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JOHN H. 'BEST
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VETERINARY
JOHN GRIEVE, V.S. •
aFomior •graduate •of Ontario Veterin-
ary College. 'All d}ceases of domestic
animals treated. Calls promptly at-
tended to and charges moderate. Vet-
erinary Dentistry a specialty. Office
and residence on Go4erie'h Street, one
door east of Dr. Jarratt's office, Sea -
forth. .
A. R. CAMPBELL,. V.S.
Graduate of Ontario Veterinary
College, University of Toronto. All
disease of domestic animals treated
by the most modern principles.
Charges reasonable, Day or night
calls promptly attended to. Office on
Main Street, Hensall, opposite Town
Hall. Phone 116. Breeder of Scot-
tish Terriers. Inverness Kennels,
Bengali.
MEDICAL
' DR. D. E. STURGIS
Graduate of the Faeulty of Medi-
cine, University of Western Ontario,
and .St. Joseph's Hospital, London.
Member' of College of Physicians and
Surgeons' of Ontario. Phone 67. Of-
fice at Dublin, Ont. 3493
.
DR. GILBERT C. JARROW
Graduate of Faculty of Medicine,
University of Western Ontario. Mem-
ber of College of Physicians and
Satrgeons of Ontario. Office, 43 God-
erich Street; West. Phone 37."
Successor to Dr. Charles Mackay.
DR. F. J. R. FORSTER
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
Graduate in Medicine,. University of
Toronto.
aatte assistant New York Optihal-
rmei and Aural Institute, 'Moorefield's
Eye and Golden Square Throat Hos-
pitals, London, Eng. At Comtnercial
Rotel, Seafomth, third Wednesday in
each month, from 1.30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
68 Waterloo Street, South, Stratford.
DR. W. C. SPI:1AT
Graduate of Faculty 'of Medicine,
University of Western Ontario, Lon-
don. Member of College of Physic-
ians and 'Surgeons of Ontario. Office
in Aberiiart's Drug Store, Main St.,
Seaforth. Phone 90.'
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. HUGH H. ROSS
Graduate of University, of Toronto
Faculty of Medicine, member of Col-
lege of Physicians and Surgeons of
Ontario; pass ' 'graduate course in
Chicago Clinical School of Chicago ;
Royal Opthalmie Hospital, London,
England; University Hospital, Lon-
don, England. Office -Back of Do-
minion Bank, Seaforth. Phone No. 5.
Night calls answered from residence,
Victoria Street, Seaforth.
DR. E. A. McMASTER
Graduate of .the University of To-
e ronto, Faculty of Medicine
Member of College of Physicians
and Surgeons of Ontario; graduate of
New York Post Graduate School and
Lying-in Hospital, New York. Of-
fice on. High Street, Seaforth. Phone
27.
O'ffi'ce fully equipped for ultra
short wave electric treatment, Ultra
Violet Sun Lamp treatments, and
Infra red electric treatments. Nurse
in attendance.
DR. G. R. COLLYER
Graduate Faculty of 'Medicine, Uni-
versity. of Western Ontario. Member
College of Physicians and Surgeons
of Ontario. Post graduate work at
New York City Hospital and Victoria
Hospital, London. Phone: Hensall,
66• Office: King Street, 'Hensall.
DENTAL
DR. J. A. McTAGGART
Graduate 'Royal College of Dental
Surgeons, Toronto. Office at Hen -
mall, Ontario. *phone 106.
AUCTIONEERS
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.CRATER, II' •
THE PHI ESE• POISON
That, evening the four younger
+nuemlbema" of our party went to a
*watch gaamtopblon'a donee and The
Tuxndieh and I weere left tlo our own{
devices. He had 'tried to persuade
them net to go rfan account of the
heat, and bad been • particularly em-
phatic` so far as Margaret was con-
cerned. Stella did look a little fag-
ged and pale, 'hurt my partner seem-
ed in the 'be'st Of spirits, and I could
not understand why he should think
that shte espec'ilallly required rest.
