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The Huron Expositor, 1930-09-05, Page 7�4 � I I pp,pqrtj A&L.4 �2 , " , . i 0 1�,Z,�, 4 41=1041i ii 3uggg ,% . H , , , ... � � ,�;*�t,`e",,.A�41 , 101 - -,i ,R� , - �, a t �, ," 1. , .. . . , , " �� ", % aq ,,;, A 111. , 1� 11 1 T , . ,,� �,%,7 I ", , � I , - , I I , � ij;�,�,, 'R. , W . , , , . , . , , , I I , ly , , , "� "I I , � . "� �' " " ,. , , x ,; I 4 )1-1, .. , .1 - - , ; , .... ��, . I . . , �1, U -M. . 0 0 I 11 I � : ) i . . .olr,o �. � R.; i 9'.. � � � , 1p,!'�."-�`,�: �`-� �, % , ; �A,�� .';* I , ,4 'A I , � , 4 , �. - .,� - '.. , , .1 i �, � ILI-11 1. .1, -�� . ,,,, .. , . ,; I,' ::: . - I.; ,�. , , I : o; �� I.. ". t- � 11 , ; . , `, ,�, . i- , I *,.�gi� �; . t � I :. ". i :,;,!.'.�.,, .: - � , .-Iii-TZ �;, 15, 1, ,.n Z' ;� % , . , . . 11P . "I ... !. �� I I .� I :.T I I . ;. I 11 1, . � . "I , , I I . R 4;1� 11 . '4' I_ -.!,. , 1--, I . I .11 . . " I . � i -,. 14F140,A1 ,' ,.. , '. " ,�.�; .1 � I I '4', , " .�� i I , , �i, I I , , , :",,."d� ,!�� ;4.r . . . . . . M. 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" i ..O, E B911ding, opposite The 1 4 11 1, sitor ffice. . - , , � . - -4 1 1 1 .- � I. . VETERINARY I . �I . I , I . � I I . 4 4OHN �Ri�EV4 V.S. � - Honor graduate of Ontario Veteriu- &#�Cqllege.. All diseases of domestic . � Ak 11 i ..azdanals,treated. Calls promptly at- . tooded-to and charges moderate. Vet- wivax�, Dentistry a specialty,. Office . il 1 r 0- and residence on . GodeTich Street,'one I doo,'r east of Dr-Mackay's office, Sea- , forth. . CONSULTING ENGINEER I S. W. Archibald, B.A.Sc., (Tor.), 01�8., Registered Professional En- C6or and Land Surveyor. Associate umber Engineering institute of Can - 14 "a. Office, Seaforth, 0 . nta3;1o. f . I AUCTIONEERS . A. R. CAMPBELL, V.S. - 11 Graduate of Ontario Veterinary . College, University of Toronto. All �% 4h"ses of"domestte aniinals, treated .11 in print p e.s. . . I reasonable. Day or night I . � ... 11g -promptly attended to. Office on I . 1. . eet, Hensall, opposite Town , , Phone 116. I ; 11 .01k I I ... . . ) I - . MEDICAL 11 .. .. . - . . DR. E. J. R. FORSTER r* Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat I Graduate in Medicine, University of Toronto. -1 YAte assistant New York Oplithal- ,� il mei and Aural Institute, Moorefield's 1� 4 Eye and Golden Square Throat Hos- 4 pitals, Landon, Eng. At Commercial i �, I.L Hotel, Seaforth, third Monday in i �k%` W each month, from 11 a,m. to 3 p.m. . 63 Waterloo Street, South, Stratford. DR. W. C. SPROAT Graduate of Faculty Of Mt-dicins, University of Western Ontario, Lon- don. Member of College of Physic - *V ium and Surgeons of Ontallo. Office in AberhaTt's Drug Store, Main St., A Seaforth. Phone 90. 1 DR. R. P. 1. - DOUGALL , . 1 .. " - Honor gTaduate of Faculty of - 3tedicine and Mastei of Science, Uni-'� � versity of Western Ontario, London. : � Member of College of Physicians and i T, I Surgeons of Ontario. Office 2 doors i east of post office. Phone 56, Hensall, : -0 I Ontario. 3004-tf , I , 1� I . i DR. A. NEWTON-BRADY I I 1. I . `� I " '1111 I . .1 Bayfield. I Graduate Dublin University, Ire- I � ]an& Late Extern Assistant Masteir � Rotunda Hospital fof Women and 11 0 Children, Dublin. Office at residence � 0" I lately occupied by Zrs. Parsons. I � I aours, 9 to 10 a.m., 6 to 7 p.m.; , I 1 Sundays, I to 2 p.m. 2866-26 � $- i DR. F. J. BURROWS . I ,� 4 Office and residence Goderich Street, I � I ,east of the United Church, Sea- I , forth, Phone 46. Coroner for the I C,ounty of Huron. 1. -1 I . 7 i I DR. -L MACKAY I I �. C. Mackay, honor graduate of Trin- I 0 i fty University, and gold medalist of � I Itm-ty Medical College-, member of I ; -Ae College of Physicians and Sur- , � . I I geons of Ontario. � . I. I DIL H. HUGH ROSS i I . Graduate of University of Toronto , I I paculty of Medicine, member of Col - 0 lege of Physicians and Surgeons of I . I Ontario; pass graduate i :� ! � " Chicago ; Chicago Clinical School of � . , 1: - Royal Ophthalmic .Hospitalp London, I Al r '. University Hospital, Lon - 1. �, ,%!1a;d*, land. Office -Back of Do- L s � mdnion Bank, Seaforth. Phone No. 5. I , . Night calls answezed from residence, L " . , Victoria Street, Seaforth. I I - I I . I .,.-.--..- DR. J. A. MUNN I . .. Successor to Dr. R. R. Ross , Graduate of Northwestern Univerr- fty, Chicago, Ill. Licentiate Royal � � C,ollege of Dental Surgeons, Toronto. Olfice over Sillsl� Hardware, MaW St., I . Seaforth. ,Phone 151. � I DR. F. J. BECHELY ' . " . C , Graduate Royal College of Dental b Surgeons, Toronto. office over W. R ' I Smith's Grocery, Main Street, Sea- , .-W � forth. Phones: Office, 185 W; resi- 0 dence, 185 J. CONSULTING ENGINEER I S. W. Archibald, B.A.Sc., (Tor.), 01�8., Registered Professional En- C6or and Land Surveyor. Associate umber Engineering institute of Can - 14 "a. Office, Seaforth, 0 . nta3;1o. f . I AUCTIONEERS 'M- . if. , I ., N - 1. -.,. '. 1. 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I I . k� . I I ww�`�-- I - .. ..... 1- I ".. -S.1 ,� . ... Y�� 4-nX . ' ' I � , . ol"4, ��. ,� - ,� .1 1. : rn 4 - 0-1 - ht�-? 0.� ; . . . . . . . . . I lights on 1*0;,-Wl;-aS thO��sglasll of oars _Idaager ofinfeetion ky.pr i od,� 0.06, w4a 111'�;,, , . I ... . " .4 ."f,., , � ., � t , 9 P,,Y .,ft, � v .. "Ill, �411 - ,,,, ., ; � . ,� - ` , , �"`.. ", ,: 11 r ' -1 ` ,Bob X Ouyow�ma e no � . . aes,, ,W 'I'll . . & I ''I - U." - - 4J,ang9i4e,,*arned'Mpi1 tW'the dinghy, . " ling t4o d t is rpttl.sd do, ,4 'to', thevul -go , - , : 0 � TER' . , d' , . . I rogw i, . . - comment. He; �Id 1�2�, ", r, I . I , . a, � I I I . ;. . . was still -staring 4Vthe lights on tha -1" niorpent p i. t,xd 900-11. 0 .. .�, 1 4? :: "', `., ,'� .-1,7 �11,w', I . had, x6turpO. ' A, d 'tji ' er attic ,"547A, .%,?".�, I M ",PBAIRLS' -4 Captain David, Watts, liter,� 'Bob. Keny " 4� to I 4fiself ��t 3" And tbereA: terg, ap,44froin'the: u , THE TIME . I after . I � I I . A f"t r X W k, I 1. I I . � hill wh6 0A S10141% ai . .. wgr'i; W1. . . an ImOAM . -, - -- .; Q, .:,-, ii, ., '' � . . . I ht that &-r. I Med, bis..'eutlo$i ..." ��, . I I lent tarn, or, tv�o.aloug' k�e In the' moonlight atthe,�.slg of a saaes, grata . . ty, � 0 i,15TQ . I � I , - I Under the 14'hted, swinging lamp . . ; t gurious- little,per Ill tion or two, .as 1.41' .� , t r % SaOagO.V, No WaS Win- ,I � a -wa ure ,��i�', . to hQWau . . .� � � ing . war, - ' " . � in the ,cuddy of a small wo� masted selx",nerlp deck, ,finally lia , , I I I , -, . V41tv a qass . . !, _ . ,lted again Lim along tI . io,deck in the � ,� -where the p -ad " , ,49TP eteJy,:,o,V:.. beside him at th� rail'. to 414 earls h -bean found the " ti " � 9ch oner men sat facing each ,, , - . . . . . . ,, � r, Q ,, two,,' sat and star9d att-he pearls; but there 1 inalter, .� Xg A pg�,-,Q � 'ke: of Oai44in David. - Watts. The eq - ersation lan ' , , �1' p � r .ox- , ,, , ., V , �� I " other at the " said OaPkabi,'David . Wa�s a sudden, sibilant little, , uUminy , - . Look heref w4 I ,Av gwshed. At th; " � L . tl'.�; , - " table. Bob this man was 4bqnt-&ho414ere4,, and 0 ul ',piration of soul, � ten ,in' .. , " 4 Kenyon- Watts o6kuptly. "A thing: rik 0 . sto P' Mr. Isaacs sucked, in his'b biu Tu'a Inutes, the � severe 11-4=4031'e'T - I black-lialred, ,clean-shaven,' big across don't happen in, the lif4tt e, of- many ed as he walked -"he lia4: 9; patriarchal Captain. David, 'Wh*i b ing eagerly di=ance being bufperha, 5 F A quaner i '1'e ,. - 1 1*1 . in, .. . . tarted t�,akiq Ai , pjj,�.�ir � 1,� ,4 � ,,,.Iq . the shoulders, and displaying an en� � - ' - ta; 144wbitl over ,the table.. Bob Kenyon, watch- ali tx4yersad 'by Mir saacs. in fol- "Kruse Rg -one,pearl'-waybe-but not three beard and wore sun glu'di . of th T . flell) am , � '� ..g V I 1� , 1 - viable muscular ,development of chest r4leu� suit had long sinc6 lost any- in lighted a ci arette.� lowing the 'windings of the road a- bon ' � 11 . of 'em. I don't go off half-cocked as duck ano, I . I I wh . 9 I I 41i"', " , , , ere his ghirtwas -open at the'neck � timacy with the washtub-,, shore,, t1le. dingthy grounded on the had a heaanda0bi � 4, 11 11 .1 against the tropical beat, was a a general rule, not .me; but though claim to, in ind then Mr. Isaac& adj4sted7 his beach at- a 4.41: : , ! ". , � , , �i.: �'� "'I , 11 , , my stake don't. am -aunt to one-two- and his head wias.eiviAlle.d. with, an aniber-colared sun �spectacle�, 'and, . ,spot a hundred yards or I . 1� � I � ,. . , "I" - , � 1 4 -- I I � young American' of #erhaps, twenty- ' -[ 6 away from the town's wharf. � i l i lt�',,'�*. , ,;;" m ., I .�..f � three alongside of yours, I've �eeit is oversized pith helmet, a so incredibly picking up the. p�arls one at - ' � F I e,. 