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BARRISTER, 'SOLICITOR
NOTARY, PUBLIC. ETO•
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- DR. IV`INIAN We WOODS
R. C. S., England, L. R.
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PHYSICIAN AND SUlt(li:ON,
• BA.YFIELD.
*On St. opposite Albion hotel
Office hours 6 to 10 a. re. and 7
-is 9 p. m. Night calls
See.
DRS. GUNN & McRAS.
De. W. Gunn, L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S.,
Edia.
lenteXio street, Clinton. Night
itte front door ol oflice tresi-
`deattenbury street.
T. McRae.
University of Toronto.
teffice hours at hospital :-
1 to 3 p. m.; 7 to 9 p. m.
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J. W. SHAW --
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e-1,71.rATTENBURY ST. VAST,
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OR. C. W. THOiViPSON
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Special attention given to diseases
.of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat.,...
_ -Office and Residence-
-HURON ST. SOUTH. CLINTON
doors west of the Commercial hotel -
tt,
-DR. F. A. AXON.-
(Succeesor to Dr. Holmes.)
Specialist in Crown and Bridge
-"fork.
trate of the Royal College of
1 Surgeons of Ontario. Honor
aduate of University of Toronto
Dental Department. Graduate of the
'Chicago College of Dental Surgery,
49hleago.
Will be at the Commercial hotel
Bayfield, every Monday from 10 a. in.
S p. m.
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V Civil Engineer, Architect. etc.
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Walks.)
Consulting Engineer for Mun-
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• -OFFICERS-
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PANILTRUNK RSAYISLTWAMY
• TABLE -
Trains witI arrive at and eter irt
from ,Oliritort etatiell a.s followe
'BUFFALO AND G0DERI011 JMV
Goner EaSt
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Going Weet
gc
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LONDON, HURON
Going SOuth
t t
Going North
t
o.za 111.
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:313 0, kn.
5.20 p;ni
11 0? p, m.
1,014 p, in
• 8.40 0.
11.11 p. in.
ki BetUOE DiV
7.40 it. le,
• 4.23.p. nr
14.00 a. hi
p. tn.
VUOTIONErlt-JAMES SMITH LI-
eensed Alietioneer for the COUnty
Cif Heron, Mi order ti entreated to,
me will receive prOittpb attention. t
Will ,:;'011 either by percentage or
est sale. Residenee on the •Daylield
amid, One Mile South of ilintoo.
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van, what If 1 oadr, .4ard mne termer was usually a ticket-or-
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ginning te feel sorry be had not. leave Man, who built himself a but in
"Niver ask mei" elm returned. tOnly aTt.11400eUpled spot, with a preference
bear la Wind that What•they'll 14. feeethe near neighborhood of a pleritt-
Holm:tee' is a crime out he,retare tem fill contingent of assigned ooteriete,
cheek, an' It's tiventy-five or fifty -a' The squatter would supply the cenvietr
• now I've told yet 'Tis well ye should with rum, The convict would pay the,
• know. There's same poor feller freer • squatter With the only currency
-i .
here gets it *very Monday as Iver hie reaehWntely, that of stole
But yeu mustn't; so niver cheek 'em, Property. The squatter was sly pub -
me dear, and niver Om° near me Ilean Mid Sly Pawnbroker in one, and
a Pretty speciMen of Ws clam; had his
kitchen anny more, Sure it'd be the
wigwam and his black gin on a creek
•dith et a, young gintleinan like you.
"Would it?" said Tem "Well, never not a hundred miles from Castle °urn"'
.you fear Peggy 1 I'm not ouch a fool van* • •
as all that, and give them no rem Hither waa Torn taken by one of hls
eon, you may depend." . fellows on an early Sunday evening.
..They may be affber mow one, Half a dozen others were there before
Tom, dear, Faith an they'd have olie them. Not one of these were sober
when they arrived, And the strong
• ready Made if they cot ye here! There's
tour rceoma idrabebeirl,pFegoar Tdw':rditilks; be, p.ie feunta. eswatseminpteglamTeosm.at Stir, raideehrianngeerniosf.'
