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es Oliver Cawood
R. S. HAYS
arrister, Solicitor, Conveyances
and Notary Public. Solicitor for the
Dominion Bank. Office in rear of the
Dominion 'Bank, Se•'rorth. Money to
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Barristers, 'Solicitors, Comveyan-
ers and Notaries Public, Etc. 'I ce
Iln the Edge Building, opposite Tlee
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V'idt'Il'IERIINARY
JOHN GRIEVE, V.A.
Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin-
ary College. All diseases of donnestic
animals treated. Calls promptly at-
tended to and charges moderate. Vet-
erinary Dentistry a specialty. 0 c
and residence on Goderich Street, one
door east of Dr. Mackay's ®r• ce, Sea-
2orth.
A. R. CMPSELL, V.A.
Graduate�of Ontario Veterinary University niversity of Toronto. All
elseases of domestic animals treated
by the most modern principles.
Charges reasonable. Day or night
calls promptly attended to. Office on
Main •Street, Hensall, opposite Town
Hall. Phone 116.
MEDICAL
Dr;. F. J. R. IFORSTER
Eye, ]Ear, Nose and Throat
Graduate in Medicine, University of
Toronto.
Late assistant New York Ophthal-
m mei and Aural Institute, Moorefield's
,Eye and Golden Square Throat Hos-
mite's, London, Eng. At Commercial
Hotel, Seaforth, third Monday in
each month, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
es3 Waterloo Street, South, Stratford.
?hone 267, Stratford.
Next visit in September.
DR. 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
11rm
Aberhart's Drug Store, Main St.,
l8eaforth. Phone 90.
DR. R. P. I. DOUGALL
Honor graduate of Faculty of
lliledicine and Master of Science, Uni-
versity 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-BRAY
Hayfield.
Graduate Dublin University, Ire-
land. Late Extern Assistant Master
Rotunda Hospital for Women and
'Children, Dublin. Office at residence
lately occupied by Mrs. Parsons.
Hours, 9 to 10 a.m., 6 to 7 p.m.;
Sundays, 1 to 2 p.m. 2866-26
DR. F..1. BURROWS
Office and residence Goderich Street,
toast of the Methodist Church, Sea-
fforth. Phone 46. Coroner for the
County of Huron.
DR. C. MACKAY
C. Mackay, honor graduate of Trin-
Slty University, and gold medalist of
Trinity Medical College; member of
the College of Physicians and SuF-
geons of Ontario.
DR. H. HUGH ROSS
Graduate of University of Toronto
Faculty of Medicine, member of Col-
lege of Physicians and Surgeons of
Ontario; pass graduate courses in
Chicago Clinical School of Chicago ;
Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, London.
England; University Hospital, Lon-
don, England. Office -Back of Do-
minion Bank, Seaforth. Phone No. 5.
Night calls answered from residence,
Victoria Street, Seaforth.
DR. J. A. MUNN
Successor to Dr. R. R. Ross
Graduate of Northwestern Univers-
ity Chicago, Ill. Licentiate Royal
College of Dental Surgeons, Toronto.
Office over Sills' Hardware, Main St.,
Seaforth. Phone 151.
DR. F. J. BEC K lE L Y
Graduate Royal College of Dental
Surgeons, Toronto. Office over W. R.
Smith's Grocery, Main Street, Sea -
forth. Phones: Office, 185 W; resi-
dence, 185J. 3055-tf
CONSULTING ENGINEER
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.
AUCTIONEERS
THOMAS BROWN
Licensed auctioneer for the counties
of Huron and Perth. Correspondence
arrangements for sale dates can be
made by calling The Expositor Office,
Seaforth. Charges moderate, a n d
satisfaction guarante%d. Phone 802.
OSCAR KLOPP
onor Graduate Carey Jones' Na-
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Bred Live Stock, Real Estate, Mer-
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keeping with prevailing market. Sat-
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R. T. LUK.ER
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of Sl uron. 3alerl attended to in all
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(Continued from lest week)
Passing ' beyond thein, , he paused
and looked back at the bateau. Or
the forward deck 'etc, ,! Marie -Aline,
and she, too, was looking at him now
Even at ` that distance he saw that
her face 'was quiet and troubled with
anxiety. She did agot smile when he
Iifted his 'hat to her, 'hut gave only
a little nod. Then he turned and bur-
ied himself in the green 'balsams that
grew within fifty paces of the river.
