THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG Books Just Out ji 75¢ PINK SUGAR bY ..:v0-vvvrovas DON Q'8 LOVE STORY--by THE DAUGHTER PAYS by Saas mnsnee 0. DOUGLASS MARGARET PEDLER LOUIS TRACY L-- ONLY 76 CENTS -- R UGLOW ¢ & CO. IDELCO-LIGHT ga Complete ht and Power Plant. lectric Write or see av C. Cannon ene EER: A THE YELLOW STUB GREAT NEW MYSTERY SERIAL By Ernest Lynn HENRY RAND, middle-aged credit manager of a department store, at dinner with his family, is reminded that the. following day is his son, JAMES RANID'S 27th birthday. Jimmy, as he is called, announces he has planned a theatre party for the family, which includes his mother and sister, JANET. He intends, alsoy to include BARRY COLVIN, Janet's fiance. Henry Rand is a staunch uphold- er of all the homely virtues, includ- ing that of punctuality, which is al- most a religion with him. When, on the night of the party, he fails to put While they are wondering, the ph rings. Jimmy answers it. It RY TY Old Into New Many a woman is wearing her old style, heavy, wide, wedding ring, not knowing that her ring can be reduced in size and engraved, and in every way made-fust as at- tractive as the modein ring. . We have a process of do- ing this without chansing the ring from its original condition. ~~ hg Kinnear '& d'Esterre JEWELLERS 168 PRINCESS STREET Ahh a a a a ahaa add hhh hha Ahh hahah dha is the police. Henry Rand's body has been found in » room at the Can- field Hotel. IL The voice at the other end of the phone stopped. There was™» metal- lic click. The other man had hung up. "Hello! Hello!" Jimmy frantical- iy tried to call him back. He wanted "the owner of that voice to tell him it was all a le. "Hello!" "Number, please," came the opéer- ator's voice. Dazed, Jimmy me- chanically replaced the receiver om the hook. ' "What is it, James? Something has happened to your father. What is it?" Jimmy's mother was at his side, her. blue 'eyes staring fixedly at his as if trying to read the truth. Janet came runhing and put her arm around her mother. Breathless- ly they waited for Jimmy to speak. "Something evidently has haps pened to déd," admitted Jimmy, gas- ing at Bargy, who was standing be- side Janet. #'Just how bad I don't know," he liéd, "and I'm going to find out." "He's dead. I know it. He's dead," moaned Martha Rand. She slumped into the nearest chair and 'buried 4 A her face in her work-worn hands. 3 She swayed slightly from side to side. Janet ren to her, "Look here Jim, what Is it?" Bar- ry Colvin's hand was on Jimmy's NY OU BUY WHEN ! : The exceptional tone quality in the Weber Piano appealsio the most aestheticitaste, Av C. w 1 HSKLY AND BE CONVINCED. isn TE JL arm, his voice steady. "Let me help." "You've GOT to help, Barry," Jimmy was whispering: "That was police calling. They sald dad had 'been found dead in the Canfield Ho- tel"! » "God, Jim! Not in that hole! It must be 5 mistake." "I'm praying that it is, Barry, but I'm going down. You stay here with mother and Sis. Please. Tell them from good makers Good F urs make warm friends W. F. GOURDIER 78-80 BROCK STREET LS i - TTT Pea el he 9.00 per ton Jp, fo sleeve nid R00 joer tom \ degen 00 ee load seine e+ $3.50 per anything to keep them going. rm phone -you later." Jimmy had Erabbed his hat and coat and was "The cold, wind-driven rain lashed Wr eruglly as he stumbled out of the front door and made for 'the automobile. Jimmy, unheeding, was carryipg his hat in his hand. * On the way a town, Jimmy, driving by instinet rather than by any conscious direction of his brain, found himself repeating over and over:<. "God! It's not true, not true. It's not true." - > . » The Canfield Hotel, old and run down, veared uglily before Jimmy Rand's eyes as he pulled his car to a stop. A shabby three-storey frame struc ture, its paint had faded into tone- less, weather beaten color that told of careless neglect. A lafge frosted electric light globe that hung over the front entrance carried the words "Canfield Hotel" in black letters that had been eroded by weather un- til their reading had become almost a task. 3 Jimmy burst into tha Jobby. The untidy, bald-headed clerk at the desk was talking to a policeman and at Jimmy's question directed him briefly, "Next floor; room 202." God! It's "There, In a room filled with pel- 'feemen and resking fumes of gas, Jimmy found his father. He was lying, face up, in the cen- tre of the floor. Jimmy took one swift look at the still, familiar face and, with a sob in his throat, kneel- od beside him, "Dad!" he cried. "Dad." i A hand touched This shoulder. Rand?" 