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(Continued from last week) ` they rode one on each side of it. They Ask Charles Aberhart or any good
weren't missing any bets, you see." druggist.
- "I've kept moving. But to get back "And that's why they drove the .
' to"the point. Your father and Boone sheep down to water -to hide the - -
WATSON & REID were on the ground where the 'stage wheel tracks. I couldn't understand .
was robbed either at the time or right' that," • . quietly. ;
SEAFORTH, ONT, after. Their tracks were all over ,) "I must 'a' been right on their heels "She! I know why you" did it. Jim
there. Then -they got on their horses for they were jest getting the trotters Budd told you what he had'heard, and
GENERAL INSURANCE AGENTS and rode up the lateral." out of the Corral when I' reached the you figured you could save' your father
representing only the beat Can. "But they couldn't. The ditch was place where your rig left the water. from doing it. You meaut`,io give the
° full,"'broke from the girl. 'Course I fell back into the brush and money back, didn't you'?"
ituiian, British and American .,You're right it was. You must' circled around so as to hit the store , "Yes but I can't
i. Companies. g prove,'that either
All kinds of insurance effected be some observing to know when the in front." in court or to Mr. 'Bellamy."
at the lowest rates, including ditch is full and empty, to an hour. I 'But if dad knew all the time, I "You don't need to prove it to me.
e Ii'IRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT,[ITO. reckon you've got an almanac of dont see surely, he wouldn't have If you say so, that's enough," he said
MOBILE, TORNADO AND PLATE tides," he said ironically. come right after me and made plain in his unenthusiastic ,voice.
:d GLASS RISKS.
She bit' her lip with chagrin. "I , the way I escaped." � "But you're not judge and jury,
I-._ just happened to .notice. "That's the point, He didn't know. and you're certainly not Mr. Bel-
✓ r' ®Also- "Some folks are more noticing than I reckon he was sort of guessing a- lamy." •
REAL ESTATE and LOAN AGENTS others. But you're surely right. round in the dark, plumb puzzled; "Scrape Arizona with a fine-tooth
1' They came up the ditch one on each couldn't find the switch at all at first. comb and you couldn't get. a jury to
'Prompt attention paid to placingside. Now, why one on each side, do Then it come 'to him, and he thought colavict when it's up against the facts
risks and, adjusting of elalam you reckons?" of the sheep to blind the trail. If in this case," '
BusinMelissy hid the dread that was I'd been half a hour later he would At this she brightened. "Thank
guaranteeingestablished a years, flooding her heart, ' "I'm sure I don't have got away with it too. No, if you, Mr. Flatray." And naively she
good service. know. You know everything else. I he had guessed that you were in the added vAth a little laugh: "Are
you
Agents for Singer Sewing Machine suppose you do that, too, if they really hold-up, him and Boone would have ready to put the handelors on me
Company. did." hiked right out on a false trail and yet?"
9 "They had their reasons, but we led us into the G•aliuros. Having no He looked with a smile at her out -
OFFICE PHONE, 83• won't go into that now. First off notion of it at first, he trails you stretched hands. "They wouldn't
RESIDENCE PHONE. 60. when their reach the house they take down." stay on."
n bunch of sheep down to the ditch "And the gold -how did you find "Don't you carry them in sizes to
to water them. Now, why?" that?" fit all criminals?"
i LONDON AND WINGHAM "Why, unless because they needed "I knew it was either right around "I'll have to put you on parole."
I water?" the, place or else you had taken it "I'll break it and climb out the win-
- ' ' ' North. "We'll let that go into the discard on with you when you went to the dow. Then I'll run off with this."
-t a.m. m. too just now. Let's suppose your head -gates and buried it up there She indicated the box of treasure.
EZdfislt 10.18 6.04 father and Boone dumped the • gold somewhere. Next day I followed your I need that washstand in my room.
Emet4 ............ 10.80 6.18 box down into the creek somewhere tracks and couldn't find any place I'm going'to take it up there to -night,
Sippen ......... 10.86 6.28 after they had robbed the stage. Sup- where you might have left it. I knew he said.
