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“It will be rather good fun in the moreen, when you appear among them at breakfast: they think you are buried alive. You will come to my room tonight, Roland; there’s room for two.” “We were just; pulleen you out as the whole thing caved in and filled the. room,” said the Lifter who ended his words ,with argroan. The pain of his broken arm was very severe. “It will be rather good fun in the moreen, when you appear among Roland’s brain was still bewildered, and he had many questions to ask. “Good night,” Nancy said softly, “I must be away. The Lifter will tell The story starts about ninety years ago in a small village near the town Yof Little York. Mr. Roland Gray is fleeing for his life as a result of hav- ing shot Mr. Ham in a duel caused by the affection each has for Miss Astor who lives with her father. Gray is captured by the chief of the robbers of Markham Swamp. Through one of the captives, Nancy, at one time a beautiful young girl, he learns of all their evil doings. He persuades Nancy to try and escape from the den of sin with him at some convenient time in the future, also. The Lifter whose life he has the chance to save in return ,for The Lifter’s word of warning which saved his own. Gray has no fear for any member of the gang and on account of his daring action on different occasions has won the bitter enmity of the old woman. It is only because the chief wants to make use of him in some crime he is already planning for that he doesn’t share the same fate as most of the previous victims. Before the captain and his men go out to rob the ser- vant of a certain gentleman who is 'returning home with a large sum of money they lock Gray in his room. Gray calls to Nancy for her aid but. she is prevented from unbolting the door by the old woman. Later he hears a continuous succession of heavy thuds and notices the earth falling from the ceiling. He realizes only too well what the outcome will be and tries to think of a means of escape. He wonders who the participants in the affair are, could it be the old wo- man and her daughter or had the rob- bers returned? He begins pounding on the door and calling for Nancy's and The Lifter’s aid. Now Read On. At this moment an enormous mass fell from the roof and striking him up- on the head felled him senseless to the ground when he recovered a kind voice, Nancy’s, was whispering in his ear:â€" “We outwitted them didn’t we? Are you, better now?” ' NORMAN J. GLASS "And then we haveâ€"Shirts, Sus- penders, Garters, Cuff-links, Caps, Mitts, Etc. BUY EARLY AND GET THE CHOICE The Richmond Hill| Furnishing Store 1 Sweaters and sweater coats from . . . . . . . . . . $3.00 to $6.50. Neck Scarfs for men from $1.75 to $2.75 Ties in gift boxes, 3 large ass- ortment of the latest, at $1.00. Or say a nice pair of gloves at $2.00 to $2.50. Goloshesâ€"for men, women and children. The following story is founded on fact and asvthe author aptly said “everyone in this part of the country who is not deaf has heard of the gang at Markham Swamp." The-story was first published in 1886. It will run as a. continued story in The Liberal. J. J.Deane and Corporation Bofids 0 Bought, Sold and '-" Exchanged Goyefnment, Municipal Expert Battery Service Rentals Supplied The Robbers of Markham Swamp All business strictly confidential Private Phone: 78 Woodbridge SYNOPSN MILLS& HADWEN Ltd. STAR CALng “Mother hag,” he Went on to say, “I do not think that I can offer you any more grace. The attempt to bury me alive I attribute to your charitable Ibrain. I suppose you think that you have me at your power now that you have deprived me of a sleeping room. Well, these are my terms, dear old lady: unless you give me up your bed- lroom, which is substantial enough for 'my needs, I shall shoot you the first slant I get. Then I can hold my own 1 against the precious preacher of the 'Don here and his confederates. But should the strain‘of holding my life against these prove too great I shall fall back in good order into the wood, and make my way to the nearest mag- istrate, where I will render myself up." Scenes Leading To The Climax. The robbers soon dispersed and left our hero alone by the hole of a fallen pine. Nancy appeared in a moment, and, as she passed our hero on her way to gather branches for fire kind- lling, she said; 7 “They are all afraid. Are holding a consultation now. They will give «on the old woman’s room.” Then Nancy was gone. Everything iwas as still as the solitude of the tomb ‘and Roland could hear the partridge “drumming” among the silent aisles of the wood. He sat upon the tree-bole meditat- ing, and the words of Nancy somehow gave him courage Presently he heard *2 rustle in the dry bushes beside him, l : i and, looking he saw a fallow doe imaking her way with quick but dainty ’tread toward the