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The Huron Expositor, 1935-12-06, Page 7,4. . . . , LEAL Myna po.'0:1. . ,PARD '.' Oorxio;tor., Seacitor, ? . %Aare Pelblic, Etc."' Beeehie Bak; Seater*, Ont WAYS & MEIR ' Succeeding R. S. Hays •.:' . Bartristers, Solicitora, Conveyancers and Notaries Publie. Solicitors for the Dominion Bank. Office in rear of the Dominion Bank, Seater*. Money to lloant, - JOHN H. BEST , Barrister, Solicitor, Etc. &after&Ontario • . VETERINARY . JOHN GRIEVE, V.S. Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin- ary College. All diseases 4of domestic animals treated. Calls ipremptly at- tended to and charges. moderate. Vet- erinary Dentistry a specialty. Office and residence on Goderich Street, one door east of Dr. Jarrott's office, Sea - forth. A. R. CAMPBELL, VS. , 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 Main Street, 'Hensall, opposite Town Hall. Phone 116. Breeder of Scot- tish Terriers. Inverness Kennels, Hensall. • ' MEDICAL DR. D. E. STURGIS *Graduate of the Faculty of Medi- cine, University of Western Ontario, and St. Joseph's Hospital,• London. iliermber of College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Phone 67. Of - fie at Dublin, Ont. L 3493 DR. GILBERT C. JARROTT Graduate of Faculty of Medicine, University of Western Ontario. Mem- ber of College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Office, 43 Gode- rich Street, West. Phone 37. Successor to Dr. Charles Mackay. DR. W. C. SPROAT Graduate of Faculty of Medicine, University of Western Ontario, Lon- don. Member of College of Physi- cians and Surgeons of Ontario. Office in Aberhart's Drug Store, Main St., Seaforth. Phone 90. DR. F. J. BURROWS Office and regidence, 'Goderich St., east of the United Church, Seaforth. Phone 46. Coroner for the County of Huron. r 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 Chieago Clinical Sohool of Chicago ; Royal Opthaltnie 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- 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. Office fully equipped for ultra short wave electric treatment, Ultra Violet Sun Lamp treatments, and Infra Red electric treatments. Nurse in attend- ance. ' DR. G. R. COLLYER Graduate Faculty of Medicine, Uni- versity of Western Ontario. Member College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Post eraduate work at New York City Hospital and Victoria Hospital, London. Phone: Hensall 56. Office: King- Street, Hensall. DR. F. J. R. FORSTER 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- pitals. London, Eng. At Commercial Hotel, 'Seater*, third Wednesday in each month, from 1.30 pen. to 4.30 p.m. 58 Waterloo Street, South, Stratford. DENTAL • DR. .J. A. McTAGGART Graduate Royal College of Dental Surgeons, Toronto. Office at Hensall, Ont. Phone 106. AUCTIONEERS HAROLD DALE Licensed Auctioneer Specialist in farm and household sales. Prices reasenable. For dates and inform:stion, write or phone Har- old Dale. phone 149, .Seaforth, or ap- ply at The Expositor office. ARTHUR WEBER Auctioeeer's License - Sixteen years' experience. Satisfaction guaranteed. Telephone: 13-57, Hensall. Write AR'I'HUR WEBER, 'R. R. 1, Dashwood. a , INSURANCE THE JOHN RANKIN AGENCY Insurance of all kinds. Bonds, Real Estate. Money to Loan. , Phone 91. SIEAFOR/Tee a nePPARTa N4y,k?ilaraFtleAf.11.4102,upoie.,11, , tmulmays6.3.1.10.11.:11.1.1013,61: ,,graztawnymatialusaimaki,111,7414,..,-,,,,,,,umade.14,itarda o es • 1 ' riedlt ."ii • ' Sall,011,41=10.440MAIDLIVall r . • „.*Algiii.4t.'' ••••••••••.••••.1•••••••.•••••••••••..m•••••••.•••••••••••••• BY PETER B. KYNE (Continued from last week) "Then" I began to find my hay- stacks catching lee and my line fences 'breaking. Mere was a fire in El Valle 'de los .0joe Negros in mid- summer and fifty thousand acres of it burned over. That killed some of my whiter range. Meanwhile I be - gen to lirai-e trouble fromethe Forest (Ranger Service. Scrub bulls wear- ing my 'brand were turned lose on the Reserve, in defiance of the Forest Reserve regulations. Complaints Complaints were filed against me. When I shot those scrub bulls some- body shot my pure-bred Hereford bulls. When I irrigated me' wild hay land in the upper 'Rio Tond'o I had a suit filed against me by the Box K Ranch farther down. ,They claimed I was violating their riparian rights an the Hondo. A strange unbrand- ed horse with glanders got into my pasture one night and I lost thirty head of 'good cow -ponies before the diselee was checked. I had a cou- ple of hundred head' of hogs feeding in the bottame along the Hondo and sierneibody shot nearly all of thein. My best saddle -horse was shot, my dogs poisoned. 