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DR. F. J. R. FOITER
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for the scars and the splinters` f wood
were clean and fresh. These rawers
and the drawers in the lower part of
the desk either were empty,
or the
papers in them had been disarranged
and tumbled in confusion, as though
some one, had examined them hastily
and tossed them back.
Sherrill .had not done that, nor any
one who hada business to be there. If
Benjamin Corvet had emptied some of
those drawers before. he went away,
he would not have relocked empty
drawers. To Alan, .the marks of vio-
lence and ;roughness were unmistak—
ably the work of the man with the
big hands who had left marks upon
the top of the chest of drawers; and
the feeling that he `had been in the
house very recently was, stronger than
every.
Alan ran out into the hall and
listened; he heard no sound; but he
went back to the little room more ex-
cited than before. For what had the
iFor
other man been searching? . the
same things which Alan was looking
for? And.had the other man got,
them? Who night the other be, and
what might be :his connection with
Benjamin Gorvet? Alan had no doubt
that everything of importance must
have been taken away, but he would
make sure of that. He took some of
the papers from the drawers and be-
gan to examine them; after nearly
an hour of this, he had found
only 1
one
article which appeared
connected in
any way with what Sherrill had told
him or with Alan himself. In one . of
the little drawers of the desk he found
several books, much worn as though
from being carried in a pocket, and
one of these contained a series of en -
Bye, Ear, Nose and Throat
Graduate in Medicine, University of
Toronto.
t-
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Lite
Assistant New York oh
phal
mei and Aural Institute, Moorefleld's
Eye and Golden Square Throat Hos-
pitals, London, Eng. At the Queen's
Hotel, Seaforth, third Wednesday in
each month from 11 a.m. to 3 Pan. 1
83 Waterloo Street, South, Stratford. t
Phone 267 Stratford. •
Drim
LEGAL.
R. S.•HAYS.
Barrister, Solicitor,Conveyancer and
Notary Public. Solicitu'r for the Do-
minion Bank. Office in rear of the Do-
mzomr Bank, ;Seaforth. Money to
loan.
J.,M. BEST.
Barrister, Solicitor, Conveyancer.
and Notary Public. Office upstairs
over Walker's Furniture Store, T in
$freeteSeaforth.
PROUDFOOT, KILLORAN,. AND
:
CO OKE-.
Barristers, Solicitors, Notaries Pub -
lie, etc. Money to lend. In Seaforth
ice
in
week. Oi1'i
ofeach
ca
on M nda
aidd Block W. Proudfoot, K.C., J.
L. Moran, H. J. D. Cooke.
VETERINARY.
F. HARBURN, V.S.
Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin
uy College, and honorary member of
the Medical Association of the Ontario
Veterinary College. Treats diseases of
sit domestic animals by the most mod -
men principles. Dentistry and Milk Fey-
*? a epee alty= Office opposite. Dick
Hotel, Main Street, Seaforth. ;A.11 or-
ders left at the hotel will receive
prompt attention. Night calla receiv-
ed at the office.
JOHN GRIEVE, V .S
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Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin-
ery College. All diseases of domestic
animals treated. Calla promptly at-
tended to and charges moderate. Vet-
erinary Dentistry a specialty. Office
end residence on Goderieh street, one
door east of Dr. Scott's o tree, Sea -
forth.
MEDICAL
DR. GEORGE HEILEMANN.
Osteophatic Physician of Goderich.
S ialist nn women's and children's
es, rheumatism, acute, chronic
and nervous disorders; eye ear, nese
and throat. Consultation free. Office
in the Royal Hot -m, Seaforth, Tues-
days and Fridays, d a.m. till 1 p.m.
C J8 W. BARN, M.D.C.M.
425 Tlehirmond Street, London, Ont,
Speciate, Surgery and Genito-Urin-
ary diseases of men and women.
DR. J. W. PECK
Gra to of Faculty of Me kine:
1%Gill ° niversity, Montreal; Member
- of Conte ofaPhysicians and Surgeons
of On o;Licentiate of Medical Conn-
ell of amide; Post -Graduate Member
of Resident Medical Staff of General
Hospital, Montreal, 1914-15; Office, 2
boors eft of Post Office: Phone 56,1
Hartsell, Ontario.
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DR. F. J. BURROWS
- Office and residence, Goderich street
hast of the Methodist church, Seaforth.
Phone 43.. Coroner for the County of
_ Huron.
DItS. SCOTT & MACKAY
J. G. Scott, graduate of Victoria and
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Ann Arbor, and member of the Col-
i'ege of Physicians and Surgeons, of
Ontario.
