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!Late assistant New 'l,'orIlc Ophthal-
M�aea and Aural Institute, Moorefield's
Ilaye and Golden Squaare Throat Hos-
(�1tals, London, ]Eng, At Commercial
]dotel, Seaforth, third Monday in
each month, frown 11 a.m. to g p.m.
56 Waterloo Street, South, Stratford.
9Phone 267, Straetforal.
Next visit in Septemlber.
RUPTURIE SPIECIALIST
3R,upture, Varicocele, Varicose Veins,
Abdominal Weakness, Spinal IDeformm-
aaty. Consultation Free. Call or
writ®. J. G. SMi1T1H, ]British A PH -
race Specialist, 15 (Downie St., S�rat-
faord, Ont. 3202-25
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(Troon No. 91
�SOHN Jt. HUGGAIRtIID
]Barrister, Solicitor,
Notary Public, Etc,
Beattie Block - - Seaforth, Ont.
R. S. HAYS
(Barrister, Solicitor, Conveya,nce,r
Band Notary Public. Solicitor for the
IlDominion Bank. Office in rear of the
IIDominion Bank, Seaforth. Money to
Roan.
,IBIEST & 1BIEST
Barristers, 'Solicitors, Conveyan-
ears and Notaries Public, Etc. Office
i n the ]Edge Building, opposite The
9Eampositor Ofifice.
V'lETIERINARY
JOHN GRIIIEVIE, V.S.
honor graduate of Ontario Veterin-
mry College. :All diseases of domestic
animals treated. Calls promptly at-
tended to and charges moderate. Vet-
arinary Dentistry a specialty, Offico
and residence on Goderich Street, one
door east of Dr. Mackay's Office, Sea -
forth.
A. R. CAM-PBELL, V.S.
Graduate of Ontario Veterinary
College, University of Toronto. All
diseases of domestic animals treated
Iby t h e m o s t modern principles.
Charges reasonable, Day or night
calls promptly attended to. Office on
Main Street, Hensall, opposite Town
Miall. Phone 116.
MEDICAL
IIDR. W. C. SPROAT
Graduate of Faculty of Medicine,
University of Western Ontario, Lon- ;
don. Member of College of Physic-
ians and Surgeons of Ontario. Office
nn Aberhart's Drug Store, Main St.,
Seaforth. Phone 90.
DR. R. P. 1. DOUGALL
Honor graduate of Faculty of '.
Medicine and Master of Science, Uni-
versity of Western Ontario, London.
'Member of College of Physicians and '
Burgeons of Ontario. Office 2 doors
east of post office. Phone 56, Hensall, (
Ontario. 3004-tf 1
IDR. A. NIEWTON-IBRADY (
(Bayfield.
Graduate Dublin University, Ire- I
Rand. Late Extern Assistant Master ,
(Rotunda iHbspital for Women and i
!Children, Dublin, Office at residence I
lately occupied by Mrs. Parsons.
Hours, 9 to 10 a.m., 6 to 7 p.m.;
Sundays, 1 to 2 p.m. 2866-2F,
IDR. F. J. (BURROWS
Office and residence Goderich Street, f
east of the Methodist Church, Sea- I
forth. Phone 46. Coroner for the I
County of Huron. (
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DR. C, MACKAY i
C. Mackay, honor graduate of Trin- c
ity University, and gold medalist of a
Trinity Medical College; member of 1
the College of Physicians and Sur- 1
geons of Ontario. 1
DR. H. HUGH ROSS I
Graduate of University of Toronto I
]Faculty of Medicine, member of Col- '
lege of Physicians and Surgeons of 1
Ontario; pass graduate courses in i
Chicago clinical School of Chicago ; a
]R.oyal Ophthalmic Hospital, London, 1
]England; University Hospital, Lon-
don, England. Office -Back of Do- 1
amnion Bank, Seaforth. Phone No. 5.
Night calls answered from residence, 1
Victoria Street, Seaforth, (
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t- a DIB. J. A. MUNN I
,, Successor to Dr. R. % Ross i
'Graduate of Northweestern Univers-
ity, Chicago, 811. Licentiate Royal
College of Dental Surgeons, Toronto.
OflSce over Sills' Hardware, )]/fain St„
Seaforth. Phone 151,
DR. F. J. IBBC1HIlELY
Graduate Royal College of Dental
.Surgeons, Toronto. Office over W. R.
Smith's Grocery, Main Street, Sea -
forth. Phones; Office, 185 W; resi-
dence, 1815 J. 3055-tf
CONSULTIING ]ENGIN E]ElR
S. W. Archibald, B.A:Sc. (Tor.),
O,L,S., Registered Professional En-
gineer and Land Surveyor. Associate
Member Engineering Institute of Can
ada. Office Seaforth, 'Ontario.
