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The Huron Expositor, 1917-06-29, Page 7•-• MN -..-00.100E.000,00,"0,0010000. ----- tee aiNO hisperi th if NOM PILL& Matapia§a, Que., "I wilt let know how geed I' Uwe ed by Inking 'TtIlNtP., I was pelPitatioe of the beat ei breath. Itse trouble wee anted by Amick bed tried ell -toms swerame, badk oda* and .sigictorst but limed Awe sae", me blot "Ps Heart and Pig*. .1000n. ,sidtifiret ditt Amid nee them I only used leer boxes aad I now fed like different person." • Nalburn's Heart and 'Nerve PiNii have been od-tke market, for dee ant twenty- *ve ran a Moot wonderful- lepetatien es Mindy ter AI heart and serve trodden Pelee SO omits. pee bed, 3 lease* fer $1.25, at all dealera, or mailed direct on peoript peke by Tint T. Mann= Ca.„ Lamina- Tenmiliee ••••••as00,..rinewalireisaa in Cu n eel All yable February 114 bows at Clinton .eni r, as. well es in 1915s erland Gem won fire* ricGAVIN Proprietor orted Clydesdale Stallion RIO GRANDE (14442) dian Stud Book Noe IMO tend for the improvement of searion as folks -was Monde eave his own atelelee on• Rullett, and. Proceed ArthZu- Dale's ler now the Huron Road and ea izen north to hie own at Taesday—WM leave sle and proceed north an& east ef concession 4, to Foster Pow - noon; then proceed north to on 6 and east g% miles, then Fred Eckert's for night. Wed- -Will nroceed west to William ✓ nom; then west and south sf Constance to his awn stable zil remain until the follow - v morning. Terme to Inspected and enrolled. Theodore pale, Proprietor and 2579x& ilidard Bred Trotting Stalks' is TODD 'WINTERS 2337 nspected and Approved ant No. _4785 Form'i. ay—Will leave his own enable, south to the Red Tieverne to toores' for noon- then west to -.areeefse Stankf,. for ?tight. ;--North gt,1073g the 2nd eon - to 11•Ir. eject:eon's for swan; e way of the 2nd eoneeeeion, anith to his. for VirefLoseds,,y—At aye---Westron a B.AlleA's, —East to Isaac ayfor ne • tlien by ws . lel Gravel Boad his own for nkrh. Satday—AL -his - We. Season, and weather permiting:Terms SI). Pinkney & S4114, Prop. & 25'18- MAKWIRA ) provedand .F.nrol ngtone Proprietors& 'Managers, May rtt abe ffa, an noon; - rt -y- line, e ten etable for -South to the boundare- toga ht Wednesday ;tie s a, to John.33 oon; swim. le lei ea. Ge Shen nort st a T . Fr; ; Molnar,- erth to the amiltou's for night. to , Crorearty, then at noon:, :where he will the fallowing Monday n Comings RL OTLAdi 113458/ (1200:5 ected Enrolled, And APP•PYR13. . Murdock, Prep. neid day ---W01 leave his own' cefi!d, and go west 'to;thI ssion Of Statile, then", hie Buthhard's for notelet and -wt I'Villiaro dfteriafs,- Tueaye-dey _ - to \tame,. at -the Tittipeati ✓ noon; then by -*pelf ref'Siti- ad to the Goshen. • IcClinehey's for °night. 'WtIne. .By LleClemontie thde rocEtethe line, then S5itth to Wtfliam Fde- for noon; then to Wrn. MeXen- :)fla coecessing of Stantey',for ght. Thirseelay—North to the -..1c1 road, to his own Stable, f. or remaining Ilan the fdir y morning. Friday --To Gee. ey's, Mill road, for noon; then to dam's side road, then heottli 0 sond concession, H.R.S., Took - b, then west to James for night. Saturday—WeSt by foot's bridge, then soutfi to the ead, to his own stable, where he ernain until the following Monday 4rd- 2580 e - r LORD MANSFIELD. s Evans, Proprietor & Manager- nday—Will leave his own itable, wood, and go to Pat Woods', Lor noon; thence to his own for the night. Tuesday --tire Murray's concession 11, McK.11- `tir noon; then wet to . nose', 'on- 10, McKillop, for one hour; to his own stable for night- s sday—To Frank Mafrar's con - d. Logan, for noon; then to 's Hotel, Dublin, for the night. ay—To Jaseph Nagle/s, ,for then to Joseph Atkinson's`, for Friday—To Martin Curffie's /es east of Seaforth, for noon; to Cecil Oise's. McKillop, for the . Saturdae--Will proceed to his hie where he will remain wend wing, ttoday morning: Terme o ditions same as former years Mansfield has been enrolled, in - ed and approved.. Terms to in - $13, James Evans, Manager., •••• 1Frank 11 Speaman LEGAL. R. S. HAYS. Barrister, Solicitor,Conveyancer and Notary Publiez Solicitor for the Do- minion Bank. Office in rear of the I o- mittion Bank, Seaforth. Money to loan. J. IL BEST. Barrister, Solicitor, Conveya er and Notary Poi* °Mee upsi e'rs over Walkerti Furniture Store, Aitsin Street, Seaforth. 