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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4TH, 1941 Timmins and District business establishments enjoy a good patronage from the residents of this community because through the years they have earned the confi dence of the public and are coâ€"operating to retain it. You are invited to inspect the values offered by th e firms listed below. u. e ae" A 4â€"door model thoroughly reâ€"conâ€" ditioned. Equipped with weatherâ€" eye, etc. Winterized, $7 7 5. A Sacrifice 28 Second Avenue Phone 2800 CAK ES BUNS PASTRY RYE BREAD FRENCH PASTRY 40 Third Avenue Phone 1875 The Most Upâ€"toâ€"date Bake Plant in the North Daigneault Motors 10 Pine St. S 31 Wilson Avenue Finger Waves _ Permanents Paper Curls Marcels Manicures Komal Waves For Appointmentâ€"PHONE 1320 15 Cedar N. (near Third Ave.) Learn Beauty Culture under a Government â€" Licensed _ school supervised by Maye HMHodgins PERMANENT WAVES $1.25 56 Mountjovy s. Phone 134 The Vanity Shoppe Hairdressing THERMIQUE ana MACH INELESS PERMANENTS 45 Preston St. S BUILDER‘S SUPPLIES 186 Balsam =t Coal Dealer CLEANX FUEL CLEAX SERVICE Wrecker and Garage XEW AND USED PARTS FORK ALL MAKES OF CARS 18 Mattagami Boulevard Phone 1351â€" W 28 First Avenue Ask for coupons redeemable on Bread and Pastry. Try our Famous Doâ€"Nuts and rrench Pastry LBERTS pREAD LWAYS PEST National Bakery 30 First Avenue Albert‘s Beauty Parlour Manufacturer LUMBEKR, SASH, TRIM, ETC. Builder‘s Ssupplies and Firewood DISTRIBUTOR® FOR ALL Leading Brands of Fuel Timmins School of Hairdressing Mike Mirkovich ‘38 NASH SEDAN The Home of Better Bread PASTRY AND CAKES OUR sSPECIALTY AUTO SUPPLIES COAL AND wWOoOD DEALERS Building Contractor AUTO DF "% »A BEAUTY SHOPS Pigeon Auto Union Coal Company Ltd. Schumacher Bakery Bread 8¢ Loaft J.P Roy sechumacher Phone 658 M Phone 1060 Phone 1445 Phone 2570 Phone 221 Phone 102 Your Rest Cleaning Service Lynch Appliance and Furniture Co. 39 Third Avenue Phone 1870 Exclusive dealers for Westinghouse True Temperature Controlled Reâ€" frigerators, Electric Ranges, Radios, Washers, Vacuum Cleaners, Etc. "THE HOME OF FINE FURNITURE" Let Us Take Care of the Pasteurized Milk Cream Buttermilk The Farmer Owned Dairy OFFICE: 141 Main Ave., Timmins PHONE 583 Office: 5 Cedar N. Phone 524 Plant: 301 Spruce St. S. Phone 525 GEM ELECTRIC MOTOR SERVICE 61 Kirby Avenue 61 Kirby Avenue Clothes You Wear HATS CLEANED and BLOCKED 14 Birch St. Contract wiring, Lighting Fixtures, Neon Signs (Sales, Repairs and Erection), Neon Signs and Motors Serviced on yearly contract. We repair all kinds of motors, washing â€" machines, â€" refrigerators, stokers, fans, car generators, etc. We also sell and exchange 25 and 60 cvcle motors. We loan you @ motor while repairing yours. L. C. WARD, (prop.) 210 Birch St. N. Ph. 161 Spruce St. S 101 Pine St. S. Phone 1780 FUR COATS MADE TO MEASURE REMODELLING RELINING REPAIRING REâ€"DYEING Burton Cleaners 1 Cedar St. 8 General Building Contractor Coal and Wood Dealer WARD ELECTRICAL SERVICE Northland Producers Dairy Up to a Quality Not Down to a Price COAL AND wWOOD DEALER FURNACE REPAIRS LICENSED FUMIGATOR Prevent Fires During Cold Months CHIMNEYS® and FURNACES CLEAXNED CLEANING PRESSING STORAGE Brownston Fur Works J. Van Rassel Shawville Creamery Butter Bird‘s Eve Frosted Foods Red Ribbon Beef McCartney‘s Chicken CLEANING All work done by experts on premises ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS E. L. URQUHART ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES Herman‘s CLEANERS A. Vereival FURRIERS Phone 2930 Phone 2930 Phone 3200 Phone 175 Phone 1875 Phone 668 Schumacher Hardware and Furnitrre Co. 65 Pine St. 8 Rudolphâ€"McChesney Lumber Co., Ltd. Everything in Hardware RADIOS STOVES WASHERS LOWE BROS. PAINTS Complete stock Xmas Gifts Skisâ€"Skates and All Supplies FRANK KLISANICH (prop.) Where Good Friends Meet PHONE 788 New Low Rates on Fire Insurance Auto Life Casualty C. C. M. SPORT SUPPLIES PETERBOROUGH SKI EQUIPMENT A small deposit will hold any article Phone 748 Deliver Anywhere Excellent Dining Room Phone 1965 J. A. Mongeon, (prop.) City Hardware