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tin , at about ten o'el was waiting
i for Marion -he had eent word she ,
• would come—aid he came out Of the '
front door with a smile of welcome
when he sa,w Dicksie with her. Dieksie
' long an admirer of Sinclabei as wo-
ettentettee , men usually were, bad recast some-
what violently her opinions of biro.
She faced him now with a criminal
Y• consciousness that gihe knew too much.
The weight of the. dreadful secret
I F ank Spearman
one. One thing only Wat3 fixed in her
weighed upon her, aid her responsibil-
not help to male her greeting an easy
ity in the issue cif the day ahead did
her lips and her eyes; the resolve to
(Continued from bit week.) keep at any cost the promise she bad
lieve ahything you hear of me except ing than Sinclair, and felt sirangely
fix his eyes seriously,. one hem , "Be- the spell of a Man even more compell-
fret me tell you, this"—he turned to given. For Dicksie had fallen under
a a •
bounden to what she had said.
Sinclair, however. had spirit enough
to smooth away every embarrassment.
"Bachelor's , quarters," he explained
roughly and pleasantly, as he led the
two women towards the house. *fCow-
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R. S. LYS.
Barrister, Solicitor,Conveyancer and
Notary Public. Solicitor for the Do-
minion Bank. Office in rear of the Do -
Mink -Et Bank, Seaforth. Money to
loan.
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J. M. BEST.
Barrister, Solicitor, Conveyancer
and Notary Public. Office upstairs
over Walker's Furniture Store, Main
Street, Seaforth.
F. HOLMESTED
Barrister, Solicitor, . Conveyencer
and Notary Public, Solicitor for The
Canadian Bank of Commerce. Money
to Loan. Farms for sak. Office in
Scott's Block, Main Street, Seaforth.
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on Monday of each week. Office in
Kidd Block W. Proudfoot, K.C., J.
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F. HARBUR,N, V .8 .
Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin-
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the,Medical'Association of the Ontario
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all domestic animals by the most mod-
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Hotel, Main Street, Seaforth. All or-
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prompt attention. Night calls receiv-
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JOkitt GRIEVE, V.S.
Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin-
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and residence on Goderieh street, one
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DR. W.J.GLANFIELD, M Mat
Physician, Etc. Honor Graduate
of University of Toronto, six years'
expeehmee. Brucefield, Ontario,
C. J. W. HARN,
425 Richmond Street, London, Ont.
Specialist, Surgery and Genito-Urin-
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DR. GEORnE HEILEMANN.
Osteopathic Physician of Goderieh.
SPecialist in women's and children's
diseases, rheumatism, acute, chronic
and nervous disorders; eye ear, nose
and throat. Consultation free. Office
in Cady Block, over W.G. Willis' Shoe
Store, Seaforth, Tuesdatis a•nd'Frida.ys
8 a.m. till 1 pan.
Dr. ALEXANDER MOR
Physician and Surgeon
Office and Residence, Main Street,
Phone 70 Rennin
I DR. J. W. PECK
Gradiiate, of Faculty of Medicine,
McGill University, Montreal; Member
of College of Physicians and Surgeons
of Ontario ;Licentiate 'of Medical Coun-
cil of Canada; Post -Graduate Member
of Resident Medical Staff of General
Hospital, Montreal, 1914-15; Office, 2
doom east of Post Office. Phone 56,
Hensel, Ontario.
DR. F. J. BURROWS
Office ant residence, Goderich street
east, of the Methodist church, Seaforth.
Phoue 46. Coroner for the C6unty of
Huron.
DRS. SCOTT & MAQKAY
J. G. Scott, graduate of Victoria, and
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Ann Arbor, and member of the Col-
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Ontario.
C. Mackay, honor graduate of Trin-
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Trinity Medical College; member . of
the College of Physicians and Surgeons
of Ontario.
DR. H. HUGH ROSS.
