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The Wingham Advance Times, 1928-01-19, Page 14Wellington .Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Established Oka ad Office, Cruelph, Ont. taken on all claeees of instar- eeasmeable,rates. ER CC►SEN'S, Agent, Wingharrt 4. W. DODO Office in Chisholm Block E1RF,LIRE, ACCI LENT AND HEALTH ---- INSURA.NCE --- AND 'REAL ESTATE P, O. Box 360' Phone 240 iii'INGl3kl`M, ONTARIO Jo W. B4JSHFILD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money to Loan Office -Meyer Block, Winghani Successor to Dudley Holmes R. VAN STONE BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. Money�to Loan at Lowest Rates Winghanz. - Ontario J. A MORTON BARRISTER, ETC. Wingham, Ontario DR. G. H. ROSS Graduate Royal College of Dental Surgeons Graduate University of Toronto Faculty of Dentistry Office over H. E. Isard's Store. I, W. COLBORNE, M.D. Physician and Surgeon Medical Representative D. S. C. R Phone s4 Wingham. Successor to Dr. W. R Hambly DR. ROBT. C. REDMOND ht. P I+d. C.S,(En,, • .) L.R.C.P. (Loud.) PHYSICIAN AND ,SURGEON. Dr,. Chisholm's old stand. ' DR. R. L. STEWART Graduate of University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine; Licentiate of the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons. Office in Chisholm Block Josephine Street. Phone eg. Dr. Margaret C. Calder General Practitioner Graduate University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine Office -Josephine St., two doors south of Brimswick Hotel. Telephones: Office 281, Residence zsz DR. G. W. HOWSON DENTIST Office over John Galbraith's Store F. A. PARKER OSTEOPATH All Diseases Treated Office: adjoining residence next Anglican Church on Centre Street. Sundays by appointment. Hours—g a.m.. to 8 p.m. Osteopathy Electricity Telephone 272. 0 A. R. & F. E. DUVAL Licensed Drugless Practitioners, Chiropractic and Electro Therapy. Graduates of Canadian Chiropractic College, Toronto, and National Col- lege Chicago. Office opposite Hamilton's Jewelry Store, Main 'St. HOURS: 2-5, a--8.so p.m., and by appointment. ointm ken t . Out of tows-.• and night calls re- atponded to. All business confidentiaL Phones: Office 3o0; Residence 6oz-r3. J. ALVIN FOX DRUGLESS PRACTITIONER CHIROPRACTIC AND DRUGLESS PRACTICE ELECTRO THERAPY Phone sgz. Hours ie -z& amt., a-5, +f-$ pan., or by appointment. D. }. McINNES CHIROPRACTOR ELECT'R1CTY Adjustments given for diseases of at ll -kinds; specialize in dealing with children. Lady attendant. Night eel'si respanded to. Office on Scott St., Wingham, Oret. Phone rso GEORGE A. SIDDALL -.,-..Braker----. P'laotte 73, Lucknow; Ontario Mcni,ey to lend on first and second mortgages on farm and other real ea - Ube properties at a reasonable rate of interest, also on first Chattel mort. gages on stock_ and on personal notes. A few farms on. hand for sale or to Trent on easy terms. THOMAS FELLS --- AUCTIONEER — REAL ESTATE SOLD. A thorough knowledge of Farr, Stock - w Phone esr, Winghatn --- ,n W. J. $OYCE MtIIING AND HEATING 8 Night E Male 88 +df 1„ltd,i,,l,,,le,n„i„"„fdI,C,If„Y„Y„dlf,d/!„/,,,ld"f Phones: Office too, Resid. lee Jft WALKER 1'URNITURE DEALT R anti -.- lfUN;liR L D.I.RIE;C`It'OR Motor Equipment WINGHAM �- ONTARIO ddddldtir”tllydo,l/My”d,ti,,,d,ii„,dd,miii9,iidd},dt,eepeeeeta tR WINQIBAM ADVANCE -TIMES The doctor unfastened the long flex- ible wires by which he was harnessed to the instrument, "I hope we haven't kept you too long, Wilkins," he said: "It was very good of you to come." "Not at all sir, Don't mention it, sir, Sorry I have to leave now." "\\Fe11," said the doctor slowly, "I think we're about through,. anyway, Jane here has been ill, and. we inusn't keep her too long, I don't think of anything else I want touestion yuu 9 yuu Jane, Thank you very much for helping us." He removed the little telephone that hung before the girl's lips,and slipped a dollar bill into her hand as he. spoke, Then he turned to Wilkins, whohad risen, still inhis harness and wasscrutinizing, with amused curi- osity the partentously named instru- ment to which he had been attached, The doctor, with a smile, was i