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ELMER D. BELL, B.A.
Barrister and Solicitor
SEAFORTH - TEL. 173
Attendance in Brussels Wednesday
and Saturday.
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McCONNELL & HAYS
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SEAFORTH, ONT.
Telephone 174
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CHAPTER 1
Below, shimmering in a blue Sep-
tember morning haze, was the Hud-
son River. An automobile pushed its
way along the narrow winding road,
rising steadily. Its two passengers
looked out and up, - t•
The ear stopped, at a quaint bridge.
From a thatched hut stepped a rud-
dy little old man. He pointed word-
lessly at a swinging wooden sign
above the door' which said, in old
English characters.: "No trespassing
-The Hamlet."
The other man, large and square,
leaned out and yelled: "We want to
.gee Drury Lane! He expects us!"
The bridgemaster scuttled forward
to the bridge, manipulated a creaking
iron gate, stood 'back., -
A short, drive and the car emerg-
ed into a spacious clearing. A castle
sprawled before them, staked to the
Hudson hills by puny granite walls.
The immense oak -and -iron door be-
yond the drawbridge, twenty feet high
opened and, an astonishingly rubicund
little man in -livery stood there, bow,
ing.
"District Attorney Bruno? Inspec-
tor Thumm? This way, `please." The
pot-bellied servitor trudged cheerfully
before them.
Out of a door in the farthest wall
stepped a hunchbacked figure -bald,
bewhiskered, wrinkled, wearing a tat-
tered leather apron like a blacksmith.
The .newcomer advanced spryly.
"Good day, gentlemen. Welcome to
The Hamlet." Te turned.tthe old
"Whisht,
in livery and said:
Falstaff," and District Attorney Bruno•
opened his wide eyes wader.
"Falstaff . . ." he groaned. "That
can't be his name!"
The hunchback ruffled, his whiskers.
"No, sir. He used to be Jake Pinna,
the.actor. But that's what Mr. Drury
calls him . . . This way, please.",
Everything was redolent of Eliza-
bethan England. Leather and oak,' oak
and stone. In a fireplace, twelve feet
wide, a small fire was burning. The
ancient stood very still near the wall,
grasping his beard; then he stirred
and said, quite clearly: "Mr. Drury
Lane."
A tall man stood regarding them
from the threshold.
Mr. Drury Lane strode into the room
and extended a pale muscular hand.
"Gentlemen. I'm delighted."
Bruno looked into gray -green eyes
of utter quietude; he began to speak
and was startled to observe the eyes
drop quickly to his lips. '"Good of
you to receive Inspector Thumm and
myself, Mr. Lane," he murmured. "We
-well, we don't know quite what 10
say. You have an amazing estate,
sir."
"Amazing at first glance, Mr.
Bruno, "but only because it presents
to the twentieth-century eye, surfeit-
ed with severe angles, an anarchrou-
istic,, quaintness." The actor's voice
was serene, like his eyes, but richer
it seemed 'to Brnuo, than any voice
he had ever heard. "Quacey!"
drama, Mr. Bruno." The voice was
colored now with the faintest antima-
tion. "-It was only after my foroed
retirement from the stage that I be-
gan to realize ho.w theatrical life it-
self can be. The creatures of a play
are in Mercutio's evaluation of
dreams, 'children. of an idle brain be-
got of nothing but vain• fantasy.'."
The visitors stirred at the magic that
had leaped -into Lane's voice. ','Crea-
tures of life, however, in their mom-
ents of passionpresent the larger as-
pects of drama. 'llhey, can never be
'as thin of 'substance as the air and
more (inconstant than the wind.' All
my life in company I have been in-•'
terpreting synthetic emotional' cli-
maxes. I have been, among others
perhaps less noble, Ntacbeth, and T
have been Hamlet. And, like a child
viewing a simple wonder for the first
time, I have realized the world is full
of Macbeths and Hamlets: Trite, but
true. I now have the impulse .'to
greater authorship than created •dra-
ma. Everything fits so nicely; even
my unfortunate.affliction"-ea lean fin-
ger touched his ear -"has contrived
to sharpen my powers of concentra-
tion. I have only to closes my eyes
and I am in 'a world without sound
and therefore without physical dis-
turbance . .
