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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1929 PAGE SEVEN" The WIFE WHO FAILED And the Girl who Saved Garrard from His Crime -- and Brought Happiness, Instalment Seventeen HARVEY GARRARD, find- ing the business which be in- ehrited ebout pankrupt, re- nounces his idle life and turns for help and sympathy to bis wife. MILDRED, who has their personal property tied up for herself, But she fails him ut- terly in his crisis and Indig- pantly leaves bim with the word that she married bim only to be supported in lux- ury. Harvey finds a stravger alone in his office late at night dead In a chair, with a million in negotiable securities in his possession, The temptaticn to appropriate this money to pelp tide over the business is too strong. The man was EBENEZER SWAYLE, but there seems to have been no record of the fortune be was carrying, and Harvey's theft is undiscovered. A new phase is put on the situation, however, with the appearance of the dead man's granddaughter, GRACE SWAYLE, wno had an engagement to meet her grandfather and was expecting him to have sn inheritance ready for her. The gir] gets Harvey's promise that she shall be looked after, aod, while here is pondering how much she might know of the million, he is forced 'nl> a business trip to America, and finds her on shivpeard virtua) ly forcing herself on nim Bis . secretary. Although guarding himself against any slip which may reveal his sec ret, he finds the situation not unpleasant, On returning to London he sees her often and she persuades him to take her on little pleasure jaunts after office hours. Now Go On With the Story The conversation of Harvey and Grace drifted in & less personal vein. They spoke of their neigh- pors, exchanged greetings with "tome of their acquaintances of the fternoon who were seated near. Srace told him of some of her ad- wntures in Paris, of the odd places © which she had at times accom- yanied her mother. She had mét me or two men of note at some if the smaller salons, a painter or wo and many of the actors. "It was often very boring," she wnfided. "My mother enjoyed svery sort of party, but I came to the conclusion that there was no- thing duller than Bohemian life in Paris. It's ugly. When it is only playing it being wicked, it is ridiculous. {t must be the American in me which kept me somehow outside it vl--the spirit of my grandfather Ebenezer, I suppose." "The clever men whom you met must have been more or less in- %resting," he observed. "In a way," she admitted doubt- fully, "but as a raca their egotism Is sublime. I never met & French- man yet who had distinguished himself in any way--either by wealth or the elegance of his something attempted In art, his clothes--who did not expect you to fall down and worship him. used to think that Englishwomen-- I was told so always--were ab- surdly the slaves of their men, I think really that Frenchwomen, al- though in a different way perhaps, are worst. 1 cannot explain to you how I adore the atmosphere of work--of work even in stuffy Ber- mondsey -- after those artificial days." ; "You are an enigme," hs de- clared. "I should not have thought that any one in the world--especi- ally any one brought up lke you --should have found any pleasure in the sort of work you have down there." She looked into his eyes and her words and the smile which accom- penied them left him with & strange litle thrill "1 eve it," she confided, "be- eause the work means being with you." . Afterward they wandered Into an as yet uninvaded corner behind the giant plane tree. A waiter served them with coffee and they listened for a time to the music. Sudventy he felt her hand upon 8. "Am I to tell you," she asked, "why I think that you are foolish?" "If you please," he begged. "Answer ma this question then: you like me?" "You know that I do." "How much?" "More than I have any Intention » telling you," he answered quiet- y. Her forehead was wrinkled, her tone petulant, "That is just you," she exclaim- ed, 'Why should you not tell me? Why is there always a seal upon your mouth? In the moments when you are sweetest to me you break off, you say bood-by quite abruptly--and there am I--plantee le! What is in your mind about me?" The sense of well being, the undernote of music, the insistent reality of his affection for her, broke down his reserves. "I am too fond of you, Grace," he