Co. First Avenue, The Timmins Office Supply Co. 27 Third Avenue Phone 584 Manufacturers and Dealers in FOREST PRODUCTS ROUGH and DRESSED LUMBER PULPWOOD MINING TIMBER 35 Kimberley Ave MADE TO ORDER Reâ€"Government Order No. 64, and the War Time Price and Trade Board License Numbers. Private Telephone and Radio in Every Room Plumbing and Heating Sheet Metal Contractors Day or Night Service or. Mountjoy and Second Ave LUMBER DEALER Empire Market OFFICE SUPPLIES Albert‘s Hotel Pine Nt Dinelle Smith RUBBER STAMPS PLUMBING AND HEATING MEAT MARKET Tâ€"BONE â€" ROUND or SIRLOTIN Steaks or Roasts 27¢ Ib. HARDW ARE Pearl Lake Hotel CONSULT US FOR P. J. Doyle HOTELS F. Bauman Swiss, Stella and Lorie Watches For Xmas Reasonably Priced Schumacher Phone 1330 Phone 1365 Phone 384 Phone 19830 Phone 298 Timminsâ€" THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO T. A. Marriott Sons Red Indian Service Station Firestone Tires sSchumbacher Road schumacher Rd Gasoline Motor Oils Greases Car Washing, Ete. EXIDE BATTERIES DUNLOP TIRES A good example of one of those questions grasped out of thin air by the family‘s young hopeful and then tossed at an unsuspecting parent is the following: 63 Birch St. N. 61 Mountjoy St. S. the ‘folmwinol S Te e "And then,‘ said Sir John, "he came "Dad, why do you wina up a business rlght back to us and practically accused when you want it to stop?"â€"Northern sxs $ l o e e t e o o t e ce s ied d e s Complete Refrigeration Engineers 270 sSpruce St S. Agents for TIPâ€"TOP TAILOKRS and wW. R. JOHNSTON 27 First Avenue Pho Schumacher New Heated Warehouse SEPARATE ROOM SYÂ¥STEM Phones 510 1733 Phone 350 F. D. DWYEKR bal FRIGIDAIRE SALES and SERVICE 123 Wilson Ave SERVICE STATIONS 257 Cameron N 5 spruce St Hyâ€"Way Service Station Paul Voutlilainen (prop.) AUTO RADIATOR REPAIRS BATTERY SERVICE Bâ€"A GAS AND OIL MountJ;oy Service Station FAST â€" EFFICIENT SERVICE United Movers Dodd‘s Transfer 24 HOUR SERVICE All Careful and Experienced Drivers Bill‘s Tire Repar GOODYEAR TIRES VULCANIZING Leo‘s Transfer International Tailors Dwyer‘s Taxi Bus Line W. BARBER, (prop.) L. BOUCHARD (prop.) VULCANIZING SUPER SERVICE WE MOVE ANYTHING Tire Repairs DEALERS in WHY? DAD! Car Washing Phone 1417 Phone 2500 Schumacher Phone 1062 Phone 645 Phone 888 Phone 334 Timmins Phone 557 Characters in the Story PETER CROSBY: Young mining enâ€" gineer taking a modest seaside holiday when the story opens. SIR JOHN CARR: A South African gold mining magnate; widower, rather ~ompous and purseâ€"proud, but sound at heart. MR. XOSA, A coloured man of Euroâ€" pean education, short of stature, but giant in detective skill.. CHAPTER XXVII. MR. XOSA sSORTS IT OUT. "Final enlightenment," said Mr. Xosa "dawned belatedly, when Mr. Parry staged attack on himelf. But suspi cions had already budded. Mr. Parry went out of his way to water them, thus bringing them to flower." LUCY CARR : His only child, a very attractive girl in the early twenties. TERENCE PARRY: A rich young acquaintance of the Carr‘s A man of great charm and good looks. FRANCIS GOULD: Sir John Carr‘s secretary. Silent, reserved: much ocâ€" cupied with his work and with mining statistics. The Bantu detective was very happy in his mission of explaining his part in the cornering of Parry. And Sir John Carr. deep in an armchair in his sitâ€" ting room at the Orient Hotel, was well content to listen. So. too, were his daughter, Lucy, and Peter Crosby, on a settee close by. . Peter was little the worse for the wound from Parry‘s pistol. It had inâ€" flicted only a glancing flesh wound, litâ€" ale more than a graze, thanks to Xosa‘s prompt action. Lucy, however, had insisted on treating the wound seriousâ€" ly:; and Peter had not protested overâ€" much, since she played the part of nurse. Francis Gould, too, was there. The cadeverous man seemed to have been improved by his most uncomfortable part in the events of the past week For the first time since his astonished employer had known him, Francis Gould was smiling. "On the night I spoke to Mr. Parry, I had decided to put my suspicions to the test," continued Xosa. "Pretending to have no matchesâ€"necessary