01;010.160012d F. HOLIVIESTED Barrister, Solicitor, Conveyancer and' Notary Publie,'Selieiter for The.. =Canadian Bank of Conitriernee Farms for stile. Office in- Behtt's MQney Block', Main. Street, Seaforth. • POUDFOOT, ICUORAN AND COO KE 4 Barristers, Solicitors, Notaries Pub- - Money to lend:. In Seaforth Monday of each Week. Office in Xiddalock ,Proudfoot, K. C., J. L. Moran, H. J. D. Cooke. (Continued from last week) • No map could have kept the r4to pass that night. The horse tOOk mon at that tune — +1 The word caught between her and swung int,o the familiar stride 'ffened lips and - she mum- dizcy' spells, nervous that had carried her so many tienes sb foe a, light. The word caught be - over the twenty miles ahead of them, hok. hr sit . to 4;Seititg , se:eaming „with the pabi of reezing. hindS, i-She kneW that She dare venture, E. phikhang v , UL dleg;Vir beiSelk* 144 the saddle. - Mr Ss Wynn Tells How LYclia s *getable coat never reramint. She felt now CotnpOttRa HelpedHer this again—that tf slie id so she t she could never live to teach Med.- , Dttringebillige of Lift eine Vend. She r.tode On and on and 1 ....—___ oni—wenld, it never erid, She begged jto to ed Richmond, Va. — "A f ter takin Gog Goa Sna painless dea -th those 1 she rode to save, and when the prayer ...-.. seven bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's _passed her failing senses a new terror vegetable Com - awakened her, for she found herself pound I feel lilee a falling out of the saddle. With ex- new woman. I al- erucia,ting torment shd recovered her ways hs.d a headache lease,. Reeling from side to eide „ she durieg the Change ought the torpor away. Her mint ' d . of Life and was also grew deer and her lcare eeas- .troubled with other ed. She , preyed for a, light. L bad feelings corn- ' it as if the path flashed in su_nsinne, ' A VETERINARY. F. HARBURN, V.S. 'Honor graduate of Onterie, Veterin.„ antt lOmtrawe' Imembpr„of the Ontaret, e ete-Treata.4.16..eaaaa Of all domestic animals by the most mod- em principles. Dentistry_and-M0 Vevt; sr a specielty. Office diPtisite'DIck's' Hotel, /dam Streit, Seaforth. Al ders left at the hotel will rei .ve prompt attention. Night calls re t iv - ed at the office. Mfg, GRIEVE, .„S onor erreidna_te. art Ontario Vetnt Collegte d bet**. ol dote - tehise ;pea tan *haves heckle tie a, - on Godei ; Dr.. SCOtt'S t - feelipgs and heat her .stiffened line and the MUM - The sterile driving into Dicksie s face tween and scream it ont. en dente the flashes. Now I am bled it till she could open their/ wide coded her. Every moment she re- , better health mind all the aspects of he, venture I soiled like the beating of great drums threredijeesvii jetaiivintthatirre,,s_mmernsd.LyEoNuAr, in her pars. It Was the crash of collected herself better, and before her ranged themselves. She had set her- Jim's hoofs on the river bridge, and self to a race, and against her rode she was in Medicine Bend. d t rid, in the mountains the hs*fest er , • A horse, galloping low and heavV, sheivid set herself to what, few men on the range wouldphave dared and what no other woman on the range could do. "Why have I learned to 'ride," went the question through her mind, "if not for this—for those I love and for those who love me?" Sin- clair had a start, she well knew,. but not so much for a night like this mght. He rode to kill those he hated; she would ride to save those she loved. Her horse already Was on the Elbow grade; she knew it from his shorter spring -4 lithe, _creeping spring that had carried her out ' of deep canyons and up long draws where other horses walked. - The wind 'lessened and the rain drone less angrily in her face. She patted Jim's neck with her wet glove, and checked him ae steadily as a lover to give him-, ceurage and breath. She wanted to be part of him as he strovee for the 'horror of the _night began to 'gill on the edge of 'her thoughts. A; gust drove in her. 