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He always was different •' from the rest of us; is yet, Didn't you see it?„ "Yes, I could see that 1e was dif- ferent," said Cal, "And he was inter- ested in 11.10" ad "Oh, he was asking about every- body you know. He seems to be at war with everybody, because the first • �tMng he said to me was, `I suppose But the cloud, like many beautiful a witchery of wild imaginations, you'll have your little knife into ,me, persons, was veryvain. Do you Fora moment he would not trust too.' There'was something tragic know• what it is to be vain, Reed?" himself with words. 'about it, 'Not till I know you better,' "She was stuck on herself,", the boy CHAPTER THIRTEEN says I. which was a funny answer, answered promptly. „ don't you think?" Cal paused, taken rather aback by she repeated, when eherdid mots peak, 1 "Rather," Cal agreed.. "It's bad the slid rejoinder. "Are you angry?" enough to be alone in the world, with- "Ah, I see your education is pro- "Angry? How could I be angry? out being at war with it too." gressing," he continued. "Yes, she But it is a dangerous pra-tice; you She shot a quick glance at him, and was rather vain, and she wanted very never can tell—" for an instant their eyes inet.' much to be admired. And. so it "What I may hear? I have to take 1 "But. you are not alone," she said, annoyed her very much that that chance. Do you remember .what with her keen intuition of his mean - wherever she went a shadow pissed you lucre saying—what I heard?" ins. "You have Reed, and—" She over the face of the earth, darkening He. groped in his mind, but it had paused. "Father and mother think a its cheerful smile. And at last shegreat deal of you, and so does 'Gan - said to the shadow, `Shadow, why do gone surging.. There was nothing sol- der,for all his banter about your bon - you on which he could lay his hand. you annoy me by going wherever I levard and your education, and you're go, and by pushing yourself in al- "Y were saying that jealousy a Hero in Ham's eyes. Ham doesn't makes its own troubles, and that when ways between Earth and me? Why say .very much, but he thinks a great don't you go away by yourself, so jealousy goes the troubles go, too deal, and I know." And I knew you must have been that Earth may admire me? Surety r "That leaves just one member of the world is big enough for us both!'thinking—what I've been thinking- the family unclassified" "But the shadow said, 'Earth loves or you wouldn't have said that,": "Then there's Annie Frolic," she me more than she does : you, and I I She turned to him her face, warm added. will not leave her. See how the par- land inviting with a radiance not en- He ignored the thrust; an explora ched flowers open at my caress! tirely of the fire, and it was with an tory thrust, he did not doubt. "You Hear how the wheat whispers under ' effort he refrained from reaching out Were telling me about your brother," the touch of my fingers! Earth loves land touching it, from drawing her lips he reminded her. me, and I will not give her up. ;to his. It would be folly, he knew, ,.So I was. He asked me who you "Then the cloud gathered all her but a folly more entrancing than all were, and I said `Calvin Beach.' friends together, until a great squad- •the wisdof of the world. `Who?' he said. `Galvin Beach—Cal, ion of them came sailing through the "So that's what you've been think -we call him,' I said. 'Where's'he sky. And as they came they touched jag," he managed to say. from?' `Don't know, particularly; he elbows, closed ranks, and began to ( "For three weeks. Cal,, I've been never told me,' 'I said. `Rambled in their little bullets of rain at the, so unhappy: I—Was' there anything with his Ford a few weeks ago and shoot TXitlrsdw•ty, Ju th., 2,5 Flax" "TheSmoking DUDLEY HOLMES BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. `Victory and Other Bonds Bought and sold. Office—Meyer Block, Wingham. R. VANSTONE BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. Money to Loan at Lowest Rates. Wingham, - Ontario J. A. MORTON BARRISTER, ETC. Wingham, - Ontario DR. G. H. ROSS Graduate Royal College of Dental Surgeons`' Graduate. University of Toronto Faculty of Dentistry. Office Over H. E. Isard's Store. 13y Robert J. C. Ste W. R. IIAMDLY B.Sc., M.D., C.M. Special attention paid to diseases of Women and Children, having taken postgraduate work in Surgery, Bact- eriology and Scientific Medicine. Office in the Kerr Residence,• bet- ween the. Queen's Hotel and the Bap- tist Church. All business given careful attention. Phone. 54. P. O. Box 113. Dr. Robt. C. Redmond M.R.C.S. (Eng.) L.R.C.P. (Lond.) