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JOHN GRIEVE, V.S.
Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin-
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tended to and charges moderate. Vet-
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and residence on Goderich Street, one
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Graduate of Ontario . Veterinary.
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DR. E. J. R. sFORSTER
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
Graduate in Medicine, University of
Toronto.
Late assistant' New. York Opthal-
mei and Aural Institute, Moorefield's
Eye and Golden Square Throat Hos-
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Hotel, Seaforth, third Monday' in
each onth, from 11 a.m. • to 3 p.m.
58. W terloo Street, South, Stratford.
• ' w • DR. W. 'C:--SPROAT_ - . _-.
Graduate of Faculty of Medicine,
University of Western Ontario, Lon-
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in Aberhart's Drug Store, Main St.,
Seaforth. Phone 90.
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Office and residence. Goderich Street,
east of the United Church, Sea -
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DR. C. MACKAY
C. Mackay, honor graduate of Trin-
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Offiee over Sines' Hardware, Main St.,
Seaforth. Phone 151.
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BY EDGAR WALLACE
(Continued from last week) ,
"You'tre a fool," be said in dis-
dain. "You've done your time, and
what have you got for it? This!'
He held up the trinket. "If I 'give
you twenty pounds for it I'm robbing
myself. .There's eight thousand
pounds' worth of good stuff behind
that tank -yours- for the taking. Af-
ter all, Johnny,'' he said, adapting a
tone of persuasion, "you've paid for
it!"
"By God, I have!" 'said the other
between his teeth. "I've' paid for it
all right!"
'Meister was thinking 'quickly, plan-
ning; cross -planning, organizing, in
that few seconds of time.
"Knock it off to -night,"' he sug-
gested and again 'Lenley hesitated.
"I'll think', about it. If you're try-
ing to shop me-"
Again Meister laughed.
"1Vfy dear fellow, I'm trying to do
you a good turn and, through you,
'your sister."
"What is the number of the house,
I've forgotten." '
Meister .knew the number well en-
ough i he forgot nothing.
"Fifty-seven, I91 give the twenty
pounds for this bracelet now."
He opened his desk, took out his
cash box and unlocked it.
"That will do to go on with." Len -
ley was still undecided; nobody knew
that better than the ,,lawyer. "I want
full value for the rest if I go after
it -or I'll find another `fence.' "
It was the one word that aroused
the lawyer to fury. ,
"'Fence'? That's not the word
to use •to me, Johnny,"
""You!'re !too , .sensitive," said his °
dciur client'
"Just •because I help you fellows
when I oughtI to be shopping you-"
The lawyer's voice trembled. "Get
another "fenbey" 'will ,.you?' Here's
your twenty." He threw the money
on t e table, and Lenley, counting
it, slipped it into his packet. "Go-
ing into the country ell? Taking
your little sister away? . Afraid of
my peculiar fascinations?"
"I'd hate to: hang for you," ",
aid
John Lenley, rising. '
"Rather have ' The Ringer hang,
eh? You think he'll come back with
allthat time ever his head, with the
gallows waiting for him? Is he a
lunatic?. IAnyway-•I'm not scared
of anything on God's Alinighr"y
earth."
He looked round quickly. The door
that led to hisroom was opening.
It was Dr. Lomond: Hackitt had
left him in the lumber room and had
forgotten that he was in the house.
The doctor was corning into the room
but stopped at the sight of the yeung
man.
"Hallo -I'm awfu' sorry. Am I
butting in on a consultation?"
"Come in, doctor -come in. This
-is ---a• friend of mine. 'Mr. Lenley."
To •Meister's surprise the doctor
nodded.
"Aye. I've just been having a wee
chat with your sister. You're just
Come 'back from the -country, haven t
you?"
"I've just come out of pr:son if
that's what you mean," said the other
bluntly, as he turned to go.
His hand was on the knob when
the door wes flung open violently
and a white-faced Hackitt appeared.
"G•uv'nor!" die crossed fearfully
to 'Meister and lowered his voice.
"There's a party to see you." • ,
"Me? Who is it?'
"They told me not " to give any
name," gasped Sam. "This party
said: 'Just say I'm from The Ring-
er'."
Meister shrank back.
"The Ringer!" said Lomond ener-
getically. "Show him up!"
