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The keenness of the competition in the market had become a commonâ€" place; shs knew how to meet it. If she had not the loudest voice in Row B, she had the sharpest tongue. And if her stall was not the bizgest, nor in the most advantageous position, she had a knack of making it the most attractive. She could hold her own there without even thinking very much about it. It was not that prospect which sharpened her mind that morning until it glitterâ€" she had ample afford to lingor cottage for a 1« with her arm ov the mare, whistl ing the sweetâ€"sce meadow grass in her feet, She h: that other rea awareness with ward to this trip Her father lifted h ered, humorous face 1 and grinned at her. has its good points. B it‘s rotten for green s "We don‘t deal in 4 and departed to load } The scrubbed quan were heaped up with uce, fruit, vezetables eggs, boxes of dressed gy‘s job to prepare tho, â€"â€"Bundles of rhubarb now, the apples, plum: She looked them over. Her stall would be one in the row. She went ny from her pasture, to the float. It was seven o‘clos mer appiles than they u looked with gathered th three basket a shining lu apples of a what you 1i the market | sun we get 1 the ridge, a trees to ma will fetch w Peggy was up with the dawn, cutting lettuces and pulling up radishes in the garden with her father. He made reâ€" marks about the glorious weather which were not all complimentary; the soll was like dust, and if there wasn‘t rain soonâ€"his complaints were more than half mechanical,. One grumbled about the weather without even knowâ€" ing it in England. "And it hasn‘t any virtues, has it"" said Peggy. "It doesn‘t ripen the sumâ€" Thurscay, which was market day at Abbott‘s Ferry, began almost before Wednesday was over. The eve of it ran late with much crating of eggs and gathering of garden produce, the mornâ€" ing began as soon as it was light, for market buying at Abbott‘s Rerry would be in full swing by ten o‘clock, and there was half a day‘s work to do, and a three mile journey to make ,before then Peggy decided to take this, and hetr nuemories, to the police, _ (Now Read On.) as to what would happen should Peggy reveal the morning‘s events. Peggy kept silent for the rest of the morning, but during the afternoon, she followed the way the car tracks had come. These led her to a disused pit, in which she found a connectingâ€"link between the disturging aeroplane and the young man with the carâ€"a paraâ€" chute, by which had been dropped a mysterious parcel. T wentyâ€"year: the most pract by the pressur stood at the d the police away car took their garage. And t ing her with a r All he wanted, that she should police, who arrive minutes later. a restles of an at ache, P aA n No turnt head first maAln ment. e is with the police legal drug tra. Corrie Cowle highlyâ€"respecte near â€" ADDOLs PC "brains" of the 1: Peter Sherwood from the Public Peggy Culder teér of a retirecd MONDAY. AUGUST I14TH 1938 J UE Da it idvent CHAPTER II THURSDAY BEGINS ON WEDNESDAY The Parachute Mail PUBLISHED BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT €, aAnd they naven‘ t Lie rIgNnt make the most of it. Those h what I like to ask for ‘em." ither lifted his brown, weathâ€" morous face from the lettuces. imned atâ€"her. "Oh, all right, it ood points. But you can‘t deny n for green stuff and fishing." on‘t deal in fish," said Peggy. arted to load her float. crubbed quarries of ‘the yard n‘t deal in 14 rted to load I rubbed quart yed up with ., vezetables, s of dressed T‘l 1P W And the ptr it sn‘t any virtues, has it?" ‘It doesn‘t ripen the sumâ€" t least a month earlier ally ripen, does it?" She pride at those she had previous day, loaded in wrapped and polished to re, the very first summer orward year. "I bet you > there are no others in â€"day. No one else has the here, except the farm on d they haven‘t the right e the most of it. Those 11 rsâ€"old Pe:gy, deciding on tical course, and inspired ire of a gun in her ribs, dcor and succesfully sent iy, Then the man and the r departure with threats muld happen should Peggy rning‘s events. silent for the rest of the during the afternoon, she the garden, and began. A young man re in the usuallyâ€"empty the man was threatenâ€" 1J retired army officer e was the businaess ily, and always the this morning, after sturbed by the drone nd nagged by toothâ€" decided that it was in bed. minutes, strglung the plump neck of as she went, kickâ€" In publ ‘ggy discovered, wa: rleld him from the on motor cycles filv: rries of ‘the yard 1 baskets aof prodâ€" Milnme now . 