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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1906-10-11, Page 74 i� Or•••••••••••••••••••••••••b•••••••••••••• ;•if. gl$$Set AAipA • THE 'WiN(TFFAM TiW'F$, OCTOBER: 11 I(,»'fi • e.� •. Gee. • '•••••• �'he Gentleman • • • F® Indkzna 1 : CopyrlIhr. 1899, by Dopbleday McClure Co.• • • CopyrlIhi. 1902. by McClure, Phillipa Co. • • o ••••••••••••••e••••••••••,••••••••t ••o• 44".i`444 : sr343 'd 3 3»F+b 13"b44+4.24'b4'1.44 $ $ _$ II ! i Lar »F3«b Dy BOOTH' TARICI,&GTO Pi CHAPTER VIII. HE courthouse bell ringing in the night! No hesitating stroke of Schofields' Henry, no uncertain touch, was on e A. loud,wild the p, hurried clamor pealing out to wake the countryside, a rapid clang! clang! clang! that struck .clear in to the spine. The courthouse bell had tolled for the death of Mor- ton, of Garfield, of Hendricks; had rung joy peals of peace after the war .and after political campaigns, but it had rung as it was ringing now only three times—once when Hibbard's mill burned, once when Webb Landis killed Sep Bardlock and intrenched himself in the lumber yard and would not be taken until he was shot through and through, and once when the Rouen ac- commodation, crowded with children .and women and men, was wrecked within twenty yards of the station. Why was the bell ringing now? hien :and women, startled into wide wake- fulness, groped to windows. No red mist hung over town or country. What I! was it? The bell rang on. Its loud .alarm beat increasingly into men's hearts and quickened their throbbing -to the rapid measure of its own. Vague forms loomed in the gloaming. A.horse, madly ridden, splashed through the town. There were shouts; voices called bnareely; lamps begen to gleam in the 1l93ndows; half clad people emerged t' tom their houses, men slapping their (braces on their shoulders as they ran .out of doors; questions were shouted into the dimness. Then the news went over the town. It was cried from yard to yard, from ;group to group, from gate to gate, and :reached the furthermost confines. Run- ners shouted it as they sped by, and boys panted it, breathless; women with loosened hair stumbled into darkling chambers and faltered it out to new .wakened sleepers, and pale girls, clutch- ing wraps at their throats, whispered it across fences. The sick, tossing on their hard beds, heard it The bell 'clamored it far and near; it spread over the countryside, and it flew over the wires to distant cities. The White Caps had got Mr. Harklessl• Lige Willetts had lost track of him ••ut near Briscoe's, it was said, and had come into town at midnight seeking him. He had found Parker, the Herald _foreman, and Ross Schofield, the type- setter, and Bud Tipworthy, the devil, at work in the printing office, but no sign of Harkless there or in the cot- tage. Together these had sought for frim and had roused others who had in- quired at every house where he might have gone for shelter, and they had heard nothing. They had watched for his coming during the slackening of the storm. He had not come, and there -was no place he could have gone. He was missing. Only one thing could 'rave happened. They had roused up Warren Smith, the prosecutor, and Horner, the sher- iff, and Jared Wiley, the deputy. Wil- liam Todd had rung the alarm. It was :agreed that the first thing to do was to find him. After that there would be trouble, if not before. It Looked as if there would be trouble before. The men tramping up to the muddy square in their shirt sleeves were bulgy about 'the right hips, and when Homer Tibbs joined Columbus Landis at the hotel corner and Landis saw that Homer .was carrying a shotgun Landis went back for his. A hastily sworn posse galloped out Main street. Women and children ran into neighbors' yards and began to cry. Day was coming, and -as the light grew men swore and sav- agely kicked at the palings of fences as they ran by them. In the foreglow of dawn they gather- ed in the square and listened to War- ren Smith, who made a speech from the courthouse fence and warned 'them to go slow. They answered him .frith angry shouts and bootings. But he made his big bass voice heard and bade them do nothing rash. No facts -*ere known, he said. It was far from certain that harm had been done, and no one knew that the Six Crossroads people had done it, even if something had happened to Mr. Harkless, He de- clared that he spoke in Harkless' name. Nothing could distress him so much as for them to defy tbo iaw, to take it out of the proper hands. Justice would be done. "Yes, tt will!" shouted a man below him, brandishing the butt of a rawhide whip above his head. "And while you jaw on about it here he may be tied up like a dog in the woods, shot full of holes by the men you never lifted a finger to header, because you want Liver Complaint LOOK out for these symptoms of torpid liver and biliousness: Coated tongue, Bitter taste in the mouth, Attacks of headache, Fickle appetite and indigestion, Feelings of weight and oppression 'about the stomach, Pale, muddy complexion, 'Depressed spirits and irritable temper, SS of the looseness i o Constipation and o bowels. The most satisfactory regulator of the liver is Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills, This well-known medicine has a direct and specific action on the liver, enlivening it in •its work tof filtering the blood and aiding •digestion. Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pi11s, gone pill a dose, 25 cents a box, at all ,dealers, or Edmaneon, Bates & Co., The bound did not yelp or whine when: the blow fell. He shut his eyes twice and slunk sullenly back to his place. The shanties might have received a Volley or two from some of the mount- ed bands, exasperated by futile search- ing, had not the escape of Horner's MOTHER, SISTER AND BROTHER site was grand, ever since .site took Ane under her protection at achool, when 1"— Minnie was speaking sadly, me- chanically, but suddenly she broke oft With a quick sob, turned to the win- dow, then turned again to Briscoe and cried: "I don't believe it! Ile knew prisoners mede the ,guilt,ot the Cross- how to take care of himself too well, roads appear doubtful in the minds of - flied of Consamption,batthis Linden He'd have•got away from them," map. As the morning waned the ad. lady used Psychine and is Iter father shook his tread, "Tben vacates of the theory that the gam- why hasn't he turned up? He'd have biers bad made away with Harkless strong and well gone home after the storm, if something grew in number, There came a tele- bad wasn't the matter." grant from the Rouen chief of policg "But nothing --nothing that bad that he had a clew to their whereabouts. " My mother, brother and sister died of could have happened. They haven't He *ought they had succeeded in consumption,' says Ella M. Cove, of Lin- !Lound—any—anything." reaching Rouen, and it began to be den, N.S., and I myself su gh a for two I why hasn't he come back, years from a distressing cough and weak C1tlld?" generally believed that they had en. lungs. /suppose I inherited a tendency raped by the 1 o'clock freight train, in this direction? "Well, he's lying hurt sontewheret which had stopped to take on some But thank God I used Psychine and it that's all." empty cars at a side track a mile north- built me right up. My lungs are now "Then why haven't they found him?" west of town, across the fields from strong. cars enjoy splendid health, and I owe "I don't care," she cried and choked the Briscoe house. Toward noon a it all to Psychine." with the words and tossed her dishev+ party went out to examine the roll. Cousumption,whetherhereditaryorcon- Bled hair froin her temples, "it isn't road embankment. Psychine cannot stand before Psychine. true! Helen won't believe it. why, germ matter how It's Psychine kills the ge , no a,E o itshould I? only a few hours since Men began to come back, into the vii- attacks the lungs. Psychine builds up the he was right hero in our talking lage for breakfast by twos and threes, body and makes. it strong and able to 1 yardg but many kept on searching the woods, resist disease. Psychine is an aid to to us all. I won't believe 1t till they ve not feeling the need of food or caring digestion and a maker of pure, rich blood. C ossrsearced s every and found him."stick toe of Six if they • did. Every grove and clump The greatest giver of general health is "It wasn't the Crossroads,"said the old gentleman, pushing the table Egeand relaxing bis limbs on th awayi u b sofa. "They probably didn't have any- thing to do with' it. We thought they had at first, but everybody's about come to believe it was those two fel- lows that he had arrested yesterday," "It wasn't the Crossroads!" echoed those who had breakfasted and were _ __e Minnie, and she began to tremble vio- going out again paused for internal as Larger size• SI and $2—alt druggists. yen ?y. "Haven't they been out there well as external re -enforcement. The OR. T. A. SLOCUM.. Limited Toronto. yet. landlord, himself returned from a long s y can use? They are are." it, and they can thank God they are. "They are not!" she cried, very much • was thebest man we had, boys," agitated. "They did it. It was the "He White Caps. We saw them, Helen said was ab he poured the little the landlord remained,. the bar beingand 1." glasses full. "We'd ort of sent him to the professional office, so to speak, of The judge got upon his feet with an the legislative halls