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The Huron Expositor, 1931-05-08, Page 7.1 t • • • MAY 8, 1931, t RUPTURE SPECIALIST Rupture, Varicocele, Varicose Veins, Albdomina1 Weakness, Spinal Deform- ity., , Consultation free. Call or !Write. J. G. SMITH, British Appli- anee Specialists, 15 Downie St., Strat- ford, Ont. 3202-52 LEGAL Phone No. 91 JOHN J. HUGGARD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public, Etc. Beattie Block - - Seaforth, Ont. R. S. HAYS Barrister, Solicitor, Conveyancer and Notary Public. Solicitor for the Dominion Bank. Office in rear of the Dominion Bank, Seaforth. Money to BEST & BEST Barristers, •Solicitors, Conveyan- eers and Notaries Public, Etc. Office in the Edge Building, opposite The Expositor Office. VETERINARY JOHN GRIEVE, V.S. Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin- ary College. All disease of domestic animals treated. Calls, promptly at- tended to and charges moderate. Vet- erinary Dentistry a specialty. Office and residence on Goderich Street, one door east of Dr. Mackay's office, Sea - A. R. CAMPBELL, V.S. Graduate of Ontario Veterinary College, University of Toronto. All diseases of domestic animals treated the moat modern principles. Menges reasonable. Day or night calls promptly attended to. Office 'on lidain Street, Hensall, opposite Town MIL Phone 116. : c , MEDICAL DR. E. J. R. FORSTER Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Graduate in Medicine, University of Toronto. Late assistant New York Ophthai- metl and Aural Institute, Moorefield's Bye and Golden Square Threat Hos- pitals, London, Eng. At Commercial Rotel, Seaforth, third Monday in each month, from 11 'a.m. to 3 p.m. 16$ Waterloo Street, South, Stratford. DR. W. C. SPROAT Graduate of Faculty of Medicine, University of Western Ontario, Lon- don. Member of College of Physic- ians and Surgeons of Ontario. Office in Aberhart's Drug Store, Main St., Eeaforth. Phone 90. DR. R. P. I. DOUGALL Honor graduate of Faculty of Medicine and Master of Science, Uni- versity of • Western Ontario, London. 7dieniber of College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Office 2 doors east of post office. Phone 56, Hensall, Ontario. 3004-tf DR. A. NEWTON-BRADY Bayfield. Graduate Dublin University, I're- lamd. Late Extern Assistant Master Zotunda Hospital for Women and Children, Dublin. Office at residence lately occupied by Mrs. Parsons. Hours: 9 to 10 a.m., 6 to 7 p.m., Sundays, 1 to 2 p.m. 2866-26 DR. F. J. BURROWS Office and residence Goderich Street, east of the United 'Church, Sea - forth Phone 46. Coroner for the County of Huron. DR. C. MACKAY C. Mackay, honor• graduate of Trin- ity University, and gold medalist of Trinity Medical College; member of the College of Physicians and Sur- geons of Ontario. DR. H. HUGH ROSS Graduate of University of Toronto !faculty of Medicine, member of Col- lege of Physicians and .Surgeons of Ontario; pass graduate courses in Chicago Clinical School of Chicago ; &oval Ophthalmis Hospital, London, England; University Hospital, Lon- don, England. Ofice-Back of Do- niinion Bank, Seaforth. Phone No. 5. Night calls answered from residence, Tiotoria Street, Seaforth. DR. J. A. MUNN Graduate of Northwestern Univers- ity,Chicago, I11. Licentiate Royal Colege of Dental Surgeons, Toronto. Office over Sills' Hardware, Math St , 8eaforth. Phone 151. DR. F. J. BECHELY Graduate Royal College of Dental, Surgeons, Toronto. Office over W. R. Smith's Grocery, Main Street, Sea - forth. Phones: Office, 185 W; resi- dence, 185J. CONSULTING ENGINEER S. W. Archibald, B.A.Sc., (Tor.), O.Z.S., Registered Professional En - • r and Land Surveyor. Associate Member Engineering Institute of Can- ada. Office, Seaforth, Ontario. i AUCTIONEERS THOMAS BROWN Licensed auctioneer for the counties of Huron 'and Perth. Correspondence arrangements for sale dates can be made by calling The Exposit it Office Seaforth. Charges moderate, an d satisfaction guaranteed. Phone 302. 0 j:; +r= F'. e ALC By Max Brand (Continued from last week) Fear, to be sure, was still with him; would ever be with him, for the thought of man followed like gallop- ing horses surrounding him, but what a small shadow was that in the sun- shine of this new existence! His life had been the bitterness of captivity since Cordova took in part payment of a drunken gambling debt a sickly foal out of an old thoroughbred mare. The sire wast unknown, and Cordova, disgusted at having to accept this wretched horseflesh in place of money, had beaten the six months' old colt soundly and turned it loose in the pas- ture. There followed a brief season of happiness in the open pasture but when the new grass came, shot t and thick and sweet and crisp under tooth. Cordova came by the pasture and saw his yearling flirting away