uu Jun nuuvv uuoau UuUUlt`l Dick took them up one by one and looked at them carefully, taking his time over each. V" lhen he replied slowly, and in a husky voice: ' Why. they are only the checks which I have cashed for you, are they not? Howmany checks have you cashed for me in the last three weeks! Think. Two, un!ess-- No, two. . presented during the last three "weeks There is no doubt as to that fact, at least. Five out of the` seven, Dick, are forgeries. I have ' been robbed. . ` ` Impossible! said Dick. A So I should have said yesterday. To-day lean only repeat, I have been robbed. Dick showed a face full of astonishment. . Whocan have robbed you!" he asked. That, you see, is what we have to nd out; and that,_ by George, Iwill nd out-I willnd out, Dick!" He rattled his keys in his pocket. It is supposed that only persons of great resolution rattle their keys when they resolve. . But I doubt this. If I do nothinqefori the next twelve months I will find out. I have been robbed of sixty pounds -sixty pounds! That won`t break me It isn t the money so much as the villainy which troubles me; villainy about the o3ce-vii- lainy at my very elbow. I ll nd out who did it, Dick, and thenwe will see what the law can do. Some men when they are robbed-oh, I know it goes on every day- sit down and hear excuses, and forgive the . villain. They let the wife or the daughter come to them and cry, and then let the fel- low go. That is not my sort, Dick. I will ' catch this fellow whoever he is---I will `track him down. He had better have robbed a bank-which. is bound never to forgive- than have robbed "me." `an... I. - _aM I Look at the dates. They have all been = -v-ca- we-I v... vunv wauvvnus yam. lsick, he said, come into my room.` Shut the door. Look here. Do you know these chocksz He looked at the checks, and ` not at his son, as he spoke, therefore -he did not observe the change of color which passed swiftly over the young man s face, fol?owed by a quick hardening of the mouth Do you know these check~ ? T\n'I- anal- `L-.. --.. -._- LN - ' ` ' ' run. valuu uva '. On the shelves round the `room were piles of old letters. documents of no more use to any one, account books, and all the litter of thirty years` accumulation. But to search tln'ou mass of papers, black with dust, M ould take too long. He stood beside his son s table, uncertain. troubled in his mind, ` not knowing where to look or whom to suspect-. Here his son found him, when he \ returned from dinner at two o`clock, study- ing the pictures on the blotting pad. hi:-12" I-an coir` .|t\(\vv\t\ 4.-.6-A ...._ _-_... ouu-uw uucxu L1 Uul. uu. uuu.-sun: [JUIHD OIL VISW. `.`The lov does think of something, then, said Mr. Murridge; if it is only of girls. Perhaps he will wake up now." Dick was, in fact, wide awake. and had been awake for a. long time. Gil-ls heads! Well, he is young, and believes in women. Young men : very often do. ~ on H... o1...I...... -..-.--A L. ---_-A -~u -- ` connect him with the lost clf1`eg:ks;,'j{)ut it was -V uuu uuv nu yuu JCGDU iualrcvugzgla Bull, VI '1 his nature to search everywhere-iieven in i likeiv places. His .profes's'Ion was to 1 "Search for missing 1inks.7`-HeeIn`1ew-that ` anywhere he might find a. clew. He, there- fone, opened the drawers. He turned over the pap`.-rs~., and even examined the blotting pad, bu observed no -hint; except that the paper was full of girls heads, drawn in pen- jcil--ver_v ptiettily, if he had been able to ex-- amfne them from an artistic point of view. 'l`l'I'.'I I nv (`nan G'}\nIr AP an-an!-Ir.u'..... `In... 79 ?~0y s drawer he turned He did not; in the least nnnrmnl: him with {Ian Tnnf nK2uu'Ira.."`snI-_ 1'!-. urn. lbevyour, work. ~ It ,will_be or you. Get to the bottom ke a week over it,` noth- ot nothing els 'fL0rd! I . beautiful detetiv9'.' 'I ve `I'.tInhm1li ham. 141...: L- THE NORTHERN ADVA only persons who had access to the `inner offioe in Mr. Mm-r1dge e absence was -him- self, Norah Crompn, the omoe boy and the `housekeeper; but the lather only when the oioes were closed and on Sundays. Bus- , p:cion might tell npog guy of these four, but put [thifquite clearfy himself; As fo~ ` up atriicpv-boyggao` oe <.oi;1a sI1spect_him_: he : j. va`s~`g'r_eat gs fool evetrta, tln`iislc"ot .-such a. ' T *la-hkut of ` > - :',3 ...V. .- - ai themost; .M g V M OHN MAGKAY. AUCTIONEEB. COMMIS- sioner. Conveyance:-, Issuer oi Marriage oenses under the new Act. Money to Loan st Moderate Interest. Creemore. Ont. T Gly ouuov ulULIU_y 1" Dick went back to his own desk, bearing with him the checks and the check book. He sat down and began to think. He had a week in which he would be left quite undis~ turbed to ndvout the forge:-._ A good deal my be done me. week; If he failed, his father wouldtake up the case for himself-- ; his father, whose scent wases keen as a. bloodhound's. and whose. pursuit .: would be as unrelenting. He had 9. week! i For the OI] _... - \vvAn\lll\J'vV\J UV III-I-U IUFU lnayor wards to the central criminal court. For sixty pounds-the paltry sum of sixty pounds--he will have purchased the exclu- sive use of a whitewashed apartment, rent tree, for seven or perhaps ten years _ There will be other advantages-the privilege of a. whole year spent alone, with an hour's ex- ercise every day; then a good many Years of * healthy employment,_ without any beer_ or Winn nr Inhnnnn ....A .... -_-__--- _,. It wil be a cheering thing," he said, re- curring to the subject. when . the case is completed, for you to think of the man you have conducted to the lord mayor and after- to the mm.