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The Clinton News Record, 1932-03-17, Page 2'PAGE 2 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD Clinton News -Record With which is Incorporated THE NEWERA A Terms of Subserlption—$2.00 per year in advance, t°o Canadian ad- dresses; $2.50 to the U.S. or oth. er foreign countries. No paper discontinued until all arrears are paid unless' at the option of the publisher. The date to which every subscription is paid is denoted on the label, .- Advertising Rates—Transient adver- tising 12c per count line for first insertion. 8c for each subsequent insertion. Heading counts 2 Iines, Small advertisements, not •to ex- ceed one inch, such as "Wanted", "Lost," 'SStrayed," etc., inserted once for 85c, each subsequent in- sertion 15c. Rates for display ad, vertising made known, on applica- tign. , 'Communications intended for pub- lication must, as a guarantee of good with, be accompanied by the name of the writer, G. E. HALL, M. R. CLARK, Proprietor. Editor. M. D. 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THURS., MARCH 17, 1931 armor tomiorm6•••giogiar 1� 0) ( 1r`i 0L=0. t0 '0L�[✓2 'Sort, pretty words, to cover the Usting of reality." 0. ~ Would you '"rind telling me why you killed her?" Peter asked, THE TULE MARSH MUROER STORY OF A MISSING ACTRESS AND THE • • TAXING OF WITS TO EXPLAIN HER FATE. 0 BY NANCY BARR MAVITY SYNOPSIS Don Ellsworth's wife, fornierly act - tress Sheila O'Shey, disappears. Dr. Cavanaugh, criminal psychologist,id- entifies a charred body found in the tole marsh as that 'of Sheila. Bar- bara, his daughter, faints when. she hears hint tell this to Peter Piper, a Herald reporter. A threatening note signed "David Orme" is found in the murdered wo- man's saire. Peter trails Orme and arrests .hire. At Orme's trial it is revealed that Sheila is really Orine's wife. Dr. C'avanaugh's testimony clears Orme of the murder. Peter enliven Dr. Cavanaugh and the doc- tor confesses to him that he is :the tnuederer. CHAPTER' LL_c(Cont'd.) Peter continued: / "A chance conversation tonight made me understand the thing that has puzzled me in the way you hand- led Orme's trial. It was your am- bition that took no account of the little question of playing fair with Graham when you sprang your pre- vious meetings with Orme for the i first time on the witness stand. "You wanted to tower—to make us all pygmies, You didn't even see that it wasn't cricket to keep Gra- ham in the dark. And you had me fooled, too. You had me fooled' per- fectly. That worried me because you shouldn't have wanted to fool ine. You were not only clever enough to do it --but you could want to do it. "You told ale the truth about your- self when you spoke 'of the single- minded people, the people who ge their own way, the supreme egoists. You did not call then that, but that is what it amounts to, doesn't it? They are outside morality. 'They are not held by all time tangling threads that bird us to others. You didn't mind letting Graham down—you did- n't hind letting me dawn—so that you could have the glory. "I remember things that you said. And the way you laughed when you told the once that we are all more or Tess insane. Your laugh troubled me at the time, though I didn't ],now why; I know now. It was because that laugh was the only time you ever came out from behind the wall you had built around your real self. DR. J. C. GANDIER Office Hours: -1.80 to 3.30 p,m., 43.30 to 8,00 p.m. Sundays, 12.30 to ?..30 pm. Other hours by appointment only, 'office and Residence — Victoria St. DR. FRED: G. THOMPSON Office and Residence: 'Ontario Street — Clinton, Ont, 'One door west or. Angli'tan Church. Phone 172 'Eyes Examined and Glasses Fitted DR. PERCIVAL HEARN Office and Residence: Huron Street — Clinton, Ont. Phone 69 (Formerly occupied by the late Dr C. W. Thompson) ]Eyes Examined and Glasses Fitted :DR. H. A. 