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THURSDAY, AVGVST 23rd, 1931 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE
TRAIL’S END
by Agnes Louise Provost
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FIFTH INSTALLMENT
Three weeks after a cream colored
roadster had been -found wrecked
in the sea at the foot of a cliff, a
girl calling herself Anne Cushing
.appears at the desert town of
Marston, She hag bought, sight
unseen, a ranch located thirty
miles away. Barry Duane, and his
man, Boone Petry procure a re
liable woman for her and in Bar
ry’s car, loaded down with sup
plies, they start across the desert. - -- • - reticence has
might ea&ly pass her by, .but it was
impossible to wait calmly for the
light. Just one thing was becom-<
ing increasingly clear to him, and
that was that the most precious
thing in the world to him was Anne
Cushing, and that the thought of
Hay Council
Hay Township Council meeting in
tire Town Hall, Zurich, on Tuesday,
went on record as being in favor of the granting of ‘authorities’ for the
sale of beer and wine in the Town-
sh-p, providing hotels come up to'
lequired regulations. The township
[ voted against the Local Option on ! January 3rd, 1910.
' The motion was aa follows; Where
as the Act allowing the -.-ale of been
but already they had started. Once'and wine in standard hotels in On-
he looked down aiiQ smiled, and aft uario passed by the Legislature early
ter that she did not look up again, jp 1934 was promulgated by the
Barry loved her, and she couldn’t present Legishature in July, 1984,
—.she couldn’t . . . She lay1 pas- and whereas the Township of Hay
did not carry the local option by
law voted on on January 3, 1910,
sively against for mile after mile,
with her cheeck pressing his -shoul-
harm coming to her was unbearable, der and a dull ache in her heart. I the vote being 278 for the by-law
He raised his voice in a call,- The next morning was an awak-'and 425 against the by-law, and
“Anne! Anne.” I ening to strange a-chesi and unsus- whereas the Commissioner of the
In Marston her
aroused suspicion.
Barry’s chair went back with a
r-als/p. “I’ll be with you,” he said
briefly, and was close on Petry’s
heels &s fie went back to the corral.
It was the same corral where Comet
had formerly been kept, and from
which he had whickered a shrill
welcome whenever Barry had ap
proached, The -sound came at that
instant, as clear as a bugle call.
“That’s not Captain!”They exchanged a quick glance.
There were only a dozen horses in
the corral. Captain was there, close
to a riderless horse.Without .a word the two men ex
amined him. Comet had come by a
rough way. Saddle and stirrups,
glos'sy hide and dainty hoofs, they
missed no-thing in their quick search
for evidence.<<f—- - - - - - - . w
Barry presently,
'harsh and dry. ‘
slipped. Of course
b een thrown.”
"Comet’s awful sure-footed.”
Petry was cautious. "And he don’t
buck, scarcely ever. See that?” He
pointed to a streak on one hoof.
"Wherever else he’s been, ‘he’s come
through Pulpit Pass. There ain’t an
other stretch of dirt like that in
fifty miles. Better go that way.”
Barry was already n the corral.
He was saddling Captain, his finger's
working wit-h
"Ling!”
Ling came
emptory call.
“Light up
hou'se.
lost.”
That was all that he would admit.
The illuminated house might be a
futile gesture but if she had strayed
.anywhere near the Perch she might,
■see that blaze of friendly light and
take comfort.
“Take a gun.” he said to Petry.
“Then we can signal to each other.
The one who finds her will fire two
’shots and the other will answer.
Single shot's will be location signals.’
A scurry of hoofs and he was off.
They branched into different trails, peering, shouting, -calling her name.
Only echoes answered.
AH that Barry could be sure of
was that Anne must have taken the
same route that they bad followed
on their first ride, since that was the
only trail which would be likely to
take her through Pulpit Pass. If she
were unconscious, or worse, he
said
feltThe saddle is all right,”
His throat “It couldn’t have
s—sue might have
swift precision.
pattering at the
every room in
per-
the
The lady at Trail’s End is
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That sluggish flow of bile slows up digestion
and elimination and makes you “feel punk”.
Your stomach acts up—gas, bloating, sourness,
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Mere bowel movers like salts, oil, mineral
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Avoid calomel (mercury). The thing for you
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The echoes flung it back at him
mockingly, “Anne! Anne! Anne.”
Hope had slipped from Anne with
the vanishing sun. How many miles
she had walked .and climbed and stumbled since he had faced that
blank wall of rock S'he had no means
of knowing.
And then night had come. Her
clothing was torn by thorny branch
es, and she fairly reeled with fati
gue.