'Supper ,was late, as they .dressed
'before they had it ,but they did get
at length, and we went into
b re dispensary to get .some medicine
for my Sold. 'Whilst he was measur-
ing it 'out 'I wandered aimlessly round
the rooms glancing 'at' the bottles on
the shelves. The , labels were writ-
ten in so neat a hand that X asked
hini who had done them.
"Oh, that is one of Mises Summner-
son's, jolts," he replied.
''"Azad • does Miss 'Susnanerson deal
with the 'h'i'gh finance in addition to
her other ,duties?" II asked, standing
in front of what looked like a heavy'
Sale.
'"That is the 'poison cupboard," he
laugthe.d, and taking a 'small key from
ods waistcoat pocket he opened the
door. -
"I was astonished at the number
of -Mottles it contaleed. On the low -
em Shelves were the larger ones which
I asesamned held the poisons more com-
monly used, but the top shelf was
•
packed with diminutive bottles' of
uniform shape • and 'size. There was
'one, however, that differed[ f 'om -°the
meet, and that was the most peeulliar
little (bottle I have ever set my eyes,.
Ion. It was like a miniature flagon
of burgundy in shape, but it had an
exceptionally • lo'n'g and slender neck
which was fitted with a large glass
s!tbprper of a flat irregular db'sign giv-
ing it the appearance of some deli=
nate imitation toaddsbo'arl rearing its
head above its little 'neighbors.
'What an extraordinary number'
of piods'ons!" I exclaimed. "Surely all
these are not the 'normal requirernenits
bf a 'country doctor's practice?" and
I took up the funny little flagon as I
spoke tlo exaandne it more closely.
"Be careful -put it aback -put it
down,. man," he almost shouted at
me, and banging the door shut as
'Solon as he had seen me restore the
weird little 'bottle safely to its old
'position, be dtagged me to the sink
and made me rinse my hands in some
strong disinfectant that he gat me.
I should have been amused, had he
not 'been so obviously alarmed, and I
protested' that I might. have been
han'dlirng a bomb that had the fuse
alight by all the fuse he nnade about
Eit.
"A bomb's a plaything for a baby
in a pram compared 'with that dear
little bottle," he laughed, and went
rem to explain that Hanson was by
way of being a ''bit of a specialist in
the study of poisons, and that the
little 'flagon I had 'handled so care-
lessly Contained a very deadly and
almost unknown poison, that he, The
Tundish, had been fortunate in se-
curing for his collection from central
China.
The tiny 'bottl'e apparently contain-
ed enough to finish off the whole of
Merchester, and as yet they had not
succeeded in finding any antidote to
its action. A colourless fluid with a
distinctive taste and smell, it was
immediately narcotic, but it engen-
dered a sleep from which no one ev-
er woke. The body of the victim
looked exactly as though it had pass-
ed 'out of a peaceful slum'ber into
death, excerpting for the eyes, and
they, in addition to ,,the usual con-
traction of the pupils due to a nar-
bot Id, were 'horribly IIsuffelsed with
blood. Tt seems that had any of the
poison got on to my fingers from the
side of the bottle and head I then al-
lowed them to tou'c'h my lips, so
deadly was the stuff that he might
'havle been unable to save my life.
All 'this he told me as I disinfected
my hands at the 'sin'k, and by the
time he had 'finished tI began to 'think
that I had had a lucky escape and I
was no longer inclined to laugh at
his considerate. alarm:. My hands
properly rinsed and dried, we went
-back into the drawing room to finish
our pipes before going to bed, and he
Was interesting about his life in
China, where he had gone out to live
with an uncle when he was twenty-
four and had only returned a few
years ago. 'Then our conversation
turned to tennis •and the tournament,
and I was telling him 'of the interest
(Miss Palfreeman had aroused as she
joined us in 'Etre tent at lunch time,
when he interrupted me.
