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he distant left
a mile below bin,
ing the river rode
thessocks and
be o the next bend. He
ed a Moment by a Sec-
a` a' +11. pering
e ac net been seen,
the game, an heel -
**tight up the
lInd, were he
below them.
line and
-back,
d 'piJ
or when the
for
by
Irom
delicate
tan re•
H
rthuf DaJos it
be Htiron Road and
nthtobiown
Tuesda—Wfll leave his
andiprocited north and east
concession 4, to Foster Fow-
oon; then proceed north to
L 6 and east 3% miles, then
'red Eckert's for night Wed-
Tjjj west to WiTha
11994; then west and tenth
Constance to his own stable
RI remain until the follow -
Terme to in -
and enrolied.
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his own
aturday—At his
rout* will be
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Prop. & Man.
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r, MOT letitAre Ida
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✓ noon;
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John
it.—Thursday—Eaat by
aeo unts,
en north to the KfiktOte Ida%
it to Taylr's Hotel,. Friday --North. to
'
Thomas Miceurdie's, for
rth to the Cromarty
onilton'e for night
to Clarile#7,-• then ?girth
t noon; Where he will icemabt,
felloWmg Monday morning -
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moiled, and Approved.
:urdock, Prop. and Manager
leave his own Stable/
est to the sec -
then north
noon;
for
k
a a, atthe Temperance ho -
1100i Olga by witer o BAY"
line to
Al -
or night. Wedetee-
Vs side -i� the
to oa-
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ond Ooaceionon
Thursday—
' road, to his own
fliaileing until the fonetWing
eorning. Friday—To (leoi Me-
"§* Mtn road, for noon; then to
m's side road, then north to
nd concession, H.R. s.Took-
then west- to James 'Carno-
or night. Satacday--L-Weat by
)t's bridge, then south to the
a, to his own stable, Wkr're-• be
ain =Ail the following Monday
2580
LD.
& Manager
own stable,
''i and and go to Pat Woods',
dor noon l thence to his own
the night. Tuesday — Ao
afs concession 11, Melkele
n; then west to • Roes',
on 10, McKillop, for one hour;
hs owfte tstable for night.
la„v—To Mahar's con-
, Logan, for noon; then to
Hotel, Dublin, for the ni-ght.
7—To Joseph Nagle'e, for
sento Josoph Atkinson's, for
Friday—T4 Martin Cartints
east of .eaforth, for WWI;
ecil tree's, MeKillop, for the
Saturday—Will preeeed to his
Srie where he will remain until
wingMonday Morning: Terms
didorts same as fernier years
msfield has been =toned, In -
=and Uppreved, Terms to in --
3. Jame a Evans, Manager.
iddie wave,
years' entitled
I -could hardly
sorts of kidney
pc*ed stte for a while;
ve a fair trial, did not
. was very sallow and
under my eyes. I made
up my mind I would try Dean's Kidney
Pills, and on taking two boxes I found
I was getting better, so I kept on using
two more, and to -day I don't know I
ever had kidney trouble. I owe all the
prtfise to Doan's Kidney Pills."
DOEtleS Is` are put up in an oblong
i.rey box; the trade mark "The Maple
W";. price 60e. per box, at all dealers
mailed direct on receipt of price by
e T. Milburn Co., Limited,oronto,
Out..
LEGAL.
- R. S. HAYS.
Barrister, Solicitor,gonveyancer,and
Notary Public. Solicitor for the Do-
minion Bank, Office in rear of the t °-
minion Bank Seaforth. Money' to
loan.
J. M. BEST.
Barrister, Solicitor, Conveyai er
and Notary Public. Office tipsi s is
over Walker's Furniture Store, Iriatt,
Street, Seaforth.
F. 110LMESTED
Barrister, Solicitor,' Conveyancer
and Notary Public, Solicitor for The
Canadian Bank of Commerce. Money
to Loan. .Firms for sale. Office in
Scott's Block, Main S4reet, Seaforth.
PROUDFOOT, KILLORAN AND
COOKFI.
Barristers, Solicitors, Notaries Pub-
lics etc. Money to lend. In Seaforth
on Monday of each week Office in
Kidd Block W. Proudfoot,
L. Killoran, H. 3. D. Cooke.
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• VETERINARY.
