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‘tcal explanation. Of course. And his ‘particular business just now was to ‘make everything appear as logical brought his, mind into action,. They thought he had been in Plainvilie, Homelateâ€"slept late. Perfectly logâ€" "Plainville is all right, I guess," he returned, simulating casualness. ."Logal perfession goin‘ all â€"right," auder persisted. "That p.D. busiâ€" pess o‘ yours ought to help some now. That‘s what you learn at & university, ain‘t it?" Cal "was stuck for an answer. Gander had not been very expli¢it and to ask him to make his meaning clearer might have embc_rnnlng reâ€" being too specific. Help came from an unexpected quarter, _ “Lot'up on Cal, Gander," said Hamilton, usually the most silent one at the table. "He knows what he‘s doing, and one highâ€"brow in the family might help out the average W a ittle. And it needs some helping, believe me." "If I was you, Ham, I‘d be takin‘ right coursee from him. I sea‘ Ounces hangin‘ ‘round Double F‘s. A bit of eddication ‘s what you need, an‘ D. D.‘s the man to hand it out." "The girls all fall for it," Grit observed. "Glad my ol‘ folks didn‘t send me to no eddication factory. Hard enough to keep single as it mowâ€" "Hamâ€"mâ€"mâ€"burg !" said . MrS. Stake. "What these boys don‘ know "Humph!" said Ham. "I bet you‘d marry one of those corset forms in Sempter & Burton‘s, if i# would have you." e > "I bet it was different when Dad was a boy," Gander suggested. "He didn‘ know nothin‘." "He didn‘, eh?" Mrs. Stake flared back. "Don‘ you fool yourself." _‘ " ‘Fraid you‘re gettin‘ me in wrong, either way, Mother," said the farmer. "Well, I didn‘ marry no corset form, anyway." _ "Didn‘, eh? Well, I guess I‘d as good a figger as most of ‘em, it it comes to that. A woman don‘t keep herself no Venus raising‘ kids and feedin‘ a hungry horde likeâ€"" "Now, Mother, that ain‘t what I meant at all. I meant you had any fashion form faded out o‘ the picâ€" ture. Eh, Cal, how‘s that for upâ€"toâ€" date? Can you beat that?" ‘Their banter had partly won Cal out of his mood. "Pretty good, Mr. Stake," he agreed. "It isn‘t to me Ham had better go for his lessonsâ€" if he needs them." __ Young Jackson had taken no part: in the conversation. Suddenly, "Pont‘ you letter all right " he inquired of Cal, without diverting his attention from his plate. s "Oh, yes." & ‘The business of eating vroeeetded. "But what‘s the idea o‘ getting the little man up so early?" said Mrs. Stake, as she reâ€"filled Reed‘s EXPECTANT Read Mrs. Menard‘s Letter. Her Experience May Help $# llI had another keeatcccces fbaby justone year o. 5o ‘m,;..' Cught 1 Roultâ€" ty Lyin worul E. Pinkham‘s Vegetable Compound, as I had read so much about it in the little books. I found a difference right away as my head was relieved and my tired feelings gone. My sister, had been my washing and she mthm‘%k as she said it might sot me back if I started to do it}'h. It sure did help me and I had taken just two bottles when baby came. He is a fine big boy, now nesrly five months old. 1 am hthlgn again am able to do my work ‘. C to â€"and L~ 44 2C ..‘.._... #» aâ€"days!" Chatham, Ontario. â€"*"I want to tell Its superh flavour satisfies. The Smoking Flax much your medicine T has done me. Beâ€" F fore my baby came I felt so C weak and runâ€" & down that I could B hardly do my MOTHERS By ROBERT STEAD ached continually and I was so disâ€" that I ¢ry from morning linight. plate. "Should be .sleeping for an hour yet." . "He‘s going to help me hitch up in the field this morning; â€"we‘ve a deal on with Big Jigp to that éffect," Cal extemporized. "He can go to school from the other end of the field." ~Cal was again under the cloud. His appetite was gone and a great vacuity filled his ribs where his stomach should have been. To avoid comment he forced the food beâ€" tween his ‘lips and slipped out as soon as possible. There was a shortâ€"cut to the schoo} from the far end of the sumâ€" merâ€"fallow, and at half past eight Cal sent Reed on his way across theâ€" fields.â€"Pausing on his plough ureuthoboyklckofluythow&m‘ dust with hisâ€"bare feet, or as he stopped to throw clods of earth at a particularly saucy gopher. From a knoll ‘somewhat across the field Reed turned and waved his hand, and then Cal started his team, marking with a glance from time to time Reed‘s progress toward the school. Before he had reached the other end of the furrow he knew that for the time being the boy was safe under the care of Aunie Frawâ€" dic. Then another fear encroached up-‘ on him. Jackson might go to the school. He might bluntly say he had: come to see Reed home, and to Anâ€" nie there would be nothing suspicâ€" ious in that. Then, with the boy in his possession, Jackson might doâ€" what?