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Barrie Branch Banking Service Your banking requirements may be entrusted to this Bank with every confidenéé that careful and efficient service will be rendered. Our facilities are entirely at your THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE L.F. Cross, Manager aw The Pawns Count By E. Phillips Oppenheim Copyright, 1918, by Little, Brown & Co. Serial Publication rights secured by The Examiner, through special arrangement with owners of copyright. CHAPTER XX and smoulders in the country places, and |I, that is the fever of money-making. Men Fischer raised his eyebrows in mild sur- ure blinded with the passion of it prise to find Nikesti waiting for him in the sitting room that evening, with his : overcoat and evening hat. He closed the Kee has turned his great factories into am- oor of the bedroom from which be had Yt works." isoued carefully bebind him, : "You don't oéed to go on with thip busi. "Let him be careful" he muttered, "ihat gov pow that we have ad our etl 906 Moming thaw a oot Blackened, wal | aft t |\Nikasti replied. "I think it best that I re- great things, n' "Ord concerning the main here. Your cocktail, sir. The partition doors leuding into the din- ' Fisclie aecented, eng glass with 8 good: ing room were thrown back' and the little |bumoured little laugh company of men sat down to di | "Well," he said, "I suppose you know were fourteen of them, and their oe what you want to do, but it seems to me Were known throughout the world. There |in unnecessary, Say, is anything rong wish was a steel millionaire, half-a-dozen Wall you" You seen shaken, somehow Street magnates, a clothing manufacturer, Whose house in Fifth Avenue wus reputed to bate cost two millions. There war not one of them who was not a patrint- to ts "Tam quite well,' Nikasti declared grave- ly. ""L am very well indeed." | Fischer atared at him seurchingly from behind his spectactes Germany. They ate and drank with the "You don't look it,"" he observed. "I businesslike thoroughness of their ruse | you'll take my sdvice, you'll get away When at last the coffee and liqueur from here and rest somewhere quietly fot » had been served, the waiters by prearrunge. few days, Why don't you try ong of the ment disay peared, and with a little flour. |in summer hotels on Long Island?" ish Von Schwerin locked the door, Once his heud, more he raised his glass he decided "To the Kaiser and the Fatherland!" he cried in a voice thick with emotion, tay here. "You know best, of course,"' Fischer re pled. Where's Mr. Van Teyl!" | "He has gone out with his sister, sir-- the young lady in the uext suite," Nikusti announced Fischer sighed for a moment, 'Then he shed his cocktail, drew on his gloves. turned towards 'the door "Well, good night," he said. 'Perhaps you are wike to stay here, Remember al |ways what it is that you carry about with yous in the balance. 1 have watched evenis | "I shall remember,' Nikasti promised. |in Washington, not through my own but th Fischer entered his automobile and drove | through « thousand eyes, jto a fashionable restaurant in the neighbor. on the pulse of the country, so what I say hood of Fifth Avenue. Arrived here. he to you needs nothing in the way of sub- made his way to 4 coom on the first floor, stantiation, The truth is best. Notwith- For a moment a little flash of something almost like spirituality lightened the gath ering. They were at least men with » pur pose, and an unselfish purpose. friends, all of you, you know how strenuous my labours have been during the last year, ' Ambassador has almost demanded my re- *hi Von Schwerin was already every one of you, the great momentum of head waiters public feeling, from California to. Massa- |therr. talking with a little company of men | "Ah, our friend Fischer!" the latter ex- claimed. "That makes our number com- cause of our enemies, Wushington is hope- plete." lessly ogainst us. The huge supplies which at follow will mean ruin. face that?" { cea them. paradoxical exist... There can be no longer any meetings | Germany. ished. We meet, one or two of us, perhaps, tered i Even the exile shall take up his burden."" Hed him into unsaypury parts "Oscar Fucher." Von Schwerin said, "my 'his car st the corner of Fourteenth Street, fy and, afters moment's reflection. as though refresh his memory, he made his way tang and bouquet into butter that no fac- You know that three times the Englixh slowly eastwards, call, and three times the matter haa hung over his Se et ce yoke armen, be | ad concealed in the automobile. My fingers are object of some comment. Se touebs first jostled him hid then turned | and followed in his footsteps. A