"`You know it's a most extraordin-
ary coinoidence--,--" he began with
Something 'akin to excitement in his
usual level voice, and then instead of
te'l'ling me what the curious coinci-
dent* was, his .stabeanent dwindled
into indecisi'on and he sat thought-
fully watching 'the blue smoke spir-
als that curled rto the ceiling from
his pipe.
"Wlell?;" leaked after a rpause'turn-
ing to look at him in surprise.
'But there he sat staring vacantly
at nothing, his face an expressionless
miask, his elye's . in'trospec'tive and
dead. They regained their normal
'twinkle as 1 watched, and he con-
tinued, "Oh, nothing really-nb'thdng
at all-ondry',.'Slomiething th-alb simnel -
thing you :said remind'e'd me of. Now
I'rri sure it's time that you went off
to bed."
We said good niigiht at the bottom
of the stairs, and with my foot on
the bottom 'steep Q asked h.'im' *hat on
earth had made hien say (drat 'Mises
Hunter ire Dae bidul'ar looked Ste though
the needed're'et. I 'cannot fhb* 'wheat
wade nueask the gtres.'bion, cad it had
rho slom'nerl Crossed My lips :than S re-
s
alined how it:di-sweet it leas, lTa look-
slat 'nue quizzically. 1Slnou'1d a doe -
tor tell -'eh!"
T 'apPltolgnzed profusely.
"Well, there ie no haeme donee, and
I don't mind telling o'u- no, after
all, I think that perhaps, 1 had bet -
tier not"
T thou,gh'b • how, annoying his little
halbit of .starting out on some inter-
esting, confidential statement and
then breaking off in the middle of it
was, but 'obviously 'I could not press
him, and "I said good -night again and
went upstairs bo •bed.
To bed but not to 's'leep. For in-
terminable hours I 'checked the quar-
ters chimed by the great cathedral
clock. 'And when sleep did come it
was thin and dream. streaked. Once
more I was in the dispensary stand-
ing in front of the poison cupboard
with the murderous little bottle of
poison in my hands. The Tundish---
not the ,placid kindly man to whom
I had saki good -night, but a man with
the faces of a devil enraged ---came
rushing at me round the table in the
middle of the room. "Put it down,
you 'd'amned fool," he yelled, and
seizing me by the arm he twisted it
back until my hand was thrust inside
the safe. Then in a flash his anger
was gone, The Tundish was masked
and placid 'again, and looking at me
with a pleasant quiet smile, he said
in the friendliest and silkiest Of voic-
es: "Poisoned, I fancy, my de-ar Jeff-
eock--Ibeltber have it. off," and he cies-
ed the heavy door with a crash, sev-
ering my hand' above the wrist.
I heard a tinkle of broken glass as
the ',baby flagon dropped amongst its
.deadly little eomraders, and then a
plop as my own severed hand reach-
ed the bottom of the safe and I a-
woke 'with a start to hear a • door
really banging in. the hall below. Then
giggles, and Stella's carrying, high-
pitched !voicle: "Oh! for Heaven's
sake don't make me laugh any more,
my 'sides are sore and aching as if
is." Next a noisy laugh from Ralph
and Kenneth whispering -he meant
it for a whisper -urging him not to
wake Jeffdook and The Tundish up.
The dancers were back home and
coming upstairs to bed. They laugh-
ed. 'an'd played about on the landing,
and made as much noise again in
urging each other, to stop. I thought
how s'el•fish and inconsiderate they
were. Then I.he'ard Stella and Ralph
go up to the landing above and their
doors bang shut. It was nearly three
o'clock when at last I fell into a
quiet and untroubled sleep.
I wake surprisingly refreshed and
got, dow'ns'tairs to find The Tundish
seated- in lonely state at the head of
the breakfast table. He greeted me
with his friendly smile; asking whe-
ther I had been able to 'sleep through
the dancing party's united' efforts to
keep e'a'ch other quiet. He told me
that 'the theamvomuater had already
beaten the record of yesterday at the
same time, and that we were in for
a frizzly time at the club.
