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CLUE OF THE
NEW PIN
By EDGAR WALLACE
(Continued from last weeks
It was dark 'when they arrived, and
by pre -arrangement they did not
speak in the long walk which separ-
ated them from Stone Cottage, but in
single file, keeping to the shadow of
the road, they marched forward with-
out meeting with a soul,
'When at last they came to the high-
way in which Stone Cottage was sit-
uated, they proceeded with greater
caution. But there was nobody in
sight and they reached the garden
unobserved.
Ursula was standing in the open
doorway to welcome them.
""I've had all the blinds pulled down,
she said, "and Inspector Carver's
coming is rather providential, for my
woman has had to go home -her
mother has been taken ill. I hope
you don't mind appearing in the role
of a chape'ron," 'she smiled at Car-
ver,
"Even that is not an unusual one,"
he replied, unsmiling. "Where does
she live, the mother of your serv-
ant?"
"At Felborough. Poor Margaret
only had time to catch the Iast train."
"How did' Margaret know her
mother was ill?" asked the Inspector.
'Did she have a telegram?"
Ursula nodded.
"`Late this afternoon ?"
"Yes," said the girl, in surprise.
'Why do you ask?"
"She got the telegram in time to
catch the train to town; in time, too,
to catch a train for Felborough. That
was why I asked. You did not see
the man last night?"
"I didn't come down until this
morning," she answered, troubled. "Do
you think that Margaret has been sent
for by -somebody -that it was a
ruse to get her away?"
"I don't know,' said Garver. "In
my profession we always apply the
worst construction, and we are gen-
rally right. What time do you us-
ually go to bed?"
"At ten o'clock in the country," she
said.
"Then at ten o'clock, will you go
up to your room, put on your lights,
and after a reasonable time, put them
ut again? You may, if you wish,
ome down, but you must be prepar-
d to sit in the dark; and if you want
o talk, you must carry on your con-
ersation in whispers." A rare smile
oftened his face. "We shall prohab-
y all be feeling a little foolish in the
morning, 'but I would rather feel fool -
=h than miss the opportunity of
''seting the man in black."
She gave them supper, and after
he men had helped' clear away the
emains of the meal Tab, at her re-
uAst, filled his pipe. Carver said he
id not wish to smoke.
Conversation, for some reason,
eemed to lag. They sat silently a -
out the table, each busy with his own
Noughts. 'Suddenly Ursula said:
"I am almost inclined to make a
estricted confession to you, Mr. Car-
r. I don't think I should ever have
reamt of doing so if I had never met
ou."
"Restricted confessions are irritat-
ng things," said Carver, "so I don't
bink I should confess if I were you,
Miss Ardfern, especially as I know
IN the restricted confession is all
bout."
Her eyebrows rose.
"You know?" she said.
He nodded.
"You would tell me." he said, "that
nu were in the habit of going to
rasmere's house every night, t''
cave your jewels with him, though
at wasn't the object of your visit.
nu went there," he said, slowly and
it looking at her; "to act as his sec-
tary. All the letters that were sent
�vay by Jesse Trasmere were type-
ritten by you on a portable machine;
he make of the machine is a Cortona,
is number is 29754, it has one key
ap missing, and the letter 'r' is a
ttle out of alignment."
He enjoyed her consternation for a
econd. and then went on:
"`Perhi ps you weren't going to tell
me that you and Yeh Ling, the pro-
rietor of the Golden Roof, paid `a
sit to Mayfield the night I nearly
aught you? No, I see that you
eren't. So we'll restrict the emi-
ssion to your peculiar occupation."
Tab was speechless.
Ursula Ardfern the old man's sec-
tary!eOne of the most successful
:tresses in London acting as amanu-
nsis to that crabbed misanthrope ;
was unbelievable. Yet a glance at
H. girl's face told him that Carver
ad only spoken the truth.
"How do you know?" she gasped.
Carver smiled again.
"De have very clever people in the
01ice," he said dryly. "You would
ever imagine it, to read the news-
pers. Clever old sixty-nine inch
rain," avowed Tab stoutly.
"But-'--" interrupted the girl, and
r voice was agitated, "do you know
-do you know anything else? Why
e went that night?"
"You' went to show Yeh Ling where
he old man kept some of his secret
ocuments, in the fake brick in the
replace. You went hoping that in
hat box there were some papers
hich related to you, and you were
sappointed. The only thing I am
n doubt about is this -was Yeh Ling
sappointed too?"
She shook her head.
"I wondered," mused Carver. "Of
nurse I guessed • that it was in the
the lacquer box, and guessed also
hat the little lacquer box had a false
ottom. Am I right?"
She shook her head again.
"No -Yell Ling thought it was
here; the' document he sought wasp in
he brick -box."
"Yon heave the 'key of 11fayfield,"
as Carver. ""I think you had better
give it to me. Otherwise you may be
eating into serious trouble."
She went out'of the room without
a word, came back, and • handed him
the small Yale key, which he glanced
at and dropped into his pocket. '
A'If I were a writing man, which,
thank heavens, I am not," he said, "I
should call this story of the Tres -
mere murder, 'The Mystery of the
Three Keys.' Here is one solved, and
it wasn't much of a mystery. There
are two others. The third is the
most difficult of all."
"You mean the key that was found
on the table in the vault?"
He nodded.
"`Yes," he said, and said no more.
In her discretion, Ursula asked no
further questions.
Tab was looking at Carver with a
new respect.
"Every day, Carver," he said ser-
iously, "you are getting nearer the
fictional ideal of a real detective!"
Carver's down -turned lips took an
upward curve, and then he looked at
his •w"tch.
"Ten o'clock, Miss Ardfern," he
said with mock severity, and Ursula
made a move to the door. "We must
turn these lights out before you leave
the room. Everything must be done
in order, remembering that some-
where the Black Man is watching.
She shivered.
It was Tab who blew out the light
in the drawing -room.
"`I think we may draw the cur-
tains," said Carver softly, and pulled
back the heavy velvet hanging from
the window.
It was a starlight night and there
was just sufficient light in the sky to
outline the gateway.
"This will do admirably," he said,
settling himself in the window seat.
"If you must smoke, Tab, don't bring
your pipe within sight of that gate."
Tab groaned and laid his pipe upon
the fender.
Ten minutes later Ursula came into
the room.
"May I stay?" she whispered. "I
have put out my bedroom light most
artistically."