HARBURN, V.S.
Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin-
ary College, and honorary member of
the Medical Association of the Ontario
Veterinary College. Treats diseases of
all domestic animals by the most mod-
ern principles. Dentistry and Milk Fey -
• specialty., Mice opposite Dick's
got& Main Steet, Seaforth. Ar o -
der' left at the hotel will refs tire
. prompt attention. _Night calls re 4 W-
ed at the office.
JOHN GRIEVE, V.8
Honor graduate of °rite: Vetuin-
ary College. All diseases or domestic
animals treated. Calls Pro Pal at-
tended to and charges mod *. Vet-
erinary Dentistry a special . Office
and residence on doderich s get, one
door east of Dr. Scott's o Sea -
forth H•
▪ MEDICAL.'*.
DR. W.S. GLANFIELIY, M.B.,
Physician, Etc. Honor Graduate
of University of Toronto, six years'
experience. Brucefield, Ontario.
DR. GgoltGu'AEILEiVIANN.
Osteopathic P ysician of Goderi
Specialist in womeies andchildren's
diseases, rheumatism, acute chronic
and nervous disorders; eye ear, nose
end throat. Consultation free. Office
in the Royal Hotel, Seaforth, Tues-
days and Fridays, 8 a.m. till 1 p.m.
•mo• /mamma
C. J. W. HARN, M.D. .M.
425 Richmond Street, Lon on, 0 • ;.
Specialist, Surgery and' Genito-Ux
sty liseases of mew. and women.
Dr. ALEXANDER Id IR
Physician and Surge -o.
Office and Residence, Main Str "t,
Phone 70 ensa
DR. 3. W. PECK
Graduate of Faculty of edie.
McGill University, Montreal Member
of College of Physicians and Surgeons
of Ontario;Licentiate of Medi al Coun-
cil of Canada, Poat-Gradua Member
of Resident Medical Staff o General
Hospital, Montreal, 1914-15; Office, 2
doors east of Post Office. hone 56,
Hensall, Ontario*
DR.
-
'DR. F. J. BURRO
Office and residence, Gode 'eh street
east of the Methodist church, Seaforth.
Phone 46. Coroner for the unty of
Huron.
Mact•••...
DRS. SCOTT & MACK.AY
3.0. Scott, graduate of 1Titoria and
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Ann Arbor, and member of the Col-
lege of Physicians and Surgeons, of
Ontario.
C. Mackay, honor graduate of Trin-
ity University, and gold medalliat of
Trinity Medical College; member of
the College of Physicians and Surgeons
of Ontario.
DR. H. HUGH ROSS.
Graduate of University ot Toronto
Faculty of Medicine, member of Col-
lege of Physicians and Surgeons of
Ontario; pass graduate courses in
Chicago Clinical School of Chicago;
Royal Ophthalmic Ifospital, London,
England, University Hospital, London,
England. Office—Back of Dominion
Bank, Seaforth. Phone No. 5, Night
Calls answered from residence, Vic-
toria street, Seaforth.
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. AUCTIONEERS.........
THOMAS BROWN.
Licensed auctioneer for the cout
of Huron and Perth. Correspond oe
arl-ngements for sale dates can be
read. by calling up Phone 97, Seal
or The Expositor Office. Charges t-
oasts and satisfaction guaranteed.
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by
6
Frark B. Spearman
(Continued from last •week)
. CHAPTER XLIV.
Crawling Stone 'Wash.
Vtraire the Little Crawling Stone
River tears out of the Mission Moun-
tain it has left a grayish -white gap
that may be seen for 'Many miles.
This is the head of the North Crawl-
ing Stone Valley. Twenty miles to
the right the big river itself bursts
through the Mission hills it the \can-
yon known'as the Box. Between the
confluence of Big. and Little Crawling
Stone lies a vast waste. Standing in
the midst of this frightful eruption
from the heart of the mountains, one
sees,as far as the eye can reach, a
landscape - utterly forbidding. North
for -.Sixty miles lie the high chains of
the Mission range and a cuplike con-
figuration of the mountains close to
the valleyi affords 'a resting -place for
the deepest snows of winter and a pre•
-
picitons escape for' the torrents of
June. Here'when: .the sun reaches
its summer height or sweet -grass
Wind blows soft or 'a cloudburst above
the peaks strikes the southerly face of
the range, winter unfrocks in a singe
night. A glacier of snow melts with-
in twenty -fear hours into' ktorrent of
lava and 'bursts '-with incredible -fury
from a thousand gorges.
