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At all dealers or sent postpaid by Pruitâ€"aâ€"tives Limited, Ot:awa. Kipp & FARRELL] MONLY TO LOAN INTESTNAL .psimitted or den ns mentioned in Hamilton Provident Nand Loan Society _ + gthbSor | .H“fl“w ffl”.”” Musey to 12â€" Private and Company Cormer King and Hughsos 3 Pays 4%, per cont. 08 Real Estate and \Ansurance Contracter‘s and Builder‘s u. CAMEROX, Preaeurer ntioned 20 PMR &n * her«‘ Li=ts Act, the copiss “7-.“0‘“-"“ To or"llv'fid""' WOR BOCCCD att haroby C3 Immodiate e Main Street, GRIMSBY. PARALYSI$ 4 ME hi aid list was Wat post» vfice at Ortmab» Cl of August, 1918. 238 for irspection. y cail upen l1 voter® 1918, Municipality of to said Act, O° NUJ 7 ng bY the last 0:) sds t Roll of the 880| und i bo entitled to Y906 ) ; :> ‘.d..,".gm,.,'.; the Legisiaiive A#s~) . tanteinal â€" Elections; n: C. 1. FARRELL i. RUSS suutsalOn® «11 votert inge . * Urimaby lck op,,.2,.._ I_ "t"! beside Seag Wick â€" Chanctog to hok down at the monocie,\Fedg wick stortedt aud stared. Kent‘s Knuckle, us seen through the glass, stood forth, monstrous and disâ€" torted. every Hipe ofâ€"tbe broused skin showing Hike a Turrow TBE HHOROCHE WHW n\ mssn uy NT wif ricadinitcnt k 00 icas “:"l:ofll'. heavyy voloe: one present recoguize the dedeased?" be dranad out waiting for 4 reply, set the !id in place and signaled to the wedtcal of. ky oo 0eA bead . Jurked . ts BHending lower, ts "The dudo‘s . Chester Kep S thhs . oo hes made â€" bimmelf ®L d ) Mobnel» bis lt( aeve shaking physician, "we don‘t need any jury to Gud that this unksown drownâ€" ed woman"â€" "The deceased was not drowned." a:vu'm- his reverie, Chester had leisurely rises is his place and made his statement "Certuinly not! As you must know, if you made an autopay." "No autopsy was necessary," repited the other quickly. "There‘s plenty of testimony withoat that. Wa‘ve beard the witnesses that saw the drowned body on the gratinx it washed ashore Half an hour to the water would have soaked the cocoon through und kiiled the insect inbabituot. ‘Tbe lusect was â€" =Marjert®® echoad . doorway. Gansett !!n half negro face allght "How‘d the grating get there, then?" "Dragged down from the high water mark on the besch. It was an old balf rotted affair such as no ship would carty. Ask Sallor Smith." "That‘s true." said the old seaman. with conviction. "It‘s s«prilly "Why, as to that, a body alo‘t by: a wite bearier than the water. 1 should say It‘d just barely doat it, maybe." "Ranctly. but plus several pounds of stothine and «me.dead meis! extra?‘ «hore,. and presuweably mid Lewjer Main VA un wela bromgh . #OP meug "Thee wight have been extra spats under the grating that got pounded wee on the beact and wasbed away," propounded . Ste medica‘ officer desâ€" "You‘re an expert, Mr. Smith. Now, was that grating large enough to dont 1 full grown buman body?" _‘ ETOUACEE "Look at the fuce." said Kent, with Anality. "Tils is a bud coust. . Most if you. Lave »ven drowned bodies. Did inv one eves we an expression of such .ovar and «gon» ou the face of ons : came to death ty drownlog?" \n by shoudert" ubuuted somebody. 1e right." whhere took ap the ory. Clamor rose ind »progd in the 09. 1b dbwoed 1t w#4 a steatorip "Whus: are you Uying to get hopmnds#. facing Keat. "th» truth. . What are pon® "Exnctly. but plus sever stothing and senedend m "No." "The ciothes would es «4. and haadorts welct wild Rent cxints serately «hy "Nâ€"nâ€"not drowned?" gasped the meiiâ€" "Then the flh‘lllfil‘n-h“ Th he "Dah de murderert®" Rus Kent ue 2P 100 EL %:lhi atifened busd 0# hluM stt xt moment PoWd @e a i «hou nl y wl ; 20 °0> Pxmg it in e lentest over the +o thie c fgne, and his o Mlim Unareny toltle _ somtinlust the un When lnt purssext on ed bo the mauner of 0 lt bowminl y vogulte or identify droved. and, withâ€" to‘t in temily ahy volce rose. * erieg a . woiad sdort