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arily a man who could keep a conn,
it 4 concealing his
. •ID g ' ' ..pressed counterlarlce,
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feelings very well, but on this occas-
ion sharp-
ly
I too >
Son e was taken t 1
h ,y
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1 anything, r: His - puffy face
ly to l_�cle Y g p Y
$ J. S. Fletcher turned the colour of a dead thing -.-it'
made me think for the instant of
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p.,q "oa..oam, .u. ,a'o„a u,®v.rowsu+,..,..,�o ., those calves' - heads tl7,at lie On the.
•«• CHAPTER I Street and the Hard—you know? Ask 'butchers' stalls—and when a shade of.
Dealer
for Holliment—general dealer —any -life came back 'to it, it was a a. grey
The General a
o it came about that on that
llody'11 tell yon. And give him that, dull shade. His hands shool. sudden-
How
udden-
H w Go now—and there's ja quid all to
• �..•ly, and he only half -checked an an exela-
particular Sprin,�lide morning I was ,ourself, M boat --you'll straight
7 ygon .nation, And at that I' affected to see.
"
stranded on the Clarence Pier
at off?
Portsmouth with ,literally, a .few pen- nothing, turtling away. I.3 -tit suddenly
,
tin cover whipped away before the
sound of his big feet had died- ottt on
the pavement. Clearly,. I thought,
Air. Holliment had Fi very comfortable
notion of 'r homely dinner! There
was roast loin of pork, with apple sau-
ce, potatoes, and greens; there' was
plum ;pie and custard; there was' a
mighty wedge of good cheese, And
there Was the ale—a whole jug' of.■
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prime stuff, with a riead on it, ■
1 felt like a new ,Man when I had l■
Made an end of Ilolliment's dinner:.
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After all, the ads tui as tinning
out well for Me, I had not fared so '■
Y,� immaterial to the
This instant! said I. Hell have I felt that he. was ,regardingnte, unhptuausly for many a day, and I had II
it in a few minutes, Greatly. who " o yon know him ho gave you a sovereign in my pocice, and another in
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ce in m ,pocket, is r
this?" he asked quickly.., ' prosPect..I should be able to sleep in a
presentpurpose; ur ose`, the more -pertinent
fact is that there I was, in that miser-
able predicament, redicament, with none to turn
to for immediate help, and utterly.
blank of mind as to what was next to
be done. I had paid out two of my
last coppers to 'obtain entrance toe;
that pier -there was a vague notion.
that I might pick up some porterage
job there which would bring in a
shilling..
With a shilling I could send :a tele-
gram to the only man I knew who
would be likely to wire me money—
he was the last 'resource; for I had
already pawned my watch and my ov-
eicoat, and, hourly -expecting a remit-
tance which up to then had not arriv-
ed, had not had the sense to make the
application by letter which I was now
feverishly anxious to make by tele -
W. R. HAMBLY
B.S., M.D., CM.
Special attention paid to diseases of
lomen and Children, having taken
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raduate work' in Surgery, Bact-
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Otology and Scientific Medicine.
Office in the. Kerr Residence, be
ween the Queen's Hotel and the Bap-
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All business given careful attention:
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Dr. Robt. C. Redmond
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PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Dr. Chisholm's old stand.
DR. R. L. STEWART
Graduate of ;University of Toronto,
'aculty of Medicine; Licentiate of the
atario College of .Physicians and
"urgeons:
Office in. Chisholm Block
sephine Street. Phone 29.
"Bless , ou P he anwered, with a "Not at all," said I. ' "Stranger to decent lodging that night and text day
y Ir,a-
I...11i1I1 ' The £act. is,was
queer sort. of
sin, Ditto. me—and 1 to �
g
1 -.
I
heVc t
` saw
r i
He made for the'boat,-and without looking for ti job, and.I s
a backward glance T hurried off'that ed that taken somewhere, ao 1 offered
O'er, lighter of heart than I had been to take it."
g "He gave you anything?" he immix
. -
forforty-eight hours. A sovereign!—
for ten minutes' walk: I went away ;ed, looking me over,, pretty. 'much as.
towards' High Street feeling as if the the other man had done.
