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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1951-08-31, Page 7su, CHAPTER XXI 4 '4. Synopsis John Saxon, private invest! gator, and his pardner 'Moe were hired by J. T. Smith to guard Irene, widow of his mule dered brother. Irene was suf- fering from amnesia. One night May, Irene's •daughter, and John 4ollowed Irene to the deserted gun house. The next day they returned and found that a threatening note which had been received some days prev- iously had been written on a machine in the gun house. They aIso found the manu- script Irene had• been writing before the murder. As the en- tire party were taking a swim they discovered Grandpoppa Smith on the bottom of the pool and immediately rushed him to the hospital. Johnny imagined she swayed slightly. He had the sudden thought that perhaps she was go- ing to faint. He started toward her- Irene's gray eyes had fastened on him, were watching his ap- proach. Reaching her, he said r er ee- er I' Highest Cash Prices for / DEAD STOCK HORSES....$2.50 each CATTLE....$2.50 each HOGS... .50c Rer cwt. According to Size and Condition Call Collect SEAFORTH 15 DARLING & COMPANY OF CANADA, LIMITED wontedly, "Are you all right?" He seized her arms and steadied her. Johnny was startled to $ad her trembling so violently!. She was like a person in which reac- tion is setting in after a severe shock. She tried to speak and her mouth opened. and closed and she made no sound. Her eyes were staring. "You, you'd •better-" Johnny started. "He . . . he's hurt?" Irene man- aged to say stiffly. "It's all right," Johnny said re- assuringly. "Everything's 'going to be all right?' Her eyes remained fastened to his. She seemed to be exerting terrific will power, trying to tell him something. "I . . . he was so good - . . he "Yes.? Yes, go on!" She watched his eyes. He thought she understood him. "It's all right, Irene. Tell me." He no longer called her "Marie." There was a reason. This woman before him, who had been suffering from amnesia, had reached some sort of risis, he was certain. It was as though she were two persons, bal- anced on a seesaw. "He told me about - .. about ..." she stopped, rubbing long sensitive fingers across her brow, pressing them there as though to force her mind to act. "Yes? He told you what? Grand- poppa?" "Yes . . . he told me about the stamps." Johnny's forehead was deeply lined in a frown of concentration. "Stamps? Wlhat kind of stamps, Irene?" "Stamps with , . . pictures. He showed me today . . . this morn- ing - . " She held to Johnny Saxon's arm, gave a sudden ex- hausted sigh. "I'm trying to - remember," she said, and it was as though she were out of breath. "I'm trying . . . "Yes," Johnny said feelingly, "I know. You say he showed them to you? Where are they now? What was it about them?" Her eyes lidded, opened again. Your Business Directory LEGAL A. W. SILLERY Barrister, Solicitor, Etc. 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Phone 791 MAIN ST. - SEAFORTH Hours: 9 - 6 Wed. 9-12.30; Sat. 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. OFFICERS: President - E. J. Trewartha., Clinton Vice -Pres. - J. L. Malone, Seaforth Manager and Sec.-Treas. - M. A. Reid, Seaforth. DIRECTORS: E. J. Trewartha, Minton; J. L. Malone, Seaforth; S. W. Whit- more, Seaforth; Cork. Leonhardt, Bornholm; Robert Archibald, Sea- ttlrth; John B. McEwing, Blyth; Prank McGregor, Clinton; Wm. S. Alexander, Walton; Harvey Fuller, Ooderlcb. AGENTS: J. E. Pepper, Brucefleld; R. F. McKercher, Dublin; George A. Watt, Blyth; J. F. Prueter, Brod- began; rod3sagen; Selwyn Baker, Brunel* rti S MUSIC TEACHER STANLEY J. SMITH, A.T.C.M. Teacher of PIANO, THEORY, VOICE TRUMPET Supervisor of School Music Phone 332-M - Seaforth 4519x52 They no longer paw him. They seemed milky gray. Irene Smith was silent. She was 'fighting off faintness. Johnny could feel the tautness of her arms as he held her. Johnny stood for a minute in the upper hall. after Karen had taken Irene in to her room. He could tell from the expression in Irene's eyes that she was fighting off complete nervous collapse. As he watched them go into Irene's room, the huge Great Bane, Michael, brushed past him. For an' instant, the touch of the dog's body gave Johnny a start. He had com- pletely forgotten the animal. Mich- ael had foIIowed them up from the pool. An odd thing happened, then. The Great Dane paused, standing there, and a Iow, soft growl came from his throat. If it had not been that the house was unusually quiet, Johnny would not have heard the sound at all. "What's wrong with you, boy?" asked Johnny, looking down. Cer tainly the dog had pot growled at him. The Great Dane had showed fondness for both himself and Moe Martin. Then, why . - The animal looked up at Johnny for an instant, then turned his head away. Again there came a !, low growl from deep in his throat.' Johnny thought it was too bad he didn't understand dog language. He had an idea there was some- thing 'Michael could tell him! Returning along the hall, he swung down the servants' hallway that led to the back of the house As he entered the large kitchen, Homer, the butler, was jest com- ing from the rear porch. He look- ed upset about something. Johnny asid, "Where were you?" "Down at the boathouse, sir. I've only been gone a matter of fifteen minutes or so ... What's happen- ed, sir?" "There's been an accident, Hom- er" he said•. "Grandpoppa Smith. He fell in the pool. They've taken him to the hospital-" "Good heavens!" The butler's eyes stared. "How-" "Most of them have gone over to the hospital." Johnny interru;t- ed. "So if you get a call, I'll be upstairs. Be sure to tell me. By the way, where's Hannah?" Homer looked as though he had absorbed' all the shock he could for one day. He stammered, "Who - Hannah? Oh, Hannah's around some place, sir?' He indicates a larger, white, double-doored refrig- erator. "On Sunday evenings she leaves sandwiches and salads fix- ed, and I usually serve•them-" Reminded of