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The Huron Expositor, 1933-11-10, Page 7A • 4 • a it NOVEMBER 10, 1933. LEGAL Phone No. 91 JOHN J. HUGGARD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public, Etc. Beattie Block - - Seaforth, Ont. 1 . r HAYS & MEIR Succeeding R. S. Hays Barristers, Solicitors, Conveyancers and Notaries Public. Solicitors 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. se VETERINARY • JOHN GRIEVE, V.S. Honor graduate of Qntario Veterin- ary College. All diseases of domestic animals treated. 'Calls promptly at- tended to and charges moderate. Vet- erinary Dentistry a specialty. Office and residence on Goderieh Street, one door east of iii. Mackay's office, Sea - forth. A. R. CAMPBELL, V.S. Graduate of • Ontario Veterinary College, University of Toronto. All diseases of domestic animals treated by the most modern prirciples. Charges reasonable. Day or i 'tight calls promptly attended to. Office on Main Street, • Hensall, opposite Town Hall. Phone 116. Breeder of Scot- tish terriers, Inverness Kennels, Hensall. 8 MEDICAL • DR. F. J. R. FORSTER • Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Graduate in Medicine, University of Toronto. . Late assistant New York ,Opthal- mei and Aural Institute, Moorefield's Eye and ,Golden Square Throat Hos- pitals, London, Eng. At Commercial Hotel, Seaforth, third Monday in each month, from '11 a.m. to 3 rp.m. 68 Waterloo Street, South, Stratford. • DR. W. C. SPROAT Graduate of Faculty of Medicine, University of Western' Ontario, Lon- don. Member of College of Physic- ians and Surgeons of Ontario. Mee in Aberhart's Drug Store, Main St., Seaforth. Phone 90. DR. F. J. BURROWS Office and residence Goderich:Street, east of the United Church, Sea - forth. Phone 46. Coroner for the County of Huron. • • • DR.', C: MACKAY C. Mackay, honor graduate of Trin- ity University, and gold medalist of Trinity Medical College; member of the College of Physicians and Sur- geons of Ontario. DR. 11. HUGH ROSS Graduate of University of Toronto Faculty of 'Medicine, member of Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario; pass graduate course in Chicago Clinical School of Chicago; Royal Ophthalmie Hospital, London, England; University • Hospital, Lon- don, England. Office ---Back of Do- minion -Bank, Seaforth. Phone No. 5. "'Night calls answered from residence, Victoria Street, Seaforth. • t DR. S. R. COLLYER Graduate Faculty of Medicine, Uni- versity of Western Ontario. Member College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Post graduate work at New 'York City'Hospital and Victoria Hospital, London. Phone: Hensall, 66. 'Office, fling Street, Hensall. • , 1 " DR. J. A. MUNN Graduate of Northwestern Univers- ity, Chicago, Ill. Licentiate Royal College of Dental Surgeons, Toronto. Office over Sills' Hardware, Main St., Seaforth. Phone 151. . . r - DR. F. J. BECHELY Graduate Royal College of Dental Burgeons, Toronto. Office over W. R. Smith's Grocery, Main Street, Sea - forth. Phone: Office, 185W; resi- dence, 185J. 1 AUCTIONEERS OSCAR HLOPP Honor Graduate Carey Jones' Na- tional School for Auetioneering, Chi- cago. 'Special course taken in Pure Bred Lime Stock, Real Estate, Mer chandise and Farm Sales. Rates in keeping with prevailing markets. Sat ideation 'assured. Write or wire Oscar Klopp, Zurich, Ont. Phone: 2'k 119 • THE HURON E 4SITOR 011 A WESTERN ROMANCE BY CHARLES H. SNOW "But suppose Carlotta should fall in loff with the caballero?' Frons his gold he must be the ver' rich no?" "He's richer •now than he'll be to- morrow, and likely a lot better -look - in'," he growled as he suddenly. un- clasped ,his hands. As suddenly the fingers of ono hand clamped about her full, rounded throat. "What a- bout it, woman? Will you do as I say or do '1 have to choke you?" iShe did not flinch under the cruel pressure of his fingers, before the burning command in his eyes. Tears welled into hers. "'You are hurt me, Jack," she whis- pered. F'You are hurt your Carlotta." His fingers relaxed and he chuckled metallically. She flung her arms, a- bout his neck, buried her face in his gay jacket. "Damned if I know whether to trust you always or