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6 THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY, DEC. 20, 1928 BEGIN HERE TODAY i'inding the lifeless bodies of his tion, he was to stand beside : two partners at their gold mining who had been his unwilling vieti camp, Harry Gloster flees southward, j write down the words which w knowing that he will be accused of the [damn him forever in thc eves crime. On the way Gloster is jailed it* eralmen^vfraSr* ^ ^ \ For th«'"e was ™ misti,kitl Joan Barry helps Gloster to escape. Icruel satisfaction which sparkle Joan falls in with a bandit gang in ■ m the eyes of the dying man the mountains. To be near her, Glos- had been trapped and betraye ter casts his lot with the gang.too. now he should have the consul Joe Macarthur, the chief, confesses to satisfaction of betraying* the t Gloster that he ihec the two pros-, Yet there was no drawing ba< pectors. Samuel Carney, cashier of rnma„ TT. „^,,r , ^ , the Wickson Bank, gives Macarthur , Carne>r', +H'S gray [ace was se the combination to the safe, then re- prepared to suffer the crucifixio pents of his deed and tells the presi- | After that night he could neve dent of the bank what he had done. 1 the rest of tho world. But thei At the bank the robbers are greeted a short cut to a refuge. The j. i storm of bullets. Macarthur his house was staunch enough t through a broken a bullet into his brain> and he v and gIos' coilfidently te*ye the care of hi ■• the "two surYvors, with Joan and and of his daughter to the great Buck Daniels, take refuge in an old of Oscar Fern. They would n< > stable while the wounded Macarthur , fer. They would go east and c is in the hands of the townspeople. their ruined name for a new on< NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY I "I got something to say," W< -- [Joe Macarthur. "that'll e-ive CHAPTER XXXVI. COMPASSIONATE SHADOWS The room in which Joe Macaythui lay was filled with silence and the j' stir of great shadows. Joe Macarthur was dying. - Perhaps a dozen men stood i and Gloster door. Then Macarthur, with e is fatally wounded. Rainey and Glos- m. It v a lot of fun to write d i He paused, and his w-icki I froze the very heart of th the rest of y commanded. i grocery store. Along the shelves the tinned food glittered like a thousand small, dull eyes. Glass cases shone faintly, also. The smell of onions and the earthy odor of potatoes and a peculiar pungency of molasses was in the air. As for the couch of Joe Macarthur, it was a saddle blanket spread upon the top of the low, broad counter over which sugar and flour were wrapped and passed. The doctor was a busy little man. He had an ungracious personality, and would have starved down--fast enough!' "Orange Pekoe" Es only the name given to a size of leaf- Some good, many poor, Orange Pekoes are sold--Ths most economical and yet the finest flavoured is "SALADA" Orange Pekoe--Sealed In metal pure--fresh--delicious--43c per £-ib. They glided obediently closer. "Put something under my head. It's hard to talk lying flat this way." ] Again they obeyed. "Whisky!" j A flask was instantly at his lips. "Now I'm ready--" Here he coughed violently, and [ again more weakly. A bloody bubble I rose to his lips, broke, and he wiped away the red drops with the back of I his hand. Then his arm dropped and j hung limp down from the counter--a so that the fingers --„ touched the dust. And it flashed through the mind j stood beside Macarthur and of Carney that this moment the out- I looked down into the steady but fast jlau; h.ad actually come to death' And Buck Da ity. But ho had grown up in JJickson, J Srfat long and therefore his peculiarities were j actually toi i PATTERNS. j ind address plain- j oin preferred; wraj each number anc r to Wilson PatterT .'elaiilc St., Toronto --Rram in The New York World. Canadian Workers in the United States I.e Monde Ouvrier (Ind.): A Cana- fading eyes of the robber. "What d'you want?" he i "Eh?' murmured Macarth "What is there that you a Macarthur closed his eyes, twitched. But when he looked up again his face was once more calm. "I'm as far gone as that, eh?" "You're far gone, Macarthur," snap, ped the doctor. "So if you want anything, shout for it now. Whisky?" His brutality did not bother Mac-~artnur. "How long have I got?" he asked. "Maybe five minutes.' "No more'n that?"