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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1929-05-10, Page 7d, a 1� D I ,.., I I d, 6' n'. _J a4 1 bi J •R h a i b :° t rl-f 4 MIM( �P, V 'i i "M 11- J ',' I F ; i 1 rl 1 of n+;mTnrnsq�+, . , r,4,mfMs,. � ,,,-. ' - u .- __.__1_. P,- , , a4 X��h b$ ;l z nott* utaD, UooigAel a en Squ%re Throat iBfa a- l�np�,, - At 0e, til„ rd Pdonday its Dian 11 tam. to ' � r � M. 1'treet, South, Stratf�®md1, Tatford. RUPTURE SPECIIALIIST . Rupture, Varicocele, Varicose Veins, Abdominal Weakness, Spinal Deform. 9t7- Consultation Free. Call or write. J. G. SMITH, British Apyli- ance Specialist, 15 Downie St., Strat.. ff0rrd, Ont, 8202-�52 - LEGAL ollhom a No. 91 , JOHN J. HUJGGARD 9Barr&ster, Solicitor, Notary Public, Etc. Attie Block . - Seaforth, Ont. R. S. HAYS lk lster, Solicitor, Conveyancer t Notary ]Public. Solicitor for the D4mmhilon Bank. Office in rear of the minion Bank, Saaforth. Money to I`ma° 319ST & B EST 3arxistrars, Solicitors, Conveyan- carro and Notaries Public, Etc. Office QM � )Edge Building, opposite The �ositor Office. VETERINARY JOHN GRI[MrIL, I.S. Sonor graduate of Ontario Veterin- c�7 College. All diseasee of domestic als treated. Galls promptly at- (�ded to and charges moderate. Vet - e ry (Dentistry a specialty. Office eab residence on Goderich Street, one (2=2 east of Dr. Mackay's� Office, Sea- C.M rU1h. A. D . CAPJ✓diPD3BLL, V.S. Graduate of Ontario Veterinary (2WIege, (University of Toronto. AD rasases of domestic animals treated by the most modern principles. Charges reasonable. Day or night calla promptly attended to. Office on JIn Street, Hensall, opposite Town IIID. Phone 116. MEDICAL DDB. 3`7`x1. C. SIPROAT I Graduate of Faculty of Medicine, ' Uuudversdty of Western Ontario, Lon- I dom. Member of College of Physflc- fian® and Surgeons of Ontario. Office 1 lis Aberh'art's Drug Store, Main St., 1 Gizz9'orth. Phone 90. DDB. R. P. L DOIUGAILL 1 Honor . graduate of Faculty of a^.1edicine and Master of Science, Ifni- a `versjty of Western Ontario, London. Member of College of Physicians and (3virgeons of Ontario. Office, 2 doors carat of post office. Phone 56, Hensall, r Ontario. 3004-tf f DR. A. NIEWTO -(BRAD s Bayff el r Graduate Dublin (University, e- I land. (Late Extern Assistant Master t ffllrotiundca Hospital for Women and �Wdren, Dublin'. Office at residence e Gately occupied by Mrs. Parsons. ]burs, 9 to 10 a.m., 6 to 7 p.m.; t Cmdays, 1 to 2 p.m. 2866-26 d DDB. F. J. BURROWS t Owe and residence Goderich Street, n cwt of the Methodist Church, Sea- t 9virth. Phone 46. Coroner for the t minty of Duron, V DDB. C. MACIKAY 1. C, Mackay, honor graduate of Trin- " Qfr� University, and gold medallist of t `ithnity Medical College; member of v � College of Physicians and Sur- 1, [cons of Ontario. b DR. H. HUGH ROSS t Graduate of (University of Toronto t L+'aculty of Medicine, member of Col- ileee of ]Physicians and Surgeons of h Mario; pass graduate courses in v icago Clinical School of Chicago ; yal Ophthalmic Hospital, London, b &% ,gland; University Hospital, Lon- t don, England. Office Back of Do- odnion Bank, Seaforth. Phone No. 5. a Night calls answered from residence, i1 7Actaria Street, Seaforth, t. DDB. J. A. MUJNN s Successor to Dr. R. R. Ross s Graduate of Northwestern (Univers- I Chi y Chicago, 111. Licentiate (loyal t &&lege of ° Dental Surgeons, Toronto. Office over Sills, Hardware, Main St., !forth, Phone 151. e . f. - DDB. F. J1. B ECH E1LY h Graduate Royal 'College of Dental Ounrgeons, Toronto. Office over W. D.B. a Smith's Grocery, Main Street, Sea- t, Qeo#h, Phones: Office, 185 Vv; resi- R 60ade, 185 J. 3055-tf a B CONSULTING IENGIINIEIEIB t f t S. W. Archibald, B.A.Sc. (Tor.), 9 OJL.S., Registered Professional En- t V��,aaneer and Land Surveyor. Associate ember Engineering Institute of Can- a ada. Office Seaforth, Ontario. b AUCTIONEERS v s THOMAS BROWN s s Licensed auctioneer for the counties e of Huron and Perth. Correspondence i1 arrangements for sale dates can be h mmadas by calling The Expositor Oface �afOrth. Charges moderate, a n a� o mtiafaction guaranteed. t PHONE 302 11 OSCAR KLOIPP Honor Graduate Carey Jones? Na- ttio. nal School of Auctioneering, Chi- e cago. Special course taken in, Pure !grad Live Stock, Real Eatate, Mer- ehandiare and ]Farm Sales. Rates in i fYesping with prevailing -market. Set- r tuition assured. Write or vAre, t, oneav Mopp, Zurich, Ont. 2 hon Phone, I Ilia -98. ", R. T. 1LUJDIIEDB r Licenced auctioneer for QG CoventY , o8 Huron. Sales attended to in Ell ink 04 the county. Seven' earl' =- TaZionace in Manitoba and bc,tdne- cJMI �'ierrm o reasonable. Ph= NO. JjTQ r It, ]bete r, �itisrasli'n P.C., ILL, 0. I. order[; Daft at Tna4 I�aysiM L 1 toe Ci�co, esafo?