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f THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT.. JULY 10, 1947 The Quality Tea "SALAM ORANGE PEKOE CHAPTER XXV "She collapsed again?" "Yes, as soon as wc got her to bed and had sent for the doctor." "What prognosis does the doctor give?" "She will probably recover, but she may not remember things--who hit her--hb« happened--for a long time. The police ..,ore qu;te nasty -,i,„„t a i.. MeCale. The. iiavc ;n_ :sted c "What c He turn med the r : do, Mr. McCale?" ,vith ; iolent 1 ment, striding toward the door. "I want to see the attic." She rose obediently, mechanically. Up the dark, heavily carpeted stairways of the brooding house they went, past the double doors of the drawing room where Karen still played her macabre music, up to the third floor, where a policeman sat dozing before the closed portal of Sybil's room where death was hovering, up the last flight, darker and narrower than the others, to the attic ■where murder had been -- perhaps only delayed. Miss Bigelow pressed a switch and two yellow bulbs came into view, dimly lighting the place. An old trunk had been pulled out under one of the lights for easier perusal. It stood open. There was a damp red stain on the bare boards where the blood had spilled from Sybil's wound. McCale dropped down beside the trunk, asking curtly, "The weapon?" "The police took it away--a chimney brick wrapped in a towel. The towel was from the third floor bathroom." Miss Adelaide's eyes avoided the blood on the floor. Miss Bigelow's voice came hollowly, futility dulling it. "Then it must have been--oh, if it were not true-but it must--" "Yes," he said quietly. "It could only have been the murderer of Curt Yallaincourt and Shari Lynn--the person who attempted to remove me from the world last night--here in this house. Surely you have known, have suspected,-Miss Bigelow, that the murderer is either one of your fyJauifWTicdei Red strawberries (done in large crosses) look real enough to eat. 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She was revealed, not so much <\s the woman who clung so desperately to her fading youth, who made v&oid, silly conversation, who bolstered her empty middle-age with sherry, but more as a doting mother secretly keeping alive the brighter moments of a not too easy life. McCale unfolded a large black silk handkerchief, the last thing in the t unk. "This?" A puzzled look came over her face. She struggled with memory. "I don't know. I can't place that. Could it have been my brother's?" "I hardly think so.' He fingered it, feeling the coarse pull of the silk. A signal seemed to flow from the material in his hand along his arm, into his brain. His thoughts clouded, then grew bright, as they played hide-and-seek with the inlinitismal shadow o£ an idea. He sat on his haunches, rooted to the spot, unwilling to let the flickering image go. He spoke slowly to himself. "Sybil was haunted by an idea. She had been frightened and wary for the last two days. She had been drowning her thoughts in wine ever since. But this afternoon, it must have got the best of her. She had to prove it, right or wrong. The proof must have been in this trunk. Surely, if the murderer followed her here, the evidence was removed after she was knocked unconscious with the improvised blackjack. Yet one small piece of evidence was missed, left behind. It is here in my hand I feel it. I know it". He folded the kerchief carefully, slipped it into his pocket. Something told him that he too, knew the answer to the black silk square. Quickly his mind went back to the afternoon of Vallaincourt's murder. Reason pointed out to him that in the few minutes before or directly after Curt's death, Sybil had made the discovery that shattered her aplomb. But he, himself, had been almost an eye-witness to that killing. He hunched over stock-still, recalling the sequence of events as they had occurred. Suddenly, revelation poured over his mind like a searchlight. He jumped up. Placing a firm hand on Miss Bigelow's arm, he guided her, surprised and bewildered to the "We n immediately," "Ye: They all I . Mui t all?" He strode ahead of her on the third floor hall. He reached the door of the second floor drawing room before she^ was half way down the As he went in, Karen stopped playing. She sat cold and austere at the piano, letting her long fingers rest quickly on the keyboard. She turned toward him as he quickly crossed the room to her side. She seemed a figure of ice, but her eyes were burning with a chill, fierce flams "Y ou drew $800 at your bank this ing," He hurled the statement r. "Why?" sullen smile turned up one cor-)f her moutth. She shrugged, aved a hand in exasperation. •'To Be Continued) At 8 He's Been Conducting 4 Years-At 8 years old Ferrucio Burco directs the Rome Royal Opera Symphony in Beethoven's First Symphony as he makes his official debut in the Italian capital after conducting' more than 40 concerts in various Italian cities. 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(Job 42:7). The late Professor Moulton in his "Modern Readers' Bible" sought to guard such misinterpretations of Biblical truth by presenting and arranging the Scriptures in their proper literary form. This is particularly helpful in portions of the Bible like the Book of Job. The message of the Book is that, in spite of all the doubts, difficulties, and problems, the dramatic portions have been presented with all the realism with which they have confronted succeeding generations in their quest of God, and in their questionings concerning His providence. The Hebrew poets and prophets were realists in facing all the facts. They saw the dark and terrible aspects of some things in the world But they laid hold of the great, positive, incontrovertible facts of a world that could not be, or be upheld, without a Creator and Ruler. They found evidences of law and order and goodness. They asserted, "The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament sheweth His handiwork. 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