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have bumped him off ri "But not in â€"cold bi couldn‘t do it now." "That isn‘t Sharpe motio poulos. "I w you‘d got her been aâ€"hangi1 have got awa ~UUTsQ y "You better cleg Maxley, or turn up at to have bet "The more but years down,; I take it a damn." Mr. Sharpe chuckl« thing for you I put your way. But I th to reason in the end i guest Of His Maje world of good." "Rats!" "Well, it might. A rope. you decic the trial. awbout o tled dadowt the po drie@d bh "T m Stit terminedly me now?" ‘"You‘re muttered. "Did you "Knew .i man, you "I don‘ the crim« it.," little feebly It was Smith w had thit been las the jou: killer by rightly stances ~ 8O a pitiful man wh for clegari der was Rhand. assista l inslead ofi have ope! ner who | ter th John â€" Sm amazing sce nation. Thi he had out of priso what he wou vhich w k â€" COWEe! taunched f his ab it slight i hin pli 1¢ 1€ DRESSING UPTHE CANADIAN NA A | meé€ momet ollowed. 1 C Whiil 91 1 o tI hin}k Anvy 1f id been rehearsing "What‘s go Â¥ Gardopoutos;And | Inispector. P words that should Beside . hi ceedings the partâ€" | clothes man, d him was lying in | out of his heg re correr and the "Just cleari vy been responsible | murmured M he charge of murâ€" Halliard‘s â€" d. â€""What a‘g temptation out ouzsht yvou‘d c C HML scale, :and it was coat, w mentality to face As he to tell the:truth the in en to break the process 11 t me T h it enou t(â€"eh? mean pronc iceâ€"plans suspected pe ling nounsed deâ€" they got on IY, YOu ag cut 1‘t make your tim u‘re a (to th2 D 111 in for ried to pin | n r1adn‘t done ldl'ili M Hadn About fiv ; worry m y LIury igh â€"not nolice h are due ou‘re s idence you spc aly wh do vC sharpe water anc Probab murder: r he ho C‘ s ~ M _ Gardo i.: I clost nd of a too. if Iml ne ave in‘t 1} ame | de J30C Maxley call Gar the jewel T it can‘t be been so cor to be a bit Chief CC pleased and pleasure wa come of the vestigations dermen at t nad besn u OU "It means h bled the maio him frC with eq: I know vears. ove be The allv "What are you curious Inspector. Ejecting a lump grunted: "In a n I wrote down th prit and told yo woeuld hand it on mceoment toâ€"day. realise foolist 100lishnness. Hilliard 1 you‘d got t} ironically. "On the « The Inspe laugh. "Of a tered, "this known." Mr. Sharp busily engag he had take coat. which | notwl threa 16 thoug "The 14 COI M AS camt >ad ?2" I don umen C@COt CHAPTER XXV. MK. SHARPE IS BEATEN flu1 y â€" agreed dopvoulos dot id > Neth . Mi: the m in?ove WInkKkC l6 1€ 1¢ Te J€ 16 1€ T1 e shall have to witness against remarked. "But ais business has at there‘s bound 11 1d n it 1€ 16 eard it fo: nd on him Tthere wi derstand ? arofession it 11 he s rip kept and foe Smith fourd it before the police apâ€" have to | peared cn the scene and disposed of it against | by the simple expedienrt of placing it in 1. "But conductor‘s ticket box. That was iess has |a mistake. He had not foreseen that s bound | the police would learn of Jeremy Withâ€" ng it all ‘ers‘ incursion into the sphere of crime 1 out Of |or that the incidert with the toy pistol 2Â¥ would lead to his own arrest. now the | When that came about he still kept ‘vidente | mum through a mistaken sense of honâ€" favour, | cur among thieves. Probably he did ses O |not believe that the charge would be | sustained, and in the final emergency r! Yes, ‘his tongue might have been loosened. d it for Throughout the preliminary investiâ€" on him, | gations the police were handicapped by a IO0t." the spate of lies that poured from the o much. | defensive gang. Those who could have he neclk | helped had too much to lose by telling ere will | the truth, so that false trails were conâ€" ‘stand?>~ | tinually being laid. fessionâ€" "Mr. Sharpe‘s the man to thanlt for putting us right," Maxley conceded t hearâ€" | "Without his help we should have been lin a hopeless state." 