nant Sheited at lant, = an, it toto # narrow away. nit] Famous for their low gas consumption and was on eet, . LAR : : a superior coo) qualities: All burners on , "Come on," he cried; and then, as | picketted, and as luck would : ste Pa ; hes '{ fhe 101d them afterwards et the ranch. ave it tot & man was in sight. | ¥ ¢ vo \ ¥ : . 'Tm bigssed if © didn't thisk | was "Cut the Topes or pail the pegs." ; Ad , 3 standing stil. : gasped Al and' his own Jack Emit : i . --T IN 'Though he Bad grown foo beavy | sutcxed and slashed about the horses Tor running long distances. Rol hag reckless of their heels or of suy who : pls Uwe been a famous UHIVErsity | might be on the trail. = CLIVE PHILLAPPS WOOLLEY ShHnier apd the long strain of wait "Now jump- og and git," be added, 5 lug bad worked dpon his nerves, until TH finish 'em. Jump, blank nt | . (AUTHOR OF "GOLD, Sow I CARIBOO" Tey they" were like coiled springs. When jump!" he scresmed, he Boss f . ; {he release came he bounded forward | hesitated, and a crashing of brush'in > E ) : : ¥ as he had done when he was the first | the direction of the fires warned him 3 Supplied Exclusively in Canada by The Mittieh & Colonial Prose Service, { | rink for Lis alma. meter Passed | that the minu 7 ; Ly Llhemited, . tes of grace had all but > Alas % Dotorcar passes 8 bus. x | "¥Dired. For artificial or natural gas - DOYS," scream « "Soe olt obéved him as the last ro] 5 : * s 2 = f ; I tg em! She 'em helit ad, vell-| was severed, and Al, losing his pore , are fitted with air mixer that a tl Pant Ba J ng e a fiend or an o 'ree TRve, | at last, cried in his triumph, "Now, : : "Jest 50," muttefed Al, who had ugain a hand showed. and this time an | be dashed after his leader. : catch us. you swine!" ag he swung ' Ko economizes gas. 40 different Nh Javied to Rolt's side, "aud ths |arm and shoulder with It; and the old To thelr credit, in spite of nis pace, | himself on to, the back of the last next 1 be nearer till. They are|{man fired, but the arm, broken at the | Toma and Al were not much farther | horse and galloped into the bush. " styles and Sizes. See the getting our range now. Had ought io | wrist: had fallen behind the log, be- | behind Rolt when he sprang at the | As if in answer to his taunt, a dozen have done that the first go off. fore his bullet chipped the bark of ir, | 10g, than the Second and third strings | indians dashed into the opening, and / : McClary dealer. = guess there'll be no room here for two "Bully for you, Relt. I take it all | re behisd the winner in the GUATIEr | four or five rifles were fired point now. Lie low, boys, it's goin" to storm back about them sittérs." But Rolt* As Holt reached the log a group of | hlank at the retreating figure. | asain." and he crawled.back to his|did not even smile. His lips were |{IBuTes rote from the sage brush Luckily his horse was nof hit, but own position just as it began again to | thin now and Set, and his eyes were |Phey had already wormed their Way | for a moment the old man swayed and hail Billets, glued to that log, whilst he heid bis | through ft for some fifty yards up. all but toppled from his seat tro For a good quarter of an hour th: | rifle as men hold their guns at the |®een, but concealment being no longer though he rode han he got Indians in the timber kept up a steady | pigeon traps at Hurlinghaun. possible, they rose now and ran. fis grip again, and 'in spite of the Stream of Independent 'firing, ns it] If the covering party in the timber So Fleet 2s au lutias, Bn any who deadly sickness which took him and » a Eas ! Yatue . wh , ! EEE = SE z : they would fill up that little holiow Jad beens bie io bi ig a know them would back Oxford or Har | '® Warm trickle from the numbed : J ith Jean > reap the Bin Yaver 2 i and Rolt would have been sealed, for I atidge or Yate, to beat any shoulder, he hanaged en ck She n We Rec- w thelr concentrat re. BUtfi, the excitement of the moment both | 'mdian who eve * the breath of i { Often Imitated : no : - the shooting, t . though their bullets' cut down the mien stood up, every thought intent |!be prairies into his lungs. The