Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News-Record, 1911-06-01, Page 7*TAGGART 114 P.% WA:00AM Meraggart Bros, GENiRnIs IRANIEtNci Singe MSS TRANSACTED, VOTES DISCOUNTED. v (41011A.FTS ISSUED OtTELEST ALLOWED ON Dtre !POWS. SALE NOTES. PORCH. OISE% see.- -sen-ne. se. ee set 1..4 PIP H. In R,ANOE.: NOTARY PUBLIC, CONVEY- ANCER, FINANCIAL, REAL ESTATE AND FIRE INSUR- ANCE AGENT, REPRESEN- TING 14. FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES, DIVISION COURT omen, CLINTON. W, BRTDOINE, BARRISTER, SOLICITOR , NOTARY. mum "ETC; OFFICE—Sloane Bleek-41111411014 CHARLES B. HALE Coeveyancer, Notary Public • Commissioner. Etc. REAL ,ESTATE ad INSURANCE Iesuer ef Marriage Licemses, MORON STREET, CLINTON 44141..4.11.1..../1.=•• 1 1 THE BUSINESS WORLD Is calling you, why not prepare nowt ne leading mercantile how of Canada And United Stettee recognize our efficiency. The Spotton Business Colleges Have given thousands of young people a good start inlife. We can atinist you, . Offer unexcelled adventageit, to I those who cannot attend college. Full particulate upon inquiry. 1. .CLINTON Business College IGEO. SPOTTON, masT. no** • 4404 ••••44 •414***11444P OUR HOME STUDY COLTSES 11111111111111M 0. N. WATSON • CLINTON, - ONT. LICENSED AUCTIONEER for the County of Huron. Corres- pondence promptly answered. Charg- es moderate and satisfaction guaran- teed. Immediate arrangemeats for sale dates may be made by calling at The News -Record Office or on Frank Watson at McEwatinn grate ery. 17 THOMAS DROWN, LICENSED AT.PC- tioneer for the counties of Huron and Perth. , Correspondence prompt?- , ny attended to. Immedinte arrange meats can be made for sale dates at The News -Record, Clinton, or by; Calling plume 97, Saatonth. Charges 'Illiodekete and sanisfaction, guoren- teed; DR. W. GUNN L. R. C. P., L. it. S. , Edinburg Oe—Ontatio street, Clinton. Nnebh calls at bout door of office or at residence on Rettenbury street. 141,41.4Moomnimmm re—DR. J. W. SHAW RATTENBURY ST. EAST. —CLINTON- M. C. W. 11110MrSON. PllYSICIAL, SURGEON. ETC. Special attention given to dis- eases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat. eyes carefully examined and suitable glasses prescribed.' Office and residence : 2 doors west ot the Commercial Hotel. Huron St. DR. F. A. AXON. • DENTIST. Specialist in Crown 'aad Bridge Work. Graduate of C.C.D.S., Chicago, and R.C.D.S., Toronto. Batted on Monday? from May to .Opeember. GRAND R A t LWAY 11 SYST —TIME :FABLE— Trains will 'arrive at and depart from Clinton Station as follows: BUFFALO AND GODERICH DIV. Going East IL IL 44 41 Goktg „West 44 id 44 AI 44 LI 7.85 a. in. 8.07 p.m. 5.15 p. 11.07 a. m. 1.25 p. m. 1.49 I pen '11.28 p. in. LONDON, 'HURON & BRUCE, DIV. 7.50 a. 4.23 p. m. 11.00 a. in. 6.35 p. Going South 4 44 Going North 44 44 OVER dB YEARS' EXPnAllerlen .PATENTS TRADE MARKS Mamie ' • COPYRIGHTS &C. ' Anion° sending ROMA' and description may "[Wetly ascertain our opinion free whether an Invention is probably patentable, Communica. tions strictly confide/Arai. eRNIMleim on patolte sent free. OldeSt agency for securing 'patents. Patents beam terongh Muun th CO. receive "melanoma without charge, in the stientifie bandoomeir illuntrotod weekly. Weak Mt. el:flatten at ang scientific( Jourt4d.Terms for c a, $:..5Tent. sestaira Bold by CII newsdealerk MUNN LD2.4.91grommth New York Branch Woohltutton. B. LIPPINCOTT'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE A FAMILY LI 'NARY The Boat In Current Literature 12 CoMPLITII NoYsIA YSASLY MANY SHORT STORIES AND PAPERS ON TIMELY TOPIC* $2.50 rntislribuI: SO OTC A CoiOi CVO CONTINUED STORIES tvgnli NUMBER OOMmirtic rrati.0 DR. OVENS, M. D., I. R. C. P., Eta., Specialist Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat, will be at Holmes' Drug 'Store, Clinton, on Tuesday,. March 1st, 29th, April 20th, May 24th, June 21st. If you require Glasses don't fail, to see Dr. Ovens. . The Mutual Fire Insulance Sampan The Cablernetri AN LXCITING PRESENTsDAY ROMANCE or— weATHEREIY ot-uesNY Supplied Excluu$v.ly in Canada by The tiritish Colonial Prima Service, Limited. Local traditionsaid that a wee bon tentless. It was a place where a ship might have ridden out in safety the heaviest hurricane that ever blew, If it had been possible for any ship to enter. But the opening in the circular wall wait hardly more than ten feet across, and under- neath there was a broad sill, which rose to within two fathoms of the sur- face. It was a slangerou* entrance, even for a small boat, and when the wind blew from the west, Impossible; but Elsa -knew it well, and thought) hat oho could manage it, even