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Real Estate and Money to Loan | A number of Valuable Farms) and Town Properties for Sale on the most reasonable terms. | MASONIC TEMPLE BUILDING BARRIE | {Continued from last week) { CHAPTER XXi. darkness which hung below the fe : - lees. iy Che 'stood revealed in a blaze of hideous, aw- ful light, For a moment they forgot th selves. they forgot the murucle they hac Serial, Publication rights secured by The Examiner, through special arrangement with owners of copyright. came for 4 single moment a vision of violet there was 4 sharper sound ax a rifle bullet light. It rose apparently from nowhere, whistled by. THE BARRIE EXAMINER your band, Collins, Can you feel a shelf 'of rock?" ie just in front of me," was the stifled 's for the stuff. Down with it." For a few moments Collins was bury. Then, with a little gasp, he gripped Gran- t's arm. His voice, shaking with 'ner- 'Vous repression, was still almost hysterical. "They're coming, Granet! © My God, coming!" Both men turned s®iward, Far*away in the clouds, it seemed, they could hear a faint humming, some 'new sound, some- thing mechanical in its regular beating, yet 'with clamorous throatiness of some human force cleaving its way through the resist- leas air, With every second it grew loud- er, The men stood clutching one another.| "Have you got the fuse ready? They must hear it in a moment," Granet mut-| [M} T" 'tered. " Collins sssented silently. The revorber- ations became louder and louder. Sion the air was full of echoes, From far away inland dogs were barking, from a farm somewhere the other side of the road they heard the shout of a single voice Granet whispered. Collins leaned forward. The fuse in. hin hund touched the dark substance which he had spread out upon the rock, In a [moment a strange. unearthly, green light 'seemed to roll back the darkness, The their own ghastly faces--everything HE health of your skin is tooimport- eat for you to be car. about the bath soap you ui Keep the ie ol and smooth and prevent skin troubles by wslag LIFEBUOY neattH SG@AP It is the best of all soaps. yet It is more thana cleanser it disinfects too er, alan of 114 protect: for evalltierven- brought to pass, Their eyex were riveted | idewlchly after 'a High above 'them, something | aky blacker than the heavens themselves. stupendous, -- huge, --xvemed --audaenly' | to assume to itself shape. The roar of mu From the! chinery was clearly audible ; t house came the mingled shouting of many voices, Something dropped inte the sew Ja hundred yards uway with a xcreech and and 8 geyserlike fountain leapt il clouds, $0 high that the spray reached then. Then @ E THE MARKETS 5 At about halfyast ten that evening, jit passed away into space. It was visible My God!" Granet Its . Granet suddenly threw down his cue in {barely for five sceonds. then it had gone, time we were out of thi we | SA 5 6 6 Smith & Co middle of » gume of billiards, sod Granet spoke with u little sob. | He seizes hus cull out that mom: | SATURDAY MARKET siood, for a moment, in a listening attitude,| "My God?!" he murmured, They're Nt there wus a terrible explosion, A stream | fReyerion to atands aU . "Juve, T believe that's an airship!" be Pree je: twurmured, They're Of lurid fire seetued tf Jewp fram the ene a onto stander time Hada telling ab bebe 180% ner of the house. the Aull split and fell "eet on the market on Saturday. a large jmed, und hurried out of the room. | hey all followed him. He was stand: \straightened himself 'wonderfully, "anc outside the French.windows of the was a new alertuesx in his manner sitting-room, upon the gravel walk, his too, wore rubber show and his mov head upturned, listening intently. 'There were was scurcely u breath af wind, no moon nor |little electric toreh in hix bund, any stars, Little clouds of grey mist hung |he flushed uround the rogin while he about on the marvhes, shutting out their [several small urticles in/hix pocket UNDERTAKERS Open Day and Night Morgue and Chapel Collins was slresdy on his feet, He absolutely noiseless, He carried a view uf the sea. The sillness was more than usually intense "Can't hear w thing." young Anselma in connection BARKIE, ONT Grunet ud. have been faney. svattea. A tnotor eyele gning along the Hunstan | N S u R A N C E ton Rou." Miyor Harrison auggested "IVs a miugnificent aught for a rai, All Kinds Placed in Dickens renvarked. No chance of Zepys over here, I should RELIABLE COMPANIES _.,..