&, prom p"Ly CA- » VY� I Flowlint ell . Gold . D3P Rm 3X&CH i I I IPanbllshw%� I TOmomat0 I (Continued fromc, last week) Gray played butler with a correct- ness and a poise deeply impressive to his round -eyed audience, and as he served the courses he delivered a lec- ture upon the etiquette of domestic service, the art of cooking, and the various niceties of a servant's calling. Nothing could have been more impres- �ive than 'being waited upon by a per- son of his magnificence, and his lec- ture, moreover, was delivered in a way that drove understanding into their thick heads. It was an uncomfortable experience for all except Gray himself -he actu- ally enjoyed it -and when the last dish had been removed, and he given instructions to serve the meal over again exactly as he had served it, the three negroes were glad to obey. Of course they made mistakes, but these Gray instantly corrected, and the results of his dress rehearsal, were, on the whole, surprising. "There!" he said, when the ordeal had finally come to an end. "A little patience, a little practice, and you'lI )e proud of them, Incidentally, I rave saved you a fortune in dishes." "I wish Allie'd been here, She'd :emem'ber everything you said," Ka leclared. "Lord! Think of Mr. Gray waitin' >n them niggers!" Gus was still deep - y shocked. "You see what a meddlesome busy- iody I am," the guest laughed. "1 1 lon't know how to mind my own busi- iess, and the one luxury I enjoy most If all is regulating other ,people's af- airs." lie was still talking, still lee- uring his hearers upon the obliga- ions prosperity had put upon them, vhen he was summoned to the tele- chone by a long-distance call. He re- urned in some agitation to announce: Well, at last I have business of my wn to attend." "Was that Buddy talkie'?" "It was, and he gave me some good ews. He says that well on thirty- ' ve is liable to come in at any min- te, and it looks like a big one." The peaker's eyes were glowing, and he an on, breathlessly, "He says they're ; etting it will do 'better than ten I housand barrels!" "Ten thousand bar'ls!" Briskow ' eboed. "That's what he said. Of course, 1 hey can't tell a thing about it. Bud- y's only guessing, but -I haven't 1 ad a big well yet." Gray took a I ervous turn about the room. "Ten iousand 'barrels! Lord! That would a elp. That would do the trick. And r think that it should come now, this ` ery day-" 'Hle laughed triumphant- i r and ran on as if talking to himself: f rhe wicked are fatted for destrue- f on. Their happiness shall pass a- i ay like a torrent.' Pull out and I !ave me, eh?" A second time he t iughed, more loudly. "Luck? It I m't luck, it's Destiny. The mills of I ie Gods are grinding. Ma Briskow, ie fairy ladies danced upon the earth when I was born. Do you know hat that means?" 1 "Ten thousand bails a day, an, you uttlin' for three niggers!" gasped } ie head of the house. N "I'm going out on to -night's train I nd see it come in -if it does come c ;. I told Buddy to stop work; not I b drop another tool until I arrived. Fatted for destruction.' I like the i fund of that. Ten thousand barrels! r .o! I'll write this day in brass, Why, i rat lease will sell for a million. It f -it may mean the end." Gray brought himself to with an t fort, bastily he kissed 'Ma. Briskow's I tded cheek and wrung her husband's t sand. A moment later he was gone. t "Thirty-five," where Buddy was orking, was only a few miles from 3 ie Briskow ranch, therefore the boy i 'as able to meet his sister at Banger I nd drive her directly to the old home. < he place was much the same as when f iey had )eft it, thanks to the watch- il attention of the men in charge of ie Briskow wells, and there they ` rent the night. Buddy and his sis- i Ir had always been close confidants, nd their long separation, their