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11 I I MORS �! . — . for lie instantly felt that his act ,had primary difficulty. :
,, been premature. His weakneos in Yielding But now that it had been once moved,
. C RL A THRILLING STORY Or' OHINESE. TREACRERY, . I ,.vrie pswikt to him, The paper must ,;lot all was well; and Norris was about to
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1-17- � - - - - I leave his ]land; it must be destroyed. stretch forth his own hand thinking
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. 2545OT: to , 11 " . Norris had scarcely so large a, cash aniouni, Butthe Chinaman, perhaps irritated at the paper unightlietiow. within hisutmost
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,� . cures consumption, coughs, CrOuP, Sore Ili the hands. of ]its balikers. , To obtain it* tM, detention of the paperi or it may bei reach when the lips, within a few inches of �
Torris I lie would require to ins4ract the di Sal of perceiving in'uitively the impulse which his own, emitted a long -drawn Sigh.
ts' foul design of inental tortnre, N I some securities. How cov lictu"t, ath upon his cheek, and
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Tilv�nt. Cold Uy Pil Druggists ona Gwanntae. Some tell clays after the infliction of the I 1111.0 this He felt tha,bre,
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I ae Side, Back, or Chest Shiloh's Porous Pries the H ,riglishmain, instantly released
Platter Nyill give great satiSfnCti0A.-25 COntO. lay half reclining, one morning the front the Temple of Coaf uoitis, where every his hold-, and before Norrisi whose hand Shuddered terribly, for he had believed tile
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7 . p b*nIont would be Scrutinized most had been laid flat upon the p�,par as it lay man to be dead - ,whereas, by the working
I E 41 roun( , watching sadly, as was is one ow ..*kA ly, 0, is pe
I . . "i 8, . attauclogR. onn."r. 9 for the passing of an. owasional swallow clos 11 destroyed if to the Chinese Upon the groLincl, could secure theaheet or of tile arm, he 'had himself but, tended to
� �k � .j ,a -, �', . X across the court opening f coin the temple in min there"was the slightest trace of aught indeed make an attempt to do this, so rapid. aid the return to consciougness, for his ef-
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i er ,'I which be was chained, and dwell with ly did the Chinaman decide, a severe blow forts had lied something of the effect,
. . ". vixin conjecture and with a feeliaginh itter. What, then, was lie to do ? thoug in small degree,
"I tro, I .... ner I b The Upon the bead knocked him over upon his h a of that of the
V . ness U fate of tile inessages which lie former demand he might have 'net- side; for the Chinaman, using both hands, exercise used to recall a man to life when
MWI i ick him heavily, in
, S I TARRH had Pon "" lie could not—, that is to, say, had irratiodiatoly strt ,a
11LOH7 ,. ,CA , giventItOnthe .air so uselessly mentlisl This I breath. had boo. ouspended by partial
and Mont . In order to secure the sheet. '
I go. without the abiI4 to write instructions ' drowning.
.". � . � Th. bird, had returned with the return the full. Bitterness filled him. If, indeed,
S man E M E Dy. But the blow fortunately had not struck . He xooked Upon the priest's face, becom-
a,v als ofs -abb, and had kliown Norris on the temple, and alth 11 by its -tho first time that it was close
a- QU pring, and had begun to build theirnests, the Chitiaman spoke ty. ing aware foi
Positi I re'eve Ural YOU. ric' 50 ets. and now and then one would flit across the that, his previous note was fqlse, then it severity he was separated fromo'11�11` written to his, and with horror he realized that bib
Th actor I:o i a cc sfx ran entle court, swooping low, it might be, and rising was now likely, granting that lie signed paper, lie recovered himself as tile Obina. foe was not dead,or rather it appeared to
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arme Sol P tee to give I action. again to reach its nest in the temple-eave. with his own liatile, and gave the increased man lifted his sheet, With s terrible and him that the Chinaman had been dead, and
� And as each passed, Norris looked keen- sum demanded '. that his previous deceit despairing effort, he halt rose and threw was now restored to life.
