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Elsie Hunter's Sensational Storv Disâ€" solves After an Investigation. On Saturday and Monday Chas. \V. Norton of Brampton. local agent of the Children‘s Aid Socidty, and chief Marshall investigated the story of 17- year-old Elsie Hunter. who said she was kidnapped and abused bv a man on Monday morning of last week. As fully reported in the last issue of The Sun, Elsie told an amazing tale of being kidnapped at 5 o’clock in the morning by a strange nrm and being taken to Island’s lake in Mono, two miles from town, of being abused and of regaining consciousness in the waters of the lake. “'hen she came to the man was trying to push her un- der the water with a pole. The story seemed so improbable that many peo- ple doubted it, but an investigation was in order and on Monday M r. Nor- ton and Chief Marshall went over the ground. They took the shoes she wore that day and it was not long before they discovered the girl's tracks in the field. The tracks led in either direction showing that she had walked out to the lake herself and returned by the same route. The shoes fitted the tracks exactly and left no doubt but that Elsie had walked out to the lake herself. She will not give in, however. flea]! asserts that she was kidnap- _ _ _._-_1 -l 0'?wt§¢§§+§§¢¢§§#90900090099‘69 $ 993509 9+§§§§§§§§§§§§§§¢ oOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOttm$¢¢¢¢609066690060900990 W:§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§¢¢Q#0096§§§§§§§§§§§§§§¢§§§§§W 9§§§§§§§z9§§§§9§§§¢¢9 990 0 9990909.. OOOQQOOOOQOOO...’ August 6. 1914. \VAS NUT K I DNA'PPED. When the Crop is in the Barn There is More Danger from Lightning The Chronicle and Weekly Mail and Empire, 1 year $1.75 The Chronicle and Weekly Globe, 1 year The Chronicle-and Family Herald Weekly Star The Chronicle and Weekly Witness, 1 year”... ...... The Chronicle and Weekly Sun 1 year.-.-.. The Chronicle and Farmers’ Advocate, 1 year... .. The Chronicle and Canadian Farm, 1 year... ....-.... 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See our Hay and Get our ' Prices before buyim‘r elsewhere ' A Large: Quantity of \Yheat and Barley Chop \that Chap, Chupped Oats \Vheat, Oats and Barley Chop Crimped Oats, {01° Horsé Feed NEW REVISED CLUBBING RATES JOHN McGOWAN All Kinds of Grain Bought at Market Prices. Special Reduction on Flour and Feed in Ton Lots. TELEPHONE No. 8 my barns fiiivd with Props are burned. '1‘ "tn-thirds of all ms sealed by 4“ lusurancu Companies in Ontario during WW 1" lightning. If ynu eliminate tlm haand of light- rtf {Wu (:hzmcr's nut nt thxee of yuur hm-u burning Ontario Dept. of Agi‘ic T he Peoples Milis UH!‘ >- Set Boston and New York Music Mad Coming to Canadian National Exhibition gt. _ Andrew’s, Mamitoba. by majority of One. A court action has been entered to mnaeat {Hbm Dr. Montague gue, who holds the seat in Kildonan and Forty convicts in the Kingston penitentiary appeared before the Minister of Justice and stated their grievances to him. vv ucu Juuge At Guelph, a new artesian “79119 Chicago once furniShe’S the City With 509000 231- for some time Ions of water per day. ' A‘mAâ€"â€" ~ 7 ' Guiseppe Creator-e. who with his band comes to the Canadian National Exhibition for two concerts daily dur- ing the entire Exhibition, is unques- tionably the most interesting person- ality hefore the; musical world today. He has set Boston and New York music mad. He is not only the most picturesque of conductors. but is, be- sides. a masterly leader of men who has his musicians under perfect con- trol. To the spectators the irresistible impression is that they are performing involuntarily entirely at the will of their fiery, volatile leader I! are almost absolute protection. ulturc Bulletin 22” ' Inint (31min the Km! UREATORE’S BAN D with the 9.0... fl.-. year .. year .. year .. HESE’ELER. ONT. J()( 2.00 Hint H3119 Chicago once he dined with them. 331d Every day, however, she talked to him 9: ' for some time over the telephone. He ialways seemed interested, apologized ston for not seeing her more, and let her the rattle on until she had quite exhausted lted the news of the day. Occasionally he ‘ complained to her of his rheumatism During her first weeks at Mrs. Gil- bert’s Gloria saw little of her father. .She had at first frequently dropped in iat his oflice, but he had intimated that it was no place for her. Sometimes she 'would be at Locust Lawn when Tom brought him home in the afternoon. When Judge Gilbert was home from â€"no one had ever heard him