not," he mutter- ed. +'Listen to pie! I want that gold, and I don't want you to fall in love with this Ellery. df you do, somebody's pretty throat's goin' to be slit." Her eyes were moist, her lips quiv- ering as she looked up. -""Jack, eef I was the aver' bad girl, eet was because for you! I' was for see in your eyes that you want that gold, the ver' minute you feel those heavy alforjas. Come, sit down here in the 'beeg chair with your Car- lotta." (Don Cayetano was explaining how the distant forbears of El Real, the Royal, had been brought from Spain by the Conquistadores. They had been of pure Arabian strain. Fifty years before, a magnificent stallion, direct descendant of the original Ar- abians, had been brought across the long desert trail and uo the coast to Mission' Santa Barbara by Don Este- ban Esqueval, Don Cayetano's grand- father. !"In California," went on the hidal- go, "the Arabian has been crossed with the finest of the native stock, and you see the result, Don Jeem. The sire of El Aead , ees none less than the famous Rey de Monterey, that ees oWned +by- the illustrious gu•ber- nador of California, Senor Alvarado. Have you the pleasure of knowing El Gubernador?" "It is my misfortune that I do not, sub," said Ellery. "A misfortune indeed, senor. Eet was from El Gubernador that I '6b- tained this grant, ten leagues of land, which I now call. Rancho de la Linda Vista. Ees eet not a mb.gnificent view off yonder toward the distant ountains, senor, as the sun hangs low?" "Very beautifult." replied Ellery, his mind onithe horse. "Don Caye- tano, I will give you five hundred dollars for Real." Don Cayetano flung up his hands. Did not the caballero know a thor- oughbred when he saw one? Did he not knowethat a good cow -pony was worth half that much,• and that El Real was so . gentle and well broken that even a woman m'i'ght safely ride him? Ellery's journeyings had thrown him into frequent contact with men like Don •Cayetano, and he had learn- ed their innate propensity for bar- gaining. IH,e raised his offer to six hundred dollars. Don Cayetano drop- ped to nine hundred. Ten minutes later they agreed on seven hundred and fifty. Ellery was transferring his saddle to the back of the sorrel when Finney swaggered from the house. He stopped and grinned. "Wihat'd you pay for the caballo, Ellery?" " "Seven fifty." replied Ellery as he looped the latigo. "'It's all heis worth." Finney chuckled. "I see you're no tenderfoot. You know how to Jew down these Mexi- cans." • Don Cayetano spread his hands and shrugged in sad despair,• declar- ing that for the price he had made Ellery a present of the fine animal. "All the present's you make I can put in my hat," Finney declared with a grin. "I want a word with you, Cayetano." They walked some distance aside, and for a few minutes talked in low tones, after which Finney called to his men. Finney with the same feline grace, swung into his 'saddle. Rugg 'arid Hailey mounted, and the three galloped down the slope and along the lane to southward: ".They live near, Don Cayetano?" Ellery asked as he tested a stirrup. "Two leagues of my land toward the Tuolumne have I sold them; They are starting a cattle rancho." Don Cayetano shrugged wearily: "Alas, I fear I have made the gran', mis- take. They are not caballeros like yourself, Senor Ellery." CHAPTER 'III Finney and his companions had reached the foothills and were round- ing a patch of chaparral when they stales a horseman approaching. At Finney's- command the trio reined up. "It's Tex," said the red -head. The man came on at a gallop, and drew up with a flourish. He was armed like the other three, but dress- ed differently, in jeans and boots and cotton shirt. His hat was the law, flat -crowned affair of the Americans, instead of the peaked Mexican som- brero. He was tall, lean, with cold 'blue eyes and a drooping yellowish 'moustache. !"Howdy," said Finney. "Howdy, Jack," returned Tee Win- der. "How's things at the rancho?" "Muy bueno," Finney answered with a dry chuckle. "There's unex- pected piekin' there to -night, stran- ger rode in from the north, grass - !bellied with dust." Tex rolled a cigarette and puffed impassively 