'Ll ;0+4r��,.�i "Al ' I . ." el g,ht or, nine- the oth6f, ,Gaptain Dav, excited4 as a kid ever since we f � g' tim's, - 'Here, there. appeared to be no one . -411� I I - "j, � . I * . - , 1, 4 ,��,N; f�-, exanii � � . ,,1 � ., .." 'I";'r,",�1 I . , I I cl., � 1. ? . . i� - , "i ' ned, edch in, turn. Final!y, he about, and, as they stepped ashore, . .I .1 � 'W" 11 id Watts, master - and owner, was - a , ound dirty and much the wor4e for wear, . . I . . 1,t-- I gq: , � . e� 11 � 11 ,� , . I em, and you've, never even. batted an And Whilchy �OlbvlouslY to keep it from pushed the -three of them away from Mr. Isaacs tapped Bob Xempm ,on there at the ,bar, as h1B had� seara I 111 . � ,:� h� - 2 I W",�,"""V50. , ' Wiry, weath,er-beatemb , blue-eyed eyelash. What's the idea? is it,be resting on his ears, w4s, cocked. I him and, with -a shake of his head, the s,ho.ul,d,e.r,. � -1 111�!�:"�'��, bearded little New Zealander of fifty. - , , N' - , . , 11 ��, cause you just don't and won't believe little askew, giving its okimuer a fudi- I ' at other bars, in other is )� ... . 'L ,Ii "Old Isaacs o eaned back in. his chair. � I . I . I I �, , ,,, . i 1. crously jaunty air. I "It's none 6f my business, ypunj lowest liples of.vice , 9 equ%1 ,� , �1, I tight to -be along any they worth what I've kept on telling . . I _ � - , , � .- , -ute now,", said CalAain "I can't do any business.,,vvith you," , - , _ , ,� " , , ", inin David you they were day after day? ' 46BOb", a . man," said he gruffly; ,,but unless you tor, along the waterfr�'onts . . . . . �, i, � - � ,,� said, 'Captain David Watt , he said brusquely. . I . ,. I , g A . .4, ... ate looking for trouble, don't drink ping centers fr[Orm . �, � Watts -significantly. Bob Kenyan% eyes shifted from "this is Mr. Isaacs. ,iMr. Isaacs, this 'Captain David Watts wiped 'his 911. '.... 40. " - 111� , 11, Bob Kenyon thrust one, hand Into with every one you meet. And if -a face with a clos' ed ,b I %,., ;. 1 the lights an the, hill to the rugged, is Bob Ken -yon, my partner in this forehead witb his sleeve. . 9 � . .., � , I ,�: J , I his trousers pocket, extracted there- noncsT Iace beside him: He, brushed deal." "What's .the matter?" he said you're not sure you can, keep your head, with thick , sensu t' . . 4.1th". -! 1Y I I ' . . � I . � ,:,'i from a little cloth sack that had once "I'm glad to meet MT. Isaacs," said ,hoarsely. good.,, mouth shut, my Advice to you is to slightly slanting e I th .Ila c I ", , , his hand across his forehead asthough . . "I know they're .1 `�.� , I y - I i, ";' lone 4uty'as. a container for cigarette, , go straight ,1bAek to the schooner." plexion that was darkened � with 6, . ��, �� , fogged, he sought to clear his mental Bob Kenyon -pleasantly, shaking ,'That's -the matter," said . Mr. � � i". ,iow" . � I �' - I �obacco, loosened, the drawstring and - - hands. I B-ob Kenyon smiled quietly. tinge of IMalay bload--the face, lot, t: �� `,`,. Z, vision I Isaacs. "They're tao good for a lit- .... i. ". ,�11 , 1, I �. . , . rolled three pearls, o:k great si`e'into 14�y, I don't kilo' - ,"H,umph!" grunted'Mr: Isaac "I guess I'll be all right," he said. Shanghai Jim. I . . 1,,.J�. , 4 � 'he hollow .of his other hand. I w," he.said slow un- tle'island broker like me. I've never ,�`�,,q ' ' ':L","'t� , ly. "To tell you the truth, I haven't graciously. "Well, I'll tell you right seen anything like them befo-ze. I "Humph!" grunted MT. Isawts-and ":'.. L'� -, .- .. 1, I . , � (Continued next week) , . , ;:;��' , "I thought you said,'*hen you,.sent turning (abruptly, trudged off across . , � ` ,.,,�, thought much about thent--sort of now, young man, I don't like .this tell you frankly I could -not even value the sand, . . I I., '. .., !or him, that this chap Isaacs was V all in the day's work, you k ow.11' business.'P them. They're worth- thousands of O. . ; 't ( :1 I., 30 trusted," 'he observed. 1'� , . n F .. 1 O.", "Good Lord!" ejaculated Captain Bob Kenyon, taken, a little aback, pounds," .i: . t'-" � I I �. �' I .. ...... �,jAll ..i�.�, �"; "And so he is," returned the older David Watts helplessly. "Listev. to stared at the other; but,' before he "Well, make us an. offer," suggest- CHAPTER 11 CANNED BEETS .. "I ;�,"i � . 1". nan coolly. "That's the reason I that! Well,j answer me this, then. could speak,,Captain David *Watts in- ed Bob Kenyon. . .1 1 v,*, .Dicked him out. He�& the. best of Granting those pearls are worth all terPosed. � . ; . � , -- "He says our crew of black-skirined again. THE CRIME " �" I - , ;h� brokers ashore,which may not be I say they.are, and that' Mr, Isaacs, shook his head Only young, tender .beets should be ' L � �'J" r%,'�'�, a a fortune, "I haven't got money enough'.', he lined as the old beets may be. stor- I .��,-.-:,'�,','. � - ca I 11 - I ;aying much, but it's a safe bet he and a whopping big one, what are you ramals, that we let go ashore and said. "I've got to be honest ith you. Bob Kenyon pulled the din-ghy a � . , ,M��q w,i ed for winter use. In preparing beets � - " 4alows more about -pearls than all . .. .. , `�,!�R ., going to do with yourself from now warned to keep their mouths shut, The run of pearls that are brought in little higher up on the -beach, and for canning, leave on at least an inch . �,: I 'I, �,, -he9rest ,of them put together. He's pp have been talking," said Captain here from the stood for a moment taking stock Of of stem and all of the root. Wash 1 �;��%'�' , ' on'? . surrounding islands are ,,.-. >een at it now for a nuynb(-,r of Bob Kenyon shook -his he -ad. David Watts. "So Mr. Isaacs walk- one thing -these are another. I his surroundings. Across the beach. thoroughly and blanch for five to ten I . . 'I ' I ,, Of, �ears here, and I've never heard a "Same answer," he said, "f hayen't ed." haven't got money enough, and all itself was a fringe of palms. Thr.ough minutes, or until the skin w'dI slip I . �., k" , , I I , �`% :. .1 4 ,vord said about him except that he aid Bob these he could see numerous window off easily. 'Dip into cold water for , , "-,--. , thought about it, but I don't think it "I don't understand," a . the brokers here put together haven't �. : 1. Nas on the square. would change anything." I Kenyon. I :., got money enough to buy them." lights stretch -big out for quite a dist- an instant, so that they may be hand- 111"i �P`, . . Bob Kenyon, still rolling the three Captain . David Watts stuck a "You don't, ch?" said 'Mr. Isaacs 'Captain David Watts laughad bois- ance to right and left. From directly led more easily. 'Pack whole Or c�ut , � ..�:'11'1'1' .)earls in the hollow of his haild, smil- square -ended cigar ,in his mouth and crusNy. "Well, I think I can make terously in front of -him the strumming of a into cubes packing as much irto the � i :,�%� . - ' . . - . , �,d a little quizzically. sucked on it unlighted. it clear. 'The whole towu is buzzing "What did I tell you!" he'exc7aimed banjo, the squeak ,of a fiddle and the jar as possible. Add one teaspoonful . I , I � . "Why all the precaution,, then?" he "Well, then, ,you're wrong!" said like a hornets' nest over your T,earls. gleefully. rattle of a tin -pan piano made � of salt to a quart jar and fill withL I z "', . � - I nquired. Captain David Watts, a sudden c,harp- I don't believe- for a moment you've Bob Kenyon whistled softly. - riotous, if unmusical, med1cy of boiling water. Partly seal jars ani I . � . -, "I'll tell you why," said Captain . his ,voice. "I'm going to say got anything much out of the'ordin- "What's to, be done, then?" he- - ask- lound, and presently he step�ed out place in canner. Pout in hot water �'. , )a.vid 'Watts, a sudden grim earne,st_ ness in ary, but the town does --- the damned in that direction. to two inches over top of jars. Dail �:;:l � less in his �oice. "It ain't that I'm - something to you because I like you, ed. I I . �. . , CS reached out for th, He made his way through the trees, for three hours, timing them frorti � : - - . my ]ad -and, dainnie, you can take it things have grown. t9 the size oi hens� MT ISaa - 1. . tfraid of Isaacs,'except that, like ev- or leave, it! When you and I met up eggs already." HL- turned, irritably pear -Is again, stared at them again., and, coming out on, the- road, found when the water' actually bolls. When I . ` I , ,ry -other human being, he's got a a while ago at MacDonald's in Suva, on Captain David Watts. "Why the and once more, but i&�,th extre re- himself in front of a rambling, two- done, remove from canner, tighten . . ': Ine 11 *ngue. If �e buys the pearls, all story, wooden structure, every -window tops, Invert for twenty-four hours, � .17, I was broke, and you said you had devil didn4 you bring them asi.ure. to luctance this time, pushed them away ,, -ight; but we ain't likely to come to enough to pay the expenses of a tri p, me yourself as soon as you dropped from him. alight, and which from its sig -1 pr6- then store in a cool, dark place. 