roy. | De Shooting, thundered past jostling : 9 & him as they went_into the darkness | |! standing brush as if it had been siash- os their pray, utterly regardless of | ble is that most of the men who take ich Rolt "vani ! Seldom Equaled || a fide it, and left it In flying tat- the leaden bees which hummed harm. | back these storles of 'lidian Sones: "seu he Pape ened. his horse ommen ters, the men under ground remained lessly past them. £ lon't know anything about first-class : » i A . y t gallop, almost lying on its neck to|'! . ] od . t i : i Never Surpasse an suched. Neither did they attempt And then the expected happened. peng OR ae avoid overhanging boughs, maintain 6% First Mortgage Bonds "Dx n't stir, boys, and don't shoot Four men however desperate cannot ountry and find 'yourself a Very Ng a precarious position by holding ; back," commanded Al When they hold 3 Steen Pine ie from heliind moderate second-class in town; and, fared ihe horse's mane With his unin- ft | PARTICULARS ON REQUEST id Packed in one and they've killed every Insect in| ¥hen it begins to roll, and realiing moreover, the raconteurs, being for : " as nq | this, one of the Indians let go and § : ha Sorely against his will he had to]'lt < two pound tins only. bloomin' brush patch, they'll bolted back towards the timber, H, | € MOS part authorities on whiskey, let his rifle go." If his enemies caught { || maybe try some other racket.. Then ; have no personal standard to judge |, i : 1 - » " fell with Rolt's bullet between his by. They themselves think them. | Mm the rifle would be useless now, ° we'll get our work in. 2 shoulders and Al's through 'his thig, al . i and he h ; . 1 all that he could do for geal . -------- 3 selves men. The boys would call Rd . : CHASE & SANBORN \ CHAPTER Xx1 i mera". fore "A fhm oie machina pst foe snd | ge od ar lr Hu upon tne | Namen Street East ait g ~ag) ordi e p he wre | Iv p § p] as y » ER, = Em So MONTREAL. 150 The Indians were very thorough in breathing space, and then (he log Mo iy ating good fuel ' prairie he reduced his Pace to a lope o ; : 3 t ® een kept : 1 their work of destruction, and thanks | broke clean away from them, rolling nard by an out-door life and- he was |*0d sat up, muttering as he guided to the looting of Roit's store-house | merrily down the hill, whilst thre still five vears on the right side of | his horse with his knees and tried an, they had plenty of ammunition to miserable devils writhed In the sag: forty, so that' his feet seemed to de | 1° hold up his wounded arm with his spare, but ai last even they were sat- bra in the vain hope of Jriding Jrom vour the distance, and in spite of thelr left: hand. . A (he 2 ey, , - - ¢ . "Winged, blank them but not ba 3 efforts the shadowy. figur t 31 A & 3 The cherry patch looked like a field | One wretch ran perbaps for fifiy Indians row hagiony ul ie ged yet, nor goin' to be by any measly after a Ma; ban bail storm, and yards with an arm swinging help'es - : : Chilcoten," but though his words were 3 . : there could have been little doubt in| ly from his shoulder as be ran, acd | to face the terror tng at his shidul a Aassansa. 4 brave his sleeve was very sodden with the Chilcoten's minds that anything | they saw him wince and stumbls as a| der. He bad hardly time to #o¢ the la warm sticky fluid which still con ':. Have You Tried that had sheltered in it was as dead second bullet touched him. fierce white face. The Garth Hse! lined to ooze into it, and he was --afKAAAsAssAss 4 " aasansaam b <3 as Jullus Caesar. But being Indians "Outer to me, Boss," shouted Al sgemed to rise up and strike him, and growing so dim of sight and dizzy that the elected to run no risks. When Jumping up another cartridge, "bull to | he knew RO more, he would have ridden right into Rolt, og ¢ 1708 ees § '$9 atest de- GYPSUM WALL PLASTER? the firing ceased a sound of chop- pum he added, regretfully, before Le Years after he was known as Billy bad not his horse ied 7 Rugs, all S1ze8, prices $7.00 to $20.00, late st de : ping began, and Rolt who should have fire again, as his fellow-creatups Brokenjaw, He was more lucky than | Then forthe first time since he STgns. . known better, imagined that the cold- | ould Te agaln. ae and tae Loreaturs { the big Chilcoten Just ahead of him. [had grown to man's estgte. the old Linoleum, the best English « uality. Price. 