-.1 .....-....c....n ........ ~n-_~ usAu0e I thought there was no money in it. There's a small Irish estate, which at present is worth nothing, because the tenants won't pay. We shall see about that But there s asnug little English property, Dick, about which the doctor knows nothing. It isn t a great thing, but there is a house upon it, with a few acres of land. and it stands an a good position. I, think it is let for three hundred a year, and perhaps we shall be -able to run up the value a bit. Three hun- dred pounds a year, my boy, with a good tenant, and I bought it for twb hundred ~ pounds down. .l. m a landed proprietor, Dick, and you are my heir. You shah be a landed proprietor, too, by gad, when your turn comes!" He rubbed his hands cheerfully. His son s face, which ought _to have responded with some kind of smile, only darkened more and more. That was, perhaps, his way of ex- pressing joy. The thought of that snug little English estate made Mr. Murridge so cheerful that he forgot his wrath concerning the forg- ery. Ne oiher, He knew, of course, that he was a distant cousin, but he never dreamed of the title falling to him; and three yeara ago, Dick-three years ago. when I talked the thing over with him, and showed him that two lives stood between him and the title, he sold his reversionary rights tome _-for a song. And now the reversion is mine. urn -. .- I will do my best. sir," said Dick Now, there s something "else. only this forgery interfered. It is this Clonsilla. suc- cession. It was I, you know, `u ho gave th: doctor his title.- CT7_-_ all saw us uuyau VI. uuu uuu UUW I will do my bu<;;%,'sir, said` Dick; but he looked as it he thought doubtfully of the job. V rrmrll L \vVhy, l\ .`.'. Murridge continued, what a poor, miseraue, sneaking thief he n1ust be! M He had six checks, and. he could forge my name so well that even I myself cannot tell the difference. Among those seven check: I anlv know mv own checks by the numbers in the book. Yet he lls them up for no more than twelve pounds each. He will be trrested, committed, tried and sent to penal :ervitude for sixty pounds. Why, he might have made it a couple of hundred. But he lid not know my balance, I suppose. Well, nd him for" me, Dick. Don ; l.~t; me have the trouble of hunting him down, I will an rnv 1...; -..--9: ....m n:..1.. 1...; `VVVVI Ill? You 3 l HIT .` A nuuer. unu. uolnmlaalon Agent I01` me me ot"iiouaes. Lands. Farm amok. Household Furniture. Goods. .Wu-es. 850. Also for the collection of Ron Notes and Accounts. Olce-Police Court arrie. ya vu-nu. vs Not a word, his son repeated, shortly. He" held in his hand the check and the check book, and he had a strange look of astonish- ment and hesitation. ` LCIIYI, I) II, `II ,_ ,-5| , ,__A__!,,,-- I u_I_-A. - l uzuo Juuna unu Cl: Luuvv avllvvv no uyvavuvvv .u up. Never mind who it is. He was think- ing, I am ashamed to say, of his private sec- retary. Follow up any clew which offers, ` wherever it may lead you. If you find rea- ` son to suspect--even slight reason to suspect anytody-anybody. .I sa.y-nd out where that person has lately spent his time and what money he paid away, and to what peo- ple and how he has paid it. ` Find out his as-' `soctates. Then nd out them. If necessary, make yourself chummy with them; make them believe that you want to cultivate their acquaintance; go to their places of amuse- ment. And mind, not a word to any living creature. 10W will LIGVU IAIJU uuyuuvuvv \ M across the counter to-day or to-morrow, 3 when that joker will be pleased to find him- self asked to step into the managers room, while the police are called in to escort him` before the lord mayor. And as for my sig- na=.ure, l ve altered it. And it will be a good long time before anybody gets the chance of getting my check book again. "I-I will do my best, said his son. At present, I confess-- Mind, Dick, when you ve got anything that looks like a. clew follow it up-follow it 17 .... .....`...A plan N- In 77 `life. 1"... 4-I-.{..|,_ 'st0p1 ihe numbefe. ` takenthe pfecaiifibn . _ _ And zisfor the th totfithe stolen uhecks- ` the one whih not [yet presented-A-Pm ' in grea1;fhopes;* . nfy".boy'-particularly if we keep quiet and nothing is said- -that the fel- low wxll have the impudenoe to hand it ,, ._ st... .......-.4-.1u 1-n.dnv nr fn.rnnI'rnW_ pick up the odd lead pencils, and provide themselvegwith steel pens, penholders, `blot- ting paper, note paper, letter paper, foolscap, eindii. rubber, envelopes, and, m ill-regulated. .....,.... uyuu. unu we cmldren `run races in I ,_..7.....,,., 1|: was one nousexeeper. Very fewepeople think of the housekeeper. Yet there is always one in every house let out for oices. She is always elderly-no- body ever heard of a housekeeper in the city dying-and she is generally a grandmother with a daughter, also a widow, and three or four little children-they. are always little. Grandmothers and children always, in the city, remain at the same age. All the week long the children 8.1 e hidden away some where in the basement; on Saturday after- noons aud Sundays they come up and have a highold time, because the front door is closed and the place is deserted, and the whole house is their own-. 'lhen the oice doors are ` thrown open. and the children run races in RII.l`.`I`Al`l nvsnu-O--u---6- -~- ` ME Fnvonit I 5 VI ugpu, uuu I118 Doy persu perhaps it was the housekeeper. VBPV f6W`n9nnIn Iln'nLv n 4-1... L--- ..w .