.S" 1 ,iy 1 H»!W" •P r^rj—r-sr S? INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS is pretty, gentle thing. I always young,' ancf at others "thai he was a TesTKe is farmer Whitehead's man here and there along the line, so th»ft IHH»lWllHlll"»W»»a love the dogs. But I am glad that not seen them the n1g*ht before but youngish man who looked old. On the Shall I give them to him?" the folk might have some place of I have met you, major, for there is now it was all I could do to keep my whole, we thought that he might be "Well, he would be more careful of protection against raiders and moss this young gentleman, to whom I owe face as I watched him, for, instead of THE about forty or forty-five, though It them if he had them from your hand." troopers. When Percy and his met our homely Scottish nod, he bent up much, who has begun to think very was hard to see how lie could have He took them from his pocket, and were over the Marches, then the people thai I am a spy. Is it not so. Jack?" his back like a louping trout, and seen so much of life in the time. But gave them over to me. I hurried out would drive some of their cattle I was so taken aback by his words slid his foot, and clapped his hand GREAT one day we got talking of ages, and with them, and as 1 did so my eyes into the yard of the tower, shut up the over his heart in the queerest way. that 1 eould not lay my tongue to an then he surprised us. fell upon the address of the topmost big gate, and light a fire in the brazier My mother stared, for she thought he answer, but colored up and looked 1 had been saying that I was just one. It was written very large and at the top, which would be answered SHADOW was making fun of her. but Cousin askance, like the awkward country twenty, and Jim said that he was by all the other peel towers, until the clear. Edie fell into it in an instant, as lad that was. I twenty-seven. lights would go twinkling up to the "A.S.MaJeste though it had been a game, and away "You know me. major,' said i»e "Le Rol du Suede "Then I am the most old of the Lammermuir hills, and so carry the she went in a great courtesy, until I Lapp "and I am sure that you will three," said De Lapp. "Stockholm." news on to the Pentlands and to Edinburgh. thought she would have had to give tell him that I his could not be." By We laughed at this, for by our But now. of course, all these I did not know very much French it up. and sit down right there in the "No. no. Jack Certainly not! Certainly reckoning he might almost have been A.CONAN DOYLE old keeps were warped and crumbling, but I had enough to make that out. middle of the kitchen floor. But no, not cried the major. our father. and made fine nesting places for What sort of eagle was this which had she was up again as light as a piece "Thank you," said De Lapp. "You "But not by so much," said he. arching the wild birds? flown into our bumble nest? of Huff, and we all drew up our stcols know me, and you do me justice. And his brows. "1 was nlne-and-twenty One day I had been on a very long and started on the scones and milk Anther of yourself. I hope that you will soon in December." walk, away over to leave a message CHAPTER VII. lit Adwaimi mt and porridge. have your regiment given you." And it was this even more than his at the Laidlaw Armstrongs, who live ShHtock Briata He had a wonderful way with women, "I am well enough." answered the talk which made us understand what two miles on this side of Aytou. About The Corriemuir Peel Tower. that man. Now, if I were to do major "but they will never give me an extraordinary life it must have five o'clock, just before the sunset, I Well, It would weary me, and I am it, or Jim Horscroft, it would look as a place unless there is war, and there been that he had led. He saw our astonishment, found myself on the brae path, with very sure that it would weary you also Copyright by A. Conan Doyl*. if we were playing the fool, and the and laughed at It. the gable end of West Inch peeping up will bo no more war in my time." If I were to attempt fo tell you how girls would have laughed at us but "1 have lived, have lived," he In front of me, and the old peel tower "Oh! yon think that?" said De Lapp, life went with us after this man came with him it seemed to go with his SYNOPSIS. lying on my left- And as I stared I with a smile. "Well, nous verrons. under our roof, or the way in which cried. "I have spent my days and my style of face and fashion of speech, We shall see. my friend He whisked nights. I led a company in a battle suddenly saw the face of a man twinkle he gradually came to win the affections so that one came at last to look for CHAPTER I.