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Page Ten THE BARRIE EXAMINER PHONE C. BROWN 250 ' FOR THE BEST IN . BAKERS' BREAD HOME-MADE BREAD BROWN BREAD SANDWIOH BREAD 'AND A FULL LINE OF PIES, CAKES and PASTRY Bakery and Saleshop: Cor. Elizabeth and Small Streets Year Reading Needs 4re Well Supplied --at-- Seott's Jas. Arnold Fire & Life Insurance Agent Real Estate and Money to Loan A number of Valuable Farms and Town Properties for Sale on the most reasonable terms. MASONIC TEMPLE BUILDING 6.6, Smith & Co, Established 1800 UNDERTAKERS Open Day and Night Morgue and Chapel in connection BARRIE, ONT INSURANCE SECU only provides an in the future. , Tosave is to Copyright, 1916, by CHAPTER XVIII Granet, a few days later, brought his car to a standstill in front of an ordinary five-burred gate upon which was painted in white letters "Market Buroham Hall." A slight grey mist was falling and the coun- try inland was almost blotted from sight. On the other side of the gate a sandy drive disappeared into an avenue of ragged and stunted elm trees, which effectually con cealed any view of the house. "Seems at though the girl were right," Granet muttered to himself, "However, here goes." He backed his car close to the side of the hedge, and laying his hand upon the latch of the gate. prepared to swing it op- out from the shrubs "Halt!" Grunet looked with surprise at the kbaki- yelad figure. "Your name and destination?" the man demanded ~-- | "Captam Granet of the Royal Fusiliers. Ail Kinds Placed in RELIABLE COMPANIES WE WRITE Farm Risks at the Old Rates YOUR AUTOMOBILE INSURED To Cover Everywhere A. F. A. MALCOMSO! ENO A Tae era eies: --. | (DYEING AND CLEANING Your Clothing will be properly cleaned inside and outside at W: Firth's. The linings and inside of your clothing are as important as the outside. Why not have them done right when you are having them done? All kinds of Repairing done. We know how. W. FIRTH Phone 229 Opp. Barrie Hotel, Barrie. ee ee ee ee J Corner Sophia and Mary Streets Manufacturery of Sash, Doors, Frames, Flooring, Ceiling, Mouldings, Water Troughs, | Tanks, ete. We carry in stock » large assortment of | Rongh ond Dressed Lumber, B.C. Shingles and Prepared Roofing. Wood Turning and Kiln Drying Specialty. Dressing done promptly. Pat Consult ux with your building. THOS. ROGERS 2 Office 163, Residence 353 1s TO DESERVE YOUR PATRONAGE Our success as funeral directors as been developed by our pat- rons, and our best advertisement is word-of-mouth recommenda- tion . Some of our customers have. been with us for years.' We aim to serve'one and all, rich and poor, alike--to render the very |} best we know how. The Barrie Planing Mill. home from the Front on leave." Granct repked. "I was going up to the Hall 10 yeull on Miss Worth." | "Stay where you are. if you please, sir the man replied | He stepped back into the sentry box und spoke through a telephone. In a moment or two he reappeared. "Pat on, please, air." he said. | Granet 'walked slowly up the avenue, his hands bebind him, @ frown upon hi [foreheat Perhaps, ufter all, things were |not to be a0 easy for him. On either side The could see the stretches of xand, and here snd there the long creeks of salt water. Ax he came nearer to the hou, the emell of the fen grew stronger, the tops of the |trees were more bowed than ever, sand jwax blown everywhere across the hopeless jflower-bed. The howe itself, suddenly revealed. was a grim, --weather-benten structure, built! on the very edge of a queer, barrowlike tongue of land which Jended with the houw itself The sea |was breaking on the few yards af beach sheer below the windows. To his right wos a walled garden some lawns and greenhouses; to the leffstubles, u garage. 