The Wingham Advance Times, 1928-02-23, Page 6'
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Faculty of Dentistry
Office over H. E. Isard's Store.
H. W. COLBORNE, M.D.
Physician and Surgeon.
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Phone 54 Wingham
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PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Dr. Chisholm's old stand.
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Faculty of Medicine; Licentiate of the
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I peered out over his shoulder.
"Yes, I couldn't mistake that," ,said
"Good," said the doctor. "Stop
here."
We our men clambered out of the
car, the girl still fast asleep, still lean-
ing back against the cushions in the
corner, undisturbed by the confusion
of our dismounting from the car.
"What shall we do with her?" I in-
quired. "I suppose she'st safe enough
where she is. She'll hardly wake up
until you tell her to, will she?"
"No. The sleep is hypnotic," said
the doctor. "She'll be safe enough here
so far as that goes."
"It comes down to this," said Ash-
ton. "If Wilkins is in the house, we
sha'an want the girl. She'd be in the
way, for if he's cornered, he'll make a
stiff fight. • But if he's been to the
house and done his work and already
got away, and we're too late for him,
as I fancy we are, then we'll have to
use the girl again to track him.
There's no other way."
"Then the thing to do," said the
doctor, "is to make a reconnaisance.
If he's already been here and
searched the house for what he
wanted and gone away, that fact will
beeasily apparent, and, as you say,
it's the first thing to find out.*Come,
we've wasted time enough. The girl
will' be perfectly safe here:'
Dr. Margaret C. Calder "Hold on," said Ashton. "Why
General Practitioner should twe all go? We might defeat
Graduate University of Toronto lour purpose that 'way. Send Mallory.
Faculty of Medicine
i eee's worth all the rest of us put to-
Office—Josephine St., two doors south!
of Brunswick Hotel. fences gether at nand locks, and that
Telephones: Office 281, Residence :Ss, sort of tiling. He can find out in five
minutes whether' that house has been
entered or not, and he won't at-
tract the attentionthat four of us
wilt"
The doctor nodded.
F. A. PARKER
DR. G. W. HOWSON
DENTIST
Office over John Galbraith's Store
Without waiting ror any further
OSTEOPATH ' bidding, Mallory rushed off in the
darkness, up the street toward the
white gate. The rest of us stood
just where we were on the sidewalk,
twenty paces or so from the auto-
mobile.- We had nothing to do but
wait fur Mallory's return, and under
/ such circumetances time asa rule,
A. k. & F. E. DUVAL
drags heavily. But long before we
• Licensed Drugless Practitioners, expected hie return, almost, it
Chiropractic and Siectro Therapy. before - hr could have reached
Graduates of Canadian Chiropractic
College, Toronto, and National Col- the house, we heard, coming toward
lege Chicago.
Office opposite Hamilton's Jewelry The three ',IA' us drank back into
Store, Main St.• I
I the shadows tensely alert for what -
HOURS: 2-5, 7-8.30 p.m., and 4
by appointment. !ever this unexpected development
Out of town and night calls re- might mean. But as the approach-
sponded to. All business confidential. ing figure emerged into the zone of
Phones: Office 300; Residence 60X-13. light cut by the great gas lamps of
iour automobile, we saw that it was
J. ALVIN FOX Mallory himself, Mallory hurrying
DRUGLESS PRACTITIONER ;toward us in an agony of haste'beck-
CHIROPRACTIC AND oningteentitany, his eyes blazing
• DRUGLESS PRACTICE
gLggTRQ-TKERApy 4 with excitement,
Phette xgr. We .sprang forward to meet him.
ifours: xo-/g a.tn., 7-8 p,m., or "He's there!" he gasped. "Wilk -
by appointment. ins, himself! He's up in the study!
• There's a light, and the blifitle are
D. H.. McINNES down; but I saw his shadow on the
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us, the footsteps of a man running.
As we drew nearer the gate, our
pace slackened cautiously, Ashton
was a little in advance of the rest
of us, and was the first to peer a-
round the mass of shrubbery, width
screened the house from the view
, of the street, except at the one
4, GEORG-E At SIODALL point where the gate made an open-
,-• ing. I saw him stop and stiffen, and
ijkotid letidithOW, Ontario heard him catch his breath with a
gasp,
"That's him," he whispered, "'We-
-Ye got him,"
The next hionteet 1 stew it, too ---
A few lams on hand for sale or to
the eilhottette upon the blind of e
rent on easy terms, •
figure in cap and ulster, bending
studiously forward over the desk, in
the chair in which Henre Morgan
had sat when he met • his death.
"Yee," 1 heard tity chief eay in a
piercing whitper; "yes," we've got
hime-unless, in home • way, he's
counted on makine us think we
had We hadn't."
PLUMBING AND HEATING "Why do you think that?" Ashton
'hone 58 , Night Phone 88 demanded under hie breath.
littlt too obvious,"
saie. the doctor in uneasy hesitation.
