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The Huron Expositor, 1931-06-26, Page 7'tl E s .1 1901;. INTL= SPECIALIST Rupune, Varicocele, Varicos . vein., Abdominal Weakness, SpinalDeform- III,Conau'ltation free. Galt or Write. J. G. SMITH, British Appli- ance Speeialists, 15 Downie St., Stmt. ford, Ont. '. 3202-52 LEGAL f r!. Phone No. 91 JOHN J. HUGGARD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public, Etc. Seattle Block - - Seaforth, Ont. R. S. HAYS Bairister, Solicitor, Conveyancer and Notary Pubic. Solicitor for the Dominion Bank. Office in rear of .the Dominion Bank, Seaforth. Money to loan. BEST & BEST Barristers, Solicitors, Conveyan- cers and Notaries Public, Etc. Office In the Edge Building, opposite The Expositor Office. VETERINARY JOHN GRIEVE, V.S. Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin- aary� College. All disease of domestic en maaIs treated. Calls promptly at- tended to and charges moderate. Vet- erinary Dentistry a specialty. Office and residence on Goderich Street, one door east of Dr. Mackay's office, Sea- forth- " A. R. 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Phone 802. a OSCAR KLOPP , , Honor Graduate Carey Jones' Na- tional School for Auctioneering, Chi- cago. Special course taken in Pure Bred Live Stock, Real. Estate, Mer- erchandise and Farm Sales. R+atea in chandise keeping with prevailingmarket. Sat. jsfaction assured. Write or wire, Oiear Klapp, Zurich, Ont.. Phone: 13-98. 2 R. T. LUKER Licensed auctioneer for the Oounty d2 Huron. Sales attended o in all Darts of the county, Servererre' ex- peaience in Manitoba and Saakatcho- wan. Teams reasonable. Phone No. N�1o..i 1.115 Orders lefttaat The P.O.,urroEz- ttr Office, Seaforth, promptly rr. ti ry; ALCATRA By Max Brand ti (Continued from last week) "Please be quiet and let me handle this affair," said the girl. "As a matter of fact, it's ended. If you won't take the money from Mr. Her- vey, I'll pay it to you myself. How much?" "Nothing," said Red Perris. "Are you going to give me an ex- ample of wounded virtue?" cried Marianne, white with contempt. He was as pale as she, and taking off his hat he began to dent and re - dent its four sides. The girl, looking at that red shock of hair and the low- ered eyes, guessed for the first time that he was suffering an agony of humiliation. Half of her anger in- stantly vanished and remembering her passion of the moment before•+ she began to wonder what she had said. In the meantime, shrugging his shoul- ders with a forced indifference, Her- vey crossed the patio and she was a- ware that he was received in silence —no murmurs of congratulation for the manner in which he had borne himself during the interview. "I got to ask you to gimme about two minutes of listening, Miss Jor- dan. Will you do it?" "At least I won't stop you. Say what you please, Mr. Perris." She wished heartily that she could have spoken with a little show of re- lenting but she had committed her- self to coldness. In her soul of souls she wanted to bid him take a chair and tell her frankly all about it, as- sure him that after a moment of blind anger she had never doubted his straightforward desire to serve her. He began to speak. "It's this way. come out here to shoot a hoss, and I've worked toler- able hard to get in rifle range. I guess Hervey has been say'in'g' that I've got into shooting distance a doz- en times but it ain't true. He hap- pened to be sneaking about to -day, and he saw Alcatraz come • close by me for the first time." He paused. "I'll give you my word on that." "You don'•t need to," said the girl, impetuously. His eyes flashed up at her, at that, and he stood suddenly straight as though she had given him the right to stop cringing and talk like a man. What on earth, she wondered, could have forced the man to such humil- ity? It made her shrink as one might on seeing an eagle cower be- fore a wren. As for Perris, his re- sentment was in no wise abated by her friendliness. She had given him some moments of torture and the memory of that abasement would haunt him many a day. He mutely vowed that she should pay for it, and went on: "I sure wanted to sing when I caught Alcatraz in the sights. I pulled a bead on him just behind the shoulder but I could see the muscles along his shoulders working and it was a pretty sight, Miss Jordan." She nodded, frowning in the intent- ness with which she followed him. She had thought of him as one witl>, the careless, mischievous soul of a child but now, in quick, deep glances, she reached to profounder things. "I held the ;bead," he kept repeat- ing, his glance going blankly past her as he struggled to find words for the strange experience, "but then I saw his ribs going in and out. He was big where the cinches would run, you see, and I began to understand where he got that wind of his that never gives out. Besides, I somehow got to thinking about his heart under the ribs, lady, and I figured it kind of low to stop all the life in him with a bul- let. So i