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By Robert 3, C. Stead
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but they regarded Cal shyly and with-
out condndent further than unanimity
as to its being a fine day,
I "This is Cal Beach," Gander intro-
duced him. "Not a bad fellow, but a
D. D., •but I bet you don' neither of
you know what D. D. stands for,"
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"Dead deg," 'said Ounces, immedi-
ately accepting the challenge.
It was their custom, when they talk- thinning gray hair drawn sharply into j "nippy Dickie, said Pounds, who
ed of Reed's mother, always to speak a dwindling knob that once had been read the comic papers,
with subdued voices and exalted her glory. And on her lap was ! Gander made a gesture of disgust.
mind, as of something hallowed and the boy Reed, his legs dangling over "Such ignorance! An' before the pro -
holy. Reed's voice and mind now in -'the sharp ridge of her own; his. body fesserl I'm ashamed of you. Well.,
:stantly adapted themselves to their ',snuggled against hers, his right arm *what's the big nears?"
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custom; the tremble died out of his;thrown upward and about her neck, ! The big news proved to be that P.
lips, and in his eyes came a seraphic I But it was her eyes that held his at-; & 0.—as they were called for short --
light which set Cal's heart thumping , tention; there was in them something had discovered the lair of a mother
•down the dark avenues of the past, of that same light that filled .Reed's coyote. Ther was no doubt about
,down to the tragedy of Celesta 13caelwhen they spoke of his mother. And the mother beast, and it was likely
as she rocked and held the boy she 'she had six or seven whelps. Now,
sang, . unfortunately, the benighted• munici-
"Twilight is stealing over .the. sea, jpolity in which they lived offered no •
.ch, and the night on which she bad
laid her soul bare before hips.
"But my mother is with the angels,
Daddy X," the child reminded him. Shadows are falling dark on the lea, !•bonus for coyotes, but in
"The angels came for her, and she Borne on the night wind voices of pality to the eastward a bonus of two
yoredollars a head was paid, whelps
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Come from that far-off shore " • ' counting the same as adults. The
As Cal watched the singer and lis- only difficulty was that the claimant
trued to her song he was held by a had to maize a declaration that he had
kiliar muarlc•oalit
y.
said that verse of mine—where you
got my naive—and went home with
thein."
Suddenly Cal knew himself to be of
a lower order than the child, and he wonder of what voices from mere- i`led "Sowenthought if you'd come and
could only tied in silent assent. That ory's far-off shores had touched again
which to 1dui remained a flicker of to love and romance the stern old bring ut and air caemr ea could sack and pups
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hope, -not quite extinguished by the heart of Mrs. Stake. He watched as out oyer the line before we take
gusts of his practical learning, was to her lean hands caressed the boy's ,em,,, Ounces linnaie
explained.rewkilled"It's
Reed a beacon of light, undimmed and legs; as they closed about his little
unbounded body. He was stirred by this reeela twelve beans easy ., pickin' 'and we
tl still might's well have it"
DUDLEY HOLES There was a minute of close heart- tion, but stirred more poignantly Ganderw concurred."Sure thing,"
concord between them. Then— • by something that defied analysis, he said. " o h you in a h,"
BARRISTER. SOLICITOR, ETCH 1 "'Daddy X, who was Inti father? You that groped down into his being and He ran to the house for a rifle, to.
Victory and Other d` Bonds Bought and often tell rias about my rr other, but held him with the clutch of a primas
,. you never tell sue about my father. passion. For all his fine love • for the blacksmith shop for a .shovel, to
Office—Meyer Flora�+an'�han' the oat bin for an empty sack. "Be-
- ;��.� he good, like my mother? Of Reed his essential parental instinct fore the professor started this here
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course, I know e-ou're my Daddy X, bad not yet been kindled, and it was
�!A ' i'� but you're riot really ndy father, are that which now caught him, groping, garden city we could pick, up a shov-
X?" smothering, somewhere in the un- el an' a sack mos' anywhere," he
BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. }i e. ota e Just tiny Daddy �'' corn lained "Now we have to look
Money to Loan at Lowest Rates. '- So it had come to this,and so soon. charted mystery of existence. He p
Wingham, - Ontario .ah*e that he had vea, that drew quietly away as one who has 'em all up in the direct'ry."
