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2 ig iws talent 1s jy ERO SR MF INRL ISNA CSAIL HLH SEE AOA ALLE IU RES ft wi Tx 3 (APS RARER 2h) AAI Lf E35 MACDONALD'S ® SERIAL STORY Murder on the Boardwalk BY ELINORE COWAN STONE Last week: Jaspar, Chandra's home, tries to explain how Mrs. Talbert had ordered him to deliver the bonds to Christine, Inspector... Parsons,. Wilmet. and Bill arrive, tralling Christine through Lucille. Suspicion turns on Chandra, Mrs. Talbert was last seen coming out of his studio, CHAPTER XV "I take exception to that 'last seen, Inspector," Chandra said coolly. "However, it is entirely true that Mrs. Talbert was with me that night for an hour or more." "And afterwards," Inspector Parsons continued, "so far as I can learn, she was not seen until her dead body was found." "But carly this morning," the clairvoyant pointed out, "her car was also found -- parked just across the Boardwalk {rom the 27th street dock... . Are you sug- gesting that after I had warned Miss Thorenson where to look for - the bonds I, myself, had stolen, 1 stabbed her cousin--with a dag- ger that anyone in Surf City could identify as mine--and was also imbecile enough to leave her car parked just around the corner from my own studio?" * "What I'm suggesting is that vou know a lot more about this business than you found it con- morning." venient to tell me this * * * "Now we're getting. somewhere, Inspector. Because I know a lot more about this business than I did this morning." Co Chandra turned to Jaspar,. who stood, glancing with a white, trap- ped look from one to the other. "This, my friend," he said, "is now a-police affair in spite of any- * thing you can do. You must dis- regard Mrs. Talbert's wishes." "Wishes -- what wishes?" In- spector Parsons snapped. "When Mrs, Talbert began to suspect that she was in danger, she anstructed "Mr, Jaspar that no matter what happened he must not call the police." "He told you that?" : "Mrs. Talbert told me that--the last time she came to consult me." "So she, came to you for advice --the night before her death--and the best you could do was to let her get herself murdered without any warning--and you supposed to be the slickest 'medium in the country!" . * * * Chandra's hands moved in a' gesture of defeat which, even to Christine's unsympathetic eyes, scemed starkly sincere, "Mrs. Talbert," he said, '4vas a woman of several fixed ideas. One, which grew in her as she got older and more eccentric, was the be- lief that, single-handed, she could outwit the world and the devil." "That's a weakness that seems to run in the family." The inspec- tor--glanced toward Christine. "Perhaps"--Chandra's smile was hiding at enigmatic--""you are more right than you guess, Inspector. . . , Another of her peculiarities was that she thought police are all a set of clumsy bunglers. . ; I am setting forth Mrs, Talbert's view- point, of course, not my own. Otherwise, I shouldn't be advising Mr. Jaspar to. tell you what he's told me." "Well," the inspector's tone was. uncompromising. "I'm listening, He'd better make it good." He glanced around at the others. "You might as well sit down, since you're all in this from the ankles up." 4 : So they did sit down--Mr. Wil- met, obviously secthing with curi- osity and afraid that the inspector might clrange his mind, stumbling over a stool in his effort to find a chair without making story all over again. . * « When he came to the part about leaving the bonds in Christine's room, the inspector turned toward Christine and then toward Jaspar with frowning attention, and Chris- SHE'LL SIT Leas = 3 Bee, N_ "I'm ready to sit out this argu- ment for two years, if neces- sary," says screen star Joan Fon- taine, above, Dave Selznick over roles offered her. She says she won't take any more "mousy" parts, tine recalled uncomiortably his words of that 'morning: "Perhaps it was cven someone who counted on your keeping them safely for him." A little later "he interrupted, "If Mrs. Talbert had let the police go ahead when that young man was kidnaped, she might have got himself conspicuous. And Jaspar began his currently suspend. | --ed after battle with producer w a Another day of robot bombs is done, ab Sat but there's the long night yet ahead, s0.a London mother directs her children to the safety of an underground back-yard shelter, The little one makes sure her teddy- bear will be safe, too. "He was in his first year at col- lege." Jaspar: hesitated and then went on, "I have been told that he was about to be expelled. . . A--a matter of a forged check, sir." "A young man of that age could have changed -- perhaps beyond recognition--in 12 years," the in- spector said reflectively, . . Chris- tine wondered if she only imag- _ined that he, glanced toward Bill, . ... "Well, go on, Jaspar." "Well, sir, Mrs, Talbert' had gohie out in her car. I was always worried when she went out alone at night, because it was generally known that 'she often carried val- uables on her person, sometimes large sums of money. She's done that ever since so many banks closed some years ago. Aud only the day before, she had those bonds I left with Miss Thor- enson from the bank." * x "You knew it." Does that make it general information?" "It was well enough known that the house was entered once, and there had been attempts 'to hold her up. . . And she'd had extor- tion notes." 