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The Huron Expositor, 1929-01-04, Page 7V::61i2Ste* /0414 4;;Psdsillareat Nadiekle, IhniVersity of Oast ant New York ORht" - 41 Aural Institute, Moorefield's We' and Golden Square Throat a 08 - •MIAs, London,. Eng, At Commercial acted, Seaforth„ third Ilienday in each month from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. 48 Waterloo Street, South, Stratford, Phone 267, Stratford. LEGAL Phone No. 91 JOHN J. IIUGGARD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public, Etc, Beattie Block - Seaforth, Ont. R. S. HAYS Barrister, Solicitor. Conveyancer and Notary POW.. Solicitor for the Dominion Bank. Office in rear of the Dominion '; anis, adorth. Money to loan. , BEST BEST misters, Solicitors, Conveyan- eers and Notaries Public, Etc. Office rha the Edge Building, opposite The Enpositor Office. VETERINARY JOHN GRIEVE, V.S. Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin- ary College. All diseases •of domestic animals treated. Calls pramptly at- tended to and charges moderate. Vet- erinary Dentistry a specialty. Office and residence on Goderich Street, one door east of Dr. Mackay's Office, Sea - forth. A. R. CAMPBELL, V.S. Graduate of Ontario Veterinary College, University of Toronto. All diseases of domestic animals treated by the most modern principles. Charges reasonable. Day or night calls promptly attended to. Office on Main Street, Hensall, oaposite Town Hell. Phone 116. MEDICAL DR. W. C. SPROAT Graduate of Faculty of Medicine, faasiversity of Western Ontario, Lon- don. Member of College of Physic- ians and Surgeons of Ontario. Office in Aberhart's Drug Store, Main St., Seaforth. Pbone 90. DR. R. P. 1. DOUGALL [Honor graduate of Faculty of Medicine and Master of Science, Uni- eereity of Western Ontario, London. aaember of College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Office, 2 doors east of post office. Phone 56, Hen.sall, Ontario. 300441' DR. A. NEWTON. CRADY Bayfield. Graduate Dublin University, Ire- land. Late Extern Assistant Master otunda Hospital for Women and Children, Dublin. Office at residence lately occupied by Mrs. Parsons,. Hours, 9 to 10 a.m., 6 to '7 p.m.; Sundays, 1 to 2 p.m. 2866-26 11 - 7 a DR. F. J. BURROWS _ Office and residence Goderich Street, east of the Methodist Church, Sea - forth. Phone 46. Coroner for the County of Huron. By REK BEACH , Publishers The Musson Book Company, Ltd. Toronto ..tnittOr '40 ',§04:4411. Itfzitzgrpsa disogaA4 Mt/Aetna', to the oliti6 and **interviewed Wan. Gmy emserce4 witla co30',,stma. Reluctantly Iho made known his identity, and ve- told, the whole story d his trip, this time beginning at ,his meeting' 'with °overly in Dallas. lie displayed the bewildering contents of 0 hie sextuple case, stow guarded by a uniformed aras of the law, and explained hew he had volunteered his services oat of pure love a adventure, then how be had played into -Mallow's hands while aware of his malign purpoee at all -times. This was more than a local story; It was big enough or the wire. Grey sat at the editor's elbow while that enthusiastic gentlemart called Dallas and gave it to the papers there. • was esoorterl to the 'railroad station by an admiring crowd; he was cheered as he passed, smiling, in- to his Pullman car. - r vecistaseett...,==r-`---77--.17 (Continued from last week) "You'll breathe easier as time goes on," he announced. aYou'll- cough a good deal for a flew days, but where you are going that won't disturb any- body. Your eyes will get well, too, if you take care al them as I direct. But, meanwhile, let me warn you against lifting those bandages. Ad- vise me as they dry out and I'll wet them again." ,A blessed relief stole over the un- fortunate pair; they were still sick and weak, but in a short time the acuteness of their suffering had dim- inished sufficiently for Gray to help them into the back seat of his car and resume his journey. Sarcastically he referred to the sample case on the tonneau floor. "If those diamonds are in your way, I'll take them in front with me. If not, I'll ask you to keep an eye on them —or, let us say, keep a foot on thean. If you should be foolish enough to heave