1C ful cou tery i1 T‘ to hnim wing to wkward DC nti grum he d> @ry inâ€" bewilâ€" is that dGen uit? La narpe ment plut ib t] ‘Ccriminal activities., Then came the crackins up of Azatha Harson, who had long borne a deep grudge against her leader because of what lhad happened many years ago. John Smith was their sonâ€"a fact hss had only recently krown. What tangled matters up more than ever was that Smith, Young and Agatha Hanson were at first unaware of Wainâ€" wright‘s secession. They were indulgâ€" ing in subsidiary activities when Garâ€" dopoulos appeared in the Midlands inâ€" tent on revenge. That was how the whole gang came to be aboard the motorâ€"bus when it left Colborough on its fateful journey. The Hanson woman had been feelinz the strain. No doubt she wished to kill Wainwright, which had played on her mind to the extent of her imaâ€" gine she had actually committed the deed. Gardopoulos waited his opportunity. The mechanical troubles with the exâ€" haust system cf the bus played into his nands, and he merely had to keep the revolver out of sight and fire at the psychological moment. Afterwards unâ€" der cover of the excitement, he slipped the weapon into Smith‘s pocket, beâ€" lieving it was bound to bring suspicion on to him. "Ol1 no, sir, not the slightest In fact I don‘t think he could say much that would be admissible. Except, perhaps, regarding the ircident when he called and fought with the accused at the dockside office. They wouldn‘t let him speak of the confession on that occaâ€" sion, and we have a properly signed one that is better. Mr. Sharpe will stay in the background, as he would wish." "Quite a nico gesture, sir. Mr. Sharpe is a modest man and wouldn‘t wish to come into the limelight. Leave it unâ€" til after the Assizes . . ." "No need to call on him to give eviâ€" Major Martinshawe was not willing to give too much credit to a mere memâ€" ber of the public. "I think you exagâ€" gerate, superintendent," he said. "You‘d have managed all right on your own." Maxley shook his head. "I hope so, sir. but I‘m afraid it wouldn‘t have been so easy as you think. That man has a wonderful faculty for thinking ahead of everybedy else. you ought to recogâ€" nize it officially." The Chief Constable relented. "Very well," he said. "Ask him to come along and see me.> An inscribed gold watch most of the facts and Gardopouios nad filled in many > blanks. Caleb Wainwright had been the ringâ€" leader, and the most desperate member of*the gang. They had worked interâ€" nationally. That meant they had to set un a clearing house for their sto‘ten property. Over many years this organrâ€" ization had been built up to a wonderful state of efficiency. To the Greek came most of the jewels and it would have been better for the gang had he not introduced a private side line of dope smuggling. Miss Hanâ€" son had been in on this assisted by Huntley Youns, whose position lent itself to disposing of this stuff. When Wainwright found out, he tried to stop it, insisting that one form of crime was suffitient. That was why they fell out in the first place. Angered at the behaviour of his associates, Cale® determined toâ€" cut adrift at the very moment he had pulled off a big coup. It was discovered that he had a small fortune tucked away in various banks, so the probability was that hc inâ€" tended to retire on the proceeds cf his criminal activities. Then came the crackins up of Azatha Maxiey was quite right. Morrison Sharpe did not >ven attend the trial. Maxley and Morrison called on him the night it was all over, when the verdict had been given. They were in high glee, for some compliâ€" mentary things had been said that quite wiped out the memory of earier misâ€" lakes. Mr. Sharpe was sitting over a chess board wrapped in the solution of a problem that taxed him more than nc seeâ€"me. > â€"An | ught to meet the hink?" ind there was still a number of ends to be drawn in. They knew of the facts and Gardopoulos had aise. What do you THE PORCUPTNE ADVANCE. TTMMINS, ONTAZ | usual Irn the ordinary way he worked these out in his head and the fact that he had been indured to set up the pieces shoved that his ingenuity was ‘wing highly taxed !| Thought you‘d like to know the reâ€" eult," Maxley began. l He was gestured into silence. For ' haif an hour the trio sat in the darkâ€" ening room. Then Mr. Sharpe pushed the board aside and glanced up happily. l "This," he remarked, "is a wonderful ' occasion." <1| "Irdeed. it is," the superintendent |__"Did I?