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A LW A Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat | Empire Block Ti 13 ttis who has been master of the family seat| word here and there about her home for"twenty years. He has three sons: | and her, circle. And you‘re neither ROBERT, Junior, crippled in a blind nor dumb, as you remarked yourâ€" (unmarried %fl C her second visit she spoke ‘ : (married) . CHARLES, 21 (unmarried). casually of a fiat in a mews off Bede and two unmarried daughters ELSIE|Atreet. Why? â€"What are you going and CLEONE. â€"I to do?" BARBARA MONTALBAN: Wife of| "I‘m going to London, instead of Ralph. staying the night here. And early toâ€" MAILIA DAUNT: Met her death at| morrow I‘m going off on a piigrimageâ€" Montalban in mysterious circumstances| in the steps of Mailia Daunt. Probâ€" LAWRENCE SEVERN:; Secretary=| ably backwards, as it were; retracing +N THE STEPS OF MAILHA Late in the afternoon, Molly teleâ€" phoned to Montalban. She had not meant to do it; it was just one of those things that seem to happen without direction. Before she knew what she intended, she was in callâ€"box waiting things that seem to happen without direction. Before she knew what she intended, she was in callâ€"box waiting for her connection, the familiar nutmâ€" ber ‘demanded and graciously granted, and ‘a faint doubt in her mind as to #hether she had been overâ€"eager. The whole motive force of this probably fcolish investigation had ‘come from companion to the veteran Sir John. . Severn had, laughed atâ€" her then, while she had begged him;, with careful restraint, to take some measures for his own protection. Probably he would be laughing still when he came to the telephone. In a moment come his voice, soft and coot, and somehow graver than she had ted. . expec "This is Severn." *"*Molly here." ‘ "It‘s a pleasure to hear your voice of course, butâ€"â€"" "This is important.. Iâ€" have. proof, Lawrence-â€"proot that Mailia Daunt was the girl in the car smash. D’you see the force of that?" > "I‘m not totally blind. But proof?" "I‘ve got a photograph. A snapshot taken in the garden here. No, there‘s no possible mistake. Anyone would identify it at once as Mailia. And Lawrence â€" she was out for blood â€" Montalban blood â€" any Montalban blood. My nurse says she cherished the grudge of grudges against the man who had her and her mother shut up PC mm 2 _‘"‘What, indeed? And what do you want of me?" Be'vern gently. "That she deliberately wished herself on to Charles to get even with them all, ~What else am I to think?" Langdon Langdon 13â€" Third Ave. ° Timmins | «~14â€"26. * ~Res. 51 Mountjoy St. S§. _ Phone 1548 hy is ie NOTAR _ ; Floyd E. Corner "BARRISTER SOLICITOR Mcinnis Block . . 20 Pine St. 9855 Dean Kester, K.C. BARRISTER SOLICITOR ‘BARRISTERS and SOLICITORS 26 Third Avenue a€ JAMES R. MacBRIEN Barristers, Solicitors, Ete. MASSEY BLOCK TIMMINS, ONT. and South Porcupine w# 21 * o# you think â€"â€"" ~prompted is @ ~14â€"26 ~14â€"26 e AT MONTALBA That night Molly slept in her own flat in Bloomsbury. She was, thought Rose, unusually silent when she shou‘d have been more informative. Naturâ€" ‘ally, one expected and demanded that ‘a friend who had been so fortunate as to :make the acquaintance of a headâ€" ‘lined â€"family at first hand should ta®: intelligently about the experience. ‘Molly would scarcely talk at all; even _her answers to questions were abstractâ€" ed and niggardly. Rose was disapâ€" pointed in her evening. "On her second visit she spoke casually of a flat in a mews off Bede Why? â€"What are you going "I‘m going to London, instead of staying the night here. And early toâ€" morrow I‘m going off on a pilgrimageâ€" in the steps of Mailia Daunt. Probâ€" ably backwards, as it were; retracing her steps." There was a pause, and then Severn said; "You‘re cast for a new part, my dear. Do.you feel equal to being my ‘**I could do that myself," she said with sudden gravity, thinking of the only man who liad certai‘nly known the identity of Mailia Daunt.: â€"â€"‘YÂ¥ou‘ll not do anything until I come?". say so like hear you." no cb un 4# fhd 04â€" e t 0B Oe . be C C P sick frlend?” f Ghe laughed. "Lawrence! Are you meditating a runâ€"out? Is it wise to say so like that? Someone may overâ€" "Meet the early train toâ€"morrow, will you? At tenâ€"fifteen. When we meet I may even indulge in a little® proâ€" phecy." .