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The Huron Expositor, 1933-09-01, Page 7;aa ;R< ?4s tj TSO. ITOR •. Phone No. 91 JOHN J. HUGGARD Barrister, &Rotor, Notal j Public, Etc. Beattie Block - - Seaforth, Ont. HAYS & MEIR Succeeding R. S. Hays Barristers, Solicitors, Conveyancers and Notaries Public. Solicitors for. the Dominion Blink. Office in rear of the 'Dominion Bank Seaforth. Money to loan. BEST .& BEST Barristers, Solicitors, Conveyan- cers and Notaries Public, Etc. Office in the Edge Building, opposite The Expositor Office. 1 - VETERINARY JOHN GRIEVE, V.S. Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin- ary College. All diseases of domestic animals 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 calls promptly attended to. Office on Main Street, Hensall, opposite Town Hall. Phone 116. Breeder of Scot- tish Terries. Inverness Kennels, Hensall. MEDICAL DR. E. J. R. FORSTER Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Graduate in Medicine, University of Toronto. Late assistant New York Opthal- inei and Aural Institute, Wore -field's Eye and Golden Square Throat Hos- pitals, London, Eng. At Commercial !Hotel, Seaforth, third Monday in each month, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. GS Waterloo Street, South, Stratford. • 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. F. J. BURROWS .. Office and residence Goderich Street, least of the United Church, Sea - forth. 'Phone 46. Coroner for the County of Huron. Dr. C. MACKAY iG. Mackay, honor graduate of Trin- ity' University, and gold miedal'ist of Trinity Medical College; member of the College of Physicians and Sur- geons 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 Ophthalmie 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. S. R. COLLYER Graduate Faculty of Medicine, Uni- versity of Western Ontario. Member College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Post graduate work at New York City Hospital and Victoria Hospital, London. Phone: Hensall, 64. 'Office, King Street, Hensall. DR. J. A. MUNN Graduate of Northwestern Univers- ity, Chicago, Illi Licentiate Royal College of Delltal Surgeons, Toronto. Office over Sills' Hardware, Main St., ISeaforth. 'Phone 151. DR. F. J. BECHELY 1 The;Wiyof These Women by E. PHHHILLIPS OPPENHEIM 1 I . (Continued from last week) "We waste time," she remarked. "`Now, will you come with me, Jerm- yn?" "I am due at the theatre," he told her coldly. "-i will drop you there, 'then," she replied. "A,t least you shall leave the house with me and in my car. I will not be treated as though I did not exist." "You are very kind," he said. "If you will drop me at the theatre, I will accompany you, with pleasure." "I do it," she went on, as they took their places in the car and drove off, "under pretest, mind. When one makes bargains with a person of honour, one doesn't troi,tble to put down every little condition. All the same, when I made that (bargain with you, at the back of my min? there was always the conviction that if you accepted the situation at all you would .accept it with its obligations -with its reasonable obligations, that is to say." •"I recognize no obligations," he de- clared. "I have nothing to offer'that was not in the bond."' Her eyes flashed at him threaten- ingly. "Are you the only one to talk a- bout the bond?" she demanded. "Why shouldn't I back out a little if I feel inclined? Do you 'think'at I want only the cold shadow of your name, that I intend to be neglected, by you all the time? Don't try, me too far, •Jeennyn. I love you -J admit t'hat- I love you and' I can't love anybody else.. I. don't - know why. You're a cold, strange sort of person. People call you clever but bloodless. They never forgot that at Oxford you were a prig. Still, I care, but you know there are limits. There are other passions in the world besides love. Have you never heard of a woman who found revenge almost as beauti- ful? Remember I am half a French woman. In my country the passions count' for a great deal." He weighed her words as she spoke them, and in his heart he believed her. He knew quite well thrt she was capable of anything. "Let me tell you this, Lucille," he rertrarked quietly. "If you ever did place Sy(bil's life in danger, do you know what I should do? I should give myself up. I should swear that it was I who had killed Aynesworth." She laughed contemptuously. "They wouldn't believe you. • Be- sides, I should be. there to swear you didn't." "I• think I can promise you," he Said, "that I should make up a very plausible little case." She leaned back amlongst the cush- ions. "Ah, iwel1," 'she •mnirnrured, "we won't be so foolish, . Jermyn. We won't quarrel any more. iIt is my fault really. Only I wish you