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mr ROBERT STEAD
-AUTHOR or THE COW PUNCHER':
«OPV*lt«T BY * IWSt! STEAD •> THE HQNTESTCADERfi:
SYNOPSIS
CHAPTER X.—Lured by hl» four
ill, ar-old aged playmate, Jean Lane, Frank
nix, ventures on the for
bidden wall of a dam, In a small On¬
tario town. He falls into the water,
and is saved from possible death by
oUnglng Meat day to Jean’s outstretched arms.
he has a vision of romance
When Jean Informs him that because of
their adventure of the day before he Is
H> duty bound to marry her. He agrees,
the only until proviso being that they are to
Watt they are ''grownups."
CHAPTER II.—With Jean’s brother
John, school. also aged six, Frank begins
Two years later they are joined
A by little Jean and Frank’s Jean sister Marjorie.
later confides to Frank,
in verse, her hope of some day becom¬
ing "Mrs. Hall.” He accepts the "pro¬
posal.” Frank Is fourteen when his
mother dies. He takes a Job In the
mill where his father works. The boys
are killed eighteen when John's father Is
In an accident. Two years later
Frank's father and John’s mother are
sawi married. > *vw, Dissatisfied i/moaunucu with inui bwiiuinuun, conditions.
and ambitious, the two boys make
plans stead," to the go girls to Manitoba agreeing and “home¬
to go with
them. They set out.
CHAPTER III.—At Regina they meet
tion "Jake,” who for a monetary considera¬
agrees to find them satisfactory
homesteads. He does so, and the two
friends file claims on Sections Fourteen
and Twenty-two.
CHAPTER IV.—Jake sagely advises
the adventurers In the drawn purchase of yoke sup¬
plies, of and in a wagon the by a set
oxen, and with a cow, four
out for their future honijes.
CHAPTER V. — Construction of
"shacks" and the malting of a garden
are their first occupations. There la
a which pond of good water on Frank’s farm,
serves them until they dig a
well. A young Englishman of the name
of "Spoof” Is a neighbor of theirs. They
call on Spoof, typical Englishman of
breeding und education, who Is living
In a tent.
CHAPTER VI
Spoof whs as good ns his word. The
following Sunday we saw his ox team
as a sl owly-gfowing speck on section
Eleven, and a mile away we heard re¬
marks to the "bally bullocks" which,
presumably, were Intended to be confi¬
dential.
“I just brought the bullocks for ex¬
ercise,” he explained, when be drew
up before our shack. “I could have
walked much easier, and much quicker,
but they keep my arms and voice In
form.”
The girls were waiting In the shade
at the eastern side of the shack; In
their Sunday dresses of flimsy stuff
appropriate to the hot weather they
looked very sweet and charming.
"Ah, here are the ladles,” said
Spoof, and In his manner there was a
touch of gallantry that In some way
seemed foreign to either Jack or me.
“lteal prairie roses, and no mistake,”
as he took their hands in his. “It’s
jolly decent to ask a stranger over.
All this out-of-doors; dawns, sunsets,
Sky, distance—all very fine, but It isn’t
--i’oort llatlieP to be too much alone with it.
overwhelms one, don’t you
think?”
ir “J have felt that,” said Jean, while
Matjorie was fumbling for words.
“It’s too grand; it oppresses one. It’s
—it’s all soul; no body.”
"That’s it—that's It!” Spoof agreed,
“All soul—no body. I shall write that
to the governor. The governor, dear
old chap, thinks this country is rather
a bit off the map. I have promised to
shoot him a polar bear for Christmas,
and he's quite looking forward to It.
He writes to know If I find the native
labor satisfactory, and can my man
mix a decent whisky and soda. I must
set his mind at rest. I let him think
I run quite an establishment, you un¬
derstand; he sends a check now and
again, which, of course, hears a rela¬
tionship to the position I am supposed
to occupy in local society.”
