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•tiPteeethitgr R. S. Ilaye
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• JOHN 11. BEST
, Barrister, Solicitor, Etc.
Seafterth . •- Ontario
VETERINARY
JOHN- GRIEVE, V.S.
Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin-
ary Cellege. A11 diseases of domestic
4, animals _treated. Calls promptly at-
tended to and charges moderate. Vet-
erinary Dentistry 4 specialty. Office
and residence on Godeeich Street, one
door east a Dr. Jarrott's office, Sea -
forth.
A. R.. CAMPBELL, V.S.
Graduate •of Ontario Veterinary
College, alnivensity of Toronto. AU
disease of domestic animals treated
by the most modern principles.
Charges eeasonable. Day or. night
ealls, pre -raptly attended to. Offiee on
Main Street, Hensall, opposite Town
Hall. Phone 116. Breeder of Scot-
tish Terriers, Inverness Kennels,
Henson.
MEDICAL
DR. D. E. STURGIS
Graduate of the Faculty of Medi-
cine, University of Western Ontario,
and St. Joseph's Hospital, London.
Member`of College of Physicians and
Surgeons of Ontario. Phone 67. Of-
fice at Dublin, Ont. ' 3493
DR. GILBERT C. JARROTT
Graduate of Faculty of Medicine,
University of Western Ontario. Mem-
ber of College of Physicians - and
Surgeons of Ontario. Office, 43 -God-
erich Street, West. Phone 37.
Successor to Dr. Charles Mackay.
DR. F. J. R. FORSTER
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
Graduate in Medicine, University of
Toronto.
Late assistant New York Opthal-
mei and Aural Institute, Moorefield's
Eye and Golden Square Throat Hos-
pitals, London, Eng. At Commercial
Hotel, Seaforth, third Wednesday in
each month, from 1.30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
68 Waterloo Street, South, Stratford.
DR. W. C. SPROAT
Graduate of Faculty of Medicine,
University of -Western Ontario, Lon-
don. Member of College of P,hysic-
lams and Surgeons of Ontario. • Office
in Aberhart's Drug Store, Main St.,
Seaforth. Phone 90.
DR. F. J. BURROWS
Office and residence Goderieh Street,
east of .the United Church, Sea -
forth. Phone 46. Coroner for. the
County of Huron.
DR. HUGH H. ROSS
Graduate of University of Toronto
Faculty of Medicine, member of Ool-
lege of Physicians and Surgeons of
Ontario; pass " graduate course in
Chicago Clinical School of Chicago;
Royal Opthalmie 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. E. A. McMASTER
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ronto, Faculty of Medicine
Member of College of Physicians
and Surgeons of Ontario; graduate of
New York Post Graduate School and
Lying-in Hospital, New York. Of-
fice on High Street, Seaforth. Phone
27.
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Infra red electric treatments. Nurse
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Graduate Faculty of Medicine, Uni-
versity of Western Ontario. Member
College of Physicians and Surgeons
of Ontario. Pest graduate work at
New York City Hospital and Victoria
Hospital, London. Phone: Hensall,
68. Office : King Street, Hensall.
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DR. J. A. McTAGGART
Graduate Royal College of Dental
Surgeons, Torterto. Office at Hen-
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Phone91.
(Continued from: bet' week)
Ethel Retaliated ter aeking for da!
toac lof Kmneibh" andRalph's InsaVe-
ments inee etsperer time and,,reifuSed
„to he atisfied with ithes.rePlY that
they had been for a shell- to get !cool'.
She -asked: them to statespecifically
_where they had been, Said they look-
ed,. I thought, noth,,a little confused.
-Kenneth definitely reddened,. and she
was unkind enough to rcall our gem-
eral attention to the fact, and to say
that his efforts to get cool must have
sent a rush of blood to the head. We
eteed 'Chaffing each other pleasantly
in this way_ for ,Scesue little time, and
I dare say it was after half -past ten
When I left them at it and went to
bed.
II switched! on thess landing light
from the lbSittam/•of he nd
when I got to the to oun:cf' that
The Tundish had written out a no-
tice and had stuck it up aborve-- the
landing switch, so that we should all
see Pit on our way toted. It read:-
'PLEASE LET A PELLOW GET
SOMfE SLEEP TO -NIGHT AND
DON'T WANE HIM UP TELLING
EACH. OTHER TO BE QUIET.