would believe me when .I tell you that if these days seem a little hard for you, the time will surely come when you won't regret them." "All my life," be declared deliber- ately, "I shall regret the dissipation of the most beautiful dream 1' have ever conceived, the shattering of the most beautiful hopes I could ever have in life. These I shall regret always, even though Lady Annerley is the most ark -Aired woman ie Lon- don and my house the best ordered." "It is a challenge," she answered gaily. "I have had enough of being serious. We will discuss things no more. We will simply wait. . What dirty streets seem always to be collected around the backs of these itheatr•es! Jump out, Jermyn. Go and train your little band of mum- mers to s,peak their words and play their little parts. I'll make the best apologies I can for you at Merches- ter'grease. Au revoir! Tell the man to stop at Lucie's." Graduate Royal College of Dental Surgeons, Toronto. Office over W. R. Smith's Grocery, Main Street, Sea- Ilertih'. Phone: Office, 186 W; resi- denee, 185 J. AUCTIONEERS CHAPTER XXV .Jermyn found the little company upon the stage, awaiting his arrival.. He shook hands with Sybil, and there was the light of a new understand- ing in the smile and glance with which she welcomed him. "So the little lady has gone?" he asked. "She has gone," Sybil replied, "She went off quite comfortably and in high spirits. One of the governesses from the school was there .to take her over." "J tried so hard to come down my- self," Jermyn explained, "hut it was really a husy morning with me." "I think. .perhaps, it was just as well," Sybil assured him. "I sup- pose it really is Silly to feel parting with her s,o much. when one knows it is for her good, but 1 don't believe we have ever Spent a night away -from one another for six years." "1 am afraid you will miss her very much," he remarked. "Vee. I shall always miss her," Sybil sighed. "Still, it was inevitable -living in a tiny flat, with so few friends, must have 'been rather a poky life for a high-spirited child like Mary. Ono could see the change they merle. even those -few days at Annerley." For the first time she spoke of thin without shrinking. She seem- ed to carry herself with a new cour- age. Jermyn nodded understanding- ly. "There will always be the holi- days," he said. "Brussels is really smell an easy journey. If she cannot come to you, y'ri Will lie able to run over to her." The producer came down the stage. "Now, ladies and• gentlemen, if you please . . Jermyn made his way into the front row of the stalls and took 'a seat in the centre of the she udmed desert of empty se chanieally that afternoon he watch- ed hie work grow into shape, criticiz- OSCAR KLOPP iHonor Graduate Carey Jones' Na- tional School for Auetioneering, Chi- cago. Special course taken in Pure Bred Live Stock, Real Estate, Mer- ehand+ise and Farm ,Sales. Rates in keeping with prevailing markets. Sat- isfaction assured. 'Write or wire, Oscar Klopp, Zurich, _Ont. Phone: il8-A8. ing • and •making a few suggestions only when he was appealed to Ijy the producer himself or one of the company. The play for hiimi was Sy- bil, the stage was full of Sybil, When she was absent he lost all interest. His work had indeed been an offer- ing to her. She had been his iris *ration for longer even than he had imagined. Was it 'to end? Was there not really some middle way? Were men and women all alike in the face of a crisis ' of this sort? , The atmosphere of the place was a little depressing. The sordid de- tails of stagecraft began, in time, to irritate him. It was with a sigh of relief that he heard the 'producer• shut up his book and dismiss the company with his accustomed speech of farewell. He met Sybil in the wings and carried her off at once. "I ane gaing'to take you to have some tea," he declared. "My own head aches even with sitting listening in that stuffy theatre, and I am sure you must be tired out. Afterwards, I shall walk part of the way 'home with you." "I should love some tea,"? she con- fessed. , "It's all waiting for me at home but I don't think I shall like" my first meal without Mary a his. Anyhow, I would like to put it off as long as possible." 