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DR. F. J. R. FORSTER '
1b., Ear, Nose sad Throat
Graduate in Medicine, University of
Toronto. '
Late Assistant New York Opittbg
ad' sal Aural Institute, Moorelfel
toga end Golden. . Square Throat Hos-
London, Eng. At office in Scott
over Jmh's Drug Store,
Bemorbb. third Wednesday in each
mouth from 'II a.m. to 3 p.m. 58
Waterloo Street South, Stratford.
Pone 267, Stratford.
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F. HARBUR1 , V. S.
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try College, and honorary member of
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all domestic animals by the most mod-
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forth.
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425 Richmond Street, London, Ont.,
'lipecialist, Surgery and Genio-Urin-
ary diseases of men and women.
DR. J. W. PECK
Graduate of Faculty of Medicine
McGill University, Montreal; member
of College of Physicians and Surgeons
pf Ontario; Licentiate of Medical Coun-
cil of Canada; Post -Graduate Member
of Resident Medical staff of General
Hospital, Montreal, 1914-16. Office, 2
doors east of Post Office. Phone 66.
Bengali, Ontario.
DR. F. J. BURROWS
Office and residence, Goderich street
east of the Methodist church, Seafortk
Phone 46. Coroner for the County of
Huron. -
DR. C. MACKAY
C. Mackay honor graduate of Trin-
ity University, and gold medallist of
Trinity Medical College; member of
the College of Physicians and Sur-
geons of Ontario.
DR. H. HUGH ROSS
Graduate of' University of Toronto
Faculty of Medicine, member of Col-
lege of Physicians and Surgeons of
Ontario; ' )lass graduate courses in
Chlea'go Clinical School of Chicago;
Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, London,
England; University Hospital, Lon -
do*, England. . Office—Back of Do-
minion Bank, Seaforth. Phone No. 5,
Nightcalls answered from residence,
Victoria street, Seaforth.
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(Continued from last week.)
The younger man looked et the
paper below him and then back at
Clay and sprang to his feet.
,"WbY, damn you," he eried, "what
do you mean?'^ •
Be stood above !Clay with both
arms rigid at his side and hie head
bent forward. The dawn had just
broken, and the two men saw each
other in the ghastly gray light of the
morning. "If any man," cried Stu-
art thickly, "dares to say that titst
blackguardly lie is true I'll kill him.
You or any one' else. Is that What
you mean, damn .you? If it is, say
so, and I'll break every bone of your
body."
"Well, that's much better," growled
Clay, sullenly. "The way you went
on wishing you were dead and hating
yeurseif made me almost lose faith
in 'mankind. Now you go make that
speech to the President, and then
find tke 'man who •put up those pla-
cardat and if you can't end •the Tight
man, take any man you meet +and
make liim eat it, paste and all, and
beat him to death if he doesn't. Why,
this is no time to whimper—because
the world is full of liars. Go out
and fight them and show them you
are not afraid. Confound you, you
had me so scared there that I almost
thrashed you myself. Forgive me,
won't .you?" he begged earnestly. He
rose and held out his hand and the
other took it, doubtfully. "It was
your own fault, you young idiot,"
protested Clay. "You told your
story the wrong way. Now go home
and get some sleep and I'll • be back
in a few hours to help you. Look!"
he eaid. He pointed through the trees
to the sun that shot up like a red hot
disk of heat above the cool green of
the mountains. "See," said Clay,
"God has given us another day. Seven
battles were fought in seven days
once in my country. Let's be thank-
ful, old man, that we're not dead, but
alive to fright our own •and other peo-
ple's battles."
The younger man sighed and press-
ed Clay's hand again before he drop-
ped it.
"You are very good to me," he
said. "I'm not just quite myself this
morning. I'm a bit nervous, I think.
You'll surely come, won't you?"
"By noon," 'Clay promised. "And
if it does come," he added, "don't for-
get my fifteen hundred men at the
nines."
"Good! I won't," Stuart replied.
