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The Huron Expositor, 1922-10-27, Page 7�6��II4il ��po hY41 fh(Sa. • f'ihP AI ,thin and Furnishing sales are increased Long Distance Bona quotations from recent reporter "Long Distance brought us so much business that we expect to enlarge our, - factory." "Tried Station -to -Station Service and find it very satisfactory for selling goods to distant points.' • "Thanks to Long Dis- tance we are able to oar- ry on without a large stock of goods. We call up wholesalers for our needs." - "We call up customers in outside towns and make - appointments for try - cons." A well-known firm of Ot- ' tawa retailers writes "We often us8 Long Distance in preference to writing." Wedanfefyou how fo apply Long Distance to almost any business Miss L. M. McCormack, Manager Every Bell Tb;ophone re Long Distance Station ar e Use % LEONARD • EAR OiL IT DOES RELIEVE DEAFNESS and HEAD NOISES. Simply rub it in back of the ears and insert in nostrils. MADE IN CANADA L. H. Bedlington & Co. Salus Agents Toronto For sale in Seaforth by E. Umbach, and all good druggists A Novel 0, , 1 7 Ia. Noi tli liero, HOP*INS8 N SMITH TOR, O)TTO McLEOD & AMEN (Continggd from last week.) "Time's up, t'my boy. I never al- low myself but an hour at luncheon, and I am due at the bank in ten acro- Utes. Thank you, Auguste, --and Au- guste! i3lease tell Botts .the spaghetti was delicious, Come, Jack." -• It was when he held Ruth in his arms that same afternoon—behind the door, really,—she couldn't wait Until they reached the room, — that Jack whispered in her astonished and delighted ears the good news of the expected check from. Garry's commit- tee. "And daddy won't lose anything; and he can take the new work!" she cried joyously. "And we can all go up to the mountains together! Oh, Jack!—let me run and tell daddy! "No, my darli•g,—not a word. Garry had no business to tell me what he did; and it might leak out and get him into trouble:— No, don't say a word. It is only a few days off. We shall all know next week." He had led her to the sofa, their favorite seat. "And now I am going to tell you something that would be a million times better than Garry's check if it were only true,—but it isn't." "Tell me, Jack,—quick!" Her lips were close to hie'. i "Uncle Arthur wants to buy my ore lands." "Buy your— And we are going to be—married right away! Oh,- you darling Jack!" "Wait,—wait, my precious, until 1 tell you!" She did not wait, and he did not want her to. Only when he could loosen her arms from his neck did he find her ear again, then he poured into it the rest of the story. "But, oh, Jack!—wouldn't it be lie ely if it were true,—and just think of all the things we could do." "Yes,—but it isn't true.", "But just suppose it' was, Jack! You would have a horse of your own and we'd build the dearest little home and " "But it never can be true, blessed, —not out of the Cumberland protested proper- ty—" roper- tY — ' Jack. "But, Jack! Can't we suppose? Why, supposing is the best fun in the world. I used to suppose all sorts of things when I was a little girl. Some of them came true, and some of them didn't, but I had just as much fun as they t Y had all come e true." "Did you ever suppose me?" asked Tack. Ile knew she never had,—he wasn't worth it;—but what difference did it make what they talked about. "Yes,—a thousand times. I always knew, my blessed, that there w'as somebody like you in the world some where,—and when the girls would break out and say ugly things of men—all men—I just knew they were not true of everybody. I knew that you would come—and that I should always look for you until I found you!- And now tell me! Did you suppose about me, too, you `darling Jack?" • "No, never. There couldn't be any supposing—there isn't any now. 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' r,'a) but that Jacic was too young' for her, at Which there wap a groat' acrin lindgo and a blind-ran'a-buir chase around the table, up the fro.ut etaixs and into the corner by .the whitlow, where she was flnallY • caught, smothered in kisses and mads to correct her arith- metic. • This ghose of damages having been laid—cit was buried the week after Jack had called on his uncle --the Chief, the Plirat Assistant, and Bangs, the head foreman, disappeared from Corklesviile and reappeared at Mor- fordsbuirg. The, chief came to select a site for the entrance of the %haft; the First Assistant came to compare certain maps and documents, which he had taken from the trunk he had brought with him from his Maryland home, with the archives resting in the queer old court -house; while Foreman Bangs was to help with the level and target, should a survey be found necessary. The faded -out old town Clerk look- ed Jack .all over when he asked to see the duplicate of a certain deed, remarking, as •he led the way to the Hall of Records,—it was under a table in the back room,—I"Reekon there's somethin' goin' on jedgin' from the way you New Yorkers is lookin' into ore lands up here. There come a lawyer only last month from a man mined Breen, huntin' up this tame property." , The comparisons over and found to be correct, "starting from a certain stone marked 'B' one hundred end eighty-seven feet East by South," etc., ete., the whole party, including a small boy to help carry the level and target and a reliable citizen who said he could find the property blind- fold—and who finally collapsed with a "Goll darn!