var- d experiences, left many things to > discussed. The ranch house seemed very mean, ery insignificant to Allie, but she jpiped into one of her old dresses nd prepared the supper while Buddy E ;raddled a kitchen chair and chatter- I I upon ten thousand topics of mutual i iterest. r "Doggone!" he exclaimed, finally. "I t ardly knew you when you stepped Ff that train, but it seems like old f me''s now, with you hustlin' around i i that gingham." f "I wish it was." a "H'unli ?" o "I wish, sometimes, that we'd nev- t r struck oil." r "Good Lord! Why?" i "Oh "--Allie turned her back and i ent over the stove-i"for lots of 1 >asonsl 11,<'a never had a sick day c 11 lately. Now she's failin' fast." I udd,y frowned at this intelligence. ' And Pa's as restless as a squirrel. ,11 the time scared of losing his coney." 1 "`W(ll, you got no kick coming, bis. r rou've sure made good." i ",How?" 1 "i dunno--- Vouhre got rich ways. Iii' rich looks, tool" Allie. lifted an interested face, avid I ier brother nndPrtook somewhat awk- I vardly, to tell her wherein she had r mproved. She listened Vvith greedy . %ov I've Wea hard punough, hint" thero'� a 099erouce, Bud, We,Ft `trash' w4dl• always "will be,) ' Of course young Brisizow's anima was full of btiginess, and he could uo long stay off that 0,5orbing topic W en, during their supper, he an notitneed the fact that the well or thirty-five rihowed signs of turning it shortly,•and that he Intended to sent for Calvin 'Gray, Allie changed her mind about returning home and 'de• tided to wait over until the latter ar• rived. She: and Buddy talked until a late hour that night, but although she was dying to have him tell her about hi: romance, his dream of love, he never so much as referred to it, and she could not, -bring herself to disregard his reticence. Nor could she bear to discuss with him the problem that lay nearest her own heart. She had brooded long over that problem, and her soul was hungry to share its bit- ter secret; nevertheless, she could not do so, for it is often easier to bare our wounds to strangers than to those we lova. If her broodings, her 'bit- terness of spirit manifested them- selves, it was in a fixed undertone of pessimism and in an occasional out- burst of recklessness that bewildered her brother. On the morning of Gray's coming she rode with Buddy over to thirty- five„ It was a wretched, rainy day, and nothing is more bleak than a railsy day in a drilling camp. Work had been Halted and the men were loafing in their bunk house. Brother and sister spent the impatient hours in the mess tent. As usual, they talk- ed a good deal about Calvin Gray. "I"unny, him corrin' here a stran- ger, an' gettin' to run our whole fam- ily, ain't it?" Buddy said. Allie nodded. "Funnier thing than that is your working for him." Bud- dy was surprised, so she asked him: "Aren't you sore at him for ---what he did? For breaking up that affair?" It was a question that had been upon her lips more than once; she could not credit ber 'brother with entire sin- cerity when he answered, frankly, en- ough: "Sore? Not the least bit." "Didn't you ---care for her?" "Why, sure. I was all tore up, at first. But he did me the biggest kind of a favor." Allie shook her head uncomprehend- ingly. .01VLen are queer things. You must have loved her, for a while." "I reckon I did, if you're a mind to call it that. But he says that sort A thing ain't real love." " `H'e says'!" the girl cried scorn- fully. "My God, Buddy! Would you let him tell you-? Is he pickin' out women for you like he picks out a Iress for me and a hotel for Ma? [low does he know what's the real , ;hing ? " "She was a -grafter," the brother explained with a flush of embarrass- nent. "She'd of probably took my .I noney an' quit me cold." 111 "Bah!" The girl rose and, with ;om'ber defiance in her smoldering . eyes, stared out at the desolate day. , 'You'd have h'ad her for a while, vouldn't you? l'ou'd have lived 1 vhile it lasted. hat's the difference I W' f she was a grafter? D'you think i 7ou're going to fall in love and marry L duchess, or something? I wish I'd 4 iad your chance, that's all." "What d'you mean by that?" Bud- ly queried, sharply. "I mean this," Allie flamed at him. I We're nobodies and we've got noth- ng but our