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~â€" â€"Héreâ€"she«~found â€"herselfâ€"in â€"a passage which jed straight through _to the front, but it was blockeq f'nalf way by a swing door covered with tattered, green baize. There was no light here except what came through from the kitchen, and once the door was closed Christine was left in complete darkâ€" ness. It made her shiver to think what would happen if anyone came through that swing door from the front. But it was equally scaring t leave the kitchen door onben, with the sight ofr that dreadâ€" fui drunken figure snoring just behind her. Then she noticed a door to the left in the passage wall. She tried this and found it gave into a pantry into which the last remains of daylight leaked through an incredibly grimy wincow. Here at any rate was a refuge of a sort, so Christine softly closeq the kitâ€" chen door and, leaving the pantry door ajar, tiptoed to the baize door. Pushâ€" ing this a crack open, she could see The back door, she saw, onened diâ€" rectly into the kitchen. She went forâ€" ward and tried the handle. It was not locked. Christine paused and drew a quick breath. The idea of passing that drunken horror made her almost sick, yet it had to ‘be done. The handle turned easily enough, but the hinges creaked as the door opened and Chrisâ€" tine‘s heart was in her mouth as the slseeping man stirred. But it was evident that it would take much more than a creaking hinge to rouse him, and Chrisâ€" tine passed him swiftly and gained the Peter‘s guardian! Christine shivered again, but the sight, instead of frightâ€" cning her, only increased her deterâ€" mination to rescue Peter as soon as possible. Worse than the room itself was its presiding genius, a squat man who seemed to Christine almost as broad as he was long. He lay back in a dingy, old. horsehairâ€"covered armchair; his mouth was half open, showing yellow, jagged teeth, but his eyes were closed, and even here on the other side of the closeq wirdow, Christine could hear his snores. The evidence of the empty ‘beer bottles on the table at his elbow was not necessary to show that he was deep in drunken sleep. Here was more light than in front for there were two uncurtained winâ€" dows . on the ground floor. Christine crept up to the nearest and looked through into a small, square kitchen lit by a paraffin lamp hanging from the ceiling. On the left fire glowed in a rustyâ€" range. In the centre of the room was a table covered with dirty dishes. There was a sink under the window and a pump. The whole place was so filthy it sent a shiver of repulsion through Christine. The untrimmed laurels had spread their branches up to the of the firstâ€"storey windows and beneath them it was almost dark. Christine pickeq her way close under the wall. There had been a path there once, but now the gravel was completely hidden by a carâ€" pet of leaf mould. She came to the back of the house and found a square space brick paved, with a row of dilapiâ€" dateg cutouildings at the back. Harvey Graham Son Note: DON‘T BE MISLED! There is no substitute for the GENUINE M. W . LOCKE SHOESâ€"the only shoes designed and approved by Dr. M. W. Locke of Williamsburg. MAKE 212 0 c L «¥nrmmned UDOl ando upurVIUcil 1J J 400 0C SURE when purchasmg that -sho‘;s’ have stamped them the above trade mark. 6 Pine Street N. CHAJSTINE Authenticaliy smarc ana possessing the the invaluable qualities of the helpful and corrective designing of Dr. M. W. Locke, of Williamsburg . . . The model illustrated is one of many styles in the season‘s newest colours. ALL Fittings verified by Xâ€"RAY "And ao you think we should be any safer if we killed him?" Warden‘s voice was bitt~r. "What do you suppose his iriend, Méorman, would be doingâ€"or the police? Just remember we‘re not in Malay." "Murder is a nasty word," replied Lanyon, and Christine, though she had never sten his face, could picture the icy smile on it. "Let us say ‘remove.‘ As you very well know, Hastings is the one man who can upnset our plans, the only one who knows enough to do so and has the pluck to fight us. Even if we k°pt him here for a monthâ€" for three monthsâ€"the moment he was free he would be on our tails. We are none of us safe until he is out of the way." 1 "I‘m under no false impressions about Norman or the police or the fact that this is England," replied Lanyon in the same deliberate tone that he had used before. "And I admit that there ars always risks in getting rid of one‘s enemies. Yet here the risk is reduced to a minimum. No one but you and "It is foolish to shout like that, Warâ€" den. You might almost be heard on the road. I repeat that this fellow Hasâ€" tings is a danger to both of us, and that it is impossible to release him." "And so you‘re calmly proposing to murder him?" retorteqg Warden. All her fears forgotten orâ€"ratherâ€" flcoded out by sheer horror, Christine hurried forward and stood with her ear against the panel of the door. A