,Sigd., THE TUNDISH.
I took it down and going into my
room I found that the ink in my
feuntain, pen was Identical in color
-as I 'half expected it would be,
having filleddi it only the previous day
froze the ink well in the consulting
roma-end that by writing with the
back of the nib I could imitate the
thin strokes with which the doctor
had written. I quickly added the
words:-
DArRK DEEDS ARE DONE AT
NIGHT '
and stuck it up again in its ,old posi-
tion. I made what I thought a very
creditable copy of the doctor's print,
having imitated to a nicety his flat-
topped A's and sloping D's. My for-
gery completed I got into bed.
The others ,came up before I got
to sleep and I heard them: discussing
it in whispers and then a little later
calling out to each other to "just
come and Took berer with a great,
deal of laughing and running about
from room to room. Next I heard
Kenneth say: "Shall we go and pull
him out of bed?" and; Ethel reply
that she believed it was I and not
The Tundish at all. This was fol-
lowed by a declaration 'that, whoever
it was, they would deal with him to-
morrow, and the household gradually
settled down into silence and sleep.
Next morning, Wedinesday, I was
up betimes and out in the garden be-
fore breakfast. The Tundish joined
me there. We were just going in in
answer to the gong when he said:
"By the way, your addition to my lit-
tle efFort 'of last night was remark-
ably apt, for I 'played Old Harry
with all their bedroornis before I went
to bed." He went on to tell me that
he had made realist& skeleton with
the aid oe a bag of golf clubs in Ken-
neth's bed, sticking the clubs down
the legs and arms of his pyjamas' and
utilizing a pair of •boort trees for the
ears. Ethel's bed he had peppered
with tennis and golf .balls carefully
placed beneath the under ?blanket; and
Margaret's and Ralph's had also re-
ceived treatment.
In srpite of the merry 'twinkle in
his eyes, such a practical joke seem-
ed to be entirely out of keeping with
his character, and although I am sure
I gave no visible signs of my sur-
prise, he might almost have read my
thoughts, for he said at once, "Yes,
I surprised myself too, but I fancy
that I must have been a..! trifle fey last
night. I shall have to look out to-
night though, for they are sure to
attempt revenge."
,him of the whispered con-
egasation I had lovetheard on the
landing, and he suggested that as I
Ynight he going home before night,
We- .ilhould attempt to make them be-
lieve that I had really been the cul-
prit. We both of us agreed that a
too nice adherence to the truth was
not essential in, the matter of 'a prac-
tical joke. -"No, we will both of us
lie like troopers," he said as we took
our seatS At the table and whether I
succeeded or not, he certainly kept
his promise to the full.
We arranged that .we would both
make out that we knew nothing a-
bout either the notice or the raided
beds, but that my denials should be
less essertive than his so that their
:suspicions would gradually turn in
my direction,. We had great difficul-
ty, however.. at least I had, not to
give ourselves away by laughing when
the others came into the room. They
came in procession, marching solemn-
ly round the table, Kenneth chanting:
"Oyez! Oyez! a trial will be held."
Ethel led the van bearing the notice
on a large tray held ,out at arm's
length. Then came Ralph carrying
Kenneth's pyjamas and the golf bags
and clubs, together with, a collection
of tennis end golf balls and, other
evidence. Kenneth folllowed, arrayed
in an old Cap and gown of Hans'on's,
and Margaret brought up the rear as
train bearer to Kenneth.
They drew repin a row in front of
is and said in unisoneethere had evi-
dently been a rehearsal, 'There sits
the culprit," bib we noticed with sec-
ret , satisfaction that whilst Margar-
et and Kenneth pointed at the Tun -
dish, Ethel and Ralph were pointing
at me. ., •
telling my story I must be eonstant-
It seems • theti up to this point in
ly detailing trivial matters which can
have 00 possible interest taken by
themselves, and yet which have a
Mal hewing on the mere intiartant
atm.- events. Kenneth% irimiry into
he doing e 9:e the plevious, night was
merging. at the time; and I dont meat,
t entehelly, bet I See sure he enjoyed
slievreig "Ethel beer smite an intik&
e
1
coulti be, 0314 cunt asnsatie*of
auffilcient appagpnt import:we to set
Put r4 any length.- 'And yet 1 think
we were ell of us to -go over. every
'Word that was spoken at the break-
fast table, tinie an again in our
minJs.afterwarde weericcina what
possible. bearing they mould have on
the terrible tragedy that. wa.s 'so son
to befall us.