them overboard or try to re- new your assault upon me, I would be tempted to break this milk bottle. In that event, my dear Mallow, you'd go through life with a tin cup in your hand and a dog on a string." Tony groaned in abject misery of body and soul. Mallow cursed feeb- ly. "What—is that devilish stuff?" the -latter queried. It -was plain from his voice that he meditated no treachery. "Oh! I was going to tell you. It Ft a product of German ingenuity, de- signed, I believe for the purpose of quelling riotous and insurrectionary prisoners. It was efficacious, also, in taking pill boxes and clearing out dug outs marl the like. With some care one is safe in using it in an; ordinary ammonia gun—the sort policemen use on mad dogs. Forgive me, if I say that you have demonstrated its util- ity in peace as well as in war. If there were more high-jackers in the world the device might be commer- cialized at some profit; but, alas, my good Mallow, your profession is not a common one." "Cut out the kidding," Mallow growled, then he fell into a new con- vulsion of coughing. The car pro- ceeded for some tame to the tune of smothered' tom.plaints from the mis- erable figures bouncing upon the rear seat before Gray said: "I fear you are a selfish pair of rascals. Have you no concern re- garding the fate of the third member of your treasure -hunting trio?" Evi- dently they had none. "Too bad! It's a good story." Whaterver theimindifference to the welfare of the chauffeur, they still had some curiosity .as to their own, for Mallow asked: "What are you going to do with us?" "Wihat would you do, if you were ir my place?" "I'd listen to reason." "Meaning—?" "Hell! You k -now what h.e means, ri 0 Tony cried/feebly. Gray laughed. "Pardon d4me feebly. , "So! u do e the honor to of- fer b my amusement. It sounds callous, I know, but, frankly. your unhappy con- dition fails to distress me. Well, how much de you offer?", "All we got. A coupla thousand." "A temptation, truly." Calvin Gray had never been more pleased with himself than new, for matters had worked out almost exact- ly according to plan, a compliment in- deed, to his foresight and to his ex- ecutive ability. He loved excitement, lie lived upon it, and much of his life had been devoted to the stage -mere agement of sensational exploits like this one. As a boy plays with a toy, so did Gray amuse 'himself with ad- venture, and now he was determined to exact from this one thelast part- icle of enjoyment and whatever profit it afforded. Within a few minutes of his arrival at Ranger, the town was noisy with the story, for he drove down the brightly lighted main street and stop- ped in front of the most populous cafe. There he called loudly for a policeman, and when the latter elbow- ed his way through the crowd, Gray told him, in plain hearing of all, en- ough of his experience to electrify everybody. Hie told t'he story well; he even made known, the value of his diamond stock; mercilessly he pillor- ied the ewe blindfolded bandits. When he drove to the jail the running boards of his car were jammed with inquisi- tive citieenseand those Who could not find footing thereon followed at a run, laughing, shouting, acclaiming him and jeering at las prisoners. Ha-ving surrendered custody of the latter, be deemed their eyes once more and explained the sort of care they required, then he made at ap- peal from the freed steps of the jail adjuring the mole to disrperse quietly and permit the law to take its coarse Nothing like this, had occurred dur- ing the brief, busy life of tbe town It was a dramatic incident, but the manner in which this capable stran- ger had handled it and the discom- fiture be had brotight upon hite assail- ants appealed more to the risibilities than to the lager of Ranger. Ad- miration for him &evinced indigna- tion at the high-jexiters; cries for vengeance upon them wore drowned in aloft igilYpmfation of their captor CHAPTER VIII DR. C. MACKAY C. Mackay, honor graduate of Trin- ity University, and gold medallist of *Trinity Medical College; member ef the College of Physicians and Sur - aeons of Ontario. DR. H. HUGH ROSS Graduate of University of Toronto Laeculty of Medicine, member