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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1935-08-02, Page 7. LEGAL Phone No, 91 , JOHN 3. HU,GHARD, 33a,rrister, Solieitor, Notnry ,Publie, Etc, Beatt1e Block - - Seaforth, Ont. . . HAYS & MEIR Succeeding R. S. Hays Barristers, Solicitors, Conveyancers end Notaries Public. Solicitors for the -Dominion Bank. Mee in rear of the Dominion, Bank, Seaforth. Money to loan. JOHN H. BEST • Barrister, •Solicitor, Etc. Wafer% - - Ontario • VETERINARY JOHN GRIEVE, Y.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 - !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. Phone 116. Breeder of Scottish 'erriers. Inverness Kerinels, Hensall. - MEDICAL DR. D. E. STURGIS Graduate of -the Vacuity of IVIedi- eine, University of Western Ontario, and St.' Joseph's Hospital, London. Member of College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Phone 67. &- flee at Dufblin, Ont. 34(13 •• DR. GILBERT C. JARROTT Graduate of Faculty of IVIedielne, University of Western Ontario. Mem- ber of College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Office, 43 Godes 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, 1Vloorefield's Eye and Golden Square Throat Hos- vitals, London, Eng. At Commercial .1 Hotel, Seaforth, third Wednesday in each month, from 1.30 p.m. to 5 p.m. 68 Waterloo Street, South, Stratford. DR. W. C. 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R. 1, Dashwood.1 ... „. a INSURANCE I c THE JOHN RANKING AGENCY q. Insurance of all kindd. ‘n. Bonds, Real Estate. Money to Loin. - ?hone 91. , AbS9 A iLlaNDIPIX _ ANITI1 A DTA - •'!"-. • ! e use FRANCIS-- EVERTON • (Continued from last week) We sat talking together until get - 'tinge on for four o'clock when Ralph and Kenneth, the former arrayed in a very grubby tennis shirt 'and an- cient flanriel trousers, dusters and a tin of polish in his hands, intermitted bur tate-atete. "Going to Polish up the bus," Ralph explained, "and there are one or two little matterI want to look into as welL Are you inter- ested in mott5ring, Mrs. Kenley?" "Yes, I ani. I used to drive or the Womian's Legion during the war." "Really, 'and were you in France 'at all?" Kenneth asked. "Not for vetartiong. I drove an ambulance for . a few months., and then 1 was drafted to London and drove for the Wax Office." I dould see that Mrs. Kenley waS net over anxious to talk *bout her- self, and she made a move toward the germ, as though to close the cenversation. But the bays' were in- terested and pressed for details, ask- ing wham she had driven, and whe- ther she had had any Interestieg ee- perientes. "No, northing 'exciting at all -ex- cepting just once, and then" - she paused and -smiled deminiscently- "and then "'hit a certain well-known general in the face?" "Did you really, though?. And why weren't you shot at dawn?" Ralph laughed. "Plea,se tell us about it, what did. happen'?" "Oh, there's really nothing to tell. I .wish I hadn't mentioned it. He was a little drunk, aud-well, I sup- poee .he took nie for some one else. I was in an awful fright next morn- ing, 'because I couldn't afford to lose my job. But nothing happened all. day, and at night when I took the car home, I found a big bunch of ros- es tucked away ineide, with a 'nate of pology. He was a sportsman after 11." i"What was his name?" Ralph ask- . But Mrs. Kenley merely laughed ed shook her head, "That,. Mr. Ben- ett, I'm keeping for my grandchil- rem. Now please show me the car. love to look at new ones with. all he latest tricks." We went to the garage and soon he and Ralph were deep in technic- litlies. The unventilated garage was tifling, and not being interested in y'oung Bennett's opulent car, I soon eft them to it. As I strolled 'back to the house I heard Tantalite Voice, proceeding apparently from one of the upper edraorn windows. It was cook, and cook in no amiable mood. At first could clearly hear every word she aid, then just as I was getting really nterested in what I heard, she mov- d I mliseed the rest. "Sb I says o meself, it may be orlright and ay be not, and there ain't no mea- n as how it should be wrong, but ieeing what 'appen.ed 'afterwardsthe erlice might like to know what I aw if I was