â€" That was a long time ago. ;I've changed my mind again. Thess icriminals are not subtle enough. One has to indulge in too much guesswork. They don‘t work to any rules of logic. |No. thank you, I find my other puzzles much more absorbing than police casesi" "Cor!" exclaimed Maxley. He allowâ€" ed himself to be led to the door almost in a daze. Sergeant Matthews chucâ€" lzled. He was gone, leaving Mr. Sharpe wondering what he meant. THE END. (All characters in this story are enâ€" tirely imaginary, and no reference to any living person is intended.) "I took up crossâ€"words myself on your recommendation," he said. "But I*e decided to give them up." Fy "Good!" Maxley rubbed his hands together. "Hope to run across you some other time when there‘s a case that appeals to you," he remarked. The little puzzleâ€"master â€" smiled. "Hardly likely," he told them. "But I understood you to say that you intended to set up as a sort of priâ€" vate detective?" $ Mr. Sharpe was iinmediatcly contrite, "I didn‘t mean to be rude," he apoloâ€" gised, "but rewards don‘t mean much to me. It is the puzzle that intrigues me. Thank you all the same. Tell Major Martinshawe I will call." ‘"Because," murmured the sergeant. "It either meant that or resigning from the Force. No man can serve two masâ€" ;. Direct Line to Val D‘Or from Montreal "Irndeed. it is," the superintendent agreed. “Gandopoulos is awarded the appropriate punhhmsnt and Smith gets an easy eighteen months. There‘s still Huntley Young, but we haven‘t much against him beyond attempted suicide." "I beg your pardon," said Mr. Sharpe, coming down to earth. "The chess was more interesting. There‘s a new proâ€" blem setter who has beaten me twice in a fortnight." "Rarely," Morrison Sharpe laughed happily. "Tt‘s the most refreshing thing imaginable to come off worst ocâ€" casionally." Maxley interrupted irritably. "We called to ask you if you would accept a presentation watch from the Chief Constable," he explained. "Whatever for?" "Why,â€" your valued help in solving the bus murder mystery." "Oh that! TI‘d almost forgotten about it. Thanks for the compliment, but I already have a watch." Promise of Railway Service This Fall Made by C.N.R. Officials. "You don‘t often lose," Matthews obâ€" served. have the slightest difficulty in mainâ€" taining the construction programme to complete the track from Senneterre to Val by the fall of this year and have it in shape to handle freight into this centre of the new mining district." There will be railway service from Montreal into Val d‘Or this fall, C. S. Gzowski, chief engineer of construcâ€" tion, Canadian National ailRways, on is return to Montreal last week from a trip of inspection of the mining disâ€" trict of Northwestern Quezec panied by Wilfred Gagnon, membe: Of the C.N.R. board of directors; Aliâ€" stair Fraser, viceâ€"president in charge of traffic, and N. B. Walton, chief oi transportation, B. L. Daly, another C.N.R. director, accompanied the party as far as Rouyn. The party inspected a porticn of the rightâ€"ofâ€"way of the new Senneterreâ€"Rouyn branch which will give direct connection between Val d‘Or. the rapidly growing centre of the disâ€" trict, with Montreal and Quebec. "The general feeling seems to e that the construction of the new branch, giving direct service between Montreal, qQuebec and Val d‘Or, will stili further accelerate the remarkable progress that has been made in the development of this district during the past 15 years. Clearing of the rightâ€"Ofâ€"way has been completed and excellent progress is beâ€" mng made in the grading and culvert and bridge work. I do not thirk we will The members of the party expressed themselves as very much impressed by the remarkable devleopment of this imâ€"| portant mireral territory. They flew from Nordnda to Siscoe, getting an exâ€" cellent view of the route oOf the new branch from the air. Aifter inspecting| the Siscoe, Shawkey, Lamagque, Sigma, Sullivan and Greeneâ€"Stabell mines in the vicinity of Val d‘Or, and meeting a large number of the leading mining and commercial men of the district..l they flew to Amos, where they ertrainâ€"| ea for the return trip. "Our c-on,st;ruc-" tion programme on the new branch is coming along according to schedule," Mr. Gzowski said, "arnd everyone apâ€"| pears to be satisfied with the progress | we are making. | d A. Laird: Never marry the girl who is the life of the party. 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