~ *"‘I should hardly have time, in any case. No, I‘ll wait for you. We can travel back together at night. You see, of{cially I‘m in London now." Molly met Severn‘s train next mornâ€" ing. . He seemed a strangely different man, younger, gayer, perhaps not so weighted with the oppression of that vampire house. He had a roseâ€"bud in his buttonhole, and as she came to him he withdrew it and threaded it thoughtfully into hers. ; Henry Riggs! The rose; I mean. What hideous rames people pick out for things of beauty! Supposing your people had,. christened you Euphemia." â€" Molly laughed. "Well, thank heaven, they didn‘t. However did you manage to get away, Lawrence?" ~O. E. Kristensen "Something I don‘t suppose you can INGS FLAGS PACK BAGS HAVERSACKS EIDERDOWN Arch.Gillies,B.A.Sc..0.L.S. "I told Sir John:that I was going to P.0. Box 1591 Registered Architect Ontario Land Surveyor Building Plans â€" Estimates, Etc. 28 Fourth Ave. Phone 362 P. H. LAPORTE 6. G. A. Accounting J. J. Turner Sons, Ltd. 10 Balsam St. North, Timmins, Ont. Systems Installed Income Tax Returns Filed Phones 270â€"228â€"286 P.O. Box 147 iess 5* Ask Your Local â€"Dealer.for Prices or â€" â€" â€"eend your order direct to PETERBOROUGH, ONT. sSNOWSHOES â€" â€">â€" | DOG_ SLEIGHS SK TOBOGGANS â€" DOG HZ : TARPAUIINS â€" HORSE CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT 60 ThIRD AVENUE «_ Phone 640 We Manufacture and Carry in Stock kâ€"RAY . __.~â€"â€" . SHORTWAVE ~~ Consultatien is â€"Free Bank .of. Commerce Building _ PHONE 607 CHROPRACTOR RADIONICS ANALYSIS G. N. ROSS Timmins, Ont. * BLANKETS #% Pine St. N. t e * Auditing ROBES ' COPYRIGHT London. That was all. We underâ€" stand each other very well." He linked : his hand within her arm. "Come on, let‘s get out of this human lissaw | puzzle, shall we? We‘ve got rather a lot to say to each other." Outside the station he hailed a taxi and gave the driver an address which meant nothing to her. Meeting her glance of inquiry in the dimness within he smiled. "A firm of agents, who happen to have the key to the flat in Bedeâ€"st. mews. It‘s to let. : No, don‘t worry, we‘re not going to take it. But pape I don‘tâ€"see any reason why we shouldn‘t have a prospective tenants‘ view, for all that. Do you?" | "I think it‘s a terrific idea. But how . did you know it was still to let?" Mailia is gone." § jadeâ€"green and silver, two large bedâ€" rooms, and two small ones All of which they examined with considerable interest; and Molly was speechless. "Do you know, Lawrence," she laughed. "I think we ought to take up . blackmail as a carcer." "It certainly seems to pay. But the| the hand demure. maid answerâ€" shame of it is, all the suggestion of ed the telephone." said Severn. And ! a moment later: "This is one message They were standing in the principal Mailia never received. It was taken on bedroom. Mailia would certainly have the eve of her deathâ€"two days before chosen no other to enshrine her perâ€" | she was to leave Montalban. Can you son. â€" Severn moved abosut the room | beat that?" restlessly, opening and closing drawers| They stared at it together, for it in the dressingâ€"table, and in the little sounded an odd, an ominous note. writing desk. "Nothingâ€"not a scrap of | "Mrs. Stephens, 14, Hawksbeeâ€"rd., r. Do you know â€" something, | Farl‘s Court, rang up, and left a mesâ€" Molly? She must have had a maid.