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Isard's Store. WINGHIAM ADVANCE -TIMES h S Fle g a By Robert j. C. Stead ing interest. No pupils lived in Reed's direction from the school, and it was customary for him to come'. home alone. Suddenly the approaching group vas swallowed fn a depression in the prairie, to reappear a few minutes la- ter almost at the corner of his field. He could now discern Reed and an- other boy running ahead and six or "On one condition." "How do you like young, Mr. Stake, eight more following closely behind. "And that is—?" , Reed?" he asked, ,When they reached the suinmer,fal- "That you call me Annie, Only the "All right." low Reed and his companion left the children call me Miss Frawdic—Miss "Does he talk to you at all?" road and came: directly ,across the Frolic, they call me—in school, for "Not much. A little last night, field to where Cal, absorbed in the in- discipline, Outside they call me' Old while you were doing Ole horses" ;cident being enacted before him, had Annie. I don't look much. like a fro- "'What did he talk about?" 'allowed his horses, ever ready to take lie, do I, Cal?" "Oh, nothing much. Asked if you advantage of a moment of weakness, "No, Annie." often went over to -see me at the to come to a stop. The pursuers fol- lowed for a short distance across the "And how can I help you, now that school," I trust you?" "Oh, did he? Anything else?" ;ploughed field, then slackened, stopp "It's about Reed. I suppose you "promised to take me and Trixie—`ed, consulted, and finally fell back to. know young Jackson Stake has come Trixie and I—and me -me is right, the roadway. home?" isn't it, Daddy X? gopher hunting .on i As Reed approached Cal could see "Heard it, but they say there's no Saturday," that he had been crying. His face great rejoicing," .`."Well, I don't want you to talk to was covered with dust streaked with "You follow the news well." him, Reed, or to have anything to ao tears and perspiration for he had run "You city men never appreciate with hire. And if he calls for you at almost to exhaustion; and from his =properly the rural telephone. Well?" the school don't come home with him, lips a thin, red stream trickled down "This may be just a notion of mine, go home with Miss Frawdic, and I and across his chin. Scratches on the but I don't trust bun, and 1 don't will .come over for you afterward. white flesh of his shoulder showed want him to have anything to do with Will you remember that?" through a rent in the sleeve of his Reed." "Yes, Daddy X. But I'd like to blouse. The other boy, slightly older "I 'see. But how can I help?" go gopher hunting." than Reed, 'bore even deeper marks "He's not working, has all day on "So you shall, but not • with him." of combat. his hands, you know, and I thought Cal was glad the child could not de- Cal felt a sudden leap of the heart, he might come drifting around by the ltect the grimness in his words. •a fierce primitive instinct for blood, school and want to take Reed home. He watched the boy safely to school .surge through him as he sprang from If he does—don't let him. That's • and then continued. with his plough- his plough seat and met Reed at the what :I want you to do. And I want ing, but as his mouldboards crumpled 'horses' heads. But the assailant, you not to say anything about this—'the friable earth up and down the watching from the safe distance of to anybody." Ifield and the forest and thistles wav- the road, raised a derisive cheer and They had moved down through the lered and fell beneath him like the broke into a run toward their'respec dusty school room and now ; stood ;n ranks of an army swept by volley af= tive homes. the door, where the warm breeze of tier volley of fire, his mind was re -1 "Why, Reed, old Indian, what has the afternoon fluttered in Annie's hair ; hearsing an event now only thirty-six happened?" and the mellow light softened the' hours distant. He had definitely fix-itBut the boy's eyes were on the furrows .about her eyes. Facing, they ed' on Friday evening. He' had turn- ground and for the moment he had no leaned against the opposite door ed over every possibility, anticipated answer. He edged to Big Jim and jambs, and Annie's vagrant 'toe again every difficulty, provided against •ev- laid a groping finger against the great went tracing figures in the dust. ery: contingency. Yesterday he had shoulder, which shivered prodigiously "If he wants to take the boy how settled with his own conscience. las though in anticipation of a horse - can I prevent him?" "_Thou shalt not kill," Conscience 'fly. A moment later Big Jim threw "Come home with him, too, or take had drummed. in his soul. this head in the air with a fine jingling Reedto your boarding house and I'h "But this in .defence of thelife of a'of his bit; then with his great,,curiaus come over for him later.".. child. We kill to defend our children, 'affectionate lips muzzled the naked "All right, Cal," she said, simply. our loved ones, our .country,, Besides shoulder of the boy, and all was well "Thank you, Annie." He held out he deserves it," . with the world once more. Reed his ,hand and took hers .in n warm {'Vengeance is Mine," the voice in- looked up at Cal with the glint of a and responsive grip. - sisted. 