confessed, "That is what IT am afraid of." "Absurd!" she contested. "How can you be too fond and what is there to fear?" "There is this to fear," he pcint- ed out gravely, 'For all your =ox- perionce of the world, you are nevertheless a very young girl whom chance has placed in a cpr- {spoil this wonderful When it is really wicked, # tain measure under my did not make the idea Of anything between us ridiculous, I have to re- member that I am siready, mar- ried." "But, my dear stupid man, do 1 not know it?" she demanded. "Yet am I not here with you of my own free will? Why speak to me as 2 claim to be a woman. I claim to be a womsn with experience enough of the world and judgment enough to act and live as I think fit, "Nonsense" he scoffed, drawing his hand away. "You are nothing of the sort. However, don't let us evening by even the shadow of a disagreement, 1 think I see as much of you 8s a consider wise, Grace, but if you are really lomely, I will take a terrific risk. We will dine toget- her and go to the theatre on Thursday night." "Tomorrow is Wednesday," she sald, with a little pout. "What about that?" " "Tomorrow if you prefer it," he yielded. She smiled radiantly. By E. Phill Copright by Even if the difference in our ages, child? Why treat me as one? If heim ppenheim s Op Phillips ymext tew minutes in silence, Pres ently other outcoming diners broke up thelr tete-s-tete. Pattie Mal- lingon claimed Harvey's attention for a few minutes, and afterward Beckingham, a solicitor of distinz- tion, a member of Parliament, and one of Harvey's oldest friends, Same over and drew a chair to his side, "1 want a few words with you, old chap," he sald, "You're the very man I wanted |ed to see," Harvey rejoined. Pattie Mallinson had passed on to join another party. Bartlett leaned over Grace's chair, "Come out on the lake for a little time, Miss Swayle," he beg- ged, The music sounds ripping from there and these two want to talk, I know." She glanced toward Harvey. He nodded, "Why not? Don't be longer than half an hour; though, I think we ought to go then." She rose and walked away by Bartlett's side; a noticeable-look- ing couple, Beckingham produced his clga- rette case, "It you are tired," she suggested, "we will not worry about the theatre. We will go direct from the office to one of those small places in Soho and dine, and after- ward you shall come and see my rooms and I will make you coffee." He shook his head reluctantly. "My dear," he begged, "don't make it mort difficult for me by suggesting such pleasant things, Even though I am nearly old en- ough to be your father, 1 cannot come to your rooms and sit with you all the evening." "Rubbish!" she exclaimed. "It is not rubbish," he insisted. "We live in a country where such things are mot dome, Grace." "The country we live in is the country of our minds and not our bodies," she rejoined "You talk like & provincial, dear It you do not come to my rooms, I will come to yours. I think your coffee will be abomin- able, but I shall come, and I shall sit on your doorstep until you let me in." "You're a very self-willed young person," he grumbled. "You're a very obstinate man," sht yetorted. He lit a fresh cigarette. The situation was full of an intriguing delight, but there was almost as much danger in obstinacy as In yielding, "Well," he decided, with an at- tempt at indifference, *I suppose that we are making & mountain out of a molehill, rove, but of course I should like come." "The first skirmish In this ter- rible battle to me," she laughed triumphantly, "Really, my dear-- my dear friend--I never dreamed that it was so difficult for a girl to make a man understand." "Understand what?" rushly. "That he meant everything to her in life," she concluded softly. Harvey rose to his feet. "Grace," he said sternly, "you're breaking bounds. It you talk like jentirely apart. that to me I'll not come near your rooms. 