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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1939-08-31, Page 6PAGE SIX LONDON SCENE ONTARIO FIRE LOSSES their to a mouthful of words. Nothing up against a big shoulder against Sock your spurs in admiring, let her buckle the DR. R. L. STEWART PHYSICIAN Telephone 29. men stay 0. “If What They he heard a door close, later Timberline called to ride when you are, Come doin, underground shelters are in readiness- for the royal family. ABOVE, work­ men are seen piling sand bags around, the Mansion House, the seat of the Lord Mayor in London. Rushing preparations for any event­ uality, Great Britain is seeing to her defences. Conical steel bomb shelters have been delivered at Buckingham Palace. At Windsor Castle elaborate Hav- Tliat good. sharply. Want me Me, Could Be Cut By More Care in Aver­ age Home ——— 1 11 ........... "T1 Wellington Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Established 1840. ’ Risks taken on all classes of insur­ ance at reasonable rates. Head Office, Guelph, Ont. COSENS & BOOTH, Agents, Wingham. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Phone 19. me see it,” said Lucy. “How I look, wearing a gun like Teacher: “Willie, define ‘puncture’.” Willie: ‘‘A puncture is a in a tire, usually found a tance from a garage. Guest: “Waiter, put this bill right,, please. Omelette with two t’s.” Waiter: “Thank you, sir. be another quarter.” DR. W. M. CONNELL Dr. Robt. C. REDMOND M.R.C.S. (England) L.R.Q.P. (London) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON INTO THE SUNSET BY JACKSON GREGORY SYNOPSIS Barry Haveril goes hunting for a cousin of his, Jesse Conroy, known as the Laredo Kid, who murdered his brother, Robert. Barry is befriended by Judge Blue and his daughter, Lucy. The Judge turns out to be a friend of Laredo’s and a bad actor. Barry es­ capes, however, and meets an old man named Timberline, who also is gun­ ning for the Laredo Kid. After several years of searching, Barry returns to Judge Blue’s house, where he meets a man called Tom Haveril whom he accuses of being his cousin, Jesse, in disguise. Barry becomes convinced of this later and they have a gun battle, both getting hurt. Recovered, Barry discovers Tom Haveril has married Lucy whom he loves. He also finds evidence to show that Laredo has something on Judge Blue and the Judge has to do what Laredo tells him. But with Barry and Timberline, the Judge goes to the cabin where Tom and Lucy are. Timberline takes the Judge and Laredo to the kitchen while Barry tries to tell Lucy that her new husband is no * * “Timber!” he called “Here I be, Barry, kill the two buzzards after all?” “Herd them out on the back' porch! .Then get on your horse; I guess it’s there handy, isn’t it?” “Never handier,” said Timberline. “I’m not going to talk all night to this girl. And when you and I go -L-well, we’ll go fast.” “Suits me,” said Timberline, and then barked out to the Judge and Tom Haveril: "Yuh heard it? March, yuh two. I reckon what Barry’s got to say to the lady can best be said tater-tate.” “Lucy,” said Barry, “first you’ve got to beleive this: Tom Haveril is the Laredo Kid.” 'She scoffed at him. Then she said brightly beautiful, as she, so much smaller than he, gave the impression ■of looking down on him from some lofty height, “Tom told me all that he knows about you as we drove here tonight.” , _ ^‘H^f ’tried to make yop .think that I’m Laredo?” * ' : He heard the three men out on the back porch; A moment out, “Ready Sundown.” At that Barry suddenly caught Lucy up in his arms and ran with her. She tried to scream; he clamped his big hand tight over her mouth. She bit him but he kept her still. He threw her up into the Judge’s saddle, held her with one hand while ( he managed his own horse and mounted, then roared out to Timber­ line: “Ride, pafdner! and ride.” He started his it,” said Barry. “I am Tom Haveril’s wife," she reminded him. That was a good half hour after they had raced away from Tom Hav- eril’s ranch house. “Hi, Timber!” he yelled. “Shove along back to cainp. Tell Ken March to have anyhow a dozen men on our payroll to take $are of the Judge and Laredo if they come out that way looking for us,” “What about you?” yipped Timber-- line. “Don’t know. Oh, I’m all right,, and I’m taking good care of Lucy here.’’ Barry stopped to blow the hard- ridden horses; he had also a thought to Lucy whom he had put through a difficult thirty minutes. “I’m not afraid of you!” said Lucy. “I’m glad of that. Lucy,” said Bar­ ry gently. “Of course there’s no rea­ son why you should be afraid df me, but I thought you might be anyhow. I’m glad.” That made her defiance seem a small, unnecessary thing, and so it angered her. “Let me go!” she cried furiously. “I say, let me go; do you hear me? I am going back to Tom—to my husband.” ‘‘He’s not your husband, Lucy. You know that. A preacher just came’ and said 2% WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES “You understood that the Judge took a hand when he did, putting me out, to keep me from the chance of being killed if Laredo and I fought it out as we were bound to. And you knew why he cut in, to save my life long enough to find out where I’d got a fistful of gold.” He gave her her chance to speak but she had nothing to say. “You knew him that day for a liar, for a robber, for a man to run in double harness with the killer, Laredo. You came pretty close that night to running away with me, Lucy; with me, a stranger. You were scared.” She spoke then, and sharply en­ ough. “What about tonight?”- “You saw him kill a man. And you knew it was murder. And Tom Hay- eril came along, the good-looking, murdering hound-dog, and you mar­ ried him! And I tell you,” and his voice rang out fierce and strong, “it wasn’t because you were in love with Tom Haveril; it was because you just ha'd to run away from that big white house with its Judge Blue trimmings.” “No!” said Lucy. “It wasn’t that—” “Don’t lie to me, girl!” “You’ve got to let me go, Barry Haveril.” “I’m going to let you go—set you free—turn you loose,” said Barry, and she detected the deep tenderness in his voice. “Not from me, Lucy girl. “Let me go!” she cried furiously KA □IHUi could make you and him man and wife. And if he was your husband, you wouldn’t have him long. I’m go­ ing to kill him.” , “Murderer! Coward and murderer!” “No, it wouldn’t be murder,” said Barry calmly. “Not even if I came up on him from behind and killed him before he knew- it. It would be what they call execution, Lucy girl.” She rode along with him again, making no attempt to escape. “Remember that night more than three years ago, down in Tylersvillc?” said Barry. “Well?” said Lucy. “You saw what happened,” contin-own horse and the Judge’s off at a run, heading back’ued Barry. “You saw the Judge ham- toward the mountains. 1 mer me over the head. You didn’t see It was a mad thing to do, but mad the man in the barn, but you. heard ventures have a way of being won.! the Judge call him Laredo. That man After them, not knowing what it was f was Jesse Conroy, my Cousin Jesse; ^all about, yelling like a Comanche,1 and he is Laredo and he is Tom Hav- -came old Timberline. . j eril.” ’! I love you, and you’d better know “I don’t beleive it!” Free from the horrot* of the whole thing. I’m going to make you happy with just three or four little words. Ready, Lucy?” Barry said simply: “Judge Blue isn’t your father. That’s true, dear You’re not Lucy Blue at all.” “Barry!” “That’s a part of what J’ve got to tell you,” he went on. “I didn’t know until that night Tom Haveril and I shot each other. He knew. He had proof of all this hid out at ’that cabin where we were. I got away with what he’d hid. As soon as he could, he tried to make sure of you, marrying yOU_” -- “He loves me!” said Lucy, trying to sound defensive, but her voice. faint. “That’s natural,” conceded Barry. “Any man-would.” r “But tell me—” “You’re going to ride with me. I’m going to show you.” NEW TANKS BRING CANADA’S TOTAL TO 29 VEHICLES Supplementing a recent shipment of Mine light army tanks, five mote have arrived at Camp Borden on flat ears. Consigned to the Canadian armored fighting vehicles school, Canadian at* By tank wit, the shiny tanks bore JL Thursday, August 31st, 1939* .BngWsh licenses which will be replac­ ed by Ontario plates. Unloading is being supervised by LieuvUol. F. F. Worthington, officer in command of the CA.F.V.S. This unit of the Can­ adian army now has 16 light tanks, 12 Car den-Lloyds, and one dragout. The Cardeu-Lloyds ate small tradtor'- pfopclled, armoured fighting vehicles, used by machine gtmner's. The dragon is used to transport troops or sup­ plies. They rode, Lucy for a while in the most profound meditation of her life. Not Lucy Blue at all—-not the Judge’s daughter. “Barry! Tell me everything!” “I’ll not tell you everything be­ cause I'm going’ to show you what Tom Haveril had hid at the cabin in the mountains; and you’ll know as much as I do. - .