The old joy of life 'leaped. into him
as his feet crushed in the soft moss
of the shaded places where the span
did not break through. He went on,
passing through a -vast and silent
cathedral of spruce and cedar so
dense that the sky was hidden, and
came then to higher ground; where
the evergreen was sprinkled with
birch and poplar. About him was an
invisible choir of voices, the low twit-
tering of timid little gray -backs, the
song of hidden warblers, the scolding'
of distant jays. Big -eyed moose -
birds stared at him as he passed,
fluttering so close to his face that
they almost touched his shoulders in
their foolish inquisitiveness. A. por-
cupine crashed within a dozen feet of
his trail. And then he came to a
'beaten path, and other paths worn
deep in the coal, damp earth by the
hoofs of moose and caribou. Half a
mile from the bateap he sat down on
a rotting log and filled his pipe with
fresh tobacco, while be listened to
catch the subdued voice of the life
in this land that he loved.
It was then that the curious feel-
ing came over him that he was not
alone, that other eyes than those of
beast and bird were watching him. It
was an impression that grew on him.
He seemed to feel their stare, seek-
ing him out from the darkest coverts,
waiting for him to shove on, dogging
him like a 'ghost. -Within him the
hound -like instincts of the man-
hunter rose swiftly to the suspicion
of invisible presence.
He began to note the changes in
the cries of certain birds. A hun-
dred yards on his right a jay, most
talkative of all the forest things,
was screeching with a new note in
its voice. On the other side of him,
in a dense pocket oe poplar and spruce
a warbler suddenly brought its song
to a jerky end. He heard the excit-
ed Pe -wee -Pe -wee -Pe -'wee of a
startled little gray 'back giving warn-
ing of ::n unwelcome intruder near
its nest. And he rose to his feet,
laughing softly as he thumbed down
the tobacco in his pipe. Jeanne Mar-
ie -Anne Boulain might believe him,
but Bateese and her wary henchmen
had ways of their own of strengthen-
ing their faith.
It was close to noon when he turn-
ed back, and he did not return by
the moose path. 'Deliberately be
struck out a hundred yards on either
side of it, travelling where the mose
grew thick and the earth was damp
and soft. And five times he found
the moccasin -prints of men.
Bateese, with his sleeves up, was
scrubbing the deck of the bateau when
David came over the plank.
"There are moose and caribou in
there, but I fear I disturbed your
hunters," said Carrigan, grinning at
the half-breed. "They are too clumsy
to hunt well, so clumsy that 'even the
birds give them away. I am afraid
we shall go without fresh meat to-
morrow!"
Concombre Bateese stared as if
some one Thad stunned him with a
blow, and he spoke no word as David
went on to the forward deck. Marie -
Anne had come out under the awn-
ing. She gave a little cry of relief
and pleasure.
"I am glad you have come hack,
M',sieu David!"
"So am I, madame," he replied. "I
think the woods are unhealthful t,
travel in!"
Out of the earth he felt that a
part of the old strength had returned
to him. Alone they sat at dinner and
Marie -Anne waited on him and called
him David again' -wand he found it
easier now to call her Marie -Anne
and look into her eyes without fear
that he was betraying himself. A
part of the afternoon he spent in her
company, 'and it was not difficult for
him to tell her something of his ad-
venturing in the north, and how, body
and soul, the northland had claimed
him, and that he hoped to die in it
when hie time came. Her eyes glow-
ed 'at that. She told him of two years
she had spent in Montreal and Que-
bec, of her homesickness, her joy
when she returned to her forests. It
seemed for a time, that they had for-
gotten St. Pierre. They did not speak
of 'him. Twice they saw Andre, the
Broken Man, but the name of Roger
Audemard was not spoken. And a
little at a time she told him of the
hidden paradise of the Boulains a-
way up in the unmapped wilderness
of the Yellowknife 'beyond the Great
Bear, and of the' great log chateau
that was her home.
