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"That‘s the sloop," the priest told them pointing out a small vessel lying somewhat apart from the fishing boats. "What did you say her tonage was?" the Major asked. "About four or five?" "Scmething like that", Father Malâ€" aoney said. . "I know she‘s small enough to be handled alone, though there‘s comfortable accommodation aboard her for two people. Poor old Saiter would have had a fit if he‘d known that his two hired hands were sleeping in his cabin though!" They found their melancholy host sitting up for them, and the priest greeted him cheerfully in Spanish. "Will thes> friends of your want to eat or drink before they go to their rooms?" the landlord asked. "They are tired and all they want is to go to bed," Father Maloney answered "Â¥ou remember what I told you about the morning?" CHAPTER XIV t ONE CUBANX NIGHT It was past eleven o‘clock when they finally left Father Maloney‘s house and made their way under his guidance to the s>lfâ€"styled "hotel". It was a beautiful moonlight night and as they walked along the silent and deserted waterfront, the still waters of the landlocked bay shone like burnâ€" ished silver. The spars and cordage of the fishing craft lying at anchor were etched clearly against the lambent light and the dusty road gleamed whiteâ€" ly under the deep shadow of the treeâ€" clad hillside. ETWE "Fverything is prepared," the landâ€" jlord assured him. "Bartolomeo has lent me his small boiler and there will be plenty of hot water. It is thanks to you padre, that we begin well as a hotel for foreigners We shall not forget it. And would you believe it we had another Senior here this evening, who will engage a room. Not for toâ€"night you understand, but in week‘s time. An American, I think." "Things are looking up!" the priest told him with a laugh. "What does this Senior intend to do in Carbonaras? Is he connected with the new road?" "I would not ask him a question like that!" the landlord protested in a shocked voice. "Perhaps it is that, and perhaps it is some other thing. But he was a very particular Senior, and he made Dona Lucia show him all the three rooms that we have before he would decide. It was the Senorita‘s room that he liked best." "I can see that you will soon become a â€" veritable _ proprietario Esteban!" Father Maloney proncunced gravely. "Well, I will leave my friends to your good care, Buenos noches!‘ He said good night to the others and departed back to his own house and the solemn Esteban proceeded to light candles for his guests. It was only then that Diana remembered that she was sleeping on the ground floor, away from the others, and she made a little grimâ€" ace of distate as the landlord opened the door and placed her candle within. Toby was quick to notice it. "What‘s the matter?" he asked "Don‘t you like the idea of sleeping down here?" PUBLISHED BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENXT NDAY. NOVEMBER 4TH,. 1940 "I don‘tâ€"much", she luctantly. "It‘s idiotic, much rather be upstairs KoNi on OO EC CCC "Upstairs it shall be then!" he told her cheerfully. "I don‘t care two hoots where I sleep, and it‘s only a matter of swapping bags. It‘s lucky we haveâ€" n‘t unpacked though." He turned to explain the situation to the sleepy landlord in halting Spanâ€" ih and in another few minutes the transfer of luggage had been madse. "Â¥ou are a dear, Toby." the girl told him, as she started to go upstairs to her room. *"You‘re sure YOu don‘t mind slesping down there"? NoT in i ce o i ooo o o n o 1 s oi 1 d L M > |ff.â€" 1A ontucst He lay thinking about that. He did not agree with Major that the late Captain Sailter had never even written the letter. From what little he had seen of him, he judged that he had been far too blunt a man to take refuge in a lis in order to save himself trouble. If he had stated that he had written the lett@râ€"then the odds were that the But what had become of it? Had it gone astray in the post by some misâ€" chance or had he been carrying it upon him at the time of his death? The problem pursued his in his sleep however, and he dreamed that he had undertaken a survey flight of the whole of the Bahamas in an antiquated maâ€" chine, with the object of identifying much", she admitted reâ€" It‘s idiotic, I know, but T‘d 3 an arkman _z * ey ,P ~â€"#4 Syan the island from the drawing which{ Father Maloney had supplied. ap-! peared that it was shaped in the form of a fiveâ€"pointed star, and ho felt con-l vinced that he would have no dimculty‘ in spotting it if only he could keep the | machine out of a spin. But that was the difficulty. In some inexplicable way, the wretched thing remained on the point of stalling whatever he did to it No matter how hard he pulled the stick back her nose kept dropping and he was forced to open up the throttle till the engine roared deafenâ€" ingly. It seemed inevitable that he wouldsmash the ship up, but at least that would rule out the danger of being burned to death. The isiands shot up towards him as he hurtled through the air, with the wind singing shrilly through the struts and he was withâ€" in a hundred feet of the ridged sand beâ€" low, when he woke up. "What Major C going on do you € that inf« The |: crous in his head €ed to T; "It is\ in Spani perhaps. "What voice, aA head of over her The â€" evyes an room, al down. th ing fero ter‘s ing _A lc In spite of the vividness of his dream he awoke with the impression that it was something els» that