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ney, Grandpoppa's death was an
accident, wasn't it? I wean—"
"No, it was not an accident!" he
said.
They, found Nick Walter and
Doctor Clark in the long library
across the hall. Johnny wondered
what was keeping Moe Martin. He
also wondered about young Ralph
Dunkirk, and asked the girl.
"He had to leave," Kay said
"The storm will mean calls for
sercise at the garage." She moved
her shoulders uneasily as a par-
ticularly load. smash of thunder
shook the house.
Johnny kept wondering what
was delaying his partner.
The butler came into the library
with two more of the candle -hold-
ers. He placed them nearby on 1
table in case they should be need-
ed and went out again.
Doctor Clark was saying •some-
thing about the possibility of some
of the shore roads being washed
out, if the deluge of rain didn't
stop soon, when Moe came into
the library.
Instantly Johnny noticed that
Moe was upset. Moe always had a
worried manner about him, but
this was different. He caught
Johnny's eye -and made an imper-
ceptible motion of his head. John-
ny Saxon stepped over to the cof-
fee table as though to get his
partner a drink. Standing there
together, Moe spoke quietly.
"It wasn't there:"
"I told you the gun was right
under the pillow—"
"I know you.,dld. And I looked
everywhere else, too."
Johnny quickly put bis glass
down on ,the stand. "I'd better—"
The woman's screams reverber-
ated through the house. It was
eerie, blood -chilling. It was fol-
lowed by several more quick,
short, frantic cries of terror. Then
it stopped.
Kay, across the room, cried,
"Johnny!"
Nick Walker yelled, "It's Irene."
And it was then that the storm
accomplished what everyone said
it would. The Iight went out.
Johnny remembered Nick Wal-
ker bellowing, "I knew they'd go
out. They always do! Where are
those candles?"
And Kay, `crying frantically,
"Homer put them on the table!,
Johan! Hurry! Mother—"
Johnny thought it must be an
awful thing to be blind. He bump-
ed into a chair, swore, located the
table and found one of the candle-
holders.
"Dam'mit," he said fiercely,
"who's got a match?"
A flash of Iightning sent shafts
of eerie light through the long
windows, It momentarily illumin-
ated their moving figures, giving
them a weird, ghostlike quality.
Everything seemed unreal and
confused.
Then Nick Walker's big form
was beside Johnny and he held a
match. Kay picked up one of the
lighted candles. "I'11 carry it," she
said to Johnny. "Hurry!"
Just as they reached the foot of
the front stairs, the motion of the
air blew out the candle in Kay's
hand. Darkness smashed down
aroundthem once more.
Johnny felt for the bannister
and went up the stairs in the black-
ness. Behind him he heard Nck
Walker say, "Here!" There was a
dim glow of match light. The
others were coming up the stairs•
by the time Johnny reached the
top.
Someone moved quick along the
hall. Johnny sensed the presence
of the figure behind him just as
he started toward Irene's room. He
spun, seized a woman's tall, slen-
der form.
Karen, trembling, said, "Mr.
Saxon! Your room ... Irene . . .
hurry!"
The others ,had reached the top
of the stairs. Walker held the
lighted candle now, He saw
the nurse. He started to yell,
"What—"
"I think she's hurt," Karen said.
She led the way toward the left
wing, Johnny started to push past
her. He was aware of a strong
current of air through the hall,
and thought a window or door
must be open some place.
The movement of air blew out
the candle in Walker's hand. The
big fellow swore grimly. Johnny
banged his shoulder into a wall,
Unused off. He heard Karen say
frantically, "I can't see!"
"Here," Johnny said, reacbing
out his hand. •
His fingers brushed a moving
figure. He thought it was Karen,
or perhaps even Kay. It was a
woman's figure. Then an arm
flung up suddenly and pushed him
aside. The figure escaped him,
hurried on. Because of the dark-
ness he was confused as to the
direction it took. "What the dev-
il!" Johnny said angrily.
Walker had the candle lighted
again. They had turned into the
left wing and were near Johnny's
bedroom., At that moment, the
lights came oh agdin in the house.