of Col- /lege of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario; pass graduate courses in Chicago Clinical School of Chicago; Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, London, England; University Hospital, Lon- don, England. Office—Back of Do- minion Bank, Seaforth. Phone No. 5. Night calls answered from residence, Victoria Street, Seaforth. DR. WILLIAM ABERHART Graduate of Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. Member of College of Physicians and.Surgeo-ns of Ontario. Licentiate of Medical Coun- cil of Canada.. bate interne Toronto Western Hospital. Office, Queen's Hotel Building, North Main Street. Phone 89. Night calls, phone 111. DR. J. A. MUNN Successor to Dr. R. R. Ross Graduate of Northwestern Univers- ity, Chicago, Ill. Licentiate Royal College of Dental Surgeons, Toronto. Office over Sills' Hardware, Main St., Seaforth. Phone 151. DR. F. J. BECHELY Graduate Royal College of Dental Surgeons, Toronto. Office over W. R. Smith's Grocery, Main Street, Sea - forth. Phones: Office, 185W; resi- dence, 185J. 3056-tf AUCTIONEERS THOMAS BROWN Licensed auctioneer for the counties of Huron and Perth. Correspondence arrangements for sale dates can be made by calling The Expositor Office, Seaforth. Charges moderate, and ostistaction guaranteed. PHONE 302 • OSCAR KLOPP Honor Graduate Carey Jones' Na- tional School of Auctioneering, Chi- cago. Special course taken in Pure red Live Stack, Real Estate, Mer- chandise end Farm Sales. Rates in keeping with prevailing market. Sel- loff ction assured. Write or wire, Oscar Klopp, Zurich, Ont. Phone, 18-93. 2866-5a re R. T. LUKER Licensed auctioneer for the County of Huron. Sales attended to in all exarte of ape county. Seven years' ex- gerience in Manitoba and Saskatche- wan. Terme reasonable. Phone No. 9.78 e 11, Exeter, Centralia P.O., R. Wo. 1. Orders left at The Huron En - elevate? *ace, Seaforth, promptly at - O 0000000000 O Y. W. AI:laws . O Licenses' Auctioneer for Peal ° O and litarivn Countion. 0 O ,Bales Solicited. 0 O Tams: On lentiOT 0 O ated ' 0 0 Of Petk, tZsttlitih cant 0 er Resil i o O teP, ' 0 'iN R. 14,, Let " a/ N' Coverly was at the station when Gray's train arrived at Dallas the 'next morning. His was sufferhig in- tense excitement, and he deluged his friend with a flood of questions, mean- while flourishing the morning papers, all of which appeared to have devoted much space to the Ranger episode. He hugged Gray, and he pumped his hand; he laughed and he chattered; he insisted upon hearing thearhole story without delay. On their way uptown, the returning hero gave it to him, together with Gus Briskow's check. At the size of the latter .coverly gasped. "Didn't I say you were a good salesman? And Mallow You got him, didn't you? I told you he was a crook. Just the same, old man you ran a terrible risk and I feel mighty guilty. Why, those fellows would have killed you." "Probably." "Why didn't you take policeman or somebody?" "And miss all the fun? Miss my pay for the trip? I agreed te take my commission in thrills." The jeweler was frankly curious. "Weren't you frightened?" "Frightened? No." Gray shook his head. "I've never been really a- fraid of anything or anybody, so far as I recall. I've never been able to understand the necessity of being Might-med. I dare say the capacity 'or (-riving that particular emotion 'vs ttIll i11,c1 from my make-up—the °emit of some peculiar prenatal in - gum -me probably. I'm sorry, too, for 'ear must have a fascination and I umisual sensations!' "Speaking of your cornmissions, how am I going to pay you—not for the sale you made, although I would not have done as well., but for the lose you saved the firm and for the risk you ran?" Gray felt a Momentary desire to have done with pretense, to confies.s his true condition and to beg not only a suitable reward for his services, but also as large a loan as Coverly could spare. It is hard to maintain an at- titude of opulence on less than noth- ing; it would be so much easier to have done with this counterfeit ges- ture and trust to a straightforward appeal. IBut -he dared' not yield to the impulse. "You may give° me anything you see fit," he declared, "and I sha'n't -embarrass you by refusing. On the contrary, go as strongly as you pos- sibly can." Coverly actually appeared to be re- lieved at this statement, but he in- quired, curiously: "What bave you got up your sleeve? You don't need money." "Obviously not. But I know a needy object of charity; a worthy case, I assure you. I can scarcely eall him a friend, but I used to ad- mire him greatly, and he is still an agreeable companion—a man at once a pale e , extravagant, entertainin g, dissipated. He is in a bed way, tem- porarily, and can scarcely afford ev- en the bare necessities of life. It is only with my help in fact, that he ineinteins its luxuries. Your money shall go to him, and with every dol- lar of it that he squanders, there shall arise an earnest orison to you." The jeweler was delighted. "Good!" he cried. "I detest the deserving poor as heartily as you do. And now t'd like to open a bottle of champagne with our breakfast." along a sieglat . '01'2V hadalte a Periotilar elaatutter •6 e vdeirt dammed to Gillatt6 Ma 4, and totntAlittiatterli biz& toot big ta1M, t, ,If �i „.4,44:0 cy r 0 prxi Pla0 '°'.1;1 e : tii' ,,:vaiiii b(44.., Titelis thatV4tehed.,Min - . ed 611 colOrii*Un )1/400tw,ea14rai.ok tried to .40/11,04 Maa Ea 'Said 1:illomMt A ..' not talk gloat tbizigo I Icnowir 4bout—eicanaloodv ilfiright 6verlie0 Me. He (*Jared the Meafit he waO vrOcitc,, 'bW,1350...• :AO ittria 4*.:,.1 l*A"OP-415 in feta were PO gtood and wouldn't ,iiiMiTAeria pay se driller a beaus if be made, a Gear 0todlo1oly maiiatolgart I*. al .' , , ,..:', 741$ well ,for them, Hg was sick te nta, of Ifitu4noiA): imiriotorr; te, *Xi.* Yi4 10 'tAiV4'.*:'fio ing other people mica , and • getting oat of oSee.,,, always piraposelVt Ale. Bu4d4, with notiang fee leanaeif. . . . It Was ways tri a lemma, het always avitla Spa, gales yoss a a • time the drilling crews shared in the Went thee to observe' the 'stria* Minded profits. . . He'd see lama eobody nieetiea of Wit! Wavier. It ,was a get the Meat •04'4 , froze him out again if laie had to Part of hie plan to ,create an stmeet,,P yen valuta% beat*. , I spoil the hole. Eie wound stp by dema phere of his own, -eta: entephisiae his hodo. and explebiag smaii.pedriv .. , ing everything, and r pretended to kneels for quick, deeistive, wellscaleee lure Ihne1ibpai4 NO f011.16,pag'054:irtek4n;', wallow it, but When he had one I lated action. The money lat" Deceived really 'knew how ta live.,. tivr'''i% krilt:'* went over my maps and located the from Catterly enabled laim to main- an Kw task, and -the eV:Welt ilk*. ' e lease where he's drilling. Three of tain the posture he had aseurneel; he about the newly %rich is: that theY ,, the adjoining tracts ereewsied by the spent it with his usual prodigality, won't learn. They ream to MOW V__,,e49e).:' big companies, so that eliminated receiving little direct benefit, but mak- their wealth. I propose to bap ppe-FF,,,,'P,-.. longs to Keene Hoaglund. Henry was glad to see me when me turn came to money ran out of his pockets like with, pride, tnat 1 reccanneend myeetf nddela04krat,*(' go in, and—" ed. them, but the twenty to the west be - "I ibet he was glad," Tom declar- in a position to borrow, he did not authorities upen extravagan.ee, travagance with him, was an art, rnit me. It is not witheentaitant, but erigia*, tricie X . water, but although he was already to you as. one of the, greatest hieing eat geraaratifitammet. do so. He inerely marked time, de- nes, and the minor vices of the prais- ing each dollar. look like four. Eat- good People get started, if adall laeree5M*IdanC. idle, th'eTbmeottrerdienovv.