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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1935-06-28, Page 7it e one"No, $1 µ• . J011 1 H.U.GGARD . Barrister, ;,. Solicitor, " Notary Milli; Etc. #$ attie Block Seaforth, Ont. HAY? & MEIR ,Siltcceeding R. S. Nays IBarristers, 'Solicitors, Conveyancers and Notaries Public. Solicitors for the Dominion Bank. Office in, rear of the Dominion Bank, Seaforth. Money to loan. FRANCIS EVER TON . ()Continued from last Week) Margaret came and sat down in the deck chair beside me. -She had 'brought out a red parasol, with her, and as she lay back in her chair, it heigi tened the rosy color in her pink and white vheeks; and tinted her gol- den hair a ruddy bronze,. She heaved a little sigh of satisfaction as she settled down against. the cushions. Rather like a cat she was, I thought, where cushions and comfort were concerned -shoe madet a luxury of them. "I wonder how long this is going to last," she said pensively, and then after a pause, "You know, I have a sort of feeling that it's this awful heat that is making things so ter- rible..!It gives to everythijig a fever- ish unnatural kind of feeling. I am so glad to hear that they're having ,prayers in the cathedral for rain." I assented and continued to puff a- way silently at my pipe. Annie came out with a tray and began to set out the tea things on a little table in the shade of the house. The cathedral ehimed the quarter after four, and so hot and still was it, that the last fadingenote left the air pregnant with unvoiced vibrations: The clash of clapper on hot- metal in the high cathedral tower -the dull boom of the note -and then the air thick with the ghosts of sound.It came to me that there was some' similar quality in the embarrassed silences that seemed to stand out so sharply from all our conversation. The air was full of the thoughts we were all a- fraid to voice. "Mr. Jeffcock," she continued, after a time, "I want you to promise not to be vexed, but I do so long to ask you a question." I nodded. "You are sure you won't -mind- promise?" she 'tre•peated, holding up one finger with a coquettish air. "I promise I won't show . it, any- how," I returned. "Well," she continued, "you remem- ber -tell me, --,did you put' the key under Kenneth's pillow " I was aghast. There was a little puzzled frown on her face. I looked at' her closely, but she gave me look for look. "I did no such thing, what en earth made you think that I did?" I replied, trying to keep my voice pleasant and unconcerned. "rWlhy, Ij have beets thinking it ov- er, and it simply can't have been any one else --oh, it is all so thrilling! You remember, just before Dr. Wal- lace went out to see his patient this morning, I came up from 'the base- ment with some things for Ethel, and met you in the hall:?" "Yes, I remember that." "Well, you know how the base- ment . stairs go down under the main stairease up from the hall to the first landing? I don't knew if you have noticed how plainly you can hear any one on the stairs just above, butI could swear that as I came up from the kitchen, I heard some one tiptoe- ing down them over my head. I did really, Mr. Jeffcock. Then I found you in the hall. Wasn't it queer? Do you really mean to say that it wasn't y'ou?" "No, it most certainly was not I. I was at the telephone until hist be- fore you appeared, and I never left the hall at all." I hesitated whether to tell her, how I too bad fancied that I heard a stealthy tread on the stair. But a good five minutes must have passed between what I heard and the time when she came up from the base- ment, for -I had continued to speak to the police station, and then I had DR. E. A. McMASTER spoken tb The Tundish after that. Graduate of the University of To- Could the noise I thought I had ronto, Faculty of Medicine heard have been some one creeping Member of College of Physicians up the stairs -not down them? But end 'Surgeons of Ontario; graduate of in that case who could it possibly New York Post 'Graduate School and have 'been? Every one, including The Lying-in Hospital, New York. Of- Tundish, could then be accounted for. fice on High Street, Seaforth. Phone I decided to say nothing at all about 27. it. Instead, I asked her as pleasant - Office fully equipped for ultra short ly as I could, "And have you convey - wave electric treatment, Ultra Violet ed your rather unkind suspicions to Sun Lamp treatments, and Infra red any of the others?" electric treatments. Nurse in attend- "No, oh no," she replied, "and I lance, really did not mean to be unkind. But the whole affair is so puzzling. Things happen and there's no one to make them happen. There's no good solid reason for anything." Then after a little pause, she add ed, "Do you think, then, that Ken- neth threw away the medicine glass? I suppose that he must have done, and then have locked the door to Stella's room and put the key under the pillow in his own, meaning to throw