the refriferator Johnny stepped across the room. swung open the doors, saw neat rows of bottled beer on the lower shelf. He removed three bottles. Homer had • started toward the pantry. "I'll get you a glass and a tray-" "Just --an- opener -will do," said, Johnny. The butler handed him a bottle opener from a table drawer. As Johnny uncapped the bottles, he asked, watching Homer's face, "Cy the, way, where's Miss England:' The blank, dutiful -servant lock was back on the man's face. "Miss England is . . y ah . . . in her room, sir." Homer looked as though some- one had kicked him. "You don't have to beat around the bush," Johnny said. "She's been having a tantrum today, hasn't she?" The man nodded. "When's the last time you saw her?" "Well, I'd say about an hour ago." "Do you know if she's been out of her room?" "No, she hasn't, sir. She caned Seaforth Monument Works T. PRYDE & SON Memorial Craftsmen Seaforth Exeter Clinton Seaforth Showrooms Open Tuesday See Dr. Harburn for appoint- ment any other time, or . Phone 41J, Exeter. C.N.R. TIME TABLE Fall Fair Dates ,deo netaira; axu t4119M ,P1,19� sore lee about an,>)outi •& Qa, i. then She. had .iter .dporepi. Ste locket it main tel' I Nan ed her the lee 'hushet." "Is that what ghee dean; ?I'be she is on one of these •spells .. lock herself in?" "Yes, sir." Johnny held the beer bottles bee tween the fingers of his Fight baud and started toward the back stairs again. "Let me know when she comes out for air." Johnny still wore • the swim trunks and was in his bare feet. He had -emptied one of the 'bottles of beer and held another In 'his band las he moved around Grand- poppa Smith's room. Junk wan piled all over the place. On a long, fiat table that was littered with books, papers, maga- zines and assorted odds and ends, Johnny discovered the stamps ly- ing on a small oasis of desk whore things had been shoved to one fide. They were stamps that a collec- tor might admire. One of the Na- tional Park issues, in color, large in size , . . Colored stamps! The words that Irene had stammered and which had brought Johnny Saxon on a search of this room. He remember- ed last night, sticking bis head in this room and seeing the old man bent down on the floor, studying large stamps with a magnifying glass. And now, today, Grandpop- pa Smith had been looking for him, wanting to tell him thing, He turned each of the half-dozen stamps over in his hand. There was nothing unusual about them. Putting them down on the desk again, he happened to see the key. It was a bedroom door key. A tag was tied to it. On the white tag were written the significant words: "Martin's bedroom." Johnny frowned in thought. Fun- ny, out of Grandpoppa Smiths great collection of keys, this sin- gle one should have been set aside. And Lying there with the colored stamps, Could it be Without sound, Johnny carefully unloocked the door to Martin Smith's 'bedroom. He moved in- side and silently closed the door behind him. • Johnny paused before a solid mahogany desk, placed in a corner of the room, near one of the rear windows. On the ;broad, smooth desktop there was only a green, square bottle, a p ind-inkwell set and two silver bookends/ be- tween which there were three or four works of fiction. A huge, sin- gle volume rested on another part of the desk. Johnny picked it up, was surprised at its weight. It was a Huge, elaborate stamp album. Leafing through a few pages, he realized what a hopeless task it would be to search through the entire collection. Then he saw a slip of paper that marked a page. Opening the album at the place marked, he found several stamps lying loosely between pages that had not yet been mounted up. rue stamps, he noted quickly, were National Park issues. And two of them had printing on the back: Johnny stepped to the window, -strained his eyes to -read the words on one off the stamps. They said: The other contained' a more usg- ent message. The small words said. "Martin, this is the last time I'll tell you. Be at the gun club to- night before you go out with her. I'll be waiting." There was no signature to either note. He didn't think there was any need for one. Another 'part of the puzzle had smoothly slipped into place for Johnny Saxon. At last it was raining. The rain came down in driving torrents, sweeping through the trees, rat- tling like buckshot against the eaves of the great sprawling house. Johnny Saxon, his eyes somber and thoughtful, stood at the bed- room window, hands behind his back. Held in his fingers was tae last page of Irene Smith's mane - script. The pool, he thought, and an old man now lying dead in a hospital morgue, waiting for a coroner's in- vestigation that would take place in the morning. That swell old fellow's death was so needless, really. It was this which upset Johnny Saxon. He felt miserable. He had never dreamed that Grandpoppa Smith had stumbled onto a partial solu- tion of Martin's death. 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It may not be possible to use all' the straw and other crop residue& as roughage for livestock, but they the old man had come across the stamps. And now, because of this, ht. was dead -murdered. Moe's big round eyes looked wor- ried. "We're not leaving, are we? We won't make any money at all if vie don't get in at least a couple of weeks work here-" Johnny said, "We're not being paid by the day, sweetheart. What do you think I am . .. a common laborer? I charge a flat fee. You have nothing to worry about, pap- py. The fee will be plenty if .I find out what happened that night two weeks ago." Moe groanedt. "If we find out.." "I think," suggested Johnny, "you had better call J. T. Smith in New York. He can make it out here in an hour or so. Tell bier to step on it: I think he should know exactly what I've found out. There's no use waiting any longer. Waiting for someone else to- be murdered." Moe asked, "Then you still feel that Grandpoppa Smith was push- ed into the swimming pool?" 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