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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., OCT. 27, 1938 Of Special Interest to Women Readers "Sportsman Flies High7 by Lawrence Keating CHAPTER III Whatever they talked about, McDonald was not pleased.' He kept hunching his coat collar, scowling, answering in short, sharp syllables. The pug's bushy brows wriggled until they met across his bent and twisted nose. The other newcomer talked on suavely but Dan knew he was laying down the law. Unable to linger at the cashier's desk any longer, Colwell stepped put ot the Waverly Club bar. As he emerged on the sunlit street well #lled with business people hurrying to or from lunch, the three he watched made for the curb. McDonald signalled a taxi. They climbed in, McDonald in the middle, and the hack rolled away. Dan gestured another cab. "I'm yoing where that green hack goes. But leave a little space between. He gave the driver a keen look. "No sir, mistei, I need the money Irat -" The driver left off and accepted the bill Colwell poked at him. "Oh, okay," he grinned. "Hop in!" The ride was down Reed Street to the corner of Prospect Boulevard one of the principal shopping districts of the city. There the taxi-cab in front turned north, Colwell's driver following. Dan guessed his quarry headed for the Lawyers and Doctor's Building where Arthur McDonald maintained his law office. He could see the man's head and shoulders through the rear window of his cab and catch occasional fack and smoked a cigarette. intersection with t t6| • half ml ' away for repairs and the resultant bottle neck caused a sweet traffic tieup. Colwell"s cab halted immediately behind that of McDonald. On Dan's left was the gaping hole of the street foundation with picks and shovels lying about and the tar cooker boiling over a wood fire. The workmen squatted on the distant curb munching sandwiches. On Dan's right was a big double-deck bus. He smoked, peacefully oblivious to the honking as impatient drivers began to prod the traffic cop who already must be perspiring through his uniform. *he tieup grew worse and the honking grew louder, more insistent. Somebody's big limousine up there had lost a wheel, that was the trouble now. Colwell bestirred himself when he saw two men pile out of McDonald's cab. He could not help his pulse picking up speed. It was the ' striped suit gent and his smoother partner who got out. Dan blinked thoughtfully -- then shrugged. McDonald still was visible as to head and shoulders through the rear window of the taxi. There was nothing Colwell needed to telephone Mac's beautiful wife yet. His thoughts swung to her, and he grinned. McDonald was lucky, if he only knew it. Do This If You're NERVOUS i't take chances on harmful opiates and lucts which you know nothing about. Use imon sense. Get more fresh air, more sleep ous Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Oora- "iThel'pYOt The meter ticked busily. Colwell saw the two men who alighted from the taxi ahead separate and start carelessly for the sidewalk. He squinted after them, then at McDonald. Dan muttered a curse, climbed to the street, and thrust a half dollar at his driver. "I can walk faster'n this," he growled. He was not the only disgusted citizens in the traffic knot at Broadway and Prospect. Eight or nine others, indignant and abusive, had forsaken cars in which they had been riding, or the big yellow double-deck bus. Dan waited until no one afoot was near; then he sauntered alongside McDonald's cab and shot a straight, quick look His Adam's apple jerked. But for the raucous, impatient honking on all sides the ejaculation that burst from his lips would have attracted instant notice. Experienced as he was, this thing jarred him, made his chest feel clammy. His blue-grey eyes riveted with horror on the slight, dandyish form of Arthur McDonald in that taxi. His stare attracted the driver's attention. It all happened in two or three seconds, five at most. Automatically the taxi man glanced into his rear view mirror. He squirmed around. His gaunt countenance lost what little colour too many cigarettes had left, and went blank. He bathed McDonald with a terrified look, wrenched his eyes to Dan, and returned them to his passenger as if drawn by a magne't. The eyes of the shyster lawyer almost popped from their sockets. They were glazed. A long knife was buried to the hilt in his chest, stabbed through his expensive brown silk tie. His right hand actually hung on the haft of the weapon, as though in his agony he had tried to draw the thing out. Stiff in death, McDonald sat in the shabby green taxicab waiting for the There is an arresting horror in the sight o£ a murdered man. It gripped the hack driver, held him taut until comprehension seeped to his brain of the awful meaning of it. Colwell was in the clutch of amazement, but years of experience at meeting such sights made him recover first. His movement to the spot prompted the taxi 3 yell. wled 'Police! Murder!" it above the din of horns, and the throb of impatient motors. "A guy is dead! There goes the