Bank of England had: suddenly be -1 "If you ,•ant to know,'" I answered,
come..- y sole property. Turning a "he did! He ,gave me a sove;relen.,"
No surprise corner, 'and chancing to look•sea�vard+ pise canis into his face, XII-
I
stead, he suddenly made a movement
T saw the smoke of the steamer roll-
ing away in the sharp breeze—my ;towards his coat,. 'which hung on a
man -was there, scudding gaily across nail close by- He began shuffling in-
,
the water. Whither?—and why in to it,
such a hurryl—.in so much of a'hur- � "Look herel"' he said. "I've got to
ry, indeed, that he liad forgotten to go out business' Over that?" He
send the scrap of paper ,, which .was pointed to the scrap of paper, which
missive that was he had crumpled up and flung away
now in pocket—amy.
th fl o "Some hours I've got
evens y evidently of so much importance that on . e o ra
gram. There might be someone'coni- it carried at any,to be out—can't help it, You; say you
f a boat at that pier who would he was glad to have . re lookingfor, a J'ob? Stop here
ing of
cost Sharpened in perception as I were
Dr. Margaret C. Calder
General Practitioner.
Graduate University of Toronto
lacult3 of, Medicine
IlRfftce—ro se P . Brunswick
St.,two doors south
of Bru nswik Hotel.
telephones: Office 281, Residence 151.
f •, F. A. PARKER
OSTEOPATH
All Diseases Treated
Office adjoiningresidence next to
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nglican Church on Centre Street.
Sundays by appointment.
Hours -9 a. m. to 8 p. m.
Osteopathy Electricity
Telephone 272.
give a shilling to have a bag -carried-
I: would undertake the job with fer-
vour. But at the end of the hour I
was still unemployed,: and was think-
ing of trying the railway stations;
then, very suddenly,' -the mancame on
the scene who plunged me headlong
into action and adventure. •
He -was coming away from the win-
dow of the ticket office where you
book. fox Ryde and Cowes and South-
ampton, this 'man, and he carried a
ticket in his hand and was clearly un-
conscious that it was there. A big,
heavily Built fellow in a dark -blue ser-
ge suit, topped by 'a rather sporting
sort of overcoat, he looked to me like
a well-to-do publican, 'or, perhaps, a
bookmaker; there was that air about
him. But just then, whatever he was,
his great idea was certainly to do
something or get somewhere in a tre-
mendous hurry; his eyes, as he carne
out on the open pier, were all over the
place at once, taking in the misty coa-
st line on the opposite side of the wa-
ter, looking up the water itself as if
in search of the Ryde boat; which ev-
en then was churning its way towards
us, and then glancing first over one
shoulder andnext over the other as
if he either expected or feared to en-
counter somebody.
In his haste, or his nervousness,he
raised his fat, stub -ended fingers to
his chin, and in so doing discovered
that hewas holding a ticket; I will
swear that until that instant he had
forgotten that he had just taken it.
But now he hastened to thrust it into
his waistcoat pocket, and in so doing
he encountered something else that
he had evidently forgotten. His fin-
gers cameout of the pocket grasping
a scrap of paper twisted upinto what
they call a cocked hat. ;,And here I
made certain that the man was in "a
state of terrible preoccupation, for af-
ter staring blankly at this discovery
he made a sign of -vexation. and look-
ed
ooked round him in a fashion which said
as plainly as possible that he had
omitted to do something which ought
to be done at once. But my wits had
been sharpened by privation during
the last two days, and without more
ado I' stepped up to him,
"Can I take that somewhere ' for
you, sir?" I said, pointing to the bit
of paper, which he was twisting round
ii
and round in his fingers. I think
nk
you want it delivered to somebody."
Ile started—more nervously than
one would have expected insuch a
big fleshy frame --and gave a sharp,.
suspicious, and yet, I fancied, highly
relieved glance.
"Eh, what ?" he exclaimed, running
me over ;from top to toe, "You—
wanting a 'job?„ I knew what ° he
meant, Outwardly, ,I was eminently
respectable; good clothes, good foot-
wear; I was even spotless in line.l3ut
the boat was at hand, and I did not
hesitate
"I'd be glad of the chance of earn-
ing a few shillings," I answered hur-
riedly, "Stranded—unexpectedly you understand. I11 carry your`
note for you—and you can trust, me,"
He had evidentlymadeup his mind
to do that, for without another word
he 'plunged a hand,• --there were two
or 3 big; be-diatnonded rings oix its
pudgy fingers• -•-into 1\is trousers poe.
kat and. pulled it out again full of
gold, find picking out a sovereign
with no more concern than if it had
been a shilling, he thrust it into my
hand with .t"he bit of folded paper.
"Look you here,' niy lad," he said,
eonfidcntially, "There's a name on
that pat►tr-Hollift1 t t MOWS the
chap it's frosioaollitnest. Too to
inti those streets between Ili ;h
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lSfloe on Scott ®3�t.p rT1gl+.tnp 4181'\.,
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r-the Boise of the late las. Walker.
