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: re THE ¢3HAWA DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1927 nN ---- 88 Howrroks Manor Mysery. | B8 pb WI iE "ET Ab - Sopeinmesd : > : v : Head Reford a Judgment in Case Made of Gibraltar, Says ~~ A eo ..PrIVALS Wire System oa | ~ By R.C.M.P. Captain 11 King Street East, Oshawa --. Above C.P.R. Office ry 5 : i : CHAPTER XVIL .. relentlessness the gaunt spectre of | Endsleigh Gardens, Chelsea, are | Misfortune had cast a shadow across pproached on the right, going south- | her life] Most girls in Helen's posi- wards the King's Road from | tion would have given themselves up | Sloane re. A sharp turn down | to despair, but times of crisis reveal Mulberry Grove, a short, unpreten- | the innane capacity for courage that jous thoroughfare, brings you into | lies in some of us, and Helen had ne of London's many residential | inherited something of her father's | >ackwaters that bear the appropriate | dogged tenacity. It was this quality My object in ma | joubriquet "Gardens" Here, away | which had played such a. large part | request is that, for reasons which I | irom the 'traffic of the main road with | in the great financier's phenomenal | shall explain when we meet, this | ts unending succession of omnibuses. | success. He never knew.when he was | matter must be kept to ourselves. fou find yourself suddenly trans- | beaten, and so Nature, holding the | We are, I may add, dealing with des. yorted into an unbelievable solitude | balance of equity, had transmitted to | perate people and have to act quick- On' this winter's afternoon, the | the daughter the indomitable char- |ly. that stood in the centre of | acteristic of the father. In case you can come, my man will § Sm iF al coo a Phones 143 and 144 ilton, Ont, Dec. 22--Judgment | London, Dec. 2~The Morni EVERSON, Local Manager was reserved by Judge Gauld in Cri- | Post's correspondent at Gibralta SF : prisoner. minal Court here Monday in the | Tuesday said Captain San Perez of hat. JN wea fase e Mig james Bes Hatviigton and the Srawler Juan Viale had informed he, * would have heen eilghe A were both charg with nv ui orities of a strange case of door to greet her. Her ins selling or r than medicin. He said 20 i . " hat. purposes. Bail of $8000 in each case | ed men 2 atin Hi a t awful fear still consum- | was renewed until January 11, when | Sunday and threatened to kill the oot ju ent will be deliver " |erew. The captain then ordered full x Notice to the Publi flung it open, but as she did so |' Corp. Rolph, of the Royal Canadian | speed ahead, leaving his fishing gear ||] We are now doing business at our mew location, MTA ny Ju Josicd er, Jur Mounted Police -- the Crown + behind, The trawler was fishing a Bruce and Celina streets, Oshawa, and hope to be able to 4 . e . | 'he houses that bounded the four | Lady Forrester had been a personi- | be waiting with a car at the corner of Sinclair but Montague Mor- | that both men had supplied him with | the Siler Bott of Siedliar whey new building is under comstrmetion af: Slectntions, he OB | sides of the rectangle, looked bleak- fication of kindliness, and Helen felt | Sloane street, which, if you cut debonair as usual, his sleek, | cocaine, The witness said he was told | The Spanish consul-general at street; the telephone number remains the 1 ly desola long since | that, perhaps, but for the sympathies | through Mulberry street into Ling's | black hair brushed away from | by Jack McCracken and Frank Lap: | Gibraltar been. informed "of - the this 1 for 1m t. AnhOUNtEmIant A ly 083. stripped of their foliage, pointed their | of this middle-aged woman in whom | Road, is only five minutes walk from | his white forehead, and a smile of | lante of Windsor, that Dr. Hill would | case, the correspondent said. The p pagan ¥ gaunt grey arms to the leaden sky, | the mother-instinct ran so strongly, Endsleigh Gardens. I have told the | triumph twisting his thin lips. "fit them up." Rolph said he visited | fishing gear was reported to have Wri t Funer while on each side there flowed, here | but which an inconsiderate Fate had | man to wait until four-forty-five. In "- (To be Continued.) Dr. Hill and told him of the Wind | been found by police of the Spanish a | and "there, occasional yellow flares | decreed never to gratify, her ordeal | haste, e------------ sor