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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1942-08-27, Page 2PAGE 2 BLACK £'AW by Victor Rousseau' CIIAPTEP V `SYNOPSIS Dave Bruce, out of a job, arrives at Wilbur Ferris' Cross -Bar 'ranch. Cua, ran, the :foreman, promises him a job if he can break a house called Black Dawn.. When he succeeds, he discov- ors Curran expected the horse to kill Uli•n1 on N ews-Record with which is Incorporated TIIE NEW ERA TETII1S OIP' SUBSCRIPTION' $1.50 per year in advance, to Can- adian addresses; 52.00 to the U.S. ear, other foreign 'countries.' No paper discontinued until all arrears' are• paid unless at the option of the pub- lisher•, The date to which, every sub- seription is paid is denoted on the abel. ADVERTISING R•A.TE'S —'Transient advertising 12o per count line for first insertion. Se for each subse- quent insertion. . Heading counts 2 lines. Small advertisements 'not to exceed one inch, •suelt as, "Wanted," "Lost", "Strayed", etc., inserted once for 35e, eech subsequent • insertion 15e. Rates for display advertising inade known on application. Communications intended for ptb- lication mast; as a guarantee of good faith, be .,accompanied by the name of the writer. G. E. HALL - Yroprietor H. T. RANCE NOTARY PUBLIC Fixe Insurance Agent Representing 14 Fire Insurance Companies Division Court Office, Clinton Frank Fingland, B:A'., LL.B. Barrister, Solicitor, Notary faille Successor to W. Brydone, K.C. Sloan Block .... -- Clinton, Ont, DR.. G. S. ELLIOTT Veterinary Surgeon. Phone 203 — Clinton, Ont. Dave walked up, the stone steps of the • jail. Passing through the anteroo ti, he was ushered into one of the two Ty E 'CLINTON NEWS -RECORD him. A girl namec, Lois•i•ides Mi. Sha rough the wind* 'and Shot him dead. is angry With Dale for breaking "her" Did my best to ektch him, but h.e was horse and refuses to speak to him LWe n 'too shcic for me, I(e vets away ill the alter" he has used his savings to help .•clark before I could get ileac eroug•h her foster :lathes, (-looker, pay oft the to shoot." mortgage on their. ranch. She leaves, I "Anything to corroborate that story and that night, while Hooker is trying sheriff?" asked Lonergan. was "just before lie began. pressing I -looker for the mortgage money. Then Dave Bruce had come along }' and broken Black Davin, a notecti' killer, Who had taken the lives of four peen. Worse than that, he had come to the cabin to be the partner of her foster -father.. When Sheriff Coggowelli announced that Dave had murdered (looker in his sleep, probably in the hope of finding a hoard of money Lois had never doubted) him. She knew that. nearly all men were like that, Sheriff Coggswell was the one roan whom she trusted. . - to tell Dave asecret' he hos learned, I "Nary a tiling," responcred Coggs- He had performed many little kind- IIooker is killed by a shot tired tl r- well. No 'trail nor nothing. Looks to mess for her in the past. When her ougli an own:. window. As Dave stats mo- this is an open and shut case." £osbea•-another lay dying he had ridden to town to get the sheriff .he meets 1 "Well, what did this unasked man 1 all the way into Hampton to bring 1 Lois, who immediately believes hint look Inke ?" Lonergan demanded.. "You back a• doctor. guilty. Now Sheriff Coggswell has say you saw him. IIow tall was he? The sheriff had, roped Hooker's :just arrested Dave for murder. ,What sort of build did he have? Could body across his horse to carry it you identify him if yon were to see down to Mbscal for burial.' "What ' hine again?" ' you aimin' to do .now, .Miss Lois?''' Por an instant Dave sizecl up •thee "Nacheraily not, him being masked he asked the girl.. , situation. It hadn't ,occurred to hits and it being dark as pitch," Dave re- • ;before that lie' could possibly be un-, turned. "But he was about yore build, "Stay on here ,just as I've always �der suspicion of having killed the has- judge, grid 1?e stood about as high as done, I suppose," she answered. 