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Home My WebLink AboutThe Clinton News-Record, 1911-08-17, Page 7Moot 11114 1911 Oboes Notes-iedorill kt. IL MeTA.GOART X. D. MeTAGOART wpm.. McTaggart Bros. BANKERS-e— GENERAL BANKING BUSI- NESS TRANSAIITED. NOTES . DISCOUNTED. DRA.FTS ISSUED `INTEREST ALLOWED ON DE- POSITS. SALE NOTES FUR- NOTRY ae H. T. ItANOE..— PIJBLIC, CONVEY - CER, FINANCIAL, REAL • ESTATE AND FIRE INSUR- •AKE AGENT. REPRE- SENTING 14 FIRE INSUR- ANCE COMPANIES. ravlsioN COURT OFFICE, CLINTON. W. BRYDOIlE, • BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, -NOTARY PUBLIC. ETC. OFFICE— Sloane 13Iock --CLINTON. CHARLES B. HALE 'Conveyancer, Notary Public Commissioner, Etc. REAL ESTATE and INSURANCE. Issuer of Marrenee Licenses. . HORON STREET, OLINTON. : DR. W. GUNN L. R. C. P., L. R. C, S., Edinburg. Office—Ontario street. Clinton.,Night calls at front door of office or at residence on Rattenbury street. DR, J. W. SHAW. • —OFFICE— • RATTENHURY• ST. EAST, —CLINTON.— ' C. W. THOMPSON.• • . PHYSICIAN, SURGEON, ETC. Special ateention gtven to .dis- eases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and • Throat. . Eyes carefully examined and suitable glasses prescribed. Office and residence:: 2 doors west of the tomtmercial Hoed. Huron St. DR. F. A. AXON. • —DENTIST.— Specialist en Crown and Bridge • Work. Graduate ol C. 0. D. S., Chicago, and 13, C. D. S., Tor- onto. Bayfield on Mondays from May ' to Decembee. 44••••41.044m....wwwwwm.vmaimiqmorom, GRAND TRU l\ SYSTV1 —TIME TABLE— . Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton station as follows ; ElleF'FALO AND GODERIOEI DIV: Going East 7.35 a.' in. 3.07 p. 5.15 p. nt 11.07 a. me 1.25 p.m . 6.40 p. ni. 11.28 g. m. 1-11.3iON & BRUCE DIV : 44 11 44 41 Goiag West 4, 14 41 44 11 iLION1)ON:, Going South 41 11 Going North 81 11 7.50 .a. m. 4,23 p. re, 11.00 a. m. 6.35 p. m. OVER dB YEARS' EXPEMENCIC .PATENTS Tube PRAM* Descant CoevOucattet ete. Anyone sending a sketch and description may autoltly ascertain our opinion free whether an Invention is probably patootable. Cornmunica. tionsetectly confidenl ial. rieti0e001( on Patents "nt free. Oldest agency for securing Patents. vaunts swan tbrough Munn g Cu. t &sive medal amuse, without agree, in tea A hrindsonsee utnerratast *male. Largtat eis. creation sa Mit, scientific jOUrt.M. Ming 101' Can441it 5•75 a Yoe pottage prepaid. sold by lel newsdealer'. MuNN &coi...,361er°16181, New Ytrk Smolt Piece. nso rat- wateenatoo.b. 4444444.4.4.4.44.4.444.4.k4kwa. 1fliohelieu and Ontario Navigation Co, UPI IF-1-1Erf .1 •MONTHLY MAGAZINE, • A rAmmy LilliPARY• The Best hi Current Mahn 12 CoMpol.Zre NOVnes Ificard.V. MANY CROAT STORIES AND pAricos oit TIMELY TOPIOS $2.80 Pan Iticala;2 ma. 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A *meow Pe L'Ilsetserth Dat. Poe 't.. Tavoth ONLY OIRECt UNE No MAME OF UM • JACOMON, At,44NT, CLINfOS -0,.....etefee.e.e.)000e• THE STANK ALIBI Of' . i He MEIN :STORME (ley Wm. Elanditon Osborne). )000000000000 (CepYright by Publisleers Press Ltd), are atill WatchIng for me at the Iro- quois. must go around there and take a look at them when 1 get They all turned and looked at a pretty girl who eat :with wide open mouth and staring eyes, her gaze fixed upon the window. "Ohl" exclaimed the girl, shivering, her face growing paler every second, "I'm so scared. Just aa you were talk- ing I looked at the window, and there outside — there — there -- there — " • She pointed wildly with her hand, and then reeled against her neighbor and fainted dead away, • Storme sprang to the window, threw it open, and looked out. •There was eothing to be /seer,. Every thing was quiet. Storme and two other men stepped outside and Ineeseigated. They found aothing at least suspicious. . In the meantime the servants had ransacked tbe how from top to bet - tom, and found no one..Mise Dumoatez Jewell; ware intact, The dinner was resumed. The girl who had fainted coneluded, with the rest, that she had been scared and that the whole thing was the result of her imagination. Order was res- tored, end the suhject of the bur- glaries dropped. Only one mart bad the right of the effete, and his conversation on tbe sorrier of the street explained it. • "By George!" exclaimed Mr. Burke, for it was he. "But I had a narrow es - 'cape. Somebody saw me lookin' in the window, and they pretty near nabbed me. That would be' 'a' been a good He 'waited•a few minutes to deter- .. rittne Whether there was any' effort at pursuit, and then went ' "But he's there, all right, all right. Ile's there, and' he won't get away without Jimray Burke astern.