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81 Main St. W Eephone 771. LJ A na All other H. & J. Dow 1 E9e 61 o We ht C B o e mm e ies n (_0, _ O C UJ, gdInIing tNe services of cerâ€" $ s > ’tain influential politicians with whom posits running for one | he enjoyed friendly relations. year or longer } As a matter of fact, however, Anâ€" ’drew called on only one man for asâ€" sistance, and that no friend. With a D. CAMERON, Treasurer. new type wheel on the small machine, ‘which he had brought with him in the mmomeremmrememmmemmmmmmes | SUitâ€"C2SC from NCw York, he concocted [ a most explicit letter to a politician of -â€"â€"-â€".â€"_____, Chicago, who had risen from the ranks 8 by ways best known to himself. The e erâ€"eerr ’Master Mind pointed out that it would You need | be well for the politician to secure yengr s ons | forthwith the release of Margaret Flint i=â€" .2 ad Jon probation. Otherwise some curiâ€" \Q F ifyou | ous facts in the history of the poliâ€" â€" need tician would be turned over to the pubâ€" lic prints. A feéw details as to the naâ€" w= ture of such. revelations were given, gand, as he read them, the politician‘s ; AttraCtive E es | florid complexion faded to a mottled i * y | ashen, and his hands trembled strangeâ€" | Are hale more attractive By proâ€" fly. Within three days Margaret F.lint Il perly designed and fitted glasses. ;was_ released from custody, and just ' The time when glasses were [|| Outside the walls of the reformatory merely something "stuck on" the | she found waiting her father‘s friend. l face is gone. We take as much [ â€""TIl be your friend." he said to her! care to select the frames, mountâ€" | when they were alone together in the | ings, or lens shapes which harmonâ€" | parlor of a quiet Chicago hotel. ~ "Your ’ ize with the features as we do to |father was kind to me. I have no chilâ€" grind the proper correction into ,dren of my own or any one depending the lenses themselves. We d°h°ur | on me. Your father is dead. so I can‘t g;’;gsegsr ig‘;zz' vt(i)th y;:u' ‘;al? wi:: 'repa_v ‘his goodness to me. So I mean fully guaranteed. ’to. take care ol’. you. â€" You hn've ha(} a mighty hard time of it so far. You e ol § T es !have been poor, you have been a ki I B ROUSE |drudge, you have been in prison.â€" Of e o course I know you were innocent, for | 111 King E. Hamilton |I believe what you tell me. ~But the | 39 Steps from Terminal De pot 'WOl‘ld doesn‘t know. ‘The only way to | Established A. D. 1900 | make your future life hippy is just to ! ; ETT iecremmiticrocen, bury: all the past forever. Maggie | , | Flint, the nursemaid, who was sent to | ; wmmemmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmemmmmmmmenmmemmemmmmmem | i1i|, S (LCOil(| {1‘011l this second and | j | buried. Now, whom shall we resurrect 1 in her stead?" He smiled quizzically | , C ontractor 9 s | in response to the girl‘s expression of | 1 | sheer amazement. "I am not rich," he 4 | went on frankly, "but I have a com | 1 Supplles | fortable fortuneâ€"enough so that I can | t Ieducate you as a lady and keep you | 1 L' f a | fairly, well ~afterward without your | 0 lme or praYIng ’ having to worry ever again about | a 7' m ercrcarsaxr ~Yo mz * 1\"‘5 AY,[I7 ‘l\\_ if 3 &A «â€" 1 The time â€" when glagses were merely something "stuck on" the face is gone. We take as much care to select the frames, mountâ€" ings, or lens shapes which harmonâ€" ize with the features as we do to grind the proper correction into the lenses themselves. We do our own grinding, so you can have glasses home with you, all work fully guaranteed. < Deposit in our Savings Deâ€" partment, 3Y%/2% interest paid, half yearly. Cor King and Hughson Sts HAMILTON MONEY TO LOAN The Hamilton Provident and . Loan Society ime, Portland Cement Plaster Paris, etc. Plastering Hair Mortar Color Lath our per cent. paid on deâ€" posits running for one . year or longer MONEY TO LOAN KIpDp & FARRELL W. W. K1IDD Private and Company SCOTT & SANGSTER Office Main Street, GRIMSBY. We are in automobile dray building business. Bring in your