The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

CHAPTER XI MOTIIER AND DAUGHTER Silence fell on the room as Insp Dollimore spoke. Sadie Pachmann flashed a glance at the elder woman who shrugged her shoulders helplessly, "I‘m not going into any cellars," said Sadie Pachmann, uneasily,. "Just as you wish." "What can you want me to do in the gellar?" she demanded . angrily, *‘It‘s Fernandez‘s job, not mine." "You stay here, please Fernandez," Dollimore said. "When did your mother come here, Miss Pachmann?" Ducros asked when Dollimore brought her into the office. "Some weeks ago," Sadie Pachmann said casually. ; "Why did she come?" "I got her a job. Anything wrong in "Very nearly. Now we‘re going down to have a look at the cellars. There‘s a door there which seems to be locked. You may know where the key is. You lead the way, Ferguson," he went on to the Yard man who had discovered the door,. "What job?" "Housekeeper." "She came, as a matter of fact, the day after Mrs. Lewin was murdered," Ducros said. "Then you know all about it," the American woman said with a touch of her old jauntiness. "You know the door he refers to?" Ducros asked Sadie Pachmann. She was twisting her hankerchief; it was a different Sadie Pachmannâ€"her mrrogance and impudence had been nearly all frightened out of her. "T+ will be ereatly in vour favour and h. Th dicct db PR C To b us o ol c Ne EoC WE .2 Femandezs job, not mine $ "I‘ll tell you. Where exactly is the door, Frerguson?" "In the second wine cellarâ€"in the "Â¥You stay here, Ferguson. We don‘t want any funny business this end," \Ducros said,"Let me have your torch." Dollimore was already some way along far corner. The door was covered by the tunnelâ€"like passage and Ducros a wineâ€"bin, but it was evident that the | hnurried after him. Twenty yards ahead bin had recently been moved. The bin,| the passage turned halfâ€"right, and then, as a matter of fact, is easily moved ja few yards beyond, halfâ€"left, away from the door and the wall." l "We‘re underneath the lake," Dolliâ€" "I‘ll tell you. Where exa door, Frerguson?" "In the second wine cel far corner. The door was a winceâ€"bin, but it was evide that? "It will be greatly in your favour and | would probably lessen your sentence if | I were able to tell the judge that youl had helped up, even at this late hour,"| Ducros suggested. "It‘s up to you. Are|! you going to tell us where the key is or do we smash the door down? The best yeou can hepe to do is to delay us for a! few minutes." | "I haven‘t given him the opportunity to help." Ducos said, "I don‘t want to do so. If you persist in refusing it‘ll probably be the worse for you. We know who is behind the door." "HMere‘s the key," said Mrs. Lawes, "Sadie doesn‘t know a thing about it. It was given to me by Pernandez." She held out a ring on which were two oldâ€" *"*Look hereâ€"â€"this {fair," she saild agzain On the RETURN journey, tickets will be valid for travel on C.N.R. Train No,. 1 from Montreal 8.20 p.m. Monday, April Excursion travel will be handled on Train N9. 46, connecting at North Bay with C.N.R, No. 2 Tickets will be valid to leave destination points Wednesday April 3, 1940 ublished by Special Arrangement Pembroke Jct., Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec via North Bay and Canadian National Railways To Points in the Maritimes via North Bay and Canadian National Railways BARGAIN COACH EXCURSION THURSDAY, MARCH 28TH, 1940 Bargain Coach excursion tickets not valid on "The Northland," Trains 49 and 50. Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway The Nipissing Central Railway Company WILL OPERATE BARGAIN COACH EXCURSION FRIDAY, MARCH 29TH, 1940 FOR FURTHER PARTICULARS ApPPEYy To LOCAL AGENT Fernandcz 'fashioned keys, as she spoke. TER Ducros took them: "We‘ll go into the Inspector question of responsibility later. â€" You ‘two women will stay in this room until ce: "I‘m you reseive further instructions. If you afâ€" S8Y HOLLOWAY HORN In front of them stretched a long, narrow passage. The light was bad but they could see that it was paved with roughâ€"hewn stone squares and that the walls were built of brick. "YÂ¥ou stay here, Ferguson. We don‘t The bin was at right angles to the wall of the cellar to which one end of it was fastened. Behind it was a small door of dark wood. "Let‘s have a look, anyway," said Ducros as he inserted the key