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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1942-09-10, Page 2FULL. DETAILS FROM ANY FIRE iNSURANCE AGENT OR COMPANY, xE 2` tINTON ` 'NIWS=RECOR: CHAPTER VIt SYNOPSIS Dave Bruce, out of a job, arrives at Wilbur. Ferris' Cross -Bar ranch; Curran; the foreman, pronii es hint. ',a job if 'lie can break ,a horse -called Black Dawn. When he succeeds, he flhe, (Clinton "thews-K,ecord. with which is Incorporated THE NEW ERA TEEMS( OF SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 per year in' advance, to Can- adian addresses; an-adian'addresses; $2.00 to the U.S. or 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- scription is paid is denoted on the label. ADVERTISING RATES - Transient advertising 12c per count line for first insertion. Se for each subse- quent insertion. Heading counts 2 lines. ' Small advertisements not to exceed one inch, such as "Wanted," "Lost", "Strayed", etc., inserted once for 35c,, eeIch subsequent insertion 15c. Rates for display advertising made known on application. Communications intended for pub- lication must, as a guarantee of good faith, be accompanied by the name of the writer. G. E. HALL Proprietor H. T. RANCE NOTARY PUBLIC Fire Insurance Agent Representing 14 Fire Insurance Companies Division Court Office, Clinton Frank Fingland, B.A., LL.B. Barristor, Solicitor, Notary Public e Successor to W. Brydone, K.C. Sloan Block .... . Clinton, Ont. ▪ ictor-•Rousseau discovers Curranexpected, the horse to kill liizn. A• girl named Lois rides up. angry with Dave for breaking "her" horse. She refuses to•speak to, Dave even when he uses his savings to pay off the mortgage on the small ranch. she "shares with her foster father, ' a man named Hooker, When'Hooker is, killed by a shot fired through the window, Lois has Dave arrested for murder. Encouraged by Curran, the local people have, broken into the jail and •dragged Dave to a tree 'where they are going to hang him. Among the crowd Dave sees Lois. Disheveled the clothes almost torn from the 'upper part of his body, Dave was thrust forward. "Here y'are, Miss Lois," shouted Curran exultantly. "I- 4 e's the measly skunk who killed yore dad, and yore goin' to have the honour of touchin' him off, accordin' to cus- tom." Dave straightened himself and looked straight into. the girl's face, He 'didn't want to die, but he had faced death too many times to- flinch from it now that his time seemed to have come. But through his mind old Hooker's words were running: "You promised me you'll look out for Lois if anything happens to me.". Those words, cut off by the roar of the explosion from the assassin's revolver. And, "She never had a chance. peer kid." Somehow it seemed to_ Dave that he could go more easily if Lois be - lived he was not old Hooker's mur- derer. The girl was looking straigh back at him. In the darkness Dav cult see the dark gray pools of be yes, as if lit by an inner fire, Someone produced a rope an flung it over ' the bough. Roug hands laid hold of Dave and fas toned the other end about his neck :Fashioning a hangman's knot. Dave had ceased to struggle. I -Ie would go to his death at least with dignity. "Git •one of them broncs." shouted Curran. V' f A man leaped from a horse's back and led it forward. Dave knew the procedure. The horse would be driven from beneath him, and he would be left swinging— the most painful form of hanging, since it took a man perhaps a full half- min- ute before he beeahie unconscious. But Lois drove her horse for- ward. "Let him ride Black Dawn," she cried. "He broke him, didn't he DR. G. S. ELLIOTT Veterinary Surgeon Phone 203 Clinton, Ont. H. C. MEIR Barrister -at -Law Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Ontario Proctor in Admiralty. Notary Public 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 of Royal Bank) Hours—Wed. and Sat, and by appointment FOOT CORRECTION by Manipulation Sun -Ray Treatment Phone 207 HAROLD JACKSON Licensed Auctioneer Specialist in Farm and Household Sales, : I i Ii111 Licensed in Huron and Perth Counties. Prices reasonable; satis- faction guaranteed. For information etc. write or phone Harold Jackson, R.R. No. 4 Seaforth, phone 14-661. 06-012 THE McKILLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company Head Office, Seaforth, Ont. Officers: President A. W. McEwing, Blyth; Vice -President, W. R. Archi- bald, Seaforth• Manager and Sec. Treas., M. A. Reid, Seaforth. Directors: Wm. Knox, Londesboro; Alex. ' Broadlfoot, ,Seaforth; Chris. Leonhardt, Dublin; E. J. Trewartha, Clinton;. Thos Moylan, Seaforth; W. R. .Archibald, Seaforth; Alex MdEw- ing, Blyth; Prank McGregor, Clinton; h Hugh Alexander, Walton. List of Agents: J. Watt, Blyth; J .E. Pepper, Bruce- field, R.R. No. 1; 11 F. McKercher, 'e Dublin, R.R. No. 1; J. F.. Preuter, I a Brodhagen. B Any money to be paid may be paid I to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of e Commerce, Seaforth, or at Calvin Cutt's Grocery, Goderioh. Parties desiring to effect insur- ance or transact other business will be promptly attended to en applica- tion to any of the above . officers ad- dressed to their respective post offi- ces. Losses inspected by the director.. a last message for yore loved and dear -ones? ;; Sneak