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NEVER FIRE FIRST

SY
JAMES FRENCH DORRANCE

Co-Author of “Get Your Man,”
Etc,

“Glory Rides the Range,”

(Serlal Rights Arranged Through
¥. D. Goodchild, Publishers,
Toronto)

(Continued)

The genuine sergeant winced inyol-
untarily. Itwas a very bad joke. He
doubted that he ever would become ac-

scustomed to Sergeant Seymour spoken
of as murdered—done for.

“Shoot,” he heard Brewster invite.

“It's this way, Phil. Seymour must
have been quite a responsible mem-
ber of the Force. As you said this
am., his snuffing is going to make a
noisy roar-back. I got to report it to
somebody in the Mounted—but who
and whereat?”

Seymour fidgeted uneasily in the
silence that followed, evidently due to
Brewster's considering his answer.
He detested eavesdropping; never had
resorted to [t on any of his cases. By
way of letting the two in the adjoining
Toom know of his presence, he scraped
his chair noisily over the bare floor.
This warning, however, failed to check
Brewster, or even to lower his yoice.

“I remember reading that Vancou-
ver is the nearest staff-office of this
new Canadian Mounted Police, but I’ve
just been thinking—— If they send
a lot of Mounties into Gold and run
down these stage-robbing murderers,
you're not going to get any credit. I’m

strong for home industry, even in jus-
tice. Why don’t you delay reporting
the sergeant’s death until you land
your man?”

“Say, you're a real friend, Phil, even
if you do try to ride me sometimes. I
need the credit for turning a trick like
that. It might make me sheriff when
the old man gets through. But—but
would I dare?”

Seymour started for the hall but on
the way, heard Brewster's reply:

“Write your report, Sam, but don’t
post it until after tomorrow's mail has
gone. That'll give you a week. Then

-address the letter to Ottawa, which
will give you a few days more. In
that time, you ought to haye the mur-
derers rounded up. You can forget
what I told you about there being any
Vancouver headquarters.”

Surprise at such advice from a
seemingly public-spirited citizen de-
layed Seymour’s knock until he had
heard it through. Of coursé, all this
might be merely a sign of real, though

mistaken, friendship for Hardley. On
the other hand, was it possible that
Brewster had personal reasons for

wishing to delay the coming of the
Mounted?

With this question to the fore of his
mind, Seymour knocked on the adjoin-
ing door and was invited in. His en-
try seemed not to disturb either of the
two.

“Just wanted to tell you that the
next room is occupied and that the
partition between is more or less of a
megaphone,” he said in a light tone.
“Tf you've any secrets——"

Brewster's laugh was natural enough
to be reassuring. “If we were talk-
ing secrets, stranger; we'd take to the
brush. I've lived in the Bonanza
since the day it was opened, and I

-don't even think secrets behind these
make-believe walls.” -

The sergeant dismissed his unin-
tentional eavesdropping with a shrug
and turned to the deputy. Out on
the trail this morning you seemed to
think you might want me later. You'll
Know now where to find me—Room
number twelve.”

“Forget this a.m., old topper. I
was sRapE TUEIDS a little mite excited out

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| Neryous Breakdown Relieved

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—Mrs, A. SmiTH, 10 Burleigh Avenue,
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' All druggists sell this dependable med-
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W. N. U. 1647

there at the scene of the crime. There
aln’t sech a lot of difference between
deputy sheriffs and mounted esrgeants.
It might-a been me lying there dead-
er than dead. Your happening along
looked sort of Im seeing
Straighter now. re welcome to
Gold and { hope you get what you
come for.”

“You'll find me strong for Jaw and
order,” Seymour replied.
This secmed to invite Hardley to
real confidenc s
ay from the a

ster recline d in his stoc Kingea feet.
“Don't mind telling you two in con-

fidence,” he leaned forward and whis-

pered, “that I’m in a Tair way to nab-

bing the two who robbed the stage le

Killed Tabor and Seymour. Maybe
ain't seemed to be doing much, fae
I've got clews to burn already.”

“You have?” cried Brews huneh-

}
jing himself into a sitting position on
| the cot.

| Hardley nodded assuredly. “There
| Were two of them in the bush lying for
the sergeant this morning. One had
a Winchester 30-30 and used ft to kill
) Seymour. One rode a horse that was
shod in front but plain behind.” He
paused, evidently, from his expression,
to collect the encomiums he consider-
ed his due.

