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1!1111
For a matter of twenty seconds -
even longer it seemed to Carrigan -
the life of these two was expressed
in a vivid and unforgettable tableau.
One half of it David saw -the blue
sky, the dazzling sun, the girl in be-
tween. The pistol dropped from his
limp hand, and the weight of his body
tottered on the crook of his under -
elbow. Mentally and physically he
was on the ,point of collapse, and yet
in those few moments every detail of
the picture was painted with a brush
of fire in his brain. The girl was
bareheaded. Her face was as white
as any face he had ever seen, living
or dead; her eyes were like pools that
had caught the reflection of fire; he
saw the sheen of her hair, the poise
of her slender body -its shock, stupe-
faction, horror. He sensed these
things even as his brain wobbled diz••
zily, and the larger part of the pic-
ture began to fade out of his vision.
But her face remained to the last. It
grew clearer, Iike a cameo framed in
an iris -a beautiful, staring, horrified
face with shimmering tresses of jet-
black hair blowing about it like a
veil. He noticed the hair that was
partly undone as if she had been in a
struggle of some sort, or had been
running fast against the breeze that
came up the river.
He fought with himself to hold
that picture of her, to utter some
word, make some movement. But the
power to see and to live died out of
him. He sank back with a queer
sound in his throat. He did not hear
the answering cry from the girl as
she flung herself, with a quick littl3
prayer• for help, on her knees in the
soft, white sand 'beside him. He felt
no movement when she raised his
head in her arm and with her bare
hand brushed back his sand -littered
hair, revealing where the bullet had
struck him. He did not know when
she ran back to the river,
His first sensation was of a cool
and comforting something trickling
over his burning temples and his face.
It was water. Subconsciously he
knew that, and in the same way he
began to think. But it was hard to
pull his thoughts together. They
persisted in hopping about, like a lot
of sand -fleas in a dance, and just as
he got hold of one and reached for
another, the first would slip away
I • him. He began to get the best
of them after a time, and he had an
uncontrollable desire to say some-
thing. But his eyes and his lips were
sealed tight, and to open them, a lit-
tle army of gnomes came out of the
darkness in the back of his head, each
of them armed with a lever, and be-
angprying with all their might. Af-
ertthat came the beginning of light
and a flash of consciousness.
The girl was working over him- He
could feel her and hear her move-
ment. Water was trickling over his
face. Then he heard a voice, close
over him, saying something in a sob-
bing monotone which he could not un-
derstand.
With a mighty effort he opened his
eyes.
"Thank le bon Dieu, you live,
m'sieu," he heard the voice say, as if
coming from a long distance away.
You live, you live
"Tryin' to," he mumbled thickly,
feeling suddenly a sense of great ela-
tion. "Tryin'-"
He wanted to curse the gnomes for
deserting him, for as soon as they
were gone with their levers, his eyes
and his lips shut tight again, or at
east he thought they did. But he
began to sense things in a curious
sort of way. Some one was dragging
I He could feel the grind of sand
under his body. There were inter-
vals when the dragging operation
paused. And then, after a long time,
I, • seemed to hear more than one
voice, There were two -sometimes a
murmur of them. And odd visions
came to him. He seemed to see the
S with shining black hair and dark
eyes, and then swiftly she would
change into a girl with hair like bdaz-
ng gold. This was a different girl.
She was not like Pretty Eyes, as his
twisted mind called the other. This
econd vision that he saw was like a
radiant bit of the sun, her hair al'
aflame with the fire of it and her face
a different sort of face. He was al-
ways glad when she went away and
Pretty Eyes came back.
To David Carrigan this interesting
experience in his life might have cov-
ered an hour, a day, or a. month. Or
5 year for that matter, for he seem-
ed to have had an indefinite associa-
ion with Pretty Eyes. He had known
her for a long time and very inti-
mately, it seemed. Yet he had no
memory of the long fight in the hot
sun,
'or of the river, or of the sing -
ng warblers, or of the inquisitive
sandpiper that had marked out the
fine which his enemy's last bullet had
raveled. He had entered into a new
world in which everything was vague
and unreal except that vision of dark
It • dark eyes and pale, beautiful
face. Several times he saw it with
marvelous clearness, and each time
he drifted away into darkness again
with the sound of a voice growing
fainter and fainter in his ears.