"I'11 call on you if I need them." He
raised his fingers mechanically to his
'helmet in salute, and catching up his
sword turned and strode away erect
and soldierly through the debris and
weeds of thee deserted plaza.
Clay remained motionless on the
steps of 'the pedestal and followed
the 'younger man with his eyes. He
drew a long breath and began a lei-
surely search through his pockets for
his match -box, gazing about him as
he did so, as though looking for
some one to whom he could speak
his feelings. He lifted his eyes to
the stern, smooth -shaven face of the
bronze statue above him that seem-
ed to be watching Stuart"s departing
figure. 1
"General Bolivar," Clay said, as he
lit his cigar; "observe that young
man. He is a soldier and a gallant
gentleman. You, sir, were a great
sold'ies—the greatest this God -for-
saken country will ever know—and
you were, sir, an ardent lover. I
ask you to salute that young man as
I do, and to wish him well." Clay
lifted his high hat to the back of the
young officer as it was hidden in the
hanging vines, and once again, with
grave respect to the grim features
of the great general above him, and
then smiling at his own conceit, he
ran lightly down the steps and dis-
appeared among the trees of the
plaza.
IX
Clay slept for three hours. He
had left a note on the floor instruct-
ing MacWilliams and young Lang -
ham not to go to the mites, hut to
waken 'him at ten o'clock, and by
eleven the three men were aralloping
off to the city. As they left the
Palms they met Hope returning from
a morning ride en ,the Ala n,eda, and
Clay begged her, with much concern,
not to ride abroad again. There was
a difference in his tone toward her.
There was more anxiety in it than
the occasion seemed to justify, and
he put his request in the form of a
favor to himself, while the- day
previous he would simply have toid
her that she must not go riding
alone.
"Why?" asked Hope, eagerly. "Is
there going to be trouble?"
"I hope not," Clay said, "hut the
soldiers are corning in from the
provinces for the review, and the
roads are not safe."
J"I'd he safe with yots, though," said
Hope, sinning persuasively upon the
three men. "Won't you take me with
you please?"
. "Hope," said young Langham ,' in
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givrsing of fUUTrench'partics-
Uta
worid-fb mouapprep-
era for Epilepsy
o�— �°p�y,aO concern. Two men were reading the
O'wMO ran rs.t ou set sHp.Ttl morning papers near the door, and
cfthewod o�tk�reaoge'nosey h�riita onatoe two others were dragging through
TREj�CH'S R M[D1E'a,1,IpMl� �/ fiaa'
X807 8t. nom'nto 7 outwit) The beat atf midday had settled on,
the tone of the elder brother's brief
authority, { "you must go , hone at
once."
'Hope smiled wickedly. "I don't
want tp," she said.
"I'll bet you a box of cigars I can
beat you to the veranda by fifty
yards," said MacWilliams turning
his horse's head.
Hope clasped her sailor hat in one
hand and swung her whip with the'
other. "I think not," she cried, and
disappeared with a •flutter of skirts'
and a scurry of ,flying pebbles.
"At times," said Clay, "MacWil-
liams shows an unexpected knowledge
of human nature."
"Yes, he did quite right," assented
Langham, nodding his head myster-
iously. "Vire've no time for girls at
present, have we?"
"No, indeed," said Clay, hiding any
sign of a smile.
Langham breathed deeply at the
thought of the part he was to play
in this coming struggle, and remain-
ed re$pectfully silent as they trotted
toward the city. He did not wish to
disturb the plots and counterplotq
that he was confident were forming
in Clay's brain, and his devotion
would have been severely tried 'had
he •known that his hero's mind was
filled with a picture of a young girl
in a blue shirt -waist and a whipcord
riding -skirt.
Clay sent for Stuart to join them
at the restaurant, and MacWilliams
arriving at the same time, the four
men seated themselves conspicuously
in the centre of the cafe and sipped
their chocolate as though unconscious
of any imminent danger, and in ap-
parent freedom from all responsibili-
ties and care. While MacWilliams
and Langham laughed and disputed
over a game of dominoes, the older
men exchanged, under cover of their
chatter, the few words which they
had stet to speak.