'Somebody has 'been tryipg to make hell look like a summer's holi- day for me, to drive me to the point of selling out 'in sheer desneration. Two weeks ago a stranger offered me eight dollars an acre for my hay land and' five dollars 'an acre for El Valle 'dc los Ojos Negros. I refused and immediately I had trouble. A note to the Southwestern Cattle Loan Cor- poration fell due and was called, al- thergh 'I had been promised an ex- tension. I blocked that by turning •mry cattle adrift in the Reserve. A two hundred thousand dollar inert- eagor-it was a private loan -on El Valle de los Ojos Negros' turned up as the property of a bank in 'Santa Fe. Sixty days before the mortgage fell due I asked if I could pay the interest and fifty thousand dollars on account of the principal and renew the mortgage for three years. The bank refused. So I have tonegoti- ate a new loan- and. it's mighty hard to get a large loan on semi -desert land in New Mexico at a time when banks are suspicious of loans with Liberty bonds as collateral. "However, I arranged a private loan, and two weeks ago I wrote the bank that I would meet the mortgage the day it fell due. That was a crave 'disappointment to somebody, for yesterday at San Onofre a killer tried for Me from ambush -and I got the killer! He's down' the hall yonder in room seventeen. Ja'ke somebody wants my ranch and that semebody isn't a cattleman." "Seems to me," Jake' replied, after having listened 'attentively and re- spectfully to Purdy's long recital, "the wise thing foe you to do is to take the hint. Come back at 'em with a counter offer, do some tradin',: sell your ranch an' get out with a whole skin. Looks to me as if they're bound to get you, a-figurin' that with you out o'• the way your -heirs won't stick 'it out. Your sister wouldn't have no interest keepin' the ranch with you gone." "Well, Pm' not a quitter, Jake. I know bad medicine is being brewed for me, but remember this - Ira Todd's 'medicine is already brewed and three days hence he'll have to take it! That's final." Jake shook a troubled head' and walked' out of the hospital. Purdy dragged his reluctant legs down to room seventeen and found Bud Shan- non alone and semi-conscious. Purdy went to the closet where the nurse had hung the killer's clothes and searched the pockets for evidence of Shannon's antecedents 'or previous connections. He was rewarded with the discovery of an 'old wallet con- taining two hundred and fifty-five dollars in bills, the professional card of one Jasper S. Doak, of the legal firm of Doak, Erlin & Doak, with offices in the Citizens National Bank Building, Los Angeles, and that por- tion of a Pullman sleeping car ticket which a passenger retains as evi- dence of his 'right to occupy a berth. From the stamp on rthe back of this fragment of ticket Lee Purdy de- duced that Bud Shannon had jour- neyed from Albuquerque to Los An- geles two weeks previous. Had he gone to Los Angeles to call upon Doak, Erlin & Doak, 'make his bar- gain and receive his instruction's? Was this money part of the killer's retainer? Doak was the man who had offer- ed to buy the Box K Ranch from Gail Ormsby at the value set upon it by the appraisers of her late uncle's es- tate! Here, indeed, was an interest- ing conneetion. Could this Los An- reles lawyer be the instigator of the systematic persecution to which Lee Purdy had been 'subjected for a year. And if so, what was 'his goal? Sure- ly he was not planning to launch a huge cattle company, since no prac- tical cattleman would- consider paying twelve dollars an acre for the semi - raid Vallee de los Ojos Negros. As grazing land for beef cattle the feed upon it was too meager and of too brief 'duration to make the valley worth more than two dollars an acre as winter range in the 'present state 'of the 'market. Although Lee Purdy had snapped it up at four dollars an. acre in 1919, his courage and •altru- ism had been predicated on a vision of the profits to be gleaned from pasturing sheep there, since sheep thrive where cows will starve. Purdy, still pondering the mystery, left Bud Shannon's room and retired to the one assigned him by the doc- tor. Here he wearily disrobed and climbed 'into bed, after 'partaking of a light supper which was served at his bedside. Before falling asleep, however, he very definitely made 'up his mind on 'one pout. If he Would 12 .6 .,„ ii live to dwell in peace on La Coesta Ericantada, then Ira Todd must die, and that quickly. About eleven *Week he was awak- ened by solmeone shaking his shoed- -des' roughly. -"Yes, yell, What is it?" be demanded. "Get up, 'Lee," Tommy •Scaife's voice answered. Purely sat up, anxious -eyed, and 'beheld the little man and the night nurse on duty in the corridor. "What has happened?" he demanded. "Nothine Lee. I just thought I'd come down- an' (bring you home. Reck- oned you might rest easier there than here." "Hallie all right, Tommy?" "Segurol" Torernly turned to the nurse. "I know he ain't feelin' any too gay, but- the trip home won't kill him. 