—if I know where I'm atl"=the five jumped into a mud - encrusted vehicle and started for the site. Up hill and down hill, across one stream and then another; through the dense timber and into the open again. Here their work began, Jack handling the level (his Chief had taught him), Bangs holding the target, MacFarlane taking a squint now and then so as to be sure,—and them the final result, —to wit:—First, that the Maryland Company's property, Arthur Breen & Co., agents, lay under a hill some two miles from Morfordsburg; that Jack's lay some miles to the south of Breen's. Second, that outcroppings showed the Marylaild Mining Company's ore dip- ped, as the Senior Breen had said, to the east, and third, that similar out- croppings showed Jack's dipped to the .west. And so the airy bubble filled with his own and Ruth's iridescent hopes, —a bubble which had floated before him as he tramped,through the cool woods, and out upon the hillside, van- ished into thin air. For with Ruth's arms around him, her lips close to his, her boundless enthusiasm filling his soul, the boy's emotions had for the time overcome his judgment. So much so that all the way up in the train he had been "supposing" and resupposing. Even the reply of the town clerk had set his heart to thumping; his uncle had sent some one then! Then came the thought,— Yes, to boom one of his misleading prospectuses—and for a time the..Rounding had ceased: by ne possible combination now, either hon- est or dishonest, could the two proper- ties be considered one and the same mine. Again his thoughts went back to Ruth. He knew how keenly she would be disappointed. She had made him promise to telegraph her at once if his own 'and her father's inspection of the ore lands should hold out any rose-colored prospects for the future. This he had not now the heart to do. One thing, however, he must do, and at once, and that was to write to Peter, or see him immediately on his return. There was no use now of the old fellow talking the matter over with the director; there was nothing to talk over, except a bare hill three miles from anywhere, covering a pos- sible deposit of doubtful richness and which, whether good or had, would cost more to get to market than it was worth. They were on the extreme edge of the forest when the final decision was reached, MacFarlane leaning against a rock, the level and tripod tilted against his arm, Jack sitting on a fallen tree, the map spread out on his knees. For some minutes Jack sat silent, his eyes roaming over the landscape. Below him stretched an undulating mantle of velvet, laid loosely over valley, ravine and hill, embroidered in tints of corn -yellow, purplings of full -blossomed clover and the softer greens of meadow and swamp. In and out, now straight, now in curves and bows, was threaded a ribbon of silver with here and there a connecting mirror in which flashed the sun. Bor- dering its furthermost edge a chain of mountains lost themselves in low, rolling clouds, while here and there, in its many crumplings, were studded jev3els of barn stack and house, their facets aflame in the morning light. Jack absorbed it all, its beauty fill- ing his soul, the sunshine bathing his cheeks. Soon all trace of his disap- pointment vanished: with Ruth here, --with his work to occupy him,—and this mighty, all inspiring, all -intoxi- cating sweep of loveliness spread out his own and Ruth's every hour of the day and night, what did orerbeds or anything else matter? MacFarlane's voice 'woke him to CHAPTER RXIV The check "struck" MacFarlane just as the chairman •had said it would, wiping out his losses by the flood with something ahead for his next under- taking. That the verdict was a just one was apparent from the reports of both McGowan's and tare Railroad Company's experts. These showed that the McGowan mortar held but little cement, and that not of the best; that the backing of the masonry was composed of loose rubble instead of split stone, and that the collapse of his structure was not caused by the downpour, but by the 'caving in of culverts and spillways, which were built of materials in direct violation of the provisions of the contract. Even • then there might have been some doubt as N./the outcome hut for Holl€r