, LE GAL., IV a,t it, trying vainly to see if the birds would still be hold as reason to keep him a himself after the man, forgetful of the chain The discovery seemed to suspend the
_===_.______-._____.__ which carried his messages had returned to Captive, at, the very least- for months, until around his ankle, beatin f his heart.
the temple, and, strailgety, almost half tile money was truly aid. And when it There was a wrench upon his ankle, caus- It Ima"been horrible to use the dead limbs
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H - DIOKSO.NL, Barrister, 130li- hoping that they had done so, for, in hilt waspalil, WhIlt then? % long a tiate Would , ate agony ; but Norris was as a wild for'tlle attainment of his object , it was
L * ottor of Supreme Court, Notsys loneliness &great love filledhim for the birds, h the Chinaman. would in
Public, Couve "' that and did not feel the dull foree of the more horrible still to Use the living arm to
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r yanoer. oommis4lotter. ft for they who.earried the tale of his misery promise ; and, indeed-, complete his task.
Alonev to ,o.n. . - 'ap h - Pam, for, as the Chinainall, was just moving
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p OffiCstu alicsoloclaBlook, Exeter, seemed to have something in common with ' fergott-1 i
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"R. a fear , hat when the true order ankle held on—w4h iron force,
. - him. at.,,, of th and felt a foot and hold o he
11e knew them to he the only pure and bodina and t looked upon as done, namely, the killing oi
beautiful things possessing the searet of his had been paid, and the news that the, But a few seconds had been occupied by the priest; but his English honor, rebelled
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� Burister, Solicitor, Colve7eacer, Etc, imprisclument.-a secret, lie thought, belong. money bad been secured mine back to the whole oGourrance ; the Chinaman had tit the thought, and he conld not,
I . hXETRU, - ONT. Ing only to the priesthood and to an enemy Pekin, this would only incite his captors to knocked hini to the ground, had seized the Little tiaie was given to him for thought,
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I OFF10H .- Over O'NeiPs Bank. b"Vond, and to the swallows. for he did not cruelty and to all, unending system. of prom, paper, and at the last noment had himself for at this juncture he peraoived through
it..,, ,of ,Due, thousands of villes distant ises never to be fulfilled, by which they been seized. The priest felt. that he was the open door two other priests croaBingthe
LLIOT & ELLIOT, front him, ]Ind ),at started for Pekin, or a alike Ilia fortune slowly yet none the losasarely, being drawn courtyard and up roaching him ; and strug.
E that his message by the swallow's, wing was ' back with the energy which despair gave to gling to still bib lears he unce more seized
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P&rriSter3, SoHoitorS, NotarieS public, already in another band. bt. '." rapidly in succes- Norris into the Engli�hmau'a clutch. the priest's arm and stretched it forth till
It was now that the visitor came. He all� ,is ""�e;lg iews f= whi011 it Norris and he were alone ; and he, al. the haud rested Againupon the linpor—a
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Conveyancers &e,, &C. waa a tall man, somewhat slight of build "., iPn--',ea',t1dai1ffiXM,u1'tyfm� the Englishman to th,,gh Norris did not know it, was one of second time lie did this, and it wai,within
for the Northern Chinese, a race which has choose which was true. those few priests whose vows bind them to his grasp—but tile Chinaman was already
M'AfoueY to Loan at Lowest Betas of gained from theTartar much of its strength- Shan-min-yucin waited for big answer, everlasting silence. moving Ili lli%lolasp, and the two others,
Interest. * his face was a cruel one; his eyes keen. 0 ' whilat Norris, with a dogged, sullen look . 11,110 ha� new
I OFMOD, - MAIN - STREET, EXE TEX Norris guessed instinctively that this upon life. face, reviewed the situation, This was the reason that he Inade no cry, t le. y come, stood within tho
S. V. MLL10T. "N'Vell," said the Chinaman at last, 41you 110 had been silent for fourteen years and amp
FRPDFRI(IR 1r,LLIOT. must be the man who, as Me enemy, had I now, facing peril, no sound issiled fro�ll his He clutched the paper wildly in his hand
--------! t'� kept him confined under the priests' con- Understand?" . priestly lips. and tore it into shre4s.
D E, N F&—1 E_ — trol. . 11 I understand," came the slow answer He dropped the pap The priests were upon him instantly. To
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]DR. 0. H. INGRAM, DENTIS'J!, one ofhigh rank, since his garb waa of the "late f reedoun." and. turned, banding his body double, as lie Ell
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nenor o L.Dwings. richest suk, and embroidered with the Ir P. Norris's band ; but the mere action brought hood,whom, he had Id in his arms %a Tway - ___.,_ ,
a er Of the Royal College of Deutal dragon, which he knew only those of high wave of hope succeeded to his despair. I .