second voice spokeâ€"spoke with a cruel, cold deliberation that was a thousand times worse than any passion. "Damn it, Lanyon, you don‘t want to murder the man?" It was at this moment that the low mutter of talk within the lighted room rose suddenly to a pitch so loud and angry that spoken words reached Chrisâ€" tine‘s ears. One of the speakers no doubt was the man she hagq been trailing all day over ‘half England,; but who was the other? Was it Peter himself? It did not seem likely that this was the case for surely <his gaoler would hardly trust Peter on the ground floorâ€"unless inâ€" deed he was very firmly tied up. Yet if it were not Peter it must be some accomplice of Peter‘s double, and Chrisâ€" tine‘s brave heart nearly faileq her at the prospett of having two of the gang against her. For a moment she had an intense desire to turn tail, slip out the way she had come, hurry back to the car, make for the nearest telephone and call up Bill. She would have given all she possessed to have beside her the big silent man on whom she had come to rely so greatly during the past few . days. light which came from a lamp on the table closse by the front door. To her left was the door of the lighted room which she had seen from the front, to her immediate right was a flight of steep stairs with a landing halfâ€"way up. Farther on was the door of another room, in point of fact the diningâ€"room in which Petér had been hocussed with drugged whisky, Christine gave barely a‘glance to these details for what at once seized her attontion was a sound of voices in the lighted room to her left. (Copyright) Phone 11 Christine realized two thingsâ€"first, that Peter was prisoned somewhere up at the top of the house; secondly, that she, and she alone stood between this murderer angd his victim. Warden was dead. Bates was dead drunk, there was no help anywhere within reach. Whatâ€" ever was to be done to prevent Lanyon shooting down Peter in cold blood had to be aone by herself. Suddenly Christine saw her weapon. There was a walking stick in the stand on which the lamp stoodâ€" stout ash stick with a crooked handle. Christine picked it out with a perfectly steady qQuick as a flash Christine darted across the hall into the room opposite. She had barely closed the door behind her before she heard the other door open and Lanyon come out. His steps turned down the passage towards the staircase. He did not hurry. On the face of it, the case was hopeâ€" less, for what could an unarmed girl do against a ruthless brute carrying a loaded pistol and ready to use it? In the very soul of her, Christine felt it was hopeless, yet this feeling, instead of leaving her paralyzed by terror, acâ€" tually braced her. She loved Peter. If he hagq to die, she would die, tooâ€" but not before she had made her best effort to save him There was no time to look for a weapon, such as a poker. In any case, the room was pitch dark. Christine slipped out into the hall just in tims to see Lanyon‘s tall figure disappearing around the angle of the staircase. He had not taken the small lamp which still burned smokily on the hatstand. Either there was a light upstairs or hand, then in a flash she slipped off Her shoes and soundlessly hurried after Lanyon. that plain enough for you?" ‘"Too plain, Warden.‘" Lanyon‘s voice was suddenly harsh. "Too plain for your own good. I have already made up my mind that Hastings is to die, and I am certainly not going to allow you to upset my plans. Stand out of my way." There came a queer gasp from Warden, a sound between extreme surprise and anger. By the sound Warden sprang at Lanyon. Christine heard a quick shuffle of feet on the carpet, then immediateâ€" ly came the loud bang of a pistol shot followed by a crash so heavy that the whole floor shook, ang Christine felt the vibration in the hall outside. There was a deathly silence which lasted for perhaps ten secconds, then yLanyon‘s voice. He was going after Peter, he was going to murder him as he had already murdered Warden. Sheer desperation gave Christine fresh strength and wit to deal with the emergency. If she stood where she was in the hall this brute would shoot her down. Of that she was certain. It would make little difference to Lanyon whether he had three bodies to dispose of or only two. "In any case," Lanyon went on, "you‘re not implicated, Warden. You can leave the whole business to me. I shan‘t even tell you what I mean to do with the body." He gave aâ€" low laugh, and for the first time in her life Christine understood what is meant by the phrase "the blood freezing in your veins." All the natural warmth seemed to go out of her body, and she had to use every ounce of her willâ€" power to fight the horrible feling of weakness that came over her. "Well," continued Lanyon, "do you agree?" To Christine it seemed that h spoke as coolly as if it had been no more than a chicken whose fate was in the balance, and his tone made her so intensely angry that the ‘blood raced again in her veins. Then Warden spoke, and so pnlainly that ‘Christine could hear every word almost as well as if she were in the room. "You‘d ‘better stang out of my way, Warden," Lanyon‘s tone was deadly. "If you don‘tâ€"" "The damned fool! He asked for it. Perhaps it‘s just as well. I could never have trusted him to keep his mouth shut.