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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS. COLBORNE. ONT.. THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1928 "SALADA" Brown Label Quality, 38c H-M»- Orange Pekoe Blend, 43c Jfr-lb. Blue Ubel Quality, 43c J*-!b. Label Quality, 48c J^-lb. Gold Label Quality (Finest Procurable), 53c y2-H». Four grades sold In Black, Green and Mixed Blends. Lowest Prices in Canada For Fine Teas jed to be nothing to go upon but that Miyiain iiitfCCTnf?^ I Bird Lovers Should assumption of a false mustache. ill ill I Nu INVCOlliL ) Wren Houses But aside from the dolls and the dagger, it was the only material clue ' i sight, and Fleming Stone set to ork to make it yield up its secret. As he neared the hotel he met Robin Sears. 'Hello," said the youth, "we've j = -- found the man in the green bathing j her emissar suit." the weapon. Who is he?" asked Stone. J How she could carry the knife into His mam© is Preston; he's a stuffy;the ocean unobserved, Stone did not '""j* l" old coot, and he doesn't remember dadgtop to think. For he knew whoever ™ t , r Carolyn Welis WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE. G?rrett Folsom is stabbed to death wiiile swimming at Ocean Town, N.J. folsom's bathing companions had *een Roger Neville, a business partner; Mrs. Helen Barnaby and Car-mehta Valdon. Anastasia Folsom, eccentric and masterful sister of the dead man, arrives and takes command. At the inquest it is learned that the death wea- 'alk. It is l bought o MINING INVESTOR 1 For Reliable Information Write Us GORRIE, MACDONALD AND ROBERTSON 9 Adelaide St. E., Toronto Build --she had a way to get s learned that one Croydon Sears « a fancier of curious weapons. He •admits buying two knives but not the pichaq. *4 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 room. Croydon Sears sends for Fleming Stone, famous detective. He tells him Folsom had been blackmailing him and he had lied at the inquest but innocent-Stone meets Ned and Madeline Barron. 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 XLIII. Stone amused them all with his description of the dolls that had belonged to Garrett Folsom- "It's not so surprising," said Searsi, with a twinkle in his eye. "A born collector will choose the strangest ines! I collect antique weapons, an->ther collects dolls. I'm not. sure the Mis aren't more admirable. At least, rhey're less dangerous." "I'd like to see those dolls," Robin :aid. "Angel adores them." "Well, the Folsom lot are among :hc finest. They must be imported. 1 never saw any more beautiful ones --if cne is fond of dolls." Breakfast over, and it being too ;arly to expect to sse Carmelit; .'.or.. Stone went to the auction : A confab with the principals there brought about a more i cjuiry into tfee sales made the night -•of ore the murder of G; And it was "pretty well established that as the auction drew to a close that night, that the attendants some ■■' hat hastily gathered odds and end) of their wares into bundles and sold I bem rapidly, taking, in most stances, the first bid made. This, though dons without the s tion of the proprietors, was not 1 recedented, for thus the counters ' re cleared and the w*ay made ready i or next day's enterprises. Few of the salespeople could mcmbsr definitely the customers who had bought these bundles, but at las one clerk came forward with of a man who had purchased 1 aged like. I didn't see his hair; he kept his hat on. He paid cash for his bundle and took it along with him. Didn't seem embarrassed cr flustered, just Sort of quiet-like and indifferent." "A collector?" "No, I don't think so. But you can't always tell. A real collector is foxy and pretends he isn't a collector at all. So you can't tell" "No, I suppose not. And this bundle, this last sale, had a pichaq in it?" "Yes, sir. An old one, with a worn-out velvet scabbard, just like the one the police have." "What else was in it " "Trash mostly. Nothing of the same era. A Chinese ink-holder and at all! Cheerful outlook!' "Never mind," Stone told him, "we've got a nice white mustache to Fleming Stone walked along the boardwalk toward the Hotel Maju-saca, thinking deeply. Yet his obsorp-tion in thought did not prevent his enjoyment of his surroundings. Though he cared little for surf-bathing, the sights and sounds of the crowds of merry-makers pleased his senses as a whole rather than in any detail. The rolling chairs with their human freight and their varied types of pushers interested and