Tey conversed in whispers for an
hour, and Tab was beginning to feel
sleepy when a hiss from Garver stop •
ped him in the middle of a sentence.
Looking out of the window he saw a
dark figure by the gate. It was im-
possible to distinguish more than the
outlines. It appeared to be a man
of considerable height, but this might
have been, and probably was, en il-
lusion. It wore'a broad -'brimmed hat
presumably dark; more than this they
could not see. They waited in silence
as the gate. opened and the figure stole
noiselessly into the garden.
It was half way to the door when
another figure appeared. It came
from nowhere, seeming to rise up
from the ground; and then before the
man in the wide-awake hat could
draw back, the second man had flung
himself upon him. The watchers sat
paralysed until Carver, jumping to
his feet, ran out of the room, Tab
close behind him.
When they flung open the door,
both figures had disappeared. Oar -
ver sprang toward the gate, and
stumbled. His foot had struck a
soft bulk which stretched across the
garden path; he turned back, flashing
an electric lamp, upon the object. It
was a man. and for a moment they
did not see his face.
"Who are you?" Carver pulled the
man over on his back. "Well,' I'm-"
The man at his feet was Yeh Ling!
XVIII
The Chinaman was unconscious, and
Carver looked around for the second
visitant. He rushed to the gate, the
road was deserted. Flinging himself
upon the roadway to secure an arti-
ficial skyline, he peered first in one
direction and then in the other. Pres-
ently he saw his man running swiftly
in the cover of the hedges, and start-
ed in pursuit.
A hundred yards away from the
house was a secondary road, and in-
to this the runner turned. As Carver
reached the corner he heard a motor-
car engine and dimly saw the bulk of
a large touring car retreating rapid-
ly.
He came back to the house, to find
Yeh Ling sitting in Ursula's room
holding his head in his hands.
"`This is the second man; it isn't
the wide-awake gentleman," said Car-
ver. "Now, Yeh Ling, give an ac-
count of your action. How are you
feeling?"
"Pretty dizzy," said Yeh Ling, and
to Tab's surprise his tone was that of
a cultured man, his English faultles*.
He looked up at the girl reproach-
fully.
"You did not tell me these gentle-
men were coming down, Miss Ardfern
when you wrote to me," he said.
"I hadn't any idea when I wrote
that they were coming, Yeh Ling,"
she answered.
"If I had been here a little earlier
I sfioule have seen him," he said. "`A's
it was, I am afraid I have•spoilt your
evening, Mr. Carver." His expres-
sionless brown eyes looked up at the
detective.
"I see! Yoe were on guard too,
were you?" said Carver good-humor-
edly. "Yes, we seem,to have made a
mess of it between us. Did you see
the man?"
"yI didn't see him," said' Yeh Ling,
"but," he added, "I felt him," and he
rubbed his heed. "`I think it must
have been his fist. I did not notice
any weapon."
"You didn't see his •face?�' persist-
ed Gamer.
"No, `he had a beard of some kind.
I felt it as my hands clutched at
him. I am afraid I over-estimated
my strength," he said apologetically
to the girl, "yet there was a time
when I was a star performer at Mr -
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vard, be the '0aei w f art se .
extra were so netilizlg 4 a eur"iosity.
""Harvard?" said in surprise
"Great Mctaes.. I thought you w,e.
a•- --•" he couldn't very well 'knish hi
Sentence. 1
But the ocher helped' him.
"You thought I was a Very erdin
ary i t Ink?.!" he said.: "Possibly I
am. I hope 1 am," he said. "Cer-
tainly ease Ardfern knew me when I
was a very poor Chink! We lodged
in the same'house, she will remember
and she placed me ,under an eternal
obligation by saving the life of my
SOIL"
(Then Tab remembered the little
Chinese 'boy. Ursula had nursed when
she herself was little more than 0,
child, Remembering this, a great
many things which had been obscure
to hien became clear and understand-
able.
"I had no idea you would come to-
night, Yeh Ling, but you begged me
if I was in any kind of difficulty to
let you know," she said. "You should
not have taken the trouble."
"Events' seem to prove that," said
the Chinaman' dryly. "I am merely
being consistent, Miss Ardfern. You
have 'been under my personal abser-
rvation for seven years. Seven years
day and night, either I or one of my
servants have been watching you.
You never went -e-" He stopped,
and changed the conversation.
"Miss Ardfern never went to Mr.
Trasmere's house but you weren't
watching outside; that is what you
were going to 'say, wasn't it, Yeh
Ling?" smiled Carver. "You need not
be reticent, 'because I know all about
it, and Miss Ardfern knows that I
know." p
"That was what I was going to
say," said the other. "I usually fol-
lowed 'Miss Ardfern from the theatre
to her hotel; 'from her hotel to Tras-
mere's house, and home again when
she had finished working."
The reporter and detective exchang-
ed glances, This, then, was the ex-
planation of the mysterious Chinaman
who had been seen by Mr. Stott's
servant waiting outside Mayfield
smoking a cigar in the cool hours of
the morning. It explained, also the
appearance of the cyclist in the road-
way that morning when the tires of
Ursula Ardfern's car had burst and
Tab had been on hand to render timely
assistance.
"I had no idea," breathed the as-
tonislhed girl; ""is that true, Yeh
Ling? Oh, how kind you have been!"
Tab saw tears in her eyes, and
wished that he, and not this uninter-
esting Chinaman, had been the person
who excited her gratitude.
"Kindness is a relative term," said
Yeh Ling. He had brought his feet
up on a chair and was rolling a cig-
arette; he had asked permission with
his eyes, and as Ursula nodded he lit
it with a quick flick of his fingers, a
match having appeared, as it seem-
ed, out of space, and carefully replac-
ed the stalk in a match -box. "Was it
kindness that you saved the life of
one who is to me the light of my eyes
and the inspiration of my soul, if you
will forgive what may seem to you, a
writer, Mr. Holland, a piece of flow-
ery orientalism, but which is to me
the quintessence of sincerity."
Then, without preamble, he . told
his story: a story which wee only half
known to the girl.
