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r- f^ r-^ "SAIADA IMRK UC31TNING ^ HELEN TOPPING MILLER CHAPTER V Instantly, old Hughey extricated himself from the confusion of hla iMdding. His sunken, dead-black eyes begai; lo glfea-Qi- He clawed •t Gary's arm, Jerked him Inside, •nd slammed the door. "Don't let none of them folks •round hear you," he warned. "Set down. Yeh, I got a map. But I'm keeping it. Wliat you waul with nr "I'm studying the atructures •round here. Thought maybe you'd let me look at youi- mail. Know this (Touatry pretty well, do you?" , "Know It?" shrilled the old man, lulling out a drawer from a lop- sided chest and fumbling feverish- ly ";;: it. '1 iuibw every fold and fault and sand in it. Walked every foot of it. Son, you can look at my map, but there ain't no oil under this county, not a drop.'' • » * He straightened, brought out a packet carefully wrapped in oil- cloth and secured with a tightly knotted shoestring. Slowly, al- most reverently, he untied a doz- en knots. A roll of slippery maps slid out, uncurled themselves, giease-spotted and faded. " Got 'em all here." Old Hughey dropped on a stool and spread the soiled sheets over his knees. "Here she is. Look a' here." He traced with a long and filthy fing- ernail. â- 'There fhe lays . . .there's the Sabine uplift â€" where they found the big pool â€" and over here there ain't nothing. Lime and salt water, I tell you." , With, swift, trained vision Gary 6l;idled th- inai'. li wjs an old print, he noted twenty years old. There was an uplift â€" but to the north of it a fault â€" and on the edge of that â€" his breath began to quick- en a little. "Thanks, Mr. Fothergill." He hajuied tlie m;ip back. "Hereâ€" buy yourself some tobacco. You're MANY THANKS go to wives and mothers who serve Maxwell House ! Yes, Canadian families love the delicious, satisfying flavor of this superb blend of Latin-American coffees. ASPIRIN EASES lEIRITIC, REBRALGIC PAIN FAST! IT'S READY TO GO TO WORK IN ... 2 SECONDS! XMlk Y<» ««t pain rdief fi»t when you UK Aipiriii because it (tarts to go to work almoat immediately. To â- Â«â€¢ that this is so. just drop aa Aspirin tablet in water. Wluit you'U see is wtiat happens in 'your stomach â€" the tablet starts disintegrating witliin two seconds/ That's why Aspirin stops neuritic, neuralgic pain so quickly. Qet Aspirin today.The"Bayer" croM oo each tablet is your guarantee tliat it's \ Aspirin: hmak\ ^^H^-New Low Prices! ftxiielbcxof 12s. ... onlylCs Ecofiomy botti* of 24 • . only 3*c FamRy slzsof'100 ... only TVs ISSUE «»-l»« quite sure there's no oil under these structures?" "Shake yourself well," advised Adelaide as he went back to the car. "I got th» cold shivers when he grabbed you. I was sitting here wondering if 1 ought to go yell for the police." * • • "He's got the map â€" ^but Its an old edition. I'll have to write for a new one, I guess." "But that will take days â€" let's telegraph, can't we?" "If I sent a wire somebody would start talking," he said. "You can't hide oil â€" or even a suspicion that there might be oil." "Gary Tallman â€" ^you did see something on that map! You're tryiim' to be mysterious and clj- scure, but I can gee right through you. You've got red spots In both cieeks." "Fever," he said. "I've been with you for hours. How do you expect me to keep my temperature do-wn?" â-  We're going stralgiht home to tell Dad." "I wouldn't want to raise any false lio' I..-." V "Dad could hire a geologist." "A survey costs money, too. The big oil compajiies keep their own crews, but an iiulependent ownor would have to take his own risks. ' "Oliver works for a big oil com- pany." "He sells leases. He doesn't know anything about production. Ii iliere \.erc- -cv.y indication.s t^iat there's oil under your place, Kim- ball wojkl war.t your father to sell out to somebody." â-  \:'.il 'â- :â- '.: ,.'.nt all the credit, and grab it, too. And probably halt the money. I wouldn't trust Oliver an inch. Don't say a word, Gary, when Oliver is around." * :ic * Gary agreed promptly because he did not like Oliver, either. •I hope nolKKly comee in tonight â€" then we can tell Dad and Moth- er," Adelaide ran on excitedl(y. "And you can advise Dad what to do. Oh, Gary â€" suppose we did i;et millions of dollars â€" " she was. hreat!i!es.s and lior eyes WDre like two hot, burning stars. "Now don't say a word,'' he warned, as they whirled through the gate and around the drive, missing the windmill by the thlck- iit ~^ of a coat of paint. "Gary, could you draw a sketch of that map? You could, couldn't you?" "I guess 1 toiil'.l. I could get it down In a rough way.'