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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1929-9-4, Page 7'►444'A4'9-118•410<i'•/c'i';+41,1'+d•4"1'1' 'h 1HENS I WANT! 'ICJ • I-Iighest market price e • `•I, paid for your Hens • vYollick Placa Your Insurance With TAT%. S. Scott Automobile - Fire - life Phone No, 1, Brussels. 4444. �....�`..+. Debts Collected We Collect Accounts, Notes and Judgments anywhere and every- where. verywhere. No collection, no charge.. Write us today for particulars, Canadian Creditors' Ase u Post Moe Box 961, Owen Sound W. D. S. JAMIESON, MD; CM; LM.CC; Physician an Y du1- $ eo 0 S Office McKelvey Block, Brussels Successor to Dr. White Phone 46. T. T. M'efAE NI. S., M, Q. P., d S. o, hl. U. H„ Village of Brvegeta. Physician. Surgeon, AOoeuchonr Ufloe at reeldence, uppoarte Melvllie Chard. WllIhon etrbet, OR. WARDLAW Honor graduate of the Ontario Vaterm College. Day and: night calla. Office oppo Floor 2.1111. Ethel. . ell. Sixviani BARRISTER, SOLICITOR. CONVEYANCER, NOTARY PUBte LECKIE BLOCK - BRUSSELS AUCTIONEERS JAMES TAYLOR Licensed Auctioneer for the County of Huron. Sales attended to Jn al' parts of the county. Satisfaction Guaranteed, or no pay. Orde}•a left( at The Post promptly attended a Belgrave Post Office. PHONES: Brussels, 16-13, North Huron, 16-620 D. M. SCOTT Licensed Auctioneer PRICES MODERATE For reference consult any perm: whose sale I have officiatd at. 61 'Craig Street, LONDON WM. SPENCE Ethel, Ont. Conveyance, Commissioner and C. Agent for The Imperial Life Assurance Ce, Canada and Ocean Accident Guarantee Corp... tion, Limited Accident Insurance. Automobile Ir sar4nce, ?late Glass Insurauce, alt Phew. 2225 Ethel, Geo JAMES M.FAOZEAN Agent Hawick Mutual fire Insurance Comm Also Hartford Windstorm and Tornado Insurer Money to Loan foe The Industrial Mortgage & Trust Companl on First -Maes Farm Mortgages Phone 12 Box 1 Turnberry Street Brune JNO. SUTHERLAND & SON LIMITED /Jest, RAMC" �d1 aZPE &IYiIW Th Int ian ru y Willietn MacHaeg. and Edwin Balmer; Iilufreti.ns by IRWIN MYERS Cerh'rlsht by Silvan Sulam ovum again and went on; her gaze 2001111112(1 to search the 111122, bu1 now, wherever there, was a break In the 21ulns, Sale looked tetras the shore as weJ. At the third of these breaks, :he yellow glow of a window app2areel, narking a house in a hollow between 300w-211rouded 111118, She turned ea- gerly that way; she could go only eery slowly now.. There was n" path; 11 least, If there was, the snow drifts std it. She struggled to the door and 'Who's Here?" She Cried. "Who's Here?" knocked upon It, and reeefrini, nn re. ply, she i'*nt upon It tvlttt hotel Hats, "Who's here?" sh* cried. "Who's here?" The door opened then a very little. and the frightened flue, of an Indhte woman uppea'ed In the emelt. The 'romen evidently heti espel'ted—end fennel -80111P arrival. and was reas- •<ored when .she saw only a girl, She threw the door wider open, nh11 hent to help unfasten Constunre's suoe'- shoes; having, dune that, she led her In and closed th • 11002. "1L'ller'e is your conn?" Constance had rnught the woinan's 1:rtn. "They sent hint to the hehu'b. A ehlp hn* sunk." "Are there houses hear here? You moat run to one of them at Hare. ilr:ng whoever YoU t'nn "2t; or if you ('0u't do that, tell me where to go." The woman shored at her 14'olhlly Ind moved away. "None near," she -ofd. "liestd0*, you nolo not get wniebody before some one will come:" "1PIio is that?" "lie is on the be:eh—Henry Spent. - men, Ire 2011)2* here to warm hitn- xelf. It is nearly t111>' 112 fume, en tie." 1'nnstanee gnzed at her; the wnnv'n '1.r:t l 2:IlIly glad of floc coming, Her '(l'ee—t•ellef from 14,11 foto' she hod 'el feeling when she emoted the diol' —wax very evident, 1• stn* li"pry, hen, tt'120 hod frightened her. '1'!o 1:dhm welunl set a eh:iir for u•1- beside the stare, 1111e1 pal 'rater le 1 pun to Peat; she 0bo^2t :tee 'VIM) a box into a hotel and hrotielt a •1111,. "flat'' many on that stile?" ".11tiemther 11(1':•,' wort' 1hh'ty- nin '." 