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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1929-12-20, Page 74i p rents Ore- ar's, Jae. Sierra de - and sera his era - he any was . So lone hag- and] ,reaff. new that 7te- Jile_ um - Day the n to• ,dVe. �vem us- antw pts de - rang the their eith hero i 7,, • .a52 pQDT m a. MUGU= dl� caeriater. Solleitor<'P •Nataey !" i�y,Iftt9 i t e- Block 4 Seaforth* Oat. E. S. liAlraa striae Solieitee Convey�ance ' A*�0) blit. Selieiter; S®r Q 04 (DEW Ile mare cg e on l a S P ecaf e tla F,�rey as By tra QOoraa='< gvaita Ilea sn?P3p Por . a time David did not move from hie seat near the table. He had not let Roger Audemard' sew how em u- , n; pletellr the confeceios had upset 4.- - inner balance, but he ',npa"te no;ire- teem of concealing the tl ng from himself now. '!:+fe was in the power a cut-thno.•it, who in turn had an armm,r of cut-throats at lois back, and both Marie -Anne and Carmin planchet wore a part of this ring. And he was not only a prisoner. It wasprole ble, un- caer the eircemstancea, that Black Ro- ger would make an end of him when a convetulent moment came. It was es°en more than a probability. It was a grim necessity. To let him live and escape would be fatal to Black Roger Prom back of these convictions, riding over them as if to demoralize any coherence and logic that might go with the evidence he was building up. came question after question, pounding at him one after the other, until his mind became more than ev- er a whirling chaos of uncertainty. if St. Pierre was Black Roger, why would he confess to that fact simply to pay a wager? What reason could he have for letting him live at all ? Why had : et Bateese killed hien ? Why had Marie -Anne nursed him back to life? His mind shot to the white strip of sand in which he had nearly died. That, at least, was convincing. Learning in some way that he was after Black Roger, they had attempted to do away with him there. But if that were so, why was it Bateese and Black Roger's wife and the Indian Nepapinas had risked so much to make him live, when if they had left him where he had fall- er he would have died and caused them no trouble? There was something exasperating- ly uncertain and illogical about it all. Was it possible that St. Pierre Bou - lain was playing a huge joke on him? Even that was inconceivable. For there was Carmin Fanchet, a fitting companion for a man like Black Rog- er, and there was Marie -Anne, who, if it had been a joke, would not hava played her part so well. Suddenly his mind was filled only with her. Had she been his friend, using all her influence to protect him because her heart was sick of the en- vironment of which she was a part? His own heart jumped at the thought. it was easy to believe. In Marie - Anne he had faith, and that faith re- fused to be destroyed, but persisted -even clearer and stronger as he thought again of Carmin Fanchet and Black Roger. In his heart grew the conviction it was sacrilege to believe the kiss she had given him that morn- ing was a lie. It was something else -a spontaneous gladness, a joyous exultation that he had returned un- harmed, a thing unplanned in the .;oul of the woman, leaping from her before she could stop it. Then had come shame, and she had run away from him so swiftly he had not seen her face again after the touch of her lips. If it had been a subterfuge, a lie, she would not have done that. 'He rose to his feet and paced rest- lessly back and forth as he tried to bring together a few tangled bits of the puzzle. He heard voices outside, and eery soon felt the movement of the bateau under his feet, and through one of the shoreward win- dows he saw trees and sandy beach slowly drifting away. On that shore, as far as his eyes 'could travel up and down, he saw no sign of Marie -Anne but there remained a canoe, and near the canoe stood Black Roger Aude ward, and beyond him, huddled like a charred stump in the sand, was Andre the Broken Man. On the opposite shore the raft was getting under way. During the next half-hour several things happened which told him there was no longer a sugar-coating to his imprisonment. On each side of