to tell 'em. But then titillate ter meself it may be better Werth yer while, cook, I thinks, ter keep it to yoursen, and they perlice .hey ain't no friends o' yours, cook, ses ter rneself, now then what do ,o9.1 think abart it?" lacook goseiping with Annie, was y first conclusion, but Annie ap- eared with a tea tray before I eached the house. I heard no more excepting a few slurred and • indi s- inct half sentences. I felt certain he was, if not drunk, not sober. But quirk or not, it was evident she had seen something she had not told All - ort of. _ Intending to round round the cor- ier of the house and go to the door n the front garden wall to see if here was a newsboy in sight from vhorn I could purchase an evening aper, I approached the house pott- ering -a pastime 'at which I was ast becoming adept-pendering the uestiont "Which of our party could ook have been addressing with such drunken garrulity?" It certainly had lot been Annie.. And I had hea'rd no nswering voice. tiller wards had been spok6n. with a half -drunken urching inconsequence. Was it just possible that she might have been alking to herself?" night, Tundish?" Ethel stammered, slowly recovering from the shock of my sudden 'arrival. "Ye gods, Jeffeock, what won't these women stand for the sake of having a thing labelled "coalc" in the house? Why should she. go to -night? Why? And you canask me that 4f - ter oeve just been telling me? She's near enough to being drunk; isn't she? And, es I was saying, I'm sure there's no risk Of any raw." !Ethell (said nothings Her erielour had returned, but I thought she look- ed 'bewildered and confused. The doctor turned to me, explanatorY• "She's afraid that she might not consent to go without a funs, that we might get a crowd aroud the house if we had to turn her out." "Yes, ph yes, I'm sure we should. And' I oultin't stand it. I can't stand any more. I can't stand any more!" Ethel cried hysterically and slipped past xree round the corner of the house. • The doctor shrugged his shoulders. "The sooner all this is over the bet- ter it will be for Ethel-_boutat the end of her tether." He took me by the arm. I wished bim•anywhere. Never had I liked him less or distrusted ham more. I was still feeling the, awkwardness of my unfortunate intrusion; uncomfort- able half aPologetic, wholly angry and disturbed, but he, not only -had he hidden his feelinga'-ed began to wonder whether he had any.feelings to hide. A rock Ethel had called him -an iceberg rather. And like aneke- berg God alone knew.' what lay hid- den away below; God and perhaps some poor devil of a steamer that strikke the cruel ' projections una- ivaTes! He went on talking to me. What did I think of Mrs. Kenley,? He would feel ,happier about Ethel now that she was here. I barely heard him. But I did hear him say- ing again,. "WIe mast get rid of her, there lenift any risk," and then poor drunken cook, standing at the bot- tom of the stairs, nodding her head grotesquely, her greasy wisp of hair waving to and fro, "I knows what I knows, Dr. Wallace." • The gong sounded for tea. We had it on the lawn under the cedar. Ethel poured out. Ralph never spoke a word throughout the meal, and for once Margaret was quiet. Mrs. Ken- ley and the doctor did the 'talking and made the conversation. They played catch with it, and Janet -Mrs. Kenley-rwas as good at the game as he was. Lightning work they -made of it--eivid_and Kenneth represent- ed the thunder -he glowered. And I felt Bice an invalid doeswhen some friendly "mean well" stays too long. I wished them both-dargive me, Janet, but I really did -in, well say anywhere. It was a ghastly meal -a meal to choke on. The Tundish relieved us of his presence as soon as tea was over,the rest of us at on, but the EthelsKee- neth rupture still .cast its gloom, and r think we all *It that Mrs. Kenley had been- a Godsend. She was tell- ing us of some of the golf courses she had played on in South Africa, icily prodding the turf with the point of her parasol, when . she suddenly bent forward, peered closely at the grass, then straightened herself, holding a tiny glittering fragment between finger and thumb. She examined it carefully. "Any one lest a diamond?" "Ethel, I'm sure it's