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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1935-07-05, Page 7' 45. leh011e No. 91 .10$ 3: HUGGA :D Barrister, Solicitor, Netary Public, Etea, Seattie Block - - Seaforth, Ont. HAYS & MEIR - Siibeeeding R. S. Hays ' Barristers, Solicitors, Conveyancers rusted Notaries Ptublie. Solicitors for the Do•►inion Bank. Office in rear of the Dominion Bank, Seaforth. Money So loan. JOHN H. BEST Barrister, :Solicitor, Etc. &Forth•r- - Ontario ' VETERINARY • JOHN GRIEVE, V.S. Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin- hry 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 - forth. A. R. CAMPBELL, V.S. Graduate of Ontario Veterinary College, University of Toronto. All disease 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. Phoiife 116. Breeder of Scottish Terriers. Inverness Kennels, Hensall, 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 - See at Dublin, Ont. 3493 DR. GILBERT C. JARROTT Graduate of Faculty of Medicine, University of Western Ontario. 14lenn- leer 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- pitals, London, Eng. At -Commercial Hotel, Seaforth, third Wednesday in each month, from 1.30 p.m. to 5 p.m. 13 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 Aberleart'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 University 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 H'ivspital, 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 Graduate of the University of To- 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. Office fully equipped for ultra short Wave electric treatment, Ultra Violet Sun Lamp treatments, and Infra red electric treatments. Nurse in attend- ance. 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 New York City Hospital and Victoria Hospital, London. Phone: Hensall 56e Office; King Street, Hensall. DENTAL DR. J. A. McTAGGART Graduate Royal !College of Dental Surgeons,. Toronto. Office -at Hensall, Ont. Phone 106. AUCTIONEERS HAROLD DALE Licensed Auctioneer Specialist in farmand household Gales. Prices reasonable. For dates and information, white or phone Har- old -Dale, phone 149, Seaforth, or ap- ply at The Expositor Office. u ARTHUR WEBER Auctioneer's License Sixteen years! experience. Satisfaction guaranteed. Telephone: 13-57, 'Hensall. Write ARTHUR W',C+BER, R. R. 1, Dashwood. INSURANCE THE JOHN RANKING AGENCY Insurance of all kind's. Bonds, Real Estate. Money to Loan. iSEAFO'RTH - ONTARIO Phone 91. FRANCIS wEVERTON' (Continued from last week) - homemmeesie "I think that I can understand you feelings a little," Margaret said in aptly, "you're afraid it Haight some how, happen again. Is Ethel really it then?" "No, oh no, not exactly ill, but th bang on her mouth has loosened tooth and some of the others, hav had a nasty jar. It has given her neuralgia and I want her to have comfortable night if she .can. We stil have some unpleasant hours ahead, fear." He was making up the medicine a he spoke, pouring first from one an then from the other bottles — a ser ies of simple acts which he seeme to invest with' some quality of magic The glass lightly held between finge and thumb might have stood on slab of stone for steadiness. Each ingredient trickled quickly yet sure ly to fill it to within a hair's breadth of the graduation mark against which he had placed his thumb. Not one did he have to make an addition o adjustment, and so quick and precis was it all that he had finished whils he was answering Margaret's ques tion and the simple everyday move ments took on the aspect of a con juring trick. We initialled the labels of the bot ties he had used and the prescription he had written in the book after checking the one with the other. Margaret, too, had evidently been impressed by his sleight of hand, for she said, "And now shall I sit on a broomstick and whisk it upstairs to Ethel-?" It was the most original re mark I had ever heard her make. "No thanks, I'll take it up myself.' Margaret reddened, but he smiled at her coolly, adding, "I want to have a chat with her," and he picked up the glass and was gone. We didn't say anything, but if looks could speak—^? I think we were both of us wondering why he should have bothered to ask • us to see e nedicine, and then �srr witnesses, have•re lrgaret take it up to d have gone, up with her for his little --chat. It was .queer and extraordinary. I could not un derstand . it. him prepare having had us fused to let M Ethel. IHIe CHAPTER IK