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The Clinton New Era, 1915-01-14, Page 7Thursday, January Leh, 1915. aseiimmossemenues anew 1lnlninIrnrnrntnllrllrnrnrllr' !>a� There Isa Cold day Coming •�. Why not;prepare for it by ordering your winter supply, of Lehigh Valley Coal, none better in Pe world A. J. Holloway, Clinton ` � IIIit111t11111nit itnl, orl�rllt BUSINESS AND SHORTHAN lir Subjects taught' by expert instructor_ at the Y, M. G. A. DLDG.,. LONDON. ONT. Studentsassisted to positions: College in session from Sept. lst. Catalogue free. Enter any time. LW. Westervelt J. W. Westervelt, Jr. Prlaeipal Chattered Accountant 19 Vice -Principal o estwo••s•o•So•siseeeeO••s Win. ter Sas s ion • •' Opens January 4th in all depart• • ments of the CENTRAL BUSI- • NESS COLLEGE, Yonge and •' Gerrard Streets, Toronto. Our Catalogue explains our superior • ' ity in Equipment, Staff, Methods • and Resuits. 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Have you ordered your Kindling for the winter? Stave Edgings and Cedar B!Ocks on hand Malted Crain and Other Stock Foods fol• horses and cattle -kept in Stock Quaker Oats Corn Flakes Flour Oat Meal' Corn Meal, Etc.,'Etei GENERAL DELIVERY DONE, Agent for Hetntznian'Pianos Old ones taken in exchange, and balance on easy term' CRANK W. !VANS TERMS CASH. PHONE 192 a :l IN,TON 141W ERA PAGE SEVEN., '. trY4 outC 'w 147 /w.1 sty C lALES E MONDS WALL{ a Author of The Silver Eilade/ "r w. 17a.er:teeter :Ruby," etg. • is ,un by A. c, , Clurs.t.Qd• Irbil e, r�+ a chair. "MY name,"g be acknowledged. And, With a wry mouth: "You are a detec- tive; 0 might have expected it -but , l didn't." ' Instantly the steady eyes contracted and wrinkled at the corners. The young man all at once discovered that his irritation was evaporating, and that he could smile in sympathy with his visitor. Said the quiet voice: "I am glad to know, that my estimate of your intelli- gence was not at fault. Flint is my name-Phineas Flint -from Central Office." "Considering that you have never (seen me 'before, Mr. ,Flint," Van Vech- ten lightly retorted, "it is rather ex- traordinary that you should possess any particulars upon which to base an estimate of my intelligence." The steady, smiling regard still met the young man's. "I'11 demonstrate just how simple a matter it is -if you have pardoned this intrusion?" The listener nodded. His attention was already won. "Have you any idea how the poor ,chap met his death?" he queried. "Yes," was the prompt reply. "He was struck over the head with some kind of blunt instrument. It is pretty certain that only one of the blows - ?the one on the temple -could have proved fatal; the other -right behind the Left ear -might have stunned him o r produced unconsciousness. But se to who did it -there's the question. There are some extraordinary features 'about this murder, Mr. Van Vechten." ' Rudolph Van Vechten rose and Walked over to a front window. "Come here," he invited Mr. Flint. And then, after the latter had quietly joined him, he nodded toward Number 1313. "See that house across the way? Well, less than two minutes before my friend and I came up with the poor chap lying in the alley, he emerged from there. I am pretty certain, too, that his departure was accompanied by some sort of fracas -before the door was opened, you know." , The network of wrinkles marked a narrowing of the gray eyes, while Mr. Flint subjected the unprepossessing facade to a long, searching scrutiny. "Then," he said at last, "you were, following him. Why? Surely, not out o f idle curiosity?" The young man•shrugged his shwa]. iders. "Sit down," he curtly bade, re - !sliming the seat he had occupied ear IIler in the day, while Mr. Flint sank ;into the one lately occupied by Tom 1?hinney. "If you can make anythiug of what I have to tell you, you are welcome to it." He began with as much of Number 1313's history as he knew, and, with but two reservations, recounted every- thing down to the moment that he and Tom rushed from the club to overtake; the man killed at the alley intersec- tion. The detective listened with a marked. but respectful attention, not once in- terrupting the recital. And when Van. Vechten had finished, Mr. Flint asked, a single question. Hie preoccupied look remained•upon Number. 1313. ; "Has it occurred to you," he said, with thoughtful deliberation, "to won- der where onder-where the murderer came from? - and whither he fled?" Van Vechten eat silent, unmoving, his face a mask. Involuntarily now, iris mind once more fashioned a map' of the neighborhood -one. that carried Pe fatal, alley straight behind the' house across the way. "I mentioned," Mr. Flint was pursu-', ing, "that this case offered some rath-i er extraordinary features. So far,l quite the most extraordinary is that ai man was struck down on a populous; thoroughfare, in broad daylight, and! nobody saw the actual deed. Besides' the newsboy, there was a lady almost; directly 'across the street from the, alley, •who witnessed' from a window the man sink to the walk. But' she! saw w no one running from the scene." "Perhaps," murmured Van Vechten .