'lulatious. eeth lusierted with orwithout degree bad the right to wear. A I You will take me from here, and then I "' further within the Englishman's reach, reached the Temple 'Hall. - - .
1410,in loi and before lie coull succeed in hisdesign But neither they nor their fellows ever
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u fortbe 1,41PIOSS or,traotion of toeth. Several of the priests Accompanied the will P06Y a true note-" Sollentific American
Fine Gold Filling% a,q Required. mandarin. Tile mandarin regarded him with a another band was fastened upon him, and know the true meaning. of the EnglishmaWs
I then a terrible struggle commenced, not, strangling at one moment, so they .. i Agenoy for
I Office overtliallost offiee. Norris, by an offiert, conquered tha,t feel. smile. I If Norris; At the end of Ilia chain, with tha tboul a member of their priesthood, the .1-1 - .
_. , . - � ing of fear which the near approach of the 11 You Pay here," was his answer. " into many 7'�� % 1. -,
L ____1_.1__--__ � - C-- — Chinese priests caused him, and sought in. You, pay true, you are free." iron ring tearing at ilia foot, fought like one next wildy tearing a. paper - -;.,. . - 11 P, " � If
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So it was as Norris had anticipated. His possessed, whilst the priest,although a . . . . . . �I !".1-y-,
__ - wardly to collect strength. for payment be- ,much older mail, had still the remnants of a = '4'as upon him, for the priest -was a 1.11 , K. �, I I,' �N ,
__.__�_ I =:Z=_=1Z===___ The mandarin approached and stood ove, order must go to England silent man, and could not tell them in the I'll
JW. BROW NIN G M. D. � U. 0 him, looking down upon him,with a smear. fore he should be set frea. Tile tramiaction. former strength; and they rolled over to- days to come of a struggle whose origin and � " *. �
* P. 8, Graduate Victoria Univevs, ty-. iug and cruel glance. must be completed before freedom could be gather in a struggle of life and death, with.
10MCS f-11417aJ114161100, 00111: cause lie and Norris al�ne had know'13. - CAV_rATGr,
��B=eter. nion Labe % "You pay !" lie said slowly ; for he spoke hopedfor, The momentary bope was gone. in the confines of the chain. But although to appearance Xorris had vi TRADE r-fiARKS,
____� his English with difficulty, and yet differ, 11 I will pay a. true note whom I am free," It may be that the ,wrenching pain upon failed in his design and had esoaped by a Y __ DF-SION PATESATS,
DR. RYNDMAN, coroner for tas ently from the mode of speech followed lie answered , 11 not now." ilia ankle gave Norris more than mortal COPYRICHTS, atca
I County of Ruron. CMOs, opp'site his follows, and of laconic and stiltbY " You pay now ill said the mandarin in a strength, for be slowly forced the other hair's -breath from the murder of 4 second For Information and free 114'adbook writato,
ad D, lie was yet from this time forth a IduNt? 6: CO., W1 33140AIMAT, 14EIV YOM .
I Carling Bros. otore,Zxoter, commanding tone. "You receive no ohoice; back ; and although the Chinaman strove Oldest bureau for oecurhig Patents In Auction.
__ measure on that accoant,— I MY now," Avith his teeth to grip Norris by the neck,be KrIn'19serons mart, and as such one to be 31very patent taken eat by its is brought bypro
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R - ,T. A. ROLLINS, M. C. 2, S 1, " X'ou pay this note I"—he held in his yet' , watched constantly, to the temple priests. the Public by s n0ticD 61yeafrOO Of chat t
. Ind the false order -which lie had retsined .9 . Tito result of Shaa-min-yaon's visit 41�' * * 00
D 0. omea, main Irefuse," was the firm reply. 1IIpaV was kept back and I gradually forced aw3y
St. Exeter, Out, ft r, not before." from his enemy, -.vl o still held him till at
R66idt!lnoe, holifia recently occupied, by P. till now, -land a letter which had evidently a 'a WAS not at once brought forcibly before tile gX"Widtfif 211wfiau
oP1ulIIpR,Q4q. accompanied it. ,,Read ,,, he continued; Shan-minquen lookel at him. They last his hand was Upon the priest's throat, . Sonar after this event, and, though hour 0
, — Tile priest still struggled, and fought Prl Lar
andashes.olize, holiontalightly forward. were a strange contrast, the two . Norris wit, L S th, ,nisteirculationoto scientiflaii4parluthe
�r .1 succeeded hour in it monotony of fear ,ord. Splendidlilliuls'Trattid. No , ill 111gent
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'he letter from with his halt-sbaven bond and ilia gray hairs AIR to him, the priests made no immediate man ould be liv W0114 It. Nyeok!jj�,�, .0() .