-....u. uucuu uxucer W111 nna mm out. I don t care. Call the guv nor, and tell him what you want I dun know what \ you vo lost. What rs it, then? . M I've lost a-a. paper. It was in this book. "What sort of a paper! Dick made no reply. Perhaps the lost pa- per would be in his own room. Stung by ......... uvu_._y uuuu 111 your ooay." Modern boy is so constituted that this threat does not terrify mm in the least. Nobody s bones are broken nowadays. It is true that every father has the right to whack and wollop his own son, and some- times d0t8 it, but with discretion, otherwise the school board officer will nd him out. I dnn t nan: (`.nl`l H... .......i.. -.. -77 aunvv nu uvuuc U1 Iuy nue." . Dickkbegan to think that he was wrong. ` The book must have been in his pocket; he 3 must have taken it out without thinking. But; where was the-- "You boy, he said, it you are lying, I 11 break every bone in your bodyl - M0d9rn hnv in an I\t\'l\m`i:Oun`nA LI__4 :1 - vv uo _ua vu nu uoan wueu you CRHIO!" `-`Don s know. Never raw its theme. Never saw it before in my life. `Dink 'lumm.. 4-. 4.1.3.1. n.-a. L- UV UIIIICIJIJQ Pve a great mind to search you, said Dick, catching him by the coat collar. You're as full of tricksas you can stick. Search me, then. Oh, yes! Search me. * I il go and call the guv nor and ask him to search me, if you like. You just lemme go or I ll scream, and bring out the guv nor, and ask him to Search ma. Dick dropped his coat collar instant! y. Look here, he s nid. Do you know this , z`o;=ketbookl" Never saw it before in my life." This, I regret: to say, was a. falsehoo 1. The boy had seen it many times before. Every day Mr. Richard drew that book from his pocket and wrote in it, and then put it back. 1 0ll mama hnra hnfnrn n\n old- .........--:.__ yvunvu uuu vvruue In 16, um unen put: 13 back. You came here before me this morning. Was it on my desk when you came? `-`T)nn r. lznnvv Nnwnn r-nil! :4. 41.....- 1?, 7 plugs 15 L0 Luuucy Ill uppuux You measly little devil! Why don't you gnswer? Have you picked up anything? It 18 something of no importance to anybody- a bit of pink paper. e T ]'In1!An`f vn'n`runI u... _-AI_2___ I! _, no u .. I w uuus paper. ' ven`t picked up nothing replied the boy, sunenly. nu; A A.a...-L ._..!___I 4. .,, u u Have you picked up anything at all? he asked again. ` What is it? the boy asked, by way of re- ply. Is it money dropped?" Van: rnnnnltr ];ff'o Racy I `X71... .:-_n. _____ uanrn nuumnb, UUN V I5 XALVUIIEIS. (JUM- miasioner in Queen's Bench, Auctioneer, Atpglraiser. and Commission Agent for the sale 0 ouaea. Lands. Farm Qmnlz, Hnmmhnm Jvu ;Auuu7 uuvux V The boy obeyed with composed face, and, in fact, with considerabie trepidation, be- cause there was something in his jacket e rocket which he ardently desired to conceal \ from Mr. Richar uriu, - v - ' -- - navvl GA-Ill PU! CIILIJ. Have you picked up auything, you boy? Dick turned upon him ercely, so that he ` was fain to repress the smile upon his lips and the light of joy in hiseye. Come here, you little devil 1 ` TL. 1.... ..'|..-_-_1 _',-.1, -_-,, u - - ` `I19 IIUJ LUIJLLIIL 1.11111 UVGUVIJUU VVIIIIJ I1 Ul'UuK.I grin of satisfaction, as if he understood the -cause of this distress. Then Dick sprang from his chair and looked under` the table, on the oor, in the blotting pad, in the tter rack and in the drawers. Then he began all over again. No Greek mime ever expressed more vividly the anxiety, dismay and terror of one who has lost a. thing of vital importance. The boy felt as if he should like to roll on the iioor and scream urr___ . . . .. . - Inoouy uuuugulor You know how strangely, when the mind is greatly exercised and strained, one re- members some little trie, or forgets some little habitual thing. such as brushing the hair or putting on a collar. Dick s eyes fell upon his pocketbook, which lay upon his desk. It was a diary-one of the diaries which give a certain small space for every day in the year and a pocket for letters. it belonged, like his purse and his bunch of keys, essentially to his pocket. Yet ha y could not remember when he had last carriei it in his pocket. Consider, if you are accus- tomed to a bunch of keys in your pocket, you do not feel their presence, but yet you miss them when they are no longer there. Dick became suddenly conscious that for some time-perhaps an hour, perhaps a Whole, day, perhaps more-he had not felt the presence of the pocketbook But his mind had been so much occupied by certain P7953138 anxieties which beset him about this time, that he had no-ic:=d the absence of 15110 book half consciously. Now that he saw it lying on his table he snatched it up, and be- 89!1 turning over the_ pages, at first con- dently and then hurriedly, as one looks for something lost. ` There was something lost. He shook out the leaves: he looked through them again; he searched` the empty pocket. Then he searched his own pockets. The boy tehind him watched with a broad nu-in AC aa|a`n|4u`r:1\ug -4. {O `L- .....`I......A.-...l 4.I..'. shoulder, and could. watch mm unseen uuu unsuspected. There were certain special rea- sons--in fact, they were concealed in the pocket of his jacke!