speak of it beforeâ€"and she would beg him to take 399d care of himseltj. since it was Another important consideration which led him to take this step was that the merchants might believe, and he tipped it off in a'manner which would be most apt to make them jump to that conclusion, that he was himselt interested in the-News. This would tend to minimize Wright’s influence it he should attempt a crusade, since the public would wink and say: “It’s all a bluff, old man Kerr himself is inter- ested in the paper.” The boss even calculated .that this would be strength- ened by the frequency with which W’right was seen in his daughter’s company. He was not looking for trouble, he never welcomed it, but he sought always to be prepared when it This was a shrewd move on the part of Kerr. He wanted Wright to have such a volume of business that if he should order all the advertising he could influence cut off. the paper would be instantly crippled. If the News had not much business, then anything Kerr might cause to be dropped out would only show that his power was slight. If he had to strike a blow he wanted it to be with a sledge hammer. The paper was occasioning Wright no great anxiety. Somewhat to his surprise the advertising revenue was showing most gratifying gains caused by the increase of local business. The Banner had more advertising, but the new owner of the afternoon paper had no cause to complain. Even his adver- tising manager could not explain it. Main street merchants who had been out of the paper for years began to send in copy without solicxtation. This made the head of the advertising department think that the millennium was about due. The real reason, un- known to every on’e except the mer- chants receiving the message, was that: Dave Kerr had sent out the tip for them to throw some of their patronage- to the News. i l 1 l 1 i i i i I -.wâ€" The luncheon guests came to call afterward, but by a strange mischance git was always when Gloria was not at home She would go to the architect? s office with Mrs. Gilbert, and wool: find on her return that severe 1 cards had been left for her. The ball 11 as so near that she made no attempt to pa) any calls herself. She 1v as too b11131 Although railing at the fate .vhioh took him away most of the time. the first three weeks after Gloria’s re- moval to town were spent by Judgte Gilbert in Chicago. Occasionally he ran over for a day, ‘out even then his wife and their guest saw little of him. This would have made thrir evenings hang heavy on their hams had it n01 been for Joe \Vright Hi3 got into ti: habit of dropping in after din 1291‘ 1:10:31 evening and several times 11 11139.1; Mrs. Gilbert had him to dine with ii; in. Late in the afternoons he and (liozi. often drove together, the season of the. year keeninef them most of the 111111: 011 the c1ts11cts. 0.113.131: drove with her to Locust Lawn, but \‘x'right was keeping a firm grip on himself because he knew the truth and was afraid. Gloria was self-possessed and would not have permitted him to pass the border of friendship, had he dared, because she Wished to know Belmont well. Even a hint of an en rangling alliance would prove a hin- drance. Thus it was "that each was happy in the other’s company. And if perchance they looked the sentiment that each had inwardly resolved not to breathe, they were happier still in the thought that some day their dreams would come true. drove with her to Locust Lawn, but as it was late when they reached there he did not get out, sitting in the run~ about while Gloria ran into the house for a few minutes. Mrs. Gilbert was clever enough to have girls to luncheon whom she thought might'become interested in Gloria. They came, and in the major- ity of cases surprised Gloria by their charming manners and their beautiful clothes. Her court was to be even more brilliant than she had dreamed. The girls were invited one at a time. to give both Gloria and the Visitor the opportunity of becoming well ac- quainted. THE DAUGHTER OF DAVID KERR A arm, annougn the daughter or Uavzo Kerr was not aware of it. Every one in Belmont knew whatGloya did not: That she was about to make a great effort to secure recognition. 1391;110:11- was not in a receptive mood. Its first thought was that sheavas .the child 0.3 a shrewd political trickster who had fattened at the exncnse of the town, The offspring Cf the 16(Ward should not hope to be \viihoz‘it 333:5. Continued from page 6. nds had it not he got into t..c 1‘ dinner eve3‘3 3s a we eel; Mrs 19 with ill-gm he and Gloria: the season 01 3 most of the s .4. ‘ -‘ 3 ‘\ '31 :m. (21.03. 