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a lot of misforchens overtuk yrs. trgoly. I aint got paper enuff to ménshen all of same. But among same was the hoe & rake & Ion more & etc. Not to menshen no fishen or B. B. Saturday: This were a. fine warm .sunshiney spring a. m. & the world looked in love with evry boddie. But Friday : This is the last day of schoolV this wk. Witch isslent wer- rieing me a offle lot. Pa ,& Ma have both sed to me fchat school is a ofer good thing for kids to go to & I sup‘ose that is corect, but some whairs‘ I have beam that they can be 2 murtch of a good thing. Witch I bleeve. Thursday : The teecher ast Jake did he go to the pitcher show about Tom Sawyer last night & Jake sed no he had to stay home & help his Pop with the night work the teecher give him to do. I think Jake diddent mean the teecher give the work to his Pop. But all the kids laft enney Wednesday: As I & Jane was a Walking home togather from school I sedv to her I and her is a going to get manyed some day. Thats right she replide and sed tho I wander who is a going to marrie you. I did dent understand what she ment at the time but now I figger it was a hint she issent entending to becum my better 1/2. That dame can make dirty cracks so you cant hardly apresheate them. Tilllater on‘ Tuesday: Sevral of us kids; was a talking about air plains and etc. and suddenly Jake sed Mister Gillem has recent but a new set of Ibaloon tires. Why sed Blisters I diddent even know he has got 'a baloon. I bleeve Blisters is too du‘mheded ever to even get to be a ottomld‘beel mecannick. Monday: Ma 58d to Pa wouldent he be sverprized if I ever g'radgeate from school & Pa replide & sed he diddent see why he would be set- prized at some thing he had been xpecting for sevral yrs. Unkel Hen sniggered & got me about 1/2 mad. As he thinks I cant lern no thing. joak. Some how Sunday : Recent Jakes Ma told Jakes littei Bro. if the preecher callâ€" ed & ast him his name & who made him to tell him; Willyem James (if God. The preech- er come this p. m. ‘ and did. In reply " to the lst ? the; littel feline sed ' rite. To the 2d ? he replide & sed ‘ his mother told him the mans I name but he for- got. I dont see no thing to laff at v but evry Ibody elts “ “ thinks it are a big TINSMITHING FURNACES - PLUMBING HEATING Septic Tanks Installed Pumps Barn & Stable Equipment 74 Yonge Street Phone 92F We are agents and will be pleased to quote you on any style or quantity required. ' are the best Counter Check Books made in Canada. They cost no more than ordinary books and always give satisfaction. See Your Home Printer First THURSDAY, MAY 5th, 1938. THE LIBERAL OFFICE SLATS’ DIARY eer lef/ Sales Books Orders taken (By Oliver N. Warren) R. H. KANE “Well, I discovered it. I don’t know why I should share it with anyone else unless I have to. I’ll buy your claim, though, if you want “I wonder if I’ll ever find it?” she said wearily, more to herself than to him. “I don’t believe so,” he answered. She looked at him in sudden an- ger. “You don’t want me to, do you? You want to keep everything yourself.” “Quite a lot. The vein’s sixteen inches wide and assays twelve ounces to the ton. She wouldn’t starve, he thought gloomil'y. There were at least fifty men in the camp ready and anxious to marry her. One night she asked him about his strike. “Mr. Whelan, are you making as much money as they say you are?” Each day Whelan called on his neighbor. As the weeks passed she grew visibly thinner and! he had a strong suspicion that she was‘nPt getâ€" ting enough to eat. But she would not accept help of any kind. “Of course. I’ve got to strike your vein [before I starve to death. Mr. Jessup told- me how to do it.” She shook her head. “I can’t pay them. I’ve spent all my money and I won’t let them work for me with- out pay.” “He did, did- he? You better get the boys to help you.” “Worse than that. But I’ll get used to it. See my hands?’ I didn’t know there were'so many places: you could get blisters.” ed‘ She was sitting wearily in a lit- tle heap on the ground when Whe- lan came over after supper. “You going to keep on working like you been doing today?” Virginia started work energeticalâ€" ‘Iy. The rotten rock in Spike’s aban- doned shaft could be dug with a shovel. She could have had her choice of a hundred- volunteer as- sistants to man wheelbarrows, ’but she smilingly declined to be helped. She looked up wide-eyed at tho blxmde, frank-looking person in N1th miner’s clothing. “You mean you’re Mr. Jim Whelan?” ‘ “That’s my name. Haw did you happen to hear it?” “I have the claim next to ynurs," he said. “I thought you might need some help getting settled." That night a young man strolled over to where Virginia Clay was: cooking supper on a camp gasoline stove. “I airft doubting you OWn it all right, ma’am," said Benny. “Where you figger to live?, There ain’t a vacant shack. Of course one of the {boys might ‘be Willing to give up his’nâ€"” The girl nodded “His health broke down and he had to get to a lower altitude. He said if he could wait until he foundv'the vein he might sell it for anything up to half a million, but he’d probably die if he didn’t get away. Here’s the transfer. I had it drawn up by a lawyer.” “Oh, no! I’m going to camp out right on the claim. I've got a tent in the car." “One thousand dollars. He want- ed more but that was all I had.” “Spike ain’t here any more," he said when he regained his voice. “You a friend of his’n?" “Oh, no, I just bought his claim." “Bought it, eh! What you figger on doin’ with it?” “Work it, of course.” Here Benny got a, glimpse of the radiant smile that was to cause so much, devastation