n- strap.ping the small recording instru- ments that were attached tu his chest and wrists. "We're . very much. helped us materially." His tone was "Wilkins! And by Thunder; I Believe I've Got Him." low and confi-cLential, nut intended for the girl's ears. "I don't think she's any the worst for her examination. Wilkins,- he concluded. , "Oh no, likely not, sir. She looks a little al little pale, but I fancy that is no more than because the room is some- ' what close." t "Is it?" asked the doctor. "Well, it struck me so, sir. And I think, if you'll allow me, it might be well to have that ventilator cleaned. $ +It is really* very foul sir. If you like, t 11'11 speak to theirs in the office and !have them send up a pian tomorrow to do it.'" He nodded, when he spoke of the ventilator, to a grated opening in the wall, and nay eyes followed hint. 1 t t didn't see anything wrong with it t myself, but the man's eyes were evi- p dently snare practiced than mine. The doctor feed him also, and lib- b orally, and the next moment the head 1 waiter and the chambermaid were out b j m "What trick " llid, you think all the while, that it. was the girl I was examining?"' A great light suddenly burst upon tale, but Ashton was not so quick. His face went perfectly blank. "Did I think it was the girl you were examining! What else could you have been doing? Who else was there to examine?" "Wilkins!" said the doctor with a blow of his fist upon the table. "Wil- kins! And, by thunder, I believe I have got him." CHAPTER VITT "Wilkins!" repeated Ashton. "\Vhat sort of farce is this?" "If it turns out to be a farce" said the doctor,"it will be of your. makin If I were clothed in your authorit g' Y and know only what I know at this moment, 1 would go to that telephone and call in some trusty roan to watch him; and if my guess survives the test to which I ant about to put it, 1. shsuld, within the next half hour, or- der his arrest." He turned away too quickly to see the shrug of tolerant contempt which was all the answer Ashton vouchsafed to this suggestion. He unscrewed the, megaphone which had been attached to the instrument to which Vili ns had been harnessed, and attached to it a pair of ea rtubes to listen through a glass tube which looked, like a ther- mometer, and another tube which ter- minated erurinated in a glass bulb, half full of 'a red liquid. He put the listening tubes tu his ears and started the machine. "Give Ashton a -cigar and don't let his talk,' was his injunction to nae. For nearly. a quarter of an hour after that there was silence in the room; but at last he stopped the cyl- inder which was revolving, in the in- strument, took the tubes from his ears and laid them on the table. Then he turned to ue. "I was right, Ashton," he said. "I' know you want an explanation,. and I'm going tu give it; but if Wilkins is tai be at large during the time it wil tak,c me to tell the story, I want the responsibility to be upon you, and not upon ine. If I were in your place, 1 should order his arrest." "I'll take the responsibility, said Ashton. "Until I know some reason that isn't absolutely farcical for arrest ing a man,: I won't arrest him. At the same time I shall be glad to hear this story of yours." The doctor nodded, "Well," he said 'since your in no hurry, I think I'll ake time to light a cigar myself.' He had it drawing comfortably and had got himself comfortably enscon- ce -al in a big easy chair, his feet tretched out in front of him upon a abouret, before he began to talk.' "Do you remember," he said "what we chatted about on our drive to St. fartin's hospital the other night?" "If my memory serves me correct- y" said Ashton. "we didn't talk about he murder at all. You spent most of he time, unless I am mistaken, telling irate stories." The doctor nodded, "Do you remem ex- my telling you how bully Frank - in came to his end? He was killed y one of his crew as the result of ealousy and a love affair. Now that order had some rather interesting, Consequences—" "What is this,'i' Ashton interrupted `a parable? Arn I supposed to draw orale' subtle, devious psychological con ection between that