AUCTIIONIEERS
THOMAS 1BROWN
Licensed auctioneer for the counties
wof Huron and Perth. Correspondence
arrangements for sale dates can 'be
made by calling The Expositor Office,
Seaforth. Charges moderate, a n d
satisfaction guaranteed. Phone 30fL-
OSCA R. KLOP1P
fiHonor Grz4uate Carey Jones' Na-
,tional School of Auctioneering, Chi-
cago. Spemitil course taken ian are
]Bred Live •Stock, Real Estate, Mer-
chandise abd Farm Sales. Rates in
Reegping with prevailingg market. Sat-
isfaction ta�ssured. pj7rite or wire,
,Oscar Mom Zurich, Ont. Phos
'13-9313.
1R, T. 1LUMM
Licensed auctioneer for the CounteJ
of Pi'uron. Sales attatiled to in all
marts off the county. Seven P020' oaz-
-perience in P�iatoba �ssmall 0lKatche-
evan. Termus reasonable, Pholle No.
17� r 11, i"'efiar, Centralia ?P, 0 R* B,
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(Comftllaele fry loot � ezup )
Ras ]Lal Punjasbi enjoyed a reputas-
tioaa ire Inndia4 police �ircless as the
cleverest native criminal )India had
ever produced. ]Beyond a short terms
in Poonas J'ail�, Ras Lzl hp.4l never seen
the interior of a prison, and such vias
his fame in native circles that, dur-
ing this short period of incarceratio�n,
prayero for hjs deliverance were of-
fered at certain temples, and it vas
agreed thsat he would never' Dave 'beenn
convicted at all 'but for some prettty
hard swearing on the part of the po-
lice comxnassioner sahib -sand asnayway,
all sahibs hang together, and it wan
a European judge• who sent him down,
He was a general practitioner of
crime, with a leaning towards special -
ization in jewel thefts. A man cf
excellent And even gentlemanly ap-
pearance, with (black and- shiny hair
parted at the side and curling up .av-
er one brow in an inky wave, he spoke
English, TEndustani and Tamil very
well indeed, had a sketchy knowledge
of the law (on his• ,visiting cards Tilos
the inscription "Failed LL.B.") and
a very full acquaintance with the
science of !•precious stones.
During Mr. Ras Las Punjabi's brief.
rest in- Poona, the police commissioner
sahib, whose unromantic name was''
Smith, married a not very good-look-
ing girl with a lot of money. Smith
Sahib knew that beauty was only skin
deep and that she had a kind heart,
which is notoriously preferable to
the garniture of coronets. It vias
honestly a love match. Her father
awned jute mills in Calcutta, and on
restive occasions, such as the Gover-
.ior-General's ball, she carried several
akhs of rupees on her person-. but
?ven rich people are loved for them -
;elves alone.
Ras Lal owed his imprisonment to
in unsuccessful attempt he had made
apon two strings of Pearls the prr-
perty of the lady in question, and
when he learnt, on his return to free-
lom, that Smith Sahib had married
She resplendent girl and had gone to
England, he very naturally attribut
;d the hatred and bitterness of Smith
Sahib to ,purely personal causes, and
;wore vengeance.
Nolw in India the 'business of every
man is the business of his servants.
i'he preliminary inquiries, over which
to English or American jewel thief
vould spend a small fortune, can be
made at 'the cost of a few anaaa.
When Ras Lal came to England he
'ound that he had overlooked this
rery important fact.
Smith, Sahib and Memsahib, were
tut of town; they were, in fact, on
he high seas en route for New York
vhen Ras Lal was arrested on the
!onventional charge of "being a sub-
iected .person." Ras had shadowed
he •Smiths" butler, and, having in-
luced him to drink, had offered him
mmense sums to reveals the place,
•eceiptacle, drawer, safe, box or casxet
vherein "Mrs. Commissioner Smith's"
ewels were kept. His excuse for
asking, namely, that he had had a
vager with his brother that the jew-
Is (were kept under the Memsahib's
led, showed a lamentable lack of in-
+entive power. The 'butler, an hon-
st man, though a drinker of 'beer, in-
ormed the police. Ras Lal and his
riend and assistant Ram were ar-
rested, ,brought before a magistrate,
and would have been discharged (but
or the fact that Mr. J. G, Reeder saw
he record of the case and was able
o supply from his own files very im-
cortant particulars of the dark man's
cast. Therefore Mr, Ras Lal was
sent down to hard labour for six
nonths, but, what was more madden -
ng, the story of his ignominious fail -
are was, he guessed, broadcast
hroughout India.
This was the thought which dis-
rated him in his lonely cell at Worm-
vood 'Scrubbs. 'What would India
hink of him? -he would be the scorn
d the' bazars, "the mocking point of
third-rate mediocrities," to use his
cwn expression. And automatically
ie switched his hate from Smith
Sahib to one Mr. J. G. Reeder. Ana
tis hate was very real, more real be-
,ause of the insignificance and unim-
3ortance of this Reeder Sahib, whom
ie likened to an ancient cow, a sneak -
ng weasel, and other things less
translatable. And in the six months
A his durance be planned desperate
3.nd earnest acts of reprisal.
