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% p "Yes," the major affirmed. "That is the reason for my presence here. I arrived this afternoon with my daughter "Dead!" the other exclaimed in a shocked voice. "You don‘t tell me! Tom Salter dead!" The major stared at that Mr. Becker knew captain‘s death. "Why, no," he returned. "You eviâ€" dently haven‘t heard, Mr. Becker, but my brother is dead." Eventually, Toby has his way, and the three sail for Cuba. The voyage is marred by the Major‘s extravaganctes, and his borrowings from the young man lead to a quarrel. Arrived at Havana, ithe Major is met by a man who introduces himself as JULIAN PECKER, friend of Tom Salter. (Now Read On.) CHAPTER X. MR. BECKER DISCOURSES "Well, now, this is indeed vurry pleasant,‘‘Mr. Becker observed, when the waiter had executed his order and departed again. "Vurry pleasant inâ€" deed! ‘To think that I should run slap into you like this, I only came in on the afternoon ‘plane from Key West, and I was thinking about your brother on the way, and wondering if he was still located at Carbonaras these days. It‘s a good two years since I set eyes on him in this vurry bar. I suppose he. isn‘t around right now?" It seems that his property should go to his next of kin, the Major, but he has no money to go to Cuba to make Imisâ€"claim nor to allow Diana to go, as the letter seems to propose. TOBY BISHOP offers to . finance such a visit, The Major, who, with a snocbbish arrogance, dislikes Toby, is willing to â€"accept assistance from the young man, but only in resipet of a visit by himself. Toby‘s idea is a trip by all three of them, and he is not agreeable to the Major‘s counterâ€" propasal. The intruder turns out to be STEINâ€" FR, who summons his confederates, IEFTY and FRENCHY, who soon make it clear that they are on a blackâ€" mailing visit, based on the fact that Saler in the past, engaged in smugzling liquor into the United States. Thero> is a struggle in which the Captain is dead, after the men have cverhauled his money and papers. Some weeks later, in Sussex, Salter‘s riece, Diana, receives a letter from Father Maloney. Neither Diana nor her father, Major SALTER, can urderstard fully the letter. It contains references to an earlier letter which aprarently the Capain had sent but which Diana has never receivcd. e JULIAN BECKER mysterious Amerâ€" jcan lawyer. OF PREVIOUS CHAPTFEFRS Retuming to the Havana port in which he has his home, Captain TOM SALTER interviews his bank manager concerning a sugar estate which he (Salter) has decided to buy in preparaâ€" tion for his,retirement from the sea. Thereafter he sails a few miles up the coast to the coastal village in which he lives.‘ He learns from his friend, Father MALCONEY, that a stranger has been in the village inquiring about Salter. Arriving at his homestead, the skipper is surprised to find that his housekeeper is absent and the place in darkness. Entering, he is confronted by a man with a revolver., TOBY BISHOP Hardworking, ambiâ€" tious young man who wants to marry Diana. DITANA SALTER â€" Major Salter‘s daughter and Tom Salter‘s niece. FATHER FRANCIS MALONEY, an Irish priest in Cuba, in whom Salter confides. f MAJOR SALTER â€" Tom Salter‘s brother living the life of a retired regular officer in England. Reégards his seafaring brother as slightly disâ€" reputable. Principal Charcters in the Story TOM SALTER, bachelor sea captain 6fi British origin, mostly engaged on meri¢an coastal trade. STEINER LEFPTY FRENCH, seaâ€" faring man of doubtful repute, who at one time sailed with Salter. 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It seemed nothing of the Train No. 8, leaving 12:55 a.m Friday, Octo From scemed to inrdicate a desire to help. In any case, I imagined that this plantaâ€" tion would come to me automaticallyâ€" _subject,of course, to death duties." i "Oh, that?" Mr. Becker said careâ€" lessly. "Well, yes; I don‘t guess there‘ll be much «difficulty about that. There‘s ‘not enough in it for the sharks to get busy about." 