Thare what »o by drawin MÂ¥ Buing it 4 enb over th e Tibe. mnd hi powerful a1t» voice from the als nalf Lndiaa, -‘Mé by vigience." nomepleuen 1 aBtrebs, â€" had boy M lc d 4 A hi tw * been souk: sowething." week ) "Whery was y> If it comes to { tinttl retorted h,.berif and bit his With a soowl. m 4 | _ At that betrayai cster Kent‘s eyeâ€" lids fi|‘~l up and ;,lautly drooped again Into somberne ¢ "This bearing .. â€"@gurned." twit tered the t=stica! »@icer "Burinl gi tha unknown wili 14;, P10C@ At < | All are Invitst " M Durlng their siow PFV&Tres® to : door Keut kep: ap a ruuulug con ment. which x.~1; «4 »upported with equal cooltess _ ‘fn, crowd. 1‘ and | undecided, protwed around As they went throng, the doorway they were jost!«} ty a *Ydden pres sure, following whict Kent féit a touch on his shoulder. 1e 14000 to face the shoriit. «* w "Thank you," sai) Kent in a clear and cheerful vouw . "Where can I get some tolaeco ?" y went. "Better get out or pwn quick," ad« viséd Schingor in «, haif whisper. | "If he does, he ®besi‘t care. His conâ€" sern is quite apart fr9® your guilt." "It‘s tos much for me," confessed "isihe us thi e v t m 8 me. io 1 am | coung back 10 the Apiage."." still lingoring. A new foeus of in terest had drawnit to a spot opposite Sterrett‘s §1970, Yhere a wagou, dace» |rated in the most A=anced style of [ ctreus urt, aboue Urkiant in yellow | and green. Brightn.) letters across | the frout pressated Ooublic sdmirg» | tion the tegend. "Gansett Jiw." "What did the «berif mean by ask Ing Grusett dim whire be was the night «* the murdery" "Murder?" seid Ket quizsically. "What murder®‘ "The murder of the @uknown w» wan, of course. 1 tlink that Gansett lm killed ter sud is trying to tura suspleton on ume" > f "Humpb!" [ *But if the sberif knows where Gansett Jim mnu.u.ag..{ willing. be cen‘t suppose me gulity. 1 wonder Ifâ€" be reslly does believe me guilty 1" 5 "If I stayed awa> from everpthing that alarms we," sald cent, "T‘d never have a tootb O#3 or speak to a woman under **eaty. P‘ a timid soul, Sedgwick. but 1 don‘t “j shall be in any date» in Anpalakea tomg as I‘m alon®. Hore we are. Out with you! 1‘ be ack by evening" | ‘T. nis surpris® Kent, turning into mot i. Grost ##> »Ing, "there i that place of vast Hces and infold: like the Twe blemiat majenty of * â€"4 pair of wacted to 04 "Bot 1 thougbt you were fright "There ‘do tht tnte SAeml Bs struck with ‘wado yesterday. There I beard about sploudolof the man‘® rn..ulu-heiu'b diguit® of his 10b98ls make a little business out of it. Would & of a brodd |ig be worth $5 to you, ikely, a relic of w...Droad sldewi§# |gpg murderer?* suxzeste1 the old man. » Tuum boat‘s steak | =Quite Hkely." nabsUly marred th¢ | "Mum‘s the word. then, for my part «n !" woot‘s presenc# ‘tu"it ‘The next mornins 1 followed her €az utnnm( xthe throgh the crowd ea rogstly : haooy at this par ~â€"» 1)an you do the v~, of the green es mulzaly ab and a meas «n8 _ "Nep. 1 sold two dozen wedding k”.“.’_th and romance of thet point. From my description they "Mum‘s the word. then, for my part tu"it. The nest mornina 1 followed her wall a ways. You s«e, the yell to the sight had got me (nterssted. Sho‘d met womebody in a thicket 1 found the string and the paper of the bundle abe was carrying thore. Then there was a Ught of some sort for the twigs were *And heard *.s woman out I- :Mn'nwbhrf'" allowed iv w», a painter man named * thought maybe 1‘d call in havye aim touch up the wagon a whore she‘s maty." "wau you heard the woman cry ont was than an hour later?" ®What‘s a curious thing. 1‘d have alâ€" ‘flmnu.-flvflnm yelled. :t went through" me like a sharpened wicle" | aaid. ‘you are worn, You are wan. You are weary. ‘Trust the chivairy of me who might be your father, Rest an| be comforted as with baim.!‘ smoling by the readside,ahe drooped tke a, Nower." "There is no rest for wo she sakl in mournful tones ‘1 wost awiy upon my misalon.