Released from prison, fie decided
that the moment was not ripe for a
return to India. Ise wished to make
a close study of Mr. J. G. Reeder and
his habits, and, being a man with
plenty of money, he could afford the
time, and, as it happened, could mix
business with pleasure.
Mr. Tommy Fenalow found means
of getting in touch with the gentle
man from then Orient whilst he was''
in Wormwood Scrubbs, and the hand-
some limousine that met Ras Lal at
the gates of the Scrubbs when he
came out of jail was both hired and
occupied ,by Tommy, a keen business
man, w'ho had been offered by iris
German printer a new line of one -
hundred -rupee notes that might eas-
ily develop into a most profitable side
line.
"You come along and lodge at my
expense, boy," said the sympathetic
Tommy, who was very short, very
stout, and had eyes that bulged like
a .pug dog's. "You've been badly
treated Iby old Reeder, and I'm going
to tell you a way of getting back on
him, with no risk and a ninety per
cent. profit. Listen, a friend of
mine -"
It was never Tommy who had snide
for sale: invariably the hawkeit of
forged notes was a mysterious
"friend,"
,So Ran was lodged in a service flat
which formed part of a block owned
by Mr. Fenalow, who -was a v0'ry rich
man indeed. Some weeks after thin,
Tommy crossed 'St. James's Street to
intercept his old etmainiIV.
".Good morning, Mr. Reeder."
M'r. J. G. Reeder stopped sa> 42 turn-
ed back.
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Tdenamy ,trent angrily red.
"I haven't been in 'stir' .and1 you
know it, lReederl i't wsasuaat for want
of trying on your part, But you've
got to 'be somnethinn; mraore than clever
to catch me ---you've got to he lucP�y➢
Not that there's anything to catch arae
over-- I've never done a crook thiang
in my life, as yoga well know."
He was so annoyed that the lighter
exchanges of humour he had plapaed
slippped, from his amaemory.
III, had an appointment with Ras
Lal, and the interview was entiooBg
satisfactory, Bh. Ras Lai made Jia,
way that night to an uncomfortabIly
situated rendezvous and there met has
new friend.
"This is the last place in the worbd
old man 'Reeder would dreamma ' off
searching," said Tommy enthusiastic-
ally, "and if he did he would find
nothing. 'Before he could gee: into
the building, the stuff would be put
out of sight."
"It is a habitation of extreme con-
venience," said Ras Lal.
"It is yours, boy," replied Tommy
matgnificently. "I only keep this
place to get -in and put-out. The stuff
is not here for an hour and the rest
of the time the store's empty. 4s d
say, old man Reeder has gotta be
something more than clever -he's got-
ta Ibe lucky!"
At parting he handed his client a
key and with that necessary instru-
ment tendered a few words of advice
and warning.
"Never come here till late. The po-
lice patrol passes'the end of the road
at ten, one o'clock and four. When
are you leaving for India?"
"On the !twenty-third," said Ras,
"'by which time I shall have uttered
a few reprisals on that cad Reeder."
"I shouldn't like to be in his
>hoes," said Tommy, who could af-
ford to Ibe sycophantic, for he had in
aid pocket two hundred pounds' worth
if real money which Ras had paid in
advance for a vaster quantity of
money° which was not so real.
It was a few days after this that
Ras Lal 'went to the Orpheum The-
itr•e, and it was no coincidence that
ie went there on the same night that
Yir. Reeder escorted a pretty lady to
;he same place of amusement,
When Mr. J. G. Reeder went to
.he theatre (and his going at all was
:ontingent upon his receiving a coni-
Aimentary ticket) he invariably chose
a melodrama, and preferably a 1Jr•ury
:.,ane melodrama, where to the thrill
cf the actors' speeches was added the
amazing action of wrecked railway
;rains, hair-raising shipwrecks and
•errific horse -races in which the fav-
wite won by a nose. Such things
nay seem widely improbable to 'blase
iramatic critics -especially favorites
grinning --]but Mr. Reeder saw actu-
ality in all such presentations.
Once he was inveigled into sitting
Brough a roaring farce, and was the
only man in the house who did not
augh. He was, indeed, such a de-
3ressing influence that the leading
ady sent a passionate request tc the
manager that "the miserable -looking
31d man in the middle of the front
•ow" should have his money returned
and be requested to leave the theatre.
Nhich, as Mr. Reeder had come in on
a free ticket, 'placed the manager in
t very awkward predicament.
Invariably he went unaccompanied,
or he had no friends, and fifty-two
rears had come and gone without,
cringing to his life romance or the
melting tenderness begot of d1•eams.
n some manner Mr. Reeder had be-
;ome acquainted with a girl who was
ike no other girl with whom he had
ceen brought into contact. Her name
vas Belman, Margaret Belman and
ie had saved her life, though this
'act did not occur to him as frequent -
y as the recollection that he had im-
3erilled that life before he had sav-
,d it. And he had a haunting sense
cf guilt for quite another reason.