When this happens nothing \witho
stands. Whatever lies in the path of
the flood is swept from the face of
the earth. The mountains, assailed in
a moment with the ferocity of a hun-
dred storms, are ripped and torn like
hills of clay. The frosted scale of
the granite, the desperate root of the
cedar, the poised nest of the eagle, the
cloth of the crannied vine, the split
and start of the tfiountain-side, are all
as one before the June thaw. At its
height Little Crawling Stone, with a
head of forty feet, is a choking flood
of rock. Mountains torn- and bleed-
ing, vomit boulders of thirty, sixty,
a hundred tons, like pebbles upon the
valley. Even there they find no per-
manent resting -place. Each succeed-
ing year sees them torn groaning from
their- beds in the wash. New -eines
of rock are hurled upon them, new
waters lift them in fresh caprice, and
the crash of the grinding echo in the
hills like e roar of mountain thunder.
Where the .wash covers the valley
nothing -lives; the fertile- earth has
long been buried under the mountain
debris-. It supports no plait life be--
yond the scantiest deposit of weed -
plant seed, and the rocky scurf spread-
ing like a leprosy, over many miles,
scars the face of the green earth. This
is the Crawling Stone wash. Exhaust -
• era •••••••••••••
'ciflowhig the .d:ry bed of the . stream.
t was ampossib e to .reeall Kennedy
and Scott without giving an alarra,
but by a quick detour he could ,eit
least held the quarry back for twenty
,minuties with his rifle, and in that
time Kennedy and Scett could come lip.
• Less than half an how - of daylight
remainede If the outlaws could slip
down the Wash titid' Out into the. Craw-
ling Stone ,Valley they had, -every
chanceofgetting away in the nig
and Sit -het -kora map,. should he 'Barney
Rebstoelto Whispering &nide knew
that Sinclair 'thought only of escape.
Smith, alone, of their pursuers, could
now intercept them, but a second hope
remained; on the left, Wickwire was
high enough to command every turn in
the bed 'of the river. r He might see
them and could force them to cover
with his rifle., even at long. range.
Casting Up the chances, Whispering
Smith, riding faster over the uneven
ground than .an3rthng but sheer reck-
lessness would have promptedeliasten-
ed across the waste. His rifle lay in
his hand, s and he had pushed his horse
to a run. • A single fearful instinct
crowded now upon the long strain- of
-the Week. A savage fascination
burned like a fever, in his veins, and
he meant that they should not -get
away. Taking chances that would
have shamed him in cooler moments,
he forced his horse at the end of the
long ride to withni a hundred paces of
the river, threw his lines, slipped like,
lizard from the saddle, and, darting
with incredible swiftness from rock
to rock, gained the water's edge. ,
From tip the long -shadows of the
wash there came the wail .f an owl.
From it he knew that Wickwire had
seem them and was warning him, but
he had arraipated. the warning and
stood below where the hunted men
must ride. He strained his eyes over
the waste of rock above. For one
half-hour of daylight he would have
sold, in that moment, ten years of his
life. What could he do if they should
be able to secrete themselves until
(Irak, between him, and Wickwire?
Gliding tinder the cover of huge rocks
up the dry watercourse he reached a
spot where the floods had scooped A
Icing, hollow curve out of a soft ledge,
in the bank, leaving a stretch of
smooth sand on the bed of the stream.