The manifestoes, Stuart said, had
failed of their •purpose. He had al-
ready called upon the President, and
had offered to resign his position and
leave the country, or to stay and
'fight his m.alignera and take up
arms at once against Mendoza's
party. Alvarez had treated him like
a sones and bade him be paiient. He
held that Cesar's wife was above
suspicion because she was Caesar's
wife, and that no canards 'posted at
midnight could affect his faith in his
wife or in his friend. He refused
to believe that any coup d'etat was
imminent, save the one which he
himself meditated When he was ready
to proclaim the country in a state of
revolution, and to assume a military
dictatorship.
"What nonsense!" exclaimed Clay.
"What is a military dictatorship
without soldiers? C'an't he see that
the army is with :1iendoza?"
"No," Stuart. replied. "Rojas and
I were with him all the morning.
Rojas is an old trump, Clay. He's
not bright and he's old-fashioned;
but he is honest. And the people
know it. If I had Rojas for a chief
instead of Alvarez, I'd arrest Men-
doza with my own hand, and I
wouldn't be afraid` to take hint to
the careen through the streets. The
people wouldn't help hint. But the
President doesn't dare. Not that he
hasn't pluck," added the young lieu-
tenant, loyally, "for he takes his 'life
in his hands when he goes to the re-
view to -morrow, and he knows it.
Think of it, will you, out there alone
with a field of five thousand men a-
round h'im! Rojas thinks he can hold
half of them, as many as Mendoza
can, and I have my fifty. But you
can't tell what any one of them wilt
do for a drink or a dollar. They're
no more soldiers than these waiters.
They're bandits in uniform, and they'll
kill for the man that pays best."
"Then why doesn't Alvarez pay
therucl" Clay growled.
Stuart looked away and lowered
his eyes to the table. "Ile hasn't
the money, I suppose," he said, evas-
ively. "He—'he has transferred every
'cent of it into drafts on Rothschild.
They are at the house now, represent-
ing five millions of dollars in gold—
and her jewels, toe—packed ready
for flight."
"Then he does exipeot. 'trouble?"
said Clay. "You toll ire—"
"They're all alike; you know them,"
said Stuart. "They- won't believe
they're in danger until the explosion
comes, hut they always have a spe-
cial train ready, nod they keep the
funds of the government under their
pillows. He engaged apartments on
the Avenue Kleber six months ago."
"Bah!" said Clay. "It's the old
story. Why don't you quit 'him?"
Stuart raised his eyes and drop-
ped them again, and Clay sighed.
"I'm sorry," he said.
MacWilliams interrupted thein in
an indignant stage -whisper. "Say,
how long have we got to keep up
this fake game?" he asked. "I don't
know anything about dominoes, and
neither does Ted. Tell u:s what
you've been saying. Is there going
to be trouble? If there is, Ted and
I want to he in it.. We are looking
for trouble."
'Clay had tipped back his chair, and
was surveying the restaurant and the
blazing' plaza beyond its open front
with an expression of cheerful un -
clever you are, Captain," he *silt
was the Aret nun, for
nk of packing out -
et .&.x i, and of sending
He represent*
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Clay whet eontlnd.d,l t end ed.
quit; Unmindful the�o nr00 "W.1I, the; ptilliic, good I suppose,»
tinned silence, "he was abetting Ale hosted Val. , g'i'ant sorry, but W
0o rceoue Arabi Pash=a from the yeas' own Unit.. Vat ehouldt► k
of 'Ceylon. Yon elsy. remember,' o 1 sthowrs yourself, *re et '*X"
that when Dufferin caved Arabi "What ve poli 'got' to do int 4
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hanging, the British ahippad .Mtn to salted Burke, c.linly ea be �in tw..
Ceylon es a political ,prisoner. Well, refill itis pipe. IP had the air of s 1
the Captain was sent byArabi'erlol- man who saw nothing before hint b t
day dor N
wait ewer for *tet?
age your , pe, ti
time, Captain Otuert hero
'will see that they treat you well in
the ,sial."