1 won't have you in my office at all. I'll send you to work downstairs." + "Oh, la, 1a," she scoffed; 'it you do a shall flirt with Mr. Greato- rex." "You can flirt with whom you choose, 0 long as you leave me alone," he declared. She sighed. "You are very disheartening," she confessed. "Now I have tc start all over again. Well, never mind, I rather like you when you get in this state of tantrums. You try so hard to be morally melo- dramatic, don't you, dear?" "I don't try to be anything of the sort," he objected vigorously. "Well, TI suppose you'll be hap- pler afterward if you fight your Iittle battle," she concluded re- signedly, "Pass me my coffee, please." He did as he was bidden, "Upon my word," he declared, with a touch of genuine resent- ment, "you talk to 'me as though you were the mentor of the world and its ways and I the fledgling." "But you know," she confided, with a delightfully assured smile, "that seems to me to be precisely the situation. I am certain that I see life more truly than you--even the sort of life which is beginning to envelop us now. And lest," she added after a moment's pause, "be- cause I claim that larger know- ledge you should think wrong things, let me tell you this: You are the firat man who has ever kissed me on the lips--even in that beautiful way you kissed me. You are the first man with whom I have ever suffered myself to spend even an hour alone, although you would not wonder at that if you knew those Frenchmen. You, on the other hand, being a man, have had affairs, of course. Never- which you are ignorant. My know- ledge is Intuitive, perhaps, rather than acquired, but it is none the less real "You're too clever for me," he admitted, feelingly suddenly re- sourceless. assented with composure. -"Some day you will regret these minutes and hours you waste arguing with me, All my life I have heard of the Nonconformist conscience, I did not expect to find it housed so strangely." "You are a flippant young wo- man,' he declated severely. 'Lean . She obeyed and they spent. the {which Harvey passed him, "I say, Harvey," he began, "I was going to look you up tomor- row. What's all this about Mil- dred?" "Mildred," Harvey explained dryly, "thinks that I am going an almighty bust in the city, and she is terribly afraid of being the wife of a bankrupt, She has anticipat- od matters by selling the house and {furniture while I was in the States and taking her departure back to the South of France. You are my oldest friend, George. I should rather like you to read the lettar I' received a few days ago." Beckingham adjusted his eye- glags and carefully read the letter It was dated on the day that Fardale had Jeft Nice: indignantly. | Hotel Negresco. Dear Harvey, Your letter seems to me very cal- lous and very unreasonable, Since you have taken no steps whatever to protect me 1 was naturally bound to do what I could for my- self, My income, as you must re- alize, 1s still absurdly Inadequate, and I shall Insist whatever happens upon some better provision being made for me, Your suggestion as to a divorce would have been a great surprise to me if I had not already been shown a picture of you and your secretary in an American paper. I have written to my lawyers for their advice and can.say nothing I don't Quite a&p- 1 quite agree, however, that i to {pertectly content, he athed never hit it off very well," Harvyy i theless, I know all the things of thing of the sort back now and listen to the music." ingham sighed, definite until I receive their reply. our married life has become a farce and £ it can be ended without scandal me and with a satisfactory pro- vision for my future, I should be MILDRED, Beckingham folded up the letter 'and passed it back without immedi- ate comment. "I suppose Mildred and I have remarked, "We have gone on during the last three or four years seeing very little of each other simply because our interests were She seemed satis- fled; I thought I was, Then came the trouble of my partner dying, and the financial crisis with which I found myself faced. 'There Is nothing in the world Mildred hates like poverty, so that precipitated matters." "I see," Beckingham said slowly. "We're old pals, Harvey, and I may come into this matter, of course, 111 you both decide to go for a: d'- vorce. What about Mildred's re- ference to your secretary? Would that become a factor in the casa?" "Good heavens, no!" Harvey exclaimed. 