-why the oice boy thought that something was going to hap- pen. There were other reasons, such as a great increase in Mr. Richard s sulkiness, a jumpy manner which had lately come over him and his rudeness to Min Cronan, which ` made this intelligent boy believe that some- thing was going to happen very soon. Then Mr. Murridge had been shut up with his son `for three-quarters of an hour. That meant things unusual. And now Mr. Richard, in- : stead of drawing girls heads, was sitting in ` ... --.:|__ 4.I.'....,..I..o. Va. `anu- ` Eiiy enough"? 'V'.-nu bunny `Inn ' BECK 170 13. 833111 311 "'l.'S"" =_.4` If d N ah he thought. It rbgliajeen (:3 wo-it must lie be-- tween us!" rn|__ -m-- 1....-_. .....4-..Im.1 him nnrinualv. II VI Vvu IA-J - The oice boy watched him curiously. From his position at the other side of the replace he` looked, so to speak, over Dick's shoulder, and could watch him `unseen and --~----I-A-I "PI-uauuu-n 11111104 tunuvftriil rq, ` - .3; , v `- " ,:1u,7g2gotr`.so`far he remainei here,~un-- ab to*i1::`dgain and again- " Lwnr......1`l 1` Vto`g any" further; in fact, he came .....a Nfnrnh he thought. ` boy, persuasively- 1sekeenm~ " ONEY.-A large amount or rivatae funds . to land on strut ht loans, at owest rates. 18 Man A nmuv gIM')I_mD 9. "nfV A nmuv \..\`%` `In _ It is th w0nd gfnfa i3:`I1strated ?;,:]*he World. Na? far >9;-(.;y Of the arts lstmy that the an- `-h,I'Vd Io ed the ! n0t8b1y architec- wgseihhth r the presenfgresent age . . 3 9|`id*.`w" I|.der of th decade to ."der or F .'"1d, i. e. - - _..;1>la f rmly 1; - . ~ `ores 01- ,.heumat_ lmment, wlnch t'!lnl..ppu nd an die ms praina, cuts, . chgm 250 88898 rtquiring ex- and 50c. per bottle. .: but It 13. uuu 111081 : nopeless. . _ _ ' _mm_,, Daf- Byethe side of Dxck sat-n. a~'.~) v 5 - silen -fodil Cronan. He was b_V 110 " "` 3 .- A -ite- ms race was :.;; man`: his hair _tossed: 1113 PS Wm ped. and at every turn of the cs1rd~` he gaslos; whether it. brought him ViCt"Y or 09135 if `he won, he laughed aloud. V-'.I!=1-`I: UI Bile pursuit is to win money. Of all the eager and noisy crew who sat at that table there was not one who was more absorbed ' in the game than Dick '"' id8- The others shouted and swore {-I `-``` 0323118 When they won or lost. Dir-k m:ule_1l0 SF His face betrayed no emotion. Th `luit Ableris the most deterxnine.I find the most hopeless. RV-hn shin IKJ 11.'..I_ .___ L _ .. .. I .-nnnrf nf` --r-vn mu: rxu 0. His f_at_:her was right in rnistrusting a M) Who Went about his work like :1 in.-whinr`. 8nd seemed to have no passion, 11') pursuit. no a.mbition-who committed no'sm:1ll fol- lies nd had none 0.` the headlong fuultsof 81`d6.nt vouth. Dicl: had a pursuif. It W35 arfsorbing and entrant-in,v:; he lollmn-(1 it wlth a-*dm every evening of the week. It Was In pursuit which brought into pin)`, to 8 V??? remarkable dezree, the n1.'1xim~: which lns father had taught him. lt x`oquiro~`. W lnstan `e, no law of honor. except that if _\`0ll conceal cards, or play false, ordn not W." P: You are out-kicked. It mnkvs no f pretense about friendship, pl1ilnIlthl"`l Y- ham.V. or any stutrlot that kind. At the baccarat table every man is for himaelf. N0 skill is wanted; no dull w0rkin, "1 daily Practice in order to a(`ql1ll`u dexterit.V. which would not be of any ugp: the \\ hole . Object of the pursuit is to win 7 all than lino-or and w-union nnnir xvhn Silt t -. nuuu cu an hue IDSIIIDGPS. Among the players at the nn'1-He table sat Dick Murridge. [ .. L... 1 "in fa!-Inn- ....... _._v,,u,. ,- - uuunl I0. In plain words,` the place is a g:unbIing_ .club, run by this Italian who was so good friend to all the members. A R I . I I .-> 1 rnnnnn t A - ---A--V V "'| " U "*5 U) Ulrlall an IUUIRH, HWJ Dig card bore the simple name of Signor Giuseppe Piranesi. He had lost the fore- nger of his right hand--in a duel. it was nd1`3t00d. about a Ia!_v, `no doubt a princess Everybody believed the count had been in 1158 day 8. terrible breaker of ladies hearts. `I __ vyou yuluv, uuu no one regarueu H5. Among the tables and those Wlm sat out there moved continually a man rather small of stature. but of good proportions, of straight and regular feature a, and very carefully dressed. , He was now arivanceri in life, being perhaps sixty years of age. His hair was white, and he wore a lieavy whit/8 mustache. A cigarette mu always be- tween his lips; his voice was soft, gentle and he seemed to have something fI'iendI_v to my to every one of the members; his smiio was kindly; his eyes benevolent; he laughed easily and musically; and there was not 8 man in the room who did not believe that the count was his own private, per~`onzll and particular friend. They called him, to show their great respect, the count He did not himself claim the title, though perhaps he was a count in his own couutrv. or even 8 l prince, for he was by birth `Italian, and his mu-A I-mm. M... ..:......1- A -`-'---~- .1 '---5 ""`-J. VA Una '.un1ucLu_y lU\UHLlCBS. 1'01` the look of the thing there were champagne bottles, but the customary drink was whisky or bottled stout. A dozen men were stand- ing about the bar, drinking or talking to the girl. They were those who had come too late for a. place, and were waiting their turn. The atmosphere was thick and heavy with tobacco smoke. Thou-_3 was also an open piano, but no one regaled it. Amnno tho I-nl-.1...-. .....I n....... .-.l._ --A -..A uunal.-11. urge amouns OI 117806 llld 16 MCCARTHY EPLER 8: MCCARTHY. \r\]l llv L\II There were eight or nine sm'1ll tables about the room, each provided with a pair of candles, and each occupied by two men There was a. sideboard, or buffet, with de- canters and glasses, cigars, cigarettes and the usual trimmings, behind which stood a young lady of bar-maiilenly lO\'9llD8.