the bateau two men worked at his win- dows, and when they had finished, no one of them could be opened more than a few inches. Then came the rattle of the lock of the door, the grat- ing of a key, and somewhat to Car- rigan's surprise it was Bateese who came in. The half-breed bore no facial evidence of the paralyzing blows which had knocked him out a short time before. His jaw, on which they had lended, was as aggressive as ever, yet in his face and his atti- tude, as he stared curiously at Car- rigan, there was no sign of rose.nt- ment or unfriendliness. Nor did he seem to be ashamed. He merely stared, with the curious and rather puzzled eyes of a small boy gazing at an ineioplicable oddity. Carrigan, standing before him, knew what was passing in the other's mind, and the humor of it brought a smile to his lips. Instantly Concombre's face split in- to a wide grin.'Mon Dieu, w'at if you on'y brother to Concombre Ba- teese, m'sieu. T'ink of zat---you-me -frere d'armes! Ventre saint grin, but we mak' all fightin' men in nort' countree run lak rabbits ahead of ze fox] Oui, we ma' gr -r -r -eat pair, m'sieu-you, w'at knock down Bateese -an' Bateese, w'at keel polar bear wit' bees naked hands, w'at pull down trees, w'at chew flint w'en hers to- bacco gone " His voice had risen, and suddenly there came a laugh from outside the door, and Concombre cut himself short and his'month closed with a snap. It was Joe Clamart who hnd laughed. "I w'ip heem five time. an' now I w'ip heem seex!" hissed Bateese in an R. T. iLUJliiER undertone. "Two time each year I T,ice'nsed auctioneer for the Ceara w'ip garcon Joe Clamart: so he under- j ieuron Sales attended to in ail start' w'at good fightin' man ens. Airi' Rarr��to of the county. Revertyyeera' *A . 0n will w'ip heem, eh. ? Oni ? Faience in Manitoba and Saskatene- .\n' T will hreeng odder good fightin' pn• Terms reasonable. Phone No pians for yeti to w'ip-all w'at Con- jl'f63 r 11, Exeter, Centralia P.O., R.B..co,n!,rn Pat.cese has w'ipped---ten, Mo. 1. Orders left at The Huron maw clo7, n, fort.y_�n' you w'ip se gran' �,mltcm Serafortli, promptly pt - n bunch, erste- Eh, shall we malt' ze' I" ik u stdr0, Solicitoes, CoAveyaTt- epe , and liotar'1eo lFubtnc, Ete. TaZee lidelts Mite Buil agEradtla Qiff10 "Zailt®ttatce. VIFTIERIINARY 301dil�T GRIEVE, V.S. saner graduate of Ontario Veterin- C ]lege. All diseases of domettis treated. Calls promptly at - z dad to and charges moderate. Vet - e Dentistry a specialty. f)nc,• aerhui uesidence on Goderich Street, one oat of Dr. Mackey's mewe Sea- .A. Illi. CAkIIIIP }:]ELIC, V.S. Graduate of Ontario Veterinary Tit/liege, University of Toronto. All 4.saaaoeo of domestic animals treated i Lt h'e most modern princiales. yrges reasonable. Day or night aaalle promptly attended to. 0 c on 'iiii1G4Ta Street, Hensall, opposite Town IFee1111. ]Phone 116. c 1flIEIIDUCAIL DR. 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Tat• lfcnfnction assured. Write nr wire. 41DMnar 'L.lopp, Zurich, Ont. Rhone, 110=98. 2866-25 bargain?"". 'You pare planning a pleasant time for me, r+ateesa," said Carrigan, abut II are afraid it will be immpoaeible. You see, thio captain of yours, 'lards Roger Audemard-8 "Vaal" Bateese jumped as if otun'g. "Walt p.t you say, maim?" "I said that Roger Audemard, irk Roger, the man ,II thought wars St. Pierre 'oulaiu " Carrigan said no more. What he had stared' to say was unimportant compared with the ect of Roger Audemard's mane on Ooneorebre Ba- teese. A deadly light glittered in the half -bid's eyes, and for the first time David realized that in the grotes- que head of the riverrnan was a brain quick to grip at the significance of things. The fact was evident that Bleck Roger h not confided in Ea- teese as to the price of the wager and the confession of his identity, and for a moment after the repetition of Audemard's name came from David's lips the half-breed stood as if some- thing had stunned him. Then slowly as if forcing the words in the face of a terrific desire that had transform- ed his body into a hulk of quivering steel, he said: "M'sieu-lt come with message - from St. Pierre. You see windows - closed. Outside