At the upper point great bowlders
pushed out in the river. He 'could
not inspect the curve from the spot he
had gained without reckless expos-
ure, but he must force the little day-
light left to him. Climbing complete-
ly over the lower point, he advanced
cautiously, and from behind a shelter -
Ong spur . stepped but upon an over-
hanging table of rock and looked a-
cross the river -bottom. Three men
had halted On the sand within the
curve. Two lay on their rifles under
the upper point, a hundred and twen-
ty paces from Whispering Smith. The
third man. Seagrue less, than fifty
yards away, had got off his horse and
ed by the fury of its few early weeks.'
of activity, Little Crawling Stone runs' "7 laying down his rifle' when the
for "the .greatea lent of , Vie , zeta a lAw"wi.iser°01(4. .4111.; and he 1991s=
ey lie -chosen
wriaffceihatIOW stream through a bed ed back,
of whitened bowlders °where lizards for their haft a spot easilY defended,'
sun themselves and trout hirk in shad- and needed only -darkness to make
_ them safe, when 'Smith, stepping out
ed pools. , into plain sight, threw forward his
When Whispering Smith and his
companions were fairly started on the hand.
last day of their ride, it was toward They heard his sharp call to pitch
this rift in the Missal's range that the up, and the men under the point
trail led them. Sinclair, with con- jumped. Seagrue had not yet taken
summate cleverness, had: rejoined his his hand from his rifle. He threei
it
companions; but the attempt to getto his shoulder. As closely togeth-
into, the Cache, and his reckless ride er as two fingers of the right hand
into Medicine Bend, had reduced their can be struck twice in the palm of
chances of escape to a single outlet, the left, two rifle shotscracked across
and that they must find up Crawling the wash. Two bullets passed so
Stone Valley . The necessity of it was dose in flight they might have struck.
spelled in every move, the pursued One cut the dusty hair from Smith's
men had made for twenty-four hours temple and slit the brim of his hat
They were riding the pick of mountain above the ear; the other struck Sea-
hoeseflesh and covering their tracks grue under the left eye, ploughed
by every device known to ;the high 'through, the roof of his Mouth, and,
country. Behind them' moore Prudent coming Out below his ear, splintered
by unusual danger, rode the best men the rock at Jais -back
the mountain division could muster The shock alone 'would have stag -
for the final effort to bring them to gered a bullock,. but Seagrue, laugh -
account, The fast riding of the early ing, came forward pumping his gun.
week had given way to the pace of Sinclair, at a hundred and twenty
caution. No trail sign was overlook- Verde, cut instantly into the fight, and
ed, no point of conceahnent directly the ball from his rifle creased the al.'
approached, no hiding -place left un- kali that crusted Whispering Smith's
searched. unshaven cheek. As he fired he
. The tension of a long day of this sprang to cover.
work was drawing to a close when the For Seagrue and Smith there was na
sun set and left the big wash in the cover; for one or both it was death in
shadow of the mountains. On the the open and Seagrue, with his rifle
higher goeimd to the right, Kennedy at his cheek,walked straight into it.
and Scott were riding wtaere they Taking for a momentthe fire of the
could command the gullies of the pre- three guns, Whispering Smith stood,
cipitous left bank of the river. High a perfect target, outlined against the
on the left bank itThey whipped the dust from hiseelf, worming his sky.
way like a snake frem point to point coat, tore the sleeve from his -wrist,
and ripped the blouse collartfrom his
of -concealment through the 'scanty
brush of the mountain -side, crawled reek; bot he felt no bullet shock. -He
Wickwire, commanding the pockets in saw before him only the buckle of
the right bank. Closer to the river Seagrue's belt forty paces away, and
sent bullet after bullet at the gleam
on the right and following the trail it-
selitover shale and rock and between of brass between the sights. Both
cattered bowlders, Whispering Smith men were using high-pressure guns,
s
and the deadly shock of the slugs
kiwi on his horee's neck rode slowly.
made Seagrue twitch. and stagger.
It was almost too dark to _catch the
iiglit discolorations where pebbles The man was dying as he walked.
Smith's hand was racing with the
had been disarubed on a flat surface
lever, and had a cartridge jammed,
or the calk of a horseshoe had slipped
the steel would have snapped like a
on the uneven face of a ledge, and he
had halted under an uplift to wait for match.
It was beyond human endurance to grow- to like the railroad business—
R. T. LUKER
Liaanasd Auctioneer for the County
ei ham. Wes attended to in all
rests ef this County. Bay a mon' site
puttees In ilianitoba sad dho-
ws& Temos otemossabla. Pinar No.
