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Pnotos and Passports Secured All email-Ea confidential We look after your wants right from your home. Phone Willowdale 631 Office Stop 6. Yonge St. Liming W. Robinsonâ€" aha Shh-iil'hvi‘éeé ti" and the Village of Woodbridge is defendant, which settlement is fully set forth in Minutes of Settlement dated the 26th day of December, 1933, and filed in the said Court, and to enable the Village to enter into an Agreement in accordance with the terms thereof. DATED at the Village of Wood- bridge in the County of York this 27th day of December, 1933. SKEANS, HOOPER & HOWELL, Solicitors for the Corporation of the Village of Woodbridge. BROTHERTON’S ° BOOKINC Steamship OFFICE 74 Yonge St. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that| the Village 01" Woodbridge will apply! to the Legislative Assembly of the! Province of Ontario at its next ses- sion for an Act to ratify and validatel the settlement of an action in theI SupremeVCourt of Ontario, wherein! Samuel Piunkett and others arer plaintiffs and W. Robinson and Soul Converters Limited and the Village- of Woodbridge are defendants, and: an action in the ~s:«.1id_ Court wherein “Then I think we might attempt: to solve the riddle in this manner; the man may have thought that since you were rather new to ranching he could perhaps enéourage you to sell him your interestâ€"" Ruth nodded con- firmation, and Mr. Martin continued: “He could have given you a cash pay- Mr. Martin gazed thoughtfully at the ceiling above Ruth’s head. Pres»- ently he asked, “Did this man know that you were the only beneficiary of your brother’s will?" “He didn't even know about me un~ til I came to the ranch. I suppose after we'd talked he found out there was no one elseâ€"I told him my share was three-quarters. He read) the will, can be brought. Ruth, penniless and' without friends attempts to carry on] but is balked at almost every turn by the crafty and plotting Snavely. Desâ€" pite obstacles of all kind, Ruth gives notes on her ranch interest to pur- chase cattle. She is assisted by Old Charley Thane and his son, Will Thane. A Mexican family has been, hired to assist with the work. peculiar sickness develops with the‘ livestock. Snavely calls it “liver fever” . . . and says he has a powder. for the water to cure the disease} Ruth discovers trickery in Snavely’s tactics of poisoning her cattle, but. says nothing, waiting for additional evidence. Drought is overcome by sinking a well in a ravine, getting! water for the perishing stock. At' the roundâ€"up Ruth has enough stock to sell to meet her notes. ' NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHIMNEYS BUILT & REPAIRED EAVESTROUGHING FURNACES Special Sailingé to that Homeland by: Canadian Pacific, Cunard and Anchor-Donaldson lines at Lowest Rates. three-fourth interest in the Dead Lam tern ranch in' Arizona. With her youthful husband, who is in poor health, and their small son, David, they come to Arizona to take up where Ruth’s brother, reported killed in Mexico, had left off. They reach Dead Lantern, 85 miles from the near eat railroad, with the help of Old Charley .Thane, neighboring rancher who also carries the rural mail. ‘At the ranch they find the partner, Snavely, and a huge woman, Indian Ann, who greet them suspiciously. As they trudge the 5 miles from ranch gate'to the house they pass a huge rock in a gulch where a voice whispers, “Go back. Go back.” Ruth’s husband caught; in a rain'shortly af- ter their arrival contracts pneumonia and passes away before medical aid, Application To Parliament TWENTIETH INSTALMENT SYNOPSIS: Ruth Warren, born ‘ R. H. KANE PAGE SIX in an RICHMOND HILL Roofing ‘ern cit irren, born and city, is willed a the Dead Lan- .a. With' her Phone 92F “ER SERVICE- MM. I l “I hate awfully to admit it, but I Host your father’s revolverâ€"it was iburied when the old house fell. I wish :you’d try to get me another like it in ILos Angeles. Could you? He’s asked ime once or twice why I didn’t wear it ~When I went riding, but I didn’t want to tell him.” “I hate awfully to admit it, but I lost your father’s revolver." i “Good Lord! Is that all you’ve been worrying about? Wei], forget it right now. Dad’s lost more than one gun in his timeâ€"as a matter of fact, he was forced to give one or two of 'em away. Sure, I can get you one. But say, you should have said someâ€" !thing about this before. Herev”â€"Will ldrew a revolver from the pocket of way/v [£542 “Well, how about coming over the day after you get backâ€"Sunday?” Will nodded. “That’ll be all right. We'll show up about noon." “About a week. We’re leaving toâ€" morrow morning and expect to be home again next Saturday evening.” As they were helping‘David, who was more than half asleep, out of the car, Ruth thanked Will for the trip. Then said hesitatingly, “I wish you and your father would come over soon â€"I can’t promise you a very cheerful dinner, butâ€"” “Fine!” ‘Will