* "You go up and do that right away, before dinner. And I'll fix up some way to introduce the sub- ject." Latetr, when she had time to Uiink about it, Mona Lee remem- bered the look on Harvey's face when Adelaide said abrubtiy, "Now, Gary â€" now let's tell them!" * * * For a minute Harvey's face darkened. Gary was a nice boy, but they had had fine plans for -Adelaide which did not Include a marriage to any young oil man oat of a Job. That wag In Harvey's face at first. And then, when Gary spread out the sheet of paper with the rough sketch he htid drawn on the table, Harvey's Ikce changed again. "â- What's all this?" he asked gruffly. Adelaide drew a deep breath and was tense and her cyeg snap- ped sparks. "Oil â€" on our land! Gary thinks maybe he's found oil!" It was then that Harvey became a stranger to Mona Lee. I To Be Continued) CHRONICLES oi GIHGE3 FARM By Gwendoline P Clarke We have just come back from the County Plougliing match. We were all there â€" Partner, the two boys and myself. It was a glorious day, fine and warm, the first day in years that it hasn't rained, or been cold and rough for this big county event. It was also the first time I had ever gone to a plough- ing match and I found it well worth the trip. The boys went early in the fore- noon. Partner and I followed soon after dinner â€" just in time to see the big bulI-dozcr at work. .\nd how it worked! What was a bull- dozer doing at a plou.ijhing match, did you ask? Wei!, you see this af- fair was more than a ploughing match â€" thanks to enterprising men within the county. It was also a demonstration and exhibition of labour saving machinery, and, while a bull-dozer can hardly be classed as a necessary piece of equipment on a hundred acres, yet there are many such farms where a buU-dozer could be put to good use â€" thus the demonstration, the idea being that a group of farmers might find enough work between them to bring a bull-dozer in to work for them. * t * On this particular farm where the match was he'd the machinery was lined up in a pasture field. In the field there was a huge stump from which an elm tree had recent- ly been felled. It isn't necessary for me to tell you the work involv- ed in prying a green stump from its moorings. No doubt you have seen the men on your farm w-ork- ing with picks, shovels, axes and even dynamite for days at a time. But on this stump the bull-dozer went to work. It gouged out the dirt from around the stump; it cut through its confining roots; it groaned and whined against the resisting fibres, while a ring of men, women and boys looked on in breathless expectancy. "By Jiminy, that there stump will take some moving," one fellow said. "Just watch â€" it'll do it," said another. Fascinated I formed my way to the front of the ring and from this vantage point I noticed that at first the stump was as solid and de- fiant as a rock. And then, slowly but surely it started giving a lit- tle. Came the time when it shud- dered from the impact of the huge steel monster and then gradually gave way before its repeated on- slaughts. Finally the crowd could see the battle of mechanism against nature was just about won. Tw^ o» three more gigantic shoves and the great root was pushed over and NAVY SUIT Believe it or not, Joy Hardy wears a reconverted WREN's uniform. All that happened to the â- niform "was an addition of fancy, dark blue braid and the removal of the three additional buttons "which gave It double-breasted style. The original fine tailoring of the uniform is retained. Helps Check Colds Quickly You can often check a cold quickly if you follow these instructions. Just as soon aa you feel the cold com- ing on and experience headache, pains in the back or limbs, soreness through the body, take a Paradol tablet, a good big drink of hot lemonade or ginger tea and go to bed. The Paradol affords almost immed- iate relief from the pains and aches and lidps you to get off to sleep. The doee may be repeated, if necessary, accord- ing to the directions. If there is soro- neiis of the throat, garble with two I'aradol tablets dissolved m