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The Huron Expositor, 1935-08-16, Page 71:+t Phone NQ. 91 JOHN J. HUGGARD Barrister, • Solicitor, Notary Public, Etc. Beattie Block Seaforth, Ont, HAYS & MIEIR Succeeding R. S. Hays Barristers, Solicitors, Conveyancers. 'and Notaries Public. Solicitors for - the Dominion Bank. Office in rear of the Dominion Bank, Seaforth. Money to loan. . JOHN H. BEST' Barrister, Solicitor, Etc. Seaforth Ontario VETERINARY _ F JOHN GRIEVE, V.S. Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin- ary College. All diseases of domestic animals treated. Calls promptly at- tended to and charges moderate. Vet- erinary Dentistry a specialty. Office and residence on Goderich Street, one door east of Dr. Jarrott's office, Sea - forth. A: R. CAMPBELL, V.S. Graduate of Ontario Veterinary College, University of Toronto. All diseases 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. Phpne 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 Hospftal, London. Member of College of Physicians and Surgeons of. Ontario.. Phone 67. Of- fice at Dublin, Ont. • 3493. DR. GILBERT C. JARROW ' Graduate of Faculty of Medicjpe, University of Western Ontario. Mem- ber of College ofd 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. - d Late assistant New York Opthal- nrei and Aural Institute, Moorefleld'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. Tib Waterloo Street, 'South, Stratford. DR. W. C. SPROAT Graduate of Faculty of Medicine, University of Western Ontario, Lon- don. Member of College of Physi- cians and :Surgeons of Ontario. Office in Aberhart's Drug Store, Main St., Seaforth. Phone 90. • DR. F. J. BURROWS Office and residence Goderich Street, east of the ,.United Church, Seafibllth. 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 Hospital, London, England; University Hospital, Lon- don, England. Office -Back of Do-' minion Bank, Seaforth. Phone No. 5. Night calls answered from residence, Victoria Street, Seaforth. DR. E. A. McMASTER 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. m DR. G. R. COLL.YER Graduate Faculty of Medicine, Uni- versity of Western Ontario. Member College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Post graduate work at Ne -v 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 . Hensel], Ont. Phone 106. AUCTIONEERS FRANCIS EVERTON i ('Continued from lash week) In the centre of the square there stood an old painted iron, table 'on which Ethel kept a shallow dislri of red pottery filled with water' for the birds do times of drought. A' thrush was in the middle of it, lying on its 'back and it made one last dying flut- ter as I stood taking in the tragic little scene. •A second thrush, its mate, I guessed, flew down from the, garden well as I watched, and perch- ed on the edge of the dish, then catching sight of me, it gave one long sorrowful flute :like note and flew away. I crossed over to the cat and turn- ed him over with my foot. His eyes were. wide, and when I saw thein 'I felt the hair •go creeping across my scalp, there• wvas a yellow alit of iris and 'the rest was an angry red. I started back in horror and ran to the house for Janet. !She was doming down the stairs as I entered the hall, and I beckoned to her to dome into the garden with me. "What is is it?" she queried. "Is• anything the matter?" "Yes, come and see what.,, I've found." We hurried back to the rose gar- den. "Oh, the ' poor dears, the poor dears! Oh, how horrible!" she cried, when I pointed to the birds, her -sweet low voice vibrating with a tenderness that it made my heart ache to hear. "Yes, it's the poison," she agreed, when I showed her Ethei's"cat. "How horribly, oh, how wantonly cruel! Run in quickly, 'please, and telephone to Inspector Brown before the others get downstairs. Ask him to come •in by the side door and straight to me here at Once, not to go to the house. I know he's at the station. If An- nie's about send her to me here out of the way before you speak. If any of the others are about come back to me at once and we must hide them away without showing the inspector. The number's .forty-seven. I'll be thinking of some excuse for wanting, Annie." • There was no one about but Annie, 'and when I had.sent her to Janet I got my message hough to the in- spector without any interruption, for once the telephone working