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' Adolph Gretzen of Bremen, Ger- imany, got ten years in prison for Eswindling women by posing as a. lonely `widower in search of a wife. |Co;iy7ighI by United Feature Syndicate. I having seen a farm before he set to work in e:u'r1cst:- to 1cu1n the game, with such success that this year he stood highest in the agjricultuml judging - contest in the county of Frontenac among 5: ; com-- petitors, in connection with the Ontario Govern- ment plan to take 500 boys to the Royal Winter Fz1ir.-Canadian National Railways photograph. we\,),,wW SHOULDM`-r \ ? .. I BEEN \PRAt.TIclM`AU. mom 'B7WiNNEi2' Henri Derapierre. a banker of Born deaux. France, converted to Socialism; gave up his wealth and now works 11'? n 4'1: nfnvovy Dunvu uy All ` a factory. I Thursday, January 3, 1929 WUULH JIUVC WHDIICU ULICLII G11 uuv. We separated and looked up and drn'.'n. And finally I turned to call Cmest back to the "house. He was bent low, holding his lantern close to the mud. "ll/hnf In O')" T on-bar? 91 WINNER I WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE . Dr. Long is visiting Southley Downs, to which he is conducted by Ahmad Das, an Oriental. There he meets Mr. Southley, whom a detective friend, Alexander Pierce, had told him to watch, and his son Ernest Southley,, Mr. Hayward and his son Vilas. and; then Josephine Southley, `whom he` had seen faint on the train. Josephine! tells him the story of Southley Downs and its ghost, which is not the ghost of a human being but of a tiger. Dr. Long has a quarrel with Vilas Hayward over Josephine, and finds that the Haywards have a strange authority over the Southleys. He is ordered to leave Southley Downs. The rain prevents him leaving at once. Dr. Long and Ernest go out on the road` in the rain looking for the tracks oil a tiger that Ernest says are there. Now read on- ' "It's no use,( 7 WIN The water would have washed them all out. \l'n K-nnn 1-oft):-1 nnrl In/xlrnrl IIr\ ant` Plots Ten A DE THOMAS -LI 1::- 4 I ucuucl uuuu D1115 suspense." We stepped out of our hiding place and crept down the hall. All four of the windows were clear in outline now. Our quarry had headed on, evi- dently lnto the corridor that ran at right angles to the main hall. `R111 . Trnnnt '\I\lIl` l\IIIQ nknnnnn .4-I 515410 uuswa bu uw mam 118.11. But Ernest spoiled our chances or stalking the creature in the hall. We HUI! DI-llU"'ULlU lullula WU11 IICCU IF." I opened my bag without question and drew out my automatic. "Can you shoot with the thing? he asked. "Fairly well." Then you'd better keep it. I don't think I could hit the side of a. barn! We might need cool shooting. Long. we've got a. hunt on our hands to- night." I looked at him as coolly as I could. "What have we got to hunt?" uuauuc .LUl.' uucluenbs." "Then we'll stalk it. It doesn't pay to wait any more, Long. Anything is better than this suspense." I We stennad nm-. nf nm- M.-um. ..1...... There was no chance for a mistake. My senses were perfectly alert. It was not a delusion or an effect of shadow. Both of us kept our self-control and were rather surprisingly calm. Can vnu hit at that mmmo-v mu..- may wumpcxcu 111 my 38.1`. "I can, but I don't dare. I can't shoot at a shadow, Ernest. Too great a `chance for accidents. 'T`kav\ Iva! sin. 44- `IL .1---..IL .__- wcu: ruumzr aurpnsmgly calm. Can you hit at that range?" Ern- est whispered in my ear. I Can. hnt T (`DVD 1' nn9\N- sky. rectangular in shape as they should be. The upper part of the fourth was lighted too, but the lower ` part was wholly obscured by some- thing that stood in front. It was some- thing low and long that stood perhaps three feet high. Something was cross- ing at the end of the hall, between us and the windows. The shadow slowly changed in shape. It made an are over the lower part of the same window we had seen before- a shape as of a monstrous flank of an animal. And the adjoining window was partly obscured now. Whatever moved at the end of the hall was creeping slowly past the windows, and its body was long enough that it left dark um- . es. brages against two of the lighted pan- upyumuc uuu U1. out: uuu. J.J.u'cU U1 them lowed dimly from the flickering lightn ng in the far reaches of the cucu UHHUBU DU Clltlnll." We waited a long time. There was a row of windows at the end of the longf room, dimly lighted from the distant lightning. The flashes were almost continuous. and the flickering light was gray and strange through the rain. It was Just a dim, weird radiance, and in no way alleviated the shadows of the room. The clock struck in the hall gelow us, so softly we could hardly ear. - uf nth. an. in 1.