KENNETH AND THE TUNDISH Ethel did net come down to dinne and altogether., it was an unsatisfac tory, unsatisfying meal! Jaded ant worn but, we were really in need of food. But the meat was neither ho nor cold—the potatoes uncooked and uneatable --cook being evidently to •overcome to attend to such every -day affairs. Annie, poor girl, looked tir ed out and not a little ashamed a having to set such dishes before us Indeed she nearly broke down alto gethet• when she informed us that sh was sorry but that eobk had made no pudding. "Why on earth not, Annie?' What ever is she th.inking ,Of?" The Tundish exclaimed. "She says she's all of a flutter, sir You know how she goes on. I'd have made you something dr other myself 'only she toil me nothing about it un til it was too late." "You're a good girl, Annie, and it' no fault of yours. I'll see cook of terwards " Margaret looked her amusement and as usual managed to bring in one of her proverbial sayings. this time it was passably apt, however "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread," she said, glancing round the table ,brightly. )(enneth's lips curled. The doctor was interfering again. The telephone bell rang a good half • dozen tines before we had finished and each time The Tund•is•i got up to answer it without murmur or pros test. I could'hear his end of the con - venation, 'which ran almost word for word alike or; each occasion, "I'm sorry, but she's gone to lie down and I don't want to disturb her." "Yes, very sad indeed." "Sorry, but I can't hear what you are saying. This, line is very indis tinct. Hallo! I'll let her know tha you rang her up." Then the receiver was put up and be would return looking amused. "It's easy work on the telephone," he laughed. "It's all far too teeth's; comment. Afters dinner we sat abiout uncom- fortably, Margaret curling herself up like some large eat in one of the big arm -chairs and busying herself with her interminable knitting. I felt that, somehow, it would have been in keeping with her had she produced black wane, but it was still a pink jumper which had appeared at many odd moments :before that engaged her attentions. The two boys strolled up and down the garden for a time, and then they tried a game of chess. I went out into the garden with a book and sat under the cedar with The Tundieh. We hardly spoke. • He was really reading, I think, from the regular way he turhed the pages of his book, but ,try as I' might, my own thoughts would wander from the printed page and revert to the day's events. But I could not think con- secutively. Ethel had set the seal of terror on us all when she had burst in on us at breakfast time with her "Do come, I'm afraid," and from that moment, whilst the sun had blazed !and scorched, we had passed from dis- tress to distress. Now the shadow un dem the garden wall was broadening nut across' the lawn towards' us Would that darker shadow, tha seemed to threaten this unruffled man reading so calmly and so peacefully at my side, with'itts.steady inexora'b'le encroachment, darken his life and -then blot him Out for ever? Or wool a door in idle high wall open, slashing easy," was Ken- li'%Yrtu k'i .a the shadow, with a path of light dowi+n which he would pass? Perched high on the centre post of the arch that spans the garden walk where it pierces the hedge of yew, a thrush was filling the air with its limpid song, and when the deeper notes of the chimes came booming down from ,the cathedral tower, he would stop awhile, bright head cock- ed, alert and listening. Then as they died away he would throw himself back, and with throbbing throat, fill the air again with pure ecstasy. The long hat day of death and horror was dosing on a note of peace. That was my hope, as I sat in the mellowing evening, light, but the sun was not to set before I witnessed yet another angTy scene between Kenneth and the doctor. He and Ralph came round the end of the house as the thought crossed my mind. Catching sight of us, they halted, talking urgently together. Ev- en from where I sat, I could see that Kenneth was obstinately over-riding advice that Ralph was giving. He stood with his legs wide apart, his, hands 'thrust deep into, his trouser pockets, his chin stuck out, stolid and determined to have his own way! Then they hurried towards us, Ralph lagging behind a little, half reluct- ant. I wondered what new trouble had arisen. It wag the medicine The Tundish had given to Ethel. Margaret hadtold `hem about it. Kenneth