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en Darby, ct iiris,nor, isexamined rin
tr e dixesenee
Governer rem ilia N ,,.i Tara,. ; by a .famous
alienist named -
Tkrost. It a governor is convinced
that tlio convict is P., victim of ani-
nesio, and piiNles Darby to
I inn Ilial _lie, ancidfriend of th
;Tr -jacinth Thr, two inert journey
Searle zrj ere Nieiville unfolds_Id
Vans i -s Ilen and shows hint a Tette
xx•vi d'i:.ia lar
ether,
Hiram Melville, written or, the latter'
death ped; The letter stat cl tha
while prospecting near th Yue.
River he east coma upon a pocke
worth nearly a quartet of a minim
do -hare Hiram bogged that his bi
Vier come immediately and take pus
session of the .claim, the only coli
drt:on being that Ezra should eat
has e
o .s p t Tents. Melville oltors
Ben a free' partnership and Ben ac-
cepts
e-
ce is with p
P deepest gratitude. Ra'
Brent is in love witBeatrice, He
meets hey' in front of a. hotel and
offers to'escort her home..
GOON WITH THE STORY,
Ray Brent's voice had an undeniable
ring of power.. yIt was deeply base;
evidently the voace of a passionate;
reckless, brutal friar,
The sten fedi' in beside her, his
powerful frame evereharlowiing hers,
"You're just' letting me because .Pm
g'aing.up there anye ay, eh?" he •asked.
The girl paused, as if in appeal.
May, we've thrashed that out long
ago,"' she 'responded. "I wish you
wouldn't keep tallying about it. If
you want. to walk with me—"
"All right, but you'll be changing
your mind one. of these days." Ray's
voice rang in the silence, indicating
litter indifference to the fact that
many Of the' loungers on the street
were listening to he little scene.
They followed the board- sidewalk'
into the shadows, finally, turning in at
a raans�haokle, three -loom house.
The girl turned to go lin, but the
man held fast to her aria, "Wait just
a minute, Hee;': he urged. "I've got
one thing more to say to you."
"When I want semething, I don't
know how to quit till I get it. It's
part of my nature. Your pop knows
that--encI that's °Why he's made me
ids pardner in a big deal.
"The strong- ni!an gets what he
wants—end I want you. And I'll get
you, too -just like I get this kiss."
But she was a northern girt, train-
ed to self-defence. Al he freed her,
her strong, slender arm swung out and
up—with realty startling force..
-"You little --devil!"
The tempest of the forest was upon
her, and her eyes blazed as she hasten-
ed around. the house.
CHAPTER III.
nEA'rerCE NEILSON'S FAYTH.
Jeffery Neilson and Chan Heenin-
way were already in session when Ray
Brent, his face flushed and hie eyes
still angry and red, joined them, Neil-
son w -as a tall, gaunt man Weil past
fifty—from his mastner evidently the
leader of the three. 'He had heavy,
grizzled brows and rather quiet eyes.
NatcTiona es he was.through the
t0
is
n ,
out }irlto rt �. as tu.
s "1 eltauld ray it wa-s worth a trip,",
tiRay agr sed. "And a' feast ode, too.
t Ezra Melville will be sbowiir' up enc
i al these days. We wainii.te bo'wf'in'
ro- pretty when ho cordes,'
- "You've got tae idea. ^ It ought to
- bo the eastaet job we ever dial;,"
Cate
i r
fdVIi'e7167.W V„
v/914n1sts-c�Con^n))
"held your. . iterses. Whole, would
he pet 'end? There's something else
suspicious too. Ile wrote a letter, the
day before he died, andyaddressed it
to Ezra Melville, lie must just about
got it by now. He bad the clerk mail
it lee him, and got hind to witness
saytn,g it war, his will -and what did
tisi oicl hound have to will except a
'nine? Next iffy he wrote swotie,
letter somewhere
e' i',ce-butt didn't find
• Ray was loot in tisetpht, "There's
an old cabin up that way annedviwn+o
—on the river•.. If lrls brother does
'write up, he'll find us in paenessiou—
and nothing :to do but go back, : So
to morrow we'llload up and pack
horses turd light out"
"lap Poor :Man creel:, through
Spruce` Pass—"
"Sure:; Then over to the Yuga,.. Old
Hlirani was hunting down some kind
ed a scent in the vicinity of that old
cabin you speak of, last beard of him."
