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"I am afraid 1 can not ask him a
second day." he remarked.
"'Oh. said she i for she did not
wish the gentleman to imagine that
she thought overmuch of the si0art
young keeper), "he ought to be ferry
glad if be can be of use to any one.
Mr i, :list amusing himself with the
oother fads:"
Which was strictly true at this mo-
ment. On the little plateau outside
Ronald's cottage two or three of
them were standing 'together. They
had got a heavy iron hall, to which
i'as attached about a yard and a hall
of rope, and one after timber was
trying who could 101111ch :his ball the
farthest. after swinging it three or
four tittles round hi, head. It came
to Ronald's inrn. 1He %vas not the
most thick -set of those young fellows,
but be was wiry anti muscular. He
canobi the rope with both hands,
swung the heavy w•eftht round gtis
head some four or live times --his
teeth getting ever and ever more
firmly clinched the while—and 'then
away went the iron ball through the
air. not only far outstripping all prev-
ious efforts, but unluckily landing in
a wheelbarrow and smashing sadly a
Jacket which one of , the lads had
thrown there when he entered upon
this ctntpotitinn, When he somewhat
ruefully took up the rent garment,
there was much ironical laughing;
perhaps that was the reason that
none of them heard `elle calling.
"Ronald!"
'(',he tall slim Highland maid was
pretty angry, by this time. She had
come oat of the house without any
head -gear en; anti the cold wind 30as
Cowing her 3elinw hair about her
eyes; and she was indignant that .she
had to walk so far before altracthtg
the osteon+n of those idle lads.
"Ronald, 'b you hear!" she called:
.end, -i,; ,lona u:,1 111.00 another y:,rd
t w,cr1.11tat.
.),to. 1,•1 '10 11 u e
h•,.•
"ti,: :':, ', ,t hat a.'t '0' ',i'11 i11:"
x.l m.' , =i,c• wiled.
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country; wave the banner!"
Bat here Mr, Hodson met with 110
Mb ill-timed and :flippant opposition.
!Ronald the .keoper listened respeot-
fu•]ly, and only spoke when spoken to;
Perhaps the abstract question did not
interest 'him. 13•et when it came to the
downright inquiry as to whether he,
Strang, considered ,his master, Lord
Ailine, to he in any way Whatever a
better man than himself, his answer
was
prompt. •
"Yes, sir. he is," he said, as they
walked leisurely along the road. "Ile
.s a better ratan than 1 by two, inches
rot:]td the chest, as I should .guess.
Wily, sir,, the time that I hurt 3113'
ielle' cap, one night We were corning
down Ren Strait, our two selves, no-
thing :s ould hinder his lordship hitt
lie most ,carry rale 0.1 his brick all the
ac down the hil { and across ithe
'meta till we reached the .shepherd's
n'. '_'t3', and the burr. in .,pate, and
;ne night as dark asp itch; one wrong
-100 on the swine-hrid'ge and both of
tis Were gone. There's Peter 34c'Each-
ran at Ton.c'ue, that some of them
Chink's the strongest ratan in these
parts, and I offered to bet hint five
shillings he woulcl a carry me across
that bridge—let alone down •the hill—
cni a tdark night, But would • he try?
Not •a hit, sir."
"I• should think Peter \lac w•'ltat's
hi- name; -seas a wiser man than to
risk his neck for five shillings," 11r,
•ihodson .-aid. dryly. "And you -you
,could risk yours—for what?"
"Cllr, they were saying things about
his lord•hr.." R,lnald said, carelessly,
• "'Chea; he is not worshipped its a
divinity 1,3' everybody?" the-Ant'eri-
ran said.shrewdly,
Bat the keeper answered, with
much nonchalance.