° declared. w little didaetically WE WRITE Twas looking at your mup of the golf elub Farm Risks at the Old Rates 7 7.07 inte thee way bck 1s ohe YOUR AUTOMOBILE INSURED Thouse. Granet. however, seemed still (lie uit ae ~ Te Gover Everywhere "Im ging to ie that my car's all right." A. F. A. MALCOMSON *, 7 oe 2 The Insurance Man, Barrie. gluncing around Hee sean abseil fae, sbout techy eimites | When he returned. 'they had finished the game of snooker pool without him and ere ali sitting on the lounge by the side 1 table. talking of the war for « few minutes and then goodnight a little abruptly. He lit (DYEING AND fante CLEANING | fin Seed Stee! ReTgtancel ae hs] wateh and locked the door, It was bulf Jpast eleven. He ebunged his elo-her quick ly, put on some rubber-soled shoes and | slipped » brandy flask and a revolver into his pocket, 'Then he ant down before his window with hit watch in bix hand. He wus conscious of a certain foreboding from which he had never been able to escape once his aFrival. In France and Belgium he hae lived through futeful hours. carrying more than once his life in his hands, His risk tonight was an equal one but the ex- 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 | hiterstion was Teeking This work in 4 4 ri country apparently at peace seemed some- kinds of Repairing done. how on w different Tevel, If it were loss We know how. clingerous, av also leas stimulating. in those few moments the soldier blood i hin culled for (e turmoil of war. the pan- rama of life and deuth. the hot & excitement of juggling with fate while the Phone 229 heuvens themselves scemed raining death on every side, Here there wax nothing hut silence, the soft, xplash of the distant F aoa, the barking of a distant dog. The |danger wax vivid and setual but. without the stimulus af that blood-red Background. + o S]] [Ble zlanced at his watch. It wanted still € DArrie FLAMING MUL cr minster to owetve, "For » moment then 4 '4 hhe suffered his thoughts to go back to the Coruty Ropbia and' Mary Serests new thing which bad crept into. in ie, Manufacturers of Sash, Doors, Frames, | Ho was suddenly back in the Milan, he saw Flooring, Ceiling, Mouldings, Water Troughs, |th backward turn of her head, the almost Tanks, etc, wistful look in her eyes ax she made her We carry in stock « large astortment of little pronouncement, She had broken her Rough sad Dressed Lumber, B.C. Shingles jengngemtent. Why? It wan a battle, in- and Prepared Roofing. Wood Turning and jdeed, he was fighting with that still, cold Kiln Drying ® Specialty. Drearing done | antagonist, whom he half despised and promptly. half feared, the man concerning whose ac- Consult us with your building. tual personality he had felt ao many doubss, Vhat if things should go wrong tonight, i THOS. ROGERS the whole dramatic story should be handed Phone; Office 163, Residence 353 over for the glory and wonder of the halfpenny press! He could fancy their headlines, imagine even their trenchant paragraphs, Tt was skating on the thinnest /4of ice--and for what? His fingers gripped the damp window-sill. .He raised himself a little higher. His eyes fells upon his jwatch--still a minute or two to twelve, Slowly he stole to his door and listened. The place was silent. He made his way on tiptoe across the Innding and entered Collins' room, The latter was seated be- fore the wide-open window. He had blown {i Jout his candle and the room was in dark- ness. He half turned his head at Granet's entrance. "Two minutes!" he exclaimed softly. "Granet, it will be tonight. Are you ready?" "Absolutely!" They stood by: the open window in si- lene. Nothing bad changed. It was not Opp. Barrie Hotel, Barrie. _ ee {8 TO DESERVE YOUR PATRONAGE re time for the singing of the earliest s Our success as funeral directors 'The tiny village lay bebind them, has been developed by our pat- |silent and ssleep; in front, 'nothing but, rons, and our best advertisement peligee errant ones poliguit is word-of-mouth recommenda-|Hr oa" and lished. Lee br mst tion . Some of our customers |steadfastly in a certain direction. have been with us for years, We |ally their eyes. gr socustomed to aim to serve one and all, rich and |the dim and changing he pushed open the door and. listened |He turned buck, held up his finger md jnodded. The two men passed dow 1h stairs, through the aitting-room, out on 10 'the lawn by a door left unfastened, and round the 'house to the shed, Together