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l Goo U) 0000060 OOOOOOOOOOOOQOOOOOUOHO ('0 “3+ . i. .. ‘4 y a». .35 ”,- 3 AH.‘ u k. ,, J «.1 ‘3. 44 PRISM gyms”, FRIDAY. DEC. 13th, 12, ” SHAW’S SCHOOLS? Thanh" Canada, include the , t‘ellti'ul Rumiess College: The ' Central Telegraph 3-3 Railroad “pH-.31, and Four City Branch BUSY-“:5 Schools All provide excslpflg courses leading to good ~"1.l.’l{‘lt‘il positions. vFree cata- mme on request. Write for it. “1 H. .‘ll'UV, President. Head 0.5.3.... Yonge it Gerrard Sts, 1121‘4359- ll - (gm-cf: -\ ‘ . , . â€"l DR. J. M.:RIC .. ‘e-eslgzgm Hot?“ ::~~uluate of’the Ontario Vezarinaryi‘vlit‘g’e-v Poet Gradu- 3:90? :5..- linyal Veterinary Col- lege1 ale» or the London School of Tfoplt‘dl )lt‘tl‘dlne. pay ‘llltl night calls promptly at- tendr‘iy . nemlszrv .1 specialty. growsome detailsâ€"tho the trail in the early morning; band of hostile Indians suddenly ing place in the bluffs; the dilcovery Charges of their presence; the desperate effort Phone 387, office and mtlsmzc. ‘ _ at escape; the swerving from the w\.1juv:r‘_‘.‘\‘.”““ Emmi] and open trail in vain hope of reaching 1‘9“}! 1 ._ » the river and finding protection un- ‘ ‘ I derneath its banks: the frightened ‘““ .. mules galloping wildly, hailed into a .” W ' , frenzy by (Lt: than on horseback; 1‘ g ‘pounding of the ponies’ hoofs, pu::c- ‘ tuated by the O exultant yells of the I . pursuers. Again he swore: : “Of all the blame fools!” , F; _ CHAPTER 1! VT? ”if" v '7' I __ m, .. p. . _. Y, Whatever might be the nature of the tragedy it would be over with long before this, and those moving black spots away yonder to the west, that he had discerned from the bluff, were undoubtedly the departing raiders. ,» There was nothing left for Keith to 2 do except determine the fate of the unfortunates, and give their bodies de- cent burial. That any had escaped. or yet lived. was altogether unlikely, unless, perchance, women had been in the party, in which case they would haVe been borne away prisoners. Confident that no hostiles would be ‘ left behind to observe his movements, ‘ Keith pressed steadily forward, leadâ€" I O S Cleaned, Repaired a n d Remodellsd 2 ’ The Scene of Tragedy. i New Furs Made to Order m g' as. F. MULLETT : ,3, :14. Kent-st, Lindsay .\' .arlyi app.;PostIOdice '/ * ‘ ing his horse. He had thus traversed , . . . . ,. fully half a mile before coming upon "o\,-o‘-O-O‘-0“f\\3 000000 000 3 """ kw . (g any evidence of a fightâ€"here the pur- 0 WILMOT‘I' F. WEKSTEB <> suers had apparently come up with 5 : . a . F b ' o the wagons. and Circled out upon 9 r ” 'r' ‘3“;l':r"i:‘urém “met 2 either side. From their ponies' tracks 9 “ “ . there must have been a dozen in the 2 OAKWOOD, ONT. 8 band. Perhaps a hundred yards furth~ ’ fig. . er along lay two dead ponies. Keith Ifxf3f§§§©\?'°°°°o°°’°. ‘examined them closelyâ€"both had l i been ridden with saddles, the marks " . . ' , of the cinches plainly visible. Evi- TH: CVl‘)‘ C] Y i '1 ‘ dently one of the wagon mules had i also dropped in the traces here, and l had been dragged along by his mates. i Just beyond came a sudden depression . in the prairie down which the wagons i had plunged so heavily as to break one of the axles; the wheel lay a few yards away, and, somewhat to. the right, there lay the wreck of the wag- on itself, two dead mules still in the traces, the vehicle stripped of con-- tents and charred by fire. A hundred feet further along was the other ‘ BRAND READY MADE top ripped open, while between the: two were scattered odds and ends of wearing apparel and provisions, with a. pile of boxes smoking grimly. The .remaining mules were gone, and no) semblance of life remained anywhere. {Keith dropped his reins over his horse's head, and, with Winchester cocked and ready, advanced cau- ,tiously. I I l Death from violence had long since l'become almost a commonplace occur- I rence to Keith, yet now he shrank for l, I \ lads fromlgPurs Lead and Linseed Oil McLEN NAN C0 an instant as his eyes perceived the figure of a man ._._..