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The Barrie Planing Mil : SAVI to save, yet few savings because | . carelessness in-this respect. | For over fifty years The Canadian -Bank of Commerce has been serv- Jog the people_of Canada in in- creasingly large measure, until at the present time country. RESERVE FUND A SAFE PLACE FOR i is as necessary to select a safe place for your savings as it is much thought, and many lose their branches providing complete bank- ing facilities in all parts of the THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE CAPITAL PAID UP . NGS give this matter of ignorance or it has over 470 $15,000,000 $15,000,000 che Kingdom Copstight, 1916, by By E. Phillips Oppenheim Serial Publication rights secured by The Examiner, through special arrangement with owners of copyright. >) Py Jwhich concenled wn inner room, and nasced j through appeared, 'drewed in uniform His tone Litue, Brown & Co. (Continued from last week) "Must you go, Hugh?" Geraldine asked "Loam so sorry." he replied, "but 1 must, I really have rather au important | appointinent this afternoon." | "An appointment!" she grumbled, "You ndon for so short a time and ng appointments all let you go. unless! you tell me what it's about." * mispect a new pattern of he explained calmly. "If T will telephone directly I am free, and see if you are at liberty." shrugged her shoulders but gave him sunt little nod ae he stepped into the tux 5 | "Sober oli! stick, Thomson," her brother ae they started off, I didn't like his pulling me up lke that but Tex: | 'nect he was right "E don't see what Business it was of his and L think it was rather horrid of bit,' Olive declared, "As though Gerry or Ty | muttered !"" . i | "A chap like Thomson hasn't very much | aiweretion. you see,"" Ralph Conyers remark- "You'll have to wake him up w bit if you mean to.get any fun gut of! the faintest look of Thee wus just She remained 'troublé in Geraldine's face. (perfectly loyal, however. Some of us take life more seri than others," she sighed. "Hugh of them. When one remember terrible things he must have seen, though, , it is very hard to find fault with him." | They #urned into the Square and paused | before Olive's turning. You're coming down with me. Ralph, | und you too, Geraldine?" she invited. Conyers shook his head regretfully. n due at the Admiralty at four to re- e my final instruct he said. "I must move slong at ones The smile suddenly faded from his li He seemed to be listening to the calling of the newsboys down the street. "T don't know what my instructions | ing to be," he continued, dropping his voice a little, "but I'm sick of making war the way our chaps are doing it. If ever I'm lucky enough to get one of those murderous submarines, I can promise you one thing--there'll be no survivors." For a moment or two they neither of them spoke, From out of the windows of the house before which they were standing came the music of a popular waltz, Olive turned away with a little shiver. "You think I'm brutal dear," Conyers went on, us he patted Her hand. "Renfem- ber I've seen men killed--that's what makes the difference, Olive. Yes, I am different! We are all different, who've tackled the job, Thomaon's different. Your young man fat luncheon, Geraldine,--what's bis name? --Granet--he's different. There's _some- thing big and serious grown up inside us, and the brute is looking out. It has to be. T'll come in later, Olive. Tell the mater J shall be home to dinner, Geraldine. The governor's waiting down at the Ad- miralty for me. -bye, girls!" He waved his hand and strode down to- wards the corner of the Square. Both girls watched him for a few moments, His shoulders were a8 square as ever bili\some- thing had gone from the springiness of his gait. There was nothing left of the sail- or' jaunty swagger. ' 'They are all like thst,"" Geraldine "when they've been face to face with the' real thing. And we are only women, Olive." CHAPTER IV _ Surgeon-Major -Thomson had apparently