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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News-Record, 1908-03-12, Page 7nioch,12th 1908 Ifr\%ws.P.4..ttc1 "4. *MAWIff. MOTIIZSarti. to.II.1,11•Mff McTaggart Biros. --BANK vORS * GENERAL BANKING BUS', 1NESS TRANSACTED. NOTES tIKSCOUNTED, DRAFTS ISSUED dtellte,REST ALLOWED sail DE- I'GSWS. SALE NOTES PURCH. *Sm. WM, BRYDOINE, BARRISTER, SOLICITOR NOTARY, PUBLIC. ETC. OFFICE -Sloane Illorsit-CI INT ON . • SMUT & HALE Coaveyancers, domwessioners. Real Estate and Insurance Agency. Money to loan. HALE •e JOHN RIDO1 IT III••••ree. ---- DR. NINIAN W. WOODS (M. R. C. S., lead:and, Is it. C. P., Ireland, C. P. I., L. M., otunda, Dubliao PHYSICIAN AND SUI1S-1•1:0N, BAYFIELD. Vain St. opposite Albion Rotel Office hours 8 to 10 a. es. sad 7 sev 1 p. m. Night calls &CC DRS. GUNN & McRAE. De. W. Gunn, L.R.C.P., Edia. 17ffiee-Ontario street, Clinton. Night calla at front door of office et rest- -Owe, Rattenbury street. IM. T. T. 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AUCTIONZEIlt-jAIVIES, SMITH tk cetteed Auttiotteer for the County • of Huron. All orders entrusted to me will receive prompb attention. Wilt either by percentage or nor iale, Residence on the ilayileld Road, one Mile South of ellnion. ateeneauttaateaseaseatos299994Manonag I The AnghiquIllaa' •T, . door. wao irresistibly reminded of hie at tie justice room 6he . Rogue's Marc By E.W.HORNUNG, Author of seRaffles. the *amateur Crackle seam," "Stingaree," Eta eat eel oe espeeene. 1696. fay VIARLEs SCRIBNER'S SONS. 11/19,00.01/06.6.00,19.91114109%.9994.09 *as only ttrosigiao 'tired the same for ter Vale ersthod wlete It is explained. Dr, Sullivan. So great was the mu- that the courthouse was not a house at tee' conveniencethat either potentiate, all, but a mere dile of weather board 'was delighted"to hold a Special •Inhuts, of which the justice room. was quiri in. any exceptional cruse to oblige' One, the lockup another, the conetables' the other, am' one Was held according- eatartere, a third and a store and ft eta-,• is in theforenoon following Tones ale ble a fourth and 'fifth. The geed! thee +Veit epee his Master's. son. - - formed Was furthermore inclosed by a A. mounted messenger was dispatchs brushwood fence, broken only between' ed to Mr. Strachan, who sent bick the otehlea and the instlem room, Where word that be would be at the court- there, watt a gate inetead. and. In the house as soon after 12 o'clock as pos. very center of this open peace, blot sible. And he =dyed within a few Ong the edge of the deep sky and scot- minutea of Dr. Sullivan, his red beard- Ing the dazzling earth with shadows ed overseer and the culpritwho had like scars, stood that worse than gal - spent the night in heavy irons, which lows, at which men Were beaten into he still wore. - The doctor led his brother . magis- trate aside. and Tem, raising his lacks luster eyes for once. Watched them walking arm in arm in the sunlight for . several • minutes before entering the yourthOuse, Ginger' stood by and told the constables the kind of mai TOM was.. Tom heard Min without a word etr.a. look, Theconstablesi agreed that whatever else he .was, he wito. evidently e sulky brute. 'Torn heard them, too, but sat doggedly in the strong Sunlight, with sullen eyes upon the two magistrates, whom- he Instinc- tiveiy knew 'to be deciding his fate befote the case began. Not a word had he spolientanee the irons had been clamped upon 'his limbs. and clasped about his soul: • ' • Not a word did he speak in the juts. Flag was also of the, party, filling hie tice room within. als attention, how-- . Pipe and grinning to himself between .ever, was engaged at -the -outset be the his flemieg Weiskers, like a man pre - extremely moderate tone et which the ,pared to • eitety the thing thoroughly. • charge was preferred against him. Dr. The Sergeant however; made hims; Sullivan, pUt on his oath, gave a per. • stand beck a little, though with a wink. fectly trim account of what he . had as he touched the culprit on tbe seciuls• himself seen mid. heard in the small der, . • • "Come; my led," said the . sergeant beers of that morning.. He. even ad- - 'witted,. in response to a• question from confidentially. -"it needn't hurt you the, bench his