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Dealers in LUMBER, LATH. SHINGLES ASHPHALT ROOfiNG. GYPDOC Telephone 27 The man got up and followed the president without another Word. The conductor, at a sign from the pres- ident, also followed. “Because I say you've got to,” re- plied the president, “unless you want a fuss made before the other passen- gers The man turned troubled eyes to the president and quickly averted his gaze from the piercing scrutiny. In that glance the president knew him to be guilty. He leaned over the man and said in a low voice: “Come for- ward with me to the baggage car.” “What for?” asked the man ob- stinately. He scrutinized the man carefully and passed on to the end of the car. Then he turned back through the car and gazed fixedly into the man’s face. Then Sir William, in his democrat- lc way, strolled forward to the bag- gage car ’00 hunt out another coat from his baggage. As he passed through +he third-class coach, he saw a man sitting there, wearing an over- coat remarkably like the one he had lost. But the collar was turned up and he could not be sure. 1 “Did he get off the train?" asked the president. "Really, I couldn’t say.” “What sort of man was he “I haven’t the least idea. I was reading at the time and didn’t take much notice of him.” By the president’s orders, the train was pulled up at a wayside station, and a wire was sent back to Burke- ton Falls to put the police on the track of any man seen wearing a bléck, furâ€"lined overcoat with a. sable collar. on Sir William raised a rumpus. He cross-examined the conductor, and called in the trainmen. They could give no explanation of the disappear- ance. Sir William was inconsolable. His beautiful coat was goneâ€"the handsomest coat he had ever had! The only clue to it that could be discover- ed was that supplied by a passenger, who said that when the train stopped at Burketon Falls he saw a man passing through the carriage with a coat on his arm. and then he only gave it a passing glance as be rushed through the car, in a hurry to get out and see the station agent. When he retuméd the overcoat was gone. SHEPPARD & GILL LUMBER CO. When dizzy spells There ends Act I. And there be- gan the troubles of the evening. All alone, the CPR. president’s overcoat occunied the president’s seat. Sir William did not come near it until the train pulled up at Brady Junction. Make You Feel Unsafe, Just Try . y W Parke s “Now,” said the president, sternly, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26th, 1935 GLENW’S DRUG STORE 9y: BY ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT It stimulates a lazy liver to healthy, nor- mal action and soon restores you to your usual normal health. It is a. harmless cor- rective for consti- pation. biliousness, headaches and dizzi- ness. 50c. â€" $1.00 PHONE 71 off the train?" asked LIVER TONE CHRISTMAS STORY He “Yes. a carriage for the new baby, and lots of presents for a pretty healthy little family, by the look of “Of course she would,” replied the conductor. “But the man must have had a busy time shopping, mustn’t he? There’s a rocking-horse in the babv can-kc"; there’s a tobozgan; there’s a tur‘wy. :mri, nhâ€"dozens of things. It’ll be ;. patty happy Christmas wherever that baby car- riage and its load is going.” . “Yes. sin a very useful sort of article.” rehlired the conductor. “Ru’r what I want to know,” re- plied the president, “is why anybody should buv a whoeled baby carriage at this time of year. A man bought that. for sure. A woman would have bought one With runners at this time of the year.” When the train started off again for Montreal (the president rode in the baggage car. He sat on the top of a pile of boxes. mfietlv smoking: a cigar and dangling: his feet. His gaze was fixed 0 a new nerambulatm‘, but it was a Tong time before he reallv saw it. When the conductor came in, he nodded toward the parambulator, and remarked: “Seasonable nresent, eh ?” A few minutes afterwards the con- ductor returned with a policeman, and the man, silent and dej‘ected,‘ was4 marched off into the dark night in cuwfodv. - The president shook him off rough- ly. “You common thieves,” he said â€"-and the words out the laborer like a knifeâ€"“You common thieves are al- ways afraid to face the music. You always snivel about your ‘wife and family at home’ when you’re found out. But I’ve made up my mind to stop your little games on this rail- road, and by gum. I’ll do it!” “Jump out and get a policeman.” he said to the conductor, as the train came to a standstill. The brakes were alreadv grindino' on the Wheels. The man put his hand on the president’s arm. “Don’t do it, sir,” he said. “I don’t ask it for myself, but for my Wife and young- sters. There’s no harm done. You’ve got your coat!” “Shut up, you sniv-elling coward!” roared the president. To see the man actually in tears‘angered him beyond measure. “Yes, sit.’ man’s eyes; from him. “My God. siv' don’t do it!” nlezr‘wl the man. “It’ll drive my poor wife crazy. I haven’t been home for six monthsâ€"been railroading back in the bush. She and the little ones are expecting me for Christmas.” "Where do you live?” “At Peterbordugh.” What’s your name?” “Kennedy.” "‘I suppose you’ve got four or five little ones looking forward to your coming home Christmas?” asked the president, sarcastically. “VVeH, you’ll find it a stroke of bad luck‘ for you, my man!” “Get a policeman as soon as we get into Dranoel.” he said to the conductor, “I’ll look after this man meanwhile.” “I thought if I didn’t take it some- body else would. I looked on