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After two remarkable escapes from death, Standish and his henchman, BENNY BANNISTER, follow Carliâ€" mero in a special highâ€"powered taxi to the house in Wimbledonâ€"with Standish as the driver. (Now Read On) CHAPTER VIIIL (Continued) FLASH OF A KNIFE A huge patch of gloomy waste, which Benny was able to recognize as Wimâ€" bledon Common, now loomed in front of them. Owing to his having to pay the catâ€"andâ€"mouse game in his strange niece of: motorâ€"sleuthing, Tiger had momentarily lost sight of his quarry, and when he came up to it again he was just in time to see the big car adisâ€" appear into the drive of one of the large mansions overlooking the Comâ€" mom. Crossing the road, he pulled up the taxiâ€"cab beneath some trees which afforde4 admirable seclusion and, getâ€" ting down from his seat, conferred with his "passenger." "Well, so far reasonably good, Benâ€" ny," he said in a tone that hid some of his disappointment. *"The man in the car was undoubtedly Carlimero, and he‘s gone into that house. He may be paying a purely social call, of course, since I can‘t imagine that any of the residents in this part of Lonâ€" don are anything but what they apâ€" pear to be. One can‘t tell, of course, but, on the surface, I should certainly say that tonight‘s effort has been largeâ€" ly wasted." "I don‘t agree there, guy‘nor," said "You stay there," was the rejoinder. Tiger, using the gait of a man who spent most of his walking hours at the wheel of a car, crossed the road. The person he had espied walking on the other pavement stopped at his hail. "Beg parding, sir, but could you tell me who lives in this ‘ouse?" pointing to the drive up which he had watched Carlimero‘s car go. "I got a passenger ‘ere," jerking his other thumb back in the direction of the taxiâ€"cab, "andâ€"â€" To his delight, he was cut short. "Â¥Yes. driver," said the man, a tall, distinguishedâ€"looking â€" individual, who looked as though he might be retired army officer, "that house is Fairlawns‘ and is lived in by a very great friend of mine, a Professor Lablonde." "Professor Lablonde, eh ... ? No," say that tonight‘s effort has been largeâ€" ly wasted." "I don‘t agree there, guy‘nor," said Bannister: "you could take a job as a London taxiâ€"driver toâ€"morrerâ€"if you wanted to, that is." The mouth hidden by the walrus moustache twitched in acknowleds â€" ment of the compliment. "Very nice of you to say So Benny; I don‘t mind admitting myself that I dldn‘t do so badlyâ€"but what I want to try to find out now is whether it was all worth while. You wait here a bit; there is a fellow over there I want to ask a question or two." Benny, who by this time was almost at the end of his second cigar, leaned "hideâ€"out". The Professor is a Gisâ€" tingcuished Egyptologist, whose brain has been affected by sunstroke. He hates Britain, and his greatest ambiâ€" tion is to become a modern Pharach. His mania is played upon by the agents who use the professor‘s fortune for their own ends. forward. "Will you be all guv‘nor?" he inquir never know, y‘know "You stay there," Tiger, using the f snent most of his w of mine, a Professor Lablonde." "Professor Lablonde, eh ... ? No," he went on, shaking his head, "that‘s not the party my passenger wants; ‘e was talkin‘ about a Mr. Fairweather." This time it was his informant who shook his head. "I know nobody by the name of Fairweather round about here, driverâ€" sorry," and he walked on. Purely out of habit, Standish watchâ€" ed him for a few seconds, and then saw his disappear up the drive of "Fairâ€" lawns." Curious? Or was it? True, the fellow had said that he was a great friend of the man who lived in this nousey, biktâ€"â€"â€" His further musings on the p¢int were sharply interruped; on the other side of the road there came the sound Carlimero‘s son, MAJOR VINOBENTO CARLIMERO, has arrived in London with a fixed Gdetermination to kill Standish, and also SIR HARKER BEL_ LAMY, Standish‘s Secret Service chief. Carlimero, as an underâ€"secretary at the Ronstadt Embassy, canrot be deâ€" ported. _A number of enemy agents, includâ€" ing Carlimero, use the Wimbledon Principal Characters "TIGER" STANDISH, famous sportsman, also an agent of the British Intelligence Service. SONIA STANDISH, his wife. BE NNY BANNISTER, henchman and chauffeur. SIR HARKER BELLAMY, Standish‘s