alone. She was an expert and fearless boat - woman, but she was not accustomed , to having to depend altogether upon herself in her expeditions. The boat WAS a present which her father had given her a little more -than a year ago; but with the present, he had coupled a stipulationthat she should never go out in it alone: The irregus lar coasts of San Miguel breed trete cherous currents, and wind squalls are sudden; «but even had the waters beim as safe as the Solent, Elsa's boat -wad toe big for one girl to manage. This, therefore, was the first occa- sion on which she had been out in it alone; but to -day a companion was im- possible. For she had work to do which no eye but her own muet ,see. Did tithe still believe in her father's innocence? She was eating as though she did; and, for the rest, she tried M force herself not to think. She had not kept her faith without a struggle. Misgivings had arisen in her mind, but she bad strangled them remorselessly'at their birth, and by an 'effort of -will made herself believe that they had neverbeee born. There was, however, one moment when the doubts had been too strong to be stifled thus; they' had cried claniorotisly, Med had refused to be choked; and for halnan- hour she had tasted a misery nicire'nit- ter even than ,that which had come When she first knew that her father was dead. That moment wan When she listened to' Scarborough's tale •of' the embezzlement of Margaret Ryan's Inheritance, and had told him passion- ately that since he believed it, he --Faroe and Isolated Town. Property- -Only. Insured— • —OFFICERS -- J, B. McLean President, Seaforth P. 0..; Hclwen, Vice-Pretrident Bruceheld P.0. •' T. E. Rays, ' Sec.- ' Treasurer, Seafotth P. 0. —Directors= William Chesney, Seaforth ; John Grieve. Winthrop; George Dale, Seae forth John Watt, Warlock;' John liennewies, Brodhagan ; James Evans, Deechwood James,Connolly,, Goderich. —AGENTS— Robert Smith, Warlock, E. Bin- chley, Seaforth ; James Cummings,' Egmondville ; J W Yeo, Woken,. ville, . Any enemy to be paid in may he paid to Tozer & Drown, Clinton, or at Cutt's grocery, Goderich. ' Parties desirous to effect insurance or transact other business will be promptly attended to on application to any of the above officers addressed to their respective postoffices. Losses inspected by the director who lives nearest the scene. Clinton News -Record CLINTON, -- ONT, Terms of subsoription—$1 per year in advance $1.50 may be charged if not no 'Said. No paper discontinued until all arrears are paid, unless at the opinion of thepublisher. The date to which' every subscription is paid is denoted on the label. • 'Advertising rates—Tiansienli ed sers tisements, 10 ceate per nonpartel line for first insertion and 3 rents' per line for each subeequent insert kin. Small advertisements not tit . exceed one inch, such as '"Lost." "Strayed," or "Stolen;'.'' etc., in- serted once for 35 centa and each subtentient insertion 10 cents. Conitnunioations intended for publica- tion must, as a guarantee of good faith, be accompanied by the name el the 'writer. W, J. MITCHELL, 6 Editor and lOrtaiirietor F EiltilESEEKERS' EXCURSIONS "Your mother is on her way to Join as. she win arrive on the Funcbal from Lisbon on the tenth of the month. If o,,that tate I am unable to meet her, if my 'Presentiment—after all, I think it is a pregentiment, Elsa—hes by that time come true, I wish. you to recover this package from the safe place in which you have bestowed it, and to give it into her hands. When you no so, tell her also that my last message to her, spoken by the lips of you, her daughter Is that she is ro respect the wish I have expressed in a letter to her which the packet con- . taine. She will understand; you will not. For the rest, be guided by her. "Good-bye, little girl. I think thio is •the longest letter I have ever writ- ten to you, I have one thing more to add to it. If you have begun to doubt me in some things, at any rate you have never doubted that I love you. In days to come your estimate of your father May change; you will hear things that will try your faith, But never believe that he did not you. It Is for your sake that I em. daring danger to -day; it is for your sake that I hope for success, that I may return to you to be happy, for a little while longer in your love.. "It is time now that I was starting. I cannot write more. But again, darn Ing, good-bye." • Elsa read ;this letter with tears streaming down her face. Whatever the man may have been in life, only a churl would deny that this message from him in death was pathetic. If he was a scoundrel, he had never been so to his daughter; and in his skilful dis- counting of the' revelations that must come after his death, there was a Mel- ancholy cleverness. He fought for the continuance of her love, and it was plain that whild he pleaded he feared. At present Elea saw only the pleading; It was not until later days that she recognized, with A sorrowing 'pity,.that the fear was there too. There was much in the letter that she 'did not understand. Her father plainly looked for death as the issue of his effort; 'but what sort of death? At the bands of the enemy whom he might go—for almost she thought she was going to meet?