‘" Again a pause, then: "Now for the other," Lanyon ended with a snarl. "I may be all kinds of a swine, Lanâ€" yon, ‘but I never killed another man and I‘m not going to start now. Is that plain enough for you?" "Whatâ€"you‘d threaten me! Put that pistol away, you fool." "In a day or two, when you have cleaned up and cashed those cheques, you will be on your way to the East. Before you leave you send a note to Miss Vidal, saying that you have fallen in love with Miss Christine Grant, and that you feel you must break your enâ€" gagement. So you are going to the Malay on a big game shooting expediâ€" tion, and won‘t be back in England for a year. It‘s all as natural as can be, and long before any ssupicion is aroused â€"even supposing there ever was anyâ€" Peter Hastings‘. body. will have ceased to exist." myself and Bates knows that Hastings is here, and it‘s about the last place anycne would look for him. But that isn‘t our main safeguard. That lies in your likeness to him and the ease with which you have impersonated him. You have told me yourself that the butler at Cranham had no suspicion that you were anyone else but Peter Hastings. Why, even your handwriting is the same. THE PORCUPINE ADVANCRE, ThindIN®s, onTARtO When taxation per ton of ore milled reaches $1.71 it should be clear to the layman that a dangerous point has been reached. Such an impost repreâ€" sents, in many gold mines throughout the world the actual margin of vrofit. Taxes per ton in the period rose from 43% cents to $1.71, while taxes per ounce of gold produced vaulted from 88% cents to $4.88. This enormous inâ€" crease in taxation cost per ounce is proâ€" bably the most significant fact reâ€" vealed in the study and establishes beâ€" yond a question the validity of the proâ€" test made by the gold mines over the bullion tax. Another useful tasulation, illustrative of the value of the industry to the country and the province shows the mining payroll for the years 1930 to 1935 inclusive. In that time gross wage Of these heavy taxes the Dominion secured the lion‘s share, taking $10,â€" 278,640, while the province had $2,464,â€" 946 and the municipalitiee $377787. Another tabulation prepared ‘by Mr. Bateman, the secretary of the Associaâ€" tion, covers the fiveâ€"year period 1931 to 19385 and details the tax experiencs of Ontario gold mines that were subâ€" ject to the bullion tax. They paid $8,â€" 481,106 in 1935, as against $1,740,34 in 1931. In considering the facts in regard to mine taxation, probably the outstandâ€" ing fact is that total taxes, not inâ€" cluding duties, sales tax, etc., payable by Northern Ontario mines in 1935 amounted to $13,101,373. The figure compares with $8,341,573 in 1934. In a single year the total imposts increased $4,759,787. Figures supplied by the Ontario Minâ€" ing Association and unquestioned by the authorities detail rather startling facts in regard to the taxation of the mining industry. The attitude of apâ€" proach in régard to taxation seems to have been "all the traffic will stand." It is doubtful if this attitude has not overâ€"reached itself and seriously hamâ€" pered the mining industry. Facts on Mine Taxes and Mining Payrolls Total Taxes, Not Including Sales Tax, Duties, etc., Over . $13,000,000 Last Year. Increased Nearly $5,000 ,000 in a Year. : PRECISION BUII.T 05 EXTRA STRENCTH q I.‘“l EATURING the strongest principle of automobile body known, Pontiac has solid steel ‘"Turret Top‘" Bodies by Fisher, with safety glass throughout. This car is precisionâ€"built for extra strength without extra weight. All stress j points are reinforced in engine and Consider s C y chassis. Your safety is protected and e Company s s Back of the Car YOUr satisfaction as an owner assured. Those who snjoy a happy evening in a good causs should remember the soâ€" cial evening being given this (Monâ€" day) evening in the Legion hall under the auspices of the Ladies‘ Auxiliary cf the Legion. It is a St. Patrick‘s Day social, and the programme is to have 2 very distinct Irish flavour. During the evening a 25â€"cent collection is to be taken up, the procesds to be turned over to a very worthy cause in which the ladies have taken interest. bill rose from $27,635,000 to 834433000' The golid mines in the group increased payroll in the period from $12,910,000 to $21,023,000. From 1930 to 1982 the toâ€" tal for all mines declined sharply but it has more quickly risen to its preâ€" sent level. P The rapid advance in gold mining operations is shown in another table, indicating that without one exception, each year has shown a greater number of mines engaged. In 1930 there