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They came among the lower fo_ot- ings of the mountains No longer could theh' eyes follow the two pardâ€" lel paths through the dead grass for any distance. Constantly, the road dipped into ravines, skirted low hills, crossedl gulches anal arroyos coVered with coarse gray sand. The man’s lips were bluish-White, his breathing nasped, short and quick. The girl plodded doggedly in the dust, red! of face, sweat-gfimed. The sum winked) from behind a jagged peak and wars- gone The man and woman stared at the mountaixwâ€" dun-colored, utterly diesflate. David clutched his mother tightly at the sound of he: voice. “Where are We â€"-” she moaned. “Oh, Kenneth where are we?” At the bot-tom of the next arroyoâ€"i Branded, her voice a deep Ominous well filled With live oak trees~bhe:mmb1\e. wheel marks of the Indian’s wagon; It was a moment before the girl turned to the right and disappeared could make a sloundl; then the words up the river of sand. It was strange‘ pOured themselves out shrilly. “I’m how they missed those fresh, wheel Ma‘s}. Warren, the sister of Harry tracks. aGreyâ€"I own three-quarters of this Beyond this arroyo the road rose to ranchâ€"take us To J ep Snavely at For two long, hot, dusty hours they walked on with never a Sign of huâ€" man things. The awesome silence enâ€" veloped them, penetrated them, until their very thoughts seemed like small independent voices. They felt watch- ed by a grim, thousand-eyed spirit. The occasional rabbit or coyote which ran before them looked back futively, then went on to give news of their coming. When rarely they spoke, the words passed betWeen them in a low frightened voice, as though speech were forbidden. He shook his head, but could not afford breath for speech. The girl picked up her son and stated forward desperately. Ruth lookefl back toward the gate. Beyond, heT eyes sought the occasâ€" ional stretches of dusty highway 515' it Wound up the valley . . eighty-five to the first thing which could‘ be called civilization, eighty-five miles to a. policeman. She shiver'ed; but turned to her husband with a smile which was meant to be brave. “All right, dear; let’s go. If we get shot we’ll just get shotâ€"we can’t stay here and we certainly can't go back.” SYNOPSIS . . . . Ruth Warren, living in the East, comes into possession of three-quarter interest in an Arizona ranch, left to her in the will of her only brother, reported to have died while on business in Mexico. With her ailing husband and small child she goes to Arizona to take posses» sion, thinking the climate may prove beneficial to her husband’s weakened lungs. Arriving an: the nearest town, she learns that the ranch, “Dead Lantern,” is 85 miles acress the desk ert. Charley Thane, old rancher and rural mail carrier, agrees to take them to ,‘Dead Lantern” gate. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY Neiflwr the girl nor her husband seemed anxious to start up the road. It was when thisI fact became piarir. to them both that Ruth cried, “It’ll be sundown before 10ng'â€"â€"â€"we simply can’t‘stay here.” Warren nodded. “We’d better start, I guess.” CANADIAN NATIONAL Enhance the joys of your Enhance the joys ot your‘ Western tripâ€"travel via Canadian National’s train de luxeâ€"The Continental Limited. This modern magic carpet smoothly unfolds rugged Northern Ontario before your eyesâ€"across the Prairiesâ€"pilots you through the Canadian Rockies by the Scenic Route over the easiest gradient and at the lowest altitudeâ€"vet keeps you with- in easy sight of the mightiest and most inspiring peaks. THIRD INS’I‘ALMENT PAGE SIX Wu 5mm: av. 1 “Dog!” announced David, squirmi- ing about in his mother’s arms. As far as he was concerned, all was again Well with the world. Something of this feeling came to the parents. With a backward glance», which now held‘ Wonder instead of blind fear, they went forward with quickened step. When they were quite near, the dog â€"â€"â€"one of whose remote ancestors had undoubtedly been part Spanielâ€" mloved out of sight at the side of the incline. A few more strides again brought the man and girl to a rigid halt. In the shadow of the bank stood the most gigantic woman they had ever seen. Nearly six and a half lfeet in height, her huge arms folded across her breast, she stood as straight as the sheer bank behind 'her. Her face, hawkâ€"nosed; had the ldignity of an Indian chief’s and the color of a southern