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MACDON ALD'S iTHE COLBORNE EXPRESS. COLBORNE, ONT., AUGUST 3, 1944 • SERIAL STORY Murder on the Boardwalk BY ELINORE COWAN STONE Last week: Jaspar, hiding at Chandra's home, tries to explain how Mrs. Talbert had ordered him to deliver the bonds to Christine. 'Inspector-. Parsons,. Wilmet. and Bill arrive, trailing Christine through Lucille. Suspicion turns on Chandra. Mrs. Talbert was last «een coming out of his studio. CHAPTER XV "I take exception to that 'last seen,' Inspector," Chandra said toolly. "However, it is entirely true ♦hat Mrs. Talbert was with me 'that night for an hour or more." "And afterwards," Inspector Parsons continued, "so far as I can learn, she,was not seen until her dead body was found." "But early this morning," the clairvoyant pointed out, "her car ■was also found -- parked just across the Boardwalk from the 87th street dock. . . . Are you suggesting that after I had warned Miss Thorenson where to look for the bonds I, myself, had stolen, I stabbed her cousin--with a dagger that anyone in Surf City could identify as mine--and was also imbecile enough to leave her car parked just around the corner from my own studio?" "What I'm suggesting is that you know a lot more about this business than you found it convenient to tell me this morning." "Now we're getting somewhere, Inspector. Because I know a lot more about this business than I did this morning." Chandra turned to Jaspar, who stood, glancing with a white, trapped look from one to the other. "This, my friend," he said, "is now a police affair in spite of anything you can do. You must disregard Mrs. Talbert's wishes." "Wishes -- what wishes?" Inspector Parsons snapped. "When Mrs. Talbert _ began to she instructed Mr. Jaspar that no matter what happened he must not call the police." "He told you that?" "Mrs. Talbert told me that--the last time she came to consult me." "So she came to you for advice --the night before her death--and the best you could do was to let her get herself murdered without any warning--and you supposed to be the slickest medium in the 'country!" Chandra's hands moved in a gesture of defeat which, even to Christine's unsympathetic eyes, seemed starkly sincere. "Mrs. Talbert," he said, "was a Woman of several fixed ideas. One, which grew in her as she got older and more eccentric, was the belief that, single-handed, she could outwit the world and the devil." "That's a weakness that seems lo run in the family." The inspector glanced toward Christine. "Perhaps"--Chandra's smile was Clever .., this Pattern 4848. How few pieces, how easy to sew! The panels give wonderfully slimming fines. Use gay cotton or rayon. Pattern 4848 is available in women's sizes: '34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48 and 50. Size 36 takes 4 yards 85-inch fabric. Send twenty cents (20c) in coins (stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern to Room 421, 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto. Write plainly size, name, address, style enigmatic--"you are more right than you guess, Inspector. ... Another of her peculiarities was that she thought police are all a set of clumsy bunglers. ... I am setting forth Mrs. Talbert's viewpoint, of course, not my own. Otherwise, I shouldn't be advising Mr. Jaspar to tell you what he's told r " "Well," the inspectoi uncompromising. "I'm li He'd better make it good." He glanced a ■ "You might ; ankle's up." So they did s t the others, well sit down, n this from the- down--Mr. Wil- met, obviously seething with curiosity and afraid that the inspector might change his mind, stumbling over a stool in his effort to find a chair without making himself conspicuous. And Jaspar began his story all over again. When he came to the part about leaving the bonds in Christine's room, the inspector turned toward Christine and then toward Jaspar with frowning attention, and Chris- SHE'LL SIT sit out this argu-years, if necessary," says screen star Joan Fontaine, above, currently suspended after battle with producer Dave Selznick over roles offered her. She says she won't take any more "mousy" parts. tine recalled uncomfortably his words of that morning: "Perhaps it was even someone who counted on your keeping them safely for A little later he interrupted, "If Mrs. Talbert had let the police go ahead when that young man was kidnaped, she might have got something for her money besides a heartache and a crop of misleading and conflicting clues. First the boy was supposted to have been carried off and drugged in his own car; later it looked as if he had been decoyed into the swamp and drowned in a quicksand. I can't recall all the stories; but there's one thing certain; someone who knew the family well was back of that ... By the way, you were employed by Mrs. Talbert then, too, weren't you, Jaspar?" "Yes, sir." Jaspar's eyes met the inspector's with the calm of desperation. "But there's one rumor you may not have heard, Inspector," Chandra