-. "I'm a doctor, not a prophet. You might last out an hour, I suppose. But now I've done my duty and I guess I'm through." He turned a hasty glance over the assemblage. Not a man had stirred. During the time of his examination there had not been a whisper There was a general nodding of heads. And an unaccustomed touch of lercy made some one step closer and Ivise him that he had better save his rength and do no talking. "To hell with that!" answered Macarthur with a faint shadow of his old icer returning. "I got the life of lother man on my hands. I got to . get rid of it! So to start right there: ( ie that killed Nichols and , Springer. Gloster didn't have nothing with it. He wasn't at the mine. »s away hunting. When he came • back and found the two of 'em dead, I guess he knew how folks would fig-That little old mine was opening 5 all bound. "There was no young j up a rich vein. Everybody would of men there, and death is most terrible j thought that he'd bumped off his two to the young. But even these hard-1 partners to get the whole thing into ened fellows were impressed by the his hands!" sudden snuffing out of so much power | He rolled his eye around at th< of hand and brain as that which---- And when they heard his judgment, some one removed his hat. The others followed the example, and sciously. No matter where and how Macarthur had sinned, he was swiftly ?sing toward a place where they j and that there would be Eut no, now he was speaking. H voice was low and hurried, but ear. word was perfectly distinct. If tl stumbling pencil failed to record tho; words, a dozen ears would be ready 1 swear to them the next day. "I ain't got much time. I got 1 hurry--I got to begin with the m« important part of what I got to say He turned his head and rolled h eyes around the semicircle of face "Is what I say going to be b< liev High Prices and Poor Business I Natural Increase in Population of Over 10 Thousand : Quth | Vital Statistics For One Month 1 Issued by Bureau of Statistics--More Marriages Than For Years The last Dominion-wide survey of I births, deaths and marriages by the >w on \ Dominion Bureau of Statistics indi-j cates a natural increase in Canada's i population of 10,852 during the month re, of j of May. The total number of births in all nine provinces is given as 20,262 away against a death toll of 9,410 for the month. i that The number of marriages given as 14,534, represents the highest figure s ... | since 1921. Ontario was the leader, [with 1,577 weddings, wr.le Quebec fol-still has lowed closely behind with a mark of 1,410. Compared with the same month last year, the birth rate suffered a slight decline, the only provinces to show increase being Ontario and Manitoba. Quebec, however, still leads the other provinces with the highest birth arte, of 33.1 per 1,0.00 population. During the month 7,420 births were reported in the province, compared with 5.971 in Ontario. Other provinces follow: British Columbia, 228; Alberta, 1,284; Saskatchewan, 1,710; ork in ; Manitoba, 1,184; New Brunswick, 905; !Coun-;Kova Scotia, 845; Prince Edward ias an island, 115. Talkative Lady: Do you know, professor, I think you are positively wonderful. Has anything ever puzzled you? Professor (bored): Yes, madam, One thing has. Talkative Lady: And what is that? Oh, do tell me. Professor: If exercise reduces flesh how is it that so many women have double lay stretched upon the counter. "If I have only five minutes-:k>. I've got something to say. anybody got a pencil and some others, savagely challenging them. "You'll be thinking that I'm saying that just because I know that I'm | ing to pass out and that I might well save the neck of my bunkie while I'm about it. But, for God's sake, boys, believe what I'm saying. I'll tell you all the straight of it. I've been gunning for Gloster. But he's showed white clear through. There ain't no yaller in him. "One thing more. He joined the gang. But he didn't join it for the money nor because he'd been hounded ney went slowly to the dying man. He . into going where he could get help had not failed to note the quick tun^ag'in half the sheriffs in the west out of the head with which Joe Macarthur after his head. He joined because ..had heard the name pronounced. And j Joan Barry was up in the hills Carney, his brain reeling, forward, feeling th it'll It Housed a stir. A dozen hands shifted into pockets. Papers and many pencils were produced. "Carney--you're the man for this. You understand these things better'n the rest of us." So designated, and urged forward by hands on either side, Samuel Car- urept slowly Macarthur s facing death, he himself was facing something which was far worse! After all, how beautifully just it was--how accurately destiny was dealing with him! On the very day when he had confessed his sin and when that confession had been re- was hanging out, and he wanted to be near her. She's dawn there in the stable." "A girl?" gasped the listeners faintly, for the starlight had been too dim and the speed of the black horse too great to enable them to distinguish rnythin;-? definite about the rider in the saddle on the Captain. 1 GOT TO TELL THE TRUTH TO SAVE THE REST."