GATHER IN WHEAT Farmers of Western Canada Re- joice at Harvest. Largest Crop in the History of the Fertile Provinces May Be Con- sidered Assured. Reports of Western Canada's wheat crop, which may be considered fairly accurate, as they are made at the end of the season, when the crop Is fully harvested, would Indicate =a yield of between 350,000,000 and 370,- 000,000 bushels from a total acreage of 21471,000. This is the greatest yield in the history of the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Al berta. This immense yleld has only been harvested through the combined energies of all public bodies—rall- ways and governments. It required the assistance, outside of that locally employed, of upward of 40,000 men. These were brought into the country from the East, the West and the South, by trainloads, and rushed for- ward at express speed, to be placed in the different districts, under the direc. tion of officials who were kept advised daily, by wire, of the needs. As a result the largest wheat crop In of the West was successfully harvest. ed. The threshing reports tha almost universally, in section of the country, the grain graded high. In very few places did rain interfere with stacking. The province of Man} toba was the first to complete thresh- ing, very few fields being left at the time of writing. Portions of Saskatchewan had suffered from for past two or three years reaped a crop that largely made up for past disappoint- ments, In Alberta there was a strange dition. noted for its heavy yields, considerable of a falling off. of the and 40 bushel yields average ran from 10 12, southern portions, where drought affected the past, yields, Reports of individual dif- ferent portions of the three provinces lead show every that drou the oe a) to while country for some there were exceptionally hig! yields in to the Impression that found to have been a much better « than at present seems possible of these returns indi ers as getting as high others 35, and so on, districts, where In early more than 8 or 10 bushels looked for, 15 and 18 corded, the improvement ! brought about by narvels in the appearance of And then carrying four rows, ried six rows, and which, to th least fifty The ada is generally ge and {alr The weatl give vidual farm- #28 49 y while in ¥ ¥ ashe avis been rains that too, instead of the most of them filled to the who know, me [|e ins per cent more rye all Western Can- cron of exceptionally good the may int { long it Most of the newcome States have excell August, carried the ent crops, During to Western Canada and ra from » trains ha dreds of capitalists Western land, going up to take care of the crop that they had have put in on the land they Very few of them will be disappointed. —Adver- tisement. others interested in arranged to owned Dubious Compliment. 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I saw something of that sort in the wind, and so I hadn't started to carry out our plan.” “Our plan!” gasped Kitty. “The one that we agreed on, to keep her away from Will Carruthers,” said Bowyer venomously. He expected an outburst, but Kitty was beyond that now. “You know that I've about WIHiL"” sald In a choking volce. *I don't know what to do. Nobody but you help me. What shall I do?” Bowyer pretended to reflect. “I don't quite see what I can do, Mrs tock,” he answered, “I don’t he's guilty" “Of course, he isn't guilty!" isn't. Bu " jostock,” come she can os believe “I've always said he have to take his verdict from the jury. What is there lo?" Kitty tion, what “But that Joe's death, we oun t him in she gasped. "That's looked at consternn- “The safe!” with nothing to do Bostock." has Mrs She sprang to her feet, confronting with indignation, “You +1 ’ fin thing Bile him know tl h every cried. “XY ng with torturing me know what that forged checks and scovery? me £3 - he murdered Io prevent i don't ippose | know tl bination, vou just to help Will, that there? Let witness stand!” before checks tell the those truth pleaded Yasnod lasped me Oat ’ 5 va the on she him with raining standing hands, and the tears down her cheeks “Tell the truth? he shouted. You must be mad! “If the jury knew that, they' be arranged. I'd to Lee " could gaunve the combination bers to be afraid of Agnin Bowyer began Kitty ; but this time it ity he feared. And he to let rages. He was her stupid saw that this £ 100se of seized was the occasion habituated One hig the »d with pain. other, Kitty hissed furious “Tl up your proposition and show you what it means. Listen! you'll ur with Dishonest, sort 's understand each wor Bostock ! he in a volce, take First, break ¥« solemn nant The me think? th you I've pls And you'll play f fortune ved falr with you * with me, or youll 1% your I¥ nny That's first, “Second, every go surely as you go into the witness-box with such a story I'll say you lie, I'll say he I'll say that he killed