"I suppose he has his i11 wishers
and his ivell-wishers, like most other
folk; and d suppose, like most 'other
folk, 11e doesna pay ower great erten,
tion. lei what people say of him." -
"l'hey diel not pursue the subject
further at this moment, for a turas of
the road hrought them suddenly with-
in sight of a stranger; and the ap-
pearane•e ttf a stranger in these :pasts
was an event demanding silence- and
a '1,110ntratinn of interest. Of coarse,
h, Ronald Strang \Kiss \leen•ie Doug-
las was. 00 stranger. but .she sons oh-
010115ly a source of •sonic embarrass-
ment; the instant ler caught sight of
her his face :reddened, and as site ap-
proached he kept his eye, fixed on
the ground. It was not that he was
ashamed she .should see Hint acting
the •part of a :,slate; for that he did
not rare in the least; it. was as 1111011
a part of his work a, anything else;
31114 t'ae I hunt 0 t- lest some sign
, recognition -nn;il l sie,' the str:in-
izer gentleman that Miss Douglas had
formed the acgictintaner of the per-
son who was at the moment '"lr'y-
'I1J his ',tater-:,r,-rat and hi,
„l,. \n 11„ hoped 111111 NIe'iiie
,t ttld 'vitt. the sense to by 3i ;1t-
.,11' tal:in_r any notice o: hint; and he
pt his eye . 111 tile road, ;old
l
:,.0a a ar,t in siienre.
-"1"' .h,? \Ir, 110:1,1 a -ked,
"Then we'll say it is a cert' en 00-
alvie life, so long as your health lasts
amt you are tit for the work:"
'This was apparently a questient.
"Well, sir, the head stalker tut the
Rot'hie-Mount forest is sevcntyt'tw'o
years of age; and there is not one of
the young lads smarter on the hill
than he is."
"An exception, douhtles.. The het -
tine is all against your matching that
record. Well, take your Oren case:
whtut hate you to look forward to as
the result o: ;ill your year; of labor?
1 agree with yon that in the mean
time it is all very fine: I can under-
stand the fascination of it, even, and
the interest you have in becoming ar-
,ina•inted with the habits of the Cari-
ous 'creatures, and so forth. Oh tet,
I admit that ---the healthiness of the
life and the interest of it; and 1dare
say you getmore e411o\ment 0111 of
:tate shooting and stalking thou Lord
biline, who pays such a preposterous
price for it. But say we give you a
fairly long lease of health and
strength sufficient for the work; we'll
take yon at sixty; what then? Sonte-
ahing ha1epens•--rhentltatism, a broken
leg. anything ---that cripples yon. Yon
are superseded; you are out of the.
rtntnfnO; Whitt is 10 become of yon'"
1 ,_ n, t1, ulty .A.;, 0, "Tic
to •lotto ta1t
11 s r: tis n ,t ni-natured
a'*
all t yectuat fellows; the lassesI
"\Well, sir," said Ronald, instantly.
"I'm thinking his lordship wotldna
think brier about giving a pension to
a 10011 that had worked for hint as
long as that,"
I- c
"\
'Pie us'. life tlti, i 11.,1C
been tr n ,” lid he, as lie:•ill ; 11p
hi. )a kit, ''I'll be there in a m,n0te,
Nelly,"
Anx1 .o it was that when sI r. I-1od-
'1,011 went into the little front hall, he
found everything in trim readiness
for getting down to the loch—the
,proper Minnows selected, traces tried
luncheon packed, 'and his heavy wat-
erproof coat slung over Ronald's
arm.
"Seems you think d can't carry my
'awn coat," Mr. Hodson said; for he
did not like to see this man do any-
thing the shape of servant -work;
whereas 'Ronald performed these lit-
tle offices quite naturally and as a
matter of course,
"I'll take it, sirs" said he; "and if
you're ready now, we'll be off, Cotte
along, Duncan."
And he was striding away with his
long deer -stalker step when '\Mr; Hod-
son stopped
"Wait a ,bit, man; I will walk dawn
to the loch with yam"
So Duncan trent on, and the Ai er-
ican awl Ronald followed.
"Sharp this morning,"
"R'ayther sharp,"
"Bat this must be a. -very healthy
life of y.-mrs—roit in the fresh air al-
-0plenty of exercise- and so
forth.
"Jas"dast healthiest possible, sir."
