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ROSS Graduate Royal College of Dental Surgeons Graduate University of Toronto Faculty of Dentistry. Office Over H. E. Isard's Store. L PONNORNIORR SmokingF1ax" By Robed J. C. Stead 1My land, youcouldn't see the axle*" "May I have the 'line a moment? I want to call Wheatveiew?" Cal inter - Irupted. "There he is again, Can you beat tit, Isobel? And that old gag about callite a doctor. . That's played out years ago. 'Pon my 'vord I hayen't „w, m Iliad visit on this phone for f don't (know how long, always soniebody CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE "So do T." jbuttin' in. What was I talkie' about? Life on the ;mason farm moved"And Grandma, and Jimmie Elinor Let me see --Oh yes, about putting up along pleasantly enough, It was very and Minnie." strawberries, pound for pound, or different from Jackson Stake's; here "So do I...', " Ihow. Pete says I makeall my jams Cal and Reed seemed alone in the So things went on until a particle- 'too rich, He says if I'd show my world Front their shack in the yell- larly hot afternoon in mid-July. Reed tjams at the Wheatview fair there'd be ey no other habitation could be seen; was more moodish than usual, and at 'nothiti' to it; but just one, two, three, length Cal sent him to the house di -'but, my land, I ain't got the nerve to even the rambling buildings of Peter- a r son, their nearest neighbor, were cut recting him to stay quietly in the 'go in for that kind of thing, although shade until it was ,time to prepare 'they do say that bein' the wife of a supper. "You might make supper a 'director has more to do with the pri- 'Iittle early," he added, with a sudden Izes than anythin' else. Eh, what do happy thought, "and we'll drive to 'You think? •m -Anyway, I haven't the town to -night to a picture show," {time—Oh, did I tell you 'bout Louise Reed's eyes lighted momentarily, —she's our second, you know—how and he trudged off toward the shack. 'well she done at the summer exams? But when Cal followed at five he Pete says hedon't know where• Louise found no preparation for supper. gets her brains, but I tell him I could est telephone was miles away, and the Reed was lying on the bed in the cor- guess—" nearest school still £either, ner of the little room. I "Take care, Carrie! 1That's a hard 'Why, what's the matter, old one on you.. Hal Ha! Hal Watch It was twelve miles to Wheatview, ? our step, Carriel" but the railway passed not far from scout? . No supper to -night' y Mason farm and Reed soon dis- "I don't feel very well," the boy an- ; "Oh, my land, Isobel; what a mind covered that by climbing thethe bank of swered, beginning to cry. "I've got you have! I never thought—" a headache, and I'rn dizzy, and I don't "May I have the line a minute? It the valley he could command a view feel very well"` is really serious. There's a boy very of,the freight trains, crawling like gi Cal felt his heart suddenly gripped sick and 1 want -to call the doctor for gentle serpents, until they faded out of view in the heat -haze of the plains. in a strange and stifling clutch. Reed him—" Many of the freight trains stopped at ;had always been so well. Sick, un- I "Oh, can that old gag! `Line's bu- n siding and a water tank about four der these conditions. ..rf he iTiould sy! Get off the line!" glose everything now! { ''I'm in dead earnest. I've got to miles away, and, from his point of oh He moved anxiously to the side of get a doctor at once, and I'm going servation, the boy began to pick up the bed and placed his hand on the to stay on thi's line until I' get him, an acquaintance with them. He soon ;child's forehead. It was Piot and dry. I Moreover, Carrie, I'm going to ex - learned, too, the hours at which pass en er trains might be expected, ani The pulse was rapid, the breathing plain.to your husband how it is that g 'quick and catch He raised him he doesn't `understand where Louise as he watched them rushing by, trail q y' 'slightly in his arms, gets her brains—" "Any pains anywhere?" There was a gasp and a clicking of "No, but I have a headache, and —I receivers, and a minute later Cal had —don't• feel—very well." his connection through to Wheatview. The voice trailed off listlessly while , Dr. Thompson's wife answered, as the Cal's mind went plunging through doctor himself was out of town. She from view by a shoulder of the hills. Now and again a settler's wagon creaked its slow course along the trail that