1 two or three labourers cottages. At [the front coor another soldier was stationed |doing sentry duty. He stood on one side, however. and allowed Granet to ring the bell "Officers quartered here" quired | "Only one, sir." the man replied, | The door was opened almost immediately bea womun-servant, She did not wait for Granct fo announce himself but motioned jhim to Tollow her into a large circular, stone hall, across which she led him quick |ly and threw open the door of the drawing- Isabel Worth was standing just insicle the door, as though listening. She jheld out hér hand und there was no doubt ut her welcome. Granet ine Captain Gronet,"" she said almost in a whisper, "'of course you'll think we ure 11 mad, but would you mind coming up- [stairs into my little aitting-room?" --* | "OF course not," Granet acquiesced. Ti come anywhere, with pleasure, What a view you have from here!" He glanced through the high windows jat the other end of the room. She Inid her firigers upon his arm and led him to- wards the door, she whispered, "Quietly, please," | conspirators." She led him up the quaint stone stair case. spiral-ehaped, to the firet floor, Ar- rived there, she paused to.listen for a mo- ment, then breathed little more freely and led him to small sitting-room: at the end of n long passage, It was a pleas- ant little apartment and looked sheer out Jover the sea, She threw herself down upor the sofa with a sigh of relief, and pointed to « chair. "Do sit_ down, Captain Granet." she begged. "I am really not in the least in sane but father is, You know, I got back jon Wednesday night and was met at once with stern orders that no visitors of any sort were to be received. that the trades- people were to be interviewed at the front gates--in fact that the house was to be in a state of siege." Granet appeared puzzled. "But why?" "Simply because dad has gone out of his renses,"" ehe replied wearily. **Look here." She led him cautiously-to the window and pointed downwards, About fifty they were, nothing was to be seen but a windowless wall of framework and a rope er spends sbout she said. 'What he is doing no one knows. He won't even 34 Mary St.! 2 doory south of our former loestign. allow me to, speak of it. en. Almost immediately a figure stepped iN and imagine that you ar¢ in a house of Jyhe told him. out at aes was a queer wooden structure, sharper insistence; the whirr of set up on strong supports. -From where |from the: boathouse, Granet lit RITY A Savings Bank Account not assurance for the nt, but guarantees you security succeed-- THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE By E. Phillips Oppenheim Little, Brown & Co. Serial Publication rights secured by The Examiner, through special arrangement with owners of copyright. place. If ever he happens to speak of it, he calls it his workshop." "But he ia not alone there?" Granet ask ed "Oh. no! There sre two or three men from London. and an American, working with him. Then do you see the corner of the garden there?" She pointed to long barn or bouthouse almost upon the beach. Before the door two sentries were standing. Even from where they sat they could bear the faint whitr of 8 dynamo. "There are twenty men at work there." she eaid. "They all sleep in the barn or the potting sheds. They are not allowed even to go down to the village perhspe. you can begin to under. Vell. it ull sounds very interesting." be deadly for you. Your father invents no end of wonderful things, doesn't he?" "If he does, he never speaks of it." the girl answered, a little bitterly, "All thu: he wants from me in my abwence or my silence. When I came back the other night, he was furious, If he'd thought shout it, T'm sure he'd have had me stay in Lon. don, Now that I am here, though. 1 am simply prisoner."" Granet resumed his eat cigarette which she insisted upon his amok ing. "Well." he observed, "it dors seem hard {upon you, Mise Worth. On the other hand. jit really is rather interesting. isn't it. to }think that your father is auch a man of niysterien ?" The girl sighed. "'T euppose so." she admittedy "hut then. you ree. father is almost' brutal about taking any one into his confidence. He never tells even me a thing, or encour ages me to gisk a question, 1 think for [that reason T have grown rather to resent hic work und the ridiculous restriction he Places upon my freedom because of it." jminutes liter, and Granet moved to hir hostess' side upon the sofs, He showed no more interest in outeide happenings. He was an adept at light conversation and he mare himself thoroughly agreeable for the next hour. Then he rose quickly to his feet "T must