• "I'll go when I'm ready, Peggy, not quenching it for the nonce. He might
until; and don't shut down that win, glulayieorproduced
ase
follodowedtralt bad not dnobm
tabldt60crm--
oin
dow or you'll take off mlz
y fingers,
tween both of hers and pressed it with Idaert
Your hand again! It's to you I obeli ell,:Ytheyi noneu:t; nwr et phfulaoeetri nv fet heornretg anal lioncind: 'goat then
e up aTom:,wh gtshi mate.1,2theaeIt
owe my whole skin!"
• He gave her his hand. Sbetook it be-,
a fervor diet should have given him
another"There's the farm brand staring you
warning on the spot. But her in the face! it isn't yours."'
kind voice only put him in mind ot
Claire so far away; nor did he hear it "What's aboot it? If a man mayn't
again for some few daysNow and bilk the coves, wha may he bilk? They
.
then she would wave to hire from the •gin na liac wage for our Work; a° we
maun
kitcben window, but it was always to help oineele!"
as this was the principle Of all
wave him- back. More often he-evaved - And
to her from the feeble' door, but she present. and bideed."(if the average ' certInvariably shook her black head at him Viet throughout the colony. honest Teta
• with the greatest vigor. had no choice but to turn on his heel
Meanwhile her words came, treeand• walk away amid the execrations
of his fellows, I3ut not handwasAla Nat had conceived a• palpable
spite against the new groom, and from • raliled.againat hill/. Be had still the
things the latter heard in :the convicts': . eye and the bearing that discourage a
hut, where he went 'for his meals he blow. Even the elder Sellivan had
• raighthave understood
givee pp us. and. temp ng him
. • . the reason,
these seine things making' him the less •with that haalhaa wand which was
• ickenieg felon angers and .
eager to see eerymuch more 'of Peggy . forever qu
wheneverbeespied her in the distance- ,Brit the ineident of the serew ham -
for
sowing bleck murder in .felon bearts. •
.the Cook,- Still, he gave her a wave'
tor ho veered the girl muott already rio Mar tnade an unpopular than of 'Toni
was daily profiting by her good advice, • among. his fellows,'.and worse was to
come ' of it. : The .tlieft. was brought
no day passed without ita meas -
the. Man Macbeth, and . the
lire of . provocation , from .tbe:* home to
very next night Tom met him with a
ruffianly Net... But Tom was not to be
provoked' by sneer or taunt or oath e white, plethed face and his coat :tin
• • . •
Moreover, he made an excellent groom ' back to front. . •
•
and, ;being • seen no nrote about the,: "Why: mecr • cried...Tom. "What
house, gave no further occasion •th the * new'eP • ' ' .. •
enemy, whir :dropped his overt 'perse- The foulest mM
..
eledictions were s
.mitions,• but detested • Tom . the more °rile, 'answer, .a •white • lip querering
for hiS unexcep.tionable eonchret.. . Withthe words. •. •
. This. feeling was intensified • by ',..the • •
• hat ort earth have I .done?'
a- -- .
effect of that conduct hi a ger tajn: Yeken, Wee", This, then
quartet Tom became quite •a favorite He eernederis back; and Tom started
with the despotie 'Old army surgeon, 'Pack' With horror. The shirt imneeth
and Mr Nat went in constant dread the open mat was sopping jed• •
of -his "sunstrokes" in Sydney and on •
In vain Tom protested thathe had
the 'Mad coming to Ids father's :earsnever told e s.oulabout the hammer.
