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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1931-02-19, Page 6WINGHAM ADVANCE—TIMES J'illatioxn Advance -Times. Pahliehed at WIN iGWAM - ONTARIO Every Thursday IVlorning W. Logan Craig - Publisher sxbscription rates--- One year $2.00,. Six months $1,00, in advance. Te U. S. A. $2,50 per year. Advertising rates en application. Wellington Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Established 1840 Risks taken on all class of ix st r- muse at reasonable rates. Head Office, Guelph, Ont. ABLER COSENS, Agent, Winghatn J. W. DODD Two doors south of Field's Butcher shop. FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT AND HEALTH INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE P. 0, Bos 866 Phone 46ONTARIO. 'WINGHAM, J. W. BUSHFIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money to Loan Office—Meyer Block, Wingham Successor to Dudley Holmes J. H. CRAW F ORD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Successor to R. Vanstone Ontario M'ingliaat -:- J. A. MORTON BARRISTER, ETC. Wingham, Ontario DR. G. H. ROSS DENTIST Office Over Isard's Store H. W. COLBORNE, M.D. Physician and Surgeon C. R Medical Representative D. S. Successor to Dr. W. R. Hambly Phone 54 Wingharn DR. ROBT. C. REDMOND • i g,C.S. (ENG.) L.R.C.P. (Londe) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON DR. R. L. STEWART Graduate of University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine; Licentiate of the Ontario College of Physicians and Stirrgeons. Office in Chisholm. Block Josephine Street. Phone 29 D.R. G. W. HOWSON DENTIST Office over John Galbraith's Store, F. A. PARKER ti OSTEOPATH r ` All Diseases Treated Office adjoining residence next to Anglican Church on Centre Street. Sundays by appointment. Osteopathy Electricity ours Phone 272. , H , 9 a.m. to 8 nee. Jackfofl Gregory Copyright by Charles Scribner's Sons Word is sent to •Lee that Quinnion has been casting slurs on Judith's name because of the night she and Lee were together in the cabin. With Carson, Lee finds Quinnion, worsts t by Judith a him in a fight and makes him confess n woman, her:cousin, publicly he is a liar, and agree to ford, a youngleave the vicinity. Pollock Hampton, and Timothy Gray, decides to throw up his job. Judith READ NOW WHAT HAPPENED SO FAR Bud Lee, horse foreman of the Blue Lake ranch, convinced Bayne Trey - ors, manager, is deliberatly wrecking the property owneddl h . San- ' was quiet, its occupants in bed, that !heads this way, Carson? If she's got no letter had come since see had left, ito sell heavily, why pick out this par - that one knew where to reach her i ticular set of buyers? Why is the ,t n o —when he passed all. of these thing, Idol rushed through while she's away in review the bitterness in his heart died under them and the first anxiety sprang; up anew, grown almost into fear for her. "There's just one thing, Hampton," he :said, his eyes hard on the boy's face. "We don't sella single hoof in the morning. Not a cow nor a horse until she is here herself." Hampton, new in his role of gen- eral manager, flushed hotly, his own eyes showing fight. "I like you, Lee," he said. sharply, his tone that of master to matt. "And I don't want us to quarrel. But Ju- dith wired me to sell, I've wired the. buyers an acceptance and we.do sell in the morning!" For a full minute 13ud Lee stood stone still, staring into Hampton's ' ON - arrives and announces she has bought Doan,Rockwell & Gray's share in the ranch and will "This sale to r un it, She iscarge dh s Trevors Haight," see Lee quickly. "You did - The men on the ranch dislike tak- n't cook that up, did you Hampton?"ton. From ing orders from a :girl, but by subtly- • "Lord, no!"cried' Hainp. ing a vicious horse and proving her its place on a file he took a yellow thorough knowledge of ranch life, slip of paper, tossing it to Lee. "She best of them' over, sent•me g." Judith wins: the that this morning" Lee decides to stay. . It was a Western