â€"It was unthinkable that he would harm the boy physically. "Then what am I afraid of?" Cal demanded of himself. > Gradually it came to him that he‘ knew what he was afraid of. He was afraid Jackson would make a friend of this boy. He was afraid the man would set himselfâ€" deliberately to win the boy‘s confidence and effecâ€" tion, so that he might have another club to wield over the head of shis victim. To the threat ofâ€" exposure if his terms were not complied with he would add a threat to take his child away from him altogether! "He willâ€"over ‘my dead body."1 said Cal between his teeth. But the more he thought of it the more he became convinced that this was an instance where the lesser law must give way to the higher one. In short, there was no outlet except by makâ€" ing away with Jackson Stake. The man‘s life was doubly forfeit anyâ€" way; first, by his betrayal of Celesâ€" ta; second, by the baseness with which he sought to turn that fact to his financial advantage. "It‘s a case of defending the innoâ€" cent," Cal soliliquized. "If I must kill Jackson take to protect Reed Beach, then I must. There is no other way. I shall not be able to prove my innocence, but I shall be no less innocént on that account." "But the boyâ€"he will be stamped as the ward of a murderer," someâ€" thing dinned in his ears, and he recalled the imaginany court scene of his awaking. moments. "Or some oneâ€"some enterprising newspaper, perhapsâ€"may dig up the whole tacts and expose them to the world. What defense can you give the boy against that?" "In such a case I must not kill Jackson Stake; he must just disapâ€" pear. I must arrange that. No one will bother much. They will just think he has g > again as whanâ€" nounced as he came. I shall not kill ‘Mn: no. no; but he shall disap pear." â€" He set his mind to plan a scheme be which Jackson could be made to "disappear," and the facility with which it operated rather startled him. For the first time he began to realise that constitutionally he afâ€" forded the making of a first class criminal. It was a new thought, and even in his agitation and distress he paused to toy with it for a moâ€" ment. Were all men, then, possessed of a criminal instinct, held at bay only by fortunate envffonment and the codes of civilisation*? If so peace Jloving a man as he could lay so dark a‘ trap for his victim, what ot all mon? Was criminality the natâ€" ural state? Here was substance for "unother series of articles. _ 4 Thought of a series of articles brought back with a rush the Po tare his "thind had carried loss than «wentyfour ~hours ago =now obâ€" img Jackson. Miunic had nev@linatystamd on end." _ _ < _ _~. ./. m“"’“‘-""‘"“‘ Shoâ€"I hope not. The mas behind mmmm“m'“ku . e a tragedy had held the centre of the|_ _ _ â€" * Ayegs stage. Now they gave way and Minâ€" ‘.wâ€"-â€"â€"â€"- wis took their place Her kigs was) â€" Giy) (applying "tor m_m)_‘ searcely cold nuponhis lips, and Th@] mother says 1 sing begutifully. . â€" puse of his young. chooked 107| Managerâ€"Bring me & recommionâ€" the moment by this sudden horrorâ€"| gation from the neighbors and I‘l now _leapt again like aâ€"thoroughâ€"! give you a tryâ€"0ut * know, and this ‘secrot in his breast would be safe forever, Reed would grow up unbesmirched, and . their own children, too, to be useful memâ€" bers of society, Was the life of an atom ofâ€" polluted social flotsam worth the wrecking of that dream? â€"especially when the dréeam could so easily be saved for reality? For a plan had. suddenly taken shape in Cal‘s mind. It was sinister in its simplicity and effectiveness, and it seemed to have taken shape of its own volition. Cal had no conâ€" sciousness of having worked it out; it <had come to himâ€"from someâ€" where. It was sent to him in his hour of need as the one way out. At first it held him hypnotized in a sort of horror, as a sort of grueâ€" some thing wrapped about and too. horrible to be undraped. But gradâ€" ually he ventured near, to touch it, to â€"remove .one..wrap and then anâ€" other. The horrible thing did not resist; it complied, it yielded itsélf to his will Garment by garment, fold by fold. . . . There, it stood before him, naked, brazen. He seiz ed it in a lust that was devilsh and terrible. With familiarity it became less repulsive and he cooled his mind to think of it dispassionately. It was no love of his, this strange creature of the mind which had folded him suddenlyâ€" in its éembrace; this was 2 creature of convenience, for the moment only. . . . . It was this: â€"Ie would invite your Tackson to‘ go fishing with him. There was an‘ old boat at the shore; it would serve for such a turn, Fortunately there had been no open breach beâ€" tween them; nobody knew; nobody would think it remarkable that they should go fishing in the Jake soffe evening after the day‘s work. Jackâ€" son would not refuse; Cal could sugâ€" gest that it would give them a good opportunity to discuss, without fear of interruption, matters in which they were mutually interested. Few boats frequented that part of the lake â€"and there was a little danger of being observed. Then, as Jackson. lurched to catch a fish wriggling loose from his line, he overturned the boat! He must