It was this dread that decided him to .Nobody would, believe lilin. His: in-
let Tom .alone and to bide his own digeatiOn and -his sympathy were treat -
..time for revepge, for besides being ea wIth.- acer.a as so much hYpeerlsy..
privy to the •sons irregularities' and Ells .narne was accreted 'in the con
dangerously established in the father's elet ,huts,, and Se much or the convict •
falfor,. the new groom had indeed done spirit 'survived le Ginger that . he was
Mr . Nat an injury of -which he hitaielf with ,the men . In this :and never spoke
was ialt uneo_ •ef D grew• to Tom. now: The overseer besides
weeks .meanWhile, • the ,old year burntshared Nat.Suulean's grievetice against
int.., the new, and one week day was 'Tom,. A furtive- admiration for the girl
Stile much like Another on this prim!, 0 I3rien was enn: et bis 'softer. traits'
tive.Australian kartu:. .When the third. • and- was .til‘ same to neither of
bell ring ;at' Sunrise, every hut die, Mete TM*" • . * •
gorged its surcharge of cow:lets,' and At.the end. of 'a month the gremn's
Ginger• calledthem, neer. Hee so mine • truest freeirdwas the terrific old dotter
schoolboys hi tient of .the .palisade e •hiniacif': Peggy Was his friend
Then the shepherds to the :pastures, but, though her gray. eyes .Wetebed him
the PleWmert to the arable land; the.wistfully enough from the window, he
hellock driliets• to their fearaa,- nal :Seldom heard her full, eleienroeue. Nee
Tom to . his • stables for • the livelong . was it ,eoneideration for the girl that
daySuch as could come were summoned to breakfast at 8 and to dinner ' Consolation. . Young Sullivan. had for
- e .; Torndeny hiruself that small
at 1 by the .great bell clanging ittits 1310eil him the lease' and was .8Uni.
eucalypti/La .belfry, and all heeds were ciently his eiremy• as it was. Indeed,.
•
.thealled by it between 8 and, 9 at nlght,. the groom discovered he was becrening
. a -Irene of 'contention between fattier
. • • • •
Sunday was a nordinal • day of rest
which' Included two long, •compulsory and sea
services in the courtyard: beneath a Theson wanted to have bier turned
savage 'Run., Sullivan 'reed the out of the • stables and pet to felling
prayers • with theevOlee crf ati ekeett- timber. The tether Would not. bear 01
tioner, his bamboo cane on the desk . it •
In trent • of hinr• for use as a baton :The. father granted hitti the thiPal
or as an instrument of correctiofl foe good conduct Indulgences of tea; auger
the men Who' -dared- to smile or to •, arid tobacco, in addition to .the regale
-
whisper. withla his reach. • The. terrible - tion rations. • The son :laid' himself' out• tend
oldmanwould else take this weekly to ceteir Tom smoking at night and
opportunity of animadverting . on the once put a stop 10 the tobecco. ' •
lost souls and ebandoned character of Then came the very hottest der 'of -
his .conVicts In gdneral, wlthParticular the: simmer, for whieir theson had:
allusions to those Whose enorMitiee had waited... He, had brought from •Sydney •
earned. •them the lasb. during the pre- Onthe pack berets a quantity of neer
ceding week. He never failed to its.. harness,- saddles, bridles and the like;
sure futureoffenders that they Would and he made the groom devote the Very
be Punished without mercy in their • hottest day to seasoning the brand new
turn and would slash the desk with leather with castor oil, to be rubbed
his .ettee to •emphasize his words. So . into every inch: of it in the stifling
religionund ferocity ran hand in hand beat of the little saddle roar. Wben
at Castle Sullivan, nor was hypocriey Tem was finishing, nauseated with the•
very fee behind. Mr. Nat led the smell, bwoileit with ta0s(juittv bltes and
hymns in a devout, sustahred, Sten- • in streams of • perspiration from head.
toriadbellow, while a niaiden sister, , to foot, Mr. Nat came in and patiently .'
the orgy ladyof the establishtheet, nagged at him. • But even this did not
Whose voice- the correlate never heard compass the dentreetirm df Tom's skin..
and Whose 'fate they seldom saw but He perceived the design and defeated
on • these' °masking, supplied a per- ,11••with !imperturbable civility.
functory aceouipanlment' 'on the piano- Mr. Nat was driiten into deeper plots.