'face . They were already at the head 'of the pass,:and the horse with *level ground underfnot;Valf-falling info, the long reach; it the ttintlerfee Dicksie lowered her head and gave: Jim the rein. She realized how. wet she was; her feet and her knees were wet. She had no protection but - her skirt, though the meanest rider on alli her countless acres Would not have, braved a milsetin snnitistinight without ileathereatitisfur. The .great lapels of, Tier -fidingsliihket,'redeesed, were but- ton& tiniittatitiertier sehoulders, ;and; the double fold of fur lay warm nnd, against her heart and lungs; but -her hands were cold, and . her skirt dragged leaden and cold. from her waist, and water soaked in upon ,her .chilled feet. She knew she ought ,to have thought these things. e She panned, as elttrItsinsi pictbr'across her brain; - 'how .she swettl „pare *seize= feeesich ride, 4' ecivifty costume that -,she- MEDICAL. DR. W.J. GLANFIELD, M.O., Physician, Etc. Honor Graduate ef University of Toronto, six year's' experience, Brucefield, Ontario. • DR. GEORGE \ HEILEMANN. Osteopathic Physician of Goderi 1. Specialist in women's and childre,n.s diseases, rheunnfism, acute, chronic and nervoni'dfsorders.; eire ear nose and throat Con4ltailors free. 10ffite in the Royal Hdtel, Seaforth, Tues- days and :Fridays, 8 axe till I pen. - C. J., W. yam m.p.c.m. 425 Richmond. Street, London, 0 s Specialist, Surgery and Genito-Uz — any liseases of men and women. Dr. ALEXANDER MOIR Physician and Surgeon, Office and Residence, Main Str t, Phone ife Hems DR. j. W. PECK _ snow. - Greduate a ,FaeuIty of t, There was need to urge Jim. He ;had-. once: tnardightadett- jet for, Marion, With leggings cof-bieicilifitater "dfittpe of isingetehite= silkensWocde WAS )40.ma' lignerade now—she was tiding in dead$y ansthersrerst closed . to hlretatvay a creepy ;Piet *art ed it& lieitrt'and left-her--'free- She became conscious' of hoed fast. she was going. Instinct, made keen. by thousands of saddle miles, • told -Dicksie of terrific -pace. 'She was riding faster than she would have dar- ed go at noonday and without thought of fear or accident. In spite of the sliding and the .plunging down the long hill,. the storm and the darkness , brought no ththight of fear for her- self; her only fear was for those a- head. In supreme moments a horse- like a Men' when 'human efforts be- come superhurhan, phts the lesser dan- gers out ef reckoning, and the 'facul- ties, set on a single purpose, though strained to the -breaking point, .never break. Low in her saddle, Dicksie dried to reckon- how far they had come and how much ,raY`• ahead. She could feel 'her skirt stiffening about her Imees, and the rain beating at her face.- Was sharper; she 'knew the sleet as it -stung her cheeks, and knew what next was coming the slued throivh the -show from F rt street into ney, and where it had so often' stopped before, slashed up on the sidewalk in front of the little shop. The shock was too mudh for its un- conscious rider, and, shot headlong from. her saddle, Dicksie was flung bruised and eenseless against Marion's door. CHA.PTER XLII. At The Door. She woke in a dream of hoofs beat- ing at her brain. Distracted words fell from her lips, and when she open- ed her swollen eyes and sew those a- bout her she could :only scream. Marron had called up the. stable, but the stable man could only tell her that Dielthiels horse in terrible condi- lien, had coMe riderless. While Barnhardt, the railway surgeon at the bedside, adminiitered, reetorativee Marion talked with him of Idielcsie's sudden and enyeterieus coming. Diclosia, lyingin pain and quitegonscielis,leeard " to explain; greened in - es. 'She heard Maiden her lielP ,length, tell:the doctor that Me - end! was out tetdu and. the new etenied-to bringliack her senses,. Then, rising in heir While the surgeon 'and *More coaxed her to lie down, Ale clutched- 'at' their arras and, ,Ioolt-` ink from One to die other,. told her atom When it -west thine elle '8 -Wool -led. 