M.
STORY.
Arcade
the
(From
THE
American
and
Messenger.)
A1 groupvof'metir Their
were
standing from
their
Change
guaranteed
standard
Magnificent hand.
-REPAIRS
careful
same
articles
of
stamp of
Stock Beautiful
asked, shook
their
before
they
heads
?"
statue
the
to
turning
the
he
and
and
Telephone
in
his
in raiur hint-self
W.
KailOWlia Menzies Broken
!" thy honour ears, and he drew,
in
it
flames,
to
fall,
beams and the
the
from
cracking Joseph's
windows
the flowers
shrivelled
were
crisp
,,as
statue
was
looked,
hardly
aspaper,
and
tore
it.
off,
at
Coolgardie. Kalgoorlie.
Kanowna,
of New
audi
held
afancv
it,
the
and
born of
peril
not
as he. the head He was
as
tall
with
it
easily, his shoulder.
on
to
he did
find
feel
not
its
Colonial
iin
>orted
direct
from
dozen
a
P.
GROCERS
Licence,, Ales and
tne
J.
August
Broken
Hill,
N.S.W.,
best
of
waited
for
on
MERCHANTS.
clients
receive
orders.
Country
Deliveries
NOTE
314
EAST,
Telephone
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PERTH.
307.
OPTICIANS
Royal
8
until
they but the As he
KNAP
SPECT
AND
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P,
INI'XK
JOHN 236
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FLOWER in
Novelties
Latest
No.
but the. hopelessness of the situation /was to him, apparent and he resolved to die like a man. He placed on the statue the floor,
fear,
and vknelt for the
down at roof to
heard clung
creaking
'it
Table
for
whom
his
life.
FANCY
BOHEMIAN
AND
WATER See
JUGS Prices.
our
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&
DRAKE
his
in
and
Ironmongers &
BUILDERS'
GENERAL
Importers,
;
Agents
for
Merryweather
ROLLED
John &
Danks Sons',
351
GALVANISED
STEEL
Hay
BRASS
IRONMONGERY,
REQUISITES, .
S TUBES, TUBES
GIRDERS
FITTINGS &
(All
Perth.
Street, &
FITTINGS,
PLUMBERS
Sizes),
Melbourne; & Son, Ltd., Lopdon, Fire Brigade Appliances!
Alston's Windmills; 358. Trj,ephone :
feet, in.
As
above
him,
realised hot
as
"
at
that
easy
to
instant that "die for thy -was to say it, and When he thought
it
as
heroic in the which
falling
roof,
roof
had
site
.wal
out
ward s,
him and
Was-
makes devotion
one
promises glow of
safe.
crash,
a
mother,
its
stniled
whqn
like
he he
fright in the of fear, and turned his in mute to her appeal lie so risked gallantly
was
when and
waiting
/its fall
statue
to
He
what
,
&c.
Decorations,
the
to
child
ilie.eyen
270.
EARTHENWARE, VASES STANDS,
GLASS,
CHINA. GLASS
Co.,
STREET.
Telephone
spire
A groan burst from his the Thought of his mother, and Fr. whom he Rosella, Stacy, see went should never again, his mind. Then the through terror an 'of awful -death like that overcame like him, and he shook an His/face blanched, aspen leaf. and could lie have for shrieked
it
&
MURRAY
up."
the
liptUas
honour
DYNON
the way. There He glanced at the "Blessed Mother, I would save but I can't! We
heard
desperation white face
Perth
Arcade,
he
it
ened
&
at
burning
1
ADDRESS—
ST.
HAY
daily.
attention.
every
of
pile
shock. Adelaide.)
butths.
Families
a
looked
As lie of the on church to the cqpie crashing and -then he heard the roof roof, from the force of the giving way
to the now prepared supply Leading Brands and Wines of SUPERIOR QUALITY, Spirits in of not less than halfone quantities gallon,
are
He
impossible! I could, both be burnt
if
said
IMPORTERS,
SPIRIT
is
How
was,
?"
escape. and said,
shall
E NY, (Lite
it
you
Stout, houses,
we
no
"
thought
I
statue at
DOHENY
and
AND
!"
honour His next
was
24.
Wales.
DOB
Gibson).
