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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1925-07-09, Page 6!!111131111111141101113 111111114 Int is nee 'e everything but 441 Brats. They must k- ite their Chances. 10� row NER COSEN'_ ` '. BOOT. 11 Inillillinnen18111111111111111111811MIIIIIIII- ,2x BUS (NESS CARDS ELLINGTON MU'T'UAL FIRE INSURANCE CO. Established 184o, Head Office, Guelph, Ont, .irks taken on all classes of insur- e at reasonable rates.' N1R COSENS, Agent, Wingham J. W. DODD Office in Chisholm Block PIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT AND HEALTH e, -- INSURANCE --- kRID BEAT, ESTATE P, O. Box 366. Phone x98. INGHAM, - ONTARIO DUDLEY HOLMES FdA'RRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. 'Victory and Other Bonds Bought and sold. Office—Meyer Block, Wingham R. VANSTONE .'.ARRRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC Money to Loan at Lowest Rates. Wingham, - Ontario J. A. MORTON BARRISTER, ETC. Wingham; - Ontario D '' G. II. ROSS ' 'Graduate Royal College of Dental Surgeons Graduate University of Toronto Faculty of Dentistry. Office Over. H. E. Isard's Store. `e' R. 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But his hand in some way became enclosed in Jackson Stake's great palm, and the two men held each other for a moment with their eyes, silent, Cal restrained an impulse to tell this meddler to mind his own busi. ,this 'There was something deeper here than appeared on the surface and he must move warily. "Yes. He paid me up to date, and something over. I couldn't ask him "I reckon you haven't got much for more at present. "Not what I pretend—? You lie! What da you know about Reed?" If Cal' expected the passing of the lie would bring Jacleson. Stake to his feet he was disappointed. Theman remained seated, I "I don't generally take that, 'Cal, but the circumstances are unusual. You may want to take it back in a ,moment, You ask me what I know about Reed. Suppose I tell you, You had .a sister named Celesta?" A tremor of something akin to fear ran along Cal's spine. It was plain that Jackson was not merely stabbing' in the dark, He knew—how much? Cal decided it would be well worth. while to find that out and changed his tactics accordingly. money to come an' go on, Cal," said "You're goo modest, Cal. Always"That's so -yes," he agreed. the farmer when he spoke, "but Ido your getting' while the.getting is "And Reed is her son?" reckon, too you've got about a bushel good, But perhaps what he gave you "I have made no secret of the fact o' brains under that of hat o' yours, would see me through. I could be in that Reed is my sister's son," an' you'll cash in on •'em sooner or Minneapolis in twenty-four hours, and. "Quite so. But—who is his fa - later. I'll admit I never set much on comfortably out of your way." I „ "Butyou're not in they. a eddication until you come here, as 1 y way. Not Cal's Feeling was that of a ;Wiser sort o' figgered it spoiled a man for at all. This ,country's big enough—" whose hoard has been robbed; of a work. But -I see now that don' al- . "It won't be—if I stay here. Be -now virtuous woman whose youtaful ways go. I ain't particular kickin' on sides, I'll send .the money back aserror is about to be blazoned abroad. you not havin' any money, Cal, if you soon as I hit a bit of Iuck. I got He had a. terrific impulse to fall upon know what I'm drivin' at. That'll nothing against you, Cal; nothing at this black scoundrel to fake hls neck come in time. I've made a few bones all, and I've made you a straight pro- in his strong hands , and twist it into myself, an' I'd trade 'em right now position. Come through with the eternal silence. The man knew for some things you got that you green and. I'll ..get out and stay out, about Reed? The secret he bad can't sell, By the way, I might as and nobody'll know any more than guarded so well,which he had hoped well give you sonzethin' on account. when I came." to lose forever, was in .this man's po- You'll be wantin' to go to the Flee- • Cal was screwing a dust cap on a ever. Why not seal it now --now, for tric Theatre, or buy some peanuts, or valve. His head was low, turned to the sake of the boy sornethin'.• Come up to the house. I the wheel, and he held it there for a Something jerked his whirling think there's a bit o' money, an' you. moment while he considered these 'nzind back to,a solid ground of cunn- might as well have . it." i strange words. They were spoken ing. He had to meet this problem The farmer insisted on paying Cal softly enough, in a manner almost brain and brain, not 'muscle: Curious until the end of June. "Take it now friendly, but there was a hard hint. of ly, even at this moment of passion while you want it," he advised. "There threat under death.; ThWhat was the Cal recalled` his own philosophy about might be a hail storm tomorrow night fellow cog at? ey, might as 'Gander being no match for this stran- an' then you'd have to talk wages to'well have imint out at once. Iger; and about those who are lacking Cal straightened up and faced him, ' me from behind a shotgun. When in the head trying to snake up for it I'm close, Cal, I'd bust a rib if I a latent fire of belligerency fanning up with a heavy fist. The thought sob - hotly in his breast, i swallowed a flax seed, so take it „ Bred him, steadied 'him, brought him when the takin's good." said have no money to Iend you,"he back to earth. He could be as dan- Cal was busy pumping. his tires an there is no reason, why I'gerous as young Mr. Stake. when Jackson, junior, came by and should do so, if I had. As for what 1 "The secret must be kept! That was ou call ai