perquiâ€" site of civilization which I am never withoutâ€"I got him to give light to my ciragette. . To do this he cupped his hands to shelter fiames from sea breeze, as I had hoped. And I studied his hands." W WE C PnR CC e i SYÂ¥OU mean a sort of palmistry?" said Sir John helplessly. "I thought that sort of thing was just nqnsppse." â€""But what did that tell you," Sir John asked. _ £.224.4, mds astral ind TA man‘s destiny is in his hand," said Xosa gravely. L a EeAE C CC mR ky t _ 39. iDA i8 Py on "Please, Sir John, not by palmistry," Mr. Xosa‘s protest was emphatic, but dignified. "I am a detective, not forâ€" tuneâ€"teller. No. no. (But there is one thing about a man his hands will alâ€" ways tellâ€"his race. Mr. Parry‘s hands told me what I had suspected. He was not of pure European blood. He was a halfâ€"caste. That of itself would sigâ€" nify nothing; but there we had knives for weapons, and Europeans not good with knives." L fB.. A dn Ees o The party stared at the little Bantu incredulously. Terence Parry had turnâ€" ed out to be a murdererâ€"a coldâ€" blooded, ruthless killer. They had with difficulty adjusted their minds to that amazing factâ€"because Parry, by his suicide, had admitted it. "I think Mr. Parry had already realized this: but then I also made foolâ€" ish errir. Very regrettable lapse." Mr. Kosi was gloomy. "I had pretended I had no matches; but when I began to :'look for knife, I took out box and began ‘to strike them all over roadway. | "€o Mr. Parry knew I had been lying |w him. And he realized that he had himself made error., I think," said Xosa simply, "that it was then he made ‘ up his mind to kill me." No NP NA A "ha Oz CC CCC eE PmE CC "But Mr. Parry believed I was aquped, and tried to make me think, by offering mysterious hints, that he himself was a policeman, and that he knew who the murderer was. Koi nodded. "Yes, Inspector Quayle PUBLISHED BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT ‘ alfk. ~ ie . m * c Va®mz> $y Alexander Campbell gave him his cue. The Inspector had deduced that Mr. Gould must be the fiefsi â€" who knew about Golden Deeps and had told late Mr. Monte Gould fushed. "Yes. Monte blackâ€" mailed me into telling him. It was unforgivable, of course. Sir John has kindly offered not to press a charge, buft=â€"â€"â€"" : ”“Be quiet," cried Sir John impatientâ€" ly, "how many times must I tell you to forget the whole e_p}s_ode '_ Gould smiled sheepishly. "Though I wasn‘t surprised when Inspector Quayle accused me of that. But I was dumbâ€" founded when he began some story about my having lost a noteâ€"caseâ€"" "HMe naturally connected two incidents together," observed Xosa. "It had not occurred to him that Monte was not blackmailing just one, or even two, but three personsâ€"yoursel, Mr. Orion, and Mr. Parry. Threatening note fror/. Monte was, of course, addressed to Parry, and was stolen from him by Tickey Charlie. ing seen you practise with knives. Of course, he had meant to have blame thrown on you from the start." Gould stared. ‘How do you figure "We found in trunk in your rcom knives similar to thos:> used for crimes," KXosa replied. "Search was made by Inspector Quayle after your escape. Knives of course, had been planted there by Mr. Parry. He knew Monte had ‘been blackmailing you. You were excellent scapeâ€"gcat." There was a grim little silence. Those who had known Terence Parry in the role of a friend were seeing him in a very different light. "When vou took fright and made a bolt for it," Xosa went on, addressing Gould, "I stumibled against pursuers so that you got away. I knew you were innocent. "Unfortunately Parry got away, t0OO. He ran after you on pretext of ;rying to catch you for police, butâ€"â€"_-_â€"â€"" "I‘d gone straight to the garages," said Gould. "I had some wild idea of gratbing a car, and heading for Parâ€" tugese territory; and I made instintâ€" tively for the garage where Sir John‘s car was kept. "It was quiet and still round the back of the hotel. The yard was empty. The hunt wasn‘t up yet. T got into the garage, and put my hand on the doocr of the car. And then someone slugged me. â€" I wen‘t clean out." "Mr. Parry had followed you. He knocked you out and put you, trussed up, in the luggage compartment of the car. Highly uncomfortable for you, sir, highly uncomfortable.