1.3, 138751 ' â€"â€"-â€" wwv-‘ CM. Truth to tell, it was a fairly repre- ’sentative assemblage, drawn together rout r.‘ r. gard for Judge and Mrs. Gil- bert ai cl also by curiosity to see what kind of girl Gloria Kerr was. .If the president of the Piper Coal company had stopped the poker game at the Belmont club the night before to tell his experience there would have been several young ladies among those at the ball who did not lend the charm of their presence to that occasion. hezmty, her cleverness, and her light- hearted temperament. She did not hear the expressions of regret that she was. the daughter of David Kerr. The-next morning the Belmont Banner had a- two-column head over the story, and, gave a long list of names preceded by “among those invited were,” instead of by the usual “among those present were.” There were a number nOtable by their absence, but there being a large crowd present and she being a stranger, Gloria did not know this. She was too busy with the men to think of what girls were present. The ball given in honor of Miss Gloria Kerr at the Belmont club by Judge and Mrs. Gilbert was a memor- able all‘air. The ballroom was crowd- ed, and Gloria deserved the praise she received from every quarter on her tvr. Sam Hayes took him down and dame back with the comforting report that he was already better. He was not wen enough, however, to return 101' the bull. Kerr was keeping a sharp eye on things, but his hand was suspected rather than seen in any move that was made. As the time for the ball ap- proached, his rheumatism troubled himniore and more, and upon the ad- vice of Dr. Hayes he decided to go to Esmeralda. Springs to drink the .Wa- Old man Piper‘ kept his mouth shut, but he knew he had been taught a. lesson. was annoyance by which it could be xmrried, if what he suspected was true. ‘tsjhen he inquired about coal for the .~-<.-.hooi board the complaint depart- -::vnt reported that the secretary had been mollified but hoped it would not happen again. As for the city solicitor, the legal department refrained trom a: king anything about the track across the szreet and that official never wrote again. I'iper felt it would be cheaper to pay the expense of a New York trip than 1:) have his company stand the continu- I went to visit anyone and they intro- duced me to the son or daughter of a man like Kerr.” And two days later Laura went, aft- (‘1‘ having called when Gloria was not ::t_ home. She never knew why her far ther urged her to go. .ne new. his mouth closed, 11.1.11 11., item". Laura returned from the tune-.1110:- With a favorable opinion 01' Gloria 11111 she could not for get her paunt: “.30 Upon being questioned she told 111 1 1': ther she did not owe to put Glmia 0; her visiting list. “Suppose I have some One to visi? me who asks: Who is that gi1! V701 introduced me to?’ complained Lam; ‘And I’ll have to say: ‘That’s Glom Kerr, the boss’ daughter.’ Then what will the visiting girl think of Belmont society, and what will she think 01 me? I’m sure I would be surprised if “Laura,” answered her father, “1 think you’d better go down to New York for a couple of months.” When Gloria danced with Wright. The Whole thing day-mod on. Hm v": . Laura flounced back from the 1rd..- 5phone and announced In-‘LUDTLJNY HM;- :she would non meet thutodi ”as ("How {Kenn He said nothing untii garter din 1181', then (32113ng Laura aside he or dared her to telephone MW. SEDAN" and withdraw her I‘cl’usa}. j "zr pockes: book having been hit, River was mi! -ing to make some sucriuuc LU deter ,mine the reason and what hovras: tr. :‘expect in the way 01' furthm' name}: He kept his month closed, mm \x.. item". Old man Piper swore bv; in mythology that it “as outrage exer perpetrated u all his business life. [(3 ha or two to catch his ‘moz..h Mrs. Gilbert reported he: success to her husband 01 i from his first trip to Chic: mentioned it, almost (:113‘115: vid Kerr when thev 111-11. the The boss inquired 1111-; pantie made no (2611111119111. T1131. 11:: unmindlul of the 9:1 1:. :33 1 two dams later whe11 the P company received a compl: the secretar) of the scho l 11 there was an undue (311: 1111211 in the 1? ast coal 11111111511 11 1‘“ schools. While wo11yi11g “3'11: company’s legal den; 11.1111 .111 to the president that the. citx had just notified the comm: 1.111 01 the important spurs into :1. coal )ard crossed a st. 001 wi thority of law. .4 :3 1 .1 Gilbert telephoned at thsz asking Laura to hutch-Con The whole thing da‘;\‘-.'zwd . There was (me girl Whom Mrs. C11- bert saught as a friend for Gloria. She mentioned it to her .msbaud the 22:73: day their guest arrived. and he 32",”. gested that she be 123:3 ed to lunch 2 next day. Accordi 313:}: Ishfi, (25119:. 