Union telegram, Convinced her .veterinarian, Bill saying briefly: Crowdy,is 'treacherous, Judith die- 'Pollock -Hampton, c "Blue Lake Ranch. charges him, re-engaging an old friend of her .father's Doc. Tripp. "'Am forced to sell heavily. Send - Pollock Pollock Hampton,;with a party oY ing Haight Wed - friends, comes Doan, Rockwell & to the ranch to stay nesday morning, one hundred horses; permanently. Trevors accepts Hamp- ton's invitation to visit the ranch. Judith's messenger is held isp and; robbed of the monthly pay roll, Bud Lee goes to the city for more money, getting back safely with it, though his horse is killed under hint. Both he and Judith see Trevor's hand in the crime. Hog cholera, hard to A. R. & F. E. DUVAL Licensed Drugless Practitioners Chiropractic and Electra Therapy. Graduates of Canadian Chiropractic College, Toronto, and National Col- lege, Chicago. Out of town and night calls res- ponded to. , All business confidential. Phone 800, I tell you there's a nigger in the wood pile and it's up to you and the to sitioke him out, Came .ulr to the house with inc." Marcia did not see them as they drew near in the moonlight. For with a plan shaping in his brain, Lee judged best that they should not be seen, He and Carson passed in a wide arc about the left end of the court- yard; around the end of the hoose and so to a. door opening from the of- fice to the back of :the. house. This door he found unlocked and pushed quietly open. Hampton lifted swift eyes, sensing something stern and ominous in this silent approach. "We want to talk things over with you," began Lee. "If you's come to bulldoze me • out of that deal in the morning," retorted Hampton, "you might as veep keep still, I'm going to sell." "I don't know that you'd exactly call it bulldozing," smiled Lee, deter- rnined to be pleasant with the, young fellow as long as possible. But you've got sense enough to listen to reason, Hampton." ' "Have I?" jeered., Pollock. "Thanks' "If Miss Sanford wants the deal to go through," continued Lee, "why, then, of course, through it goes. If she doesn't, there's going to be no sale.,, "I tell you she wired me to sell; I showed you the telegrams-" "But yoti didn't prove to me that she sent it. You don't know yourself whether it had been sent by• her or Doan, Rockwell & Haight, or by Bayne Trevors or the devil himself." He tools' up the telephone and said into it, "Western Uuion, Rocky, Bend. That you, Benton? This is Lee of the Blue Lake. We want to get in communication with Miss Jud- ith Sanford, somewhere in San Fran- scico. Send this message . to every hotel there, will you? And rush it: "Must have word with you immed- iately. Important. Telephone. Got it? . Oh, sign it, Carson and -' and Tripp: Rush it, I tell -you, Benton, And if you get in touch with Miss Sanford in any way, tip us off here, will you? Thanks." "She might be visiting' with friends' muttered: Hampton, little pleased at the thought that Lee and Carson were seeking to rob him of his newly ac- quired importance. . l "Where's Mrs. Simpson?" asked can either apologize or call for your time. Neither answered. Carson little by little had come to Share Lee's uncer- tainty tainty and anxiety; and now, like sought eagerly to find a sign --some- thing to tell that Judith had been lur- ed away by. Trevors or Quinnion; or that site had been overpowered here and taken out, perhaps through a window. But Judith had gone Saturday night and Mrs, Siinpson had done her work thoroughly. Might be well to ,call the housekeeper and question her. Had she found a chair overturned, a rug rumpled, a table shoved a little from its accustomed place? But again, it would be as well not to start s'uspic- ion and surmise in other minds if, af- ter all, there, were no true cause for it, Judith might be in San Francisco; she might have sent the order to sell, "Chances are we're smelling .powder where there wasn't no shot," said Carson hesitatingly. "Bright boy!" mocked Hampton. "You'll make a great little gumshoe, 