negro. “Where iyou-all think yo’re goin’?” she de- manded, her voice a deep Ominous irumbl‘e. l TORONTO Daily at 10.40 EM. (E.S.T.) A dog barked friendly. Some dis- tance ahead the gulch turned to the right and the road rose out of it by another incline. At the bottom of this cut in the bank sat a small black dog. Like Wild things, the man and wo- man ran blindly forward. Immed- iately the whisper was/lost, dying away on a single word: The two stopped again and clung- tog-ether trembling. The darkness was comâ€" ing‘ quicklyâ€"already the banded walls of the gulch had’ taken on weird mys- tery from the light. With‘terror- widened eyes the man and girl looked from one bank of the gulch to the other, donscious' of no (thought or plain. Then Ruth caught her breath in an hysterical sob, another followed. Warren gripped her shoulder with the agony of the sudden cough which presently was flecking' his White lips with red. . . . They rested a. moment until the deepening drusk, the awful silence forcd them to their feet. They took but one step then froze to statue, terror leaped into their faces: a voice low, intimate, whispered into their ears. “Goâ€"back. Go-back.” “Kenâ€"l" Ruth screamed the word. The man and woman clutched: each other, staring Wildly.’ The gulch was still barren, nothing- moved, not a rabbit could have been hiddem Yet the hollow whisper came again, at their very ears. “Goâ€"back. Youâ€" m'usrtâ€"goâ€"back! Goâ€"” descend presently into a deep gulch. The banks 011 either side fell sheer to the bottom of coarse, bare sandkâ€"a great channel plowed up by cloud- bursts in the mountains. A distance ahead 3. large brown bowldenthmst its bulk through the sand. The young man ancfl the girl kept their eyes upâ€" on this rockâ€"an oasis, a place to sit for a. moment, a place to empty their shoes. The road, too, bent slightly to pass the rock. JASPER GOLF WEEK Sept. 3!!! to 9th. WINNIPEG} EDMONTON J A 5 D an. ILO C KY MOUNTAINS DACI Fl c 1 ‘ C § OAST f C ALASKA Leaves “Yels, Mr. Warren has the will in his pocket. Pleaseâ€"emit We go up to the house? My husband and little boy must rest. We walked all the way from the mail box.” “Let’s seeâ€"the will.” Warren was able to step forward and give Snavely the paper. The man: read it slowly and completely. At last he lifted his eyes) to the girl. “Why dlidn’t your brother tell me about this?" “I’m sure I don’t know.” “He tol’ me he didn’t have no folks.” There was a perceptible pause be~ fore Ruth replied. “Yes,” she said firmly, “and my lawyer has the other copy. Now please, take us to the houseâ€"waft you undefstand? My husband is not well.” The girl hesitated. “His real mother is dead and Harry and‘ 1â€"â€" Harry became estranged from his father before he came West. Perhaps- that was what he meant.” For a long moment Snavely looked at the girl. At last his eyes shifted) to the giantess; and' he nodded slightly toward the house. Without a. word the Woman picked Warren from his feet and strode on. “Youâ€"come hereâ€"b0, take this ranchâ€"" His words faltered. At length, with an effort, be ‘Spoke, his voice in a softer key. “Yguâ€"go-tâ€" your documents?” HHuh. Maybe. You seen a lawyer about this; I reckon?" At the top of the gulch the girl saw the ranch house and buildings. She also saw a man leave the barn and walk swiftly toward them. He had a bucket in his handâ€"a bucket of milk. “Who are you?” The man stopped close to the girl. His! tall, wiry body was tense, sdnuously alert. His pale blue eyes, almost White against the dark tan of his clean-shaven face, shifted oonstantly with small quick movements as though focused in turn upon every point of her face. “Ans- wer me!” His voice was imperious, high~pitahed~“Wha't are you dloin’ Ruth took a step backward. “But I am Harry Grey’s sister. He Will-ed me his interest in thisl ranch. My husband and I have come heme to see about it.” Ruth held out her hand, and Snave- ly, with a sharp glance into her eyes, slowly gave her back the will. He7 walked beside her during the time The huge woman came slowly down to them. She stooped and lift- ed Warren in her arms. “Come,” slhe rumbled, and strode out of the gulch, carrying the man more easily than the girl carried the child. here The girl caught her breath sharply “I am Ruth Warren and this is my husbandâ€"” She indicated Warren who was now standing, supported by the giant woman. “My husband must have rest at onceâ€"a b-ed).” “That dkm’t mean nothin’ to meâ€" what’re