A part of the afternoon he spent
on shore. He filled a rnoosehide bag
full of sand and suspended it from
the limb of a tree, 'and for three-
quarters of an hour pommeled it
with his fists, much to the curiosity
and amusement 'of St. Pierre's men,
who could see nothing of man -fighting
in these antics. But the exercise as-
sured David that he. had lost but lit-
tle of his strength and that he would
he in form to meet Bateese when
the , time came. Toward evening
Marie -Anne joined him, and they
walked for half an 'hour up and dawn
the beach. I.t was Bateese who got
supper. Vend after that Oarrigan sat
with Marie-eenne on, the fore- e'ek of
the barge and smoked another of St.
Pierre's clgaru.
The camp of the rivermen wag two
hundred 'cris tbelow the bateau,
screened eon by a. finger; of heads
weed, so that eaeept when they broke
into a chorus of laughter or strength-
ened their throatswith saratehee off
song, there was no sound of their
voices. But Dasteese was in t` ern
and Nepapipas was forever flitting in
and out among the shadows on the
shore, like a shadow "iemeltx, end
Andre, the Broken fillsmn, hovered near
as night came on. At last he sat
down in the edge of the white sand
'of the beach, and there he remained,
a silent and lonely figure, as the twi-
light deepened. Over the world hoe --
eyed a sleepy quiet. Out of the for-
est came the droning of the wood -
crickets, the last twitterings of e.. e
day hirds, and the beginning of night
sounds. A great shadow floated out
over the. river close to the bateau,
the firpt of the questing, blood -seek-
ing owls adventuring out like inirates
from their hiding -places of the day.
One after an=other as the darkness
thickened, the different tribes of the
people of the night answered the
summons of the first stars. A mile
clown the river a loon gave its harsh
love -cry; far out of the west came
the faint trail -song of a wolf; in the
river the night -feeding trout splash-
ed like the tails of beaver; over the
roof of the wilderness came the cough-
ing, moaning challenge of a bull
moose that yearned for battle. And
over these same fd'rest tops rose the
moon, the stars grew thicker and
brighter, and through the finger of
hardwood glowed the fire of St.
Pierre Bouladn'h men -while close be-
side him, silent in these hours of sil-
ence, David felt growing nearer and
still nearer to him the 'presence of
St. Pierre's wife.
On the strip of sand Andre, the
Broken 'Man, rose and stood like the
stub of a misshapen tree. And then
slowly he moved on and was swallow-
ed up in the mellow glow of the night.
"It is at night that he seeks," said
St. Pierre's wife, for it was as if
David had spoken the thought that
was in his mind.
David, for a moment, was silent.
And then he said, "You asked me to
tell you about Black Roger Aude-
mard. I will, if you care to have me.
Do you?"
He saw the nodding of her head,
though the moon and star -mist veil-
ed her face.
"Yes. What do the Police say a-
bout Roger Audemard'?"
He told her. And not once in the
telling of the story did she speak or
move. It was a terrible story at beast,
he thought, but 'he did not weaken it
by smoothing over the details. This
was hies opportunity. 'He' wanted her
to know why he must possess the
body of Roger Audemard, if not alive
then dead, and he wanted her to un-
derstand how important it was that
he learn more about Andre, the Brok-
en Man.
"He was a fiend, this Roger Aude-
mard," 'he began. "A devil in man
shape, 'afterward called 'Black Roger'
'because of the color of his soul."
Then het went on. He described
Hatchet River'Post, where the trage-
dy had happened; then told of the
fight that came about one day between
Roger Audemard and the factor of
the post and his two sons. It was
an unfair fight; he conceded that --
three to one was cowardly in a fight.
But it could not excuse what happen-
ed afterward. Audemard was beaten.
He crept off into the forest, almost
dead. Then he came back one stormy
night in the winter with three strange
DOW gligang-lete.Onna
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IL
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some time without relief.
II bed heard so much con-
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were certainly the medi-
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was not long before It was
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take them every Spring as
a tonic."
This as one of hundreds of
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the nla ItIV On d dead out-
side poi. tap o laushad like
a xnedaelme at the (IA shrieks of his
vi iMa. it was the aeon whoa the
trapps is were on ting* lines, and there
were but few people, at the post. The
company clerk and one other attempt..
to hated 'e, 4114 3%k ,Rcger l IE-
tl:teed"• 1 ;.h. his mei. leanelr, Flee
deaths that idght-gtwe of them hor-
rible beyond deecriptleni
Resting for a moment, Carrigan
went on to tell of the long years of
unavailing search m„ e 6 by the Police
after that; how Black Roger was
caught once and killed his captor.