‘ the vanisbed. that falr creature, into the forest. | ‘ooked at my watehâ€" th¢ unerf‘ng. . unwarranted, . sixteon wweled chronometer which 1 sbail presently baveâ€"the homor of sho wing io yeu at the unexampled price of three seventyâ€"and saw that the hour was exactiyâ€"for these timepleces vary sot one fraction of a second a t $15 When next | looked at the of Pather Time‘s trustiest accountant, u was to mark the bour of the borrid «briek that shook my soulâ€"precisely »31 Aud later. when i beard the drad news, ) realiuet that my cart md thrilled to a death ery." Kent woved awny, bis chin pressed down upon His chest. He went to the stice of Lawyer Adam Hain and spent «n hour waiting. with his feet propped up on the desk. When the lawyer en« tered Kent remarked: "You rather put our two official friends in a bole this morning." "Just a mite maybe. But they‘ve «rawled out. 1 guess 1 spoke too quick." "How so?* "Well, If they‘d gone nhead and naried the body ‘as it was we could bure had‘ it exbumed. And then we‘d tive seen what we‘d bave seen." "True enough. And you didn‘t seo it an it want" P "See whut? Did gout" "guppose," Kent said. "you give me the fullest possible churacter sketch of ser impulaive friend. the «b@riff." Half an bour was consumed inj this process. At the end of the time k‘ stroiled back to the square, where Simon I. Groot had been discoursing. There be found the ornate wagon clsed and its ornate proprietor whisâ€" jling over some urtnor repairs that be bad been making. An invitation to wake a ride in Keut‘s car was promptiy accepted. "Business Grst." said Kent "You‘re a seller. I‘m a buyer. You‘ve got «me Inforwation that I may want. if -l’-mflh.‘y. Was any of your wik true?" "Yep," replied Simon P. Groot ausâ€" wrely. "It was all true but the frills." "Will you trim of the frills for $107° "Fair dealing for a fair price is. my wotto, Â¥ou‘l Und it in gilt tettering on the back of the wagon. 1 will." "What were you doing on Hawkhili "What were you doing on Hawkhili that the sheriff found something on cliffe ?" : the body which led him to the murâ€" "Sleeping in the wagon." | dérer, which isn‘t likely, How improb "And you really met this mysterious | able it is that a murdereryâ€"allowing for vanderer?" ~ a_‘fl.-u-:-l.-t "Bure as you‘re standing there." \â€"who would go s far as to cover "What passed between you?" _ _ | trail abd the nature of the crime by Wt euve her sood evening. and sha | bibGizs the body oz a grating. would || 22 "When was that?" "Not Ofteea minutes after." "Did you tell the crowd here that?" 32 GRIMSBT, ONTAiRIO shadows 1 met and addressed one ! was soun to i ne more. ‘Madam,.‘ ; remember the day. Now, ! nin‘s | _ "What did the sherif God, then, in y children to have children, so 1 | the doad woman‘s pocket?" a‘t have thought of it again bus | "Perhaps a bandkerchief with a dis have you becu doing meantime?" over to Marcus Corners to erday. There I heard about broken right to the edge of the thicket and the ground stumped down. One o both of ‘em must have broken out tats the open, and | lost the trail But thik w what 1 found on a hazel busb. Do‘ The car came to a stop. Digging ifte his pocket, Kent produced a bill, which he handed over aud took posseasion 6f Bimon P,. Groot‘s "relle.". it was an embroidered siiver star, with a fow -I'-dcbflad‘ulnlt. J uester Kent. t , Pumw» uf tobacco were ris Ing from three pipes ‘hovered about the porch of the Nook where. Kent. Bedgwick and Lawyer Bain were hold ing latp counicil. A discouraged obser: wation from the artist had elicited Kent‘s epigram. "Not all of them, anyhow," said Bain. ‘"The chore in this case is to find facts enough to work on." _ "facts in this case are as plentiful as biackberries. ‘The trouble is that we 1 win the fve on 1t ?" have no pail to put themâ€" in." ‘ "Ob, Tim Breed is Len‘s little