forgotten his appointment to view camp bedstesds, for, s few minutes after he had left Geraldine and her brother, his taxi- 'eab set him down before » sombre-looking house in Adelphi Terrace. He passed through the open 'doorway, up two flights of stairs, drew a key of somewhat preuliar | 'shape from his pocket and opened: 4 'door oul the | jin front of him |very small ball. from which there waa no "The only occupant of the apartment wus a | short S from its envelope and swept a space for 'busy with his pencil and the code-book. ; | reply. He found himself in s egress save through yet another door, through which he pased and stepped into rge but singularly bare-looking apart- ment, Three great safes were ranged along one side of the wall, pilee of newspapers and maps were strewn all over a long table, and a huge Ordnance map of the French and Belgian Frontiers stood upon an essel man who was sitting before = typewriter in front of the window. He turned bis head and rose a1 Thomson's entrance, a rather keew-looking young man, his face slightly pitted with «mallpox, his mouth hard und firm, hiv eyes deepaet wen! bright. 'Anything happened, Ambrove?" "A dispatch, sir." was the brief reply From the War Offie "No, sir it came direct."" Thomason drew the thin sheet of paper himself at the corner of the table, Then he unlocked one of the safes and drew out from | an inner drawer a parchment book bound in brown vellum, He spread out the dis: patch and read it carefully. It had heen handed in xt s town nest the Belgian frontier ubout eight hours before:-- Fifty thousand camp bedateads are ur gently required for neighborhpod of La Guir, Please lo your best for us, the mat- ter is urgent. Double mattress if possible. London. For a matter of ten minutes Thomson wax} When he bad finished. he studied thought fully the message which he had transeribed Plans for attack on La Guir) communi- cated. Attack foiled, Believe Smith in London. "Anything important, sir?" fhe young | man ont the typewriter asked Thomson nodded hut made no immediate He first of all carefully destroved the message which he had received, and the transcription. and watched the frgments of | paper burn into ashes. Then Ye replaced the code-book in the safe. which he care- fully locked, and strolled towards the win- dow. He stood for several ininutes looking out towards the Thames. "The same thing hes happeneil ugain at Guir,"" he said at last. 'Any clue?' "None. They say that he is in Londoe now. The two men looked at one another for & moment in grave ailence. Ambrose leaned back in his chair and frowned heavily. "Through our lines, through Boulogne, across the Channel, through Dover Station, out of Charing-Cross, through our own men and the best that Scotland Yard could do for us. In London, eh?" ¢ Thomson's face twitched convulsively. His teeth had come together with a little snap. "You needn't play at being headquar- ters, Ambrose." he said hoarsely, "I know jit seems like a miracle but there's a renson for that." "What is it?"' Ambrose asked. . "Only a few weeks after the war bes) gan," Thomson continued thoughtfully, "two French generals, four or five col- onela, and over twenty junior and non- commissioned officers were court-martialled for espionage. The French have been on the lookout for that sort of thing. We haven't. There isn't one of these men who are sitting in judgment upon us to-day, Am- brose, who would listen to me for a single moment if I were to take the bull by the horns and say that the traitor we seck is 'one of ourselves."' "You're right," Ambrose murmured, "but do you believe it?" "T do." Thomson asserted. 