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MUDDED STORY OF A MISSING ACTTIESS AND THE q 0 TAXING OF WITS TO EXPLAIN HER FATE. ,. O BY NANCY B'ARR M,AVITY 0=2 oCs®101.120 0 0/ SYNOPSIS and still not understand what, it was all about. Dan iillsworth's wife, the former i'Sua neIy you know," Petef• Said at actress Sheila O.Shay, - disappears. last, speaking patiently as if to a child, "that you are under suspicion, of the murder of Mrs., Ellsworth." The curved lips tightened into a hard, straight line. The face before him became as still, as expressionless as if,it were chiselled in stone. "I don't know any Mrs. Ellsworth." The voice took on a remote metallic ring as if each word were the drop. ping of a coin, • .Peter stared a moment. Then he remembered ' something—something that had puzzled'hini. "But you knew Sheila O'Shay?" he asked breathlessly.' "Yes, oh, yes—Sheila O'Shay." The words were hardly more than at audible 'sigh. "A great•many people knew Sheila O'Shay. His hands were suddenly flung 'out- ward on the table in a singularly de- fenseless gesture. • The knife, un- noticed, slid across the boards and fell noiselessly to the ground. The fat woman and her tumultuous offspring had wandered away out of sight. "Yes," Peter said sternly, "but yoti wrote Sheila O'Shay a threatening letter: I don't know why you didn't take any pains to disguise it, but you didn't. Then you hung around out- side the house, lying in wait for her. Sheila O'Shay was found murdered— and you are out here, 'hiding under an assumed name. 'You're absolutely no good as a fugitive, P11 admit—I could have done a lot better ,myself—+but that's no sign you didn't do it. You trembled all ,over when I spoke to you." "Oh, but that 'was before I knew' you!" Orrne's face broke into a ra- client, confiding smile of sheer. de- light. "You're so very likeable you know!" By the way, I don't think you're a policeman are you?" "No, I'm not," Peter said harsh- ly. "But I'm just as bad. I'm going to take you to jail." He wanted to take this unaccount- able young man by the shoulders and shake him—shake him into a real- ization of the seriousness of the sit- uation. It was like seeing a child watch the house burn down and clap iris hands at the pretty 'fire. "Well, that can't be helped, I sup. pose," Orme acquiesced. • "You'd have done better to face the music in the first place, if you could- n't get away any better than this," Peter said crossly. "You've made an awful mess of things." "Yes," the young man nodded his head gravely. "I know—I do that often. I'm always making a press of things," "But hardly with your life in tho balance]" "Does it matter? Not a great deal, I think." Orme's tong was not in the jeast bitter. He might have been commenting on the prospect of rain. "I'm afraid you'll wake up too late and find that it does!!" Peter raged. "Well, don't let it 'bother you. It's my—er, potential funeral, after all!" Again that winning, sunny smile like a child, watching the mounting flames. Against his will Peter found himself smiling back. , "I won't say that whatever you say will be used against you, because you'll be just putty in the hands of the police, anyway. But would you mind telling me—did you really kill her ?" "Maybe so." the young man said. "But that' will be for tl o police to find out," And this, through all the long drive back to town, was the last { word that Peter had from him. CHAPTER XXXII. ".Did you put up any money on, me?„ Peter ,threw his hatintothe near- est armchair and leaned forward to examine the top of the desk, but the familier nickel was not in evidence. "No," said Dr. Cavanaugh'. "The sporting element would 'be lacking, unless I elaborated a system of odds. I'd hate to have you on my trail. young man—or perhaps this is what 'you call being en my trail already " The doctor's clear brown eyes soil+ ell with warm friendliness into Pet-, er's as he pulled forward a chair. "Oh, no, I've just got into the Mb- it of consulting you. I hope I'm, not making a nuisance of -myself." "I',ve no doubt you hope it. But even il! you were a nuisance, you would regretfully persist." "I suppose I would," Peter admit- ted, "Well, then, if, it's- any comfort to you, I'm really not particularly busy at the moment and you may help yourself to the cigars. It's rather lucky for pie that I've 'retired front active practice—you might not leave me much opportunity to collect From my patients.." "I'M glh4 I'm ii t bothering too awfully" .Petr esaid ccieer;fully ignor Dr. Cavanaugh; criminal psycholog- ist, learns that their married, life has been very unhappy.. Peter Piper, a Herald reporter while trying to see Dr, Cavanaugh, meets Barbara' Cavanaugh, and finds she was engaged to Don Ellsworth' before his marriage. An unidentf, fied body found in .the tule marsh is identified as the body of Sheila Shay. Barbara faints' when she hears this. ' • Mrs. Kane, Sheila's maid, is •arrear ted and admits' that her mistress foreed Ellsworth to mashy her by threatening a breach of promise Peter and Dr. Cavanaugh find that the breach of promise papers have been taken from Sheila's safe, but discover a •threatening letter signed "David Orme." Peter finds Orme at a tourist camp. CEIAPTER XXXI.