dangerous, here can't be any real difficulty in ettling rid of her. I'm sure we ought to take the risk. It was the doctor's Voice, and I al.ked full tilt into him and Ethel oiled the corner of the house. My 'hoes were fitted with rubbers which made no Sound on the hot plastic asphalt path, and though I had _heard very ward the doctor said Kt was bvious that they had not heard me. e was standing with his hack to the all -she facing him and very close his hand on her shoulders affec- ionately, hers holding on to the pkels of his coat, her dark bobbed ead tilted back and looking up ador- ngly to meet his downward -gaze. I elt myself go het with shame, yes, and anger too. The huesy! The in- onsiolerates. Had they no sense at 11 of fitness or time! Surely Ethel right have •waited until Kenneth as out of the house even if her en - agement to him had been a funda- ental error -The Tun•dieh her real ate. And if her conduct struek me s 'reprehensible, words will not de, cribe the sudden surge of indigna- ion that I felt against the reed placid d'oetor. Ethel sprang from his embrace, flushed searlet, then paled' to 'a siek- y My own embarrassment 1/most equalled hers. The Tundish ever moved a muscle or turned a •air. He .greeted me at once, pleas - d to see me. "Hallo, Jeffcock, you. laMe just come in time to help us de- ide about the dismissal of cook. 'm for 'prompt measures, Ethel for osmlarrovr and delay." ("Bulinsibut why should she go to- no 'Margaret, who had sat so listless- ly inert that I had' glanced at her curiously more than once, sprang to, her feet. "It's mine," she cried. "It's mine, I lost it some time this morn- ing and have been searching for it everywhere." "But what an extraordinary piece of luck to find it out here -like hat," Ralph remarked; "you might have gone over the lawn with a tooth- comb a hundred times and not have found it," "Yes, but remember where I come from," Mrs. Kenley laughed. Ethel, who had 'been in to the house, rejoined us at the moment and Margaret ran to show the diam- ond to her, anti tell her of its recov- ery. "Why, didn't even know you'd lost it, why ever didn't you let us know? We would have organized a search party at once. I shouldn't have been so quiet about it if I'd -font a stone that size." "I should have done at any other time, my dear," Margaret answered; "but it seemed so petty to make a fuss over the 'loss of a paltry diam- ond when things were se -you know what I mean." "Well, I'm awfully glad that you have found it," Ethel said, handing it back to her, "and now Janet, if you can spare me a few minutes, I want to consult you about something." They went indoors arm in arm, and the four of us were left. Kenneth suggested Bridge, and so we whileld away the time until' dinner. That meal was so abominably cooked that we left most of the dishes untoueh- ed and satisfied our hunger on bread and cheese, which Ethel, in high an- noyance, told Annie to fetch. "What ill you think of us,' Janet, and on your first night too." , "Oh, please clan% distress yourself on my account, prefer bread and cheese to roast beef on a night Like this." "It's quite all right, Ethel dear," Margaret soothed, "they say you don't want go much meat in hot wea- th.e.r, don't they, DT. Wallace?" Our dinner of bread and cheeseconipeted, co mpleted, the do•otor betook hanself to the.consulting room again, and after a little mattoeuvring I found myself alone with Mrs. Kenley in the garden. As my doubts about The in on Tundd.sh grew, I felt an increasing .disinclination for conversati- with with Kenneth and his open hostiliey. Margaret, I slu-ewdlyr suspected, was more than half inclined to thialc that I might be the ertiminial tnyeelf, and it seemed that to, Mrs. Kenley alone could I look for ordinary unthampeT- ed conversation.. But I had no soon- er succeeded in my object than Annie came to inform her that she was wanted on the telephone, and she hurried away indoers. I waited with what patience 1 could but she did not return, and after a quarter of an hour or se isfellowed in search. She was in none oif the downstairs rooms and I concluded that she must have gone to her bedrocers. The boys were playing chess in the drawing room. Neither the girls nor the doctor