you doin’ here?” “What.” he thrust his face within a. band’s breadth of the girl’s. “You lie! Grey tol’ me his own [se’f he didn’t have no folks!” Grey.” “Help us‘!” cried the girl, dropping beside her husband. ovncefiat onceâ€"fiat once!" ' The giantess bent her head‘ slightly unfolded her arms, and turning, started up the) incline, the little dog fr'isking before her. Warren book an uncertain step ward, tattered, and fell in a. heap In the shadow of the rock stood Lh- Inns! gigantic woman they had ever seen. “W‘ I)” 'eâ€"I am the sister of Harry THE LIBERAL, RICHMOND HILL, ONTARIO for- “Well, since I have this interest in the ranch, I suppose I’m in the same position that Harry was. I can’t be the partner he was, but I’ll try to do my share.” A d©finite plan shown in his pale eye‘s. “Oh, sure. Well, now, I get ‘ “Oh. No, Harry sent us: the will himselfâ€"it was some time ago; about three months after he Went into this‘ ranch.” “Theré'must have been a lawyer to send you the ‘will when your brother died.” ' p “Huh.” There was quite a pause. “But you just said your lawyer had a copy of it.” “I reckon,” Snavely considered a corner of the whifiexvashed wall. Sounds from within indicated that the giantess was getting supper. Snavely’s- eyes returned in a. little jump to the girL “Just what are you aimin’ to do here? youâ€"yes, sir.” Snavely seemed on the verge of becoming pleasant. “I’ve got the ‘idearâ€"you an’ me is to go on jest like as if you was your brother. Is that it?” “Why, yes. I have the same inter- est in the ranch that he bad.” “You sure have.” There was a long silence. “I sup- pose,” said the girl, “that there will be some legal technicalities or Some- thing, won’t there? I thought we’& leave it until we could see about it together, you know.” “There. are plenty of attorneys in the East," replied the girl sweetly. And as she neared the small house With its whitewashed: walls and red roof of corrugated iron, Ruth Warren became aware of another dissatisfac- tion. A hundred feet west of the house stood a huge adobe ruin. It had character, this ruin. Compared to the one-story ranch house with its almost flat roof, the ruin had been a. palace. Grim, mutilated, forgotten, the old building, frowned upon the ranch house. The girl had a queer fancy which made her shiver. It seemed to her that the ruin wanted the house to come closerâ€"very close-{or just a moment. For the first time since returning the will to the, girl, Snavely spoke. “When d’icl you get in?” he asked suddenly. _ “You mean when did we arrive in town? Only this morning. You see,” continued the girl, “We wrote you about a fortnight agoâ€"but we got here as soon as the letterâ€"we didn’t. know about your onceâ€"a-week delivâ€" ery.” ' “You seen your lawyer this mom- in)?" The giant woman arrived at the porch of the ranch house first. Car- rying Warren to a rawhide cot give laid him upon it. Warren promptly sat up, grinning at His Wife as she and Snave‘ly arâ€" rived. “Great Scott, Ruth, but I’ve certainly been carried! ' She’s the strengest thing I ever met in my life” The giantess opened the screen door and handed a. pillow to the girl. Af- ter she had arrangeti her hwsband comfortably upon the cot, the girl left him with Snavely and took her son into the house. Snavely spoke no word to Warren. When the girl reâ€" turn-ed she gave Warren a glass of mil-k and some crisp tortillas. 74 Yonge St. it took to cover the distance to the houseâ€"nearly two hundred yardsâ€" in complete silence. Nothing he could have done would have served better to put the girl in a more frantic state of mind. She felt that he was think- ing, planning, feverishly and craftily. yer Snavely’s face returned in a little jump to the girl, “Just what are you aiming to do here?’: CHIMNEYS BUILT & REPAIRED EAVESTROUGHING FURNACES “I don’t understandâ€"what law- 9n R. H. KANE (Continued next week) St. Phone 92F RICHMOND HILL Roofing 9n 5 SHOW CARDS PRICE TICKETS -- BANNERS G. MORLEY BEYNON Phone 150 â€" 76 Yonge St. A number of ouf citizens were pleased to meet at the Toronto Ex- hibition Mr. John Powell, formerly of this place. Mr. Powell with his band, the 65th Regiment Band, Of Buffalo, were the principle musical attraction on Thursday, America’s Day. The Railway Committee of the County Council consisting of Messrs.