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Even as Cal reflected upon this. amazing reversal of all that should be so he could not help being stirrâ€" Sed by some kind of tribute to the clevernes with which young Jackâ€" son had played his game. He had pulled Cal into the pit which he himself should ~occupy, and was climbling out over his victim. ‘ All that Cal saw clearly was that he must temporize; he must get time to think; he must keep his head. "Well, I‘ll see what I can do," he said at length. ‘"Perhaps I can â€" get some money from my friends in Winnipeg. J can‘t give you all my wages, you know." " in impotent rage Cal held “1 peace. The fellow had him; had hin. hand and foot, gagged and bound and tied to the stake. He was. was completely at the merey of the blackmailer. It was an impossible, an unthinkable situation, but it was so. Jackson ‘Stake, the transgressor, dictated terms to Calvin Beach, the thjured party. \The criminal had climbed onto the judge‘s bench ,nd was grimly passing sentence upon his accuser. "PIl give you till Saturdayâ€"no j longer," said Jackson Stake, with| the air of a creditor closing an acâ€" count. » ! Cal‘s first impulse was to drlvel to Plainville and tell Minnie everyâ€" thing. He felt that he had come to an impasse in his life where he must lean on other judgment beside his own. His house of dreams had collapsed, shattererd by a blow unâ€" der a clear sky, a blow unheard and unseen by any neighbor, and he was writhing amid the ruins. He needed ministrations; needed them tremendously. C On second thought he knew he could not tell Minnie. fe would be a breach of his faith with Celesta, and with Reed. He must have the secret at all costs. How to do itâ€" that was the question. Jackson had walked away after his ulumltium‘ leaving him seated on the runningâ€" board while something pounded with slnge-fiémmer thumps across his temples. How to do it? He must think he must think. And he could not think. He remembered that he had said something about writing to Winniâ€" peg for money. That, of course, was to gain time, but it had appeared to satisfy Jackson, and he must make the most of it. He did not know whether Jackson was still watching him, but he simulated the writing of a letter. AS he did so Trix came in hotly pursued by Reed. "We‘re playing a great game, Daddy X," the boy shouted. "Trix is a bandit and I am the Mounted Police. Now I have her!" But the dog darted between his legs and was gone. To Cal the boy seemed to have come up out of a mist. It was so strange to hear his voice! He sat for a moment piecing together evets, arranging the sudden chaos THIS MOTHER CLAD DAUGHTER Mrs. Parks Tells How Lydia E. | Pinkham‘s Vegetable Compound Restored Her Daughter‘s â€" | Toronto, Ontario. M is 16 now and has been an The Smokhing Flax ofâ€"dcor _ Lydis E. Pinkham‘s . V contound in o anpersatle, For sale by druggists everywhere. 0 CHAPTER FIFTEEN By ROBERT STEAD 1$ WELL of his life in some kind of sequence. Yes, this. was the ‘boyâ€"Jackson Staig#ls boy. What had he to do with Jackson Stake‘s boy? Why~ notâ€" For one moment his soul trembled on an abyss of depravity, but the next it was soaring with the gods. The little face faded before him, like a picture thrown out of focus; then came up clear and sweet and tender as the face of his ~dead mother, and Cal knew that, whatâ€" ever happened, Reed was safe in his hands. He stretched out his arms, and the boy, surprised but willing, crept within them. Suddenly a new fear gripped at bhis heart. Was this boy safeâ€" physically safeâ€"from the menace that hung over him? Since his first days on the farm Reed had had the run of the prairie. True, he attended school, but aside from that he came and went as he pleased and only th dog Trix knew of his comings and: goings. With a snare of brass wire and a string of binder twine he would lie for patient hours by the mouth of some gopher kole, or he would ramble for miles in gearch of ‘flowers or butterflies. But nowâ€"? Cal resolved that he must keep a close eye on the boy. He knew only enough of Jackson Stake to know that there might be no limit to his audacity. He could take no chances. "Let‘s ~go to town toâ€"night, old scout," he suggested. \ . But they did not go to town. Anâ€" telope performed her â€"rumbling ramble through the groves of popâ€" lars and dawn the main road beâ€" yond th\ school, but then Cal turnâ€" ed her ndse along a side trail and away from Plainville. He had deâ€" cided that he could not face Minnie at present. She would read his seâ€" cret in his eyes. He