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LEGAL
ULMER D. BELL, E.A.
Barrister and Solicitor
SFAFORTI - TEL. 173
Attendance in Brussels Wednesday
and Saturday.
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MeCONNELL & HAYS
Barristers, Solicitors, Etc.
Patrick I), McConnell - H. Glenn Hays
SEAFORTH, ONT.
Telephone 174
H. I. McLEAN
Barrister, Solicitor, Etc.
SEAFORTH - -
Branch Office 7-
Hensall Hensall
Phone 113
ONTARIO
Hensall
Seaforth
Phone 173
MEDICAL
SEAFORTH CLINIC
DR. E. A. McMASTER, M.B.
Graduate of University of Toronto
PAUL L. BRADY, M.D.
Graduate of University of Toronto
The Clinic is fully equipped with
complete and modern X-ray and other
up-to-date diagnostic and therapeutics
equipment.
Dr. F. J. R. Forster, Specialist in
diseases of the ear, eye, nose and
throat, will be at the Clinic the first
Tuesday in every month from 3 to 5
p.m.
Free Well -Baby Clinic will be held
on the.second and last Thursday in
every month from 1 to 2 p.m.
. - 8881 -
JOHN A.'GORWILL,, B.A., M.D.
Physician and Surgeon
IN DR. H. H. ROSS' OFFICE
Phone 5-W - Seaforth
MARTIN W. STAPLETON, B.A., M.D.
Physician and Surgeon
Successor to Dr. W. C. Sproat
Phone 90-W - Seaforth
DR.,,F. J. R. FORSTER
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
Graduate in Medicine, University of
Toronto. ,
Late assistant New " York Opthal-
n'ei and Aural Institute, Moorefield,s
Eye and Golden Square Throat Hos
vital, London, Eng. At COMMERCIAL
HOTEL,' SEAFORTH, THIRD WED-
NESDAY in each month, from 2 p.m.
to 4.30 p.m.; also at Seaforth Clinic
first Tuesday of each month. 53
Waterloo Street South, Stratford.
12--87
AUCTIONEERS
"HAROLD JACKSON
Specialist in Farm and Household
Sales.
Licensed in Huron and Perth Coun-
ties. Prices reasonable; satisfaction
guaranteed.
For information, etc., write or phone
Harold Jackson, 12 on 658, Seaforth;
R.R. 1, Brucefield.
8188 -
HAROLD DALE
Licensed Auctioneer
Specialist in farm and household
sales. Prices reasonable. For dates
and information, write Harold Dale,
Seaforth, or apply at The Expositor
Office.
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CHAPTER II
SYNOPSIS
Friday afternoon, September 4,
Harley Longstreet, member of the
2rm of DeWitt and Longstreet,
brokers, invites some of , his
friends to a hotel) to celebrate his
engagement to Cherry Browne, an
actress. The party includes De-
Witt, his wife Fern, his daugh-
ter Jeanne, her fiance Christoph-
er Lord, Cherry's friend Pollux of
vaudeville fame. Ahearn, friend
of DeWitt, Imperiale, middle-ag-
ed Latin and ',Michael Collins,
brawny Irishman. A little before
six they alt leave the hotel to go
to
Longstreet's home in West En-
glewood. A sudden storm breaks
and the party boards a Forty -
Second Street Crosstown car. Be-
tween Ninth and Tenth Avenues
Longstreet puts his hand in his
pocket for his glasses. He pricks
his hand. "What in the world
could've . , , " he starts thick-
ly, and collapses to the floor.
Drury Lane, retired Shakespear-
ean actor, offers to help District
Attorney Bruno and Inspector
Thumm solve 'the murder. The
officials are relating the details
to him,
knife Thumm prodded the cork ' and
turned it around. The needletipa on
the other side were similarly stained.
Thumm straightened up, explored
his own pockets, and produced a small,
Pair of pincers and a packet of cig-
arettes. He dumped the cigarettes in-
to this pocket, lifted the needled cork
out of Longstre'et's pocket with the
pincers and slipped it into the empty
cigarette packet. The inspector then
wrapped this in a half-dozen thick-
nesses of newspaper and handed the
package to Duffy.
