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green tea at its best stolen adventure bv vivienne charlton chadwick iris courtney bored during a visit at the suburban home of her fiances straitlaced family seeks relief one evening by stealing the car of the young man next door ronald man ning she becomes involved in a series of adventures in which she and ronnie who proves to be a gman are pitted against a gang of counter feiters her fiance barry vernon and a strange girl juanita arkwright are also entangled and are kidnap ped by the gang ronnie has been working with a man known as ark wright supposedly a canadian officer and juanitas father then he dis covers that this man is not the real arkwright but a member of the gang on a lonely pier where he believes the gang is going to stage some sort of a coup he knocks him out then sends iris to phone for aid chapter x it took half an hour to unload the press ronnie and the aviator carried the lighter on board the houseboat but left the main section on the dock it had proved almost too much for the two of them and they needed help down the gangplank as they finished their labors and stood mopping their foreheads ron nie glanced toward the shed every time the canadian had passed the lit tle building ronnie had tensed fear ing that some sound might come from within but the shed had remained si lent evidently he had done a good job gagging and binding frank the canadian reached for the lea ther coat he had removed and thrown it over a rail he put it on and pulled n paper from a pocket voila your list of ze parts my fiien i sink you will find everysing in order cramer have tell me you know machinery so you will see she is very cheap for free tousand dol lars now i suppose you tow your houseboat away queek no so cramer was buying the machine and towing it away to new headquar ters ltonnic was learing fast just as quickly as we can be said the aviator squinted at the sky ze dawn she is almost here so if you will be so kind he paused i will collect my money if you please an if you will put on again ze lights ronnie drew in a long breath ho wondered if there was three thousand dollars hero somewhere for this man oh yes he said and made as if to fish something from ills inside coat pocket witii his loft hand the aviator stepped to his side and instantly for the third time that night ronnies right fist went into action it shot up and caught the other man flush on the chin it was a handsome smash the mans head snapped back his feet left the ground and he went out like a light in no time at all then ronnie had him inside the shed gagged and rop ed with his own handflerchief reliev ed of his gun and securely tied his shoes were lined up alongside those belonging to franks who when ron nie swung his flash onto his face glowered in smo idering fury ronnie chuckled well he com mented theres two of you by jove if youd come along one at a time like this it would be quite simple no thing to it al all now if only i did know c ice more the quiet of the night was broken by the measured beat of a distant engine ronnie strode hastily to the pier and listened intently a power launch down the river cramer he decided instantly coming in a motorboat to town the houseboat away now lets sec he closed the shed door and shov ed the peg into the statple that held the latch he wished that he had a padlock to make sure that his pri soners would not get out or the new comers get in but that he had to leave to chance he ran down the pier and across the meadow to the plane if he could make cramer believe that franks and the canadian had both left and delay the man and his gang until castle arrived the party would be a decided success he caught the plane by the tail and hoisted and shoved it it rolled over the ground unwillingly and ron nie was panting when he finally had it as far away from the river as was 1 3sible and partly hidden by the shrubbery the sound of the launch was closer now he ran back across the field and dropped down into the long grass at the edge of the river some twenty feet back of the boat shed he was not a moment too soon a beam of light shot across the water the launch had arrived the boats motor went silent sudden ly and from his hiding place ron nie could hear voices he heard the light impact of the boat as it drifted against the houseboat and the pound of feet as men jumped from one craft to the other then the voice of cramer low but penetrating carried clearly over the water other voices chimed in and ron nie presently identified the various members of the gang he could hear them swearing as they searched for franks and discovered that he had apparently disappeared into the night without a word the perspiration stood out on ron nies forehead lie momentarily ex pected to hear a shout of surprise from one of the searchers who might suddenly become curious as to what was in the shed if this occurred ronnie was prepared to slip silently into the water under the pier and let the gang waste time hunting for him but apparently no one thought to look in the shed cramer was furious at the