C. Mackay, honor graduate of Tia
Ity University, and gold medallist of
Trinity Medical College; member of
the College of Physicians and Surgeons
of Ontario.
DR. IL IITJGH ROSS.
Graduate of University of Toronto
Faculty of Medicine, member of CCI-'
loge of Physicians and Surgeons of
Ontario; pass graduate courses in
Chicago Clinical School of Chicago;
Soya Ophthalmic Hospital, London,
England, University Hospital, London,
England. Office—Back of Dominion
Bank Seaforth. Phone No. 5, Night
Calls answered from residence,Vic-
toria street, Seaforth
B. R. IIGGINS
Box 127, Clinton — Phone 100
Agent for
The Huron and Erie Mortgage Corpor-
ation and the Canada Trust Company.
Comimssioner H. C. J., Conveyancer,
Fire and Tornado Insurance, Notary
Public, Government anU Municipal
Bonds bought and sold. Several good
farms for sale. Wednesday of each
week at Brucefield.
AUCTIONEERS.
GARFIELD McM GAEL
Licensed Auctioneero
f r the county of Haran.
Sales conducted in any viirt..4the couixtj:,
Charges moderate and sathifteetion gi ritee,
Address Seaforth R. R. No. 2, or phis. 18
on 238, Seaforth. 2658=tf
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THOMAS BROW
Licensed auotiot r for the counties
of Huron ;and Perth. CorrespondeCe
arrangements for sale dates •erhebe
made by calling up Phone 07,-Seaforth,
or The Expositor Office. Charges mod-
erate and satisfaction guaranteed.
R. T. LUKER
Licensed Auctioneer for t'he County
of Huron. Sales attended to in all
parts of the county. Seven years' ex- i
perience in Manitoba and Saskatche-
wan. Terms reasonable. Phone No.
175r11, Exeter, Centralia P.O.; R. R.
No. 1, Orders left at The Huron Ex-
positor Office, Seaforth, promptly at -
GIVE "SYRUP OF FIGS"
TO CONSTIPATED CHILD
Delicious 'Fruit Laxativ can't harm
tender little Stoma; , Laver,
and Bowel
.Look at the ton ; mother i If
coated, your little on: s stomach, liver
and bowels n ed el sing at once,
When peevish, cross listleaa, doesn't
sleep, eat or act na ► : lly, or is fever-
ish, stomach sour br ath bad; has sore
throat, diarrhoea, ` of cold, give a
teaspoonful of " : ifornia, Syrupof
Figs," and in a f • hours all the foul,
constipated waste, . digested food, and
sour bile gently m = : es out, of its little
bowels without gri' g, and ou. have a
well, playful child. again. 'Californiask your
drugglet for a bottle of `-
8yru�x of Pim" which co ins full
directions for babies, children of all ages
and for grown-ups. ,
tries stretching over several . years.
,These listed an amount- • 161 --.op-
posite a series of dates with only the
year and the month given, and there
was an entry for every second month.
Alan felt his- fingers trembling. as
he turned the pages of the I the book
and found at the end of.a list a
. i# e hand
and slow mn the sam
blank, b ,
but in writing which had changed
slightly with the passing of years,
another date and the confirming entry
of y$1,500. The other papers and
books were only such things as" might
accumulate during a lifetime on the
water and in business- gornment
certificates, manifests boat s hedules°
of times long gone by, and `similar
papers. ,-' Alan looked through the
little book again and put it in his
pocket. It was, beyond c oubti, his
father's memorandum of the sums
sent to Blue Rapids for Alen; it told
him that here he had been in his
father's thoughts; in,this 1, the room,
within a few steps from those deserted
apartments of his wife,(Ben'amin Cor -
vet had sent "Alan's d lar" --that
dollar which had be such a subject
of speculation in childhood ha h ho
s-
c d od for
P
himself andefor all the other children.
He grew warm at the thought as he
began putting the other . hings back
into the drawers.
He started and straig tened s d-
denly; then he listened r attentively,
and his skin, warm an in tant before,
turned cold and prickled. ,Somewhere
within the house, unmistakably on the
uh
e
The wind, which had rown much
below him/ a door hd slammed.
stronger in, the last hour, was batter-
ing the windows and whining. round
the corners of the building; but the
house was tightly closed; it could not
be the wind that had blown the door
shut. Some one -it was beyond question
now, for the realization was quite
different from the feeling he had had
about that before --was; in the house
with him. Had his father's servant
come back? That was impossible.
