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=] ~@® SERIAL STORY Murder on the Boardwalk BY ELINORE COWAN STONE 3 Last Week: Christine goes to Inspector Parsons, tells him of Chandra and gives him the bonds, Parsons asks about.her cousin's vision, Jaspar might know her op- tician, if police' could find him. "You have already," Christine as- CHAPTER XII "YJaspar," Christine told the in- "was that last spector very distincly, beachcomber who got away night." For a moment Inspector Parsons simply sat and looked at her. Finally he said softly, almost as # to himself, "I wonder if any policeman ever got the whole truth from any woman at any one time... You said you read that early morning extra, Miss Thoren- son. You must have séen the story about the abandoned launch the Coast Guard searched. Suppose I should tell you that, shortly after dark yesterday evening, this Jaspar rowed out to that launch and spent some time aboard?" "Are you telling me that?" "In so many words." "Then," Christine surprised her- self by telling him, "if that launch really had anything to do with the murder, I should say that Jaspar would have been too smart to stick his neck out that way if he really murdered my cousin." * * * "I wonder" -- again he seemed to change the subject; but Chris- tine waited warily -- "if you were too young to recall the abduction of Mrs. Talbert's nephew, Earl Talbert, about 12 years -ago. Who- ever engineered that was pretty smart, too. Mrs. Talbert paid a sweet ransom; but the boy. was never found." "I was 10 years old then," Chris- tine said. "Are you suggesting that I had something to do with that, too?" He ignored that. - "This Jaspar was employed by Mrs. Talbert at that time, also, wasn't he?" - "Ever since I can remember." "Can you think," he demanded, "of anyone who might have sent that will to the newspaper?" "Not unless that vas Jaspar, too. Crocheted purses. Take your choice--a shell stitch envelope bag in straw yarn or a pouch of simple. medallions crocheted in corde. Smart crocheted purses for pin- money. Pattern 875 contains direc- tions for purses; stitches; list of materials, i : Send twenty cents in coins - (stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern to Wilson Needlecraft Dept, Room 421, 73 Adelaide St. West. Toronto. Write plainly Pat- tern Number, your Name and Ad-. dress. ,.. But why should he? - It puts "him on a spot as well as me," "Any idea where this Jaspar is now?" he shot at her. "No." . * * * When, at length, he let her go, Christine went out with her mind whirling... If there were only someone she could talk to -- someone who might have some key to this terrifying puzzle! As if in answer to her need, a girl's voice sounded in her mem- ory "-- breathless, huried, fright- ened -- "If there's any trouble, Miss Thorenson, call Main 2079, Ask for--" On a desperate impulse Chris- tine found a telephone booth, dialed the number, and asked for Lucille... It would be better not to give her own name, she decided; so when a girl's voice answered, she began, feeling her way guard- edly, "I wonder if it was you I talked to over the Beachmont ex- change night before last?... I was to call you, -if--" "Oh, Miss Thorenson, I've been so afraid you wouldn't!" the other girl broke in. "And I couldn't think how to get word to you after you left the Crestvigw." "Well, I'm calling now," Chris- tine said. "Where can I see you?" "Let me think," the girl hesi- tated, come here. They may be watching the house." * * * They? Christine wondered, The girl was going on, "And I'd better not come to your hotel"! "Not if you don't like _ being watched," Christine told her dryly. "Half the newspaper men in -Surf City are probably camped on the porch by this time." "Could you meet me about 9 -- it will be dark then -- outside the Paris Smart Shop?" "How should I know you?" "I'l be window shopping; and I'll wear a dark blue dress with a cherry hat and belt. "I'l know you ffom your pictures in the paper. Don't speak to mec; just fol- low -- you know, kind of care- lessly -- when I move on.' It sounded so incredibly bizarre that Christine opened her mouth to refuse. Then, on one of her unpredictable impulses, she de- cided, "All right. At 9 then." ~ "Wait!" the girl called sharply. "You won't -- say anything to the police?" "Of course not," Christine reck- lessly burned her bridges. * * * When she came out from the booth, she bought a newspaper. There" was, she decided after one glance at the front page, such a' thing as being entirely too photo- genic. As the girl Lucille had in- timated, there' could be no mistak- ing the original of her published "It wouldn't do for you to. \ pictures. Already people were star- - ing at her. She spent four of her cherished dollars for a wide-brim- med hat and a pair of sun-glasses. It was already 10:30 when she: remembered that she was to meet Mr. Wilmet at that hour, Christine's confidence in her sketchily = assembled disguise was strengthened when Mr, Wilmet, peering anxiously from the drug store, failed to recognize her until she spoke to him. -- "Well, well!" he exclaimed; | blinking at her. 