Mtn, itarAit, Onitialas P.O., Z. I.
No. Oolore Loft at Ilseihmina *ea
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Ts Lydfit F..iPinkhatknes Veg.
etalle Compound.
Weibington Park, "I am the
*ether ofiloor ohildren and have end-
' fered with female
tremble, backache,
nervous Spells and
the blaesi My &II-
a.iren's loud talking
and raining would
-make me so nervous
4 eould just tear
everything to pieces
and I would ache all
over and feel so sick
that I would not
want anyone to talk
to me at times. Lydia B. Pinkham's
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worry but it does not affect my youth-
ful looks. My friends say Why do you
look so young and well ? ' I owe it all
to the Lydia E. Pinkhara remedies."
—Mrs, BOWL Si'OPIEL, Moore Avenue,
Washington Park, Illinois.
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If you have any symptom about which
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chugs,
sharp cheek of the bowlder at the
point- In his hands his rifle was held
across his lap jtist as he had dripped
on his knees to fire. He had hever
moved after he was struck His head,
tirooped a little rested against the rock;
andlis bat lay olothe sand; his heavy
beard had sunk into his chest and be
kneeled in the shadow, asleep. Scott
and Kennedy knew him. In the moun-
tains there was no double for Murray
McCloud looked apprehensive "I am
When he jumped behind the point to *
Mitit?"
"I knew IV
'Wait till I 't straight. Mr. Bucks
is here—I tam in with him in his car.
He has news of Whispering Smith.
One of our freight men in the
Pi Sound country, who has been in
a hospital in Victoria, learned by the
merest accident that Gordon Smith I
was lying in the same hospital with
typhoid fever?'
Marion rose swiftly. "Then the time
has come, thank Goa, when I can do
something for him;and I'm going to
'hint: tonight !" I
"Finer cried McCloud. "So am I,
land that is why I'm late."
I "Then I am going, too," exclaimed
iDicksie solemnly.
"Do you Mean it?" asked her hos- I
band. "Shall ilV6 kit her Marion? Mr.
Bucks says I am to take his car and
take Barnhardt, and keep the car
there till I can bring Gordon back.
Mrs Bucks and his secretary will ride
tonight as far its Bear Deuce ,with
us, and in the enottang they joini Mr.
dtlover there" McCloud looked at ,his
watch. "If you are both going, can
you be ready by twelve o'clock for the
ina Mail?"
"We can be ready an hour," de-
clared Dicksie, throwing her arm half
around Marionis neck, 'can't we, Mar-
ion?"
"I can be ready in thirty minutes."
"Then, by heaven—" McCloud stud-
ied his watch,'
"What is it, George?"
"We won't wait for the midnight
train. We will take an engine, run
special to Green River, overhaul the
Coast Limited, and save a whole day."
"George, pack your suit-case—
quick, dear; and you, too,'Marion; suit.
cases are all we can take,"eczied Dick-
sie, pushing her husband toward the
bedroom. "I'll telephone Rooney Lee
for an engine myself right away. Dear
me, it is kind of nice, to be able to
order up a train when you., want one
in a hurry, isn't it, Marion? Perhaps
I shall come to like it if they ever
make George a vice-president'
In half an hour they had joined
Bucks in his cat, and Bill Dancing
was piling the baggage into the vest-
ibule. Bucks was sitting down to cof-
fee. Chairs had been, provided at the
tible, and, after the greetings, Bucks,
seating Marion Sinclair at his right
and Barnhardt and McCloud at his
left, asked Dicksie to sit •3pposite and
pour the coffee. "You are a raidroad
man's wife now, and you must learn
to assume responsibility,"
afriud she will be assuming the whole
division if you encourage her too
much, Mr -Bucks."
"Marrying a railroad man," contin-
Led Bucks, Pursuing his own thought,
"is as bad as marrying into the
army; if you have lyour husband
half the time yott are lucky. Then,
too, in the railroad business your hus-
band may have to be sett back when
the traffice falls off. It's a little light
at this moinnt, too. How should you
take it if we, bad to put him on a
freight train for a while, Mrs. Mc-
Cloud?"
"Oh, Mr. Bucks!"