dared not Tace iher. Nor would he talk with Reed. After two or three unsuccessful atâ€"\ tempts to engage him in conversaâ€" tion the boy turned his attention to the more\eceptlve ears of Antelope, and his talk from that time was such as a boy of eight may hold with an automobile two years his senior. It had to do with badger holes and deep prairie ruts and gentle reproof ‘of the various rattlings with which Antelope made angwer. * The sun hung low over the pralr-‘ ies; the clumps of willows threw their lengthening shadows across the trail; the grass took on its vivid evening livery of green, and still Cal‘ held his airpless course as a boat adrift at sea. He was fighting, fghting. And as yet he did not know what he fought. He was fightâ€" ing to get the enemy visualized, to |m clearlyâ€" It was dusk when they again drew up at the granary, although a halo of light still hung in the western sky and filtered dimly through the grateful . cloud . of smudgeâ€"smoke which filled the farmyard like a fog. "Home early, D.D.." Gander re-‘ marked, while Grit nddog some surâ€" mise to the effect that the staff in the law office must be working nights. But Cal neither answered them nor heard them. He was skewering the vile heart that had risen up to destroy his life; in his mind ‘he was tramping under foot the lifeless body of Jackson Stake. Reed, strangely perplexed by a shadow which he could feel but coul not understand, slipped quietly to bed without so much as a sugâ€" gestion of a bedâ€"time story. For a while he watched the outline of Cal‘s form as it sat, unusually bowâ€" ed, in the door of the granary, but ‘ there was no receptacle in his young "mmd that could hold trouble, and presently he and Trixie were scamâ€" pering ths fields in search of butterâ€" files. And a~minute later he was | asieop. a | Cal did not light his pibe, and when Hamilton paused on his way to bed as though he would have joined in a chat he gave him no 'neonnnmnt. Ordinarily he liked | Ham, but toâ€"night he returned his 'm with a monosyllable. The 'twlmc deepened;"the red coals in .mwuonuf-qpmom'- presently got up and moved away; the yellow ofl light in the kitchen went out; even the contented puftâ€" Ing of the cows under their canopy of friendly smoke was silenced, but ln‘on-un.nt-cm and dumb. This was a fight in which lhis hands were shackled; fn which bound; in which he C > * eR Juckson â€"Stai told himself. 4t I could ‘se ully 1 would bed and sett can‘t. 1 can‘t up stairs ‘an hotl:ndml could make woul even death.. Cal uy s TR hss crer oi w d Crpa his share of physic young blood in his combative u:y:q* e ‘Ol could not tall back upon these primâ€" itive defences that the:â€"fAght was so unevenly balanced t him. At midnight be was to put it into words. "I‘m afraid of Jackson â€"Stakeâ€"not * he told himselt. "Quite scontrary. 4t I could ‘settle this physic ally 1 would drag him out: of his bed and settle it right now. But i can‘t. 1 ean‘t go into the house and up stairs "and pull Jackson out of hd_lndmnlhllmhw withSut an explanation. If 1 didn‘t explain it, he would. I can‘t do that. ~ "And I.can‘t buy his silence. It would be immoral, to begin with, but I could overlook that. One does not worry. so much about moral principles when ‘hig antagonist has £ strangle hold on his throat; at least, I haven‘t reached that degree of moral exactitude. But if 1 pay him I will be only playing into his trap. He would take fifty . dollars nowâ€"and another fifty as soon As I had earned it. He would simply live on me. That‘s his game. And after he had bled me white, or some time in a sulky mood, he would tell. ‘Tell Minnie, likely. So even that wouldn‘t save me. \ "Not me. Reed. Reed, and my promise to Celesta. That what has to besaved. ‘And I would give my life for it. But I can‘t save it by giving my life; that way, perhaps, least of all. The boy needs me and I‘m going to live for him. I‘m going to live for him no matter who dies. "He will tell Minnie. When he is fouling anyway he will make his blow as foul as possible. Ang then Minnie will despise me, because I lied to her, and becauseâ€"because â€"" Suddenly Cal‘s heart gave an extraordinarg thump, and for t.ho‘ first time he sat erect. Minnie would. not despise him! It came to him as clear as a voice at his sideâ€" Minnie would not despise him. She was that kind of a girl. Let Jackson Stake do his worst; here was one pillar of his life that could not be overthrown. But a moment later he saw the cther side of the shield and the brief tide of hope that had flooded his heart went ebbing out again. Minnie