murder and this ne that we're concerned with?" "Not at all," said the doctor. "I now you much too well. The connee- on between that murder and this is teral. It's about the most direct con- nection that could possibly exist be- tween two events separated by half. a world, and nearly two decades of time. The second murder was the logical: consequence of the first; the second act of the tragedy. I don't tray the. last act, because I suspect there's an- other still to come,'" "You've actually traced a connec- tion?" Ashton asked' with a gasp,. "Let -rte tell iny story right -end -to," said the doctor, "You'll see the con. nectionplainly 'enough when I cotne to it, I told yott, I think,- that Frank, lilt's' Brew became ecenplete1y . disor- ganized after his death, and that roast, of the members of it were apprehend- ed and paid the penalty'of their crinus: There were two however, who es,: 1 in the corridor and the door was closed behind them, At the sound of that closing door, Ashton exploded, not with impatient anger, as 1 half expected he would but with pure amusement, He laughed loud and long, and without the slight- est effort to suppress his mirth. Doc- tor McAlister paid nu attention, but' let him enjoy his laugh. undisturbed. "Well," said the district attorney ' ti when he had got his breath, "I'tn ream li. ly very much obliged, After hearing so much about these psyeh�ilogical exam - nations, it's .interesting to have been present at. one.' ' The doctor nodded rather. grimly. "It's not half as interesting as it will be in altaut five minutes," he said. He was busy with the instruments on the table as he spoke. "Do you .. care to wait and see the results?"'he added. "Come--'" said Ashton; "you don't really believe, do you, that you have found' out anything, by some subtle, scientific lsrocess of yours, about that girl?" "I knot all about the girl already," said ,My chief. ""Batt conte, >weee. you really taken in by the trick?" , s 0 k Thursday, Janitt'y xfith, a• caped, One of them. was his first mato Josiah Haines. The other man was Franklin's murderer. Ile tfilsappeared tog at least, he was Lever brought to justit.e. The authorities, for some i'ea- son, didn't seem. to regard his capture as especially important, for no prioe was ever put upon his head. That man's naitre was Henry. Morgan.” I had seers what was conning, but it was clear that Ashton had not. His eyes opened wide, his jaw dropped, slack, the cigar he held fell from his nerveless fingers. , "Henry Morgan!” he r'epeatc';l. "Tire same man?" "Undoubtedly the same. He fled al- most immediately after committing the murder, hut not until he ha+d,, gone, through his cliilef's pockets and pes sibly rifled his stateroom besides. At any rate, he got away with what ready cash Franklin lead upon hint—and he. was famous, I remember, for carrying � g a good deal—and also some papers. The money he got was utterly insig- nificant compared to the potential value of another thing he took with him. That other thing was the, snap, of which .1 spoke just now." He stretched out his arms rose from his chair and took a torn. or two. about the room, "I ought to amend that Iast re- mark," lie continued, "I don't know myself how great .the potential value of that snap may be, Its importance in the eyes of Josiah Haines was un- doubtedly very great, and Haines was in a position to know, if anyone' was. Franklin always had a reputation for possessing a good business head. I Many as were the robberies he com- I'rziited, numerous as were the unfor- tunate popie whom he murdered out- right, he gained more by. fraud' than by violence. He cheated vastly more nen than he killed. 