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Exeter Advocate, 1913-7-17, Page 6tl liarrlson;_ New fiildaIt a •Piealretl�aM 'Vete is •a ease which; seen ed' s. bad;. iral as Hopeless asyours can possibly be.' Ors A Ily,,sterlotts Affair.This iatizeexperience OfMr, Id. J.i3rowttw 3t;4. Ba#Must St,,xarouto, ill his own 410,,Atreo,words: CHAPTER XVI.•--(Contd;), ;,ten o'cloce we bed walked close teen twelve milee, aztd were compelled to call a bait for a few minutes to re• over our breath, for the last mile or two we had beta breasting the long, wearying slope of the Wigto»u hills. /''roti; the summit of this range, which ie ztowltere more thttu a thousand feet in height, we could; tree, lookiue uorthwaud, such a scene of bleakness and desolation as' eau hardly bo matched in any twun try, Bight away to the horizon etretohed the broad expanse of .thud and of water, mingled, and mixed together fn the wild- cat ild•e t chaos. like a portion of some world in the process of formatiou. )fere aud there on ,the dun -colored surface of this great march there had buret out patobes of tl<e,1y yellow reeds and of livid greenish scum, which only served to heighten and intensify the gloomy effect of the dull, melancholy expanse. On the aide near- est to us some abandoned peat Cuttings showed that ubiquitous man had been at work there, but beyond these few petty 'sears there was no sign anywhere of hu- man life. Not even a crow or a seagull gazing speech)esely et them. For there, !tapped their way over that hideous in those blurred footmarks, the whole desert, drama was revealed. Five had gone This is the great bog of Cree, which down. but only three had returned. may be seen in the maps to extend over None shall ever know the details of that a considerable surface of the aline of strange tragedy. There was no marks of Wigtown. It is a salt -water menet form- ed by an inroad of the sea, and so inter- greeted is it with dangerous swamps and treacherous pitfalls of liquid mud, that no man would venture through it unless be had the guidance of one of the few peasants who retaiu the secret of its Dante with a fresh terror for bis Ire fern. The whole ho!; in this part appeared to have sunk in, forming a great fennel• shaped depreseton, weicb terminated in the neuter in a circular rift or Opening about forty paces in diameter. It was a whirlpool-- perfect maelstrom Of Mud, eloping down ou every side to this client and awful .chasm. Clearly tilts was the spot wheel, under the name of the, Hole of Cree, bore aach a eiuister reputation among the rustiest I could not wonder at its impzesaing their imagination, for a more weird er gloomy seen. or one more worthy of the avenue which led to it, could not be conceived. The steps passed down the declivity which eurrounii- ed the abyss, aud we followed them with a sinking feeling in our hearts, as we realized that this was the end of our search. A little way from the downward path was the return trall made by the feet of those who had comp .back from the ehasnes edge. Our eyes fell upon these traeke at the same moment, and we each gave a cry of horror, and stood struggle or sign of an attempt at weeps. We knelt at the edge of the Hole and endeavored to pierce the unfathomable gloom which shrouded it. A faint, sickly exhalation seemed to rise from its, depths, and there was a distant hurrying, clat- tering sound as of waters in the bowels paths. As we approached the fringe of of the earth. A great atone lay embedded rushee which marked its border, a foul, in the, mud, and this I hurled over, but dank smell roe° up fromthe stagnant we never heard thud or splash to show wilderness, as from impure water and de-- that it had reached the bottom. As we raying vegetation—au earthly, noisome hung over the noieoree chasm a sound emelt which poisoned the fresh upland did atlast rise to our ears oat of its air. So forbidding and gloomy was the murky depths. High, clear, and throbbing, aspeet of the place that our stout crofter it tinkled for an instant out of the abyss, hesitated, and it was all that we could to be succeeded by thsesame deadly still - do to persuade ,hint to proceed. Our nese which had preceded it, I do; pet wish lurcher, however, not being subjected. to to appear to be superstitious, or to put the delicate impreseions of our higher or- down to extraordinary causes that which ganizations, atilt ran yelping along with may have a natural explanation. That its nose on the ground and every fibre one keen note may have been some of its body quivering with excitement and strange water simnel produced far down eagerness. in the bowels of the earth, It may have There was no difficulty about picking been that or it •may°have been, that sin- our inour way through the morass, for wher- Teter bell of which I had heard so much. ever the five could go we three could Be this as it may, it was the .only sign follow. If we could hare had any doubts that roes to us from the last terrible rest - as to our dog's guidance they would all iug-place of the two who had paid the have been removed now, for in the soft, debt which had so long been owing. black oozing soil we could distinctly trate We joined our voices in a call with the the tracks of the whole party, . From unreasoning obstinacy with which men theee we could see that they bad walked min cling to hope, but no answer came abreast, and, furthermore, that -each was back to uta save a. thousand: hollow revere about egridistant from the other. Clearly, .berationsr from the depths beneath. Foot - then, no physical force had been used in sere and heartsick, we retraced our steps taking the general and his companion and climbed the slimy slope once more. along. The compulsion had been psych- "What shall we do, Mordaunt?" 