Stella came in just as we were fin-
isehing our last 'cup's of coffee and I
noticed at •once 'how wretchedly tired
and pale she looked. The doctor re-
marked on it tod, and she told us
that she had hardly slept and had
wakened almost too weary to dress.
On learning that she had been sleep-
ing badly for some night's' he promis-
ed to put' up a mild narcotic for her
to take that night. He was kindruess
and facet itself in that he made no
reference to the dance and his own
neglected advice, but Stella almost
`snulbbed him for his trouble, and
hardly bothering to thank him turn-
ed to me with some casual remark
or other.
Ethel, vribh Kenneth and Ralph,.
came in as the doctor was talking to
Stella, and Margaret, pink and white
and full blown, Margaret smiling to
herself, followed • them a moment lat-
er, lI was looking at her as she came
in through the door, and whether I.
uoncensciou,sly stared a little I don't
know, but the pleasant smile vanish-
ed, to be replaced by an unpleasant
frown.
'The Tundish was right. We had a
'very warm time at the club that day,
but in spite of my cold I en'joy'ed the
tennis and in spite of her conversa-
tion I enjoyed my partner. She and
I had lunch alone together and Stella
was one of the many subjects we dis-
cussed.
"Do you think that she is very be-
witching?" she asked.
"She is certainly more than ordin-
ary pretty," I replied, "'but as to be-
ing bewitching that is another mat-
ter."
"Oh! 'Don't make any mistake of
that sort. Ninety-nine times out of
-a hundred it's one and the same
thing, A pretty face and a good fig-
ure seem to m'ee't the 'case with most
omen."
"I did not know we were discuss-
ing a case at all," I laughed.
But she closed the conversation by
adding: "Fine feathers make fine
bird's," and she said it very imrpres-
sively, though for the life of me I
could not see the connection.
lI played a number of matches dur-
ing 'the day, and I did fairly well,
but tennis has nothing to do with
this story and there is only one little
incident that I need describe. It was
just after- tea and d was in the um-
pires chair. I had to keep my at-
tentircn closely to the game, both of
the men having a service that was
difficult to follow, but as I sat perch-
ed in my lofty seat, I noticed' Ethel
and The Tundish conversing • very
earnestly together.
A few minutes later I heard Ethel
say: "Well, it's spoiling everything,
and I eertainl''y wouldn't have offered
to put her up for the tournament if
you hadn't been so insistent."
They were the full Width of the
'dourt and then another spate away,
but the whispered wtor da came to my
. `senaitiiv'e cars with every inf'eediau of
•
Ethers :r i'ceedistinateand clear.' •
could hear• the annoya oe in it' as
tinough it were tle me 'e had wigs
pered and not to 'the • �;o r , away a-
eroas the court. 'I wondered to which
of the two gi'r'ls she :referred - . my
partner 'or 'Stella--wUi r : it, whatever
it was, was spoiling everything, and
why The Tun,dhsh should -have to' su'g-
gest' that ie{itlher. of 'theme' Should be
invited to Dalehouse. The mitre I
thought of it the less 1 understood
it. but Ethel was quite right about
our party, 'there was something the
mwtter with 'ib-eromething that I
couldn't quite put my finger o -n was
just spoil--
, "Wake up, umpire."
I did with a jerk, to tined that they
had played two, unregistered points
while m'y thoughts had wandered. ,It
was a long three -set match and when
I took the result in to the referee's
tent, although it was getting late, he
fact me on to play, and I was the last
of our party to leave the club.
Ry the time I reached) DalehOusre'
the others had nearly finished supper.
