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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1935-07-25, Page 2THURSDAY, JULY 25th, 1935 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVQCATE is “SLUMBERING GOLD” BY AUBREY $OYD one, hardened gambler Maitland, son of a seafar England family, wer< in the Yukon gold rust They met on the trip nortl •rowd that included Frenchy 'feherman, Lucky Bose, ?irl who took a i Falun, leader who resented Rose Brent. < who his Speed Mai and Ed. ing New partners of ’97 in a c the beautiful Maitland. miner est in Maitland prospector; Garnet, Maitland and Speed when he quit the trail, and Pete and his drunken partner Owens, who was drowned after a brawl. Pete turned out to he a girl in dis­ guise. Speed killed a man at Skag­ way-—-a cheap manager cf a shell game—and iinniths later was ar­ rested and put in jail for his mur­ der. He got out, but while he waited f< r Lefty, who offered to help him, to get back the mail he had been carrying for the Moun- ties at Bennett—where Drew and Cath. art were stati med—he was recaptured by his enemy Fallon. But Maitland and Pete rescued him as Fallon was about to lynch him. They made tlieir camp at Bennett —Pete and Maitland with the hordes, by one route, Speed by an­ other with the dogs, led by Rusty, who had come to them in a bliz­ zard. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY. “What did you hear, Bud?” Speed spoke low to prevent his voice from carrying to Pete, indoors. It "was be­ fore dawn of the second morning. Maitland told him. “Do you reckon we’re both hear- in’ thing®?" Speed muttered. “It lis­ tened to me more like a louder sound way off. An echo cf gunfire. Or else froze trees snapping in the thaw. Motionless, they listened again. The silence o<f the shadowed cha®m mocked t'heni. Speed stirred abruptly. “You stay here, Bud and watch with Pete. I may be gone awhile, but keep that cliff covered with the rifle. I’ll call you when I come back round it.” Speed’s reconnaisance took him over a wider range than he had ex­ pected. When he paused, down a lofty ®lope, it -was to survey a long and unobstructed the ancy to of the s inter- ild-time gave outfit tinned then to back in .close in the cliff, in silence. They had caught the alarm of the shots, but had no n eas i tion of what was about to happen. After a till wait, a voice spoke ruptly from )se at hand— “Don’t shO" your game. Along tin covered by and moceasined way, re-cog: wait, around the cliff and a husky, broken voice t,” it said weakly. “It’s I'm out of shells. cliff wall and into view Speed’s guns, a fur-clad figure groped its twisted witn agony. Maitland recognized at a glance the man who had held them up at their winter camp. He held a revolver in his right hand. The other hand clutched at his j side, and dripped blood. When he raised his head and looked at them, his eyes changed stangelv from the io.’k of a fighting animal brought to bay, to an expression of wild aston­ ishment. “Pete!” he -murmured, almost un­ der his breath. “How did you find this?” “They found year l*-ad dog on tile lakes,” said Pete. 1 here.” j al cb emptied them and threw them the chasm. ‘It’s a difference pinion that makes gambllin’,” 'Get me two lengths of ver®, into of c lie said rawhide, Bud.” The request brought Maitland out of a trance. “Don’t do it, Speed,” he said quickly. “Let the Law straight­ en this out. Investigations will clear us of what they suspect." “You’ve got delusions about the Law, Bud. I can’t aigue with you. I ain’t got no words but a low-down gambler’s lingo, and it don’t just fit with what I’m trying to show. But I’ve g .t a hunch, and I'm askin’ you now, if ever you trusted a ipardnner’s word, to take mine when I say you ain’t fixed to deal with the Law. (Later maybe—but not now.” Maitland was moved by the ap­ peal, but not in the logic. His eyes weie wet when he spoke. “We’ve leached that junction, Speed, you once talked of. God knows I’ll never have a truer partner. You know that if this charge were made against you alone, and there was no other BARGAIN EXCURSIONS AUG. 1—-From EXETER (Tickets also sold at all adjacent C.N.R, Stations) To C.N.R. STATIONS in MARITIME PROVINCES Prov. of Quebec; New Brunswick; Prince Edward Island; Nova Scotia AUG. 2 and. 3—To Ottawa $7.50; Montreal $8.60; Quebec City $11.85; Ste. Anne de Beaupre $12.45 ROUND TRIP FARES Tickets, Fares, Transit Limits