“Important if true, Sam,” Brewster
observed.

“Quick work,” admitted the Mountle,
honestly surprised; his hand was in
the trousers pocket that held the cart-
ridge case picked up that morning.
“How in the world did you learn all
that?”

Hardley seemed to relish supplying
the details, eyen though he had to
whisper them. Apparently he had
forgotten that one of his confidants
was an utter stranger both to him and
to the camp, one whose name even
he did not know. His was countr
official vanity advanced to the ntb. de-

ree.

“Dr. Pratt dug out the bullet, which
fixed the brand of the gun with which
the deed was done. ‘hen I’ve got a
half-breed boy on my staff who’s keen
as a Gordon setter in the bush. He
found the horse track of the two from
the sceng of the crime. Now I’m look-
ing for a man with a 30-30 repeater
and a horse that's shy on shoes.”

Surprised that Hardley should have
shown so much initiative, and appre-
hensive that he was getting too near
‘i0me” for comfort, Seymour framed
a diverting question.

“What do yi UL know about the chap
who was killed?’

“You mean this last one—Staff-Ser-
geant Seymour?” asked the deputy in
turn, but merely as a preface, not
waiting for an answer. “Kirby of the
First Bank has heard of him. Says
he was nicknamed ‘Sergeant Scarlet’
up in the Northwest territories, and is
guilty of some of the hardest patrols

ever made. He must have been a
regular fighting machine. Autopsy
proved that.”

Sergeant Scarlet! That was the

nickname Moira had given him! But
others, to be sure, had used it before
his beautiful Irisher. Perhaps his
reputation as a man-getter had spread
further than he knew.

Anyway, his chance to check up on
Widow Caswell had arriyed sooner
than he expected. He showed casual
but sufficient interest in the disclos-
ures mentioned.

“The sergeant had been under fire
before, and more than once,” declar-
ed Hardley. “The doctor found a sil-
ver plate bracing his spine high up be-
tween the shoulders. And, would you
believe it, there was a dent in that
plate which looked as if he’d been hit
in the identical repair spot by some
later bullet!”

“Checked to a T,”
of the widow's tale.

He became more than ever anxious
to be clear of the talkative deputy.
With all his false surmises, the ma-
tural-born bungler had corralled some
accurate information and might make
a deal of trouble for him. © At first
chance he got back to his room.

With a few swift strokes, he com-
pleted and signed his report. His
0. C. must be prepared for that mur-
der report, whether Hardley finally
acted on Brewster's advice or not.

Hurrying from the hotel into King
Street, Seymour found the post office
and mailed his letter. Then,’ al-
though the hour was only*seven, he
advanced easually upon the Home
Restaurant. He was eager to be on
his way to the creeks before Hardley
stumbled, as possibly he might, upon
the fact hat Seymour’s rifle, stored

thought Seymour

with his outfit, was a 80-30 and that
Kaw was “shod in front and plain be-
hind.” :

CHAPTER XIX.
into the Night

“You were saying, Mrs. Caswell——

Seymour's wait at one of the Home
small tables had been long drawn.
The slender widow was worked “rag-
ged’ ’to cook and serve the'tide of cus-
tomers that, by perverse chance, had
set in particularly strong that evening.

Fortunately, all were strangers to
the sergeant and he conratulated
himself that he had attracted only
passing notice as he sat seemingly
absorbed iu an old fiction magazine,
with his coffee never quite finished
before him. He had gained nothing
by coming early, for it was nearly nine
o’clock when at last they found them-
selves alone.

“Are you too tired to talk, Mrs.
well? You'ye had a hard day,” the
sergeant interrupted himself. The
widow smiled wanly, a grateful ight
in her eyes, but replied that she Would

‘as-

weary self by leaning over a stool, in-
stead a sitting down at the table be-
side him. ‘Where was I this after-
noon when that-old pest broke in?”
it trust you punctured Oato's
hop: ' The sergeant could not re-
ist the momentary disgress{on.
The presuming ox had been drink-
ng,” she said. “He gave me—well,
let’s call it an argument; but I had
the last word. He'll not come bother-
ing around here again.”