—(Cont'd.) Forgetting caution, Peter's gaze shifted, startled, from the man's hand to his face. It was a surprising voice to come from a ragged fugitive, hid-, ing under an alias, with murder n1 the background. It was low, vibrant; modulated, giving to the simplest words a .hint of music. Peter knew with instant absolute assurance that a . man with a voice like that might commit murder, but he would never stab an unarmed man with a dirty knife. He slid into a seat on the bench beside Orme and leaned his elbow on the table. "It would be," he smiled compan- ionably. It's a funny thing about people who change their names al- ways keeping the same initials. In fact, the tendency is so familiar that I should think by this time everyone would take pains to avoid it. By the way, why didn't you clear out?" "I didn't have the money," the man said simply. Peter groaned. There surged over him an irrational impulse to protect this man from the trap which he him- self had laid, and into which the vic- tim had stepped with such blind, un- hesitating promptness. It was too' easy. "You ought to have a guardian," he exclaimed almost angrily; and. then, almost. gently, "It's a good thing 1 found you." Suppose this babe had been poun- ced upon by Men from the homicide squad with their "sweating" meth- dds and "strong-arm" tactics — it would. he like seeing a rabbit torn piecemeal by dogs. Peter quite for- got that the man ,beside him was sought as a dangerous character — a slayer. "But you haven't told me yet why you wanted to find me." There was not a trace, of fear in the low voice, nor any combativeness. Peter leaned forward and peered at the face before him with his bright, near-sighted gray eyes before ens - verb] g. It. was a worn and •sensitive face, young and yet ravaged; a face with delicate, clearly modelled fea- tures and dark sunken eyes. The perfectly shaped head ,had the suit, ing beauty of a profile on a Greet coin. And this was the man whom Ethel had dismissed as a "sickly looking fellow!" If sickness was there, it was a .sickness of the soul. The curv- ed lips, drooping slightly, at the corners, the dark, steady eyes with their depths of pain, did not suggest weakness so much as the helpless- ness of one who is an alien in the world where he must live. There was a' permanent bewilderment in those eyes— the ,eyes of a baffled poet thrust into a world of ugly prose in which he conld never be at home, bruised and broken and still wonder- ing, A man like that, wounded be- yond endurance, might strike to kill 6 ,CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS TIME TABLE Trains' will arrive at and depart front Clinton as follows: Buffalo and Goderich Div. Going EasC, depart 6.58 a.m Going East depart ' 3.05 Pm, 'Going West, depart 11.55 mai, " " . 9.44 p.m.. London, Huron & Bruce Gting South 3.08 p.m. Going North 11.58 :t m; • THE McKILLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company Head Office, Seaforth, Ont. President, J. Bennewies, Brodhag• en, vice-president, Janes Connelly, Goderich. Sec. -treasurer, D. P. Mc, Gregor, Seaforth. Directork; James Evans, Beech- wood; James •Shouldice, Walton; Wm. Knox, Londesborr; Robt. Ferris, Hul- lett; john Pepper, , Brucefield; A. Broadfoot, 'Seaforth; G. F. McCart- ney, Seaforth, Agents: W. J. Yeo, R.R. No. B, Clinton; Tahn Murray', Seaforth; James Watt, Blyth; Ed. Pinchley. Seaforth. Any money to be paid may be paid to the Royal .Bank:, Clinton; Bank of Commerce, Seaforth,nt at Calvin Cott's Grocery,; , Goderich. Parties desiring to effect insur- ance'or transact other business will be promptly attended to on applies, tinn, to. any _'of the , ajrove officers addressed to their respective post of- fices. Losses inspected' by the direc- tor who lives nearest the scene. ing the''ibox'of cigars which' Dr. Ca- vanaugh extended and pulling ,forth his inevitable , crtislied package of cigarettes. "Because; you see, I do feel sort of responsible for this babe in the woods I ,turned over to the Police." Dr. Cavanaugh smiled ever so slightly. "Do the police look on him as a babe ih the"woods?" he inquired, "They do not," Peter said ernphat. ically. "As a matter of fact, I'm Surprised at him :myself. .H.onestly, I felt as if I were .throwing him to the'wolves. It had to be done, .of course, but P didn't think they'd need to bo half as violent as they probably would be, en general principles, to get everything out of .him. And yet there he sits and says absolutely nothing. "They've questioned him iti relays,. 