Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 18, Hammond, Lake County, 9 July 1907 — Page 3

Tuesday, Julv 9, 1907.

THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES.

CLEARANCE SALE Wo mention just a few of the many hundreds of bargains offered in this

great clearance

$25.00 Taffeta Dresses $14.75 20.00 French Lingerie Princess Dresses 10.50 7.50 Panama Skirts, all colors 4.98 18.00 Voile Skirts 9.98 25.00 Taffeta Skirts 12.50 5.00 Misses Coats 2.50 25.00 Tailor Made Suits 12.50 3.00 Wash Suits 1.50 2.25 Heatherbloom Petticoats 1.25 5.00 Silk Waists 2.75 12.00 Cravenettes 5.00 2.00 Wash Skirts .98 But kindly remember that the first buyers will get the SELECTIONS Dobson's Emporium

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Even in his dream he was not afraid. lie asked the captain, with an oath: "Is there uo way in?"' And the captain turned eorpseiike eyes toward him. It was Philip Anson. The dreamer uttered a wild beast's howl and shrank away. Then he awoke to find Willie standins: by his bedside "with soothing words. "It is all right, father. You were disturbed in your sleep. Don't get up yet. It is only 5 o'clock." . At that hour a policeman left his cottage in a village on the Yorkshire

water with his right shoulder. No portion of the human body is so fitted to lear a heavy blow as the shoulders and upper part of the back. Had he dropped vertically on his head or his leet he niitrht have sustained serious Injury. As it was, after a tremendous dive and a curve of many j-mus beneath the sea he bobbed up inside the salmon net within a few feet of the boat. Instantly the fishermen saw that it was a man. an absolutely naked man, who had thus dropped from the sky. They were amazed, very- frightened

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continued. John talked freely, explaining housekeeping arrangements, the puzzle as to their father's size, for the first bed they bought was a short one; their hours of work, the variety of their pninlovment anv and every cheerinj tunic, indeed, until Willie came with a

Lottie. j Both of them glanced askance at the quantity Mason consumed, but they passed no comment. He tried to smoke and sat so that the light should not fall on his face. And then he said to them: "Tell me all you know about Philip Anson. It interests me." Snap! The hard composition of his pipe was broken in two. "What a pity!" cried Willie. "Shall I run aud buy you a new one?" "No, my boy, no. I can manage. Don't mind me. I can't talk, but I will listen. May the Lord have mercy on me, I will listen!" He suffered that night as few men have suffered. Many a murderer has had to endure the torments of a haunted conscience, but few can have been harrowed by hearing their own sons lauding to the sky the victim's bene

factions to themselves aud to their

dead mother.

He was master of his emotions suffi

ciently to control his voice, lie punc

tuated their recital by occasional com

ments that showed he appreciated ev

ery point. He examined with interest

specimens of their work, for they understood both the stitching and the

stamping of leather, and once he found himself dully speculating as to what

career he would nave carved out lor

himself were he given in boyhood the opportunities they rejoiced in. Hut throughout there was In h!3 surcharged brain a current of cunning purpose. First, there was Greiner, away in the north, robbing a dead man and plotting desolation to some girl. He must be dealt with. Then he, the slayer, must be slain and by his own hand. lie would spare his sons as much pain a3 might be

within his power. He would not merely disappear, leaving them dubious and distressed. No. They must know he was dead, not by suicide, but by accident. They would mourn his wretched memory. Better that than live with the abiding grief of the knowledge that he was Philip Anson's murderer. lie was quite sure now that the dead would arise and call for vengeance if he dared to continue to exist. Yes, that was it a life for a life a prayer that his deeds might not bear fruit in his children and then death, speedy, certain death. Some reference to the future made by Willie, the younger, who favored his mother more than the outspoken John, gave Mason an opportunity to pave the way for the coming separa-

! tion.

"I don't want yon two lads to make

any great changes on my account," he

said slowly. "It is far from my In

tention to settle down here and let all your friends become aware that

you are supporting a ticket of leave

father. Yes. I know. You are good

boys, and it won't be any more pleas

ant for me to to live away from you

than it would be for you under other conditions to be separated from me.

But I am in earnest in this matter.

will stop here tonight just to feel

that I am under the same roof as you. It is your roof, not mine. Long ago

I lost the right to provide you with a

shelter. Tomorrow I go away. I have

some work to do a lot of work. It must be attended to at once. Of

course you will see me often. We can

meet in the evening go out together but live here with you I can't."