suppos ed absentee leavin this stuff lyin about blast him well come on weve got to get goin wherever hes gone he can follow us but it looks funny another voice put in somethings wrong what could be wrong cramer snapped parker phoned that man ning arrived and was going to stay in the city all night and we got that interfering fool of a vernon and the girl before they could squawk get busy weve got to get this junk aboard slim you start casting off the moorings itll be daylight in a half hour ronnie stood up silently in the long grass and swore softly unless he could do something effective in a large hurry his prey would be on the move before help could arrive and that would mean that their cap ture would be problematical aware of any pursuit they would simply cut the houseboat loose and vanish in their highpowered launch like a streak of lightning he looked toward rockaway koad and strained his ears but no sound of 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malice and un truth are an abomination and things which should never he found in the best society prospectors are out in the bush the snow has left the ground and within the next few days a small army of prospectors will start the assessment work necessary to hold their claims altogether 10324 claims have been recorded in the sault ste mar ie mining division and of this num ber roughly 3000 are entirely new stakings chiefly in the goudreau area there is a tendency to regard ini tial staking lightly as something of little consequence yet this year through the performance of the 40 days work required on each of the 3000 new claims staked algomas prospectors in wages alone will con tribute roughly 300000 and an ad ditional 100000 for board and mer chandise incident to the work that must be done from the cbatliani daily newt recently the daily news took oc casion to depreciate the third de- greo methods employed by the new- york poice in the investigation of a triple murder in that city joseph gedeon whose wife and daughter were victims of the crime was put through his faces in a brutal ses sion with the police even american newspapers condemn this sort of thing at least those not included in the yellow press and this is the way one american writer indicates the third degree system as applied to mr gedeon this murder had the coppers stumped being stumped they did what coppers usually do fell back on the old game of laying hands on the nearest suspect and trying to put the heat on im until he confessed it was gcdeons hard luck that the police cast him in the role of likely suspect observe now what happened here was a man against whom no murder charge was formally placed a man who was guaranteed protec tion under oar laws what he actually got was a deal so raw it would bring blushes to the cheeks of ogpu or gestapo from the housetops the police announced that this man was an un speakable monster by the broadest and most unmistakable implications they declared that he would presently be proven guilty of having slain his wife and daughter they announce that he was given to vicious practices in his private life they rolled their eyes over the fact that he had nude pictures on the walls of his bedroom they named his various girl friends and declared they would put these young women on the grill as soon as they could find them as if this were not enough the yellow journals of new york joined in the hue and cry given their cue by the police they tore gedeop to tatters not forgetting to take an oc casional swipe at his dead wife and daughter also the murdered daugh ter had been a model so the citys tabloids had a field day with photo graphs that the old police gazette would have turned down it must be said that the out-of- pneaa for your seeds and garden supplies rememtr that you find the best at perrons special ntt 15c in stamps and you will receive a t o o tlllmmm susan by fletcher 4 pacwco of parisian parties now 2m9 and our ijiicont teed catalogue fully illus trated 172 pases several in natural colour the finest and most complete in canadx 6 twh perron xso seedsmen z nurserymen 935 silawreres bwdmontreal town papers and the press associa tions behaved with restraint they did not certify the upholsterers guilt nor did they compel their readers to look on the land of pictures that arc of a onechair barber shop but in new york the sky was the limit this went on for a week or more and then what happened gedeon was turned loose and all talk about his guilt was forgotten instead the police announced positively that the solution of the crime would lie elsewhere a young sculptor would be shown to have committed the crimes and just as soon as they could catch up with him the case would be closed now the point of all this is that these enthusiastically blundering cop pers managed to put their big feet on the constitutionallyguaranteed rights of this man gedeon in a way that the worst dictatorship could not surpass aided by yellow journalism they tore his reputation to tatters and he has no recourse no redress this is a free country and you are protected against tyranny un less