"That's •dynamite, Sergeant," . he
said. "Handle it that way. You're
responsible for it."
Five minutes later Inspector Thumm
had weeded out the members of the
Longstreet party. They troop d sil-
ently from the rear of the car and
were escorted; into a private room on
the seCdnd floor of th carbarn, where
two detectives watched them, Thumm
then superintended the exodus of the
other occupants of the car. They fil-
ed into a large general room on the
second floor, guarded by a half-dozen
detectives. ,
Inspector Thumm was back in the
deserted car with the sprawled dead
figure when there was the clang of an
ambulance and two young men .n
white hurried into the barn, herded
by a short fat man.
Thumm called: "Dr. Schilling!
This way!"
The medical examiner<of New York
county puffed into the car followed
by the two internes. He bent over
the dead- man, then said: "Where
can I take this stuff, Inspector?"
DeWitt stood 'stonily, his. small
hand's 'clenched. Ahearn and Lord
struggled with the heavy body and
managed to haul Longstreet into a
vacated seat. Longstreet was gasp-
ing weekly; light flecks of foam drib-
bled from his lips.
The growing uproar penetrated
forward into the car. Suddenly a
policeman with sergeant's stripes el-
bowed through. He had .been riding
on the front platform with the motor-
man.
Longstreet stiffened again, then he -
came quite prigid, The sergeant
straigphten ed up, scowling. ".(Fe's
dead. Uh-huh!" Ile had caught
sight of the dead man's left hand.
More than a dozen tiny trickles of
coagulating blood faced the skin of
fingers and palm from as many 'tiny
pricks, each swollen a little. "Mur-
dered, looks like. I don't want any-
body to try to get off this 'car." He
called to the motorman: "Don't move
this car, and see that those doors and
windows are kept Shut -understand?"
Then .be yelled: "Hey, conductor!
Run down to the corner of Tenth av-
enue and tell the traffic cop there co
phone the local Precinct and tell it
EDWARD W. ELLIOTT
Licensed Auctioneer For Hurton
Correspondence promptly answered.
Immediate arrangements can be macre-
for
adefor Sales Date at The Huron Exposi-
tor, Seaforth, or by calling Phone 203,
Clinton. Charges moderate and satis-
faction guaranteed.
8829-52
LONDON and WINGHAM
NORTH
A.M.
Exeter 10.34
Hensall 10.46
Kippers 10.52
Brucefield 11.00
Clinton 11.47
SOUTH
Clinton
Brucefield
Kippen
Hensall
Exeter
P.M.
3.08
3,28
3.38
3.45
3.58
C.N.R. TIME TABLE
EAST
Goderich
Bohnesville
Clinton
Seaforth
St. Colum'ban
Dublin
Mitchell
WEST
Mitchell 11,06 9.28
Dublin 11.14 9.36
Seaforth 11.30 9.47
Clinton 11.45 10.00
Goderich 12.05 10,25
A.M.
6.15
6.31
6.43
6.59
7.05
7.12
7.24
P.M.
2,30
2,48
3.00
3.22
3.23
3.29
3.41
C.P.. TIME TABLE
EAST
Goderich
Menset`"'
McGaw
Auburn
(Blyth
Walton
McNaught
Toronto
WEST
Toronto
McNaught
Walton
Blyth
Auburn
111eGaw
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P.M.
4.20
4.24
4.32
4.42
4.62
5.06
5.15
9,00
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(Continued from 'age -2)
Atlantic pis Vergers are hurried- away
by tunnels and roads to the airpept,
The Dixie Clipper rides. at anchor
-in the bay. It looks exactly like a
whale with wings. The wings seem
inadequate -not at all 'the kind'- or
size •of wings that one would exert
a whale to grow if it had to fly 4,000
miles or more in the next two days.
But the four big Wright motors look
efficient enough -to drive their three -
bladed propellors indefinitely.