'while Finney told of El- lery and his gold-filled alforjas, and the .purchase of the fine horse from Don Cayetano. "(Mean to get that gold?" queried Tex. ""I'm to get it," borrectted Finney. '`'Everything's ..fixed." "I reckon as how- the girl's goin' to be of some help?" "A little," Finney chuckled. "What did you find in Columlbia, Tex?" The ♦nen dismounted., • drew the reins over the heads of their horses, and squatted on their heels !beside the trail. "The bank'll be easy," Tex said, "I got the lay of everything, and it's got plenty of dust and coin." "Damn the dust," interrupted Fin- ney. "It's too common. What we want is coin. Got time to ride back to the cabin?" "Yeah, took a pack horse load of stuff back with me. Wal, as for coin I reckon there's plenty. The town's full of • money and the mines is as rich as they ever were. Hanged if I ever seen so much .ruoney!" Without emotion Hailey suggested that it ought to be a thirty or forty thousand dollar haul. "Can't tell just how much," re- plied Tex, "but it'll be big. She's sure a , rich camp, if I know the signs." "You ought to," declared 'Finney, not without admiration for this cal- culating" lieutenant of his: "What'd you find out about that rich feller they call the colonel, and his girl?" "The colonel's there all right, and from the way it looks he's got plenty dinero, Jack. Fine lookin' old gent, too. And I saw the girl, got a line on her. •She sure likes horses, and rides about the finest I ever set eyes on, take a ride every day. just after dinner. !I met her a couple of times on the trail. She's a good-lookin' piece, quality, too." - "Damn her looks!" exclaimed Fin- ney. "What 'I want to know is does she -look like she's worth money?" Tex chuckled as he rolled another cigarette. "From what the colonel seems to think of her she's worth plenty to him.": Tex diad apparently done his reconnoitring thoroughly, and Finney was pleased with him and with the anticipation of a rich haul. "Now look here, Jack," said Rugg. "With all this dinero in sight what's the use of takin' a chance with that feller back at the rancho? If I'm, any judge that hombre's bad," Rugg ceased speaking as Finney turned a livid face upon him. "Who the hell's runnin' this' out- fit, Rugg? I. don't care a damn who that hombre back at the rancho is, or how bad he is. He's got at least ten thousand in his saddle -bags, and I need just that much dinero." "Sure, I know that," Rugg return- ed without apology, "but it'll be tak- in' a chance" "Chance, hell! You don't !:now. Carlotta. That hombre'll either be asleep or dead drunk when I see him next time. 'Boys, it'll be so easy it makes me ashamed of myself. Be- sides, I want Real, .along with his dust. !I'll always be down on Caye- tano because he wouldn't sell me that horse." Finney told little of his plan to get Ellery's gold, but enough to explain that it included ' murder if this was necessary. The sun was low over the Coast Range when he order- ed the three .men to ride on. "I'll wait here till after ,dark, and head for the rancho," he explained. "I'll be into camp by midnight. You fellers tend to the plans, and don't overlook anything." • Ellery did not have enough coin to pay for the horse, but Don Cayes, tano agreed to accept gold -dust. As there was no means of weighing the nuggets, Ellery suggested that a heaping cup of them should equal sever hundred and fifty dollars. "Bueno," agreed Don Cayetano, who knew this would be ample mea- sure. He poured the dust into a leather pouch, and was tying it when Carlotta ran from the casa. Before Ellery the girl stopped, disalipoint- ment in her eyes. • "Don Jeem, you are not going?" "I must be on my way," replied El- lery, not unmoved by her vivid beau- ty and the veiled promisein her eyes. "But where, I)on Jeem? No, no, you must not go thees night, or I will be distract. Now that peeg of a red -head ees gone, I had counted on having such a ver' fine veesit! The hospitality of Rancho Linda Vista ees all yours, for the asking. But say the word you will stay, and a feast I will order, ees eet not verdad, padre mio?" "Him have"' told many times that our casa is his casa," said Don Cay- etano, "and