Theisen around the table started,
and eat motio
g at Clay,
pipe from
ked the ashes out
boot. "What am
the plate, and 'the waiters dozed,
with their chairs tipped back against
the walls. Outside, the awning of
the restaurant threw a broad shadow
across the warble -topped tables on.
th'e sidewralk, end half a dozen fierce
drivers slept peacefully in their car-
riages before the door.
The town was taking its siesta,
and the brisk step.of a stranger whto
crossed the tessellated floor and rap-
ped with his knuckles on the top of 1
the cigarrcase was .the only sign of
life. The newcomer t i r sed with one
hand on the glass can and swept
the room carelessly with his eyes.
They were hard blur• eyev under
straight eyebrows. Their owner was
dressed unobtrusively in a suit of
rough tweed and this and his black
hat, and the -fact that he was smooth
shaven, distinguished hire as a for-
eigner.
As he fasted them the forelegs of
Clay's eshair descended slowly to the
floor, apd he began to smile cortipre-
hendingly and to nod his head ani
though the coming of the stranger
had explained something of /which
he had been in doubt. His compan-
ions turned and followed the direc-
tion of his eyes, but saw nothing of
interest in the newcomer. He look-
ed as though he might be a conces-
sion hunter from the States, or a
Manchester drummer, prepared to
offer six .months' credit on blankets
and hardware.
Clay rose and strode across the
room, circling the tables in such a
way that he could keep himself be-
tween the stranger and the door. At
his approach the new -comer turned
his back and. fumbled with his
change on the counter.
"Captain Burke, I believe?" said
Clay. The stranger' bit the cigar he
had just purchased, and shook his
head. "I am very glad to see you,"
Clay continued. "Sit •1 wn, won't
you? I want to talk with you."
"I think you've intulii a mistake,"
the stranger answered, quietly. "My
name is—"
"Colonel, perhaps, then," said Clay.
"I ,might have known it. I congratu-
late you, Colonel."
The man looked at (':ay for an
instant, with the cigar clenched 'be-
tween his teeth and -his blue eyes fix-
ed steadily on the other's face. Clay
waved his hand again invitingly to-
ward a table, and the jean shrugged
his shoulders and lanahed, and, pull-
ing a chair toward l` -m, : at down.
"Come over here, ' .tys," Clay call-
ed. "I want you - tmoot an old
friend of mine, Cap_ain Burke."
The .man cancel l,.irke stared at
the three men as Hey crossed the
room and seated th,mselves at the
table, and nodded t,, them in silence.
"We have here," said Clay, gayly,
but in a low voice. -the .key to the
situation. This is the gentleman who
supplies Mendoza with the sinews of l
war. Captain Burke is a bravo sol-
dier and a citizen of my own or of
any country, indeed, which hippers
to have theanost sympathetic ('ensu!-'
General."
Burke smiled grimily, with a con- ,
descending nod, and putting: away ,
the cigar, took out :r brier pipe and
began to fill it from his tobacco -
:pouch. "The Captai•: is a man of
few words and e x" rt mely modest a-
bout himself," Clay continued, light-
ly; "so I must tell you who he is
myself. He is a ',remoter of revolu-
tions. That is his basiness,—a pro-
fessional promoter of revolutions,
and that is what makes me so glad
to see hint again. ile knows all a-
bout the present crisis here, and he i
is going to tell us all he knows as
soon as he fills his pipe. I ought
to warn you, Burke," he added, "that I
this is Captain Stuart, in charge of
the 'police and the President's cavalry
troops. So, 'you see, whatever you
say, you will have ole man who will
listen to you."
Burke crossed one short fat leg
over the other, and crowded the to-
bacco in the bowl ef his pipe with
his thumb.
"I thought you were- in Chili, Clay,"
he said.
