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a Oe ee ee » tt ted a. . heah, an' Ah'm almos' suah dat he's SaaS THE SSeS DIAMOND PEKKKKKKKK 'e OK pretty ign aque. viant yo nevet see, partner was giving such aid as p i Oners to the cells below, 'Iwo or three no ghostses ovyeh in Manila?" CHAPTER XxX. "Dis ain't no joke, no lie at all," went on the well-known voice. "Ab was in heah one night las' winteh, when dehe come an awful scream out- side. Kee Lung, de Chinaman, goes to de dooh, an' in falls a niggah wom-| an. She'd seen it. She'd seen a man standin' outside in de yahd wivout no haid--just his body all complete up to Al BASEBALL ROMANCE COOK KOK KK KOK 4 rare 3 PSK K IIS 4 (Copyrizht, 1912, by W. G. Chapman.) (Copyright in Canada and Great Britain.) The boys walked through a yard filled with mud, bricks and wreckage | of every imaginable kind. At the far) end of the yard they brought up against a brick wall. They fumbled | along this wall, soon finding the little | doorway} 1 tapped thrice upon the} panels n re in the woodwork of the door a s of light gleamed, and they r incomfortably avy i} that they \ under scrutiny. TI whistled scft nd tapped the d again Tt opened and a Chinamar | zonironted them, | "You want smoke?" | "Of cot v ,' Solano answered. The yellow man looked them over, and then beckoned them inside tho| portals, shuttir 2nd Loiting t behind them. Cat-footed, couductsd them up a hallwa D h yuld, 1 ne with dirt smell of many nights of opium 'cook ing," and guided them into a room of lerable with dirt, lay on the floor and on t mattr --two negroes ¢ one Ww e stupidly re siz A mattress, gray: ing, whil t oil lamp bt 1 on a bit of matting nearby, a bamboo pipe a: oma hand to hand, 7 Pe ng, sish smell of opium thickened the YOU KNOW HOW 3 COOK?" QUESTIONED WWE YELLOW MAN, ir; roaches ran, fearless and in- quisitive, along the floor, and the wooers of the poppy-god, silent, lost in happiness, drowsed, smoked and drowsed again, contented in their hor- tible surroundings as monarchs in a palace hall. "Cheap, fella, hims," said the China man, "You want bunk, yes?" Curtains of cheap, drab materia) masked wide stretches of the wall From behind these curtains came the hum of subdued conversation and the perfume of the cooking "hop." The Chinaman parted two strips of the drab cloth, and showed a bunk be: tween the curtains and the wall. Broekett and Solano looked up and down the room. There was no sign of their quarry. The boys quietly en- tered the bunk which the Chinaman had assigned them, and their host quickly brought them the full para- phernelia of the opium smoker's pas time Ycu know how cook?" questioned the yellow man,-as the young fellows handed him a few silver coins, "You not ean cook, me cook for you?" "Not just yet," said Solano. "Let us rest a little--we are tired and need to stretch out awhile before we smoke." "All lite. Yet get leady smoke, call me. I cook for you." And the heathen shuffled away to his eyrie near tho door, where, with a mulatto woman, he alternately ohatted softly and cast up accounts on the age-old counting strings of the Mongolian race. "This is worth watching," whispered Groekett. "Our black man may be in one of those bunks, or he may come in at any time. We can stay here @ little while before calling in our friends or going out again." v:% ics me to them from @ nearby bunk--a voice that they had heard be- fore. Both boys started agitatedly as they recognized its thick, oily tone, but they restrained their impatience by gripping each other with firm though shaking hands, "Ab done tole yo, mak fren'," came the voice, "dat dis heah place am haunted. Haunted by a ghos' wivout any haid. Dass right. Long time ago, dere was a man done been - killed right heah. Dey cut off his haid, took de haid away wiv 'em, an' left de body. Evah since den dis heah haid- less man have done haunted de spot. 'Now an' den he comes right in heal an' seahes de smokehs silly. Now an" fen yo'll see him in de yahd. Mah Lil' fren', dis ain't no joke. Onst every so often dat haidless man comes roun® de neck--a big, upstandin' feller in good clothes, he-was. She done let out one yell an' fall agin de dooh. Den dehe was a cihcus man, a mighty fine young man he was, too, what goes | roun' de country in de summah, graft- in' wiv de big-top shows. He was jest a comin' in heah when he seen de same ting, ezackly identical. Dat man mighty nigh tuhned hones' den and dehe, so he did." 