and Information from Agents. Ask for Handbill. rsesA CANADIAN NATIONAL ®-------------------r------------------------—-------------—--------------e “It brought us way out than the one you say, I’d tiavel any road to help you. But Th? deepening wonder in his face J to escape by using force against the was a thing to see. “The dog!” he (police isn’t just a crime that would muttered huskily. There was a chok-|outiaw us for life ing in his throat like a chuckle- '*1 • ........... ©fp? lExetvr ©intfa-Aimorate Established 1873 and 1887 Published every Thursday morning at Exeter, Ontario SUBSCRIPTION-— $2.0:0' per year in advance RATES—Farm or Real Estate for ■sale 50c. each insertion ter first four insertions. 25c. each subse­ quent insertion. Miscellaneous ar­ ticles, To Rent, Wanted, Lost, or Found 10c, per line of six words. Reading notices 10c. per line. Card of Thanks 50c. Legal ad­ vertising 12 and 8c. per line, In Memoriam, with one verse 50c. extra verses 25ic. each. Member of The Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Professional Cards GLADMAN & STANBURY BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, Ac- Money to Loan, Investments Made Insurance Safe-deposit Vaults for use of our Clients without charge EXETER and HENSALL officers disposed of Dalton’s body in, a crude grave near the mountain hideout. At last they started, Speed cl sely guarded, gave them no cause for concern. He was meeting the law unafraid. (Continued next week) CARLING & MORLEY BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, &o LOANS, INVESTMENTS, INSURANCE Office: Carling Block, Mjain Stree4’, EXETER. ONT. The Late Dr1. Rollins ..................I it’® a needless -it I crime. We’d be giving them the became a desperate, blood chilling, I rpal case against us that they have ......- ‘ 1 ‘‘We've,U()t got. That isn’t all. We couldn’t . take Pete over that route, and I “Beat the game with can’t leave her to face this alone.” I Pete would have spoken, but caught; Speed's brooding look at iher check- 1 “r'-Qt'ed the words. “How do you figure it.?” “I dont’ know,” .said Pete unhap­ pily. “I feel that Bud’s right tho’ when he says you’d give the Law a case.” “You’re an cubs," Speed on you can’t help it, where you do. junction, can be just as damned ornery.” He pressed ba.dk the gun hammers tensely watched by the police offic­ er who had followed his argument with a fateful interest. .Speed’s eyes, however, strayed to a long .pendent spruce cone on a tree near the ledge. Without aiming, fee fired. The cone fell, clipped from the branch, and before it (reached the .snow, four quick shots had broken it to frag­ ments. The remaining shells blazed at these pieces as they spun slowly down the slope. The outlaw waited, listening, till th? last echo, died out o.f the canyon. Slowly then, he looked at the guns, and rubbed a spot clean blue, ban-els. smoking when he the police officer, “Well, go ahead and 'read your warrant about our upposed shoot­ ing of this man,’ said Speed, indicat­ ing Dalton’s body. “We have a warrant for your ar­ rest,” said the mounty, “but not for killing that man. Since you’re sur­ rendered, I want you to understand that we don’t railroad men, or even arrest them, or merely presumptive charges. We 'had a brush with the man here—” nodding toward Dalton “down the creek. It’s more than possible he was wounded by one of out guns. The inquest will show. My warrant is to arrest you and your partner fpr 'the murder of a 'Siwash on Lake Lebarge, on or about the twentieth of last November. The native’s body was disposed of thro’ a hole in the ice, and has been re­ covered since the thaw.” Speed’s eyes sought those of his .partner and Pete, who. looked dumb­ founded. “Your own warrant?” he demand­ ed. “Mine would be sufficient. This one happens to be signed by Cath­ cart of the Mounty Police. ’ “Well, mumbled a note of At the the jackpine gulch swung their at­ tention to that quarter. In these echoing surprises they had complete­ ly forgotten Rusty. Now a slinking wolfish head nosed .round the cliff and cowered back at sight of the fallen body. From behind the cliff, the strident, excited, 'harshly familiar voice of Corporal Cathcart twanged like an untuned banzo; ‘’Get this malamute, Burke. It’s the “v that gave us the blood trail. Siwasih’s lead dog!” It did not take the Mounties to get things in shape for the down to* headquarters. Pete was dele­ gated to serve breakfast while the MINISTER IND COTE 0 Rev. Wallace MacClean, Toronto, was inducted into the (pastorate of Ailsa Craig Presbyterian church on Thursday evening. Representative ministers cf London Presbytery were present. Rev. Mr. Wright preached1 the induction sermon. Rev. Mr. Wal-j den, Glencoe, addressed the minister­ elect, and Rev. Mr. Waldie Walkers’ the congregation. Rev. Donald Mac­ kay, St. George’s, London, presided. mortally exhautsed laugh, won now, kid!" he chortled in a hard elation. —a ram—Siwash! ’’ When they would have ( him, he waved them off again. “Get this—Pete," he mumbled thickly “Something else —I’ve got to tell you, kid. And >1 will. But—give jme time—.but first —get this. The I gold is—” He lost his voice and [ found it by sheer force of will—“I i saw it—just now. Two men—in the—gulch. In bright snoiw—” His voice ebbed from him. His discolored and racked face turned gray with a deathly pallor of weakness and stu­ pefaction at the failure of his tongue ! and his brain to answer his will. “The gold—•!’’ With an astonished, agonized curse at his defeat, he slumped, held rigid an instant against the wall, and then with a slow, lurching slide, sank down. Speed, who had taken a step to break his fall, caugiht him and lean­ ed over the still body. I “He told the truth about his last 'shell,” Speed mused aloud. “He I was tryin’ to reach the cabin and his J shells for a last stand. But he saw ;.o as not to betiay. Glir ,mar]iS jn guich. Who did he lt‘k movement, lie f.binij j was at .first? And where \ The advantage °t(did lie get that wound?” avor, since he look-; “The two men in the gulch 1 tri,m above. I spoke ” said Maitland. “It’s what I was wonderin’. I , too. About four miles ornery young pair of muttered . . . “Reck- eomin’ from Now it’s the same turned backwards, and I Dr. G. F. Roulston, L.D.S.,D.D.S. DENTIST Office: Carling Block EXETER, ONT. Closed Wednesday Afternoons halfway „__=, ___ __________ view of white headlands, shining in the dawn In the center cf < ne of the ravines, about two miles away, a air icf dark moving specks came into view. They were men: one of them carried what might be a- rifle. Very himself sank view ed d( Th as anythi of Fallon his mind glance ■•>f them. He lay along the base of a boulder [ they’ll raising his head just high enough to'- bring the figures into view. Ho fired the gun once, at random in their di­ rection, and immediately covered it to prevent even a wisp >of smoke from showing. They kept moving for an interval before the sound reached their ears. They stopped, as he had expected.1 But instead of looking- up in the gen-’ eral direction, they turned to stare the other way. Yet, in spite of the advantage this £ 2™I” Atorm the” MountedYollS. Work on the Lion®'Club swimming pool, Seaforth, is well under way. A gang of men have been working for j more than a week cleaning out the -lime and silt that accumulates on the bottom. A cement bottom is go­ ing to be <put in. The swimming pool was constructed in 1925. After the' cement bottom is put in the cleaning will be simplified and the pool will j be better in every way. The pool is1 about 7 feet deep at the deep part! and about 2a feet at the shallow end. Prominent Physician and former Reeve JOHN WARD CHIROPRACTIC, OSTEOPATHY, ELECTRO-THERAPY & ULTRA­ VIOLET TREATMENTS PHONE 70 MAIN ST. ' EXETER in Wli slowly by the s in . on n 1: i qui snow his ft them far to be recognized j Ill< nn at * t a. but ad .* >n, but the image "too chow leaped intoif,()m’ bpre< the fust diml'rni ....................| trail. he from one of the They were still handed them to saw off, He must have dodged But they’ll pick up his blood In half an hour from now, i Here Speed unaccountably •’ broke off short, spun about with a gun drawn, and in a flash had leaped round the narrow clil'if ledge out of Maitland’s sight. i “Hands up!” he shouted, “or I I blast you into the canyon. Throw 'that gun down!” i A man with his arms raised came around the cliff ledge by which Dal­ ton had approached so short a time before. Maitland was too confound­ ed to utter a sound, He wore the gue and nameless instinct made him sink back out of sight between the boulder and snow trough. This wary sense did not leave him; but after e } lying hidden some thirty seconds, he looked over the rim again. Strange to say, the two ifigures had vanished.Slowly he rose into clear view