of Washington -both. oath. He had not sworn for years un - long ago. He'd of done us honor there. At 11 o'clock Judge Briscoe dropped til that morning. "What's this?" be But we • never thought of doin' any- wearily from his horse at his own gate said sharply. thing fer him. Jest set round and left him build up the town and give him empty tbankyes. Drink hearty, gen tlemen," he finished gloomily. "I don't grudge no liquor today—except to Lige Willetts." "Ile was a good man," said young William Todd, whose nose was red, not from the whisky. "I've about give tip.., "It's goin' to seem mighty empty around here," said Ross Schofield. "What's goin' to .become o' the Herald and the party in this district? Where's the man to run either of 'em now? Like as not," he continued desperately, "it'll go against us in the fall." Dibb Zane` choked over his four fin- gers. "We might's well bust up the dab dusted ole town of he's gone." "I don't knew what's come over that Cynthy Tipworthy," said the landlord. "She's waited table on him last two years, and her brother Bud works at the Herald office. She didn't say a word, only looked and looked and looked, like a crazy woman; then her and Bud went off together to hunt in the woods. Tliey jest tuck hold of each other's hands like"— • "1 reckon there ain't many crazier than them two Bowlders, father and son," interrupted a patron, wiping the drops from his beard as he set his glass on the bar. "They rid into town like a couple of wild Indians, the old man beatin' that gray mare o' theirn till she was one big wait, and he ain't natcherly no cruel man either. I ex- pect Lige Willetts better keep out of Hartley's way." "I keep out of no man's way!" cried a voice behind him. Turning, they saw Liga.standing on the threshold of the door that led to the street. In his hand he held the bridle of the horse he had ridden across . the sidewalk and that now stood panting, with lowered head half through the .doorway, beside his master. Lige was hatless, splashed with mud from head to foot; his jaw was set, his teeth ground together, his eyes burned under red lids, and his hairlay tossed ssed and damp on his brow. "I keep out of no man's way," he re- peated hoarsely. "I heard you, Mr. Tibbs, but I've got too much to do, while you loaf and gas and drink over Landis' bar. I've got other business than keepin' out of Hart Bowlder's way. I'm lookin' for John Harkless. He was the best man we had in this ornery hole, and he was too good for us, and so we've maybe let him get killed, and maybe I'm to blame. But I'm goin' to find him, and if he's hurt I'm goin' to have a hand on the rope that lifts the men that did it if I have to go to Rouen to put it there. After that I'll answer for my fault, not be- fore." Ile threw himself on his horse and was gone. Soon the room emptied, as the patrons of the bar returned to the search, and only Mr. Wilkerson and They answered him with angry shouts. their votes when you run for circuit judge. What are we dole' here? What's the good of listening to you?" There was a yell at this, and those who heard the speaker would probably have started for the Crossroads had not a rumor sprung up which passed rapidly from man to man and in a few moments had reached every person in the crowd. The news came that the two sgamblers amblers had wrenched a bar out of a window under cover of the storm, had broken jail and were at large. Their threats of the day before were remembered now with convincing vividness. They had sworn repeatedly to Bardiock and to the sheriff and in the hearing of others that they would "do" for the man who had taken their mon- ey from them and had them arrested. The prosecuting attorney, quickly per- ceiving the value of this complication in holding back the mob that was al- ready forming, called Horner from the crowd and made him get up on the fence and confess that his prisoners had escaped, at what time he did not know, probably toward the beginning of the storm, when it was noisiest. "You see," cried the attorney, "there is nothing as yet of which we can ac- cuse the Crossroads. If our friend has been hurt it is much more likely that these crooks did. it. They escaped in time to do it, and we all know they were laying for him. You want to be mighty careful, fellow citizens.