GATHER IN WHEAT
Farmers of Western Canada Re-
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Largest Crop in the History of the
Fertile Provinces May Be Con-
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Reports of Western Canada's wheat
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000,000 bushels from a total acreage
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of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Al
berta. This immense yleld has only
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two or three years reaped a crop that
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of the and 40 bushel yields
average ran from 10 12,
southern portions, where drought
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past,
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of these returns indi
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others 35, and so on,
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CHAPTER XVIiil—Continued.
one Gomme
“Mako? yourself easy,” he sald sul-
lenly. “I hadn't any hand in it. I don't
know what happened, but I guess she
didn't go to the camp against her will,
Mrs, he leered. “Maybe
she'd taken a fancy to Lee Chambers.
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
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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. He said it was my safe, and 1
controlled the line, so that I would be
doing no wrong.”
“What answer did you make?”
“] gave him the combination,” an
gwered Kitty in a low voice.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
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