I D R. T. P. TVICLAUGHLIN, ME, ,U. Norris halt rose, and, took j wildly - but the band-clenolit . s I .11
ber of the college of Physician,, and fromwhioli there was no escaping, whilat vear,113.50six months. Addross,�,J I & 04
Burgeons , his hand. The Chinaman watched him and with the drawnlook upon his face, move succeeding the rescue, as they deem. vunLjSjEjfis, sol Brogaly I .
, Ontario. physician. Surgeon aul to the Chinaman the toath had mure Silent UL
Acconehatir. officeXASIlivooD u,.q,r. coldly as he read, which he did slowly, fAcin ?inly as lie stood before h1m;L power I
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_____ ,%his foe fit than the hands. ad it., of their balf-throitled an
WA, TI-10�4SON,, M. D., C. perhaps with the 'wish to frame some plan the C inamian, tall andriohly dressad, look. So his )lead was held back for 0. brother. C 1
4 N., Momberof College of physicla,ul of denial and thus to gain time. ing callously, with a hard light in his oyes, I Farther than a, minute surveillance upon a , - "
an,.t surgbons, Ontario. Tile document which he held in his hand upon the prisoner whom he had determined few seconds till his face became dark, and I
to subdue. Ilia grasp lessened ; and Norris know he had Ilia every act -added to his own fears, he . I P -
Orricv: HODGIN,S' BLOOK, HU was a short note, dated lorif previous, It was not immediately subjected to the tor- I .
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� _____!!!!M No" was in English, but not the )a Shan-min.yuen spoke to the priests. One nothing now to fear, and. he Iiiintielf sank
_W __ st of English, ofthose depicted, anda, momentorltwo exhausitia and wcinndod by the side of his tures which lie still anticipated must surely � � E .
- EMS. _�__ or or; from later returued,with paper and Chinese in � I 1 , a R
AU&RO and written evidently by a f . k foe. ,1 come. - .01nQ 0
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==l== which fact it was evidetri, that t slid pan. . . as indeed fortunate for Norris that It may be that the threat was allowed to S n�� it
LEIARDY, LICE NSE D AUC- recipient was not a master of tongues, or These lip placo'd upon tile floor within' his grip upon blie priestly throat relaxed at eat, its wity into his heart before the no- — � 1. --
,,, tioncer for tile County of 11aron, ran .* aptive, and then Shan priests and the man who ruled them, as it Aa� _TnE . , I .
Charges -mill. the moment it had done no, for lie had
the letter had not been in English—thas it reach *1 the 0 Iconic coniplishment,was undertaken, or that tile
moderate. Exaterp, o. within an ace of a second murder, aild a — '
in City Impe. yumi again addressed him: . 11L X�OfItEA
"' _yben, jn� the b power, %ere A ,
--- 102,;- `�, "English fooll you write true note second desecration of the temple wherein seemed, with intiontroverti Is 0 1 Atli C dd 'VE, R
General Li. - -
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censed Auctioneer Sales condu check I am sending As it was, the Chinaman still lived tion of him whose obstinacy was thus to be Are and Tutonloncent I` ttrio I , <P
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int, Parts. Satisfactionquarailteed, oiturges you returned; S -write.11 I CO.
inod for it is no good. though he had stood on the very threshold overcome. LI thist, Mottle NotorA
Grate, Hensall 1, 0. out. I " . " It is returned from the English Norris scarcely knew what was meant, so -was terrible in the extreme, .CONT sud Q.ncratom RSOF I ........... :_ .
. . -4_ When �uu write true," continued the Of death, The suspen RACTORS A BUILDE ows n A,
bank, and I am,waiting toknow howI must is w and ELECTRIC LINT,Alln
TTE IT.Ry EIT,.PQ;R Licansea Ana. mandarin, I com;s min. you write soon, Thus the two men lay —Norris panting though the only trace of the intervie 9
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Say it has been an. Tile bank is no more r1th a Sneering �d
, -the Counties of ffurou knowing him ; there is no such name the pain which be still endured,—and. the presence of the guard now constantly with Throughout the Dominion., * -
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and All,ifilod I � S$1 as 0oliductild at moll foi; you -write soon." glance alike with the exertion of the straggle and of Sfian-inin-ytien's threat am ined
, � as he turned away, and Norris knew that he 84 to 70 Wellington St. , Md or am N.
