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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1931-07-10, Page 7li alfa t�'L rf,1 u' Aibdominal Ity write.. once Specialists, ford, Ont. i931.. i UPTURE S'PECIA 4ST .• . e, Varicocele, Vartwee Veing,. Weakuless, Spinal Deform- Consultation free Cali or., J. G. SMITH, British App11- 15 Downie St„ Stmt. 320.2.62 .1 LEGAL Phone No. 91 JOHN J. HUGGA.RD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public, Etc. Beattie Bleck = - Seadort'b, Ont. • R. S. H4.YS Barrister, Solicitor, Conveyaneer and Notary Public. Solicitor for the Dominion Bank. Office in rear of the Dominion Bank, Seaforth. 'Money to Wan. BEST & BEST Barristers, Solicitors, Conveyan- cers and Notaries Public, Etc. Office In the Edge Building, opposite The Expositor Office. 1 VET • ERINARY r' JOHN GRIEVE, Y.S. Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin- ary College. All disease of domestic animal's 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 - forth. A. R. CAMPBELL, V.S. Graduate of Ontario Veterinary College, University of Toronto. All diseases of domestic animals treated by the most modern principles. Charges reasonable. Day or night calls promptly attended to. Office on Kali Street, 'Hensel), opposite Town Wall Phone` 116. s MEDICAL DR. E. J. R. FORSTER Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Graduate in Medicine, University of r'oronto. Late assistant New York Ophthal- mnlei and Aural Institute, Moorefield's Bye and Golden Square Throat Hos- *ale, London, Eng. At Commercial Rotel, Seafoxth, third Monday in saach month, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. W Waterloo Street, South, Stratford. II DR. W. C. SPROAT Graduate of Faculty of Medicine, University of Western Ontario, Lon - Non. Member of College of Physic- ians and Surgeons of Ontario. Office In Aberhart's Drug Store, Main St., Seaforth. Phone 90. DR. R. P. I. DOUGALL Honor graduate of Faculty of Medicine and Master of Science, Uni- versity of Western Ontarip, London. Member of College of Physicians and Burgeons of Ontario. Office 2 doors seat of post office. Phone 56, Hensall, Ontario. 3004 tf DR. A. NEWTON-BRADY Bayfield. Graduate Dubliny.University, Ire- land. Late Extern Assistant Master Rotunda Hospital for Women and Children, Dublin. Office at residence lately occupied by Mrs. Parsons. Hours: 9 to 10 a.m., 6 to 7 p.m., Sundays, 1 to 2 p.m. 2866-26 a DR. F. J. BURROWS Office and residence Goderich Street, bast 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. 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AUCTIONEERS . f IITAMAS AROWN Licensed auctioneer for the counties e2 Huron and Perth. Correepondeaieo arrangements for gale dates can be made by calling The Exposit It Office Seaforth. Chm' arges oder'ate, a n d satisfaction guaranteed. Phone 302, •t iY li !gi ALCATRA By Max Brand (Continued from last week) They gaped at him. They were young enough, most of them, and lone- ly and romantic enough, to have look- ed on Marianne with a tort of sad longing which$ their sense of humor kept from being anything more aspir- ing. But to think that she had given her heart so suddenly and so freely to this stranger was a shock. Hervey reaped the harvest of their alarmed glances 'with a vast inward content. Every look he met was an incipient gun levelled at the head of Red Jim. "Didn't make no bones about it," he said, "she plumb begged for him. Well boys, she ain't going to get hila. I think too much of old man Jordan to let his girl run off with a man -killing vagabond like this Perris. He's good looking and he talks dead easy. That's what's turned the trick. I guess the rest of you would back me up?" The answer was a growl. "I'll go bust his neck," said Little Joe furiously. "One of them heart- breakers, I•figure." "First thing," said..the foreman, "is to seethat she'dari't 'get to him. If she does, she'll surd run off with him. But she's easy kept from that. Joe, you and Shorty watch the hoss cor- rals to -night, will you? And don't let her get through to a hoss by talk- ing soft to you." They vowed that they would be adamant. They vowed it with many oaths. t In fact, the rage of the cow- punchers was steadily .growing. Red Perris was more than a mere insolent interloper +who had dared to scoff at the banded powers of the