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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1929-03-22, Page 7c lt St `t9. 89 292$o Do. ,L'.. 5J, Lien i1 W.�i.N�31�:J.1LV7 > �Q, a loose lOrnad Throe t data ste in Yie:, kine, U verbity oS asraillate. 11404 aaUlritharat New Torls O +' I, thal- talald Atra1 Institute, Moouefield's ia) and solder: Square ..Throat ri ee- , London, Eng. At Cornnmencin1 tel, Seaforth,, third Iitonnday in eauTa I,,,,Math front 11 a.m. to 6 pan. CV Waterloo Street, South, Strastford Mons 267, Stratford. LEGAL , one No. 971 JOHN J. IHIUIGGAis]ID Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public, Etc. Oeattie Block - - Seaforth, Ont. R. S. HAYS i:arrister, Solicitor, Conveyancer r,..r. NotaryPublic. Solicitor for the I' ''ntainion ank. 0 e ce in mar of I, e Dontanion r'• ants, Sea&orth. Money to laza. BEST &L BEST ;arresters, Solicitors, Conveyan- gaia and Notaries Public, Etc. O i ce in the Edge Building, opposite The tik' rpositor 1 •• ce. VETERINARY JOHN GRIIIEVE, V.S. Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin- aria College. All diseases of domestic animals treated. Calls promptly at- tended to and charges moderate. Vet- careary Dentistry a specialty. is ace and residence on Goderich Street, one door east of Dr. Mackay's O ., ce, Sea - forth. th. 1 A. It. CAMP CELL, V.S. Graduate of Ontario Veterinary College, University of Toronto. All uses of domestic animals treated lag the most modern principles. Charges reasonable. Day or night c lla• promptly attended to. Office on ])Lain Street, Hensall, opposite Town lo`!nll. Phone 116. MEDICAL DR. W. C. SPIIBOAT Graduate of Faculty of Medicine, T mivelrsity of Western Ontario, Lon- don. Member a College of Physic - ions and Surgeons of Ontario. Office ha Aberhart's Drug Store, Main St., ]worth. Pyrone 90. DR. R. P. II. DOUGALL '1rI,nor graduate of Faculty of Medicine and Master of Science, UJrni- usersity of Western Ontario, London. Member of College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Office, 2 doors east of post office. Phone 56, Hensall, Ontario. 3004-tf DR. A. NEWTON-BRADY Bayfield. re- Graduate Dublin University, Ire- land. k nd. Late Extern Assistant Master IL:otunda Hospital for Women and Children, Dublin. Office at residence lately occupied by Mrs. Parsons. 'ours, 9 to 10 a.m., 6 to 7 p.m.; 13undays, 1 to 2 p.m. 2866-26 DR. IF. J. i;U7RRO sJS Office and residence Goderich Street, cast of the Methodist Church, Sea - forth. Phone 46. Coroner for the County of '�: uron. DR. C. MACKAY C. Mackay, honor graduato of Trin- f s University, and gold medallist of 1, ;••ty Medical College; member of gas College of Physicians and Sur - goons of Onta: io. DIiB. H. HUGH ROSS Graduate of University of Toronto Q'eeulty of Medicine, member of Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario; pass graduate courses in �a~t' • : go Clinical School of Chicago ; . 1,• . yal Ophthalmic '' osppital, London, &gland; University Hospital, Lon- don, England. Office—Back of Do- :minion Bank, Seaforth. Phone No. 5. Wight calls answered from residence, i'7ietoria Street, Seaforth. DR. WILLIAM A is ti'r HART Graduate of Faculty of )i/, ediciee, University of Toronto. 'Member orf College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Licentiate of Medical Coun- cil of Canada. Late interne Toronto Western Hospital. Office Queen's Hotel Building, North Main Street. Phone 89. Night calls, phone 111. DR. .L A. MUINN Successor to Dr., R. IIB. Ross Graduate of Northestern UJnive�rs- Sty Chicago, Ill. Licentiate Royal College of Dental Surgeons, Toronto. u %;ee over Sills° Hardware, Dain St., Seaforth. Phone 151. DR. F. J. i;IECHELY Graduate Royal 'College of Dental urgeons, Toronto. Office over W. R. Smith's Grocery, Main Street, Sea - forth. Phones: Office, 185 W; resi- dence, 185J. 3055-tf AUCTIONEERS THOMAS BROWN Licensed aucbioneer for the counties of I:iuron and Perth. Correspondence i arrangements for sale dates can he ria e by calling The Expositor Office, t Seeforth. Charges moderate, an d �4isfaction guaranteed. PHONE 302 OSCAR KLOPP ]donor Graduate Carey Jones' Na- itional School of Auctioneering, Chi- cago. Special course taken, in Pure Bred Live Stock, Real Estate, Mer- chandise and Farre r Sales. Rates in heaping with prevailing market. Sat- isfaction assured. Write or wire, Oscar Klopp, Zurich, Ont. Phone, 18-93. 