'Miss Swayle came to me in great distress soon after I returnéd to England, Her grand- father died in my warehouse--an old business connection of the firm --and she wanted a post until ghe could claim her money. She be- came my secretary, but she would never have been on the boat with me from America but for the fact that she was compelled to go out to see after her grandfather's es- tate. She had hooked her passage before we had even met." "That simplifies matters, of course," Beckingham dbserved, "but you must realize, Harvey, that it you don't want her brought into it, she is an amazingly attractive young person to have around at a time like this. They were talking about her at dinner. Even the girls seem to have lost their hearts ¥n Philip is perfectly dotty about er,' "She 1s without a doubt attrac- tive," Harvey admitted, with a sligtt hardness in his tone, "but I shall take the greatest case to see that she does not figure in the case if it comes off. I know the relations which are often supposed to exist between a business man and a secretary as charming as I admit Miss Swayle is, but if you: have any curiosity on the subject, George, I can assure you that no- exists - between us." Beckingham nodded. : "I know that sort of thing ign't in your line," he observed. "Whom does Mildred mean when she talks about her solicitors?" {Lake and Powell, I suppose. "I-rather think that I am," she, They drew up the marriage settle- ments." "They're all right." Beckings ham pronounced. 'What's your idea about it, Harvey?" "I think that Mildred had better have her divorce," Harvey replied. "We could never live together again now." : "It's an 'ugly business," Peck "but of course it can be done, I'll see Lake ant , [Powell tomorrow. 'What about your affairs in the eity?" "Touch and go," Harvey confes- ged. "I can't say that' am out of the wood, but I'm on my way there, I've had a' tremendous struggle, George, and I've taken a terrible risk, With luck, I'll pull through. If I don't--well, you'll soon know about IG" "Can 1 help?" "No living man could help me, old chap, I sink or I swim hb" There was a brief silence. Har- vey had leaned forward in his ehalr and was watching Grace strolling aurose the lawn toward them, Bart- lett bending over her, talking In. impressive fashion, Once Or twice she looked up at him and laughed, but her manner, for her, seemed al little reserved, She quickened her, steps ss they approached the tree under which the two men were stat, "Sir Philip has been very kind," Grace confided to Harvey, "but hel nearly upset, me, and we could hear nothing of the music, Are we go- ing soon?" ! "When I have presented to you my oldest friend," Harvey replied, rising. "Mr, George Beckingham --Miss Swayle," , She held out her hand gracious- ly. As was sometimes the case when she was very interested or very much In earnest, her French intonation became more manifest, "If you are Mr, Garrard's oldest friend," she remarked, "I am afraid that I must' confess myself his youngest, Perhaps the extremes meet." Beckingham looked intp her eyes steadily before he released her fin- gers. She passed the test, "I think that he has need of us both," he sald. There was a brief pause after a breathless two hours on the fol- lowing morning. Harvey leaned back in his chair a little wearily, Grace, who was speaking on the telephone, turned toward him with her hand over the mouthpiece, "The manager of the bank wants to speak to you," she announced. "He seems rather in a flurry? For a moment or two--he could never have told for how long -- Harvey sat motionless, It seemed somehow fitting that it should be she who gave him the message-- who should have uttered those few indifferent words which had sua- denly become the voice of fate, Presently he took the receiver from her fingers. "Harvey Gerrard speaking," he sald briefly, "What is this?" "Poulton, the manager of the Southern Bank," was the prompt reply. "Mr, Gerrard, I am going to ask you a somewhat unusual favor, I am going to ask you to come down here and see me for a moment, without delay." Harvey's self-control was admir- able "Won't tomorrow morning do?" be asked. "I am frightfully busy." "L am afraid that it won't," was the disturbed response. "The mat- ter is ungtnt, If it is absolutely impossible for you to leave the place, we will eome to you." "Oh, I suppose I can fit it In somehow," Harvey rejoined grudg- ingly. "If it's a matter of the dis- count account. 