-"perhaps no one did." "Ah -to be sure," observed Mr. Flint, smoothly. "A crowd gathered very quickly, I believe; what was easier thanto remain and mingle with it? An old trick, Mr. Van Vechten." That young man did not meet the swift 'oblique ,'glance that swept his Immobile features. Mr. Flint rose slowly, and stood irresolutely finger- ing his hat. He was again absently contemplating the Silent House. After a moment his eyee crinkled in a smile. He sold softly: "I see, Mr. Van Vechten, that the same thought has come to both of us." And before departing he bestowed a sinal reflective nod upon Number 1313. 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And the instant ho 1 ht after I ate my would get so sleepy CHAPTER VI. `core Phihl]ey's Adventure. I'om Phinney'-was so accustomed to what he was pleased to call his friend's "aberrations," that at Van Vechten's left intimation that he d esired to be alone, Tom stalked off to the billiard If you were told of a new discovery for the treatment of coughs, colds and bronchitis, as' certain in its action on' all chest troubles as anti -toxin' is On diphtheria, or vaccination on Small -pox, ou feel PY like giving it a trial ? Especially if you could try it for fifty cents ! Peps is the discovery! Peps are little tablets, neatly wrap- ped in air and germ -goof silver foil. 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A free trial packet will then be sent you, All druggists and stores. sell. Peps at SOs. box. volved -or, "at least, that -he-Fee-1W possessed some inside information, This drew an explosion. "I don't know a d•— thing about It," Tom shouted, beating the air with his hands. "I saw a lot of fel- lows going into the house, and a wom- an- Confound you chaps! Why can't you let a fellow alone when he wants to think by himself!" "A woman!" he was quickly taken up by both. "Who was she?' But Tom relapsed into an obstinate Silence. He was angry and morose, fund his two friends left him in a huff, calling him impolite names and guy- ing him for expressing a desire to put his mental processes through an unaccustomed exercise, This made him gloomier still. And when Be re, fleeted that, after all, he had men- tioned the mysterious woman in the taxi, his depression became acute. He drove the balls around a de- serted table with vicious jabs of his cue, the while he too bewailed the fate that kept him away from the Carterets' yacht. For he could not think of availing himself of this pleasure unless Ruddy were along. Tom's income did not permit of his owning yachts or motor -cars; but what he did not know about them was not worth anybody's time trying to find out. Ile was thus reminded of a catboat over at Rocky Cove, belonging to a friend who was in Europe, and which ,he could use whenever he wanted to. He threw down his cue, hunted up ,a, time -table, then hastened home to toss a battered but wonderfully com- fortable negligee outfit into a bag, and hie himself over to Long Island. As he passed through the lounging• room -it is worth recording -Van Vechten was brooding in his corner, and so did not see him. Tom sur. ;'eyed him a second or so, then con - ;eluding that he had better not breast in upon his cogitations, hastened away. While it was yet daylight, Toni found the sail where it was stored in this friend's.boathouse, shipped the single mast and rigged it up, then went up into town after a box of pro. visions. He meant to cruise around the Sound for a day or two, thus giv. ing Ruddy plenty of time to think, and perhaps learn something definite about his Cousin Paige's movements Into the bargain;- afterwards they might find time to join the Carterets, :He was profoundly disgusted that a girl's caprice was depriving' him and !Ruddy of a jolly good time. That night, after a couple of pipes, ,he went to sleep in his little oraft'd :cabin, and before daylight he wag astir and taking advantage of a light off -shore breeze. All day he loafed around' the lower Sound, enjoying' himself immensely and ineidentallj emptying the provision locker to fill Last crumb. He viewed this ciroum- etance with a rueful laugh. "Moses and green spectacles! And; thought I was'laying in supplies tor' a week's cruise!" • Then he laughed again -light -heart edly this time -and trimmed about for of ` .dinner that I could not do work. -A appeared he was <assailed by a tom' friend of mine, from Toronto, visited bardment of questions, all prompted me last summer and he asked me to try Milburn's Laxa-Liver Pills. He told me they had done him so much good for his stomach. I used several vials, and I found they did me so much good that I can recommend them to any one suffer - mg Cell ;ver u e, l Protn A]lburn,s Laza-Liver ver Psll sare2 25c a vial, 5 vials for 4d;lO, at all dealers, or Dile,' direct on receipt of price by Th Iilbura Co., 0,!mited. Toronto by eager curiosity respecting, Number 1113's tragedy. "Say, you fellows, cut it out!" he cried in desperation. "I'm not going to-, tell you anything at all I'm not g 5g ;to talk about it." ttheybleb were all the more W that