from the fastest of the• older horses with a stretch gallop that amazed the Mexi- can. He leaned, a moment on the fence watching with glittering eyes and then he passed into a dream. At the end of the'dream he took Alcatraz out of the pasture and into the stable. That had been to Alcatraz, like the 'first calamity falling on Job, the be- ginning of sorrow and for three years and more he had endured not in patience but with an abiding hatred. For a great hatred is a great strength and the hatred for Cordova made the chestnut big of heart to wait. He had learned to season his days with the patience of the., lynx waiting for the porcupine to uncurl or the patience of the cat amazingly still for hours by the rat -hole. In such a manner Alca- traz endured. Once a month or once a year, he found an opening to let drive at the master with his heels, or to rear and strike, or to snap with his teeth wolfishly. If he missed it meant a beating; if he landed it meant a beating postponed; and so the dream had grown to have the man one day beneath his feet. Now, on the hill- top, every nerve in his forelegs quiv- ered in memory of the feel of live flesh beneath his stamping hoofs. It is said that sometimes one vic- tory in the driving finish of a close race will give a horse a great heart for running and one defeat, similarly. may break him. But Alcatraz, who had endured so many defeats, was at last victorious and the triumph was doubly sweet. It was not the work of chance. More than once he had test- ed the strength of the old halter rope, covertly, with none to watch, and had felt it stretch and give a little under the strain of his weight; but he had long since learned the futility of breaking ropes so long as there were stable walls or lefty corral fences to contain him. A moment of local free- dom meant nothing, and he had wait- ed until he should find open sky and clear country; this, was his reward of patience. The short, frayed end of the rope dangled beneath his chin; his neck stung where the rope had galled him; but these were minor ills and freedom was a panacea. Later he would work off the halter as he alone knew how. The wind, swinging sharply to the north and the west, brought the frag- rance of the. forests on the slopes of the Eagles, and Alcatraz started on towards them. He would gladly have waited and rested, where he was but he knew that men do not give up eas- ily. What one fails to do a herd comes to perform. Moreover, men struck by surprise, men stalked with infinite cunning; the moment when he felt most secure in his stall and ate with his head down, blinded by the manger, was the very moment which the Mexican had often chosen to play some cruel prank. The lip of Alcatraz twitched back from his teeth as he re- membered. This lesson was written into his mind with the letters of pain; in the moment of greatest peace, be- ware of man! That day he journeyed towards the mountains; that night he chose the tallest hill he could find and rested there, trusting to the wide prospect to give him warning; and no matter how soundly he slept the horrid odor of man approaching would bring him to his feet. No man came near but there were other smells in the night. Once the air near the ground was rank with fox. He knew that smell, but he did not know the fainter scent of wildcat. Neither could he tell that the dainty -footed killler had slipped up within half a dozen yards of his back and crouched a long moment yearning towards the mountain of warm meat but knowing that it was beyond its powers to make the kill. A thousand futile alarms disturbed Alcatraz, for freedom gave the nights new meanings for him. Sometimes he wakened with a start and felt that the stars were the lighted lanterns of a million men searching for him; and sometimes he lay with his head strain- ed high listening to the strange sil- ence of the mountains and the night which has a pulse in it and something whispering, whispering forever in the distance. Hunted men have heard it and to Alcatraz it was equally filled with charm and terror. What made it be could not tell. Neither can men understand. Perhaps it is the calling of the wild animals just beyond ear sh6t. That overtone of the mountains troubled and frightened Alcatraz on his first night; eventually he was to come to love it. OSCAR KLOPP Honor Graduate Carey Jones' Na- tional School for Auctioneering, Chi- cago, Special course taken in Pure Bred Live Stock, Real Estate, Mer- chandise and Farm Sales. Rates in keeping with prevailing market, Sat- isfaction assured. Write our wire, Oscar Klapp, Zurich, Ont. Phone: 18-98. 2868-52 c .