The Wingham Times, 1913-10-02, Page 7' F. WIN(i1AM JM ,
The Siege
,� of the
:Seven Sailors
By
'M EDITH . NiCHOLSON
Copyright. 1910. by Meredith Nicholson
ssimicsamiewisarswes
whose speech was fragrant of the Ir -
c1 ,coasts, bade me desist, informing
:me that the family had only the pre-
vious day left for the shore. The
I'house, he assured me, was utterly va-
••Cant That, Miss Hollister, is all there
is of the story. But ever since I have
'carried that slipper with me. It was
,in my pocket tonight as I traversed
• the upper halls of your bouse, seeking
-the ghost of that British soldier, and 1
':had just discovered my loss when I
:beard you calling. In returning it you
.•bave conferred upon me the greatest
'Imaginable favor. 1 have faith that
some time, somewhere, 1 shall find the
-owner of that slipper. Would you not
:dufer from its diminutive size and the
rine, suggestive delicacy of its outlines,
-that the owner is a person of aristo-
-cratic lineage and of breeding? I will
•confess that nothing is nearer my
'heart than the hope that one day I
shall meet the young lady -1 am sure
she must be young—who wore that
•slipper and dropped it, as it seemed,
-from the clouds at my feet there in
sedate Beacon street, that most sot -
,emu of residential sanctuaries."
"Mr. Ames," began Miss Hollister in -
:staidly, with an assumed severity that
her smile belied, "I cannot recall that
Amy niece Hezekiah ever visited in Bea -
•con street, yet I dare say that if she
bad done so and a young ratan of your
'pleasing appearance had passed be -
:neat!' her window one of her slippers
tnight very easily have become de-
tnehed from klt'zekiab's foot and fail -
sett wit t nice calculation- directly in
front of ou. But now. Mr. Acnes, will
•you kindly carry your caudle into that
trunk ruotu?"
The foundations of the world shook
.as I remembered the compact by which
Hezekiah was excluded from the house
.and realized what her impending dis-
-covery would mean to Cecilia, her fa-
ther and the wayward Hezekiah too.
But I was in for it. Miss Oetavia in-
dicated by nn imperious nod that I was
to precede her luto the trunk room, and
.I strode before her with my candle
.held hi
.Butt sprites of mystery were still
abroad at Hopefield. The room was
,unoccupied save for tbe trunks. Heze-
kiah had vanished. Instead of sitting
•there to await the coming of ber aunt,
she bad silently departed without leav-
ing a trace. Miss Hollister glanced up
'at the trapdoor in the ceiling, and so
,did L It was closed, but I did not
•doubt that Hezekiah bad crawled
'through it and taken herself to the
coot Miss Octavia would probably or-
der me at once to the battlements, but
;worse was to come.
•"Mr. Ames,' she said, "Will you kind-
tly lift the lid of that largest trunk?"
I bad not thought of tbis, and I shud-
dered at the possibilities.
She Indicated the trunk upon which
H
sezekfah bad sat and nibbled her
.'cracker not more than ten minutes be-
fore. Could It be possible that when
1 lifted the cover that golden bead
• weuld`'be found beneath? My life has
:known. no blacker moment than that in
• which I flung back the lid of that trunk.
•1 averted my eyes in dread of the Im-
spending disclosure and held the candle
close.
But the trunk was empty, incredibly
emptyf. My courage rose again, and I
.glances at Miss Oetavia triumphantly.
1 even jerked out the trays to allay any
lingering suspicion. Why had I ever
doubted Hezekiah? Who was she, the
golden haired daughter of kings, to be
caught in a trunk? She had slipped up
the ladder while I talked to her aunt
. and was even now hiding on the•roof,
EEZEB1AH
YOU to manage it all for yourse T
rather guessed that you would go to
Peppertou. That was when I still be-
lieved.
"Bet you must go on believing,
Itfakebolieving is the main coruerstone
and the keystone of the arch of the
happy life."