"I was in this peculiar position," he
said, "that I was a rich man or a
poor man, whichever way the great
law of this country interprets an
agreement I made with Shi Soh. Shi
Soh you know as 'Trasmere,' and that
of course, is his name. On the Amu -
River we called him Shi Soh. I came
to this country many years ago and
worked in the restaurant of which I
am now proprietor. I do not mean
the Golden Roof, but the little place
in Reed Street. The man who owned
it lost all his money at Fan -tan, and
I bought it at a bargain. You may
wonder why a man of education, and
the son of a great Clan, should be
here in this ountry, playing the hum-
ble part waiter in a Chinese res-
taurant. I might tell you," he said,
simply and without conscious numor,
"that education in China, when it is
applied to political objectives, is not
always popular, and I left (china hur-
riedly. That, however, is all past.
The Manchu has gone, the old Em-
press, the Daughter of Heaven is
dead, and Li Hung is asleep on the
Terraces of 'the Night.
eI was making slow progress when
Mr. Trasmere came one night. I did
not recognize him at first. When I
knew him first he was a very strong,
healthy man, with a reputation for
being cruel to his employees. I have
known him to burn men to death in"
order to make them reveal where they
had hidden gold which they had stol-
en from the diggings. We talked of
old times, and then he asked me if
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'there was money to be made in the
restaurant business. I told him there
was, and that was the beginning of
;the partnership which lasted until the
day of his death. Three-quarters of
the profits of the Golden Roof was
paid every Monday to Mr. Trasmere,
and that was our agreement. It was
the only agreement that we had, ex-
cept one which I myself wrote at his
dictation and which placed on record
this fact: that in the event of his dy-
ing, the whole of the property should
come to me. It was signed by me
with my 'hong,' and by him with his
'hong' which he always carried in his
pocket."
"The 'hong,'" interrupted Carver,
"is a small ivory stamp with a Chin-
ese character at the end. It is car-
ried in a thin ivory case, rather like
a pencil -case, isn't it?"
Yeh Ling nodded.
"I kept the document until a few
days before his death, when he asked
me to let him take it away with him
to make a copy. It will be news to
you, though not perhaps to you, Miss
Ardfern, that Mr. Trasmere spoke and
wrote Chinese with greater ease than
I, who am almost an authority upon
Mandarin. A few days later he was
murdered. 'My only hope of saving
myself from ruin was to find that
agreement, which he had taken away
in my little lacquer box."
"But could they touch your restaur-
ant? Are there any other documents
in existence which would give Mr.
Trasmere's heir the right of interfer-
ing with you?"
Yeh Ling looked at him steadily.
"It does not need a document," he
said quietly. "We Chinese are pe-
culiar people. If Mr. Lander came to
me on his return from Italy and said,
`Yeh Lingthis property is my uncle's
in which you only have a very small
share,' I would reply: 'That is true';
and if the agreement which we two
men had not signed was not discover-
ed, I should make no effort at law to
preserve my rights."
And he meant it. Tab knew as he
spoke that he was telling the truth.
He could only marvel that such an ex-
alted code of honour could be held
by a man who subconsciously he re-
garded as of an inferior race and of
an inferior civilization.
"You found the agreement?"
"Yes, sir," said Yeh Ling. "It had
been 'taken out of the box in which I
gave it to Mr. Trasmere and placed ---
elsewhere. But I found it -and other
documents of no immediate interest.
As to my coming here to -night -a-
part from your letter, lady, I was
anxious to meet the Black Man also.
Yes. He has been watching me for
many days. I am certain it is the
same." He made a little grimace and
rubbed his bruised head. "I met him, -
he said.
Carver jotted down a few notes in
his book and then putting the book
away, he turned and faced the China-
man squarely.
"Yeh Ling," he said, "who murder-
ed Jesse Trasmere?"
The Chinaman shook his head.
"I do not know," he said simply.
"To me it is amazing. There must
be a secret passage that opens into
the vault. I can think of no other
way in which the murderer could have
got in or out."
"If there is a secret way," said the
detective grimly, "then it is the best
kept secret I have known. It has
certainly been kept a secret from the
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s'ui rised. •
in' "Do you know wha9t you are say
"I know what 1 am saying, and
rather wish I hadn't said it," said th
Chinaman with a quick smile. "Ne
ertheless, it is true. If the mutt1e
was committed on Saturday aftern
then I certainly was with ,the in
called Wellington Brown, but who
we called The Drinker, or The Un
employed One, at that hour. It em
barrasses me to say how or where
but it would embarrass me more i
you were to ask me whether I kno
hie whereabouts at the present mom
ent. To that question I should an-
swer: "No"
"And you would lie," said Carver
quietly.
"I should lie," was the calm an-
swer. "Yet I tell you, Mr. Carver,
that Wellington Brown was vet!). me,
under my eye, from half -past one
c'cicck in the afternoon of the Sat-
•i.ri ee on which Jesse 'Tram -neve was
kelee until night."
Carver eyed him keenly.
hen he came to you,"
"1 w was he eressed ?"
'rho other sh-u;;ged his sho rlders-
'Poorly. He has always been dres-
sed poorly."
'1 id he wear pl cves?"
"Nc He had no gloves. Thal. was
the 7 rst thing r noticed, beeer la he
was -v hat do you call it in English'-
e st' dious to degree. In the Lot -
test Drys I have seen him weeeng
gloves. A shabby dandy! That is
the expression I was seeking. I am
sorry to disappoint,•,you-"
"You haven't disappointed me,"
said Carver bitterly; "you have mere -
y added another brick wall between
e and my objective."
Yeh Ling left soon after. He had
icycled down from town, and cheer-
ully undertook the long return jour-
ney in preference to spending the' re-
mainder of the evening at the cot -
age.
It was too late for Ursula to go to
er hotel, and they sat up all night,
Garver playing an interminable game
f solitaire, whilst Tab and the girl
walked about the garden in the grow -
ng light and talked oddly of incon-
gruous things.
As soon as it was light Carver went
ut to find the place where the car
ad stood and to examine wheel
racks. He gained little from his in-
pection, except that the tires were
ew and that the car was a powerful
ne, which was hardly a discovery.
"The man who drove was not a
killed driver, or else he was very
ervous. Half way up the lane he
early swerved into a ditch and came
nto collision with a telegraph pole,
hich must have damaged his mud•
uard severely. I found flakes of
rand -new enamel attaching to the
amaged wood, so I guessed that the
ar also had not been long from the
akers' hands."
Thus passed the second appearance
1 the Man in Black.
The third was to come in yet a more
ramatic fashion.
