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What was I to do 1 _ I could not tell her hat I loved Gracey:Storefield ten times as much as I‘d ever cheated myself into thinking I eared about her, So I swore that I cared more for her than any womah uah-hhvul‘.u‘dny-hldm This steadied her,. We parted good Wionds, and she promised to keop quict -duy-u-hlhbddm.p. She turned up the lamp to show me the way “wfllofl"lwdflewlm\ Toft open night aod day, It was a way we had at the Furon ;. 10 one tmNd: *You are right, Dick,‘ sho said at last, ‘aud you show your sense in talking the way you have ; though, if you loved as 1 do, you could not do it. But, onee more, there‘s no other woman that you‘re fonder of than me ? Tt isn‘t that that makes you zo good ! Dick ‘Marston good 1‘ and here she laughed bitterly. . ‘If I thought that L should go mad.‘ The lamp had been put out in the big Hall. â€" There was only one in this parlour, and it wasn‘t over bright. _ I talked away, and Jast of all she came round to my way of thinking ; at any rate not to want to «Jear off from the old man now, but to wall till I eame back, or till I wrote to her. about Jeaule fetched her too. She knew her own sister would turn against herâ€" zot harsh like, but she‘d never be the saime to her again as long as she lived. to be more. You‘ve got a good husband, that‘s proad of you and gives you every thing you can think of. You took him yourself, and you‘re bound to stick to him. Besides, think of poor Jeanic and Jim. You‘ll spoil all their happiness; and, more than allâ€"don‘t make any mistakeâ€"you know what Jeanie thinks of a woman who leaves her busband for another man.‘ . , If you let a woman have a regular good ery and talk herself.out, you can mostly bring her round in the end. So after a bit Kate grow more reasonable. . That bit "Kato,‘ I said, ‘this won‘t do. There‘s méithor rhyine nor reason . about it. I‘m as foud of you as ever I was, but you must know well enough if you make a boit of it now there‘ll be no end of a bobbery, and every body‘s thoughts will be turued car way. â€" We‘ll be elean bowledâ€" the lot of us. Jim and 1 will be jugged. Yon and Jennic will be left:to the merey af the world, worse off by a precious sight than ever you were in your lives. Now, if you look at it, what‘s the good of spoilâ€" mg the whole jimbang for a fancy notion about me? . You and I are safe to be firstâ€" rate friends always, but it will be the ruin of both of us if we‘re fools enough to want *Tell m“l\-,‘ whe said, leaning forward, putting one hand on y sboulder, while whe seemed to look through the very soul of meâ€"her face grow deadly pale, and her lips trembled, as I‘d seen them do once before wheu she was rogular beyond herâ€" welfâ€"‘will you take mo with you when you go lor good asd all ? I‘m ready to follow you round the world. Don‘t be afraid of my temper. No woman that ever lived over did more for the man she loyed than Pll do for you. 1 Jeanio‘s good to Jinâ€"and you know she isâ€"D‘ll be twice the woman to you, or T‘ll die for it. Dou‘tspeak I‘ she went on; ‘I know I threw you over once. I was mad with cage and shame, You know I had cause, hadn‘t I, Dick? You know I had. To spite you, I throw away my own life then; now it‘s n misery and & torment to me swery day I live. 1 can bear it no louger, L toll you _ It‘s killing meâ€"killing me day by day, Only say the word, and P‘ll join you in Melbourne within a weekâ€"to be yours, and yours only, as long as I live.‘ 1 didu‘t think there was that much of the loving nature about her, She used to vex me by being hard and ancertain when we were courting. 