‘ Already his nimble brain, which was fleetâ€"footed as a deer, had created idea of murdering Mr. Crosby and having Mr. Gould take blame for that, too." "We shall come to that. To continue â€"â€"" and Xosi»a took a deep breath. The girl tightened her grip on his hand. Her eyes were fixed on Xosa. She had already guessed the answer to Peter‘s; question. CHAPTER XXVIII "THIS BLISSFUL DEVELOPMENT" "But why on earth should Parry want to kill me?" asked Peter Crosby. "Parry returned and reported failure to find Mr. Gould," said Xosa blandly. "But I guessed what had happened when Inspector Quayle‘s men reported that Mr. Gould was not in hctel, and no cars missing. I know intelligent man like him would have tried to take a car." He bowed solemnly to Gould. "I went to garage where Sir John‘s car was housed, and found Mr. Gould, trussed up and gagged. where Mr. Parry had put him. We then had conâ€" "Squashed!" said Peter, in a whisperâ€" ed dismal aside to Lucy. "KXosa asked me," said Gould chucklâ€" ing, "to go to Quayle and tell him what had happened; and he and Quayle arâ€" ranged for me to ge; back into my unâ€" comfortable prison and wait to see what Parry‘s next move would be. They promis;>d that no harm would be allowâ€" ed to come to me, and, of course, I agreed to carry out their plan. But I had some extremely uncomfortable moments." ‘"‘Mr. Gould went to police," resumed the little Bantu. "I, on contrary, went for short stroll along beachâ€"wandering goat crying out to be butchered by tiger. Manoeuvre was successful. Tiger duly appeared. "There followed realistic impersonâ€" ation by me of goat fieeing from tiger. I waded into sea, which was very cold, and dropped under surface when Mr. Parry fired second shot a me. I then fioated on my back, trying hard to look like very dead corpse. Mr. Parry appeared satisfied. He turned away, and as soon as he was gone I waded ashore again. "I then summoned Inspector Quayle and his experts, and we had busy night on beach. Plaster casts were taken of murderer‘s footprints, and bullet from his pistol found imbedded in sand was recovered. Of course, footprints coinâ€" cided with Mr. Parry‘s, and bulles; was fired dfrom gun later found in his possesrsion. "So Mr. Parry was trapped by means of footprints," commented Mr. Xosa. "First, footprints which should have been there, but were not: and second, footprints which were there. "As soon as we heard that Mr. Parry had proposed to drive Miss Carr and Mr. Crosby to Tartary Rock, and had taken pains to ensure that Sir John would not be one of party, we knew murder was again contemplated. We hastened to Tartary Rock, getting there before you arrived, and hiding discreetly in bushes. Mr. Parry parkâ€" ed car within few feet of u=" "But what I can‘t understand," burst out Sir John, who had apparently been brooding on a point for some time, "is; how did you spot that it was Terry in the first place? I mean, you wouldn‘t OUt?" have taken a look at his hands unless you‘d had a suspicion of him; and in fact you‘ve admitted that you had. very well, then; how did you get on to him?" | ow(# Mr. Xosa looked thoughtfully. Perchâ€" eéd in a leather armchair that was tOO big for him, he looked like a benevolent little black Buddha. it c "Inspector Quayle," he said, "rematrkâ€" ed earlier in investigation that crux of case was Monte‘s knowledge of coming rise in Golden Deep mining shares; and you, Sir John, added: ‘And als|d why he should give information to Mr. Crosby, a complete stranger‘. And you were right. That was real crux of case. “Why did Mr. Monte pick on Mr. Crosby, if he wanted to do someonte good turn?" _ w ay s â€" â€"_"Answer was: not out of love of Mr Crosby but to spite someone else, "Now Mr. Crosbyâ€"pardon melâ€"wWas in love with Miss Carr. If he became rich, he would be able to press his suit with better prospects of success. "And he would then become rival of Mr. Parry." "Put that won‘t do!" interrupted Peter. "I may have