I was sitting, at right -anglesv to
The Tundish, who. was at one. end of
the table, and Kenneth handed him
the' not* .aed took his seat at the
rather side of the table oPposite to
me, saying,. "Well, a confession w'on't
earn a free parden, but it may cer-
tainly incline -as to temper, justice
with mercy."
The Tundish tinned the paper
mound and round, !pretending to ex-
amine it with surprise and care. "And
what May this be?" he ,said at last.
."I see that it has been written. in
my name, but apart from that it
seems to be reasonable enough, and
it expresses what I actually felt, very
aptly indeed."
"You didn't write it, then, and
stick it up ion the landing?"
"(My dear hoy, I .aer really far too
old for that sort of childishness. Be -.
.1 ask,,you, if I had been the
authx;r, should I have ,bothered to
print my name at theloattom instead
of signing it in the sordinary way?
Nlo„1 'think we shall find that the
guilty party is seated immediately to
my left, and if you haven't foolishly
smudged it all over,' we shall prob-
ably find his finger prints." He was
sprinkling the notice with salt and
blowing it off again into Kenneth's
bacon as he spoke; whilst I.Protested
loudly that I 'could net understand
what they were all of them talking
about.lmI doing Kenneth -an injustice,
I wonder, and do I exaggerate his iH
temper and puerile behaviour? Then,
I had not realized how jealous he
was of the doctor, and could make no
allowance for it, but oh! how easily
he rose and' how absurdly he showed
his dishke! He resented the "My
dear boy," and he did not like the
salt being blown into his bacon, but
he eridearoured to imitate the doc-
tor's bantering tones.
"My dear Tundish," he said, "I
happen to know that rough paper of
that •descriPtion does not show finger
prints." It was 'a poor imitation -as
well might a cow pretend to be a
swan -and even then he could not
maintain the role he tried to play,
adding with some heat, "You my be
a very good surgeon, ;but you're a
very good liar too. Do you mean to
tell me that you didn't upset all our
beds last night?"
The Tundish never turned a hair as
he /Tidied, "II never did anything of
the sort. Was your bed upset, Jeff-
cock?" He could certainly lie mag-
nificently and he' looked the essence
of simple injured innocence.
• 'Of course his bed' wasn't touched,"
Ethel chipped In, endeavouring to
save Kenneth from making a com-
plete fool of himself, "for the simple
reason that he upset the rest."
I in turn denied her accusations
and that I had any knowledge of the
affair. 1 pointed out that the inquiry
was entirely irregular, in as mita as
Kenneth himself, who was acting as
the judge, and the others who pre-
sumably, represented the jury, were
all . claimants in the action as well,
which was a -manifestly absurd posi-
tion. • Hy chief concern, I went on
to add, was on account of Ethel, as
it went to my heart to think that she
was the affianced bride of ,a young
man who had so little knowledge of
the world that he could be duped by
the statements of such • an obvious
liar as The Tundish, but I am such a
euffer at acting that quite uncon-
sciously my denials only emphasized
my guilt and I did' more to confuse
them than the doctor himself.
Kenneth, who had regained some of
' his usual equanimity, next produced
paper and pencils, and asked us beta
to repeat. the notice from memory,
but this gave no very defin?ite results.
I tried to visualize the dottore ra-
ther peculiareprinting. I remember-
ed his sloping D's and flat topped A's
and made my attempt as much like
the original as I could, but I went
bad}y astray over some of the other
letters. The Tundish, on the other
hand, did his best to repress his nor-
mal style, but just failed to succeed,
with the result that both crtu• dupli-
cates held certain resemblances'to
the one that had been placed over.
the switch, and neither were quite like
!t.