28b. ; 52 R. T. iLUKER Licensed auctioneer for the County of Huron. Sales attended to in all parts of the county. Seven years' evr- ierrlence in Manitoba and Saskatahe- 1 ra ,n. Term® reasonable. Phone No. 178 r 11, Exeter, Centralia P.O., I't.li8. f Ne. 1. Orders left ':t The ;" uron Elx- pes,�itor° O "` ce, Seaforth, promptly at- P2ndc ,i. a o 0 0� 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1;''o W. AEIEiZNO 0 Treed Auctioneer for P 0 ° and lEImrron Conn$flao. 0 0• Sn1ca//� SolieKad. 0 0 ]Teruo: G lrti ata p' i i'4.✓=1Li¢Lw"3. 0 0 Cp f mr guaralatl�s4D- 0 ° Q) f 7ateza 010044-- t, Olin ll� e ° O E05��,j"��ter,ys PtI� rt y. 0 a IDo vwa J1 iii !"'1'clnJfi ° o D. 1 , NO. 4, iftat F,dill ° c Its Otic ei, E D 00 a Q b 0 0 t o c ' o D o t 12y REX. BEACH Ptnbllshera The Damson ook Company, V,td. Toronto (Continued from last week) That which occurred next came un- expectedly. The stranger whipped out from under his coat a revolver, at the same time voicing a profane an- swer to the challenge. The proprie- tor uttered a bleat of terror; he dropped his dishes and dived out of the room; the men on the stools scrambled down and plunged after him. As Calvin Gray rose to his feet it was with a flash of mingled anger and impatience. This quarrel was so utterly senseless, it served so little purpose. "My friend," he cried, sharply, "if you don't put up that gun, one of us will go to a hospital." In spite of the intruder's haste in drawing his weapon, he appeared view to lack the will promptly to use it— his laggard spirit required a further scourge, so it seemed; something more to goad it into final fury. It was a phenomenon by no means uncommon, for it is not easy to shoot down an unarmed victim. By way of rousing his savagery, the fellow uttered a bellow, then, like a warrior smiting his shield with his spear before the charge, he swung his heavy weapon, smashing at one blow that silver-plated merry-go-round with its cluster of bottles. A shower of toothpicks, fragments of glass, a spatter of oil and vinegar covered the old man in the end chair, and he rose with a cry that drew a swift glance from the desperado. Gray was upon the point of launch- ing himself over the table when he witnessed a peculiar transformation in his assailant. The man's expres- sion altered with almost comic sud- denness, he lowered his weapon and took a backward step. Gray, too, had cause for astonishment, for the elder- ly man was moving slowly toward the disturber, his overcoat, meanwhile, hanging loosely from his left shoul- der, like a mantle. His gray face had grown white, malignant, threat- ening; he advanced with a queer, sid- ling gait, edging forward behind the shelter of his garment as if behind a barricade. But what challenged Gray's instant attention was the cer- tainty of purpose, the cold, confident menace behind the old fellow's de- meanor. There was something ap- palling about him; he had suddenly I huge and dominant. That he had been recognized was plain, for the armed man cried, agi- tatedly: "Look out, Tom! I don't want any truck with you." The deliberate advance continued; rn a harsh voice 'Tom answered: "]E don't allow anybody to interfere with me when I'm eating!" For every step he shuffled forward the man be- fore him fell back a corresponding distance. Again the newcomer rasped out his warning, and 'Gray, too, added his voice, saying: "Leave him to me, old man. This is my quarrel." As he E • he moved around the end of the table, but the mantled figure halt- ed him with an imperious jerk of the head. Without in the slightest di- verting his steady gaze, Tom snap- ped: "Hands off, stranger! I won't have you buttin° in, either. I don't allow anybody to interfere with me when I'm eating." Gray was checked less by the ex- asperation, by the authority in the E tone, than by the fact that the entire complexion of the affair had changed. The ruffian, who had entered so confidently, was no longer the aggressor; a mere look, a word, a gesture from this aged, unknown I had put him upon the defer- ive. More extraordinary still was the 'act that his power of initia' fee A for the :noment completely p t-- alyzed, and that he was tortured by E deplorable indecision. Ile