'asked the "It looks like suicide, Mr. Rand. Somebody was passing In the hall-| way and smelled gas coming from beneath the door. He tried the door and found it locked. The clerk un- locked it and found your father dead and the room stinking with gas. a" "When was that?" "About five-thirty. The clerk cal- led police and we came right up, I found business cards in his pocket," indicating Henry Rand's body, "with the name Henry Rand on them. One of my men got your house on the phone right away and talked with you.' "But it couldn't have been sul- cide," Jimmy protested. "If yon had known my father you would have known there couldn't have been one possible motive for him to kill himself. There's always a reason for suicide." "And for murder,. too, for that matter," supplied the sergeant grim- Iy. Jimmy looked again at the still form of Henry Rand. "I'l never believe my father killed himself." Tears were in his eyes. The police sergeant was sympa- thetic. "I hope you're right, Mr. Rand. It might be hard to find a reason for it but those things hap- pen. It might be bard to find a rea- son for your father being in this hotel, for that matter." Jimmy looked around the room. Against one wall was a bed with a white enameled frame. The enamel was peeled off here and thére in large chunks, revealing the black iron beneath, The stark cheapness of the Foom with its faded and worn carpet and its two dingy, white painted chairs with their sagging cane bottoms, caused san involuntary shudder to run through him. Near the window, which had been opened to drive the gas fumes out, was a washstand with a bowl and pitcher. Beside the bed was a "drepser" with a dirty, cold slab of marble for a top and a cracked mirror. i o "The gas," supplied the sérgeant, "was coming from that jet right by the dresser. It was turned on all the way. "Your father's hat was found on that chair, just where you see it now," he continued. Jimmy picked up the hat, his father's neat black: derby. Inside, the initials "H.R." were perforated in "You searched him for letters-- anything that might possibly explain his presence . here?" che asked the sergeant. - am ew "We didn't find & thing. Here he was, with his overcoat on and his hat on that chair and the gas turned on. Nothing in his pockets but keys and his wallet with his money and cards in it." x "Why should he keep his overcoat on?" Jimmy was fighting, seizing at every possible flaw in the ser- geant's theory of suicide. i "Don't know." Another policeman broke in. "Looks as if he wanted to get it over with and came right in and locked the door and turned on the gas. Looks--"' "Wait a minute," the sergeant in terrupted. "Where's the key? The clerk said he unlocked the door from the outside. There weren't any loose keys on him--only those on his ring. Go down and bring him up, Polk." A policeman turned to do his bid- ding. "Of course," the sergeant went on to Jimmy, "he may have thrown the key outdoors.and then closed the window. We might Took out in the street." He was trying the ers on Henry Rand's key ring in the lock in the door. None of them fitted. The night clerk arrived. The ser- geant spoke to him brusquely. "See anything of a key in this room?" "No, sir. 1 called you up as soon as ¥ found him." "By the way, whe registered for this room?" put in Jimmy. "Did you ask him that, sergeant?" "Yes, he says the register is signed by H. A, Jones, of Néw York. 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Show it to m, Mo pr, Continued.) sb HOOP NETTING CAUSES REAL WARM DEBATE ------ (Continued From Page 1) Mr. W, McCue, Smith's Falls Board of Trade president, also pre- sented a resolution from the Smith's Falls Board of Trade protesting ageinst hoop net fishing. He stat- ed that it was recognized that the Government was spending large sums of money to get tourists, but he declared that it will be like fish- ing in a rain barrel if hoop net fish. ing is allowed to go on. Mr. James G. Jones, who was in- spector for over forty years on the Rideau lakes, stated that before the time of hoop nets there was all kinds of game fish, but since these