in the lock. It turned easily and he opened the door. Ducros, always methodical took out the keys and slipped them into his pocket,. "We‘re underneath the lake," Dolliâ€" more said. *"See what the roof of the tunnel is like." "No. You will stay here," Ducros snapped. "Now Ferguson, let‘s have a look at this mysterious door." Ferguson led the way to the baize door which shut off the kitchens, and, at the end of a passage, opened a door on the other side of which was a flight of stone steps leading down to a large cellar. The sellars were airy and dry and lit by electricity. Most of the wine bins were empty, but there were several packingâ€"cases and other timber stacked in the middle of the room. "It‘s at the far end," Perguson exâ€" plained: "I noticed that one of the bins had been moved and on examining it is discovered that it could be turned on concealed hingesâ€"it has obviously been recently moved. But this it is." "What part of the house is this under?" Dollimore asked. "That‘s what puzzled me, sir," Ferguâ€" son said. "The wall is beneath the front of the house so I can‘t see what this door can leag to." This room was faintly illuminated by a small window in the roof, the glass of which was either opaque or dirty. An open door gave on to a large room in which was an old oak table, and several other articles of furniture. This room, too, was illuminated through a window in the roof. A book was open on the table: a chair in front of it had been pushed back and overturned as if the person who had been reading it had stood up hurriedly. PALE GREEN PYJAMAS Dollimore glanced round sharply beâ€" fore he darted across to a door on the left this opened into a smaller room in which was a campâ€"bed that had been slept in. There were two suitcases in the room and on the bottom of the bed was a suit of pale green pyjJamas. The initials on‘ the suitcases were "She was in here approximately three days," said Dollimore. "She used to smoke one cigarette after each meal â€"n1never more. T remember her telling me so and there are 14 cigarette stubs in the ashtray. And they are the cigarettes she smoked; one of them, I‘m practically certain, was smoked toâ€"day. It‘s only a third smoked; she was apâ€" parently interrupted and stubbed it qut!" "Let‘s make certain of that," said Ducros. He went all round each room careâ€" fully. "No," he said, "when she, went she went out through the door and along the passage to the cellar. And since she didn‘t take her belongings with her, she went in a hurry, I should say." "Sshe‘s not here. There‘s no point in stopping here. Let‘s go back and see what we can elicitâ€"that‘s the word, my ladâ€"from those pets upstairs." Ducros carefully locked both doors. "You‘ve seen nobody, Perguson?" Dollimore asked. "No. But I began to wonder what had happened to you, sir," he said as he turned to follow the two detectives through the cellar. "What‘s that?" Ducros asked over his shoulder, indicating a door in the wall on the left. "It‘s unlocked," Ferguson â€" said. "‘There‘s a short flight of iron steps leading up into a kind of yard at the side of the house." "Why is it unlocked?" "I don‘t know, sir." Ducros opened the door and went up into the yard, which was deserted. "We may as well go this way to the front of the house,‘ he said. The yard opened into the main garâ€" age, but Dollimore noticed that at the other end a gate led into the park. The three men went through the garage to the front of the house. The policeman on duty in the conservatory looked at them in surprise as they came up. Ducros followed him In silenc:e Dollimore initials. On a primitive dressing table were several toilet articles in silver each of which was engraved with the same initials, But of Mary Stenning herself there was no sign. "Not too good," said Ducros. "We‘ll take those beauties upstairs into cusâ€" tody. The third degree is not tolerated in this country, of course, but I‘m going to get the truth out of them or bust!" "Where is she?" Dollimore asked, alâ€" most to himself. ‘"She‘s been in hereâ€" a prisonerâ€"several days. And there‘s no means of escapeâ€"no signs of escape, anyway." "Compiiclity in whal‘" Gdemandéd Sadie Pachmann. "Of complicity in either kidnapping or murderâ€"or both. Mrs. Lawes here had the keys. There is no sign even of an attempted escape. Miss Stenning "Very good, sir." "Come on, Dollimore." The two