- Hor- ner is already' In telegraphic communi- cation ommunication with every town around here, • and he'lI have those men before night. All you've got to do is to control your- selves a little and go home quietly." He could see that his words (except those in reference to returning home— no one was going home) made an -im- pression. There was a babble of shout- ing and argument and swearing that grew louder and louder. Mr. Ephraim Watts, in unite of all confusion, clad as carefully as upon the preceding day, deliberately climbed the fence and stood by the lawyer and made a single steady gesture with his hand. He was listened to at once, as his respect for the law was less noto- rious than his irreverence for it, and he had been known in Carlow as cus- tomarily a reckless man. They want- ed illegal and desperate advice and quieted down to hear it. He spoke in his professionally calm voice. "Gentlemen, it seems to me that Mr. Smith and Mr. Bibshaw," nodding to the man with the rawhide whip, "are both right. What good are we doing here? What we want to know is what's happened to Mr. Harkless. It looks just now like the shell men might have done it. Let's find out what they done. Scatter and hunt for him. Soon as any- thtng's known for certain Hibbard's mill whistle will blow three times. Keep on looking till it does; then," he finished, with a barely perceptible ucorntut smile at the attorney—"then we can decide on what had ought be done." Six Crossroads lay dark nod steam- ing in the sun that morning. The forge WAS e silent,the salsa locked d u p, the roadway eserted even by the pigs. The broken old buggy stood rotting in the mud without a single lean little old man or woman—such were the chil- dren of the Crossroads—to play about it. Once, when the deputy Sheriff rode through alone, a tattered black hound, more wolf then dog, half emerged, growling, tram beneath one of the tumbledown barns and• was Jerked back into the darkness by his tail, with a snarl fiercer than his own, while a gtin barrel Shone for a second as it, swung for a stroke on the brute's heed. 'Toronto. of underbrush, every thicket, was ran- sacked.. The waters of the creek, shal- low for the most part, but swollen overnight,, were dragged at every pool. PSYCHIN Nothing was Poutd, There was not a sign. (Pronounced Si -keen) The bar of the hotel was thronged all morning as the returning citizens rapidly made their way thither, and c1rerL$o hunt, set out his whisky with a lavish hand. t Minister of the Gospel Recommends OXYGENATOR "Lor several rears I have been In vets poen math. La, t $al! I was advised by Rev. J. S. Alien, .t Murray Harbor, 1'.It.I., to try 'Oxygenator., !Niers trying It I had no faith in it, but last Octo• Nr I began its nee and can truly say that before wing one ing I had wonderfully improved in my f.neral health. Since then I have used several ags as* result have never spent inch a healthy Winter or Spring an I did this year. Oxygenator' fer Throat '[rouble, Catarrh, Purifying the Blood and fer Raiding up the System, I bellere le not ,3nerdl toodaybycotay rotihdetrormeadt y. al.. used cith blessed retinae. I take great interest t101 'oxygenators hating given Jags of It away, and •ret say it is A WONDiIR}UL BttMEOT. In regard to my eyes, Oxygenator' has done Atom more good than the Oculists or the treatment t received In the Hospital. Fir Earache, I think it peerless. For pains to the chat, lunge or side, Indeed esywbere. works wonders." i1gV. L A.Motet titDiwart. PA./ }'sr Solo br— THE.J XYGENAi'OI?.00. 12 Harbord at e, *COMM. and said to a wap girl who came run- ning down the walk to meet him: "There is nothing yet. I sent the tel- egram to your mother—to Mrs. Sher- wood." "I ought to have told you.before, but we were so frightened, and—and you went eft in such a ru, ) after Mr, Wiley, was Isere. I never dreamed everybody, wouldn't know it was the Crossroads; Helen turned away without answer- ' that they would think of any one else ing. Her face was very white and And I looked for the scarecrow as soon looked pinched about the mouth. She as it was light, and it was away oft went back to where old Fisbee sat on from where we saw them and wasn't the porch, his white head held between blown down at all; and Helen saw his two hands. He was rocking him - them in the field besides; saw all of self to and fro. She touched him gen- them"— Cy, but he did not look up. She spoke to him. "Father," she said. He did not seem to hear her. child." He laid his hand on her shoul- "There isn't anything yet. He sent der. the telegram. I shall stay with you I She told Mw breathlessly wbat she now, no matter what you say." She and Helen had seen, and he 'grew ,more sat beside him and put her head down ' and more visibly perturbed and un - on ,his shoulder, and, though for a mo- easy, biting his cigar to pieces and ment he appeared -not to notice it, whet ' groaning at intervals. When she had Minnie came out on the porch, hearing finished he took a few quick turns her father at the door, the old man about the room, with his hands thrust had•put his arm about the girl and was deep in his coat pockets, and then, stroking her fair hair softly. 