interrupted tactfully. “You set: the day and we’ll certainly raise the dust getting here.” “How long did you say you and your father were going to be away?” asked Ruth, as Will dn‘ove past the barn. By the time the car was entering the arroyo east of the barn, Ruth had grave doubts about saying anything, Whatever, to Snavely. His desire to have the ranch and to be by himself amounted to a maniaâ€"what would he do if she were to tell him that the ranch was, to be sold'? And she was eighty-five miles from help. Mr. Martin smiled slightly. owe me nothingâ€"but here is my I rather feel that we shall again.” ‘ She found David and Will waiting;' at the machine. During the rest of; the afternoon, which was spent (at! a moving picture show, and later at; dinner, Ruth’s mind was busy. It was i maddening, that the first time she had i been able to leave the ranch and en-; joy herself, she could think of nothing: but the ranch. She imagined that! Will did not notice her preoccupied; manner. 5 This thought was easy in the lighted restaurant, humming with the voices and laughter of many people. But twenty miles out of townâ€"~the roadster throbbing into a. wall of blackness which never liftedâ€"Ruth’s part, in her imaginary conversation with Snavely became less aggressive. sion of the proceeds according to both your interests.” “Oh.” Ruth smiled uncertainly as she stood up. “Thats a relief. I think I’ll be going now. I’ll decide later just what I want to do. What do I owe you for your advice?” The lawyer pursed his- lips. .“No crime, exactly, but it should be plain to any one what his motives were.” “What ought I to do?” ask-ed Ruth “I think, if I were you, I should tell him that you have consulted an attor ney and that you intend to have the will probated. Once that has been adâ€" justed, I do not believe anything fur- ther will be done; except, of course, the selling of the ranch and the divi- ment foi~ your holdings, and you might have gone away, assuming that every thing had come to a satisfactory con- clusion." ‘ place Ruth hesitated. “Has my so-called’ partner committed any crime in not telling-me I had no rights on the “I wonde “What ? ” wonderâ€"" Ruth paused “You card. meet ‘v I. Since the evening before, Ruth had ‘ definitely connected Snavely with the voice in the gulch; he had been stand ing there by the fence when she and Will came home, and Ann had heard - the voice that same evening. She tried “ to recall Snavely’s whereabouts on Ithe occasions when the voice had 1spoken. At first, she told herself that lthe man had two or three perfect 'ialibisâ€"yet, were they? Did she know . positively that he had gone to Palo 'lVei-de on the night of the storm? One thing certain, he had not brought back any Mexicans. And that eve. ning when she and Kenneth and David had first come through the gulch, Snavey had appareme been milking at the barnâ€"yet, Ruth had never known of his milking since. True, he always avoided going through the gulch as though he wene afraid of it. But that did not prove that he had nothing to do withvthe voice. Perhaps he went around, merely to give her the idea that he was afraid. She began to feel that the only thing which definitely mitigated against Snavely being responsible for the voice was that the legend of the whis- pering rock was very oldâ€"there was: no getting around that. Every one knew of the legend; even Don Fran- [cisco had heard of it as a boy. She 'determined to explore the gulch. But Ruth did not explore the gulch1 lthat day. In the mail was a letter i dressed to J. B. Snavely. In the upper Heft-hand comer of the envelope was As she and David rode along the faintly marked road, the girl’s mind‘ was busy. The situation of, the Dead Lantern was drawing to a climax; it seemed to her as though the very air was tenser charged. Ruth ignored this suggestion and helped David to mount. Snavely did not speak for ment; then said casually, “No you goin’â€"~without you’re set I can bring the mail.” “Goin’ for a ride, eh?" he ésked with a strained smile. “Yes; the mail. To-day’s Saturday” “I was jest gettin’ set to go down that-aâ€"way, myself. I’ll be startin’ directly." “Perhaps David and I will see then,” replied Ruth. “Nice sort of fellel‘, that Wither- spoon,” he remarked, guardedly. “He seemed pleasant,” said Ruth, That morning Snavely did not ride; he stéyed in the neighborhood of the corrals. More than once Ruth saw him watching her. After the noon meal, Ruth Went to the comb and caught up Brisketand Sanchez. To her surprise, Smavely came from the blacksmith shop and helped her saddle the horses. “Oh, no,” answered Ruth, as she seated herself at the table. She was thinking of the money she had just given Snaverâ€"it had not been earned through any effort of his. Snavely eyed her cautiously w at breakfast, Ruth gave him the ] et of notes which represented share of the cattle sale. There something oddily apologetic and quisitive in his voice as he as “Didn’t have no