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- It was a hellish place; it eelteed to
• a demoniac din and it was a treteere
dew sosseatica tp ksy it,
f the
beet did toot glide se lip down the
deecesit" it tent ea a uesession of
terries ps;• it ick� snd twiet."
cel; it picanged ae if in u"
dem offer tb uesest its
WSW', and :wetter 1t4 :ergo. To::.
few occupant,: it nee *DI a "f its'
:estate were (+ening, if She board
themselves, were mg wrenched
leer* friss the ri to whit.))they
were nallat. The ien were drench.
ed, of eetweice they traveled in a
• deed di e; their feet were
Ask n ccld water, end every
wow del 'ectificed them to gasp.
Hew it lasted Pierce Phillips
w; the experience wee tou
F It...1448 a
e hideous phantasmagoria
frightful sensetion, a dissolvieg
eareeptffeon of .bleak, seuckling walls,
of hydrophobk boulders frothing!
maseb, as the flood crashed oyezethem;
eif tesachecous ,whirlpoolst 'end of
purewbg lave erseteet reac.es forth
ticking heogues of destruction. Then
the river opened, the eliff's fell sway,
• meta, torrent spewed itself out into
an **parse of whiripoolie-ea lake
,nt foretells.; funnels that- wiu'red
with epee another and threatetied, to
„twist the Let frou undcr tbe )03 .
'Poleon review close in to the right
• meat, *where im eddy 1.441 up
.' against. the flood; some tine flung .a
• repo from the shore and drew the
boat en.
"Wall I eievee hudno -better
k'reiro erled the pilot. Weed you
• eink of 'ice; eh?" Ile einiled down
et the ..whiteslipped oarsmen. who
. leaned forward, panting euel drip..
"Iii—that till of it? -,tels Mead
weekly.
"Male non! Leek! Perces \rite
•"Orsee, Doret indicated a wall of
.71r1 STAR
. amiss( to width it."
Royal's weasened face puckered Muer
until it resembled mom than ever a
withered apple. "ellen VH .44, *kart and sarvas
100." he declared. neve e laid
' down on you yeti Sane"
effew about you, Letty?"
The girl smiled. "Why, I wedeln%
trust you boys out of my eight for eeee /Imam epri S. 3, No.
Wore So Bad
Id
bluffs. minute. flontething welt iturt )" Godfrey, Ont., ivrites:—"I was SO lese
Denny Royal was net an imagine- happen.",
tive person. lie posse:nee, to be . Kirby stooped' and- kissed hie stall 311"elvt $.4111"4" imiki 141"
sure, the srperetitions of the ever- 'daughter's cheek. "Yoteve always t'• uP "it 61 bid 4114621 the 344
WP the Moor I would take
believed strongly in hunehes, but he brought us luck: I'd go to bell in a week bediteeothether /Pei* with 07
Was not fenciful and be put no faith paper sulteif you were along. You're weelti this* that sometime; X
iri dream's and potent.. It bothered a game kid, too, and I wept you to be woad die before I got over them
him exceedingly, t ere ore, to like a a ay . Be thorougb.
cover that he was weighed down by bred. Dont weaken, no matter how A.fter taking twe Wee* of
an unaccountable but extremely op- bad things break for you. Ihie car -
age horseman and gambler. and he been our mascot. and you ve always
pressive sense of apprehension. HOW go of rum is worth the best claim in
or *twit had conteeto obeeee ben he .Dawebn and it el put us on our feet
son Miler Canon and the sternly chance. Double and (mite -that's tee." geieeeeeen, ag„,neee;,„,„
waters below it had eseureed terrible This was an extraordinary long inmairt elligerelenel
potentialities and he could not shake speech for "One-armed'r Kirby; it
off the convection that they *ere showed that he was deeply in earn.
destined to prove hie undoing. .This est.
• Milliburn's
COIN not imagine, but for *me ren. again, All I want is one more
feeling he had allowed to grow until "Double and quit?" breathed th
upon him and his usual cheerfulness He nodded: "I'm going to leave I get better and
a* *ow willed
Pills
now a fatalistic apathy had settled _girl. "Do you mean it, dad?" •
• si
was **Pieced by Sent441$1 irritabil- you heeled. I don't aim to"take my es Itagrq as ere* ..& VIM
ity. Ile suffered explosions of tem- eyes off this barge again till she's in New, wawa recommend Milburn'$
per quite as surprising to, the Rirbrs• •Dawson."
father and deughter, as to himself. Roulette's face was transformed; ' eilf414. e/11/41 Nelle Pal* t* *11 Wh° are.