'You've done something to yourself, And a smart idea, too. One of those im- pertinent reporters followed: me two blocks trying to get an inter- view." Nevertheless, it occurred to Christine that the little man's sud- den notoriety had Pleasaiiy titil- lated his <go. * * He seemed so disappointed when she explained about giving up her work -- for she had decided that to go on-would be impossible + GETTING PREVIEW OF VICTORY Chantal, get a peek at victorious Allie acqueline and Georgette Casine, 4-year-old Feench ptt, attack on Cherbour when Allied sol- ier lets them look through his binoculars at artillery barrage Jaid down by Yanks advancing on the port. ' moment; DON'T CRY, HONEY y «« IT'S ALL RIGHT NOW Nazi communiques scream daily about Allied terror raids on their cities, but what do they say about robot raider attacks on such 'mi- litary objectives" as this. tot's home in southern England? A girl warden is comforting the child after she was rescued by firemen who carried her down an escape laddér, CHRONICLES By | Gwandolise P. Clarke of GINGER FARM -- We have had such a grand week for: getting the work done -- and we are so thankful. Yes, the weath- er was perfect for haying, even to that Wednesday when it was 96 in the shade, which, IT must confess, was a little hard to take. However, we survived, Partner and I; we also got quite a bit of hay in that day -- maybe because we didn't realise how hot it had been until we listened to the newscast at sup- per-time. Then we were so terribly afraid the intense heat would bring a storm, But it didn't -- and we were glad! You see we were spe- cially anxious for the fine weather to continue because we were - ex- " pecting a friend from the city to unless she wanted to be hounded by curiosity seekers -- that Chris- tine felt sorry for him. So much so that when he asked her almost wistfully to have dinner with him, she answered, "I have an engage- ment to meet a friend at 9; but I'd like ever so much to have din- ner with you, Mr. Wilmet, if you don't mind my running . away early." Woo ! At first Mr. Wilmet tooked crestfallen; then he brightened. "If it's Mr. Yardley you're: to meet," he said hopefully, "I just heard them tell him at defective headquarters that they might . keep him till late tonight." "Oh," Christine said blankly, "so you've been to headquarters, too?" "Inspector Parsons sent for me," Mr. Wilmet admitted. "About not being able to prove where Iwas last night. As if I wouldn't have sense enough to get an alibi ready before I killed someone, Thorenson, you don't suppose he really thinks- 1. had anything = to do with this?" "Do you -- I don't suppose you know what they wanted with Mr. Yardley?" "It was about his keys," Mr. Wilmet told her chattily, * * * He had been afraid, she realized, that she might not ask. "His keys?" "Yes. I heard one of the detec- tives ask him how he could ex- plain having a key to Mrs. Tal- bert's car." The little man fairly glowed with his news. "He -- you aren't dizzy, are you, Miss Thoren- son? It is hot." Christine was; herself to ask, Yardley say?" "He said" = Mr. Wilmet's inflec- tion deplored the flimsiness of Bill's story -- "that he did sit in a parked car near the Boardwalk for a few minutes to wait for but she steadied "What did Mr. someone; but that he didn't know - why he had that key, uess it was that when. he got out, he forgot the car wasn't his, and secing a key in thé door, just took it out and put it with his others." Christine stood very still for a but her mind raced, try- ing to sort and piece together scraps of memory. Mr. Wilmet was saying insis- tently, "Shall we say 7, then, at Deckers?" "Why, I -- yes, all right," Chris- tine answered; and moved away, her legs dragging numbly as if in some hideous dream, If Bill's explanation had sound- ed pitifully thin even to Mr. Wil- met, how would it sound to In- spector Parsons' case-hardened ear? ' (Continued Next Week) ISSUE 290-1044 Miss help with the hay on Frillay and Saturday. Inexperienced help = but veyy willing. Had he been able to stay longer there would have been a lot more hay brought in. However we are hoping for "Farm Commando" help next Monday -- whether it will Ye experienced or inexperienced jp#anyone's guess -- but we are thankful for help of any kind these days. » * + We had many a laugh at our friend's expense last Friday and Saturday in which he joined whole- heartedly. He had so little idea of what "haying" really meant. He had never seen a hay fork in ac- tion and for that reason Partner had to explain why a load should be built a certain