Morris's testimony. He not only sent in his report, but appeared himself, he told the Council, so as to answer any questions Mr. McGovern or his friends might ask. He had done this, as he said openly at the meeting, to aid his personal friend, Mr. MacFarlane, and also that he might raise his yoice against the slip- shod work that was being done by men who either dirt not know their business or purposely evaded their responsibilities. "This construction of McGowan's," he continued, "is especially to be condemned, as there is not the slightest doubt that the contractor has intentionally slighted his work—a neglect which, but for the thorough manner in which Mac- Farlane has constructed the lower culvert, might have resulted in the loss of many lives. McGowan snarled and sputtered, denouncing Garry and his "swallow- tails" in the bar rooms and at the Board meetings, but the decision was unanimous, two of his friends con- curring, fearing, as they explained afterward, that the New York crowd might claim even a larger surfs in a .t� terY ,g4 �tl.4d ii . ," ' i�}, u * 1«QD'.' :� ,bit �s{:vi„ h •nl�tsrYd,'t l .,1•AV.?4 lith; 0'1N ' art IOW ;else ossa ,ttti of .tin psslayght 'Woe at >aitcm as . , en Garry'a o�pl�ce, two dopre 9Q1:10,9' conseiousnese.; go had'tt>illed to hila NTS, Hicks,' for photographs• ,piano cunei but the. boy had not heard,t, ,of bungtilow8, shanties, W�ite, iYlonn tain lean-tos and the lil+;e, and as "Aa I have .duet renma'rked •Jack," quickly. tucked funder Ruth's arm" and MacFarlane began agai!�, there aiceis carried off, with only, the permission of the oilice•bey,-Getty :himself be ing absent owing to some matters con- nected with a' big warehouse company in which he was interested, the boy said, and, which" took him to New' York on the early train and did not allow him hie return sometimes, un- til after midnight. These plans were spread dist under ne said in Ruth's absence. "I, .sup - the .lamp on the sitting -room table, pose we 'must stay on here untilthe two studying the details, their Garry finishes the new church.. I heads together, MacFarlane sitting -haven't seen much' of Ruth, --or of beside them reading dr listening,— you; either, Jack. But I don't see. the light of the lamp falling on his much of anybody now,—not even of earnest, thoughtful face,—Jack con- Garry. He never gets home ' until cutting him now and then as to the midnight, or even latter, if the train advisability of fnrther extensions, the is behind time, and it generally ie." same being two rooms shingled inside "Then he must have lots of new and out, with an annex of bark and wash " cried Jack in a cheerful tone. has fallen on the ame old uttered plank for Ruth's horse, and a kitchen "He told me the last time I saw him side. Uncle Peter told me to beware and laundry and no end oY eomfo}ts, on the train that he expected some of bubbles—said theywere hard to big and little,—all to be occu d --big warehouse job." whenever their lucky day would come Corinne looked out of the window carry around. This one has burst be,- and the merry bells ring out the joy- fore oy and fingered the handle of her para - fore I got my hand on it. All right— ful tiding§ of their marriage. let her go! I hope Ruth wont take Nor was this all this particularly sol. it too much to heart. )fere, boy, get radiant bubble contained. Not only I don't believe that is what keeps " h d I 1 your property of any .use. It is a low-grade ore, I _shoi4d gay, and t iln- nelling' and shoring would eat it up. Wipe it off the books,' There are thousands of acres of this kind of land lying around loose. from here to the Cumberland Valley.' It may get better as you go down—only an assay can tell about that -..but k don't think it will. To begin sinking shafts might mean sinking one .or a dozen; and there's nothing so expensive. I am sorry, Jack, but wipe it out. Some bright scoundrel might sell stock on it, but they'll never melt any of it up into stove plate." "All right, sir," Jack said at last, with a light laugh. "It is the same old piece of bread, I reckon, and it Ash your gee► ;; hold of this map and other traps in the wa Mr MacFarlane what c�tf+ ut it with the was ther to be a big open fireplace nim in town, ac , s e sai sow y. n. And now, built of stone, and overhead rafters I hopes you would come and see es next," b k 1 ft �trd t'll him last Sunday. Did Garry give you Before the day was over MacFar-of birch, the ar a on a i 1 glistening,—but there were to be message? i heard you were at lane had perfected his plans. The palma, ferns, hanging baskets, chintz home to -day, and that is why I town was to be avoided as too demur- curtains, rugs, pots of flowers, Chin- i came." alining a shelter for the men, and ese lanterns, hammocks, easy chairs; "No, hen ver said a single word barracks were to be erected in which and for all Jack