1 have little doubt that he laid up a really .considerable fortune. But whatever it amounted to, he hicl it in that particularly for- saken corner of the world which is indicated by a cross upon that map. I said, As a Morgan got the map and � 1 fled to America with it." "It seems to me," Ashton inter jecte'J; "that he would have done bet - I ter to have gune straight to this for- saken island and collected the trees - cure first. But then,' .so far as that goes. how do. you. know he didn't?" "Because he couldn't," said, the d"oc- after all. He had to make a map, for the location of the treasure was too comeilex to trust to memory. But he made the' map perfectly worthless to anyone who was a stranger to his secret, by omitting l.attitude and longitude from it. There was nothing about it to inform its possessor where,; in the whole South Pacific that island was located; and the. South pacific is a big place, So Morgan dud what. was, perhaps, the most sensible thing he could have done; he hid himself in the securest place he could find `and began a collection of maps." Ashton shook his head in perplexity "Well," he said, "if applied psy chotogy will enable you to make^• dis- coveries like that, I apologize to it most humbly." " "'That wasn't psychology at all," said the doctor; "it was plain Iogic. 1 found torn d t up scraps of maps in` his waste -paper basket, making it perfect- ly evident that he had destroyed therm after they had served, or' had failed to serve some purpose of his. That put him' at once out of the class of the mere geographer. 1 knew he' must have some standard he tested these naps by; knew that he must keep it in some easily accesible place. Find- ing it, after I had discovered, a prin- ciple like that to guide me, was eom- paratively easy business," "Go on,"said' Ashton; "I won't in- terrupt any more. The strangeness of his -tale makes inc feel as if I were losing my wits; but it's altogether too well corroborated not to listen to," "Now,"said the doctor, "for a mo- ment we go back to Haines. I am in- clined to think that he got possession of the other half of Franklin's secret naineiy,` the latitude and longitude of the island where the treasure was buried." "If he knew that," I ventured, "why wasn't it enough. for him! Why didn't lie go and find the treasure for him- self'?" • He couldn't dig up the whole island," th,e,doctor replied, "I think it riot unlikely that he went there, only to learn the futility elf proceeding any farther without the map, There is. another possible alternative; that he never happened upon the secret rif , latitude or longitude- at all, though lie had it lying right under his hand At any rate,' he knew that Morgan had the reap. He knew, or. felt sure, that with the map he could, recover the treasure, and he believed the treasure well worth the trouble of recovering.: 1 can't toll you whether he searched the world for his man with the defie Mtn purpose—the sole purpose of finil- lug him or whether it was chance that at last, after ,a lapse of Many years,, put hint upon the trail, But this tnttch 1: do know, that he found him at last, , and that'Henry Ivlorgah was met- maim of 'lered' as the result of .an etteml Haines made to recover the map," "But the , woman!" cried Ashtot "'e'ott've told,'rne nothing .about her! "No, said the doctor. "In order t simplify the story, so far 1 have lei her out, but she .plays a very site' par in it, To tell you what that.part it I shall have to go back to, the ning of my story again, I ,hope not boring you." His senile, as l; made that polite observation, • had touch of satirical grimness about. it, Ashton laughed a nervous laugh an wipers his forehead with his ltandker- ebi ef, "Bored,!" lie ejaculated. "Go ahead with the yarn." "You remember the Maori girl a- bout .whom Franklin and Morgan had their quarrel? They were both in. love with her, But Morgan murdered Franklin .and .thhen disappeared, so that from having two lovers, the girl was left without. any: Franklin was, no doubt, the one she cared about . it spite of the fact that he was fat and. bald, -headed, by no means a romantic type of lover. But he had a, charm a- bout him, there's no getting away from that, afid he carried ,it to the day of his death. "Anyhow, some months after Frank- lin's death she bore him a daughter. She 'must have been bitterly disape pointed that it was not a soil; but, inttking the best of .a bad matter, she swore the child, upon her deathbed, to avenge the murder of her father. "Well, the girl grew u and in some p, way or other—I don't know whether it was by chance or design -she fell into the hands of Josiah Haines, and was used by him as the mere: instru- ment in carrying out his purpose. I don't know.certainly whether it was by li' r aid that he got on Morgan's < 1, but this I do known, that. ht. 