car and let us estimate on turnâ€" ing it into a fruit lorry. Valuator at Grimsby If you want good work, give us a call. + Real Estate and Insurance â€"â€" Our horse shoeing and blackâ€" smithing department was never in better s‘ape to handle your work, than right now. REP A IRING Contractors‘ Supplies W. B. CALDER Phone 7| Mountain St. GRIMSBY, ONT Repairing of all kinds done SHOEING HAMILTON | AND est C. T. FARRELL "It‘s like a story I read once," the }girl â€"~breathed tremulously. The shrill | voice had sunk to a softer register, | The sapphire eyes were glowing with the naive happiness of a child. "Yes, it is like a story," the Master . Mind assented. "But, first of all," he continued, "you must go to school I‘ve been making some inquiries," he ex 1 blained pleasantly, "and I‘ve found oul that there‘s just the place for you ovet in a private school in France. You see, Margaret, you‘re a bit too old for ’ the regular school in this country." "Trance!" the girl ronoataia work." But it was no part of the Master Mind‘s plan that the girl whom‘ he had thus stricken by hijg arts should languish in prison throughout the whole term of her sentence. It was sufficient for his purposes that the stigma had been inflicted on her. He | waited for six months and then enterâ€" |ed on the second stage of his operaâ€" tions. First he paid a visit to the wretched object of his machinations. ; He professed profound sorrow over the plight in which he found her, and promised to use every endeavor in her behalf by gaining the services of cerâ€" tain influential politicians with wham circumstantial evidence it was easy to secure conviction of one who had neither money nor friends to plead in her behalf. She was sentenced to two years in the woman‘s reformatory. | CHAPTER It1. f A Pawn In the Game. t HE Master Mind professed to bhave known the girl‘s father ! intimately and offered this as ‘ an explanation cof his visit. After a brief interview that satisfied his curiosity, and did little to arouse hers, he took his departure, â€" and straightway began plotting the immeâ€" diate steps next to be made. So cunâ€" ningly did he contrive his mesh of chicanery that the miserable victim in the toils never suspected even that he was the agent of her anguish. Through the bought offices of a confederate, who had no suspicion as to his idenâ€" tity, Andrew so arranged matters that Margaret Flint was accused of theft. The stolen brooch of: her mistress was found in the girl‘s trunk. On such THE MASTER MIND girl renveated the politician to secure release of Margaret Flint Otherwise some curiâ€" the history of the noliâ€" Copyright, 1913, by the H On such as easy For the sake of his own safety the writer suggested that Wainwright should meet him the night following the receipt of the letter at half prst 11 o‘clock on the south side of Chelseq square, toward the west end.aoayhere the probabilities were that there won‘td _ _It was just now one of those recurâ€" rent seasons in New York city when there is a harrying of the grafters, or, rather, of a selected few of them. In one most important instance there was a woeful lack of admissible evidence against an offender whose guilt was nevertheless gencrally known. The roughly scrawled, ill spelt missive beâ€" fore Wainwright promised to turn over the needed evidence, but only to Wainâ€" wright himself in person. The reason for this condition seemed convincing enough. The writer explained that his life would pay the penalty were his treachery made known to the guilty involved in his revelations. | ; a chill of apprehension. To these white | cards he had become in a way bhabitu ated. For nearly four years they had ! appeared in his mail at irregular in ;‘ tervals. Some had come to his office, some to his home, others to his hotels ’ abroad, even to the country houses o! ! friends where he visited. | _ He stared at the ominous symbol in la dismay foreign to his habit. This was the silent message of a doom brooding close over him. And against the insidious attack he was without resource, helpless