door -she locked. On bot' sides de bateau, all de time, we watch. You try get away, an' we keel you. Zat ees all. We shoot. We five mans on ze bateau, all ze day, toute la nuit. You understan'?" He turned sullenly, waiting for no reply, and the door opened and dos- ed after him -and again came the snap of the lock outside. Steadily the bateau swept down the big river that day. There was no let- up in the steady creaking of the long sweep. Even in the swifter currents David could hear the working of it, and he knew he had seen the last of the more slowly moving raft. Near one of the partly open windows he heard two men.talking pust before the bateau shot into the Brule Point rap- ids. They were strange voices. He learned that Audemard's huge raft was made up of thirty-five cribs, sev- en abreast, and that nine times be- tween the Point Brule and the Yellow- knife the raft would be split up, so hat each crib could be run throug-'i 'ian•gerous rapids by itself. That would be a big lob, David as- sured himself. It would be slow work as well as habardous, and as his own life was in no immediate jeopardy, ' would have ample time in which to formulate some plan. of action for himself. At the present moment, it seemed, the one thing for him to do was to wait -and behave himself, ac- cording to the half-breed's instruc- tions. There was, when he came to think about it. a saving element of humor about it all. He had always wanted to make a trip down the Three Rivers in a bateau. And now -he was making it! At noon a guard brought in his din- ner. He could not recall that he had Peer seen this man before, a tall, lithe fellow built to run like a }sound, and who wore a murderous -looking knife at his belt. As the door open- ed, David caught a glimpse of two others. They were business -like look- ing individuals, with muscles built for work or fight; one sitting cross- legged on the bateau deck with a rifle ever his knees. and the other standing with a rifle in his hand. The man who brought his dinner wasted no time or words. He merely nodded, murmured a curt bonjour, and went out. And Carrigan, as he began to eat, did not have to tell himself twice that Audemard had been particular in his selection of the bateau's crew, and that the eyes of the men he had seen could be as keen as a hawk's when leveled over the tip of a rifle barrel. They meant business, and he felt no desire to smile in the face of them, as he had smiled at Concombre Bateese. It was another man, and a strang- er, who brought in his supper. And for two hours after that. until the sun went down and gloom began to fall, the bateau sped down the river. It had made forty miles that day, he figured. Tt was still light when the bateau w, ran ashore and tied up, but to- t there were no .singing voices or wild laughter of men whose hours of play -time and rest had come. To rarrigan, looking through his'window 'here teas an opmressive menace about it all. The shadowy . figures ashore ware more like a death-watch than a guard. and to dispel the gloom of it he lighted two of the lamps in the cabin. whistled. drummed a simple chord he knew on the piano and fin- ally set.t.i,,d down to smoking his pine. TT' wmrld have welcomed the company of Bateese, or .Toe Clamart, or one of the guards, and as his loneliness grew upon him there was something of companionship even in the subdued voices he heard occasionally outside. TTe fried to read, but the printed words inmhled themselves and meant noth- ing. 11 was ten o'clock, and coluds had darkened the night, when through his enen windows he heard a shout COM- ; 0. from the river. Twice it came before it was answered from the ba- teau. and the second time Carrigan recognized it as the voice of Roger Audemard. A. brief interval passel between that and the scraping of a cone alnng-ide, and then there was .s law cnnverest.ion in which even Au- demard's great voice was subdued, and after that the crating of a key ;n the leek, and the opening of the =leer, and Black Roger name in, hear- ing an Indian reed basket ander his see. • Carr'g'tn dirt not rise to meet him. It was not like the coming of the old St. Pierre, and on Black Rog- er'e