` R. T. LIMIER Licensed auctioneer for the County of Huron. Sales attended o in all parts of the county. Seven years' ex- perience in Manitoba andSaskatche- wan. Terms reaaomiable, Phone No. 178 r 11; Exeter, Centralia P.O.. R.R. NO. 1. Orders lett at The Huron EI - O , Seaforth, promptly et- 'jli ,01111111•01101•1111 He ate slowly, for he punctuated his cropping of the grass with glances to- wards the mountains. The Eagles were growing out of the night, turtl- ing from purple -grey to purple -blue, to daintiest lavender mist in the hol- lows and rosy light on the peaks, and last the full morning came over the sky at a step and the day wind rose and fluffed his mane. He regarded these changes with a kindly eye, much as one who has nev- er seen a sunrise before; and just as he had always made the corral into which he was put his private posses- sion, and dangerous ground for any other creature, so now he took in the down -sweep of the upper range and the big knees of the mountains push- ing out above the foothills and the hills themselves modelled' softly down towards the plain, and it seemed to Alcatraz that this was .one great cor- ral, his private property. The horiz- on was his fence, advancing and re- ceding to attend him; all between was his proper range. He took his sta- tion on a taller hill top and gave voice to his lordliness in a neigh that rang and re -rang down a hollow. Then he canted his head and listened. A bull bellowed an answer fainter than the whistle, of a bird from the distance and just on the verge of earshot trembled another sound. Alcatraz did not know it, but it made him shud- der; before long he was to recognize the call of the lofer wolf, that grey ghost which runs murdering through the mountains. Small though the sounds were, they convinced Alcatraz that his claim to dominion would be mightily disputed. But what is worth having at all if it is not worth fighting for? He journ- eyed down the hillside stepping from grass knot to grass knot. All the, time he kept his sensitive nostrils alert for the ground -smell of water and raised his head from moment to moment to catch theupper air scents in case there might be danger. At length, before'pi'ime, he came down- wind from a water hole and galloped gladly to it. It was a muddy place with a slope of greenish sun -baked' earth on all sides. Alcatraz stood on the verge, snuffed the stale odor in disgust and then flirted the surface water with his upper hp before he could make himself drink. Yet the taste was far from evil, and there was nothing of man about it. Yonder a deer had stepped, his tiny footprint sun -burned into the mud, and there was the sprawling, sliding track of a steer. Alcatraz stepped further in. The feel of the cool slush was pleasant, working above his hoofs and over the sensitive skin of the fetlock joint. He drank again, bravely and deep, bury- ing his nose as a good horse should and gulping the water. And when he came out and stamped the mud from his feet he was transformed. He had slept and eaten and drunk in his own home. After that, he idled through the hills eating much, drinking often, and mak- ing up as busily as he could in a few weeks for the long years of semi- starvation under the regime of the Mexican. His body responded amaz- ingly. His coat grew sleek, his barrel rounded, his neck arched with new muscles and the very quality of mane and tail changed; he became the horse of which he had previously been the caricature. • It was a lonely life in many ways but the very loneliness was sweet to the stallion. Moreover, there was much to learn, and his brain, man -trained by his long battle against a man, drank in the lessons of the wild country with astonishing rapidity. Had it not been for inter- vention from the Great Enemy, he might have continued for an indefinite period in the pleasant foothills. But Man found him. It was after some weeks, while he was intently watching a chipmunk colony one day. Each little animal chattered at the door of his home and so intent was Alcatraz's attention that he had no warning of the approach of a rider up the wind until the gravel close behind spurted under the rushing hoofs of another horse and the deadly shadow of the rope swept over him, Terror froze him for what seemed a long moment under the swing of the rope, in reality his side -leap Was swift as the 'bound of the wild cat and the curse of the unlucky cowpuncher roar- ed in his ear. Alcatraz shot away like a thrown stone. The pursuit lasted only five minutes, but to the stallion it seemed five ages, with the shouting of the man behind him, for while he fled every scar pricked him and once a- gain his bones ached from every blow which the Mexican had struck. At the end of the five minutes Alcatraz was hopelessly beyond reach and the cow- puncher merely galloped to the high- est hilltop to watch the runner. As far as he could follow the curse, that blinding speed was not abated, and the cowpuncher watched with a lump growing in his throat. He had fallen into a dream of being mounted on a stallion which no horse in the moun- tains could overtake and which no horse in the mountains could escape. 