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Zurich Herald, 1936-08-13, Page 3pint' n aIle six heaping teaspoons of Salads Bleck Ti. Ina of freer id� HOW TO MAKE ICED In A infuse After six minutes strain liquid Into two -quart container, While hot, 11/q cups of granulated sugar and the Juice of 2 lemons. Stir well until sugar is dissolved; fill container with cold water. Do not allow tea to cool before adding the cold water; otherwise liquid will become cloudy. Serve with chipped ice, The Queen's ';f . `:all Murder By Adam Broome Taunton's interest was increasing. Ile felt that he might really be on the verge of an important revelation. The jeweller had mentioned Bright- enouth—a pearl necklet. Was the shatter really concerned with the death of Paola Bianchi? And was her death to be linked up at last with Brightmouth? The very name of the place was beginning to be the regular concomitant of mysterious murder eases. The detective removed the piece of paper which he had used to straighten mut the letter and began to read. He remembered the letter he had seen in the possession of the fanatical stu- dent Branksome at Oxford Police Station. The only address given was 'Poste Restante, Brightsmouth.' have no permanent address in Eng- land. wearing a sun helmet for years, He declined the offer' of the Police Gar to take him up to the Central Pollee Stattou, where Grigson had hie office,' "It's nearly a fortnight," said he, since I was able to stretch my legs Properly." The walk was really a very short one—not as much as half a mile. At last they had climbed the slope from the wharf to the real centre of the town, "1 suppose you thought it rather queer when you got my cable?" Taunton had taken the visitors' •chair in Grigson's big airy office. "We're never surprised at anything out here. You get like that after a tour or too." Yours faithfully, Luigi Pomagani." Taunton finished reading the letter, took off his spectacles, laid them on the desk and sighed. This was more than a false alarm, there was some- thing in it without a doubt. There was nothing more, for the time being, that Mr. Crewe could do to help. Taunton thanked him pro- fusely for the information he had given, had him repaid his fare and expenses and bade him a cordial fare - welt, That was the end of the matter as far as the jeweller was concerned. He night—some of his assistant:, too— 1 ave to be called to the witness -box it ever—aye, there was the rub—any prisoner came to be charged with this or the other crimes to which it ap- peared in some way or other to be linked. "Gentlemen," it began, "I have seen you advertisement in the BRIGHT - MOUTH HERALD and should like to place;. a trial order with you. It is only a small one at first, but if I am 'satisfied I may be able to give you more in the future. I am sending you a jewel case, which you will fine en- closed. It is very old and shabby. 'But the necklet in it is very beauti- ful and 1 wish to give it as a present to friend. 1 want you to put it in the best morocco case you can provide up to three pounds in cost, a sum which I enclose hi Treasury notes. I 'do not wish your name to appear on the case. I am old-fashioned and dis- Ilike the modern way of advertising, and I must ask you to remove any !label which may be on the new case or its lining. Please place the jewels yin it exactly as they are—without re- moving the tissue paper which I have wrapped round the small diamond pendant, and which contains a mes- sage from me to the recipient. ;Handle it Crary earefuily as it is pas - (Bible that the stringing, which is very old and may not stand rough treat- !ment? may give way, end there is no time to have it replaced now. I want my friend to get it on the night she imakes her first appearance in Lon- don. IIer name and address are, "Signor Paola Bianchi, Empress Theatre, London." Please send by express post if necessary so that it will not fail to reach her in time. If there is any change, or if there is any more to pay, you can send it to pie c -o the Poste Restante at Bright- enouth G.P.O. I and staying near Brightmouth only a day or two and p.m....* • 0517) Priced as Low as $5.951 Now yon can iron in noel comfort In any Iona of the hong ... even outdoors benenth n shade tree. The Colt- man iron Is self -bent. nig. No cords nor connections. Carry & Iseult anywhere. Sev- staNewdr.ow Prime.e Ask Ask your dealer or fluidooTn,oFndotilss Tho Coiema• Letup cI stovo Co., Ltd. Dept. WL 317 Toronto, . Ont. Why You Should Have It 1. Costs only bid an hour to use 2. Lights Instantly 3. Heats in is few. seconds 4. Quickly ready for use d. Malntatnscvanheat 6. btottest at the point 7. Irons with less cant 9. Saves 3'i lronin0 time 9. No fires to build 10. 