"Or auppose he Should be promoted
arel should have to go to headquarters
— some of us are getting old, you
loiow." -
"Really," Dicksie looked most de-
nture as she felled the president's cup,
"really, I often say to Mr. McCloud
-that I can not believe Mr. Bucks is
rreeident -0i -this great eta+ --He' all
ways looks to 'me to be the youngest
man on the whole executive staff. Two
lumps of auger, Mr. Pucks?"
The bachelor president rolled his
eyes as he reached for his cup. "thank
you, Mrs. McCloud, only one after
that." He looked toward Marion.- "All
I can salt is that if Mrs. McCloud's
husband had married her two years
millet he might have been general
manager by this time. Nothing could
hold a man back, even a man of his
modesty, whose wife can say as nice
things as that. By ethe way, Mrs.
Sinclair, does thin man keep you sup-
plied, with transportation ?" ,•
"Oh, I have my annual, Mr. Bucks,"
tiarnion opened her bag to And it.
-Bucks held out his hand. "Let me
see it a Moment." He adjusted his
e.ye-glasees, loelied at the pass, and
called for a pen; Jiucks had. never lost
his grackfus way of doing little things,
Ile laid the -card on the table and
wrote imross the back Of it over his
name.: "Good on all passenger trains?'
When he handed the card back to
Marion he turned' -to Dicksie. "I un-
derstand you are laying out two or
three towns on the ranch, Mts. Mc-
Cloud." e
-Two or three': , Ob i no. only one as
yet, Mf. Bucks! .They ere laying
out, oh, such a pretty wain! Cousin
Lance is superintending the etreet
worie—andewhom do you think I am
am going to name it after? You!
I think 'Bucks' makes_ a dandy name
for a town don't you? And I
am -
going to have one town named Dunn-
oogs there will be two stations on the
ranch, you know, and I think, really,
there ought to be three "
" as many as that ? t
9 don't believe you can operate a
line that long, Mr, Bucks, with sta-
tions fourteen Milee apart." Bucks
opened his eyes in benevolent surprise.
Dicksie, unabashed, kept -right on:
"Well, do you know how traffic is in-
creasing over there, with the trains
running only two months now? "Why
the sealers are flirly pouring into the
country."
you give fne a center lot if we I
put arothet station on the ranch?"
'i will give yosi two if. yo; will give
pick Whispering Smith off the ledge
he had laid 'himself directly under
Wiekwire's fire =rose the wash. The
first- shot of the cowboy at two hun-
dred yards had passed, as he knelt,
through both temples.
--Ther• laid him at Seagrue's side The
camp, was made beside the dead men
in the wash "‘You had better not take
him to Medicine Bend," said Whisper-
ing Smith, sitting late with Kemiedor
before the dying foe. "It would only
mean t'hat More unpleasant talk and
notoriety for her. Tht3 inquest can be
held on the. Frencinnan. Take him
to his own- ranch and telegraph the
folks in "Wisconsiod knows wheth-
er they will want to hear. But his
mother is there yet But if half what
Barney has told to -night is true it
would be better if no one ever heard."
Back to, the Mountains
In the cottage in Boney Street, one
year later, two women were waiting.
It was ten o'clock at night.
"Isn't it a shame to be disappointed
like this?" complained Dicksie, push-
ing her hair impatiently back. "Really
'poor George is worked to death. He
was to be in at six o'clock, Mr. Lee
said, and here it is ten, and all your
beautiful dinner spoiled. Marion, are
you keeping ,something from me?
Look me in the eye. Have you heard
from Gordon Smith?"
"No Dicksie."
"Not since he left the mountains a
year ago."
"Not since be left the mountains a
year ago."
Dicksie sitting forward in her chair
bent her eyes upon the fire, "It is so
strange. I wonder where he is to-
night. How he loves you Marion! He
told me everything wheirhe said good-
bye. He made me promise not to tell
then! but I didn't promise to keep it
forever."
Marion, smiled. -"A year isn't for-
ever, Dicksie."