"Doctor!"
But Lomond waved him to silence.
"I know what I am doing," he
said.
"Doctor! Are you made? Suppose
--suppose----"
"It's all right," said Lomond,' his
eyes on the door.
.ORAPTER XXXIV
Presently it opened, and there came
into view of the white-faced Maurice
- a slim; perfectly dressed girl, ma-
licious laughter in her eyes.
"Cora Ann!" croaked Meister.
"You've said it! Gave you all one
mean fright, eh?" She nodded con-
temptuously. , "'Hullo, doc!"
!'$Hallo, little 'bunch o.tf •trtoulble.
You genre . me heart disease!"
"Scared you, too, eh?" she scoffed.
"I want to see you, (Meister:"
His face;was still 'pallid, but he
had mastered the panic that the )tame
of The _Ringer had evoked.
"All right, my dear. Johnny!" He
looked haled at , Lenleyl. '"If you
want anything,' 'my dear boy, you
know where you can get it," he said,
and Johnny understood, and went out
of the room with one backward.
glance of curiosity at the unexpected
loveliness of the intruder.
"Get out; you!" Maurice spoke to
'Hackitt as though he, were a dog,
but the little Cockney was unabash-
ei3.
'SD+on't you talk to me like that,
Meister -Urn leaving you to -day,"
"You can go to hell," snarled
'Maurice.
"And the next time' I'm' pir•iahe'd
I'm 'going to _get another lawyer,"
said Sam loudly.
"The next time you're pinched. you
will get seven years," was the retort.
"That's why I'm going to Change
me lawyer." ,
Maurice turned on him, with a face
of fury.
"I know a na•aan like you who
thought he was clever•, He's asked
rrre to defend him at the Sessions."
"I d01141 call that clever."
"Defend him! I'd gee hien dead
first."
"And he'd be better off!" •snapAed
Sam.
Lomond and the girl ..made an in-
terested 'audience.
"That's what you get for helping
the scum!" said 'Meister when his
truculent servant had gone.
Obviously he wanted to be alone
with the girl, and Dr. Lomond, who
had good reason for returning, said
that he had left his bag upstairs in
'Meister's room, and 'made that the
excuse f -or leaving them. Maurice
waited until the door closed on the
old man before he spoke. •• „
"Whys -my dear 'Cora Ann. You're
prettier than ever. And where is
your dear husband?" asked Meister
blandly.
"I suppose you, think that because
you're alive, he's dead?"
He laughed. , •
"How clever of you! Did it take
you long to think that out?"
She was staring- round the room.
"So this is the abode of love" Sh•!
turned 'fiercely upon the lawyer. "I
never knew Gwenda-I wish to God
I had! If Arthur had :only trusted
me as he trusted you! I heard about
her suicide, poor kid, when I was on
my way to Australia, and flew back
from Naples by airplane."
"Why didn't you wire me? If I
had only known "
"Meister -you're a paltry liar!"
She went to the door through which
the doctor had passed, opened it and
listened. 'Then she came back to
Where Meister sat lighting a cigar.
"Now 'listen -that Scotch sleutiir
will be coming back in a minute."
She lowered her^voice to an intense
Whisper. "Why don't you go away
-rout of the country -go. somewhere
You can't. be found -take another
name? You're a rich man -you can
afford •to giye up -this hole!"
Maurice smiled again..
"Trying .to frighten me out of
England, eh?"
"Trying to frighten you!" The con-
tempt in her voice would have hurt
another man^ "Why, it's like, tryiries
to make a nigger black! He'll get
you, Meister! That's what I'm afraid
of. That is what I lie in bed and
think about -it's awful . . . aw-
ful . !"
"My dear little girl" -he tried tp
cheek, but she'
on her hoe
• lay his hand,
drew back -"don't worry about me."
'"You! Say, if I ,could lift my fin-
ger to save you from hell I wouldn't!
Get out of the country -it's Arthur
I want to save, not you!,Get away
--give him a chance that he wants
e' kill you."
)Maurice beamed at her.
"Ah! How ingenious! He dare
not 'come back himself, and he has
'sent you to England to get me on
the run!"
Cora's fine eyes narrowed.
"If you'Ire killed -you'll be kille.i
here! Here in this room' where you
broke the heart of his sister! You
fool!"