A Six -Roomed House With Wings
Fifty-five passengers left New York
in the Dixie Clipper that day but more
than half of them stayed in Bermuda.
They sat around in six rooms, most
of them large enough for ten persons,•
for the Clipper is as large as a house
imide, and upstairs the eleven men
of the crew sat around in another
room wrhioh the passengers never
saw.
It took 20 minutes to get the Dixie
Clipper up off the water It taxied
back and forth over the bay while the
pilot tried the feel of the wind against
,the wings and manoeuvred for the
longest run over the' water. Once we
passed three of Uncle Sam's new
motor torpedo boats, each one with
two machine gun turrets. and four
torpedo tubes. We were almost touch-
ing one of New „,York's marvellous
bridges before we finally started down
the bay at full speed. Spray- flew up
over the little square windows and
soon the slap -slap of the waves
against the bottom of the hull grew
less violent and then disappeared -
and the Clipper was in the air. It
circled over the edge of New York
twice, gaining height, and then turned
east over the marshes and swamps
and then the broad Atlantic. Two
ships werenearing the coast. After
that, nothing but waves and clouds
in every direction.
Wonderland Above the Clouds
Flying the Atlantic i as' I said be-
fore, is pure magic. One does not
realize it at first. Flying was not a
new sensation for me. I had been
doing it for 20 years ir4 planes large
and small, but never for more than a
few hours at a time. This was differ-
ent. I sat on a.sofa with two others.
One was a young American girl who
had saved her money for a luxury
holiday in Bermuda: the other a De-
troit newspaper man returning to
Europe. The plane was .heated and air-
conditioned. Even the wall covering
added to the feeling of luxury for .it
was a tapestry with maps of the con-
tinents and oceans. Dinner consisted
of consomme, chicken ! salad, ice
cream and coffee.
All these things were mere man-
made attempts at comfort- The real
magic was outside the windows.
Every time I looked out, the long,
Mender, pointed wing was still there
with its two whirring propellors. Far
down below us wereathe clouds, for
we flew at 6,000 to 8,000 feet where
the air is still and there are few
bumps. It was fortunate that we had
clouds all the way across. The Atlan-
tic, seen from that height, grows des-
perately monotonous when the air is
clear but clouds are always changing
shape and color.
The sun set behind a distant row
of thick elou'ds which looked like a
far-off mountainrange. A long path
of yellow light stretched over the
whiteness of the nearby clouds. They
looked like masses of spun sugar
the car?"
"He wanted to see about a certain
stock."
Thumm clucked encouragingly. "Do
yo know the name of the stock?"
"It was' International 'Metals." Sihe
stole a swift book at where Michael
Collins sat sullenly studying the flour.
"And! Harley said, when he saw it had
droppeda lot, that Mr. Collins might
need help."
Thumm regarded Collins with curi-
osity. "'I .thought working for the In-
come Tax Department kept you busy.
Where do you come in on this?"
Collins bared his teeth. "I'm not
sure it's any of your' business,
Thumm. But if you must know, Long-
street advised me to buy heavy in In-
ternational (Metals -he'd been wirtch-
ing the stock for me. And the bot-
tom just dropped out of it today."
DeWitt was regarding .Collins with
frank surprise. Thumm said quick-
ly: "Did you know about this trans-
aetion, Mr. DeWitt?"
"Centainly not. I'm astonished to
hear that Longstreet advised buying
Metals. I foresaw its collapse last
week and so advised a nri`mlber of my
personal customers."
"Collins, did you speak to Long-
street today before you saw him at
tfie hotel?" asked Thumm.
"Yes," ominously.
"No words, I suppose?"