money. A counterfeit 'IS t Is good as ever we'll get -and it's I is good as we're entitled to. I'd I ather know what it is to live for an I ;our that to go on forever just pre - ending to live. If I've got to be un- i ;appy, then give me something to be ;nhalppy over; something to look tack on. I'd rather be- But, pshawl fou don't understand. You couldn't." i "I dunno what's got into you late- � y," Buddy declared, with a frown. "Nothing's got into me.Cnly, � vhat s the use of starving when the vorld's full of good things and you've 1 ;ot the price to buy them? I won't o it. If ever I get my chance, you f catch me!" Gray's trip from the railroad was I pore like a voyage than a motor jour- c ley, for the creek beds, usually dry, I ✓ere angry torrents, and the 'dobe I lats were quagmires through which t is vehicle plowed hub deep; newer- I heless, he was fresh and alert when I e arrived. After a buoyant greeting o Allie, he and Buddy inspected the I yell, then he issued orders for work o be resumed. "We're getting close to something," -oung Briskow declared. "She's mai- 1 ng gas an' rumblin' like she'd let go ,ny minute. We got reservoysbuilt i .n' the boiler's moved back, so we an douse the fire when she starts. I f !gger she'll drownd us out." "`What are the indications at Nel- s on's well?" Gray turned his eyes n the direction of a derrick on the I djoining procperty, the top of which e howed over the mesquite. "`Nothin' extra. They won't tell us a nything, but they're deeper'n we t .re." r `"How do you know?" ° Buddy winked wisely. "We count- i d the layers of cable on the bull- I vheel drum. Cbecked wp their cas- n ng, too, an' watched their cuttin's. t 'hey got their eye on us, too, an' . hey'll be over when we blow in." That was an anxious afternoon, for f .s the drill bit deeper into the rock s t provoked indications of a terrific I once imprisoned far .below. To the observers it seemed as if that sharp- dged tool was taP-tapping upon the I lien shell of some vast reservoir al- c 'eady leaking and charged to the I cursting point with a mighty pres- I ure. An Odor of gas escaped from E he casing mouth, occasionally there I ame hoarse, throaty gurglings of the 1 hick liquid at the bottom of the well. i 'lie bailer was run frequently. a Word had gone forth that there was i omething doinon thirty-five and f 'rom the chap - emerged muddy t notor cars'brin scouts, neigbbor- ng lease owners, and e"n the mem- 1 rers of a near -by easing crew. Supper was a jumpy meal, and no- i iody had much to say, Allie Briskow i east of all. She was silent, intense; f ;be curtly refused 'Buddy's offer to t tend her home, and when tine meal 9 oras over she folllovnd array back to i y i ! t + 4. i a I ' �'+1i f �. ,, �' r I 'I ) ( �. , , , , J U� I .,a+, .. ..., �,:, .r.. , , , !: I; I t1 .f. .( I. I i. ,.I h I. 1'.. I 4Yie r' ,. ..: ,.�. , .. .� .. 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W i; i s ;;: r > ble dovx i u rnaa the der ' l� iqr a.. a lilt tiwiaa aell 11 Down it An3ra d in ginner loo 3 Anda I.t s � 'bot"S1,% PNR�?�� ��� 0 vj ar .t&an>ri those coals, either �1temno' foa�p sio�,e-iun� in � .0114 � � Pin < �r { . of hip danger or paralyze al blr itis ranaa sd�. by ee uu�& �zu` at �"'r I d6 i! .1$ �� � pmt a denness, •stood Calvin s�;t. t fined. a SbV4�?�!��a ��d4PI a quao� as a 4rilIler,9' Reza schooled in hazardous ran thopsand suety �il'ib : 1' ' w Matte PaJir. Prises curry subcoaiscianaas auneaatal ,, �eR pn �I. !I IIo ttn and they stead41ly « t d r. . 0� ; of the perils n photographs a rale vier Which And 0't South w�crn, Cuts eRy their callings are invested and they shy h �ll sound �t b ,' �, il�� w= oeupedl TA4 vhenunm- react involuntarily to them, Buddy that -carried for lep, r'aacKai - the �'. ,OLM ha the 11¢ffi2 ohoualderr. had heard .of drillers decapitated by and stunning the pe npenr, �t 'beafr Ir ffavlllloea e2%=fine.ta gage ' flying cables, of human bodies caught on the eardrums, piercaad thea" ru�1l aommcs rtdt¢nQ erv$1Ymantt zelneg. within those wire loops and cut ire shouted at each other, ,bentneara tRnei 1I !fiend heo rdi' oo much Cana- twain as if nada of lard, from vvPnen .a own voices onlyc faintly. . ffi. bra° a Wedged tool resumes its downward Calvin Grey had recovr d ve4s M01= plunge it