"All easy enough," Ray agreed: ilo
paused, and e queer, speculative look
came into hos wild -beast's eyes. "But
what I don't see—how you can figure
all this is going to help ane out with
Beatrice."
Jeffery Neilson turned in his chair.
"You' can't, eh ? Yao meed spectacles."
"We'll 'need someone to -cook and
look -sifter us; when we get up there.
Who should it he but Beatrice? She
wouldn't event to stay here; ,you kngyr
how she loves the wood's. There
floral—met pawvinces leo was infinitely
to be preferred to Ohan Ilenelnwaa,
Who sat at hie lett, who, a weaker
titan than either Ray or Neils oh, was
simply a teal in the lather's hand.
"Where's Be td'IceV' Neilsen asked
at once. "I thought I heard het
'voice."
Itay searched for a reply, and in
• the alleneee all three heard the glri's
tread as she 'went around the 'house.
"She's going in the back door. Likely
alit didn't want to disturb us."
Ray looked up to find Neilson's eyes
firmly fixed upon his face. Try hard
as he might ha couldn't. restrain 'a
'surge of color in hie cheeks. "yes,
- and what's the rest of .it?" Neilson
asked,
' "Nothing I know of."
"You've. got some white marks on
your cheeks -where it ain't red. Il no.
kid can slap, can't she—"-
Ray,flnshed.eleeper, but the lines of
Neilson's face began to deepen • aied
diraw. Then his voice broke in a groat,
hearty chuckle.
"Cool dawn, boy—wait till you hear
everything I've got, to tell you, : and
you 11 feel better. Of course, you know
what it's about --n •
"I suppose--HiranjMefville'selaim."
"That's it. You know he's always
had an idea that the Yuga country
was worth prospecting, but we always
'aughed at hint. Of course it is- a
pocket country; but it's any opinion
he found a pocket that would make
many a placer look sick,' before he
coed,"
"But he might have got tide rug -
gets somewhere else—"
01
lay :tae l#Seviia' Seers
Sb' cay till Whose workei
hard aftor they fry the deli-
cioua,',rnvieorating a %'"o roe -.
meetmeetof Wrigley's e
9
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a , rest '
d AM, Smoldne,
f Fls6�
a ISSUE No, 8—'27.
wouldn't be any of the tither boys up
there to trouble _ you. You'd have a
clear field."
At a little town at the .end of steel
.Ben and Ezrani ended the first lap of
their journey.
A canoe was, bought for a reason-
able 'sum they . were told they had a
good chance of selling it again when
they- left the -river near' Snowy Gulch,
E'er a ridiculously small sum whieh
he mysteriously produced from the
pocket of his faded jeans, Rzram
bought •a secondhand rifle—att an-
cient gun of large ealibre but of. e»-
during quality and a boa: of shells to
match.
"Old Hiram left me a gun, but
we'll each need • one,," Ezrain es-,
planned. „
They would haveneed of goad
canoe -craft before the journey's end,
the villagers told them.. Ezrain had;
not boasted of any such ability, and
at fleet Ben'regardcd the plan with,
cosidera'ble misgivings. And it lies
As he freed her, her strong,
slender erne swung out and up.
with the most profound amazement
that, when they pushed' off, he raw
Emend deliberately seat himself in
the bow, leaving the more important
place to his young coanpanlen,
"Good' heavens, I'll capsize you in
a .minute," Ben said. "How do you
dare risk it—"
"Pueh off and atop botherin' me,"
Ezrain answered. "Theme a peddle
—go ahead and shoot 'er."
The waters caught the canoe, speed-
ing it down -stream; and in apprehen-
sion of immediate disaster Ben seized
the paddle. Swiftly lie thrust it into
the streaming water at his side.