40¢ It Saves Time. blooded brutes were going to feed be- | COHapsed Lite heap and ay sti) ve no | The hard which struck ths senses out man cut a voluntary, but even then he x ' ' he jhalily, dt Ba * fore picking up their birds, but he Men fighting fo ing | Of Billy, grinved and olawed at the held on to the halter rope, and magn to 60¢ a vard. ' i timent, and perhaps Al vlad an Q P : - . a . > misjudged them. An Indian is sutfi- seht ang. pe dA : nape of the next man's neck. For a aged to murmur - WP ri fae Che » Lace Curtains. from 50c P WAI SH clently cold-blooded, but not on the Buck at any gr om Sight « ina dozen paces it seemed doubtful whe: "All right, Colonel. Don't shoot. - Tipe Stry and he nille Lac urtains, f1 m . hunting trail or the war path. Then he Fi nh id Nighi PE ther white rage L: ke Jorror wild I'm comin' down," but he. had only a to $4.00 per pair, . he thinks a great deal less of his belly . Was mite. Je. vasas Teen Win in thet race for life, but the claw: hazy idea that Rolt was Blocking the / ei 2 of t: ' linen. 35¢ £1.25 per v than does a white man under similar 5 was sh } or pies inst, ond the ln. | way, his rifle resting across his All kinds of table line n, es to } 1.2 pel yd. circumétances, a 2 Hi by wy a Wi Th ¢ ! Lleck hatr, being coarse horse's back, and of what happened Kull line of Men's and Bovs Clothing, Boots ky J ue N ;Sozen D uy nd sir es a horse's mane, the for a while after he spoke he knew : € JUS HIE aur now eer eese-------- eee COINS Before long 3 great trbe crashed > ste 1} : S and Shoes. down, and before the sound of its fall Pull the ther ' py of fingers 'held, and the nothing Se % . . . SYSTEM Jug died away, they saw Lhe th of ui Bem Othe: A Ap ER lied mag over together, like fox His disgust wai immense, and hie Call and get our prices before buying. nother lean slowly over, ha - SR the final worry, Whilst the centre log was betraying » partioulap scent to-day, h scorn withering, when he sat ug moment, and then disappear in a . ; its masters, the two outside logs had y BERIN with & curious bandage tied ! spray of shattered boughs and pire Come 10 a standstill. and so, in spite o1 | Bor hi ne fuel of dying sage tightly sround his u per arm, and - ? me } Beedles, Al's gibes and the ballets with which {Brush w her 3 un Rei win | a oY whether hie 4 Three fell in all, and still the chop- | he made « hips of them fly, they r-| TE0ES8 ha whi on . Fe : . . thought he could slit en Kis Loree if i} ° * ping went on. Then for the first time | mained, gr black bars on th { 30€8 ae of 8u Indian's eves, . 8 c 1] | Were lsd ior Rim Rolt noticed what looked like a great prairie, thre and fells 5 ck bending back untl] : - jhatse hundred yards from th it sticks "Sit on? Whe, tae blank, seid . 3 saw log just outside the line of the cherry patch, whilst the emb:r RE aouldn't sit ob! I'm only baricd g . 257 P S Ph 143 Excursions pine trees, lying parallel with that "sun crawled down towards + hos RR . bit. Must have knagkad this tegl lesd "TINCess t. one line, and as he noticed it two more son. | Suddenly it dipned into a iow CHAPTER XX. of mire agen a bousi. ! reckyn, or | came to join it. lying bar of cloud and the light failed Rolt ang Al did net stay to look at | shouldn't have fell otf." Bui for gil 4 ! There was no doubt that they came; | so suddenly that Al noticed it their wdrk. that he couldn't remoukt without a3 1914---Round trip tickets to Wes- | he saw them emerge slowly, like some | "We've got to hurry, Boss" he aid "Come on," the 'old man insisted, | sistance, which he pccepted erly vn tern Canadh, via Chicago and North footless monsters, moving sidéways | sinking into his place by Rolt's side. A Bay or Toronto on sale April 14. and | down the hill, : and shaking a spray of blood off his evory other Tuesday thereafter un- "Ah, here they come! They're get-! hand where a bullet had skinned it caught vp row, the two. white men | man ever heard him use, til October 27th, at very low fares. | tn' down to business at last. That's "We-cain't let them fellows stay ther aD closely upon thelr heels But onee in the saddle again, he Tickets good for.two months. more like Cree fightin'! 