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GE ) | 4 was of the greatest importance, and that when he told father what it was, i that he, Langdon, ceuld have anything : : my father possessed in the way of a | job and competence for life. It sound- are many benefit next summe: ary, being about autumn and spring, is ed Ba'tiste,' sheriff and to the goggle-ey Weakly he trying to fathom it all BEGIN HERE TODAY Fate had seen fit to shape the life{ TI, TT of young Barry Houston into a series {motioned toward Thayer, and his "ed like blackmail--1 could think of no- ol "inspect the gladiola corms and dahlia of tragic molds. A bitter experience words, when they came, were hollow thin else coming from Tom Langdon | tubers. Armed with a sharp paring in_his past caused his father to lose and expressionless: {--and I told him so. That was un-| i "| knife, the gardener 0 would have faith in his son and therefore be-| «phat's a le, Sheriff. TI admit fortunate. There were several per- | the best dahlias will give the tubers a \ ou _queath to him timber holdings in Tab- Ne ernacle only on condition that a high that 1 have WN output be maintained. Mysterious ac- cidents have prevented this and Hous- ton, arriving from Boston, finds that 'Fresh from the gardens' A 800d rule for 'autoists is to drive as if their own family were in the other car. 3 : VAKE YOUR O + SOAP been, accused of murder, 1 was acquitted. You say that mo- thing counts but the court action-- land that's all I have to say in my sons in my office at the time. He| resented the statement and We quar- reled. They heard it and later testi- fied: He suggested that we go to little attention. Shriveled and rotted tubers will be removed, and the large clumps divided. Since dahtias tend to = "1 don't know whether to accept this testimonial or not," mused the hair restorer man. "What's the mat] this is dut to the treachery of his mill 'behalf. In regard--to this, I'll obey superintendent, Fred Thayer. the court's order until I can prove to Houston is assisted in his work in the judge's the timber country by Batiste Ren- { whole thing is a fraud and a fake. In aud, an secentric French ( anadian, 'the meanwhile," almost piteously, "do s > has been 'saddened by the | = ver ut 1 " double tragedy of his son's death in YOU ¢8T¢ to go with me, Ba'tiste? France and the unsolved murder of Y his wife. Houston discharges Thayer adian joined him, and together they despite the remonstrances of Agnes walked down the narrow road to the Jisrdon, 2 iil Sho has a Rygierions camp. Neither spoke for a long time. over Houston. en s burn-| « cho? i i ed. Houston decides to carry on the Well, Ba'tiste, ih Stained fight when he is confronted with a tones, 1 might as well hear it now, ase which turns his timber | Youll only be leaving a sinking ship. r to a neighboring lumber "What you do?" satisfaction that this|. Heavily, silently, the French-Can-F and for cleaning anc DISINFECTING GilleMs Lye Protects our Ve dT and. Saves Your Mo sharp, insistent, The weazened man entered, rubbing his hands. "Have we any stumpage contracts?" "Only one, sir." dinner together and insisted upon it. aie aed Ll esce; especially as I no: There was nothing to do but acqui- First Caddie--"What's your bloke : ing manager. like?" Second Caddie--"Left-'dnded, ng w_was tryin The boss, "the man writes: ter with. it?" demanded the advertis "Well," explained the "1 used to to draw from him something of what had brought him there. We had wine. Oh," and he swerved suddenly toward the woman at the window, "I'm not trying to make any excuses for my- self. We left the cafe, he fairly intoxi- cated, myself greatly 0. We saw. the advertisement of a prize fight and went, getting seats near the ringside. They weren't close enough for me. I bribed a fellow to let me sit at the and keeps 'is change in 'is right-'and pocket." Minard's Liniment for Coughs, Colds. have three bald epots on the top of my head, but since using a bottle of BD | your hair restorer I have only one." --m---- 4 | sprout very early, they should be placed in dark, cool spot. All loose husks should be removed from the gladioll "corms. You will 'observe, . while doing this, that there are many - little "cormlets" clustered about the older corms, These should be remoy- ed from the parent corm and care: fully saved. In the spring they can be