*%'-,0 Barbareea smooth cheeks flushed riving a grim amusement at the way perous." * a SAW down twogen ,?threllgis ‘Ari,oi,Vet.a..",, faintly. "Hie is too busy and too rich his popularity grew as his currency The mother nodded, a, bit vaguely. or to—think about eels." dwindled. It was a game, enjoyable "That's kind of like Pa talks. • He Fed" before the teu4at07.4ev0— "He wasn't too busy and too rich so long as it lasted. Egotistical he to inquire about you 'most every day knew himself to be, bet it was a con - since he got back from the war." scious fault; to tickle his own vanity 'I didn't forget to call him 'Colonel,' filled him with the same satisfaction and that pleased both him and Bell. a cat feels at having its back rubbed, Then I told them that I proposed to and he ,excused himself by reasoning -become a rich and successful oil op_ that his deceit harmed nobody. Mean- trater and wanted their advice hew while, with feline alertness he waited to begin. Old Bell was amused, but for a mouse to appear. Henry—I beg pardon, Colortel—Nel- He was relieved one day to receive son was shocked. He couldn't bear a telegram from Gus Briskow asking to think of women, and of me esp,ee_ him to meet Ma and Allie at the eve- - ially, in business. He might have be niag train and "get them a hotel." come disagreeably personal if his He managed to secure a good suite father hadn't been there." at the Ajax, and it was with gen- "Dunnes I care much for Henry," uinely spleasurable anticipation that Torn said, mildly. he drove to the station. "Oh, he's all right, but—I hate Bell!Dismay smote him, however, at first It makes anybody mad to be laughed sight of the new arrivals. Ma Bris- at. Henry was more diplomatic. He kow resembled nothing so much as tried to convince mie that the oil erre of those hideous "crayon enlarge - game is altogether a man's business ments" he had seen in farmhouses— eel that no woman could succeed at atrocities of an art long dead—for she le `It is a contest of wits,' he ex- was clad in an old-fashioned basque and skirt of some stiff, near -silk ma - pleated "You've got to outguess the other fellow. You've got to know v- terial, and her waist, which buttoned e erything hels doing and keep him far down the front and terminated from knowing anything you're doing. in deep points, served merely to roof The minute he knows as much as y.ou over but not to conceal a peculiarity do, he's got it on you." That seem- of figure which her farm dress had ed to prove to Henry that no woman mercifully hidden. Gray discovered could win at it, for men are such that Ma's body, alas! bore a quaint re - superior creatures. They know so semblance in outline to a gourd. A tiny -black bonnet. with a wide sum much more than a women can pos- sihly learn; their wits are so much eingle of ribbon tied melee her chin, keener! -.yesornamented with a sort of cen- "I was duly impressed. I asked him terpiece built of rigid artificial fruit i's• call this evening, for I did so wishiftLleeflo;e31.7I.I.pns. Hetr style, was,inhle1avreolde(- to have him teach me what little I i was capable of learning. But he into a high pompadour. Beneath thatl pompadour, h.owcver, her face was a - couldn't come, because he had been glow with interest and her eyes milted to Dallee, unexpectedly. That was my cueIn my most sweetly elealwed almost as brightly as did the . girlish manner I said: 'Oh, indeed! brandnew lavalliere and the bar pin Do you expect to see Knute Hoaglund mond. Two huge six -carat center dia- while you're there?" Two hecti espots had come into If the mother's appearance was un - "Bob's" cheeks during this recital; usual, the daughter's was startling, she was teetering•upon the desk now what with her size and the barbaric like a nodding Japanese doll, and her latitude of color she had indulged her - blue eyes were dancing. self in. Allegheny's get-up scream - "1 heard Old Bell's chair creak and ed. In the general store at Cisco, I , saw him shoot a quick glance at whence it had originated, it had Henry. Henry admitted, casually, doubtless been considered a sport cos - that he might drop in on Knute. tume, for there was a skirt of huge Why?" blue and white checks, a crepe waist "'You'll be wasting time,' I told of burnt orange, and over tnat a veg- him, even more sweetly, for dad and etable silk sweater, with the broadest, I have that twenty west of Burk_ greenest stripes Gray had ever seen. burnetta A violent, offensive green, it was; and "Well! You'd have thought I had the sweater was too tight. Her hat stuck a hatpin into Bell. And Henry's was large and floppy and adorned ntouth actually dropped open. Think with preposterous purple blooms; one of it: Colonel Henry Nelson, the hero of her hands was gloved, but upon of Whatever -itis, with his imperial the other she wore her splendid soli - mouth open and nothing coming out taire. She "shone" it, as a watch - of it—not even the imperial breath!" man shines his flashlight. "Bob," reeked -backward and kicked They were enough to daunt a up her neatly shod feet: she hugged -stronger man than Calvin Gray, these herself and snicaered with a malicious two. He could well imagine the sen - cm amment not wholly Cbristianlike. ,etion he and they sveuld create in "But—we ain't even got an option! 