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erste,IL�eebq. Ordoo,at rost.offloa, area you see noted there. i am paying all small priest, Unconscious as yet, by his side. Norris, day and night, -
f��- ;"n*. I charge, an had gone,
- --=--= �___.==__ 11 I 11.11 . i my friends ask explanations.. "R As he lay, it flashed across Norris that be Soniefew days passed away ere Norris be.
" 1� , — Dfil things can makri you write," had not secured the paper after all, for it gan to notice a peculiar taste in his food PETERMAN'S ROACH FOOD
so please inform bow I Shall act, for the What evil things? Was it further torture—
VETERINARY. amounD is great. Prom whom tire you ob, further application of the molten lead? His lay before him at a little distance upon the furnished to him, .
__- �_ I taining this note? Advise me that I way as. ground. For a little lie looked upon this as a dolu.
course. brain reeled at the thought. NOT A >� PUSON
I Tenn & Tennent ii,t to obtain re I ain writing you His faculLies seem -ad to grip together, as sion, for it was impossible,it Seemed to Jilin, ,_
EXETEXt. ONT. moreverystion, but row send the note Yosthisman hadpower over him, and thotwh his every Sense crushed into a nar. that his water should earrythe ammeinshin. FATAL 70 COCKROACHES AND WATER .BUGS,
only in haste, that You may lose no might command him as lie shou"41 se. Z .
plea row space a single selling desire. sting flavor to his lips as did the food be 'Writa-aiilfmobl-.ei)tbryour'DmWgt� weArinovorilrTy
time ; and other things milst stand some Tortures! lie could not bear them now, T hi paper was beyond his reach I ate; but gradually be came to understutid 3)OL-a—hen lt'�zrovo4%fwltzraifl)vol)erlyappHod-
any$. his constitution ,was ruined by what bad . —_
A Yours truly, been. Ht: could not bear the repetition of that it %ras no fancy Upon his part, but tlia,t EWING, HERRON & Co., TRICH HERCRINTS, I
_� —"'—',-.— it L. '13011TSM Is the hideous days gone by: what washato CHAPTER. XVIII. for some reason th� priests, had determined
do? that everything given to him, -wht,ther to $010 Mrs., 679 & 581 St6 Paul Street, XOTAMEAL.
mrio Veterinary Col As Norris read these lines a sickening Shan-min-yuen ! who was be, that the SoIarropr1ctor0fthoLI0\bm.,od
Graijuatesofthe Oil' The situation to Norris, in the overstrung eat or to drink, should be tainted with the
Jere. condition of his nerves, was horrible in the same flavor ; and when he knew it, his soul of ston,jr, .&It Ug ods ba,ulnj thl�
()FI'Xcrl - One 6061"Ronth OfTowu JI&II. feeling overcame him. priests obeyed him; and how came it, that extreme. It was a little thing indeed that turned sick, for tile constaut presence of a tradffmarkatvpur�e. G. P, BROWNE
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I __ ____ A European, then, was blind and glove it was lie who now commanded gorris to the paper which lie had written and single taste ever on his palate must be per- Pon% ton Bnonli, *1111 ltun"311- v7710LESAL'a
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= with this Chinaman, and was siding him pay the suin ? Had it been then by the signed for his captors should have been ' ,
UONE Y To LOAX. calved in time, and fill him with nausea -, do. Sit niAhr,.!taa_UrZi,9=.-- 411 I
and abetting him in his system of extor- mandarin's orders that Le bad first been take, from him, and Should now be beyond 111%, CLAnUT,L1aa])raud,.,A�,
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. tion. One of his owl' feltown—for Norris captured? Nay, surely not; for it had hisreach. But iti-Ausb beremetilberatitbat pleasure in eating (cc Norris especially was BuX,,Dy. Lion Blnwd,'Fj;� 22 6 P I R 8 T ,
. )11O1NE-X TO LOAN AT 6 AND never looked upon the Chinese as his been but by a chance that, lie had vitdLel he had been driven bv weakness to write it, it so at this time) yet the th6ught that do Vie. MERCHANT.,
ived Agorat
. percent, 8235.000 Private Funds. Best fellowa—was plotting against him. He the temple upon the day since when all his having. before him viiions of self-conce every drop of water or mouthful of food erguson &,sons,onasion-i no%%uct&3)Wamain..Ta==nn� .
