. Reeder waited at the goon garet Belmzn'z name must be added "How Ions have y�unp�7�b�een here`' yes l'1• whilst the girl went into the house to those who had disappeared in such '"Since last millet," she Owe and returned presently with a sumll extraordinary circumstances. "Mr. !Bracher telephone me to portfolio, from whIeW she took a He dozed in the big VkMndsor chair. Glee him and he me up in his ear.. quarto sheet. It was headed with At eight o'clock he returned to his ,pieked They kept me in the other room u,u- the name of a legal firm, Bracher & own house and shaved and bathed, til to -night, but an hour ago they Bracher, and was the usual formal and when the Public Prosecutor ar- brought me here." type of letter one expects from a rived at his office he found Mr. "Which is the other room?" lawyer. Reeder waiting for him in the corri- She pointed to the steel door. She "]Dear Madam," it ran, "Re Mexico dor. It was a changed Mr. Reeder, offered no further details of her =p - City Investment Syndicate: We act and the change was not due entirely tore, and it was not a moment to dis- as lawyers to this syndicate, and so to lack of sleep. His voice was shar- cuss their misfortune. Reeder went far as we know it is a reputable con- per; he had lost some of that atmos- up the steps and tried the door; it cern. We feel that it as only due ioph ere of apology ogy which usually en- was fastened from tine other side, and us that we should say that we do not veloped him. opened inward, he discovered, There advise investments in any concern In a few words he told of Margaret was no sign of a keyhole. Ble asked which offers such large profits, for Belman's disappearance. her where the door led and she told usually there is a corresponding risk. "Do you connect de Salvo with this, him that it was to an underground We know, however, that this syndi- asked his chief. kitchen and coal -cellar. She had hop- cate has paid 12% per cent. and some- "Yes, I .think I do," said the other ed to escape, because only a barred times as much as 20 per cent., and quietly, and then: "There is only one window stood between her and free - we have had no complaints about hope, and it is a very slender one -a dom in the "little room" where she them. We cannot, of course, as law- very slender one indeed!" was kept. yers, guarantee the financial sound- He did not tell the Public Prosecu- "But the window was very thick," ness of any of our clients, and can for in what that hope consisted, but she said, "and of course I could do only repeat that, in so far as we have walked down to the offices of the nothing with the bars." been able to ascertain, the syndicate Mexican Syndicate. 'Reeder made another inspection of conducts a genuine business and en- Mr. de Silvo was not in. He would the cellar, then sent the light of his Joys a'very sound financial backing. have been very much surprised if he lamp up at the ceiling. He saw no - Yours faithfully, had rbeen. He crossed the hallway to thing there except a steel pulley fas- BRACHER & B'RACHER. see the lawyer, and this time he tened to a 'beam that crossed the en - "You say you never saw de Sil- found Mr. Ernest Bracher present tire width of the cellar. vo?" with his brother. "Now what on earth is he going to She shook her head. When Reeder spoke to the point, it do?" he asked thoughtfully, and as "No; I saw Mr. Bracher, but when was very much to the point. though his enemies had heard the I went to the office of the syndicate, "I am leaving a police officer in question and were determined to leave v,hich is in t1 -P same building, I found Portugal Street to arrest de Silvo thz him in no doubt as to their plans, only a clerk in attendance. Mr. de moment he puts in an appearance. 