planted in an outof-the-way spot, to develop into blooming size corms. Some will mature in two years. Cannas need little care other than division. Great care must be taken of the h 3 ; : y 4 A s he timekeeper | stored bulbs during periods of une . company. Houston claims he doesn't! "That depends entirely on you. If{ "One? What!" press stand, next to t : : * ow ; remember signing such a lease. In the you're with me, I fight. If not--well] "The one you signed, sir, to Thayer and worried him until he let me have usually cold weather. These bulbs : presence of Mec Robinette, to frankly--I don't know." and Blackburn, just a week or so be-|the mallet that he was using to strike » : must be placed in a cool place to pre whom Houston is at{racted, Thayer «s\Member the niill, when he burn!fore you started ont West. Don't you [the gong. . fi vent decay, but * during unusually © iy Houston probauly Gest rem-! sown?" remember, sir: you signed it, together | "The fight was exciting--especially d severe cold spells these cool parts of 21 the night he murdered his cou- "7" x 3 i L : i iti i Ton ight he mERdeIed his eon "Yes." {with a lease for the flume site and|to mein my condition. I was standing . the cellar will be freezing. angdon. GO ON WITH THE STORY. White-hot with anger, Barry Hous-! "Honestly, Ba'tiste?" Houston had ton lurched forward, to find himself | gripped the other man's arm. "You caught in the arms of the sheriff and don't believe it? You don't--" thrown back. He whifled--and stop-| "Ba'teese believe M'sieu Houston. ped, looking with glaz leadened you look like my Pierre. My Pierre, ! eyes into the blanched, ied feat- he do 16 wrong. Ba'teese | ures of a girl who evidently ha , the accusation, a girl who stood poised | If sent a new flow of blood through in revulsion a monient before she the veins of Barry Houston--that turned, and, almost running, hurried, simple, quiet statement of the old to. mount her horse and ride away. | trapper. His voice vore a vibrant did heem. i . | "Yu no believe Ba'teese | I Well, now I no believe either could le "I signed nothing of the sort!" lying, sir--it's yourself!" And the strength of anger 1eft the fone, almost of excitement: muscles of Barry Houston. The red| «pp going back to Boston tonight. | flame of indignation turned to a sod- 1'm going to find out about this. den, dead thing. He could only real- There's fraud. Ba'tiste--and I'll ize that Medaine Robinette had heard | prove it if 1 can get back to Boston. him accused withcut a single state-! Miss Jierdon knows the truth about ment given in his own behalf; that! this whole thing--every step of the lake?" "You certainly did, sir." "You're lying!" "I don't lie, sir. TI attested the signature and saw you read both con- tracts. Pardon, sir, but if any one's CHAPTER X. . Ten minutes after that, Barry Houston was alone in his office. Jen- kine was gone, discharged, and Hous- ton felt a sort of relief in the knowl- edge that he had departed: He 'returned to Tabernacle and at- tempted the only solution: he must gecure timber from Medaine Robinette and bid on the railroad contract. Houston felt that he would bé=pre- suming to ask "it of her--himself a most of the time, even leaning on the ring. Once, while in this position, one of the men, who was bleeding, was knocked down. It became covered with blood. No one seemed to notice that except myself-- and everyone was too excited A mo- ment more and the fight was over. Then I stuck the mallet in my pocket, telling everyone who cared to hear that I was carrying away a souvenir. Langdon and I went out together. "We started home--for he had an- nounced that he was going to spend the night with me. Persons ahout us heard him. It was not far to the house and we decided to walk. On the way, he demanded the mallet for himself and pullet it out of my pocket. 1 struggled with him for it, finally, He struck the mallet.