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"Laugh, damn you," said Shorty,
heated to such a poit that he half
forgot his exhaustion. "You ain't
been through what I been through.
You ain't man enough to of lasted,"
The imputation sabered Little .Toe
and he shrugged his massive shoul-
ders significantly. Shorty's laugh was
shrill with contempt. "Oh, you're big
enough," he sneered. "But what does
beef count agin a lightning flash?"
He grew reminiscent. "I seen him
bluff down the Wyoming Kid, yester-
day."
A religious silence spread in the
bunkhouse. The cowpunchers sat as
stiff as though in Sunday storeclotk_es.
Shorty took advantage of this favor-
ing hush.
"I find bim sitting in at a game of
poker and I give him the girl's let-
ter. He shakes it open saying: 'Bee
that ten and raise you' ten more.' I
look over his shoulder as he flips up
his cards. He's got a measly pair
of deuces! Then he reads the letter
and hands it back to me. Is it as
bad as all that?' he says. 'See that
other five and raise you twenty.'
'You're too strong for me Red,' says
the gent that was bucking him -and
lays down tol that pair of deuces! I
read the letter:
"'Dear Mr. Perris,
"'I know you ,51.on't like to hire
out. But this is a job where you
won't have a boss. The chestnut
horse that nearly killed Manuel
Cordova -Alcatraz -has come to
my ranch and stolen half a doz-
en valuable mares. Will you come
up and try to get rid of him for
me? The job seems to be too big
for my men. Name your own
terms.
"'Cordially yours,
`1VLarianne Jordan.'
"1 hands him back the letter while
he rakes in his winnings. wouldn't
go as far as she does about the men
she's got,' I says, 'but the hoss is
sure a fast thinking, fast moving deiv-
il.'
'Well,' says he, 'it sort of sounds
good to rne. Soon as this game busts
up we'll start. They's only four of
us. Won't you take a hand?"
"Well, that game run on forty
hours. Every time I got busted he
staked me agin like a millionaire. But
finally we was both flat.
"'All light,' says he, got a purse
light enough for travel now; ' Let's
start.'
"'Without no sleep?' says I.
"'Have it your own way,' says he.
'We'll have a snooze and then start.'
"We didn't have the price of an-
other room. He took me up to his
room and makes me take the bed
while he curls up on the floor. The
next minute he's snoring while I was
still arguing about not wanting to
take the bed.
"Minute later I was asleep, but
didn't .seern my eyes were more'n close
when he gives me a shake.
"Five o'clock,' says he, 'and time
to start.'
"We'd gone to bed about twelve but
I wasn't going to let him put any-
thing over on me. He bums a break-
fast off the hotel, stalls 'em on his
bill, and then we hit the road, him
singing every step of the way and
me near dead for sleep. I got so
mad I couldn't talk. That damn sing-
ing sure *as riding my nerves. I tried
to take it out on a squirrel that run
across the road but I missed him.
"'Tell you what, partner,' says
Perris, 'for a quick shot, shooting
from the hip is the only stuff.'
"'Shooting from the hip at squir-
rels?' says I. 'I've read about that
sort of stuff in a book, but it never
was done out of print.'
"'Just a matter of practice,says
he.
" Huh,' says I, 'I'm here to see and
do my talking afterwards.' '
"Just then another squirrel pops
across the trail dodging like a year-
ling trying to get back to the herd.
Quick as a wink out comes Red's gun.
It just does a flip out of the holster
and bang! The dust jumped right
under the squirrel's belly. Bang! goes
the gat again and Mister Squirrel's
tail is chopped plumb in two and then
he ducks down his hole by the side
of the trail and we hear him squeal-
ing and chattering cusswords at us.
"I never see such shooting in my
life. But Perris puts up his gun and
gets red as a girl when two gents
ask her for the same dance.
"'l'm plumb out of practice,' he
says. 'Anyways, I guess I been talk-
ing too much. You'll have '44 excuse
me, Shorty!"
"And he meant it. He wasn't talk-
ing guff. Didn't seem possible any-
body could shoot as fast and straight
as that, but Perris was all cut up be-•
cause he'd missed and he didn't do no
more singing for about half an hour.
And I needed that time for a lot of
thinking. Made up my mind that if
anybody wanted to make trouble for
Perris they could count me out of the
party.
