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By LESLIE BERESFORD ; "i Aufhor of "Chateau Sinistcr " "A Man from the Air $ Port," etc. etc. â€""One question I want to ask here," interrupted Willing. "I don‘t know that it has any bearing on this matter, and you needn‘t answer it if you‘d rather not." y we are here ‘by invitation and mot on any charge,‘â€"to use your own wnnds Mr. Willingâ€"and I am in comâ€" pany which I do not intend and did not lntend to seek again, let me say thisâ€" 9ever in any sense involved crimâ€" Mally in the Golden Gap business. *gour police records and the solicitors who acted for me will confirm that The police wanted evidence from me to help the prosecution, and though I had no reason to spare Fanshawe, who. had to ken advantage of my ignorance of ess, I loathed the thought of helpâ€" fizg to send to prison people with whom fld been on terms of friendship of a sdrt Also, I‘ve always had a weakness fOr didging unpleasantness. That, I oan see, was wrong. I ought to have followed the advice of the lawyers. But I paid for that by exiling myself in France, and particularly by the rotten time I had after the country was inâ€" Faded." nothing to conceal now," reâ€" torted, Craven. / «‘"Well, when you found there was war on, didn‘t you feel a duty to come home and do your bit?" . The question stung Craven; and he showed that it hurt. «"If you‘d ever done anything mildly wrongâ€"-indiscreet. shall we sayâ€"and you‘d been brooding on it for years, you‘d know, Mr. Superintendent, that the affair grows in your mind until it becomes an obsession. â€" I believe people sometimes commit suicide through m'ooding on something quite trivial unâ€" til they lose their balance. Well, I know what that means. T brooded on t.hat folly of mine until it pretty well t any sense of proportion. To dme home after war was declared was much more risky, as I saw things then, than it would have been earlierâ€"passâ€" port out of date and police and secret service people watching ports on both sides of the Channel. I went to She French and tried to enlist in their a‘rmy They badgered me about and I ‘couldn‘t get anywhere with it. You lqsow now what a rotten state the whole ench administration. was in. And theY. ‘too, were suspicious of me, or so thought But I hope you‘ll acquit me of, zunking. because after, all, I did 8 eaomeriskstoget home." ; "You pinched the papers of a pal," meerbd Fanshawe. ‘‘"Oone at a time," snapped Willing. Aut aven waited a moment for the 8uâ€" tendent to speak, but Willing .compared suspiciously the writâ€" i page, which Drew had handed to , with the book which had been j uncéremoniously dnto his: lap by raven, offered no comment; so Craven poke an awkward silence in a stateâ€" ment less halting than was usual for momu.cnnwrm JOBNORAVEN Amysmmyouncmn,mped tromoermn-ocou SIR 'I‘OOKDRIW Amlmmmhtmmanimportantm- position in certain Government war work. ROWENA DREW: his nwee a young girl of attractive and virile perâ€" sonality. WANDA FANBSBAWE A sophisticated young woman, who in cther days, belonged to a Mayfair set. . BERNARD FANSHAWE: Her prother; a sinister individual. The character in this story are entirely imagxnsry No reference is inâ€" ~‘ tended to any living person or to any public or private company. (Copyright: Publishing Arrangement with NPL.) "Why not, sir? I‘m tolerably fit now, And I can‘t think of anything better T could do, not even working for you." "You must realize, Johnâ€"I shall go on calling you John, even thouugh: you are‘going to s be Geoffrey Deeming as soon as I can fix things up with the Home: Officeâ€"you must realize that in this war you ‘can‘t do as you like. This time the State says where you can renâ€" der best service, and if my department says it wants you, my departmentâ€"unâ€" less you‘re person with recent miliâ€" tary trainingâ€"is where you will be conâ€" "I thought not. That leaves us pretâ€" ty much where we were, .except that Craven has accounted for his move» ments and for this bit of