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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., NOVEMBER 8, 1945 SALADA DARK LIGHTNING HELEN TOPPING MILLER CHAPTER V Instantly, old Hughey extricated himself from the confusion of his bedding. His sunken, dead-black eyes began to gleam. He clawed at Gary's arm, jerked him inside, and slammed the door. "Don't let none of them folks around hear you," he warned. "'Set cown. Yeh, I got a map. But I'm keeping it. What you want with 11?" "I'm studying the structures around here. Thought maybe you'd let me look at your map. Know this country pretty well, do "Know it?" shrilled the old man, pulling out a drawer from a lopsided chest and fumbling feverishly in it. "I know every fold ana fault and sand in it. Walked every foot of it. Son, you can look at my map, but there ain't no ell under this county, not a drop." He straightened, brought out a (packet carefully wrapped in oilcloth and secured with a tightly knotted shoestring. Slowly, aj-most reverently, he untied a dozen knots. A roll of slippery maps slid out, uncurled themselves, grease-spotted and faded, " Got 'em all here." Old Hughey dropped oh a stool'and spread the soiled sheets over his knees. "Here she is. Look a' here." He traced with a long and filthy fingernail. * "There she lays . . .there's the Sabine uplift--where they found the big pool--and over here there ain't nothing. Lime and salt water, I tell you." , With, swift, trained vision Gary studied the map. It was an old print, he noted twenty years old. There was an uplift--but to the north of it a fault--and on the edjge «f that--his breath began to quicken a little. "Thanks, Mr. Fothergill." He handed the map back. "Here--buy yourself some tobacco. You're MANY THANKS go to wives and mothers who serve Maxwell House! Yes, Canadian families love the delicious, satisfying flavor of this superb blend of Latin-American coffees. ASPIRIN EASES NEORITIC, NEURALGIC PAIN FAST! You get pain relief fast when you use Aspirin because it starts to go to work almost immediately. To see that this is so, just drop an Aspirin tablet in water. What you'll see is what happens in your stomach--the tablet starts disintegrating within two seconds I That's why Aspirin stops neuritic, neuralgic pain so quickly. Get Aspirin today. The"Bayer" Aspirin N0W-*m Low Prices! Pocket box'of 12.....only .18c Economy bottle of 24 . . only 29c Family size of 100 . . . only 79c ISSUE 45--1945 quite sure there's no oil under these structures?" "Shake yourself well," advised Adelaide as he went back to the car. "I got the cold shivers when he grabbed you. I was sitting here wondering if I ought to go yell for the police." "He's got the map--but its an ofti edition. I'll have to write* for a new one, I guess." "But that will take days--let's telegraph, can't we?" "If I sent a wire somebody would start talking," he said. "You can't hide oil--or even a suspicion that there might be oil." "Gary Tallman--you did see something on that map! You're trying to be mysterious and obscure, but I can see right through you. You've got red spots in both cheeks." "Fever," he said. "I've been with you for hours. How do you expect me to keep my temperature •We're going straight home to tell Dad." "I wouldn't want to raise any false fcopes/' 'Tiad could hire a geologist." "A survey costs money, too. The big oil companies keep their own crews, but an independent owner would have to take his own risks." "Oliver works for a big oil company." "He sells leases. He doesn't know anything about production. there's oil under your place, Kimball would want your father to sell out to somebody." "And he'd want all the credit, . and grab it, too. And probably half the meney. I wouldn't trust Oliver an inch. Don't say a word, Gary, when Oliver is around." Gary agreed promptly because he did not like Oliver, either. "I hope nobody comes in tonight --then we can tell Dad and Mother," Adelaide ran on excitedlfy. "And you can advise Dad what«to do. Oh, Gary--suppose we did get millions of dollars--" she was breathless and her eyes wore like two hot, burning stars. "Now don't say a word," he warned, as they whirled through the gate and around the drive, missing the windmill by the thickness of a coal of paint. "Gary, could you draw a sketch of that map? You could, couldn't you?" "I guess 1 could. 1 could get it down in a rough way." "You go up and do that right away, before dinner. And I'll fix up some way to introduce the subject." Later, when she had time to think about it. Mona Lee remembered the look on Harvey's face when Adelaide said abrubtly, "Now, Gary--now let's tell them!" For a minute Harvey's face darkened. Gary was a nice boy, hut they had had fine plans for Adelaide which did not include, a marriage to any young oil man out • of a job. That was in Harvey's face at first. And then, when Gary •ead o the she; f nape: the rough skftch he had dra the table, Harvey's face changed again. "What's all this?" he asked gruffly. Adelaide drew a deep breath and was tense and her eyes snapped sparks. "Oil--on our land! Gary thinks maybe he's found oil!" It ^ CHRONICLES of GINGER FARM We have just come back from the County Ploughing match. We were all there -- Partner, the two boys and myself. It was a glorious day, fine and warm, the first day in years that it hasn't rained, or been cold and rough for this big county event. It was also the first time I had ever gone to a ploughing match and I found it well worth the trip. The boys went early in the forenoon, Partner and I followed soon after dinner -- just in time to see the big bull-dozer at work. And how it worked! What was a bulldozer doing at a ploughing match, did you ask? Well, you see this affair was more than a ploughing match -- thanks to enterprising men within the county. It was also a demonstration and exhibition of labour saving machinery, and, while a bull-dozer can hardly be classed as a necessary piece of equipment on a hundred acres, yet there are many such farms where a bull-dozer could be put to