|sage. Will Miss Daunt please settle The place would do with two, but let‘s | with Mrs. Stephens for the month‘s be modest, and say one. I wonderâ€"I | board and lodging she owes as soon as wonder â€" what happened to Mailia‘s convenient." ’ maid?" __Severn looked up with a wry, mile. Molly, looking over his shoulder. "Surely. The dates are all personal." And at that moment he had reached But I have a careful mind which conâ€" siders every possibility. I looked through the most voluminous morning , paper I could findâ€"Sir John has it, no ‘ one else wouldâ€"and found that agents were offering, among many other deâ€" sirable properties, for sale or to let, a certain dwelling known as the Mews Flate, Bedeâ€"st. Ergo, that‘s the flat you and I want to see." "But how do you know its the same one?" ; "We shall soon find out. What agent could resist telling a possible tenant that the last occupart of the flat was murdered?" "Wait a minute," said Molly. "I see NCY m« Amnaiâ€"lel m BA t a*a «s nmhf!) "I didn‘t. Not until this morning:| But that was indeed Ssomething to , wonder over. "The telephone!" cried Severn sudâ€" ; denly, snapping his fingers, and walked briskly into the hall where it stood upâ€" | on a polished table. Molly followed him, mystified. "It will be cut off, of course." "Does it matter? There may still oe a ‘phone book, and there might be some notes." There was more than a direcâ€" tory. There was a pad for notes. Hel flicked back the leather cover of this messageâ€"book, which was attached to the stand of the telephone, and revealâ€" ed a, mass of half a dozen shceets foldâ€" ed back, a few torn out, and then the virgin pad. "You see? She was an "We shall soon find out. What agent could resist telling a possible tenant that the last occupart of the flat was murdered?" "Wait a minute," said Molly. "I see a snag. How could a flat stay empty in Londonâ€"London, of all places and have to be advertised?" "Here‘s the office." It was child‘s play for a young couple, arriving by taxi, and noncommittally well dressed, to obtain the key of a flat which hung somewhat heavy upon its agent‘s hands. . She admired the casual way that Severn asked his vital question, after the "keen interest with which he had put those questions which would ordinarily have been important to a houseâ€"hunter, but which meant noâ€" thing to him. There was no eagerness, and very little curiosity, in the voice which asked at the last moment, as they were rising to leave the office: ‘"‘That‘s easily accounted for. They want three hundred pounds year for it, furnished. Peovle who can afford that want their location further west. Bedeâ€"st. isn‘t a bad locality, but the surroundings are arty rather than wealthy. The arty have no money as a ruleâ€"thet‘s why they go arty, it‘s a form of sourâ€"grapish selfâ€"defenceâ€"and the wealthy won‘t touch them with a barge pole. So the flat is still empty." He touched her hand, leaving a brief white fingerâ€"prir‘; upon the back of it. ‘"By the way, didn‘t your last tenâ€" ant make a rather specacular exit from this mortal scene? I have an acquaintâ€" ance who used to know the lady a litâ€" tle, and I remember her address was some mews off Bedeâ€"st." "Yes, Miss Daunt did have the flat, but the accident didn‘t happen there. She scarcely used it. She took it on a six months lease, but, poor lady, she only lived five or six weeks of the time." Severn laughed. "Oh, don‘t worry, we shan‘t be disturbed by ghosts." He slipped his hand possessively into Molly‘s arm. "Come along and we‘ll examine the place in detail." The man hesitated in doubt how to treat the inquiry. In the street he said softly into her ear; "So she took the flat furnished five or six weeks before she died. And she took it on a six months leaes, which seems to indicate that she paid out a hundred and fifty pounds. iAnd this happenedâ€"do you notice the imâ€" plication?â€"just after her second visit to Montalban."‘ "She was ‘bleeding more, than one member of that family," said Molly with ecnviction. "I think so. Yes, I think so. And yet if she had paid into her bank anâ€" other large sum the four hundred and forty pounds she banked was the survival of a good deal more than five hundred. â€" What did she do with the rest?" § “Spem’c it," said Molly promptly. "On what? You must provide the feminine intuition.