paper. But, mind you, this business isn‘t finished. I‘ve got further inquiries to make, and if T meet any of you again, it won‘t be for a pleasant talk in a. gentlemans library; it‘ll be down in the charge room at Seabourne Police Station. All right Inspector, you can drive them back. Yes, drive them. Aifter all, they‘ have been our guests. I don‘t know whether Sir Bantock wants Craven to "I do, Superintendent; and if the point interests anyone else here, let me say that I am perfectly satisfied with the way he has acted and the explaâ€" nation he has given." "Thank you, sir," said the man callâ€" ed Craven, | ol _ «it mfi hind; and we were told that he‘d been killed; as well he might have been, conâ€" sidering that we had quite a lot of shots fired at us by the Germans who were trying to round us up." "Well, this is no time for backchat," said Willing sourly, feeling it was time that he took theâ€"centre of the stage. "I want to say a word to all you people. You came here to make a statement. Onlyâ€"erâ€".Craven has said anything. Anyone else want to speak?‘" flls He looked round at each of the four from "The Downs," but there was no response. The woman seemed inclined to say something, but eventually shook her head. . 1 on i |% "I took the papers from the jacket ofamemberofasmallpartyotuswno had had a scrap with the Gestapo. He had had to bolit, leaving the jJacket beâ€" It was the last word spoken at that strange conference, but as ‘The Downs‘ party filed out of the library, accomâ€" panied by the escort, Wanda Fanâ€" shawe turned towards Craven who was standing near the;door, and extended a gloved hand to him. He took it, and looked into the saddest eyes he had ever seen. And Rowena noted the incident with some curiosity, but no resentment. A Woman‘s Faith‘ukâ€"â€"b SHRDL * A WOMAN‘S FAITH _ _ . There were no guests to'lu,nzcll’l.?.«g Ba,nii- tock Drew was an hospitable:man.;an it irked him to feel that rationing set strict limit to his love of entertaining friends. But on this Sunday, he was not wholly sorry for a quiet meal with his niece, and the highly original secâ€" retary whom the waves of the Channel had almost washed into his household, ‘There were many explanations that Qrave‘n wished to give, small but signiâ€" ficant episodes :which might‘leave a lingering : suspicion in the minds of some people. But Drew and his niece had astrong confidence in him, and they cut short his statements whenever he embarked on them. But when Drew l1ad settled himself in his favourite "There‘s one thing I want you to allow me to say, because it is of the utmost importance to me, and it‘s not without its bearing on your affairs, SBir Bantock. I had intended, after giving those people ehough rope to hang themselves, if they wished, to leave you Having set the trap for those men, which T felt bound to do, out of loyalty to you, when I knew who they were, I sntended to join one of| the Forces." chair in the small drawing room, Craâ€" Sir ‘Bantock chuckled and Craven was really valuable to me." "But, you could get back Sayers." "I don‘t want him. He will be going to his Middle East job now. Willing assured me that though the young fool had had some contacts with those peoâ€" pleâ€"they fished him out and had given him dinner on some pretext or otherâ€" there was nothing in the association. Bo his standstill order will be revoked, ARu®, anyhow, I don‘t want him, or I woukin‘t have agreed to his applicaâ€" tion to ‘be transferred to the Middle East section. So you see how things work here nowadays." “Pn'esenfiy, she said, "Of course, John if you could get into one of the Forces, I should be very proud of you." J agree." . t, but. in like these they have to let the *b â€""There are always people who don‘* with the military age; and you‘re sight is defecâ€" tive. ~But‘if I say you are to stay with me, you will find, in the end that my| though you may be a pretty strong man physically, â€" you‘re not of the ideal agrga times Government know bes}t. . And anyhow, For once, the