11 car tracks had > a disused pit, connectingâ€"link aeroplane and fizht nda after, but w, and could n behind the tes, strolling up of randmother. l an expert painting are r cking out | whic mallholding | her is the| the NOmAn JuUn almn. poapula fiancedt mort by PETER BENEDICT PEGGY REMEMBERS THE GUX "Well, of course," said Peggy, rather astonished that so deprecating a preâ€" amble should have ushered in a request s o small. Most people would have put their heads round the door, said: "Just drop this for us. Peg. Thanks, awfully!" left whatever the request involved upon the nearest chair, and departed. But, of course, this was a stranger and a townswoman,. "Whereabout in town is the place? Far from the market?" "Oh, it‘s lively," sighed the delicately roughed lips. "I should like to stay there for ever. Unfortunately, my job‘s in town, and I have to live where that is, though I‘d gladly change it if I could,. After teaching children in stuffy classrooms in London all the year round, the river and the moor certainâ€" ly are a teat." **Good guess!" thought Peggy, menâ€" tally giving herself high marks. "She is a teacher." "Well, unfortunately I‘m only here for a fortnight, but I mean to ask you is if you would deliver this little note for m» in Abbott‘s FPerry. It‘s to a casâ€" ual friend of my mother‘s, and I most particularly want her to have it toâ€"day, and I can‘t get down into town myself. Mrs. Henshaw suggested asking you, because you always have to go in on Thursdays. I wouldn‘t have known about that, of course; but she told me where to find you, and said she was sure you would do it." "Of cours>2," said Pez shaw always has gues well all through the . d‘you like it?" chair, with her hands folded in her lap upon what appeared to be a letter. She looked up as Peggy entered, and from her seat with a hesitant smile. She was not, upon examination, quite such a young lady as all that. True, she appsared to have some ambition to look young, for her hair under the smart but subdued little hat was elabâ€" ,crately waved and peroxided to a blonde strawiness never accomplished by nature. Her face was mad> up, but not excessively, as if she had wanted to try and carry off a masquerade that she was s{ill no more than nineteen, but had lacked the courage. Her cloth»s were well cut, but quiet, and not exâ€" pensive. Her nails were not painted. A queer mixture of the austerely correct and the dashing. "Schoolteacher," thought Peggy, docketinz: people, as her habit was, "in the early thirties, or maybe the notâ€" soâ€"early thirties, after all. Two personâ€" alities, one for an example to the young in school hoursâ€"and to comply with regulations; one for use outside. Can‘t quite separate them." And she added inevitably: "Wonder what she wants?" But there was no denying that she was goodâ€"looking. Her face was cut clear, on the Grecian model, a trifile too thin, not to say emaciated, to be really striking, but still beautifully feaâ€" tured. It ‘was a face, it had dark eyes in it, which have gone with black hair better than with that yellow erection of curls, It was a face which would be easily remembered, at least by Peggy, whose eyes were alive with curiâ€" osity about the people of a world she had still hardly seen. The young woman blinked behind her hornâ€"rimmed â€" spectacles, and said: "Miss Calder?" ‘ "Yes," said Peggy. "I don‘t know what you‘ll think of me, because, of course, you don‘t know me; but the fact is, I‘ve come to ask a favour of you. My name‘s Crosbyâ€" Lorna Crosbyâ€"and I‘m on holiday at the cottage by the river thereâ€"you‘ll know it of course, Mrs. Henshaw‘s." Peggy ‘went into young lady aforesaid Creamy mane lips from u like fore she emerged could hear her n to somsone in the was in the vard, w and an visitor. she reached the gate into the orâ€" chard, and came up through the dewy grassâ€"how typical to complain of lack 6of rain while they had a heavy