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Port Perry Star, 11 Feb 1914, p. 2

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CHAPTER XXXIIL--(Cont'd.) Pull raelf together, e pig 've 8 EL 2 yo our heads straigh BU. one, 1 knew od [ollowed her, pad hey told me at my place had been to his ri hy lin wild cat.--You don't kno gone? That's , bad. But t Dota 4 tt - chance for us, 7k saw Koshk vening; he was, in a ttle owe 2 Some entlemen of hi ched him go out th indifadunia 4 oud be gross flattery vy 'went eastward. ha s ire Mina is, and Clive Harvey: /b 00, i Now, , we'll Bo xe round to that Tib pond . et! her We oan A eat 1 2hy n; entry. EE) hed ahd be oh tap, while 1 loa thisirev oluer. which 1 Sausht up out of a drhwer as I was leaving. Tibby set her, teeth, tora off hi Zen e hat, turned on the.tap oar Ee and held her head under the cold Stre m of water. 'You've got some sense, Mr, Quilton, Bh , as she came up Pb EuSnIng and orn her face ani ith a ack- "That's put or strite. And now, if you! ve got one of those pistols for me---" n._shook his head as he volver in. his ke by," he said. pan. Ta HR umn mv sense of your cuteness, | you observe, Tibby, by reauesting your company; and 1 beg vou will not disap-' pe by screaming or squealing. or e Haid way to that 'universal e h 4 bi i Ti cr ooke fo a w. er eyes nel th her Fg Sra eh $Te re Ww me, Jean you, sally mer dual waxwork tne VB] p ot 6° er ArhER rn Tk, as they went quickly ho ed, an of oy Hora' 18) lowly. vihen Shey} 2 ached the street, enin| pice again as"they '1éft the Rents be-) uilton led the way down igh th asi rich with fruit ripe for Ihewall da sof 'drunk hell, way bos roy 8 of drunken me! FERRED SH Re they' 'reached = a 'low- Pred "Villainous public-house. As | they did so, a Quliton hosed through inashaif-open DOrWay, touched bi rm. A dirty, disreputal le-looking wheeler 'had drawn' 'upd' few yar ras ict, Ms Satiered fie fateniden'sy by ood-stained bandag: arsed out a third man, who ap o 'be 'dead or unconscious 'and him as Quickly ae as {hey could, for Xe stagger: ay ig SC ie ton, who hay rawn oli Pr the dark and evil shadows,' it | hands, uickly as Quilton; for he, fife lng» by @ thread an ue' of his ety trembling, to the river. ain. | sky was _cleating and be nin Ww y dimly' m, culated to chill the 8 th) onid not be {i ned; al of Dates. Lorrors, wit Death 8s the ral seem ana Tio "Shidderad. 'and could Tepresy a. aint tm oan. er. tni® Kosh PP his Tgutiral voice scarcely witon, who was, of cours a nd oar so that he shou Koshi n front of hii him, loo s shou Sagernen he could scers nothing o | Brongn he saw rough the mu ore; he knew on at the or, and he qu! i men Were now --pulling. forces, with the perspiration streamin fr om their faces, their teeth clench: and a Buse audi: m rk t! g about the LILA that the ater ith fearful eagerness.: denlys as the uttered a cry, a : a, ther Quilton_ saw it almost | did, and both men strained al They came alongside it. Heh! o face. . Both m ACH ized har, . ant t Tibb: y an ht the lifeless form to bos nv "She's dead, she's dead!" Te "She's Quiet now! iit her. life! she' e not! 8he's by! Be: calml eShes remember: urs! brandy---give her a'lltt A not too much. Our work's not yet done: there's Har- find." said, Koshkl with an dark hey made for it on "almost incre- a' it, and hauled vey to here he, is!" oath, and he pointed a another objeet- just ahead: of dible Clive aboard. Bo in silence, speed, grabbe His at "Is he dena whispered Tibby hoarse- ibe much ' use Jy. "If, he is, it won't bringing her to life." Quiitoni 'stretched out his hand for thie brandy; presentl he sald; Sn yes, 'he's 'a ive; Bot for that ruined shed where light 1s." he said' to Koshkl sternly. "i hrout oh was rh 1 kinds the ot 5 aa Pulling ve gun. Hght Ta it was oint they were e making ned, his s 8tpoke, ran de Tibby was leaning forward scan- shot abreast of the faint light, she sprang to her. Jeet, sade ane el" Der, cried, mong 10' Uttie ahead. it as soon as she the oar. a the dull f the moon revealed Mina's While; she tel nd Tibby fags }opes were cut, and her | shel wal t a 'Quilton whe had been feeling for, Minas heart, uttered a hoarse cry of alive! 