"Oh, for God's sake!" shouted, Col-
lins. "You're barking up the wrong
tree! Are you trying to pin this thing
on me?" -
Cherry Browne was on her feet
now, eyes wild and face writhing from
Thumm's eyes twinkled with grim the' sudden sight of Longstreet's
humor. "Dump him in that-, private clay. She brandished her finger at
room upstairs. with the rest of the DeWitt, ran forward and clutched his
party. That ought to be interesting." lapels, shrieking into his blanched
-
As Dr. Schilling superintended the face: ."You killed him! You did it!
remioval of- the body, Thumm beck You hated him!"
oned a detective. MHave this car Thumm and Duffy pulled the
.gone over with a file -comb, Peabody. ,screaming woman away. Throughout
Collect eevery, piece. of junk in it. DeWitt stood -like stone. ••-
Thep go over the routes the Long- Inspector Thumm towered above the
street party and the other occupants quivering woman. "How did you
took in passing to the rooms. I want come to say that, Miss Browne? Did
to make absolutely sure that nobody you see Mr. DeWitt put that cork in -
dropped anything." to Longstreet's coat?"
The Longstreet party sat about in "No,". she moaned, shaking from
varying attitudes of misery and strain side to side. "I only know he hated
but all were silent. Harley .. .. . Harley told me so doz-
Inspector Thumm surveyed the par- ens of times-"
ty with almost disinterested specula- Thumm snorted, looked significant -
tion. "Sergeant, you told me that ly at Sergeant Duffy and snapped:
some gentleman here .had identified "Everybody stay here until I get
the dead man as Harley Longstreet.' back;" then strode to the general
Who was that?" room:
Duffy pointed The inspector stamped loudly for
attention.
The conductor, questioned first, re-
vealed himself as Charles Wood-. No.
2101, in -the employ of the company
for five years. He was a red-haired
man of perhaps fifty. He remember-
ed the dead m,an as having paid fares
for ten people out of a dollar bill.
"Ever see the man on your car be-
fore?."
"Yep. He's been getting on pretty
often at that time for years."
"Recognize,anybody else in his pa:'-
ty asoma regular passenger?"
"Seems I saw another main a weak
little guy. Gray-haired, sort of. I've
seen him come on pretty steady with
the .guy that was bumped off."
Thumm then questioned the pas-
sengers. No one, it -seemed, had seen
anything slipped into Longstreet's
pocket. Detective Peabody came in.
"Any luck?" asked Thumm.
"Dry as a _'bone._ Whatever.-, tliis
bunch had on .'em, when they -left the
car is stills n 'em."
to John DeWitt sit -
"You killed him! You did it! You bated himt"
to `get Inspector Thumm at headqua.r-
tei's. Got that straight? Wait -I'll
let you out myself. I ain't taking any
chance 00 somebody giving me the
slip."
The conductor, ..o rt. in the rain,
headed for 'Tenth a"Vnue on the run.
The conductor, water streaming
from the visor of his nap, was ham-
mering on the rear doors. A police-
nianestood by his side. The sergeant
admitted then and.. closed the doors
at once.
"Morrow reporting,
reporting,
Tenth avenue."
"I'm Duffy, Sergeant, 18th
Call 'headquarters?"
"Vep• Inspector Thumm said for
you to take the car to the Green `dines
earbarn at...I'orty-second and Twelfth.
He'll meet you there. Says not to
touch the body."
When the car reached, the huge
shed a group of men in plainclothes -
were waiting. Sergeant Duffy pulled
the door -lever and! Inspector Thumm
forged into the" car. The sergeant
whispered into the inspector's ear.
Thummu thudded to his knees and,
taking out a flashlight, grasped the
material of the dead man's open patch
pocket, pulled the pocket wide, and
directed the pencil of light into the
interior. Putting down the flashlight.,
he'produced a large penknife and with
the utmost caution silt the stitching
along one side of Longstreet's pock-
et. Two objects gleamed in the ray
of the flashlight -a silver spectacle
case and a small ball of cork, one
inch in diameter, riddled with at least
fifty needles, the tips of which pro -
jetted from the cork a quarter -inch
ail around, making the total diameter
of the weapon an inch and a half..
The hips of the needles were. statnied
with d reddish -brown sticky sub-
•,k€ance, With the point of his pen=
A.M.
8.30
12.08
12.-16
12.28
12;82
12.40
12.46
12.65
On duty at
precinct.
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ing beside his wife on the continu-
ous bench that flanked the four walls.
