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THE'SEAFOHTH NEWS.
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silent a's'ton'sihment. There' Estlhler;
and I, tickled by the albsurdiity o the
tjiiug, burst out laughing, but my
father pulled the ponies' heads around
and drove ho(}ne with comlbreseed lips
and the. cloud'of much w'rath,upon hi'o
brow. "I, have never seen the good
man so thououghly janoved,'and T am
u '
convinced that his anger didnot arise
from any petty feeling of injured
vanity upon his oven -part, belt from
the thought that a -slight lied been of-
fered td the Laird of Btranksome,
wihose dignity ,he represented.
(Continue'd from last week.) Was as if the old Soldier had been so,
Iinih:ued with, ' military ideas that, like
we are. • my Uncle Toby, he could not refrain
even in times of peace from standlin!g
upon tlhe' defensive, 'Stranger still, he
had victualed the house as if for a
siege, for Begbie, the chief grocer at.
Wigtown, told me hlm!scl'f that the
general, htad sent him art order for
'hundreds of dozens of every imagin-
able potted meat and vegetable.
Pt may, be imagined that all these
incidlenbs were not allowed to pass
without comment. Over the whole
countryside there was nothing but'
gossip about the new tenants of Clo-
amber Hall and tine reason's which
had led them 'to come among us. The
only hypothesis, h'ow'ever,' which the
buco'llic sssind could evolve Was that
which had already occurred to Mr,
McNeil, the factor-natruely,' that the
old general and his family were one
and all afflicted with madness, or, as
an alternative conclusion, that h'e had
committed some heinous offense and
was end:ea-Coring to escape the conse-
quences of his misdeeds. -(These were
)bath natural snp'pdsition's', under the
circumstances; but ,neither of them
appeared to commend itself as a true
explanation of the facts,
It is true thlat General Heatherstone
behaved on the occasion of our first
interview as' such as to- suggest some
suspicion of Mental disease; but no
man could have been More reasonable
or more courteous than he had after-
ward shown himself to be. 'Then, a-
gain, his wife and Child -en led the
same secluded fife that he did ,himself;
so that the reason could not be once
peculiar to his own health. As to the
passibility of his being a fugitive from.
justice, that theory was even more
untenable. 1WigtoWns'hire was bleak
and .lonely, but 1t was not such an ob-
scure corner of the world that a well-
known soldier could hope to conceal
himself: there; nor !mould a m'an,, who
feared publ'ici't'y set every on'e's tongue
wagging as the general had done,:On
the whole, I was inclined to believe
that the true solution of th.e enigma
lay in his own allusion to the love of
quiet, and that they <had, taken shelter
here with an almost moribid craving
for solitude and repose. We very
soon had an 'instance of` the great.
lengths to which this desire for iso-
lation would carry them.
My father had come down one mor-
ning with the weight of a great.deter-
mination upon his brow. "You must
put on your pink frock to -day, Es-
ther," said he; "and you, John, you
must make yourself smart, for I have
determined that the three of us shall
drive around this afternoon and .pay
our respects to Mrs. Heatherstone
and the general."
A visit to Clo'omblerl" cried Es-
ther, clapping her hands.
"I am here," said my father, "not
only as the laird's agent, but'also as
his kinsman. In that'capladity I am
convinced th'at he would wish me to
call upon. these newcomers and offer
them any politeness which is in our
power. iAt present they must feed
lonely and friendless. What says the -
great F'ird'ausi 'The choicest orna-
ments to a m'an`s house are his
friends.' "
My si's'ter' and I knew by experience
that when he'began to justify hie re-
solution by quotations from the Per-
sian poets there was no .chance of
shaking it. Sure enough that after-
noon' saw the p'hlaeton at the 'door,
with my father, perehe'dd upon• ;the
seat, with his second -hest coat on and
a pair of new driving -leaves.
We had reached the avenue gate,
and I was about to get out and open
it, w+hen. oursattention was arrested 'by
a very large wbwdle,n placard, which
was attached to one ' of the trees in
such a manner that no one could po5-
sdbly pass' without seeing it. On the
whlite surface of this board was print-
ed In big black 'letters the following
inhospitable in'scni,p!tion; "General
and Mrs. HdaNthen,tan'e hraye no wish
to increase the chicle of their acquain-
tance. We all sat gazing at this
annlounseement for some moments in
"ISO we are, my dear, so
Drive on, coa'chm'an. Goad day, Mr..
