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approach.CHAPTER I
Fog veiled the timber® of Yesler’s
Wharf that July morning in a ghast
ly sparkle, which quivered to the
roar of trucks and freshly shod
hooves and to the skirling invisible
flight of gulls around a phantom
ship.
The spectre alongside was the
ghost of a ship once dead. On the
hood of one of her wheels, as it wa
vered above the stringpiece, the fad
ed letters, “George E. Starr, Seattle”
trickled through an ancient glaze of
rust and soot. They identified all
that was mortal of a condemned
side-wheel ferry-boat, which had
been dragged from the boneyard to
make a first, and in a way of pos
thumous, voyage beyond the sound.
But to the men on the wharf, this
derelict, was an argosy. Her musty
reek of cres-ote, bilge and old ropes
was the aroma of romance. The
brawl of the trucks that loaded her
was a gong of gold.
And there was, in fact, a weav
ing lilt of music in the roar. It
came from a quieter eddy in the fog
where a man was playing an accor
dion, as he leaned against an up
turned bale of hay near the ship’®
side. Ignored by the crowd and ig
noring them, he poured into the din
a lazing medley that dissolved there
as vaguely as the mist—so skillfully
pitched that its source was hardly
noticeable. His frayed corduroy
clothes, the barked leather -of
riding boots, his lean, rangy figure
and sun-browned skin, did not dis
tinguish him in that weathered com
pany. Clearer light might have de
fined a .certain wary challenge in his
good-humored grey eyes,
drawn attention to an odd scar that
cut the corner of his mouth, accent
ing his look of high
daring.
Gun scars were not a
ter for comment in this
like the varied mob that followed
them later, the men who blazed the
Yukon trails in the early fall of ’97
were almost all hard-living men of
the open; miners, cattlemen, rail
roaders and lumberjacks from the
Northwest and Southwest; men who
knew little of the sea, but every ha
zard of moutain and desert.
Not far from him, however, stood
a young man, solitary like himself,
whose serious eyes traced the fog
maze curiously, and seemed to find
less novelty in the ship than in his
/fellow-voyagers. Some dunnage bags
■ tied in sailor fashion, lay on the
wharf at the feet of the young man.
A faded reefer jacket fitted his
broad shoulders with the sung ef
fect that sailors call “sea-going”,
and the same stamp <of the sea show
ed in his salt-stiffened boots, his
firm poise, and that unconscious gal
lantry of bearing which lends grace
to old clothes.
As the fog did not hide the two
men from each other’s view i- 1—-■
the effect of bringing them nearer,
while sharpening the contrast be
tween them. They were strongly
built in different ways; as oak and
steel are different. The younger man
looked sturdier; the man with the
accordion concealed under his idle
posture the quick resilience of tem
pered metal. Both were sun-tan
ned—if the ruddy brown of sea-sun
can be compared to the dry bronze
of the desert and the range. The
boy’s hair was dark and curly; the
other’s of a sun-rusted color, and
cut close, like a trooper’s. Both had
steady eyes, but where the boy’s
blue eyes reflected a sober discipline
and the positive clarity of youth, the
other’s held a shade of half-mocking
tolerance, as if he took the world
as he found it, and had .found it
mixed.
Some sense
the musician’s eyes for a curious in
fant on his listener. Looking away
again into the veiled shimmer be
yond the wharf, he began playing
the tune of an old sea ballad
“In eighteen hundred and seven
ty six
I fomnd myself in a hell of a
fix . .
At the quick light of recognition
in the boy’s face, he masked a gleam
of amused
“Is that
ed.
The boy
to sail ships out of Boston,
heard the song since I was a nipper.
“Figure it was a line shot you
come from that coast,” said the ac
cordion player.
“I’d take you to be from the
Northwest,” he ventured, uncertain
ly. .“Your eye’s good, Bud,” replied
the musician with a twinkle, as he
improvised
I been up
hear this .
ter a deep
the chesty
33« x/2 lb
Whitby College Monday morning.
1 Miss Vera Campbell returned Fri
day evening fronn an extended visit
with her sister Mrs. A. Ramsay in
Hamilton.
1 Frank Jones, of Brantford, visit
ed in town over Sunday. His mother
Mrs. E. Jones intends moving to
Brantford shortly.
Mrs. Daily, of Watertown, N. Y.,
who ha® beep visiting her sister
Mrs. Robert Luker, left here Mon
day accompanied by Mrs. Luker to
visit at Rochester, N. Y.| Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Brokensliire
I of Fenlon Falls, and Mr®. W. H.