it away as well a little later on! . But why, oh why, should he do it?" "He can't have done it," I.remind- ed her, "he was in the dining -roam With Ethel and Ralph all the time, Don't worry yoet head , about ,. it. Leave it to Allport. Here is Annie with the tea.." Annie put the tea-pot on the table and was just on the pointl of return- ing to the houses when she turned round and called 'out good-naturedly, Specialist in farm and household "Oh, please, miss, I found your six - sales. Prices reasonable. For dates pence." and information, write or phone Bar- "Thank you so much, Annie, where old Dale, phone 149, Seaforth, or ap- was it?" "On ply at The Expositor Office. "Oh! the It andingmust ,avee rolled down then after all. I am so glad it is so unlucky on the stairs." It was the first time I had heard the theory that ill luck followed the dropping of money, 'on a staircase, but Margaret was famous -for such quaint Iittle superstitions, about lad- ders, umbrellas, the moon, and so forth, and she was continually ,throw- ing salt over her shoulders or doing something equally silly, to save her- self fronii catastrophe. She was- half a generation 'behind the times, I think -but she was so good-natured and simple over it all, that we readily forgave her absurdities and the many conversational bricks she drop ed Anyhow, I thought to s lyself, that JOHN H. BEST Barrister; Solicitor, Etc. Seaforth - Ontario 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. Jarrott's office, Sea- terth. A. R. CAMPBELL, V.S. Graduate of Ontario Veterinary College, University of Toronto. A41 disease of domestic animals treated' by the most modern principles. Charges reasonable. Day or night cail°upromptly attended to. Office on Main Street, Hensall, opposite Town Hall. Phone 116. Breeder of Scottish Terriers. Inverness Kennels, Hensall. MEDICAL DR. D. E. STURGIS Graduate of • the Faculty of 'Medi- cine, University of Western Ontario, end St. - Joseph's Hospital, London. Member of College of Physicians and 'Surgeons of Ontario. Phone 67. Of- fice at Dulblin, 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 Gode- rich 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- Htals, London, Eng. At Commercial otel, Seaforth, third Wednesday in each month, from Lb p.m. to 5 p.m. 58 '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, east of the United Church, Seaforth. Phone 46. Coroner for the County of Huron. DR. HUGH. H. ROSS Graduate of Univ'ersity. of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, member of Col- 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. G. R. COLLYER Graduate Faculty of Medicine, Uni- versity of Western Ontario. Member College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Post graduate work at Neve York City Hospital and Victoria Hospital, London. Phone: Hensall 56. Office: King Street, Hensall. DENTAL DR. J. A. McTAGGART Graduate Royal College of Dental Surgeons, Toronto., Of%e at Hensall, Ont. Phone 106. AUCTIONEERS HAROLD DALE Licensed Auctioneer ARTHUR WEBER Auctioneer's License Sixteen years' experience. Satisfaction guaranteed. Telephone: 18-57, Hensall. Wirite ARTHUR WEBER, R. R. 1, Dashwood, • INSURANCE THE JOHN RANKING AGENCY ;Insurance of all 'kinds. • Bonds-, Real Plstate: Money to Loan. lSEA&"O' bTH - ONTARIO Phone 91. solves the .mystery 4of " e girl who searched the stairs in fe ed haste," and I wondered how many of the other little incidents on which d have pondered, and how many, of the in- triguing remarks I had overheard, might not be capable of explanation in a. -similarly simple manner. We found that the- table bad been laid for three, 'Kenneth and Ralph, doubtless with a view to avoiding the doctor, having dedided to stay in- doors for their tea. We moved the little table from the back of the house 'o the shade of the cedar tree, and The Tundish joined us just' as we were sitting down. I envied the easy way in which he kept the conversa- tion going, without once touching or obvipusly appearing to avoid, the un- hap�y subject of all our thoughts. There had been a stack fire at the Catterson's farm, a mile or two. out cf the city. ,A horse had been burn- ed to death. Canon Searle had beers' nearly drowned on holiday at Bourne- mouth --cramp when he was swim- ming out of his depth. So on and so f -nth, for a full twenty minutes. It was a relief to •hear some one talk- ing naturally and lightly about noth- ing in particular. And then he pull- --d up sharplyin the middle of a sen- tence. . I looked up to see what had caught his attention. Two men were corning in through the door in the wall, at the end of- the doctor's wing. Each held one end of a ladder. They pro- ceeded to rear it up against the cop- ing of the flat-topped roof on to which Stella's bedroom window look- ed. Then they produced a pair, of shears and a small saw and began to clip the tangled mass °of the large - leaved ivy. "Are they gardeners?" Margaret asked. "Police," The