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Patrick D. IsTP0oeu - 'Glenn Haye.
Telephone 174
5698.
moLEAN
Barrhlter, Solicitor, Etc,
SEA.FORT - - ONTARIO
BranchOltice - Herman
Hemsall • Seaforth
Phone Iii Phone 173
MEDICAL
SEAFORTH CLINIC
DR. E. A. MCMASTER, M.B.
Graduate of University of Toronto
PAUL L. BRADY, M.D.
Graduate of University of Toronto
The Clinic is fully equipped with
complete and modern X-ray and other
Upto:date diagnostic and therapeutics
equipment.
Dr. F. J. R. Forster, Specialist in
diseases of the ear,eye, nose and
throat, will be at the Clinic the first
Tuesday in every month from 3 to 5
▪ Free Well -Baby Clinic will be held
on tate second and last Thursday in
every month from 1 to 2 p.m.
86'87 -
JOHN A. GORWILL, B.A., M.D.
Physician and Surgeon
IN DR. H. H. ROSS' OFFICE
Phone 5-W
- Seaforth
MARTIN W. STAPLETON, B.A., M.D.
Physiglan and Sur8eon
Successor to Dr. W. O. Sproat
Phone 90-W - Seaforth
DR. F. J. R. FORSTER
Eye, Ear,. Nose and Throat
Graduate In Medicine, University of
Toronto.
Late assistant New York Opthal-
mei and Aural Institute, Moorefield's
'Eye and Golden Square Throat Hos-
pital, London, Eng. At COMMERCIAL
HOTEL, • SEAFORTH,. THIRD WED-
NESDAY in each month, from 2 p.m.
to 4.80 p.m.; also at Seaforth Clinic
Int Tuesday of each month. 53
Waterloo Street South, Stratford:
12-87
AUCTIONEERS
HAROLD JACKSON
Specialist in Farm and ..Household
Sales.
Licensed in Huron and Perth Coun-.
ties. Prices reasonable; satisfactign
guaranteed.
For information, etc., write or phone
Harold Jackson, 14 on 661, Seaforth;
R. R. 4, Seaforth.
8768'
EDWARD W. ELLIOTT
Licensed • Auctioneer For Huron
Correspondence ppoptly answered.
Immediate arrangements can be made
for Sales Date at The Huron Exposi-
.tor, Seaforth, or by calling Phone 203,
Clinton. 'Charges moderate and seals -
faction guaranteed.
• 8829-62
LONDON. and WINGHAM
• ' NORTH
A.M.
Exeter 10.34
li#eneaII 10.46
Rippen . 10.52'
Brucefleld 11.00
Clinton 11.47
SOUTH
P.M.
Clinton 3.08
Brucefield' 3,28
Kipper .,.... 3.38
Hens all 3.45
Exeter 3.58
C.N.R. TIME TABLE .
EAST- - '
Goderich .., ... __ ....+ .. ,
H•olmesville
Clinton
Seaforth
St. Coluxn'ban
Dublin •
Mitchell ... `. r: , ..
C�HAPTgR, /1:11 ,...
SYNOPSIS •
A man ldentifed! .an Joseph
Slinn 1B found drove.ed, In the
Hudson river;', eal�-Al1!b�iy, N. Y.
Slinn was insured by the Protec-
tive I-ife,Insurance company, and
his beneficiary is a man named B.
B. Twombley who lives in Troy.
The company's. Albany agent, Car-,
lin, identifies the body, and the
insurance money is paid . to
Twombley. But 'Jerry ' Glidden,
sus.pectin'g' that Slinn was murder-
ed, gone to Al'baiy to investigate.
Learning that Carlin has gene to
Maine, he goes on to the little
Pennsylvania mining town of Ir-
oniburg to nee an "Angela S'lin,n."