'It isn't only the fact of the attacks themselves miscarrying, but it's the knowledge on the other side of exactly how best to meet that attack. It's the exact knowledge they suffered enough, Ambrose, in this country from civil spies--the Government are to blame for that, But there are plenty of people who go blustering about, decluring that two of our Cabinet Ministers ought to to be hung, who'd turn round and give you the lie if you hinted for a moment that the same sort of thing in @ far worse de- ugly!" "Look at me," Major Thomson contin- ued dhoughtfully, "Every secret connec: ted with our present and future plans prac- tically passes through my hands, yet no one watches me. Whisper a word at the War Office that perhaps it would be as well-- just for a week, ssy--to test a few of my reports, and they'd laugh at you with she ait of superior beings listening to the cha! ter of fool. Yet what is there impossible about it? I may have some accret vice-- avarice. perhaps. Germany wodld give me the price of s kingdom for all that I coald tell them. Yet becuuse [ am an English officer T am shove all suspicion. Ite Ambrose, but it's damnably The young man watched his chief for several moments, Thomson wus standing before the window. the cold spring light falling full upon his face, with its ner- vous lines and strongly-eut, immobile fea tures. He felt.a curious indisposition to. Sheak, a queer sort of desire to wait on the chance of hearing more, "A singlé kink in my brain." Thomson continued, '* a secret) weakness, perhaps nn dash of lunacy, and I might be reasonably othe -- master-sy of the T was in Berlin six weeks ago, There wasn't a soul who ever kenew it. I made no report, on purpose " Perhnps they knew und said nothing," Ambrose suggested softly $ There was a moment's silence, Thomson seemed to. be considering the idea with strunge intensity, Then he shook his head "T think not.' he decided, "When the his'ory of this war is written, Ambrose, with flamboyant phrases and enpious rhe oric, there will be unwritten chan dramatic. having res the final issue flee which have se ods Sit tight here T may be going over to 'Boulogne y hour." thonwon 'pushed on one aide the curtains "the dominant Ambrose, atid Inu quorter of an hour he re. his bearing, his whole man were changed, He walked with 9 springier ston, he carried Ja litle cane was whistling softly to himself "Tum going to one or two places in thi [Tottenham Court Road. by appointment, he announced, "to inspect some new pat ternx of camp bedsteads, You can tell chem, if they ring up from Whitehall, that T'll reort myself later in the evening." Curiously enough, the other man, too, had changed as though in sympathetic def- erence to bis superior officer, He bad be- come simply the obedient and assiduous seoretary. Very good, sir," be anid smoothly, "I'll do my best to finish these specifications before you return." CHAPTER V Lord Romsey, after his luncheon-party, spent an hour at his official residence in Whitehall and made two other calls on home, His secretary met him in hall of his howe in Port cious reairned his bi to the footman. "There ix a gentleman. here to see by telephone, sir," he announced. "His name is Sycney- the Reverend Horatio Sidney, he calls himself." Tord Romsey stood for 8 moment with. out reply. His lips bud come together in w hard. unplensant tine. Tt obvious thar this was by ng means a weleome visi- to *"T gave no appointment, Ainsley," he remarked. "I simply said' that 1 would seo the gentleman when he arrived in F: lund. You bad better bring him to my study," he continued, "and be careful that no one interrupts us."" The young man withdrew and the Cabinet Minister made his way to his study. little of the elasticity, however, had gone from bis footateps and he sested himself before his desk with the air of a man who faces dlisngreenble quarter of an. hour. He played for s moment with a pen-holder. "The skeleton in the cupboard."" he mut i ily. "Even the great: with a momentary return of his more inflated self, "have them." There was a knock at the door and the secretary reappeared, ushering in thie un- desired visi is Mr, Sidney, sir," he announced quietly. The Cabinet Minister rose in his place and held out his hand in his best official style, a discreet mixture of reserve and co: descensign. Hix manner changed, however. the moment the door was closed, He