'dis- patched her -to the Oak Ridge house that night for the purpose of stealing Henry Morgan's precious map from lung. '11 do not know positively whether �. he or�lc.t ed her to murder him byway Y of exacting recompense for all' the trouble his flight had caused, but that. is what she di'd. She' made a tourni- quet out' of a violin string, with two loops in it and a pipe stem, with Which she strangled the old man, ex- actly according to etiquette of the part of the.world' from which she comes. And then she came away, but without the map. Two days after, the murder she ,escaped from the hospi- tal; a fact which can't be much 'of a mystery to anyone who saw her get out of the third, story window of Hen- ry Morgan's study, as Phelps and 1 did the next night." ".fin amazing tale" commented Ash 'Orange Pekoe'' is only the name given to a size of leaf --Some good, many peorp Orange Pekoes are sold—The most; economical and yet the finest flavoured is "$ALADA" Orange Pekoe --Sealed Ira metal—pure—fresh—delicious-.-43c per -Yb. • ton; when he had finished. "And yet I've lived in this world long enough to he aware that aittaaing things are always happening in it, " infinitely more amazing than the things men make lip to put in books. But you haven't yet told me what connection Wilkins and this housemaid can have with the crime, except by pointing out . the coincidence ' that the girl. comes. from New Zealand. (continued next week,) COMMUNITY DOCTOR NEEDED The subsidization of a doctor in the outlying' region around Tobermory, on the Bruce Peninsula, is one of the most evaluable undettal.ings of ntario Women s Institute, soon to be an established fact. W. I. members in the neighborhood have rlravvn attention to thefact that residents of that district are situated at a distance of es miles from tnedi- O the Bondi, but it is a sample that is :grown in Culross. It is . off a tree owned, by Mr. A. Barker of the Sal- em parsonage, and the potted tree j1r'�C was on display at the fall fair in October. Last we.elcthe lemon was removed fr•oni the tree as it had at- tained its full growth and was getting ripe. , The: bush was . purchased , in London dri"d .has been in Mr. Barker's possessiAn, 4Qitr abort 'four years. It has flinty it ' Waterford, Belleville, C< n r" a .t e, • , Camba o � he best of all in Bruce, as Mr. Barker has moved it around with half ,The perfume of the Le- mon blocs rats` iswonderful wo iful andw Quid repay ansi p y a y • e for the little attention they "'require.—Teeswater News. 280 Mrs, George Edwards, of I .ontoka, Western Ontario W. I. president; Mrs, Banks of Shelburne, convenor, of the committee of subsidization, . and Dr. j. W. Crane of the Medical School University of Western► Ontario, met in London recently to complete prac- tical arrangements for the undertak- ing. AN 18 O.Z. LEMON A large lemon measuring I2h' in- ches by ig'l inches and weighing one pound and two ounces has been on display in Mr, Freeman's window for the past few days. This isn't the kind that W. J. is able to secure from cal assistance, a condition which is acutely felt, particularly among the women and children. Branches c s throe hoii' throughout the province are contributing at a ratio of not less than $$ a branch to the fund, and a thoroughly qualified ddctor will soon be ins tallfecl at Tobermory, sub-;; sidized by the W. Y. until a practice 1 is established or as long as the need' is felt. It is the selection of rich., :western wheats — the finest grown on the prairies -- that gives extra flavour to bread and: buns. and extra richness to cakes and pies, made from ' Send 30c zn stamps for our 700 -recipe Panty Flour Cook Book. 265 Western Canada Flour Mills Co. Limited.. Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Saint3obn. 1 11� flE jfi ;h t. MEE VJ ®11®111®®® WHEN AV! G AN AUCTION SALE ID a Man Well .. 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