It was The Tundish who pointed
ort that any of the party in addition
to 'ourselves might equally have been
responsible. That either Ethel or
Margaret might quite easily have
slipped upstairs from the basement
during the evening, and that as a
matter of fact their poor perform-
ane,e as laundresses was probably dim
to their absence and not it the rea-
sons they had alleged. That Miss,
Palfreeman had been left all alone
Whilst we had been engaged with the
injured child. That Kenneth • a n d
Ralph had pretended to spend a
whole evening strolling about to get
0001, but that they obviously had
some bidden secrets and were unwill-
ing to give any details of their move-
ments. And finally that whichever of
them had done it, he or she would
certainly have upset his or her own
bed ae a blind for 'the rest of us, and
that the fact that neither his bed ner
mine had been touched was a 'most
important piece of evidence in our
favour.
In the end, after much argument,
envied on pleasantly' by all of us
with the exception of Kenneth, who
smarted! incapable of clifferebtiating
batmen an argument and a dispute,
they 'had to acbnit that each one of
ug had had the opportunity of spend-
ing at Meet a tiaatt,r 'of at, hoar 00-
.
atahrfa heleg ponssed by ilia
r.41114. lint, suArtigion reinained
diMided, we had lied ee-*ell that thet
wernptouj'i doubt' as to wlbicb
of us evaegailty, but :they really bee!
gi to weeder whet)* we were
either of ue mewled)* at all.
When we had 100601p:tied that no
conclusion cowl& be reaOlied," Ethel got
up from the- table saying that she
would jrun ulPstains and find out
whether Stella was gettieg up or
whether she might not like her
breakfast sent Up to her moue She
was back in a couple of minutes, and
although I was smated with my back
to the dolor a Could tell at once by the
way she almbst ,stuiabled into t h
room that there was something ser-
ious amiss. Shehardly had breath
enough to speak, but at last she man-
aged to get eut, "Tundish, I'm fright-
ened -do cozne and look at Stella-
roth! Pni so'arfraid," '
The Tundish jumped to his feet
saying, "What on earth is the mat-
ter?" and hurried atter her out of
the room, leaving us to wonder what
could have caused her extreme agita-
tion. He returned in less than five
minutes and stood in the cleerWay
locking at us as we sat round the
table. I have saia, looking at us,
but I very much doubt If he saw us
at all, for he stood there in the door-
way like a, man, in a trance, mutter-
ing away to himself agairi and again,
PI can't ha..ere made a mistake. No, I
simply can't have made a mistake."
I can see the scene again all as
clearly as this paper f am welting
on. Ralph, who was seated next to
me with his back to the door, looking
over his shoulder, held his cup of
toffee in mid air. Kenneth, on the
point of lifting a piece of bacon on
his fork, held it poised. Margaret,
sitting opposite, looked pale and
scared, and we were all looking first
at the doctor and then at each other,
whilst he stood muttering in the door-
way and gazing into space. It was
almost as though some magician had
suddenly thrown an evil spell which
we none of us could break.
He seemed to come back to life
quite suddenly and to realize the
amazements with which we were
watching him, "then, eater a moment's
hesitation, he said, "Stella is dead
and I've every reason to believe that
she's been *stoned. Please all of
you stay here for a few minutes un-
til I come rback."
There was one wild, piercing shriek
and lVfargaret burst into half hysteri-
cal sobs. It was horrible. First the
silence whilst we waited, amazed, for
the doctor to ,speak, then the appall-
iiIrwords he spoke in his quiet level
voice, and then the sudden piercing
shriek that filled the sunlit room.
X X
CHAPTER III
'
STELLA. MURDERED
.Stella dead! Stella poisoned! I
think that, apart from Margaret, who
sat silent after her one piercing cry
of alarm, we none of us quite realiz-
ed the horror of the situation, and I
am sure that we none of us under-
stood the doctor's muttered referenc-
es to a mistake, or gave any thought
to the manner of her death. Noth-
ing in the scene before us suggested
tragedy. The sun shone in at the
three long windows which were open
wide, and one of the two family cats
sat leisurely washing her face on the
sill, the drowsy hum of the bees at
work in the garden border below
making a fitting accompaniment to
her deliberate graceful , movements.
The breakfast table was in the home-
ly disorder of a completed meal and
we sat round it in flannels prepared
for tennis. Kenneth was still arrayed
in cap and gown. The golf clubs, the
boot trees, and the tennis and golf
'balls collected from Ethel's bed lay
heaped together in one of the two
arm -chairs. None of these things
suggested tragedy and death b u t
poor beautiful Stella lay dead up-
stairs.