some policeman happens to de cide that he can sweat you into con fessing to a murder he isnt bright enough to solve by lawful means this is a severe indictment and coming from an american writer it is all the more impressive it shows that all of the newspapers and citi zens cf the united states are not in accord with such brutal methods in the attempted solving of crime in their country it is hoped that such plain talk will have the effect of rous ing the people to protest against this inhuman practice and incidentally this is one feature of police investi gation which it is hoped will not spread to this country home chores by hilda richmond willi the return of better times telephone construction camps begin again to dot the countryside along many ontario highways for 1937 the bell telephone companys gross outlay will exceed 13 million dollars recent reductions in rates for farmers telephones have induced many farmers to restore the telephones discontinued in depression years and many new rural subscribers are being added to the telephone community the cooks ode to spring greet the summer in any way you want but dont forget to do it with strawberry shortcake as well let poets and robins sing all kinds of odes to this joyous season but your family and friends would appreciate it if you served your ode there is nothing that quite takes the place of strawberry shortcake in anyones life and if you see that vacant starry- eyed look in the eyes of the younger generation it may not bo love but just a longing for this delicious des sert just imagine it rich and flaky spread with butter and juicy red ber ries and crowned with a fluff of whipped cream but do more than imagine it make it this straw- berry shortcake is a triumph indeed to set upon your table when nature has given us such a delicious fruit dont fall down on your end of it and serve a poor short cake by using only the best cake flour which means the most finely milled on the market you can pro duce a superb cake which is deserv ing of praise in itself but really ful fills its purpose when smothered in strawberries strawberry shortcake 3 cups sifted cake flour 3 tea spoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt cup butter or other shorten ing 34 cup milk about 2 quarts fruit sift flour once measure add bak ing powder and salt and sift again cut in shortening add milk gradual ly until soft dough is formed roll vi inch thick on slightly floured board cut with 3inch floured biscuit cutter place half of circles on bak ing sheet brush with melter butter place remaining circles on top and butter tops well bake in hot oven 350 deg f 15 to 20 minutes cut fruit in small pieces or slices and sweeten slightly separate halves of hot biscuits spread bottom half with soft butter and sweetened fruit place other half on top crust sido down spread with butter and remaining fruit serves s meat variations lamb chops with dressing 0 lamb chops onion chopped 1 cups bread crumbs 2 tablespoons fat 16 teaspoon pepper 34 teaspoon salt i cup hot water 1 beaten og mix bread crumbs fat seasoning water and egg spread on lamb put chops in a pan close together add a little water to cover bottom of pan and bako in a moderately hot oven one hour basting occasionally flank or round steak stuffed and rolled 1 lb top round or flank inch thick 2 or 3 small slices suet 1 on ion sliced cup carrot cubed 1 cup boiling water stuffing 1 cup jmbs t tablespoons butter melted 2 teaspoons parsley tea spoons onion juice 2 tablespoons chopped celery teaspoon salt 1s teaspoon paprika trim edges of steak spread stuf fing over it roll and tie it then place on onion and carrot in pan with suet on top pour the water into pan cook closely covered for twenty minutes or more in a very hot oven then un cover and cook thirty minutes long er serve with brown gravy made from drippings in pan veal birds 2 y pounds veal cutlets 2 cupfuls soft bread crumbs 18 teaspoon pep per j cunful minced onion 4 cup ful fat 1 teaspoon salt brown the bread crumbs in the fat and season with the salt and pepper cut the veal into twoinch squares and pound until thin and the pieces are as largo as the palm of the hand spread with the filling roll and tie up with cord make the birds as round as possible browning them in a little fat and where thoroughly browned remove the cords in the meantime make a stock from the on ions gristle hones etc make a gravy in the pan in which the birds were browned using a tablespoon of flour mixed to a paste to each cupful of flour place birds in the gravy trans fer to a baking dish or casserole and bake gently for four hours in a 360 deg f oven servo six cameraman likes babies in repose toronto fathers like a laugh ing picture of their children moth ers like them in repose and the mother is right as a reposeful picture is the better thornton johnston sail at the ontario society of photo graphers convention here heavens exclaimed mr john ston in declaring photographers un derstood babies better than do most mothers ive handled thousands of children the average mother has only one two or three no baby should