Graduate of University of Toronto
Faculty of Medicine, member of Col-
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Ontario; pass graduate courses in
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Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, London,
England, University Hospital, London,
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..A1JC'TIONEERS...
THOMAS BROWN.
Licensed auctioneer for the comities
that I have taken hu.man life willingly
or nave in discharge of any duty. But
thia kind of work, make e my own life
an =certainty ,as you an see. I do
_almost literally earry, my life in my
hand, for if illy hand is not quicker
every ipie than a man's eye, I am men make poorthousekeepere but you
done for then and there." must feel at home" And when Dick -
"It is dreadful to think of."
'"Not exactly that, bat it is some-
thing I Can't afford to forget."
"What would become of the lives of
the friends toi.protect if you Were
lulled" = • '
- "You say you. care for Marion Sint
clair. I rTierid like to think if any -
think shouli happen to me you would-
n't forget her?'
"I never will,"
He smiled. "Then I put her in
charge of the man closest to me,
George McCloud, and the woman she
thinks the most of in the world -.-ex-
cept her mother. What is this, are
they beak? Yonder they come."
"We found nothing eerious," Mc-
Cloud said, answering their questions
as he approached with Lance Dunning.
"The current is really fswinging away,
but the bank is caving in where it
was undermined last night." He stop-
ped before Dicksie. "I am trying -to
get your cousin to go to the house
and go to bed. I am going to stay all
night, but there is do necessity for
his staying."
"Damn. it McCloud, it's not riiht,"
proteeted Lance, taking off his hat aud mental notes for her own use, and be
wiping his forehead, "You need the 1 gan asking questions. Sinclair was
superb in answering but the danger of
admiring things became at once ap-
parent, for when Dieksie ee:claimed
over a handsome bear -skin, a rich
dark -brown grizzly -skin of unusual
size, Sinclair told the story of the
killing, bared his trentendous fore-
arm to show where the -polished claws
bad ripped him and disregarding Dia-
sie's protests, insisted on sending, the
skin over to Crawling Stone ranch as
-a souvenir of her visit.
"I live a great deal alone over here,"
he said, Waving Dicksie's cOntinued re-
fusal magnificently aside as he moved
into the next room. • "I've got a few
good dogs, and I hunt just enhugh to
keep my hand in with the *led' Dick-
sie quailed a little at the smile that
went with the words. "The men, at
flood. MeCloud disclaimed credit forleast the 'dud I mix with, don't care
the improvement in the situation. "If g far goiaaly..akfats, and to enjoy any..
it had held against US as it did:yes-
terday, nothine co-uld have done, comp
thing you've got to have sympathetic-
any—don't you Iowa/ that?" he
would have tur-fied it," he said, eeereet feeling admirably at Dicksie.
"Honest. is the best policy of coarse" "I've got another skin for yon—a
obeerve:1 Whispering Smith. "Ilike to
see a . modest man ---and you want to =silver -tip," he added in deep, gentle
et.aind him oft all this when he. sends tones, addressing Marion.- "It has a
in his he suggested, sp,iaking to fine head, as fine as I ever saw in the
Smithsonian. It is down at Medicine
Dielisie in the dark. °"But," he added, Bend now, being dressed and motinted.
turning to McCloud, 'hadmitting that By the way, I'v-e forgotten to ask you,
you arc right, don't take the trouble Miss Dicksie, about the high water.
to aevertise, yeur view of it around How did you get through at the
army be onlydecet. strategy ranch ?»
fer us in the valleyjuet now to take
to the w
little of the creht &IP wind." looked
sitting on the piano -beach
a lit ,
looked up Mil h resolution. "Bravely!"
she exclahned. "Mr. McCloud came
to our rescue with bags and mattress-
es and a hundred men, and he has put.
in a revetement a thousand' feet long.
Oh, we are regular river experts at
our house now! Had you- any trouble
here, Mr. Sinclair?
