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FINAL INSTALMENT
Morris was . too sick to be
--
Hiram
moved. The ; doctor pronounced it
pneumonia and for Rose and Jim
there commenced a period of sleep-
less anxiety. He moved her into his
bin and tried to force her to take.
ea
some rest, but as for hon be did not
remove his clothes' and scarcely .clos-
ed his eyes for nearly a week
Then Mr. Morris died. He had mut-
tered. almost constantly; the last word
they heard him whisper were those
of his favorite prophecy, "Some day
111 land in the pay"
you that offered' forty thousand dol-
tars for this claim,"
."Right. She doesn't know any of
tltose'things• 1 .appose You intend to
tel] her:"
"I do, Ltnless you have enough de-
cency left to behave like a man."
"How do yutt figure a mate w\'aatld
behave?" Jim asked, "Of course it's
all hearsay with you, but I'nm curious
to know." mind that
Hayward flushed. "Never n
line of talk. I came to giveyou, a
quiet word of wtarning but if you want
to get nasty, why, just write your
own ticket. I'm ready to take you tela
There followed the customary mel- ow, or later."
ancholy preparation and formalities.' That you brought
There were still a few women left on?
the ereeks near by and these did what
they could for Rose.'
It was Rose who selected a burial
glace, upon the north "rim" of the
creek—a high bench that paralleled
the bottom and that looked out across
the tundra towards the open sea. It
Maas a spot that in winter was shelt-
ed from the icy blasts; in summer it
was brilliant with wild flowers, lush
',villa tender grasses, and fragrant with 1,
blooms—a pleasant place fora gentle,
broken old man to sleep, Other hands
were ready to dig the grave, but this
was a labor that Thu Rowan reserved
for his own.
In due time he b, r , Forinn-
couldn't even play straight with Rose
and her father, It perfectly obvious
e,•h' you came out here in the first
place. :fell!Men like your ought to
be;shot for looking at a girl like lie I
"Well, Hayward, I'm not. going un-
til 'I get ready."
1t was a dismal travesty of a fun-
eral that occurred late that afternoon.,
:\. eler'gyntdn and a half dozen of ivfr,
]Morris's acquaiutances had driven out
n
fen town, but: (Walt secluding' then/,
there were not twenty people who fol-
lowed the pine box as it was carried
across .the thin antetntu snow and up
to its resting place.
Roe was z brave but a pitiful .fig-
..1 set. to . why During the final depressing rites
help." Tint Rowan's heart bled for her. k'Ie
cc's ,,alter deepened. ""1.is- it was who let fall the first shovelful
The speaker's of earth, When the grave had been
ten, Rowanl I know what Happened
t
Englishman. Thonmeon. Hat filled in he saw that Haywartl d
di that have
didn't leave any friends with him; the 'the
tmlergtlmeacabi d taken her back
itness�:s were all your friends. I're down team wvith which
wa
heard about a lot of your other fight` t w had
tl>e� rl cin to towvn and ww•hile
too—if you Can call 'em that—and .
gs to lay off the visitors' were bidding her good
I've bad a dozen wvartxtxx,
txyt; he went to his own shackand be-
gan putting his few belctngin;c s to-
gether.
' ` He was mystified when he could
not lay his hand upon the litt.le.leath-
er case with the old newspaper: 'mor-.
' trait of Rose, for that was about all
that he really cared. to take with him.
He ]yoked everywhere. for it before
he finally gave up the search.
Rowan had refused Hayes ard's war-
ning to leave, not because he expect-
ed Rose to reconcile. herself to his
;past, not becaus e he now retained the
faintest hope of ever realizing his
dream, but because there was some -
thin yet to be done, and, moreover,
because, it was not his nature to conic
or to go at any man's bidding.
He was interrupted in his task by
the girl herself. he came - to hi
' dac' and with her she brought Hay-
ww ard.
Jim,' she began. •'Mr. Haywwarc•
hasbeen trying to tell me something'
"What: Already:" A flame leaped
le moo, gh the ice into Rowan's eyes as be turned them'
ea3a
e upon the Bonanza foreman.
of _ p
shovel
dirt, �y "pre' Mme
a 3"Yes, already! It's best to have It
— out and over with,"` the latter declar-
, n. sit _ provided ovided own wits, - ' 'ed. dowzedly.
At)\r. ; STC l lr 1fi S
l.itl.