Only yesterday I had 'watched hel.
playing tvigorouts .tennis, and one lit-
tle picture stood out clearly in my
mind. She had stooped low to the
ground to reach the ball, her bare
arm sweeping gracefully at its full-
est stretch; her lovely pose, as, light-
ly poised, she held her balances with
one white -clad shapely leg reaching
out behind, tip of toe and finger-tips
of her free hand just touching the
ground; her coppery hair showing
little pools of sun -kissed ruddy gold;
her amiber eyes alight with pure en-
joyment as she gave a little involon-
tary cry of pleasure when the tall,
curving low„ just skimmed the net;
all made a vivid picture Of joyous
slim agility. And that was only a
few hours ago, but now; whilst we
had been fooling round thb break-
fast table, she lay stiff and cold and
dead.
Kenneth took off his cap and gown
but for once Ralph- was the first to
epeak. "Lac* here, we can't just sit
round the table gaping! What did
The Tundish mean by a mistake?
Where is he and where on earth is
Ethel? I'm going out to find' some
one."
I tried to persuade him to wait a
few minutes as the doctor had so
particularly asked us to stay until he
came back, and we sat silent again.
Then Ralph wondered, "Why on
earth didn't he want us to leave the
room?" and Kenneth made for the
door 'Saying, "that he for one wasn't
going to be told what he could and
e couldn't do at a time like this."
rtunately Ethel came back before
he readied it and added her request
to mine. She told us that the doctor
was in the dispensary, examining the
bottles from Which he had made up
Stella's" sleeping draught. She went
over to Kenneth and Mit one hand oti
his Shoulder rie she ePellie, saying,
"Obl it
is all too elteedfrill We Must
try •tebeler The Telidiell all we can
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one's merchandise has to be bought! •
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from seeking them. They must be pursued, and
they must be asked to do business with the retailer •
who wants their ciustom.
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• the nose on one's face. But stop! Answer this ques-
tion: What have you, a retailer, done in the past
month -to go no farther back -to seek and get new
customers? How many non -customers of your store
have received invitations from you tq . do bUsiness
with you? How many persons have received com-
munications from you, requesting their custom? "
How many persons have you informed, in their
• homes, about your buSiness, your merchandise, your
policies? How much money have you' spent this past-
month on the purchase of customers?
• Just waiting for customers is the acme of folly.
Just relying on the convjction that the public ought
to do business with you is folly. Just soothing ybur-
self with the refle'ctions that you are honest, that
you give the public a square deal, that your store
has a good location, that you price merchandise fair-
ly -these are passive things.
• It is action which counts in getting the things
which we want. An infant cries. This is its way of
making .its mother or nurse know that it wants
something. Is it fairtto a business to be doing noth-
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-it is simply terrible for him."
Do you mean that he has made a
mistake then?" Kenneth replied, and
I was surprised to hear how hard and
harsh his voice was. No .hint of
sympathy softened the bluntness of
his question and .Ethel's hand fell
slowly from his shoulder. The door
opened and The Tundish Game -in.
'He stood in the doorway for a mom-
ent looking at Kenneth with as sad a
smile as ever I wish to see. "No,"
he said, "I don't think that I have
made any mistake, but I have very
serious news for you all. Will you
please sit down."
He took the chair at the end of
the breakfast table again as he spokc,
motioning to Ethel to come and sit
beside him. His arm 'was resting on
the table. and I saw her put her hand
against it with a timid littletouch
of sympathy which he acknowledged
with ,a smile of thanks.
Kent:eat saw it too and reddened
and said in an Unnaturally formal
voice, "Now, doctor, we are very anx-
ious to hear what you have to tell
us." I could have kicked him for the
way he paid it, and I think that that
was the first time that it crossed my
mind that ' he might be jealouS of
The Tundish.
