Zurich Herald, 1943-08-12, Page 7(6.dt
y, alay.oysy,„ the 'Salado'
Label is .your guarantee. -of a
uniform blend of 'fine quality teas.
By J. C. Woodiwiss
• 'CHAPTER XIX
There could be little doubt that
the unsuspecting victim had been
;struck down by an assassin who
had hurled the dagger from the
door. In (rent ,of her; lay a mall
pile of letters, stamped and ready
icor posting. Hopton pounced on
these and'opened the first. It con-
tained only a short' message writ-
ten In a neat, careful hand.
"Dear Frank,
This is to wish you good-bye in
case I don't get another chance
to write. We are in a desperate
situation and are gradually being
ringed in by enemies. T. has been
a bit too clever this time, and
unless we can get abroad again
very soon, I'm afraid it's all up
with 'us. You know everything, and
can understand what I feel. God
bless 'you, whatever happens!
.Always your Ioving, •
GERTIE."
This letter was directed to
Frank Newton, Esq., at an address
in Tenby, Pembrokeshire. The
next was even more dramatic, and
ran as follows:—
"Dear Girlie,
For God's "sake take care!
Leave London if possible. We can't
*shake that devil off. Tom spotted
him. yesterday, and we are making
frantic efforts to do a flit. I'm•
nearly mad with worry. God help
us all!
This was addressed to Miss Fer-
rier, Plat 4, 14; Close Street, W.7.
* s
The Iucpector had two valuable.
clues to work upon in the two let-
ters
etters written by the deceased wo-
man.
He immediately started to search
Ror Miss' Perrier, accompanied by
one of his most astute officers.
Close Street was' et long, narrow
thoroughfare of high, dirty -looking
buildings consisting of shops on the
ground floors over which the
rooms -Were let out in flats. Num-
ber 14 appeared to be under re-,
pair, for a line of scaffolding had
been fisted under the second storey
windows, on which two men were
at work. The officer with him
hailed one of the workmen on the
scaffolding.
"Come down, chummie," he call.
ed. "I want to speak to you."
for Men in the Services
The Gift of Gifts
"SHIELD OF FAITH"
Catholic Prayer Book or
New Testa/intent
With gold -finished 20-gttage
seteel front jacket—Eingrnved
""To lily Loved One."
Capable of deflecting ballets,
shrapnel or bayonets. "May save
your loved one's life.
Pito the uniform breast pocket
—protects the heart.
Comes in labelled carton, ready
to mail. Prayer -book or Testa-
ment, eneh, Special postpaid
1295, ,August only.
I'li101ill'SO\ PUBLICATIONS
52 PleCaui St., Toronto
"We want to see Miss Perrier at
once," replied 11c pton's compan-
ion. "D'you know if she's about?"
"No, I don't think so," returned
the workman with a deckled shake
of the head. "Tit; ladees gone out
and said she wouldn't be back un-
til this evenin'. But ,1 expect you've
come about the footmark. We sug-
gested the lady should speak to
the pleece about it."
* * *
"The lady's got the wind up be-
cause w'en we come to work this
mornin' we found an animal's foot-
mark in some mortar we'd left on
a bit o' board outside 'er window.
A big paw -mark with long claws
it was."
He led the way up the ladder,
and presently the two officers
'Vere bending over a pile of mortar
in whose sticky surface was a rep-
lica of the mysterious footprint
which . had ' been found outside
Scutt's bedroom window.
Seven -thirty had just struck the
same evening, when Hopton saw a
short, middle-aged woman come
quickly along the narrow pave-
ment and, stopping before the side
door of number 14, insert her key
in the lock. It was the woman
they had been waiting for.
"Good evening, madam; you're
Miss Ferrier, I believe? We're pol-
ice officers, and we'd like to ask
you one or two questions concern-
ing the murder of Mrs. Gertrude
Galesbourne, alias Abershaw."