He shook his head.
"Not such a fool, my dear, that
I'd walk into a trap. Suppose this
man is alive: in London I'm safe -
in the'Argentine !he'd be waiting for
me. And if I went to Australia he'd
be waiting for me, and if ''l; stepped
ashore at Gape Town . . No,
no, little Cora Ann, you can't catch
me."
She -was about to say something
when she heard the door open. It
was the "Scotch sleuth";.. whatever
warning she had to deliver, must re-
main unspoken.
"Had your little talk, Cora Ann?"
asked Lomond, and in spite of her
anxiety the girl laughed.
"Now, listens doctor, • only my best
friends call me Cora Ann," she pro -
bested.
"And Pin the best friend you ever
had," said the doctor.
'Meister was in eager agreement.
IShe doesn't know who her best
friends are. I wish you'd persuade
her."
Neither gave him encouragement to
continue. He ,had the uncomfortable
feeling that he was an intruder in his
own house, and the arrival of Mary
Lenley gave him an excuse to wan-
der, to the little office alcove where
he was out of sight but not out ,of
hearing.
• "I like meeting you, Cora Ann,'
said the doctor.
She laughed.
"You're. funny."
"I've 'brought ,the smile to the
widow's eye," said Lomond unsmii•
ingly.
She shot a swift sidelong glance
at the man.
"Say, Scottie! That widow stuff -
forget it! There are times when 'I
almost wish I was -no, not that, -
but that Arthur and I had never
met." -
•He was instantly sympathetic.
"Arthur was a bad lad, eh?"
IShe sighed.
"The best in the world -but not
the kind of man who ought to have
married." "
"There isn't any other kind," said
Lomond, and then, with a cautious
look round at 'Meister: "Were ',Toe
very truth in love with him'?"
'She shrugged.
"Well=1 don't know." '
"Don't know? My dear young per-
son, you're old enough to know where
your heart is."
' "It's in my mouth most tunes,"
she said, and he shook his head.
"Ye poor wee devil! Still, you
followed him to Australia, my dear?
"Sure 'I did. But that kind of
honeymoon takes a whole lot of ro-
mance out of marriage. You don't
have to be a doctor to know that."
He bent over her.
"Why don't you dr p him, Cora
Ann?. That heart of yours is going
to wear ,away from 'being. in your
mouth all the"tiine."
'"Forget him?" Lomond nodded.
"Do you think he wants me to for-
get hire'?"
•"I don't 'know," said Lomond. . `ale
any .,lean worth what you are suffer-
ing? Sooner or later he will be
caught. :The long a'tr of the law
Will • stretch out and;take him, and
the long leg of the law will boot hint
into prison!"
`'You don't say!"
She lookedround to where Meister
was sitting by Mary Lenley, and her
ton grew 'very earnest.
"See here, Dr. Lomond, if you
want to know -my ,ginger man is in
danger, but I''m not scared of the
police. Shalt I tell you something?"
"`Is it fit for me to hear?" he ask-
ed..
"That'll worry me!" she answered)
sarcastically. "I'm going to be frank
with you, doctor. I've a kind of h'µneh
there is only one man in God's wide
world that will ever .catch Arthur
Milton -and that maze` is you!"
CHAPTER XXXV
Lomond met' her eyes.
"You're just daft!" he said, .
"And why?"
"A • Pretty girl like you-heokine
on to a shadow -the best part of
your., life wasted."
"You don't say!" •
"Now, you know it's so, don't you?
IVs a dog}'s life. How do you.
sleep?" '
".Sleep!" She threw out her arms
in a gesture of despair. "Sleep!"
"Exactly. You'll be a nervous.
wreck in a year. •Is it worth it?"
"What are you trying out?" she
as'ke'd breathlessly. "What's your
game?".
"I'll tell you -shall I? I wonder
if you'll be shocked?"
IShe was looking at him intently.
"Wouldn't it be a good idea for
you to go away and forget all albout
The 'Ringer? Cut him. out of your
mind. Find another -interest." He
laughed. "You'' think I'm 'being un-
pleasant, don't you? But I'm only
thinking of you. 'I'm- thinking of
all the hours you're waiting for some-
thing to happen -with your heart' ir_
your mouth."