"You are sure you are not mocking
a foolish old woman?"
"You are the wisest woman I ever
knew," I asserted, and my heart was
iu the words.
"I believe you have persuaded me,
but Cecilia"—
"Leave it to me; trust me; lean upon
me. I assure you that all will be
well."
She bent her head and yielded her-
self to reverie for a moment. Then
she sprang to ger feet in that Inde-
scribably light, graceful way that
erased at least fifty of her years from
the reckoning and was herself again.
"Arnold Ames," she said, laughing a
little but gazing up at me with unmis
takable coutidence and liking in he:
eyes, "we will go through with this to
the end. And whetber that slipper
really fell at your feet in Beacon
street or in the even less likely pre-
cincts of Rittenhouse square or ander
the windows of tbe Spanish embassy
In Washington, I believe that you are
my good knight and tint you will see
me safely through this singular adven-
ture."
but it was not for me t.> make so area- And I, Arnold Aisles, but lately n
'enable a suggestion. Miss Octavio student of chimneys, bent and kissed
eight press the [nutter further if she Miss Octavio.% hand.
flied, but 1 would out heli, her to trap She led the way to the library,
Hezekiah. where I thought it well to appear for
Miss Hollister did not, to my surprise a moment, and 1 was heartily glad
and relief, suggest au inspection of thY that I did so. It was joy enough for
roof. She nodded her baud gravely any man that be should have earned
and passed out into tbe hall. such glances of hatred and suspicion
"Mr. Ames, if i implied a moment as the suitors bent upon me. Lhere
they were, some standing, some seat -
ago that 1 doubted your story of the
ed, about Cecilia. I bowed low from
dropping of that tan pump from a the door, feeling that to offer my hand
Beacon street roof or window, I now to these gentlemen in their present
tender you my sincerest apologies." temper would be too severe a strain
She put out her hand, smiling charm- upon their manners. As Miss Octavia
ingly. 1 appeared several of them advanced
"Pray return to the occupations which courteously and engaged her in con -
were engaging you when I interrupted versation. She found a seat and call -
you. You have never stood higher in ed the others to her on the plea that
my regard than at this moment. To- she wished to ask them their opinion
morrow you may tell me all you please touching some matter. I believe it
of the ghost and the mysteries of this was a late rumor that Andree, who
house, and 1 dare say we shall find the had gond ballooning to discover the
bones of that British soldier some- Hyperboreans, had been heard of
where beneath the foundations. As somewhere.
for that trifling bit of leather you hold Cecilia appeared distrait,
in your hand, it's rather passe for dered what new turn her
Beacon street. The next time you tell
that story I suggest that you play your
game of drop the slipper from a win-
dow of itittenhouse square, Philadel-
phia."
Hezekiah on the roof was safe for a
time. Miss Octavia's gentle rejection
of my Beacon street anecdote and her
intimation that Hezekiah had been an
unbilled participant of the comedy of
the ghost had been disquieting, and in
my relief of her abandonment of the
search I loitered on downstairs with
my hostess. I wished to impress her
with the idea that I was without ur- 1
gent business. Hezekiah would, beyond
doubt, amuse herself after her own
fashion on the roof until I was ready
to release her. As I had quietly locked
the trunk room door and carried the
key in my pocket I was reasonably
sure of this. Humility is best acquired
through tribulation, and as Hezekiah
sat among the chimney crocks nursing
one stockinged foot and waiting for
me to turn up with her lost slipper it
would do her no harm to nibble the
bitter fruit of repentance with another
biscuit.
s
.1
Had Leaking Valves
Of The Heart .
!thought Nothing Rut Death
1jVeuld End Her Misety.. a `
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CHAPTER XVII.
Loss of the Silver Notebook,
r
memoranda of my adven-
res at Hopefleld Manor fall
dertwo general headings.
.