I am grieved that he will not at least spend the night with us, Carlotta." She came closer, touched Ellery's arms. There was more than a plea now in her half-closed eyes, her red lips. • l''You are not ver' gallant to Car- lotta," she said with a litle pout. "Ees eet all senoritas you treat like thees, man of stone with no fire in heel heart?" "You are very. pretty, Carlotta," Ellery said, stiffening' his muscles to resist the trembling of her hands, the appeal and promise of her eyes, '(but I have urgent,'business' ahead." (Don Cayetano reiterated his invi- tation, but Ellery was abd'urate, though it took all his will power to refuse, for he was tired and he was not unconscious of the gir'l's charm. "You have forgotten the red-head- ed caballero," he suggested with a smile that crinkled the tiny crow- feet at the corners of his eyes. "Un- less d am mistaken he will be very jealous if I remain. I have heard much of the anger of love -smitten amen •with red hair, senorita." She tilted her head as if to see him better in the declining rays of the sun. Her eyes flashed. "Pouf!" She snapped her tapered fingers. "That do I care for el red- head! !Ile ees much less as nada to Carlotta, Don Jeem. Please stay, jus' for to -night. Eef you do not, leetle Carlotta will be the ver' lonesome senorita, ver' lonesome!" Ellery seemed hesitating, and she took full advantage of his vacillation. To her guile 'Don Cayetano again added his hospitable invitation. "Bueno," acce,pted.;, Ellery, "but first I must try out my beautiful caballo. I have not yet tried him under a saddle, 'and he may be no better than a sheep, senorita." "If a sheep he ees, ten times your gold you shall have 'back, senor." Don Cayetano declared haughtily. "I will wager el rancho that you will say never a finer -caballo did you have under you!" 'Carlotta's hands stole up Ellery's arms, caressed his cheeks and there was half -tearful disappointment in her eyes when he did not bend his head to meet her inviting lips. He put her gently but firmly away, and was striding to his horse when she cried, impetuously: "But wait, Don Jeem! Alone you must not go." With a leap she was at the side of one of the grinning peons. She slap- ped the swarthy youth across the face. t"Pedro, lazy son of a sow, La Reina! Pronto, lest I have you lash- ed!" !Half knocked from his balance, Pedro regained it and ran toward the long adobe stable where •the finer horses 'were kept. He was closely followed by the other peon. Carlotta turned to Ellery. "Don Jeem, alone I must not let you ride. 'You must see La Reina. She ees won'erful, but 000h, not so won'erful as'your El Real. Car•ain a no!" Carlotta ran into the house, and by the time the peons were leading her saddled horse up the knell she had reappeared. At first glance El- lery did not recognize her. She had on mauve charro trousers with lines of silver conchas down their outer seams, and a flaming jacket embroid- ered in gold thread. A silken scarf of brilliant yellow was ,about her throat. •Her blue -black hair was hid- den under a small so'mbrer'o, the peak and band of which were orna- mented with silver filagree. She stop- ped before Ellery and her father, and bowed ]ow. "Un fine muchacho I 'am, Don Jeem, no?" "You certainly are!" Ellery declar- ed. "I never saw a prettier one." "Carlotta!" cried her father. "A brazen hoyden you are, girl. But, Lord, how I love you! It ill becomes a daughter of Don 'Cayetano to act thus. (Have you no shame?" "Por Dios, padre mio, shame I have, of course, but you will not deny, me the leetle fun, no? Perhaps eef Don Jeem, he sdes I am only a good looking boy, he will not be so bash- ful, and will consent to remain for the night with us. Ees that not verdad, Don Jeem?" "I told you I would stay for the night, senorita," Ellery was looking at the approaching horse. "Bueno! Bueno!" cried 'Carlotta. "Such hospitality you will find at Rancho Lindh Vista! Padre, will you tell old Felipa to prepare a gran' feast?" At first Ellery thought the horse was a twin of the one he had bought. Then he noted that the sleek coat was a shade darker, and the animal was a mare and not a gelding. "La media hermana she ees to El Real," said Don Cayetano, "and un ano older, 'senor." 