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heard him splashing in the basin et
the front of the shack, 'Cal had sup-
/ pleniented the farmer's dishes front
the camp equipment carried in the old
Ford, and had set for three, He had
moved than table over beside the trunk,
d that Reed t
d had tlight use it for a chair,
foiled a box on which be him-
self could sit, and when the settler
ablations, the meal
ByThe SI 10king
Robert j.
CHAPTER TWENTY
'Wheel; l:. \r1 4,.t.1' ........ the . .harp ,
came In from has
IN Cal and Reed, feeling their wad' in j,'fell ,'"'his is
and the beautiful birch reeled and fell "This is something like it," said the
� � � � ® the darkness, wound through the pop- `.into the sympathetic arms of a great farmer, surveying the arrangements:
� I lar bluffs that sheltered the Stake ?poplar,. that had known leer since she with approval. "Beastly, business
i ! homestead front the winter nor-w:es- ! yeas a tiny shoot, • getting one's own meals. My name's
lesaa0oil1 t ters, One out of possible sight frond «Then the moan cut off her upper Mason—Fred Mason—anl I'm the
the house ria switched his Tights, 'limbs, and trimmed her all about, and owner of this here country estate ex -
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BUSINESS CARDS
WELLINGTON MUTUAL F
INSURANCE CO,
Established 134o..
Head Office, Guelph, Ont,
Risks taken on all classes of i
ance at reasonable rates,
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J. W. ODD
Office in Chisholm Block
FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT
AND HEALTH
--- INSURANCE —
AND REAL ESTATE
P. O. Box 366. Phone zga
and they quickened their speed. On fondled Icer smooth white slain with cept for Certain prior claims bet the.
to the main road, down the valley hills this Banda, Although he had destroy_ original ve;odors and the Holders of
and across the bridge, they toot: their ed her he seemed, in a way, to be very the second mortgages, Yours?"
course along the route over et-hich fond of her, 1 Cal introduced Reed and himself.
they had come; that bright hiay morn- "And then he 'vent dowry to the I "I see an Ontario license on that
ing so many eons ago, stream that flowed close by the feet old dust hound of yours,;' Mr, Mason
"Are yen 'going back to the city, of the twisted willow, The birch had resumed. "Going far?"
Daddy X?" said Reed. He had dray%n often Watched her beautiful reflection , "Not muck farther," said Cal:
a blanket up about him, as though the that clear stream, but she never had ,'\Ve're short of two essentials --cash
sunnamer night were cold, and his teeth !been able to feel its cool waters about acid gasoline;"
chattered with an uncanny nervous -;her. And now the man thrust her .in- "That unmakes the going a bit heavy,,
mess, 'Something- about Daddy- was to the stream, so that the water came the farmer reflected over a well -heap -
so strange; so—so terrible. lup about her waist. ed fork of potatoes and bacon. "What
"No,we're not going to the Citta, :end then 3 strange thing happened do 'roti do when you're zit home?"not at present. Farther west." l At the very pohtt where the beautmel
Sure enough, at the forks at the birth 'net the water its straight Titans Suddenly :a thought struelk M.r, Ma -
foot the of t e hall dal took the surra to tet.ere suddenly twisted to slabs is was son so hard the fork dropped, from his
WINGHAM, - - ONTARIO ,the west. There was a bad culvert, st-aight no longer, but crooked. And ul3zalsed hated
and the car lurched dangerously of er, the twisted ssted wx'ldw, looking oaa, red __ even mai-be you're atast the fellow
at 'to its nei4hbour-, I told you: I told
DUDLEY HOLMES
` mania. Antelope, old sirl. All yon; Look at the beautiful brrch now wend eta go Taoism °id ft�lks "t sty
BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. eighe a17 e t, I,a-,n e fa,.: tis rnoe�; ; f axn-a�°. -aid he �x as a shanxt. Look young- a they used to be and xa lilt
Victory and Other Bonds Bought anda,,ve teed yea toss, more, #° a., we ova.. at her nowt under the weather; but hn tied up
sold.Steady! Times better. ovsa "_end the 13 here veli a the stork.. I'll be incl: by;
r Block, Win Ilam !r i beautiful � ,
'dad 4 ,� z c .i h. b .. la t 1
Office—Meyer ' g afar the ead bir�.h herself harvest, and if you could
c+'ai7:d not understand just stick"
Muffled in his blanket, the sound ad been put imp to bit ea3 lazy—'
Off
# an it at all, but she around taw. maybe finish the plough -
o wept that she who
R. VANSTONE
BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC.