'bet she woke to hear -voices it the door of the Sher, She Netted as if she dreamed, but at the .door the words .stere dread realty. Sinelair had made 'geed his weird, and had come out of the atorm,with sinintione won. Mar- ion and it was the surgeon who threw -one nthe docdir and saw Sinclair stand - big in the Stiotif: No *men lend knew Sin- clair -moredthereighly or feared hien, Iess that Barnhardt. No man could later meet Min or'ibiegik.toiiird;with less hesitation. faced Barnhardt, was not ed.nit spite of his, dogged selfecontrol;-eitthe Was Stands int, ninth, to hissiinnt ser*et in the glre of an: Seviing ereerthe `Street in trent- of itheiatitifee He was well aware that no enieh light had ever swung within a Welt ;of the shop Wort and in it he sawthe'harel of WhisPeeng Sinith. The light wee unexpected, 'Barnhardt was a surprise, and even the falling snow, which pro? tected htni -!.rom being seen twenty feet away angered him. He asked curtly who Was ill, and -Without await- ing an answer asked for his wife. The surgeon eyed him coldly. "Sin- clair, what are you doing in Medicine Bend? Have you collie. to surrender yourself?" "Surrender ,nyself? Yee', I'm ready any time to surrender myself. Take. me along yourself, Barnhardt, if you think I've done worse than any man would that has been hounded as I've been hounded. I want to see my wil";:jiirclaire you can't see your wife." 'What the mattere-is she sic' I?" t"Igo, but you Can't see her.' ,"Who says I can't eee her?" "I say so." Sinclair swept the ice furiously from his board and hie right hand fell to his hip as he stepped back. "You've turned against me too, have you, yeti. grey-haired wolf? Can't see her. Get out of that door." The sergeon pointed his finger at the murdeter. "No, Won't get ort of that door. Shoot, you coward! Shoot an unanmed man. You will net, dive to get a hundred feet away. This place is watched for you; you could' not have got within a hundred yards' of it t9 -night except for this snow.' Barnherlt pointed through the storm!. "Sinclair, you will hang in the coert- house square, and I will take the last beat of your Pulse with these Angers, and when I pronounce you dead they Will cut you down. You want see you wife. You want to kill her. Don't lie; you want to kill her, You were heard to say as iruch to -night at the Duzinhig ranch. You were watch- ed and tracked and you are expected and looked for here -Your best friends have gone back on you. Ay, curse again and over again, het that will not put Ed Banks on his feet." S4nelair stamped with frenzied oaths. "You're too hard on me,' he cried, clenching his hands. "I say you're too hard. You've heard one side of it. Is that the way you put jedgment on a man that's got no friends left be- cause they start a new lie on him ev- ery day? Who it is that's *watching me? Let them stand out like men in. the open. If they want me, let them come like men and take me!" _ otf, sw1e oie,,giver and he railroad, he inai Who had gonesouth, the roan,babeved to be Sinclair. It wae a i moon, and: when Scott and'Kennedr eaddled their horses Whispering Sroith and Wick- wire were asleep. With the cowboy,Wbspering Smith started at daybreak. one saw the men again for two days. During' those two days and nights they were in the saddle almost continuously For every mi.% the man ahead of them rode they were forced to ride two miles and often three. Late in the sec- ond night they crossed the, railroad, and the first word from them came • n long despatches sent by Whispering Smith to Medicine Bend and instruc- tions to Kennedy and Scott in the north, which were carried by hard rid. ers straight to Deep Creek. On the morning of the third day Mamie Dunning, who had gone home from Medicine Bend and who bad beel, telephoning Marion and George Mc- Cloud two days for news, was trying to get Medicine Bend again on the tel- ephone when Puss came in to eon- That a man at the kitchen door wanted to , WYNN, 2812 E. 0 Street, Richmond,Il, s eseffe`ie it pees ee I While Cligusge of Life is a most elite i "I d'no, Miss Dicksie; 'deed, I never 1 Joel period. of a NeiOnlaa'S existence, the 1 annoying aymptonis which accompany 7e Dicksieenhim bevIa°1kreed" around on the porch I it may be controlled, and normal health to the kitchen. A dust covered man restored by the timely use of Lydia E. sittingon a limp horse, threw back Piiikham's Vegetable Compoundthe brim of his hat as he touched it, Such warningeeyniptoms are a sense lifted himself stiffly out of the saddle of suffocation, hot flashes, headache, and dropped to the ground. He laogh- backaches, dread of impending evil,ed at Dicksies startled expression. lieuidity, sounds in the ears; palpitation ' `Ton't you know me?" he asked, put - of the heart, sPerlis before the epee ting out his hand. It was Whisper- -. ing Sinith. irregularitiee,,constipatioe, variable ap- , 'e Was a fearfulsightStained • tee - efelikriene, and inquietude, and i froin head. to foot with alkali, saddle - II. . 