water. Just try Paradol the next time you have a void and we believe that you will be well plea.sed Paradol does not disap- ixiint. Dr. Chase s Paradol driven unresisting away from the soil wliich hail held it for so many years. Bob was particularly interested in this demonstration because he had seen bull-dozers at work so often in British Columbia and used to write and tell us about them. Also lie had wished several times this fall that he had had one around here for an hour or two. He has been plougliing partly cleared vir- gin land up in our bush and has been having one sweet time, what with stumps, trees and boulders. He would come in at noon some- times and say, "What I couldn't do with a bull-dozer up in that field!" * • • There was also a demonstration on ditching today with the bull- dozer pulling a huge grader. That was interesting too. Then there was a power chain saw in operation which we couldn't see at all for the crowd. If only some of the offi- cials had been there forcing the crowd to form a larger ring then everyone would have had a chance to see what was going on. Another thing that claimed our attention was a tractor pulling about every implement used on a farm at one time. * • * And the ploughing? Oh yes, there was ploughing â€" lots of it â€" and it all looked grand to me. In fact I don't know how the Judges could come to a decision when there seemed so little to choose be- tween all those ridges of well- turned sods, gleaming molstly in the warm autumn sun. I heard Partner and another farmer argu- ing about the respective merits of team and tractor ploughing with Partner all in favour of the latter. No doubt tractor plo.ij'hing is more practical in this day and age but I had a sneaking preference for those team ploughed ridges with crowns so even they might have been measured with a foot-rule. * * * '^.^ •.'..•, \\:i< our County Plough- ing match. And, ladies, when the nex't one rolls along-, just forget there's washing to do and climb in the old jalopy along with the rest of the family and have a day out with the men. It's a wise woman who interests herself in what in- terests her men and you will find a ploughing match, be it county or provincial, quite worthy of your consideration. "Methodist" Preferred A ilig'nt oiiiccr w.uitcd to buy some war bonds at the war fin- ance office in Lawrenceville, 111., and was a.-ikcd in what denomina- tion he'd like to have them. "Me- thodist," he replied. DaUy Air Service London to Vienna RkA.F. Mosquitoes are now making dally rims between Lon- don and Vle(ina in Just over two and one half hours reports the B BC oorresponrient In Vienna, He adds that London morning news- papers are now arriving In the Austrian capital by 11 a.m. This service Is being operated by Brit- ish Transport Command. The makers of the Mosquito are now working on a peace time version which is stated to be speciaily suitable for world-wide operatioti and moderate size airports. It â- will carry eight to eleven passen^rers and have a cruising B.peed of 160 mllea per hour. Ex-Servicewomen Want Own Homes The girls in khaki and blue have their hearts set on a home of their own rather than a career, it would seem. The r«-establi«hment credit of 85% of the girls discliarged from the services up to the end of Aug- ust, a sum totalling $79,670 has been used to buy furniture and household equipment. None of tiie girls has yet used her credit to purchase a business. 'Let Us Bind Up The Nation's )Vound»* The principal purpose of tho Ninth Loan is to pay for bringing our fighting men home and put- ting them on their feet in civilian life, says the Peterborough Exam- iner. Particularly appropriate to this loan are these words of Abra- ham Lincoln: "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see ifce right, let us finish the work wo are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphans, to do all which may achieve and cherish a Just and lasting peace among our- selves and with all nations." Let us undertake the Loan ta this spirit and make it at least as much a success as those which have gone before it. POULTRY WANTED Send ui you- chickens, fowl, ducks, geese arj turkeys. (Must bs dressed.) "Higrhest prices paid." QUALITY MEAT PACKERS 203 First Ave., Toronto FOR PERFECT RESULTS ON ALL FABRICS <>^f ALL- FABRIC Tintex GUARANTEED TO DYE CELANESE, 45-4 NYLON AND ALL MIXTURES