"Most of .it is; ' Nut Heat ttbuut the
killing of Thuntpsun, of cotmrse,, He
but hiuxtielf bt.euuse he had los the
comp tuy stoney.
"Ruse, will you let arae tai.e your to
Iowa?" l lttytvard asked-, e trnestly'.
Slowly the; girl shook her head.
ately, the, rim t, -as
ole t lir: haft p1 h.de
autumn ,, , the -ave. was
task an.f.
a .1.
!was. � . , : i �.h .. .- .. 1
�aert:, peen taw ..t:s:t..
thwtt - tis tee
ems
ext;: is
s s- tht i alt
i3 ::r * 'L:'rl r , rr:!-:`
z -r n.re: ane, '11:14 'M <.
i= r - a.,,,t:ittettl upot
nis kiovet.tiowirlit _.z Cs,.,pp.:;- ef. '-=s:,
avert, tut firrs. arrivals fai• the -..rf'.-.
u.,e
" a carne -tit _
I'.s-sVa
„h - aid az:oevery-
. . _ -f -_ -e Wim•
= �
TIM n ” n
of 7. ti .. r ;: z.. I E w v'.., ..t' cis
are. Tee ezrme, prepared,"
Jim _..are' irirrerlalontsly or. the
spea1 cTran
darn mean say _
something es, -Las
"Certainly zee. 1:screeserve
notice on y : a., I w „rte
met Mr. Morris and cattle ctn. .
and 1 undereseed why yen Mme,~. s.
Rose doesn't ender:steed. She d=e
know you're The Michigan,ez she
thinks 'you're just the _.*3 t leree r f
the
farnily, her little pia er a=
home town. She dcesnt k,.... is -
istatt
"Jho has arranged to drive me in,
I'm sorry you didn't 'wait a while be-
fore -I've had a good deal to bear."
When the Young torus scowvlCd at :16"
wan incl evened his lips to protest,.
she snxiled;faintly', "191 ba: perfectly
safe with Itimm, The Michigan IO.id
hasn't been' accused of killing iw+omen
leas he?"
"Very well. I'm sorry, too, that it
lied to come at a time like this, But
I thought it- best. I'ii see.' you to-
nuxt'rtaw, Rose, Forgive tame if I've
been .rough; It's only because---"
The speaker stantniered, .choited, then
he turned and went out into, the chill
twilight,
'When the crunch of his footsteps
had died out Rose inquired, Simply;
T
_c* e
what will happen to Rose at all; '
-1attend _c =ham, She has friends ill merely started to tell .her why
enough ,.,s..e her t,. z'. g"h.' she couldn't afford to have anything
dont:. finest I .3;zpatse vex:li further, to do with you," the visitor
got to say `3 asked baso to say it before you,
z, < 1 'duel- Jim ii—if be insists upon saying it
he T rt'' ger and that I of- rr.unced. "I tried to tell her that
So it was that luck held through.
an, the .laoi+Cr 11tay, who stered at her
her
with working; fat'e, and Inverse,
-ou
-found that putttre!"
"Yes; that night ti•hen I wus look-
ing for medicine. How lust]; have
Yuba had it, Inn?".,
"liver sleep the day yolt grautttted.
]Pee always loved yen, ever sitxce
warn a ragged kid staid you drove by. In
your wicker petty' cart, Fuse dear, it
wrath because of you that I gambled. I
wanted .tnuncy, I think I'd !ewe kill-
ed to wit at- -utmost, I went through
t g
hell. '/'hen 'when :I had iny money
and had found you I went through
,rain because --.well, because of
hell . ,ah.
the ]Gell I'd been through, Te -Poor
not much of a ems. I'm afraidyou.
have made a ixistake- '
Jhmx did not finish, for the girl held
up her arms to hint and said, quaver,
ingly, like a weary child.
"Take me; Jinx. :Please!,
tired l" Kid's it was that. The Michigan
luck held through to the finish.
THE END
4th INSTALMENT OF
Poor ---Scor
MISS CURRIE'S TRIP
(Continued from Page Three)
the waters surrounding Trinidad,.