On the one hand were the ghost
and the library chimney, on the other
the extraordinary gatheringef Ceeilia's
suitors. As I followed at Miss Octa-
via's side she seemed to have dis-
missed the ghost and the fractious
chimney from her mind. Her humor
changed conspletely, As. In^the morn-
ing, when, unaccountably "abanddning
ber habitual high flown speech, she had
asked me about Cecilia's silver note-
book, she seemed troublgd, and when
we had reached the set'.ond floor she
paused and lost herseVt in unwonted
preoccupation.
I "Let us sit here a Moment," she said,
Indicating a long davenport in the
broad hall, For the first time her man-
ner betrayed weariness. Sire laid ber
hand quietly on my arm and looked at
me fixedly. "Arnold," she said—"you
will let me Call you Arnold, won't
you?" she added plaintively, and never
in my life had I been so touched by
anything so sweet and gentle- and kind
--"`Arnold, if an old woman like me
.,ilbuld do a very foolish thing in fol-
lowing her own whims and then find
that she had probably committed her-
self to a course likely to cause unhap-
piness, What wolild you advise her to
do about it?"
"Miss Hollister," I answered, "if you
trusted Providence this morning to
tend yeti a corps of servants What
yours had been most unfortunately
scattered by ghosts or rumors of ghosts,
why will you not continue to have con-
fidence that your affairs will always
be' directed by agencies equally alert
and beneficent?
"I don't know•the game; but t have
found out a lot of things without being
told, so tell me nothings Remember
that I have something quite remarka-
ble, startling even, to show you tomor-
row. I have even, overcome, you know,
the Obstacle you placed in the way of
my discoveries by sending in ahead of
me this morning for the plans of the
Wise,"
I watched her narrowly, but she
vas la Ito wise discomfited.
"Well, l burnlBtl•."thefit4thafi rlyortlent
Hilda brought them back," she laugh
ctL �'ihad, taiibja you and 1 'vactte4.
MRs, J. D. TAr;nui, 1776 3rd Ave.,
Bast, ,'Owen Sound, writes: --"I have
been a great sufferer front heart disease.
and leaking Vntves. 1. ' have . had " t'e.,
.source to every kind of treatment T could
think Might help me, including the skill
,,of several doctors. 1 suffered to for
, years that at times I hava felt that noth-
,.ing but, death could end my misery. I'
,was advised by a friend, Who had suffered
untold;.paitt and misery, just as I had,
and had beset -cured by MrtauttN's
ttlem T, ANb Neave Pnaa, to give them
,a tria ;l;o 1 decided to do s,. I am de-
t:lighte •with the atsult, as I ::m now com-
t.pletely arced, end can eat and sleep as I
i1ave tint done fur years. You are 'et
, liberty to use my mune at any time
.as I ant convinoed they are the best pills
on the market for any form of heart
disease
Price 50 cents per box or 3 boxes for
41.25 at ail dealers, or will he - mauled"
direct Fin receipt of price by The
i$ilbkpt Co., l fruited, Toronto, Ont.
and I won -
affairs bad
Sent and Kissed Miss Octavia's Hand.
taken. She rose as I crossed the room,
and from her manner I judged that
she welcomed this chance of address-
ing me.
"You have scorned the Iibrary to-
night
obight Has there been trouble? la
Aunt Octavia alarmed about any-
thing?"
Cecilia was a beautiful, cbarming
womanof tbe world, but I felt her
Spell less tonight. It may be that the
presence of Hezekiab's slipper in my
Inside coat pocket, pressing rather in-
sistently against my ribs, acted as la
counterirritant.
"You are in difficulty, Miss Cecilia."
1 said. "Please tell inc in what way
I may serve you."