'Don' yo' spose, Sam," quavered a yoice from an adjacent bunk, "as how all a joke? Summun might have been' foolin' an' projickin' roun' jest to scahe folks silly, don' yo' think?" | ises--the ghost av a gent withouta "No indeedy," @nswered the voice of big Sam. "Dehe was no joke 'bout at Yo' jest ax Kee Lung. | One time when dat haidless ghos' done frighten de livin' soul outen some peo- | ple comin® in heah, Kee Lung runs out wiv a lamp an' a smokewagon. He seen de same ting--de haidless man-- | stannin' right longside de doohway. | Kee Lung frow a fit an' bus' de lamp | efi tryin' to get back in- "Madre de Dios," came a new and trembling tone from the same bunk nce the voice of the negro had | issued, "I am ver' sorry I mek en-' ce here. I care nvi, not me, to see Ay de mi--I haf de good rea- The air thickened again with the smoke of opium, and the voices died down to soit, uncertain v spers. Brockett wriggled from the bunk, and | Solano y¥ t extricating himself from the ing-den, wl a sudden sg w limits of the smok- e came the sound of le only a few feet away. Thumping blows, hoarse cries, of surprise and rage, and the cracking of the woodwork under agitated feet and hands made up a startling mixture of noises. Heads protruded from the| half dozen bunks around the room; | the Chinaman and the mulatto woman, rising from t chairs 1e hurr ing toward scene of trouble--a then the c one bunk were violently burst asunder. A writhing, fighting heap fell heavily to the floor, and a huge black man, extricating him. ins of self with a great heave of knees and | shoulders, rose up gigantic in the smoky room. Round his knees clung a aller ma rivying trantically to drag the gi Big Sam, with a beastlike « , drove his massive fist upon the head of the clinging en- emy, but did not break him from his hold. The smalier man tugged mad- ly; big Sam, caught off balance, fell like a severed tree, and before he could rise something flashed in the blue murk of the room. Big Sam, With a hoarse gurgle, straightened out upon the floo: The little man sprang up, a knife in his btood-spattered hand, and reached quickly into the clothing of his victim. As he fumbled in the negro's pockets, the Chinaman struck him with a billet of wood, and the mulatto woman caught his knife-hand. The three dusky fighters rolled and grappled, upsetting the miserable fur: niture of the room, while another hideous uproar began outside the threshold, and a scream of "The ghost! The ghost!" mingled with in- sistent beatings on the panels. Stepping clear as best he could from the struggle on the floor, Solano tore away the bolt. A man and woman, white-faced, shrieking, stumbled into the room--and at their heels came Flynn and Hogan, large, convincing pistols ready in their hands. Flynn shot his fist against the ear of the Chinaman, while Hogan, in most un- chivalric fashion, applied the gun-butt to the head of the mulatto woman. The writhing knot upon the floor re- solved itself into its proper tactors, and the little man whose knife had been driven into the body of big Sam rose, gaspingly. He drew his hand across his eyes to clear his brain and get his bearings--and then his gaze feil upon the face of young Brockett, not six feet away. Another frightful yell rang out, and, staggering straight at the man he thought he slew two nights before, the Filipino, Aguilar, fell shrieking to the ground. "Seems to be quite a collection of choice ghosts around here, me lads," remarked Officer Hogan, while his 'could to the bleeding negro, "This L f the captives could hardly keep their Ue brown party seems to take ye fel feet; the group swayed and weaved wan, an' it's meself as made a' fid from side to side like some huge, spook by the door. Flynn an' re broken-legged animal, and the boys was standin' in th' shadows, waitr'| Were almost trampled under the un- for youse two to give the signal, whn certain feet of the drunks and their we see these two well-dressed peoje | Suardians. As they broke ground to comin' to th' door. As luck wud hae | 8et free