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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1939-11-23, Page 2THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE'J’HURHDAV. November oiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin 1MMMS ” .......... • ......... . ................................. .............. . ..... Victor said: “And Miss Kendall? You killed her too, of course. Why?’ “Because she knew too much. Be­ cause she saw me coming out of Pot­ ter’s room with that confounded cleansing fluid of his, and because she was on the church steps when Roddy and I had the row and I hit him. So I strangled her with my scarf. Bessie? Absurd!” He looked like a handsome dark shadow, haunted by remorse. He crumbled his sister’s letter in his hand. “I shall tell the authorities every­ thing. Will you agree to leave her out of this? Here, Judy,” he reached in his pocket and drew out his wal­ let, removing a few lean bills, ‘Give her this. I’ll be taken to jail as soon as they come. I’d rather not see her. You tell her, Quade, to keep her mouth shut,” “Don’t take it, Judy. I’m telling you to keep your own mouth shut, but I suppose it’s too late,” “What’s all this? What’s all this?’ None of us had noticed the minister and Quincy, who’d come up behind us and were listening for dear life. “■God bless my soul; Not you, Nor­ cross?” Victor Warns Norcross Thaddeus Quincy wheeled back a pace and took a firmer grip on his cane, even yanking off the red cloth. “Knew it was you all the time, Norcross — last night when you wouldnt’ answer Judy and me.” “Yes it was. On my way to kill Lane.” “Good heavens, Norcross, do you know what you’re saying? You don't have to admit anything.” Victor said. “Less you say the better.” “I want to talk. I want to con­ fess. I wish to God the police would come — Say, what's Potter running for?” We could all see the artist climb­ ing into his car and driving like mad down the narrow Neck. “To get Gerry to help us launch tho boat.’’ For a moment our eyes watched the car, our ears were tuned to ' Hugh. He was ranting, almost the I way his sister did. j “I came down here to kill Lane for what he did to my sister. I saw ■ him coming down the Castle drive­ way. We went over to the church | and fought it out, man to man. Hit ’ him too hard, I guess, Anyway, he j died and I put him in the chest, just I as Judy said. I ought to have locked it, but I heard someone com­ ing.” Following the pattern — following the pattern — just like the letter. “Hugh, let me see that a minute. I’ll give it right back,” I said to him. He didn't seem to care what he did. He automatically handed me the crumbled ball of a letter. I turned my back and took a good look at the writing. Neat, tiny, very individ­ ualistic. .Nothing at all like mine with the money. I gave it back to him. . “—so I tied the scarf around her neck and choked her,” he was al­ most shouting. “But she wouldn’t! fall through the Pirate’s Mouth, so j “God help us all!” ejaculated De Witt. I could see Potter’s car coming back with my uncle. “How much money was it you sent me, Hughie?” I had never called him that pet name before, but he was so distrait, and I couldn’t think him capable of all those crimes, • “Self-Defense, Wasn’t It?” “What ails him?” Albion Potter | asked. “He confessed," shrilled Mr. Quincy. Anyone would have thought he was enjoying himself. “Norcross? Well, I vum!” Uncle Wylie marched straight to Hugh. “Keep your mouth shut, young fel­ ler. me lad, Iffen you did kill Lane I guess we’ll all back you up. It was —self-defense, warn’t it?" “And old Man Brown?” i “And Miss Kendall?” ; The men gathered around the Another Bad Night Could Bet No Rest To the thousands who toss, night after night, on sleepless beds and to I whoso eyes slumber will not come. I To those who sleep in a kind of way, but whoso rest is broken by j bad dreams and nightmares. j To those who Wako up in the I morning as tired as on going to bed, < We offer in Milburn’s Health and [ Nerve Pills a remedy to help soothe and calm the nerves and bring them back to a perfect condition, and when this is done there should be no more sleepless nights dud to shat­ tered nerves. CTho T. Milburn, Co., Ltd., Toronto, Ont. boat, shaking their heads and mur­ muring to themselves. They might be good witnesses as far as Lane was concerned, but the others-— Uncle Wylie screamed In a high falsetto, the way he did whenever he wanted anything: “Melia!” Auntie came running, “Where’d you hide “The Eleanor’s rollers?” “Hide ’em? How should I know? Up in the barn chamber ain’t they?’ She stood, a trim whisp of a woman in a neat checkered bib apron, her gnarled hands on her hips. ’ catching sight of Hugh, You Mr. Norcross?” Hugh raised haggard eyes said nothing. “I declare I feel a spell cornin’ on, too. Want some of my elderberry wine?” Her eye fell on the patch on the boat. “Land sakes! I’d ruther put to sea in a barrel. ’Tain’t safe, is it Wylie?” Uncle Wylie was examining the patch. He looked at it outside and in, then he scratched his head. “Ne­ ver get acrost the gap. Cove either. Course we can roll her down and see. Me, I'd tear that thing off and do it right.” “Why don’t you do it then?” his wife asked tartly. “Take too long. Let’s see if she’ll hold water.” “Oh, what the hell!” Hugh sprang •up to help get a log under the Elean­ or. “Let’s get going. I want the police to come, I want to be arrest­ ed before my sister comes down.” A Boat Thaddeus Quincy wheeled himself out of the way. De Witt stood with closed eyes praying again. I thought, Potter and Uncle Wylie took hold of, the boat. Aunt Nella came down the slope and I went to meet her. She shot a querulous glance at Hugh and ask­ ed me what he’d meant. I tried to tell her in a breath. :‘Nonsense! Fiddlesticks’ Come along in the house, Mr. Norcross. I don’t want two invalids on my hands.” Hugh just tugged at the boat with the others. “No use, Auntie. Leave him alone. I don’t believe he’s guilty either; but he has his own reasons for con­ fessing,” I said to her. “That sister loon! Mooning own brother is I’ll bet she—” “Hush, Auntie, Let’s men." We went down and helped steady the thing. Luckily it wasn’t far to the Gerry landing a weatherbeaten broken raft, anchored to a tiny pier beyond the barn and not far from the strip of beach. The rolling was slow, but after a while we reached the edge of the woods. In the path something very bright lay gleaming, and I saw it was one of Lily’s small green beads from her mixed string. Kendall! She’d never path again nor scatter her innum­ erable beads. I stooped and picked up the little momento and put’ it in my pocket. Then I sat down on an old willow stump to hest. Auntie was urging me to go back to the house. The boat was already at the water’s edge. I wanted to see the final splash and learn if it would be safe. I hoped Victor Quade wouldn’t get into mighty shove, it water. As a matter of Just then Thaddeus a yell and waved his like anything. Sure boat was making for had no tender, but as she came about the men hastily tied the Eleanor and stood shouting till it’s a wonder anything could be made of it. Ahoy, there!” yelled the man. “Lane ready? Lost my tender.” So he’d come expecting Roddy to go sailing with him. And Roddy hadn't kept the date, I "Lane’s not hear!” shrilled Quin­ cy. “There’s been a— De Witt held up his hands. “Let me, my friends.” Then he bellowed.1 “Send the police—at once. Murder! j sputtered: “She had nothing to do Understand?" The man let go the tiller a second to megaphone with his hands. “Not Lane! Did you say-—Murder? When bp did’nt show up I came after You want the police!” I was sure he was going to size, but he righted his craft sailed slowly, oh, it seemed so slow­ ly. toward town across the cove. “It won’t be long now,” said, “and I’m utterly glad, for Norcross, though." “God help him! muttered minister making for the inn. think I’ll try to rest a bit till they come.” Uncle Wylie pulled at his old corn­ cob pipe a moment. “Nella, where’s my pipe. You know, the one I like.' “Where the police can’t find it. How’d I know anybody would con­ fess? I—I burned it!” CHAPTER XXVII Then, i sick, and of his! Crazy as a up there trying to when go to help her jail the Poor Miss walk this it, when, with a slipped into the fact, nobody Quincy let red table cloth enough, a sail our wharf. She did. out a if I a “Dang it! Burned my best pipe! That was a smart thing to do! What will the police think when they find you’ve deliberately burned some of the evidence?" Uncle Wylie was mad. “Let ’em think what they please," Aunt Nella swept up the stairs with dignity. “Come along, Mr. Nor­ cross.” She had no intention