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• .ria 0XVISIGN COURT OFFICE,
Tp CLINTON.
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W. BRYDONE,
BARRIkER, SOLICITOR,
NOTARY PUBLIC, ETC.
Y. OFFICE Sloane Block-CLINTON,
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} , C`OA.RLES B. HALE
^ Conveyancer, Notary Public
Commissioner, Etc.
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REAL ESTATE and INSURANCE.
,issuer of Marriage Licenses.
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HOR.ON STREET, - CLINTON.
DRS. GUNN Ss. GANDIER.
''' y Dr. W. Gunn, L. R. C. P.,
L. R. C. S. Edin.
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1` '1Qiflce-Ontario St., Clinatoi}: Night
_'"'. calls ar residence, Rattenbury St.
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, DR. J. W. SHAW.
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RATTENBURY ST. EAST,
F" ".-CLINTON,-
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} _ DR. C. W. THOMPSON.
` P[MYSICIAN, SURGEON, ETC.
�kll 11 Special atilemtion given to dis-
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�"eases of tj W Eye", Ear, Nose and
Throat.
p :; Styes carefully examined and suitable
glasses proscribed. .
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" Office- and residence : 2 doors west of
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AR. F. A. MYON.
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Specialist do Crown and Bridge
Work. Graduate of C. C. D. S.,
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Bayfield on Mondays from. May to
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MUMEMAME,
-TIME TABLE-
Trains will arrive at and depart
from Clinton station as follows:
BUFFALO AND GODERICH DIV :
'Going East 7.35 a. m.
j, „ ,. 3.07 p. m.
. 5.15 p. m.
'1;'. Going West 11.07 A. m.
1 ., " 1.25 p. m.
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6.40 p. m.
1.'` 11.28 p. m.
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49NDON, HURON & BRUCE DIV :
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" ' Aoing South7.50 a. m.
At it 4.23 p. m.
Going North 11.00 a. m..
%'416.35 p. m.
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11it iiltaa »rtsiv 0owwIft I will
"Teel, sir. 1 W kw x'aau' rear. ad
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awe' cc Iilyirliax 114"+11, aeata�.
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b�iamis with kin. a film or lova.
An as" waawhrxmng siugaat•, r:iyms-
tr end skwy teller^, wbo, was s,t d to.
thisli---, al ___ -so
montell **seamed to ome&w*r thus. It
M felt say U404141404111 oyer tke
flr E LAND
OF
Mighty fuse aa=. t�ieelns to u- I kaw
Wtdisp
e .a 4oe@wilasat of sae famed ,v th,
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turbed Ix ot, I3z shod v& tIw stool
,
Ingi4i s,,o t"A#, with to* !.
like a krert ooGtd, osis fat liimtd on
Kxs+►ies t ateC'&ft quite s
ase of ltal trelsy, dty receaitly, In
ae kasliltai is.. County IYleath. Ire -
and. He was tke, last of the old
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SORROW
with autOMA90 •ratularity, he regard.
river book, a little away from the
ed $airresu Ian profoulul silence.
'"I
stockade. In the two bourn ,s.1` day.
I answered brlsUy to both
40e0tift. It weft Apt wsub$ont I "rod
c•hool of so-called poets. who .1ved
"the.
uttered at taint. I +can wake it back
1PAN, other little parties carne slip -
here; sill right, If It doers come bad
: ping quietly around the curve of th.s
weather; I ;got to ,gat her home, that's
° 81cannle, pitched their caiaps, a44
to discuss just :then.
y story telling and verse tns.Wrg at
till we get .started, can't you, George?"
speckled with. twinkling dots of firs
'"Teo bad, too bad;' he, comaaiser»
r.
armhouse firesldes, Itis >attme was
t'hamaa Smith, and, according ra- •
BY ,�,SQ NQS
Mod. But whether the sytgpathy he
+ext, one of his aacesxOrs worn cap
est e
I.
Are the Indiana. beginning to come
fOrged Into his tone was for the death;
And bella and served as a jester to a
two of euchre that night before turn -
Montell nodded. "Quite A few, Two
of nay father, or for me, l did not knowprince,
In itis, boyhood. Smith. it is
said, ware a faded doublet of leiter-
and were at tine piers, and the copper-
may. Some of, em wouldn't make 4o
-nor care very much. it sounded
,
dating stripes of yellow and flue.