'They crossed the Haymarket and entered a tea-shop, Jermyn chose a quiet table and gave an order. "You will miss her alway's dear," he said, "yet on the other hand, when you can bring yourself to, think of it, it must be a joy to you to realize what you are able to do„ for her." "It is indeed," she assented. "Perhaps, in a way," he went on gently, "you. may feel that she has already repaid you for some of your care.. You know, Sybil,• they say that the sanest of us get strange rteom'ents of (madness. lI fancy mine must have come last night. I don't think 1 was master of myself. I .don't think I quite knew what I was doing. I seemed, somehow, to be possessed. Anyhow, 'Mary has ex- ercised• that spirit; I wanted so much to see you to -day, if it were only for 'a few minutes, because 1 want you to feel that whatever hap- pens, under any circumstances, Mary has brought me into the family as her ibig brother and you will have to let me play the part" 'She turned a little :towards him. Underneath the table her hand touch- ed his and pressed it. "I suppose," he continued, "one reason" why we are not, afraid of death is because 'we know that it is so utterly and entirely. inevitable. It is not death or something else; it is death alone. I have thought over our position until my brain reels and I have come to the conclusion that that, too, is utterly inevitable. And so I am trying to drive •that into my mind, to make use of all my philoso- phy and to absolutely make up my mind to the next best thing." "Tell me," she asked, "does does the Duchesse de Sayers of me ? " "She' has done so," Jermyn admit- ted. "She knows the truth, of course. She knows that 'I care for you. I have told her •very plainly indeed that while life lasts I shall care for no other woman. As yet she doesn't believe it, but in li.er way she is a reasonable woman. She makes no attemlpt to interfere, at any rate, with our friendship. She had better not!" 'Sybil caught at his hand suddenly. They were in a dark corner of the -room and there were few people there. 'Rer eyes were wet with tears. "Jermyn, dear Jermyn," she ex- claimed, with a little choke in her voice, "I am afraid of the loneliness of it all! Life seems to have chang- ed so lately. Be my friend -do be my friend! We don't want to think of last night -of possible mistakes. Thai won't come again. You -you are so different. . . . I ani 'so lonely.' You .know the men we meet. I don't want to marry any of them. I ,just want to he let live..and to act and to think, and 1 want you to be the sane to me always. But it's lonely, it's horribly lonely. I can't even make friends with the women, They bring men, too, and it's always the same thing. ' If you were to go away, if you were to leave me alto- gether, I don't think -I don't think 1 could hear it!" IHe held her hands firmly. "Little Sybil," he wh is pered. "it's a bargain. I am your friend now and always, your privileged,. dear companion and friend. You can trust tie." She wiped her eyes' and leaned hack in her chair with a sigh of content. Thede tea was set hefnre them and she poured it mit silently. "Jermyn," she said presently, "let me tell you this, 1" feel happy to- day for the first time since -since that happened. Life seems somehow surer and safer again. So long as I have you, the you whom I love, somewhere in the 'background to trust, why, I am not so frightened. You won't go away for too long, will you?" "I will riot," he promised. "Nothing shall keep me away from England for more than a few weeks. There are plans which 1 haze -but I won't talk about them just now•" "T do h&pe that she won't mind," Sybil went on. "Oh, I know you won't give me up altogether but I'd like her not to mind. In a way you can't 'he happy and satisfied unless, you arwl she get on well together. I dotl't want to cone between." she- s'peak "It's her own risk," Jermyn de- clared. "I can't thin'k myself how a marriage made like ours could ever be a successful one. I know it can never be successful. Still, I shall do my best 'tow, shall do my best al- wayee-up to a certain point." She looked at him ingringly. "Lucille is to he my wife and I shall give her exactly what the law demands. There is the love which must have ,in it always a spark of divinity, because for both of us it is leavened with self-sacrifice. That is how it will always be to me. Now we have finished with serious subjects. You must decide for yourself whe- ther it shall be more muffins or some of those little cakes; or we can talk. fiver what we are going to give Mary for a Christmas present; or shall we discuss exactly how you are going to say those few lines at the end of the second act which! Jameson and I can'tree about?" ' She ted her veil -there was no need to eep it down any longer. "One at a tiin!e, please," she laugh- ed. o`To begin with, then, I want another muffin." CHAPTER XXVI In Bond Street the next morning Jermyn met M. Norden Smith. Mr. Norden- Smith was attired inthe height of fashion, with a largo bunch of violets in his buttonhole. He look- ed with some surprise at Jermyn's blue serge suit and 'bowler hat. The two men shook hands and talked for a,few minutes on casual subjects. r "Say, there's one thing that licks me about this country," Mr. Norden Snaith