—murder? Then hated him. She had thrown heaven on why that reference to the hardships the couch, and sobbed hysterically; for of his youth, and the weak place they at that moment the knowledge was' in had lett? For the first time she al - her heart that what he said was true! lowed herself to hope that her father's Later had come the reaction. She end had not been violent, after all. took up her faith again, the more me Sunden it must have been, but pen reasonably because reason had forced h '' • Her love carried .her at once to the Other extreme of speculation. Was her father not a victim, but a hero? He had made a great effort, and he rend that he made it for her sake; she did tot understand that, but he had writ- ten the words. '.Did he know that the effort. would cost him his life? , She canvassed this tboughte and it seemed to her that it was the truth. She found a certain comfort in it, and she took a dreary pleasure in carrying out the task which he had laid turn her. The safest place she knew. That wait surely ioe Ring -Rock, round whose flanks she could now, through the fog, imar.the water swirling.' ,her to lay it down; and she despised herself for the weakneoe in alloWing the calumny to influence her even for a moment. There was something of obstinacy, in this—the obstinacy of a strong nature which rights the more tenaciously when facts and common- sense alike are against it and it knows quite well that it is. in the wrong; and there was even more of the beautiful loyalty with which every true woman will always, at whatever violence to her own judgment of right and wrong, defend those whom she loves. It will b remembered that when Elsa set out to go td.the circus at Pon- ta Delgada, her father's last words to her had been that if—unlikely as such a Chance seemed at the time—he was not at the Chinelas when she returned, ohe would find in his desk, in the sec. ond small drawer, on the left, a paper that would tell her what she was to do. This paper' was marked, "To my daughter, Elsa, to be opened by her to morrow at noon, if by that time I have not returned to destroy it." • • Elsa opened it an hour after Scan borough *ad left her. This wee what it contained: "My dear daughter,—I told you this morning that when you returned from Ponta Delgada you might possibly find that I was hot at •home to greet you, and to hear your report of what and whom you had seen. 'I might have told you that the possibility was a cer- tainty, but I did: not wish to alarm you. Dy the time you return .1 shall have succeeded or failed, in an enterprise, the Success of which is so essential, that to ensure It I am voluntarily put- ting myielf in some danger. While. you are doing your best at Ponta Den gada to discover who the unknown enemy in I shall be engaged in a simi- lar contest with an enemy who is well known to me, an enemy , who of late has taken to using threats, Now, *little girl, between the known enemy and the unknown, I run a double risk of failure, and this is what you must help me to avoid. 'Tie sealed packet which you will find with this letter, Contains docu- ments which mutt at all emits be kept out of the hands of people who Would - use them to your and my injury. I dos not trust to my own ability to safe- guard them,, nor is it 'possible for me, watched as I believei I am, to put them into any place of safety. That must be your task. Those who are shadowing me will not consider it necessary to watch you else. Take the packet, 'and put it in the safest place that you know. When I return, if I do 'return, I shall not ask you where it is. "I am not a faticiful man, Elsa, but I have written these four words, 'I do not return,' deliberately: Of late I have had a feeling—a fanciful man would say a presentiment—that my end. is not far off, I have lived a life of varied activities,. Weise useful, and some perhaps not so useful, and the strain of old efforts is beginning to tell upon me. In the early years of my manhood' I sufferedgreet physical hardships, and they left a weakplace; before I