: which had leen hunded down to Wi,a
the chief. The upshot of tilts la ,gthy
, ' not think be spoke a dozen sdntences,
like One of those convenient platitudes
that become a habit with some people.
.is a ,relic of his great-graudtather's
council was that Two GI'�tirrw' visit
' He followed the trail of the pack
train, '
Fie focused his +attention on Barreau,
fame as a countryside lunmalter.
y
girded a Pack on 'his broad
p cad aktcuid"ers
wholly absorbed is thought,
hovrever, immediately after this.
His storise for the most part had
: and Joined us, when we lstt the UMP.
I ---]Y when the stockade-o.zwjosod
"Now George," he said,, "'suppose
to do with the fairies, and always
Thereafter I lost count of the asys.
: group of buildings huddled below us,"
we
have a word in private, eh?"
loreseuted, the good. fairy in the part
,possibly, if the need ,arose, I C till
.casting long shadows aver, the list,'
„
of straightening tangles and asking
the path to happy marriage. ilia visits
detall the camps we made, the strmalsfns .
did his self-absorption cease. We had
p
,
,
This suite me; I'm t1eAting hard -
„
eared to publicity, Barreau drawled.
throughout the country were made
we crossed, the huge clrcIn we swung
. balted for a nct .mont o4 the bank
` „You want understanding, you
with scheduled regularity, and an
upon, the "Ossing rand doubling truck
, above the river: not far from where
°seen
.an
raid, i'ai a sea le, I e
b r that
s o Wino with therpaet was the Oc ca-
n for a gathering of young folk,
upon Our awn trail; but there it no
;1 had first the Sleswule, The
marked.
It aright be well to try telling the
Like most poets be was not .thrifty
need. suffice it to say drat We aid
!sun rested on the Jagged mountain
truth If explanations are demanded.,,
and died poor,
tbese things, It w'as no pleasure jaunt
range tO the west,. sad t�Ge river
An exasperated expression crossed
and -dried deerskin , that served for
that we. throe went upon. Craw•
• caught its slanting beams till it lay
Montell'a face.
' LUMBERMEN ORGANIZE
Feathers was a man of iron In the
; below us like cloth of gold, a glitter-
""Now,
lights and sounds, the buildings of
matter of covering ground.
E inti yellow gosh in We sombre woods,
see here, be reasonable," he
Consolilato All Coast Nanufacturexs'
He kAea,. fife haunt Olt every tribe
Barreau's hand fell Ilautly on, my
grunted. "'That there guardhouse bust-
AQsochatlioni-Wosidents N Worn
and olfehot of a tribe, eveiW petty
'shoulder. t
,
ness settled you. If yogid kept shy of
Opt Detais.
�-
chief's followings and every, family,
" Via
; Lori, I ye been a cheerful con-
ce,
that, there'd 'ba a chance. , But there,
ain't. You could swear to tbilugs on
At a recent Guesting of the Pacific
grou , in the North, it seemed to me.'
p
panion of hat he said, as if it had
; a stack of Bibles - and she cul '
w' do t
Coast Lumber Manufacturers' asso-
1f he did not lead us to them all, he at
but occurred to him.- And some In-'
'tauglbb§
Aleve a word. You know
of A plan for the consolidation
]oast tried, The smoky email of an.Izs-
quality of comradeship in the
as well
OP all the lumber manufacturers aa•
all
dlan lodge .became as familiar tom y
.words, or perhaps his Way oUsaying
as I do that she's all them old -
soc:iations of the Pacific coast was
ratified. The stew organization will
•
nostrils as the odor of food. And in
;them, put me at ease once more, Thus
fashioned idea$ about a gentleman's
honor
be formed' from the Pacific Feast
every camp, over the peace pipe, Bar-
we stood a while longer, till the s us.
that her mother's folks has..
You know Jia
Lumber Manufacturers association,
reau talked trade, with Crow
dipped behind
pp b hind the mountains, robbing
you kill them two
the Southwestern Washington Lumber
Feathers to vouch .for him' Barreau°
the Sicannie of its yellow gleam, cast-
Zellers on High River, as run off
Manufacturers' associatton, and the
Oregon and WaahiGrgton. Lumber
,
spoke the tongue like a native but
; fag a sudden grayness ever the North.
them two fellers on High River, an'
Manufacturers' association -and will
there were lodges wherein neither,
Then we hitched our lean packs anew
run 011 them Hudson's Ba work
y
bulls. You
X called the West Coast lumber
Mauuf�ctures' association. The presa-
Cree nor French "patois" was spoken
'And went down the hill.
didn't have to do that.
