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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1951-04-20, Page 7• S r l"l APRIL20;: O, CHAPTER 111 Synopsis John Saxon, private Investi- gator, and his pardner 'Moe Martin; 'were hired by the wealthy "Hardware" ,Smith, to watch their daughter, Irene Smith. Irene's husband has been :murdered and Irene suf- fered from amnesia. When Seems that two ladies were about to board an airliner. One of them paused for a moment and turned to the pilot. "Please don't travel faster than the speed of sound," she said, "because we want to talk to each other." We've got a few talking points too, especially when it comes to truck tires. We're truck tire spe- cialists, and we can definitely help you get longer, trouble-free service out of your truck tires. Our complete Goodyear Truck Tire Service does the trick. 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LOOK FOR THIS "HIGH SIGN" OF WUALITY HEDSALL MOTOR SALES HENSALL PHONE: 31 DODGE DESOTO SALES & SERVICE AUTHORIZED GOOD%jVEAR DEALER You EXPECT the men and women in your local bank to be skilled, courteous, interested in their work and in you. They are. Because they find satisfaction in meeting the standard of banking you require, rendering the variety of services you expect in a chartered bank. And there is always the drive of competition. Manager, accountant, teller, junior - they all know that if you are not satisfied at your present bank you will go to another. You can count on alert and friendly service from the men and women who look after your banking needs. One of a series by your bank they arrived at the Smith es- tate they were met by Kay Smith, daughter of Irene. She explained that her father was killed and her mother wrecked and injured. Irene when she saw Johnny, called him Bart and chided 'him for being away so long. '- Apparently he was believed to be someone in her past. Johnny stood up, walked over to the Great Dane, bent down and rubbed his ears. The looked up at the girl- "What about that book or something she vitas supposed to be writing?" "None of us every knew anything about the book mother was writ- ing," said Kay. "We haven't been able even to find it." Johnny's eyes were thoughtful. "People with a real story, they want to get down on paper, are like that," he explained- "It's sort of a personal thing they don't want people prying into." Johnny said, "Who 'was that young fellow who was on the beach with you?" "Oh, him?" She smiled. "That's Ralph. Ralph Dunkirk. He lives over in Northport. I've known him a long time," she said. "He works in his father's garage over in town," and the brief smile swept from her face. "Anything wrong in that?" asked Johnny. Her change in manner puzzled him. Kay said stiffly. "That's where they took father's car after the ac- cident. It's there -now." "Of course." He held a lighter for her cigarette. "Is Northport far?" "It's quicker going right across the harbor. We have a speedboat. Use it any time you like." She inhaled deeply, and reached down to pat Michael's head as the dog stood up and nuzzled, against her slim figure. "I'd better change." "Kay . " Johnny delayed a moment, and the girl turned, look- ing at him. "Kay, there's one thing. Your mother and father . - . they got aiong all- right together?" He thought her unusual green eyes flickered. "Mother loved father intensely. It was always that way." She met This eyes and there was something taut about her manner. "You've noticed it, haven't you? You've noticed the way I act when I speak about father. Don't say you haven't. I can tell!" The pitch of her voice raised slightly. "Well, I'm not afraid to tell you. He's dead now and I have . . . no regrets!! Mother never knew. She loved him the way few women ever love a man. She trusted him. And yet he was deceiving .her all the time. Now do you understand, Mr. Sax- on?" Kay's eyes were dark green with. sudden.. fury. "I despised him!" Johnny watched Kay disappear toward the butler's pantry. Then, mounting the stairs to the second floor, he kept thinking of her re- mark "I despised him!" He was still thinking about it when he located the