Tundisb replied la- conically, and added, "pruning for glass." • Margaret emitted a little "Oh!" We heard the telephone ring faintly in the hall, and the doctor left us. We two continued to watch the "garden- ers." The "thing" that we longed to fopget was back with us again. CHAPTER VIII DR. HANSON'S CASE BOOK Forpleasure or comfortof any sort it was too hot in the wall -girt gar- den, but merely to be away from the house brought a certain sense of ease and rest. Sitting under the old shady cedar it was easier to keep dark thoughts away, and difficult to re- alize that the homely looking red- rick house was a shelter for murder and crime. Difficult to realize that at some hour during.: the previous night the little Chinese flagon had been secretly lifted from its ,place on the shelf among its almost equally deadly little neighbors. Lifted, oh! so gently, and the queer flat stopper quietly removed from its fragile slen- der neck. Then just a tilt, and drip, drip, drip, a few drops added to the contents of a tapering glass, and at some hour of the hot still night, poor, Stella had slipped out of sleep into death. Whose hand, I wondered, had set that murderous little bottle back in its place? Was it a hand that trem- bled and shook? Or was it steady and deft like the hands I had seen so swiftly busy with the bandages round a small boy's face? Inspector Brown's two gardeners were making laborious work of their search. The end of the 'roof *here the ivy grew was full in the blaze of the sun, and coats and waistcoats were in turn discarded: There were intervals for chatty little rests and the mopping of faces. In three-quar- ters of an hour a very small bit of the roof had been dealt with, and I calculated that it would be dark be- fore the whole could be cleared unless their prog>;ess was speeded up. The inspector was evidently of the same opinion, for he came in whilst we were watching and we soon heard his loud -voiced complaints across the lawn. A little later the party was inereased to three. -- They cleared the roof methodical- ly, a foot at a time. When the main strands of the tangled growth had been cut and disentangled, they were carefully shaken out and thrown to the lawn below. The loose leaves on :he roof were examined and put into a bucket. These having been remov- ed, the smaller bits were collected to- gether and riddled through a sieve. The siftings were swept aside and the remainder carefully searched. Then another few strands were cut and the process repeated. Margaret and I watched them .idly as we sat, their clippings and the noise of the bucket as it was handled up and down from the roof punctuat- ing our desultory conversation. I fancy we were both meditating with lazy inconsequence on the day's ev- ents and our few remarks reflected tour meditations. "We are sure to have some of them down from the club to, make inquirjes this evening," I said. "'Yes. It will be rather awkward, won't it?" A long pause in which I puffed a- way leisurely at my pipe and she lay back gently rotating her red .paro- sc 1. "Don't you think we ought to have soihe definite understanding about what we are all of us going to ,say when callers do appear? We are sure to have no end directly it gets about. The Hansons know nearly ev- ery one there is to know in Merches- ter and I can assure you from my own experience, that we, simply can't be beaten where curiosity is concern- ed." She moved her chair round as she spolee to get a better view of the doctor's wing. - "I think. that you are right," I said, knocking the ashes out of my pipe, "I'll have a word . with the doctor 1 "Oh, 1 salt, 1y am do sorry, And is de,g AL about it." . ' "He would deal with them better than any of us," she agreed, "'but he may not be here all the time, and I can't imagine .that either Ethel or Kenneth would 'excel at tthe job. They are both too -•-r-" She paused for a word. '''Exactly;'' I laughed, "they are both of them too'--.-- and you can leave it at that." We fell back on our meditations, and I thought what a peaceful drowsy scene it would have made if only the men at work on the roof had been gardeners indeed, and Margaret and I the remnant of some pleasant social gathering. Gardeners pruning an ivy tree for next year's more vigorous growth -hope for the future and life! Plain -clothes policemen search- ing for a piece of poisoned glass - murder and death! The cathedral chimes rang out again and roused us - both. It was six o'clock. We got up and went back to the house, she to go to Ethel, and I to find The Tun - dish. . !Hie was in the dispensary' -. the. coolest spotl in the house -his feet on the desk in front of him and his chair tilted back to a dangerous an- gle. He was scowling at a manu- script book in which he was deeply engrossed. Now, I had anticipated his -pleas- ant, "Hallo! Jeffcock," but I was met with a frown and a curtly spok- en ".Well?" It (was -the first time I had seen him either bothered