You can't explain them things to her;
dents of the three associations are
or understood and when we en-`
CHAPTER SIL
nor bean' in Jail. That there's
given to work out' the details ,of the
countered' such, tile wisdom of Crow,
sleepily, Barreau"s bedding was neatly •I
a
black mark she can't overlook, You
inion. As a preliminary step in the
uniting of these associations the ex-
Feathers smoothed the way, He used
the sign language in all its bewilder-'
The First More.
' '
Wasn't smooth enough, George."
"You
ecutive committees of the Pacific
variety. myself, 'picked up
Montell himself, burdened with a
are astonishingly frank, I
coast and'the Oregan & Washington
associations lately "reported that the
words hr
words and phrases here and there
:.troubled air, met ua at the big gate of
must say." Barreau leaned. forward,,
Inspection bureaus had been Joined.
'
comprehended a''few of the simpler
the -stockade.
amiling sardonically - a sneering,
unpleasant smile, "Why? Would
I.
signs; Crow Feathers lingers with`
" Well, you're back, eh?' he greeted
you
•
me as a past ,master in wordless coin-
Barreau. "I been wishin' you'd show
mind ex laming wh
p Y You would re=
'
inunications with his race. Barreau,
A
up, t the sauce time I'd Just as soon
fuse to. vouch for the truth of my
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even, used to'wonder at the astonish-
ing amount of. information Crow'
.You'd stay away. Now, don't get huffy,
George. You ain't got any idea what
story, if I tell her absolute facts?
What have you up your sleeve?"
Feathers
""Nothn'," Montell growled. "Only
could impart with a few, Ian-
I've had to contgnd with. Jessie's
guid motions. He made a right able
here."
. I ain't gofn' to have you force my
� hand.
WANTED
interpreter,
Barreau looked him with un-
I ain't goin' to get into no
Insensibly the days shortened: I
changing expression.
.
fuss with my own daughter, Besides,
• ..
recoalect with what surprise I waken-
'"Well," he observed • presently,
a
as I said, some. of them things can't
$6.00 per week to start With
ed one morning to find hoar frost.
"what of !t?"'
be explained here she couldn't
for girls eighteen 3 ears and
thick on my blanket, and a scum of
"What of it?" Montell echoed. "Je-
understand. Once she found out what
a hell
.
ice fringing the little creek beside
hosophat! Ain't you got no imagina-
of a time's been goln' on in ,
over. Apply at once,
which we slept. Hard on that I ob-
.
Bon, George? That MacLeod deal has
n
this fur business, and that this win -
.
A S•. Perrin & Co.
served the turning of the leaves, the
turned her against you somethin' ter-
tar's !fable breed more trouble,
why, she'd be mighty.
13 k'' apt to take a
red and yellow tints of autumn. And,
rible. She heard all that stuff about
Limited, London.
about this time Crow. Feathers left'
You, an' wouldn't rest till she made
notion to stick. here by me. Aa'- I
us; took up his pack one day at noon,
sure .twas�really you. Shed raise old
won't expose her to whatever might
-'-'-"
shook handssolemnly .with each 01
Ned 'if "'
come up, for nobody's reputation."
"Wise
D. N. WATSON
us and a moment later was lost to
'
"She found out that her highly re-
old owl!" Barreausneered•
„ What need for this sudden access'
.
the still, far -spreading woods. Three
spectable parent -was associated is
of
CLINTON. - - ONT. •
days after .that, Barreau and I; in the
business. 'with; a' notorious character
caution? Do you think Ican't- -=' .
He broke off short at the slam o! a
. LICENSED AUCTIONEER
midst of a thinly timbered belt of
like Slowtoot George," Barreau cut in
door on the farther -side of tbe
lor the County of 'Huron. Correa-
Sand; came suddenly upon .clear-cut
p
.sneeringly. 1 "You're rather'trans
g y par-
•sto-e-
house: A feminine voice coiled.: "•)h,
pendants. gnoemptly answered. Char'
trail. Even my limited experience
'
eats Montell. You don't need to beat
spa!"'
esi moderato and satisfaction. guaran-
told me that It was made b
.. . Y-
about the bush with me. I know what
Montell sprang to his feet, mutter -
teed. Immediate arrangements ' for
guided auihtals; ,
you are driving at I've lost caste
Ing, something to himself, but he did.
salk! dates may be made by ,calling
'
The chumps,' Barreau drdwled.