they pushed the car down the alight in jeline of the drive. Grunet mounted into the driving-seat and pressed the eelf-start er. Collins took the place hy his side. Tthere owiwards, And then there came ano her sttendonce being early on hand. A slight Ve round. Indeous, sickly. w xound Granet uel repression was noted in the butter market ements heart before, the sound of 4 rifle bullet 60 cents being highest obtained, -- Eges, cutting ite way through flesh. followel by however, agsin soured higher, 70c being 'hich #2 inhuman cry. For a moment Collins' quoted hy somo at first, but they ensed off placed 8tme whieled around him. Then, with wo to GSe before very" long. Dressed lanuh Then other sound save that one ery. he fell for was plentiful and sold ut 25 to 32¢ Ib. On ward and disappeared. For a single secon! ions at 6c a Tb, of 90¢ # busket were plen- Granet leaned over the wide of the pout uful. Cauliflower keeps flourishing with n¢ though to dive sfter him, Then caine very little change in prices. Potatoes were another roar. The sand flew np ina bhnd not plentiful but many orders were taken ing storm. the whole of the creck was sud- for delivery through the week. $1.50 a hag lenly raging torrent. The wow snid to be a general price. Drewes swung on a precipitous moun fowl was a large part of the market. chick. water and. ax quickly capsized en ut 10 25c being offered. Duck held nd half stunned, out a the aide of the ort breathless for « moment found his way somehow marshland... and fron und were nice birds, No geese Vegetables of all kinds were there stumbled his plentiful and reasonable in price A very Remember." Granet whispe "we Sail eomeition. waht ieee re Sn AE way towards the rowl The house behind uniforsy price seems to be muintsined hall. Sit tight." "C/bim was on fire, the air seemed filled the different gurdeners, Apples were thew apet weh all the alone and Sith hoare shoutings. He turned and rant 40e per basket, Snows predominating. smoothness of ther wixceyinder up the fa" the shat where he hud left the cot putter sages [tree hune roa, through the sleeping vil (Ouee he fell inva a salt waver pool aed Begs, yer dozen lage and along thr narrow Tune to Mure Cie Oat well through te the wait i Chicken, dreased, Ib ket Burnham." When. they ieee wichag the etd. however. he reached the bark. Tek. th about » hundred yarde of the pute, trance Chumbered over at and lipped down inte y th brought the car 'to a «tandatill [jhe roaul ee a ay we Te 10 Pomntoes, bag fe are at leat two sentrien cha hie eye and ig bayonet wus rattled it potutoes. peck serge Sa A, ein, emit Mt i feet. 'There were + emuple of soliiert aoctn hunch me the truth. they may huve a apeciil | sp eye a the hoaree order, | Batlith. bunch guard of Murines out tonight. This is where | Gra had he own ofestiie nat ae fech ' we tke to the marthes. Listen, Can you | torch ta dozen soldiers C4tona, each |hour anything?" | They "both held their breath "Nothing ye get the things out quickly." net hurried to the back of the car. jripping open the coverings, In a few no. ments they had dragged over the side u small collapsible boat of canvas stretched xeroes some bamboo joints. with two tiny sculls, They clambered up the bank "The creck must be close here." G: |whispered. "Don't show a light. Listen |" 'The time they could hear the sound of an Eugine beating away in the bout-house jof the black arm of water and stepped 'cautiously into it. Taking one of the paddles, Granet. kneeling down, propelled it slowly seaward, Once or twice they the bank and had to push off. very soon their eyes became accustomed to the darkness, By degrees the creck broadened. They passed close to the' walle of the garden, and very «oon they were perceptibly nearer the quaintly-situated workshop Granet paused for as moment from his Inbours, "The Hall is dark enough." he muttered. Listen !"" They heard the regular pacing of a sentinel in the drive. Nearer .to them, on the top of the wall, they fancied that they heard the clash of a bayonet. Granet dropped hix voice to the barest whisper, "We are close there now, Stretch out Sar er ee -------------- | Superintendent of - Nursing School Says Internal Bath- ing Gives Best Results in Constipation. ut many wonderful cures various other troubles, to try Internal Bathing by means * Collins muttered. "Let's | on the other aide of the Hall. Through the jelosely drawn curtains, too. they could | fee the fat finger of Tight from the