Telephone 130,
was g
as byhunger (for I had had no and give an eye to things till I cone
breakfast and had gone very short lback—tonight it'll be. I11 give you
the day before), I 1 new that the man another quid—and there's' nothing' to
was intensely relieved to get rid of id')."
' so er-
What is there to d
that note and parted witTi`liis v I,
eign right willingly. Can I do it?"
FP T.
asked.
I"There's to do—but stick
e nothing
I began to get curious about" this „ responded quickly. "Keeping
r ofpaper. dere, he p q y P g
twisted, crumpled scrap ,an eye he
`things. If anybody comes
Who was Holliment.? What was this\ ,
for any; of this old stuff,. let 'em have'
highly important message? What did n and take their names
theywant
n mean? Before I came what w
the whole thing m and what they've got: If anybody or -
to High. Street, my inquisitiveness oil write it down in: that book.
of the better of me; I pulled out the ders coal,
g 11l be back about six or seven, ard
cocked hat and turned it over two or
you shall have your money.
three times. I saw then that it was second—after all
..fedi torn out of I hesitated a bare' ,
a piece of paper hurriedly* the extra sovereign was worth a few
a cheap account-book—a poor quality hours of that sort of thing.
papper, the first stuff that had been to "All right,,
I said, "I'll stop till
hand, And I felt no great compunc- you: come back. But; there's one
tion, things being as they were, in un- thing.
wrapping itand looking'at whatever „well?" said he, edging away, to -
might be written inside -there was a1- words the door his obvious tmpat
ready a spice of mysy about this
adventure, and wherever there is my-
stery there is danger; I wanted to
know what I was in for, in some de=
man brings mine at one, sharp -take
gree. that. You'll. find it'll do you. Well,
Standing: for a second in. the open then, till this evening."
street, I read ail-' that was' written,
Two words, heavily underscored:-
CLEAN AWAY
onward to London by tail in
Qjourney
stead' of tramping the highway. Ev-
erything, in fact, looked quite \rosy
just then, and, finding a box of very
decent cigars on the ' office,; desk, 'I
lighted one and prepared to - face the
busines,,s requirements' of the'after-
noon. with complacency and patience;
By. the tune I had finished that ci-
gar. I -was beginning to think that for
all practical purposes Holliment
might, just as well have locked up his
place. of business as have left me or
anyone else in charge of :it, It was
then''past'two o'clock, and not a soul
had crossed the threshold since HoIh
ment stepped over it—always saving
the welcome potrnap: I was beginn-
ing to,get-bored.: A:nd in older to
amuse myself I took a cast round the
place, examining it and its 'contents.
The low, shed -like erection and .its.
piles of old iron, coils of ropes, heaps
of rubbish I took in at a .glance;
there was nothing . much there to in-
terest me: But:tlie. taller building at
the side had more of interest. It'
turned out` to be a high, ,loom -filled
place, not unlike the interior of a
church tower, and just about as bad-
ly -lighted. Whatever purpose it had
served I could not make put, . its
floor was -littered with more :rubbish,
or what seemed so to me, and its
Walls were thick with dust'and great
festoons of cobwebs. Around them,
beginning in one corner and going: in
flights. and landings across and
around the others, 'was, a narrow, ric-
kety stair, which wound. far away into
the thick gloom at the extreme top.
Why any stair should be there at all I
could not make out; there were no
doorwaysin the three or four land-
ings, and no signs that there had on=
ce been fldSrings : between the pave-
ment on which -I stood and the un-
ceilinged roof so high above me.
But when, after some`. time, my
sight had grown 'accustomed to the
gloom; I made out that right away at
the' head of the stair, just beneath the
head of the sough wall and the' be-
ginning of the tiles,. there: was a door,
or at any rate an opening—a black,
cavernous -looking place.
And T was wondering what lay be--
hind
e- hind it, and whence it might lead,
when I heard somebody come into the
"shop, and, after beating on the floor,
call loudly for its proprietor,
CHAPTER TI
The Chinaman
This was the first customer I ' had
seen—a man who wanted some old ir-
on, and had a small cart outside
whereon to carry it away. He helped
himself to what he wanted when I had
explained matters to him, and'remark-
'ing that his name was y Toiler, and.
that A'Ir- Holliment knew him well
enough, carried out.. his .stuff, and
went away with it. This broke the'
folk' began to drop. in. They
ice—otherg
all seemed to know their way about,
and were all ready to mention their,
u
t them
�1
me about names; rvliat puzzled
was whatever\ they meant to do with
the things they:picked out and took:
away.