He was thinking of her one day -
ie spent his life thinking about peo-
Ae, though the majority of these were
ess respectable than Miss Margarst
3elman. He supposed that she would
narry the very good-looking youne
man who met her street car at the
:orner of the Embankment every
morning and returned with her to the
l sham High Road every night. It
mould 'be a very nice wedding, with
Tired motor -cars, and the vicar him -
;elf performing the ceremony, and a
wedding 'breakfast provided by tho
.ocal caterer, following which nride
and bridegroom would be photogri..pb-
ad on the lawn surrounded by their
jovial but unprepossessing relatives.
And after this, one specially hired
car would take them to Eastbourne
for an expensive honeymoon. Ana
after that all the humdrum and
scrapings of life, rising through vil-
ladom to a little car of their own and
Saturday afternoon tennis parties.
Mr. Reeder sighed deeply. How
much more satisfactory was the stage
drama, where all the trouble begins
in the first act and is satisfactorily
settled in the last. iHe fingered ab-
sently the two slips of green paper
that had come to him that morning.
Row A, seats 17 and 18. They had
been sent Iby a manager who was un-
der some obligation to him. The the-
atre 'was the Orpheum, home of trans -
pontine drama, and the play was "The
Fires of Vengeance." It looked like
being a pleasant evening.
He took an envelope from the rack,
addressed it to the 'box office, and
had begun to write the accomrpanying
letter returning the purplus voucher,
when an idea occurred to him. He ow-
ed Miss Margaret Belman something,
and the debt was on his conscience.
He had once, for reasons of expedi-
ency, described her as his wife. This
preposterous claim had been mare to
appease a mad woman, it is arae, but
it h'ad been made. She wa€a now
holding a good position-ra secretary-
ship at one of the political headquar-
ters, for which post she had t:) thank
Mr. J. G. Reeder, if she only knew
it.
He took u+p the 'phone and called
her number and, after the normal ole -
lay, heated hep voice.
"Er --(Miss ]Bel,nman," Mr. Reeder
coughed, "I have--gr!euro tickets for
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Iter astonishment wazs almosz. aud-
ible.
"That is very nice of y'ou, Mr. Reed-,
er. 'I should love to come with you."'
la/[i r. J. G. Reeder turned pale .
". Pint I mean is, I halve two tickets
-1 thought perhaps that you--er-.-
your-ter-that somebody else would
like to go --what I mean was DD
'He heard a gentle laugh at the
other end of the phone.
"What you mean is that you don't
wish to take me," she said, and for
a man of his experience he blundered
'badly.
"I should esteem it an honour to
take you," he said in terror that he
should offend her, "but the truth is,
I thought-"
"I will meet you at the theatre -
which is it Orpheum-how lovely!
At eight o'clock."
Mr. Reeder put down the instru-
ment, feeling limp and moist, it is
the truth that he had never• taken a
lady to any kind of social function in
his life, and as there grow upon him
the tremendous character of this ad-
venture he was overwhelmed and
breathless. A murderer waking from
dreams of revelry to find himself in
the condemned cell suffered no more
poignant emotions than Mr. Reeder,
torn from the smooth if treacherous
currents of life and drawing nearer
and nearer to the horrid vortex of
unusualness.
"Bless me," said Mr. Reeder, em-
ploying a strictly 'private expression
which was reserved for his own
irises.
He employed in his private office a
young woman who combined a meti-
.ulous exactness in the filing of docu-
ments with a complete absence of
:hose attractions which turn men in -
:o gods, and in other days set the
irmies of Perseus moving towards
:he walls of Troy. She was invar-
ably addressed by Mr. Reeder as
`Miss." He believed her name to be
`'Oli,ver." She was in truth a mar-
-ied lady with two children, but her
nuptials had been celebrated without '
tis knowledge.
To the top floor of a building in
Regent Street Mr. Reeder repaired
!or instruction and guidance.
"It is not-er-a practice of mine I
;o- er-accom'pany lad -res to the the-
atre, and I am rather at a loss to 1
snow what is expected of me, the 1
more so'since the young lady is-er-
t stranger to me." (
His frosty -visaged assistant sneer-
�d secretly, At Mr. Reeder's time of ''
ife, when such natural affections as
were not atrophied shoal 0 -decency
ie fossilised!"
He jotted down her suggestions.
"Chocolates indeed ? When can I
cue procure- ? Oh, yes, I renrzm-
>er seeing the attendants sell them, I
[hank you so much, Miss-er--"
And as he went out, closing the
loor carefully behind him, she sneer -
rd openly.
"They all go 'wrong at seventy," I
;he said insultingly. I
Margaret hardly knew what to ex-
3ect (when she came into the flam-
coyant foyer of the Orpheum. What
,vas the evening equivalent to the
square -topped derby and the tightly-
>uttoned frock coat of ancient de-
sign which he favored in the hours of
iusiness? She would have passed the
somewhat elegantly dressed gentle-
man in the correct pique waistcoat
tad the perfectly tied butterfly bow,
only he claimed her attention.