“I’ve another place, where I’ve been hid out, getting over the attack of hot lead I caught from Tom Haveril. I left the-' things there "that I want to show you, Sarboe’s there, too.” After a long, long while of thread­ ing deyious ways through wilderness intricacies, Barry lifted his . arm to point; she saw a flicker of light a- cross an inky hollow, on the far side under cliffs. “There’s Sarboe,” he called cheer­ ily. Before, Barry had the vaguest ink­ ling that anything was wrong, men sprang up all about him; rocks and bushes of a moment ago seemed to turn into men, He saw here and there the faint glint of starlight upon weapons. “Both hands up, high, Barry eril!” shouted an exultant voice, was. Jake Goodby, Tom Haveril’s foreman, a slack-jawed, slope-browed killer, Barry obeyed, saying nothing, his eyes darting' everywhere at once, seeking to ,make out how many there were, looking for some avenue of es­ cape. Lucy felt a gun barrel driven into her side. A man called sharply to her, “Get your paws up too!” “I’m Lucy Blue. I am Mrs. Tom Haveril. Tom Haveril’s wife. We were married just tonight.” Lucy ran on excitedly: “You’ve got Sarboe? You’re not to hurt him, you know.” “Sure I know! Tom wants him to talk first. I’m wonderin’ ”if Sarboe’ll ever talk again! He’s so scared he can’t say a word. This here is Barry Haveril, ain’t it?” “Yes,” answered Lucy hurriedly. “And you’re not to hurt him eithef. Jake. Tom wants him to talk, too.” “Say! You’re all right!” laughed Jake Goodby. “Mrs. Tom now,- huh? Say, that’s fine.” Disarmed, Barry came down out of the saddle and stood still as a rope was double-hitched about his wrists and his hands were tied at his back. Six or eight of Tom Haveril’s young­ hellions dragged him off to join Sar­ boe where the latter, bound like him­ self, was propped rock. . I.* He jammed his Sarboe’s by way. of companionable greeting and spoke for the first time. “They got us all right, Sarboe,” he said disgustedly. “Lik'e a fool, I rode with my eyes shut.” Sarboe writhing in his bonds, could only grunt. Barry could hear Lucy’s voice, and it seemed to him that she had never been so gay. After a while he heard her say: “Jake, I want to talk with you.” , •Barry saw Lucy and Jake Goodby move somewhat apart, toward the farther rim of the uncertain circle of flickering firelight, to sit on a log and talk together. Jake had Barry’s gun, dangling it by its heavy belt. “Let would that?” Jake weapon about her slim waist so' that it bank'ed low down on her thigh. “Say, why didn’t you’n me ever gang ■up afore now?” he said playfully. “You mustn’t forget that I’m mar­ ried now,” laughed Lucy. And there, she thought, both fright­ ened and exhilarated, she had set her hand to - the plow. She even said to herself. “I am making myself as cheap as a dirty rag doll.” “Aw,” said Jake, “yuh ain’t scercely married yet, jus’ married tonight, an’ already Tom lets you fly loose? if I was Tom, I wouldn’t of.” Lucy looked at the knot of loafing beyond the fire. “There's no need for them to any longer,” said Lucy. “With those two men tied up, there’s no danger from them/’ “Might as well all of us be tidin’, said Jake, and added comfortably, “but there ain’t any hurry. They’ll be a moon later.” “No, we’re to keep the two men here until Tom comes. They have something hidden here that he wants. Better tell the boy’s, Jake, to sCattet as they head back, so they’ll be sure not to miss Tom.” “How about you?” asked Jake. “You’ll stay here, waitin’ for Tom,” There were many ways in which she might of said yes. Still thinking' of the rag doll, she answered, you want me to, Jake.” His hand crawled along the like a crab and fastened cm hors, just a single loathsome second let It test therej then she slipped hers out from tmdet it. At that moment one of the men beyond the fire called through a yawn: * "Hey, Jake! alive, will yuh? What’re we squattin* here all night?” And he spoke in a low tone, he said Lucy could not catch, laughed and one of them slapped Jake on the back, and off they went, dragging their spurs clankingly. Then she noticed that as Jake came slouching back and the others, went to their horses and rode off with a whoop and a rush, one man had re­ mained behind; and this man went straight to the two prisoners. To Be Continued <■ Property valued‘at more than $1,- 800,000 was destroyed in 4,179 fires in Ontario in April, May and June of this year and official statistics, releas­ ed last week, show that approximate­ ly 69% of the total fires, representing approximately 24% of the total loss­ es, occurred in dwellings in which much of the loss could have been avoided, according to an announce­ ment by the Canadian Underwriters’ Association. 