Then came a time of utter chaos
nd soundless gloom. He was in a
it, where even his subconscious self
was almost dead under a crushing op-
eression. At last a star began to
1lmmer in this pit, a star pale and
ndistinct and a vast distance away.
ut it crept steadily up through the
ternity of darkness, and the nearer
t came, the less there was of the
slackness of night. From a star it
rew into a assn, and with the sun
ame dawn. In that dawn he heard
he GI ng of a bird, and the bird
was just over his head. Men (Osumi -
Fan opened his eyes, and understand-
ing cane to him, he found himself
under the silver 'birch that 'belonged
to the wood warbler.
For a space he did not ask himself
how he had come there. He was look-
ing at the river and the white strip
of sand. Out there were the rock
and his dunnage pack. Also his rifle.
Instinctively his eyes turned to the
beam ambush farther down. That,
too, was in a blaze of sunlight now.
But where he lay, or sat, or stood -
he was not sure what he was doing
at that moment -it was shady and
deliciously cool. The green of the
cedar and spruce and balsam was
close about him, inset with the silver
and gold of the thickly -leaved birch.
He discovered that he was bolstered.
up partly against the trunk of this
birch and partly•against a spruce
sapling. Between these two, where
his head rested, was a pile of soft
moss freshly torn from the earth. And
within reach of him was his own kit
pail filled with water.
He moved himself cautiously and
raised a hand to his head. His fin-
gers came in contact with a bandage.
For a minute or two after that he
sat without moving while his amaz-
ed senses seized upon the significan^e
of it all. In the first place he was
alive. But even this fact of living
was less remarkable than the other
things that had happened. He re-
membered the final moments of the
unequal duel. His enemy had got
him. And that enemy was a woman!
Moreover, after she had 'blown away
a part of his head and had him help-
less in the sand, she had -in place of
finishing him there -dragged him tc
this cool nook and tied up his wound.
It was hard for him to believe, but
the pail of water, the moss behind
his shoulders, the bandage and cer-
tain visions that were' reforming
themselves in his brain convinced him.
A woman had shot him. She had
worked like the very devil to kill
him. And afterward she had ,saved
him! He grinned. It was final proof
that his mind hadn't been playing
tricks on him. No one but a woman
would have been quite so unreason•
able. A man would have completed
the job.
He began to look for her up and
down the white strip of sand. And
in looking he saw the gray and sil-
ver flash of the hard-working sand-
piper. He chuckled, for he was ex-
ceedingly comfortable. and also ex-
hilaratingly happy to know that the
thing was over and he was not deal.
If the sandpiper had been a man, he
would have called him up to shake
hands with him. For it hadn't been
for the bird getting squarely in front
of him and giving him away, there
might have been a more horrible end
to it all. He shuddered as he thought
of the mighty effort he had made to
fire a shot into the heart of the bal-
sam ambush --and perhaps into the
heart of a woman!
He reached for the pail and drank
deeply of the water in it. He felt no
pain. His dizziness was gone. His
mind had grown suddenly clear and
alert. The warmth of the water told
him almost instantly that it had been
taken from the river some time ago.
He observed the change in sun and
shadows. With the instinct of a man
trained to note details, he pulled out
his watch. It was almost six o'clock.
More than three hours had passed
since the sandpiper had got in frort
of his gun.
He did not attempt to rise to his
feet, but scanned with slower and
more careful scrutiny the edge of the
forest and the river. He had been
mystified while cringing for his life
behind the rock, but he was infinitely
more so now. Greater desire he had
never had than this which thrilled him
in these present minutes of his read-
justment -desire to look upon4 the
woman again. And then, all at once,
there came hack to him a mental flash
of the other. He remembered, as if
something was, coming 'back to him
out of a dream, how the whimsical
twistings of his sick brain had made
him see two faces inAtead of one. Yet
he knew that the first picture of his
mysterious assailant, the picture
painted in his brain when he had tried
to raise his pistol, was the right one.
He had seen her dark eyes aglow;
he had seen the sunlit sheen of her
black hair rippling in the wind; he
had seen the white pallor in her face,
the slimness of her as she stood over
him in horror -he remembered even
the clutch of her white hand at her
throat. A moment before she had
tried to kill him. And then he had
looked up and had seen her like
that! It must have been some unac-
countable trick in his brain that had
flooded her hair with golden fire at
times.