'We are fighting for 3 in your Here's( h case was worse than ina's; and "Quilton, after severing his nds, bent over himifor some minutes nt we' must SEOs at.once, and get n dostens e .news? Hem--al Sou Do Zon. ty woman Ww 8 x her 'on bu a, fate past: about ¢| o Yer 3 al 4 used to nder play &t th rey Th Ah, you dont) them ing an for Bay frien ow Mice, , I. took the 1 at once placed Snder YL ying nd I'm glad to say that Cheiterieien, when he returned to town had been up to Scotland quite' ap- proved of, ihe steps I rr ra SerrhL ulita vee Joma: ona an ously; ore sui at stared at the wall as kind of odes we and a long talk ith I rd chide about--about wie at Pini Guflton Xo $n Quilton: ETA ent whi stow could count twenty; then he sal aid 5] toxly a and (Tog. deb a8 if they had {scuss- debatable roints ie am one of thos rds Whe. consider ri Siiy ory B that a Foreign Secre should Tot content with sticking : home, here he England, and fred bing ha oftite in o Ditehat) Hh 1 vat he he' Shout Bo abroad, himself acquaint- 1 ed with the Toa nations with which A Ti ef a tods 0 be min Inings ing a bit mach just n Sw Aipiod on a long political tours has for'a moment. "And Lady 1 accompanies. him; Lor course. 'Lord Chesterleigh has arrangements which will bermit of ee a Jon tour, and will be away for many. One 8. He came to see you when you were at your very worst, 'your very. barmiest, and was naturally much distressed by yeur _ and until you h Salen a deolded Zor OF the I ketter. or An e Jeft & Ineashge 0 wr fo "think. Ta better give it to you Porte you strong &nough?* ! be continued.) , onditiont indeed, ' lie would not leave' a ve: it. FROM PAGE TO 10 LEGISLATOR. ri fledged the following year he forsook the t paging game to become & printer's {apprentice in 'the office of the Ot- 'tawa Citizen, graduating as a full- Typographical Union man five years later. But somehow or other politics and journalism seem- ed to call him with an irresistible force, and after four years at the. i printing business he went down to r | Montresl as a reporter on one of the big dailies. He had a habit. 0 of ' getting at the heart of things tha rd | cought the eye of the chief editor, and they soon sent him to Ottawa to record the proceedings of Parlia- ment from the Press: Sallosy. was heartily we comed by, met upon an equal footing, hi) even mildly criticized at times, by thet o| same men for whom, not 'ten years! before, 'he meekly ran 'errands. It! was a long stride upwards, but Tay- lor had "no thought®of making 'the | § Press 'Gallery his terminus, and now 'recalled his page boy dreams|Ge Abr some day becoming a member of Parliament himself. ' Became an' Editer. He went through the fierce cam- "paign of 1891, and his vivid reports of some of the spectacular meetings, Be of that. stirring political struggle were models of graphic and faithful reporting. , His, work attracted such favorable attention, indeed, that he received. and accepted a flattering 'offer of a position on the, editorial staff of the Victoria Colonist. That was in 1892. 'By, 1900, J. D. Taylor 'had become a force to reckén with in the somewhat tangled political situation on the coast. He moved to. New Westminster to become! Hé| tend little hy into "th fe works of the present day,"emp - some- thing like 70,000 workmen, is a re- markable story of enterprise energy. It was secret of ecru: cible steel bequeathed by Frederick Krupp to his son that made ( Krupp works, and enabled: eos ing: generations to make greatest of its kind in the world." The : present Krupp- works -domi- | t | nate the whole of Essen, a town of! about 800,000 inhabitants hE ated in the centre closet to fhe' way, they, together, with their at-| ant, institutions, cover an. ree ; acres, e tentacle. arms of the vast o8- iohment"" stretch out "octopus on all aid tl Two: thousand | ver | oi A onomotives 3 n bird 8, alien 'and shells A an Ems "of 1] inte the huge quid; his pork' capa cious jaws. One and a quater lion tons of fuel are required an- nually to appease its ins petite. Twenty million od of water, or: bom the 450,000 inh bitants of Cologne consume yeatly, dre used: in the works. \ upp's is 'admirably organized. froth a business point of view for the ! purposes. iti. serves... 1 with, it is really, if not nomina Ea in the hands of a single individual. When it was turned into a company in. 1903 the sole "vendor" was Fraulein Krupp, the founder of thé] y but $¥,000, which Yo Alok among the other Tiound of " figh yi rv fe dle BAG by hdl odo 0 emp at nig u his wife i ei ra he woul gt et up, I've thought Ba pants nd Mrs. Sd. worth would rise an 'chndld 'and write by hex dictation for ten or fi minutes. "A couple * of hours : later: Words- worth Teould: wake her again: 'Geb up, Maria, "T'vé 'got'a 'good hy I he would..repeat. .. But. one en Wordsworth put, a sbop Toa to his nocturnal dictation. Her husband, Figey wp het with the usual, up--T've ught of a ! was startled by her re- ran