'To be safe in flight; to be inescapable in pursuit -that was, in a small way, to be like a god. But when Alcatraz disappeared in the horizon haze, the cowpuncher lowered his head with a sigh. He re- alized that such a creature was not for him, and he turned his horse's head and plodded back towards the ranchhouse. When he arrived, he told the first story of the wild red -chest- nut, beautiful, swift as an eagle. He talked with the hunger and the fire which conies on the faces of those who love horses. It was not his voice but his manner which convinced his hearer, and before he ended every eye in the bunkhouse was lighted. That moment was the• beginning of the end for Alcatraz. From the mo - He was up in the first grey of the dawn hunting fir food and he fund it in the form of bunch grass. He had been so entirely a stable -raised horse that this fodder was new to him. His nose assured him over and over again that this was nourishment, but his eyes scorned the dusty patches eight or ten inches across and half of that in height, with a few taller spears headed out for seed. When he tried it he found it delicious, and as a Mat- ter of fact it its probably the finest grans in the world. rent men saw him and desired him the days of his freedom were limited; but great should be the battle before he was subdued! CHAPTER` VII THE PROMISED LAND There was no thought of submission in Alcatraz at this moment, though never for an instant did he under -rate the power of man. To Alcatraz, the Mexican was the type, and Cordova had seemed to unite in himself many powers -strength like a herd of bulls, endurance greater than the contempt- ible patience of the burro, speed like the lightning which winks in the sky one instant and shatters the cotton- wood -tree the next. Such as he were men, creatures who conquer for the sake of conquest and who torment for the love of pain. His fear equalled his hatred, and his hatred made him shake with fever. The horseman had vanished but it was not well to trust to mere dis- tance. Had he not heard, more than once, the gun speaking from the hand of Cordova, and presently the wound- ed hawk fluttered out of the sky and dropped at the feet of the man? So Alcatraz kept on running. Besides, he rejoiced in the gallop. He was like a boy who leaves his strength un- tested for several years and when the crisis comes 'finds himself a man. So the red chestnut marvelled at the new wells of strength which he was drain- ing as he ran. That power which the Mexican had kept at low tide with ' both had their places in his diet and his systematic brutality was now de- 'must be remembered, so Alcatraz tried veloped to the full, very near; and to Alcatraz it seemed exhaustless. He did not stop to look about until two miles of climbing up the steep sides of the Eagles had winded him. He had risen above the foothille and the more laborious slopes of the Eagles lifted at angles sheer and more sheer towards the top. But decidedly he must cross the mountains. On the other side perhaps, there would be no men. There could be no better time. Already the hollow gorges were be- ginning to brim with blue -grey sha- dows and he would be taking the worst of the climb in the cool of the even- ing. So Alcatraz gave himself to the climb. It was bitter work. Had he dropped a few miles south across the foothills he would have found the road to the Jordan ranch climbing up the Eagles with leisurely swinging curves, but the slopes just above him were heart- breaking, and Alcatraz began to re- alize in an hour that a mountainside from a distance is a far gentler thing than the same slope underfoot. It was the heart of twilight before he came to the middle of his climb and stepped onto a nearly level shoulder some acres in compass. Here he stood for a moment while the muscles, cramped from climbing, loosened a- gain and he looked down at the work he had already accomplished. It was a dizzy fall to the lowlands. The big foothills were mere dimples on the earth and limitless plain moved east towards darkness. The stallion breath- ed deep of the pure mountain air, contented. All his old life lay low beneath him in a thicker air and in a deeper night. He had climbed out of it to a lonely height, perhaps, but a free one. The wind, coming off the mountain top, curled his tail along his flank. He turned and put his head into it, al- ready refreshed for more climbing. There was a strange scent in that wind, a rank, keen odor that would have stopped him instantly had be been wiser in the life of the wilder- ness. As it was, he trotted on through a shirting of shrubbery and on the verge of a clearing was stopped by a snarl that rolled out of the ground at his feet. Then he saw a dead deer on the ground and over it a great tawny creature. One paw lay on the flan;: of its prey; the bloody muzzle was just above. There is no greater coward than the puma. Ordinarily she would have hesitated before attacking the grown horse, but the surprise made her des- perate. She sprang even as Alcatraz whirled for flight, and in whirling he saw that there was no escape from the leap of this monster with the yawning teeth. He kicked high and hard, eleven hundred pounds of sea- se'.