His eyes followed a furrow in the
white sand which led from where he
sat bolstered against the tree down to
his pack and the rock. It was the
trail made by his body when she had
dragged him up to the shelter and
coolness of the timber. One of his
laws of physical care was to keep
himself trained down to a hundred
and sixty, hut he wondered how she
had dragged up even se much as
that of•dead weight. It had taken a
great deal of effort. 11e could see
distinctly three different places in the
sand where she had stopped to rest.
Carrigan had earned a reputation
as the expert analyst of "N" Divis-
ion. In delicate matters it was sel-
dom that McVane did not take him
into consultation. He possessed an
almost uncanny grip on the working
,processes of a criminal mind, and the
first rule he had set down for himeel"
was to regard the acts of omission
rather than the one outstanding act
of commission. But when he proverl
to himself that the chief actor in a
beam possessed a norM 1 rather than
a cxiuilnal mind, he fouund himself in
'WOO
x try,
atter an.
a�r(d s a slim total at
'
.0 em 0,04 t 1 in'this ii .
star gee aye Via. awn peer sal adventure.
klidaitu0 r ,, m, the womazt
•',chap .lad' shot hang k0 been in both
purpose and act as .,Yr ssassin. Hee
deteraninntiorn half ,been to kill him
She had di:movi led the:white hag
with which he had p$a;4ed for mercy.
Her marksmanahila as of fiendish
cleverness. Up to her last shot she
had been, to all intent and purpose
a murderess,
The change had . come when she
looked down upon him, 'bleeding and
helpless, in the sand. Undoubtedly
she had thought be VAS dying. But
why, 'when she saw hr's eyes open a
little later, had she cried out her
gratitude to God? haat had work-
ed the sudden transformation in bee?
Why diad she labored to save the life
she had so atrociously coveted a min-
ute before?
If his assailant had been a man,
Carrigan would have found an answer.
For he was not robbed; and therefore
robbery was not a motif. "A case of
mistaken identity," he would have told
himself. "An error in visual judg-
ment."
But the fact that in his analysis
he was dealing with a woman made
his answer only partly satisfying. He
could not disassociate himself from
her eyes -their beauty, their horror,
the way they had looked at him. It
was as if a sudden revulsion had come
over her; as if, looking down upon her
bleeding handiwork, the woman's soul
in her had revolted, and with that re-
vulsion had come repentance -repent-
ance and pity.
"That," thought Carrigan, "would
be just like 'a woman -and especially
a woman rwith eyes like hers."
This left him but two conclusions
to choose from. Either there had
been a mistake, and the woman had
sho'vn both horror and desire to
amend when she discovered it, or a
too tender-hearted agent of Black
Roger Audemard had waylaid him in
the heart of the white strip of sand.
The sun was another hour lower in
the sky when Carrigan assured him-
self in a series of cautious experi-
ments that he was not in a condition
to stand upon his feet. In his pack
were 'a number of things he wanted --
his blankets, for instance, a steel mir-
ror, and the thermometer in his med-
ical kit. He was beginning to feel
a bit anxious about himself. There
were sharp pains back of his eyes.
His face was hat, and he was develop-
ing an unhealthy appetite for water.
It was fever and he kned what fever
meant in this sort of thing, when one
was alone. He had given up hope of
the woman's return. It was not rea-
sonable to expect her to come back
after her furious attempt to kill him.
She had bandaged him, bolstered him
up, placed water beside him, and had
then left him to work out the rest of
his salvation alone. But why the
deuce hadn't she brought up his
pack?
On his hands and knees he began
to work himself toward it slowly. He
found that the movement caused him
pain, and that with this pain, if he
persisted in movement, there was a
synchronous rise of nausea. The two
seemed to work in a sort' of- unity.
But his medicine case was important
now, and his blankets, and his rifle
if he hoped to signal help that might
chance to pass on the river. A foot
at a time, a yard at a time, he made
his way down into the sand. His
fingers dug into the footprints of the
mysterious gun -woman. He approv-
ed of their size. They were small and
narrow, scarcely longer than the palm
and fingers of his hand -and they
were made by shoes instead of moc-
casins.