- You can place your bottom -dollar-on that, Strumpy, to any .tune you please." • There was a second. interruption at. the Dumont Place. "4 note for Mr. Stormer annciunced the butler. Storme totals ane read it. hastily, . Then he looked at his watch. "1 — 1 am called away," he exclaim- ed.'"It's. half past eleven, and .1 must go: sorry to- " He made his etiologies and slipped out. •Miss Dumont followed him. .• settehat what's the matter?" she inginied anxiously. • . "I *don't. know," -he • relied. "I thought tonight that 1. would be free. 'Here it the note; you may read it if you will." She • started as she looked at it. 'Then she' read 'it. It was as follows: My Dear Storme: . Be at the Iroquois Club as 12 o'clock . if possible. Some frinede of yours will :be there between tw,elve and, half past' two. 'Sorry to trouble yetis ImperatiVe. The note was. unsigned. "What. does it mean?" she inquired. "I den't knowe little girl., etai part ot the .general. acheme of aluties' -1 .must perform for a while yet until— tin til .1 .throw ;them up altogether," • • "I am:sorry' you -- you must go,"' she went on, in a puzzled tone. "So ant• 1, Helene' rettrined ..Stoiene, 'and Ihave t leave You unprotected.' These robberies that 'they • talked abbut, tonight_ are sellout,' it 'steeps. Sou mutt be careful to keep the' house locked up. If if anything sbould have pen — "t Ile turned Pale at he spoke. — anything should happen .to you, 1 delft know what rd do." She looked up Into his eyes with a reassuring smile. eYote Aced not fear. for iner the re- turned. "We' are safe here The coach- man ean be innizmoned, in an 'instant, and William. am: old -butler, ..sleepa down stairs One. of the' malt% is en . • . the same Dem' withI me and within calling distance - • "My .aunt ,eleepk In .the front room,' and I sleep in one of the back ones— the -One at the corner—" she indicated It with a gesture — " and the street lights shine upon :It 'all night'. long. Our house is weil exposed, and we've never had any trouble, and we never expect to either. Ncithing. will happen nothieg. at an" • Storme, bowed. • "I sincerely • trust not," he said gravely: "You,, will come.. tomorrow?" she asked as he prepared to lear.e.• "I will conie tomorrow," he replied. And then he went.. After he had left she discovered that .she had unwil- litigly retained possession of the note.. She threw open the door and called after. him, but to to purpose — he 'lad gone. She closed the doer and stood utie eertainly beneath the light and read the note, again. A troubled expression settled upon het face. She remained in an attitude of hesitation for an instant, and thee, Instead ea returning to her pleste, she ran lightly up the stairs to, het forme It• Wite a singular thiiig that ste iorig tesha hied, keitievn Storme, Helen DU. Mont haereceived front him but twe letters; )3oth had come within the pest few Weeks. , . • She 'oPened a drawer and took the' letters Out, She Openedthem and eoMpared thein carefully with the note Which Intel Collie fro % 8terene theal night. J Suddenly, she gavel a little cry. he hold the &KW Open., tie stood So that light frOut the hall ,teil full upon his face. • And the face was that of II. Stan- leigh Storme — the reti4 whom the other sought, AA hour later, the door °Pelted itettin, and %prole again appeared. lie lightly descended tbe steps to the street, looked carelessly about him, and then started leisurely towards the center of the town, • Afc he did so, four men emerged froni their hiding places and folleaved Wm. And this time they never left his heels until be disappeared •once more into the front door of the Gou- verneur apartments. And when he had done rio, Eiurke and one other sat down and camped. upon hie trail. Aid on thAt .night the safe in the hardware coacerli of Canda de Wil- iett was crapicee, and oomethiag over seven thousand, dollars stolen. CHAPTEli Irm The Note that Came from Storm Helen Dumont was a peculiar young •h'onnut.. 