'Sud'denly she sprang -Id her feet.
"Listen! You've got some reason
behind all this!" she breathed.
'"I swear to you-"
"You have -you have!" She was'
in a fury. "You're a man -I know
what men. are.. See here -I've put
thyself in hell. and I'm ,sta•-ing put!"
She picked up her .bag from the
table.
"I've givers you your chance," said
Lomond, a little. sadly.
"My chance, Dr. Lomond! When
Arthur `.Milton says 'L'm.,tired of you
-I'm sick of you -you're out,' then
I'll go. My • way -not your way.
You've'given me my chance-Gwenda
Milton's chance! That's a hell of a
chance, and I'm not taking it!"
Before he could speak she had flung
from the room.
Meister- bad been watching, and
now he came slowly to where the
doctor was standing.
• "You've upset Cora Ann."
' "Aye," nodded Lomond, as he took
pp his hat and bag thoughtfplly.
"Aye."
"Women are very strange," anus •
ed 'Meister. "I rather think he
likes you, doctor."
"You think so?" Lomond's man-
ner and 'voice were absent. "I won-
der if she'd come out and have a bit
of dinner with me?"
"How marvellous it would be if
she liked you well 'enough to tell you
a little more about The Ringer,
suggested Maurice slyly.
"That's just what I was thinking.
Do you think she would?!"
- Maurice was amused, videiitly
there was no"age•^limit to men's van-
ity. "
"You never know what women will
do when they're in love -eh, doctor?"
Dr. Lomond did not reply4 he went
out of the roomy. counting the silver
ih his hand.
Iij eister's head was clear_ now.
J nay was a real menace ' .
he had threatened, and a 'young;, fool
like that would fulfil his threat, un-
less . . . Would he be mad en-
ough to go to Camden Crescent that
night? From Johnny his mind went
to Mary. His love for the girl had
been a tropical growth. Now, when
at -seemed that she was to be taken
from him, she had become the most
desirable of women., He sat down
at the piano, • and at the first notes
of the "Liebestraum," the girl en-
tere'd.
'He was for the moment oblivious
of her presence, and it was through
a cloud of dreams that her voice
brought him to realities.
"Maurice.
He 'looked .at her with unseeing
eyes.
"Maurice."
The music stopped.
"You realize that I can't stay
here now that Johnny's bath?" she
was saying.
"Oh, nonsense, my dear!" His
tone had that fatherly quality which
he could assume with such effect.
"He is terribly suspicions," 'she
said, and he laughed.
"Suspicious) I wish he had some-
thing to be suspicious about!"
She waited, a picture of indecision.
"You. know I. can't stay," she said
desperately.
He got up from the piano and,
coming across to her, laid his hands
on her Shoulder.
'SD'on''t be" silly. ';Anyone would
think 1 was a leper or something.
What nonsense!"
"Johnny would never forgive me."
"Johnny, Johnny!" he snapped.
"You cant have your life governed
and diieeted by Johnny, who looks
like being in prison half his life."
She gasped.
"Let us see things as they are,"
he went on. "There's ne 'sense in de-
ee po. o *w, .Toa t wily
4fili,glit lbs., •-. YOU dpnit to'yr, n?,;
dear, ,ov, ,0't kno'va, Rv'e .ti'1•ed
'keels t • ;in,gs.'fx'o'in you- and it 1}afs`
aw.£ull: dillncult.nr '
"'K.eep things from me, --^^ what
ghtngst" kler face had gone I?a1
"Well- -!?• his hesitation was well
ergxle `'what. ,dt .you think
y�.aun'g fool did �wst !before k e..W:410.:
cafight? I've •been his best friend'
as you know, and yet--4wei1, 'he put
my names to a cheque for four bun-
died. pounds.'
She stared ..at him in horror.
"Forgery!" • F:
•
• '`Wrhat is the use of calling it
names?" He took. a pocket -book from,
his elreesing gown and • extracted a
cheque. "I've got the cheque. here.
I don't knew •why I keep it, or what
I'm going to do about 'Johnny"
• 'She tried to see the n'am'e on the
oblong slip, but' he was careful to
keep it hidden. It was,' in fact, a
cheque he had received by the morn-.
jug. post, and the story of the forg-
ery had .been invented on the spur of
the 'minute. Inspirations such as this
had been very profitable to Maurice.
