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The Wingham Advance Times, 1928-02-02, Page 6Mee �.n 1,1 Wellington Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Established 184o Head Office, Guelph, Ont. Rieke' takers on all classes of b stir- *ac:e at reasonable rates, , ASNER COSE'NS, Agent, Wingitatn J. W. DODD Ofiiee in Chisholm. Block FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT AND HEALTH * INSURANCE — AND REAL ESTATE »F'. 0. Bone 36o Phone 240 ING}IANI,, -ONTARIO i J., W. BUS}IFI "'eLD I6a mister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money to Loan Office—Meyer Block, Winghant Successor to Dudley Holmes R. VANSTONE $ SOLICITOR, ETC. Al2R,ISTER, SO CITOR Money to Loan at Lowest Rates W'iragham. - Ontario J. A. MORTON BARRISTER, ETC. Wingham, Ontario DR. . H. ROSS Graduate Royal College of Dental Surgeons : Graduate Universityof Toronto Faculty of Dentistry Office over H. E. Isard's Store. H. W. COLBORNE,M.D. Physician and Surgeon Medical Representative D. 8, C. R. Phone 54 leringham Successor to Dr. W. R. Hanibly DR. ROBT. C. REDMOND M.R.C.S. (Eng.) L.R.C.P. "(Londe PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Dr: Chishalm'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 29. Dr. Margaret C. Calder General Practitioner Graduate University. of Toronto Faculty of Medicine. Office—Josephine St, two doors south of Brunswick Hotel. :'Telephones: Office 28a, Residence 151 DR. G. W. HOWSON DENTIST Office over John Galbraith's Store F. A. PARKER OSTEOPATH A11 Diseases Treated Office adjoining residence next to einglicaxi Church on 'Centre Street. Sundays by appointment. Hours --e a.m. to 8 p.m. Osteopathy 'Electricity Telephone` 212. A.R.&F. E.DUVAL Licensed Drugless Practitioners, Chiropractic and.Electro Therapy. Graduates of Canadian Chiropractic 1 College, Toronto, and National Col- lege Chicago. Office opposite Hamilton's "Jewelry Store, Main St. HOURS: 2-5, 7-8.30 pm., and by appointment: Out of town and night cal re- . sponded to, All business confidential. Phones: Office 300; Residence hoz-i3. J. ALVIN FOX DRUGLESS PRACTITIONER CHIROPRACTIC AND DRUGLESS PRACTICE ELECTRO-THERAP'2 Phone zee. • Hours: ro-ra a.rn., 2-5, 7-8 p:m,, or by appointment. 1fA D. H. MCIM,NES 1' CHIROPRACTOR ELECTRICITY Adjustments given for diseases of all kinds; specialize in dealing with children. Lady attendant. Night ,valla responded to. l O1 i, a on'Scott St„ Wingharre Ont. • GEORGE A. SIDt AL ,; --Broker--- ;Phone 73. Lncicnow, Ontario Money to lend; on first and second mortgages on. farm and other real OS - tete properties at a reasonable rate of a interest, also on. firet Chattel wort gages on stook and on personal notes. hand for sale A few farms on or to rent on easy terms. TTHOM .CAS . FEL I S AUCTIONEER REAL ESTATE SOLD thorough knowledge of Far Stock' :£)hone ase, Wirtgharn - W. J ROYCE 71 L111VIBI TC AND 1 EATIN one 58 Night Phone 88 ,n,a,tl„r1,1Wn11111,"n"J111n,n1","ru"nml,.,+Wtnlf,r"rrrt• ones: Office sob 12e9id. 2:t . `1 ,flit a �{ =. A. J. WALKER 1. i1I4NITUPE:DEALER M end 0.44 irl ;ERAL DIRECTOR Motoit Roe:lenient GHAM e . ONTARIO Yet P11YT1#n,Ytli,„1i1Yt WV. i,t1/1111111Yititi60111,I,It1A it WINGHAM ADVANCEeTIME eretrerneeee nr. Thursday, p'ebrllery 2nd, eg • .r . °,e Davis Copyright es26 . "But the thing I most want you to do, the thing 1 most earnestly beg you to do is to suggest how I can set about finding this wild girl, in whose actual person the crime' was committed.;1 beg of you' to give over these elaborate experiments upon people who can't have an important connection with the crime and devote this great tnind of yours to the apprehension of the real criminal. If we. cangthe. girl, get ve shall get hold of her accomplice fast enough, or, perhaps, s I should p A, say her principal." The doctor smiled. "This morning at the breakfast table," he observed, "you were very confident' that the po- lice would be able to get hold of her in the course of the day. You. said a wild creature like that couldn't remain at liberty. 1 say it's true she couldn't." "But," objected: Ashton, "she has." The, doctor shrugged his shoulders impatiently. "Why can't you be rea- sonable ?"he asked. "If a thing's im- possible, it can't happen, If it's true that a wild creature can't go at large in: this community for twenty-four hours without being apprehended, and if it's also' true that in twenty-four hours no such creature has been ap- prehended, then there' is only one log- ical conclusion to come to `,naively, that she has ceased to be a wild crea- ture, gibbering in an outlandish lan- guage, and has become a much more inconspicuous .member of society.". Ashton opened his eyes wide. "What do you mean?" "Psyshology," said, the doctor; "ho- cus-pocus and any of your other nam- es for it that you choose to apply. Didn't you hear me tell Reinhardt at the hospital that'tha' girl was in.a hypnotic or' subjective state." Ashton sprang to his feet. "Do you know where she is?"he demanded. "Or can you describe her so'that I and my men can find her?" "I don't know where she is at this moment," said the doctor quietly. 