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Dr. Chisholm.'s old stand. DR. R. L. STEWART ART Graduate of University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine; Licentiate of the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons. Office in Chisholm Block Phone 29. Josephine Street. Dr. Margaret C. Calder General Practitioner Graduate University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine Office—Josephine St., two doors south of Brunswick Hotel. Telephones: Office 281, Residence 151. F. A. PARKER OSTEOPATH All Diseases Treated Office adjoining residence next to Anglican Church on Centre Street. Open every day except Monday and Wednesday afternoons. Osteopathy Electricity Telephone 272. J. A L V I N F O X CHIROPRACTIC OSTEOPATHY ELECTRO—THERAPY Hours to -x2. 2-5. 7-S, Telephone xgx in 'that—that incident you know, shadow below. But the shadow took held father up for a job.' And all "You mean in the fact thatr was watching me in .the strangest kind of there with Annie Frawdic?"Tway with those strange black eyes of "Yes:' his." "No more than in the fact that you She turned suddenly on the cushion, were there. with Archie Hale." land her hand fell lightly on Cal's arm. She was silent for a moment, the The feather's weight of her fingers heel of her shoe digging meanwhile set him a -thrill. "Tell me, Cal," she M the hard earth before the fire. Isaid, with sudden intensity, "Do you the onslaught in silence; did not an- i down at the lake?" the time I was telling him this he was swer, did not strike back." Cal paused, aware of a presence. From the gloom by the side of the granary young Jackson Stake emerg- ed; 'passed merg-ed;'passed through a segment of the circle of light, his dark face strangely sinister in the red glow; disappeared again in the darkness. "Yes, I know you see itthat way, "Then the cloud grew more angry know him? Did you ever see him be- h d d "But it's a 1rttIe dif- Economy Charm soiree Bine Charm !Makes your. a•4rorilte fabriee pat 1;ilcto OCW than. ever because the shadow would she cones e fore?" k andshe called up her ferent. Archie and I are old not fight back, friends—" artillery under General Lightning and "And good friends." Colonel Thunder, and my, but didn't "And good friends. But not they raise a clatter! They blazed andgood as that—" • bellowed and poured until it seemed "How, `So good as that?" the. poor shadow must :be driven to "Well, don't you see, he's gone have been my fancy, but �I thought,.. perhaps I should tell you. swered word, She was talking in enigmas, grew deeper and blacker, and so she. move. She had thought that possibly can't follow you," he confessed:: he was in danger; she had come to grew until she seemed to cover all the "Then I'll be blunt. i sent.him 'tell him. world, until at length, look where she home early, don't you see, so that L "He was interested, too, in Reed," would, the cloud could not see a ray could—that we could—" She was she went on. "Asked me •who the of sunshine in all the earth. And the floundering. cloud wept as she had never wept be- „ boy was. I told him he was your fore, to think that all the earth had I'ou saw me go to the lake?"he sister's child. That *as right, wasn't asked. his name and Y might have gone told � 'Reed Beach,' and he said she s how could that be if he was your sis- an so she g Her amazing frankness threatened ter's child, and I couldn't tell him." she could fight no longer; all her his undoing. With an effort he held beautiful plumes were gone; all her i The fire had dulled to a glow in loveliness had disappeared; she had his poise. When he spoke it was 'which he sensed, rather than saw, her with forced calmness. figure. Her face was turned.away. exhausted herself•, she vanished info "Why do you say these things to thin air. And then a wonderful So this was her problem, and his. For. me? he asked, a•second time he had,been.confronted thing happened. Just as the cloud It was as though in some way he vanished the shadow also vanished,'with this "inconsistency. Minnie had and all the earth lay steeped in sun- had thrust out and repulsed her. She expressed no doubt'of.her own, but did not move, yet he experienced a it was impossible to suppose she had shine." „sense of her drawing away from him. "What does it mean, Daddy X? not wondered.. He must give her an said Reed, when Cal had been silent 1 "I thought you. would be ..interest- explanation, not an evasion; he must ed,"she said, very quietly. make and pidgeon-hole where it for some minutes. I "I ain interested; tremendously iii - "I don't know. Just a story. But would always be ready for instant use" I suppose it means• that jealousy in- terested. Minnie, if things were dif- an explanation that would turn the makes its own shadows—its own roue ferent—if I were in a position—I edge of doubt: The promise he had would tell you how much I am inter made his sister, the love he bore bles. And when jealousy disappears „ the ckon ested. Reed, demanded this artifice. that's what sit means.,, Now saye your! "But as things are—?" t "Listen, Minnie," he said. "There verse and slipt away to bed." I He spread his open palms before is 'one thing I have never done—have him. "You know,"he said. never felt called- upon . to do. That is, He held the child a moment in his.