lake. He saw that ‘she had not seen him, and that she was coming for the very spot where he sat. So he laid himself noiselesst .down in the shelter of the huge trunk and drawing his heavy pistol awaited. f‘You seem to have forgotten,” he went on, with a peculiar voice, “that if I chose to turn King’s evidence a- gainst you all that the den contains will be unearthed while I go free.” Every word of this harangue had been heard by the robber chief, who was returning from his expedition, but whose footsteps were so noiseless Ethat they could not be heard. you all about it." When The Lifter reached his room Roland noticed that his arm was in a sling, and the capâ€" tain was absent from home in put- suit of prey. Joe Murfrey who had {been in league with the old and Silent (Poll, assistedby Rev. Mr. Jonas, had driven in the earth roof with a heavy log made like a pile driver. The con- spirators believed that The Lifter and Nancy were sleeping; “and they will 'never know,” concluded The Lifter, with a joyous chuckle how you got out.”,-: “You rufl’ian!” They all started, and turning, observed Roland standing by the mouth of the tunnel, whence he saw and heard all that had passed. The two leading conspirators were simply speechless with amazement and rage; and then Murfrey’s eyes fell upon Nancy with a dark look of sus- picion. But the girl returned his look with one of \such innocent, enquiring wonder that he was at once satisfied she had nothing to do with the thwart- mg. The old woman seemed for a time to have lost the use of her faculties and she raved in the most incoherent fashion. .Taking little heed, of their disappointment, Roland helped himself to many of the good things upon the table, and retiring a little way seated himself at breakfast upon; the dry turf. Before doing so he coolly drew from the pocket at‘ his hip one pistol and from that at his breast another, laying both beside him on the ground. With the knife in his girdle he cut his bread and meat and when his meal was ended, sharpened it, most ostentatiously, on a stone near by, now and again giving a glance, in which there was threat as well as de- fiance, towards Murfrey and Rev Mr. Jon “Here's brimstone and blazes to the whelp in hell,” shouted Murfrey, as he swallowed nigh upon a tumbler of brandy. “The living cannot subsist by the dead,” murmuredathe Rev. Mr. Jonas. Even though our poor brother lies ready-tombed we shall begin, our re- past thankful that our unworthy lives still exercise His care.” In the morning all save Roland had assembled about the breakfast table, and a sound of triumph was in the voice of the hag. as. CHAPTER XI Prices Smashed In Good Used Cars -- Stars, Durants, Fords, Etc. 3147 Yonge St. Bedford Parkâ€"Phone HUdson 2718 and 2674 It may be objected here that the robbers would not be likely to give their captive the opportunity of es- caping which he must have had by being alone. I have to reply for the sake of the small critics who read my book and to whom the publishers are glad to sell it, that there was only one means of escape for Roland and that was along the lakeward side of the tunnel. But the passage here was commanded by the eyes of the gang, who had been underground in consul- tation. ‘ After the doe had been quartered, The Lifter, taking Roland aside, said: (To Be Continued) Albert Dahl was an educated Swede elderly, deaf and a patient in Kearney State Hospital for Tuberculosis. He used to knit socks for the soldiers overseas. After the war was over he knit stockings for children, booties for babies and made bead purses for ladies. He was very fond of compos- ing what he called “Jingles.” Be- low is a sample. Mr. Dahl died last spring. Hang up the good big stockings, be Running over he opened the jugular .artery so that the blood might run out 'of the meat, and cause it to be white, although some of the connousseurs of game prefer the retention of the blood [as the meat, they affirm, becomes ll“gamey” in a shorter perifih. they old or be they new. The bigger are the stockings, the more they will hold for you Men‘s socks they are so very short, they don’t amount to much So get a good big stocking and hang it up as such. Santa doesn’t like a sockâ€"so the story goes. They hold so little don’t you see, e’en stuffed clear to the toes. For when he goes to fill ’em up or stuff ’em as it were, “It: is more than you could do with a pistol, Joe,” the captain replied, turning to the hang-dog robber, who, with a very disconcerted air hulked away from the scene, probably in search of Nancy. “A fallow doe was passing down to- ward the lake and I fired” “And missed it," 'sneered Murfrey. \ “It is a fine fat one, captain,” R01- and said, taking no notice of‘the ruf- fian; “come and feel it.” The pistol shot brought the rob- bers instantly from the lair with alâ€" arm in their faces. “What is