A deep shudder ran thought the; Brokensliire, of Aux Sable, Mich.,
ship, as the gates rattled shut. Haw- were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ri
sers, shrown from the bitts, splashed chard Hill, Stephen, while here at-
into the gloomy chasm bewteen the tending
ship and wharf, and the side-wheel- Mr8, l.
er cast off in a ponderous churning
of white water, dropping a veil be
tween herself and the pier with a
swiftness that owed less to her pick
up than to the opaqueness of the
fog.
As if the uncertainties of the ven
ture were not high enough, she was
no sooner in the channel than the Mr. John Dignan and -------- -
click of dice, chips and coins began pied by Mr. Fred May, who lias mov-
to rattle a careless measure, above ed into the residence he purchased
the voices of the mist. Embarked^p®onaVV
for the realms of gold, the miners'
were “shooting” their money with
an easy mind.
The Westerner shifted hi® atten
tion from the rotted stay lines of the
lifeboat, and sat up to roll a fresh
cigarette. Maitland noticed that two
men, a little to their right, had turn
ed a tarpaulined bale into a card
table. One of them looked his way,
with an invitation to join the game.
When he declined, the man called
over to Speed. “Play a hand of
cawrds, neighbor?” Those oddly
broadened vowels were as .clear a®
a state boundary, Utah.
“What kind of cards?”
Speed, with mild interest.
“We figure they’s on’y one koind.
If you kin play Solo, the tune is
whur you want to set it.”
A faint reserve which had shown
in Speed’s face at mention of the
game, vanished in a smile. “I only
play that game by ear,” he said.
“Didn’t aim to ecare ye none,”
was the condescending answer.
“Which you gets me wrong,”
amended Speed, in the present tense
of polite discourse. “What I shrink
from is exposin’ your gifted Mormon raise a neglected and eelf-effacing
duet to the cold air without ---- '■
pants, coat and vest.”
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I music unfamiliar to him; half-bar-
j baric and half-deovtional melodies
of the Western ranges, such a® ‘Rill
Roy* and “Montana Kid.”
In the midst of this repetory the
piping cry of a newsboy who came
down the wharf shouting;
“Extry! I Buck Solo Makes
Last Stand!! Posse Surrounds Ban
dit in Mountain Pass!! Extra!”
The accordion player lifted his
head but did not pause in his play
ing though the newsy's cry echoed
a* story which had been as keenly
1 argued in the West that month as
! the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight, An
unidentified gunman on a buckskin
horse had ridden into
mining camp at night, trailing
man who he seemed to have mis
taken for some enemy. The mistake
had caused a blazing gun battle in
the dark street, from which he es
caped. Not long afterwards the
buckskin reappeared on the Deer’s
Lodge trail in Montana, where its
rider had stopped a stage to search
the passengers. Stange to say,
money had been taken, but an
press messenger, trying to catch him
off guard, had been shot. Dodging a
posse of marshals and heading west,
he had earned the sobriquet of ‘Solo’
in a camp on the Montana border,
having halted there long enough to
show a gifted group of Solo players
some unexpected phases of that
game. When the posse rode in, an
hour behind him, the gamblers he
his- had entertained were sketchy in
their description. As he had chang
ed horses the marshals had little to
guide them, but they suspected him
of being a wide-ranging gambler and
outlaw known of in the Northwest
or have'as “Buck Tracey.” His trail, lost at
” ''Clark’s Fork, had been picked up
again crossing the Coeur D’Alenes
through Iraho, and the interest ex
cited by the long
chase began to close
him.
The boy bought a
the news bulletin. “They’ve got him
cornered in the Okanagan country,”
he said to ’the man with the accor
dion. “He won’t escape now.”
“Kind of hope he don’t?” asked
the other, without looking -up from
his playing.
“I hope ne gets the full penalty
of the law,” was the boy’s uncom
promising answer. “He deserves it.”
The Westerner glanced at him
quaintly. “Full penalty of the law,
Bud, would leave ye kind of short
of lawyers, if you rammed it home.
Not that this maverick is worth a
cuss. But neither is the outfit that
is doggin’ him, and neither was the
expess rider he downed. I ain’t so
dead set on seein’ him hanged, Hope
he dies shootin’.”
The fog had lightened a little, and
a gangplank now lumbered down
from the steamer’s boat deck. As
the boy was assembling his dunnage,
a.® PT? 1 he found himself under the scrutiny
it n an 0,fficial-looking person who
had appeared abruptly out' of the
mist, and stood framed in it, a few
yards away. The officer’s eyes grew
less sharp on meeting his, and turn
ed in a more casual way on his com
panion, who had closed the accord
ion case and was leaning over to
fasten it.
“You two together?”
The boy nodded. It' seemed un
necessary to explain that he and the
accordion player were only chance
acquaintances. Some official for the
shipping company, he thought, was
making a check-up of passengers.
With another glance at the man
with the accordian. the officer pass
ed on.