1'p/talnttee eeell'' 1. Cream Grading ETTER CREAM Means ETTER BUTTER ETTER PRICES We are now prepared to Grade your Cream honestly, gather it twice a week and deliver at our Creamery each day we lift it. We gather with covered truck to keep sun off IL We pay a premium. of 1 cent per ib, butter fat for Specials over that of No, 1 grade, and 3 cents per ib. but- ter -fat for No 1 grade over that of N.o. t grade. The basic principle of the improvement in the quality of Ontario butter is the elimination of second and off grade cream, This may be accomplished by paying the producer of good (ream a better price per pound of butter -fat titan is paid to the producers 1-a of poor cream We solicit Your patronage and co-operation for hotter market. eimere-We will loan you a can. See our Agent, 1'. C. McCALL1 or Phone 23101 Brussels, • • THE RUSSEL5 POST WT1:1N.ESDAY, Se>tourner" 41t1); 192iF 0rt'ell )11'e 0211118 [In?1L" "1tt'ven? Whitt lnlvi' YOU heard?' What make* you think so?" IM what the Drum says," The Drum; There (21)114 a Drum heu! At est thheIt as seine sound which people beard and whlell they B1i11c d the Brum, For the wonlnn 11111 hen rd It, C n1staure grew suddenly eel!. For twenty liveli, the Wouunl suld, the Unna had heat; that meant to her, ,will t0 (2011711 11/111P 100 11)1(1', 11111, ,.even ,vert: left. lndelleite, Ms:peran" dental that all from the ferry anus Ite dead:,... front denial which had been strength, cheer by the nest's that at least tine bout had been adrift near Beaver nitoree in Constance to conviction of a boat with seven leen from the ferry, 71ev011 dying, perhaps, hitt not yet dead. Seven out of twenty-seven; 'Che score were gone; the Drum had beat fob'' Mem in little groups as they tilled, 1Cin'n the Drum bent again, would 11 beet beyond the score? Raving finished the tea, Constance returned to the door anti reopened It; the sounds outside were the same. A 41:111 2' figure appeared moving along file edge of the lee—the figure of a tall maw, walking on snowshcee; moonlight distorter) the figure, and It sus atGl'Ied, too, In a great coat w111211 made It envie', ;rideable. Ile hatted !'el ate -'(1 'lptle';11g not 11t the lake )111'1 iron, with a s1_11''„11 n11122m2hlt, atrial( :1' • e I. o!',ill, 111111 1: AV ('alb 12(21''” -01 • - •-'d.t (flet the 21'e• ,e It.. .12..42 . t'1., 121..'11111. 11S 1111 1i" t a r•2(uhtlh:e MM.?" 1 tl • ((''1 011, eNer Constance gazed again at the man and found his motion quite unmistak- able; he was counting—If not counting something that he heard, or thought Ile. heard, he was recounting and review- ing within himself something that he had heard before—some Irregular rhythm which had become so much a part of him that ft sounded now con- tinually within 111s own brain; so that, Instinctively, he mored In cadence to It. He stepped forward again now, and turned toward the 1100)1*. Her breath eaught as she spoke to the woman. "Mr, Spearman Is coming here now 1" Her Impulse 22188 to remain where she was, lest he should think She was afraid of him; but realization came to her that there might be advantage In seeing him before he knew that she was there, so she reclosed the door and drew buck Into the cabin. CHAPTER XIX The Sounding of the Drum, Noises of the wind and the roaring of the lake made inaudible any sound of his approach to the cabin; she netted his snowshoes, however, serape the cabin wall as, after taking them off, he leaned theta beside the door. He thrust the door open then and cattle in; he did not see her at first and, as he turned to force the door shut again against the wind she watched hip: 4uletly. He saw her now and started and, le though sight of her confused him, 0e looked from the woman and then back to Constance before he seemed eertaln of her. "Hollo!