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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1951-07-20, Page 7ry • s " • • • nytt,iy,,,j2Q 051. CHAPTER XVI Synopsis John Saxon, private investi- gator, and his pardner Moe were hired by J. T. Smith to guard Irene, widow of his mur- dered brother. Irene was suf- fering from- amnesia and did not recognize her family, in- cluding her daughter Kay. John determined that either Nancy, sister of Irene, or Nick Walker, who was in love with Nancy, had lied to him. One might Irene left her room. Kay got Johnny, and with the Great Dane they set out to find her. The dog Ied them toward the gun house, where they soon overtook Irene. Kay told John that Irene would eventually go to the gun house to do her writing. She looked up from the dog and met his searching gaze. And his expectations were shattered. Irene Smith stared at him out of eyes that showed no recognition what- soever. Ile might just as well have been a guy mooching a dime for a cap of coffee! She continued rubbing the dog's ears. She seemed to become aware of Kay, standing there near her. Irene Smith looked' into, the girl's face - her own daughter's eyes - and Johnny found himself expect- ant and tense. For the woman's had had reach- ed up and lightly touched the girl's face. She said slowly, "You're so pretty. What is your name?" "Kay." Johnny felt a tightness in his stomach. The girl said it as though site had stopped breathing. At the E+. same time she was exerting mar venous control not to break down completely. "Haven't we met somewhere?" Irene Smith asked the girl. Kay's head jerked. "Don't you remember?" "It seems . yes, I think we have." Irene said tihe word slow- ly, as a person would who is try- ing hard to recalleeomething. "Think hard," the girl said. Her voice was pleading. "You do know me. You do!" Johnny Saxon was Leaning slight- ly forward, his slender body rigid with expectancy. It was as though his mind was trying to prod the woman's own. He found himself sweating. Her hand still lightly stroking the girl's smooth, bronzed cheek. Irene Smith said haltingly, "It seems as if . , we . . I-" Her straight shoulders drew back and she gave a peculiar sort of laugh. Her gray eyes no longer were questioning. Her hand drop- ped away, She asked, as though confused, "Where am I? What's happened?" Johnny sank back on his heels and murmured softly, "The devil!" Kay could not suppress the sob that escaped cher lips. She Looked at Johnny Saxon and her eyes were damp with tears. She made a hopeless, weary gesture. Johnny tried questioning the woman. It was useless. Her an- swers were vague, disconnected. "I think," he said to Kay, "we'd better take her home." Dawn was just breaking when they reached the house. The sky was gray and overcast. What lit- tle breeze had stirred during the night, had now died completely. The air was sultry and close. The Your Business Directory LEGAL A. W. SILLERY Barrister, Solicitor, Etc. 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Seaforth; R.R. 4, Seaforth. THE McKILLOP MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE CO'Y. HEAD OFFICE-SEAFORTH, Ont. OFFICERS: President - E. J. Trewartba, Clinton Vice -Pres. - J. L. Malone, Seaforth Manager and Sec.-Treas, - M. A. Reid, Seaforth. DIRECTORS: E. J. Trewartha, Clinton; J. L. Malone, Seaforth; S. W. Whit- more, Seaforth; Chria. Leonhardt, Bornholm; Robert Archibald, Sea - forth; John H. McEwing, Blyth; Frank McGregor, • Clinton; Wm. S. Alexander, Walton; Harvey Fuller, Generich. AGENTS: 3. E. Pepper, Brucefleld; R. F. McKercher, Dublin; George A. Watt, Blyth; J. Fe Prueter, Brod- hagen; Selwyn. Baker, Brussels. C.N.R. TIME TABLE (Standard Time) GOING EAST (Morning) A.M. Godertch (Leave) 5.40 Seaforth 6.20 Stratford (arrive) 7.16 (Afternoon) P.M. Goderich (leave) 3.00 Seaforth 3.46 Stratford (arrive) 4.40 GOING WEST (Morning) A.M. Stratford (leave) 10.45 Seaforth 11.36 Generical (arrive) 12.20 (Afternoon) PAL Stratford (leave) 9.116 Seaforth 1831 lloderiek (arrive) 11330 MEDICAL DR. M. W. STAPLETON Physician and Surgeon Phone 90 Seaforth JOHN C. GODDARD, M.D. Physician and Surgeon Phone 110 Hensall JOHN A. GORWILL, B.A., M.Q. Physician and Surgeon IN DR. 11. 11. ROSS' OFFICE - Phones: Office 5-W; Res. 54 Seaforth SEAFORTH CLINIC E. A. McMASTER, B.A., M.D. Internist P. L. BRADY, M.D. Surgeon Office Hours: 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., illy, except Wednesday and Sun - 'y. EVENINGS: Tuesday, Thursday ad Saturday only, 7-9 p.m. Appointments made In advance -e desirable. OPTOMETRIST JOHN E. LONGSTAFF Optometrist Eyea examined. Glasses fitted. Phone 791 MAIN ST. - SEAFORTH Hours; 9- 6 Wed. 9-12.30; Sat. 