'nese.cramped andbent, hiface scratched . i For these abnormal conditions do not 'and stained, he stool& with a smiling : . s fall* take IOU* E. Pinkham'e Foto; appeal in his bloodshot eyes. title Compound. - Dicksie gave a little uncertain cry, clasped her hands, and, with a scream, threw her arms impulsively around of McCloud's room. But Dicksie had his heck. "Oh, I did not know you! Whit has happened? I am so glad to see you! ' Tell me what has hap- pened. Are you hurt?" He stammered like a school -boy. "Nothing has happened, What's this? Don't cry; nothing has happen- ed at idle, I _didn't realize what a trainp I look or I shouldn't have come. But I Was only a mile away and I had heard nothing for four days from Medicine Bend. And how are *Did your ride make you ill? No? By Heaven, you are i.gaine girl. That was A ' ride. -How .. are you all? Where is your cousin? In town is he ? L tivnight r plight °gef`,13Tn_e news if I hode up and oh. 'Wise Diekeie—iiininr! , • Universitn, Mentreal; Member had the rein' and Dicksie bent down. a.Collegi. of TitYsicians and Surgeons to speak to him; pi she often spoke of Ontario;Licentiate of Medical Coun- when they were, alone_ on the road; cil of Canada- Post -Graduate Member when Jim-, bolting; almost threw her. of Resident Canada, Staff of General l Recovering instantly, she knew they. Hospital, Montreal, 1914-15; Office, 2 were no longer 3,1one. She rose alert doors east of Post Office. Phone 56, j in her seat. Her training eyes -could, Hensall, Ontario. see nothing. Was there a sowed* in the wind? She held her breath to DR. F. J. BURROWS --- listen, but before she could apprehend' Office and residence, Goderich street Jim leaped violently ahead . Dicksie east of the Methodist church, Seam*screamed in an agony of terror. She Phone 46. Coroner for the.County of i knew then that she had passed another Huron. rider, and et- close she might have touched him., DRS. SCOTT & MACKAY z' . Fear froze herto the saddle; it lent J. G. Scett, graduate of Victoriwings to her horse. a and The speed ecame b her t College of Physicians and Surgeons wild. Dicksie knit herself to her Coand member of the Col- dumb coMpanion and a prayer chok- Ann Arbor, lege of Physicians and Surgeons, of ed inthroat, She crorhed lest a bullet tear her from her horse, - but through the, darkness, no bullet came, oily the sleet,. stinging- her face, stiffening her gloves, freezing' her hai-: chilling her Meths'and weighting her like lead on her Struggling horse. She knew not, even Sinclair could overtake DR. H. HUGH ROSS. her now—that no living man could lay a hand on her bridle-rein—and she Graduate of University of Toronto pulled Jim in down the winding hills Faculty of Medicine, member of Col- to save him for the long flat. When lege of Physicians and Surgeons of they struck it they had 'but four miles Ontario; pass graduate courses in to go. Chicago Clinical School of Chicago; Across the flat the wind drove in Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, London, fury. Reflection, thought, and reas- England, University Hospital, London, on were beginning to leave her. She England. Office—Back of Dominion was crying to herself quietly as she Beek, Seaforth. Phone No. 5, Night used to cry when she lost herself, a toria street, Seaforth. mere child, riding among the hills. Calls answered from residence, Vic - Ontario, C, Mackay, honor graduate of Trin- ity University, and gold medallist of Trinity Medical College; member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. 0 • I' FAMIN=Imm OA her side that night One greater than her invincible will or her faithful horse. McCloud ValS two hundred miles away. , Barnhardt foat no, time in telephen- ing the fdrickhip that Sitclair was in town, but within an hour, while two women. were stilt under -the surgeon's protection; a knock at: the cottage door gave thema second fright. Barn- hardt answered the summons. He ape ,ened the door and, as the man outside paused to, shake the sunny off his hat, :the surgeon caught bin,. by the should - .and dragged into -the house Whig- pering- Picking the icicles from his hair, Smith listened thr- all that Barnhardt _said, his eyes roving meantime- over many things outside it. He congrat- ulated Barnhardt, and when Marion ;came