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though. made I
+$ ?f much unpleasant talk."
..
y _ "Not the way I proposed to' do it,"
lax Isaid Cal, grimily, "And as you have-
n't quite given over your plans, 1
C. Stead won't say I've entirely abandoned
By Robert J. mine. They'll keep. Now --why are
you here "
,m�..'"'°°°° "``° "A number of reasons, Yvoes it oc-
cur to you beconcerned
of that I may
Cal lett her into the house. On the Irving wild within her Mfn y pounced things about the boy's illness?"
bed in the corner, no longer a rumple into Activit Bring
of grey blankets, but white in new Jackson," she commanded. "Can I I "No; I confess it ?doesn't, Your
concern"about his welfare so far does
cotton sheets, lay Reed, His eyes' change here?"
were olosed; die seemed in a sort of I "It's the only place we have," said not lend itself to any such suggestion.
stupor as she approached .and stood Cal, "One room, and all outside." Try again,"
for a long minute looking
down upon' He went with Jackson, and when they I „ acted to come, on
Then; "Mmnte w
had handed Minnie her suitcase the Reed's account._Of course s'he
him in silence. 'Then, seeming to sen -
two men strolled toward the car. For couldn't stay with you here alone.
a moment they regarded each other 'You had thought of that?"
without speaking. I "I can't say I had. Your sister is
Cal was the one to break the sil- here in the capacity of a nurse,
abro-
o-
'ence. "You have me at a loss,. Jack- fessionally. Nothing wrong
son," he said. "It was certainly very, that."
good of you to drive from Plainville,1 "Minnie's not a nurse, and she's think
but I'm puzzled about your motives, here professionally. Do yon lei
lI can't forget the circumstances, un- she came for what you'll pay lly.„ r?”
der which L left there. All this has Jackson laughed oor
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se her presence, he slowly turned nis
face toward her.
"Grandma?" he breathed, in a hard-
ly audible whisper,
She sank on her knees beside him;
reached out, caressd his hair with her
fingers.
"No, dear, this is not Grandma.
This is Minnie. Do you remember
me—IVlinnie "
J.TODD Slowly his eyes opened, and he held come out of your—of what you thraeait- what y ticket
4 r . gaze. "L!
her in his' big wondering g eased—and I think I can fairly b ,�o lseepeouteof this mess? rice of a railway
Noy Minn-
ANDIpfiice in Chisholm Block. wanted Grandma, he said. ,you for it.'`
H ACCIDENT „ much of your mo- "Oh, that's all right," said Jackson. ie didn't come here for a fee. She
�IRE, L "He has talked so '
HEALTH calls her Grandma," Cal ex- with a laugh in which there was `''nee left a better
bothan tell
met can she offer
er
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ESTATE plains!. "I have comforted him by ,joyousness, "I thrive.on blame. Pile
coining" on Reed's account. I know
AND REAL Phone 1981 saying that Grandma was coming."at on as thick as you like. a
O• Box 366. " shall be Grandma to you; Minn -!=world gets down on a man a little `better. That's the reason—one of the
P. ONTARIO I reasonsI'm here."
�iNGPIAMY - _ ie whispered: "I have come to helP�more doers harmd yeah'
make you well." This was hardly the tack which Cal i Cal's anger, was rising again under mixed
"I—wanted—Grandma," he said. had expected, and it made his moves jackson's' cool affrontery,
1 he dropped back into his' no clearer' to him. Jackson was un -'with the
a anger
testimony acurious
happi-
stupor
i-
Presently dan- ness over
g
stupor of sleep, and the girl rose, Principled, he know„and perhaps
from his side.
When she stood she gerous; whether the man, had also his Minnie's motives. It was ngood
wasto
but
close to Cal, and again she felt.human side. Cal had not so far dis- have her comehypocrisy of
his presence overpowering her. In -?covered, He recalled that Minnie had it was better— Still, the
b t Jackson this man nauseated hire.
ardly she chided. world as at war "So you have
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Graduate Royal College of Dental
Surgeons
Graduate University of Toronto
Faculty of Dentistry.