with- drew hix hand, which the other had made no attempt to grasp. "Tam. according you the interview, you desire."" he said. pointing to a chair, "but T shall be glad if you will explain the pur- port of your visit as few words ss pos- sible. You will, I hope, appreciate the fact that your presence here is a mater of grave emburrassment to me." Mr, Sidney bowed. He was stall and ap- parently on qderly mag, dressed the utmost sobriety. He accepted the chair without undue haste, adjusted a pair of horn-ximmed spectacles and took some papers from his pocket. "Sir." he began, speaking deliberately but without any foreign accent, "T am here to. make certain proposals to you on be- half of a person who at your own request shall be nameless." (To Be Continued.) Armstrong, B.C., June 11, 1919. Minard's Liniment Cb., 'Ltd., Yarmouth, NS. Dear Sirs: Since the start of the Baseball season we have been hindered with sore muscles, sprained ankles, ete., but just as soon fas we started using Minard's Liniment our troubles ended. Every baseball player should keep a bottle of, your Liniment handy. Yours truly, E. E. Armstrong, Secretary Armstrong High School 28-40 Baseb&ll Team. Invite 'all your friends ito Bar- rie for the Peace Celebration on have as to' our dispositions, our most se- cret and sudden change of tactics. We've July 19. Everything is free. { re, a few moments after he had + who says that he made an appointment 5 PILLS Keep the stomach well, the liver active, the bowels regular, and the breath will be sweet and healthy. But let poisors accumu- late in the digestive organs, the system becomes clogged, gases form in the stomach and affect the breath. Correct these conditions with Beecham's Pills. They promptly regulate the bodi- ly functions and are a quick remedy for sourstomach and Bad Breath Lasscst Sale of any Medicine in the Sold everywhere: ln bowen age | Sem MS 4 THE MARKETS AS Barrie Saturday Market It was o berry and vegetable market on Sat "y morning. ruxpberries, red and bluck. being greatly in demand, Very few had pail-lo's, bur there were a greut hon The red variety sold at wad by Fan} ies were ulso procurable | lust a Green beans at {l5e a quart were in great demand, Many aise bal Butter and eggs seemed to take ae for once, though not in ec te respective the quotations for them, jing two weeks' supplies on account of the Big Celebration here this eoming Saturday. The Twelfth found a pleasunt duy for mar- keters ond everyone on hand early, Eggs, per dozen . Butter, Ib. ....... Chicken, dressed, 1b, Cream, quart . Milk, quart . 10. Potatoes, bag . $1.25 Lettuce 'biinch 050 Onions, basket . Be 'Onions, green, bun . Be Rhubarb, bunch Peas, seed, qt. Cherries, basket .. Gooseberries, quart Currants, quart Mint, bunch . Sage, bunch . Horse Radish root, bunch Horse Radisb, half pint bottle . NEAR-BY MARKETS (July 10, 1919) Bradford--Wheat $2.08-82. 80e, pens $1,90-82.00, hogs $22.00, toes 81.00-81.60 bag, butter 40-126, ieee 40-420, hay $30.00 ton, t $2.10-82.13, rye 90e- , butter 38-40c, eggs 38- E $1.00, onts rvale---W he & $24.00. Shelburne--Wheat -- $1.90-$2.11, _ barley '90¢-$1.05, pens $1.85-82.00, 2c, butter 39-40c, eggs 40-41c, potatoes bag, 50c. chicken 15-320. Beeton--Butter 46-48c, eggs 36-40c, hogy $21,25-$23.00, Provincial County Highway To Euitor of The Barrie Examiner, Dear Sir In an open letter, published in the Exuminer of the 19th June, last, I request- led the Warden of the County of Simcoe to give reasons why the road which leads south from Penetanguishene to Kempen- feldt Buy, thence west about four miles and meeting the Mill Road in the centre of the Town of Barrie, wax chosen by the Council a a Provincial County Highway, in preference to the suid Mill Road, which extends directly north from the centre of Barrie, a road that would benefit alike the whole county between Barrie and Penetang- uishene, and ulso the Town of Barrie. T do not, of course, claim that on the request of u ratepayer it ix the duty of the Warden 'to