"I don't know why I should appeal
to you"—
"No reason is necessary. I halve toad
you before that you need only to com-
mand me, We may be interrupted at
any moment Pray go_ On." ;)iem of being able to secure good drink -
"I have lost an article of the greatest
value to me. It has been taken from nig water; this we could not get, so were
my room." obliged to drink water containing a great
For a moment only I read distrust deal of alkali, with the result that we
and suspicion in her eyea as it occur were ani troubled with Diarrhoea. ?er-
red to her that 1 bad access to every' ,unately, we had a bottle of DR. row -
part of the house, but my manner ,,Fn's EXTRACT of WILD STRAWDSRRY
seemed to restore her confidence. And in the house which soon reliever: our
she could not have forgotten that her , sufferings. I have always kept a bottle
own father bad met her secretly on the to the house since obtaining such bene -
root of a house that was denied hint racial results from its use when my boy,
and that I was perfectly cognizant of i as a baby was similarly troubled. 'It
the fact.
"I any sure you can be of assistance,"
YOU CAN HELP
PURE FOOD
CRUSADE
1(_
By I-IOLLAND,
C VBItx ONE appreciates
11i the importance of pure
food.• All appreciate the
danger in adulteration, the
risk in substitution.
You can aid the pure food
movement and at the same
time aid yourself. How?
Merely by baying articles
that are of known purity and
merit
How can you know these ar-
ticles? By watching the ad-
vertising columns in this pa-
per and in other papers. Man-
ufacturers who advertise
have confidence in their goods
and are willing to have
themselves and their prod-
ucts known. Makers of sub-
stitutes and "just -as -goods"
usually hide behind anonym-
ity or use a meaningless firm
name or brand.
PROTECT YOURSELF
SY PROTECTING
l'HE PUBLIC.
There can be no better
guarantee of the purity and
merit of an article than the
fart that it is widely adver-
tised.
j•ou, I sripposc, Just later. the c'himoey
gave another or its strange dernonstra-
tions. l remembered that 1 had lett
my little silver bound book, that 1 usu-
ally carry with me, on my dressing
room table. It contains a memoran-
dum of great importance to me. It
positively cannot be duplicated. 1 ant
sure it was there when f came down
to dinner. But It was not on my dress-
ing table or anywhere to be found."
"You may be mistaken as to where
you left it. Yon would not be absolute-
ly positive that you left it on the dress-
ing table?"
"There is not the slightest question
about it. I had been looking at it just
before dinner. 1 had sent you a note,
you know, immediately after you came
back and hurried dawn to see you."
"Yes; I recall that. You were in the
library wben I came down. And I
think I remember having seeu the little
trinket—slightly smaller thou a card -
case, silver backed and ouly a few
leaves. You had it in your hand the
other night when I came in after Mr.
flume had left."
She flushed slightly at this, but readi-
ly acquiesced in my description. Miss
Octavia's inquiry as to whether 1 had
seen the book came back to me and
no less clearly ger withdrawal of ber
question almost the moment she had
spoken it.
I_, felt the sudden impingement of
lout Jirt;j 1 iiiiiii3t lease Cecilia with a
tranquil mind.
• "I thank you for confiding this mat-
ter to the, Miss Hollister. Please do
nut attach suspicion to any one until I
have seen you again."
"But if you should be unable to re-
store"—
"1 assure you that the book 1s not
lost. It has been mislaid, that's all, I
shall return It to you at breakfast. 1
give you my word.,,
"Du you really mean it?" she fal-
tered. "Please keep this from Aunt
Octnvial I valet tell you how impor-
tant It is that she be kept in ignorance
of my loss. The consequences, if she
knew, might be very distressing."
Miss Octavia was carrying the in-
vineible ,lohn Stewart Dick away to
the billiard room. lie glared at me
murderously as he trailed glumly after
the lady of the manor. The others
were crowding about Cecilia again, and
1 yirlded to them willingly. As I
sauntered toward the door Ormsby de-
tained me a moment. Ilis manner
was artogaut and he hissed rather
than spoke.
"I'm directed to command your pres-
ence at the Prescott Arms tomorrow
at 12 u'cluck. The business is impor-
tant"
"1 regret, my dear brother, that I
shall be tunable to sit with you at that
hour in committee of the wbole, and
fur two reasons. The first is that I
ant paired with Lord Arrowood. You
retuned to take him into your base
compete and nllowed him to be thrown
out of the iuu for uut paying his bill.