was was furious./ "I say, is it true about your giving some medi- cine to Ethel?" he asked, planting himself straight in front of the doc- tor's chair. "Yes, quite te•ue. Have you any ob- jection?" The Tundish replied, gent- ly closing his book, keeping his place with inserted finger, and looking up with a slow smile and a twinkling eye. "Objection! I shlould think I damn- ed well have! I, for on'e, don't care far your way of making up p•reserip- tions," "No? Well, if you should .be taken Kenneth, and I have to prescribe the medicine shall be made up at a ch'emist's and delivered in a sealed bottle. Now, if you will excuse mer I should like to get on with my book." "But Margaret says she has jest been upstairs ba find out if Ethel wanted anything; and her bedroom door is locked and there was no re- ply when she knocked?" Ralph urg- ed, looking anxiously up at Ethel's bedroom window, in which the blinds were drawn. "My dear young friend, I told her to lock it myself. I do hope that 1VIar- garet hasn't waked her up. Now please be s'ensibl'e and let the poor) girl have what rest she can get; You can do no earthly good by malting any bother, If I have poisoned Ethel's medicine—which I take it is the friendly suiggestnon you are both' of you making—she is dead by now, and nothing that you or any .one else could do would,save her. If I haven't, then isn't it rather a pity to wake (her up merely to satisfy your curi- osity? That's the logic of the posi- tion, but if you feel it to be your duty, go and have a word with In- spector Brown about it. He is just packing up his treasures prior to de- parture." This, I felt, was taking things a little too calmly, and I could under- stand the frown that had gathered on Ralph's dark face whilst the doc= for was speaking. Could not his be- haviour, which I had described to my- self as calm and unruffled, perhaps be more aptly labelled callous and _cold-blooded? And if so, what revi- sion of ideas and estimates of possi- bilities might not then be necessary? Kenneth had turned round and called out to the inspector at once as he was on the point of opening the door into Dalehau.•e lane. Ralph was hesi- tant, but Kenneth took him by the arm and dragged him across the lawn. Whilst I watched them talking to the ins•pectbr, wondering with inter- esst.what that stolid individual would advise• them to do, The Tundish had returned to his book. He was absorb- ed immediately—lost to the world. He had given •them his advice and that apparently was the end of it so far as he was concerned. After a few minutes' conversation Inspector Brown departed.. A brief consultation between the two boys fol- lowed and then Kenneth came back to us alone. "We have decided to do as you ask- ed u.s," he said tersely. "Thank you. I'm very glad to hear ie." Kenneth came a step nearer. "But if anything .happtens to Ethel -11'11— n' kill you." He spoke very slowly and leant over towards the doctor. His fists were clenched, and for a moment I thought that he was going to strike. The Tundish never moved a muscle. "Do the hangman out of one lob, and give him another? That the idea?" he laughed 'pleasantly, and re- turned once miore to his interrupted reading. . Kenneth controlled himself with difficulty and strosde away. A boy went whistling down theilane. The doctor continued his reading. I look- ed at him slyly as he eat quietly en- grossed by my side, "I can't ,help sympathizing with Kenneth and Ralph, y'o'u know," I said. "It isn't that I suspect you of having had anything 4* do with Stel- la's death, butt---" "But -4--,?" he interrupted quizzic- ally. I did not know how to finish my sentence; how to put into words that would not offend, the feeling I had that there was something foreboding, something snrggeetive, in his having made up 'mediate for Stella one night and then again after the terrible dis- aster for Ethel. The circumstances were too much alike. Two taper glass- es. Two -- "Come, :Jefticoek," h,e reale kindly, When he 'saw my hesitation, "for Heaven's sake don't let the hot wea- ther get on your nerves too." "That's all very well,".I reminded him, '"'but you must have had some very similar feelings yourself, or why did you want us. "to witness your meking up of Ethel's prescription?" He looked at me and laughed out - light. "Wrong again, I never felta qualm. I wanted you and Margaret in tthe dispensary f'or a very different reason." ' I am sure that my astonishment was obvious; but he ignored my sur- prise