4, .,,,7 . , Lny )bargain ,off -hand to -night, and, including a fair screw for me, and anchor this afternoon, instead of "Get out of here with them," said claimed itself to be the Southern . ',,�) I or your -own sake, it ain't a wise take your chances -on the luck. 1�o I -sending that black fool with a mes- Mr. Isaacs bluntly. "With that story Gross Hotel. He did not, however, en- .., w bing to have anybody know where fancy you weren't exactly rolling in sage tp me to come out this even- going around, and with more than a ter here immediately, but began to .-:� hey're kept in the meantime. We're wealth, and, on that score I don't ing?" fair share of the scurn of the Pacific stroll leisurely along the street which Only young, tender carrots .-Ijoulct . � - �111. )artners in' 'em in a way, be tanned, as the old carrots can be 1� ..:t - but my blame you for the sort of 'pillarr-to- "Let's go down to the cabin," sug- here at any time and worse now dur- though quite dark in spots where the 1. ,hare is sntala compared with yours post life, I tako it, you've led u' to gested -Captain David Watts placating- ing the pea)rling reason, it's the only stores and copra agents' officerg were stared successfully. Wash well and . � Xcording to the bargain when you p blanch in boiling water for three to, 1 taked the, schooner for the trip, and, now. I can't think of -anything much, IY- "We'll get it all straightened out safe thing to do. Besides, the only closed for ,the nigbP, was by no means. five minutes or until outer skins will according to the stories you've let dDwn there." place to sell these is in the big mar- deserted. Natives in' Iava-lavas, that of slip ,off easily. Remove and dip mcept for this little bit of,by-play slip, that you haven't done, from plan� _He led the way. Tke others ,fol- ket, and then to special buyers., My looked like abbreviated apronsi . quickly into cold water. Drain and hat we're going to pull off, I ain't tation work to the present fling at' lowed. MT.' Isaacs sat down at the advice to you is to get what stores gaudy bue, meandered, neiver nurrying � h -1. ,oing to have it.Vy other way . than pearl fishing, or any place in this low- table. And then Bob Kenyon, leaning you need aboard the first thing in here and t ere. Mingling with these pee Pack carrots whole or sliced hat they stay in your possession- was a sprinkling of East Indian cool- into hot tested jars, fill with boiling . er half of the world wbere- you have negligently against a bulkhead, smil- the morning and pull out at once. for . , water and add one teaspoonful -salt m,d -right in. your pocket, w1hich is not been during the last five years. ed again as Captain David Watts pro- Auckland or ,Sydney, And, when you ies, and, now -and then, monarchial in quart jar. Finish as beets. . � he safest place for "em. But t1le But you keep that up and it gets to duced a battle and set it down in front get there, clap those pearls in a bank his importance and immensely consc-' to I I vorld ,don't need to know it! I'm an be a habit that ends if you live iong of the visitor from shore. far safe -keeping. They may have to ious of his uniform, most polite to the -0 ld-timer here, and you ain't even enough, in a whining, gin,begging, "I don't drink," said Mr. Isaacs test- be sent to New Yo -:k, or Pa, -is, 0.1 whites'and equally brusque with the . �een ashore yet ' and I know what stinking beachcomber. You think it ily, "and you know it." He shoved Iondon. I don't know. Anyway, less fortunate of his own color, stalk- Books reach one public as things to� $m talking about. The -minute the Over, my ;boy. You know the islands tHel -battle away. "Why don't yog an- .,-at'-, My ad'vice." ed a native policeman. But to all read and another as ornaments and a vord's out, it's' a question 6f keeping at they can swer Tny question, and where are - "ATL� I'll say it's no bad," said Cap- these . Bob Kenyon paid little or no third as substitutes for castors. -Th& ,our weather eye skinned. The . la- do to any white man who, iets him- those pearls?" tain David Watts after a moment attention. His interest was centered Times,. ,,00n's filling up with pearlers comqng self drift. There's no excuse for you "You know why," said Captain "And I'll say as l4ve always said, tb�; on the whites, little groups al whom . n and some oi 'em so, far as morals doing that any more. You're a rich David Watts mildly. "It was on your you're a square man, Isaacs." -for the most part a rough -and - ,'O, don't belong anywhere except in man to -night whether you believe it account, I gave the crew shore leave ' "I'm not so square," said Mr ready looking lot and the ' majority tell- and, furthermore, the tovm it- or not." until to -morrow because I thought Isaacs with suddep irascibility. "It'� evidently from the pearling fleet- I elf: to say nothing of the whole is� In the flare, of a match there .was you could come off here to -night with only because I've got to be, you congregated outside the lighted win- LONDON AND WINGHAM and of Illola, ain't unanimous in it� a queer tightening of Bob Kenyon's nobody the -wiser about anything. No- don't think Ilm fool, do you? you dows of various other public houses hurch attendance in, spite of ,the. mis- lips, as as he bent his head to light body else knew anything about the don�t think I wouldn't 'like to get my of the same ilk as the Southern North. ionaxy stations. There's a British a cigarette. pearls. Some friends of mine from hands on those pearls, do jou? Only Cross. And though once or twice he a.m. p.nL esident here, and native police, and "What would you suggest?" he that schooner there nearest us came I wouldn't have any chance of put- caughtj snatches of their convers,a- Centralia ......... 10.36 5.41. Lil ,that but-" He ended with an asked, without inflection in nis %vDice. aboard this afternoon to ask what ting anything over on you even if I tion -"the luck of Captain David Exeter .... � ........ 10.49 5,64 mpressive shrug of his shoulders. "Qettle down and, get married," re- luck we'd had, and have a dri�k, but tried, for sooner -or later everybQdy Watts .. . . . .. the greatest find ev- Hensall ........... 11.03 6.08 . "You've ,Put an etiormous price on I. - they didn't go away burdened with from Hongkong to the other eni of er made in the Pacific" ---he spoke to p led Captain David Watts promptly. Kippen ........... 11.08 6.18. bese pearls," -remarked Bob Kenyor &I information. I thought I could trust the save to return an occasional y,O Yes and" -bis seTiousneiss becantle world will know the price they no one, Brucefield ......... 11.17 6.2T peculatively. "Don't you think u suddenly mellowed by a quiet ebupkle, those fellows -of mine, and it looked brought. But I'm not philanthropic good -night that was flung with easy Clinton ........... 12.03 6.4t tre a bit high?" blimy, I'll show you the girl! You like the best thing to do -they must either, and business is business, and camaraderie in his direction. But in - "It aint a qiiestion of thinking," -" get to each of these men's faces Londesboro ....... 12.23 7.02� see those lights on the hill you were have got hold ,of liquor somewhere to before you sail, if you like, I'll . he Took- .. 12.32 7.11 'apta n David Watts answered terse- ed, not offensively, but steadily and Blyth ...... , i asking about? Well, there:', , girl loosen up like that." some letters ready for you to take :,,* , 12.44 7.23 Y, "I know they're worth all and for you! As ftne a looker as . ever "A nice mess!" said Mr. Isaac tart- along to the right people in Auckland with a disarming smile, as be passed Belgrave nore'n I've said ,they are!" you clapped your eyes on is Marian ly. "As much as my life is worth! and Sydney who can start things go- by- It had become a h-abit of long 1.00 7,4& ' "All right, then," said "Bob Ken- Willetts, and none of those new fancy I wouldn't have come at all if I hadn't ing for you, and I'll leave it to you standing. South. ran quietly. He pushed the pearls . done business with you for the last to say if you think there's a And then Bob Kenyon began to teross the table. "I must say it nations about her, either! She's the in Si hit of enter the various bars. But, though p.m. _ kincl of a wife for a man-k,pt the few years. Blast it! Don't you un- com is on coming to me when you,vA a.m. �eer�*s a little unnecessary to me -but Residency going like ,one ,o'clock for derstand? I'm seen coming cut to made your sale." he ordered much, he drank little. Ee W-ingham ........... 