"Yon' saw that peculiar oork of
rdedles I took from Longstreet's•
pock -et in the car," Thumm said.
`Have you ever seen- it before?" De-
Witt shook his head. "Anyone else
here?" All stook their heads. Thumm
rocked a little on his heels. "Miss
Browne, Mr. DeWitt says that he saw
Longstreet and you dash for the car,
and that you held your fianCe's left
arm until you both got into the car.
Did you see his left hand et all?"
"Yes. • When he searched, for
change and didn't find any. Just af-
ter we. got on the car,"
"His hand was clear -no blood?"
"No."
"The weapon," volunteered DeWitt,
"must have been slipped into my part-
ner's pocket while he was on the
car."
The inspector grinned without hu-
mor. "Exactly, Miss Browne, why
did your fiance take otltihhispglra.spses in
sky fla
tors oe
:ata eadv n Ilt b1lt 91W14. rth „Sf
full' rang of 'tb 6004:114O'141
across the sky, brllliaot 'e at '040'
borri7gn•, 0,4141g u;ol J1•the yelloWw.,
and Ube pities to the deep indigo .pt
night overhead with a, few stare al-
ready • l rightty' ethzing.
Lightning Around the Wings ,
Nearing Portugal, we met a high'
thunderstorm. This time the Clipper
seemed unable to rise above it. The
clouds were close around and often
we were in them, like a thick fog.
The lightning was around us, too,
sometimes just beyond the wings, but
there was no sound of thunder above
the roar of the motors. It was bumpy,
too, and for the first time two ladies
felt sick and strapped themselves to
their seats. For some others, men and
women alike, it was just a new and
enjoyable sensation.
At night, the steward made up the
berths. That wan after we had left
Bermuda_ There were 23 passengers
then and room for them all to sleep.
I hacl one ,of the worst positions -up
close to the wing and number three
and four engines - but the bed was
comfortable and there was a rhythm
to the noise that was soothing, so I
slept well. Outside the window there
was a troy silver of new moon and
the very bright sitars.
Magic Doesn't Always Work
Yes, flying the Atlantic is magic,
but sometimes in the hands of hard-
headed Americans the magic goes
wrong. We should have left New
York on Tuesday morning and have
been in Lisbon on Wednesday night.
But number four engine wasn't be-
having too well even before we left
New York. Out of Bermuda six hours,
the Clipper turned back because of
bad weather ahead. On the second
try, we reached the Azores, but after
landing there for ,more gasoline, the
ailing engine died as we were oppos-
ite the last islands of the group and
we turned back to Horta, where the,
Atlantic Clipper came along and
picked us up, taking us the rest of
the way. Even food ran short at last
before we dropped down out of the
darkness on to the Tagus River at
"Only one thing to do," Thurnm
said. "Search everybody in this room.
Look sharp for cork. needles, any-
thing that's out of place or out of
character, -Get busy <
But the search produced nothing.
Thumm returned to where the
Longstreet party sat miserably wait -
in Dr. Schilling was. standing be-
/fere
e-
fre .the screen putting on his coat.
He crooked his finger, and the two
went behind the screen.
"Death from respiratory paralysis,
but that's a detail." The doctor bob-
bed his head in the direction of .the
bench; the weapon had been unwrap-
ped and lay, innocently enough, at
Lon•gstreet's stiff feet. "There are
fifty-three needle -ends around, the ball
of coria. Their tips and their eyes,
projecting from the cork, Were dip-
ped in nicotine -nicotine in I think a
concentrated form. The fresh pure
product is a colorless and odorless
olly liquid. But in water or on stand-
ing .it soon becomes dark brown and
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Roeser, Theattea, Charsb5a.
of F.verg Denomination.
A. M. Pow,ca.L.• tfrosiitlret
Lisbon on Friday night. We had been.
4.7 hours in the air instead of the
usual 23, and had done some 2,508
extra miles of flying.
And the next morning we Were is
the air again, thia time headed for
England.
Friends
We only need to face the "test"
when we realize the priceless worth
of "an unchanging friend." Royston.