left London my doctor warned ree that the weak place Was becoming weaker. The effort which I must make to-day—an effort, which for your eake as well as mine, is inevitable—Is of the sort which I have been Warned to avoid, but I have no choice. tell you eine unwillingly, and for the first time; but it is necessary that you should be ready, if I fail, to take u pthe work where I leave it. "Now you will ask—what is the Work? My daughter, it is the inhabili- fatten Of my name. I have thought lately that you Were beginning to doubt whether my anxiety on this point was not becoming weaker. Elsa, I say to you solemnly, that it, Is as strOng now as ever It 'Was, But haying said that, I am now going to add Some- thing which you will, perhaps, not un- derstand. It is this I hand over the Work to you, but I lay no charge upon you to complete it. Nay, more, under certain circuiristanees, I forbid YOU to complete it. I do tot even make you the judge of those ciremetetatices. That is an ()fade Which I leave, net to you, but to your UMW, .itattoia, Saskatchewan, Alberta Special TisIni leave Toronto 100 PM- on APOIL 4, 18 NAY 2, 10, SO AIME 13, 27 JULY 11, 25 AUG. 0, 22 SEPT. 5, 18 Second olio tato front Ontatio Malloni PlIneisl Notthwest panto at LOW ROUND-TRIP RATES Winnipti anti return 03,00; , gantonton endid Solt.00. mid to other Point, Is PrOPC466II. 114016 quod to touts within 60 clays from Vag antw TOURIST SLEEPING CARS osIl ekentiotts. Comfettitiblet brain fully e0gPe0 With heading, taste soured at moditato tato Woo local agent. telly atoplicetion must two made ASK FOP HOSESESittRIP PAM pHilt containing tato atutkill inhumation. Awl, to etrifeat C.P,R. Ante et to R.1....11wwege,/ Diu. Paw. Aw., Tomato. ONLY OiRt0I LINE ' NO SOMME Of W. JACKSON, AGENT, CLINI`ON nne had the packet with her, sealed in a great stone jar. It Was thin and flat and had rolled easily into a shape that would pass through the jar's neck. She took the boat in through the opening, and made for a .spot on the east of the circle. There was a funnel - Shaped fissure in .the rock wall here, which even at low tide contained a fathom of black water., • She had sounded it on the .last occasion on Which she had visited the Ring -Rock, and it was this, funnel shaped fissure, that she meant to use for her hiding - place. She had painted the jar black, •o that it should.not be visible against the basalt, and she had tied, many loops of strong picture wire about its neck so that she could recover it by grap- pling when her mother came. She brought her boat close to the rock wall, And was feeling with a boat- hook for the month of the fissure, when a sound from the outside struck her ears. , She was not alone. Voices of men close at hand came to her through the fog. • • • deed rolling Of a. nereitet in the trough. There was a oonfuelon and shouting on bar deck, and Elsa thought that abs iesw a woman. tom. The fog crept round again, and blotted out the view Of the stranded vessel. She sculled nearer, as MiletlY ail she blond. It did not seem that there was futY immediate (Mager, the vessel ap- parently was not sinking, and as the sea outside Wate calm, her people would easily make the shore in their boats. Efise did not wish, to be seen, so Oita waited until they were gone. But Meanwhile he must know whether it woes poisible for her to get out at all. It was not Possible. Under the light air the ship bad taken ground slowly, buther weight had carried her Wel into the opening There was not room on either side of her for a boat to pas. out. Elsa was prisoner. She looked up at the name painted on the bows. It was almost dark now but she could just make out the white letters. be nearly betraYed hersel1 by a cry of dimity. The vessel was be Sea -Horse, the circuo peOple'e schooner. . • She pushed back quickly, but a head appeared over the forward bulwarks, and, a woman's voice hailing her ,told her that she had been seen. "Boat 'that! ,We want help. Bring your beat alongside." It waajdona de la Mar. Elsa drew back further Into the fog. Her first impulse was to refuse help. Mona shouted again, and Elea brought her 'boat alongside, "Do youneed help?" elle asked. • . • "Are you fining?" , "No. I don't thin* so. But we're hard, aground.' it comes on to blow, we shall break up." "You had better take to your boats.": "We haven't any boats, that's why • we need yours.., Can you come aboard if we let down a ladder?" "Yes." A iope ladder wee thrown Over the oide. Elsa fastened the end of it to' the painter of her boat, and then, waiting till the .pendulum swing of the schooner brought the bulwarks to their lowest point, put her deet