of sharing her precious elderberry wine with all of us. But Hugh sank down in a chair, his head slumped forward and dazed expression on his face, as he could no longer take it all in. sat in the next chair. “Be a relief to be let alone in nice quiet cell,” he said to nobody in particular. “Only my own nerves to consider, for a change. I believe it’ll be a rest. Maybe poor Bessie will snap out of it. Help her, Judy. And know this before they come: If things hadn’t turned out this way, I was going to tell you something. It doesn’t matter now. You wouldn't want to hear it from a friend like me.” I could still see the sailboat dis­ appearing in the opposite direction. The sun was hot. Below us lay the charred place where the fish shed had stood, with its gruesome exhibit. Beyond, poor Lily, whom the men had thought best to leave where she was—cruel as it seemed to us all. “There are plenty of people on this porch who could be convicted on evidence against them, the same as you, it seems to me, Hugh. Per­ sonally I can’t see what yon could have to say to me, after the way you tried to involve me in this awful affair,” I said to him. “Nobody could pin anything on yon on account of the $700 I sent you.” “In $50 bills?" He let it ride. “I wish they’d come and take me away. Suspense is terrible.” “Hughie, why did you put that glass bead in my powder compact and leave the bag for De Witt to find? You must have known it would implicate me,” “Oh, yes; the bead. It was a nice one. I ’found it. Thought you could give it back to Miss Kendall. Always picking them up for her.” “So you were. Pretty kind to a person you’d planned to kill.” We’d been almost whispering, but now 1 got up to go into the house. “ 'iFraid it won’t wash, Hugh Norcross; any more than the pool of blood Bessie says was at the foot of the church steps. No one else saw any traces of it. She’s covering for you, and you’re doing the same for her.” A whisper came between “Shut up, Judy! Go on with the Norcross. Know your innocent, it’ll throw the real you-know g' that that any any keep some of it from the authorities if it has nothing to do with the crimes—thit is." I saw my aunt turn her back and knew the teeth were being plunged in agtftn. “Mr. Gerry and I will not mind their questions. I’ll own up to destroying the pipe. Bet most wives burn up a smelly pipe or two. It’s silly to think, even if it dropped out of Wylie’s pocket at the fish shed, it could have set the fire. Burn­ ed him, wouldn’t it? Why don’t you came clean about your daughter, Mr. Quincy? Can’t do any harm now.” Thaddeus Quincy pounded the steps with his cane. He was sitting in his chair down at the foot of them, and now his face seemed strangely contorted as he glared at my aunt. Mr. Quincy Explans “Couldn’t you leave her out of it!’ he thundered, He had a motive, too! He had a stalwart cane. He could get around alone, for hadn’t I blun­ dered into him in the church aisle! Had his daughter been another of Roddy’s victims? And why hadn’t my aunt told me? A new respect for her came to do with another woman’s hus­ band.” “If She knew it,” Quincy added. “Don't have a fit, Norcross. It wasn't your sister. Happened out west. The woman—I won’t mention her name —but she dabbled in magazine il­ lustrating, at the time. Deserted her, too. her a terrible life, I’ve heard.’1 There was a motive a yard wide— a man who’s abused his daughter ought to be killed. Mr. Quincy him­ self said so>5( the lucky Lane kept “But I didnt pestiferous Miss I came to the Head to try to get back my daughter’s $19,000. Roddy told her, after he’d been drinking one day, he had a personal bank hid­ den at the Head, but not in the Castle. He’d fooled the police at the time of the search; but if she’d take him hack he’d get it and repay her. The depression left us pecially her and the twin babies -— she’d remarried after the divorce— hard up. I'd seen no mention of Lane in the Rockville paper. I de­ termined to come to the Head and have a look-see. The auction of the church set me thinking. That1 would be the very place to hide his wealth, in an unused church. iSo 1 came. I didn’t know whether Lane was still afraid to show up here, or had taken the money away or not. My daughter refused to have any­ thing to do with him or his money.” “Did you send me the cash to buy, the church?” ' He pointed