4A "Can You put your hands on any of those notes?" "No, sir. Mrs. Talbert always? burned them." 2 Inspector Parsons: smothered ejaculation was eloquent. "Did Mrs. Talbert have any- thing of value with her when she, disappeared?" he asked, : "Mrs. Talbert," Jaspar answered after a brief" hesitation, "carried in her briefcase exact -facsmiles of those bonds."She had had them" made by--a person who was clever at that sort of work in anticipation of just some such thing as happen- ed. It was Mrs. Talbert's idea-of a joke, sir!' Jaspar explained. "You see, she'd spent a lot of money teying to get Mr. Earl back. She said that if she fas abducted; too, the joke was going to be on the - peoples who. collected the ransom." s Ce 4 Somewhere" in the room sonie- taken. Cs one drew a sharp, .hissing breath, The inspector did not glance wp; he made no 'comment. Yet when he spoke, Christine knew that he felt as sure as she did that some- where in that group sat Cousin Emma's murderer. "Go on, Jaspar," he prompted. "Well, sir, about 9 o'clock the doorbell rang. When I answered, it was a special delivery messen- ger. I carried the letter to the light and saw that it was addressed to . me--in Mrs, Talbert's handwrit- ing." J "So you are prepared to identify Mrs. Talbert's writing?" "Oh, yes indeed, sir." Inspector Parsons -took.an en- - velope from his pocket and passed it to Jaspar. "This is addressed to Miss Thor- enson, you notice, apparently by her cousin. We found. it in Mrs. Talhert's purse." (Continued Next Week) As Churchill Spoke . Four Years Ago And on that grimmest of Bas- *_tille Days, July 14, 1940, Winston Churchill gspoke from endangered but uncoifuherablo@Britain: . . 2 "And I proclaim my faith that, some of us will live to see a 14th of July 'when a liberated France will once again rejdice in her great- "ness and hér glory, and once again stand forward as a champion of the freedom and the rights of man' "When that day dawns, as dawn it will, the soul of France will turn with comprehension and kindness to those Frenchmen and "French- women, wherever they may be, who in the darkest hour did Jot despair of the republic." - - To speak as de * Gaulle "and Churchill spoke, four years ago, required an act of faith, says The » New York Herald Tribune. Now, although the fullness of their pro- phecies has not yet been accom- plished, no one can doubt that they will prove true to the letter. WHAT'S CO 5 OKING FOR NIPS . utes or until thickened, E E 7] LATEST IN ARMOR The Cromwell, described as one of the latest types of British cruiser tanks, has made its appear- ance in Normandy, where the Sherman and the Churchill have been in action since D-day, If Rommel knows his Anglo-Americ- au history, he'll realize his Tigers and Panthers are sissies beside that trio, ! -- Windsor Star, A QUIETER WAY To signify "I love you" in Eskl- mo, one says "Viggsterntuinalfina juan juarisjuejk."" Perhaps It would be as well just to let her read it in your eyes. -- Stratford Beacon-Herald, ROBOTS AND ZOMBIES Young lad now oversea: writes to his home here: We call the ro- bot bombs the zombies; because we never know when they are coming over, -- St. Catharines Standard. JIMMY DO MUCH This fellow . Lieut.-Gen. Jimmy Doo Little seems to be badly named. He is here, there and everywhere and always seems so busy. -- Kitchener Record, IN JOB SHUFFLE Be Gen. Otozi Yamada, above, Itas been appointed Jap ambassador to Manchukuo and commander in-chief of the Kwantung army, In latter post he succeeds Gen, Yoshijoro Umezu, recently given Tojo's job of chief of the Jap general staff, : TABLE TALKS bi Ice Box Cake 4 squares unswestariad chocolate 14 -.cup sugar : Dash of salt ) %4 cup hot water : 4 egg yolks 1 teaspoon vanilla 4 egg whites, stiffy beaten 1 cup cream . 