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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE,'ONT., THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1928 "Pekoe" comes from the Chinese word "Pak-ho'% meaning silver hair, which was applied to the tip leaves on the Chinese tea bush. Tip leaves are wiry msfavp* In India they were more orange in colour; so were called "Orange Pekoe" (Pak-ho). Wells WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE. Garrett Folsom is stabbed to death .while swimming at Ocean Town, N.J. folsom's bathing companions had oeen Roger Neville, a business partner; Mrs. Helen Barnaby and Car-mehta Valdon. Anastasia Folsom, eccentric and niasterful sister of tho dead man, arrives and takes command. At the inquest it is learned that the death wea-pan was a pichaq, an Oriental knife, wall '* been bought on the board-, It is learned that one Croydon Sears 13 a fancier of curious weapons. Hi admits buying two knives but not the pichaq. Anastasia engages Titus Riggs, architect, to work on the case. Dan Pelton, the dead man's nephew, rives and is intrigued by some curious French dolls in Folsom's roor ■ Croydon Sears sends for Fleming Stone, famous detective. He tells him Folsom had been blackmailing him and he had^lied at the inquest but was Stone meets Nad and Madeline Bar-■ ron. He orders Dan Pelton to produce Folsom's papers, and Pelton acts as if he were trying to conceal something. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XLI. '•It isn't ridiculous, except that it's re' wka to jump., at conclusions so rapidiy," said Riggs. "But IJiave felt all alcng that Mrs. Valdon knows mora than she has admitted, .and that sha is a woman of-- "Of murderous impulses and peratc passions and capable of any crime!" Miss Folsom ranted on. "" knew her sort the moment I set eyes on her, and that was some years ago. She made a dead set for my brother, and they had an affair which, she thought, would end in Garry's marry ing her-but it didn't. Garry wa just a little too smart for that! Bu. tjiers waa a bit of a scandal, .jand 4omehcw or other Garry kept the whip hand. Since then Canny and I have been friends outwardly, and ('^: ."> v.eie seemingly friends, but she "Net afraid of him," amended Pel-ton, "but he had some letters of hers which were perhaps a bit indiscreet. Th?sc she mUurally wanted to get " ath- No woman wants ted to the public. So, naturally, she triad to get them, ew it wculd be useless to appeal police, and she doubted the wis->f asking my aunt for them, Before you get the reward your Uncle Garry got! I suppose she begged _ for that packet of letters- By the ay, where has it been all the time" I haven't seen it." "I took care of it," Pelton said, ob stinately. "I know you did. But where did you find it? In the suitcase?" "Yes. And I just laid it aside for the moment. I knew she never killed uncle. How could she?" "Why couldn't she?" retorted aunt. "She stood next him at the rope; that we know. Stood at his right-hand side. So she had motive and oportunity. As to the weapon, •we've no real reason to assume it must have been one of those antique things It may have been a hotel carving knife. Any woman clever enough to plan and carry out such a scheme of murder would bo quite clever enough to manage the weapon part of the business. Now, Mr- Stone, there's your criminal; go and get her!" Had the case been less serious, Fleming Stone would have been amused at the emphatic declaration of Miss Folsom. - She was striding up and down the roon, her bobbed hair, escaped from the influence c.f brilliantine, waving in quivering tufts. Her black la< evening gow7n was short and the gre; red rose at her shoulder shook on i stem as she gesticulated with her bare arm, which was held, now aloft, like the Statue of Liberty, and now straight out, as she pointed, in phasis, at one or another of her about the dolls!" Miss Folsom cried, impatiently. "I'm not using that point to fsaten this thing on Carmelita Valdon. I only say she had the real reason to want Garry out of the. way, and she had nerve necessary to do the deedV" And the opportunity," put ii Riggs. 