lips there was no twist of a smile. nor in his eyes the flash of good-natured greeting. His face was I:t T11 ;tQ SPS Beate," e,notaca. r ' is gore : » t b J Co cma th ha -at o>m too 11 goonW ansnmountab QM, It held 'half sa iniad, and Waa inlet mayat3 wraz ithatmeet he the maw atf t7e0Nalaelle.. Wit LT hnc* 42c tandormation within him - in' it woo hidden Sadler A can' .self wasvithout p!h'F of mason. corsair stied Cabo $ lt. !ut it bad mac, , and ihiabuy- °°Anal yin: Qrkx >ao.p,lee 4$4^ priSonmwuat toot; on another for= -atsetehinl ' tdaa ae ng a dllaair with 'neje Wore the J sal Veen thought a gesture w earineae. R0II eheaald isaB,i of•estai, a aar?d ca solaerrrini to jail 138acPs you; t"iarrigan. And einetra43- of Ilaa't ger, there -gilled him now an in - brine" von .good -tldigiri +s : Cat! if tease desire to reach the Yellowknife the day she has b n latero, with the and the Mate= Bouflrdn. thinage in the baekert, and t'heua inoses-' It was after rtaidnigl,' when be went ed that !II bring'them to you. And I to bed, and he wast up with the early have brought there simply to tell your dawn. With the fiat breath of ,i y another thing. 1 age sorry for her. the bateau men wars 'preparing their 1 think, 1 E'sieu Cirri Baan, you.will'ftnd breakfast. David wale glad. a was as many tears in the 'bamiset as any- eager for the" day's work to begin, thing else, for her lhieart In ierua4hed and in that eagerness he pounded on and aside because of the humiliation the door and called out to Joe Clam - she brought won herself thin morn- art that he was ready for hie break- in " fast with the rest of them, but that s twisting Tao big, rough he wanted only hot coffee to go with hands, and David's. Own heart went what Black Roger had brought to him sick as he saw the furrowed lines that in the basket. had deepen, •! in the other's face. That afternoon the bateau passed Black Roger did not look at him as Fort McMurray, and befere the sun he went bn. was well down in the west Carrigan 'Of course, she told me. She tells saw the green slopes of Thickwood me everything. And if she knew I !.. ills and the rising peaks of Birch was telling you this, 1 think she would Mountains. He laughed outright as kill herself. But 1 want you to un- he thought of Corporal Anderson and derstand. She. is not what you might Constalble Frazer. at Fort McMurray, think she is. That kiss came from whose ohief duty was to watch the the lips of the best woman God ever big waterway. How their eyes would made, 1Uf'sieu Carrigan!" r<'p they could see through the pad - David, with the blood in him run- locked door of his prison! But he ning like fire, heard himself answer- had no inclination to be discovered ing, "I know it. She was excited, now. He wanted to go on, and with glad you had not stained your hands a growing exultation he saw there- with my life-" was no intention on the part of the This time Audemard smiled, but it bateau's crew to loiter on the way. was the smile of a man ten years old- There was no stop at noon, and the er than he had appeared yesterday. tie-up did not come until the last "Don't try to answer, m'sieu. I only glow of day was darkening into the want you to know she is as pure as gloom of night in the sky. For six - the stars. It was unfortunate, but to teen hours the bateau had travelled follow the impulse of one's heart can steadily, and it could not have made not be a sin. Everything has been less than sixty miles as the river ran. unfortunate since you came. But I The raft, David figured, had not blame no one, except---" travelled a third of the distance. "Carmin Fanchet?" The fact that the bateau's progress Audemard nodded. "Yes. I have would bring him to Chateau Boulain sent her away. Marie -Anne is in the many days, and perhaps weeks, be - cabin on the raft now. But even Car- fore Black Roger and Marie -Anne min I can not blame very greatly, could arrive on the raft did not check m'sieu, for it is impossible :to hold his enthusiasm. It was this interval anything against one you .lpve. Tell between their arrivals which held a me if I am right? You ist know. great speculative promise for him. In You love my Marie -Anne: Do