6.45 3.0& you, like." her father ever since her mother died your schooner. And then they say old "Fair enough!" said Bob Kenyon scanned the faces at the bars, and at Belgrave .......... 7.03 am Captain David Watts picked up the a number of years ago. Isaacs has bought the pearls, . old promptly. . the gaming tables that were invit"Trg- Blyth ............. 7.14 sm )earls, opened a locker and took out i "And, of course." said Bob Kenyon Isaacs has got them. And old isaacs -Captain David 'Watts gathered up ly easy of access. At the end Of 'an Londesboro ........ 7.21 3.45 i leather wallet. He placed the 'British Resident's 1-tands the best chance he ever 'had th6 pearls, replaced them in the wal- hour, apparently a little unsteady on Clinton ........... 7.40 4.08 aearls inside the wallet, returned the facetiously, "the In his life -of getting his throat cut let, and returned the latter Lo the his feet, he found himself again . in . . first choice for -a son-in-law viould be ,Brucefield ......... 7.53 4.28. wallet to the .locker, and closed the an embryonic -beachcomber, and na- before morning. I'd have had to locker. front of the Southern Cross Hotel. Kippen ............ 8.05 4.38 acker a -gain. He. nodded his beAd in: turdIly the lady's preference would-,, have some one row me if I'd taken "Aye," be agreed. "And no more The banjo, the Addle and the piano Hensall ........... 8.1a 4AS I ;elf-&pproval. I Rob Kenyon stopped abruptly as a .a boat out and than proper, I say." . were still in discordant eividence. * This Exeter ............ 8.27 4.58 "Now," said he, "let's go up and ' that would have given the show a- time he stepped inside, looked around Centralia ......... 819 6.09 lake a look-see if � he's coniing." low hail came across the water. -SO I slipped out back -of the Mr. Isaacs stood up. a little owlishly, lurched toward a , i "Hello!" exclaimed Captain David Way- "All right, then," lig said. "I'll get Bob Kenyon rose from his seat and Watts, "What's that?"' town, and walked. Two miles!" He back." 'Hie secured his pith helmet table in the corner that was shadowy Followed the .other up ,the little com- pushed the pith helmet nervously firn-bly askew by means of a little in the] ill -distributed lighting from C. N. R. TIME TABLE panionway to the deck, and for al The hail was repeated. h' 'back on his head -and 'nervo,usly corkscrew twist, and headed for the the oil lamps, subsided somewhat And now both men., staring -: are- M?ment ,both stood at the schooner's ward, made out the white figure of snatched at it again to save it from companionship. "One of you . will heavily into a chair, and ordered a East. a.m. p.m. rail staring Out over the black, mir- a man on the sandy beach �f the falling to the floor as the rear brim have to take me ashore." gin and tonic. The drink, though it . b rOT-like, unrippled surface of the la- . of it bumped against his shoalders. "I'm going ashore," said Bob Ken- was surreptitiously spilled ii�on the Godericb ..... t, ..... 6.20 2.15. goon. It was 'a quiet Ilight, the point. said "I hope to God I haven't been seen yon. "I'll -take you." floor, a -P "That'll be old Isaacs now" I .peared to be the last straw Holmesville ........ 6.86 2.32 moon just rising, the scented odor of, ' h so'briety, for pres- Clinton ............ 6.44 2.45 Captain David Watts in a puzzled even as it -is!" He followed the pearl broker on in his bout wit tropical vegetation in the air. Off tolway. "But it's blamed queer Refs Bob Kenyon leaned a little forward deck, and started aft behind the other ently he sprawled across the table, Seaforth ........... 6.59 3.01 the extrenie right -of the bay ip which .. toward 'the Other. . - toward where the dinghy was mad,! his head down On his out -flung arms. St. Columban ...... 7.06 3.10 the schooner was anchored, scores ofi walked out from the town insie,ad of ',You don't mean that literally, do fast. Halfway along tt�p deck he The long bar -was well patronized. Dublin ............. 7.11 3.17 .gleams, denoting � taking a boat." .atts T ere was constant coming and go - scintillating little 4WIell, you know him and I don't," you?" be asked. glanced back. Captain David W b West the ,position of the town, brokel , "Mean it!" ,Mr. Isaacs gulped dis- was just emerging from the co,,-nfpan- ing. No one paid any attention to through the palms that fringrA the Gaid Bob Kenyon; "so you'd better tressingly as though something had ionway. A moment later the other the lone figure in the corner. a.m. p.m. p.m. beach, ,but, growing fewer and fewer take the ding-hy and fetch him aboard. caught in his throat. "Of caqrse, I joined him., and, as Mr. Isaacs clam- in his Dublin ...... 11-27 5.38 10.04 I'll take birro back, and that'll be turn Bob Kenyon's face, bidden St. Columban. 11-32 5.44 ... . as the eye followed the shore line, An- about; besides, as I haven't been q- mean -it! With the stories going a- bered Over the side in -to the dinghYi arms, was bard -set as he waTched. Seaforth . .. - - 11.43 . . ally dwindled out until, opposite shore yet, I'd like to stretch wy leis round now that those pearls are the Bob Kenyon, felt the wallet pressed Somehow it was different t('-n'gb' Clinton . ..... 11.59 6.08-5.43 10.3-1 where the little ivessel lay within not and take a loo,k at the tovni when greatest find that has ever been rxiade into ,his hand. He pocketed it with from all the nights that 'had gone be- Holmesville .. 12.11 7.05 10-40, mare than. two, hundred yardA from this business is over." al one time in the Pacific, thene's any an amused s,mile.. The old skipper fare, To -night there were twp faces Goderich ..... 12.25 7.10 10.&I the shore, a point closing this end of ,I[Riglit. you are!" agreed Captain one -of a dozen men in the riff-raff wa.9 a fine as they mado them -but at instead of the one that usually v-isu- the bay, exhibited only a lonely and David Watts, and, hurrying aft to of the town that wouldn't ask for any- times, perhaps, a bit old-womanisb. I alized itself before him. To --night deserted stretch of sand- Here and where the dinghy floated as -tern' be thing better than A chance to stick a From the day the pearls had been there was,the face Of a girl whose there in'the lagoon, some quite close id ciam- knife into you for them. You ask found d- eyes were blue, and whose hair, when pulled the 'boat ilongside aT t,, Captain David Watts bad stea C. P. R. TIME TABLE at band, some farther off, singly and in. . captain Watts." fas refused, any share in their Our- the sunlight was on it, was like glint- East. in little groups, the riding lights of bered fflob kenyon watched the Other for 'Captaitr David Watts nodded tadianship. ' Oh, well! What differ- ing gold, a sweet, wistful face that ,, a.m. otber vessels twinkled'lake starry a- ent; then, his elbows on' the Yes; that's true," he said. "I've ence did it make-? If the old man kept rising before'him, living its way Goderich .................. 6.50 gainst the sky line. But there Was a 'mom .IreadY told Kenyon so." was the more contented to have 1* in'to his life again. And she 5,55, no, sign .Of any approaching boat. rall, his chin cupped in ,bisr hands, ,,Yes," said Mr. Isaacs caustically, that way, there was no reason why here. ,He knew where she was. And M,Gaw ................... 0.04 "What -the devil's keeping hinil" ex- 'his eyes fastened and held on .' the, ,, and I suppose what you've really got it should be otherwise. the te,inq)tation grew strong upon, him Auburn .................... 6.1 t I claimed Ca,ptain 'David Watts lm� windorvv lights -on the hill again. The is worth maybe sorh6where around "I'm going to turn in," said Captain to go out to where those lighted win- Blyth ................. . cigaret,te fell with a little hiss into .... 6.25 .patiently. twenty or thirty quid or so!" H' B David Watts, "I, think you said You dows or the bill were because, per- Walton .................... 6.40, ,,Ob, it's early yet," a -aid Bob Ken. the water. There Came again, that jorked his battered Pith helmet kor- were going to take a look at the town, haps, unseen bimselfy be md,gbt obtain MeN4ught ................. 