seemingly tireless man appeared to be sleepy., He yawned and raised himself from the big armchair. "You talk it over with Rowena. An independent mind is always helpful to anyone in danger of doing something rash. And I‘ll have forty winks; don‘t often get a chance of an afternoon nap nowadays." . With that, he left them. At first they. talked about the pracâ€" tical problem of what he should do. Her note was different, and very reâ€" freshing after the admonitions of Willâ€" ing and Drew. She did not attempt to oppose him, still less to harty him. She made him feel responsible for his own destiny, just as he had felt when running the gauntlet in France. The talk ran on smoothly, with perfect canâ€" dour, and because it was intimate, he soon found himself seated on the setâ€" tee beside her, communing with her mind as freely as he would with his own thought. "Please yourselif, my boy; but you are likely to find, in the end, that it is final â€"after you‘ve put yourself to a lot of trouble." "Proud of me! Why, Rowena, should{ you be proud of me, or wish to be proud ot me? Of course you‘ve a right to be' proud of almost fishing me out of the sea or preserving me from, say, pneuâ€"~ mionia or worse; and proud of helping me to get back my selfâ€"respect. I‘m monument to your good nature, your care. Is that what you mean?" "Not quite. It‘s something different from that. That‘s all past. I‘m thinkâ€" ing of your future. I want you to be the man you really are." ‘sidered to be doing your best work for Ban -tock,“ ck, with great respect, I refuse to take your word as final." ; \She gave him no answer in words, but her eyes, too, were eloquent, and he read their message. . His arm which had itiis true." What was said after that might have been heard by Rowena‘s pet Aberdeen, which twitched its ears occasionally as he slept in his basket. } .. Maddocks, coming in silen tly, some time later to arrange the blackâ€"out curâ€" tams saw a sight and caught a phrase that set even his unromantic mind working on an unusual line of though. But what he said was: “I’m sorry to intrude, but Sir Banâ€" tock has given me very strict orders to see that the windows are fastened beâ€" fore blackâ€"out. There have been strange people hereabouts lately. Very strange "Then does that matter to you? DoesS lt really matter?" He spoke with an earnestness she had never noticed in his words before, and there was in his eyes an expression proclaiming tha‘ everything in life for him depended upon her answer. a > 0 b;; râ€"est:ingv on the hack of the settee slipped haturally to ‘her shouldets, ne drew her him, and said softly, people." ‘‘"Yes, Maddocks," replied Rowena with a smile. "I know something about one of them, and he‘s very possessive." "Indeed, Madam. ‘Possessive‘ is the word for such people, I‘m sure." And it seemed to fit what Maddocks had seen and heard when he entered. ® (The End) A St. Matthew‘s Guild work meeting was held Friday evening at the home otMrs J. H. Wakeford. Mrs. P. Reid, who was appointed president at the last business meeting to succeed Mrs. W. Christopher who has left to> r_esid,e ‘at Bour que, Que., preâ€" at the meeting. g the evenâ€" inx plans for‘a tea ‘to be held in the Church Hall on Wednesday aftemoon, Sept #nd, were discussed. Members worked on knitting and on quilt blocks ior two quilts to be displayed and sold at the tea. A delightful lunch was served by the hostess, assisted by Mrs. Jeffries and Miss Clara Wakeford. Among those present were: Mrs. E. Reid,â€"Mrs. T. Glaister, Mrs. W. Kevan, urs.c.Preston,Mrs F. Read, Mrs. F. Mdville. Mrs. K. Gridley, Mrs. R. £câ€" Taggart, Mrs. J. Maxwell, Mrs. B. Richâ€" ards, Mrs. H. Pope, Mrs. J. Knell, Mrs. cmugb Daily News: The War Deâ€" putmentmuncedtheotherdaythat there are now more than a thousand ____omoersonitsumy . The 0st we had in World War I was 552, .'__t”hadanarmyolmwo itutwedourene- Work Meeting Held by the St. Matthew‘s Guild , Mrs. P. Jeffries, Miss Clara Wg’kef wss Molly Gridley and the utess, Mrs. J H Wakeford. 