Valley of Eagles. He was far worse. He was the most despicable sort of sneak and thief for he was trying to steal the heart and ruin the life of a girl. They had looked upon the approaching con- flict with Perris as a bitter pill that must be swallowed for the sake of the Valley of the Eagles outfit. They looked upon it, from this moment, as a religious duty from which no one with the name of a man dared to shrink. Little Joe and Shorty at once started for the corral. The others gathered around the foreman for fur- ther details, but he waved them away and retired to his own bunk. For he never used the little room at the end of the building which was set aside for the foreman. He lived and slept and ate among his cowpunchers and that was one reason for his hold over them. At his bunk, he produced writing'. materials and scribbled hastily. "Dear Jordan, "Hell has busted loose. "I played Perris with a long rope. I gave him a week because Miss Jor- dan asked me to. But at the end of the week he still wasn't ready to go. Seems that he's crazy to get Alcatraz. Talks about the horse like a drunk talking about booze. Plumb disgust- ing. But when I told him to go to- night, he up and said they wasn't en- ough men in the Valley to throw him off the ranch. I would of taken a fall out of hint for that, but Miss Jor- dan stepped in and kept me away from him. "Afterwards I had a talk with her. She begged me not to go after Per- ris because he would fight and that meant a killing. I told her I had to do what I'd said I'd do. Then she busted out and told me that she lov- ed Perris. 'Seemed to think that would keep me from going after Per- ris. She might of knowed that it was the very thing that would make me hit the trail. I'm not going to stand by and see a skunk like Perris run sway with your girl while you ain't on the ranch. "I've just given orders to a couple of the boys to see that she don't get a horse to go out to Perris. To- morrow or the next day I'll settle his hash. "This letter may make you think that you'd better come back to the ranch. But take my advice and stay off. I can handle this thing better while you're away. If you're here you'll have to listen to a lot of beg- ging and crying. Come back in a week and everything will be cleared up. "Take it easy and don't worry none. I'm doing my best for you and your daughter, even if she don't know it. "Sincerely, OSCAR KLOPP Horror Gradna'be Carey Janes' Na- tional School for Auct3oneering, Chi- cago. ,Special course taken In Pure Bred Live Stock, Real Estate, Mer- chandise and Farm •Sales. Rates in keeping with prevailing market. Sdt- tsfaction asea a Omar Oscar Klapp, lOQPhene: 18-98. 1 - 6 • . - , s , • R. T. LUKER Licensed anetioxueee for the of Huron. Sales attended o 917 31111% lam of the'®ounty. 'Seven es - valence in Manitdbe and lbab se - wan. Terme reaeosable, Maas 116 r 11 llhceber, Centralia P.O., 8,11. NO. 1. positor O left promptly atWOad to. e k 110111.1.11 is apt to be pretty much like a party with a wild -cat. You can thank your stars you'll be on the road when it comes off!" And Slim had sense enough to nod in agreement. • CHAPTER XX THE TRAP SHUTS In one matter Lew Hervey had act- ed none too quickly. Shorty and Lit- tle Joe arrived at the corral in time to -find Marianne in the very act of leading out her pony. They told her firmly and gently that the horse must go back, and when she defied them, they astonished her by simply' remov- ing her hand from the lead -rope and taking the horse away. In vain she stormed and threatened. In vain, at length, she broke into tears. Either of them would have given an arm to serve her. But in fact they consider- ed they were at that moment render- ing the greatest service possible. They were salving her from herself. She fled back to the house again, finally, and threve herself face down on her bed in an agony of dread, and helplessness, and shame. Shame be- cause from Little Joe's brief remarks she gathered that Hervey had already spread the news of her confession. But shame and fear were suddenly forgot- ten. She found herself sitting wide- eyed on the edge of the bed repeating over and over in a shaking voice "I have to. get there! I have to get there!" But how utterly Hervey had tied her hands! She could not budge to warn Perris or to join him! The long night