1 there came the sound of gurgling wa- S-lvo had peen called out of town. I feel that you, as his lawyers, should ter, and in a second he was ankle - had to leave the letter because tr,e know this," he said. deep. lower portion was an application for "But why on earth-?" began He put the light on to the place shares in the syndicate. The capital Mr. Bracher, in a tone of astonish- whence the water was coming. There could be wit drawn at three days' no- ment. were three circular holes in the wall, tice, and I must say that this last "I don't know what charge I shall from each of which was gushing a clause decided me; and when I had a bring against him, but it will cer- solid stream. letter from Mr. de Silvo accepting ray tainly be a very serious one," said "What is it?" she asked in a terri- investment. I sent him the moiiey.' Reeder. "For the moment I have not fied whisper. Mr. Re oder nodded. confided to Scotland Yard the 'basis "Get on to the steps and stay "And you've received your dividen•is for my suspicions, but your client has there," he ordered peremptorily, and regularly ever since? he said. got to tell a very plausible story and made investigation to see if it was "Every month," said the girl tri- produce indisputable proof of his in- possible to staunch the flow. He saw umphantly. "And really I think yea nocence to have any hope of escape•" at a glance that this was impossible. ire wrong in connecting the company "I am quite in the dark," said the And now the mystery of the disap- with these disappearances." lawyer, mystified. "What has he been pearances was a mystery no longer. Mr. Reeder did not reply. That af- doing Is his syndicate a fraud?" The water came up with incredible ternoon he made it his business to "I know nothing more fraudulent," rapidity, first to his knees, then to :all at 179, Portugal Street. It was said the other shortly. "To -morrow I his thighs, and he joined her on the a two-story building of an old -lash- intend obtaining the necessary auth- steps. oned type. A wide flagged hali led ority to search his papers and to There was no possible escape for nto the bulding; a set of old -fashion- search the room and papers of Mr. them. He guessed the water would �d stairs ran up to the "top iloor," John Baston. I have an idea that I come up only so far as would make . which was occupied by a China mer- shall find something in that room of it impossible for them to reach the Thant; and from the hall led three considerable interest to me." beam across the roof or the pulley, Soars. That on the left bore the leg- It was eight o'clock that night be- the dreadful of which he could ind "Bracher & Bracher, Solicitors," fore he left Scotland Yard, and he purpose guess. The dead must be got out of ind immediately facing was the of- was turning towards the familiar this charnel house in some way or ice of the Mexican Syndicate'. At the corner, when he saw a car come from other. Strong swimmer as he -was, 'ar end of the passage was a door Westminister Bridge towards Scotland he knew that in the hours ahead it which exhibited the name "John Bas- Yard. Somebody leaned out of the .Mould be impossible to keep afloat. ;on," but as to Mr. Baston's business window and signalled him, and the He slipped off his coat and vest and ;here was no indication. car turned. It was a two-seater unbuttoned his collar. Mr. Reeder knocked gently at the coupe and the driver was Mr. Joseph "You bad better take off your skin ioor of the syndicate and a voice bade Bracher. skirt," he said, in a matter-of-fact tim come in. A young man, wearing "We've found de Silvo," he said tone. "`'Can you swim?" ;lasses, was sitting at a typewriting breathlessly as be brought the car "Yes," she answered in a low voice. - ;able, a pair of distaphone receivers to a standstill at the kerb and jump Ile did not ask her the real ques- n his ears, and he was typing rapid- ed out. tion which was in his mind: for how y, He was very agitated and his fac,^ long could she swim "No, sir, Mr. de Silvo is not in. He was pale. Mr. Reeder could have There was a long silence; the >nly comes in about twice a week," sworn that his teeth were chattering, water crept higher; and then: said the clerk. "Will you give me "There's something wrong - very "Are you very much afraid?" he lour name'?" badly wrong," he went on. "My bro- asked and took her hand in his. "It is not important," said Reeder ther has been trying to get the truth "No, I don't think I am," she said. mntly, and went out, closing the door from him -my God! if he has done "It is wonderful having you with me ;ehind him. these terrible things i shall never for- _,why are they doing this?" He was more fortunate in his call give myself." '.Hie said nothing, but carried the ipon Bracher & Bracher, for Mr. Jos. "Where is he?" asked Mr. Reeder. soft hand to his lips and kissed it. Bracher was in his office: a tall, florid "He came just before dinner to our The water was now reaching the gentleman who wore a large rose