\S. For look `_-LA_I , - --......-...u VVVAJ uunus v\uu'n LUB IUem' ;vant to make them completely happy, though, unfortunately, the members cannot always get what they want and what they come for. seven o'clock the club opens every evening. It is not a politir.-al club, for politics are never touched upon; nor is its social club, for the members do not converse together after the manner of ordinary mop. tals; nor is it a club founded for the advance of any cause, or_ for the promotion of any art, or for any scientific or inel- lectual objects whatever. Yet it isa <-lub where conversation is always animated, and . even interjectional, though sometimes monot- onous. It is also absorbing, and it brings all heads bent together; it makes all eyes strained; everybodfs face is anxious and eager; and it is so witty. so clever. so biting and epigrammatic, that at everything that is said some laugh and shout, and some sigh, `weep and even curse. It is, lnszly, a club which contains everything which the mem- bers want fn rnnlrn fhnrn nI\r-~-"~`-"`-- L~~~- ,.._..~u un vuv Exvuu Luuglclall WHO practims nightly in this house. `It is nothing more than a tavern--a simple corner house, with a sign board and a bar of many emrance,-_ The spells, magic and mystery are worked on the first floor, which is let off for a. club which meem here every evening, all the year \round, except on Sundays. The members would meet on Sundaysas well if it were permitted. A4. 1..--u-- _I-1- ,L `IA, onaavntn ya ouxuccu quu1'l(`l'll),f;S, 1- . One of these houses--for .-.V.a,n`. H. will be immediately obvious it in not 1: {M sary or advisable to name the road in K: it atands-is devoted, so to speak to th, nightly conjuring of the emotion; amrn those who are privileged to enter its Que No melodrama ever planed upon the boa: of a. theatre arouses more ercely and mor `certainly the passiors of terror, anxietve rage. despair and frantic joy than the simp]; passes of the great magician who nightlyin more sixnnln nnrnnr 1.....- -4... A STEADY YOUNG MAN'S That secluded corner of L0; ;` hidden behind the three great Stat -1: lies isseparated from the TL-st of the if-us""1d the Hampstead road on th or Y e xvnsr St. Pancras road on L110 um -nx1Ia"|1:l M the ' 5 many houses and harbors many faumies w} tories, were they known, are (N .m.~seh1s~ and wonderful, am} as (yww). I pathos and interest, as any mm or shield of sixteen quarte-rinrvs One of them hnmn.-_c,.....' {l(Jl_-n with ited grmm 541:5 nub-uvwn vauun 111 Vdln, But neither at home nor Dick Murridge find that 105 and the loss of it lled him V `,5. ;gguu~uUx11 our 170 Gal`, an 3' ii iiis coming fast, he said. flie jhad searched me. lgmrrfhorvhave said when this little , `was! found in one jacket pocket a . velope was `found in th ' - ,nd "1 And what would Mr. 1:,` I m a. measly little devil, a Cronan, she s a Sapphiur, l with liar, and goes with heard a. boy called Ananiaa, but he ; called Sapphier. Sophy 1 know Bapphier. He could not resist; drawing out the two env at the contents. which rh An:miaS_ Ivv "98 e Oil V`-`T & gjl. . bur, mm the tempt - 9101791 and shall If he said, *-knock at the gm,-`no . r door and give him these two envelo once, or shall I wait? 1 think 1, H3! The time will come. '1' jump upon him. Then I shall , wriggle. Then Ishall see him make him This boy had not read the H- Spring-heel Jack in vain. WY l Rut naiflnnao of I-..\..~A . CH A PTER V. R. HOLT. INSURANCE BROKER AND General Agent. Real Estate bought. and I0 Collections made in any part of the County. Money to Loan. Otnce-Bothwell'a gloo opposite the Railway Station, 331;:-la. n 0. - V ; and . on Real Estate at lowest rates. Farmers tes Discounted. Collections made in ang part of the County. Real Estate bought an sold. Conveyancing in all its branches. Mat.- rlage Licenses Issued. 01oe-0ver Canadian Bank of Commerce. Dunlop street. 4.6-ly _9 H. LYON. PRIVATE xrimns T0 LOAN 0 . IOSEPH `ROGERS, CHIEF GUN TABLE,- County or Simone. OInn..pnHnn .~.....s. 7 . or the Supreme Court, Conveyanoor. &o. one to Loan. Olces over Sanders Bros.. Jewe ers. Dunlon Sueet Barrie. - g '.l.'a DFIEUUU, I5AISI$15'.l.'.l.1iI1., EUlJ1U1'1'UIC HE qvmmrs HOTEL.--A. W. BROWN. Prom-iefnr. Exoelleht accommodation for 3 tr; ~ . 9... .:;:.*.**.v.,...`*~..::r.'::.:a:<::.:a:`.:::.t ve homers. L ;.........u...:=.:a=:~"":-"'?"'LA G RADEN_HURST, BARRISTER, AT-` 0 orneg Sohcitor in Chancery, Conve an- i oer, &o. 0 co-First Door South or Post 0 ca, H1nd s Block. Owen Street. Barrie. 49-48 4 OSEPH SWAN AUCTIONEER FOR THE v County of S mooe. Terms reasonable. ee at my Store. Craighurst. 46- 1 -._._ Lu. barristers, souolvors, mumrlvu. cw-. mom -2 to Loan. Barrie,` Alliston and Gravenhnrst. D A`LTON MCCARTHY, (2.0. F. E. P. PEPLER. J. A. MDCARTHY. D. F. .MOWA'1"l`. 0UN'1` STRATHY 85 LOUNT. BARRIE- ters. oncuors in High Court of.Just!ce. Notaries Public. Conveyancers. Offices over the Bank of Tomato Barrie. II ? `I .._____ l\ A: `-1 vii n__ .____ nu Qvv v -.___,, av awun V; gvu-vuvv JJIILLIUO Ki , Lovxr, Q.C., H. H. Smurnv, G. W. Lomwr. __.,._....__. `WHY, PEPLER 8c MocAn*i*i1. Barristers, solicitors, N0 B31`i88. &0.. M0113) tn Lnnn, `Rn:-I-inf Allintnn n.nd f1rAvHilhlll'8t. 3ARRIE FOUNDRY. ENGINE &. BOILER WORKl.-H- Rlcwnmv, Mnnlufnnturnn n! LENNOX, AULT & KERR, Barristers, Soli- citors of the Supreme Court. Pzoot.ora.N Notaries. _Conveya'.ncers, 8:0. Mona to loan. Omces, H1nds`Blook, opgosite N. 8: . W . Ry. station. Barrie. and Bing am s Block. Bradford. H.waH'roN L1:NNox. WELLINGTON Aum. JOHN R. KERR. ` -.