wore away with Marianne crouched at the window graining her eyes towards the corrals. Night was the proper time for such a thing as the murder, of Red Perris. They would not dare, she felt, for all their numbers, to face him in the hon- est sunshine. So she peered eagerly towards the shadowy outlines of the barns and sheds until at length a wan moon rose and gave her blessed light. Bot no one approached the corrals from the bunkhouse, and at length, when the dawn began to grow, she fell asleep. It was a sleep filled with nightmares and before the sun was well up she was awake again, and at watch. Mid-morning came, yet still none of the men rode out to their ordinary work. There could be only one mean- ing. They were held back to join the expedition. They were at this very moment, perhaps, cleaning their guns in the bunkhouse. Noon brought no action. They trooped cheerfully to- wards the house in answer to the noon gong. She heard them laughing and jesting. What cold-blooded fiends they were to be able to conduct them- selves in this manner when they in- tended to do a murder before the day had ended! And indeed, it was only for this meal they seemed to have planned to wait. Before the afternoon was well he - gun, there was saddling and mounting and then Hervey, Little Joe, Shorty, Macintosh, and Scotty climbed onto their mounts and jogged out towards the east. Her heart leaped with only a momentary hope when she saw the direction, but instantly she undeceiv- ed herself. They would, of course, swing north as soon as they were well out of sight from the house, and then they would head for the shack on the mountain -side, aiming to reach it at about the fall of twilight. And what could she do to stop them? She ran out through the patio and to the front of the house. The dust - cloud already had swallowed the indi- vidual forms of the riders. And turn- ing to the left, she saw McGuire and Hastings lolling in full view near the corrals. With consummate tact, Her- vey had chosen those of his men who were the oldest, the hardest, the least liable to be melted by her persuasions. Moaning, she turned back and look- ed east. The dust cloud was dwind- ling every minute. And without hope, she cast another glance towards the corrals. Evidently, the men agreed that it was unnecessary for two of them to stay in the heat of the sun to prevent her from getting at a horse. Hastings had turned his back and was strolling towards the bunkhouse. Mc- Guire was perched on a stump rolling a cigarette and grinning broadly to- wards her. He would be a hard man to handle. But at least there was more hope thanbefore. One man was not so hard to manage as two, each shaming the other into indifference. She went slowly towards McGuire, turning a- gain to see the dust -cloud roll out of view over a distant hill. In that cloud of dust, Hervey kept the pace down to an easy dog -trot. From olid -afternoon until evening - for he did not intend to expose him- self primarily and his mien in the sec- ond place, to the accurate gun of Red Jim in broad daylight -was a com- fortalfle stretch in which to make the journey to the shack -on the mountain- side, Like a good general, he kept the minds of his followers from grow- ing tense by deftly turning the talk, on the way, to other topics, as they swung off the east trail towards G4os- terville and journeyed due north over the rolling foothills. There was only one chance in three that he could have deceived the girl by his 'first direc- tion, but that chance was worth tak- ing. He had a wholesome respect for the mental powers of Oliver Jordan's daughter and he by no means wished to drive her frantic in the effort to get to Perris with her warning. Of course it would be impossible for her to wheedle McGuire and Hastings in- to letting her have a horse, but is she shoulder-- He1'e Hervey abruptly turned his thoughts in a new direction. The old one led to results too unpleasant. "LBW HERVEY." This letter, when completed, he sur- veyed with considerable complacence. If ever a man were being hound to another by chains of inseparable grat- itude, Oliver Jordan was he! Indeed, the whole affair was working out so smoothly, so perfectly, that Hervey felt the thrill of an artist sketching a large and harmonious coniposition. In the first place, Red Jim Perris, whom he