Office Over H. E,• Isard's Store.
Thursday, September reth; 1925
ally mattered. With a sudden leap of
intuition he knew what it. was. They
were his family! His family! That
without which no life is complete;
that about which! all life centres and
revolves. One's wife; one's family!
And they were here+ -here within tou-
ch of his hand!
• To steady his thought , he slipped
This ".` � quietly into the cool air outside; The
�Differentnight was dark; no stars blinked ov-
from all other laxatives and Reliefs ' through rhead, the valley and lisped ee`illy
ut a breeze soughed up.
for - across the, fields of wheat, He filled
Defective Eliroiaaatioix
Constipation
his- lungs with great satisfying brew
the and clutched again at the thought
Biliousness
which had brought him happiness, It
=as of Minnie as .his wife, and Reed
The action of Nature's Remedy (tl
Tablets) is more natural and thole as their boy.
ough. -The effects will be a revela-
tion—you will feel so good. Then, upon his great happiness,
Make the test. You' Will darkness came down again. The ser-
appreciate this difference.
”
Used For Over enity which he had so briefly tasted
JUNi0ft5 .e6 Thirty Years' was suddenly roiled, .and under the
quiet skies he sought to_win it back.
Chips ®� the 10d �'®�� But it .had flown him. Like the tip
of some enchanted wing, it had rested
on his shoulder for a moment before'
its flight into the void from which it
had come had left him more deserted
than before. Fora great fear had sud-
denly seized-hini. Could he marry this
girl withou$+ telling her? And if he
told her, what? .
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
' It was not that Cal feared that
knowledge on Minnie's part would lo-
wer him, or Reed, in her estimation;
he was sure he knew the girl too well
for that. His danger was ,a much
deeper and more difficult one, If
Minnie knew the truth would not she
be so. crushed by humiliation as to
think herself forever his inferior?
Would she be willing to marry
who had,been shamelessly wronged
by a member' of her family? Could
there be equality or self-respect what
hope could: there be for love?
This was the problem which so sud-
denly seized' him, and to which the
soughing winds, fhe lisping wheatlea=
ves, gave no answer. Through the.
gloom the farm stables bulked va-
guely in a darker greyness. Under
their roofs somewhere lay Jacksons
Stake, now more, completely, in Cal's
power than ever. he had dreamed.
Some slumbering fang of that- hate -
which he had thought dead cut sud-
denly into his heart.- Hate the man,
—how could he other than dein the,
.A careless match dropped
hay by the stables, with the lock set
on the door.... It would be simple•.
enough. The horses were in. the pas-
ture. Jackson, lighting a cigarette,
had fired the hay about him and had:
been cremated in his own holocaust.
That would be the explanatipn. Hor-
ribly simple ` '
Presently Cal fancied he heard a.
sound distinct.from the vague night
noises that filled the •air. He was•
standing in the shadow, a little way
from the wedge of light that fell
through the open door, when he heard,
it, and in an instant his 'senses were
strung taut: ... . He was sure he
heard a stealthy footfall in the grass.
Noiselessly he drew into the deeper
gloom, finding the wall of the shanty
with his hand, then moving slowly,.
silently. along it to the corner. As
had not stirred a . he neared the corner he could 'distin-
the placitity of that prairie settlement. visalght the
faintn dowlight
in the which fell
How little even- the simplest social the house,the end in which
ern
end of
Reed's bed was set. But the square
of light was`not quite square, a roun-
dish shadow, such as might be caused
by a man's head, cut' off a corner of
it.
For a moment he hesitated. It was
plain that some one was looking
through the window, obviously with
no good purpose, or why did;he not
conte to.the door? The advantage
of a surprise attack would be all with
'Cal, and he tensed himself for
the
emergency. Then, stealthily,
ex-
tended his 'head until he could see
'along the northern wall.
