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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1935-07-19, Page 7LEGAL Piton NO, 81 JOHN J. H IGCARD Har jster, Sciliciter, -Notary ,Public, Etc. Beats a Block - - Seaforth, Ont. HAYS $i MEIR Succeeding R. S. Hays !Barristers, rSolicitors, Conveyancers and Notaries Public. Solicitors for the Dunianion Bank. Office in rear of the Dominion Bank, Seaforth. Money to JOHN, H. BEST Barrister, :Solicitor, Etc. Seaforth - - Ontario • VETERINARY JOHN GRIEVE, V.S. Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin- ary' College. All di6eases of domestic animals treated. Calls promptly at- tended to and charges moderate: Vet- erinary Dentistry a speeialty, 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 Toianto. 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. 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, and St. Joseph's Hospital, London. Member of College of -Physicians and 'Surgeons of Ontario. Phone 67. Of- fice at Dublin, Ont. . 3493 D'R, 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. F.ORSTER 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. b8 Waterloo Street, South, Stratford. DR. W. C. SPROAT Graduate of Faculty of Medicine, University of Western Ontario, Lon- don. Member of C'olle'ge of Physic- ians and Surgeons of Ontario. Oce in A,berhart'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 I% ROSS Graduate of Un'iv'ersity of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, member of Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario; pass graduate course in Chicago Clinical School o Chicago ; Royal Opthalmie, Hospital, London, England; University Hospital, Lon- don, England. Office -Back of Do- minion 11ank; ••Seaforth. Phone No. 5. Night calls answered from residenpe. Victoria Street, Seaforth. DR. E. A. McMASTER, Graduate of the University of To-" ronto, Faculty of 'Medicine - Member 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 56. 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 • Speciallif in farm and household Gales. Prices reasonable. For dates and information, write or phone Har- old Dale, phone 149, Seaforth, or ap- ply at The Expositor Office, ARTHUR WEBER Auctioneer's License Sixteen years' experience. Satisfaction guaranteed. Telephone: 13-57, Hensall.., Waite ARTHUR WEBER, R. R. 1, Dashwood. , INSURANCE TBE 4.'9H11T RANKING AGENCY :Insurance of all kinds. Bonds, Real Estate. Money to Loan. Phone 91. ,hast( aiTH - ONTARIO FRANCIS EVERTON (Continued from last week) 'Ethel's dq,or siwung sborwly open on its hinges even as he moved towards it, and,' clad in a pretty smoke -'blue dressing grown, stile steed in the door- waiy before us, swlayia,g slightly, only half awake, a hand age-nst each post to :give herself-surpploe t, She had sw'i'tched on, her bedroom light and its brighter .glow shone ttthrough her ruf- fled curly hair. Sense quickening gradually, seeing us grouped together her sleepy long -lashed eyes grew wide and cher poor bruised face and swol- len, lips blanched and twitched, as her wakening fears increased. She tried to speak and failed. _ The Tundish hurried towards her. "What is it,? Oh, what is it, Tun - dish dear?" She whispered. Be reassured her With" a quiet, "There's nothing to 'fear." He held himself well in check, but I could see hong he longed to take her in his strong safe arms and kiss her fears away. It was ,pitiful to see them standing there together; their love for each other so evident to us all. To Kenneth, it m,us't have been Worm - Woad and gall. Ralph fetched her a c!h.air from his room and we showed her what I had found. Margaret was the last to be roused and we had to knock on her door re- peatedly :before we could wake her up and then she was some minutes again 'before she joined' us. Her eyes, ,t'o'o, seeniedr ieavy With sleep,, but in con- trast to Ethel she looked alert and awake. A pink diressing gown, op- enwide at her full white throat, showed the creamy texture of her curving breast. She put up a hand to the pretty gap as with a giggle she. said, "What a sight I must look." However unsuitable the 'occasion, I thought, she must always have her femininity on parade. We none of us made the sought -for reply and she went and knelt by Ethel's, chair, hold, ing and patting her hand's.' 