slung my bead up along his neck—he's got a long neck and that means a long stride—till I came plump on his head, and just then swung his head and gave me a look." He breathed deeply and then: "It was like jumping into cold water all of a sudden. I felt hollow inside, And then all at once I knew they'd never been a hose like him in the mountains. I knew he was an outlaw. I knew he was plumb bad. But I knew he was a king, lady, and I couldn't no more shoot him that I could lie behind a bush and shoot a man." He was sud- denly on fire. "Looked to ire like he was my hoss. Like he'd been planned for me. I want- ed him terrible bad, the way you want things when you're a kid—the way you want Christmas the day be- fore, when it don't seem like you copld wait for to -morrow." "But -hers a man -killer, Mr. Per- ris. I've seen it!" • His hand went out to her and she listened in utter amazement while he pleaded with all his heart in his voice. "Lemme have a chance to make him my hoss, murders or not! Lemme stay here on the ranch and work, be- cause they's no other good place for hunting bin. I know you want them mares, but some day I'll get my rope on him and then I swear I'll break him or he'll break me. I'll break him, ride him to death, or he'll pitch me off and finish me liked he finished Cordova. But I know I can handle him. I sure feel it inside of me, lady! Pay? I don't want pay! I•'ll work for nothing. If I had a stake, I'd give it to you for a chance to keep on trying for him. r know I'm ask- ing a pile. You want the mares and you can get them the minute Alcatraz is dropped with a bullet -41)1A I tell you straight, he's worth all of 'em— ail six and more!" A light came over his face. "Miss Jordan, Iensme stay on and try my luck and if I get him and break hien, Pll turn him over to you. And I tell you: he's the wind on four feet." 'You'll do all this and then give him to me when he's gentled and broken—if that can be done? Then why do you want him?" "I want to shim' him that he's got a master. IHWWS played with me and plumb fooled me all these weeks. I want to get on him and show him he's beat." His fierce joy in thought was contagious. "d want to make him turn •yv'hen I pull on the reins. have him start when I want to start and stop When I want to stop. I'll make him glad when I talk soft to him and shake when I talk hard. Ile's made a fool of me; Pll make a fool and a show of him. Lady, will you say yes?" He had swept her off her feet and with a mind full of a riot of imag- inings—the frantic stallion, the cling- ing rider, the struggle for superiority —she breathed: "Yes, yes! A thou- sand times yes—and good luck, Mr. Perris." He tossed his arms above his head and cried out joyously. "Lady, it's more'n ten years of life to me!" "But wait!" she said, suddenly a- ware of Hervey; lingering in the back- ground. "I haven't the power to let you stay. It's Mr. Hervey who has authority while my father is away." The lips of Red Jim twitched to a sneering malevolence mingled• with gloom. "It's up to him?" he echoed. "Then I might of spared myself all of this talk:" It would all be over in a moment. The foreman would utter the refusal. Red Perris would be in his saddle and bound towards the mountains. And that thought gave 'Marianne sudden insight into the fact that the Valley of the Eagles would be a drear, lone- ly place without Red Jim. "You don't know • Mr. Hervey," she broke in before the foreman could speak for himself. "He'll !bear no malice to you. 'He's forgotten that squabble over—" "Sure I have," said Lew Hervey. "I've forgotten all about it. But the way I figure, Miss Jordan, is that Perris is like a chunk of dynamite on the ranch. Any day one of the boys may run into him and there'll be a killing. They're red-hotagainst him. They might start for him in a gang one of these days, for all I know. For his own sake, Perris had better leave the Valley." iHle had advanced his argument cun- ningly enough and by the way Mari- anne's eyes grew large and her color changed, he knew that he had made his point. "Would they do that?" she gasped. "Have we such men?" "I dunno," said Lew. "He sure rode 'em hard that morning." "Then go," cried Marianne, turning eagerly to Red Jim. "For heaven's sake, go at once! Forget Alcatraz— forget the mares—but start at once. Mr, Perris." Even a blind roan might have guess- ed many things from the tremor of her voice. Lew Hervey saw enough to make his eyes contract to the brightness of a ferret's as he glanced from the girl to handsome Jim Per- ris. But the red-headed adventurer was quite blind, quite deaf. No mat- ter how the thing had been done, he knew that the girl and the foreman were now both combined to drive him from the ranch, from Alcatraz. For a moment of blind anger he wanted to crush, kill. destroy. Then he turn- ed on his heel and strode towards the arch which led into the patio. "Mind you!" called Lew Hervey in warning. "It's on your own head, Perris. If you don't leave, Pll thro you off!" Red Jim flashed