Tice net was deticieut in generosity and
gallantry'.'•
""then 1 suppose you would think it
a fine thing for such a pauper to marry
a woman like that—like that, I say?"
and Ile jerked his head toward Cecilia.
"1 consider a lute' of Arrowood as
good us the proprietor of a knitting
mill any day, if you press ate for an
opinion;' 1 replied amiably.
"Anil this from a chimney sweep?"
he sneered.
"Yon flatter me, my dear sir. I've
renounced soot and become a gentle-
utau adventurer merely to prevent a
type that long illumined popular fic-
tion from becoming extluet. I advise
you to till the void existing in the
heavy villein class. Believe me, your
talents would carry you far. Study
Dumas and forget the wool market
and you will lead a happier life. My
second reason for declining to meet
you at the Arms at 12 tomorrow is
merely that the hour is inconvenient
I assume that you mean to urge lunch-
eon upon me, and I never eat before 1.
My doctor bas warned me to avoid
early luncheons if I would preserve my
figure, of which you may well believe
me justly proud."
"You're a coward—that's all there is
to that I dare you to comet"
"Well, as I think of it, I'd rather be
dared than invited. If I find it quite
convenient I shall drop fn. But. you
needn't keep the waffles hot for me.
Good evening."
Ilezekiah's slipper upon my own con-
science, if I may so state the matter.
Hezeklah, playing ghost, had confessed •
to me that she bad visited Cecilia's
room. Hezekiah, amusing herself with
the library chimney and frightening
n the for-
bidden
into theservants byt
ry 1;
bidden house through the coalhole, was
a culprit to be scolded and forgiven.
But what of Hezekiah mischievously
filching an article of real value to her
sister? I did not like this turn of
affairs. I must get back to the roof,
find Hezekiah and compel her to re-
turn the silver book. Only by tactful-
ly managing this could I serve well all
�he•members of..tbe house oS Hollister.
lease To ico;r
WITH Ai
Serious Problem
RAD WATER WAS THE CAUSE.
MRS.
Alta.,
,vest
EnwAao 1(xt GsTo?t, Mirror,
writes:—"Coming to the North-
B.C., in the summer of 19101
we were face to face with the serious pro -
from
has always proved a friend in need.' "
she said. "There's something behind There are many imitations of "Da.
this ghost story. Some one has been Powuik'S". When you ask for the well -
ilk and about the house. You believe I known article, insist on being given it.
"Yes. There hag really been a sort 01
thaghost, you know." It bas been ea the market for over sixty-
" five and has always given the
She shrugged her shoulders. Cecilia I years, ' greatest of satisfaction. It cures when
had no patience With ghosts, and we all others fail.
Were losing time. My conversation Sec that the name of The T. Milburn
1 with Cecilia was annoying Wiggins, es c0., Limited, appears an the yellow
Was niitht froth hte netvattalliesa, f
I "I went to my rooms for a rnotneut•, wrapper -
Pete' 33 cents.
while. Mut. Qcfa-. fl. abo?g,. with
CHAPTER XVIII.
Jack ea Lantern.
IHURRDED back to .tbe trunk
room and had soon gained the
root. To my disappointment and
chagrin my young lady of the
single slipper was nowhere in sight I
found, however, lying near the library
chimney a trunk tray that required no
explanation. Witb this Hezekiab bad
blocked tbe flue, and I smiled as I pic-
tured her tiptoeing to reach the chim-
ney crock and dropping the tray across
the top. How gleefully she must have
chuckled as she waited for the flue to
fill and send the smoke ebbing back
into the library, to the discomfiture of
her aunt and sister and the suitors
gathered about the hearth, The spirit
of mischief never whispered into a
prettier ear a trick better calculated to
cause confusion.