into the rboin apoiogized for .the snow he had brought in. Dickie heard his -yoke and cried out from the bedroom. They could not keep ,her away, and she rnn, out, to catch his hands andpleadwith hint. not -tQ' go away. He tried ko,.itsstIrq.Aer that the. danger was ;':eirer;._ that guards were -,novr outsIdt ,everywhere, an . would be until moping. gio Dicksie clung to him and woula lake no re - fusel. , spering Siteth,looleed at her in enteet and thiadniiteitiOn. "You nitetPtin Mise . -AUCTIONEERS... .. THOMAS BROWN. Licensed auctioneer for the cous a Huron and Path. 0:erre:spend ars: rigements for sale dates can =Ade by calling up Phone 97, Beal er The Expositor Mite. Charges state and eatisfantion guaranteed. farther and tried -to draev herself 1 Ift# wqd 1:11 !IreVti ittotritt.- 117:4 Man not' fde- hate+ to -night. -You are a queen . had a moans tain that would.do adnecch that !Or 771e: T. -*. Would you de ?d asked Mar- i n. "Say good be to this accursed country forever..? CHAPTEn XLIII. Closing In. In the morning the sun rose with a mountain sniile. The storm; had iinvept the air till the ranges shone blue and the plain sparkled under 4 cloudless sky. Bob Scat and Wick- wire, riding at daybreak, picked up a trail on the Fence River road. A con- sultation was held at the bridge, and evithin'haif an hour ViThispering Smith with unshaken patience, was in the saddle and'following it With him were Kennedy and Bob Scott. Sinclair had ridden into the lines, and Whispering Smith; with his best two men, meant to put it ep to him to ride out. They meant now to get him, with a trail or without, and were putting horseflesh against horse- flesh and craft etgainet craft At the forks of the Fenee they pick- ed up Wickwire, Kennedy taking him on the up the reed, while Scott with She was praying meaningless words. "Sinclair. this storm gives you e t take it Bad as hi h senses U you are, there are inen in Medicine Snow purred softly on her cheeks. chance o getaway; „ The cold was soot ng er . able at last to keep her seat on the ; Bend who knew you when you were horse she stopped him, slipped stiffly , a man. Don't stay here for some of thesie n. 'es to the ground, and, struggling through them to sit on the jury that hangs Scott, leayirg Wickwire with Whisper - the wind, she held fast to the bridle, Yo • If you can get *away, get a- ing Smith, took fresh horses and push - and the horn, half walked and half ran way. . If I were your friend, and God rto start the blood through her be- knows whom you can e.all your friend " numbed veins. She struggled until in Medichae Bend to -nigh -t ---I couldn't she could drag her mired feet no say more. . Get away before it is too sope. coffee. But rye get NO two minutes for all, only two imputes; do you think Puss lias . any 0/1 the stove?" Dicksie with piPling and coahihie ,g got him into, the kitchen and ;Peee. tumb- led over herself to set out coffee arid none. He showed himself ravenously hungry and- ate with a simple direct- nesa, that speedily accounted for ev- erything in sight; -"You have saved my life., NOW, I are. going etedstliank, Yon a thousand times There, I-tr Heaven, I've forgotten Wiekwirel He -is with me—waiting down at- the rot- ten -Weeds at the fork. Ootild Pins put up a linidir I could. take to bier? Ite• hasn't had- a sump fer twenty-four hours. But, Dicksie, your tramp is a hummer!t I've tried to ride him down atid out and loS'e hire, and. by Heaven, he turns up every time and has been of more use to -me, than two men." She mit her hand on Whispering ,Smith's arm. "I told ,him if he Would stop drinking he could be fore- man- here next season." Puss was putting, up the knell. "Why need you hurry away?" persisted Dicksie. "I've a thousand things to say." He looked at hee Amiably. "This is really a case of must." "Ten tell me what favor may Ido dor you?" ° She loolced appealingly in- to his tired eyes. "I ' went to do something for you. I must! don't deny Me. atly, what shall it be?" "Something for me? *What can I say? You'll be kind to Marion—I shouldn't have to ask that. What can I ask? Stop!, there is one thing. I've got a poor little devil of an orphan Up in the Deep Creek country. Du Sand; murdered his _father. You are rich and generous, Dicksie; do something for him will, you? Kennedy or Bob Seat will know