-•:uc': eseccntrated in the rive. The blow would have smashed in the side of a bull. One hoof glanc- ed off, but the other struck fair and full between the eyes of the mountain - lion. The great cat spun backwards, screeching, but Alcatraz saw no more than the fall. He fled up the moun- tain with fear of death lightening his strides, regardless of footing, crash- ing and through underbrush, and came to the end of his hysterical flight at the crest of the slope. There he paused, shaking and weak but the mountain top was bare of covert, and scanning it eagerly through the treacherous moonlight he saw there was no immediate danger. Down the Western slopes he saw a fairyland for horses. Far beyond rose a second range nearly as lofty as the peak on which he stood, but in be- tween tumbled rolling ground, a dreamy panorama in the moonshine. One feature was clear, and that was a broad looping of silver among the hills, a river with slender tributaries dodging swiftly down to it from either side. Alcatraz looked with a swell- ing heart, thinking of the white-hot deserts which he had known all his life. The wind which lifted his mane and cooled his hot body carried up, also, the delicious fragrance of the evergreens and it seemed to Alcatraz that he had come in view of a prom- ised land. Surely he had dreamed of it on many 'a day in burning, dusty corrals or in oven -like sheds. The descent was far less precipitous th*:0 eilll!(4 R Illateaur r11 t vY lie1"e tains: bloke of t i 14"..A pf foothills,.` thee ist4Ulpfi eta, I si 8181 4y rest. Ile niix1:1le4 . a, f9W ntl4plx h u it grass growehing 11 AAd, . ft pn :skip edge. `pf a watersoaarae, WWded to the I nees in a Atii1 po i and hIettod apt 4e star..imagea with the disturkan9e of his drinking, and Oxen ;went,)a+els onto a ldlltop to sleep,. It was full day before he rose axed started on again, and to keep his strength for the next stage of the journey, he ate busily ilrst on the lee side of a hill where the grass • was thickest and tenderest. Between mouthfuls he raised his head to gaze down on his new-found land. It was a, day of clouds, thin sheetings and ense cumulus masses sweeping on the west wind and breaking against the mountains. Alcatraz could not see the crests over which he had climbed the night before, so thick were those breaking' ranks of clouds, but the pla-. teeu beneath him was dotted with yel- low sunshine and in the day it filled to the full the promise of the moon- lit night. He saw wide stretches of meadow; he saw hills sharpsided and smootiay rolling --places to climb with labor and places to gallop at ease. I3�e saw streams that promised drink at will; he saw clumps and groves of trees for shelter from sun or storm. All that a horse could will was here, beyond imaginings. Alcatraz lifted his beautiful head and neighed across the lowlands. There was no answer. His kingdom silently awaited his coming se he struck out at a sharp pace. The run of the day 'before, in place of stiffen- ing him, had put him in racing trim and he went like the wind. He was in playful mood. He danced and shied as each cloud shadow struck him, a dim figure in the shade but shining red -chestnut in sun patches. On ev- ery hand he saw dozens of places where he would have stopped, willing- ly had not more distant beauties lur- ed him on. There were hills whose tops would serve him as watch tow- ers in time of need. There were mea- dows of soft soil where the grass grew long and rank and others where it was a sweeter and finer growth; but to file them away in his mind. But who could remetmber single jewels in a great treasure? He was like a child' chasing butterflies and continu- ally lured from the pursuit of one to that of another still brighter. So he came in his kingly progress to the first blot on the landscape, the first bar, the first hindrance. Sinuous and swift curving as a snake it twisted over hilltops and dipped across hollows, three streaks of silver light one above the other, and endless. The ears of Alcatraz flattened. He knew barb -wire fences of old and he knew they meant man and domination of man. The scars of whip and spur stung him afresh. The