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ShilleenrreadOSit‘iitscW4YAISSOftreex , , , Sisin4 , ,ws., • - •-•.\Ses s ts , ralettlealleffitra , THE STANFORD WORLD '5ToWiirToowowtmotovginovog.tmtwwoo*akixtwtougovoangotiwkwow 4, 41* tg W By VICTOR ROUSSEAU (Copyright, 1919, by George H. Doran Co.) EN OIL Illustrations by Irwin Myers 44 tow w a36M 0*tni agv iiMiiniwM7M;00 00040004*A 67640430* 4044 44* hl *, \YOU WAN' TO FIGHT, EH? ALL RIGHT!\ Synopsis.—Hilary Adkew, young American, comes into possession of the timber and other right, on a considerable section of wooded land in Quebec— the Ftosny seigniory. L‘amartIne, his uncle's lawyer, tells him the properly 111 of little value He visits it, and finds Morris, the manager, away. From hate Connell, mill foreman. Askew learns his uncle has been systematically robbed. He sees Madeleine Romtly. the Seigneurs beautiful daughter. Askew and Con- nell react, an understo3ding, and Askew realizes the extent of the fraud prac- ticed on ins uncle. A.1sew learns that Morris. while manager of his (Askew's) property, is associated with the Ste. Marie company, a rival concern, of which Edouard Brousseau is the owner. Hilary discharges Morris. CHAPTER 1 1 1.—Continued. --3— \Au. yes, Monsieur Askew. But, you see. Mr. Morris he pay the men their wages.\ \Call them here,\ said Hilary. Jean-Marie called, atid tlw men came forward. \Now tell them what I have told you,\ Hilary continued. Jean -Marie's translation was met with a volley of interjections. The little timekeeper begnii half a dozen explanutions and finally gave up in despa Ir. \They say It's Monsieur Brousreau'a orders,\ he explained. \You see, mon- sieur. we know now thnt the property Is yours, but Monsieur 'trousseau hires the mill hands.\ \Tell theta in future I shall hire the mill hands. Tell them it is my mill.\ This was met with blank inerialulIty. Evidently 'trousseau's lease of mill rights Mid passed for ownership. \Anyway say that their jobs are good for the coming year.\ announced Ililary, and wiondered whether he dared hope to make good on that state - rant. \Where's Lafe Connell?\ lie added. \Lofts he is discharged, too.\ an- swered Jean-Marie. \He go right away \What Are You Deserting For\ to catch the boat home, carrying his bag. See, Monsieur Askew!\ Hilary looked up. On the crest of the hill behind Rocky river, against the skyline, was it solitary figure. striding along with a hag in its hand. The down boat to Quebec was al- most due. Looking seaward, Hilary Raw the white hull rounding the light- ilIMSV point, and the black smoke from her funnels an inverted cone against tate heavens. Evidently Late would the homeward bound within a half hour; and no time was to be lost if he ihoped to stop him. t lie jumped into the buggy and urged 'the horse through the disputing crowd. Without lade Connell he felt that his chalice was almost a hopeless one. He drove madly along the cliff and down the last descent. As he reached the stable the ship was being attached to the wharf. Hilary jumped out and ran to the wharf. A few passengers are - re gathered about the little baggage ince and others were standing before the gangway, waiting to embark. Among them was Late, with a carpet- bag. Itilury flung himssif upon him just as he set foot upon the planks. ',life spun round and looked sullenly at him. Hilary held to his arm. \What's the !Witter. Lafe?\ lie asked. \What are you deserting for?\ \What's that you say?\ demanded ;Atfe ferociously. \Deserting what? Deserting wh•ol I guess I don't have to stay here when I've been fired, do I, even if my contract is good till Octo- ber one? Just let go try arm!\ The passengers had embarked; the sailor.; stood waiting far Late before pulling back the gangway. \Come back to your senses, Late,\ said Hilary. \I haven't fired you, anti . I guess you can't go off that way with- out giving me notice. It's all right, captain. He isn't coming.\ he called. The sailors pulled in the gangway. The ropes were cast off. The paddle began to churn the water into froth. Late flung his carpet -bag to the floor angrily. \Now suppose you tell me what the trouble is,\ suggested Hilary. \What right you got to stop me?\ de - Menthe! Late. \Say if it wasn't you I won't answer for what I wouldn't itave done . to you.\ \What's happened. Lee?