^ he said tentatively. "Hel- lo 1" "1'm here, Henry." "Oh; you are You are!" He stood drawn up, swaying a little as he (tared at her; whisky ...its upon his breath, and It became evident be the neat of the room; but whisky could not account for this condition she wit- aea*ed In him. Neither could it con- ceal that condition; some tunnel! and strain within hint made 111m Immune to Its effects. She had realized on her way up here what, vaguely, that strain within him must be. Guilt—guilt of some awful sort connected him, and had connected Uncle Benny, with the 1liwaka—the Gutit Was n His Thought Now—Rack- ing, Tearing at Him. Put .n OOP tc, HAY FEVER or Summer Asthma, You =— with RAZ -MAI: .Capsules --if you'll ivat start before the attack is due, You'll rejoice at the results. People with Hay Fever 20 years have absolutely stopped it with RAZ- NAJI, It's wonderful: No apr'uys, enufF, smokes or serums. No harm- ful er habit'forming drugs, HP DON'T ART HAY FEVER RAZNMAHH rut. nuns" "1"or Alun Conrad? Yes," she said. "1 knew it!" he repented. "Ire's been the trouble between you and me a)1 the timed" SY1* made no dental of that; she had begun to knew during the last two days that it was so. "so you came to find 111m?" Henry went on, , "We'll be found!" she defied flim. "Be found?" "Some are dead," she adtnitted, "but not all. Twenty ore dead; but seven are not P" "Seven?" he echoed. "You 1413' seven are not: How de you know?" "'Cho Drum has been beating for twenty, but not for more!" Constance said. "The Drum you've been listen - Ing to all day upon the beach—the In- dian Drum that sounded for the dead of the Allwaka; *minded, one by one, for all wilt) died! But It didn't Sound for lam! Its been sounding again, you know; hut, again, it doesn't sound for Win, Henry. not for him !" "The .1flwakal What do you mean by that? What's that got to do with this?" H swollen c is s e face e tvus thrust forward at her; there was threat against her In his tease muscles and Ills bloodshot eyes. She did not shrink back from 1111n, or move; mud now he was not waiting for her answer. Something—tt sound —]lad caught mini aanat. (aloe It echoed, low in its reverberationbut penetrating and quite distiller. It 'tune, et; fat' 114 dlreellon "011111 he as- 4lirled to 11, trout the trees tua rd the (here; but it was like no fat'o.,t sound. Instinet, too, was It from any noise of the lake. It was like a Drum! Yet, when the echo had gone, It was a sen - sweet easy t., deny --a halluclnaton, that was all, But now, low and distinct It came again; and, as before, Con- stance Saw It catch Henry and (told 111m, His lips moved, but he did not speak; he was counting. "Two," she saw his lips form. The sound of the Drum was continu- ing, the heats a few seconds apart, "Twelve," Constance counted to her- self. The heats had seemed to he quite measured and regular at first; but now Constance knew that this wets only roughly true; they bent rather In rhythm than at regular Intervals, "Twenty—twenty-one — twenty-two!" Constance caught breath and waited for the next bent; the time of the In- terval between the measures of the rhythm passed, and still only the whistle of the wind and the undertone of water sounded, The Drum had beaten its roll and, for the moment, was done. Twenty-two had been her count, as nearly as she could count at all; the reekoning agreed with what the Indian women had heard. Two had cried, then, since the Drum last had beat, when its roll was twenty. Two more than before; that meant five were left I Constance caught up her woolen hood from the table and put It nn. Her actino seemed to cull henry to hhn- seif, "What are you going to do?" he de - !needed, "I'm going 0111." He moved between her and the door, "Not alone, you're nut.!" Ills, heavy voice had a deep. tone of Menace in it; he seemed to consider and doclde something about her. "There's a farm- house about a 10110 hate:: I'm going to take you over there arnel leave you with those people." "I will not go there!" He swore. "I'11 carry you, then!" She shrank truck from him 114 he lurched toward her with