was fur- ous, that was plain, nevertheless his E • had been halted in mid-flight, as it were; desperation battled with an inexplicable dread. II'e raised his I • now, but more in a gesture of surrender than of threat. "Don't come any closer," he cried, hoa'•sely "Don't do it, I tell you! Don't—do it!" There was no longer any thickness to his tongue; he epaks as one quite sober. When for the third time that nmale- vo'lent voice repeated, "I don't allow anybody to interfere with me when I'm eating," the solitary onlooker felt an absurd desire to laugh. Dur - ng intensely dramatic moments ner- vous laughter is near the surface, and there was something rigidly dramatic about the methodical, sidling advance of that man half crouched behind his overcoat. Tom, as he had teen called, gave Gray the impres- sion of Death itself marching slowly forward to drape that black shroud upon his cowering victim. Brief as had been the whole epi - ode, already passersby had halted, staring faces were glued to the front winflows of the cafe. Well they might stare at those two tense figures, one advsnring, the other retreating, as if to the measures of some slow dance. But the tempo changed abruptly. 'Phe desperado's hock brought up a- gainst the swinging kitchen door; it gave to his weight and decision was born of that instant. With a ery he flung himself backward, the spring door snapped to and swallowed him up with the speed of a camera abut- ter; then followed the sound of his hem rushing footsteps. "'' ovty 1404444 t . 4f lQ� 1Rn 171ii, paG bad.inns batons 'coLnitedfe Witt tlkm; words he let fall 'his rave're000ti and thx�r'e,. beneath it, ay helaeild'�+"w adt be had more haat half suspected/ what indeed was ample cause for the quarrelsome stranger's apprehension.. field close to the owner's body was what in the inelegant jargon of the West is known as a' "dog leg." The weapon, a frontier Cel$"s of heavy caliber, was full cocked under the old man'+s thumb; the hand holding it was as steady as the blazing eyes above. With a smile Gray said, "Allow me to congratulate you, sir" upon a most impressive demonstration of the power of mind over matter." "A little killin" helps those scoun- drels," breathed the white-haired. warrior. "Surgin' around, rvvreakin' vengeance on vinegar bottles! And me with a bad indigestion!" "I don't often permit others to do my fighting. But you wouldn't let--„ "I don't allow any�bod'y-," dogged- ly began the) former speaker, but the street door burst open, a noisy crowd poured into the room, a volley of excited questions was raised. Amid the confusion Gray heard his own name shouted, and found himself set ppon by two agitated friends, Mallow and Stoner. They had been combing Newton for him, so they declared, and were near by when attracted 'by the excitement on the sidewalk. What was the trouble? Was Gray hurt?' lie assured them that he was not, and explained in a few words the origin of the encounter. But other concerns, it seemed, occupied the minds othe pair, and before he had finished Mallow was dragging him to- wards the door, crying, breathlessly: "Gee, Governor! You gave us a run. We've been coming since noon." "It was only by the grace of God," Stoner declared, "that we heard you were out here and why you'd come. We managed to get a phone call through to Jackson, but it was—" "Jackson? I've been looking for him all the afternoon." "Sure! Mallow swore he was all right, but Mac and I don't know him and we figured he might turn a trick. Anyhow, Mallow and I jumped the Lizzie and looped it. Boy! I tramp- ed on her some, until we hit bottom the other side of Burk. Mallow went clean through the top. I guess I smashed the whole rear end, but we couldn't wait to see. They'll have her stripped naked, tires, cushions, and all, before we get back. Motor, too, probably. We've been hitting it afoot, on wagons and pipe trucks— managed to get a service car finally, but it fell open like a book. Just one of those dam' unlucky trips." "Jackson didn't get to you, e(lid he?" Mallow inquired, anxiously. "Get to me? No. Nor I to him." Gray spoke impatiently. "What is this all about?" "Simply this, Governor: Jackson's well is a `set-up'! For Nelson! We iearly dropped dead when we found out that Parker kid had laid you against it. Why didn't you tell