Chief, head of "Q.I.". He is known as "The Mole". MAJOR VINCENTO CARLIMERO, agent of the Kingdom of Caronia, and a sworn enemy of Standish. ' jof an unmistakable scuffle, s a| must have been altacked! . "Tiger‘s | taxi, Benny Sprinting across with the speed that| had become familiar to the Swifts, fcotball club supporters, he found his. surmise correct, Benny, out of thef was strugglirg with no fawer| than four assailants Whether thése! were ordinary ruffians, merely intent| on robbery, or whether they were conâ€" | nected in some way with that night‘s| happenings, he didn‘t stop to speculate; | but hurling himself into the fray, MONDAYT . SUTLY PKD. 1940 u be all right by yourself, he inquired anxiously; ‘"you He expected his hearer to evince some sign of perturbation, but the crazy Lablonde merely chuckled. "Would it be the man Standish who followed you?" he inquired. Carlimero shook his head. "I don‘t know,‘ he replied, "but if it was it might be serious." Again Lablonde chuckled â€" and this time his merriment sounded sinister. "Â¥ou needn‘t worry," he said, "I have four men on guard always qutside this house. If they saw anythingâ€"Oor anyâ€" oneâ€"suspicious, they would beat them up first and bring them in here afterâ€" wards. With so much at stake‘""â€"here the fanatical fires which were never long absent from the speaker‘s eyes broke out again â€" "I must take all necessary precautions." t P C "'Very good sir," and the servant Gisâ€" appeared. "Shall we go down now." continued Lablonde, turning to his visitor, It was on the tip of the common cold which is so often tongue to spring the sensation negjected may lead to mariy complicaâ€" he felt certain, was due to take ) t;ions if it is not given the proper care. before many more minutes. How would : Send for Dr. Barton‘s booklet entitled Lablonde take it? How would he reâ€";«the Common Cold" (No. 104) today. act to the amazing fraud that had| agdress your request to The Bell Liâ€" been practised, and of which in smne‘brary. Post Office Box 75, Station O, measure at least, he was the victim? New York, N.Y., enclosing ten cents Well, if he showed any resentment, cover cost of handling and mailing would have to be got rid ofâ€"the thing and mention the name of this paper. could easily be done; they would be | (Registered in accordance far enough away from any possible inâ€" with the Copyright Act.) ‘eart after that and you and I were alone once again. . . But that‘s not to say we‘re goin‘ to be alone much longâ€" er, so far as I can see; ‘Oow are you feelin‘ now? I‘m goin‘ to get at the wheel of this ‘ere ‘bus and tootle away." ‘"You saved my life, Benny," said Standish, slowly recovering his wits. "Well, wot abaht it? We‘re only quits once again,." replied Bannister as he closed the door of the cab and proâ€" ceeded to climb into the driver‘s seatl. The butler entering broke in 01 limero‘s reply. "Colonel Fortescue has called fessor," the man said. Lablonde made an impatient g "I can‘t be bothered with hin I have a tremendous lot to do. him my excuses and say that T disposed. "But you are not looking well, my dear Carlimero," the Professor said, after looking at his caller. "Has anyâ€" thing happened to upset you?" The Caronian decided that it would be tbetter to tell the other the truth. "I‘m not sureâ€"but I may have been followed here toâ€"night," he replied. "All the way from the Embassy, a taxiâ€"~ cab kept dodging in and out of the tra*fic and it was just behind me when I turned into the drive a few minutes #»* ago. mummy and to‘ go to any price to secure it. Now, apparently it had arâ€" rived at the house in Wimbledon, and Lablonde was eager to show it to his riend. CHAPTER XI THE MUMMY TALKS Professor Edmund Lablonde was in the hall waiting for his visitor. The FEgyptologist was in a state of suct great excitement when he shook hands that Carlimero wondered if the other was not due for another of his heart attacks. Carlimero, who had his own reasons for feeling excited, said the aApproâ€" priate thing. He knew very well to what the Professor was referring; according to his own statement. He had recently purchased the mummy of Ptah, the Overseer of Rameses III. In doing so he had outbid by several thousands of pounds an American colâ€" lector. His agents in Paris had had definite instructions io purchase the A few minutes later, a taxi driven at such a furious