roods out- stretched to seize her; he t'o)lowrel her, and she avoided him again; If his guilt and terror had given her mental (ascendency over him, his phy'sirud strength coni(' still force her to ]lis will and, realizing the hnpossih111ty of evading him or otercnnlhlg him, she stopped. "Not that!" she cried, "Don't touch hoe I" "Come With me, then 2he command- ed; and Ile went to the door 11)13 laid his snowshoes on the slime and stepped Into them, stooping anti tight• ening the straps he steed by while she put on hers He did not attempt again to put hands 1111011 her as they moved away from the little cabin to- ward the woods hock of the nearing; but went ahead, breaking the trail for her with his snowshoes. Ile moved forward slowly ; he 0001d travel, if he had wished, throe feet to every two hat she could Dover, but be seemed tot wishing for speed hut rattler for delay, A deep, dull resouanee wits lootnhlg Mune the wood: It boomed galls and nut into it rhythm. No onger 11.1ts it abw'e; at least it was not ally above; It wall 1411 111.12(11 111011-..- tere there, n h • t t , 1 light and to loft, before, eland the hnonlhhg of the Pram, 100111 was the sultetnn'1' of that Sound 1 the Drum healing the roll of the dead Henry lino stopped in front of her, lttlf turned :her way; his body swayed rid bent to the booming of the I)t•tnn, s his swollen lips cotlnled its s0und- ng4. She ('011111 ser hint plainly do the moonlight, yet she drew nearer to him as she followed his coapt. "Twenty - lost ship for which the Inuit had benteu the roll of the dead. "1211112 was a in his thought now—reeking, tearIng 1 et hint. But there was something , more thin tlhat; what she had seen in 1 11t e c Min when Ile "s _au'ht let her d.. t t, sight of h w118 tear—fear of her, of Conxtsncc 1 Silerr)11, 1 1 "You enol* up here about Bert Cor - vet?" he ehalieegcd. "Yes—no l" "Which do you mean?" "yin„ a n "I know, then, Pew 11111), then --eh 1 1 '"7e neeuttntea" -Twenty-two!" eh nut was mile goin • on, "Twenty. four- 1weut$dive-ttteuty•slx:" Would he mum as elft')'? lie diel nut) and her pulses, which hod )Nitro, leaped web relief, lie Inured on 1101011, d1 seeudh1g the steep *111, of u 1111i' 1,12111,'. 111111 see fol. 1oww). Hui' of 11s 1411,nvslalta) caught In a protruding teed and. lnsteud of slowing to tree 1t with Barre, he pulled 11 violently out, and she hotted the dry, seuee:4,11 wood. cruet:. lie looked down, swore; saw that the wood rtes not broken through lull went tin; but as he reuol:ed the button of the slope, she leaped dowtnvard front it little height behind hint n11:1 Brushed down upon Ills tralling saowsiew.jusl behind the heel. The rending sump of the wood came beneath her feet. Had she broken through Ills shoe or 8nitpped leer own? She sprang buck, as he erred out and swung in an attempt to grasp her; he lunged to follow her, and sbe rap a few steps away and stopped. At his nest step 111s fool'. entangled 1n the mesh of the broken snowshoe, and he stooped, cursing, to strip It tiff and hurl It from hen; then he tore ani the one from the other foot, and threw It away, and lurched utter her again; but now he sunk above his knees and floun- dered in the 800W. She stood for a nuhrnent while the half -mad, half- drunken all-drunken figure struggled toward her along the side of the 1-8211118; then she ran to where the tree trunks hid her from him. He gained the top of the slope and turned in the direction she had gone; assured then, apparently, that she had flown In fear of him, be started back more swiftly toward the beach. She followed, keeping out of his sight among the trees. To twenty-six, he NM counted—to twenty-six, each thiel That told that he knew one was living among those who had been upon the ferry What one? It could only be one of two to dismay him so; there had been only two on the ferry whose rescue he had feared; only two who, living, he would have let ile upon this beach which he bad chosen and set aside for