'The girl gave the mare a caress and swung into- the silver ornament- ed saddle. "Lista, Don Jeem?" she queried eagerly. "I'm ready, senorita. Hasta luego, Don Cayetano." F.11er^y had touched the stirrup when the girl cried out: "The gold, Don Jeem? It will be safe with mi padre," Ellerydid not pause his graceful awing into the saddle. 1"I shall take the gold. I want to see how Real travels under a full load. 1 often ride heavy." The girl reined down the 'souther- ly side of the knoll in the direction Finney and his men had taken, but Ellery called to her. "Dispenseme, senorita. but I think we shall ride this way." He reined in the opposite direction. ' She clat- tered up beside hint and they rode down the slope and out the short lane between the patches of beans and chili, and on to the open plain, which now the slanting sun was lighting until in the far distance it shone orange -♦blue and opalescent. A man less wary than Jim Ellery would have been intrigued, persuaded by the soft splendour of the scene, the vivid creature beside him. There was a little smile playing about the ends of his mouth as he turned to her. "You are very 'beautiful, Carlotta." "Theenk you really so, Don Jeem?" "I am sure of it, but are you as smart as you are pretty?" "Something like suspicion flashed into her eyes. Her delicately round- ed shoulders moved in a slight shrug. "Quien sabe, Don Jeem? Women are never what you call clever, no? Men do not like them that way." "What about a race?" he demand- ed. "An ounce of gold Real can dis- tance that conejo you ride." "Rabbit you call My beautiful Reina? Bah! That ees but a crip- pled mote you yourself ride, Don Jeem." -They-were off, at first in an even canter with reins held tight. Then as the reins slackened the magnifi- cent animals stretched out, side by side, supple muscles working rhyr'th- mically. Faster, faster they went, till the plain seemed to slide under them like a !brown carpet. The girl leaned slightly forward. 'The wind dragged a tendril of her bluedblacrk hair from under the silver ornamented hat. She turned toward Ellery, who was riding as though he were integral with horse and saddle. "Won'erful you ride, Don Jee'm!" she cried. "Beit thees ees not run- ning.. Spurs you must put to that crippled coyote, or. 'behind you will be lost" Then she flashed ahead, but instantly Ellery's mount stretched his stride, quickened it. Over the dry turf they flew now, straight into the north, where brown plain and azure sky met. Try as he would, Ellery could not gain a neck. Ply silvered spurs as she would, Carlotta could not draw away. 'The animals were of a size, and Ellery..saw that the girl had the ad- vantage, with her lighter weight. Not since he had left Kentucky had he so thrilled with the appreciation, of good horseflesh. The lure of a race had been born into his blood as much: as the instinct to love fine horses. Half a mile they ran into the north. Then Ellery (began swerving in a wide arc toward the foothills. Carlotta was quick to see the change of course and reined in abreast. Ellery's spurs touched gently. The gelding .respond- ed so quickly that before she could realize it, Carlotta was three lengths behind. Now she rode as she had not ridden before, but the gap slow- ly widened as the two reaching an- imals flashed across the plain. The ground was gently rising toward the chaparral -covered foothills when El- lery reined up, stopped. The girl slid the mare to her haunches be- side him. "Por Dios!" she panted. Her face was glowing. "Like el diablo heem- self do you ride, Don Jeem! Never before have •I seen such a caballero. For your riding alone I could Toff you!" "You're all right as a rider, Car- lotta," he told 'her, "but when it comes to acting, you're a poor ex- cuse." "Don Jeem! What mean you? Are you make fun of me?" "I ought to laugh, Carlotta, but it wouldn't be the right thing." "Am I that funny you must laugh, Don .Teem?" Then with one of her quick changes of mood she spurred in close. Her knee touched his, her hands dropped upon his, which rest- ed on the pommel. "You are not the fun make of leetle