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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS. COLBORNE, ONT.. THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1928 Only teas grown 4,000 to 7,000 feet above sea level are used En "SALADA" Orange Pelcae Blend-- the flavour is therefore richer, more fragrant and much more delicious than other teas. Only 43c per i-lb.--Buy It at any grocery store. A11 -at Ci Carolyn Weli3 WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE. Garret Folsom is stabbed to death while swimming at Ocean Town, N.J. It is believed that the death weapon was a pichaq, an Oriental knife, and that it was purchased on the board- Folsom's bathing companions had 'been Roger Neville, a business partner; Mrs. Helen Barnaby andvCar-melita Valdon. Anastasia Folsom, eccentric and masterful sister of the dead man, takes command, and it is established that one Croydon Sears is a fancier of curious weapons. Sears admits buying two knives but not the pichaq-Anastasia engages Titus Riggs, an architect, to work on the cas;3. Dan Pelton, Folsom's nephew, arrives and is mzzled by the curious French dolls in his uncle's rooms. Croydon Sears sends for Fleming Stone, famous detective. He tells him Folsom had been blackmailing him and he had lied at the inquest but was innocent. Stone meets, others of the circle, including Ned Barron and his wife, Madeline, who puzzles him. Stone comes upon Carmelita Valdon, whose suspicious actions have in-nd determines to question scrutinized her keenly. Either this" woman was all Miss Folsom had painted her, and she was deliberately setting out to fascinate him, or Peltor. was right and she was troubled, but regarding Folsom's murder. N "I think, Mrs. Valdon," he said gently, "it would be better if we talked plainly. You know, I dare say, that I am down here to'investigate the death of Garrett Folsom. There are reasons why 1 should ask you some questions and I have chosen this way to do it, thinking it would be the laast annoying to you." Carmelita thanked him with one of her best smiles. v. "You are good, "Let i her. NOW CO ON WITH THE STORY. CHAPTER XLIV "Not going in this morning?" Stone said, after Pelton, who was with her, had made introductions. "Not until later," Carmelita Valdon told him. "About noon, I think, today." "Then you'\»s time for a chair ride with me. Do take pity on my loneliness and come for a ride. The chairs f»*cmate me and I hate to go alone." It was not the habit of Carmelita Valdon to turn down anything in the shape of attention from any presentable man. And Fleming Stone was decidedly presentable. So Carmelita smiled on him and de^ dared she'd love to go. "See you when I come back, Dan," she said gaily to Pelton, who watched the pair depart, uncertain whether he wanted Stone to interview her or not. "Be good to her," he called out, as a warning to the detective, who answered with a smile and a nod, and then glanced at Carmelita. "I fancy everybody is good to you," he said in his gentle voice, so full of s'lhile flattery and yet impersonal, too. she said slowly, "everybody it Fate. "And I j slowly rolling along the alk, the sun not yet high to be unpleasantly warm, the ?eze coining in crisp and cool ■ stolid, half-asleep negro push-itn utterly oblivious, if indeed a hear their conversation-, Mr. Stone," and Carmelita a grave countenance to his own. is nearly always cruel to a , what a sweeping assertion! hat an untrue one! Surely you nean that--you, with the world r feet--with all the gifts nature ver mind that sort of talk. And ve who have--as you say--na-gifts, looks, charm, power, all minine arts, who oftenest get Mews from Fate, that are none is terrible because unknow )i-Ul at large." lout appearing to do so, Stone talk plainly then- . Ih the first pi I did not kill Mr. Folsom." "But you are glad he is dead," Stone said quietly. She gave him a startled glance. "I hate to put it so baldly," she saic as if thinking this over, "but, well, am not really sorry. Or, to com nearer the truth, I'm glad only for on reason. Otherwise I wish the ma were still alive." "You're glad he's dead because tha gave you an opportunity to retriev your letters which he held." "You must have been told that, she said, looking straight at him, "an nobody could have told you but Dan Pelton. Yes, I did get my letters back, and I nfver could have done that so long as Garrett Folsom we "And so you are suspected, quarters, of having killed him in order to accomplish that end." "Some quarters, meaning his sister, I suppose. Does any one else suspect me, Mr. Stone?" "ThafI don't know- But it would not be out of the question for Miss Folsom to spread such a suspicion." "I know it wouldn't. She hates me. I wonder why?" "Partly because you two are so diametrically opposed in character and type and partly because she really thinks you killed her brother." "My dear Mr. Stone, I couldn't kill anybody. I really couldn't. Miss Folsom might; she's the killer sort. But I'm not--" "That's no argument, Mrs. Valdon. To kill a man one doesn't have to perform the actual deed oneself." Fleming Stone had dropped his charming manner, and now he spoke | with the steely, low, hard voice that had so often struck terror to the heart of a wrongdoer. "Oh!" Carmelita gave a little gasp. "That some one else could have done it-- at your bidding- Who was the man with the white mustache?" At once Stone saw he had drawn Purposely ha had sprung this question suddenly, feeling sure he could tell by her reaction whether she knew of the man or not. Clearly she did not. For her uncomprehending look and her surprised voice were so indubitably sincere that the detective was forced to believe her. "The man with the white mustache? I've not the slightest idea. "But he most certainly was no agent of mine! JAnd I tell you, Mr. Stone, I had Add to the joy of the open road --this pleasure-giving refreshment. A sugar-coated gum that affords double value. Pep- . ■ permint flavor in the coating and peppermint^ flavored gum inside. :,-^j^V^-^yfT UE No. 11--'28 Garrett Folsom's death. Either directly or indireltly." "But as soon as he was dead you hastened to get your letters?" "I did indeed! And a hard time I had of it. I subsidized servants; I begged keys from friends; I tried every way I could think of--and I finally got them. Now they are burned up, and if the police accuse me of murder because of it they will have to pro^e it. But they can't get the Her smile of triumph went further toward convincing Stone of her inno- mind it was clear that she was so anxious to get her letters and so relieved at having got them that the thought of a more serious accusation had not yet sunk very deeply into her mind. And this, of course, for the BIG PRICE REDUCTION IN ROGERS BATTERYLESS RADIOS Canadian Company Leads Field In Production of Batterylesa Sets I "BUT YOU ARE GLAD HE IS DEAD?" STONE SAID QUIETLY. reason that she had no guilty knowledge of the crime itself- "The letters were so very important then?" he asked, casually. "Important to me becai disclosure of some facts life which I wish kept se which would be of the general publi enough importai let i e of their i my past secret. Facts all interest to which were of to give Garrett me that he nevei forget. Now they are Uestroy-d my soul is at peace. She was silent turned to him, with a ri smile, and said, "My soul at peace if I had killed hin "No, Mrs. Valdon," Stone said, giving her a keen look. "I think it could not. I'm not prepared to say I can tell a criminal by looking at one, but I will say that I think I can telT"1>y talking to one. And my judgement, my experience and i shout to me your innoc ter of Folsom's death, tion of those letters brought up, and then lly lovely ouldn't be could it?" ict all in the mat-v the ques- Michael Altman, wholesale grocer of Chicago, has" attended theatrical first-nights for forty years and has recorded in forty-two v pressions of 5,000 pla; Mlnard's Liniment l< | In England, at a* teachers' meeting to protest against the "anti-working-class propaganda in British school-j books," France was referred to as the ionly country that had placed in use j history textbooks that were without ho did kill Folsom. That's all his sister wants; that's all the police want; that's all I want --to learn the identity of the-murderer. No one has any justifiable concern with your letters or their import if you are not connected with the "What are you leading up to?" she asked gravely "Just this. 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