"And he kept on singing, when he
started again, all the way to the ranch
and me Wondering when I was going
to go to sleep and fall off. I tried
to make. talk. Seen a queer looking
fob he wore for his watch pocket.
Asked him where he got it.
4"TeIl you about it,' he says. 'Comes
from me being plumb peaceable,' I
retnetabered some of the things I'd
heard about Red Perris in Glosterville
and didn't say nothing. I just swal-
lowed hard and took a squint at a
cloud fl 'Ti'our or five years back,' he
Say's, 'when they was more liquor and
ambition floating around these parts,
I was up in a little cross-roads saloon
in Utah, near Gunterville. Saloon
was pretty jammed with folks, all
strangers to me-. I wasn't packing a
gun. Never do when I'm in a crowd,
if I can help it. Well, I got into a
little game of stud, and things were
running pretty easy for me when a
big gent across the table that had
been losing hard and drinking hard
ups and' says he allows I sure have
the cards talking. It sort of riled
Me. I tell him pretty liberal what I
think of him and all like him. I go
back into the past and give him. a
nice little description all about his an-
cestors. I aim to wind up with an in-
vite to step outside and have it out
with fists, but he don't wait. Right
in the middle of my sermon he out
with a gat and blazes away at me
The slug drills me in the thigh and
I go down.
"Wlell, this is the slug. And I
been wearing it to remind me that I
particular want to meet up with that
same gent before he gets too old for
a gunfight!"
Here Shorty ,paused and sighed,
shaking his bullet -head. And a deep
murmur of appreciation passed around
the room. Shorty sank back again
on the.bunk and turned his broad back
on the crowd.
"Don't nobody wake me for chuck,"
he warned them. "I've just finished
cramming a month into four days and
r got a night off coming.'"
Instantly his snoring began but it
was some moments before anyone
spoke. Then it was Little Joe in his
solemn bass voice.
"Sounds man-sized," he declared.
"Wears a bullet for a watch -fob, busts
hosses for fun, sleeps one day a week
and don't work under a boss. Hervey,
you'll have to put on kid gloves when
you talk to that Perris, eh? Hey,
where you going?"
"He's going out to think it over!"
chuckled another. "He needs air, and
I don't blame him. Just as soon be
foreman over a wildcat as over a gent
like Perris. There goes the gong!"
CHAPTER XIII
THE BARGAIN
But in spite of the dinner bell, Her-
vey made for the corrals instead of
the house, roped and saddled the fast-
est pony in his string, jogged out to
the eastern trail,- and then sent his
mount at a run into the evening haze,
After a time he drew back to a more
moderate gait, but still the narrow
firs shot smoothly and swiftly past
him for well over half an hour until
the twilight settled into darkness and
the treetops moved past the horseman
against a sky alive with the brighter
stars of the mountains. He reached
the hills. The trail tangled into zig-
zag lines, tossing up and down, dodg-
ing here and there. And in one of
these elbow turns, a team of horses
loomed huge and black above him, and
against the stars behind the hilltop
it seemed as though the team were
stepping out into the thin air. Be-
hind them, Lew Hervey made out the
low body of the buckboard and on the
seat a squat, bunched figure with head
dropped so low that the sombrero
seemed to rest flat on the shoulders.
Hervey raised his hand with a shout
of relief: "Hey, Jordan!"
The brakes crashed home, but the
impetus of the downgrade bore the
wagon to the bottom of the little slope
before it came to a stop and Hervey
was choked by the cloud of dust. Ile
fanned a clear path for his voice.
"It's me. Hervey." And he came
close to the wagon.
"Well, Lew?" queried the uninter-
ested voice of the master.
Hervey leaned a little from the sad-
dle and peered anxiously at the "big
boss." Ile counted on creating a pan-
ic with his news. But a man past
hope might very well be a man past
fear. Hopeless Oliver Jordan certain-
ly has been since his accident, hope-
less and blind. That blindness had
enabled Hervey to reap tidy sums out
of his management of the ranch, and
now that the coming of the sharp-
eyed girl had cut off bis sources of
revenue he was ready to fight hard to
put himself back in the saddle as un-
questioned master of the Valley of
the Eagles. But he could only work
on Jordan through fear and what ca-
pacity for that emotion remained in
the rancher. He struck at once.
"Jordan, 'have you got a gun with
you?"
"Gun? Nope. What do I need a
gun for?"