"Taut monotnnons a little:"
"'Deed no, sir. A keeper need nev-
er be idle if ha minds his business;l
there's always something new on
it wits a 'ankles- answer, For \ir.
ilodson, whose firs; article of belief
that all mut are horn , pi ], had
•0111' to tan, n with 1 j,n'iti,o re
senttitet,t ,tgain-t the ver,, existence
of lords, aura! :t detestation of any .1 -
cial system that awarded Iheut posi-
tion and pec-tice merely „11 10 inl
o2 their I,irt!1. :\ltd
NOV. ,lid '.,e 11101 11 ,a? here •,t'a- a
1r'itlg fellow of -t'•„1
r:tr,- maria..' ithilit3, and ....Aril 'le• , - d, -ht. -,.,.• ,"rn_,r, i 'i3 this
ono 111•.-„r-
in 1,1.' :,1 sz,. L'r•'1-11 , --ht•
on. 1 1!,.s, our,— .,1„ -t.'d .21 11'' 1 was any •h 1 n •:01 dressed and I,0 t.. nnt• 1 tn,tr't•cd.
tt t 1.2s and , „1 n '' - 1.1.1111+ 1t nu , 1,I', in ' 1 ,),•tall', t ,,, l I oil s like it, dont It?" the ti -he"
• n';ct'' } o,rt111 ;id not :u; -.t, r. ,rad ,'ut In.in said, t,,ther dolefully; for the 11.]
their ra-sn' . fee iL,: t 1'„ rr'.t n, ''r. I lr,'i, \ire; it .a,-hn,t.d n„ -1011 of life ;thaterrr.
be long in making her 'ac'quaintance
'vhp:n s'he comes• here,"
Indeed, as they got down to the
boat, and the two imen set about get-
ting the rods ready, all this talk was
about the stretty young lady ,he had
seen; and he scarcely noticed that
'Ronald, in answering• these questions,
showed a very marked reserve, he
could not be :gist to speak of her ex-
cept in curt answers. Perhaps lie dill
not like to have the melancholy Dun-
can listening; at all events, be show-
ed a quite absorbing interest in the
phantom minnows and traces and
what not. Moreover, when they got
into the boat, th'ere was but Tittle op-
portunity for conversation. sation. rhe day
lotd become more and more squally;
tfi ere was a considerable sea on; it
;va, all the two inen could do to
keen sufficient way on the cohle so
that tare -phantoms should spin prop-
erly. Then every few minutes a rain -
cloud would conte drifting across—at
first, mysterious and awful, as if the
witele world were sinking into dark-
ness; then a few hig drops would
patter about; then clown .came the
sharp clattering shower, only to he
followed by a marvelous clearing -up
again, and a burst o'i watery sunshine
along the Clebri,g slopes. ' But these
changes kept \fr, i'foclson entpioyed
in sheltering; himself from the Vain
while it lasted, and then getting MT
his water -proof again lest perchance
-there might come a salmon at one of
•tate linea. That. event did actually oc-
cur, and when they least expected it,
in on'e of the heaviest ni the squalls
they had such a tight 10 get the boat
along that the minnows, sinlciitg
sontewhat, caught the bottom. Of
coarse the rowers had to back clown
--Or re eller tel drift dowel—to get t'be
lines released; and altogether the
prospect of affairs seemed so ntprom-
is'in(; -• the heavens darkening with
further rain, the wind blowing in
sharper and sharper gusts, ail the
water corrins; heavily. over the bows
—that Mr. 'l-Iodson called out that, as
soon as lie had got the minnows free,
they night as well run 'the cable on
the land, and wait for calmer weather.