Jackson Stake knelt by the window,
crouched so that only the upper part
light.
of his head and face was in the g
He was gazing intently, absorbedly
at the Iittle form on the bed,... It
would have been so easy to overpow-
er him in that position.. Perhaps it
was the very ease of it that deterred
Cal from rushing upon him.
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entered and took his post`- Reed still
lay in a partial stupor and gave little
trouble save by his occasional de-
mands' for water. Cal had set a lamp
burning low, in' case it should be need-
ed for sudden service, and presently
Minnie's steady breathing proclaimed
that she had fallen asleep, For the
comfort of his eyes' Cal took? a seat
by Reed's bedside, with his back to
the lamp, and turned over in his mind
the strange happenings of the day.
The panic which had seized him upon
Reed's illness had swept by and had
left him strangely calm. and assured
For Reed the worst was over; in some
way he felt assured of that. Dr.
Thompson had, said the fever would
have to run its coutse, and. it was
mainly a matter of proper care.
Minnie, although not a nurse, was a
girl of sense, and she could be trust-
ed. What a topsy-turvy world it was!
And who more topsy-turvy in' it than
Cal himself? As'he ran back in his
mind over the experiences of the re-
cent weeks he found it impossible, to
realize that.he was the same ran who
had deliberately planned the death of.
Jackson Stake, who had'even regard-
ed those plans as a virtuous thing,
and the +only solution of his difficulty.
It had all seemed so sane and. reason-
able. Tonight he'knew he had been.
stark mad. Yet no one had suspect-.
ed him; not even Jackson.. sed
That was' the thing that impressed
him most, and the more he -thought
of it the more was he impressed.. No
one had sensed the brooding tragedy.
The sleepy, good-humored, narrow -
bounded life of which the Stake farm-
stead was the centre had seen- in hire
only an innocuous .;and somewhat
amusing . atom of intelligencia-Cal
was thinking in his own language—
it had not suspected the social dyna-
mite under his Saturnian exterior.
"The mental processes through which,
he had passed suggested hubbub and
'screaming headlines as' a proper ac-
companiment;
c
conipaniment;'as a matter of fact, they
d byfeather's breath
w •d d_ herself. "Have once said something -a ou become a chairipion
sense, Minnie; have sense. Must he waling. That er t the nl he,Cal, had been of women's virtue," he said, bitterly.
humiliate you again?" with him: Certainly
h son• for years before "I can only regret that you were less
Outwardly, "I suppose I'am to be at war with Jack ,
nurse. I don't know much about it. had met in.the flesh that state (,gallant when it was my sister that was
You'll have to tell me, Cal." \theY
of war had existed. He edhasde of his declared concJaerned."
rolled a cigarette with much
She had not intended to use his war on Jackson by the I common
name but it slipped out unawares... • 1,sister Celesta; the wild beast within deliberation. "That's 's observed. "mon
Besides, it was god to note how he him had sprung up and cried, "When fault among Yeu
ed to clutch at the familiar ad- I meet this man I will tear him
limb maya have
experieed nced d itt' You may
sed gi h
dress. fender of the l The thrust in t
seemed from limb and now he stood,
W. R. HAMMY
B.Sc., M.D., C.M.
Special attention paid
to
diseases
i seag a en
Women and Childrin,Shavingi Bkcn
postgraduate work
t-
ertology and Scientific Medicine.
Office in the Kerr Resi de the Bap-
bet-
tistthe Queens Hotel
Church.
All business given careful attention.