2 "Indeed?" the major asked, with | some dismay. "Then at this placeâ€" Carbonarasâ€"I am likely to be at a disâ€" tinct disadvantage?" "I‘m afraid s>," Becker told him ‘eravely. "They‘ve a healthy respect for Americans, for we‘ve got a real pull in the country, but when it comes to any other nationality, they just pile in and rob them for all they‘re worth, You can trust ncbody to look after your inâ€" terests, and the deal is stacked against you all the way." "Really?" the major said in a disâ€" turbed voice. "But I suppose it makes | a difference if there is someone on the i spot who is used to the ways of the !country? I know nothing of this place, | of course, but there is a man there of the name of Maloney, who first sent 'up thisâ€"erâ€"dreadful news. And he "Theseâ€"â€"â€"â€"? Oh, you mean the ruffians responsible for the outrage? No, ‘as far as I know, they escaped." Mr. Becker shook his head. ! "They wouldâ€"in this country!" he said bitterly. "Salter was a foreigner, ‘ and the police just wouldn‘t be botherâ€" "ed about it. That‘s the Spanish tempâ€" _erament, sir! Corruption and graft are ‘their middle names. You‘ll find that as lyou get to have dealings with them. The lawâ€"I‘m lawyer myselfâ€"means ‘nothing here, and I‘m afraid you‘ll have ! every obstacle placed in your way when ‘ it comes to settling up matters. And the farther you get from the centre of ! things here, the worse it is." The major looked a trifle startled at this last question. The major followed suit, and there followed a brief silence as they set their glasses back on the table. "Well," Mr. Becker said sadly at last, "life goes on, major. Did they get these gorillas?" The major, whose glass was halfway to his lips, paused in some embarrassâ€" ment. He felt that this was really overâ€" dcing things a bit. It was, he considered Mr. . Becker .registered â€" horrified M?‘ L admire your CAUUIONHN, INH4JOL, DUL astonisiiment. .__|you see Tom Salter confided quite a "You don‘t say!" he ejaculated. "Tom 1l0t in me, and I suppose I knew more Salter shot by hoodlums! Say, major. about his affairs than most folk. So this makes me feel real bad! It does you needn‘t be scared to talk mwbout it indeed!" He reached out for his glass with me." and raised it with a soléemn gesture.f The major looked up at him in some ‘Major! You can put me down as a bewilderment. sentimentalist, but I‘d like to suggest| "Talk about what?" he demanded. that we sit for a few seconds in silence, : "I‘m hanged if I know what you mean! before drinking to the memory of a It‘s true that this man Maloney, was vurry gallant gentleman and an old and rather insistent that my daughter valued friend." ' {should come out here, but from the fact The major, whose glass was halfway"that he never mentioned me, I conâ€" to his lips, paused in some embarrassâ€" cluded that he‘d prebably got hold of ment. He felt that this was really overâ€" ‘one of her letters to my brother and "No," the major told him reluctantly. "IL haven‘t been supplied with all the details yet, but I understand by brother was killed byâ€"erâ€"robbers. Burglars you know. It isn‘t the sort of thing one cares to tell everyone, of cqourse, but unfortunately there seems to have been no doubt about it. The ruffians were apparently burgling his house, and he was shot dead." Mr.â€" Becker .registered _ horrified "Yes, I know," the major agreed. "He actuaily bought it, as a matter of fact, just before his death." "My, my, my!" Mr. Becker ejaculated, shaking his head. "That‘s taken all the kick out of my vacation here. But what was it, major? Tom Salter looked to me like the huskiest kind of man from the physical point of view. Was it fever?2" ‘"Weill, this comes as a vurry great shock to me, major," Becker said in a hushed voice. "I had no notion . . When did it happen? For I had a letter froem him no more than a couple of months ago, telling me he was figuring on buying a sugar estate and settling down as a colonoâ€"s planter." andâ€"erâ€"a friend things.." No Basgage Checked 66â€" er â€" clear up hneading back for Noo Orleans at the end of the weekâ€"and anyway, it might look as though I was just out to get business for myself. You never know what people might think in that way. No, I couldn‘t do that. But at the same ‘time I‘d be glad to help you any way 'I could, major, if only for the memory