loud, feller, we'xe listenin'," , Dave, looking contemptuously upon the grinning' throng, returned, no answer. • "Yuh ain't .got nothing to say?" sneered Curran, "Mebbe- you'd like to lead us in psalm?' Well. yuh'll talk plenty When yuh feel the rope tightenni'. Which bein' so, we're ready for yuh lVIiss Lois," Lois moved ,slowly forward: With her eyes •still fixed, intently - upon Dave's, she had the appearance of a sleep -walker. She stepped to Black. Dawn's side and laid her hand upon his neck. The shouts and , curses had died away into complete silence as the last scene of the tragedy came on the stage. This was the 'climax of the afternoon's entertainment. In another moment Dave `Bruce would be dancing at the end, of the long rope, gurgling, ancl clawing help- lessly with his hands in his effort to free himself. Then suddenly Lois leaped—ancl what happened next was something entirely unforseen by any man in that crowd. For, with a swift bound, the girl was ' astride Black Dawn behind Dave, and quick as a flash her arm shot up.' A blade was seen to gli in the light that came from the fron of the Wayside Rest. The rope served with two quick strokes. drop ped in a Boil about Dave's shoulders A low whistle from Lois' lips And. instantaneously Black Daw went into action. With 'a might 7777 THURS., SEPT. 10 1942 as; about to'tbrour ilt: away. T'hen' he realized drat • its discovery' Would • give • the clue to thein; flight. He -fastened; it instead,; about his saddle -horn, where his lariat was "coiled. ' The •horse was straining•. upward toward the Higher ,mesas.) The scrub brushed his flanks, now and again he'lcickedd away a ,'ahower of stones. At last the ;rapper mesa was reached, land before Dave realized it Bla'ok Dawn had coins to a standstill in front of the cabin,. looming darkly up out of the scrub, Dave slipped from 'the saddle and' caught :Lois, in his arms. He car-, Tied her inside the cabin and laid her COI the bink, He heard a. horse nicker . somewhere, and Black Dawn's trumpeting" answer.. Then sounded the thud of hoofs, and the stallion was gone. Dave found the lamp_ and lit it, He was surprised how his fingers were shaking. He looked at Lois and saw that the blood' was still oozing from the wound in her Shoul- der, He pulled down' the stained over- alls and the soaked garment beneath, exposing• the white flesh of the upper arm. He dabbed at it with the. corner of the garment, and. to his relief, saw that the wound was a slight one. A bullet had struck just below the collar -bone and seared its way across the flesh of the shoulder, but it had • apparently severed a small artery in its course. The bleeding, however, had almost ceased. Dave lit the kerosene stove and set water on to boil. He went back ret to the side of the bunk and pressed t his fingers upon the flesh about the artery. Suddenly he was aware that _ Lois' eyes were open, .and that she , was looking at him. "You're all -right, Miss Lois," he n said. "Just nicked, you. You don't y mind my takin' care of yore wound? I wish there was sone disinfectant. You ain't got none?" Lois shook her head. Her eyes were pools of unfathomable gray, Dave's searching for the answer to her unspoken question. Dave answered it. "You saved my life when it wasn't worth biddin' a cent in a thousand dollars on," he said huskily. "No, I didn't kill Mr Hooker. Some skunk shot him through the window while we was talkin'. I can't say more than that. You can believe me or not just as you Please. No, you got to believe me Lois." "I guess I do," Lois answered. "I'd never have saved you—nee and Black Dawn Tf I hadn't believed You. He didn't often make mis- takes in judging men, Mr. Hooker didn't. It was only because you broke Black Dawn, I reckon. I couldn't stand for that not know- ing who you were," Her voice trail- ed away weakly. "How long have we been here?" she asked "Not mare than fifteen minutes. I'm hcatin' some water to clean your wound. I—I had to—" "That was kind of you," she an- swered, with the simplicity of a child. There was not the least em- barrasssment in her face or voice, and she let Dave sponge the wound ivith a piece of clean cotton ma- terial in a small tin trunk that she shoved him ander the bunk.' He bandaged it with strips, passing then around the neck to hold them. "How you feelin'?" Dave asked anxiously. "I'm better now." "Think yeti could eat something? Or maybe a •eup of coffee—I could make that quick for you?" There was a faint smile on her face. "You're not thinking about yourself, are you?" she asked. "Suppose that crowd' comes here on the chance of finding you?" (TO BE CONTINUED) MARY AND MARTHA I baked a rake and I wrote a song, I tried, to hinny, then lingered long To watch a covey of brown birds pass Slowly, quietly, through the grass I mended some socks, yet tlreained the while In my usual Mary -and -Martha style. For after all, it is difficult very To be partly Martha and partly Mary. But 1 can't lose Martha, 1 need her so, She's always dependable. careful, slow, And Mary, for all of her careless ways Puts joy and sunlight in Martha's days So somehow or Miser my scheme of things Needs Martha's feet and Mary's wings. • t leap the great stallion broke through e the crowd, knocking men right and r, left, He plunged