accord- ing to plan. He promised to be with us in a few minutes and I 'hurried back to find Janet walking up and down the path behind the garage. What excuse she made for her talk with Annie I forgot to ask, but it was satisfactory, for Annie met me smell ing broadly. Janet was angry. Now, that I know her so well I can better estimate h'ow angry and disturbed she was. "'It's so stupidly cruel," she almost sobbed "to put it there where the birds come to drink. It seems an unsympathetic thing to say,' but somehow it riles me more than the murder itself." "Don't you think we had better tell the doctor," I asked her, "he will be able to say more definitely if it's the poison -the Chinese, poison, I mean. She shook her head emphatically and looked at me rather queerly, I almost fancied, too. "No, no," she said. "There's nothing to be gained by telling any one else. Never tell any one anything, that's Johnny All - port's golden 'rule for -detective work. At her suggestion we went back lo the rose garden to wait the in- spector, and to prevent any more birds from drinking the poisoned wa- ter, "He'll 'have to take them away with him," she said. "Did you tell him anything?" "No," I replied, "for once'( obeyed the Bolden rule." "Well, we ought to be -looking for something to put them in. Do you think you could get a clothes basket or something -without Annie seeing you, and a bottle or can for the wa-, ter?" I returned le the house once more to try my luck, but Annie was in the hall, and though I racked my brains I Gould think of no reasonable excuse for getting her out of the way. Then my eyes happened to light on the garage key that hung on a hook in the hall, and I remembered having seen an old wooden box that I thought might serve our purpose. It was there, but I could find nothing for the water, so rI took what I had found across to Janet hoping that she might be able to make some other suggestion. • But she had already solved the problem by -finding the watering can, and to my dismay I returned• to find her tipping the contents of the bird- bath into it. I hated to see her han- dle the deadly stuff, remembering the doctor's alarm when I ,had only .touched the outside of the baby fla- gon. •ti "It's all right," she replied cheer- fully to my protest. "I haven't touch- ed a drop, and I promise to disin- fect." Then very gingerly we picked up the birds one by one and put them in the box, leaving one bird and the cat so that the •inspector might •see ert- actly how they had lain when he ar- rived. He was with us before we had com- pleted our task, more gigantic and phlegmatic than' ever" I thought he looked, in the little formal . garden Janet quickly explained the situation and hustled him away with a com- petence that only 'went to increase my admiration for her, hut we were not to be deft alone as I half hoped we might, She would have none of it, insisted that we ought to get back to the house at once, that the break- fast must be ready and that we should be missed, and that the less we were seen together the (better, though I did my best to persuade her to stay Idiotic of me, perhaps, but it was --c o I can't explain it -if you who read need explanations then you are beyond rife. I was in love, I had nev- HAROLD DALE Licensed Auctioneer Specialist in farm and household sales. 'Prices reasonable. For dates landinformation, write or phone Har- old Dale, phone 149, Seaforth, or ap- ply at The Etcpositor Office. ARTHUR WEBER Auctioneer's License Sixteen years' experience. Satisfaction guaranteed, ' Telephone: 1S-57, Hensel]; Write ARTHUR WEBER;' 'R. R. 1, Dashwood. INSURANCE er been in love before, and here was my darling alone among the roses. I wanted to stay with her and keep her to myself, not share her with the rest. But it was riot to be, for up • the garden path came The Tiinddish whis- tling the "Marseillaise," his chin stuck out in a way that he had when he whistled and felt jolly, or rather I should say when he was willing that others should know he was feel- ing jolly, for only once had I seen him really depressed, and that was the time 'when I had caught him. frowning over Hanson's cas5 book. He was amazing, The Tundish, and the more I saw of him the more my amazement grew. Here we were at the morning •of the inquest, and he could whistle away light-heartedly, just like any boy at home