ht observed him in silence for some rein- Y a st r g Proposition, T 1the one thing above all others. Noth- t understand you at all." Jac son not move from his ,up free of the horrible handicap that seat on the running board, His face society would place upon him if it was calm, his voice deliberate, but knew. For that he was willing to pay ,t there was a deep glow in his eyes that any price. It was plain'that this u, was hard to fathom. ,pian knew, and his mouth 'must be If you won't do it on my account, closed. With money? The loan idea Cal, perhaps you will' do it on was blackmail—blackmail pure and don ing' else mattered. Reed must grow "Going to town?" he asked at leng- th. "Thinking of it. Like to come?" "No. These jerk -water joints don weigh much for. me. Don't with yo either, I guess. You weren't brought up in Plainville." "Not exactly. Still, I can enjoy a evening there now and again." "So could I, if I'd somebody else' sister to jazz around with. Where' you come from, Cal?" Cal felt the color beginning t creep up around his neck. He resent ed this questioning and the veiled bu flippant reference to Minnie. -Still there was nothing to quarrel about. "Oh, I'm a bird of passage," he said. "Just blew in." "So did I. And I'm ready to blow out again. It don't take much of this to do me." Reed's?" 'tgave him fifty dollars n Iron jaws suddenly went clutchingod 'simple. If he about Cal's heart. "How Reed's?" he today he would demand a hundred dollars to -morrow. In the promise to demanded. "What have you to do d with Reed?"go away and keep silence Cal had no Jackson flicked the ash from his ci- faith whatever. The creature would o keep silence only so long as he found garette and inhaled deeply. "It's not it a pleasant story, Cal; not pleasant profitable so to do. , On the other hand, if Cal attacked for any of us, and I'd just as soon not 'this man if he thrashedhim as he ' go into it, Suppose you lend me fifty should, explanations would be de - dollars and 111 be off on the next train to Minneapolis." in and the.secret would be out. Cal measured him for a moment. "1 heart a blow that seemed to stop his don't knowrinsed t you're driving at," heart it came to Cal that there would he said. "But I'm not going to lend be no safety while this roan lived. . Still, "I haven't found it that way. I ra- ther like it here." 'Yes, you seem to have made a hit. You're ace high with Dad and the old woman and some other members of the family. With me it's different. I'm a two-spot—spades at that." There was something in his voice that recalled Ivlinnie's remark about everybody having their knives into him. He was at war with the world. "Oh, I wouldn't go so far as that," Cal suggested, "Your mother is still pretty fond of you, if I can read her aright." "Is she? Well, it don't get me any- where. Cal, I'm broke, and I'm fed up on this Rube -stuff, and I'm due to beat it. That's what I wanted to talk to you about." He'seated himself on theJ running - board, and the dog-eared fenders flapped him a precarious welcome. As Jackson rolled a cigarette Cal recall- ed Gander's prophecy to the effect that his erring brother would be no great factor in solving the farm labor problem, Evidently Gander's conclus- ions were to be justified sooner even than he expected. "Have one?" he said, extending his pouch and papers. "No, thanks. I usually take a pipe before turning in, but that's about all". Jackson rettirned hispouch to a packet of good worsted stuff, now frayed and broken about the edge. "Well, let's get down to business,' he said, as one who had an unpleasant task and wants to get it aver with. "How about lending ine, a hundred dollars? That 'u'd put me back under the duster lights and out of every- body's way," Cal did a,motnent's quick thinking, What lay behind this complacent, ev- en confident suggestion that he should lend this stranger a hundred dollars? There was a deliberateness about the manner of young Jackson which sug- gested that this approach was part of e definite plan. Why had he not gone to his father kr money? But he must speak -- "A hundred dollars? I haven't that much in the world." "You could get it from the old man if you went after it. He paid you • ;y vvoodworlk, Yla►ars and ceilings 109i( better with less work 1 USE CHAT ed. It was not until the sneer in to the stake. He was completely at Jackson's confession --if he could call it a confession—it was notuntil the Sneer upon Celesta began to emerge from the tangled debris of his life's wreckage that Cal felt the stingof the blow. The blood rushed to his head and brought hint, reeling, to his feet. "You dog!" he cried. "You curl I've a mind to choke your insults down your throat, here and now. You —you murderer! Yes, .murderer; that's the word. Murderer, and wor- se than murderer, of my sister! I could take your life, but it wouldn't settle the score; it isn't worth a hair of her head. You—you--" "Hot words, Cal. Calm yourself. I told you I wasn't proud of my part, All that Cal saw clearly was that he but you insisted on the facts, You must temporize; he must get time to got 'em. But there's one fact which think; he must keep his head. "Well doesn't seem to be quite clear to you; I'll see what I can do," he said at len- the fact that it is I who hold the whip gth. "Perhaps I can get some money hand in..this little controversy. Just (from my friends in Winnipeg. I can't lay so much as a finger on me and no give you all my wages, you know." price you can offer will keep me from' "I'll `give'; you till Saturday—no telling Minnie, at any rate. I haven't longer," said Jackson Stake, with the been a model brother, but I owe