WINE
obtained
and
South
&
Fey
GASH
English
'
of red wood hiin." under'
heavy
He
get out the door, where debris blocked
St.
the altar giving the He took
not
shall
were
burning
not
;
A
—
;
tremendous
he! felt \;suiE»iwas dbafetfed jiira.
the The
but the oppo fallen, -the ch u rch- f ladfa) len and wi thi h hi f b>v ffe,et;..of
not
Lof
I. He sprar.gTip, safety the statue from the dashed across 'church. the —
lifting
flb6r,
Tlje but
in the wing Were on 'fire, vaulted over tliein with an born of despeiation.
pews lie
eiiergy
-
'
way
of
(late
of
feet,
chai
Bank
BLENDERS, Having
such intense badly, notice that he did not excitement beneath his it He trampled that. the did so, ielt and as lie but
win
As he clasped his dream and
thy
LIST: at
at
run
5,
S
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at Menzies. -Cup, 5,000 at 5. run September, 10,000 at 5, run Hill Spring Handicap, September 17.
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uninjured. be ievingTiis eyes, from the- wall, and fell a brand caudle as it a lit passed. actually to a rose that set fire candle The the statue, veil of the lay against a second the, veil was in a and in the Louis blaze. sprang upon altar hands
stood
As he looked at the face the lurid he was through light, " sure it smiled. 0 he Mary !" " I will die for murmured, gladly
Perth.
August, August,
run
run
'
A L L
PRIZE
Cup, 5,000 at 5, Cup, 5 ,000 at 5, 2,000 at -Handicap,
HUGHES
TEA
hung a charred picture oh wall. A pang the fragment as the heart he shot through boy's his and he turned saw eyes .to it, of May. of. the shriue. |Qupen The wall behind it, and :the ceiling and tlie li'eat it were on fire; above had
BROOK.
CHARLES).
J.
HUGHES J.T.
Ji«-
heat.
he
the was which to enough unbalance his brain, seized slightly him. He felt as it had though become alive arms. It was in his
Perth.
DRAKE'S
T EES
-Barrack-st.,;
beginning
were
the
high he could with a through
situation,
Streets,
SAWMILLS,
T AT
Reference,
his placed itiqver that the stnoke might hot suffocate went towards the He then him. church. The of the pews centre and the altar was were burning, in
so
present. of
'
and mouth,
nose
CO.
at Caulfield. Caulfield 15th, Cup, 25,000 at 5, run October 1st, at Flemingeon. Melbourne Cup, 25,000 at 5,2ndrun November 1899. Perth January, Cup, 25, (XX) at 5, run
A,
handkerchief
TO.
resting surprised
A.
Coolgardie Kalgoorlie
weut t;, up front and he hea rd some Hi? for Fr. Stsicy.v into the church, his way pushed foi& tu pausing by the bply. water undertaking himself before bl hss 'Then his dangerous /errand.. dip
his
ATTENDED
&
King
MONSTER
boy's "I am saying, proudly, of Mary !" and tearing a Knight from the man, with himself away inside another he was fairly leap
ping
makers
variety.
Merchants,
STEAM
(C/o
up
the church. those outside, calling one
celebrated
most
great
where
were
bur have climbed den. The. idea of relinquishing never the statue occurred to him. He tightened his hold upon it, and felt a thrill of joy as he realised was least for the that it safe at
'
OF
107
for
the
dows
weight.
vessels." die
will
I
in
etc.,
and
in,
467.
about
"
by the
CLOCKS
Brooches,
SATISFACTORILY
and
PROPRIETORS
roigjjly>.,, inside.
altar
and
Timber
Wellington
thing ."Elxery You should not is but the lifefbr anything risk your Fr. Stacy said Blessed Sacrament. us would not let and he go in, so, saved the statue we'd have else said in flames
old friends will be still them entrusted will bear the the premises
M'DOWELL Jarrah
towards him tention, _saw spring the church do&V. "He of fliem ran him and him after seized by the "Are arm". boy ?" the ybu crazy, man
W.A.), assure
carat.
They
men.
mournfully, aware of
were
on
to
i
for the Blessed Sacrament fears Father and Stacy being calmed, of the statue. he at once thought the
manufactured etc.,
&
JOSEPH
looked'abdut'for Fr. Stacy. him that he had rescued They "Sacrament and had the Blessed Louis' taken it into the rectory.
is
orders
Bracelets,
PROMPTLY
told
Where
all
WATCHES
Rings,
and
—
be
Louis
"
18,
to
Perth,
in
Jewellers
Of Address,
attention
Jewellery 15,
Street, and
Watchmakers
fear.
To "the done.
"burning could
Nothing
ground.
All
on
to
attention that the
maintained.
now
silent
the disaster, church was
draw
customers
A
(Concluded).
near
to
Desire
MAY.
of
his
.
SAVED OP
Firm
in
the floor. bewildered
.
LOUIS
QUEEN
R.C.
arras and sprang to Then he stood, half as for a moment, there to be no of seemed way escape. had fallen The front of the chuich
statue
.
HOW
Barrack
Buildings, (The Oldest
CO.
AND
FOUCHARD
—
OUR
.
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