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Huron & Bruce 'Going South 8.08 pall: tQoing North 11,58 :i m• "You came out for a moment then, You laughed because yeti alone were secure in a terrible sanity—a sanity in which you could rule us, entangle us, play upon us. You alone were free and unhampered. And tonight it all carte to me. It made every- thing clear. You said once that clues were negligible compared with motives. • "Weil, you were right. I haven't a clue to go upon. I haven't a shred of evidence. The only thing I can see clearly in the whole dark ibusiness is a motive. Not even that—just the insight into the sort of man you are. You could conceal your tracks, but you could not quite conceal your Character. And even yet I don't un- derstated how you claret to do it — how you dared to take this case and follow it through, discover ail that ye -u did about it, mloover everything —and .stop just short of uncovering yourself,'? The doctor smiled. "Yes." he said, "that presented its problems, I may say, in fact, that this was my "lost difficult ease. Per- haps it will be remembered as my greatest triumph. You ask how T dared. But I dared do nothing else! The •only safety lay in the path of danger. There was Camberwell. I could not leave Camberwell to work alone,' perhaps to stumble on the truth. I must keep the threads in niy hands. And I dared not do less than my best. •C'amberwell is too good a man to be deceived by a fake. It must be the real thing. And it THE McKILLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company Head Office, Seaforth, Ont. President, J. Bennewies, Brodhag en, vice-president, James Connelly, Goderich, Sec. -treasurer, D. F. Mc- Gregor, Seaforth. Directors: James Evans, Beech- wood; James Shouldice, Walton; Wra. Knox, Londesboru; Robb. Ferris, Ilul lett; John Pepper, Brucefield; A• Broadfoot, Seaforth; G. P. McCart- ney, Seaforth. • Agents:. W. J. Yeo, R.R. No. 3, Clinton; Jtltu :Murray, " Seaforth; James Watt, Blyth; Ed. Pinch_ley, Seaforth. • Any money to be paid may be paid to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Hank of Cornmet'ce, • Seaforth, or at Calvin Cutt's Grocery, Goderich. Parties desiring to effect Mein, mace or transact other busiuess will be promptly attended to on applica- tion to any cif the . shove officers addressed to their respective post of- fices, Losses inspeeted by the direc- tor who lives nearest the scene. 0 ) was the real thing,' every step of it. It is not easy to go about solving a problem, step by step, exactly as if you did not know the answer—rte re,: member every moment the precise limits of your supposed -knowledge. But I idid it. I did it se well that sometimes I almost forgot that it was only a game I was playing. "It had ,its fascination, too. The most dangerous game, played with superlative skill," "It was you who killed her?" Peter asked quietly. "Oh, yes, it was I who killed her. I could not do otherwise. I always knew, of course, that I should not hesitate if the need arose." Peter locked curiously at the face before him. Cavanaugh bore his gaze without flinching. "And yet you don't look like a mur- derer," Peter said. "Why should I? Only a fool would be a professional criminal. Crime is the response to an emergency. Natur- ally I :did not court emergencies. Words! Most of humanity is ruled by words, pretty words, ugly words, Honor. loyalty, crime—what are these but colored words? Stripped of their color they are nothing. But only the minority is ready' to pass beyond playing with those colored words. I very early found that out. One must pretend to play the game that the other children are playing. Only so can one be free to play one's own game unmolested. So I treated their words with the utmost seriousness— only I knew as they dict not, that the words "leant nothing. I learned to be very careful. I put on the mask of their conventional morality—only I knew it to be only a foolish mask. There used to be rumors -before I learned that I "lust never let the mask slip. That is the reason I came out here to lire. That is the reason I adopted Barbars. Barbara 'took the words seriously—oh, very serious- ly indeed. A household with a grows slaughter to preside over it was by just so much more entrenched it ecnventionality than even the mos' discreet of bachelor establishments." "Is she really your daughter?" Peter broke in. "She thinks she ie That's why she won't marry me." "I let her think it. Knowing Bar- bara's code, I thought it would hold her to me. You ser, Barbara knows that I killed Sheila. But I didn't ex- pect this. I --•see," the doct:er said slowly. "She believes that she is my daughter and, having found out what kind of a man I am, she fears that she has inherited some of niy crim- inal tendencies. It is not convention that has shocked her, but biology!" "Ilew little you understand us, af- ter all!" Peter's cy'.s shone with e strange pride. "Barbara did not need that. You could have been sure of her loyalty. You won it without ]fee. You won it by what yeti die! 