Loam- W, for JoIn Rohorixon & Sets scotch whislox-, James ,�
119 Comp'Llitiagrepreseatea. then could he escape his doom? For a misery had accrued. and hideous tortures, and that the revulsion niust for ever bear with it a feeling of dis- COSM0,1rance. CIfAUIIAG',�P.iYiudullrincotg,'r=d,E�o
L. R DICESON second check would come back like the But who, then, was Shan-minquen '! He of feeling had been heightened till the little
Barrister, r"Xeter. . gust is one fraught-, indeed, is it not, with 4fG St. Paul Street, Ifflantreal.
- - - __ , first; only the Eir:opean might ascertain, que3tioned in vain. thing grew into i0great thing by the terrible horror beyond words? - �
SURVE YING. without presenting it, that the false name This, however, was clear, that who2oever nature of the lifo-aud-death struggle With -_
- . .� had no account at the bEInk. he was, lie held the power, and that that the silent priest. And more than this, there was, or at least clwly 3TH 0 W ]a Id
FtED W. FARNOORB, The mere idea that it -was a European power he meant to ase to enrich himself, That his.strongth, c,Llled Upon alike by Norris fancied that there was, some hidden
whowas the moving spirit of his imprison. not by the death of his captive, but by ]its the emervency of tile moment and by the I't"IsIn for the conr�e now pursued. J. W-. Lewls, - Proprietov
. Provincial Wd Surveyor ind Civil En- ment and his misery crushed him, and then tortured life, and by the papers the wratch' wrenching pain upon his foot, should have Why should this flavor be present al. ji Tur, cmm OF Tim tusuEss r1itT or T11H clTy
l (3-XZrMM;Xt,MM0., anger welled. up within him in % futile re. ad imi.n. would thus be forced to sign. sustained him only that lie Should be con. WaYs; and for what cause was it ImParted
Office. 77astairs-Samweil's Block. liixntor.oa� b0ion against his fate. ON NOTRN. DdX STREMT ,
, I For ]low could Norris stand against quered by adversity in the end, was bitter to every avticle of food? Wbatwasit? A CONVERE5T TO It, R. DEPOTS AAD STrA3111OAT 8iliSGS
- - - He rose to his feet, and crushing the note Chinese torture ? The yielding -time must , indeed and it is little wonder that his every son of slow yet sure result? and, if so,
INSURANCE. in his hand, threw it from him, and stood come : was it not 'better, be asked himself " Pot the him Electric cars Pass the I)oor.
I . concentrated in the intensitV of the ,,limb would be offoob upon
,, - ---,---.- facing tile tall Chinaman, whose brow bitterly, that it should be now -now before i,1E'-,11r9.T`to reach by any means possible the ,who ate? As yet lie was well ; but the EVERY WADDEEX :EKPROVEMENT
r"HE WATERLOO MUT fi_j; darkened ominously at the act. his life was further sapped ; now before his paper upon the ground before him, ere all. mere diseovery of the' constant presence FAMES: - S1.50, to 82.03. �
L FIRE INSUnANCECO, One of the priests picked up the crumpled brain beciame again 9, hall ; now before the other should enter the temple, mud take it of the Unknown something in flis food - -_ "I'll, . .
. .Established in ts63. letter, whilst Norris, carried amay by his lead should drop agadn ? before his eyes. I caused him To conjecture vaguely as to the hJ0J,tTUAL- ,g ,-. 'TRADE 0,
feelings, mud standing at full Ieng0l of tile To Norris there was nothing more hideous So excited was his mind that, result, and from this lie coul- rA
HEAD OFFICE - WATERL,001 ONT. some milk. . . AM R� A:$,�, 4,
� Chain around his ankle, burst out vehement. than the lead. He looked forward to sut- utes passed, ere he hit upon a very simple =10 Imagmewild things, and gratin - - ill
This Company has been over Tiventr-eiir -�,-_ ,�i COLIN ,*-- 9
. 11 lyin a torrent of words, half curse'and half fering this again because his head had been expedient which might yet bring the ally to be filleX with beliefs wl) ich preyed -_ = A� -
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years in suceessful operition in Western paper WALh M co 0 a
Ontario. and continues to insure agi,inst loss or defiance, whilsb the Chinaman addressed iialf shaved, and lie saw the awful moments within his roach. upon him constandy so that he scarcely - LU :Z- 0
damaxe by Flre.� Building,q, Merchmildise stoodatalittle distaincey listening withs d near himnow that Shan-min-yuen dared to eat his food, or to toatill the hide- E:5,d -A ra'ARTHUR 2 0
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'I a ra ng Lying at the full lengbh of his chain, he ously tas . . fl� . --I "
in ted water, though he craved alike
Al nufatiterles and all other descriptioas of cold smile. li.d'v.i.me mud gone. was still about P. yard short of the ne Y FRFER '�' 2 V
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surable property. Intending insurers bar cessar CA -,,- & cc.