impression that hie son when all's said and done." was the first raise a heed and 'add- • Tom /Poked at elm in taitt, astonish- ed of his own accord a'hope that that • infant • . - circumstance would be taken into dile "We ain't obliged to lay it • on that consideration on his servenes •behalf. , thick." . pursued the' sergeant in ' the Tom could hardly, believe his easse, same cerifideigial 'Mee.. • --gee all lett fle was still lest inwonder at this ex- to us It needn't hurt elm -need it Dr Sujliran of all men,-; when ,. Mg; 'Peet Mates?". • . • . • "Nrit"-Wee7c-o-liteic "iiiTthersilierless trethelinary Jetereession on the Stracitext addressed him in a tone no But he wien t. no fear" said the ex-. lea's clement and benign, • . butcher; who had got the cat and was , .1. el-oti are -charged,", said be "wins e_•, practiong, with it upon the woedwore... s • ; • 1' • : :very grave eget:tee; whieh gee do .not of the.Whietileg frame said . the sergeant.attempt to deny. tit the •ordinary nelt• course I 'should feel- compelled to com- "We'll give heti the cheese. -Will you tightest .punislithent would' be a term You take it bot? Your . come up to thee mark.. me. Soil. Or will. : • .• • mit you • to • another court,. and In chain gang; evenif godevere not:- • Tom 'Oiled at We.. 'with a sent :straight, away. to 'Norfolk island. ".sulien puzzled expression and chanced' ' It is your good fortune, however, to to see the overseer, at a little distance echin big sit ' youth at Rugby 011(1 had all OM cry 1R hie throat when he regolleeme himself 1 .....-- ' and gulped it down In tiny. %he con- vict was rushing straight illor the out. . let between stables and justice room. :The pack, were at hie heels. In front of hire the gaunt old doctor stood his greyed like a grenadier; withhitt beet - bee cane, and the epee. gate and a tethered bone beyond, Mr. Strachan stood petrified by sheer curiosity AS to what would happen tneext;It never occurred to bim to in. rrre. He thougbt the doctor ;nest give way, The doctor did no euch thing. He stood fast, with his eerie as though It bad been. a saber, and Toni, whirling his weapon still. whirled It high into the elry and bowed to the doctor be. canoe he could not strike him down. As he bowed the bamboo slashed big shoulder and would have cloven Mill to the ribs had it been steel. Next In- stant he was overpowered, andthey dragged him back to the triangles ag Dr. Sullivan turned to his brother mate istiate, with a heighteried color and aparicjing eyes, • l'A hundred:" cried, the doctor in Ids most dictatorial voice, . 0A hundred what?' asked Mr. Str"Lattchsahn. esI" saidthe doctor, wiping hie forehead with a red silk hanekerchief. "You emet give him Woe after this, I'd ' like to make it two! But we needn't ' haul hint In again to hear it, ;Wit give the order out here . • et beg your pardon," Said Strachan nervously.' "I decline to give it at all." "Decline to order him another fifty :for a bloodthirsty outrage like this?" '"Yes, I do." • ' " ' s 'eYou must have taken leave of your. senses!" cried the domineering doctor. -"Or is it that you sympathize with tee maxi who felled my sour ' ' Mr. Strachan turned a deeper yellets "You know the better than that, Dr. Sullivan!". be cried hotly. "Sympathize with: a convict! It's not that at all. It's beeause it's irregulars I doubted whether It was a cage for 'Summary., jurisdiction in. the beginning, 1 know It isn't now. and I'll hue° no more to do Withits" .' '' , • • "You 1won't? Then I will?" said Dr. Sullivan. -"P11 take the responsibility upon myself:" •• .: ' . • • "I won't be a,Party to any teeth& ir- regelatite," said Strachan '."and It's a clear case ter quaeter sessions if ever • there was ones- That's my only point The than deserves it, of course:" .. • Yet he retired Into the justice •room and shut the door; .but ranee to shut. out the raspleg soiled of. Dr. Sullivan's .eotees exultantly doubling the seetence ane dying to the ex -butcher to lay on • the whip cordas oe-. had never laid it on before: • s.- e -"Trest Me!" earne tbe • reply through the epee window. "Look at .my fore' -head, sir. . I'll cut his, bowels' out for that!" • ' ' • • s .•.