1 knew then she cared wbout we, and I lindn‘t a thought about any other woman, Now when 1 didu‘t a«k her to bother hersel{ mbout me, and enly to lot me alone and go her own way, who must turn the tables on me, and want to ruin the pair of us slap over again. Sha‘d thrown her arms round my neek and was sobbing on my shoulder when she Gnished. _ I took her over to the sofa, and wade hor sit down,by the side of me, Terrible Hollow Or Bush Life in Ausâ€" tralia. By the author of "The Squatter‘s Dream", Contiuued from Iast wee«. THE 1 walked up the narrow track that led up to the little gully with the moon shinâ€" ing down upon the white quarts rock, ing. . It seemed crael to wake him, but it would have been erueller not to do so. Then all kinds of thoughts came into my head. .Would Kate, when her burst of rage was over, go in for revenge in cold blood? She éonld hardly strike me withâ€" ont at the same time hurting Jeanie through Jim. Should I trust her? Would she come fight, kiss and make friends, and call herself a madwomanâ€"a mkh-lo.l‘ â€"as she‘d often done before? No; she was in bitter carnest this tims It did not pay to be slack in making off, Once ‘we had been eaught napping, and once was enough. The first thing to do was to warn Jimâ€" poor old Jim, snoring away, most like, and dreaming of taking the boxâ€"seat for himâ€" self and Jeanic at the agent‘s next mornâ€" She gazed at moforamoment witha face from which every trace of expresslon hnd vanishod, exeept that of the most dovilish fary and spiteâ€"the face of an evit spirit more than of a woman; and thon she walked slowly away. _ I couldn‘t help pity« ing her, though I cursod my own folly, as 1 had done a thousand times, that ! had ever turned my head or spoken a word to her when first she crossed my path, I got into the street somehow ; 1 hardly knew what to think or to do, _ That danger was elose at our heels I didn‘t donbt for a moment. â€" Everthing seemed changed in n -:jnuu. What was going to bappen? ‘Was I the same Dick Marston that had bsen strolling up Main Street a couple of hours ago ! All but aff by the toâ€" morrow evening‘s coach, and with all the -»rld‘ before me, a good round sum in the bauk; best part of a year‘s hard, honest work it was the price of, too. z+ themselves to be particular about such tritles as furniture and so on, â€" ‘There was very little small robbery there ; it was not worth while. All petty stealers were most severely punished into the bargain. As I stood up to say goud:bye a small note dropped out of my breastâ€"pocket, 1t had shifted somehow, Kate always had an oyo like an hawk. With one spring sho porneed npon it, and before T could interfere opened and read it! 1t was Graeey Storefield‘s. She stood for one moment and glared in my faee. 1 thought she had gone mad. ‘Then sho throw the bit of paper down and trampled upon it, *8o, Diek Marston,‘ she eried out hos oc ly, her very voice changed, ‘you have tricked me a second time! Your own Gracey ! your own Graceey ! and this, by the date, at the very time you were letwing me persuade myself, like a fool, like an idiot that 1 was, that you still care for met You have put the eap to your villainy now. . And, as God made me, you whali have eausoâ€"good causoâ€"to fear the woman you have onee betrayed and twice scorned. â€" Look to yourself,‘ .‘.“”“?W%Mn’m Tess Potie, .b eaureareiioes 48.)\+, 3 C ANER C0., Lowell, : »=" ‘There‘s another hunger than that of the stomach. Hair hunger, for instance. Hungry hairneeds food, needs hair vigorâ€"Ayer‘s. Afe ho Vgerslows s Hair ways restores color, and makes the hair grow long and hCaVvV. â€" 3100 a teitle. All druguists. is 45 inches in length.""â€"1 Boydston, Atchison, Kans. _ * About a year ago my hair was coming out very fast, so 1 bought coming out fasl, 80 a bortle of K;::'. Hair Vigor. " 1t stopped the falling and made my Long Hair ooone c hh m heth"â€"Mro. Ac Rather give too much, than too Iittle value! A safe policy for Makers, who brand their own price onâ€" "The Slater Shoo" "It‘s not lost that a &, C. FARRELL, ~ Sole Agent, Grimsby. i sad e enfi ekyrens policy for for the Hollow as soon as I can. You‘d better leave Jeanic bere and do the same.