from the crowd, Brockett ft, I had taken off me hat an' ws| thought a hand sought his pocket, rubbin' me forehead with a handkr- | 20d, warned by the painful memory chicf, when they chanced to spy re. of recent happenings, snatched quick- Forthwith they tuk me for the ghet}!y at it. Hoe caught nothing. Hur- that loafs be night around these prea- | Tiedly thrusting his hand into his pocket, he brought up a scrap of pa- per, dingy and thumb-marked, but eriss-crossed with the sign of a fa- miliar code. Stepping over to the window he read, scrawled upon the dirty paper, these hieroglyphs: "L TC A SH FA SH TC FA PO SH 3BH Pos T SH A TC W SH PO Fin R BA TO 3BH Pos E L SH EL SV k TCHTO URE Fin SH TC E W TC Fin TO SH TO HR PO PO SB Fin W TO 83BH SH W HRELTOW FinR TO HR-TC EH L." "Some people have more luck than sense. Continue on route till further instructions," Brockett translated. The adventures which had _ their climax in the opium joint gave Brock- ett and Solano plenty of material for discussion as they rolled out on a southwestern train. This time the messengers made no attempt to dis- guise their course, but went straight to the station, bought their tickets and climbed aboard. Instead of pur- chasing the red or yellow slips which license you to toss about in the berths scout--I was the ghost. No other wil]| of the Pullman, however, they decided harm ye." lt to stay in the seats of the day-coach Flynn looked up from the prostratq and get what sleep they could, while negro. "The black boy isn't so badly, alternate three-hour watches were stuck," said he. "Give him a litle agreed on as the best way of fending care an' he'll be fit as a fiddle ir a) off any possible trouble. "The man week or so. How about the litle: who really wants to get you," re- brown wan? It was the brown wan marked Solano, sagely, "has a much that stuck the black wan, wasn't it, better chance in a Puilman than in an boys?" ordinary day-coach, and you take ten Aguilar was still unconselous. He times as many risks for your extra tossed moaned upon the floor, and money." Flynn, after satisfying himself that| Before beginning the night watches the Filipino was unharmed save from! the youngsters traversed the whole fright and a few blows on the head, | train, passing through the sleepers on tied him up with strips torn from the their way to the dining car, and satis- sheets of a bunk. Hogan, bending over | 'ied themselves that none of their en: big Sam, drew from his pockets a/ emies had started on the same jour- | ney. No German nobleman, big, gruff, | and devoted to his kaiser; no cat-like } Japanese, no slirking Filipinos, were | to be seen from smoker to diner, and, { as none of the berths were made up | early, there was no possibility of a | concealed antagonist crouching behind | the green curtains. After supper they | returned to their red-plushed perches, | and spent three hours dis ing the | happenings at Chicago, or the adven- tures yet to come. Solano fished from some inner pock. | et a tiny Anglo-Spanish text-book, and ) i head. All they cud see, I'm supposi', was me manly frame up to the nec, an' they certainly wint nutty with t' | horror ay it. 'The ghost, the ghost' | they begin to yell an' beat upon tl» | door. Ye opened it--an' we got i just in time to have a hand in an el- gant little battle. It's glad Iam I ws a ghost, for this felly might have pt up some argyment if he'd bad hs proper senses." Hogan, as he spoke, snapped hani- cuffs on the well-dressed man who hal come stumbling in when the dor sprang open. 'The prisener was stl all unnerved, and offered no objre- tion, while the woman who had av tered with him cowered in a corn, also utterly overcome "A good catch this," exulied Office} "The man is Jerry Killen r half a dozen clever cor jobs, an' the woman is Bessie Don van, a lovely little bit av a panel worker. -I knew that Jerry smoked but never knew this was where hd came to do it. Cheer up, Jerry, ol urged its importance upon h panion. "You may need "fo Ef ) few words of the language before very long," he insisted, "and now is -as | good a time to begin learni | | s any." 00k?" "Why not let me carry responded Brockett. "Then, ican starts any conversation, I can simply dig up the book and read him the proper answer." "Good idea," assented Solano, "'ex- cept in emergency cases. Suppose a large, thick revolutionist, of the bone- head variety, asks you to give a quick account of yourself, and has a rifle pointed at you while he is asking? And suppose, also, that he gives you, in Spanish, a time limit of two min- utes to make good? Are you going to resurrect the book, begin with the sentence, 'The dog of my uncle has bitten the left leg of the cow belong- heys, with shaking hands,| ing to my father," and go down the mpartments. pages till you find the proper sen- rg present for duty, iads?" | tence for the exigency?" 