Phone. 54• P. O. Box 113.
re the dark struck Cal
"You'll be all right, Minnie; 1 him across the dusty en d er
you'll be all right. You don't i car, and in ,some way failed to realize
deeper an he that woud have
their cared d to ad -
know
know what oleo!•• I feel`, as though 'that this Was in very fact, the man, mit, butear-
were on the mend already. ' seemed -as though in some vicarious the in'ion atolls s Ldoor, She hadt short by a changed to a
Reed
Just take charge, and I will be your l score with heck a already
settled
seemed neat house dress of some inexpensive
willing slave." � score Jackson although not a nurse's
"I'm following a good housekeep- as -though, in a sort of world of the stuff which,
" sh e said, with a wift glance!mind and, perhaps, of the spirit, he uniform, gave her a kind of profess -
about the little room, in which Cal had exacted retribution. Thad dis- serslcostnme struck Cal simplicity
mend -
ala
had established an order and cleanli-!was, his hatred of the man Fore .the
ness unimaginable in the regime of ,solved. He was amazed and some -
moment domestic
o nes son was ouf homey. his mind
n
Mr. Mason. "I suppose you've been what annoyed. at this phenomenon,
at Plain- but it was so. He did not hate this las he turned to introduce p her
to his
doing here --what you didhousekeeping
?vine. You :know—the water trough, Aman fhb stood within
despised him, �syaItthink I'm the only one ,that can
and the pig pen, and all that' sort of acres the fender.
!but he did not hate, make these dishes go 'round, Minnie,"
thing?"'pile it on,' he he explained. "It takes a bit of "And Beach Boulevard?" he added, I !`I don't. want to p
edu-
almost gaily. In spite of Reed's sick -.said at length. "I want _to be fair. cation-"
spite of the sudden cloud of But I must know why you are here. , "A. D. D.," she interrupted, and m s-
Jack in
Stake's presence, his heart I was ready tokill you a few weeks
something
omediately Sw withagain. Why in her be so absurdly
t
J listed understand, so
insisted upon' singing from very joy •ago; kill you, you
in her nearness.
seemed the only way out. That was facetious while she was trying to im-
"Yes, and Beach Boulevard," she why I ran away from Plai>•llfavor,this man with a sense of her dis-
repeated, disregarding the little dan- I didn't run away from you—don'tD,;" he agreed, shame-
a from myself." "Yes, ;a D.
ger signals which, from astonished that he should lessly unimpressed. You
1®r. Idobt. C. Redmond
M.R.C.S. (Eng.) L.R.C.P. (Loud.)
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Dr. Chisholm's old stand.
R. L. STEA �'`T' h' h f somewhere imagine it—I ran away "It helps.So I
Graduate of University of Toronto,Reed." the
the in her ` this was not the. course so uncover his heart to this man shall continue
your timekitchen d es.
Faculty of Medicine; Licentiate
Ph Physicians f.awl warnings cthat s wasess, were flaring j He was d but the words flow- will need
Ontario College of y to 'which she had set herself. For whom he despised, Surgeons. ed forth,and as they flowed they' Was he seeking.an .excuse to be
Office in Chisholm Block the first time her lips had parted in
' e Street. Phone �' a smile. !brought relief. Whatever. the cause with her in the house?'"Oh I think
7oephm both," she said. "I'm
"It's good to see you again,dear," br the Procthrou h was
einkind of sure 1 cangeBes des, how about the
DMargaret C. Calder Cal whispered. "It *as splendid ofhad gone g
�® come. I was afraid, after what transformation. His attitude toward farm? There must lie snwt work—haying
General Practitioner you to happened—after what I had Jackson had changed. Even his con- 'or something- haying," e? ad
Graduate University of Toronto hadn •a
of Medicine done--" -tempt began to have erhaps measuret was` mitted:of Te` I had forgotten reenabout, it. I
Facultycompassion in it.
Office—Josephine St., two doors south
"Let's not talk, about that," she in -of Brunswick 281, Holed terre ted, firmly. "I came because Reed's sickness he could find no oth- think these astedays I have
forgotten yu
Telephones: Office Residence a5a• 'Reed was very sick. I wouldn't have ler explanation other than Reed's sick- everything,
came, otherwise.' mess must have established
ne sub- bond, about Reed," sheitparrieden"Novrried
do
F. A. PARKER When the words we're out she tle bond—some psychological
OSTEOPATH wondered if they were quite true, but
perhaps—between them. you know what I've been wondering?
