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Durham Chronicle (1867), 29 Jun 1911, p. 6

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DIRECT LINE l0 CMIBE 0F “R8 Samba, Saskatchewan, Alberta Special TnimlaveTomqu.mp.n.on 39ml 4. 18 HIV 2. 13. 30 JUNE 13. 27 «1' 11, 25 “16.3, 22 SEPT. 5. 1' cadehafichhfmuOnm-iomhcmbpdnapd Noahweupdnhu HOMESEEKERS’ LOW ROU N D-TRI P RATES In New Quarters Near the jGarafmxa St. Bridge Near the Garafraxa St. Brijge I_wish to announce -.to the publlc that I am now settled in my new quarters, T. Moran’s old stand, near the Gara- fraxa St. bridge, where I am prepared to cater to their wants in all kinds of custom blacksmith- ing. All work guaran- teed first-class. Early application must be mad. EXCURSIONS . MCGRATH Uenenl Agents {or Canada. TO “What does he say?” asked Anstru- ther. “No. I saw nothing. I was looking for a deer.” “Not Fairclaw crowd, Jim. Milka tum tum Chilcotins,” put in Pretty Dick. w' wâ€" “vat. I Saw their tracks. ‘D'idi’t you netice them going up that first rise to our right, Anstruther?” “He isn’t that, either. But hurry up. Here. they come ” and the two ladies whisked round the corner and into the seclusion of their cabin. to put on the last finishing touches. A minut? Eater they Evere congratu- lating Comb: and Anstruther upon a fine buck which the two slung in the wagon. - “Who shot it. Jim? You, of course.” asked Kitty, her dainty head as trim as if she had just parted from her a . “No. Mr. Anstruther killed him.” . “And that is all I had to do with it,.” added Anstruther. “Combe found his tracks; I went right away from them, walked all over the country until I was beginning to grow: tired. He told . ”A ‘A A..-‘ u..â€" _, â€"‘V \Ulu me to get my rifle ready at the foot of a hog’s back, and as we peeped over, said ‘shoot!’ That is all 'I knew of our hunt.” “Jim had him picketted for you," said the girl. Jim laughed. “Picketted to his fetd, Miss Kitty. T’aint much of a trick to know where a buck would be this time in the morning.” “It is a trick you will owe your steak to, more than to my rifle,” retorted Anstruther generously. and then be- tween them they set about prepara- tions"for breakfast. - “Fairclough’s'boys been hunting, I expect," said Jim, “though it’s a long way for them t0_ Gorge for deer meat. “Oh, well, fine English is as easy to put on, for a man like Jim as your toupee is for you. A man must speak the language of a country if he wan s to be understood in it. You used to understand Jim well enough before you went home.” “I thought your complaint was flat he was not sufficiently artificialâ€" smart I mean." “And now' I dcnft. He ‘seems to me to have changed. In some way he dscs nut seem to b: natural any more.” Polly Rolt hesi ated. She did not want to lie. Indeed downright truth- fulness was one of her occasionally painful characteristics, but she d1d not like to admit any blemishes in her favorite. “Would you not rather that Jim had some of your pet aversion's ‘makin; in the Engiich language for insrance. Or is it necessany to talk like a broncho buster to be a man ?” that you must be smart. I loath smart peOpIe.” “You preferâ€"Jims.” “Yes, infinitely. Jim is a man.” “And Mr. Anstruther is not?” “I did nbt say so. I don’t know. He may be one in embryo, but he’ll take a lot of making.” “Spare me that word, Kitty, beforo breakfast at any rate. Smart! That is your gospel nowadays. \Vho said “You must wear a toupee in Eng- Iand. How would you keep your hc.,l smart without one.” She had almost said more than she had intended to, but caught herself up in time and buried her face healthily in the basin to hide her confusion. “Polly.” “Well?” blowing the soapsuds out of her eyes and shaking tne water from her wet ham. “What an object you do look, dear. 't‘s lucky your fringe is natural.” "Is that all you wanted to say, Miss? i am all natural and so were you be- fore you went back to England. Now you n ust needs wear that thing!” and she pointed indignantly to a portion 32' Kitty’s looks which that charming -:1aiden carried in her hand.” “I Think that you are very hard on my new chum,” said the girl, showing a derightfully rosy face in a mi..t of disordered hair. “No one here, .