13'ut this was a lee shore. 'The men
were w'i'lling to give ,rayl for a time,
but not until they had got to the shel-
tered side; so he was counselled to
put out the lines again, he Was actual-
ly 'paying out the first -of the lines
with his 'hand, when suddenly—.aril
without any of the preliminary warn-
ings that ostially tell of 0 salmon be-
ing after a minnow—the line was
snatched from his .zingers, and out
trent the reel with that sharp long
shreik that sends the whole boat's
crew 11110 an excitement of expecta-
tion. But •there wits 110 spring- into the
air away along; there in the deetiened
and nlnneine water.,;; as he rapidly
got in hi- bine, 110 knew• only of a dull
tend 11 :n'3' -train; and the men had to
keep on 'with their hard - pnllinmi
t,tinsl ;he wind, for the ti,h seehined
r' it•,,tip 'the boat in this snllte .and
heavy fashion.
"What do you think?" 11r, lio,ls,nt
said. half laming round, and not
in an iimliirstime, a„ ;' th«mite a«-
ionishinent, for he ',•111 no idea 310.r•e
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might be—with some Ifive-and-tw'eaty PROFESSIONAL CARDS
yards out, and the squall moderating
a little, so that the mem cooks keep
the boat as they wanted, Nay, he
ventured to stand up uow, weighing
his legs an'd feet so that he shou•1d not
be suddenly thrown overboard; and it
was quite evident, from the serious
purpose of his face, that all possibil-
ity of this being a kelt had now been
thrown aside.
1No 'kelt, is he, 'Ronald?" he called
aloud,
"Nota bit, sir! There's no kelt ab-
out that one, But give him time; he's
a good big fish, or I'm sore mistak-
en."
But they were far from the end
yet. The longe rush and the splashing
had exhausted him for awhile, and
the fisherman, with a firm ap•plicatiot
01 the butt, thought he cook make
the <fish show himself; hut stilt he
kept boring steadily down, sometimes
making little angry rushes of a dozen
yards, and a clear leap into the air—a
beautiful, great, silvery creature lie
looked amid all this hurrying gloom;
and then another downward rush, and
then he came to the surface again,
and shook and tugged and struck with
his .tail until the water was foaming
white about hint, These were e few
terribly anxiout seconds; but all
went happily by, and then it Was felt
that the worst of ,the fighting was
over, After that there was but the
sullen refusal to come near the boat—
the short sheering off whenever he
saw it or one of the oaf's; blit now, in
the slow curves through the enter,
he was beginning to show the glean]
of his side and Ronald was crouching
down in the stern, gaff in hand.
"Steady, sir, steady," he was say-
ing, with his eye on those slow circ-
les: ":give hint time, he's no done yet;
a heavy fish, sir—a good fish that---
1wenty pounds, 1'111 thinking—comae
along my beauty, come along—the
Mitt now,sir!" And then, as the great
gleaming fish, head up, cause sheer -
along 011 its side, there was a quick
Clive of the steel clip, and the next
second the splendid creature was in
the bottom of the come.
Mr. ,Hodson sank down 00 to itis
seat; it had been a long ,fight—over
half an hour; he was exhausted with
the strain of keeping himself balanc-
ed, and' he Was alto (what he had not
perceived in this lon:gr spell' of excite-
ment) stet to the skin. 'He .pulled out
a spirit 'flask from the pocket of his
water -proof --as ill luck would have
it, that useful garment happened to
be lying in the bottom of the boat
when the tight began -and gave the
two sten a liberal dram; he then took
a up himself; and when there had
been 11 general quarrel over talc size
of the fish—nineteen the lowest,
twenty-two the 'highest 'guess—they
began to consider what they ought t,,
11 i next. The weather looked very
ugly. It was resulted to get up to the
head of the 10011 anyhow, and there
decide will so tate nen 1(1ok to their
oaf'- again, and began to force their
way through the heavy and white -
crested staves.
111g plainer yoke to lii- surf; tie.,
"I lin .i'r 1,1 . a kelt: -ir;' the dis-
Medical
DR. E. A. Mc' 1A1StDE'R—Graduate
of the Faculty of Medicine, Univers-
ity of Toronto, and of the New York
Post 'Graduate School and Hospital.