straightens those coils above es sufficiently to 111aderst=4 the 1d L s mh MUD Mina¢ E decided round in the twinkling of an eye. ing of that uproar, and ho trier& 't to grieve ffiemm sa VW. The Instinct, rather than reason, warned. r Y get tap, but Allie held him darovnu upnr< VnTe a:apzaiiiiiy aline ==H- Buddy not to check the blinding revo- his bed. She was still struggling will (Lim that R naeedgd( for it lutions of the bull wheel. Without him when her brother burst into tlu thought he leaped forward into the house, shouting: ergo M02 doug beffcre E -yao midst of those swiftly forming loops, "It's a asset Mr. Ge Bi no woo no ever. Now E and as he landed upon the slippery 3'! Biggest 1 P PPeY'y ever seen' ' ttahe (them 07=7 Sparing ass floor he clenched his fist and struck "Gras?" the latter mumbled, indis- a waik., I with all the power he could. put 'be- tinctly. "Isn't there any -oil?" His Thio io Ono of hu ndzv s of hind his massive arm. Gray's 'back words were almost like a whisper be. cos= iiun which dneee blood. was to him, the. blow was Pike that of cause of the noise. � LM have proved ` a walking beam, and it sent the elder "Not yet. May be later. Say, else's offc�iive ii>m oma icadn Z3 sem. man flying as a tenpin is hurled a- a heller, ain't she? I'll bet she's =,idcz2, Buy II)r. WiffLmne head of a bowling ball. Buddy fell, makin' twenty million feet-" MMA A& now at your ch -ug. too. He went sprawling. As he slid "Gasser's .no good." &ot'e or any deallee in me&- s' across the muddy floor he felt the "Can't tell yet. We gotta shute her ciuncy W W =- it, 30 cent I steel cable writhing under him like a down easy so she don't blow the cas- gcoepakt, Y=w 'Me Dr. Will' thing aline, and the touch of it as it in'g out -run wild on us, understand?" ll.r mcilicine Co., 1BrcdC _ 1 streamed into the well burned his Buddy was still breathless, but he 7n4Do, 0" flesh. He kicked and fought it as he plunged out the door and back into s -so ; would have fought the closing folds that sea of sound. of a python, for the bailer was fall- "Witha tragic intensity aldn to jug again and the wire loop's were wilderness, Gray stared up into Allie. vanishing as the coils in a whiplash Briskow's face. "Worthless, eh? And vanish during its flight. they told me ten thousand barrels." „ t Buddy's booted legs were thrown He carried a shaking hand to his high, he was tossed aside like a thing 'bandaged head and tried vainly to (� of paper, but blind, half stunned, he collect his wits. "What's matter9`1 iI 5(D1 scrambled back to his post. By this he queried, thickly. "Everything - time the whole structure of the der- whirling -sick-" Baa "n rick was rocking to the mad gyrations "You had an accident, but it's all of the bull wheel; the giant spool was right; all right-- No, no! (Please lie 9 spinning with a speed that threaten- still." ©�8�� ed to send it flying, like the fragments "Running wild, eh? Thht's what 3 M . NDIl E4SZ 0 of a bursting bomb, but the youth hurts my head "'o. Blown the casing ° understood dimly the danger of stop- out- Bad, i:n't it? sometimes °A UG coummSUNaLm 4�iAMr6 ping it too suddenly--rto fetch u� the run wild for weeks nor pa c000wviatae�• A Y , years -ruin that Plunging weight at the cable everything, He .tried to rise, then in - end might snap the line, collapse the sisted, querulously: "Got to get oil ----- -- derrick, "Jim" the well. Buddy weav- in this well! I've got to! Last chance ed dizzily in his tracks; nevertheless, Allie. Got to 'get ten thousand bar - the derrick. He was on edge, of his hand was steady, and he applied cels!!" course. It seemed to him that every a gradually increasing pressure to the "Please! You mustn't-,, Allie blow of that bit was struck upon his brake'. Nor did he take his eyes from had her strong hands upon his shoul- naked nerves, for he had a deep con- his task until the drum had ceased ders; she was arguing firmly but as viction that this was to prove the revolving and the runaway bailer night of his life, and the strain of gently as possible under the circum - waiting was becoming onerous. This hung motionless in the well. stances, when something occurred so When he finally looked about it extraordinary, so unexpected, as to well meant so much. Ten thousand seemed to him that