you that time, if his efficiency had rot en - hold anything against her?" tirely deserted him, he would surely "It is unfair; protested David. snake discoveries of importance. "She is your wife. Audemard, is it Day after day the journey contin- possible you don't love her?" ued without rest. On the fourth day "Yes, I love her." after leaving Fort McMurray it was "And Carmin Fanchet?" Joe Clamart who brought in David's "I love her, too. They are so dif- supper, and he grunted a protest at ferent. Yet I love them both. Is it his long hours of muscle -breaking la - not poesible for a big heart like mine bor at the sweeps. When David ques- to do that, m'sieu?" tioned him he shrugged his shoulders, With almost a snort David rose to and his mouth closed tight as a clam. his feet and stared through one of On the fifth, the bateau crossed the the windows into the darkness of the narrow western neck of Lake Atha - river. "Black 'Roger," he said with- basca, slipping Hast Chipewyan in the out turning his head, "the evidence night, and on the sixth it entered the at Headquarters condemns you as one Slave River. It was the fourteenth of the blackest -hearted murderers day when the bateau entered Great that ever lived. Bdt that crime, to Slave Lake, and the second night af- me, is less atrocious than the one you ter that, as dusk gathered thickly be - are committing against your own tween the forest walls of the Yellow - wife. I am not ashamed to confess I knife, David knew that at last they love her, because to deny it would be had reached the mouth of the dark a lie. I love her so much chat I and mysterious stream which led to would sacrifice myself -soul and body the still more mysterious domain of -if that sacrifice could give you back Black Roger Audemard. to her, clean and undefiled and with That night the rejoicing of the ba - your hand unstained by the crime for teau men ashore was that of men who which you must hang!'i had come out from under a strain He did not hear Roger Audemard and were throwing off its tension for as he rose from his chair. For a the first time in ,,many days. A great moment the riverman stared at the fire was built, and the men sang and back of David's head, and in that laughed and shouted as they piled moment he was fighting to keep back wood upon it. In the flare of this what wanted to come from his lips fire a smaller one was built, and ket- in words. He turned before David tles and pans were soon bubbling and faced him again, and did not pause sizzling over it, and a great coffee until he stood at the cabin door with pot that held two gallons sent out its his hands at the latch. There he was steam laden with an aroma that ming - partly in shadow. led joyously with the balsam and ced- "I shall not see you again until you ar smells in the air. David could see reach the Yellowknife," he said. "Not the whole thing from his window, and until then will you know -or will I when Joe Clamart came in with sun - know --what is going to happen. I per, he found the meat they were think you will understand strange cooking over the fire was fresh moose things then, but that is for the hour steak. As there had been no trading to tell. .Bateese has explained to you or firing of guns coming down, he was that you must not make an effort to puzzled and when he asked where the escape. You would regret it, and so meat had come from Joe Clamart would I. If you have red blood . in only shrugged his shoulders and wink - you, m'sieu-if you wc,uld understand ed an eye, and went out singing about all that you cannot understand now- the allouette bird that had everything wait as patiently as you can. Bonne plucked from it, one by one. But Day- nuit, M'sieu Carrigan!" id noticed there were never more than "Good night!" nodded David. four men ashore at the same time. At In the pale shadows he thought a least one was always aboard the ba - mysterious light of gladness illumin- teau, watching his door and windows. ed Black Roger's face before the door And he, too, felt the thrill of an opened and closed, leaving him alone excitement working subtly within hint again. and this thrill pounded in swifter run- ning blood when