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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1931-02-26, Page 6AtaVAIISSeent00106, Published at INGHAM - ONTARIO Every Thursday Morning W. Logan Craig -Usher cription rates — One year Six monthSLOG, in advance, To U. S. A. $2.50 per year. Advertising rates en application. Wellington Mutual Fire Insurance Co, Established 1840 Risks taken on all class of insux- unee. at reasonable rates. Head Office, Guelph, Ont. 13NER COSENS, Agent,. *Ingham J. W. DODD Twa dor % south of Field's Blather shop. FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT AND HEALTH INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE P. 0. Box 366 Phone 46 WINGHAM, ONTARIO J. W. BUSHFIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money to Loan Office—Ileyer Block Wingliam Successor to Dedley Holmes J. H. CRAWFORD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Et.. Successor to R. Va.nstone VSingham -:- Ontario J. A. MORTON BARRISTER, ETC. Wingham, Cheerio DR. G. H. ROSS DENTIST Office Over Isard's Store H. W. COLBORNE, M• D • Physician and Surgeon Medical Representative D. S. C. R. Successor to Dr. W. It Hambly Phone 54 Winglaam DR. ROBT. C. REDMOND MR.C.S. (ENG.) L.R.C.P. (Load.) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON DR. R. L. STEWART Graduate of University of Toronto, Famdty of Medicine: Licentiate of the Ontario College of Physicians and ling a vicious horse and proving her signment of cattle and horses at a Surgeons. thorough knowledge of ranch life, ridiculously low figure. Hampton is Office in Chisholm Block Judith wins the best of them over. addressed •as egeneral manage?, of Josephine Street. Phone 29 .Lee decides to stay. the Blue Lake outfit. Judith is vag- Convinced her veterinarian, Bill uely unseasy. In her absence Hamp- Crowdy, is treacherous, Judith dis- charges him, re-engaging an old WINOHAM ADVANCE. -TIMES eweere • !open and shut, Doc, Another one Trevor's men that ate uught to hae Ifired long ago. The one thing 1 can I get, is why he didn't do a finisbe job of it and hang around until Mis Sanford leftethen get away with ti note. It would have left no evidenc behind him." She mew have locked her dot and windows when ,she went QM." • was Tripp's solution, "And prebably he didn't bang around wasting time and taking chonces," Tripp's boyish face had lost its youthful look, His eyes, meeting I3ud 1 Lee's steadily, had in then an expres. sion like Lee's, "If it's Ouiregion—" Tripp began, Then he stopped abruptly. Lee and Tripp were together in the office not above fifteen minutes, Then Trippleft to return to the Lower End to get the rest of the men out, to help in the big drive of cattle and horses which must be returned to the shut- in valleys of the Upper End. Lee went to the bunk -house, *slip- ped revolver and cartridge's into his pockets, took a rifle and rode again to the old cabin. "It's Trevor's big, last play?" he told, himself gravely, over and over. "He'll be backing it op strong, play- ing his hand for all that there's in it, and he'll have taken time and care to fill in his hand so that were buck- ing a royal flush. And there's only one way to beat a royal flush, and that's with a gun. But I can't quite see the whole play, Trevors; I can't quite see it." - There were enough men to do the night's work without him and Tommy Burkitt, and Lee.gave no thought to 'Carson, now swearing in the darkness of sorne shadow -filled gorge. He did not know what the morrow's work would be for him, but he made his preparations none the less, eager for 4the coming dawn. He fried many .slices of bacon while Hampton glared at him and Tommy watched him in terestedly; he made a light, compact lunch, such as hest "sticks to a man's ribs," wrapped it in heavy -paperand slipped the package into the bosom of his shirt. 1 -le completed, his equip- ment with a fresh bag of tobacco and many matches. He loaded his rifle, added a plentiful supply of ammuni- tion to his outfit from the box oh" the shelf. Then he went outside to be alone, to frown at the black wall of the night, to think, to await the dawn. "I'm coming to you, Judith girl," he whispered over arid over to himself. 