After a smile and nod of approval,
Seymour returned to their unfinished
business. “You were telling me what
Bart had in view up the creeks. Some-
thing “richer than gold”—wasn’t that
the way you put it?”

“Hieyery words,” the widow went

prefer to ve it over with.”
“Let me ” she considered, for!
| appearance’s ke supporting her

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on in the glow of loving reminiscence.
“Naturally, I was curious, for I
thought the gold was all there was
worth while up here. I asked him
Ww he meant.” With that, her lips
were stilled and a dreamy look camé
into her eyes.

The serge ant did not believe that
she had paused with aggrayating in-
tent, or even from any sense of the
dramatic. Doubtless, her thoughts
were with the departed rogue. But
that was no place at all for her to
stop; he just couldn't wait Jonger to
learn what in Gold was richer than
Bold.

“Yes—yes!" he prodded, glancing at
his watch lo suggest a time ‘reason
for his hurry.

“Why, Bart, just took me into his
arms in a gentle, big-bear way he had
—at Umes—and said—I'll never for-
get; it made me so happy.”

Again she was living over what evi-
dently had been the big moment of
her recent life; but that fact did not
ease in the Jeast Seymour's present
impatience.

“Well, what did he say?” :

“Bart said—All you'll care io know,
Marge old dear, is that I’m going to
put something over inethe name of
the law and within ft. I'm going to
rectify a wrong. In the name of the
Royal Mounted, im going to loot some

Thi what Bart said, and
and, Mr.

you can unde
how happy it made me.”

For another brief moment, Mar-
et Caswell succeeded in forgetting
her recent bereavement.

“The talk was the morning after the
unfortunate siage—busines she
went on with just a little break in her
voice at the mention of the crime.
“Bart went forth in his borrowed uni-
form to establish himself at the hotel
as befits an officer. He dropped in
here for supper and we had a fine talk.
He told me that nobody seemed to
doubt his authority and that the whole
camp was breathing easier at sight of
the scarlet and gold.”

Exactly like a woman to be accurate
about the clothes he wore, thought
Seymour, and be pictured the swath
the handsome crook must have cut in
the new camp all excited with its first
big crime.

“Bart knew that he would haye to
work fast, the woman was saying.
“Fiom letters or orders he found in
the bag, he was aware that you would
soon be coming in plain glothes.. In
spite of the fact that he would be act-
ing in the name of the Law and that
all’his so-called lifting would be from
Montreal crooks, he’d be forced to
make a getaway over the Alaskan bor-
der, from there to catch some through
steamer to the States,”

“Montreal crooks!” More than
ever was Seymour now interested. Was
it possible that, in that inexplicable
way of the almost trackless wilds, his
trail here would cross that of Harry
Karmack'’s—that bis unsolved assign-
ment might be completed and his pact
with Moira validated? Harry Kar-
mack, he well knew, had been hand in
glove with the wofst of Montreal's
underworld characters, although there
the lawless element had been able to
cover the embezzler.

But the woman was going on: “It
was agreed that I'd stay right here
running this eating place, until I heard
from him. You see, it was safe
enough, for we had been very careful
and no one saspected that there was
any relationship. After that evening,
I never saw Bart again to speak to.”

That she might not yield to this call
upon her emotions, Seymour put out a
couple of rapid fire questions, “You
think, then, that one of these so-call-
ed Montreal crooks got him? Any
line on them?”

(To be continued)

Sergeant,

Official Intercourse ©

“Pop, what is a diplomat?”

“A diplomat,” my son, is a gentle-
man who can tell a lie in such a man-
ner to another gentleman, who is also
a diplomat, that the second gentle-
man is compelled to pretend that he
really believes the first gentleman, al-
though he knows that the first gentle-
man js a liar, who knows that the
second gentleman does not believe

him.”
¢

An Oversight
(visiting prison)—And
to be put in here,

how
my

Lady
did you come
good man?

“I'm unlucky,” declared the impris-
oned wood ulcoliol yender, who was in
a confidential mood. “One of my cus-
tomers didn't go blind, and he identt-
fied me.”

The Best Proof
"IT can speak from experience,” said
the druggist. “This is the best tonic

for nerves. I take it myself, sir;
2.50 a bottle.”

