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Tilt CANADIAN 'MaPi
OSOVIKrION ,,AND 1.rg
4tiaosatioa oorisx,Nrea
IN CANADA ..
Ntir
s oret that. something
Mrs, tf brings )304P
reon wit
day ork with tengcleit00.,
. 1 epe.t1Qfl'i bi,... be
te
tic, mt etn%.
•re1Pr
t sUrprising • '
o ,,,,,,, A iThere„or SelgS ,.
Y4 oco741-141. 444 4
y are •tu, , ,11.E..04 003110,16 13'e4oelerile. a
when,. Ore:a‘.. 414.01041, examination,
learn That there le tOntethint,
wlth,tholr botlier,4.,**Othil,/g periaps
t ,sufti
serlouz'*1(41191V' 0,:tatirie Oath, n , r.
t0:11$0040 tliOn in*Alt*Il'a41St
an perhaps, to niSti th"i \gri* '1r,114.'"
tirely 4)" there who' Mies the
0• :43 t et lieslThs $43yot ane1
' OOP froin 1 ,plentla4,'
'Opt lthe- people .'w not 4.61-
.10Wing,.teh:ei,aretealerVes" e1114 l'i
. _ .
of rest,
-air Air A!M/Pet-t #1.11,111 to
bav� bea411. •
Thou aeoiid
-
that 0001.w .
0Ro*e are vIting in
Visitors at the ItOree of Mr.
Ms. WIU Crawford on- aria
• were; ,Penturta,',An
tvc Sons, Carmon ancl tliNIA,
'MS Crawford, *IL of
utou*
ItObert Bogle waiCialten gwl-
enlr 111 Friday. with an attack
appendicitls, but i,reoV4rflg*
an • attartinenter.
taon
chinvieflatmaa, trlenclis
1' k
Lon Or 1174101 lite VlS
those W1346' aio on
„.
IrOot - %unit N"740;f0liew the
13 .rules °LI/110Mo Miss
94%1
.tatrit APP,
oar:to all*
DaVid 'Ancier00
e holidaysiu4sirfkoia, 10 borne.
Miss D0r0Oir-1.41ultlater 0. Torent0
with her merits," ad, „Mrs,
44; Linklater.
Miss 13Ianebe, Shaw oz Nw York,
WOO, Ruth Shaw
,ent chtletteas at:their.home.
Mrs. :4'.i II.,' Ciatten, Wee *
ina's visitor in,Toroutoc:•:. ,
Veber., Stevirt who 3/4 was e'ttatien
in Oroderioli goapitavfor the past two
weeks, is able he home,
, .
rFred
tinas an'Ill'inr4R"ettl.'ihn°
u
,
"Glad k * M 1eUmX1. ,
*he
oyes .4 littlit
but Jim?s smile wa IngtomoUl*
friendly. He free1404. low illa rof
. .
r t & as PleV,4*Y.,
p,"' .zral4 Itellotitr-
u#11, Ong"It00(01'.0.* .t.
*ger!, ou and me, and-
* ' Jim .thook hie he
"Jut U ," He held s.eut,
15 hand wi the Jong ingera that
iir 'r�ck teady.14, 'eno•
.
there,,
oh
4 the.,
aonoto
conversation wen
we*dealt for th
An ate f1Iped 1
at 0 o
pien wbt next to do
h o
now anct he
. tali I v e Om
so..„ellt,14,1° *Ain* lka r bed. He pbon.
'''''43*) would *leap *11 ' ay, x
pokero ' by T4t14tnaybe * plan , ozne*
on * 'rived as he was, the ,i
stud poker . 1 disttiated at ,how- los
trout 0 • a *take in.* n Itht
y,- ougbta et the ,
ne to him as lutt,tot ready to
3" St It 0. 0 . WWI rememhering4. There * , ,
been some queer loolis oast, inbis tM'
40004, jun .4lreetion.. Ile waa wo , roing ,,, t
.0.
i.