2 dozen lady fingers. : Melt chocolate in top of double boiler. Add sugar, salt and water, stirring until sugar is dissolved and = mixture blended. Remove from boil- 'ing water; add egg yolks, one at a time, beating thoroughly. Place over boiling water and cook 2 min- stirring constantly, Add vanilla and fold in egg whites. Chill. Fold iin cream. Line bottom and sides of a mold with lady fincers or strips of sponge IEPA cake. Turn choco- Quality You'll Enjoy SALAD TEA | CHRONICLES By Gwendoline P. Clari® ° ° LJ of GINGER FARM Farmers cannot afford to be sen- timental and yet, sometimes, it is hard not to be. This morning for instance, the trucker came in to pick up a cow. To him she was just another cow for the stockyards, but to us she was affectionately known as "Old Cicely". We had raised her from a calf, The child- ren had pail-fed her when she was young. They had straddled her "back whenever she was in the mood to let them. She had, in fact, grown up with our children, She was the last relic of our early farm- ing days and had helped us weath- .er the storm through those dread- ful years of depression, Yes, Old Cicely was nineteen years old, and still going strong. Ther& wasn't a thing the matter with her other than old age, yet she hadn't a tooth in her head that wasn't worn down to the gums. To have tried keeping her another winter would have been asking for trouble, so regret- fully we said good-bye to our faith- full bossie. Poor old Cicely, she de- served a better fate than to end her «life as bologna, . a Wouldn't it be nice if there were a ranch or something, kept specially as an "Old Cows' Home." I wond- er how many boarders it would have. Not many, I'm afraid, After all, farmers may have a few senti- mental moments but they are mer cenary minded too and the returns from even a nineteen year old cow . will go a long way towards filling the coal bin for winter -- suppos- ing there is coal to be got to fill it, * * * What would we do without a home-town paper? It keeps us in touch with people we havén't heard of in years. But unfortunately the news we read isn't always good news, Last week, for instance, we read in our local paper of the death in action of a young sergeant in the Canadian army. Charlie was a grand boy. But I forgot, he was thirty-five, but we still think of him as the boy he used.to be. Part- ner's youngest brother, the last 'time he was in England, brought -. Charlie back with hin to work on our farm. That was nearly twenty years ago. Charlie was with us about a year. Then he started mov- ing around and we finally got'out of touch with him. We often won- dered what had happened to -the 'boy --= and if it were not for our local weekly we would still be won- "dering. Now, as with so many others, we can only ray tribute to Charlie as a brave soldier who laid down. his life in service for his adopted country. SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON _ rn August 18. . THE PRIEST IN THE LIFE = OF ISRAEL. I Samuel I: 1--4:18, PRINTED TEXT, I Samuel 2:27-30, 35; 4: 12-18, E GOLDEN TEXT. -- For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, Heb- rews 5:1. : Memory Verse: 1 will pray unto -Jehovah. Jeremiah 42:4. THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING ° Time, --"Tt is. impossible, with the data we have, to determine ex- actly when Eli judged Isracl. The fall of Shiloh is assigned by most recent historians as occurring about 1050 B. C., which would make the judgeship of 'Eli to be 1090-1050 B.C * it : Place, -- Almost all the events are located in the city of Shiloh, northeast of Jerusalem, * The House of Eli And there came a man of God unto Eli, and said unto him... and did I give unto the house of Thy father all the offerings of . the children of Israel made by fire?" Eli is reminded of that day when God set apart the house of Aaron to the priesthood. After such pri- vileges had been conferred on this favored house it was indeed a crime - should invisible that its leading members bring dishenor on their King and Benifactor, "Wherefore kick ye at my sac- rifice and at mine offering, which 1 have commanded in 'my habitation, 2 The. faithful priest, is contrasted with unfaithful priests--the "sons of Eli -- upon whom is to fall the judgment of God. ' Eli, The True Priest- "And there ran a man of Benja- min out of the army, .. And he said, How went the matter, my son?" Eli never lost his deep con- cern for the. holy things, to which God had long ago ordained him. He was a true priest and up tq the time of his death he loved the things of God. Though in his weaker "days, when there was sin in his own family, he did not love God cnough-to rebuke his sons, Ark of God Is Lost "And he that brought the tidings answered and said... And he had judged Israel forty years." What a recital of defeat, disaster and death! -But all else seemed of little acount compared to the loss of the Ark. To Eli it was a sign that'God had forsaken his people... if "only Eli had been more concerned about the mocal and spiritual 1if- of his sons, of Israel, he would have had - no need to be concerned about the safety of the Ark. SEHR King's Land Reclaimed More than 400 'acres of marsh- land in eastern England, - owned By H. M. King George VI, have been reclaimed and ploughed, and are now producing' crops of wheat, peas and potatoes. "You Will' Enjoy Staying At The ST. REGIS HOTEL TORONTO ® kvery Room with Bath, Show. er nnd telephone, @ Single, $2.50 up-- ft re om