„I didn't run away from you, Jack -How we're to manage at nights,"
All Diseases Treateddncit was then too !sobered.e to sc"lI under -1e it thouse p. ,
residence next to Cal was suddenly son,"he repeated, as though it were It was a problem in house planning,
Office adjoiningtreet stand," he said, but the fire was gone of • particular importance that he and they settled
'Anglican Open Church on Centre Monday and voice. "It was tremendous '
every day except from his should establish thatb fact.
f `Oen wouldn't of rsep makemust down a bedturbed. They
on the floor
thternoons,get. any wrong idea a
Wednesday Electricity ly good of you to come, and I shallfor .Minnie, and Cal would sleep in
Osteopathy 'away from myself."near she win-
Telephone ala. not presume upon your kindness. I
shall treat you just as professionally 1' Jackson answered with his rnirth��aoevold vFoe�d drawn
be available
less laugh. "It can't be done,"
as—as you makeame.'' "I've for ten' quickly in case of emergency. Jack-
CHIROPRACTIC
must bfled to the y. Jack-.
� � ,� � � FOX The girl Was trembling under the said.. I ve been trying it
OSTEOPATHY3. tension of her restraint. As profess -.years, and I know." of silence ty of the stables.
CgIIROpRACTIC ionaliy as she made him! 'She wo-► There was another gapAs wore on
that would last—how which Cal bridged at length,` impa.-
i Calthatevening
a must beit tiredoccurred
after
ELECTRO--THERAPY!dosed hew lung
Hears 10 -as, 2 -5.' '? -8. long she could make it last. For the ,which
"Well, what's the answer, to g urney, He himself, al -
Telephone xga resentment she had told herself she Jackson? Why are ou here, and is her lonhe had not slept since Reed
in the It to be peace or war?"c,
harbored was melting ,away
glow of Cal's presence like a snow -1 Jackson toyed with the steering had taken sick, felt little weariness.
D-
i the sun. There must be a rea-.wheel, and gave the horn aa littleke. re -'Ile tw s drwawing
on hisWere forreserves,
but
. �. CANNES son in
ACTOR son, a sufficient reason, which he assuring toot, before
began. "So much � "Better go to bed, Minnie, he sug-
CHIROPR would tell her in good time. Had not liard to say," good sleep, and
MASSEUR e f his telegram promised an explanation, depends on circumstances. I don't Bested."You need a
tipe given for al ngs_s of Ii g hiiztd telling you that when I put up'1'11 site up
with
h Reeds tonight. If he's
Arhus
all kinds, specialize in dealing with Sas good time --little u."
rl retested, buyt fearing that
attendant. Night Calls Jackson, who had berunen a appeared 'soy much to get moneyiouts of you—'ts The g pbe ted,
bit, fe r she that 'swerabtc riddle, t:baidren, Lady the car aftelrp its long rat , pp aeasy refusal might
responded to. doorway. His eyes took in the although I never pass up any soonahim have his way. While she Aoer the, nightwort on a strange
Scott St.,to aS. W treat., in the ti i you quiet Asns C. While h themade t,cmce" tor, fvc, , wort his strange on c
the Sate Jas. Talker. contents of the room; Cal and Minnie coin—as to keep y q- ,
the house of the spot of clear space ,as I saw how the"land lay I figured her preparations in in standing in 1, . was going to be in the rangements to Jackson. "You can 14,e we
r.clncss t of p it, e i when ivdetz. on hate
Telephone ISO. w the centre of floor; the tor- ,'hole,
one of us g g
• occupant,silent in a cor-,'hle,• and it was a good time to strike 'sleep an the � a�terava rkstLfyou eecrs't 1 (Nes {��rYt� ltrfrtrtAF+veslj that he scart:hc; re.-'
m
with its pith t" hes d,
: s Baking lie crossed•first. Of course-- s, Cal ' you anything bettf;r t'ivzsi sn start "sat tl'ie cceei. 'its rxae,sr➢�?',: sst'YJ#1 ^�Itf}`ie elm etopect
over
Without p
the bed,running, as if by to never would have would known," sus- stable, It will be warm, and there?: afiz el r herr Atttoif,rl E,se of f,nloped
,over to
e not -
,office ir�b, Regd. a:z4.instinct, his- fingers ;interrupted. I never havecstrf%.P,s:r:', ffYerr, NY�f.�v a s
t►Yie A.