from school on the first day of the holidays. If I was amazed, Janet was alert. "Your knife; quicklyi, Mr. Jeffcock," and she was cutting roses and ask- ing me about their names -of which I knew exactly nothing -even as the rluctor stood smiling happily under the arch. "Hallo! Breakfast ready?" she g-eeted him, "Yes." He was leaking at the little table on which the birdbath had stood. "Where's the bird -bath gone to?" he queried. Janet looktd at •hini hard and I looked at .Janet. "It has gone to 'be cleaned, Dr. Wallace," he replied. - "Cleaned! Oh, Ethel's taken it has she? I camedto see if it wanted fill- ing. Come along in to breakfast:" The others were seated at' the table when we got back to the house, and although Janet said very little and I could• see that her thoughts were busy with our discovery, her pres- ence again seemed to break down the restraint of some of our former meals. Neither Ethel, Margaret, nor the boys had heard of cook's experi- ence, and their' natural curiosity kept the 'conversation going, and helped us to avoid those appalling periods of silence that I was beginning to asso- ciate not only with our meals, but even with dear old Dalehouse itself. Silences they were that seemed be- yond our control. Silences that seem- ed to close down on us from outside, whilst we sat with averted eyes, each bulsy with k• our own suspicilous thoughts. "What a night you must;have had," was :Ethel's +`i:omment. "I see now that I ought to have given way, and have allowed you to tura her out last night as you wanted to, Tundish, then you 'would all have been spar- ed." "No, it was my fault, and I blame myself entirely for what happened," he relied. "I ought• to have looked round' myself 'before I went to bed, knowing the state she was in. I'm only glad that the rest of you were not disturbed-espeoially you two girls -it was no' pretty sight, I can assure you." "I'm thankful I didn't wake," Mar- garet joined in, "I shouldn't. have slept another wink all night. It makes me feel quite faint even to think of it now." - The doctor smiled broadly, rather unkindly too, I fancied. "Well, if that's what you look like 'when you feel fainl--!" We all of us laughed, for never had she looked more pink and white and golden, more full of vitality and less like a fainting lady. Both Ethel, whose • bruise was still in evidence, and Janet looked pallid and worn by comparison. .9,s we were finishing -breakfast a note 'came by hand for. the doctor'. Ralph had just said, apropos of the accident to cook, that the house seemed fated, and that without mean- ing to be rude, he would be very- glad to be back at work. The Tundish looked up from liis note withsmile' as happy a smile as you could wish to see. "Well, you'll be able to grat- ify your wish. 'Phis is from the in- spector. The inquest is fixed for eleven o'clock and we are all to be there. 1 e is 'sending cars to fetch us. Moreover, our little pocket Her- cules will be with us at four, and so you see, Ralph, you will be able to leave this evening, but whether I shall be here to see you off is, I im- agine, more uncdrltdin." He tot' up to leave the room as he spoke, but turned with his hand on the door -knob. "By the way, Ethel, what have you done with the bird - hath from the rose garden? I'll fill it up before .I go." " "The bird -bath?" "Yes, haven't you had it? It's missing from the table." 'No, I filled it up yesterday morn- ing and I''m afraid I haven't touched it since," Ethel looked round the table td see if we could give her in- formation, but we none of us spoke and The Tundish left the room. THE JOHN RANKIN AGENCk Insurance of all kinds. Bonds, Real Estate. Money to Loan. Phone 91. IS11aASPOIRTH ONTARIO "rsgEdzfs++.las �;�e'alti'a�tFC1 want to tell me." "No, it's not, that. I do want to tell you but I can't." • "Where did you go before break- fast?" "To the police station." - "Wihat .for?" can't tell you." `! "I'm rather a poor `sort of confed- erate onfederate then, I'm afraid, if you wont let me know what you are doing." " '"You're not a confederate, you're -a protector, should the need arise. Honestly, I • can't help it, 'Mr. Jeff- cock, it isn't my doing.' Johnny All - port is my superior officer and I was to tell you nothing excepting who I was, and that I night possibly re- quire your help. And that was only because you caught us