way and not just any way at all. It was amusing too, to watch him get his "wagon-legs' ~ But he soon caught on and finally built a pretty fair load. But the first ones to come in were queer looking specimens! I can tell you we think pretty well of any man who is willing to spend a well-earned holiday help- ing out on a farm. takes courage to tackle a job you know nothing about -- and there is no denying the fact that haying and harvest is hot, hard and heavy work. Maybe there will be a better understanding between town and _country folk after the war than be- fore it. * * * Do you know what we had for dinner last Saturday -- I'll bet you'll wish you were here. Fried Chicken... how would that suit you? It was the first one this year. But perhaps it is just as well you were not here because by the time we got through there was nothing left but the bones. Maybe IT am wrong but I never can sec the sense of economising too much on what is raised on the farm. . After all why shouldn't we cat as many eggs and chicken, and use -as much milk as is good for us? In other words why not use more of what we raise and buy less of what we don't raise. Another case of -- What is there that the vinter's. buy, one Walf so precious as the goods they sell?" * + * The trains sound like rain; the sunset looks like fine weather -- which shall we believe? ~ Maybe neither -- we will just go on work- ing. and take what weather the good Lord sends us . . , and hope that it will" be fine. Disappointed Reports claim there is one dis- appointed woman in Saskatchewan. During - the election campaign someone told her the C.C.I'. would take her children away from her, if the party were elected. . Right after election the woman waited for the C.C.I'. to make good. She had 17; children and she was disappointed when "it wasn't true the kids. bitterly she found out about confiscating British Submarines Air-Conditioned Britain's savy has adopted for its undersea craft the air-condi- tioning system used for years, on Netherlands submarines, according to the Netherlands Iinformation Bureau, - The Dutch originally de- vised this system for subs assigned to tropical duty. / After all it. TEBLE TALKS Food Is Fun! It's a good idea to let small fry take hold of the kitchen duties once in a while and give mother a rest, The children A will enjoy doing | new things and i mother can feel she is contribut- ing to their all- round develop- ment, i Naturally it isn't a good idea just to open wide the doors in the kit- chen and leave the children up to their own designs. What U'm sug- gesting is that they be allowed to make up something they've watched mother do so often they know how. There's a lot of satisfaction in making cupcakes, especially if they are iced with tinted icings and sprinkled with finely chopped nuts, Delicate Cup Cakes. (Makes 18) 2 cups sifted cake flour 2 teaspoons double acting baking powder 14 teaspoon salt 14 cup. butter or substitute 1 cup sugar 23 eggs, unbeaten 24 cup milk 1 teaspoon vanilla Sift flour once, measure, add bak- ing powder and salt and sift to- gether three times. Cream butter throughly, add sugar gradually, Cream fogether until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating thoroughly after cach addition. Add flour alternately with milk, a small amount at a time, beating after cach addition . until - Add vanilla, Bake in greased cupcake tins in a moderate oven (275 de- grees) 20 min- utes or until done. Spread with con- fectioners' sugar icing or your fa- chocolate Decorate \ ni vorite : frosting. with chopped nuts, roll candies or coconut. E colored tinted LIFE-SAVING STREAM smooth, I that all physically home It is in order, qualified' Canadians of the front resolve to become regular blood donors, returning again and again where they are needed, just as our fighters rally again and again to the challenge of battle. The best blood of Canada is in the fight, and the remaining best blood must con- tinue to flow from Canada in a life-saving stream. -- St. Thomas Times-Journal. rs WAR I -- PART II Pres. Roosevelt is still* hunting for a name that will identify this war for posterity. "The Wer to I'i- nish the War We Thought Was Fought to Lind War and Make the World Safe for Democracy" seems to cover the case in a mouthful and perpetuate a couple of slogans that were current and choice 25 yedrs ago. Or "War I -- Part 11" for short. -- Ottawa Citizen. THEY GET STRIPES Because she has learned to take orders, a woman who has been a C.W.A.C. should make a good wife, says Dorothy Dix. Yes, but some of those gals have also learn- ed to give orders. -- Windsor PROBLEM IN ETIQUETTE Star. A problem in vo aice day etiquette is whether the lady welder ought to remain seated in a smoking car if a gentleman is standing. -- Stratford Beacon-Tlerald. CORRECTION Edison didn't invent But he could be No, Mabel; the first talking machine. did invent the first that shut off. \ -- Owen-Sound Sun-Times. The -giant scquoias of the High Sierra do not ordinaryly produce many sceds until they are several hundred years old, You'll enjoy our Orange Pekoe Blend SALAI TE A ~~ mac LIZ «OC A Oo SO z= - & | 23 WOMAN' 5 PART IN NATIONAL LIFE Judges 4 and 5. PRINTED TEXT, Judges 4: 1-9, 13-16. GOLDEN TEXT, -- Who knoweth whether thou art not come to the kingdom for such a time as this? Esther +4: 14, Memory Verse: For hovah, hast made me glad. 92: 4, THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING Time.