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XIX
Mr. Wellington Brown woke one
Morning, feeling extraordinarily re-
freshed. Usually' he woke with a
clouded brain and a parched mouth,
with no other desire than to satisfy
that craving for opium which all his
life had kept him poor and eventually
had ruined hixn physically and mor-
ally. But on this occasion he opened
his eyes, made a quick stock of his
surroundings, and uttered a "faugh!"
of disgust. He knew himself so well
and was .0 well acquainted with his
idosyncrasies and the character of
these fits which came upon him, that
he saw that the end of a bout had
come. Some day he would not wake
up feeling refreshed, or wake up at.
all.
He sat up in bed, fingering his
beard, and sucked in the breeze that
came through the open window. Ris-
ing to his feet he found his knees a
lit' le unstable, and laughed foolishly.
It was Yo Len Fo himself who came
hearing a tray with a glass of wa-
ter, a bottle half full of whisky and
the inevitable pipe.
Witl,out a word Wellington poured
himself out a stiff dose of the spirit
and gulped it down.
"You may take that pipe to the dev-
il," he said. His voice was quavery
but determined.
"'A pipe in the morning makes the
sun shine,'" quoted Yo Len Fo.
"'A pipe in the morning does not
go out with the stars,'" replied Wel-
lington Brown, giving proverb for
proverb.
"If the Illustrious will stay I wilr
have breakfast sent to him," said the
Chinaman urgently.
"I have stayed too long," said Wel-
lington Brown. "What is the day of
the month by the foreign reckoning."
"1 do not know the foreign ways,"
said Yo Len Fo; "but if your Excel-
lency will deign to stay for a few
hours in this hovel-"
"My Excellency will not deign to
stay in any hovel or place," said
Wellington. "Where is Yeh Ling?"
"I will send for him at once," said
the old man eagerly.
"Leave him," replied Mr. Brown,
with a fine gesture, and began to
search his pockets. To his surprise,
all his money, which was not much,
was intact.
"How much do I owe you?" he ask-
ed.
Yo Len Fo nodded, thereby meaning
"nothing."
"Running a philanthropic h o p
joint?" asked the other sarcastically.
"It has all been paid by the excel-
lent Yeh Ling," answered the man.
Brown grunted.
"I suppose that old devil Trasmere
is behind this," he Said in English;
and seeing that the man did not com-
prehend him he pushed his way past
Yo Len Fo and went down the an -
carpeted stairs into the street. He
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textdons of the joint -right when �:.._
trouble •start. 1
Out comes the inflammation
down goes the swelling -a hard job
is well and swiftly done ---your tit
is limber again it works smoothlyeen
you are thankful.
Joint -Ease is a product of Canada
and every good drug. store in the
Dominion sells Iots of it. Make O.
note of this also: for 1•umbage and
lame aching back -one good robbing
is usually enough --60 cents for a gen-
erous tube and it's guaranteed-�yoi't
must get results or money back.
si
yes
felt terribly weak, but his heart was
light. Hesitating at the end of a nar-
row passage, he turned to the left,
otherwise he could not have failed to
have run into, the arms of,Mluspector
Carver, who had made a call that
morning upon the proprietor of The
Golden Roof.
Mr. Brown's day was spent simply.
'Be1found his way to the park and,
sitting down on a bench, dozed and
mused the hours away, basking in the
glorious June sunlight and seemingly
oblivious to its heat.
Late in the afternoon he felt hun•
gry and went to a refreshment kioak
in the park. Finishing his meal he
found the nearest bench and continued
his pleasant occupation of doing noth-
ing. Mr. Wellington Brown was a
born loafer; it is a knack which, would
prolong many lives in this strenuous
age, if it could be acquired.
The stars were coming out in a
velvet blue sky when, with a shiver,
he aroused himself and made instinc-
tively for the Iights. As he slouch-
ed along one of the big main paths
that cross the park, he overtook a
man who was walking slowly in his
direction. The man shot a quick
glance at him, and thenturned sud-
denly away.
"Here," said Mr. Brown truculent-
ly, "I know you. Why in hell are yon
running away from me? Think I'm
a leper or something?"
The' man stopped, glanced uneasily
left and right.
"I don't know you," he said coldly.
"That's a damned lie," snarled
Brown. The reaction of his bout was
upon him. He would have quarrelled
with anything or anybody. "I know
you and I've met you," He groped
in his hazy mind for some string that
would lead him to the identity of the
stranger. "In China, wasn't it? My
name's Brown -Wellington Brown."
(Continued next week.)
LONDON AND WINGHAM
North.
Centralia
Exeter
Hensall
Kippen
Brucefield
Clinton
Londesboro'
Blyth
Belgrave
Wingham
Winghar;n
Belgrave
Blyth
Londesboro
Clinton
Brucefield
Kippen
Hensall
Exeter
Centralia
South.
a.m.
10.36
10.49
11.03
11.08
11.17
12.03
12.23
12.32
12.44
1.00
6.45
7.03
7.14
7.21
7.40
7.58
8.05
8.13
8.27
8,39
C. N. R. TIME TABLE
Goderich
Holmesville
Clinton
East.
Seaforth
St. Colunilban
Dublin
Dublin
St. Columban.
Seaforth .
Clinton - ..... .
Holmesville
Goderich - ...
a.m.
6,20
6.36
6.44
6.59
7.06
7.11
pan.
5.41
5.54
6.08
6.13
6.22
6.42
7.02
7.11
7.23
7.45
pan.
8.09
8.23
3.87
8.45
4.08
4.28
4.36
4.43
4.58
5.08
p.m.
2.20
2.37
2.50
3.08
3.15
8.22
West.
am. p.m. p.m.
11.27 5.38 10.04
11,32 5.44 .. 1
11.43 5.53 10.17
11.59 6.08-5.43 10.81
12,11 7.05 10.40
12.25 7.10 10.57
C. P. R. TIME TABLE
East.
Goderich
Menset
M1cGaw
Auburn
Blyth
Walton
McNaught
Toronto
West.
1
a-ta.
5.50
5,55
6.04
6.11
6.23
6.40
6.52
10.29,
Toronto
McNaught •.11.49
Walton f J1,2111
Blyth , Oai,%
Aubur
hI n
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WOW,.... . Y1 12.84.,
Menoset ,a a.' l Ai,, .