There was a sudden lull in the con-
rv!ersat'ion as 'I came Into the room
and 'I felt certain that I had been
the subject of `their talk, and I. quick-
ly 'gathered from their subsequent re-
marks that Ethel had felt that one
Of the other two men should have
waited for nue at the ground. It was
quite absurd, :of course, :.but her quick
little 'temper was easily roused, es-
pecially :so if she imagined that one
of her friends 'had "been slighted, and
apparently. she had not .hesitated to
lay 'down the law ,an the matter.
I did any hest to -smooth things ov-
er, but if at lunch' time ion the pre-
vious day 1 had felt that the gaiety
of our iparty was forced and rang
false, I had no doubt at all on this
occasion, that the general feeling of
irritatien *as genuine enough. Th -e
very flies seemed to have caught the
disease and to be more persistent
than usual in their attennpts tc an-
noy.
The Tundish was the only one of
us to make the least attexp t at gen-
eral 'poilteness and he, I'be'lieve, was
secretly 'amused at our united and:
childish ill -humour. Stella was posi-
tively rude when he reminded her of
the medicine that he had had sent up
to her room. First she refused to
take it at all. Thein she would take
it at once, and' there was another lit-
tle scene before she 'could be 'persuad-
ed to obey the doctor's wishes and
wait for an hour after her meal.
The two boys had left the room
wh'il'st we were pacifying; Stella, and
when Ethel .suggested that the four
of ds should have a -quiet game of
Bridge while The Tundish did some
work in the dispensary grid she and
Margaret descended to the basement
to tackle some ironing, they were ILO-
where
o-where to be found.
Ethel s'eeme'd absurdly put out ov-
er so trivial a matter. She went into
the dispensary with The Tundish and
I overheard her say: "It's abomin-
ably rude of Kenneth to leave Fran-
cis alone with nothing to do, and I
shall tell him so when he gets back,"
and I must admit that I was childish-
ly gratified that she should care en-
ou'gh about my comfort to risk hav-
ing words with Kenneth. Truly,
along with the rest, I was feeling the
heat.
My ears must have been in a hyper-
sensitive condition, for I had heard
Ethel in the dispensary quite plain-
ly, and a little time later as I stood
at the telephone in' the hall trying
to get•a connection through to Bren-
da, 'I heard The Tundish talking to
Stella in the drawing room though
the door was, half closed. It was a
moment before, 1 realized that I was
listening to a confidential converse -
non and then it was too late.
It was the doctor speaking in his
most persuasive voice: "Look here,
Stella, I am most truly sorry about
it, but until I saw ,you at the club,
I really had no idea that the Stella
Palfreeman Ethel spoke of was the
'Dumps' I used to know in Shang-
hai."
Then I got my connecti in and heard
no mere fora short time, but Brenda
was out and my conversation with
the maid was brief, and they were
still talking together, when 3' put the
receiver up. It was Stella speaking
bhis,ttime and she was not so clear.
Her voice came and went in broken
snatches as though some one was op-
ening the decor and closing it again;
a few words clear and distinct and
then a blank. "-it's as well I
came . . , the Hansons eertainly
-ought to be told . . . your arboinin-
able share . . . father's death . . .
I shall tell them!"
Evidently it was the end of the con-
versation, for as I was hurrying a-
way from my embarrassing position,
The Tundish tame out of the draw-
ing -room and met me in the hall on
his way back td the dispensary. He
smiled at me pleasantly, appearing
quite ummove'd by the words I had ov-
erheard, and I thought to myself, that
whatever el -se he may have learnt by
his long residence among the Chin-
ese, he had certainly acquired' their
proverbial bland impassivity.