\ s - - Whitey happened? Didn't you tell ass yoo ors. sslost to hold fast/ I thought you was going tit fire Morris, mid he conies old and tires me and o tiers me MT the concession. That's tm grand way to start standing by your sort,. Mr. Askew.\ \I have fired hlm.\ \lVIInt?\ yelled Lae, spinning round. \I fired him after we'd had a talk, Lafe. Allii I guess lie lint on a front in 44rder to get rid of you. because poi know too mite's hoping that it would 11118111 malting to me. Btu ii does. Los.. Tell me whitt made you nlilke tilllt crazy dash for the steamer.\ \iier2111Se I'm sick to death of lids darned country,\ awe ered Lille.. \Be- noist. I (Ian shout the seeple. or the clittinte. or !slither Lies- praying out tires, or the 1111 Sidi of it. Air. Askew: and Clarice and the kids Is in Shoehuryport. That's why. I guess.\ he snit!_ raising his head and looking at Hilary plaintively. \I guess my feelings kind of got the latter of me.\ Hilary thumped him on the si 1414.1.. \'flint's all right. Lae.\ he 2 , 101i. \hilt you're going to sign on with file for a 3.ear from October first —just orue year mitre. And you're going to sign as 111111111ger, at Morns' salary.\ Low Connell looktal at hint as if it was till a dream. Lafe had been works ing at forty-five dollars a week since Ills arrival. \Mr. Askew,\ he said, when he could steady his voice, \I ,2:112/88 I've been un- grateful. Till( when Morris told me I Wils discharged I naturally concluded that he'sl bought you out. I'll stay, Mr. Askew. and I'll pIt, all I ctin to help dean up this IlleSS and pm things on a paying foundation. I guess ever,yotte's been elicit ilu g your miele, Mr. Askew, from Morris and iirlill , ,`1111 and Le - blunt' down to Jean -Hopi i‘te t he scaler. I knew they were swindling yin', nod 'trousseau telephoned Ille to keep you In tlw dark, nuel—I tried to do it.\ \Never mind, Lofts Yon and I will 1, over the books together and clean lip.\ \And I tell you this.\ went on Lafe. 'save felbia s like But and 1hittihi cxample of honest work. :tail you'll See they'll follow you and take pride in the business. It's the big fellows IN I' want to get.\ Hilary held out his hand. \We'll shake on that.\ he said. \You accept the postslafe. an.1 you won't make a break for home invinl.\ \Never agnin, so long as we're on the job together. - I.afe answered. Far off the steamship was pursuing her way Inward Quebec. Ililary, watching her, was conseileis of 31 zest of living which his conversion of Loft? did not wholly explain. What, he won- dert'll, was tile secret of his interest In St. Banifine? CHAPTER IV. The First Encounter. Next morning Hilary drove slowly through his property. Ile noticed with approval a splendid growth of white spruce. It W118 11 great timber coun- try; Hilary had already come to that conelusian, and to this: that, properly worked and managed. flue St. Boniftice tritil had the possibilities of consider- ed.. profit 8, pertii•tual ones, if he rut wisely and carefully. After driving :It a slow pace for half an hour liv emerged into a little burned -over (listrict, from which he could see for a good distnnee on every side of him. Ile stopped the pony and looked nimut him, trying to get his ltm'ii rings. The road must ruin down to the gorge. where was the main way be- tWeell tile mill and the interior of the seigniory. Hilary decided. Ile drove on tignin. The track had been disused that season and was over- grown with creeping rnspberry briers, which •made progress difficult. Sud- denly the undergrowth fell 11Wily. and the road ruin upwatril agnin, hard find firm toward a bridge thnt spanned a' wide creek tributary to Rocky river. Now Ililary knew where he was. It was the creek whieli he had passed that morning when lie drove out with Connell to inspect the seigniory. Ile was about to continue his way along the main road to the till I, but an impulse urged him to turn the horse it and seek the road that led to Le- blanc's old eonceSsion. I'resently he heard the sound of axes among the (reps. Ile came upon the eletifing, to find the old vamp still standing, and vont pile of newly hewn timber stacked up tinder the trees. At Illiary's appearance two or three men looked up from the logs which they were snwing and whispered. They. 812/1110ti.111 draw tA,gether. At that ron- meta Hilary had n clearly defined ha- premslon of approaching trouble, Iii' got down from the buggy and fastened the horse to a tree. He ap- pronehed a little group that had form- ed. \Where's Monsieur Leblanc?