'artist one of these days." • Had Bud Lee not loved Judith as he did, with his whole heart and soul it well might have been that he and Carson and Hampton would have gone out of the room knowing no more than when they had come in. But it seemed to Lee that the room which knew Judith so intimately, was seeking to open its dumb lips to whisper to him of danger to her. He had come here troubled for her. be stood, looking about him frowningly, his heart heavy, fear mounting with- in' him. And at. length he found a sign. At the far end of the room, in a corner, was Judith's;wrti;ng-table,on which were several open letters,' pen and ink, a:' pad of paper. Lee stepped to it. If she had been lured away after nightfall, then some message had come to her. If that message had come by word of mouth, there was no need seeking it; if it had been a note, fate might have kept it here. Impaled on a sharp file was a sheet of notepaper. The note was brief, typewritten, even to the. signature— that of Doc. Tripp. , It ran: "Dear Judith: "I atn'afraid of a new trouble. Have spotted another one of T's gang wor- king for us. Also have got a bullet hole' in my right hand. Nothing ser- ious .so, far. Come down right away. Don't let any one see you as I want to spring a surprise on them. Ain not even Eising the telephone,' as I've a notion they are watching me. Hur- ry:, "Tripp." "Come back to the office," said Lee bluntly. And well in front of Carson and Hampton, who stared wondering- ly at the paper in his hand, he went to the office telephone and called for Tripp. "How's your hand?" he asked. when. Tripp answered.. • 'All right," replied Tripp.. "Why."" "Get it hurt?" "Did you write Miss Sanford a hur- ryeup note within the last few days?" "No." "Sure of that, Doc? Typewritten note?" "Of course. 'I'm sure," Tripp. "What's wrong?" "God knows," answered Lee short- ly. "But you'd better come up here and come on the jump. Also, keep your mouth shut until you g'et a chan- ce to talk with tae or Carson." He clicked, up the receiver and tur- ned terrible eyes on the two men watching him. "They've got her," he said slowly, '.They've got her, Carson, They've had her since Saturday night. Carson read the note. Only then did it pass into Hampton's hands. atthcwa The ho angeredy in which he had been ignored, insulted in his sense of dignity by those words of Lee's to Trip, "'Tail: with me or Car- son,"seeing the reins of power being snatched from his hands, was speech- less with wrath. . "You bellows have butted in all I'll stand for!" he cried at theist his.s.hut fists shaking. "I tell you I'm running that outfit and what I say goes, I don't believe that Trevors or any man living would do a trick like that. I tell ;you it's ridiculous. And, no mat- ter where Judith is, when she is not here I run the ranch. I need Money; she needs money; we've got a fair chance to sell; I've passedmy word we are going to sell; and by G -d, we are going to sell:" In another mood, Hampton would not have spoken this way: In' another snood and with time for argument, Bud Lee wottld have expostulated with him. Now however, I.ce said tersely: "Carson, it's up to you and me, Get the boys out, to the last titan of them, Turn every hoof of cattle and horses baek limo the Upper End. We've got to do it tonight. Get them into, the i to i» though little vailey above the plateau. We freed hew and standing a t , g l under Carson's hard eye, stared at can ]told thein t*t;ie, even r£ they try to force our hands, which will be like angrily, ,. them g y last is .Tre ors "Whenthis them. I talc this to b v get through with youhuu er he has And, byt d A d, fi if 1 o xrbi Play, , let t 8 �:�aldt i y 'S 1 1 sl`, 11 t y, f li.ltc 00 Bud Lee Stood -Staring Into Hamp- ton's Face. Thursday, ' February 19th, 1931 mighty near gotten away with it." 