'While we were waiting for 'Mar- garet, the doctor had gone upstairs to • find out about Annie and cook. Annie evidently was already waken- ed by the noise we had made and I soon (heard him talking to her. Cook, however, he could not rouse,, though we heard him pounding altogether ghastly in the noise he emad•e whilst we waited whispering below. Thud, thud, thud, and then a pause, and be- fore the echoes had died away, a fierce thud, thud again: Thud -thud) -thud - death --for surely the dead and only the dead could -sleep through such a thudding! He rejoined us, placid and uncon- cerned. "I can't waken her, but I am sure that I can hear her breathing," he told us. "If she has been drinking, though, it might take more than mere noise to rouse her. She has locked her' door and left the key in it turned so that I -can't push at out." He was the only one of us, I noticed, to speak above a whisper and in his usual voice. "But what 'on earth is it all about," Kenneth asked. "You were pretty sarcastic, I r•ememtber, this' afternoon, when I suggested waking Ethel." He everpitched his voice in an attempt to copy the doctor's equanimity, Poor Kenneth! "Yee, yes, but then you see I knew that she was safe, and this little Sa- tan's love note had not been found." • "I don't understand it. What were you both doing about the house at this time of night?" Kenneth asked, turning to me. "If you found it, why did you wake up the doctor, of all people, before the rest of us?" I looked' at The Tundish. Not a word had' I said as to where I had found him, and I wondered what. he would tell them, but he neV4r hesi- tated for a fraction of a second'. "0'h, I imagined that Jeffcock would have told you all there is to tell while I have been upstairs," he replied. And then he proceeded to tell them every- thing. Haw I had sat up late,, and going into the garden for a stroll, had seen a light shine from the land- ing window. How I had found the notice behind the switch and him, with his flashlight, searching the flogr of Stella's room. The only thing he omitted to mention was the door we both heard shut with a click•on the window (below. When he had finish- ed he turned to me to corroborate his statement. I could not understand him. Why should he confess so readily to being 'thread at night, in circumstances so suspicious, and then ignore the one salient point that stood out. so clear- ly in his favour? I nodded my as- sent. It wag. his business ;after all, and I would not interfere. His explanation was received in sil- ence -a silence tense with incredul- ity and disbelief. IRalph asked him what he was do- ing in Stella's room and he gave the sanse e'xpl'anation that he „load given to me a little time before. His Voice held not a trace of emotion or con- cern. We were all of us looking at Trim, Ethel with friendly trust an•d approval, the two boys and Margaret with suspicions they either could not, or did•not bother to conceal. For my- self, I hardly knew what to .think. He faced us all unmoved. He smiled re- assuringly at Ethel. "Either of you two, then, could have put this up behind 'the switch?" Kenneth asked. "You could have put it there quite as easily yourself," I answered him angrily. He shaergged his shoulders. "It just thappenls that I didn't," he said very stiffly. The man was Insuferalbler- a fool. "We !night any of us say that," Ethel rejoined, up in arms at once di- rectly The Tundish was attacked. "Besides," she added, "if 'either Fran- cis or The Ttirtdieh had done it, wiouldn"t they have printed this one like: they did the last?" 6b "'No,, of course they wouldn't. It would have given them away at once I, or any of the rest of us, might have tried to copy the doctor's printing -- jest., as you did last niglht, Jeffcock ---abut either of you two would ob- atiously have to adopt, well some- thing like this," he finished -rather lamely; pointing to the card, The Tundish looked amused. "All very pretty up to a point, Kenneth, but don't you see that what you say applies quite equally to all of us? It was an easy matter for Jeffcock to soppy my printing in the first place, and' he did it well enough for the pur- pose, but you don't really suppose for one moment that his attempt would ha hoodwinked an expert? If this rhea s , anything at all, the author would never dare- to write it out. by hand. No, you may be certain