She 'turns Out to be an ugly re-. ,
cluse of a, woman who lives in a
shack near the abandoned "Break
0' Day" iron mine. Rose Walker,
granddaughter of the owner of
the mine, runs the local store' and
post office. Jerry finds a 'tomb-
stone bearing the name "Horace
John Twombley," and that night
a itvan" registers at the hotel, as
B. B....Twom:bley of Portland,
Maine. Puzzled, Jerry wires Mart .
McDowell, a -friend df his' who'
lives in Troy, for information
about. Twombley. As he finishes
'phoning his wire, he' turns ' 'to
see Angela Slinn standing in
the doorway.
How long had Angela been -wait-
ing there •in the doorway? Her broad
face was sullen,'though no' 'more so
than usual. It gave no information.
-Most lonely folk are inquisitive, yet
sh this morning, had' appeared, the
r ers•e of that. More angered at his
own folly than at her curiosity, Jerry
flung the required cash on the coun-
ter and went but. '
He started to cross to the hotel;
but he did not go far forward. In
too close talk as yet to notice him,
�twomblvy stood on the hotel porch
-with Rose 'Walker.
"So she's in this, too -she!"
A fellow has no right to be jealous
of ' a girl whom' he has known for
less than twenty-four hours. But a
fellow often' is.
Strangling -an impulse to • pass the
'pair and proceed with high dignity
to his own room,' he summoned prud-
ence'. Be believed that too much of
what he suspected' was already 1:newn
to undesirable 'people.
The broker and the _postmistress
were probably engaged in their con-
versation thinking he was still out
for, his announced walk. Jerry de-
cided upon playing' the game. Let
them think themselves safe here. The.
detective's ;power is proportionate to
h-is--shi5pects' igngranoe. r
Still unobserved Jerry retreated to
make a wide circle of the hotel. He
had half 'completed it when a new
idea came to him: -
"I'm mis-sing •a break 'in, Angie
Slinn'.s defense trenches if she has
something..to defend_ She liistens_.in
lila at Jxonbllxg? ¢ e:steed nAw' 'be
side the 'shack's tenant at the s'hack's
en:trauoeT • • •
TTnaible to hear -able to see- aa -ware
that he must not be seen: that was'
Jerry's position: He drew aside, tak'
ing '.partia,l cover behind one of the
• pines upon the fringe of the clump.
Bvening was near, and he was sta
toned westward' of the hut. Shadows
oh r -him, Over the pair hp spied ott,
th ' rid light of a dying afternoon. In
Ault
One thing became immediately evi -
'dent. Whereas Twombley's talk with
itose had appeared' amicable, hie pee .
sent conversation gave every sign of
argument. Even if words were' in
distinguishable, voices were raised,
,and there were -gestures somewhat
violent. ,
First, the sunbonnet . tilted back,
arms lifted beside it as if in appeal;
next -sure refusal of whatever was
asked -a brown sleeve of the plump
figure's coat leaped up and' down,
mobile. a fist pounded a palm. .
A second later; these roles were re-
versed. "Twombley wants to go inside,"
said Jerry to himself; "and she won't
let him. It's just the way she acted
to me this morning. But why's. she
doing it now?"
At last permission seemed to be
.granted.' The one .figure turned and
bent above the lock, the other .took
a step back, looking down. Glidden
held bis breath.
He -held it 'because of Twombley'e
next action, The broker, stretched
out"his right arm toward that bowed
head above which, as its owner lean-
ed forward, the rear flap of the sun-
bonnet,flopped, leaving the neck ex-
posed. Jerry could see Twombley's
fist open„ the fingers spread wide:'-" ""
Lately Glidden had likened Angela
to a wolf. The 'broker's stealthily
advancing arm, albo -e Its potential vic-
tim's turned head, resembled a ven-
omous snake. Jerry watched the two,
fascinated...
The fingers closed. Slowly, experi-
mentally. On air -but within a scant
inch of their desire. They respread.'
Soin•e sort of.. debate both urged and
retarded them. The arm half retreat-
ed, crept forth again. •
"Phew!" gasped Jerry. •
He. required no acquaintance with
crime to recognize 'these 'as - the
movements of a strangler. He shook
himself.
