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Oice•.Over H. E. Isard's Store. 1 "What are they saying. aboutme?" demanded the ,girl, hotly, "What are they saying, and what do I 'care what they say? Out with it!" I "Well; if you must know, they're saying that Stake's hired man got out when the gettin' was good, Nice stuff, that, to hear whenever a fellow goes to P'ainville." "Oh—you.—you—you--" Under the insult Minnie's face, which had been flushed, went white; her eyes no long- er flashed, but contracted into a cold, murderous glow. No longer was she a docile Stake, but a furious daughter of her mother's dark blood. On the table lay a knife; long, thin, well - ground for the kitchen services. Her hand found it; closed on it; slowly, 'with the stalking step of a tigress, she moved toward her brother. . But" her father, suddenly the masterful 'man that the sometimes was, threw himself upon her. 1 "You're crazy, Minnie; you're era - heard. His mind was away, away on read them while they swam before her 'zyi There, girl, be still, Shut up, a wild mission of hope. It was wild, eyes. He was appealing to her moth- Jackson! . You ought to be whipped he knew, but there was a hope in it, er.. Why not to her? The ,girl like a dog! There now, girl' be still. a gleam of hope. crushed that stab of strange jealousy Be still, Minnie. That's it, Minnie, "Paper!" he demanded. "Your pre- out of her bosom, but the sting of it be still. You're goin' to Cal if you remained. He . was offering' to ex- want to, an' if anybody wants to talk "Good you'll have to take hold. her name was being bandied about by You will have learned the value of ex-1the gossip -mongers of Plainville, Cal actness, and will be able to follow my Beach had done that. He had left her instructions. You can carry on for a in an impossible position without a day or two. I'll isend out bedding; (word of explanation. With a secret sheets, you know, and, everything of hope she had been the first to handle that kind, and you will have to be the office mail day by day after his nurse until we can get help. We must departure, but day by day the secret have a woman :not necessarily a hope had died down until finally it nurse, but a woman of sense and in- went out altogether. Whatever the telligence as soon as possible. Is cause of his strange conduct, whatever there no relative—no friends of the fa- explanation he might offer, there roily to whom you can appeal? In could be no excuse— the meantime you can carry on." And now he was in trouble. She The last words fell on Cal's ears un- read the scrawly characters again; scription pad. Let me write a tele- gram!" plain. He said he could explain. Why, he can settle with me," and he turned The doctor extended a pad and Cal had he left her to the subject of corn- definatly to his son. "You under - scrawled on it: ment of those—It was too bitter to stand, if anybody wants to talk about Mrs. Jackson Stake, Plainville, think about. Surely she had been hu- Minnie he car; settle with me. I don' Man. Reed is very sick and I cannot miliated enough. Must she humiliate believe anythin' wrong about neither get a nurse. We are alone on a herself further by flying to him; rush Minnie nor Cal, an' if anybody else homestead, twelve miles from Wheat- to him on a subterfuge,. lie who had believes it they can settle with me." view. Will you come? Typhoid fe- left her— "Of course I don't believe it, eith- ver. I can explain everything. Do Slowly, out from the mist, came one er," said Jackson, adroitly shifting it for Reed—if not for me. Will, you •clean, triumphant fact, It was not ground. "And Minnie needn't try to come? His life is at stake. Cal, for himself .he was appealing. It was take it out on me. I just said what "Send that,for me as soon as you for Reed. As she read the notes people are sayin' which ain't very nice get to town.' It is my only hope," again she knew that Cal Beach—the you'll admit." But the doctor returned the slip to Cal Beach she had kown—could ne- I He was thinking fast, realizing that his hand. "Suppose you take it to ver, never write that telegram on his he had made a serious blunder. The 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 attention. Phone. 54. • P. O. Box I13. Dr. Root.. C. Redmond M.R.C.S..(Eng.) L.R.C.P. (Load.) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Dr. Chisholm's old stand. town yourself. I'll stay with the boy until you return. Besides, I may be able to steal an hour's sleep. I saw your car in the yard, or you can take mine if it's out of order." 'Cal seized the doctor's hand in a 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 29. Dr. 