old sullen hatred rose in him. Those three elusive lines of light were stron- ger than he, he knew, just as the frail body of a man contained a mys- terious strength far greater than his. He turned his head across the wind and galloped beside the new -strung fence for ten breathless minutes. Then he paused, panting. Still running end- less before him and behind was the fence and now he saw a checking of similar fences across the meadows to his right. More than that, he saw a group of fat cattle browzing, and just beyond were horses in a pasture. Alcatraz slipped backwards and sideways till he was out of sight and then galloped over the hill until he came to a grove of trees at the top. Here he paused to continue his exam- ination from shelter. The fence was the work of man and far off to the left out of a grove of trees, rose the smoke which spoke of the presence of man himself. The chestnut shivered as though he were shaking cold water off his hide, and then unreasoning fury gripped im. For here was his para- dise, his Promised Land, pre-empted by the Great Enemy! He stayed for a long moment gaz- ing, and then turned reluctantly and fled like one pursued back by the way he had come. He got beyond the fence in the course of half an hour, but still he kept on. He began to feel that is long as he galloped on land which was pleasant to him it would be pleasant to man also. So he kept steadily on his way leaping the brooks. Into the river he cast him - ;:elf and swam to the farther shore. ']'here was an instant change beyond that hank. The valley opened like a fan. The handle of it was the green, well -watered plateou into which he had first descended, -but now it spread id, raw colored desert, cut up by rag- ged hills here and there, and extend- irg on either ,side to mountains pur- ple -blue with distance. With the water dripping from his belly, Alcaty.a1 twinked a farewell glance to 'the green country behind him and set his face towards the des- ert. It was not so hard to leave the pleasant meadows. Now that he knew they were man -owned there was a taint in their beauty, and here on the sands of the desert with only dusty hunch -grass to eat and muddy water - holes to drink from, he was at least free from the horror .of the enemy. He kept on fairly steadily, nibbling in the bunch -grass as he went, now trotting a little, now cantering light - le across a stretch barren of forage. So he came, just after noonday, down- wind from the scent of horses. IHris own kind, yet. he was worried, for he connected horses inevitably with the thought of man. Nevertheless he decided to explore, and coming warily over a rise of ground he saw in the hollow beyond, a whole troop of horses without a man in sight. He was too wise to jump to conclusions but slipped back from his watch -post and ran in a long semi -circle about the herd, but having made out that there was no cowpuncher nearby, he came back to his original place of vantage and resumed his observa- tions. A beautiful black stallion wandered up -wind from the rest and another, younger horse, was on the other side of the herd. Between was a ragged- ly assembled group of mares old and young, with leggy yearlings, deer - footed colts, and more than one time- worn stallion. It was a motley as- sembly. The colors ranged from pie- bald to grey and there was a great diversity in stature. Presently the ti'ktappr� p tttr k;'1+ ..loatrAZ w,as he01 St he; two' together, ext 140.$0.ja stallions Werg 0.4riol4S, what should they :be guald1u in the broad lightof. day. ,rf terrible destroyervuhsr hunt ' at noon as at mjdnight•- m!a !! ation carne to Alcatraz. The cfas'<r r encs of color and stature, the .n kempt'manes and .tails, the wild '040,a: were all telling a single _story, :naw These were not servants to man : nd; since they were not his servants they: must be enemies, for that was the•'. law of the world. The , 'great ;enemy dominated, and where he could not dominate he. killed. And the herd fear- ed the same power whieh Alcatraz feared; instantly they became to him brothers and sisters, and he stepped boldly into• view. The result was startling. 