• "She's been murdered?" cried
the woman wiht horrified emphas-
is on the last sinister word. I'm
afraid I .can't help you much be-
cause I tenly knew her very slight-
ly,
lightly, Inspector," replied Miss Fer.
rier. "But perhaps you'll come in?"
"Now Miss Ferrier," remarked
the detective as he stood idly ex-
amining an assn tray which stood
on the mantelpiece, "I want you
to tell me all you know concerning
the late Mrs. GaIesbourne."
:`Oh, I can't stand it any longer!
This awful suspense!" she cried
hysterically as she fell sobbing in-
to an armchair. "It can't possibly
hurt anyone now Gertie's dead,"
. "I think it would be far better
to let the police help you. We
• know about this creature who left
-the footprint on the scaffolding
outside your window."
"Ifted Dave?" cried Miss Ferrier,
looking up with a terror-stricken
face. `'You know about him?"
"A certain amount," ageeecl the
detective guardedly. "What's the
idea iir leaving these animal foot-
prints?"
"It's no use trying to hide things
up any longer. I'm one of Gales-
bourne's' gang, and Red Dave's
after us."
* * *
Without warning, a heavy por-
tiere curtain which covered a small
alcove was suddenly ripped aside
and e found himself gazing down
•the barrel of an ugly -looking au-
tomatic pistol held in the determ-
ined hand of the pseudo -priest,
Galesbourne.
"Keep away from that door, Hop-
ton, and stick 'em up, both 'of
you!" he cried menacingly. "Get
me a length of rope, Girlie, and
we'll tie 'em up. The first one who
makes a move, stops a bullet."
nee
oriffR !P
e's /eh #
Si'[" ' wt ii!, 4 tJiMfi,V
"Give a mean a better breakiasrand he 11
do a better war lob, That's why I make it
my job to see that Jim gets two Nabisco
Shredded Wheat with milk every morning."
Nabisco Shredded Wheat h 100% whole
Wheat with all the food'energy and food -
values in choice Canadian Wheat. ,Serve
Nabisco Shredded Wheat for Fitness ...
save War Stamps for Victory] ,.;
THE CANADIAN SHREDDED
WHEAT COMPANY, LTD.
Niagara Falls, Canada
7438
As the spoke, lViiss Ferrier ie -
turned with a ' length of Stout
clothes -line and stood waiting f,,
orders.
"New; then, any dear;7 ' Gales -
bourne went on, "grab hold of Oils
gun and don't be afraid to press
the trigger if either of these 1:116 -
moves or kicks up a row."
He handed the pistol to her, and
snatching up the rope began to
secure t.lar'lingforcl's legs with a
thoroughness that showed he was
no novice in the gentle art of
knotting and lashing.
"When we've got these two fools
roped up, we'll put 'em in the cup-
board with a bandage soaked in
chloroform over t h,e i r faces.
There'll be no noise that ways-ejust
an easy, painless death, friend
Hopton --a nice long Bleep from
which there'll .be no waking up,"
and he chuckled evilly at his [•un-
ning.
* * *
From outside in the street came
three quick blasts from a motor•
horn, the signal Hopton had ar-
ranged with Morrell, who had been
left in charge, to warn him some-
thing unusual was going on.
There came a terrific crash of
glass • as the wide, panes shivered
into a thousand pieces. Both the
bogus parson and his accomplice
swung round to see the crouching
figure of a man poised on the scaf-
folding outside, his face plainly
visible in the brilliant light from
the room—a terrible, malevolent
face with black elf -locks upon the
forehead and wild, mad eyes.
• Quick as thought, there was a
flash of 'steel from outside ethe
window, as, with a wild, half -hu-
man cry, the creature swunk back
his arm and flung a knife at the
man he hated. Galesbourne saw it,
and hurled himself on the floor
in the nick of time as the heavy
weapon whizzed over him and bur-
ied itself quivering in the wall,
while, at the same instant, the wo-
man recovered her nerve and fired
at the intruder, who 'instantly dise
appeared with another terrible
cry. And at that moment Detec-
tive -Inspector Hopton, seizing his
opportuntiy, flung himself forward
and knocked the pistol from her
grasp.