of this, that whoever put this card where Jeffcock says he found it, put the poison into Stella's glass and killed cher, and in my opinion, once again, the opportunity has been equally op- en to us all." "No one will admit having done it? We all, ,including the doctor, deny having had anything to do with it, I suppose?" Kenneth queried. ;The Tundish thanked him for the special mention,• and we each denied it in turn. Ethel sat limp in her chair, Mar- garet kneeling 'beside her. We four men stood round them, the •dim light overhead casting our disttarted sha- dows across the floor and up the landing wall. The Tundish, unruffled and pleasant, his hands in his dress- ing -gown• pockets, rocking himself gently backwards and forward's on heel and toe; the •two boys glum and dour; myself nearly dead with fa- tigue. A long silence closed down on us again. Liar! Murderer! Poison- er! went whispering through the sil- aence. Six denials and one of their a lie. Who of the six was lying? The doctor, as ever,broke the pause. "Well, we can do no more now, and in the morning we must tell the polite of this new develop- ment. You two girls'ho•1$ back to bed whilst we make sure about cook." "Hush it up as long as we can? All go to bed god friend(! I'll take damned good care that the police know all about it in the morning, but before I go to bed I •should.like to know where the paper is from .which the words have been cut? You won't object to our searching your room?" It was Kenneth, of course, who spoke and Ralph -n'odd'ed his agreement. "We ought to search all the rooms," he .said. Almost beyond bearing any more, I burst out with; "For God's sake do let us go to bed and leave Allport to do his own dirty w'or'k!" I spoke querulously and with more feeling than I really intended. My voice was out of control. I felt the ' others looking at me in ,surprise. The Tundish hesitated. "Well, it's just a chance, but. I don't think we very much if the paper is found. I know that if I were guilty it would not be in my room that any one would find it." They were persistent, however, and whilst Ethel was too tired to take any interest, Margaret seemed inclin- ed to agree with the boys. The doc- tor assented good-naturedly, and I gave way with the best grace I could. We dealt first with the rooms be- longing to the girls, so that they could complete their broken rest. Kenneth proposed that they might be allowed to deal with each'other's,'lut the doctor Would have none of it ; moreover, he insisted on dur all keep- ing together as ' the rooms were search -id in turn( "One of us is a liar and Worse than a liar and not to be trusted alone." We unmade the beds. We 'pulled up all the carpets and turned out all the drawers, scattering the clothing on the floor. Nothing was .neglected, saving modesty, and nothing incrim- inating found: Ethel went back to bed. We heard the key turn in the door of her .room, and then we moved across the landing into mine. I stood in the doorway watching the others at work, with Margaret, who said she was sure she would nev- er get to sleep again, at my side. "Isn't it all too fearfully thrilling?" she whispered confidentially, clutch- ing her dressing -gown together with exaggerated modesty. I could cheer- fully have slain her on the spot. Before a bare couple of minutee had passed, Kenneth, who was empty- ing my few belongings out of the chest of drawers, held up a news sheet above his head in triumph. "I knew we should find it. I knew I was .right," he cried .triumtphantly, "What have you all of you got to say to that?" He might have spotted a Derby winner. We crowded round him. He held the paper up to the light and we could see at once where here and there odd words and lettere had been cut away. That this -Was the paper that had been used there could be no sbadow of a dotubt, • • They turned to me with question- ing glances. Margaret whispered an Audible, "Oh! Y+ou!" I had nothing to say, no expfa'hation to give, and stood stupidly 'tongue-tied before them all. I was too astounded to speak or protest, but I remembered that the doctor had been awake and' abroad in the quiet house while I was down- stairs and the rest were locked in their room's and asleep. His' and mine were the only two occupied. To rna•ke up the notise--,place it over the switch and then steep into my room