The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1928-11-22, Page 3e
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Isabel Ostrander
BEGIN HERE TODAY
What horrible and mysterious po
wer was forcing the three Drake
pothers, Hobart, the Wall Street
broker, Roger, the scientist, and
Andrew, recently returned home
.from Australia, to place themsel
ves in ridiculous situations. Some
power had forced Hobart to de
liver a mock speech in. tl;e public
square, Roger to burlesque a
scientific address, and Andrew to
sit on the floor and play with toys
Patricia Drake, daughter of Ho
bart, secretly secures Owen Miles,
detective sergeant, and his col
league, Scottie McCready, to in-
.mvestigate. Miles is employed as
' a. houseman and Scottie as garden
er. Miss Jerusha Drake, spin
ster sister of the brothers, is dis
covered by Miles in a wildly ex
ited state late at night'before an
open grate in which she was burn
ing papers of some kind. Patri
cia disappears and Hobart sends
for Miles.
.'SOW GO ON WITH THE STORY.
CHAPTER XV
Hobart’s reply was a smothered
cry and Miles and Scottie had only
time to regain the shelter of the
rear Jkd air case
sweptVacross the hall and to her own
room.
“So she knows, does she?” Scot
tie rubbed his chin. “I wish to the
^Lord that we did, but it’s my opin
ion we’ll find out nothing more to-
Scottie was right. Nothing hap
pened until the next morning when
Zorn appeared in the garden and
had the older man summon Miles.
“Where can we talk?’’ Zorn ask
ed as Miles appeared.
“Just down the road here. I
understood your message Sunday
evening, of course. Did you trace
the—er—bill of lading?’’
Zorn nodded smilingly as they
the
the shelter
when Miss Drake
the
but
strode along the road toward
weather-beaten shed.
‘Yes. She is at. Freedale at
home of a certain estimable
somewhat peppery old farmer named
Higgs.’’
“Eliphalet!” exclaimed Miles. His
•sister Hitty has been a maid here in
the household for a generation, but
I never thought of him! How did
Miss Patricia happen to go there,
/and why?’’
V ‘Perhaps you had better read her
Tetter first,’’ Zorn glanced about the
ramshackle shed and produced a
•small, bulging envelope.
Miles tore open the envelope and
■took from it two folded slips of
paper.
“Dear Sergeant Miles:
•<“M‘r. Zorn will tell you how he
found me and why I stayed away. I
have promised him I will come home
this afternoon. I had to tell you
first, though, that I have broken, our
agreement; I am sending word to
Mr. Kemp to meet me and I mean
to tell him as much as I can without
being disloyal to my family. After
all I have been through I don’t know
what to think except that we have
terrible enemies who will stop at
nothing and I am nearly crazy.
Please guard my father and the
others well and find out what it is
•that threatens them before it is too
late! Don’t let them know what ’’"’^happened to me, I am going to tell
them I left because they treated me
so sternly. The paper I am send
ing with this will show you why I
left the house without trying to see
you and put it .in your hands. I only
found it a little after ten that night.
Perhaps it will help you to trace
the dreadful woman who wrote it
.and the men who are in her pay,
j, especially the one with the tattoo
mark on his arm.
“Watch for the flash of light twice
in the road and be prepared to come
at once, telling no one, or I cannot
help you. Have faith in me for my
only wish is to keep you and yours
from greater suffering,
“A Friend’’
“Great heavens!” exclaimed Miles.
“Anyone but an unsophisticated
child like Miss Patricia would have
seen at a glance that this was the
bunk! ’Pell me what she told you,
Zorn; what happened to her?”
“She says that Saturday night she
saw that note lying on the floor just
under her open window. She never
thought of doubting the good faith
of the “infirm old woman” threw a
few things into a bag and waited
for the signal. It came, and Patricia
slipped down the drive to where a
limousine stood at the gate with
one man behind the wheel and an
other holding tho door.
‘After that things happened to
quickly for her to utter a cry. The
man took her bag, clapped his hand
over her mouth and bundled hei' in
also, and they were off. She re
members struggling, but a sweetish-
smelljng cloth—chloroform, probab
ly—was placed over her face and
then there was a blank.
‘“When she came to herself there
was a hush of cool air in her face,
for the window behind the driver’s
seat was down and the two men
were talking.
