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I rae 2 IE de : on ERE Lo Ce, ri: wa a a a a i Ra nm: -- viv ¥ AL ALE a MER * : 4 MERAY HL Kr Nd na Tad kb wen Si me a A es i ® SERIAL STORY Murder on the Boardwalk BY ELINORE COWAN STONE Last Week: « After agreeing to meet the mysterious "Lucille" at 9, Christine. keeps 'her' appoint- ment with Mr, Wilmet. Bill has been taken to police headquarters after. his keys were found to fit Mrs. Talbert's «car, His story sounds very thin, CHAPTER XIII © 3 Christine spent the rest of the morning in the last place where she thought curiosity seckers would look for the "Boardwalk Mystery Girl" -- the public library -- with tier too-well-publicized face buried in a newspaper, her mind still worrying about the story Mr. Wil- met had told her, her eyes impa- tiently watching the clock. At 12:50 she was to meet for lunch -- that is, if Bill still "in e@irculation." When she reached restau- rant, the worst of her were realized. As soon®as she asked for Bill, a waiter led her to a table. "Mr. Yardley has sent word that Bill were the fears PT we are to serve you at once, Miss, he told her. "And he seat this note for -you." "Sorry," the note said. "Can't make it. Please leave reply with Louis, the waiter who will hand you this ---- and who is as safe as a church -- saying where I can find you about 9 this evening" Christine let the lunch Bill had ordered cool while composed a reply which sketched an outline of her plan for the evening with- out betraying the confidence of "Lucille." At the end she added, as a possible line of communica- tion, "Am dining at Decker's with she aE Wilmet™ + ol . - . ' on Chris- hnner, sitting alancing at the msis Mr. Wilmet ordering the have CLR were Was lei- YO, was ' - with. y long nt of "hrs persecutions trou- with follow k. he tobac- wr: pomg dorectedly into a dificalty in who stood be- if rapt ! When nd removed her glanced up recognition, re- ent to her in- . and then Boardwalk. {ddowed, saun- Little heartbreaker! A captivat- ing toddler ne --- the toddler sundress takes only 1 vard! Match- ing bonnet, flirty panties included. *attern 4834 comes in children's sizes! 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. Size 6, rirock and bonnet, takes 13; yds. inch matenal Send twenty cehtss (20c¢) in cons (stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern to Room 421, ¥3 Adelaide St. West, Toronto, Write plainly size, name, address, style number, } costa ISSUE 30-1941 TY Se RN Le EET tering as the other girl did. At the top of a flight of stairs leading. to the street below, the girl glanced back before she de- scended. She walked on a block, turned into a side street, unlocked a door, and went in, leaving the door ajar, "For the first time Christine hesi- tated. After all, what did she know of this girl except that it was her voice which had first sounded that ominous note of dan- | ger which had run like a motif through the last 24 hours?... Then her curiosity got the bet- ter.of her, and she passed through the door. . . . She found herself in a poorly lighted, inhospitable hall, "from which a stairway ascended into darkness behind. Christine won- dered if¥she were mistaken in thinking that something moved in the shadows of that stairway. . The girl who called herself "Lucille" was waiting. "Come in here, please, Miss Thorenson," she said abruptly, and opened the door upon a lighted room. Christine stood amazed at the contrast between thes bleak ugli- nes of the hall and the quiet good taste and comfort of that room. The room was pleasantly lighted; a soft Oriental rug covered the floor; two of the walls were lined with hooks: and there were com- fortable chairs, It was a room, somehow, to inspire confidence. Yet Christine felt no confidence now, even in herself. Refore she could speak, she had not <een at first from a desk that stood in tered alcove. Chandra! "I am sorry about all this mys- a man got up a shel- Thorenson," he said in mhered voice. "But it m essary" Chr thought angrily, "Of course. 