-___.___. IOSEPH A-SWAN Dnnntv nf vnnnn 'I`nIwnn Iunnannnkln T. LITTLE, M.D.. C.M;. ,, Chin R. W. A. ROSS. Licientiate ofthe Royal College ot Surgeons, Edinburz. Licentiate of the R0 College of "Physicians, England; Umee an residence .111 Brown : New_Blook. Barrie. On the premises at gight. mum on mununmum, unnnxaruszna. Solicitors, Uonveyancers. &c. Money to Loan. 01ce- Over D. J. Mu:-ohison s Store. Market Street Barrie. Branch Oice-Potter s Block. Totten am. W.nu7ADn .1 Hanan `D (V. Tllnnnuvanu DBl'l'l8o Barrie. 1st0ct.. 1885. -.___. I Qmpn ROGERS, CONVEYANCER. com. minninhnr in Duncan : Rnvmh Aunflnnnnn ABOIIITEUES AND svnvprogg: H WSON 8; CRESWICKE, BARRISTERS, Solicitors of the Supreme Court of Judi- oaturevot Ontario. Proctors, Notaries, Conve - once:-ah 850. Money to Loan. Offices-Bo - we1l s look, opposite N. 85 N. W. Ry. Station, Barrie. gegis moox, opposue IN. an N. w. ny. awuon _ 8 el 0; E. Hnwsox. A. E. H. CREBWIOKE. Jan:-n nuulrl, CHIEF CUNSTABLE,- rgounty Simooo. Oloe-Polioe tlourt, __- T [ 1 anonn. 1. Arrnnmmn an 111141.: `.l:'UB'1'l!iI(. Ll. 8:0. Rents Collected, Servants Provided. Olce up-stairs opposite Bank of Commerce "ENNEDY. EAVILLER HOLLANE, L Architects. P. L. Sm-vavm-n. Vnlnnmm, `BLAGKSMIIII snap I\\ 1 HERBERT SMITH having leased the stone Blacksmith Shop, Clapperton-`st., next to the Simcoe tiotel, is prepared to do all kinds of work. Horse shoeing of the latestimproved Ityles, preventing of interfering, forging. con- traction and tender feet carefully treated. `Builders annulled and estimates furnished- In `-'" - ' A H. BENNETT DENTISI`. . Barrie, 0nt.. O11oe.Sandera Block. goeite new Poet. Oloe, edele and Waverley the first Wednesday or every month. ;: ye- bridge and Midland, the next day(!l`hu1-We y) Penetang the follow! dgy_(Fridey ., Yitelized Air for painless extrae ing a specie ty: \ ~ 6-1)} ' ._... . -'--._...p -._ craouon 8110. tender teen caretuuye treat Builders supplied and estimates furnished. JOHN OAKLEY, BOAT BUILDER I'\\T fl-an nnnlnnnn fnnf nl Mnnbn QL_....4. U&I1I` `cl-uII-|-I. Jill!!! PUIEQEIK N the esplana._1e. foot of Market Street. ` Yachts and Skxffs of every descyiption in stock and built to order. Also for lure at low rates by the hour, day. week or season. Boat stalls to _rent by the season, sculls, oaxs and paddles m stock and made to order. 11-ly J S. JOHNSON. BARRIE. IMPORTER .0 O and Dealer in Cools of all kinds, and. Georgetown. Grey and Guelph White Finishing Lime, Cements of all kinds. Fire Bricks an Plasterers Hair. Storehouse at the Northern Railway Switch, foot of John street. near the depot. The bond of this Lime is better than that or any other kind, and the nish superior. Oice -Corner of John and Elizabeth streets. Money to lend atloweec rates. Agent for Dominion Grunge Fire msurance : ssoci- ntion. Canadian Mutual Aid Life Insurance and Reserve Fund Accident Associations. THOS. S. MCLEOD, Dalston.` ' Oloe over Coulter 8: Vair's, Barrie. Tuesday and Saturdav. . 6-ly D I063. 1'0BDBl1Il8rIIlo EDWARD J. Hmmr. D. C. Mvncnxson. ONEY T0 _LOAN.-$25o 000 at 6 and 6; pa cent. J. T. SPROUL. Solicitor, em., Lrrie. ' `nu W EH5. FLU VV l'4`I(.S.--UU '1' 1".I4|)..`VIrl!il%. 1* bouquets of ever description anqgune designs m at var ety and at low prices at; Morgan 8: oVittle's. The stock gardens are` now ablaze with bl em and will repay a visit; . Plants and wire vases for table decoration loaned at very reasonab e rates and satisfaction guaranteed. Alarge stock of roses. bouvardias, our-nations, &c.. on hand. The fall is the time to plant your ourrants, gooseberries, straw- berries. raspberrles. &c. A very large stock on the frmt tam. MORGAN & MoVIT IIE S Greenhouses. Owen Street. Barrie. Entrance on Wellington street. loly . __ _ .:`_. ,: ' - , LOWERS. FLOVVERS.-0-U T FLOWER , andmne (lesions: In vrn-at var ntv and at Inw nii-I4-an at I cCARTIIY, MCCARTHY. n........+..... nllnlfnsod m'.`.:JI.ries-&.o--Mon9.v ;{ T. BETING. CLERK oo6N'rY or SIM; 0 . 003:.` will be at his 011100 at the Court use. Barrie, everysaturdav. Residence and _ I-`.0. Cookstown. ' T. SPROUL. BARRISTER, SOLICITOIS. hf thn Run:-amn (.n1n-1:, (`nnvnvnnnnr Ara EARN & MURCHISON, BARRISTERS. Solinitnm- (`nnvavnnnnrn kn, Mnnav tn HENRY. APPRAISER 8t BILL POSTER. - kn. `N Anfn nllnntn Rn!-vnntn `Danni:-Incl ;X rrmNmmso MANUFAOTURES. BOATS. PHYSICIANS. .' _E-N:I:!s'rs- ..-...-.__ OTELS. 5 .BARRIE PLANING MlLIa.-GEO. BALL. Carpenter and Builder, an :1 Manufacturer of Doors Sasha Blinds. Mouldings. 850. Plan- ing of ah kin us donopromptly and satisfac- torilv. Fsotorv John street. Barrio; ' V OFFICIAL. FINANCIAL: mscnnnuzn ous."'I ' 2 -.~:-I-.*.:;_-.-'.__."--_::.'::_-.".: 'i3A.B._RI,E T LEGAL. 1 1 Churchill. Ont. 35 41-tt DBITIU 51-ly . .,..1 .. ...u uyvuubug pun ULQIUQ. ' matter to him what the boy dd so long ashe got through his-we`:-k4` It is not until mid-' dle age that we learn a truth which is not ` one of the mast. imortant laws, yet is not ` without its: uses-_-namely. theti` nobdy-' cares how we do spend our time, everymen-being v V ly;ooox_:pied.'w1thvthejspending;oti;hiI time. i : `H `w='~::.-" ruuum 1"UUlVUIt!. Jam uuusa an bulhhi WoRxa.