“Her heavy beaded handbag was
still on her arm and without Stop
ping to think she smashed the man
over the face with it, tore open the
the nearest door and jumped, rolling
over and over into a^ditch. They
cursed and halted, but another car
was coming and that gave her an
opportunity to scramble up and over
a low stone wall into a mass of wil
low shoots growing by a brook.
“They gave up hunting for her
and drove off. She stumbled along
in the darkness with sense enough
to keep to the main road. A mov
ing van came runmbling along and
on an impulse she hailed it; she says
the idea flashed across her mind if
she could find out the name of. the
nearest village and get word to Mr.
Wells he would keep her confidence
and come to take care of her, at the
same time sending a warning to you.
“When, (she asked them where they
were going and they told her “Free
dale” Miss Patricia thought at once
of this Higgs and got them to give
her a lift.
‘Whatever they thought, they let
her climb in, and on the way. she ar
ranged with one of them to take that
note to Mr. Wells’ house when they
got back to the city in the morning.
They reached, Freedale at dawn and
Miss' Patricia got down and went di
rectly to the Higgs’ place.”
“Did (she recognize either of
two men who abducted her?”
manded Miles.
“No. But when one of them
flung her travelling case into the car
she saw that his sleeves were rolled
up and a device of some sort was
tattooed on one arm.”
“Tell me how you located Miss Pa
tricia,” asked Miles.
“The scrap of paper he had used
for that message to
ed me in the right
replied. “I caught
f.or Brookside. It
Miss Hawks and her
the heavy portieres
visitor reappeared. It
dragged him forth. The return of
Patricia, however, turned his
thoughts to other channels and the
arrival within an hour of an unex
pected caller banished all idle spec
ulation. for the time being from his
mind.
The caller was Miss Ora Hawks
but the transformation in her ap
pearance was remarkable. If she
had not quite succeeded in regaining
the Jost years of her youth she had
made a victorious effort to mitigate
the inroads of time.
The butler served tea in the
drawing room, but the detective
knew that although Carter had been
sent to summon both Hobart and
Andrew only the latter appeared and
that reluctantly enougn. Miles loit
ered in the hallway nelow trying in
vain to catch a word of the conver
sation between
former swain.
All at once
parted and the
was doubtful if she was conscious of
the pseudo houseman’s shadowy fi
gure in the background as she made
for the front door, calling back over
her shoulder with a quick, convul
sive catch of her 'breath.
“No, don’t trouble, please!”
can find my way. Tell Jerusha I
I will 'see her soon. Goodbye.!”
It was not the words .nor the tone
in which they were uttered which
for a moment held the detective
rooted to the spot, but the dazed
look of half-incredulous wonder up
on the woman’s face and the glint
of dawning fear in her eyes.
Scarcely had the door closed when
there was a crash in
room followed by the
and a man’s bellow
mingled with pain.
A pungent odor of
cloth assailed his nostrils stiflingly
as Miles dashed the portieres aside
to behold Andrew tearing off his
scorched coat from which a curl of
acrid smoke arose and stamping out.
a tiny bluish flame that darted across
the rug from beneath the over-turn
ed tea-table.
“—that three-legged, stand!” the
latter growled beneath life teeth.
“Help me get this off, William,
never mind the rug.”
“I am afraid you are badly burn-
sir!” Miles ventured.
(To be continued.)
the drawing-
liists of flame
of profanity
smoldering
ed,
Zurich
the
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We
improved condition of the health of
Mr. John Decker, Jr., of the Goshen
line, south.
Mr. and Mrs. Roland Geiger, of
the Bronson Line, accompanied by
Mrs. Lydia Geiger and son Newell
visited recently with Rev. and Mrs.
Roy Geiger, at Chesley.
Mrs. Cowen, accompanied by her
two daughter, of Fergus, visited with
the former’s son Dr. and Mrs. H. H.
Cowen.
Miss Helen Foster, of Detroit, is
spendng a few days at her home.
Mr. Alvin Gascho has left for Kit
chener, where he has accepted a po
sition.
Mr. Kenneth Koehler, of Toronto,
visited at his home over the holiday.
Mr. Jacob Kipfer, who is employ
ed in the Williams Flour Mills, is
suffering from an attack of pneu
monia.
Micheal Roy Kennell and Miss
Mildred Elizabeth Rice, both of
Grand Bend, were married at the
Woolworth Memorial church, re
cently. Mr. Kennell is a son
late Nicholas Kennell. and Fanny
Kennell, of Zurich.
Messrs.
Mousseau,
i’ic Snell,
Camalache, on a wild goose hunt
and were successful in bagging 18
geese.