dog. Â¥ie takes orders) Of course he‘ll take woney, ton,.if it comes his way. Like master, #ze man." _"As much as he could get If: the ease was in the line of blackmail, he‘d viction. "He‘s as crooked as a snake with ‘the colle." "Would it require much money to inâ€" "know the identity of the body. For good and suflicient reasons, they are to find out from them." . _"Murderer has bribed ‘em," opined ) "They look to me to be just such | the crazy wowan"â€"pufâ€"pufâ€"puf. | wounds as would be made by a blow | ="Porget it? How should :?! Why with a beary club." | should 11" L | "Neveral blows with a beayy club | "Because"â€"pu@®â€""you‘re absointely might have caused such wounds. h|-lwâ€"flâ€".‘-mm | the blows would hare had to be delivâ€" | Good night." | ered pecullariy. A clicie on the skull | Susdayman‘s Crews rosd, turning | m« inebes in diameter, impinging on | asite just before it guins the turnpike **~ might ear, is crushed in if you | to the Eyrig hote! to evade a strotch «* imagine a man swinging a base | of marsh, travels on wooden stiits | bail bat at the helsht of his sboulder nn-u‘qchrpnlhl:n Imnmulvlnauumutu spring. The most rigorous vietim‘s head you can infer such a | coubl oave found nc basis for protest | erushing in of the bone. My imeginaâ€" | in the vace mauintained across the | tion bardly curries me so far." 4> bridge by » light electric car, carry» “..dumolmohnnnuu'h.n‘u\.w.mâ€";'- | se noturai way," said Gain. neered out with weary epes tato the | _ "Uertainiy. n.mmm-{fi-nnuom-flu At the end | that weund." of ibe bridge the car stopped to allow ’mmmmr | *The orokes mauacia was never on the right wilst." | _ *That‘s merely con}=ture," asid the | mwyer. we may assume, who was willing to pay toundly to bave that identity con cented." That wou!ld naturaily be the mur derer, wouldn‘t it?" asked Sedgwick. "No. i don‘t think so." "It looks to me so." said the lawyer "He‘s the one naturally interested io coucealment." "I‘m almost ready to dismiss the no tiop of a marderer at all." "Why so?" demanded both the othâ€" "From the nature of the wounds that eaused death." "We don‘t seem to be getting much Bexig w hok "Propauly by a fall from the clif to the rocks below." "No; ts remainty. a blow heary enuugh to break that won. 010 as it is, mu** bare wift a mark on the dush. There was no mark." "Why should asy one put one hand: eud on a wumen snd leave the other dangting ®* "Money," said the inwyer with con "Buppose the other was pot left danâ€" wling ?" % "Where wes it, then ?" "On the wrist of some other person, possibiy * "A man bad ctinina; the @onan to almadif?" sald Seduetck imens"ncously "More . probabis â€" the ato=> way "That‘s even more anl ehovaole * "Not hn puul oot 4uet the »<laence Yor will remember that your mystar on vigitor, while talking with you, car "And that would lead him to the lentity of the body?" : ;_l,nm&-o-um' "How do you make that out?" que ar came to a stop. *‘- | _ "When you huve a bizarreâ€"criwe you iet, Kent produced a bill, which | Wust look for bisarre mwotive= Just at led over aud took posseasion of | Pressbt I‘m deasline with facts The P. Groot‘s "relle.". It was an , 1M Wamom the ieft wrist of the body; lered silver star, with a fow | therefore is was on the @rbt wrist of sps of cloth clinging to it. | the Unknown companiou‘ It is naturat s to perforin a quick, deft net she anap CHAPTER vinl ping on a bundentf with the right haod. | Hence, presumnbiy, your visiter #ma Beckonings. | the one who clwmped the «uflls." OTA thut contrudict each other , . "And the man broke off ni«? are not frcts." prondunced | "Yes But only sfter a struggzle, un Chester Kent. + | doubtediy If 1 romd: Ond a man with like a letter incrim we aren‘t likely the i wepNEspar, in whurever wugedy there was going. You ve as unfortnoste knack of mang | fncturing evidence aguinst yourself, Sodewick. Tue redecsing feature is that the sherl0 can‘t very well us it | to arrest you " t * "I don‘t so@ why." | _ Moept chitkied. ."Don‘t youâ€" see that ]muuun-m-u--a is arrest anybody?" | _ "No, 1 don‘t" _« | â€"~*Why, he has the body safely burted *ndw. You‘ll remember that be was in | a great burry to get it buried. identi | Gcation is .what he dreaded. Danger of identification is now over. if any one should be arrestbd the body would b.