‘" "No, I don‘t forget. They didn‘t matter. The person she had to keep in with was Charles himself. All this elaborate sctting was for his benefit: I‘m not sugzgesting, mind, that he wouldn‘t .have fallen for her even if she‘d been the pocrest of the poor. But she chose her own way of representing herself and she chose this wayâ€"a lady of modest but sufficient private income, and with a good address in London. She was taking no chances." "Well, first and foremost, I should say clothes. You see, she was intendâ€" ing to marry Charles. She must have bought dresses galore." ‘"But you forget that all the dressingâ€" up in the world could be no disguise for those who already knew who Mailia Daunt really was." "IL wonder what happened to her private pcossessions," said Severn penâ€" sively. ‘"There‘s a job for Walden. He could find out what value in kind she hadâ€"clothes and all." "HMe could, and he must. Because it‘s my belief she took good care Charles shouldn‘t know too much about her until she had the setting ready for him; and the setting was got together on his people‘s money. What will you bet me sheâ€"didn‘t receive Charles at her home for the first time after her second visit "Nothing. You stand to win much too certainly. Pcor creature, fancy goâ€" ing to all that trouble to *capture Charles. â€" She could have done it just as ~well with a clerks job and last year‘s hat." Bede Street consisted largely Of | ever; spacious studios, and the little culâ€"deâ€" | whet sac of the mews hid discreetly behind | the : the one old house left in it, the sad is n« ghost of a Queen Anne town house, lans. from the cottage dress of it outside now large it was. There was an entrance hall, beautifully panelled in a light goliden wood, a reception room, a din« ing.rmim. a very wellâ€"appointed kitâ€" which they examined with considerable interest; and Molly was speechless. "Do you know, Lawrence," she laughed. "I think we ought to take up Timmins and District business establishments enjoy a good patronage from the residents of this community because through the years they have earned the confidence of the public and are co-operatmg to retain it. You are invited to inspect the values offered by the firms listed below. â€" Item from The Advance Travels to Old Country Ssouth Porcupine, March â€"(Special to The Advance)â€"Who was it who said:â€""A good deed goes echoing round the world?" One of the strangest coincidences is noted in the following facts. Mrs E. K. Martin received a letter from England recently. She has kindâ€" ly allowed us to quote a page from it. â€" "Have you one or more Chinese resâ€" taurant proprietcrs in South Porcuâ€" pine? Only the other day I saw in a paper here how a doctor was travelling in Canada and picked up some rather weary looking soldiers He thought they locked as if a meal would qheer them up so he took them into this restaurant run by the aforesaid Chinese gentleman and proceeded to have them refuelled. He then began to work out how much his bill would be. He reckâ€" oned 75 cents each, and when the proâ€" prietor said 15 cents the doctor thought he said 50 cents and thanked him for letting them have such an excellent meal at such a low figure. However, at last the doctor was made to unâ€" derstand it was only 15 cents, the Chinese saying:â€""You do your bit, the soldiers do their bit, and I do my bit!" ‘"Does that ring true?" says the writer. (Does it! Don‘t we know it! Didn‘t it emanate from one of our own South Porcupine doctors himself, who modestâ€" ly told the tale to extol the restaurant proprietor. See the Editorial in The Advance of September 18th, 1941.) Gilobe and Mailâ€"Thereâ€"was nothing halfway atout Australia‘s mobilization for war. Prime Minister Curtin exâ€" plained it this way: "This means that every human being in Australia, whether or not he or she likes it, is in the service of the Government." 