Inspector Thumm looked bewilder-
ed. Bruno coughed. "I'm afraid, Mr.
Lane, that our little problem is quite
beneath the well, the dignity of your
detective ambitions. It's really just a
plain case of murder-"
"Please," said Lane, "give me a
scrupulously detailed account, Inspec-
tor."
On the previous Friday afternoon
(ran the story related by Inspector
Thumm .and with occasional inter-
polations by the District Attorney),
two people sat closely embraced, in
the sitting room of a suite at the Ho:
tel Grant, Forty-second "Street and
Eighth Avenue.
They were Harley Longstreet, 'mid-
dle-aged Wall street broker, of pow-
erful body ravaged by years of dissi-
pation, dressed in rough tweeds;
Cherry Browne, musical comedy 'star,
a brunette with hold Latin features,
black. (lashing eyes. passionate arched
lips.
Longstreet kissed her and she cud-
dled in his arms. "I hope they never
come." '
The man disengaged himself. "They•
will be here. When I tell Johnny De-
Witt to jump, he jumps'."
"But why drag him here with that
frosty bunch of his if they don't want
to come?"
"Because I like to see the old buz-
zard squirm, He hates m'y* guts, and
I loved it." He crossed the room and
poured himself a drink. -•
"Sometimes," the woman said, "I
can't figure you out.' What you get
out of tormenting him is beyond me."
She shrugged. "Is Mrs. DeWitt com-
ing, too?"
"Why not? Now don't go harping
on her again, Cherry. I've, told you
a hundred times there's nothing be -
His left hand: the palm and underskin of the fingers were bleeding
in a number of places.
The gnome stepped to the actor's
side. "Gentlemen, this Is my insep-
arable fainiliar and, I assure you, a
genius. He has been my make-up
man for forty Years."
In some mysterious' manner the two
visitors sensed a trelftendous link
tween these completely antitypical in-
dividuals and began to speak at once.
Lane's eyes flickered 'from the lips of
one to the lips of the other, and his
face curved into the merest smile.
"Separately, please. .I am quite deaf,
you see. I can read only one' pair of
lips at a time -a latter -clay accom-
plishment of which I am •very vain."
Bruno cleared his throat. "Inspec-
tor Thumm and I both feel, Mr. Lane,
that we're Presuming a bit in coming
to you this way. I should never have
sent my telegram, 61 course, if you
hadn't solved the Cramer case for us
in that really astounding letter of
yours,"
'aSearcely astounding, Mr. Bruno.
You wished to consult me, according
to your wire; n the Longstreet mur-
der?"
"Are you ure, Mr. Lane, that the
Inspector and I -Well, we know how
busy you are."
o'I shall sever be too busy to dab-
ble ,�ir the most elemental forme of
tween us."
}'Not that I care." She laughed.
"But it wouid be just like you to
steal his wife, too." She jumped up,
at the sound of. a buzzer and hurried
to the door. "Pollux, old-timer! Come
in!"
A flashily dressed, oldish man with
a dark face and carefully pomaded.
thinning hair put his arms around the
woman.
"Remember my olcl pal, Pollux?"
Hpr voice was ,gay. "Master Mind -
Reader of the Age on the 'two -a -day.
Shake hands, you two."
The buzzer sounded again and
Clherry opened the door to admit a
small party of people.
A little slender middle-aged man
with gray hair and a brush -gray mus-
tache came in first. Longstreet strode
forward, exuding ceordiality. Johti O.