forte. •• • Ho had never been bested hy a conviet
'Amid the branohes of the rod gums yet And new at last Tom read re
-
without flocka. •of parrots Would chatvenge in the jaundiced eyes, lert re -
ter mockingly, their • Vivid. reds and venge for what/ He telt room raysti-
yellowslighting up the somber hues fled than. afraid. Ali he had to do was
of those perennial leaves that whis- to keep his temper, but what had he
pored none the less enticingly Of c001. done? To nobody on the faint bad be
Metiers in tbe shade.' Yet Sunday after breathed it Word about aught that hap -
Sunday these tyrannical observaneeir pend in Sydney' tar on the road. tle
Were maintainecl and enforeed, and never ventured with% the palisade,
the evangelical dotter loved to boast What, then, Was his offe.rise? •
ot the device whereby he had enforced One night as he lay puzzling his head
them lo the beginning. On .the' lirst about it end yet half asleep, it sound
Sunday . nitte-tehths of his men bad atartIOd hin.
announced theinselites Aomart Oath- it came from the eaddle MOM next
Olica Bo he had drawn up these gentry door. Tom sat Up lir his bunk.
in line Outside the pithead() and there The sound was very thin and wholly
kept them standing out of earshot, but rriefailic.as the scraping of a dinner
it the full glare of the sun, during:the
entire service. • And on the Sunday 101. ,knife between the prongs ,Of a fork)
lowing there wee not h Roman erttle Vanintd.enir a bolt shot back. with a little,
olio among them.
Vilhat remained of their reined day
the coniticts spent in breaking as many
itit possible of Meat commandment
'Which Dr, &linear' had been dilaning
in their elite, Lareenst, howeiter; Wee
01/APTtli XVI/.
OM sat istill ielais bunk. •
"A licht a licht!" whiapered
a VOide that he knew.
tbe erlmo most In favor at the fermi
e otily next door."
"He'll hear ye, Mae. Re's
wilpse b6111114#14 "1'6 "h1"1 e"Mil• "What's about it, VII slit his jug.
from that feu Parjuirteor the convict,
the squattet of the early days. lie gler if he diturti to interfere. Heard
sauatter . of , eubseatient e that?T
did •"
. hat's better!"
trinst not be • confounde, with
e ratty groom wits snoring het.
. AS '00,17.0 With one o fq: a ltIkUll/ IbtIIO
; rude partition between We lair and
the saddle room. In the latter there
wits ea Yet no light.
[ "Are theVe better still," muttered
Affiebeth lei one Was etruck. "Slit: his
; juggler!" be repeated, e.vith a ehireirle.
J "1 wadna think twice the molting
I blackguard! Now, whaur's thee- tied.
I 4100, for my hands it! free?" And his
j• teeth snapped, on Iforeething tit
[ gleamed betweenthem in the light.
"Wait a bit. I smell the. 011, Alm,
re's one,"
"An' Mamie the abet DieSa heed
the bridles. Awa' we go afore ,Tar.
I man turns in."
Jarman Was the squatter on the
creek: Tire hour Wee still Elbert ot
Midnight, and Tont, who had hounded
ligatie to the floor. now stood imago -
lute. In the end be let the raecals go.
Their footsteps bad already left the
saddle rogue The groom listened and
Met them in the night. Then he felt
about for hie clothes.,
- He -*as thankful he had net warlaid
the field would have been too unequal,
.the consequences perhaps, too serious
• for one and all. And he foresaw the
• neatest triumph now, Jarman's Dame
had given biro a foregone victoryfor
nosy he lurew , the way to Jarman's
nenshaeltie but, and the:saddles should
be back upon their pegs befctre morn-
• ing. So full Was Tom of confidence
as be dressed 'himself, in the dark..
• .But. the thought of betraying hes com-
• rades in captivity was as far frora his
laeart as that of aliewing his master's
• saddles to be quietly stolen before his
eyes. • Stolen they might be, • but only
for the moment; he would call in Mae -
beth and his mate to See how nice.they
kinked intim inorning,.•,
In a few minutes he was fully dress-.
ed and dodging Roberts, the ' night
• watchman.: behind the convict huts.