They said they had several rivers in
Trinidad in which to swim but to find
a good ocean beach they have to ride
at least twenty miles from Fort of
Spain,
IN1tile one of the Engineers was
taking snapshots of the great grey
grim, fortification perched on a cliff.
outside St, George, a stranger asked
hint fora cigarette. He foundoutthat
this stranger had escaped with a cou-
ple of Spaniards from. the French
penal colony of Devil's Island, off
Guiana. The Belgian said .they madel
a row boat with' a' sail, but ;the •sae
was destroyed and they had drifted
for twenty •clays and at last like the
/English ships of long ago, came to
the friendly shores of Granada. Once
they escape 'from 'Devil's Island they
cannot be sent back just as in the
sane way a man cannot be hanged
"Why we - twice. Now they are waiting in Gran -
Rowan
you do it, Jim?"
da the l3elgian to be deported to
}
Roan answered carelessly: "01-1,Lich sum, and the Spanish to Spain.I'm just naturally a bad sort, I guess! t Maybe the next time they try living-
o great amount of character. I` in France they will be lawv abiding.
.vanted txZatxeY, and gambling was I Out. at Grand Anse the water is
.he easiest way to itgreen.. These islands are' certainly
"I 'don't mean that. Why did you green.
Granada is partly coral
_one out here wvitlr father, ther,:way r
you did?
"Well now, I'm not sure that I can
explain unless it was because of that
hunch hI told
you about," t'
"
J
tm
ma
na
g
ed a splendidassumption of sincerity..
"We gambler's play hunches, • you 1
know. And say, it just pro\yesthere's l
'"
something in them.
. queer thing happened
A mighty
o -da
= Ros
e. I didn't mean to tell
Phone 150
t
You yet, but your- father was right.
Thu r , November 28th 193s
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CANADIAN PACIFIC
which accounts for the bone white -
mess of the sand and the greenness
of the water, As we played mermaid
the sun began its evening display. I
haven't watched any of the sunsets, 1
dun't want to become maudlin, but
while we swain. at Grand Anse the
scene changed, The striking tropical
green scalloped half moon darkened
to moss, the electric blue sky deiloe s
n -
ed to violet, seeping into the ho,
,
while' above the peaks a smoky gray
outlined the clouds. Against this mut-
edbackground the sunset tints be-
came a glory, which filtered through
the gap like some magic elixir charg-
ing the dulled water in the bay with
vibrant colour. We felt that we had
discovered the Ponce de Leon foun-
tain of youth. We felt that strong vi-
bration of life force which a spent
swimmer . feels when he nears the
shore and knows that he has power
enough for the„finish. We wanted to
swim on through the rose tinted wat-
er, on through the golden gap into
the fatal fascination of the splendor
beyond, but time raucous exhaust of a
rudely awakened gas motor brought
us about and so we reached home in
goat time to dress for dinners ort registration, which corresponds close_
At 11 p.m. we were up on thep ly with the total for last year. Egg
weights were excellent throughoutw
the contest, there being only 12 pens!
which failed to average 24 ounces to,
the dozen. The average egg yield per.
South, America, we shall have reach-
ed another continent,
I only just learned yesterday from
the Librarian, a Nova Scotian Blue-
nose, that I have been travelling or
the flagship with the Commodore of
the line. The Lady Nelson was built
first of the five. Ladies and Commo-
dore Coffin went across to Birken-
head, England, and brought her over,
to Halifax. When they meet the oth-
er Lady boat salutes with four blasts„
The Lady Nelson answers. 1 am
quite proud of our ship.
W. A. C RA OR
W
F
D, M.D.
Physician and • Surgeon
Located at the office of the late
Dr. J. P. Kennedy.
Wingham
Canadian Egg Laying Contest
Time Sixteenth Canadian Egg Lay-
ing Contest, held at Central Experi-
mental Farm, ended on October 23,.
having completed its 51 week course._
Thecomplete results of the year
show many excellent performances by
both the heavy and light breeds.,
A feature of the contest was the
good health of the birds and the ab-
sence of infectious and contagious.
diseases.
A total of 107 birds qualified for
deck under the colored, lights where
the colored boys were :strumm:ing a
nostlygic tune when we backed away
from Granada. So many partings.
The island beckons, and opens the
front door. We are welcomed and
enfolded, The back door opens and
we are given the freedom of their hills
and valleys. The sun descends, the
ship's gong' rings over the Bay. We
must say goodbye and tear ourselves
away back, to the ship. We stand on
deck:. and watch the serried twinkling
e
like bright
ht
hillside
g
tlmeh
ort se fad d
lights
on
g
feel a
and
we
away
winking
Y
tears w g
nausea of sorrow. But tomorrow is
another day, and another welcome.