led to Wheatview; occasion- ally an automobile sped by, trailing a cloud of dust; but neither settler nor motorist gave more than a glance to the Mason shack, nor so much ai a thought to its occupants. ' The near- Thu'rsday, September ea „ egos, arms, her eyes closed, her hungry soul rambling with its unknown off- spring through the Elysian fields, There, surely, by the light that never was on land or sea, these two bad seen, and had known. . Cal wrapped,a blanket about the boy, and, still keeping his eyes cover- ed raised himfrom the bed, The lit- tle head fell back against his shoulder, content. "Sing to nee, Grandma," he murmur- ed. Then, ,suddenly jerking himself into an upright position, "You're not Grandma! You're Daddy' X I" "Yes, I'm Daddy X. Grandma, I'm afraid, is too far away to come at pre- sent." "She can't be 'far away," Reed an swered, slowly, as though groping about in his mind for some illusive fact. "I saw her a minute ago." The words sent a strange shiver up and down Cal's back, Was this—? The kettle began to sing on the stove, and he sought refuge in action. Returning Reed to the bed, he drew his fingers about the little body and realized how irritating the coarse blankets must be to the dry, burning shin. But he had no linen or cotton sheets; not even a tablecloth. sordid room, and he understood all Thoughts of a tablecloth suggested that had been left unsaid. another substitute, and he went plun- "What can I do?" he exclaimed, des- dering in the battered suitcase which Perately. "I will do anything—any- housed his personal effects. Present- ly he resent-ly_he emerged with an unsoiled shirt ;of his own which he spread on the (bed as a miniature sheet. Then, with hot water and a cloth—he tore a shirt sleeve loose for the purpose—he gently bathed the boy, being careful to expose only a small portion of the body at a time. The operation ap- peared to bring relief, for Reed lay P more quietly, and for short periods ^ haven't had my clothes off for four seemed to fall into a sort of stupor of sleep. So he bathed and caressed, with hot water on the body and cold water on the head, until the heat of the fever ,seemed somewhat abated and the skin grew moist to the touch. So he sat d tended his patient as the sunlight ` . R. AMBLY 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- list Church. All business given careful attention. Phone. ee. P. O. Box nt3. Dr. obi. C. Redmond M.R.C.S. (Eng.) L.R.C.P. (Land.) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Dr. Chisholm's old stand. DR. R. L. STEWART Graduate of University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine; Licentiate of the Ontario College of Physicians. and Surgeons. Office in Chisholm Block 'Josephine Street. Phone 29, ing behind their pennants of steam and smoke, he felt that this was a very in- teresting world indeed. Some day he. would be an engineer, and one of those monsters would answer to his handl The absence of all other companion- strange crannies of memory for all he couldn't say when he'd be back. Yes, ship threw Cal and Reed more close- knew about treatment of fever. The , he would come out as soon as he re- ly together than ever. Cal put the first' thing was to call a doctor. . It ,turned. Yes, .he knew the _ place.. . boy to useful work, trapping gophers was four miles to a telephone. He Probably tpyhoid. No solid food, and could be back in half an hour. if he becomes delirious keep down the in the fields; washing dishes, sweep - "Can you stick it out alone for half temperature by bathing, but be careful ing and cleaning in the house; helping an hour, Reed, while I go to call a'not to let him take a chill. Yes, Dr, with the 'feeding of horses and the doctor? We'll get a doctor and have Thompson will come at once, as soon care of livestock and poultry. Reed you fixed,up in no time." as he returns. No, there is no other contributed with his own fork in the The boy's eyes, unnaturally bright, doctor in Wheatview. No, I'm afraid hay field, hoisting little tufts of the were fixed on the bare rafters of the it's not possible to get a nurse; there new mown grass on to the waiting roof, and he seemed to be swallowing are -so many demands wagon, and even drove a dubious sol- at something in his throat. It was a! With this Cal had to be satisfied, rel on the hayrake for short periods minute before he answered. s"All and he turned the situation over in hit under Cal's attentive eye.. They had right, Daddy.X," he breathed.' "But mind as he hurried back to' Reed. It found a pond where the water was don't—be—long'.'; might be hours—many h:aurs—before suitable for swimming, and in the ey CaI rushed to his car,- chased by the doctor could come. It might be' easings of the hot summer days hey i something nearer panic than he had morning. 