West" The carriage, rattled away to-
ward the hall ,and 4 trotted bhou'gh!t-
11u19,y onward to the little county met-
ropolis.
As I passed up the High street Mr.
McNeil ran out from his office and
beckoned to me to stop. !'Our new
ten'an'ts have 'gone out," he said.
"They drove aver this morning."
"I met them on the way,"I answer-
ed. As I looked dawn at - the little
factor I could see that his face was
flushed and that he bore every ap-
pearance of having had an extra glass.
"Give me a real gentleman to. do
business with," he said, with a !burst
of laughter. "They, understands Inc
and I understands them. 'What shall
I fill it up for?'' says' the general, tak-
ing a blank '•check out o' his pouch
and laying it on the table. 'Two hun-
dred; says I, leaving a bit o' a margin
for my own :time and trouble.
"I thought that 'the landlord paid
you for that," I remarked.
"Ayre, aye, but it's well to have a
bit of margin. He filled it up and
threw it aver to ole as if it had been.
an auld postage stamp. That's th'e way
business should be done between
honest. men—though it wouldua' do if
one was inelined to take an advan-
tage. Will ye not come in, Mr. West,
and have a taste o' my whisky?"
"No thank you," I said, "I have !bu-
syness to do."
'Well, well, 'business is the chief
thing. d's well not to drink in the
morning, too. For my own part, ex-
cept a drop before breakfast to give
me an appetite, and maybe a.gl'ass ar
twa, afterwards to promote digestion,
I never touch ,spirits 'before noon: It
may be that I'm over particular, but
it's well to be on the safe side. What
d'ye think u' the general, Mr. West
"Why, I have hardly had an oppor-
tunity of judging," I answered.
Mr,\ldNeil tapped his f:orehea'd
with his forefinger, ""That's what •I'
thank of him," he said, in a confiden-
tial whisper. "He's gone sir, in my es-
timation. Now
s-timation.'Now t41lat would you con-
sider to be a proof o' madness, Mr.
West?"
"Why, offering a blank chleck to a
Wigtown house -agent," said I.
"Ah you're aye at: your jokes. But
between aorsels now, if a man asked
ye how many miles it was free a sea-
port, and whether ships come there
from the East, and whether there
were tramps on the road, acrd wheth-
er it
heth-erit was against the lease far him. to
build a high wall round the grounds,
what would ye make of it, eh?"
"'I should .certainly think him ec-
centric," said I.
"If' every man had his due, he would;
find himset' in a house with a high
wall round th!e .grounds, and that
without costing hint a farthing," said
the agent.
'"Where then?" I asked.
""Why, in the Wigtown; County Lu-
natic Asylum," cried. the little man,
with a .bubble of laughter, in the
midst of which I rode on my way,
leaving hint' chuckling over his own
facetiousness.
'The arrival of the new fam'il'y at
Clodunber Hall had no p'erceptib'le ef-
f,eet in relieving the rtnonotony of our
secluded .dis'trict, For instead of e'nt-
eying into such s'im'ple pleasures as
the country had to offer, or interest-
ing
ntcerres -
ing Them's'elves, as;we had hoped,
in
our atten1pts to improve th.e lot ofs
our poor crofters, and fisher -folk,
they 'seemed' to shun all Observation,
and hardly ever to v!egture beyond
the avenue gates: We soon found, tdo,
Ihlalt the fac'tor's wards as to the in-
elds'inig of the grioun!ds were: founded
upon Fact, for gangs of workmen were
kept hard at work from early in the
morning until late at eight i,n:'erecting
a high wooden (mite round the whole
estate. When this was finished amid
bopped with ,Spikes 'Clo'dmlber; Park
'became imiprdgnalble to any one but
an eiscept'ion'alll~F d'arin'g climber. ht
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heart that my 'new aequa'initahice'made
rather ,to'o moth of his own trou'ble's
and Inc little of those of, his &Ma'pan-
1071. .