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Farm• ere have found water -level in their wells steadily receding. There are many causes for this, including the sudden 'un -of in sp:.ng, the disap- pearance of bush which formerly re- tained the moisture resulting from winter snows and seasonal rains. "Then there is the matter of intense' drought affecting each large areas of the American continent that there may be a widespread recession of. the underground water level. There is not .much authentic inter - elation on the subject anywhere in Canada, for the reason that water deeply has heretofore offered no prob- lem. Farmers instinctively knew where to sink a well and were uni- formly rewarded with a plentiful sup- ply of wholesome water. That situa- tion is changing and it is only this year that governmental agencies have been called in to give aid in a scien- tific hunt for underground water sup. pi: the case of Ontario, the fed- eral and provincial departments are co-operating. Well -drillers are being asked to provide a record of their op- eratiens. Indic"Ing depths at which they have located water and the kind or soil encountered. The scientific as - pec' of the inland water supply will be given some official attention, An ade- quate supply of water for farms Is vi- tal to the agriculture industry. "It was the Commissioner's own idea. We've so far got just nowhere with any of these curare cases_start- ing with the Parelli affair and end- ing with Paoli Bianchi, Of course. you'll have read all about them, 'and there's no point in my going into d etails." "The only point of any value—and it hasn't very much — is that the strings should have been bought in Brightmouth. In the Parelli and the. Bianchi case there's the same centring' on Brightmouth. The case of the little girl Crowther is not quite" on the same footing. There's. the Bright - mouth motif, and the suggestidnof: music, of course—but the most strik- ing feature—curare--is missing this' time. "1 suppose you collected the parcel from Swanston's that the strings came in?" "Indee I did. I've got it." He made a movement, but Taunton made a protesting gesture. "Don't bother — not yet. There's. something I want to say first. I suppose those Commissioner chaps are always more or Iess up against somebody or other, and natives are supposed to be rather dabs at poison- ing. It's a convenient way—any- where--of `bumping off' people you've got a grudge against. I suppose, by any chance, that the curare bush or tree or whatever it is, isn't grown out here?" Grigson shook his head. "I can tell you—quite definitely— that it isn't produced here. Of course, as you say, there are lots of people— nmainly natives naturally—who must, i1. the nature of things, have com- plaints against the D.C. Buton the whole, Westcott's decisions were pretty popular, and I can say, having investigated the case myself pretty thoroughly, that there's no evidence that anyone, white or black, was suf- ficiently worked up about him to want to `bump him off.' " "Now the next thing is ---could any- one tt manage to get hold of curare out I deck. The other was in the boat in here; any unqualified, unauthorized water which filled it to within six 1 city who have bandee themselves to - This was easy to answer; yet the. comegether in a Goalless Club have taken surprise was expressed that a long time to reach this decision. person?" finches of the deck. y two vigorolta young men should have Nor can they be censured for the answer could not be entirel con step that they have taken, one which elusive. died so soon from exposure. They ' must voluntarily "The only place where any's kept— were on the lake only part of one must be voluntarily ville men assumed byy manyny it's not on sale here at ell—is at the afternoon • lid a night. However, otherhave never thought of assertingatheiro Colonial Hospital here in Edwards- there was an icy wind blowing through the formation of a club vine. And the P.M.O. reported the throughout the night and presumably right any other the formation stock quite intact. He showed me Wei men 1 ' ' been in the water. The the safe and the stuff. There's never on: who was lashed to the deck was oIt s been any shortage, for years back; c1a.e only in trousers a-' shoes. Com when the eoison stock has been petent medical opinion is to the et - checked. And that's always done by feet that th. co'' wind bad so chilled a Board of Doctors; not by any the men that their vital organs would means an ordinary ..loard of Survey not function and cleath came in on stores to be condemned." a pei'od the duration of which could "But you're up against the same scarcely be credited with fatal results. difficulty you had at home. You This double eitality ol. Lake Erie might check every grain—or however is a reminder that the operation of it is they pleasure it—in the whole small boats on such bodies o` water country. And yet quite enough to do is precarious business. There is too the trick might be brought in— much tempting of fate in that roan• struggled in -- by someone from ner in Canada and as tong as people abroad. In South America, where I take these injudicious risks the believe the stuff comes from, they're death tell will grow. not quite so strict about the exports Boating is a pleasant and inviting and so on as we are in Europe." pastime, but it is one in which ma - "But there's just one thing here tore judgment should be employed in that might or might not help: and rating the risks that are associated that's this queer old diary that seems with it, To embark in a craft that to have belsnged to Westcott's isnot big enougb to weather the kind father." . of