all ahoot him. Bring 'him down here, will you, and see he doesn't go to the dogs? You're a good girl. What's this, crying? Now you are frightened. Things are not so bad as that. You want to know everything -1 see it in your eyes. Very wells lees trade. You tell me every- thing and ten you everything. Now Crawling Stinle- Whispering Smith crossed to the then: Are a engaged?" When Smith and en1 . ° Y° They were standing under the low Scott reached the Frenchman they the porch -with the sunshine breaking parted to . cover in turn -each of through the trees, She turned away trails by which it is possible to getout - her face and threw all of her happi- of the.river country towards the Park -nese into a laugh. "I won't tell." and Williams Cache. By four o'clock in the afternoon "Oh, that's enough. You have told!" declared Whispering Smith. "I knew they had all covered the ground so —why, of course I knew—bet I want - well that the for were able to melee ed to make you own up. Well, here's their rendezvous on the big Fence di - i he way things are. Sinclair has run vide, south of Crawling Stone Valley. us 0 over God's creation for two days They then found to their disappoint- to give his pals a chance to break these little incidents contributed by ment, that, Widely separated as they into Williams Cache to get the Towee readers in conriection with a competi- teal's they believed to be good. They W money they let with Rebstock. For ton which interests every Britisher had been, both parties were following a fact, we have ridden completely a- now fighting in the trenches. Here shot a steer, tagged it, ate dinner and round Sleepy Cat and been down in is one of the half dozen tublished eupper in one, arid separated under th S anish Sinks since I saw you. At a certain place on the British . E PERFECTGUM Let us make you acquainted with the new, luscious flavour— It's all that the name sugdests! Wrigley quality— made where chewing gum making is a science. Now three fliavours Chew It after. every Meld Sealed n confelreectiitonee,reverare sold 61.1211; Keti UM* IR CANADA riedy'S lutzuls, ciUit get tate the saye the -writer arid tiy =••• Gitehetto find out. Now the three -our &Ode failed to 'beat- Once whoever the -other to are—and- Sin- thre, e men of the Woneesteri fa' out diar—tiri trying to join forces some- one night to se.jc_ him; they never re - where up this -valley, and, -Kennedy,. turned. Later, three men of theMan- Scott, Wicliwiret and. I are after there, chesters departed on the same errands and every outlet is watched, and it they were also repotted missing. An - r ust be all over my dear; before sue- ether bittalien commarider, at the set, to -night. Isn't that fene?I'mean earnest request, allowed his test scout to. have the thingwoundup somehow. i to go out singletanded, but nothing Don't look Worried." ' mere was heads efe At last, "Do nots-dosnot let hian k11 -you" when 'the nhantern inliser'irad become she cried with a sob. ; quite famous, a keen -eyed sentry re - "He will net kill me; don't be a- ported that he thought he had idee freid." where NT. Bache was hallingt and "I am afraid. Remember. what permission was sought for a party to e - your life is to all Of us!" go out and bag hila. No, said the "Then, of course, I've got to think C.O. "We've lost quite 'enough good of what it is to myself—being the I' en on that game; -well make antron- only one I've got Sometimes I dont er job of him this tinie." The rifle think Much of it; but when get a flashes that the observant sentry hal welcome like this it sets me up. If detected were watched for, theeposi- I can once get out of this accursed tion surveyed. by the airfnen, and other man -slaughtering business, Dicksie— measures taken that need not be des - Row oil are you? Nineteen' cribed. Then at an agreed unon-bour you've :rot the fmest chap in all these a gun of a British battery fired one mbuntains, and George McCloud has shell, and -orie oely. Later as nothing was heard Mr. Sniper in the interval, a reconrentering party went over to investigate. They fointd 'hat the solitary- shell had registered a magnificent bell right in the centre of the helper's little eyrie, dug in the side of a crater in No 3441e5 Land and most cunningly concealed. Mr. Sniper was blown to pieces, but they discovered his rifle