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:: THE MAY DAY MYSTERY ::
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tonere/1)o
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Chapter L-4ntolnette Peyton, sen-
ses at the southern university of Mar-
•-- rwgts Patereon Thayer's at-
tentions to Ivy Welcn, sevetteeen.
od coed, and there 1s a stormy scene,
ending with bitter recriminations, tbe
tension being increased by Max Ver -
.es. _anoling_alee412ntt long Thayer's
friend, reproaching Tay for"Intsattn-
a date" with him. Thayer and Ver -
run threaten each other.
Chapter IL—Larry Welch, Ivy's
brother, professor at the university, U
appealed to by Tony Peyton to end his
sister's friendship with Thayer Welch
and Tony Peyton are in love with
eacb other. Welch does not see what
he can do In the matter. Tony then
tells him site 1. married to Thayer, both the murder and robbery. Tony
but 1a his wife only In name. Peyton, Larry Welch, and Max Vernon
Chapter IIIc -Larry determines to are under arrest as Thayer murder
see Thayer and end his aasoctatlos suspects.
with Ivy. Tony persuades him to watt
Chapter 111.---51anvey interrogates
1111111 ate has appealed to her hate- Were* coneeraing his actions on the
Marland's pollee chief, takes charge of
the case.
Chapter V.—The Marland bank 1.
robbed of $100,000. the robber eseap-
with the money after being shot
and apparently badly a nuelled. suss.
Hanvey, famous detective, grotesquely
obese, and good natured, comes to to
veatigate the robbery. Randolph F'tske,
0e4J, tells Hanvey he be
lleves Mai Vernon wiidtlttng -hts-
ear In which the robber got away.
Chapter VL—Thayer, Flake tells
Hanvey, has beeu systematically rob-
bing Vernon of large sums, In card
games, and Vernon, apparently, has
finally realized it. Reagan induces
Hanvey W take charge of the murder
case, evidence implicating Vernon to
band. She does so, visiting hen in his
room at a fraternity house. Max Ver-
t son, 'Dine In the same house, ar-
Irhes and goes to his room. Tony ends
bar visit to Thayer and departs. Ver-
son leaves tbe hoose almost immedi-
ately afterwards, visibly In a state
of excitement. Ile has a bundle, cars
Iessly tied, apparently clothing to be
renovated, under his arm.
Chapter IVs -Welch's appeal to
Ivy to end her affair with Thayer le
fru1Ueae. He determines to see Thay-
er. Despite Ivy's protestations, he
does so, and after he leaves Carmt-
rtee, fret bonen 3apit,ul.,lied* .iter
day of the murder. Welch is vague 1n
his expia uat1ons, though he Insists
Thayer was alive when he left him,
and Hanvey and Reagan are convinced
he 1s lying, seemingly endeavoring to
ebietd Tony Peyton. Reagan is mys-
tified, his firm convection being that
Vernon Is the murderer of Thayer and
the resulting series of Incidents mere-
ly secondary to the crane.
Chapter VIIL -At the scene of the
murder Hpnvey questions Carmtctno,
the janitor who found Thayer mur-
dered. Carmicino admits furnishing
Thayer with whisky for forbidden
dead, stabbed in the throat. Reagan `'movt'eu"4be` 'lin e and Thal -
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lamination Reagan, who had previous-
ly searched Vernon's room, finds there,
,hidden in a closet, a bloodstained whichith
'knife, evidently the weapon
the murder was committed.
er dividing the proms. AfI P'titivfe
CHAPT> R IX
(Continued from last week)
"Good girl. Now I want you tod
me about Mr. Thaler—and your-
self just whatever you feel I P
shouts know." at any more."
..I feel funny ..Why?"
The girl bit leer lip. I"He wouldn't tell me. There's al -
taut that, Mr. Hanvey. I've tried to ways been a lot of mean talk armed
the cameos about Pat. Ile was better
than the rest of thou and thee., all
bated him foe being more of i g_taa.
And Larry knew of it. 1 serer
"Bemuse Mai is just a kid. He's
a good spout sad all that, but he's a
baby."
"Haven't be and Thayer allays
been good Weeder
"Yea."
"When did you notice any change?'
"Oh, I can't just remember, Mr.