-.! II 1' ...I.l............I u~m..x ucuuy bl-|U WHJIS I5 UUIIU. "Be patient, old man." Then he ut-l tcrcd the strangest little sigh. Look, Long. It isn't done, after all." I -r-II- _.-.I_- .!_.___..-_I _ _,-L,. -v--av -- cu... w vnvonw; vuovvn um-nu His voice dropped a. note; that was its only change. I knew he was point- ing toward the row or windows at the opposite end of the hall. Three of thnm alnurm-I 1-Hvnhv fnnm H-an lnlrm-inn LAC `?I:et s go to bed," I whispered. Evi- dently the walk is done." "Ila nnflnnf Ah-I vnnn U "I11-nan 1-an n6, UK. "Dr. Long? someone called softly. "Yes?" I unlocked my door. Ernest stood in the slmrimv of the corridor. He car- ried a candle. He came in very quietly and closed the door behind him. He put his cruxlle on the table. It is strange how the mind works. My first observation was the peculiar resemb- `lance to his sister that I saw in his eyes. They \vere dark, just like hers. He set down on the edge of the bed. I saw that he was also partly undressed. I-Ievelyou got a pistol? he asked. Yes. is in my bag." "I wish you'd get it. doctor. I'm not sure-but that we'll need it." I nnnnnnl wuy knnv mu-k....+ .........u...... 'DUuB. VVC DUUUU Ill. UGIVKIIUE5. You re the only one I could trust," he told me. My father laughs at the stories. and the Haywards are fright- ened almost to death." `KIA nvn{O-no-I n Inna bl... l'I'!I..p._.. ....... .. DU WGUUII IIID ldfllo He blew out the candle. The only light that remained was a single can- dle on a little table at the base of the lstalrs. We stood in darkness. ` ugut why wait at all? Why chgge it down? A|`r\I-unlsqnn Ann IL unaud- uuaor: IV UUWIIT I Because chasing don't work. It` knows how to hide. Behind the cur-I tame, and every place else. We've got, to watch his trail. `In \`l3I II nnf Ivkn l\f|I'\A`I\ Flan n...1uol ` uuc nuau way. We won't have long to wait, he ' said. D116 -u-`mu ---..J& .4. -1!!! `I11.-. .._J. "That I don't know, except that it's the thing that left the track. It's in` the house." How do you know?" How do I know? My dear old boy, I'd love to say I didn't know but un- fortunately I do. It has got beyond I the legend stage. If our lighting sys- tem was only in order. You can't see anything with these candles--and yet ' I saw plenty. Are you ready? Yeas! He crept along the soft rugs, and our candle guided us. It gave such an ineffective light. Still the rain thun- dered, and he had to put his lips close, I to my ear to make me hear him. Then I i I felt, rather than heard. `I71: nfnnnnri run a NH-`la Inn:-Hnn -In 1. 1.511;, LGULICL uuau LICUJLI. ! We stopped on a little landing in the stairway. I Via u7nn f. hnvn lnna 1-n umif" ha TUBBY .., He was bent low holding his I Houav, HERE :5 THE T Douoa To see vou I KM] UUUL . Then I h-ward a voice. It is a. strange thing that I didn't recognize it at first. My ears arc usually sharp for such things. The only possible explanation isd that the voice was somewhat chang- e . H I'\u 't\|\Iv-`)7, ...-....A...... `.11.; _-.nA.I-. 