'Somehow!' ofithe northern side of Blue Lake ranch, !, "1 make out," he said slowly, "Unit 't I frevors means business and that Car- d son has got his work cut out for him s this morning, Tommye" te For the thing which had caught the S boy's eyes was a blaze on the ridge, its flames leaping and lieking at the e- thinning sdarle.ness, its smeke i black smudge on the horizon, staining the glow of the dawn. And farther along the same ridge was a second blaze, smeller with distance, but growing as it licked at the dry brush. Still far- ther a third, "If that fire ever gets a good start," muttered Lee heavily, "It's going to sweep the ranch.. God knows where ihtwal,ui will thI Biesse h csvt stop. And h d justet turned irsy ss Carson going to fight fire with one hand and stock with the other, I don't know." away from the ranch, sweeping the ragged jumble of mountains about him. Judith was gone. Judith needed him and he did not dare try to esti- mate the soreness of her need. What did it matter •that Carson and Tripp and the rest had their problems to, face back there? There was only one thing in. all the wide world now that mattered. And he did not even know where she was, north, south, east or west! Somewhere in these mountains, no doubt. But where, when a man might ride a hundred miles this way or that and have no sign if lie passed within calling dis- tance of her? In his heart Bud Lee prayed, as he had prayed last night, asking God that he might come to Judith. And. it seemed to him, standing close to God on the rocky heights, tfiat his prayer had been heard and answered. For, far off to the east, still farther in the solitude of the mountains, ris- ing from a rugged peak, a thin line of smoke Tose into the paling sky. It Might be that Judith was there. IS, might be that she was scores of - miles from the beckoning smoke. But Lee had asked a sign and there, like a slender finger pointing,, to the brightening sky, was a sign. He stooped swiftly for rifle and rope and packet of bacon. "Where you goin', Bud?" asked Tommy. , "To Judith,"- answered Bud Lee gently. For in his heart was that faith which is born of love 11 OfBLtJE LAKE RANCH Jackson ore,97 Copyright by Charles Scribner's Sons WFIAT HAPPENED SO FAR Word is sent to Lee that Quinnion has been casting slurs on Judith's Bud Lee, horse foreman of the Blue name because of the night she and Lake ranch, convinced Bayne Trev- Lee were together in the cabin. With ors, manager, is deliberatly wrecking Carson, Lee finds Quinnion, worsts the property owned by Judith San- 16m in a fight and makes him confess ford, a young woman, her cousin, publicly he is a liar, and agree to Pollock Hampton, and Timothy Gray, leave the vicinity. decides to throw up his job. Judith After the kissing incident, Judith arrives and announces she has bought ignores Lee, who would go away, but Gray's share in the ranch and will finds himself unable. Judith sees a run it. She discharges Trevors. letter to Pollock- Hampton from a The men on the ranch dislike tak- firm with which Trevors has been con- ing order e from a girl, but by subdu- nected, offering to buy a large con - DR. G. W. HOWSON DENTIST Office over John Galbraith's Store. F. A. PARKER OSTEOPATH All Diseases Treated Office adjoining residence next Anglican Church on Centre Street. 1 Bud Lee goes to the city for more money, getting back safely with it, Sundays by appointment. Osteopathy Electricity though his horse is killed under bine ,. , Both he and Judith see Trevor's hand Phone 272. Hours, 9 a.m. to 8 0.11:1 lin the crime. Hog cholera, hard to , ,account for, breaks out on the ranch. A. R. & F. E DUVAL i Judith and Lee, investigating the Licensed Drugien 'Oractitioners !scene ...4 the holdup, climb a rzioun- Chiropractic and Elevtro Therapy. f tain, where the robber must hare hid - Graduates of Canadian Chiropractic1 College, Toronto, and National Col- lege, Chicago. leeettes juditb's admiration. It is Out of town and night calls res- Lee's, though he doea not say so Pentled to. All business confidential. Mee- are fired on from ambush, and Phone 300 I Lee wounded. Answering the fire, they make for the cabin. Here they find Bill Crowdy wounded. Dragging IIIII1 into the building, they find he has the money taken from Judith's messenger. Beseiged in the cabin, they are compelled to stay all night 1 Hampton, at the ranch, becomes ea 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 - t ent in the grainhouse of the ranch, to the disgust of Carson, 'cow fore- man, who had him in charge. Lee be- gins to feel a fondness for Judith, the 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- geons, with hog cholera germs on their feet, have been liberated on the ranch. Lee captures a stranger Dick Donley, red-handed, with an accome pace, a cowboy known as "Pokei Race". Donley has brought more pi- geons to the ranch. At a dance given iti honor of Hampton's friends Lee aPpears in ev- ening dress. He is recognized by one of the party as an old acquaintance. Dave Lee, once wealthy but rained by ttusting false Metals. Judith, hi het womanly finery makes such an appeal to Lee Ow. alone -with her, he forcibly kisses her, teething the rebake deteereeed ton decides to accept the offer. Lee protests strongly. He learns from friend of her father's, Doc, Tripp. Marcia Langworthy that Judith is Pollock Hampton, with a party oe supposed to have gone to see her rriends, comes to the ranch to stay lawyers at San Francisco. A tele - permanently. Trevors accepts Hemp- gram from her orders Hampton to ton's invitation to visit the ranch. sell