J ` some impulsive instt ,
hisIt wash' sets! you—the thought would never plenty of clean bay,lbr i�9 whichot a tr jirr9a, a c�*pr¢r•: of ;/rt',1t-f,e�ilYt�r,Fc srt=xsc of
� WALKER through hair e. he went. `•have conte into my mind—if you had- point from wh ;sNsirir Csv.. lett, `t -filly it dawned
of
ess-
StNI'7- and 1 HALlvI his Forat a mi gesture. ,chaperone us,"
��to or two he stood look-�n"t let me know." the Jackson's dark face twisted itc 'sty utr�rri l,►ft� €ka.,t' alio, watt tfie vision he
„•,,, — a menu"Well, perhaps. Perhaps it was , J
down insilence. saying but enigmatical smile. "I'll tate a dun ffAfl earseed ire 4i machbekitt.of Yl is two,,
( ill F, '1Ge:r'C, almost within �'t1'1�!EIt1�i 1�IR>�� � "Is he pretty sick, Cal?" be asked. money 1 wanted. Fut not Y rate it • ce," he said.
Motor EgtitpmI inay waist it yet. At an
and
I+I•C HAMS ONTAR i i� "Pretty hekt
To smother thoughts that were run- seemed -a good place to strike. first, t. When Minnie had zrr,rie to be cal '°""tit'ey were; Fall it. the world that re
system knew of the hidden actions and
reactions, the conflicts, the intrigues,
the tragedies gestating unsuspected in
its apparently limpid shallows! With
all its eavesdropping, its gossip -mon-
gering, how little the community
'really knew! He wondered how many
men go about with madness in their
hearts, some, like himself, to be sav-
ed by a' fortunate twist of fate, others
to challenge the horror of that organ-
ized society of which they form a part.
Did any man really understand any
other man? Did any man really un-
derstand himself?
What about Jackson Stake? Why
had he followed, and what were his
purposes? Was he, too, mad? Had
it been in madness—a different kind
of madness—that he had sinned again-
st 'Celesta? Was Jackson Stake any
worse than he? Or was he? Was
it all part of the mystery of life, con-
fused, baffling, unanswerable? And
why had he forgiven Jackson Stake?
In his heart he knew he had forgiven
him; that he no linger craved ven-
geance, but only to be let alone, Had
there been some kind of atonement ie.
those days and nights of mental d+s-
tortion out of which he had come
purified, seeing clearly at last? He,
u=ho had studied Human life in books,
found 4;e book of life itself an titan -
Customs Collector at Clinton '
Harold Turner, son of Mr. and Mrs.
George N. Turner, of Tuckersmith,
'has been appointed collector of cus-
toms at Clinton, a position made va-
cant by the resignation of J. Wiseman
about six months ago. Mr. Turner
went West with the harvesters' a
short' 'tittle ago and, having been ac-
quaintedover the wires of his appoint-
ment, will probably be home at the
end of the week or the beginning of
next.
Mr. Turner is an estimable young
mangy with a creditable record, and his
appointment will give pleasure to his
friends. Since Mr. Wiseman's retire-
rrcent P. Farnsworth, of the Brantford
office,has been supplying in Clinton
and will remain for a time to initiate
Mr, Turner into his new duties.
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