together." "I see, a sort of sop to keep me good." I was feeling childishly hurt. We had been walking up and down the strip - of lawn that lay between the house and the boundary wall, and at the end of one of our sentry goes she turned and faced 'me, the sun lighting up 'her dear face so that I could see 'the tiny gold 'brown hairs that straggledacross the bridge of her delectable little nose. I wanted to help her and felt absurdly that •T had the right to. I wanted endless consultations. Here we were, within an hour of the inquest, with the mys- tery that had bedevilled the Dalehouse atmosphere from cellar to attic as far from solution as ever, and whilst yesterday my head had been full of :stash thoughts as, "If he did this, then why did he go and do that?" Now this morning I dould think of nothing but Janet and how I might keep her near me. ' "Do please be sensible," she .smil- ed. • , "But how can- I help you if I'm all in the dark?" "It helps me just to know you're there at hand. Now I must really go?' She turned to go back to the house. The two boys were sitting out of ear- shot, under the cedar tree. "I say, do sit next to me at the inquest," I called after her gently. She laughed outright and curtsied. "Certainly, sir," she said, "only I'm not going."' She was gone, leaving. me uncertain' as to whether I was annoyed or pleased about what she had said• And I only remembered afterwards that I had told her noth- ing of Annie's missing tablecloth. Two police cars came for us at a quarter before the hour, backing into Dalehouse 'Lane, where we got into them without attracting the attention I had rather feared. Two men only observed us, and I heard one say to the other in passing, "Aye, that's 'im, goes about the town as bold as brass," a remark which made me• ap- preciate the doctor's bravery, or ef- frontery, in continuing to attend his patients. I had never been to an inquest be- fore and the only thing that really impressed me was the brevity of the whole proceeding. A room behind the mortuary was used for the pur- pose, a long room it was with a plain deal table running nearly the length of it, and with whitewashed walls that made the most of the rather in- adequate light. The jurors were all assembled when we arl'ived, ••a solemn uninteresting dozen, with, so far as I could judge, not one man of any personality among them. They were seated round the table. We were given seats 'against the wall and the Coroner, a very much younger man than I had expected, came in as we took our places: He was business itself. Asked the inspector to take the jury to view the body, filling up an official look- ing from pending their return. Asked Ethel to explain to the jury exactly how she had found Miss Palfreeman on the Wednesday morning. There was no witness box and she was sworn and made her statement stand- ing• in front of her chair at the side of the room. She spoke clearly and well. The doctor made a similarly brief statement', and was continuing to de- scribe how -he had prepared a draught for Stella the evening before, when the Coroner pulled him up,•. When he had gone Margaret offer- ed to take out another bowl of •water, saying, "The poor little things will be parched," and there was a dis- cussion as to household duties dur- ing which the two boys went off to the garden, and I. out into the hall where I pretended to be brushing my clothes. I wanted to waylay Janet. She came ,out at last and I per- suaded her to join me in the garden as soon as she could get away, and after an interminable half-hour she came to me there. "Just for two min- utes," she said uncompromisingly, but with the smile I had grown to look for and to love so much, "What do you want?" "I want bo know what you make of it all," I asked her. "Wasn't it just a little odd that the doctor should have come to look for the bird bath then?" "I don't know and 1 can't tell you what I made of it." "You mean you -won't. You don't See sp. �. 