DeWitt shrank as the big man brush-
ed by him to receive -the other Mem-
bers of the party,
"Fern! This is a nice surprise"-
This to a faded stoutish woman of
Spanish type, with the barest traces
of a vanished beauty on her lacgUer-
'ed face; DeWitt's wife, Jeanne De-
Witt, a petite brownish girl, nodded
coldly; she pressed closer to her ea -
young man. Longstreet ignored him
and pumped the . hands of Franklin
Ahearn, DeWitt's closest friend, and
Louis Imperials, another friend -. a
muddle -aged Swiss meticulously dress-
ed. -
"Mike!" Longstreet clapped the
back of a broad man who had just
slouched through the door. Michael
Collins liras a brawny Irishman with
porcine eyes and an apparently fixed
expression of, hostility. Longstreet
grasped his arm. "Now don't crab
this party, Mike," he whispered. "I
told you I'd get DeWitt to fix things
up. Go over there and take a brac-
er."
Waiters appeared. Ice chimed in
glasses. The DeWitt party were for
the most part silent, strained. Long-
street swooped Cherry Browne de-
mure and suddenly shy, into the curve
of one great arm. "Friends; you all
know why you're here. Gala occa-
sion for the whole firm of DeWitt &
Longstreet an' all their friends and
well-wishers!" His voice was a little
thick now. "Have the honor to pre-
sent to you -future Mrs. Longstreet!"
At 5:46,•Lbngstreet excitedly shout-
ed: "Arranged a little dinner party
at my place in West Englewood. F'got
to tell you about it, Surprise! All in-
vited." He consulted his watch owl-
ishly. "C'n make reg'lar train if we
start now. C'mon everybody!"
DeWittprotested that he had made
a
other arrangements for the evening,
that his own guests . . . Longstreet
glared. "I said everybody!" Imper•-
iale shrugged: a f"a.int puzzled 'light
glowed in Lord's eyes as he turned to
look at DeWitt . .
• The entire party crowded into an
elevator. In'; the lobby Longstreet
bought a late newspnper•and ordered
taxicabs. On the sidewalk the door-
man whistled desperately as weeks of
hot weather gave way suddenly to a
vicious downpour.
. Pollux whooped: "Here comes a
Crosstown!"
Longstreet snatched off "his glass-
es, 'returned them to the case, and
the case to his left pocket. He wav-
ed his right hand. "Devil with cabs:"
he shouted, "Let's take the car!"
The street -car squealed to a stop
as the Longstreet party dashed to it,
Cherry clinging to Longstreet's left
arm, Longstreet's left hand still in his
pocket.
The car was freighted to capacity.
Longstreet swayed with the rock-
ing motion of the car, tt dollar bill
clutched in his right fist above the
heads of his fellow --passengers. The
humidity, with all the windows closed,
induced a feeling of suffocation.
The conductor wriggled' about and
took Longstreet's, bill. Longstreet re-
ceived his change and' -began to shoul-•
der his way after his party. He found
Cherry, who grasped his right arm.
The car edged on toward Ninth av-
enue. ,
Longstreet thrust his hand 'into his
pocket and., felt about for his spec-
tacle case. A moment of this, and
with a Sudden curse he snatched hi;
hand from the ,pocket, bringing out
the silver case. Cherry said:'"What';
the matter?" Longstreet uncertainly!
examined his left hand: the Patna and
underskin of the fingers were bleed-
-ing in a number of places. "Must've
scratched myself. What in the world
could've . . .?" he ,began thickly.
The car lurched and stopped; people
fell forward. Insainctively Long-
street groped for a strap with his
left hand, and Cherry held on to his
right arm for support. The car jerk-
ed forward again a few feet. Long-
street dabbed heavily:,at his bleeding
hand ,*ith a .handkerchief, returned
the cloth to his trousers, extracted
his glasses from the case, dropped
the case into his pocket, and mane
as if to open the folded newspanar
he held tucked under his right arm.
The car stopped, at Ninthavenue.
A crowd pound'gd• on the doors. but
the conductor alibok his head.