and deposit the paper'ewhere it had. been found -what, I thought, could have been easier foci him to do than that? Had he not just stated that if here were guilty that was what he Would do?, But afterwarjls ? Would he have gone upstairs to .Stella's room and have elllowed nee to find him there? Or was 'hist search and his pri'va'te detective work all a pretence and was he really on some murderous errand which I had interrupted'? "I knows what I knows," .Gook had said. Besotted, drunken' cools, what did she knew, I -wondered? Was she really upstairs snoring, or had she too, Pike Stella, made her last adventure and opened the door at the end of the passage. These Were the thoughts that flash- ed across my 'mind as I stood stupid- ly turning the paper this way and that, Where. I did look up I' found Margaret gazing at me with ill -con- cealed horror; The- Tundish, half am- used and evholly sympathetic. Ken- neth was making a further search and he soon produced another card like the one that had been completed, a tube of seccotine, and then a pair of scissors. The seccotine came from the doc- tor's desk, the stcissors Margaret claimed as hers. They were the ones .she had missed .when she 'cleared up her works 'to go to bed, and she did not fail to remember me how we had looked for then( together. "well, it certainly smells . a bit fishy." "And "did you smell fish when the key was found under your own pil- low, Kenneth?" The Tundish asked him quietly. . "Yes, I did, and as you've asked me- the question, I believe it was' the same piece of fcsh." "Meaning?" "Why you, you damned liar, of course." The (lector. laughed. "You'll win yet, Kenneth, for you'll certainly be the death of ine! Anyhow you take charge of the treasure trove. Mar- garet, off to bed with you! We can do no•more here and new." He was in command of the situation once more, and to me, at least, it seemed quite natural that he should be. Kenneth insisted, however, that we shauld. go upstairs and verify the 'doctor's stateneent that cook's snores could be heard through the door, and though I could' hear her . distin^tly and could confirm his opinion, Ken- neth pretended that he was not sure and Ralph, of course, followed Ken- neth's lead and',was not certain either. The Tundish was willing to convince them and fetched a stout screwdriv- er, with which, after some little de- lay, the lock of the door was pried open. She was lying fully dressed on the top of her bed, her head rolling ab'ou't grotesquely in time with her heavy 'breathing. The windows were tight shut and the room reeked of spirits. The doctor, steadying her head with one hand, raised an eyelid with the other. She never stirred, "Dead drunk, but not dead," he pronounced. He opened the window and we filed away downstairs. The boys disappeared to their ratans. The Tundish and I were a= lone. "It's uncanny the way the evi- eier"ce against me grows," 'he said, putting a hand on my shoulder. "Against you! Surely I am the more implicated csver this?" He smiled broadly. "No, indeed. All the other doors excepting yours and nine were locked. You would never have, left such a clue at large arid unprotected. It would have been your first care and concern. On the other hand, how exactly it fits -with what I might have done myself. You must believe me, though, when I as- sure yeti that I didn't." I believed hint. Ridiculous as it may sound, I believed him implicit- ly, and I fold hint so. We stood a- lone on the dimly lighted landing. The great cathedral clock was chim- ing two. We could hear Kenneth bar- ricading his door. "and you believe in me?" I asked. He nodded. "Have you any suspicions at all? Why should any one go to such trou- r'le ever such a marl ,joke?" ".Mad! Yes, but diabolically clever tt o. Don't you realize how it has emphasized last night's notice an d helped to link it all up with Stella's murder?" "Yes, but mine was the vital part of that. It meant nothing, surely, enril 1 printed my asinine addition?" "Surely- it did, Think how I called alb -eta n to the fact that each of us might have been alone upstairs last night. Think how odd and out of keeping the whole silly practical joke must appear to Allport. Why, you thought so yourself, you know you did! And now this second notice, me caught prowling about the house at right, and the newspaper found in