“Martha will know that something
is wrong,” she reminded herself
firmly. "Perhaps Comet will go
home. Of course he will.”
She caught her breath sharpy as
the realization pressed home. There __ ___
was no telephone at Trail’s End. No over to Comet t*o avoid that
car. Martha could do nothing, un- look in his eyes,
less she could catch and saddle onej The pinto was standing dutifully
of the old. horses and find her way ’ where he had been left, merely giv-
to Eagle’ Perch.
A chill wind set the _ _ N ____ __
whispering. Anne shivered and be- was his business and
gan looking around for a sheltered ready to go.
spot to spend the night.
On her left, half-way up the slope, there was a lark blotch which look
ed like a clump of close-growing
ergreens. S'he made her -way
wards them cautiously.
There was a tiny clear spase side, shut in and ringed around -by * ingratiatine^muzzle those shaggy branches. . ®Th£n the mo^le iVall right?”One might even feel around for a! «oh ves for riding” She looked
comparatively soft spot and lie down' , /mail smile “I
?“rl^Jnt0 a S“ug M”- A”5'H,!ns, still think thlt mouitaln hiking Is
j.or its . | a much over-rated sport, but thatLittle by little, sheer .....
overcame her. The rustling sounds/;
of the night lost their menace, and
grew fainter and fainter. Anne slept,•
It was not a peaiceful sleep. Now
and then she stirred restlessly,
tossed, sighed, and lay still again,
A voice drifted down on the wind,
calling "Anne! Anne!” but she did
not hear it. From somewhere in the,
distance came a faint crack cf sound
and from somewhere nearer by a
single shot rang clear.
The sharp sound brough her to
her feet, stumbling with sleep and
fatigue. Another sound was beating ’ lightly and stearily against her'
ears. The click of a horse’s hoofs '
on rock. Going away from her!
“Anne! Anne!”
"I’m coming. Barry!”
She began to run, slipping, down
the 'slope, smooth with fallen pine
needles, forgetful of the impetus -of
her own rush and the sheer-drop
ping edge at the foot.
That was when Barry saw her.
There were, after all,’ to be more
poignant moments in Barry Duane’-g
life, but none that could so shrink
time into its racing seconds.
Through the scattered pine's he
had caught sight of a small running
figure, racing in
down a slippery incline,
fast, if s'he were going
well inside the edge , .
she should go over!
His heart seemed to
as Captain’s long legs pounded over
the intervening space. He put Cap
tain to the very edge, thrusting in
between. Barry heard her say ‘Oh!’
in a horrified voice, and caught her with one arm as he swung down.* *
“Anne Darling!”
“Oh, Barry!” She clung to him,
burying her face tightly against h-i'sf
shoulder. “I knew you would come
soon!”
“Of course I’d come. There, .its
all over.”
“But I—I forgot t'he ledge, and
then I couldn’t -stop. Only I’d been
asleep, and I woke up and heard
you going on—”
"I know. But you’re 'safe now,
precious. Everything’s all right.
Everything—”
He had both arms around her
now. For a moment she lay there,
close and still. Then with a little
shudder she raised her head, and
her hands slid away from their
drowning clutch of him.
“I ought to be scolded, instead of
comforted.” She straightened up and
laughed shakily. “If you hadn’t
come racing back in time, Barry—”
"If I hadn't, life wouldn’t mean
much to me now.”
She looked up at him with wide
dark eyes, heavy with fatigue and
her -head moved in a faint negation,
He felt her slipping away from him,
and he did not /know just why.
It was no time for lover’s impor
tunities. Barry said “Steady, boy,”
to Captain and reached for some
thing.
“I’d better signal Petry that the
lost is found.”
Two shots crecked and echoed.
The answer came from far on the
right. One shot and a pause, and
then a staccato outburst of rejoic
ing. Barry laughed.
“Boone is happy. Now were going
back to Trail’s Eend, and I am go
ing to carry you. Here, put this
on first.”
“This” was his own coat,
"I won’t!”
"Orders!”
He bent down and swept her up -in
front of him, swinging her across
so that she lay like a child in his
arm’s. She looked up to protest,
1
pected bruises. IMartlxa ordered her .Liquor Control Board has requested to ‘•tay in bed. | that all municipalities which did not
At noon the autocrat permitted carry the local option by-law to pass
her to get up. 'Shortly after lunch resoutions allowing the issuance of
Barry appeared, riding Captain and [ licenses to sell beer and wine in such
leading the unabashed Comet. munioi-paiitiqs n standard hotels,
“Do you think you can forgive therefore the Council of the Town-
the little devil enough to give him
another chance?’
