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Expert Eye Examination
Lens Grinding and
Repairing

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CHAPTER XXIX.—Continued Vantbrace. You have done us a real

703 Yates St. Victoria good service. See you at the Cellars
RE RS i There Is Danger In Delay vonigntt Nei Well, tata: well
Sowewrr—===" | Godbold held up his hands in pious ee zen cuother call ve Get

horror, as though the idea was too
preposterous for jest, and Trevor
broke into one of his genial laughs.
“Get along with your chaff, Mr.
Vantbrace,” said the latter. ‘All we
want is a little chat, in the hope that
you'll ba able to give us a tip for a
jcb we're on. You're acquainted with
a young fecHow named Milborne, I be-
Neve?”

Godbold also shook hands, but sil-
ently, and together the detectives de-
scended to the street. They walked
some little way without a word, and
then, contrary to custom, it was God-
bold who spoke.

“Do you know, mate, I almost
admife that chap,’’ he said, as he
linked arms with his companion.

“So should I, if I didn’t mean to
hang him,’’ replied Trevor. “It was
a beautiful piece of bluff. Just see
the beauty of it! He wants us to
find the blooming corpse—-as we're
going to—and gives himself away
about the insurance, and having been
with the fellow that night, so that
if his conduct is questioned he can
point to his frankness with us.”

MRS. ROBBINS’
Dancing Class

AT

BEACH HOUSE
SIDNEY

“Certainly I am. What's wrong
j with him?’ asked Victor, with well-
-eigned surprise.

“tle has been missing since last
i Thursday evening,’’ replied Trevor.
“We have been commissioned to
search for him.”

3.30 p.m. Fee—$5.00

per course of 10 lessons

“An! and this is Wednesday—six

idays,"’ exclaimed Victor, musingly,
adding briskly, ‘‘Come in, both of

you. I'll tell you all I know, though
isn’t much.”

And. as he turned to admit the
jetectives, his mind was quickly made
‘un. He did not know they suspected
aim, and he would make cat’s-paws
of them to pull his chestnuts out of
the fire. For he, too, wanted Percy
Milbcrne found—-now that Kate had
vegun to be “feverish.” In a few
hours, or a day or two at most, the
Cathearts would be welcomed to the
legal contro] of her affairs, and much
good might it do them.

“Whereas, the said frankness will
considerably help to put the rope
round his neck, if we can score two
more points,’’ replied Godwold.

“Meaning the discovery of the
body, if there is one, and the bring-
ing of the authorship of that memor-
andum home to him,’ said Trevor.
“We had better start on the latter
job first then, because, on the body
being found, he might bolt as soon
as he had got the cash from the In-
surance Company. But with that
slip of paper traced to him, and pos-
sibly a payment to Beamish as well,
we could aply for a warrant the

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“TI suppose I’ve got as much inter-
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Machines, Carbon Papers, borne,” he said, when he had led the moment we uncover this Savoy
Typewriter Papers, Note Books way into his office. ‘He is pretty| Street secret.”

Godbold readily assented, ‘and
frem that moment they began a pat-
jient and systematic: visitation of all

deeply in my debt, and it looks as if
he’d done a bolt. Indeed, I have been
anxious abcut it. since last Thursday,
when he failed to Keep an appoint-
ment ‘to run down -to Dover with
me.’ °
R “You don’ t do:business. that way,
ane expect, Mr. Vantbrace,” laughed
“| Trever. “I don't mi a “betting that
you.are secured:’?’

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“where they might be likely :to hit -on

”

ora bank-note.
in. their , Possession their - -reasonin

postponement of the. Sa

and looking ‘his questioner. ‘squarely,

. BY HIS APPEARANCE : | “But. security’ of that

Send us your Clothes ‘and we in the eye.
avill Dry. Clean-and Press them -

sort -isn’t any. good as long as he’s
for you; our Process. makes ||) missing. Even if he was dead I
Old Clothes look like New. We couldn’t realize without being--able
solicit, out-of-town orders. to furnish the Insurance Company
with proof of death—not, mind. you,
1j/that I think that’s the case by any
means,”

“Unfortunate for you, very,’ com-
mented Trevor, sympathetically.
“These harum-scarum youngsters
about town think no more of letting
a man in than of crossing the street.
I dare say he's in Paris or half-way
to New York, laughing at you. When
might you have seen the chap last,
Mr. Vantbrace?"’

Victor put his hand to his fore-

tial to. her safety.

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and descended to the street,

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SAANICH

a

{was with Percy Milborne on Wed-
nesday night. We did a bit of a
round together—the Judge and Jury
in Leicester Square, the Cydor Cel-
lars, and the rest of {t—and the fact
ia I was a trifle fly-blown at the
finish, IT have got a hazy notion of
saying good-night to Percy at the
top of Savoy Street soma time afttor
wan't but IT wouldn't swonr, If
it wasn't Savoy jt waa some other
atraot running southwards from tho
Strand.”

saddled with her.”