hated with unutterable fer- vor because the younger man filled him with dread, wo%ld be turned, as Hervey expressed it, "into buzzard food." And Hervey would be praised for the act! Oliver Jordan, owing the preservation of his daughter from a luckless marriage to the vigilance of his foreman, could never regret the life -contract which be had drawn up. No doubt that contract, as it stood, could never hold water in the law. But Jordan's gratitude would make it proof. Last of all, and best of all, when Perris Vas disposed of, Marianne wopld never be able to remain on the ranch. She would go to forget her sorrow among her school friends in the East. And Hervey, „Undisputed lord and master of the ranch, could bleed it white ix half a dozen years and leave it a mere husk, overladen with mortgages. No wonder a song was in the heart of the foreman as he sealed the letter He gave the 'message to Slim and add- ed directions. • "You'll be missing from the party," he said, as he handed over the letter "but the party we have with Perris In the meantime, as they wore out the miles and the day, turned towards sunset time, the cheery conversation which Little Joe had led among the riders fell away.. They were coming too close to the time and place of ac- tion. What that action must be was cniy too easy to gue.45. It was simp- ly impossible to imagine Red Perris submitting to an girder to leave. He had already defied their assembled forces once. He would certainly make the attempt again. Of course odds of five to one were too great for even the most courageous and skilful fight- er to face. _But he might do terrible damage before the end. And it was a solemn procession which wound up the hillside through the darkening trees. Until at length, at a word from Hervey, they dis- mounted, tethered their horses here and there where there was sufficient grass to occupy them and keep them from growing nervous and neighing, and then started on again on foot. At this point Hervey took the lead. For that matter, he had never been lacking in sheer animal courage, and now he wound up the path with his long colt in his hand, ready to shoot, and shoot to kill. Once or twice small sounds made him pause, un- easy. But his progress was fairly steady until he came to the edge of the little clearing Where the shack stood. • There was no sign of life about it. The shack seemed deserted. Thick darkness filled its doorway and the window, though the rest of the clear- ing was still permeated, with a faint afterglow. of the sunset. ' "He ain't here," said Little Joe softly, as he came to the side of the watchful foreman. "Don't be too sure," said the other. "I'd trust this Perris and take about as many chances with him as I would with a rattler in a six -by -six room. Miaybe he's in there playing possum. Waiting for us to make a break across the clearing. That'd be fine for Red Jim, damn his heart!" Little Joe peered back at the anxious faces of the others, as they came up the path one by one. He did not like to be one of so large a party held up by a single man. In fact, Joe was a good deal of a warrior himself. He was new to the Valley of the Eagles, but there were other parts of the mountain desert where his fame was spread broadcast. There were even places where sundry officers of the law would have been glad to lay hands upon him. "Well," quoth Joe, "we'll give him a chance. If he ain't a fighting man, but just a plain murderer, we'll let him show it," and so saying, he step- ped boldly out from the sheltering darkness of the trees and strode to- wards the hut, an immense and awe- some figure in the twilight. Lew Hervey followed at once. It would not do to he out -dared by one of his crew in a crisis as important as this. But for all his haste the long strides of Joe hacl brought him to the door of the hut many yards in the lead and he disappeared inside. Presently his big voice boomed: "He ain't here. Plumb vanished." They gathered in the hut at once. "Where's he gone?" asked the fore- man, scratching his head. "Maybe he ain't acting as big as h� talked," said Shorty. "Maybe he'd slid over the mountains." "Strike a light, somebody," com- manded the foreman. , Three or four sulphur matches were scratched at the sante moment on trousers made tight by cocking the knee up. Each snatch glimmered through