'rhe next work meeting will be held the wss M. Paynter, on Gept- td sÂ¥ (By Edith M. Barber) concentrated effort which is beâ€" ing made by the Federal government, the state and the city to make our citiâ€" zens nutrition conscious should bear fruit. Perhaps the silver linings to the cloud of rationing will bring about a better conception of the nutritive values of food. Importance of Nutrition Stressed by Municipal and Federal Authorities In an effort to offer helpful material by word of mouth and through demonâ€" stration the New York City Food and Nutrition Program has established a consumer informatdon center at 45 Laâ€" fayette Street. Housekeepers who do not have the newspaper reading habit and who have therefore been able to escape the bombard.ment of nutrition facts which, food editors offer may be reached more personally in this way. Aid in expending ration points and in getting the most for money as well as directions for home canning will be offered. The nutrition division of our health aepartment is publishing a leafle? callâ€" ed "Check on Nutrition" which is sent to public health workers. A recent isâ€" ue stresses the contributions of various foods as far as protein is concerned and furnishes menus and recipes which feaâ€" foods other than meat. The daily requirement in protein values is given in .a practical form. Daily Requirement in Protein Values 1 serving meat, about 1â€"3 2â€" eggs, about 1â€"5 . 1, pint milk, about 1â€"4 2!4 oz. cheese, about 1â€"3 4% tablespoons peanut butter, about It is true that summer‘s brief styles are bound ito expose your back to a critical public. For months you probâ€" ably never gave your back a thougvht-.-f hoping that the daily shower or bath was suffi¢ient â€" and now you are chagrined to see that it is not as flawâ€" less as you imagined. All ‘backs mneed speoific @ttentEon. For instance your back needs senubâ€" bing with a brush and soap after it has been well creamed for twenty or thinty minutes. â€" You cannot see them, but the chances are you have a minor crop of tiny blackheads or whiteheads on your back. â€"A candid friend will tell you or the girl in the ‘beauty parlor. But do not let anyone â€"squeeze those little blemishes; soften them up with oil or cream aAnd then scrub them out with the brush and soa(p Whenever you surl bathe anoint your back generously (if your skin is dry or nornmal) with a good oil or cream. Afâ€" ter you come indoors serub the stuff off and rinse well. : Remember too to keep your dresses aryâ€"ceaned or Jaundered. Youmay not realize it but you perspire across your back almost as much as you do in back of your knees and waistline. Because you usually wear but one of cloth come sammer your back is revealed and you might euddenly discover that it is curved more thian it should be, fhunched, or that your shoulder blades are far too prominemt,; Whatever theâ€"figure quickly dried by the air unless it is a very hot day. But your dress back catches some of that perspiration and unless it is cleaned frequently you are. likely to clog the pores of your skin on Daily Requirement in Protein Values Outlined in Booklet ‘Issued by New York Health Department. Recipes for Brown Stew with Dumpling and Baked Bean Roast. 2 cups diced carrots 8 small onions Salt and iPepper 1% cups flour % cup com meal 3 teaspoons baking powder 14 teaspoon salt. 3 tablespoons shortening 1 cup milk Cube: meat, and dredge in seasoned flour. Brown in meat drippings. ‘+Add 1 cup dried beans (cooked) about 1â€"4. Brown Stew with Dumplings Geasoned flour 1 pound â€"stew meat : 2 tabl’esppons mea\t drippings P{ cups water . ‘, s 2 cups "diced poté,toes mmz by PATRICIA LINDSAY zm Is Your Back in 'Coha-{t-icâ€")?l to Go on Parade? (By Edith M. Barber) Beauty and You Baked Bean Roast 4 cups cookedâ€"dried beans or peas. 2 tablespoons minced green pepper. % cup minced onion. 