\ he asked the nearest 11/1111. The man scowled 11111i shrugged his shoulders. He glanced towitrd the camp. Hilary, looking that way, Saw Black Pierre emerging from one of the huts. Ile went hovard iihn, and the t WO men met face to face. Still without reason to believe in hostile inteution, Hilary sud- denly became aware that they Were ringed by um eirele of muieut, who gradu- idly drew in toward them. \Morning.\ 811141 I 1 Miry, nodding. \Where is Monsieur Leblanc?\ \I don' know,\ 8.1120Vereli Pierre, scowling. \Look for him if you want him. lie's your man. 'dna he?\ \Ile is, but you are mit. What are you doing on my land? And these men —are they yours?\ • \What you 1110111, Y0111. humid?\ de - 1111111121281 Pierre. \I wort; here for Mon- sieur /trousseau, with Sliaisieur Brous- S1.71111'S Ille/1.\ Hiltiry saw. out of the corner of his eye, that the ring was swiftlY• con - (recline. It struck hint that Pierre and lie is posted has , to fare, like prize- fighters. lie triett to keep his temper iintl to remember Contiells counsel. Pierre thought he was afraid. He sneered openly. \Last time I came here,\ sold Hilary disregarding the other's trucu- lence, - Monsieur Leblanc was in eharge of this territory. Now I find you here in Leblanc's pinee. I have not hiredsyou. Again I ask what you tire doing here.\ \I don' kniow what you mean,\ snort- ed Pierre, \an' I got 110 time to waste ill 111111111 foolishness. This here is the Ste. Marie limits. Monsieur 'trousseau lin' Minsieur hlorrls run the Ste. Marie limits. Leblanc he work for them ins' yen r, Now I got Leblanc's pince.\ \The Ste. Merle limits are on the tither side of the Itiviere Itoeheuse,\ said Hilary. \Holy Name. ain't I this side of RI- viere Roclieuse? Didn' you cross him earning here?\' \That creek is not the Indere Ro- t-heuse, as you know very well, Pierre.\ Black Pierre thrust his fine forward into ilibiry's. \Soy I got no time to waste wit' you,\ he snarled. \If you come to fight, say so.\ \I'll give you five minutes to get off my land.\ \You min' to fight, eh? All right,\ growled the other, suddenly stripping off Ills short, open jacket. Hilary had just time to fasten the top button of his coat before Pierre, with a bellow, charged him, his head down, his arms working like flails. l'ierre made short. vicious stabs at him ; he .was muscle-bound and could not extend tile elbow -joint with nny force, hut any of his short blows, delis-- ered from a shoulder like at mutton Joint, would have knocked a man sense- less. Hilary stepped aside as Pierre pre- cipitated himself upon him, and gave him . a short uppercut with the left, l'ierre went reeling past him, tripp over a projecting trunk of a tree, and fell sprawlin,e; to the ground. A second later he was up again, rush- ing at Hilary. Despite Hilary's blows, whicb nearly blinded him, and covered his face with blood, he managed to get /.' I He Rose, Spating the Blood Out of His Mouth, and Rushed at Hilary Again. home two body deliveries white] knock- ed the wind out of the American. Hil- ary was forced to give ground. He had boxed nt college a good deal; that was, several years before, but the 111P111• ory instinctively came back to him. \It's foot -work wins,\ his teacher had told hlin. lie stepped from side to side, guarding s himseiragainst I'lerre's furi- ous lunges dexterously, until tlw op- portunity -for a telling cross-counter with the right Rent Pierre crashing linekward. Ile rose, spitting the blood out Of bill mouth, and rushed at Hilary again. This time lie managed to lock ItIti arms ithout him and, holding hint securely with the left, pututueled him. Hilary forgot his science 'and shot his right upward between the arni and the body, landing on Pierre's chin. I'lerre reeled, but he did not let go Ills hold. He griisped Hilary like a bear, hugging him till the breath was nearly out of his body, mid forcing thit point of Ills shin hi under Hilary's collar -hone. Pierre wits several years the older, and winded by fast living, but his mus- cles were tis firm 1124 11 young man's. Knowing that his enemy's silence was more than a match for his superior strength, he maintained the clinch, but gradmilly shifted his grasp upward, first pinioning Hilary'a tirm, then grip- ping his shoulder, until he had hint by the throat. Iiiinry, gasping under tla• relentless pressure, saw the feces of the lumber- men swim round him. Ile saw the 11111i ilie joy, the