the option of insuring on the Premi=.NTote or His voice sounded strangely to his own Filled with �gonized thot�ght, lie gave distance; but he recollected now that the food and drink. % ea
I CashSystem. I ear ; for he had not spoken for so long"I vent to his despair in sobs of agony, weep- insensible frame of the priest whon-L he be. When lie did eat, he faced, in addition to 4eo 0 M
1but P.
During the &8t ten years this dompany lias he had half forgotten how to mo . . a terrible sick,ne,ks of soul, FACTORY, 15 7-- ZTTBS�� .
Ile , -Wilod57,096 Policies, covering oro to ing as a woman might weep, tears which lieved to be daid was beside him, and that the nausea. a mor
orty to the its tones. . .
aniount of $40,G2 038-, I and paid Mosses alone coming like drops of blood from his heart' the priest's arm might accomplish what his believing Chat every hour lie approached. - - I
� ST0,74.17.00. The mandarin merely waited till the pas. yet eased him. could not. . some fearful end ; and whether this might USS FACTORY - , -
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� As.sets. 6116,100.00j consisting of Caih sion had spentitself. Re was alone, and it was ,weil. His Taking field of his I ate enemy's arm, lie be reached through bodily pain or by sdme Est. i.,,56. y. oRoss, Prop, . I I �
I sed Promiam Notes on hand and in force � dragged the priest's body forward, and I
in Bank (I lovernment Depositand the unasses- Then he spoke : " You are prisoner � broken spirit prompted him to yield : he moisonous influence upon big itind he could ApRlinucesfbe all Mudsofr-hy- , -
3-W-1VAT,iml,711-D.. President; () ZT,Lyr,oa Words are nothing. '5�ou deceive ; then could not face what was to come. thus lying upon his face be stretched out not bell- sicat Deformities, Grols' S. , I
I 's, fniPeetor - CIIAS evil things come. This w&a but another of the subtle inven- Improved Pat. Artificlal 11mb
Secrotliry ; ,T, P5- lrucllf, If you pay true note you Already the threat of Shan-min.ytienwas the insensible arm to the paper, which it
SNELL, Agantfor Exeter and vicinity I . y'-, Send Itir �- I I
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� go free. Shan-minquen . k I nows the true bearing fruit. The yielding -time hail at. was just sufficiently long enough to touch. tions of the priest ; for in the flavor, con rRICE . T and CilloUZ . .
, a.$) . I ready come I I I � I His face came within an inch of that. stlIntly imparted to the prisoner's food upim 7ip craig Street, Montreal lu=jr
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The Molsons Bank u0torris, still in the agony of his -perturbed ' of the Chinaman, but so inte t was be' there was nothing that might pois.ii or in. - -_ - - ____ - - -
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state of -mind, wondered dimly.if this was him, and took the Chiliese'llirush in his on his task that he did not noGice that the jure; there was that, indeed, at which the � BOOT A 811OF MAFiUFACTURERS
(CHARTERE D BY PA I RLIAMENT, i856) true. Had t4e Chinaman guessed his ruse, band, dipping it in the ink; and theuw- other's.'featilres almost touched bib own. palate might in time revolt, but nothing J. & T. STEPHENS, Wholesale, Beaudry St.