“Doesn't your conscience trouble
you?” Marjorie queried, the conversa¬
tion having swung Into her orbit.
“Not at all. I am doing the gov¬
ernor a kindness. He spends rather
too much money on whisky and soda—
particularly the former—so I am mere¬
ly getting him interested In another
kind of extravagance. A Younger Son
Is a very successful form of extrav¬
agance. don’t you think? What is it
Kipling says—‘By the bitter road the
founger Son must tread,’ or something
like that? So why shouldn’t the gov¬
ernor sweeten the hitter road a little,
and drink less whisky to his soda?”
While we were busy thinking of
some appropriate remark Spoof re¬
membered his bundle of papers.
“I ventured to bring these over,” he
said, tendering them to Jean. “Just
some old copies of the Illustrated Lon¬
don News and the Graphic. There are
some sketches by an artist showing his
inception of homestead life. I rather
suspect the governor has let him read
my letters.”
Presently the conversation turned to
agricultural topics, and we were more
it ease.
“My plowing,” Spoof explained, “haB
gone better since I discarded my com¬
pass. The bullocks never took kindly
to the compass. No doubt it was a
foolish notion of mine that a furrow
should run either east and west or
north and south, seeing that the whole
farm has to be plowed anyway. I now
let .them veer and tack as. they, nleaae.
SntTwe are making considerable” head¬
way.” »
“Any crop in?”
“Not this year. A chap in Regina
advised me to plant a sack of rolled oats
and raise my own porridge, but, thank
Heaven, I’m not Scotch. No Reflection
on the Scotch," he added hurriedly,
noting a warning flash in Marjorie’s
eyes. “They are a very wonderful
people They eat oatmeal, and thrive
on it. A very wonderful people. Oh,
I say! Can’t we have some tea?
Beastly dry business, homesteading;
no afternoon tea. I must speak to my
man about that. He’s the same man
as mixes my whisky and sodas, accord¬
ing to the governor’s idea of It,’’ Spoof
explained. ’
The girls went insfde, and in a short
while brought out tea and sandwiches.
"Do you know,” said Spoof, when
the girls had cleared up the tea things
and were out of hearing, "the thing
of which I stand most in need at the
present moment—that thing which is
so essentially English, and from which
I have been divorced for more clays
than I care to number—that tiling for
which I would gladly give half of my
kingdom, meaning the northwest quar¬
ter of section Two? No? Observe
the blushes beneath my sunburned
cuticle us 1 admit that for weeks I
have not had a bath. For weeks, lit¬
erally. If my poor governor could
know that, not even the hide of a polar
bear would reconcile him to leaving me
to live the life of a savage.”
“We can soon fix that—I mean, we
can furnish the wherewithal,” said I,
“and I wilt expect the deed of eighty
acres in return.” So we led Spoof
down to the poud. ■
“My word, my word!” said Spoof,
“Why didn’t Jake tell me about this?
I will have that land guide’s gizzard
for this omission! My word, if only
I had a bathing suit! I say, do you
think there would be any great dan¬
ger—any danger at all, that is—of an
interruption?”
“Not a bit We have that all or¬
ganized," and I showed him a red
handkerchief tied to a stick. “When
the pond is in use we fly this banner
on the bank of the gully, and we’re as
safe as Sunday. The girls usually
have their plunge in the middle of the
afternoon, for that matter, and leave
us undivided possession in the eve¬
ning.”
Spoof was already half undressed.
“My word, and do the young ladies
swim?”
“Jean is the best swimmer I ever
knew,” I confessed, modestly. “We
lived beside a river at home, and she
had a way of bagging all the prizes at
our swimming"races.”
"She bagged blggeT gnme*thuu thut,”
Jack put in. “She stored up a lot of
trouble for herself and the rest of us
by pulling our worthy Frank out of the
millpond one day, after the hubbies
had begun to come.” So then I had to
tell Spoof about that Incident. But I
avoided reference to the pledge that
had followed it.