Carlotta, who loff you. Don Jeem, so ver', very' mucho, no?" Tears glistened on her long, curved lashes. "Listen to me, muchacho, and lis- ten well," Ellery command in a tone that made her draw back. "You're as easy to see through as a pane of glass. I am not, riding back to the rancho. You can offer my regrets to your kind. father, and tell him! I ant more than satisfied with Real." "Back to el rancho you are not go- ing, Don Jeem?" "That's right!" "But portl'ue? Ees eet something Carlotta has done which has offend?" He caught her wrist in a grasp that made her wince, and when he epoke his voice was hard: "If I go back to the rancho, I'll be a dead man before the sun rises again. 'Why, damn your cunning.lit- tle brain, Carlotta, I saw through your scheme the minute you first' jumped up and ran to me there under the oaks. There vt-as much in the flash of an eye that passed between you and, Senor Finney -,as you call him. Haganie el favor to• tell Senor Finney the next time you are in his arms. that Jim Ellery is as had a bandit as he ever dreamed of being, and that I have shot and robbed more men than all his gang combined." "Don Jeem'!" she whispered. "I was knowbyou were ver' bad man, that was why I loff you so from.'the first! Ah, Carlotta she knew you were worse as el diablo heemself. Corazon, ride back to el rancho with Carlotta and she will prove to y.pu she ees ver' syrmatica. Please, Don Jeem!" •Her pleading, baffled eyes caught no hint of yielding in his. She jerked away. tossed her head. "So? You scorn the loff at Car- lotta?" she cried fiercely. ".A day will come-" "I wouldn't gine one hair out ,•of this horse's' fail for all your love, Carlotta(' he said coldly. "Take your love back to Senor Finney and tell him, with my compliments, .to go to hell!" On all Rancho Linda Vista there was not a vaquero or a mozo who had a better command of profance invective than Carlotta. Now a tor- rent of it was welling to her lips when Ellery- touched spurs to his home and was away up the slope to- ward the chaparral. Like a dull yel- low flash the girl's mate was off in pursuit, but she reined her in and sat tense, baffled, until horse and rider had disappeared in the brush. It was ten minutes before Carlotta turned to ride slowly back to the rancho, heart -heavy and sombre, for the strange part of it was that she did love .Tim. Ellery, -and with all the hot, unreasoning impetuosity bf her savage nature. Sadly, yet with de- fiance, she wondered what she was going to tell Finney. "Ver' angry the red one will be," she told herself with a mirthless lit- tle laugh. "Already he could feel hees feengairs on the gold of Don Jeem." Afar, aver the summits of the Coast Range, the setting sun was painting the crests of the cloud masses in orange and crimson and gold. The shadow deepened on the plain and out of the south a cold wind came, chilling a little more the blood which only a short while ago had run so hot in Carlotta's veins. She was slumped in her saddle, a de- jected little 'figure, as she slowly made her way homeward. !".A *Oa' plan iC yy sQne4 ' u Jim was, 'Y 4au36iterr'' • 14e+ 664tj Spanish. "A wise 'Man it 044 10 who knows a 'good .horse, anti 114,a mach !gold, It is the we,y of these• Americans to treasune their gold, 'tea, as nvuch as they treasure ' then worthless lives. Woe to us for the day they ever set font in this bean, tiful country, which was all ease and peace and happiness until they came. He spread his hands wide. "Now what is it?" "You speaks like an old man who is afraid," sneered the angry girl. "I am not old. Neither azn I frightened," 'Don Cayetano said sad- ly, "but it is hard for a man who has been reared a gentleman to be otherwise, even when necessity forc- es him to (become the consort of vile men wha are not of• his own race, any dear." ICarlotta was chagrined, more at having her love spurned than at the loss of the gold Ellery had carried. She ran past her father into the big house, where she proceeded to vent her anger upon the criadas for not having supper on the table. A .chill wind was sucking down from the hills, and the night was black except for the scintillating stars when Finney