pace that it broke all existing speed records for London taxiâ€" cabs, shot away in the direction of London‘s West End. "It has come!" the Professor said n a tense whisper; "you shall see it soon â€"I promise you!" Tiger, recovering from the brief spell of unconsciousness, looked up into the anxious face of Bannister. He was lying on the scushions of the taxiâ€"can, he noticed. "Where‘sâ€"â€"?" he started. "‘Opped it," was the succinct reply; "you made a couple of ‘em feel very sorry, and when I kicked the cove with the knife‘e ‘opped it, tooâ€"but he went A bit splyâ€"footed, I can tell you! As for the other, ‘e seemed to kind of lose So intent was he on rescuing his servant from dGdisaster that he did not think of him self; and it was in conse._ quence of this act that he did not stop once to look round. Sprinting across with the speed that had become familiar to the Swifts fcotball club supporters, he found his surmise correct, Benny, out of the taxi, was struggling with no feawer than four assailants Whether thése were ordinary ruffians, merely intent on robbery, or whether they were conâ€" nected in some way with that night‘s happenings, he didn‘t stop to speculate; but hurling himself into the fray, hit out to right and left. He paid the penalty by receiving a heavy blow on the back of the head. As he reeled, he saw the unmistakable flash of a knife. . . . *"Cripes guv‘nor, I thought it was all up then!" » an impatient gesture. thered with him now. ndous lot to do. Give and say that I‘m inâ€" in on Carâ€" IO- An inflammation extending up this tube to middle ear sets up mucous and then pus formation, middle ear inâ€" ifect.ion (otitis media), a forerunner of great number of cases of hard of | hearing. Most physicians believe that tonsils should not be removed as they act as filters and disappear later in life anyâ€" way. But physiclans agree that inâ€" fected tonsils and adenolds are the cause of many cases of hard of hearing and should be removed. Remember, hard of hearing in most cases is not inherited. The tendency to loss of hearing may be inherited in that certain organisms are very destructive in certain families. The Common Cold The common cold which is so often If you could get a view of the back of the throat and nose you would find that the tonsils, adenoid formation, and certain sinuses are so close to the entrance or mouth of the eustachian tube that a twentyâ€"five or fiftyâ€"cent piece would cover or touch all of them. It is not hard then for inflammation of tonsils, infected teeth and sinuses to reach this eustachian tube entrance directly, aside from reaching it by way Similarly, adenoia tissue can actuâ€" ally block, or partly block, the entrance of the eustachian tube and air cannot get up to the middle ear. of blood vessels and the helpers of the blood vessels, the lymphatic vesâ€" sels. inz at birth if the condition was inâ€" herited. These children all developed what is ncw called the adenoid or tonsil expression on their face, which then was not generally recognized by paâ€" rents. Infected tonsils and enlarged masses of adenoid tissue inflame or block the passage of the eustachian tube which carries air from the throat to the middle ear. If this tube gets inflamed and its surface lining swells, then air cannot get up into the middle ear ‘to ventilate it properly and allow the ear drum to vibrate and send sound of the right amount and pittch to the auditory or hearing nerve, HARD OF HEARING DUE TO INXNFECTION, NOT TO HEREDITY I remember a family with four children, all of whom became hard of hearing as they reached their ‘teens. As their mother was hard of hearing, it was thought that the youngsters had inherited the condition, but even as a youngster I couldn‘t figure why these children were not hard of hearâ€" inz at birth if the condition was inâ€" Toronto, July 19â€"Elections of district deputy grand masters in the Ontario Grand Masonic District was held Thursday and results in Northern Onâ€" tario sections are as follows: Algomaâ€" Charles E. Wilkins, Fort William; Nipissing Westâ€"Matthew Nisbet, Caâ€" preol: Timiskaming â€" John W. Fanâ€" ning, Kapuskasing. "Take off the mask," he whispered, his frail pbody and wrinkled face twitching with excitement. "You shall take off the mask yourâ€" self," declared the Professor; "that is the treat I have reserved for you. In a moment from