THE WINTER
SCHEDULE

of Cars on the Saanich inter.
weban will become effective

Sunday, Oct. 14th

Thne 'Pables may be obtained
at ow offlees, ov caples will be

no reason tu regret, having bee

decided not to lay low any longe

tharefore, ho turned

Le I =

cupled a couple of rooms,

An ae ERR NENA INE

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Langley Kireet, Victoria, B.C.

he walkod awry dawn tho streot,
whereas L hail to tako a cab homo to
iy roons fu Jermyn Street. And
now you'd bettor arrest mo for mur
doving him, as T have confeasad to
delig the last man seen in his com-
mee, | he added sla, fully.

Godhald spoke for the frat thine.
“You have not proved Unt you wero]
the last man sean In hia company,
thouch,” waa the pronouncement,
whieh put a sudden check to Victor's
aldittiabnoga,

“Yow know of somobody later?”
nnked Vidtor oagerly,

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Larecsnmre ney ean i

como out as to the perpatrator,

Leecteantenennntcatienetntertin tora Meee ori
 cemaniegmennmunatennnameneanaannemonet

Unsere ana leemienmmpntgaa tes eaeianaapa aad

Mamond,

blood came.

uf an Dadly Boatidah,
“By Caw!

this,” wald Vistar,
wre onpye ape fii Wha rn jee

(yor the other to make wa move, Trevor
accepted it Inatantly, and rose fram
hin chair, |

A Acre HOTT

Cigars, Cigarettes, Tobacco,

Soft Drinks, Candy, Etc. . a

hie Canepa

lta ho looklor after him," sald tha! od'how, on the occanlon-of hia vi
| darpor vergeant, toldlng out hia: to Yinoraft with Perey
Vand to Victor, “Good bye,

SIDNEY AND ISLANDS REVIEW AND SAANICH GAZETTR, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1923

the ‘post-offices and public-houses

the track of. a man of Beamish’s des-
cription having cashed a. -money-order
On the information.

Street a =
‘vestigations. ‘withheld. from the, Cath-
carts: ‘that legal: right of” ‘interference
which every hour made‘ more essen-
The detectives would” not’ have set
about their laborious’ task with *such
‘complacency had they known the
reason of the evil smile that flicker-|-
ed over Victor Vantbrace’s face after

“Now that those two fox-terriers
are in a fair way to unearth some-
thing, I must see that matters are
hurried on at the Grey House,"’ he
muttered, as he re-locked his office,
“Rev-
erish symptoms are all very well, but
we must have quite a different sort

A policy of “bluff,” which ha saw

of symptom before the Cathcarts} afternoon events have happened i i -ti
head as though in a conscientious! gig on the scene. And dear Nina, which make Immediate despatch hind me times he the oeyime stage coach. He |
struggle for absolute accuracy. Then|io9. that woman's tongue of hers| necessary. Cannot write more ploas along in the same o way, year alter year,
INTERURB AN ho broke into a ttle laugh, must be silenced at any prico—nl-| definitely, but I have to take while the more prog.essive merchant places his
“Your question entails @ humilla-| wayg exeopting one. I really think I} steps which will result In a cor- wares before the public and increases his business
| |tion," he anawered at length, “I would fly the country rather than be! tain matter betng brought to
|

forced on him by the detectives, and
having enlisted them, all unconscious,
as he thought, in his own service, he

Instead of going back to Brighton,

his steps to-
wards Jormyn Stroeot, whore he oe-

Lotting himself in with his Jateh-

ynalled to any address on “Ho waa exhilarated algo?! key he flung. himeoalf into a chalr,
recelpt of requcet, “Not so bad as T waa, repled| 24 opened an ovening paper which
Victor, “At least I remember that he had bought on his way. It had

 ielaapoarsntciatinnianhimcnainbamanland i if

not oscaped him that tho adjourned
Inquont on tha vietima of tho rafl-
way smash was due that day, and he
wan curious to sea ff anything had
ia
curlosity had no definite alm, for as
yat he had no cause for connecting
tho outrage with the presonee in tho
train of Lindsay Catheart and tho

But as he read tho tolographed ac-
count of tha Inquiry, his brow con-
tractod, and he bit his Up. til tho
‘The part which ngitat-
ad him was the idantifieauion by “the

‘Ma a he he i ,
“No; hut we expect to," was the| Polce’ — for Trevor and Godbold had) news, sat the wicked old man's linbs aaa a ae g’and herelaabonce. thoy are mado neon: |
enigmatic reply, followed by the twa] eet, careful to have thafr name quaking, nervative madals, two or threa button styl, Thea are
Shop sharp coughs which wore tha atand-{sunproased, ag well pw all mention ot| to fool roiof or foar—-raliot that he anita that may he worn on. sny odeaaslon and will give tha
[ing signal between tho two colleagues! He momorandae-OF the (raln-wrock-! waa not yet a murderer, woarer Krent satlnfaction,

but ahe shall pay for
crumpling tha

War ha namie tay.

Milharna,
ar. Nenmish hod rushed passed him, and, |

PAGE FIVi

Wise le pe ss ibs ie ie else es Mlle les Mle Mes tee des bes Meet ive Ml Ties Tbe eeliih

ST. JAMES HOTEL

VICTORIA, B. C.

solid concrete, fireproof hotel of One Hundred light,

now that he suspected Elmslie of
having overheard his schemes, he
was able to put two and two to-
gether.