..0.00t1; 04A' a, ,,, ...ow -
0 M #0::;letting them get .
en141 awnor 0, 4
the 'Rocky
e agreed. "For
i inC
:041'T:Itioti:Eca' 1*was4, 1 I l: some°faint, next
Btlot;4_ etl'13411::01044C.1191Y-4:
le***tPa:**" ,I/Oro,..
ougbt
mak
0" noticed,vu,v;(04;
had d
rinith*tv teadIt out V"url'uir
•for his own bt;:t4:7:t
funny thing, ' luxe
Ile said: SibruPtly.!41
ever got. eaufght *rithoUt.iilY-; shoot,
.011 ;0*"
t#' 1
rons in my llfe. I3een over to
ureka to *.tonetal;Attat'a;Whit,har.
hiyhoVri,..,r4.
t ot.103zereariet-,,
knee a hit lummox like ;no
a laic those froa,,,t,
;agents • migbt have 'dolie soinetlibla
about g.9ajai*a loWereA, lids is he
considered. kV', 'the.
twinkle in -
hat,' and like ,
thook .1
is lilt
too"',
ver his ;sao
and itxianta slouzly,'44
hello1 Your luck, aura
"I'm ins"" said Vieliman autt show'
all eclOindted' 44110T to iStaY. Vidt
hits aeven. "Seven's 111 lue num..
or
ork
•
Thk.;' came to hi* vaguely that 1!
nd . pond Dan was known in in. this torku*
''thefe. 'rwsit the utleinn
nd Dan
41)° atti,:tit;170.,,-,:f :Orr tkda !ebb 441k$4 Pt ::;e:1, 11' unexplained :44"t Oclaimedethis hit11town4ti1ooat Id.
riot
be, tbat
n 'Id at 41114 there ght 'be pretty nncon
c.
ntifbt.+ that t'hey, vivuld not czne
her, ',X,et 'ezn
At the next to the las
z000ad-act ,dropped before
Coolly he !considerediit tht'i boss of Gold
-
asked, and thelounehp-inan.0
y,.*far''s Van ionerned.-" 'But he
or h •i) 4t,
Porualghtloogt 104 *
or moments., 41m„ Darcy stood
o Iligfrblotdm*dieTith.,41411b0„111.*:11.4!,:t7e:t :4:37t6t4687.:041k41:1**
ovoV to,',:t110.17.04 anct,pulle4 blint;.`
ib eXutisitl down on the
ath the 'WindOV4, facing tho locked
derringer Under his baud..
0s. frowning at the -pair ,A0Ven4•* ‘, 0 11,1000,1 '''iAt'7*.
it eight 'before ' '00 through nOthing inter,
Dercy„teetitettinakit' 006it, 4141, he Wouhrtie tiy
agel' psuolifed,a stiouto:1).1Tetivati.:Ininiieoynceot'Ylmnialio*bilett:-ab,Taolcuiitt
i the Sun Dog
hat, end liked L.
Yeab, that'sr'so,"
'‘O Agolvt-,,bv ;"ent°up
and you, had th drop." • His fiend,wentby habit o the.
bottle on th
otgtit-. '..1
•areitral" thia Mania ;tetizei 'be% most
people . refuSin'.*drinkS.. ,How about
et; genie Eyeing : ayes 'gait*, he was
satisfied that was the ticket.
Jim's * gaze 'swept across the tooin
to the .gaming table's, lonuned• with
noisy , players., shook -his. head.
•'With thOt. web of drtinks-V-h.
.laughed', '4'1'4:like-a game, nothing
better, but 'Swat play, -I 7#.4.447 -0 -
play!" • -
"You and me," agreed Itellman.
"Say, ra ougfit to pay my re-
spects to, xt, lartda'herO, as you. might
'say, how 'boitt you comin' along and
sOtite in a •priVite . game I got run-
atin" in my office. NO tappers in it"
"You''play yourself, Mr. Reitman":
Jiin asked. "I've been hearing
you're Old, Mr. Hoyle himself When it
A
„.