were to be seen,. and after glancing through .the evening paper I went back to .the garden and its rapidly lengthening s'haaaws. I was nearing the garage when' I heard voices. Ethel and Margaret, I thought at first. Then I recogniz- ed Mrs. Kernley's pleasant low C011 - trait*. Then that the other voice belonged to a man -a deep mellow voice -a voice belonging neither to Kenneth nor Ralph, _nor the doctor, hut still half familiar. Surely riot Allpart, I thought! But it was, As I rounded the end of the e'er - age, there they were seated close to- gether 'on the little henclrat the far side of it, in intimateand earnest conversation. She was .persuastive- leaning towards him. "Very weal then, Janet, I'll agree, but I'm not at all haprpy 'aboat it," I heard hint me- aly, then they looked up and saw me. Mrs. Kenley blushed and with- drew., a little along the seat. Then they whispered to each other and Allport rose, said "good -night" made a furry little grimace at me, and hurried off through the garage. gates and into 'Dal -choose Lane. I was staggered. 'Mass. Kenley stood up, troubled, her gray eyes, full of concern, meet- ing mine unflinchingly. "Has he been botheeing you' too then?" I thundered. "Don't make such a. • noise. I've something tio tell you, Mr. Jeffcock," she said, ignoring my question', "come and sit down here where we shan't be overheard." 1 went and sat by her side on the bench where only a moment before the ridiculous little man had sat, and I perceived that whilst she had sat close to him she kept her distance from me. All my Original animosity against the conceited little detective returned. Kenley continued to look at me oddly. "I suppose you have gues•- sed something about it?" she quer- ied. I stared at her. An idea was be- ginning to form at the back of my head, but iteseemed altogether too fahtastie. "You know Allport?" I ventured at le.ngth. "He sent me h "He sent you! No, I don't quite . . Mrs. 'Hian `Mr5. Hanson has never seen me. Listen, it's like this. Mr. Allport wanted further evidence which could uiy b obtained by some one staying in the house-sonte one whom none of the rest of you could possibly sus- pect of having any connection with the police." "Then you're not the wife of Eth- el's cousin', Bob Kenley at all? You are a-" "Yes, I'm a -e-•" she said quietly an:used: "But -Mrs, Hans on's letter -did he forge it?" "Oh„ no. She wrote it night en- , ough, but at his request. He went down to Folkeston.e last night and sent me a wire before he started, telling me to hold myself in readi- ness. We came to Merehester to- gether this morning, and he gave rne full details on the way." "But he ceuldn't have got to Folke- stone last night in time for Mrs. Hanson to write - 'Oh", yes he did, though. fie went by aeroplane from here, explained the whole affair ti -Mrs. Hanson, and persuaded her to write the letter. That was why he made you all prom- ise that you weeldn't write to any one mentioning the murder. He was afraid Ethel and the doctor might think it peculiar if Mrs. Hanson don't come back from Folkestone, and he wanted you all to remain here just by yourselves and no further addi- tions made to the household," I had to admit that Mrs. Kenley had payed her part to perfection, 'but somehow I didn't quite like the idea of our all being bottled tip Dalehoeuse for her to play the stpy on, and I think ehe understood feelings, for she turned to me with a deprecating little gesture, "I'm sorry, you do see. that it was the only !thing to do, and as for me - well, I h•ad to obey my instructione." "An.d now why does Mr. Allport want me to know?", • • in niy thel and on the other hand I had there being no Tisk in getting rid of wish to ally myself in any way cook emitted more sinister than ev- "He didn't. If you hadn't caught as together we shouldn't have- told you anything, though I'm not at all sure that it hasn't turned out for the best. I may as• well tell you that we are all in some danger. Mr. All - port wanted me to leave the home to-teight and to break up the house party right away, but I persuaded him to let me stay until to -morrow." • "Why does he think the danger greeter .to -night than it has been 'hitherto ?" "You know he took away the bot- tle of poison -well, the analyst has found it to be nothing but water!" "Water! But .Seella---"' 'Yes, it was poison then, but the trouble is -where is the poison now? Was it thrown away? And if not - well!" II could only stare at her stupefied •and the !do.cfsle's words to Ethel about Ailegitig,&kikatitafeitittikkiadi,Nia's44,1aaidavAmein6.