—Writing long after the for a moment in one of the holes off his hat, and turning briskly, he of everyone of us. With the where five nations were engaged when it. For when he spoke to my mother events described, Jack Calder, Scottish walked off in the direction of West I was but fourteen. I made a king in the wall. women it was quick work enough, but farmer, tells how. In his childhood, the or to Cousin Edie—and he was never Inch. The major stood looking after fear of Invasion by Napoleon, at that soon he had thawed my father, too, turn pale at the words I whispered in It was so queer that I was determined backward in speaking—it would always time complete master of Europe, had him with thoughtful eyes, and then his ear when I was twenty. I had a which was no such easy matter, and to come to the bottom of it be with a bow and a look as if gripped the British nation. Following a asked me what it was that bad me hand in remaking a kingdom and putting had gained Jim Horscroft's good will so, tired as I was, I turned my shoulder it would hardly be worth their while false alarm that the French had landed, think that be was a spy. When I a fresh king upon a fresh throne as well as my own. on home, and walked .swiftly toward Jim Horscroft, the doctor's son, youth of to listen to what he had to say and told him he said nothing, but he shook fifteen, quarrels with his father over ttie very year that I came of age. One of his first acts was to give the tower. The grass stretches when they answered he would put on joining the army, and from that Incident his head, and looked like a man who Mon Dieu I have lived my life." my father the boat in which he had right up to the very base of the wall, a face as though every word they said a lifelong friendship begins between the wa^ ill at ease in bis mind. come, reserving only the right to have That was the most that I ever heard and my feet made little noise until I was to be treasured up and remembered boys. it back In case he should have need him confess of his past life, and be reached the crumbling arch where the forever. Edie did not say much, (To be continued) CHAPTER II.—'When Jai-k is eighteen of it. The herring were down on the only shook his head and laughed when old gate used to be. I peeped through but she kept shooting little glances at his father's brother dies and his daughter, coast that autumn, and my uncle, before we tried to get something more out and there was Bonaventure de Lapp, our visitor, and once or twice he Edie, seventeen years old, comes to he died, bad given us a fine set of him. There were times when we standing inside the keep, and peeping live with her uncle. Attractive personally, looked very hard at her. of nets, so the gift was worth many thought that lie was but a clever impostor-—for intensely romantic, and seemingly feeling out through the very hole at which When he had gone to his room, after IMPROVED the little sorrow for her father's death, a pound to us. Sometimes De Lapp what could a man of such I had seen his face. He was turned breakfast, my father pulled out eight to the girl is something of a puzzle would go out in the boat alone, and influence and talents be loitering here half away from mo. and it was clear golden pounds, and laid them on the simple folk of the Calder home. HIGHWAYS I have seen him for a whole summer in Berwickshire for?—but one day that he had not #tn me at all, for he table. CHAPTER 111.—Edie makes a plaything day rowing slowly along, and stopping there came an incident which showed was staring with all his eyes over in "What think ye of that, Martha?" of Jack's affections, and though always every half-dozen strokes to throw over us that he had, indeed, a history in the the direction of West Inch, As I advanced said be. somewhat in awe of her, a feeling 1 a stone at the end of a string. I past. my foot rallied the rubble that of deep love for his cousin develops In "You've sold the two black tups HIGHWAY ADAMANT IS NEEO could not think what he was doing until the boy's heart. Edie reproaches him for You will remember that there was after all?" lay in the gateway, and he turned staying at home in idleness while his he told me of his own free will. an old officer of the Peninsular war round with a start and faced me. "No, but it's a month's pay for country is at war. Stung by her words, "I am fond of studying all that has who lived no great way from us. the board and lodging from Jock's friend "Hullo!" said I, "what are you doing Present Reads Won't Withstand he declares his intention of joining the to do with the military," said he. same who danced round the bonfire army at once, but she persuades him to and as much to come every four here?' Truck Traffic and Builders Must "and I never lose a chance. I was stay. He tells her he loves her and she with his sister and the two maids. He weeks." "I may ask you that," said be. Plan Heavier Reads. apparently returns his affection. wondering if it would be a difficult had gone up to London on some business But my mother shook her head when "l came up because I saw your matter for the commander of an army about his pension and his wound The time is near at hand when she heard it. "Two pounds a week fa^e at the window." CHAPTER IV.