On the day ot. his arrival bo ‘.was there was a great gladness in her oatoffew estY wee with their -heart
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particularly ugly, wherefore nea" eyes—a gladness half obscured by or nerve., es I cannot sae too much in
letta was impelled to remonstrate tow. "Double and quit. Oh —I've their pretest."
quired. "Yau'U have our men quit- Royall, who knew tide girl's dreams have been oirtke market for the pest square -bodied spider; she -.eared her
latilbuties 'Heart and ?seer* Pills len ilea „the etee lege 9e r4ane. ea,
with him. dreamed of—quitting—ea often !
"What ails you, Danny?" ehe in- You've made me very haPPY• dad."
tine *a well as he knew his own, felt as bhltuffraelbor in pray. stphreaey.she dove, shrouding
"I wish they would," he cried lurop in his throat. He was a god.. roe ask for them.
$2 yetis; see tbat you get them when
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sand dollars' worth. Take a lot to
scare ma that Mitch. I bet the; place
is as safe as a chapel sad I bet our
scow gees through with her tail up.
Let her bump; she'll finiah with me
on her hack end all her weight 4: I
• built her and named here'
Danny watched the pilot as he
swung down to the stony /here and,
rejoined Pierce Phillips; thee Ite'
looked on in fascination while they
removed 'their outer garments, step.
ped into a boat with Kid Midges,
and rowed away into the gorge.
"It's-egot my goat!" mutterca the
little jockey.
CliAPTER XI
Although scows larger than the enee
R lett had run Mile* Canon and
ou a
the lipids below, in safety, perhaps
none more unwieldy had ever' done
so. Royal had built his barge *tout-
ly, to' be sure, but of. other virtue,'
the craft had none. When loaded she
was so clumsy, so obetinate, so head.
strong that it required unceasing -ef-
fort to hold,her on a course; as' for
rowinglier, it was alma impossible:
She took the first swooping yeah into
the canon, strange to lay, in very
good form, and thereafter, by glint of
eerculeart efforts, Royal and les three
men'enanaged to bold her head down.
stream. Sweeping between .the pali-
sade, she gelloped clumsily onward,
wallowing like a hippeopotamue. Her
long pine sweeps, balanced and bored
to received thick thokepinse rose and
"Boatmen! They don't know es less little man, but Roulette Kirby's It was a journey tO terrify experi.
Pat up billy by Milbutn CO4 ‘enced river -men; doubly terrifYing
Much aboist bogs as me and Sant." joys were holy things to him *her was it to Royal and Kirby, who knew
'Liited Toronto Ont.
"They do whatever they're told." - tears distressed bine deeply, ;here. .«. nothing .whatever of swift water and
Royal acknowledged this feet un- fore he walked away to avoid the bsick frora the portage, was easing to whom•its perils were magehied a
graciously. "Trouble is we don't sight of them. Her slightest wish "WsliiiO4- "het good band St mix thousandfold.
know what to• tell 'em •co do. All had been his law ever since she. had in 'neder feller's bizneses„ but --clat In spite of his apprehension, which
Sam knows is 'gee. and 'haw ' I mastered words enough ti) voice a pilot you got she's no 10)(44 P. by now bad quickened into' panic,
ean't After anything
a bridle. Why, if thla
siessee"
th" on't wear re eat end now he. too, watt happy Royal looked the 'stranger "er Dimity rose to the occasion with real
river wastx't to le rn that 4 -Tam Kirby w s at last front head to foot. • emu, &you
credit. lids face was like paper, his
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tone now, for a cataract was drum.
ming upon the after -deck and there
was a crashing and smashing as
the piles of boxes came tumbling
down. The scow drove higher upon
the reef, its bow rose entil it stood
at a sharp incliee, and meanwhile
wave after wave cut like a broach
over the stern, which steadily sank
deeper. The; the deck tilted drunk-
enly and an Avalanche of case -goods
was spilled over the side.
Things even up pretty evell.
Those who use the top parte of their
heads lees use their chins more.