"No the Frenchman behaves pretty
well in the rock. We had forty feet
of water here one day, though; forty
feet, that's right. McCloud, yes; able
fellow, 1 guess, too, though he and I
don't hit it off." Sinclair sat back in
his chair, and as he spoke he spoke
magnanimously. "He doesn't like me,
but that is no fault of his; railroad
men, and good ones, too, sometimes
get started wrong with one another._
Well, I'm glad he took care of you.
Try that piano, Miss Dicksie, will you?
I don't know much about pianos but
that ought to be a good one. I would
wheel the player over for you,but any-
one that plays as beautifully as you
do ought not to be allowed to use .a
player. Marion, I want to -talk few
rninutes with you, may I? Do you
mind going out under the cotton-
woodV'
Dicksie's heart jumped. "Don't be
gone long, Marion," she exclaimed im-
polsively, "!or you know, Mr. Sin-
clair, we muet get back by two o'clock.'
And Dicksie, pale with apprehension;
looked at them both. Marion, quiet,
composed, nodded reassuringly and
followed Sinclair out of doors into the
sunshine.
For a few minutes, Dicksie fingered
-wildly on the piano at some half for-
gotten air, and in a fever of excite -
Ment walked out on the porch to see
Where they were. To her relief, she
eaw Marion sitting near Sinclair under
the big tree in front of the house;
sie, lodtking at ;his Indian rugs oni the
floor, the walls, and the couches, said
she thought he had. Tittle to apologize
for, Sinclair looked gratified and took
of his bat again. -"Just a inoenent," be
said, standing at the side of the dddr.
"I've never been able to get Marion
,over here before, so it happens that a
wonian's foot never entered the hew
house. I want: to watch one of you
cross the threshold for the first time"
Dicksie moving ahead, retreated
with a laugh. ""You first, then, Mar-
ion."
"No, Dicksie, you."
"Never," you first," so Marion
quite red and wretchedly ill at ease,
walked into the ranch -house first.
Sirielair shone nowhere better than •
as a host. When be had placed his
guests comfortably in -the living -room
he told them the story of the building
of the house. Then he made a cicer- sudden she stopped. Between two sometimes, but you are a woman and
one of himself, and explained with sheets of the music lay a 'small band- a pure one, and I care more for you
running comments, each feature of tterchief. It was mussed, and in the than all the other women in the world
his plan as he showed how it bad been P Caner of it "Nellie" was written eon- and it IS not youy nature to be linfOr- I
carried out through the various rooms, spicuously in `a laundry mark. The giving!'
Surprised at the attractiveness of oder of musk became in an instant "It is to be honest."
things -Dicksie found herself making sickening. Dicksie threw the musie He looked suddenly up at her and
disdainfully aside, and itprang up with spoke eharply: "Marion I know why
a flushed face to leave the room. Sin- you won't go."
dales remarks about the first wo- "I have honestly told you.'
man to cross his threghold came back "No; you have not honestly told me.
to her. From that moment Dielesie The real reason is Gordon Smith."
hated him. But no 'sooner had she "If he were I should not hesitate
seated herself on the Porch then she to tell you, Murray, but he is not,"
remembered she left her hat in the she said coldly.
:
house, and rose to go in after it. She Sinclair spoke harshly"Do you
was resolve() not to leave it under think you can
the roof another moment, and she had leouniPoseIkrifool me? Don't you
owyourshop?"heseni bis time
resolved to go over and wait wh :re afngaround
her horse was tied. ,As she re-entered Marion flushed indignantly. 'It is
the doorway she stopped. In ale not truer
room she had just left a cowboy sat "Don't you suppose I know he writes
at the table, taking apart a revolverle rs back to Wisconsin to your
to clean it. The revolver was spread lics ?"
in its parts before him but across "What have I to do with that? Why
the table lay a rifle. The man had shouldn't he write to my mother? Who
not been in the room, when she left has a better right?"
it a moment before. "Don't drive me too far. By God!