in house at Dudwich. My 'brother and I top step. Reeder stood with his back ais buttonhole. The firm of Bracher are bachelors and we live there alone to the iron door, waiting. And then � Bracher was evidently a prosper- now, and he has been to dinner be- he felt something touch the door from )us one, for there were half a dozen fore. My brother questioned him and the other side. There was a faint :ierks in the outer office, and Mr, he made certain admissions which are click, as though a bolt had been slip- Bracher'.s private sanctum, with its almost incredible. The man must be ped back. He put her gently aside )ig partner desk, was a model of mad." "What did he and held his palms to the door. There ;hobby comfort. say?" "Sit down, Mr. Reeder," said the "I can't tell you. Ernest is de- was no doubt now: somebody was fumbling on the other side. He went awyer, glancing at the card. taining him until you come." down a step and presently he felt the In a few words Mr. Reeder stated Mr. Reeder stepped into the car door yield and come towards him, and lis business, and Mr. Bracher smiled. and in a few minutes they were fly- there was a momentary gleam of "It is fortunate you came to -day," ing across Westminster Bridge to- light. In another second he had ,e said. "If it were to -morrow we wards Camberwell. Lane House, an wrenched the door open and sprung should not be able to give you any old-fashioned Georgian residence, lay through. nformation. The truth is, we have at the end of a countrified road which "Hands up!" iad to ask Mr. de Silvo to find other was, he found, a cul de sac. The house Whoever it was had dropped his awyers. No, no, there is nothing stood in grounds of considerable size, lamp, and now Mr. Reeder focused wrong, except that they constantly re- he noted as they passed up the drive the light of his own torch and nearly 'er their clients to us, and we feel and stopped before the porch. Mr. dropped. :hat we are becoming in the nature Bracher alighted and opened the door For the man in the passage was )f sponsors for their clients, and that, and Reeder passed into a cosily furn- Mills, the ex -convict who had brought )f course, is very undesirable." ished hall. One door was ajar. the tainted letter from Dartmoor! "Heave you a record of the people "Is that Mr. Reeder?" He recog- "All right. guv'r,or, it's a cop," who have written to you from time nized the voice of Ernest Bracher, growled the man. ;o time asking your advice?" and walked into the room. And then the whole explanation Mr. Bracker shook his head. The ,younger Mr. Bracher was flashed upon the detective. In an in - "It is a curious thing to confess, standing with his back to the empty Stant he had gripped the girl by the -)ut we haven't," he said; "and that fire -place: th-re was nobody else in hand and dragged her through the s one of the reasons why we have the room. narrow passage, into which the water iecided to give up this client. Three "De Silvo°s gone upstairs to lie was now steadily overrunning. weeks ago, the letter -honk in which down," explained the lawyer. "This is "Which way did you get in, Mills?" we kept copies of all letters sent to a dreadful business, Mr. Reeder." he demanded authoritatively. people who applied for a reference He held out his hand and Reeder "Through the window." most unaccountably disalrpeared. It crossed the room to take it. As be "Show me quick!" was put in the safe overnight, and in put his foot on the square Persian The convict led the way to what ;he morning, although there was no rug before the fireplace, he realized was evidently the window through sign of tampering with the lock, it his danger and tried to spring back, which the girl had looked with such tad vanished. The circumstances but his balance was lost. He felt longing. The bars had been removed, were so mysterious, and my brother himself falling through the cavity the window sash itself lifted from its and I were so deeply concerned, that which the carpet hid, lashed out and rusty hinges; and in another second we applied to the syndicate to give caught for a moment the edge of the the three wez•e standing on the grass, is a list of their clients, and that re- trap, but as the lawyer came round with the stars twinkling above them. luest was never complied with." and raised his foot to stamp upon the Mr- Reeder sought inspiration in