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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE■ ONT., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1927 It Will Delight You . TEA .. Perfectly balanced--superb in flavour. A11 est Carolyn WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE, peath strikes Garrett Folsom while oathmg at Ocean Town, N.J. After Jjemg perfunctarily examined by a doctor, the body is brought to the i inquiry is ttotel Majusaca, where eta iter. Foisom's bathing companions been Roger Neville, Mrs. Helen Bar-«aby and Carmelita Valdon. It is established that Folsom, just before his death, had teen standing next to *.ed Barron, known as the copper king. Then the startling announcement IE made that Folsom had been stabbed to death in the water. Ross, his valet, is questioned, as arc Barron and his fife, but r.o 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 p-o. through the dead man's effects. NOV/ CO ON WI?H THE STORY. CHAPTER XXVIII. "Very likely. I heard Mr. Neville say he thought the affair would blow over as an unsolved mystery." "Oh, he did. did he? Well, it will do nothing of the sort! It may be - But it seemed to her too preposterous--she knew so little of that sort of thing. Garrett had been her idol and the sole human interest in her life. The only love she had ever given had been to him; the only jealousy she had suffered had been of him. So she knew naught of any other varieties or degrees of love or jealousy, and the thought of a girl murd-t erer was vague indeed. She ranged the dolls on a sofa, in a straight, even line, all sitting in prim, decorous positions, which spectacle sent Myrtle, the chambermaid, off in peals of laughter the next time she entered the room. Not all were recognized by Miss Folsom, but at least six she was siure of, two pretty confident, and the reminded her of no Tite Riggs went from the presence his employer,-as he amusedly iss Folsom, and sought the society of Robin Sears. He found him idle, and proposed stroll on the boardwalk, which Robin accepted gleefully. "Where's the inamorata?" asked Riggs. "Dunno," Robin said. "She's get- i may not ting sort of elus "Had a mad?" "No, nothing of the sort. Madeline is weedy. They want home, at least Maddy does, and what she wants Angel generally wants. unsolved mystery, for succeed, but it won't blow will take more than Roger Neville to blow over any enterprise on which I am embarked^ 1 Go to it, Mr. Riggs. Do your darndest!" Tite Riggs was always amused at the sudden lapses from dignified diction to less formal phrases, and v ed smilingly away. Left alone in her brother's rooms, where there are more diversions and Anastasia Folsom devoted her atten-! wetter water and rollier chairs and tion to the dolls. j no mosquitoes, and he just wants For the first time she regarded stay. So, whatever Madeline wanted And Barron He's all for staying down. Says alk-! the weather is perfect and the kiddy doine: ne, and there's nastasia. "Tell any one who cares know the fullest details of Garrett . Show him up entirely, id you \vi. be pleased with the re- lit. I hav Bri't lived with that man tfi a centu ry for nothing. Kc was incapable cf conscious wrong-doing I am my elf.' And I assure you I <„uld do an injustice to no one." "1 believe you implicitly, Miss I'ol- m, but I want to warn yoa once ore, that yotr may be mistaken. blinded by love for your brother, ■i have mi sicad some signs or indi- titais, and that, in his love for you, may have kept from you some de- ils of his life that must have dis- •You >ma v2 him cut worse with ery word you utter. If you are orking for me, Mr. Riggs, you are viking at ny orders, and those are •• you ti g i cn the lines I lay down r you and no others. Will you do "I will," said Tite Riggs, gravely, "now that I have carefully warned you of the calamities you invite." "They are my calamtiies. I v;:a meet them should they come. First, then. Mr. Riggs. you will investigate such C£.ses as you can get further details about from that notebook--" "There are many definite dates and names cf places, Miss Folsom. Shall I go right through the list?" all n "Hold on "vou may libel suits "For hea iiuntie," said Dan Pelton, et yourself involved in nd all sorts of horrible The first woman associate of the Royal Academy of England since its foundation in 1769. From orphaned poverty to artistic But you know the boardwalk has dis1-plays in some instances that among the best ever." "Yes, I know it. Robin, have you dropped out of our detective collaboration?" "Are you still at that?" He looke^ hia surprise. "Why I thought it was past history. The inquest--" "Oh, the inquest isn't the be-all and end-all of a murder case." "What can I do to help?" '■'Nothing, if you ask in that lackadaisical way." "Now there's a word I've always enjoyed. Don't know how to spell it; don't know how to pronounce it, but I just adore that word." "Stalling!" Riggs thought to him-ilf, amazed. Whatever ailed the (To be continued.) FOR THE FIRST TIME SHE REGARDED THEM WITH INTEREST, AND AS SHE GAZED AT THEM HER INTERgST INCREASED. them with interest, and, r however much she c ived it, she'd "My heavens and earth!" she ej; I ulated. "That one is the very image j " ake, Dan, remember of Jeanie Frew! Poor little Jeanie.' old hat I ordered you to keep out of Garry wasn't very good to her. his. You have no regard for your bless his heart, he couldn't be tangled incle's good name, no care for his up with a stenographer! I wonder mjnst arraignment, but at least you if he bought that doll because it looks nay keep quiet and let me go my own so like Jeanie!" ■ay." ' I "And that one," she went "As if I could stop you!" muning with herself, "is Kitty Leigh Pelt-;n gazed at his formidable rela- to the life! I believe the boy did buy ive with something of admiration. these puppets when they looked like "And there's another thing," the. the girls he admired. For that blond idy veent cn. "As I came in you two one is enough like May Farmer to be leniioned the name of Croydon Sears., made for her. Yes, and this is like 3 he i" ,y°ur- precious book?" j Loo Bailey--though not so much so. "The initials C. K. S. occur a few, Well, Garry, dear, you were always a ines," Riggs told her. iboy! How well I remember you as a "Very well. That's Mr. Sears. And, \ baby. Fond of dolls even then." f course, he is the murderer. Don't! Her loving eyes saw only an inno-ou remember he was at the auction 1 cent exhibition of romance--but it here that knife was sold?" was romance that had represented to "But he didn't buy it!" | Foisom's mind the number and qual- "We don't know that he didn't. He's Ry of his conquests, le man/I tell you." j He had had many and various sorts "Then you must admit that Folsom of "romances" and when he could find id such a stranglehold on him that' a doll which looked like sars Went to the length of'murder to| favorites, past or present, he bought be free from him!" exclaimed Pelton. i it. And this occurred more often than they're staving on?" ■ another week or two. My ,n loves it, too. Dad is in. his lement down here. He loves the ater, and even more, he loves to potter about the shops." "Odd taste, that." "Oh, 1 don't mean the catch-pennies. He never bothers with cheap stuff.1M Radio Attracts Varied Market Even Silo Dealers Adding Line of Equipment--Electrical Shops Lead Washington--Even silo dealers and candy stores are retailing radio equipment nowadays, according to an analysis of returns made in a recent survey of radio stocks just compiled by the electric equipment division of the Commerce Department. 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"Now, Mr. Riggs," His employer continued, "will you get busy on Croydon Sears at once?" "I will, Miss Folsom, but I must work in my own way. You've laid down laws which I will obey. Now I must make stipulations which you must regard. You are not to take any active or open part in this investigation. Are the regular detectives, as you call them, making headway?" "I doubt if they're doing anything. The police are on what they call a etill hunt, but I think 'it will be kept so still we never shall hear of it, at ISSUE No. 48--'27 might think likely, and. there were at least a dozen dolls in his collection, though not all here present. And then Miss Folsom had another thought. A gruesome one. Was it possible her brother had had any-- unpleasantness or upset with any of the girls he had known, and that such a one had killed him? 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