- They fell silent then, and the fireac- when then turned tohis fire and his explain Reed. My friends must no- when there was a soft rustle in the' My brother as c e," she question." said at length, as though seeking a She, turned her face to him again. darkness and Minnie Stake stood be- change of topic. "He was asking me „You need not explain him—io me," side him, He sprang to his feet, re- membering in the moment how abso- about you—and Reed. she said. lutely their first meeting was being t etYoI• am flattered can't have eby h sch of him interest," He stirred the fire ••'slowly to give duplicated yhim time to collect'his thoughts. "I've been eavesdropping again," He did not mean his words"to be so •Then, `Never in the world." She breathed more easily. "Some- thing about the way he looked made SO me think he knew you," she said. "Of course I didn't know, and it may just surrender. But the shadow never an- „ He was following her move by home—early? d and all the time she „I become so dark and foreboding. , it?Then he asked `Yes; and wished I "But the cloud would not give up, d carried on her fight until too,"said. TheFoundation VERY fortune , has had a foundation. Every foundation, in the first instance, is laid with the first few dollars saved. Start to save now and lay your foundation. Save seriously—save consistently. For money in the Bank is the buffer against misfortune • and the barometer of future prosperity. - Zl WINGHAM BRANCH, J. A. WALLACE, - Manager. wmastultearessusems I love hint too!" Outwardly," He is a wonderful boy. I wonder if I— would you let me see him, as he sleeps?" They arose together. and he led her through the door of.the little granary that served as his home, and Reed's. His -4 ears was thumping absurdly, but above its uproar Cal could hear the • DEPARTMENTAL EXAMS ,rhythm of the boy's steady breathing as it came from the corner of the' HIGH SCHOOL ENTRANCE room where he slept. He found a match and struck a light. Its flame Wednesday June 24th -9,0o to moot lit up the bare board walls. until Cal Grammar; xi.xo to 12.00, Writing, directed it toward the sleeping figure i.3v to 2.30, Geography. Thursday, June 25th --9.00 to 11.30 on the floor. Reed was entangled,"Arithmetic; 1.30 to 400 Literat- boylike, among his covers; one arm tore. D. D. McINNES CHIROPRACTOR MASSEUR Adjustments given for diseas's of all kinds, specialize in dealing with children. Lady attendant. Night Calls responded to. Office on Scott St., Wingham, Ont., in the house of the late Jas. Walker. Telephone 15o. Phones: Office 166, Resid. 224. A. J. WALKER FURNITURE t EALEit and -- MINERAL MINEII AL DIRECTOR 1Vlotor Equipment W/14011AM, ONTARIO arms; en urn.e i again died down before them. pipe. But Reed had barely gone „ b . h h come ham cept hini, as they accept me, without hard as they sounded: she said "May I sit down?" I "Reed is my sister's son," he said, "Just a few minutes. You see, I "A short time before he was born his Reed had taken one of the -cushions, . , hada t seen him for ten years—more as disappeared and was never as an installment of his bed. Cal ea- l than ten years. I was a litte rl giseen again, WO suspected an asci- gerly brushed the end of the remaining then, going:.to school." She paused dent; drowning, perhaps, hut never cushion with his hand and they sat as though to call u the picture, down together. He pushed the glow -„But we always have looked on him learned anything definite. leo 'doubt ing sticks in to a little pile and a fin -the extra strain of this mystery wore as a sort of black sheep; I dont know Celesta down, at any rate ttlnt; ncver ger of flame thrust up again to toy wily, except that he went away anxl with the smoke -wraiths in the silent - recovered after feed was born. At air. The light glowed on the girl's stayed—seemed to drop us out of lii,s the last rhe gxiv'e the boy to me, and g face; danced entangled in her rippling hair; touched with its soft caress the shadows of her throat! limned the al- luring lines of her young body' and glistening on the sheen of her stock- ings as she stretched her toes toward the fire. Of a sudden Cal felt his pulses racing.and knew that the bars- iers which their stubbornness had built between them had collapsed and restrained them less to -night, than if they had never been, This girl—what of the world, of his station, of his am- bitions, of his poverty, of the cloud' which had sent him to the open spa- ces? His sociological experiment, be- ginning