1.2the was 'rich, and yet she Was happy, • Her parents, both of them members of the most exclueive set in town, were long Since deceased, • She was mistress of her own house, and. kept. with her as a companion an• aged aunt. Miss Dumont was a 'general favor- ite, Perhaps It was because she en- joyed life;, becanse, unlike the crowd around her, she exhausted all that was good in existease, and • rejected the bad., • •• • She entertained not lavishie, but well. On her reception nights her house was crowded, • It was the one place where one might go and fee] at ease. • . , • • Storme had never attended any of the functions except. one large recep- tion. Re had pleaded some excuse. But she prevailed upon him to attend the• last little dinner of the season. :He did so..There Were two or threw people 'there he knew_ but meet Of them he did not know. The dinner was about half over. People had begun to talk volublY; as they always do, once the ice ie broicen and their appetite has somewhat abate. ed. Storme .salie but little: he . ened. • "It's absurd" one 'man was saying. "The police department say they ca,n't stop it ,Stop. it? .0f course they can stop it, They don't half try. • 'Here's 'Cande . the fif- teentlx. on the lit, And svho knows hew many never come to light? And It's the same fellow, by George, and he works in the selfsame way every terns Andthey say they can't find him. Pshaw! Don't tell me." "Well,"' volunteered another, 'the banks say they've got several parties under surveillance, and 'they elaint they've.. narrowed it down to, orie man and then- again, they say than • that's all tommyrot; that they haven't fOtmel him, after all." "I don't know what Unmake of it," remarked a woman, "and I Wouldn't care so. much if they'd *eonfina their depredations to the banks; but- they d on't. Did any et you 'hear ,about Mrs. Bradley -Coates? Did You, Mr.Storine?" Storme shook his head. •"I' rarely read the papers," he re- plied with some embaraesment, "and • -- really have heard but little about anything of interest in the pity. My tizne is so taken up- that I have. but little' to give the hewspapers." • lie• said ahis in an awkward, stilted sort cif manner, and as 'though he were trying to..give an explanation he, felt -Was needed. • es wasn't .in. the paper," inter- posed the .woman. :"They kept it out. Bill one night.Jent a. week' or so ago, as Mr. and Meee Bradlett-Coates were eating dinner in theft Own house — in their :own house, mind 'you!' — this, as. though it would have been quite a le:alter. of . course hetet they been In • somebodey else's house "while they were eating dinner they heard some twit of a noise outside, and she looked over her husband's shoulder, and there was a enazies face atareng into the room. "She couldn't see- the face Well, be- cause 'his teat ,collar was turned up 'and the lower part Was entirely con- •eealed. He disappeared at once. 'They called the servants Etna raised an. alarm, but they couldn't find theman. ."And later they found the ivy vine on the side of the house all torn and broken, and the marks of feet aroutid The wiedow, but they never found the man." . . "Wasn't anything taken?" asked somebody,' The vvoinan smiled; She had been waiting for that inquiry, "Nothizig much," she replied, "only every bit of Jewelry that Mrs. Bradley - Coates had in the • house and you know what that mesas, You !mow • bow' much she wore. Nobody knows low much they were worth — eer- thinly a fortune in themselves." . Ethe stopped suddenly. "Why — why a- Ethel, what'd the matter?" "What dens it tilt Mean What does it mean?" she exelahnea. -' For She found that the note cif to- O eight was wen in the tante baled at., were the othe twe — in the hand. uriting of It Strinleigh Stan*. "What does it mean?" she cried Arab. . 