6.5T yon .unconcernedly. "It's scarcely queer tightening of his lips, and with ward Gn his - head again. "Well, Bob- but I'm not so sure you'd bet- a stolen glimq)Ae of 'her, perhaps see 10.95 - ,eight o'clodk.', He pointed suddenly it now, slowly, a strange whiteness well.p. be ejaculated inilpatie-Atly. ter. ' You heard what Mr. Isaacs he ere her smile, perhaps heaT 'her voice a - to two or three little d6ts of light that carme creeping into ,his face. Sq Mhr- ,&,I . �etrs see ,�eml Let's see'Oe-nil. I said." - gain. West. CAMe from the wind,okwa, ,of a house, ion Willetts, had never marriedl of want to got back." � ' raised his hoad-and lot it S.M4 be.had supposed that she w9s, . I 'Wonsens'el" Bob Kenyon laughed.'' He half ' bill and almost abreast ,course, drop again. He snarled SAVA9617, Toronto ................... 7AO- a. the schoonet's- position. irwhat somewhere here on this - island, but I -Twenty quidt" repeated Captain "To 'begin with, nobody knows who I tuously at himself under his McNaught ................. 11,48 that had had no bearing on Ids card- David Watts vdih a quiet Chuckle. am except perhaps those chaps who c0nteb(M I p�e is that -up there? -Pr he asked. Ing,, iShe. wauld-never know be'was ob,,tight-olly H6 opened, the lock- came aboard from that schooner over breatb. Had he not promised himself Walton .................... 110t I I I The - question was, *PParentlY frrele- here. No would see, I' and fiom the thei .not a that if he came to this island here he Blyth ...................... Mft ' ' :�, i _,to tha:t. Besides -e this . afternoon. -r-Th . I I I aig ' ,to - ,oaptafti David WAUS' lasti, fbv& Years er, produced the wallet, aacs would 'not torture himself with mem- Auburn .............. *..... 100 I � v when -he had,'Zoen ,hit, . wallet &oko4t th,� three pekkls. ThAes, marked mo��, even if what MT. Is 1�, , houghtt. lle answereA, with a gru.nt: eri ories, of ber? Mrs W&A not the fhee, Y&Gaw ......... �,,.i...4.i. '19.04- "P - `, ti . , ago, he h9A ,been W: Johm., Hingstoft he laid Ydt#'At, table, in fr* �,*f tffr. says is true. Besides, it Asn't ev, , '$That's the Dritish Residencyt , .1,9 al, � ]��,�4, . Ira � IIVV,611' ftore you iajeffl' � , nine o'clock yet, and I stah't.be gone he 'u "' it was the, Ises of"a man Men6set � . 4 .... I ...... 4 ...... .1i .. . ... �A And ,, . - � . " g , - . 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"A 44, i 4, .� I I , , �fl ,, 1 g . , , . 1: ; ..,.: �, , , ;.. :'. � ;. �"ii!�!�i,�.:,LIA�Z4,1,��.,�i�.,,,,,� mu',� , , � : V 1 , ,t,k,s,li � �� :�, �: , ., , , k ,% 4�, �1) ,'.-.,%�;1ft.' . - ,�,%'&' , ,,� �'� �-��: �,:"-� ` i';O." 1. � �,�Z 1-,,-, - � : 1 ,,, , I 24 J�,,`,, _-� '. I , THOMAS BROWN I�i TAdensed, auctioneer for the counties � I W.Huron.aild Perth. Correspondence be 1 '"g,gamentr for sale dates can 332 adeb calling The Expositor Office, and Seafortl Charges moderate, satisfaction'guarante,ed. Phone 302. ,.- A. 9 j . d . . . OSCAR KLOPP' Honor Graduate Carey Jones' Nif - 1. I , i, tional.Sehool, of Auctioneering, Chi- , ea gj�eciai. course taken in Pure lj,ili� argeod. , Stock, Real Estate, Mer- chalidfi6 and Farm Sales.* itates -in keephig with prevailing inarket. Sat- "'Ok, Idsidtfint assured. Write or wiTe, Near,' Kl6pp, Zurich, Ont. Pbore', r* 1"9. 286^0-59 - . I � , �, IL T. LUKER . 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[Jevo , M, '?, I . , , , I � ; , . - I I. . ,:� , -, hini for ve-upto. ,yf,Jp ;,�'-* Tipt �Qxx;y � oe's, it rel N - ; � iq� -, j I . �, . � I , I I eX , . A AM �,I,,ra! ' "It , Ag r0n,;�, .. Vi ': A , , , , i ." 's , au,"if ., , �,�-� i -�, .% .. 1 I / ' - . � . , .. . � , . . I r , - , o` �:� : � ., :, ,,- ". :, '' I . , I . . IT45 , rouse ',, ,us �' , �u,,44 %rom �'Iie'-Xdst of" the, Aq " -� �r 4.:: i .11, ! � . ..... , , . , a aud .ffuesa, biRt, if $be,;* . . -, , . ,e, , I , . . g9use.io tw * . F " I � . , - . � , � ,d hiihaelf; � , I I ` , . � .: . 1. i I I 1. . 11 ,", "'t .,,Z ,� , 111. � 1 -4m . , - ro en, I n?Aaimq,m WU .,�!�.. '6 -� �, �� , `� 14 ,� ::",� , . an , , . , ' , . $11,:W, t�,�i4lt . Nw, , I - L.2 . ,011� he, ww still-, �itarink *0 Ile win �*n P k htleduccOAQ A" . I I . k� . I I ww�`�-- I - .. ..... 1- I ".. -S.1 ,� . ... Y�� 4-nX . ' ' I � , . ol"4, ��. ,� - ,� .1 1. : rn 4 - 0-1 - ht�-? 0.� ; . . . . . . . . . I lights on 1*0;,-Wl;-aS thO��sglasll of oars _Idaager ofinfeetion ky.pr i od,� 0.06, w4a 111'�;,, , . I ... . " .4 ."f,., , � ., � t , 9 P,,Y .,ft, � v .. "Ill, �411 - ,,,, ., ; � . ,� - ` , , �"`.. ", ,: 11 r ' -1 ` ,Bob X Ouyow�ma e no � . . aes,, ,W 'I'll . . & I ''I - U." - - 4J,ang9i4e,,*arned'Mpi1 tW'the dinghy, . " ling t4o d t is rpttl.sd do, ,4 'to', thevul -go , - , : 0 � TER' . , d' , . . I rogw i, . . - comment. He; �Id 1�2�, ", r, I . I , . a, � I I I . ;. . . was still -staring 4Vthe lights on tha -1" niorpent p i. t,xd 900-11. 0 .. .�, 1 4? :: "', `., ,'� .-1,7 �11,w', I . had, x6turpO. ' A, d 'tji ' er attic ,"547A, .%,?".�, I M ",PBAIRLS' -4 Captain David, Watts, liter,� 'Bob. Keny " 4� to I 4fiself ��t 3" And tbereA: terg, ap,44froin'the: u , THE TIME . I after . I � I I . A f"t r X W k, I 1. I I . � hill wh6 0A S10141% ai . .. wgr'i; W1. . . an ImOAM . -, - -- .; Q, .:,-, ii, ., '' � . . . I ht that &-r. I Med, bis..'eutlo$i ..." ��, . I I lent tarn, or, tv�o.aloug' k�e In the' moonlight atthe,�.slg of a saaes, grata . . ty, � 0 i,15TQ . I � I , - I Under the 14'hted, swinging lamp . . ; t gurious- little,per Ill tion or two, .as 1.41' .� , t r % SaOagO.V, No WaS Win- ,I � a -wa ure ,��i�', . to hQWau . . .� � � ing . war, - ' " . � in the ,cuddy of a small wo� masted selx",nerlp deck, ,finally lia , , I I I , -, . V41tv a qass . . !, _ . ,lted again Lim along tI . io,deck in the � ,� -where the p -ad " , ,49TP eteJy,:,o,V:.. beside him at th� rail'. to 414 earls h -bean found the " ti " � 9ch oner men sat facing each ,, , - . . . . . . ,, � r, Q ,, two,,' sat and star9d att-he pearls; but there 1 inalter, .� Xg A pg�,-,Q � 'ke: of Oai44in David. - Watts. The eq - ersation lan ' , , �1' p � r .ox- , ,, , ., V , �� I " other at the " said OaPkabi,'David . Wa�s a sudden, sibilant little, , uUminy , - . Look heref w4 I ,Av gwshed. At th; " � L . tl'.�; , - " table. Bob this man was 4bqnt-&ho414ere4,, and 0 ul ',piration of soul, � ten ,in' .. , " 4 Kenyon- Watts o6kuptly. "A thing: rik 0 . sto P' Mr. Isaacs sucked, in his'b biu Tu'a Inutes, the � severe 11-4=4031'e'T - I black-lialred, ,clean-shaven,' big across don't happen in, the lif4tt e, of- many ed as he walked -"he lia4: 9; patriarchal Captain. David, 'Wh*i b ing eagerly di=ance being bufperha, 5 F A quaner i '1'e ,. - 1 1*1 . in, .. . . tarted t�,akiq Ai , pjj,�.�ir � 1,� ,4 � ,,,.Iq . the shoulders, and displaying an en� � - ' - ta; 144wbitl over ,the table.. Bob Kenyon, watch- ali tx4yersad 'by Mir saacs. in fol- "Kruse Rg -one,pearl'-waybe-but not three beard and wore sun glu'di . of th T . flell) am , � '� ..g V I 1� , 1 - viable muscular ,development of chest r4leu� suit had long sinc6 lost any- in lighted a ci arette.� lowing the 'windings of the road a- bon ' � 11 . of 'em. I don't go off half-cocked as duck ano, I . I I wh . 9 I I 41i"', " , , , ere his ghirtwas -open at the'neck � timacy with the washtub-,, shore,, t1le. dingthy grounded on the had a heaanda0bi � 4, 11 11 .1 against the tropical beat, was a a general rule, not .me; but though claim to, in ind then Mr. Isaac& adj4sted7 his beach at- a 4.41: : , ! ". , � , , �i.: �'� "'I , 11 , , my stake don't. am -aunt to one-two- and his head wias.eiviAlle.d. with, an aniber-colared sun �spectacle�, 'and, . ,spot a hundred yards or I . 1� � I � ,. . , "I" - , � 1 4 -- I I � young American' of #erhaps, twenty- ' -[ 6 away from the town's wharf. � i l i lt�',,'�*. , ,;;" m ., I .�..f � three alongside of yours, I've �eeit is oversized pith helmet, a so incredibly picking up the. p�arls one at - ' � F I e,. 'Ll ;0+4r��,.�i "Al ' I . ." el g,ht or, nine- the oth6f, ,Gaptain Dav, excited4 as a kid ever since we f � g' tim's, - 'Here, there. appeared to be no one . -411� I I - "j, � . I * . - , 1, 4 ,��,N; f�-, exanii � � . ,,1 � ., .." 'I";'r,",�1 I . , I I cl., � 1. ? . . i� - , "i ' ned, edch in, turn. Final!y, he about, and, as they stepped ashore, . .I .1 � 'W" 11 id Watts, master - and owner, was - a , ound dirty and much the wor4e for wear, . . I . . 1,t-- I gq: , � . e� 11 � 11 ,� , . I em, and you've, never even. batted an And Whilchy �OlbvlouslY to keep it from pushed the -three of them away from Mr. Isaacs tapped Bob Xempm ,on there at the ,bar, as h1B had� seara I 111 . � ,:� h� - 2 I W",�,"""V50. , ' Wiry, weath,er-beatemb , blue-eyed eyelash. What's the idea? is it,be resting on his ears, w4s, cocked. I him and, with -a shake of his head, the s,ho.ul,d,e.r,. � -1 111�!�:"�'��, bearded little New Zealander of fifty. - , , N' - , . , 11 ��, cause you just don't and won't believe little askew, giving its okimuer a fudi- I ' at other bars, in other is )� ... . 