of my old friend. When are you aiming to go to Carbonaras?" "Tomorrow," the major told him. "I believe it has been arranged that we ‘shall take an early train to a place ‘called Antilla, which is as far as we ‘can go by rail." Becker nodded slowly. "Yes, that‘s the railhead," he said. "After that, you go on the rest of the way by auto. Well, as it happens, I‘ve got a little deal to put through in Antilla ‘t-hé day after, so I shan‘t be so far from you. Maybe I could take a trip over to Carbonaras while I‘m there, and how you‘re making out?" + "It would be very kind if you would!" the major assented eagerly. "Perhaps | "What kind of a surprise?" the major impatiently. "Oh nothingâ€"nothing!" Becker reâ€" plied with a kind Of maddening airâ€" iness. "Just forget it, major. I guess T talk too muchâ€"and that‘s a vurry bad ’fault in a lawyer." ! ‘But hang it, you can‘t leave it like the major exclaimed exaspeorâ€" atedly. "Surely I have a right to know if it concerns me! Besides, it‘s nonsense ‘to suppose that this man was keeping anything as a surprise for he didn‘t ‘even know I was coming here!" } "That‘s so," the other agreed thoughtâ€" fully. "And in that case .. ." He broke offâ€" and then resumed in a different tone: "But you‘ll have to excuse me, major, from saying any more just now I see now that I shoukdn‘t have said ‘so much. I‘ve been guillty of a breach ‘of legal etiquette in butting in on a !matter that isn‘t in my hands." | "But," the major insisted in a perâ€" ;tur.bed voice, ‘"now that you‘ve got as far as this, I wish you‘d explain just { what you know about my brother‘s cirâ€" cumstances, Mr. Becker. At least, it | would give me some idea .. . 4 a mighty good notion of keeping things to himself! Maybe I shouldn‘t have mentioned it at all, major. I guess he intended to keep it as a surprise for "Well, well, well," that gentleman ejaculated softly. "He‘s certainly got ‘He broke off, for Becker was slowly shaking his head and smiling in a ecurious manner to himself. "I know of him," Becker said careâ€" fully. "He‘s the priest there." "Oh, a priest, is he?" the major said. "I wondered what he was. Well, as I His companion stared at him, struck by scmsthing in his tone as he made this lazt statementâ€"for it was more a statement than a question. "It‘s all that brought me here," he stated emphatically. ‘‘And I sincerely hop> you‘re wrong in your estimate of the value of this estate, Mr. Becker!" The major sat up and looked at him sharply. "How do you mean?" he demanded. "It‘s aâ€"a valuable propéerty, isn‘t it?" Becker shrugged. "I havent seen it, but from what I understocd your brother to say, it‘s just an ordinary small lot," he said. "Land doesn‘ts fetch much around those parts anyway, and I wouldn‘t bank on makâ€" ing real money out of that." He paused, and then added: "But that‘s not what brought you here, major?" 10 P PORCUPTNEFE ADVANCE, TTMMINS ONTARtO "Well, you‘re completely wrong there," the major retorted with someâ€" what childish satisfaction. "As a matter of fact he‘s an American lawyer in rather a big way. And you could hardly have seen him at the customs barrier, for he told me he‘d only just arrived by aeroplane from somewhere or otherâ€" New Orleans, I think he said." ! â€"you and Iâ€"and we know a bit about its shady side. I don‘t say there is anyâ€" | thing phoney about this, but if there is, ‘it‘s better we should keep the other side ‘from suspecting we know about itâ€"at ‘any rate, for the time. Don‘t you agree?" The major nodded portentiously. "Oh, certainly," he assented. "These young people lack and they‘d lprcbably give the whole show away at once. I shall say nothing about having met you, Mr. Becker, but I‘ll look forâ€" ward to seeing you in a couple of days‘ | time. I must say I think it‘s devilish |good of you to take so much interest lin‘t. #:2" "Yes," Toby returned, staring after the retreating form of the major‘s late companion. "You‘re wanted to fill in a special police registration form, as you‘re likely to be in the country for more than a week. Was that a reporter you were talking to?" "No, he‘s just a man I happened to get into converastion with," the major told him evasively, "What made