â€"_____ lying motionless T'scross the broken wagon tongue. The fgrizzled hair and beard were streaked [pwith blood, the face almost unrecog- f sizable, while the hands yet grasped fia bent and shattered rifle. Evidently the man had died fighting, beaten W h ' jdown by overwhelming numbers after I I :expending his last shot. Then those ' ' 3 fiends had scalped and left him where Opt1c1an ? = he fell. Fifty feet beyond, shot in the back, lay a younger man, doubled ..,»".;sses artistically fitted ' ~1;.~un:iugs best adapted up in a heap, also scalped and dead. ‘f V‘." 331L135 are a facxal of gravel under the river bank, before .1 ' ; . . To you who rc- That was all; Keith scouted over a ‘ he could fully satisfy himself there tne newest and wide circle. even scanning the stretch s . date are preferred I. were no others in the party. It seem- i ed impossible that these two traveling r\ J 'v Av» « v . a. p cal department alone would have ventured upon such .3 .- :1: gusting all the lat- a trip in the face of known Indian ' or comfort and hostility. Yet they muSt have done so, and once again his lips muttered: '2“:")9 are the sec- “of all the blame fools!” a A..LAA a . p -.;r s:::ccss. Suddenly be halted, staring about ; over the prairie. obsessed by a new i I .337?» l I :2 accurate lenses and i i thought, an aroused suspicion. There i had appeared merely the hoof-prints of the one horse alongside of the flee- : ing wagons when they first turned 1 out from the trail, and that horse had l been newly shod. But there were two I l l dead ponies lying back yonder; neith- ~ er shod. yet both had borne saddles. .\ iore than this. they had been Spur- red, the blood marks still plainly vis- ible, and one of them was branded; he remembered it now, a star and ar- \_ row. What could all this portend? Was it possible this attack was no . _‘ Indian affair after all? Was the dis- Til 3"”1 want your figuring of bodies, the scalping, mere- -"9- "A Mr Rubbers re- . . I done to make it 3. ar the act of Well take them to y ppe savages? Driven to investigation by .,,, ‘ this suspicion, he passed again over vs the trampled ground, marking this l- H U 30 HE time every separate indentation, ev- . \‘___ ery faintest imprint of hoof or foot. There was no impression of a mocca- â€"â€"theâ€") sin anywhere; every mark remaining 0 was of booted feet. The inference LINDSAY 3HOE MAKER was sufficiently plainâ€"this had been \_ the deed of white men, not of red; foul \* murder, and not savage war. Repairs while you wait. The knowledge seemed to sear \ Keith's brain with fire, and he sprang to his feet, hands clinched and eyes blazing. He could have believed this of Indians, it was according to their :c...re. their method of warfare; but Lindsay‘s; andWilliam-st. N swooping out from some obscure hid- s- ‘ 0 Wm Vitoermsss wAs KING: Evcfnl hwsmvions BY Dunn-an Hawaii mush A. c. Keeling O 0o.. a. perceived the picture in all “a itbe cowardliness of it, the atrocity of two mule- drawn wagons moving slowly along the I l , *LEOFTHEDLAIHS DAHpALL DAnmen- - . Or MY LADY Or M oouvu’ 1910.) €tho act, as perpetrated by men of his lawn race, instantly aroused within fhim 'a desire for vengeance. He {wanted to run the fellows down, to discover their identity. Without {thinking of personal danger he ran forward on their trail, which led di~ rectly westward, along the line of 'cottonwoods. These served to con- ceal his own movements, yet. for the moment, burning with passion, he was utterly without caution, without slightest sense of peril. He must ' know who was guilty of such a crime; ghe felt capable of killing them even as : he would venomous snakes. It was a E'perfectly plain trail to follow, for the ,ffugitives, apparently convinced of _',safety, and confident their cowardly 'ideed would be charged to Indian raid- ,ers, had made no particular effort at _ what he knew now, only desirous of . not being seen. wagon, its tongue broken. the canvas ! Ehe retreated openly, without making concealment, but had ridden away at 'a gallop, their horses' hoofs digging deeply into the soft turf. On this re- treat they had followed closely along the river bank, aiming for the ford. and almost before he realized it Keith was himself at the water’s edge where the trail abruptly ended. staring vaguely across toward the opposxte shore. Even as he stood there, real- izing the futility of further pursuit amid the maze of sand dunes opposite, the sharp reports of two rifles reach- ed him, spurts of smoke rose from the farther