14% of the total fires were caused by carelessness in smoking which led to destruction of property amounting to $235,890, by far the largest indi­ vidual cause of the loss exceeding $1,- 800,000. In the second three-months of the year the qumber^of fires increased by 499 with an increase in loss of $261,- 324«over the corresponding quarter of 1938, while for the first half of 1939 there were 482 more fires in the first half of 1938, although total loss fig­ ures showed a reduction. “The number of looses,” according to the Canadian Underwriters’ Assoc­ iation, “can easily be reduced by more care on the part of the individual householder. The ‘Board’ companies are constantly utilizing all their ser­ vices to help reduce losses with the idea of reducing insurance costs, but, in the final analysis, citizens have the remedy largely in their own hands be­ cause the figures prove beyond doubt that most of the fires are attributable to causes which can be largely elim­ inated by a little extra personal at­ tention to the question of safety in he home.” MILK AND UNDULANT FEVER • In a case recently tried at Lewes in England, a man named Harmer was award £195 odd from a dairyman sup­ plying milk through the use of which the plaintiff contracted undulant fev­ er. Evidence in the case showed -that this disease resulted from drinking the milk of cows suffering from contag­ ious abortion. About 500 cases of this affection are reported yearly in Eng­ land. A significant symptom is a re- log For she the word That wilt current rise of temperature every ev­ ening;; this occurs in mild forms of the disease. In severe form the affec­ tion is often fatal. The man in question went into the hospital to* be operated upon for a hernia, but because of his rise of tem­ perature it was impossible to operate. Investigation showed that his fever was due to undulant infection. The milk used was not pasteurized. Vendors of milk in Great Britain are required by law to supply milk that is fit to drink. If they supply people with milk containing the germs of undulant fever, tuberculosis or oth­ er preventable disease they are liable for damages providing they fail to take all the known precautions for making the product safe. Undulant fever is. rather common in Canada. So too, are many other milk-borne affections including tuber­ culosis, typhoid fever, septic sore throat, summer complaint and many others. There is only one known way in which milk can be made proof ag­ ainst being the medium for the con­ veyance, of disease. This is by having all milk pasteurized. The precaution is a simple one. The milk is heated to 145 F., kept at this temperature for 30 minutes and then rapidly cooled to 40 or 50 F., and so kept until it is us- ed. The housewife lacking a supply of pasteurized milk from her dairy­ man may pasteurize her own supply by heating the milk' as above in a dou­ ble boiler. Pasteurized milk if kept in a cold place will maintain its pure­ qualities indefinitely. It is‘the uni­ versal safeguard against milk-borne- disease. Business and Professional Directory A W. A. CRAWFORD, M.D. Physician and Surgeon Located at the office of the late Dr, X & Kennedy. Phone 150 , Wingham Dr. W. A. McKibbon, B.A. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Located at the Office of,the Late Dr. H. W. Colborne. Office , Phone 54. HARRY FRYFOGLE Licensed Embalmer and Funeral Director Furniture and Funeral Service Ambulance Service. Phones: Day 109W. Night 109J. ■ ; J. W. BUSHFIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money To Loan. Office — Meyer Block, Wingham THOMAS FELLS AUCTIONEER REAL ESTATE SOLD A Thorough Knowledge of Farm Stock. > Phone 231, Wingham. J. H. CRAWFORD Barrister,. Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Bands, Investments & Mortgages Wingham Ontario i Consistent Advertising in The Advance-Times Gets Results R* S. HETHERINGTON BARRISTER and SOLICITOR Office Morton Block. Telephone No. 66. J. ALVIN FOX Licensed Drugless. Practitioner CHIROPRACTIC - DRUGLESS THERAPY - RADIONIC EQUIPMENT Hours by Appointment. Phone 191. Wittghatn ........ ( ■■ ■ ' ■■ ■ *» Frederick A. Parker OSTEOPATH Offices: Centre St., Whigham, arid Main St., Listowel. Listowel Days: Tuesdays and Fri­ days- Osteopathic and Electric Treat­ ments. Foot Technique. Phone M2..........., .......Whigham A* R.& F.E. DUVAL CHIROPFACTOKS CHIROPRACTIC arid ELECTRO THERAPY North Street Wingham Telephone 300,