"Of course. It was my fault' that
lie started off in the first plaice.
He’s an -imp, but I do love him,”
That might have given him an opening, for light love-making at'
least, but Barry let it pass. H'is
manner gave no suggestion that he
remembered hi'sl checked, ardor of the night before. Anne .wandered
new
! ing an impatient stamp now and
tree tops then to remind them that motion
he was all
* UM 'fcjV.
I “Book at him! He
i how to be ashamed.
■ just watch when we start out again
II won’t get out of the Saddle for a
[second without dropping those reins
. over youi’ nose.”
Barry watched her as she stroked
doesn't know
Rascal, you
ev-
■to-
i a, xiA uvil -_________weariness(Won.t Jast/,
“Then how about my coming
down for you in a few day's/, as
soon as you’re feeling yourself again
for an all-day trip and lunch at the
Perch?”
“All day? What about work?”
“What you need now is play. Be
sides, if you don’t come I shan’t have any excuse to play around my
self. He smiled.
Why shouldn’t she. One didn’t
stop seeing a man because of a little
fragmentary love-making.
“I’d really love to.. Thursday?”
‘Thursday. I’ll come
right after breakfast,
have to get back. I’ll
the corral first.”
"Barry!”
“Yes?” He stopped
back, 'his eyes warming.
“I haven’t even .attempted I-0 thank you. You understand, don’t
you?”He gathered her hands into both
of his and held them clo's/e together.
“I don’t want to be thanked. Just
seeing you back here ought to be
thanks enough for anyone , . .
Good-bye.”
He gave
'Squeeze and
was off with
-ship of Hay go on record that it has
no objection to licenses being grant
ed to standard hotels in the Town
ship of Hay that come up to the
required regulations.
Other resolutions included; [That
the following rates be struck and
levied upon the rateable property of
the Township of Hay for the year
193 4 and that the clerk prepare a
by-law for passing at the next coun
cil meeting confirming same; Coun
ty rate, all purposes. 6.3 mills; the
Township rate, 1 mill; township -rd.
rate H mills; Zurich Police Village
rate 7 mills; Dashwood police Vill
age rate, 2f mills; general school
rate 3 mills; spec, school rate U.S.S.
No. 1, nil; S. S. No. 2. 8-10 mills; S.
S. No. 4, 8-10 mills; S. S. No. 14, 2
mills; U.S.iS. No. 16, 3.4 mills. Re
quisitions for the other school sec
tions had not been received at the
time of the council meeting.
The following accounts were pass
ed; Township roads Can. Culvert Co
steel culverts, $26.74; William Du
charme, road 16, $3.07; H, Stein
bach, Z. P. Village $224.17; G. Sur-
erus, road 9, $10.90; Ed-. Enb, road
9, $13.9 0; W. Farrell, road 18,
$16.45; S. Martin, road 6, $3; John
Oesch, road 8, $6.5-7; Huron County
cement tile, $6; Stade & Weido, ce
ment $4*5.50; T. Welsh, lumber, rd.
1, $14.52; A. Smith, road S, $13.76
Wm. Fisher, road 12, $11.50; M.
Corriveau, cement work, $81.6'5; M’.
Corriveau, road 17, $G.25; J. Parke
road 1, $16.21; C. Aidworth, roads
3-13, $3.12; R. Adams, road 10,
$47.25; F. J. Hafoorer, road 7, $10.-
U-Oi; A. Mousseau, road 3, $87.46; U.
A. Pfile, road 15, $4.15; A. Zimmer,
iion for culverts, $22-04; J. M.
Ziler, road 1'0, $12.04; Jchnston &
Kalbl’leisch, cement, $4 6.40; IV. J,
Ilarvey, trucking gravel $1,011.36;
R. Miller, road 9, §12.85; M. M. Ru-sell, road 1, $23.65; F. C.
Kalbifleisch. lumber, road 1, $15.45;
A. Reichert, Road 4, $15.75; S.
Ropp, road 2, $22.60; S. McArthur
road 1, $8.45; F. E- Denomme, rd.
10, $12.2-5; G. Brock, repair acct.
$2.; Wes. Coleman Rd. 2, $1.9:3; W.
J. jarrott, salary etc, $40.7'6; J. M.
Richardson, Road,. 5, $5.15.Telephone Accounts—National Rev
enue, Canadian tax on tolls, $21,99
Workmen’s Compensation Board, as
sessment, $10.20; E. R. Guenther
cartage, 50c.; Bell Telephone -Co.,
tolls, May to June, $152.90; North
ern Electric Co., materml, $11.75;
Zurich Central, switching, 5 weeks,
$85.00; H. G. Hess, labor, etc. $164.-
83 General Accounts — Ontario Hos
pital, re indigent, $39; W. L. Sie
bert, -six sitting Division Court,
$24.00; Municipal World, account,
5 0 c.; J. Galster, cutting weeds,
Zurich Drain, south, $5.00.