GaIesbourne sprung forward and.
gripped' the detective's collar in
an iron grasp and was slowly
choking him into submission, when
the door was burst open and he
was dragged backwards, by Mor-
rell and half a dozen other officers
who crowded into the room,
(Continued Next Week)
More Howlers
General Sniuts are what all the
different black races are called
in the northwestern quarter of
Africa, -
A magnet is a thing you find in
a bad apple.
A good milk cow can be told by
her rudder. •
A calf has to wait a long time
before he is milked.
The four seasons are salt, pep-
per, mustard and vinegar.
Rural life is found mostly in
the country.
One of the main cruses of dust
Is janitors.
MAKE YOUR OWN!
WE'VE COME FOR TAE BOOKS
YOU PROMISED THE
MRS. BROWN
HERE Ti EY ARE,
CHRISM, I ONLY
WISH I HAD MORE
YOU KNOW Telt ,0.D,E.
SENT OVER V4 MILLION
BOOKS 1.0 THE NAVY, ARMY
AND AIRFORCE LAST YEAR
SURE -IT TARES MV NNI D
OFF THIS DIRTY WEATHER.
I'LL BET THERE ARE A LOT
OF I.O.D.E.BOOKS BEING
READ BY TtlE BOYS IN
TOOTS CONVOY
HELLO BOOMORM,
WHAT ARE YOU READING?
A BOOK FROM NE
IT'S ABOUT THE NATIVES EN
THE SOUTA SEAS- I FEEL
„ALMOST WARM AGAIN
THANK GOD FOR 'MESE
BOOKS FROM HOME,
EH JACK!
u
AMEN, TtlEY CERTAINLY -
HELP To KILL TiME AND ALL
WE NEED IS MORE OF i'tWM
:'6
One Way of Killing
Poison Ivy Weed
There is only one way we know
of killing the weed that leads a
stinging existence under the
name of poison ivy, says The
Winnipeg Free Press. Put what
you like on it, and it survives.
'But get it by the roots, and tear,
and drag, and dig, and pry it out,
follow_ ing its root foot by foot,
yard by yard, perch by perch,
and mile by mile, until its baneful
length is eliminated.
That, and that alone is, we be-.
Zieve, the least scientific or hor-
ticultural cure for this ru,nning
sore of, a weed. But that is the
only •cure we have 'found that
does .away with the pestilence,
insuring next year that the weed
will not be where it certainly was
before you tore it out by the
roots this year.
Others may talk over the fence
about the action of a pound of
borax spread over 30 square feet
of the affliction known as poison
ivy, but we're all for getting at
the ,root of the matter.
Owns Oniy Hansom
Cab In London
A hansom cab, newly painted,
with yellow wheels and shafts and
driven by an elderly man in a
fresh gray billycock, has been seen
of recent weeks in the streets of
the City of London.
Cab and cabby are believed to
be the last survivors of London's
hansom -cab era, but they have not
been brought out of their retire-
ment and tittivated up merely to -
amuse soldiers from America.
Some months ago Sir Edward
Wilshaw, the chairman of Cable
and Wireless, Ltd., laid up his
car and hunted London for a han-
som cab in which he could pay his
business calls.
Be naw owns the only hansom
cab on the streets of London and
the best -looking cab seen in Lan-
don for' years.
TR
SADIE
T YLY LES
B. CHAMBERS
Ntstriti`•o is Summer
Salads
Some -women have a tendency
to serve the lightest of salads dur-
ing hot weather. With ordinar
Y
meals, this is ideal, for our bodies
do not require as many calories
in summer as in winter.
But how about making the sal.
ad `more nutritious and serving it
as the main -coarse dish? This re-
duces your calories' still more,
keeps from over -heating your
home, makes it easy„ 'to prepare
a meal, `and gives ri'deeidted change.
Summer greens may be combined
with such healthful foods as chop-
ped meats, eggs, and cooked, dried
Lima beans to form dozens of de-
licious salads of this kind. Most
of the ingredients called for in the
following recipes, are already in
your stock.