and closed his book, saying, "Now I'm going'• -•to bed. Thank God this awful day is over." It was evident that I should get no further information from 'him as to his real reasons 'for our presence in the dispensary, even if I pressed him. The subject; -was closed. We walked slowly across the brown scorched lawn and back to the house. In the hall we met cook, dirty and unkenspt, a.wisp of greasy hair strag- gling across her pasty, unhealthy looking face. She was on her way up- stairs to 'bed. The Tundish was as good as his word and asked her ra- •ther sharply why the dinner had been sb badly cooked. .She folded her arras across her floppy ample 'bos•om - and leered at him^ offensively, "C'orme, Grace, I want ananswer to my question." • She tilted back her ugly pasty face half closed her beady eyes, and nod- dec' slowly backwards and forwards, the greasy wisp of hair waving lud- icrously with every movement that she made. The leer became an ugly smile, and then she laughed ,an low, disturbing laugh. Fat red arms folded against her untidy dress, she looked revolting as 'she stood there nodding at us, leering and laughing in turns. The doctor gazed at her solemnly, unmoved, showing neither annoyance nor the disgust that I felt myself. His steady eyes were disdoncertin'g. Her laughing ceased. Then she wiped the back of her • hand across her mouth, stuck her head forward at the doctor, and whispered hoarsely, "X knows what I knows, Dr, Wallace." She waddled away unsteadily. I turned to The Tundish to see how he would take it. He was standing im- movable, unseeing. Only that same Morning had I seen him standing thugs in the doorway as we were hav- ing breakfast—his brain so deep in thought that his eyes, whilst open wide, were blind, inanimate, and un- controlled. Then he had muttered., "I can't have made a Mistake. I simply can't harve made a mistake," but new he whispered, nearly inaudible, "I wonder what she knuws,,•now I won- der what she knows."- carne nows."-••cane to life with a start and a smile of amusement at his own ab- straction, told me that he was going straight to bed as he half expected the: 1::: plight be called out in the early hours to a case of indisputable first-aid, and then with one foot on the bottom stair, heturned to me and said, "Anti by the way, Jeffcock, if you'll take my- advice, you'll lock your bedirom door to -night." Then he said ''Good -night," and was gone. CHAPTER X I ANALYZE THE POSITION 1 moved across the hall into the drawing -room. The twh boys, I learnt, had already gone to bed, but Marg- aret was still curled up in a chair by the window placidly knitting, She looked pretty-, I thought, with th e fading evening light from the window shining on one tight little coil of golden hair, the graceful, curve at the back of her head emphasized by the parting that ran down the mid- dle. Her 'occupation, somehow, seem- ed proper to the setting and enhanc- ed 1'he pretty picture that she made. Ethel knitted jumpers too, but she went at them with a rush. With Mar- garet it was all leisurely nvo ement and grace, and I imagined her feel- ings when knitting, as those of a cat, which sits in the sun and slowly and endlessly wash,e�s its face. She greeted Hie with a Sleepy smile, stifled a yaws-, and proceeded to gather her belongings together, but her scissors could not be found though we search- ed the floor together and felt down the hid'y-h'ole between the back and the seat of her chair. Finally we had to give them up for lost, though she was sure that she had had them only five minutes before, and she bade me good -night, and left me. I was alone. The house was very still and quiet. It was yet daylight, but the light was ffiding rapidly and I switched on one of the electric lamps. The high red wall sheltered us completely from the •roads ---there was n.o need to draw the blinds. The win- dows stood wide open, but so stifling and quiet was the air that they might have looked out on to some huge ov- er -heated greenhouse instead of an English garden. Tired out, I yet had no desire for sleep. For the first time during the long trying day I was absolutely a- lone, unobserved, and with time and solitude for thought. I .paced up and down the room for a full half-hour, pipe .in mouth, busily rehearsing first this incident then that, in a vain at- bemrpt bo achieve some reasoned ex- planation, some possThle solution, of the mystery that surrounded Stella's sudden death. 