in a rens and took a firm hold with her hands. There was an almost motionless second between the 'down swing and the and then she was carried swiftly up- wards. „At the same time she was nressed hard against the schooner's eider and the cold lion took the akin off her knuceles. • It' Was all she could do to hold on; she could not climb until once • more the fall of the roll swung her outwards' again, In the brief pause between the two thove meats she raised. herself two rungs, but it , was not until she had been hoisted and lowered eight times that ehe reached the bulwark level. Then two'black arms 'grasped her and lifted her on the deck,. and it, soft voice neer- inured: "All, right,. missy; now yo's safe. • You very brave lady." • "I . didn't -think, you would manage It," said hnona de la Mar,, who was Mending 'close by. "Sambo ie right. You are a very brave. girl.. But I don't suppose you need .es to tell you that, and time is. precioan May we Use your boat?" . "Yes," said Elsa. "I expect Iniu wonder why we haven't, one of Ott! own. •Therels • a simple explanatien; but'. you . can -hear • it -by And bye. 'Meanwhile I daresay you'll trust .us. Welre honest you know. We neven't stolen this ship:" . Mona .laughed as she said 'flea, bun Elsa 'answered gravely: • "You .may use my boat If you can get it out." . . .• "Get it .out? What do you mean?" . "You will have to get the boat out 'of, the water, and launch it again over the stern. There is only one way into or out of the circle of the Ring -Rock, and your schooner is blocking it "Is this the Ring -Rook?" "Yes. Didn't yob know?" "Hadn't auction," said Mona light- ly: "I'saw it marked on .the chart, but I thqught we were a' good the .miles from it, Val B. will Say nastythings about Inv navigatiefl when, he' hears. I'm his pupil in that sbujeeti you- see!" . cried, passionately; and then, as she !She. laughed softly again, and thens - noted the fixed look Of scorn on Elsa With a quick movement, came closer face, she added:. "You think that I '' did . know ! You think that!" • • "T do not .believe anything that You havesaid," was Elsa's answer : . voice from., above slitioted. doWn the companion. • . ' • . "Missy Mena, the boat am launched, and the stars am shining, I tink there is .a breeze ,coming." • • • CHAPTER XI. The Piling -Up of therSea Horse cold tilliaintrOvitt, trlet at 1114 taine eine with a certain Adrenal= There had been no examirsetion of die extent ot the (Jamie*. For all that this laughing girl knew "A the contrary, the Seas Horse talgOt in a tow minutes slip off the ledge and take her to the bottom. "I want to talk to you," said MOW" "to learn, it I can, what sort of girl YOU are; and though you are not inter- ested in my moon, I'm going to give it to you. It is because you are the daughter of the man who robbed lee of twenty thousand pounds." Elsa sprang to her feet with quiver- ing "That is not true," she said. "Oh. cemel You don't deny the relationship!" said Mona mockingly. "And as for the nebbery—" "My father did not rob you," said. Elsa hotly. "Didn't he? I think the term is an curate. At any' rate Richmond earring - ton accepted its substantial accuracy as a description of what he bad done when I taxed him with it yeeteterday.' "Yesterday!" cried Elsa. "Yea saw him yesterday? You admit It?" "Of course I admit it. Why should- n't I? I have been very anxious to Bee hint, you know. I knew be was in San Miguel, and I meant to see him; but I didn't count on having the luck to run up against him, in the coarse of the very firat bicycle ride I took in the Island. However, that was what hap- pened." "Where did you meet him?" Elsa de- manded, "About a Mile from the village of Fumes. I had gone there to see the famous geysers, you know. Romantic disrtict for a defrauded heiress and the „Ottfaulting trustee to meet in, wasn't it?" Elsa decided at once that the girl was lying. Furnas is ten miles from the Caldeira de Morte. The tale was impossible. "I thought the defaulting trustee was looking very prosperous, Mona went on mockingly. "He hail put on flesh since I last met him. But he didn't seem to be as glad to see me as be might have been, considering all that he owes to me. He spoke of you, by the way, and actually had the folly to appeal to what he called my finer feel- ings, my *generous heart, on your be- half. That was a false move which I should not have expected from a man of his proved ability, Do you know. Miss Carrington, that your father is a very plausible impostor?" . Elsa answered her with a glance of contempt. "I recognize," he said, "that he made a mistake in crediting Margaret' Ryan with