:VET*40-4.0.
Graduate or. the '1,in
and alginate of the. On
College.
inapires • . goile4 in hie blanka Vitija a
For minutes Billtnan ,considered; *window in hie darkened retnir • JIM
then With a sputtered oath, teethed .Darty. toonstomed'fo sleeping on the
in "hitt capacities .p.00ket, ,70%.tii 'wird ground in the 011144 Siel4 Oette7'
the well wollet and carefully,2inily and undisturbed. Tife feWn
ef
-411`4a-W-41.1r41,1)14f04"t-ittYLJalighed thrOngiont:the 401, with 'the' reitless
uncomfOrtahly. • . • -i-treed of-ithruy-lumher inglooted -feet- -411,i4g-W,,*
huh* IVpda,high, .even, for .1)Our :of muleteers vith their 4144Y ludo,
and- you, ,Geoch, tarn over ing of punchers front outlY ag 'ranges'
fillcd thilt fllOflcY . old:.:Rock.'.htz,rotned.,..' With ,,aettitity
counted
SaTes ado eYetilioli
made, to give you, satistaction.
Vartnetst Sale ,.Notes dilsooun
houomsh' •
SURA
Iittlo aoltuS'.'fon.r thOnsand bye. handred,l1 Wow tho' boh*WstilOW8110 the " ° la :001sP
:ma a. double. slug efbat rye, iteuton# trolOht wagon,, Peniinf and ,go- • elArtM 1124
iteilrnangrinned- Vin youi,
huckleberry, My boy. Let's hop to
The first drawn light Mits. streak-
ing the eky, and In the main saloon
of ;the Rocky Way only a few strag-
glers woe Still draped along the
bar or over the tibles, some 'a th:m
iu„fhe deep sleep ,.of• druhkeinlesi-
Bleary-eyed miners; had -long .eihea
•-iteled-dttay-leAsnate4
sleep 'before their racking day's OA
and the majority of.those left in the
saloon Were -ctvcr punchers 'whoa
duties at this :time of the year were
slight:and who still remained, sle3P-
' ine. it off. ••
Inside the otlice' a game was going
on. 'There was a whisky bottle with,'
in reach of the players on a small
table; and. glasses, but the Whiikv
.*Imost untmiched. These men`
who played on.' into the daylighi.
were playing Or high: atakaa and
:taking no chance* of--6haVing - their
keen ..sinses addled. , .Vour, men still
01*Yed, one 'of 'them the, owner of the
ROdkY VW, big. bolt of Gold,
.1tOck,AnOther Jim --Darcy. .The Other
Wet were .framietalcably.Rellman
henchmen', and. had a 'pretty
good idea that they.' *ere, playing
with money that wastiMppPed them,
415Pete Itellnian. Three against one.
' it was /not ad- Ile- was
' hoIdimehia own; be was, feet,' con."
,iiderably ahead, and again had that
Another. seven if yet"' ever hone- to with eyes teddcrted 'by the Alkali, dust, .otattlow4tz
rjeutho-,-sitrotays=.0- . -tollected after,. longrides„ or in a foot •Seatorfir Vicewbuideet, t10
Which was exactly:what Gooch did. - quicker way in .the aaloona and Id Se fortb - ig,eoz,,eta!r7 ,
Tni DarcY tadatthe 'four seveue-tillos. *-Outside.noises,,diartot, .disturk
!Sunset: had come, the blackness of Kno 1. • James aroma 140111101e4
an early moonless night bad °bottled ‘Dublin; .141rn E. Oemet. VtuceIMAI: 40,
out - crag and arroyo, 'hillside Aral Connolit .0ederient Tato& 140,10,.-
tmerati-lely"ditirerG'Slialialedtio' stbeinir figur's n,Mt°rtll°ialtttkinW.tto[il.14'Art2S/t'ssTgz,* 1
lace of hillside outside' - tit'e ten• R. No.. 3: AltkeS watt. 113M
which they liad cho-.sen as a, rendez- jotavo,, 1:,c,apar, BrucencicITIk- .
portant distussion. wa03-41140-" %Irk -4tollirrholln14‘ .
the. exultant" Bellnian showed .while
Slowly he slid his three aces togeth-
er.- His face was blank, the blank-
ness of the born genibier .whelt it
is all in day's.*Ork or in a night's- play.