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CLUE OF THE
NEW PIN
By EDGAR WALLACE
(Continued from last weeks
It was dark 'when they arrived, and
by pre -arrangement they did not
speak in the long walk which separ-
ated them from Stone Cottage, but in
single file, keeping to the shadow of
the road, they marched forward with-
out meeting with a soul,
'When at last they came to the high-
way in which Stone Cottage was sit-
uated, they proceeded with greater
caution. But there was nobody in
sight and they reached the garden
unobserved.
Ursula was standing in the open
doorway to welcome them.
""I've had all the blinds pulled down,
she said, "and Inspector Carver's
coming is rather providential, for my
woman has had to go home -her
mother has been taken ill. I hope
you don't mind appearing in the role
of a chape'ron," 'she smiled at Car-
ver,
"Even that is not an unusual one,"
he replied, unsmiling. "Where does
she live, the mother of your serv-
ant?"
"At Felborough. Poor Margaret
only had time to catch the Iast train."
"How did' Margaret know her
mother was ill?" asked the Inspector.
'Did she have a telegram?"
Ursula nodded.
"`Late this afternoon ?"
"Yes," said the girl, in surprise.
'Why do you ask?"
"She got the telegram in time to
catch the train to town; in time, too,
to catch a train for Felborough. That
was why I asked. You did not see
the man last night?"
"I didn't come down until this
morning," she answered, troubled. "Do
you think that Margaret has been sent
for by -somebody -that it was a
ruse to get her away?"
"I don't know,' said Garver. "In
my profession we always apply the
worst construction, and we are gen-
rally right. What time do you us-
ually go to bed?"
"At ten o'clock in the country," she
said.
"Then at ten o'clock, will you go
up to your room, put on your lights,
and after a reasonable time, put them
ut again? You may, if you wish,
ome down, but you must be prepar-
d to sit in the dark; and if you want
o talk, you must carry on your con-
ersation in whispers." A rare smile
oftened his face. "We shall prohab-
y all be feeling a little foolish in the
morning, 'but I would rather feel fool -
=h than miss the opportunity of
''seting the man in black."
She gave them supper, and after
he men had helped' clear away the
emains of the meal Tab, at her re-
uAst, filled his pipe. Carver said he
id not wish to smoke.
Conversation, for some reason,
eemed to lag. They sat silently a -
out the table, each busy with his own
Noughts. 'Suddenly Ursula said:
"I am almost inclined to make a
estricted confession to you, Mr. Car-
r. I don't think I should ever have
reamt of doing so if I had never met
ou."
"Restricted confessions are irritat-
ng things," said Carver, "so I don't
bink I should confess if I were you,
Miss Ardfern, especially as I know
IN the restricted confession is all
bout."
Her eyebrows rose.
"You know?" she said.
He nodded.
"You would tell me." he said, "that
nu were in the habit of going to
rasmere's house every night, t''
cave your jewels with him, though
at wasn't the object of your visit.
nu went there," he said, slowly and
it looking at her; "to act as his sec-
tary. All the letters that were sent
�vay by Jesse Trasmere were type-
ritten by you on a portable machine;
he make of the machine is a Cortona,
is number is 29754, it has one key
ap missing, and the letter 'r' is a
ttle out of alignment."
He enjoyed her consternation for a
econd. and then went on:
"`Perhi ps you weren't going to tell
me that you and Yeh Ling, the pro-
rietor of the Golden Roof, paid `a
sit to Mayfield the night I nearly
aught you? No, I see that you
eren't. So we'll restrict the emi-
ssion to your peculiar occupation."
Tab was speechless.
Ursula Ardfern the old man's sec-
tary!eOne of the most successful
:tresses in London acting as amanu-
nsis to that crabbed misanthrope ;
was unbelievable. Yet a glance at
H. girl's face told him that Carver
ad only spoken the truth.
"How do you know?" she gasped.
Carver smiled again.
"De have very clever people in the
01ice," he said dryly. "You would
ever imagine it, to read the news-
pers. Clever old sixty-nine inch
rain," avowed Tab stoutly.
"But-'--" interrupted the girl, and
r voice was agitated, "do you know
-do you know anything else? Why
e went that night?"
"You' went to show Yeh Ling where
he old man kept some of his secret
ocuments, in the fake brick in the
replace. You went hoping that in
hat box there were some papers
hich related to you, and you were
sappointed. The only thing I am
n doubt about is this -was Yeh Ling
sappointed too?"
She shook her head.
"I wondered," mused Carver. "Of
nurse I guessed • that it was in the
the lacquer box, and guessed also
hat the little lacquer box had a false
ottom. Am I right?"
She shook her head again.
"No -Yell Ling thought it was
here; the' document he sought wasp in
he brick -box."
"Yon heave the 'key of 11fayfield,"
as Carver. ""I think you had better
give it to me. Otherwise you may be
eating into serious trouble."
She went out'of the room without
a word, came back, and • handed him
the small Yale key, which he glanced
at and dropped into his pocket. '
A'If I were a writing man, which,
thank heavens, I am not," he said, "I
should call this story of the Tres -
mere murder, 'The Mystery of the
Three Keys.' Here is one solved, and
it wasn't much of a mystery. There
are two others. The third is the
most difficult of all."
"You mean the key that was found
on the table in the vault?"
He nodded.
"`Yes," he said, and said no more.
In her discretion, Ursula asked no
further questions.
Tab was looking at Carver with a
new respect.
"Every day, Carver," he said ser-
iously, "you are getting nearer the
fictional ideal of a real detective!"
Carver's down -turned lips took an
upward curve, and then he looked at
his •w"tch.
"Ten o'clock, Miss Ardfern," he
said with mock severity, and Ursula
made a move to the door. "We must
turn these lights out before you leave
the room. Everything must be done
in order, remembering that some-
where the Black Man is watching.
She shivered.
It was Tab who blew out the light
in the drawing -room.
"`I think we may draw the cur-
tains," said Carver softly, and pulled
back the heavy velvet hanging from
the window.
It was a starlight night and there
was just sufficient light in the sky to
outline the gateway.
"This will do admirably," he said,
settling himself in the window seat.
"If you must smoke, Tab, don't bring
your pipe within sight of that gate."
Tab groaned and laid his pipe upon
the fender.
Ten minutes later Ursula came into
the room.
"May I stay?" she whispered. "I
have put out my bedroom light most
artistically."
Tey conversed in whispers for an
hour, and Tab was beginning to feel
sleepy when a hiss from Garver stop •
ped him in the middle of a sentence.