Power, evidently, hed been restor-
ed :by the light company.
Johnny ,blinked his eyes againalt
the sudden glow. Kay was behind
him, urging him toward the door.
"Mother!" she half sobbed.
• His room lights' were turned on.
Irette's auburn -red hair was the
first thing he saw. The rest of her
slim figure was beyond one of the
twin" beds.
Relief flowed through him ashe
realized the woman was already
trying to get up. She was pushing
herself up from the floor with her
hand's. Her mass of beautiful hair
tumbled about her face.
The others crowded behind him.
Everyone was talking. Kay cried
out again and pushed forward to
help Johnny Saxon.
Then he had Irene Smith seat-
ed on the edge of the bed. Hpr
eyes stared at them, She seemed•
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this date may be advanced, Ibt}x,
sufficient time s'houid be given in
the fall for the plants' to become
to know what was happening, for
She tried to speak. Then her hand
went to her neck.
It was 'Doctor Clark who ,said
crisply, "Wait a minute!"
He pushed everyone aside, bent
down, looked at Irene's smooth
throat. He gave a start.
"God!" he said.
"What is it?" demanded Johnny.
"Someone tried to strangle her!"
Doctor Clark was gently madssag-
ing the woman's throat, saying
quietly, "Don't try to talk yet. You
are going to be all right"
She understood, nodding. And
Johnny, his eyes intense, noticed
that t she
was watching hm, daugh-
ter.
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her -
g
ter. +She was looking at her in a
way that was different now. Then
her hand reached out and closed
over Kay's own.
And Johnny thought: The shock
the fall they've done the
trick! She's all right now! •
The doctor, a moment later, was
holding a glass of water to Irene's
lips. She sipped at it. Johnny
could see faint red marks on her
throat. His eyes were narrowed,
and he . was thinking.
"Thank you," said Irene.
"Are you all right?" asked Dcc-
tor Clark solicitously. "Is there
any constriction?"
She rubbed her fingers across
her throat. She shook her head.
"I'm all right."
And she looked again at her
daughter.. She said, "Kay, darling,
don't look so worried. I'm all
right."
Kay gave 'a sob and flung her
arms around her mother.
Her eyes moved to Karen and
then to Moe Martha and then to
Johnny Saxon. She said quietly,
"You've all been trying so hard to
help me. Don't think I haven't
known It's difficult to explain. It
was as though I was in another
world, trying to break through to
your. There was a well be-
tween . .
Karen said, eyes choked, "Who
lid it? Who choked you?"
And for the first time Irene
Smith's eyes avoided everyone
else's. She shook her head. She
said nothing.
Johnny had drawn Moe aside,
said something quietly to his part-
ner. Moe disappeared from the
room. But he was back in two
minutes.
He whispered! to Johnny, "The
door was unlocked. She isn't
there at all!"
Kay turned her head toward
Johnny, whispered, "Where's Nan-
cy?" Her eyes held flickering, an-
gry lights.
"I don't know," he said. He re-
membered the figure flinging past
him in the dark hallway.
"We've got to find her" Kay
whispered.
And they did, a moment later.
When they entered the long lib-
rary Nancy was sitting there in
ode of the deep armchairs. She
wore the wine -colored, long robe
Johnny had seen a little whi'e
ago. Her expressionless features
were the color of dried clay.
Johirly's gaze flicked to Irene
Smith. The woman's tall, graceful
form had paused on the threshold
of the room. Her gray eyes, deep
with understanding now,travelled
across the library to the motion-
less figure sitting in the chair. It
was a direct, level look containing
neither fear nor anger.
It was Johnny Saxon who said,
"Damned if I don't get mixed up
in things!" He stepped to the cof-
fee table, poured a straight shot of
whiskey and drank it. He looked
at the -others. "Well," he said
quickly, "let's take our hair down."
Johnny was saying, "You were
looking for Irene's manuscript,
weren't you, Nancy?"
Nancy England sat stiffly in the
chair. Her head did not turn to
look at Johnny Saxon. But her
eyes did, shifting in their sockets
to give him a -single, challenging
glance. Then they looked direct-
ly ahead again.? She did not ar-
swer.
