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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1927. When You Can Buy tea . Why be content with, inferior tea. say I was talking to him. Eiccept to return short answers to his unasked-' for remarks, I said nothing to him at all." "You were annoyed by him?" "Oh, it's going too far to call it annoyed. But I never like to have a stranger address me in the ocean, and that is what he did." "You were unacquainted with. "Entirely so. I never saw him be-' fore, and, presuming on the informal- j ity of the sea, I suppose, he began to chat. I was decently polite, but in no way did I encourage his Carolyn WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE. Prom the verandah of the Hotel Majusaca, at Ocean Town, N.J., Titus Riggs, a guest, sees a man taken from the ocean and laid on the beach while the crowd gathers to stare. The reader has been introduced to these bathers: Ned Barron the cop per king and his wjife, Madeline; Angelica Fair and her fiance, Robin Sears; Robin's father, Croydon Sears; Carmelita Valdon and her companions, Roger Neville, Garrett Folsom and Mrs. Barnaby, whom everyone calls the Duchess. From the shocked expression on the faces of the throng, Riggs surmises that the man is ddad and, putting down his field glasses, he hastens down to the beach, to find that the dead mdti is Garrett Folsom. At the hotel, where_"tho body is taken, Ross, the victim's valet, is questioned, and Dixon, hotel detective, decides to examine all of Fol-Bom's companions. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY. CHAPTER V. "You have been to the bathhouse, Ross?" asked Dixon, straightfc wardly. "Yes, sir." "You found Mr. Folsom's clothes "Yes, sir. The key was with the bathing master. He gave it to and I brought Mr. Folsom's clothes back here and put them in his room." "They were all 4n order, then-nothing missing?" "Why, yes, sir. I suppose so. didn't lookTn the pockets, sir, and Mr. Folsom never wears any valuable jewelry when he goes-to bathe. Just a collar button and cuff links., And his watch--that was all right, sir." "Well, of course, I didn't anticipate any molestation of his belongings. The bathing master wouldn't give up the key to a stranger. How did he come to give it to you?" "I don't know, sir. I just told him the circumstances and said I was Folsom's man." "All right, Ross. Did you put the clothes away?" "No, sir, I just left them in a pil< on the couch in the sitting room. The chambermaid is in the bedroom, doing it up, and I thought I'd better report to you at once, sir." "You did just right. Now, Ross, consider yourself in charge of Mr. Folsom's effects until we can get advices from his sister. We are going to telegraph to her. Perhaps y would do it?" "Just as you say, sir. If I do it, I will ask her for orders." "Not a bad idea. Go, then, and send the telegram in your own way." Ross went off and Neville said thoughtfully: "Going some to leave that man in charge of all Folsom's belongings--" "I know," returned the detective. "I watched his face for a gleam of satisfaction at the prospect, but he seemed to take it as a matter of "Oh, it's all right, I know how Folsom trusted him, as a servant and as a general right-hand man. But somehow it seems--" "It certainly does," put in Carmelita Valdon. "It seems wrong to leave a mere valet in charge of a rich man's goods." "His valuables axe in the safe," said Dixon. "I've already ascertained that. Late last night he brought two or three sealed envelopes to the desk and took a receipt for them, jewelry or money, I suppose the valet is honest." "Oh, yes--that," said Neville, was thinking more of letters or vate papers, not of a value to be put in the safe, but which ought not to " left around loose;" ""Indeed they ought not!" said M: Valdon, with decision. "I should think as Mr. Neville is a great friend of Mr. Folsom and more or less associated with him in business--" "Were you partners?" asked Dixon directly. "NJo," Neville returned, "not partners, but we worked together on many cases, and I think I may say I know more of his private affairs than any- "It would seem then, Mr. Neville, that you are the one to take charge of the whole matter. Will you take the keys then from Ross and consider yourself the responsible one?" "Not quite that," Neville said, his face a little perplexed. "Suppose you let Ross keep his key and let me take the room key that Mr. folsom carried. Then either of us can have access tc the rooms." "Yes, that is a good plan," and relieved at the settlement of the question, Dixon rose to go. "I can't see that we have anything more to do until Miss Folsom or wires," Neville