go." She sighed. "Tt has been so nice to have you here." she ssid. "'but if you only knew bow dif It it was to arrange it, you'd under il why T hesitate to ask you to come he declared. y shouldn't you come and lunch with me tomorrow at the Golf Club?" he asked She hesitated. It was obvious that the suggestion appealed to her. "I believe I could," she assented, "Cap. tain Chalmers has a small motor-cir he'd lend me, and if I go out with my golf jelubs it would be all right. Very" likel? father will sleep out there and we shan't see anything of him until tomorrow." Granet stepped once more to the win- dow. The miste had rolled up more thick- ly than ever and the queer little structure was almost invisible, A bright "lig! however, fell upon the water a little ¢ tance away, "Your father has electric light out ive a wire from the shed,'* "Whatever he's trying to trated light at times. Granet drew a little sigh. "Well, I hope it's something that'll do 'ug a bit of good." he said. 'We need it. The Germans are miles ahead of us with regard to all new-fangled ideas." She opened her lipa and closed them in. Granet, who had suddenly stiffened into rigid attention, felt a quick impulse of disappointment. "T have rung the bell for my own maid," lshe said, "'She will show you out of the place. Don't let any one see you, if you lean help it." "And tomorrow?" he asked, lunch with me "T will be at the Golf Club," she prom- ised, "at one o'clock." Granet was conducted almost stealthily down the stairs and into the avenue. Half. way to the gate he paused to listen. He was hidden from sight now by the gather- "You will jing twilight and the rolling mists. From | behind the house came the softly muffled roar of the tide sweeping in, and, with hinery cig- Just 8 peculiar jarette and walked' thoughtfully jas he climbed into the car, ladder. "Underneath, s boat wae tethered light through the trees startled him. He to one of the supports. About 'thirty yards Istood up and watched, Fram the top of the 'away, @ man was rowing leisurely around /house a slowly revolving searchlight played an if. %Jupon the waters, CHAPTER XIX 'Tt was a very cheerful little party dining 'When we meet |that night at the Dormy House Club, a at meals, Tam not supposed to alhide to |There was Granet; Geoffrey Anselman, his 'thought I kic the fact that he has been out in that crazy 'cousin, who" played for, Cambridge 'and phrase {spoke quietly iptain Granet, what it is like to be | heremarked, "hut I should think it must | and lit thet 8nd kept looking "ar A parlourmaid entered with tea, & few | | rowed two; Mujor Hurrison, whos leave had been extended unother/three weeks; and the secretary of the club, who made up the quartette. ; "By-the-bye, where were you this af- ternoon, Captain Granet ?"" the latter ask- ed. "You left Anselman.to play our best Jolly good hiding he gave, us, too." Vent out for a spin," Granet explain- ed, "and afterwards fell fast asleep in my |room. Wonderful air, yours, you know,'* jhe went on. "IE slept like » top list night," Major {Harrison declared. 'The first three nights | was home I never closed my eyes.'" Granet leaned across the tuble to the sec- retary. - "Dickens." he remarked, 'that's 9 |queer-looking fellow at the further end of jthe room. Who ix he?" | The secretary glanced around and smiled, "You mean that little fellow with the {glasses and the stoop? He arrived last night and axked for » match this morning. You see what a miserable wizened-up look- ing creature he is? I found him a twelve man und be wiped the floor with me. his handicap is?" * Granet relied. | i "Forty, 1 should bin! | 'Beratch st St. Andrew's,"" Dickens told them. "His name's Collins. 1 don't jknow anything about him. He's paid for |a week nnd we're jolly glad to get visitors at all these times." | <'Bridge or billiaes,"" young Anselman asked. rising. |, _Le's play billiards,"" Gronet suggested. 