Longstreet suddenly releasers the
strap, dropping the unread newspaper,
and felt his forehead. He was pant-
ing like a man in great pain, Cherry
hugged his right arm in al.trm, turti-
ed as if to call for help .. . • '
The car was betiween Ninth and
Tenth avenues now, stopping, start-
ing, stopping, in the maze of traffic.
Longstreet gasped, stiffened con-
vulsively, widened his eyes, and col-
lapsed.
Cherry screamed. Necks craned
and the Longstreet party pushed their
way toward the spot. Michael Col-
lins caught the actress as she reeled.
(Continued Next Week)
Reasoning
In general all fatal, false reasoning
lroceeds from people having some
one false notion in their hearts, with
which they are resolved their reason-
ing shall comply. -John Ruskin.
A Smile
The happiness of life is made up of
minute fractions - a smile, a kind
look, a heartfelt compliment in 'the
disguise of playful raillery, and the
counties§ small things of pleasant
though and feeling. --Coleridge
Character '
De yotir character wih'Ot it will, it
will be known; and nobtfdy will tttk
cor't„ Ohrist pher Lord, a tall blond fit upon your word: Lrnid.Ghesterfield,
ales I ,
Wartime
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expansion seemed almost wlimdtless,
l but since 1920 every factor which had
worked for cowl has worked agal.nst
it. The export market which had ac-
counted for 40% to 50% of the pro-
duction, was lost owing to tariffs and
to increasing a :onomlc nationalism to
countries abroad; ships turned from
coal to oil and shipping itself declin-
ed. For some years railways and
heavy industries declined, too, or
turned to substitutes.
By 1931 coal exports had fallen to
,half. •tthe pre-war level and unemploy-
ment war rife. There were over 242,4
000 miners in South Wales in 1921:
in 1935, out of 187,000 Insured work-
ers, 63,000 were unemployed. In South,
Wales, too, a dead coal mine Meant
a dead district: where the entire wage
earners are miners the prosperityof
the tradesmen and every. other work-
er must depend on the miner's regular
wage. In those dark year* whole vil-
lages were plunged into poverty -ev-
ery activity in them brought to an
end. -
At the outbreak of this war, how-
ever, coal mining.pieked up again; by
the beginning of 1940 the rate of pro-
duction in South Wales coal fields
had been raised one million tons a
year. Special measures were taken
early in April to increase exports still
further and yet to maintain an essen-
tial home supply. and the speed of
production had to be inn eased 'yet
again when the occupation of the
Netherlands and Belgium removed
one of France's important sources 'cif
coal. Britain,;had to make up the de-
figiency from her own mines.
Then suddenly the whole of this
export trade to France disappeared
with the French surrender. Within
two weeks of the call to increase coal
production, the inqustry had to re-
adjust to fill only three quarters of
that. demand. The situation was com-
plicated again by the fact that' Bri-
tain was not even able to supply all
the coal demands from overseas mar-
kets owing to a shortage of shipping.
A num,
e r industry
bei of miners left the in str
y
and went ,into the armed forces or in-
to munitions.
But the situation has .now changed
again, for the home demand has in-
creased and there seeins a danger of
shortage. Miners are being called
back from other work to produce peal
for the factories and householders of
Britain. The export trade is lower
than ever before but the home mar-
ket is greater than ,it was in peace
time. "
The Welsh Character -
This series of ups and downs, this
violent wrenching about of their lives,
the fearful period of desolating unem-
ployment,and hopelessness they have
been through, would be enough to de-
stroy the vitality of most people. But
the Welsh have an unusual capacity
for.en'dur,ing and surviving. Their his-
tory may give some clue to this';
while the rest of. South Britain was
overrun and absorbed by the invaders,
they managed to keep their own cul-
ture and civilization intact: when the
invader came to Wales he was isolat-
ed in his castles.
Since invading people were never
able to settle among the Welsh, they
could not impose their , language.