1 Officer Hogan. Brockett chortled, to the intense an- noyance of an elderly lady across the | SOMETHIG [LASHED 1 THE 1 LE Mien OF THE ROU, ellaneous trinkets, pol me crumpled currency, y your belt here, lads," , Gisappointedly. brown wan's pockets," end Brockett, thrust. 3 into Aguilar's~ ap: rout of sheer delight as rs elcsed upon the well-re red leather. Out came the belt rg excent about $200 of money," replied the joyots Brock "The big fellow probably spent t celebrating. I think I under, nd now just how a man feels when he has been pardoned on the morn: mersed himself in its pages till ten o'clock, when it was time for the first watch to begin--a duty which had fallen to Brockett by the flipping of a ing of his hanging." penny. Closing the book, he leaned "Ym -dommed glad," heartily spoke' pack against» the plush, resolved to Officer Hogan, while both policemen! keep his eyes open and give Solano a wrung the youngsters' hands, "We've| fair chance for his three-hour nap-- 'all done well this night, an' if we were| and discovered, as he gazed on his drinkin' men it's sure some blowout! companion, that the Cuban had stolen 'we'd have for the occasion. What's; an indefinite space of time upon him that, me boy? Money? Ah, put it| and was already sound asleep. / back. Put it back. The prizes we Nothing happened to 'disturb the have gobbled this night are worth} travelers, through the night, but the more to us than all the money Y4| alternation of three-hour periods left could hand us, an' we were lookin' for| them in a more or less drowsy, half- no graft on this particular evenin'." | dazed condition when morning came. x ; The train was bowling aiong through the half-fenced, half-cultivated fields of Arkansas; Solano was nodding in his seat, and Brockett was trying to CHAPTER XXi, The missing property safe in the hands of its rightful custodians-- absorb som he Anglo-Span- through sheer good fortune, not! fae ee en oP aon through skill or Sherlock Holmes' Sagacity--and only a limited"space of ")™ +4} time remaining for the journey to the, SS Rio Grande, it was only natural that = peers ae / | aD ME STROVE FR) P WaRME Te CANT DOM cant radon! ; Wh e@ younemestensers should wish to Pen: 4-7 , town Of Littie sccm, Gazing Irom the, windows the boys were finding consid- erable amusement in the signs which (old of racial segregation--such plac- ards, for example, as those upon & restaurant, "White Side," "Colored Side," and other marks of sharp dis- tinction, when half a dozen long, lean, clay-colored Arkansans came tramp- Ing down the aisle, The conductor preceded the group aisle, and. seized the book. .//de™im= SS INIPISSING CENTRAL RAILWAY TIME TABLE Effective Sept 6, 1915 Daiiy Excerr SUNDAY of Little Rock citizens, led them straight to the double seat where ; Brockett and Solano were reposing, and halted abruptly. ; "These young men," said he, "are description. Go ahead and make your do for you." "You two boys," said the leader of the Arkansans, impressively, "had bet- ter speak right out and tell me the truth, now, and nothing else. Your names are Harry Brockett and Ramon Solano, ain't they?" "Not exactly," parried Brockett. "My name is Thomas Jackson and my friend's name is Henry Hawkins." "J don't believe you, young feller," dissented the sheriff, sternly. "There's nobody else on this train answers the description I've got here, and, further- more--". with one quick clutch he twined his fingers in Brockett's col- lar, unbuttoned it, and jerked it from the shirt--"furthermore, boy, the Jaun- dry initials in this here collar is H. B. Reckon you're the parties, all O. K. Come with