mockery and the Mitred on each ; there was 110 pity for the Amerirmi ; many an old land uneslion, 1111111Y 11 elllItilet hiuid be - /12111e inctirnate in IMO fight under the pines. Hilary realized that it was n battle, not for the theater tract, but for his 10111 life, rierre;4: face grimwd into his own malignantly. plastered with dust and smenred with the Meat that drove white furrows across it. ihlluiry let his hands fall limply. For just a second Pierre relaxed his grasp. to shift it so the thumb -knuckles should close on the carotids. Then Hilary put till his strength into at terrific drive with the left. The blow ellisslit Pierre between the eyes, his arms is ,'mat up, releasing !filmy. and he tottered backward. Tin. yens of the lumbermen, which bud been continuous, suddenly reused. Before Pierre could recover ilill1Seif Hilary let him have it with the right. Pierre went to the ground. Hilary still only half conseimis, and Madly seeing the prostrate body, drew In a deep chi -strut of Mr. A bliick cloud filled with dancine specks swam hi\ tor(' his vision. Out of It he snw the face of 011e Of the nearest spectators. It was filled with an anticipation so pungent that instinctively Hilary leap- ed aside. Out of the cloud he saw Black Pierre plunge forward, knife in Ills hand. The spent blow cut HilarY's sleeve. Pierre recovered himself and rushed at the American, a fearful spec- tacle, dripping sweat and blood. Hil- ary. cauglit him with the right under the jnas sending him flat. The knife went whirling away into the under- brush. Black Pierre lay still. Hilary turned to the nearest of the awed 1111111wrineti. \Bring him a cup of water,\ he ordered. The man understood and ran into Pierre's hut. But Pierre wits alinitt- ming : he opened his eyes, fixed them with burning hate on Hilary, and mum- bled. \Get lip!\ said Ililary. Pierre rose sullenly, edging out of the reach of the expected blow. His W118 COWed, the fighting spirit was but of him, as it was out of his compan- Ds As civilized men fear_the Jmv,, the lumbermen feared the unknown forces that lay behind Hilary and manifested themselves through the strength of his firm. \I'll give you five minutes to get off the St. Bonifitee territory into this Ste. Marie limits. the other side of Rocky river,\ Hilary said. Ile turned to the spectators. \I'll thrash every man not employed hy me who comes upon my land,\ he announced. Whether they understood the mean- ing of the words or not, they realized the significance of the gesture. Black Pierre, among his entimanions at the edge of the clearing, stopped Ills re- treat. Ile meant at least to save his face by threats. But Hilary hind de- liberately turned his back on him and, without apparent fenr of danger, was examining the shacks, and poking the moss out of the Interstices between the logs wItli a forked stick. 'When he turned the last of the Ste. Marie men was dlimppenring out of the clearing down the road. Ilt• waited long enough for them to reach the fork, before re- entering the buggy. He was thoughtful on the drive lioniewnrd. Ile knew that it was only the unextiected nature of his action which hind cleared the concession. That had lwen a ptiremount duty; at any cost lie must preserve the Integrity of his land. But, given Broussenuat lead- ership and active hostility, they could put up a fight which would render him Impotent. Physical force could bring Mtn nowhere in the end. It took nbout an hour for the embel- lished story to filter through to the mill. Before work Wils knocked off that afternoon 1111nry becaine conscious of n new deference In his hands' manner, of gaping looks that followed him when he went from office to mill, or back. Per the first time St. Boniface began to believe that the Morris regime had got Brousseau, though,\ rea4l v y w p v il e ss s e t d il . i said Hilary to Late. \When do yott suppose he's going to declare himself?\ \Seen said Lafe. \You've seen•to that. Mr. Askew.\ • \Weil answered Hilary cheerfully, \we'll meet that trouble when it comes. Meanwhile, don't spare the tennis in breaking up those piles and sending them through the 111111. I've got to get out a record load next month, and I'm gong to credit all the wood that goes through the mill to the St. Boldface tract and let 'trousseau take ally ac- tion he likeit about it.