said quietly, "that Earl Talbert was not really kidnaped at all; but that he engineered the whole affair himself, and collected the ransom. I happen to know that there have been' a number of checks forged on Mrs. Talbert's account that have never been run to their source. I hav: information that Earl Talbert, under another name, spent several years in a California prison; and I have had a feeling, from time to time, that Mrs. Talbert, herself, was sure that he was still alive." After a musing silence, the inspector asked, "Just how old was this boy when he disappeared?" LONDON BED TIME Another day of robot bombs is done, but ther ahead, so a London mother directs her childre underground back-yard shelter. The little one i bear will be safe, too. "He was in i Is first year at college." Jaspar hesitated and then went on, "I have been told that he was about to be expelled. . . A--a matter of a forged check, "A young man of that age could* have changed -- perhaps beyond recognition--in 12 years," the inspector said reflectively. . . Christine wondered if she only imag-* ined that he glanced toward Bill. . . . "Well, go on, Jaspar." "Well, sir, Mrs. Talbert hat! gone out In her car. I was always worried when she went out alone at night, because it was generally known that she often carried valuables on her person, sometimes large sums of money. She's done that ever since so . many banks closed some years ago. And only the day before, she had taken those bonds I left with Miss Thorenson from the bank." "You knew it. Does that mak%' it general information?" "It was well enough known that1-the house was entered once, and there had been attempts to hold her up. . . And she'd had extor- mds c "No, Mrs Talber burned them.' Inspector Parsons smothered ejaculation was eloquent. "Did Mrs. Talbert have any-, thing of value with her'when she disappeared?" he asked. "Mrs. Talbert," Jaspar answered after a brief hesitation, "carried in her briefcase exact facsmiles of those bonds. She had had them made by--a person who was clever at that sort of work in anticipation of just some such tiling as happened. It was Mrs. Talbert's idea of a joke, sir," Jaspar explained. "You see, she'd spent a lot of money trying to get 'Mr. Earl back. rShe-said that if she was abducted, too, the joke was going to be on the people who collected the ransom." The. inspec Yet when : spoke, Christine knew that he felt as sure as she did that somewhere in that group sat Cousin Emma's murderer. "Go on, Jaspar," he prompted. "Well, sir, about 9 o'clock the doorbell rang. When I answered, it was a. special delivery messenger. I carried the letter to the light and saw: that it was addressed to me--in,'-.jMjs. Talbert's handwriting." ; "So ycii are prepared to identify Mrs. Talbert's writing?" MJO\ yes indeed, sir." Inspector Parsons took an envelope from his pocket and passed it to Jaspar. "This is addressed to Miss Thorenson, j'ou notice, apparently by her cousin. We found it in Mrs. Talbert's purse." :J (Continued Next Week) As Churchill Spoke Four Years Ago And on that grimmest of Bas-t'-'le Day's, July 14, 1940, Winston Churchill spoke from endangered but unconquerable Britain: ""Arid I proclaim my faith that e of v vill 1 14th of July when a liberated France will once again rejoice in her greatness and her glory, and once again stand forward as a champion of the freedom and the rights of man. "When that day dawns, as dawn it will, the soul of France will turn with comprehension and kindness •4o those Frenchmen and Frenchwomen, wherever they may be, who ;;i the darkest hour did not dc-; ai- of the republic." To speak as de Gaulle and Churchill spoke, four years ago, require! an act of faith, says The New York Herald Tribune. Now, although the fullness of their prophecies has not yet been accomplished, no one can doubt that they - ill prove true to the letter. WHAT'S COOKING FOR NIPS Conquest of Saipan gives Allied bombers two good air fields less than 1500 miles from Japan, gives huge American task forces a good harbor and base and poses some interesting possibilities of future smashes against the enemy, as indicated on map above.(1) invasion of Rota and former American base at Guam; (2) New amphibious operations in Central Pacific to straighten U. S. line for attack on Philippines and Jap homeland; (3) Invasion of southern Philippines; (4) Twin air attacks on Japan from bases in Ouina and Western Pacific; (5) Stepping up of air and submarine campaign against Jap supply and communications lhies; (3) China's east coaut, where ports may be seized unless Jap drive against Hankow-Cnr.t:.. -railway succeeds. Quality You'll Enjoy "SALADA" TEA CHRONICLES of GINGER FARM Gwendoline P. Clarke Farmers cannot afford to be sentimental and yet, sometimes, it is hard not to be. This morning for instance, the trucker came in to pick up a cow. To him she was just another cow for the stockyards, but to us she was affectionately known as "Old Cicely". We had raised her from a calf. The