it as a stroké of luck, that’s all}: tears. /’ He stripped off the overcoat and held it out. “Here’s your overcoat. I didn’t mean to steal it. I saw it lying- on the seat, and I thought some passen~ ger had gone out and forgotten it, Really, sir, I never meant to steal it!” “If you didn’t moan to steal it, why didn’t you hand it to the conductor?” “That handkerchief belongs to me, and that overcoat you’ve got on be- longs to me. Now, do you know what I’m going to do with you? I’m going to hand you over to the police at the next station.” “Oh. for God’s sake, don’t do that, sir!” exclaimed the man, almost in “Do you‘know of whorh that be- longs?” asked the president, shaking the‘handkerchief threateningly in the man’s, face. He was evidently a laboring man, and was overshadowed and subdued by the president’s manner. His face was bronzed and weather-beaten; it was by no means the face of a crim- inal. He looked like one of the great army of workers who, by labor with pick and shovel and axe, spend their lives in conquering the Wilderness for their fellow-men. With a quick movement the pres- ident slipped his fingers into the breast pocket of the coat and pulled out a silk handkerchief. Om one cor- ner of this were his own initials. when the baggage car was reached “Where did you get that overcoat?” The mah looked at his questioner sheepishly. “I. don’t see that I’m bound to tell you,” be answered. “1‘ \Jo Tears came in the a checking sob burst And in the hand that the president had shaken Mrs. Kennedy found a Christmas present. It was a. twenty- dollar bill! ‘ “Your husband is coming along on the next train,” said Sir \Villiarp. “Hell be here in a couple of hours. Here, let me shake your hand and wish you a Merry Christmas. God bless you, ma’am! God bless you!” He jumped on the train and was gone. At Peterborough station that night a woman named Kennedy, with a baby in her arms, and three or four little ones flocking around her, was con- siderably astonished to hear an im- portant looking gentleman, who step- ped from the train on which she had expected her husband, inquiring for her by name. “Is Mrs. Kennedy here?” roared Sir William. ' “Yes, sir,” said the woman, timidly, “I’m Mrs. Kennedy.” “Get Kennedy, the man arrested this evening, released immediately. His arrest a regrettable mistake. Get out an engine and one car and im- mediately run a special through to Peterborough. Kennedy must get there tonight.” “By whose orders ?” asked the oper- ator at the other end. “By order of the president, Wil- liam Van Horne,” was the reply. ROOFING, EAVESTROUGHING ' CHIMNEY}; BUILT & REPAIRE’D CJFKTRETE WORK SEPTIC TAN KS INSTALLED FURNACES BARN & STABLE EQUIPMENT MILK COOLERS “Give me that key,” he said to the astonished operator. The president had been an operator in his early days, and he at once sat down, at the tele- <graph instrument and gave the call for Dranoel. When he got through to that place he sent a message that con- siderably surprised the operator at the other end. When the train got to .the next station, Sir William jumper out and walked into the little station house. The Y~residen‘, began to repent. After all. what had the man done? Probably he really though the over- P-oat was lost, and had picked it up just the same as a man might pick up a ten-dollar bill on the floor of a. hotel, feeling he might as well have it as anybody else. for Va new baby that the father never seen. \ Sir William thought of his own" wife and family in his luxurious home i in Montreal. They were waiting for5 ‘him this Christmas Eve, he knew, waiting and counting up the hours before he would return. Yet he had I only been away two weeks. As a: contrast he pictured some humblei little home in Peterborough where a poor woman, who had not seen her husband for six months, was waiting ‘this Christmas Eve for his arn'val. She would have scrubbed up the house till it looked as clean as a new pin. She would have a dalnty meal, ready for her husband and the presâ€"1 dent’s imagination added the domestic touch of a kettle singing on the. stove. She would have put clean clothes on the little children, and: probably at this moment, was telling, them. for the hundredth time. “Your father’s coming home!" And the little children! Surely they were dancing about the house and saying! “Daddy’s coming! Daddy’s coming!” He knew what little children were! Lastly came a stinging thought. iThe baby carriage was probably meantJ wwawwaamewwraaw h “It’ll drive my poor wife crazy,” the man had said. “I haven’t been home for six monthsâ€"been railroad- ing back in the bush. She and the little ’uns have been expecting me for CTfi'istmas.” “Holy Caesar!” exclaimed the pres- ident, springing to his feet. “Why, that’s the man who took my over- coatâ€"the man I had arrested.” “Yes, sir.” The president stood for a long time looking at his cigar. He recalled the pitiful pleading of the manâ€"his pale, agonized face, the unmanly tears. “It says, John Kennedy, Peterbor~ ough.” “What does it say?” asked the president, “Why man, anybody would think ’twas dynamite with a live fuse attached, to look at you. What’s on the label, anyway?” The label on the babyâ€"carriage caught the eye of the conductor. He lifted it with his thumb and fore- finger, and bent over to look at it. 'fhen he dropped it as though it burned his fingers, and turned to the president with sometfilng like con- sternation in his face. R. H. KANE THE LIBERAL, RICHMOND HILL, ONTARIO 74 Yonge St. had lSpecial Sailingsito the Homeland by. 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