Member of the College 'of Physicians.
and 'Surgeons of 'Ontario. Office ora
High street, -Picone 27. Office fully
equipped for x-ray diagnosis and for
ultra ,short wave electric treatment,
titre violet :sun lamp treatment and
infra red electric treatment. Nurse in
attendance,
ilea long ere they ata l regette l th
1 head of the loch \Ir. 'Hodson had Le -
}conte aware in ,1 ,'x1,1 001i114: a'ur,l
111- -iometers and 621;6, and quickly
enon„h he rate to 1110 00110111,i,
chat sitt1111.1 111 ,ul , ',eu h„a t, 0 ith
lee, t 'r1;;',id time 1^ 1 ::;1e 1 'Mite b.', Itt'1'i 111', :,aor.' ,. ••1W711 •01 t,3'-,rail-hc:' was Ron- eh'ih”. 3301 11". "11.411. .11 1 ,I innery
tae. did tint lr mise at•Iicient happi-
r,•.• 1 ,te-s, He ,aid they mi 1ht pttt 111(1
ashore as so011 a- t+o.-fkAe,
.' vehemence, !1'-. ,.t, •,• p1., „ , „-t. ,'.11, -'ai' ,3'C. l3'err 1'1,'1: rt
1,1t1•es hs.! •, ., "1 1,11 .11 1,, . '.c • .Col n,, Grown 11,1••
them. R,nt d l ;1.1.-u , ell • , 1 1 t :. ,t v a "d 1d and lemed
1 !
perhaps -p,, th, iectire kl4s .11, th,• • ,,,1 .n front :teen blow a 1,1,11 a
more evere that the 101 :rarer rail ir.tt t , ',' ''I' t%il 1. a d here and -Core
litt e opportunity o: 'I, iverini, it in
his o;cn dnnlestir circle. Truly it was
Bard that his pet grievance won fit•
him nothing but a .alt t tie sympathy
there; and that it was leis own daugh-
ter who footed hitt with jibes and
jeers.
\\hv, yon know, pappa clear,” slit,
would say as she stood at the window
of their hotel in Il'iccad'illy, and
watched the carriages passing to and
fro beneath her, "lords may be bad
enou'g'h, but you know they're not
half as had as the mosquitoes are at
,home. They don't worry nno•oalf as
much; seems to use you might give in
this country a .considerable time and
never be worried 'ho 0nte of them.
'IVIty, that's the worst of it. When I
left home, I thought the earls and
marquises would just he crowding us;
and they don't seem to come along at
all, fl confess they are a mean int.
Don't they 'know :yell enough that
the tfirst thing I(ltIle 100151 thing,' she
said, of coarse; but her accent sonn•d-
ed• quite quaint and pretty if you 'hap-
pened to :hc looking at the :pretty, soft,
+,oque, dark eyes) --the first thing an
�Itli'rlt'afi ,g'irl has te, do when she
'ts to 'Europe is 1., hart a lord pro-
pose to h'ar, arra to reject him? lint
!low can 1? 'They 13,11'1 come along!
It's just too horrid i"r anything: for
of a51'cc when 1 sn hack home
they'll say: 11 s heeatise you're not
1 oston girl. Leui4r11 s full o1 lords.
but it's only Boston girls they rot af-
ter; and, poor things. they and their
:coronets are always ,heing 'rejected
lard," The ±1uI1e pride of a Republican
•
a •t"•13 nirl appeared un the fair
white forehead. 111,1 then again her
winter clothing seemed to suit the
hi. tt anti gra'efni figure; she looked
'altogether warm and furry, anti trice
Ind rontfnrtahle; and there was a
sensible air about her dress the blue
serge skirt the tight -fitting seal skin
coat (hut this was a present from the
laird of ,G'1'engas'k, and Or0sty), and
the little brown velvet hat with its
wing of ptarmigan !plumage (this was
a ,present not front Giengask, and
probably was not of the value of
three halfpence, hut site wore it, nev-
ertheless, when she was at her smart-
est). And if 'Ronald drought site was
going to .pass hint ,by without a
word, he was mistaken, 1t was not
her way, As she met theist, one swift
glance of her 'H•igttland eyes was all
she bestowed on The stranger; 'then
she said, pleasantly, as she .passed.