he had lived a carrels, fifteen, five --even one thous- paralyze her. Of a sudden the inter- rnd; it mattered little how beau the long time and was very old. Gray for of the dim -fit, canvas -roofed shack Y e lay motionless where he had fallen, was illuminated as if by a searchlight IoW, for a good -paying well would and his body was twisted into a and she turned her bead to see that ;ee him through his immediate trou- shockingly unnatural posture. He was the whole out-of-doors was visible and rtes, And this was a well of some bleeding. Allie Briskow was bending that the night itself had turned into ;ort, or else indications meant nothing over him. Other dim, dream-like fig- day, ind everybody was greatly mistaken. ures were swarming out of the gloom With a cry that died weakly amid 7f course, a big well, something to and into the radiance of the derrick the chaos of sound beating over her, !reate a furor -that was what he lights; there was a far -away clamor the needed, for that not onlywould bride girl rant the window and look - g of shouting moices. Buddy Bristow ed out. What she beheld was anight- ris financial crisis, but also it would felt himself growing deathly sick. mare scene. The well was afire. It nean a frenzy of quick drilling, new They carried Gray to the bunk had exploded into flame. Where, a vellsi crowded close together, hun- house, and his limbs hung loosely, his moment before, it had been belching 'reds of thousands of dollars poured head lolled in a manner terrifying to skyward nto the earth, and the Nelsons us ,vapor, an enormous stream of gas- :ouldn't stand that. It would break Buddy and his sister. As they stun- sous vrpor, all but invisible except at hem -break them, and he would taste bled along beside the group, the girl the casing tread, now it was a mon- he full sweetness of revenge. Oh cried: i strous blow torch, the flaming crest `"Oh, my God- Oh, my God. She of which was tossed a hundred feet le had waited long! Nor was that all- repeated the cry over and over again high. Nothing in the nature of a )nee he had Henry Nelson down, and in a voice strange to her brother's conflagration ;is foot on the fellow's throat, he'd Ears u gration could have been more ;ave something to say to Barbara awe-inspiring, more confounding to "atter, file could say it then and "It -it wasn't my fault, be told the faculties than that roaring column her, hoarsely. "I aimed to save him. of consuming fire. It was a thing ook her in the eyes. He wished she "You killed him!" incredibly huge, incredibly furious, in - vas here to -night while he stood on ""He ain't-" Buddy choked and credibly wild. Human figures, he top of the world. Ten thousand Y gores, black carrels! Tweet thousand! Tweet clung to her. "He's just stunned like. against its glare, were flying to safe - y y- He ain't -that!" The youth was ty, near -by silhouettes were flinging housand-barrel gushers were not un- amazed when Allie turned and curs- their arms aloft and dashing back- :nown. A well like that would mean ed him with oaths that Ire himself ward and forward; faces upturned to . fortune ervery day. But why didn't seldom ventured to employ. it were white and terrified. The scat - t start? But Gray was not dead. Buddy's tered mesquite stood against the night They were bailing again and curi- blow had well-nigh broken his neck, like a .well, spotted with inkly sha- sity drew the owner in upon the der- and he had suffered a further injury dows, and, above, the heavens re - ick floor. This time the flow might to his head in falling; nevertheless, sembled a boiling caldron. ,egin; at any moment now oil might he responded to such medical aid as It was a hellish picture; it remain- ome with the water. There is some they could supply, and in time he op- ed indelibly fixed upon Allie Bris- an ger in standing close to a well ened his eyes. His gaze was dull, kow's mind. As she looked on jn uring the bailing process, but Gray however, and for a long while he lay horrid fascination, she saw the der - vas like a bit of iron in the field of in a sort of coma, quite as alarming . magnet- spellbound, he watched the y rick change into a pair par tower able as it ran smoothly Off the drum, as his former condition. They of flame, saw its uplper part begin lowed up over the crown block and brought him to at last long enough slowly to crumble and disintegrate, to acquaint him with what had hap The force with which the as issued own into the casing mouth. That nened, and although it was plain that blew the blaze hi h and held it dant- eavy, torpedolike weight on the end g f the line was dropping almost half he understood their words only dim- 9hg, tumbling in mid-air, a phenom- ly. he ordered the work resu ] p... ..,tt`.. p �; .