dow like that every dayâ€"towards the house. Beâ€" fore she emerged into the yard she could hear her mother‘s voice talking to somsone in the kitchen, Her father was in the yard, waiting to receive Sunâ€" ny at ner hands,; so the voice was patently not meant for him to hear on that scoreâ€"she would be able to forget it herself, and leave it to them. It was their worry, not hers. True, sh> felt a certain amount of human curioâ€" sity about the case; but if all went well she would be ble to obtain satisfaction in the normal way, through the newsâ€" papers. She reached the gate into the orâ€" chard,., and came un through the dewy her part it safely with evt ents, for when once she had got y into the hands of the polics, ‘ery bit of information she posâ€" into the bargainâ€"there were er any misgivinm:s or hesitations was the thought of the bundl: he had packed carefully under uees in one of ty baskets in Here was Pezgy. "Mrs., Henâ€" guests there pretty the summer,. How 1 a«â€"word about it the house. Th2 was sitting in a folded in her lap n to hear very early "We have every confidence in the quality of our apples," said Peg:zy ausâ€" terely. "Moreover, there‘s a car apâ€" proaching from the other direction, and he might like to get through, too," "Don‘t bite it until you‘ve the other gate, or I lose another three minâ€" utes." "As irresistible as that?" he asked, with his teeth an inch from the gold and russet skin. "Any samples?" asked the keeper, holding out his hand. "There would be if I thought she‘d ever see ‘em." But she gave him an apple. They had exchanged too many morning pleasantries for the gift even to be regarded as a business sweetener., "Your‘re ing keeper last coach him inch and waite cpened. "I shall be ready when your wife comes marketing," said Peggy. "Tell her I‘ve got some applesâ€"the very first Most people along the road knew the speckled creamy mare and the girl who drive her. They were by way of bz2ing popular, the pair of them. At the level crossing just on the moor side of town they were held up for a few minutes to lst the eight o‘clock train go by. Most of the office people who lived out here and worked at Abbotsbridge, travelled on this train, and it was always a long one. â€"those streaky summer ones that she likes." ‘The journey into Abbott‘s Ferry took her the greater part of forty minutes, for if there were long level stretches where she could give the mare her head, and clatter alonz at a hearty speed, there were also uncomfortable hills which it paid handsomely to dawdle up, also at Sunny‘s pace. The three miles which officially constituted the distance, were three â€"good long country miles, and in winterâ€"which, thank heaven, was still a long way off â€"sometimes completely blocked in three places. She shook herself impatiently, clicked her tongue at Sunny, and drove out of the yard into the dust of the road, the road by which her antagonist had reâ€" treated yesterday. s Pergy did not envy her. The town made singularly little appeal, even to her spirit of adventure. In town strang»> men could hardly hide their cars and their persons in your gardenâ€"shed, and threaten you with a revolver when you blundered in upon them. At the returnâ€" ing vigour of the memory she shivered, feeling again the pressure of the gun in her side. And yet she would not have washed it out if she could, that queer morning excitement. really liKed Miss Crosby; not, of course, that Miss Crossby was supposed to care whether Peggy Calder liked her or not. The visitor departed, still grateful She had wasted quite five minutes more than was necessary in such an errand, and five minutes were not to be desâ€" pised when she thouzht of the labour of dressing her stall. So Peggy hurricd to make up the loss; but when she had struggled into her businesslike fawn overall and rushed out into the yard with her beret in her hand, she found the crates and baskets already loaded into the float, Sunny placidly between the shatfs, and nothing left to do but to set out, which she did without anâ€" other second of delay. The envelope to be delivered at lunchâ€"time she pushed deep into the pocket of her overall. As Peggy climbed into the float, and the reins through her hands, she looked back over her shoulder