\ 'trousseau vi - as not long In declaring war. On the following afternoon, 218 lie sat in his office, Illiary, looking through the window, saw hladeleine Rosily driving a rig along the road toward the mill. Beside her sat a man whom he had never seen before. Ile surmised at once that it was !trousseau, but he hardly expected that the girl was bringing him to the office. Such proved to be the ease. The HS stopped at the door and illhiry had a glimpse of Madeleine's averted, scorn- ful face its she sat waiting, as If Hilnry was beneath her pride, as If to stop there wits no more than to stop at any laborer's shack. Her companion leaped out and came briskly to the door. He was a man of something more than forty, but active and young -look- ing. Ile came into the office and glared down at Hilary, who at once rose and fneed him. \I'nt Mr. !trousseau,\ said the visitor. \I've heard of you,\ said DlinrY• \You'll hear more of Inc. You 88- sniffled one of my men yesterday. Do * you think you can come into this coun- try and knock my tnen about like that for doing their duty?\ \Ile was on the Rosny seigniory, and cutting my timber.\ \Ile was on the west sltle of Indere Rocheuse,\ snarled ISrousseau. \The itiviere Itoelieuse has never been sur- veyed. What you call the creek is the upper part of Itiviere Itocheuse. Le - Mane had permission to cut that tract for Mr. Morris hecnuse our two com-, inures worked hand in liii miul, It is not my way to ninke exploitations, Mons- ieur Askew, but take that for what It Is worth.\ \I do so, and It Is worth nothing.\ Hilary answered. \What is your prop- osition?\ \You assaulted my man.\ \Never mind Solar lutuuil. lie started It, and he needed it. If I find him on my limits I'll assault him again. You illIvirsn't come here to complain about I hat, Slow:item 'trousseau. 11'hitt have you come for?\ Brousseau 1121V/Weell tind bimetal his fist on the desk. \I've come here to tell you that you're a fool, young man,\ he tinswered. \My word goes in this part of the country. and you can't conic in here and fight Ille.\ \Your proposhi, please,\ said II ilnry quietly. \Now you're talking senss. This nin't the United States, where you rich men can conic into a territory and grab It away from the people under their noses. You'll put Mr. Morris hack as manager 'and go home, or else you'll sell out to \Yes it does come to about the same thing.\ said Hilary. \Why don't you tisk me to make you a free gift of the concession?\ 'trousseau scowled savagely at the sarcasm. Ile was educated enough to be stung by banter, but not quick enough to retallute in kind. \Now I'll make yott my own propoal- lion.\ said Hilary. \It's this. You can either submit your hooks to may inspec- tion and make good on that lumber that Morris stole from me last year, iind keep your men on your own limits, or you can give up the mill rights after October first and build your own mill.\ Brousseau turned white with rage. \I'll ruin you Out of this country.\ he raved. \I'll freeze you out before the winter's over, Monsieur Askew. You watch me!\ \Mitybe said Hilary. \Meanwhile I think you're keeping the hugiI9 wolf = Ins, and there is no use in prolonging this conversation unless you want to accept my terms.\ Brousseau shook with wrath; he opened his mouth to speak, but snorted Instead ; he shook his fist furiously and, turning upon his heel, stumped out of the office. From his desk Hilary watched him climb into the buggy and drive away. His head was bent to- O - nrd Madeleine Rosny's, nnd lie was talking emphatically and gesticulating ft - 4•!?s \War's declared,\ said Hilary to, him- 1 self, with relief, as he settled himself Iii his chair. Hilary talked the matter over with Late later in the day. \If we can get a good shipment out before the Gulf Onsets\ he said, \we can carry on till spring. But of course we can't haul lumber oat of the ,woods until there's several feet of snow on the grouhd.\ \And that won't be till navigation's ended for the year,\ said Lae. \So I'm going to put through the mill every cord of lumber in the river.\ con- timital Hilary. \We'll • keep Dupont , busy. And we'll wind up the year with a substantialIhniance to our credit.\ \The Ste. Marie lumber,\ nmsed Late. s \I guess they call it so. But I be- lieve it's all ours. We've got the whip hand of 'trousseau there, because it's our mill, and Dupont's independent of 'trousseau. 'trousseau can't stop me thling that lumber, and he daren't go to law abopt it.