"Well, it's pretty near forver when
arca are in love," declared Dicksie en-
ergetically. "I knew just how he felt
she'went on in a quiter tone, "He
felt that all the disagreeable excite-
ment and talk we had here then bore
heaviest on you. He said if he stay-
ed in Medicine Bend the newspapers
never would cease talking and people
never would stop annoying you—and
you know George did say they were
asking to have passenger trains held
'here Alit so people could see Whis-
pering Smith. And, Marion, think of
it, he actually doesn't know yet that
George and I are married! How could
we notify him withOut knowing ,where
he was? And he doesn't know that
trains are running up the Crawling
Stone valley, Mercy! a year goes
like an hour when yoU're in love, does-
n't it. George said he knew we should
hear from him within six months—and
George has never yet been mistaken
excepting when he said I should
SUFFERING CATS!
I GIVE THIS MAN
THE GOLD MEDAL
Let folks step on your feet hereafter;
wear shoes a size smaller if you like,
for cprns will never again send electric
sparks of pain through you, according
to this Cincinnati authority.
He says that a few drops of a drag
called freezone, applied directly upon
a tender, aching corn, instan.tly re-
lieves soreness, and soon the entire
cern, root and all, lifts right out.
This drug is a sticky ether compound,
but dries at once and simply shrivels
up the corn without inflaming or even
irritating the. surrounding tissue.
It Is claimed that a euarter of an
ounce of freezone obtained at any drug
store will cost very little but is suffi-
cient to remove every hard or soft corn
or cam from one s feet Cut this out,
especially if you are a wen= 'reeher
who weara high heels.
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support the leaden death. The little , and now it is a, year and no news from
square of brass between the ' sights him." Dicksie sprang from her
wavered. Seagrue stumbled, doubled chair. "I am going to call up Mr.
on his knees and staggering plunged Rooney Leee and just demand my bus -
loosely forward on the sand. Whist band! I think Mr. Lee handles trains
pering. Smith threw his fire toward
the bowlder, behind which Sinclair shockingly every time George tries to
get home like this mi Saturday nights
aed Barney Rebstock had disappeared.
—now don't you? And passenger
Suddenly he realized that the bullets
trains ought to get out of the way,
from the point were not coming his
wanyway, when a division superintend -
ay. He was aware of a second rile- is trying to get home. What differ -
duel above the bend. Wickwire, worm- enee does it make to a passenger, I'd
ing his way down the stream, had un-
covered Sinclair and young Rebstock like to know, whether he is a few
hours less or longer in getting to Cali -
from behind. A yell between the
Hong -
shots rang across the wash, and the fornia or Japan or Manilla or Hong-
kong or Buzzard's Gulch, provided he
cringing figure of a man ran out to- is:
I ing Smith with his been an accident on the division for a
hands high in the air, and pitched
safe—and you know there has not
ward Whisper
headlong on the ground. It was the year, Marion. There's a step now.
I'll bet that's George!"
skulker, Barney Rebstock, driven out The door opened and it was George.
by Wickwire's fire. "Oh, honey!" cried Dicksie softly,
The shooting ceased. Silence fell waving her arms as she stood. an in -
upon thel gloom of the dusk. Then stant before she ran to him. "But
came a. calling between Smith and haven't.' been awaitin' for you!"
Wickwire, and a signalling of pistol , "Too , bad! and, Marion," he ex -
shots for their companions. Kennedy claimed, twining without relasing his
and Bob Scott dashed down toward w fiefrom his arms, "how can I ever
the river -bed on their horses. Sea- make good for all this delay? Ob, yes,
'gtue lay on his face. Young Rebstock I've had dinner. Never, for heaven's
sat with his hands around his knees sake, wait dinner for me! But wait.
on the sand. Above him at some both of you, till you hear the news"
distance, Wickwire and Smith stood Dicksie kept her hands on lbs shout=
before a man who leaned against the dem. "You have heard from Whisper-
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To
Some
Somewhere at the Front—,
Every day boxes from home are going
to the boys in the trenches. And of
the things they get, .a great prize is
WRIGLEY'S the Gum with Las
Flavour.
It takes the place of food and chink in
ease of need—which is often. It keeps
spirits up—gives vigour and vim. A
packet in the pocket lasts .a long time.