children had pail-fed her when she was young. They had straddled her back whenever she was in the mood to let them. She had, in fact, grown up with pur children. She was the last relic of our early farming days and had helped, us weather the storm through those dreadful years of depression. Yes, Old Cicely was nineteen years old, and still going strong. There wasn't a thing the matter with her other than old age, yet she hadn't a tooth in her head that wasn't worn down to the gums. To have tried keeping her another winter would have been asking for trouble, so regretfully we said good-bye to our faith-full bossie. Poor old Cicely, she deserved a better fate than to end her life as bologna. Wouldn't it be nice if there were a ranch or something, kept specially as an "Old Cows' Home." I wonder how many boarders it would have. Not many, I'm afraid. After all, farmers may have a few senti- mental moments but they are mercenary minded too and the returns from even a nineteen year old cow will go a long way towards filling the coal bin for winter -- supposing there is coal to be got to fill it, What would we do without a home-town paper? It keeps us in touch with people we haven't heard of in years. But unfortunately the news we read isn't always good news. Last week, for instance, we read in our local papier of the death in action of a young sergeant in the Canadian army. Charlie was a grand boy. But I forgot, he was thirty-five, but we still think of him as the boy he used to be. Partner's youngest brother, the last time he was in England, brought Charlie back with him to work on our farm. That was nearly twenty years ago. Charlie was with us about a year. Then he started moving around and we finally got out of touch with him. We often wondered what had happened to the boy -- and if it were not for our local weekly we would still be wondering. Now, as with so many others, we can only ray tribute to Charlie as a brave soldier who laid down his life in service for his adopted country. SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON -- August 13. THE PRIEST IN THE LIFE OF ISRAEL. I Samuel I: 1--4:18. PRINTED TEXT, I Samuel 2:27-30, 35; 4: 12-18. GOLDEN TEXT. -- For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God. Heb- Memory Verse: I will pray unto Jehovah. Jeremiah 42:4. THE LESSON IN IT? SETTING Time. -- It is impossible, with the data we have, to determine exactly when Eli judged Israel. The fall of Shiloh is assigned' by most recent historians as occurring about 1050 B. C, which would make the judgeship of Eli to be 1090-1050 B. C. Place. -- Almost all the events are located in the city of Shiloh, northeast of Jerusalem. The House of Eli And there came a man of God unto Eli, and said unto him... and did I give unto the house of Thy father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire?" Eli is reminded of that day when God set apart the house of Aaron to the priesthood. After such privileges had been conferred on this favored house it was indeed a crime that its leading members should bring dishonor on their invisible King and Benifactor. "Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honored Thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people." The house of Eli had. treated the holy sacrifices with contempt. The chiefest of the offerings which should have been God's they kept for themselves. Faithful and Unfaithful Priests "Therefore Jehovah The God of Israel, saith . . . and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed." God honors those who honor Him by putting His gifts to the best possible use. They who despise God by treating His service, His word, His day lightly, irreverant-ly, as though these are of little importance, will be lightly esteemed by God. "And I will raise me up a faithful priest that shall do according to that which is in my heart and in my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before mine anointed forever." There sems little doubt that the , direct reference here is to Samuel. The faithful priest is contrasted -with unfaithful priests--the sons of Eli -- upon whom is to fall the judgment of God. Eli, The True Priest "And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army,... And he said, How went the matter, my son?" Eli never lost his deep concern for the holy things to which God had long ago ordained him. He was a true priest and up to the time of his death he loved the things of God. Though in his weaker days, when there - God < nily, Ark of God Is Lost "And he that brought the tidings answered and said... And he had judged Israel forty years." What a recital of defeat, disaster and death! But all else seemed of little acount compared to the loss of the Ark. To Eli it was a sign that God had forsaken his people. If only Eli had been more concerned about the moral and spiritual lit- of his sons, of Israel, he would have had no need to be concerned about the safety of the Ark. 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