'strange new kinship ` in his eyes and It was at that moment that Jackson "And I am its instrument," he parr- a smile twisting his swollen lips. Stake, junior, on his way home from. led. "Oh, I would give the world to "We've been fighting, Daddy X," a day's gopher shooting, passed along escape, but there is no other wayout. "The p he confessed: boys piled on the road fn front of the school house. Reed is trot safe while Jackson Stake Fred, 'cause he has no father, and I When they, looked out suddenly they lives:" took his part, 'cause I "haven't any ei- surprised his curious study of them i "Give him the money," lisped a new ther, have I, Daddy X? Only -you, He nodded, touched his hat, and went voice; .a cunning, subtle voice, in. his who aren't really." on. • ear. I Of a sudden the horizon swam "be- W. R. DAMOLY B.Sc., M.D., C.M. Special attention paid to diseases of Women and Children, having taken postgraduate work in Surgery, Bact- eriology and Scientific Medicine. Office . in the Kerr Residence, bet- ween the Queen's Hotel and the Bap- tist Church. All business given careful attention. Phone. 54. P. O. Box n3. Dr. Robt. C. Redmond M.R.C.S. (Eng.) L.R.C.P. (Lond.) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Dr. Chisholm's old stand. DR. 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 zg. Dr. Margaret C. Calder General Practitioner Graduate University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine Office—Josephine St., two doors south of Brunswick Hotel. Telephones: Office 285, Residence 151. E. A. PARKER OSTEOPATH 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 to-rz. 1-5. I-8. Telephone xgz That seal July 313th., 19g, You carat feel SQgood but what lit will make yotl feel better. C. H. McAVOY, DRUGGIST because for what people would say about her, and Minnie, she up and said, 'To hell with what people say about rue, I'm coming anyway,' and then my mother dried and made tea and we had the dandiest time. And CHAPTER SEVENTEEN "That would be compounding his fore Cal's eyes; the long lines of fen- -The next morning Cal awoke with :a crime and his cowardice. That I will ces tilted forward and back,like a ship feeling of blood on his hands: He not •do. It would be admitting his in a stormy sea. The world was clos- awoke very early, and in a `.stupor -as -power over me. I do not admit it. I ing in upon him. Fate, • having ab - to time and place. The yellow sum- will not admit it" sorbed his attention from :, in front, mer morning had not yet dawned be -1 With that the voices were silent, now attacked hire, suddenly and vici yond a faint grey mist that blocked but this morning a new • voice came ously, on the flank: The :.uncanny in - the Window of the granary :against the 'clamouring at his heart. "Don't do tuition by, which Reed had "allied him - jet blackness of the wall. fit, Cal; don't do it," it cried, with a self with this other child of a like es His sleep had been uneasy, a rabble mingling of entreaty and threat. tate seemed to hint ,that forces more bf strange imaginings had clamoured "Think of.your hands. Think of that, than human` had.combined for his ;un - in his wind.. Then, suddenly, he had all throughn life, every morning. No doing... awakened with a sense of blood on one to know but you. You never will Cal pulled himself together. "That his hands. He stretched his extended dare mention it; it will be a,•gulf be- was right, Reed. That was a sort of fingers above him in the thin grey-,tween you and every other creature. chivalry. Do you understand? ness of the pre -dawn, while the sweat In your body you may mix with so- • i"Chivalry? That is what ` the started on his forehead and his body ciety but in your soul you will be an knights—King Arthur and -his knights, went cold and clammy about the ribs. outcast. To carry it all your life fes- you know—used to have, when they He could distinguish nothing—noth- tering withinyou; never to ease its fought in armour, and didn't care how ing but a feeling of blood. Turning fever by mention to a living soul, ;many piled on-" into his mind he found a vague im- Even from Minnie --from ' Minnie "That's it. Never count your en- pression that somewhere in his life- most of all, you must keep your se- emies. Punch 'em instead; Better or it may have been in a previous in- 'cret, guard it close forever, always have a swollen"face than 'a shrunken carnation; time and place were quite under •the dread that a thoughless `heart." undefined: he had killed a man. He 'word may reveal it. Think, 'Call 'A .. He turned to Freddie. The boy had killed a man, but no one had sus- murmur in your sleep, a raving in an was a picture of dejection, his face pected him. The secret had been well illness, and Minnie will know her blood and grime, his clothing torn and. kept, save for the blood on his hands. brother's blood is on your