No other man among Mem W01110 nein
found this preeaution necessary, hut
the groom was an unpopular. character, •
whom Roberts would have. reported .
none:the less readily after winking, as
heeauet.hece done, _at the'elieft.of the"
• saddles. With luck and • ingeneitee• -
'Tom managed to elude him, however,
• and was soon racing down the wooded
• slope Wherethe...timber was being fell-
• ed, leaping the stumps as he ran and
• steering by tlie Southern Creep for the
southern boundaryof the fax', • which
was; in fact, the creek on whosetee-
thee btu* thesquatter.' was now en-
camped. .
• It 'was a ,perilously clear niglat• A
White morel gritiledthe peelingbark
of e. smell forest of ted gurus, and the
l'anioes ,eorietellelion burned but feebly
in the south.•Tonikept his eye ore'it,:
isowever,e and, bearing slightly to his
left, streekthe creek at last out of ear-
shot of the squatter's hut.' litere he
paused to cool his feetin the delitione
renning--watereeZie. plan -waseto-eresse
the creek and thee 'teen:I:miter 'the en• .
eery's, position froth, the reare., And so
weli did It .work nut that rJoni skbpped
behind".a. 'friendly erinik just as the
, thieves peceeeded e'er 'making. jarenan
. neer, who now appeared wIth.hia -black
; gin In the mouth of'the Wigwam.' :
• ye* SticiAles?: What In thunder was• •
the • use of new 'saddles, orold ones
either, to 'bhp? -".,7herawas•he to stow
them in the moanwhilel Did they
.. • .
Want him.to be landed with the •swag
on his hands and lagged all over again':
to oblige a pair of !libbers like them?
And here Tom felt that a &ere would
have slammed had there been one. • As
it was, the outraged Semite came .to
pause for want of breath, and :Mac.
beth got In his word at last •
Tom could not hearit, but it seethed
• to make a differericee it made the very
pleinestdifference itt the sq•uatter'a
tone
"Wilifte*Iiat's-that7 reloret-helleve
it cried Jarman.. in one.- breath...
'TAke* your :oaths , to it 'will ion?
Well, If it's a fact, it'll' beer .thinking
• about. Said rill that, did he? Aad you
think he .won't go and round ore tie
•after 'all? .•Welt, then, come Inside, ; and
talk it o'ver. In you go,
and light 'v."; • , • '• • .• •
• Toni took a peep as thernen followed
tile black woman into the levet. They
bad •lett the , saddles; Outside, net to'
Snatch teem now was impossible. The,'
Sicking -that:did duty for a door bad '
been draien aside . and hitched:to a•*
'nail. On .the lighting ore candle stuck
I/1 St bottle withiesome eager face•Was
revealed er Tom' Whenever he dared. to
look frorh !rebind his tree. Even If he
were hot 'seen he would be heard. Be-
sides, the 'party might break up et any
'encinaent.. ••, • .•
.So he stood *here he was and JIB.'
tri the voicee, but ,ceased straire;-,
ing atter the words; Their.a -cork pop-
ped; the voides' -were reified' in a min..•
ute; Was thee:ten he Musthear
ety: syllable whether he Would or no
But he would, •for hie ewn name was
on their .1Ipee cOrmied 'with hideous
preeations and the name, 'of Mr. Nat."
• "You savvy'?" geld the Scotchnnur's
mate, a young convict known as.13tunt.
my. • "He •wants to get the bloke his
fifty if net his spell in . the trawierte
too,"
•"An' retirees him richt" eried Mac-
beth with an oath; "Debra he squeak
the thieves at the saddle rooat door;
rota t•ook a
,tho b
pas the men followed
an into the hoek
fty for yon screw'
>uti bell be squeakin'
"You're only to say ArlOsell hreught
'ern," acideil Brewery, "and you were
too drunk to see what they were or
• you'd never have taken them in."