'L ,Ii "Old Isaacs o eaned back in. his chair. � I . I . I I �, , ,,, . i 1. crously jaunty air. I "It's none 6f my business, ypunj lowest liples of.vice , 9 equ%1 ,� , �1, I tight to -be along any they worth what I've kept on telling . . I _ � - , , � .- , -ute now,", said CalAain "I can't do any business.,,vvith you," , - , _ , ,� " , , ", inin David you they were day after day? ' 46BOb", a . man," said he gruffly; ,,but unless you tor, along the waterfr�'onts . . . . . �, i, � - � ,,� said, 'Captain David Watt , he said brusquely. . I . ,. I , g A . .4, ... ate looking for trouble, don't drink ping centers fr[Orm . �, � Watts -significantly. Bob Kenyan% eyes shifted from "this is Mr. Isaacs. ,iMr. Isaacs, this 'Captain David Watts wiped 'his 911. '.... 40. " - 111� , 11, Bob Kenyon thrust one, hand Into with every one you meet. And if -a face with a clos' ed ,b I %,., ;. 1 the lights an the, hill to the rugged, is Bob Ken -yon, my partner in this forehead witb his sleeve. . 9 � . .., � , I ,�: J , I his trousers pocket, extracted there- noncsT Iace beside him: He, brushed deal." "What's .the matter?" he said you're not sure you can, keep your head, with thick , sensu t' . . 4.1th". -! 1Y I I ' . . � I . � ,:,'i from a little cloth sack that had once "I'm glad to meet MT. Isaacs," said ,hoarsely. good.,, mouth shut, my Advice to you is to slightly slanting e I th .Ila c I ", , , his hand across his forehead asthough . . "I know they're .1 `�.� , I y - I i, ";' lone 4uty'as. a container for cigarette, , go straight ,1bAek to the schooner." plexion that was darkened � with 6, . ��, �� , fogged, he sought to clear his mental Bob Kenyon -pleasantly, shaking ,'That's -the matter," said . Mr. � � i". ,iow" . � I �' - I �obacco, loosened, the drawstring and - - hands. I B-ob Kenyon smiled quietly. tinge of IMalay bload--the face, lot, t: �� `,`,. Z, vision I Isaacs. "They're tao good for a lit- .... i. ". ,�11 , 1, I �. . , . rolled three pearls, o:k great si`e'into 14�y, I don't kilo' - ,"H,umph!" grunted'Mr: Isaac "I guess I'll be all right," he said. Shanghai Jim. I . . 1,,.J�. , 4 � 'he hollow .of his other hand. I w," he.said slow un- tle'island broker like me. I've never ,�`�,,q ' ' ':L","'t� , ly. "To tell you the truth, I haven't graciously. "Well, I'll tell you right seen anything like them befo-ze. I "Humph!" grunted MT. Isawts-and ":'.. L'� -, .- .. 1, I . , � (Continued next week) , . , ;:;��' , "I thought you said,'*hen you,.sent turning (abruptly, trudged off across . , � ` ,.,,�, thought much about thent--sort of now, young man, I don't like .this tell you frankly I could -not even value the sand, . . I I., '. .., !or him, that this chap Isaacs was V all in the day's work, you k ow.11' business.'P them. They're worth- thousands of O. . ; 't ( :1 I., 30 trusted," 'he observed. 1'� , . n F .. 1 O.", "Good Lord!" ejaculated Captain Bob Kenyon, taken, a little aback, pounds," .i: . t'-" � I I �. �' I .. ...... �,jAll ..i�.�, �"; "And so he is," returned the older David Watts helplessly. "Listev. to stared at the other; but,' before he "Well, make us an. offer," suggest- CHAPTER 11 CANNED BEETS .. "I ;�,"i � . 1". nan coolly. "That's the reason I that! Well,j answer me this, then. could speak,,Captain David *Watts in- ed Bob Kenyon. . .1 1 v,*, .Dicked him out. He�& the. best of Granting those pearls are worth all terPosed. � . ; . � , -- "He says our crew of black-skirined again. THE CRIME " �" I - , ;h� brokers ashore,which may not be I say they.are, and that' Mr, Isaacs, shook his head Only young, tender .beets should be ' L � �'J" r%,'�'�, a a fortune, "I haven't got money enough'.', he lined as the old beets may be. stor- I .��,-.-:,'�,','. � - ca I 11 - I ;aying much, but it's a safe bet he and a whopping big one, what are you ramals, that we let go ashore and said. "I've got to be honest ith you. Bob Kenyon pulled the din-ghy a � . , ,M��q w,i ed for winter use. In preparing beets � - " 4alows more about -pearls than all . .. .. , `�,!�R ., going to do with yourself from now warned to keep their mouths shut, The run of pearls that are brought in little higher up on the -beach, and for canning, leave on at least an inch . �,: I 'I, �,, -he9rest ,of them put together. He's pp have been talking," said Captain here from the stood for a moment taking stock Of of stem and all of the root. Wash 1 �;��%'�' , ' on'? . surrounding islands are ,,.-. >een at it now for a nuynb(-,r of Bob Kenyon shook -his he -ad. David Watts. "So Mr. Isaacs walk- one thing -these are another. I his surroundings. Across the beach. thoroughly and blanch for five to ten I . . 'I ' I ,, Of, �ears here, and I've never heard a "Same answer," he said, "f hayen't ed." haven't got money enough, and all itself was a fringe of palms. Thr.ough minutes, or until the skin w'dI slip I . �., k" , , I I , �`% :. .1 4 ,vord said about him except that he aid Bob these he could see numerous window off easily. 'Dip into cold water for , , "-,--. , thought about it, but I don't think it "I don't understand," a . the brokers here put together haven't �. : 1. Nas on the square. would change anything." I Kenyon. I :., got money enough to buy them." lights stretch -big out for quite a dist- an instant, so that they may be hand- 111"i �P`, . . Bob Kenyon, still rolling the three Captain . David Watts stuck a "You don't, ch?" said 'Mr. Isaacs 'Captain David Watts laughad bois- ance to right and left. From directly led more easily. 'Pack whole Or c�ut , � ..�:'11'1'1' .)earls in the hollow of his haild, smil- square -ended cigar ,in his mouth and crusNy. "Well, I think I can make terously in front of -him the strumming of a into cubes packing as much irto the � i :,�%� . - ' . . - . , �,d a little quizzically. sucked on it unlighted. it clear. 'The whole towu is buzzing "What did I tell you!" he'exc7aimed banjo, the squeak ,of a fiddle and the jar as possible. Add one teaspoonful . I , I � . "Why all the precaution,, then?" he "Well, then, ,you're wrong!" said like a hornets' nest over your T,earls. gleefully. rattle of a tin -pan piano made � of salt to a quart jar and fill withL I z "', . � - I nquired. Captain David Watts, a sudden c,harp- I don't believe- for a moment you've Bob Kenyon whistled softly. - riotous, if unmusical, med1cy of boiling water. Partly seal jars ani I . � . -, "I'll tell you why," said Captain . his ,voice. "I'm going to say got anything much out of the'ordin- "What's to, be done, then?" he- - ask- lound, and presently he step�ed out place in canner. Pout in hot water �'. , )a.vid 'Watts, a sudden grim earne,st_ ness in ary, but the town does --- the damned in that direction. to two inches over top of jars. Dail �:;:l � less in his �oice. "It ain't that I'm - something to you because I like you, ed. I I . �. . , CS reached out for th, He made his way through the trees, for three hours, timing them frorti � : - - . my ]ad -and, dainnie, you can take it things have grown. t9 the size oi hens� MT ISaa - 1. . tfraid of Isaacs,'except that, like ev- or leave, it! When you and I met up eggs already." HL- turned, irritably pear -Is again, stared at them again., and, coming out on, the- road, found when the water' actually bolls. When I . ` I , ,ry -other human being, he's got a a while ago at MacDonald's in Suva, on Captain David Watts. "Why the and once more, but i&�,th extre re- himself in front of a rambling, two- done, remove from canner, tighten . . ': Ine 11 *ngue. If �e buys the pearls, all story, wooden structure, every -window tops, Invert for twenty-four hours, � .17, I was broke, and you said you had devil didn4 you bring them asi.ure. to luctance this time, pushed them away ,, -ight; but we ain't likely to come to enough to pay the expenses of a tri p, me yourself as soon as you dropped from him. alight, and which from its sig -1 pr6- then store in a cool, dark place. 4, .,,,7 . , Lny )bargain ,off -hand to -night, and, including a fair screw for me, and anchor this afternoon, instead of "Get out of here with them," said claimed itself to be the Southern . ',,�) I or your -own sake, it ain't a wise take your chances -on the luck. 1�o I -sending that black fool with a mes- Mr. Isaacs bluntly. "With that story Gross Hotel. He did not, however, en- .., w bing to have anybody know where fancy you weren't exactly rolling in sage tp me to come out this even- going around, and with more than a ter here immediately, but began to .-:� hey're kept in the meantime. We're wealth, and, on that score I don't ing?" fair share of the scurn of the Pacific stroll leisurely along the street which Only young, tender carrots .