-itty,” Mrs. Rolt call- ed back into the cabin. “now is our chance to make our toilet, and of course that dear old Jim has every- thing fixed for us, basin and water and towels. Makes me feel quite ‘to home’ as he’d 'say.” “How do you know that it was Ji .1?” “How do I know, you ungrateful girl? Hasn’t Jim done these things ever since we came to the country. You don‘t suppose that your new chum would ever have thought of it?” “And I think that you are hard on your oldâ€"friend,” retorted Mrs. Rolt. But no one answered her. The fire had been made up and the men’s blan- kets were hung on the bars of the corral, but there was no other Sign of life if you except a grey bird like a jay, who was making a careful inspec- tion of relics. “Are you men up?” The mist wreathes of early morning, the very last of them, were slowly trailing away like dainty long-sh.rted dames from the hollow below the ca- bin. and the top half of the sun was showing through the timber which crowned the rise to the east of the camp, when Mrs. Rolt’s head was pro- truded from the cabin door to ask the above question. Mrs. Rolt held up her hands with ittle gesture of horror. “Sgyg hp thinkg tpgy were .Chilco Cattle Thieves CHAPTER III. “I don’t half like letting you go back by yourself, Mrs. Rolt,” he said, “nor I don't like spoiling your pleasure, but those fellows will be out of the country before we can get on to their trail if 1 don’t get a move'on.” “Don’t worry about us, Jim, We can get home all right, only we must not stand here talking any longer. What are you going t‘o d0 W_ith Pretty Dick? ’ Jim’s eyes dwelt on her hungrily. That was how he loved to see her. Had he not taught her to ride .when she was but the ten-year-old darling of the ranche, and was not the hand- some beast who carried her now the colt on which he had expended such endless‘ trouble whilst she was away in England? It was hard to give up this holiday. and harder to leave her to spend it with that haw-haw young fool from the Old Country. “Send him along with you with ; ictas. I don"- want him too near “e is a Chilcotin himself, if he is civilized. But hold on a minute.” He stood shading his Eygé ing far away to the west. “You haven’t got that pair of glasses With you, have you, Anetruther?” “,Y‘Es here they are.” Jim gupbled with them for some Kitty‘s horse, not entireiy innocent perhaps of his rider’s heel, began to dance about and pull at his bridle as if he would drag the swaying girlish figure from the saddle. Certainly the day looked fine enough. The storm of the day before had .cleared the air so that .it was more brilliantly lucid than usua‘, and the long sloping lands, radiant in the morning sunshine and sweet with the strong scent of the sage brush, were eminently provocative of 'a_ ga110p. “There’s no telling. It looks fini- enovgh now, 'but so it did this time yesterday.” "Once we “saw the ranche we shouldn’t want to camp." “Yes, but there’s no place Where you_could camp.” see the ranche from there. '(flOCk now.” “Then we could be in sight of th? ranche by five.” It’s nine 0 Together they rode to the edge of the plateau, from which they could see bench upon bench of grey catti. land, bounded by low hills in the far distance, near which a depression sug- gested the bed of an unseen riv.er “That’ s the Fraser and those are the Ground Hog mountains, " Jim said. pointing to the hills beyond. "‘It will take you eight hours’ riding to get to the river where those big rea bluffs "GC up. You know them. You can “Come to the top of the rise tnd I’l? Show you.” “Yes, it would be better fun, Miss Kitty, but not so safe. 1 think we had better all of us go back to the ranche and get the boys out, unless you think, Mrs. Rolt, that you could find the way back without me.” “I could try. Where is the ranche from here?” , The girl: bright face was all alive