"Mr. Reeder!" she gasped.
It was indeed Mr. Reeder: with nut
;o much as a shirt -stud wrong; with
i suit of the latest mode, and shoes
;lossy and V -toed. For Mr. Reeder,
ike many other men, dressed acccrd-
ng to his inclination in business hours
Dut accepted blindly the instructions
)f his tailor in the matter of fancy
raiment, Mr. J, G. Reeder was nev-
er conscious of his clothing, good o-
�ad-he was, however, very conscious
if his strange responsihility.
,Hie took her cloak (he had previous-
ly purchased programmes and a large
box of chocolates, which he carried
by its satin ribbon). There was a
quarter of an hour to wait before the
curtain w nt up, and Margaret felt
it incumb�t upon her to offer an ex-
planation.
"You spoke about `somebody' else;
do you mean Roy --the man who
sometimes meets me at Westmins-
ter?"
Mr. Reeder had meant that young
man,
"'He and I were good friends," she
said, "no more than that -we rr^n't
very good friends any more."
She did not say why. 'She ,night
have explained in a sentence if she
had said that Roy's mother held an
exalted opinion of her only son's qual-
ities, physical and mental, and that
Roy thoroughly endorser] his mother's
judgment, but she did not.
"Ahl" said Mr. Reeder unhappily.
Soon after this the orchestra drown-
ed further conversation, for they were
sitting in the first row near to the
noisiest of the (brass and not far re-
moved from the shrillest of the wood
wind. ,In odd moments, through the
thrilling first act, she stole --a glance
at her companion. She expected to
find this man mildly amused or slight-
ly bored by the absurd contrast M-
bween the realities ,which he knew and
the theatricalities which were pres-
ented on the stage. But whenever
she lookted, he was absorbed in the
action of the play; she could almost
feel him tremble when the hero ,o cas
strapped to a log and thrown into the
boilinlg moirmain wtream, >zand when
the stdV Jfove vvas regtued on thG
fall of the curtain, she heard, with
somethinlg like stnp*2geHga, Mr.
�.eederlb quivering sigh ova 2 ef.
"But surely, 11I,Cr. 1Reederr, �hica borax
D SD S • , t�: waQ 44 � k p u .-
donte oda, yes, I'm one -na: it: ;5 - 'ti%e.,'R cDsid a » fl r 'I ,ftX '9
l lezisp doss'! loots so �� 0hem'i0' ;1 t�l t ""k,`
v� dl ' & a y lI 'hey crossed fitu7; stA a a ` �
thought that you, v✓Rao ldsaevr so ufatsd&n ''and bore i da .t
about erinainolo y9is Haas$ $Ila vroya$? to ;'1 l .
g �6"ikrrsrtagla !Pse raiaa�bwraai .rktul"tp ,
��. �!
--+would be rather amused," V
"r. pivlsed ug the fauxailaasm 3lcnI
Mr. ]Reeder was looking vesry auasdi- amid olTered a uaduallaa,' cdDktt�ageja�i, ., 4,'r � »� - $ ' _
ou4 at leer. u' on them in the
"firs afraid it Is not the kind of P Iraranuarr o ',e'lde a ,1,, ~ , , r`1. ` `
_ Masrgaret hard not rag lizedl, bef"elsg'. tla �,�. " � +! '
9D
Pb"®h, but it is -I love mm to teens. history waas m r -4e in :South 'Lettat da. , ; " r 1 t " 1 ;' a
mere eased to 'lea a g', t `�'aa a o, � si kr, ' -:f +a+ ,
fiat doesn't it strike ?�-- t1Das aa�ly-Iloalsin Doll do 1M`. s ani ,.;
you ass beim _ g watts an i .: "
Par-feeched . 1H'or instance, alar maan the London terminus of tIse f at 'a &= 5 1�^� ��' , tet« �r.i+ ��� + I �a
being chained to as flog➢ quad the l R ��� " "w
ways-- u®en Alea ndra dlpove $r4 a ^� g4a
mother agreeing to her son's death g" there yvhen she casae, to be warr°ipd -- D�
thoughtfully ®r rubbed his n o ra a the thoroughfare on the right asidtsn' y -k x � ° i `"
we grass flee !;!!real bridge fie caarto4usllr ,:Fn `rr y "",
"The lBerrnondsey gang' chained D, � �� 4"� -(!r s , !i a' `;
iilArry Sasltea to a pIlanld, turn®d at reseed Bird -in -Mash llQoad �u w ::� ': , L , ' F + } I
DV@P seed let lair down A lbfig cap had drawua flc';vel witlh tlaQ. ; r t`n' ����+ I:,,.I,'
just oppmsite ,mb, and the driver was shoudrity y a �, t,si,.',
Billingsgate Market. I WEB at the something to the cabman. Elven the ' r ':, `, a +' ` r, ciF,; I.,.,
sxecution of Tod Rowe, and he ad- su i io „ n,
s c us Mr. Reeder sues ec d
p n LU
nutted it on the scaffold. And it was more than an exchange of offensive- '" ' rr ,l '
Lee' Pearson's mother who poisoned ness, till the cab suddenly turned into a +u ,F
aim at Teddington to get his incur- the P d M� i s'
oa lee had began speaking ffibout, .