had perked him into consciousness, and he lay for some moments gathering his s:attered senses tegother and listening. All was deathly still in the house. Outside the cicades were still chirrupâ€" ing, and a frog was croaking at regular monotonous intervals, but there seemed to be nothing to account for the impâ€" ression he had received. And then came a slight rustle, which his sharpened senses told him was deâ€" finitely in the room. He lay perfectly quiect listening inâ€" tently. The sound had come from somewhere quite near him, as far as he could judge and slightly to one side of the bed. He told himself that it was probably a mouse or a rat, but some inner sense gave the lie to siuch an ~hvinus AaÂ¥xnlanation and as he lay an cbvious explanation and as he lay he sensed himself ready to spring out of bed at the first corroboration of his unformed suspicionst. And then it happened. A tiny pencil of light leapt into being from the darkness of that side of the bed and settled on his face, and at the bed and settled on his face and at the same instant something wet and heavy was slapped over his face and clamped down as th:ugh with a vice. He was conscious of struggling madly with the sickly, sweet smell of chloroâ€" form strong in his nostrils. His assailâ€" ant had flung himself on top of him and was pinning him down under the bedclothes ut he was putting every ounce of his strength into a frantic effort to get clear. He realised that unless he could do so in the next few seconds, he was lost; for with every breath the anaesthetic was robsing him of the the ability to fight his way out. For a few seconds he hardly knew what happened. At first he concentrated on trying to break that relentless grip on his face but hee culd not get his hands free from the sheet, and strive as he would he found it imposisible to twist his body clear of the other‘ s weight. Abondoning the attempt he punched upwards through the sheet at his assailant‘s body and here he achieved something like success, for he heard a muffled grunt of pain, and he felt the fellew flinch away from him. He drove in two more blows; and then, with a supreme effort heaved his tautened body up and sidewards. The effort succeeded. He managed to twist over and the pad slipped from his face as the man sought to maintain his balance. The next instant he had comâ€" pleted his turning movement and still partly wrapped in the sheet, fell out of bed and as he did so he heard the other man spring off the bed above him and there followed a rush of muffled footâ€" steps across the room. out on hands; and l:nees and staggered weakly to his feet, prepared to continue the fight on more equal terms. It seemâ€" ed, however, that the other had no stomach for this, for as he rose to an upright position he saw the heavy curâ€" tains swept back and a dark figure was silhouetted dimly against the scarcely less intense darkness outside. It appeared that his late assailant was now bent only upon making his escape. That younzs man sensed the blow coming and ducked. He had got a grip in the other‘s collar with his left hand, and as the fellow‘s face was turned towards him he drew back with his right and drove in a punch with all the strength he could muster, The blow landed home but thkere was was little force behind it. He heard the man grunt at its impact but the next moment he lunged back with his other hand, and Toby felt a sharp searâ€" ing pain along his ribs on the left side of his chest. Dazed as he was he had no intention | of allowing him to get away if he could, prevent, him, and without a moment‘s hesitation he ‘plunged across the room, after him. He caught him up just as he was in the act of getting out of the window, and he grappled with him promptly and tried to pull him back inside. "Leggo, you and he half | struck out saVv He staggered back, releasing his hold of the man‘s collar and the next instant the intruder had slid over the winâ€" dowâ€"sill and was gone. â€"â€"!" the man snarled, wisted on the sill and agely at Toby‘s face. "What on earth is the matter?" the Major demanded irascibly. "What‘s going on down there? How the blazes do you expect anyone to sleep through that infernal noise?" The landlord, looking slightly ludiâ€" crous in a long white nightshirt, shook his head uncomprehendingly, and pointâ€" €d to Toby‘s door. "It is the young Senior‘". he explained in Spanish. "He has had a bad dream perhaps." "What is it Daddy?" came Diana‘s voice, and she, too, appeared at the head of the stairs with a dressingâ€"gown over her nightdress, The â€" landlord â€" hastily averted his eyes and made for the door of Toby‘s room, and the other two came slowly down the stairs the Major still.growlâ€" ing ferociously in reply to his daughâ€" ter‘s inquiries. , .A loud exclamation from the landlord something startling in â€" Toby‘s room, apprising them that he had discovered they hurried down the remainder, of the stairs. and followed himâ€" in. . By the feeble light of the two candles the .ssene which met their eyes was anything but reass{uring. The bedâ€" clothes lay. strewn about the floor in wild confusion; one of the, window curtains had been partly torn down in the struggle and, hung trailing lankâ€" ly from a single hook: while Toby himâ€" self was standing facing them with a bloodstained towel held to the side of his naked chest. His pyjama jackâ€" etâ€"also ominously streaked and stainâ€" ed with bloodâ€"lay discarded on the floor beside him and the whole place was reeking with the heavy, sickly fumes of chloroform. o« McDowell Motors Ltd Schumacher Highway and Park Road COPYRIGHT "Toby!