this?” demanded the cap- tain. In a. dozén seconds the unsuspect- ing animal was within half a dozen paces of him, when, rising he fired, one, two shots and the pretty creature fell over headlong, dead. J INGLES j Other resolutions passed instruct- ed the treasurer to accept for credit of the township the sum of four dol- lars returned by P. Murphy, received for lamb included in former sheep claim, and to pay to W. J. Oldham the sum of seventy-five dollars form- erly granted toward culvert and fill- !ing‘ in front of Hartman cemetery on Townline north, also to pay to Dr. Stuart Scott five dollars for one visit to Mrs. O’Leary as authorized by the reeve. T. Moorehead, hauling culverts, and placing one of same on T. L. E., $6.00 Geo. Collard, hauling gravel and other work on T. L. south, $158.00; Ken- nedy and Hartford, balance due bldg. culvert opposite Lot 26, Con. 2, 136.42 John Thompson, moving Mrs. Weis- ner to Toronto Hospital, $8.00; Ban- ner Press, printing parking notice cards, $2.75; W. A Brunton & Co., groceries and etc. for O’Leary family $13.59; Everett Barnes, services as truant officer $5.50; Stouffville corpor- ation, one years rent of Clerk’s office, $50.00;W H. Clark, stamps Vzoflice phone rent, L.) D. calls etc., $31.69; F. W. Playter, valuing R. Lundy’s sheep, $2.00; J.‘ A. Mabley, Valuing S. C Snively’s sheep, $2.00; Wm. Bo- tham, error in account, $1.24; J. A. Clarke, for 2 valuations sheep killed by dogs, $4.00; Wm. Pettit, caretaking‘ hall for council meetings, $9.00; C. W. Bostwick, road maintenance Div. 15, $89.80; A. N. Widdifield, dragging and road maintenance, div. 22, 818.37; Thorton Sloan, grading and cleaning ditches, div. 37, $9.75; H. Bishop, dragging roads div 21, $7.00; E Madâ€" ill, repairing culvert, div, 9 $2.70; J. T. Empringham, dragging road Div. 17, $4.80; Geo. E. Cook dragging and road maintenance, $14.42; Walter Hall dragging 6th Con. line, div 28, $4.80; Geo. Druery, digging out cement tile between lots 30 and 31, con 2, $3.00 The Treasurer was instructed to pay the following accounts etc. as presented. A. M. Vernon dragging road T L. N. $16.10; T. Moorhead, 1500 feet road plank, $60.00; Robt. Ratch’fr, 595 ft. road plank. $23.80; H .Widdifield road superintendent 30 days 11/; hours, $180.90; Geo. Preston, services school attendance officer, $10.00; S. C. Sniv- ely per Geo. Anthony, sheep claim and bonus for killing dog, $100.00; C. J. Brodie sheep claim, $100.00. Co., for groceries supplied for family iMrs. O’Leary. Reports Presented ;â€" M. O. H. and Local Board of Health; Townline East expenditure, by Whitchurch and Uxbridge, show- ing balance due Township of Whit- church, to be $17.00. Sheep claims were presented by C. J. Brodie and Geo. Anthony on behalf of S. C. Snively, with reports of valuâ€" ators. Never were there better opportunities to fill your gift buying list than this store presents to you right .now. Real gifts at money saving prices should make this a busy store right. up to the closmg hour of Christmas Eve. - - Buying your gifts at this store has an added pleasure. for here. the Spirit of Christmas prevails. It grows as the time draws nearer. Service that helps you solve your problems is foremost. Our Christmas packets of Chocolates, Tobaccos, Cigarettes and Paper lends the fina Yule Tide touch to the large and varied stock we have assembled for your approval. The Road Superintendent was in- structed to gravel the 5th Con. line opposite lots 23 to 28, at a cost ex- ceeding four hundred dollars. Council adjourned sine die. The Gift Problem Solved at,“ Wray’s Drug Store Ernest Weeks requiring financial assistance, S C. Snively regarding claim for sheep killed ‘by dogs; T. F. Doyle, re account W A. Brunto‘n & _Whitchurch Township council met for last regular meeting 1926 at Van- dorf December 15th at 10 o’clock a.m. with all members in attendance. WHHTCHURCH COUNCIL iommunications presented:â€" Richmond Hill, H. E. WRAY, Druggist STONEâ€"for Concrete or Roads GRA VELâ€"Screened or Pit Run House Phoneâ€"Grover 4963 Old Lumber Richmond Street To Our Friends; and Patrons Telephone Thornhill Nights, Richmond Hill 1101 51-r-12 Langstaff Supply Co., Ltd TRY US FOR SERV7ICE GET OUR PRICES ON CEMENT AND WORK IT WILL PAY YOU Blocks Made To Order 01‘ From Our Stock At Yards LAKE SIMCOE ICE, Limited WilCOX‘ Lake. For Firewood G. H. DUNCAN, Manager JOS. “7. RI. COUSINS 57 QUEEN STREET, WEST, TORONTO. $1.00 for team load at Ice House WE thank our many patrons and friends in this district for their kind Patronage during the past year and take this opportunity of wishing them a Merry Xmas. and a Happy and Prosperous New Year. G. S. REAMAN treet ] CEMENT MIXERS FOR RENT Materials delivered when required. CEMENTâ€"by the Car Loadi’ FOURS and SIXES Come in and See Them Office Phoneâ€"Adelaide 5605‘ Ontario, Phone 33 Richmond Hill.