— Jim Horscroft returns corps to throw his men ashore here." money and the choice of having some is overmuch," said she. "And it is main line highways must be built from Edinburgh, where he is studying "And I because, as you may well "If the wind were not from the medicine. Jack tells his chum of his engagement work given him, so that he did not more substantially than in the past, not when the poor gentleman is In have observed. I have very much interest to Edie, believing the girl Is east," said I. come back until late in the autumn. distress that we should put such a according to William A. Brush, chairman for all that has to do with the sincere. Some days later he witnesses an "Ah, quite so, if the wind were not One of the first days affer bis return of the good roads committee of price on his bit of food." unmistakable display of affection between military, and of course castles are from the east. Have you taken soundings he came down to see us, and there for Edie and Jim and reproaches his friend. "Why, woman, he's turned you! the Detroit Automobile club. among them. You will excuse me for here?" Jim tells him Edie has promised to marry the first time he clapped eyes on De Because of the tremendous growth head wi' his foreign trick of speech," one moment, my dear Jack." and he him, she laughing at the idea of her engagement "No." Lapp. Never in iny life did I look in commercial trafiie on the highways cried my father. to Jack. The two seek the girl stepped our suddenly through the hole "Your iine-of-battleships would have upon so astonished a face, and he "Aye, and it would be a good thing the road builders must soon look ami she declares only fondness for Jack in the wall, so as to be out of my sight. to lie outside, but there is water but iove for Jim. stared at our friend for a long minute ahead and plan for heavier roads. If Scottish men had a little more of But I was very much too curious enough for a forty-gun frigate right up without so much as a word. De Lapp The railroad strike, which caused that kindly way," she said, and that CHAPTER V. —Jack, though deeply to excuse him so easily. I shifted within musket range. jCram your looked back at him equally hard, but industries and commercial houses was the first time in all my life that I hurt, accepts the situation. News of the. my ground swiftly, to see what it was boats with tirailleurs, deploy them be­ there was no recognition in his eyes. throughout the country to resort to downfall of Napoleon and the end of the that he was after. He was standing war reach the country. Walking alonK had ever beard her answer him back. motor transport to move materials hind these sand-hills, then back with "I do not know who you are, sir," ne the coast, Jim and Calder witness the Our visitor came down soon, and and finished products, helped to prove outside, uiJ waving his hand frantically, said al last, "but you look at me as if the launches for more, and a stream of landing of a stranger from a small hoat asked me to come out with him. as in a signal. He is completely exhausted and in a dy grape over their heads from the frig you bad seen me before." ing condition. They revive him and When we were in the sunshine he held "What lire you doing?" I fried, and ale. It could be done! It' could "So I have," answered the major. against Jim's advice Jack takes him to out a little cross made of red stones, then, running out to his side, I looked he done!" His mustaches bristled out "Never to my knowledge." t?ie Calder home, where he remains as a one of the bonniest tilings that ever across the moors to see whom he was guest. He gives his name as Honaven more like a cat's than ever, and I "But I'll swear it!" I had set eyes upon. tiire de Lapp and is evidently a man of beek oning to. could see by the flash of his eyes that "Where, then distinction. "These are rubies," said he, "and I "You go too far, sir," said he angrily he was carried awav by his dream. "At the village of Astorga, in the got it at Tudela, in Spain. I pray that "I didn't thought you would "You forget that our soldiers would year *8." you will take this as a memory of your CHAPTER VI. have tn,nt so f?ir. A gentleman has be upon the beach," said I indignantly. De Lapp started, and stared again exceeding kindness to me yesterday. »h«' freedom i» act as he house, without "Ta. ta. ta he cried. "Of course, at our neighbor. "Mon Dieu! what a It will fashion into a pin for your A Wandering Eagle. your being the spy upon him. If it takes two sides to make a battle. chance!" he cried "and you were the My father seemed to be much of .Tim cravat." 'S we are to be friends, you must not Let us see now! Let us work it out! English parliamentaire! 