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Wingham, - Ontario
J. A. MORTON.
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Wingham, - Ontario
R. G. H. ROSS
Graduate Royal College of Dental
Surgeons
Graduate University of Toronto
Faculty of Dentistry.
Office Over H. E. Isard's Store.
W. R. HAMBLY
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 attentions.
Phone. 5¢ P. O. Box st3.
Dr. Rola;I. 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 2g.
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 e5r;
F. A. PARKE
OSTEOPATH
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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 F I!X
CHIROPRACTIC OSTEOPATHY
ELECTRO—THERAPY
Hours ro-iia. a -g, 7-8.
Telephone sgt
ilrl'CINNES
CHIROPRACTOR •
MASSEUR
Adjustments given for diseases of
Itll kinds, specialize in dealing with
children, Lady attendant. Night CaIls
responded to.
Office on Scott St., Wingham, Ont,,
azt the house of the late Jas. Walker,
Telephone s5o,
Phone t Office 1o6, Resid. 224,
A. J. BIKER
FURNITURE DEALER
and—,
:FUNERAL DIRECTOR
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Cal's voice caste to Reed in a ;erassur 'stra ght could be so cross, ed ern so rag anal b'
ing drone. He watched the green i'^ "Bat presently the man came babel They -were not long In striking a
grass flowing by the car; the occas -:tor her, and drew- her np out of the bargain, and it was :typical of Mr, Ma -
Tonal stone, white for a moment in the 'teeter, and a soon as size was back in son that remuneration was the last
wavering headlight, then suddenly Ther own element she was straight thing he discussed. Indeed, he seem
gulped into blackness; the big, steady, again, But she had beard what the ed to have overlooked that detail al -
friendly stars overhead, He heard:willow had said, and now she answer- together.
the rumbling of the motor, the patter ed, gently but reprovingly, 'Willow,, I } Cat brought it up• "What are you
of the exhaust, the soft sluff of the am glad for what had befallen me be -.paying he inquired,.
wheels in the black earth of the road.: cause now I know that we are ?„ all' "Oh; I dunno. What's she worth?"
Presently all sounds seemed to join in. what God has made us, and not what "1 was. getting forty at _my last
a sort of lullaby: Farther west. . far- !we have made ourselves,' " place."
ther west ... farther west.... I `What` does it mean, Daddy X?" I Pretty good. I dunno, Tell you
When he awoke they were stopped said the boy, when he was sure the what, I'm not very flush with cash;
by a stream, and Cal was bending ov- I story ended. •• • especially if I go East, but I can. fix
ng with a very appetizing
er a fragment of fire, tending some- "I don't know Reed. I wish I :did'" you up a credit at the store for any-:
The bsmell. By the third day of their travel Cal thing you need, and if you stay on un-
oy stretched his cramped limbs judged that they were far enough". till the crop is threshed I'll make it
and came down, investigating, • • from Plainville to -escape : comment. :right with you. '
Wald duck for breakfast, Reed, old Of pursuit he had no fear, . but he ' They shook hands on that an
Ma -
scout," said Cal, in a voice that reso, wanted to bury himself in a new com- son, elated with' the sudden d Mct
lutely strove for cheerfulness. "We'll munity, They were now well acrossof a visitly rolled back. home, promptly rolled
have tq take it straight—not even :the border into Saskatchewan, still alI the responsibilities of the farm
salt: That's what comes of hitting avoiding the towns and the principal to Cal's ` lap, as it were. He enumer-
thee trail in such a hurry." Iroads, and making their way along the ated the horses, the "horned stock"
Cal had shot a drake in the early' back trails that linked the various set- the pigs and the hens • ex lain
ed
morning—no difficult feat, as the lea- 'elements together, about : the ploughing and the hay';
thered folk were tame in the fancied!