bank, and a bullet chugged into the ground at his feet, while an- other sang shrilly overhead. These shots, although neither came sufficiently near to be alarming, serv- ed to send Keith to cover. Cool-head- ed and alert now, his first mad rage dissipated. he scanned the opposite bank cautiously, but could nowhere discover any evidence of life. Little by little he comprehended the situa- tion, and decided upon his own ac- tion. The fugitives were aware of hi.c presence, and would prevent hi. crossing the stream, yet they were not at all liable to return to this side and thus reveal their identity. To attempt any further advance would be madness, but he felt perfectly secure from molestation so long as he re- mained quietly on the north shore. Those shots were merely a warning to keep back; the very fact that the men firing kept concealed was proof positive that they simply wished to be left alone. They were not afraid of Confident as to this. the slightest short to conceal his movements, until he had regained the scene of murder. In evidence of the truth of his theory no further shots were fired, and although he watched that opposite sand bank carefully, not the slightest movement revealed the presence of others. That every mo- tion he made was being obserVed by keen eyes he had no doubt, but this knowledge did not disconcert him, now that he felt convinced fear of re vealment would keep his watchers at a safe distance. Whoever they might be they were evidently more anxious to escape discovery than he was fear- ful of attack, and possessed no desire to take his life, unless it became necessary to prevent recognition. They still had every reason to believe their attack on the wagons would be credited to hostile Indians, and would consider it far safer to remain con- cealed, and thus harbor this supposi- tion. They could not suspect that Keith had already stumbled upon the truth, and was determined to verify it. , Secure in this conception of the sit- uation, yet still keeping a wary eye about to guard against any treachery, the plainsman, discovering a spade in the nearest wagon, hastily dug a hole Sick Headache and relieve all the troubles inci- dcrt tan bilimzs state of the system, such :15 Dizziness, Naueca, Drowsiness, Distress after ctr-:1". Pain in t‘:e Side, ;c. \Vhllc their most :Mablc cut-ecss has bccn shown in curing $30K Headache, yet Carter’s Little Liver Pills are equal 1y valuable in Constipation, curing and pre- v. ntmg this annoyinocomplnint. while theyalso correct all disorders ofthe stomach. stimulatcthe liar and regulate the bowels. .Evenif theyonly ..... 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Theysrc strict! vegetable and do not 8:1» or mg: by gentle action please who mmmmmmm‘ humanism :their own guilt, they might easily feel - he sand, wrapped the aen Wigs 'in blankets, and deposited them there- in, piling above the mound the char- Ired remains of. boxes as some slight lprotection against prowling wolves. lHe searched the clothing of the men, ibut found little to reward the effort, -'a few letters which were slipped into {his pockets to be read later, some or- ;dinary trinkets hardly worth preserv- ling except that they might assist in gidentifying the victims, and. about the lneck of the elder man, a rather pe- lculiar locket, containing a portrait ipainted on ivory. Keith was a long ltime opening this. the spring being . my. .e._y conccaieu, put up...“ finally succeeding, he lo'o‘lked upon the features of a woman of middle age, a strong mature face of marked re- finement, exceedingly attractive still. with smiling dark eyes, and a perfect wealth of reddish brown hair. He held the locket open in his hand for several minutes, wondering who she could be, and what possible connec- tion she could have held with the dead. Something about that face smiling up into his own held peculiar fascination for him, gripping him with a strange feeling of familiarity, touch- ing some dim memory which failed to respond. Surely he had never seen the original, for she was not one to be easily forgotten, and yet eyes, hair, expression. combined to remind him of some one whom he had seen but could not bring definitely to mind. There were no names on the locket, no marks of identification of any kind, yet