Kip'
.. 10.44 6.82 pose they had a partner up, at the how clever you were by the way you "This isn't a very good safety de-
COinton Jct �....... 10.68 6,46 head -gates, When the signal is giv- planned your getaway. Struck me as posit vault," she answered, and, nod -
Clinton, etAr . ....... 11.06 6.62 en down comes the water, and the box mighty likely that you had left it ly- ding a careless good -night, she walk -'I
l Clinton, Lv. ....... 11.16 6,52 is covered by it. •Mebbe that night ing around in plain view somewhere. ed away in her slow -limbed, graceful
Clinton Jct. ..... 11.21 6.52 they take it away and bury it some- If you had dumped it out of the box Southern fashion.
Londe Jet. .. .... 11.86 7,12 where else." into a sack, the box must be some- She had carried it off to the last
,me w Hitt!► .... 11.44 7,21 The girl began to breathe again. where. You hadn't had time to burn without breaking down, but, once in
HtlVave .��........, 11,68 7,85 He knew a good deal, but he was still it before the stage got back. I drifted her own room, the girl's face showed
a. Wingham Jot„ Ar.. 12.08 7.45 off the track in the maiii points. back to your kindling pile, where all haggard in the moonlight. It was
Wingham Jet., Lv.. 12.08 7.46
"And who is this partner up at the the old 'boxes from the store are ly- one thing to jest about it with him;
Wit►B+t►am 12.18 7.66 canal, Have you got him located, ing. I happened to notice a brass it was another to face the facts as
: too . tack in one near the end; then the they stood. She was in the power of
F- sv; , south. "I might guess." marks of the tack heads where they her father's enemy, the man whose
i �. "Well?" -impatiently. had pressed against the wood. I fig- proffer of friendship they had reject-
a.m. p.m. "A young lady hailing from this ured you might have substituted one ed with scorn. Her pride cried out
8.15 hacienda was out gathering flowers box for another, and inside of ten that she could not endure mercy from
Wingham Jct...... 7.01 8.21 all mo'ning. She was in her runa- minutes I stumbled aenst your wash him even if he wished to extend it.
Belgrave .......... 7.16 8.82 bout. The tracks led straight from stand and didn't budge it. Then I Surely there must be some other way
Blyth ............. 7.27 8.44 here to the head -gates. I followed didn't have to look any further." out than the humiliation. of begging
„_,' Londesborough .... 7.85 8.52 them through the sands. There's a "I've been trying to get a chance to him not to prosecute. She could see
Clinton Jct. ....... 7.49 4.06 little break in one of the rubber tires. move it and haven't ever found one. none but one, and that was infinite-
Ciinton ,•.......,. 7.66 4.18 You'll find that break mark every You were always coming around the ly worse. Yet she knew it.Would be
^.linton Jet. ....... 8.08 4.20 eight feet or so in the sand wash." corner on me," she explained. her father's first impulsive instinct to
Blrucefleid ....... 8.15 4:82 "I opened the head -gates, then, did "Sorry I incommoded you," he seek to fight her out of her trouble,
Kippen ........... 8.22 4.40 I?" laughed. "But it's too heavy for a the more because it was through him
Hensali , • ........ 8.82 4.50 "It looks that way, doesn't it?" lady to lift alone, anyhow. I don't that it had fallen upon her. At all
!.Zeta, ............ 8.47 5.06 At a signal from . father?" see how you managed it this far." hazards she must prevent this.
a _ _ _ .-t-91»4 -,..1. "I reckon," "I'm pretty strong," she said quiet -
"And thats all the evidence you've ly
a t C. N. R. TIME TABLE got against him and me?" she de- She had no hope of escape from CHAPTER %I
� I manded, still outwardly scornful, but the net of evidence in which he had
very much afraid at heart. entagled her. It pwas characteristic A CONVERSATION sy
L East a..0 p.m. Somebody locked the Chink in during tacks to stir his ity. Dee in her Not five minutes after Melia had
6.00 2.20 Oh, no, that ain't all, Miss Lee. of her that she would not stoop to
Goderfch
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this play. He's still wondering why." heart she knew now that she had left the deputy sheriff, another rider
B _V _ Clinton • • • • • ' • • • • . • 6.L 11,5 �2 ,,He dreamed it. Very likely he had wronged him when she had suspected galloped up the road. Jack, returning
Seaforth .. • • • .... • 5,41 8.12 him of being a rustler. He could not from his room, where he had left the
OIL • • . • been rolling a pill."