and his store of food And ammunition. Some dis- tance off they Wee located the bodies of the three Wocestere, the three *Manclisters, and other vietims of the concealed markm.ards skill. the finest— With a bubbling laugh she sheolc her finger at him, "Now you are caught. Say the finest woman in these moinitains if you dare Say the finest woman!" "The finest woman of nineteen all creation!" He swung with a laugh into the saddle and waved his hat. She watched him ride down the road and around the hill. When he reap- peared she was still looking and he wag galloping Along the lower vied. A man rode out at the fork to meet him and trotted with him over the bridge. Riding leisurely across the ereeletheir broad hats bobbling un- evenly in the sunshine,they spurred swift'y past the grove of quaking asps, and in a moment were lost beyond the trees. (To be Continued Next Week) THE PHANTOM SNIPER All sorts of things are happening in the great war, not only. in connec- tion with the actual fighting—over the details of which, of course, a veil must often be cast—but on the human side. In the July Wide Worldf un- 'er the title of Strange Stories of the War appears a selection of some of b into the next He doeen't want to leave -without the . front a solit.sry German sniper eaused I K scores of casualties among our mezia Whispering Smith's counsel that both the trails efollowedniimey, and doesn t know it s n en- morning—in the belief that on,e of them would run out or that the two would run together. At neon the next day Scott rode through the hills from the Fence, and Kennedy aeh Wickwire came through Two Feather Pass from the Frenchman with the report that the game had left their valleys. Without rest they pushed on, At ' the foot of the Mission Mountains they picked up the tracks of a party of three horsemen. Twice within ten miles afterward the men they were following crossed the river. Each time their trail, with. some little difficulty, was found. again. At a little ranch in h'll K d ani R. T. LUKER rely:need AuctIoneer fcr the County et Hamm Salo attended to ire*11 perts of the County. Say a yam' ex- peeiseete in Monitoba and 11,askabeles- was. Terme reasonable. Phone No. 174411, Nester, Centrnlia P.O., it. R. Ne. 4- The Herm *edam Ireafelt, preaply *Ad to back into the saddle: It was almost He was never again seen' alive in beyond her. She sobbed and screamed Medicine Bend. They tracked him had covered. They found where he di— had left his spent horse and where he afterward had got the fresh one. They Children Cry learned how he had. eluded all the TfI'picketipg planned for precisely such a at. her helpfulness.-- At last she man. next d.ay. ever every foot of ground he ed ahead as far as they could ride be- fore dark, but they brought back bews. The trail had split again, virita one man riding alone to theleft, two had taken the hills to the right, heading for Mission Pass and the Cache. With. Gene Johnson and Bob at the mouth of the Cache, there was little fear for that outlet. The turn to the left was the unexpected. Over _the little fire °in the ranch kitchen, where they ate surlier, the four 1"11 were in conference twenty minete$. contiegency,, got mto the Wicluup,got It was decided that Scott and Kennedy CASTORiA upstaire d burst open. the. very door should head for the Miseion Passewhile FARM POR SALE Lot SS, Concession 6, McKillop, 100 acres of the best clay land in Ideal - lop, &acres of bust, the ret in a high state of cultivatiori; nOes hkan Sea - forth, 2 raileit from Constance, I% miles from schools There are on the remises a good seven rem -house, large bank barn 84x76, all Page wire fences and well tinderdrairted. There are 40 acres plowed, 5 acres DUSat, and the balance seeded dem. There are 2 big springs, one piped to barnyard and en the other is a, dam with a hy- draulic ram pumping the water to the house and to the barn. As the spring is in the orchard and nerd' the house and line fence, there is no waste land. There is a graded and gravelled lane from .the road to the buildings. Possession will be given March 1.st next. Apply to MRS. SAMUEL DORRA.NCE, 8w -forth, or phone 1743s Seaford'. 2578-tf h" stands for 'meta and m adetrmatoflto the name VMPATI-1", Zoe Recipath Sweeten it." the rpauce n - 2 and leentel. Cafteot, .‘ Or, iba Bag21 e grade a.