man came out of the shudows, and they broke away into which he Was ushered by one of the standing all my efforts, and the efforts of With an' oath day, chusetts, has turned slowly towards the With appropriate adjectives. nanyprt ithe -rviae. That fire was no acci- ringly. Von Schwerin filled his glase, "This," he went on, 'was the individual act of a brave and faithful patriot. They time' bas come for 'us, too, to remember thad we are at war. I have striven for | you with the weapons of diplomacy and I have failed. you now to fsce the situation with me--to make use of the only means left to us. i No one hesitated. Possibly ruin stared them in the face, but no one flinched. Their heads drew closer together. They discussed "We must add largely to our numbers," Von Schwerin a "and we had better have a fund. So far as regards mgney, I take it for granted--" said There was a little chorus of fierce whis- per. Five million dollars were subscribed | yy men who were willing, if necessary, to» find fifty. "It is enough," their leader assured them. "Much of our labours will be amongst those | to whom money is no object. Only remem- ber, all of you, this. We shall be a societ without a written word, with no roll of membership, without documents or institu- tion, for complicity in the things which | You are willing to | that strange, passionate instinct of ty prevailed. To all appearance it | was a gathering of commonplace, commer- cislised and burgeois, easy-living men, but ' the touch of the spirit was there. Fischer leaned a little forward. ' In two months' time," he said, "every factory in America which is earning its blood money shall be in danger. Therr will be a reign of terror. erate independently and secretly." Each State will op- | "Our friend Fischer." Yon Schwerin told them, "thes promised to stay over here for the present to organise this undertaking. | alas! am bound to remain always a little | aloof. but the time may come, and very | They | soon, tell me that even Otto Schmidt in Milwau- | On too, when I shall be a free lance. that day I shall throw in my lot with yours, to the last drop of blood and the | inst hour of my liberty. Oschr Fischer. already. Until then, trust ! He has done great deeds ty. He will show you the way to ore." Fischer took off his spectacteé and wiped "Our first proceeding," he said, "sounds It must be that we cease to/ nongst us who stand in this country for! Gatherings of this sort are fin- the clubs und in the streets, in our houses and perhaps in the restaurants, but the bond which unites us, and which no human power could ever sever because it ix of the spirit, that bond from tonight is in ngible. Wait, all of you, for a message The tusk given to each shall' not be too great." | Mr. Max H. Bookam, a little black- | bearded man who had started life tailoring |, 8 garret, and was now a multimillionaire, ruised his gluss "No shall seem too great," he mut No risk shall make us aft CHAPTER XX/ | He left He wore an unusually abby overcoat, and a felt hat drawn Even en, however, his appearance made him an A little gang of "That cop'll get his head broke some Fischer heard one of them mutter, There were others who looked curiously him, One man's hand he felt running , Potatoes, bag . A waiter handed around cocktails, Fis- Icher smiled as he raised his glass to his lips. "It is something, at least," he confided, |"to be back in a country where one can speak freely. I raise my arm. Von Scl in and gentlemen--'To the Fatherland!' " They all drank fervently and with a Von Schwerin set | reaping. He was looking a little guttural murmur. down his empty glass fittle glum. "In many ways, my dear Fischer,' he "one sympathises with that speech of yours; but the truth is best. and it is jto talk truths that we have met this eve- We are gaining no ground here. jam_not sure that we pre not losing."" There was a moment's disturbed and agi- said, ning. tated silence. 'hy one little man ack- , "but who can doubt it? There is s fever which has caught hold of this country, which blazes in the towhs and France will continue, ver- | powerless, We can hated enemy. 70,000,808 MATCHES 4 DAY Twenty-five thousand feet of soft, smooth- fibred pine enter this factory every day. It is stored with scientific cafe lo enough to make it burn freely and odorlessly. Then it is split into fragrant blocks and fed to automatic machines. 70,000,000/matches a day are required from this huge plant to keep Canada's home fires burning. Eddy's Silent 5 Matches When you b * matches eee that Edu, s names 'on the box are made only from the choicest and best seasoned pine blocks. They are guar- anteed to be absolutely sure- fire. No danger of accident. 