Them came the rumor that he was
dead, and rumor grew. into official be-
lief, and the Police no longer hunted
for his trails. Theon, not long ago
came the discovery that Black Roger
was still living, and he, Dave Carri-
gan, was after him.
For a time there was silence after
he had finished. That. St. Pierre's
wife rose to her feet; wonder,"
she said in a low voice, "what Roger
Audem'ard's own story might be if
he were here to tell it?"
She stepped out from under the
awning and' in the full radiance of
the moon he saw the pale beauty of
her face and. the crowning luster of
her hair. re'
"Good night!" she 'whispered.
"Good night!" said David.
He listened until her retreating
footsteps died away, and for hours
after that he had no thought of sleep.
He had insisted that she take posses-
sion of 'her cabin again, and Bateese
had brought out a bundle of blank-
ets. These he spread under the awn-
ing, and when he drowsed off, it was
to dream of the' lovely face he had
seen last in the glow of the moon.
It was in the 'afternoon of the
fourth day that two things happen-
ed -one that 'he had prepared himself
for, and another so unexpected that
for a space it sent his world crashing
out of its orbit. With St. Pierre's
wife he had gone again to the ridge -
line for flowers, half a mile back from
the river. Returning a new way, they
came to a shallow stream, and Marie -
Anne stood at the edge of it, and
there was laughter in her shining
eyes as she looked to the other side
of it. She had twined' flowers into
her brain. Her cheeks were rich
with color. Her slim figure was ex-
quisite in its wild pulse of life.
Suddenly she turned on him, her
red lips smiling their witchery in his
face. "You must carry me across,"
she said.
He did not answer. He was a -
tremble as he drew near her. She
raised her arms a little, waiting. And
then 'he picked her up. She was a-
gainst his breast. Her two hands
went to his shoulders as he waded in-
to the stream: he slipped, and they
clung a little tighter. The soft note
of laughter was in her throat when
the current came to hisJ,pees out in
the middle of the stream. He held
her tighter; and then stupidly, he
slipped again, and the movement
brought her lower in his arms, so
that for a space her head was against
his 'breast, and his face was crushed
int the soft masses of her hair. He
came with her that way to the op-
posite shore and stood her on her
feet again, standing back quickly so
that she would not hear the pounding
of his heart. Her face was radiantly
beautiful, and she did not look at
David, but away from him.
"Thank you," she said.
And then, suddenly, they heard run-
ning feet behind them, tad in an-
other moment one of the brigade men
came dashing through the stream. At
the same time there came from the
river a quarter of a mile away a
thunderous burst of 'voice. It was
not the voice of a dozen men, but of
half a ha-ad/led, and Marie -Anne grew
tense, listening, her eyes on fire ev-
en before the messenger could get
the words out of his mouth. '
"It is St. Pierre!" he cried then.
"He has come with the great raft,
and you must hurry if you would
reach the bateau before he lands!"
In that moment it seemed to David
that Marie -Anne forgot he was alive.
A little cry came to her lips and then
she left him, running swiftly, saying
no word to him, flying with the speed
of a fawn to St. Pierre Boulain! And
when David turned to the man who
had come up 'behind them, there was
a strange smile on the lips of the lithe
limbed forest -runner as his eyes fol-•
lowed the hurrying figure of St.
Pierre's wife.•
Until she was out of eight he stool
in silence and then he said:
"Come, m'sieu. We, also, must
meet St. Pierre!"
XIV
David moved slowly behind the
brigade man. He had no desire to
hurry. He did not wish to see what
happened when Marie -Anne met St.
Pierre Boulain. Only a moment ago
she had been in his arms; her hair
had smothered his fare; her hands
had clung to his shoulders; her flush-
ed cheeks and long lashes had for an
instant lain close against his breast.
And now, swiftly, without a word of
apology, she was running away from
him to meet her husband.