by g^^B' Tihe’re are no braver men than Canadian Northwest .Mounted, y are neither immortal nor perious to the menace of two .45 shooters Speed ster and the but inn- six- at blank1 range, emptied the mounty’s hol- kicked the gun behind him Rev. Father John Francis McCon­ nell celebrated his first solemn high mass in St. Patrick’® church, Dublin, his home parish, on Sunday morning last. Though ordained to the holy priesthood in 1931, Father McCon­ nell returned only last week from Palestine. Mr. Joseph O’Rourke, cf St. Peter’s Seminary, London was present in the sanctuary, and assist­ ing at the mass where the members of the congregation and member® of the family cf the young priest. These included his sister, Sister St. David and his two cousins, Sister St. Alfred and Sister Marion of the Ursuline community, Chatham. iShaemaker—“Here are the shoes for your new Polar expedition. Were you satisfied with the boots I made for the last trip?” Explorer—“Quite. They were the best boots I ever ate on a Polar Ex­ pedition.”RENDEZVOUS ARTHUR WEBER LICENSED AUCTIONEER For Huron and Middlesex FARM SALES A SPECIALTY PRICES REASONABLE SATISFACTION GUARANTEED Phone 57-13 Dashwood R. R- No. 1, DASHWOOD FRANK TAYLOR LICENSED AUCTIONEER • For Huron and Middlesex FARM SALES A SPECIALTY Prices Reasonable and Satisfaction Guaranteed EXETER P. O. or RING 138 the boulder, to tempt them to declare themselves with a bullet. The shot that did come was r~ utter and confounding surprise. The roar of it burst in his ears from di­ rectly behind him! He dropped back instantly into his sihelter. The bul­ let had flattened against the inner side of the boulder right next to. his arm, in the same flasih of time as the gun’s roar. This marksman was not 'more than a hundred yards away Nothing showed behind him, either. He -waited for a gun imuzzle to show for some tremor, however slight, in the snow above. Why didn’t he shoot? His ear, -close to. the snow, detected the crunch of running feet, receding from him. He jumped up- and ran to the near­ by point from which the shot had seemed to come. There he found a hollow in the snow where the snip­ er had lain concealed, and the marks of his feet leading up from below to this depression, and running away from it. The fugitive was headed fa the cabin and had leift a moccasin track! There was a spreading dark pink stain and edges brought him to the head of the jackpine gulch, and the absence cf a blood trace in it assur­ ed him that he had arrived in time, Maitland stood waiting with the car­ bine and with Pete close- by. He mo- only makes it worse for ‘I demand “This you,” said the officer. “I LmaL t'hat you and your partner surrender to arrest.’’ Here was just one vicious turn of fate that Speed had feared, with an extra twist to make it worse. After evading tihe susjpicion of Cathbert, who had mistaken Dalton for a Si- wash, were they now, by a climax of irony, to be .charged with the mur­ der .of Dalton ihimeelf? “This looks compromisin', I’ll con- cere,”’ he cried. “But you boys is on the wrong track. While you’re stalkin’ us, the 'real game is likely beatin’ to cover. There’s two more men in these mountains, and they’re worth trailin’. “Where did you see them?’’ the officer asked, without belief. Speed pointed his gun. “Four miles that way.” “You saw me and an officer who trailed with me, perhaps, though we didnt’ come from that direction. You’ve got your distance and bear­ ings ting drop you. our guns and have lant, you’ll be hunted down to a finish.” Speed picked up the police revol- ft I’m a son of a—!” Speed to the hollow chasm with doom. same moment, a clatter of • The Canadian National L Exhibition is designed to at- A tract every member of every S family... Rudy Vallee and his A Connecticut Yankees...Band of His Majesty’s Irish Guards F from Britain ... Grandstand Spectacle, the most gorgeous extravaganza in the realm of pageantry... Agriculture in all its varied ramifications ... attractive arrangements of modern merchandise ... sport competitions for world championships ... new mile- long midway ... glittering iri­ descent pyrotechnics. Your Exhibition is everybody’s rendezvous. Colonel F. H. Deacon President __ 5561A Elwood A. Hughes General Manager EXHIBITION TORONTO AUG. 93 to SEPT. 7, 1935 long trip The Late E(l. Cln’istie Liverymap and Postmaster twisted, us on a it. 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