room. It was at the rear of the left wing of the mansion. The hallway ended at a screened doorway that led out to a balcony. Glancing out, Johnny could see numerous bed- rooms facing on this balcony. Johnny closed the ball door be- hind him and went into the bath- room. Moe was beneath the show- er, his round, cherubic body red from the cold needle spray. Eyes closed, he had his face pushed up into the cold blast and was slap- ping his chest like a baboon. Each slap was accompanied with a yip. "A deaf mute could find this room," called out Johnny. Grinning, Moe stepped out of the tub and yanked a heavy turkish swell place to work," he said with pleasure. He rubbed himself vigor- ously. Though round and pudgy looking, he was solidly built. He nodded beyond Johnny. "Have a drink." On a bench in the larEe, tiled room was a round silver tray con- taining bottles and glasses. There was a tall square bottle and sev- eral bottles of beer. "Horner brought it up," explain- ed Moe as Johnny poured .himself a glass of beer. "You sure get ser- vice around here." Moe wrapped the large towel around his midriff and led the way back into the bedroom. "They've got everything in this house;" he told Johnny. "All you have to do is flick the right switch." He point- ed to a boxlike affair built into the front of a table between twin beds. The gadget was % like the inter- office speaker systems used in bus- iness houses. "Handy, hub?" said Moe. "Some day we'll install one at the office. It must be nice to have money." Wooden handles rattled within a : TIME TABLE : • • CHANGES • • • • • • • • • • • • Effective Sunday April 29th, 1951 Foil Information from ti roomy ckl qs closet ,ao i e0,',gip the big room. Then Moe' MON sornflW..,at inugledD.. et, Do you thi it'e an act?'' Johnny .stirred imself, sba!itng off drowsiness. "What do you' Mean -act?" "I mean . . h Irene?". "Of course not," said Johnny. "Then she's really got amnesia?" asked ,his partner, coining out of the 'closet. He was wearing pale blue shorts and an undershirt now. "There's no question," said Johnny. "She's been examined by one of the best doctors in New York." "What did Irene tell you?" "Nothing. She doesn't know what it's all about. It's almost like a person walking in their sleep . . - but talking at the same time." "Then she doesn't remember a thing about her husband being shot?" Moe carried some more clothes into the closet and hung them up. He came back, noted the whiskey which filled the bottom of the tumbler in Johnny's hand, and helped himself to a similar drink from the tray. "Doesn't she know that her husband was murdered that night?" "She doesn't even know she had al husband," he said. Moe stared. "In fact" - a smile flickered across Johnny's face-"sheathinks I'm someone named Bart." "I'Il be darned!" said Moe. Then seized with a thought, he added quickly, "Now if we can only find out who Bart is-" Johnny nodded. He got up anti walked over to the windows again 'Ind stood there looking out toward the balcony. "But I don't think there's anyone named. Bart. Other- wise, somebody around here would have heard the name in the past." Then there was a sharp, impat- ient knock at the hall door. Before Johnny Saxon could even start to- ward the door it burst open and the wiry little man popped into the room. The fellow spying Johnny moved toward him quickly. "Got any pen- nies?" he demanded in his shrill voice. Reaching into his pocket, a smile flickering across the corners of his mouth, Johnny pulled out some change, Several pennies were in the palm of his hand. The old man's hand darted out, picked up the coins, Examining them swiftly, he returned two and kept two. These he put into the pocket of his baggy jacket. "Thanks," he said hurriedly, and went out of the room. Moe Martin stood looking thoughtfully at the door. Then he turned to Johnny. "That," he an- nounced, "was Grandpoppa Smith! Worth probably several million dollars. Yet he bums pennies, im- agine!" Johnny said, "He collects things -including keys." His eyes ques- tioned. "How'd you know about him?" - Moe Martin said, "Hannah -she's the cook - was telling me about Grandpoppa. Han,nah's