house on the rea, | "They are working still."" Granet 'con- tinued," "Look out. Collins, that's the creek." | They pushed the host into the middle atunding wround. and :thr company were Cyahuge, each soa hurrying down from the gates, He switch: 'Tom sties, Pe igs ed_off his light almost immediately. | Onions. batet - | =I any one hurt?" he asked. Arlo be There wax x dead silence. He felt hix urm seized 01 her side. The cuptain's coming down the row one of the men suid jApoles, per baske se, bunch nee af Lay on to Kim. Forse Radish root, bune |Tim ; ,Hotse Radish, half pint bottle . ee iCream, qt.. . CHAPTER XXII Milk, quart; Granet sauntered in to breakfast a few Hay. ton minutes lute on the following morning, A Hogs . little volley of questions and exclamations ; reuched him ux he s:ood by the sideboarl.| Prepare to pay for Vietory. "Heard about the Zeppelin raid | say there's a bomb on the sith snk Burnham Hall ic burnt to te British Columbia Woman Speaks Plainly. te Everyone. found relief are the - $16.50 sighed as he crossed the rooni P| {took hix veut ut the table. | "IE you fellows hadn't slept like oxen) jlast night."" he remarked, "you'd have! known a lot more ubout it. I saw the Her Messag: Those who hav whole sti Major Harrinon exclaimed,/ PCOPle who want all sufferers to know Tal ae ll ubgut ite young Arsck | What they gained from their experience, man begged. Mrs, B. Walters, of Savona, B "T heard the thing just us I wan begin. {ning to undre Granet explained. rushed downstuirs und found Collins out in Where the devil is Collins, writes, praising Gin Pills for the im- mediate relief given by those splendid Pills. Mrs. Walters says: "I advise people who have not used Gin Pills to try them. I have been troubled for yours with weak Kidneys, and one box of Gin Pills cured me. I recommend them as an absolute and reliable cure,' Derangement of kidneys or bladder fs 0 very serious that, at the frst sign of pain in side or back, treatment with Gin Pills should begin. The duty of the kidneys is to cleanse the blood. It weak or inactive, tic acid ani ! They glanced at his vucunt, place, "Not down yet. Go on. "Well, we could hear the vibration like anything, coming from over the marvh there. I got the car out and we were no sooner on the road than I could see it dis- tinctly, right above u»--n huge. ciga shaped thing. We raced along after it, along the road towards Market Burnham. Just before it reached the Hall it seemed | to turn inland und then come back again. | We pulled up to watch it and Collins jump- 'ed out, I sat in the car, watching. 'She came right round and seemed to hover over thosé queer sort of outouildings there st Market 'Burnham, | All at ouse the| aghes, dizziness, flouting apecks befors hombs began to drop." the eyes, gravel or stone in the blnd- (To be continued) @er, general debility and lInssitude. If you have any of these symptoms, get other poisons and waste nre cn to the joints and muscles, ca inflammation, rheumatism, scintien, neuralgia, lumbago, constant hend: Gin Pills at on ee nample on re- ANTEN MILLS quest, At or dealers, SOc & Oct. 28--Last Fridsy evening a large| box. Money led if not relieved, number of friends surprised Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Carson by dropping into the old o|home unexpectedly and presenting them with an address and parting gift, in recog nition of many kindly acts done by them while living on the farm. Deputy-Reeve Alex Wilson occupied the chair and an in- teresting programme was given, Mr, und EEE Mra, Carson each received a handsome wick- '= ¥ er armehair and a highly eulogistic addreex was read by M, Coughlin in which tribute was paid to their persons! worth and to the valuable 'contribution they had mode} gend for free booklet about Gu-Solvo for to the life of the community through many | the gucceasful treatment of goitre in your years, J. Inkley spoke in cordial terms of| own home, This medicine fe taken inter. Mr. and Mre, Carson ap neighbors and re-| Tatiy; softens the goitre; gradually. diasol. ferred to the. trials and disappointments of | vey it und casta it entirely out of the ays the earlier days of settlement. Mr. Lennox |!" You owe it to the jof Painswick, a returned soldier, told some | 4, (oy some ay SF ommmel ag, Jour The National Drug & Chemical Co. of Canada, Limited, Toronto. United Btates Address, Na-Dru-Co., Inc., Be Main Bt, Buffalo, » N.Y. 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