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 151. F. A. PARKER OSTEOPATH All Diseases Treated Office adjoining residence next Anglican Church on Centre Street. Open every day except Monday and Wednesday afternoons. Osteopathy Electricity Telephone 222. 10 own behalf. Not though he stood at success with which Cal had given him the gates of death. There was humili- the slip, and the `completeness with ation for you. Suddenly she saw it Which he has disappeared, had left clear as daylight. What was her hu- him baffled and beaten. It was not miliation to this? Nothing but love—'entirely that he had expected to black - his love for Reed -could have wrung mail his victim out'of money; it was quick grasp of gratitude, and a min- that appeal from his heart. ,the cleverness with which he ute later he was cranking Antelope. "I'm going homer she said; spring- had been outwitted that rankled Minnie Stake was taking dictation ing from her seat. "I'll have to be 'within him, . it had been a duel be - from Mr. Tonnerfeldt onthe absorb- away for—for some time. I hope tween them; a duel with no ing topic of a chattel mortgage on you'll manage. It's very important. sconds, no referee, no witnesses, and four cows described as follows, that Will you call a car for me, please, Mr, and first blood had gone to his ad- ds to say, Betsy; aged seven years, Tonnerfeldt? I want a car to go versary. Now, through a whim of brown, white ,,patch on ribs; Rosey, home." fate, the weapons• were in his hands five years --when the ring of the tele- On the road, as they tore through again, and he had been fool enough phone bell interrupted the machinery long lanes of summering wheat she to jeopardize them by his gratuitous of the law. turned the situation over and over in offense to Minnie. "Damn a telephone," said Mr. Ton- her mind. Reed was sick—dangerous- i' "It wasn't my saying," he continued, nerfeldt, who ways enjoying his usually sick. No help could be had.: Cal, "ad I'm not hinting. that I believe it, bad humour. "The mast imperti=' frantic with his love for the boy, had or anything like that. I'm sorry, nent of all inventions. Butts ,swallowed his pride—whatever wild 'Mina. for offending you. Where's in and ditches your train of thought pride it had been that had led him to the telegram? What does be say?" Who is it, Miss Stake?" such.inexplicable behaviour—and had , But Minnie had disposed of the tele - "It seems to be for me," she an- appealed to her mother. He had re- grant by tearing it up on the road. "I swered, "Yes, this is Miss Stake. A membered her mother's attachment to haven't got it, she said; "the agent telegram? Yes, I'll take it. Go Reed, and had turned to her in his dis- 'phoned it to me, and I haven't got it., ahead." (tress. But did he really expect her Here are my notes," and she read The girl began making characters mother to leave the work of the farm them off. You see it's serious, and in shorthand, when suddenly even Mr. I—? Cal knew how inexorable were there's no time to lose, as I must cat- Tonnerfeldt, absorbed though he was ,the demands of that work. With a ch the next train." in the damage which had been done to i sudden pounding of her heart she i They stood in silence for a moment, the process of the law in the case of wondered whether he had really ex- contemplating this sudden. upheaval the four cows aforesaid, took note of pected her mother to come, or had in their affairs. It was young ':Jack - her agitation. Her face had gone he deliberately opened the way for the son who was .first to offer .a sugges- suddenly colourless; her hands trem-.substitution which she planned? Of, tion. bled; the receiver threatened to fall course, he couldn't make such an ap- "The train connection to; Wheatvi;ew from her grasp. 'peal direct to her.... Cal was deep, is bad, and it will take you a couple "What's the matter, Miss. Stake? deep• of days; : Minn, if you have to go Nothing wrong at home, I hope?" was i She had settled her course and re- 'round by Winnipeg. If Dad would the concerned inquiry of Mr. Tonner- gained her composure by the time the lend his car I would go with you, and feldt, who, contrary to Minnie's fixed car drew up at the weatherbeaten we could drive, it in less time. We belief,: had a heart tucked away some -1 house which she still called home. Her could spell off at the wheel and drive where in the recesses of his much -de- mother unbended from the mixing- day and night. Besides, *he says. tested person. But Minnie could not board, her, hands heavy with dough, as they're alone on the homestead and— answer. She was gazing throug in- Minnie's shadow fell in at the door. don't fly off again—it wouldn't be finities of time and space at certain' . "Well, for the soul or sake o' me, quite the thing for