The doctor to'o'k no notice of his
remark, but proceeded immediately to
tell us in a calm friendly voice, that,
as we already knew, he had made up
an ordinary sleeping draught for
Stella the night before. The medicine
had been taken up to her bedroom
and placed on a little table by her
bed, by the maid, Annie, just before
supper. It had consisted Of a mild
narcotic taken from one of the bat-
tles that stood on the lower shelf of
the poison cupboard, to whish he had
added one or two .other ingredients
which it was not necessary for him
to specify, as they were entirely
harmless in their action. Every pre-
scription, he explained, was register-
ed in a special book kept "for the
purpose in the dispensary; as soon
as it was made up, and this he had
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done in the usual way. The draught' dining -room:"
rAs soon as we were seated again
in our old positions he repeated to
the rest what he had told me with re-
gard to the history of the weird lit-
tle Chinese bottle, and the action of
its deadly contents. He explained to
us how, in China, he had seen a man
who had been poisoned by it, that
Stella's appearance was exactly sim-
ilar and that he knew of no other
poison which produced even approxi-
mately similar symptoms. He feared,
although he had of course only had
time for a very brief examination,
that there was little if any likelihood
of his opinion being incorrect.
(Continued next week.)
was a mild one and there was no
possibility that it by itself couldhave
caused death or have had any harms
fal action. He bad just roughly
checked over the contents of each of
the 'bottles he had used and they each
of them contained exactly what they
were alleged to contain.
He told us how the poison cup-
board, in addition to the stock pois-
ons that were placed on the lower
shelf, held a number of rare and some
of them very dangerous poisOns, col-
lected by Doctor Hanson over a long
period in connection with his research
work, on a shelf at the top. These
were seldom -touched and it ,had not
been necessary for him to handle
them in making up the sleeping
draught for Stella. As far as he
could tell they had not been disturb-
ed. Here he turned to me, saying,
"But you may be able to help us
there, Jeffcock, for you saw them
with me only the night before last.
You had better come along and tell
me if, as feu as you can ;remember,
they are still placed as they were
then."
We trooped into the dispensary and
he opened the heavy steel door of
the cupboard with the little key whish
he took from his waistcoat pocket.
The bottles, apparently, were in the
exact positions in which I had seen
them only two night before, the tiny
Chinese flagon lifting its long slender
neck with its queer flat stopper a-
bove the diminutive bottles that sur-
rounded it. As far as I could recol-
lect it was in the identical place in
which I had replaced it when the.
Tundish had so urgently begged me
to put it down, but, as I explained,
any of the other bottles Might have
been changed or moved about, for
they were all identical 'in shape and
size, and I had not taken any note
of the names and formulce on the
neatly 'written labels.
"As far as you can see then, the
Chinese flagon has not been mbved?"
1The Tundish asked. "Do you think
that you would be 'prepared:to swear
to that?"
11 hesitated before I replied, "No,
I don't think I could swear to it, but
I could state on oath that if it has
been, it has been put back again in
very nearly the sestact position in
whiclIS I saw it last.." I pointed out,
however, that unless some of the other,
-bottles were moved as well, it would
be praetically impossible to have put
it down anywhere else, and I finished
up by asikieg him if the Chinese fla-
gon was particularly important.
"Yes," he said, '"it is. I ani con-
vinced that someone or other has
added, some of the- contents of that
little bottle to the draught that I
made. up for(Stella, and that that le
the cause of her death." Heeepeke
in his quiet .preeise voice as theiggle
he hall been making some `izeiV.41:
etatement in .gezierel mairernitn
hut the rest of tug' !Were, too este-04
ed goy ailiethiw tit 0,
.lootie,title pve04". h added "
ter a einticre$, gO IhttOt
London and Wingham
South
P.M.
Wing -ham 1.55
Belgrave 2.11
Blyth 2.23
Landesboro 2.30
Clinton 3.08
Brucefiekl 3.27
Kippen 3.35
Hensall 3.41
Exeter 3.55
North
A.M.
Exeter .10.42
Hensall . .. . 10.55
Kippen 11.01
Brucefield 11.09
Clinton 11.54
Londesbero 12.10
Blyth 12.19
Belgrave 12.80
Winghami 12.50
C.N.R. Time Table
East
Goderich 6.45
Clinton PP PO 7,08
Se af orth
Dublin 7.83
Mitchell 7.42
Dublin 11.19 9.44
Werth 11.34 9.5?
Clinton 11.60 10.11
Goderich 12.10 10.87
C.P.R. Time Table
East
West
P.M.
2.30
8.00
8.18
8.31
8.43
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