Move:: but Max has been impos-
sible lately. Mooning around with a
face like a week's *ash, and al-
ways talking serious instead of kid-
ding along like he need to.. I got
awful bond. Tben 1 started going'
wit, ''a: :Lha.t'S Mr_ TZLre*rad Mai
got sorer than ever. Then rte
me fur a May day date. We were to
go to the class track meet. 1 met Pat
and Just uannelly forgot the ditto—
es sit: then seitemsiiuc.Jgd
got nasty *bent it, and, of course, 'a
wouldn't stand that"
"Of course not. What did Mr. Thay-
er do?"
"Oh, be Bort of treated Max like
kid. Max got awful sore. I mean, he
was downright ugly about it."
"And then?"
"He stalked ea, trying to took like
"And you and Mr. Thayer?"
"We talked for awhile and then he
said he had to get ready for an after-
noon elites. He said if Mai,was sore
and wouldn't tike tete to the track
Net, he'd take me."
That was nice Now, about
your brotber
Her eye. tuned. you know he
wouldn't kill aayix'!y. Mr. Hinrey.
You've met Pim: in', a tine man....
and he Just woukdu't do anything like
that."
"Lid you see Larry between the
time Thayer tett you sad the time
Larry went to see him it the fra-
ternity bone?'
She Looked away, and be could see
her fingers clasping and unciaaping
nervonely. Jim leaned forward and
totieind-betejjp Please be honest,
Miss Weida. on `�l�it11lettVtg
from someone...."
"Yes. I saw him."
"Where?'
"Over at the women's dormitory.
Ile came to see me."
"What about?"
Her answer came in a whisper.
"Mr. Thayer."
"I see W .at elld be say
about Mr. Thayer?" _
"He Bald --he said i wasn't to see
tell one or two people—even my broth-
er—and they all laugh --or sneer—
wheil I say 1 was In love with bum."
"1 wouldn't laugh, Miss Welch. I'm
a sentimental old bird h! bow any secret about it."
believe in young love. Oh, tins"Then why did he suddenly come
i do" and speak to you day before yester-
L m seventeen." she said. "I guess day Y"
I'm not so awful dumb. I know abort A sin her cheeks turned white.
ax couch as the next girl. And I was
In love with Pat Thayer. He was "Somebodyy had' told h,wNasomethingn"
-Yes"Somebody"SomebodyrJlm infinitely
wonderful to me. Not always wise- tient. "Waw?"
erackltig-'atsd showing off smart like Pa
most ?soya H is whetheWW1 aful rehshe's
and l glee+. a grl know
in tore• or not, no matttte pw much
—much
people laugh. And
he—" Her eyes filled with fierce hot
tears which she dashed away. "I'm
an awful lily little foot, Mr. Hanvey
—but I can't help it"
"Yee go right ahead and cry, ivy."
Hanrel's rolce was infinitely gentle.
"•I guess I know bow you feel. Once
when I was a heap younger—arid a
heap thinner—I had a girl. And I
lost per She married another all kind of .sed In everybody knows Hamilton, Lueknow, were recent vfsit-
feller, and It sort of seemed as though it. It's calhol the Bower and couples ors with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. ManJill.
she had died." go there 1.•t- of times. It's a sort of Mr. and Mr. Grant MacDiarmld and
college rase never to go 1n there when Douglas were visitors with Mr. and
someone c -, is there. I mean not Mrs. Donald Blue, Amberley, recently.
to go In wi ru you hear somebody. Mrs. John Jamieson Spent the week -
"Tony 1', ton was coming from the end with Mrs. Campbell and Gretta In
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"Antoinette
"I nee.... And taw did Mae Pey-
ton happen to pi. k Hee particular
day to tell him?"
Becanae—w ii, it happened this
wa7, Mr. Haute). She walked to
the window and motioned him to join PARAMdt.'NT. May 22.—Mise •noes
her. "You see, all the college build- MacAuley, Stratford, epi the Mail-
ings
e- .Ings are on a hili here. Way over you- end at her .home here.'
der ou that big hill 1s the women's Mrs. Tom MacDonald, Loetiaislh,
dormitory. When you walk orer there t itpent-a *woe's with Mrs. Jack Mac -
you go doe,. the hill beyond the Bowl Intoeh and her mother, Mrs. Mae -
and peas 11: iugh a pretty tittle patch Charlet.
of woods. "There's a place doe there Mr. and Mrs. Spindler and Mrs.
Freak from
the Gardena
"Did you mention that Thayer was ei
wearing your diamond ring?"
"No. I just didn't remember. I
wasn't scared to tell him, though."
"1 don't believe you were.... Tell
me: Would Larry have been likely to
recognise that ring? Lid he kuow It
pretty well?"
"Yes, sir. It was my mother's."