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• rented in with trees we d imee taken, ready o mom his Attu' in accord- know? he inquired, sherply. . eyes were wide and strained; never- 7
• never liked their mode ef life; she "Oh, I see: 'You're ,one of the good the- pilot and strove to -obeyethe late
Roulette nodded thoughtfully. had accepted it under protest, and ones." Danny's .hir. was Ault'. Ids ter's directions implicitly.' , Now -
"Father is just as afraid of water, as with the Mail* years her unspoken tone- forbidding. e . with all his strength he heaved upon
you are.' Ile won't'admit it, but 1 disapproval had assumed the proper. "Yes," . • . , his sweep; now he backed water %fol.
can tell, It has gotten' on his nerves tions of a great reproach, aim had elute yourself, don't You ently; at nil- time did he. trust him- •
and—I've had hard wore to keep in never put that disapproval bite words suppose you want his job. - that self to look" at the cliffs which were
foam. and Epray fareher flown the • —she was far too loyal for that -4., it? No wonder—five hundred seeds,
im*outtlf; Past no to contemplate ,
from drinking." • '•
"Say! Doe'e let him get sstarted but Danny had known. Ile knew her for fifteen ' minutes' batt the tortuous turns in the gmege
river. Direetly,„ germerthe work.
ahead, That would have been too -
le:Manse on Abet!" Dartey exclaimed, earnest- ambitions and her possibilities, and graft, I call it." The speakeelaugh.
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Why suffer from carrot when they
can be painlessly rooted ad by Lint
H011OWCell Corn Remover.
Got-Rld Of The
Cough That SthkL
Some ankle and :mega Wei herd II
slake off; Ala te yew is spita
of everything yo* de to get rid of
theta, but estanot
These are .the king that are danger -
one; the kind that weaken' the lung*
the kind that alloys serious Nag trouble.
to get a foothold its you. system.
Oa the first ttmtratiwa sf eaugk
or odd you slioeU prom" a. bottle of
Dr. Wood's
Plenary
Pine
Syrup
and you fine thit 'after takiag
few dose's your meet eeea will /mew I
disappeared.
Tlus reptration hoe bow ea thee
market for tee past at years, se whee
you buy it you not experimenting
With Noe new sad untried remedy,
but tee that you get “Dr. •Vibeftait,
when
Yitv otlky 113; Aer mubm Comp
IplOited, Toronto, OM. •
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the wrong road and been lost, long since wi her s. Lefty had "Biccause--I'm pilot mysel:' theless, he kept his gaze fixed upon •
ago." •
•a whielpoolii stood a village' uatned much for him. Even when his
"Trust lee. I—')
"That would be the; left touch." he had sufficient vision to realize ed unpleasantly. "Well, what does u
after the reek, "You ;et 'dente , something et the ' clumsy oar all but grazed a bastion,
14oro ' -'-nn leirey himself appeared at that fired at•her father's hands. Sam
injustice she suf. good pilot eharge?"
"Me?" The Canadian shrugged or when a, jagged promontory seem-
eleou'm wronge I g'ot •plenty right moment, having returned from a loved hie , elauglater as eetv parents indifferently; "I charge Yon elle ed about eto smash his craft, he re- -
IrautImml to Mike
IkatioaajlpforeEttgst
Pratte Poultryaik. kionrd td•vice FREZ
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now," Broad declared • t t
"I'm stad the- Counteee didn't'"There's a good town below. I had man and he showed his affection in Royal's jaw dropped. The devil to. neare than lift hie eyes. Ile SAW . . A
*ceuneo" laird rhilliPa' a chance to sell the °atilt" eharacteristle Ways, It pleaded Roy.. You 00!" he exeloimetl. -that Rouletta Kirby was eery pale, fla you need a Better Training to command a Bigger fialerY 1..
When the men had wrung out tileir "Going to do it?" Deeny sould not al greetly to learn thet the old rare and he tried to shout a word of en- write to School otpotumerce ler particulars regardlug Cineetie for Stu.
elothew and' put on their boate thees, eolieeid hie. eagerness.. "4 &net 4/ant de job--youx scow's
.set out along the back. truil over the ' The elder man shook• hit had awakened to the wrong be did, no good—brit I toss a coin wit' you. couraeement to her, but his' erywas
graY and that thie.adYenture would serve One t'ousait' dollar or—free trip." thin and feeble arid it . failee to ' "c01.711fES: Comniermal, lit. epecial. Civil Service, Secretarial
dent:km:ming daily by train. . '
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tome of exploration. Said he : love•eltild but he Was a strange eousall dollar.' •fused to cease his frantic labor or
• ARE YOU DLSSATISPIED
heed, Hardly. Ira no. piker." to dose ftie story, as all good stories • Nothing doing, snapped' the ex. pierce the thunder of the waters. and Teacbers Cootie.
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horseman. Danny hOped tbe girl was not AS
lob you and Danny would take otiose, with. a happy ending.
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VW% the eapids " Roulette •said. Darmy was tumble wholly .ti. shake Ace" __For infermationappty to
the little man would not have Wished .31. A. STONE, ' • B. re WliRD, D.A.
