HORSESHOE BAY INN Established 1892 MRS. ANDY ANDERSON, Proprietress LICENSED PREMISES Excellent Rooms and Dining Room REASONABLE RATES CHEMAINUS BRITISH COLUMBIA GREEN LANTERN CAFE Under New Management We Serve Full Course Meals - Only the Best HOME COOKED MEALS A SPECIALTY GREEN LANTERN TAXI AT YOUR SERVICE DAY AND NIGHT... PHONE 90 CHEMAINUS B. C. MOUNTVIEW STORE (O. S. OLSEN) GROCERIES - CONFECTIONERY e Phone 43-Q Island Highway South CHEMAINUS ». & R. ANDREWS Millwork, Showcases, Stairways, Frames Built-in Fixtures | P.O. Box 184 — Phone 12 | CHEMAINUS B. C. After you and your family have read THE SHOULDER STRAP pass it along to your friends, don't throw it away. They will enjoy reading it. THE BEVAN HOTEL JAMES MURRAY, Proprietor | EXCELLENT MEALS BRITISH COLUMBIA | | Fully Licensed | | The big, fat man was sitting in front of her. He had bought the noon edition of the local paper. She gazed at it auto- matically, noting the bold headlines an- nouncing: Austrian Crown Jewel Theft Case Broken. Lawyer Langden Produces Star Witness in Notorious Smuggling Deal. Beautious Blonde Countess in Court. There was a picture of a striking, foreign-looking girl below, and some de- tails relating how the junior partner of a famous firm of lawyers played hide and seek with a desperate gang of criminals, who had endeavoured to abduct the girl. Something was happening to her. The printed words were beating like trip- hammers in her brain. Her heart was a prison for a tortured soul which sought to break its walls. The ice was breaking up, and she was coming back to life— painfully. She tottered to her feet and moved forward. The driver was stopping to pick up passengers and she got out haltingly. The driver asked, “Are you ill, lady,” but she kept on going. The ice was melt- ing, and she made little sobbing sounds like a mute crying for help. The ice was being replaced by warm blood, and she started to run. There was a taxi stand at the end of the block; she must go faster—faster. A driver saw her coming and opened his cab door. She plunged in, groped in her bag, gave him her card and said, “Quick, quick!” The driver rolled into the traffic and thought that speed had never been expressed so eloquently. Her blood was liquid fire coursing through pulsating veins, devouring the corrosion of hate and suspicion. Time and place was everything. Every throbbing fibre in her body was praying for time —time to save him. The swiftly moving car was a glacier moved only by her burning tears. Her mind was the mind of a mystic, projected beyond her mortal flesh to join with him. Ath Vee ae Si He was nearly home with a triumphant smile upon his strong, clean-cut face, swinging a paper in his hand. He was at the door and feeling for the key. She tried to hold his hand and he seemed to. fumble, but the door opened and fe entered. He was puzzled by the silence He looked around and called her name softly, “Co-ra, Co-ra.” ‘ He went into the kitchen, saw her note and shook his head with a_ pleasant appraising smile at the repast laid out for him. He put the kettle on the electric stove and went into the bathroom tg wash, whistling a discordant version of the song, “One Alone.” When he came out the kettle was boil_ ing. He took over the teapot saying lightly to himself, “Pot to the kettle, Basil, that’s how to brew tea.”’ She tried to stop him, but he went on, slowly, deliberately. One sugar, a little cream, then he stirred gently from side to side. He reached to pick up the cup. Ah, God! he must not drink. She screamed in horror, but only a strangled gurgling sound came out. The driver, turning a corner in a quick skid, narrowly missed a big Packard car travelling south, then he wheeled dexterously onto a driveway and stopped in front of her home. Assist- ing her out, he said with a touch of pride, “A narrow squeak, lady, but I made it — fast.” She thrust a ten dollar bill into his out stretched hand and ran, dropping her coat as she went. Flinging open the door she burst into the room, her body a flaming, eager torch. Basil—her Basil—paused with cup to lips. Her feet had wings. “Darling, darling,’ she sobbed, as she threw her arms around him knocking cup to floor, “I thought .. .” : “Thought what,” he urged, with amaze- ment in his eyes. : “Td be late for lunch,” she said, witha melody in her heart, as tears flowed un- restrained down her living cheeks. REDMAN MOTORS LTD. Dealers in CHEVROLET and OLDSMOBILE CARS and Chevrolet Trucks P.O. Box 383 PORT ALBERNI, B.C. LIMITED Bac Phone Lake Cowichan HILLCREST LUMBER COMPANY Manufacturers of British Columbia Lumber MESACHIE LAKE Victoria Lumber Company Compliments of Chemainus, B.C.