fella! Help, police!" Dan saw a strip of white paper on the running board of the car which evidently had fallen unseen when those two men had stepped out. He leaned and snatched it up, then plunged for the back of the cab. His impulse was to race for the sidewalk after the killer pair but his anxious eyes failed to find them. And the red barricade set up at the gap of torn pavement changed his mind. He turned around the rear of the bus just as a gaseous cloud poured from its exhaust. In the nick of time as it was picking up speed he flipped on the back platform where the conductor Murder in the Green Cab They stared at each other. If the fellow had made a move to seize him Dan would have broken his jaw. But the conductor merely seemed startled to pick up a passenger at this spot. He offered his Extra Money For Christmas! $10 In Prizes For the best Christmas or New Year's Dinner Menu CONTEST RULES: 1. One eniry to a household. 2. Write plan of menu. It is not necessary to give recipes for each individual dish. Recipes will be accepted for not more than three items on the menu. 3. Print your own name and address plainly. 4. Write cn cne side of paper only. 5. Contest closes Saturday, November 26. G. Address your entry to Contest Editor, Room 421, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. A Prominent Dietitian Will Act as Contest Judge Prizes: First, $5; Second, $3; Third, $2. A SPECIAL PRIZE vill be given for the best recipe for z individual dish. Mail Your Entry Early Hair Affords No Key to Ability Many Notables Had Red Locks, Many Did Not Hair doesn't seem to afford any index to genius or character. It is true that among important personages history has turned up, there have been a good many red-heads, but the number does not appear to be greater, proportionately, than the number of red-haired persons among the less important, writes a correspondent to The Cleveland Plain Dealer. John Bunyan had red hair, for one. And Peter the Great's was red and Swinburne's was red. Savan-arola had reddish eyelashes, according to accounts of him, while Thomas Hobbes had reddish whiskers. To show that red-haired persons have no monopoly of talent, here are the names of a few outstanding figures whose hair was black: Matthew Arnold, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Stephen A. Douglas, William Hazlitt, Charles Lamb, John Marshall, Daniel Webster, John Green-leaf Whittier, John i Paul Jones, Sir Arthur Sullivan. Among those whose hair was classified as "dark" were Browning, Alexandre Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rossetti, and Mendelssohn. William Cullen Bryant's, Defoe's, Cromwell's, Longfellow's and Farragut's heads were brown. And the downright blondes have included (among many others) Keats and Trackeray. LETTING DINNER GETjTSILF Have you ever played truant from your home for an afternoon and had a grand time only to have it all spoiled by realizing along about five o'clock that you haven't anything ready for dinner? Then you dash into a store on the way home and buy canned goods and chops or steak, knowing that this is the most extravagant way to pay for your little holiday. All because you didn't plan ahead. There is a way to have your cake and eat it too. Here is a menu which can be prepared before you go out and be on the table a few minutes after you get back home. The main dish is Casserole of Lamb. While this is baking for the first time, you can make Cardinal Salad, then the Orange Dessert Cake, then straighten up the kitchen and you're finished. When you finally arrive home after an afternoon free from care, all you have to do is turn on the oven to heat the casserole, toast some rolls, slice the cake, unmold the salad and dinner is ready. LAMB EN CASSEROLE 1 pound breast of lamb, cut in small pieces % cup onions, sliced 1 tablespoon butter 1 cup boiling water 1 cup carrots, diced 1 cup potatoes, diced 2 cups canned tomatoes 1V2 teaspoons salt Vi. teaspoon pepper Put Luxury In Your Linens--Laura Wheeler Shews You How OUTWORK LINENS PATTERN 1754> Cutwork--the linens that spell luxury are ai your disposal in a rich design. The bars (they're easy to do) form the background for the simple flowers and give the linens that lacy richness. Motifs for cloths, towels, pillowcases and scarfs are all in this pattern. Do them in one or varied colors. There's no excuse for any linen closet lacking beauty now! Pattern 1754 contains a transfer pattern of 12 motifs ranging from 6V2 to 12 inches to 2 x 4 inches; materials required; illustrations of stitches; color schemes. ■ Send 20 cents in coins (stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern to Wilson Needlecraft Dept., 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. Write plainly pattern number, your name and address. pistol-grip fare box. Colwell fumbled in his vest and produced a dime which he stuffed in the slot to the tinkle of a little bell. He shouldered past the conductor up the winding stairway," slinking into a rear seat where he twisted to look back at the same time reaching for a handkerchief to wipe his