5“- telephozzed Miss Laura Piper 2.1:- asked her. For the .owing 6::- however Miss Piper l2... as; r; ment. W126 21 several 0:" g.‘ . 635's 3392‘ mentioned She hi-zd <<::‘.;1.'_:. 116:2;‘8 those also. Caulk? sir i :, .' > ' - to accept Gloria. the :a .1 <2 a ing Belmont. vxo 121.13 32‘. .- .' less arduous. He: 23.112» 24.3.7: me great Piper 3ft)? 1" .1. w. her family u as loci-:12} tr; the most exclusive in 12;.» ‘- : If Laura Piper would: she :2": z" it extremely pleasant; 1'0.“ éfi":._‘-z‘ _ ""z‘ Laura Piper ha her ovn \ . family’s ideas about the H‘s-r- mam and no matter how ni-‘u (..-;;z':;‘: 11223:.- be, she was still her father laugh ter. mm mm mm: size wzshed to (i first at her ball. erred ne‘ )and on h :0 C 1i<:-_ r: 5t Cilsualfi met the 1 he paz‘ic. That 116: Pt'fiv'r‘r‘in n‘. figs; at! uptm‘ wiihout a 3.10:1 him in d butd ' dax before \T».â€". nt word solicitor ms, rd ('11 nd 11 “They’re under cover. It’s the Bel- mont Interurban Company, a New Jersey corporation, and the men named as incorporators are only ,dum- “That isn’t usual, is it, with honest men?” “I- don’t know any more about it than you do, but you’d better investi- ‘I saw an account of it in the Ban- ner, and thought it strange nothing had been made public before it was introduced. ,Who wants the fran- chine ?” “Even if you hadn’t asked me to watch things with you while you are still a stranger to Belmont,” Morrison began, "I think I would have come to you. Last night while we were en- joying ourselves a bill was introduced in the council for a car line down Maple Avenue.” 'When YVriglit reached his office ‘h.’ morning after the ball, he found his attorney, Arthur Morrison, mining *‘or him. He had been drawn to .\.,rn'z'i.~:tau the first time he had me: him and had asked him to take care of the pa- per’s legal business. In this his judg» ment had not een warped by a sud- den friendship. 1’or the young lawyer was worm-1:: of his (.mit‘idence. Like Judge Gilbert, he had risen from an humble hour-w. but unlike the adviser of Belmont t-orporations he had made his way his" spendently of the malign influences which constantly seem to seek to inn-wet young men of talent who i‘olbw the law as a profession. To him boil: 2's his legal adviser and his friend, Wright had talked freely and had reje‘a-ed to learn that Morri- son’s ideals and hopes for Belmont were the same as his own. On that very night Alderman Grune- wald introduced an ordinance giving the Belmont Interurban Railway. 3 new corporation, right of way down Maple Avenue and making provision that a small depot should be provided for the convenience of patrons at ..._... :on Park. “Oh, Mrs. Gilbert, tonight I am the happiest girl in the whole wide world.” Mrs. Gilbert came into Gloria’s room to kiss her good night after the ball. When they had talked over the affair for an hour the girl cried in the ec- stasy of her joy. The Ballroom Was Crowded. Then he and Gloria could begin life- there together. The News was begin- ning to make money, paying its way and leaving something for future pay- ments on the property. Best of all. there was no fight on his hands which would hold him in Belmont. HAVE YOU PAID YOUR SUB ‘! ' ' "Countintlledww 'on page 8 ‘When does the bill have its next He felt that‘ he could not stay in He‘- mont if he married Gloria. How to get rid of the paper was a question. He They danced, forgetful of everything but that they were together. A man had cried in the wilderness of the ”I remember. We were going out there again, but you never came back; and so I went alone.” “I Wish you had taken our book," he said. He always referred to the book of verses as being their joint property. “It would have told you what I was not there to say.” Gloria smiled. Never a word had been suid,'but each understood. “I knew one thing the book said,” she confessed. “It was what I saidâ€" and said more times than one: In their first dance, holding her close as if to shield her from all the world, he called to mind the day at Versailles when together they had wandered through the gardens. Then he had repeated some verses from the book he had. given her on her birth- day. Now as they danced he whis- pered: she 'searched the line to find a Bel- mont man to compare with him, and to her thinking there was not one in the. same class. As for Wright, his search was over the night they had met again in.Belmont. “Do you remember Come over the Come over th The little ships But never a s Spring in the 11 On the side 0 And lcve in on Love m1: 131': askged Wright. after consid- CHAPTER VHI. dde of a meadowed slope; in our hearts, Beloved, .1 Spring and Hope." the hills. Beloved, go sailing by ship brings thew sea to me, to me; 9 sea to me. the pa.