"Why !devoid he court discovery in
that w43? Why should he be sitting
there with his shadow on the blind,
when he knows that half the town
has been roused by this fire?"
Ashton started forward impatient-
ly. "This is no time for theories,"
he muttered.
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But the doctor laid • a deta ning
hand upon his arm. "No," he said,
"that's a valid question. If there s no
trick about it, the man can't get a-
way, If there is a trick, its success
will depend upon our doing the very
thing that you propose to do—rush-
ing ahead without stopping to
think."
"Listen a minute," said Ashton,
still in a whisper, but speaking with
fierce impatience. "He must have
set fire to that other house himself.
He cannot have thought of a better
scheme for drawing my men off the
job. Once Wilkins saw them out of
the house, he knew he had nothing
to fear. He could make his search
leisure. And now he's found that
map that he's been dreaming about
for years, he's not thinking about
his shadow nor the blind it falls
on."
To me it seemed that the doctor's
question had been fairly answered,
and I moved forward, as Mallory
and Ashton did. My chief hesitated
an instant, then gave a nod of as-
sent.
Mallory pulled open the gate. We
all followed thrOugh it. Then I
glanced up once more at the lighted
window blind,
'Look!" I cried. "He -s goner'
One glance was all they needed.
The silhouette of that figure had dis-
appeared.
Ashton turned to Mallory and
spoke so fast that the words trod on
each other's heels.
"You stay outside," he command-
ed. ".He may try the windows if
he's cornered. You're the best man
we've got on a chase. Don't hesi-
tate to shoot! Come along the rest
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• the etnpty sleeve of the big ulster.
There was a string tied :Around the
sleeve, a string that 10 tp through
an empty stove -pipe hole and out in
the corridor. We went out to see
what the other end of it was at-
tached to, and found, that it was
made fast to a bell wire, in such a
way as not, probably, to interfere
with the ringing of the bell.
We 'gazed at the thing curiously
and, for the momeat, without cora-
preheleding. 'Then the doctor bit
upon a solution which we afterward
found to be the true one.
It was simple, "Like all great
ideas," said he. "The first thing
1,Vilkins did was to make fast a
string between the gate and the
old-fashioned bell pull in the front
'doorway. In that way he assured
himself of getting a warning when
your detectives returned front the
fire. It wouldn't allow him much,
leeway, but he undoubtedly calculat-
ed. that it would be enough, when
this house was in its prime this third
floor room served, no doubt, as quar-
ters for a servant, and it wasnatural
that one of the bells should ring up
here. The thought of the dumrny bad
probably odcurred to him in advance,
and it was a good thought. His chance
of escaping your two men, when they
returned, would be vastly greater if
they should rush into the house with
no other idea than that an intruder
was sitting in Henry Morgan's study,
leaning over Henry Morgan's desk.
"But the notion of connecting the
dummy with the bell wire, and bal-
ancing it so that the slightest pull
would cause it to move toward the
light, and then disappear, must have
been the inspiration of the moment."
'Well, he's gone,"said Ashton, "and
he's probably get the map, though if
you know where you left it, you'd bet-
ter look and see."
I pulled open the drawer where we
had placed it and glanced inside. One
glance was enough. The map was
gone.
He cant have gone very far," said
Ashtcm; "that's a safe surmise; and
as long as we've got that girl to track
him with, we'll get him yet. Come
there's no use loitering here."
We went downstairs and out of the
house in silence and as we moved
down the path we were instantly chal-
lenged by Mallory, who came running
up to us.
"Where's Wilkins," heaskecl. "What
have you done with him?" '
"Lost him," said Ashton ,sourly.
"But he can't have got out of the
of you!" house," protested Mallory. "I'm sure
Together we rushed up the path. nobody has got out of 'the house."
Ashton ahead and my chief and I "We've lost him, I tell you," said
just behind him. But, with all our Ashton. "Can't you understand plain
haste, we ascended the steps and English?"
crossed the wooden verandah silent-
ly. The front door was not even
latched. It swung back with a light
push, and we were inside.
"I'll go to the kitchen," Ashton
said, 'and cover the back stairs, and
work up from there. You two, be-
tween you, see that he doesn't get
down the front stairs, and search
the rooms un each floor before you
go any higher."
Both of us nodded comprehend-
ingly, and he darted away. I stayed
in the hall, while the doctor searched
the downstairs rooms which made
up the front of the house.
In a minute or two my chief re-
joined me in the hall. "He's not
here,' Ashton whispered. "Come,
let's go upstairs. We'll draw this
floor next, just as we did the other.
You; Phelps, guard the back and the
doctor can search the rooms."
Carefully as he searched, we drew
blank- again,
'All right," Asliton • whis-
"He's still in the study, then. It's
queer we don't hear him, though,"
"Do you think he can have got out
by one of the windows?" I ques-
tioned.