good use -- thus the demonstration, the idea being that a group of farmers might find enough, work between them to bring a bull-dozer in to work for them. On this particular farm where the match was held the machinery was lined up in a pasture field. In the field there was a huge stump from which an elm tree had recently been felled. It isn't necessary for me to tell you the work involved in prying a green stump from its moorings. No doubt you have seen the men on your farm working with picks, shovels, axes and even dynamite for days at a time." But on this stump the bull-dozer went to work. It gouged out the djrt from around the stump; it cut through its confining roots; it groaned and whined against the resisting fibres, while a ring of men, women and boys looked on in breathless expectancy. "By Jiminy, that there stump will take some moving," one fellow said. "Just watch -- it'll do it," said another. Fascinated I formed my way to the front of the ring and from this vantage point I noticed that at first the stump was as solid and defiant as a rock. And then, slowly but surely it started giving a little. Came the time when it shuddered from the impact of the huge steel monster and then gradually gave way before its repeated onslaughts. Finally the crowd could nature was just about won. Two or three more gigantic shoves and the great root was pushed over and NAVY SUIT Joy Hardy erted WREN's uniform.- All that happened to the uniform was an addition of fancy, dark blue braid and the removal of the three additional buttons which gave it double-breasted style. The original fine tailoring of the uniform is retained. Helps Check Colds Quickly n often check a if you follow these ii Just as soon as you feel the cold coming on and experience headache, pains in the back or limbs, soreness through the body, take a Paradol tablet, a good big drink of hot lemonade or ginger tea o bed. The Paradol affords almost immediate relief from the pains and aches and helps you to get off to sleep. The dose may be repeated, if necessary, according to the directions. If there is soreness of the throat, gargle with two Paradol tablets dissolved in water. Just try Paradol the next time you have a cold and we believe that you will be well pleased. Paradol does not disap- Dr. Chase's Paradol driven unresisting away from the soil which had held it for so many Bob was particularly interested in this demonstration because he had seen bull-dozers at work so often in British Columbia and used to write and tell us about them. Also he had wished several times this fall that he had had one around here for an hour or two. He has been ploughing partly cleared virgin land up in our bush and has been having one sweet time, what with stumps, trees and boulders. He would come in at noon some- There was also a demonstration on ditching today with the bulldozer pulling a huge grader. That was interesting too. Then there was a power chain saw in operation which we couldn't see at all for the crowd. If only some of the offi-'cials had been there forcing the, crowd to form a larger ring then everyone would have had a chance : wha s gome lother thing that claimed our attention was a tractor pulling about every implement used on a farm at one And the ploughing? Oh yes, there was ploughing -- lots of it --and it all looked grand to me. In fact I don't know how the judges could come to a decision when there seemed so little to choose between all those ridges of well-turned sods, gleaming moistly in the warm autumn sun. I heard Partner and another farmer argu-iijg about the respective merits of tiam and tractor ploughing with Partner all in favour of the latter. No doubt tractor plo-vhing is more practical in this day and age but I had a sneaking preference for those team ploughed ridges with crowns so even they might have been measured with a foot-rule. So that was our County Ploughing match'. And, ladies, when the next one rolls along, just forget there's washing to do and climb in the old jalopy along with the rest of the family and have a day out jyith the men. It's a wise woman who interests herself in what interests her men and you will find a ploughing match, be it county or rsicler Methodist" Preferred some war bonds at the war finance office in Lawrenceyille, 111., and was asked in. what denomination he'd like to ha,ve them, "Methodist," he replied. Daily Air Service London to Vienna R.A.F. Mosquitoes are now making daily runs between London and Vienna in just over two and one half hours reports the B BC correspondent in Vienna. He adds that London morning newspapers are now arriving in the Austrian capital by 11 a.m. This service is being operated by British Transport Command, The makers of the Mosquito are now working on a peace time version which is stated to be specially suitable for world-wide operation and moderate size airports. It will carry eight to eleven passengers and have a cruising speed of 160 miles per hour. Ex-Servicewomen Want Own Homes The girls in khaki and blue have their hearts set on a home of their own rather than a career, it would The re-establishment credit of 85% of the girls discharged from the services up to the end of August, a sum totalling $79,670 has been used to buy furniture and household equipment. None of the girls has yet used her credit to purchase a business. 'Let Us Bind Up The Nation's Wounds* The principal purpose of the Ninth Loan is to pay for bringing our fighting men home and putting them on their feet in civilian life, says the Peterborough Examiner. Particularly appropriate to this loan are these words of Abraham Lincoln:. "With malice toward none, with charily for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphans, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations." Let us undertake the Loan in this spirit and make it at least as much a success as those which have gone before it. POULTRY WANTED kens, fowl, ducks, ceys. (Must be : prices paid." dressed.) "Higbes QUALITY MEAT PACKERS 203 First Ave., Toronto DAWES BLACK HORSE B REWERY