1 charging her to repeat the story to ne Briscoe glanced at them and raised one, left the house and, forgetting his a warning finger to his daughter, and fatigue, rapidly crossed the fields to they Went tiptoeing, info the house., the point where the bizarre figures of where the judge dropped heavily upon the night had shown themselves to the a sofa. Minnie stood before him with ( two girls at the window. a look of pale inquiry, and he shook The soft grouncN had been trampled his head. I by many feet. The boot prints pointed "No use to tell him, but I can't see to tiie northeast. He traced them back - Ile interrupted her. "What do you mean? Try to tell ine about it quietly, any hope," he answered her, biting nervously at the end of a cigar. "I ex- pect you better bring me some coffee in here. I couldn't take another step then, returning, he climbed the fence to save me. I'm too old to tear around and followed them northward through the country horseback before break- the next field. From there the next field fast, like I have today." to the north, lying beyond the road that "Did you send her telegram?" bine was a continuation of Main street, nio asked as he drank the coffee she stretched to the railroad embankment. br rnght him. She had interpreted The track, ruggedly defined in tram- '..4.5.9.;ee" IIbeiatly_ and,- mite. theassist- pled loam and muddy furrow, bent in a direction which indicated that its ward to the southwest through the field and saw where they bad come Prom near the road, going northeast; *nee of M1 y YJpton, whose .subdued nose was ffanl[Ij, red and who sbed tears on the reepberries, had prepared an appetizing table at his elbow. • "Vs," responded the judge, "and I'm glad she sent it. I talked the other way yesterday, what little I said—it ' isn't any of our business—but I don't think any too much of those people' somehow. She thinks she belongs with Fisbee, and I guess she's right. That young fellow must have got along with her pretty welt, and I'm afraid when she gives up she'll be pretty bad over it; but I guess we all will. It's terribly sudden, somehow, though it'd only what everybody half expected! would come, only we thought it would i come from over yonder." He nodded toward the west. "But she's got to stay, here with us. Boarding at Tibbs' with that old man won't do, and she's no 4 girl to live'in two root'.. You fix it up with her—you make !:. r stay." "She must," auswer(-ri his daughter. as she knelt beside him end patted his Coat and handed slim several things to eat at the same time. "Mr. Fisbee will help me persuade her, now that terminus might be the switch where the empty cars had stood last night waiting for the 1 o'clock freight. Though the fields had been trampled i>a many places by the searching parties, he telt sure of the direction taken by the Crossroads men, and he perceived that the searchers had mistaken the tracks he followed for those of earlier parties in the hunt. On the embanloneUI e saw a number of men walltiiig west and examining the ground on each side and a long line of people following them out from town. He stopped. He held the fate of Six Crossroads in his hand, and he knew it. 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FriArtf This man took it up and sboufed and ; waved to a fourth man, and so they passed the signal back to town. &:hero I came almost immediately three long, loud whistles from it mill near the sta- tion, and the embankment grew black with people pouring out from town, while the searchers came running from the fields and woods and underbrush on both sides of the railway. Briscoe began to walk on toward the embankment. The track lay level and straight, not dimming In the middle distances, the rails converging to poipts both north- I west and southeast in the clean washed 1 air like eshmples of perspective in a child's drawing book. bout seventy miles to the west and north lay Rouen. In the same direction, nearly sig miles from where the signal wag given, the track was crossed by a road leading dir_ ctly south to Six Crossroads. The einbaiikinent had VQn newly balrireted i i1h'send. What had been discovered was a broad blown stain in the sand on the south slope near the top. There were smaller stains above and below, none beyond it to left or right, and there were many deep foot- prints in the sand. Men were exam- ining the place excitedly, talking and gesticulating. It was Lige Willetts who had found it. His horse was tethered to a fence near by at the end of a lane through a cornfield. Jared Wiley, the deputy sheriff, was talking to t group near the stain, explaining. "You see, them two must have knowed about the 1 o'clock Lreight and that it was to stop here to take on the empty lumber cars. I don't know how they knowed it, but they dig. It was this way: When they got out the Rin- i dow they beat through' the storm i straight for this side trade. 