91 pt?l '0W(1 W • ;shalt,heat ' Au tp consider lthe' f -104 0" 1. . wild he put bears ps, and .oder my ;guidanoa, you wilt = then. deride tt? gether what was the cause of her death, Thank you" A tail gray-haired, full-faeed .m as wheal I hadn't noticed before came and stood at the end of tiie tattle, facingthe Coroner. "I Iowa a ate -4 - mm* stir, that I think it is my duty to make. It's with regard to--'--" "Excuse me," the Coroner, inter- rupted 1"but whoever you are ,I can allow no statement whatever to be made." ",My name is Crawford . and I am uncle to the deceased, and what I have to say. may, I think, hal----" "I am sorry, Mr. Crawford, but I really cannot allow any statement whatever 'to,be made. The jury 'must hear all the eviidience in proper order and at the proper time. If you have any information you feel you ought to impart immediately, thein it is your duty to report' it to the police." "Can't 1•--i- ?" "No, really you can't." The florid' faced uncle retired. I liked the look of the man, jolly. I thought, and I wondered what" it was that he wanted to say. Then to my surprise,', just as the Coroner was gathering .up his papers, and the jurors were pushing 'back their chairs Kenneth jumped to ,his feet. "May I ask, sir, how match longer we are to be detained?" The Coroner looked up in some sur- prise. "We -detained? I don't think I understand you. Who are you and to whom do you refer V' "My name is Dane, sir, and I' re- fer to my friends and myself and our detention at 'Dalehouse." The inspector stepped forward and whispered in the Coroner's ear. The Coroner. nodded his head emphatical- ly and then he turned to Kenneth. "No warrant has been issued for any one's detention. I understand that you and your friends made a perfectly voluntary arrangement with Inspector Allport, and if that is sy I think that your application is .in very bad taste indeed. Neither I, nor the police, have any .wish to detain any one at present and you are at liberty to • go when and where you v: ill, but you will be wanted at the inquest on Tuesday and a proper no- tice will be served.". Kenneth reddened and sat down. Inspector Brown came forward and told us that the cars were available for our return, and we filed out into the dazzling sun. The dreaded in- quest was over, but I realized that the next would be a far more trying 'affair. At the door stood Mr. Crawford taking to the police surgeon, and .he came forward and spoke a few words to Ethel in the kindest possible way, and then to my surprise he button- holed the doctor, drawing him a few, paces apart. They held a brief but earnest little conversation, at the close of which 'Mr. Crawford handed The Tundish a letter which he put carefully away in his pocket -book: They shook hands amicably and the doctor rejoined us. I could' not help my curiosity, and I• wondered what Stella's uncle could have to say and give to the doctor and whether he had lived in China too, and they had met before, There was nothing to be gleaned from the doctor's face, however, he was neither pleased nor perturbed, but just the same equable and placid Tundish, as inscrutable as ever. We were back at Dalehouse before 'twelve o'clock, and my first concern was to look for Janet. She was not in the downstairs, rooms and I went up to change my coat for a blazer, prior to making a search in the gar- den. The Tundish and I happened to go up the stairs together, he to his room and I to mine. They were next Boor to each other, and as he opened 1 -is door out came Janet. •Obviously a little astonished, he stood to one side to allow her to pass. "Sorry, doctor. I was 'finishing off some dusting for Ethel, and didn't expect you back so soon," she apolo- gized. He made some conventional re- mark and she went on • downstairs, but I noticed and I wondered whether the doctor noticed it too, that she had no duster. She had been search- ing his room, I felt convinced, and I hated the 'whole business and Janet's part in it in paitieular as I had new- tr hated it before. , "Just at the moment I am only asking- you to tell the jury 'how you found Miss Palfreeman when you went upstairs at Miss Hansbns's re- quest," "I have nothing more to add then," the doetor replied. "You were of the opinion that her death was' not from any natural cause and decided that the police should be informed?" "Yes," ' Inspector Brown next described how he had been called and went to Dale - house along with Detective Inspector Allport and the police surgeon, and he concluded his few- short sentences by asking that the inquest might be immediately adjourned while the po- lice secured further evidence. "How long do yoia want, inspec- tor?" suggest Tuesday of next week, Sir." "At the same time?r=' "Yes." "Very well