Moreover, the Welsh manner of living
-in separated communities, in remote
farmhouses -bred a character of per-
sistence: customs and thought do not
change when there is so little mixing
with the outer world:
Legends and traditions persist: it
would be difficult for the national feel-
ing for music, for instance, to die out
in Wales, because each individual
grows up in music. catching it, as it
were,, from his family and his neigh-
bors. 'Under the severities•of the.Eng-
lish conquest of Wales, 'under the op-
pression of the .landlords and the
cruelties of the early . industrialists,
the Welsh survived and kept their na-
tional culture, Their social customs.
their -hits and their religion have nev-
er been entirely swamped by the pres-
sure of modern industrial life.
Agriculture's Growth
Agriculture has not been behind in-
dustry. In 1940, the four northern
counties were asked to increase their
area under the plough by 50,000 ac-
res, a'his was done. Four of the
westerti',counties raised their plough-
ing acreage by 79,000 acres within
the' year, and 80,000 more acres are
expected to be added this year. Eight
hundred acres' of bracken have been
reclaimed en the heights 'of Mont-
gomeryshire. New crops such as su-
gar beet and flax are being grown
on some of this new ploughed land.
Scientific methods are being used to
increase Production and produce
healthier crops,, There is a shortage
of man power for the land, and the
Women's Land Army is helping to fill
the breath. School children are also
volunteering' for farm work - this
w'qrk, is being made part of the edu.
et:lional work:in many districts,
Wales has sroo'd up well to bombing
attacks. The Minister for Air, Sir
Archibald Sinclair, has commented on
the endurance which the-, Welsh towns
and villages showed during the early
raids when Britain's defenses weir•
mostly concentrated on tike east coast.
But now the bitlloon, barrage in Wales
is fifteen times stronger than it was
a year ago, and the anti -Aircraft de-
fences six times stronger; moreover,
the country is covered.' by fighter
planes.
George Meredith summed up the
Welsh character. He wrote of them,
"They have poetry in them; they are
"'aiient; they are hospitable to teach
the Arab a lesson: I believe their life
is their friend's at need . . . they
would lay it down for him . , , they'll
heap on you everything they have --
if they love you, and you, at the same
time, have struck their imagination."
A Poor Person
We were reading the other day a
very wise saying -that it i•s a poor,
person, or a poor nation, that sits
down and cries' because1'f e isn't pre-
cisely what it is expecte to be.
Infirmity.
When we are most filled with heav-
enly love, and only then, are we !rest
fitted to bear with human infirmity,
to live above it, and: forget its bur-
don.-'Mai'1a Ham,:
A Weekly Review Of Development
On the Horde .Front,
1. Prune Minister Mackenzie King
informed House of Commons that he
stands by principle of compulsory se-
lective national
e-lective,national service in Canada, as
embodied in the National Resource.
Mobilization Act. But the people of
Canada had decided in the last gen-
eral election the Prime Minister said
-an election held , in war -time --
against conscription for overseas ser-
vice. Without consultation of the
people, the Prime Minister added 'he
did. not intend to take the responsi-
bility of supporting any policy of con-
scription for overseas service.
2. Right Honourable Arthur Meigh-
en accepts Conservative leadership
and declares for compulsory selective
service . over the whole field of war.
"If a strong ministry on a wider basis
can be formed," ltdds Senator Meigh-
en in .his statement of acceptance,
"party Control can no longer be justi-
fied and should not be tolerated."
3. Inauguration of maximum price
control postponed from November 17
to December 1. Reason: to ensure
most effective possible administra-
tion and eutorcement of regulation•.
No change in policy involved.
4. Maximum prices for current
make cheddar cheese manufactured
in Ontario and -Quebec fixed by order
of Wartime Prices, Board at 25 cents
per pound for first grade, 24% cents
for second grade and 24 cents for
thid grade f.o.b. factory shipping
point.