St. Columbian .. 6.49 3-20 "Did I dream this too?" From be. It was not in the man's charac- box of gold locked up, waited on the
Dublin ........ 6.64 8.28 his coat pocket he drew the piece of ter. But she would ask no mercy of porch to see who this might be.
r black shirting she had used as a him. All her pride rose to meet his. The horseman proved to be the man
a.m. p -m- p'm mask "I found it in the room where She would show him how game she Norris, or Boone, and in a thorough-
I?ublia , . ... 10.87 5.88 9.37
St. Cosmnban. 10.42 5.44 , , your father put me up that first could be. What she had sown she ly bad temper, as Jack soon found
Seaforth 10.68 668 9.60 night I stayed here. It was your bro- would reap. Nor would it have been out.
- V Clinton 10-10 8.08 10.04 ther Dick's room and this came from any use to beseech him to spare her. "Have you see anything of Usaie
1 i. Hinton ... .. 11.20 7.08 10.18 the pocket of a shirt hanging in the He was a hard man, she told herself. Lee?" he demanded immediately.
Golmeffy 11,40 7.20 10$0 closet. Now, who do you reckon put Not even a fool could have read any "Miss Lee has just left me, She
•• it there?" weakness in the quiet gray eyes that has gone to her room," answered
C. P. �yIE TAB[ H For the first time in her life she looked so steadily into hers. In bis Flatray quietly.
t. knew what it was to feel faint. She voice and movements there was a "Well, I want to see her," said the
'r Rut tried to speak, but the words would certain deliberation, but this had noth- other hoarsely.
`4 �• not come from her parched throat. ing to do with indecision of character. "I reckon you better postpone it t0
Goderich 6-50 How could he be so hard and cruel, He would do his dirty as he saw it, to -morrow. She's some played out
Menstt 5.56 this man who had once been her best regardless of whom it might affect. and needs sleep."
¢ ]s[etigw .. •• -. ». •: 604 friend? How could he stand there so Meliss3r stood before him in the un-- "Well, I'm going to see her now."
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. Auburn ................ ::. • 8.85 like a machine in his relentlessness ? conscious attitude of distinction she Jack turned, still all gentleness, an
Blyth "We -we used to -to play at hold- often fell into when she was moved, called to Jim Budd, who was in the
! Walton .. • ... • • • • . • • • 6.40 up when he was a boy," she gasped. head thrown back so as to bare the store.
' McNaught . • • • • - • • 6.62 He shook his head. "No, I reckon rounded throat column, brown little "Oh, Jim 1 Run upstairs and knock
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t r Toronto .................... 10.25 that won't go. You see, I've found hands folded in front of her, erectly on &Liss Melissy's door and tell her
'; the piece this was torn from, and 1 graceful in all her slender linea. Mr. Norris is down here. Ask if she
a.>tn, found it' in your father's coat, I "What are you going to do with will see him to -night."
'.' Toronts .................
7,40 went into his room on tiptoe that me?" she asked. "You're making a heap of form-
McNaught .. IL48 same hour. The coat was on the bed. His stone-cold eyes met hers stead- ality out of this, Mr. Buttinsky,"
y" Walton .................... 1=.01 He had gone downstairs for aurin- fly, "It ain't my say-so. I'm going sneered the cowpuncher.
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Bl7th ,,•,,, x+,12 ute and left it there. Likely he hadn't to put it up to Bellamy. I don't wereone towhistle no uand slook
Auburn M28 found a good chance to burn it yet." know what he'll is
NeGaw , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,,,,,, 12.=4 Taking the two pieces, he fitted them But, cold as his manner was, the out into the night as if he were a-
Meneset ................... 1141 together and held them up. "They heart of the man leaped to her tour- lone.
Qa &Aeh , , , ,„ , • , , , ... • , • .. IL45 cutch exactly, you see. Did your age. He saw her worn out, patheti- "No, seh. She dean' wan' tuh as(
fatheit used to play with you too when tally fearful, but she could face him him to -night," announced Jim upon
he was a boy?" with that still little smile of hers. He his return.
He asked this with what seemed longed to take her in his arms, to "That seems to settle it, Mr. Nor•
to her tortured soul like silken cruel- tell her it would be all right -all ris," said Jack pleasantly.
ty. She had no answer, none at least right. "Not ,by a hell of a sight. I've go'
They Laugh- that would avail. Desperately she "There's one thing that troubles something to say to her, and I'm go
#' aA eWth COMBS Bash snatched at a straw. me. I don't know how father will ing to say it."
• I "All this isn't proof. It's 'mere take this. You know bow quick -tem- "To -morrow," amended the officer.