| f Wis il bien 1 | | per 0 Ke er or In January the vanguard of seed catalogues will arive. Many trades: men's catalogues are really good, and deserve a place with gardening litera- ture. Others, sadly enough, contain many pitfalls for the unwary. The pictures in poor catalogues are usually garish and not a little exaggerated. Candytuft, for instance, will be shown with a slender stem supporting a sur- prisingly huge mass of bloom. On pages supposedly devoted to annuals oné can find the wistaria Nsted, To the unknowing, a vine bearing long racemes of fragrant lavender flowers, ~ and climbing to the height of 50 feet seems desirable indeed. No mention is made, however, of the vine's woody character, or of the lapse of vears be- tween the planting of the seed and ihe first bloom. Good catalogues, how- Medaine, the girl of his smoke-wreath- way. Will you tell her?" stranger against whom had come the however, to be bested, and started ( Ii p- ever, repay thorough study ed dreams, now fully and thoroughly| «Qui. Ba'teese tell her----about the | ---- ------ en away. I went home and t6 bed. About | J i On Paper ] believed him--a murderer! fume and M'sieu Thayer, what he four "o'clock in the morning, I was Winter is the b pe i A CHAPTER IX. Fag Yau so Borin tonight" rath tn poi Hor , osm ees "Yas oun y Dully Houston turned back to the el weinkle-faced Tittle. Jen skull crushed, evidently by the blow NEON TIRREAL pia. raw 2 Blan of the Sen, znd kins met him at the Boston office. of a club or a hammer. They said I n plant" until all of the WHEN IN TORONTO Eat and Sleep at SCHOLES HOTEL Cafeteria and Short Order Service YONGE ST. Opposite Eaton's Hotel Rates: $1 Per Day and Up. "You're back, Mr. Houston! I didn't know whether to send the notice from the Mountain, Plains and Salt Lake Railroad. It just came yesterday." Abstractedly, Houston picked it up and glanced at the specifications. "Jenkins!" Houston's voice was . . . . . Write a Limerick - Win a Prize Here is another opportunity for readers of this paper to show thelr skill in composing Limericks. One dollar will be paid for every entr d Verses must be in the well known limerick style and must ff which CCE ment Annoiacement is found.in this Quite arunrber-of entries in the last contest were disqualified because verses were not Limericks. © The following examples taken from amongst recent winners can be used as guides: -- The 2 was an old lady named Hood, Who wanted her tea extra good, "Orange Red Rose," sald she, "Is the tea that sui.s me," There was a young lady named Leu, 'Who contracted a bad case of "Flu," When she felt the cough tightening She tried Veno's Lightning, one of She seemed 10 hesitate and Houston took a sudden resolve. accusation of murder. Yet, withal, in a way, he welcomed the chance to see her and to seek to explain to her the deadly thrusts which Fred Thayer had sent against him. did it." (To be continued.) 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After the chart is completed it may be put aside until spring, when the plants that must be shifted will be noted and attended to. Try to recollect, if you do not keep a garden notebook, whether or not there is a period during the growing months when a scarcity: of bloom occurs in the garden. If such a period is dis- covered, some plants should be order- ed that will give bloom at the required time. Gladioll, if planted at intervals of two weeks, can be depended upon | to keep- the garden gay the entire sea- son. These plants are most useful for filling in and for furnishing a display. at some special period. Nearly every public library contains a few books devoted to plants and gardening, and these are often rather neglected. By consulting a good: hook on gardening one can find many ideas that will prove applicable in his own garden. The Little Gardén Series, i : hive edited by Mrs. Francis King, ish- Bald the venerable Dame Madam And relief came without more 'ado,| Medaine's hand trembled slightly as|quences. The fallacy that it is bad || 1. 40% earned on average capital invested. od by Lidle: Biony & Co. Juish: Hood MRS. GEORGE PADDICK, she extended it to Ba'tiste, Houston |for the digestion is definitely explod- ~ 2. Dividends paid regularly for past year. joyable and instructive, and 'contains . MRS. H. FOWLER, Glencoe, Ont, | she received with a bow--forced, he|ed," said Sir-Willlam Arbuthnot Lane. . many ideas valuable to those having Clinton, Ont. Houghe, "My own Spisien et it hae --- 3. Large earned surplus. - small gardens. -The Home Garden 51 - llent effect on the system, tonin, There is nothing to do but write the Limericks and send them with daine" ye. tome. for - business, Mu: excellent & : This company with others has recently Handbooks, published by Macmillan, your name and address and the name of this paper