110`; 1 I uu nccy muse DU 1118. Did you see it--when it passed my door?" he was crying. You know what it was--just as I know too. There's` no use or pretending any more. It was there, and I saw it, and so did you. And I'll leave this house tomorrow! He seemed to be talking to himself rather than to us. We can keep the ar- ya: uu.;um.uy wurul usuenmg I70. He had forgotten our scene in the den a few hours before. His present emotion left no room_for remembered anger. It looked as it he were trying to keep close to me. THR nu can H than If nnnnn have 9 down the corridor. There were unoc- mcu uauub. I But we shook loose and hurried on cupied rooms along it, many opening from rear doors into other corridors, and passages to the rear stairs and to. the third floor. A window opened to- a little balcony at the end. We looked about and whispered to each other, and then went back for candles. We held them high and peered in the corners and among the curtains. The elder Hayward kept" close behind us, uttering low, inarticulate sentences not particularly worth listening to. He had fnranttnn mw cnnnn in this yum: xuy uUUl'.' The candle light was on his face: and the look was one not quickly for- gotten. His ruddy color was quite gone, and his eyes were changed too. He clutched at us with great, cold, tren- zied hands. Dnf Ivvn n`v-\I\:\`- 1-....- -._.1 |..-..__x-,s -__ ; lantern close to the mud . . acmcu uu: uy uu: 5uuuLuers., I I Good God! Did you see it?" he cried. ``Didn t you see, man? It went` past my door." ' 'T`hn nnnrlln Iinhf nine an `Iain `Anni might have been a chance of over-` taking the creature 11 it had not been: for Hayward's interference. He flung, out of the door as we went past and. seized me by the shoulders, [ Gnnd Gndl hid vnn can H-O" ha I 1115 DU ab UILDJB. The creature we saw fitted with disturbing consistency into the old legend of the mansion. The form was low and long. and although the light was dim its general color was perfect- ly visible to both of us. It was a rich, beautiful yellow, striped with black. There was no extenuating circum- stances. Both of us saw it--as plain as we saw the open doorway. The pos- ture was exactly that of a great cat creeping, with belly low hung. upon its prey. Nnifhnw nf nu ufnnnnrl 1' Anni! +1-vlnly wiiyither of us stopped. I don't think either of us cried out. Even then there Any uuui. How I knew he` was there is a mys- tcry still. I ch-L-.1i11ly could not have hnurgi him above the thunder of the mlr. }`crh:m9 it was the jar of his forwsteps un the floor, or maybe a sixth sense that .-~_mm1.11es warns a. man he is Dcing: :'1~.;1<`:o\\'oc1. It seemed to me that he was coming steaithily down the na1l--and he had halted just outside my door. 'l`h/xn T h.-unvnl n unlnn 'N- .{n n ed-nun-n I malircourse; it was too far to`_see plain- , iy. But I had no more delusions about its reality. The disease that afflicted the old manor house was surely draw- ing to its crisis. Thu nvnnfu-r-n Ina unt Olbluu-I -nil-In |ouuu.cu1_y uuug upcu. t Both of us know in a single instant that we would get a sight of the thing as it crossed the open doorway. Hay- ward had many candles in his room, and some of their light flung out into the hall. But there was hardly time to receive the thought, much less to act. There was no time whatever to raise a pistol. Our quarry was a long way in front of us; and the door was I scarcely wide open before it passed in { front. l'\P uuuuu uni It Ivvnn I-An In... 5.0.... ..I-.I.. .. --- _.....,...,.-v n... We started running down the hall. It was a tremendously long corridor, stretching almost the breadth of the lgreat house; and it seemed folly to. `try to overtake those swift feet. And, completely at the end Hayward's door I suddenly flung open. `Rnth nf nq lznnm in n cinaln inch-;n+ . mxpenaitures F? Roads and bridges s - Miscellaneous . Wire fence {lot to the windows` and made 'the';`ntmg postage 5t"'tinry ' turn. Both of us knew, as well as we 8% arms AAAAA ~ knew that the rain was clattering on 991 aunt ....... .e the roof, _that the creature we hunted 303115 Of Health ......... .. was close in the darkness somewhere Charities . . .................... .. inugonttof 11:15]. We wgre trgdng to walk Cookstown Police Village Xvo hi` sfnf. Zorg's bo3tpt ; T" Pe Village step at the turn in the corridor.` `Angus Ponce Village - -- Debentures t 1 b th . . ............. .. ofHtel1er1I')a?i$1d t?1reds%`t iez?dau?aYf d1t1rz?:t1:'g}`:`y Payments The floor shook-and it seemed to me 1S 531313 ? Certicate that I heard the impact of cushioned Schools, accommodation and geet as ouxf' tllarryrllielaptid. Biut tl1can1 t|s tlalqullpment , _ esureo a. e magna on s coos, .known to play tricks. Perhaps there 1evy general and trustee W%:~",.?:;`.'