Bose and Valerie Q,i6 sisters. Theft
surmise. Soma one's tracks mere eyed he is. I'm afraid he'll shoot "I said to -night."
charts dh.y they are 2s and IS years found by you. How do you know they somebody or do something rash when "But your say doe.4fi't go ere a
-�* of age, respectively, but to look at were father's?" he finds out. You must let me be gainat hers. I reckon you'll wait."
b them you would think they were 16 I've got that cinched too. I took alone with him when I tell him." "Not so's you could notice it. Th,
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ter and chatter of these two -for tgey "Then where's the. gold if he took that myself. It ain't going to do him ward the stairway, but Flatray was
r are resting side by side in hospital it? It must be somewhere. Where any good to make a gunplay. I leave there before him.
cots -you feel sure they.must be the a notion mebbe this thing will unravel "Get out of the way, you. I don'
lesser ages. is it . "
'lyes, they are both very slight, but "Now I'm going up to the head of itself if we give it time. It will only stand fof any butting -in," the cowbo.
the Wonder is they are here at all, make things worse for him to go off blustered. ,
for dust a few months ago they were the class, ma am. The gold -why, g '°Don't be a goat, Norris. She'
admitted, victims of the ravages of that's a dead easy one. Near as I half-cocked."
consumption. They are happy now can make out, Pro sitting on it right "How do you mean it may unravel tired and she says. she don't want t
because they are gaining weight and „ itself?" she asked. see you. That's enough, ain't it?"
strength again; and you, who have now•
never lost your health, can- hardly She gave a startled little cry that "Bellamy is a whole lot better man Norris leaped back with an oat t
understand what a wonderful difter- died in her throat. than folks give him credit for being. draw his gun, but Jack had the quick
bnCe that makes to people who never "Yes, it's ce'tainly a valuable wash- I expect he won't be hard on you when est draw in Arizona. The punche
expeotdd to get well. But then -that
Is the work of, the Muskoka Hospital stand. Chippendale furniture ain't in he knows why you did it." found himself looking into the busi
for Cona'umotlb'es, aY,ild it is being car- it with this kind. I reckon the king "And why did I do it?" she asked ness end of a revolver.
tried on tente each day^g Zkoulehdthe hundred r. of England's is ace high against a "Better change your mind, seh,
i I Rose and walerfe" ' o a fat mer•s straight flush when it bucks up a- _ _ _ _ __�-- suggested the officer amiably. "I tai
I 99 daughters, in a Hili Whor,�g there are gainst youra." s you've been drinking e I you',
arevIearning all` abou$tthhe dAeae� Melissy threw up her cards. "How some excited. - I£ you were in condi
tot'
they will do their best to tba that ria uinB tion to savez the situation, go'd un
% other members of f, it w did you find out?" she asked hoarse- Mare or• slifeancI derstand that the young lady down'
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gbth t Ott° ly. aratiof foltiPupil p care to see you now. Do you need
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thix ,excellent mak.?' .Tt Aapela y l ' 0i!,': b e detllnitely. Find out gp �,�qate! �p t6onlaieiromali� take a, hint?"
I lar sly upon subadrili'tloilp ia" A" ottte nal dvorl0eil dee e,r. atoLnotao rrt reckon if you knew 611 shot
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man who held n il�e F 'Iii ori: +ro bee?;'try�, , ��.va ,
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stage. ing to manufacture acture evidezlce &t 'inat d, 41 P dP? "t �w ..,,. d t, i !q
The officer lan hod tolerants as 1?e me as a wailer . Till liF a ittr wish .�k e �o, YW, pi' i jl ' " i)i%!ir
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lit a Cigarette. to; your whole record?" ' You're aT m9"J9ngo�k�'� � r J Z 5gfr r ,
"I hear you say it, Norris." reatedf,for robbing the Fort Alliston .Ta. om ti}e `4b 1 b ,i w W','',..
"I didn't expects you to believe it sage. , "'_ 'Ali,•:0at1Yt, a .� r» " i. `a f?,,
Norris, standing close -in front af: $ . 7rlllg Wr P 16g �n'.