1 asked, teal and not material. in a subdued voice "We can but pray Once within the swamp we --ia,d to be careful not to deviate from theTharraw track; which offered a firm foothold. On each aide lay shallow sheets of stagnant water overlying a treacbrerous bottom of semifluid mud, which rose above the sur- face hero and there in motet, sweltering banks, 'nettled over with occasional patches of unhealthy vegetation. Great pnr'ple and yellow fungi had broken out in et dense eruption, as though Nature were afflicted with a foul disease, which manifested itself by this crop of plague epote. Here and there dark, crab -like creatures scuttled across our path and hideous flesh -colored worms wriggled and writhed amid the sickly reeds. Swarms' of buzzing piping Insects -rose up at every step and formed a dense cloud around our heads, settling on our hands and. faces and inoculating us with their filthy venom. Never had I ventured into so Pestilent and forbidding a place. Mor - ranee Heatherstone strode on, however, with a set purpose upon bis swarthy brow, and we could but follow him, deter- mined to stand by him to the end of the adventure. As we advanced the path grew narrower and narrower until, as we saw by the that their souls may,rest in peace." Young Sen.therstoue looked at me with t how his ,pursuers might come after him), flashing eyes. 'This may be all according • of visitors (from the same cause and be- cause his hateful bell was liable to sound at. all times). xis broken sleep ]ed him to wander about the house at night, and the lamps which he burned in every room were no doubt to prevent his; imagination from peopling the darkness with terrors. pulled the hound over and ,set it on the 1 Lastly, his elaborate precautions were, as - track of the three men. The creature he has himeelf explained, rather the re - sniffed at it once or twice, and then, l sult of a feverishdesire to do something falling upon his stomach,with bristling than in the expectation that he could hair and protruding tongue, it lay shiver- really .ward off his fate. ing and trembling, a very embodiment of Science .wild: tell yon that thele are no canine terror. such powers as' those claimed by the. "You see," i` said, "it is no use con- Eastern mystics. • 1, James Fothergill tending against those who have powers west, eau confidently auewer that science at their command which we cermet even l ie wrong... Fox' what is science? :Sot• give a name to. ' There is nothing for it I ence is the concensus of ropznion •- of but to accept the inevitable, and to hope scientific men, and history bas s)bown thd,tt that these poor men may sweet with some it ie slow to •accent a, truth.- Science eontpensation in another "world for all sneered at Newton for twenty years. Sci- that they have: suffered in this." ' . enoe proved mathematically .that an 'iron. "And be free from all devilish religions' ship could not swim, and•science declareci'. and their murderous worehippers!" Moa that a steamehip could not'cross the At - daunt eried furiously. lantic. Like Qoethe's Mephistopheles, our Justice compelled me to acknowledge in wise professor's forte is to "stets vernein- my owe heart that the murderous spirit en." -Thomas Didymus is, to use hie own bad been set ou foot by the Christian jargon, his prototype. Let him learn that tracks, our predecessors had been cam- before it was taken up by the Buddhists, if he will but cease to believe In the in -e pelled to walk in single tile. Fullerton bat 1 forebore to remark upon it for fear fallibility of ,his own methods, and will was leading us with the deg, Mordaunt ot irritating my eompaniou. For a longi look to the East; from .which all great `Behind him, while 1 brought up the rear. time I could not draw him away from movements come. he will find there : a The peasant had been sulky and sur)y the scene of his father's death, but at savants who, for a little time back, hardly answering last, by repeated arguments and reason working on different knee to school of philosophers :and of shis avantn,: aro when spoken to, but he now stopped short iugs, 1 succeeded in making him realize many thouitand years ahead of him in all aud positively refuted to go a step far- how tlbel a, and unprofitable any further the essentials of knowledge. cher. efforts ounour part must necessarily (THF END.) "It's no canny,"- be said; "besides, 1 ken prove, and in inducing lum to return with g where it will lead us tae:" me tc Clotxpiber. Oh! the wearisome, ted - "Where, then?" I asked. ious journey! It had seemed long enough 'Tae the Hole o' Cree," he answered. whoa we had some slight flicker of hope, "It's no far