• - • • ! - • . -Mr. etrachen, sprang up and shut the •Wiedow with a bang He waestrangee -le Shaken: sMany were the floggings he had ordered or inspired and even Nvitimiseil Witimet a qualm. There was eoieething in tols man's face that. led •i poet! ed-tosle.m-an artioublecl-h im from the first A:.4 he shut theswindow ' • there was something.,else in the white 'sheen of the doomed nude bacie.over ,yonder that, made hen feel instinctive- ly•-theie. was the; remnant of a gentle- man,tied. up for whipping like it cur. And this cotivietioti made the Anglo.. Indian, who was the remnant of a gen- tleman himself, mote uncomfortable .. than he had telt for. eears; . . . ' :tie turned his back on the window ;and sat dote, ,likening ' 'aeaiest his Will; in the very ,clutir from which he, had delivered prearranged judgmeet., He heard it -twee: and .winced and twitched his shoulders, .as. though .the stroke had fallen on .them; - He .heard it again. Re began mutaitling the end of e new eheraot. and listening to the tiles on the window pane, whose buz- zing had Suddenly beeome- very loud, But louder yet were those .hcerible : smelt Outside, and even More horrible with the 'exultant croak of the old doe- '• tor at : regular • intervals . between Sounds "Conte ytthe lashes; my •good :mai!" his rasping voice kept crying. , -"COM) these lashes! Comb those ladies!" - Strachan , found iiimself cOuntitig thein, With that istrieing face. kill be - 'foie him and those desperate eyes brutei.. and brutes Into devils week - after week throughout the•year. - eergeant and two constables form- ' ed the ;garrison. or • thls lodge ot law and order in the wilderness. The sere gettnt was an emanciplet, and of the trio only one had come to the .celint17 4 on his. own accouet.. The third wAs. actually a convict at this very time and a glaring ruffian 'into the bargain. Originally a butcher boy, who had robbed his master in the City road, he still smacked of the slaughter house, with his raw red face and creel eye, and on this young felon deleived the congenial task of administering the lash. In such hands Tom was led to the triangles, with a white face, hut quick- ened Oyes. The ticket of leave over- avesbeettrassigiied-thete-hameneeen pockets. .. merafful master, who :has spoken for you as I am liound to say I should not "Not got an cried. tbe sergeant h d • I his 1 II - h . "you ask him," returned Ginger. aanimousig made . the. most of the one . "Giot no motley?". taid. the e sergeent slender point that might be urged la. , "That's Whitt we meau by coming up mit 4vor. He line begged me todeal- to the matk, You know.", with you here and now. He is gener- . pound apiece," suggested the free . 'misty -anxious to ' give. you another.constable-ethatie softeethe job." : .ehenes. of which, for eour own good, t: • He •.etaTed• at liMm 1° 'logged deg' teethe exhort Y.Oa to take grateful ad . awe. ,._ ' • . - " , - ' Vgoteges:--Mesenwhilayoushaveitot nia„Li "I 'told -.yen' eat' :Sala. the .buteeer, . - to thanksent Dr. eeliivait antireli; for , heowing down the -etas 4,.LeVe tees! : the ridiculousitt" inadequate punish- . . ktai-eig-.'s • '• • • • ' • • • "Even a -potted eettgeen•US'i-•the Pei- : Sment whielt 1,-, attI about to order. you.. You • Will be taken wee she yard, and geent• had said .when the butcher be • you will receive fifte. lashes with• the . gun to grinrible and Tonea He to cud., . eat o' . nine •talle." ' - . - .; ,, , and this settled it •• - . • At ' these words Tom turned : Very "Up with him" • cried the sergeants White- and . opened his lips as if . to "We'll teach you 't� sneer at uss my speak, but BMA them tight without. a' gamecmk! Stop a bit though. His • tunable. ; 'HIS dogged • eyes gleamed, ' legs won't stretch th these here Irons. his. handcuffs rattled and his leg irons . Who. the blitzes put them on?" And . clanked together as the constables took the zealot% officer kitelt himself to wee ,him by either arm and led him.. wIths : fasten a pair of tinklets coupled by a out a innrmnr•from the iotim. ' ' • • sheet but missive chain and detect* '. "Did • x • say • too.. muck?! . asked Mr. ' illIpelny by Dr Sullivan on his.,farm: , • Strachan, biting at it cheroot, when the A pair of figura 8 haedeuffs had been magistrates were left alone. ' . - locked upon Tom's Wrists at the .iittnie • "Not • one 'word,e replied, :the •doctor :. time butteith his wriste and els hands Cordially.. "I. am Infinitely obliged to Were small, and tiering the night .he you . for raying weat goir did -for the lied found ' that he eouid slip out of constables' benefit perticularly. They these at any Moment . He was out of . Seethed to see melting' wrong ' - than neer before a eonl dreamed- of it, • "It was dietinctly irtegulet doctor The Mitheas•drelreslY.oirdidh:ishfie.esttend. to have the 'Mr. Strachan shook his heads A' clearer ease for. Miatter, -Bessie-1th 1 The heavy needled scourge lay on the . have .never heard . • ground.. , Ito 'raw: faced wielder was ' "Perhime not; . but then .-1 should halfway .out of his coat The other have ' lost a - inoitt competent groom: constaele was telkieg to Ginger In the • and now, thanks. to eou, .1 shall keep Shade. 'The, sergeant had undone the .' second 'Kukla and Wail pit eisinefroin "Are eon sure he ,will be Worth keep.. , ing. after - this?"' asked the Anglo -Ins Next mitMent he was the his back in dime. seeking at his cheroot, whieh the, dust; and Tom was. planted before. Was but a shade darker than his with.' Ill triangles' with the scourge caught . ered faCe. • . . . . ., . . .. :.111, br the thongs' In his two hands ane "Worth 'keeping? He Will be better . the heavy handle' whitling round hitt Werth it than before. , It does them : head Thesbuticher rushed at hire with one :. geee.eil.h"at ie not ' It.ie invariable orpere isideve still. in hie Oat and • received the , pet instrument. full ehneria-zsartiind. ef.r. Straehan, ehaeleg. his butt end "et bus . tiport the forehead, where a great green "But it Is ntirie," cried the doctor. : • wart spraiig:.out as If by magic 'even . feel your power They. never feel your there arose the outer,. . vrhteli brought as Ile teeled away., It was at Baia "They are never any good until they Power mail they have &nit felt the De. Sulliviin to tbe justice wont door, lash." And he emphasized the senti- and the eight that staggered even him, nient by giving the table a ctit•with his was the sight of his groom, the blood eane . • ' all 110Wii train his facet to his - eyes. "I have not alWayii • found it so," griatthing hie white teeth and whirling Maintaizied the other. "In your place: that thick .oak handle round a head �f wavy yellow hair. Tom had not !M- I should have let that man go to guar. proved in looks elate his antral in ter sessions. There are the makings Of a desperate crimleal .1n him or PO there was a4ineness In his ferocity, a New' 'South Viralee, but.at that moment Mitch Misra,kete" , sublimity In his despair, wet& Were De, 8telivati flushed and 'brightened not lok upon, both the gentlemen now beneath his white hairs, like a man on watching from the door. Mr, Strachan., his Mettle. "Desperate erlininal?" he for one, beheld a fellow intin fighting repeated eagerly. "He's one already. for a Manhood that was Mote to hint my dear sir, and all the better! Well than lite tigainet a degradation Wee* see what WO can de to tame hum. thin death, and he wiehed himself Well see What. we eon de to break his baek et his farm, , spirit! Yeti know what my son says Net Ott Dr. Sullivan, Whose conster- StraChan? He never was bested bY nation inked but a moment. The next it emiviet :yet* It NVOtild never do for he was in the thick of It, rallying the him to remain hotted by :hie otte, end eonstablea, floinishing his -cane end that's another noon why he musttet leading a rush which made the rebel silp through our fillgarS Plat Yet, NO: elip beneath the triengles and • take to we shall show him who are his nuts. his heels. The pack folloWect all but. Writ We Shall bend or break his spirit br. Sentra& who now fell Wk. With as 1 bend"- , , the filan glistening on his white heir Ile !sprang tip, with his bat:oboe cline, and a gnarled hand shading his eyee, . Tem pinged between the loekup end the store and ran' round the fence to the left, like a rat In ii rine, but it Was too high for his tit every point.. The pack doubled and had hemmed him iti when he alverved and was thrortgit them, leaving Ginger on the ground vent „ratifier .,.wItialt4t, Awn, before. I 1 g , I I•11 11 him." • his knees With the pair. • itful rusbed to the door, lie it sudden outery nrose In the yard. At the door, however, even