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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1927 Have You Tried TEA „ It is in a class by itself. Ask for it. All at ft Carolyn \MLs what has gone before, i Death strikes Garrett Folsom while j bathing at Ocean Town, n.J. Af ter j being perfunctarily examined by a doctor, the body is brought to the «otfi Majusaca, where an inquiry is starter. Folsom's bathing companicns had been Uogc,. Xcvill..;. Mrs. Helen Bar-naby and Carmelita Valdon. It isj established that Folsom, just before his death, had been standing; next to Ned Barron, known a3 the copper king. Then the startling announcement is made that Folsom had been stabbed to death in the water. Ros3, his valet, is questioned, as are Barron and his Wife, but no light is shed on the mystery. Anastasia Folsom, eccentric and masterful sister of the dead man, arrives and takes command. At the inquest it is established that the death weapon was a pichaq, an Oriental knife, and that it and its scabbard had been purchased on the boardwalk. It is also established that Croydon Sears is a fancier of curious knives. Anastasia engages Titus Riggs to work on the case. He asks permission to go through the dead man's effects. NOW go on WITH the STORY. CHAPTER XXIII. Anastasia Folsom was not at all unkindly, but she was straightforward and dirsct of speach and hef eyes flatbed with a sort of veiled warning. "Ysur father bought several daggers at that auction?" ."Two, madam," said Robin, quiatly. "What for?" "As he stated at the inquest, to add to bis co'JLection." "Yes, I heard him. Why did be go out late, on a stormy night, to buy daggers for his collection?"- "Eeeauas that was <9te night on which the auction was held. Mr. Meeker also bought daggers at that sale." "I know that. But Mr. Meeker was net acquainted with my brother. Your ] father was." "I don't think he was, Miss Folsom, though I am hot sure. But, even to, he had a perfect right to buy antique curies if he chose." "Oh, yeo, a perfect right. That is, if ha bought them for antique curios. But if he bought them for use as deadly weapons, his right is not so unquestionable." Robin had; had about all he could Naturally courteous, he hesitated to speak sternly to a woman; yet he felt tbo time had come. Tite Riggs was watching him closely; so was Pelton. Neville and the two women with him had taken chairs nearby, and were curiously listening to this Anastasia Folsom was regarding Robin Sears with an eager gaze that held in it not so much of enmity as inquiry, almost as if elks hoped for some plausible and satisfactory explanation. But Robin was at the end of his rope. The words "deadly weapons had so roused his ire that he felt a direct response was called for. "MIm Fckcm," hs said, "my father did buy theca daggers for his collection. But your insinuation is too definite to be ignored, and I think I must ask you to cress to the other side of the dock and say to him what you have inguisbed] "I shall bo very glad to do so," with me, Dan. And you, too, Mr. Riggs. No one else." And led by Robin, white-faced and flashing-eyed, they crossed, to where Croydon Sears sat reading a news- "Dad," Robin said, "will you put down your paper, please?" "Surely," said Sears, rising as Miss Folsom drew near. She : ;;cke at once. "I am here to ask you, Mr. Sears," she began, "about the daggers you bought at the auction last Thursday night." "Yes, Miss Folsom; what about TSroydon Sears was what is often called a gentleman of the old school. He had a fine old-fashioned courtesy, and though not an old man, he showed a polite deference in conversation not generally seen in to-day's social inter- "You bought two, that were among the desperate efforts of heart. As to my position in wic ocean that morning, I can only say I was bathing in the midst of a crowd of people a long distance away from the spot where your brother met his death. As many near me can testify, I was standing near the next rope, fully fifty feet away fvom the rope at which Mr. Folsom was standing. I would! therefore have been impossibli for me to commit that crime, even i: it had been one of my daggers which was used;--and, as you know, it was At that moment, Ned Barron, in search of his friend, Croydon Sears, came up to the group. Seeing the earnest discussion in pro-j gress, he paused, uncertain whether to interrupt. Then he gathered a few words that] told him of Miss Folsom's attitude] toward Sears, and catching sight of Robin's anxious face, he stepped for- "Can I help?" he said, pleasantly. "Is this another inquest?" "No, Ned," Sears said soberly, "but you may as well corroborate my statement that I was fifty feet or more away down the beach from Mr. Folsom at the time he was stabbed with] the dagger." "Why--er--were you?. Yes, so youj Clearly Ned Barren had no recollection of Sears' whereabouts at the' moment in question, but he was quite evidently willing and anxious to assist his friend, and ready to back up his word. "You remember, then," Miss Foh som said quickly,, "that Mr. Sears was some distance up tho beach when my brother fell under the water?" "Yen, yes--I remember perfectly. "By the next rope, up the beach-that is, north," went on the inexorable voice, and staring into her face, almost as if hypnotized, Barron repeated, "Yes, up the beach--north." "No, Ned," Sears said, " I v down the beach, toward the south, fear your observation was not at its| Callouses Quick, safe, sure relief from painful callouses on the feet. At all drug and shoe stores DlScholl's XitiO'pads "That's all right," said Miss Folsom, impatiently; "we're not concerned with Mr. Robin Sears or the girl 'a engaged to. It's Mr. Croydon Sears who interests me, and I want tone who will verify his statement that he was not near my brother when be died Surely that is not too much to ask, when I am so deeply concerned in my quest for the truth." "No, Miss Folsom, that is not too much to, ask," and Tite Riggs' lips shut tight together, a habit of his when much perplexed. "But, of course, Mr. Sears, you can satisfy the lady's requirement. There must have been someone about whom you knew. Or > one you can describe, even if you are unaware of his name." "Oh, yes," cried Croydon Sears, at that. "I distinctly remember a man bright green bathing suit. Shirt and trunks, both of bright, grass green. It struck me as unusual, and I noticed it." (To be continued.) "I AM HERE TO ASK YOU, MR. SEARS," SHE BEGAN, "ABOUT THE DAGGERS YOU BOUGHT AT AUCTION LAST THURSDAY NIGHT." the finer specimens of the lot, I under "You have been correctly informed | "Then you left the sale room, in '. company with Mr. Meeker?" ' "Yes, I did." "Than where did you go?" "I walked a bit on the boardwalk." "Up or down?" "Oh, both ways. Just a stroll back id forth. Then home to my hotel." "Not going into the sa No, Miss Folsom." The quiet, tone carried an impression of veracity and composure, but a close observer might have seen a slight quiver of Sears' lips, a slight throbbing of a pulse in his cheek, and a nervous movement of his hands. At any rata, his son saw these things and marveled, for he knew they meant his father was disturbed' in some way, and he failed to connect it with Miss Folsom's catechiziing. "Mr. Sears/' the insistent lady went on, "I have no reason to suspect you of any complicity in my brother's cteath. I have no motive to attribute to you, no evidence to point your way, and no clue that suggests you.. But -I am lnvcstirratL-iji every possible avenue of inquiry, and so, since you can have no object in refusing to answer, I ask you where jou were' in the ocean at the time my brother met his deoth." Croydon Sears looked at her calmly. "My dear madam," he said, "I am truly sorry for you. I know how anxious you are to learn the slayer of your brother, and I am glad to be of any help I can. I do not resent your questions, for I know they ar» "I think worthless," temptuously. "And I think we are on the verge of a revelation," said Dan Pelto-n, taking up the gauntlet. "Mr. Sears, I am here to help my aunt in her endeavors to find the man who stabbed my uncle. Like her, I have no reason to suspect you of any hand in the crime. 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