I bad thougbt Hezekiah secure when
I locked the trunk room door, but I
had not counted upon the versatility
and resourcefulness of that young per-
son. I dropped to the second roof lev-
el and inspected the down spouts, but
it was incredible that she had sought
the earth by this means. I swung
myself to a third level and after much
groping for my bearings decided that
an athletic girl of Hezekiab's venture-
some disposition might, if she set no
great store by her neck, clamber oft
the kitchen roof by means of a tall
maple whose branches now raspingly
called attention to their sifght contact
with the house.
As the moon cruised into a patch ot
clear sky something white fluttered
from a maple limb, and I bent and
pulled it free. I took counsel of a
mateb behind the kitchen chimney
and found that it was a handkerchief
that bad been knotted to the tip of the
bough. No one but Hezekiah would
have thought of marking ber trail in
this fashion. i held it to my face, and
tbat faint perfume that bad been a
mystifying accompaniment of the
passing of the mansion ghost became
nothing more unreal than the orris in
Hezekiah's hnndkercbief case. The
wind whipped the bit of lined spiteful-
ly In my hands. I reasoned that 11'
Hezekiah, the inexplicable, had not
meant for me to kno* the manner of
her exit she need not have left this
plain hint behind, but the SwaYing
maple bough did not tempt use. 1
hurried back across the root' to secure
the trunk tray, resolved to dispose of
it, seek the Open and find the errant
llezekiah if she still lingered in this
neighborhood.
I looked oft across the windy land-
scape before descending, and as my
eyes ranged the dark I caught the
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she Kind You ilave klways Bouglit
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glimmer or a light as •ii z: -intern
borne iu the hand in the meadow be•
yowl the garden. It paned and %RS
swung back and forth by its unseen
bearer. ft shed a carious yellow light
and not the white flame of the com-
mon lantern, and now it ruse a trifle
higher and slowly resolved itself into
a weird fantastic fere.
Three minutes inter 1 was out of the
house, using the back stairs to avoid
the company in the library. and had
crossed the gaviler' tnnil crawled 1hrcingh
the hedge. As I rose to my feet a
voice greeted me cheerfully:
"Well, done. Chimney Man: Yon
were a little shoe h111liu: the trail. hilt
you do pretty well considering How
did you manage with .aunt ttrtavin
about that slipper? I bad a narrow
escape In the second floor hall when 1
came out of Ceellin's room 1 most
hare lowered a record getting upstairs.
And one shoe isn't a bit comfortable.
Allow me to relieve you!"
"Flere's your slipper You ought to
be ashamed of yourself "
"For losing my slipper? I thought
Cinderella had made that respectable."
She placed her hand on my shoulder,
lifted her foot and drew the pump on
with a single tug.
"Well, what did Aunt Octavia say?"
"Oh, she bad thoughts too dark to
express. You probably heard what we
said. It was she who found the slip•
per!"
Hezekiab laughed. The wind caugbt
up that laugh and whisked it away
jealously.
"She found it and carried it to you,
chimney man, and I skipped just as
you began that beautiful story about
finding it in Beacon street. I'm not
supposed to see her, you know, until
Cecilia is all fixed. Hurry and tell
me how you got me out of it."
"How did you know 1 would try to
explain it? You did a perfectly fool-
hardy thing in roaming the house that
way, scaring Lord Arrowood nearly to
death, to say nothing of me. Why
should I help you?"
"Oh. yon're a man and I was just a
little girl who had lost ber slipper,"
she replied. "I was sure you would
fix it up."
She drew from behind a bowlder by
which we stood a pumpkin of portable
size, which I surmised had been carved
into the most hideous of jack-o'-lan-
terns by the shrewd hand of Hezekiah.
"CotneI" she cried. "If you are good
and won't begin preaching about my
sins I'il Show you the funniest thing
you ever saw in your life."
In my joy of seeing ber 1 was neg-
lecting Cecilia's commission. Very
likely Hezekiah bad forgotten all
about her theft Hers, I reasoned,
was a nature that delighted in the
nearest pleasure. I would follow her
jack-o'-lantern around the world for
the chance of seeing the fun brighten
in her brown eyes, but I had made a
promise to Cecilia, and I meant to ful-
fill it.