�"` � piedgeBe brought the out of the - gar-
Reed shone j never know—how,, could chanced unwittingly upon a sacred age with a ht thehcar o P. & into
gar -
he carry it, concealed. uogguesed, privacy, but once more his heart was g
through all his life? This at eight; swept clean of the gust of hatred that It, and was off down the trail that
skirted the oat field. Cal waved a
Reed was only eight, and already he had seized upon it hand after them genially, treating it
awwas re !sting into ai s hears with this A little Iater Reed joined him at all as an incident in the day's work,
ins st of a l questions. Reed msght'she r granary and they went to bed a hat upon 'a
e - in faith,
J. A. MORTON
BARRISTER, ETC.
Wingham, - Ontario
b_ -=ere- _ and marvelling som w P
DR. G. II. ROSS now accept any answer, hut together, the boy saying his simple code of morals which would not make
Graduate Royal College of Dental grown -nos could not be deceived verse and then rolling his fatale frame a false declaration but had no scru-
Surgeons Perhaps it had already been discussed into his protector's arms, for a chill pies about attaining the same end by
Graduate University of Toronto at school; he recalled how Annie night wind was creeping over the moving the young coyotes into the
Faculty of Dentistry. Frawvdic had checked up on the name- plains. But before he fell asleep he next township. Nothing in the "mild
Office Over B. E. Isard's Stora jiL !rat were Gander and Grit conjec- had a matter to settle incident, the glaring sky, or the
taring behind his back? How had "Mrs. Stake sang to me to night, ing dust-cdnes in the distance gave
whirl -
We R. l BLY the community—which took so ffiinute y t shetalkedany hint
Women and Children, having taken this boy? i\'hat conclusions had says I make her think of lion. Why rents of his life.
postgraduate work in Surgery, Bact- drawvn, and at whose expense? What should I make her think of him,
eriology and Scientific Medicine_ About four o'clock Jackson Stake
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old women's wvhisperings were going Daddy X?" found his hired man busy repairing
Office in the Kerr Residence, bet- a 'I don't know, Reed, I� didn't even the fence that, in its better days, had
ween the Queen's Hotel and the Bap- on about the queer people at Jackson , , , ,
. � inti -1 Recd would ,,
Dodd X " he said, "and that Gander's absence
and curious an interest in the atrazrs to me about her boy that is gone; her
B.Sc., M.D., C.M.
!hat afternoon was to turn into new
Special attention paid to diseases of of every member of it --accounted for little Jackson, she called. him. She and swifter channels the placid cur -
Makes. How long knowshe had lost a little boy garden. He
ast Church, 1 hl di enclosed the family
and crying and pursue r runup she asked me if I would call her and shook the top of the post with
e, as had been this other boy Grandma. May I, Daddy X?" his big fist, reassuringly.
to -day? "If it pleases her, and you, you "Gander's off bummin' with the car,
At all costs he roust save the child. mai,, i
He must find 2n explanation that ain't • he?" he asked presently. "Got
And, this weighty matter settled,
would not outrage the righteousness' any idee where he went?"
they fell asleep. Cal exposed as much as seemed
of Plainville; if it reflected glory or r CHAPTER NINE necessary of the coyote conspiracy.
sympathy upon Reed so much the Shortly after noon next day the „ ,
better. He had it:So that s how he's burnin' up my
Jackson Stake homestead was honor tires an' gasoline!" the farmer ex -
"You had a father, au r , he ed by a visit from the two hired men
maid "IIs went to the war—and l e , ploded. "If some day the Council of -
o a Finian s farm—where Annie fers a bounty for damfoo I sure
did not come back. It is very sad, l rzwdre boarded—a couple of Holes
and that is why I have not Liked to know where I can make two dollars".