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ftid up capital ... I ... s%000,000 and known from the firs t that the note ,?ras kneeling upon the ground, the 8tran a He had pushed forward the roan's body so more. The'res6was left to the English. I`= ,
I R#.sb PlInd ... ... I � ... 3,100,00 false ? And had he by this act brought upon � looking man traced certain lines ill a lie. 9 - that his oatspreatl hand fell upon the edge man's Own niind to c6neeive ,. the torture 0 EHCRNI�ja cL1ppcR3 -7 1
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HeadOffice, fjotittea 1, himself the �terrible tortures which had . of the paper, which, at this moment seemed . lay within himseli, . I I
. I . . writing difrere,nt indeed from that.of Will- . s. s_K1,1fBA_LL, 1 1577 Craig '
-.'A,ia., . n Norris, and �etwrittenby bim,astrne but further removed, for the -priestly palm ....... --a-F.-�....-W�_ I
F, Y� OT4'ERSTAN TTr.1(1M AR sd iva There is, however, in �uch agony . I
I . GsXRnAL _L�UXAOER. I It was an a-wful Lhougbt, that for a thou- as from his o'%vn hand, and as signed wib� could not. clutch it to draw it toward him. little visible result to the watcher ul n,l- MUCILAU & LIQUID GLUE MOM L
band pounds he might .. I ; a, I I I
Money&(1711,1100(110 good farmerson theirowil . perhaps have been his civil name, I Then ensued moments of intenge anxiety, though the priests knew that Norris's mind T,,, . AULD, , prica.Ri�he. T159 Crai
note with oaa or more ondoner at, 7 Per tiont. ,a &red this, and might have been a it was an order to his bankers to raise the for the body of his foe was heavy and diffi- had fostered its owii agony, they were in 9, --- - = . �
I Perannum.. I � . . dee man and he had b4itated to Play necessary funds and to pay the sum of five cidt to move, and the arm although reach- sense dii;appointed with �lie end gained ITHICH FEATHER MANIP'll, I . I
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, . . I that Sum I it must be �� . I . . � .
I I 1, Exeter Branc)i, I .remembered that thousand pounds, I I ing the p%per soareely ln�ved it for some which, to the ontward eye, consisted chiefly I .
Norrisno@d not know that much, DkYopor- Norris had been easily conquered in the time, e�rery inotion being so slow. At in abstinence from food and drink ; for the .W.SNOWITteatheraRepizired, 1,913.156trejDarari.
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I SATUADAYS,1,0 a.m. to . ba.ps,.the whole, of his Past torture had end. I length Norris knew thab he was successful, mind of one man can not truly preceiye the .. . �
� I ,p.ni. been subsequent to, his murder of theL priest Deeply' engrossed in the work, seeing for by repeated efforts lie had succeeded in phantoms of,another's fears. I , SCALE. MA � . URERS I I ,
. Current rf.les of int I erest allowed on del)Dsi and in.expiatiun of that sin. Nor I n . er , . w. Gmbo�r & 60.1 I I .
I I . . iad he othing, and hemrin g nothing, so intent was ,causing, the priest'sarm. to draw the pap The papet- and the Chinese ink still lay � .1 I 601 V P mi,
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� . � N. n-YER HURDON, taken account of tile date of the note which he auid so filled 'with the thought'wbiall had an inch or :two� nearer him, and in a feiv niliouched beside the Prisoner. Slum the 'U__,� _1 � I 1.
I . I'' I ore he !eIt tb&t., if lie were still . I I STENCILS, STEEL STAMPS, Df . " To, i 11
.. I I . , - anager. he had craghed,so I that his conjectures were caused his yielding, he had scarcely finished Moments in . ask. , .
! alab � W I wildindeed. . 11 � . last I t6ars Of his,liame . alone and unrlisturbad by tl,,e return of struggle to regain the evidence of hia'vv G. W. DAWSON, SsndJbr.1,7i0Cs, 74� Cr�ig , L
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, I t !� ,; _� � lot III 11 Once more," Shan-min-yuen continued, was Wd'from behind upon the paper. upon others of his ca,ptors, he would hold it in signeli) he sliteintied Lbe elgliboftlic mat -====-_=-_=�,_-=_ - . - .. _= 11 ,
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� � ilf-AD-MAKER . b You chanaft Writo true note fifty which he wrote. . his hand. which lie had once wealtly Used; for his I �
.1 I rm.a.sev i llwi giv liman's hundred pountim, you - go Wearer and yet nearer it, carne, Norris, 11� TX E, I
.4 glis . Norris looked up, and saw that one of the . spirit seelned to have gained iiew determin. ' I
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: � . ',Izvo� �,vq to olvE S"als, -.1- � '. SO the suln was increased from one thou- him to t�ke bbe p%por which lie had signed. indeed to move the arrn and body of the TO BL? CIOZIMNURD, n il 0 F.. A, 11 W r,,�l fi,,S. I I
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