Meister.
"Can't you destroy it?`" she asked
tremulously. • ..
"Yes ---I suppose I could." His hes-
itation was .artistic. "But Johnny is
so vindictive. In 'self-defence I''ve'
got to keep this .thing." He put the
cheque "back in his. packet. "I shall
never use it, of course," he' said
airily. And then, in that tender tone
of his: "'I want to talk to you about
Johnny and everything. I can't now,
with people wa.king in and out •all
the time • and these policemen hang-
ing round. . C'ome up to supper the
way I told you."
' She shook her head. ' •
"You 'know I can't.. 'Maurice';•• you
don't wish- people to talk about me
as they .are talking about--+Gwenda
Milton."
The lawyer spun round at the words
-his face distorted with fury.
"God Almighty! Am I always to
have that slimy ghost hanging round
my .neck? Gwenda 1Vfilton, a half -'wit
who' hadn't the brains to' live!All
right -if you don't want 'to come,
don't. Why the hell should I: worry
my head about Johnny? • Wlhy •should
I?"
She was terrified by this sudden
violence of his. -
"Oh; Maurice, you're 'so unreason-
able. If you really want me-"
. "I don't care: ,whether your. do" or
whether you don't," he growled, "If
you think„. you can get along without
Me, try. it. I'm not ,going on my
knees to you Or to any ether woman.
Go into the country* ;but Johnny will
not go with you, believe me!"
She caugiht his arm, frantic with
the fear his half -threat had roused.
•"Mauricet�I'll do anything you
wish -you know I will."
He looked at her• oddly.
"Come at eleven," he said, and:,
"If you want a chaperon, bring The
Ringer!" .•
The words were hardly spoken
when there came three deliberate raps
at the door, and Maurice Meister
shrank back, his shaking hand at
his mouth.
• "Who's there?" he asked hoarsely.
The deep tone of a man answered
him.
"I want to see you, Mei§ter."-
• Meister went to the door and flue
s n g
it open. The sinister face of Inspec-
tor Bliss stared into his.
"What . . what are you do.
in`g here?" croaked the lawyer. ; : -
Bliss showed• his white teeth in a
mirthless smile.
"Protecting you from The Ringer
-Watching. over you like a father,"
he. said harshly. His eyes strayed. to
the pale girl. "Don't you think, Miss
-Lenley-that you want a little watch-
ing over, too?"
She shook her head
"I am not afraid of The Ringer,"
she said; "he would) not hurt me."
Bliss smiled crookedly.
"I'm not thinking of The Ringer!"
he said, and his menacing eyes wan-
dered to !Maurice Meister.
A
CHAPTEIR XXXVI
The return of John Lenley was the
most supremely embarrassing thing
that•had ever happened within -;Maur-
ice Meister's recollection. If he had
resented the attitude of the young
man before, he hated him now. The
menace in his words, the covert
threat behind his reference to -Gwen-
da 'Milton, were maddening enough,
but now there was another factor op-
erating at a moment when it seemed
that all his dreams were to be re•
alized and Mary Lenley, like a ripe
plum, was ready to fall into his
hands; when even the fear of The
Ringer had evaporated in same de-
gree, there must enter upon the scene
this young man whom he thought
he would not see again for years.
Prison had soured and aged him.
He had gone -away a weakling, come
(back a brooding, vicious man, i'ho
would stop at nothing -if he knew.
There was nothing to know yet.
Meister showed his teeth in a smile.
Not yet
Maurice Meister was no coward in
his dealings with ether men: he had
all the qualities of his class. Known
dangers he, could face, however dead-
ly they might be. He could have met
John Lenley and without wincing
could have told hien of his evil plan -
if he were sure of Mary. Yet the
sight of a door opening slowly and
+a'pparentlly thilough no vThible ag-
ency brought him to the "verge of
hysteria.
The Ringer was alive: the worst
of iIteister's fear died with the sure
knowledge. He was something hu-
man., tangible; something against
which he could match his brains.
That afternoon, when they were
"alone, he came in to Mary and,
standing behind her, dropped his
hands upon her shoulders. 'Ile felt
her ''.stiffen, and was amused.