me quietly--it'll be easier for you if you do." "What's it all about? What's this foolishness mean, anyhow?" demanded Solano. "Oh, Nething at all," aughed the sheriff, his stern features relaxing. "Only a wire from the prop- Crit Le Lrerer (or Wool Vew ld er authorities in Chicago to arrest and hold you two boys on complaint of some German feller--Baron Zollern, that's the name. Charge, stealing val- uable papers. Will you come over to the lockup nice ard quiet, boys, or must we carry you?" CHAPTER XxXIil. "Yes, young fellers," the sheriff con- tinued, "you stand accused of gettin' some mighty valuable documents from the German gentleman. He'll be Gewn by the next train to identify you, and, in the meanwhile, I'd jest better take charge of any papers or letters you two may be carryin'. Of course, I ain't sayin' he's right and you're wrong. That's to be shown at the hearin' before the proper authori- ties. Anyway, I'll see if you are totin' anything like what he claims was taken from him," -- The sheriff thrust an inquistive hand into the front of Brockett's shirt, and at the same identical moment. that section of the car seemed filled with life, animation and agitated doings. Brockett, as the sheriff. bent forward, drove his knee savagely upward, and the sheriff, with a yowl of anguish and surprise, fell back, doubling up and going to the floor. His falling body completely blocked, the aisle so far as his deputies were concerned, and there was really no reason why Solano should reach across the intervening space to smite one of the worthy Ar- Kansans upon the nose. He did, how- ever, and the deputy, falling upon his chief, made the progress of the con- stabulary doubly difficult. Before they could get the tangle cleared, both boys were out of the car, and were dash- ing up alittle runway which slopes downward to the Little Rock station. They were two good city blocks away and-not™losingatiy ground" when the frantic sheriff and his men tumbled hurry on their road. They did not in- y nt terrogate either the wounded negro or the captive Filipino, much ag they \ would have desired to do so, for neith- ' er was in condition to stand an inter-_} ~~ \ ' CX \\, view. They did manage, however, to Y) get this igformation, through the good offices of Flynn: that it was not the \i s Filipino from whom the giant African | had wrested the belt in the corridor of the hotel. How big Sam had fall- wei en in with Aguilar, how the islander \ probed the secret of the negro's sud- \ NS \\ den affluence, and how he alsolearned |2p "SS of the more valuable contents of the; | > pele thease were mysteries reserved | x or later solution. The boys were glad ~~. enough, under present carck nee Se gL La Ge pols their property and be on. EE CUE OW 4 eir way. They were standing near the ser- geant's desk in the police station on bE oO Lae bidding good-; " : z ys to the officers who h so much to aid them, ete = Tae lash sentences, when a slowing up, a bunch of "harness bulls" came in, !#lssing of slackened steam and a jar- hustling a clump of intoxicated pris- he stop announced arrival in the from. the Car, elide Beds jnutes later they vanished into a jungly networs own inquiries, sheriff--that's all I can | aw a ranma | Cars leave north end T. & N. O. Stations Cobalt, for Haileybury and Brewster Street, Haileybury {for Cobalt at 5.45 A. M., and every thirty minutes there- after until 11.15 P. M., except Saturday, the only ones aboard who answer the | when Jast car leaves Cobalt for Haileybury at 12.35 A. M. Cars leave north end T. & N. O. Station © Cobalt for New Liskeard at 5 A. M., and. 5.45 A. M., and every hour thereafter un- FS 10.45 P. M., inclusive. Cars leave Kerr Lake Station for Cobalt, |Haileybury, North Cobalt and New Liskeard at 6.45 a.m., 7.45 a.m. pa car m. and 3.15 p.m, and every hour there- after until 10.15 p.m. inclusive. 'The 16.55 a.m., 7.45 a.m. and 1I.15 P™, Cars. |run to barn North Cobalt only. Cars leave north end T.