'Alone and away from the influence of his calm assurance, my intstinetive, unreasoning belief in the doctor be- gan to weaken and give way under the combined Mudge/timings of evidence and argument. Seeing a writing pad Lying( on ins t a,analj arca anal+r f ug a Pena: not »f any• peelest l?x'o deeded to make o14t•. a iiia f Wha were in the 'lienee Jour the previ'o'us siiglut; actung. g. clown) every. wee of evittenee, every pbs'slble •r letvan�t .fact iu a•n atterrupt :to oleaa• n y xnin!d atud analyze 'the situation. At the otutset I came to the eonclusien *ate= the imtplorvtant question of motive l should not only have to consider the .obvious and the possible, butt also the unlikely and the grotets'gnee The murder moist• have been premeditated, cold-blooded --an 'abnormality.. It would not be surprising, therefore, should the mo- tive—the not from' which the evil deed had sprung -be faund;. if ever unearthed, as something twisted and rotten. I kept the rough notes that I made, and •on referring t ethem I see diktat I was• methodical enough to add my own name to the list. They are detail- ed and tedious, and I will only quote in full the remarks I write down a- bout the doctor en that hot sultry night in the Dalehouse drawing -roam. Here they are:— DR. WALLACE The poison.—The Chinese poison, on whidh he and Dr. Hanson had beeri working, would leap to his mind at once did he wish to kill by poisoning. Its action is difficult to diagnose. But would he then have *called Al1port's attention, to its peculiar taste? Would he hav"e stated that he found the glass at Stella's' bedside with a drop at the 'bottom of it, and that he sus- pected the C'hin'ese poison at once by reason of its smell? Yes, he• might. He would know that he would be sus- pected at once, anti he might reason- ably argue, that by calling attention to the Chinese poison himself he would be creating a favourable im- pression. An impression that would be strengthened when it was found that the medicine glass had bee* thr. n away. (But the key in his own pocket?) Could he not have pois- oned. her equally easily at.any other time? •Yes, but what better time could he have had.? He was making up medicine for her. He had just been threatened w:,....11` same sort of expo sure. Then he played the practical joke on the beds and took care to have it clearly established that we all of us had the chance to be upstairs and alone on the evening of the mur- der. The cupboard key.—Illla.d his own all the time. The medicine.—Yes, both knowledge and opportunity. The bedroom key, --He could have thrown the glass away after Ethel. came d'own'stairs, have locked the door, and have put the key on the pocket of his thin coat which he was wearing at the 'time. But why should he then come and tell me that he had 1•efl: the door unlocked? Obviously to make it look as though some ohe else had lacked it. But in. that case he weuid surely have placed the key in a position incriminating .some one else and not himself ? A possible ex-, planation is that he intended to do this, but either had, no easy oppor- tunity or forgot. Then just as he was going out he re•menibered and came back to make the omission good, only to• find me turning away from the •telephone, having completed my con- versation, and his coat With the key in it hanging up straight in front of me. He certainly must have ob•me up behind me very quietly. What would he do in those circumstances? Would he tell me that the door was unlock- ed and then go calmly away to his patient leaving the key in his own packet? Would he take that enorm- ous risk? A man of his undoubted ability could surely have found some excuse to get me out of the way— have made some opportunity-' of get- ting at the key? Or might he not de- cide on a double bluff as it were? He told Alport that the glass was at the side of the bed, the dregs smell- ing of the poison. He told me that he had left the door unlocked. The door is found to be locked, and when it is broken open the glass is gone. Some one else, the murderer, has been up and thrown 'the glass away and locked the door.• Where would such a one put the'key if he wanted to throw suspicion on another? \Vhy, in the doctor's . pocket, of course, the man who made up the medicine. And so he would, decided to leave it where it was..lf Margaret and I really heard any one creeping on the stairs could it have been the doctor? The time that elapsed between what she heard and what I did is not known accur- ately enough to be certain, but prob- ably it might have been he. • .Motive.