finer feelings. Will you allow me to return to the deck? You shall have the Use of' my boat." "But you would prefer not to have any more of my company than. Is ne- cessary," said Mona, laughing. "I sup pope that's natural. But I've some- thing more to say. Your father made a ridiculous proposition to me. Will "you tell him thatit is declined, with Margaret Ryan's best love and thanks." • "Let me go!" said Elsa fiercely, "How dare you 'neck at him like that? You know that he is dead!" Mona.' do in Mar started forward with "Dead! Do you shy he is dead?" "Do you say' that you did net know '101. • "bead! Your father is dead!" res pentad the . girl, with a scared ' face. "Of course I did not know. And I have been saying all these thinge about to you! Oh, what .a brute you must think' me!" She came close to Elsa and tried to put her arm about her, saying softly: "I am so sorry. I would give anything to be able to unsay all I have said in the last few minutes. But I did not know. You believe ,rae, don't you?You don't .think I could be so utterly heartless?" • Elsa drew back from her touch. "I think," she said, coldly, "that you are a finished actress." Mona shuddered, and her brown eyes were Wide with area! distress. "You don't' believe that r am sorry, that I would not have said a word of all this to you if I had known," she Elsa drew back her boat -hook from thnfissure, and stood up in the boat, listening with a strained intensity Of concentration. She was quite sure that they Were men's voices that she had heard; but were the men a long Way off or dose to her?. She knew how deceptive is the nature Of sound in a fog on the water. Probably some boat was passing in the distance: She heard the voices again, and this time they seemed quite close. She could almost distinguish the actual words, and she could hdar plainly that the language was English.. The fog swept down upon her again in a thick blanket. She catild not see three yards ahead. The thickening of the gloom Was sudden, and probably Only local. But while it lasted she was safe from observation She must finish her work before it lifted to betray lien She lowered the stone jar into the fissure, and pushed her beat quickly Sway from the side, Hardly had she done so, when by some caprice of the air currents, the fog cleared away so vompletely, that from the middle of her little harbor, she could see the Whole circle of the basalt walls. It was only a local clearness; in the gath- ering dusk of the evening she could see thrOugh the narrow entrance that the Aeavy billowing masses of whiteness were still twisting and heaving on the sea outside. She put an oar in the stern -notch, and began sculling towards the en- trance. A Voice from clooe at hand rang sharply on her ears. "Rooke dead ahead! Starboard! She heard the rumble of a wheel, and the sharp rattle of the rudder Chains. A shadowy 'form loomed out of the tapers, and came slowly On towerds the entrance. The toed moment the bowsprit of a large vessel passed be- tween the rock walls Of the narrow opening; there Was it grating noise, and a sharp jerk; the Vessel heeled till her bulwark touched the basalt, shiv- ered a moment, and. swung been again the other way; the bell on her fore - 'main toiled with the violence of the Oscillation, and then, balanced on the fulcrum Of the grounded fortifOot, he Settled deem With long slow swings, like some glint Metretiotties, tir like the it the third. Pace, Van W. naentigine *Sinn; for being such * downy, unfledged fool as to allow a man who threatened re- venge to steal a march on him. There, I've limited tile biome exactly.- The thing stand* nun an. You're not on to thie ;Kenn" "I piled your ship up," said MOO& "Of course you did! But not till that Scoundrel—frtghtened at the prob- able eoneetquencea of his act of pinion, I dare itliteetnid profited by the chance of laving met an orange ship hi the fog, end had deserted with my boat is her. Be was the only man on board who knew anything about navigation, and be left you to find your Way back without him. I'd wring hie neck with pleasure, if I could get hold of hint; but I think you did very well." "I might have prevented big taking all," Sea-Horse Mona,rom her mooringe at li," ti "Yes, it you'd shot him or thrown him overboard, I dare My YOU Might," said, Montague With a laugh. "Short of that, I don't see how you could," "Satin, Mona insisted, "I might, I haven't old you that when he came aboard and gave the 'order to heave short, the deck -hands hesitated, and Similes came and told me what was be- ing done." Montague gave her a sharp look. e ru;;NO t,trgEibtlineoglit' s'ehl