Dr. Sullivan paused aghast I "Strachan! Straebent" he oiled. • "Good heavensi You were right! Look here!" What bad hannenm will be the bet. The pack Werli at his keit. waiting upon his as they had welted here While he Was delivering his Mealy mouthed address and looking at hied as they had looked tor one nionient when he was done. A. white attire of Incredulity, a flat% of reproach, another of contempt, and mi back' turned dis- dainfully with a shrug. That was all, but it had burned the Magistrate at the time. It Wotild butte him In the retrospeet ever after. to stop counting he put his thumbs lit his tare, always with an eye ow the door, so thet none should surprise hini in thatpoiatioia, but "Comb those lashes!" eame to themstill, and then he began listening for another voice And a different 'ors?. He listened forT these In pbeitive terror, with the per. spiratIon dripping from hie 11080 and hts eare. nisiso log like. the., see beneath r, -srri .ulf*?!'=..:,. ...- ". nttlerthey know how We Weil tiatiebee, CO from. the ethart, VII tell ye tit*, Ton, bettber a huodhred trace be the man bete a epite agin than tbe girl he's his wicked eye upon. Thera Mr. Nat for ye, an" I bate 1ms-I loathe 'im,-,tis God's. truth I'm telling Yes Tom, dear, he cot me out there It night -1 niver wint out wid 'im. cot me prowlin' about, as he fetid, an", tints the truth, too, though be tonid It. I couldn't sleep for thinkhe o' the two! . 0' yez. It's well -I knew he Was up to, some divira. Work at last. I'd seen 'ha talkin'-an' what do you suppose Itels . up to now?" asked, Peggy, golng off at a ten,gent. "What ito you. suppose. bees doh' at this moment? Lytle: dhrunk On his bed -Iglu' ded dhrunle for the shame of it! You knocked en: &awn. You knocked int dowu. Die won't get over "t till hie eglie day, No- body Drie leer so inuch as • lifted 1 ban' nen lin on the term. put glom .1;e to God, you knocked iim down!" There was more than unthinking ex- ultation In her tone; there was a very: singular viort of pride also, and this as . unthinking as the other, it was .so in- genuous and. plain. Bu Tom saw noth- leg with those . drea ul eyes Mel heard but littiei beyon her soothing brogue. And then. she I think and saw a mark on 'the Menke n a red or moonlight (for she had sh the door) and cried out " to God to f give the most selfish woman in all th • world. . • She had thought of. herself rid. not of Tom. She had telked aboin emir and not aboet Tom. In her sel ness she had forgottenewhat she had breeght ,. him, and a niedlcine :bottle of pilfered. milk and rum was at his patched lips,' . In anseilitant She made him drinket • it,. antesdrink deep, • and mutton .sand- .wichea deliciously cut and salted,. she put between his teeth with her own -• fingers, bite After bite, ' nit 'though he. had been her infant. And all the time • she was tailing at herself for forget-, tieg .this :and beteg the most sehish wonien in tee:worlds whlie he ate and drank from •her twirler hand and never.. said a word. But When this Was over he took that heed in his aud -:they • sat as It "fee seemed for hou n a thin:rain. of fil- • tered moonshi p, Still his eyes.; were steadily eteadily • • downcast : the whole thee. .. Thus they missed the happy tette§ in- here. s ' , • At last he •Sprike, and' it :was terrible, for she creed •not understand a weed,' Then he coughed ,ned.' tried. agein 'end seid„, 'God bless' yOu, Peggy-ronle there . isn't' 'one' ire New South Witiete" ..And .'that left them both silent atia,the girl grieeing openly . for almost as king =ttreStrirtalleettreaftelliettteettraieere PQM tbunies. tfowerer. volee reacb. ea then; init that of the savage old doe tor, crying uot about the lasbes up to the end. Then came a. pause. Mr. Strachey. 