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"A deader under Saim Traver‘s old boat!" he echosd. "That ‘ud be someone washed up by the tide like, eh?" "Sam Travers‘ old boat, constable is above high tide mark. The man‘s got a wound in his chest. If you ask me, he‘s been murdsred." “Murdered' Lor‘ love us! What be the world acoming to? At Roma Cleft, too. Wait a minute, zur, an‘ I‘ll be with you. But I‘ll have to tell the missus first." was, guiding the homeward steps of some late denizen of the ‘"Lobster Pot," passed a grimy hand across his foreâ€" neag and strove to digest this startling information. "That‘s me, zsur." "Then, constable," said Tubby, .still more crisply, "you‘d better get into your tunic and come along with me. There‘s a man‘s dead body under that rotting olq boat on the shore." P. C. Dodson, whose sole activities, part from horticultural pursuits, conâ€" sisted of reprimanding local reprobates for playing pitch and toss on Sunday afternoon, or, good Samaritan as he * CHAPTER IV Even the grim things of life may be associated with the savage grace of huâ€" mour, as Tubby Baring found when, 20 minutes after the discovery of the body, he prestnted himself at the fuchsiaâ€" fronted cottage which constituted the police station at Roma Cleft. In the small front garden, tying back one of these same fuchsia plants which displayed a tendency to spread, was a‘ stout, robicung individual in his shirt l sleeves. The up. QHAPTITER IIIâ€"â€"Next morning, Marâ€" Jorie.and her two friends are swimming tcwards an old wreck just off the shore when Jimmy sees a girl in the act of diving from it. There is a haze over the sea, which does not, however, explain why the girl cannot be seen when they reach the wreck. Jimmy, diving, brings the girl to the surface andgd finds that she is Phyllis Laleham. Later, he and Tubby, attractPd by the barking of a dog, find the deid body of a middleâ€" aged man lying against an upturned boat. | to stay. Marjorie knows Cartwright, but "cuts" him and explains that he lives with his wife at the Manor House at Roma Cleft, and that the girl with him is evidently one of a long succesâ€" sion of companions, none of whom has ever been persuaded to stay at the Manor House for long. VHAPTERS I and IIâ€"Jimmy Ashâ€" croft and Tony Baringâ€"who is known as "Tubby"â€"are travelling by train to North Devon and become intsrested in a girl who is in the company of a man of the "bounder" type. Tubby learns that her name is Phyllis Lalecham and that of her companion, George Cartâ€" wright. At the station, Jimmy and Tubâ€" by are met by Marjorie Cottle at whose uncle‘s house at Roma Cleft they are THIS ENTITLES CONTESsTANT To 2,500 voTEs hadbs tds â€"i will find this one of particular interest. Hundreds enjoyed the last serial pubâ€" lished by The Advance, and hundreds should find equal pleasure in "Truant Fortune." It has interest, action, ex«â€" citement. b 8o that all may be able to commence this story with the current issue a reâ€" view has been ‘made of previous instalâ€" ments puslished. Below will be found this synopsis concerning the first three chapters published in previous issues:â€" for the Schumacher Lions Carnival and Street Dance, June 23rd. .....O........'.Q.'.,‘."...l.'...'.'... There kave been a couple of instalâ€" ments prblished in The Advance of this interesting story, "Truant Fortune," but you can start the story now from the O to0 4 a n oa hob ha e t a 4 4 + e To J. A., HAWKINS, Box 93, Schumacher, Ont. . Dodson?" asked Tubby crisply. shirtâ€"sleeved figure straightened Schumacher Lions Carnival Queen Contest SYNOPSIS OF FREVIOUS DO..Q.O.