realizing the sacredness of it, Keith slipped the fragile gold chain about his neck, and securely hid the trinket beneath his shirt. It was noon by this time, the sun high overhead, and his horse, with dangling rein, still nibbling daintily at the short grass. There was no rea- son for his lingering longer. He swept his gaze the length and breadth of the desolate valley, and across the river over the sand hills. All alike appear» ed deserted. not a moving thing being visible between the binds and the stream. Still he had the unpleasant feeling of being watched, and it made him restless and eager to be away. The earlier gust of anger, the spirit 'of revenge, had left him, but it had merely changed into a. dogged resolu- tion to discover the perpetrators of this outrage and bring them to justice for the crime. The face in the locket seemed to ask it of him. and his na- ture urged response. But he could hope to accomplish nothing more here, and the plainsman swung him- self into the saddle. He turned his ,‘horse's head eastward. and rode :away. From the deeply rutted trail he lookedxback to where the fire still smoked in the midst of that desolate silence. CHAPTER ill An Arrest The Santa Fe trail was far too ex- posed to be safely traveled alone and in broad daylight, but Keith consid- ered it better to put suiiicient space between himself and those whom he felt confident were still watching his movements from across the river. _How much they might already suspi- cion his discoveries he possessed no means of knowing, yet, conscious of safer if he were also put out of the way. He had no anticipation of opct attack, but must guard against trench ery. As he rode. his eyes never left those far-away sand dunes, although. he perceived no movement, no black dot even which he could conceive to be a possible enemy. Now that he possessed ample time for thought, the situation became more puzzling. This tragedy which he had accidental]; stumbled upon rrust have had a cause other than blind chance. It was the culmination of a plot, with some rea son behind more important than crdi nary robbery. Apparently the wagons contained nothing of value, merely the clothing, provisions, and ordinary utensils of an emigrant party. Nor had the victims' pockets been care- fully searched. Only the mules had been taken by the raiders. and they would be small booty for such a crime. The trail, continually skirting the high bluff and bearing farther away from the river, turned sharply into a narrow ravine. There was a consid- erable break in the rocky barrier here, leading back for perhaps a hun- dred yards, and the plainsman turned his horse that way, dismounting when out of sight among the boulders. Hf could rest here until night with little danger of discovery. He lay down 0: the rocks, pillowing his head on the saddle, but his brain was too active A Bullet bhugged into the Ground at His Foot. to permit sleeping. Finally he drew the letters from out his pocket, and began examining them. The! yield- ed very llLLie information, tnose tak- en from the older man having no en- velopes to show to whom they had been addressed. The single document found in the pocket of the other was a memorandum of account at the Pioneer Store at Topeka, charged to John Sibley, and marked paid. This then must have been the younger man’s name, as the letters to the oth- ‘er began occasionally “Dear Will." They were missives such as a wife might write to a husband long ab- PAGE W. Loss-Proofâ€"- WOMEN are fast learn- ing the advantages of Express Money Orders in sending. money through the m ails. An Express of Lindsay was called upon to take the chair during the election and in- oificers were elected to 'oflice: sent, yet upon a mission of deep in- terest to both. Keith could not fully determine what this mission might be, as the persons evidently understood each other so thoroughly that more allusion took the place of detail. Twice the name Phyllis was mention- ed, and once a “Fred" was also re- ferred to, but in neither instance clearly enough to reveal the relation- ,ship, although the latter appeared to he pleaded for. Certain references caused the belief that these letters had been mailed from some small Mis- souri town, but no name was men- tioned. They were invariably