rho orly vacant. bedroom. Whether at:y further crime was intended to- night or not, nothing could have tolyl mai e heavily against me. Remem- ber, too, how at Allport's inquiry Kenneth stressed-" His sentence trailed away eo noth- nothing, and he stood gazing into va- cant space, a puzzled frown on his clear-cut face. "Well, off you .seo to bed," he said, breaking through his reverie," I may yet get my call to that young citizen's reveille." I :staggered to my room anal' tumb- led out of my clothes and into bed. My brain refused to tackle further prob- lems, but my last conscious thoughts were of, Kenneth. Oould I imagine him guilty? Kenneth a murderer -- yes, just possibly - perhaps. But Xenneth diabolically clover? No, most emphatically 'nor CHAPTER XII JANET ARRIVES ON THE SCENE A beauty gazes with a smile of pleasurable' anticipation into some distorted mirror, to start back in horror from the grinning image that. greets her so unexpectedly. ,But were hlttle Allport to gaze into a distorted }++•raehxr: �*A 4 - S ,5/,FY4', th'N«IM A�SiFM mole es.faeratx,,o te:.. 0)e. And so at . it s 1Ch dreams $nit the way rt w..041,100 .041,'�c0S my. grgesone, waleing IfittightS tie • dreatatctd and Woke jntteelrrilittettly through what remained bf ,'tita#' hut, aimless night. If the day. had seem- ed long, those few hours of dream, - .disturbed sleep wee like a slice: of eternity itself. An eternity which I occupied in playing tennis at the club, serving through an intermin- able game., •first with the baby flagon of Chinese poison and ;then with ray own severed. hand, :which Margaret handed to me on her racquet like a ball; in racing frantically from room to room, to find Ethel, then The Tun - dish, then each of the others in turn, lying dead, and myself alone with the dead -alone and. tearing desper- ately from one room to the next to !Inc! a sign of life; thumping madly on resounding doors; crouching, shrinking down ou'ts'ide them; open- ing them in fear and. hanging them to again in terror when I saw what there was within; looking furtively behind me to see little Allport stand- ing there, grinning sardonically, leer- ing at me, dangling a pair of blood- stained handcuffs before my starting eyes, and asking me in a way that left me gasping for breath if my in- itials va^ere r. H. An eternity which I occupied in overhearing Ethel and the doctor callously plotting together to poison Kenneth, and it creeping on hands and knees down mile -long dimly lighted corridors, to and f m a succession of scenes of horror, 'Finally I woke to see the sun shin ing in at my •window and to the dull realization that some of my dears at any rate came uncomfortably near the truth, • Downstairs I found The Tundis'h- unshaved and unabashed -at one end of the breakfast 'table with a medical journal propped up in front of him, and Kenneth and Ralph 'at the other, each with a morning paper.. I saw his eyes twinkle with amusement as I took my scat next to him, and he `old me that he° had been called o•ut. of hed again at four and had only just returned. "Arid what about the escort, did he accompany you?" "No, I rang up the police station yesterday evening telling them that I' expected the call, and they trust- fully allowed me out on parole." This fresh negligence on the part of the authorities seemed to rouse Kenneth's ire, for he jumped up from his breakfast and rang up Inspector Brown, reporting the finding of. the notice and the doings of .the night in aggressive carrying tones that we could none of 'us fail to hear. Ap- parently his news did not meet with quite the expected ; reception for. "Will you please repeat what I've told you to Mr. Allport as soon as you can, and ask him to let me know when this .abominable farce is going to end," were his final words, and he returned to his interrupted breakfast, glaring offensively at the doctor, as much as to say, "Damn you, naw• you know what I think a- bout it." Then Margaret came in, and after a moment's 'obvious hesitation, which seemed to underline and emphasize her choice, she too moved to the end of the table away from the doctor and -took a chair next to Kenneth and Ralph. Thus we started out on the second day after the murder already divided into opposing camps. The Tundish and I at. one end of the table. Margaret and the two boys at the otrher-an uncomfortable accusing gap between us. And in our differ" ent ways we each of us, expecting the doctor, showed the embarrassment we felt. He conversed with me very much at his ease, tapping the open journal in front of him with his egg - spoon to emphasize his forcible re- marks, decrying the sins 9f the anti- vaccinationists and glibly labelling them as nothing but a gang of mur- derers, as though the word murder held no terrors.