'he Initem of the modish Ajax. But Ti -ekes morey to leme close -in stuff. eis first surprise was slice -dela -I hy e Tern wms bewildered. eentle pity, for Ma Briskety greeted "OF course. Anil they realize -I i in) rapturously, and in Alletelienya ewe, or Bell did. as mon as he'd had -ember eyes he detected a look ol' ere, to collect himself. But it WA., mingled suffering and &fiancee She too late then; he had betrayed him- anew. sr-me:hew or otherthat she ,,,:ef and he k -new it. Oh, he was sore! wne conspieumes, gortesoue, and her Heal hem flung me out if I'd been a mill was in torture, and that it had men. I got mad, too, and T told hirn mquired a magnificent ceurege on a made no real difference whether I her pnrt to meet him as bravely a: was bluffing or not; the jig was up, sae did. He was ashnmed of. him - se far ns he was cnneerned. I re- self; amusement at their ,expense did minded him of what Henry had just him no credit, and he determined to said—that the oil business is a game mlieve her pain and to `help her at - of wife, and that when you know what een the likeness of other women if it the other is doing you have him lick- wets in his power to do so. It was a ed. I admitted that he could probab- -ahem to ei; inherent chivalry that ly keep me from getting the lease, lip rOFP to the occasion and welcomed hut I could also kmp him from get. the women with a cordiality that tine it. Bell nearly had a stroke at warmed their hearts. Enthusiastic - that threat. Henry behaved very ae- nay he took charge of Ma's lunch hceanytelypiteharsoeudghhmtofin throughout. Ithink hato intkisome-muest- he sket; a eainst Allie's muttered pro- test he despoiled bier of her bilious. body in Wichita., besides him, hal the near -leather suitcase; he compliment - courage to defy his father ; anyhow, ed them treon their appearance. and :he said, "Bob" has taken usat our showed such pleasure at seeing them own game. She knows enough now ognin that they surrendered grate - to place that le -nee in half an hour, fully to him. By the time he had and I think we'd Itetter take her in. them in a taxicab they were as talka- Otherwise she'll wire Knute, and hell tive as a pair of magpies. probably protect her for an inter- Of course, they had to know all a- bout the holdup, and his manner of "That made me feel awfully fraud- telling the story made them feel that ulent, but his smarty remarks about they had played an important part in women in the oil business still rankled it. Arrived at the hotel. be swept so I just sat pretty and blinked like them nlong with him so swiftly that a little owl. Bell swore. In his 'best they had no time in which to become and most horrible manner, he swore, dismayed or eelf-censcious, and fin- ihmt—ale gave in." "Bob" laughed a- ally he deposited them in their rooms gain, a bit 'hysterically. "That's a- quite out of breath and quite delight- hout all, dad. They agreed to put ed. He left them palpitating with up the money and carry me—us, 1 exciterneat at the wonders he pro- mean—for a quarter interest if T can posed unfolding for them on the mor- eet the lease from Knute Hoaglund. row. So, Pm leaving on the nigat train." Allier answered hie phone call about "Son! I—I'm darned if I don't he- eight o'clock the next morning. lieve we'll make a go of this busi- "Ready for breakfast?" he inquir- neets." Tom Parker reclared. ed. With a little cry Barbara flung her- "Why, we et at daylight," she told self into his time nim, in some astonishment. "I been ridin' since then." The publicity Calvin Gray received "Indeed! Putting roses in your from his exploit at Ranger could be cheeks, e'h? With 'whom did you nothing except agreeable to one of his fro?" temperament. Gratefully he basked "Oh one of the elevator men." in Ilia notoriety, meaneebile cantina- "B—lent.