Dicksie passed behind him. Re paid if I go aWay alone I will never leave
no attention to her; rhheispsaetrining
ed up when she entered the 'room.
hat
114 Umk". you here
Passing behind him once more to go silence, His rage left her perfectly
out, Dicksie looked througb the open Puiet and her expression shamed
and in part silenced him "Don't drive
window before which he sat, Sinclair
and Marian outing under the cotton., me too far," he muttered sullenly.. "If
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So' operate but side the stone was
tee largo to Marna and too hard
tei emit. I returned home and
woe recommended by a friend to try
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where the horses stood. Dieksie with.
her hands on her girdle, walked for-
lornly back and forth, hummed a tune,
sat down in a rocking -chair, fanned
herself, rose, vralked back and forth
railroad Vrae buil
lincl the-ehance he
record for =himself—i prom-
ised him—a chance to be the
hag. "And I've got a euntemeran for
abilities entitled hire to be in ra d-
1 the -ranch and the cows, Marion. I
' don't care for t this businees—rlamn.
the cowel let somebody else ebase ;
after 'ern through the sleet. I've done
well; I've made money—a lot of money
—the last two years in my cattle deals
and I've got it put away, Marion; you
meed never lift your hand to work in
atm house again. We can live in Cali-
fornia, and live well, under our own
orange trees, whether I work or not.
All I want to know is, will you go with
me?"
"No! I will not go with you, Murray'
He moved in his seat and threw his
head up appealingly. "Why not?"
"I will never be dishonest with you;
I never have been and I never will be.
I have nothing in my heart to give
you, and I will not live upon your
money. I am earning my own living.
1 am as content ae I ever can be,
and 1 shall stay where I am and do
what I am doing till I die, probably.
And this is why I came when you ask-
ed me to; to tell you the exact truth.
I am not a girl any longer—I can
ould
again, and reflected that she was never be again, I stia a woman. What
Perfectly helpless, and that Sinclair I was before I married you I never r
might kill Marion a hundred times be- Can be again, and you have no right
fore she could reach her. And the to ask me to be a hypocrite and gay
thought that Marion was perhaps I can love you—for that is what it all
wholly unconsious of danger increas- comes to—when I have no such thing
ed ber anxiety, in iny heart or life for you. It is
She sat down in despair How could dead and gone, and I cannot help it"
Whispering Smith have allowed any "That sounds Drety hard, Marion;
one he had a care for to be exposed' "It is only the truth. It sounded
in this dreadful way? Trying to fearfully hard to me when .you told e
think what to do, 'Maisie hurried rile that woman was your friend—that
back into the living -room, walked .to you knew her before you knew me and
;he piano, took the pile of eheet-musie would know her after I was dead; that
from the top, and sat down. to thumb she was as good as I, and that if 1
it over. She threw gong after song didn't entertain her you would. But
en the chair beside her. They were it was the truth; you told me the
sheets of gaudy coon songs and rag-
time with flaring covers, and they
reemeid to give off odors of cheap per. -
fume. Dicksie hardly saw the titles
as she passed them over, but of a
truth ,and it was better.that you thld
it—it is better now that I tell it to
you."
"I was drank. I didn' tell you the
truth. A inan et pretty tough animal
sleep more than I do. say he is the
one to go to bed to -night," continued
Lance, -putting it up ' to Whispering
Smith. "And I insist, by the Ahnighty
that you two take him back to the
house with you now.
Whispering Sraith raised his hand,.
"If this is merely a family quarrel a-
irout who shall go to bed, let ns com-
promise. You two stay up all night
and let me go to bed.'
Lance, however, was obdurate.
"It seenis to be a family characteris
tic of the Dunnings to have their own
way," ventured McCloud, after some
further dispute. "If you will have it
so, Mr. Dunning, you may stand watch
to -night and I will go to the blouse."
Riding back with McCloud, Dicicsie
and Whisperin Emith diseussed the
etldtisTER 'XXV.