Have to go to work" again pretty cautioned Cal about fire, andto boil
security of the -law. Splitting the lit- i soon," he confessed; "The treasury the water, as the well.,was fed by sur
tie One bodyholf in two he had broiled it over is getting low." face drainage and there had been fev-
tle e
re.
it he now tender-, "So is the tank," said Reed, as the er going around. After dispatching'
ed to Reed. The boy ate it eagerly,lmotor gave a warning sputter. "Let Cal on horseback to the nearest neih-
leaving nothing but the bones. us make for that shack." bour, Peterson,, a"Swede, to borrow a
"Are we staying here, Daddy X?" They were on the brow of a hill, gallon of gasoline, and detailingReed'
he asked. and in the valley below' layy a settler's to•'wash the di
"No, dashes; now the center
We have still a long way to shack,. with fields of wheat and oats a busy colony of flies, Mason engaged
g0'»'stretching g
downto a stream tat glis in an earnest but unsuccessful search
They pushed on at once and travell-'tened' white in the distance. By dint for a clean shirt in which to travel.
ed all that day, Several times the cu -of gravity,� ,
and, much persuasion' Cal Never .mind, well buy a new shirt
polys of grain elevators in the prairie was able to coax Antelope almost to in town," he ahnouncedto the 'boy,
towns loomed on the horizon and the sham door.
'-
Y cheerily,.when the forlornhope in the
Reed expected they would take the I ' The door stood open, but there was bottom of his trunk revealed a body
main road in that direction, but al- no sign of anyone about with both arms missin "I rem
em -
ways Cal swung off, following some I "Well, let's explore,' said Cal, and; ber now. I cut those off last fall to
side trail, and avoidingthe n
principal going inside, theyfound a single room," Tine the sleeves of my s>.iocic when
arteries of travel. He'was able to ob- about twelve by fourteen feet in size, the weather got cold. But there's
tain gasoline and food from a fanner, framed with bare two-by-four Studd- more at the store, which is orgy
and so he pressed on until darkness ing and covered by a Iow, shingled ye mites away,n y twea
was again upon them, Then they roof. A rusty stove, a. table, a chair, gohuinper of yours
It bet that oin
found a stream and camped beside it, .a packing box cupboard nailed against about a week." can make it in
"Better go to bed, Reed," said Cal. the wall, a' trunk, a gramophone, a 'Humph!" Reed exploded.
"You, must be tired. '1 want to smoke home-made bed dishevelled in one should see Antelopego when You
—and to think." she. gets
corner—these were the items of furni- her wind up. I .bet we tragelled a
But Reed hesitated. Yture. As it was nearing noon they million miles corning
"Anything wrong, old man?" Cal made themselves at home .digging here
inquired, gging "Well; it was worth it," Mr. Mason
early potatoes in the little garden be- remarked, with a quizzical grin. "To
"No, Daddy X. But—couldn't aye hind the shack, discovering bacon: and me'
have a bed -time story, to -night?" butter in the ,aeanyway. Haven't had born boy fl
"I'm afraid I don't know a bed -time ,well, starting a fire lit therustytovee this since eita was born, Watt
story to -night. I want to think," Ina few minus - i sample, the ice cream cones in Wheat -
story
been thinking `
view to -night, eh, old.scout?"