give reasons for the action of the Council on any matter. In this case, however, thr seeming injustice done the three townships of Vespra, Flos and Tiny is so great and of such a permanent charac- ter. that the people imposed upon believe that there are reasons (possibly good rea- sons), not known to. the public, for the strange and apparently unjust act of the Council, and that these reasons should be known, T trust that the Warden or some other member of the County Council will, through the columns of the Exsminer. make such explanations as will be satisfactory to 8 reasonable publi Yours truly, 1919. Elmvale, July 7, Citizen. Rural School Fair Vespra at Minesing, September 8. Oro at Town Hall, September 9. Orillia at Ardtrea, September 10. Medonte at Moonstone, September 11. Tay at Victoria Harbor, September 12. Tecumseth nt Becton, September 15. Essa at Ivy, September 16. South Nottawadsuga at Creemore, Septem- ber 24. North Nottawasaga at Duntroon, Sep- tember 25. Innisfil at Stroud, September 26, -------- SS SIMCOE. MARBLE WORKS Monuneats aad Tablet {al used and firet-clam workmen employed. Brass Tablets a specialty, Prices always right. 1 '80c, drewed chicken 25-27e, drewed hogs | SU MAUDE £, CLAXTON, L.T.C.M. PIANO AND VOCAL LESSONS, In vocal work special attention is given to Voice Production. Pupils prepared for A.T.C.M. degree in both piano and vocal; also elementary exanis. of Toronto Conser- vatory of music or University exams, Studio: King Block. Phone 424. W. H. THRESHER Organist und' Choirmaster of St, Andrew's Presbyterian Church. Teacher of Voice Culture, Piano, Organ and Theory. Pupils prepared for any examination, practical and theoretical. Voices tested free, Residence and Studio, 88 Worsley St, Phone 510. 34-yrly LEGAL ALEXANDER COWAN Successor to Lennox, Cowan & borage} jurrister, Solicitor for obtaining probate wills, guardianship and administration, and General Solicitor, Notary, Conveyancer, eto, Offices: Hinds' Block, No. 8 Dunlop street. mney to loan. BOYS & MURCHISON Barristers, Solicitors, Notary Public, Con- veyancers, Etc. Money to loan ut lowest rates of interest, Offices: 13 Owen St. (in the premises for- merly occupied by the Bunk of Toronto} Branch office, Elmvule, Ont. W. A. Boys, K-C.,, MP. D, C. Murchison PLAXTON & PLAXTON BARRIST! SOLICITORS, ETC.. Offices ; 707-8 Kent Building. Toronto, Ont. C. W, Plaxton, G. Gordon Ploxton OONALD ROSS, L.L.B. BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC, Bank of Toronto Building, Burne. Money to loan, CRESWICKE & BELL . BARRISTERS Solicitors for the Supreme Court of Judi- cature of Onturio, Proctors, Notaries, Con- veyancers, ete, Money to loun Offices: in Ross Block, Barrie. W. A. J. Bell. KC. MEDICAL DR. H. T. ARNALL Office and Residence Corner of Toronto and Elizabeth Streets, opposite Elizabeth St. Methodist Church. Telephone 167, OR. E. G. TURNBULL Graduate of McGill University Office and Residence, corner Elisabeth and Bradford Sts, Barrie. Office hours 9 to +4 10 am, 1 to 3 p.m,,7 to 8 p.m. Phone 105. W. A. LEWIS, M.D., C.M. SURGERY AND GYNECOLOGY especially. Phone 61. 56 Collier St., Barrie, DR. VICTOR A. HART Graduate of Trinity University, Toronto, also Edinburgh and Glasgow. Specialty--Disenses of Stomach. Office: Corner Bayfield and Worley Sta Office open until 8 p.m. daily. DR. MORTIMER LYON 122 Bloor St. W., Toronto, will be at 91 Owen St., Barrie, every cl Diseases of Eye, Eur, Nose and Throat Consultation hours 1am, to 5 p.m, and by appointment. Toronto Phone North 3326. Burrie Phone No. ROBERT D. COLLIER, M.B., M.D., C.M. Office and Surgery, Phelpston,. Ont. Office hours: 12 to 2 p.m, and 6 to 8 p.m. ial attention given to Maternity Calls, "Night Calls" promptly responded to on either Elmvale or Minesing 'phone lines. ACCOUNTANTS ~ LAWSON, WELCH & CAMPBELL Chartered Accountants Phone Main 5874. 59 Yonge St, Toronte J. F. Lawson, F.C.A. (Phone 171, Barrie; H. J. Welch, C.A. G. D, Campbell, C.A. T. E. 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