Joe at your in wanted to that you went to lived there, was your lover, stigation because rid In Big Muskeg and next door to him. I'll bring forward a workman who you two together, kissing on the swamp one evening. I'll gwear it's 8 concocted story made up by you to free your paramour sort of figure do you think you'll cut in the witness-box then, Kitty Bos tock ™ Bowyer had calculated rightly. Up- on a woman lke Kitty, petted and spoiled from birth, the astounding fact of physical violence comés as a stunning shock that breaks down the soul's resistance. It is oniy on repetl tion that the reaction comes. And Bowyer calculated rightly again, you of him, say almost [aw promise you that he shall be freed I have the means, the Influence, the power. I know he didn’t murder Joe, Keep your head, and all shall be well, 1 swear it. Do you belleve me?” She looked at him as If he had hypnotized her. “Yes, 1 believe you,” she answered, “So surely as you speak one word, he'll hang. Keep quiet, and he shall be saved. Promise me you'll say noth- ing!” “Oh, I'll say nothing,” walled Kitty, wringing her hands, “I promise you. I see. Yes | understand now.’ And she went out of the house with her head low, dublous, and yet with the sure conviction that Bowyer could save Wilton. Bowyer could save him, but nobody else could do go. She would trust him, because there was nobody cise to trust, Between the house and the station, Kitty grew ¢onscious of an old man walking beside her, trying to speak to her. Absorbed In her thoughts, she aa not know how long he had been there. Suddenly she realized that this was Jim Betts, She shrank back aghast, looking at him with eyes wide with fear. Jim nodded and smiled. “It's all right; don’t be afeared of me, Mrs. Bostock,” he sald. “You're mighty worried about Will, ain't you now. 1 guess we all are. Won't you go to Mr. Payne and tell him what you know 1" They had reached the station. The train for Clayton’ was waiting. Jim followed Kitty into the compartment took his seat beside her all oy a i sms “Tom Bowyer swore he'd save him fife “If—" questioned Jim. “If 1 kept silent. But I'll speak, 1 will. I never trusted him. Mr. Bow. yer told me I couldn't hold the line, and 1 wanted to save the money to help Will. He promised that when the smash came he'd take the shares off my hands at par If I'd give him the combination of the safe, that he could find out about the plans. 1 gave it to him. The safe was mine and 1 was trying to help Will. And I told Tom Bowyer the secret of the wheat lands, that he'd know he wasn't losing anything by buying shares.” She let her head fall against Jim's shoulder, sobbing uncontrollably. lald his rough hand on hair “There, child, I guess feel don't you!" he sald, nnderstand the wrong doing That's the way done And now we and fix things up fo 80 sO my Jim her you bet te didn't were generally Mr. Payne - TT, Now, “Yo that yo I CHAPTER XIX The Closing of the Trap. Payne was plexities about a month bef date set for the trial and his off sobbed her story, ile struggling with his when Kitty came to ont ement “Why did you do this, Mrz. Bos asked, when he had heard her “Because help him,” she “Yo the wilness-hox to the Ove Will and answersd, wanted ing to tell just J ried Kitty save Will it’s needed to save hi » . * - » * As the day of the trial drew nearer Payne knew Will's case was des opinion 3 erate, was Inflamed ful t-111 BRI bh fruits Bowyer's ius, but in wn reputation worked up appeared comple the She Let Her Head Fall Against Jim's Shoulder, Sobbing Uncontroilably. sen, who followed the Indian witnesses, testified reluctantly that he had over. beard Wilton request the pseudo po- licemen to delay their journey to Clay- ton, as he did not wish Joe until some time later. There followed Papillon and Jean Passepartout, who stated that they had been told by the outlaw, Hackett, that Wilton had murdered Joe Bostock, Having already come to the same opin- SONS, guilt laid to them, they had decided to run away. . Suddenly there came a buzz of ex. citement in the court room. All eyes were turned toward the crown attor- ney, at whose side stood Bowyer him- self; and it was evidently the inten- tion of the prosecution to call him to the stand. Payne's eyes, attracted upward sud- denly, saw Kitty in her widow's black, seated in the front row of the gallery, her eyes fixed in terror upon the new- comer, And, as If drawn by the force of her will, Bowyer looked up, and Payne saw the flicker of a smile cross his red, vulpine countenance, Bowyer, called, deposed that he had known Joe Bostock intimately for sev. ernl years. They had always been friendly, though often business rivals. “When did you first learn of his death?” asked the crown attorney. “Not for several days after.” “But you met the accused at the Hudson's Bay company's store at Big Muskeg a few days after the event?” “Two days