'We'll know different,"
"Aye, but be's *oing to pretend," ex.
pleated the Scot, "an,you've Net to do
the same
"Then I'M to lug them be* myself.
ant I?"
"First thing in the Morning, and the
• neVetil tip you tbe stumpy himself."
"The young cove?"
"Mina we keep tellin` ye It's Nees
idea? He thairsts for that man'o
• blood as much as I do myeel.' rd
silt's juggler if I got the chance,"
• The vH1aip Welit err talking for an-
other hour. But tile foul truth clogged
Tern's mind, and he took in but little
More of what he heard
•So it was not a theft, but a 004-
spiracy, and the arch conneleator Was
the beast that Tom had eared for in
his cups, the petty tyrant whose prop-
erty he was even now risking his life
to rescue front his own confederatetot
Tom ground his teeth, He would res-
cee it Still, And not only Macbeth and
DrOtainV, but Mr, Nat himself should
S00 the Saddles on tbeir pegs In 'the
morning.
The Villains went on drinking as they
talked. Another cork, popped, yet the
mooe was still high in the lucid lea -
ens .when the two convicts' staggered
• off, Jarman at once put out ble
and in a• little all was still but the
leaves, the ioeusts mid the tiny tribu-
• tary of the Hunter in which 'Tom bad
• laced bis feet.
He came trent behind his tree. The
saddles were,01111 outside,
fre stole near; nearer" yet; near
enough to hear jarpran and his gin
already breething heavily in their
sleep.. '
But thee'rnight not be sleeping heave
and what if they awoke?' The stir-
• rup irons might ring together. Tom
knelt cleivn and crossed. the leathers
•over the top of each. saddle. The new
pigskin :might creak, for all the oil it
had abserbed; in feet, it did as Tom
--lifted thh sadcliese and he stood there
with °ire on eacb arm ready to ding
them down and to fight. for them still.
But nothing happened: So he crept
• This' time he crossed the creek with-
out dallying 'and only halted. within .
a few htuacired yards ot the farm blind.
ings. • Here he sat on a sturop, mopped
• his forehead arid Wondered whether he
• should take the trouble to elude the
night watchman a second time, and as
he sat the moon twinkled in the four
stirrup irons, which shonelike silver,
•they were so beautifully clean, and as
'e4aeinewahsomaedmtoirTinegm "fhtbeemgroitomsuthddar hlye
had cleaned those stirrup irons bier -
yes„ in. 'spite of._ al), he Imd'taken a
sort of Ineoluntary pride In his- work.
And.that.Was another thin; for Which
bbs :fellow' 'eonvices had. darsed and
• hated- him.' But tonighthe idorited•and •
cursed bimpelf for -It, with twice- their
bitterness, and an oath broke into a sob
„as 'he -caught up the, saddles and sMit-„
' ed to ;his feet: . • . • - '
• In a wOrdi. the eight of hie sistrn bon -
est handi'ts ork. so cruelly thrown away..
drew blood from 'a heart that had re-
mained garment under, studied: prey-
, the face of monstrous • treachery. To
hilt• a minute•slece in
'ecution, and cool
:have done a hand's- turn for such
'wretches! That was .the intolerant
thought.. It awoke the restless rebel
that .heil slept 'se long in this tortured'
•_bosom. Not stroke of Witling
• ,work. Would he do.' •He would. be• as
his fellows from the.tmoment, only,
• beginning there- and then, he would.,
•condescend to hide „and citidge.no more.'