\ Lafe approved the scheme, , with warnings to Illiary about going slow. They went up to the dant and looked over the logs In` the river. Indere Ro- cheuse Was packed as far as the' eye could reach. The eight raised Hilary's spirits. There must be„thousands of dollars' worth of lumber in between the high banks, ready - to be posited through the rossing mAll , for Dupont's schooner. Late came to him next day. \The logs in the dam are going Into the mill all right.\ he said, \but they ain't coming down -stream above it. Baptiste says there's a Jam in the gorge.\ They got the rig amid drove to the' spot. At the gorge was at solid wall of logs, packed like the straw coverings of .wiiitsbottles. The shirting of the loge had wedged them together here. It wits.clear that it would be necessary to start the mass with dynntnite. \I guess that's the trick,\ said Late, \Itaptlete here is an expert dynamiter.\ \Yes that shift him quick,\ said Jean•Marle. \Mighty quick, maybe. I think, Mr. Askew, it is better first to make stronger your boom, or else your lumber go over the rapids Into the Gulf.\ \how long will It take?\ asked Hil- ary. \A week, maybe, for gaod work. That boom, he will never stand so many toga as that, Mr. Askew.\ \Get a gang to work at daybreak to- morrow,\ Hilary instructed him. That night Hilary congratulated him- self on having started his counter -of- fensive against Brousseau. In spite of • nj .• • Brouaseau Scowled Savagely at the Sarcasm, the man's influence in the district, he felt assured of the loyalty of the hulk of his men. 'Are was worth a hundrial and little Baptiste knew his job per- fectly. He went to bed In high spirits. The next morning Brousseau struck his first blow. Hilary had just or- dered the rig in order to drive over to Leidanc's lease and try to stop the operations about the (7liateau when Leblanc appeared in the office, accom- panied by four ruffians whom Hilary recognized as the subjobliers. \Well Leblanc?\ asked Hilary. \What's this I hear you make com- plaint about my work?\ Leblanc de•- • mantled. \You've been cutting round the Chateau, Leblanc, and you'll have to stop it,\ said Hilary. \You knew you were not supposed to cut there.\ \Ain't I got right to cut on my OW11 lease?\ demanded the jobber trucu- lently. \Maybe you have, but anyway you aren't going to cut round the Chateau.\ \You think so?\ asked Leblanc in- solently. \All right. You find another boss jobber. Maybe you find one in September what couldn't get a job for next winter, you are so clever. I don't know. For me, I go to work for Monsieur Morris at Ste. Marie.\ \So that's your Wile, Lebinnc! How about that contract?\ \That's all right. But if I don't pay on January first, the contract is no good. That was your words, which you wrote down. Well, keep the lease If you like, Monsieur Askew, an' - I - cut - where - I like. - or I don't pity one Cent. An' these men say they go wher- twer I go. They won't work for you if I go, because you thrash Black Pierre. They ain't dogs, they're men, an' they got families. They don't stand for no beating with fists. May- be you change your mind about the cutting?\ \Go to the devil!\ shouted Hilary. \Maybe you like to beat these men now, eh?\ sneered Leblanc. \No? All right, You find other boss Jobber Monsieur Askew.\ He clapped on his hat, and, as if they had rehearsed the scene, the four ruffians followed Leblanc in solemn and triumphant parade across the floor and out of the office. This was first blood with a ven- geance. Leblanc's lease was a neces- sity; it meant money, and money Just when his capital would be exhausted. It was essential to sub -lease the tract to some one else. But there was\no one in St. Boniface capable of assum- ing charge of such a contract. The habitants had no heads for business and 110 money to Invest. All that was paid out In wages flowed hark to the store, owned by the Ste. Marie s comPallY, and to the Ste. Marie sa- loons. Ste. Marie Was bleeding St. Boniface white In eyery way. Filled with resentment, Hilary coun- termanded the order for the rig and walked up by the mill. His nerves were raw and quivering as he reached the end of the strip of land where Rocky river pours into the gulf he - hots'. The whistle blew, and he turned toward St. Boniface and stopped, Watching the mob of men emerging from the mill. \Why do you come she cried. e] (TO BE CONTINUED.) One strong point of many a Irn ,, Inn is at the end of a hat phi. Li • ,