'The stretehing across the table doen me Advises People to cureCon- stipation Without Drugs; Suffered Ten Years, Well in Three Weeks by In- ternal Bathing. Did you ever hear of a person being cured of chronic constipation with drugs? They relieve at the time some,.but larger doces are usually necessary from tithe to time, Nature's own cure, just pure eter- ilzed water. administered' with the J.B.L Cucade, is the only scientific and perman ent treatment. Don't foree Nature with drugs. Bathe internally. Mrs. A. McLeod, Middleboro', B.C. writes: "For ten years I suffered from con- stipation. and for the last year I became as wreck. T hud awful pains in my back. severe headaches, indigestion and swollen limbs. T tried all kinds of medicine and many doctors without permanent benefit. I+ was an act of Providence that I saw the J.B.L. Cascade advertiand. The firat time I used it T felt relieved, and in three weeks T was completely cured. My habits are now quite regular, and am in better health than I have been for years, I am very thankful to be doing my own work again." The J.B.L. Cascade is the perfected in- vention of Dr. Chas. A. Tyrrell of New York for internal bathing. It is now be- ing shown and explained at Wai, Cross lund's Drug Store, Phone or ask them for free booklet all about it--or write Tyrrell's Hygienic In- | good "We'll havea snooker. then." Major Harrison decided. 'They played for some time, The wizen?- Hooking little man came and watched them [benevolently, peering every now and then through his spectacles, and applagding mild. lly uny particularly good stroke, At eleven o'clock they turned out the lights and made their way to thes rooms. Shortly before midnight. Granet, in his dressing: own, atole softly actors the passage and fopened without knocking. the door of a |room opposite to him. The wizened-looking little man was seated upon the edge of the |bed, hulf-dressed. Granet turned the key lin the lock, stood for & moment list=nng and swung slowly around. | Well?" he exelaimed softly The tenant of the room nodded. He had taken off his glasses and their absence re- vealed s face of strong individuality. He ut distinetly.. "You have explored the house?" "As far as I could," Granet replied. 'The place is almost in a state of siege." "Proves that we are on the right track, any way, What's that building that seems jto stand out in the water?" "How do you know about it?" Granet demanded "T sailed out this evening, hired a boat at Brancyster Staithe. The fellow wouldn't go anywhere near Merket Burnham. though. and I'm rather sorry I tried t make him. [ nsked him to let me the bout for u week snd he wasn't even civil about it. Didn't want no strangers around these shores, he told ine. When 1 pail him for the afternoon he wae surly about field-glasses,"" Grunet frowned heavi "It iva't going to be an eaay matter." he confessed. "I hear the Admiralty sre going to take over the whole thing within the next few days. and ure sending Marines down. How's the time?" They glanced at theirgwatches. It wax five minutes before midnight. As though by comm consent. they both crossed to the v d_ stood looking out into the darkoew, A slight wind was moving jamongst the treetops. the night wes clear 'but moonless. About half s mile away they could just discern w corner of the club-house, "They stood watching it silence. At five minutes post twelve. Gr: et shut bis watch with a click Ni then." he Collins o well? whispered, Vhat is going on im that wooden shan: hay?" Prices in 1860 Some of the market prices of the year |® jof the visit to Barrie of the grundfu:her | €&t jof the present Prince of Wales make an in- [teresting comparixon with those of to-day From the files of un old local paper of that date. we quote the following market report. jziving the current prices for same pro- duets: 1860 1919 |Wheat. fall Wheat. spring Flour, barrel . Borley $1.25-$1.30 |Oats 85:00 Butter 60-85¢ Cheese. th \Ees. dor. 85¢ Chickens. pair... 30c Ib, Bacon, Ib. B5c |Potatoes, bus. | The Farmers' Automobiles G.H. O. T. writing in the Farmers' Sun jhus the following to say sbout farmers' au- 'tomobiles: Have you noticed how much attention is paid £0 farmers' automobiles? Well, there is. In newspapers there are frequently 'lista of the number of motor do, he needs a very intense and concen-j/cars owned by farmers in certain provinces. [Nothing like 40 much attention is given to town cars?' Why, It seema ax if every time « farmer comes to