§4-tbi,greole4nargliedjgkillu in the
gate across which Mr Nat had pointed ,
With ins :whip 'M 'the liglita of •Cantlo,
: nuilivaia and .would 'have tier:tuned the •
...• . .
gate betund
but for otto
bNiFt 'caigareunlinsi
Nor was be Wimp. 'The girl 0 .i3rien •
was' at his Side. Torn was epee therm
• before he•coald' check his steps, but he
did not try: He, atiodeep to his enemy
• end:stood before him without a word,
but with a saddle:' speaking for itself
011 either. arm.• . • •
• "Well-weii?" cried Mr. Net. "What
are you doing out of your room? .And
what -- what What have. you : got
there?"• '
• "The neer Saddles"
."So I see: My. saddler!. What have
You. been doh* with theme ..Whereelid
you find there,' eh?" • '•
•
The . term . was loud and hindering,
but uncertain and -surprised; :In. the
Moonlight Tomleaked nis enemy cool• -
iy and steadily in the face, mad the girl'
'drew away from her companionand
gazed -at Tom, .1vito never ;so much as
glanced et her as he replied•:
.."They were •stolee,. Thieves .broke:
Into the 'saddle room and stole your sad.
dls 1 I:maid:there and folleWect there,
hut r never Saw their faces close to
and 1 wouldn't swear to it vOieei, I. fol-
lowed then, to Jarman's- hut, and, you
• see, rve• brought yen yout saddiee,,
• hack." •
• • • •
. Mr. Nat never eald a weed. Hie blue':
eyes glared fikedly at Tom out of a
White face front whibh the gle1.0"Brien
edged farther • and farther away. ..•
• "No;' 1 an't tell you. Who the . men
were," cOntinUed Tom, "bet 1 ean tell
you who put them upto it. It 'was not
eonvict, Mr. Sullivan, but a meaner
• hound than any. convict on yore' farm.
.0ire who ,has a speelal spite against
me -the Lord 'Mows. Whyl eu he brib.
'ed these men .to .take the saddles sim-
ply in order to get me into trouble.
What do you think of that/ I dyer.
heard all about it Mit at Iarmates het.
heard hls nitme too. Would you like
to know what it is?' •
"Sure it's himself -the ehiriy
And Peggy D'iirien wait at Tom's
side, With one hand clutching his arm
and the other pointing' seernfully at
the balettil bine eye end the 'vile, toilv.
e,ring lips of the younger Sullivan.
What followed Wes the affair of it
:Mornent. It was as if a mad bull had
Mede a limit, though whether at. the
girl or Tom or both it Wat•littpossible
to say. • Tom thought the first, dropped
the, saddlwt and his right firm gew out
front: the Shoulder. A sharp sinatk, it
heavy tiord, and Nat Sullivan lay in it
heap .on -the ground, with it livid* Matt
• between 1Lhe ear and the eye that itty
upturned to the moon.
"Yo've .Ye've Cried
the girl, clinging in terror to Tom's
firm. •
• "I hope 1 have," be answered. 'it
!Old' thing done for nil eon.
'Whistiti %tern be Other heaths"
• ye. Look behludr
Even elf be turned the gate awirei
open, and there was Er. Sullivan hint
aelf, with his frogged eNit flying IMP
bis *opt shirt dapping outside bia
keen breeches. The watchman•Robertg
• was at his roaster's naked bee* c1ose4
ly followed by °Inger, the overseer,
shidine dishabille. Timor! two ilidsed14
Toin, who allowed no sertiblance Of re-!
• stietance, while the doctor knelt Overl
the fallen r4nn or,r1 fait to...tleart 3
I "Only stunned," said be, looking tip.
',Ent you- shall smart for thie, eon Mis-
creant, if you don't naeg yeti Thet
very man he warned me egainse-thca
Very man 1.vhotet Part I to* egotist
Wag What have YOU to eay for yew -
self, you ruffian, before I have you pot
•in irons and. loeked up?' ;
"You ewer the blow, Dr, Sullivenr
wren dare to ask me? With ffir °ern
eyes,* you villain!"
"Thou YOU- 8150 saw the cense."
°Clause? What cause? .Ae if Aber°, •
".cotild be anYr'
"He Would. lave 'etre* WoMtip If L
hadn't Struck him gist." •
"It's a Ile," saki a hollow voice from,
the ground. And a 'bloodthirsty eye
covered Tom. ••
"Ha, my hey! Thatilf God, youare
• no worse. But sit still and leave thire
dog to me, A. woman, do you
An impudent slut who's at the bottom'
"A share mace, ci heavy thud, and Rat
Sullivan ?ay in a heap.
of tele evil* noluchieg and shall_g0 back
te government tomorrow' Be oft, you .