"You've1 es a pleasant sizzle was t 1 h
You've spoken.--"
all day, coming from the frying pan and an ap-: Reed was beginning to like this ac -
The little voice went lumpy petiziiig odor filled the room, , quaintancc. ; "That, is what'Daddy'X
py with I "Won't he mind?" Reed asked with sometimes calls ane," he said,
loneliness, and the brave little lips had with'
misgivings as Cal explored the' "Daddy X? `That's a funny
a strange tremble to hem, Cal ex- 'cupboard for dishes and further re -he? one.
tended his arms and the boy nestled'sottrees in food. 1 WhoN is m Your dad?
to his breast. I "No; just my Daddy X. My real
Not likely, Hospitality with a father was killed' in the war,"
"All right, old scout. First things Westerner is not a social function; it l `The bi wind -t
first Let nme see-.. - has to do with th heart; ' �, anted face of the
a eart he really
"Once here was a clean little tree, laneans it So you see fernier softened, ands his voice Sorey
that was so proud of being clean.and come to a meal in his house in his ab- :oldd
too a , still f combing,' "Sorry,'
straight. It stood by the side of asence as in hisors chap he said, combing his ftn a
presence. You may through Reed's hair, "I lost a
stream, and all day long it would wat-'not understand all that—"
eh its reflection in the water, and "Of course he does," said a heartybrother over there, too, so we can be
think what a beautiful straight young voice and a man of about• Cal's age i sort of pals, cony diov
tree it was, It was birch tree, ,r 'stood framed in the door." Welcome? view together.That they drove to' nod out
think, with smooth white bark and I should say so! And the meal cook- to be as like Plainville
as turned out
clean limbs, led to the bargain! H I a nvalle as one pea to
argain How's the forag-another, except newer and barer.
w and ing?"
"Nearby grew a twisted willow,
the willow was very jealous of its "Not so bad foe a new. cook," Cal There was the same single, they
straight, Clean neighbour, `The bin rt -street, lined with Fords and' other
ch l answered. Potatoes, bacon, bread .more. pretentious carr -ails• the
puts on great airs said but watt Some day—some' day: r ,r ow o , routs under two -Start'
t w Y• Ifiguring on setting for three 'buildings, 1stor
with a sharp axe Three is right," f' y
the willow, and butter, and a pail of jam I was lr f shopf y , same
b '! S
"Then Came a stat "Threean , cu maitating in
a three-
saidthe farmer, in- ,hotel; the same ---they might have been
looking carefully at all the trees and (eluding Reed in his glance, "If you the same
bushes. His eye fell on the birch, and can find enough dishes, If not, we lcnen t anddpoolware sem andted hit se
as it was very beautiful he marked it can eat in relay's. 1'11 be in as soonas i n shed ande same
poolroom Chinese
res
far his vicuna, That is oft �l taurant; the same vacant lots litre
en the way,,I unhitch,' Saw the smoke litter zit`
Teed; it was' the deformities of thefered what was doing," • d wand"'ed with packing -boxes, n intro and
twisted willow that saved it from des- x e disappeared as s fa l t Lite hinna Mason introduced
truction; but'you cannot understand had come, but udes,lly as by ,Cal to the managers of one or two of
, a few mtnutes,l
iter they time stores, estabhs]ming for hinm a lin
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hen, on the same convenient terms, days immediately to come, that Por -
he
bought for himself a travelling tune is a capricious, but not unfriend-
outfit, from new shoes of the< latest ly, mistress. She had- threatened- his
cut to` a hat to• match. In the bar health that she might show him the.
ber's shop he underwent a scouring land of the open trail, and his life had
andascraping, while Reed, his eyes grown abundantly. She. had introduc
filled with unwonted scenes, took in ed him to love and hate, that he might
the splendor of the barber's mirrors know how tremendous were' their sor-
and the mysterious colored liquids in rows. She had robbed him of his.
the funny -shaped bottles. When ton- home, turned him into the wilds .a fu-
sorial skill.could do no more Mason . gitive, and promptly sheltered him.
took shelter with his bundles in a lit- again under the roof of the genial Ma-
tle room at the back of the shop, son.' She had toxin from him his sis-
from which he presently emerged in. ter in agony, and given him a son who;
the glory of his new clothes; very un was more than many sisters.
like the ruddy farmer of a few hours "Yes," he admitted, "I have to
before. In an ice cream "emporium" lost
P much,- I have gained more. I
nearby he filled Reed to the danger have paid for Reed, but Reed is worth
point with all sorts of concoctionsl; the price'
bought cigars for himself and Cal, and (Continued next week)=
gave final instructions concerning the
management of the farm.
