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The Seaforth News, 1929-04-04, Page 2thathowerandsun can give mmoin fragrance It ORANGE PEKOE DLENp A 'Fresh from the gardens' e1e smt • ay O.n•'" -' elARIiy SINCLAMR 9RA0O ANi JOP toPYRle$l Nf3eY Kt•A•MP.vu I,*.EINN WA' BEGIN HERE TODAY For revenge upon Dick Ackltq, big boss of the Double .A ranch, Buck Bodine, new owner of the old- Webster place, plots with the Basgues of Paradise Vat- ic), to blow up Acklin s dam. Through her little blind brother, Basillo, Mer- cedes Arrascada learns of a mysterious Journey taken by her brother Esteban, Mercedes traces .Esteban to Bodine's. ranch. From there she follows the trail until she becomes exhausted and falls many times, scratched and bleeding, NOW GO ON WITH STORY CHAPTER YXVII.—(Cont'd.) To the girl it was an eternity be- fore the moon peered through the tops of the tangled cedars, Trees and brush began to take shape. Mercedes went on. She found a tiny spring trickling to her eight. She wet her lips with its water and followed its course. Scor_ she caught the beat of waves. She had come out to the shore of the cake. She cried out with new courage. Her voice rolled over the water to the cove where her brother lay, Esteban jumped at the sound of it. He had already waited long past the No jumpy feeling NOW evhen I drive through. traffic Nothing relieves tension so effectively as Wrigley's. The act of chewing, as motorists have discov. ercd, has a gentle soothing effect. The healthful cleansing action of Wrigley's refreshes the mouth and steadies the nerves. appointed Um. to send the raft adrift, The echo of that cry in the awful stillness decided hint to tarry no long- er. He cupped his hands to his light ed match, and the long fuze began to sputter. The wind at his back was strong and steady. A healthy push, and the raft with its deadly load float- ed away across the silvery water, He did not wait to speculate cit the success of its errand. He had had hours of that. Before long he was dashing for the buttes, intent only on reaching the valley. His going brouht no sound to the .girl. The moon had given her her bearings, and keeping ever within sight of the lake, she stumbled to the north, dragging her tired body to new tortures. A glowing pin -point of fire moving across the water caught her attention, Its even, unhurried flight fascinated her. It was beautiful, un- real, ghostly. But as she watched it, the raft moved out of the shadows of the opposite shore into the full light of the moon. She knew ,vhat it was then, even before the wind had sent it close enough to make recognition possible.. The truth left her strangely unmoved. She even found herself admiring the cleverness of the men who were re- sponsible for it. They had schemed well to beat Acklin! The never -halting approach of the raft, the black bulk of the mine rising from its surface, the glowing fuse held aloft as if it were a light at a masthead, brought no cry from her lips. This was the thing she had conte to stop. It came so close to her that she could hear the sputtering of the fuse. An eddy or a whim ttf the wind caught the raft then and sent it away from the shore. She could not swine a stroke. Just what she intended to du she did not know; but she knew she could not reach it, riding ah ng as it was, fifty yards from the bank. She found, however, that she kept abreast of it no she followed the margin of the lake reward the dahl. This was all very well for time, but as sh: came to a cove that cut back into the hills she began to de- spair. By the time she had got around it, the raft would be far ahead. But without looking bask she started on the attempt. She had not made more lO linter BOOK &SAMPLE a7tY bbd lover needs Brook's Famous Book on ' .4 Birds, the accepted authority on the cure and treatment of birds. 