ore eb et ER -------- Clever, ., this Pattern 4818. How few pieces, how casy to sew! The anels give wonderfully slimming Sey Use gay cotton or rayon. Pattern 4848 is available in wo- men's sizes: 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48 and 50. Size 36 takes 4 yards 85-inch fabric, . of checks forged on Mrs, Talbert's account that have never been run to their source. TI hav: informa- tion that Earl Talbért, under an- other name, spent several years. in a California prison; and I have had a feeling, from time to time, Conquest of Saipan gives Allied bombers two good air fields less than 1500 miles from Japan, gives huge American task forces a good harbor and base and poses some interesting possibilities of fu- ture smashes against the enemy, as indicated on map above.(1) in. vasion of Rota and former American base "at Guam; (2) New am- a phibious operations in Central Pacific to Straighten U. 8. line for ' ed 'more butter his wife would un- ravel the bedspread and knit socks. Finally, one day, she had enough wool for only one sock. The mer- chant took it to the farmer and asked for a half-pound of butter for it. "No, Ill give you a full A that 'Mrs, Talbert, herself, was Andi pound," said the' farmer, "You see Send twenty cemts (20¢) in . : f pon attack on Philippines and Jap homeland; (3) Invasion of sauthern ' . ! ' coins (stamps cannot he accepted) sure that he was sll Mive, Philippines; (4) Twin air attacks on Japan from bases in China and I really don't wear the socks. My for this pattern to Room 421, 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto, Write plainly. size, name, address, style number, After a musing silence, the in- spector asked, "Just how old was this hoy when he disappeared?" Western Pacific; (5) Stepping up of air and submarine campaign against Jap supply and communications lines; (8) China's east coast, where ports may be seized unless Jap drive against Hankow-Canton-- railway succeeds, wife unravels the wool and uses it for a bedspread she's making, And "therd's just cnougl wool in this sock to finish it." fore mine anointed forever," There sems little doubt that the direct reference here is to Samuel, i ' LF something for her money besides . ' He Shonghal PR 4 : 5 late mixture into and' honored Thy sons above me, 0) ibis Begs Re and Danc- vil a heartache and a crop of mislead- aii ong Pg BONN 15 mold and place | to make yourselves fat with the Ing Nightly. aan mg and conflicting clues. First the owls Spe . remaining lady chicfest of. all the offerings of Sherbourne at Carlton: 7 7 boy was supposted to have been NST 2% | JAP SUPPLY LINE fingers on top. Isracl my people." : : Tel, RA. 4135 # carried off and drugged in his ow SAP & FROM DUTCH EAST on Chill 12 to 24 " The house of Eli had treated the : 2.1. car; later it looked as if he had SY, INDIES 5. \ hours in refriger- holy sacrifices with contempt. The } YE i been decoyed into the swamp and : A df = . ator. If desired, chiefest of the offerings which ie drowned in a quicksand, I can't {FORMOSA "SAIPAN add. 2 up walnut meats to' choco- should have been God's they kept Hea REE recall all the stories; but there's ) i' YROTA late mixture before turning into | for themselves, | » 74 one thing. certain; someone who PACIFIC OCEAN SA) "mold. Unmold. Faithful and Unfaithful Priests , 47 knew the family well was back of SUAM "Therefore Jehovah The God of ~Nothingismore depres. » that . . . By the way, you were . ; Israel, saith, . . and they that des- Why oleh ciaches... A cmployed by Mrs, «Talbert then, Everybody Happy \ pis me shall be lightly esteemed." will give indtant relink i 4% A too, weren t you, Jaspar? : ; : Gal honors floss io honor Him Lam Iy'susgood forear. Of, yl y putting His gifts to the best ache, toothache, painsin 4 , i! "Yes, sir." Jaspar's eyes met the : ih i oa pam, possible use. They who despise back, stomach, owels. Jewd/ ~ HE inspector's with the calm of des- a pound of butter. The farmer in- | God by treating His service, His | un peshsine : sisted on swapping the butter for Ware, Hi i! lightly, Jrsverat 5, "But therg's one rumor you may a pair of wool cks. " yy, as thiough these are of little im- ar not have heard, Inspector," Chaf- |, OR SATA Soe he portance, will be lightly esteemed HEADACHE POWDERS 1" ~ i dra said quietly, "that Earl Tal- to his wife, who-said: "We have a by Gad. ; . i bert was not really kidnaped at woolen bedspread: I'll unravel it "And I will raise me up a faith- 1 1 all; but that he engipcered the and knit a pair of socks." She made ful. priest that shall do according it d whole affair himself, and collected the pair and the merchant ex- to that which is in my heart and in 1 the ransom. I happen to know -| changed them for a pound of but- my mind: and I will build him a that there have been a number ter. Whenever the merchant need- sure house; and he shall walk be-