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SERIAL STORY-

DONNA BIG TOL-

CHAPTER XXXVIII

by BEULAH

POYNIER

minutes or

telephone. He discovered, as he and something held her up. Sho'll be she'll spoke, that he was shaking and the home in a few When Donna was out of sight Bill uneasiness that had hung over him telephone-you'll soo." returned to the house, He was all the afternoon had developed into hope so." Scarely knowing what he was doing, Bill lifted a pilo strangely restless and uneasy, sorry a definite fear. that he had let her go. Odd

Mrs. Adams' voice came over she should have insisted on going to wire. the Adamses through the snow storm when she had never been neighbourly with them before.

that

Bill went into Grandfather Siddal's room. The old man was eating his noon meat and showed no indication of the hard night he had had.

"Looks like blizzard," Bill said, "Reckon I'd better fix up some addel protection for the stock,

"I heard the wind," Amos Siddal nodded. "In It

"Coming down

the

of mail, that lay on the dining room table.

"I my wife still there?" asked.

Dill

"Who is this?”

"That camo while you were out in the barn," the nurse hastened to ex- |

"Bill Siddal. Is Mrs. Siddai atill. j. forgot to say anything|

there?"

"Why, no."

"But she's been at your house to-day 7"

No. 1 didn't expect her."

Like a man ravaged by a long ill- ness; Bill moved automatically away from the telephone. Miss Perkins "The little fellers will like it. Don't who had followed him into the hall, you recollect when a snow storm was

stricken face, about the Aneat thing in the world,ve a little cry at the sight of his "Something's happened," he mum. Bill?

"An accident. thickly. hasn't been there at all."

"Yes. And that reminds mo that bled

the while I'm about it I'll grease runners of the bobsled. don't sup- pose Madeline has been in a bobsled since she was a kid."

There were catalogues, circulars, a

and A newapapor a lettor. The address on the letter was in unfamiliar hand- writing. Bill shoved the circulars to ono side and picked up the letter. who's writing me from ," he said.

he opened it. The nurse, watching his face, saw it turn the colour of death. His nostrils quivered, and his mouth grow tauta mere,

vivid line in his ashen face.

"Mr. Siddal, what is it? What's

SheNothing. Nothing. I'm going to

Lown." He Oh, but just half a mile-" "Don't let on to the old man. I'm anonymous

Ber

jammed Mrs. Planter's Into his coat mossage

Canadian

Pacific

CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY

TO.

CRUISE

MANILA & RETURN

BY THE

EMPRESS OF JAPAN

£15 FIRST CLASS—£11 TOURIST CLASS.

FRIDAY. SATURDAY, SUNDAY,

MONDAY,

and

TUESDAY,

The chug-chug of a motor engine killed the rest of the sentence. The car came into the driveway stopped in front of the house. Bi stood watching, as though holding

breath.

Doc. 20.-Leave Hongkong at 7 p.m. Dec. 21.-En route.

Dec. 22.--Arrive Manila in morning. Doc. 23.-In Manila.

Dec. 24.-In Manila. WEDNESDAY, 'Dec. 25.-Leave Manila at 5 p.m. THURSDAY: Dec. 26.-En route.

"I nover was in one," Miss Perkins going to get the bobaled and go after pocket. "I'm going back to town," he repeated. If Madeline should murmured, looking up from the tray It occurred to him that his fore-come tell her." sho held in her lap from which she thought in oiling the sled and getting. was feeding the patient. "You put it in shape was a grim coincidence. straw in the bottom of the sled, don't Not once, as he hitched the horses, you, and cover up with piles of covering them with blankets and put ting blinders over their eyes, did ho blankets 7

it. And sometimes the doubt Madeline's word. She had said his

FRIDAY, The nurse, Instinctively realizing whole kit and caboodle gets dumped she was going to the Adamses and on the roadside, but no one is ever she had not arrived there. The only that some sort of scene was immin- hurt. Used to be great fun when I explanation was that there must have ent, slipped out of the room

boen an accident. Perhaps at this Donan opened the front door. was a boy,"

To Be Continued). moment she was lying in a gulley at the side of the road, dead or dying.

"That's

The nurse rose and carried the tray to the kitchen. When she returned Nhe stood for a second, studying the

A groan tore at Hill's thront. Why young farmer. "Do you ever regret had he let her go? He had seen the, giving up your medical studies. Mr. atorni coming. It had already begun good Siddal?" she asked, picking up some when she left. She wasn't sewing she id dropped in a chair. driver. If she was dead!

since my marriage.”