adeis?daliegdal was"You i n aa ebna told me that. What did yea do?' "And wanted a short cruise to put you right again?" "I thought you needed a lesson, and. that a scare would do you good; and I thought that when the lesson had gone far enough, Sambo and, the others would obey me and bring ehe , schooner back. I got more than I bar- gained for myself in the educational line, but I went into the 'experiment with my eyes open," . "So?" said Montague, and was silent. Mona waited for a minute. "Suppose you tell me a few borne truths,' she said presently. "Tell me meekly, because—well, because I de- swehrvatei It." think of me, take it I." B. vaMontague looked up With a smile. "Very well," he said, "'ll start in straight! I'll tell you that so far from blaming you for your fit of UMW, Val B. Montague has the sense to etee that be is to blame' there too, I was rude to you in the morning, and ,it served me properly to be. taught a les- son. Verney gave me some straight talk about that, the impudent scoun- drel! But of course he was right, and so were you. Shall we cry quits, cut the loss, and start .afresh?' He held out his hand and the girl took it. "You're a good port, Val," she said: "I'm a Yankee, circus man with an -uncommonly hot temper," said' Mon- tague, laughing. "But I once put in a year or two in a Boston 'academy where they, charged extra for man- ners; and if I do sometimes so far for- get myself, under provo'cation, as to. be rude to a lady, I flatter myself I know what's the right thing to do afterwards. Is peace?" "Of course it's peace," said Mona with it smile. "Now tell me what you reckcin that your loss will amount tee' ' Val le Montague fellowed her lead with alacrity. He had apologized hands somely, but it did notamuse him tea cliebsosarrythe apology more than was ne- cessary. "Counting repairs', loss of -profits On performances, wages to the Members Of the Combination during enforced idleness—say 'five hundred pound*. Not so bad as it might have been!" "Is. the Sea -Horse entirely wainsuredn' ' "Lord, no! I'M a fOol, but not quite a madman. Sh-e's insured up to about half her value. I daresay,.1. -shall get a hundred out of the Companies. Then there's the advertiaement. That should beworthaadlvoetr.' ,,wt'isenci n Montagne looked pained. . • • "I'm disappointed in you," he said.: 'You've been With me for two years, and you've had the opPortunity, of studying my., buSiness methods, and Yet you fail to see that your adven- ture in the Sea-Horee will, -give a chance for a .bit Of real good 'adver- tising. Trust me to know how to use it. I've written up the tale of your heroism in. my best style, and the newspapers of every p'ace we perform at will print it as a sensation from r al life. The'populace will Ooze to circus just to see you, and we shalt. turn money away. You'll see!" • Mona smiled doubtful y. "Suppese we leave that out of the calculation," she said, "You. pie your gross loss at M hundred, net' fOur -hundred, it tin insurance people pay according to your ,s'ti'nt'..' 'i 1! were 'to five you a cheqv e for 24.5, there would b..a nurgin "Oh, yes." ' "Then 1 s•all writ:. my eh( that °11.111l.bnrst ett :a lv"141acl;geshall ? k asked. "At the Bank of to Elsa, and .peered into her face: "Aren't yeti Elsa Carrington?" she asked in a low veice. wires.), "Di you know who. I am?" "Thu are Margaret ItYan." . "I was. I'm Mona de la -Mar now. Come down to my cabin. Sambo, you heard what the lady said abOut the boat. Can you do it?" • . . "Got to, Missy Mona," said Samb3 cheerfully. "Can't stay. here till the wind comes. Oh, yes, we'll do it all 'right." "Then be quick as you can. Let me know when you've done it. I shall be in . CHAPTER XII, , • Mona de la Mar Terminates Her . C,ontract , "It is only by the special favor of the elements," said Val B. Montague my cabin." impr ssiVely, "that we have been able She lcd the way down below, and to do it I am told that a whole week Elsa followed her, without a westerly gale is almost un - As she lit nlamp in‘the pretty little cabin she said with-asmile: 'It's a funny meeting between us too, isn't it? I wish I 'could • have shown you over my home under less wobbly port of Ponta Delgada. The Sea horse conditions, but the circumstances are safely into harbor peculiar. Do . you think you can sit had been brought- tha morning. . "Is the damage very seriotts?" she asked. ' "Her forefoot is crumpled up," said Montague; "but the diver reports that it will not take more than a fortnight to put her all right again for the sea. Still a delay of a fortnight is some- what embarrassing, because Val B. Montague's American Circus Combina- tion