&N.O Sta., Cobalt for Kerr Lake at 6.15, 7-15 a, ™,, 10.45 'a.m.2,45pm and hourly thereafter until1o0.45 |p. M. inclusive, ex-cept Saturdays when 'last car leaves Cobalt for Kerr Lake at \i15 P.M. Cars leave Vendome Hotel, Haileybury. Jat5.35 a.m., 6.15 a.m and every hour~ | thereafter for New Liskeard until 11.15 | p.m. inclusive. | Cars leave Vendome Hotel, Haileybury \for North Cobalt and Cobalt at a quarter to and a quarter past the hour, Cars leave Vendome Hotel, Haileybury, for Kerr Lake at 2:15 p.m and every hour thereafter until 10:15 p,m inclusive, Cars leaving Vendome Hotel, Haileybury at 5:45 a.m., 6.45 a.m, and 10.15 a. will | connect with Kerr Lake cars at Cobalt. | Cars leave North Cobalt for Kerr Lake lat 6:00am, 10:39 a,m, 2;30 p.m and every hour until Io;30 ».m niclusive Car leaving North Cohalt at 7 a.1_ will com- nect with Kerr Lake car at cobalt. Cars leave North Cobalt ter Cobalt and Haileybury on the hour and half hour, for New Liskeard on the hour Cars leave New Liskeard, Cor. Sharpe | and Armstrong Sts., for Hailey bury, North 'Cobalt, and Cobalt at 5;45 a.m and every hour thereafter until{10:45pm inclusive. For Kerr Lake at I.45 p.m and every hour thereafter until 10:45 p.m iuclusive. Car lieaving New Liskeard at ':45 a.m will jconnect with Kerr Lake car at Cobalt | 'This time table subject to change with- service see Time Table card. = Tickets for sale at the following points: Nipissing Gentral Office, North Cobalt. - Strong Drug Store, Hailey bury. Neil's Drug Store, New Liskeard. \ out notice, For Sunday | | Nipissing Central Railway Station, Kerr_ ' Lake. For Spevial cars apply A. J. Pajr, G.F.&P.A.North Bay Hy Synopsis of Coal Mining Regulations. COAL mining rights of the Dominion in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, the Yukon Territory, the North-West Territories andin a portion of the Pro vince of British Colnmbia, may be leased foraterm of twenty-one years at an annual rental of $1 anacre. Not more than 2,560 acres will be leased to one ap- plicant Application for a lease must be made by the applicant in person to the Agent or-Sub-Agent of the district in which the rights applied for are situated. In surveyed territory the land must be described by sections, or legal sub-divi- sions of sections, and in unsurvyeyed ter-- ritory the tract applied fer shall be staked out by the applicant himself. Each application must be accompanied by a fee of $5 which will be refunded if the rights applied for are not available, but not otherwise. A royality shall be paid on the merchantable output of the mine at-the rate of five cents per ton. / The person operating the mine shall I returns ac- counting for the full quantity of mer- chantable coal mined and pay the royalty thereon. If the ceca mining rights are not being opereted turns should be furnished zt .east once a BASE ~The leas@ will inciude the coal mining rights only, but the lessee way be per-- mitted to purchase whatever available surface rights may be considered ne- cessary for the working of the mine at the rate of $10,o0an acre. For full infurmation application should be made to the Secretary of the Depart~ ment of the Interior, Ottawa, or to any Agent or Sub-Agent of Dominion Lands, W. W. CORY, ~ Deputy Minister of the Interior. N. B.--Unauthorized publication of adyertisisement,;will not be paid. for. A REPRESENTATIVE WANTED emanate a it at ence for Haileybury: and of vines and..shrubbery beside .the river. The' sheriff sighted the disappear- ing figures and trained a long blue re- | volver on the fast-receding Brockett. | He might not have hit his target at | that distance and ke might only have | fired in the air to frighten the quarry ; inte surrender. However this might ; be, he never delivered the bullet. A small, stocky boy, intensely Irish of general feature, stumbled against the gallant sheriff at this juncture, and for the second time in two minutes fue valorous official sought the sod.: Rising, he aimed a well-meant kick at' the youngster, who was perhaps ten feet away as the boot whizzed and then, realizing that the mishap was plrely accidental, paid no further at- tention to the newest, dlisturber. (Continued Next Week) : mmreroretiensy " "NURSERIES winter when you can take up a paying agency 7 see: % ' Planting.' Liberal Terms, Outfit. Exclusive Territory, § ---- Write now for particuiars. -- STONE & WELLINGTON -- Toronto, Ont. - such re-_ OLD RELIABLE FONTHILL | FARMERS ! Why remain idle all : Choice list of varieties for Spring Handsome ; Free -- ------