The Flavour Leeds I
Chew It
after eve
meal
hrough
or trawl t
htusugthoedeneineionmssatrendnireandn us4olmewoafy. the
Overland passe t
the valley."
Bucks throw back his head and
don't know about that; I edt prom-
ise offhand, Mrs McCloud. But if
you can get Whispering Smith to
tome back you might lay the matter
before him. He is to take charge_kof
-Alt the' cbioniat btisfiiess 'awn he re-
turns; be promised to do that before
he went away for his vacation.iirIns-
pring Smith is really the man you will
have -to stand in with."
Whispering- Smith, lying on his iron
bed in the hospital, professed not to
be able quite to understand why they
made such a fuss about it. He
underwent the excitement of the ap-
pearance of Barnhardt and the first
talk with McCloud and Dicksie With
hardly a rise in his temperature, and,
lying in the sunshine of the afternoon,
he was waiting for Marion, When
she opened the door his face turned
wistfully toward it. 'He held out his
hands with the old smile. She ran
half blinded across the room and drop-
ped on her knee beside lahn.
"My dear Marion,why did they drag
you away, out here?"
"They did not drag me away slut
here. Did you expect me to sit with
folded hands when I heard you were
ill anywhere in the wide world?"
He looked hungrily at her"I don't
suppose anyone in the wide world
would take it very seriously.'
"Mr. McCloud is crushed this after-
noon to think you have Said you ‚would
not go back with him. You would
not believe how he misses you."
"It has been pretty lonesome for
the last year. I didn't think it could
be so lonesome anywhere."
"Nor did I."
"Have you noticed it? I shouldn't
think you could in the mountains. Was
there much water last spring? Heav-
ens, I'd like to see the Crawling Stone
again!"
"Why don't you come back?"
Ile folded her hands in his own,
Marion, it is you. I've been afraid
I couldn't stand it to be near you and
not tell you—"
"What need you. be afraid of to tell
me?"
"That I have loved you so long."
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
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Her head sunk elose to
ydu know you have said it to me
without words? I've only been wait-
ing for a chance to tell you how
haimy it makes me to think it is tame."
'ME 'END
THE FOOD 'SALVE OE
In these days of iligh prices, when
the average householder, sees the
growing cost of living making serious
inroads into his pocket book, he might
well ask, can nothing be done, is there
no substitute for some of the staple
articles of, diet that will keep
family expense account down?
a burning problem to -day, o
earnest, painstaking, far-seeing men
al d women are studying. In the lakes
ard rivers of Ontario there are vast
quantities 0 fish, a natural asset re-
ferred to in government publications,
but apparently not realized by thei
public at large,Whitefish, salmon trout,
herring—these are the best known
varieties, and they make delectable
eating. But, pickerel, pike, bit/tot, carp,
perch, catfish and eels are also good
for food when properly cooked. COM -
pared witkother meats, fish cannot be
said to be: one of the staple articles
of diet on the tables of this province.
'the lack of demand at home has per-
mitted over 90 per nerd. to be export
• ed each yeer, and the small home mar-
ket has made the cost of handling high
The Orgatiization of Resources Com-
mittee, appointed by the Legislature
to devise Ways and means to assist
in meeting the problems presented
ty the war, views with much cone=
the steady depletion in the world's
food supply. So many countries are
at war, so many men out of produc-
tion, and withal there is so much
waste, that ere conditions in this dir-
ection get better thzy are sure to get
worse. Every citizen can. help at this
time. If we eat more fish Ave consume
less meat of other kinds. Beef and
i., utton and pork will go farther. Can-
ada will have more to ship 'overseas,
and besides, if we eat more Ash the
cost of handling will be materially
reduced. Fish at ten cents a pound
is not an impossibility. High in pro-
tein, fish has great body-guilding pow -
I er easily secured and easily digested.
1 There should be no hesitancy on the
1 part of the people of Ontario taking
i up this nueetion and co-operating With
1 those who are endeavoring to help the
Allies win the war by conserving our
energy, which can be done as well
in the matter of food conservation
as in other ways equally important
re.fining methods produce no
v. We iake and sell une vadeci
so that you will never get anything
der the name of Redpath.
2 and 51b. Cartons -
10, 20, 50 and 100th. Beg& umnammagug
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