It seemed an interminable time to
him before he reached his pack. When
he got there, a pendulum seemed
swinging back and forth inside his
head, beating'against his skull. He
lay down with his pack for a pillow,
intending to rest for a spell. But
the minutes added themselves one on
top of another. The sun slipped be-
hind clouds banking in the west. It
grew cooler, while within him he was
consumed by a burning thirst. He
could hear the ripple of running wa-
ter, the laughter of it among pebbles
a few yards away. And the river it-
self became even more desirable than
his medicine case, or his blankets, or
his rifle. The song of it, inviting and
tempting him, blotted thought of the
other things out of his mind. And
he continued his journey, the swing of
the pendulum in his h •ad becoming
harder, but the sound of the river
growing nearer. At last he came to
the wet sand, and fell on his face,
and drank.
After this he had no great desire to
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opens with a
twist 1
Men and wOmern
who 1reallize that
appearance counts
always have well -
polished shoes.
Did YO!f) "Nugget" your
Daces this morning?
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could hear new :setUnde in the rte -.
the iers$t Are 1 nS' tiou i , " ?
.vealx little. twitters. aatiailai frau th
wood warblers, driven to s nso. `b
cldelteai18ag gloom ix the densely eau
opted balsams and cedars, and fright-
ened • by the first low bots c th
owls. There was a crai not fa
distant, probably. a porcupine wed
filing through brush on his way fo
a drink; or perhaps it was a thirst
deer, or a bear coming out in the
.
hope of finding a deed fish. Carni
gan loved that start of sound, even
when a pendulum was beating back
and forth in l% head. It was like
medicine to him, and he lay with wide
open eyes, his ears picking up one
after another the voices that marked
the change from day to night. He
heard the cry of a loon, its softer,
chuckling note of honeymoon days.
From across the river came a cry
that was half howl, half bark. Car-
rigan knew that it was coyote, and
not wolf, a coyote whose breed ha•I
wandered hundreds of miles north of
the prairie country.
The gloom gathered in, and yet it
was not darkness as the darkness of
night is known a thousand miles
south. It was the dusky twilight of
day where the sun rises at three
o'clock in the morning and still throws
its ruddy light in the western sky at
nine o'clock at night; where the pop-
lar buds unfold themselves into leaf
before one's very eyes; where straw-
berries are green in the morning and
red in the afternoon; where, a little
later, one could read newspaper print
until midnight by the glow of the
sun -and between the rising and the
setting of that sun there would be
from eighteen to twenty hours of
day. It was evening time in the
wonderland of the north, a wonder-
land hard and frozen and ridden by
pain and death in winter, but a para-
dise upon earth in this month of
June.
The beauty of it filled Carrigan's
soul, even as he lay on his back in
the damp sand. Far south of him
steam and steel were coming, and the
world would soon know that it was
easy to grow wheat at the Arctic Cir-
cle, that cucumbers grew to half the
size of a man's arm, that flowers
smothered the land and berries turn-
ed it scarlet and black. He had
dreaded these days -days of what he
called "the great discovery". --the time
when a crowded civilization would at
ast understand how the fruits of the
earth leaped up to the call of twenty
hours of sun each day, even though
that earth itself was eternally frozen
•f one went down under its surface
four feet with a pick and shovel.
To -night the gloom came earlier
because of the clouds in the west. It
was very still. Even the breeze had
ceased to come from up the river. And
as Carrigan listened, exulting in the
thought that the coolness of the wet
sand was drawing the fever from him,
he heard another sound. At first he
thought it was the splashing of a
fish. But after that it came again,
and still again, and he knew that it
was the steady and rhythmic dip of
paddles.
A thrill shot through him, and he
raised himself to his elbow. Dusk
covered the river, and he could not
see. But he heard low voices as the
paddles dipped. And after a little he
knew that one of these was the voice
of a woman.
His heart gave a big jump. "She
•s coming back," he whispered to him-
self. "She is coming back!"
IV
Carrigan's first impulse, sudden as
the thrill that leaped through him,
was to cry out to the occupants of
the unseen canoe. Words were on his
lips, but he forced them back. They
could not miss him, could not get be-
yond the reach of his voice -and he
waited. After all, there might be
profit in a reasonable degree of cau-
tion. He crept back toward his rifle,
sensing the fact that movement no
longer gave him very great distress.