"Take this, then. It's my old gat.
You know it pretty near as well as I
do."
A nerveless hand accepted the heavy
weapon and allowed it to sink idly
upon his knee.
"How come?" drawled Jordan, and
the heart of Lew Hervey sank. 'Phis
was certainly not the voice of a man
liable to panic.
"You and me got a bad time com-
ing, Jordan, when we get to the ranch.
He's there, and he's a devil for a
fight!"
"Who?"
"Him! You remember that fight
you got into in that saloon up in
Wyoming? That night you and me
was at the cross-roads saloon and you
got off your feed with red-eye?"
The figure on the seat of the buck-
board grew taller.
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"Do I remember? Aye, and I'll
never forget! ; The one downright bad
thing I've ever done,
Hervey. It was
the infernal red-eye that made me a
•crazy man. You should of let me
go back and see how bad he was
hurt, Lew!"
"Nope. was right. Best thing a
gent can do after he's dropped his
man is to climb a hoss and feed it
leather."
"He didn't have a gun," groaned
Jordan heavily. "But I forgot it.
The red-eye got to working on me. I
was losing. It was the one rotten
yaller thing I ever done, Lew!"
"I know. And now he's here. He's
Red Perris!"
"Red Perris!" breathed Oliver Jor-
dan. "The man Marianne sent for?
Why -why it's like fate, her bringing
him right to the ranch!"
Hervey was discreetly silent.
"But," cried Jordan suddenly, and
there was a ghost of the old ring in
his voice, "I dropped him once by a
crooked play and now drop him
fair and square, if he's here looking
for trquble! I don't want your help,
Lew. Mighty fine of you to offer it,
but I ain't plumb forgot how to shoot.
I don't want help!" ,
Hervey waited a moment for that •
heat of defiance to die awayThen and growing bank account gagged the
.
he said with the quiet of certainty': ot'llgessi541-
"No use, Jordan. No use at all. "If that's the way things are stand -
Shorty seen this gent do some shoot-
ing," Jordan was saying, "we got to
ing on the way up to the ranch.
get rid of this skunk Perris. HeGood-
pulled on a squirrel that dodged a- looking, as I remember him, and
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cross the trail. First slug knockedarianne is so darned lonely on the
dust into the squirrel's belly -fur and ranch that she might begin to take
him serious and -Hervey, Pll give you
the second chipped off his tail. Bath
of them slugs would have landed dead a written note. That'll be authority.
center in a target as big as the body
I'll give you a note to Marianne, tell -
of a man!" ing her that I've got to go across the
He paused again. He could hear mountains and that I want you to
the heavy breathing of Oliver Jordan have the running of the place till I
get back. I guess that'll give you a
and the figure of the driver swayed a
little back and forth in the seat as a free hand, Lew! You fire that Per -
man will do when his mind is swing- ris, and when he's gone, send me word
ing from one alternative to another. over to the hotel, in Lawrence. That's
"He done that shooting from the where I'll go."
hip," added Hervey, as though by af- Hervey appeared dubious with
terthought. great skill.
There was a gasp from Jordan. "I'll take the note, Jordan," he said
"Good God, Lew! You don't mean
putting all the despair he could sum -
that!" mon into his tone. "But it sure goes
hard -the idea of losing my place up
"Dhat's what he done the shooting
for -to show Shorty how to get off
a quick shot. Shorty says he got his
gun out and fired inside the time it'd
take a common gun -man to wink
twice. And that's why you and me
have got to face him together, chief.
You know I ain't particular yaller.
But I'd as soon tackle a machine gun
with a pea -shooter as run into this
Perris all by myself. He's bad medi-
cine, chief!"
"Two to one. That'd be worse'n
murder, Lew. Neither you nor me
could eyer hold up a head around these
parts again if the two of us jumped
one gent."
"I know it," said Hervey solemnly.
"But it's better to be shamed than to
be dead. That's the way I figure. And
I ain't so sure that both of us to-
gether could win out."
There was another interval of sil-
ence, far more important than many
words. Through the hush Hervey,
with a beating heart, strove to peer
into the mind of the rancher.
"rm go back and face him all by
myself," said Jordan huskily. "I'll
let him rub out that old score. If he
finishes me -well, what good am I in
the world, anyway? No good, Lew.
I'm done for just as much as though
somebody had plugged me with a gat.