His sons never knew the effort that

this speech cost him. He spoke with such manifest hesitation that Willie,

who quickly interpreted the less pro

nounced signs of a man's thoughts,

winked a warning at his brother.

He said, with an optic signal: "Not a word now, John. Just leave

things as they are."

Under any ordinary conditions he would be right. He could never guess the nature of the claims that encircled his father, delivering him fettered to the torture, bound hand and foot, body and soul. At last they all retired to their rooms, the boys to whisper kindly plans for keeping their father a prisoner again in their hands. Mason to lie open eyed, dry eyed, through the night, mourning for that which might not be. The rising sun dispelled the dark phantoms that Citted before his vision. He fell into a fitful slumber, disturb

ed by vivid dreams. Uuce be was on a

storm swept sea at night on a sinking ship, a ship with a crew of dead men

and a dead captain at the helm. Driving onward through the raging waves, he could feel the vessel settling more surely as she rushed into each yawning caldron. Suddenly through

coast and walked leisurely toward the j Indeed, but they readily hauled at the fransre Horse I dragging net and brought I'hilip near-

He traversed four miles of rough j country, and the sun was hot, so he I

did not hurry. About half past C he

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reached the farm. There were no signs of activity such as may be exputed la the country at that hour. lie examined three sides or tne duuuing carefully the sea front was inaccessibleand waited mauy minutes before he knocked at the door. There was no answer. He knocked again more loudly. The third time his summons would have aroused the Seven Sleepers, but none came. He tried the door aud rattled It peered in at the windows, stood back in the garden and looked up at the bedrooms. "A queer business," he muttered as he turned unwillingly to leave the place. "Aye, a very queer business," he said again. "I must go on to Scarsdale an'

mak' inquiries alxiot this Dr. Williams afore I report to the super."

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CHAPTER XXI.

HEN Philip's almost lifeless

body was flung over the cliff it rushed down through the summer air feet foremost.

Then in obedience to the law of gravity it spun round until at the moment of impact with the water the head and shoulders plunged first into the waves. At that point the depth of the sea was sixty feet at the very base of the rock. At each half tide aud especially in stormy weather an irresistible cur

rent swept away all sand deposit and sheered off projecting masses of stone so effectually that in the course of time the overhanging cliff must be under

mined and fall into the sea.

High tide or low, there was always

sufficient water to float a battleship,

and the place was noted as a favorite nook for salmon, at that season preparing for their annual visit to the

sylvan streams of the moorland val leys.

The lordly salmon is peculiar In his habits. Delighting at one period of the year to roam through the ocean wilds,

at another he seeks shallow rivers, in

whose murmuring fords he scarce finds

room to turn his portly frame. I And the law protects him most jealously.

In the river he Is guarded like a king, and when he clusters at its mouth, lazily making up his mind to try a change of water, as a monarch might visit Homburg for a change of air, he can only be caught under certain severe restrictions. He must not be netted within so many yards of the seaward limit of the estuary, ne may not be caught wholesale. The nets must have a maximum length of 400 feet. They must not be set between 7 p. m. on a Friday and 7 a. m. on a Monday. Viewed in every aspect, the salmon Is given exceptional chances of longevity. His price is high as his culinary reputation, and the obvious sequel to all these precautions is that certain nefarious persons known as poachers

try every artifice to defeat the law and capture him.

A favorite dodge is to run out a large

quantity of nets in just such a tide

way as the foot of the cliff crowned by Grange House. None can spy the operations from the land, while a close watch seaward gives many chances of escape from enterprising water bail

iffs, who, moreover, can sometimes be made conveniently drunk.

When Philip hurtled Into the placid

sea, his naked body shone white, like

the plumage of some gigantic bird.