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ALV IN FOX CHIROPRACTIC OSTEOPATHY ELECTRO—THERAPY Hours 10-12. 2-5. 74. Telephone zee known since childhood. If only there home upon him; he wanted tremend- ere a woman • Minnie Mrs- Stake. ously someone upon whom he could 'freshness. Already Cal was begrnn'Annie Frawdic—any woman! He lean in this mornent of trial. This - ing to put into effect his orderly n s ranging the machinery in regi- cranked viciously, but got' no answer- was the unexpected, the_bolt out o i g g g ing chuck. He straightened up, wiped the blue sky— mental array, mowing the long weeds his-forehead—to discover that he was! He found Reed apparently asleep, that grew behind the barn._Had perspiring profusely—and cranked and he stole gently to the bed. But there been anyone to note he might again. No.P response. Horseback, a consciousness of his presence seem- there seen a soul had moved into the then, and he rushed toward'the stable. ed to seize the lad; he stirred, and body of the Mason farm. On his way a thought overtook him muttered something which Cal's ear With all these occupations Cal and he rushed back to 'the car. Sure did not catch. sought to keep his mind engaged, enough, he had forgotten. to put on "It's I, Reed, old boy; it's Daddy X' . tried to maintain the high spirit of the switch. He set it, cranked again, "Daddy X? • Wfriere's Trixie?" his self-abnegation. He assured him -'and Ante, well primed, started off Cal was about to explain when he self he was doing the only thing pos-!with a roar. remembered having read somewhere sible, and that he was very happy + The incident steadied him. "No use that the wandering delusions of a pa - with avirtuous sense of unselfishness, losing your head, Cal, boy," he sooth- tient in fever delirium should be hum - It was e.- case 6f directing his energ-ehimself, "You need it now morh ored rather than explained or contra - les aright—the basic thing in the de -1— than" ever, Reed win be all right. dieted. veiopment of a civilized society. He But if he shouldn't-" 1 "Trixie's outside, playing some - would be true, at least, to his own , The thought added another notch where, With big Jim, I guess." .f theories. Order was the rule of life; to his throttle, although he was al- The low sun poured through the order, and system, and growth based ready tearing wildly through the vall- western window and its yellow rays upon a confidence in the ultimate ey, . If he should throw a tire; if he lit up the bed, They fell across the triumph, the individual must be crush- should break a steering arm- flushed face of the child; they limned ed, as the stones are crushed in build: A tremendous bump in a fresh bad- the faint smile on his lips as he heard ing a highway for the traffic of the ger hole cautioned him, and he reduc- the assurance that Trixie was playing world? Progress, too, demands her 'ed his speed. It was only four miles wth Big Jim. They. stirred to life the highways, and builds them of any ma to Dempman's, and the difference be- atoms of dust in their amber wedge aerial at hand. The material may be ;tweet] a breakneck pace and,a reason- and blazed upon the water pail in the crushed, but progress goes on. Very able gait could not be vital. Demp corner of the room. . well; that was his contribution. man, too, was a bachelor—worse luck. I Cal brought him water, and he But there were times when his Phil -,There was no woman to whom he,drank greedily, sinking back from the osophies deserted him, and in their :could turn. upraised, dipper as though into a stu- desertion•stripped away the veil of his i He found Denpman's shack empty, por of sleep. araffical composure, revealing to him and no one in sight, but the door was "Where's• Grandma?" he suddenly practices, tidying the yard and build - D. Ha McINNC' S CHIROPRACTOR MASSEUR Adjustments given for diseases of sill 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. Wacker. Telephone iso. Oats; Office io6, Resid. 