'She was in this ,room half an hour go.' In that moment my chief had his revenge. for all the flippancies,<tolerant rwitll' which Ashton had belabored the profession and science which was dearest ° to his heart. For once the at�ycr was beyond the power of speeds. Doctor too, kept silent. for a while to let: the momentum,nature of the astourtd}ng fact which he had just dis- closed sink in. Then he began to ex - lain t� the'astonish:d attorney. "1 want you to understand very clearly, in the' first place, that it Ilse been by my own methods, with the addition, I'll admit; of a little plain, unnnerited good luck, that I've solved his mytery. Harvey's testimony at the inquest was ' :my .clew. In my examination of - hint, ,which I conducted without asking him a sing- elquestion, without once referring directly to the cringe that was cont- rxrittvd. at Oak Ridge, I proved him nnocent a convincingly as the strongest alibi would have proved him innocent, more convincingly, in fact, because the real criminal in this case could prove an alibi, too. And in my further examination of hint 1 discov eyed Jane Perkins, and without learn= ing her exact address, I ascertained the nefr;hbourhoisd in which she lived Site was the woman with whom the profile on the window shade in the Morgan inure associated 'itself in hi:, mind. Only by a very extra- ordinary coincidence, could this wont - an, with the same sort ',f profile, the sante colored hair and the same kind of Cloak, have been any other than the ryne: whose hands had Strangled old Morgan. "The telephone conversation which you held in my laboratory with one of your subordinates settled her identity el most Without tt doubt. The fact that her narne'was Jane Perkins and that she was a perfectly conventional tyle of English chambermaid didn't throw( the off the track for a moment, bee! cause • 1 knew 'you ,,as y might g have i:. known, that the strange, wild' person- ality of the girl we found in tee hos- pital was fugitive,' and' possibly acr.i- l dental„. "I'll confess that when, she first carne int this room my belief in her' physical identity With the eeoman 1 had seen it ;I1enr„v Me gait's study tva sltalccat fisr an in -Stant, for her. , ra whole appearance, not only of face, but the articulation and poise of body was strikingly different. When 1 saw the tattoo ;nark on her arra, that; of course, reduced the case to a certainty. "It took only a dozen questions to convince nue that in the person of Jane. Perkins she was totally ignorant of the crime, which was exactly what Ilell I mue I expected. I then hypnotized her, and succeeded in fishing up her other per- sonality, from whom I got not only the admission that she had strangled Henry Morgan, but a considerable part of the story which I, have just been telling you of the events which. led up to the commission of the crime X -Ie Walked Across The Room To :The Telephone She did not recover the personality of Jane Perkins until I called her out from the inner room to begin the ex- amination," By that time Ashton began to come out of his daze, had recovered again the powers speech- and, motion, which the astounding nature of the doctor's revelation had temporarily deprived him of. "She mustn't be at barge another minute.," he said. He walked across the °ten; toward the telephone.. "Wait" c 'ininanded the doctor. "There's plenty of these. You haven't l �ttffi llh ,ll�V nd2:"N."•s.i tr:.d .ad4N a..': �{e r, I;. i. _ 1� (may 1- ce,. How one mother keeps young ttRow splendid, that we can mitt away for a few days to visit your mother! Without Long Distance it would be of course quite out of the ques- tions but it is so easy to call up our homes by Long Dis- tance and make sure all is well that, really, there is no excuse for denying oneself," "1 suppose you use Station - to -Station calls. I do. BY asking for the number 1 get the cheaper rate, and the Evening rate aftex 8.30 ;its really most reasonable." The rates to nearby towns, within a `radius of say 2iY miles, are so low that it is now possible to keep up a wide circle of friends at very slight expense. "t"rr teloplianto Long Dist/mos Station.'' id got the whole story yet, and you ;may spoil everythittgif you move without it. The girl's part of hte crime is only half of it, and the least important part al. that. She was hardly more than a passive instrument, The party you want, the important one to get, is the man who sent.lter on that fatal errand