'ter her. No lie could straighten it. It is a part of her, You only hurt hes'—filled her with terror of her- self!" "But, my dear man!" Dr. Cavan- augh spoke in mild protest. "I could not possibly foresee that I would be obliged to kill anyone, still less that Barbara, would find out about it. It Was merely a general precaution. You may tell her the tenth, of course You may even tell her that I loved her. I have seen her suffer, and for the first time in my life I found that the suffering of other's had pow- er to hurt inc. With all that strength I had that weakness. • "You may tell her that I loved. her. I wish she could have been glad to be my daughter. But since site feels differently*" The doctor's shoulders straightened. He also hail bis mom- ent of pride. "Since she wishes to be free of any taint from 'me, you may tell her that I can pass on to her no physical inheritance." "I'd like to tell you,". Peter said, "that I don't feel like that myself. I wanted to "tarry Iler anyway. I still would." Ts1 "Thanks. It's a queer thing, Peter, Perhaps it is just as well that this is the end. For I have discovered my wealtneps. I wanted 1Barbara's love and I want your respect. The only things in life I have wante. that I couldn't go out and Wrest from the folly of humanity. The only things—" "Maybe it's a flaw in me., too," said Peter. "At least I never though+ I could feel that way about a 11111,21 who has done what you have done, But I—so far as I'm concerned ,you have what you wanted. You are a man with a great mind. and you are a brave lean—and you have been good to rue. I: I shall always be rather rroud of saying that yon were my frioter," • The simple truth of his statement shone from Peter's eyes. 13nt he saw Chet the doctor drd not believe hint. "Words — words," he stuttered. CHAPTER L1L Dr. Cavanaugh drew a prescription pail from under the desk blotter, scribbled -upon it briefly, and passed it across to Peter. "There!" he said. . "That ip a sign- ed endorsement of what I am going to tell yon. You may want to have it to give to your editor." ' "To Jimmy?" "Oh, I know that youare not go- ing to turn me over to the police. You are going .to give me my own way out. That is one of the foolish little words you are bound by." Peter's jaw jutted forward. "Yes," he said. "You're dainn right it is." The solution of the Ellsworth mys- tery—the last ease of Dr. Cavan- augh—ds my little legacy to you for your paper. I think it is what you would call an important exclusive." • Peter tried to smile back, but the cords in his throat hurt hint. won't use it," he blurted, "Oh, but you must! I don't want to be remembered as a failure. My last case must be a success. I shan't know it, of course, where i am going —but I know it now. And your editor will like it. You ought to be pleased at that." "Damn the paper!" Peter choked uttering the worst blasphemy of which he was capable, ',Damn every- thing! But if you'd rather have it so. I'll take it." "The man of no mistakes," the doctor said with musing irony. "Well I "lade just one. I did not, after all, understand myself. I accounted for everything—and I did not know that the one thing I could not face was failure. I have scorned the world's judgments, but I am bound by them after all. I could nor have the world say that I had met one case which I could not solve. There was one nth- er thing." (To be continued.) DOINGS IN THE SCOUT WORLD Boys Training as Firemen Last year 678 Canadian Scouts re- ceived fire prevention training and qualified for the Scout Fireman's Badge. The training in most cases is given by fire chiefs or firemen. Since the training was stetted 19,- 698 boys have qualified as Scout Firemen, LOOK AT TI -IE RISK SMOKERS RUN? Mr. "L. V. Hogarth, of the Hogarth Baby Chicle. Hatchery, had a close call Wednesday night of last week. Mr. Hogarth had been carrying a bottle of Black Leaf P'orty used for disinfecting purposes in one of his pockets. He was taking a nap be- neath some blankets at the time and a small portion of the fluid had leak- ed out of the bottle. The heat' of the body evaporated the liquid caus- ing fumes which might have asphyx- iated Mr. Hogarth. ''When found he was unconscious but soon regained consciousness when coming in con- tact with the fresh. air. Mx. Hogarth is not a user of tobacco in any form or his system might have ,been more immune to the fumes.