The wretched little doctor's in-
fatuation for the handsome nurse
was the stock jest of the asylum, and
by swift deduction Victor arrived at|§

A six-story,

the truth. Elmslie, having gathered|im pright outside rooms. Many with private bath. Well furnished
from her eavesdropping that his de-|= and equipped with all modern conveniences. Hot and cold water,
sign to marry sate would cease if telephones, elevator service.
Lindsay Cathcart lost the diamond, Located just a step off Bouglas Street on Johnson. Right in the
had worked on Zincraft to find a centre ef the shepping and office district.
hireling for the purpose,.and Beam-

When You Visit Victoria---STOP AT THE ST. JAMES

RATES

ish was the man.

The new combination kept his

brain busy, and he paced the room With use of bath - - - $1.00 and $1.50
like a caged tiger. Nina Elmslie was With private bath - - - $2.00 and $2.50 |
dangerous, and so, too, in a minor PHONE 5100 ——

degree, was Zincraft, but the sus-!%
picion—almost the certainty—that
they were the instigators of the stu-
pendous crime on the South-Eastern,
was a weapon with which he might
strike them down if he could so
wield it that it should not recoil on
himself. That was a contingency that
required careful plotting.

Suddenly he stopped his patrol of
the room, and sitting down at his
writing-table wrote two letters—one
very short to Simon. the second, a
longer one, which cost him a good
deal of thought, to Nina Elmslie.
The first he sealed up without peru-
sal. At the second, as he read it
through once, twice, three times, he
showed his teeth in a facial contor-
tion that was hardly a smile.

“That ought to fetch her,’’ he told

himself at last, as he fastened the
envelope.

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it provides a satisfactory selection of the dry goods merchan-
dise you need at prices which are genuinely reasonable. Mr.
Robert B. Elworthy was for sixteen years with the late Mr. G.
A. Richardson, Victoria House, Yates St., and his intention is
to provide the same high standard of values which made the
Victoria House so popular with the women of Victoria.

Here are a few items selected at random which will serve to give
an idea of the entensive nature of our stock:

LADIES’ WEAR—Hosiery for CHILDREN’S WEAR — Child-
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gowns, House Dresses, Dress .
Goods, Umbrellas, Notions, ete. FI#CE GOODS — Pinnkeletes,
Canton, Sateen, Ginghams,

HOME-F URNISHINGS— : ; :
Blankets, Quilts, Sheets and Plaids, Wool Flannels, Calico,
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CHAPTER XXX.
A Supper at Cremorne

Kate Milborne’s eye was clear, her
demeanor calm and assured, when
Elmslie went into her room to pay
her morning visit of inspection. The
restlessness which had been notice-
able on the previous day—that is,
the one succeeding Lottie’s midnight
escapade—had all disappeared, and
the nurse, with her secret knowledge
of the personal attention bestowed
by Simon on the patient’s “special.
diet,’ was puzzled.

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“You are looking better this morn-
ing,’ said Elmslie, aiee a —o
scrutiny. ; . °

“There was” nothing the matier|™
with me “yesterday, sf told ‘you at

yesterday, after his: iota from town,
and he gave her a full dose from
Zincraft’s bottle. A double measure,
too, went ‘into her breakfast just
now, yet she is as cool as a cucum- ;
ber.”’

Elmslie found Simon in his office,
reading a letter which had come by
the early delivery. He looked up
eagerly on the head-nurse’s ° entry,
and as he had no intention of im-
‘parting the contents of the letter to
her, it ‘will enlighten us to"look over
his shoulder. There was no begin-
ning, and no signature. It simply
ran—

“Since you were with me this

The merchant who does not advertise is as far be-

year by year. Persistent advertising has made
millions for many progressive merchants, who re-
cognized the value of advertising from the first
day they commenced business. The Review goes

light, after which there will be
a change of control. You will
understand. and aet an nhonve
without fail. If Elmslie asks
for leave of absence, give jt to

hor—without question,”

nN

into almost every home in the district and is the
proper medium for reaching the people,

re] “Wolf, nurse, anything fresh in the

wards?” he asked, as he tore the let-
ter Into fragments, and carefully put
thom Into the fire, Elmslie thought
tho brutal face had never looked so
Wideous, o8 clothed In the blend af
cunning oruelty and abject foar which
it wore, Aware of the Information
for which he hungored, dreading it
at the same time, she: vowed hol
ahould ask. for ft in plain words.
“No, alr; everything ia ag naunl in
the wards,” she repiiad. Snnocently, |
“And-are=thnat Milborng girl, anit
you reported poorly yestardaye—'ow's |p
her ‘ontth today?" blurted Simon {is
violding to wecassily, 4

“Bha appears to be quite recover-|i,
ed, wiry indeed, 1 think that 1 musti[
have been mistaken yeatorday, for |"
thero ia certainly nothing the matter|4
with hor now," was tho reply, uttered |F
with a steady, soul-searching gaze,
which, combined with tho wnexpacted |

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