• • ,ez • 44443ort )m4 no 41341 Seth a ztespensiibility," I naidat IAA ont isn't Mae AsItilRa gliP! 11P-4 "gAlight think et first The paikers has a brit, ter taste wed a strang smell. Miss Palfreeman, of eourse, took,. it an- sunpectiagly and Would naturally think' nothing of it if her medicine had an unfoseuntate taste, Besides, there is no real reason, so far as we knew, why the person who gave it to her tsliould hauteur murderous; de- eigns against any one else." .1 "I don't understand it at all; it's a consplete mystery. I never could see whry any one ehouid have murdered her. Apart from the doctor, perhaps, I added, remembering my own grovr- ing suspicions and his quarrel with her father. ."Well, I don't -think I am justified in telling you any more. I was to tell you just as little as posstible, but I am 'very glad to have some one at hand to help me at a. !moment's no- tice if an emergency Should' arise." I sat for a time in thought. To say that I was. surprised at the rev- elation would be to put tetoo I had been pleased to imagine this gray slip of a girl at my side as clean and free --a breath of sweet outside air refreshing the exhausted atmosphere of some hot unventilated roosni-a ray of sunlight piercing the shades of deceit and hypocrisy that seemed to have engulfed us., and here she was, with one unknown exception more invelved ie the wretched affaiT, than any of us. Never had I seen .any one less like imaghaation'e picture of a woman detective, neither hard eyed, brazen and tight lipped, nor of the vampire siren type familiar to frequenters of the cinema. "Well, I think that you must be very brave and I'll do my best to help you if I can. But tell me, is this sort of • thing your regular work 9 " "No, I've done a good deal of it from time to time,' but I'm not iofThc- ially attached to Scotland Yard. Mr. Allport lived next door -to ur 'when we were children and we grew up together. I cansee that he's not exactly popular with any of you here, but in many ways he's very fine, I've seen a side of him that you have. not -When niy Husband was killed, just before the Armistice, he was the best friend imaginable and has helped me ever since. When I was demobbed, I went on the stage for a time -I wasn't much good -had a pretty hard time. 'Mr. Allport us- ed to find me o&1 jobs in connection with his detective work; not very often at first, but latterly I've help- ed him .quite a lot. We sat behind the garage talking together for sorne little time, and I learnt that her real name was Janet Player. She told me many things of Allport, always to his credit. •.Sbe was loud in the ugly littlefellow's praises, and when I learnt that he was mended and the father of a family -I trust they took after the mother -1 disguised my dislike, and apart from actually admitting him an Adonis, agreed to • most of what she said. 'The light was fading when we rose to go indoors. The sun had scorched his way across the sky and set, and now, behind the house and over the north-west garden wall, the air was aglow with his last refracted golden rays. In the east the cathedral seem- ed to have advanced by .helf its dis- tance, so clear did it 'stand with the paling green light behind it. Rooks were cawing their pleasing raucous lullaby among the neighboring - trees. The thrushes were at ' even- song, The cedar stood out in dark, but shadowless enhanced relief a- gainst the dimming light. Did the quiet beauty of the scene Make your heart beat a little faster tao, Janet, I wondered, as we stood side by side at the top of the garden slope look- ing down at the old Georgian house with- its wicked Borgian secret? This twilight half hour, how even the ten thousand repetitions of experience fail to rob it of its mystery and subtle sense of calm bereavement! Day a4ying, night -engulfed. And were you, wondering .what the night Might bring Janet, as you stood