-- The oppression of Israel by Jabin, king of Canoaan, lasted, according to the chronology of Garstang, from 1221 to 1201, the latter year (1201) being the time of the great battle of the Kishon, 'which we will be studying today. Place.-- "The principal locality in our lesson, is the River Kishon, in the plain of Megjddo, in central Palestine. The Unhappy Israelites "And the children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah . .. the captain of whose host was" Sisera, who dwelt sin Harosheth of the Gentiles." It was the Lord who sold them into the hand of their enemy, for He had a lesson to teach His people, and only in misery and suf- fering could they learn that lesson. It was their own sins which weak- ened them and made them an easy prey to the Canaanites, "And the children of unto Jehovah: for he had mine hundred chariots of iron; and twnety years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel" In their troublé and misery, brought on by their unfaitfulness to God, tlie people of Israel cried-unto Him for Thou, Je- Psalm Israel cried help. As so many*do, they praved to God only when they were in trouble Deborah, The: Leader ~. "Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, she judged Israel at that time . . and the children of Isracl came up to her for judgment." Dcborah was an inspired leader and chief, © and roused the nation to action and with Baral: Ted the army into bat- tle. She encouraged the people to strust in the Lord and ieok tg Him for deliverance, Deborah's 'Plan "And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh= naphtali . . . and I will deliver him ito thy hand." When the army of Siser.. had been drawn to the 1'ver now dry, God would cause the rain suddenly to descend and the river would overflow its banks and the land become flooded The heavy chariots would be imbedded in" the mud unable to move, and then from Mount Tabor, Barak would sweep down upon thém and slaughter the foes of Israel Deborah and Barak "And Barak said unto her, and Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh." Deborah ac- companied Barak right up to the hour of battle, and scemed to have been his strength and confidence. "And Sisera gathered together all his chariots... and Sisera alighted from his chariot, and fled away on his feet." Sisera truted in his chariots but God made them nse- less, for they floundercd in the mud, and the proud pagan captain had to trust to his feet and not to his swift steeds for flight. God's armics are invisible but they be- come very time of distress, Israel Is Delivered "But Barak pursued after the « Nothingismoredepres. real to His people in chariots, and after the host, unto Harosheth of the Gentiles, and all the host of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword; there was not a man left." Israel was completely de- livered again. By whom? Deborah? Barak, the Army? No, by God who used them, It was the Lord's work and to Him Deborah raised her hymn of thanksgiving (Judg 5: 1-5). ' It Certainly Can Happen In Canada The German people were just as sure that it could never happen in Germany as the Canadian people are that Canada is in no danger, says 'The Ottawa Citizen, Actually there are signs of Canada being as vulnerable as Argentina, The FFas- cist youth activities in Quechee are no flaeh in the pan. Young people in Canada are being indoctrinated by forces hostile to freedom of speech, freedom of thought and freedom of religion as systematic- ally as the doctrinated to Produce Nazi Ger- many. It can happen in Canada. It is happening. Tt is no mere coincid- ence that, as the forces of econo- mic democracy advance in Canada, so the reactionary forces become openly more aggressive. Defeat of the enemy overseas is Canada's first task, but there is an evident need for the rallying of the forces of Sdemocracy at home to hold this Land of freedom against the enemy within, Some Far-Away Fields Not Green Look to New Zealand! That's the cry of so many in Canada. So, let's look to both New Zealand and Australia and sce how the working man is taxed. A married man with two children and an : $1,700 per year pays inoincome taxes: Canada, $10, Australia, $257. 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