'Good' night, ma'am, an' thank you for lettin"me in." He dismissed her with a smile; as the door cleeed 'behind her he -sweet the blankets' off Purdy. "Lee.," he explained', "I'm afraid for you. I want you should come home." "Very well, 'Peramy. When you commence worrying there's real dan- ger. What do you know?" "Medlin', Lee, except that as I cir- ri -el the hill to -night before landin' with Miss Ormsby I marked' a small edire fire up a draw about two miles back of 'the house. It wouldn't .have been visible from the ground.", "Dum-m! Better take Curly Mc- Mahon snd Jeaquin down t -here be- fore daylight to -morrow morning, Tommy. Roll him out of his blank- sts, see who he is and ask him what he wants." "I'll pet Curly an' the' Chinaman on outpost in the sage back o' the hangar so r'roodv can sneak down on you from the hills in back after to- night. An' we know nobody will ev- U' be foolish enough to come up the hill road in front." "Good old file!" Purdy laid his hand affectionately on Tommy's :hounder. "Go on with 'the rest of your story." 'Well." Tommy continued, "after leavin' Miss Ormsby at the hospital this afternoon a yearnin' come over me to, knock down a couple o' frames o' pool over to the hotel. You' know that loom back o' the old bar-rciont? Well, four strangers was in there playin"a game o' pitch an' at sight o' me they sort o' lost interest in their game. .Seexns as if I must have looked familiar toone o' them, be- cause every time I'd look up from inakin' a run he'd 'be lookin' me over. Pretty soon the game broke up an' all four of these strangers took to stand-in' around the pool table pre - ten -din' a heap of interest in my game but mostly manegin,' to get in my way whenever I walked around the table. "Finally I seen they was lookin' to 'provoke a riot, so I says to the feller who's most offensive, I says, `Hom- bre, tie next time you git in my way you'll know you've met up with a white mane This was may gentle way qf informin' him I could see he wasn't no Mexican as pretended but a quarter -bred nigger. One of his pals then spoke up chesty -like an' says, 'Just what do you -all mean by ehat?"I mean to play pool with- out interference from white black men or black white men,' I says, an' the nigger promptly stomps on my little toe, which the same sports a corn. I suppose he figured I'd hit him for thet-with my fist - but when the adds are against me four to 'one I don't use my hands for hit - tin' folks. Instead, I knee him in the belly an' flop him cold; simultaneous I heat his friends to the draw. They're all three reachin' but I'm out first, an' they're covered, on account o' me knowin' in advance what I'm goine to do an' d,oin' it, now!" "Any sheeting, Tomlmly?" "No, they didn't insist on makin' -me prove how fast an' accurate I ant. I'll have to prove it later, I s'pose, but I was thinkire of you to- day, Lee, an' how had you're liable to need me, with Link away. An' be - side's, 'I had' to take Miss Ormsby home. It wouldn't have done nohow to leave her in Arguello all night. She'd die in one 'o' them hotel rooms -by suffocation 'or bed -bugs, or both,,‘F0"ur strangers - and gunmen, eh ?" Purdy missed. "Well, they ain't no tea-room hab- itues, Lee. I reckon I'd ought to know. el'he more I thought about 'them after got home the more I begun to worry about you alone in this here hospital with Todd." "I thought of that too, Tommy, so this afern,00n I called on Todd and delivered your message. He refused orders, of 'course; he had to do that far the sake of appearances, but I'm betting he pulled himself together and got out of town ten minutes after I left his ream. He knows he can't afford to stay. He'll hold up at the Box K Ranch and do his dirty Work from there. Meanwhile, he may not hear about Shannon." "While you're 'ciresein'," Tommy !volunteered cheerfully, "III look in at Todd's room an' see how good a prophet you are. What's his room number?" Purdy told him and Tommy pussy- footed away one his mission. In a few Minutes he came pussy -footing back. "He's gone, "I was certain of it. He went out to the ranch with Jake Dort." Tommy Slcaife chuckled malevol- ently, like a mean little gnome. He delighted in frightening people he disliked. When Purdy had finished 'dressing the cautious Tommy led him out the back door of the little hos- pital. "I don't think anybody knows Pin in town," he explained, "because I dropped in as silent as a dove fly - in' down to water an' parked in a erige dela a mile to the west o' town, but still we won't 'take no chances. Some- how, Lee, Main Street don't appeal to me to -night; street fighthe in the dark makes me nervous." 