sheltering fingers with dull blue light, for a moment, and then as the sulphur was exhausted and the flame caught the wood, the hands op- ened and directed shafts of light here act but only overmastering gratitude Om, and ihnall'y iTeilreY , ..... Otar t° on.," he Raid. d ten "Ton, boys ride aalonn. I'll gave plaeee :another Wk." AS•a•nmatter of fact, he mer* wish- ed tette alone, and he wae dimly plea'sr ed as they sauntered of through the trees, their voices coming more and more vaguely hack to him, until the far-off rattle of hoof's began, The last he heard of then wassa high-pitoherl laugh. .It irritated Hervey. It floated back to him thin and small, like mock- ery, And indeed he had failed mis- erably. How great was his failure he could hardly estimate in a moment and he needed quiet to sum up his losses. First of all, he had hopelessly alien- ated the girl and while offending her he had failed to serve the rancher. For Red Jim Perris, driven by force from the ranch, would surely return again to exact payment in full for the treatment he had received. The whole affair was a hopeless muddle. He had staked everything on his ability to trap Perris and destroy him, thereby piling upon the ,,shoulders of Oliver Jordan a burden of gratitude which the rancher could never repay. But now that Perris was foot -loose he be- came a danger imperilling not only Jordan but Hervey himself. The trap had closed and closed on nothing. The future presented to Hervey stark ruin. So enthralling was the gloom of these thoughts that the foreman did not hear the thudding hoofs of a horse which trotted up through• the trees. Not until horse and rider appeared in the clearing was Hervey roused and then inthe first glance by the size and the tossing head of the approach- ing pony, he recognized the horse or Red Perris! CHAPTER XXI THE BATTLE He had time to burst from the but and race across the clearing through the darkness which would surely shel- ter him from the snap -shot of even such an expert as Red Jim, but in mind and body Hervey was too par- alyzed by'the appearance of his en- emy to stir until he saw Perris slip from his horse, slumping to the earth after the fashion of a weary man, and drag off the saddle. He paid no at- tention to tethering his pony, but started towards the shack, downheart- ed, heavy of foot. Hervey had gained the door of the shack in the interim, and there he crouched at watch, terrified at the thought of staying till the other en- tered, still more terrified at the idea of bolting across the open clearing. He could see Perris clearly, in outiina for just behind him there was a rift in the circle of trees which fences the clearing and Red Jim Was thrown into somewhat bold relief against the blue -black of the night sky far be- yond. He could even make out that a bandage circled the head of Perris and with that sight a new thought leaped into the brain of the foreman. The bandage, the stumbling walk, the downward head, were all signs of a badly injured and exhausted man. Sup- pose he were to attack Perris, single- handed and destroy him? The entire problem would be solved! The re- spect of his men, the death]ess••1'ati- tude of Jordan .were in the grip of his hand. His fingers locked around the butt of his gun and yet he hesitated to draw. One could never be sure. How fast, how lightning fast his mind plunged through thought after thought -image after flocking image, while Red Jim made the last dragging steps towards the door of the shack! If he drew, Perris, despite his bent head might catch the glimmer of steel and draw and fire at the glance of the gun. There were tales of gun ex- perts doing more remarkable feats, Wild Bill, in his prune, from the corner of his eye saw a man draw a white handkerchief, thought it a gun, whirled on his heel, and killed a harm- less stranger. He who stops to think can rarely act. It was true of Hervey. Then Perris, at the very door of the hut, dropped the flopping saddle to the ground andethe foreman saw that no holster swung at the hip of his man. .Toy leaped in him. There was no thought for the cruel cowardice of his and there. The whole Cabin was dim- ly illumined for a moment while man after man thrust his burning match towards something he had discovered, "Here's his blankets. All mussed up " "Here's "•Here's stove." They