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How else Hared she leave @ mesâ€" sage like that written on the telephone pad?" "It certainly cries to heaven of spite," admitted Severn. .He smiled. "As you remarked. This must be funny, if one could get it in perspective." He closed the book. He rose. ‘"Come along! We‘ve finished here. There‘s nothing else for us." Lynch Appliance and Furniture Co. 61 Kirby Avenue - Phope 2930 Let Us Take Care of the â€" Pasteurized Milk Cream Buttermilk The Farmer Owned Dairy Coal Dealer CLEAN FUEL â€" CLEAN SERVICE 28 First Avenue Phone §_58~M t Schumacher GEM ELECTRIC MOTOR SERVICE Clothes You Wear HATS CLEANED and BLOCKED 61 Kirby Avenue Phone 2930 14 Birch St. N. 39 Third Avenue Phone 1870 Exclusive dealers for Westinghouse True Temperature Controlled Reâ€" frigerators, Electric Ranges, Radios, Washers, Vacuum Cleaners, Etc. We 161 Spruce St. S. Burton Cleaners «General Building:Contractor Coal and Wood Dealer Northland Producers Dairy COAL AND wWOOD ~DEALERS J. Van Rassel ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES 141 Main Ave., PHONE 583 Phone 3200 Mailia still owes a month‘s rent." Molly took his arm, laughing. "We‘re not looking for board lodgings, surely? Not after viewing that dazzling fiat? How are the mighty fallen!t" But there was no need to ask for lodgings. They had not sighted more than the gate of No. 14, Hawksbeeâ€"rd., before they knew what manner of house it was. Dingyâ€"fronted, respectâ€" able to the last degree, blueâ€"curtained, with a tree and a scrap of threadbare lawn before it. â€"*This© means she had next to no money before," said Molly. ‘"Would the Mailias of this world stay in a house like that one day more than was necessary?" "Come on!" said Severn abruptly. "Let‘s return these keys to the agents, and themn we‘ll have lunch. We shall get nothing more here." Death of Annette Carneau at St. Mary‘s Hospital She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Carneau, or Warren, who, with their three small children were visiting their grandfather, Mr. Gauâ€" thier, of Crawford St., South Porcupine. South Porcupine, Feb. 25â€"(Special to The Advance)â€"A little visitor from Warren, Annette Carneau, aged 1 year and 8 months died in St. Mary‘s Hosâ€" pital, Timmins, on Sunday, Feb. 22nd. The little girl who had not been strong from birth was taken ill on Saturday and was taken to St. Mary‘s where death followed. A funeral serâ€" vice was held on Monday in St. Joachim‘s vhurch, South ‘Porcupine, and conducted by Father LaSalle. Inâ€" terment was made in Tisdale cemetery. Perth, Courier:â€"To beat Nazidom reâ€" quires more and more and better and better weapons; which means moreâ€"and more money. â€"Yours and mine. 1i Victory Bonds. ‘ FRANK KLISANICH (prop.) Where Good Friends Meet Rudolphâ€"McChesney Lumber Co., Ltd. 7 Cedar St. S. 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The following will be of interest to all who knew Don Simpson, the Public School teacher who enlisted in the Air Force last summer: In a letter recently he says: "I managed to lead my class at St. Johns (Quebec) and was given lovely silver cigarette case .with my name engraved on it and also got my name put up on the Observers‘ Wing in the hall of the school there. The case is a beauty and has the replica of : an Anson on the outside. Inside it has engraved "L.A.C. D. W. Simpson, winner of the Skyways trophy N.G.A. 1C)JS ."â€"So I‘m pretty well thrilled with t."! Toronto Telegramâ€"Human nature is what makes a man go out on the limb in an effort to secure a political plum. Daisy Ballew, production manager. Dr. J. F. Shaw, technical assistant. Special features include: Short wheel base. 18"â€"6 3â€"4 pound frame. Changeable seat covers. â€" Present model will be constantly South Porcupine, March 4th. 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