Johnny shrugged and looked at
Irene. "Were you just starting
downstairs when you`saw Nancy?"
he asked.
The woman's gray eyes held his.
It was Kay who said, "You under-
stand, Mother. Mr. Saxon is a pri-
vate detective? He's trying to find
out—"
"I understand," said Irene. Then
to Johnny, "She was going toward
your room, and I followed her. She
started lopking for something in
the clothes closet."
Moe gave a start. Johnny nod-
ded.
"Yes." he said, "I thought so."
He was seated on the edge of the
table, one leg hooked across its
corner. He took a cigarette from
his pocket and reached for one of
the candles. Several of them were
lighted now, just in case the
lights should go out again.
Lighting the cigarette, he said:
"Moe, see if Nancy has that .32
automatic in her bathrobe pock-
et."
He gingerly felt the pockets of
the wine -colored robe. Then he
straightened up• and shook his
head. "Empty," he said,
A slight frown was in Johnny
Saxon's eyes as he went on. "Nick,
you aren't going to like this. I'm
sorry I have to—well," said John-
ny. "Nancy grabbed you, didn't
she, Irene?"
The word was softly spoken.
Irene Smith kept looking at
Nancy's pastewhith features.
"I guess she would have throt-
tled you," Johnny aid. "But you
mana,ged to get out a. couple of
good screamg. She got scared and
ran through the hallway when the
light went out. She slipped past
us in the dark and came down
Imre."
(Continued Next Week)
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e1i xltahi shad lit' imi zn
ars, a be obtained
Where Hessian• fiY is n lit•c
escp' a specific informationshp}ild
bo •soughI
t on its control. n order
to esoape the fall egg laying period:,
of We insect, seeding after Sept,
e5 iR. ,she southern area to about
a week earlier than, this date in
the central and western areas
should be satisfactory. Winter rye
may be seeded a little later than
the winter wheat. On the average
winter wheat is seeded at 6 to 8
pecks per acre and winter rye at
six pecks.
Thorough cleaning of the seed
to remove weed seeds and broken,
shrivelled and diseased kernels is
important. Treatment with mer-
curial compounds will control bunt
or stinking smut of wheat and
lessen the damage from seedling
blights.
Cornell 595 and Dawson's Golden
Chaff are the most widely- grown
varieties in the main winter wheat
areas. Dawbul, a new white win-
ter wheat, resistant to loose smut,
is doing well in somd counties in
southern
Ontario. Fairfield,
a soft
red winter .wheat which has yield-
ed well in test plots in southwest-
ern Ontario, is being tries out in
Kent County. Rideau, a white
winter wheat which is more w:n•
ter hardy than the above mention-
ed varieties, is recommended for
Eastern Ontario.
Horton winter rye, noted for its
early spring growth, is especially
recommended for early spring pas -
Seto .-..n,
periai wixtter .rye ie 04.6 of t$e
fora grain Crop.
The Ma4ay Fes,
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was from T'ettit 'that She WI.
"Conqueror" was • purehe,iaed, and
"'Conqueror" got the credit of im-
proving the Tuckersmith Short-
horn breed for mikes around.
Another famous bull on, this
farm was "Hugel Saxon." who was
bought from Watt, of Elora. "Roy-
al Saxon" took first prize at To-
ronto Exhibition, and when he was
finally sold for beef at five cents a
pound, he weighed 2700 pounds.
The McKay's made , their Srst
maple syrup in 1808 in iron sugar
kettles. They usually tapped about
200 trees, and one record year
one hundred and thirty-five gal-
lons were made.
Peter McKay bought the first
Fordson tractor that came to Sea -
forth railway station. It was
bought in 1918, the price was $750,
and the freight on it was $18.00.
The Ontario '
rro Government that year
contracted with Ford's to supply
Ontario farmers with 1,000 trac-
tors. When J. F. Daly heard that
this tractor was coming to town,
he contacted McKays and had
them leave it in his showroom for
a few days. The equipment pur-
chased at the same time was a
two -furrow Cockshutt plow and a
Bissell disc.
This farm has been lucky in
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