The council adjourned to meet
again on Tuesday, September 4th at
1.3 0. in the afternoon.—A. F. Hess,
Clerk.
M.
AWAY
AHEAD
in TIRE VALUE!
For real “money’s worth"
you can’t equal
down for you
Now I shall put Comet in
and looked
headlong haste
Going too
to pull up
. God! if
stand still
*
That Stab* Like Pain
In the Small of the Back
4it is hard to work with a weak, lame, aching
back.
Dackaehe may come from Sick kidneys, add what
a lot of trouble sick kidneys cause.
But they can’t help it. If more Work is put on
them than they can stand it is not to be wondered
thoy get out of order.
On the first sign of a backache Doan’s Kidney
Pills should be taken.
(They go to the shat Of tho trouble. They help
strengthen the weak back; they help regulate the
kidneys, and then. there is no further, esbuse for!
kidney trouble to exist.
fingers a quick
them go. Then he
her
let _
Comet to the corral.* *
They did not skirt the desert this
time, but turned directly into the
bills, until Anne lost all sense of . direction,
Late in 'the morning they were
standing at the mouth of the Pass,
yith tumbled ridges, and beyond the
ridges, another blank stretch of de
sert sand and sparse vegetation. It
lay in a rough triangle, bounded on
two rides by hills.
“It looks like a little Junipero.”
Anne exlcaimed. “A wicked little Junipero.”
“That’s the Pinos Valley, but it’s
larger than it look's. If you were
down there, you might find an oc
casional surveyor’s stake, or even
the remains .of a shack or two. Thdt’s
all there is of the town of Duane.
Ever heard of it?”
“No, I haven’t.”
“I’ll tell you after we get up to
the Perch. There’s nothing more to
see down there—it’s just a'si dead as
it looks.’
His voice sounded hard. That -was
unusual for Barry. They 'turned their
horses and went back through the
Pass again.
Presently Anne caught a sapphire
gleam.
“Oh, beautiful! Is that Eagle
* Lake?”
“I know you’d like it.”
It lay like a ‘
At the head of
carpeed sople,
[house of peeled
generous lines,I “Welcoiiie ’to’ Eagle’s Perch.”
Barry swung off quickly .and held
• up both hands for her. “Make your
self at home while I put up the
horses. Oh, Ling!” This was a bland
yellow face appeared, hovering back
of an open door. “See that Miss’ Cushing gets .anything she Want's.
Miss Anne Cushing thi'si is Ling Foo,
the best all-round cook West of the
Atlantic. We’ll eat on the veranda,
“Alli’, boss,” Ling grinned briefly
at the compliment, said “How do”
■ politely. Anne felt a. bright and
’ speculative eye taking her measure,
: “I 'shan’t need anything, Ling
Foo.”
“Alli’, Missy.”. The bright
were .benevolent. Ling ducked
head and padded swiftly away, and
Anne was free to explore.! She looked around the big living
1 room with a faint 'sense of surprise.
1 It was .spacious and restful, furnished
with a man’s idea of comfort, but
the things in it had never been
bought at Marston, nor even in the
more up and 'coming county seat.
There were books and magazines
scattered around. iSome of the books
looked technical and dry, others
were imore promising.
“Like it?” That was Barry’s voice
behind her.
“How could I help liking it? It’S
perfect.”"That’s a large order,” he laughed
"My uncle was a collector of Indian
rugs and things in a .small way, and lie picked up the /Spanish- stuff too,”
They went out, wandering over
scented pine needles, down to the
lake and up the slope again, anwer*
ing the mellow music of a Chinese
gong, Barry chuckled.
(Continued next week)
=K
jewel at their feet,
it, topping the pdne-
was a two-fetoried logs, built' on broad
THE DATE HENRY KOEHLER
One of the oldest residents of
Zurich pa'ssed away recently in the
person of Mr. Henry Koehler aged
88 years, 7 months and 7 days, fol
lowing a brief illne/ss at the home
of his daughter. He was united in
marriage with |Miss Mary Niefoerlein
who predeceased him about twenty-,
years ago, also one son and two
daughters. Those surviving
Gideon and August, of Zurich; Dan.
of Kitchener; Ezra, of Baden and
Emmanuel, of Detroit. Interment
took place in the Evangelical ceme
tery his pa'stor Rev. E. Burn, offi
ciating.
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