'Once cleerof the town Purdy pain- ed and faced Tommy Scaife. "Toile- try," he 'pleaded anxiously, "what de you suppose they want?" "KRIM'," Tommy replied. "Come on, -Lee. What you need is about forty-eight -hours lyin' quietly in bed with nothin' to eat or drink except nutriment." 'CHAPTER XIV Tenumy Scaife's brief visit to the hacienda of his employer, in search of information regarding -a common antidote for poison, had rought to Gail's mind once moiree-a plan otett- tem, which had occurred' 'to her that afternoon in Arguello, after Seaife had so very definitely outlined his de- termination to kill her manager on sight. At the time she had been too shocked, too frightened,' to make a coherent protest to this extraordin- ary -announcement before the roar of the 'n-lotor precluded the possibility of pleading with the man to stay his destroying hand. Once in the air, argument wa's' impassible until the ship should land on the Enchanted. Hill. During the homeward flight, however, Gail had managed to throw off ths mental inhibition initiated 'by the pilot's words. Her strong, re- silient nature rebounded from dumb - fright to righteous anger and 'when her temper had, in a measure, sub- sided, she 'could think. At La -Cueeta Eneantada' Tommy Scaife helped her alight from the plane. In -his attitude was ,discern- ible the respect and deference due a guest of the ranch, mingled with a ccol aloofness born of the knowledge that here wa-s one Who, knowingly or unknowingly, was aligned with Lee Purdy's enemies; and Purdy's enem- ies were his. Gail looked the little man over as coolly and defiantly as he gazed at her. "Well, are you still of a mind to kill Mr. Todd on sight?" she queried. 'He flushed. "I reckon I didn't use good judgment when I told you that, Miss 'Ormsby." He was ashamed of having permitted himself such an out- burst in the presence of a lady. "A few minutes before you came over to the plane I'd 'had an experience that sort a' brought Mr. Todd to mind an' riled Me more'n usual. So I spoke out o' my turn." "I thought so," the girl replied with chill disdain. "Barking dogs never bite." , He was ruddy enough before she said that, but now his face went a deep scarlet; then the deep flush of embarrassment and chagrin gave way to the whiteness of anger and the terrible bleakness came over his pale 'blue eyes, like a film He tremb- led, tried to speak, choked, and stood looking down helplessly at his feet. A smile of tolerant contempt, ris- ing out of the knowledge that she had triumphed over him, played over the, girl's lovely countenance. "I had an idea you were dramatiz- ing yourself, Mr. Scaife," she flung at him and started 'walking toward the 'house. She had gone less than twenty feet when the man's voice halted her; almost she rose on her toes a trifle as he spoke. "Miss Orm,slay-please!" He said "please" 'but it was a command nev- ertheless. She faced him instantly. "I'm sorry I spoke out of my turn, miss; it sort o' gives you a useless worry about Todd, an' there ain't any sense worm -yin' you about gettin' a new manager until the day comes for you to get one. I reckon I've made you cross your bridges before you come to thern." "There really isn't the -slightest necessity for you to be so solicitous about me," she retorted coldly. "I know there ain't, miss, but that ain't why I stopped you. You said something just 'now about barkin' dogs an' drama." "Yes. Well ?" "I didn't make any idle threat, Miss Ormsby. I just gave you a firm promise!" He tore his helmet from his flam- leg he-, ; and etade 1..2r a ;;:andi,o2 bow. "But I don't understand---" Gail -began. He interrupted her. "I reckon that's a';lout all that's wrong with you, Miss Ormsby. You don't under- stand." He turned his back on her and went to open the doom's of the hangar. For hint she had ceased to exist! 