a good source of information." Turning back to the window, Johnny saw that Karen, the tall dark-haired nurse, had come from the bedroom doorway directly across the courtlike space formed by the two rear wings of the house. At.first he thought Karen might be fixing the chair for Irene Smith, but immediately reappeared with a magazine in her hand. She sat down in the reclining chair and started flicking the pages. Behind him, as he finished dress- ing, Moe asked, "Wltat's inter- esting out there?" Johnny- said, "Moe, there's some- thing I want you to do." "Yeah? "That nurse -Karen -who is tak- ing care of Irene ... see what you can find out about her. Where she's from. How long she's been here. Things like that." He turned. r'There's another thing . you'll recall there was a guard at the main gate when we entered the estate. Find out if they have any other watchmen or guards around. I mean., anyone who is supposed to see that stran- gers don't enter the Smith grounds." Moe said, "I thought we were hired to guard Irene Smith?" "Damniit," Johnny said. "I'm not going to stay up night and day on this case. Besides. I'm not a twen- ty -five -dollar -a -week nursemaid. We are being paid to find out exactly what happened, the night her hus- band was murdered. For that. they're paying plenty." "I guess we'd better get to work then," Moe said, disturbed. "I'm working right now," snap- ped Johnny. "I'm watching that nurse." "OK," said Moe, heading for the door, and it was obvious that be SOLUTION TO BOXWORD PUZZLE ACROSS DOWN 1. Feign 1. Fiasco 4. Zebub 2, Imbue 7. F.B.I. 3. Numbs 8. Untie 4. Zero 10. Album 5. Bob 11. Ribald 6. Bal. 15. Ups 7. Fluff 16. Blazon. 9. Tea 19. Crease 12. Invest 22. Vague 13. Anger 23. Floe 14. Drest 25. Canoe 17. Lecher 26. Birth 18. Zonal 27. Strut 20. Rebuke 30. Uru. 21. April 31. Eolith 24. Louse 34. Kilerg 28. Threat 37. Rot 29. Until 38. Seven 32. Ogress 40. Raise 33. Iliad 41. Voice 35. Invert. 42. Able 36. Emits 45. Angle 38. Scarf 46. Sedate 39. Vogue 49. Resist 43. Beetle 52, Ewe 44, Enemy 53. Fiesta 47. Ether 56. Heart 48. Again 57, Cache 50. Each 58. Lay 61. Inc, 69. Fresh 54. Inf. 60. Range 55. See tghtty Mi"e0d up`' �by ;lot y"$ ati 4s4' tale tate and *dal,* the 'at ret#h goilitbgne>iit J°ohtlny stood near the fte. a t%', Before he left 'theroc a dpi doflr , Re -decided, Toady, that glanced t rough the screened' dao a nurse Karen, was not readitlg t -again Karen, the nurse, 'was' still;, maga lner at all. Instead; ..0,A1?;vielf seated outside the bedrgom across sitting. there in , the chair . and the balcony. Prom t11ta, 'dietanue,. wail ing this bedroopi, She. ,stiij johnny could not tell whether her held. 'the magazine in her hands, I eyes were open or not. His guess was that they were. (Continued Next Week) tut elle knew from •the angle at which, she held it she could not possibly read the type. A moment later there was a soft chime -like sound in the 'bedroom. Johnny moved across the room. There was a small, handdearved writing desk near one of the twin beds. The telephone handset rest- ed atop 'the desk and was the same light tan color as the walls. "Yes," said Johnny quietly, pick- ing up the receiver., "This is Kay, Mi. Saxon," the; girl said. "Yes, Kay?" "Uncle Thomas phoned, He was delayed on the way out from New York, so now he's continued right into Northport. He wants to know if you 'Could meet him over there for a few moments?" "All right," said Johnny. "I'll meet you down at the boat- house in ten minutes," She hung up. .- He reminded himself that "Uncle Thomas," the girl called him, was -footing the bills on this case. The least Johnny could do was ride The Voice Of Temperance No man ever 'becomes • Com muniat until he has given up all hope of ever becoming a Capital- ist. feet city 2 Are MVO I ('+ 'd i }1y 1tndp ave' 3A . 91t4tgf4: 3. Row much of #adasa � area is Pea efflered 48144 30#' e f9 agricultiit''9' 4. tianadiaf ; laborTs 46; : lnegns ''as 99 billion; what wa's it in 1950? 5. How much did Canadians pay' in direct taxation, In 1950?• .7, • n FIREPLACE FURNACE ANSWERS: 3. 10 per cent. 2. 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