-I wandered into the garden, where
long evening shadows were creeping
across the lawn, and sat down in one
of the wicker chairs that stood be-
neath the cedar, my thoughts turn-
ing naturally to what I had over-
heard. Now I -began to understand
better why Stella had dropped her
glass. The little scene in the lunch-
eon tent came back to 'me. Stella's
Momentary hesitation when the doc-
tor held out his hand; the doctor,
'same and unperturbed, taking the
Iess convenient seat. •
Then d remembered what I had ov-
erheard between Ethel and The Tuna
dish as I sat in the umpire's chair
and endeatvl urecl to connect the one
dsnversabibnu.'with the abet,. Had
'Ethel referred to Stella when She said
•
• Worth -while things cost . money. This means-'`
that retailers must part with money in ori' to 'et,
customers. Customers require to_ be bought' just its
one's merchandise has to be bought. Y
• Customers are not likely to be obtained apart
from seeking thele. They must be pursued, and
they must be asked to do business with' the retailer
who wants their custom
• You would think that all this as plain as is
the nose on one's face. But 'shop ! Answer this ques-
tion: What have you, a retailer,, done in the past
month -to go no farther back-otoo seek and get new
customers? How many non -customers of your store
have received invitations from you„.,to do business -
with you? How many persons havereceived com-
munications from you, requesting their custom?
How many persons ° have you informed, in their
,homes, about your business, your merchandise, your
policies? How much money have you spent this past
Month on the purchase of customers?
• Just waiting for customers is the acme of folly.
Just relying on the conviction that the public ought
to do busin'e'ss with you is folly. Just soothing your-
self, with the reflections that you are honest, that
you give the public a square deal, that your store"
has a good location', that you price merchandise fair-
ly -these are passive things,.
• It is actions which counts in • getting the things
which we want. An infant cries. This js its way of
making its mother or nurse know that it wants
something. Is it fair to a business to .bedoing noth-
ing in a planned way to get new customers for it?
• Advertising by all businesses will make and keep
our town a good shopping centre.
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that she would not have asked her un-'
less he had persuaded 'her to do it?
But they had only met the week be-
fore at Ca/Ilford-or was it possible
that he had seen Stella's name in
the paper and had written asking
Ethel to invite her to 'alehouse? In
that case Ethel probably knew some-'
thing about the mystery -if mystery
there was -and the doctor had lied
When he spoke to Stella in the draw-
ing -room. And if the reference had
not been to .Stella, then it must have
been Margaret, m'yrartn'er, and that
was equally inexplicable, for what
possible reason could Ethel have for
saying that Margaret was spoiling
everything? True, there was her I
rather inane Conversation, but they
were old friends, and Ethel must have
known all about that. No --4 decided I
that she must have intended Stella,'
and no sooner had I come to the de-
cision, than I felt equally convinced
that the doctor did not look like a
;lar,
Miss Summerson had lied in the
dispensary -the place seemed full of
lies and . ill temper. As I sat pon-
dering ender the cedar with its far- I
spread boughs 'black against the sky,!
a couple of bats went fluttering in the,
fading light and somehow their flop-
py uncertain 'flight seemed symbolic
of deceit and lying too. The half-
hour after nine came floatin across:
the still calm air from the clock in
the. cathedral tower. Looming 'big
and white over the black of the sha-
dowed garden well it looked ghostly,
I thought, and seemed less real than
the bats and the shadows themselves.
I rose and went 'back to the house full
of a vague uneasiness and wishing
that I was back at home with Bren-
da.
'Stella was still tucked up on!
the settee immersed in a• book and
`obv'iously desiring neither company
nor conversation, So I picked up the
daily paper and tried to amuse my-
self with that.
I cannot have been seated for more
than five minutes when the bell at
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the consulting room entrance began
to peal, and a few mopients Iater Eth-
ed appeared at the drawing room
door asking me if I would go to the
doctor in the dispensary. There had
been a motor accident and he requir-
ed my 'help. I found a small boy e1•
about eight stretched out on the
couch. He had been badly cut by
the broken glass and his poor little
face made a pitiful sight as the
tears trickled down through the*blood
-it fell to E'thel's lot to look after
the parents, who were distracted to
incapacity, and to mine to hold the
child whilst the doctor swabbed and
stitched and bandaged,
I was astounded at the way he
handled that small boy. His deft
fingers moved at such lightning speed
that the bandage's seemed tfly into
place of their own volition, nd all
the time he worked he, was c'h 'ng
kindly to the boy andgiiving me in-
structions. How can I describe it -
unadulterated genius -magical - a
superman at work on work he loved?