â€"what have you done to yourâ€"| self?" Diana exclaimed hurrying to- wards him while the Major stood 1usti inside the doorway, gaping at him speechlessly. ‘ The landlord has set hisâ€"candle down, t and was pouring water from an earthâ€" | enware jug into the washâ€"basin at the same time keeping up a string of‘ horrified ejaculations to which no one paid the slightest attention. ‘ "It‘s nothing muca.". Toby said with a somewhat. wan grin. ‘"Someone |came in through the window and tried Ito cut me with chloroform I objected and he took a poke at me with a knife} T don‘t think he‘s done much harm. | "Let .me have a look at it!" she; ordered whiteâ€"faced but calim, and he.' meékly obeyed and displayed a long, uzly looking gash high up on the side, of his chest. ,It was still bleeding freeâ€"| ly, but actually it looked far worse than| it was, for the knifeâ€"paint had evidentâ€" ly® glanced off his ribs and pl: ug‘hed a furrow along the.skin whic‘ was | nowhere deep. | "This is a nice thing to happen!" the Major exclaimed indignantly. "The police ought to be notified about â€" it immediately. "It‘s a doctor we want!" his daughter retorted. "Toby, can‘t you tell this man to fetch ons?" : "Uno Medico?" he . aexclaimed, as though the idea was one which woruld never have occurred to him in the cinrcumstances. "‘Ahn,. si,. si, Senior!" And he withdrew hurriedly to acquaint his wife with what had happened, and put on some more clothes before essayâ€" ing into the strset. She had already dipped the towel in the washâ€"hand basin and was busy staunching the flow of blood from the wound while the landlord stood by and gcggled at the victlm of the attack unhappily. Toby passed on the request to him in breken Spanish and he started spasâ€" modically. Globe and Mail: So far nobody has had the bright idea of connecting the discovery of some venerable bones in an East York â€"gravel pit with the disâ€" appearance of Ambrose Small. ADVANCE, TTMMINS, ONTARIO (To Be Continued) Pioneer Residents of Bucke Township Hold Reâ€"Union The following article from last week‘s Haileyburian, referring to a famflyi wellâ€"known in the North, members of ’which have taken an important and valuatle part in the development and ‘progm of the country. will be read with much interest:â€" | Wedding Anniversary Observed On the afternoon of Sunday, October |27th, the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. ‘Pirie, widely known and popular reâ€" sldents of the township of Bucke, was the scene of a reunion of the family, in honour of the 42nd anniversary of | their marriage, which took place at Hull, Quebec, on October 26th, 1898. | Present were one married daughter, Mrs. G. A. Loach, of Kirkland Lake; five married sons, Charles G. and ‘Harold. of Timmins: William T. and Russell, Lorrain Valley, and Lloyd of Matachewan. The latter had been married the previous day to Miss Franâ€" cis%a Smith, of the mining town. Two unmarried children Florence and CH{â€" {ford, were at home for the anniversary, while the other member of the family, Pte. Gordon J. Pirie, serving with the CASF. at Quebec City, was unable to be present. With the exception of Mrs. ‘[Harold Pirie and son, Donald, all the |daughters-in-laws. the sonâ€"inâ€"law, Mr. and the grandchildren â€" were lin the party. Mr. and Mrs. Pirie came to North Ccbalt in 1910 from Eardley, Que. For 12 years, 1917â€"1929 they lived in Lorrain township and since then have made their home in Bucke townsaiip, near North Cobalt. This week they have been receiving the congratulations of a large circle of acquaintances. "Now, in getti~z a meal, what is the first and most important thing?" asked the domesti> science instructress. "Find the canâ€"opzner," shouted thirty â€" girls without a moment‘s hesitation.â€"Exâ€" change. 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Town of Timmins TAKE NOTICE that the following question : ustedin are a dn "Are you in favour as a wartime measure under the Local Government Extension Aet 1940 of the Municipal Council elected for 1941 holding office for the term of two years"" Will be submitted to the votes of the Electors on the 2nd day of December, at the same time and at the same places as the Annual Election for the Muniâ€" cipal Council. And that the 28th day of November, A.D. 1940, at 10 o‘clock in the forenoon at the Municipal Buildâ€" ing in the Town of Timmins has been fixed for the appointment of persons to attend at the polling places and at the final summing up of the votes by the Clerk. , S Dated at Timmins, this 4th day of November, 1940 # 0 0 * ® **, 0\00 00 *ve * *.* 0 #* 00.00.00'00 b* Q N a overseas and to deliberately murder British women and children. He was not content to just let the matter drop, without a constructive suggestion. "Why not have a Buy British campaign to down Hitler?" he asked. "Let is not help Hitler by buying or selling Ger« man goods. ‘The letter ended with the words:â€""‘Thore‘ll Always be an Eng« land." Three men were lined up before a cross-eyed\judge. Judge: (Glaring at first man): "What‘s your name?" Second man: "John Jones. sir." Judge: (Glaring at second man»): "I wasn‘t talking to you." Third man: "IT didn‘t say anthing."~â€"Exchange is s , Mercury Didn‘t speak *AAA / o. A k SnA #. 4 ecteatestectles ooootooooooo:?ooo > A, L. SHMAW, pAtCE te ate staate ctaatactaatoatoats: Clerk