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Times & Guide (1909), 26 May 1911, p. 6

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a pyvous L i ht E5 _ Fhey halted at noon under a hedge of cactus, and Charnock, tired with his long vigils, covered his head and slept. Through the long afternoon over pink and vioâ€" let flowers, under a burning sun, they journeyed drowsily, with no onversation and no sound at all buk the humming of the insects in the art and the whistle of birds and the bruszhing of. their mules‘ feet through&\fh\e grass.. That evening they crossed the.Sebou and camped a few yards from the river‘s bank in a most lucid air. It was after supper. â€" Charnock was lying upon his back, his head resting upon his arms, and his eyes "It was you who shouted through Fournier‘s shopâ€"door, was it ?‘ said Warriner. ‘"‘That‘s the second time a cry of yours has fairly scared me. So you know Wilbraham,""‘ he adâ€" ded in a moment ; ‘"so you know my wife too." And that morning as "they rode forwards over the marigolds and irises, Charnock told him of his visit to Tangier and of Hassan Alkâ€" bar. "So when I came again,‘‘ he said with perhaps a little awkwardâ€" ness and after a pause, "I had a elue, a slight one, but still a clue, and I followed it." Warriner walked in front of Charâ€" nock and the latter could not but notice how within these two days his companion had changed. _ His back was losing its timid deferenâ€" tial curve ; there was less of a slink in. his walk; he no longer shrank when a loud word was addressed to him. Moreover his curiosity inâ€" ereased, and while they were at i)reakfast,ihe asked, "How did you. find me ?"~ J ‘‘You were theâ€"man who jammed his finger? I remember; I thought you had got a warrant in your pockâ€" et. By the way," and he lifted his head quickly, "you never, I gupâ€" pose, came across a man called Wilâ€" braham ?‘ : "Ambrose ?‘ ‘‘¥es, yes; when did you come «across him ?‘ ; ‘‘He was blackmailing your wife." "Oh, my wife," said _ Warriner suddenly, as though it had only just occurred to him that he had a wife. He turned his head and looked â€"euriously to Charneck who was serubbing himself dry some yards behind him. ‘"So you know _ my wife ?" ((Yes.il "Ah!‘‘ Warriner again examined his Thee in the stream. "‘I think I might walk straight up from the Ragged Staff,"" said he waggling his grey beard, ‘"‘and shake hands with the Governor of Gibraltar and no one be a penny the wiser.‘" Then he paused. ‘"So you know Wilbraâ€" ham,"‘‘ he said slowly ,and paused again. _ ‘"So you know my wife too"‘ ; and the pair went to their breakfast. | But the next morning Warriner for the first time began to evince some curiosity as to his rescue and the man who had rescued him. The two men had just bathed in a little stream which ran swinkling through the grass beside their camp. Warriâ€" ner was kneeling upon the bank of the stream and contemplating himâ€" self in the clear mirror of its water when he said to Charnuck: "How in the world did you know me?‘ ‘"©By your eyes." ‘Weâ€"are not strangers, ch?‘ _ _@"I hailed you from a hansomâ€"cab once outside Lloyd‘s bank in Plyâ€" mouth. You expressed an amiable wish that I should sit in that cab and rot away in my boots. Lucky for you I didn‘t!" A New Laxative â€" ‘Eight days,""‘ said_ Warriner; and that night, as last night; he asked no questions of Charnock, but ate his supper and so slept; and that night again Charnock sat by his side and guarded him. ‘The next morning they started betimes; they passed a caravan, further on a tentâ€"village, and toâ€" wards evening, from the shoulder of a hill they looked down upon the vast plain of the Sebou. Level as a sea it stretched away until the distinet colors of its flowerâ€"patches merged into one soft blus. so much better than ordinary physics. While thoroughly effective, they never grips, purge or cause nausea, and never lose their effectiveness. ~Qne of the best of the NAâ€"DRUâ€"CO line. f 25¢. a box. If your druggist has notyet stocked thern, send 25. and we sedESC C P 25¢. a box. If y;&r"é;liggist has not yet stocked ther will mail them. National Drug and Chemical Company of Canada, Limited, _ â€" e â€" of Can CHAPTER XX.