The Clue of the Tapping Heels (continued)

Nancy is gagged and tied up in an isolated cabin but she uses her legs
to make tapping sounds. A fellow traveller in another cabin complains
to an attendant about the noise so the cat is let out of the bag.
Nancy is rescued but Mr Bunce's name is not found on the passenger
list. The Bunces come to the ship disguised as old people but are
nabbed by Keely all the same. Omar and his brother are also arrested
in a hotel.

During the court trial, Mr Drew cross-examines Mrs Bunce who confirms
Gus' real parentage,how Fred has taken him away and how he later
escapes to an unknown destination. Fred, Omar and Sam bag long jail
terms. Mr Drew traces the hidden Woonton money and gives it to Horace,
Woonton's closest living relative. Nancy catches Gus stealing food
from Annie's cellar and thus solves the mystery of the tapping noises.
St Will finances the operation needed to restore Gus to mental and
physical health. Bess predicts that Annie will marry Horace and her
prediction comes true.

NANCY DREW MYSTERY STORIES by Carolyn Keene 2. Clue of the Tapping Heels

Nancy invents her own "Code of the tapping heels" by using taps and
spaces to replace Morse Code's dots and dashes. She shares this with
her friends George and Bess and they all drive to the countryside to
practise. They almost hit a stray cat on the way and they take it
home. They later return it to its owner, Miss Annie Carter, who has
placed an ad in a newspaper over it.

Annie is a middle-aged spinster and formerly-famous actress who rears
25 cats in her home. She is unable to feed them all so they howl
around the neighbourhood,constituting a nuisance. The neighbours give
her an ultimatum and one of them,Fred Bunce,threatens to reopen the
Gus Woonton case. According to Miss Carter,Bunce iltreatment of his
ward Gus made him come to her for food and she sent him to Riverside
Home boarding school where (according to a just-arriving telegram) he
died. Bunce threatens to sue her but stops when Nancy offers her
famous father's legal assistance to Miss Carter. He even offers to
finance his funeral. [:D However, Ralph Woonton,Gus' supposed
biological father,died childless and Gus is really Bunce's son. Bunce
was Ralph secretary and manages to pass off his half-demented son as
Woonton's, partly to get Ralph's property and partly because he is
ashamed of Bunce. He has forged the telegram to blackmail Miss
Carter.]

Seeing that Annie is inefficient in both homekeeping and spending,
Nancy employs Mrs Bealing (a relative of Hannah Gruen,the Drews'
housekeeper) as her housekeeper. Miss Carter wants to recover the
money she has spent on Gus from Mr Bunce. Mr and Miss Drew visit the
Bunces and the wife reveals Gus has an inheritance but Bunce denies
this.

Meanwhile,Mrs Bealing reports to Nancy that she has been hearing
strange tapping noises at night and that Miss Carter's pets are being
poisoned. Miss Carter willingly hands over most of the other pets to
the vet. Then Horace St Will,Miss Carter's actor friend, visits her.
During their talk, Horace reveals he is related to Ralph Woonton. He
sends Ralph's letters which prove he dies childless to Mr Drew. A few
days later, Bunce breaks into Carson Drew's study and makes away with
the letters. He is almost caught by the just-returning Mr Drew so he
hides the letters in Drew's tool chest and hastily leaves the
compound. He later sends a coloured man with freckles to recover them.

Nancy and Ned (her boyfriend) find the Bunces' home deserted ; the
couple has fled. Mr Drew employs Detective Keely to trail Bunce. Nancy
and Keely search Bunce's house and find Annie's cats,which they
promptly return to her. Meanwhile,Mrs Bealing discovers that Annie
(with stage name Lady Violette) is supporting a young actress named
Beverly Barrette and is too proud to disclose her poor financial
status while she herself has the barest necessities of life.

Ned and Nancy go for a steamer ride with other youths. Nancy meets
Harlan Bailey, Ned's friend, who once lived near the Woontons in South
America. Then Captain Staff warns Penello,a deck hand, to keep off a
certain room in the steamer. But Penello has already tampered with the
steering wheel and the vessel strikes another boat and throws the
passengers into the water. Everyone on board is rescued but people
erroneously blame Captain Staff.

One day,Nancy and her chums run into Penello and watch him and the
freckle-faced coloured man walk into the "Egyptian Temple of the
Stars" together. Nancy and her pals too enter and pretend to have come
for fortune-telling. They eavesdrop on the conversation between
Penello and Omar (the fortune-teller) but they are soon drugged to
sleep by the incense in the waiting room where they are. Omar wakes
them up and discovers Nancy is Drew's daughter. He then locks them
up,drugs them with incense again and sends a ransom note to Mr Drew. A
policeman raids the temple and rescues the girls but Omar evades
arrest. Nancy reports the conversation between Captain Staff and
Penello to an insurance company and this leads to a verbal threat from
an anonymous caller.