"You ha'ven't forgotten what you
promised this morning?" he asked.
She twisted from his clasp and
came round to meet his eyes.
".Maurice, was it true about the
cheques? You were not lying?"
'ILte nodded slowly.
"We're alone now,." she said des-
perately. • "Can't we talk . . . is
it necessary that I should come to-
night?"
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coolly.' "I supiPose you are aware
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"What a child -yens are, Mary!. How
can you imagine that I would be in
the mood to talk of Johnny, or plan
for you? Keep Your promise, my
dear!"
She faced` him squarely. •
aurice, I'm going' to be awfully
plain-spoken."
What was coming? he wondered.
There was a new resolution in her
voice, a, new courage in her eyes. She
was so unlike, the wilting, terrified
being .. of the morning that he was
for a moment staggered.
"Do you' really' wish me 'to conic'.
to -night . . just to talk about
the cheque.that Johnny -leas forged?''
He was so taken aback 'by the di-
rectness of the, question that he could
not for •the moment -answer.
"Why, of course," he said at
length. "Not only about the forg-
ery, but there are` so many other
matters which we ought to talk over,
Mary. If you're really going into
the country, we.rmust devise ways and
means. You can't go flying off ante
Devonshire, or wherever it is you in-
tend settling at a minute's notice. I
am getting some. catalogues from one
'W
of my -from a house agent I repre-
sent. •e Can look over these'' te-
gether-"
"Maurice, is that true? ? want
to know. P'm not' a child any long-
er.-' You must tell me."
She had never looked more lovely
to him than in that moment of chal-
lenge.
"Mary," he began, "I am very fond
of you-"
"w.hat does that mean-thet- you
love me?"
The cold-bloodedness
t!u i took his. breathe awathe quos
y.
"Does it mean, you love me so
burl! that yowl want to marry me?' •
she a5kacl.
`Why, of course,)' he - s'tammered..
"1 aria awfully fond of you. But
marriage, is one of the follies that I
have so tar avoided. Does it mean
anytt.mg, my • dear? A few words
niu•m:Lled by a paid servant of the
Church . . "
"Then ,you don't want to 'marry'm+e,
Maurice?" she said quietly. "I am
eight there, aren't I?"
"Of course, if you wish ire-"
he began hastily. -
She shook her head.
•"I don't love you- and I don't wish
to marry you, if .that is what you
mean," she said. "What do you real-
ly want of me?" •
She was standing close to him when
she asked the question, and in an-
other instant she..•was struggling in
his arms.
"I. want you -you!" she breathed.
"•Mary, there is no woman in the
world . like • you . . . I adore
you . . ."
.Sumnionieg all Tier strength, she
broke free from his grasp and held
him breathlessly at arm's length." •
"I see!" She could hardly articu-
late the words. "I guessed that.
Maurice, I shall not come to this
house to -night."
Meister did not speak. The wild
rush of passion which had overcome
him had left him curiously weak. He
could only look at her; his eyes burnt.
Once he put lip, his, trembling hand
as though to control - his lips.
"I want you here to -night." The
voice was scarcely audible. "You.
have been frank with me; I will be
as frank with you. I want you: I
want to make ;you happy. I want
t6 take away all the dread and fear
that clouds your life. I !want to
move you from that squalid home of
yours. You know what has happen-
ed to your brother, don't you? He's
been released on ticket -of -leave. He
has two years and five months to
serve. If I prefer a charge of 'forg-
ery against him, he will get seven
years and the extra time he has not
served. Nine and a half years ' .
you realize what that means? You'll
be over, thirty before you see him
again."
He saw her reel. thinking slue was
going " to faint, caught her by the
arm, but she shook ori his' hand.
"That puts the matter in a differ-
ent light, doesn't it?'"
iHe read agreement in a face which
was as white as death.
"Is there no other way, Maurice?"
she asked in a low voice. "No ser-
vice I can render you? I would work
for you as a housekeeper, as a serv-
ant• --,I would be your best friend,
whatever happened toyou, your loy-
alist helper,"
'Meister s'niled.
"You're" getting melodramatic, my
dear, and that is stupid'. ' What a fuss
over a little supper party, a litt'•e
flirtation,"
Her steady eyes were on his.
"If I told Johnny'--" she began
slowly.