his pa- trol, while he waited for him to diet She forced herself on, unsparingly, as she saw Henry .gain the shore and us, believing himself alone, he hurried northward. She could not rest; sfle could not let herself be esbausted. • Merciless minute after minute she raced hint thus— A dark shape—a dg - me lay stretched twee the Ice ahead! Beyond and still farther out, sone- , thing which seemed the fragments of a lifeboat tossed up and down where the waves thundered and gleamed at he edge of the floe. Henry's pace quickened; hers quick- ened desperately, too. She left the shelter of the trees and sernmhled down the steep pitch of the bluff, shouting, crying aloud. Henry turned about and saw her; he halted, and sire passed him with a rush and got be- tween him and the forst upon the Ice, before she turned and faced hint. Defeat—defeat of whatever purpose he had had—was his now that she was there to witness what he might do; and in his realization of that, he burst out in oaths against her— He advanced; she stood, confronting—he swayed siightry in his walk and swung past her and away; he went past those things on the beach and kept on along the ice hummocks toward the north. She ran to the huddled figure of the man in mackinaw and cap; his face was hidden partly by the position In which he lay and partly by the drift- ing snow; but, before she swept the snow away and turned him to her, she knew that he was Alan. She cried to him and, when he did not answer, she shoots him to get him awake; but she could not rouse him. Praying in wild whispers to herself, she opened his jacket and felt within his clothes; he was warm—at least he I She Tried to Lift Hlrn, to Carry Him; Then to Drag Him. But She Could Not. • Blatt net frozen within I Nn; 1nndthere se need some stir of 111s heart! she tried to lift trim, to earl's' him; then t0 dreg him. Ilut She mule( mol 2 he roil 1'1"0111 her arms Into the Sten' again, 1112,1 .hes down, , at pai]ina; tom upon in.r lop 1111d einsping him hl her. the must hove aid, sit* n0iai got 2)11)1 to some 1101150, ah0 must ink* trim out of the terrible cold; het dared x11* reeve 111m? Might Henry return, if she emit away? She prose and 1o01ted ahem, boar Up the shore she Matt his ;i,;ar* rising and fuillhg with his SLgbt Icer the rough ice, A touted *ante to the Master Salesman Lo, the people olE the earth do me homage. I am the herald of success for men, merchantt, manufacturers, municipalities and nations. I go forth to tell the world the message of servjce and sound merchandise. And the world lis - ten's when I speak. There was a day long ago, when by sheer weight of superior merit, a business could rise above the common level without me, but that day has passed into oblivion. For those who have used me as their servant I have gathered untold millions into their coffers. 1 Sell More Merchandise per dollar of salary paid me than any other sales- man on the face of the earth. The fabled lamp of Aladdin never called to the service of its master genii half so rich and powei'fuI as I am, to the man who keeps me constantly on his payroll. 1 Hold the Business of the seasons in the hollow of my hand, I com- mand the legions of fashion, mold the styles and lead the world whithersoever I go. I drive unprin- cipled business to cover, and sound the death -knell of inferior rrlerehandie. Frauds are afraid of me be- cause I march in the broad tight of day. Whoever Makes Me Their Serva)°t for life takes no chances .0n drawing down dividends from my untold treasures bestowed with a lavish hand. I have awakened and inspired nations, set mil- lions allions of men to fight the battles of freedom beyond the seas and raised billions of dollars to foot the bills. Nations land kings pay me homage and the business world bows at my feet. 1 saw broad fields for you to reap a golden harvest. Am Master Salesman at Your Service 1 Ain AdvitLii —x— Waiting Your Command The R SzcELS (Maimed Next Week), y2( , "t`"ati, 'qb,j v