"Larry went to see him to make hha
stay away from you. He was mad
when be went. Yet you thank he
didn't kIU Thayer?"
"I'm sure of 1t, Mr. Il ire -4 . Tidy
couldn't stab a man. Anyone would
teU you that."
"They have," admitted Jim. "And
they've told me the same thing about
Miss Peyton and hunt Vernon." He
rose ponderously. "I'm much obligett
Miss Welch. You've been a darn good
sport and you've helped me a heap"
She rose and faced him, and for a
second a womanly dignity seemed to
have settled upon her.
"WUI you tell me the truth about
one thing, Mr. ilanvey? Have I
helped my brother or hurt him?"
Jim smiled a broad, lazy smile.
o1`diI`vir
terpailrile-trpreseigetie
my word on that. Ton see; for the
first time 1 got a little of the truth."
He watched her as she opened tbe
door. He saw her give a start, and
her slim figure stiffened.
"You !" she cried sharply.
"Yeh, it's me," answered Reagan
from the hallway.
"You've been listening!"
"No'm, I haven't Honest I've just
been waiting for Jim Hanvey."
Ivy witheredblm with a glance and
juu
stalked off down the hall. Reagan
entered the room grinning.
"Plenty "
""Got *ap_ beaches r
.,Yeh"
"Agatnit who?"
Hanvey chuckled. "ageybody.".1N
answered. Then: "Did yes sM Ur!
non?"
" I did."
"Show him the knit.?"
"Yell,.
"What did be say?"
"Ile said." answered Reagan, " that
theeknite is him!"
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Ivy sensed the very genuine sym-
1 the deep human under -
Dolby am
*tending. The campus tragedy had
hurt more, than anyone suspected.
There h.e.l been the abock, the tor -dormitory and Pat sad I were In T.ucknow.
there. T.• Peyton MtMdngohed sad Mr. John D. Martin spent hist week
then bus e+l right in N its. Nie-4he with his Incind, Mr. Adam Laidlaw, at
gate Pat the lfavfl" Hanover.
"i nes....,..... Ilat what bus
tell of the herolem which sent Ivy
Mist Marl Cook spent a few Ain , �.
with friends in Kincardine.
ror then the fear that IarrT
might hare done It. Only leer room
mate knew of the 1� Lours of cry-
ing only the roommate could
was ft of Ler'?"
Welch bravely out on the e'amptta. The face which Ivy lifted to Iianvey
But Iry lied not talked to that room as stu.;c o[ bewilderment
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Hanvey, now—he was different. "I daon't know l"
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help. It was a relief to talk..... ! Didn t she say?"
\o., 01
"Pat Thayer and 1 were engaged," arse I
could tell that
she said /Pimply.
"Gee
"Of course, we weren't thinking
About -getting- married just yet. We
both felt I was too young. But I was
wearing Lie f'ltflrflty pin and be was
wearing a diamond ring which used to
belong to my mother," Again her eyes
Oiled with tears. "He had It on when
—when he died, Mr. Ilanvey."
Vet shook hie head., "Where 1a 11
now, Mime Welch?'
there was something between Tony
and l'at; or, anyway, there had been.
Tony was awful sore, and Pat was
mad. He told Tony to mind her own
business end that if she batted In on
him 'lthe'.l be darting something she
couldn't stop. Tony said he ought to
be ashamed of himself because i was
such a ki1, and he said he'd do what
—what he it -n pleased"
"And y'ou'r"
"I just -feud there. It seemed like
"I don't know., I suppose It's still 1 was an ontader. I hadn't -seer seen
on—on his flnger. i put it there my- Fat mad, and I never naught Tony
could get so sora"
self."It
She suddenly burled her fare In ler "It was a real Lusa?"
hands. Henrey, filled with a deep 1 "Yea, sir. i oink Tony const he
pity, watched her in silence. Then the crazy stout him, and she wax jealous.
blond head jerked upward aril she
forced a *mile. "I won't talk about
It eny more. Mr. Ilanvey. 111 try to
be a hood wont. You're going to help
get Larry free?"
- • "YeS--tf he is -iieaeeeet."
"Rarefy you don't think °"
"No, ivy—I don't. lint I do think
that Larry hoe talked htmeelf into a
Anyway, 1 mesa she acted like that."
"Ton didn't gat any hint—from
either Pat or Miss Peyton --whet there
was. or hell been, between them?"
"No, sir:"
"And yon thunk Mien Peyton told
—foul brollies (haute ought to do -some-
thing about it?"