in his ignorance of where or when or how the blow would fall. Already he had employed in vain one of the best men from the Pinkerâ€" ton agency to seek out the Master Mind. Now, however, under the urgenâ€" ’ cy of the card Wainwright left the taâ€" | ble and went to the telephone, where | he established communication with the | detective, Marshall, and made an apâ€" pointment. Then be returned to the table and resolutely ‘continued the | reading of his letters. Presently anâ€" other communication absorbed his atâ€" | tention. * | At his breakfast table next morning Wainwright at sight of a card thai dropped from the opened envelope feli , nominy of imprisonment into a woman of excellent education, of gentle manâ€" ' ners, of essential refinement of charae lter. To this work Andrew allowed a | period of four years. Thus it will be ’ seen that the man was not influâ€". enced by heedless haste. At last the span drew to its close and the final activities of his schemfng began. It was time, too, since Wainwright had persistently advanced in public honot until he was become the chief man of his political party in the state with a splendid reputation absolutely unblemâ€" ished. It was known that he would be given the nomination for governol by his party in the campaign of thf coming year. It was certain as wel that he would be elected. The Maste! Mind smiled a smile that was not good . to see as he sat at his typewriter, into ,‘ which he had just slipped a new type | wheel, and addressed an envelope t | Cortland Wainwright, Esq. | As it had been Planned, so duly i was executed by the Master Ming, In France speedily began the trang. formation of a humble working gir] who had been subjected to the d4gâ€" "We‘ll be sailing in the course of 8 few days, for I mean to see you safé in the place myself, and in the mean®: time I‘m going to feed you on the fat of the land and keep you out in the sunshine every minute possible until you just blossom." ; "So it does," he agreed. "Well, then, if you‘re satisfied we‘ll settle on LuU: cene Blount." * The smile that curved her pale lips was very winningâ€"so winning, indeed, that once again tne plotter experienced a pang of regret over the necessity that led him to sacrifice this life to his vengeance. 4 « K. Fly company. Ies, A ndrew ‘e man was not influâ€". dless haste. At last the ) its close and the final his schemfng began. It ), since Wainwright had dvanced in public honot become the chief man o1 arty in the state with a THE INDEPI NDEXT, grRrIMSBY, ONTARIO "But wait! Tell me"â€" Wainw began bhurriedly, His appeal was less. There came no response. "Oh, who I am don‘t cut any fce! I Just hbhappened to be in the crowd there, and 1 heard you asking the cop about the guy that butted in and let you out. I got a line on that guy, and so 1 thought I‘d put you wise." "Who was he?" "Young chap named Walter Blount from somewheres out west. He‘s stayâ€" ing in the city, thoughâ€"got a house. The address is 21A East Thirtyâ€"ninth street. That‘s all. Good night." A positive guaranteed cure for this distressing complaint may be had at *""Who is ed. f firmative:; "Well, I called you up about that shooting business down at Tenth avenue tpnight. You understand 7 C HILB LA INS "Young chap named Walter Blount." vainwrght rose at last and went into his bedchamber. There sounded the tingling of the telephone bell. He Dut the receiver to his ear. At once a voice came clearly: "Is, this Mr. Wainwright?" _ And then when bhe had answered in the afâ€" Eance soâ€" vitally timely and effiâ€" Cient he met with disappointment, for i3 Wwas no trace o0f his rescuer. questioned the policeman, but the ezled official was unable to "ffe" efâ€" tive aid. â€" Finally. Wainwright t9°® vcar éastward on his way home. S in his apartment again, Wainâ€" wright sat long over a cigar, ponderâ€" ing thelevents of the night. It seemâ€" Such a neigh tfurned to ex; Ciation to the assistance so Cient ho met Stewart‘s Drug Store _ "Quickâ€"after him !"