4 tablespoons fat 2 eggs 2 cups soft bread crumbs 1 cup stewed or canned tomato Salt and Pepper. Mix ingredients in order given, Add salt and pepper to taste, place in greasâ€" ed bread pan and bake about 40 minâ€" utes in moderate oven (375 F.) until wel!l browned. Yield: 6 liberal servings. : water, cover and simmer for i1 hour. Add vegetables and more water if necesâ€" sary. Cover and wgmer for 1 hour or until vegetables are tender. Season. Sift together flour, corn meal, paking powder and salt. Cut in shortening Add milk and mix to smooth dough, Drop by spoonfuls on stew mixtures. Cvoer. Boil slowly 12 to 15 minutes Yield 0 servings. Note: Strips of bacon or bacon squares may be placed on top of loaf. (Released by The Bell Syndicat® Inc). In the Journal of Mental Science; Dr. R. F. Tredgold states that estimating the recruit‘s resistance to various strains without bringing on mental symptoms requires consideration of bot ha internal and external factors. Internal or inâ€" side factors have to do with the preâ€" vious personality of the recruit which may be classified as one of:three:types: normal, mental defective, or psychoâ€" pathic (odd behavoir). The odd behaâ€" vJor type includes the chronic worriers and depressives, the inferior and those that do not mix well withâ€"others (asocâ€" lal). Mental Disabilities in Army Recruits It has been found â€"that many nervous and emotional recruits have made.good soldiers. ‘Under discipline‘ and. even danger they have fought these feelings down or uhe discjpline and danger has made them forget their small worries and fears. The point here, of course, is that despite nervousness and emoâ€" tionalism these recruits. were normal and faced life‘s difficulties in civillan life. External factors are enemy action, enlistment into the4 army with removal from, domestic ;and} busineps me, 551 A+ munity life, worry.over family.â€"matters, bility to adapt to discipline or comâ€" emotional stress or disappointment in love, feelings of incompetence, disapâ€" pointment at lack of action, and actual physical illness or strain. $ through exerncise and by improved posâ€" youdornt.yeammbeawy_m A study was mada of 200 patlents to show the number of percentage of various types of previous personality and of external factors.. There were 70 depressive patients, 60 with odd beâ€" havior (Released by The Beli Gyndicate, Tnc.) Your back benefits by a good brush scrubbing two or three times weekly. By James W . Bartor, M.D. (double : personality â€"‘schizoâ€" Qours Bobp ‘(Registered in accordance with the +Copyright Act). The above definitely_bfitks up what other investigators have told us. Most recruits who break down mentally after entering the army were not really norâ€"« mal before enlistment. Family physiâ€" slans in a desire to be patriotic or be« cause they think the Army life and discipline will help one of their "odd" patients, should remember that army life and danger makes the vast majorâ€" ity of these cases a lability, not an sset in their country‘s struggle for life. The normal youth even though nervous or emotional will be strengthened by army discipline and danger. iety states. Investigation showed that the preâ€" vious personality in only a few patients was normal, Most of those with a preâ€" nom.x perscmality showed symptoma only after exremy action. Naturally medical examiners would not discover any mental disability in these at time of enlistment. ; Mental defectives and odd pehavior recruits more often broke down as the result of enlistment and army discip» ‘There has not been the interest the matter deserves in the plans to develop the fire clay and other clay deposits near Smoky Falls, north of Kapuskasâ€" ing. The company undertaking this deâ€" velopment have had to face all sorts of difficulties, and have received little assistance from governments or others. The Missinaibi Clays and Mining, Ltd., ~however, have kept at the work and appear to be making progress to sucâ€" cess. In the last issue of The Northern Miner the following reference is made ‘to the activities at present. It is only fair to add that The Northern Miner has shown a keen and