to the south-east, and not far from Cal went on driving a staple while
talk to you about it." Lying did not the school Disregarding roads and
come easily to Cal Beach. The words the barbed wire sang pleasantly to
seemed to lacerate his throat and he fences the visitors came straight the pounding of his hammer. A lit-
across the oat field, and even at a tle ripple of tune ran down its twisted
pressed his fingers about his neck.distance the contrast presented by
"He was a good man," he added; "you strands from post to post, crescendo -
their figures stirred Cal to_whimsical ing as, by means of the stretcher in
must always be proud of him." amusement. One was very tall, and
The child received this intelligence his left hand, Cal steadily tightened
with a gravity beyond his years. "I very broad, and very thick; the oth- the wire.
ther very short, and very narrow, and "No Sayan' when he'll be back," the
and proud of him," he said. "But"— very thin; and as they. walked the farmer continued. "If they do get
and again there was the leap of light greater would, from time to time, en -
in his eyes—"you don't know that be
the beasts, which ain't likely—like
direly eclipse the lesser, so that at one enough they'll Elul!' it's foxes when
come backas been —then Iieled? mwi daye find may
r moment two persons were to be seen they dig 'ern out, but then of Skee-
though he has to search all the world,approaching, "and at another, only zicks that's Clerk o' the Council don'
over for me, like the good knights one. know a fox's ear from a fish's tail so
f We call them Pounds and Oun- that don' fox's
no.difference—they'll
searching for the Holy Grail. Oh, ccs," said Gander, who, for all his ,an'
Daddy X r' kill: em an drive right on; in get
For a moment the boy pondered' contempt of Cal's inventions, never the money an' fill "up with formalin
great possibilities; then, satisfied, he. ceased to be cardial, "They look it." an, like enough bust an axle in a
When Pounds and Ounces came up badger hole whoopin' home after
ofoff for his after-school sandwich dark,"Jackson.Stake was in a mood
of bread and lam, and Cal was left it was apparent that great business
dazed, humiliated, caught'in a hatred had prompted their expedition: They to be prepared for the worst. "'Sides,
that swept down upon him, engulfing 'somun's got to go to Plainville for
him lie had thought it would die ,; �' uy„ Minnie. The missus's 'phoned for
{ �w �� [ sone things she's to.bring out for
out in time; he had hoped that that t '' ° `_' ° ' '; I oto -morrow. bang it all, since we got
d had healed forever, but now it I�'n„ro die 1
wound
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J. A. WALLACE,
Manager,
the kids beat it. for town. You can't of Summer' was taken by Mrs. John
make a calf into a kitten an' you can't.; Gowdy, Salem.
make the country into a city, an'the 4 Rev. and Mrs. Sinclair and two
more you try. the sorer everybody children of Tiverton, visited last
gets. When 1 useta drive that road IMonday at.'Tho vas Abram's, calling
with of Bill an' Nigger; 1 mind there ton friends in the 'village.
was only one house . between here an' If we were all as lucky as Timothy
Plainville, an' ten miles on a winter's Hay, to have an Aunt Peggy die
night—Say, wha's to prevent- you down south and leave us $3000, we
goin' for Minnie with that of skim -
could purchase a coupe like Mr. Wm.
milker o' yours?” Irwin's As for a woman.,. keeping a
secret we know of a surety they can.
Mr. and Mrs. Roland Ballagh,. vis-
ited the Misses Helen and Agnes Ru-
therford, Wingham, on Sunday, also
Amy and Mrs..Newans.
Miss Mary Lynett, daughter of
Michael' Lynett,'is .quite ill . at her.
home.
Our baseball boys played with. the
Salem boys one night last week.