At the same time he lost no sound
from the river. The voices were sil-
ent, and the dip, dip, dip of paddles
was approaching softly and with ex-
treme caution. At last he could bare-
ly hear the trickle of them, yet h•,
knew the canoe was coming steadily
nearer. Perhaps the lady with fly,
beautiful eyes and the glistening hair
had changed her mind again and was
returning to put an end to him.
The thought sharpened his vision.
He saw a thin shadow a little darker
than the gloom of the river; it grew
into shape; something grated lightly
upon sand and pebbles, and then he
heard the guarded plash of feet in
shallow water and saw some one pull-
ing the canoe up higher. A second
figure joined the first. They advan--
ed a few paces and stopped. In a
moment a voice called softly.
"M'sieu! M'sieti Carrigan!"
There was an anxious note in the
voice, hut Carrigan held his tongue.
And then he heard the woman say'
"it, was here, Bateese! I am sure
of it!"
There was more than anxiety in her
voice now. Her words trembled with
distress. "Bateese-if he is dead -
he is up there close to the trees."
"But. he isn't dead," said Carrigan,
raising himself a little. "He is here,
behind the rock again!"
In a moment she had run to where
he was lying, his hand clutching the
cold barrel of the pistol which he had
found in the sand, his white face look-
ing up at her. Again he found him-
self staring into the glow of her eves
and in that pale light which preeedes
the coming of stars and moon the
fancy struck him that she was love-
lier than in the full radiance of the
sun. He heard a throbbing note in
her throat. And then she was down
on her knees at his side, leaning close
over him, her hands groping at, his
shoulder's, her quirk breath betraying
how swiftly her heart was heating
"You are not hurt---hadly?" she
cried.
"I don't know," replied David. "You
made a perfect shot. T think a part
of my head is gone. At least you've
shot away my balance, because I can't
stand on my feet?"
Her hand touched his face, remain-
ing there for au instant, and the pain
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of - it pressed his forehead. It was
like the touch of cool velvet, he
thought. Then she called to the man
named Bateese. He made Carrigan
thing of a huge chimpanzee as he
came near, because of the shortness
of his body and the length of hie
arms. In the half light he might
have been a huge animal, a hulking
creature of some sort walking up-
right. Carrigan's fingers closed more
tightly on the butt of his automatic.
The woman began to talk swiftly in
a patois of French and Cree. David
caught the gist of it. She was tell-
ing Bateese to carry him to the canoe,
and to be very careful, because m'sieu
was badly hurt. It was his head, she
emphasized. Bateese must be care-
ful of his head.
David slipped his pistol into its
holster as Bateese bent over him. He
tried to smile at the woman to thank
her for her solicitude -after having
nearly killed him. There was an in-
creasing glow in the night, and he
began to see her more plainly. Out
on the middle of the river was a sil-
very bar of light. The moon was
coming up, a little pale as yet, but
triumphant in the fact that clouds
had blotted out the sun an hour be-
fore his time. Between this bar of
light and himself he saw the head of
Bateese. It was a wild, savage -look -
ng head, bound pirate -fashion round
the forehead with a huge Hudson's
Bay kerchief. Bateese might have
been old Jack Ketch himself bending
over to give the final twist to a vic-
tim's neck. Gently and without ef-
fort he raised him to his feet. And
then, as easily as he might have lift-
ed a child, he trundled him up in his
arms and walked off with him over
the sand.
Carrigan had not expected this. He
was a little shock -ed and felt also the
mpropriety of the thing. The idea
of being lugged off like a baby was
mbarrassing, even in the presence of
ne who had deliberately put him in
his present condition. Bateese did
he thing with such beastly ease. It
was as if he was no more than a
mall boy, a runt with no weight
whatever, and Bateese was a man. He
would have preferred to stagger s-
ong on his own feet or creep on his
ands and knees, and he grunted as
much to Bateese on the way to the
anoe. He felt, at the same time,
hat the situation owed him something
more of discussion and explanation.
Even now, after half killing him, the
woman was taking a rather high -
ended advantage of him. She might
t least have assured him that she
ad made a mistake and was sorry.
But she did not speak to him again.
She said nothing more to Bateese, and
when the half-breed deposited him in
he midship part of the canoe, facing
he bow, she tood back in silence.