approached Ran- cho Linda Vista. Instead of riding •boldly up the knoll, he left his horse behind an adobe at its foot, remov- ing his spurs, and hitched up the belt that held his knife and gun. This was a night for a knife. At his right two guitar's tinkled, and some peons were singing. Peace seemed to hover over Rancho Linda Vista, but there was no peace in Finney's heart, and even less in the heart of prettya•Car- lotta. The girl, who for an hour had waited on the bench under the oaks, rose as she made out the familiar figure approaching. "Jack!" she called softly. The figure stopped, searched the gloom. "Well ?" "Eet ees tl', 'Carlotta." She ran to meet him, would have thrown her- self into his arms had he not thrust her back. "Where's the hombre with the gold?" he demanded in a savage whisper. "Por Dios, Jack, he ees gone!" "Gone? What the hell?" -With trembling lips she told the story, a story replete with humilia- tion and confessions of her own un- worthiness, while her hands crept out in vain attempt to sense his.for- giveness. He grasped her shoulders, shook her. "Damn you!" he hissed. "I ought to slit your throat for you, Car- lotta! You haven't the brains of a jack rabbit." In a flasti her mood changed. She squirmed from under his ' hands, s,prarig "back, faced him with eyes that gleamed, even in the gloom. "Let him get. away I did not, Jack! He went: went, went!" Her voice rose shrilly-. "He went, though I tried with all my heart, all my soul to keep heem. Don Jeem ees un ver' wise, ver' mal hombre, when he will not let leetle Carlotta make her Toff to heem." "`Well, he's gone, and there's no use grievin' over spilt milk." he growled profanely. "What's this you say about him 'bein' bad?" "He ees tell me for tell you, Jack," she managed to wriggle into his lax embrace, "that he ees keel more men as you and all , your mal hom- bres!" "Killed more men?" -The reheated. "I don't sabe, girl. You think-" "He ees un mal hombre. thees Don Teem. Do you not recall now that he had a wise look, a ver' hard look, in hees eyes?" The devil -play -care look was hack' in Ellery's.eyes, and. the grin on his face seemed ready to break into a chuckle as he reined up on ,an open slope and gazed at the darkening plain across which a solitary rider was travelling. "She's one mad girl." he said aloud, "But Carlotta, you work's so damned crude a cock-eyed man could see through it, Unless I'm a liar, Ran- cho Linda Vista is little more than a thieves' nest. But I'll say one thing for Don Cayetano. He raises good horses." Ellery stroked the sleek neck of his Mount, wondering vaguely what the color of it was. He decided that it was about the shade of strong cof- fee with plenty of rich cream in it. There came to him the realization that his love for fine horses was sec- ond .only to that for a woman -the right woman.' He wondered if he would ever, find a girl that suited him for a wife as this magnificent horse suited him for a mount. When he found her would she be like Carlotta. vivid. hold. primitive, almost savage in her passions and desires and cunning? He rode on. The night dropped about him.. As the chill wind met his face he took his coat from hack of the cantle and buttoned it about him. CHAPTER IV At the sound of hoofs Don Caye- tano came from the, case. Carlotta swung from the saddle and tossed, the reins to a mozo. '"Por Dios!" cried Cayetano. "Where is el Americano?" r"Puerco!" Carlotta said fiercely. "The dog, he would not leesten to .me. He lied! II am ver' glad he ees gone!" !Something like a smile of grim satisfaction played across Don Caye- tano's aristocratic face, but it wase twilight under the oaks and hid daughter did not see it!'' - As he had ridden up to Rancho Linda Vista, Ellery's plan had been to purchase the hest horse Don Cay- etano had, and then head west for Altamont or Pacheco pass, and ride on to San Francisco. Now his plan was definitely changed. He had made a discovery, a discovery which must be reported to the officers at Sonora or Columbia. What his plans might he after this Ellery did not know. Life to him was a good deal like a story, unfolding. developing as it is written, and often stopping