his cane at Hugh. “He did. Me’ I’m poor. I bid but it was a relief when you got it Judy. That would give me access without suspicion. No it’s clear as a brook; The recluse died by accident. The bridge collapsed. Norcross avenged his sister. And Miss Kendall fell. All we have to do is wait far the police who should arrive in—” he took out his watch, “—about fifteen or twen­ ty minutes.” Victor’s hands pat-a-caked silently “Very, very interesting, Mr. Quincy. And the wind tied the blue scarf around Lily's neck?” “You should know. I wasn’t down there. We’d all left the church and Your Child Has^ A NASTY Query and Reply by She was married, also next breath, It was put of his sight, kill Mm nor that Kendall. I'll admit In Toronto A Modem Hotel Convenient — Economical Rate Single ls?' eEs up Special Weekly and Monthly Rate* Write for Folder. Hotel Spadina Ave, at College St A. M. Powell President Relieve the Misery Without Dosing Page Turner (All radio and reprint rights ed.) reserv- bloom of the es- Rub chest, throat and back thor­ oughly with Vicks VapoRub at bedtime. Right away, VapoRub goes to work,.. two ways at once. VapoRub acts on the skin like a warming stimulating poultice. At the same time it gives off medi­ cinal vapours that are breathed direct into irritated air passages. This direct, double action contin­ ues for hours after restful sleep comes. Often by morning most of the misery is gone. Why risk increased discom­ forts by dras- gone to the bridge. You stayed a while didn’t you?” “Yes. With Judy.” Did Lily’s death coincide with the gull’s cry? I sure it had. Victor changed subject. “Why?, Anything to Potter?” (To be Continued) felt the add Be Loyal - - It Pays Every man or woman employed by business is a salesman, and where is the customer who likes to buy goods from a salesman who is not loyal to his house? And where is the salesman who can be consist­ ently successful if his state of mind is out of tune with the policies and personnel of the institution he re­ presents? Disloyalty never did build busi­ ness .but honest loyalty has always been the hub of the wheel of success Judas betrayed his Master for thirty pieces of silver. Did it pay Judas? Yet many a modern sales organiza­ tion consisting of one, two or a do­ zen men has within it at least one man who will pat the boss on the back, tell him what a good fellow he is, and proceed at once to tell some­ one else a contradictory story*. His attitude is usually expressed by the words “What is there in it for me?” Why doesn’s he get himself job or get his state of mind tened out to tune with his job, is one of the mysteries ern business. Loyalty promotes confidence and confidence is a great little sales-get- ter. If for no other reason on earth be loyal because it pays the loygl one in real dollars and cents and will continue to pay during all that indefinite period of time we speak of as’the Query: Do century plants only every hundred years? Reply: No. Some varieties Century Plant bloom every year and they sometimes have from five to se­ ven thousand blooms at a time. Query: When was Coal discovered in America?” Reply: The discovery of Coal ip North America is credited to Nich­ olas Allen in Pennsylvania in 179 0, Building a campfire under an over­ hanging ledge during a rainy seas- son the block rock of the ledge be­ came ignited and on investigation, it proved to be a surface outcropping of coal. Query: When was oil discovered in America? Reply: Tar and Pitch (surface in­ dications of oil) were known to the Indianas before the discovery of America. The first oil well was drilled by Col. E. L. Drake at Titus­ ville, Pa., in 1859, Depth of the well was 69 feet. Wells are now drilled to a depth of 10,000 feet — some as deep as 14,000 feet. Query: In a travelogue recently, I saw the picture of a herd of giraffes running. I have always understood they were a slowly moving animal. Can you give an explanation? Reply: The Giraffe lives in equat­ orial Africa and has many natural enemies in the Animal Kingdom — so he must be fleet of foot to escape danger. In the picture you may have noticed that unlike most four- footed animals the legs on one side move forward at the same time — giving them an unbalanced gait. They use their neck while running to maintain their balance. 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