to:-- Limerick Editor, Assoclated. Publishers, Room 421-425, 73 Adelalde St. West, Toronto 2, Ont, "For Cold - ------ rod Ba'tiste announced. '"M'sieu Houston, he have need for flume site." She seemed to hesitate then and Houston took a sudden resolve. It might as well be now as later. "Miss Robinette," he began, com! ing forward, "I realize that all this up the digestive organs in the same way that a cold bath stimulates the skin. £ "As a nation we should be much healthier if we drank four tumblers of water every morning before break- fast. . " "Americans drink much more water ww +, acquired control of a New York Bank. 5. Other developments under way point to greatly increased earnings and appreci- ation in stock. is another group of small books. A. T. De la Mare Cqmpany, Inc. has also put out an interesting readable set of garden books, of which a recent one, "City and Suburban Gardening," by Chesla C. Sherlock, is most helpful and delightful. Winter is the ideal> needs some explanation. Especially," - time for such reading. and he Halted, "about myself." than we do, but the good effects which Without any obligation on my part, kindly A oak ' Houston came directly to the ques-| might be obtained are counteracted by send further particulars regarding the above ws tion, Ce = their excessive meat eating. The Eng- investment. 2 : Anyone having a garden ought to y "It's simply this, Miss Roibnette, [lish find water-drinking more difficult : keep a garden notebook. The mnote- If T am guilty of those things, you | OWE to the colder climate: Nae mn a a rin Bock 2houlg-be, prepared heless . % ow ; ef y e yer dons ig Dave cas isc gi Minard"s Liniment prevents Flu, $ Address .........o.oiiic donee A first signs of spring can often be take it from the fight, and it was > give more joy and sa Ar found the next morning beside I 2 ire maker. a How many people you know who end their colds with Aspirin 'And how often you've heard of its prompt relief of sore throat or, _tonmsilitis. No wonder millions take it for colds, i 'rheumatism ; and the aches and pains that go with them. The, won- der is that anyone still worries through a winter without these '| reason Thayer gave. that I am not guilty, and that it all has been a horrible bjunder of cir- epee "Then you deny," said the magis- trate, "that you were rude to the po- THE INSURANCE I NVESTMENTS, LTD. x i | noted. Planting dates, blooming dates, mistakes and lessons learned, and a : paragraph or two written at int eumstance, It is very true in one|liceman when hq asked to see your : Insurance Bank and Trust Co's Stocks and end the ap Si oh sense--" and his voice lowered--"that license?" "Certainly, sir," replied t A 3 ¥ J condition of the Ai might about two years ago in Boston, I was | motorist, "All'T sald was that from Phones: ADelaide 8127-28 : stitute the subject matter of th ed arrested and tried for murder." what I could see of him I was sure 347 BAY ST. 2 SE TORONTO No gatden is ever perfect 2 hh * "So Mr, Thayer said." his wife would be happler as a"i§i- Xe 5 2%) gi! year there are changes to bo. nin "I' was acquitted--but not for the|widow." ; -- w- J ir po make a case. A worthless cousin, Tom Langdon, was murdered. They said I did it with a wooden mallet which I had taken from a prize fight, and which had been used to hammer on the gong for the beginning and the end of the rounds. I had been seen to They couldn't| Lang- don. There was human blood on it. 1 had been the last person seen with Langdon. But they couldn't convince the jury; I went free, as I should have done. I was innocent!" ories and with the necessity of retail- Houston, white now with the mem- grisly thing, , might ; ig, fo hide nothing as ; beside the window, the eolor ! They relieve qui have no effect whatever on the nin the ta ginll _ Friends have o gl! you Aspirin is marvelous; doctors . hd Bat bogie aa declared it harmless. Every druggist has it, with proven direc- {mean happiness; gritted his teeth for : Why not put it to the test? Se wr. |the determination to go on yith the i | | ; o ~ North of NORANDA Recent Discovery 2 $61.06 pret per ton COPPER and it is only by noting and making changes that the ghrden will approach perfection. The weak points of a' 'garden show plainly eno If these things are tl i the winter, and changed during garden | first days of spring, t be so much the bel