1 mless old man whom he, had befriend- you ' do. and he. had a look like a "You can't stay on here alone, r~<n ed. For a moment the ignominy of mangy yeller coyote, anti --" nin' wild with that heisd, 'of broxics, his position maddened him with anger Miss Lois," the sheriff answered. But he Hadn't a chance. with' -Sheriff. "Silence!' rdarecr.Lonergan, pang, - ,y et yuh want as to go out into • Coggstvell's gun covering his heart. trig' his gavel down on esk. the world and see something •of life ISo, with a shrug of his shoulders, "You'll get nothing by those tactics. Now I been thinl:in' for some time, lse held out his hands. While Sinn Bruce. I'm holding you without bail ever since that sale was announced covered hint in turn, Coggswell ex- for the coroner's' ury, Keep Birt! in I could get you a place with my traded a pair of handcuffs from his close confinement, sheriff, and see sister-in-law over to Hamptol.' saddle bag and snapped them over that no one is allowed to visit him." "I'm staying on here," •answered Dave's wrists. Dave was hustled baoie to the •cell Lois: "But Pll be in town when Dave and the door slammed upon Rini. The 'Bruce hangs for shooting Mr. Hook I guess you kin handle this bad two men went out.. An hour passel er.e hombre, Sins," said Coggswell to his during which Dave amused himself It -was the simple code that Lois deputy. " Me and Miss Lois will ride by looking out the window. Mescal had always known. There were plenty up to the mesa and investigate. Turn certainly seemed to be wrought up of shootings in Mescal, and self -de - }ore hawse, Bruce. over the killing, for therewere little fense was generally accepted as •ex - In another moment Dave was riding groups of people in the streets, erg- casing the incident. But the few cold- back toward -Mescal, Sims was at his uing, and all–looking toward the jail. blooded murders that had occurred hs side with a. gun in hishand, while the After an hour Sheriff Coggswell recent years had invariably been fol- sheriff and Lois were galloping back, came back with a pitc?ier of water and lowed by a lynching party. Lois' feel - across' the valley.. a plate of food. He opened the doer ing against Dave was almost an im- .Mescal, which, hadappeared empty cautiously, set tate pitcher down in- personal one. the afternoon before, was now very side, then the plate, and ,slammed the much alive. Storekeepers were stiller- door again. And, just as if her foster father were still alive, she busied herself ing in their doorways, looking on. "You seem to think I'm a sort of with cleaning the little cabin. She Little groups'of inhabitants, gatheied desperate man -killer, .sheriff," Dave set the blood-stained blankets in the at street corners and watched the two suggested. men ride by. A. bobtail of Mexiean "Well, I'll say yuh done yore bit ing in. her heart all the while that urchins formed in. procession, running to keep up that impression sinceyuh site would never return. behind the horses and hooting.loudly- struck Mescal," answered Coggswell. . It was evident that Lois' story of "Ansi yore tall in' that way to Mr. She was going •far ,away •into the Hooker's murder had immediately be- Lonergan was just plain crazy. He's mountains, beyond which, in her lin- cone public property.rite coronet" aginatipn ,theme lay a sort of fairy- . II; was with a feeling of relief that land. She felt that all, the old life "Seems to sue he holds a good marry had conte to an encl. And she worked offices in this town," said Dave, like a person in a dream, sweeping "You said something there, feller, out the dust; then milked the cow sun to day, to be washed later, know - H. C. MEIR Barrister -at -Law Solicitor of the Supreme Court of: Ontario Proctor in Admiralty. Notary Publie and Commissioner Offices in Bank of Montreal Building Hours: 2.00 to 5.00 Tuesdays and Fridays. D. H. McINNES CHIROPRACTOR Electro Therapist, Massage Office: Huron Street, (Few. Doors west •pf Royal Bank) - Hours—Wed. and Sat., and by appointment FOOT CORRECTION by Manipulation Sun -Ray Treatment Phone 207 HAROLD JACKSON Licensed Auctioneer Specialist in Farts and Household Sales. • Licensed in Huron and Perth Counties. Prices reasonable; satis- faetion guaranteed, For information etc..write or phone Harold Jackson, R.R. No. 4 Seaforth, "phone 14-661. 