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. VETERINARY J. O. TURNBULL, D.V.M., V.S. W. R. BRYANS, D.V.M., Main Street - Seaforth PHONE 105 CHIROPRACTIC D. H. McINNES ehlropractic - Foot Correction Arthur Sept. 25, 26 COMMERCIAL HOTEL Atwood Oct. 4, 5 donday, Thursday - 1 to 8 p.m:- Ayton Sept. 21, 22 Bayfiold Sept. 26, 27 Blyth Sept. 18, 19 Brussels Sept. 27, 28 Chesley Sept. 7, 8 RONALD G. McCANN Clifford Sept. 19, 20 Public Accountant Collingwood Sept. 27 - 29 CLINTON ONTARIO Drayton Sept. 22 -24 • Office: Phones: Drumbo Sept. 26, 27 loyal Bank Office 561, Res. 455 Dryden Aug. 29, 30 Dundalk Sept, 13, 14 Dungannon Sept. 27 Durham Sept. 11, 12 Elmira Aug. 31 -Sept. 3 Embro Sept. 17 Exeter Sept. 19, 20 Fergus Sept. 14, 15 Forest Sept. 17, 18 Gorrie Oct. 5, 6 Hanover Sept. 12, 13 Harriston Sept. 26, 27 Kincardine Sept. 13, 14 Kirkton Sept. 27, 28 Listowel Sept. 24, 25 London (Western Fair) Sept. 10-15 Meaford Oct. 5, 6 Midland Sept. 13 - 15 Milay Sept. 17, 18 J. 13. HIGGINS Milverton Sept. 21, 22 PHONE 66 r 2 BAYFIELD Mitchell Sept. 25, 26 Authorized Surge Service Dealer Mount Brydges Oct. 2 Mount Forest Sept. 15-17 Neustadt Sept. 14, 15 New Hamburg Sept. 14, 15 Orangeville Sept. 18, 19 Paisley Sept. 10, 11 Palmerston Oct. 1, 2 Parkhill Sept. 21 Ripley Sept. 20, 21 "Here," said Johnny Saxon. SEAFORTH Sept. 20, 21 "We've accomplished a fine day's St. Marys Oct. 2, 3 work." Stratford Sept. 17-19 Strathroy Sept. 27-29 Tara. Sept. 26, 27 Tavistock Sept. 7, 8 Teeswater Oct. 2, 3 Thedford Oct. 4, 5 Tiverton Oct. 1, 2 Wiarton Sept. 13, 14 Zurich Sept. 24, 25 day was going to be humid.. and hot, as August days can be. Kay used a key to unlatch the front door. They led Irene up the stairs and to her room. The entire house was Meet, comber, Apparent- ly everyone else was still sleep- ing. Kay had been silently crying throughout the trek back to the house. Now she opened the bed- room door and watched her mother disappear into the room. She turn- ed to look at Johnny Saxon. He saw her bite the inside of her low- er lip. He said, "We were close that time." He smiled. "She's likely to remember everything all of a sud- den. Don't be discouraged." Kay asked, "What could she have iptended, going to meet this per- son named, Bart, who she thought was you?" "It beats me," said Johnny. "Can't you find out what it is?" "I'1! keep trying." "You must!" "Why didn't you come down- stairs again tonight? I looked for you." ".I couldn't." She kept her eyes averted. Her voice was trembling. "Why not?" "1 . . . I've been so upset about mother. I went all to pieces. Mother and I have always been so close. The others . . . they don't understand. There's really no one ." Her voice died. She looked up at him. There was de- spair in her shining wet eyes. "You poor kid," murmured John- ny. Impulsively, she flung herself against him. Her -hands clutched his arms and he was aware of the nearness of ;her slim, youthful body. "There, there," he said quietly. I told you I'd do everything I can. It's a very unusual case, you know." He wished he could make up his mind whether she was a child or a woman. She was so much of both. He wondered• if he was thinking of her as a child as he kissed her gently on the forehead and urged her toward her door. "You'd better try to get a little rest," he said. "I'll stay with mother. I'm not going to leave her." "But get some sleep." She attempted a smile, "I'll try. Johnny turned and went down the hall. The Great Dane, Michael, who had been lying down on the floor, resting, climbed to his feet and followed him. Ed, the freckle -faced garage man, was saying, "This one's sure gonna be a scorcher if we don't get some rain." -"Isn't it, though?" Johnny said. The mechanic from the North- port garage had just picked him up outside the entrance to the Smith estate. It was a little after ten o'clock, and since the day was Sun - lay, there was little traffic at this hour on Route 25-A. The car, an std Chevie roadster, sounded as if it would fall apart any moment. Johnny- asked himself why it was that mechanics who repaired mil- lionaires' cars, always drove one l' their own that seemed to be held together with baling wire. It seemed as if they had only started - Johnny noted that the speedometer registered less than a mile -when Ed slowed the car and turned off to the right into a dirt country road. He eased the car to the side of the narrow road and stopped. "Well," he said, looking at John- ny Saxon, "here we are." "You mean-" The red-haired mechanic waved his hand, indicating a field