'made sure it was a pante, •dried his face. put his thumbs in his armholes and tilted back Ills their. Ells features were otaliciently coin- posal when Dr. Sullivan otrode into the room with h deeply dissatisfied air, "Well?" drawled Mr. Strachan, 4 "Not a sound!" growled the doctor. " u teak s spirit yet! I'll break him or till know the reason why:" And he ground what teeth he bad and wiped 'his wrinkled forehead with the red silk handkar." chief, "Bravo!" cried Mr. Sheehan. - Dr. Sullivan looked up sharply, but took this expression of enthusiasm to himself, as a tribute to that indomita. bie and ferocknui will wbich was his P "You know me, Strachan," said. he. "What I say I mean, and if you'd haek. ee me up Just now and stopped out. se. ed enow why I say it Not - one -solitary -groan: But break him yet. Upon my stout I believe I could have done It with this cane: The fool of &fellow didn't bait lay on. Be sale he'd give it him all the harder for that nice thing on his forebead.'but my opinion" - The sergeant rushed into the room. "He's gone, sir! He's, gone:" The doctor whipped a leather case from his' pocket and went out hurried- ly. In five minutes he was 'back; His colleague was sitting like a yellow ghost. • • "Gloner chuckled. the doctor. "A little taint, hothing more, and as stub- born as a mule the montent I brought him to. But I'll break him yet, Strachan; I'll break him yet:" • "Ile had els full htmdred?" • "Every lash." side"- '•• ' • "Like tissue paper; drew at the fourth, but not a sound, not a syllable all through." "And he's fit to , go back to the farm?" . "Fit enough if I let him," the doc- tor declared "But I prefer 'to keep him where he Is till tomorrow. Here in the lockup he can do no mischief, and they know how to look after them here. But what's the matter with you, Strachan? You look • used up. The heat, eh?" • • • • "The climate altogether!" , cried the ()thee, rising "I'm sick of this coun- try, Sullivan. •India was g fool to it. I'd give all I've got to be going back • there tomorrow!" ' CHAPTER- XIX. . HE sergeant had looked into the lockup for the last time that night. He had made his last •. • overture • to the priethier, had cursed and cietedthim . for a Sulky, dog ...Ina so taken • leave Of him for the eieht. 'Not a *Ord had Erieliseti utter- ed ,in all these hours. He . had .:an- sWered questionreplied to no taunt nor yet .once raised. his eyes from the ground. There he sat with a damp, blanket .about bis • torn body and his rough yellow head between his bands.. Feed :hari been -nut shwforw him en&-ress mained there sell. A pannikin of _tea stood' cold and sour and black with drowned files ' upon the ground. The flies. were the worst of eil his outwerd lila But the-, shocking torments of e brain cruelly cleared by pain and weak. :uess were worse than the tiles, And nee/ he was alone for the night The key • had been -turned in the pad.; . leek and pet in .Its. place on the beard above The sergeant's ' bluster had -died awtee,', and the 'Sergeant's footi, steps • followed Suit. Across the yard ; there came a laugh, an °tab, good night itonlealle shouted; then a throw-, Ing riff of beets. that, jingled and a shutting of doors Now ell was still, and' in the lockup the 'Stillness was ati imbraken as elsewhere He liever atr. red but to shrug away a fly. The moon . shone in through holes in the tin ltd. roof, throtigh crevices in the Match.' wood walls and in the soft sifted light he sat immovable. It was Suck a • prison. as a man of spirit could have, broken with Preposthions wise, Bid title one had n� spirit left • Ile eras no longer a man. His precious nienhooe had been beaten out of him illte du& tram- a 'carpet. And. the -sense of thai iteetOcable. loss bit deeper thin the glutted files ,•.; Was it a horse outside -against the brtishvvood fence? ; The sound was tht -first Tont Seemed to. have befied fol many years In his }thickened brain it etre& a .first inappreciable spark of in tetest He listened.. Then 'came an. other' and a nearer Sound as of some. thing tern, He listened eagerly. What could it be? Minutes peeped. 'There . were no more sounds ontil the pedloce 'was tried and a hand Went feellug fel the key. Tom raised his head. for the first time as 'the Moon streamed In through the open door, When he per etheed that it • Was Peggy's bare feel • Which had made no noise. With that •be lowered his heed again, for there Was no place in it even for surprise: Out enconsciously hegave a moan. • - She Went upou her knees beside him and flung out her arms, but drew theiri back, with a shiver, from that. loose spread blanket. "Tem!" she whisper- ed, "Speak to me, Aladin!, It's Peggy • come to see how y' are." • Be never spoke, never looked up not gave any sign that he heard her words, unietts