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J8LesRISES BS BE - 4852s 23: R38 treasel FPREIRERSSS ROSS s' «a's WRN WREST u HEH i i short bt i eg +5528 ha 'saloon glide away 10 Ting Suc Merri. heart, In that moment he rea 'that no matter what the future (hold, Helen! eart wou'd neve; X "being 'an optimist wh "in fhe possession © '~e of the vaci! sof women, he consoled him the thouht that where foucerned, nothing is cer Hn al that's that™ he smiled, turn v.5'6lair who had watched the nti1Vit d'sappeared from their arcund a bend in the road. "1 tr how much longer we'll have y cn in this evil old place, Ever last night I have had the f ve crecps, I 'have a feeling Sunt,' pair of invisible eyes atching me frcm all sorts of 5, I'm not ~~turally supersu. or easily s. ced, but, believe id chap, Ill be jolly glad to . N two men linked arms and d dwdy from the spacious ens : of the manor across the lawn \ > direction of the row of pine yi Jorsher side, 3 t' the we myself, ser | ~foot in the place," Sin- Ih ¢ Py "but I'm quite deter that, I'm. not Jing to let it 4 my nerves until I've found out ) what I want to , Twas x ng to Nelson a Sa after the ] Se, 0, mi et wi 1] "I'suppose he he fact t. By it would be once he had established Sheol © Way, ¢ men they'd got him?" hy was the main cause of LINEAL] as as if the cart ed a voluminous mouth and him. From what he told was last seen at Brind- station yesterday after: noon about four o'clock, He booked a third-class single to St. Pancras for the four-twenty-five which cat- ches the five-forty out from Leeds. But the amazing part of it is that, 1 h he took a ticket, he did not travel by. that train, in fact, nothing was seen of him after he enquired of the booking clerk the time of the Leeds connection. - The porter swears he was not on the platform 'hen the train came in, because there 'ere only three other people by that in, a clergyman and his wife, who se well-known in. Brindley, and a man. If Morrell didn't travel by at train, what was his abject. in ing a ticket? That is the ques. nn that Has been puzzling our friend Jlson" "It ce ly sounds odd," Merri- va'e admitted, "but potha s that was 'part of his game. He probably want- ed 'to give the impression that he did actually travel to Leeds in order to throw the police off the scent, He must have known that, as socn as his disappearance. was noted up at the Manor, the first thing the + polige ish: d | would do would be to have that tra'n searched when it arrived at Leeds, orrell always struck me as being clever in a perverted sort of way, I suppose what he really did do was tc clear out of the station soon alter he had got his ticket, and make ar rangements to travel scu'h in quit another 'manner," By now the two men were we! Wishin the grey shadow of the be! of pines. Here the thick carpet « needles deadened any footfall, an' they walked on silently in the d! yection of the road both toying wit! BOYS WANTED | AS' CARRIERS AND COLLECTORS rit 0sHAWA A DAILY TIMES High School Boys Preferred Liberal commission and steady employment | rant wo to capable boys. -- Apply to -- (VIR. BOYCE -- " Times Office "HE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1927 ---- ------ 'ties as 40 of Mon- TRL mh © cause its for " 8 th bi Ai at the "There's some ove joot °3 that tree by the wall. Looks as. if someone had forgolten to take i llowed the direction of Merrivale's oulstretelied hand and w 'at the spot ated a bulky wn paper' parcel. The two, men quickened their pace and stdod' staring down at the un- tidy bundle as though it fascinated ht place to leave that," com uni A - sented Merrivale, #Looks as if it been left there on purpose. you notice how this tree stands closer to the wall than any of the others? * Sinclair had noticed that, but he had noticed something equally im- to "As to the sentimental part of the project, How many streets have we that are mamed after our pioneers that are acredit to their memory and an honor. to the City? Where are they? How many citizens know their Jocation or early history, L can con- ceive of a fine street, well kept, lined with beautiful trees and adorned with suitable buildings bearing the personal name of some early citizen or national hero which would be very creditable to the citizen thus favour- ed and fe municipality bestowing the honor. Inl the cace of Oshawa how many of these strects have we that are more of a dishonor than an honor to our departed forelathers, 'take 'a couple at random, Gibbs and McMillan, The former originally had a lengih of one city block, 'Lhe only buiiding which faced this street for many years was a stable. Later our city fathers decided to further hon- or that name which stands for so much in the early life of our city, and extended G.bb streei westward {rom Ctntre street, Talie a look at Xt tolay, a mud road, cinder walls, a few cid cedar pos.s with strangling rusiy barb wires attached, a city lump, broken concrete, refuse, rusty 'n cals and in the Summer a most cauiiiul crop. cf all kinds of weeds, v shert time ago that city fathers wcided that the name Mechanic .reet should be changed to McMil- n Drive to perpetuate the memory i #nother Oo.awva pioneer, Tale a ol at it today, ow dignilied and ~stinguished, oc: ly the empty 2d of a racev. which filled the its and drove i. wheels for dis. Jlery, -tanvery and mil, new used 23 a general dumping greund for rei 1e and surplus excuvated dirt, Av ile momen. a crcd.table building is sein erccted en this street for the Jurpose of manu.acturing, Authority Lacking "In the alsence of proper Town Planning and Building By-Laws one seat diidiculty in properly perpetua- ng the names we love by giving rm to the strects arises from the ct that one a sub-division is ap- wroved, while the City owns and ntrels the street, anyone of cone undred parties will own the adjacent -operiies on both sides of that .reet and may put up almost any + "pe of buili'ng they desire under tatpte, therefore, fo matter how reful @9ity Commission is in origin- ly noming a. strect their objective 1'ght be