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The Colborne Express (Colborne Ontario), 22 Nov 1928, p. 6

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6 THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY, NOV. 22, 1928 Ga use ex/jeeteU~ <3kuft youikiecL it ? 'SALADA ■ 35* per^lb 35* per £ lb could do to meet such warriors as these. No, the entire gang would go down ull of lead unless they were forewarned. And, since some of them were ure to be wounded and not killed out-ight, before they died they were cex-ain to give the name of the cashier vho had first promised to betray the bank and had then betrayed his tools. And this would as effectually ruin e reputation of Sam Carney as if he himself had been caught in an act of theft. Such were the reflections hich filled his mind as he made his way toward the Tompson shack. And they so excited him that he began to push the horse forward relentlessly. But when he reached the shack, there j lighted matched, and by their light he examined the ground around te shack. All the hoofmarks were d which had traveled that trail hich had once been a comfortable agon road. No party of hard rider had gone by that way thi, night. "e sat down at the door of the ol cabin and began his vigil. ut he must not be found by an chance wanderer sitting in front, c this deserted cabin. It would mal; trange tdry to be told in the tow next day. And Carney was in n FRE/H FROM TME GARDEN/ BAKE YOUR OWN BREAD WITH ROYAL YEAST CAKES Cffiestandard of Quality for over soy ears wild sense of alarm in his brain. He whipped out his watch. The first match broke in his trembling fingers. But the second gave a light by which he saw that it was three o'clock. He stood up still and straight, with a stifled cry. He had slept at his post and they had gone by him. "God help me--and them!" moaned Carney, and ran out into the trail. There, on his knees, he lighted more matches. And instantly he saw the hoofprints. It looked to his inexperienced eyes as if twice ten horses had passed! He turned down the road. The moon haze closed together not BEGIN HERE TODAY Finding the lifeless bodies of his two partners at their gold mining camp, Harry Gloster flees southward, knowing that he will be accused of the crime. On the way Gloster is jailed after getting into a fight with several men over a girl. , Joan Barry, daughter of a famous rider of the old plains, helps Gloster to escape. Later Joan, in quest of Gloster, falls in with a bandit gang in the mountains. Joe Macarthur, a quick-on-the-trigge1 scoundrel, is made chieftain of the gang when he appears with a scheme to rob the Wickson Bank. Samuel Carney, cashier, has given Macarthur the combination to the safe,, but later repents and tells the president of the bank what he has done. Gloster goes with Buck Daniels, Joan's guardian, to the bandit camp to find the girl. She will not lea Gloster joins the band,too, to V her. MAXKPAND: NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY She went out to the defile and looked north in the direction she must journey. But yonder the noise of" had selectc.d seen horsemen was going down the I .nich the nside. and all of her heart with Macarthur, as ' ing the way and Behind him came tl but for Joan, it had lost If 'she could not prevent or help, at least, she could be a witness. And if they flew again, she might help them flee! , turned the head of the Captain to follow, but as she did an eighth started out of the woods | him, for she duty was, lead-king the trail, six, and last of orm of Harry They passed on, but still sh? did not ride out. For there was yet another man to be watched, and this was the one she had seen on the mountainside following the others. A full ten minutes she waited, and then he came, jogging his cow-pony steadily along, a man who wore his hat in a strangely familiar way, canted to one side. He passed, and his horse stumbled. "Steady, boy!" muttered the rider, and rode on. But he left Joan stunned behind to the deserted shacl- And Sam Carney was not at all fond of riding He spent his days at his desk, his evening at his newspaper and his books, and the nights puzzling over busin-.So problems and fighting for sieep. A spin through the fresh they had been vroirfd not i >.'s off. Therefore and rode awa; ness fell. He had in h ing d ssured by his own lips, H.' must warn them he saddled his horse as soon as the dark- And so, with these mild thoughts, lulled fast asleep! He waken-n, with his heart pounding, a turned strongly after "them, was coming to Harry Gloster night of nights? just beneath her and began to lowly along the hillside. Was this ome man of the law, , trailing the band? She stared until her eyes ached, but she could make out nothing more than his shadowy outline. He disappeared into the trees,- and she. fol- From a hill-top, she marked out the course which they must be taking. They were crossing the summit, and dipping down on the farther side, heading almost due west. She took a different course, so that she might not be heard following them, and she .sent the Captain in a wide detour to cut in ahead of them. They came to the ravine which she being the one through fter the Capt! Dckets five hundred i. That might help ded feelings of Joe! CHAPTER XXXII. FATAL MISCHAi Samuel Car any doubt it on this day. had left hir heard and of Buck Daniels. 1 dollars in cob __ I to soothe the jarthur and pay him for tne wast-•ide of the night. If it would not , | do, he could not help it. ou£h <>f % One fierce ten minutes of conversa-efficacy of ^ and thcn the affair would be off ihoulders forever, and he could go > lace the prospect of a happy and peaceful life to the end of his days, " for his daughter, health for h: sins, but if he had had j mid have been removed 3ve i a sense of shame ; filled i ind feeling of purification. wifg> of his It v, which . f the u pied his What! brought her ther * 's I They rode Icf the broker ingle file on a iture of the ! mind, in plac the Almighty Father, the fat and rosy face of Oscar Fern. The devotion which he felt for the good natured banker and millionaire was a cross between the devotion of a soldier for his captain and of a son for his father. It was a strangely humbled Samuel nl Carney, therefore, who prepared for the work which lay ahead of him that P1 night. It was not pleasant work. It m that '..e must pla< ind the undying love mployer! He would : nd faith But, t get by t of the v and into the .thill before the outlaws arrived, matter for that, he must be thi plenty of time. Otherwise tin a chance that the gang mi him and go on to the trap. He shuddered as he thought of the .utions cf Oscar Fern. Twenty had been employed. They were asually picked up about the town, lere and there through the valley Light as the* Sea Breezes Marshmallow, light and creamy; crisp, vanilla - flavored cake wafer; fresh fruit jelly fillings and -- a generously-thick coating of pure Cocoanut Icing! Even more delicious than it sound?, ^ Chrisflie's COCOANUT PUFFS_ n the Wickson Valley They had u-.chcrs who had ' picked out the best r ' to fight the fight. Fc would confer a gre j wanted, Carr at the prospec t what they r eyes light fightet that there i ISSUE No. 46--'28 Pe-haos vou didn't realize that Aspirin tablets are made to relive t£e ffp-down rheumatic ache, as ^d.j^e occa-rinnil headache. They do! 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