us—?" "What are you saying? I don't—" "The well's phony. Dry as a pret- "In what way? I saw the oil —" "Never mind. Lay off!" "I think I'm entitled to an explana- tion." "Well, then, it's salted!" "Impossible! I saw it pumping." "I'll say you did." Mallow chuck- led. "Live oil, too; right out of old Mamma Earth. Cheap lease at sev- enty-five thousand, eh? It's like this: the pipe line of the .Atlantic runs across Jackson's lease, and one dark and stormy night he tapped it. It wasn't a hard thing to do; just took a little care and some digging. Now he runs the oil in, pumps it out and sells it back to them. He's a regu- ar subsidiary of the great and only Atlantic Petroleum Company. It can't last long, of course, but—oh, what a well to hand Nelson! What a laugh it would have been!" "Outrageous!" Gray exclaimed. "I can't believe you are in earnest." "It is shocking, isn't it? Such dis- honesty is incredible. And what ah unhappy surprise for the company when they finally locate the leak!" Gray clamped a heavy hand upon the speaker's shoulder; harshly he inquired, "Do you mean to say than Miss Parker deliberately—" "She don't know anything about it." "You said she 'laid me' against it." "No, no! I merely tipped her to it because she's one of Nelson's bro- kers." "She's his sweetie," Stoner added. "He's going to marry her, so Mallow thought he'd surely fall for it, com- ing from her." "You—you're not fit to: m'ent'ion that girlTs name, either of you. Gray's tone was one of quivering an- ger. "If you involve her in vdur crooked dealings, even indirectly, I'll —God! What a dirty trick." He flung Mallow aside in disgust. "You ought to he shot." `Why, Governor! We wouldn't hurt that kid. She's aces." "I told you my fight with Nelson ways to be fair and square." There followed a moment of sil- ence. Mallow and Stoner exchanged glances. "What percentage of that goes?" the former finally inquired. "One hundred." "So? Then it's lucky Nelson, ;did not fall. But there's no harm done— pobody's hurt." "It is lucky, indeed—for me. I'd have felt bound to make good his loss, if you had hooked him. I presume I ought to expose this swindle." "Expose Jackson?" Stoner inquir- ed, quickly. When Gray nodded, there was another brief silence before the speaker ventured to say: "I snow this bird Nelson, and, take it from me, you're giving him the best of it. If I hadn't known him as well as I do, I wouldn't of put in with you t break 'him. It's all right to trim r. sucker once it's like letting the blood of a sick man—he's better for it. But to ride a square guy to death, to keep his veins open—well, ][ ain't in that kind of business. Now about this Jackson; you can land him, II s'pose, if you try, but it would be lower than a frogs foot, after him playing square with you." "What do you mean by that?" "He could have stun; yot, easy, couldn't he? You purged out here on purpose to Tony the lease, but he hid out all afternoon to avoid yeast." dreda. Of o stealing huh., Wax ccsurey ,pr9,0,.; the -Atlantic, the bde stole* hendrfxl's of thousand from the Inos of him—yes, millicm market to sizty-fave cortt$, filled Old storage +Willis and contracted a mi age for; then gypped the price t three dollars. I can't shed any tear over that outfit." "Let's not argue the thics of bi business. The law of supply arel d ''iSupply and demand, eh? Eve strike you as queer that crude neve breaks as long as the big cotmpanies have got their tauks full? The prio always? toboggans when they're empty, and comes back when they're filled up. That's supply and dem= with the reverse English, ain't it Say, the Atlantic and those other play with us outsiders like we wa mice. When their bellies get enapty they eat as many of us as the want, then they let the rest of u scurry around and hunt up new fields We run al' the risks; we spend ou coin, and when we at:Like a new poo they burgle us over again." Stone was speaking with a good deal o heat. "Big business, eh? Well here's some little business—dam' lit the The Atlantic leased a lot o scattered acreage I knovv about and drilled it. Pulled off their crews at the top of the sand and drilled in with men they could trust. It turned out good, but they capped their wella weecked their rigs, and, of course that condemned the whole territory. Then they set