about under the shade •of the arch. "Come get me, and he damned," he said. And then he was gone. The cow- punchers, furious at this open defi- ance of them all, boiled out into the patio, growling. "You see?" said Hervey to the girl. "He won't be satisfied till there's a killing!" "Keep them hack!" she pleaded. "Don't let them go, Mr. Hervey. Don', let them follow him!" One sharp, short order from Her- vey stopped the foremost as they ran for thedentrance. In fact, not one of them was peculiarly keen to follow such a trail as this in the darkness. Breathless silence fell over the patio, and then they heard the departing beat of the hoofs of Red's horse. And the shock of every football struck home in the heart of Marianne and filled her with a great loneliness and terror. And then the noise of the gallop died away in the far-off night. bred mares but though he lived to fifty years he would never approach the stored wisdom, the uncanny a- cuteness of eye, ear and nostril of the wild grey. Her view -point seem- ed, at times, that of the high -sailing buzzards, for she guessed, miles and miles away, what water -holes were dry and what "tanks" brimmed with water; and what trails were broken by landslides since they had last been travelled and where new trails might be found or made; when it was wise to seek shelter because a sand- storm was brewing; where the grass grew thickest and most succulent on far-off hillsides; and so on and on the treasury of her knowledge could be delved in inexhaustibly. On only one point did he feel that his cleverness might rival hers and that point was the . most important of all—man the Great Destroyer. She knew him only from a distance where- as had not Alcatraz breathed that dreaded scent close at hand? Had he not on one unforgetable occasion felt the soft flesh turn to pulp be- neath his, stamping feet, and heard the breaking of belies? His nostrils distended at the memory and again he searched the lowlands. No, there was not a shadow of a place where man might be concealed and that scent could be nothing but a snare and an illusion. To be sure there were other ways hardly less convenient to the waterhole, but why should he be turned from the easiest way day after day because of this un - bodied warning? He started down the slope. It brought the grey after him, neighing wildly, but though .she cir- cled around him at full speed time after time, he would not pause, and when she attempted to block him he raised his head and pushed her away with the resistless urge of breast and shoulders. At that she attempted no more forceful persuasion but fell in behind him, still pausing from time to time to send her mournfully per- suasive whinny after the obdurate leader until even the bays, usually so blindly docile, grew alarmed and fell back to a huddled grouping half way between Alcatraz and the trailing grey. It touched his pride sharply, this division of their trust. Twice he slackened his lope and called to them to hasten and when they responded with only a faint-hearted trot he waa forced to mask hi impatience. Com - propped imaginary 'to time and so in- ing to a walk he grasses from ti4 duced the others to draw nearer. It was slow work going down the hollow in this way, and hot work, too, but though he often glanced up yearningly towards the wooded hills beyond, he keptto his pretense of carelessness and so managed. to hold the mares in a close -bunched group behind him. In the meantime the scent grew stronger, closer to the ground on that east wind. Time and again he raised his head and stared earnestly, but it was impossible for any living creature to stalk within hundreds of yards of him without be- ing seen—whereas that scent spoke of one almost within leaping distance. Once it seemed to his excited imagin- ation—as he lowered his head to sniff at a tuft of dead grasses—that he heard the sound of human breathing. He snorted the foolish thought into nothingness and after a glance back to make sure that his companions followed, he resolutely steeped out in- to the very heart of the man -scent.. eo closely was that phantom located by the sense of smell that it seemed to Alcatras he could see the exact spot on me hillside behind a small rock where the ghost must lie. Yet he dist-lei/lei to flee from empty air and for art his beating heart he rais- ed his head and walked sedately on. The danger spot was drifting past .