He quickened his slops, narrowing
the distance 'between him and the
hurrying brigade man. Only the dis-
eased thoughts in his brain had made
the happening in the 'reek anything
but an accident. It was all an acci-
dent, he told himself. Marie -Anne
had asked him to carry her across just
as she would have asked any one of
her rivermen•. it ivas hih fault, and
not hers, that he had slipped in mid-
stream, and that his arms had closed
tighter about her, and that her hair
had brushed' his face. He remember-
ed she had laughed, when it seemed
for a moment that they were going
to fall into the stream together.
Probably she would tell St. Pierre .ell
about it, Surely she would never
guest it bad been nearer tragedy than
comedy fat Prim.
Owe mere he was convinced he had
proved himself a weakling avail a focal
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His business now was with Pierre
and the hour was at hand w the
game had ceased to be a w'\ sues
game. He had looked ahead to this
hour. He had 'prepared himself for
it and had promised himself action
that would 'be both quick and decisive.
And yet, as he went on, his heart was
still thumping unsteadily, and in his
arms and against his face remained
still the sweet, warm thrill of his con-
tact with Marie -Anne. He could not
drive that from him. It would never
completely go. As long as he lived,
what had happened in the creek would
live with him. He did not deny that
crying voice inside him. It was easy
for his mouth to make words. He
could call himself a foal and a weak-
ling, but those words were purely me-
chanical, hallow, meaningless. The
truth remained. It was a blazing fire
in his breast, a conflagration that
might easily get the best of him, a
thing which he must fight and tri-
umph over for his own salvation. He
did not think of danger for Marie -
Anne, for such a thought was incon-
ceivable. The tragedy was one-sided.
It was his own folly, his' own danger.
For just as he loved Marie -Anne, so
did she lover her husband, St. Pierre.
He came to the low ridge close to
the ri'v'er and climbed up through the
thick birches and poplars. At the
top was a bald knob of sandstone, ov-
er which the riverman had a'ready
passed. David paused there and
looked down on the broad sweep of
the Athabasca.
What he saw was like a picture
spread out on the great breast of the
river and the white strip of shore-
line. Still a quarter of a mile up-
stream, floating down slowly with the
current, was a mighty raft, and for
a space 'his eyes took in nothing else.
On the Mackenzie, the Athabasca, the
Saskatchewan, and the Peace he had
seen many rafts, but never a raft
iike this of St. Pierre Boulain. it
was a hundred feet in width and twice
and a half times as long, and with
the sun blazing down upon it from
out of a cloudless sky it looked to him
like a little city swept up from out
of some archaic and savage desert
land to be transplanted to the river.
It was dotted with tents and canvas
shelters. Some of these were gray,
and some were white, and two or
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three were striped with broad bands
of yellow and red. Behind all these
.was a cabin, and over this there rose
a slender staff from which floated
the black and white pennant of St.
Pierre. The raft was alive. Men
were running 'between the tents. The
long rudder sweeps were flashing in
the sun. Rowers with naked arms
and shoulders were straining their
muscles in four York boats that were
pulling like ants at the giant mass of
timber. And to David's ears came a
deep monotone of human voices, the
chanting of the men as they worked.
Nearer to him a louder response
suddenly made answer to it. 'A doz-
en .steps carried him round a project-
ing thumb of brush, and he could see
the open shore where the bateau was
tied. 'Marie -Anne had crossed the
strip of sand, and Bateese was help-
ing her into a waiting York boat. Then
Bateese shoved it off and the four
men in it began to row. Two canoes
were already half -way to the raft,
and David recognized the occupant o2
one of them as Andre, the Broken
Man. Then he saw Marie -Anne rise
in the York boat and wave something
white in her hand.
He looked again toward the raft.
The current and the sweeps and the
tugging boats were drawing it stead-
ile rearer. Standing at the very edge
of it he saw now a solitary fig -are,
and in the clear sunlight the man
stood out- clean-cut as a carven sta-
tue. He was a giant in size his
he. d and arms were bare, and ire
was looking steadily toward the ba-
teau and the approaching York boat.
He raised an arm, and a moment lit-
er the movement was followed by a
-nice that rose above alI other voices.
It boomed over the river like the
rumble of a gun. In response to it
Marie -Anne waved the white thing in
her hand, and David thought he heard
;wr voice in an answering cry. He
stared again at the solitary figure of
the man, seeing nothing else, hearing
no other sound but the booming of
the deep cry that came again over
the river. His heart was thumping.
