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fTHE COLBORNE EXPRESS. COLBORNE, ONT., JULY 6, 1944 Important- AT ANY MEAL, ANYTIME ! Busy housewives all over the country have learned the wisdom of serving Kellogg's ready-to-eat cereals often. Nothing to mix or cook. Appetizing anytime of day. Tasy-to-digest, too! • SERIAL STORY Murder on the Boardwalk BY ELINORE COWAN STONE Last Week: Newspapers brand Christine "Mystery Girl" of the Talbert murder. At her room she finds a sheaf of $1000 bonds hidden in her suitcase. She tries to tell Bill. He cuts her off with, fBill Yardley's shoes fit the prints found by the police." CHAPTER XI "Oh, Bill -- no!" Christine cried Miserably. "And then some." His voice was • little grim. "But at any rate, I'm •till in circulation. And I'v« got a little sleuthing of my own to do while I am. I'll be sewed up tight till noon; but how about meeting Sic for lunch about 12:30 at the tame place where w« ate last Bight?" Christine said, "I'll b* there, Bill," and hung up, trembling a good deal. But Inspector Parsons, she remembered after a moment, did not wrest people for murder until he l»»s sure they would stay arrested. Simple crochet that pays big dividends in beauty--these pineapple-design doilies. Done in string they cost little in time or money. Combine the two sizes in luncheon, buffet or dresser sets. Pattern 859 contains directions for doilies; stitches; list of materials. Send twenty cents in coins (stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern to Wilson Needlecraft Dept., Room 421, 73 Adelaide St., West, Toronto. Write plainly pattern number, your name and SERVICE FLAGS family In Be proud t Postage. Be H.C.Jf.V.R. AUXILIARY 1462 Yonge Street - Toroi ISSUE 28--1344 .. .And she had business with Inspector Parsons herself, as soon as she could find him. Just .outside her own front door she had to snub three reporters. She was not sufficiently experienced to dodge the ni She was admitted to Inspector Parson's office at once. He looked, Christine thought, as if he had hardly slept; but he was as cool and alert as ever. "I've come to tell you," she began, "that I've been a good deal of a fool." _ "You -- and several others," ht agreed pleasantly. "Last evening," Christine hurried on, "I went to a public read-? ing by a clairvoyant called Chan- ' the i nspec-tired smile, "among a lot of other things you didn't believe any one but yourself could possibly know, that you were going1 under an assumed "Why -- yes," Christine admitted; "but he also told me something that may surprise even you, Inspector -- that someone had disturbed my things at the Crest- "So you have called to tell me that it was Chandra's dagger you found so opportunely last night. ...A little late, isn't it?" After a startled breath, Christine asked, . "How do you know that it Is his?" "Practically every one in Surf City has seen that dagger. You drew his picture yesterday. Artists don't miss picturesque details like that. .. I wonder if you would be interested if I told you that two hours after that merger between Amalgamated and National went through yesterday, this Chandra sold a piece of land he's been paying ruinous taxes on for years to. the reorganized company, for a new plant they're planning." "Then you've arrested him?" "Not yet ... That dagger was a little too obviously a planted clew." WAVE FRANCAISE Chic in white blouse and shorts, Madeline Portalis, of France's "Service Feminines de La Flotte," gives landing instruction to incoming pilots from control tower of Gibraltar airfield. Her organization corresponds ot U. S. Navy's Waves. CHILD OF BATTLE The iUbty French baby in the photo above decided to make his debut into this world while his mother was crouched in a slit trench, under heavy shell-fire. Mother and child are pictured after, with aid of U. S. Army medicos, youngster became one of the first citizens of France to be born on free soil since Germans i the country. Christine thought in sudden panic, Can he imagine that I put it there? "It didn't occur to you, I suppose," she said, "that as shrewd a man as he might have planted it himself -- guessing that the police would reason that way?" "It did," the inspector told her wearily, "even after our medical officer told us that Mrs. Talbert was not stabbed in that booth at all, but was brought there after the murder." "Oh!" Christine said blankly. Then she rushed on in her eagerness to get on with her own errand, "But what I really came to tell you is that, when I did examine my things, I found these hidden away among them." She pushed the envelope across his desk. He opened it, riffled through the contents; then looked up, a frown between his brows. "And," Christine finished hastily, "I haven't any idea who put them there or whose they are, if that's what you're going to ask." He glanced from her to the papers and back again with such cool, mirthless amusement that Christine thought in sudden panic, He's found something I missed. I •hould have looked more carefully. "You mean," the inspector demanded, "that you don't know that these bonds were the property of your cousin?" After a moment's blank consternation, Christine shook her head wordlessly. "Well, now that I have told you, does it suggest anything to you that you had not thought of before?" "But," Christine hazarded, "if someone killed her for those, why wouldn't he keep them?" "There are other reasons for murder besides robbery, Miss Thorenson. Suppose Mrs. Talbert was not killed for the bonds after all, but from any one of a number of other motives... In such a case, mightn't the guilty person reason that the smart thing to do was to make it seem as if she had been robbed by someone else -- especially