have become enâ€" tangled in weeds in the bottom of the shallow lak®, for Cal, ‘although he dived again and again, could not locate him. That v.vould be the exâ€" planation. Actually, he would dump him out of the boat and quietly row away from him? mocking his appéals with platitudes about the way of the transgressor, and it being a long lane that has mo turning. Jackson might be a good swimmer, but by instinet he would follow the boat and Cal would wear him out. If he turned and struck for the shoreâ€" well, one can uge an oar for more â€"a plunge in the lake to wet his purposes than gulling a boat. Then clothes, and who would question his report? It was horrible, and he trembled as he thought of it, but it was the only way out. The only way to gate~ ty. Ausless life gone to save lives that might be useful. An unhappy life ended u:* lives which were happy might continue. It was the only way. And even if there be a struggle, and they should go down together, Cal was willing to pay that price. Who could charge" him with any motive short of the highâ€" egt? .7 ... & Meanwhile he must see Annie Frawdic. He could not explain, of couyse, but he knew that Annie would accept his word if he warned her against any interest that Jackâ€" son might show in Reed. He must see her at once. Suitorâ€"I*‘m _ in daughter, sir. Her Dadâ€"What A man had a slight differefice of opinion "with his wifé. But he ack nowledged his error quite generous 1y by saying: "You are right and I am wrong, as you generally are, mm."n‘lpmofl to chtch Mis train. ~~~ "So mice of him to put it : like cpu"hm-flumu And thianâ€"Walil, then sHe began to think about it. Sultorâ€"Fine! She‘s accepted me Mer Second Thoughts (To be Continued.) Bright loye with your are your pros Copyright ... . No Trouble. to...Listen ... " Â¥atherâ€"Now, my son, I‘m going to give you some good advice, and some dayâ€"you‘ll wish you had taken U%, + 7. x tS ~‘Sonâ€"Firg, away, dad,‘ since by your own words you don‘t expect me to take it â€"â€"_â€" Dreaming When â€" they appeared /for . breakâ€" fast the other morning. Maude ob served to her â€" sister . Katherine: "You must have been dreaming of some one proposing to you last night, Kitty." "Why, what on earth doâ€" you mean?" demanded Katherine. "Only this: I heard you for & quarter of an hour crying out in your sleep, ‘Yes‘." f Case Proved Heâ€"Then youâ€" cornsiderâ€" women more intelligent than men. Sheâ€"Decidedly. ‘Why men haveâ€" not even ‘intelligence enough to reâ€" cognize their inferiority. a » Meaning_ Food? 3 "Could I see General: Blank?" "I‘m sorry, but General Blank is ill toâ€"day." "What made him ill?" "(Oh, things in general." Customerâ€"What is that .noise? _ Clerkâ€"It‘s the boss talking to himself. « Customerâ€"But he needn‘t talk as loudly as that. * Clerkâ€"He has to. He‘s deaf. "Why are you running that steamâ€" roller thing over that field?" she asked at last. "I‘m raising mashed potatoes this yenr," replied the farmer. C Preparing ‘Em The sweet young thing gazed penâ€" iively at the peaceful rural scene. Mrs. Youngbride.â€" Jack,. those banks are frauds! Didn‘t you ‘tell me that they would lend money on notes? * Husbandâ€"Certainly dear." Mrs. Youngbride â€" Well, they won‘t. I took those lovely ones you wrote to me before we were marâ€" ried, and the cashier read them and laughed, but_he would not let me have a cent on them. Gold and Opportunity ‘The Fair Oneâ€"I suppose you will marry though, when the golden opâ€" portunity offers? The Cautious Oneâ€"It will depend upon how much gold there is in the opportunity. j The Induigent Parent‘ While on a motoring tour in the West of Ireland an American stayed one night at a little inn in County Galway. He was much struck by the splendid phsyique of his host‘s five sons and warmly congratulated the father on his family. § The innkeeper ‘beamed proudly. "Sure, sir," he said. "they‘re fine boys. 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This is a horse weighing 1,300 and 1,450, and standing 16 hands or better. ‘This animal is used by the express companies and others where a fairâ€" ly heavy delivery horse is wanted. Wagon types, weighing from 1,200 to 1,250, are in good demand, and even the farm chunk is a bit scarce as a result of seeding operations in the country. ; ‘ Prices are firm> The heavy horses run all the way from $200 to $300, the express is worth $225 to $260, the wagon $200 to $235, and farm chunks from $115 to $150. Fireproof Currency First Flapperâ€"Young ‘Tightwad is crazy about you. He says his heart is on fire. Second dittotâ€"Well, I haven‘t noâ€" ticed any of the flames extending to his money. â€" Resignation Customerâ€"Have you the same razor you used on me yesterday? Barberâ€"Yes, sir, the same idenâ€" tical one. Customerâ€"Then give me gas. HEADACHE! Bath the head with Minard‘s in water. Also heat and inhale Minard‘s. 3 < /A | ;Wfl‘ * i ud aiocttA ue Pak d l5 men L repmng $og Williams‘ . 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