hands. It trampled Under; a sympathetic eye It was Jackson Stake! twill separate you from her like a wall; the sobs with which he " had been In an instant he was wide .awake. •a wall wliich she will not see,- but struggling burst restraint, and the, lit - He sat bolt upright; his eyes, dis- which will imprison and embitter her. tie form shook in convulsions of mis- tended, sought to sift some ray of When her love for you is dead you ery, meaning out of the .darkness. Reed.! will not be able to explain, to revive "They're always doing it," lie said, He groped wildly to the boy's side of it by one whisper of confidence and when he could control his voice. "P11-. the bed; found the little form twisted confession, You will have to hide it ing onto me.. My father's dead-niy in the contortions of childish sleep; from your children. You will look, another says so. But they.say I nev- thrust his ear to the lad's chest. The on them in their beds and the horrible er had a father.Orie must have had heart was pumping regularly, the lung knowledge, like a wild . beast, - mill a father, mustn't he, Mr. Beach?" rising and falling, the skin waren to come, tearing at your heart. Don't do , "Of course, he must" the touch. Jit, It' will lay a plague upon you; it He dried his eyes on the sleeve of "Nerves, Cal; nerves," he chided will brand you with the mark of his dusty shirt. "Sometimes they're himself, "If you are like this before; Cain-•" all right," he added magnanimously. what will you be after?" , "Stop iti" Cal cried, wrenching his "Sometimes they don't seem to make The sticky feeling on his fingers shoulders as though in physical con- any difference. And then, all ;of a persisted in his imagination.- "Beast- flict. "I know .you. You are Fear. sudden, they'll pile on to me for ly stuff to Have on one's fingers all his Dainn you, I'm no . cowardl" nothing. They call my mother a bad life. Nobody knowing but one's self.' Then all the voices fell silent and woman, too, and that makes me fight. All. the years and nobody to know, his mind drummed on in a sort of She's not bad. She's good. Don't but always yourself knowing. Sticky stupor, drugged by its own tremens- you think she's good, Mr. Beach?" fingers. That will be the hardt out purposes. So he spent the day, The appeal in the little boy's face part?' iup and down, no longer like a wean- wrung from Cal a sudden and vicious So he wrestled with the .inevitable er shuttling the rich black carpet of answer. until the morning -sun again poured ,the earth, but like a caged animal; "I'm sure she's good, Freddie; per- through the window in the end of his •at;aaiting his hour: - haps a damned sight better than those little room. Then he got up, washed' As four o'clock approached he he-, who call her bad," his face in a splash of cold water, and gan to glance from time to'time in the , "Oh, you swore, Daddy X i" proceeded with his work as usual. 'direction of Annie Frawdic's school, "1 know it, Reed. I'd think less ' of He awakened Reedearly. and went I Sharp at four a swarm oflittle human myself if I hadn't" to the field together as on the previ-' atoms buzzed forth. For a few mina- ( "And they say they know she's bad ous day,. As they left the farmyard, tes they swirled about the school -yard because she doesn't ,go to,church, and. follow"itis the jingling trace -chains of•lwithout giving evidence of any defiii- that proves It. Does that prove it, the four great horses, he felt young ite direction,: like bees before the Mr, .])each? She used to go, but she Jackson Stake's eyes upon them, and flight to the feeding ground; then a I said they alt looked at her so strange, knew thatJackson understood. The tgroup of atoms detached itself ".and and none of themi ever • went to see knowledge increased his alarm for !moved rapidly along the road 'toward her, except Minnie Stake used, to once Reed and he decided to take the boy ,the Stake homestead. Cal watched in a while when she was oh the fans, partly into chis con#idence,this unusual; development with increas- and my mother told her she shouldn't "No, I just suppose. 1 believe Tai giving anybody -especially a woman. - the benefit of the doubt." It was Gander who interrupted. "I guess there ain't much doubt, Cal. She don' deny it h.erseif. "Deny what?" Gander colored and seemed to have trouble with his food. His Adam's apple hopped about his neck like a panicky squirrel, "Oh, come on. You know, Cal." `"But I ,don't knovi, What • do you mean What is it she doesn't deny?" He was interested in uncovering a code of ethics which could think the things that Gander was thinking, but shrank from expressing a simple sta- tement in simple English. (Continued Next Week) TO EVERY DADDY There are little eyes upon you, and they're watching night and day; There are little ears that quickly take 'in every word' you say There are little hands all eager to do sometimes Annie Frolic comes over, everything you do, too, but not so often, because she's al And a little boy who's dreaming of ways on the hunt for a man—that's the time he'll