‘ Wainwright heard & gasping cry. Te ran to the corner of the avenue _looked south, in which direction thug had vanished. Then he stopâ€" _short in wonder, for the man had e from sight as if the earth had red to swallow him. A policeman Approaching on the run, drawn by _noise of the shot, and there were Is pressing toward the scene of encounter, the nucleus of a crowd. nwright was relieved to find that Dboliceman recognized chim, and he in consequence spared some posâ€" annoyances that might otherwisge ‘ been his from being involved in ooting affair at such an hour in _i neighborhood. But when he ed to express his grateful appreâ€" ‘ on to the iman who had rendered 0d clea:gnougb to him that the comâ€" nunication requesting a meeting in ‘helsea square had been only a ruse 0 secure his presence where he might e murdered at leisure. Wainwright rose at last and went ito his bedchamberâ€" â€" Thora sanndAad s e moment there sounded amother ( . and now be saw, behind the other, A ‘;u- figure, which darted forward y. Then, just as the two figures ided, a lance of fire burned through }f night, and the sharp crack of an )matic smote the stillness of the f ire. Wainwright stood rooted to s spot in stupefaction over the unâ€" ctedness of the event. In a flash @8 inderstood that an assassin had 4 i lurking there in ambush awaitâ€" his coming. ‘The shout of the othâ€" nan had been in warning. Eviâ€" f ly the newcomer had turned into A street from Tenth avenue just in ; e to observe the assailant as he ped forth from his place of conâ€" ment, and the newcomer had not tated to spring forward and grapâ€" _with the criminal. Doubtless the pected interruption had diverted aiming of the weapon. Certainly her shot had been prevented by ‘all of the weapon. e of the forms broke fiercely from elutch of the other and disappeared ) Tenth avenue as his adversary it staggering back against the wall i the effect of a well delivered ht no concern. for the ho vintment was not aqauite arriv led slowly on until he wa in a few yards of Tenth av Idenly a shrill ery startle aw less than a rod hbefore | e of a man ditmly visible in ows close by a house wall. â€" moment there soundjed s wn. WlPRIM; entieth ~street, ut him for a ) might sugges ondent, but t! erted. / ‘T‘he 1 eht no concern most* no oiue efse .: ijew might pass um 11 o‘clock that nig! orth to the meeting "» \ Walkinz ~ wes this?" Wainwright demandâ€" â€" Wainwright the 1 IT limpse his muysterious cof 1( ht Warinwright i with the un stward _ anlong eered «sharply se of anv one <tartle] efore hi ible in Â¥all INSA( NOl t M 106 use At the amnother wholly Wain of the Andrew wasted no time in pleading. Instead, he went to the telephone at one end of the long library table and spoke into the transmitter: "Hello! Give me 100 Rector." 1 10 "Very well, then,." Andrew vouch. safed, still in that voice of ominous calm. "I suppose that I must notify the Pinkertons so that you may return to your former conditionâ€"the condition in which I found you. Shall 1? The young man labored to preserve an undaunted demeanor. "At least," he vouchsafed sulkily, "I should know where I was." "Oh, there could be no doubt as to that," Andrew conceded with a grim smile. "And you would know your destination also for a certaintyâ€"Sing Sing." U Walter‘s gaze followed in astonish | he is a gentleman, Walter, and he will ment the figure of the servant as it | therefore come to thank you." went noiselessly out of the room, and | The thief flushed hotly under the unâ€" not until it had vanished into the hall | Veiled insult of the words, but he did he observe another form which | Sshowed no disposition to resent it. was standing motionless just within | "How can he?