he saw the men a- bout the fire jump to their feet sud- denly and go to meet new and sha- dowy figures that came up indistinct- ly just in the edge of the forest gloom. There they mingled and were lost in identity for a long time, and David wondered if the newcomers were of the people of Chateau Bou - lain. After that, Bateese and Joe Clamart and two others stamped out the fires and came over the • plank to the bateau to sleep. David followed their example and went to bed. XXIV With the going of Black Roger al- so went the oppressive loneliness which had gripped Carrigan, and as he stood listening to the low voices outside, the undeniable truth came t:t hint that he did not hate this man as he wanted to hate him. 'He was a murderer, and a scoundrel in anothei way, but he felt irresistibly the im- pulse to like hint and to feel sorry for him. He made an effort to shake off the feeling, but a small voice which he could not quiet persisted in telling him that more than one good man had committed what the law cal- led murder, and that perhaps he didn't fully understand what he had seen through the cabin window on the raft. And yet, when unstirred by this impulse, he knew the evidence was damning. But his loneliness was gone. With Audemard's visit had come an unex- pected thrill, the revival of an almost feverish anticipation. the promise of impending things that stirred his blood as he thought of them. "Yon will understand strange things then," Roger Audemard had said, and some- hing in his voice had been like a key unlocking mysterious doors for the first time. And then, "Wait, as patiently as you can!" Out of the bas- ket on the table seemed to come to hire a whispering echo of that same word--waitl He laid his hands upon it, and a pulse of life came with the imagined whispering. It was from Marie -Anne. It seemed as though the ZEN yob. feraag4i wiater you we.loam nl$fl you, e ':.alrittOa the life yov3>i 'WA= Second, you PTO fusel than ion a aue a,paying 1haig. DI N t LLX placed eve tween attic floor jai ° ° ig excessive , .at toss, thereby Traduc- ing ing the strain on your heatit4: plant and say: s g gnat, Vermin fire -proof, packed in =nye eat i it your - selongs -yuan can apply se , easily, quickly -made from Gypsum, it forms the ideal insldb::.tiaDYa° See rte pe -day. chantment, possibly of death, shut out from the world he had known. For the stream narrowed, and the forest along the shores was so dense he could not see into it. The tree -tops hung in a tangled canopy overhead, and a gloom of twilight filled the channel below, so that where the sun shot through. it was like filtered moon light shining on black oil. There was no sound except the dull, steady beat of the rowers' oars, and the ripple of water along the sides of the bateau. The men did not sing or laugh, and if they talked it must have been in whis- pers. There was no cry of birds from ashore. And once David saw Joe Clamart's face as he passed the window, and it was set and hard and filled with the superstition of a man who was passing through a devil - country. And then suddenly the end of it came. A flood of sunlight burst in at. the windows, and all at once voices came from ahead, a laugh, a shout, and a yell of rejoicing from the ba- teau, and Joe Clamart started again the everlasting song of the allouette bird that was plucked of everything it had. Carrigan found himself grin- ning. They were a queer people, these bred -in -the -blood northerners - still moved by the superstitions of children. ,Yet he conceded that the awesome deadness of the forest .pas- sage had put strange thoughts into. his own heart. Before nightfall Bateese and Joe Clamart came in and tied his arms behind him, and he was taken ashore with the rumble of a waterfall in his ears. For two hours he watched the labors of the men as they beached the bateau on long rollers. of smooth birch and rolled it foot by foot over a cleared trail until it was launched again above the waterfall. Then he was led back into the cabin and his arms freed. That night he went to sleep with the music of the waterfall in his ears. The cook fires were burning again before the gray dawn was broken