in the camp. “Of course. Mr. Jessup said it was right next to the Whelan claim where they made the big- strike." “-I suppose he told you why he was selling it so cheap?” “Sure, it’s next to it all right,” Benny said morosely. “How much did Spike stick you for it?" She stopped the car. “Can you tell me how to find Mr. Spike Jes- sup’s claim?” Benny stared at the vision speech- less for a moment. Curly, short dark hair, big blue eyes, corduroy slacks â€"â€" 18 or 19 years old and not a day more. Virginia Clay arrived in Altamont 'to sell." driving a decrepit old car loaded with “I’ll starve (before I sell to you!” camping equipment. Benny Peter- Without replying he got up and son was the first person she saw. walked away. “P‘retty tired, I guess,” he ventur- ii THE CLAIM NEXT DOOR By Morrison Calladay “Well, he’s damn lucky. whoever he is. Suppose yOu keep the cheque for a wedding- present.” ough?” She nodded, head down. “One do. And that’s all I can marry.” “I might get married. A lot of men have asked me.” “You like any of ’em well en- “What are you going asked. “You said your an gone." “You mean you just gave me $20,- 000. Of course I won’t take it. Here’s your cheque." He ignored the cheque it on the table. “O‘h, have you? Well, I found out today accidentally that my claim isn’t worth anything; I want to know why you bought it?” Whela'nl shrugged his shoulders. “You can't ever tell about a claim, That’s half the fun of mining.” “Why did- you pay me twenty thou- sand dollars?” she persisted. “I offered to buy you out. You set the price.” “Come inside,” said Whelan when she went to his cabin that night. “I’ve got the transfer all ready to sign.” Benny sighed fleeting glance. Jim, ma’am. I a'blv tell you.” “If. what you say about the claim is true, I’ve ‘beem very unjust to Mr. Whelan. I’ve ’trea'ted him badly.” She turned to Benny coaxingly. “Why do you think he gave me the twenty thousand dollars?" Virginia’s cheeks were pink shall, as soonI as we get back!” Benny answereH cautiously. f‘I alâ€" ways aim to be honest when it ain’t too expensive.” Benny cleared‘ his throat. “Well, Jim’s got mighty good judgment. He ain’t throwing away twenty thousâ€" and, I don’t reckon.” “Will you tell me something hon- estly, Mr. Peterson?” Presently she said, “You don’t think 50, though, do you ?” THE LIBERAL, RICHMOND HILL, ONTARIO She nodded. “I’ve got the cheque here. I’m going to town to cash it. That proves you’re wrong, dOesm’t it ?” “Me’bbe it does,” replied Bemt'y Ia- conically, and relapsed into silence. “You say Jim Whelan paid you twenty thousand dollars for your claim?” “He knowed there wasn’t a cent’s worth of gold in that claim of his’n fhe low varmint!” “But 'the Whelan vein' runs right if...“ H!” “No ma’am, it don’t. Nobody want- ed to tell you but the Whelan vein runs north and south, and your claim is west of Jim’s. Not a chance in a million of ever striking anything. That’s the reason Spike stopped work- i'rlg it.” “But that isn't possible,” said Virâ€" ginia, “or Mr. Whelan wouldn’t have paid me twenty thousand dollars for it.” She watched for him the next night but he did not appear. After the second night she decided he wasâ€" ‘n"t coming again. She missed him. He was the only man in the camp who hadn’t been in love with her. “There’ll sure be a lot of busted hearts around‘ this here camp when you leave, ma‘am," Benny prephesied. “When you figger qn) going?" "0h, in two or three days.” “The boys’d like to make up the thousand bucks that skunk Jessup skinned- you out of, if you’ll let 'em, “Skinned me out of? What do you mean?” She told Benny the next morn- ing as- she started out that she was going back East. worth ? “What’s that got to do with it? Didn’t you hear me say I’d have to take whatever you’ll give me?" “I don’t set the price of the things I buy.” “Well, then, twenty thousand dol- lans. What do you say to that?” “Come inside and I’ll give yOu a cheque. Bemvy Peterson’s driving to town tomorrow. You can go along and get it cashed." “You said you’d buy my claim," she began abruptly. “Yes, I said that.” “All right, you cant have it. I give up. I haven’t any money. I'll starve if I stay here. See, I’m telling you so you’ll know I’ll have to take what- ever y'ou offer, if it’s only fifty dollars.” “What do you think the claim’s He was sitting in front of his caâ€" »bin smoking a pipe, chair tilted back against the wall. He got up when he saw her. After ten days she‘ hunted him 9n He threw her a “You better ask reckon he’ll proI - and she put to do?” he mOney was. She gave a deep sigh. “Would I? Ch, Jim, ever since that first night! And the only man in the camp that just wouldn’t â€" just w0u1d‘n’t fall in love with me.” Suitorâ€"“There isn’t much I can say for myself. I’m just a plain citizen and a. taxpayer.” Prospective Father-in-law â€" “Tax- payer, eh? Income or dog?” WMWMWWO “Oh, but I don’t know yet whe rther I’ll get married.” “It’s this way; the only man I’d take hasn’t asked me.” “I thought you just said you were going to!” He frowned as he gazed at her. “Virginia, I figure you need a good spanking more than anything. But I guess you’re too big for it. You wouldn’t by any chance marry me would you?" EH IWWOMWW wvu o-v $99‘90W'Pw-r 'I )“mWMOWWW'HE Form the habit of keeping the news of your business before the public through The Liberal. Our readers are quick to take advantage of shopping opportunities. Your business will in- crease and more trading will be done at home by the shoppers. Richmond Hill It is more convenient to trade at home - - - Readers of the home-town paper patronize our advertisers. 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