She led me now across the meadow,
over a stone wall, up a steep slope
and by devious ways through a strip
of woodland. I bore the jack-o'-lan-
tern. She had bidden me do it with
some notion I did not question of
making tee a party in whatever mis-
chief 'was afoot.
Also, she demanded that I repeat
fully the story I bad told her aunt of
the finding Of the slipper.
"You are better than I thought you
were, Chimney Man," she declared,
'when 1 bad concluded and added her
atuat's.contment. "You may be sure
that tickled. Aunt Octavia. You can
lie almost as well as an architect.
Aunt Octavla says architects are bet-
ter liars than dressmakers,"
"It wen my weakness for the truth
I
Did tensed ate to abandon arehitec-
WS. /NW hea'ven's solea, what are int:
I find kept little account of the di-
rection of our flight, and 1 was sur-
prised that we had now reached the
stile over which I bad watched the
passing of the suitors on the afternoon
of my meeting with Hezekinh in the
orchard. •
"This is the appointed place," she re-
marked, taking the pumpkin from me
and dropping down on the far side ot
the stile.
"Hezekiah, I've trotted across most
of Westchester county. after you, and
my arm is paralyzed from carrying,
that pumpkin. f must know what
you're up to right here, or i'll go home.
Besides, there's a mist failing and
you'll be soaked. What do you sup-
pose your father thinks of your ab-
sence at this time of night?"
"Ob, he'll never forgive me for not
Jetting bins in on this, This is tbe
grandest thing I ever thought of. Sit
on this step and gently iueline your
ear toward the house. It's about time
those gentlemen were leaving Cecilia,
and they'll be galloping for their inn
in a minute, and then"—
Hezekiah whistled the rest of it.
\Vile we waited 1 tried once or
twice to revert to the silver notebook,
but without success. Hezekiah was a
mistress of the art of evasion with ber
tongue as well as her feet
"Walt till the eveulug performance
Is over and 1'1I talk abort that. Sh[
Quiet! Crawl over there out of the
wy, aucf when I say run, heat it for
therroad."
These hast phrases were uttered in a
whisper, her face close to my err. She
gave ale a little pusb, and I withdrew
a few yards and waited. The ground,
I may say, was wet and the drizzle
j_TO BE CCNT1NUE3. ]
Over 13 tY 0,(00 young trees are now
in stuck at the rrr eries of the censer -
veriest C'ntrmi'iior in New York State.
Landowners who wish to make plantings
a -e able to obtri.t a reasonable number
of tre.'s t.t ninimum cost. Anong the
varieties supplied are red pine, Euro-
psan latc't end red o:.k.
J. D. McArthur, of Winnipeg, a rail-
way ctntracto-, o!ters to take over the
Alberta & Great Waterways Railway
on terms satisfactory to to the bond-
holders and the Royal Hank.
Nurse's Years
of Experience
Proves Dr. Chase's Bidney-Lirer p111
Best Treatment for Sidney and
Stomach: Troubles.
The trained nurse hits even greater
opportunities than the doctor himself
to watch the action of medicine in
specific cases.
For years the writer of title letter
has been recommending the use of
Lir. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills among
her patients, and is firmly convinced
that no treatment is so prompt and
effective.
This Is the most valuable evidence
obtainable, and we believe that all
Who know Mrs. Duffy yVfit appreciate
it to the full, knowing that she Would
not recommend anything in which
she had not the fullest eonfldonce.
Mrs. Duffy, nurbe, 35 Lewis strett,
Toronto, writes: "I have rifted Dr.
Chase's Kidney -Liver Fills for w'ann'er
and recommend thetas to my patients
tor all disorders of the kidneys, liver
and stomach. In all my profesntAhal
experience I have found nothing' bet.
ter," Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver PJ11sr
one pill e. dose, wG cents sa boar, *11
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