=E`.`3.t .`{?S.5':*1`%fP3- ._-_._. Thornton His.` ':e;;.;';;; """" " wan a~ Lcuuu LUDULC uuu aux`. I Quick! my companion breathed. It will escape us!" 111.. ..L_..4..._1 _..___._x--.. 4---..- LL, -7 -If windows the ' in front of us. were trying with utter silence, Ernest a. pace or two in front. He forgot about a. little; corridor. 7?. L_.:.___ _ _ an, 4. Acyucu. If you have, just remember these ' little points. One of them is that the - transmigration of sou1s-that the soul 1: of an animal can live again in the g, body of a man~--is a. rather current in belief in India. Ahmad-Das is of Hin- du blood. And he was born at the same hour that my father's tiger was killed." [In Innnlanpl ~.'....I.. _.._V -7 E J-1 U119 UUUJ uycucu. It was Southley, and he carried a drenched. He wore no hat, and his white hair was stringing about his ' worn face, and the water poured from `him. His wet face glistened in the candle-light- What's this? he asked. . Just a. little midnight session, his son answered. Tell us first why you went out in the rain, with no coat? (Continued next week) ____.- lantern. His clothes were simply Lllh ' Ernest and I found the elder Hay- ward in the library. He stood shivering before the faint coals that had been the fire. All of us leaped when the front door opened. TI` um: .Qnuf-hlnv and L... ..........x-.s - It wasn't the sort of tone that I had expected. I had supposed that if we were able to find the hacks they would have cleared up the mystery in g perfectly satisfactory manner; and "two woulc1'have a good joke to tell when we came to Southley Downs. only, of course, Ernest would tell it. not I. My hours for joking in the old manor house were done. Instead of triumph, his tone hinted that cold tu- tility with which men tell of their worst personal tragedies. - The track, Ernest?" I asked. "The rains have washed out--ai1 but one. This one is`on a. high place in the road, and it is almost gone, too. But you can't mistake it. T Inumwarl mu Hrrhf. fn can hnf. ho __- ..- ---..- ---, -.......... .. way; was xuucu. He laughed grimly, and gave me a cigarette. Then we walked out into the hall, wgul. hall. `Dun -..- ...-u Uvw vvuna uuv Lu AME AUUUI. His bed had not been slept in. Does it mean anything to you?" Ernest asked me. . ` Nothing whatever--any more than the rest of this devilish mystery means. Do you suspect--that Ahmad Das is perpetrating something? "I suspect nothing. I only want you to recall a few little points that will undoubtedly be a great source of plea- sure to you. He spoke with a grim humor. You must have heard stories --every man has-of men shooting at hyenas in Africa, wounding them, tracing them to the huts of natives, and then finding-not a hyena-but 8. black man, dying, with a bullet in him. ..__- _ --..-u-.. Ova uunuauo And maybe you haven't heard of the theory of the transmigration of souls?" u`IIp\`auu u...-.._ ._ __3..-,4J DU MID 1' Every man of education has heard it, I replied. ` Tf vnn havn ~inc+ am.-n.....I...... n.._..- $19,163; December 17-Ba1ance ....$ 1,986.77 MEMO Township Assessment ....$1,995,498.00 Dog Tax .......................... .. 822.00 Total Taxes .................... .. 59,189.27 Collected to date .......... .. 52,500.00 lllllla I ve heard the stories, and they don t make good sense. It A .-_! .,_ - .L Liabilities: Unpaid County 1ev'3; ...... Bank loans .......................... .. Vespra Telephone .............. .. Balance Collector's salary .. Cookstown Hall debenture --- uvvia umau uasccy, an 1.16 uugub DU 03." So we took the candle and went on back into the main hall. Then we mounted a flightof stairs. At a. little room, clear at the end or the corridor, we stopped to knock. 17- --- _..,, , ..auu.LD tUN.'J .L:.!.t'LU Assets: Credit balance ............... .. Taxes outstanding ....... Refund Thornton H. S. IUUD N.-V CVC1 . I thought about some stealing figure that was in the corridor just outside my door. T-Tnur T lznnur ha` umc fl`-nova -In a cum. I wcuuu 11 me nxes." Ernest stopped beside him. We will remember that word-a.t a better time. he promised. Then he whirled to me. "The -thing's got awa.y-but there is one thing more I want to do before I go to bed. I want to look in Ahmad Das s room-just to see it he's in bed and asleep, as he ought to be. Rn um ffnnb +1-m .......:n.. ......1 _.