"No, you didn't think I was in
Chili," Clay replied, kindly. "I left
Chili two years ncro. The Captain
and I met there," he explained to the
others, "when Balma.eda was trying
to make 'himself dictator. The Cap-
tain was on the side of the Congres-
sionalists, and wa:: furnishing arms
and dynamite. The Captain is al-
ways on the winnintt side, at least
she always has been up to. the pres-
ent. He is not. a ,•reatune of senti-
ment; are you, Buri:e? The Captain
believes with Nap"'eon that God is
on the side that. has the heaviest
artillery."
Burke lighted his pipe and drum-
med absent •mindedly on the table
with his match -box.
"I can't afford to he sentimental,"
he said. "Not in nay business."
"Of course not," Clay assented,
cheerfully. He looked at Burke and
laughed, as though the eight of him
recalled pleasant memories. "I wish
I could give these boys an idea of
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Write for Free Eye Care Book.
Nide* two awed/ Ca..9 Cast Ohio SdreeLChisaI*
Dowers in Egypt to bring him back an afternoon of plc sent dIscOnae •
end he looked from one to the
of the serious faces around this*"'wit
an ezpnesalon of *tiring ars eetelnent.
"Alvarez. May get off, and so vial'
Madame Alvarez,"' be added, lower
uig his voice and turning his farce
away. from Stuarts "But tl,`e
shows herself in the .treats, �unll not
if She tries to take those drafts and,
jewels with her." •
"Oh, you know that, . do you7" in-
terrupted Clay.
"I know nothing," Burke replied.
'n wr
"At Least nothing to list the eery.
of them know. That's only the gob -
sip I pick ,up at 'headquarters. It.
doesn't concern me. I've delivered
my goods and given my remelt tar
the money, and that's fell' 1 cars a...
bout. But if it will make en old'
friend feel any more comfortable to
have me in jail, why, I'll go, that's -
all."
to lead a second rebellion. Burke end leisurely inactivity.
had everybody bribed at Ceylon, and "You know what I've Bot to do with
a fine schooner fitted out and a 'lot of it," Clay replied. "I've got our con- ,
ruffians to do the fighting, and then cession to look after." •
the good, kind British Government "Well, you're not running the town, 1
pardoned Arabi the day before Burke toe, are you?" asked Burke.
arrived in port. And you never got "No, but I'm going to run you out
a cent for it; did you, Burke?" df it," Clay answered. "Now, what
'Bu eke shook his head and frown- are you going to do,—make it tin-
ed. pleasant for us and force our hand,
"Six thousand poundal sterling I or drive down quietly with our friend
was to have got for that," he said, MacWilliams here?" He is the best ,
'with a touch of pardonable pride in one to take you, ,because he's not so'
his ,voice, "and they set him free the well known."
day before I got there, just as Mr. Burke turned his head and looked
Clay tells you." over his shoulder at Stuart.
"And then you headed Granville "You -taking orders from Mr. Clay 1
Prior's expedition for buried treasure to -day, Captain Stuart?" he asked.
off the island of Cocos, didn't you ig "Yes," Stuart answered, am'i'ligg
said Clay. "Go on, tell them abou "I agree with Mr. Clay in whatever
it. Be sociable. You ought to write he thinks right."
a book about your different business "Oh, well, in that case," said Burke,
'ventures, Burke,- nide* you ought; rising reluctantly, with a protesting
but then," Clay added, smiling, "no- eigh, "I guess I'd better call on the
body would believe you." Burke rub- American minister."
bed his chin, thoughtfully, with his "You can't. He's in Ecuador on
fingers, and looked modestly at the his annual visit," said Clay.
ceiling, and the two younger boys "Indeed! That's bad for me," mut- I.
gazed at him with cpen-mouthed in- tared Burke, aa though in much con-
terest. cern. "Well, then, I'll aak you to
"There 'ain't anything in buried let me see our consul here."
treasure," he said, after a pause, "ex- "Certainly," Clay assented, with
cept the money that's sunk in the alacrity. "Mr. Langhans, this young
fitting out. It sounds good, but it's gentleman's father, got him this sp-
ell foolishness." pointment, so I've no doubt he'lh be
"All foolishness, eh?" said Clay, only too glad to do anything for a
encouragingly. "And what did you friend of ours."