Looking out of the window he saw a
dark figure by the gate. It was im-
possible to distinguish more than the
outlines. It appeared to be a man
of considerable height, but this might
have been, and probably was, en il-
lusion. It wore'a broad -'brimmed hat
presumably dark; more than this they
could not see. They waited in silence
as the gate. opened and the figure stole
noiselessly into the garden.
It was half way to the door when
another figure appeared. It came
from nowhere, seeming to rise up
from the ground; and then before the
man in the wide-awake hat could
draw back, the second man had flung
himself upon him. The watchers sat
paralysed until Carver, jumping to
his feet, ran out of the room, Tab
close behind him.
When they flung open the door,
both figures had disappeared. Oar -
ver sprang toward the gate, and
stumbled. His foot had struck a
soft bulk which stretched across the
garden path; he turned back, flashing
an electric lamp, upon the object. It
was a man. and for a moment they
did not see his face.
"Who are you?" Carver pulled the
man over on his back. "Well,' I'm-"
The man at his feet was Yeh Ling!
XVIII
The Chinaman was unconscious, and
Carver looked around for the second
visitant. He rushed to the gate, the
road was deserted. Flinging himself
upon the roadway to secure an arti-
ficial skyline, he peered first in one
direction and then in the other. Pres-
ently he saw his man running swiftly
in the cover of the hedges, and start-
ed in pursuit.
A hundred yards away from the
house was a secondary road, and in-
to this the runner turned. As Carver
reached the corner he heard a motor-
car engine and dimly saw the bulk of
a large touring car retreating rapid-
ly.
He came back to the house, to find
Yeh Ling sitting in Ursula's room
holding his head in his hands.
"`This is the second man; it isn't
the wide-awake gentleman," said Car-
ver. "Now, Yeh Ling, give an ac-
count of your action. How are you
feeling?"
"Pretty dizzy," said Yeh Ling, and
to Tab's surprise his tone was that of
a cultured man, his English faultles*.
He looked up at the girl reproach-
fully.
"You did not tell me these gentle-
men were coming down, Miss Ardfern
when you wrote to me," he said.
"I hadn't any idea when I wrote
that they were coming, Yeh Ling,"
she answered.
"If I had been here a little earlier
I sfioule have seen him," he said. "`A's
it was, I am afraid I have•spoilt your
evening, Mr. Carver." His expres-
sionless brown eyes looked up at the
detective.
"I see! Yoe were on guard too,
were you?" said Carver good-humor-
edly. "Yes, we seem,to have made a
mess of it between us. Did you see
the man?"
"yI didn't see him," said' Yeh Ling,
"but," he added, "I felt him," and he
rubbed his heed. "`I think it must
have been his fist. I did not notice
any weapon."
"You didn't see his •face?�' persist-
ed Gamer.
"No, `he had a beard of some kind.
I felt it as my hands clutched at
him. I am afraid I over-estimated
my strength," he said apologetically
to the girl, "yet there was a time
when I was a star performer at Mr -
IJ
vard, be the '0aei w f art se .
extra were so netilizlg 4 a eur"iosity.
""Harvard?" said in surprise
"Great Mctaes.. I thought you w,e.
a•- --•" he couldn't very well 'knish hi
Sentence. 1
But the ocher helped' him.
"You thought I was a Very erdin
ary i t Ink?.!" he said.: "Possibly I
am. I hope 1 am," he said. "Cer-
tainly ease Ardfern knew me when I
was a very poor Chink! We lodged
in the same'house, she will remember
and she placed me ,under an eternal
obligation by saving the life of my
SOIL"
(Then Tab remembered the little
Chinese 'boy. Ursula had nursed when
she herself was little more than 0,
child, Remembering this, a great
many things which had been obscure
to hien became clear and understand-
able.
"I had no idea you would come to-
night, Yeh Ling, but you begged me
if I was in any kind of difficulty to
let you know," she said. "You should
not have taken the trouble."
"Events' seem to prove that," said
the Chinaman' dryly. "I am merely
being consistent, Miss Ardfern. You
have 'been under my personal abser-
rvation for seven years. Seven years
day and night, either I or one of my
servants have been watching you.
You never went -e-" He stopped,
and changed the conversation.
"Miss Ardfern never went to Mr.
Trasmere's house but you weren't
watching outside; that is what you
were going to 'say, wasn't it, Yeh
Ling?" smiled Carver. "You need not
be reticent, 'because I know all about
it, and Miss Ardfern knows that I
know." p
"That was what I was going to
say," said the other. "I usually fol-
lowed 'Miss Ardfern from the theatre
to her hotel; 'from her hotel to Tras-
mere's house, and home again when
she had finished working."
The reporter and detective exchang-
ed glances, This, then, was the ex-
planation of the mysterious Chinaman
who had been seen by Mr. Stott's
servant waiting outside Mayfield
smoking a cigar in the cool hours of
the morning. It explained, also the
appearance of the cyclist in the road-
way that morning when the tires of
Ursula Ardfern's car had burst and
Tab had been on hand to render timely
assistance.
"I had no idea," breathed the as-
tonislhed girl; ""is that true, Yeh
Ling? Oh, how kind you have been!"
Tab saw tears in her eyes, and
wished that he, and not this uninter-
esting Chinaman, had been the person
who excited her gratitude.
"Kindness is a relative term," said
Yeh Ling. He had brought his feet
up on a chair and was rolling a cig-
arette; he had asked permission with
his eyes, and as Ursula nodded he lit
it with a quick flick of his fingers, a
match having appeared, as it seem-
ed, out of space, and carefully replac-
ed the stalk in a match -box. "Was it
kindness that you saved the life of
one who is to me the light of my eyes
and the inspiration of my soul, if you
will forgive what may seem to you, a
writer, Mr. Holland, a piece of flow-
ery orientalism, but which is to me
the quintessence of sincerity."
Then, without preamble, he . told
his story: a story which wee only half
known to the girl.
"I was in this peculiar position," he
said, "that I was a rich man or a
poor man, whichever way the great
law of this country interprets an
agreement I made with Shi Soh. Shi
Soh you know as 'Trasmere,' and that
of course, is his name. On the Amu -
River we called him Shi Soh. I came
to this country many years ago and
worked in the restaurant of which I
am now proprietor. I do not mean
the Golden Roof, but the little place
in Reed Street. The man who owned
it lost all his money at Fan -tan, and
I bought it at a bargain. You may
wonder why a man of education, and
the son of a great Clan, should be
here in this ountry, playing the hum-
ble part waiter in a Chinese res-
taurant. I might tell you," he said,
simply and without conscious numor,
"that education in China, when it is
applied to political objectives, is not
always popular, and I left (china hur-
riedly. That, however, is all past.