Nobody'seemed' at all surprised to
find Hollirnent out; nobody paid any
particular .attention to me as his re-
presentative:' I came to the conclus-
ion that this was a queer sort of;busi-
ness But during the 'a'fternoon I did
some trade in coal; one man carne in
and ordered a truckload; another
wanted four tons; before i the dusk
ame on I had written down memo-
randa concerning coal delivery which
represented a considerable amount of
money. So the time passed, and at
half -past four in walked the friendly,
pe tmati, armed with/ yet another tray
A capacious pot ,of tea this time, pip,.
flanked byanother tin:' dish,
ing hot,
wherein was 'a mountain of buttered
toast, Once more I was convinced
that Holliment knew liow t� make
himself cofnfortable.
The potman carried away the dinn-
er'thin s; he informed me, while he
,g
'Mt them together, that' he came from
the Admiral Hawke, round the 'corner,
and asked if I was going to be where
I was when to -morrow carnes because,
if so, there was going to be roast
beef on tab, and he wotdld see. that 1
had a good helping. I told him that,
AS Mr as I was aware, Mr.Holliment
would shortly be back and'any' tem-
porary engagement over, but, I add-
ed, if 1 'was stil'1'in Portstnouth at
noon next day I would take care to
hones»
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lee poli, Resid. 2a4
J. WALKER
tiTtkliltn DRALER
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fence.. "What?"
"Dinner!" said I. "I shall want it."
"'That's all right," he replied. "A
"I'll seeto things," I, assured"hire.
He made for the door without an-
other word—but before 4ie" went
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There' was - nothing else. No name; through it and into the street, he look -
no address; nothing, . I. was as wise ed cautiously round the door -posts, up
as ever. So folding the torn leaf into anddown; there was that in his action
its original lines, I slipped it into my which assured me that he was keenly
pocket again;:.land crossing the High anxious, Then he shot off, and 1, too
Street, plunged into the slums which looked out, to see whither he went. It
lie between it and the Hard was not raining, but he slunk rapidly
There are some . queer places in along the side of the wall, close to it,
Portsinlouth, and it seemed to inc that las if -rain had been coming :down cats-
Holliment, whoever hewas, lived in and -dogs, and with his head bent, his
one of the queerest. 'I.t was quite evi= :slouch hat pulled over his eyes,' and
dent, however; that he was known his whole attitude that ora' man who
pretty well, and after various turnings is running away.
to right and turnings to left, 1 saw Suddenly he ahot into one of those
his name in dirty wine letters on a narrow alleys of which there are so
black sign which formed ;.one of the many thereabouts, and so I saw him
chief landmarks in a peculiarly squalidno longer.. But I had seen enough to
street. The sign wasdisplayed above convince me that if the sender of the..
the windows of a low -roofed, one- mysteriousmessage was in a state of
storied place, half shop, half shed; highnervousness, its recipient was in
this was flanked by a much higher, another of something very like fright,
tower -like erection which I took to be and I wondered why.
What had happened that .Horning in
the Eiffairs of these two men to mance
both hasten off somewhere in desper-
an old a
1 it -loft; the name was on
s
'
that, too, ;in smaller letters ona
smaller signboard,
In the wall of the lower building was ately hurried fashion? Something,
a double door, wide open to the street evidently—but all the speculation in
and when I walked inside it I saw at the world would not tell me what,
once that Holliment's business of gen- Meanwhile there I was, in chargeof.
eral ,dealer was a wide and various an .ancient rubbish :store,`the°so
fter-
ap
one,' for L never set eyes on such a noon to get over, and.iotherver-
collection of ancient stuff as that eign to anticipate, That, anyway, odd
winch he had gathered about him; the as the adventure seemed, was preferr-,
place was a scrap -heap, a dumping able to flanging about Portsmouth,
ground of all sorts of rubbish, from wondering what I was to do when my
once gaily -coloured figureheads to first sovereign was spent.,
rusty nails, It was now past noon, and between
The only thing 'that looked at all then and one o'clock nothing, whatev-
modern was a ,freshlypainted placard er happened'. I sat down in the little
hung on the window of a sort of of- office and read the newspaper. No
fine, it announced that orders for coal customers came; nobody came: But
were taken there, and gave a list of
current prices. But just then there
was no one 111 this office, nor iii ,the
gloom of the shed -like, much cumber -
cd place, and I had waited and rapped
forsome minutes before a math came
out of the shadows and approached bread, and a jug of `'foaming ale• " A
Hie -a short, fattish, furtive -eyed man, good smell came from his tray; and 1,
in his shirt -sleeves, wht „ obviously silently blessed it and him. He surprise, star -
wondered sure
wondered: what 1 was after. ed at meiP > rad I hastened
I pulled out the dote. to relieve his anxieties.