or abrupt. The heat of the past few days, which had prostrated the rest of us and made us . irritable and touchy, had not been sufficient to sap his energy or sour his sweet temper. I remembered that, in addition to facing the appalling position in which he found himself here at Dalehouse, he had had -to rush away directly af- ter,°breakfast to some other scene of illness and distress. He had hurried back through the sweltering heat to meet the ' aspersions of Allport and the angry attack of Kenneth. Through -out the fevered day he had been calm, kindly and unruffled. A "rock" as Ethel had whispered, for all of us to lean on. I was surprised, therefore, to find him frowning and sharp spoken, and he either saw my surprise or else he read my thoughts, for he closed the book with a bang, took his feet off the desk, and stood up saying, "Sorry, Jeffcock old man, but I have got an incipient hump." "In my opinion, you've been through enough to turn you into a veritable dromedary, so far as humps are concerned," I answered. ,"Oh! that -you mean my strong position as favourite for the gallows -stakes? No, my dear ..Jeffcock, to be perfectly truthful, that bothers me not at all. Death is a friend we shall all have to shake by the hand. It's this depressing little record of un- wholesome happenings and disease that nearly gave me a fit of the blues." I lobked at the book with interest. "It's Hanson's case book," he an- swered my unspoken question. "Such books should be burned. Burned and then the ashes scattered at sea, for half the world's unhappiness springs from the disorders that we doctors write up so secretly in our case books and keep hidden/ aitvay under lock and key." He flicked the pages between finger and thumb with a look of sad disgust as he spoke. "Ugh!" he said as he replaced the book in a drawer in the desk, which he pushed home with an angry bang. I asked him what, he thought we ought to say to'any callers who might come, and whether we had not bet- ter have some agreement among our- selves as to how much' information we -were to give them when they came "'hy, yes, of course we must," he said pleasantly. "-I. hope that I shan't have bo go out again to -night, and probably I had better see any one who calls whilst I am here. I shall be able to choke them off more eas- ily then Ethel tv.>uld, ands -it will ap- pear quite natural for me to explain that she has gone to lie down and rest. Then at supper time we can decide together what to say -to all the llferchester busybodies tomor- row. It surprises me that we have not been pestered with callers al- ready. It is all over the city, I know, for half a'tlozen of my patients found it difficult to hide their curiosity, when I was out on my rounds this afternoon. You will see that quite apart from the kindly concern of Hanson's more intimate friends, half Merchester will he calling or ringing us up during the next twenty-four hours. They will come for subscrip- tions, to borrow books, and to be treated for imaginary complaints. Anything, in fact, that will give there a chance' to satisfy their ghoulish curiosity, and here is the first of them now, unless I am very much mistaken." The bell had begun to ring as he was speaking, and Annie announced Rushton, the secretary of the tennis club. He was asking for Ethel. WO had him shown, into the dispensary. After shaking hands with us and refusing to sit down, as he .wanted to get back to the club as soon as he could, he carie to the object of his visit with commend -able brevity. He hoped that it was not true that Miss Palfree•man wasedead, but that she was merely ill, as Mr. Bennett had told them when he called at the club .to scratch our names in the morn- ing.' He was a rather nervous little man, at the best of times, and it was obvious that he was not enjoying his visit. "It is unfortunately only -too true," The Tundish replied. "She died at some hour during the night, and Miss Hanson had the shock of trying to wake her up this morning." "' xlatei' there: i gip, IhPE' gdeat " "Yes, tlia is trt1t OA, 9.4# .1 with her wi en she died, and z am' able to Certify th.e -Cause 'of hey; death. • We have• egrmilted the police; and they tell its that an inguest can't possibly 'be avoided." Rushton stood embarrassed, and muttering, "Oh • dear, how sap:!: How very, very ' sadl" I11 at ease, he was tracing half circles on the eork mat- ting With the toe of his shoe.. "Look here, I don't want toadd- to your tro ibles," he said looking up suddenly, as though he had made, iii his mind to go through with art un- pleasant task, "but I thought I ought to tell Miss 'Hanson about it at once. I wanted to .see her and tell her. There are all manner of things -being whispered about at the club. He hesitated again undomfertaibly, and then went on with a sort of ner- vous rush, "They are saying that the 'police have been in and out of the house all day long. That Miss Pal - freeman was murdered, and that