you to go by your- twisted little characters on the paper Minnie, are you sick? What a Start self, What do you say, Dad?" before her, and realizing with a wo-'you give me! You look plumb—I "Sure! Take the car if it will save. man's intuition that she had come to you ain't lost your job, Minnie?" time. Minnie an' you can get.your the great moment of her life. For, "No --nothing as bad as that. things together an I'll fill herup with among a sea of minor confusions, one Where's Dad? I'm going away for oil an' gasoline. Wisht I could go great thought had swept over her like' awhile, and I might as well tell you myself. ' I might be able—" the a tidal wave. The message was for both at once." j Half an hour later they were on her mother, that was clear enough, "Goin' away? My land! He's out road. , Jackson was at the wheel and but why not substitute? The tele- i—oh,° here he comes, him an' Jackie. Minnie sat in silence beside him, He graph operator., for the sake of con- What's it all about?" drove so furiously that conversation venience, and perhaps because of al "I want to tell you all at once, was impossible, even had she been dis- certain romantic flavor about the sud- said Minnie, addressing her father and posed to speak, so she clung to her den disappearance of Cal Beach and brother, "and so save words—and seat and wrestled with her thoughts, the salacious village gossip that had time, I have a teegrarn from. Cal; She was not enthusiastic over her bro- coupled it alternately with the names he's at Saskatchewan, and Reed is ther's decisiott to accompany her; but of Annie Frawdic and Minae Stake, 7dangerously sick. He can't get a she had not been able to find any ar- had telephoned the message to her, !nurse, and he wants me to go out— gument against it. He had wounded He would not telephone it to the farm; ! and I'm going °' her deeply and was, she supposed, of- he would probably not even trouble I For a moment the old farmer stood fering this act by way of atonement, to mail it; she could avoid any risk]—stack still under the impact of this That Jackson entertained no friendly on that score by calling for it at the news and declaration. Then, with 'feelings toward Cal she had far some office. Then it would be in her , one great hand he scuffled his thin tinr.e suspected, and his outburst in hands. And if she were to substitute hair, as though to promote cerebral the kitchen had confirmed that sus - for her mother, who was to know? activity. picion. ' 'Taking that fact and their And who had a right to care? "Well, I'll be—Cal Beach, did you'own quarrel into consideration his Here was the opportunity to clear say? Wheatview, did you say? Well 'willingness now to be of service did up the mystery. She did not propose I'll—" `him credit. Altogether it was a situ-' to run after Cal Beach; indeed, it was Mrs. Stake had dropped into a 1atiori in which the less said the better, a question whether she ever could chair, heedless of the dough that set- After two hours he carne to a stop •treatment she tied in her lae. forgive the outrageous s p Reed ---Reed. sick—{and motioned to here to take th had received at his hands; but she Reed sick," she repeated to herself, as wheel, She had learned to drive her proposed to get at the facts. 'In any one who would placate a thought too i' father's car only for pastime, and had action that was the first step; terrible to be accepted. Its me he always had a healthy respect for speed get the facts, That he had gone needs, It only the work wasn't so ;limits, but she proved to -day as furl with Annie Prawdic she had nev- cverlastin', Beed sick] The , little nous a driver as her brother. And so. er really believed, but it was plain boy—the poor little boy." She rock -'they sped along the general route enough that others believed it•, the ed back and forth in a paroxysm d which Cal and Reed had takcnia few half -quizzical, half -despising, sidelong anxiety and sympathy, 'weeks before. They vvr�ere under no glances which she sometimes amount- "I think we've all had enoughof necessity of avoiding tlf:e towns and Bred' on the street, and whicli sent the this 'Beach fellow," said young Jack- ithe principal roads, as Cal had been, color flowing into the roots of her son, you know what everybody's ;and by nightfall a third of the dis,+ " view had been covered. hair, blared to 'her likF' � trumpet that saying about Minnie. You know--' tance to Wheat J. ALVIN FOX CHIROPRACTIC OSTEOPATHY ELECTRO—THERAPY Ro'tlrs 10-12. 2-3. 74. Telephone lot D. H..McINNES CHIROPRACTOR MASSEUR Adjustments given for diseases of all kinds, specialize in dealing with children. Lady; attendant. Night Calls responded to. 