to the cab, and, giving the man a] = Koshki pulled, and as ha did so, look- sovereign, told him to walt." Then he| ed from side to side with a cunning w i back to Tibby. gleam in his small £yes, As. th the. boat ere's some dangerous work before §uprosched the opening of th shed ust LLY i he whispered impressively. from which Clive and Mina had been ypu go back?" launched to. death, he dropped the oars, : wer she gave him 'a glance of and Teaping out of the boat waded to ma s scorn; and he'mnodded.: The pot: shore. firm. The value of the Sutisalem dertaking was then estimated : For 0)| by get up yours managing editor of The Columbian, \ a ad word." James David Taylor, Member for and four years later he was chosen. New Westminster, B. C. a8 the -: Oonservative - standard. i ! bearer. Taylor's party was almost A few. times every generation a burly ruffian, whose nightly task ds"1o' fifng' out' the majority of hist cugigmers. came out .pf the vile public-| to air himeelf; and Quilton went] upg im: and said quite softly: | sk Mr. .Koshkl to step out to speak to !641& of the Brotherhood, will you?" The man glared at him ferociously, but Quilton made a sign, the man start: ed, muttered something, and went in. Koshki came ont almost immediately. | At sight of Quilton he drew back with an oath. Quilton, who had his right hand in his jacket pocket, smiled. | "I've got vou covered through my packet, Koshki," he said, "and by my ite, I'll shoot vou like a dog if you of- fer to go back." He stepped up to him, and whispered in his ear; and Koshki started and swore again. Quilton said al st sweetly, "Oh, yes; I know all ah that affair. It was murder, an 11s fans vou if you don't do what I Come this wav; we are attract-| ing too much attention for a modest, ma she spoke, he ook his hand out of hig pogkat, as if he were sura of his mai; Pana Koshk! followed. When they redeled the cab. Quilton said quite pleasantly: ell the man to drive us where they 'he, horse 18 anite fresh, I see. Wi Ja "this?" as Koshki stared at Tib- bys "The sister. Yes; she is going with us: Sharp, now! T'm an impatient man, | though vou wouldn't think it; and got an itch on me to shoot you hich is #lmest irresistible, See ith a volley of iy oaths Kosh- ki Pave the direction, then seemed about to draw back: but Quilton gave him al- mort a friendly touch on the shoulder. with you," hae mal Ing, for Ja A SY Das! ogres oe bun t int Lieah Ab, i 1 e {led 8 ot into the cab, and colle aii up into a corner like a scotch) a gk Now and again during the | on oy "ou but, otherwise silence reigned: Tt 0 perhans, as awful a journey as that which Clive had just' taken, Bat | Quilton displayed no impatience, what- ever he may have felt; thev traversed the soul-ouelling district. :the earthly inferno through which €live had pags- ed; and 'at last reached their Semin. tion. Quliton handed up some more } money to the.cabman, and told him 'to aa then He linked his arm in Hout | as you "but T shonld "4%4 'nob fond of - talkin g, knaw.} he sald sauvely, Jikd to tell you exactly Tow this charm- ingydittle case stands; or, rather, how you stand, TY ns that you have! ur iss Mina and Mr. Harvey down is cherful spot, and have bromised © ut them away,' and sliv them into Jhectivers-a ve) d dodge, quits a Alar ons Jn Soin salubrious, netghb. And now we may i time oul in them. IT singarely our sake. f we 'should sntor: mo Hel oor a press ticket to wit. | our may now--_or 1 a1 a journalist, jtnow.-op il Shoat - 'ou A 3 Hin as_he pulled looked over his shoulder, Koshk! the steep incline towards the lantern, which Quilton knew the brute intended, uilton | saw the figure of a woman glide out from the darkness, and confront Kosh-, her arms waving wild- like a mad-wo- to extinguish; but suddenly, ki. Tt was Sa ly, her face ma ra, working "Traitor!" she hissed. trayed me! it's not too late!" "You have be- oshki swore at her, and laughed with n "You're sold, old 'They've been too sharp Juftianly contempt, lady," he sald. for us; both the gel and that Harvey, are alive, curse him! of my way, let me pass!" "You shall not!" she stretching out her armas, trayed me! I'll kee leave him to deal w "Out of it!" he snarle way, or I'll swine, her hand had shot up before his, light as she poised it for the strok then the blade came down with an un- erring aim, and, flinging up his arms, and screaming like an animal wounded ito death, Koshki swayed from side to side, and suddenly pitched on the slimy Stones. body with her foot; then, leapt. ashore and made fas she sprang to the lantern, and glided away