lighting spoke, "No use, boys," he declared. "Per- ris has hopped out. Wise gent, at that. He seen the game was too big for him. And I don't blame him for quitting. Ain't nothing here that he'll conte after. Them bouts are wore out. The blankets and the cooking thing he got from the ranch. Look at the way the blankets are piled up. Shows he quit in a rush and started away. When a gent figures on corning back he tidies things up a little when he leaves in the morning. No, boys, he's gone. Main thing to answer is: If he ain't left the valley why ain't he here in his shack now?" "Maybe he's hunting that damn hoss?" suggested the foreman, but his voice was weak with uncertainty "Hunting Alcatraz after • dark?" queried Little Joe. a pair of hoots." the frying pan right on the wandered hero and there, new matches until Little Joe that the enemy should be thus deliv- ered helpless into his hand, Throug'1 the split -part of a second that thrill passed tingling through and through him, then he shouted: "Perris!" and at the same instant whipped out the gun and fired pointblank. A snake will rattle before it strikes and a dog will snarl before it bares) its teeth: instinct forced Hervey to that exulting cry and even as the gun cane into his hand •he saw Parris spin sideways. Hie fired and the figure at the door lunged down at hint. The shoulder struck Hervey in the upturn- ed face and smashed him backwards so that his hand flew out to break the force of the fall, knocked on the floor, and the revolver shot from the un- nerved fingers. If he had any hope that his bullet had gone home and that this was the fall of a dying man, it was instantly removed. Lean arms, amazingly swift, amazingly strong, coiled round him. Hands gripped at him with a clutch so powerful that the fingers burned into his flesh. And, most hor- rihla of all, Red Jim fought in uttei silence, as a bull -terrier fights when it goes for the throat. The impetus of that unexpected at- tack, half -stunned Lew Hervey. Alen the spur of terror gave him hysteri- cal strength. A hand caught at his throat and got a choking hold. He whirled his heavy body with all his might, tore lose, and broke to his feet. Stagger- ing hack to the wall, he saw Red Per- ris crouch in the door and then spring in again. Hervey struck out with all his might but felt the blow glance and then the coiling arms were around him again. Once again, in the crash- ing fall to the floor, the hold of Per- ris was broken and Hervey leaped a- way for the door yelling: "Perris - it's a mistake -for God's sake-" The catlike body sprang out of the corner into which it had been flung by Hervey as the foreman rose from the floor. As well 'attempt to elude a panther by flight! Lew whirled with a sobbing breath of despair and smashed out again with clubbed fist. There was no answer possible. The last glow of twilight was fading to deep night. The trees on the edge of the clearing seemed to grow taller and blacker each moment. Certainly if it were well-nigh impossible to hunt the stallion effectively in daylight it was sheer madness to hunt him at night. Every moment they waited in the cab- in, the certainty that Perris had left the valley grew greater. It showed in their voices, for every man had spoken softly at first as though foe fear the spirit of the inhabitant of the shack might drift near unseen end overhear. Now their words came loud disturbing and startling Hervey in the midst of his thoughts, as he continued wandering about the cabin, lighting match after Snatch, striving in vain to find something which would reawaken his hopes. But there was nothing of enough worth to induce Perris to re - a4'n'1A .l'e;as pail., d that Arijette4MI, 310 withtx,ax 'Waal have 4.dei. po,4 failing q;` *nergy, 'bul4 as -i dared not trust his arses,: knew that it was pesseIble tp' twirling grip away, to asp?'Its.' till he crashed ag ust the MO of 11 shanty, still pleading in a fear- cloned voice: "Perris, Wenn hear? - didn't mean-" r. As well appeal to a • thunder -bolt, The 'shadowy form came again, but now, surely, it was less swift and re- sistless. He was •able to leap from` the path but in dodging hislegs en- tangled in a chair and he tumbled headlong. It was well for Hervey then that his panic was not blind, but with the surety that the end was come he whirled to