'
'Thee
with her, which suits you exactly.
not at once reply: In the stillness; the
at The News -Record Office . or on
are ten miles out of their way,
I didn't expect hit
Yon are her affectionate tether, an
honorable, dean Hence,
sounat of light footfalls threading the
Frank Watsc,a•.at Beacom & &myth's
to their trail U11'
-handed magi.
.• maze .oP piled. -goods echoed softly
grocery.
•t0-motrow. Well, they're -at the
YAu.will not touch pitch, lest she deem
.post,
before now. We may as well _ollow:
You defiled. Very good. But you had
among the heavy bed bove. It -Was
them .1,
better take a hint .from me, and.
dusk outside by the ', ,and lin that
THOMAS BROWN; LICENSED. AUC-
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How •is 1t - 1 vo! cad a thing that
bestir ourself and. et her south
Y g °f
scantily windowed ' lace !t was' uite
q
tioneer for the counties :of Hurst,
Puzzled' 'me - "that there are no '
the Peace before winter •breaks, This
dark, beyond a red circle cast from.
and -Perth. Correspondences promtit••
wagon tracks? Are yogi sure this is
is no place for a woman.
the open f re And, as the girl Ste pped
ge
1 y answered. ..Immediate arrangi•-
Montell's outfit?
"Sure, sure!" Montell seemed no
into the of its glow. Montell
ineurts can be made' fc+s sale dates at
"No other," he answered. "Nor
whit taken aback. "That's what P
struck, a match and touched it to: a
The News:Record; Clinton, or by
many ifeasons. By the mule tracks, for
beenaimin' to do. I don't know what
three -pronged candlestick on the box
calling phone 97, Seaforth. ChargeF
one. You,, of pourca,: could not see •
the mischief got into her to come up
by his seat.
moderate and satisfaction guarai: '
them in the ,'.ark; .but there • as a
here, anyhow. She was supposed to
She stifled an exclamation at sight
teed. '
.mule herd with the bull train. Loadod
turn back the next, day after we .left
,of us. Then, with a scornful twist to
wagons .are too hard'to,handle'-n. this
MacLeod - I told you that, the night
her dainty mouth, she bowed, in mock
"
woods country: We h'ave..alwa:ys used
you come to our camp, but you, was
courtesy.
M Illop Mutual FUR
paak mules, this aide of the Peace."
.too, blame busy abusin' me to listen,
"Gentlemen," she murmured, an
.
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"Oh," said 1, and, my puzzle solved,•
I guess. Then she stood me off � an-
Ironic emphasis on the term, "your
r�
II1Su�8IlC� CO1�p8I1�
I forbore further'inquiry. We tramped;
� other day -or two. By that time I
presence is unexpected. L cannot ssi
along the trail in silence. Then, all at
couldn't leave the outfit, and ' she
i esteem !t an honor.
-Farm and Town Property-
once, he flung out an. abrupt question.
• wouldn't go hack unless I did. Darn
Then 'she turned to, her father.
.Isolated
-OnPy. Insured--
Curiously enough, the thin hes oke
g g p
it, Jessie's gettin' to be too many for
"Papa," she observed interrogative-
"I
of had just drifted into my mind.
me, Shea stubborn as a mule an' got
ly,.. have: ahvays known you were
-OFFICERS=
"Remember those' two Hudson',;
a temper like-like-well,.she
a hospitable soul, but I .never dream -
J. B. McLean, Presidenit, Seaforth
.Bay 'men, Bob?"
,,when
gets on the tight I've gat ' to Stand
ed a house of yours would ever pro --e
P. O. ; Jas. Connolly; Vice-Presi-
- I remembered them very well; two
from under, that's all, There'll be
shelter for an outlawed .,cutthroat.
dent, Goderich P. 0. ; T. E. Hays;
taciturn, buckskin -garbed men, who
war !f she , finds out you're the big
iTpan my word, it -1 weft' a man, " I
Secretary. Treasurer, Seaforth P. 0,
came to, an Indian cramp while we
,
chief here. Say, George, cant you
should be tempted to collect the
-Dire'ctoYs- _
were there talking trade, They greet-
play 111r,e you just happened
bdinty on this human wolf, There is
•
William Chesney, Seaforilh ; John
ed us civilly enough, slept in the next'
,1n?"