be like you. what the kids say—and hasn't much You're the little fellow's idol,ou're time for us." y With the quick bouyancy of child-, hood, Freddie's spirits were already returning and Cal's own • heart had gone suddenly aglow. "But you shouldn't tell things like that, that 'happen at home, Freddie," he chided. "I never did, before, But I thought the wisest of the wise; •In his little mind about you no sus- picions ever rise; 'He believes in you devoutly, holds that all you say and do He will say and do in your way when he's grown tip just like you. you'd like to know, because Reed said There's a wide-eyed little fellow who you and Minnie were great friends and believes you're. always right,'' ` And his ears are always:open' and he how you sat on the cushion in front of the fire and when you thought he was asleep—" "That'll do," Cal brought him up peremptorily. "Reed, I'm surprised. at you. Now you two boys run up to the house and have a wash and ask Mrs. Stake to give you your supper,. and after that Reed can go home with you and stay all night. But remem- ber, Reed, no more tattling!" Delighted, the boys broke into a race toward the house, and Cal resum- ed, his ploughing, . For the moment he had been almost happy. He re- turned to a contemplation of the in- exorable web which fate was weaving about him. When he went into supper the boys had finished theirs and were gone. The first gusto of the meal was slack- ening when Mrs. Stake mentioned them. "I let Reed go with that Frain boy, Cal," she said. "He said you told him he could." There was a note of challenge in Mrs. Stake's voice and Cal was in a mood to take up the cudgels. "Yes, -,7I said he could go. Freddie seems' to have rather a tough time of it . at school,. and I thought Reed might cheer him up a bit." Mrs. Stake ladled a generous help- ing of,„strawberrie's into young Jack- son's plate before she answered. "He's your boy, Cal, an' it's not for me to interfere, but perhaps you don' know 's much about the Frain woman as the rest of us do:" "As far as I can learn no one seems to know very much about Mrs. Frain," Cal returned, Mrs. Stake paused in her serving. She could be stern at , times. She semmed more than usually tall and sharp; more than usually white of hair and black of eye, "I didn't say Mrs. Frain," she said. "I did." "Then perhaps you know?" D. H. McINNES CHIROPRACTOR MASSEUR Adjustments given for diseases of all kinds, specialize in dealing with children, Lady attendant. Night Calls responded to. Office on Scott St„ Wingham, Ont., hi the house of the late jas. Walker, Telephone 530. P t Office lob, Resid. A.J. WALKER FURNITURE DEALER -- said R'L1t1ti1RAi. DIIRCTO+;, Motor Equipment 'W Ii+TCxilAitult, ONTARIO watches day and night. You are setting an example every day in all you do For the little boy who's waiting to grow up to be like you. Huron Co. Children's Aid Society The regular monthly meeting of the Society will' not be held for July and August, although the Superintendent reports there is no let up to the work,. The investigation of com- plaints received always takes much time and . patience. Four children were . made wards during the past month. These have all been placed. in Foster homes. Four :others . who were previously placed in Foster homes, have been legally adopted. When adoption takes place, they no longerappear on the records as wards and are taken off the visiting list. It is the Superintendent's duty to visit and report on , every - ward placed in the County and ` this is be- ing done. e-ing.done. There are 8 children now in the Shelter, 4 'girls and 4 boys. There must be a good many homes in the County where they have no children and many good people whose hearts, ought to respond to- the need of the homeless child The following contributions were received and aregratefully acknow-• ledged: Reg, W. Sharman $s.os; Mrs. H. R. Mooney 15.0o; Jr. Red Cross, Win- throp z,00; John: Linklater 5.0o; J. W.. Taylor moo; John Elliott, London Loo; -Sault§ Coal Co. load of Chest- nut Coal; Robt. Harris, Belgrave, '6, gals, of Maple Syrup; Geo. MacVic ar, 4 pairs of shoes; Kellog Co:, Cer- eals; Mrs. C. Stewart and Mrs,- Bowra, clothing; Victoria St, Chur- ch,5 loaves of bread; Cake and Sand- wiches; St. Georges Church, Nortli St. Meth... Church, Knox Church, Ah- - mook Chapter, Mrs. Jas. Thurlow. Popular Chicago Lyric Singers at Corm_ <g Dominion Chautauqua The Chicago Lyric Singers, popular musical entertalivaent organizationn will be a --distinctive feature of the coming Dominion Chautauqua here. This notable company -presents, with rare artistry, many of :the beautiful:, songs of Wales,iven In typical Welsh costumes. Gypsy. selections sung in Spanish .gypsy' coetpai►os skid oratorio geniis, to gether With seleettons from both light opera and grand opera, are included in theft repertoire.: • • • • ,The members ofthis r:ompanny are not Only exceptional singers, but poa• sets to remarkable degree the dramatic qualities go necessary in addition to•, their -vocal gifts, At Wlpgham Chautauqua. Commencing Aug. 8th