Mr Drew then sends Nancy and her pals to Bess' aunt (Mrs Miller) in
New York for safety reasons. The girls tell Beverly about Annie's
true financial state. They later spot the Bunces in a restaurant and
Mrs Miller trails them to Windham Hotel and watches them buy steamship
tickets for their journey to South America the following Thursday.
Nancy phones Riverside Home and finds that the Home never sent a
telegram about Gus' death and that Fred has taken Gus away from the
Home. Keely too arrives on New York on a tip-off to catch the Bunces,
but they have left the hotel.

Nancy and Horace later see Fred talking with Omar and the freckled man
(Omar's brother Sam). They hide in a bush and eavesdrop. While Horace
is away to call the police, the men discover Nancy and kidnap her in a
stolen car. The Bunces smuggle Nancy into The Tasmania,the ship taking
them to South America, with the connivance of Chief Officer Murray.

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How to avoid dangerous phone radiation

---Original message---
From: Myself
Sent: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 22:15:09 +0100
To: foluso.adeboye@gmail.com
Subject: How to avoid dangerous phone radiation


We can't totally do without mobile phones and other electronic devices
in this modern world, but we can reduce the radiation exposure by
following these tips:

1. Use speaker mode when making or receiving calls,instead of placing
the phone near your head. Note that the phone emits more radiation
when trying to make a call (i.e.before it is answered) and that long
calls are especially dangerous.

2. Turn off the phone when you don't need to use it. Phones emit
radiation whenever they are on,whether you use them or not. Switch off
your phone at night and use alarm clocks (which work even when the
phone is switched off) to wake up in the morning. This also saves and
extends battery life.

3. Do not carry mobile phones in pockets of pants or in shirts or
bras. The body tissue in the lower body area absorbs radiation more
quickly than the head and this may affect your fertility.

4. Avoid using a mobile phone in a moving vehicle or in rural areas at
some distance from a cell tower. Distance from a cell tower will
increase the cell phone's radiation output.

5. Avoid using mobile phones inside buildings,which increase the
device's radiation output because signals are not as strong.

6. Text and email more. Phones use less power (which means less
radiation) to send messages than voice calls. Also,texting keeps the
phone (the radiation source) away from your head.

7. Call only when your phone has a strong signal. Fewer signal bars
mean the phone has to step up its emissions to contact the tower.

Shortcut to Lagos from Gbongan

It will soon be possible to go from places like Osogbo, Gbongan and
Ile-Ife in Osun State to Lagos without passing through Ibadan,Oyo
State. This is because Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola's
administration is constructing a road from Gbongan through Orile-owu
to the Ogun State boundary. Travellers from Gbongan will pass through
Orile-owu,Ijebu-igbo and Ijebu-ode on their way to Lagos State. ( See
the above map).

This will reduce the traffic gridlock on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

How to avoid dangerous phone radiation

---Original message---
From: Myself
Sent: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 22:15:09 +0100
To: foluso.adeboye@gmail.com
Subject: How to avoid dangerous phone radiation


We can't totally do without mobile phones and other electronic devices
in this modern world, but we can reduce the radiation exposure by
following these tips:

1. Use speaker mode when making or receiving calls,instead of placing
the phone near your head. Note that the phone emits more radiation
when trying to make a call (i.e.before it is answered) and that long
calls are especially dangerous.

2. Turn off the phone when you don't need to use it. Phones emit
radiation whenever they are on,whether you use them or not. Switch off
your phone at night and use alarm clocks (which work even when the
phone is switched off) to wake up in the morning. This also saves and
extends battery life.

3. Do not carry mobile phones in pockets of pants or in shirts or
bras. The body tissue in the lower body area absorbs radiation more
quickly than the head and this may affect your fertility.

4. Avoid using a mobile phone in a moving vehicle or in rural areas at
some distance from a cell tower. Distance from a cell tower will
increase the cell phone's radiation output.

5. Avoid using mobile phones inside buildings,which increase the
device's radiation output because signals are not as strong.

6. Text and email more. Phones use less power (which means less
radiation) to send messages than voice calls. Also,texting keeps the
phone (the radiation source) away from your head.

7. Call only when your phone has a strong signal. Fewer signal bars
mean the phone has to step up its emissions to contact the tower.