like some slim gray wraith at my- side? And did you vag-uely guess that the man at your side -champion sob - stuff sentimentalist that he is -was all astir, quickened by the garden's evening beauty, by your calm brave spirit, by the pity he felt for you fighting alone in this dangerous house and that Cupid was fitting arrow to bow. and preparing to shoot? We were half -way down the slope, when she put her hand on my arm, and stood intent. "I thought I heard some one," she whispered, •!"Some one in the lane most like - 3 37C., "No, no, it was .quite near, a rust- ling of leaves, like some one brush- ing along against the hedge." • 'We stood for a moment, herr hand still on my arm, but not a sound dis- turbed the still air; there was no breath of wind to stir a leaf. Janet shrugged her shoulders when I suggested that it might halve been a cat, and that we had spoken so low that we could not have been ov- erheard, and we walked across the lawn, and went back into the house together. We found Margaret, Kenneth, and Ralph sitting in the drawing Nom. "Ah! Here you are at last," Mar- garet greeted us. "Isn't the garden lovely' in this light, Mrs. Kenley? Isn't Ethel abluelcy girl to have such a beautiful home?" Ralph urged a game �f Bridge; there were five of us and Janet stood out, a letter to write, her excuse. At a little table near the open d'oorway we settled down to our game, Ralph partnering MiargaTet against Ken- neth and myself. Margaret had the most astounding luolc, and backed it with goad play. Twice they made grand slam -rarely leas than three tricks. They registered. rubber after Tubber. "Neter mind, unlucky at cards, lucky in love," she giggled, Kenneth scowled but she seemed to be blissfully unceneeioteof having dropped a brick, and added senti- mentally, "I sometimes wish that I wasn't so lucky at eards." mummuted something inane about there being plenty of' time for luck to change. Kenneth yawned openly. and suggested bed. "Where can Ethel be all this time?" Margaret asked as we gathe. •1 • ttasa't Welt *tie I should uot hoare' she 'dome tett eilflMie with thie Did 'love hefora.-you with the novv,"„ba titkat' spared; and hawing ii,ng, shewent off to the tallailigAIV, room, saying, "I *all geoid Dr. lirtWe lane for for keeping her so nisei1» 4447' self." . Janet came dervastaies as we were going up bo bed, and' I made time to caution her to lock her bedroom door. She nodded emphatically; "t and 11110 rq, than that, rMir. Allport bas given me a bolt, a set •of screws, and the wherewithal to fix them." CHAPTER XIII ACCIDENT OR----? moon'S pale I undressed and 'pulle.d aside the curtains to admlit the, haunting light. My bed had been moved close up to the window and again there was little fall from the daytime temperateure-the condition of heat and drought seemed stable and set for ever. I propped myself up with the pillows and lit a cigar- ette Outside I could just sees.the top of the garden wall at the front of the house ---a ridge of steel 'blue where the moonlight caught the tiles aslant -a barrier of'. black beneath. Moonlight! - sunlight speeding through the years, flung wide of the eaTth, and caught by tt dead world and kilIecL Sunlight with the life sucked out of it. Flowers and bees, sparkling waves, rudely backing bab- ies., hat desert- sands, the light and the glow of the sun! 'Graveyards, tombstones, rotten creaking doors, deserted derelict old houses, and sad lovers' sight in the pale cold light of the moon. Hlow it has always. dis- turbed me -this shadow light -even its beauty filling -my heart with an ache and ,a pain. It came slanting in obliquely through the window, pick- ing oiut the crockery on the wash- stand in ghostly white; makinglong distortedshadowson the fl'oor and up the walls. Only two nights ago just such another band of light had pierced the dark of Stella"s room‘, to find her dead, and kiss her kinky cop- pery hair. And to -night Mrs'. Ken- ley perhaps was listening for the gentle turtling of the handle to 'her door, and for some one moving stealthily outside it. 1 hated to think of her alone in the night, perhaps depending for her safety on a single bolt. 1 hated to think of her, a wo- man, little more than a girl, alone in this