—Obvious, and for a poten- tial murdhrer, sufficient. Notes.—(a) Would Allport have left any man with such evidence against him at liberty for even an hour, un- less there are points in his favour that I have either overlooked or have had no opportunity to learn about? (b) Why dict he call Margaret and me into the dispensary when he made up Ethel's medicine this evening? (c) Why, did he tell Ethel to lock her door and warn me about mine? (d) IWlhat did cook's "I know what I knows" portend? (e) What is the truth about his quarrel with Stella's father? (1) The practical jokes with the beds were quite out of keeping with his character. It not only struck me forcibly at the time, but he anticipat- ed my surprise and gave an explana- tion of his actions before I had said a word 'to h.im about it. (g) Had he killed Stella, eourl•d he hwve spoken to us as he, did when we ere colleecated together at the brea1c- fast table"' Could he have brazened it out? Mast emphatically --Yes. Condlusion.—•Every real established fact that has come to light incrimin- ates the doctor. Opportunity, motive, knowledge of the poison, and ability to face the rest of us with undisturb- ed indifference—all indicate the doc- tor. In the •same way and under the seine headings I went through each member of the household, including Miss Summerson, Annie and cook. Definite knowledge as tothe exact whereabouts and action of 'the poison could only be ascribed to Ethel, Miss' Sumnnerson and myself, in addition to' The Tundish. But Annie, or Ken- neth, or indeed any of us might either have been told about it or have over- heard some conversation. As to the key of the poison' o'up- board, Miss Summerson had her own. d,. X 1 h tl aleph:,:a, wo18.1 f knlogi* 1 ';' • I1a4 a14. tp` rind reasono' 1 1 eteelle fee !the enrol, !that ire Oe. dodder- Bet yva P ry e#agrn Oat I xnadte Ralph kill i►er is she had refused to• axsane . work for even those That days, $o• -in love, propose marriage, here'., .. ed, grew ad with jealousy and t meio r, all in the spacer of some fifty, lriaurs, But that was the best I could..do for the quiet Ralph, I made Ethel .kill'. beeautee ohe was jealous .of :The Tune: sh; Margarett, because she was jealous of Ralph; Kenneth, beeause he wanted to fasten the blame on the 'placid aggravating 'dilator whom he hated so much; but for one reason or another, Rade, miore fantastic than the last, thee -bagel in turn, according to my notes, slew Stella. • Thoroughly absorbed in my writ- ing, tthe moths which binndered with. blind persistence against the solitary shaded lamp above my head, and the cathedral chimes with their insistent repetitions, had alike been insu ti- ent to -disturb or distract. My list at last clompleted, I heaved a sigh of relief, and straightened :out my back. How still and quiet the big room was. Still and quiet as death. itself. The table at which I was, seated stood against the inner wall and to- wards the end of the moan nearest the front of the house. The piano jutted out im'med'iately before me, and over the top of it I could see the large French window that looked on to the garden from the other end, panelled in silver-gray by the moon- lit sky, whilst between it and my awn little circle of warmer light there lay a belt of shadows and dim uncertain - The faint tick, tick, of the dining - room clock was the only sound to reach my ears. The curtains hung in the open windows, limp and still. I felt myself on the brink of fear. Fear! Afraid :et what? A grown man afraid of a quiet room at night! Ridiculous! Absurd do you say? Then you know northing of fear. To you •a s'of`t step and a shadow that moves mean naught. "Children's Terror" has never held you in -his grip. Fear! The anticipation of some- thing unknown and inexplicable, in- tangible, shadowy and unread—can- not be argued and defined. Give it a name, know it well enough to name it, define and analyze it, meet it face to face, and fear—true blood -curdling fear—evaporates at once. But leave it vague and shadowy, unexplained and undefined, then a still room at the dead of night, the quiet tick, tick, of a distant clock, the creak of a board in an old, old house, and an ever-increasing desire to look furtive- ly behind, may be enough to make the bravest pulses race when nerves are on edge and imagination plays its, part. Must S name myself a coward then, because I sat with quickened breath, listening for I know not what, when