"No," Barreau refused flatly. "'I
.a bounty.. See?"
Grieve, Winthrop, William Rinn, Con-
lodge overnight. and left us a clear
will not lie to her, if both our necks
She fumbled in a pocket of 1*e
stance ;. John Watt, • HaxIbek ; .Jmhn
field in the morning, But. before they
depended on it. For that matter, the
short, fur -wedged Jacket she wore, and
Benudwies, Brodhagon: James Ev-
took to the trail they. drew Barreau;'_
explanation is simple. Why ,not tell
presently drew forth• a folded paper.
ans, Beechwood ; • M. McEwen, Clin-
aside, and .the three of them sat upon
her the truth yourself?"
"Yes, surely. there Is a .bounty," ,
ton P. O. •
a fallen tree and conversed thus. for. I
Montell. -looked. at halm curiously,
she went. on maliciously, holding the
-Agents-
an hour. ,
Of a sudden, the set of. bis' heavy,.
paper. broadside to the •sputter�g.
Robert Smith, Havlock : ' E', Minch-
"Why, yes," I replled. "What off
florid face seemed to become a trifle
candles. "Not a great one, to be sure,
ley, Seaforth ; Ja.nes Cifmmmimgs, Eg-
thein?" (
defiant, aggressive. ' .'
but more than you are worth, 'Five
mondtvillo'; J:. W. Yeo, ld`olmiesville.
'"h didn't tell you, did I, . that `they
"There's no use stanadin" here argu-
hundred dollars for the body, dead .or
Any money to be paid in may bo
were company, agents with A proposal)
In'," he said ahortly. "Come on. to the
alive, of Bearge Brown, . alias Slow -
paid to/Morrish Clothing Co.y,,Clinton,
to buy out my interest in -the house of
'store.~ Let's get an upderstandin` of
foot George. Height, weigth, color
or at,, Cutt's grocery, Goderich.
Montell," he said. "Now, that amused,
tb3s thing."
of, eyes, certain marks- and scars .=-•
Parties detsirous to effect insuranne
me, at the time. But the confounded'
He led the way. Within, as well as
to a dot, Also, An appalling list of
or tisansact other business * will be
thing has stuck in my mind; and late-'
without, the rebuilt Storehouse was
crimes. Have you no shred or atom
p.romlpilly atteinded to on application
ly I've been thinking -� in fact, I've
transformed. A great clutter of goods
of a decent impulse, left" - she ad-
flo any of the above officers addressed
'wondered If, ' '
in bales and sacks and small boxes
dressed Barreau directly, her tone
to their respective postofizces. Losseii
He bboke off as abruptly as he had
filled it nearly to overflowing. •Shelves
level,, .stingingly contemptuous. -
inspected by the director who lives
began. I was walking of him,
. lined the .walls. On each side a rude
"that you persist in thrusting your -
nearest t ie scone.'
.abreast
and I could see that he was engross-`
counter -ran the length of the building,
self upon pQople, after they have seen
-ter
'ed with some problem; the mental'
Here and there a semblanco of order- ,
the false cloak of manhood stripped
, . Igroping
in his tone was duplicated in
ly arrangement was beginning to
from your degenerate shoulders?" ,
Clinton News -Record Ithe
expression on hid face. . •
show, A fire crackled on the open
Barreau met her gaze squarely and
in her
. "What?" I blurted. '
hearth at one end. An up -ended box,
answered her own tone,
CLINTON - ONT.
"Olt, Just an idea that popped into.
littered with bills of merchandise and
"I am here," he said, "because I
nay mind," he parried'earelessl�, "1'11
'a ledger or two, stood against the
choose to be here. Montell pore can
T
Terms of subscription -b1 per year, in
tell you by and by."I
wall. By this Montell sat down on
tell you 'why."
advance $1.50 may .yo .charged if
'To be perfectly hone `t' I chal-
A stool. 'He turned a look of inquiry.
"Now, now, Jessie," Mondeli out In
not so paid. No paper discontin-
hanged. on the Impulse of the moment,
on me, but Barreau forestalled his
pacitically. "This ain't St. Louie. It
ubd untif all. arream are paid, un-
less
"I don't think you trust m'o very,
question.