women were sitting in silence when the officials reâ€"entered the offize. "Where is Miss Stenning?" Ducros began in an ominously quiet voice. "I don‘t know " said Sadie Pachmann. "I have arrested Fernandez on susâ€" picion of being implicated in the murâ€" der of Mrs. Lewin," Ducros said: ‘*You â€"Pachmannâ€"were also an accomplice. Do you want to be hanged by the neck until you are dead?" he asked the quesâ€" tion very seriously. "If not you will be well advisedâ€"as they say in your counâ€" tryâ€"to come clean." "That‘s true," said Mrs. Lawes, surâ€" prisingly. "As a malter Oof faclt, ItSs JjJust aADOuLl your only chance,." Ducros said to the elder woman. "We have discovered where you had imprisoned Miss Stenâ€" ning. Presently we shall have the fingerâ€"print experts down there, and if you have been in there at all no further proof will be necessary of your comâ€" plicity.," U owed him into the room. Dollimore indicated the Copyright "If you don‘t tell them what hapâ€" pened I shall," Mrs. Lawes said angrily. There was a tap at the door and one of the policemen put in his head. "Bring him in." said Ducros before any questions had been asked. A moment later Fernandez came into the room handcuffed and resentful. ‘"Why do you want to shield him?" "In my experience, Fernandez," Ducros said, "and it is a considerable oneâ€"â€"people .do pay, sooner or later, for what they do. You‘re going to pay and so are these women." â€"@live or dead â€" left those rooms through the door." "What charge am I arrested on?" Fernandez demanded. "At the moment I have several charges, but they will probably all boil down to one. That one is a simple one as well as being serious." "HMe shut her up there because she had seen Mr. Lewin," the elder woman burst out. A CASE OF FIRMNESS Fernandez was suddenly livid with anger and raised his hands as if he would strike the woman to the ground, but Dollimore grabbed his arm and pushed him to the far side of the room. _ "When did she see Mr. Lewin?*" Dolliâ€" more asked sharply. "Two days after the old woman was killed "Who sent for you?" "Sadieâ€"my â€" daughter. . Fernandez told her to send for me." "Go on," Ducros said quietly, "If you tell the truth, even now, you may find that is the best policy. I can see that you played a minor part in the affair compared with Fernandez." "That‘s all wrong," Sadie Pachmann interrupted angrily. "I‘ve told you it was wrong. It wasn‘t Mr. Lewin." "she told me that the Lawyer said it was but that she knew it wasn‘t. It‘s no use, Sadie. I‘m going to tell the truthâ€"it‘s our only chance." "I want to ‘phone ‘to my lawyer," Fernandez said in a calmer tone. "If I were to tell you what you want â€" what you deserve â€" you‘d be surâ€" prised," said Ducros. "Take him down to the station in one of the police cars and lock him up. T‘ll be down later on this evening to have a chat with him." "That lawyer came down with Mr Lewin and Miss Stenning saw him. It was when she got back from the inâ€" quest." Dollimore was listening intently; the jigâ€"saw puzzle was fitting in as jigâ€"saw puzzles do when on approaches the end. For a moment it looked as if Fernanâ€" dez were going to struggle, but suddenly he altered his mind and turned to the door in silence. "Nm#, Mrs. Lawes," Ducros said evenly. "How did he try asked. "You were her warden?" "No. I looked after her. I took her food and got anything she wanted." "You knew that she was being deâ€" tained against her will?" "Yes. T told Sadie that it would end as it has. I begged her to break away from this devil, Fernandez. But Sadie daren‘t. She was terrified of Rolliter, the lawyerâ€"and her husband." "Cardew?" Ducros asked. "vou fool," Sadie cried, "Can‘t you see that these splits have bluffed you? You‘ve got it all wrong anyway." "1 don‘t want to be more drastic with you than I‘m forced to," Ducros said. "But if you arent careful you will go down to the station like Fernandez. We‘ve got another car outside. â€" This ien‘® hluff Sadie. I can see that Ferâ€" "But if you arent careiul YOU Will down to the station like Fernandecz. wWe‘ve got another car outside. â€" This isn‘t bluff, Sadie. I can see that Ferâ€" andez and Rolliter are the people reâ€" sponsible, and that you and your mothâ€" er were acting under their instructions and influence. Now, gO On, Mrs. Lawes." "I went down three times a day," she said. "But when I went