now you shall look upâ€" on the face of a man who has been dead for thousands of years!" With that, beckoning to his comâ€" panion to follow him, he clambered up the steps of the catafalque, and peered into the huge coffin. es e terference. And Lablonde‘s heart trouble would be a sufficient alibi. Deciding that he would defer the disclosure, he assented, and followed his host to a secret door in the fooring As he teetered towards the case, wringing his hands and showing every sign of almost maniacal delight, Carliâ€" mero found himself wondering whether discloesure, he assented, and followed his host to a secret door in the fooring and down a long, steep flight of steps until he found himself in a huge cellar that had once evidently been used for storing . wines. ‘"There is perhaps my greatest trophy!" declared Lablonde, pointing to a bier on which was a magnificent mummy case. This was open so that the masked face of the bandaged occu. pant was freely exposed. the old fool‘s prain had not completely gone. District Deputy Grand Masters Masonic Order Bv lames W . Barton, (To be Continued) of Poutrs That Boup NCE ONTABTO Then we come to the Vanquishing Americans, and they stick with Frankâ€" lin Delano Roosevelt, who is a good neighbour, a statesman, and a gentleâ€" man. Finance For the last few days we have formâ€" ed the custom of strolling into the stock exchange for peace and quiet. It is about the quietest place in Canada right at the moment and the trading floor that once rang with shouting and with tumult seems like a cloistered chapel. Trades are few and far between, and they are recorded in the book by statisâ€" ticians who only a few short years ago would deal only in astronomical figures â€"and would only speak them trippingâ€" ly to their secretariesâ€"not write them out laboricusly to be corrected later by the help that still remains. A great brooding silence reigns over the market place nowâ€"Some day we are going to write a poem about ‘"The Deserted Pillage"â€"but we find out by cautious engquiry that it is not the Toronto market alone, that is acting as if it was the last resting place of many misspent dollars. He sort of changed his mind back at Dominion election time, about making farming a full time job againâ€"so it shouldn‘t be such a terrible hardship to make governing a fullâ€"time jobâ€" even on Saturdaysâ€"not at a haying hand‘s pay tacked on top of $20 a day. Chickens Pieceâ€"Meal You can now buy chicken by the piece in Chicago. We mean the edible variety. The idea is that some families don‘t need or can‘t afford a whole chicken, Dictator victories have caused a parâ€" alysis to creep through all the markets of the world and we find the following so William Grunow, who used to be something in radios, is now selling pieces of roasted chicken to twoâ€" member families, and families who don‘t want any part of a chicken but the white meat or some other favoured portion. Inefficient "mash Bottle Necks in Your Proâ€" duction Department" advises an ad. Considering the fact that the Hon. Harry gets something «over $20 a day, counting Saturdays, Sundays and holiâ€" daays for filling that governme:t ofâ€" fice, and haymakers come at two or three dollars a day, maybe he should leave the haymaking to haymakers and just loll around close to the telephone. Why don‘t they hang a few bottle gpeners around? A‘fter w@wll the ballyâ€"hoo the Languishâ€" ing Americans have Wendell Willkic for whom to voteâ€"and he is no slouch. $8,000 Farmers Three times Saturday, Hon. Harry Nixon was called from the hayfields and the barns to answer longâ€"distance telephone calls about affairs pertaining to the government office that he fills. This seems a somewhat crude meâ€" thod in this day and age. It amazed us to see a candidate of his stature on the ticket after considerâ€" ation had been given to people like Dewey. Dewey wouldn‘t do, but Willâ€" kie will. In his column in The Toronto Teleâ€" gram, Thomas Richard Henry has the following breezy comments this week: Surprise Party The German weekly "Die Wehrâ€" macht" indicates a surprise attack on Britain by Germany. Such a surprise attack would probably come under the heading of a "not entirely unsuspected surprise." The Future President It is always an amazing thing to us, considering the kind of a wild west side show American political «conventions are, and the kind of