along- side the road. "This .is where they found Martin Smith." They climbed out to the roadway Fall Fair Dates ACCOUNTING SURGE MILKERS DAIRY MAID Hot Water Heaters Seaforth Monument Works T. PRYDE & SON Memorial Craftsmen Seaforth Exeter Clinton Seaforth Showrooms Open Tuesday See Dr. Hatburn for appoint- ment any other time, or Phone 414, Exeter. tsrl�io fur iul;nnd th . ed buul4fug gu tprs tgwn Tf}a re�4tr', Iareakc0 • 1 6 rust at lett community h>4d tire, e1(i'R tin eepreciatxon of Ghe t,490,Sktl pS those witic wioul A__, apl z,,�•s softball 7lfr rani!An14,. ,YM'ew have'moved to. ial.l'kablir , w re they have purchased a baaine,-- Wanghme Advanee-Tjnales. Aaverage weekly salaries and wages in leading Venation•indi& tries reached the record high of $48.16 at March 1 of this year; a year previously the average wee $44.61. rJ The, Can4da. 100% 3 R94, 1, Quebec., .4 ,bout" al 2, Inclucilla;g • e 9999 't $110'0 a Year , li u Flight Cadets in training at the Air Radio Officers' School at Clinton, Ont., are shown practicing the Morse code on sending and receiving sets in the Radio Training Room, In the foreground, two instructors, Flight Sergeant A. K. (Aubrey) Haines, of Fredericton, N.B., and Sergeant R, A. (Ray) Butler, of Port Carling, Muskoka, Ont., check the students' progress. and Johnny , passed the fellow a cigarette. "I always imagined it was several miles from here," the detective said. "Nope," Ed said. "It was right here. Tough break for Smith, huh? A couple of minutes more and they would have been home." The husky mechanic looked at him, squinting bright blue eyes. "13y the way," he wanted to know, "I never did get the whole story about Smith's death. The family - had enough influence to keep most of it out of the papers. I heard he was held up and shot. He us ed to carry a lot of dough with him all the time." "That's right." "I mean was he shot?" Johnny nodded. "Right through the heart." "What kind of a gun?" "They don't know. The bullet was never found. The shot went right through and out his back. They probably made 'him get out of the car and then killed im;" The mechanic shook his head. "Brother, you've certainly got it tough. Ewen if you find the guy you think did it, and the gun, you Won't be able to prove he did it. I've read about those things. You gotta prove the bullet came from the gun." I'm not worrying about it," Johnny looked around, impatient for the man to show him where the accident occurred. "Shall we ah . . . take a look?" he sug- gested. "Oh,•..sure." The big mechanic motioned to the intersection of 25-A just behind the car. "It's this way." They turned back along the main road for about fifty feet. The field• beside the road was a large one, perhaps twenty-five acres studded with dried-up stubby cornstalks. There was no fence separating the field from the road. A slight drop- off of not more than two or three feet formed the border between open field and highway. The garage man paused and pointed down at the field. "It was just about there that they found Smith." "Where was the car - the one you have at the garage now?" Ed motioned ahead. "Down here. I'll show you." They covered perhaps a hundred yards. Then the mechanic went down the slight incline from the roadway and looked along the edge of the field. He paused beside an old tree stump. "Here you are. Right here is where she went off the road." Johnny came up to him. He realized the man referred to Irene Smith. The fellow was explaining, "A couple of feet more and she would've missed this stump and not even got hurt." Johnny quickly saw , what he meant. The only obstruction had been the short, thick stump. The machine had struck it, for you could still see the marks where grease had rubbed off the axle, It explained the "toed -in" front wheels and the bent axle on the car in the Northport garage. "She sure gave it a smack," Ed said. "A good thing she didn't crack her skull when her head hit the steering wheel." "Yes," Johnny, agreed absently. He was looking down at the ground around them. It was, because of the lack of rain, as dry and hard as cement. But for the mark on the tree stump, you could hardly tell a car had gone off the road. "There isn't any water here?" asked Johnny. Walking beside him, the mechan- ic gave him a puzzled look, "Wa- ter?" "I thought there might be a brook or something near the road." He took a ten -dollar bill from his wallet and handed it to Ed. Shaking his head in a dubious manner, as though positive all pri- vate detectives were crazy, the me- chanic pocketed the money and they walked back to the car. Instead of backing the car out onto the main