Yes; poor .Glaibr,el ' feels it, ' iiia
doubt,"; he a'ns:w'ere`d careleis'sly; "hut
it in more unnatural for a young man
m this
• e to be cool ed up t
0
f mya P
g
' •t me
than for,a waren. Look a ,
waytla
now. I oim thiree-anid•+twenity newt
\larch, and yet I have ne'ycr been, tlo
a university, nor to a school for that
matter.' I a'm as coavlpllelte au ignor-
emus es ally of these cliodhopipels..11
seems strange to you, no doubt! and
yet it is slo, No'w, don't you think' I
deserve a better fate?" He stop'pe'd as
he spoke, and feeed' round to .me,
throwing his gems forward in appieal:
AS I looked' at Thin', wi'bht the sun
shining upon his face, he cerlain'ly
d'fd' seem a strange bard to be Cooped
up in such a cage. hT+al)t and muscular,
with a keen dark Ease, and ,sharp, fine-
ly cult £matures, . he might, have sttep-
ped out of 'the canvas of ,Murillo or
Vefla'squ!ez. There was latent energy
and power in his firm -set mouth, his
square eye-hnow!s, and the whole pose
of his elactic well -knit .figure.
"There is the learning to be gat
from books and the learning to he get
from .ex'penience," sa'i'd' I, •senteintioti's-
ly. "If you hiaive fess of your share
of the one, perhaps you have more of
the other. T cannot , believe that you
have spent all your life in mere 'idle-
ness and pleasure•'
"'Pleasure 1" he cried. rP'leasure•l
Look at -this." He pulled off his, haft,
and 'I saw that his, b'l'ack hair was all
flecked and' •dlashed with, streaks of
gray. "Do you imagine this came front
pleasure' ?" he asked with a bitter
laugh.
"You must have had some ,great
shack," T said, astonished'' at the
sight; '"some terrible illness in your
youth. Or perhaps it anises from g
more 'c'hron'ic cause — a cons'tan't
gn'a'wing anxiety. I have known then
as young as you Whose hair was as
gray."
"Poor devils!" he muttered, " I pity
them."
"If you can' manage to slip down to
Bvanksome at times said I, "Per-
haps you could 'bring Miss Heather -
stone with you. I 'kno'w+ that my fath-
er and sister would be delighted ;to see
her, and a change, if !only for an hour
or two, might do her good:"
"It would be rather hard for us
b'o'thi to get away together, he atnsw-
ered.''.''HJoweve:r, if I see a chance I
shall bring; her 'd'owir. It night he
managed some afternoon, perhaps,
for the old man indulges id a siesta
occas'ionall'y." We had reached the
head of 'the wounding lane which
branches off from, the highroad and
leads up to the laird's Mouse, so .my
companion pulled' up. "I must go
'back," he said, "or- they will miss Inc.
It's very kind of you, West, to take
this 'interest lin us. I"m very grateful
to you, and so will Gabriel be when
she hears of your kind. invitation. It's
a real heaping of coals of fire after
thla't infernal placard of my Father's."
He shook s y hand and set off down
the road,"but he canoe running after
me. presently, calling inc to stop. "I
was just thdnlcing," he said, "that
you must 'consider us a great mystery
up there at Cloon1ber• I dare say you
have conte to look upon it 'as a priv-
ate lunatic asylum, and I can't blame
you. I'f you are are interested in the
m'a'tter, I !feel it !s milfriendly upon
my part not to satisfy your curios-
ity, but.I have promised my father to
be silent alb'out .it. And indeed ' if I
were to tell you all that I know you
might not be very much the wiser
after ail. I would have you under-
stand this, however,—that n'ay father
is as sane as you or I, and that, , he
has very -good reasons for living the
life' which he does. I' may ad'd'th:at his
wish to remain secluded does • not
arise from any unworthy or dishonor-
able motives, but merely from. the in-
stinct of self-preservation."
"He is in- danger, then!" I ejecta -
"Yes; he is in constant da'n'ger.'
"But why does he not apply to the
magistrates for protection'?" I asked,
"If he !'s afraid df any one, he has
o'n'ly- to name 'him and they.will bind
him over to keep the peace.
"My dear: West," said Young Hea-
theps'tone, "'the'dan'ger with 'which my
father is threaltened is one that can-
not be averted by any human in'ter-
venti'on. It is none the less very real,
and possibly very imminent"
"Yom don't mean to assert that' it is
supernatural" I said incred'ulo'us'ly.