irae here I'm thinking_" or at least of expectation, before us, bur "The Hole of Creel What is that, then?" now that our worst fears were fulillled it "It's a great muekle hole in the ground appeared interminable. We picked up ouu, that gangsata' downsq deep that nae- _peaatnt guide at the outekirte of the While Coaling From Work, body could ever reach the bottom, .In- marsh, and having restored his dog we deed there are folk who say that it's just let him find his owu way home, without a door leadee intac the bottomless pit telling hinianything of the results of our Reel'. expedition. We ourselves plodded all day "You have been there then?".I asked. over the moors with heavy feet and hoav- "Been there]" he cried. "What would ler hearts until we saw the ill-cniened I be dein' at the Hole o' Cree? 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If it doesn't help you; you get you -money back: Sok a box at your druggist's. Compounded" by the National Drug and Chemical Co. of Canada, Limited, Montreal. 141 dark to ime. Why the ehelas of Ghoolab Shah should Levo removed their victims to tate desolate Hole of (free instead of taking their lives at. Oloomber, is; I cote fess, a mystery to me. In dealing with ooeult laws, however, we .must allow for our own complete ignorance of the sub- tact. Did we 'know more we might see that ere was aoo,e analogy between. that foul bog and the sacrilege which had been committed; and that their ritual and customs demanded that just such a death was .the one appropriate . to tho crime. On the; point I should be sorry' to be dogmatic, but at least we must allow that the Buddhist priests must bave had some very good cause for the course of action which they so deliberately carried out. Months afterward I saw a shoat para- graph in the Btar of India,announoing that three eminent Buddhiste—Lal Eoomi, Mot -rear Khan and !tam Singh—had: just retuxned In the steamship Deccan from a short trip to Europe. The very next item was devoted to an account of the life and! servides of Major-General lleatherstone, "who has lately disappeared from hia country house.in .Wigtownehire, and who, there is too much reason to fear, has been drowned: ' It wonder if by chance there was any ether human eye but mine which traced a connection between these para- graphs. .I never showed them tomy wife or. to Mordannt, and they` will only know of their existence when they read these pages. I . don't know that there is any other point which needs clearing up. The in- telligent reader will have already seen the reasons for the .general's fear of dark faces, of_ wandering men (not knowing to occult laws," he cried, "but we shall see what the laws of England have to say upon it. I suppose a chela may be hang- ed as well as any other man. It may not be too late yet to run them down. Here, good dog, good r doghere!" He NOT TO BE SNUBBED. Saluted His 'Fashionable Friend Circumastances forced James Keith to leave school and earn his living before he was sixteen years old. Like many another boy, he had lib bent toward any particular trade, Ins senses," ' and so took the first job that offer - "How do you know about it, then?" greatv further de ails, or to' describe the grief ed. That ha. erred to ' be with a "h[y grandfe, then had been there,PP and that's how I ken," etelarton at,swer- which our tidings conveyed to•mother and tinsmith; and he became an -'-ex- ed. "lie was fou' one Saturday nicht and to daughter. Thele long expectation of pert workman: He was rett "Well he went for a bet. He didna like tae talk come claiamity wars not euifmtent to pre- P y aboot it afterward, and he wouldua' tellsatisfied with his job and w pare them for the terrible reality. N'iirwith the a' what, befell him, but he was aye feared weeks nay poor Gabriel hovered- between 'tnoney le ,made at it, and he saw no o' the very name. He's the first Fuller- life and death, and though she came ton that's been at the Hole o' Cree, aud round at last, thanks to the nursing of reason why -tie should think any the hell be the last for me. If yell tat' my my sister and the profegee:teal skill of IeSs of' -himself because the useful Advice yell lust gie the matter up and Dr, John Easterling, of etreni.•aer, she has gang name again, for there's no gut). tie never to `this day entirely recovered her work he: did obliged him to soil'his be got cot o' tele place." former vigor. Mordanut, too, euifered hands and sometimes his face. "We obeli go on with you or without much for some time, aud it was only One evening as Keith; begrimed you," Mei-daunt answered. "Let us have after our •removal to Edinburgh that he your dog and we min pik.