knew, porcelain tubs, about it or'I would have come, of to house them. Locations of the prin- course. Wat do you think, then electric bells, steam heat and hot and keeps him in town so late?" Some! cipal derricks were selected and cold water, so enthusiastic had Ruth p staked, as well as the sites for the become over the possibilities lurking% thing in her voice made Jack leave his entrance to the shaft; for the ma -in the 15x20 log,hiit which Jack pro- own and take a seat beside her. "Tell chine and blacksmith's shops and for posed to throw together as a shelter a storage shanty for tools: the Mary- land Mining Company's work would require at least two years to coo- plete, ani a rational, well -studied CHAPTER XXV plan of procedure was imperative. "And now, Jack, where are you go- ing to live,—in the village?" asked departure soon became known in the his Chief, resting the level and tripod village. There were hot many peo- carefully against a tree trunk and pie to say good -by, the inhabitants seating himself beside Jack en a fol- having seen but little of the engineer and still less of his daughter, except you to know, but I'wish you'd eome len log. "Out here, if you don't mind, sir, where L can be on top of the work all the time. It's but a short ride for Ruth and she can some and go all the t•me. I am going to drop some of these trees; get two or three choppers from the village and knock •up a log -house like the one I camped in when I was a boy." "Where will you put it?" asked MacFarlane with it smile in as he turn- ed his head as if search of a site. it was just where he wanted .lack to live, but he would not have sugtested me, Corinne. I'll do anything I can $or Garry and you too. What is it?" "I don't know, Jack,—I wish I did. He has changed lately. When I went to his room the 'other night he was , walking the floor; he said he couldn't sleep, and the next morning when he didn't come down to breakfast I went up and found him in a half stupor. I had' hard work to wake him. Don't tell Ruth,—I don't want anybody but as she flew past, in a mad gallop, on and see him. I've nobody else to turn • her brown mare, her hair sometimes to, won't •you, Jack?" (Continued next week.) down her back. The pastor of the Come! of course I'll come, Cori<hne, new church came, however, to ex- now,—this minute; if he's home, or press his regrets; and to thank Mr. to -night, or any time you say. Sup - MacFarlane for his interest in thepose Igo back with you and wait. church building. He alio took oc- pose s working too hard, that's it, casion to say many complimentary —he was always that way, puts his things about Garry, extrolling him soul into anything he gets in - for the wonderful manner in which wholeed in and never lets up until t brilliant 'youngarchitect had thewaitedfor it'saccomplished." He kept within the sum set apart by the p some reply, but she was still' toying trustees for its construction, and for the skill with which the work was with the handle of her parasol. Her mind had not been on his proffered ful r Don't ,,. me yy will, help rtie have nobody elsse44ty most turned,me I went to see him the Other, my mother doesn't care `$lief only been here half, a dozen, and that was when baby :',ui%us•, bgr$ir Hush,—here comes Ruth,.—she': al not know," - "But she . must know, Corinne never have any secrets from Raki, and don't you have any either. Enth:, couldn't be anything but kind -to yeti and she never misunderstands, and she is so helpful. Here she is. Ruth" dear, we were just waiting for yeti. Corinne is nervous and depresaed,and' imagines all sorts of things„ one of which is that we don't care for her ; and I've just told her that we do?" Ruth looked into Jack's eyes as if to get his meaning --she must always get her cue from him now—she was' entirely unconscious of the cause of it all, or why Corinne should feel so, but if Jack thought Corinne was suf- fering and that she wanted comfort- ing, all she had was at Corinne's and Jack's disposal. With a quick move- ment she leaned forward and laid her hand on Corinne's shoulder. "Why, you dear Corinne—Jack and I are not like that. What has gone - wrong,—tell me," she urged. For a brief instant Corinne made no answer. Once she tried to speak but the words died in her throat. Then, lifting up her hands apjieal- ingly, she faltered out: I only said that I—Oh, Ruth!—I am so wretched!" and sank back on the lounge in an agony of tears. it• being done, adding that as a slight "Not a hundred yards from where reward for such devotion the church help, she had not heard him, in fact, we sit, sir—a little back c those, two trustees had made° Mr. Minott tress- 'heart-broken`AndJack," she wenttn on it the big oaks. There's a spring. above on urer of the buildingfund, believing same tone through seemed to which a n unbidden sob • 1 Send for free boon giving Hill partic- ulars of Trench's world-famous prep- arationforEp epey and Fits—simple home treatment. Ovor Beware aeppco0s& Testimonials from spends ofthe world_I.over 1000 In ane ear. 