Sherrill had received 1 a wire from
the than that day and he could not
get back to Chicago before the follow-
, ing morning at the earliest. But the
servant, Sherrill had j said, was the
only other one -besides his father who
had a key. Was it...;his father who.
had come= back? That, thought not
impossible, seemed im robable. •
Alan stooped quick to unlaced and
stripped off his shoes, and ran out in-
to the hall' to the head of the stairs
where he looked down and listened.
From here the sound of some one
moving about came to hint distinctly;
he could see no light below, but when
he ran clown to the turn of the stairs,
it became plain that there was a very
dim -flickering light in the library. He
crept on farther down the staircase.,
His hands were cold and moist from
his excitement, and his body was hot
and ' trembling.
Whoever it was that was moving
about down-stairst even if he was not
one who had a right to be there,. . at
least felt secure froln interruption.
•He was going with heavy step from
window to window; where he found a
shade up, he pulled it down brusquely
and, with a violence which suggested
great strength under a nervous strain;
a shade, which had been pulled down,
flew up, and the man damned it as
though it had startled ' him; then,
after an instant, he pulled it down
again.
Alan crept still farther down and
at last caught sight of him. The man
was not his father; he was not a
servant; it was equally sure at the
same time that he was not any one
who had any business to be in the
house and that he was not any com-
mon house -breaker. •
He was a big, young -looking man,
with broad shoulders and very evident
vigor; Alan guessed his age at thirty-
five; he was handsome—he hada
straight forehead over daring, deep-
set eyes; his nose, lips, and chin were
form and he ex-
pensively
ed, .was x
pensively and very carefully dressed.
The light by ,which Alan saw these
things came from a''.flat pocket search-
light,, that the, man- carried in one
hand, which threw a little=. brilliant
circle of light as he =directed it; and
n asthe cel to l
ow, light chanced fall on
his other hands powerful " and heavily
muscled,
and size o
het
chest of
not doubt t
who had g
since he ,ha
what die 1
the man n
crept on do
the library;
the rear r
enough into
him.
He had p'
ers inthe b
lan recollected the tbook
the finger prints on the
r
rawe upstairs, stairs He did
s p
zat this was the sante man.
ane . through the desk;b but
d already -rifled the desks,
�e want here now? As
loved - out of sight, Alan
wn as far as the door to
the man had gone on into
roin,, and Allan went far
the library so -he could see
tlied open one of the draw-
g table in the rear room—
the room where the organ was and
where the bookshelves reached to the
ceiling—and with his light held so
as to show . what was in it, he was
tumbling over its contents and exam-
ining them. He went through one
after another of the drawers of the
table like this; after examining them,
he rose and kicked thelast one shut
disgustedly; he stood,,looking about
the room questioningly' then he start-
ed toward the front r
He cast the light of
of him; but Alan had
ipate his action and ttb retreat to the
hall. He held the hangings' a little
way from the door jamb se he could
see into the room. If this moan were
the same who had looted the desk
up -stairs, it was plain that he had not
procured there tt-hat he wanted or all
om.
is torch ahead
time to antic -
IS is an important our for. Canada. The'
nation is entering on a new era. It is passing
from war to peace. Let us start this new 'eta right.
There are thousands of soldiers returning froze over-
seas. The Government is doing -all in its power to
get the/se men back toe civil life.
It is giving a TT"ar Sept* Gratuity -----more than
any other . nation --to keep Ole soldier going till he
gets a ;job.
It gives r him a pension—°iwhere his usefulness is
by
e
im airid
p his service.
It teaches a man a new trade when his service
unfits him for his former trade.
It gives him free medical treatment ;when ill-
ness recurs, and supplies free artificial limbs and
surgical appliances.
It is bringing back to Canada at the public
expense the soldiers' dependents now overseas.
But the Government, how-
ever willing, ea nnot provide
the personal touch needed in
this work of repatriation.
That roust be given by the
people .themselves.
The ' men who went from
these parts to fight. in Fland-
ers deserve a real welcome
home—the best we can give,
In most towns committees
of citizens have already been
organied to Meet the soldiers
and their dependents at the
station, to provide hot meals,
supply automobiles, afford
tetporary a•cconimodot ion
'hen necessary.
Irl addition, many other
,.
towns! * are organizing social
gatherzrrgs to give public w1 -
come to returned . nil after
they have been home ` tl,
few days.
After he has rested, the
soldier must be provided with
On opportunity for employ-.
ye-
ent, In towns o
#� 10,000
population, Public Employ.,"
Ment Offices have been estab-
lished to help soldiers, as well
�s war -workers, secure good
fobs quickly. Where these
adist, citizens should co-oper-
te. Where the do not exist,
the citizens themselves` should
heli, p t,t t t l? e soldier in touch
will► employment.