Anyhow, incredible as it may sound,
the job was completed and he was
lifting the patient into the taxi that
Ethel had sent for,• as the cathedral
clock chimed ten.
Have I described The Tundish as
impassive and 'imperturbable - a man
with a face like a mask that nothing
could move? That was not the man
who had bent tenderly over the mor-
sel of damaged humanity that I had
held in my arms. No nurse could
have .been more gentle; no mother
more anxiously loving. Night and
day, ice and fire, could not have dif-
fered more.
I was alone with Ethel for a mom-
ent while the doctor was talking at
the side of the taxi, and she asked
me with an amused little flicker of
a smile whether I had been im'press-
ed,
"Why, the man must be a marvel,"
I replied, "please don't spoil it by
telling me that all G. P.'s can man-
age such things with similar pro-
ficiency." ,
"My dear old thing," she laughed,
"did daddy never tell you about our.
Tundish? Hie is supposed to be one
'of the best surgeons in the country,
and with children he is almost un-
canny. When he left Shanghai they
(broke `their yellow little 'hearts in
dozens. Now he is resident doctor
at a large children's h'om'e in London,
merely because he is so passionately
fond of them and has money enough
to do OA he likes. But here he Domes
and he wouldn't thank rhe, or any.
one, eilse, for singing his praises."
,Ethel returned to Margaret and
the _ironing, and the 'doctor and I
went back to the drawing room where
Stella was still reclining on the set-
tee. He told her that she could take
her draught any time she liked', said
good -night to us 'both and went up-
's'tairs' to bed. Stella answered all
my attempts at donniersattion with' ;a
dishe'art'ening ."y'es" or "no" and at-
ter
tter pottering about for a time, 1 lefty
lrer too, intending to follow the doe-
tor's example. . ,
Met the boys in the hall, however,
and we all three proceeded to the
basement to find out what progress
the laundresses were making. The
hot weather had played havoc with
our things, and they had kindly un-
iertaken these. We were vastly am-
used' at the result's of their labours,
a few pains of soaks' and a badly
scorched shirt bf my own apparent-
ly representing the work of Some-
thing ever an hour. They pleaded
the/interruption of the accident, a
defective electric iron, the- stained
condition of the socks which they had
had to re -wash, and lastly that 'they
had dealt with several ;garments, of
the feminine gender which their
maidenly modesty did net allow them
to either mention or produce.
(Continued next week)
London and Wingham
South
Wingham
Belgrave
Blyth
Londesboro •i
Clinton
Brucefield
Kippen
Hen:c'all
Exeter
North
Exeter
Hensall
KiPperr'
Brucefield
Clinton
Londesboro
Blyth
Bel grave
Winghnins
C.N.R. Time Table
East
Goderich
Clinton
Seaforth
Dublin
Mitchell
A.M.
6.45
7.08
7.22
7.38
7.42
P.M.
1.56
2.11
2.23
2.30
3.08
.,3.27
3.35
3.41
3.56
A.M.
10.42
10.6'6
11.01
11.09
11.64
12.10
12.19
12.30
12.50
P.M.
,2.30
3.00
3.18
8.31
3.43
West •
Dublin 11.19 9.44
Seaforth 11.34 9.67
Clinton 11.60 10.11
Goderich 12.10 '10.37
C.P.R. Time Table
East
A.M.
Goderich 5.50
Menset 5.65
McGaw 6.04
?auburn 6.11
jBlybh 625
alton ,r;. • .. 6.40
oNanght 6.: -
Toronto ,, 10
West
Toronto •..
McNanagi'nt ... , . ...
iV'alleve 11,6411.6"16,60
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