his knees with the chair which had felled him gripped in both hands and straight at the lunging Perris be Burled it with all his strength. The missile went home with a crash and Red "Jim slumped into a formless shadow on the floor. Only now that a chance for flight was' open to him did the strength of Hervey desert him. A nightmare weakness was in his knees so that he could hardly reel to his feet and he moved with outstretched hands to- wards the door until his toe clicked against his fallen revolver. He paused to scoop it up and turning back through the door, he realized sudden- ly that (Red Jim had not moved. The body lay spilled out where it had fal- len, strangely flat, strangely still. With stumbling fingers, the fore- man lighted a match and by that wob- bling light he saw Perris lying on his face with his arms thrown out, as a man lies when he is knocked senseless -as a man lies when he is struck dead! Yet Hervey stood drinking in the sight until his match burned his fingers. The old nightmare fear descended on him the moment the darkness dos- ed about him again. He seemed to see the limp form of collect itself and pre- pare to rise. But he fought this fan- cy away. He would stay and make light enough to examine the extent of his victory. He remembered having seen paper and wood lying beside the stove. Now he scooped it up, threw off the covers of the stole, and in a moment white smoke was pouring up from the paper -then flickering bursts of flame every one of which made the body of Per- ris .seem shuddering back to life. But presently the fire rose and Hervey could clearly see the cabin, sadly wrecked by the struggle, and the fig- ure of Perris still moveless. Even now he went with gingerly steps, the gun thrust out before him. It seemed a miracle that this tigerish fighter should have been suddenly re- duced to the helplessness of a child. Holding the gun ready, he slipped his left hand under the fallen man and after a moment, faintly but unmis- takably, he felt the beating of the heart. Let it be ended, then! 'He pressed the muzzle of the re- volver into the back of Perris but his finger refused to tighten around the trigger. No, the powder -burn would prove he had shot his man from be- hind, and that meant hanging. A tug of his left hand flopped the limp body over, but then his hands were more effectually tied than ever for the face of the unconscious man worked strangely on hint. "It's him now," thought Hervey, "or me later on." But still he could not shoot. "Help- less as a child" -why had that com- parison entered his mind? He studied the features, very pale beneath the bloody bandage which Perris has im- LONDON AND WINGHAM South. Wingham Belgrave Blyth Londesboro Clinton Brucefield Kippen Hens•all Exeter North. Exeter Mensal] Kippen Brucefield Clinton Londesboro Blyth Belgrave W-ingham C. N. R. Rost. a.m. Goderich 6.35 Holmesville 6.50 Clinton 6,58 Seaforth 7.12 St, Columban '7.18 Dublin 7.23 West. Dublin 11.241 St. Columban 11.29 Seaforth 11.40 Clinton 11.55 Holmesville 12.05 Goderich 12.20 C. P. R. TIME TA$Llt1 East, Goderich Menset McGaw Auburn Blyth Walton MoNaught Toronto Rest. Toronto McNaught Walton ......,.... Blyth Auburn ..... 11fdGaw Meneset Goderieb p.m. 2.05 2.22 2.33 2.40 3.08 3.26 3.33 3.39 3.53 ,j. 3 HOTEL - Spedit+a .Avr,nu0e0d provised-whenhe recovered firom battle with the stallion. Re was vac young terribly young. Hervey, unnerved. But supposehe let Pers, come back to his senses, wakened those insolent blue eyes, started t'hdh' sharp tongue to life -then it would he a very much easier matter to shoat. '• So Lew went to the door, took this rope from Red Jim's saddle, and with . it bound the arms of Perris to his side. Then he lifted, the hanging body -how light a weight it weal -- and placed it in a chair, where it doubled over, limp as a loosely staffed scarecrow. Hervey tossed more wood . on the fire and when he turned again, Perris was showing the first signs of returning consciousness, a twitching of his fingers. After that his senses returned with astonishing speed. In the space of a moment or two he had straightened in the chair, opened dead eyes, groan- ed faintly, and then tugged against MS bonds. It seemed that -that biting of the rope into his arm -muscles clear- ed his mind. All in an instant he was staring straight into the eyes and in- to the thoughts of Hervey with full understanding. (Continued next week.) Ever Try it?