concluding 'nous. a '• eager,- m�1ti� was in some way then -his jaw dropped, ahll his piper` clattered upon the grating at'his 1Ie recognized one of the men -the aged, white-haired servant whom he had seen once or twice emerge from Number 1318. Quickly he darted -a g=lance at each of the others in turn; but he hail `never seen them before. In a flash they were gone, and it was not until a vagrant puff heeled him perilously astarboard that'he recovered his wits and brought his boat round again into the wind. By then the motor' -boat had been all but swallowed in the gloom. However, - Tom .reflected, they were heading straight for Rocky Cove;' ;f the breeze held d he would have awe his own craft tied up i at his friend's pier 'within the half-hour; then a quick change of attire in the boathouse, and trecould put in the evening reconnoi- tering. It would be queer if he failed to turn up'sonrething in a little place like Rocky Cove. • But after he had dined at the one hotel where he felt free to go at this season without evening clothes, he was put out to observe that a storm was brewing. The sky was already thickly overcast, the night suffocat -ingly close, and off to the west light- ning Was flicltering and • approaching with a rapidity that promised a squall, While he stood undecided as to what course to pursue, the platter was taken unexpectedly out of his hands. A man, walking rapidly, came ab- ruptly out of the darkness and en- tered the glare of -light from the hos- telry's open door and windows. He it was who had been controlling the motor -boat. • Tom now had an opportunity to ob ;serve several particulars about him that he had previously missed, or failed •to note -that he was a tall, ;loose-jointed, muscular, youngish man, of a sandy complexion and a se- -ious, not to say sullen, cast of coun- tenance. Moreover, his lean, sharp featured face bore a number of marks and abrasions, as if he had quite re- cently met with an accident. Tom's own good-humored psysiognomy more than once had acquired similar high lights and shadows, resultant on tumbles from sundry polo -ponies. The man proceeded upon his "way, looking neither to the left nor the right. He carried a large ladenbas- ket-which he bore lightly -and in a second. or two had passed into the darkness again. The night, though, was now so punc- tuated by lightning flashes, that Tom found no difficulty in marking his progress along the road that led in- land. He chuckled to think how luck 'was showing him her cards; Ruddy, doubtless, was still racking hie 'brains and stifling in town. Without an instant's 'hesitation, or a thought of the storm which was about to break, he set out after the fellow. He neglected to observe even the ordinary precaution of a glance around. If he had, the night'e adven- ture might have terminated differ- ently. He would have beheld, for one thing, two other of the motor -boat's occupants, farther in the rear, walk- ing in the same direction -two ath- letic young men laden with bundles of various sizes and shapes. As it was, they on their part instantly de- tected Tom's interest in the first man, and also the obvious fact that he had started out to follow him. They at once ceased their low - voiced conversation anddevoted l d attd al their attention to Tom Phlnney, Thus the little procession advanced in silence, on through the towu and into the open country, As soon ns the last of the fringe of houses was passed, the twain in the rear quickened their- pace, mov- ing closer to Tom. The loose sand underfoot, and the now almost con- 'ti'nual crash and rumble of thunder overhead, effectively drowned out all 'other sounds. The sole warning Tom had that !natters were not progressing as sat- isfactorily as he had fancied, came with the first gust of hot, dust -laden :wind. A sudden shout directly in his rear startled him from his absorp- ltron. ' "Mr, Collis!" exploded a voice: "Here! Quick!" Just as he pivoted round, there ',came a dazzling flash and a deafen- ing crash -and then the deluge. He !received an instantaneous picture of two stalwart figures tossing a burden bf'packages to the ground, and then tin the eneuing blindness he was seized by violent hands. Now Tom was himself a man Of Mighty sinew and well -versed not Dusk was falling when he; drifted' close in toward Rocky Cove. He was possibly two miles off shore when he heard the'muffled exhaust and warning pipe of a motor -boat. And here is where his adventure may be said to have begun. Glancing back, he made out the graft bearing: down upon him under a Smother of spray of her own kicking up. She swept by so close to port that cespile the ball -light, he was nf1'nv.! inct ;view of several of ¢he c ., ;pants,' There wire five' Hien and three women. The latter were half -hidden en their wraps and kept• their faces averted, h.1 the mon all turned and: 'stared at elm with a fixedness that surprii*:;u' Tom coneiderably and made) frig;; not, a little curious. So he re- turned She scrutiny with an interest e Which normally he would not haV felt` Elie own :regard sharpened. And only In the science, of defending him- self, hat of pushing -war into the en- emy's camp. For a minute or two he made a bravo fight; but what avail- eth a man's stoutness of heart and limb when he is beset by three indi biduals nearly, if not quite, so strong. as he? The spirited struggle ended with Tom lying fiat upon his back in the middle of the road, his three antago- nists piled indlscrl'minately on top of him and panting for breath, while a cataract of rain pounded upon the just and the unjust alike. The wind whistled and shrieked, the thunder' boomed and crashed and split the night, and the lightning illuminated the whole s r:ae with a ghastly sem- bi.ance of daylight, At last the one called Callas -the' sandy -complexioned man -moved sud.