06-012 THE ? cIiILLOP MUTUAL' Fire Insurance Company Head Office, Seaforth, Ont. Officers: President A. W. Mewing, Blyth; Vice-Prresident, W. R, Archi- bald, Seaforth; Manager and See.. Treas., M. A. Reid, Seaforth. Directors: Wm. Knox, Londesboro; Alex. Broadfoot, Seaforth; Chris Leonhardt, Dublin; E. J. Trewartha, Clinton.; Thos Moylan, Seaforth; W. It. Archibald, Seaforth' Alex McErsr- ing, Blyth; Prank McGregor, Clinton; Hugh Alexander, Walton. List of Agents: ri 3. Watt, Blyth; J. .E. Pepper, Bruce - field, IL.R. No. 1; R .F. McKercher, Dublin, R.R. No. 1; J. F. Preuter, Brodhagen. Any money to be paid' may be paid to . the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of Commerce, Seaforth, or at Calvin Cutt's Grocery, Goderich. Parties desiring' to eiieet insur- ance or transact other business will be promptly attended • to on applica- tion to any of the above officers ad- dressed to their respective post offs- cee. Losses inspected by the director, CANADIAN NATIONAL ;;AILWAYS TIME TABLE Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as. follows: Buffalo and Goderich' Div. Going bast, depart 6.43 a.m. Going East depart 3.00 pan. Going Went, depart 11.45 a.m. Ccing West, depart 9.50 p.m. London–Clinton Going south ar. 2,50, leave 3.08 p.rn.�s steel cages that comprised the cells. What you saki to (tint in the court - In one corner was a cot bed, and that room, coupled with yore . buttin' in was all. The deputy clanged the door. and payin' that money'' for 'Hooker, "Ain't you gain' to take these wrist- means a sure verdict against you.' bands off ?" demanded Dave. "Listen Sheriff," said, Dave, "sup- pose I was to convince yuh I didn't "Nope, not till the sheriff gits backs," kill Hooker?" answered the deputy. "Yo're a desp- i "Yuri couldn't dolt; but it wouldn't rate killer, Bruce, and I ain't•ta-kin' no' stake a mite of difference- anyway. chances with yuh," '- I got my duty to perforin without It must ,have .begot midday before fear or favor." Sheriff Coggswell nppearod, with Sims I • Sheriff Coggswell had impressed besides him. Each reran had. a gun lis his hand, and the loop on the sheriff's Dave that way from the start, The face destroyed all Dave's hopes of its .sheriff wasn't gifted with :a brilliant bi'ail seemed . n honest man. mediate liberation. r, but he e d a o c I "It ain't occurred to you, I s'pose, "I'ru takin' you. before Judge Loner- 1 that other folks might have some - an," said tate sheriff. "Unlock that thing to gain by Hooker's death?" cage, Sims," asked Dave. "It don't Seem queer to "So you think I killed old. Hooker?" ' you, Lonergan bringin' hint in here She watched him ride his horse Dave demanded. and orderin' him out after twelve over the steep edge and on to the "You kin argue that with the judge. years because he was tltreatenhi' to mesa. She stood in •the doorwayof He's waitin," was all that Coggswell talk?" voueltsafed.the cabin and watched him raise his 1 "What yuh Mean by that?"'de- hat then climb out of his saddle and Coggswell led the way, and Dave fell- minded Coggswell. " come forward. owed, with the deputy's revolver „ ing into the small of his bier!. Well, ,Iioolcer talked. to Inc be- (To Be Continued) and threw the milk away and let the animal amble ,out to find what pasturage she could. ' In the early part of the afternoon she heard the Sound of an approach- ing rider. At first she thought it was the sheriff returning. Then she recognized the gait. It was one of the Cross -Bar. horses. Going to the edge of the mesa and looking down, she saw Curran, the Cross -Bar fore- man, It was more than a month- since Curran had been to the cabin, and Lois' attitude toward line on the last oecasion had been far from friendly. Her instinct had told her that it