"If that guy doesn't really 'try it,
I've got to keep quiet and stay still.
But if- he goes,,to it, it'll be up to
me to yell and tackle him."
The arm stole nearer; the fingers
crooked'. Jerry crouched' like a run-
ner on the line.
Twombley, however, changed his..
mind -or it .wa's ,changed for him. His
intended' prey stood erect and faced
quickly about. • The threatening arm
fell. So nearly simultaneously did
these 'things happen that Jerry could-
n't tell which • happened ;first. . The.
shanty's door opened, and the ill -
paired couple iveiit in. Should he,
Jerry demanded of his judgment,,have
A.M. P.M, "So it's you, Miss Slinn! You're looking so blooming."
6.15
6:31
6.43
6.59
7.05
7.12
7.24
2.30
4.48
3.oa
3.22
3.23
3.29
3.41
WEST
Mitchell 11.06 9.28
�ulblin 11.14 ' 9.36
Seaforth 11.30 9.47
"'Clinton 11.45 10.00
Goderiich 12.05 10.25
C.F.R. TIME TABLE
;A,
Goderich
Meneset
McGaw -
'EAST << i w!
P.M.
4.40
4.46
4.54
Auburn , , 5 . 5.03
Blyth '5:14
Walton 5.26
McNaught 5.37
Toronto 9:45
Toronto
wan
Premeit
WEST
•
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Y �
W
s es ..r'r..:h.•p.a,L,_ai
8.30
P,11.
12.04
12.15
12.28
12.39
12.47
12.54
1.66
on my telephoning; I' can look in on •
hei• shack. She thinks she's so wise
to stick to the store; , here's my
chance." ' ' . '
He wouldn'•t risk. the road: 'He kept
to the woods for a wide detour to the
tableland.
Day's gradual decline had stirred
the birds' to final efforts. They sang,
but he didn't listen. He stumbled ov-'
er fallen logs -into gulleys-blunder-
ed am'on'g, thorns -and didn't care.
He said he didn't anyhow; said h
didn't care fol anything except prov-
ing Lightner a "fool to ,trust Sara
Steinhardt's judgment.
He said so for fifteen minutes -
twenty
And so he Caine, quite suddenly,
upon the barren sweep of country he
had sought.
He was' among the last of those
pines near that fatal cliff edge and
thus not far from the shanty. Sur-
rouilded by its ailing kitchen garden,
it stood in full view. Hitt there was
Something different. From the crazy
atomeplpa set"ring it for' chimney,
smoke issued' and' --
To come here by the turnpike route
must be a whole Iot quicker than any
Woodt"lantway-
) '
Angleticking to the store? Why.
there sh,was; In front of the shack!
Twombley in long.conference with
warned the woman in order that she
might be on cher guard in the future?
Should he»warn her now? He had,
he, reasoned, no liking for. her, of
course; he *-its quite clearly convin-
ced that she was engaged in some
nefarious, plot affecting his own in-
terests ,
",But a .,Woman';s a woman, after
all," he s'ai4. "If' I butted In, I'd' give
my show away. Still, ought -I to?"
What followed raised na further
fear of the 'unfair attack being resum-
ed. Atiptoe Jerry ran across the
bare land and through the kitchen
garden,. He put an eye to the key-
hole--darlthess. An ear - and he
heard:
"Don't tempt md"'any more. I near
squeezed your throat for you when
you had- your back .to me' a minute
a'go."
"I knew it;' but I can take care of
myself. Well, you can't say anybody
can see us now, Mr. B. B. Twombley,
so give me that."
Crisp paper rustled.' "It'd all you'll
get till the , deal`s closed and some
real money begins' to come in."
"You're midtakem there."
"This is all I've got in cash, any
how." • ,.
"I'll count it."
A light w'as struck.. A -anter@ Was
1'.. . i�i4' ;cq,
lighted.