sympathetic inâ€" ~terest in this new mining venture and must be classed as among those who _have given every possible encourageâ€" ment to this development. It is an odd ; fact, however, that the very peoaple who are always crying out that this country should have other enterprises than gold mines have been indifferent, indeed to Your Feet and Their Ailments More and more attention is being given these days to the care of ‘the feet. Send today for Dr. Barton‘s inâ€" formative booklet entitled "Your Feet and Their Ailments‘" which deals with such conditionss as flat feet, hammer toe, corns, callouses, etc. Just send Ten Cents and a three cent stamp to cover cost of handling and mailing, The Bell Library, Post Office Box 75, Station O, New York, N.Y., mentioning the name of this newspaper. phrenics), 40 hysterics and 30 with New Drying Plant Installed at Smoky Falls Clay Property \Langdon Langdon Barristerâ€"atâ€"Law 13 THIRD AVE. TIMMINS MacBrien Bailey 244 Third Avenue JAMES K. MacBRIEN BARRISTERS and SOLICITORS Dean Kester, K.C. Traffic Department â€" Re: Passenger Train Serv1ces September 5th and 6th,1943 As per public time table folder effective June 27th 1943, you will note the following : No. 49â€"Monday, Sept. 6thâ€"WILL NOT OPERATE No. 54â€"Monday, Sept. 6thâ€"WILL NOT OPERATE No. 156â€"Sunday, Sept. 5th, will not operate but will operate on same schedule on Monday, Sept. 6th. No. 155â€"Sunday, Sept. 5thâ€"Will operate as usual to Swastika. There will be no connections from Noâ€" randaâ€"Rouyn for train operating as No. 156 on Mon- day, Sept. 6th, No. 53â€"Monday, Sept. 6thâ€"WILL NOT OPERATE No. 50â€"Monday, Sept. 6thâ€"WILL NOT OPERATE No change in other Passenger Services on date reâ€" ferred to. , \aA 8. A. Caldbick Barrister, Solicitor, Ete. Bank of Commerce Building : Barristers, Solicitors, Ete. MASSEY BLOCK TEMISKAMING AND NORTHERN ONTARIO _ RAILWAY ' e J and South Porcunine ~â€"14â€"26 ~14â€"26 Hilliard Township Plg Born With Only Two Feet There are lots of two-legged animals tha*seemtobebomanplgorhog. but it remained for Hilliand,township last week to produce a pig that had only two feet. This two-tooted animal has no front feet. nrgt the baby pig had trouble getting around on acâ€" count of the fact that the. stumps to which the front feet should have been attached were inclined to;i mer and bleed. Now, however, af e nine weeks, the stumps are qa,gopaed and hardened and the ..wo-tooted pig is able to get around about as Wen as a normal pig of its age. 'I‘hé animal is progressing and devaloping in fine style and promises to be a sat;sfac’iry source ed capacity of 15 tons per hour. Power equipment is now being delivered and should be hooked up within a few days. "‘The big storage bins have been erectâ€" ed, one at the property toq: 1,200 tons and the other at Smoky : with 800tons capacity, to provide a backlog of dried clay for continugqus shipments. "‘The company is giving consideration to the installation of equipment at a northern centre for the manufacture of fire brick, fire brick shapes,â€" sewer pipe and tile. A washbig plant to sepâ€" arate the silica sand and chlna clay may also be provided. * "In the pit at the property the floor is now down to the level of the fire clay, of which a depth of 22 feet is available for operations, With the new drier ready for operations oq.lclals exâ€" pect to be able to resume regular shipâ€" ments." _ s of pork. [ Arch.Gillies,B.A.S¢.,0.L.S. Third Avenue Swiss Watohmaker * rtduate ot the Famous logial C te of mmm !’honolm ?.0. 1591 GOOD NEWS FQR , TEA DRINKERS â€" So many people in Canada drink tea that there will be a géfidine feeling of satisfaction that.more of it will be available for home rations after Septemberfinq,. The Sm V B NP t W Cl ce Ration Board has dedded%thm can be done because the safety of the sea route from Ceylon ‘has sovastly nnproved The | of ‘SALADA‘ lovers have just cause for rejoicing, . «* CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT 60 THIRD AVENUE F. BAUMAN aaatr