trouble in payin’ the note, did you?” . “Oh, are you up yet? I just thought I’d tell you that we’ve come back. Have you been reading, Ann?" “No. I cain’t read." “But why are you dressed? Have you been anywhere?” The huge woman lowered her eyes and; slowly nodded. “Ann! Have you been down to the “I got ‘to goâ€"down thereâ€"some- times.” Her eyes darted iearfully in the direction of Snavely‘s door and her voice dropped to a husky whis- per. “0h, Gawd, Miss Ruthâ€"you take yo’r little boy an’ go ’way from this place!” Ann stepped back and softly closed the door. rock She ran back to the house. What had Snavely been doing- in the vicinity of the gulch? As! she stood on the dark porch Ruth suddenly decided to find Ann. She knocked on the giantess’ dbor. After a moment Ann slowly opened it. A low-turned lamp burned in the room. She had taken off her shoes and shirt. As she answered, Ruth saw the slowly moving lights swing- toward the gulch, and gasped; Snavely was standing near the fence, partly con- cealed by 'a bush. Ruth took the gun without much urging. She stood; watching while he turned the car about. He leaned from the seat, “We’ll see you next weekâ€" g-ood night.” THE LIBERAL, RICHMOND HILL, ONTARIO ain car this until 1d in- asked use in on it. when, a pack d his You; wa S you off Don’t delay any longer. If you mi troubled with headaches, blurred im- ages, nervousness consult at once. 163-167 Yonge Street Toronto Upsuirs Opposite Simpsons you die when you ate the meat Ann poisoned?” Sugarfoot wagged him- self knowingly. Good Eyesight The next morning after breakfast} Ruth entered her room. She sat foré a time looking at her trunk, thinking/1 Suddenly she rose, unlocked the trunk? and) took out the quaker Oats box on which was scrawled, “for liver fever.” Going into the kitchen, she asked Ann to keep an eye on David for an hour, and! taking up a potato and a paring knife, left by the front door. Sugarfoot greeted her and for a moment the girl lookked down at the little dog. Once more, she asked the question which had never been answered. “Sugarfoot, why didn’t suddenly began to laugh. It was a desperate laugh, somehow horrible; yet the laugh was meant to convey that he was greatly tickled, as though he had a tremendous joke on Ruthâ€"â€" a friendly joke in which he expected to be joined. Ruth did smile. “Dogged if this ain’t th’ beatin- ’stl" Snavely explained. “You see why I done it, don’t you, pardner?” Ruth had not been wholly sure of what Snavely had done or why he was receiving a letter from Wither- spoon, up to the time he began to laugh. Now she said very soberly, “I hope I know why you [did it, Mr. Snavely.” Snavoly swallowed twice before he SPOkew “We”, I was aimin’ to tell You jest as soon as it wan :ptHad “It sure has,” replied Snavely. He watched the girl as she walked to- ward the ranch house, his pale eyes fastened on the retreating figure, sus- picion and hatred mingled on his face. It was a moment before Ruth could reply. She saw the deadliness behind the man‘s eyes . . . if she could only keep him good-natured until next week. “It was very thoughtful of you,” she smiled; “it’s nice to know I was safeguarded all the time. Well,” she turned, “it’s all over now; the note is paid and the ranch has been im- proved.” pardn‘er It was a moment before Ruth could reply. She saw the deadliness be- hind the man‘s eyes. Snavely swallowed twice before he spoke” “Well, I was aimin’ to tell you jest as soon as it was settled. Last month when you did get enough cattle money an’ met the note, I jesrt figg‘ered I’d' let you go ahead an’ pay it anyways, an’ then su’pris'e you.” His lips smiled. the business head of the broker, With erspoon. Snavely had evidently changed his! mind about fixing the gate. He was near the saddle shed when Ruth and David returned. Ruth nod‘ded to him but made no other answer to his ques- tioning eyes, until she and David had turned out their horses. Then Ruth walked up to Snavely, the letter in her hand. “Well, here it is,” she said, looking him full in the eyes: For an instant, Ruth thought he was going to pretend surprise, but he suddenly began to laugh. It was a F. E. LUKE & SON “If I had not been able to meet my te, Mr.xSnave1y‘,- is it not true that u would have had. my entire inter- t in the‘mnch?” asked Ruth quietly St :u'ely spoke glibly. “Not at all, rs. Warren. Such a thing ain’t pos~ )10 because we’re pardnersu Parker anybody else could have took your t; away from you if you couldn’t y the note. But not me; I’m your (Contnued Next Week) OPTOM ETRISTS lprice at elevator 1% cents. His brother here sold 60 bushelâ€"wheat ‘40 cents a bush. Notwithstanding the ‘Ballyhoo served out, the actual state 11s as above. We still pay war prices ‘for the little we buyâ€"eggs bring 5 cents, butter 7 and 8 centsâ€"when they will buyâ€"cattle sell for $2 to $10 a head. Rressed beef at $1.50 to $2 a hundred pound. 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