\ denly to; his Imees, but without re- leasing his grip upon the well-nigh drowned. captive -a posture decidedly uncomfortable for Tom, for the bony„ knees bored into him cruelly. "Hold this duffer," Ca111s shouted ikbove the uproar, "while I knot to- gether a couple of handkerchiefs. If he mates a move bat him over the dread." Then came a lower -voiced ad- dendum which Tam alone caught: '!1 Continued next week. For severe wounds, cuts, skin diseases, eczema and all skin troubles—for adults or for children, there is nothing to equal the ;great Herbal healer er CRYING IN THE STREETS. But German Soldiers Have Courage Enough To' Be Cruel. Mme. van Daum, the wife of a prominent fur dealer, arrived recent- ly in London from Bruges with a vivid description of the German oc- cupation. She left her house in the Rue Fla- mande on a Monday morning and walked to Sluis, a distance of thirteen miles; from there she managed to work through to Flushing and thence on to England. The town is full of wounded Ger- mans, the Beguinage and the Hos- pital of St. John are crowded with disheartened - troops who come in every night. The English nuns of the Convent of the Dames Anglaiaes are nursing constantly, An order has been strictly enforced against anyone so much as looking out of the windows after eight o'clock in the evening, when the dismal' pro- cession of ambulance wagons begins to clatter through the narrow streets. The citzens have soldiers billeted upon them, and I myself was forced to feed eight of them in spite of the great difficulty in finding food of any kind. There is no sugar to be had and very little meat. Many are eating horseflesh to keep themselves alive. What butter there is is being sold for four francs a pound. All the eggs are sent away to Germany by the rail- way, which is being run entirely by WS Gaeli{oln boot t oulpoOO&. s a , d safe e•eiia,blp rellula0i+1p.- ,;n1e�iecne. Solrl in thrco.de- • groes of strength -No 1, 51; No. 2, 03; Ne. 3, So per Inc .n$tl90l d by all druggists, or Den t prepaid onrecol t of Ina Pros pamphlet. Adresa'. THE COOK ivthtfldntus co,. 1009080,.0110' (firmetY elladeso) CAST®RIA For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Always bears the aC/g Signature of Although hey, are soy much die - heartened, a$ to.; be found crying in the streets wherever one' turns, they are still very ;cruel T bad a dog which the English had nicknamed Kitchener. The Germans in my house discovered this and . caught my dog and cut it up into small .pieces. I saw a Gerrpan officer shoot him. self lo the hand in order to blame the • may rule Help in This Belgians and also I suppose; to es- Letter. cape from the firing line. WOME WH0 ARE Al Alfa TIRED There are no German soldiers in Bruges apart from the wounded. The occupying force `1s composed' entirely of sailors, The Germans are in a wretched state and have not changed their Theykeep clothing form weeks, cn P gay themselves in a state of bravado in public by threatening any English person or Belgian they can see, but when alone they literally weep and have no heart left in them. They are not fit for. any further fighting. Tommy and His Eggs. In a letter received by R. Part- ridge of North Toronto from his brother in London, England, the writer tells of an amusing incident concerning resourcefulness of our Tommiee. The soldier in question was at one time a London busman, and he tells of his experience in France and his endeavor to make himself understood by the aid of a French hand -book for travelers. "I went to a farm house," he says, "and tried to make them understand that I wanted eggs. They said 'Oui, oul,' and the man got a whip and bundled all the chickens together, making signs for me to pick one out. I tried to make them understand that it was eggs I wanted and not chic- kens, but Lord, I couldn't, so I got an onion and put it on some straw, sat on it, and then got up and cried 'cock-adoodle-do,' , Laugh! You ought to have heard them,. You would have thought they had all gone mad, but I got the eggs all right." A Problem In Etiquette. A red faced, awkward young man approached an usher at a church wed- ding the other day and timorously slip- ped into his hand a package tied with a red ribbon. "What's this?" asked the usher sus-` pielously. "Oh, that's the present for the bride." 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