•n hi; left v l:rn a squeal of fear from the wile giey far in the rear made Alcatraz leap sidewise with cat -like suddenness, CHAPTER XVII INVISIBLE DANGER Alcatraz, cresting the hill, warned the mares with a snort. One by one the bays brought up their beautiful heads to attention but the grey, as was her custom in moments of crisis or indecision, trotted forward to the side of the leader and glanced over the rolling lands below. Her decision was instant and decisive. She shook her head and turning to the side, she started down the left slope at a trot. Alcatraz called her back with another snort. He knew, as well as she did, the meaning of that faint odor on the east wind: it was man, unmistak- ably the great enemy; but during five days that scent had hung steadily here and yet, over all the miles which he could survey there was no sign of a man . nor any places where man could be concealed. There was not a tree; there was' not a fallen log there was not a stump; there was not a rock of such ,respectable dimen- sions that even a rabbit would dare to seek shelter behind • it. Still, mys- teriously, the scent of man was there Alcatraz stamped with impatience and when the grey whinnied he mere- ly ahook his head angrily 1r answer It irritated him to have her always right, always cautious, and besides he felt •somewhat shamed by the neces- sity of uing her as a court of last appeal. To be sure, he was a keener judge of the sights and scents of the znoiitttain desert than any of the half Crowing by magic from the sand Lehind the little rock 'he head and shoulders of a man a;rpeared, his shadow pouring down the sun -whit- ened slope. In his hand he swung a rapidly lengthening loop of rope and as his arm went back it knocked off the fellow's hat and exposed a shock of red hair. So much Alcatras saw while the paralysis of fear locked ev- ery joint for the tenth part of a sec- ond, and deeply as he dreaded the ap- parition itself he dreaded more the whipping circle of rope. For had he not seen the dead thing become alive and snakelike"in the skilled hand of Manuel Cordova? The freezing ter- ror relaxed; the sand crunched away under the drive of his rear hoofs as he flung himself forward—with firm footing to aid he would have slid from beneath the flying danger, but as it was he heard the live rope whis- per in the air above his head. He landed on stiff legs, checked his forward impetus and flung sidewise. On solid footing he would have dodg- ed successfully; as it was the noose barely clipped past his ear. As the rope touched his neck, it seemed to Alcatraz that every wound dealt him by the hand of man was suddenly aching and bleeding the skin along his banks . revered where the spurs of Cordova rad driv- en home time and again, anon shoul- ders and belly and hips ere were burning stripes where , e quirt had raised its wale. Mos- orrible of all, in hid' mouth cavae e taste of iron and his own blo where the Spanish bit had wrenc his jaws apart. Out of the old d: ,ys he might have re- membered' the first and ,bitterest les- soneathat it is folly to pull against a rope—but now he saw nothing save the fleeing forms of the seven mares and his own freedom vanishing with them. In his mid -leap the lariat hummed taut, sank in a burning cir- cle into the fleck at the .base of his neck, and he was flung to the ground. Th Never befoie has so InaOh. car Va beelq lalel su... at so small a cost. Never et, power, suchperfol ante, such comfort. 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MADE IN CANADA CHARLES BARNETT SEAFORTH No man's power could have stopped him so short; the cunning enemy had turned a half-hitch around the top of that deep-rooted rock. He landed, not inert, but shocked out of hysteria into all his old cun- ning—that wily savagery which had kept Cordova in fear, ten -fold more terrible since the free life had cloth- ed him with his full strength. "The very impetus of this fall he used to onIMIMIV help him whirl to his feet, and as he rose he knew what he must do. To struggle against the tools of man was always madness and brought .only pain as a result; like a good general he deteprined to end the battle by getting at the "root of the enemy's fire, and wheeling on his hind legs he charged Red Perris. (Continued next week.) Blink and Wink—Scientist says that an eyelid travels 144 miles yearly in a million blinks. We've known a sin- gle wink go farther than that—Nia- gara Falls Review. The Sleepless Habit—A weather- beaten tramp asked what was the mat-. ter with his coat, replied, "Insomnia. It hasn't had a nap for ten years!"— Kingston (Ont.) Reporter. ver..p ass a car on a hill... or curve Experienced drivers of motor cars have learned that there is one rule of the road which cannot be violated without danger to life and limb ... these seasoned drivers always keep in line when the road ahead is obscured. Hill tops and curves are blind spots on the highway. You can't see what is coming toward your ... and there's almost always sure to be another car coming around the curve or over the hill. The one safe rule is to stay on your side of the road ... the right. side. Every time you take a chance that the road ahead may be clear, you jeopardize your own safety and the approaching motorist may be made an innocent victim of your carelessness ... surely a heavy price to pay in conscience and cash. ter all you can observe the "Hill and Curve rule" for a whole s:r son without losing as much as sixty minutes' time all told .. . by not?" ON I ARIO DEPARTMENT of HIGHWAYS . GE,• S. HENRY, PREMIER Of ONTARIO AND MINISTER Of HIGHWAYS Pt r iv