1 wouldn't after dark." . 8s they cou! Before the pursuers | seemed to vecover. It {§ true that he : . have thought that they kmowed s0{ "What dre We going to do to pre | pag covered haf the distance the ur- | Dever spoke x word after the iret five Ve can make. all arrangements 15 | much," muttered Al Yet it} We har lost bur horses," | ghoy® is vanished into the hago, minutes, which was unifke Al, but be bring your family and friends from But at first Rglt, who had not Al's| "That's $0; DUT * we stay here we ! but Al held on stematly, straight into | remained on his horse's back whilst the "Ola Country. experience, did wot understand, and | be roasted .az soon as it's tho dark to the Indians' lines 7' the endless miles went by in the dark, f the sight of those three great pine | shoot: They'll fime the bush on us Throu he firs , 0 1 Rolt heard him muttering p i ~ ] ! . gh the first rank of the pines | Only once ear For full Mmicola Appin logs sreshing down abreast, apparent. Sure a) master and man passed. unmelésted. | 0 himself, "Guess | can mo on Thies . P, : ¥ by thelr own velition, was very "Well, what is your plan" asked ing swiftly but silently until | legs as well as a buck. 1.never see ® Raliroad and Steamship Agent horrible Rolt, wearily. He was a brave man, | pon 28 tat] nob of on ropid stop b 1 § § i He 5 1) : : t on | buck as.wou!d stop because ! tinkered Cor. Johnson snd Ontario Sts From time to time a rifle spat redly | but the figh: hot saw ind'stinctly a mob of men fr." : » asainst such odds. as hw | yg right uncertain, it seemed, whe: « from the timber; but for the Inost part | now realized that. they had 'against the slow progress of the logs down ! them, s emed to him hopeless ther to rua to him or aay from Bim, ¢ That was the spirit in which he, and , ; : ® Ih. sceihed. 10h until Al called to them in the strange 1 f . It, , rode the sloping prairle was made in ab Only the bovish spirits of such a clucking "gutterals of their own lan for De mans on a FB of | The low price of D & A solute silence. The gun €reeping | daredevil as the old frontiersman or c AN fa (8) aA [i across the heavens seemed to move | could remain unbroken under such a he meanizg of what Al said Rolt: Ehime, pai) or di priv bg AL Corsets enable their wearers - " faster than they did. strat. id Bot anes Aw. 1) " . . 3 [ ACIFi C "We've got to get them other two "F aint got no plan," he drawled, Grand mot catch, but he saw the mob much of. Like thé beasts of the field fo save money while improv- : disperse, running apparently Mm the bad enough over this side," sald Al. "We can't| "8! least no plan to speak of, but a : EoD y ib this unless & wound is ou 3 sor at tame general direction as himself. | to stop the working of their machin ing their style. The "Logical Route'* tol | stop them," pointing to the logs, "and | Scripture saying seems to me to come aud he wondered even then at the | op. they go on as if unhurt. When i When they get here there'll be a blank- | In mighty handy: 'Do unto others the marvellously true accent and ready ay lie down, it is with them, and The new models of D & A Corsets meet WESTERN CANADA || cd hot tue in the cherry patch." oan an er d do unto you, only do] Si whpics Ba ar the moment de-| with their rivals, the Indians, to die, Srery requirement of {he Tatest styles. , : 4 | "Can we spare them? Won't the | It quicker Now those Johnnies are ceived the Indians. end that, too, they do quietly, . Ro. 61 asi Tr meniied for talier For W innipeg and Van- f 'ndians sneak "round from behind?" calculating io rush us rovoon as It] For twenty yards the {Wo _tore| Rolt and Al would willingly have The price & less thn that of shuiler couver "Not likely, and if they do. we've bd food 85d dark. We've got to through tye impending brush or blun: { gtven in. Their bodies cried to them