—Exeter Timet' 'Advocate., A Scout Bird Sanctuary • With the consent of. the Quebec government, the Minister of the In- terior has by proclamation made Mystery Island, the permanent Boy Scout camp near Ottawa. a bird sanctuary. There ate several such Scout wild life sanctuaries in var- 1otis parts of Canada. 1Vhen Does Wind Whistle? How do trees indicate varying ivied velocities? At what wind velocity does dust rise and swirl, and loose paper whirl into the air? At what velocity does wind whistle in the telephone wires? Ask a Boy Scout who has been studying his 1932 Can- adian Scout Diary, "Mystery Island" on the Map The flame "]Mystery Island" given the permanent Scoot camp being developed near Ottawa has been of- ficially confirmed by the Geograph- ical Board of Canada and the island will he so designated on a new mar to be published by the Topographical Survey. Boys Aid Firemen in Dominion Contest •Hamilton, Ont --Scoots are credit- ed by Fire Chief James with helping his department win the 1930-31 Do- minion Fire ]Prevention contest, Class 1, and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce Shield. The Scouts systematically inspected alleys and back streets and reported fire haz- aids. World Courts and Boy Scouts That Scouting offered a great les- son in neighborliness, and that he would rather fasten his 'hopes for world peace 'on the Scout Movement. than on world courts, was the de- claration of the'Hon:: W. +G. Martin Previneial Minister of Public Wel- fare at the. annual meeting- of the Boy Scouts Association of Ontario, How German Treatment Stops Constipation Actinr' on BOTH tinter and lower bowel, the*Gorman remedy..Adlerike stops constipation. It 'brings out the poisons which cause gas bloating and bad sleep. J. E. Hovey Druggist. STUDY POETRY In an address to boys and young men in Toronto, Judge Mott gave a valuable bit of counsel when he ad- vised them to read poetry DS a red fining and elevating influence in life, • "Like music and art, he said, thin form of literature exercises a pro- found and subtle influence on the morals and character of people, much more than they were conscious of. He declared, as one who had had a lifetime's experience with boys, %hat he could not give them a ,better sug- gestion than that they read from some good book at least fifteen, min- utes each day. The poets of all rac- es had been " powerful factors in swaying the emotion and spirit of the people. Often, he declared, poet- ry was truer than history and -mere ethical in its motive. I`APA'S WARNING The hour of midnight was draw- ing near, but the young suitor had given no indication of departing. Presently the stillness of the par- lor was broken by a loud crash from overhead. "Gracious, darling," said the timid lover, springing to his feet, "what- ever was that?" "That's all right, clear," the fair maiden explained, "merely :father dropping' a hint" --Answers. Advertising brings a new world to your hone. DOES EDUCATION PAY? Dees education .pay? A graduate' of au agricultural college in Mississ ippt, named Mckinnon, twenty-five years 01! age, got ]Told :of ,a "worn out farm" -Which had been abandoned by its former owner because he could not snake a living on it. Mc- kinnon applied the knowledge he had acquired in college and in the second year he took off over $10,000 worth ,of faint crops.• He knew bow, hut his predecessor, who ,probably sneered at agricultural college graduates, didn't. Education does pay when used intelligently and backed Iby hard work.—Exchange THE POOR MOTH They were discussing various spec- ies of animal and insect life. "Now take the moth," said Had- dock, set'iously: "He leads an awful 1ife." 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