24 hours at a stretch. They've plant- ed a man in the same cell with him to gain his confidence. They've done everything but light a bonfire under him, and they're getting annoyed." "You seem rather pleased about it," the doctor observed noncommit- tally. "I can't help being proud Of his grit. It's a perfectly useless line to take, and it'll only make it harder for him in the end. The district' at- torney has got to the point where he'sout for blood, Why, they even held before his eyes a copy of the 'Herald' with headlines about Sheila's murder and made him stare at it for hours—'Butcher Joe crumpled under that stunt two years ago, you re- member—and he just sits. there, look- ing as if he were somewhere else. "It isn't as if he were an old hand; a 12 -year-old child could have done better at—covering his tracke. He really needs a guardian, and since I found him, I sort of feel that I'm it. At least I want him to have a fair show. He isn't the ordinary criminal type at all." , "Among all the things we don't know about Sheila O'Shay's murder- er." Dr. Cayanaugh murmured be- tween puffs of his cigar, "we do know this one thi>)g—that he wasn't an ordinary criminal." (To be continued.) l Doings in the Scout World Cambridge 'University has confer- red the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws upon Lord Baden-Powell, world chief of the Boy .Scouts. • The camp equipment of an Alberta Scout troop this summer included a cow, She went along to solve- the safe milk problem. The British Ministry of Agricul• tare and Fisheries called upon .the Boy Scouts for help during Na- tional Rat 'Week, which began Not vemlbcr' 2. Close to 60,000 cars were checked through Three Rivers, Que., during the four .summer months by , Boy 'Seout Information Bureaus maintain- ed at the outskirts. The boy`s gave booklets to 1,761 tourists, shipped 26 spare tires and rendered first-aid 21 times. "Spotted Eagles" A patrol of Indian Boy •Scouts at `the Sareee Indian Reserve .school near Calgary have adoptied the name the "Spotted Eagles," in honour of the World Chief Scout. The name was given Baden-Powell during his visit to Canada in 1923, when he was made an honorary chief of the Sar- cee tribe. There are a number of Indian Boy Scout troops in Canada. Memorial Window for Boy Hero In St. John's Anglican church at Grand Bay, N.B., is a beautiful stained glass window memorial to a 14 year old Boy Scout, Eric Caul- field, who faced practically certain death to save a companion from drowning, and paid the great price. A Bronze Coss, the V.C. of Scout- ing, was awarded posthumously and presented to the bereaved parents. The window was unveiled by Arch- deacon II. A. Cody, of Saint John. PDKINGI jJEWS o'ol.Hu hClar� It was said of Lord Huntington father of the present Duke of Dev- onshire, that "he yawned terrific- ally in the middle of ,one of his own speeches." There are other speakers —but why bring that up? 'Civil disobedience is all that Gand, hi has to offer even in England, whereas all that John Bull asks of hien is civility and darned little of that. Now they are saying that there never was such a man as William Tell. Neit thing they will be telling us is that there was no such woman as Eve, no such man as Newton and that no doctor was ever kept away, Why can't they leave us our apple legends? If you are inclined to be skeptical about improvement in conditions just take another glance at the front-page headlines. There is not enough seating accom- modation for all members elected to the British House of Commons, but of course they knew this when they decided to stand for parliament. The melancholy days have come, The saddest of the year, With curling in the distance And golfing in the rear. There is no confirmation of the story that a deer escaped being shot because the hunter mistook it for a man. There was a Mahatma named Gan- dhi (His complexion was dark and not sandhi) Who thought if he dressed The same as 'the rest The Hindus wbuld think him a dandhi. Within ten days after wheat took a spring upwards, flour followed suit, but do you remember the weary steps and slow with which the price of flour followed wheat downwards? It is incorrect to describe Lloyd George as leading the Liberal party during the last elections. How could he, with the party going one way and he going. the 'other? 1 The Canadian daily newspapers de- serve commendation for their enter 1 prise in covering the British election campaign—so thoroughly and well They carried complete reports of the polling in every constituency as soon as the returns were available. The Ottawa Journal contrasts this with the meagre reports M British papers of Canadian elections, but the condi- tions are vastly different. Many of our people are of British birth ei descent, while few people born in Canada live in the British Islies. Pub- lic interest here in British elections is therefore much greater than public interest there in Canadian elections. This, together with the unusual na- ture of the recent campaign, made the Canadian public avid for the news. It must have dost the daily papers a pretty penny in cable tolls alone, but it must also be assumed that public interest justified the expenditure: A scientist claims to have made discoveries which 'show that the flood in Noah's time was only a small affair. That is the sort of talk that used to make Johnstown sur- vivors wild. Edison's process for making rub, ber out of golden -rod is said to.'be-a success, but we prefer to witholci judgment until we observe its reac- tion on hay -fever pedestrians. Service's line is "And it isn't the gold that I'm wanting so much as just finding the gold." 