where roads branched, leaving the puzzled writer undecided for a time as to which branch to take. Ellery was not perturbed, not im- patient. For years he had wanted to visit the famous camps of the Southern Mines., Perhaps after he had Peen them he would ride to San Francisco, have his fling, and head hack to the Northern Mines which had been so generous with him. This was a new country tb him, and in the dark a somewhat baffling one. Real kept trying to head !back toward the great valley. It was a region of chaparral, of wide swales and grassy ridges ever lifting toward the black slopes of the Sierras. A- cross it Ellery rode, slowly, for it was no ®.place for speed and he had no desire. to ride fast. He kept his direction by the stars and the valley behind him and the black slopes a- head. (ContiMied neiit week.) Rireese.b0p4094 A . F tIR4.R 64814 .GE.pN4y a• -ONE MfL+14TF 40.IS'OF wee eatteittal • SPACE.. The Farm Horne Well ' The importance of a pure, whole- some water supply on every farm home cannot be too eften . or too' strongly stressed. The appearance of water.,is no reliable index of its sani- tary quality. This can be determined only through bacteriological examina- tion, and it is recommended that, be- fore the quality of a 'well be taken for granted, an examination be made. Many public health laboratories and; agricultural institutions, as well as the Division of Bacteriology of the Dominion Department of Agriculture conduct such tests. Application, therefore, should be made to the near- est laboratory in order that examina- tion may be as prompt as possible. Italian Bees Superior In the experimental work of the Bee Division at the Central Experi- mental Farm, Ottawa, during the past year Italian bees again proved su- perior to the 'Caucasions. As in pre- vious years,, the addition of package bees to a weak over -wintered colony increased the yield of honey, but not sufficiently to pay for the bees added. In using a syrup of white sugar and water as winter stores for bees it was found that the addition of tar- taric acid, or ten per cent. of honey, is not necessary if all the sugar cry- stals are thoroughly dissolved Unprofitable Fertilizers When fertilizers are of low grade, of poor balance, or of too many brands, says the Maritime Fertilizer ' Council, they may' be unprofitable both to.ehe buyer and the seller. To rem- edy this, the Council recommends that the number of brands ,mafiufac- tured.for use be reduced to ten. The manufacture of numerous small batches of fertilizer of different an- alyses adds materially to manufac- turing costs, the Council says, and is really unnecessary because only a few formulae are required to cover soil and crop needs. No complete fertilizer should be marketed which contains less than 16 per cent. of plant food, exemplified by a 2 (nit- rogen) -10 (phosphoric acid -4 (po- tash) formula. Breeder Geese in Winter !During winter, breeding geese should be fed all the clover or alfalfa hay and roots they will eat, says the Dominion Poultry Husbandman, .but grain should ,be fed sparingly (just a light feed morning and night). With regard to the grain, dependence. should be placed largely on the coarse grains like oats'" and barley, only en- ough wheat and corn being allowed to add variety to the ratios.. As laying time approaches, a light mash may be added and when the geese are laying fully, the mash feed may be increased. LONDON AND WINGHAM South. Wingham Belgrave Blyth` Londesboro Clinton Brucefield Kippen Hensall Exeter Exeter Hensall Kippen Brucefield Clinton North. Londesboro Blyth Belgrave Wingham C. N. R. Bast. P.M. 1.55 2.11 2.23 2.30 3.08 3.27 3.35 3.41 3.55 A.M. 10.42 10.55 11.01 11.09 11.54 12:10" 12.19 12.30 12.50 A.M. P.M. Goderich 6.45 2.30 Clinton 7.08 3.00 Seaforth 7.22 3.18 Dublin 7.33 3.31 Mitchell 7.42 3.43 West. Dublin .... Seaforth Clinton Goderich , 11.19 9.32 11.34 9.45 11.50 9.59 12.10 1025 C. P. R TIME TABLE East. A.M. Goderich 5.50 Menset 5.55 McGaw 6.04 Auburn 6.11 Blyth t 6.25 Walton 6.40 McNaught 6.52 Toronto 1025 West. A.M. Toronto . 7.40 McNaught ... 11.48 Walton 12.01 Blyth 12.12 Auburn 12.23 McGaw 12.34 Menset 12.41 Goderich 12,46 • hr,