The Manchu has gone, the old Em-
press, the Daughter of Heaven is
dead, and Li Hung is asleep on the
Terraces of 'the Night.
eI was making slow progress when
Mr. Trasmere came one night. I did
not recognize him at first. When I
knew him first he was a very strong,
healthy man, with a reputation for
being cruel to his employees. I have
known him to burn men to death in"
order to make them reveal where they
had hidden gold which they had stol-
en from the diggings. We talked of
old times, and then he asked me if
", The Were Cep
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'there was money to be made in the
restaurant business. I told him there
was, and that was the beginning of
;the partnership which lasted until the
day of his death. Three-quarters of
the profits of the Golden Roof was
paid every Monday to Mr. Trasmere,
and that was our agreement. It was
the only agreement that we had, ex-
cept one which I myself wrote at his
dictation and which placed on record
this fact: that in the event of his dy-
ing, the whole of the property should
come to me. It was signed by me
with my 'hong,' and by him with his
'hong' which he always carried in his
pocket."
"The 'hong,'" interrupted Carver,
"is a small ivory stamp with a Chin-
ese character at the end. It is car-
ried in a thin ivory case, rather like
a pencil -case, isn't it?"
Yeh Ling nodded.
"I kept the document until a few
days before his death, when he asked
me to let him take it away with him
to make a copy. It will be news to
you, though not perhaps to you, Miss
Ardfern, that Mr. Trasmere spoke and
wrote Chinese with greater ease than
I, who am almost an authority upon
Mandarin. A few days later he was
murdered. 'My only hope of saving
myself from ruin was to find that
agreement, which he had taken away
in my little lacquer box."
"But could they touch your restaur-
ant? Are there any other documents
in existence which would give Mr.
Trasmere's heir the right of interfer-
ing with you?"
Yeh Ling looked at him steadily.
"It does not need a document," he
said quietly. "We Chinese are pe-
culiar people. If Mr. Lander came to
me on his return from Italy and said,
`Yeh Lingthis property is my uncle's
in which you only have a very small
share,' I would reply: 'That is true';
and if the agreement which we two
men had not signed was not discover-
ed, I should make no effort at law to
preserve my rights."
And he meant it. Tab knew as he
spoke that he was telling the truth.
He could only marvel that such an ex-
alted code of honour could be held
by a man who subconsciously he re-
garded as of an inferior race and of
an inferior civilization.
"You found the agreement?"
"Yes, sir," said Yeh Ling. "It had
been 'taken out of the box in which I
gave it to Mr. Trasmere and placed ---
elsewhere. But I found it -and other
documents of no immediate interest.
As to my coming here to -night -a-
part from your letter, lady, I was
anxious to meet the Black Man also.
Yes. He has been watching me for
many days. I am certain it is the
same." He made a little grimace and
rubbed his bruised head. "I met him, -
he said.
Carver jotted down a few notes in
his book and then putting the book
away, he turned and faced the China-
man squarely.
"Yeh Ling," he said, "who murder-
ed Jesse Trasmere?"
The Chinaman shook his head.
"I do not know," he said simply.
"To me it is amazing. There must
be a secret passage that opens into
the vault. I can think of no other
way in which the murderer could have
got in or out."
"If there is a secret way," said the
detective grimly, "then it is the best
kept secret I have known. It has
certainly been kept a secret from the
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they employed when yep ,gSj
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Ling quietly, '"for li Wae
When the murder was 'connoe
They heard • }tis +pronoun'cemex(<.., tk►
astonishment; even the gir'i,•aee410
s'ui rised. •
in' "Do you know wha9t you are say
"I know what 1 am saying, and
rather wish I hadn't said it," said th
Chinaman with a quick smile. "Ne
ertheless, it is true. If the mutt1e
was committed on Saturday aftern
then I certainly was with ,the in
called Wellington Brown, but who
we called The Drinker, or The Un
employed One, at that hour. It em
barrasses me to say how or where
but it would embarrass me more i
you were to ask me whether I kno
hie whereabouts at the present mom
ent. To that question I should an-
swer: "No"
"And you would lie," said Carver
quietly.
"I should lie," was the calm an-
swer. "Yet I tell you, Mr. Carver,
that Wellington Brown was vet!). me,
under my eye, from half -past one
c'cicck in the afternoon of the Sat-
•i.ri ee on which Jesse 'Tram -neve was
kelee until night."
Carver eyed him keenly.
hen he came to you,"
"1 w was he eressed ?"
'rho other sh-u;;ged his sho rlders-
'Poorly. He has always been dres-
sed poorly."
'1 id he wear pl cves?"
"Nc He had no gloves. Thal. was
the 7 rst thing r noticed, beeer la he
was -v hat do you call it in English'-
e st' dious to degree. In the Lot -
test Drys I have seen him weeeng
gloves. A shabby dandy! That is
the expression I was seeking. I am
sorry to disappoint,•,you-"
"You haven't disappointed me,"
said Carver bitterly; "you have mere -
y added another brick wall between
e and my objective."
Yeh Ling left soon after. He had
icycled down from town, and cheer-
ully undertook the long return jour-
ney in preference to spending the' re-
mainder of the evening at the cot -
age.
It was too late for Ursula to go to
er hotel, and they sat up all night,
Garver playing an interminable game
f solitaire, whilst Tab and the girl
walked about the garden in the grow -
ng light and talked oddly of incon-
gruous things.
As soon as it was light Carver went
ut to find the place where the car
ad stood and to examine wheel
racks. He gained little from his in-
pection, except that the tires were
ew and that the car was a powerful
ne, which was hardly a discovery.
"The man who drove was not a
killed driver, or else he was very
ervous. Half way up the lane he
early swerved into a ditch and came
nto collision with a telegraph pole,
hich must have damaged his mud•
uard severely. I found flakes of
rand -new enamel attaching to the
amaged wood, so I guessed that the
ar also had not been long from the
akers' hands."
Thus passed the second appearance
1 the Man in Black.