do after Balmaceda was beaten?— Burke raised his eyes and looked 1
after I last saw you?" inquiringly at Clay, as though to as-
"Crespo," Burke replied, after a sure himself that this was true, and
pause, during which he pulled gently Clay smiled back at him.
on his pipe. `"Canoline B=rewer(— "Oh, very well," Burke said. "Then
cleared from Key West for Curacao, as I happen to be an Irishman by
with cargo of sewing -machines and the name of Burke, and a British
ploughs—beached below Maracaibo— subject, I'll try Her Majesty's repre-
thirty-five thousand rounds and two sentative, and we'll see if he will al -
thousand Titles—at twenty bolivars low me to be locked up without a
apiece." reason or a warrant."
"Of course," said Clay, in a tone "That's no good, either," said
of genuine appreciation. "I might Clay, shaking his head. "You fixed
have known you'd be in that. He your 'nationality, as far as this conti-
says," he explained, "that he assisted nent is concerned, in Rio harbor, when
General ,Crespo in Venezuela during Peixoto handed you over to the Brit -
his revolution against Guzman Blan- ish admiral, and you claimed to be
co's party. and loaded a tramp steam- an American citizen, and were sent
er called the 'Caroline Brewer' at Key on board the 'Detroit.' If there's any
West with arms, which he landed doubt about that we've only got to
safely at a place for which he had no cable to Ria Janeiro—to either lega-
clearance papers, and 'he received tion. But what's the use? They
forty thousand dollars in our money know me here, 'and they don't know
for the job—and very good pay too, you, and I do. You'll have to go to
I should think," commented Clay. jail and stay there."
"Well, I don't know," Burke de- "Oh, well, if you put it that way,
murred. "you take in the cost of I'll go," said Burke. "But," he add -
leasing the boat and provisioning her, ed, in a lower voice, "it's too late,
and the crew's wages, and the cost of Clay."
the cargo; that cuts into profits. Then The expression of amusement on
I had to stand off shore between Clay's face, and his ease of manner,
Trinidad and Curacao for over three fell frons him at the words,' and he
weeks before I got the signal to run pulled Burke back into the chair
in, and after that I was chased by a again. "What do you mean?" he
gun -boat for three days, and the crazy asked, anxiously.
fool put a shot clean through my "I mean just that, it's too late,"
engine -room. Cost me about twelve. Burke answered. "I don't mind go -
hundred dollars in repairs." ing to jail. I won't be there long.
There was a pause, and Clay turn- My work's all done and paid for. I
ed his eyes to the street, and then was only staying on to see the fun
asked abruptly, "What are you doing at the finish, to see you fellows made
now?" fools of."
"Trying to get orders for smoke- "Oh, you're sure of that, are you?"
less powder,"Burke answered, prompt- asked Clay.
ly. He met Clay's look with eyes as "My dear boy!" exclaimed the
undisturbed as his own. "But they American, with a suggestion in his
won't touch it down here," he went speech of his Irish origin, as his in -
on. "It dosen't appeal to them. It's terest rose. "Did you ever know site
too expensive, and they'd rather see to go into anything of this sort for
the smoke. It makes them think—" the sentiment of it? Did you ever
"How lond did you expect to stay know me to back the losing side?
here?" Clay interrupted. No. Well, I tell you that you fel-
"How long?" repeated Burke, like lows have no more show in this than
a man in a witness -box who is trying 'a parcel of Sunday school children.
to gain time. "Well, I was thinking Of course I can't say when they mean
of leaving by Friday, and taking a to strike. I don't know, and I
mule -train over to Bogota instead of wouldn't tell you if I did. But when
waiting for the steamer to Colon." they do strike there'll be no striking
He blew a mouthful of smoke into 'back. It'll be all over but the cheer-
ing."
Burke's tone was calm and positive.
He held the centre of the stage row,
the air and watched it drifting to-
ward the door with apparent interest.
"The 'Santiago' leaves here Satur-
(Continued next week.)
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