"Yes-- , Larry is crazy about
lot of tremble. And if he won't tell her. lie didn't teL nicer He said I'd
the trnth it's ep to me to find 1t out have to gnit grating with Pat. i said T
wouldal, aunt- ha said he'd nee that
i did."
Jim', ecee were half cloud. His
voice came In slew, dl/tnterekted
drawl.
"And then he told you he was going
over to see Thayer, didn't he?"
"Yes, air."
"That wn• nhoat halt -past one?"
"i think so-
"H.
o""H. was real sore when he left you.
wasn't hes'
She aeemee startled. "Not sone
enough to kill anybody, Mr. Tianvey.
Don't you nsderstand, Larry Isn't
that kind at all. Maybe 154 could have
quarreled with Pat and had a fight
althenrh 1 never hare known
Tarry even to do that. But anyway,
he could have lse.t Pat np. He never
would hove need a knife."
"Do yon know It he and Mle* Pey-
ton are eng sled 1"
"I don't think se. i mean. i think
Tarry would like to be, hut. I'm mare
Tony was erns, *beet Pat Thayer."
w",t,,.„ t-ptsnr brother
t>ttrt"7es ani wase espaeB'P
"flare I did."
from someone oboe."
"T'11 tell yon everything 1 know."
"Hood. Now first : Weren't you
with Mr. Thayer day before yesterday
just *honk noon?"
"Yes, sur."
"Tilt Max Vernon meet you,..
"Yes, sir."
"What happened then?"
She hesitated, and her cheek/ grew
white; tont she answered with brave
honesty:
"They had a pretty nasty quarrel,
Mr. Hanvey."
Hanvey leaned forward. "Would
you mind telling toe, Mies Welch—
what Vernon and Thayer quarreled
about 1"
She flushed slightly. "About me."
"Why?"
"Well," she answered with a Ruh
of the stratghtforwardnes which he
liked --"L geese 1 acted pretty rotten.
T had a date with Mai and I stood
him ups"
LemeldereleJlailieg
ti� eeeyerT" ":', ""
"Of coarse."
„Why?.
BAYFIELD
HAYFIELD, May 22.—Mr. and Mn.
tiny Poth of ('sWord a spent the week-
end at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. 11
Jowett
Mr. and Mra. F. H. Paull of East
Windsor npent a couple of days as
gne*ts with Mr. N. W. Woods last
week.
Rev. W. G. and Mrs. Bugler and son
Bernard and Mr. Bugler. sr., were In
London last week, when Rev. Mr. Bug-
ler attended the Synod meeting there.
Mise Jean Woods of Byron 1e spend-
ing a few weeks with her mother, Mrs.
N. W. Woods.
Chir local fisherman, W. J. McLeod,
caught a large nab in hi* nets nn Fri-
day. It was a sturgeon weighing 115
1hx. and measuring 6 ft. 9 inches from
tip to tail.
Mr. E. Kendall of Guelph spent the
week -end with Mr. and Mrs. W. R.
Jowett.
/flee Bugler of London la the guest
of her brother, Rev. W. 0. Bngler, at
the rectory.
A.Y.P.A. Bnngset.—The A.I.P.A. of
Yarn', Seafield and Middleton held a
enceexefal banquet 1n the town hall
on Friday, May lath, when the
"Blues," loser* of the season's contest,
treated the "Whites" to a splendid re-
past. The hall was tastefully dew f-
ated In blue and white, the A.T.P.A.
colors, and cherry blossoms. Between
courses there was a singsong arrd Mitt
Bugler favored the gathering with a
solo whleh wait mneh enjoyed. Mies
Marion Middleton, the prewklent, pro-
pawed
ropawed a toast to the Ring and Rev. W.
G. Bugler fine to the A.T.P.A., wblch
wee responded to by Mr. Dari Diehl.
Mt. Stewart Middleton proposed a
toast to the winners and this was re-
plied to, by Mr. ("eytee eftlintt. the
eaptAn of the "Whites." A toast to
the ladles was peopneed by Mr. iftan-
dell (ole and responded to by Miss
Margaret (troves. Mr. Fret Middleton,
Mr. Leone Elliott, Mr. John MacPar-
lane end Mr. Bugler, dr., were Balled
on for wteeehe- Mina Siete We'tlake
propeted a toedt to Miss Twrey Woods
to thank her for her help in the A.T.
P.A. one to wish her "bon voyage" no
her journey to Ireland. Mels Woods
suitably replied and the rospeny sang
at1N's a Jolly good fellow." After
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