were 105 mints which were paying assessâ€" ments to the Compensation Board and in 1935 there were 301. The fact that these firms were paying assessments indicates that their operations were of considerable magnitude, as small syndiâ€" cate and prospecting operations go not so contribute. $8,341,573 $13,101,373 Ssome Comparisons In 1931 the Ontario golq mines paid to Dominion, province and municipaliâ€" ties a total of $1,740,346, or at the rate of 43 1â€"2 cents per ton; in 1931, the tctal taxes were $2,657,160, or 59 cents per ton; in 1934, the figure was $5,320,â€" 113, or $1.07 p*r ton; while for 1935, the total taxation by Dominion, proâ€" vince and municivalities reached the amcunt of $8,481,106, or $1.71 per ton, or $4.88 per ounce of gold produced. Ladies‘ Auxiliary Holding St. Patrick‘s Social Tonight The following tables constitute a hardy record of these well authenticatâ€" ed facts concerning the Ontario minâ€" ing industry: "Bullion tax applies only for years 1934 and 1935. Payroll for Ontario Mining Industry Gold Mining Year * All Mines Operations Only 1930 .......$27,635,000 $12,910,000 1931 ......... 21,703,000 12,394,000 1932 ......... 20,195,000 14,879,000 1933 .. ... 21,215,000 14,678,000 1934 ... ... 31,534,000 18,286,000 1935 . 34,433,000 21,023,000 Number of Ontario Gold Mining Firms Paying Assessments to the Comâ€" pensation Board 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 Growth of Taxation Total taxes, not including duties, sales tax, etc., payable by the princiâ€" pal Northern Ontario minss: Domirionâ€" 1934 1935 . Income and bullion Divd. tax (nonâ€"rosiâ€" dents) Provinceâ€" 831,578 . 1,669,487 Mines profit tax Corporation tax Municipal taxes 373,358 362,587 MARSHALLâ€"ECCLESTONE ~LIMITED $5,104,5063 1,095,490 oo‘ 9 528,414 377,787 Consider these factors for extra value and higher tradeâ€"in allowance. Then prepare for a surprise . . . ownerâ€" ship can be arranged far more easily than you think. Because (1) Pontiac is a lowâ€"priced car. (2) Your own car acts as part payment. (3) The balance can be carried conveniently through the greatly reduced time payments of the 7%J, GMAC Canadian plan. 105 112 116 160 296 301 "‘In 1911 a visitor to Porcupine camp sent back the following account of what he had witnesssd in a traverse of the area. ‘"Less than two years ago George Bannerman built the first house in the Porcupine district. In the spring of 1910 three townsites had sprung up on Porcupine Laksâ€"Pottsville to the west of Porcupine River and Golden City, east of the river, both at the north end of Porcupine Lake, and South Porcuâ€" pine at the south end. From the first there has been intense rivalry between these three towns. Porcupine City has the best hotel, the post office, banks and the most important stores. At Golâ€" den City was located the Recorder‘s ofâ€" fice and at South Porcupine there were a number of stores and lodging houses. Although a number of additional townâ€" sites have recently bsen surveyed, Golâ€" den City and South Porcupine are the chief rivals. The first named has the largest population at the moment. Lake View is ancther townsite. On the south shore of Pearl Lake a local settlement has sprung up and a number of stores and hotels have been lauilt. It seems probable that aa town will be built near Timmins Landing, on the Mattagami River, about six miles west of Porcuâ€" pine Lake. (The town of Timmins vinâ€" dicated this prophecy). It is generally predicted that a city of ten to 20 thouâ€" It is very interesting to read the folâ€" lowing from "Grab Samples" in The Northern Miner last week:â€" Visitor a Good Prophet in Foretelling Timmins Tipâ€"Top cump«in 2 tins for ............... Cooking Onions, 6 lbs. for................. Potatoes, small size, per bag........ Carrots 10 lbs. for ............. Turnips 10 lbs. for ............. Blue Goose . Oranges, doz. ... 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A special event for Easter Monday evening is the dance to be given by the Timmins Junior Hockey Club, funds from the cccasion to go for junior hockâ€" ey purposées in town. sand will be built somewhere in the district." (This was hitting the ball.) At Porcupine at this time there were five banks. The Canadian Bank of Commerce, with W. G. Whiteside as manager; Imperiai Bank of Canada, with W. Bourke; Bank of Ottawa, with H. St. C. Clayton; Bank of Toronto, H. R. Warren; and Traders Bank of Canada, G G. Bullard New Salvation Army Hall > Official Opening, March 22 JUNIOR HOCKEY CLUB TO HOLD EASTER MONDAY DANCE EVENT Classic Cleanser per tin ................ Assorted Biscuits 2 Ibs. for ............. Mixed Candies 2 Ibs. for .................... 2 tins for ................... g‘ov‘v.d(:r.n:.l‘;'fln ....... 23C HAp e en 19c Smith‘s Tomato Ketchup, 2 bots. ....... zsc Glacier Sardines (Standard Six 2â€"pass. Coupe) 8â€"cylinder Models begin at $1183 Delivered at facléry, oum. Ont. 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