George is In trouble, I don't know as
at the option of the publish-
err The daft to which every sub=
much, alter all. ,,
"lie
"This Is Bob Sumner;" he made
any one has abetter right to help
.
scription is paid is denoted on the
r mistaken flee said
Xo a e,
known. pertnnetorily. The son of that.
h m You don't want to be
him than e, o do an
label.
slow] '4Xou are the one elan in all
Texas cattleman who owned .the
always ridin' that high hese of yours.
Advert i,
t ming rates -Transient adver-
this c�untry whom I would ,trust, But
Toreante place on Rose 14111. 1 bar
This country als?t peopled with little
tisemnents, 10 cents .per' nonparfel
I Am* not going to burden you with
"
Ifeve you knew him slightly. Sumner
tin gods. I've told -you many a time.
�
,
linin for first insertion and 3 cents
nd cents
nista ileo ries of possible trouble.
wail' -winter with us. You need not
You'd better go back to the house.
pet line fbr Each scion
subsequentins r44
Walt till I atn sure, „
stutter over talking herpes him."
ll be there pretty quick.
Ion. Small aeh
,not to
With this I was forced to content
"I don't stutter over talkie' before
"Indeed, I imagine I could hardly
exceed one' inch, such 'A% ""•Lost;"
myself• In a mild way I resented htq
anybody, far As I'm concerned. ht`s
be in worse company, she deciAred.
"Strayed", 0s. "Stolen,'" etc,, in,
secretiveness, even while I recognized
your funet�al," Montell retorted. Then
"'So I will quit lt, forthwith. It was
serted once fol" 35 cdntg and eaw,
his right to tell me As much or as
he turned to me.
not of my seeking. 'Better keep an
subsequent; insertdon 10 centt,
l
little As he chose. Thus a certain dit-
"So you're John Sumner's boy, oh!"
eye on your goods, papa,"
. -
Communications intetrded for publiea�
tidenCe Crept into MY attitude, par-
H
e sized me up with new interest. Ition
With that, she was gone, leaving the
must, a!* a guaran o o4 and
i
haps,' It it vasa Obi+iotag, it invade bd
dare any he was wondering how I
three of ifs staring at each other,
faith, be aecom anted b tb g
p y e nagnar
dlffetonce to IM06An. In the twat
came to Win B r " Company on
n s. real[ a c mpA y
Montell A bit apprehensive, it seemed
Of the writer. ,
days It Wok ifs to teach tbo post, I dd,
the very' fight o;,•his tlreaklng Jail,
to me. Barreau was first to find • his
W. J. Ml PG'HILL, I
Editor and Proprietor,
,
11 I 11 ..r. �. ,...
voice.
"'i Would advise You to get your
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traal,.ayiZit.it� r46adtaae4m_flight," ire
an . �'
: ,4.#,-%&t , ba:� Vi.,e .t - 1.
11it iiltaa »rtsiv 0owwIft I will
lir, it '-' ____►
sive 40. 0"*No of Poe" abd •
awe' cc Iilyirliax 114"+11, aeata�.
will in. t1als +eamnmp. I. eltlaaot & a t
food yra,1lmssab, a"
.such of tpatt salt Of 1kls.s."
thisli---, al ___ -so
montell **seamed to ome&w*r thus. It
M felt say U404141404111 oyer tke
t A"- IV 04 alyMyai'+f1u%
I took him, to be the `bookkeeping
l 0Miaa- luforAt M ata lied bow +aml� '
Piled threst ,hs ua*jwialeeil an Wis-
up as lssdaivos wlue ll,ad slasalfled will
turbed Ix ot, I3z shod v& tIw stool
,
Ingi4i s,,o t"A#, with to* !.
like a krert ooGtd, osis fat liimtd on
I
],icnxtell, They bsaahod. tgae catalOea`
• ss`ch knee, his Puffy eYelids blinking,
and pitched their lodges A44; 00
with autOMA90 •ratularity, he regard.
river book, a little away from the
ed $airresu Ian profoulul silence.
'"I
stockade. In the two bourn ,s.1` day.
vols dial's proper card," be
light following the arrival of the arca.