“It's done you good, anyway, if
you've the nerye to ask that price for

replied the customer,

London can boast of 20 women un-

dertakers, while 60 women are quali-]_

fled auctioneers.

for the animal.
ba

How Manitoba Derived Its Name
Writers Differ As To The Origin Of
This Euphonious Word ,

Manitoba is so euphonious a name
that its use was extended from the
lake to which it was first applied to
that of the proyince created 12th May,
1870. Manitoba, however, was not
the name by which the lake was first
known to white men. Its discover-
ers and expiorers were the La Veren
dryes, father and son, in 1738 and 1739.
The name applied by La Verendrye in
his journal for 1738-89 is Lac des
Prairles or, in English, Lake of the
Prairles. Other early names are
Prairle Lake, Meadow Lake, Lake of
the Meadows, also Assiniboine Lake in
various forms of the term the refer-
ence being to the Assiniboine Indians
who dwelt on its shores. On the map
accompanying Alexander Mackenzie's
yoyages, published in London in 1801
the lake is called Manitaubos. Num-
erous other forms of the word Mant-
toba are met with. The name is ex-
plained in two ways, The explana-
tion generally accepted derives it
from Cree manito-wapow or the Ojib-
way manito-baw meaning the strait
of the manito 6r spirit. According to
this explanation the name was first
applied to an island in the narrows.
H. Y. Hind, of Toronto, in his narra-
live of “The Canadian Red River Ex-
ploring Expedition of 1857-8," says:
“The origin of this superstition in re-
lation to Manitoba Island is due to the
sounds produced by the wWayes as they
beat upon the beach at the foot of the
cliffs near its northern extremity.
During the night time when a gentle
breeze is blowing from the north, the
yarions Sounds heard on the island
are quite sufficlent to strike awe into
the minds of the superstitious In-
dians.” This explanation js concur-
red in by Mr. J. B. Tyrrell, who writes
in the report of the Geological Survey
for 1890 that the limestone in a beach
on the island “is very compact and
resonat and when the waves beat
against this beach and throw these
resounding pebbles one on another,
the roaring sound will undoubtedly be
produced which has given rise to the
superstition among the Indians.”

La Verendrye,%s noted above, call-
ed the lake, Lake of the Prairie, and
there are those who think that this is
the meaning of the Indian name. Abbe
Dugas is a strong supporter of the Jat-
ter definition and in his book “The
Canadian West” published in Montreal
in 1896 upholds this view. After
arguing on the point of language he
concludes: “The Indians who dwelt on
the shores of Lake Manitoba and the
banks of the Arsiniboine at the time
of iis discovery were Assiniboines
whose language resembles that of the
Sioux. There were the tribes Mata-
toba, Hie toba, Ti toba.
mination toba in their language signi-
fies ‘prairie’ and mine means ‘water.’
Mine sota means ‘yellow water,’ mine
apolis, ‘water town.’ Mine toba
means ‘water or lake of the prairies.”
The English successors to the French
pronounced ‘mine’ as if ‘my ni’ and
hence Manitoba.” ‘ %

The above information jis summar-
ized in the 18th Report of the Geo-
graphic Board of Canada recently
published which gives the meaning of
many Canadian place-names.

Scored On the Lawyer

A young doctor was stimmoned as
a withess in a case that depended on
technical evidence. The opposing
counsel was inclined to be sarcastic
at the idea of so young a doctor being
called.

“You are familiar,” he said,
the symptoms of concussion of
brain.”

“Yes,” said the doctor.

“Then if Mr. Smith and myself col-
lided, and banged our heads together,
should we get concussion of the
brain?”

“Mr. Smith might,” said the doctor.

“with
the

Legacy Left For Horse

Under the will of Thomas .Wilde
Fawkner, of Macclesfield, Cheshire,
marine store dealer, £1 a week
is set aside for the Sete ofa
horse.

So long as the horse lives, Mr.
Fawkner’s freehold land is not to
be sold, but with the stables and build-
ings thereon fs to be primarily a home

Among some Indian tribes it is im-
proper for a mother-in-Jaw to speak to
her daughter's husband.