Nervous and Itestlessi Kirby turned Ms expressionless oft bis oppressive forebodings, am end dis C401044. Dere's beeg rock ewe
HOF hard rto.de right in lowee
Ppeishment upon his.' orst Com, Specialiet. Vico PsirtelOal eitleitakl. •
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as Makes People. the portage and trust the pilot to In elite of these cheers ht "Bien' "dow I give yeti rel- '
oughts • frightened as he 'nor. as old Sem—
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face. •npon first, one then the other of sur he paused on the river -bank to dere. -..Don't touch 1131 or you'-goin' enemy. „•
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"YerYoust" he- in stare with gloomy fascination at the spin Ialt tqp an' mebbe you go over Kirby, by reason of e
'causes restless, nervous feeling and his comPattions.
quired of Roya . es jaws of tbe gorge they yeturned te Wit° 'Orse dideevays. eDat's „goin of course, was prevented' from lend- -
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I prevents•sleep. Adlezika removes i
is The latter eilently Admitted that plague him. The Edina „that issued einaskeeihu aktireeo'ut ,...-evishiy. atAr_ ingaey acti:telewilh thei • bp:at
;gas in TEN minutes and hringe out he watt, Royal ero , , . • andwas forcede o piny a pure Y 8-
surPrb41* amOtinta .01 old ' "Mt4 "Oci *head. 'You, end...Lefty out of Ott place was terrifying, the
part That it was not to p his
your- system. Tine excellent ititest- eAed ...nee
• matter you never thought' wets in akeeeett s
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some feed -box information—espe. mat: liking any one could have seen. for,
other hat tine eh'? Everybody's got stye
erase knowledge that it frightentel. hint eft.
. ' 4 raised the little min. "
' It was are unpropitious Moment 17
yal; there- the ones, you -don't here: . Well, I once the mooring's. were slipped, be .
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Inal evacuant is wonderful for con. eoh, I'm'cohis
. .to stick" for any to address 'Re aint seared—" . .. • did not open his lips; be merely steed
stmatum or allied stomach trouble: ii "Oh yes, you arel" said the other beside Roulette, with the fingers of
Fitther"—the girl began, but old fore, when he beard himself spoken
Doe't waste tete with pills or tab. Sam shook his heed. ° to, he whirledhis with a scowl upon mon. "Everybody is scare' of 43s his right hand sunk into her, ahoulder,
lets but get REAL Adletika action! bet
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E. "No. This ie ley case ., mut I'm face. A tall Frerich.Canadian, just Ple,,Aeer;;how, isgthey
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Beath them reeled and pitched.
•• "Look! We're merle throtighl"
• the girl cried in his ear, after what
seemed an interminable time.
Kirby nodded. 'Ahead he „could
see the 'end of the Canon andwwhat
ecppeared to be freer water; out into
•;this open space the torrent flung it-
self. The seine was riding the bore,
sthat ridge of water upthrust by reg. -
lion of the preseure from above; he-
tween. it and the exit from the chute
. was "a rapidly dwindling expanse of
tossing' waves. 'Kirby was -greatly
relieved, but he could not understa
why those rollers, at the mout of
the gorge should rear themsel s so
• high and should foam so leve ely.
The •briefs ended, the narrow
throat vomited the river out, and the -
seow galloped from shadow (uto pale
sunlight.
The owner of. the outfit drew a
• deep breath„ his clutching fingers re.
• taxed their nervous hold. He saw
that Denny was trying to melte him-
self heard and he leaned forward to
catch the fellow's words, evhen sud-
denly tlieetmpossible happenml. The
deck beneath bis • feet WAS jerked
backward and he was Hears to his
knees. Simultaneously there came
a crash, the sound of rending, splint-
ering wood, and overethe atern. of the
• barge poured an icy delege that all
butsswept father and daughter away.
Roulette screamed, then 'she called
*tome of Royal. '
"Denny: Danny!" she cried, for• ...
both she and old ennt had seen a ter.
• Able thing.
- The blade of Royal's .weep had
• been submerged at the instant. of the
collegian and, as a consequence, the
force of that rushing current had
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man on the other end overboard its
cleanly, as 'easily asla school -boy
seePs
paper pellet fr nt the end of
a pencil. Before their very eyes the
Rirbys saw their lieutenant, tbeir •
• lifelong friend and :servitor, picked
up and hurled into the flood.
"Danny!" shrieked the girl. The
voice of the rapids had changed its
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