be photographed before four months because little children are not the most beautiful things in the world when they are born baby photographs are best at two different periods four months and two years deep draught friday why in the world do you send james to the grccery when herbert ccukl do the errand so much tetter and get home sooner asked mr croft when his son had delivered the parcel minus the string and plus some dust showing the little boy had drop ped it jame6 could be given some work at home if it is the training you have in mind tn james would never learn to do errands properly said mrs croft i change tho duties about so all may be taught to accomplish each task well and so as to be fair too james might feed the cat and weed the onions better than herbert in fact i know he would but he must learn to carry things carefully also and to bring home the right article and the right change maybe you arc right mary but for the sake of your nerves it would be better to put each child at what he can do best this is a day for specialists you know and to me it seems a waste of time to require the children to perform tasks that they do not like but mrs croft stuck to her system and one day a year or two afterwards when her husband was cutting the grass in the back yard he heard the children of his neighbor complaining and wrangling over some trivial tasks i never get a chance to go to the store whinncd richard of course not retorted fred mother likes her meat and cheese to be still covered with paper when she receives them but you neednt complain for you always get the job of sprinkling the flowers thats because you dont do it the right way explained richard all the same i dont think it is fair for you to get all the easy things to do easy said fred i like that going through the hot sun or the rain isnt easy mr blank came out to quiet the boys and then leaned over the fence to ask his neighbor about his garden after a little they began talking about their children both fathers were proud of their sons john and arthur are a bit qunrresome about their chores sometimes said mr blank but they are fine fellows your three boys dont seem to wrangle so much how do you man age it i cant claim any credit for it answered mr croft in fact i used to think my wife was making a mis take with her bookkeeping system of alternating the chores so each boy would lake his turn at hard and cssy ones but it seems to work out very well is that the way you da it ex claimed the neighbor it sounds reasonable i remember when i wrs at home on the farm i always had to get the cows because i was poor hand at picking vegetables i still feel occasionally that i got tha worst of the deal but aunt marllir who brought us up after mother died had a way of fitting the chore to the boy and keeping it there jim anl i would both have enjoyed a chance occasionally but she had cast iron rules and i never was allowed to go down to the letter box to get the mail until i was well past 12 because once i dropped a letter in the mud it seems children are the tame in all generations laughed mr croft as he picked up the lawn mower hey richard called mr blank mother wants some wholewheat bread for lunch run down ta the store and get a loaf and let fred rake the grass the look of gratitude on he face of his little boy as he took the moniy and skipped joyfully away quite touched mr blanks heart ive been a dumbell he said to himself becoming a karco it from montreal to plymouth havro and london ascania aurania alaunia ausoniat to belfast liverpool and glasgow antonia andaman athenia letitia popular vessels offering tho full benefits of a sea voyage comploto personal servlco to every passenger a high standard of accommo dation in all classes a culsino famous throughout tho world faros that represent substan tial savings in travel costs v apply to ji oqnldmn i xlanf ic line 217 day street elaln j471 toronto but the man to sec is your local agent issue no 22 37 b 2 in our feminist civilization seems impossible to celebrate any of the great events of this mortal life without selecting a pretty girl dress ing her in a flowing grcekish cos tume or a bathing suit and cni n her miss class of 1937 miss bumper peach crop or miss cher ry blossom military schools have sponsors to whom the class colors are presented at graduation and there is a queen for the welcoming of all sorts of events from the open ing of a new amusement park to the inauguration of the spinach season very little can bo done about ths of course but the custom may slaughter itself if it is reduced to the comic level of west branch mich where a personable young lady has just been elected trout queen to rule over the opening of the trout- fishing season i hope this sort of thing- ends right there before it spreads to maryland and makes necessary a pamrano queen a softshell crab queen and a baked bay shad au beurre nore queen baltimore sun a litter of 21 pi a purebred yorkshire sow be longing to claude thompson ox ford ns gave birth on his farm to a litter of 21 the twoyearold mother and 14 of the newcomers are doing well