‘ he persisted. "Acâ€" the doorwayâ€"that of Andrew himself. | cording to your instructions, I beat it There was a dead silence while the | "ight after the shooting. Wainwright Master Mind walked slowly forward | bardly got a glimpse of me, much less until he stood close, face to face with | Of my name and address, I‘m thinkâ€" his tool. Though he wore a livery, as | iD8." c â€" befitted his pretended place in the| "I attended to that," Andrew anâ€" household, there was nothing of the | EWwered. servile in the clear cut face and the|â€" WaAlter voiced apprehension in anothâ€" erect body as his keen gray eyes re. | &N direction. garded speculatively the disconcerted | _ "That fellow ain‘t no rummy," he obâ€" youth before him. His tone was mild | Jected querulously. "Say, if I‘d ever when he spoke, but he ran in it an un | known the game was against Wainâ€" dertone of menace. wright I wouldn‘t have come in. The "You won‘t continue? Pinkertons would be just as safe, beâ€" Walter had recourse to bluster. lieve me. Whenever he went after a "No, I won‘t!" he declared gruffly, | Man be got him. They say he even got "You bheard me say it the first time, the goods on the Master Mind some didn‘t you?" how and has him buffaloed. Anyhow "Very well, then." Andrew vouch. | the Master Mind went out of business safed, still in that voice of ominous | 494 basn‘t been heard of for years. calm. "I suppose that I must notify | AD4 yOou must know what he was. the Pinkertons so that you may return There wasn‘t anything he couldn‘t pull to your former conditionâ€"the condition ‘ off till Wainwright came along." "He‘s got to show me," Walter stormed, "that‘s all. He‘s got to show me what this game is about or T‘l quit." "I have been with Mr. Andrew for some time, sir," he said with an in creased precision of utterance and 3 reversion to his customary "sir." "] never ask questions. I simply obey orders, sir." MV M Thé anticipation of information fromw this source was not to be realized. ~may, your ~he eried. â€" ‘"You know' : . & ’ who I am, don‘t you?‘ he demanded. 1 y f _ And now there came a subtle change g % . in the inflections of the menial‘s voice. _ & U though its respectful quality was stil e & in evidence. There was a vague sug : ‘“’;““& gestion of satisfaction in his tones as ‘{:a’;fgf‘%{,"" he answered: | e sX *"*Yes, sir." | "You won‘t continue?" Walter muttered a curse. | "Kept it to yourself mighty close. | be curious, I‘d like to know? didn‘t you?‘ he affirmed rather thar | me that.: You‘ve been drummi interrogated. "Oh, I was on to you the | into me all this time." minute I saw you!" Walter spoke with | _ "On your table, Walter, you some relaxation of his aggrieved man | a memorandum containing the ner, for it was a relief to cast off dis | tions you are to follow wt guise in the presence of this fellow | Wainwright comes," was the re "But this Mr. Andrewâ€"tell me, Parker "Ob, that!" sneered Walter, who is he, anybhow? What‘s his little | been over it already a dozen t game, eh?" N2 Tamfar ~mwank> nB ‘anokltLa 2y 1t 1¢ ‘‘Well. take them a snar.led; with ggq evi] g to Ris feet and moved . nervously for a minute "Say, you!"""‘ he ecried ne JUudgSment of Andrew tion as the pseudo young means come out of the w of the metropolitan life. beavily, and his jaw shao CHAPTER iv. A Family Made to Order. # ILLLA M â€"SLOCOMB, alias W Dinmond Willie, alias Wal ter Blount, sat in the fibrary of the house of which he wias theoretically master and sought to di\'(;rt his tediiim by playing Canfie!ld 's()lit:lil'v. Nomtnally he was indeed the head of the house. which had beeu taken in his name for the season, and be was about to entertain there his putative parents, come on a visit from their home in Laramie, Wxyo. > Asâ€"a matter of fact, however, Walter was a puppet in the hands of the man who was serving him as butler.. That inâ€" genious individual, by name Andrew Allen. had decided that this particular thief would fit admirably into his schemes. The arccomplishment of his design was not difficult, since at just this time Walter was closely pursued by the Pinkertons for a recent offense l.-lp:ninst the law. and the offer of an asylum was welcome. Andrew had imnaintarined so much seâ€" crecy as to the nature of his plans that 1 Wasiter‘s curiosity was provoked, and | this soon drove him to dissatisfaction | with the situation, in which he quite | forgot his first relief over securing a safe refuge from danger. Instead he grew fretful over the dull routine of days and nights. He was dishonest by nature, a thief by choice.