about buying it all in, chea p—through dummies. Double- crossed the farmers, see? Friend of mitie took a chance; put down a well oa his own. The usual thing happen- ed; they broke him. It took a lot of doing, but they broke him. One lit- tle trick they did was to cock a bit and drop it in the hole. That prank cost him sixteen thousand dollars be- fore he could 'side track' the tool. He quit, finally, less 'n a hundred feet from big pay. Then, having bought up solid for near nothing they came back and started business, laughing merrily. That's the Atlantic." "A splendid lecture on commercial honesty. I am inspired by it, and reverence your scruples, but—I grope for the moral of the story." "The moral iS, mind your own busi- ness and --and give a guy a chance.' "Um -m! Suppose we leave it at LLat for the present." Mallow, who had remained silent during his friend's argument, greet- ed this suggestion with relief. He was glad to change the subject. "Good!" he cried heartily. "I'd a- bout as soon face Old Torn Parker, like that fellow in the restaurant did as to face Jackson. He'd sink a still - son in my head, sure, if--" "Parker? Was that old man Miss Parker's father?" "Certainly! What &you think ail- ed that gunman? D'you think he got the flu or something, all of a sudden? There ain't anybody left tough en- ough to hanker for Tona's scalp. He's pinned a rose on all of those old-tim- ers, and he's deadly pois4to the new crop." -wide re For the first time Calvin ,,ray un- derstood clearly the reason' for the unexpected outcome of that encoun- ter in the cafe. No wonder the stranger's trigger finger had been paralyzed. Barbara's father, indeed! How stupid of him not to guess. On the heels of his first surprise carne another thought; suppose that old Paladin should consider that he, Gray had shown weakness in allowing an- other to assume the burden of his quarrel? And suppose he should tell his daughter about it! That would be a situation, indeed. "I must find him, quickly," Gray declared. "Perhaps he'll ride back to town with us." It was not a difficult task to locate the veteran officer, and Tom was de- lighted at the chance to ride home with his new acquaintance. That journey back to civilization was doubly pleasant, for Mr. Parker cherished no such feeling as Gray had feared, and, moreover, he responded quickly to the younger man's efforts to engage his liking. They got along famously from the start, and Toni pos- itively brossomed under the attentions he received. It had been a trying day for him, htip his ill humor quick- ly disappeared In the warmth of a new-found friendship, and he talked more than was his custom. He was even led to speak of old days, old combats, of which the bloodless ere. counter that evening was but a tame reminder. The pictures he conjured up were colorful. A unique and an engaging pereon he proved to be; an odd compound of gentleness and acerbity, of kindliness and rancor; a quiet, guileless, stub- born, violent old man-at-arms, who would not be interrupted while he was eating. He was both scornful and contemptuous of evildoers. All need- ed killing. "Hard luck, I call ie for a budding desperado to wreck a career of prom- ise the way that wretched fellow did, Gray told him with a laugh. "Out of all the men in Texas, to pick 5. 1- • "Oh, he ain't a bud! He's quite a "He kills Mexicans and niggers and folks without guns, mostly. Low down stuff! He's got three or four I believe. I never could see why the There was a brief silence. "I beg pardon?" said Gray. "He's been on the Nelson payroll for years—doing odd jobs that wasn't fit to be done. 13tit I guess they got tired of hitn, anyhow he's been hang- ing around Wichita for the last two or three weeks. He's been in an out of our office quite a bit." "Your office? What for?" "I duono unless he took a shine to 'Bob.'" Mr. Parker uttered an unpleasant sound. "She never said anything a- bout it, but I suspicioned she had to order him ott, finally. I'd of split his third -shirt button if heid stool his ground. Ile knew I had some- thing on him, but he couldn't flgure just what it was." Old Tones teeth shorteethrough the gloom. "A man trill Pined alwasrs act like that when he don't know gust where hen at. 1i knew where 11 was at, al111 no time, • dityacazyrku 2-11coa Stumm Pep IL7 Its,t©Ir than 185 AND ELDPIZAIRECDS COUPE $820. Roadster (-with rumble seat) 850 De Luise Coupe (aim ramble seat) . 