after.” “What did he say to you about the tragedy?” “He told me Joe Bostock was not with him.” “And he sald nothing about his death?” Ci “No. 1 knew nothing about it for two or three days after that.” “Was his demeanor that of a gullty man?” Payne leaped to his feet, “I object to that question!” he shouted. jut lowyer was already answering: “He looked like a man mad fear.” As spoke he glanced upward, There came a scream from the gallery, and Kitty fell back, fainting chalr, with he in The court adjourned until the mor row. Payne went to his client almost Immediately. “What do you make of it all?” Wilton “It looks bad,” answered Payne, “I was a fool to hide Joe's death Inquire for Kitty when yo jet me § HOW And tell her not to going to pull out triumpi of the asked gravely. i gO rn x Yio wii) si worn! CHEE line,” CHAPTER XX The Guilty Man! quest on the bodies 14] « to the prowling learned nothing there, to the store It fn new post was still en ¥ i trading was being not replaced the factor, perhaps woul not do so. Betts broke In Everything was as it had been on the night of the fire. But Betts quick 1s discovered that someone had been there since. For in the dust that cov. ered the floor of Molly's bedroom were the faint imprint of feet. A woman's foot! That was ail the clue Betts got, but it satisfied him. He cast about northward and eastward, going Into every Indian encampment and talking with the inhabitants jut it week before he got his second clue . . . . * * * WHS a Molly and her father left Wilton be- side the road and crept stealthily into the undergrowth, When they were a sufficient distance from the camp they made a wide detour, crossed the road, and took the trail back toward the portage, encountering nobody on the way. There the factor got $500, and made up a pack of, food sufficient for two weeks’ journey. They put on thelr snowshoes and started east ward. Molly had noticed that the factor’s paralysis had completely left him, She sald nothing to him about it, however, fearing to bring it to his attention. They traveled for eight days. On the eighth McDonald showed signs of weakness; he had overtaxed his strength, They were following an Indian track that led to a little Moravian mission, twelve miles farther on. When they reached it at nightfall, McDonald was in a raging fever and half-delirious, The brother in charge welcomed them: he put the factor to bed and nursed him assiduously through a sharp attack of pleurisy. MeDonald, in his delirium raved incessantly. All the ghosts of the past tortured him, Night after night he raved, while Molly tended him in his anguish But at last the delirium left him, and con selence, screaming into the sick man's soul, could no more pass the seal upon his lps. a I He was In a fever to be gone, He wanted his rifle; he cleaned and olled it. He asked for his snowshoes, and began examining the strings. As Molly gave them to him she suddenly per- ceived that one of the strings was broken. And there flashed into her mind the memory of her discovery be side the portage on that day when she saved Wilton, She wonld not let the dark thought her heart come into consciousness, kneeled at the factor's arms around him, “What is trou- bling she pleaded. “Tell me” MeDonnld WHR like un aspen “It's na 38 1" he bab- bled “If I've for wrong that was done me and mine.” “What have vou done? Wi un repaid? You must tell He clutched at her. “J warned him int wonld be If he came between me when sent Will rs to steal you me——for buck of that—I shot in she side, fo you? shaking ¢thing, 1 i repaid, its om have vy ” “ me, And he from ray eyes searched into his i" z tine Molly took the fac “We'll go on,” she “Thank God, ce s; 1 Bu spected, 8 been sus I'l f ever the guilt is u A Dramatic Moment. f Witter ay the alled Kitty friend of your til company?” Joe's account.” ou to come to Big tried me, It I wanted to stop wna suggestion, because to How the work.” fleeting glance at the ry. They were watching Kitty with faces: but there was no them, Payne shot a nnchanged on “At the portage you mot Mr. Bowyer one evening, I believe?™ “yon.” “Tell sued.” “1 eaught him trying to embrace Miss McDonald, Tle told me that he loved and would win her from Will Car. He taunted me with being in Will. I was I aml” herself up proudly and wit the words with indescribable The whole court was electri her words and manner. It stag- It was one of the worst He did us the conversation that en fUlthieors, with ¢ drow flung « energy: fled by gered Payne. could have sald. not dare glance at the jury. “What was the nature of the bargain that Mr. Bowyer offered?’ continued the lawyer. “fe sald he would win Miss McDon- ald and get her out of my way if 1 him gain control of the Missatibi., And he asked me te give him the combination of the safe so that he could examine some papers there. 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