"the.
uttered at taint. I +can wake it back
1PAN, other little parties carne slip -
here; sill right, If It doers come bad
: ping quietly around the curve of th.s
weather; I ;got to ,gat her home, that's
° 81cannle, pitched their caiaps, a44
sure. You can: kinds, keep out of $Fitt
set about cooking road, The flat was
till we get .started, can't you, George?"
speckled with. twinkling dots of firs
"That's s.8 It happens,", .Barreau re-
: when dark vanquished the long .
turned indifferently, "Meantime, have
twilight. °
You grubstaked any of these hunters?
Barreau was tired, and bad little to
Are the Indiana. beginning to come
' tell, and • we played a silent a or
g�
In?„
two of euchre that night before turn -
Montell nodded. "Quite A few, Two
lug In. By dawn we had breakfasted
or three .camps up the river, .the boys
and were at tine piers, and the copper-
may. Some of, em wouldn't make 4o
Skinned mea of the lodges begaa to
deal till you showed up. Don't you let
come in and cast their eyes upon
none of em have too big a debt,
such things as they' desired. •
George." '
All forenoon I watched this silent
Barreau shrugged his shoulders at
outfitting -of the hunters; saw this one
•this last caution, He eat staring into
au ji that stand wrapped to the ears
the fire, his . iean, dark face touched
is •htg' gaudy blanket, seeming not to
with Itsred glow. Then abruptly he
see or to be conscious of aught that
got up and opened.the door.
transpired,, Then of a sudden he would
"It's dark, Bob," he said to me.
point abruptly to some article - a
"Let us go to the cabin." And, with-
trap or two, maybe, a caddy of tea,
out another word to Montell, he left
a flask of 'powder - and emit '4
the store, r following. guttural
sound that Barreau inter -
It was just dark enough so that we
preted to Cullen, who would solemn -
could. digtinguish the outlines of the
ly make an entry in Ills notebook.
post buildings and the black, sur,
, When the red brothgr had reached his
rounding wall of the stockade. The
trading limit ,,his squaw took
burned stable had been rebuilt during
.the
'burden of his, pur6asets.0i, l er batk, ' .
our absence,. Within it, horses
and he strode forth, Wrapped in I a
sneezed and coughed over their fod-
dignity; ' even more striking than his
der. On the flat beyond the post T
blanket, she following meekly at his.
could bear the night herder whistle
heels, .
as he rode around the grazing mules.
"How do you manage to keep
From this window and that lights
,track
of thein all?" I saked Barreau, as we •
shone mistily through the seraped-
salt At dinner. "Suppose these Indiana
and -dried deerskin , that served for
that you outfit now don't show up
glass.;. And, at the,far end of the
again? Can you trust them so abso-
stockade, a group of men chattered
lutely?"
.noisily., about a roaring fire. Yet tke
"You'd soon find out that they have
lights and sounds, the buildings of
individual .characteristics,". Barreau
men, and the men themselves seemed
replied, "!f you were with them long
inconsequentlal, insignificant, propos-
I know most of these fellows well
tton to their surroundings like the
enough to pick them out of a crowd.
cheeping of a small frog at the bot-
In fact, a good many of them won't -
tom of a deep well. The close -wrap-
trade except with me - which is one
ping wilderness, with itsatmosphere
strong hold I have over my slippery
of .inexorable solitude, enfolded us
partner. And,'so far as trusting`•them, .
with silence more disturbing than any
an Indian's word is better than the
clamor. It nay have been .my mood,
bond of many a white Wan: For every
that night, but it seemed a drear and
'dollar's .worth of stuff we let them
-lonely land; the bigness of,the North,
have .this fall, they'll bring ten dol- . .. '
Its power, its implacable, elemental
lars' worth of pelts next spring* -
forces, had never takea.•definite form I
unless It Is. ,an extraordinary winter.
before. Now, all at ogee, I SAW them,
Where we will make money will be
and .did not like the sight. •
in the ' spri'ng trade. They'll have
We did not go Straight to the cabin:
plenty, of furs left after their debt �,,,,•
Barreau had. no mind to go', hungry°
is paid, and ,they'lI. want new guns
He stopped at the mesahouse, and
.
and more powder, flour and tea for
bade the cook send our ,supper to us
the summer, tobacco and clothes and
when it was ready, Then we went
gewgaws for the women pa- .
to.the,cabin, flung our lean pacles in
pooses. If the winter !s nor e're - - .
a corner, built a fire, and sat by it,
going to have a big, trade. ldn't
smoking, till a voluble Frenchman
mind,"' he concluded, wit short
brought .the warm f
la�
laugh, "if Montell had. to •go,clear to .