Let Perris finish the job." He added
hastily: "But these five years have
changed me a lot. Maybe he won't
know me."
"You ain't changed that much, Jor-
dan. Look at Howlands. He hadn't
seen you for eight years. He knew
you right off."
"Ay," growled Jordan. "That's true
enough. But -what makes you so
sure that Perris is so hot after me.
Ain't there been time enough for him
to cool down?"
With the skill of a cannoisseur,
saving his choicest morsel for the end,
Hervey had waitcd for the most fav-
orable opportunity be f ore striking
home with his most convincing item.
"You remember you drilled him in
the leg, chief?"
"I remember everything. The whole
damned affair has never been out of
my head for a whole day. I've gone
over every detail of it a thousand
times, Lew!"
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ti:111 ig;t1;erris?" But he added; "WYshould that rile nie? WIWI* lie's all
"He's one o them flay dressers,"
said Lew Hervey- "Silla shirts and
swell bandanna S and he wears, shop..
made boots and keep 'an all shined
up. Besides, it's dead easy for him to,
talk to a girl. He's the kind that get
on with 'em pretty well,"
The innuendo brought a huge roar
from Oliver Jordan.
"By God, Lew, d'you think that's
what it means? I thought she talk-
ed pretty strong about this Perris!"
"Maybe Five ,said too much," said
Hervey.
"Not a word too much," said Jor-
dan heartily., and reaching through the
night he foend the hand of Hervey
and wrung it heartily. "I know how
square you are, Lew. I know how
you've stood 'by me. I'd stake my
last dollar on you!"
Hervey blessed again the mercy of
the darkness which concealed the
crimson that spread hotly over his
face. There was enough truth in
what the rancher said to make the un-
truths the more painful. Before the
accident Hervey had, indeed, been all
that anyone could ask in a manager.
But when too much authority came
into his hands owing to the crippling
of his chief, the temptation proved too
strong for resistance. It was all so
easy. A few score of cows run off
here and there were never noted, and
his share in the profit was fifty-fifty.
Indeed, as the hand of Jordan crush-
ed over his own he came perilously
near to making a clean •breast of ev-
erything, but the memory of his fat
"So has Perris," answered Lew
Hervey solemnly. "That slug of
yours -when the doctor cut it out of
hi.1 leg he had it fixed up and now he
wears it for a fob so's he won't for-
get the gent that shot him down that
night when he wasn't armed!" ,
"Most like that's why he's practic-
ed so much with a gun," muttered
Jordan. "He's been getting ready for
me."
"Most like," said the gloomy Her-
vey, but his voice well-nigh trertfbled
with gratification.
The head of Jordan bowed again,
but this time, as Hervey shrewdly
guessed it was in thought, not in des-
pair.
"Why," chuckled Jordan at last,
"what we wasting all this fool time
about? You just slip back to the
ranch and fire Perris."
In the favoring dark, Hervey threw
back his head and made a grimace of
joy. Exactly as he had prefigured,
this talk was going. Every card was
being played into his hand as though
his wishes were subconsciously enter-
ing and ruling the mind of the chief.
"I can't do it," he answered firmly.
"You can't? Ain't you foreman?"
"No," said Hervey, and a traee of
bitterness came into his voice. "I us-
ed to be. But you know as well as
me that I'm only a straw boss now.
Miss Marianne is running things, big
and small. Besides she pleated up
Perris. And she won't let lam go
easy I tell you!"
at do you mean by that, Her-
vey?"
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s'esa
here. I've been in the Valley so long For the only thing which he dis-
you see, that it's like a home to me."
who the devil said anything liked in her, the only thing which re-
"Andpelled him time and again, was this
about you leaving? Ain't I just now.
aeagerness of hers to have the chest -
bout to give you a note to run the
nut stallion killed. She spoke of Al -
ranch while I'm gone?"
catraz with a consuming hatred. And
"Sure you are. And I'll take rit-- Perris was a little horrified. He knew
and fire Perris. But when you come that Alcatraz had stolen away the six
back -that's the end of me!"
mares, and Marianne explained brief -
"What?"
ily and eloquently how much the re -
"You know how your daughter is.
She'll plumb hate me when I come Iturn of those mares .meant to her self
irespect 'and to the financial soundness
back with orders to run things. She'll
of the ranch. But this, after all, was
a small excuse for an ugly passion.