waves that are likely to he eneount- Grigson smiled. Bred; is an invitation to disaster, no matter how experienced the sailors. may be. Perry had finished examining the Brightmouth letter which Mr. Crewe had handed to Inspector Taunton a short time before. "Of course the signature, `Luigi Ponagana' is forged. He's the men— the waiter at the Hotel Majestic at Brightmouth—whose wife was made, at the same time a fool and the dupe of the person who wanted to 'bump off' Parelli. It's only guessing—no— perhaps more than that — that 'Dr. Hawkes' and 'Luigi Pomagana' of this letter are one and the same per- son., He compared the new letter with an enlarged Police photograph of the "Hawkes"letter which had led to the student Branksoxne''a involving him- self in so much trouble. "No - I should say—if you compared the two closely together—you could be pretty sure that the man who wrote the one wrote the ether. The writing's neat —though it's stiff and obviously dis- guised—and the fellow seems to have used an exceptionally thin nib—thin- ner than people usually use—to make the camouflage more complete. "It's all the most confounded muddle," said Taunton, taking up the documents which Perry had replaced on the table. Anyway, before I do another thing, I'ni off to Brightmouth to see what I can get from Mr. Luigi Pomagna." CHAPTER XVIII The Westcott Diary I can't see much to complain about here." Chief inspector Taunton felt an agreeable warmth as be sat ir, the smoking -room of the "Apapa" as she lay, after her twelve days' voyage, first of all through cold and stormy seas, and then through water as smooth as glass, at anchor in the pretty land -locked harbor of Ed- wardsville, the capital of the British West African colony of Old Guinea. But the warmth that he felt so far was no more than agreeable, and as he thought of the frosty winter in England which he had left behind him, he considered the large glass of iced lager beside him an excellent prophylactic against any discomfort he might otherwise have been inclined' to feel. Denzil Grigson, the Commissioner of Police of the Colony, had come off to the ship to meet his colleague from the Yard. His lithe, athletic form, in the neat khaki police uniform, con- trasted strongly with that of the Lon- don man—plump, rotund, thoroughly "beefy"—as he gently perspired in ample white flannel trousers and a dark blue, brass -buttoned blazer. Gxigson smiled. It was extraordinary to him how accustomed Taunton became to the unusual scenes and sights around him. By the time they had chugged they had chugged the half mile or so to the shore in the broad -beamed motor tender, he felt that he had been Risk of Small Boats Comments the Sarnia Observer: "Two young men, Douglas Jackson ants Joseph Berry, of London, perish• ed on Lake Erie over the week -end, when their sailboat encountered rough weather. When the disabled craft was Located by searchers It was afloat but water logged. The body of one of the men was lashed to the Laura Wheeler Crocheted Design Is Fun to Do and "Cobweb" Fine lhaseowawaceir Here is the loveliness of tatting and the simplicity of crochet. 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For mem- bership in good standing it is also required that a tie be worn, that there be no ,•i ''Ile suspenders, and that the shirt be clean, with all the buttons present. Jacksonville being situated geogree phically and climatically as it is, it will be generally agreed that the 100 business and professional men of that i one of the most ridiculous things in the world that men who in- dignantly deny that they are slaves of fashion will swelter in Summer's heat, in Canada as well as Florida, wearing clothing that is sufficiently heavy to withstand Wiuter's frosts. Men poke fun at women who for some unknown reason affect tur throws in mid -Summer. But while they are doing so, they themselves persist in many cases wearing heavy coats and other garmente which are equally unnecessary and which must make them objects of pity ou the part of the lightly -clad girls on women who dress according to the seasons. Even the animals shed their heavy coats of fur when Suinme.' heat ar- rives. But men, presumably because they have always done so, still wear coats and sometimes incur the wrath of the women attached to them be• cause they have the temerity to re• move them In public. We admire the men of Jacksonville tor the emend• pating movement which they have launched. May it spread to Canada. I through it myself. But I don't think you'll find anything that's of much use in that. Seems mostly to do with the old boy's accounts at his Musical Seminary, as he called it, at Brights- nlouth." Taunton gave a weary smile. "I know: but I'll just take it to bed with me and have a squint at it before I go to sleep. I've got to make some sort of report on something to the Commissioner when I get back to London." (To Be Continued) STUDY BUSINESS COURSES AT HOME and save living expenses, All Business and Secretarial Courses studied successfully through our Horne Study Deartment. I•Tundreds of successful graduates during past .thirty-one yeitrs. Reduced fees. 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