"W,el1, hardly that ,bitter;' he an's-
wered with hesitation," "'B'ut, there,"
he continued, "I have' said rather
more bh'an I should, but I know that
you' will n:ot amuse my ,confidence.
Good -by.,,
aIle tool: to his heels' and was soon
out of my sight, round a curve in the
country road.
A You'n'g Man Whir, A y Head.
!If I had. any personal ene's's on
account of this family sou it was a
very passing emotion, and ne wlliidh
was very soon eiffaced'fnat my mind.
It chanced that an the v'e next 'day
after the .epuso!de 'T Maid': oasibn to
plas's that. -.way duiiid stoppedto .have
another lololc at the olllht ous card•.
I was standing staring ti at it and
wandering what could h induced
our neighbor to lake siva an. outrag-
eous step, when 'I became suddenly'
awa'ne of a sweet gir>t!s:h ice wlhlilclh
peelp'ed. out at me from 1 ween the
biairs of the gate, and of a shite hand
which. eagerly beckdti'ed' a to ap-
proach. As I adv+anlced t her I sow
that it whws ' the sante • n'g lady
whom T had seeri in the carriage.
'Sir, West," she Said; a, quigk
whisper, glancing frani e to. side
as she spoke M. a n:erv'aus, hasty man-
ner, "1' wf+f;h to apologize o' you for
the indignity to which youand your
11ani11l'y were su'bjecte'd y'e relay. 3fy,
brother was in bhe aver and saw
it alt, ,b'ra't he is powerless interfere,
I assure you, Mr. West, at if that
hateful thing,".'pointingp at ;the
placard, "'has .given you: any annvoy-
anine, it has .given my'bro't r and my-
self far more."
"Why, Miss, Hieabherst ?" staid I,
putting the matter off a` laugh.
Britain 'is a free count ' and if . a
man chooses to warn off . ftors'from
his premises there is no reason' w*liy
he should not,"
"4't is nothing less than brutal," she
broke out, with a petulantstamp of
her foot. "To think that our sister,
too, should have such an unprovoked
insult 'offered to herl lI ready to
sink with shame at the verythought."
'Pray do net give yourself one Mo-
ment's uneasiness upon subject,"
said' I earnestly, for I wr .gri'eved a,t
her evident distress. "I.. sure that
your father has some reasonun'know'n
to us for taking this step."
"God knows he has!" answered
with ineffable sadness inher voice,
"and yet I thinik it woo be more
manly to face a danger than to fly
from it. However, he ws best,
and it is impossible for to judge.
But who is this?" she exclaimed, an-
xiously peering up the k avenue.
"O'h, it is •my brother, �Lordauatt,
I hlave' been apologizing Mr. West,
for what happened yeste y in your
rime as well as my ovvn."
"I am very glad to ho he oppor-
tunity of doing it in person," said he
courteous'ly.. "I only ,v h that I
could see your sister and your father
as well as yourself, to telltluem haw
sorry I :aro. I' think youhad better
run up to the house, littleone, for its
getting near tiff!n time. No, --don't
you go, Mr. West. I to have a
word with you."
Miss Heatherst'one wa} her hand
to me with a bright smile and blipped
off up the avenue, u*nil's her brother
unbolted the gate, and, passing
through, closed it again,locking it
upon the outside.
'"I'll have a stroll the road
with you, if you have abjection.
Have a nanill'a..": He 'd a couple
of ch'eroats frani his pot and hand-
ed one to me. "You'll f they are
not bad," he said: "•I 'be me a' con-
noisseur in tobacco I was in
India. Are you lit 1 h I am not
interfering with your in
coming along with you."
"Not. at all," I 'answered. "I am
very glad to have your' company."
"I'll tell you a secret,"said uny
companion. "This is the first time
that I have been outside grounds
since we have been downhere."
"And your sister?"
'"She has never been 'o either," he
,answered, "I have give the gover-
nor the slip to,d'ay, but he wouldn't
half like it if he knew. It's a whim
of his that we should keepourselves
entirely to ourselves. least some
people would call it ,wt for my
own part I have reason tbelieve that
he has solid grounds.forall that he
does—t'h'ough perhaps innis• matter
he may be a little too ctin.g."