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Slowly the blackness faded in above his elbows, and a wet sheet still to a receding curtain of grey; sudden- clasped in his hands, Cal had a sense ly the dawn blazed forth overhead, that his appearance did him rather less and a new day was born. The vague than justice. Even in the embarrass - shadows of the plains took definite nient of this unexpected meeting he shape; the windows of the farmhouses was conscious of that: He was consci- far ahead,caught in the first rays of ous, too of Minnie's eyes on his' face, the rising sun, flashed their red helio- searchingly; of . a tremor in her voice grams against the scattering banks of which she had been unable to quite con - darkness to the west. The light fell ceal. Hed untamed loveliness held and on prairie ponds, silent' and clear as thrilled him even through the chill of quicksilver; it sparkled on jewels of the sinister presence of Jackson Stake, clew on a billion blades of grass; it and a pang of poignant sympathy strung itself in, thin golden ribbons clutched his heart. Why had she come? Not that he' would have sent her back, for worlds, but—it was go- ing to be increasingly difficult for them.. And. Jackson— The words, "But I didn't wire for you—it was your mother!" sprang to his lips, but he had presence of mind enough to swallow 'them t}nsp.id. Indeed, he swallowed a second time -before he spoke.. "This is good of you, Minnie, better than I deserve," he said, as he took her hand. "You, too, Jackson. Bet- ter than I deserve. Yes, I think Reed is holding his own. Doctor Thomp- son was here this morning- "We called at his office in town," Minnie hurried to say: She felt that she must say something to relieve the tumultuousness uprising within her. Though her lips uttered words, it was her eyes that were eloquent. So this was Cal—Cal. She had an impulse to seize hiro in her arms, to draw his face to hers, to hold him as she had held him that night so long ago. '. But with the same impulse carne the recollection of the cruelty with which he had treated her, the contumely which he had left her to bear alone. By an access of resolution she set her. face; her shoulders stiffened with pride, She told herself she had come for a purpose, but her hour was not yet, "Take mei:,, him," she said, hurried- ly, turning away: (Continued Next along the telephone wires that stretch- ed forever ahead. Up from the dis- tance came a mighty railway train, pouring' mountains of billowing smoke into the still air; the engine, at first a diamond point where the sun's beams focussed in its headlight, grew rapidly black and terrific as it approa- ched; then it rushed by, its drive- wheels racing and the steel rails. twanging underneath. The engineer" saw the girl at the wheel and waved her a salute as'they passed and Minn- ie waved back, and of a sudden knew once more that life is worth the liv- ing. In an intoxication of speed she fled through a sleeping hamlet and again up an eternity of road which narrowed to a point and faded out of view on the edge of the sky. At four in the afternoon they were nosing along the main street of Wheatview, watching for the sign on a doctor's office. Doctor Thompson, as usual, was not at home, and his wife, a busy woman, was engaged at the telephone when they entered. When she had hung up the receiver she turned to them. "Cal Beach? Oh, yes, the doctor spoke of then!. Has a little boy down with typhoid. Yes, the doctor was. out to see hien again this morning. He seems to be holding his own. The doctor says Mr, Beach is a wonderful naan; never saw the, like, without a woman in the house. You'll be friends of his?" "Well, yes," Minnie explained. "That is, we—we're acquaintances, and we're --very fond -of the boy, tog, and we carne to see if we could help." From Mrs. Thompson they learned the road to tate Mason homestead, and the girl gained a few suggestions con- cerning the, care of the patient, Ten minutes later they were again on their way. Cal Beach had set up a tub on the shady side of the shack and was busy with his hospital washing when an au- tomobile turned froln the aloin road and bore quickly down upon him. Engaged in his operations, be did not hear its approach until it drew up alongside. Theta, for a moment, . he. distrusted his eyes," but slowly and. surely the dust-begtitined figures in the car resolved themselves into Jack - soft and Minnie Stakel CHAPTER TW1.NTY-THRE>: Minnie was first out of the car. She Weer:) BORN,. Ross --In Kinloss on Saturday, Sept. 5th., to Mr. and Mrs, Robt: Ross, a son,, het erThalpPills ' Foy Liver ills. "irou can't feel so good * but what NI will make you feel better. esta 25e. Baa. Your l�t•t�gis ... C..E. N1icAVOV, DRUGGIST