signed “Mary." The only other paper Keith discovered was a brief itinerary of the Santa Fe trail extending as far west as the Raton Mountains, giving the usual camping spots and places where water was accessible. He slipped the papers back into his pocket with a distinct feeling of disappointment, and lay back staring up at the little strip of blue sky. The silence was profound, even his horse standing mo- tionless, and finally he fell asleep. (To continued . l OBITUARY JAMES WHITE The death occurred in Urillia on Saturday last of James White, who during his life was prominently iden- tified with lumbering along the Trent waterway. He came to Long- ford Mills in 1871, there taking em- ployment with the then firm of Thomson Millar. Up to 1879 he was in charge of the depot at Up-i hill, County of Victoria. In that; year he entered the service of the' Order is easy to obtain, Simple to understand, ' and always safe. There is no need to register letters containing Express Money Orders. They are loss- proof.‘ All pro- gressive stores and merchants p r c f e r to receive remittances in this wayâ€"if an order goes astray in the mails the m o n c y is promptly refunded or a new order issued free of charge. Both sender and receiver are fully protected by using EVcry railway station has an Express Office where "Orders" may be obtained. and in almost every town there are branch Office- ! located in the residential ‘ districts. $5 and under . . 3c“, OverSStoSlO . . 6 " " in " so . is " 30 " so . 15 ” . d , H 22:22:: stainless? .2: 'TRUSTEE ANDERSON d t' . f :2: if:§.‘§§.2:iff°.§2§i’§f...°. HAS RESIGNED was brought to a close. Resignations seemed to be catching â€"â€"- last night at the meeting of the Georgian Bay Lumber 00-. at Wauâ€" MATERNITY HOUSE l Board of EduCation. Jas. W. Ander- baushene, where he remiained aboutl Son surprised the board by announCo two years. From Waubaushene he LOSES [TS LICENSE ing that as his occupation would went. for the same firm. to Byns call him out of town most of the Inlet. This concern having mm the The Toronto Star has the follow- coming year, he felt it his (hit? to Byng Inlet millsv M" White came ‘0 ing: Irregularity in the management 'resisn in favor of somebody else who Ofillia in 1893. taking employment of a maternity house conducted at would be in close touch with the with McCormick 8: McLeod, as book-é 19 Wellesley avenue by Mrs. Wm. H. work. lgsmg keeper and confidential clerk, ro- . Parker, has resulted in the holder Mr. AnderSOn was persuaded by his maimng ““1 them till. the firm was ; being deprived of her license by the colleagues to continue as a member dissolved..From that time up to the, Provincial Secretary’s Department. until the close of the current year. time 0‘ hm death, Mr. White was a The cause, as explained by the au- His resignation, to take place at valued and trusted employee of MI" thorities, was a. false return sub- that time, was accepted on motion H' J' Bartlett. mitted to the department regarding of Trustees McLennan and Dr. White. the birth of a child about seven During his term of office as a mem- WILLIAM THORNBURY months ago. From the story told by her of the Board of Education Mr. the Stafi Inspector there were tWO Anderson has been a valued member INSTALLING OFFICER women. One wished the birth of a and has always been willing to un- child concealed. The semnd, from a dertake any duties assigned him, "'"‘" small village near Lindsay came to and has been Very regular in his The annual meeting. 0f L.O.L. 935 the city to adopt an infant. To ar- attendance at the meetings. was held in Glenarm on Dec. 3, with ' range matters to be mutually satis- --â€"- 3 large number present. After the reâ€" factory, it is stated the Wellesley BORN gular business Bro. Wm. Thornbury, avenue house management reported to the Provincial Department that the country woman was the mother. i EARLâ€"In Omemee, on Friday, Dec. stallation of officers. The followmg This class of house recently camel 6th, 1912, to Dr. and Mrs. Earl, a. D. P. McKenzieâ€"W. lid. Robt. Hargraveâ€"D. M. R. McFadyenâ€"Chap. D. A. Spencehâ€"Rec. Sec. ~ Dougald SpencehFin. Sec. H. BoydchTreas. R. Nicholsonâ€"Lect. D. Fergusonâ€"D. C. D. Campbellâ€"Sr. Com. 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