Harlequin Salad
1 cup cooked, dried Limas
13 cupfuls chopped tongue or
ham
3 hard-boiled eggs, sliced
1 tomato, peeled and sliced
24 cup chopped pickles
le cup French dressing
1 ]read lettuce
Sour .cream or mayonnaise
salad dressing
Prepare and combine meat,
Limas, eggs and pickles. Mix with
French dressing, let stand 1 hour
in a cold place. Pile on a •bed of
lettuce and garnish with the sliced
tomato.
Savory Linia Salad
2 cups cooked, dried Limas
xs cup finely cut celery
2 small green onions
2 tablespoons chopped green
Pepper
2 hard -cooked eggs
2 tablespoons chopped Pimiento.
1 cucumber, sliced
1 tablespoon chopped parsley
Colnbin.e all ingredients and mix
with highly seasoned ,French
dressing. Arrange on :e':tuce
Ieaves. -
Cauliflower Orange Sees_
% cup shredded law cans' rower
3 oranges, cut in snail :eaves
'.z cup diced celery
3 tablespoons minced g,•:.-,;
pepper
Salt and onion juice t:,sue
Combine ingredients ir order
given and chill. Place o';.,
dual plates plates on a salad ,gn=at! and
serve' with favn ate gal;. ' ar ee-i-
ing.' etves ' 6,
Miss chambers weteomcy personal
tetters front interested readers, She
Is pleased to receive suggestions
on topics for ber eolasnn, anti is
always ready to listen to your "pet
peeves." Requests' for 'reelpeo or
special menus are In order. Address
your tetters to "Miss Smite it.
Chambers, 73 _West Adelaide Si.,
Toronto." ' Send stamped • self-ad-
dressed envelope if you wish to
repay,
Natural History
Every day of its life, a•.: P,rster
draws from four to five gallons
of water through itself.
A. few hours after it's ',.ern, a
baby zebra can run as fast is its
papa and mamma — ani that's
fairly fast.
The albatross n ith a w `ng
spread of more than 12 f- Inas
to take off much like au ;;;rniane,
facing the wind, then runt- ng a
short distance and finally taking
Off. But once it's in the air, 'r •. an
The deadliest species the
African jungle isn't the tibr, the
lion or the snake, but the. .iriver
ants which, swarming in :e «ions,
proceed to eat serp:nts, Inman
beings and animals — an i don't
even fear to'feast on a le!, ale -
Brave is the mongoose,_ienl-
ber of the civet family ::'niefiy
inhabiting India, which is about
the size of a ferret. iiu, ear-
lessly attacks and kills 't1: most
poisonous of snakes. Quantities
of the mongoose were ±..,uaht
from India to ,Tamnica.. whew, they
did a good job in t;tiake e:. ter-
Millatian.—Neral
Slip cover season is here! And
women- everywhere are thriftily
making their own this year. You'll
find it easy with these clear,
complete• directions for cutting,
fitting and finishing slip covers,
of many types. Fabric and trim
ideas, too! instructions 457 con-
tain step-by-step directions and all
information for making slip cov-
ers.
Send TWENTY CENTS (20e)
in coins (stamps cannot be ac-
cepted) for this pattern to Wilson
Needlecraft Dept., Room 421, 73
Adelaide St. West, Toronto.
Write plainly pattern number,
your name and address,
Canada's Housoldiers know that custards and. ' hlSc-
manges, quickly and easilymade with pure, high quality
Canada Coal Starch,.are a delight with any luncheon •
• or dinner menu. '.
At this time when Canadians are urged to "Eat Right
to Feel Right", these delicious desserts will prove a
welcome addition to the nutrition foods featured by
the National Food for Fitness Campaign. Follow
Canada's Food Rules for Health and Fitness.
ISSUE NO. 33-43
STARCH
4 produef of the CANADA STARCH COMrANY, limited
ut ass � 9 ;*k 7 r iiMt1 .. J nes