-Ijoulct . � - �111. )artners in' 'em in a way, be tanned, as the old carrots can be 1� ..:t - but my blame you for the sort of 'pillarr-to- "Let's go down to the cabin," sug- here at any time and worse now dur- though quite dark in spots where the 1. ,hare is sntala compared with yours post life, I tako it, you've led u' to gested -Captain David Watts placating- ing the pea)rling reason, it's the only stores and copra agents' officerg were stared successfully. Wash well and . � Xcording to the bargain when you p blanch in boiling water for three to, 1 taked the, schooner for the trip, and, now. I can't think of -anything much, IY- "We'll get it all straightened out safe thing to do. Besides, the only closed for ,the nigbP, was by no means. five minutes or until outer skins will according to the stories you've let dDwn there." place to sell these is in the big mar- deserted. Natives in' Iava-lavas, that of slip ,off easily. Remove and dip mcept for this little bit of,by-play slip, that you haven't done, from plan� _He led the way. Tke others ,fol- ket, and then to special buyers., My looked like abbreviated apronsi . quickly into cold water. Drain and hat we're going to pull off, I ain't tation work to the present fling at' lowed. MT.' Isaacs sat down at the advice to you is to get what stores gaudy bue, meandered, neiver nurrying � h -1. ,oing to have it.Vy other way . than pearl fishing, or any place in this low- table. And then Bob Kenyon, leaning you need aboard the first thing in here and t ere. Mingling with these pee Pack carrots whole or sliced hat they stay in your possession- was a sprinkling of East Indian cool- into hot tested jars, fill with boiling . er half of the world wbere- you have negligently against a bulkhead, smil- the morning and pull out at once. for . , water and add one teaspoonful -salt m,d -right in. your pocket, w1hich is not been during the last five years. ed again as Captain David Watts pro- Auckland or ,Sydney, And, when you ies, and, now -and then, monarchial in quart jar. Finish as beets. . � he safest place for "em. But t1le But you keep that up and it gets to duced a battle and set it down in front get there, clap those pearls in a bank his importance and immensely consc-' to I I vorld ,don't need to know it! I'm an be a habit that ends if you live iong of the visitor from shore. far safe -keeping. They may have to ious of his uniform, most polite to the -0 ld-timer here, and you ain't even enough, in a whining, gin,begging, "I don't drink," said Mr. Isaacs test- be sent to New Yo -:k, or Pa, -is, 0.1 whites'and equally brusque with the . �een ashore yet ' and I know what stinking beachcomber. You think it ily, "and you know it." He shoved Iondon. I don't know. Anyway, less fortunate of his own color, stalk- Books reach one public as things to� $m talking about. The -minute the Over, my ;boy. You know the islands tHel -battle away. "Why don't yog an- .,-at'-, My ad'vice." ed a native policeman. But to all read and another as ornaments and a vord's out, it's' a question 6f keeping at they can swer Tny question, and where are - "ATL� I'll say it's no bad," said Cap- these . Bob Kenyon paid little or no third as substitutes for castors. -Th& ,our weather eye skinned. The . la- do to any white man who, iets him- those pearls?" tain David Watts after a moment attention. His interest was centered Times,. ,,00n's filling up with pearlers comqng self drift. There's no excuse for you "You know why," said Captain "And I'll say as l4ve always said, tb�; on the whites, little groups al whom . n and some oi 'em so, far as morals doing that any more. You're a rich David Watts mildly. "It was on your you're a square man, Isaacs." -for the most part a rough -and - ,'O, don't belong anywhere except in man to -night whether you believe it account, I gave the crew shore leave ' "I'm not so square," said Mr ready looking lot and the ' majority tell- and, furthermore, the tovm it- or not." until to -morrow because I thought Isaacs with suddep irascibility. "It'� evidently from the pearling fleet- I elf: to say nothing of the whole is� In the flare, of a match there .was you could come off here to -night with only because I've got to be, you congregated outside the lighted win- LONDON AND WINGHAM and of Illola, ain't unanimous in it� a queer tightening of Bob Kenyon's nobody the -wiser about anything. No- don't think Ilm fool, do you? you dows of various other public houses hurch attendance in, spite of ,the. mis- lips, as as he bent his head to light body else knew anything about the don�t think I wouldn't 'like to get my of the same ilk as the Southern North. ionaxy stations. There's a British a cigarette. pearls. Some friends of mine from hands on those pearls, do jou? Only Cross. And though once or twice he a.m. p.nL esident here, and native police, and "What would you suggest?" he that schooner there nearest us came I wouldn't have any chance of put- caughtj snatches of their convers,a- Centralia ......... 10.36 5.41. Lil ,that but-" He ended with an asked, without inflection in nis %vDice. aboard this afternoon to ask what ting anything over on you even if I tion -"the luck of Captain David Exeter .... � ........ 10.49 5,64 mpressive shrug of his shoulders. "Qettle down and, get married," re- luck we'd had, and have a dri�k, but tried, for sooner -or later everybQdy Watts .. . . . .. the greatest find ev- Hensall ........... 11.03 6.08 . "You've ,Put an etiormous price on I. - they didn't go away burdened with from Hongkong to the other eni of er made in the Pacific" ---he spoke to p led Captain David Watts promptly. Kippen ........... 11.08 6.18. bese pearls," -remarked Bob Kenyor &I information. I thought I could trust the save to return an occasional y,O Yes and" -bis seTiousneiss becantle world will know the price they no one, Brucefield ......... 11.17 6.2T peculatively. "Don't you think u suddenly mellowed by a quiet ebupkle, those fellows -of mine, and it looked brought. But I'm not philanthropic good -night that was flung with easy Clinton ........... 12.03 6.4t tre a bit high?" blimy, I'll show you the girl! You like the best thing to do -they must either, and business is business, and camaraderie in his direction. But in - "It aint a qiiestion of thinking," -" get to each of these men's faces Londesboro ....... 12.23 7.02� see those lights on the hill you were have got hold ,of liquor somewhere to before you sail, if you like, I'll . he Took- .. 12.32 7.11 'apta n David Watts answered terse- ed, not offensively, but steadily and Blyth ...... , i asking about? Well, there:', , girl loosen up like that." some letters ready for you to take :,,* , 12.44 7.23 Y, "I know they're worth all and for you! As ftne a looker as . ever "A nice mess!" said Mr. Isaac tart- along to the right people in Auckland with a disarming smile, as be passed Belgrave nore'n I've said ,they are!" you clapped your eyes on is Marian ly. "As much as my life is worth! and Sydney who can start things go- by- It had become a h-abit of long 1.00 7,4& ' "All right, then," said "Bob Ken- Willetts, and none of those new fancy I wouldn't have come at all if I hadn't ing for you, and I'll leave it to you standing. South. ran quietly. He pushed the pearls . done business with you for the last to say if you think there's a And then Bob Kenyon began to teross the table. "I must say it nations about her, either! She's the in Si hit of enter the various bars. But, though p.m. _ kincl of a wife for a man-k,pt the few years. Blast it! Don't you un- com is on coming to me when you,vA a.m. �eer�*s a little unnecessary to me -but Residency going like ,one ,o'clock for derstand? I'm seen coming cut to made your sale." he ordered much, he drank little. Ee W-ingham ........... 6.45 3.0& you, like." her father ever since her mother died your schooner. And then they say old "Fair enough!" said Bob Kenyon scanned the faces at the bars, and at Belgrave .......... 7.03 am Captain David Watts picked up the a number of years ago. Isaacs has bought the pearls, . old promptly. . the gaming tables that were invit"Trg- Blyth ............. 7.14 sm )earls, opened a locker and took out i "And, of course." said Bob Kenyon Isaacs has got them. And old isaacs -Captain David 'Watts gathered up ly easy of access. At the end Of 'an Londesboro ........ 7.21 3.45 i leather wallet. He placed the 'British Resident's 1-tands the best chance he ever 'had th6 pearls, replaced them in the wal- hour, apparently a little unsteady on Clinton ........... 7.40 4.08 aearls inside the wallet, returned the facetiously, "the In his life -of getting his throat cut let, and returned the latter Lo the his feet, he found himself again . in . . first choice for -a son-in-law viould be ,Brucefield ......... 