jmported x I hd by popular stores every- . got to risk it, 1 guess they'll wipe us ush them first. } dered In the dark amongst logs and for mercy, for leave to slide out of p anteed by the makers ; Leave Juraute 19.20 pn. Daily. out this time," with which cheering a ight ie . windfalls, then they emerged upon the | the gaddle Into the sweet-smelling The Dominion Corset Co., Quebec. CTT Fr Red 'ars, Tour- | | Pewark he crept away, returning with HOI os ain t Ume for the ast | nigin trail whieh led to Kifelowna's | sage brueh and le still, but though Makers also of the kA DIVA Corsets ist Bleeping Cars, Car, First Toma. act yo: : wh be got lo Play ys gale cagnp. If they had had time to think, | both were utterly spent, though nel 3 514 Class 'Coaches and Colonist Cars. I've left the other &alloot where | 8ccording ro Hoyle, 'with all the frills 3 3 X K the smooth firmness of it would have ther had tasted food for twenty-four ay . he was," he explained. "He ain't any | a8 Belongs 10 It. | Fust there's slow suggested to them the numbers of an hours, end one wes badly wounded, account as a rifle shot, but he's go | Music from 'he orchestra, thei the enemy who could wear such a trail in the thought of the lonely ramch with plum scared that he'll make a pretty light grows kinder dim and uncer 80 short a time. and though the remaining Chilcotens | der protest, and with a perfect & hed esecrred 100 good a start to be | Of omths, such gg in ordinary times no 1 , . smart fooking. man. Hulloh! What's | 12I0. then the ghost Rppears. . See" AAs they ran past what looked in the Food RL hd Ptr Han be Every Tuesday until Oct. 27th. got that log?" Rolt did see. and he never saw a > pas 0 iri thei Tickets good for 60 days half-hour in his long life so tryliig as [#480K like & brush lean to, a man leapt 1 ding on, trying Hard to abstract their Partipulars regarding rail or ocean The centre log had reached the spot that during which he and {he other | Ou! upon the path, and Al, who was | minds from the painful present, which paren "Pp ol there Al' ; q : adi fy A Princess and Welton So hon Vo one nnd, as it lands | {iree men crouched, like wprintess, The Ta a ated ae rat | J len riding tn 1187. 3 which propelled the: log rors) -- ® | wajting for the start, whilst the silent d though Al w him, the In. this fashion, whilst the unseen troop prope. Ne I0g. reached for logs lay motionless in front.of them, | AN ough Al was past him, an. . " the derelict "Stetson" which had been and one by one the outlines of the | 4/AR tried 'boldly to block Rolt's way. {of Indian horses pattered behind i or 1 rors LSE | Bl re Ban he sa | 1 to, 8 eck 1 |e ne SEES (0 gan, no ga SOBAN STEAMSHIP AGENCY . a pe B3 o® Prairie Increas®dl sud-{ ;0, tops merged into each other, and he 1004 YS thout decreasing | lop ig 1 ight of thelr mates dy on Suis. a Ai 8 barticular log had been night came... is pace he pretended to swerve, and | shoul ose sight o e! i KIRKPATRE ne. By nature it had " A then, as the man closed on him, turn- With the first streak of dawn they #8 Clarence St. Phone 888 | | crown absolutely round, it was a white They might try to get back to the » , : ed and ran right at -him, tilted the | debouched upon the edge of the home - plue and young, and therefore smooth ber, toerey 2 and tone = Indian's chin up with the butt of his | pasture, powdered 'by a thin fall of £4 : ! and heavy, and the men & : > who = had ' open hand so that his-head was shov- | snow, trimmed it had taken all the limbs off that'll be our time to rush them, . De : " 1 almost off his shoulders, and so "Ruf and Old Regent," muttered You mind the scariet pine? wil 3 ufus, and gent, close to the trunk. " dba . | passedwmongst the great dim pines | Rolt, as, he paused for a moment' by . NARD aa The result was that though it had That big one lke a Scotch fir be p-- URS | on Which stood for goal posts, through/a | two snows prinkled carcases. "What a i crawled as slowly as its companions yous Soot ogy 8 on a bluff Yes Hue of smouldering fires, seeing only | accursed Trchera or > : up to this point, as soon as it felt the that's it. "We've got