>`', v . "., -1 M 11" � 17 1 ­ .. " -, I ,t fkfat iti'i 4 ly"W"�, a 17. 4ImA(i Il�)� pan ::FIAib rt p.m. 3.05•• of ot*s`r flee a l y it CEY o®tumid{ :ism ff i Qffatt$8ra6s- ......... am 4c�uaf2n-i9ereac ; i glare the incandescent over- into semiconsciousness, it was Allie ffavflowltiag 1$irra ry lPdze larmnmoth (Long aed . , Giant Yellow Ovml , Yell= Leviathan Blyth ............. cGn�sait Ye14®w Gfla 3.38 Giant White Sugar f , Royal Giant Saeger deet Londesboro ........ Sold Evevyw 1im iax Cas. & 3.4'8 wand! fav mew a@tasQva�edd 11 sattad®grae. Clinton ........... TTEEELE. Ames s D Ci , 4.2& ,rn�raaau cararas� tazmo pain¢ 4Qa:1*-n D- Z3-= ,A, whispering. Bring in that well, as PURCHASERS OF 1. THE OXN-FERRY Y CANA91M BUSIW.BS i. I course. Keanwhile, it was restful W remain in this state of semi -stupefac- tion. He was pretty tired. That whispering, he realized after• a while, was nothing more than than monotonous murmur of rain upon a shingle roof, and the gurgle from dripping eaves. Oh yes! It had been pouring for several days; raining - buckets, barrels- Ten thousand bar- rels a day! (Continued neat weak.) The 'happiest place we can; think oir for professio�l retoi°mers is a placer wherein there's nothing to reform - Buffalo Courier -Express. Folks are not considered poor noir unless they are so poor a reduction in the price of automobiles does not in- terest them.-D/[ontreal Star, LONDON AND avI1NGD3IA..TK Norah. a.m. p.m-. Centralia .......... 10.36 5.51 Exeter ... ,. ...... 10.49 6.04- Hensall ......----. 11.03 6.18' !Kipper ....... 11.08 6.23 Brucefield ......... 11.17 6.22 Q1631 Qfl66D Clinton ........... 11.53 6.52' Londesboro ........ 12.13 7.12' Blyth ............. 1222 7.21 Belgrave .......... 12.34 7.33 Wingham ......... 12.50 7.55 - South. mile. Up it came swiftly, as if ,r met • When for a sh ,second time e lapsed enon indescribably weird and impres- sive. The 9vingham a.m. 6.55 p.m. 3.05•• reared; upup, until it emerged into , men who stood nearest ......... glare the incandescent over- into semiconsciousness, it was Allie bent their heads and shielded their Bebgrave .... , ..... 7.15 3.25; ead and hung there dripping. It Briskow who put his orders into exe- faces from the heat, Blyth ............. 727 3.38 las swung aside and lowered, and out cution. You ain't doing any good Allie tore her eyes from the spec- Londesboro ........ 7.65 3.4'8 •ushed its muddy contents. standing around staring at him and tacle finally. She turned back to the Clinton ........... ' 7.56 4.2& Water! Black and thick as molas- whispering. Bring in that well, as bed, then she halted, for it was emp- Brucefield ......... 7.58 4.28 es, but water nevertheless. fast as ever you can, and bring it in ty. The door, still ajar from Buddy's (162) Q164p' Buddy Briskow was running the rig big. Now, get out and leave him headlong exit, informed her whence K Iii en ........... PP 8.e2 4.88 nd the dexterity with which he hand- to me. her patient had gone, and she flew [-Iensal'1 ........... 8.32 4.48 A brake and control rod gave him Buddy was the last to go. He in- after him. Exeter ............ 8.47 5.05- ride. He had seated his sister on a mired, miserably: "Honest, he ain't She found him not half a dozen Centralia .......... 8.59 5AT ench out of the way, where she was hurt bad, is he? You don't think-" paces away. In fact, she stumbled --- rotected from the drizzle, and he Get out!" over his Prostrate Indy. With an am- , elt her yes upon him. It gave him He won't -die? Ain't no chance azon's strength, she gathered him in - C N R. �[`IPJIIB TADiIILIu sense of importance to have Allie of him Join' that. is there?" "If to her arms, then staggered with him Mast. ratcbing him at such a crisis; heback he does, I'll-' The speaker's to his couch, and as she strained nshed his parents were with her. face was ashen, but her eyes blazed. "I'il him to herself she loudly called his Goderich amP.M. 6.20 2.20 f this well -blew in big, as it seem- fix you. Buddy Briskow. I will, so help me God!" name. Amid that demoniac din, amid ......... ... - .... 