.
i Barreau
Agan ar eau h��fa1len into woad-
Benton and ot. nowed in there.
gThat'
less brooding, For the hour or more,
after.we had eaten,
Would eliminate Oise dangerous factor.
- thuVzt too much to hope for."
that passed he lay But
on . his bed, staring at the pole=and-
.
"It's; a long trip," I reflected. "He
dirt roof. He was still stretched thus,
can't get to the Missouri in time to
an unlighted cigarette. between ' his
send his daughter down on the last
lips, when .I'took off my clothes and
boat, even. The river will freeze aqy' . . .
laid me down to -steep. And when, at .
day, now. Benton.wouid be.a dreary
day-break,1 wakened and sat up
place for her to stay alone,.I should
sleepily, Barreau"s bedding was neatly •I
think. He may stay there with.her."
smoothed out on the bunk. His smok-
. "Not likely;" ' Barreau .contended,
Ing material that had lain on the
"As it happens, She knows one or two %.
table was gone;likewise his rifle,
rather nice families who are winter -
cartridge belt, and the pack rigging
lug at Benton, and she'll be apt to '
he had cast aside -the evening before.
stay . with them. No, the old fox has •
It seemed that Mr. Barreau must have'
something up his sleeve. He'll tie .back
I
a-journeying. I I
It, he has to come on lits hands and
'I opened the cabin door and looked
`knees."I 1.
about me. Here and there, men busied
Barreau was right. , Montell did
themselves at sundry occupations.
:come back,; and the date of his. return
The sun, had but cleared the treetops,
was only something more than forty- -
and on flat and hillside deep black
eight hours from the thine of that con- . '
shadows nestled. My roving eyesi
(TO..BE CONTINTIED.1
finally settled on one of these, and
presently I saw Pour figures, mounted,
"
two of them leading extra horses, .
ascending the . south bank, Looking
more closely, '.I saw that one was a
woman, Mr. Montell, 1 Judged, was
taking -time by the forelock. I stood
there with my hands jammed in my
pockets,. wishing • that' 1, too, ,was
homeward bound, .wondering if Bolton
had got either of my ,letters, and if
he had made Any attempt to trace me.
- and a lot of other' footless specula-
tion. •
CHAPTER XIII.
A Foretaste'of Strong Measures.
.Thus thrown , upon my own re-
sources, I betook myself to the roomy
cabin' where the cook reigned
supreme, Thence; with breakfast dls-
posed of, to the store, I round there
a small be -whiskered man • bowed
over a ledger, and a dozen husky
-+" .
packers stowing goods on the shelves.
President" Taft reviewed the U. S.
The'elerical person gazed at me over
fleet comprising ninetty-nino vessels:'
a pair of steel -rimmed spectacles, in
a colorless, uninterested sort of way',
)Fighting continues around Hankow I•.
I took him, to be the `bookkeeping
and oiliier centres have joined the
machine of the concern, and such
revolution.
proved to be the case. And when I
The Italian fleet has sailed fot
asked for "George," prudently re-
Turkish wa,'ors, .
training from mention of , 6urnAmes,
The `season for fishing os. tltto.lakes
he told me primly that "Mr. Barreau"
has been exiOnded to November 10,
had gone up the river; leaving wird
.
that I was to make myself ,at home in
0 i I .
the meantime. Having delivered hlan-
self bf this message, he resumed his
Al V'O����
task. SOI a
continued my round •., of
the post until I located old Pen Wise.Y,
M, C. A. BLDG..
What between chatting with Ben and
LONDON* ONS".
BUSINESS and SHORTHAND SUBJW".
sundry games of seven-up with one
Registered last season upwards 0.4 300
or two of the othem whom I knew,
students and placed every graduate. Seven
And long dpeitit of .sitting alone to
specially qualified regular teachers. One
hundred and fifty London firms employ
the cabin,. smoking over the fire, I
our trained help. College In session from
managedto murder time for three
Sept. 5 to -,lune 30. Enter' any time,
days. • At the end of which period
Barreau returned.
C a/t'�e t o�mu a gnu
Purest' CiA College
shin w"
He did' not come alone, but at the
J. W. tid'EAftitvmt , aR. J. W. WrSTrRvr L't.
head, of 4., yerJlAble flotilla of ,birch.
CharterMvift Pbowntt fit' I,rluelpe
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