‘ Jim groaned, but said nothing. He wnm‘-ybufiulhhhâ€"-ll to crack, and walked away without a‘ word. Anyhow I‘ll leave word with him what to do when we‘re gone. 1‘d advise you -ououyu--l-nluhtl”-'lll you must, I suppose. Goodâ€"bye, old man. I shall make my way over to Jonathan‘s, borrow a horse from him, and make tracks 1 thought Jim was going. to broak out .ql.'jmuhmdwhnhl‘ulboy. His heart was a big soft one ; and though he could face anything in the way of fightâ€" luthll-udnn-lo.ud-btn men‘s swhare very like, yet his tears, mother said, laid very near his oyes, and till he was a grown man they used to pump up on all sorts of occasions. ‘Come, be a man, Jim,‘ I said, ‘we‘ve .meoloolmfih‘ht&bunhn‘- no two ways about it. I shall go to Arizona Bill‘s claim and see what he says. â€" ‘Dashed if I know. _T feel stupid about ’mhlluthln-hmhu and what can 1 do with Jeanie ? _ 1 wish I was dead, . I‘ve half a mind to go and shoot that brute of a woman and then myself. But then, poor Jeanie! poor little Jeanio ! 1 can‘t stand it, Dick ; 1 shall go mad 1‘ Gifts for Everyone No use swearing at Kate, Jim,‘ I said ; ‘that won‘t mend matters. It‘s not the first time.by a thousand that I‘ve wished 1‘d never set eyes on her ; but if d jover seen her that day on 8t. Kilda beach you‘d never known Jeanie. So there‘s evens as well as odds. ~ The thing is, what are we to do now 1‘ ‘Thera‘s no going away by the coach toâ€" morrow, I‘m afraid. _ She‘s just the woman to tear straight up the camp and let it all out before her temper cooled. _ It ould take a week to do that. The serâ€" geant or Sir Ferdinand Knows all about it now, â€" They‘ll lose no time, you may be A Dressing Jacket :y own hand! The eruel, murdering, selfish brute, I beliove she‘d poison her mother for a tenâ€"pound note I‘ _ _ ‘And must I leave without saying goodâ€" night to Jeanie t says Jim. . ‘No, byâ€"â€"1 If I have halfâ€"aâ€"dozen bellets through me, I‘ll go back and hold her in my arms once more before I‘m hunted off and through the country like a wild dog once more, 1f that infernal Kate has given us away, by George, I could go and kill her with This is a gift that aoy mau will fally appreciate and would a constant reminder of the giver. Mon‘s dressing jackets of *mlown Cameis hair and iweeds, in black aud white, fawa, durk green and black and red m xtures, beautifully_made, bonnd with silk cord, and tassels, . Prices start at. . ... @5 then 6 50, 8.50 and u‘: t $17.59, Mon‘s dressing fack«ts of quilted Japincs silk, in shaies of blue with red, red with lavender and terra cotta with red, IH‘ triimmed with silk frog», cord and tassels, aud priced at ..... . ‘May the devil fly away with her ! maid Jim ravagely, ‘for a badâ€"minded, bad: hearted jade ; and thea he‘d wish he‘d left her where she was. She‘d be no chopâ€" down there even. â€"I think sometimeos sho can‘t be Jeanle‘s sister at all. â€" They must have changed her, and mothered the wrong child on the old woman, My word ! but it‘s no laughing matter, What‘s to be done ? waited till Jim came out, ‘Who‘s there? Oh t it« you, old man, is it ? Its rather late for a call ; but i you‘ve come to spend the evening. 1‘ll get up, and we‘ll hava a «moke, anyhow. ‘you dress yoursel{, Jim,‘ 1 said, ‘es quick as you ean, . Pat on your hat and come with mo ; thero‘s something up.* ‘My God !‘ says Jim, ‘what is it?~ I‘m a rank coward now 1Ve got Jeanic, Don‘t ‘My God ! says Jim, ‘what is it?~ I‘m a rank coward now 1Ve got Jeanie, Don‘t go and tell me we‘ve got to cut and «un agnain.‘ ‘Somothing like it,‘ I «aid. . ‘I it hasn‘t vowe to that yet, it‘s not far off! We walked ap the gully together, . Jim lit his pipe while I told him shorlly. what had happened to me with Kate, +A Y Thomas C. Watkins Corner King and Mughson Streets and at all Prices Would be a Spiendid Christmas Gift. wound throagh a ‘blow* of x pebble at the door and Women‘s Wrappers. ENU 41370 Wallace Road Qakvilie, Ontario LOL 2Â¥2 The Right House. Hamilton L hasvoafrer Phone 825â€"1166 â€"will visit Grimsby and vicinity ONCE A MONTH. Partics wishing his service can drop a card to his Hamilton address or leave word at the Independant office, _ ‘Oh! it‘s you, is it? drawled Smeraâ€" mento Joe. ‘Why, what‘s doin‘ at yer old eiinp P â€" _ ‘Hello ! stranger, ye came darned