'Now, following Tommy Scaife's brief appearance at the living room entrance in search of help for 'Rory, Gail's, mind harked back to this brief but significant conversation, She re- alized now that of the mental reac- *one of men like Tommy Scaife she knew something less than nothing. Their stern, inflexible outlook on life, their indomitable pride, their uncom- promising adhetence to those unwrit- ten laws of the waste places which governed men's actions 'before the penal code and the code of civil pro- cedure had' even been printed -which supersede them 'still when town -made laws grow cumbersome and ineffec- tive and men lose faith in govern- ment -were characteristic not of the men of her world. In the most vio- leot and unjust 'of men may be found a profound respect for justice end an unsuspected capacity for upholding it -when applied to -other men. Vio- lent though he was, Tommy Scaife's not very ,priefound powers of Tension- ing had indicated to him that the law had no punishment for the crime Ira Todd had committed -to wit, a charge by insinuation publicly made against a pure woman's virtue, and a cowardly atternat to provoke that woman's brother to his death by • vittf:110444* 4414,10W.00.„,, TNItt'o teeteeeiren fer 'Helliei POW and bvp:;brq.- tbor a profound reeireenee and, c-. tion, his okraitme amigo 44 ogult01; his 'Otural love ef At Square de.a. efeeld have indicated to bine that Ire Todd "wanted kiliin?.." To Tomate thie man had ceased to be a man. He 'had degenerated into a predatory an-.' hnal; wherefore he had ceased to en- joy the 'benefit of laws relating to Men and must abide by the custom and usage applied by men to 'preda- tory -animals, which are slain by him who sees them first and first tecog- edees them as a menace to the cams fort and property of mankind; ' To Gail, knowing nothing of this elemental point of view, ;Tommy Scaife was a terrible hutnen being - thoughtless, emotionless, cruel, ire responsible; a man who could and would slay without question, without qualm, without investigation as to the necessity for the deed and whol- ly for the gratification of his brutal nature. He was one of Lee Purdy's two hired gunmen -brave, reckless, ruthless ruffiians, bound by habit and self-interest to protect their' leader and employer. That had been Gail's estimate of Tommy Scaife .before he appeared before her, anxious -eyed, distressed, eager to save the life of a dog. She wondered now whether it could be that, in certain unguarded moments, the man was slightly human. Did waves eof compassion, of tenderness, sweep over him occasionally? "I should have offered to help him with Rory. In working ever him to- gether we might have established a 'better understanding," 'Gail reflected. "I must know that man better; I must eradicate the hostility I have manager to inculcate in that wild "heart It just isn't possible he could 'have more pitrret-"r"VS-+ dog than for a man doomed to be strick- en by his hand!" She went to her mom, put on her coat, slipped out the patio gate and into the path leading up the mesa to- ward the mess hall and bunk -houses. But nn light shone in any of• these buildings and she was about to re- trace her steps to the hacienda when a light flashed in the window of the -hangar some three hundred yards distant. The path to the hangar led through the scrub -oak grove, and simultaneously with the appearance of the light there half a dozen elec- tric lamtps, scattered at intervals a- long this path, came on, illuminating it faintly' and encouraging Gail to stroll up to the hangar. For a few minutes she gazed tim- idly around her. The 'night was clear and starlit 'but a growing light on the mountain tops to the east gave promise of impending moon -rise. Afar on the mesa that sloped' gently upward a coyote gave tongue; from the valley below another answered him; save for this and the troubled chirp of a night 'bird perched in an adjacent tree, an atmosphere of sil- ence and mystery pervaded the night. Gail felt keenly the necessity for physical action. She must see Tom- my Scaife, apologize for hurting his feelings and re-establish some sort of entente cordiale with him; she must argue with him about Ira Todd, plead with him to reconsider his ap- parently unalterable determination to kill the man'Site must point out to him the embarrassment which would accrue to her, to him, to the Purdy, to society in general; she must strive to touch the same soft spot in his heart which Rory had touched, by ap- pealing to his chivalry, if he had any. She miu.st impress upon him the dire consequences of his act to her - a guest -and she must do it to -right. To -morrow might be too late. 