in with her lunch toâ€"day the place was empty. She just wasn‘t there." "Yes. Go on. What did you ao?" "I told Fernandez. (He seemed to go to pieces. Within half an hour he and Sadie had packed and were in a car. 1 was to follow later, after Mr. Rolliter had rung up That must have been about when you got here. The only thing Fernandez tried to do was Lo ‘phone to the lawyer. I was trying to get the number for him before he went, but there was no reply. That‘s why I nad to wait for Rolliter to ‘phone here." Ducros glanced at Dollimore. "You doubleâ€"crossing _ sniveller!" Sadie burst out. "I‘m doing this as mucth for your sake as my own, Sadie," Mrs. Lawes said. "The only way we Can get out of the jam we‘re in is to tell the truth." "There‘s one point," Dollimore put in. "Was Fernandez surprised when you toid him that Miss Stenning had gone?" "surprised! He went as yellow as brass and started sweatingâ€"that‘s how surprised he was. He began by actcusâ€" ing me of doubleâ€"crossing him and letâ€" ting her go. If I‘d known what I know now I‘d have done so as soon as she was put in there." "Your positive of thisâ€"positive that he had no idea she had gone until you told him?" "Absolutely. Why, he and Sadie O C : now I‘d have done so as soOn as she was put in there." "Your positive of thisâ€"positive that he had no idea she had gone until you told him?" "Absolutely. Why. he and Sadie tried to bolt almost at once. If Miss sSternning had got away the place would be a hornet‘s nest in no time and Ferâ€" nandez knew it." "Did you think she had got away?" "I don‘t know. There‘s only one set of keys," the woman said doubtfully. "That isâ€"as far as I know," she added. "And where were they kept, Dolli«â€" "I‘m doing this as mucth for your sake as my own, Sadie," Mrs. Lawes said. "The only way we can get out of the jam we‘re in is to tell the truth." "There‘s one point," Dollimore put in. threatened to murder het to forcee her?" Ducros before I w intently; the Some Problems of Retailers Arising from W ar Conditions The complex problems faced by reâ€" tailers throughout Canada have been rendered increasingly difficult since september, 1939. An article in the spring issue of The Commerce Quarterâ€" ly, University of Western Ontario‘s business publication outlines the presâ€" ent conditions affecting priceâ€"setting in Canadian stores, and explains how retailers can relieve the situation. Writâ€" ten by Professor Waiter A. Thompson, head of the Depariment of Business Administration, and Gordon H. Ingram well known retailer, the article shows the importance of style, local demand competition, and advertising in the priceâ€"setting division of retail business Retailers Have Made Genâ€" eral Effort to Keep Prices at Right Levels. The already complex pricing 11 has been rendered increasingly cult since September, 1939, the continues. War usually brings ers‘ market. One of the wisest ures taken by the Canadian C ment was the setting up of C; Wartime Price and Industry The setting up of this comp manned board was as pcpular ; as could have been made by the ; ment. It is generally recogni the public and the business com that no one should make mone this war. A variety of additiona which will tend to keep prite 1 hand are described by the ° Considerable capacity in machi man power to manufacture good trol of credit inflation, and mee means of keeping down the pri are in turn opposed by rising transportation costs, exchange vantage on purchases from the States, and the switching of ma and men from consumers‘ goods produci.ions in the battle to keey at normal levels. more asked. "On a nall in the kitzhen." "Who else knew about tl ground passage?" "Jones, the porter." (To be Continued) The price situation of Sep 1939, certainly did not suggest a enerall; the bus ould m rietv of Sales Phone 800 acity in machine antt| anufacture goods, con-; lation, and mechanical! s down the price level} josed by rising ocean osts, exchange disadâ€"}! TIMMINS GARAGE CO. LTD. le in th e Quartet Ontario WIrIters line ant hinery to war prices uUndel ember, downâ€" 11 emp 1€ nerchnandist Wid prices 91 1 OIY A V A rise in a the accelerâ€" imny imum qual 1€ CAl Office Phone 318 i \ % g\:\’\;\,’\uv AsTE C ut your He (¢( whyv w inf Mi him masile wearing qu vÂ¥ touched." aught take ppeat Beca Did Quarre! lever Fellocw PAGE THRER o lot ong as the ubstantialâ€" w. T know