past thE corner of the house, and saw Miss Crosby walking back across the moor. She walked like townswoman, too, precise and shortâ€"stepping upon her high hsgels, putting her feet down too flatly for the hard walking of the counâ€" try uplands, very definitely a stray from the pavements and buses. She was effusively thanked for what seemed to her a very ordinary act of courtesy, She was not sure that she really liked Miss Crosby; not, of course, that Miss Crossby was supposed to care whether Peggy Calder liked her or not. "It‘s a longish way from the market," she said reflectively. "I shall hardly have tim> to deliver it before I open; but I could get the boy to take over for me in the slack hour at lunchâ€" time, and go in thirn." It was what she had planned, in any case, and Church Fold would be conveniently on her wWay to the Police Station. "Would it do is she had it by halfâ€"past one?" Mrs,. J. Standon, 3. Church Fold, Cavendish Road, Abbott‘s Ferry. Peggy knew the locality well enough, but not the Fold; still, it was sure to lie between the church and Cavendish Road, and that was good enough. "I don‘t know," said the girl, with a smile and a shake of her head. "You see, IT‘ve never been there myself. But here‘s the address." She handed over the packet she nursed in h>r hands. It was a noto inasmuch as it was coMtained in an envelope, and probably included a letâ€" inasmuch as it was coMtained in an envelope, and probably included a letâ€" ter; but there was somethinz fat and heavy for its bulk inside. The address was : The gate was fung wide with a ges Drive on, BRenâ€"Hur!" said the cross Oh, yes, thank you, any tim Righto!" said Peggy our‘re late," said the levelâ€"crossâ€" eeper, unhitching the gate as the coaches passed. Sunny followed inch by inch across the metals, waited for the second zate to be I‘ll look aftey Tha PORCOPNIE Tunim(3, OoNnTARIO The man who is 66 yvears of age, was walking on the track and gave no sign of having heard the engine whistle or noise of the approaching train. it beâ€" ing stated that he was afflicted with deafness, Chief Coroner Tucker is inâ€" vestigating on the ground and an inquest will be held. Cochrane, Aug, 12 â€" Struck by a Canadian National Railways passenâ€" ger train from Hearst this morning Ernest Ratte, a resident of Pranquier, was instantly killed around 11 a,. m. on Wednesday. When â€" Samud Wittenberg _ and S§imon Dollinger came before police court in Torontd last week to ansâ€" wer to thirteen dharges of forgery and one of conspiracy. they were reâ€" manded to August 30th, being releasâ€" ed on bail of $10,000. Mrs,. Dollinger, on a forgery charge was remanded to the same date, bail being set at $1,000. M. Sergar. of Schumacher, and Chas. Lamothe, of South Porcupine charged with conspirfacy, were remanded to Aug. l7th. Their bail was set at $10,â€" 000, despatches from Toronto saying that they were unable to raise that amount. All the cases are underâ€" stood to have arisen from investigaâ€" tion carried on for months past by the police into alleged highâ€" grading operations in the North. Resident of Faugquier Struck by C. N. R. Train Remand Quintet at Toronto in Gold Selling Cases Before she could reasonably expect trade to begin in earnest, she made a point of fishing out her parcel from under the lettuces, and hiding it again under the laced cover of the little basâ€" ket which held her lunch, and which she kept under the stall, close to her, as she workel. tAAKINnS eady and Neéavyy WOrK, came regularly to help Peggy with her loads and to I>nd a hand at the stall if he was needed. He was standing with his back against the redâ€"brick frame of the main entrance, his hands in his pockâ€" ets, and his eyes blandly contemplating the activity within, when Peggy drove up, Between them they began the work of unloading, each of them staggering alon‘z between the aisles of brown planking rapidly clothing itself* in colâ€" cur and substance, with an erection of baskets and boxes before them. With eggs Bernard was definitely not to be trusted. Peggy took those herself. When they had transferred everything, Sunny was taken away to stable at the nearest inn, and the rsal work of setâ€" ting out the wares began. A lom:zâ€"legged 14â€"yearâ€"old boy, barred by what his mother consid his delicacy of constitution from un taking steady and heavy work, c regularly to help Peggy with her 1: and to lI>nd a hand at the stall i was needed. He was standing with ingâ€"keeper, and she passed him with a whirl of dust under her wheels, and disappeared in â€" the direction of Abâ€" bot‘s Ferry., INCIDENTS AT THE MARKET It was not a large town, but thh> marâ€" ket lay conveniently on the hither side of it. a big redâ€"brick building adorned with archways reminiscent of an oldâ€" fashioned chapel. It lay low, and it was already exceedingly warm; and what it would be by midday was anyâ€" om?