6:36 2.37 d bound to do, it would be a person- 1t was late that night when the the shrieking of those million devils, 'of Clintonville Clinton . , ........ , - , 6,44 2.59' 1 triumph, for not many cub drillers g freed from the black chasms the Se'afortlh 6.59 3,0`8 could boast of ,bringing in a gi g gusher roe her voice was as feeble as the St C�rlumbait ...... TOP X1.15 - - - - . he first time. It was, in fact, no wail of a sick child. Dublin ....... 7.11 8.2'2 lean accomplishment to make any When she had laid her inert burden . . . ... ort of a well; to pierce the earth upon the bed, Allie knelt and took West. Ath an absolutely vertical sbaft a s P 1 Gray's head upon her bosom. Then, -aim,. p.m. pm,, alf mile deep and line it with tons J _ .... 11.17 5.38 9.37 Pott tons of heavy casing joined air- __ , prisoned deep within her being ran St. Columiban. 11,22 '6.44 �ght and fitted to a hair's breadth was - --- -�__ wild, and under the reel glare of that Seaforth ..... 11.33 6.53 0.50 n engineering feat in itself. It was - flaming geyser she kissed his hair, Clinton ...... 11.50 6.08-6.58 10.04, omething that only an oil man could his eyes, his lips. Over and over a- Holinesville .. 12.01 7.03 ICA& ppreciate. And he was an oil man;on gain she kissed them with the hungry Goderich ..... 12.20 7.20 10.3@' dam good one ,too, so Buddy told QC( � Passion of a woman starved. imself. - Ate eased the brake and the mas- ive bailer slid into the casing as a Dry mouth and parched CHAPTER XXVI C. P. R. TIIP+f3 TARLIE Pavy shell slips into the breech of a throat are graTe ful for the Rest. annon, As he further released his r n n refreshing tl ]mg �QD®Ii ]Cn a'96 ®¢ A subdued but, continuous whisper- a'32' IYP.SSUPe, the CAb1P. began t0 pOUP ser- Ing err -i rated Calvin Gray. When It Goderich ft 5.55 centlike from the drum. Buddy turn- Wri 1(e s Spearmint. 1; � 1t� persisted, minnf.e after minute, he op- . . ................. N[enset �.5�, d his wet, grimy face and flashed a A.11ie. She i767ra Ile s Whitens ceetiEn g ened his eyes, asking himself, dully, .................... , ,Gaw .... . . .. . . ......... 6.041 ;rin at smiled 'back at him r why it was that. people couldn't let a Auburn 0.111 6.12 aintly. Some lightninglike change oweetetrns the mouth, clears follow sleep. He lay, for some time, Blyth , .. n her expression or perhaps some 1L j(a t t h'sl f '1' ............. ........ i 1 � 11 r e tt roa t and aids aIIRgesn DIIn, rytng o i ecogntze i. un amt ear Walton .. GAO tecult sense of the untoward warned while ttllnc act �¢ a liievvn>rng surronnding; oddly enough, he could McNaught (Wog' rim that all was not as it should be not discover' the origin of that low- """"'° calms a><nr3l soothes aline uneir®es. TororuEO ................... 1021 , ,nd he jerked his head back to atten- pitched murmur, since there was no - ion, body in his bedroom. Fvidently he 7G2,L There are moments of catastrophe + , lac .: It i' ° had slept too ]card, for his eyes were a y , ' vhen for a brief interval nature �� It I'„ heavy, his vision was distar•ted,, and Toronto ........ �d°�' lows, time stops, and we are carried an unaccustomed lassitude hope down 1111cNataght .... .. an. '' n suspenoe. Such an instant Buddy i c his body and stupefied his brain. A Waltm ..... I ............ ... 1I�.VDSi 3riskow experienced now. He knew » ;l, , ai?f ls?f2 thousand indistinct memories veve Blyth ..................... 9,0 Sit , A first glance what had! happened, � "m O'v moving about in the penumbral bar- Ataibura £In). m a''. ted a frightened cry burgt from lens -1. dorland of eonsclousness, lout theyr 2r� Wegav .. rix ;, I.d ,i °1b. ...N9.tl Pnroat, but it voam a cry too short, fused to take shape. `5i°'hAyv WOU142 eitscn- N! . zt ... „.1. 16 , oar hoarse, to sepia ao gaaidng. mcg® $sato tlrae flighfc psO�atIlq, 04 Q; OCG .. tl o,e e o 414 6'.6 qr:a nn,c2 '.4 <, ,• , .. , it , a r ;:11 1,,'•, ,", f;%. ,,. ,.:�, „i I„ -+,rq„ 11.�'•�� .. la- ,.-. ,:dl,w,., .,.r ,,,; , ,., .1-i!ii d. s,an�. t - ,=