‘ W. H. Pug-slay and J. D. Evans, to- gether with Manager Moyes of the Metropolitan Railway, and others, went over the line north of Richmond Hill yesterday to locate the eitension north of this- Village. Work is pro- gressing about Bond’s Lake. Mrs. Henry Duncan, wife of the Reeve of York Township, dLied sud~ dIe'nly on Friday morning. She went to bed feeling as well as usual on Thursday night, but was found dead in bed the next morning. Heart dJiSJ~ easle is supposed to have been the cause. Deceased was a sister-inâ€"law of Mr. John Duncan. cert program and Mr. Sanderson had an instructive letter on the plebis- cite. Another issue speaks of a. new Mefihod‘is't church to be built on one of the branches of the circuit, and says that “A new Sabbath- School has also been fully organized by our en- ergetic Pastor, Rev. A. R. Sandersmm, who takes an interest in everybody.” The greater part of New West- minster, B. 0., was diestroyed by fire on Sunday m‘oming. Nearly all bush iness houses were swept away and over 1000 people were left Homeless; The loss amounts to millions. The. extent of the fire is half a: mile square. We observe by the Algom‘a Con- Conts‘e'l'vation that Rev. and Mrs. A. R. Sanderson are taking- an active part in affairs at Gore Bay and sur~ rounding dis¢rict. In a recent issue of that paper Mrs. Sanderson was down for two vocal 59103 on a con- From Our Issue of Sept. 15th, 1898 Hon. Wm. Mulook, Postmaster General, was banquetted by the Board of Trade yesterday. The horses, vehicles and farming implements of the late J eremliah Mort son will be sold at his late residences, Richmond Hill, on Saturday, the 4th of October. Saig'eon and McEwen, auctioneers. The health of its growing children is the most important question which faces Canada or any other country. There are other important questions concerning which the front pages; of the newspapers daily remind us, but the future of this country is more dependent upon the mental and physâ€" ical health of the next genergtion than it is upon anrything else. Other values may change, The dollar mayrise or fall, and! its pur- chasing power vary from time to time. Social conditions, in general, and conditions of employment, in par- ticular, will be different. No matter how things change, and re'gardleSS of how we, individually, may View such changes, the boy and girl with a healthy mind and bod‘y will be better equipped to meet the years which lie before them. The parents who succeed in bring- ing their child to adult life with a well-developed, robust body and mind have given him the greatest gift which it is within their power to of- fer. Other thinps may appear to be equally desirable, but none of them will mean as much to the child, be- cause with a healthy mind and body, he can secure the happiness which comes with the ability to live a. use- ful life, and will overcome the diffi- culties which must be faced and dealt with satisfactorily. The Public Library Board are‘ about to purchase books for the com-‘ ing library year, amounting to $100. As usual, they are anxious to get suggestions from citizens and request any person interested ’00 hand in the names of any books they would like to See placed in the libma'y. SIGNS Most parents do give a great deal THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO WAY BACK IN THE LIBERAL FILES THE GROWING PERIOD W (fianahian flHehiwl Aaznriafirm 91AM? gamma. M.D. u .ASSOCIATE SECRETARY THURSDAY, SEPT. 2131., 1933 of care to their children during the first year or two of life. The baby is so dependent, that the need for care is obvious. Many mothers keep their babies under the supervision of L=o=nor=xouo fl YARDS AT BURR’S MILL II =o=o==o=o= MILL Children need care thro1 their whole period of growth. Questions concerning Health, ad- dressed to the Canadian Medical As- sociation, 184 College Street, Toronto, will be answered personally by letter. ROCK BOTTOM PRICES FORMULAS MADE UP JUST UNLOADED CAR OATS Res. 8-2-W PHONES Mill 139-M WE DELIVER ALSO 5 Lime, Cement, Tile ALL KINDS OF SHEET METAL WORK Furnaces, Eave Troughs, Metal Garages, Roofing Jobbing Promptly Attended to OF THE JOHNSTON’S BABY POWDER A TOILET NECESSITY NOT’A LUXURY ONLY 25c. AUSTIN’S Drug Store Hudson Decorators B. R. WOLFREY, Prop. Full Line of FUEL Editcd'by R. R. No. l â€"â€" Richmond Hill Chimneys Built and Repaired Phone 188 I.F‘OX Painting, Paperhanging Decorating WORK GUARANTEED Estimates Free A. Taxpayer of The District, Church St. Richmond Hill P. 0. Box 32 FULL LINES OF FEED RICHMOND HILL Jones Coal Co. PLASTERING Phone 46 1-14 General Repairs THE P. FARR, care throughout