Eye again to 1Ceyihols Jerry saw
into the hut, but. the aperture was
small and leis range of ,vision in clad-"
ed only three handsa. . One, which
terminated in a brown sleeve, "passed
Over a rail of new bills, The other
two clutched the 'money. ;
"Then I'll go."
"Wait till I've counted."
• Jerry had felt himself, upon the
threshold of r+evelatiotn. Now he,
knew that he had tarrieditoo long in•
his progress thither. Iercouldu't af-
ford to be seen. Twort (bley's hand
descended to the knob;'Jerry juipp-
ed away.
He uncompromisingly' ran for the
pine clump. He was well advised,
too; no sooner had he. reached it
than, looking backward, he saw the
shan!ty's door open -anal"-. Twombley
emerge. -
Jerry stopped dead in the protec-
tion of a tree. He peeped around its
trunk till he ,observed; the broker
fully started on a leisurely stroll in
the direction of the turnpike.
Then, having skirted" the cliff edge,
Jerry made what haste he could along
a: course parallel to that distant high-
way. He must, abandon the detour
through the woods; it wa's too round,
•
about.
He preferred to •reach Ironburg
ahead of his h'oteimate, so that the
latter would suppose the announced
walk to and from Americus had end-
ed at a normal hour.
To be.sure, Angie might have told
of his appearance at the store, but
there was chance enough that .her
�Yhysterious dislike of Twombley had
withheld this information; 'therefore,
as soon, as Jerry- thought this hurry
had given him, sufficient leeway, he
-struck across country to the pike and
hurried op to the,.village.
As •he ascended- the hotel's steps,
Hassler came out. Jerry carelessly
inquired for Twombley. He 'hadn't
yet returned.
"Beat him to it," Glidden's thought
assured him, "I'm expecting a tele-
gram," said he aloud. "Has one
come?"
"No. You might 'ask over' to the
store, though."
Jerry didn't 'care to see, Rose, but
he Wanted 1VIacDowell's answer to his
query. 'He crossed the road.
Shadows filled 'the store. It was
a relief 'that the place should seem
again: untended, especially/• as, at the
center of the counter, unti4r a smoky
swinging lamp, lay a sheet of ordin-
ary note,paperbearing his name: the
expected message from Troy.
'PARTY CAME INTO CASH
AND MOVIED TO PORTLAND,
ME. IF " THERE'S NEWS 'IN
THIS, GIVE LME A ,CHAN_ CT FOR
'A B�E'SiT. NIA -C.
A voice from: the post office cage
made Jerry drop the .Oa.per.
- "The sender didn't pay the phone
charge from Americus. I'll collect
from you."
Angela Slinn!
• It was -Twombley he bad. seen leay-
°ing that but above the Brpak O'Day
-Iron ''iVline.�._.- ...._•- -. , . - :
And Jerry had run.part of- the way.
And travelled three-quarters of it
by the direct' road, • ' '
And•'beaten even T'wombley-to Iron -
burg.
Jerry goggled at the woman behind
the counter.. 'He had never, seen a
ghost before' '
"Y -you!"
The brutish mask of• the woman be-
hind the counter remained impassive.
:'1 es Miss Rose is busy up at her
house."
. Jerry -put down a dollar bill -did-
n't hand it. What if he did not have
any too many left? He experienced
a strong distaste for touching this
seemingly un'canaiy and certainly un -
human creature. "Keep the change!"
Before she had grunted thanks, he
was. headed for the hotel. •• Hassler,
in shirt sleeves, sat on the porch.
"Mr. Twombley back yet?" asked
Glidden.
• Hassler' squinted at his interlocutor
through the twilight. "You asked me.
that a couple o' minutes ago -,a;' ready.
No, he ain't, an' supper's on the table,
an' they're just going' Co ring fer it:
Why are you worried about Twomb-
ley?" .
""I'm not," Jerry asseverated,
though with difficulty. "I only'--"
"Ain't you so well?" '
"I'm all right."
In more ways, than one the menu
might have consisted of leather and
pebbles with a dish of 'grass and a
glass of water. Glidden didn't know
what he was eating - bad -he 'been
older and more susceptible, wouldn't
have eaten at all, No Twombley at
the start; at the finish, 'still' no
Twombley.