The Man on the ,Frenchman.
Sincleirh. plaee nu the Frenchmau
backed up On a sl-_tru rise against the
foothills of Lli? 11...ridger range. and the
ranch. huil-drn . were strung along the
creeK. Mt: anal -house stood on_
ground. hip:a enough- to command the
country up ani down the
valley.
Only two road- led from Medicine
Bend and the eiratit into the French-
man country: one a wagon -road follow-
ing Smoky Creek and running through
Dale Canyon; the other a pack -road
known as Gridley trail, crossing the
Topah Topah hills and making a short
eut from the Dunning Ranch on the
Crawling Stone to the Frenchman.
The entire valley, is, in fact, so 'diffi-
cult of access, save by the long and
roundabout wagon -road, that the sight
of a complete outfit of buildings such
as that put up by ;Sinclair always
came as a isurprise to the traveller
who reaching the crest of the hills,
looked suddenly down a thousand feet
on his well -ordered sheds and barns.
and corrals.
The rider who reaches the Topah
Topah crest on the Gridley trail now
sees in the valley below only traces
of what was so laboriously. planned
'ed a few years
*its left on the
erculean labor
ein setting up
n an elaborate
and perfectly maintaii
ago. But even the r
Frenchman show the
undertaken by the ma
a comfortable and ev
establishment in so ac essible a spot.
.11is defiance of all ordhiary, means of
doing things was sho - in his pre-
erence for bringing much of his build-
ing material over the trail instead of
around by the Smoky 'Creek road. A
good part of the luMber that went
into his house was packed (wee the
Gridley trail. His piano was brought
through the canyon On a wagon, but
the mechanical player for the piano
and his wagons themselves Were pack-
ed over the trail on the backs of mules.
A heavy steel range for the kitchen
had been brought over the some way.
For Sinclair no work was hard enough.
None went fast enough and rev-
elry never rose big enongh.
During the tune of his activity in the
Frenchman Valley Sinclair had the
best appointed place, between Wil-
liams Cache and the Crawling Stone,
and in the Crawling Stone only ,
the Dunning Ranch would bear
ef Huron and Perth. Correspondence comparison with hit! own. On the
arrangements for sale dates can be Frenchman Sinclair leept an establish -
'made by calling up Phone 97, Seaforth ratmt the fame of which is still fore -
or The Expositor Office. Charges mod- most in mountain etory. Here
elate and satisfaction guaranteed. Sinclair's cows ranged the can-
yons and the hills for miles and
R. T. LUKER : his horses were known from Medicine
' Bend to Fort Tracy. Here he rallied ,
Licensed Auctioneer for the County his men, laid snares for his enemies,
of Eurom Sales attended to in all i
dispensed a reckless hespitality, ruled
perts of the County. Seven years' ex- his men with an oath and a blow, and
perienee in. Manitoba a.nd Saskatehe- carried a six-shooter te explain orders :
wan. Terms reasonable. Phone No. .
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Sure! High Heels
Who Cares Now
Cause Corns But
Because style decrees that -women
crowd and buckle up their tender toes
tin high heel footwear they suffer from
corns. then they cut and, trim at these
painfill pests which nei3rely makes the
corn grow hard. This suicidal habit
may MOO lockjaw and WOMB. are
warned to step it.
A few. drops of a, drug called freaz-
one applied directly upon a sore corn
gives quick relief and soon the entire
corn, root and all, lifts out without
pain. - Ask the drug store man for a
quarter of an ounce of freezone, which,
costa very little but is sufficient to re-
move every hard or soft corn or callus
from one's feet.