you have. all of you been detained, and that you, Dr. Wallace, were seen be- ing driven off to the police station it- self under escort. There are all sorts of whisperings, and each that I have overheard has been a little more gruesome than the last. It's beastly unpleasant news to have to give you, but I really .felt that some one ought to come and let you know of the things -that are being said:"'. "It has been exceedingly kind and considerate of you," The Tundish re- assured him. "From the questions I was. asked and the looks that I got} -- looks that I could almost overhear! -when. I paid a few professional vis- its this aftern:,on, I guessed that some such stories must be afloat. The facts, however, are as I have told you. ' Miss Palfreaman's death is at present a mystery to us all. She wad ratanr overtired, but otherwise in nor- mal health when she retired for .the night. The police have moved her body to the mortuary so that a care- ful 'examination can be made. There is to be an inquest, and Mr. Jeffcock here, and the oth.rs, have been asked to ,remain in Merchester until it is over. That is really all that we -can tell.you. We are nearly as much 'in the dark as any • one else. It is a very painful position without exag- geration, and if you can help to thin out some of the rumours that are thickening the air we shall all be not a little grateful." "Oh, I will. I mast certainly will. I'll de everything I possibly can." He retreated nervously. The doctor, I felt, had not been aver convincing. Rushton, I am sure, really came to us out of kind- ness and because he felt that some one ought to warn us of what was being said, however unpleasant the task might be. But if he had no sus- picions of his own before he came, the doctor's so-called explanations would most surely have aroused them. A •doctor in the house - a mysterious death which the doctor would not certify -a body removed to the mortuary by the police, and an inquest --an unpleasant string of facts to have to admit! Add a little ireag- ination, a dash or two of spite,- and a misunderstanding here and there as the details are whispered by one scandal -loving cathedral . matron to the next, and' it is easy to realize that the final story might even out- crimson the actual facts. The Tun - dish had done hies best, but it was very evident that until the whole ab- ominable business was properly cleat- ed up, and Stella's murderer discov- ered and caught, nothingy --that we could say •or do would silence the gossip that was about. "That is the first of a great many kindly people who will make it their business to call because they felt that we ought to know of the awful things that are being said," The Tundish re- marked; with a wry grimace. "Don't you think that he really did feel like that?" - "Oh yes, yes! And so will many of the others who come for the same purpose. But they will one and all go away to strengthen the rumours cf which they came to warn us. I'm not blaming them --it's human na- ture, We shall find it rather trying, though, ,I fancy. It's half -past six. I'll just run upstairs and find out how Ethel is getting on, and then if it is not too hot for you I'll join you in the garden for a stroll." I agreed and went out through the front door, round the end of the house, and into the gander, huolnd• The heat was still dev'astatirg Not a leaf was astir. Not even a tray wisp of cloud broke the pale blue of the sky, a blue that faded impercept- ibly into a misty white above the top of the high garden wall, 19:35 Sale xe. t - Same Period 1934, Public acceptance of the 1985 Ford' car ,this season has already caused last year's sales record to tpppje, r - cording to 3. F. Daly, Ford dealer, of Seaforth, who has just returned from an enthusiastic dealer and salesman meeting in Listowel, where the Ford Motor Company of Canada's sales,, sets ice and advertising program was reviewed. R. M. ' Sale, Windsor, assistant gen- eralsales manager of the Ford Motor Company of Canada, told the dealers that "within the course of the next few days the Ford Motor Company's combined export and domestic busi- ness will exceed that for the whole of 1934." As' there is a considerable portion of the 1935 season yet to be taken into consideration, indications point to an excellent sales record for the Ford Motor Company of Canada, following executives of the Canadian The meeting was attended by the company; Mr. Sale; W. Murdoch, Toronto 'branch manager; G. R. Eaton, Toronto branch service man- ager; C. C. Harvie, Toronto branch sales manager, and E. F. Millard, ad- vertising manager, East Windsor. The purpose of the gatherings, as explained by M. Millard, is to re- view the sales, service and advertis- ing activities of the company to date this year, and to explain the program which will be carried .out for the balance 'of the year. Dealers . were also .;given a definite idea of the na- tional sales picture. ' In describing the company's