been jealous of him, ‘but he never showed the slightest jealousy of me. In fact, he went out of his way toâ€"well, to back me up." Xosa turned his bland brown eyes on the, girl. _ "Miss Carr: is Mr. Crosby completely correct in assumption?" Lucy hesitated; then to Peter‘s surâ€" prise she slowly shook her head. "No. Mr. Parry pretended, on the surface, thay; he wasm‘t in the least bit jealous of Peter. But he took good care to let me know that he was in love with me. I suppose he was beingâ€" rather subtle." Xosa nodded. "Yes, subtle. Mr. Parry liked being subtle. If he sucâ€" ceeded in eliminating Mr. Crosby, he might have succeeded in his other proâ€" ject. He hoped so, anyhow. "But that is why I first suspected Mtr: Parry. Mr. Monte had given Mr. Crosby the means to win a fortune in order to revenge himself on Mr. Parry. Why should he wish to do this? Beâ€" cause he was blackmailing Mr. Parry, and Mr. Parry was proving difficult. ‘Mr. Monte‘s gift to Mr. Crosby was a warning to Mr. Parry. The threatenâ€" ing message on the card was another warning. It told Mr. Parry that unless he agreed to Mr. Monte‘s demands, Mr. Monte might go a further step, and expose Mr. Parry for what he was." Sir John ejaculated. "What!" Who was he going to blackmail?" "You," said Mr. Xosa shortly. In the stunned silence that followed, he resumed. "It strikes me," said Sir John grimly, "that this fellow Monte deserved all he got!" "Mr. Parry planned to marry your daughter. You knew nothing about him, where Mr. Monte also came from, by the way â€" and appeared ;o have plenty of money. "But he could not have concealed the truth for ever. You would have disâ€" covered that he was a crook, with no money. But by that time it would have been too late. Mr. Parry would be your sonâ€"inâ€"law. Your daughter would be his wife." "But Mr. Parry was no less evil." Xosa shook his head sadly. "For he als>» intended blackmail.‘ ‘"Mr. Parry believed he could wring any sum of money from you in those circumstances. He would have forced you to buy your daughter‘s freedom from an intolerable alliance." The silence that followed was noâ€" thing to the silence that had gone beâ€" fore. Sir John broke it. Peter said quietly: "Perhaps that‘s what Monte meant when he said to me that he was a "friend of the Carr family.‘" He mean}; that by helping to thwart Parry, he was doing you a good turn." "The unutterable scoundrel! face was pale and drawn. Sir John shook his head. "It has been an amazing business. And we owe you a great deal of thanks." If Mr. Xosa had been capable of blushing, he would have blushed. bowed and murmured scmething. Sir John went on: ‘"You seem to have had the murderer completely tapâ€" ed from start to finish. So far as I can see, you made only one mistake." "You let that last bit of playâ€"acting of yours go a bit too far, didn‘t you? T realize, of course, that your object was to catch Parry redâ€"handed. But, acâ€" cording to your own story, you already had plenty of evidence against him. And if that shot of Parry‘s had gone just a little truerâ€"well, the story wouldn‘t have had such a happy endâ€" ng, would it?" Mr. Xosa opened inquiring brown eyes. Lucy gripped Peter‘s hand very tight. "Oh! Why?" "Mr. Crosby very upright, shy young man. Has great difficulties in affairs of the heart," said the dark man, blandy. Shot fired by Mr. Parry preâ€" cipitated emotional crisis. Lying toâ€" gether in sea water in uncomfortable position, Mr. Crosby preposed to Miss Carr. Miss Carr tells me she was beâ€" ginning to despair of him doing this. Mr. tells me he was so frightâ€" ened of murderer he forgot to be frightened of Miss Cartr. Kosa shook hi necessary," he : "Slight bulletâ€"wound is low price to pay for this blissful development, is it not?" And Mr. Xosa, in the act of gathering up his black stick and white hat, beammed on two lovers. The End. North Bay Nugget:â€"To us, the Tories have undertaken the season‘s most inâ€" triguing political experiment. For a blood tramsfusion for the Conservative Party, they went to the Old Folks Home. Sir John gestured to Peter‘s injured COPYRIGHT head @rid. PAGE FTIVE act very