Light away, but it's a fact just the �, ;"+a=x'
same." him, shot We right h4nd .put lgnd.: hex:,, `*hgt• cal?' X did' fox k", s�"- � s
Flatray climbed to the fence and knocked the officer 'backward: from' J., e. ' ;:.� t � _ "
rested his feet on a rail. Fire ahead, the hence. Before -the latter could get, 4 ,want. to know �vhs bC PI I. ay�rk , 41
I'm listenin'." on his feet again the cowpunchgr,was' about that Fort ,'A ,Jlispll: a'tag ,� '� t
"The first men on the ground after scudding through the night. He reach=. u :". ` � , ,,y, ,1 '. _' '.
gr P ,, as 1 - T�4.
that hold-up were me and Lee. We ed his horse, flung .himself on,, and 'The inoney ilea beekt,.40 oa? ed;' �i Ln r
:overed the situation thorough and galloped away. Harmlessly a. bullet' I know, ,that, _ ut�vl at A.b,0 , , cid ' e.
;ot hold of some points right away." or two zipped after him. as he disap the eximinalsry" , .� 1. � X11 "t ''.
"That's right funny too. When I peared. "They made their g,ptaway, i f- ' �
asked you if you'd been down there The deputy climbed over•the fence right."� .}, `'
you both denied it" commented the again and laughed softly to himself. "Aren't you looking for thein?"P. �-'
liters "You did that right well, Jack He'll "No." a
"We were protecting the always think he did that b his lone "Did Mr. Morse want you to drop r�,� ✓ '; '
p g girl. Mind y y ,
you, we didn't know who had done it never will know you was a partner it?" r-, '
.hen, but we had reasons to think in that escape. It's a fact, though, I "Yes'. 'He. was very 'urgent. abdattti: r,
;he person had just come from this dould have railroaded him through on it« ,
•aneh." the evidence, but not without includ- Does he know who the criminalslei% s,,
"What reasons?" briefly demanded ing the old man. Na, there wasn't are?" .•,
Flatray. any way for it but that grandstand "Yea." 7q 11 ,
"We don't need to go into them. escape of Mr. Boon's." "And isn't going to, prowirte-92,"'� ",1
Ne had them, anyhow. Then I lit on Still smiling, he dusted himself, put "So rte told mre," " .. jv; S
i foot -print right on the edge of the up his revolver, and returned to the "What did Mr. Morse say ylrhen ,rA
[itch that no malt" ever made. We house. you mode your 'report?"' "^ .
lidn't know what to make of it, but "'Said, `Thank yon.' " A '
ve wiped it out and followed the "Oh, yes, but•. -you know what I ,,`l�ga'
titch, one on each side. We'd figur- CHAPTER' %II mean." 7, "'
A that was the way he had gone. You THE TENDERFOOT MAKES A "Not being a ffiind�eader "
ee though water was tannin in the "About the suspect. Did he say
titch now, it hadn't been half an hour PROPOSITION anything?" i ,
tefore." .Melissy waited in dread expectancy "Said he bad -private reasons for } k
"You don't say!" to see what would happen. Of quick, not pushing. the case. I didn't ask'hira _ y�
"There wasn't a sign of anybody warm sympathies, always ready to what they were." / �4`
saving the ditch till we got to the bear with courage her own and others' Chis was all, situ could get out of „
anch; then we saw tracks going burdens, she had none of that passive him. It vas less than she hat 'hap- - r•
traight to the house," endurance which age and experience ed. Still, it wf.s something. . She ,,
"So you got a bunch of sheep and bring. She was keyed to the heroism knew definitely what Bellamy - had 1; a9 ,
.rove them down there to muss things of an occasion, but not yet to that done. Wherefore she sat down to • ;; I
!p some." which life lays as a daily burden up- write him a note of thanks. It took »
Norris looked sharply at him. "You on many without dramatic emphasis. her an hour and eight, sheets ofi.
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rot there while we were driving them All next day nothing took place. On paper Before she coUild complete it to
her satisfaction. Even then the re- Well, that's right. We had to th.e succeeding one her father return- ,- . ,
elp her out." ed with the news that the "Monte suit was not what she .; vented; .'' She ,.. _>
"You're helping her out now, ain't Cristo" contest had been continued to wished she knew how he felt about it. ,"
on?" Jack asked dryly. another term of court. Otherwise so that she could temper it to the '
"That's my business. I've got my nothing unusual occurred. It was af- r:ght degree of warmth- or cooin$s. yh,
wn reasons, Mr. Deputy. All you ter mail time that she stepped to the Since she did not know, she erred .on w' >
'ot to do is arrest her." porch for a breath of fresh air and the side of stiffness and made her ;w
"Just as soon as you give me the noticed that the reward placard had message formal."-, ,
vidence, sell," been taken down.- "Mr. Thomas L. Morse, `' .