7.53 4.28. wallet to the .locker, and closed the an embryonic -beachcomber, and na- before morning. I'd have had to locker. front of the Southern Cross Hotel. Kippen ............ 8.05 4.38 acker a -gain. He. nodded his beAd in: turdIly the lady's preference would-,, have some one row me if I'd taken "Aye," be agreed. "And no more The banjo, the Addle and the piano Hensall ........... 8.1a 4AS I ;elf-&pproval. I Rob Kenyon stopped abruptly as a .a boat out and than proper, I say." . were still in discordant eividence. * This Exeter ............ 8.27 4.58 "Now," said he, "let's go up and ' that would have given the show a- time he stepped inside, looked around Centralia ......... 819 6.09 lake a look-see if � he's coniing." low hail came across the water. -SO I slipped out back -of the Mr. Isaacs stood up. a little owlishly, lurched toward a , i "Hello!" exclaimed Captain David Way- "All right, then," lig said. "I'll get Bob Kenyon rose from his seat and Watts, "What's that?"' town, and walked. Two miles!" He back." 'Hie secured his pith helmet table in the corner that was shadowy Followed the .other up ,the little com- pushed the pith helmet nervously firn-bly askew by means of a little in the] ill -distributed lighting from C. N. R. TIME TABLE panionway to the deck, and for al The hail was repeated. h' 'back on his head -and 'nervo,usly corkscrew twist, and headed for the the oil lamps, subsided somewhat And now both men., staring -: are- M?ment ,both stood at the schooner's ward, made out the white figure of snatched at it again to save it from companionship. "One of you . will heavily into a chair, and ordered a East. a.m. p.m. rail staring Out over the black, mir- a man on the sandy beach �f the falling to the floor as the rear brim have to take me ashore." gin and tonic. The drink, though it . b rOT-like, unrippled surface of the la- . of it bumped against his shoalders. "I'm going ashore," said Bob Ken- was surreptitiously spilled ii�on the Godericb ..... t, ..... 6.20 2.15. goon. It was 'a quiet Ilight, the point. said "I hope to God I haven't been seen yon. "I'll -take you." floor, a -P "That'll be old Isaacs now" I .peared to be the last straw Holmesville ........ 6.86 2.32 moon just rising, the scented odor of, ' h so'briety, for pres- Clinton ............ 6.44 2.45 Captain David Watts in a puzzled even as it -is!" He followed the pearl broker on in his bout wit tropical vegetation in the air. Off tolway. "But it's blamed queer Refs Bob Kenyon leaned a little forward deck, and started aft behind the other ently he sprawled across the table, Seaforth ........... 6.59 3.01 the extrenie right -of the bay ip which .. toward 'the Other. . - toward where the dinghy was mad,! his head down On his out -flung arms. St. Columban ...... 7.06 3.10 the schooner was anchored, scores ofi walked out from the town insie,ad of ',You don't mean that literally, do fast. Halfway along tt�p deck he The long bar -was well patronized. Dublin ............. 7.11 3.17 .gleams, denoting � taking a boat." .atts T ere was constant coming and go - scintillating little 4WIell, you know him and I don't," you?" be asked. glanced back. Captain David W b West the ,position of the town, brokel , "Mean it!" ,Mr. Isaacs gulped dis- was just emerging from the co,,-nfpan- ing. No one paid any attention to through the palms that fringrA the Gaid Bob Kenyon; "so you'd better tressingly as though something had ionway. A moment later the other the lone figure in the corner. a.m. p.m. p.m. beach, ,but, growing fewer and fewer take the ding-hy and fetch him aboard. caught in his throat. "Of caqrse, I joined him., and, as Mr. Isaacs clam- in his Dublin ...... 11-27 5.38 10.04 I'll take birro back, and that'll be turn Bob Kenyon's face, bidden St. Columban. 11-32 5.44 ... . as the eye followed the shore line, An- about; besides, as I haven't been q- mean -it! With the stories going a- bered Over the side in -to the dinghYi arms, was bard -set as he waTched. Seaforth . .. - - 11.43 . . ally dwindled out until, opposite shore yet, I'd like to stretch wy leis round now that those pearls are the Bob Kenyon, felt the wallet pressed Somehow it was different t('-n'gb' Clinton . ..... 11.59 6.08-5.43 10.3-1 where the little ivessel lay within not and take a loo,k at the tovni when greatest find that has ever been rxiade into ,his hand. He pocketed it with from all the nights that 'had gone be- Holmesville .. 12.11 7.05 10-40, mare than. two, hundred yardA from this business is over." al one time in the Pacific, thene's any an amused s,mile.. The old skipper fare, To -night there were twp faces Goderich ..... 12.25 7.10 10.&I the shore, a point closing this end of ,I[Riglit. you are!" agreed Captain one -of a dozen men in the riff-raff wa.9 a fine as they mado them -but at instead of the one that usually v-isu- the bay, exhibited only a lonely and David Watts, and, hurrying aft to of the town that wouldn't ask for any- times, perhaps, a bit old-womanisb. I alized itself before him. To --night deserted stretch of sand- Here and where the dinghy floated as -tern' be thing better than A chance to stick a From the day the pearls had been there was,the face Of a girl whose there in'the lagoon, some quite close id ciam- knife into you for them. You ask found d- eyes were blue, and whose hair, when pulled the 'boat ilongside aT t,, Captain David Watts bad stea C. P. R. TIME TABLE at band, some farther off, singly and in. . captain Watts." fas refused, any share in their Our- the sunlight was on it, was like glint- East. in little groups, the riding lights of bered fflob kenyon watched the Other for 'Captaitr David Watts nodded tadianship. ' Oh, well! What differ- ing gold, a sweet, wistful face that ,, a.m. otber vessels twinkled'lake starry a- ent; then, his elbows on' the Yes; that's true," he said. "I've ence did it make-? If the old man kept rising before'him, living its way Goderich .................. 6.50 gainst the sky line. But there Was a 'mom .IreadY told Kenyon so." was the more contented to have 1* in'to his life again. And she 5,55, no, sign .Of any approaching boat. rall, his chin cupped in ,bisr hands, ,,Yes," said Mr. Isaacs caustically, that way, there was no reason why here. ,He knew where she was. And M,Gaw ................... 0.04 "What -the devil's keeping hinil" ex- 'his eyes fastened and held on .' the, ,, and I suppose what you've really got it should be otherwise. the te,inq)tation grew strong upon, him Auburn .................... 6.1 t I claimed Ca,ptain 'David Watts lm� windorvv lights -on the hill again. The is worth maybe sorh6where around "I'm going to turn in," said Captain to go out to where those lighted win- Blyth ................. . cigaret,te fell with a little hiss into .... 6.25 .patiently. twenty or thirty quid or so!" H' B David Watts, "I, think you said You dows or the bill were because, per- Walton .................... 6.40, ,,Ob, it's early yet," a -aid Bob Ken. the water. There Came again, that jorked his battered Pith helmet kor- were going to take a look at the town, haps, unseen bimselfy be md,gbt obtain MeN4ught ................. 6.5T yon .unconcernedly. "It's scarcely queer tightening of his lips, and with ward Gn his - head again. "Well, Bob- but I'm not so sure you'd bet- a stolen glimq)Ae of 'her, perhaps see 10.95 - ,eight o'clodk.', He pointed suddenly it now, slowly, a strange whiteness well.p. be ejaculated inilpatie-Atly. ter. ' You heard what Mr. Isaacs he ere her smile, perhaps heaT 'her voice a - to two or three little d6ts of light that carme creeping into ,his face. Sq Mhr- ,&,I . �etrs see ,�eml Let's see'Oe-nil. I said." - gain. West. CAMe from the wind,okwa, ,of a house, ion Willetts, had never marriedl of want to got back." � ' raised his hoad-and lot it S.M4 be.had supposed that she w9s, . I 'Wonsens'el" Bob Kenyon laughed.'' He half ' bill and almost abreast ,course, drop again. He snarled SAVA9617, Toronto ................... 7AO- a. the schoonet's- position. irwhat somewhere here on this - island, but I -Twenty quidt" repeated Captain "To 'begin with, nobody knows who I tuously at himself under his McNaught ................. 11,48 that had had no bearing on Ids card- David Watts vdih a quiet Chuckle. am except perhaps those chaps who c0nteb(M I p�e is that -up there? -Pr he asked. Ing,, iShe. wauld-never know be'was ob,,tight-olly H6 opened, the lock- came aboard from that schooner over breatb. Had he not promised himself Walton .................... 110t I I I The - question was, *PParentlY frrele- here. No would see, I' and fiom the thei .not a that if he came to this island here he Blyth ...................... Mft ' ' :�, i _,to tha:t. Besides -e this . afternoon. -r-Th . 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