When we had had our swim and
dried ourselves on the sand we went
back up to the house. The shadows
were now falling, long* and narrow, to
the eastward, and the prairie lay
hushed and silent in that deep and
peaceful calm which marks the sum¬
mer evening au hour or two before
sundown.
After supper Spoof sat and chatted
until it was time to light the lamp.
Jean set it on the table, and as its
yellow glow fell across his face I
realized for the first time that Spoof
was not a boy, as were Jack and L
There were lines in the cheeks and
about the eyes which, magnified by the
shadows tinder the lamplight, bore evi¬
dence that Spoof had known more of
tills world’s cares than was hinted by
his usual light-hearted conversation.
Presently be was talking of Eng¬
land; easing, perhaps, the homesick¬
ness in his heart by calling up scenes
of leafy lanes and misty sun-shot land¬
scapes linking deeply into his life. He
had tales of London as well; tales of
art treasures and music and theaters
all alight with life and beauty; tales
of gravestones marking the great of a
nation with a history reaching back
Into the early obscurity of western
civilization. Something about the
pride he showed in the great deeds of
the past seemed to strike us strangely
—we of a country whose history was
still so much in the future and whose
greatest deeds were still to be done.
“Do you sing, Mr. Spoof?” Marjorie
asked.
“Only at great distances from civili¬
sation—my bullocks could say a word
or two about my musical voice if they
were so disposed. But surely you or
Miss Hall—”
“Jean sings and plays, if we had
anything to play on,” Marjorie de¬
clared, “But we haven’t added a piano
yet to our equipment I suppose we
shall have to buy a binder and horses
and perhaps a thrashing mill before
we have any money for musical instru¬
ments," .* .. .. ......__
T ‘Aiid a house,” I added. *Td like
to see you keep a piano In tune in a
cage like this.”
“You should have a banjo,” said
Spoof. “By Jove, Just the thing! I’ve
a banjo tucked away somewhere in my
belongings. Something I forgot to
pawn at Regina. I’ll bring it over and
give you lessons, if you'll let me.”
“I should be delighted,” said Jean,
and her voice was quite unnecessarily
low and sweet
There was a late ^twilight glow in
the northern sky and the smell of dew
on the prairie grass filled the air when
Spoof decided It was time to go home.
We helped him hitch the “bally bull¬
ocks” to the wagon and watched him
disappear into the darkness. Long
after he was lost to sight the rumble
of his wagon and the voice of his ex¬
hortation eouid be heard welling up
out of the distance.
“A fine chap,” said Jack, as we
parted for the night. “I am glad we
are to have him for a neighbor.”
“Yes,” said L But my voice had no
ring of enthusiasm.
TO BE CONTINUED.
Statement of
BANK OF BACONTON
Baconton, Georgia
Showing Condition at Close of Busi¬
ness Sept. 28th, 1925, as Called for
by the Superintendnet of Banks.
President, R. P. Jackson
Vice President, J. D. Frazier and
R. M. Tiller.
RESOURCES:
Time Loans and Discounts.? 76,255.31
Other Stocks and Bonds. _ 100.00
Banking House___________ 2,000.00
Furniture and Fixtures____ 3,500.00
Other Real Estate Owned. 4,500.00
Cash in Vault and Amounts
Deposited with Approved
Reserve Agents —„---- 14,990.73
Advances on Cotton------ 2,222.37
Overdrafts ______________ 2,105.15
Other Assets------------ 5,668.39
TOTAL.. -$111,341.95
LIABILITIES:
Capital Stock Paid in-----$ 15,000.00
Surplus................. 3,000.00
Deposits Subject to Check.* 50,446.60
Time Certificates of De¬
posit .... 31,645.22
Cashier’s Checks_________ 450.13
Bills Payable___________ 7,000.00
Notes and Bills Rediscount¬
ed ------------- 3,800.00
TOTAL. -$111,341.95
State of Georgia, Mitchell County.