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ALL DAVIS STORES than. half of the wkly, when silo (hut- ; " ed a glance k the moving raft, Icer breath actually stopped for an instant et what oho beheld, If it had been a liner making port the raft could not have turned mono accurately and headed more direetly for the little cove on the shore of which she stood. Mercedes ran toward it, She saw its speed sleeken,_ Then calve a second when it seemed to Stand still. Tile next minute the current was moving• it back into the lake. Without stopping to ask herself what she would do, or how she would get back to the land if she were once on the raft, she jumped for it. The force with which she landed was im- petus enough to send it bobbing through the water until the cove was yards behind her. She scrambled to her feetand with her boot -heel ground the coal intp ashes, She lurched toward the centre of the logs, her arms lowered to help her- self to a sitting position, when a scream was wrung from her. The glowing coal thatshe had stamped into the cedar was gone, but in its place rosea blaze a foot` high! A little trickle of oil had seeped back to where' she had crunched the end of the fuse, The wind had fanned an unseen spark of life. The flanges were mounting higher and higher, senting out greedy ton- gues that licked at her body, In a rage of helpless impotence, she raised her torn hands and struck and beat the iron thing before her. The cuts on her knuckles and Angers bled afresh, but she was fast losing the power to feel pain. Salty tears ran into the corners of her north, From herlips came a wild, almost insane cry. CHAPTER XXVIII. Esteban was coming to the higher ground where his trail turned to the south when he heard a horse whinny. He had to put his hat over his mount's nose to keep him from answering. The other horse called again; nater this time. The boy did not wait. Ile wheeled and galloped back over the path he had just conte from. When he bad retraced his way some two miles, he turned to scan the lake far below hint. His pulse jumped as he caught sight of the flaming logs; now so near the dam that from where he watched it seemed they must strike any minute. What had gone wrong? What had set them afire? Had his companions been caught by the Double A men? Esteban moved highed up to wait for the explosion. In the confusion resulting from it he intended to make another dash for Webster Creek, No mater where Romero and Bodine were they must be counting the seconds even as he. And while he waited the Double A men, from Disaster Peak to the Bull's Head, kept their watch, unaware of the danger that was sweeping down upon them.- Kildare alone, of all Ack- lin's riders, moved nervously about. Blaze had not forgotten his talk that morning with Mercedes. Esteban's mysterious trip, coupled with Mor- row's belief that trouble was brewing, seemed to argue more than mere coin- cidence. He was within a quarter of a mile of the water when he caught the first dim reflection of the burning raft. From where he stood the fire seemed to be on the other side of the canon. He could not see the lake itself, but the faint red tinge in the sky moved. By that he knew that something was burning on the water. There wasn't any timber of any sort east of the dant. He sent My Man into a gallop. In kaleidoscopic fashion he saw the mine; the petrified girl shielding her face from the flames; the dans twenty yards away. He cupped his hands, and called to her. He did not stop to ask how she cane there. Ile only say the leap- ing flanges, and guessed the intent of the black thing that bulked m the surface of the raft. Nothing could save the dam. It was doomed! A minute or two, and it would be al: over. Jumping to her rescue would not help. If he ran out on the dans both of them would be killed or swept away and drowned, He called to Mercedes; but she barely moved her head. Blaze called' again. That voice! It seemed to come from leagues away; a phantom voice! Kildare saw that she did not move. He cried out again. The wind whip- ped the sound of it behind lune, But, the girl looked up. She saw him and raised her hands. Blaze jerked his reata from his saddle -horn and ran to the very edge of the bank. "Take off your skirt," he cried, "and wet it and wrap it around you. Catch my Tope it deo s. Mercedes nodded her !read. The raft was within ten feet of the reata a be an as his g to play through his fingers. sometimes u • son.. the are hots Second y —were droning by as his rope circled lower and lower. There would never be time for another trial. He had to make it now! There was n , room for a miss. An instant—brief ; life seemed to stop. Kildare blinked his eyes to clear them of the film that blinded him. Seconds were moving at express -train speed; yet even so, meaningless, irre- levant thoughts preser.ted themselves in their enti:ety. Nothing 'seemed hurried, He had thrown his rope, In quite its accustomed way, it - dro leaped' out. He watched it now. It was drop- ping. The girl's hands vera still