Mr, Jacob Brown has sold his
acre farm on the Goshen Line,
mles south of Zurich, to his son
Melvin Brown, who has had
farm rented for several years.
Miss (Muriel Marie,., eldest daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Howald
was united in marriage on Thanks
giving Day to Mr. Orville J. Stein
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HerbGideon Koehler,
Well Johnston and Ul-
of Exeter, journeyed to
A “Hastily,
“Patricia Drake
“This letter doesn’t tell me much
except that the young lady is on the
verge of hysteria.” he commented.
Miles had unfolded the second
note. It was comparatively brief,
and although, its fine, cramped,
shaken hand was unlikely any that
he had Studied before during his in
vestigation, there was yet something
vaguely familiar about it which ar
rested him.
“My Dear child,” he read.
“Great trouble has come
your esteemed father and
upon
your
uncles and cmpelled them to do the
strange things which have so dis
tressed you of late. Now they are
facing ruin and disgrace through -
fault of their own, but you, my dear,
can save them.
“I have known your family for
many years and it is my duty to
tell you "the truth. I am an Infirm
old woman and live at. some dis
tance, but my car will be outside
your gate at eleven tonight and my
servants are to be trusted to bring
you savely to me. I will make you
comfortable for tho night and you
may return in the morning.
Mr. Wells start
direction,” Zorn
the first train
waisn’t difficult
to locate a new family named “Slo
cum” and learned the name of the
furniture mover.
“The boss of the moving gang de
scribed the house where he had left
the girl. I took the early afternoon
train and located the girl at the
Higgs place.”
“Did you see Wells last night at
eleven?” asked Miles.
“Yes. It came near being a dis
astrous appointment for me!”
“Disastrous”’
“When I left his house somebody
tried to hold me up; hit me with a
blackjack and only the soft felt hat
I was wearing saved me from be
ing knocked for a goal! See? Zorn
removed his cap and displayed a
strip of his Smooth blond hair had
been clipped away. “He sneaked
up from behind and landed on me,
but something must have scared him
for he took to his heels and was
gone before I could recover suffi
ciently to give chase. It’s on
isn’t it.
“It certainly is,” agreed Miles,
there was a peculiar quality in
tone. “Are you going back to
city now?”
Zorn nodded and rose.,
“I wish you would deliver
letter, I daren’t trust them to
mails and time is an essential
tor. It is to Professor Nigel Lor- ter.
ton, at the Archaeological Museum.” j Mr. and Mrs. Albert Gunning at-
It was late that afternoon before, tended the Kirkton Anniversary on
Patricia put. in an appearance and Sunday,
there was a new, shy dignity in her)
bearing that silenced the reproof up
on her aunt’s lips.
Roger had appeared at luncheon
more wan and fragile than, ever, but
later Miles had caught a glimpse of
him tottering down the drive muffl
ed to the ears in. a greatcoat in spite
of the mild spring weather, and
wondered what errand could have
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Mr.
the
., son of Mr. and
Henry Steinbach, of Zurich.
Tuerkheim, officiating.
WHALEN
Miss Ada Reid, of Toronto;
rence Reid, of Toronto; and
Reid, of London spent the holiday
at the home of their father Mr. C.
H. Reid.
Miss Ina Scott has
London after spending
with her mother, Mrs.
Mr. and Mrs. W. Hill
covering from injuries
when they hit a cow while driving
home from Seaforth. The impact
caused the car to upset in the ditch
resulting in serious damage to the
car and injuries to both. Mr. and
Mrs. Hill.
At the Young People’s Society
Miss Eleanor Snider, Missionary
Convener, occupied the chair and
Archie Jeffrey gave the topic.
Miss Margaret Aikenhead, of Lon
don, visited at hei' home over the
Thanksgiving.
Mrs. F. Stewart and daughter
Mary, moto.red to Toronto and
spent the week-end there.
Miss Anna Haugh, Carman Haugh,
Laura Norris have returned to To
ronto after visiting at their home
here.
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If I knew you and you kntw me,
How little troubles there would be.
We pass each, other on the street,
But just come out and let is meet
At church next Sunday.
This world is sure a busy place,
And we must hustle in the race.
For 'Social hours some are not free
The six week days, but all should be
At church next Sunday.
Don’t knock ami kick and slam and
slap
At every body on the map,
But push and' pull and boost and
boom,
And use up all t'he standing room
At church next Sunday.
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