â€"(Cont‘d) A Mist in the Channel : OR, THE MYSTERY OF THE " TARIFA‘S" CARGO _ se AT 1 V 7 a x ATIVE Warriner was silent ; he was eviâ€" dently turning over some thought in‘ his mind, and his mind, rusted by his servitude, worked very slowâ€" ly. A man of great vindictiveness and pealousy, he ‘was not grateful for his reseue ; but he was brooding over the motives which had inducâ€" ed Charnock to come in search of him, and which had persuaded Mi randa to send him in search. Warâ€" ’ But a little distance from the fgates Charnock called a halt, and taking Hamet and a mule he went up into the town, He sought out his Jew, and bought a tent, which he packed upon the mule, and so returned to where Warriner crouchâ€" ed and hid amongst the orange trees. Beyond Alkasar they passed through a long stretch of stubble, whence acres of wheat had been garnered, and at night the two men sat in the opening of their tent, while the lad Hamet drew weird melancholy from his pipe. ‘We,. might sleep in Alkasar. There is a Jew I stayed with comâ€" ing up:; you will be safe there,"" said Charnock. "I would sooner shiver to death here,‘‘ replied Warriner, and they skirted the town. But the next day was one of peace. The more proximity of a Moorish town had terrors for Warâ€" riner. His eyes turned ever toâ€" wards it, scared and frightened. His very body shrank and took on a servile air. Besides. it rained. Charnock sat down again. He feit resentment throbbing hot withâ€" in him. He was very glad that there were caly five more days durâ€" ing which he must keep ward over the man he had rescued. The two men eyed one another across the leaping flames of the fire. ‘‘Well, you have a right to put it that way, no doubt,‘""‘ said Warriâ€" ner. Charnock started up on his elbow. ‘‘What the deuce has that got to do with you?"‘ he asked fiercely. Warriner broke it suddenly. ‘‘You are in love with my wife,""‘ he said. ‘‘No, thank God,"" answered Warâ€" riner fervently. ‘"No towns for me! What if it does rain ?‘ Bo again they camped in the open, under a solitary wild fig tree, and the rain held off. They talked indifferently upon this subject and that, speculated upon news of Europe, and Charnock heard someâ€" thing of Warriner‘s comings and goings, his sufferings and advenâ€" tures. But the talk was forced, and though now and again Wilbraham‘s name, and now and again Miran-‘ da‘s recurred, it died altogether away. They rode with no shadows to console them until the afternoon brought the clouds over the top of the Atlas. Towards evening they saw far ahead of them the town of Alkasar amongst its gardens of orange trees and olives. We shall not reach it toâ€"night," said Charnock, looking up at the sky. _ Warrimer. nodded his head thoughtfully, but sard no more. That night Charnock did not keep watch, for they were across the Sebou and out of the perilous country. _ The next morning they rode on towards Alkasar with few words between them. Only Charnock noticed that Warriner was continually glancing at him with a certain furtiveness, and it seemed with a certain illâ€" will. Charnock grew restless under this surveillance ; he resented it; it made him vaguely uneasy. ‘ the best known to mogro medicine is the active principlewhich makes "How long have you been searchâ€" ing "‘‘ he asked. "Two, years,"‘ replied Charnock. {‘Why 2}) The question was shot at him, in a sharp challenging voice. Charnock did not move from his position ; he lay resting on that vast plain under the fresh night sky and the kindly stars ; but he was some little while silent before he answered : ‘‘Your wife asked me to come." ‘ upturned to the throbbing stars and the rich violet sky. Warriner squatted crossâ€"leggoed hbeside a dyâ€" ing fire, and now and then, as a flame spirted up, he cast a curious glance towards Charnock. 