•and was the most na- tural word in the world for him to use, when the chances were that . a murderer sat at the table and I alone of the four believed' him anything else, . I saw•the three exchange glances, and Margaret murmured, "Murder will out," though what she meant by it exactly was not quite clear - but words held a fascination for Margar- et apart frim any meaning they might convey. Had her pretty head been equipped with brains she would surely have been a poet. .Folding up his paper, the doctor rose from the table, asking, "Has any one seen anything of Ethel - is she coming down for breakfast?" "I haven't hearda sound 'from her room," Margaret replied, "still sleep- ing, I expect, after her broken night, which is not surprising. I'll run up and find out how she is," We heard her knock twice and a- gain. Then she came back and stood in the doorway. "I can't make her hear," she told us, with a queer lit- tle catch in her voice. Now Ethel had been safe when we, woke her in the middle of the night, and we had all heard her lock her door when she returned to her room,,, but when Margaret made that sim- ple statement it sent our thoughts back to yesterday's breakfast when Ethel herself had come tumbling into the rooin with her white face to tell us that she couldn't waken Sbella. We looked at each other in dismay. Ken- neth pushed back his chair and rose slowly to his feet. The doctor sprang tie the door and raced up the stairs two at a time, and like an echo from the night before we heard him ham- mering on her door. Then to our infinite relief we heard hi. masking, "Are you all right, Ethel? Would you like your breakfast sent up= stairs?" I saw Margaret's eyes brighten un- rsturally, and a tear roll down her cheeks. "Oh, how absurd of me!" she said, and hurried away to hide her emotion. Kenneth and Ralph went out into the garden. The doc- tor returned and rang the bell for Annie, giving her instructions about Ethel's breakfast, then he turned to me, "So, you've had a fright, have you?" he asked quietly, and I felrt myself redden under his penetrating gaze. "I did to'o,'' he added, mapping his forehead. "What a ruffian I must look, Jeffecick. I must bath and shave Ole afli. we 70,094e 'ea.#13 are we gOan. another day of thlst +pos0;'i71y three?" u.Ita'try an iej4'id? :a#'cta;l ' ,than expect," be an'eiwered, me . •.enrga,ee"" ' alily, and With tihat he left ane and ran upstairs.. Hew was I to get 'through the dray,t I wondered. Sleep, smoke, write let- ters, slink about the garden; avoid- ing Ethel so that she should net learn of my ever-increasing doubts abent I .+ the doctor! •Birt there were twelve ! .. weary, hours to while away. I would havegone into the garden and adopt- ed Kipling's• cure for the hump, "Dig till, you gently perspire," but I was doing that already. My thoughts; travelled with longing to the tingling crystal air of the Yorkshire moors, -- that was where I would like to be on such a day as this -off for a twenty - mile tramp with ney pipe for Com- pany. But that was not to be, and with a sigh of distaste, I collected' writing materials., and proceeded to Wingham the shade of the eedar, to write some Belgrave letters. Presently Ethel joined me; $lith her face still swollen -the bruise be - r ITH ti ATM SPADINA AVE..5 COLLEGE ST. • 'TO`RONTO ' London ani! Wingba : South P.M. .. ginning to blacken She looked tie- Londesboro W ; ,3e ed too, and I imagined had been cry- 'Clinton 3.27 ing, but her' eyes lit up with some- Brnrcefield 3,07. ' thing of her old smile, as she came Kipper 3,35 towards me, a letter in her hand. Hensall 3',41• "Do listen to this," she cried. Exeter 3.55 "Isn't it just like mother? She's sending us a visitor. • A v'isito'r now •• A.M. of all times, and some one we've rev- Exeter 10.42 LMer seen before at that!" j Hensall 10.55.. rs. Hanson's incoherent hospital-' Kipper 11.01 ity was a, family joke. Visitors she Brucefield 11.09` must have. She had no discrimina- Clinton 11.54 ' Von in the matter of individuals and Llinton oro 12.10 ocees•ions and the way they might jar Blyth 12.19 or mix, She would think nothing of Belgrave 12.30 bringing home a • perfect stranger, Wingham 12,50. august or otherwise, and feeding him on kindliness and eold mutton. And C.N.R. Time Table 1 will give her credit for this -the . East visitor, august or ordinary, the cold I• A.M. P.M. mutton, the kindliness and the ossa- Goderich . 