'Tont' you dare de it!" ,blazed out. young Hampton, "Carson you take orders from me. Get out of this house and leave the stock where they are. Ill the morning— "Go ahead, Carson," ,eel io Lec'a hard voice. "I'll take came of Hamp- ton here." "You will, will you?" cried Hamp- ton, amp.ton, With one bound he was at the tab- le, jerking open a drawer. As his hand sought the weapon lying there, Bud Lee was on him, throwing hire back. Carson looloed at thein a mom - en, then went to the door. "You're right Bud," he said calmly as he went out. Lee, forcing himself to show a calte ness like Carson's, said gently to Hampton: "Can't you see' the play? It's ui to you to kick in and stop it, There's a telepohne; call up the buyers in Rocky Bend. They're there now, or at least their drivers are, if they're coming out• here in the 'morning. Tell them the deal is off—" "Can't I see?" said'Hampton, watts ing out of Lee's hands, on his wee - face. Then, tossing the telegram to the table, he turned and went out. His face had gone suddenly white. "They've got you somehow, Judith girl," he whispered through tense lips "But the fight ie still to be made, nad by God, there's a day of squaring ac- counts earning for a -man named Bay- ne Trevors!" • He went ' to the bunk -house, .neith- er• seeing Marcia 'nor hearing her when she called .after him, and with • dC brought the irate I Lee. dlyoutside' "And Miss. Langworthy is still on the veranda. Now Hampton, Carson CHAPTER XIII and I want a look at Miss Sanford's A Signal - Fire? - room. Come with us, you?" Bayne Trevors' way had. ever been "I'm d—d if'I will!" cried the boy to playsafe, the way of a. coward or `hotly, "I don't know;what you are u to, but I'm boss here and I'm giv- e, wise man: Even now, no doubht he p not taking•them. If there's' was giving an account of himself in ing orders, any reason in all this, I've got the right to kriow what it is.'" ' "Yes," .answered Lee thoughtfully, "You've got the right. I • just don't like the looks of affairs Hampton. I don't believe all that I hear. I don't believe Miss Sanford sent that wire. I do believe that your friend Trevor has got hold of her somehow, and that he is playing.you for a sucker, That's our reason in this. Now will you come with us to her room?" "Trevors?" Then le. said Hampton. t. laughed. "You are like the rest, Bud. Trevors is a gentleman and you. try to make him. a crook. Such a scheme as you imagine is absurd and ridicu- lous. And I won't go prying with you into Judith's room." "Come on, Carson," said Lee. "If Hampton wants to stay here, let him.' But the young fellow was on his feet, his face flushed, his eyes excited. �'thishouse and "You'll get out of do it quick!" he cried sharply. "If' you think for one little minute that I'll stand for your high-handed ac- tions, you're mistaken." At a look from ;Gee, Carson step- ped quickly forward, so that. Hamp- ton anxp- ton:stood between them. a word to arson. 'Gone to bed,'" answered Hampton: foreman hurriedly cattle a as • many beef cattle as Carson can legitimate endeavor at the lumber roroundup. Accept terms made in camp, putting' in his appearance at . their letter to you 'last week. bis regular hours, safe miles lying be - "JUDITH SANFORD." tween him and that which might oc- cur upon the Blue Lake ranch, estab- The date line uponfishing alibis, conducting himself like gave the sending point as San Fran- the man he wished the'world to think cisco. him. But in the mind of Bud Leo ""They wrote you a letter offering ' Bayne Trevors, or one of Bayne Tre- vors' gang was even at this instant. holding Judith somewhere until this colossal deal could be put over. Tre- vors or one of his gang—and. Lee's face went whiter, his hands shut itght- er into hard fists, as there came to his mind the picture of Quinnion's twisted face and evil, red -rimmed eyes: s "Well?" snapped Carson, "What "Of course," answered Lee. Know?" But his thoughts were not with his "There's going to be' no sale in the "at the new Tre- Lee and withBayne said n ruin `Theywere morning," , er. g n w a s , voice Carson long ,Lee's ' had o tonein r � e vors. He knew that Trevors g Strang ago sold to these people he knew, S too, that