the stock at the prices offered. Judith's messenger is held up and Lee reftises to accept the message as , robbed of the monthly pay roll. coming from Judith, the -conviction forcing itself upon him that Trevors has kidnapped her and is holding her prisoner. NOW READ ON— So they rode into the night, headed toward the narrow passes of the Lip- per End, Hampton and Lee side by stele, Tommy I3urkitt staring after them as he followed. No longer were Bud Lee's thoughts with his captive, r with the herds Carson's men were driving back to the higher pastures., They were entirely for Judith, and * Dawn trembled over the mountain- tops, grew pale rose and warm pink and glorious red in the eastern sky, and Bud Lee, throwing down his coil- ed rope which had been put into ser- vice a dozen times during the night, said shortly: "Here we camp, boys. leave you ray fried. bacon, Tommy, and take the raw with me. You're not even to light a fire, And you're to stick here until I come for you? They had traveled deeper and deep- er into the fastnesses of tV'e! moun- tains, monnting higher and higher on - til now, in a nest of crags and cliffs, they could see far to the westward and brief glimpses of the river from Blue Lake slipping out of the shad- ows. They had gone a way which Lee knew intimately, traveling a trail which brought them again and again under broken cliffs, where they must use hands and feet manfully, anid now and then make service of a loop of rope cast up over an outjutting crag. "They'll never follow us here, Tommy," he said confidently, "If they do, you've got the drop on them and you've got a rifle. You know what to do, Tommy, old man." _ "I know, Bud," said Tommy, his eyes shining. For never before had Lee called him that—"old man," Long ago the gag had b,een remov- ed from Hampton's motith, Long ago, consequently, Hampton had said his say, had made his promises. When he got out of this—glory to bel wouldn't he square the deal, though? Did Lee know what kidnapping wan? That. there were such things as laws, such places as prisons? "Here," said Lee not unkindly, "I'll loosen the rape about your wrists. That's all the thances were going to take with you. Colne, be a sport, my boy, You're the right sort inside; just as soon as this fracas is over, when you kriow that we were right and that all this is a put-tsp job on you, your friend, Trevors playing You for a sucker and getting Miss Sanford mu of the way, you'll bay we were right and I know it." "That so?" snapped Hampton "You just start now and keep going, Bud Lee, if you tionh want to do thrie the jug." Tommy Inirkitt, eteritne back etro,e> the broken tnilee of mountain, eanyon end forest, his eyes frowning, was mutteringt "Look at that, Ttid, Vliat do yO make of it?" For adittle Lee did not answer and Ternmy and Hateptoto standing among the rocket tattled their eye, A tainn in a flower -planted clearing J. ALVIN FOX Registered Druglese Practitioner CHIROPRAeTIC AND DRUGLESS PRACTICE ELECTRO -THERAPY Hours: 2-5, 7-8, or by ointment Phone THOMAS FELLS AUCTIONEER REAL ESTATE spLD A thorough knowledge of Farm Stock Phone 231, Wingliam RICHARD B. JACKSON AUCTIONEER Phone 618r6, Wroxeter, or address R. R. 1, Gorrie. Sales conducted any- where, and satisfaction guaranteed. DRS. A. J. & A. W. IRWIN DENTISTS (office MacDonald Black, Wingharn, A. J. WALKER F RItI'l'URE AND FIGINE'RA SERV/CE A. j, *Walker I-tee:teed Funeral Director and Embalmer. e Phone 106. Res. Phone 224, attest Lfm�tsaine Fttttetat Coach. they were fined with fear. She had been gone for _three full days; she was somewhere in the clutch of Tre- vors or of one of his cutthroats. He thought of her, of Quiertion's red - rimmed, evil eyes, and as he had not prayed in all the years of his life Bud Lee prayed that night. He left Hampton securely bound and under Tommy Burkitt's watchful eyes in the old cabin, and rode back to the ranth-house. Marcia was not yet in bed and. he snade his first call upon her. Marcia was delighted, then vaguely perturbed as he made known his errand without giving any reason. He wanted to see the note from Ju - din'. Marcia brought it, wondering. He earrie.d it with him to Judith's office and compared it carefully with scraps of her hand -writing which he found there. The result of his study was what he had expected: the writ- ing of the note to Marcia was suf- ficiently like Judith's to pass muster to an uncritical eye, louking, in fact, whet it ptirported to be, a very hasty scrawl. But Lee decided that Judith had not written it. He slipped it into his pocket. Tripp was waiting for him, impa- tient and worried, whent he came back from the Upper End, From Tripp he learned that one of the men, a fel- low the boys called Yellow -jacket, bad unexpectedly asked for his time Saturday afternoon and had left the tench, saying that he was sick. 