into the darkness. When Clive came to and, opening his eves, gazed vacantly about him, his re- turning consciousness told him that he s anker- | Wis lying in his own bedroom, and that You've been ' Quilton was sitting beside him. ¥or a oat igh iH ou had he} [ 'minute or two Clive' coul nothing; then when: ihe hi through which arowding back + nd Bt ne convinced that he Bag Just {from a nightmare. raise himself, = to & cam his peak; bu ilton said a word or two to, amazement he found that' nia limps were e strength to raise himself, that his Vole as heavy as lead, came Win difficulty, as. if foto fom 8 loki wa on 0 rs |Cifye Hy dri Epoke, as he Come back agai " said, With his old jrmsalre an? but 'with Just, x4 Tint 2 of anxiety. u've long while. Ang now u'd better let m --There! drink how she is, of Impassi ve manner, tenderness and you have woke u e do all the pvr, ? 4 deal beter "ole She's in a good 'she's nearly all right." JOU are; In. fact, Clive's chest heaved sigh, and he PIo5a |b his" ith, Sar hored jon 1 ght not Seo the tears that pain- mally welled up in Shem; but Quilton bad tune, of cours treated you: you were 4! Shed ait man; in fact, vi nat tition: of a rhin ou would De: 4, up aloft {and be; she's Tr, 2 ugh. a Quilton sprang to the oars, and i was running staggeringly up Tell me they are dead, that Get out screamed, "You have be- P you here, and th Tou Vout of my He raised his hand to strike her; but the long knife gleamed dully in the moon- downwards Sara spurned the as Quilton t the boat, overturned it, ! remember eon sscelien vr \ated awaken He tried to move, to It was he been a deuce of a this!'--You want to know! e constiy' things work out almost according to the novelist in his wildest flights of fancy. Now and then the poor boy walks into the bank and asks for a job, picking up a pin the while, and thereby attracting the attention of grizzly steel-hearted boss, gets the | job, and soon becomes president of' the bank. It's bound to happen very often, of course, that the' youngster is refused the job, and is | ' Mr. J. D. Taylor, M.P. rated soundly for stealing the pin, but not always. Occasionally the !brakeman gets to be boss of the road, and once in a blue moon the legislative page becomes the pow- erful statesman in the body where he onee ran err Nearly 40 years: 'ago--a7 to be ex- the name of James David Taylor, o| applied for the position of page in the Canadian House of Common He got the job all right, and for } Tmansk, - containing about act -- a, Blné-eyed = blonde-haired oungster of 13 summers who bore guns. 'annihilated, but he himself tri fimphed, and 'three months later he |. entered the House of Commons to fight with and against some of the men whose page he had been in the same legislative chamber twenty- eight years before. In the House of Commons to-day there is no more highly respected and conscientious member than this same J. D. Taylor, who still sits for New Westminster. A thorough- going democrat of sane conserva tive tendencies, his whole , career epitomizes what pluck and perse- verance can do with the opportuni- ties of a blessed democracy.--M. Grattan O'Leary, in Toronto Star Weekly. mnie Henin A QUEER REPUBLIC. in the a Accidentally Discovered Czar's Dominion. A year ago a Russian traveller, | Kasimir Veliki by name, during a journey through Siberia, accident- ally stumbled on the Village of 1,000 The town houses and many farms. lies. 'about, 300 miles from Vladivo- 8 Hock, but isnot: 'marked on 'any | Veliki was seized and made pris '|oner. By a stroke of luck, however, and after some exciting adventures, he escaped from the vil , but be- fore doing so he learned that the community claimed to be independ- ent of both the czar and the gov- ernment of Pekin. Over a dirty inn floated a flag which resembled the Russian tri-color, but was embroid- ered with a bad copy of the Chinese dragon. At Vladivostock, Veliki's story was at first not 'believed. After- a commission of enquiry vag, sent out, under an. ©800r} of'. 'with three The commission occupied the returned: to | vostock with a 'com lote:. re: rt. It discovered that the repub- ic had been. started Se a8 a retreat for town by surprise and Vladi ht 3 EI En ' Bute cure hy o, Even on a. a ny ad gsonous germo fi 8 hs aud Bie sh and Cholera Cures Lm Gri] a6 Batompar tt Bo ling live dea id a Teme t $0 your druggist. hoy bien per, Qanses an UTORS--ALL WHOLESAL o [sts apd Bact rl loeis's the ole Poultry, 3 La: among human got 5 UGeISTS $>0hn Media Co.. 1 d.US.8 pray

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