remarked, "and that is the dif- ferent sorts of advice everyone gives you. I haven't 'been over on this side very much, as you know -in fact this is really my first trip that a- •miounts to anything -and before I came they all told me that whatever I 'did, when I showed myself in the West -end of London, I mustn't go about as we do in New York, but I must wear , a silk hat and proper morning clothes. Yet here' I am, dq- in'g as I was told, and there are you, a young Londoner who ought to know all about it, as comfortable as pos- sible in a blue serge suit and a pot hat." Jermyn laughed. "You must remember," he pointed out, "that 'I an half a Bohemian., I really have very little to do with the fashionable world. You mustn't go by me, ,anyway. As a, rule, I think we dress according to the things, we have to do. 'I have had to 'write for a couple of hours this nilorning•, ••then I am going to lunch alone at my club and' in the afternoon I shall be at the theatre, rehearsing a play. If I were going to pay calls upon friends, as no doubt you are, why, I dare say I should have been wearing town clothes too. How long are you up for?" '"C�•''ell,,,.,I'in not altogether sure," Mr. "Norden Smith replied. "Anyway when I've finished with London' I shall be getting home again before 'very long. Ihave had a very pleas- ant tour over here and I have got through half of the business that brought me, most satisfactorily. By - the -bye," he added, "you=don't hap- pen to know anything of a fellow- countryman of mine, a Mr. Chalmers -Aaron Chalmers they call hint? He zn ,perifeet taste, a very digigu! gilled' an distinctive tire.'She '1$14 ••b '>gi* ing a little pemeranian in oneband;, and her skirts+ in the other. Sop* change seemed to have come over her during the last few steps. f The d rilliai t simile with which she had welcomed then had passed from her face. She was looking steadily at Mr. Norden Smith. ""Let me assure you," Jermlyn said, as they paused; "that Norden Smith isn't a nigrhtniare. You !oak at hien as though he might have come from the land of shadows."'-` etiouslyy you remember hiane don't you, Lucille? Mr. iSimlith paid 'us one rather unfor- tunately tinted visit at Annerley." Luoillle had recovered herself, to some extent. She transferred her skirts to the hand which also held the little pomeranian, and held out her fingers. "Of course 'I remember Mr. Nor- den !Smith," she assented. - "Just formoment,the when I sawhim with you, Jermyn, I am afraid I could only remember that he was associated, in my mind with samlething very ter- rible. It was such- an unexpected meeting, you see. (< quite thought that you had one back to the States. "'I shall always regret, Duchesse," the American replied, "that I shall have no opportunity to efface from your mind that unfortunate impres- sion. It was an ill-timed visit of mine, 'beyond a doubt, but in its way, if I may be allowed to say so, it was as great a shock for me as for any of you." "You must give us an opportunity," Jermyn declared, "of seeing" some- thing mare of you next 'Mime you are over. We should both be delighted." "I am sure that's very kind of you, Mr. Norden Smith answered. "In the meantime I expect to be on this side a week or so longer, at any rate, and it would give me a great deal of pleasure if you and the -Duchesse would do me the honour of dining with rne at nay hotel, the ilVfilan, any night to suit yourselves." 'You are very kind," Lucille said. "I am afraid, for the present, so far ae I am concerned. it would be.quite iMpossible. ' Jermyn knows how full of eng-agements I aril at this time of the year.. Where are you going to now, Jermyn?" "Up to my .shirt -maker's," Jermyn replied. "Afterwards we are going to lunch at the club." 'For some reason or other Lucille seemed scarcely pleased. "I 'was just wondering," she re- marked, "wheat I saw you coming, whether I shouldn't be able to. get an 'invitation to the iRitz. I ant. not lunching anywhere to -day." Jermyn. shook his head. "We want to.' see a friend of Nor- den Smith's," he explairied-"Chal- niers, You know Chaltniers,1 don't you?" "Of course I do," Lucille admitted. . "We aren't sure," Jermyn told her. "If he is, we shall probaJbly find him at the club. That ist why I asked Mr. Norden_ Smith to lunch with • "In that case," Lucille said slowly,. "I must not .interfere, of course. We shall meet this evening, then, Jer- She nodded to Mr. Norden Smith end passed on„. Before she had gone a rard, however, she turned and call- ed 'after them. •-•Jermyn stepped back. 'Mr. Norden 'Smith remained on the edge of the .."What,. are you doing with • that man? she demanded quickly.. 