"Not with Mallory on the lookout
outside. I told him to shoot, and he
would. tome along! Follow me."
The study door was closed, but we
could see the light shining out from
under it. Ashton flung open the
door. But from that silent room
there never came a sound.
We waited a moment, Then,
breathlessly and cautiously, we el:-
tered. •
The room was empty.
For a moment we stared blankly
into each other's faces. Then a
grim, full -mouthed laugh from the
doctor shattered the strained silence,
lie clutched Ashton's artu ;nal
pointed:
"1 nok! Look there!"
On the floor, beside die swivel
chair, hail'• under the (leek, was a
greet caved -ulster and a hat, a bun-
dle of bed clothes, a bolster and a
st eid! pillow.
"There!" cried the doctor; "there
lies the shadow of our good friend,
Wilkins, but it looks ag if his sub-
stance had escaped us."
"But the thing .reoved," I cried—
"the shadow did, at any rate --moved
and disappeared."
The doctor stooped and lifted up
We all halted just then, and started,
a little expectant. A man's footsteps
were approaching, and the next mom-
ent he halted, rather undecisively, at
the front gate. But seeing us, • he
turned in and came promptly toward
us.
"Where's the car, gentlemen?" be
asked. "What have you done with the
car?"
"What's that!" Ashton roared.
'The car—the automobile that I
drove you out in! Where is it!"
For a moment there was no answer
to that but silence. But the silence
and the dismayed astonishment on our
faces, gave the man his answer.
So you went to the fire, did you?"
said the doctor grimly,
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• Not for more than five minutes,"
the man Pretested, "1 thoeght I'd
see if I could be of any, help—"
The man's explanation trailed off
volubly,—protesting, incoherent, but
we paid very little attention to It.
We knew what had happened, all too ,
well.
• "Well,' said the doctor, "if
ins only appreciated the fact, he
;ewes u$ a large debt of gratitude,
We 'told him about the map; and
then we brought the girl out to
him, and left her, together with an
automobile for him to disappear in."
"He'd better not try to thank nee,"
said Ashton grimly, "until the score
is settled. get him yet."• '
"No," said the doctor, "1 den't
believe you will. Wilkins is playing
in luck, perfectly unmerited good
luck. And when you combine luck
with the inore • solid and reliable
qualities which Wilkins possesses,
you get a result that is ahnost sure
to be successful."
• Ashton turned away impatiently.
"But the car!" the chauffer cried.
"I'm responsible for it. What am I
to do?"
• Ashton told him what he might
do, in three or four short, explosive
words.(co
(Continued next week)
Thtersdey, Febenary, aard, 1920
Wiarton Fall Fair dates are Sep-
tember 18 and 19. '
Dr. Fisher, Wiarton's oldest prac-
titioner, is dead, aged 79 years.
The scramble for the position of
postmaster of the village of Formosa
is over, and the plum fell to Mr. Wm,
J. Noll, who has been carrying on
business in that village for years as
a custom tailor.
EAST WAWANOSH
COUNCIL
• Council met on Feb, x5th with all
the members present. Minutes of last
meeting were read and approved on
motion of Councillors Campbell and
Reid.
A representative of the Ingot Iron
Co. waited on the council in reference
to the sale! of culverts and road ma-
chinery. • Regarding the purchase of
additional road grader, this inatteer
was laid over till March meeting.
Moved by Mr. Kerr, seconded by
Mr: Carnpbell that J. Gillespie be ap-
pohited.to attend the annual confer-
ence of County and. township road
superintendents in Toronto on Feb.
eoth and 21st.
Auditors Campbell and Thompson
presented their report of receipts and
expenditures for the past year, show-
ing receipts of $39,484.25, with an ex-
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penditure of $e8,643.oe, leaving a bal-
ance on hand at the first of the year
of 4841.16, The report was adopted
on motion of Thompson and Camp-
bell.
A further extension of time was gi-
ven the collectors till March xst for
completion of his duties, it being ex-
pected that by that date all the avail-
able taxes would be accounted for.
A by-law to provide for expendi-
ture on the township roads for the
current year was read and passed.
The following accounts were paid:
Advance -Times Office, ballots and
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nomination bilis $x3.00; The "Stand-
ard", advertising drain contracts Sz.00
W. H. Campbell, auditor $1z,so; F,
Thompson, auditor $12.00; Corpora-
tion of Blyth, hall rent Div. Court
eeo.00; F. Anderson, salary as Treas-
urer $xeo.00, postage lex5.00; J, Scott,
work on Harrison's Hill, Con. 6, $3.00;
H. Black, work at pit and drawing
tile $10.50; J. Vincent, patrolman $1.00,
J. Stonehouse, patrolman $5.5o; 3,
Gillespie, road superintendent $24.50,,
Council adjourned to meet again on
the second Tuesday of March.
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