with excitement. The thought of rear had never yet entered her head. ) tell the truth there are in British Columbia no tr rrible legends of Indian warfare to shake any one’s new»; There, the ordinary Siwash is a peace- able creature unless he is drunk, and then it is the white man’s fault for making him so. “Why could we not go with you, Jim?” ugg ested Kitty. “It would be better un than hunting. I’m a born detective.” “No, nor don’t want to, but I could see who they were for sure, and maybe get proofs against them.” “What should you do if We were not with you, Jim ‘3” she asked. “Follow them right away.” “But you couldn’t take them all single-handed.” Kitty’s face fell. She had looked forward to her shooting picnic and hated to glve it up. “That’s what I’m thinking, Mrs. Rolt. That‘s our mark sure. The Boss will have to keep an eye on those fellows. ‘There’s been a lot of stock missing lately.” “The Boss won’t like that." “No, nor I’m afraid you won’t like what I’m goi:-o' to say, but there’s no help for it. We’ve got to give up our shoot and go back. We’ll have to round up those cattle thieves right away.” Anstruther saw then that the ear had been cut in .t peculiar fashion, so as to make it swallow-tailed. “Why, that is our mark, Jim,” cri. . the Boss’s wife. Dick ? “Me see old camp. See plenty Iitt] sticks go this way,” pointing scutl; “You come along, Jim, I show you. The two went away together, an after a short absence returned. WhEI they did so. even Kitty could see the something had gone wrong. “What is it, Jim?" asked Mrs. Rolt “Chilcotins. Khelowna’s band, think.” “That doesn’t matter, does it? Oh Khelowna is all right. They won’ bOther us?” Anstruther took it and turned i1 over in his hand. “A buck’s ear,” ht said, in the tone of a squire who had ound a rabbit wire. “The beggars have been shooting our deer. but you can’t prevent them, can you? There’s no game law in this free country.” “No, we can‘t stop them shooting, deer and don‘t want to. There’s plen y for all, but that’s not a buck’s ear. The Risky Ranch don’t mark deer.” tin Indians. Why Ge "you fhink so “I suppose not. No, of course, they won’t. Old Khelowna is as tame as ; wet hem but I don’t like that,” and 1 held out for inspection a small piece 0: fawn-colored hide. 9” THE DURHAM CHRONICLE for some and look- half Advertise 1 results. Mr. Herb. Hunt’s house completion. Mr. Morton, AJex., are doing work. i8 no: the camp‘ Miss Ambrozine Bailey :3 ing a few days in Durhl her grandparents\ Mr. an, McFadden. Rev. Mr. Deller preached his farewell sermon here on Sunday last. Rev. Mr. Hampson Will be our pastor for the coming y ear. Mr. and Mrs. Rtobt. Burnett, and family, of Durham, visited with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Livingston. ' Mr. Fnank Vickers, of Renfrew, is visiting the parental home at present. Master Lindsay Hunt spent days with his grandparents. Glene‘lg. spending a couple of months her son, Mr. F. Wise. Mr. Thos. iWilson, and daug ‘M'amIRe‘ of Durham. shent one ¢ ing‘ this Week in thelvicinity. Miss Macdonald, ofAlmonte the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. Vickers, recently. Mr. and Mrs. 'Rsobt. Lindsmm Jur. and Mrs. Robt. Lindsay, o! Glene‘lg, visited their daughter, 'DII‘S. .AWV. Hunt. one dav Hy" m- - . Mr. and Mrs. Herb. Chl'ttick. of Lamlalsh, spent Sunday last with the latter’s parents here. Mr. and Mrs. Damid Donnelly v' ited Mr. and Mrs. Henry MeCaslin. of Hutton Hill, on Sundsav 139+ M'ss Boelha Allan spent Sunday last with Miss B. Donnellv. Mr. and Mrs. John Torry, of Southampton, are spendng‘ the Remember, we are basi 11g ourr statements upon What has alread3 been accomplished by the use of «others. :it will do for 13'ou. In an3 e3 ent you cannot lose anythi. mg by giving it 121 tri21l on our libeIal guarantee. T330 sizes, 50c. and $1. 