This ter-|

Ryery cotntry under the
rvhich has brought health

for ‘ailntents such as Sic
ti and Consti

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k Headache, Bilfousness: a

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Which have their origin in a dyspeptic. condition of
fhe stomach snd ja torpid action ot the live
bad .

Why India Is Troubled

Economic Conditions Are
Most of the Unrest
There is no doubt as to the great
amount of unrest in India, but that
unrest has an economic as well as a
political basis, 2nd a recent article in
The Round Table points this out. ‘The
writer calls attention to the fact that
between 1872 and 1921 tie population
of India increased from 206,162,360 to
318,942,480, or more than 50 per cent.,
and that the great difficulty is to make
food production keep pace with the
increase of population. Wages are
yery low, farm wages being about six
cents a day in 1900, and eighteen cents
a day in 1922, but with the cost of liy-
ing considerably increased India’s mil-
lions are underfed and badly clothed
and housed. Britain has been doing
what she could to Increase production,
but the progress is slow. Our mis-
sionaries in India, ever keen to recog-
nize the real needs of the people, are
now establishing mission agricultural
stations with the aim of giving India
better cattle and better farms, so that’
the people may not go perpetually hun-
gry. Wumanity and Christianity are
very closely allied. But the feeding
of 300,000,000 of people is no light
task, and the uplift of India demands
sanest constructive Christian states-
manship. Changing the form of goy-
ernment would not solve this problem
at all.—Christian Guardian.

Causing

Few Foreigners In Australia

Population Shows 98 Per Cent. of
British Extraction =

Some interesting figures are disclos-
ed in the latest Australian census.
They show that the Commonwealth
has a total population of 5,435,734, and
that more than $8 per cent. are of
British extraction. Of the total ops
ulation 84% per cent. were born in
Australia. The remarkable homogen-
eity of the Australian population is
shown by the fact that the foreign
population consists of only a few thou-
sand Japanese, 15,000 Chinese, 8,000
Italians, 22,000 Germans, 6,000 Amevi-
cans and 3,000 Swedes.

LITTLE HELPS FOR
THIS WEEK

°

A merry heart doeth good like a eae
cine—Proy, xvii., 2:

Jog on, jog on the foot-path way,
And merrily hent the stilé-a;
A merry heart goes all the day, .
Your sad tires in a mile-a.
—Shakespeare.
Laughing cheerfulness throws sun-
light on all the paths of life.  Peey-
ishness covers with its dark fog even
the most distant horizon. Sorrow
causes more absence of mind and con-
fusion than so-called Jevity=-veant{
Paul Friederich Richter. i
It is ever my thought that the most
God-fearing man should be the most
blithe man.—Thomas Carlyle.

It is against the law to hunt goril-
las in the Belgian Congo.

Brings Home Old Chest of Spanish
Pirates From Southern Seas
Relics full of romance have bi
brought from the Caribbean Sea ‘%
Toronto by W. W. Tretheway, so
venirs of his yachting cruise. H ob
tained them from Sam Brown, a t
ure-seeker, who is constantly search
ing in this sea for anclent spoil. Oni

nate hammered steel chest of the pir
ate period of 300 years ago, when bue

Main took what they found and ask
no man’s authority.

This chest has heavy handles, ; an
excellent key-lock of fancy cut steel,

and front. Deep notched catches
the side assist its security. The rust |
of the sea for three centuries has eat

en it through in places, but it is casita
seen that it was a very serviceab!
property. When found it was part
full of Spanish gold and silver coin
and short pieces of bullion. As it is
two feet high and three and a ha!
long, it could easily contain a fortune.
Along with this*is another smaller r
of irom It is not nearly so orname
tal as the other, but probably has hi
quite as interesling a history. * —

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mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr.
Williams’ Medicine Co., Brockville,
Ont.

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Nigerian Ruler Sees
First Moving Pict
Accompanied By Favorite Wives
Were Closely Veiled
The Emir of Katsina, who governsia” A
district of Nigeria many times Jar Be
than England, attended a moving p! c=
ture show the other night in London,
for the first time in his life. ‘3
- The Emir was enthusiastic about —
the movies. He was socanine nied b: :

ance. ane their arrival at the
tre the wives were escorted i
manager's office to wait uniil the ligh
went down so that they should not
seen by ae eyes.

Women should. be conyinced .
men can't be convinced b: scolding. —
— uf

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