through the rear- ing horses, which were squealing d with terror, while •their riders h frantically pulled leather in order to retain their balance. Another instant, and the horse, bearing his double burden, was gal- loping. along the street, gathering his mighty muscles into an amazing composite of speed and momentunk The horse was through the crowd before any man there had recovered his presence of mind. Curran was the first to do so. "Stop thein!" he howled. "Shoot the hawss! Shoot quick!" He loosed his six-gun, and a rat- tling volly followed close upon the *charge. But by this time Black Dawn and his two riders, were half- way the length of the short street, The punchers on their rearing horses were struggling madly to get them under control. There came a wild dash in pursuit. Curran burst into a roar •of laugh- ter. "That's sure smart of yuh, Miss Lois," he cried. "Yeah, he )Broke Black Dawn, and Black Dawn's goin' to break him—by the neck!" Lois bent forward and whispered in the stallion's ear, then slipped to the ground: "Git him up, fellers," chortled Curran. "Bruce, yore raee is run, and yo're goiil' to do some real fancy high-steppin' tangos. Say, ain't yuh gat no halter on that hawss. Miss Lois?" he continued. "He doesn't need a halter.._. He'll stand till I give him the word to go." Curran roared with glee, '"That's sure some hawss," he shouted. "Keep outer his way when he does git to movin', fellers, because he'll move fast and, quick. Fork this hombre aerost him!" A little cautiously, for the repu- tation of the black stallion was known to all, the group that held: Dave dragged hirer to Black Dawn's side and, raised him, forcing one leg across and thrusting. the toe of the the boot into the stirrup, But Black Dawn stood like a . graven linage, = atterly motionless, save for a trem ling of his flanks. Dave, wondered, incongruously nough, why they hadn't bound his inns. Then he remembered, A trangling man claws instinctively at the rope by which he is suspend - d. prolonging the agonies of death and increasing the amusement that his hanging offers. Dave sat the Black stallion dis-•.' dainfully, making no attempt at re- sistance. But again he sought Lois' eyes and again he saw the girl's eyes; fixed on his. And all of a sudden it seemed to him` as if a triple under- standing had been effected—between himself and the girl and the big horse. He felt that Black Dawn recognized his mastery of him. "We're just about ready,- Miss Lois," shouted Curran, "Just moment, though. Bruce yuh might as well confess as how yuh 1 murdered Mr. Hooker, onless yuh is want torgo to hell with a lie on yore soul. Got anything' to say 1 M ialie`" They Might as well have chased the wind. Black Dawn was already past the last light of the town and outside revolver range. Lois, seated upon his haunches behind Dave, guided the stallion with her knees. Dave was awakening from a daze. The events of the last thirty seconds had been so monstrously different from what he had expected, Nov he understood. He turned round, shif- ted a little toward the horse's withers extended his arm to hold Lois in her place, "Leave me alone! Leave e ( nu alone!" she whispered fiercely. 1 But Dave still held her. and the black stallion rushed on through the night ,across the range, and to- ward the uplands, while the yells of their pursuers died • away behind them. On and on through the night, !black as pitch; the great stallion 'sped like the wind over the mange. Minutes went by, and Black Dawn's pace did not slacken. But suddenly Dave was aware that Lois was slumping toward him. He grabbed her more firmly, • ("Leave me—alone!" she muttered. Something wet was dripping upon Dave's fingers. He extended them, and found a wet patch upon the girl's overalls, near .the shoulder. ` "Lois—you're hitt he cried. "Leave me alone, I tell you, It's nothing, I'in taking—you—" But her voice failed' her. And it was with the utmost difficulty that Dave, seated in front of her, could contrive to keep his seat and also hold her on the back of the horse;, who showed: no signs of slackening his speed. Without reins. or even a halter, Davo was powerless to control hint, while to attempt to bandage Lois' wound was out of the 'question. In the dim starlight Dave triad to locate his surraundings. It seemed to him that the horse was taking them straight toward Hook- er's cabin. It was not until' then that he realized that the, severed hangman's moose was still` about inc neck. Dave uncoiled it with one- hand aril CAPiADIA NATIONAL. Ai WAYS TIME TABLE Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows: Buffalo' and Goderich Div. Going Blast, depart 6.43 am. Going' East depart 3.00 p.m. Going West, depart 11.45 a.m. Going. West, depart 9.50 p.m. London—Clinton , Going south a►r. 2.50, leaale 3.08 p.m. CUT COARSE FOR TNT PIPS CIT F/NE, FOR CIGARETTJS z �1a - �,z ;:•.. SU IN CASE OF BAR DAMAGE TO PROPERTY OWNERS OF PROPERTY ARE URGED TO INSURE AGAINST LOSS. BY ENEMY ACTION' The Government of Canada, by Act of Parliament, has set up a Plan of War Risk Insurance against damage to property caused by enemy action—by countermeasures taken against the enemy—by explosions of war munitions handled by third parties. 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