"Haven't I given it to you She "Who did that?" she asked of Alan '`Monte Cristo Mine. ''!
ras seen to drive away from the house McKinstra, who was sitting on the "Dear Sir: w -'a
a her rig. She left footprints down steps, reading a newspaper and "Father and I feel that we ought to "`t
here. She came back up the ditch munching an apple. thank you for your considerate for- ,_
nd then rode right up to the head- "Jack Flatray took it down. He bearance in a certain matter you know M` r,
Ates and turned on the water. Jim said the offer of a reward had been of. Believe me, sir, we are grateful.^,
.ittle saw her cutting across country withdrawn."
rom the head -gates hell -to -split." "When did he do that?" Very respectfully, '
"Far as I can make out, all the evi- "About an hour ago. Just before MELISSY LEE."
ence you've given me ain't against he rode off."
er, but against you. She was out "Rode off! Where did he go?" Continued next week.
rivin' when it happened, you say, "Heard him say he was going to
A t m to arrest her for M H t ]d our father that when - -
n you expec a
t. It ain't against the law to go
esa. e o y
he settled the bill."
[riving, seh. And as for that ditch
"He's gone for good, then?"
A Real Game of Patience
airy tale, on your own say-so you
"That's the way I took it. Say,
viped out all chance to prove the
Melissy, Farnum says Jack told him
tory."
the gold had been found and turned
Have you ever played a game called
"Then you won't arrest her?"
'back to Morse. Is that right?"
"Patience"? It whiles away an idle
hour very pleasantly and, of course,
"If you'll furnish the evidence,
"How should I know?"
you can throw sown the ceras and
eh."
"Well, it looks blamed funny they
Qnl; any time you Blease.
"I tell you we know she did it. Her
could get the bullion back without
There is a place, however, where
they play another kind of "Patience,"
ether knows it."
getting the hold-up."
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and they can't leave off when they
"Is it wonyin' his conscience? Did
"Maybe they'll get him yet," she
wish.
ke ask you to lay an information a-
consoled him.
George is at it -he is an inmate of
Hospital for Consump-
;ainst her?" asked the officer ser-
"I wish I could et a crack at
g
the Toronto
tives at Weston -has been there for
astically.
him," the boy murmured vengefully,
three years now. For a chap who
"That isn't the point."
"You had one chance at him, didn't
used to lead an active outdoor life
this is hard. A few months ago, his
"You're right. Here's the point-"
You?"
wife and her m4her died leaving 'his
lot by the faintest motion of the
"Jose spoiled it. Honest, I wasn't
little five-year-old son to the care of
)ody had the officer's indolence been
going to lie down, 'Lissie."
relatives.
How George does wish he could got
ifted, but the quiet ring of his voice
Again the days followed each other
his health back Quicker so that he
slowed it was gone. "You and Lee
uneventfully. Bellamy himself never
can look after his boy! It has been
longt
ou
were overheard planning that rob-
came for his mail now, but sent one
a
n anfight,
e do the k nilly nurhe rid
eery the day after you were seen
'Monte Cristo.'
of the boys from the mine for it.
Melissy wondered whether he despis-
doctors who are helping him
wouldn't you like to help In this
ranging around the
You started out to hold up the stage.
ed her so much be did not ever want
ton tt hork through your eubscrip-
[t was held up. By your own story
to see her again. Somehow she did
think this. Perhaps it
Contributions may be sent to Hon.
eside 283 Coileffs
w. ton,nto President.
pou were the first men on the ground
I tracked
not like to
might be delicacy on his part. He
-Char
j
after the robbery. you
PRINCESS SECURES RECORD MOOSE HEAD
[prince Michel and Princess Stnrdza, of the Rumanian legatlony Washington with their big galnG tr6phies
1 secured during a hunt on the borders of Jasper National Park, Alberta, Granada. Princess Sturdza it '
shown holding the record moose head with a spread of sixty-one inches, the largest-evbr taken b ' womsm ' ii'
and one of the record heads for that c{istrict. The party also secured mountain ish and wOtliii %ll goat o . '
heads of which are shown in the photograph, and intend returning another year to hUM 91 idbl-Caxtadiltl. ti'}
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