nets have come in to use the fishing has diminished greatly. He was in favor of having Government wardens take out the scavenger fish from the water, thep everybody would be sure of what was being done. Resolutions Presented. Dr. A, C. Neish, president of the Kingston and County of Frontenac Game and Fish Protective Assocla~ tion, presented a resolution from the local Association protesting against hoop net fishing. He stated, how- ever, that there were two sider to every question. He felt that the honest fisherman was suffering on account of the dishonest one. He was strongly in favor of increasing the number of Federal Inspectors to see how many fish are going across the border. The Council of the Kingston Board of Trade also presented a re- solution asking that hoop net fish- | fl WN Look These Bargains Over 25¢. Ladies' White Rub- bers. Save your good Rubbers doing choirs around the house. Baby Red Felt Strap Slippers $4.95 Ladies' Hat Cases TTY WY i $1.25 Boys' Horsehide Moccasins 80c. Women's Bedroom Slippers We sell the best Man's $5.00 Hockey Boot. Get ready for the big dances ! We are offering all LADIES EVENING SHOES : at 20% Discount THIS WEEK. ABERNETHY'S SHOE STORE lk a kh AAA AR AA AAA AAs aa ahh dh Aidit Kingston's Biggest | Home Furnishers 5 Simmons' "Graceline" Beds i roys For anyone seeking individuality in Bedroom Furniture, Simmons' new line of Bedding--snappy All-Steel, Wood Finished Beds to match any dressers--only ... o.oo. viva, ceo» $15.00 Simmons' La tractive, strong icking, yer Felt Mattresses, covered in at- with imperial edges -- $8.50 Only . voces EE BONNER AND SLUMBER KIN G SPRINGS AND OSTERMOOR MATTR ESSES. JAMES REID THE LEADING FUNERAL SERVICE. 'Phone 147 for Service. taken the sport fish and kept or sold them. There was a great against the American tourists who, it was declared, were the real offend- ers by taking far more fish than the law allowed. It was t hoop nets were a great thifg for destroying the trash fish and that anglers were taking too many bass. The fishermen were almost unani- mous in charging the anglers with the trouble that existed over fishing conditions, laying much of the blame on the touris Dr. A. P, ight, speaking again, stated that there was a plan under way for the farming of the waters just as there was of land, and, he urged both sides to use their in- fluence to see if the new policy could be inaugurated. ------ 7 With the last argument presented, Hon. Mr. McCrea was called upon, stated that he felt it was his duty to come here with a view to creating hetter conditions. While angling was a sport, it alse meant money, and it was a dificult pro- blem to deal with. He pointed out the side of Mayor Angrove with a petition of over 760 names attached and on the other side, Dr. A. P. Knight's argument, coming from a man with years of study on the ques- tion. : The speaker stated that the Goy- ernment had had a difficult time A ing to ge¥ speckled trout fry, and | realizing the problem, the Govern. was | ment had decided to develop its own. | From the Nipigon 20,000 healthy outery | to stated that he was willing to provide assistants the inspectors,~without pay of course, but he urged that the active co-operation of a joint committee could do away with all the existing difficulties. He declared that the matters that had héen brought up would be given very earnest consid. eration' by the Government and ¢he question carefully dealt with. A vote of thanks was moved to Hon, Mr, McCrea and Mr. McDonald for having come here to meet both sides. His Hand Injured. Joseph Purdy, of Napanee, was" brought to the Kingston General Hospital on Wednesday afternoon, suffering from injuries peceived to his right hand when it was caught in a bust saw at his home. Dr. Bo- gart is attending the man and {ffs hoped that the hand will be saved, although it 'is very badly bruised and one finger is cut off at the first joint. 3 Leaving Campbeliford. At Campbeliford the Bell Tele phone operators met to present Mise Clara Rowe, who is leaving the ser- vice, with a handsome silk umbrella. Miss Rowe has been an operator for some time, and is leaving for Cleve- land, Ohio, where she will spend some time with her brother, Willlam Rows. -------------------- "One half doesn't know how ths 'other half lives, but it will when the army of moopers is fully re- crul rn