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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1934.
Cardinal on Way to Consecrate New Bishop
Attired in ceremonial robes, Patrick Cardinal Hayes is pictured on his way to St. Patrick's Cathe- of New York. dral to consecrate his former secretary, Mgr. Stephen J. Donohue, Auxiliary Bishop Marching behind the Cardinal is Marquis George MacDonald, and at the right, Gerald Borden, one of the cathedral trustees.
REDSKIN PRINCESS Dusk Below Helvellyn
PASSES
6,700 21st July Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London "Old Katie" Dies At Age
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LINK WITH PIONEER DAYS
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A Red Indian Princess, the last
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She was called "Old Katie," and was 107.
white civilization on the coast of
1827.
turned
come But he
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though, from Watendiath to Pat- (Continued from Fage 9.)
mucky midwinter "I'll believe you......though, terd'le on mind, that takes à doom'sight more night; 'so if t', weather belief nor any ghost-tale, I reckon! rough-
He broke off, and looked at me But I'll belleve it if you tell it me
you and me's no call to swap lies." knowingly. "I'll say no more nor Ile leaned forward. "And I'm tell-this-on rough nights Grierson sojers fetch their. crown out oing in his dreams, maybe, and thej In the link with the days before British in you, I've watched them heathen slept soundly! There'd be a tramp-
of a lantern; and Columbla passed from the control there" He jerked his head to smell
yon wall wards the tarn. "If you don't morning, piled against choose to take it from me-well, no where his bed wasn't, two'three dozen packs wi' rope slings to 'em. need. But fair's fair, mister!"
I sat dumb. It had most certain- They'd bide there all day, while went about his work- "Old Katie" is believed to have
ly not crossed my mind that I'd a Grierson been born on the Fraser River at madman to deal with--but need this he'd got his sheep on the fell-and the time when the palisades of fellow be mad? Ghost-tales are left his door locked behind him;| Fort Langley-the first outpost of [current in most corners of England and the next night he'd dream o'
crazy logic about his argument that dawn, t' packs was gone. what is now British Columbia.......besides, there was a sort of tramping feet again; and were being erected. That was in defeated me: to an unbiased mind took dom' good care he never waked such a dream, Grierson the Underground Railway might be from Among the thousands of Indians who used to come to the Finger as phenomenal as any ghost that didn't: nor saw no faces: nor he didn't rockernise any voice. And ever howled. I asked presently: River for salmon fishing Was
"Tell me just what you have when he did wake, it 'ud be broad young noble of the Proud Saanich
day and not a Christian in eight, seen." people.
He shrugged. "Eh, nowt much to and a gold ploce left on the table." He courted the young princess, tell! There's a round dozen of them "But smuggling's dead-" I ex
fierce The
eyes pale and married her.
every claimed. trails theirselves up She went with this noble-wom the white men called "Chief Jim" year-slow, like they was dead-beat; stared at me.
when they've gotten t' crown, they're "There's a gey lot of things that's -to Saanich.
There she saw a rough enclosure off down t' fell again...but you reckoned dead, still goes on."
"This must have been a long! erected by the invading white set-ken t' story? They rap on Dun-
"Long enough. But what's time B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for tiers. To-day, that enclosure has mail Cairo wi' it; and. t' old boy time ago?"
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1/2-:- They cross above,up where you're set, mister. Salt, watching 'ex over t gap; then they fetch round they'd fetch over: brandy from t in a long sweep down till t' water-lele of Man: Scotch whisky from
He'd a clay pot of| side. They're shy, some fashion-Galloway. house
golden guineas beneath this floor- aye, they give t berth!"
you med say he was miserly: utterly you med put it he foresee the day Whose he'd be too old to graze sheep,
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I stared. The place was desolate. "The house! house?"
"Mine!
His voice changed abruptly.
wide
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The eyes burned at me, menac- Heing: a nameless fear held me still. little cricket entered the cham-stood up, towering gauntly between "One night John Grierson dreamt ber and at intervals emitted a me and escape. "Mine! Mine it the last of his dreams; and the next | shrill and penetrating chirp was, and mine it bidea-aye, till time the lads come by, t' sheep had much to the discomfort of the Day of Judgment?" I met his got a new master councillors.