- His shoulders lifted in a. non-
-conimittal--shrut-- as lui got up and
shoved \ in his chair. • .
"Your -m'arbles, Ballnian," he
re-
marked..carelessly. "Guess tviroll*t be
seein you. again.' That was the stack.
"Thanks for a large evening." And
paying no attention to Rellman's call
orr "Hey, wait a . minute, aria's
'cornin! to your he walked out ,of the
raerap through the smelly -barreom
and—reix tiie street- to the betel
room ho had engaged.
'IleVer ,his life had Jim. o'er
felt as dissatisfied with hiniself.. His
stake all gone the first.track and he
had get. exactly—nowhere. Not evert.
a chance how.. No Atom for *any -
'thing except to go „afoot to the near-
est . ranch and 'work till somehow
he'd got another stake. plan had
not Worked. As a gambler, he -was
about the world's worst, be was os -
strati of.that: .
' There was oely one bit of salve to
his tontsdience._ At least he was ,an
honest gambler. -'111.Tell that the
men who played agairisit .him were
not, but how in the name of OM° -
they bid 'worked it WAS beyond him..
.114 had watched. very move Made,
or so be thought. 'Diamond Dan bad
been right. Gambling' was tat' hit
game.. His job Was forking horse,
but be did wish he knew. how he. had.
been trimmed. Diamond Dan would
have aknown, though he played the
game ,,etx*ight, ,The troubb
With himself, thought gluinif/
Was that he had net had enough ex-
perience. .$6, by glory, and be neve
would belle, if it Meant that he, too,
would have to learn crooked trickm
The thing that hurt Wag. that he
feltit.in bone,' that right here in
Gold Reek was the Mari or men wha
had done for Diamond Oen and.with-
out Money he would have no .thande
to watch for them, or seek them:.
out, There Wei another consideriti m
-
laegirirtthat-
w epewhere atound..,
Jim Darcy Wag' brought UP -sudden y
vous. were in the midst of an int- R. P. l'itdcembet, Dubun.
It sible, evert at close. range,. try make po 'holders an thar
MA their identities. Their 'lowered raomfs Cattin Outtse store, .0?..,ileritital
voices held no 'distinguishing note% The royal Sank, .0iIntort,'
There was n hint of querulOustess, qem: Bosom,
mingled with impatience, in thq
VOICO of the man who was speaking,
_continuing low-volied eenvcr-ta-
• tion.
if that's all •you've draggeti
me out here to SayrtSlick, then you're
bigger fool than I thought cm
at ..fielireilid.T.nd'77:40:6 lonr
with a realization of • how swiftly
some things can happen when least
expected justas the streets' outside
began to take. on the color, of
. All four Min weregetting'
tired‘ and -Pete : Winton 4renewed
, himself ,tor • the fray of breaking.
over his rule, and reaching for the,.
bottle. He took '31. healthy slug*
"That's better," be said, Wiping his'
damp Mustaches with the bock Of hs
%e. to take you thii
a gger 9 y
were, an' that's .sayirili sontethin".."
.."But your --I didn't *ant
to talk to you irt town Where 'we,
Might be beerd. I ain't trustin, MA.
body in this man' an' yog
know, •well / do, there's •Plefity
heerabouts an' some other places wits
pretty. het up !bout a certain little
matter, an"--" • •
"You're .locto What's more you're
ellowet-than even- A -betwixt-- you.
was, an' if You're lettin" a little sup-
eratition get to you when eferythia's
all done with„covered and let ge,
why--"
"But` didn't You see what .r saw/
°Didn't that hombre remind you •
somebody? . What t 'want to know is
why bela show' up hire itight now.