-..n. _.. . - ..--.-,v-. Irv nmuuvn 7 No answer came, so we knocked again. Then we pushed open the door. Ahmad Das was not in his room. `I .1'h- had 1...: ..-L 1.--" J Credit balance A cc:-nv-an - tend to `em. I'll go tomorrow for good and all! And Vllas can stay with his rangements we've got, and Vllas can Wench if he likes." W1-nnef no-nun.-..: |......a.s- `.1... ac, -u [Total receipts . ..... .. `Total expenditures ..................... ......... High School ...... .. Balance Township grant to S.S. 13, 1927 ...................... .. -uusnuula, 5CI.lCra.1 The following summary . of Essa s receipts and expenditures shows how the funds of the township were spent during the past year, . - l `D.-.....:...L.. F'r`om g'eneral Bank loans rcecelpts HOW 1923 MONEY sP1:N7r_' BY ESSA 11>. councn. THE Emma xAMINaa ';------------j--;"` van. _.~~. vv...\. . - ...vu.....D, Uuovvo ago: I thought about Alexander Pierce, and all that he had told me. I had been at Southley Downs almost a xvuolc, and its pmbloms had grown more complex, rather than simplified. Still I didn't know why the man whom .A.1exnnder called 1- code1'1ck had offer- ed the reward for trace of the elder Soutllley. I couldn't explain why my host had gone for years under an as- sumed name. or had adopted an alias rmw. The relation of the Haywards wlrh the Southleys. the creeping fig- ure on the golf green, the track in the muddy road. still remainetii as myster- ious as ever. T flrxnlun-`sf r\`\1\II`- nan-.-A .~6A.~Ivl...-. Jl_...... dit ..................... ASSETS AND LIABILITIES saute - BuyZAdv;rtise,dv Things Practice Makes Perfect? Expenditures P\vAnA.. auu JGGJ. . Receipts V-Ann-I ubn . $10,000.00 8,750.00 84.80 135.00 198.36 . $12.465.66 6,689.27 2,000.00 $21,154.79: s6a,72o.T1`ai { .$81,185.79 . $68,720.13 .s72,s4 ,` $ 8,538.95 i nun yuu Giulia IIIISDKLISU ID. I lowered my light to see, but he caught my arm. "I guess not, Long," he said quietly. Why not?" You really don't want to see it. It wouldn't do you any good. It would Just give you unpleasant memories to carry away with you-and besides, it can't be true. It's not here, Long." Let me see. No use, doctor." "Get out of the way and let me see it," I ordered. But instead he suddenly leaped at a shadow in the muddy sand. He dug for an instant with his feet, and splashed the water. And when I look- ed again the track had been hopeless- ly obliterated. "Little fool!" I told him. It wasn't there, Long." he answer- ed in a far-away voice. It was some trick or the rain-or a mirage. It wasn't possible that it could be there. "It doesn't help-to lie. f It must have been almost one o'clock when'I got to my room. There were plenty of things to think about. One was that on the morrow I would say good-bye to Southley Downs. The meeting of the girl in the sleeping car had come to nothing, after all. T 4-l.r......l-a. Al_.\..L A\......._.I_._ 151---- Nsixssjv $16.81'.6:3 912.34 I -.-A -- | 17,901.65 3,248.00 619.45 14;] . 766.12 18.779.70 4,520.75 1'.975.m ` .5rm n'~, 552.00 .1o3.oo 299.82 62.00 Mrs. Louise Sexton of London was} granted a. legal separation from her , many, ye: husband because he only allowed her I swindllng by a penny 9. week. `widower o Sidney Wrightson, 18 years old, an unemployed miner with a mother and two brothers to aid in supporting in Durham County, England, was brought to Canada in 1927 by the Canadian National Rail- ways Colonization Department, and placed on the farm of James Bell, near Kingston, by the British Immigration and Colonization Assor-infirm. Never JIILLU. What is it?" I asked. "Come here, he ordered me. He stood up as I came close and held the lantern before him. It shone on his white, set face. "I've found it," he told me simply. At once it seemed to me that Ern- cat had left his boyhood far behind him. and was a man. The voice was mature. steady, perfectly calm. He spoke so low I had to strain to listen. Yb I|It\nu" I-Ina nnub A0 in... 6-In..& 1' kn!!!