at least two of the heavy shareholders in the Western Lumber Company were interested in Doan, Rockwell & Haight, Toro Rockwell Lee thoughtfully, his there was no question; no doubt. to buy?"said g account for, breaks out on the ranch. eyes rising slowly from the paper in and Lee,investigating the ibis fingers. "How'd it happen they Judith boldo climb a moun- ,didn't write to.her?" scene of the p, tain, where the robber must have hid- "Well, it's a natural enough nes- den. FOX J. iP+i Registered Drugless Practitioner CHIROPRAeTIC AND DRUGLESS PRACTICE ELECTRO -THERAPY Hours: 2-6, 7-8, or by ' i Hent, Phone 191. s,ppou tt LLS THOMAS FELLS AUCTIONEER REAL ESTATE SOLD A thorough knowledge of Farm Stock Phone 231, Wingham take, isn't it? Knowing that she and flower -planted clearing" I were both part-owners, knowing A cabin in a p excites Judith's admiration. It is that we were both here, isn't it'quite not sayso. to be expected that they would ivrt Lees, though he does Theyare fired on from ambush, and to the man instead of to the woman?a wounded, Answering the fire, Of course I gave her the letter Lee soon as I had opened it, they make for the cabin.' Here they find Bill Crowdy wounded. Dragging him ' n into the building, they find he has the money taken from Judith's messenger. f3eseiged in the cabin, they are compelled to stay all night. Hampton, at the ranch, becomes uneasy at Judith's long absence. With Tommy Burkitt he goes to seek her, arriving in time to drive the attack- ers off, and capturing one man, who is known as "Shorty." "Shorty" escapes from imprison- ment in the grainhouse: of the ranch, RICHARD R. JACKSON AUCTIONEER Wroxeteror address Phone 613r6, R. R. 1, Gorrie Sales conducted any- where, and satisfaction guaranteed. ORS. A. J. & A. W. IRWIN DENTISTS Office MacDonald Block, Winghanr. NIT WALKER L Z _r�l\iD l�''ll'NEItA Eiv'zCL A. J. Walker ,icenSed; T'utteral i}ire"C'toC and Eri'tbaltner . Pito ne 106. Res, Phone 224, i,raia:,usitxe. l^ttnerti Coeele to the disgust of Carson, cow fore- man, who had him in charge. Lee be- gins to feel a fondness for .Judith,_tho' he realizes she is not his womanly ideal. Marcia Langworthy, one of Hampton's party,,, typical city girl, is. more to his taste. The discovery is made that pig g eons, with hog cholera germs on their feet, have been liberated on the raneh. Lee captures a stranger Dick Donley, red-handed, with an accom- plice, a cowboy known: as "Poker Face", Donley has brought more pi- geons to the ranch. At a dance given in honor of Hampton's friends Lee appears in ev- ening dress, He is recognized by otte party of the art y as an old acquaintance. Dave Lee, once wealthy but reined by trusting false friends, Judith, xn her 'womanly finery makes sueli . an appeal, to Lee that, alone with her, he forcibly kissers bet, receivieg the rebuke dived. himself was second vice president of jerked up his head, thrusting it for- ward, peering at the other through the moonlit night. "Say it again," muttered Carson. "Who said so? Miss Judith?" "She isn't here,'" replied. Lee brief - the lumber company. 1 "Hasn't been here since Saturday) "You come with us," and now' Lee "Have you had any outer wo'rd niyg ht. „ from Miss Sanford?" he asked. "No." "Know who her lawyers are „ "No, I don t; "Anything in her papers here that would tell us?" "No. Her papers, are in the safe yonder and it's locked and I don't know the combination." "Know what hotel she at in the city?" "'No. Look here, Bud; what are N >; at? • I don't get you." you driving "No!': answered Lee absently. What Bud Lee was thinking was: "Here are too many coincidences!" Little things, each one in itself safe from suspicion. But when be ined!