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Flan- ncilctic 3341)!“wa . .31 50 pair Unbleached Sheeting. 72 in. wide ..... .... .....30"vard Axwi . I I‘TUBI‘ He Sells LACE CURTAINS Cheap Barty application must be mad. EXCURSIONS long. lung. lung. long. [on g, 4N1) .47 m. 3’” :n. 3!) In. 50 in. BU in. General Agents for Canaaa. BIG TO wide. 25c pair wide, 50c pair wide, 70!: pair wide, 900 pair widu, $1 pair . $1.41") each by 54 $2.00 each Calder-’8 Block At the back of the ranch and on both sides of it lay a. great enclosed meadow of about a thousand acres in a long parallelogram, and down the middle of it ran a chain of hay stacks, each fenced in, the feed upon which depended the safety of Rolt’s stock if a hard winter should come. There are years, many of them. luckily, in which these stacks need not be touched. In an open winter the cattle are carried without having re- sort to the store laid up for a hard spell, and in consequence some men trust to luck and keep little or. no “Never mind the near stacks, boys; you can’t save them. Ride for all you are worth to the first that is not light- ed, andâ€"” the Boss’s voice died out as he gaIIOped away with his men. “Is it shoot, one ask. “Show? Aye. shoot to kill, curse them. Git, you devil,” and a clatter of hoof_s told that the horse had “got.” Mary Rolt‘s heart sank as she saw him snatch the rifle, but she did his bidding as he would have had her do it, with the utmost coolness, and when the men had rushed out after their master, she went back to the sick- room. There was no need for any explanation there. Through the uncurtained window a glare of red light proclaimed the work that was on hand, even if the noise of saddling up and the hurry of hoofs beneath the window and the Short sharp sentences of the mounting men had not told the tale. He was running downstairs as he spoke. and snatched a Winchester from its rack as he passed out of the hall. “Mary. dear, I want to speak to you for a moment. Will you excuse us, Frank?” and laying his hand on Kit- ty’s shoulder as he passed, he whis- pered, “Keep him quiet whatever hap- pens. I rely on you," and than he fol- lowed his wife from the room. Once outside the door, his manner changed. "it‘s our stacks, little wo- man. Those devils are firing our win- ter feed. Keep cool and run now and tell the men in the dining-room. I’m off to the mess house to get the half- breeds. Keep your heart up; we’ll stop them before they can do much damage.” .-..u - “Ami? Oh, and she married, of course, azrd her brothers do just as they did whilst she was with th-m, exceyt that her husband clgans her beets now." But Anstruther was not listening to Mrs. Rolt‘s libel on lady-helps. In- stead, he was gazing intently through the uncux'tained window at the foot of his bed, to which the others had their backs turned. 1»... ;;"..; 1:1:11e out to help the p: 01 (111.1 1153:, 1.9. mothers. They could 1111 9.11011; 1'» hi1e any help, and jun A 121:; ((1 1111111 .~:‘:1e came. At the end of a 101111;;31‘1 [21:11 515191 had di; CO»"£1€£1 e>.a._4113 11111-13-111119 different things ea..~1; 01' 131.111 was. "the only thigh she nexer could do,” and acuahy, gm; six: gw 1.) it was who cleaned the boots, :11...r.2.1t hers outside her bed room (101,1 exery night.” "What do you mean, Katherine?” “Where I was last, the family had to be \'.ait'.d on when it had a party, but wh_n it was by itself it stretched this," and reaching across the i Q. able size passesed heI‘Self of a salt I A T “It always feels homelike where y0u are, Mrs. Rolt." She curtseyed to him with a laugh, and then, turning to Kitty, who had just entered the room, bade her b quick with the dinner. “And see, my girl,” she addzd “that is not the way to lay a table," and then with a few deft touches re- arranged some of the silver. Kitty for the nonce had donned cap and apron, and Anstruther was not the first to discover more charm and coquetry in a maid’s cap than in her :nistress’s toilette. “Does the iamiiy expect to he waited on or does it stretch?” she asked, “l. zauy ' L at \\ 1‘8 :11 as a .ady-eh 1;). I sup .3th Mrs. Molt, severezy mg no help. like Miss Mo 5 her story?" a (’2 Al ?” they heard some. 9” E “Open the door and give me a lan- ltern, my girl. They have all gone, I ,think, except. two, and they won’t do 'any more harm.” yourself, Boss.” “Where .did you find it?” ,“In the door of the store-house.” Rolt looked down it it for a mo- ment. “The old devil,” he muttered. _J_est so. But how did he come to “Steady, there; steady, little wo- man. Keep your nerve a bit longer. You are doing splendidly. No, you have not hit any one, more’s the pity. Where did you think you saw them?” “Over there by the store-house.” “Ah! But they could not get in in the time. Lucky we tumbled to their game. Just go and look at the house. A1,? touching his arm and whispering. “say nothing