1 was right in the begzin- ning. «a . He shed every trace of the Oricn 1 From his unab- tru appearance and the quiet precision nw which he spoke and moved, one might castly -- as she had that first night -- have taken him fof a well-trained major domo. FROM THE CHETNIKS Sa Reigning as millinery queen in west coast fall showings, cover girl Anita Colby models this original Chetnik beret made up in a Stuart dress plaid. For. Christine realized that she had seen those tawny-brown eves not just o but twice before. "Yes," he anticipated her az she tried to reconstruct that brief en- nter on the station platform, have seen me hefore... The time you may not recall, You cousin might have -- That disguise was a I did not expect vou to "It was your eves, not vour noticed..." You said a train." Christine "Yes -- I cee" . L that 1 he aid dryly, your worst sus- iit that I dropped f side of that train be- fore it pulled out. and t I was in the taxicab behind yours when vou got out at vour hotel. ... And I was not the only one following vou, Mizz Thorenson. } broke out angnly, "I was crazy to come here. I guessed the becinning that this girl was one of vour spires" ' "1 <uppose that it's no vou to from use to believe that I am really trying to be honest. with vou,' clairvoyant went on "But it is quite true that I was asked to Keep an eve on your movements by copeone whom vour cousin had expected to meet vou, but who was -- unahle to do so. T agreed to do it because™ -- he broke off as if searching for words that might hold her atten- fion -- "becance T know that 1 am -- partly responsible for Mre. Tal- bert's death." "Are youn so sure that vou have deceived the police." Christine gasped, "that vou dared to trick ihe info coming here and--" TUF said" he interrupted with a the quigtly. y 13 it v Fat ale A -ple MAIL FOR THE F : CENT , SSRI A000 In Normandy, in Italy, wherever they may be, Canadian forces over- seas get mail from home quicker because of the big Lancaster trans- ports operated by - Trans-Canada Air Lines in the Canadian Govern- ment's trans-Atlantic service. And from the fronts mail comes quicker to the folk at home. . More than 50,000,000 letters have been carried in" 93 crossings of the Atlantic -- less than a year's oper- ation. With four aircraft in service, three round trips are now made ORCES OVERSEAS ETRE Ty Efe sos each week between Montreal and the United Kingdom. Flights are 'made direct, without intermediate stops, and the distance, *3,100 stat- ute miles, has been covered in little more than eleven hours. In the big noses of the Lancast- ers, as much as 8,000 pounds of mail may be carried. Parts and equipment of importance to war effort areScarried as freight. No fare-pgying passengers are trans- ported, but official passengers on urgent war business are sometimes carried. « faint smile, 'partly responsible. You see, Miss Thorenson, peo- H come here for such a variety of reasons. They want, for in: ance, to be told how to find things they have where their hus- bands are sg i their evenings; whether they will get the jobs they want; wheth hat pain that wor- ries them is what they fear it is; wheth tiie time 1s right to in- vest money... There are somé questions you cannot answer directly if you are honest. ...You try, if you are wise, not to complicate family troubles or to give advice involving large sums lost; ~ v Heir ~of_ money... There are other que- stions you must not answer fully. Those are the questions involving life and death" : "This is very Interesting," Christine interrupted impatieptly. "But why does it concern me -- - cousin's death?" Tatbert's was one of 'must-nots." Partly on that * ne- count, and partly because there were -- circumstances I did not en: tirely understand, I did not warn ~ your cousin of her danger." (Continued Next Week) 'Blimev, What A Blooming War' Fireman digging for victims of a flying bomb in the south of Eng- land not long ago heard a hoarse voice crying from beneath a heap of rubble: "Blimey what a bloom- ing war." The exclamation was re- peated again and again and fire- men thought the victim had be- come unbalanced because of shock. After digging for a half-hour, the firemen cleared away broken floor-boards and saw in a cavity -- a parfot. The bird was taken awav, still screaming "Blimey, what a blooming war!" case, Thorenson, the The Situation That Confronts All Canadians "Stand Up and Be Counted" (by B. A. Trestrail) pictures the situ- ation that confronts Canadians with reference to State Socialism. It presents the origin, history and objectives of the movement and the story of those behind it. It dis- sects and anaiyvses the Socialists' proposals and points out the ul- timate cffect of their program on Canada as a whole--with particu- lar "reference to such groups as Farmers, Labour, Women, Youth, Veterans, etc. It will help vou to formulate convictions of your own on this vital subject. Some of its revelations and conclusions will amaze you others will amuse vou. It is written in the easy vern- acular of "the man on .the street" It is on sale at newstands and book stores or can be ordered direct from The Society for Individual Freedom, 29 King