bravery itself is nothing but a know - p 4 Wm. (o, Fp14/e0 • it ledge of an crushing ' devyt p ' e -For what agonies of 'oravea'y nary r be endured in the making of a ?!h)w+," ard's reputation! ;What lack of:020e , bility and imagination nliay•:not giI .1 the winning of a hero's! fame! ?But,•cowardl or no, when I saw tib doer !which was just • ajar, - awlit: slowly open to a wider angle,, g'u flesh crept --my' heart skipped a -Ibeath It was ,ohe 'big tabby'lPom. As_heed rounded the. corner of ±he piano and saw me, he gave a little • squawk of : pleasure, and jumped -up on to mer knee, purring with satisfaction, and . expressing his appreciattion of my• caresses, by the digging in • of his curving claws. ' (Continued next week.) e Late Sown Vegetables Fine quality 'vegetables may be produced from late seeding. Swede turnips, carrots and beets May be sown as .late as the .middle of June and still have time to . develop to a desirable size .,for winter use. The: land should be well prepared and rich in plant food. Should' dry. conditions.. prevail the seed should be sown on the level rather on' ridges. tt Asparagus Rarebit This is an excellent method of us- ing left over asparagus. ' 1 tablespoon butter 14 cup milk 1 tablespoon tomato catsup 2 cups cooked asparagus cut in pieces 1 tablespoon .flour ' 1 cup grated cheese. MI teaspoon salt. Melt butterin a double boiler. Add flour. When blended add milk slow- ly, •sth until thickened -stirring cone stantly; add cheese, catsup, salt, and asparagus. When cheese is melted, serve on toast squares. Serves four. Other recipes for 'use of asparagus may be found in pamphlet "Canadian Vegetables for Every Day " (No. 121) issued free on application, by the Do- minion Department of Agriculture, Ottawa. <SNAPSNOT BUIL LET TF -IE SUN WORK FOR YOU Watch for unusual lighting when taking snapshotsof outdoor scenes. MANY of you who want to take your photog- raphy seridusly and get some really attractive, artistic pictures would probably like to have some further information on proper lighting in taking snapshots. The lighting of the subject has so much to do with securing that qual- ity often referred to as "atmos- phere" in a picture. There are a number of ways in which a phot6- graph may be given apparent depth, or third dimension. Taking pictures when there are long shadows, get- ting a reflection in the foreground, using strong 'side -lighting or back- lighting, and timing the exposure just right so that the detail of ob- jects in shadow is not blocked out, are precautions that contribute much to the desired effect. Suppose we consider each of these separately. Shadows, thrown in long -drawn-out splotches across walls and walks, makes one feel, more than anything else, that he is looking into a picture instead of looking on a flat piece of paper carrying images of recorded' objects. The foreground shouldbe well broken up with shad- ows so that there is not too much contrast between it and the rest of the picture. When a body of water can be in- cluded as part of the foreground, then there are really wonderful op; portunities for adding depth. The re- flection will carry ortes attention back and away from the foreground and into the picture—and lead to the principal point ,of interest, The only precaution necessary when snapping a picture with a fore- ground of water in strong sunlight is to watch that a swell. or wave does not throw reflected sparkles of Light upon the lens, as that may fog the picture. Along the roads and trails through forests where long 'spears of sun- light unlight pierce into the shadows there are unlimited opportunities for. striking pictures with depth. If the foreground of your picture is not well lighted and you want to get the shafts of sunlight shooting through the shady parts of the background an exposure slightly shorter than you would ordinarily make is ad- visable. Don't just open your camera and shoot when taking pictures. Give your , subject some thought and in .doing so you will be rewardett with pictures you will be proud of and they 'will whet • your appetite for in'any more snapshooting expedi- tions. Viewpoint means much and is an important factor in picture tak- ing. It, too, has much to &with the perspective we get in pictures. If the perspective is not pleasing to the eye, it will not b9 pleasing in the pictuie,'so, as I have 'said before, study all the possibilities and angles of your proposed picture befekedietu. snap it., JI I N VA1\ atilt ea,