Wisdom
That understanding which we have
of our Creator, and of Itis works,
and of ourselves. is the storehouse of
all wisdom. -A. Bzoataki,
Littlesness of Sou 7: -
Env y
-`Envy is a littleness of soul, which
cannot see beyond a certain point,•
and, if it does not occupy the whole
space, feels itself excluded.-Hazlitt.
Music
Music cleanses the understanding,
inspires it, and lifts it into a realm
which it would not reach if it were
left to itself. -Henry Ward Beecher.
Sentiment
Sentiment has a kind of divine al-
chemy, rendering grief itself the
source of tenderest thoughts and far-
reaching desires, which the sufferer
cherishes as sacred treasures.-Tal-
fourd.
you can smell Hthe characteristic to-
bacco odor, The needles pricked the
palm and fingers in twenty -one -Places;
the poison made immediate entry in-
to tile bloodstream. Thumm, my
friend. I don't envy you. Unless this
poison was. secured through legal
channels, it will be untraceable. 'Pure
nicotine is bard to buy, and if I were
a -prisoner I wouldn't get it from a
chemist. It would be possible, of
course, to distill it from an enormous
quantity of tobacco, which normally
has a nicotine content of four per
cent. But how are you going to trace
a ni'cottne-cooker? The easiest way
is to buy a can of-" Dr. Schilling
mentioned a well-known insecticide,
"and you have nicotine without much
trouble, It has a thirty-five per cent.
content to begin with, and by evap-
oration you would get just such a res-
inous sticky mess as the needles are
smeared with."
"How long would it take for this
poison to act. -Doc?" '
"Not more than a few seconds ord-
inarily. But if the nicotine was' not
\-holly .concentrate, and Lon -street
was a "Very heavy sm-aoker, it .would
have taken three minutes or so, as it
arid."
Inspector Thumm went out to the
Longstreet party and signed to De-
Witt. "As Longstreet's partner you're
probably best. equipped to tell me
about his habits. The conductor has
often seen him on 'his car. How do
you 'adcount for this?"
(Continued Next Week)-
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qkeNAPS1-[OT GUILD
CHARACTER SEQUENCES
A situation such as this makes a fine starting point for a "character -
sequence." Each picture should be a close-up,. to' show your actor's
expression. ,
IS SOMEBODY in your family a chisel, or a sledge. As an ending, good actor? Maybe someone is -
but you haven't discovered it yet.
Then here's a snapshot idea that
'will help you find out -and will
_provide interesting winter activity
for your camera.
The idea is, simply -make char-
acter sequences. Just snapshots in
series-thfee, four, or a half -doz-
en -showing your actor in some
kind of situation. And, of course,
showing how he comes out.
These pictures should be close-
ups - emphasizing your subject's
face and his expression -so, get out
your portrait attachment. If you
haven't one, this is a good time";to
obtain one -they're simple, useful,
and belong in every camera kit. In-
doors, of course, you take these
shots by means of amateur photo
bulbs and high speed film -using
any kind of camera.
Topics for sequences? They're le-
gion. You might try the picture
above as a starter. Have your sub-
ject attack the obstinate walnut
with the nutcracker, then a ham-
mer, then perhaps a mallet and
let Johnny open it for, him with a
mere tap.
The pictures are; of c o u r s e,
mounted in the album in proper se-
quence. A clever title helps, and
sometimes you can borrow one
from a well-known book, song, or
bit. of 'current slang. Another way
is to pick a title first, and build the
story or sequence around it.
Toy puzzles -such as a Chinese
wood block puzzle, or metal link
puzzle -ore always good for an ex-
pressive sequence'" Parlor magic
tricks are good too -just show your
subject performing a trick that
doesn't come out right. Or, have
him in the kitchen, compiling one
of the skyscraper sandwiches that
the comic strips have made -famous
. . and then trying to figure out
how to eat it.
A good method is to outline sev-
eral of these amusing sequences -
easy ones -and then make one each
evening that you take other indoor
snaps. You'll find they add spice
and humor to the snapshot album.
320 John van Guilder
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