Street, East, Toronto, for 233c pastpaid...Send money order or stamps. ye Sawflv Menacing Western Wheat Wheat stem sawfly -- No. 1 {a- sect pest of Prairie farmers -- has started laying potential damage to millions of acres of wheat in the plains area, Dominion government entomologists in Lethbridge re- ported recently. Flights of the pest have started in southern Alberta and southern Saskatchewan and are steadily be- coming heavier and more general. The ilies' started to emerge less than two weeks ago and entomolo- gists said a few days of hot weather would give rise to exceptionally heavy flights. In the remarkable close-up above, smoke streams from a Jap "Kate" torpedo bomber, hit by a U. 8. Navy PB4Y over Truk, before the clane smashed into the sea. The rear gunner stood up as if to ba' ut, but sat down again, failing to jugp from the plane, which c= loded when #t bit the water. VOICE Outstandingly Good PRESS THE WEAR AND TEAR Chatham News believes that if Adolf is still wearing that uai- form he threatened he wouldn't take off until after the war, "it must. be getting baggy at the knees." "The knees," it says! But what about the seat of the pants, from all the swift ones the guy's been getting in the right region? --Ottawa Citizen, mien THE CARELESS FARMERS It isn't surprising to us that farmers lose a lot of soil through erosion by rain and wind. We have noticed that they leave their farms out in the weather all the time. --Kitchenier Record. --o-- SHORT SEARCH Hollywood is looking for a boy of 12, to play "the worst brat ever put on the screen." That ought to be easy; so many will nominate the kid next door. --Ottawa Citizen. KEY FASHION x 4 Black key print on white back- ground, with "its neckline, sleeve and waist band accents in coal black, is an effective study in con- trast. TABLE TALKS Three Good Breads Home-baked bread, biscuits, muf- fins--all are welcome on any table, and they can be as healthful and good for you to eat as they are appetizing. T he follow- ing recipe with a slight change or two, enables you to prepare N . three excellent breads--giving your family a de- lightful change in this "staff of life" food: Wheat-Meal Quick Bread 31 cup wheat-meal 2 cups milk : 3 cups sifted flour 4 teaspoons double-acting baking powder' ' 1 teaspoon salt 2 cup sugar . J 1 egg, well beaten : 4 tablespoons melted butler or other shortening Add cereal to milk and scald, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat and pour into, mixing bowl Let stand 15 minutes to cool. Sift flour once, measure, add baking powder, salt, and sugar, and sift aga. Add egg and shortening to cereal mixture and stir well Add flour mixture, stirring only. until all flour is dampened. Tura into greased loaf pan, 9x4x3 inches, and bake in moderate oven (350F.) 1 hour and 10 minutes, or until done. Fi Wheat-Meal Prune Bread Increase salt to 134 teaspoons in above recipe; add 1 cup chopped prunes and 1 tablespoon grated lemon rind to cereal-egg-fat, mix- ture. TT. Wheat-Meal Raisin Bread Increase salt to 13; teaspoons in above recipe, add 1 cup seedless raisins or currants to cerecal-egg- fat mixture, ® | CHRONICLES By : Gwendoline P. Clarke of GINGER FARM . . . . . J Looking back, last. week seems like several weckd rolled into one, When it started we thought help for haying would be our only pro- blem. For that reason we had one of the farm Commandos out to help--and we were very well satis- fied with the result. It looks as if city help has saved the day for a good many farmers. Monday saw all our hay in that was ready for the barn. Tuesday Partner intended cutting again -- and was that ever a break for me, because, on that very day I was invited to go to Toronto. Did I accept? Well, if I hadn't I would probably be stepping around with bare feet by now. As it is my feet are anything but 'bare. You see I went to a store that specializes in "corrective footwear" and the shoes they sent me home with are like "herring boxes without topses" so I shall never be surprised if my family renames me "Clementine", "ox x * Wednesday Partner was straigh- tening out the .mow all day in preparation for Commando help next day. But the Commando help was cancellgd because Part- ner's brother arrived for the day. Friday morning the real climax came when our son walked in. Or 'maybe I should call it an anti- climax, because, from a wire we had received from him we surmised he was down in Halifax, or maybe half way across the Atlantic. How- ever his visit was of short duration -- just a few days embarkation leave--which was more than we had hoped for. On Saturday morn- ing another friend