if the missus has shot straight.” The old man nodded and went out. In a. couple of minutes he was back again for the lantern. When he re- turned again he handed the Boss 3 key. get “Did you see anyone .when YOU fired,” he asked, as soon as she had let him in. “I think so, but I am not certain. Oh, Dick, I have not killed anyone, have 1?” she cried, breaking down suddenly, and clinging to him. There was a hardness in the Boss’s voice, which Mary Rolt had never heard before in all the years she had known him, but then she had never seen him before in the light of his blazing stacks. After that the main body of gallop- ing hoofs secâ€"med to recede towards the hills, but the Boss and old A1 rode up to the house. “That you shooting, Polly? Take care. Don‘t shoot any more,” and then for a moment there was bediam in the darkness outside, horses gal- loping amongst the buildings, and men running, and twice the sharp me- tallic ring of a rifle. At once her revolver rang out, shot after shot, until every chamber was empty. It mattered little whether she hit or missed The main thing was to recall the mgn, and almost before she had ceased firing a horse’s hoofs thundered through the corrals, and a voice hailed her. “Put the lamp out, Kitty,” she call- ed, and as the light went out in obe dience to her order, she saw dimly something moving in the shadow of a house where the stores were kept. Tearing away the curtains, and throwing the little window open, she peered out, but the light inside was too bright. She could see nothing. Frank?” “I swear. Run, dear.” The girl obeyed him, and a few moments Eater Mrs. Rolt, Kitty, and the frightened Chinese couk re- entered the room. “They can’t get in now unless they burst the doors,” sobbed Mrs. Rolt, breathless with her exertions. “Watch that back door, Kitty, whilst I c3711, the men." and she ran to her husband’s room again for the revol- ver which hung there. â€"V-_ “Rtâ€"1; £8 he'r,vKitty, and help her. I shall be all right.” “Will you swear to keep still. “Phon, oh, Phon.” they heard her call, “bar the kitchen window: (1110;: Indians come cut your throat” a d whilst she Spoke they heaxd h 1 tun ing the keys in the main (10015 and putting up the grgat bars. “Stop where you are, Kitty. Mr. Anstruther, for God’s sake, don’t try to move. You can’t help now,” “a: Mrs. Rolt’ s only answ,er and than si. e ran through her husband's bath- room and they heard her taking Lho stairs in headlong flight. f} Once or twice a figure was seen near the farthest of the stacks, thrown out in bold relief for a moment as the devil’s work succeeded and the flames took hold, but though Mary Rolt ‘held her breath to listen, there came no rattle of fire arms. 110! cult Whic T10 W Over twenty stacks, beginning with the one nearest to the ranch house, were in flames, one here and there which had 231.9 d to ' gnite standing out 1)! ack and exa t,gerated in size in the fierce light made by its fellows, whilst the roar of the burning could be heard where the watchers stood. Down in the middle of the valley ran a chain of red fire, whilst the walls of it were still darkness made darker by contrast, and in this, ima- gination could paint the twelve or fourteen men who rode with their weapons in their hands and murder in their hearts. “Twenty-three, Mary, but it is ten minutes since the last blazed up.” flames. The heavy Scotch mist with which 19:: he walk-y was .uledâ€"a freezing mist, which was almost rainâ€"was crimssn “01d "‘I thought as you anus kept that it ?” The Sig-.3211 whkh met the eyes of se who watched at t‘. e window '11.d‘1ave been weirdly beautiful if meanizlg of it had not been so 9.01:5. night was one which only 3t;-_1..uded any possibility of ° ‘1 ignition. but made it diffi- t to understand the rapidity with ich Sta-:1; after stack burst into Marv must have stolen it from the curtains, and THE DURHAM CHRONICLE But he managed to take deal in those quiet glances tyuresented so much. Jim only walked slowly and limped a little, stopping to Speak to one o! the boys and to help him off-saddle- the roan. Then he walked quietly t' the house with ‘the doctor, not 310p ping to hear much of what old A1 hac' to tell him. They indeed told a tale of haste in the past. haste of which they were no longer capable, and possibly any man with a view to effect might have dragged his limbs as the horses drag- ged theirs. “He doesn’t seem in a hurry,” said Kitty, and there was a world of dis- appointment and bitterness in her tone. She expected every one to show his excitement as she did hers. “Did you ever expect Jim to look as if he hurried?” asked Mrs. Rolt, who was leaning over the girl’s shoulder at the window. “Did you Want Jim to boil up a gallop at the finish like the driver of an Irish jaunting car? Look at the horses.” Kitty, whose impatience was de- vouring her, saw them come. Jim was smoking, of