Emergency treatment saved his life, but he
would remain scarred and crippled.

Payne himself was put in the care of a
doctor who dosed him with bromides for
several days. Then he went to the police.

“How could my automobile blow up as
it did? What have you found out?” he

asked.
The police official told him the findings of
the investigation they were conducting.

“Mr. Payne, some one had placed a high
explosive inside the car, and a time-fuse
set it off!!”

“In God’s name, who did it?” Payne
cried.

The police official shook his head; he had
not the slightest clue so far.

P. Giovando John Tha

Phone TR inity-6093

ator Pele
SS SEO RD

Corner Gore Avenue and Keefer Street
VANCOUVER, B.C.
e
THE PLACE CALLED HOME
200 Elegantly Furni iR
60 Rooms with Priv

ooms
e Bath

Moderate Rates First-class Service

“But rest assured, Mr. Payne,” he said,
“we are not sleeping on the jol. It’s murder;
a damned heartless piece of work! And we
and the district attorney’s office will work
overtime on the job!”

Payne’s jaws were set and he clenched
his fists.

“And there will be no sleep for me,” he
said, “until I face the murderer!” Then he
broke down again. “My wife! My son! Who
would want to do that to them?”

The police official had known Payne and
his family and could think of no one who
was their enemy. Payne belonged to frater-
nal orders. Mrs. Payne was popular with her
neighbours, in her sewing circle, in her lit-
erary club and in her church society. The
children too were liked by everyone.

The two newspapers in Amarillo are
run and partly owned by Gene Howe, a
dynamic, shrewd, crusading editor of the
breed that is disappearing in this day of
newspaper mergers. He took it almost as a
personal affront, the fact that weeks passed
since the Payne tragedy and the police had
made not the slightest headway in the hunt
for murderer or motive.

Through his papers Howe offered $500
reward to spurr on the hunt. In his own
column in the Amarillo Globe-News he
wrote semi-sardonically that unless the
police showed results soon he would have
himself appointed a special deputy to see
what he could do with the case.

An hour after the editorial appeared, 4
D. Payne entered Gene Howe’s office.

“Mr. Howe,” he said, “I sure do apprecj
ate your interest. Especially the reward yo,
offer. I haven’t been of much help myself
But I will add $5000 to your offer. An
please call on me for anything else I ca
do to run down the fiend who killed m
beloved wife and maimed my son!”

“T will, Mr. Payne,” Gene Howe said

After Payne had left the office, Gen
Howe thought things over for a while. Ther
he got in touch by wire and long distang
telephone with the Kansas City Star an¢
asked for one of its reporters, A. B. Mac’
donald.

COLUMBIA |
BITULITHIC
LIMITED

STREET PAVING and
GENERAL CONTRACTORS

Watrrenite-Bitulithic
Pavement

VANCOUVER

B.C.

Have you had to

“arrest” your Spring
Spending?

Then why not try THE BAY’S new, modern
system of credit . . . COUPON CREDIT!
With this convenient new plan you can ac-
tually multiply the purchasing power of your
ready cash by approximately four times!

CANADIAN AIRWAYS, ihe Dominion’s
senior air transportation company, salutes
the British Columbia Police, Canada’s

oldest organized police force, upon the Here’s how it works: For a down payment of

$7.36, which includes the carrying charge of
only 36c, you may obtain merchandise
coupons to the value of $25.00, which may
be spent in any department of the store,
excepting foods, without fuss or formality—
just like cash! Four convenient monthly
instalments of only $4.50 each will retire the
balance.

Drop in at THE BAY anytime .. . our cour-
teous account advisors will gladly explain
details of this simple, easy credit plan. See
them at the Department of Accounts, Fifth
Floor.

completion of yet another year of mutual
achievement.

PACIFIC DIVISION

615 Howe Street Phone SE ymour 6401
VANCOUVER, B.C.

AIRWAYS

BASES Throughout CANADA

q isons Ban Compan.

INCORPORATED 28° MAY 1670.

Page Sixty THE SHOULDER STRAP

Pa IAI PL DADE