If he could have known that with
her own eyes she had seen the chest-
nut crush Cordova to shapelessness
and almost to death, the mystery
might have been cleared. But Mari-
anne could not refer to that terrible
memory. All she could say was that
Alcatraz must be killed -at once! And
she said it with her eyes on fire with
detestation.
Indeed, that touch of angry pas-
sion in her was the flower of Hennes
to Red Jim, keeping him from com-
plete infatuation when she sang to
him, playing her own lightly -touched
accompaniment at the piano. He had
never been entertained like this be-
fore. And when a girl sang a love
ballad and at the same time looked
at him with eyes at once serious and
laughing, he had to set his teeth and
shake himself to keep from taking
the words of the poet too literally.
out the paper, which Oliver Jordan Perhaps Marianne was going a little
snatched and smoothed on his knee.
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The walls were heawy enough to 4
the most biting cold. of winter
the most searching sun in saintlier.
And they marched, in a wide ciede carried
ing was on the SPanish-Mexidan stye. about watt):114 tellwat.
and wiking by op thean;-(1h.u.nW4teae,l'Ir': •5* ' ''
occupiers but mall &Pace and:',.'
dobe pillars, By daylight the defects
bordered with a clumsy arcade
The ouates rareboottvareztaaaaiareebill4
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around an 'interior eourt which was.i
in construction were rather too ap- ptherciers. When the angler et „ .
parent. But at night the effect wasl
imposing, almost grand. yond wading depth; he can propelat)te a
But while the cowhands smoked craft with a double paddle er attiaehr,
o the baela'cfg.'
of ov
me's forward,
in the patio, the noise of their laugh -
collapsible propellers tter and their heavy voices penetrated each leg. These butoellapospeemwhenup a
tll: 1g
no louder than the dim humming
bees to the ear of Red Jim Perris, backward motion, advancing the MliBarv,
sitting tete-a-tete with Marianne in err ,
an inner room. And he did not envy
the sprawling freedom of those out-
side.
Pretty girls had come his way now
and again during his wanderings
north and south and east and west
through the mountain deserts. But
never before had he seen one in such
a background. She had had the good
taste to make the inside of the house
well-nigh as Spanish as its exterior.
There were cool, din spaces in the
big rooms; and here and there were
bright spots of color. 'Hier very cos-
tume for the evening showed the same
discrimination. She wore drab riding
clothes. But from her own garden
she had chosen a scentless blossoni
of a kind which. Red Perris had never
seen before. The absent charm of
perfume was turned into a deeper col-
oring, a crimson intense as fire in the
darkness of her hair. That one touch
of color, and no more, but it gave
wonderful warmth to her eyes and to
her smile.
And indeed she was not sparing in
her smiles. Red Jim Perris pleased
her, and she was not afraid to show
it. To be sure, she talked of the bus-
iness before them, but she talked of
it only in scattered phrases. Other
topics drew her away. A score of
little side -issues carried her away.
And Jim Perris was glad of the di-
versions.
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think I asked for 'em."
"I'll tell her different."
"Were you ever able to convince
her, once she made up her mind?" •
"H -m -m," growled Jordan.
"And she'll never rest till things
are so hot for me that I got to get
Out. Not that I grudge it, Jordan.
I'd give up more than this job for
your sake. Only it sure makes me
homesick to think about starting out
at my time of life and riding herd
for a strange outfit."
"You ride for another outfit?" said
Jordan. "And after you've worked
this game on Perris for me? I'll tell
you what, Lew, if you get Perris safe
off the ranch you can stop worrying.
You're foreman for life! You have
my word for it."
"But suppose-" protested Hervey
faintly.
"Suppose nothing. You have my
word. Besides, Pris tired of talking."
With well -acted diffidence, Lew held
Then Hervey rode closer, lighted a
match, and held it so that the ranch -
Sr could see to write.
"Dear Marianne," scrawled the
pencil, "this is to let you know that
I have to go on business to-"
Better not tell her where," suggest-
ed Hervey. "She might send after
and ask a lot of bothersome questions.
You know the way a woman is."
"You sure got a fine head for busi-
ness, Lew," nodded Jordan, and con-
tinued his note: "to a town across the
mountains 'and it may be a few days
before I get back. I met Lew on the
road, so I'm letting him take this
note hack to you. Another thing:
I've told Lew about several things I
want done while I'm gone. Easier
than explaining them all to you, honey
he can do them himself and tell you
later.