-H. Snwmcv Manufacturer or every d4-scrlption of En nes.. Boilers Saw Mill Grist Mm, Shingle, Lunch. and Wood- working Machinery. Mr. Murridge gassl thoughtfully`, atthe, boy. Young (.31-onan might have called at: thebankonhis way. A * _s ' ~ ' Go to your dinner, he said to the boy, ab1.upy'_ 1 "1. . . . , The boy took his hat and disappeared in, trepidation, b`eoat1s's-',t_he history of Spring- heel Jack was` in ;the_ drawer. Suppose his master was to ..ope;i .x'ha:(draIw.er and discqvei: ` it! This W88. exactly what Mr. Murridpgat proceeded. .to T119 2,; ; 119 ,91>e.ned . boy ! drawer anl .exarn_ined. i5.98!`.91.I111X- i; -.Tl;e,m' was l1Q'~hil1g.,111,> at all, `exgept a,boy s.p9nnyt novel. which. .h9;.t.ur.nad-cwxer contemptnqusly. taking no head or the way, inx_-Whi.*!'th.9~b9Y& [was spending the ocewime. v .What did.it him what that I-mu` `Jib: ..;.`. '1.'.`__`_ _`_ L J _ _. - .--_, .......5 -uwsuuguu M) 111111, 0. he wore a pos hat, and generally had a M ower -in his button hole. Why, in,a. gen? eral way, the descriptions agreed," but then M it was impossible; What did young Mr. Cronan come here for" he asked. I - 1 I don t` know. He came for Richard. ' Thev went out together `nth-one` o clock. . N L - V ?" `..__ '1, g - . ` av ` Cronan, Jr. ing had been those. members of the Cronan I Hyacinth, vuvu uuu one man name or all struck him. It was the name of Mr. Hyacinth The only visitors that mom- tamily. He suddenly remembe1~`ed' that as if everything belonged to him, and that he hat. zeneranv hm . Jr., had a way of walking about U o 16 .._, , vI.u' auu, mane mevnouce a duterenoe." Thank you. Observe that I have made a little alteration This will, in future, "be my . signature; you see the difference? Now, if acheck is presented without the variation. youewill please detain the man who presents it. and give him in custody and send for me. That's alL . He went back to his oice. Something was learned A man with a foreign accent and one forenger gone had presented three of the checks. A girl, good looking and well dressed, presented another, and a young gen- tleman in a pot hat and a red tie presented another. Not a great deal to help a detec- tive, but somethlng. _ His son had not yet returned from his din- . ner, and the oice boy was still alone. Where is the callers book?" he asked. The boy -produced the book. Mr. Mur- ridge ran his nger slowly down the list, looking for some oneto suspect. There was ' no one. But the last name of all struck him. `WES thn nnvnn nl 15- "3----"-"` anuu uuu uuwr UWO-'li959 CWO, - ' They were presented by your son, as usual. Your checks being always for the , same amount, and always being presented ' by your son, made me-notice difference. Thank vnn ham... 4-1..-; 1 L-_- _. , JV 7 UV .-`O I cannot remember each one. But I re- member something about them, because your son usuaiij $911198 with these twelve pound checks. Well--what do you remember? ' V ` Two or three of these cheoks-I think three-were presented by an elderly man with white hair. a white mustache and a foreign accent, which I noticed. Oh, and he had lost the forenger of his right hand. He took the money each time in gold, and was along while count it. An elderly man, wi white mustache. and one nger gone. You ought to be able i to recognize him?" I think I should know him. Another of the checks was presented by a young lady. I should certainly know her, said the clerk, with more assurance. She was well dressed. and very pretty. Oh, I am sure I should know her. -' Why, there was another check-presented half an hour ago. . That makes the fth, said Mr. Mur- ridge. Who presented that! A young man-I think I should know him--wi1:h light hair and a light mustache. He wore a pot hat and a red necktie, and . had a ower in his buttonhole. A He walked i into the bank as if the place belonged to ~ him. first he said he would take it any-. how, and then he said he would take it in gold. ' . uA...I LL- -n - --' ucuuuu uuuse cnecxsfr The clerk was paying checks over the counter` all day long, and it seemed rather a. ` wild question to ask. But there was one i thing in favor of his -remembering. The only person who was ever sent to the bank with Mr. Murridgds private ehecks was his Son. ` , _ ._ -u-.n\n--I Cgn you tell me, he asked, W50 \ sented these checks?" IA n`n-`- ---- -A - ' ` ` Oorresgondence solicited with rgar A W. MOVITTIE, D. L. SURVEYOR AND . Real Estate Agent. Calgax-yd N. W. '1`. toinvest- manta n` Province of Alberta. W.T. A. W. MOVITTIE. Address Calgary. via Benton, Montana. U.S. Murrldge was not the kind of person to begin by crying out that he was robbed. Not at all. He would rst be able to lay his hand upon the man -who did it. He there- ~ fore went to the bank manager and requested an interview with. the clerk of the pay counter, merely stating that one of his checks appeared to have fallen into the Wrnno hnnrh --vvItIi upycug wrong hands. Can t n..._A.-_I LI . u QAIAUJ Ulla e placed all the checks with the bank book in his pocket, put on his hat and went slowly out of the olce. He was so much` troubled in his mind that he actually left the safe unlocked, and all his papers lying on the table, check book and all. This was a thing which he had never done before in his life. The olce toy observed this extraordinary neglect, and thought what a splendid chance ` would have been presented. to Spring-heel Jack had his tyrant master left the safe` 0138))- open. . `ll . v-any And the other two-thiase two!" Thaw Ilrnna .._.........4....: I._ W. $45 - The man who trusts any one is a fool." Then he thought of the oice boy. He, too, was incapable of such an imitation. Yet he might have been put up to the job by some one outside. Very likely it was the boy. Most likely it was the boy. There was also a third person who knew the routine of the office, and his own custom: 1 and daily rules. -Mr. Murridge started when he thought of this third person, and his face hardened for smoment, but only for a. moment, because the very possibility of such a thing cannot be allowed to be con- sidered. . OR ------:-n - AB: WAL1jinR 131:sAfN 1*, ..., wuv. ~.J.uuIs ox nounmg else. Lord! should make a.