2 4. A. J. WALKER FURNITURE DEALER and FUNERAL DIRECTOR Moto' E4ttipmcnt ()BAltlf, ONTARIO thing. Surely someone will .. help. Surely there is someone with heart enough "It's not lack of heart," said the doctor, gently. "It's lack of exper- ience—lack of experienced help. Look at me," -and he suddenly stood up be- fore -him. He was a big man in the .prime of life, but there were marks of nights. Yet I would take him to town,` to my own house, if I dared - rnove him. I, can't send my wife 'she's indispensable there, and I've no one else to send." Suddenly, he was ' again' looking keenly at Cal. "You're not Mason,, '. an are you?" died - died in his western. window; as.. the "Oh, no. Mr. Mason is in the glow of the evening sky faded from East. I'm carrying on forhim for a_ yellow to mauve to purple; as the gol- few weeks. My name is Beach- Cal -- den band on the horizon dimmed to vin 13each, And I'm sorry for what Ii steel grey under the enveloping cur- said—about' there being no heart; yout tains of the night. So -he sat as the understand?" lingering breezes of the gloaming The doctor laid a hand on his arm..' stole along the silent valley and wills- "That's all right, Beach, oldman," he. pered about the eaves and gables of said. "I've a couple of kiddies of my - the roof. So he sat, paying once own, and I know what this' means to more the overpaid but never satisfied ,you. But I begin to see hopee price of parenthood, as the.. night sett- led down upon the endless plains and the cold stars, one by one, lighted their beacons overhead. It was thus that.Doctor Thompson found him, just as the hands of the little clock on the wall were pointed to twelve, `CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO. Quickly but systematically the doc- tor Mr.`Jones of Silverston, were guests. made his examinations, while Cal, et the home of their'aunt,,erers. Jas. seized once more wth a sense of his Cornelius. own impotence, stood. helplessly by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Moore and: A yellow pallor from the single smudgy .lamp hung about the bed, and family, spent one day last week with how utterly dejected and miserable he 'not locked. He hurried in, located demanded. "I want Gr?,ndma.": was. It was when alone in the fields, the telephone, Iifted the receiver.,1 "Perhaps she'll come pretty soon." away from the presence of the boy, 'thrust it to his ear, • i The boy began to sob, "I want that he felt his load most unbearable.t "Get off the line," said a woman's Grandma—now." With Reed at hand the stake seemed,voice. "There`s someone on the line, II "All right; I'll see if I can get her." worth the price, but with Reed away ,Carrie. Get off! The line's busy." . Cal turned toward the stove, and, nee. his mind would revert to that dream j "Pity 'one couldn't have the line for niembering suddenly the advice from of a bungalow down by the lake.. a minute without someone butting in," the doctor's wife, started .a fire to Then would come a tremendous de -'another feminine voice added. "Get off heat water for a bath. Reed had sire to write to Minnie Stake --to re-tHow do you put up your strawberries again fallen into quietness, as though open the wound which was so sorely Isobel, pound for pound, or how? I awaiting the' arrival of Mrs. Stake, healing. For these reasons he en- 'always do mine pound for pound, but Cal dipped a towel in cold water, and, eouraged Reed to believe that his help !Mrs. Yardley was sayin' in Wheat- bringing it with him, laid it across in the fields was essential, called him !view she was gettin' herself a new hat the child's forehead. As it happened, and. I seen her in the store, so, of it covered his eyes. 'Course, I went up and said how -do to "Is that you, Grandnia?" her, and, my land, you know that old In that moment came an idea to Cal, hat, of hers? 'I guess she's had that and, with simulated voice, he answer.. ever since they homesteaded, at Least ed, "Yes, dear. Are you feeling bet- as long as I remember, and we've ter?" "Grandma!" he cried, "Hold me in your • arms !" A vision from somewhere in mem- ory burst upon Cal—the scetie which he had once witnessed through the window of the "room" ie Jackson Stake's hoose. There, under t e'c cap crayon. portraits ofher ancestors, e You're a man of education, or fine mistaken?" "I'm a university man." (Continued Next Week) WHITECHUJR,CH Mr, and Mrs. Albert. Westbrooke.