• beau! Be :off • to Tour • bed before I
• 'lave you token there by force!" •
he vowed. "I bad found her prowling
.'oPoeugtg; glared at ‘Tom...and (rely went
at kts nod. The tacit . interchangete
•
•
do,e„xtilweda:sii
brought gat to a sitting posture. with
fists
her there myself'''.
"A brazen baggage' cried Dr Sul-
livan. ,.."Not another female will 1 ever
• apply. for. • They are ten times..worie
•
than the men. So eon thought he was
going to strike her did You? Any-
thing else, I weeder?" •
"Nothing that you will believe, but .
be was at the bottom et a plot to get
me flogged for nothing. He had bribed
two or the men to steal those saddles,
that you see and put it on me, but
'followed them and had got your prop-
erty back evben at the gate here...L..'
ern stoiejelles!" said Nat
Staggered to •his feet; but the doctor
ph:reed-film by the arm:
"You will not! you will leave him
to 'mei" said the father steral,,i.He
was the stronger man. The sop stood
quelled. "We know they're lies," the
doctor added. , "Ali convicts are liars.
Have' any two • men been out of the
huts tonight, Robeets?'
"Not olio, eire-out of the huts. I can
swear' to that Haw this one escaped •
"It nrakes no matter,". said Dr. aut.:
liven" gripping his son's. arm -spite •
"Thesaddies' are not the point. I !OW,'
the blow and shall- inquire into • notlie,
Ing else, The blow, yorre ruffian, :you; '
shall lanswer 'for tomorrow before. the: .
neatest maglabatee Now take hine
away. Clap him in the heaviest irons;
we've got Dome, make haste!. Let,
ine see hiniln trent of mel" •
So. Tem was led oft, unresisting ,
but scornfully silent now, betWeene
'we:tone:me and overseer, and the father,
ethiked and the son slottched behind.
DEtA.PTER Xrar.. .•
TM nearest magistrate was an
Angio -Indian of the mune ore,
Strachan, another employer Of
conelet labor 012 a large scale:
and a disciplinarian seeond only to Dr.1
Sullivan himself. The two were cicere' •
friends' and. hiclispensable to each other;
in certain vrays. Both, in fact, were;
magistrates, but no magistrate was!
competent to deal judicially with lgol,
own offendlag Convicts, and thus 'eat
interchange of mutual favors was kept'
up between the pair.
They .would meet on Moedays at the!
courthouse situated Midway between'
their respective •strongholds, and /IC
this courthottse Dr. Sullivan Would!
oblige Mr, Straehen h7 sentencing alX11
servant of the latter to as many Wheel
08 Ills jflg8 !Pet') NrMe IstrAeluts'
(TO 138 CONTIIII.I.ED.
•
•
The Famous Pedestrian
Gentlemen: -
"I 'vkas a martyr to Catarrh of the
head, throat'and stomaell, 1 was so bed
the decteri foarel consumption. I
tried many physiciens and mediebere.
A. friend suggested Psyching. I tried.
it and it was the only thing ever dia.
Inc any geode I ant now porfeetly
It is the greatest remedy the world
has ever known. I difi not need it, for
tny health now bItt I use it as a
strengthener for. my.:! walking thatches.
owe much of my physical endurance to
Psychine."
:Amns11 PAM -MD%
Port 'Rept Ont.
P*chine is the -greatest, cern for
,!0, tam h of the bead, tin fiat
In the v..orkl, it is a wonlIetrui tou'ie
,p!“.tegthener of run tlot
v 0-11 An
,11•1111 rmthfll view nwl tit 4,1:f •fa
t1 t. 10.1 r 3?),!. • -1
or Dr. T. A. 12,1ewo.1, 7ita,iiiite.