00. Remember 3ou can obtain ‘Rexall Reemd: es in this commun- ity only at our stoneâ€"The Rexapll Store. iMacfaarlane 1C0. Tonic will gmow hair on bvald heads except where baldness has been of such long durat. on that the roots of the ham are entirely dead the folk. cles closed and grown over and the scalp is glazed. -on our personal guarantee that the trial will not cost you a pen- :if it does not ‘g‘i\ e you absolute sat sfaction. That is proof of our fa 'th in this remedV, and it should indisputably demonstrate that me know what we are talking about when we say that ’Rexall “93” H3111 “V"- wâ€"vâ€" â€""â€"â€"7‘, , Anstrutner could not see the pines. He saw a dark line, but that it meant pines was not obvious to him as it seemed to Jim’s naked eye. .19: UL v-u ......... “They ain’t no good to me. Guess I don’t savvy them properly. You take a look through them for me. Aint that smoke there to the west?” Anstruther look-ed and Jim watched him. . “No, not there.” he said irritably." “Lord! a man could count the rings on a rattler that far. Away beyond on the next big bench towards the river, near those clumps of pine.” FOR BALD HEADS A Treatment that Costs Nothing if it Fails We W ant you to try three largc bottles of Rexall “93” ‘Hanr Tonic tirrie'. 2.39 min}? 0L tdcor mcn in the West he was not very familiar with the use of binoculars. ‘ ‘ * __- - n-‘Ann vanâ€"v- v Mrs. Rolt took the glasses from him. “Let me try,” she said. “I knowwhat to look for. That is half the battle,” and then, after a short scrutiny, she said : -- “Yes, I believe that there is a column of smoke or mist just to the right of the pines.” Kifty clasped her hands and let her horse go. “Hold on.” cried Jim. “You'll wary some blankets, won’t you? We SLan’t make it back to the ranche to-night. I mean to camp alongside those fel- lows.” He turned, calling Anstruther to fol. low him. and rode after Pretty Dick’s wagon, from which they returned with all the blankets they could carry. “You and me will have to rough it to-night, but it won’t nurt us any, if we keep up a good fire.” The other made no objection. In the warm sunlight the prospect of .a cold, sleepless night does not seem very tero rible. It is whez- the slow hours give you “me to think of your discomfort that the pinch comes. “It ainjt mist. There’s no swamp up there. I’ll bet my socks that's th camp. Tell you. what, Mrs. Rolt. if you’ve a. mind to come along, I’ve al- most a mind to take you. They might not suspicion anything if they saw ladies along and so give me a show to see more’n I would if I went by my lonely.” Then you vow that you will for the future leave your grub, rather than your blankets, behind. ._ Continued next week. VICKERS the Chronicle for St. Thomas is Sunday last. W ' ‘.~ and daughter one eVen- spen d-: a few : in , was With with at The Big ShoeStore We specialize in Shoes, we don't sell sugar and soap; we sell solid leather shines at honest prices. We have; full line of EMPRESS SHOES for ladies {which is the eading shoes for style, qual- ity and fit, also many other lines at lower prices, the Sovereign, Evenright and Blackford Dover Shoes for men in all sizes. We have also many lines of Low clear out at greatly reduced prices. l- ,___v. m“ Don’t Fail to See Our Stock Before Buying Elsewhere Shoes ! Shoe ! Shoes! ...____________.___._ AT ___________.~\ McGrath s, The Leading Shoe Store See our 'l‘runks and Suit 0.21598â€" REPAIRING promptly attemled to. THOS. MCGRATH thv best nmney can buy Terms, Cash or Eggs June 29th If you are intvnw'w grow into money in a ~k. some money. Durham u ;. when the new factory, I; a new families will I'equ v 3. Therefore, now is your rig. you don’t buy nuw ym xx .. be sorry. This house: ..-I :1. Durham. on de'at'mxa .\ conveniences sunh as tm ‘ in each house. soft watvr .- andah and balcony with market and will he .u iv: property lose no time. - 3118133730113113' Call at «- u.» ~31 .71. That Produces a Cor. Michigan Ava i-“ ARTHUR H. JAL F. DEUTSCHMA ed to each Pr into four grey PRIZE “A June 29th. 1911. Province “1:0 barrels of ”(I-XI given to the fa Cement for thp $100.00 to be furnishes us w m our \Vi ndb" for Canadian 1) DEBELL A Gm

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