“OO000..0.0.000.000..... a a a e o 6 a w e 6 o a t(Contestant‘s Nnmei “% ‘ (Your Name) STORY AT .......................................................... for the Â¥ 0 6e t 0 a 60 4 a # 4 a n ‘‘No," he said again, "no one as I knows. Not been dead too longâ€"an hour or perhaps two. A gentleman, by the look of him, but one who‘s done a bit 0‘ manual labour in his timeâ€"see his hands." "Danged if I know where we‘ll put him," he muttered. "It‘ll have to be my scullery, I suppose. though Lord knows what my Jennie ‘l1 have to say about it. But there ain‘t no other place for certain save the parish hall, and parson l1 be main peeved if we put him there. Right, lads, carry on; Jennie or no. For a moment, before he was covered by the blanket which, again at Tubby‘s suggestion, had been brought, the constable stoog looking down at him. He signed to the Lamleys, who, maniâ€" festly disliking the task, assisted him to lay the dead man on the stretcher. "Shot through the heart, I should say, and at short range. No gun about â€"that looks like murder, as you said, young man." Dodson nodded, and went down on his knees. He opsned the dead man‘s clcthing at the chest and then rather hastily covered it again. Before he rose his fingers strayed into all the pockets of the blue sorge suit and came out empty, He jerked himself to his feet, ang there was less colour than usual in his cheeks. ~ "*‘Tain‘t no one as I knows," he told them. "A stranger sure enough.. You haven‘t searched or moved him, I supâ€" pose?" Jimmy suppressed a shudder. "I haven‘t toucked him," he declared. "He‘s just as we found him." { The latter was still mounting guard by it when they arrived, and greet2d their appearance with evident relief. PCodson stared down at the grim {figure, and scratched a ruminative chin. _ He turned abruptly in at a nearâ€"by cottage, and soon Tubby and himself were followed at a respectful distance 2y two strapping young men who carâ€" ried between them an improvised stretcher. On the steep incline to seaâ€" level and along the shore Tubby told how he and Jimmy had found the ecrpse. â€" â€"_P. C. Dodson threw him a glance of frank admiration. "You do think of things quick, you do indsed," he ackâ€" ncwledged. "Us‘ll get Ted and Tom Lamley angq the door as they brought their old father home on from the ‘Lobâ€" ster Pot‘ on (Christmas night." | For a moment Tubby wondered wheâ€" ther he was going to stop to tie it up once more, but the lure of the "deader‘" was after all stronger than that of the plant and Tubby found himself in the rcadway, accompanied by the entire police force of Roma Cleft in the perâ€" von of the worthy constable. He turned to the latter after a few yards ‘"You‘ll be wanting a hurdle, or someâ€" thing of the kind, and a couple of men, won‘t you?" ‘he suggested. "You can‘t leave the body where it is." | chsia *f he sighed. "It be coming down If "John Henry" was constable, Tubâ€" by reflected, Jennie was evidently suâ€" perintendent, but just then the former reâ€"emerged, a trifle redder in the face and buttoning a tunic which showed a ctrong disinclination to meet. "Now, zur," he said, as he settled his relmet, "I‘m @ali ready and shipâ€"shape." Then his glance fell on his interruptâ€" ed handiwork. "Drat that there fuâ€" Already bustling and important, he hurried into the houss and Tubby heard him shouting. "Jennie, lass, where‘s my tunic? Oh, here it be: You‘ll have to kesp back breakfast for a bitâ€"a young man‘s called to say as there‘s a deader on the zands. A big case, maybe." _ __"A deader on the sands," echoed a ghrill voice. "There would beâ€"just when the porridge is getting burnt! You come back quickly, Jokn Henry, or you won‘t get no breakfast." ‘ as Carnival Queen # 4 4b t e s a e (Street) Copyright) nominate telephone, retumlngtoannounce tliat aninsx:ectnrandapullcemrzeonwomd when the sombre little procession reacheq the tiny cottage, which a plate with "Devon Constabulary" on it above 'thedoorraisedtothestatusofapwm station, buxom Jennie Dodson showed that her bark was worse than her bite, and full of concern for the dead man busied herself in clearing a space where he might lie under the concealing blanâ€" ket. Her husbard betook himself to the | I v man on the shore, obviously beyond human aid though that unfortunate inâ€" qividual was. ' medical man at Roma Cleft. It was deubtless on Phyllis Laleham‘s account, but Tubby made a mental note that he must be asked to view the body of the sufficiently full as it was. As he left the house he heard Marâ€" jorie‘s uncle telephoning to a Dr. Harâ€" ley at Clovelly, there being no resident tion ,where, as we have seen he evoked the majesty of