'Walking toward the hangar, she had almost reached the door when men's voices caused her to retreat in- stantly. She had recognized readily Tommy Scaife's voice; in the few words spoken by his companion she thought she recognized the soft drawl of Joaquin, the cook. And, since it was no part of her plan to confront Scaife in the presence of a third party, she decided to retreat to the shadow of the oak grove some thirty yards from the door of the hangar and there await developments. Should Joaquin return to the bunk- house she planned to go to the hangar and request Scaife to grant her the favor of an interview. She leaned against the gnarled bole of a large oak and fell into deep thought, the while the moon rose and shed its mellow eflulgence over the Enchanted Hill; afar, in El Valle de los Ojos Negros a silver sheen ap- peared, the chorus of the coyotes in- creased, and a mocking bird awoke and with joyous, berbling. golden notes ran thegarnut of his repertoire. Presently Tommy Scaife emerged and opened wide the huge hangar portals. Assisted by his companion he rolled' one of the airplanes out, turned it, pointed its nose up the :nesa and started- the motor. "There must be something myster- ious about this nocturnal flying," Gail thought. Instantly she was alertly interested. "What paseible business can that man be embarking on now? And what sudden mysterious, unex- .plained business kept Lee Purdy in Arguello to -night?" She watched, unseen in the dark shadows of the grove. Scaife put on his helmet and coat, switched off the lights, padlocked the hangar door, spoke briefly to his companion, climb- ed into the fuselage and proceeded to hop off the hill. She saw Joaquin watch until the plane hung for a moment, silhouetted against the full moon; then she saw the cook turn to the hangar door and heard the metal- lic snap as he broke the padlock. With mounting interest she watched hint return to the interior of the hangar; she waited for him to switch on the lights, but she waited in vain. Nor did Joaquin emerge from the darken- ed hangar. With the switching ref of the lights in the banger, the lights strung a- long the path through the oaks which were, apparently, on the same circuit, had gone out also, and Gail stood in deep gloom under the thick branches, with wild expectancy a- waiting the next move in the Mys- tery. Of 'one thing She was certain Joaquin was now operating on his 4tY 7 TOPONTO-M own account, whatever. Tielseehief he was bent upon -and 'Gail did' aot for a mooneet think he was 'bent upon anything else. Tommy 'Smile bad had no knowledge of the cooles ten -tion to 'perpetrate it, else he would at leaving not bavrpadlocked the door, thus forcing Jetailein to break the lock the moment Tommy left 'the hill. Tremlbling with apprehension, the girl had an impulse to return as fast as she could run to the hacieeda and there lock herself in her room; bet her curiosity, piqued' to the limit by the knowledge that 'all unwittingly she had tumbled upon a warfare sil- ent, ferocious and pitiless in -this land of wide horizons, counseled her to LONDON remain. Her patience was rewarded. From the corner of the hangar, approach- ing it from the rear, the figure of a man emerged into the Moonlight His approach indicated caution and sec- recy, for 'he walked softly and slow- ly and reconnoitered the ground be - faire 'him beflore disappearing into the hangar. Gail's -heart thumped wildly. Was this skulking stranger an' enemy or a man in league with Joaquin in what-. ever seulduggery thet saddle coleeed individual might 'be contemplating? What was she about to be an un- suspected witness to? The electric lights came on in' the hangar and in the path, and Gail' cowered closer behind the tree trunk. Then a man cried' in terror: "Don't -don't!" A pistol was fired once; thereafter -silence; Perhaps thirty seconds passed, the, lights went out again; and Joaquin ,slid furtively out the doer and stood for several min- utes looking toward the distant bunk house, listening for the approach of whoever might have been attracted by the sound of the shot. After a while he went inside again, turned the lights for a, few seconds, switched them off again, came out- side, closed the door, sat down with his 'back against it, lighted a cigar- ette and sat there smoking. 