- is judg- ' a sud- lawyer per which would try to ban-mac the path of the car of progress. The den: con felt proud of his editorial. when the eager ear or Deacon Winthrow. and he proceeded to write a scathing editorial holding up to acorn the w editorial in inquiry. Kerr asked that he be connected with Gilbert, but do ready the judge was trying to get Es- meralda Springs, having seen the News just a few minutes after Hayess Their conversation was short, Kerr knew the facts, and it was mainly a7 discussion of how the Banner should} treat the matter in the morning. The boss decided his paper should insist that the News was trying to knock“ thstown. Theattsckwastobeuponj the News, thus diverting attention from the real issue. This oommam properly phrased. was dropped into Sam Hayes bought a paper on the street, read the story. and rushnd for a telephone. He paid me (301m w and thirty cents for the };x'i\'i}v;.,--, one could not call it pltrqzdl‘e. ui' ;.,; qg with Kerr at Esmers-hia Spy-1:1}: He read the paper to the hie-5:, ".- wont page story and the Uranimm short The Chicago news agency did not send what information it game; d un- til too late for use on {hut any. That afternoon Belmont rubbed its eyes as it looked at the front page of the News. In the last column under an extended head was a story about the proposed car line down Maple ave- nue. It was not replete with facts and figures, but it asked a great many questions and contained several inter- views which said nothing. Ev'en the property owners along Maple aw-nue Who had consented to the line and then been pledged to secrecy u .‘i: fine matter was made public by the Intro- duction of the bill in the council. knew nothing more than that R0?elih..lllll Rosenbaum had secured their comwnt. Only one clue was found which of itself was suspicious, and it was not one which could be used that after- noon. The courthouse reporter had dropped into the county surveyor‘s of- fice, and talked about surveying in general and the work in Belmont coun- ty in particular. Was anything going on just then? This elicited the reply that the spring was not far enough advanced for the usual work, but that the stock-yards company had had men out. What were they doing? They were seeing how they could save their tracks along the river and rearrang- ing the quarantine tracks for Texas cattle which were by themselves to the east of the main yards. This was all the courthouse man brought back to the ofiice, but it was duly presented to Wright by the city editor. Wright {02952; agency to find tors were. At editor tried to Springs by telc cessful. ‘Are They Going to Build a Viaduct There?" estimable benefit to- Behm the near future it would to Corona, and all the pe little town and the village line would do their shop mont. The incorporators go men with plenty of ca} them. did not 5 culated t Alderman Grunewald porters were instrul what the public thou definite facts that CO light. The city edi an hour off to go to I? baum tame-1111mm learned had given G: to present '0‘ them- dreamed that it was part of the stc yards schema What aroused s“ cion as nus-h as anything; «Jute that there was nothing thm' cum 8 ‘ on which to base suspicicm. \‘.' Morrison left it was with :1,» 12:“ . of scrutinizfx" a-con“ of tin;- 32; a s3 A'o’ ordinance carefully Wright sent a reporter 10 it. w; sung wnat was the paper's best move. . ~ ' “Not until Tuesday night.” “That gives us five days. If we make a noise won't they call a special meeting and push it through?" “Kerr isn’t likely to do that. He’s interested, I suppose, but how?” “We’ll get busy today.” Wright said decisively. “A few pointed questions on the front page may bring tht‘m out cfinm nuâ€" A ‘7 “We’ll get busx toda decisively “A few pc on the front page may from under cox er. " :he propos and that t Q» t1 road we :a‘fi'i, to B raphed a Chicago news out who the incorpora- his suggestion the city get Kerr at Esmeralda. phone, ucted but was u us ll 1 1m D€( und which of ad it was not ed that after- reporter had surveyor‘s of- M were TO VG axon for itselt RC in *aC‘K ot‘ in- bica- Al- 1 it nds 19w ded hat the or i1