Beads of perspiration formed on wonderful his temples and upper lip and froze ou would have made i doctor. I've noticed you often. You in the ley air. His hinnila trembled Hever say anything to irritate the so that he had difficulty in grasping" patient and your presence always the reins. seems to soothe your grandfather.

Bill patted the onl man's band, "We're mighty close-Grundpop and 1," he anid. "Have lots of things in

common."

He ought to have Miss Perkins get in Louch with Due Freeman so that he could be on his way out to the farm when Bill reached home with Madeline. No, he wouldn't take the Line to stop and tell Miss Perkins. Every moment was precious,

Don't Let Rheumatism Cripple You.

F

Drive It Out By Tonle Treatment. Through The Blood.

'Nothing incapacitates more quickly: for work, sport and pleasure than rheumatism, and once this dreadfully

He added as he turned tu

He saw the nurse in the open door. "I'll be back in half an hour. Grand-

way as the

the sled cut through the pop, and then I'll read you into driveway, the great lumbering horses painful malady gets a hold the attacks newa." With a half-sheepish look

lurching bed toward the nurse he bent and pressed

How his lips against the withered forehead, of

at but he

"You just better hurry up and get gave the pilesnerease in frequener and intensify as

whole

the goes on unless proper means are Once ofit on the open road he drovendopted to remove their cause.

Like most other ailments rheuma- well!" he said softly.

easily checked. In its One of the baby tombs was sick slowly, his eyes searching, searching

poisons in the and this delayed him, It was dusk for a dark object in the snow. Onco Liam is most

a hold throughout the when Bill, tired and apprehensive he stopped the horses and leaped out early stages before the

Williams Pink Dr. system, of the weather, trudged back to the of the sled, but the object he had blood have got a house. A yellow gleam of light from hoped was Madeline proved to be only Pills, renowned for their ability to and to create rich the living room window threw a wela fog, half-covered with snow.

*

purify the blood come glow on the path. He paused

At the Adams farm he turned red blood in abundance, have proved rheumatic in the woodshed long enough to use a broom to brush snow from his around, bewilderment added to his of the greatest

Through the blood these pills build shoes and clothing. Then he entered anxiety. A woman, walking, might sufferers of all ages. the house by way of the kitchen. By have wandered off the path, gotten

and become lost there, up the nerves and restore health and rights Donun should now be helping into the

could not disstrength to the whole system. As a an automobile

for anaemic conditions, Minnie with the evening meal.

remedy But Donna was not in the kitchen. appear compte had gone beyond nervous debility, digestive weakness

Either Madeline Minnie looked up from a pan of pota- toes she was peeling and grinned at the Adams place or the car had been and as a restorative after fevers, and

In the other serious illnesses they are him. On the table bealde her was a wrecked and towed awny,

latter case it did not seem plausible rivalled. motion picture, magazine.

If you are suffering from any of the that she would not have been taken to the Adams-house or that he would consequences of an impoverished state have been notified. Although of the blood it is more than worth few of the neighbours knew his wife your while to try Dr. Williams' Pink personally, everyone knew her by Pills. Sold by chemists everywhere. sight

"Where's my wife?" Bill_naked. "Dunno."

but

Calling, "Madeline!" he passed not through the pantry and corridor. When there was no reply he ran up the stairs. Their bedroom was empty and both her hat and coat were gone. His watch informed him that it was after five o'clock. "She's stay ing a long time," Bill muttered. of underbrush but if by chance

"Too long

At the crossroads he stopped again. would be impossible to drive the horses and sled through the growth

Madeline had had trouble with the on foot for help

In Grundfather's room he tried to engine and the way and

seem casual when he inquired if she might have Madeline had telephoned, but there gone in that direction.

A search with the aid of a pocket. was a note of anxiety in his voice

flashlight.

however, yielded no re that could not be disguised.

"Perhaps she tried to." Miss Per suits. Bill climbed back into the kins suggested, "and the storm pre- seat of the sled and started for home. vented her froin getting the message There he would telephone to town and ask someone to send out a search- through."

ing party.

That's right. I'll sea whether I can get Adamses on the phone."

After some little diffeulty Bill suc- eeeded in getting the operator on the

"I wouldn't worry," Miss Porkins said, in an effort to comfort him. "Maybe she decided to go to town

Only

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