4 "Nothing of the sort." Mr. Poul- ton interrupted hastily, "We are perfectly satisfied with your ac- count in every particular. At the same time, Mr, Garrard, there are two of my directors here who have' come over on purpose to have just a few words with you, We won' keep you longer than we can help." "I'll start within five minutes," Harvey promised. He set down turned to Grace, "Telephone for please," he directed. : Grace obeyed in silence and the cashier put in a prompt appearance, His demeanor, in common with the demeanor of most of the old em- ployees in the firm, had changed wonderfully during the last few months--dlso his appearance, He was wearing a light gray suit and a rose in his button hole. There was no longer an expression of dread on his face as he entered the room. "Have you naid into the bank "1g morning, Greatorex?" Harvey asked, "Not yet, sir. We were waiting for the country cheques by the mid- day post." \ "What have you In hand?" i "About £9000, sir." "And what bills of exchange?" The cashier was a little sur- prised. "Quite a considerable amount, sir, We have only been discount- ing on the first of the month, so as to be able to get a better rate of exchange." "Just so," Harvey observed. "I am going down to the bank at once, though, and it is just pos- sible that I might like to make a considerable deposit. Bring up the bills and the cheques." Mr, Greatorex was puzzled, but he had learned to have confidence in his new chief, He departed up- on his errand. the receiver and Mr. Greatorex, LE (Continued To-morrow) + A pretty girl likes to be told she's intelligent, and an inteingent girl likes to be told she's pretty,-- Montreal Star. Discovered: Slow-motion movies were inspired in the mind or a producer who watched a man get up to give his seat in a crowded car to a woman with a load of bundles.--Chicago Daily News. Even the youngest schoolboy knows who is Chancellor or the Exchequer in Great Britain by this time.--Calgary Herald. CATARRH? RELIEF AWAITS YOU. Soothing, pleasant "Nostroline" clears thie head quickly and brings you welcome relief from the suffering of Catarrh, Discharge stops, Irritation stops. You are able to breathe freely again, *Nostroline" is on sale at W. 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B.--Margaret Clark; Paul She- ther, Merla Prest, Sheila Lewis, Ar- thur Itcher, Anmc Smith, Pr. A--Cecclia Haines, Stanley Hollman, Patsy Kearney, Maric Shet- ler, Frank Hughes, Norris Dafoe, Norman Bailey, Margaret Wood, Neil Goddard, M. DUNN, Teacher, Intermediate Room Jr. 1Il.--Eva Hazell, Ross FEd- wards, Greta Hunking, Doris Dart, Margaret Sugden, Annie Barron, and Irene Fleming (equal), Phyllis Cramb Constance Peters, Dorothy Manitt, Warren Peters, Carlson Etcher, Rosa Winter, Bertha Huff, Raymond Grills Jimmie Picked, Evelyn Cramb, Gla- dys Haynes, Velma Smith, Sccond Class--Eileen Luke, Vera Mason Foster, Helen Wilson, Lyn- dia Powell, Eunice Chipps, Audrey Kellett, Isabel Cook, Gladys Sugden, Donald Sugden, Morley Etcher, Jackie Sanders, Vivienne Hern, Joyce Smith, John Prest, . CE. WILLIAMSON, Teacher. Senior Room Sr. 1V.--Myrtle Best, Violet Cramb Stanley Cook, Grace Grills, Louise Pollard, Beatrice Jackson, Stewart Mackie, Harold Winter, Laura Trim, Glenn Willson, Gorden Trim, John Pollard, Roy Fleming. Jr. 1IV--Edith Edwards, Raymond Goyne, Charles Papineau, Della Too- ley, George Hunking, Eileen Trull, Joe Grills, Earl Wakely, Lloyd Coo- | per, Morley Lewis, Ruby Brown, | Douglas Best, Bertha Hern, Betty | Lewis, Gordon Porter, Vera Petre. Sr. I1I.--Cletys Dyer, Catharine | Lander, Ruth Tooley, George Bar- low, Winnifred Porter, PRESTON I. TIMMINS, Principal. HARVEST FESTIVAL AT SOLINA CHURCH Rev. Mr. Best, of Bowman- ville, Was Special Speak- er--Fowl Supper Held Solina, Sept, 29.--~The church at Eldad was micely decorated with du- tumn leaves, flowers, vegetables, fruits and corn; and was fnlled to capacity with an interested congre- gation for the Harvest Festival on Sunday, Rev. Mr. Best of Bowman- ville spoke on "Law." He said that no matter how young or old one was there was always a law to gov- ern one and that when complied with, these laws made it easier to niake one's way along life's journey. The choir sang an anthem in the after- noon, and the Bowmanville Metho- dist quartette, Mrs, Wesley Cawker, Miss Greta Pollard, Blake Pollard, and Dr. Slemon sang two splendid numbers. In the evening the choir sang two anthems, and Miss Lena 'Taylor sang a solo. 