'f'Why on earth did you speak to him at all? A most impos•sible person! Why should you take him. to your club?" "I do not find him an impossible person at all," Jermyn replied calm- ly. "He happened, to present himself • Annerley at a very unfortunate time, but so far as he was concern- ed he behaved most considerately. I find no fault with him. My invitation was only a matter of ordinary court, esy, such as I think we ought to extend to travelling AMericans when we have an .opportunity." "It seems to ime entirely unneces- sary!" she declared in an undertone. "I dislike Mr. Norden Smith extreme- ly. lie belongs to that very ordinary type of person whom I am surprited that you should, encourage." Jermyn preserve myself from any containina- tion, I sugpose, hut so far as the immediate present is concet.ned my luncheon invitation has been given and, accepted. I will, of course, be careful to make no arrangements ft».• tlining with him. Nothing else I can do for you?" "Nothing.," she answered after a moment's hesitation. "If I were you I shouldn't treat that man with toe, much confidence. I don't know what. there is about him but .-hiver, Ah, here conies tint: :41 upitt Lady Clialcote! I supposed shall have to talk to her." Jerni.y11 rijoined his companion, who was waiting upon the keel.). "Say, raust. congratulate you, :Sir Iet royal." Mr. Norden Smith said heartily. el ant afraid T got *.sol.t of mixed bp' over this. I had an when 1 wa.: down in your county that cliititllic(,,y.fair,thaired lady, Miss Sybil .lerinvn made no rr ply for a mom- ent. Glancing into his face Mie Nor- :replied tnto a taxi -cab, den Smith suddenly realized that he t" had IduntlEtrod. He vigorously launch -i• in Cockspur S'treer," he tol,1 the e.d into another subject. man. "Say, get along as quick as "My mistake. xio doubt, 'people sip so in those small places. Now.' he added, "I wonder if- you could re- commend me, Sir Jermyn, to a really good shirt-in-al:or, You know what happens to us over in America if we buy dress shirts. suppose it's our own fault. 'We don't, take the trou- ble about clothes that we pught-You Wouldn't care. I suppose, to--" "You shall mime in with me now." Jermyn suggested. "f think my peo- ple are as good as any. They will probably look after you all right." "You're exactly the man I was Waking for," Mr. Norden Smith de- Enliance the joys of, your Western • trip,travel via Canadian National's train de luxe -The Continental Limited. This modern magic carpet smoothly unfolds rugged Northern Ontario before ;your eyes -across the Prairies -pilots you through the Canadian Rockies by the Scenic Route over the easiest gradient and at the lowest altitude -yet keeps you with. in easy sight of the mightiest and most inspiring peaks. • It; 'COAST 3 ALASKA Leavea TORONTO Daily at JASPER GOLF --4114 WEEK Sept. 3rd to 9th. CANADIAN NATIOT"NAL eryone. Tell ale, where is Chal- "It was indeed," the young man mers?" admitted. "I can scarcely realize it "Left for America this week," ,hia even nlow. Poor old Aynesworth! The friend replied, "on the Lusitania, I wasn't half such a bad fellow, you IMr. Norden -Smith was a quiet man of quiet manners anti itmpassive coun- tenance. Nevertheless, he spilt a lit- tle wine from the glass which he had been in the act of conveying to his lips. He leaned forward across the table. His eyes seemed to have sunk deeper into his head and his voice was scarcely pitched in Its natural key. . "Gone to America -Aaron Chal- mers?" "That's so," Jermyn's friend. as- sented lightly. "He was in here the other afternoon, I remember, when he received a cable.' He threw it in- to the fire and laughed. Nothing very serious, I think. I• imagined it was an invitation, or something of the sort. Anyway, off he went. He'll be back next month. I suppose, I shall have to come and see you made into a respectable member of Society, Jermyn, old fellow;" he went on. "You gave us quite a surprise." l``I shall be glad of your support," Jertnyn answered. know." Jermyn was silent. There was no person in the world whom he wished less to discuss, "I came along to see you,"the new Marquis of Lakenharn continued, "because I can't help feeling that it's all rather rot about old Aynesworth getting it in the neck like that and no one punished' for it. Looks sort. of slack, deesn't it?" "I understand that the police have been meking every effort," Jermyn remarked. "Then I should say it Was jolly well time they were helped," the young man declared. "'It doesn't seem as though there could be a simpler case. Everybody and every- thing was there ready .to their hands. 