"'Good -morning, `Ronald,"
I -ie was forced to book tip,
"gond-morning, \Miss Douglas,"
said he. with studied respect; arra
they went on.
-Miss Douglas?" Mr. Hodson re-
peated, as soon as they were beyond
hearing. "Tate Dochir's daughter, 1
pre,nnte?"
Fes, sir,"
blot—hitt—I had 111 idea --wiry,
he' is a most m110otninonly pretty
young lady ---one of the most inter-
esting
ntere "ting faces i have seen for many a
day. You did not say there was such
a charming young person in the
place; why, she adds a new interest
altogether; guess my thootliic-r went''
being .1es1, t. 1.111' fish shoe. l 11,1 ti1171,
at least he kept it hi :ivy st 8011 oil the
halt it seemed as if everything 11 '4,
,o11.1/101114: 1¢tlin t tient, The hawk
hea0t'n, athon• 111 V111 hitt'. into a tor -
relit of Latin; and with that cattle a
squall than lore the water white, and
blew them down on fish in shite of
their hardest efforts. Shorter and
shorter grew the line as it was .rapid-
ly got in, and still tate fish did not
show; it was now so near to the boat
that any middet1 movement on its
part was almost certain to produce a
catastrophe. Nor could they drive the
boat ashore:: the beach was here a
mass of sharp stones and rocks; in
three tuinutes the Coble would have
been stove in. With faces set hard,
the two sten .pulbed and .pulled against
the storm of twine and ram; and Mr.
Hodson—seated now, for he dared
'not attempt to stand up; the boat was
'bein'g thrown about so by 'the heavy
waves—+could only get in 'a little more
line when he had the chance, and look
helplessly on and wait,
'then, all of a sudden, there wa.s a
long, shrill shriek, heard loud above
the din of wind and water, continued
and continued, and in vain he tried to
arrest this wild rush; and. then, some
seventy or eighty yards away, there
w'1s a great white splash among the
rushing black wave, -and another—
and another -and then a fmrther
whirling 0111 of some fifteen yards of
line, until he glancedwith alarm at
the slender quantity left nn the reel,
iBut presently he began to get some
in again; the men were glad to let the
boat drift clown slowly; harder and
harder he worked at the ,bjg reel, and
at last he came to 'fighting terms with
the animal—kelt or salmnn, 145
indeed, -,r, 11's no 11111011 Ise eo
ing un 111 this weather," Ronald b1 said,
"mile*, it1113(10 yon were -til irk the
fly,"
"1 thought y:11'said it was rather
early for the fly."
"Rayther early," Rlmaid admitted.
' h nater; said Danson.
"Anyhow," observed Hodson , ':I
don't feel like sitting in this boat any
longer in w'et clothes, Pin going track
to the inn right now; maybe the af-
ternoon will clear up -and then we
might have another try."
They got ashore at last, and '114..
Hodson at once started off for the
inn; and when the 1300 men had got
the rods taken down, and the fish
tied head and tail for the :better car-
rying of it, ,they set out too. Out
Ronald seemed autnatal ly depressed
and silent. Where was the careless
joke, the verse of an idle song, with
which he was wont to brave the (Pis-
contforts of wind and :weather? The
two men strode along without a
word; and it was riot likely that Dann -
can the dismal would ,be the first to
break the silence, INlay, when they
got to the inn, ,Ronald would not go
in for a 1111,111 fe or two, as was his
custom to see the fish weighed and
have a chat, :i1' went on to his own
cottage, got the key of the kenuiel.
and presently he and tate dogs were
leaving the little scattered haantlet,
taking the lonely moorland road that
lid away tip the \hila'( valley,
Ile knew not why he 10';15 so ill at
erase; hilt something had gone wrong.