"If you told Johnny, he'd come
here, and be,.eveu more melodramatic.
I should (telephone for the police
and that would be the end of John-
ny. You understand?"
She nodded dumbly.
made tp the visit of the ..evening, • gird"
she hiirried from the house into•t'he,,':'
dark street. A,thin fog lay on.1)eilxt-;
ford as she threaded a way alar;;'.
the crowded -sideessalk-of High Street,
Suppose she went to Alan'. The
thought only occurred to be reject-,
ed. 'She must work out her own salmi
vation. Had' Johnny been at . home.
when she 'arrived;. she mighthave
told hint even if he had .not -,,gueseecf
from her ...•evidernt distress that some.'
thing unusual had occurred. -
But he was out; had left a note
on the table saying that he had gone •
to town to see a .man he knew: . She
remembered the -name after a -while';
it was a gentleman farmer who had_
been a neighbor of theirs in theold
days at Lenley. It was a dihmal
thought that all these preparations
of Johnny's would come to naught,
if
She shuddered. Either Pregamt
she did not dare think about.
She went to her room and pres-
ently came her little maid -of -all -work
with the announcement - that a gene
tleman had called to see her.
"I can't see anybody. Who is it?"'
"I don't know, miss. ' He's a fel-
low with a beard."
She walked quickly past the girl
across the dining -room into the tiny -
hall.
"You don't know me, I th'in'k,"esaid'
the reran at the door. "My name is:
Bliss."
'Her heart sank. 'Why had this mane
came frons Scotland Yard? Had
Maurice, in one of those paroxysms:
of unreasonable temper, sent him?
"Come in, please."
(Continued°'next week.)
Thinning Apples Best.
Experimental work carriecl oiiit at-,
the federal 'Experimental Station at
Kentville, N. S., affords !conclusiveevidence as to the value of the prae
tice of "thinning" apples. As applied'
to the variety Wealthy an increase -
in value am'dunting to $34.75 per acre
Was secured. Some 'of the advant-
ages from thinning arethe elimina-
tion of extra cost for picking, for -
hauling, for packing, and for barrels.
The cost of thinning was: placed at.
14.6 cents per tree, or $7.88 .per•acre,
resulting in a direct saving in labor
and supplies alone of $21.13. The
other $13.63 'increased value comes •
from the -higher 'price received for
the better quality fruit, produced as.
the result of thinning.
Debt conferences have been put off
until June in the hope that somebody
may have some money by that time..
-St. Louis Times.
LONDON AND •WINGHAM
South.
pan,
Wingham 2.05•
Belgrave 2.22
Blyth .,• -• 2.33'
Londesboro 2^46=
Clinton 3.08
Brucefield 3.26
Kippen 3.38
frensall 3.39'
Exeter 3.53
North.
Exeter 10.59'
Hensel' 11.12`
Kippen 11.18,
Brucefield - 11.27
Clinton 11.58
Londesboro 12.16,
Blyth .... , .... 12.23'•
Belgrave 12.33-
Wingham
2.33Wingham 12.4'11
C. N. R.
East.
A.M. p.m_
Goderich 6.35 2.40' ,
Holmesville 6.50 2.56
Clinton 6.58. 3.05•
Seaforth 7.12 3.21
St. Colutnban 7.18 3.27
Dublin ... ... . 7.23 3.32
West
Dublin 11.24 9.12
St. Columban 1149
Seaforth 11.49 9.25.
Clinton 11.55 9.39'
Holmesville 12.05 9.53'
Goderich 12.20 10.65'
C. P. R. TIME TABLE:
East.
Goderich ., . .
Menset
McGaw
Auburn
Blyth
Walton
McNaught
Toronto
West
5.50' -
5:liE
6.6'4+
6:11
6.25, .. .
6.40
6.52'
10.251.
'OHAP'lTE1A XXXVII a mz
, At five o'clock Meister told her she ? ¢
mild- go home for the evening. Icer t20
head as aching; she 'had' dote prat--
ti'cally no work that afternoon, for
Aub
urn , -
the letters were blurred and illegible , .... 2;$i
specks of black that swam before her,'+.
eyes. No further reference was 1'2,,j :
Toronto
McNaught
Walton
myth ,..
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McGaw
Menset
Goderich
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