'They are non-poisonous and will not explode when stepped on. The E. B. EDDY CO, Limited - HULL, CANADA Moakers of Indurated Fil md na Poet Specie me struggle leave these shores day by day for England Fresh plants are jbeing Isid down for the manufacture of weapons and ammunition to be used against our country." The hand of diplomacy ix ng longer. Even those who favour our cause are drunk with the joy of the golden harvest they are This country has spoken once and for all, and ite voice is for our most 'There was a variety of guttural and eym- pathetic ejaculations. A dozen earnest faces turned towards Von Schwerin. "Diplomacy," Von Schwerin continued, 1|"has failed. "We come to the next step. There have been isolated acts of self-sscri- fice, splendid in themselves but aystemless. Only the day before yesterday s great f tory at Detroit was burned to the ground, and I can assure you, gentlemen, I who know, that a thousand: bales of cloth, des- tined' for France, lie in a charred heap over his pockets as he pushed past him. A couple of women came screaming down the street and seized him by the arms. here seemed to burn more dimly. Even the flares from the drinking dena seemed secretive, and the shadowy places impenet- rable. It was before a saloon that at last he paused, listened for a moment to the sound of a cracked piano inside, and en- 'tered. The place was packed, 'and, for- 'tunately for him, a scrap of some interest between two viliainous-looking Italians in 8 distant corner was occupying the attention of manf of the pstrons. A man with white, staring fuce was banging at a erary | piano without 2 movement of his body, his whole energies apparently directed to- wards drowning the tumult of oaths and hideous execrations which came from the two combatants. A drunken Irishman, roll- ing about on the floor, kicked at him say- sgely as he passed. An undersized little creature, with the face of an old man but the figure of a boy, marked him from a distant corner and crept stealthily to- wards his side. Fischer reached the coun- ter at last and stood there for a moment, waiting. Two huge, rough-looking negroes, in soiled linen clothes, were dispensing the times, observing 8 rhythm. The negro started, turned his he: ily-lidded, repulsive eyes upon Fischer, nodded slightly. He handed out the drink inter. 'ant the boss?" he demanded. Fischer assented. The negro lifted the flap of the counter and opened a trapdoor, leading apparently into a cellar beneath, "Step right down," he muttered. "Don't let the boys catch on. Get out of that, Tim," he added thickly to the dwarflike figure, whose slender fingets were suddenly nebring Fischer's neck. The creature seemed to melt away. Fis- cher dived and descended a dozen steps or so into another bare looking apartment, the door of which was half open. There were three men seated at the solitary deal table, which was almost the only article of furniture to be seen. One, somberly dressed in legal black, with a pale face and fiercely "inquiring eyes, half rose to . his feet as the newcomer entered. Another's | 3! e was sitting between the two, however--a great red-headed Irishman--rose to his feet and pushed them back to their places. "There's no cause for alarm, now boys," | gy he declared. "This isa friend of mine. Twon't make you acquainted, because we're Mr. Stranger." (To be continued) Horse Radish root, bunch, He shook himself free, and listened without | Parsley, bunch, a word to their torrent of abuse, The lights |Snge, bunch . Beef, Ib., Beef Tongue Beef heart Hay ..... Wood, 4 ft. long hand went to his bip pocket. The man who| Parlor Cars trains. all better friends strangers down in these | Horning. parts. 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The Physician, Surgeon, etc, many makers of good dairy buttet who read | Office and Residence, Dunlop St., Barrie, my weekly market notes will be interested Telephone 165, Reformer:--""A Northern up their noses at dairy butter and-demané creamery, milk mixed up will make, maker, It is such conditions that put tory can achiew Eggs, per doz... Butter, Ib. ..'. Goose, Ib. Uream, quart, Milk. quart Turnips, bag Onions, basket Squash, each Celery, 2 bunches . Tore Radish, half pint bottle... NEAR-BY MARKETS (March 14, 1919) Beeton--Butter 45-49c, eggs 35-38¢, bar- ley 80c, onts 65c, peas $1.15, ch. cattle 12-$13, hogs $18.35, lambs $16.50-$17.00. 1 the following paragraph from the Simeoe exchange says that the men in the lumber woods now turn We don't agree with their taste. Creamery is as good as all sorts of cows' It's the respec- table dead-level of mediocrity. 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