6.45 2.30 slot would generally mix to a pleas- Clinton 7.08 3. antly affable blend, My own friend- . Seaforth. 7.22 3.1800 ship with the Hansons dated from one Dulblin Mitchell 7.42 ,3.43 7.33 3.31 of these haphazard invitations, so I smiled at Ethel reminiscently as she North stood by my side with the letter in Dublin • - her hand, I Seaforth "A good thing too, perhaps," I Clinton said, "we shall have to sit up, mind Goderich our manners, and behave. Tell me- mhore about it. What is it to be - rich man, ,poor man, jaeggar m.an, or thief ? • East Ethel began to read me bits of the letter. West 11.19 9,44 11.34 9.57 11.50 10.11 12,10 10.37 • C.P.R. Time Table (Continued next week.) Goderich Menset McGaw Auburn Blyth Imagine the shock to American Watton traffic dodgers if our automobile McNaught drivers, instead of honking and whiz- Toronto zing past, followed the example of the London hansom driver. When he Toronto saw a pedestrian directly in the way McNaught of his cab he drew up, leaned over, and gently inquired: "Hi, Sir, May I awik what are your plans?" -The Lion's Paw, Brea, California. West Walton Blyth Auburn 12;23 McGaw 12.84 Menset 12.41 Goderich 12.41 •K'- 55 5.55 6.04 6.11 6.25 6.40 6.52 10.25 A.M. 7.40. 11.48 12.01 12.12 1t, (t if i t A brY rq.titk.,. CheSNAPSF4OT CUIL SUMMER. FLOWERS Weeeiteeie ALTHOUGH June 21 is considered the first day of summer, it seems that, as far as the well-known public is concerned, summer is al- ready here and the season is open for picnics, week -end trips, vaca- tions and all activities classed under the general heading of "Outdoor Sports." Heading the list of summer activi- ties, however, should be "snapshoot- ing" for picture taking with the mod- ern day camera is one fascinating, healthful recreation that may be en- joyed by the young or old, and we might add -rich or poor for today cameras are available at prices to meet the capacity of any pocketbook and good pictures can be taken with all of them. Another thing in favor of amateur photography as a pastime or hobby is the fact that it IS not necessary to be an expert to get pleasing results, ,,,,for modern-day cameras and film have been materially simplified for the snapshooter. Late spring and summer offer great possibilities for flower and gar- den pictures, from the first appear- ance of the colorful crocus through the season to the arrival of the giant chrysanthemum in the fall. The first rule of flower portraiture is: Avoid harsh lighting. By this, 1-- me'an that flowers seldomipake good pictures under direct, midday sun. Summer offers un- limited opportuni- ties for unusual flower pictures. The light between ten and three In the summer is so intense that you get an oyer -abundance of chalky highlights and inky shadows. To catch the subtle beauty of the color - Inge in flowers, it is much better to work under the slanting rays of the sun in early morning or late after- noon. You will doubtless want to take close-ups of some of the flowers. If your camera will not focus closer than ten feet, or thereabouts, get a portrait attachment (a simple, inex- pensive lens that fits over the regu- lar lens). With it you can get very close to your subjects, for striking and beautiful shots. Here's another trick. To make a particular flower or plant stand out vividly, get a big sheet of gray card- board and stand it up back of the flower, far enough away so that -if you are using direct sunlight no shadows fall on it. To catch the color values of flow- ers, you'll need to use the new super- sensitive panchromatic film. "Pan- chromatic" means the film is eapable of recording, ..In monochrome of range of colors. Your elp you select the for your a9Mbiai needs, and 1 get sirlrpsit'a;'a to:which you point 'With ?hide and atZ ) snapped that one." course, a wi photo de best fir 'you r wi JOHN V'AN