404,44 And theme she went citron Stairs. CHAPTER IX The Mut amen the Shrub. Shame plunged. Wittily down tb, front steps, turned to Vile r.ght and deappeared itt tbe darkness. To three Men, however, he did not dl* - appear their followed him 1,nd kept hinewell In sight. This time he pur- vued no devious course, but headed straight eor the Iroquois Club, which he reached and entered with alacrity. The three men waited for. him out- side. They etood where they could see without being seen, Once More they •camped upon his trail. Up in the Dumont house the 0080 were leaving. The fainting spell at the table had cast an .air of gloom upon the crowd, and Storme's de- parture had acted as a sort of signal for the. premature termination of the modest festivities. One leY one the gem% departed and left Mies Ditmont alone. Ralf an hour later the lights on the ground floor were extinguished. Half an hour after that the lights upstairs went out. The 'whole house was dark. It was a cloudy night, and a seltry one, There was no moon. Helen Dumont did notretire---she was in no mood to ;deep. Instead, she took a seat by an open window and ,*ought and thought, ' Outside in the garden, concealed by' the shrubbery that surrounded the house, there stood a man — an un- seen man. • • He eves apart of the chaotic black - nese of the night. He .only knew how he came to be there, or whente he came. He was motionless and invisible. his skin may have been white, but it it were it did not show, ter ha wore L. black mask and dark colored gloves. His clothes were black. His coat collar Was turned ep, Miss Dumont did not gee hire. This man had a hem ear, and he was using it to the best advantage, ele was waiting for absolute quiet within the house. And when that quiet reigned, • he waited .many minutes longer before he stir -red. Finally he made an imperceptible movement, and sorawhere, within his apparel a small bell struck the hour, He, Sighed with relief. • "I'll try it now," he exclaimed soft- ly ' to himself. But ostil he did not move. "Let me see," he mused, "e -want to got this straight. I must make no this - takes. From What I have learned, the thing is safes There are six people in .the 'house." . ' He checked them off on hit fingers as he Opcike, • "The, 'girl, the old lady, the man, and three servtuits. The. three servants are on the upper floor, but they se--ep, and they ,don't count — they IteVer do The man is on the ground floors, thet. •eliminatee 'bine The old ltiOy in the treat.' room •-• too far eft to be ditneeroue. "that lea -yes no one but. the Girl to' face — and if she hears me, why then — I ean eee away in time, at any rate. This thing seems safe — safer then •inany others. • It's worth trying,' ,and D I'try ie. Here goes," There was an open apace of elide.: teen feet between the •Enrulibery and the house, The man, who uP to this time Might have been a shadow or a tree, now 'disappeared from view .be - Leath the bushes. • •. An instant later he emerged from the protection of the leaves, Ilianeans of some clever • burglar's trick, • he Wriggled, half prostrat,' across the *open apace he was a incasing `slindo w, a bit darker than the others. nothing else. Once actorts he became a portion ot the house — he became again unseen. This man did nothing at random — he did not reckon beyond host. He laid made himself .c,arefully acquaint- ed' with the details of the job before 'him. Be was an expert in his line. Night after night he nad lurked in •the vicinity of thin house, alert and wide awake to everything that went. on. He knew now all at 4 the ehts hide and all about the Inside of the • house; he understood the habits • of the occupants: He had detershined the exact %ca- . tion of his booty ; if surprised, he knew. just which way to run. He was prepared for all emergencies. • Outside a policeman swung, along With easy gait. He etopped and peered a men:tent intothe shrubbery • and then passed on. The man alongside the house bleathed a sigh of relief. Suddenly he shook with ancontroliable but silent laughter. , • "I presulned," he remarked eOftly ta hiMself, "that Burke and his gang through." Thee he started'in to work. In five iniautes he had forced' a cellar wile dow. Have* done this, he crept into the houae and dropped to the cellar, floor, closing and fastening: the win- dow behind him. Once inside, there was no trace of him or hitt werk left without, All that he had t� fear now were the occu- pants ot the house. • "This is a eihch," be muttered un- • derneath his breath. 