"Mr. Ilolliment?" I asked. "Mr: Holliment's away for this af-
"'That's me, air," replied the man. ternoon," I said. "He's left me in
"A gentleman whom :I Met on the charge, and I'm to have his dinner."
Clarence l'ier, who was in a hurry to "That's all right,' he answered, and
catch the boat, asked me to give this set his tray on a neighbouring table,"
to you," I continued, "I came straight "and a good un it is, and here's wish,
to you with it; ho seemed anxious ing you a proper appetite,"
that you should 'have it at once," "Same to you," ,1 responded polite
1 placed the mote in hi very dirty lyiy'
*ands' atrtd stood by watching hirh alar- IIe ,grinned understandingly and
rOWly as he somewhat clumsily, open- went off, and 1 httd the clod\ and the visit t1u .AaImiral Hawlte attd dine,
jt
■ a Royal Bank Buildin �" - Goderich,`Ontarioat ,
■ E. H. HILL, President. R. J. WALKER, Secretary. ■
ew■simannoe® nets■ ■nesio owszinea■■e■s
there, if that was possible, :He an-
swered'that it was quite possible,
there was a half crownrordinary there
at one o'clock whereat they did pee-
pie' far better than at any of the ho-
tels where the nobs went. e
He went off then with his,.jingling,
tray and tins, and I drank tea and ate
hot buttered toast in great content-
ment. And just after that it began to
dark, '
grow first dusk and theft da , and
through the open .double -door of the
shop I saw 'lights begin, to shine out
across the street, and through a vista
between the opposite houses, where.
there was a glimpse of the harbour
and of the Gosport shore in the dis
tante, I caught the gleam of other
lights red and green and yellow,' that
came out on the spars of passing
ships. Why, I do not:Aexactly, know, - A great many persons are constitu
but the sight of those lights` somehow tionaily opposed to any ideas that
made me' begin to wish that Holli- they. themselves do not originate.
meet would return, give ane the :,re-
ward of my vigil, and let mego about
my business.
There was a lamp on the rough
desk in the bit of an office, and as
soon as I had finished the tea and
toast I lighted it—thedarkness was
getting a bit too marked. The draught
from the door on thestreet caused
the lamp to smoke" I went over to
shut itJust then a lad
-came along
ng
shouting the five o'clock edition of
the newspaper; T bought a copy and
went back to the office, and as I had
no tobacco of my own :I helped my-
self to another of Holliment's cigars
and sat down in a rickety elbow chair
to read and smoke.
(Continued next week)
at precisely one o'clock in walked an
individual,who was obviously the pot-
man of some adjacent hostelry;' He
carried a tray, , whereon, beneath a
cloth,' Were sundry dishes,' covered
with tin plates, :hhalf-loaf of crusty
The Public's
Chief Concern,
IN` the matter of telephone service we believe
the public's chief concern is in two points:—'
1 People 'want to. know that they can
C� P.
count upon getting a complete tele-
phone service of high ,quality,- day and
night; • now and in the : future.
[2] People want such service at a price
low as sound business c -
that is as
tice perrriits, and less 'than ithe value
of the service received.'
These points are the essence of true public
service,
and this 'company is just as deeply eon-
ceerned in them as is the public.
time, as we have explained, an
• 'At the present
increase in rates is needed to assure the con-
tinuance of the kind of service our subscribers
require.
The reasons are:—
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[1] Our earnings per telephone have de-
clined, due to the great development
of lower rate service, such as two -
p,' party line.
[2] Large ,additions to plant at present-
day prices, as compared with the low
price levels of a few years ago, have
increased the fixed charges to be pro-
vided from our earnings.
m
[8] The low rate of depreciation:suggested
eted
by the Board of Railway Commission -
ars, as a temporary measure, is now
known to be inadequate to protect the
investment.
A reasonable adjustment of the wide differ-
ence between present telephone rates and the
cost of doing business is an obvious necessity.
Such technical subjects as property valuation,
rate of return, and depreciation expense have
an important part in determining telephone
rates. Casual ,discussion of such subjects is
often misleading, for it can deal', only briefly
with matters that must be gone into in great
detail to be. clearly understood.
girir These and all other factors will be presented in
the detail to : be fully considered bypseper,
public authority, the Board of Railway Com-
missioners for Canada.
The 'booklet "Telephone Service and Rates"
tates the facts of our 'position. A copy � 1y has
been mailed to all our' subscribers. If your copy
has not reached you, we shall be glad to send
you one.
TRE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY
OF LANA IDA