870 All prices f. b. Windsor, Ontario, hack:ding standard factory equipment (freight eand taxes =IWO Z-pzices emphasize the value leadership which Plymouth enjoys through the unique engineering and manufacturing facilities of Chrysler Motors. En quality, Plymouth now no- vatices to even higher Revels, while ita retains the sound Chrysler principles which have given it international repute for economy of oper- ation and upkeep. In the lowest -priced field, Plymouth is the outstanding full-size car 71. h ample room en for cockle fr,=sge-zss is the oesly car near rib peke weatherproof; hydratairs'op Agar,' wheel bralies; it is the one his btay at ita price, combining Chryslerr's ad-vanced engineering (gra typicati Chrysler performance with modem sty/e,„ size sissar See the Plymouth. Compare it, try to equal it for the price—and inevitablyyouwill1 ranit it first and foremost in every dement that deter- mines tame -motor car wake. 09 only I wanted to see that button plain. I anus know where I'm at." Later, when the journey was over and Tom Parker had been dropped at his gate, Gray spoke to his two com- panions. "Did you hear what he said?" "We did." "Do you believe I was framed?" Both .Mallow and Stoner nodded. "Don't you?" the former inquired. When no answer was forthcoming, he said: "Better give us the flag, Governor. We're rafing to go." "You know what I mean. Nelson's so crooked his bedclothes fall off. We pulled a boner this time, but Brick has got another window dressed for him." "I'll think it over," said Gray. CHAPTER XX Ozark Briskovv, like his sister Al- legheny, was studying hard and learn- ing rapidly, but he had adopted an educational plan, a curriculum, so to speak, far different from hers. Whereas she lived between book cov- ers and the thousand and one details of her daily existence were governed by a bewildering army of "don'ts," Buddy had devised his own peculiar System of acquiring wisdom, and from it the word "don't" had been deliber- ately dropped. His excursion into the halls of learning, baief as it had been, had convinced him that books could teach him only words, whereas he craved experiences, ideas, adven- tures. Adventure comes at night ; pleasure walks by gaslight. Young Briskow told himself that he had missed a lot of late hours and would have to work diligently to catch up but he undertook the effort with com- mendable courage. It is said that all wish to possess knowledge, but few are willing to pay the price. Buddy was one of the minority. Early he adopted the mot- to, "Money no object," and it provok- ed him not at all to learn that there is a scale of night prices considerab- ly higher than the scale of day pric- es; to find, for instance, that a noc- turnal highball costs twice as much as one purchased during daylight hours. That phenomenon, by the way had nothing to do with the provisions of the Eighteenth Amendment, it merely explained why farmers went to bed early—they couldn't afford to sit up, SO Buddy decided. had learned a lot since leaving school, not only aboet prohibition, but also about speed laws, men's fashions, facial massage, the fox trot and the shimmy, caviar, silk pajamas, bromo- seltzer, the language of flowers, and many of the pleasures and displeas- ures of the higher intellectual life, such as love and insomnia. His edueation was progressing a- pace, for love is the greatest of edu- cators, and Buddy was in love—mad- ly, extravagantly in love. Love it was that accounted for his presence in Dallas, and his occupancy of the Governor's suite at the Ajax. A fel- low in love with the most wonderful woman in the. world couldn't afford to look cheap in his home town, could Of course Dallas was not Buddy's home town, hut it had been his point of departure into the world, and it was the home of his bank account, hence some pride of proprietorship was pardonable. It gave him such a pleasing sensn of importance to adopt the city as his own that he adopted everything and everybody it. In spite of the fact that the train from 'Wichita Mita wao behind time, one morning shortly' ate? likaltly's rival, he was still abed when Calvin Gray arrived at the hotel. Instead of disturbing the