- and daughter, May of Komoka, Mrs... `sten. Westbrooks of.Godercih ,and. his brother, 'Mr. Wesley Moore, Pal- merston. Mr. and Mrs, Joe Tiffin and Mr. against its feeble rays the doctor's ro- bust form flung its huge silhouette on the wail Cal stood ire -silence; in the hope and fear of one held on the edge _and Mrs. Orval Tiffin-. and ,family,;.' ,spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Gor- don Jamieson of Ashfield. Miss Irene Moore•is'visiting with relatives in Toronto and Waubashene. Mr. and , Mrs.'' Geo.- Garton"acid fa,,., slily, spent Sunday with their daugh- ;ter,' Mrs. Arthur Holland of Kitchen-.. er. - Mrs. (Dr.) Jamieson and son, Da- vid, also Miss Mary. ;Sharpe, of Tees water, 'spent the week -end with Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Henderson. Mr. Joe Laidlaw and Annie anch of abysmal things. "He's. running quite a temperature," said Doctor Thompson, at length. "Al- most a hundred and four. Too bad we couldn't have him in a hospital, but he can't be moved at present. He's been miserable for awhile?" "Well,, he hasn't seemed quite him- self," said Cal, glad for the relief which he found in. even; the most cas- ual words. "Didn't seem to have any spirit—" "Exactly. I'm afraid we have a case of typhoid on our hands, and it's Mr, and Mrs. Jas. Falconer, `spent 'rather awkard dealing with: it out Sunday- with relatives in Auburn and here. Always been a healthy boy?" "Oh, quite. . ,Doctor,- is he very sick?" The words carne at last with a rush, and the doctor, for the first time since he entered the rooneelook ed keenly into the anxious face in the semi -gloom beside hirn; ` "Your boy?" he asked, evading an immediate answer. "Well, yes. My sister's, I have had him since he was a baby." "Alt! His mother is not living, then? That is unfortunate. When a child is sick he heeds his mother." "Is he very sick, Doctor?" "Yes, I would say he is. A typhoid patient . is always sick—very sick. Still, the percentage of mortality is not so very high, where proper care is given. To be quite frank with you, that. is what worries pie most. If we could have a nurse—Unfortunately, the supply just now is much less than the demand, Typhoid is a disease for the nurse rather than for the doctor." "Couldn't we get one from Winn- peg?" "It's .doubtful. 'You understand," and the doctor hesitated as though to choose words that would not give of Tense; "this is hardly a 'Grad'e A posi- tion, A nurse wouldn't thank rie for his hired man, and clung to his com- pany as the one thing left in life. There were times, however, when the boy seemed listless and dull; there were days when even the prospect of driving the sorrel mare on the hay - rake failed to stir his enthusiasm. 'What's the matter, old man?" Cal vi+ould ask, -with a concern he tried to slide, en such occasions, "Are you lonely for someone to play with?" "I don't know,' I guess so." bringing. her out here when they are present visiting with her brother, Mr. "Well,we mustfrd yoti someone. I h h so many other calls." Robertson. dog," out the fall. before, and he' was at the the Cal's eyes followed, the doctor's tit- We are glad to report that Mn Mat- 'wish we had.a d g ," yn sat with this boy in her conscious glance around the stnall ar,d colrn Ross has passed his examination. I wish we had Trixie and Erg. Jiin" station to meet rile and.the roads! old woma been here six years—or is it seven?— let me see, was it six you'se folks "carne the spring after us; at' any rate, it was the spring we had so much rain in May and the roads were something. awful! I'll never forget- the night we landed. You renember Pete carne Westfield. The Misses McCurdie of Wingharn,, silent . the week -end at. the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. • Dawson. Miss Merle Wilson is in Toronto this week attending the C. -N. E Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Burton; motor- ed. - from Marquette, Mich. and are vis- iting with her aunt, Mrs. MacGregor. The "Currie" fancily, and relatives, held a picnic in l3ayfield on Thurs- day Inst. „Dr. McInnis and family of Wing- ham, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Laidlaw. Mr. and Mrs. John, J. McGee, spent the week -end with his sister, Mrs. Simpson of London. Clarence McClenaghan, returned home on Monday, after spending . a rnenth's . holidays with friends in Toronto and Kingston. Mr: Jack Reid of Michigan is visit- ing with his brother, Mr. Alex, Reid. Master Clarence McClenaghan who has been holidaying with relatives at Toronto and Kingston, returned home last week, Miss Robina McDonald, who has been in Londort Hospital for the past year is xecovei`ing... nicely 'and is at