Then Bateese brought his pack and
ifle, and wedged the pack in behind
im so that he could sit upright. Af-
er that, without pausing to ask per-
mission, he picked up the woman and
arried her through the shallow we-
er to the bow, saving her the wetting
f her feet.
As she turned to find her paddy
er face was toward David, and for
moment she was looking at him.
"Do you mind telling me who yogi
re, and where we are going?" he
asked.
"I am Jeanne Marie -Anne Boulain,"
he said. "My brigade is down the
-dyer, M'sieu Carrigan."
He was amazed at the promptness
f her confession, for as one of the
working factors of the long arm of
he police he accepted it as that. He
ad scarcely expected her to divulge
er name after the cold-blooded way
n which she had attempted to kill
im. And she had spoken quite calm -
y of "my brigade." He had heard of
he Boulain Brigade. it was a name
ssociated with Chipewyan, as he re- Dublin
nemhered it ---or Fort McMurray. He St. Columban
-as not sure just where the Boulain Seaforth
cows had traded freight with the
pper-river craft. Until this year he
'as positive they had not come as
ar south as Athabasca Landing. Bou-
ain-Boulain-- The name repeated
tacit* over and over in his mind.
Bateese shoved off the canoe, and the
woman's paddle dipped in and out of
he water beginning to shimmer in
moonlight. But he could not, for a
where -!before," he said. There 'MS.
a space of only five or six feet be-
tween them and he spoke with studied .
distinctness.
"Possibly you have, m'sieu."
(Continued next week)
Strange that those men who are
clamoring for cooler clothing in the
summer have not adopted the kilt. -
Oshawa Times.
It is consoling to think that the'
sunback gown demonstrates that the
era of spinerless woman is past.--t-
tawa Journal.
Politiesand liquor apparently are
as inseparable as a combination of
beer and pretzels. -Mabel Willebrandt
The Niagara Falls Review issues
the warning that a railway train nev-
er stalls at a crossing. -Woodstock
Sentinel -Review.
Stocks often recover, but, unfortu-
nately, many of the •players do not. -
St. Catharines Standard.
LONDON
Centralia
Exeter
Hensall
Kippen
Brucefield
Clinton
Londesboro
Blyth
Belgvave
Wingham
AND WIINGHAM
North.
South.
Wingham
Belgrave
Blyth
I.onlesboro
Clinton
Brucefield
Kippen
Hensall
Exeter
Centralia
a.m.
10.36
10.49
11.03
11.08
11.17
(163)
11.53
12.13
12.22
12.34
12.50
a.m.
6.55
7.15
'7.27
7.35
7.56
7.58
(162)
8.22
8.32
8.47
8.59
C. N. 11. TIME TABLE
East.
Goderich
Holrnesville
Clinton
Seaforth
St. Columban
Dublin
ime get himself beyond the pounding
f that name in his brain. It was
of merely that he had heard the
ame before. There was something
ignificant about it. Something that
made him grope 'back in his memory
f things. Boulain! 'He whispered it
o himself, his eyes on the slender
gure of the woman ahead of him,
waying gently to the steady sweep
f the paddle in her hands. Yet he
ould think of nothing. A feeling of
rritation swept over him, disgust at
is own mental impotency. And the
iazying sickness was brewing in his
ead again.
"I have heard thtst ntatfin eme •
ar
Clinton
Hohne'sville
Goderich
West.
11.17
11.22
11.33
11.50
12.01
12.20
a -m.
6.20
6.36
6.44
6.59
7.06
7.11
p.m.
5.51
6.04
6.18
6.23
6.22•
(165)
6.52
7.12:
7.21
7.33
7.55
p.m.
3.05
3.25
3.38
3.47
4.10
4.28
(164)
4.38
4.48
5.05
5.17
p.m.
2.200
2.37
2.50
3.08
3.15-
3/22
p.m. p.m.
5.38 9.37
5.44 ..
5.53 9.50-
6.08-6.53 10.04
7.03 10.13
7.20 10.30•
C. P. R. TIME TA
East.
LE
Goderich
Menet
McGaw
Auburn
Blyth
Walton
McNaught
Toronto
a.m.
5.50•
5.55
6.05
6.11
6.21,
6.40
6.52
10.211,
01515.
Toronto 7.40
McNaught a 1.1,42
12.61
Blyth Walton 12.22
Auburn 12.22'
McGaw 312, ei •
Menezet ..... 2