perspiration-beaded countenance. Set to shadow McDonald, he had allowed those two men to murder him! He cursed himself roundly. Colwell's square jaw set. This must have been planned with considerable suddenness, or the slaying may have been impulsive. McDonald may have grown fractious right there in the green cab. The killers had silenced him and then hastily turned his pockets inside well they . for rrassed traffic cop run :k which impeded a long line . People swarmed from all ins toward the gesticulating iver, even some of the street ning .i 3 the r id in the paven feur, in the street now, yelled the louder, howled some more oaths, and wrenched the handle of the tonneau door. He stepped back with another howl. Meanwhile, the other traffic rolled coldly away had V ted. gressed half a block. Dan relaxed somewhat with a sense of tremendous relief. The cab driver had not seen him board the bus. (CONTINUED NEXT ISSUE) Shock caused when his automobile was burned caused George E. Pritchard to obtain explosives from a quarry and literally blow himself to pieces near Belfast, Northern Ireland. Color In Lipstick Conies From Bug Cochineal Industry Centered In Canary Islands Supplies It The cochineal industry which supplies the colouring in rouges and lipsticks is centred mainly in the Canary Islands. The colouring is obtained from the cochineal bug; "Coccus cac:i" to zoologists. It has a reddish tinted, fat, wrinkly body, tortoise shaped and about half the size of a grape. Cochineal insects are all of one sex--mothers. In spite of the fact that they are all identically alike, they reproduce with great rapidity, fresh gen- ithin a few hours The Safest Dye chi-m The dye sects broug the islands ed aniline dyes and brought the lands to the verge of "bankrupt Within recent years, however, tl no dye known to science is so s when used on the human skin The rationing of gasoline in Japan has forced all taxi companies in Kobe to merge. Learn to Type at Home $1 Weekly CORONA Issue No. 43--'38 taste them and you'// understand Christie's Biscuits "there's a Christie Biscuit for every ras'tf" 3 tablespoons quick-cooking tapi- Brown lamb and onion in butter; add water. Bake, covered, in moderate oven (350 deg F.) about 1 hour. Add other ingredients; bake % hour; stir often. Serves 6. This re-heats without -any loss of flavour CARDINAL SALAD 1 package lemon jelly powder % cup beet juice 3 tablespoons vinegar Vz teaspooii salt 2 teaspoons scraped onion 1 tablespoon prepared horse-radish % cup celery, diced 1 cup cooked beets, diced Dissolve jelly powder in warm water. Add beet juice, vinegar, salt, onion, and horse-radish. Chill. When slightly thickened, fold in celery and beets. Turn into mold. Chill until firm. Unmold on crisp lettuce. Garnish with mayonnaise. ORANGE CAKE 2V2 cups sifted cake flour 2 teaspoons baking powder \i teaspoon salt Grated rind of 1 lemon Grated rind of 1 orange 2/3 cup butter or other shortening lVz cups sugar 3 eggs, unbeaten 2 tablespoons lemon juice 5 tablespoons orange juice 2 tablespoons water Sift flour once, measure, add baking powder and salt, and sift together three times. Add lemon-and orange rind to butter, and cream thoroughly; add sugar gradually, and cream together until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating thoroughly after each addition. Add flour, alternately with combined fruit juice and water, a small amount at a time. Beat after each addition until smooth. Bake in two greased 9-inch layer pans in moderate oven (375 deg. F.) 20 Spread Oranj g betwi lave and sides of cake. ORANGE BUTTER FROSTING Grated rind of 1 orange Grated rind of % lemon li cup orange juice 2 teaspoons lemon juice 1 egg yolk 3i teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons butter 3 cups sifted confectioners' sugar Add orange and lemon rind to orange juice and allow to stand 10 juice, egg yolk, salt, butier, and confectioners' si gar. Add orange juice until of right consistency to spread. Beat until smooth and spread on cake. Makes enough frosting to cover tops and sides of two 9-inch Colour Adds Life To Autumn Styles Violet and Violine Tones Most Popular In New Mode NEW YORK.--Every woman in assembling her clothes should consider these fashion facts from the world's greatest designers. 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For additional iron, especially in anaemia, increase the daily quantities of liver, kidney, oysters and A sluggish action of the thyroid gland is due often to lack of iodine 1n the system. Fish and shellfish are excellent sources of iodine. Water is, of course, one of those regulation items essential to proper digestion and body temperature. The more bodily energy used up, the more sugar, starches and fats Help improve your personality with Wrigley's Gum. Keep your teeth white, breath sweet, by using healthful Wrigley's Gum daily--as millions do. The children also love the delicious refreshing flavor of Wrigley's Double Mint. Take some home today, cm ▲▲▲▲▲▲▲AAA* Once you sweeten your I morning cereai with BEE HIVE Syrup you'll know how \ good cereal can taste, il I TOMORROW