to' make for that." | the tall thin figure of the tireless run. "Fhere's more of the same kind," in sharper incline it began to. turn over "But we should have tp.go through ner in front. replied Al feebly, pointing to other ¥ 3 A a SERVICE. more freely, each revolution giving the whole lot of them to get to it." As they ran a horse whinnied, and similar mounds. JThey've rounded a raRNANIAY From Montreal | additional impetus, until it was obvi. "That's so, but it's the only way as | A): checking for a minute, branched up and killed all the stock they could | E> Bp AUSONIA May 5 | ously rolling. | they won't 'expect us, &nd it's "the Off tiie main trail, come near; but thank God for that!" . ' ' A 1 May :1| Already it was twenty feet ahead of | short cut to supper. Are you scared | "Holy smoke!" he panted, as Rolt | ang he held his one hand out towards ¥mouth eastbound. ils companions, aud then for a M0116 try it? Maybe the folk at the ranch | O¥erhauled 'him. "That's their horse the ranch house which came.in sight 346.25. 3rd-class, ment a brown 'band showed above it. want us 4s bad as I want my tucker." | "8MD. Let's chance it, Boss. It's as he spoke, = $30.35 up. West: | Ars rifle Came io his shoulder, but he | © 0 ou choose your time a®a I'll fol. | Worth the "and he stole swiftly It still stood untouched as far as Nea Yn Sow hand disappeared low." . alomg through the bushes until they | they could see, nor was there an In- lore he cou press the trigger. ---- a g dian in sight in all the country which - Aps2 . . 4 . - ook out, Rolt." he cried. "They | roume™ pico, Bunch up, Sars the surrounded ft. . Nt Shoes that are the very last word in fashion and I you are in the handicap class cain"t hold it! it's got away with bls. 8 ve to split 2 ? . Rolt made an inarticulite sound. : . . ¥ . y 1 {ter A vigorous effort to get out of |ihem? It they cain't stop It, they're | D2NE Of prairie socdicen, ani I'm : . | His lips seemed for the moment gn: that will appeal right away to the man whe is after < : our meat, sure," and | Scared ag y a 9 able to move, and then, nting. t "WwW style y ste ! H give ser-. Moekness many and -Wany times is | janet 1 Proctor ly Bony with nis | _ Rolt knew that in the darkness this = pointing a smart new stvle that will stand up and giv \ the house, he managed to say, * . v sure indication of downright foolish. | rift. Sr too pestle, but there were yon--" ind os HM Vice at from $4 to $5. | - Faster and faster came the log, and cious to him tan oa own. " mare'p : "Of course 1 can, blank it!" Seplicd] . : o ns tehako, AIT pe Aki4 oe 3 tehge. : : {he "EYE have ton ashy lo . We can show you a very large: assortmént of "All right; 1 guess you ain't, if it : hour ago if you hadn't been such an the newest models, high and low cuts, in all leath- comes to that; but keep your hair on \ unmitigated idiot!" but 'as the Boss inl - 1 lace dels as-long as they'll let you. Mine fells hy i spurred his horse over the rise and ers and in button anda lace models. almighty loose, I can tell you," and WN dgwn the long meadow which led to : then silence fell upon them as they \ : s all he loved, 'Al suddenly' collapsed, : : : : ; a 2 . ] ; § \ and. murmuring: "Your white, pretty 2 Ta) | FE ONAL ; a 20It 4068 In novipr aT Same quickly, \ N blanked white, Rolt." slid easily out are x FA) Fl. ang bar. of browh cloud t 1 J of his" saddle, rolled over, and lay oi HAN - . 1 i 7 crimson, . 5 A still, whilst his horse, after one snort ® - : ) : T. R. orange, that faded, and for a Bpace the \ of surprise, began to fe slowly . 2 Lh , piles came out hard and clear cut AN x NY away from his prostrate form. : ; SHOES against a pale green sky, and then the ; 0 : N x Al had drawn upon his endurance to THE HOME OF GOOD - \ [HEN tated and an owl hooted. 3 he véry Jast ounce, and when, a qnar- : Z a ib _ "That's the signal. - They're going . Xs 'per of an hour later, Jim 'cane » ~ : § back," 'whispered. -- Al. "Ave -you 2 : : to bring him in, he found the. 'man = ready? and WIS vole Bad 4 aan au "NY * A OF still uneonsclons where he had tailen. {1} > ST : (To be continued) .. . HTN : --\ re »