The Westerner threw a roll of
blankets over his arm, put his ac
cordion under it, and lifting one of
the boy’s packs with his free hand,
wedged through the crowd that was
swarming up the gangway. They
found the cabin and covered parts of
the deck already claimed, but there
was a sheltered space under a life
boat aft of the main cabin, where
the boy stowed his burden. Noticing
that his companion still kept the
■blankets on his shoulder, he pushed
his stuff aside to make round. The
other considered him soberly.
“You listen to me like a good gun
Bud, in spite of them stern ideas of
the law,” he said. “Ever hit a T
gy crossin' I’ll stand by ye.
name’s Speed Malone.” And he j
out his hand.
“Mine’s Ed Maitland,” the
answered, somewhat puzzled at
earnestness.
Dropping the light pack in
cleared space, the man rolled a
arette, and while crimping the edge
of the paper, took a roving look
along the deck. Then he made a
•back-rest of the blankets, and stret
ched himself comfortably, relaxing
as from a long phsyical strain while
he smoked and watched the crowd
through half-closed eyes—still some
how as (Observant as ever of each
His
a Nevada
a
no
ex-
temper
special
crowd.
and
mat-
Un-
and desperate
a net around
paper and read
of this, perhaps, drew
interest.
a Boston song?” he ask-
smiled. “My people used
I've
1
bog-
My
held
boy
his
the
cig-
the funeral of their aunt,
Kernick.
YEARS AGO
April 29, 1020
Mr, N. Ogden has moved to town
from Usborne and is becoming set
tled in the home he purchased from
recently occu-
15
Cyril and.’El-Messrs. Silas Reed, _T
more Tuckey, of London, were home
over the week-end.
Mr. Harry Shelton, of Detroit,
was here over Sunday shaking hands
with old friend®.
Mr. Frank Bawden, of Toronto,
was a visitor ’with his brother Fred
over Sunday and Monday.
Mrs. Vincent Woods, of Santa
Barbara, Cal., is visiting with her
parents in Hensall and with friend®
here.
Help the Blind Institute
To supply all the blind residents
of Huron 'County with the bare nec
essities of life would not require a
great deal of money. But to revive
an interest in life in those who
have lost interest; to provide re
munerative employment for men and
women whose lives prior to the in
corporation o/f the Institute, were
spent in hopeless, squalid idleness;
to bring the light of happiness into
the faces of those who have never
seen the light of day; to arouse
' public opinion to the necessity of
(protecting and conserving sight; to
its class to a position in which its mem-
.... _ bers are self-respecting and publicly
“StimTated a heap,” rejoined the respected; in short to assist blind man from Utah, “we stolfles ever’ I people to “live” instead of permit-
scroople and stawrts the play. Stack ting them to exist, requires consid-
’em up, Bill. Gent allow he’s a Solo erable organization and expenditure,
■nia vpr ” Towards these desirable ends theP ' Canadian Institute of the Blind hast rlS1Jlg'4.„Spee£3iSa11.1 made note-worthy progress since its
to Maitland m an undertone, Stake. creatioTv seventeen years ago, and
me ten dollar®, Bud. J it has done so with the generous as-
'Ten dollars happened to be half sistance of private citizens and pu'b-
the boy’s cash, and the idea that (lie bodies. The Women’s Institute
and the public generally have been
unfailing in their sympathy and sup
port. Upon the occasion of the
Campaign for Funds held in Exeter
from April 29 th to May 4, the
Women’s Institute asks for your
help. The worthiness of the cause
never varies; the need to support
never diminished, but constantly in
creases. Your contribution to the
Fund will go directly to benefit
blind residents of Huron County.
asked
the boy’s cash, and the idea that)
the man called .Speed had started
north with neither outfit or money
was almost incredible. But the re
quest was made so candidly that af
ter a moment’s hestitation he took
a gold piece from his limp purse.
"With a curious pause before ac
cepting it, the Westerner asked
“You figure these shorthorns can outplay me?” j
“I was only thinking,” Maitland
said, “that gambling is a loser’s
game.”
His companion grinned. “If you
wasn’t a natural-born gadbler, Bud,
you wouldn’t be on this ship. Watch
us lose.”
The sweet singers preluded their
harmony with a considerate
ing. “Removin’ gold
gamblers is
ger. We’ll
unless you
in a bigger
“Quarter
modestly, and made a
club bid which they passed with be
coming gravity. On the completion
of the final trick, however, their at
tention became more exact.
(Continued next week)
warn-
from
stran-
point,
mines
our daily routine,
set a quarter a
feel hankerin’s for ruin
way.”
suits me,” said Speed
precarious
50 YEARS AGO
BROWN LABEL
ORANGE PEKOE - 40< x/2 lb.