b a tint: of the sun, and when the voic- es of many men roused David, h" went to his window and saw s dozen figures where last night there had been only four. When it grew light- er he recognized none of them. All were strangers. Then he realized the significance of their presence. The hatean had been travelling north, bur. downstream. Now it would still travel north. hat. the water of the 1 olinwl:nife flowed south into Creat `lave Lake, end the bet.eau must he rowed. TTe caught: a glimpse of the two big York boats a littie lat.'r, and six rowers to a boat, and after that the hatean set nut slowly hut stead- ily upstream. For hours David was at. ami win- dow nr the other, with something of awe working inside him as he saw what they were passing through - and between. He fancied the water trail was like an entrance into a for - hidden lam], a region of vast and un- broken mystery, a country of en - The second day the Yellowknife seemed to he no longer a river, but a narrow lake, and the third day the rowers came into the Nine Lake coun- try at noon, and until another dusk the bateau threaded its way through twisting channels and impenetrable forests, and beached at last at the edge of a great open where the timber had been cut. There was more. ex- citement here, but it was too dork for David to understand the meaning of it. There were many voices; dogs harked. Then voices were at his door, a key rattled in the lock, and it open- ed. David saw Batees and Joe Clam - art first. And then. to his amazement, Black Roger Audemard stood there, smiling at hint and nodding good eve- ning. It was impossible for David to re- press his astonishment. "Welcome to Chateau Boulain," greeted Black Roger. "You are sur- prised? Well, i heat you out by half a dozen hours -in a canoe, m'sieu. Tt is only courtesy that T should he her^ to give you welcome!" Behind him Bateese and Inc.Clam- art were grinning widely, and then both came in, and .Toe Clamart picked up his dunnage -sack and threw it ov- er his shoulder. "11 you will m'sieu--- " (Contite,ted next week) come with us. ITEIE ►. I ILLOP MUTUL PIM in+.l.Cd 'E SUR` A1V C C MAD OFFIIC3-SEAIFOIt8TE MTV, OFFICERS: iaunea Evans, Beechwood - II'rasi Tames Connolly, Goderich, Via-lPrrea. D. F. McGregor, Seaforth, Set. T AGENTS Alex. Leitch, R. R. No. 1, OW= o W. E. inchley, Seaforth; John hr•taa. ny, Egmondville; J. W. Yea, Gate- -itch; va e -•itch; R. G. Jarmouth, Bro,+.il,,., •-a,a; 23aa, Watt, Blyth. DIRECTORS: William Rinn, R. R. No. 2, Seafontliva Toirn Bennewies, Brodhagen' Jaime Wane, Beechwood; James Car:me1Ily, ]oderich; Alex. Broadfoot, No. Si, See- imrth; Robert Ferris, Harlocls; Georgi 1f aCartney, No. 3, Seaforth; iJ,l' u i}7 gibe -on, Brueetrleid ; James S lilac, Ualdton. LONDON AND WIINGEALI Centralia Exeter Hensall Kippen Brucefield North. Clinton Londesboro Blyth Belgrave Wingham Wingham Belgrave Blyth Londesboro Clinton An old] hat. sturdy Irishman, who had made a reputation as a gang boss, secured is job with a railroad construct inn company 11-1 Pert-au- Prine, il.i.iti. One day, when the sun was hotter tlian usual his gang he - gni, le !den,. As the chief engineer rode 0p on his lsorso he heard the Irishman shout: "Alezl you sons of guns, allez!" Then turning to the en- gineer he said, "1 curse the day I Iva:' learned their language." Brucefield Kippen Hensall F,xeter Centralia South. a.m. 10.36 10.494 11.03 11.08 11.17 (163) 11.53 12.13 12.22 12.34 12.50 a.m. 6.55 7.15 7.27. 7.35 '7.56 7.58 (162) 8.22 8.32 8.47 8.59 C. N. R. TIIME TABLE East. Goderich Holmesville Clinton Seaforth St. Columban Dublin Dublin St. Columban Seaforth Clinton FTolmesville Goderich a.m. 6:20 6.36 6.44 6.59 7.06 7.11 5,11 I3.O4it 0.283 6.22 g165v 0.52 7.12 7.231 7.8881 7.513 8.05 8.215 8.3383 3.47 4.1® 4.28 (160' 4.88 4.58 5.05 1�.Il71 2.20 2.37 2.50 8.081 2.16 8.213 West. a.m. p.m. pin. 11.17 5.38 2.37 11.22 5.44 . 11.33 5.53 2.52 11.50 6.08-6.553 10.041 12.01 7.03 10.153 12.20 7.20 10. ; ie C. IP- R. TIN Goderich Mencet McGaw Auburn Blyth Walton M(-Nangat Toronto land. TA Pt wag.. Toronto McNaught Walton . Blyth Auburn McGirr Ment 85t Gnder aero nate. 5.50 0.06 0.1111, Gid Gla 11©.2QD