"You must surely • fi it Very
lonely," said I. "Could you man-
age to slap down at tim' and have a
smoke with me? That cruse over
yonder is Bran+ksame."
'dpulbt, that some dark' and ;alai ter I PPOFESSIONAL CARDS
meaning miid,e'r.1'ay all, their actions,'
The ,more I pondered over the prob-
lem, the, more' unanswerable' did it-aP-
pear, and yet I could n+ot,get-the Mat-
ter ()tit bf .my thoughts. The lonely is -
elated ]fall, and the strange, innpenld-
lug ''catast'rophe ,Which hung' over' its
m
i na,
'forcibly:to I
, d Y
'� dale
fes
a
inmates, I P
gination All that evening, and Pate
into the night, ;I sat tiroodily by : the
fire, p'on'cierin,g over all ,that I had
heard, amid revobWnng in my mind the
various incidents which, night furnish
me with some clue to the mystery.
CIf2APTIER V.
"Indeed, yeti are very' nd, ' he .an-
swered, with sparkling dyes, "I should
like to ,run oyer now an' gain, With
the excep'ti'on of Israel takes, our
old coachman and gar e'r, 1 ,have
rat a' sou•1 that I, can speakto."
"And your sister, she must feel it
even nnore," said I, thinking in my
Ho w Four Of Us.Carne• to be Uncle
the Shadow of Clamber. e
1 trust that my readers will not set
me down as 'an inquisitive • busybody
when.I say thin, as' the days and
weeks went Iby I found my attention
and my thought's more, and nvoice'‘at-
traacted; to Gene'ral Heathelrstone and
the m'ystery :which surrou'nded' .h:iuir.
It was in vain that 'I endeavored by
hh'ard workiand a strli'et attention to
the ,lairds affairs to direct my- mind
into some more healthy channel. Do
What'I 'Woul'd, dn' land or en. the wat-
er, I could' still •find' myself p'uzzlin'g
aver 0 -de' one'quelsbion, until .it dbtain-
ed such a h'el'd 'upon. 'me that 3 felt
that it was useless for me to attempt
to apply myself to an'ybhmg 'u'nti'l I
had cone to some satisfactory s'ol'u-
tio'no'f it. I could never pass the !dark
line of five-foot fencing and the great
iron gate, with its massive lock, with-
out, paus'intg, and racking my brain as
to' what the secret might be.: which
was shut :an by that inscrutable har-
rier.
b'ar-
rier..Ye't with all my conjectures and
all my observations I could' never
come to any conclusion which 'could
for a moment be accepted as an ex-
planation of ,tire facts.
My sister had been out for a stroll
one night, visiting•a sick peasant ar
perforamin'g same other of the numer-
ous. acts of charity by which
she had made h'ersel'f beloved by the
whole countryside. "John," she said
when. she returned, "have you not ob-
served Cloam'ber Hall at night?"
"No,", I answered, laying down the
book which I was reading. "Not singe
that memorable evening when the
general and Mr. McNeil carte over to
make their inspection."
"We'll, J!dhln, will you put your hat
on and .come a little walk with me?"
I could see by her Manner th'at Some-
thing had agitated or :frightened her,
"`Why, .bless' the girl!" cried I, bons-'
teiniously, "what, is the matter ? The
old Hall has not gone on fire,' sure-
ly? You
urely?_You look as grave as if all Wig-
town were in a blaze."
"`Not quite so bad as. that," she
said, smiling. '"But do came out, Jack.
I .should very much' like' you, to see
it,"
1Vledical
'DR, H. ,H't11GIH ROSIS, Physician
"and' Surgeon;' Late of London ,Hos-
,pi London, England. Special
'i"h c
diseases of ,the e
attention to "eye, cosi
nose, and throat. Office and resi-
dence :behind Dominion Bank: Office
Phone No.' 5; Residence Phone 10!4:
!DR' F. J. BUIRIRIOIWS, Seaforth.,
Office and residence, Goderich' street,;
east euf the United Church, Oonaaer'
for: the County of Huron'. Telephone
No, 46,
.DR. C. M*OKIAY.—C. Mack,V.
honor ,graduate of Trinity University
and 'gold- medallist of Trinity Medicla4•
College; .member of the College et'
Physician's and Surgeons of 'Ontario,
'DIR. F. ,J: R FIORS!TER—'Eye, Eon;
Nose and Throat. Gradhate in Medi--'
,cine,. University of" Toronto 11890:
,Late Assistant ,New York Oplithal' -,
mic and Aural Institute, Moorefield'er,
Eye,' and''Golden Square throat hosipli--
ta'ls, London, England; At Comm-
ercial Hotel,. Seaforth, 3rd" Monday int
each month, from 11 a.m." to J p,m.