% beautiful `I've often thought tha'.t:I ahouli have liked the , work. But-there`: no money. in it. Dick received these commands with pro -, ` found amazement. `3"-. ` "19 P 1` #9`? .`.?`` 3P`?711."9P!d "father you kept it entirely ln ovin Anyhow, I"don t care how .1tot`1t, . take the.- cli`ecks: youmay' wblht ' them and the "check-Ebookei That 1'n`ayjbe*`us?e-' _ ....,... .- uuuu nu cu uuav BIIHPIOIOD GIIYWBOTG." . I>see, said Dick. ,"You want: the:-the man who did it not to know that `you have found in out a.lr'eady.V , ` _- , - A Yes. ,1; shall be your willbe , an occupation for A to the bottom of this cas_e. 5 ~Ta.ke week noth- ing gThi.l`lk of ;`LOrd should lnakg n. Innnnlnl :l..L...4u..-__-" ~9- aw. name and apecincauons I01` nuuaings pre- ered. Town and Village Lots laid out. Farm Ines oaretull located. Timber limits examin- &.o. oronto 0loe-4 Mail Buildings. ed. 850. Barrie b1oe-McCa.rthy s Block. comngwooa Oloe-Long e Block. Tnos. KENNEDY. . -MAURICE GAVILLER. W. J. HOLLAND. 51-ly ,,--__ _- ,_ ..........., . _ Because I want you to find the thief, Dick. - - The son started and lifted his head. a "What?" he cried. "I want you to nd the villain, Dick, Mr. Murridge repeated. ; Me to nd him! A You shall show me the stun. you- are made ot. You ll never make a genealogist ..worth your salt. It's poor work spending. * `every evening overa piano or out in the streets and all day drawing girls h'eade on a '*blott'iIng` pad. I don't believe you are with; `outbrains, Dick. And here's a chance for you toshdw what you can do. , Yes, `said Dick, thoughtfully. - ' ' `t` des, `I don't want to make a fuss -about the matter. Let us work quietly, - without the policeand the bank and all I av: ucunuuu uuu ll. .SVVa.gge1-lug au._u T.` It is not much to remember, said Dick. M 3"` Why (10 7011 want me to remember them so particularly? 'Rannnua-T ninnda co... 4.- 1.1..) .u' .. . - { Qvhn vac" uuu U5 WHILE {nave learned`? _ M93, to relatebriey what we a.l- \ Have you got them all?" he asked. sit; down first and make a. note of the dates. T110) ma) be important. Remember an el- derly man with a foreign accent; aim the forenger of the right hand gone. A girl. A young fellow with `light hair, a pot m, a red necktie and a swaggering air. It in nnf. mnnli I-A -mm.,.~.1.....n .....!.: 'n:-1- acuuuv uuu. reaunuess plllflll. Well, sir, Dick. asked. when the storm subsided. as yet you have not told me any particulars." _ : I'm coming to them. _ I don t know very much; but I am sure it will prove enough for 3 beginning. Many a. great robbery has been discovered with fewer facts than these. New listen and get them into your head. A clever detective would very soon get a clew-out otwha.t I have learned.? HA nrnnnnrlnrl 4-n -ml..a-.'. I....:..n_ _I._A. _- _.... vvulve Au me man wuo speuus ms 1116 In amassing small `gains, and knows the value of money, what it represents, how much i labor, self-restraint, and the foregoing of this _w.orld s. pleasures for the sake of getting it. and very often how many tricks, and what crookedness in his pilgrimage. Mr. Murridge was the second of these men. His son watched him curiously and `furtively, as he continued wrathfully threatening ven- geance and relentless` pursuit. e WE. Bil` Dink nnlynrl u-In... AL. _A..__. -v----2 wt-C UIQV IIJZIIC Two men there are who particularly re- sent being robbed. The one is the man born ` to great possessions. He is always" obiiged to trust people, and he isthe natural prey of the craft , and he feels personally in- sulted by a breach of trust-because'it seems to accuse him` of being credulous,` soft, ignorant of the world, and easily taken in. The other is the man who spends his life in amamimr small `amine mu! In....... 4.1.. _-I.-- ---4 -vvv-J vI~LI,v ID Gilli PUUUUS HI` Buuuugs 8 year. Anestate in perpetuity, worth three _pounds six shillings yearly, has been stolen from me-from you, too, Dick. because I suppose- Here he stopped to eheavea sigh * The common lot is hard, but hardest of all to a man who ismaking money. I suppose '1 shall some day have to leave things behind me, like everybody else, Three pounds six shillings A year! Think how long it takes to save that A little perpetual spring. so to speak. `Who has done itr. you say. That is ` just. exactly what we have to find out; and, by George, Dick, l ll never rest--never-and I'll never let you rest, _either-until I have found out the man 1 ` '1`:-on _..-.. 4I_-A,- _ V I -- ` ` As for thaamount, it isn t much-sixty Pounds. The interest of sixty pounds at five and a half per cent, which I `can get if I anybody can, is three pounds six shillings a YOGP. .Al'l'8St.fl3 {I1 I'\Arl'\Af'.II1r Ilynwh Okmnn "MA uqu him 31: uuwuu uwvu luullvu U16. ' I "How-how?" asked Dick, clearing his throat again, How do you propose to find him? T ' an 1` my 1 . UA V Luann GE IIUIJJAN U, K Architects, P. L. Surve ore. Valuators. 50. Plans and specications or buildings ~ Inn: mu-Afnllv lnnnnn-I 'l`lmhnn limit: Awnnnln