is billed to appear in Funchall, Madeira, exactly a fortnight from to- morrow. But I don't repine—you tin. derstand clearly, I hope, that Val B. Montague does not repine?" "I recognize that you've been E brick," said Mona warmly. "I have very nearly ruined you, and you haven't \even secIded me. If the wee terlY gale had come, and the Sea -Horse had broken up or. the Ring Rock min gone to the bottom, it would have meant ruin to you, Wouldn't it?" "Yes," said Montague. "This ven- ture representii my capital and t. bit over, and I was fool enough to com- promise On insurance. If the Sea.' Horse had gone to the bottoni, Val B. Montagpe would have had to begin life over again—from the bottoes." "I am glad that the westerly gale did not come," said, Mona, • "So me I, uncommonly glad, But gee here—before We go farther, there 10 One thing I want to, straighten out. You think I blame you fortvhat has happened?" "I don't I blame meet." "Then you'll oblige 'inc by taking that saddle off your back and strap' ping it on to mine. I know well enough who's to blame. In the first place, Val B. Montague, for net know- ing enough to Asia a Runty half -bred ringmaster, without going out of his Way to rile the brute be telling him wholesome and unnecessary truths— !a the second place Che said ringinas. ter for stealing the Sea -Worse, kidnap- ping the lady I sin speaking tO, and then bolting to a Yankee orangenhip when the Lou „came bit) the eitaroo.---ln Mona helped herself to salad.: She and Montagne Were lunching: together in 'the 'Cafe Marquez' de Pombal, the dining -room of which overlooked the on the edge of that bunk without being shot off when she rolls?" "Why are you here?" said Elsa. "Why am I here,—!, Mona de la, Mar, 'late Margaret Ryan? Is that what you mean? 'Or do you mean why is the good ship Sea -Horse piled on the Ring. Rock,, and making it necessary for Sambp and the sailors to life your boat out and rescue you from a watery prison? Incidentally, of course, You rescue us from a possible watery grave, which would be even more un- pleasant. So we are grateful. But in which sense km. I to understand your question?—Me or the Sea -Horse?' "Both," Wel Elsa. Mona laughed again. "I'M here because --oh, because of a variety of reasons. We a king Story though, and I think you know most of it already. .The Sealicirse is here be, cause I didn't allow enough for drift, affd piled her up. There. I've an- swered your question, haven't I?• "Not in the sense in which I asked it," said Elsa. "No, I know that. But I shall have to explain at 'great length to Val B. Montague presently, and explattatiOns are fatiguing. I want to talk about you just now. I want to know you, if I can. Do you wonder Why?" Elea looked straight at the laughing face of het.' questioner, and after a brief pantie, field coldly; "You understand why?" said Mona, nodding. "I don't understand. It le merely that the question does not interest me." Mona clasped her fingers behind her head, and leaned her back against the heaving wall of the cabin. Wer brown eyes sheeted it sparkle of itinueetnent, and a Mile played about her lipo. She was a girl who made a habit of taking life with a laugh, and even the fact that she Oad just piled her employern Shit) On sledge Ofsharp voleardo rock did not scent to have made a break 111 the habit, Elenne. 0.400 nen nath f . eTO. CONTINUEDS. . . Imperfect Kidney Action • Causes Rheumatism Rheumatism with its kindred ailments —Lumbago, Wry Neck, Neuralgia, etc., usually results from lodgments of uric acid in the joints and muscles, I Now the chief function of the kidneys is to properly fine* this poison from the blood. Only when they tail to do this is Rheumatism probable. Kidney weakness starts in various ways. A sudden chill, after perspiring freely, sometimes settles in the kidneys —or an unusual strain may cause it. Poisons which should be filtered out of the system are pumped back into the blood, causing Uric Acid, the real dAUSe of Rheumatism, Lumbago, Wry Neck, Neuralgia, etc. In the early stages Nyal's Storm Root Compound will stop it. • Will start your kidneys working prop- erly so that the Uric Acid is reabsorbed and eliminated. Away goes your Rheumatism with it. Perhaps these early warning twinges have passed unheeded, and your Rheu- matism has become deep seated. Muscles all Snarled up in knots as it were. Then you'll need Nyaln Rheumatic Cure. Ask your own druggist about these remedies. liis opinion is Worth while. Sold and GUaranteed by W. S. H. Mimes, J. E. Hovey, W. A. McConnell, Cl a. "MAY if, Elflit 01E'S Loos ron 1041018U4414 04444.414044414644 e for each eve ay amok'