road, the garage man drove down the side lane, looking for a place to turn around. +It Was because of this that John - international Plowing Match try •saw the weatherbeaten sign netted to a tree jiist ahead. Weedetoek oat. !) to 12 "Wait a minute," he said. Ed stopped the car; the sign read: PRIVATE PROPERTY Rifle Range Located Sust Beyond Hill. Danger. Keep Out. M. Smith (Continued Next Week) • Tommy Jardine Presented By Club Tommy Jardine, veteran pitcher for the Wingham softball team, was honored on Thursday evening during the game with Meaford. Be tween the eighth and ninth in• nings Tommy was called out onto the diamond and H. P. Carmichael, speaking on behalf of Tory Gregg for the Softball Association, pres- ented Tommy with a silver tray. Charles Crossett presented tv.o softballs which had been auto graphed by former teammates. MARRIED AT BRUCEFIELD Pictured at right are Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Harold Coleman, who were married in Bruce - field United Church. The bride is the former Lois Marie Richardson, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Rich- ardson of Tuckersmith, and the groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Anson Coleman, Var- na. The couple will re- side on the bride- groom's farm near Hillsgreen. • • A Boy's or Girl's:, • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1.! ONE OF 120 VALUABLE PRIZES! In just a few weeks time you can own one of these brand new bikes . , . a smart table radio for your own room .. , or one of 120 other valuable prizes just for saving Kist Bottle Tops. Here's how to do it. Whenever you get a Kist Bottle Top, lift the cork lining and look for the letter K -I -S -or T printed on the inside metal surface. Then go to your nearest Kist dealer's store .. , the man who sells delicious ice-cold Kist . and ask for your copy of Kist Contest Rules. They'll tell you how you can win your new bike or one of the 120 valuable prizes. Start saving lucky Kist Bottle Tops right away. • • • • • • • • • • E ler NEW IIT BOTTLE TOP CONTEST r oday,/ . Bethel W.A., W.M.S. Meet The July meeting of the Beth's, Woman's Association and Wo- man's Missionary Society was held at the home of Mrs. Leonard Leeming, with Miss Ethel Dennis, vice-president, in charge of the worship service. A Christian stew- ardship reading was given by Mrs. Leeming and prayer by Miss Den- nis, The work bejng done by the W.M.S. missionaries in Trinidad was told by Miss Dennis, Mrs. Livingstone, Norma Leeming and Mrs. C. Boyd. Mary Dennis sang a solo, "From Dawn To Even - Song." It was decided to send two delegates to Alma College with the Woman's Association paying one- half the expense. Mrs. Wm. Den- nis was in charge of the business meeting. Fourteen members an- swered the roll call. The installa- tion of hydro in Bethel Church will be paid by the Woman's Associa- tion. The matter of entertaining the children at a future meeting was discussed. The meeting clos- ed with singing a hymn and prayer by Mrs. Dennis. McKillop Girls Pass Music Exams Five girls from the Leadbury Line, who are piano pupils of Mrs. Wendorf, have all successfully passed with honors the recent ex- • aminations of the Royal Conserva- tory of Music, Toronto: Grade VIII, Beth Boyd; Grade V, Barbara Boyd, Verda Watson; Grade IV, Joan Somerville; Grade III, Lois Ann Somerville. THE VOICE OF TEMPERANCE The Democratic community is always in danger from the propa gandist and the gossip. The propa- gandist has an axe to grind and ' has no scruples about misinform- ! ing the public. The gossip spreads the story. The listening public must learn to protest itself by be ing skeptical about every sort of agitation -by refusing to be pan- icked by glaring headlines or pur- ple stories and bringing everything to the test of actual personal ex- perience. The people of Huron have been subjected to a Iot of wet propaganda and wet gossip. Out of eleven years' experience in Hur- ay that these wet fabrica- tions are not true. They are not borne out by facts -Huron is not are blighted community that they picture. There is 110 more fortun- ate community than Huron. That's what every, citizen of Huron will see if he uses his own eyes.- (Advt.). We got a chuckle out of this one, told by a member of the clergy who is one of our steady customers. One Sunday, at the end of his sermon, the reverend gentle- man said: "We'll now have a few minutes of prayer. Deacon Brown will you lead?" Deacon Brown (half asleep) "Lead ? I just dealt!" Which reminds us that you'll always get a good deal when yon come to see us. 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