'I have just come from 'Scotland Yard at this moment, and if you ask me, a don't believe they have the slight- est idea in their heads as to who did this thing." "I don't think that anyone has;" Jermyn replied. ' "Then I should say it was jolly His friend passed on, ,Mr. Norden ywell time they were helped," the Smith finished his luncheon in more silent mood. Directly they had reach- ed the hall he held out his hand. , • "Sir Jermyn," he began, "I am ex- ceedingly indebted to you for your hospitality. There is nothing I can do in return except to assure you that whenever you find yourself on my side of the water, well, I am your debtor. But there is just one thing to allude to a painful subject at un-' necessary length, and I haven't spok- en about it to -day because I guess you must be pretty well sick of it, but that was a terrible affair that happened down at your place when I was there -a terrible affair." Jermyn sighed. 'Mr. Smith," he said, "yon are right. I don't think we shall any of us tet over the shock for some time." 'I wanted just to say- this," Mr. Smith continued emph.atically. "I don't suppose.it's likely that anything disagreeable to you Could ever arise from it, but if things turned out that way, if things got somehow so that you needed help or advice, why, I want you to remeniber that 'I am. a criminal lawyer of some repute on the other side. that I was on the spot, and that if I were forced to col- lect them. I've a few ideas of my oWn upon that night's work. Will you just send ore a cable, Sir Jermyn, if anything goes wrong? Norden Smith, Manhattan Club, New York -that's all you'll need." "I most, certainly •will," Jermy-n promised him, "I tell you what I'd very much •prefer, though., and that is that you come into the smoking - room with me now, and over that eig- ar and some, very excellent brandy which I could find for you. told nit. just what those ideas of yours were." Mr. Norden Smith shook his head. "No," he said,'"that wouldn't quite fit in, I'd rathLr not butt. in on thig afrair at all, if I can help it. You see." he went on slowly, "justice, as the law of' your count;•y understands it, and the real Just leo funding. the seales between two bunutn beings, isn't alway, quite the same thing.- I gwss T'II have nothing te ;,:ay, unless as I suggested jtwt. now, matters don't go altogether rizht. Here's to you. Sir .,Jermyn, an,d the best of .Jermyn walked with his guest to the stop, and stood there while he depart, d. Mr. Norden St'rt-sith made 1,0 further suggestion with reference to the proposed dinner -party. He CHAPTER XXVII. ,Tormyn found an unexpected visi- tor awaiting him when he returned to his rooms a little later on that af- ternoon.- A young Man in deep mourning rose from the depths.of his easy -chair. • For a moment Jermyn was puzzled. "Come, have I grown as much as Gerald Lakenham, you know." "Why, of course," .Termyn replied. "I ought to have 1<n -own you any - They made eorne purchases to- where. I thought you were on your gether and reached Jermyn's ciub at way 'round the world." twenty.minutes past one. When "'So I was. the young man an - they were about half -way through a swered. "I got this news at Rio and very excellent lu.neheon, Jermyn I came straight along back." „" stopped' a friend who was passing Jermyn nodded sympathetitally. their table. "IVIust have been rather a knock "Sidney," he said, "yOu know er- for you." young ma.n declared. ."It doesn't seem as though there Could be a simpler case. Everybody and: every- thing was there ready to their hands. I have just come from Scotland Yard at this 'moment, and if you ask me,. I don't believe they have the slight- est -idea in their heads as to who did this thing." "I don't think that anyone ha's,' Jermyn replied. "I ant not quite so. sure of that," Gerald Lakenham dissented. "At any rate it makes one feel rather fed up with the English detective system, I have made up my miind anyhow, to see -what I can do towards clearing the affair up. Aynesworth was my brother, after all, and as head of the house now I.suppose it's up to me 'to do something." "What steps do you propose to tak,e?",Jermyn inquired. (ContinuA next week.) For the first 33 weeks of 1933, ending Aug-ust 17th, the number of hogs graded in Canada was 1,999,486. LONDON AND WINGHAM South. P.M. Wingham 1.55 Belgrave 2.11 Blyth 2.23 Lonclesboro 2.30 Clinton 3.08 Btucefield 3.27' Kipper}, 3.35 Hensall 3.41 Exeter 3.55 North. Exeter k 10:42 K ippon 11.01 Brucefield 11.09 Clinton '11.54 Lontlesboro 12.10 Myth 12.19 ri Belgrave 12.30 Winghant 12.50 C. N. R. East. Goderich Clinton Sersforth n Mitchell West. Goderich 6.45 7.08 7.22 7.33 7.42 11.19 11.24 11.50 12.10 C. P. R. TIME TABLE East. P.M. 2.30 3.00 3.18 3.43 9.32 9.45 9.59 10.25 A.M. Gorierich 6.50 Menset 5,55 McGaw 6.04 Auburn 6.11 Blyth 6.26 Walton 6.40 McNaught 6.52 Toronto 10.25 West. Toronto 7.40 McNaught 11.48 Walton 12.01 Blyth 12.12 Auburn 12.23 MeGaw 12.24 Goderich 12.46 '