Thin drug is an ether compound and
175211, Exeter, Centralia P.O., R. R. dries in a, moment and simply shrivels
No. I. Orders left at The Huron Ex- Over the Gridley trail from the irritating the surrounding tissue or
qu • e up the corn without inflaming or even
sitor 0 ce, Seaforth, promptly at- Crawling Stone Marlon aid Dicksie skin. Clip this out and pin on your
ded to. Punning rode early in the morning, dream
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you do you will be responsible Marion.'
wood tree were in-rtittiNIsight,and the
She did not move her eyes from
muzzle of the rifle where it lay cov-
the blue hills on the horizon "X ex-
ered them. Dicksie thrilled, but the
rnan was busy with his work. Breath-
ing deeply, she walked out on tho i
porch again. Sinclair, she thought, i
was looking straight at her, and in
her anxiety to appear unconsious she
turned, walked to the end of the
house, and at the corner almost ran
into a man sitting out of doors in the
shade mending a saddle. He had re-
moved his belt to work and his revol-
ver lay in the holster on the bench,
its grip just within reach of his
hand Dicksie walked hi front of
him, but he did not look up, She
turned as if changing her mind, and
with a little flirt of her riding skirt
eat down in the porch chair, feeling
a faint moisture upon her forehead.
"I tutiegoing to leave this country,
Marion," Sinclair was saying. "There
is nothing here for me, I can see that
What's the use -of my eating my ueart
out over the way I have been treated?
I've given the best years of my life to
this railroad, and now they then me
down with a kick and a curse. It%
the old story of the Indian and hie
dog, only -I don't propose to let then
make soup of me. I'm going to the
coast, Marion I'm going to California
where I wanted to go when we were
married, and I wish to God we had
gone there then. All our troubles
might never have been if I had got in
with a different crowd from these
cow -boozers on the start. And, -Mart
ion, I want to know whether you'll
give me another chance and go with 1
Sinclair, on the bench and leaning 1
against the tree, sat with folded arms
looking at his wife. Marion in a
hickory chair faced him.
"No one would like to see you be 1
all you ought to be more than Ii Mur-
ray; but youu are the only one in the
world that can ever give yourself an- !
other chance to be that." !
"The fellows in the saddle here now I
have denied me every chance to make :
a man of myself again on the rail-
road—you know that, Marion. in fact, :
they never did give me, the show /
was entitled to. I ought to have had
Hailey's place. Bucks never treated me
right in that; he never pushed me in
the way he pushed other men that
were just as bad as ever I was. It
diseouraged me; that's the reason I
went to pieces."
"It could be no reason for treating
me as you treated me: for bringing
drunken men and drunken women into
our house, and driving me out of it un-
less I would be what you were and
what they were."
"I know I haven't treated you right;
I've treated you shamefully. I will do
anything on earth you say to square
i it. I will: Recollect, I had lived
' among men and in the same country
with women like that for years be-
fore I knew you. I didn't know how
to treat you; I admit, it Give me an-
other chance, Marion."
"I gave you all that I had when I
-married you, Murray. I haven't any-
thing more to give any man. You
would be disappointed in me if I
could ever live with you again, and I
could not do that without living a lie
every day."
He bent forward looking at the
ground. He talked of their first meet-
1 ing in Wisconsin; of the happiness of
their little courtship; he brought up
California again, and the Northwest
coast, where, he told her, a great
peat you 'to kill me sometime; I feel
sure you will. And that you may do."
Then she bent her look on him. "You
may do it now if you want to."
His face turned heavy' with rage.
"Marion," he cried with an oath, "do
YOU know how close you are to death
at this moment?"
"You may do it now,"
He clinched the beneh-rail and rose
slowly to his feet. Marion sat mot-
ionless in the hickory chair; the sun
was shining in her face and her hands
were folded in her lap. Dicksie rock-
ed on the porehed In the shadow of
the house the man was mending his
saddle.
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CHAPTER XXVI.
Tower W
A WALL OF SOAP
One year s sales of Comfort
Soap means enough soap th
build a wall is feet high and
29 mile $ long. Thhik of i
Eaearri t) n ) e.y ear -
The Prompt Answer.