"Do you a;emiiember wheia you shot the
Athabaslea..Rapide?'1 Emend had ask.
ed. It was all clear eneuggh. In that
lift that was forgotten he .had evident-
ly lived reach in a canoe, knowing
every detail of rives' life.
Late afternoon, and they worked
closer to the shore, And now, in the
gray twilight, Emend $0,.W the place
to land, .
It wee a emelt lagoon into .whieh
a creek emptied, and beyond was an
open Meadow, found ao often and so
unexpectedly in the Noi-th woods.
Swiftly Beed turned the :canoe into
shore.
All at once a great clarity seemed
to take poseesalon of Ben's'psina!
Here, in these forests, were the stimuli
of which Forest, the alienist,' had
spoken; and his brain seemed to leap,
as in one impulse, -b the teeth. Sud-
dent he 'knew tine answer {,o all the
quos ons and pieblems that had
troub ed hind so long.
He sprang up, his eyes blazing, "j
remember everything," en inaudible
voice spoke within him. Than he
whispered fervently, to .his familiar
Wilds. "And I hgvo come hone."
CHAPTER .TV.
jn Ir rtzoii T{ip BLUE.
17va "#}pn was� h3s t ylsuld be, ass
he �ahl 7.1.44thele the camp
"Ws al come clear amain,' he told
dx
Eiratn. }+erect heieal maw that
zr'in"` 'ha1,04.
w'Cy N2e l 01.: lo4. in-
tbeate friend of his otvn family; n
spry old aoatether to hinlseif and
young sister, a boon companion. to his!
once successful rival, Bee's pakhar; f
Ben did not wonder now at his own
URSE
$0$ 00.$40.1 tar bitur$$le$ to-
lort t144jovua at+t7 r(1 i71R11'llaepnnf§,
oro 4t1Y, „Trra 4. 0h4,bra': 04ureo:
L Ir t 11, '1;5 i an,n 1parer, 't>rin6 ; the.
pomuirae B g y'lan+ raw dii1rMi5 ni 6aoomirl
11M3li, Y'nta 06ts.itA too adwtad thorlaht,
how. tiydaAn 1'140 1100111. 4¢$efta nn[tprep`at
the BaA4ri, n Inon.l+ty ali41.70no0 anQ 4i vrllnU
rt,unaall td 4tQ irg41 Of,v, i or forth E:
lnforme00 Vlrlto fhb tiuntrinto unit, •
perplexity wleen Forest had spokdn of
`Wolf„ Darby. That ..was .his awn
name known'tiironghout hunndrede of
square miles of toteele and ist-dozens
of Tittle river :hamlet', in an Easters
province.
The journey ended at last, - They
slaw the white peak they lead bean told
to watch tor, and soon after they came
to a' green baisis aren't which the forest
had been cut away. They pushed up.
and trade landing on' the banks ,of a
email stream,
This stream, Ezrain knew, duets Poor
Man's Creek,: the stream of which hie
Urothax had written and dvhiolr they
must' ascend to reach Spruce Pass.
Only:five males distant, lar a quaa:ter-
dn.g direction from the -elver, ,' was
Snowy Gulch, the village where they
were to. secure supplies and, froze
Steve zis the late Iliraan'agun
and tie pet;, Tenses,
Before Grey were ' fully unpacked.
they made' out the figure of n inidd4e-
aged frontiersman, -his back leaded,
advancing up the road; toward then.
"Howdy," Ezrain began pleasantly.
"Howdy," the stranger replied.
"How was gain,?"
"Oh, good enough.?,
"Ochre all the way from Saltsvilie?"
(To be .continued,)
Nseesasseieseaasseessseaa
ational Jubilee Year
Time to "Think Canada'
anadiane Should Appreciate
i es ill acid Potential Ad
'vantages oi' Their Country,
"NOW" IS CANADA'S OP-
PORTUNITY,
P-PORTUNIkY,
•Over 1900 organized radio bleed -
came throughout the country were a¢' -
ranged to hear Premier Bing speak In
Toronto recentlly, Aside from all
political appetite of the ease it ie im-
possible to estimate tire greet educa-
tionad valve' such ail adrsptation et
Reale broadcasting i8 to the people of
our country..