to the lonely house in Oak Ridge that night. The man you want is Josiah Haines.” At tlia't a smouldering spare of in creduality in Ashton's mind was fann ed into a flame. "Come," he said.; "you have told me that the wild' South Sea island girl of this story is really Jane .Perkins; but you aren't going' to tell me that Josiah Haines is a submerged and sec. ondary exterior of our friend Wilkes. That would be drawing it a bit too strong, wouldn't it'?" WithoutMaking any answer,the doctor turned back to- his instrument. edt i the ! replaced upon it megaphone which had been there during the conduct of theexamination, and made some trifling adjustments in the instrument. a And then, once more addressed the attorney. "You thought I was joking," he said, "when 1 told you \Vilkins that this instrument was aphonopneumsph- ygmog.raph. The name, : perhaps; is a bit clumsy. It is rather a description of the instrument, rather than a handy name for it. It is three instruments in one A .phonoghraph first, by which sounds are recorded upon a moving cylinder in such a manner that they can be reproduced. In exactly the same manner the pulse of a person on whose wrist this little instrument is strapped is recordedin the wax of the cylinder. Sd it is also, a recording sphygmograph. And thirdly,` and last of all, the elasiic strap which I fasten- ed,around \Vilkins' chest had its two ends connected by a little instrument and very truly, every movement of his respiration. Everything, . from the most faintly drawn breath to a gasp, will .be indicated by that little instru- ment and recorded along with a pulse beat on the same cylinder which re- cords the sounds. The long thin tube there that looks like a thermometer will show when I start this instrument going, exactly how the man 1 was ex- amining breathed; when he held his breath, when he caught it, when h,e, expelled it. And the bulb which you see, half filled with the red liquid, will show you the way his heart was beat- ing." Ashton turned away. "It's hideous," he said; "it's inhuman. I can't look at it:" and as he spoke, he walked away to the other side of the room: But he came back and stood beside us when the phonograph began again reporting the questions the doctor had, asked the girl. about Will Harvey, and her answers to then;: "What's thist part, of the examinat idn for?" Ashton asked. "You know all about it; and . you'd sprung your mine on Wilkins." There's another mine of a different sort a little further along," said the doctor. 1 wanted to, give hint time to recover his self-possession, to per- suade himself that that, : too, was all a false alarm; that my mention of the names of. Haines and Franklin was just a coincidence, "You'll see," he concluded, "1 had 2 people to reckon with—himself and yoti,° "Me?" Ashton questioned. "Yes, you and your incredulity. I knew that if 1 concluded the .examina- tion there, that long before I could make this demonstration to you, Wil- kins have ti made good his es- cape; and a man like that, once he got away, is cunning enough to be hard to find. So I wanted not only to calni his fears, but to provide him with a positive incentive for staying around." Ashton . would have spoken, but at that moment, with a suddenly up- raised hand, the doctor motioned hint to silence' and to renewed attention. I had my eye upon the instrument all the time thedoctor had been talking, and lead seen that by 'now the doctor's questions concerning Harvey had had the effect he wanted.Wil- kin's pulse and respiration were back almost to normal again. "'would ever take, us very close to old HenryMorgan with his reaps and his mysteries.' " 'lite' word "map" caused a throb and a flutter both in .the tube and tiic bulb, mach as the word "New Zealand had done at the beginning of the ex- amination. The recovery was imme- diate, however, the condition hi the tube and the bulb became more nearly normal than it had been since the be- ginning of the examination. At the end of the silence, the 'phono- graph began repotting the doctor's apparently irrevclant aside to Ashton, in which he had told him of the dis- covery of the one 'queer map which the detectives had c'fverleoked, a' large scale neap wb"rib showed neither lat.`ie. tore nor longitude, As he began to talk .about it, both liaise and breath- ing, as the instrument metaled' there, began to toll' atiot cr story, not a story of terror this time, but of excite- Ment, The pulse quickened, but it grew stronger, too, steadily stronger and steadily more rapid, until it was leaping like the, heart of a matt, who, in tlie midst of battle, catches a• gleam of victory. And the column of liquid in the respiration tube rose clear t the top of it, and then fell to the b tote. The lean had been drawee ,;.