you think he was a reporter?" "Oh, it was only a guess," Toby adâ€" mitted. "I noticed him looking at us as we came through the customs barrier and seeing him here again so soon, I thought he must have followed you up for an interview." He grasped Mr. Becker‘s outstretched hand, and as that gentleman made his way rapidly through the throng toâ€" wards the street entrance to the bar, he turned and met Toby‘s gaze with an expression which he fondly hoped was one of ecnigmatiece dignity. "Were you looking for me, Bishop? he asked coldly. "No, I guess not," his companion inâ€" terrupted firmly. "Not at first, anyway. I‘ll come over incognito, and we can have a little talk together in private. | You‘ll know all that Maloney‘s got to tell you by then, and if it fits in with | what I knowâ€"which it most probably | willâ€"well, there won‘t be much that I ’ can do to help." "But if it doesn‘t?" the major asked, !__‘"In that case, we‘ll have to look into | things a mite closer," Becker said cheerfully. "But as I say, you‘ll probâ€" ably be fixed up well enough without me." He paused for a moment, and ‘then went on: lif you saw this man Maloney . .. ?2" He grasped hand, and as way rapidly The major had als@ risen, somewnhat surprised at this sudden termination of the interview, and at that moment he saw Toby advancing towards him from the lounge entrance of the bar. "Not at all! Not at all!‘" Becker interâ€" ruptedly hurriedly, rising to his feet. "I count it a privilege, major, to be of any service T can. But if you‘ll excuse me Tright naw . . ." ‘"‘There‘s just one point, major. I think it will be wiser if you don‘t menâ€" tion that you‘ve seen me at all. Not to Maloney, nor even to your daughter or this Mr.â€"erâ€"your friend who‘s ‘come with you. We‘re both men of the world Other Glands May Disturb Thyroid Gland A patient with an overactive thyroid gland was advised byâ€"his physician that ‘operation lor removal of the gland was advisable as the symptcmsâ€"rapid heart seat, nervousness, sleeplessness, and |loss of weightâ€"were sapping his vitalâ€" ity and no time should be lost. The patient, as with most patients, asked if there were not other measures that ! could bring 2sbout a cure. | _ ‘The physician advised him that comâ€" plete ress in bed might allay the \symptems to some extent but it would 32 unwise to delay matters. Also Xâ€" 'ray treatments were effective in most ‘cases brt the treatment would extend ‘cver a number of months, perhaps a [whole year. As the patient was in good general condition, the thyroid gland was reâ€" moved by surgery and he was back in his sffice in three weeks. Bv lames W . Barton, M .D of Pours That Bubyp In three days the party returned to Temagami where they immediately made enquiries about the dog, and learned of his patient and sorrowful search for them. We would like to have sen the dog when he finally found what he sought. Barrie Examiner:â€"Made on the hourglass principle, a threeâ€"minute timer has been designed to time longâ€" distance telephone calls or breakfast eggs As soon as the sands run out both the eggs and the telephone operator becdme hardâ€"boiled. They left their car in a garage and hurried to catch a" warting boat. They did not realize the dog was not with them until it was too late to urn back. Remember the collie dog at Temagâ€" ami who lost his master and who reâ€" fused food in his grief, looking eagerly into every car that stopped, and going disconsolately back to his watching place when the search proved futile. The dog has found his master. And the man is just as rejoiced as the dog at being found. This is the story: The dog‘s master was one of a party who motored up to Temagami (with the dog) for a few day‘s fishing in the lake district. South Porcupne. ct. 16â€"We are very pleased to be able to give the endâ€" ing to our little "dog story" of a few issues back. Attending the funeral fror town points were Mr. and Mi Robitaille, of Timmins; Mr. D. Robitaille of Hagar; Mr. G. Ssavarie; of Hagar; Miss Ferlatte, of Sturgeon Falls; deau, of Sturgeon Falls; J. F of Sudbury; Andrew Whorley, nola, and others. And the Master is Also R joicing. Surviving her are her pa brothers, Reginald, of