crackâ€"pots that take part, that they finally sort out a pretty fine sort of man as presidential candidate. Germany Will be the One to Get the Future President of United States. .A Farmer at $8,000 a Year. ‘Other Big Surprise Now Now in London, Queen Géraldine of Albania may sail across the Atâ€" lantic with her son, Prince Alexander. The halfâ€"American queen of King Zog was forced to filee with her newlyâ€"born son when Mussolini‘s hirelings walked into Albania unannounced. CE dE "Game Warden Elgin Binkley of New Liskeard (whose jurisdiction °exâ€" tends to Latchford) has Chief Summers with a riflie and authâ€" ority to take armed men into the bush to try and shoot the animal. "Scarcity of food in the bush is the reason advanced by local game hunâ€" ters for the bear‘s municipal #sits, which incite considerable interest to tourists in these parts who have tried in vain to get a glimpse of the pilferer. "The pig scuttler‘s latest daring act of swine stealing was on Sunday night last when he took two of Wilffred Roâ€" billard‘s 3%â€"yearâ€"old hogs. The bear was apparently disturbed by dogs, howâ€" ever, as he dropped his quarry side by side a short distance away." "Led by Chief of Police P. A. Sumâ€" mers , a posse of Latchford citizen will be formed to scour the nearby bush in an attempt to rid the town of its present menace to domestic animals and fowl, Bruin the bear, which is also deemed a peril to children living in the outskirts of the town. In all the culprit has taken to date six pigs and three chickens, and attempted to break into the third hen house at the north end of the town. Joseph Gorâ€" reau, the owner of the latter, had preâ€" pared for the attack, however by nailâ€" ing the dGdoor with six inch spikes. Deep claw marks were plainly visible where the prowler had attempted to gain entrance. The fourth pig to be seized by the marauder was on Thursâ€" day evening last, when Captain Mc â€" Carthy Burns, hearing the «queals of one of his pigs, set out in a Canog, armeéed with a rifle, to "The Point," an istand 200 yards from the lake shore, where he houses a number of pigs and sheep. Seeing the animal thief with a pig, the owner fired at the bear but This seems to be more of a crack over the head with an axe than any subtle dig with a rapier. Unorthodox "American industry must adopt unâ€" orthodox business methods," advisas a trade bulletin. And now America had better rush its preparedness program. Plain Speaking In an open letter to Representative Lewis Thill, of Milwaukee, Wis., A. J. Denne, of Toronto, writes, "Hitler alâ€" ready has borught the war to United Statesâ€"and you know his methods. I am afraid you know them too well!" ‘Armed Posse Out Hunting for Bear in Englehart District Dcoes that mean denving the cabbage leaf in the cigarsâ€"Oor is that the orâ€" thodox method? Trifling We see that rifle women have been referred to in the morning paper as "rifleists." So ‘we presume that we are a bowlâ€" ist, Bobby ‘Hewitson is a golfist (a "gclfist," not a "goldfish") and Ted Reeve is an old lacrossist. Hitler The iPost has an article about "A Tortured Neurotic, Flop House Dereâ€" lict," in answering the question "Who Was Hitler?" missed in the darkness. The Jatter dropped the mangled pig, which later had to be shot, and scurried off into the bush. "His tracks were also noticed Saturâ€" day morning in a vegezable garden in "Little Quebec," and he made his apâ€" pearance at a window of another house during the night, attracted in the moâ€" ther‘s opinion who was alone with the baby, by the cries of the infant. The New Liskeard Speaker last week has the following account of a bear hunt in the Latchford area: "Our‘statistical department has been augmented by an expert tea leaf readâ€" er who will make market forecasts without charge. Bring your own tea." That "Bring your own tea‘" is the cue. The financial business has all gone to nil. advertisement in "The Bawl â€" Street Journal."