men and no further questions | town La Linea, who had been inves- Phone 1082 Corner Bruce and Celina Sts. Phone 1088 i through the spacious fan- | might have been much harder to Morton Sinclair. ADD SIMILES were asked, the drug being supplied | tigating. : "OSHAWA | lights. bear. Had she been left entirely on | The note galvanised Helen inte to him for $40, The witness said he | Local vessels has suspended their Ambulance Service Day or Night. Endsleigh Gardens, seldom the | her own, the girl might have found [new life, Quickly, she glanced at | As much privacy as a palr of | got the drug from Dr. Harrington in | daily fishing for fear of a recurrenc _ u scene of any very great amount of | it more difficult to resist the on. |the watch on her wrist, It was near. | silk stockings. the same manner.' of the event . --_ | activity, were more deserted than | slaughts of a curious and inexplicable |ing four-thirty, With feverish haste | ever. M. of the tall, well-built | fear with which, since the tragedy she slipped' into he short fur coat _-- | houses had their linen blinds drawn |on Christmas Eve, she had been in- | and pulled a neat little brown, close- | over every window, for few folk who | termittently assailed. fitting hat over her head, She re- | can arrange otherwise ever remainin| Just precisely what that fear was, membered that Lady Isabel had told town during the Christmas holidays, she did not kno, and she told her- her that she was Join into the city LEE EE RAR NAAN RASA A AL ALAN and Endsleigh Gardens is peopled by | self that she was being foolish in | with Sir John who had to call at his those who have been well served by | taking any notice of it at all, But, | Club for letters, but that they would | the Goddess of Fortune, Many of |all the same, she knew that, until [be home in time for dinner, them prefer to pass the winter on the | the mystery of her father's death Thrusting the letter and its enve- | Riviera where there are no fogs and | was solved, her mind would never be | lope into her bag, she cautiously op- biting winds, others have "little pla- | at rest, And in this respect she be- | ened the door and listened. The | ces" somewhere in Scotland, while | came conscious of her 'own impo- | house was fortunately quiet. The those less fortunate have to be con- | tence, If it had not been for that, she | maids were probably all downstairs, tent to remain at home. If it had might have felt better able to battle |and as Helen's bedroom was on the not been for the allegiance of these | with her emotions, but, as it was, | first floor, she was not likely to en- |! few, Endsleigh Gardens would have | there. was always the recurring | counter anyone on the way down to been bereft of all tokens of life, es- | thought that she ought to be playing | the hall. pecially in the early morning when | her part in bringing her father's mur~- | Outside, when she reached the the metallic clatter of a milk float | derer to justice, street, it was already dark and the serves of a daily signal to the feline | The association of ideas in the hu- [lamps in the square flickered uncer- population which, at this time of the |man mind is exceptionally strong, | tainly through the thin mist that had year, is always more numeious than | and as she watched the darts of yel- [crept up, Pulling her coat cioser , the human, low flame shoot upwards and out- |about her Helen, with one glance up XY One of the houses where welcome | wards from the glowing red caverns [and down the deserted Gardens, set . signs of activity had prevailed for the | of the fire, Helen's thoughts turned |off at a brisk pace. : past three days, was Number 49, The | to Morton Sinclair, How she wished | Turing down Mulberry Square, as servants had been hurriedly recalled | she could have told him--given him | Sinclair had directed, she soon icund by wire, and when Sir John, Lady Isa- | just a little hint of how she really herself in that more animated thor- bel and Helen Overington arrived, | felt towards him; how very necessary |oughfare, the King's road, whers the | everything was in good order, he was to her | But that had been quite | lights from the shop wmdows were | It was just a little too early as yet» impossible, She had known him less | reflected in a galaxy of gold in the for Helen to make up her mind re-| than a week and somehow that fact [damp