Before me came E. A. McCollum,
Cashier of Bank of Baconton, who be¬
ing duly sworn says that the above
foregoing statement is a true condi¬
tion of said Bank, as shown by the
books of file in said Bank.
E. A. McCOLLUM,
Sworn to and subscribed before me,
this 6th day of October, 1925.
E. B. MULLINS,
N. P. & J. P.
Statement of
PLANTERS & CITIZENS BANK
Camilla, Georgia
Showing Condition at Close of Busi¬
ness Sept. 28th, 1925, as Called for
by the Superintendent of Banks.
President, G. B. Cochran
Vice President, G. B. Baggs, Active
RESOURCES:
Time Loans and Discounts.$215,433.50
Demand Loans __________ 28,487.41
Banking House ---------- 5,647.14
Furniture and Fixtures___ 6,113.34
Cash in Vault and Amounts
Deposited with Approved
Reserved Agents ------ 92,485.46
Due from other Banks---- 4,155.03
Advances on Cotton----- 16,143.27
Advances on othen Commo¬
dities ------- 7,856.32
Checks for Clearing House. 3,142.33
Other Cheeks and Cash
Items_________________ 2,220.28
Other Assets_____I------ 1,462.08
TOTAL ________$383,146.16
LIABILITIES:
Capital Stock Paid in_____$ 50,000.00
Surplus _________________ 6,990.73
Undivided Profits-------- 5,097.92
Dividends Unpaid------- 244.00
Deposits Subject to Check. 261,551.15
Demand Certificates of De¬
posits ________________ 3,000.00
Time Certificates of De¬
posit __________ 35,622.39
Savings Deposits-------- 16,200.39
Cashier's Checks--------- 4,439.58
TOTAL ,$383,146.16
State of Georgia, Mitchell County.
Mitchell County.
Before me came A. J. Pinson, Cash¬
ier of Planters & Citizens Bank who
being duly sworn says that the above
foregoing statement is a true
tion of said Bank, as shown by
books of file in said Bank.
A. J. PINS0N.
Sworn to and subscribed before
this 13th day of October, 1925.
E. J. VANN, Jr.
N. P. Mitchell Co.
Showing Condition at Close of Busi
_ness Sept. 28th, 1925, as Called for
by the Superintendent of Banks.
President, J. W. Butler
Vice Presidents, J. B. Lewis
J. E. Brooks
Cashier, J. E. Brooks
RESOURCES:
Time Loans and Discounts_$315,188.63
Stock in Federal Reserve
Bank ----------------- 3,000.00
Banking House__________ 14,500.00
Furniture and Fixtures____ 6,500.00
Due from Federal Reserve
Bank _____ 16,487.70
Cash in Vault and Amounts
Deposited with Approved
Reserved Agents----__ 119,657.92
Due from Other Banks____ 28.76
Checks for Clearing House. 3,213.84
City of Camilla Warrants. 5,275.03
Mitchell County Warrants. 1,815.86
TOTAL__________$485,667.74
LIABILITIES:
Capital Stock Paid in_____$100,000.00
Undivided Profits________ 11,421.19
Deposits Subject to Check. 166,830.62
Time Certificates of De¬
Savings posits ----------------- Deposits------- 25,992.64 68,209.781
Cashier’s Checks________ 1,134.67 (
Bills Payable____________ 72,600 90!
Notes and Bills Redis¬
counted ..._____1______ 39*477.88 !
TOTAL. —$485,667.74
State of Georgia, Mitchell County.
Before me came J. E. Brooks, Vice
President and Cashier of Bank of Ca¬
milla, who being duly sworn says that
the above foregoing statement is a
true condition of said Bank, as shown
by the books of file in said Bank.
J. E. BROOKS.
Sworn to and suberibed before me,
this 13th day of October, 1925.
E. J. VANN, Jr.
N. P. Mitchell Co., Ga.
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