The -fighting job is done. I
has cost many a heart -burn.:
lag. But it has been .well;
done. .Tote' least we can do ,
is to show our aPP't` eciatian
.fn no uncertain manner.
'Don't let the welconie
-ay with the cheers.
The Repatriaeion
C'or ittee
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of what he wanted; and now he did
not know` where next to look.
He had, as yet, neither seen- nor
heard anything to alarm him, and
he went to the desk in the front
room and peered impatiently into
the drawers, he slanined them shut,
one after another. He straightened
and stared about. "Damn Ben! Damn
Ben!" he ejaculated violently and
returned to the rear room. Alan,
again following him, found him on
his knees in front of one of the draw-
`ers under the bookcases. As he con-
tinued searching through the drawe ,s,
his irritation became greater and
`greater. He jerked one drawer en-
tirely out of it case, and the contents
flew in,every direction; swearing at
it, and r damnin "Ben" again, •he
gathered up the. letters. Onesudden-
ly caught his attention; he began
reading. it closely, then snapped it
back into the drawer, crammed the
rest on top of it, and went on to the
next of the files. He searched in
this manner through half a dozen
drawers, plainly finding. nothing at
all he wanted; he dragged some of
the books from their cases, felt be-
hind them and shoved back ,some of
the books but dropped others on the!
floor and blasphemy burst from' him.
He cursed "Ben" again . and again,
and himself, and God; he damned men
by name, but so violently and inco-
herently that Alan could not make
out the names; .terribly he swore at
men living and men "rotting. in Hell."
The beam of light from the torch in
andbackand
.
i � hand swayed„ aside
his y
forth. Without warning, suddenly it
caught htAlan as he stood in the dark
of the front_ roofn; , and as the dim 1
circle of light gleamed into Alan's
face, the man looked' that way and
saw him.
The effect of this upon the man was
so strange and so bewildering to. Alan
that Alan could only stareat him.
The big man seeemed to shrink into
himself and Shrink back and away
from Alan. He roared out something
in a bellow hick with fear and hor-
in a bellow thick with fear and hor-
ror; he seemed to choke with terror.
There was , nothing in his look akin
to mere surprise or alarm at realiz-
ing that another was' there and had
been seeing and - over -hearing him.
The light which he still gripped sway-
ed back and forth and showed him
Ala again,• and he raised his arm be-
foreis face as he recoiled.
The consternation of the man was
so complete that it checked Alan's
rush toward him; he halted, then ad-
vanced
silently and watchfully. As
he went forward, and the light shone
upon his face again, the . big man
cried out hoarsely;
"Damn you—damn you, with the
hole above your eye! The bullet got
you! And now you've got Ben! But
you can't get me! Go back to Hell!
You cant get me! I'll get you—I'11
get you! You --can't save the
Miwaka!"
He drew back his arm and with all
his might hurled the flashlight at
Alan. It missed and crashed some-
where behind him, but did not go.
out; the beam of light shot back and
wavered and flickered over both of
.them, as the torch, rolled on the floor.
-Alan rushed fofward and, thrustingg
through the dark, his hand struclk
the man's ehest and seized his cit.
The man ' caught at and seized
Alan's arm; he seemed for feel of it
and assure himself of its reality.
"Flesh! Flesh!" he roared in relief;
and his big arms grappled Alan. As
they struggled,' they stumbled and
fell to the floor, the big man under-
neath:. Y. His hand shifted its hold and
caught Alan's throat; Alan got an
arm free and, with all his force, struck
the man's face. The man struck
back—a heavy blow on the -side of
Alan's head which dizzied him but
left him strength td strike again,
and his knuckles reached the man's
face once more, but he got another
heavy blow in return. The yuan was
grappled no longer; he swung Alan
to, one side and off of him, and rolled
himself away. He scrambled to his
feet and dashed out through the
library, across the hall, and into the
service room. Alan . heard his feet
clattering down the stairway to the
floor beneath. Alan got to his feet;
dizzied and not yet familiar with the
house, he blundered, against a wall
and had to feel his way along- it to
the service room; as he slipped and
stumbled down the stairway, a door
closed loudly at the end of the corri-
dor he had seen at the foot of the
stairs. He ran along the corridor to
the door; it had closed with a spring
lock , and seconds passed while he
au ' egasua eq1 1oJ ' 3xup aria u! Rea
found it and tore the door open; and
came out suddenly into the cold air of
the night in a paved passageway be --
side the house which led in one dir-
ection to the street and in the other
to a gate opening on the alley. ' He
ran forward to the street and looked
up and down, bet found it empty;
then he ran back; tothe alley. At
the end of the alley, where it inter-
sected the cross street, the figure of
the man running away appeared sud-
denly out of the shadows, then. dis-
appeared; Alan, following as far as
the street, -could see nothing more of
him, this street too -was empty.