the law in the person of P. C. Dodson. For the present he said nothing of the attack on Phyllis, rightly judging that Roma Cleft‘s oneâ€" man police force woulg have its hands sufficiently full as it was. Leaving the girls to toll their story to Dr. Cottleâ€"a doctor of law unforâ€" tunately, not of medicineâ€"having reâ€" gard to Phyllis‘ injury, Tubby hurried into his clothes, and, avoiding the othâ€" ers, slipped out again to the police staâ€" ‘"Adopted me along the beach," Tubâ€" by answered, feeling somehow full of deceit _ as he said it. "Expect we shall lose it in the village." _â€" _ He was right. The terrier, which had foloiweq rim quite contentedly, with only a glance back now and then at the spot which had resounded with its frantic barking, now raced ahead of them as if it had dismissed the reason for that barking from its mind. Chargâ€" ing up the steep cliff path, it disapâ€" peared, doubtless to its home in search of ibreakfast. f wl 2 o W n 2s S t Tubby was silent. In the ordinary way he might have doubted this story, which might well be a genuine illusion engendered by the girl slipping and striking her head as he had suggested. But he thought of the dead man he had Just left. Queer things were happening at Roma Cleft that morning. In on case it seemed as if murder had been done, so why not attempted murder? He gazed seawards as if halfâ€"inclined to swim out to the wreck and inspect it, but apart from his indifferent swimâ€" ming powers, a glance at Phyllis‘ wan fate tolg him that it would be well to get her to the cottage. Her assailant, if there was one, must wait. ‘"Where did that dog come from?" Marjorie asked as they moved off. I was just absout to diveâ€"wheriui-t hapâ€" pened. But why anyone should want to knock me out I can‘t imagine." "Was there anyone else on the wreck â€"that" you saw, T § "I saw no one, but you know how foggy it is, and there may have been Someone lurking aboutâ€"in fact, there must have been. I swam straight out from the shore, climbed aboard, stood for a few moments looking back toâ€" wards the shoreâ€"I could hear Miss Cottle and Mr. Ashcroft coming. Then a stone, and from what Miss Cot.tle here tells me, ‘but for Mr. Ashcroft, I should have bseen there nowâ€"drowned," she ended with a little shiver. "Quite," was the positive reply. "‘I was on my toes, and just about to take the plunge, when I felt the blowâ€"like hammer or mallet coming down on my head. I must have gore down like "Are you sure?" he asked her; "sure you didn‘t slip and hit your heaq on the deck or something?" â€" "Look here, Tubby," she s;ia, "Miss Laleham says that someone struck her on the heaq just as she was about to dive. Her head is slightly cut at the back and badly bruised." Tubby whistled. If that were so, the girl‘s accident bore an ugly interpretaâ€" tion. So Tubby departed, not sorry, if the truth be told, to get out of range of that stark figure beneath the boat. He found Phyllis Laleham dressed, and, though pale and a little shaky, obviousâ€" ly able to walk. Marjorie‘s goodâ€"huâ€" moured face was serious. ‘"Where‘s Jimmy?"â€"she asked at once.: Tubby gave the rather lame excuse they had invented, and she shrugged her shoulders. Obviously she did not think much of Jimmy‘s alleged behaâ€" viour under the circumstances. "Better go back to the girls," he told Tubby Baring, "and then, if Miss Laleâ€" ham is able to walk, take them back to the cottage, get into some clothes yourself, and go for the police. I shouldn‘t tell Marjorie and Miss Laleâ€" rham aboutâ€"thisâ€"if I were you; it might upset the latter after Being hali drowned already. If they want to know where <I am, say I‘ve gone exploring along the coast or something. By the way, take the dog with you; I don‘t want it yapping here while you‘re away." * With the discovery of what lay beâ€" neath the upturned boat, Jimmy Ashâ€" croft had taken swift command of the situation. Jennie it‘ll have to be the police staâ€" tion. Then I‘ll have to phone to headâ€" guarters. Looks to me as I shan‘t have much time for then fuchsias 0‘ mine for the next few days!" PHYLLIS Mail and Empire:â€"According to the Canadian