Affectionately,"
As he scrawled the signature Her-
vey suggested softly: "Suppose you
put down at the bottom: "This will
serve as authority to Lew Hervey to
act in my name while I'm away."
"Sure," nodded Jordan, as he scrib-
bled the dictated words. "Marianne
is a stickler for form. She'll want
something like that to convince her."
He shoved the paper into the
trembling hand of Lew Hervey, arid
sighed wjth weariness.
"Chief," muttered Hervey, finding
that even in the darkness he could
not look into the tired, pain -worn
face of the rancher, "I sure hope you
never have no call to be sorry for
Lovely Skin
Vegetable Pills Did What
Creams Caaldn't
"I find (writes Miss E. T. Clapham)
that Carter's Little Liver Pills will do
more to keep the complexion dear and
the skin Tree from blemishes than all
the face creams Ihave used."
Dr. Carter's Little Liver Pills are no
ordinary.laxative. They are ALL
VEGETABLE and have a definite,
valuable tonic action upon the liver.
They end Constipation, Indigestion,
Maleness, Headaches, Acidity. All
druggists. 25c and 75c red packages.
farther than she intended. But after
all, every good woman has a tre-
mendous desire to make men happy
and handsome Jim Perris with his
straight, steady eyes and his free
laughter was such a pleasant fellow
to work with that Marianne quite for-
got moderation.
And before the evening was over,
Jim had come within a hair's breath
of plunging over the cliff and con-
fessing his admiration in terms so
outright that Marianne would have
closed up her charming gaiety as a
flower closes up its beauty and frag-
rance at the first warning chill of
night. A dozen times Red Perris
came to this alarming point, but he
was always saved by remembering
that this delightful girl had brought
him here for the purpose of -killing
a horse. And that memory chilled
Jim to the very core of his manly
heart.
Of course he knew that wild -run-
ning stallions who steal saddle stock
must he cleared from a range, and by
shooting if necessary. He would have
received such an .order from a man
and never thought the less of him, but
the command was too stern for the
sniffing lips of Marianne. To be sure,
Perris was by no means a gentle rid-
er. In fact, he rode so very hard
that only fine horses could measure
up to his demands, and who, since
the world began, has ridden many fine
horses without coming to love the en-
tire race Red Perris, at least, was
such a man, and indeed he spent
many an hour dreaming of some hap-
py day when he should find beneath
him a mount with speed like an eagle,
soul of a lion, and the gentle, trust-
ing heart of a child.
(Continued next week.)
NO MORE DISAPPOINTMENTS
"Going home!" sang Lou to herself;
"going home!" echoed the rails as she
sped along. Oh, how grateful she
was for that last-minute telephone
call which made this trip possible!
Long Distance so often saved her
from 'missing happy times.
taalxiasanti
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& lasting
flavors appeal
to taste and
help to keep
mouth fresh
And breath
sweet -the sugar sup-
plies the body fuel
that burns up excess
fat and keeps you
keen and alert.
Wrigley's is good
and good for you.
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Wingham
Belgrave
Blyth
Londesboro
Clinton
Brucefield
Kippen
Hen•sall
Exeter
North.
Exeter
Hensel'
Kippen
Brucefield
Clinton
Londesboro
Blyth
Belg-rave
Wingham
C. N. R.
East..
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Holmesville
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Seaforth
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West.
Dublin
St. Columban
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Clinton
Holmesville
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a.m.
6.45
'7.01
7.12
7.19
7.38
7.56
8.03
8.09
8.23
10.59
11.13
11.18
11.27
11.58
12.16
12.23
12.33
12.47
R.M.
6.35
6.50
6.58
7.12
7.18
7.23
11.24
11.29
11.40
11.65
12.05
12.20
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East.
p.m.
2.54
2.57
3.08
3.15
333
4.58
4.51
4.04
4.18
5.46
6.00
6.04
6.11
6.30
6.48
6.55
7.05
7.20
p.m.
2.80
2.4d
2.55
8.11
8.17
8.22
9.43
9.55
10.09
10.18
10.86
sat.
Goderich
6.59
Menset 6.5*
MeGavr
6.04
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Blyth 8.311
WMciaNltaouli6.40
ght 41,62
Toronto
1016
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Toronto
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