He ran a little farther and looked,
then he went back to the house{. The
side door had- swung shut again and
latched, He felt in his pocket for his
key and went around to the front door.
The snow upon the steps had been
swept away, probably by the servant
who had come to the house earlier in
the day with Sherill, but 1 some
had fallen since;. the footsteps 'made
( in the early .afternoon hacl been
Rcbliterated by it, but Alan could see
those he had made that eveningif and
the marks where some one else had
gone into the house and not conte •out
again. In part it was plain, therefore,
what had happened; the man had come
from the south, for he had not seen
the light ,Alan hadehad in the north
and rear part of the house, behoving
ho one was in the recuse, the man' hacl':,
gone in througli the front doer With -
lam -
had
how
to reach it and that he could get out
a key. He had been some one
lliar with the house; for he
known about the side door and
AVOID CX),U
and coucfiE_
Sprez►ds
Disee• 0 srrecet
1 tea,®
c H
MT T 'zti s . anrcREn
* RVARY 24 1919
Ananimmi
Full weight of tea in
every - package
Sold only in`ssesled paekaages
imassastk
that way. This might: mean no more
than that _he was the same who had
searched through the house before;
'but at least it made his identity with
the former intruder more certain.
Alan let himself in at the front
door turned on the light in the read-
inglibrary. The elec-
trilamp
in the .
torch still was burning on the
floor and he picked it up and sextin-
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gu'orhe d it; he went up -stairs and
brought down his shoes. He had
seen a wood fire. set ready for light-
ing in the library, and now he lighted
• it and sat before it drying his, wet
socks before. he put on his shoes. He
was still - shaking and breathing ,fast
from. his struggle with the man and
his •chase after him, and by
the strangeness of what had taken
place.
When the shaft of light from the
torch had flashed across Alan's face
in the dark library, the man had not
taken him for whahe was -ea living
person; he had taken him for a specter.
His terror and the things he had
cried ' out could mean only that. The
specter .of whom? Not of Benjamin
Corvet; for one of the things Alan had
remarked -when he saw Benjamin Cor
et's picture. was that he himself did
not look at all like his father. Be-
sides, what the man had said rnadea
it certain that he did not think the
specter- was "Ben"; for the- specter
had "got -Ben." Did Alan. look like some
one else, then? Like whom? Ev-
dead
man—nowfor
tre
Ev-
tdidently like
ant
he had a ghost—who had got" Ben,
in the big man's opinion. - Who could
that be?
No answer, as yet, was possible
to that. But if, he did look like
some one, then that some one was—or
had been—dreaded not only by the
big man who had entered the house,
but by Benjamin Gorvet as well:
"You got Ben!" the roan had cried.
out. Got him? How? "But you can't
get me!" he had said. "Y4u--with me
bullet hole above your eye.irk What did
that mean'.
(Continued" Next Week)
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Soldier Segs
Powers are proposed to be granted at the
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lands to be resold to qualified returned sol-
diers settling on land. In the case of under
veloped lands the Board will be granted pow-
ers of forced purchase at prices judicially
determined.
To enable soldiers to locate in any district_
in Ontario that they wish, the Advisory Board
for the Province of Ontario desire to have
filed with them a full description and lowest
cash prices on a small number of -select farms
in each district of the Province, available for
purchase. : The public are hereby informed that this
land is for returned soldiers, and no tenders
to sell are requested except for land ° of good
quality and location, and reasonable value,
making possible the success of the soldier as
a farmer. The purchase price in all cases
be fixed by the Board after the land has been
inspected and valued.
The information received will be treated as
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or` paid., No offer to sell will be bindi
the person offering unless a sale its
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aecept any offer.
If application from a returned sol ' be
received for a farm,
hated With h.
the
,.�. rel, a
valuation for such' fari!n may be at once
... � made
by -the Board"and, if a droved e_�.a Ki;.,
May be entered into for the 'purehttieltudhstle
tl rest Ail :approved list is deice for"each-
liitr'ict ofl Ontario._-
;Afildiesi all Ceannunicalionrle
W. M. Jones'
?rov rldal Supervisor,
The Soldier Settlement Board
32 Adelaide Street East Toronto, Ontario
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