‘,dq'fi"-fl. turn in aggre form. _ No; ‘he wants you suspected. not arrested." | _ "He is certainiy getting his wish." | "Wor the preseat Well, I‘m of." | "Why don‘t you move your thing» "But what concetv¢le wotly » could the dard woman w in dressing her self up Uhe a uz.-nnmmmo man and chalniug bim to herseif?* a badiy brnl««d right wrist ! should consider the trail‘s eud in wight. You‘l make inquiries, will you Mr Bain?" "I will; and 1 will keep an eye on Len Schluger snd the doe. Anything more now? If not Pll say good aight." After the !awyer bad made ots way Into the darkne=s Kent turned to his bost . "This affair is really becoming a very pretty problem Why didn‘t you toll me of your meeting with Simon I* Groot?" > ried a beavy bundie The menacies were, | Infer, in thrt" wrylnz to tail the woman 1 chanced apon him nod nsked if he bad seen ter. We badn‘t" _ __ ~Wolr "He bad.. Aiso be beard a terrided ery sbortly after, ‘The ery, he thought, wae in a man‘s voice. Slmon I* Groot isu‘t wholly toking in seuse of pbserâ€" vation " * "A man‘s volce io a ery? Whst could that mmeant" "Ob. any ope of several bupidred un thinkable things." waid Keat pauently. "Wait! . she must nive attucked s»@» other wan as she did me. she was wolug w s rendesvous. wasn‘t she? Thes abe und the man she went, to meet quarreleu, aud be killed ber by throwlng ber uver the cilf." "And the bundeuifs?" Sel, wia‘ hand» went to i..* bead. "Phat ul comstk, in the caexplitaute Jdiu«g . list don‘t you think that was the way buc uiet fet demth?" "No ‘ un "The. what do you thisk?" ‘Never mind that at present Zhe / polut is that Simoa P. Groot nataraily supposed you to have been mixed up Kent shook his bead." "Thank you, but 1 don‘t believe 1‘d better. When I‘m at work on a case 1 need privacy.. No bouse, not even a man‘s own, cas .l‘_b be so private as a strange "Perhaps you‘re right," admitted the other with a laugh, then lapsing toto pronounced gloom for the frst time he sald, "It seems preity tough that 1 should be in all this coll and tangle because a crazy woman hbappened Oy metest chance to make a call on me." Kent‘s pips glowed in the darkness and silence before be repiled. Then he delivered himself as follows: "Bedgâ€" wick"â€"pu@fâ€""try"â€"pu@fâ€""to forget if you can"â€"puffâ€"puffâ€""that stuff about neered out with weary epes iato the giors of the July sunshine. At the and of ibe bridge the car stopped to allow ite occupaat a better view of a Ggure prostrate on the brink of the pool Presentiy the dgure came to the pes ture of all foum ‘The frce turned upward, anf the motorist caught the turned agein to ts qu»st. lost}" asked the man io thy oar. _ "I‘m hoping to discover the agge of cartain nsnrepi¢roon insects." "Abl Yor are as «utswotofiet "To sume extent." "8o wos I, ouceâ€"when 1 had more tima. lfi':. drawn my atten Hon, though my (Wterest, away from it. I‘ve ent‘rely dropped uy reading in whe tas year. By the way, were you gere in time to witnoss the awarm of antiops» last montb? Rathor unuscal, 1 think." "No. 1 misuod ihe. Woat was the tonture, spectally Â¥* "The snddemims of the Anooaranea Ple wemanth wtted in tle ® "The patriarch‘ in the cireus wagoo." "Ob, 1‘d forgutten. Why, when 1 was "Getting nervous?" inquired Kent. "It ten‘t that, but ! think 1 could Ctrengor went on at gome He anpascet to oe an Whter alhfl,ll.ll.lfu.,ud lick» As be talked, sitting am «awdoenu ass of the appearance »=. Helmund wys that"~ stre To be contiuued )