clutching fingers, Reeder released his "Mills," said Mr. Reeder, and his ;he ceiling. hold and dropped. voice shook, "you came here to 'bust' "Who is John 'Baston?" he asked, The shock of the fall took away his this house." and the lawyer laughed. breath, and for a second he sprawled "That's right," growled Mills. "I "There again I am ignorant. I be- half lying, half sitting, on the floor tell ,you it's a cop. I'm not going to ieve he is a very wealthy financier of the cellar into which be had fallen. give you any trouble." out, so far as I know, he only comes Looking up, he saw the older of the "Skip!" hissed Mr. Reeder. "A)ad ;o his office for three months in the two leaning over. The square aper- skip quick! Now young lady, w'e'll Fear, and I have never seornl him." tune was diminishing in size. There go far 'a little ;rr Ik." Mr. Reeder offered him his flabby was evidently a sliding panel which A few seconds latter a atrolline sand and warred back along Portug>ral covered the hole in normal times. constable was guftan dumb by the 3treeait, !fig' chta on leis bra t, hiD "'W{e'11 deal with you later, R,aed- apparition of a Zi Wle-aged mart in f9 sands halainai hir . draggi lmia um- er, said Joseph Bracher with a smile. "Wle've lot Shirt and trougercu; and a lady Who arella, sio 'ekat 101nwe a l icrouw rra- had quite a of clever peo- was inadequately attired in a silk remnlblance to some strange to lloa an- 900 I nro--»---' pattiomt. iSomething cracked in the ¢Alar. e+ o 0 o C. �t nl6ht lbs milted arse l n ghrr the The 'bulb seared the lawyer's clnae.k, -The Menican company waab lJr`tn&- ,$ q,, chandelle to f �r. rl but tsln .,{!��1 _,I, appear, and a b as. ® a lass r rm. - �. Q slid snok V�m � � 3A LL q, 13 g�q q �7e e l�riraed IC£� �i ehex x ''u or GLT Bli�i may- �w%.v 0 p.�pe , sDldcurrLIlh lee �+ d� Med at On tM6r-, a fiiemts, ,laid he steggree h ae�la vsath as . , his chief. "Hero mo no John lit. '1 ,s� S ;ji,.e ti , y "repo,:: , �71.j7i,t� .lie{�1 p�' ,Ire h,l , b��s}�Fa. e , k 8.1s. yu9 c�aTT�G�4 tp � y Cs i ver : a j{^ ? -phi la W34Y &,,211i7N� -I � Y �J 0Eflit' ' ono.udbssa to Cepa t r.r` ', ,y the i �a6J1a'+� n ��wyyxauR?,0 4x,00 `Ij':Awr r .. . ,< � . ry 4� of counsel blind; I -aiDo t'r�� %.�, moment ll saw lauua. ParIP 400-W'I , ,: #z number of bflanud t7pists : Idapkaayeal0.. the City of London. Dft , 491fu l VMS- necessary if the identity O,f ,4 �" Silva with van the B raclaer r IB '9tlas ' kept a secret. r "ABracher &]Bracher had =beery gating Ir badly for years. It will prarbably iba, found that theyl l)Vv�si made a,�r.„, with clients' money; and they hif;,,.u, - . on this scheme of inducing So6lis&4 investors to put money into their ayn- dicate on the promise of 'large diva- , Bends. 'Their victims were well ehos. en, and Joseph--rosho was the brains of the organization --conducted the most rigorous investigation to ' sure that these unfortunate people had no intimate friends. If, they .had any suspicion about an applicant, Brachers would write a letter depre� eating the idea of an investment and . suggesting that the too -shrewd dupe should find another and a safer meth- od than the Mexican syndicate afford ed. 1. "After they had paid one or two, . years° dividends the wretched inves- tor was lured to the house at ]Dulwich and there scientifically killed. You will probably final an unofficial ceme- tery in their grounds. So far as I can make out, they have stolen over t a hundred and twenty thousand. pounds in the past two years by this method." "It is incredible," said the Prasecu- tor, "incredible!" Mr. Reeder shrugged. "Is there anything more incredible than the Burke and Dare murders? 11 There are Burkes and Hares in every branch of society and in every per- iod of history." "Why did they delay their execu- tion of Miss Belman?" 'Mr. Reeder coughed. "They wanted to make a clean sweep, but did not wish to kill her un- til they had me in their hands. 11 rather suspect" -she coughed again - `that they thought I had an especial interest in the young lady." "And have you?" asked the Public Prosecutor. Mr. Reeder did not reply. ,1 THE ENPD''' O Last week a member of a jazz band hit the conductor on the head with a saxophone. After all, there's a use 11. for everything.-Hlumorist. ,,D 111. ILON DOI`,'T AND MNGR3IAP2[ worth. ]1Kii'ppen a.m. P.=. 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