13ut not so 'entich of a one as he thhught.'He had to break An entrance ,itrough three doors before' 1e stood upon the ground floOr. Oisee there, hcwever, he telt his way eautiousle .cy the pantry where he knew the but - ex Wept, The door was wide epee, and a gati jet in the roem,Was turned down low. Lotal snores proceeded from the bed, The butler iitY ink% his back, itis Metall 'Wide open. The man with !It black Mask was pleased to note 4.a* ro noir It is said that th chloroforming urglar It a myth — or, if not a myth., failure. Chloroform gage and stifles - it is bound to wake its victim. flut the man in the black mask knew his bueinega. He took all chances, -because et this fact. Re was ready tor the gaop, the cough, the gurgle -- he anticipated Ole fact that his victim would wake. Listening carefully to the reepiration, ee grasped his meg 'by the throat eaeh ime there waitan eXpulaion Of air, .dul . sprayed the vapor down ble Lariat as he released hie grasp. There Was a struggle — there wasS ',sound to be — but the butler 'was no ,hatch for the Iron muscles, and, train - :a science of the man in black, and the struggles became faint arid .uinter,.and the man on the bed sue - ;embed. For ten minutes the burglar kept eis chloroform cone tn place over the, „oiler's lace, and Olen deftly gaggett a-m."4nd tied him hand and foot to the bed whereon he laY. Then he softly stole upstairs. Every pedroom deor was locked The recent burglaries. had made every- body timorous. "It's just as well," he laughed to huneelt. He carefully secured each door from Ite outside with 'ropes tied to the tandles in such manner that it would .e inaposeible, by the exerctses of melt.. .ary force, to open them at as.... At each door he listened ear4ful1Ya am heard no sound. Then he crept otealthily to the rear hall 'window and. etenPed out upon the extensicn roof . krap upon the flags outside startle ed him.' It was nothing, though, but roundsman on his rounds. The man an the roof felt perfectly secure, for ect was unseen frota the street below. • Without h sound he crept warily across the roof and paused just before he reached the farthest window. He umbled once nsere in his waistcoat,' ind the mYstarious little bell tinkled s gain. . "I must hurry up," he told himself, 'Tor' in just an hour Pm due. tO leave • he club." . •t laughd noiselessly, • and then stepped to the open window and rais- ed the mosquito bar, • , Them. he disappeared within. • CHAPTER X • • • Miss 'Dumont Selves a Mystery, . Helen Duitione bad not retired upoa the departure • of her guests. She e•ought her room and threw herself Mb a larges astir feting oneof the two side windows. • . • ' She was in no mood to sleep, The night was close and sultry. But there e as somethiag else that made her Wakeful,and keyed upon her mind. "What cart it mean?" she kept -re- peating ,to herself, • "what can it mean?" . Yea, there was no mistake about it. Once' more she scanned the three • letters. They Were in the same hand- writing, each one of them: • . She read' and re -read them. There was nothing in them , that appealed to her. All were cold and formal. The first two to herself, mysterious as they were in text, contained no hid- den word of endearment, nothing which Ore could call her own. And 'why was it, she asked herself, that this Man, who had thus come. into her life—why was it that he *tired him- self in mystery ! ' • Yet she still- hal faith in him—or v.:curd hive but for this test strange note. • . Why -should he Write a note to him- self, to call himself away? Why had .he done that? What' was it all for, any way? • • ,devil,' Doubt, Crept into her Mind and possessed it, until in mov- • ing the small lamp shecaused ite rays to fail • peon a photgraph of Storme that stood upon the table, • She grasped it eagerly and looked longingly et it. It was a good face the face of a man of honor and of • honesty, or at least so it seemed to her. • She swept the letters into a drawer, and kept her glance, fixed upon the portrait, And as she loolted, tenderly She bent dewn and kissed' it believe in you, H. Stanlefgh Storme!". ,she said, • Atid thee she extinguished the tight, ad sank once more into heis plata: by the eastern window. • Suddenly she heard a riOlSO hi the hall without It was tile noise of a men creeping stealthily — at least, so it seemed to her. She Went to her door and listened. Then She unlocked it and threw it open. "Who is there?" she ealied. 