as the half -humorous pastime of a season, had grown to be a matter Of life and. death, of all things desir- able, Her presep4e f1Oaded Nita with was born at Whitechurch in Huron, but went West as a boy. W. H. Har- per, former member for Kindersley, was. born at Exeter, and married Miss Ellen .Cudmore, of the same town,' but does not appear to 'have been a candidate in this election. *•'charged me to take care of hitxn: 1 have done ,so, 5itn4 will do so to the 'end. 1 adopted him rind gave him 'lily name, That is all there is to it," I:Ier hand found his; rented on it gently for a moment, then closed with la, sudden intensity of passion; in her ,strong, ,supple fingers. "You need not 'have told rue," she whispered. "I did 'net want --1, did not meed to know." lFor a time they sat in silence, cot- selous of a subtle new bond of union 'and of dumb swelling in their throats. "He is about all I have in life," Cal went on. "Celesta attd 1 were the on- ly children. 1 have to think of hire, always. You understand?" 1"I understand," she breathed, But to her heart she was crying, "Oh, don't .you see? That is no obstacle. Your can't feel so good lr „but what will make you feel better. u „ + MITCHELL, DRUGGIST and his. face lay bare and a foot pro- truded from under a twisted blanket, They leaned • over and watched the sweet lips, the calm, placid face, but Cal watched also the eyes of the girl's beside hire; saw them moisten and fill and drop their jewelled tribut on the rough bed that was Reed's, and his. Then the match burned out. They turned to go, and as they turned her hair brushed his cheek. It was tantalizing, maddening. It was black darkness in the little room; he could not see her face, but the sense of her presence was all about him. He stretched out his hand and it tou- ched her hair; it fell upon her shoul- der; he turned her toward "him. "Minnie—I know it's madness, and you will say so, and forget, but for the moment you must hear me— Minnie, I love you! I cannot ask you to be my wife; I have nothing to offer that you would have, but I can be silent no longer. I love you, Minn- ie—love you—do you hear?” For a moment she did not answer, but he felt her frame' -tremble beneath his hand. Then—her vbice was low but clear and firm: "It is not madness, Cal. And you can offer me every- thing—everything that I would ever care to have." "You mean that, sweet? ber, I am penniless, in health—" "You will be rich same day. You have brains; you have education. But it is not for that, but because I—I love you, Cal—" Continued Next Week Remem- uncertain MANY HURONITES IN SASK. ELECTION Friday, June 26th -9.00 to moo, Composition; 11.15 to 12.00, Spell - 1..59 to 3.30, History. MIDDLE SCHOOL Monday, June 22-9.00 to 11.30,. Cheziiistry; 1.30'T0 4.00, COMPOS/..- tion. omposi-tion. . Tuesday, June 23rd -9.00 to 11.30, Latin Authors; 1,30 to 4.00, Latin_ Composition. Monday, June 29th -9.00 to Iz.30 Geometry; 1.30 to 4;00, Ancient History. - Thursday; July 2-9.0o to 1.3o, French Authors; 1.3o to 4.00, Fren- ch Composition. • Friday, July 3-9.00 to 11.3o, Physics; 1.30 to 4.00, Literature. "I hate my woollen underwear," said little Willie B., "it makes me itchy everywhere and wastes my en- ergy; „it itches here, it itches there,.' the tickle seems to crawl. A place will itch but when I scratch that ain't the' place at all!" (London Free Press) In addition to several former Lon- doners in the new Legislature of Saskatchewan, an astonishing propor.- tioti of the members -elect are natives of Huron county; who went West from time to time during ;the settlement of the prairies and have achieved pro- minence itt their adopted Province. George Cockburn, re-elected in Red Berry as an independent, was born in this city, but went West in x895. Hon, S. 5, Latta, Minister of Education in. the Dunning'Cabinet, is also a native of London, and taught school for twenty-three years at Wingham, Exe- ter, Zurich and London. He was a candidate in Saskatchewan in 1908, but was first elected in 1912. While .returns are not complete, Charles Agar, a native of Belfast, Huron county, appears to have been re-elected in Saskatoon county, He is a .Progressive. Hon. Jaynes, - G. Gardiner, Misistcr of Highways and Labor, who is r -elected it1 'North. Qti-Appelle, was born. at Farquhar, near Exeter: Ile is forty-two years of age, and was only thirty-nine when called, to the Dunning Cabinet. Hon, C. M. Hamilton, Minister of Agriculture,re-elected in Weyburn, When customers go to the country .many grocers and butchers continue to supply them by calling up out-of-town pros-. , pects in a circle of 30, 40, or 50 miles on an ap- pointed day and hour, and gettingtheir orders. Grocers say they can well afford to do so on weekly orders. 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