up- raised. The rope was falling over them, It was at her Waist, He was pulling then. It was subconscious *ttnw,urtwatn MAGIC 8AKINO POWDER`. -altyour That's theway #o assure success.. _.Made in Canada ./Vo -Ruin e.W,•GILL,ETT CO.1.T0 TORONTO, CAN. shot away from the raft; He could look down and se.. the water cascading over her as he dragged her through it. He heard the raft bump the dam. Some one was calling; C:set or Mel- ody, no doubt, A second in which to brace his feet; and hand over hand he began paying in his reata, lifting her to safety, She was halfway to the top of the lagged wall when Kil- dare felt rather than heard a snap. His hands tingled. He had been drag- ging his rope over theledge, using the rock for leverage. One of the strands of the finely woven reata had given way—cut in two by the jagged quartz. His arms trembled, There was no- thing to do but ris'c the chance that the unraveling reata would hold. He leaned out over the water mail Mer- cedes was a dead weight on him, and palled. Another strand broke, but he raised her to the 'top. His hands caught her arms; a last lift, and she was beside him- ' Then it came, without warning—a trembling of the earth. Thunder roll- ed in his ears. The dans was gone. They were down, knocked flat! My Man went to his knees. Pieces of rock, from the size of a pea to big, jagged fragments of granite thatwouldhave killed had they struck, rained about them. Water splashed down in sheets, Mercedes did not move. Kildare relied her over and over. The girl's body was cold; her purse seemed to have stopped. Blaze slapped her, and beat her with the flat of his hands. He continually raised her arms to expand her Fangs. (To be continued.) r, DEFINITELY DIFFERENT A navy blue wool crepe is included in every complete wardrobe for it serves' so many occasions. 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Publi;zliier's Who Have Tried it: Find it a Poor Substitute for • Wood -Pulp Newsprint COST TOO HIGH Culaha—Pnbllshers of . Corn Belt newspapers have been giving cora stalk' newsprint a "riclo" and incident' - ally whooping it up for the uttlluation of cornstalk waste as a Moana for in r- dustrlalizing farm comm» liities and' fattening the income of the farmer Following the lead of a Danville, 111.,, daily, numerous weeklies and small dailies throughout the Middle West have been printing special editions on cornstalk, paper and devoting con- siderable space to exploiting the pet; ]lobby of .Professor O. R. Sweeney,; head of the chemical engineering (lee partnient of Iowa State ,College at Ames. Some'` of the newspapers carefully' Point out that the present cornstalk, publication is offered merely as a novelty and, that there are a goods many : objections, to be removed :be- fore, there can be any serious thought of supplanting or even seriously com- peting with wood -pulp . newsprint.. Others ,blithely ignore these objec- tions and assume that the day of the• new paper has arrived and all that necessary is to build a lot of mills• all over the Corn Belt and start turn- ing out newsprint for the nation; the. local community, of course, offering; an ideal location for such a plant. Price a Deterrent The first and the greatest objection, which most of the publishers noticed' • right away was the price they had to, pay, which was about., double what their customary woodpulp paper has. been costing them. 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Considering that it is still' in the pioneering stage the Corn Belt seems to be sufficiently justified )a getting up some excitement over it. But Ontario corn farmers need not get "steamed up” yet awhile. Cabbage for Salads Cabbage is especially valuable as the fdundation for salads that will keep awhile. As vinegar is apt to deprive the vegetable of its crispness, lemon juice or lime juice used in the dressing helps greatly- in keeping fresh for a longer time any salad in which cabbage appears. To make a very delicate salad, shave the tender, inner leaves of the head, pour boiling water over them and drain at once; cover web ice-cold water -and chill an hour or more. The cabbage may tbenbe drained and left to marinate at least an hour longer in salad dress- ing. Another method in to sprinkle salt over the finely shredded cabbage and leave it to stand from one to two Hours under a plate sustaining a weight of 7 or 8 pounds. 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