1 remember Horscroft's opinion, for he was not I could but thank him for the present, *v Interfere In my affairs." What could you get together? Shall you very well indeed, sir. Let me over warm to this new guest, and which was of more value than "I don't like these secret doings," we say twenty—thirty thousand? A have a whisper in your ear." He took looked him up and down vvitli a very anything 1 had ever owned in my life said l, "and my father would not like few regiments of good troops. The him aside, and talked very earnestly questioning eye. He set a dish of vinegared "I am off to the upper muir to them, either." rest, pouf!—conscripts, bourgeois with with him in French for a quarter of herrings before him, however, count the lambs," said I. "Maybe you "Your father can speak for himself, arms, how do you call them—volunteers." an hour, gesticulating with his hands, a no I noticed that lie looked more would care to come up with me and and there is no secret," said he curtly. and explaining something, while the askance than ever when ray companion see something of the country?" "It is you. wiih your Imaginings, that "Brave men!" I shouted. Laying Brick Pavement. major nodded his old grizzled head ate nine of them, for two were He hesitated for a moment, and make a secret. Ta, ta, ta! I have "Oh yes. very brave men, but Imbecile from time to time. At last they always our portion. When at last he then he shook his head. no patience with such foolishness." ah. mon Dieu. it is incredible that our highways are Inadequate as seemed to come to some agreement, had finished, Bonaventure de Lapp's "I have some letters," he said And, without so much as a nod, he how imbecile they would be. Not now constructed, said Mr. Brush. and I heard the major say "parole ids* were drooping over his eyes, for "which I ought to write as soon as turned his back upon me and started they alone, I mean, but all young Even our most substantial roads d'honneur" several times, and afterwards 1 doubt not that he had been sleepless possible. I think that I will stay at troops. War must be learned, my walking swiftly to West Inch. showed the effects of this additional "fortune de la guerre." But as well as foodless for these three quiet this morning and get them written." Well, I followed him, and in the young friend, just the same as the traffic and the more cheaply built after that I always noticed that the days. It was bui a poor room to farming of sheep." worst of tempers, for I had a feeling thoroughfares began to deteriorate major never used the same free fashion which I led him, but he threw himself All forenoon I was wandering over that there was some mischief in the "Pooh!" said I, not to be outcrowed rapidly, in fact so fast that it was of speech that we did toward our down upon the couch, wrapped his the links, and when I got back he by a foreigner. "If we had thirty wind, and yet 1 could not for the aecessarv for highway officials to exercise lodger, but bowed when he addressed big b!i!« cloak around him, and was looked as though he had been born life of me think what it all meant. thousand men on the line of the hill their rights under the state him, and treated him with a wonderful asleep in an instant. He was a very and bred in the steading. He sat in the yonder yon would come to be very glad What could there be to spy about in 'aws and limit the weight of loads. deal of respect. high and strong suorer, and, as my big wooden-armed single chair, with llerwiekshire. And besides. Major Elliott that you had your boats behind you." The highways we have been building Jim Horscroft was at home all that lMum \va.' next to his, 1 had reason to the black cat on his kriee. His arms Sometimes, when he talked. I knew all about him, and he in recent years, even the permanent summer, but late in the autumn he remember that we had a stranger were out, and he held a skein of thought he was joking, and at other would not show him such respect if types, are not heavy enough to went back to Edinburgh again for the within our gates. worsted from hand to hand, which my »lu-re was anything amiss. times it was not quite so easy to say. :*arry the ever increasing commercial winter session, and as he intended to WS.en I came down in the morning 1 mother was busily rolling into a ball. I well remember one evening that I had .fust got as far as this in traffic. Engineers realize now that work very hard, and get his degree found that be had been beforehand Cousin Edie was sitting near, and I summer when he was sitting in the my thoughts when I beard a cheery lie roads must be considerably thicker next spring if he could, he said that with me. for he way seated opposite could see by her eyes that she had kitchen with my father. Jim, and me. hail, sind there was the major himself, than at present and that they must he would bide up there for the Christmas. my father at the window table in the been crying. iifter the women had gone to bed, he eoming down the hill from his be wider to give room for the additional So thej:e was a great leave-taking kMi-hen, their heads almost touching, "Hullo! Edie," said I "what's the began about Scotland and its relation house, with his big bulldog, Bounder, vehicles being placed in service. between him and Cousin Edie, and and a little roil of gold pieces between trouble?" to England. held in leash. This dog was a savage Another phase of the commercial he was to put up his plate and to t' :. As I came in my father looked "All! mademoiselle, like all good and "You used to have your own king, ereature. and bad caused more than traffic problem is that of tire equipment. marry her as soon as he had the right t: ::i me. and I saw a light of greed true women, has a soft heart," said and your own laws made at Edinburgh," one accident on the countryside, but It is going to be necessary to to practice. I never knew a man love ii iiis eyes such as I had never seen he "I didn't thought it would have said he: "does it not fill you he major was very fond of it, and equip all trucks with pneumatics a woman more fondly than he did her, before, lie eaugbi up the money will) moved her, or I should have been silent. with rage and despair .when you think would never go out without it, though eventually in order that the highways and she liked him wrell enough in a an eager clutch, uid swept it into liis I have been talking of the suffering that it all comes to you from London he kept it t'ied with a good, thick may be protected as much as possible. way, for indeed in the whole of Scotland pocket. N of some troops of which 1 knew now thong of leather. Well, just as I was The pneumatic ti^e gets* away from she would not find a finer-looking "Very good, mister." said lie. "The something, when they were crossing Jim took his pipe out of his mouth. looking at the major, waiting for him the constant pounding that is evident man but when it came to marriage I room's yours, and you pay always on the Guadarama mountains in the winter "It was sve who put our king over to come up, he stumbled with his with solid tires. They absorb the think she winced a little at the the third of the month." of 1808. Ah, yes, it was very bad, the English, so if there's any rage lame leg over a branch of gorse, and shock, no matter how minute, and thought that all Her wonderful dreams "Ah. and here is my first friend," for they were fine men and fine horses. it should have been over yonder," in recovering himself he let go his thereby save the pavement from the should end in nothing more than in cried De Lapp, holding out his hand to It is strange to see men blown by said he. hold of the leash, and in an instant pounding of the heavy load and give being the wife of a country surgeon. me with a smile which was kindly the wind over the precipices, but the This was clearly news to the there was the beast of a dog flying longer life to the mechanism of the I was never very sure at that time enough, and yet had that touch of patronage ground was so slippy, and there was stranger, and it silenced him for the down the hillside in my direction. vehicle. whether Edie caredwfor De Lapp or which a man uses when he nothing to which they could hold. So moment. I did not like it, I can tell you, Experience is the only teacher and not. When Jim was at home they smiles to his dog. "I am myself again companies all linked arms, and they "Well, but your laws are made for there was neither stick nor stone experience has shown to all the big took little notice of each other. After now, thanks to tuy excellent supper did better in that fashion but one artilleryman's down there, and surely that is not about, and I knew that the brute road engineers of the country the folly he was gone they were thrown more and good night's rest. Ah, it is hunger hand came off as I held good," he said at last. was dangerous. As it came at me of building a good road too light. together, which was natural enough, that takes the courage from a it, for he had had the frost bite for "No it would be well to have a with bristling hair and Its nose The surfaces must be thicker in order as he had taken up so much of her man. That most, and cold next." three days." parliament back in Edinburgh," said time before. screwed back between its two red to stand the shock of the heavy loads "Aye, that's right," said my father. I stood staring, with my mouth open. my father "but I am kept so busy eyes, I cried out, "Bounder!.Bounder!" passing over them. Well, the summer and the autumn "I've been out on the moors in a snowdrift "And the old grenadiers, too, who with the sheep that I have little at the- pitch of my lungs. It had and the best part of the winter passed for six-and-thirty hours, and I were .not so active as they used to be, enough time to think of such things." its effect, for the beast passed me away, and we were still all very happy MUCH CRUSHED ROCK NEEDED ken what it is like." they could not keep up and yet if "It is for fine young men like you witli a snarl, and flew along the path together. We got well into the year "I once