slumbers of youth, Gray went directly to the detective who had telegraphed him, and for half an hour or more the two talked. Later, during the course of a leis- urely bath and shave, the new arriv- al pondered the information he had received. Here was a problem. Hav- ing dressed himself, he strolled around to Coverly's place of business and in- teryiewed the jeweler. "Sure! He had bought quite a bit of stuff in the last few days," Cov- erly told him. "He was in only yes- terday and ordered a fine piece made up. He wanted a ruby heart pierced with a diamond arrow, but I got him off that and onto a blue Brazilian sol- itaire. We're mounting it in a plati- num lady's ring." "What is the price?" "Forty-five hundred, and the valuie is there." "Have you seen the woman " Coverly nodded. "The boy is a good picker. I don't blame her much either, for I've seen a lot of worse - looking fellows than Buddy." "Hold the ring, 'he may change his "I say!" Coverly was in dismay. "Are you going to spoil the best sale I re made in two weeks?" "Oh, I'll take it off your hands if he dosen't. Make some excuse not to deliver it until I say the word. You don't know the woman, eh?" "Never saw her before." Gray knocked several times at the Governor's suite before a sleepy re- sponse, a succession of yawns and mutterings, told him that he had been heard. The door opened finally and the pride of the Briskow famly, his eyes all but swelled shut, his muscu- lar figure splendidly arrayed in fu- turistic silken pajamas, mumbled: eyes ope-ned wider. Buddy's face broke into a slow smile. "Why, Mr. Gray!" He extended a palm, a bit dry and feverish, and drew his caller inside. "Dawg-gone! I'm glad to see you." Gray entered with a buoyant laugh and a hearty greeting; he clapped the young giant heavily upon the back. At the blow Buddy voiced a sharp cry and seized his head. "Easy over the bumps! Pm carry - in' a cargo of nitro-glycerine, and I'll let go if you jar me," he expinined. "Sorry! know bow it feels. But, man, alive, it's afternonn! I began te think you were dead. 'Middy led the way into his bedroom niled his pillmvs together end ginger- ly lewered himself upon them. He showed his strong white teeth in Ft wide grin and yrinked meaningly. "I'll he rill right directly% It's this here sin -a -sympathetic booze they talk shout. Unve a drink, Mr. Gray? There's a entiple betties of real liquor in the closet—not t'his tiger's milk you zet—" The caller deelined the invitation. "Where the devil hurt, you been, Bud- dy? We were getting worried." "Your mother is nearly- frantic." Buddy stirred uneasily. "Pshowl I'm flee. ran take keen- of myaelf. Nobody don't need to -worry about "Good? Now then, you yoring Se01191- drel, rrn going to order you file sor'c of brealcfast that goes with 'eclat ails you, and while it is coming up; you are going to jump under the 81u:baser." the youth Inquired, faker. '91m/ties, Pm dean." But Gray had seized the phone and as soon as be had given his order he strode into the bathroom and tarnett on the water. He was out again in ea moment, then laughingly he dragged: the aching Texan from his couch_ "Under you go," he insisted, "or wet down your whole Japanese flower garden." "Some pajamas, ain't they? I got a dozen pairs," Buddy said, proudly. "Quick! If you think I'll consent to hang around a lonesome hotel while- yeu sleep, you're mistaken. I can't tell you how glad I am to run into you, Buddy. I'm dying to have aea riotous time." ing face to the speaker. "I've been hibernating in the wil- derness, sucking my paw and living' off my fat, like a bear. I want yota to shown me this town." • A bath, a brisk rubdown, and break- fast put Buddy in fairly good fettle once more; so marked was his im- provement, in fact, that Gray en- vied him his glorious gift of youth. (Continued next week) E NOW go about my daily work with pleasure," says Mrs. Scott of Guelph. In spite of tiring dome -tic tasks and family caren, that is the way eve7y woman sillould feel. But how many do? Thousands of women all over the world have regained strength and nervous energy by taking Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and write to tell us so. Mrs. Scott is one of these. "I was very much run-down, nervous, tired. 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