(Continued Next Week)
•
During the first evening of a visit
to her daughter at the'seaside an old
woman who had: never seen the sea
before was found intently watching
the lighthouse. ^ `
"What Infinite patience• sailors
have," 'she said.
"Why?" asked: her daughter.
"Welt," she relilied, "the wind has
'blown• 'that dight out 38 times since
;<'ve been ,watching, and each thee .
theyy-relightedi it." -
�4k°e
(13y Peter V,, Ape?", in' The Christia
cie.tc e x MAtor)
�d i'ss`o:1 mad0 a ielgti" "b ' Iputc
c'l'ad ie .t era t''at a;13" u sped y $ d
to tate wet oou 11 render theiar pQ.
tion„ teals thr'owa hal* c ?Jre paas
carious .position held today' bYs
Netherlands collaborationist • a:Cere
spent: - .
The aduliesion, voiced dpiing,
Dutch Nazi .propaganda broadcast by
the Dutch Nazi publicist Mas Mock,
ziji, is only one of several 'occasions
lately in which Dutch Nazis . have
voiced their aplrrehension over the
future, particularly their ability . to
continue the fine balance which they
attempt to maintain between their
Nazi sponsors and patriotic''Butch-
men.
For while on one hand they face
staa1ily rising resistance by the pat-
riotic forces, on the other there is al-
ways the' possibility that Nazi auth-
lmities will intensify their -•terrorist.
practices to curb this resistance. This
latter event would immediately in-
crease res!stance and thereby widen
the big gap already felt between col-
laborationist and patriot.
"Quislings" Have Hard Time
It might 'also cost the Dutch Nazis
the offices which they hold today and
in which they have proved themselves
so incompetent.
These offices, and the incomes de-
rived from. them, are the Only tang-
ible reward of the Dutch Quislings,
according to recent information from
inside the. , Netherlands. For they'
have paid dearly for them. They are
despised by their fellow -countrymen,
without, on the other hand, gaining
much favor with the Nazis from the
Reich. They and their families live
dike pariahs. No one outside their
circle talks to them. They are ex-
posed to continual insults and fre-
quently even to physical assaults.
A Dutch teacher who escaped •to
England recently disclosed that there
was only one'Quisling among his 30
colleagues,, and added that this man
had a very difficult time. In the
teachers', rbom he was considered
non-existent. In the classroom, the
pupils so annoyed frim that he fled
the school. The.children, thereupon,
organized a relay service. Every day
and all day long, one after 'another,
the pupils rang the bell at the teach-
er's house, . asking how he was. Fin-,
ally, he left the town for good.
More Are • Forced to Flee
Events. of that kind .appear to be
n less t;uan
publicist Bio
h cast dsclohe
of Dutch Nd„ ih
t-, to safer wplao
'i {lace•, e r
�-eessi-t3". •',hk -e ease ij
becoming m ee frequen , . 73`44' .
a derground organiz,�ioti of put
riots continues'to gross desp1te rigor..•
opts Gestapo super's -Won of 'thee Netti
errands. It is understandable that
the fury of the patriots alms:''par''ticii
larly at the traitors. But 'the prim
ary goal of' the unciergieound ell
ment is not revenge but preparation
for the day of an Allied invasion.,, Tt
is that day they are working for. •
The underground • movement now
consists •of five group's, each.of which
is assigned igned a ,-task. The one group
collects information which is useful
to the R.A.F. The members of this
group ' aperate mainly in the district
between Rotterdam and'the Hook of
Holland'.
A second group makes lists of all
new bridges and roads.