was not pure benevolence of heart that brought Curran there. pcess They went up a flight of stairs to a gore he died", said Dave. "And may - They went overhead. The two be that slimy murderer outside the dozen or so of seats were all filled, window heard what he said and and other spectators lined' the walls. figured to kill him and put the blame Lonergan, seatedon•the bench, grinned on me. I' guess you ain't lived here viciously as Dave was brought in front too shorn a, time to know some of of him. the thingsI know - about Miss Lois "You haven't lost any time since fol( instance•'' - you hit Mescal," he observed. "gavel Naw listen here, Bruce, answer - you been through your list of wanted ed the sheriff. "I got my job' to men yet, slrerif£?" j do,, and I'm Join' it: to the best of "No, T ain't had the chance," Go s. my powers. There amt. nobody lain well responded, " but the facts is as buy me ,and T act on evidence." clear as daylight. Yore honor heard I Lois had always known by instinct him cheat old Hooker out of a .half- that James Hooker wasn't her father, share in that valuable property when nor the old woman who had tended in to in-, he said Hooker was a state of i her sincebabyhood • mother. , b� od iter mother.. Icer. y toxication. Likewise they -was seen earliest remembrances were of the to ride away together, and by the pr. westward trek- in the big wagon: in isoner's own adhnission him and Hook- which they had moved. from,— some- er spent the night: together in the where to the heights above the cabin." . • valley. "And Miss Hooker?" asked Lon -1 Growing up alone, save for the two er an. old' people, she had somehow acquir- "She spent the night out on the ed the art of taming the wild horses mesa with her hawses. Didn't like the that frequented the waste lands looks of this homrbre's face, and redk- above the valley, and sometimes,. ernized him. for the feller who beat up came down to the mesa. Most of rtnrran at the Gross -Bar yesterday thein were scrubs, but a few of thein Well, yore honour, we brung Hooker's Were worth breaking in for cow - body into town. He• was killed in, ponies, and! gradually Lois had ,begun stantly with a forty-five slug through to eke out a few dollars by selling the 'brain, which the doc extracted. them to Ferris. • Likewise thecae's one shel fired from 1 It was after site had tamed) Black the prisoners forty-five." Dawn that she had gained complete "Looks like you killed that poor, control over the herd, which follow harmless old man," rasped Lonergan ed Cher like sheep at her signal. hoping to find' some money or some- I - To sell Black Dawn to Ferris had thing. What have you got to say?" almost broken' her heart, but she "All I got to say is," answered. Dave knew, that Lonergan had been press- "Mr. Hooker woke up before daylight ing Hooker for his money. Once the and started talkie' to me, and all of a judge had made advances to her, and,: uddcn• a masked man stuck a guts th-1 she had struck him in the face. That SCRAP DUBBER, U7G10NTLY. 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When you "throw out" the clutch on a car it doesn't stop—it Boasts. So it is with your business, when you slow down or stop advertising you cannot see an immediate difference in the tempo of your -business–,it "coasts" on thespeed which you have gained advertising. But once again, let ,us compare the motor car to a business, When the car "coasts" for a time it slows down to regain the former speed you most feed it extra gasoline to regain the lost momentum, This is exactly what happens to a business. When the pulling power of advertising has been taken away for a time you must use more of it to regain the lost momentum. There are a great many kinds of advertising available to the man who wishes to dispose of his merchandise. He tan tell his atier- tomers and prospective customers in many differentways of the service he has to offer -But for a STEADY PULL, a LONG PULL and a SUCCESSFUL PULL use the advertising columns of Clinton News -Record