We are now at the last island, Trin-
idad. The boat sails within the. hour
and when we .next stop in thirty-six
hours at Demarara, • British Guiana, at West End Bridge_WALKERTON•
There's pay on this claim!" said Ro-
wan.
erect yy 1 r"` c= n 7c; en ;' love her acrd want to marry her. "Please don't let's talk about that".
t't what its wt. zM. Then :et -that I'll give a her a home and eyed -all "But, Rose, listen! While I was
tea." tl., shorik her." of her troubles" digging up there on the rim the •gray-
-r :r, .- Teas= for that offer .O"oaf wasit you said about Jim?" el looked good. I took some sof it. t
x >n :seer
T
_, :see Mi3ch;„tag s- luck," 1-e a1m] ':sled quietly,, down to the creek and tested
� n s :_s_ Hayward told lees fankly, brutally
p'% ,�'- I � ->e .a"d yen did:most
_ � 4 be
y
of _ '.a.'•.._....:�L. F" y aintlt that 3 cla he repealed S;rbat b'e had previously
T. ^-'�, .., , h Fr. h'' w every- said. Jho listened in silence.
body It ses 171:e7.1 e, ,say Fon. You "Is h truce? Rose turned a strain-
-were c: = x._« in tree 1 r.i.i and you ed, white fate lipon The Mid -Agars
WASH DAY ON THE NORTHERN ETHIOPIAN FRONT
as fell before the Italian forces. A.' African ,sun and shiveritmg a
Italian infamtrynmera take: time out later
to wash clothes andbathe during abath can be extremely pleasatmt after 1 tent Imerasures at nights.
halt isi the advance Ott Makale, which swveltcrittg for days under a 'broiling
t
can't begin to guess wvJtat was in it,
but it was rich, You're a rich wom-
an. There's no mistake. It wasn't a
`prospect,' it was big pay, coarse
gold!" •
at silent then'
For a while the girl s ,
abruptly she hid her face in her hands
"Ohl The pity' of ill" she cried. -
"After he had worked so long and
endured so much! Poor father! So
atient, so gentle, so old—t" Tears
tole through her fingers.
" 'e told us he would land in the
pay and we wouldn't believe him. But
-know he's glad, for it was yott be
scanted it for, not himself, and every-
.lminri has come out just the way hG
would have had it. I -I11 bet ire's
happy+ at last,"
"Miebif an'w latch stillholds good,],,,,.
doe.
aXrX:
Pshaw! That 'parnerAdp`• tarrange- CHIi�:O11PRlACTOR$
I've +ut rrtrYney,
bird was the highest ever recorded in
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Ji i—,n't st' flail the claim is yours, 1, A. R. & F. E. DUV'AL
Jim,"
anent w:t,' a joke., v a l'" 1 CHIROPRACTIC axtd
'lots of it. 'I could, have made things
ELECTRO, T]IERA1?
good deal easier for Iain amend fete
,u, hut I didn't dare, No, Rose, it's ,Torth 'Street Wingham
1 your; and you baNe tiOtltin„ ter Telephone +300.
orgy about any rrar,rt,. ' out xmer„clam'].
pay any attention to what Hayward
'aid, metes yr,tt want to, 'f i tow you
lake him and—in':, a mighty tater boy,
Ile ha', rxruragi and be I',vee. yritt,
"But, Jim,. I rlr,rt't lr,',m snot, 1
(l',n't even like, him, any more,”
"'Flyer) that'"s that!" Rowan derI0r'
ed, heartily.
"I love somebody (Okla," The p!irl
lifted iwr tear.stainerl face, "Yin io
love with, a bey .frd,rn mit' old town.
I tlhink. I must have carred for him
ever since I was a. little, ail, Amus
I've beanin his .thoughts, too, _ He
has carried my picture t"onetantIr"-"
"'VV'ell, wail! That's certainly nice,"
Jim could think of nothing else . to
say.
"He's an unselfish boy, He did a
great deal for father. 'z thinly he'd
give his life for me, And yet he has
never Said that he loves tire, ,I had
to find it rut by chance,"
ro' "Rose!" All. the reserve, all the-
counterfeit eheerfulness df Thi= Mich
gan K.id, fell away, It was Jim ltow-
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