arrived from the city to help with the hay and of course I had phoned Daughter that her brother was home so_she came along too. Saturdiy afternoon. I saw a strange "bike" on the lawn --young John, who used to work here--had come up unexpectedly for the week-end. But he had stop- ped off at the hayfield and was driving the team on the horse- rake. : « & 0% So, with continued fine weather, and plenty of men around, Parte ner. got in quite a bit of hay -- but naturally not too much because we didn't want to take advantage "of the help that was so willingly given. Haying, plus hot weather can be hard to take. Sunday night our , visiting family were all on their way again, and-1 must con- fess Partner and I are feeling a little limp. SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON GIDEON'S FAITHFUL FEW July 30 a Judges 6, 7, 8 PRINTED TEXT, Judges 7:4-7, 15-21. GOLDEN TEXT.--There is no restraint to Jehovah to save by many or by few. 1 Samuel 14:6. Memory Verse: Thou, Jehovah, hast made me glad. Psalm 92:4. THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING Time--The oppression of the Midianites, Garstang places at 1161--1154 B.C, and the forty years' judgeship of Gideon from 1154-1114 B.C. Place.--The great battle in which the Midianites were defeated oc- curred, primarily, in the plain of Jezreel, which is the plain of Me- giddo in central Palestine. Preparation For Battle "And Jehovah said unto Gideon, The people are yet too many, . . . Ths shall not go with thee. the same shall not go". The Lord sur- prised Gideon by telling him he must reduce his army, for Israel is to be taught that the Lord is their deliverer, all glory is to be given to Him. "So he brought down the people unto the water . . . likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink." Those who were eager for, the fight quenched their thirst as quickly as possible. The rest were glad "of any delay in meeting the enemy and thought more of their need and comfort than the cause of the Lord. Interpretation of Dream "And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth and let all the people go every man unto Ms place." In the whole army there were only 300 heroes full of courage, self- denial and watchiylness, fit for God's work. The Israelites were to learn that numbers did not count with God however much they may count with men. Sometimes, as in our last lesson, He uses na- ture to overthrow the purposes of man. ) ) "And it was so. when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped: and he returned into the camp of Israel, and sald, Arise; for Jehovah hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian." So wondrous seemed the dream in its interpretation that when Gideon heard it he bent in sile worship," assuredly knowing = thal God had given them the victory, ~~ Gideon's Stratagem "And he divided the three hun- dred men into three companies. ,, and they cried, the sword of Je- hovah and of Gideon." Now we see the clever stratagem of Gid- eon. The three hundred are divid- ed to give the idea of forces com- ing: from three directions to con- fuse and perplex the pagan hosts, Each man carried a trumpet and a pitcher. The pitchers were used to conceal the lamps, until by the noise of their breaking and the sudden appearance of the light, the Midianites would be startled, ter- rified and thrown into confusion. The success of the depended on a perfect understand- ing of what was to 'be done, and a perfect unity of action, 'as I do, so shall ye do. It was in the strength and pow- er of the Lord that they were to go forth against the. Midianites. His invisible sword and hosts would win for them. "And they stood every man im his place round about the camp} and all the host ran; and they shouted, and put them to flight." The battle went precisely as Gid- eon had planned. The surprised army was thrown into utter con- fusion. Everyone thought of treach- ery and turned his sword against his fellow. Escape was the com- mon impulse and the' disorganized host fled, pursued for days and nights by the Israelites." Defeat of Midianites And so the terrible misery of Isreal was removed and the op- pressor's power broken forever. All this was done by God, but done by means of the three hundred tested and chosen heroes. --_---- Annual cheese consumptipn in the United States normally ap- proximates 484,000,000 pounds, or four and one-half pounds per cap- ta. Headache Nothingis more depres. sing than headaches .. Why suffer?... Lambly's will give instant relief. . Lambie 1sgood for ear. COf- ache, toothache, painsin back, stomach, ls. stratagem SALADA TEA = i