would not despise him, but she would despise herself, and the effect would be as bad, or worse. "If Jackson Stake were to tell her the truth," he soliloquized, "she nuever would look me in the face again. Realizing the wrong that Celesta, and I, and Reed have sufâ€" fered from her brother she never would look on me again. That would }be a situation that could not be remedied, any way whatever." He rose and paced unsteadily forâ€" ward and back before his door. He would turn again and again to look at the door; he had @ feeling that he dared not leave it, scarcely an arm‘s length. Celesta‘s‘ boy was sleeping there and the night was full of heinous dangers directed at bis head. He must stand on guard. He half hoped that Jackson Stake, slipping suddenly out of the dusk, would fall upon him. . "By God, I wish he would!" he suddenly exclaimed, clenching his fists in the darkness. "Then I would kill himâ€"kill him, and it would be over with. Dead men tell no talgs." He toyed with it. It was a treâ€" mendously , fascinating _ line _ of thought, and he toyed with it. That would remove the peril. With young Jackson Stake out of the way the secret would be safe, and there was no other way in which it could be made safe. And it would be justice, Celesta has given her life. A life for a life. . . . "I suppose, my son} it‘s the kind possessed by people who always want the joke to be at the other fellow‘s expense." . Itching Eczema Dried Right Up With Sulphur fiery, mluecuâ€".eiibe«ifil!‘ overcome by applying a little MenthoSuiphur, says a noted skin specialist. Recause of its germ deâ€" stroying properties, this sulphtr preparation instantly brings ‘case trom skin irritation, soothes and im the ccsema ~right up and leaves the skin clear and amooth. It seldom falls to relieve the torâ€" meht and disfigurement. Sufferers from akin trouble should get a little jar of Rowles Menthoâ€"Sulphur from any good drugglst and use it like a *« Saving "What‘s a saving sense of humor, Any breaking out of IIA. skin, even â€" Cal had ue more ‘than t‘ physical fear; he had & in his ‘and that confidence comes muscles and ¢lean living: s. preBisely. y Jhe! all back upon these primâ€" tes that the:Aght was so alanced him. ght he was to put rds. "I‘m afraid of akeâ€"not ph * he it. "Quite pontrary. (To be Continued.) Copyright * Mr. Gotroxâ€"â€"Are you sure that young man‘s fntentions are serious? Daughterâ€"Well, papa, he‘s jeak ous ‘of© éverybody who wants to know how much money you have. ‘Judgeâ€"Do you swear to tell"the truth, the whole truthâ€" Fair Witnessâ€"It will be perfectly lovely, if you really have time. to listen. Doctorâ€"Now, Giles, just rub this lotion into your knee three times & _ Gilesâ€"Yes, doctorâ€"afore or after meals? * a ‘The Educatiqn of Dad "Dear Harold," his father wrote, "your brief letter came today. I am enclosing a cheque for the amount lmlhvomasmtm of the college faculty. I take it to be the hc-}y of spending money. Affectionately, Father." Everything Just Lovely | Burglarâ€"Are the people of the house in? f Servantâ€"No, they‘re all out. â€"â€" Burglarâ€"Have you paid your dog license? Servantâ€"We haven‘t any dog. Burglarâ€"Well, then, I‘ve come to tune the plano. § Ee 5 Surest 3 Love Sick Nephewâ€"Uncle‘ what‘s the best way to find out what she thinks of me? Bachelor Unclt’a â€" Marry her, my boy. Literally and Figuratively Salesmanâ€"And this new attachâ€" ment absolutely prevents the car from running over pedestrians. Customerâ€"It does? . Salesmanâ€"Yes; it sends them up in the air. 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One of two players made hurried enâ€" trances and threw themselves into the most convenient chairs when they started to play. At the close of the piece the usual contingent of lateâ€"comets paraded down the aisles. ' After two more numbers, Mr. Stokowski sprang his second .sur-l prise. As the orchestra began the first movement of "Haydn‘t "Fareâ€" well" symphony, one or two memâ€" bers, apparently tired of playing, calmly wandered off the stage. The exodus kept on t® the chagrin of the audience, unti], in the last moveâ€" }ment, only two violins remained. BODY OF NEW BORN BABE __ 18 HALF EATEN BY poGs Terribly disfigured and half eaten by dogs, the body of a newâ€"born baby was discovered in the foundaâ€" tion of a dismantled house in Brighton, Ont., April 9th. The disâ€" covery was made by ~Fillage conâ€" stable J. M. Spencer, who was nott fied by Thomis Cheer, whose fox terrier came home carrying the arm 6of the babe. 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