mirror of the footwalks, A~ garding the future, Her thoughts on | seemed to make all the difference to |riving at Sloane Square, Helen he i» this grey afternoon, as she sat in| Helen. There was Clifford Merri- tated, Sinclair had given her mo a comfortable wicker chair before the | vale of course. She had known him | clue as to the identity of the car ex- [fire in her bedroom where, at Lady | 'quite a long time and he--he loved | cept that it would be at the corner | Forrester's bidding she had gone to | her, He had told her so, Vaguely, she |of Sloane street. Nearing her ren- "rest," were, naturally, still concern- | wondered why she thought of these |dezvous she lessened lier pace as she ed with the events of the past few | two men now, and why her memory |saw a closed car drawn up at the days, of Morton Sinclair seemed the more | kerb a dozen yards ahead of her, ow sudden it had all been--this | soothing, more helpful, than her re- | Cautivusly she approached uncertain swif oving drama that had rob- | membrance of Merrivale, as to whether this was the car men- bed her of her father! With what| With the new query disturbing her | tioned in the letter, When she was IN H 2¥ HM o PTH 4 i ix mind, Helen dropped into a fitful | sbreast of the vehicle a man clin! sleep, How long she slept, she did | out of the driving seats as thougi: not know, but she struggled out of 2 been Watching her, " ¢ . 0g unconsciousness t h clen pause, he took a step fon Peace Metal Weather- > door of 1 SOMEONE | 2d touched his cap. 3 q knocking on- the door of her room. ps A i : \ kA strip Installed by A trim maid entered at the girl's | 1 think you are looking for ; request, he said, in a voice which was ¢ 3 po . Hayton the Roofer "A letter for you, Miss," she an- Pleasant, though 3 he girl could |] Lathers and Shinglers nounced, holding out an envelope to- ar h tev i hgh rid . sha. 4 wards Helen, "A gentleman's just BYE 14 Fel Mr, Sincla 185 Arthur St, Phone 1648w handed it in, He went away and message," said Helen in low tones, Y didn't mention anything about an For answer, the man stepped aside and held open the door of the car True In sound"? Trade Mark Reg'd i tf ae answer," revealing an inky-black interior, » atk anid Helen murmured, and | "wy oy will take me to him--now?" queried the girl, a sudden sense of ~N 71 The a oment she toyed, woman- | yop rehension gripping her. ® hf --~ ike, with the envelope staring, spec- "Immediately," answered the man : ulatingly at the handwriting, It was a little curtly she thou bt he . 4 strange io Ber, and she slit open the banged the op behind ig is ' 3 sealed flap and pulled out a small, . EYESIGHT SPECIALIST single hi of aR a b The next moment the engine had d Necessities, comfort, luxuries de. een awakened into,life and with a As she read, she became conscious H pend on the dollars you earn, |that her heart was beating rapidly, Pleasant purr the | Blache car gid Your income depends on your|and that a flush was mounting to | away in a sym dott) sweep 2 eyes, Be SURE eyes are rignt. her cheeks. $1058 108 SQUAle, CIFUIE. JouRd VY 855 : x the station and turning sharply to}, i516 ~=PHONE~-- 1516 per Mis en bie t the sight aero ha Sge Beaded £s i 0 t ing' . Disney Block Oprosite Post Office | hear from me so soon, but the fact Helen A om the windows wesw | 311d saw the line of shops and the -- | post office past which she had come, and J dered why Sinclair, COAL - COKE - WOOD Ink, had not ThoERY of seas the Nut and Egg sizes, per ton, ............. $15.00 [| ices'sf Sowing her o walk dows " Th ift that Stove size, per ton, 15.50 [i togthe comer ot oats ae" faut ; e g _eese 2 pace, the driver not thinking it worth P. ea size, per ton, 12.50 while to slacken his speed as they Cok Dor Antiraiis Conl 0 || eg keeps on giving-- . . of e bridge pa y a little | v : / br. oo J. TRICK COMPANY, LIMITED = |i ccs it aris wus i || : rare Re | the whole yeqr round! $385 $265 $215 aoa | $190 $160 $115 Portable Models st $55 and $30. AN obtainable on Christmas J ic Eo Mastes's Veles" dealers. I somewhat on good food--So we have Shvostunctsbed thu: you us, Five Rotis, Rove, IT Five Crowns, Purity and Quaker < i ik ELE 4; +f 8 By Prompt delivery to all parts of the city, Cooper-Smith Co. 4: | : Phone 8 Just South of P.O, 16 Celina St. is 10 KING ST. W. BBD SMBS SBI ISB | po mm § 1 : | D. J. BR "The Jeweller" 31