The third was to come in yet a more
ramatic fashion.
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XIX
Mr. Wellington Brown woke one
Morning, feeling extraordinarily re-
freshed. Usually' he woke with a
clouded brain and a parched mouth,
with no other desire than to satisfy
that craving for opium which all his
life had kept him poor and eventually
had ruined hixn physically and mor-
ally. But on this occasion he opened
his eyes, made a quick stock of his
surroundings, and uttered a "faugh!"
of disgust. He knew himself so well
and was .0 well acquainted with his
idosyncrasies and the character of
these fits which came upon him, that
he saw that the end of a bout had
come. Some day he would not wake
up feeling refreshed, or wake up at.
all.
He sat up in bed, fingering his
beard, and sucked in the breeze that
came through the open window. Ris-
ing to his feet he found his knees a
lit' le unstable, and laughed foolishly.
It was Yo Len Fo himself who came
hearing a tray with a glass of wa-
ter, a bottle half full of whisky and
the inevitable pipe.
Witl,out a word Wellington poured
himself out a stiff dose of the spirit
and gulped it down.
"You may take that pipe to the dev-
il," he said. His voice was quavery
but determined.
"'A pipe in the morning makes the
sun shine,'" quoted Yo Len Fo.
"'A pipe in the morning does not
go out with the stars,'" replied Wel-
lington Brown, giving proverb for
proverb.
"If the Illustrious will stay I wilr
have breakfast sent to him," said the
Chinaman urgently.
"I have stayed too long," said Wel-
lington Brown. "What is the day of
the month by the foreign reckoning."
"1 do not know the foreign ways,"
said Yo Len Fo; "but if your Excel-
lency will deign to stay for a few
hours in this hovel-"
"My Excellency will not deign to
stay in any hovel or place," said
Wellington. "Where is Yeh Ling?"
"I will send for him at once," said
the old man eagerly.
"Leave him," replied Mr. Brown,
with a fine gesture, and began to
search his pockets. To his surprise,
all his money, which was not much,
was intact.
"How much do I owe you?" he ask-
ed.
Yo Len Fo nodded, thereby meaning
"nothing."
"Running a philanthropic h o p
joint?" asked the other sarcastically.
"It has all been paid by the excel-
lent Yeh Ling," answered the man.
Brown grunted.
"I suppose that old devil Trasmere
is behind this," he Said in English;
and seeing that the man did not com-
prehend him he pushed his way past
Yo Len Fo and went down the an -
carpeted stairs into the street. He
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flesh right down to the Iilatxtenti#d,i;
textdons of the joint -right when �:.._
trouble •start. 1
Out comes the inflammation
down goes the swelling -a hard job
is well and swiftly done ---your tit
is limber again it works smoothlyeen
you are thankful.
Joint -Ease is a product of Canada
and every good drug. store in the
Dominion sells Iots of it. Make O.
note of this also: for 1•umbage and
lame aching back -one good robbing
is usually enough --60 cents for a gen-
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must get results or money back.
si
yes
felt terribly weak, but his heart was
light. Hesitating at the end of a nar-
row passage, he turned to the left,
otherwise he could not have failed to
have run into, the arms of,Mluspector
Carver, who had made a call that
morning upon the proprietor of The
Golden Roof.
Mr. Brown's day was spent simply.
'Be1found his way to the park and,
sitting down on a bench, dozed and
mused the hours away, basking in the
glorious June sunlight and seemingly
oblivious to its heat.
Late in the afternoon he felt hun•
gry and went to a refreshment kioak
in the park. Finishing his meal he
found the nearest bench and continued
his pleasant occupation of doing noth-
ing. Mr. Wellington Brown was a
born loafer; it is a knack which, would
prolong many lives in this strenuous
age, if it could be acquired.
The stars were coming out in a
velvet blue sky when, with a shiver,
he aroused himself and made instinc-
tively for the Iights. As he slouch-
ed along one of the big main paths
that cross the park, he overtook a
man who was walking slowly in his
direction. The man shot a quick
glance at him, and thenturned sud-
denly away.
"Here," said Mr. Brown truculent-
ly, "I know you. Why in hell are yon
running away from me? Think I'm
a leper or something?"
The' man stopped, glanced uneasily
left and right.
"I don't know you," he said coldly.
"That's a damned lie," snarled
Brown. The reaction of his bout was
upon him. He would have quarrelled
with anything or anybody. "I know
you and I've met you," He groped
in his hazy mind for some string that
would lead him to the identity of the
stranger. "In China, wasn't it? My
name's Brown -Wellington Brown."
(Continued next week.)
LONDON AND WINGHAM
North.
Centralia
Exeter
Hensall
Kippen
Brucefield
Clinton
Londesboro'
Blyth
Belgrave
Wingham
Winghar;n
Belgrave
Blyth
Londesboro
Clinton
Brucefield
Kippen
Hensall
Exeter
Centralia
South.
a.m.
10.36
10.49
11.03
11.08
11.17
12.03
12.23
12.32
12.44
1.00
6.45
7.03
7.14
7.21
7.40
7.58
8.05
8.13
8.27
8,39
C. N. R. TIME TABLE
Goderich
Holmesville
Clinton
East.
Seaforth
St. Colunilban
Dublin
Dublin
St. Columban.
Seaforth .
Clinton - ..... .
Holmesville
Goderich - ...
a.m.
6,20
6.36
6.44
6.59
7.06
7.11
pan.
5.41
5.54
6.08
6.13
6.22
6.42
7.02
7.11
7.23
7.45
pan.
8.09
8.23
3.87
8.45
4.08
4.28
4.36
4.43
4.58
5.08
p.m.
2.20
2.37
2.50
3.08
3.15
8.22
West.
am. p.m. p.m.
11.27 5.38 10.04
11,32 5.44 .. 1
11.43 5.53 10.17
11.59 6.08-5.43 10.81
12,11 7.05 10.40
12.25 7.10 10.57
C. P. R. TIME TABLE
East.
Goderich
Menset
M1cGaw
Auburn
Blyth
Walton
McNaught
Toronto
West.
1
a-ta.
5.50
5,55
6.04
6.11
6.23
6.40
6.52
10.29,
Toronto
McNaught •.11.49
Walton f J1,2111
Blyth , Oai,%
Aubur
hI n
� j ea$
WOW,.... . Y1 12.84.,
Menoset ,a a.' l Ai,, .
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