'Te' S the chap who brought the fake note frOut yoe," said Lee, "It's t CHAPTER X/V The Tools Whkh Trevors Used To Judith life had changed. from a pleasant game in the sunshine, to a hideous nightmare. In a few drag- ging hours she had come to lcnow in- credulity, anxiety, misery, dejection, black hopelessness, and icy terror. She had come' to look through a man's eyes at that which lay in his , heart, to feel for the first time in her fearless life that the fortitude was slipping out of her bosom, that the strength was melting in her. She lay on a rude bed of fir -boughs an utter, impenetrable blackness like a palpable weight on her eyeballs. When it was silent about her, and for the most part silence reigned with the oppressive gloom, she yearned so for a little sound that she moved her foot along the rock floor under her or snaPped a dry twig between her fingers or even listened eagerly for thh coming of the terrible woman who was her jailer. Gropingly, again and again she went over in her thoughts the long journey here, seeking freitlessly to know whether she had come north, south, or east from th,e ranch -house. rt was one of these three directions, for there were no such mountains as these to the west, no such monster cliffs, no deep cavern reaching into the bowels of the earth. The sense that, even were she freed, she had no elightest idea where she was, evhiclt way she must go, stunned her, "Will I go mad after a while?" she wondered miserably, "Am I already going triad? Oh, God, have mercy on tne—" From the instant when, Saturday night, she had been gripped suddenly in a man's strong arrna, when another man had smothered her outcry, she had known in her heart that Bayne Trevors was taking his desperate chance in the game. But in the dark- ness she had had only the two vague blurs of their bodies to guess at, They hed been masked4 her own eyes were covered, a bandage brought tightly over them'her mouth gagged, her hands tied behind her, her body lifted into the $addle --all in a moment. Neither num had 6poken, Then, tied in the saddle, she only knew that shc was riding, that one imei rode front of her, leading her horse, the other following close behind The sentse •of direction which $110 had lost in those first fin minutes she had neverbeen given opportunity to re- n. She Might, even ivryst, be a gun- sipt friont her own rattelg she might t be tweruy miles from it, Pot the greater part of that Sat - day. eight they had ridden; and i ogether toWarel the bille ricemittO itt when trails died wider theist end rt1s Thoreday l'i'eleretary 26th, 1031 rose steeply, they walked, she and one man. The other stayed wi th the hor- ses. Not once did she hear a man's voice; she did not know Svhetlicr it was Trevors himself, or Quinnion, or some utter stranger who forced her ieto this hiding. They had climbed eliffs, now going down into chasms, now following roaring creeks or making their way along the spine of sonat rock ridge. The one man with her was masked, his eyes rather guessed at than seen through the slits of his bandanna handkerchief. He had jet:teed the ban- dage from her eyes, since blindfolded she would make such poor progress. But still he guarded his tongue, "He would speak," she thought, but that I would recognize hi's voice. Tre- vors or Quinnion? Which?" Feeling the first quick spurt of hope when she saw that there was but one man to deal With, she was aquiver to seize the first opportunity for flight, 'but that hope died swiftly as she re- cognized that no such opportunity was to be granted her. Once she paused, looking to a possible leap ove er a low ledge and escape in a thick bit of timber. But the two eyes thru the slits in the improvised mask had been keen and quick, a heavy hand was laid on her arm, she felt the fin- gers bite into her flesh as he sought to drive into her a full comprehen- sion of his grim determination that she should not escape. It was when they had clambered high upon a mass of tumbled bould- ers, topping a ridge, that Judith had seen the man's face, DoCilely she had obeyed his gestures for an hour; now, suddenly maddened at the silence.,and Her Eyes Were Covered Tightly. the mask over his face, she sprang un- expectedly upon him, shoving him from the rock on which he had step- ped, snatching off his mask as she did so. For the first time she heard his voice, cursing her coolly as he I gripped and held her. It.was Bayne Trevors, at last come out into theh open, his eyes hard on hers "It's just as well that you know whom you are up against," he said as he held her with 'his hand heavy on her shrinking shoulder. Sumtnoning all of the reckless fear- lessness which was her birthright, she laughed at him coolly, laughed as the two stood against the sky -line, upon the barren breast of a lonesome land. "So you are a fool, after all, Bayne Trevors!" she jeered at him. "Fool enough to mix first-hand in a danger- ous undertaking." Trevors