- tat,ed that the offer had come front this particular firm, that it had. come jest a few days before Judith's first departure front the ranch, that it had been addressed not to her but to J-lamptort, so that he must have the epportueity to read it, that she had been called suddenly to the city, that that ,.call had come 'after the house s stopping ' Now, with more „cause than ever, did Carson stare at him. "Then what did Pollock Hampton say sell for? By cripes, if this is on'e of that young hop -o' -my -thumb's jok- es, I'm going up to the house an' mur- der him, That's all. An' right now,". Lee laid a hand on Carson's arta, "Hold on, old -tinier," he said short- ly, "We'll have a talk with hini after a while, Now I want to talk with you." Contenting himself with the coldest of brief outlines, Bud Lee told Carson of Judith's absence and of his own suspicions, Carson, who had listened to him gravely, at the end shook his head. "That's a pretty bald play, I3ttd." he said slowly. "1 dont believe Tre- vors would get that coarse in his work. It doesn't look like hint it lit- tle bit," "Does this sale lookthe least little bit like ' Juctitlt7 demanded Lee shar- ply. Is it her style to go over our no longer sought to be pleasant. "And keep still or we'll stop your mouth with a yard of cloth. Titis way Car- son," f 1 d With ri It le fi arms 'gr�tppec an 8 , with lagging _feet and furious eyes, Hampton went between theinto the door. For an instant only did he struggle; then, with a • snort of dis- gust, seeing the futility of making a fool of himself, he went quietly. Just, what he expected as a result of 'a visit to the girl's room, Lee did not know. He hoped for some sigh to tell himn something, afiything. Quietly the three went through the house until they came to Judith's dainty blue -and -white bedroom, Here all had been 'set at order by Mrs. Simpson. On entering the room a sort of awkward shytiess fell over both Lee and Carson Hampton, , o, w' `ISL Bud Lee Was on Him, Throwing Hi Back..' to the door. "You bet1 can see! If you and Carson think that you cane, run me—" Then, for good and alI,, Lee gave over trying to reason with Hampton., There was too much to, be done to waste time. He drew Hampton back, forcing him against the wall. As he tried to call out, Lee's hand over his mouth smothered his words. "You're coming with, me,"' he said sharply. "Right now," Though he struggled, Hampton was little more than a baby in the horse foreman's muscular grip, Tripped,. with a heel behind his . calf, he felt 'heavily, Lee upon hint. Both arms were pinioned behind him; and Lee's - neckerchief thrust into his mouth. He writhed in impotent rage. His, outcries died in his throat, the loud- est of them itot reaching Marcia's, ears above the creaking of her rock- ingchair. • Lee still : held Hampton's tied hands gripped in his own. So the two men went out the back door,,., down toward the corrals. "Bring out three horses, Tommy,'' Lee commanded, giving no explana- tion. „Hurry, and keep your mouth:. shut." Burkitt obeyed Lee as he always did, silently and unquestionably. Very soon he returned, riding, leading two saddled horses. "Get into the saddle, Hampton,' said Lee sternly. "There's no time for nonsense, Get up or I'll put you.. ui• 1 "Curse you," Hampton said in a smothered anger, his 'tone ntakitig clear the meaning of the indistinct: nutter. But he climbed into the sad- dle. "Colne 'on Tommy," Lee, too,' Was- up, his hand on Ilampton's reins. "We're going up -to the old cabin. You're going to ride herd on Haittr- ton while I do something else. I'll' tell you everything when we get up. there (Colltiniled next week) snapped The Logical Headline. The probate judge was recently' called out'of bed at 2.00 a.in; to pet - form a marriage ceremony. ,He step- ' ped out on the porch, snapped on the light and arcade a quick hitch of it. A proper newspaper headline for that wedding would have been: "Tied' Knot in His Night Gowtt," A ratan was saved from conviction for horse stealing 'by the powerful` plea of his lawyer. After the trial the lawyer asked: "Honest, Bill, you did steal that horse, did'tt't you?" ".Now listen here, Judge," he re- plied, "I altos thot I' stole that boss,. but after I heated your fine 5peal to the jury, 111 be doggoned' iff ain't W i u xt. got m doubts about y 4