course, and staring about him as he slouohed along without a sign of haste, without a shout to tell that he had come. Surely never any man walked as slowly as Jim Combe. never any man looked less like thy express messenger returned. “But Jim did not come. Though they watched for him from hour to hour; though even an ordinary rider in ordinary haste might have bQCIl back before the second night fell. Th; dark came again, and with it no Jim Combe. Neither did morning bring him, and it was not until late afternoon on the fourth day that two men walked slow- ly before their led horses into the corrals. do. From the hog’s back to the black timber of the enclosing hills there was no sign of a camp fire, no hint of a man’s presence, and one by one the scouts sent out from the ranch came back with the same story. Th4 Indians had been about a score in number. and were not now to be seen. neither had they left any trail to say which way they had gone. The most experienced among the tracker.- guessed that they had scattered, and it was impossible to say where they would reunite. But Jim would be back, said the men, and then they could make up their minds what to That night the watchers watched in vain. The three and twenty stacks of good hay which should have been turned into beef at thirty or forty dol- lars a head; flared up and then died down into clear red hearts of fire, and in the white day light were nothing but grey spots on the home meadow. They had been licked up as clean as the mist was by the sun, and left little more trace than the Indians who had lighted them. These had vanished utterly. Two spots of fresh turned earth, outside the corrals, might suggest the recent presence of the Chilcotens to those who knew what lay below, but these and the charred railings where the stacks had stood were all the traces they had left. afternoon.” “I. LC 1 uvvu. “Guess so. Women had ought to do their own chores. I ain't got no u e for Injins round a ranch. Th;y‘v. got all the rifles.” “What?” “All them spare rifles and three or four dozen boxes of cartridgts. I should say, though some of theâ€"Ir .:0n’t he‘o «:rn much. The rifles are ‘ rtv '12:; and half the. cartridges “ere for you r fifty hundred and ten Guess ue b stled em a bit or the) wouldn‘t have made such a fool break as that.” Whilst they were speaking Mar: .lolt had remained unnoriced witv them. Now her husband saw her and bade her run up stairs and tell the other two that it was all over and n: harm done. \“l. zen she had gone master anv‘: than i-aced each other for some min utes in silence. “Can‘t save the stacks, A1?" “That don’t make no odds. We’ve plenty left.” “i suppose so, if we are lucky .-:nough to live to want it.” Oh. we shall. We’ll pull through all right. but I wish the women folk were out of this, at Sody Creek or Vic- toria.” "You think it is war, then?” “You bet it’s war. What did they want them rifles for. They on y burned the stacks to get a show at the store.” “That’s done, Boss. I sent Dan. He’s up half way to Grouse Creek by now if the lnjins haven’t got him.” “Thank you, Al. I think two of you had better come in and sleep in the house to-night. just to reassure the ladies. The rest of you had better sleep with your horses, and there will have to be a couple on the look out all night. They might try to rush us.” “It was a pity as it was Kineeshaw,” he added. “There’ll be no let up now until they wipe us out or some one lets daylight into old Khelowna. He thought a heap of Kineeshaw.” There was no answer to this, but the two listening heard the beat of the returning hoofs, and before long about half of the men of the ranch reined up their lathering horses in front of the mess house. “Did you get any of ’em?” asked Al. “Devil a hoof.” “You got sick of the hunt mighty quick.” “Yes,” drawled one of the boys. “I ain’t almighty stuck on night huntin’. Once you’re over the hog’s back it’s darker nor the ways of a provincial politician. it’s so blanked dark it fairly drowns you after that glare.” and he looked towards the blazing stacks. “The Injins kinder sunk out of sight m it.” of sight 1‘11 it.” “We shall have to send some one to warn the Faircloughs.” “Not whilst them llluminations is turned on,” said Al. I guess you can sleep solid to-night. When it’s dark it will be different. But I’ll see to the look-outs, Boss, when we’ve put them two out of sight,” and he point- ed to where something lay in the sha- dow of the stables. room wnen Sue CHAPTER XVIII. hurt badly," b. .“None of POinting our folk cam: dc‘ssms in .3‘ gre ‘n. Which Kit u m “a" traits of 'Dheir Majesties in eiist- a grea ence, and will become historical hich Kn ngW’ing in value year after year. . _ The smell sum of 70c. will bring an firs: you \both papers until January let a“ 1912, and the Coronation por- pointing mm. 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