,just when the gang are all together
again'? Why? You know they sad
that Diamond Dan card slinger hal
* son off 'temewheitas, arid . a
.poisoned puma if that warn't I
sa* last night..., -so• diked.. ots
Pau that first .off I thought was
ectin'llings, if Dan had shaved hit"
mtistaehe." • °
The other, man grunted. "Whit
he was? get don't know nothire and if
he did all this fuss you're
About•Sendin' him to Boot 11111 would
jet' 'stir up another mesa.. Aleside$,
if It is hima-and mind yon, 'Slick, I'm
ozatomacvin
TEttenaitere.
Equipped' with elettt ;
gleeAtonic electrio treat= .and
orsetic. chrohW, otOttit ° 211*
hours 240,5 arid, to Ori.lt
Friday and SaturrlaY,* and Wed
dity.9 to 12 a.m. only. Consultatt
be had .by appointment
Thursday at Mitchell;
A. N. '.'residette
oftlee. corner of south *trot *
tennis !toad.- Phone Zit
*toe, °which he tried to put in the not ssayin'. you're ri he a
back of his bead but which would not right wise ,ol'owl, and wouldn't
be
likely he'd be scurryini-go
anything, without 14 -the
maybe on erm6utns011itt:401cr
min
Let it ride....." taug
got a better Mee. 'Fir* *
goin' to find out if yoteri
about that hombre WA' Vali*
and then—" In -the .4srksNi
shoulder* shrugged oral he ljiu
nastily. "Well, I got 4ine Swears
troilin, *round in my thiri.1--,
like a little more ttin' even
that smug garobelr
dYthe ain't enough-.14bat rm.'
in about, hfcl plumb tun h ore
grave." •
Tbe *lovell thIteirelleheru:kdittit l'"YOu6tati:- t4virl
The stockier min growled..
him moris'n, any man G
was too good for MM."
Ilia *is‘sto,vir uncerefotta
in the darkness.
"Just t'he same, /ini
thaLif.you'd let me do a little
ateirfiltV7liraltartaik
hearragiet -rifictfa4'..14
like this businets-.1"..
"Keep Yore ismoter Antft.V.7
growled the other. *rf told yen that
I had some notions, Slick. If Lfl
you disobeyin" order; you-
kyote, Then 1,11 reckon
know whet to expect, , Mind thst4.
Iremoved away towazd the
trance of the crevice where there.,
the shadow Of tethered borse.7s
gettire on lick .Mind you de
I say—"
Jimupo;rec,y_if wliaesxt;f: iinegr,kedhup n
alf
e ioragilly"':**Talt
room was in darkness, but * -dtra
light filtered in from , the, ittart
through the torn ettrfaiag. 11014ii
snapped to the door. Ile bad „looked
it, he knew, and it was lee
but as he watched 10 diatinoti
the key turning being. dislodged
dutside the door. It made the is
lest of twinkling' aeon. ,rlireas it telt 0-*
tioig6 was a g tieing itoortei
the floor matting. The nett faint
ftanuthe Ouls,itlikAhtftk
ly turning. Tken the .400
Melt,
./WoVra4firio WrIoartittyl
Phone fl4N tag long enough. Your deal, 006
Ybo
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11-e. rbtotalatil
Pal tAsirA
ROA rot4k 1.4tS -
‘st VII,
,
4111. „till Bo.ils
*hen boils start to break out it is an
evideace.the blood is clogged up-gith
lxn-
pizitic and. requires to be thoroughly
willed by .a .good blood medieitte.
We believe there • is no better blood
Clesniting medicine then 13urdoe1 Blood
Bitters. It haps to remove the foul matter',
front the blood, mid one the blood Is
TurificaiAte.beiliellisata rid,044tAtASCIr
at in end. Try itt :
-aho..khow
t attito
keep at hn
atss' )5.4ect
4c0 taught tcm
eeetlent tiori,