1 it the same time Mr. Harkless IfetveS5 B- cee's, goin' west. It begin t� He uts across tR tits a Ir l le lip ,e ��� and t i for he l\ st`it`•e too , u a s�t� deepo for slter--near plcce ss ani', except Biisioo's, whe, hen; said good nigh already, and pto'ly don't wish to ge back, fear of git,iii' bauble er keeplp' 'em up. Anybody can under - stolid that. He comes along and gots to where we are precisely at the tithe they do, them comin' from town, him strikin' for it. They rust right into each other. That's wfiat' h ppened. uty re-Cog-nized him and raised up on him and let him have it. What they done it with I don't know. We took everything in that line off of 'em. DOAN'S KIDNEY PILLS "THE GREAT KIDNEY SPECIFIC." They cure all kinds of Kidney Troubles from Backache to Beight's Disease. S0e. a bog er 3 for 31.23 *11 dealers or THE IDOAN KIDNEY PILL CO.. Toronto. Orsi. Prob'ly used railroad iron, and what they done with him afterward we don't know, but we will by night. They'll sv oat it out of 'em up at Rouen when they get 'em." "I reckon maybe some of us might help," remarked bir. Watts reflectively. Jim Bardlock swore a violent oath. "That's the talk!" be shouted. "Et I ain't the first man of this cro'ind to set my foot in lioowun and first to beat in that jail door I'm not to*n marshal of Plattvillo, county of Carlow, state of Indiana, and the Lord havo mercy on our smile!" Tom Martin looked at the brown stain and quickly turned away. Then be went back slowly to the village. On the way he passed Warren Smith. "Is it so?" asked the lawyer. Martin answered with a dry throat. Ile looked out over the Milt fields "Yes, , d s it owed once or and wa it's so. ',here's a good deal of it there. Little more than a boy he was." The old fellow passed his seamy hand over his eyes without concealment. "Peter ain't very bright sometimes, it seems to me," he added brokenly; "overlook B,etleffer end risbee and me, anti all of us old busks, end-•-and"—he gain- ed suddenly, then finished—"and net the tool and take a boy that's the best we had. I wish the Almighty would take Peter off the gate. Fie ain't fit t fer it." When the attorney reached the spot where the crowd was thickest, way was made for him. The old colored 1 Xenophon, .approached at the 1 same time, leaning en a hickory stick and bent very far over, one hand rest ing on his hip as if to ease a rusty i joint. Tho negro's age was an incentive I to fable. From his appearance be might have known the prophets, and he Wore that hoary looksof unearthly 'It ia- dom which many decades of super- , atitious . experience sometimes give tit members of his race. His face, so tor- 1 tared with wrinkles that it might hair• been made of innumerable black threads woven together, was a living mask of the mystery of his blood. t Harkless had once said , that Uncle Xenophon had visited heaven before Swedenborg and hell before Dante. To i day as he slowly limped over the ties his eyes were bright and dry under 1 the solemn lids, and, though his heavy, nostrils were unusually distended in the effort for regular breathing, the deeply puckered lips beneath thein were set firmly. He stopped and look- ! ed at the faces before him. When he spoke his volce was gentle, and, though the tremulousness of age harped on the vocal strings, it was rigidly controlled. "Kin some kine gebnun," he asked, (To be oo'itinced.) is Parnell's Superstitions. ' s; From the intimate study of the late Irish leader, Charles Stewart Parnelft made by Emily Monroe Dickinson in "1Y Patriot's Mistake," it appears that, like many of his countrymen, Parnell was rather superstitious. At the time 201-4 lowing his marriage, subsequent to the famous divorce suit In which he was 1 tnvolved, he joined his sister at Cabin-' toely, where he was to sp_eak at • meeting. Upon his arrival the crowd, in their eagerness to shake hands with. theagitator, broke the windows of the carriage and thrust their hands through the broken glass, a circumstance that afforded liim strongly as a sign of evil import. On another occasion, when he was expected as a guest by tho author, her housemaid thought she had seen him on the stair at a moment when, as it afterwards proved, he had not yet reached the town. Upon his arrival, when told that the servant had seen him on the staircase early that morn -4 ing, Parnell refused to stay in the house, and went with his baggage to his other sister's. Here's Just the Eihfi' Be71e8 Wain Gentle, Sure---nWmait to Tak --A Tried and True, Genuine, , Nature's Remedy. 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