it was that his bowed head hung More heavily than before. "It's Peggy &Bettie," the girl pine sued; with a sob in her throat. "Stir° an' ye've not forgotten Peggy the cook? Ivo to eotacat ye PVC come dettrie, haven't the right? Ab, then, an wasn't it all through tne The sob' got loose, and she was wringing her halide and gullet at Tom through her tears 80 though hez heart would break for him. In re"rn he stared heavily at her, but shook his head as her meaning came honnt to "Indeed an' it Wag," pereletedPiPeggy. "Only for 1310 you niver would have etruck 'm at all. An' to think It: veas• meson` that Warned Te in the beginning an"' went an drove ye to it in the indi If only. you had let 'in strike ole 4eati at his feet: It id luiVe been betther then that -an' title!" ' he looked at her without a word, nod still there was no light, no life, no reeling in tile look, but only Anne, awe !lead despair. "You thonght I liked `bur :exclaimed 1,e;.;:.• * They've bee:i noir Kock Pei tlir bets. Ws . •Thee' he saki. quite.niiietle: "You know I'vebeen, in the con-. „.dtbe:;e.d. cell; But .. fnoth. lug, to ties,. ely. Gott it'tv . asnething.fo . . . • . ' Peggy pressed his band •- • " .• • • Stelie condemned' cell • at Newgate,' he went on. "I was .titere up to ,tho very last night and heard. thespitople thefr plaeeS to see 'the swing.. Well that night was ;nothing to this. And if they end hanged me en the. : morning.It would have been nothing-- nOthhig=it would have beettidg alicsieservoleeSbrokassoblef shook the -tortuted -body, and the'. glowed with shame to 'find herself the useless witness of an agony prame. • But his "tears dried' heti anat betted: their • fount. It'frieze her. heart to hear and seehint. She was afritt& to .sPeak to. elm, --to touchhie' basisti • She Withdrew it little, and her bane: foot pressed. a 'cold oasis on the *arm! ground..: She stooped and pinked 'Ha' crled Tom Rio ,-olce was very ,bitter a.s'kbueok*, under control. in a , Moment • • ' Pegg's...with the coin to et '.shining . crevlce "r am ashamed .to tell gen," and be • ground his teeth. "Butte:Ai:will never guess, Prom, a greater brute than ets ther Of the Sullivene. ,He came to Wet at mei just afterward. •I Was sfelmategl • like a. horse in telt; blanket, and ivie came and gloitted over Me and flung Me a farthings -a farthing -the, vedert beast whoerdered me theehishei 'and pratehded. to. be so kind.". thrth.wit, . • "Yes.. God help.iihn It ever 1 Net I& Yellow throat . between these . ten • firi?.• • gees!" '..And they 'were .elritzbingiiritor.d- • &tons& in the air, and tbeie :wife murder in 'every vibration of the basket voice,, • • . .- "Sure, an' 'it isn't a terabit it all." ' • • • -"What is it then?" "A sovirini" ; • ..- And the soft Irish .brogue tick with hottest satisfaction.. , She sheered . hint the coin in .tritimph. 'He regarded' it With a leaden'eye. ' • . "A - sovirin!" repeated Peggy, with enthusiasm. "Stick it in your pociart an' be grateful iver afthez: to .Peggyer bare fut." - He shook hit head. "Yon wont?" • • Another shake. ,• • " 'Tie sinful ptideI call IV! rano*" strtited the girl. ''"fhe 'kind malt meant wen"- . • • "rhe kind maid" "Ate fleet he?" • "I Owe him a bit already? replied Tom. "Let me settle that first" • "But title he Meant well, man. Theo lsno garthfie. "-• • • ' • •(T0 13E CONTINUED;) "/ have not been 'without ft bottle a Ooltsfoote Expectorant in the image for over nine years. At that eine I proems ed it or a bid cold I had, It worked such weeders then that it has been it hoesehold remedy ever sinCe,and we will have no other for eoughs arid eolds -it is so pleaeant to take, and all of my children look or it wesoou as they get a cold at all. Nearly all of them hese been soNeet to eroup, and that's whee I And Ooltsfoote Thrpectorant WO* ful. YOU are welcome to use this testi. M0111141 as you wish." • MRS, LEWIS NICIII. Fret Sample o Colt:hate Expectora will be sent to any person sending the Dame and aadrees and naming t paper. It has eetabliehed a wonder record as a eueeesstul eon for SOB SOMS• SOO throat, eroup,wheel cough,• broneititio and all irritated ditions of the throat and chest. the prescription of a great speein inedioine. At fill good druggist Dr. A. Simms Limited, Tore Send for rroo Sample Te