VOU fed almost like shaking hands with a
man when he comes to his telephone the
moment the bell rings.
q If he answers by saying at once "Mr. Blank
speaking" instead of using the time.wastin
"Hello or "Well" you are still f-erther p
for you have saved valuable time and perhaps
avoided a whole series of unnecessary questions.
q To always answer promptly and to
announce yourself at once Instead of say-
ing '4 Hello' " Yes" or " Well" will go far
toward keeping up the quality of your telephone
service.
tranee• bit two men besides Whisper -
mg Smlith carried keys to the room—
Kennedy and George McCloud. They
had right of way into it at all hours
and knew how to get in.
McCloud had left the bridge camp
on the river for Medicine Bend on the
Saturday that Marion Sinclair—whose
husband had finally told her he Would
give her one more chance to think it
over—returned with Dicksie safely
from their trip to the Frenchman
ranch.
Whispering Smith who had been
with Bucks and Morris Blood, got
back to town the same day. The pres-
ident and general manager were at the
Wickiup during the afternoon, and left
for the East at nine o'clock in the ev-
At the end of a long and neglected
hall on the second floor of the old bank
block 15 11111 Street, Whispering Smith
had a room in which he made head-
quarters at Medicine Bend; it was
in effect Whispering Smith's home. A
man's ,room is usually a forlorn af-
fair in spite of any effort to make it
home -like. It he neglects big room
it looks, barren, and if he ornaments
it it looks fussy. Boys can do some-
thing with den because they are
not yet men, and some tincture of wo-
man's nature still clings to a boy.
Girls are born to the deftness that is
to become all theirs in the touch of a
woman's hand; but nien, if they walk
alone, pay the penalty of lonliness.
Whispering Smith, being logical,
made no effort to decorate his domes-
tic poverty. All his belongings were
of a simple sort and his room was as
bare as a Jesuit's. Moreover, his af-
fairs, being at times highly particular,
did not permit of the presence of a jan-
itor it his quarters,
and he was of ne-
cessity his own janitor. His iron bed
was spread with a pair of Pullman
blankets, his toilet arrangements in-
cluded nothing more elaborate than a
shaving outfit, and the mirror above
his washstand was only large enough
to make a hurried shave, with much
neck stretching possible. The table
was littered with letters but it filled
up one corner of the room and a rock-
ing -chair and a trunk filled up another.
The floor was spread with a Navajo
blanket, and near the end of the bed
stood an old-fashioned wardrobe. This
served not to ward Whispering Smith's
robes, -which hung for the most part
on his back, but to accommodate his
rifles, of which it contained an array
that only a practiced man could under-
stand. The wardrobe was more, how-
ever, than -an armory. Besides the
guns that stood racked in precision
along in the inner wall, McCloud had
once to his surprise, seen a violha It
appeared out of keeping in such an
atmosphere and rather the antithesis
of forces and violence than a complet-
ment for it. And again, though the
rifles were disquietingly bright and ef-
fective-looldng, the violin was old and
shabby, banging obseurelsr 15 ita cor-
ner, as if, whatever it might have in
COM111011 With its InitSter it had nothing
in common with its surroundings.
The door of the room in the course
of many yearohad been mutilated with
keyholes and reinforced with locks un-
til it appeared difficult to choose an
opening that would really afford en -
ening, when their car was
to an east -bound passenger train. Mee
Cloud took sapper afterward witli
Whispering Smith at a Front street
chop -house, and the two men separated
at eleven o'clock. It was three hour*
later when McCloud tapped on the
door of Smith's room, and in a moment
opened it "Awake, Gordon?"
"Sure: conic in. What is it?
'The second section of the passengeet
tram—Nunaber Three,with the elinren
cars—was stopped at Tower W to-
night Oliver Sellers was pulling; he
is badly shot up, and one of the 'Tea-
senge,rs was shot all to pieees, They
cracked the through safe, emptied zt
and made a clean get -away."
(Continued next week)
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