shrugged, "Yes?" He slipped the handker- chief into his pocket and started at her with a glint of anger in the blue - gray of his eyes, lie lifted his broad shoulders. "Or wise man enough to do my own work when needs be, and when I'd have rio bunglieg? I'm go- ing to square with you, girl. Square with you for meddling, for a bullet - hole in each shoulder. If there's a fool in oer little junketing party, it's a girl who thought she could handle man's -size job." They went on, over the ridge and down. Judith made no secoed at- tempt to surprise hint, for always his eyes watched her. Nor did she seek to hold back or in any way to ham - Per him now. Por, swiftly adjusting herself to the new conditions, she Made her fitst decision: Trevors did think her a "fool of a girl," Trevors did sneer at her helplessness in that ran's way of Inc Let him think her a little fool; hit him hold her in his contempt; let him grow to think her cowed and afraid and helpless, Tften, when the time came -- Again she had been blindfolded; seeing the look in Trevors' eyes, she had offered no objection, Again she had followedhim in a darkness made 01 ettnrise by a bandage across her eyes, isi,gain, the bandage removed, she winked at the sunlight, Again they elimbed ridges, dropped down nto tiny valleys, fought their way. a1on0 hunderous ravines where the water was lashed into white foam Again blindfolded, agaitt tredging on her whole body beginning to tremble with fatigue, the weakness of hunger, upon her. And at le»gth, out of a. canyon, making a perilous way up the steep wane of rock, they came to the mouth or the black cavern in which she lay now, waiting for the sound of a stirring foot, Only an instant had Judith steed upon the ledge outside the cave be- fore she was thrust into the black ie- terior, But in that instant her eager eyes had made out, upon a tiny bit of table -land across the chasm of the sendingitholr, htaloft a phon ae after the terrible woman had. come to whout Trevors had intrusted her, bringing food and water in' her hard, blackeeed hands, carrying the flickering fires of mad- ness in her unfathomable eyes. lantern set on the floor made rude shadows, and out Of them crept thie woman, leering at Trevors, peering at Judith, licking her thin lips, and. chuckling to herself. "I heve brought her back to you,. Ruth," he said, speaking softly, more softly than Judithhad thought the man could speak. "You will know what to do with her. And you will not let her escape you again." The !tied woman, for only. too plainly was her reason strangely mis- shapen, stood in silence, her great nutscular body looming high above Judith's, a giant of a woman, bigger than Trevors even, broad and heavy, her forearms ' thick and corded, her bare throat like the bull neck of a prize-fighter. "I will know, I will know," site said, her eyes filled with, cunning, her - voice a strange singsong oddly at var- iance with the coarse bigness of her body. "Qh, no, she evill never escape from me again." "1 will have a man on the ledge outside night and day," went on Trev- ors. "But we cannot be so sure of others as we are of ourselves, Ruth. You know that, don't you?" "Oh, yes, 1 ,know," 'she answered quickly. As site spoke she suddenly shot out her long artn so that her great, bony fingers fastened like a big claw on the girl's shoulder. "I have got her again! She is mine, all mine, Oh, I will keep her well.", 'In a little while Trevors left. He - had not returned, Mad Ruth, still gripping Judith's shoulder, half led her, hall thrust her farther , hack in the cavern. Judith made no resist- ance. Always, even when terror was uppermost she held one thought in mind: "If I can make them think nee a little fool and a weakling, my chance may come after a While." eks the two women passed around a bend in the sinuous tunnel -like cave, the faint rays of thelantern they had left behind ahem died out, and heavy darkness shut .them in. Judith could. barely Make out the huge form tow- ering over her. But Ruth, whether her eyes were like a cat's and accus- tomed to this sombre place, or wheth- er a hand on a rock wall or a foot on the uneven floor under her told her which way to go, moved on with- out hesitation. Judith estirea.ted that they had come fifty yards from "the outside ledge in front of the cave. when she was pushed down and felt the rude bed of fir -boughs under her„ (Continued next week) "You'll find the rent in your ,pants" said the tenant, as 1m set the dog on the collector, • Goatet Pt/ILLIPS do stead, os4 For 'I'roubles dtie to Acid INDIGESTION ACID ere MAGH I1EARTO URN NEADACHC GASES -NAUSEA AIN Comes HAT many people call lncIe- VY • tion very tam means exceee acid in the stomach. The stomach nerves have been over -stimulated, and food sours. The eorrective is aa entail, Which neetralizes the acide instently. 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