amused him, and, though he looked at nothing closely, he saw it all as a huge moving picture. Yet all the time his reason was working on the case in hand. He had not the slightest doubt that the man with the white mustache was an agent for some one else, and that the mustache was a disguise. But why was the man not a principal? he asked himself. Why not the murderer himself? If so, it must have been one of the men already mixed up with the affair. Of course, it might have been an entire stranger, but Stone's experience killed Folsom HAD c into the water, and, cr be easier for a woman tc a thing in her bathing id the knife y, it would conceal such sostume than In fact, Stone thought, that point scored heavily in favor of a woman For, with the more or less elaborate suits they ■ wore nowadays, ample opportunity was offered for the mcealment of a knife, while a man, ith his simple one or' two-piece suit, had small chance to hide anything of the sort. Reaching the Maji rs. Valdon on the deck, exquisitely, arrayed in a morning costume appropriate for the beach. (To be continued) Those who are thinking of putting i up houses for birds this spring had better confine their activities to wren houses unless they enjoy the chattering of English Sparrows, advises A. Neely Hall in the March issue of "Child Life Magazine." "When houses," he points out, "have doorways too small for e-par-o they do not hold g^ement to sparrows that larger houses do." Wren houses have other advantages too, according to this expert. They are small, they are the least expen- Kootenay Park Mapped A map sheet of one of the latest additions to Canada's national parks. Kootenay Park, In southeastern British Columbia, has just been issued the Topographical Survey, Depart-nt of the Interior. 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In all cases it is much more Great Extent of Our Parks Canada's national parka in the Rocky mountains are nearly as large as Belgium and two-thirds a3 great as Switzerland. and friends r the low ocean rate of £i, reduced railroad fares, and FREE transportation for children under 17, providing they are placed in farm or domestic employment Highest Peak in Canadian Rockies The highest peak in the Canadian Rockies is mount Robson, in British Columbia. This mountain has an ele-of 12,972 feet above sea-level. mho; said, ' 'because the Jy bid five dollars, but I let ike it, partly to get rid of the t and' partly because the buyers d out so I didn't think e'd be lother bid. did1 he look like?" Japanese incense-burner. But not story! valuable or in good condition. He paid all the lot was worth." "And you can't think of any other distinguishing trait he had?" "Not one. He was just like one of a hundred guys who come in here every day. It was only that white mustache that made him stick in my memory at all." "He's the man," Fleming Stone told himself, as he left the shop and turn his steps back toward the Majusaca. | "a,lu 10 Yet he had not entirely put the idea; C'ojdon That's led him to think that this was unlikely- For usually a murderer is sooner or later shown to be acquainted with his victim, if only by the casual testimony or evidence of bystanders or onlookers. If--and there was always the possibility--if Garrett Folsom had been murdered by some on that his surviving friends and relatives knew nothing of, that fact must also be proved. But the immediate business in hand for Stone was to prove that had nothing to do with lad a white mustache. ^LySn^M^, ™;!0^;*^ and this -cessi^ed the • "Ot poor either. Don't remem-l A.ld as he puzzled over it, it came to; investigation of all toward whom the clothes at all, but I couldn't h|m'that somebody had said the night !"nger of suspicion pointed, jirag that white mustache andlbefore that she harj human tools to Rcbin's report that the man in the ht he was old. But his voice L.^ for her | green bathing suit had been found ;ound very old--more middle- Always have the magic ' WRIGLEY package in * i your pocket. W, Soothes nerves, allays M Was the man with the white mus-jmust be looked into later. At present ;tache one of these? Had he bought1 Stone-'s thoughts Centred on one fig-old weapon for Carmelita's either ignorant of her purpose cognizant thereof Who could he have been? And where was any man with a white mustache? Such a facial adornment was enough of a rarity nowadays to be conspicuous even among the hordes of people at Ocean Town. And then it came to him. 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