Sud Ozias Larmand, of the Ro dian Engineers, England; Bay and three sisters, Rev. line de Jesus of the Sistc Sturgeon> Falls and George. Assumption, of Timmins; â€"M rard and Mrs. A. Whorle, North Bayv. Dog That Searched Cars for His Master Is Happy Once More The childs death occured la day following a heart sesure. / born in North Bay and atter Rita‘s Separate School. The pallâ€"bearers were Re Tommy Gribbons, Delore Bo nard and Gordon Hogan. girls, friends of the> Larn were honorary pallbearer. Marguerite Lepage, Rita Louella Benard and C. Blai goitre so that severe symptoms arise, If these disturbances can be removed. cperation may not be necessary. Mealth Boiklets Ten booklets by Dr. Barton are available to readers who send in Ten Cents for each one desired to The Belli Library, Post Office Box 75. Station O, New York, N. Y., mentioning this newspaper. They are: Eating Your Way to Health;: Why Worry About Your HMHeart?; Neurosis;: the Common Cold: Owverweight and Underweight; Food Allergy; Scourge (gonorrroea and syphâ€" lis); How is ;Your Blood Pressure? Chronic Rheumatism and Arthritis: Cancerâ€"Its Symptoms and Treatment. (Registered in accordance with the Copyright Act). North Bay, Oct. 16thâ€"The fune Angeliqu> Larmand, the 12â€"ye laughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lar 108 McPhail strset, was held nesday morning from the family dence. Service was conducted ; Vincent de Paul Roman Ca Church Interment was in St. A Roman Catholic cemetory. Deatt. of Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Pster Larmand *A "THIS BALANCED BREAKFAST £%* KEEPS ME Ej3" e her parents, four of ~Sudbury;â€" Pto. _ the Royal Canaâ€" Peter of ers, Rev. Sister Ceâ€" the Sisters of the 1 George, of North > Reginald and e Boileau, Leoâ€" in. Pour little Larmand child They were Dashney,| n outâ€"cfâ€" ‘3. Jospeh and Mrs. and Mrs. Antonia Mr. Naâ€" â€"Berard of Esbpa arise,. If ... sweet Caporal Club § ‘l\mtb for Soldiers . +. and Sends Cigarettes both Matr Sun h There was. an amusing example of what may be done by Jugglmg figures in a recent issue of The Leamington Post and News. The Post.and News had this item with the heading, "Figure. This. One Out":â€"â€" "A friend with a flare for. juggling figures produced this one the other day, "Put down the number of yvour living brothers. Multiply it by two. Add three. Multiply the result by five. Add number of living sisters. Multiply the result by ten. Add the number of dead brother and sisters. Subtract one hundred and fifty from the reâ€" sults."" * We did it works with you." wWith a great many families it will figure out all right but it doesn‘t figure cut right at all in those families where there are eleven living brothers, eleven living sisters and eleven dead. sults." We did it "Now," said the friend with a smile, "the right hand figure will be the number of deaths, the middle figure the number of living sisters, and the left hand figure the number of living brothers." And so it was. See if it Fignt memsers form the noew "Swee Caporals Club" which held an organ ization meeting on Wednesday evening October 9th, at the home of Mrs. Wm. Thomas, Waterloo Road. Mrs. Chester M. MacElwee was elected president of the group, and Mrs. Thomas is the seoâ€" retaryâ€"treassires for the ensuing year. The club has an especially worthy Cojeectiveâ€"it will knit articles for the scldiers at each of its meetings, and beâ€" sides this, will donate all its funds for the purchase of cigarettes for the soldier. Each member pays a weekly fse of 25¢ and this money is collected to buy the cigarettes which Canadian soldicrs in England are very eager to But the Scheme Will Only Work With Small Families New Club in Town Busy Good Work. @ Owned Operated by Canadians Timmins Dairy Corner Birch St. Kirbhy Ave. Phone 935 Milk â€" Cream â€" Ice Cream â€" Ruttermilk COOFFEE TAKE3S on new zip and tas Timmins Dairy cream is added. So m faction from coffee depz>nds on the kind you that there is no better cream for th It‘s richer, thicker, tastier . . . more en A Negtro who was the father of 12 children, had rocked them all in the same cradle. 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