23 Montreal. Now, â€" what‘s â€"â€"tlhat ?* and _ l‘e pointed an arm towards the east. "That‘s a *caravancâ€"" "Quite so, a caravan., Perkaps you have forgotten what you said to me outside the walls of Mequ‘nez. ,You belong to_ me, you remembsr. tYÂ¥owre mine ; 1 bought you, a24 T ‘can sell you if I choose.‘"‘ "My Gad. vou wouldn‘t do that! eriod Warrâ€"ier. His vears ol slayâ€" es ery‘ rushed back on him. . He saw "YOU WERE RCHT. _ himself again tramping, under the THERE IS NO ONE IN "Get out of the tent,"" said Charâ€" nock, and taking Warriner by the shoulder, he threw rather than pushed him out. "Here, I say,‘" protested Warriâ€" ner rather feebly ; "you might be speaking to a dog." "A wish I was." & At that Warriner tfurned. The two men‘s faces wore convulsed with passion; hatred looked out from Warriner‘s eves and saw its image in Charnock‘s. Charnock had stridden back into the tent. He stouped over Warriâ€" ner and roughly plucked him up from the ground. ‘‘Stand up, will you!‘‘ he cried. $ "Here, I say,‘" protested Warriâ€" Charnock seemed to have heard not a single word. He stood at the door of the tent, looking indifâ€" ferently this way and that. _ His silence spurred Warriner to conâ€" tinue. ‘‘I tell you what, Charâ€" nock,""‘ he said, "you had better run straight with me. You‘ll find out your mistake if you don‘t. I‘ll tell you something more; you had better let me find when I get back to Ronda that you have run straight with me.‘""‘ He saw Charnock sudâ€" denly look round the angle of the tent and then shade his eyes with his hand. It seemed impossible to provoke him in any way. ‘‘Mind, I don‘t say that I shall take it much to heart, if the affair has stopped where you say it has." Chamock! had said not a word about the matâ€"| ter, as Warriner was well aware. ‘‘No,"‘ he continued, ‘"‘on the conâ€" trary: for no harm‘s actually done, you say, and my wife steps down from her pedestal on to my level._ Understand, sonny !â€"What are you up to! Here, I say." _ ‘"Funny thing!‘‘ continued Warâ€" riner, "I never took much account of my wife. She was a bit too stateâ€" ly for me. It was just as though some one played symphonies to you all day when you hankered after music of the musicâ€"hall type. But somehow,â€"I suppose it‘s seeing you doing the heroic and all for her, don‘t you know !â€"â€"somehow I am getting very fond of her.‘"‘ Charnock dared not trust himself to answer. He got up and walked to the door of the tent, unfastened the flap, and let the sunlight in. ‘"‘That‘s the very point I have been considering,‘‘ returned Warâ€" riner; "and I think it uncommon likely. â€"Women have all sorts of underground scruples which it‘s difâ€" ficult for a man to get upside with, and I can imagine a woman would send off her fancy man on this parâ€" ticular business as a kind of setâ€"off and compensation. See?‘ ed Charnock, Hotly, and he sat up amongst his blankets and took‘ reâ€" fuge in subterfuges. "If what you say were true, it is likely that your wife would have asked me to find you out and bring you back?‘ "You blackguard!‘‘ cried Charâ€" nock. ‘"‘Thanks!"‘ said Warriner with a chuckle. ‘"That‘s answer enough.‘"‘ "It‘s no answer at all !‘ exclaimâ€" ‘"But I‘ll tell you of a question which has to do with me, Charâ€" nock," he saidâ€" "Is my wife in love with you?" He revealed something of it the next morning to Charnock. _ For after he had waked up and yawned, after he had watched for a moment the busy shadow of Hamet upon the tentâ€"wall ard heard the light crackle of the breakfast fire, he roused Uharnock with a shake of the shoulder and resumed the conâ€" versation at the point where it had been broken off when they sat by the campâ€"fire. riner had never cared for his wife, but his wife had never till now givâ€" en him any cause for jealousy, and out of his presencs jsalousy there sprang and grew in his halfâ€"crazy and disordered mind a quite fictiâ€" tious passion. stand higher in public estimation than any others, and their everâ€" increasing sales prove their merit. 