‘s guess. A picked football team from Cobalt, under the managemnt of Messrs. W. Rutherford and J. Wilson played a picked team from the gold camp here on July 30th, was a very large crowd out for the game here. The gold camp won from the silver camp, tlu> score beinz at the final 3 to 0 in favour of Timmins and district. Slim Hallowel]l in goal for this camp came in for special notics and applause. The lineâ€"up for Timmins and district was:â€" Slim Hallowell, goal; Corris and Lynn, backs: Sweet, Harrower, Carr, halfâ€" backs; Andy Roberts, P. Dougall, W. White and Neal, forwards. The Cobalt team included Messrs. M. Shaw, A. Cadman, G. Hendry, Wallace A. Shaw, H. Short, Bridson, Bassett, Hilt, Sellars and G. Cadman. KEach man on the silver camp team, The Advance said, played good football, but the gold camp boys had the edge on the play According to the act passed by the Ontario Legislature in 1919, the muniâ€" cipal voters‘ lists were not to be used f0; the referendum voted on the liquor question. Instead there was a system of enumeration. Fred H. Thompson, Swastika, was chief enumerator for the district, while H. M. Martin was the deputy for Timmins. In 1919 the following candidates writing at Timmins were successful in passing the high school entrance exâ€" aminations:â€"Frederick, Auer, Arnold Chargois, Philip Daher, Dorothy Dodze, Edna Ducsharm, Wilfred Hardy, Doroâ€" thy Harrington, George Hawley, Jack Joyner, Florence Kendall, Thomas Lawrence, Ferm McCarthy, Joe Péeteéers. Miners‘ twenty years ago the sum of $500 was voted to assist the men at Cobalt and Kirkland Lake who were out on strike. The Union officials here posâ€" itively denied a rumour current here at the time that agitation was being carâ€" ried on to have the miners go out on strike in sympathy with those ht Kirkland Lake and Cobalt. Instead, all suggestion and advice from officials here was to the effect that the Porcuâ€" pine men should stay an the job. A Coâ€" balt miner was quoted by The Advance as sayingz:â€"*‘"The Porcupine Mine Manâ€" agers have treated their men like men and so any difficulties can be adjusted without any talk of strike, for a strike is the last resort only." The name of Simon Fraser, a native of Glengarry, is written boldly on the pages of the early Canadian history of the Pacific Northwest. He became a partner in the powerful North West Company and in 1805 was placed in charge of its fur trading operations beyond the Rocky Mountains. In 1809 he explored the rocky, rushing Fraser River which now bears his name. Simon Fraser Reports have reached town of a young man who recently has issued a number of worthless cheques in other parts of the North and who may take a notion to visit Timmins. This young man is a cleverâ€"and plausible fellow and has succeeded in other Northern towns in defrauding a number of people out of sums of money, chiefly through the use of cheques that later have turned out to be worthless, In one Northern town this young man applied for a posiâ€" tion to sell insurance for the London Life Inusrance Company and though he was not engaged by the company he managed to get hold of the company‘s rate books and other material. With these in his possession he is able to make some people believe that he is in the employ of the London Life and through the standing given him by the use of the company‘s name he has been In the town baseball lea years ago McoIntyre won for: men with the scors 8 to 7. was a very keen one, the Mc ning in the last innings, N Rellevieux were the batte Fireme, and Sinclair and for the McIntyre. On August lst, 1919, the Hollinger and McIntyre Mines implemented