'Lhe offerings amounted to over $60. On 'Luesday evening an abundant roast fowl sup- per was served and enjoyed by sev- eral hundred pcople and the pro- ceeds of both days amounted to $340, 'Lhe concert was of the usual high class and was enjoyed by all, Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Cawker and sons, W. J. Bragg, M.P.P,, and Mrs. Bragg of Bowmanville, Mr. and Mrs: Irwin Bragg and sons, Ross and William, of Providence, . were guests at the home of Mr, and Mrs. John Baker on Sunday, Miss Irene Pascoe, Miss Stainton, Zion, and Mr, and Mrs. Clarence Tink, and Miss Kathaleen, Bowman- ville, visited H, E. Tink. Master Ernest Hunt of Bowman- ville was the guest of Masters Geor- ge and Wesley Werry on Sunday. Mr, and Mrs. John Challis, Miss Mabel Challis, and Miss Phyllis Chal- lis, Bowmanville, visited on Sunday with the Misses Lizzie and Rilda Hockaday. Miss Nora Werry and Miss Marion Mountjoy, Rev. Mr. Best, Rev. Mr. Bick and Mrs. Bick were guests at the home of A. L. Pascoe, Mr, and Mrs. Walter Kilbourn, Oshawa, visited Mr, and Mrs, Frank Thompson. Mrs. Thos, Baker visited Mrs. Ma- bel Taylor of Hampton, on Friday. Mr. and Mrs, Lyerctt Hoar and son Charles and Russell Smith, Bow- manville, visited Mr, and Mrs. J. J. Smith, for Harvest Sunday. Cecil Bush, Columbus, visited at home over Sunday. Mr, and Mrs. Ray Cook, Katheleen Betty and Jack, and Mr. and Mrs, Nelson Williams, Port Perry, were Sunday guests of Mrs. (, Howsam, Mrs, Cook and Jack and Betty re- Ms, and Mrs, Percy Chapman and family, Oshawa, visited Mr, and Mrs, Carl Williams, Dr, J. B, and Mrs, Reynolds, and Mr. and Mrs. ames eynolds of Welcome were Sunday visitors at the homie of A. J. Reynolds, Miss Sadie Minn, and Mrs, Snider Courtice, Mr, and Mrs, Robt, White, Toronto, and Mr, and Mrs, Pat Whitnel visited Mr, and Mrs, J. W. Reynolds, 4 fr. and Mrs. A. J. R.ynolds and Miss Edna were visiting with Mr, Thos, Osborne, Whitby. Mrs, Sarah Miller, Miss Mary and Alfred Miller and Mr, Wartman, Newbargh, visited' Mr, and Mrs, W., L. Mifler. Mr, and Mrs. Harold Jebson and Dorothy, Brooklin, = Mr, and Mrs, Donald" Yellowlees, Jean and Helen, and Mr, and Mrs. Clarance Vice and Murry, Columbus were Sunday vis- itors of Walter Vice, Mr, and Mrs. James Curtis, Mr, and Mrs. John Colwell and Miss Liz- zie Reeves, Hampton visited Mrs, Jolin Pascoe, Mrs, M, Langmald, Mr, and Mrs, Roy McGill, nniskillen, Mr, and Mrs. Elmer Wilbur and Gordon, Taunton, Les. Gibson, Oshawa, Miss Spencer, Raglan, Mr, and Mrs, 5. C Snowden and Betty, Mildred, and Job, Maple Grove, Mr. and Mrs, Louis Luke, Marster John Irwin and Mrs, Carruthers, Oshawa visited Mr. and Mrs, Thos, Baker. Rey, Mr. and Mrs. L, McLean, Bradford, Mr, and Mrs. Ernic Soancs ! and Miss Dorothy, Oshawa, Mr. and Mrs, Peter Harkens and Mr, and Mrs. Amos Armitage and Miss Flor- ence McClean, Toronto, visited Mrs. I. J. Black, Milbert Howsam, Ottawa, Mrs, Howsam, Port Perry, and Master Peter Howsam, Camp Borden, visited C. Howsam, Fred Robbins, Eugene Roach, Mrs, Will Strutt and Mr. Dean of Roches- ter, Mrs. Levi Robbins, Nelson and Thelma of Hampton, Mr, and Mrs, Will Tamlin, Cambray, and Mr. and Mrs, Ray Tamlin, Oshawa, visited Mrs, James Moorey. Mr, and Mrs, Robt. Clements and Miss Smith of Whitby visited J. J. Smith, Miss Mary Hogarth and Mrs. Pas- coe visited over the week end with Newton Stacey of Oshawa, Rev. and Mrs, Geo. Burry, Donns- view, Mrs, Cooper, Toronto, and Mrs, Spracklin, Winnipeg, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. A, J. Rey- nolds, Mr, and Mrs. R. J. McKessock and Misses Margaret and Ruth were guests of W, L. Pierson, Oshawa, HERMIT OF ESSEX REJECTED BY LOVER London.--The Hermit of Essex las just celebrated--if the word can be used in such a connection --his 52nd year of self-imposed solitude in a tumbledown cabin. He is James Mason, who at the age of 20, because of rejected THE VERDICT BETTER BRAN FLAKES love, vowed that he would never more look on the face of a an nor speak to a man except his brother Thomas. This vow he steadfastly kept until two years ago, when a woman, said to have been the sweetheart for whom he forsook the world, pald him a surprise visit, She married at about the time James went into seclusion, and has now a grown=- up family. James lives alone, secured from intrusion by padlocks and ou and inner rampartg of coz iron topped with barbed wire, Thomas, who also lives alone in another hut near, acts as his guard, One night when a reportef hailed him, he came hobbling ous in great mistrust, "Who might you be," he des manded querulously and in great agitation. "I don't like people coming here at night, I like people that come manfully in the broad daylight." } I explained that I had merely come to inquire after his brother's health. 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