Indeed, a man who was leisurely

pulling a coble in a zigzag course-

while two others paid out a net so that

lis sweeping curves might embarrass

auv wandering salmon who found him

self withiu Its meshes marked the fall

ing body in Its instantaneous passage and thought at first that some huge sea

fowl had dived after its prey. But the loud splash startled the three men. Not so did a cormorant or a white winged solan plunge to secure an unwary haddock. The net attendants straightened their backs; the oarsman stood up. The disturbance was so near, so unexpected, that it alarmed them. They looked aloft, thinking that a rock had fallen. They looked to the small eddy caused by Philip's disappearance to see if any sign would be given explanatory of an unusual occurrence. Were Thilip thrown from such a height when in full possession of his senses in all likelihood such breath as was In his lungs at the moment of his fall would have been expelled by the time he reached the water. He must have resisted the rush of air, uttered involuntary cries, straggled wildly with his limbs. But as it chanced Mason's rough

handling In carrying him to the balcony made active the vital forces that were restoring him to consciousness. He was on the very threshold of renewed life when he fell, and the

er the boat. Even at this final stage of his adventure he incurred a terrible ri-k. Unable to help himself in the least decree and swallowing salt water ran-

uiy now, he rolled away inertly as the aet rose under the energetic efforts of is rescuers. There was grave danger

that he should drop back into the

depths, and then he must sink like a stone.

Wearing their heavy sea loots. none

of the fishermen, though each was au

expert swimmer, dared to jump into

the water. But the oarsman, being a person of resource and reasoning rapidly that not the most enthusiastic salmon bailiff in England would pursue him in such manner, grabbed a boathook aud caught Philip with it beneath the arm. He only used the slight force needful to support him until another could grasp him. Then they lifted the half drowned man on board, turned him on his face to permit the water to Cow out of his lungs and, instantly reversing him, began to raise bis elbows and press them against his sides alternately. Soon he breathed again, but he remained unconscious, and a restored circulation caused blood to flow freely from the back of his head. Of course the man were voicing their surprise throughout this unparalleled experience. "Whea is he?" "Where did he coom frae?" "Nobbut a loony wad hae jumped off yon crag." "He's neaked as when he was born."

At last one of them noticed his broken scalp. He pointed out the wound

to his companions.

"That was never dean by fallin' i' t'

watter," he said.

They agreed. The thing was mysteriously serious. Philip's youth, his nature, his delicate skin, the texture of his hands, the cleanliness of his

teeth and nails, were quick tokens to the fisherman that something quite beyond the common run of seaside acci

dents had taken place. The oarsman, a man of much intelligence, hit on an

explanation.

"He was swarmin' doon f cliff after

t' birds," he cried. "Mebbe fwtygraffin

em. I've beerd o sike doln's." "Man alive," cried one of his mates, "he wouldn't strip te t skin for that

job."

This was unanswerable. Not one

gave a thought to the invisible Grange

House. They held a hasty consultation. One man doffed his jersey for Philip's benefit, and then they hastily covered him with oilskin coat and overalls. It was now nearly dark, so they ran out a marking buoy for their net, shipped oars and pulled lustily to their

remote fishing hamlet, three miles away from the outlet of the river which flowed through Scarsdale. Arrived there, they carried I'hilip to the house of one who was the proud owner of a "spare" bed. And now a fresh difficulty arose. A doctor and eke a policeman should be summoned. A messenger was dispatched at once for the nearest medical man, who lived a mile and a half away, but the policeman, who dwelt in the village, was a bird of another color. These men were poachers, lawbreakers. At various times they had all been fined for Illegal fishing. The po

liceman was of an Inquiring turn of mind. He might fail to understand the mystery of the cliff, but he would most certainly appreciate every detail of their presence in that particular part of the sea which lapped Its base. So they smoked and talked and tried rouch remedies until the doctor ar

rived.

To him they told the exact truth. He

passed no comment, examined his pa

tient, cut away the hair from the scalp wound, shook his head over it.

bound It up, administered some stimulant and sat down to await the return

of consciousness.

But this was long delayed, and when at 1 st Philip opened his eyes he only rail ed sufficiently to sleep. (To be Continued.)

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downward fiisht helped rather than re

tire wreck of flying spindrift he saw a j tjirded the process. Indeed, the rush of smooth harbor, a sheltered basin, in atT was crateful. lie drank in the viz-

) orous draft and inflated his lungs read

ily. His sensations were those of a

which vessels rode in safety. There were houses beyond, with cheerful lights, and men and women were watching the doomed craft from the firm security of the laud. But strain his eye3 as he would he could see uo entrance to that harbor, naught save furious seas breaking over relentless .walls of granite.

man Immersed in a warm bath, and

the shock of his concussion with the surface of the sea in nowise retarded

the recuperative effect of the dive. Of course he was fortunate after fall

ing from such a height In striking the

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