the promises made at the conferences beâ€" tween the mines, the employees and others in regard to the high cost of livinz, the new stores being opened and running smoothly. In the issue of The I Advance of August 6th, 1919, an article on the matter says, in part:â€""At the conference the mines had agreed to help the employees in the matter of the high cost of living by establishing stores where the mine workers would be able to purchase goods at materially reduced prices. Last week Mr. Brigham land Mr. Ennis, on behalf of the Hollinâ€" ger and the McIntyre, were able to establish their stores on the promised date by the purchase outright of the business of J. R. Gordon at Timmins and Schumacher, Mr. J. R. Gordon, who has successfully conducted stores at Timmins, Schumacher and South Porcupine, during the past several years, has been engaged for the imâ€" mediate present as manager of the stores} for the mines. Men workinz at the Mine are given cards which entitle the holders to purchas> goods at the mine stores at cost, for cash. Boarding houses, hotels, etc., are also being alâ€" lowed a reduction on all goods if they show they have made a corresponding reduztion in rates for board to emâ€" ployzses of the mines. The reduction made so far will average 15 per cent off previous prices. The working out of the plan will be followed with much interâ€" est elsewhere as well as here, for both the mines and the men seem deterâ€" mined to give it a fair and full chance to test its possibilitirs as an assistance . to the employees in the mines in the. battle against the high cost of living." _ Watch Out for Young Man Issuing Worthless Cheques accidentally kicked on the leg, the sound of theâ€" impact of the boot on Slim‘s leg could be plainly heard half way down the line. Slim was kicked just on the spot where he had been wounded in the late unlamented war ’and the injury accordingly was thus doubly unp easant and trying. He made a good recovery, however, from the inâ€" jury though he was out of the game for some time, W. Field ref>reed the . match. all the way. The play throughout was so gentlemanly and free from roughness that this alone proved that the p.ayers all knew the game and could play it. Slim Halloweli had the illâ€"fortune to be SIMON FRASER‘S courageous adventuring finds its modern counterpart in the industrial laboratories of today. For modern science is blazing new industrial trails continually. Moved by the common urge to develop our Dominion, this Centuryâ€"old Bank is coâ€" operating with farâ€"sighted business men and welcomes further opportunities to serve Canadian industry and enterprise. NEWFOUNDLAND, _ JAMAICA, CUBA, PUERTO RICO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, NEW YORK, CHICACO, BOSTON, LONDON, ENGLAND he scors 8 to 7. The game keen one, the McIntyre winâ€" last innings, McInnis and were the battery for the Coast to Coast in Canada ind â€"Drummond Northern News:â€"Toronto girl dropâ€" pad the pans she was carrying, and the holdâ€"up man who stopped her fied. The pan, obviously, is mightier than the sword. and no right to use the name of the company. If the young man in question should be in Timmins at this time, or if he should come here later, every efâ€" fort should be made to stop any and all of his attempts to defraud the pubâ€" lic. In all such cases it is the best policy to be sure of the credentials of anyone seeking to casly a chequs or have it enâ€" dorsed. The dst. meothod is to call the seeking to ca.Z a chequs 0o dorsed. The best meothod : local office or ask the polic materialiy vices. As has no col Advance Ticket Sale: 171 Ray Street, WA. 2226; Moodey‘s, 90 King St. West, EL. 1098. AUG. 25 rorownto SEPT. 9 What‘s the future of Television ? How does it work? Are the images clear? Are the sets easy to operate? How far can it be broadcast? The Canadian National Exhibiâ€" tion this year offers you the first public demonstrations of Television in Canada. Superintended by R.C.A. Victorengincers the demonâ€" stration covers all phases of television. You can sgsee people actually being teleâ€" vised. It‘s really an historic occasion ... don‘t missâ€"it! h t the _however, he London Life name of the n in question this time, or er, every efâ€" top anvy and nt de