•k you up on our rallied frons the shock which he had an- with dust and soot; the result of a way back-." dergone. As to poor Airs. ileatherstone, day's hardwork on a hot was "Net, na," he •cried; "I'll no has my neither medical attention nor change of - roof, dog seared wit bogies .and running down air can ever have a permaueut effect going home; he last Mrs. Landon, Aulll Nick kaas 1 if mhe were a bare. The dog upon her. -Slowly and sure_y, but very i an old friend . of the family. Mrs. ' placidly, the has declined do .health and London had always "The dog obeli go with es " said my strength, until it is evident that in a vera liked Jim; foT companion, with bis eyes b,azieg. "Ws few weeks at the most she will have re- she honesty, admired his cheerful have no time to argue with you. Here's a joined her husband and restored to ltim five -pound note. Let us leave the dog, or, spirit, his sturdy character, and his by heaven, 1 shall take it by force and throw you in the bog if you binder ue," I could realize the Ilea.theastone ot forty 'sears ago when I saw the fierce and sue. den wrath which lit up the features of his son. agreeable to us,- for reoentevents hadcast Either the bribe. or the threat had the a cloud over our country life and haat unable acquaintances who lived not desired effect; for the fellow grabbed at ear -mantled us with unpleasant Reseda- 1 far from I�ci{h',s home; and had" tin- the money with one hand while with the tonsBest .des, desa hinon , ghly honorable a other his sirrrendgred the leash •Which ibland fortunately absorbed a, little of the held the lurcher. :Leaving hint to retrace remunerative appointment tri eonneettou )iia'sts a, eve <,ontiii.ued to make ortr tvay, with the University library had become spirit that prevailed among tlte2n. DD vacant, and ,lied, through the )tindnees It maybe that Jim was. a little' into the utmost recent,* of the great ,of" the late Sir Alexander Grant, been swamp. '.rhe tortuous path grew less anti offered to my father,.` who: as may be dirtier' than usual; perhaps1r3, less defined as • we, proceeded, . and • was imagined,_ lost no time in accepL ting so andoll feared that her new friendseven covered in places with water: but the oongenial a post. Iu this way''we came increasing exeit.ement of the hound' and • back to Edinburgh very much more hie!scald! not understand if they he sietht of the deep footmarks in the portanteo le than we left it, and with should see her speaking to this ems, st3mttlated ue to push on. At Mat. no further reason to be unease,about the p' g after struggling througb' a grove of high details of housekeeping. Rut-.. in truth, sooty young workman. At any rate, bulrushes, we came en a altar the gloomy the whole household has been dtissoly@@d, as he approached, Slee tried to' 'horror of which might have furnished '1 I have been married foe aoxue months avoid his eye. " to my dear Gabriel, and Esther is to 'be- But Jim ;felt himself attic • as cwme hits,` Heather[<tvne upon the 23rd ofq the month. If she makes lent as good worthy of respect in his working a wile as hia sister has: made to me, we ,eiothes as in his Sunday suit; Nor may both set ourselves down as fortun- ate erten. had he any intention of passing. an. I'heee mere domestic episodes are, ae I Auld. friend of 'the family without. beceu already / 'rtot avoid `alluding i It em greeting her. And so as :h4 passed My object in drawing up this stat.nient Mrs. Landoll be 'took old his hat;, andorpublishing' wags certa evidence not itol}pit :trade rorm ated Said, 'good-naturedly, "G°o+i. • me private afiairg,before the Tiiibii,'o, but evening', '.Mrs: Landon ] it's the to, leave on rceord an authentic narrative of it most rent"erkable series el :events, ''rhes I have endeavored tis do in as moth. *taloa) a natter as potisible, ex.aggerat- . )ng nothltlg acid suppresainff nothing. '1'be reader has •now the evidence hefore him, and can form his own,opinions unaided by nice at; to the causes of the disappeat"- abre end death of RYrf'u's }1tnith and of John levrthier , Iieatheratone, V.C., C 3l. !here is only one point which is still the one thing which he m146nave - ped to leave behind. grad !affectionate devotion to his widow- The Laird of Branksome came borne ed mother. from Italy teetered in . health, with the This afternoon however she had result that we were compelled. to return i , . once unore to Edinburgh, The ehaege•was been calling upon some of her fashs, Outing Shoes For Everybody THE PERFECT :S EOE FOR SLIMMER SPORTS ASK 'VOUlt DS?.AC. R. satire oId Jim under all this dirt 1" Explanation. "The .'Ii' is silent in so many English 'words." "Maybe that is why the English drop it so often." 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Silence is strictly enjoined at all meetings, and the tnembers who sit in solemn conclave, each holding a piece of ribbon, a book of hair, or sonic possession of his be- loved, are' required to sigh at least five times within a quarter of an hour under penalty of a fine. Suicide clubs have been compara- tively common. The Max, Killing Club, however, was a, London insti- tution somewhat out of the ordi- nary, reezuberehip being confined to. persons who had slain opponents at duels. On guest- slights a separate table was reserved for visitor's, who had to be friends of members .and to have drawn, at any rate once, an adversary's blood. - But of all the curious clubs of bygone times perhaps the most famous; 'or rather .infamous,', was the Abduction . Club. This 'was started in 1776 by a number of young Irish bloods', who blinded- together to arrange for themselves forced marriages with wealthy heir-. WTIETNI IT'S 40T ANI TI K IcedTea is most refreshing. 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