Canada's Opportunity,
In the presentand near future lies
Canada's great opportuulty. We, as
Canadians do not full am ieelata
all a, Y 1 Ja
what -au extraordin tr'y country we.
in'
have. WehaveCoen'used to hea r g
11o1141cwt spellbinders tali us what a.
twondeiful' country Canada le that we
are perhaps apt to inentaily undereS-
timate our good fortuuo and our op-
portuiiities. We hear so notch about
the success and wettith of the country
tqdt.he south of as that sons of WS are
a'Prt to be enrious and to think that fife
United Status is more_ fortunate than
Cauatla. '
Our Greatest Asset.
The people make any country, and
' '+rtI 4 I JUST Av,
l Acro ft�a.
LOT 074 i009elSH
HABI TS some.
we in Canada aro thrice blest In hav-
ing
aving a' predeminatfng Anglo-Saxon na-
tion, 107e have yet -no great polyglot
population to -.create racial difficulties
and this is perhaps Canada's greatest
asset, 'Phe United States has about
lit mlldiort negroee and 80 million
foreign or other than Anglo-Saxon inn
habitants. Canada'itas no Negro Prob.'
lam and a very small percentage of
Etinopean8: The United States has
nholut 82% trouble making alien peo,
04,
w en701.11vrglgitac ����eIt's
deEi1oi¢sese®
pie, whiffle we have over 80% of pure
Angle -Saxon mad c'115 French-Canadian
inhab1tantta, Due to this, probably,
more than anything else, is eau' great
etrangth 'and national vitality. Otr
future de encle on our maintaining dile
prepondierallce, of Anglo-Saxon and.
French Canadian =blood:
A Nation Now.
Returning to the sroadeast; of the
Pr'emier's speech, can be proud, as
Canadians, to }earn thee Canada is etc -
espied tie the eldoi' son -of'Rngaand's
great family ote Dominions, We may
well he proud, that our Politioai
Status within the' Empire is one of
equality with the mother land. That
That if any change ie to he made in
aur constitution we in Canada will
Make it'und that we have arrived '• at
full nationhood 'within ourseltves. Such
information cannot but Help to make
alis -individually and nationally hall our
heads. higher and meet the future with±
greater confidence and optimism,
"Clue".Canada;
In this. Mir anniversary year wepwe
it to oats country and to out'aedvea ,tSji
read more, think more and tallt alai'
aboutCauada-anii so become better
du+
formed and more t telligent Can
inane. >+s the year advances and
oW
nartioitc birthday aprroaohee,
sb.outdbe mentally n 1 e ui ed t
Y q UU A tak
full cognizance of that birthday an
at that Clines to fully appreciate w
Canadian aitizenslsdMeans; eans; It Is 01.
!Aleutian of this paper. to print fro
tinge to tens a geries of a'ttoleS then
will be lliumdaating and fnstrtiotive'te,
Its readers -so Canadians,
Lakes Hato In waren Lands.'
Moat lakes are the" result of gleaner,'
tion,, and consequently lakes are rare)
in warm dry climates,
eamesamrssopmvall
SUN
F CANADA.
ASSURANCES IN.FORCE .(net) .$
An Increase of $235,393,00
New Assurances Paid For
An Increase of $7.2,412,000
Total income _
An Increase of $9,825,000
Payments to Policyholders and
Beneficiaries e.
Total Payments Since Organiza-.
tion M
Reserve for Unforeseen Con-
.tingencios r .
Surplus over all- Liabilities and
Contingency Reserve
An increase of $5,371,000
ASSETS at December 31, 1 926
An Increase of $42,195,000
-Y�
1,256,490,000
0.