In his eyes was a gathering fire. His
body grew tense. For he knew that
at last he was looking at St. Pierre,
chief of the Boulains, and husband
of the woman he loved.
As the significance of the situation
grew upon him, a flash of his old
humor returned. It was the same
grim humor that had possessed him
behind the rock, when he had thought
he was going to die. Fate had play-
ed him a dishonest turn then, and it
was doing the same thing by him
now. Unless he deliberately turned
his face away, he was going to see
the reunion of Marie -Anne and St.
Pierre.
Yesterday he had strapped his bin-
oculars to his_ belt. To -day Marie -
Anne had looked through them a
dozen times. They had been a source
of pleasure and thrill to her. Now,
David thought, they would he good
medicine for him. He would see the
whole thing through, and at close
range. 'He would leave himself no
room for doubt. He had laughed be-
hind the rock, when 'bullets were zip-
ping close to his head, and the same
grim smile came to his lips now as
he focused his glasses en the solitary
figure at the head of the raft.
The smile died away when he saw
St. Pierre. It was as if he could
reach out and touch him with his
hand. And never, he thought, had he
seen such a man. A moment before,
a flashing vision had come to him
from out of an Arabian desert; the
multitude of col ved tenth, the half -
naked men, the great raft floating al-
most without perceptible motion on
the placid breast of the river had
stirred his imagination until he sa'w
a strange picture. But there was no-
thing Arabic, nothing desert -like, in
this man hire binoculars 'brought with-
in a few feet of his eyes. " 0 as
more like a viking pirate who had
roved the sea a few centuries ars.
ti
One great, bare arm was raised as
David looked, and his booming voice
was rolling ever the river again. His
hair was shaggy, and untrimmed, and
red; he wore a •short beard that glis-
tened in the sun -he was lauugthing as
he waved and shouted to Marie -Anne
-a joyous, splendid giant of a man
who seemed almost on the point of
leaping into the water in his eager-
ness to- clasp in his naked arms the
woman who was coming to him.
David drew a deep breath, and
there came -an unconscious tighten-.
ing at his heart as he turned his
glasses upon Marie -Anne. She was
still standing in the bow of the York
boat, and her back was toward him.
He could see the glisten of the sun
in her hair. She seas waving her
handkerchief, and the poise of her
slim 'body told him that in her eag-
erness she would have darted from
the bow of the 'boat had she possess-
ed wings.
(Continued next week)
LONDON AND WIiNGHAMi
North.
a.m. p.m.
Centralia 10.36 5.51
Exeter 10.49 6.04
Hensall 11.03 6.18
Kippen 11.08 6.23
Brucefield 11.17 6.22'
(163) (165)
Clinton 11.53 6,52
Londesbore 12.13 7.12
Blyth 12.22 7.21
Belgrave 12.34 7.33
Wingham 12.50 . 7.55
South.
Wingham
Belgrave
Blyth
Londesboro
Clinton
Brucefield
Kippen
Hensall
Exeter
Centralia
a.m. p.m.
6.55 3.05
7.15 3.25
7.27 3.38
7.35 3.47
7.56 4.10
7.58 4.28
(162) (164)
8.22 4.38
8.32 4.48
8.47 5.06
8.59 5.17
mem-
C. N. R. TIME TA
East.
LIE
a.m. p.m.
Goderich 6.20 2.20
Holmesvilie 6.36 2.37
Clinton 6.44 2.50
Seaforth 6.59 8.08
St. Columban 7.06 0.15
Dublin 7.11 .f2
Dublin
St. Columban
Seaforth
Clinton
Hlolmesville
Goderich
West.
a.m. p.m. p.m.
11.17 5.88 9,87
11.22 5.44
11.33 5.58 9.50
11.50 6.08-6.58 10.04
12.01 7.08 10.13
12.20 7.20 10.80
C. P. R. TIME TA
East,
IL
Goderich
Menset
McGaw
Auburn
Blyth
Walton
McNaughst ,
Toronto
West.
Toronto
McNaught
Blyth Walton
Auburn
Meetly
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•
me
a.id'ta .
5.80
5.50
63,05
G.i1,It
0.115
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