then, ;gentlemen, the inquest is adjourned 'and I am sorry to have to ask you to attend here a- gain next Tuesday at the same time. A formal reminder will be posted to you. I understand that there have been rumours in the city with regard to this unfortunate affair and there have been one or two most impro- per references in the press. It is your plain duty to shut both your ears and your eyes until we meet a- gain, and to take care that you come to the adjourned. inquest with your minds a blank. There has been talk of foul play. We shall know nothing of that, The unfortunate girl met her death in circumstances that re- quire further investigation. That is ,00tildx ed tkrat; sie ad gods'-: lie down,: sq 1 bad peefi' mpself as beet *Oa the pa<;v►er, and, by :atehhz, • at'*their funereal game; Three 'o'clock came WI the past three, and I was begin,irr thinnt that I s'hou'ld be unable to :s as Janet wished when Nifarggre joj r ed us and surprisingly asked' Me to go into the garden with her. "Coyne up behind the garage," she said, "I want to show you some- thing." 1E1111 .of curiosity, and wondering whether what she had got, to show might not have some bearing on Janet's strange request; I followed her up the garden and we sat down on 'the bench behind the garage where I had caught Allport talking to Janet. "You remember that newspaper that'was found in the chest of draw- ers in your 'bedroom?" Margaret be- gan. • -"Yes." "Well, you know. I always felt somehow that you might' have put it there' yourself after all -forgive mie for saying so -and _that it' might have been you who put up the second notice over the -„switch, you see you; found it and had such a chance to Fut•-" "You have no business to make such suggestions," I interrupted • an grily, as soon as -I could conquer my first astonishment. 1"Oh, please don't be cross, you know what a way I have of blurting out whatever comes into my head. And after all it must be one of us, we must each of us be guessing and thinking these awful things about the rest. iIt was all very well, and na- tural too, perhaps, of the doctor to warn us against it, but it really isn't human nature not to. However, it doesn't matter now for just look here what I've stumbled across." , She put her hand dalvn inside the top of her jumper and pulled out a sheet of newspaper,' handing it over for my inspection. Like the one that had been found in my chest of draw- ers, odd words and letters had been cut out here and there, and I gazed at it astonished. "And look at this," she added, pass- ing me a smaller piece of paper. I recognized it for what it was at once,„It was a sheet torn from the mems. tablet that stood on the doc- tor's desk. On it there were some almost illegible pencil notes, about a prescription, I gathered, in The Tun - dish's characteristic writing. A right across the middle of it, and pasted partly over • the pencilled words, had been stuck letters cut from a newspaper forming the first portion of the identical message that I had found on the card above the landing switch. dark Deeds ARE done in D Lunch passed without incident - Janet -did not look at me once -but afterwards, as we were leaving the dining -room, with a whispered, 'Take this,' she handed me a folded note. l went upstairs to my bedroom at once to read it, "Dear lbli', Jeffcock," -it ran -"I am going out this afternoon and shall not be hack until four o'clock. If -an opportunity, occurs will you please tell Miss Bunter that you saw ,me coming out of the doctor's bedroom before lunch; that you heard me tell him that I had been dusting, and that you noticed that I hadn't any duster. Just tell her that you thought it ra- ther curious. I don't want to tell her myself, but I do want her to guess that I have been searching the doctors room. "Please burn this." (Continued next week.), !Scores of the worldis finest athletes have appeared in competition at the Canadian National Exhibition. • The track meet this year has again at- tracted the stars of the spiked shoe' brigade. London and Winghain South Wisighanri 1..$1 ' 2;1.1 Blyth Belgrave Londesboro2.23" Aci Clinton i ...i... '400 Briicefield • 3;217. Kippen a 1.35 Hensali 3.41 Eketer ..,.. ...,3.55 North LM. Exeter 10.42 Lienal' 10.55 Kippen 11.01 Brucefield' 11.49 Clinton .......,..., 11.54 Londeshoro 12.10. Blyth 12,19 Belgrave 12.30 Wingham 12,50 C.N.R. Time Table East A.M. P.M. Goderich 6.45 2.30 Clinton '7.08 3:00 Seaforth' 7.22 3.18 Dublin 7.33 3.31 Mitchell -_ .. .