Daily British Whig (1850), 3 Feb 1926, p. 10

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a i fHE DAILY BRITISH WHIGC THE YELLOW STUB! | Do You oni ee ST ten ~ Do This? HENRY RAND, middle-aged crodit| fast. Now when we seb Fogarty he'll FRENDS are coming at seven to- manager of a department store, ati have to have a pretty tight little story night. You've fondl 1 dinner with lis family, is reminded | to work himself loose. You wanted g y Pp anned those Shas the following day tus som! to clamp down on him with just the dishes that will please. Perhaps a AMES RAND'S 27th birthday.| ticket to go on." ding--or a cak Jimmy, as he is called, announces he | . Ty. little detective smiled at his own pud g > e. How caref y Bovril is not merely a "Beef extract." It + {has planned a theatre party for the| cleverness. , . Jimmy couldn't help ad- ingredients are selected. Fresh coun is the strength and substance of beef, nour- Tl od. Shciudes. Tis mother ising Yim, cream--finest creamery butter-- : ne ) Mooney, i d, had th : hing, invigorating, , energizing, with world. to include BARRY COLVIN, Janet's |, oric on pis heer i) Chicago. There ~~ highest grade flour--then perhaps a wide repu Hn ] unvarying quality. Ba Reads ch uphold. | 28. Su automobile theft esse which flavoring extract made from coal-tar feel tired and "let down." But when you fy or sh Jhe bundy. in tues, includ- | hile he was there. chemicals, Imagine! - "Killing two birds with one stone," .i n . . vg. ys . . ask for Bovril at Aountains--hotels--res- Mosk 3 seligion with him. Wien, ot | smiled Mooney. "We've gone pretty ~ Shirriff's True Vanilla is a delicate flavor taurants--see that you get Bovril--and not a Signs of the pars: ef to yu near as far as we can now until we see that truly tempts the palate. Straight from 8 Subatifute that lacks the essential vital ssBrafhonigerigradnis ingly indi Ts he bury Sunday gad pant the deliciously fragrant tropical vanilla elements tha distinguish Bovril, Slanhsd. ' nd the Monday afternoon and plan our recep- ' bean. . Pure ingredients deserve Shirriff s x Phil cy are wondering, he! tion for Mr, Fogarty. Thatll give you True Vanilla--the flavor stays. Six drops of B® is the police, Henry Rand's body has Monday TRE YO ook around tor Shirriff"s True Vanilla equals 18 drops of Bown Sound In» room at the Can- |, 'sq added with a 'wink; "if you still artificial yanilla. And 25c flavors 25 cakes tals think you'll be here long enough to --Economy! Jimm to the hotel. His f » Sold only in Bottles ther is tn a gas-filled room that had | "Cd One: "I'm beginning to think it might . | been registered for by H. A. Jones of " 1: P 25 Made in Canada New York. aot be ay Jimmy puswersd : rice C . Police believe it is sucide. Jimmy | 2""OU8H this Fogarty thing looks a s most too good fo be true." Hosen: Ogres, A woman's handler. | eC Sing img sent a tele: See Your Grocer's Counter chief is found in the voom. : : " The coroner arrives and discovers | 87am to his mother and sister: "Feel- ® small welt at the back of Henry ing fine and making progress. Write to Rand's head. While they are talk. | M¢: He sent along his address. ® 4 W ing, Jimmy discovers the yellow stub |. he day passed swiftly. In the even- : h F of a theatre ticket, evidently used |." he hunted up a church. Slipping in- - 1 to an empty pew he sat listening to the . en A, JS House Wiring and Repairing All Kinds of Electric Apparatus : Satisfaction guaranteed. Best work at reasonable prices, "THE DOWN TOWN ELECTRIC STORE" ag AY E . _ HALLIDAY ELECTRIC CO two nights before. is ore organ while the ehurch gradually filled up. He reached for a hymn book and CHAPTER VII. idly skimmed through it. Most of the "All right, Mooney." "Jimmy slapped | hymns were familiar to him. Janet used 1 the detective on the back. "We'll go|to play them on Sunday evenings at 8 - down to Mr. Fogarty's hotel and let | home, > him try to explain this." He became gradually aware of a gir! ani . "Not so fast, not so fast," shot back | sitting just across the aisle from him, Mooney. For all of his surprise, he | He could see her profile. The thought had been doing some rapid thinking. | occurred to him that he would like to Also Makers of - = : EE ------¥| He turned to the ticket seller. "Have | be an artist long enough to paint it. Shirriff" you got two seats right behind this one | Her nose, slightly tip-tilted, and her rriff's Marmalade and Jelly Powders ; for next Monday night?" firm little chin seemed so clearly etch- Established 1880 "See what 1 can do." The young | ed against the background of light . . man began to scan through a stack of | He could not see her eyes, and the tickets. "Here you are--seats 30 and 31 ; small hat she wore hid most of her in Row 1. Just what you want. By |hair. What he could see of it was the way, has Big Tom Fogarty got in- | black and straight and bobbed. . . Her |. to a jam?" whole pose seemed to him to fit natur- "I'm not saying, brother," Mooney | ally into a church background. reached for the tickets and tossed a| They were praying. He found him- bill through the grating. self on his knees, not listening to the The ticket seller flushed. "None of | regular prayer, but praying of his own my business, of course, but if you can | accord. When he looked up he glanc- get anything on Fogarty you'll be the | ed involuntarily across the aisle. The first one that's been able to do it." |girl was