â€" His slightly prognathous jaw showed merely moral degeneracy, not firmness of will. ~At ‘ twentyâ€"five years of age hbe was a thorough paced scoundrel, willing for l any crime, but incompetent. Nevertheâ€" less as yet his evil nature was not f graven clearly in the lines of his face, | which a careless observer might have deemed winningly boyish. Now as he sat erect in his dinner jJacket by the table on which the cards were displayâ€" ed he did justice by his appearance to the Judgiment Of Andraw in this sa1a. | i i Cl d wiy, then?‘ he ; with gagp evi] gtin. He sprang feet and moved about the room ike them away, then!" Andrew in this selec. o young gentleman of of the west for a trial C to Order. OcCcoOoMB, illie, atias rt in the d _ wWiliter was a the man who trer. ~<THhat inâ€" name Andrew this particular tbhly into his e, alias Walâ€" in the ftibrary of which he ind sought to w for an in and a "Why, that fellow was the cleverest this country ever produced," he declarâ€" ed, with sincere admiration in his voice. "I tell. you he only touched the high spotsâ€"banks, corporations, the classiest things going. The men that worked for him even never got their lamps on him, and the bulls never had nothing on him. And then Wainwright got after him and threw a scare into him so he up and got cold feet and auit. ~So what chance you got? ~Huh!" Ewered. Walter voiced apprehension in anothâ€" er direction. "That fellow ain‘t no rummy," he obâ€" | jJected querulously. "Say, if I‘d ever "Yes, I‘ve heard of him," Andrew admitted. Walter went on, speaking with enâ€" thusiasm. "How can he?‘ he persisted. "Acâ€" cording to your instructions, I beat it right after the shooting. Wainwright hardly got a glimpse of me, much less of my name and address, I‘m thinkâ€" ing.” "He will come," was the unperturbâ€" ed answer. "He thinks you saved his life last night from the attack of some felon he had sent up the river." "Well, suppose he does. That doesn‘t prove that he‘ll come here." The Master Mind smiled coldly. "Of course," he admitted, "you could hardly be expected to understand. But he is a gentleman, Walter, and he will therefore come to thank you." "On your table, Walter, you will find a memorandum containing the instrucâ€" tions you are to follow when Mr, Wainwright comes," was the reply. ~"Ohb, that!" sneered Walter. * "I‘ve been over it already a dozen times toâ€" dayâ€"for want of anything better te do in this dead and alive house of mineâ€"not! But what‘s the use of it? Wainwright ain‘t coming." ve Curi10us, id IIKC to know?~ Answetr me that. : You‘ve been drumming them into me all this time." "Father, hubh!" he exclaimed, with a jeering laugh. "Say, when am I goâ€" ing to meet these fake parents and this sister of mine? Why shouldn‘t I This reference divarted the victim‘s attention again to the* general subject of his grievance over enforced ignoâ€" rance. "Why, sir," he said gently, "I‘m your confidential man «ud valet ard butler, you know, sir.: ‘®‘ny, Mast=r Walter, I have served yo t father for many years." Under the taunt the fickle mood of the youth flared in a new gust of rage. "Say," che cried viciously, "who the â€"â€" are . you, anyhow ?" Instantly the Master Mind assumeqd the respectful demeanor of the faithâ€" ful family retainer. Andrew put down the instrument and once again faced Walter. Now, hisg face was menacing. "Hereafter, please remember, Diamond, the next time I have oceasion to call you Diamond Willie a Pinkerton will tap you on the shoulder." "The Pinkertons." "Wait, Andrew; wait!". w desperately. "TH~stick," faintly. SIS ine rorice or waiter sounded swiftly. "Say, what‘s that number? The Master Mind turned from the telephone in leisurely fashion and reâ€" garded the young man with cold disgâ€" dain. He placed a hand over the transâ€" mitter and replied with significant brevity, though quite without emphaâ€" wWEDNESDAY, FEBRI 2 ;;:cfi:}i"f.";%fi_ \> ie W*?â€":fixw"”” ons apear ARY Walter cried " â€"he said 16 1916