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He returned to them with water and assistance, and findâ€" ing the carts with only half their crew, he asked where the heavy load was, and they replied, "Miles behind.""‘ It was on this journey that he witnessed a remarkable inâ€" stance of the endurance and loyalty of a black man. f ‘‘Sweden, too, has a most efâ€" ficient and moderate priced teleâ€" phone service with more than 200,â€" 000 subscribers. _ The installation charge for a private house is only $4 with an annual subscription of $16.50. ‘‘A telephone at $10 a year is not an impossible dream, but it is a perfectly sound business proposal if the systems continue to expand at the present rate. In Denmark, already, outside Copenhagen, the annual subscription for small exâ€" changes is $11 and additional calls may be obtained at the rate of $5.50 per 1,000 calls. ‘‘Almost every European courtâ€" ry has secured a cheaper. and betâ€" ter telephone service in the last few years than England has done," said G. Dalzell Read, a telephone authority, who is in Lonaon, after having inspected the German, Danâ€" ish and Swedish systems. â€" British Post Office Takes Over the[ Country‘s System. I By the end of the year the Britâ€" | ish Post Offce will take over the | management of the country‘s teleâ€"| phone system from the private comâ€"| pany whick has hitherto controlled | it, and the British public does not | regard this particular nationa'rliz-i ation project entirely without mis-| givings especially in view of the | fact that the direct control by the | State of the country‘s telegraphs | has resulted in a loss of $50,000,-] 000 in the last fory years and that the present annual loss is well ovâ€" er $5,000,000. Business men are afraid that red tape will hamper the quick and cheap telephone serâ€" vice that everyone wants. uickly stops cougb &o throat and rlmda CHEAP TELEPHONE SERVICE ‘‘And what sort of a face will you show to Miranda,‘""‘ he said smoothâ€" lvy. ‘when you get back to Ronâ€" da l You have forgotten that.‘"‘ (To be continued.), came most readily to his tongue. He called on God to burn Charâ€" nock‘s greatâ€"grandmother and then in an instant he became very cunâ€" ning and calm. Charnock shook him off. ‘‘We left your rags behind, I believe, so you can keep those clothes. The caravan will pass us in an hour.‘" Then Warriner fell to prayers, and flamed up in anger and curses and died down again to wimpering. All the while Charnock stood over him silent and contemptuous. _ There was no doubt possible he meant to carry out his threat. Warriner burst out in a flood of imprecations, and Moorish imprecations, for they Shilohs Curo through the sand cowards Algiers, _ovéer the hills to the Sus sountry ; he bheard again the whistle af a stick through the air, heard its thud as itâ€"fell upon his body, and felt the blow. "My God, you wouldr.‘t doâ€"that!""‘ _ ‘And seeing Charnock towering above hiin, his face hard, his eyes gloomy, he clung to his arm. .‘ Charnock, old man!. Yeq wouldn‘t, would you?‘ ‘‘You‘ll fetch half a dozen copâ€" per flouss,"‘ said Charnock. ‘‘Look here, Charnock, I poloâ€" gize. See, old man, seel? I am sorty.; you hear that, don‘t youl Yes, I‘m sorry. It‘s my cursed tongue." Elca‘l:l?;-jo’p.‘ go-.fl:l.v cmn'coig;.â€" healg sun, LOYAL SERVICE, with a load upon ‘is back GEORG®E 122 W ALQOG; â€" guickly siops conérh; 'cvre;'colu -h Te ~ Life. the throat and lungs. i suaice 255.‘;&::;? 25 centas . ) C#47¢isi2â€"R2S C HFF O Money talks, and some people make every dollar count. 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