A danger ,which wasreal and immi-
nent, not to he averted by human
means and yet hardly supernatural—
here was a conundrum : indeed! I hail
come to look :upon the inhabitants df
the Hall as mere eccentrics, but after
what young Mordaunt Heaibheuls!ldn'e
had just told me, I could no longer
II had always refrained from saying
anything, which m'igh't alarm my sis-
ter, so bh'alt she knew nothing o'f the
interest which our neigh!b'or's doings
had for me. At her re'q'ues't I took my;
hat and followed her out ` into the
d'arkness. She led the way along a lit-
tle footpath' ever the moor, Which
brought us to some rising ground,
from which we could look down upon
the 'Hall without our view being oh
strutted by any of the fir!trees, which
had been plantedround it. "Look at
that," said my sister, pausing 'at the
snmlmit of this little eminence.
Cloomlber lay beneath us in a blaze
of light. In'the lower floors the s'hu't-
ters obscured the illumination, but
albove, from the broad windows' of the
second story to the thnn slits at the
summit olf the tower, there was not a
ohin:k or an aperture which did not
send forth ; a stream of radiance. So
dazzling was the effect that for a mo
ment,I was persuaded that the house
was on 'fire, brat the steadiness and
clearness of the light seer.' freed' me
front that apprehensiere It was clear-
ly the result of many lamps placed.
systematically all over the building,
It added to the strange 'effect that all
these brilliantly illuminated rooms
were apparently untenanted, and some
df them, as fan as we could judge,
were not even furnished,: Through the
whole great house there was no ,sign
of movement or of life—nothing but
the clear, unwin'king flood df yellow
li'gh't. I was still lost in wander at;
'the sight when I heard a short, quick'
sdb. at my side.
"What is it, Esther,.'dea'r? I asked,;
looking 'dawn at .my' cdrnpanion,
"I feel' so frightened. ': Oh, John,
John, talke me "home; I feel so fright-
enedd She clung to my arm, and
pulled at my 'coat: in a perfect frenzy
of fear.
"It's all safe, darling," I said Sooth-
ingly. "There is nothing to fear, What
hies, upset you so?"
"I am afraid of them; John; I am
afraid of the-Ileabherstones. Why is
their Nouse fit up 'like th'i's' every
night? I have heard frdm othersthat
it is aIwa'ys so, And why hoes the old
Man run like .a fnigh'toncel 'hare 1 any
one tames upon him. 'There is some-
thing wrong about it, John, and St
frightens eta" t�
(IT2o be Continued),
DIR. W. C. SIPIRIOA!T—Graduate oft
Faculty of Medicine, University. off
,Western Ontario, London. Memberr
of College of Physicians and Sus"
geons of Ontario. Office in rear o%
Aberhart's drug store, Seaforth.
Phone 90. Hours 1.30-4 p.m.,2.30
-9 p.m. Other hours by appointmen't.
Dental
rr,
rn
DR J. A. MUN'N, Successor • te,
Dr. •R. R. Ross, graduate of North--
western University, Chicago, .I'11.'Li--
centiate Royal College of Dental Stu-
geons, Toronto. Office over 'slue.
hardware, Main St., Seaforth. Phone,
151.
•
DR. F. J,. 'BIEOHiELY, graduate-
Royal College of Dental Surgeons;
Toronto. Office over W. R, Smith's.;
grocery, . Main St., Seaforth. Phonate
office 1S5W, residence 1S5J.
Auctioneer. -
IGIE'OIRIGIE ELLIOTT,, Licensedr
Auctioneer for the County of Huron.
Arrangements can be made for Sale,.
Date al The Seaforth News. Oharren,
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(Succssers to James 'Watson)
MAIN ST., SEAPORTS, ONT.
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Thos. Moylan, Seaforth No. 5.;
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promptly attended to by applications
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