Mrs. Hydman'of Gorrie, spent the
week -end at George Herd's.
bunted !vanes from schoa , ee ng �,didn't either," reverently. "Alii >al Cars heart gave a most unscienti-
bei y looked on.while Cal drove a staple, fit bump. What, indeed!`"`._
Alt business given careful attention. d b ant
Phone. 54. P. O. Box 113.
Dr. Robt. C. Redmond
M.R.C.S. (Eng.) L.R.C.P. (Lond.)
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Dr. Chisholm's old stand.
I.R. R. L. STEWART
Graduate of University of Toronto,
Faculty of Medicine; Licentiate of the
Ontario College of Physicians and
Surgeons.
Office in Chisholm Block
Josephine Street. Phone 2g.
t>k,r. Margaret C. Calder
General Practitioner
Graduate University of Toronto
Faculty of Medicine
Office—Josephine St., two doors south
of Brunswick Hotel.
Telephones: Office 281, Residence l;1.
DR. F. A. PARKER
OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN
r All Diseases Treated
Office adjoining residence next to
Anglican Church on Centre Street
Open every day except Monday and
Wednesday afternoons.
Osteopathy Electricity
Telephone 272.
J. ALVIN FOX
CHIROPRACTIC OSTEOPATHY
ELECTRO—THERAPY
Hours ro-12. 2-5. 74.
Telephone rgz
"Nothing that I know of," he said,
as casually as he could. "That is, if
you let me draw on,your. gasoline
barrel. And you'll have to drank the
separator tonight by hand."
(Continued next week)
D. H. McINNES,
CHIROPRACTOR
MASSEUR
Adjustments given for diseas.s of
all kinds, specialize in dealing with
children, Lady attendant. Night Calls
responded to.
Office on Scott St., Wingharri, Ont.,
in the house of the late Jas. Walker.
Telephone 130.
'bones: Office oo6, Resid. 2z.t.
A. J. WALKER
If URIlliTURE DEALER
— and
ItlI 'ERAL DIRECTOR •
Motor Ecluiprixent
NG1 A , ONTARIO
BELMORE
A` splendid meeting of. Christian
Endeavor was- held Sunday evening,
when. the . Women's. Institute preside Mr. Paul Willie is not enjoying they
ed. Topic, "How to Make the Most best of health. ,•'
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a 'phone in the house we've got
was torn. open afresh. Hatred seized 1 4is'•'''" o c��k. �`'�j>' `
himlike evil spirit; he was again rr F � ms's •Y1' �6 ;nothin' else. Allus out o' sometlleiin':
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"And on top of everything else,” Plainville once a�tnonth and:alloy !dad.
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he muttered, as though confronting a,,, lots; now it's a dull day we don' run
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Celestas betrayer face to face, "I've v out o' somethin . That's s labor-savin'
made of myself a liar --for you. I've • inventions for you. Another inven-
eailed you a good man:; I've told that p�r tion or two an' we won't get nothin'
innocent child to be proud of you; r': f done but windier' up inventions.
I've paid you the honor of a hero! ,Well, somun's got to go. Didn't use -
God forgive met If ever I lay hands 'ts, mind drivin' it with a team; drove
on you I'll tear you limb from lirrib!" it many a there, whiter art' summer,
The incident filled him with an ov- Iwhen there wasn't settlement nor
erwhelming unhappiness, and he was ac o i telephones, an' thought nothin' of it,
silent and morose at the supper table. Tablets) Th ff 11 b hl bat it's different now. After you
But later hi the evening be heard the
unwonted sound of singing coming
from the house. Before the open win-
dow he stopped, held by the picture
which it disclosed. Mrs. Stake was
sitting in the "room," the sacred pre
tinct with the ancestral crayon enlat-
gerrients, into which Cal had not yet
been admitted; her old form settled
into a low rocker, her head back, her
glasses thrust up on her brow, her
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,/rimy Years stop the trek from country to city by
Chips off The�� Block - nlakin'' the country more like a city.
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