'And now Gail Ormsby made a dis- covery. She could not move. Fear had paralyzed her 'hubs; gradually she sank to the ground and cowered there, silent and a -tremble, for she had been all but an eye -witness to a killing. Remembering Joaquin Jose Ram -on Orena y Sanchez's dark, sul- len, aboriginal face, with the brood- ing 'bloodshot eyes above a high beak of a nose and a roan, piratical mustache, she did not doubt that he would strangle her should she be so foolish as to reveal her presence. She was certain the cook was the sort uf murderer who believes firmly in Toronto the wisdom of the ancient saw to the- McNaught Walton Blyth Auburn McGaw Menset Goderich klehr leer ot quite cerrateeleAl ..• 71::114:frp7ab*:1::: veeestevereathth=lee (Centlened AN7 $L ITS in soon YOUR 'NERVE , Dr. Zidia,ei4'k's and WING4AM South P.M. Wingham 145 Belerave • 2.11 Blyth,,,. . 2.23 Londesboro , 2.30 Clinton 3.03 Brucefield 3.27 Kippen ., 3.35 Hensall 3.41 Exeter 3.55 North Exeter Hensall Kipper Bruce'field Clinton Londesiboro Blyth Belgrave Wingham . • A.M. 10.42 10.55 11.01 11.09 11.54 12.10 12.19 12.30 12.50 C.N.R. TIME TABLE East Goderich Clinton Seaforth Dublin Mitchell West ....... Seaforth Clinton Goderich A.M. P.M. 6.45 2.30 7.08 3.00 7.22 3.18 7.33 3,31 7.42 3.43 11.19 11.34 11.50 12.10 9.44 9.57 10.11 10.37 C.R.R. TIME TABLE East Goderich Mensert MeGew Auburn Blyth Walton McNaught Toronto West effect that dead men -and more par- ticularly dead women -tell no tales. Time 'passed and at that altittide the spring nights were very chilly. It seemed to the girl that unless help should reach her soon, she must per- A.M. 5.50 5.55 6.04 6.11 625 6.40 6.52 10.25 A.M. 7.40 11.48 12.01 12.12 12.23 12.34 12.41 12.46 eSNAPSI-10T BUIL Don't Overlook the Importance Of Birthday Pictures Don't delay taking the new baby's picture and then watch him throt.fgh monthly snapshots thereafter. TN these modern times the father is 1 lucky if he is permitted to see his newly -born heir for several days af- ter Sir Stork has delivered his pack- age, unless it is through the heavy glass of a well guarded window or door in the hospital. After a few days, however, when nurses and doctors decide he is not a common carrier of germs that might attack the baby and retard its growth, he should by all means exercise his authority as a father and demand permission to "shoot" the baby -with a camera, of course. Every month is usually considered a birthday in a baby's life until he is a year old. Thereafter, regular yearly ge birthdays are in order. At least a picture a month should be made of the new boarder and after the first twelve months you had better keep your camera loaded with film at all times for you can never tell when your baby is going to take his first cautious, faltering step -and what atm event in your life. -4 ---not Ms. It apparently means nothing to the baby. He simply steps out in a mat- ter-of-fact, but careful manner, and you get all excited, let out a couple of whoops, gasp, laugh and scare the infant so thoroughly that he falls down and has to do it all over again. The chances are that you will not be prepared for that first step, or if you would happen to be holding the camera in your hand you may, in your excitementeeven turn it in the wrong direction nr,dget an out -of - focus picture of your own mid-sec- tion. But don't miss this moment of grow moments the next time. Have your camera and yourself ready for ac- tion. There never seems to be enough of these baby pictures to go around for there are grandmothers. aunts, cousins and friends in distant cities who are always looking forward to receiving a snapshot of the newly - arrived commander of the "infan- try." Before you can realize where the days, months and years have gone Your child is starting to school. The baby has grown up and before you have a chance to wonder how he will "turn out" you are wondering what time he will come home to "turn in." There's always the "first time" for everything and this applies to thou- sands of events in a baby's life. There is the first time he discovers he has toes, and immediately de- cides in his own little mind that they are something good to eat. His first smile, and then that great mo- ment when he reaches out with his chubby little arms and says, "Blab," which is at once interpreted by the parents to mean "Daddie," or "Mona rnie," sometimes depending on who is "head" of the household. So make this "Baby Picture Pree paredness Week" and load your cant - etas ready for action. You don't have to wait "until you see the whites of their eyes," as a certain military man once said, but "shoot" the minute they perform one of their fascinating, amusing little baby "tricks." 4. e 44 .6:414 . 4'4,444;Y14,i444,::'1',1„)4 . 4 4 '4" -r 4 e