near going to hâ€"1 with your boots on. What did yer want agin that thar cabin 1 1 saw then that in my hurry I had gone stumbling against a small hut where they generally put their gold when the party had been washing up and had more than was safe to start from camp with. . In this they always put a grizsled old hunter, about whom the yarn was that he never went to aleep, and could shoot anything a mile off, _ 1t was thought a very uilikely thing that any gold he watched would ever go crooked. . Most people considered him a deal safer caretaker than the escort. over, and was making straight for the smallest hut, when a rough voice hailed 1 walked on pretty quick till I came to the flat where Arizona Bill and his mates Lad their sluicing claim. _ There were six of them altogether, tail wiry men all of them ; they‘d mostly been bunters and trappers in the Rocky Mountains before the gold was struck at Suttor‘s Mill, in the Sacramento Valley. They had been digging in ‘40 in California, but had come over when they heard from an old mate of ‘n'h-flfi-pu‘hu-. richer than anything they had ever tried in America. This camp was half a mile from ours, and there was a bit of broken ground between, so that I thought I was safe in having a word with them before 1 cleared for Barnes‘s place, though 1 took care not to go near our own camp but. 1 walked We knew it was a chance whether we should meetagain. « . 0. Box 221, ‘What about ? said 1. H. L. DAVIS, H. L. DAVIS, THE INDEPENDENT To B& CONTINUEO, Beamsvile Monumental Works. \ KXmas Umbrellas | A Desirable Gift for Man or Woman The cxtromely moderate prices at which we »e!} o U:brolâ€" las bring them within the reach of almost every porkst bock. Those for women upstairs on 2nd flwor, (.r men at the vest aisle of the ground floor, Women‘s Umbrellas. At$1â€"Women‘s Umbrellas, 23 inch, mercerized Austria covering, atee! rod and patent runner, handies of dresden and ivorine, aiso congo nak crouk, very special value, At $1 50â€"Women‘s umbrelâ€" las, taffeta covered, [:hn ran ner and with good les of dresden, congo oak, Ivorine and horn, well worth §2 each. At §2â€"Women‘s umbrellas, 23 inch, fine qu.lfi{ taffota, mlu\ runner, and with pearl boxwoed and gunmetal hand Aud other splendid styles up to as high as $10 each. Gifts for Father and Mother. Goine cast. 9.09 a. m. 11.55 a. m. 6.10 p. w. A NEW ISSUE OF ThE Subscriber‘s Directory, For the District of Western Ontario. includâ€" ing the GRIMSBY Exchauge, will be issued carly in September, _ Orders for new connections, changes of address, changes of names, duplicate entry of names, to., should be placed at once to ensure Bell Telephone Company of Ganada. LUNCHEON PARLORS $ King 8t., W., Hamilton JAMES CRAWFORD ..CONFECTIONER.. a monument of amy description, cive me a eall and I will gusrantee you setiâ€"faction, mll attention given to lettering, and all work}in the cemetery. _ Qzeen‘s Lawn corner posts, special at $6.00per seit. _ Ad« MANUFACTURER OF WEDDINC CAKES, ICE CREAM AND FINE canoy. Weddings, Receptions, At Homes and En terta‘nments Supplied. Maving seeured a chofoe stock meuts and material before the : prices took effect at the quarrics, aliled to quote price® which canne Teated, i vou are In need ara / Heated, . If you are in need of s : Gifts for Son and Daughter The Great International Tunnel Route. TIME ‘TABLE Grimsby Station. M. C. Wardeli, Visit this Store as Often as You Can GEO. E. MILLER, LOCAL MANAGER erook han‘le, very serviceable qualition. At $1 50 and $2â€"Mon‘s sille and wool umbrellas, patent vanner, natural erook. handles,. plain or silver mounted, _ At 73e and .-:IT .\I-n'ah--. brellas, vality of lavenâ€" llltl;lruq-t u'!l_ nstural At $2.50 and $3â€"Men‘s umâ€" brellés, silk and wool misture, of fine qldlz, crook handles, -n_-qinln, silver mount» At $3 75 we show a »poolal live fine silk and m covering aud ‘with gold or ailâ€" ver mot ta, Men‘s Umbre!as. Notice. Sculptor, Beamsyille And othery up to §10 each. 5.56 p. m, Goine: West 7.94 a. m. ance in am en« be dupe arker or