went on. "If you want to consult with me when ths doctor comes, I'll be somewhere around the hotel." "Very well, Mr. Neville," Dixon said, and bowed out the three guests with a feeling of satisfaction that the interview was over. "As a matter of fact," he thought to himself, "I'd trust that honest-looking valet fellow before I would the gentlemanly Neville, but it's all none of my business. If these people are friends of the dead man, it's up to them to care for his interests. Hello, there's Mr. Barron. I suppose I ough to ask him a question or two." So he stepped up to the party of five, who had just come into the lobby. "A word or two, if you please, Mr. Barron,'Nhe said, in a low tone, and as Ned Barron looked amazed, Dixon "Nothing much, only I want to know if you were acquainted with the gentleman who died in the water this j morning--Mr. Garrett Folsom?" Callouses DZSchoUs Zino*pad§ to her? Anastasia is not an attractive person, I'll admit." "Anastasia!" exclaimed the Duchess, "what an intriguing name! I'd love to meet somebody named Anas- (To be continued.) "None of your party was acquaint- l^r'\v3,l'-w"k"! 'PRIZE WINNING ESSAY Ned Barron turned back toward thej * - people who had come in with him and | Love of History and Composition Helps Ruth Gaw, of who stood waiting while the detectiv spoke to him. "I say, Sears," he beckoned to his friend, "you didn't know that man Folsom, did you?" "Not socially," Croydon Sears replied, stepping closer to them. "I've had a little business with him once or twice, but it was some time ago--I doubt if he remembered me at all. Why?" "Mr. Dixon wants to know. How about you, Robin?" and he turned to Sears' son. "Did you know Folsom Palmerston, Win a Place. Dear Sirs:-- . ,1 received your letter stating that I had won one of the $5.00 prizes In the Essay Contest and was very pleased to I am sorry to say that I have not a good photograph of myself, at present. I was born in Granby, Quebec, and received my public school education and also my first year of high school in Saskatchewan. The past two years heard of him till the! have been spent here in Ontario. I commotion on the beach. Somebody'am now in my fourth year of high told me his name then." school. "And the ladies?" Dixon turned to ■ We attend the United Church and I the two women of the party. I belong to the Wofalo C.G.I.T. group. But both Madeline Barron and her As for sports, I am very fond of young friend, Miss Fair, asserted j basketball but do not go in much for that they had never before heard of, any other outdoor gomes. Garrett Folsom, and so Dixon con-! Composition Is one of my best sub-eluded the interview with an apology', jects. Next to history I believe I en-for the intrusion. j Joy it the most. "Rotten business," he told himself, j As yet I have not fully made up my "Don't see why I should pester'anv mlnd what I will do when I finish more people about it. The hotel will school. get a bad name if we don't hush the Yours sincerely, thing up as soon as we can." | RUTH GAW. Whereupon Dixon say to it that - strict orders were given to all em-| "CANADA" ployas to say nothing whatever on , We CanadiaB8 may weU be proud of the subject of Mr. Folsom s death, !OUT country. Less than four hundred publicly obeyed years ago^acques Cartier raised tl "No, I i aid Barr little shortly. "But I'm told you were talking to him just before he had his heart attack, or whatever it was." 'You were misinformed. That is, was talking to me, but I cannot which orders and privately disregarded. .. | Fleur-de-lis at Gaspe. thus claiming The elevator men refused any in-1 the land in the Rame of the King of formation asked of them by curious France; but he little dreamed of the passengers and the bellboys told pat- vast territory that stretched away to rons that they knew nothing of the the Pacific. Until the coming of the circumstances, but somehow the news English the St. Lawrence valley and flew about and knots of talkative (he Maritimes were the only settled chambermaids gathered in the halls parts of Canada. To%ay she occupies and waiters in the pantr:es whispered more than half a continent. It has unceasingly. ■ been said that she covers so much sur- On the deck, after luncheon, many fee that all the climates of. Europe are of the guests of the hotel sat about found within her borders. True, only a and those who had seen the affair at narrow strip along the southern edge the beach in the morning eagerly told has been brought under cultivation the story to those who had not been but each year this strip grows wider present. j and wider. Roger .Neville, who felt in. a way. In Ontario and Quebec where the conspicuous as being