dreadful house, her wits pit- ted against those of one callous en ough to murder and face it out and threaten dark doings again. I wish ed she had taken me further into her confidence, who and what did she fear? Last night, in spite of the doctor's induction to lock my daof, I had felt little sense of reality, little sense of any immediate danger. But to -night it came upon me, that some- where in this old house, death might still be lurking; that some one who had stolen soft -footed! into Stella's room and out again, the cowardly deed accomplished, was stilt at large TOR 17111. London and Wingham South • PX, 1.315` Zit • 2.23 2.80 3.08. 3.27 3.35 3.41 3.55 2Ao Wingham Belgrave Blyth Londesboro Clinton Brucefield Kippen. Hensall Exeter Exeter Hensall Kipper Brucefield Clinton Lond,esboro Blytla Belgrave Wing -ham North C.N.R. Time Table Fast Goderich Clinton Seaforth Dublin Kitchell Dublin Seaforth Clinton Goderich West A.M. 10.42 10.55 11.01 11.09 11,54 12.10 12.19 12,80 12.50 A.M. P.M. 6.45 2.80 7.08 3.00 7.22 8.18 7.33 8.81 7.42. . .8.43 11.19 9.44. 11.34 9.57 11.50 10.11 12.10 10.37 C.P.R. Time Table -4 Goderich Menset McGaw Auburn Blyth Walton McNaught Toronto a East West Tolemto MeNaught Walton Blyth Auburn and perhaps even now hatching fur- therMenset (Continued' next week.) Goderich A.m. 5.50 5.55 6.04 6.11 6.25 6.4a 6.62 10.25 7.40 11.48 12.01 12.12 12.23 12.84 12.41 12.46 4,.! • "ItW4PC , c -- SNAPSHOT CU IL 'Close-ups' and 'Back -lighting' • Proper lighting will add much to the quality of your pictures WITH the sun so much brighter and stronger now, it is time to exercise a little care in shooting directly into the sun when taking snapshots to avoid "leas -flare" in your pictures. I do not mean by this that you should make it a strict rule not to take pictures with the sun shining .directly toward you and your camera for in doing so you will •pass by many chances to incorpo- rate fascinating, artistic "back-light- ,ing" in your pictures. However, it's a caution worth remembering. Lighting is of equal importance with arrangement of the objects or subjects in your proposed picture. It is the variation in the lights and shadows that gives a picture depth and roundness, making the subject stand out from its surroundings. Usually the shadows' should be transparent, to a degree, but full in detail. This is obtained by a rather full expesure. If the sun strikes di- rectly in a person's face they are likely to squint and tbe picture will not be a good likeness. Better have them turn slightly so that they are not bothered by the sun -then you will get a natural, life -like expres- sion. Another point is to avoid mak- ing a close-up of a person out in glaring midday sun. At this time of day the strong overhead light castes heavy shadows under the eyes and nose and the picture it far from pleasing. Whenenaking a picture of a person during the middle of the day be sure to have him turn his face away from the suu or snap him in bright shade, which can be done very successfully with modern snap- shot film. If the. illumination, or sunlight, comes from directly back of the cam- era, the shadows are more or less lost, giving a flat appearance. When you are a little more advanced, try some early morning or late after- noon shots for splendid pictorial studies for at these hours yousget long, fascinating shadows. Attractive, artistic pictures may be made from a position where you, face the sun and shadows fall to- ward your camera rather than away from it. In "back -lighted" 'work of this kind, be sure that no sun rays directly strike the lens of your cam- °res.:Phis can often be avoided by standing so that the shadow of a tree trunk, a bush or the corner of a building protects the lens from these direct sun rays. Under such conditions you should give a slightly longer exposure than would be necessary if the sun rays were directly on the front of the We' Ject. Perhaps the next; -larger dla. „ phragrn opening will let in enough light to record the detail desired in the shaded parts, or, if using a small, aperture for increased depth of focus, a slow exposure, 1/10 of .es tee. ond, oi• a very sheet time eargilfitrit, will bring excelleet reSunseTity it. '4 JOHN VAN -MAW'. 11 4 •