Had his mind been disquieted by tate
American gentleman's -plainly hint-
. to him that he was living; in r
fool's .paradise, and that old age and
"loess and the possible ingr•atitude af
!ti, master were things to he looked
DR. GILB'ERT C. JARROTT —
Graduate of Faculty of Medicine, Unt-
'versity of Western. Ontario.Member
of College of Physicians and Surgeons
of Ontario. Office 43 Goderich street
west, Phone 317. Hours 2-4.30 p.m„
7.30-9 p.m. Other hours ,by appoint-
ment, Successor to Dr. Chas, Mackay
DP.. H, HUGIH ROSS, Physician
and Surgeon Late. of London Hos-
pital, London, England. Special at-
tention to diseases of the eye, ear,
nose and throat. Office and residence
behind Dominion Bank, Office Phone
No 5; Residence Phone 104.
Dot. F. J. BURROWS, Seaforth.
Office and, residence, Goderich street,
east of the United Church, Coroner
for the County of Matron. '''Telephone
No. 416.
DR F. J. R. FORSTER—Eye
Ear, Nose and Throat. Graduate ' in
Medicine, University of Toronto 1(497,
Late Assistant New York Ophthal-
mic and Aural Institute, Moorefieid's
Eye, and Golden Square throat hospi-
tals, London, At Commercial Hotel,
Seaforth, third 'Wednesday in each
month from 1.30 p,m, to ,5 9.nt.
DR. W. C. SPROAT
Physician - Surgeon
Phone 90-W. 'Office John Si..Seaforth,
Auctioneer.
GEORGE ELLIOTT, Licensed
Auctioneer for the County of Huron.
Arrangements can be made for Sale
Date at The Seaforth News. Charges
moderate and satisfaction guaranteed.
F. W. A'HRENS, Licensed Auction-
eer for Perth and Huron Counties,
Sales Solicited. Terns on Application,
Farm Stock, chattels and real estate
property, R. R. No, 4, Mitchell,
Phone 634 r 6. Apply at this office.
WATSON & REID
REAL ESTATE
AND INSURANCE AGENCY
(Successors to James Watson)
MAIN ST., SFAFORTII, ONT.
All kinds of ln.,uranee risks effect-
ed at lowest rates in First -Class
Companies,
3 hi McIILLOP1
Mutual Fire inSUFaliC8 CY,
HEAD OFFICE-SEAFORTH, Ont,
OFFICERS
President ---Ales, Broadfoot, Seaforth;
Vice -President, John E. Pepper,
Brucefield; Secretary - Treasarer,
M. A. Reid, Seaforth,
AGENTS
F. McKercher, R.R.I, Dublin; John
E. Pepper, R.R.1, Brucefield; E. R. G.
Jarmouth, Brodhagen; James Watt,
Blyth; C. F. Hewitt, Kincardine;
Wm, Yeo, I3olmesvil•le.
DdRECTORS
Alex. Broadfoot, Seaforth No, 3;
Janes S'holdice, Walton; Wm, Knox,
Londesboro; George Leonhardt,
Bornholm No.1; John Pepper, Bruce -
field; James Connolly, Goderich;
Alec McEwing, Blyth No. 1; Thom-
as Moylan, Seaforth No, 5; Wm. R.
Archibald, Seaforth 'No. 4.
Parties desirous 4o effect insurance
or transact other business, will 'be
promptly attended to by applications
to any of the above named officers
addressed to their respective post -
offices,
for'w'ard to? Or was 'it that the sud-
den :meeting with Mee'nle. .with this
stranger loo•Icing on, seemed to shave
revealed to 'hint all at once 'h'ow Ear
away she was .from him? If she and
he had met, as every clay they did,
and .passed with the usual friendly
greeting, it w'o'uld all have been quite
simple and .arctina'ry enough; but with
this stranger looking on, .and •she an -
peering 50 beautiful and refined •anti
neatly dressed, and wearing more-
over, the present given her by, ,Glen-
gaslc and lOirosay, while he, on the
other hancl, was carrying the gentle-
man's water -0000f and a bundle of
rods --weld, that was all different
somehow. Ariel -why had she said
"1G•ood-'nto•u:ingl" with stnc'h a :pointed
friendliness? EEc did not wish this
stranger to imagine that Miss Doug-
las and he were even acquaintances,
(To Be Cumin -m.0