Ince money so that she could marry The car had fallen 'behind, but now" +xti'''F,
again. I was at the trial and she
drew abreast. ,, t.1 Ir
oak her sentence laughing -now �� DD -` [;v J, ..
r,,.a ' i:; G.,
Probably the main Poad is up,
vhat else was there in that act? Oh, said J. G. and at that moment the cab , "f+t,'';
res, I remember: the proprietor of clawed said stopped. J -,r';
he saw -mill tried to get the ", 1
young 'Hie was reaching out for the handle k
ady to marry him by threatening to when the door was pulled opened Kin E w`'YQ�'I
end her father to prison. That has violently, and in the uncertain Ili int gbePt, Tutor and eoiansel�sr �i 1'a °car';
een done hundreds of times -oil nn g ling Etlaelwulf and perhasps evia aS�c tr
y Mr. 'Reeder saw a broad -shouldered Ring Alfred in his childhood. He 'ea�s� � 1
worse why. There is real] moth- '^"'
y man standing in the road, k i r.,
ag very extravagant about a 9nelo- "Alight quick] i'" the author of the tithes sysf2�a ba` � ,+
rama exec t the y' the support of the clergy, a ao;Ub,le , Y '1
p prices of the Beads In the man's hand was a lou black x�;j
nd I usually get my tickets free°" g' engineer and architect, builder of
She listened at first dum'bfoummded C°It, and his face was oolvered froffi ges, and withal a. ' "Mk'
chin to foicehead by a mask. churches and brill
nd then with a gurgle of amusement mamm of great learningi, piety Rl''+
„ "Quickly -and keep your hands �y 'l
Hew •queer -and yet --,well, frank- erect!„ modesty. W1aen he had a newcbiiarelw st(.:
y, 1 have only met melodrama once , IIIieeder ste to dedicate he went to it. at night ells' ljtt?
geed out into dire that he . mi ht not be acclaianed b
a life and even now 1 cannot believe g y' �'
rain and reached to close the door.
What happens in the next act?" "The female also -come, miss?" t'he when ce; and there is a legeend:
Mr, Reeder consulted leis pro- '+(gets- rnvhat's the game -you told
that when a market woman stumbled ,' 1i1
on the 'bridge he had built across the- ;'I' -SS
ramme. me the New Cross Road was blocked," Itchen river and smashed all the s 1`r.
"I rather believe that the young It was the cabman talkie Wig- 'VI'
omen in the white dress is ca tared +< g' in her 'basket he insisted ugon giviang lm'
p Here is a five -keep your mouth her more a sa a that the fnsult ,;i);
nd removed to the harem of an East-.- shut-=" ggs, ya g
rn potentate," lee said precisely, and The masked man thrust a note at was $hat of the clumsy builder of tine as"
tis time the rl lar hed aloud. bridge. however, he same to be re
� g the driver. >Wi'
"Have you a parallel for that?" she "I don't want your money garded as a saint, we do not know, i,
>ked triumphantly, and Mr. Reader .. since canonization was riot practised T
You require my bullet in your for a couple of centuries later, and
as compelled to admit that he l�ew ,bosom perchance, my good fellow?" he nev®r received !Pae rite. @men ln2"
o exact parallel, but-�-- asked Ras Lal sardonicall ,
y died lee left directions that he should" °i'
It is rather a remarkable coinci- Margaret had followed her escort ','N,
ince," he said, "a very remarkable into the road 'b this time, The car be 'buried close to the wall of the r>;�til
>incidence!" had sto y church under a path trodden by many c
'ped just behind the cab. Wath feet and where the water would dri ,
She looked at her programme, won- the muzzle of the istol stuck into p , �'
Bring if she had overlooked anything his back, Mr, Reeder walked to the from tare eaves upon his grave. ; t
> very remarkable. open door and entered. The girl fol- said that he hoped eventually a ;s:,.. ,
"There is at this moment, watch- cathedral would be 'built in place of + :,
lowed, and the masked man .jumped ,,'+
Lg me from the front row of the the church and expressed 'the h -pe , .y,
after them and closed the door, In-
ness circle�I beg you not to turn that if so his bones should be buried
stantly the interior was flooded with ^`
aur head -one who, if he is nota there. He died on July 2, 862, and. ''11'
light, ,=�r-
�tentate, is undoubtedly Eastern ; "Phis is a considerable surprise to more than a century later, on July ;
fere are, in fact, two dark complex- a clever and intelli eat 15, 971, leis remains were placed in a. jf
g police detec- g
ned gentlemen, :but only one may be tive?" new torrnb in the Church of 5t. Peter ';"..