>.. 7,42 3.43 West Dublin .11.19 9.44 Seaforth .. 11.34 9.57 Clinton 11.50 10.11 Goderich 12.10 10.37 C.P.R. Time Table. East A.M. Goderich 5.50 Mesiset 5.55 McGaw 6.04, Auburn 6.11 Blyth 6.25 Walton 6.40 iJcNaught 6.52 Toronto ... 10.26 West A.M. Toronto !77".7.40 McNaught 11.48 Walton i 12.01 Blyth 12.12 Auburn 12.23 McGaw 12.34 Iv' cnset 12.41 Goderich 12.46 There was no signature, and I fold- ed it up and put it carefully away in my pocket -book in spite of her re- quest; it was my first letter from Janet end whatever its contents it should be preserved. As for its con- tents, I could not understand them at all. Think at I would, and I sat on the edge of my bed for a full quarter of an hour thinking as ,hard as the sweltering heat would let me, I could read neither sense nor reason into her request., If, for some re'asoh or other, she wanted Margaret to know that she was working with All - port, why could she not tell her right out, instead of adopting this round- about device.? If, on the other band, she still desired to keep her true identity hidden from the Test, why• should she tell even Margaret that she had been searching the doctor's room? After a time, IT gave up my at- tempt to follow the reasoning that led to the writing of the letter, and concentrated my attention on trying to curry gilt the instructions it con- tained. The two boys had 'been re-" c ieSNAPSuOT CIJIL 'Make Your Pictures Say Something' Always have your subjects doing something HUNDREDS of thousands of juve- nile story books are sold every year and the ones we loved rnost•in our younger years were those trans- lated into pictures, because they had a human appeal. All through our lives we retain our interest in pic- ture stories. It is this appeal that takes us to the movies and causes us to look throrigh the pages of daily newspapers and magazines for plc - tures -that tell stories of human ac- tivities. But when it comes to snapshots, so many seem to forget how much they enjoy looking at story -telling pictures. They pickup their cameras and just shoot, seemingly satisfied to get any pictures at all, as it was in the old days of, "You Press the Button and We Do the Rest." There is a better way to take pictures. If you want to enjoy some good laughs take a look at some of the pictures in the old family album or some of the snapshots you took sev- eral years ago. There you will prob- ably find some perfect examples of record pictures -pictures of ynele Charlie or Aunt Minnie in a stiff pose against the trunk of a tree or. with an unattractive garage door as a background. Don't take pictures of your friends just standing looking at the camera. Have them lighting a cigarette, reading, or doing some - (thing to seasonthe picture with that human interest touch that should be in every film you expose, You go Out on a pienle With your friends. What do you do? The chances are that you line up the gang, you snap the Camera and again have just another, picture when it would be just as easy to have the crowd enjoying the lunch and per aps one member busily en- gaged'ih the act of "exterminating" a luscious ear of corn or doing a "boarding house reach" for the po- tato salad. If you were making movies, would you take foot after foot of film with your actors doing nothing? Of course not, and it isn't a bad idea to „think of your "still" camera as a movie camera filming a drama. 'Get action and meaning. This means that you should think before you shoot. The two pictgres above really "say something." Jack's picture' with his bicycle tells of "chain trouble" and a delay in meeting the gang at the vacant lot for a game of baseball, while Billie is probably' telling his young girl friend about his great ad- ventures as a sailor; of pirate's gold and Pieces of Eight. In case you have never given much thought,to this before, just take a look through a newspaper or magazine and notice which please you more-p"letures of people mere- ly looking at the camera or pictures df people doing something humanly interestingsand significant. Chances are that the story -telling pictures will be ypur choicer and you'll make up your mind that 'hereafter that's the kind you'll 'aim to take.' Geed' luck! •roma VAN f Urtzt