someone who might be thought to have a motive for the murder ... You, for instance, Miss Thorenson -- with a fortune at stake if that will is authentic." When she only stared at him without speaking, he went on, "Or supposing the bonds do explain Mrs. Talberth's death, perhaps the murderer thought that, after the first shouting was over, he could get them from you as easily as he left them with you... Perhaps," he added softly, "it was even someone whp counted on your keeping them safely for him." "You -- you can't believe that, Inspector Parsons." "Frankly, I don't know what I believe except that finding these has completely changed the complexion of this whole business. I have been supposing that your cousin's death was tied up with her opposition to the Amalgamated-National merger. Now it begins to look as if it had only been very neatly timed to look that way -- or planned to suggest anything except what's really back of it.. . Have you read the papers, Miss Thorenson?" "Yes," Christine told him, dreading she hardly knew what. "That is -- the extra, after I left here early this morning." "Then perhaps you saw that your cousin's shoes had been found to fit one pair of those footprints leading from that stranded rowboat toward the booth where she was found?" "Yes." And Bill's shoes, Christine was remembering, fitted the other pair. "That story happened to be true, except," Inspector Parsons was going on, "that they weren't made by the shoes she was wearing; but another pair, identical in measurement with one slightly broken heel. We haven't found those shoes yet; but we are reasonably sure that they were taken from your cousin's house by someone who entered it after it was closed the other evening -- taken for the express purpose of making that false trail." "You mean that my cousin's house has been broken into?" "I didn't say that. It was entered by someone who had a key." When Christine did not speak, he demanded, "Do you happen to have a key to Mrs. Talbert's house, Miss Thorenson?" Christine moistened her dry lips and said, "No," hating the wood- ,When she began to think he The Quality Tea "SAIADA TEA in, he asked, "Do "No," Chrii Then she though The inspect manded with ing shifts of said woodenly , But of course shrugged and de-e of his disconcert-ubject, "Was your cousin's vision particularly poor?" "I don't know... Of course she wore glasses." "Do you know who her optician "I don't, but Jaspar would, of course. He knows more about her affairs than anyone else." "Jaspar?" He glanced at some notes on his desk. "Oh, yes. That's the name of Mrs. Talbert's butler. We haven't been able to get in touch with him yet." "Oh, yes you have." Christine drew a deep breath. Now she was in for it. (Continued Next Week) Two Ontario Fairs Reach Centenary This year two Ontario Fall fairs will celebrate their centenary and will hold their hundredth annual agricultural exhibition. These are the Vankleek Hill fair, which will be held on Sept. 6 to 8, and the Carleton county fair at Richmond on Sept. 7 to 9. While they are celebrating their centenary, these are not the old-it agricultural societies in Ontario. Nine others can lay claim to an even longer record of activity, with the longest record going to the Niagara Town and Township Agricultural Society, which was It's Victory Canning Time Again! that you put up those jar of fruits and vegetables: "Two hours from garden to kettle." That means using only foods at the peak of condition, for you get out of your can only what you put into it. If vegetables turn brown in their jars and look unattractive as compared with the fresh produce, it's probably because of overprocessing (overcooking) or lack of fresh vegetables when you started canning. When you overcook those bright red berries, they can't possibly be fresh looking or taste like a reasonable facsimile of the original product. Follow directions and cook just long enough, and the result will be well worth the effort. Ripe Sour Cherry and Currant Jelly 4}i cups juice 7 cups sugar Yi bottle fruit pectin To prepare juice stem, but do not pit, and crush about 1% quarts fully ripe cherries. Crush about 1% quarts fully ripe currants. Combine fruits; add 24 cup water, bring to , boil, ' 10 I ti*es. Place fruit in jelly bag and squeeze out juice.. Measure sugar and juice into a large saucepan the hot fin add tit pectin, stirring constantly. Then bring to a full, rolling boil and boil hard Vi minute. Remove from fire, skim and pour quickly. Paraffin while hot. Raspberry-Cherry Conserve 3 cups cherries 3 cups red raspberries ilA cups sugar Cook cherries in very little water until skins are tender. . Add raspberries and sugar. Cook until thick and clear. Pour into sterilized jars and seal while hot. Commercial pectin shortens the jelly-making process considerably and preserves the fresh fruit color and flavor in the finished product. Three-Fruit Preserves 2 pints raspberries 2 pints strawberries 1 to 1J4 pounds cherries Equal amount of sugar by weight, of all fruits Combine all ingredients and boil 2 minutes. Add cup lemon juice and boil 2 minutes longer. Re- and allow to cool. When cool, pour into sterilized jars and seal. Although the preserves look thin when you finish cooking, they will thicken upon standing. NYLONS!!! Nancy Southern chortles with glee as she sits on curb in Greensboro. N. C. and tries on her bargain nylons.. Behind her is part of four-block line of women who tried to get in on gale at Federal Building of 5000 pairs confiscated from black marketeers and sold by Unci* Sam at from SO cents to $1.65 • organized and held its first agricultural fair in the year 1792, exactly 152 years ago. 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