VARNA
The W. M. S. of Varna United
church held their monthly meeting
at the home of Mrs. Geo. Connell,
Parr Line, on Thursday, April 18th.
The leader, Mrs. S. Key® presided.
After the usual opening exercises
prayer and singing, Mr®. Bandy, Mrs
Johnson and Miss Deilh gave mis
sionary readings. Mrs. R. Stephen
son gave an address on India. Two
delegates were appointed to attend
Presbytery on May 7 th. There was
a very large attendance and the
meeting
diction,
served a
was closed with the bene-
Mrs, Connell, the hostess,
dainty luncheon.
RECALL SLEIGHING IN
APRIL 70 YEARS AGO
Mr. John Murray Egmondville, in
discussing the weather while in this
office on Wednesday, said that sev
eral days ago a number of snakes
had been killed near the Egmondville
cemetery by some boys. He recalled
that in the year 18'67 or 68, it was
snowing at this time of year and
that the snow lasted three weeks
with good sleighing. A party of
young people went to Brucefield to
a play in sleighs. In 1894 there was
good sleighing and the men drew
logs from the bush to Brucefield and
drew lumber home again on sleighs.
—Huron Expositor
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a series of chords. “But
and down a few, Ever
. .?” and he began, af-
intake of the accordian,
......... ballad of Jack Donahue
the Highwayman. Then it drifted to
April 23, 1885
Mr. John Dempsey and family, of
Usborne, left for their home in Man
itoba near Brandon yesterday after
noon.
Miss Spackman who has lived in
Exeter for a numbei' of years, left
for Toronto Monday morning where
she will remain for some time.
Mr. James M. Ramsay was the
first to take a ride on the wheel
this season in Exeter, he having
ridden nearly a mile on hi® bicyle
over Snow and plank.
■On Monday while Mr®. Baisden
was washing, a needle which was in
one of the garments peutrated Her
wrist. Medical attention was at
once summoned and the needle ex
tracted.
On Thursday, while a lad named
Amos Young was driving a colt down
Main street, and when nearing the
bridge, the animal became unman
ageable and kicked the shafts and
dashboard off the buggy and inflict
ed several ugly wounds on the driv
er’s hands.
According to the new school law
the summer holidays begin on the
first Monday in July and extend to
the last Monday in August.
Mr. P. T. Halls, of Elimville, who
has been attending Canada Busi
ness College at Chatham for some
three months arrived home last Sa
turday and has now exchanged the
pen *..........................*for the plough handle.
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Are You Nervous and Restless?
The present generation of women and young girls
have more than their share of sickness and misery.
With some of them it is nervousness and rest
lessness, with others anaemia, weakness, faintness
and dizziness, hysteria and melancholia, and a
dozen other ailments to unlit them for work or
pleasure.
Let those women suffering from a run down state
of health take a course of Milburn’s H. & H. Bills
and see how soon they will be brought back to
normal health and strength.
Ask yout druggist or dealer about Milburn’s
II. & NT. Bills,
25 YEARS AGO
April 28, 1010
Mr. Alfred Allen, who spent the
last year In the West and has been
in London for the past three months
has returned to town and has rent*
ed Mr, W. Pugsley’s residence.
Mrs. Billings presided at the or
gan in the Trivitt Memorial Church
on Sunday and will continue to do
so in the absence of Mr, Markham,
who was seriously hurt by being
kicked by a horse last week.Miss Maud Taylor and Miss May
Foster, of London, spent Sunday at
the former’® home here.
Miss Irene Handford spent last
week at her home here returning to
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“Your hunband has -been ill,” said
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“Yes,” replied the little, worried
looking woman, “he has been feel
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but nothing seem' to satisfy him.”
“Is hi® condition critical?”
“It’s worse than critical,” she an
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FROM A STAFF OF SEVEN
TO SIX THOUSAND STRONG
From less than a corporal’s guard to the equivalent
of six regiments — this graphically illustrates the
growth of the Bank of Montreal’s staff in 117 years.
On the 23rd of August, 1817, the first four em
ployees of the Bank of Montreal were appointed.
They were the cashier, an accountant, a paying
teller and a second teller. Shortly afterward a dis
count clerk, a second bookkeeper and a porter were
added.
These seven constituted the original staff when tlfe
modest establishment on St. Paul Street in. Montreal
opened its doors on Monday, November 3rd — an
establishment which was destined to play a con
spicuous and beneficial part in the development of
Canada’s resources.
Throughout’ the many decades that have followed*
the Bank of Montreal has made increasing effort
to provide a banking service always adequate to
meet the requirements of Canada’s development.
The original staff of seven has grown to 6,300,
loyally serving the public through 500 branches
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Office closed Wednesday afternoons
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