3scri'bed as important." and St. Paul. The weather on the^ .Al
"But why are they watching you?" (Continued next week) day of the reburial was pleasant, and. •
3e asked in surprise. history fails *o show that on this date
"Possibly," said Mr. Reeder solemn- through all the centuries there has ,;r'
"because I ]oak so remarkable in ST. SWITIIFN PO�T1E18L1ESS 7C0 been any terrific meteorological dis- III
,ening dress." turbance. Indeed Swithin had been ;`l
CONTROL �`fiIIEATHIER hundreds of ears dead before the
One of the dark complexioned gen- 9 },,
emen turn'�d to his companion at Jul 15th, as all will a sulperstition began to be noted. The' •'
y gree, was a .first reference to iIt in literature ar `''
its moment, delightful day, and there are nota � �"
"It is the woman be travels with few who will take satisfaction ,in made by Ben Jonson. But what
rery day; she lives in the same quoting the old doggerel:- did make St. Swithin notable for
reet, and is doubtless more t° him some centuries after his death wvas ;�a
Lan anybody in the world, Ram. See "St. Swithin's day, if thou dost rain, the fact that his shrine became the i1
)w she laughs in his face and how For forty days i -t .will remain; scene of many miracles. After each
Le old so-and-so looks at her! When St. Swithin's day, if thou be fair new cure the bishop of the cathedral
en come to his great age they gro,iv For forty days 'twill rain no main" would assemble alb the monks iia `}
fly about women. This thing car church for a thanksgilving. But as -
done to -night. I wvould sooner riie But nothing is' more certain than the miracles increased the holy monks ?a
Ian go back to Bombay without ac- that we shall have rain 'before the revolted at being so often interrupt-
,mplishing my design upon this month is out, for the superstiti-)n ed and disturbed, and the bishop de- -'i'la
ich-and-such and so -forth." ascribing to July 15th some snit of sisted. The once famous shrine was.
,Ram, his chauffeur, confers*.e and talismanic demolished in 1538 when the monas- .,
]low jail -bird, who was cast ir. a Power concerning the sub- teries of England were suppressed.
Sequent weather is a superstition and
ss heroic mould, and had, more- nothing more. Indeed, we believe
rer, no personal vendetta, suggest- that it belongs to that kind of super• -
i in haste that the matter should be stition that never had the sl'ghtest
[ought over. +;
base of reality. There was nothing 1LONDON AND �'1',IINGHAM
"I have cogitated every hypotlies s in the career of the good saint, either
I their logical conclusions," said Ras in his life or the day of his death that North. ..
al in English. suggested that he would 'be particu- a.m.
"But, master," said his companion p'
larly weatherwise. How the contra,: Centralia .. , ....... 10.36 5.5]1
,gently, "would it not be wise to notion arose is a mystery. Exeter ... ... 10.49 6.04 ''r
ave this country and make a fortune But it is a curious thing that in [-lensall ..... , ... 11.03 6.15
ith the new mons which the fa*
Y several countess there is a belie, that o
ttle man can sell to us?" if a certain day in the year is fai. Brucen , ......,.. 11.08 6.2..
"Vengeance is mine," said Ras Lal the succeeding 40 days will be fair, BrucefieId .. , ...... 11.17 6.22'
1 English. and vice versa. In France the day (1.53 Qfl .5�
He sat through the next act which, thus ven meteorolo ical si ificance Clinton ro .. . , ... 11.53 6.12'
; Mr, Reeder had truly said, depict- g �a Blyth b... 12.13 7.12'
is St. Medard's day, June 8th; and i£ Blyth . ...... . ..... 12.22 7.2Il
1 the luring of an innocent girl into this fails to work out, then devout A
ie hateful clutches of a Turkish believers look to July 6th, honored by gig ha 12.3- 7.33
asha and, watching the development Sts. Gervaise and Prothais, which is DUrngham ........ - 12.50 7.55
f the plot, 'his own scheme under supposed to govern the weather for South.