--" Gray sputtered, deeply in assiduously to • cultivate the abecked- "Why, Mies Briskow, they -a am esteemed tatearardaTr • •.-tt lem in discuss theorise, 1, 'Ile „gel tis tiiere axe only 'Eli 6, • fratenvoll dimwit . hsrig fie reditax-y, .deaaierei ie.eete melefental, the ad:' Mee el Litt'.• practice of Oltad/: 'ate-- bathbtthieg ti). si• 11 „ftea. dilfe , aat e `. 1. aft • a 14- On the very day that the new sign, "Toni and Bob Parker," went up over the door of the insurance office at Wichita Falls, the junior partner an- nounced: "Well, dad, the firm gets busy at once. I'm off for Dallas to -night." "What for?" Torn was dismayed by such a prompt manifestation of en- ergy. "I'll have to tell you—" Barbara perched 'herself upon her father's deek and began speaking with a note of excitement in, her voice. "I heard Henry Nelson was in. town, so I went to the bank this morning to see him. He's such a big man in the oil busi- ness I thought he might help me. He was there, but in eonference with his father and another man. There were several people waiting, so I sat down When the man they were talking to camie out, it was Pete, that driller who put dawn. the first well for as. He was glad to see me, and we had quite a talk, hut I noticed he was fidgety. He said he was running a rig ever near 'Burk,' and had a fish- ing job on his hands'. With all the excitement and everybody running double 'towers' and trying to beat the other fellow down to the sand, it struck me as queer that a contract driller like Pete would be here in Wichita in conference with Bell and Henry Nelson, when he ought to be out on the lease fishing for a lost bit. It didn't sound right. The more I got out of hian, the queerer it sound- ed, for he had a the fis,hing tools he needed, so 1 accused him of being a fraud. 1 Old him I'd bet he had a showing of oil and was Loring to bor- row money to buy the offset Or to get the Nelson's to buy it and carry him for an interest." , aWherekl you pick up this %WO?" TOM inquired. "You talk like them wild men a, the Westland Hotel." Batillau latagiittZ de y. "Did t niot put dim Iette Allow ft)11,0? sernt you this, and says to tell you it's ourt first spendint spree and aet ae- eordin'." From her pocket she drew a folded check, made out inblank to Calvin Gray and signed by Gus Bris- kow. "So! I as.sume thet I'm to pay the bills. Very well. The sky is the lim- it, eh?" "That's it. Of course, I don't need anything for myself—this dress and bunnit are good enougm—but Al -lie's got to have new fixin's, from the in- side out. I s'pose her things'll eat up the best part of a hundred dollars, won't they?" The .speaker's look of worried inquiry bespoke a lifetime of habitual economy. "We're not going to buy what you need, but what you want. You're go- ing to have just as many pretty things as Allie." Ma was panic-stricken at this sug- gestion. When Gray insisted she de- murred; when he told her that one nice dress would cost at least a nun- dred dollars, she confessed: "Why, I don't s'pose all the do's I've had since I was married cost much moreen that." "T'll spend at least a thousand on you before noon," he laughed. Mrs. Briskow gasped. she rolled her oyes and fanned herself; she appeal- ed to Allegheny, but it was evident filet the latter had kept her eyes op- en and had done some thinking, for ehe broke out, passionately: "You make me siek, Ma! It'll take ell Pa can afford and then some, to make us look like other people. I never knew how plumb ridic'lous we are till—" "Not that," Gray protested. "You knew we're ridicabus," she cried, fiercely. "We're a couple of sow's ears ,and all Pa's royalties can't make us into silk purses. But--meb- le we can manage to look like silk, if we spend enough." (Continued next week) A Britieb phYstesaa, etaiW in research -work, thinks crease of multiple birth:SI-is la. natural. , 'ab ege In the meant -hue Britain's twin 'population, walla is etsein' ery seven thousand births, .1a, rap approaching those of Russia end land, which are computed to he highest in the