National Exhibition this is Canada‘s Recovery Year. We hope this makes it official, though we cannot help recalling that, according to the same authority, 1914 was Peace Year. |_ "PFilot Doug. McDonald, who has been |cperating a Dominion Skyways plans | between Haileybury and the Mud Lake jdistrict of Quebec during the greater |part of the winter, was inclined to imake light of his trip from the Porcuâ€" pine last wéek with the four expert miners from the McIntyre on the first leg of their journey to Moose River, NS., to assist in the attempts at the rescue of the three Toronto men trapâ€" p:d in a mine there. The flight from Porcupine to make train connections here was given considerable publicity, ‘but Mr. McDonald was inclined to conâ€" sider it all in the day‘s work, although he had covered the distance, said to be 125 miles, in less than an hour, He told The Haileyburian that by the route taken it was not more than 110 miles, and that he had a fair wind all the way. The party landed in the Hailâ€" eybury airport with 20 minutes to catch the train. The flight was mads at a time when the planes operating in the lNorth Country were being changed over from their winter equipment of skis to pontcons and there is little flying being gone. The ice is not safe on some of the lakes and there are no landing fields. At the local airport there was good landing up to the weekâ€"end, but this week activity has ceased for the breakâ€" up period. Mr. McDonald left on Monâ€" day afternoon for Montreal, with anâ€" other skyways pla.ne, and will not reâ€" turn until the ice is out and pontoons can be used." â€" lic interest when they are known. Reâ€" ferring to the pilot‘s attitude, The Haileyburian last week says:â€" | When the crew of rescue workers |from the McIntyre Mine went down to Nova Scotia to assist in the rescuing of the three men imprisoned in the Moose River Mine through a caveâ€"in, The Advance made due reference to the speedy trip made to the Maritimes. On that occasion the value of the airship to this North was again demonstrated. A day‘s time was saved by the fact that the use of an aeroplane made possible the connecting with the scuthbound train. It is interesting to note the attitude of the pilot of the airship making the historic trip. To him it was "all in the day‘s work." No doubt if anyone trieq to pin him down in regard to the undoubted value of the service, he might admit that it was another of the "mercy flights‘" that are common with airmen in the North, but appeal so much to the pubâ€" Pilot Says Speedy Trip was "All in the Day‘s Work" cue, but for some reason both of them seemed a little tongue<tied until, sesing that she was on a fair way to complete recovery, he launched forth into a reâ€" cital of the gruesome discovery beneath the boat. Whereat she looked at him with startled eyes. _â€" "Goog heavens," she ejaculated, "I was told before coming down that noâ€" thing ever happened at Roma Cleft. It seems to me though that it‘s going to be a somewhat exciting place." "What brought you down _ here?" Jimmy asked presently. Her eyes clouded, and she hesxtat°d "Necessity," she said shortly, and seemeqd abcut to amplify the reply when there came an interruption. Dr. Harley was announced. (CO BE CONTINUED) A place had be?n reserved for Jimmy next to her. For the first time she was able to thank him warmly for her resâ€" Phyllis had.â€" wisheq to return straight to the Manor House, but Marjorie and her uncle had insisted .an her staying until she had been seen by Dr. Harley, and a phone message to her employer, which was taken by Cartwright himself, apprised him of here whereazsouts. She had, Dr. Cottle explained, met with a slight accident while bathing, but would be back soon after breakfast. Cartâ€" wright‘s surly response expresseq no concéern, conveying the impression that he didn‘t care when she returned. Jimmy, chilled from his long sojourn in his clammy bathing dress, did not go as far as the police station, turning in to Cliff Cottage to restore his circulaâ€" tion with a hot bath and a vigorous course of physical jerks. 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