completely nullified by the 'pe of construction erected thereon, "An objection is lodzed avainst the umerical system because it is al- -- TTR NC TE TIA Coo hia ag 3 not condemn a fine fide it was by a Pole, nor would we refuse to Isten to a radio use it was manufactured in the tories of, Uncle Sam, Further permit me to draw your atten o this fact, substantially the whole of the Domision of Canada has been surve British s laid out Bo: A oan to British practice under the numerical system. The farmers of the country have mot adopted the names their out- standing men to designate their road. ways, otherwise we would find the fe ay dn 7 irst ter e is Province, to be located on Dryden had | Boulevard instead of Lot 221, Con- cession 7, the home of the Hon, Wm. Pai, on Smith styeet instead of t 13, Concession 7, It has been said, "Ged made the countryy and, man made the Town." The numerical syystem which apparently flits the needs of the made country ad- mirably, could not be very disad- vantageous to the needs of the man made town, "ItI is suggested by one of your correspondents that possibly King street is to be spared out of defer- ence to our sovereign. King street, of course, was named many years be- fore our sovereign was born and to the average citizen that street might have been named in deference to any one of the Kings of England, or of Israel or SiSam, To the average man it is the name of a thoroughfare, nothing more, Still I admit it is o very ancient vintage, an old land mark and should not be disturbed. Alice-in-Wonderlind Street? "Our present system has one ad- vantage I will admit, almost any taste can be satisfied We have names singular and plural, common and proper, ma'e and female, sacred and profane. Was our William street named in memory of William the Conqueror, William of Orange or William Rufus, I hope Frederick stre't was not designated to perpetu- ate the military career of Frederick the Great, Was Alice street named after Alice in Wonderland? The sacred halo of motherhood surround. ing the beautiful nome of Mary shou'd be its protection a7a'nst being used to designate an ave 'ue leadny to the market place and the sea's oi money changers or to desinnate an avenuz of trade, commerce or in- dustry, "A correspon" -t asks for the con- tinuance of er » names having a touch "Of tle ners of Romance," could t' 3 doc'rable imou'se not be met by a selection from some or all of our fo'lowing names, Froderick and William and Arthur, Court, A'ice, O'ive and Agnes, if not, we still have Eu'alie avenue a name frousht with fragrance.of flower and fruit of foreign ficlls, "In Walter Hines Page's memor- able book he recites the following in. cident, In driving on a country road in England to ret a little respite from this arducus war duties he no- ticed two car loads of hay each be: ing drawn by a single horse as is customary on many parts of rural driver of the rear cart dismounted and belabour his horse up over the and helped the other one pull, push portant, On one side of the parcel the paper had been to accommodate the bulk and th of scarlet, In a moment he had stcoped down id the bundle together, displayini a cavalier might have worn, | Neither man spoke, This discovery was interesting. It explained a grea deal. It acecunted for the ill-suc- cess that had attended their efforts on the morning following that nigh! shen they had seen Montague Mor- coll crossing the lawn in the moon- ght, when they had surreptitiously nvaded his bedroom for corrobora- ve evidence and found none, | "It looks as if, for some reason or ther, he wanted to get these out of he way, in, spite of his successful! | "I'm be- dibi," observed Sinclair, nning to think that Mr. Montague lorrell is more involyed in this af- ! concluded, thoughtfully. "It ceriainly bas ghat appearance, Merr.vale confessed. "But why shou: ie leave the things here, of all pla ces? I suppose, if his story is truc be must have hired the costum somewhere; if so, why didn't he tal. them back again? Then there's an other thing. To my mind he didn leave them here for no purpose othc than that of removing any evidenc irom the Manor which might incrim: inate him in the murder. I'd like tc bet my last shilling that he put then England, On approaching the hill the | insufficient | paper had burst reveaiing a flash | and untied the knotted string that | ie hastily-folded garments such as ' lair than we at first supposed," he "This is where we come in," mused Sinclair, "It's unlikely that he'll come for them during the daytime, especially as he must know that ev- ery constable in the county has had his description Jrinted indeliably an his mind, or, failing that, in his poe. ket book. If Morrell intends to re turn for his goods, it will be some time after sunset. Tonight, we'll do a little bit of work on our own ac- count. I'm rather intrigued with the idea of keeping a vigil beside this { | entertaining. relic that has already recollec- far too many unpleasant tions." "And not a word to Nelson" breathed Merrivale. "He's a nice enou:th fellow, and all that, but I'm in- clined to think that this is our job, After all, it's the only clue we posscss up to date, and it would be a pity if we didn't' exploit it just to see what it's worlh." So it was arranged that the pair shoud meet that same nigh: cown in the wood, suitably equipped for any eventuality that might, unespeciedly, arise, MUST BE ENFOLCED (Border Cities Star) Windsor and district have been given a real c'eaning-up, The boot cagers,' blind-pig operators, gamb crs and other cnemies of law and rder have heen driven to cover. The law is being enforced, Admins- tration of the city police depart: ment is in new hands, Another magistrate Is on the bench, There as heen a big change, The lesson {or the provincial authorities is thet the pecple who voted "or © 'onirol want Government Contre enfcreed and will s.ang ur no... 0, else, AR "Lawyers are not work with a will, lazy," They | Luke Allan is Canada, It is IR 0% i] g the story ! 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