a friend of Fol- fertile soil ends the rich mineral lands som's would have preferred to absent begin. This source of wealth has been himself from the crowded T5?ehe. -flying for centuries just beneath the But both Mrs. Barnaby and Mrs.! barren surface yet Its discovery is Valdon insisted on his presence and comparatively recent. Canada now he couldn't well desert them, ; supplies ninety per cent, of the nickel "My heavens!" exclaimed the and c< :<It ueed in the world, as well Duchess, "don't you dare leave us as eighty-five per cent, ot the asbestos, alone! Why, we'd be besieged by She has been known to Europeans gossip-mongers and what in the world for almost four hundred years yet the could we say to them?" : most 01 her growth has been made "What can I say to them, my dear! during the last fifteen decades. With lady?" asked Neville. "Suppose we tne! comingl of! the) United! Empire go for a ride in the wheeled chairs. Loyalists her era of progress dawn-Don't you think it would do you both ed- These P«"P'«, '°yal to their king, good?" j latt comfortable homes in the re- "No," returned Carmelita. "It volted colonies to come to Canada, ild not do to go away now. The tnen an almost unknown wilderness, manager might want to see us, and, 0n:ario owes its beginning to them, too, I want to be here when word Under tb« British ™;e the Gov- comes from Miss Folsom." : e™ment of Canada ~ "You know her« Neville. between you and ti her at all." Neville laughed. ISSUE No. 25--'27. n't you?" saidipotio H was dur1nS the French | regime. The "new subjects" as the few times and ! Frencn Canadians were called were e. I didn't take to! ,welU sati6flp;d wlth tWs 8y*tem- havin^ known notnmg better; but the "old "Who could take \%bi"** c°m«e(i continually, for | they had absolutely no share in the ; government. However, with ■ the 'Loyalists there came a change. Owing to their agitation the Constitutional I Act, which gave a measure of seif-| government, was passetl in 1791. I Grudgingly the unbroken forests j gave way to tiny clearings. By slow I degrees good waggon roads were built j and schools and churches were opened I up. These were few and far between | and many people grew up with only Large a few Hudson Bay traders. To-day Canada supplies ten per cent, of the wheat consumed In -the whole world. Lumber is also one of her importent products. She supplies twenty-two per cent, of the lumber used in the world. In the old days thia was not considered a valuable product. It was quite customary to clear a piece of land and then burn the timber taken from it. The pulp and paper Industry is also important, the largest paper mill in the world is at Three Rivers. At the time of Confederation British Columbia was separated from the rest of Canada by mountain and plain and in this way her trade was hampered. She entered the Union in 1871 on condition that a railway should be built across the continent. The Canadian Pacific Railway was the direct result of Confederation. |No one province could have engineered such a gigantic scheme, alone. The railroad was finished in 18S5 and Canada was linked from coast to coast with a line of steel. Almest Immediately settlers began to flock from all over to the fertile farm lands of the Prairies. In 1873 Prince Edward Island entered Confederation Manitoba had been admitted in 1870 but. Alberta and Saskatchewan did not come in as full-pledged provinces until 1905. The Grand Trunk was built parallel to the Canadian Pacific and In this way helped to open up still more new terri- Canadlan writers are steadily climbing nearer to the top in the world of literature. Excellent motor highways are universal throughout the country. A trip across the continent which once took many weary months, is now made in a few weeks with an automobile or in a few days oi| one of the fast trans-Easy transportation, telegraph lines, telephones and radios are daily drawing Halifax and Vancouver closer and closer together. To-day Montreal is one of Canada's greatest ports. Scarcely half a century ago»it possessed only a crowded, dirty harbor which could only accommodate from two hundred and fifty to three hundred tons In weight. The inland waterways are being developed and in the future we may witness the seeming impossible sight of European vessels loading grain from the elevators at Fort William. Our country lies in the great pathway of commerce; her transcontinental lines furnish the shortest routes around the world. She has the greatest natural resources of any nation in the world and as these are developed she will take her place among the foremost nations of'the earth. 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