'From the hill top the black stallion whinnied shrill and short and in a twinkling the whole group was in motion scur- rying north. Alcatraz looked in won - dee and saw the black fall in behind the rest and range across the rear biting the flanks of older horses who found it difficult to keep the hot pace. With this accomplished and when the herd was stolidly compacted before his driving, the black skirted around the whole group and with a magnifi- cent spurt of running placed) himself in the lead. He kept his place easily, a strong galloping grey mare at his hip, and from time to time tossed his head to the side to take stock of his followers. And so they dipped` out of sight beyond the next swell of ground. Alcatraz recovered from his amaze- ment to start in pursuit. This was a mystery worth solving. Moreover, the moment he made sure that these were net man -owned creatures they had become inexplicably dear to him and as they disappeared his heart grew heavy. His running gait car- ried him quickly in view. They had slackened in their flight a little but as he have in sight again they took the alarm once more, the foals first rushing to the front and then the whole herd with flying manes and tails blown straight out. It was a goodly sight to Alcatraz. Moreoiver, his heart leaped strangely, as it always did when he saw horses in full gallop. Perhaps they were striving to test his speed of foot be- fore they admitted him to their com- pany. In that case the answer was soon given. He sent his call after hem, bidding them watch a real horse run, then overtook them in one dizzy burst of sprinting. His rush carried him not only up to them but among them. Two or threeyoung- sters swerved aside with frightened snorts, but as he came up behind a laboring mare she paused in her flight to let drive with both heels. Alcatraz barely escaped the danger with a side step light as a dancer's and shortened his gallop. He could not punish the mare for her impudence; besides, he needed time to rearrange his thoughts. Why should they flee from a companion who intended no harm? It was a great puzzle. In the meantime, keep- ing easily at the heels of the wild horses, he noted that they were hold- ing their pace better than any cow- ponies he had ever seen running. From the oldest mare to the youngest foal they seemed to have one speed afoot. A neigh from the black leader made the herd scatter on every side like fire in stubble. Alcatraz halted to catch the meaning of this new man- euver and saw the black approaching at a high-stepping trot as one de termined to explore a danger but ready to instantly flee if it seemed a serious threat. His gaze was fixed not on Alcatraz but on the far hori- zon where the hills became a blue mist rolling softly against the sky. He seemed to make up his mind, pres- ently, that nothing would follow the chestnut out of the distance and he began to move about Alcatraz in a rapid gallop, constantly narrowing his ci rcle. Alcatraz turned constantly to meet him, whinnying a friendly greeting but the black paid not the slightest heed to these overtures. At length he came to a quivering stand twenty yards away, head up, ears back, a very statue of an angry and proud horse. Obviously it was a challenge, but Alcatraz was too happy in his new-found brothers to think of battle. He ducked his head a little and paw- ed the ground lighly, a horse's age- old manner of expressing amicable intentions. But there was nothing am- icable in the black leader. He reared a little and came down lightly en his forefeet, his weight gathered on his haunches as though he were preparing to charge, and at this umnistable evi- dence of ill -will, Alcatraz snorted and grew alert. If it came to fighting he was more than at home. He was a master. More than one corral gate he had cunningly worked ajar, and more than one flimsy barn wall he had broken clown with his leaning shoulder, and more than one fence he had leaped to get at the horses beyond. With anger 1 9 5: CHEW rising in him he took stock of'the ponent. The black lacked a goodinch of his own height but in substance.. more than made up for the deficiency. He was a stalwart eight-year old, muscled like a Hercyl€s, with plenty of 'bone to stand his weight; and hi' eyes, glittering through the tangle of forelock, gave him an air of savage cunning. Decidedly here was' a foe- man worthy of his steel, thought Al- catraz. He looked about him. There stood the mares and the horses rang- ed in a loose semi -circle, waiting and .. watching; only the colts ignorant of what was to come, had begun to frolic together or bother their mothers with a savage pretense of battle. Alcatraz saw one solid old bay topple her off- spring with a side -swing of her head. She wanted an unobstructed view of the fight. (Continued next week.) A Stratford boy was severely burp- ed when his trousers mysteriously burst into flames. "Be jabers," com- mented Pat, "if he'd been a Scotch - man he'd have been kilt entirely." m * r• A ten -piano recital, recently given n Toronto, was described by a head- ine writer as being "more than a cir- us." Perhaps he meant more than a >urplus. Moth -Proofing Woollens. A solution of one pound of alum to four quarts ofwater will be found to be an absolute preventive. ii FWHEN IN TORONTO Make Your Home HOTEL WAVERLEY SPADINA AVE. and COLLEGE ST. E. R. Powell, Prop. 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