They saw their new emploYer of
the night train, discovered Antel
among a swarm' of her younger r
tives, and retraced their way to
Mason farm. The course lay so
easterly; behind them glowed the
goring luminosity of the'midsum
night; overhead were clear, friea
stars. In the air was the scent
prairie roses mingled with the f
faint perfumes of"the early wh
Now `and again the headlight of
approaching automobile" blazed alo
their path; now and again the shad
of a farmsteading, wrapped in slu
ber, loomed up sudden'' 'and va
through the -gathering. darkness. I?
sently- Reed, from much feasting,
asleep. and Cal was left alone ,v
his "thoughts.
"I did the only thing I .could,"
confided to Antelope. "1 know. no
that for days I was sheer; stark in
I know now—I had occasion to kno
—how easily one can get on t
wrong' track; how thin, after all, is t
partition between good and evil, a
how good the evil niay sonietinies a
f on
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pear. If it hadn't been fore. An
Frawdic - I suppose our jails are fu
of people not much worse—not an
worse—than I. I must write an ,a
bele on that when I get settled dow
—when I get settled down."
He ended in a bitter laugh. For a
instant a vision .of a -'simple cabin b
the shore of a lake, with a typewrite
under, the trees andMinnie Stake sing
ing from .somewhere in he house
framed itself like a picture .in the e
of his imagination; the next, it wa
gone, and the black road rolled up in
cessantly, under the. rumbling wheels
This was the price; the. dethroning o
that vision, casting it down and oh
even from the inmost chambers if his
dreams; this was the price he had
bargained with himself to pay that the
sleeping boy at his side .might grow
up unashamed, Yet to Minnie his
thoughts would turn as steel to an ir-
resistible magnet. He'Wondered how
she had received the news of his flight
and what interpretation she had.put
upon it. He wondered how long it
would be until she would find solace
in the attentions of Archie Hale. Ile
loved Minnie Stake,: but he had, or
thought he had, no illusions about herr.
Minnie was it practical
would take her blow standing,rsmothh
er her grief and her furious wonder ,
within herself, and make the best of
GLENANNAN -
Miss Mary -. Haugh, who spent the
past few weeks with friends„ in' the
West has returned home,
Dr,. Elmer Aitken of Toronto, has
been spending some time with friends
here.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Muir, have re,.
turned to Toronto after spending the
holiday here.
Mr. and Mrs. Archie Lowry. of Tor-
onto
.. have. been visiting at the hone of:.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Lincoln,
Mr. and Mrs. Hector McLean,
spent Sunday with friends in Listowel.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. H. Mundell and:
family, spent: the week -end with,
friends at Drayton.
Mr. and Mrs. George Muir motored:
from Toronto and are holidaying'
with the former's parents, Mr, and
Mrs. Robt, Muir.
Miss Eva Stokes of Belmore, sPent
the week -end with Mr, and Mrs, Reu-
ben Appleby.
Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Tcskey, who•
have been visiting with friends here
have returned to their .home at Fer-.
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Miss Mabel Gillcinson, spent a week
recently with with friends at Clifford,
Miss Mabel Armstron • of Wing,
ham visited at the home of Mrs, -
Elliott last week
Mr. Anderson Inglis spent Sunday -
at the home of Mrs; John Inglis,.
Carrick.
Miss Margaret Morrison of Glencoe•
spent a few days last week ivith Miss
Mabel Stokes and renewed other ac-
quaintances in this vicinity. -
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