ent revision. He did not wait to the next 44 days. In Flanders the
re what happened in the third and peasants believe firmly- that the wea- a•m• p•m
iurth acts -there were certain pre- they following St. Godelieve's day, VBm'gham 6.55 3.0�
arations to be made. Beb rave ....... , . , 7.15 3.25
.July 6th, will be good or 'bad accord- g
"I still think that, whilst the story ing to the conditions on that date. Blyth . . .... . ...... 7.27 3.38
, arwfully thrilling, it is awfully in - Germany has a day for the Seven Londeslboro ..... , .. 7.35 3.47
ossible," said Margaret, as they mov- Sleepers, June 27th, which is supp,s- Clinton . - ......... 7.56 4.10'
d slowly through the crowded -.resti- ed to afford an infallible clue to the Brucefield ...... , .. 7.5'8 4.28
ale. "in real life --,in civilized coup- subsequent weather. But, as a writ- (162) Q164y
-ies, I mean -masked men do not er in the New York Herald-TribunA Ecrppen .. , , , , , . , . , 8.22 4.38
.rddenly appear from nowhere with points out, since all the saints are Hensall ........... 8.32 4.148
istols and say 'Hands up!' -not real- supposed to have equal authority, St. Exeter . , .......... 8.47 5.0&
r, do they, Mr. Reeder?" she coaxed. Medard would really control the wee- Centralia ........ , . 8.59 5.17
Mr. Reeder murmured a reluctant ther falling on the anniversaries, and
greement. if June Sth happened to be rainy the
"13ut I have enjoyed it tremendous- pious could expect no less than tli>7. C. N. R TI[M]E TAIBILIE
W' she said with enthusiasm, and the next. 77 days would also se ra;n
coking down into the pink face Mr. fall. (East
-eeder felt a curious sensation which It is hardlv necessary to sav that p-
a.m. ria,
as not entire] leisure and nut Goderich ..--....... 6.20 2.20
Y P there is no such record in any meteor- Holmesville ........ 6.36 2.37
'holly pain. ological office in Europe. Examina- Clinton
6.44 2.5i>y
"I am very glad," he said. tion of the files shows that if July
Both the dress -circle and the stalls Seaforth ........,,, 6.59 3.08
lith is rainy it is more likely to ba St. Golumban . , .... 7,06 3.15•
isgorged into the foyer, and he wa, followed by clear weather than if it [Dublin . . . . ....... . . 7.11 3.22
coking round for a face he had seen is fine. At Greenwich observatory a
+hen he arrived. But neither Ras check was kept for 20 ,years to note West.
,al nor his companion in misfortune how popular superstition coincided a.m. p.m. p.M.
ras visible. Rain was falling dis- with the observed phenomena. It was Dublin .. 11.17 5.38 9.37
•;ally, and it was some time before found that there were six rainy St. Colum'ban. 11,22 5.44
e found a ca:b. Swithin's days followed by an aver- Seaforth ..... 11.33 5.53 9.5& •
"Luxury upon luxury," smiled Mar- age of only 18.3 rainy clays in, the Clinton . , . 11.50 6.08-6.53 20.0
•aret, when he took his place by her following 40. The 14 rainless Swith- Holm'esville . , 12,01 7.03 10.1
ide. "You may smoke if you wish. in's days were followed by an average Goderich ,.,.. 12.20 7.20 18.3
Mr. Reeder took a paper packet of of 19 rainy days in the whole neriod
i arettes from his waistcoat ocket, which the saint is supposed to dour -
g P C. P. ii2, TIIPJdIE TAIBIL �;
elected a limp cylinder, and lit it. Taste. Nirvert.heless, the superstition ;
will continue to hold rank with the t
No plays are quite like life, my kindred superstition about Groundhog )� t :
ear young lady," he said, as be a,u�s. >'
arefully pushed the match through day, which has been time after time Godlerich , .... 5XV ' ``
exposed as baseless and nonsenairal.
he space between the top off the win- Men':ret ................. . .. 5.61v
low and the frame. "Melodramas Perhaps once in a lifetime there is a McGaw
.c ................ �,m1
memorable spell of fine or rainy
,pPeal most to me because of their Auburn ... . . ............... 0,14
wd,ather in the last part of July and � � .
dealism." ]Blyth ..........
extending well through August. The ;
She turned and scared at him. fact that it is phenomenal will fix it � '� .. ..� R
"idealism ," she repeated incredu- a mans memory and cornfirnr Kiran C? rr
ously. '1`oP4DTiiPo ..I........ 11um `;;,
Fie nodded. in Iris belief that 'St. Switlrin was a • . • . -"
real weather e3zpert. 1 will foot
Have you ever noticed that there that in the thirty preceding and fol -
s nothing sordid about a melodrama? lowing years the saitat was thorough- TOT611im �,
once saw a classieaB drama- .. . • . • • • q;
[Edipus'--and it made me feel sick, fly discredited. ieNsaenP�4�. r
n melodrama even the villaians are Looking• over the career of St, Mltomr ................... ava0Si .
reroic and the inevitahle and unrary- Swithin, or more properly nSwlt�v n. WTUAa� ......... . ... ... „ ' M- ` `
ng moral is 'Truth crushed to earth rove find in it no cline iso beau aV�n��aaposQd 1,��� ...... a e . 6 a a tl tl �, b"�'
mill rage again' -isn't that idealirlm. 2 : mo'ntmetlon vafth the 'w®ather. BCe t ag �,, �a , "
end !hay are nvhoflesom®. Il°icmr® tame a (Bishop of Y1St inclaestar, a frienar� 04 P�� ��, • " " • • • , ... ^ ^ a <. e .. .'�y�� ;
`15 624'r'Ac.4a ............ 6 o .. 4 6 b V S.'�TJ, t
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