buss= ness this year, Mr. Sale stated that as of May 20, more Ford cars had been disposed of in Canada than for the whole of 1934. Canadian Ford sales, according to the April regis- tration figures, the .latest available, were 34 per cen.t of all passenger and commercial jobs sold in the Do -minion. W. Murdoch added that the To- ronto branch, of which he is the man- ager, and whose territory takes in the Province of Ontario, exceeded last year's total sales figure( on May 22 of this year. Ontario absorbs 50 per cent. of the total ear sales of the Dominion, he also explained when giving these figures. ; Similar meetings are being held at various other points in the province. Inspector Brown's three men were still busy with the ivy on the roof, and the heap on ,the lawn had grown to a goodly size. Nearly three-quar- ters of the roof had been cleared. The inspector himself stood watching thein at work, peaked hat in hand, and his red round face looking like .•a damp boiled beetroot from underneath his handkerchief, which he had knotted at the corners and placed on his head for protection against the sun. He beckoned to me as I rounded the end of the house, and I went and stood Ly Ilis side. "You're making good progress," I said. "Yes." "Have you found what you were looking for?" "Yes." - "But you are going to clear the lot whilst you are about it, eh!',". "Yes." And looking at me queerly, and inimickige-.toe little exclamation with which .I had finished my own sentence, he added, "There migh-t ba something else, eh!" He continued to stare, his eyes lacking for all the world like a cou- ple" of bright blue buttons stuck in his big red face, and then he sur- prised me by asking, "Do your in- itials happen„ to be F. H., Mr. Jeff- cock?" "Yes. Why do you ask?" But I never got an answere to my question. He turned abruptly and walked away, ignoring me rudely and completely. • I half thought of fol- lowing him to make further inquiry, but his -broad solid back and his thick mull neck both looked unresponsive, so 1 mastered my curiosity, and cross- ing the lawn to the cedar tree, sat down in the shade to wait for The Tundish. I was beginning to think that he must have forgotten me, wffen Mar- garet hurried to me. "He wants us both in the dispensary," she said, be- fore she reached me, and turned quickly back to the house beckoning me to follow. SPAD!NA AVE. I COLLEGE ST. • TORO N iO London and Wiilxglia South Wingham - Belgrave Blyth Londesboro Clinton Brumfield Ki'ppen Hensall Fxeter 2 2y 2;3C LOW 8427 8.66:,. 3.41 ,: 3.55r. North Exeter 10.42 Hensall 10.55 Ki'ppen ; 11.01 • Brucefield 11:09 Clinton 11.54 Londesboro 1240 Blyth 12.19 Belgrave 12.30 Wingham 12.50 C.N.R. Time Table East Goderich Clinton Seaforth Dulblin Mitchell Dublin Seaforth Clinton Goderich West A.M. P.M. 6:45 2.30 7.08 3.00 7.22 3.18 7.33 3.31 '7.42 ' 3.43 11.19' 9.44 11.34 9.57 11.50 10.11 12.10. 10.37 C.P.R. Time Table East AN. Goderich 5.50 ' Menset 5.55 McGaw' - 6.04 Auburn ...... 6.11 Blyth 6.25 Walton ' 6.40 McNaught 6.52 Toronto' 10.25 iA.M. Toronto 7.40 McNaught 11.48 Walton 12.01 Blyth 12.12 Auburn 12.23 McGaw 12.34 Menset 12.41 Goderich 12.46 West, He got up from the desk as we entered and placed the prescription book, in which he had been, writing, on the table that stood in the middle of the room. Then he took three bottles and a taper medicine glass from the shelves over the bench, and put them on the table by the book. He was solemn and portentous. Mar- garet and I were silent as we stood and watched him. "I am going to prepare some medi- cine for Ethel," he informed us when he had got everything ready, "and in the circumstances I feel that I should like you to see me make it up, I can't explain my wish in so many words; in fact, I really don't quite know why I want you to be here. If I wanted to poison Ethel, I could of ro'uvse 'do it with the greatest ease whilst'.you both stand looking on. For instance, you can check the prescrip- tion which I have written out in full, and you can cheek the bottles ; with the prescription, but you can't pos- sibly be sure that I haven't already tampered with the bottles.. So you see it is all rather farcical, and yet 1 do very definitely feel that I should like you to witness me making it up." I was aghast at the horrible sug- gestion his words.c.ontained, but he stood smiling 'at ds pleasantly, im- perturbable, inschutable. (Continued next week.) Ford Executives Hold Dealer Meetings Executives of the Ford Motor Company who are conducting a series of salesmen and dealer meetings throughout Ontario. The party, from left to right includes: W. Murdoch, manager of the 'Toronto branch; C.C. Harvie, Toronto branch sales manager; R. M. Sale, assistant general sales manager, Wind- ' sor; G. R. Eaton, Toronto branch servile manager and E. F. Millard, advertising manager, Windsor: Ford sales to date this year are already ahead those for the whole of 1934 smoothing to 1. gide. < , 4