.
. eh,
no
It defied the efforts of the eyes again... and grew suddenly questions asked! It was all one to them, they left their guineas” all ť most afraid. Town Engineer and several coun-
Isame but it wasn't Grierson col- cillors to eject, it, and the only
lected 'em."
"Isee no house here faltered.
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I asked unsteadily: "What hap-)
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by the commonage ranger sit- ting near its hole and giving it may, let be, you're welcome! No pened to Grierson, then?". And for
Itime to-morrow you'l be laid by a dose of cold water every time fault of yourn if him whose a moment he stood glowering down
sum the heels!" I feared him no Biz it was, he's in Hell" His at me, with contempt and mockory wasn't found out—”
"Found out he echoed it appeared.
voice rang harsh and menacing as in his eyes.
ever be longer; his beadlong flight had During the meeting it was suggested by some of the coun- he stood there athwart the ruined "Man, you're none too bright? Pbrely. "What way'd it
canny eyes seemed to lay on me, cillors that a similar plan might wall that had once been a cottage, tell you what happened Grierson: found out-in the like of this place snapped the spell which those un- and I felt nothing but rage. Yet "But you knew? You——"
enough be useful when the councillora with the wild shoulder of Helvellyn a shepherd-stick through his wind--ye·fool?"
I was near
to see their beyond him and the setting sun in pipe! Aye, a stick like this one,
"I'd good reason.” became overheated-Reuter,
Fear left glance bent, on me angrily, as he his eyes. "Old tales, you're after? it was" He raised it suddenly,
"Then you you" Nay, I'll give you summat bitterer so that I saw the wicked-looking
some sharper agony of answered:
"Take 'time! Who hell d'you nor heathen battles and such!" His iron spike in the end of it; if he mer
my walking-stick-think you're talking to?" eyes blazed at me; I shrank back. had plunged it into my own neck dread drove it out. I kept up with
who I'm talking to- "I know tell o John at that instant, I believe I could cry. I had "You've heard
leas atout, than his, but I was far not have stirred. Grierson?"
"He'd nobbut stepped out till the past thinking of that. I sprang because you've told me yourself; "When this house stood...It was tarn with his kettle-round sunset, towards him. He gave ground...you're Grierson's murderer, that's Dundee, "(Natal).his'n.. There was a power o' near enough the time o' night it is next moment, yelling, incoherently, who!"
NATIVE'S SUICIDE
ATTEMPT.
But Wind Disperses Gas. I shook my head.
He stood there m motionless, look-
A native mine labourer quar-smuggling in the mountains, them nowwhen this other feller slipped I was in hot pursuit as he fled from relled with a native woman and days. They'd run their boatloads down intil t house from the moss-me up the naked slope of the felling down at meden yards off, 'on' cut her throat with a knife. On into Calder River or Drigg, where hole where he'd been hid Black-But he outdistanced me easily; the bare open fallaide with no his own confession he then tried there'd be lads to lead them up dark,, inside door... so when was no match for that long, sham-cover at all. His eyes still blased; to commit suicide by lying on Wasd'le — thirteen miles through Grierson showed clear against the bling shepherd-trot of bla, which yet when he spoke, at last, bis the top of a dump where he the dark; then next night, lads light, he got the spike in his gullet. left me panting behind him. I voice was no longer truculent, but been from Borrerd'le. 'ud fetch them And then head-down into a moss-pulled up. He glanced round; thin and fading lika distant cry would ordinarily hava
wrong, iad. I'm drierion. gassed, but, as the fates had it, over the gap, and across the fell hole, and dine rocks and sods on stopped grise; and returned to from high hills. He old; "You're And vanished before I could the wind was blowing the other to Watendiath; and the third night the top. That's what happened wards me, three or four-stepa.
I called out: "You keep your dis- way and nothing happened, by Dunmall Cairn and past hore him.”
He has been arrested--Reuter, Into Patterd'le. It's a long step, I recoiled, sick. "But if this tancel. I'm going back.
this speak.