'Those things are all required,' Stone said, smiling a little at the glib repetition of the hackneyed terms, 'but there are other things to be conr sidered. A murder such as this one we are considering is the result of careful planning and preparation. Your ordinary bather does not carry a sharp knife around in his pocket on the chance of wanting to kill somebody in a hurry. Nor is that sharp knife easily come by or easily carried about. It means premeditation and that means a long time and definite purpose. Now, Mr. Folsom only ar-'ed here the night before, so who-sr killed him prepared for it in a hurry- I mean, in a hurry at the last. I insist that the motive existed long before. To me it seems that who had the murder in his heart, was ilready down here and learned that evening that Mr. Folsom had arrived. That he then laid his plans and the Jiext morning carried them out with ;• lett: • a lot about it, Dan. with an accusing glano t Stasia, and I'm telling causa---well, because Ml implied that opannes way out." ure I implied all that, nd his l the f thos :-rc5t love- L.iters, they might bring suspicion 0:1 Mrs. Valdon. But if ; oved a real intent for revenge--" "They couldn't be as bad as that," Pelton said, and was stopped by his "Shut up, Dan," she advised. 'You've fallen for that woman, as ,-ou do for every specimen of that ■ran type. Given a low, wailing voice md a pair of dark, love-hungry eyes, md any woman can vamp you! Now hop her before you get in too deep. 1-e Interested hearers Riggs was getting a beautiful Carmelita; beginning to too, for Tite lew light Croydon Sears way out for himself, and Fleming Stone was hear: GUYS The cool, comforting flavor of WRIGLEY'S Spearmint is a lasting pleasure. It cleanses the mouth after eating--gives a clean taste and It is refreshing and ing ar«l freely given, and to its true place "Gently, gently, Miss Folsom," h< said, looking at her kindly. " I knov you think you have discovered the on< who killed your brother, and it excite: your sense of justice, but remembei we haven't proved anything and, in deed, have little to bank on. A paeke of love letters and a position next to Mr. Folsom on the rope in the ocean. I see no more than that, and that, dear lady, is not enough." "It's enough for me!" Anastasia •olsom's eyes snapped. She snatched 10 one of the dolls that was perched >n the mantel. "That's the type she xis!" she ex-laimed as she waved the puppet in he very face of Fleming Stone. 'That's the type of Carmelita Val-lon; a woman with a serpent's soul!" The doll, a superior specimen of French art, did indeed look like Car melita, so much so that it was sur prising- But it had a sly, even sinister, expression beneath the luring smile, and the exquisite features, whilo fascinating, were those of a wicked, designing nature. Fleming Stone was interested. "It does look like Mrs. Valdon," he declared. it does," Miss Folsom said scornfully. "My brother was a fool about women, or rather, they made a fool of him. So. whenever he could find a doll who reminded him of one of his favorites he bought it. All of these represent his sweethearts." Anastasia was a strange mixture of" scorn for these amours of her brother and a staunch loyalty and love for tha man himself, whatever he might do. "Why pick on that doll, then?" Tite Riggs said, thoughtfully. "Maybe the human prototype of some of these other dolls was the guilty person." "No," and Anastasia took his suggestion seriously. "You see, I know many of these. I don't mean personally, but I happen to know more or ks3 about them- No doll here is the image of a person down here, except that one." "I gave a doll to the girl, Myrtle," said Pelton, thoughtfully. "She chose it herself--said it was Uncle Garry's favorite. Maybe she's the--" NURSES WANTED The Toronto Hospital for Incurables, icriit-li miforn _ _nd Allied 3, New York City, offers a ars' Course of Training to "omen having the required 1, and desirous of becoming :ids Hospital has adopted the ir system. The pupils receive 1 of the School, a monthly of the knives bought that night; it may havo been bought at any time, or, indeed, brought here from elsewhere. But it dees seen to indicate a lover or collector of the antique, and that may or may not be a clue. Probably not, for to my mind a collector would use any weapon rather than one of his own curios." "Yes," agreed Croydon Sears, "I certainly should have done so." (To be continued.) such cleverness that he left no clue." t°n Herald "The knife " said Croydon. Sears, who, saying little, was listening to Stone. "That--and I think it was bought at the auction room--was a clevefr dodge. "I am "Your uncle seems rather hard of hearing?" 'Hard of hearing! Why, once he conducted family prayers kneeling on the cat!" The man who blew hot to warm his hands and cold to cool his soup had nothing on the candidate who is per-lly dry and politically wet.--Bos Uncle Sam has earned the credit of introducing two kinds of diplomacy: shirt-sleeve and airplane. Minard's Liniment reileves pain. SUN LIFE SETS NEW RECORD Wilson Publishing Company Canadian Company With World Wide Organization a Great Credit to This Country. Increase in New Business For Year Greatest on Continent. 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