town in a car the spectre of 60c eggs and butter arises Yet the shoe dealer goce about in his ear jwithout ever being aAsociated with $8 and S12 shoes. Why the differencs It would |eem that the average mind ussociates farm ing either with poverty or penury. In town everyborly has a car und only w very few need them in their business. On 4 farm a car is a matter of profit as well as convenience. See the number of farm ers who do their shopping Saturday nights instead of losing half or all day, Cars and telephones are money makers by being time savers on the farm, If properly used the automobile will bring young people of, the farms into such close contact with townspeople that all will get to know each other better and like each other better and there will be less hankering by young farm folks to go and live in town: Origin of a Phrase A man by the name of Balsover tried to Jcommit suicide by banging himself, He stood on a bucket and fastened a rope to 8 beam sbove his head. When everything was ready to his satisfaction he Xi ked the bucket from under his feet. However. bs was discovered in time to save his life. 1 | Horse Radish, hal! stitute, 163 College St.. Toronto a mcg | f ee Pope oe i SATURDAY MARKET | A rather small market offering was on bond on Saturday morning; especially in jeees and butter. Cauliflower by the loud was nots figure of speech, whole loads of them being offered, 'They were splendid quulity. There seems to be a bi; in ground plums this year and a { munil for them, Several basket of them were on hand retailing at around .20c a quart, Potato digging operations did not bring inthe usual deluge for this week at Teast. They were sold at last week's prices. |The squash, pumpkin and citzon offerings jwere large. Very large citrons were 30c each. but had no rush sale. Dressed chick- Jen were a feature. Some nice quarters of jlamb were for sale. A pen of white Wyan- 'dottes were $1.25 « bird--butcher's prices jraid the vendor. Applea were sold prac- tically the same ne last week, Eges, per dozen : Geese. Ib Duck, 1b. Lumb. Ib |Poratoes, bax Potatoes, peck Beets, bunch ... 'Radish, bunch Squash. each |Pumpking. each Citrons, each Cabbage, each 2.0.0... Tomatoes. per basket... !Onions. banket ........++ Beans, new. quart Cucumbers, basket .. Apples. bag 2.00, Apples, per basket... Prars, basket Mint, bunch Sage, bunch Horse Radish ri Cream. qt.. Milk, quart . Hay. ton Hogs NEAR-BY MARKETS (October 16, 1919) Wheat $1.97-82.00, barley $1.25, outs 80.85¢. peas $1.50-81.75, $17.00, pork $21-824, butter 52-540, 380, potatoes bag $1,40-81.75, 5 ----__---- ¢ A Brief Summary of Life iLa'ched Matched. Dispatched. 6 SINCE. § 1870 ILOH 30 3737s COUGHS Effective Measures Taken Since childhood Mr. A. Cail was under the shadow of a great evil, which always menaced his comfort and safety. Read what he says: "T was troubled with my kid- neys since childhood and spent a large amount of money trying to get cured. Instead of getting better, I kept getting worse until & friend of mino advised me to try Gin Pills. I did so, and after taking one box, I was able to get out of bed and walk around. Two more boxes relieved me completely, and since then I have bad no re. turn of the trouble.?? Many peoplo have kidney and blad- dor trouble without knowing it. They think nothing of the backache, the pains in the sides, the constant head- Aches, the rheumatic, sciatic and neuralgie pains, the floating specks before the eyes, the swollen joints, the highly-coloured' urine--all " signs of trouble--all signs which should receive immediate attention and treatment with Gin Pills, which are by far the most effective of all preparations, and which may help you to avold fatal operation. Thoy quickly relieve pain and heal the congested tissues, bring- ing the organs back to normal. At and dealers, 50c a box. Money if no relief, Send for free sample. he became conscious he was much rised to find himself still in the land 'of the living. He looked around in the keenest disappointment and said, "I the bucket."' Hence the The National Drag & Chemical Co. of Limited, Toronto. United States Address, Na-Dra-Co. 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