‘ Pigs and Chickens Killed by Bear This Season. SALADA ‘"There is always a chance that they will evacuate all this part of the coast, and if so T imagine all those with deâ€" fense jobs will stay. I‘m a First Aid Commandant of rather a large area, so I take it I shall remain. Anyway, I see no point in leaving. If one had an eighteenth centrury enemy it might be reasonable, but this lad is an Attila (he, too, does his hair in a funny way, you notice) and I‘m convinced that the only way to beat him is for every livâ€" ing creature to fight inch by inch all the way. "Everyone Not Here Is Missing something" "Mind you, everyone who is not here is missing something. It may all end in blood and tears and death and tyrâ€" anny (which I doubt very strongly and see no reason why), but now at the moment it has restored the Elizabethan England. The most constant regret I have is that father has missed it now that it‘s here. I am glad he missed the last three years of nightmare antiâ€" cipation (it‘s been like living in a shed with a tiger cub and seeing the blasted thing growing in size and offensiveness every day), but now that the moment has come it‘s worth being alive to see It. It would have interested him so. If we should go down (I suppose there‘s an cutside chance of it, but cannot possibly believe it) we shan‘t have rotâ€" ted away. We‘re as tremendous as we were in 1545. Think of it! Think of the parashots, the TIronsides, the church bell alarums. It‘s glorious stuff, and the spirit of the country has awakened to it as it awakened when the secret call went round to the little boats to go to Dunkirk. ‘"The last war took the glory out of fighting and left a world of pacifists. My generation has been trained (on secondâ€"hand disillusionment) to think "‘The country itself is as desp and clear and sound as it ever was. At the moment ‘it‘s positively elated in a quick secret sort of way. of the U.S.A. who was born in Britain. In her letter, which is printed in the New York Sun, she says, in part: "England will win, all right, if the United States dossn‘t have a Naz! revolution first. If the United States turns out the metal and the Canaâ€" dians ‘Co. mind the kids and train the airmen we‘ll bottle that chap up and starve him out and finally kill him. There is, T hear, a certain amount of defeatist tall; among the intellectâ€" uals, but you know England. She doesn‘t take her itnellectuals seriously. They lie on the surface of the country like duckweed on a pond, and are abcut as deceptive, as reliable and as yellow. ‘"‘Never doubt that we shall win," writes a woman air warden on the Essex coast of England to a resident Never Doubt That We Shall Win, Says Essex Air Warden Engish Woman Writes Plainly to Friend in the U.B.A. The Perfect Thirst Quencher Keep your cool clothes clean and ready to That‘s rule number one for a cool: comfortâ€" able summer ... and here‘s number two! Send everything to the laundry. Why let the little lady slave over the washing at home when she should be out enjoying sumâ€" mer sunshine? Urge her to phone the laundry toâ€"davy‘! T I M MINS LA UNDR Y PHONE 153 and have us call New Method For just this reason, I am organiz« ing a popular demand that all support, short of nothing, be given to our neighboring democracy, Canada. We cannot ‘be secure in any world in which there is not equal security for Canada. It is our purpose to have Canada exempted from all provisions of the present neutrality law. If the Amerfâ€" can people wish to contribute to the defence of Canadaâ€"as many of them doâ€"no law should be permitted to stand that would prevent them. Also there should be no quibble over cash or credit. Had our northern boundaries been occupied by a hostile nation in the last century, instead of by friendly Canada, the cost to us would have been almost incaleculable. (Letter: to } the New : York Herald Tribune) â€"â€"â€"Sir:â€"It seems to me that in the whole crisis between the totalitarian states and the democracies there has been in the United States too much talk, tco little action. ness and heroism as a Cchemical pecus Harity. Now., for the first time, we‘re being given a demonstration of what these words meant to the Elizabethans, and I think all those nations who still think ofâ€" England as France‘s little brother, now left alone, are going to be surprisedâ€"and delighted," Would Help Canada and Put No Limit on the Help J V . Bonhomme on a_ Favourable Basis. Terms Can be Arranged Good Location, very modern and completely furnished . Has 22 bedâ€" rooms â€" and is nicely â€" laid _ out throughout. REED BLOCK West Haverstraw, NY July 10, 1940 POR FURTHER PARTICULARS SEE The total gross for the past 12 months was $39,200 Insurance, Real Estate Mortzgages, LICENSED HOTEL VINCENT BURKE ) as foolhardis chemical pecus PHONE 2250