her !air of a creditor closing an account. that much and I'll pay it. Sit down' (Continued Next Week) and keep quiet." Cal obeyed, There was nothing el- se to do. The hypocrisy of Jackson's pretence of protecting Minnie nause- ated him, but there was nothing to do but, keep silence. Andkeep his head: He was playing with too shrewd a gamester to lose his head. "And I wasn't insinuating against Celesta—not at all, Celesta was a good girl. But she seemed to recog- nize the black sheep in me and there's a kink in human nature thatmakes the good girl and the black sheep an awful bad combination. She'd have given her. soul for nze, " I reckon, and I admit I thought more of her thafr of most of them. I was mighty sorry over it all, but it couldn't be helped then,and there was no; use standing around weeping about it." Cal's sarcasm burst his restraint. "That is the one thing you allowed Celesta's other friends to do .for her," re commented, "And now you expect for this Iittle service to the family I'll make a good fellow of you and pre- sent you with my summer's wages?" the mercy of this blaekniailer, It was an impossible, an unthinkable situa- tion, but it was so. Jackson Stake, the transgressor, dictated term 'to Cal- vin Beach, the injured party. The criminal had climbed on to the judge's bench and was grimly passing sent- ence upon his accuser. Even as Cal reflected upon this amazing reversal of all that r,hould be so he could not help being stirred by some kind of tribute to the clev- erness with which young Jackson had played the game.' He had pulled Cal in to the pit which he hitnself should occupy, and was climbing out over his victim.. he must feel his way; he, must "Well -I wouldn't put it just that way. I thought this country would be a little small for us, and the >simplest thing would be for you to stake me to a railway ticket and I'd put a lot of land between us. Of -cause, there areother ways— "You're right—there are other ways. Listen to me, Stake. When I sat by my sister in those last hours --when I followed her alone to the cemetery, I swore before God that if ever I met the man responsible for it I'd have his life for hers. And I haven't en- tirely changed my mind. Youmight chew on that a little, too." "I know. You could lay for me and knock me out sometime when I'm off my guard; I don't admit you can do it in a fair fight. But that ;would call for explanations, Cal, and it seems to me explanations are the thing that would be" particularly hard -for you. So you can chewon that." impotent rage Cal held his peace. The fellow had shim; had hint hand and foot, gagged and bound and tied you fifty dollars. If you think you temporize. can get it from me any other way I "I can't guess here and now is a chance "I didn't want to tell ou the ante to trywhat you may know good about Reed." he said, "or why you Y story, should ask me a question like that. It Cal, but if I must I must, The boy of course,none of is not what you pretend he is,"isyour business. That is the obvious answer. But ap- Smilin' Charles Say "It's aion ' about this tir l.e o' year that a lot o' fellers d.ecid.e whether or not they will have a garde. next year !"-- TONIC 11 Tu Thins prow Alright rlR Tablets step nick headaches relieve bilious attacks, tono and regulate tho elirninatilre organs, mako yoU feel fin*. "Better Than P111s For Llear ails" J. MITCHELL, DRUGGISS]C. parently you think 'you have informa- tion which you can sell to me and that I will, pay you for keeping quiet. Before I can decide on that I must know what the information is. What do you know about Reed, and why. should I pay yotr for silence?" Jackson laughed uneasily. "You carry it` well, Cal," he said. "If I had your poker face I wouldn't be hold- ing you up for a measly fifty dollars. I'd go after bigger game. However, when the big fish ain't biting one has to play for the small ones. I thought I'd told you enough, and you would- n't be curious about the details," "I want to know the whole thing, If I'nz to pay you money I want -to know what I am paying it for." "Sit down, CaI," said Jackson, after a moment, making room for him on the running -board, "I ain't proud of nay part in this story, as perhaps you can guess, butI ain't as sorry,•either; a, you'll think` l ought to be. That's human nature and there's no rise ar- guing about it. I met your. sister when she was eighteen or nineteen—J "You met . her?" "Yep. Mighty catchy looking girl and I fell for her right away. I was- n't much more than a kid myself, you understand. She spoke of you often --that's how I knew it was you when I heard your name here; Cal Beach isn't so eomni?.on but that it '&d make one pick up the connection --but she never let' me come 'round to her place and never let me see you. Not that I had any `hankering to see you, you understand, Guess she knew I was a sort of black sheep from the first and wanted to keep .the family name as clean as the circumstances would per - Mit." Cal listened to this amazing recital' too stunned to feel its force, After- 'wards he wondered at that moment he had not twisted Jackson Stake's head from his shoulders. But at the time the suddenness, the brazenness, of the revelation held him dumfound - DIED Hicks -1n Harriston, on Thursday,_ June 25, 1925, Mary Robb Wilson, beloved wife of David. S. Hicks. Where do we sleep? "Has someone called up by Long Distance and: reserved our rooms?" Why run the risk of spoiling a holiday' Start out with the def— !mite ' assurance that,` comfortable rooms and a good . night's sleep await you. Reserve your rooms by- Long yLong Distance! 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