+:..: long, steady breaths of triumph. " `--and I brought it here with inc this morning,", the phonograph was saying in the doctor's voice, "'and I'll show it to you directly if you care to look at it.'" There was a little silence after that, and then, still from the megaphone of the instrument, there came another voice, a voice which it had not -re- corded before, the voice of Wilkins. quious.• "`1 begour pardon, ii y p� Clo 1, sir. .] wonder 11dei' if, you could Sparc me now. °I'm sup- posed to be in the dining r room at this t ho tr., " r, "Hell beback," said the doctor grimly. "That map has been the focal point of his life for a good many years, He would run a bigger risk thanhe could possibly think lay in breaking into this apartment, to get it. He's on duty in the dining room until twelve, and I imagine he'll stay there but as for as were concerned, it onlya question of putting out'our l p g lights aed,waiting," Ashton nodded. "By the way," he said, "I'd like to see that niap. It must be something of a curiosity." "If you'll come : out to Oak. Ridge with me tomorrow," said the doctor, "I'll take pleasure in showing it to you. There's nothing in the envelope. It was only necessary to make Wil- kins think there was." "But where's the envelope itself?". Ashton asked. "Didn't you say it was, here on the table?' I don't see it." The doctor whirled round as some- thing had stung him. Never before, I q�x+«1 a1 peop a still use ;Inca tbThey think til heepor.---K isn'tfor they ul'e ping fair dust pgral s1fiting :a and for woi-anz, flavour—They hive IniOt ;discovered' "S f ADA -dust-freoy fresh, hill- llavourecl---sealed in o11i 6W the first to recover himself. He shot a quick questiotj at me. "Do you remember, Phelps, whether or not, when Wilkins spoke of the ventilator being foul, you glanced in the direction of ,it?" "Yes," I admitted I did, "You?" questioned Ashton, turning to the doctor. "Oh, yes," said Doctor McAlister. "There's no. fool like an old? fool," "Well 1 did, too," said Ashton, "and that's when Wilkins took the en- velope," He pulled out his watch. frowned at it, snapped it shut and put it back into his pocket. ASHFIELD Bogie -McDonald. A verypretty y wedding was solemnized at the home of Mr, and Mrs. Neil McDonald, Kin- tail, when their youngest daughter, Alice, was united in marriage to Mn Thomas Bogie, of Shepparton, They left for 'Windsor and Detroit. Mrs. Robert : Harnilton front near Amberly, is the guest of her brother Mr. James Cook, loth con. Mr, and Mrs; Matt Shackelton near, Crewe spent a day recently with rela- tives. Mr. and Mrs. Wre.:Durnin, near Crewe, received the sad news of the "I didn't realize this demonstration death of their daughter-in-law. last had taken so long," said he. "He's week,_ Mrs. Howard Durnin of Van had nearly an. hour. He probably couver, I3.C. Besides her ,sorrowing ripped open the envelope the moment husband she leaves to mourn• her loss, he closed the door behind hien, and, six small children. Much sympathy is finding it emjity, would know, ofextended to the bereaved: course, that the thing had been mere- Mrs. D. K. Alton, Toth con., spent ly, a trap to catch him, last week with her daughter, Mrs. "And it's my fault, Ashton, said the Percy Graham, near Sheppardton. doctor contritely. "1 was guilty of an Miss Lena Hackett, teacher, spent absurd piece of over -confidence. I the week -end at her home Toth con. .knew he'd want the m.ap, and no other Mr. and Mrs/ Harry Hackett, near way of his getting it occurred to sue, Belfast, gave a party on Friday night than that he should conte back here to the young people of the line. All when supposed we were all asleep, report a very pleasant time think, in all the years I have known and let himself in with a pass key and Mr. and °1MIrs. John Scott and son him had I seen him so completely steal it." from East of Lucknow, spent Sunday taken aback as he was at that ilio- (Continued Next Week)' with relatives near Courey's Corners. men t. "It must be somewhere," said I: "It was lying in plain sight when the doc- tor spoke to you about it." But it was all in vain that we rum- maged among the littered papers upon the table top. The big manilla en- velope was gone. CHAPTER IX. For a moment we stood gazing •blankly into each other's faces, stupid- ly trying to realize, to the full what the disappearance of that, big, empty manilla envelope meant. Ashton was. 1; Made' only from hard Western wheats, Purity Flour is rich in gluten --• the energy giving and body building food. Purity Flour is best for all your baking and will supply extra nourishment to the children, in cakes, pies, buns and bread. Send 30c in stamps for our 700 -recipe Purity Fdou, . Cook :Book. 28s Western Canada Flour Mills Co. 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