world. There is one disturbing espeet - the world's twin populatatn, whiea occupyine the serious a -nettle -re scientists! The twins now being born are pa ticularly healthy and vigorous, san 75 per cent. of them live and slitoW‘a every sig'n of attainirrg raateirity. ' If only half these children are time, , tenral, or hereditary, twins, they waib a: inherit these tendencies and • past , them on to their childrenaa children, who will in turn pass them on to sue- ceeding generations. ° Thus we are faced with the prose pect of a future world full of twins, when multiple births will be the rule rather than the exception. tt.t, BOOK LOVERS' CORNeda me IT'S LIKE SUMMERTIME IN CALIFORNIA A Glorious Place to Spend the Winter. In Sunny California you will find wondierful places to spend a month or two this winter. It is a land of un- equalled climate, of high mountains, of colorful deserts and fascinating cities. Sumptuous hotels at the many re- sort centres along the Pacific Coast will make your stay a pleasant one. Many visitors to California plan their itinerary via the North Pacific Coast. The beauty and cosmopolitan character of Vancouver and Victoria— amada's famous far western cities, mal:cthe journey enjoyable and in- teresting. 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Patricia had had some theatrical training before the war and. after four months' honeymoon, when Michael decides he must eettle dawn to his literary work, Pat declares, "I, too, have a soul to save," and after many tiring efforts secures a job in a play. Only failure had been pee - dieted for it, but catching the London public on an emotional rebound, it is ar, immense.success and Pat becomee arrlieus overnight. "She Named Michael. Like the sun se shore and warmed her. or went in and left aer cold; yet all the time he was there, inevitably and essent- ially. He was primary. like hunger and thirst. But she needed the stim- ulie er the footlighte. the applause, the gleriom releme of grease and mem a, a contrnst and a comple- :vent te the meet strength or Michael. To the quiet peaceful cottage conies Sylvia, Pat's younger sister, a modern of the moderns. who has just terminated an unsuccessful marriage venture. She it is who finds the cause of Michael's moroseness and Pat's more frequent nights in town, and she recoils from her sister's in - Twins and triplets are being born fatuation for a fellow actor when in gmater numbers all over Great she has Mic'hael's "all -enveloping Britain and Europe, and there is a. structure of affectian that he had general tendency towards multiple built up around Pat like a vast cath - births in all parts of the civilized -edral in which she was enshrined on high altar" world. puzzling biologists and eugenists, who paired after Michael has "done This is a startling fact which is the eTathei their structure is re - are unable to account for the pheno- the actor and cententment reigne a gain. Michael is a most lovable person, "a splendid example of Major Gibbs' power in creating an absolute thor- oughbred who is at the same time human to the core." His prayer for his young sem is "Please God Where :he grows up we may speak the same language." "Harness," by A. Hamilton Gibbs (author af "Soundings"), is publish- ed hy McCleRa-nd and Stewart, Toron- to, 320 pages, $2.00. /71enon. One tbeory which is fevered- by the British medical profession is that the present increase in the births of twins and triplets is nature's answer to the prevalent practice of birth con- trol, and another school of thought believes that it is a natural result of the human wastage of the world war. It is certain that either theory ma3r be right. 011 the general hypothesis that a tendency to balance or even up wastage or surplus in population in any community exists in all forms of life. Wars have always been followed by an increased birth rate, and over -'pop- ulation is inevitably followed by war or pestilence or both. In London alone the increase in multiple births has been phenomenal. An official at Queen Cbarlotte's -Hospital, said in a statement recent- ly: "I have never known such a year for twins. 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