265,889,000
78,972,000
38,576,000
257,816,000
11,000,009
34,011,000
345,251' 000
Dividends to Policyholders .increased ,'or
seventh successive year
EXTRACTS FROM DIRECTORS' REPORT
The operations during the past year have re- stock; privileges received in connection with An additional amount of 400000 has
salted in'substantial advances in all .depart- teeny of our �taldiifgs. ..
d �+
meats. ... - The quality of the investments listed In the
The new policies paid for.. , , almost double Assets relay be judged from 'the fact that on
the figures of two years ago. 99.55 per cent of the bonds and on 99,71. ' er
The assurances in force, after deduction of
reassurances, .... show an increase' of. .
over twenty-three per cent.
Policies and group certificates now outstand-
ing aggregate well in excess of half a million.
Tile figures relating to resources and earning
power are equally satisfactory.
The high quality and profitable character of
our investments has again been demonstrated.
As a result of continued reduction in prevailing
rates of interest, and of satisfactory industrial.
conditions, ,there has been a further rise in the
market values of our long-term bonds and of
our preferred and other stocks. The appraisal of
our securities made bythe Government Insur-
ance Department shows bYihe(xovernnentagthorities.
that'thc� excess of
ivarketvaluesovercosthasincreasedduringthe
year by $6,894 ;266,26, In additions the sum The a9connt to, provide. for unforeseen con-,
of $1,729,364.52 leas been realizedas-uptprofit tingencies has be tures* by $1,000,000
from the redemption or sale of municipal debeii- .bringing the tote, tinder this 'heading to
tures and other securities which had risen to $11,000,000.
high premiums. The rate of interest, earned on - _ Tho book value of our Bead Office building
the mean invested. assets has also risen to the has been written down by farther sun; o
been set aside to provide for greater longest; '
of annuitants, The total held under this heat
„ing in excess of Government requirements,
is now: $1.,500,000.
cent o the preferred stocks, not one dollar of in- The €eservde on the r}ewky acquired busi-
terest ordividend is in aiesir for even one'day. nese of the Cleveland. Life and on other re-
.....
On common stocks thedividends now being assured i5oiicies, fravebeenaraised to the same
received are greatly in e;7ScesS of the dividends high standard as that used fci the valuation
payable on the sante stocks at time of purchase. of liabilities under our own contracts.
The total surplus. earned during the year To oto policyholders; profits have been
amounted to, 20 457 b77.2 . 7'
0 owing have av a been mgde of 9,2 ,5,52680. .. • o o~a; ,
f 1] ' , $ rout this the pa d or al otted during the year to the atingunt
The sum of x;2,000,000 has bean de- After >ij#aj ilii th, se deductions and all4,.ct>-
ducted from the official valuation of our se- tiond a a., hies. f ,371 564.5 b'
curities to provideo °T'" P e' ' d $ . u8
for possible fluctuations In r}pade to fhb' ttll-;yjlea profits. 7`,Ile lir. �us:
market vsehi ., Th..19 to ses the amount act over all is ill'l s ' Pni n enc accounts and-.
aside for thl0 llrnose to • $5,000,000, tock 1. v stands Y a n
��} � b1�v'j 'ands at $34,011,565.25:
In other ,N ele, its value at 'which our, ' i. , >_•
pp For x yearsl succetslon NyeI ave increased
securities die 'carried in the balance. sheet is .�
$5,00,0,000 less than the appraisal made the profits to patteofpatici8 policyjlplders, I)ur-
ing this riod our 0.04 t scale has been doubled.
,Iasid$ or allotted 4s pro fit:to polley boldera-hag
multipliedd kve.gr 4i a calf i ii'os,'1 e are gratified
anilognce, for the seven Ell consecutive
'ftiither.incsciagq in tied scale of profits to be
remarkable figure of 6.69 per cent, as the result $250,000 though it certainly' could not -distributed to Our policyholders In the ensuing
of substantial dividend' increases,'. bonuses, and be. replaced at even its original cost, .year.
p}�ea,
While the ' s 11} for ' ,have 61iui t i flied
d. d .. r.,x It `u g20, the Qmloudt
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