looking at him. He half ex- "Yeah? WeH, they all make mis- [pected to see amusement in her eyes ; . takes sometimes." Mooney pocketed | and flushed slightly. Instead, he could { nN | i + the tickets. He turned to Jimmy. |have sworn there was sympathy, and : £ "We're not showing our hand to Fog- | understanding. = She turned her eyes D 3 aa RE TT : ¥ = arty yet. We'll have a chance to find [away and Jimmy noticed that they XR ert 11 Ee ro out a few things about hin¥, and Mon- | were blue, with heavy black lashes. - WY : es = [4 A NR = day night we'll get a good look at| He had walked for perhaps half a AR i 4 ; . '} Li a = "Phone 94. Se him." block before he became dimly con- They turned away from the window, | scious that shé was walking ahead of leaving the clerk ablaze with curiosity. | him, - He wondered, half guiltily, whet- "Why wait?" Jimmy asked Mooney. | her she might not suspect him of fol- "Fogarty's the man we're looking for. | lowing her-- there was no one else Why give him a chance to get away?" | near. "He's not running away," declared | He was about to turn around when Mooney. "I know the kind of gent |he saw an automobile pass him and we're dealing with, and I'm not talk- | then slow down when it reached her ing to him until I have something more | to accommodate itself to her gait. He to go on." could see two young men in the front "We want something more to go on," | seat. One of them was speaking to her. Mooney had said. Well, they had it. She drew away to the.inside of the What they learned about Fogarty was | sidewalk and quickemed her pace. The sufficient, in Jimmy's mind, to put him | automobile kept even with her. She behind the bars for a lengthy stay. | stopped then and glanced around, She w"Crooked as a snake," declared | was plainly distressed. He hurried. One Mooney, after a talk of several hours | of the men was' getting out of the car, with a friend in the Chicago detective | Jimmy was beside her, "Sorry to ~ bureau. keep you waiting," he said hurriedly, : ' : "A ward heeling politician and the | lifting his hat, "1 was delayed inside." v9 best little vote buyer that ever threw | He wondered whether he was "getting ' ca power % / an election. Mixed up in a lot of high | away" with his bluff. He wasn't look- pressure bootlegging and suspected of |ing for trouble. He suddenly thought of knowing a lot about gone or two high- | Janet. . jack murders. But they can't get a| He saw that he wasn't fooling the . on e ce e one thing on him. We've heard a lot about | man who was getting out of the car. 3 tat, bird back in Grafton. He was handsome in 2 Way, but n ne ' "Got plenty of money and plenty of | loose-lipped mouth spoiled what oth- along hout lephon Without it our service infl A profi i 1 bond erwise Pd have been a down-right We could 104 gel wit the te : 2 €. it Ao Food 100king face. j would be completely demoralized,'--said the Chief They had gone later to the Mayfair| "What.a smooth worker you are," Engineer ofa big bower development. Hotel, where Mooney had learned the | he sneered t6 Jimmy. " e on, sis- number of Fogarty's room and prompt | ter, hop in." ' : ANAD harnessed water now equal ly had learned from a chambermaid| Jimmy edged over toward the curb. C A'S u to $300,000,000 worth of coal a year. It that Fogarty had not slept in hig room | "Beat it," he said guetly. : . : pin : the previous Tuesday night. "Let's take a crack at the wise guy.' Ligh our cities from end end turns the "That was the night before your fa-{ The man at the wheel was climbing 4 d ts to it ther's murder," said Mooney, "the{ out, too. Jimmy could smel} Nquor , | ' wheels in the factories--and this indispensable night this H. A. Jones of New York | He stiffened. Suddenly he lashed out I i telephone. ' » registered at the Canfield Hotel. - It{ with his fist and caught the nearest i service depends on the might not mean a thing and then again | man flush on the chin.' * 1 oi it might. This fellow Fogarty's been (To Be Contintied.) HR There is an immense harnessed power in living in the same hotel for five years | i : : UR business --the telephone. 'reaches and the maid says he's often out all : 4 YO : , L night. ; ; '| FIFTY-SIX YEARS MARRIED. : everyone, "Still, it's gomething for him to ex- samicmelien : ; s plain. We've got the stub of the thea- | yee and Mrs. H. Todd, Maple Grove. Gear your business to this dynamo -- the ter ticket he bought and he's got to Celebrated. : account for that, too. You see, Rand, Maple Grove, Feb, 1.-- Mr. and telephone -- and watch it grow! Use Long it doesn't pay to rush at things t00| yr Humphrey Todd celebrated Distance. Be the leader in YOUR field in A their fifty-sixth wedding anniver- : y anities iving service! : sary, on Jan. 20th. Members of the ging family were present for the occasion. Wit 8 The annual tea meeting, held at the | HOW THE TELEPHONE 1S BUILDING UP BUSINESS church, was a decided success. Over - : prs : (from lesters in our files) 260 people took supper the first 3 *Use the Bell to Sell." "Out large hhc, ts busy day and nigh night. Much credit is due ay : serving customers." == Public Uniliy Co. {gramme . The second night wae #We maintain a fleet of automobiles 10 answer tele 1 Shite as I nd olen was i ¢ col of sclice." «A Ligh, Hest & Power Co x fl with athe A. J. EVANS, ~~ BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF CANADA

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