'The French and American version is somewhat different from this. • In "Past and Present" Carlyle has a chapter devoted to "Over -Pro- duction." "Ye miscellaneous, ignoble manufacturing individuals, ye • have produced too much ... You are crim- inally guilty of producing shirts; breeches, hats, shoes and commodi- ties in a frightful over -abundance. And now there is a glut, and your operatives cannot be fed ... Too many shirts? ... Two million shirt- less or ill -skirted workers sit en, chanted in workhouse Pastilles; five million more (according to some) in Ogolino hunger -cellars and for rem- edy you say—"What say you?" Car- lyle prescribes no remedy himself. He ends the chapter as he began— railing against the governing class. We have advanced somewhat since then, but, then as now, failure to "apportion," as Carlyle calls it, has ended in over -production. The phase recurs periodically and apparently all we can do is diagnose it, demand a remedy and curse the governing class, as the Sage of Chelsea did. "Holiday in'Canada" Slogan Becomes Popular on Continent A Satisfied Tourist Is Canada's Best Advertising Agent. Tourist Trade Becomes Second In Value tit Canada's Wheat Exports spent at least $379,009,000 and this sen si 0,000 urist these while exempt Each year, said, Mr.. Longstaff, Canadians. themselves were taking g'keoter advantage of the holiday possibilities offered by their 10,000 square, miles of National Parks and by the hunting, and fishing territax- ies which were attracting the outside tourist. A larger percentage tel had visited Jasper Nation? al Park this year than ever before despite the fact that lit 1930 Cana- dians spent some $113,000,000 in their holiday trips outside of theDominion. From inquiries already ,reaching the 'Tourist Department of the Cana- dian National .System as well as oth, er tourist agencies, it was evident that there was at present en foot 1 strong "holiday in Canada" move- ment both at home and abroad, which would tend to still further swell the value of the "invisible ex,i ports" of the tourist industry. "invisible, export" had become second in 'value only to 'Canada's wheat ex- ports. In the"various province tourists had spent soine $2$,50 with 'hotels, in addition to their ex- penditures in; private homes, to camps and similar places. Canadian merchandise, exported by . tourists, had reached a . declared val- ue of more than $5,000,000 each individual was allowed tq take liome merchandise up to $100 ex from Customs charge's. "The satisfied tourist is this coun- try's best advertising agent," Mr. Longstaff stated, "and the thousand lof people who have visited our hunt- ing and fishing areas and our great national parks, have returned horse enthusiastic ' with what they have found in Canada. Through their enthusiasm they are sending their friends to Canada in increasing num- bers and the wilderness, which has already produced crops of furs, of timber and of minerals, is now pro- ducing even more valuable troll through this 'invisible export' whiclf takes nothing out of the country though it does bring in much reveni ue every year." The talk was illustrated with fish- ing and sports films taken from the film libraries of the Canadian Na, tional Railways featuring goose - hunting and winter sports in Eastern •Canada. Montreal, November 14th—Hun- dreds of United States citizens, un- able because of,, altered financial conditions to afford their customary vacation trips to Europe during the past year, tried Canada's attractions and became so enamoured of this country that they are already plan- ning return trips, said Alan N. Long - staff, Press Representative of the Canadian National Railways, in ad- dressing the members of Montreal Chapter of the American Society for Steel Treating at its opening meet. ing here. Many of the provinces re- port increases in the number of tour- ists entering during 1931, and the tourist income of the Dominion as a whole had held up well despite gen- eral conditions. In 1930 tourists in Canada had THE REASON WHY DUCKS FLY HIGH The following incident is no doubt duplicated along every lake and slough on the prairie provinces, and is the experience of a hunter down in Manitoba. While ducks must take reasonable precautions yet they de not lead the dangerous life intimated by the roar of the artillery. This sportsman fired 75 shells, costing $3.75. His fare on the Can- adian National was $8.50, and his hunter's license $2. Ilis bag was three ducks, or $3.10 per duck. As there was no evidence of pellets in the birds, it is believed that they died of heart failure caused by the barrage.—Wetaskiwin Times. :• d..x:.,.. ,;s.,. � is Station -to -station ("any- onc") calls between 7.00 p.m. and 8.30 p.m. local ;awe ,are on ;the low evening rate. Between 8.30 p.m. and 430 a.m. they are nn the "Aiglit rate" basis and still brier. Nina was worried ... she could not imagine where she had lost her bracelet—in the hotel or on the journey home. "3 can't think what I could have done with it," she kept. telling her .mother. "Why not telephone. to the hotel," mother suggested. "It's after eight -thirty now and a call will only cost a few cents." imagine Nita's joy when the hotel clerk told her that the bracelet had been found in ber room and would be mailed to her right away. Thanks to her mother's suggestion, Nita's anxiety Was re- lieved at once .., . and the cost of the call was considerably fess than her taxi 'fare froth the station.