=If you think politic- ans have an easy graft, try sitting on a fence and keeping one ear to the ground. -Toronto Globe. Predicament -Income Tax Collee- tor: "I can't stand this tooth another half hour, and all the dentists around here know me!"-Fernie Free Press. Quite So -A figure of speech is a vay of talking or writing by which you say what you don't mean and yet mean what you say. -Vancouver Pro- vince. POPULAR STALLIONS The Pare Bred Clydesdale Stallion CARBROOK FLASHLIGHT [24641] Enrolment No. 1958 Approved Form 1 Will stand at his own stable, Lot 3. Con- cession 3, Hullett, for the season of 1931. Terms -58.00, T. J. McMICHAEL, Manager. 3308: 10.59 11.12 11.18' 11.27 11.58 12.16 12.2:3 12.33 12.47 p.m. 2.40 2.56 3.05 3,21 3.27 3.32 9.17 9.30 9.44 9,53 10.10 The Premium Clydesdale Stallion FAVOURITE AGAIN (24337) Enrolment No, 1961 Form A 1 Monday. -Will leave his own stable at Bruce - field, and go to the 2nd Concession of Stan- ey and south to William McKenzie's, for noon; then south 11%4 miles past Town Line and east tw..Kippen at Al, Harvey's, for night. Tuesday.-Eiast to the 10th Concession to Angus McKinnon's, for noon; then east to the Town Line to the 9th Concession to Wm. Patrick's, for night. Wednesday -East 13f miles and north to the 7th Concession to Coyne Bros.. for noon; then to Robert Doig'e for night. Thursday. -West to 'G•emmeU'a corner and north to Mill Road to G. R. Mo- Cartney's for noon; then by way of Mc - Adam's side road to the 2nd Concession and west to Carnochan Bros., for night. Friday - West by Rroadfoot's Bridge end south to the Mill Road to his own stable for might. Sat- urday --West to the 2nd Concession of Stan- ley, and north to John H. McEwan'a, for noon; then home to his own stable for night. Terms. --To insure, 615.00, payable Febru- ary lst, 1982. R. D. MURDOCK, Proprietor and Manager. oats 5.60 6,61 6.04 11.11 6.1111 6.40 •.6! 10..10 The Pure Bred Imported and Premium Percheron Stallion Form ' A 1 RAVEN [12804] Monday --Will leave his own stable, Staffa, and go south 214 miles to the 13th concession and east 2'4 miles to Hugh Dalrymple, for noon; then north 2162 and west 21,4 miles to Stella to his own stable for night Tuesday- Weat on the 8th Concession 5 miles, and north to Montgomery Patrick's, for noon; then north by way of Sproat's Brick Yard to Wm. Beattie's. McKillop. for night. Wednesday - East 11/4 miles and north 2'a_ miles to Peres, Irittle's, for noon; then north it4 miles mid west and north to Fred Searlett's, for n.JEit. Thursday -East 3% miles and south 2y miles to Gilbert Murray's. for noon: then 'east 1x/4 miles and north 11,4 miles and east to the Logan Town Line and south to Ed, Rose's, for night. Friday South 21; miles and west 1l4 miles and south to John Walsh's, for noon • then south s q. miler• and east 21,4 miles to Gray Bros., 4th Concession, of Hibbert, for night. Saturday South 114 miles and west 21', miles and south to Staffa by way of Centre Road, to his own stable, where he will remain until the following Mondaymorn- intr. Terms --413 to insure, paynhle Feb. 1st, 1982. JOHN LiVINGSTON, Proprietor and Manager. The Premium Imported Belgian Draft Stallion DE HEMEL NO. 4369 15500 Enrolment No, 2666 Premium No, 154 Form A 1 Monday --Wild leave his own stable, 1 mile north of Hensel], and go 114 miles went to second Concession, Hay ; south 9% Miles arta west to Fred Corbett's, for noon ; than north to Zurich load and west to Elmer Thiele, for night. Tuesday -West to Parr Line and north to Anson Coleman's, for noon; then north tto Varna and east 94 miles to Ulmer Webster's, for night. Wednesday -East to 2nd Concession, Stanley,, ,to William Hayter's, for noon; thence to his own stable for night. Thnraday-.Tact to Wallam Brintnell's, one mile end a quarter east of Chdselburst, for noon; thence to William Melver'g, Commotion 7, Hibbert, for night. Friday -Via 4th bon.. rv. cession, Tuoketsmith, to Alex. Wetiltce'9, for, noon; thence by way of Gemmell'- sidetead to, 2nd Concession, Tuckersraith, for night $t Robert ];dale's. Saturday ---To hio otru sto blX where be will remain until the folloaplitir• ltfonday morning. 'erkne•,-515 to ensure, payhble 'f'eb,-1, 1t MORRIS & SMILLIE, Proprietor/6, ll -