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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY, JUNE 30. 1927. "Yes, I am. That's my only elaini > a life worth living." "Have -you no other virtues or graces ?" "None that count. But my clever less I really bairk on." "What do you do with it--mostly?' And then they settled down for i talk about ideals and ambitions which s mere airy persiflage : which was amusing and gave ten Barnaby a respite from the sadness brought about by the death of the morning. But Oarmelita was indulging in flight chatter with Roger Neville. "Roger," she said, as soon as they were well away from the hotel, want you to lend me the key of Garrett Folsom's room." "What for?" he asked buntly. "I want to go in there--and before , his sister cofes." "You're crazy! You thing like that!" "I must! He has something--come-thing of mine--that I must have. WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE. Uroduction, she had not succeeded in.must get--" From the verandah of the Hotel! Rawing Titus Riggs into her net. He| "What?" Majusaca, at Ocean Town, N.J., Titus had been polite but that was all. JNeverj "Something important--never mind Riggs, a guest, sees a man taken from j did he seek out the lovely Carmelita, what. Just let me take the key for the ocean and laid on the beach while j an,d her jolly friend. I half an hour. I'll bring it right back So they wore both surprised and to you. Oh, Roger--do give it to "SAMBA" GREEN TEA _ Write 'Sala-da'- Toronto. fos» free sample. All *♦ Qm Carolyn WeHs the crowd gathers to stare. The reader has been introduced to I these bathers: Nad Barron the cop :; pleased;when, I . they sat with Neville per king and his wife," Madeline'; jon the hotel deck, Riggs rose from his Angelica Fair and her fiance, Robin j chair and sauntered over to them. Sears; Robin's father, Oroydon Sears; | "q^ Riggs," said Carmelita, Carmelita Valdon and her compan-1,1(k) cheer us a wt We>re feeing ions, Roger Neville, Garrett Fohwm] } morning's tragedy, and Mrs. Barnaby, whom everyone " „ " * calls the Duchess. ^ |You know> Mr' Folrom was our From the shocked expression faces of the throng, Riggs surmises that the man is dead and, putting down his field glasses, he hastens d.-wn to th^ beach, to find that the dead man is Garrett Folsom. At the hotel, where the body is taken, Ross, the victim's valet, is questioned, and Dixon, hotel detective, decides to examine all of Fol-som's companions. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY. CHAPTER VI. Everybody liked Helen Barnaby, but nobody loved her. Her gilded hair was bobbed, and her smart clothes were too girlish for b.-r years, but she i the friend." Yes, I know," Riggs said. "Do you mind talking about it?" "No," Carmelite returned, her eyes filling with tears, "not to some one who fa sympathetic. Did you know Mr. Fo'eom?" "Only slightly. But here comes a bellboy. He's loc-kiivg for you, I think, Mr. Neville." It was th? plump youngster called Tubby, and ho stepped up to Neville with bis little chest puffed out, full of importance. "Mr. Tuttle sends you this sir," he -aid, and held out his tray on which lay a telegram that had already been vr. frit::!':. with t i bea tiful Cm tntagpous tohoth. ! s for years; ie thay had1 l company. | was addressed to John Ross, and a murmur o( apology Neville • n,-st t "It's from Miss Folsom," 'to Ross, the valet. It says: I must have i "Oarmelita, you don't realize what you're asking. I'm willing, more than willing to let you have the key, but think how it would look--for you to go into his "Nobody will see me. I'll be very careful." "I'll get you what you want. Tell me what it is? Did you leave something in there? When?" "Oh, no! Nothing like that! V never been in his rooms. But he had something of mine--oh, Roger, don't torment me! Give me the key, do!'" Though they were on the crowded boardwalk, Carmelites tones and her manner quiet. But Neville could see the underlying excitement and he feared an outbreak if he refused longer. Unwillingly he drew a key from his pocket "At least, let me go with you. Or let me stand guard outside the rooms." "No, that would be far worse, i anyone saw us, than for me to g> alone. I must do this, Roger. I must! Don't worry. I'll make sure where h-Js valet, Ross, is first and then I ■n coquette andi a y little money, sho well ar.d her beauty vas an ad'rcr.turess, s she of her reputa-h of scandal or ■, touched hor. other person present, and even though she looked in the bedroom and the bathroom and all the closets wardrobes, she could see no sign of any human being but herself. So she set to work on the search she had come for. She quickly through the papers and letters in desk in the sitting rcom. There were not many, and the merest glanoi most of them proved they were what she sought. With a sigh of despair she turned to the large trunk, but it was 1< and she well knew only its ow would open it. She hurriedly ran through th tents of two or three suitcases and kitbags, but was not rewarded with the treasure she sought. About to depart, she again heard that faint sound as of somebody the room. This time she went so : as to look under the bed, and there she saw a long slim leg in a pah colored stocking and a low shoe. (To be continued) OUR ARCTIC EMPIRE Can We Say How Far Our Heritage Extends THE CHALLENGE OF THE NORTH Since Confederation the wilderness frontier of Canada has entirely shifted. Then the prairies, which now sends substantial representation to tl House of Commons, were known on to Indians, fur traders, missionaries and a few explorers. The first task of the newly formed Canadian government was to arrange for a transcontinental railway to link up the infant settlement in British Columbia; and as astute man as Edward Blake argued earnestly against the folly of wasting money laying a railroad across such permanently uninhabitable areas as the southern parts of the present provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta As late as 1874 Sir William Butler wrote a forbidding description of the site of the present city of Prince Albert to prove that Europeans could never live there the year round. The wealth and habitabllity of the southern praire3 are now common knowledge. To-day the push is north. .Northern Quebec and Northern Ontario have attracted miners and farmers. Settlers are raising vegetables, grains, cattle and even fruits far north of Hazelton on the Skeena. Away to north of Edmonton the fertile tee River Valley is rewarding its pioneers. The push to the north is continent wide, and is on in earnest. We dare not predict what, by the end of the century, will be the population of those great central regions, which ive all been proven valuable. The Arctic and sub-Arctic plains alone remain a challenge to the pioneer. Already, thanks largely to Stefansson, this vast expanse is losing ythological terrors. Here are one one-half to two million square miles of grazing lands, with their na-| mosses, lichens, ferns and 762! species cf flowering plants. Yukon is ! yielding her gold; but in Alaska the! annual catch of fish now far exceeds the products of the mines in value; ' id Canada's Arctic waters teem with ' sh. The reindeer industry in Alaska has proved so profitable that Lomen & Co. I alone ship annually 10,000 carcasses '■ that bring a higher price than beef in , the cities of the United States. Inspired by Stefansson, the Hudson's Company has leased for raising reindeer the southern half of Baffin Island--an area the size cf the British . If the project of domesticating musk-ox is carried out, a new source of food'will be available that 111 put to profitable use great tracts t our Far North. Oil has been found between Fort Norman and the Arctic Circle. What else the Far North will give, only time will tell. But the Canadian Polar regions aro not as cold as Siberia, which is being voluntarily en tJIl I arrive. Am starting at once.' i slide in and out again in a few mwi-, colonized. And as the climate of the It is signed A. Folsom, and it is from 1 utes." - (Atlantic Coast once presented terrible New York city." j So Neville perforce acquiesced, and j difficulties to the French eoloniste, "Thou she ought to get here to-' aft-Ar escorting her back to the hotel. and yesterday that of the southern night," Titus Riggs said. | he put her in an elevator and himself; prairies seemed an insuperable ob- "Yes, she probably will," Carmelita strolled outdoors again. | stacle to our fathers, so the belief, in agreed. 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