saw three thousand men they lingered the peasants would two to think of it," said De Lapp. on the traces of Bonaventure de Lapp. 1815, and the great emperor was still starve to death," remarked De Lapp Program for Road Building in Minnesota catch them and crucify them to the "When a country is injured it is to its eating his heart out at Elba, and all He turned at the shouting, and putting out his hands to the fire. "Day Calls for 667,000 Tons I barn doors with their feet up and a young men that it looks to avenge it." the ambassadors were wrangling together seemed to take in the whole thing by day they got thinner and more like wf Material. fire under their heads, which was a "Aye, the English take too much at Vienna as to what they at a glance, but he strolled along as apes, and they did come down to the pity for these fine old soldiers. So upon themselves sometimes," said Jim. slowly as ever. My heart was in my should db with the lion's skin, now edge of the pontoons where we did when they could go no farther it was The proposed road-building program "Well, If there are many of that that they had so fairly hunted him mouth for him, for the dog had never keep them, and they howled with rage interesting to see what they would do. way of thinking about, why should In Minnesota this year will require down. We never thought that what sefen him before, and I ran as fast as and pain. The first few days their For they would sit down and say their about 667,000 tons of crushed rock or we not form them into battalions and all these high and mighty people were my feet~would carry me to drag it howls went over the whole city, but prayers, sitting on an old saddle, or march them upon London?" cried De gravel, or nearly 20,000 carloads of aggregate, doing could have any bearing upon us, away from him. But somehow, as after a week our sentries on the bank their knapsacks, maybe, and then take Lapp. according to information secured and as to war—why, everybody was it bounded up and saw the twittering could not hear trfem, so weak they had off their boot and stocking, and lean by the bureau of public "That would be a rare little picnic," roads. agreed that the great shadow was lifted finger and thumb which De Lapp held fallen." their chin on the barrel of their musket. said I, laughing "and who would United States department of agriculture. from us forever, and that, unless out behind him, its fury died suddenly "And they died?" I exclaimed. Then they would put their toe lead us?" -The figures give some idea of the allies quarreled among themselves away, and we saw it wagging its "They held out a very long time. on the trigger, and pouf! it was all He jumped up, bowing with his the magnitude of the road-building there would not be a shot fired in Europe thumb of a tail and clawing at his Austrian grenadiers they were, of the over, and there was no more marching hand on his heart in his queer fashion. program now being carried on in many for another fifty years. knee. for those fine old grenadiers. Oh! corps of Starowitz, fine, stout men, "If you would allow me to have the states. Largely on account of a shortage There was one incident, however, "Your dog, then, major?" said he, as big as your friend of yesterday, but It was very rough work up there on honor!" he cried and then, seeing that of crushed stone or gravel 58 that stands out very clearly in my as Its owner came hobbling up. "Ah, the Guadarama mountains." when the town fell there were but four we were all laughing, he began to miles of road which were to have been memory—I think that it must have it Is a fine beast—a fine, pretty thing." "And what army was this?" I asked hundred alive, and a man could. lift laugh also, but I am sure that (here built in 1919 were not completed. happened about the February of thia The major was blowing hard, for them three at a time, as if they were "Oh! I have served in so many armies was really no thought of a joke in his These roads are to be completed this year—and I will tell it to you before he had covered the ground nearly as little monkeys. It was a pity. Ah, that I mix them up sometimes. mind. year, while about 180 miles of new I go any further. fast as I had. my friend, you will do me the honors Yes, I have seen much of war. But construction requiring crushed rock or I could never make out what his age Ton know what the Border peel castles "I was afraid lest he might have, with madame and with mademoiselle." there is a man out yonder. Maybe he gravel have been authorized. Thfa could be, nor cOuld Jim Horscroft hurt you," he panted. are like, I have no doubt They Is the one who your father said would It was my mother aad Edie, who makes a mileage of 200 scheduled for either. Sometimes we thought that were just square keeps, built every ••Ta, ta, ta!" cried_ De Lapp. "He 1020. dixy DJ letter# to the ppst." bud cojgne into the kttefaea. He had he was OP oldish mail that looked =71