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ORLANDO GIVES A WARNING.
Askatoon had never lost its interest for Mazarine and his wife since the day the Mayor had welcomed them at the railway station.

Askatoon was not a petty town.

Its career had been chequered and interesting, and it had given haven to a large number of uncommon people.

Unusual happenings had been its portion ever since it had been the rail-head of the Great Transcontinental Line, and many enterprising men, instead of moving on with the railway, when it ceased to be the rail-head, settled there and gave the place its character.