'I here was no answer. And then of a sudden she saw what it Was.• A slight breeze had aiming. tip, awl the curtain Of an open window in the hall was rising and falling with the wihd, That, she reasoried, Must have been the noise that she had heard: She smiled at her fears, and ohm. aid lock* her door.again, and once more resumed her seat, How long she sat there site ard not knOW. It is said that- fiehermen nteettierlee themselves by watching a cork bob up and down upon the sunlit wave—and- that the heavy hours pass allnotit like minutes With then. Mies Dumont eat , ih her room in the dead of night, wide a'xake, and yet dreaMing day dreams. She forgot time ahd the hour—and forgot herself. Site sat awake and epen eyed, but She oast nothing inediaMly about her, Iler thoughts were upon •herself, and Storme. Suddenly Abe tame to liereelf. What was it that had 'startled her entiliz? She looked hastily around and tried to collect her thoughts. The air bad become chill; arid She shivered. But she did net She did not dare — she could not tilt. Por there, nr tee, ieeiiiicen window, Was a human • .1,:tcsesf reality. etealtinge tie/pee nee :tieing the screen. that reteret ee Eawe Mies Dumont •Wtillid have Olken It lie sotrld, hut her voac falled har gee 'e svoutil haVe sprung .to the door,. but her limbs seemed paralyzed. For at the window, that which had ecen a hand lieeatne an -arm, and the erre lengthened rapidly into the fi- gure of a iliefts, Who leaped allently„ subtiy, etealthily, into the room—titee figure of a mau In a long Week eloale, with a black masle—a Man who Seem- ed part and parcel of the night fteclf. Suddenly across t he blackness ot the room there shot a gleam of lights It issued from a lantern in the hand cf this silent ttgure. Steuplitglalyifhe watched it play aerosa the bed, Then there was darkness oum The dark figure • moved snotty . away from her, and towards, the, chit- t94"iehri Ts room," it muttered to itself, strange. 7 thought -4 The man had not flashed his light i neh the cornerteed be ;where the girl was sit ting. He had thought to find a sleep- er He must now bave concluded that the room Was enalstY, forhe beeama lees -stealthy In his movemente. The man Moved her and there with certainty and rapidity, ancinever ped or stumbled. Assured apparently that be wee, alone, he raised his hands to hia head and with a little clielt unfastened the ' mask which concealed his features. The girl sat Speechless and woe • tionless. She did not' stir. The man once more Mashed hils lIght but this time directly upon the chiffonier. He was looking for valuables—that was clear. Ile first stripped the top of evrything that lay in plain sight— awing them the jewels that Miss Du - Mont bad- removed that „very night. Then he opened each drawer, sae with deft fingers examined the contents. And as he worked, each Jewel that lid • atiprOPriated Itt dim" sparkled in the strong light trona his lantern. Every jewel that Miss Dumont poss- essed was in that chiffonier, And the burglar made a rich haul. • But still .she did not move. Suddenly he turned to the dreseing table. He opened a drawer. His light fell upon • three letters lying loose ' • *within it. , . They were the three letters writte,n in the handwriting ,of H. Stanleigh SthYelneg lllanced over the first two care- lessly, and laughed Lie he read them. "They were wise precautions.' 'he remarked to himself.. ' • He started when hesa.w the third, "Great Scott!" he exclaiined, "what a fool—what an Idiot—to leave that here." He placed it -With a quick mo- vement in an indide pocket of his clothet., And then he turned once ' more VS. his „work.. But as he did so, the light from. his - lantern shone full into the mirror that sioocl reflection shone full into his face. • "Henry!" gasped a faint voice, Ise • ening from the gloom. ' The man turned -in the direction of the voiee. He flashed his light upon the girl, and for the . first . time saw her. He started in surprise. But he re- covered himself. •. . You c. elled. some one, he said in a well modulated voice."Is there any- bedY elee• in the room?" • The. girl did not answer his • quests thin. "Ilenryl't she exclaimed age*, ht. se agonized voice. 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