The.. third group.. is engaged in fer-
reting out as mudh as possible about
the disposition of the -German de-
fence forces. Group four is the "ex-
ecution squad" whose duties are ob-
vious. The last group gathers infor-
mation regarding wharfs and organiz-
es sabotage. -
How Sabotage Grows
This last group comprises practic-
ally the entire Dutch population. -As
can be judged from many ' instances,
sabotage is high in industry and
trade. Iii shipyards iron and steel
sheets are erroneously cut; • in the
mining industry an unusual high per-
centage of •states is brought up with
the coal and, inevitably slips through
in transports ' destined for German
factories where the stones will Choke
up the 'furnaces; in textile mills 'the
moisture equipment tends to get out
of order continually, causing the yarn
to break and delaying the output.
Raw materials vanish mysteriously.
German Military depots are 'being de-
molished and robbed. Tank traps in
the coastal areas are desttoyed,
T•ndustrialists and' businessmen join
cheerfully in the sabotage drive by
stretching the administrative ' red
tape •to the limit. Thus a stream, of
complaints,• reports and inquiries
flows from the business offices to the
offices of the occupation authorities
and delays the carrying out of, orders
1, eA
`chef N- 5
tli ,t'-- nvadt
that , there 'wan never
the N, .etherlands aa, h ,s- dv
ung the ,pa SIhayears
The ration.' .system so
and ingenioijtgl'y devised b
that "even ;ht60hery' and said
are included, Is .seriously hit*
'
the inindredrthousands of• c4ytPt
ed ration book's which , are io. eh
trim Syne of these counteifert]
masterpieces of forgery, imp
to detect except 'by:laboratory ,
mations,' The cm8:egquence'°: ,%S, "t
the Nazis are unable: to cop:trol;c
sumrption effectively. or to 1break
the black' markets. .
Sabqtage and •underground:•act3
are practical 0,s well aa_p:,h'h7? ..,..,
value. They help maintain the mor
ale of the 'Dutch do the face of the
steady deterioration of' living' 'Condi-
tions. Since May, 1940, the, cost of,
living is reported to have risn by -61/
per cent., whereas wages are 20 per
cent below the pre-war figures.
People's Savings"'Dwfridle -
Saving reserves ,have been declin-
ing rapidly during the past.,,yeai and
a half.
,A„ recent statistic, dicloses that ap-
proximately 1,500,000 Dutch, or al-, •
most one-fifth of the total population,
are receiving some form of relief.
Food is scarce and expensive, and of
poor quality- (Milk is so poor that it
clots and burns when heated; the ,..
Nazis boast that under their` - guid-
ance the Dutch dairy industry, :has '
made so much, progress that now 80 -
per centof the milk output is Grade:' '
A, while in 1938 only 30 per cent of•
the output was Grade A milk.
The explanation -is simple. tong
as the Dutch were left alone, .:,heft
cows 'produced more milk than they
do today. Therefore, they percentage
does not mean a thing as long as ..''r;
the absolute figures are not made pub- -
M
lie. Moreover, the Nazis attach the
Grade A label to a milk which the
Dutch had not considered worth grad- -
ing at all.
I
• Before you order dinner at a res-
taurant; you. consult the bill -of -fare.
Before you. take a long trip. bymotor
car, ' you pore over road -maps. -Be-
fore _you--' start out on..a ..-shoppi-ng--
trip, you' should consult the adver-
tisements 'in this paper. • For the same
reason!
The advertising columns " are ' a
buying guide .for you in the. purchase
of everything you need, including
amusements! A guide that saves
your time and.conserves your ener-
gy; that saves useless steps , and
guards against false ones; that puts
the s -t -r -e -t -c -h in the family bud-
gets.
The advertisements in this paper
are so interesting it is difficult to -see
how anyonecould overlook them or
fail to profit by them. . Many , a time,
you could save the whole year's sub-
scription price in a week by watching
for bargains. Just check with your-
self and be sure' that you •are reading.'
the advertisements regularly the
big ones and the little ones. It is
time well spent . . . always!
Your Local Paper Is Your
Buying Guide
Avoid. time -wasting, money -wasting
detours on the road to merchandise .
value. Read , the advertising "road
maps."
filE
McLEAN BROS., Publishers '
P`hone'4Iy
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