5. National income reported by Do-
minion Bureau of Statistics ,at"$3,891
millions during first nine months of
1941, an increase of nearly -eleven -per
cent. over corresponding period of
1940.
6. Lieutenant -General McNaughtoe,'
commander of the Canadian Corps in
Great Britain confined to his quarters
with low grade, infection of. lungs.
Major -Gen, Pearkes, V.C., temporarily
in command of the Corps.
7. 'Major -Gen. Victor W. Odium, O.
C., Second Canadian Division Over-
seas, appointed Canadian High Com-
missioner to Australia.
8. Finance Minister Ilsley announc-
es ceiling to be 'placed on managerial
and executive salaries.
6. Canadian production of gold in
August .recorded at 467,224 ounces
compared. with 456,650 in the previous'
month and 466,946 in August, 1940.
10.
10, Production of shorn wool in
Canada reached new peak, in 1941.
preliminary estimate standing at 14,-
511,0,00 pounds comtpared with 13,822,-
000 in 1940.
•1.1. Gasolin e rationing to be intro-
duced. Ration will be liberal as pos.,
slble and fixed from month tOlninith
in accordance with oil supplies avail-
able. i12 -Department of -Mnnition's 414
Supply opens purchasing office 2n St, .
John's, Newfoundland. W. E, Curtis+.
purchasing agent of the Newfoundland
Department of Public Utilities, will
act as purchasing agent for the. De-
partment of Munitions and Supply.
Fame
Do no long for fame, but seek on-
ly to deserve it. What if a few thou
san,, 'i ,low your name? There are
Hundreds of million persons in the
world. -
The Soul
The soul is more powerful than any
sort of fortune , . . of its own. power
it can produce a happy life or a
wretched one. -Seneca. ' ,
Ambition
Ambitions incites us to judge our;
selves by what we want to do. • Abil-
ity instructs us to depend laingelj*' up-
on what the world will say of our"
work.
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FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY
Try flash pictures for new thrills in your camera hobby. One small -size
flash lamp synchronized tq a shutter speed of 1/100 second caught thesd
happy youngsters coming down the stairway.
A 4OST amateur photographers use
VJ regular flood lamps in handy
cardboard reflectors for the greater
part of their indoor shooting. The
flash lamp, however, has earned an
important place in photography for
certain types of pictures, and you
have missed a lot of fun -say noth-
ing of good pictures -if you haven't
made flash shots. With a supply of
flash lamps, a flash holder, and a
reflector, you are ready for picture
taking at all times. No looking for
electrical outlets; no stringing of
wires. Tour electric current is right
in your flash holder in the form of
small, inexpensive batteries.
Generally speaking, there are two
methods of flash shooting. To take
an "open -flash" picture, place the
camera on a solid support, bitch as
a tripod, and set the shutter on
"Time." The flash lamp is then in-
serted in the socket of a simple bat-
tery holder -much the satins in
appearance as a pocket flashlight ---
with the exception of its reflector
to riirect the light toward the sub-
ject. To take a picture, you merely
open the shutter -press a button Ion
the battery case to flash the lamp
-and close the shutter again.
The second method of flash shoot-
ing is with the aid of a synchroniz-
er, a mechanical device consisting .
of a battery case with reflector and
a little timing mechanism which
connects with the cable release or
shutter release on your -camera.
With this type of equipment, you
don't have to place your camera on
a firm support and you can use the•
regular snapshot speeds.. These are
of course, distinct advantages. As•
for price; good synchronizers are
now on the market at very reason-
able cost.
Amateur photographers may' be
somewhat startled to find that there
are so many different types of flash
lamps on the market. The most eco-
nomical, however, and the most
practical for average requirements
are the "midgets" -about the Size-
of
izeof a walnut ---so concentrate tilt these•
to got your first . experientegi*fiath
shooting. You'll ou'll '6fid s%nplh� jail tt
tions on the cartons ii[ .Wi l' e'tfi
receive yotir m>►e.
Tify soiie illlhh shots tonight
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