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An Englishman has invented a table with a zigzag cut across the tap that enables it to be used in n narrow or longand either a square f this life ever sine , left home importance Y 1 what is it?" or e , (here the reveres gentleman ower - now I am going to have it." ed his voice) in which Mr. McGowan, "I want you to forgive me for the "It' will be rather lonely, won't he was sorry to say, who was build- way I have always treated you. I it?" The engineer's eyes softened had attempted an have—" g g verchargeawh ch only Mr. Minott's "Why, Corinne, what nonsense! as they rested on the yours fellow, his face flushed with the enthusiasm watchful eye could$ have .detected, Don't you bother your head about of his new resolve. He and Ruth's adding, with a glance over his shoul- such----" mother had lived in just such a shanty, and not so very long ago, der, that the collapse of the, embank- "Yes, hut I do, and it is because ment had undermined the contractor's I have never done anything but be either, it seemed, --those were the reputation quite as much as the fresh- ugly' When you lived with us i happiest years of his life et had his culvert at which MacFar- a step to the town; I can walk it in Corinne also came to express her line, and neither of us knew any half an hour. No, it won't be lonely. regrets, bringing with her a scrap better. I won't hear one word of I will fix up a room for Uncle Peter of an infant in a teetering baby car- such nonsense. Why, my, dear girl somewhere so he can be comfortable, rises, the whole presided over by a —" he had taken her hand as she —he would love to come here on his nurse in a blue dress, white cap, and spoke and the pair rested. on his knee holidays; and Ruth can come out for white apron, the ends reaching to her —"do you think I ant— No—you are the day,—she will be crazy about it feet: not the Corinne, the Scribe is too sensible a woman to think any - when Itell her. No, I will get along. pained to say, who, in the old days thing of the kind. But that is not If the lightning had struck my ore would twist her head and stamp her it, Corinne'—something worries you;" beds I would probably have painted little feet and have her way in -every• he asked suddenly with a quick and papered some musty back room thing. But a woman terribly shrunk- glance at her face. "What is it? in the village and lived a respectable en, with deep lines in her face and You shall have the best in me, and life. Now I am going to turn saw- under her eyes. Jack, man -like, did Ruth will help too." Her fingers closed over his. The "No!" exclaimed Jack. "It's only ane smiled but made no reply. "But we were children then, Cor - age." 'not notice the change, but Ruth did. The next day the contracts were After the baby had been duly ad - signed: work to commence in three mired, Ruth tossing it in her arms months. Henry MacFarlane, En- until it crowed, Corinne being too tir- gineer-in-Chief, John Breen in charge ed for much enthusiasm, had sent it of construction. home, Ruth escorting it herself to It was on that same sofa in the the garden gate. far corner of the sitting -room that "I am sorry you are going," Corin, Jack told Ruth,—gently, one word at a time,—imaking the best of it, but touch of the young fellow, so full of buoyant strength and hope and hap- piness, seemed to put new life into her. ' I don't know, Jack." Her voice fell to a whisper. 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This was part of Jack's life, Just as similar disappointments had been part of her father's. • "Never mind, blessed. Well, we had lots of fun 'supposing; didn't we Jack. This one didn't come true, but some of the others will and what dif- ference does it make, anyway, as long as I have you," and she nestled her face in his neck. "And now tell me what sort of a place it is and where daddy and T are going to live, nd all about it." 1 And then, to soften the disappoint- ment the more and to keep a new bubble afloat, .Tack launched nut into a description of the country and how beautiful the view was from the edge of the hill overlooking the valley, with the big oaks crowning the top rocks ocks and fal- lenand the lichen -covered timber blanketed with green moss and the spring of water that gushed out of the ground and ran laughing down the hillside, and the sweep of mountains losing themselves in the blue haze of the distance, and then finally to the log -cabin he was going D ONAL Aaidt - Canada's Best Buy - THE ECONOMY PACKAGE ,TOSBA000 }}_t UONAte R G'o )1: (. 111jl u��ll n '11111111 all 1 :, V2 lb-Now80 ��LSO PROCURABLE'K2 Ib. PACKAGE 150 34, • a AAA