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Home My WebLink AboutThe Wingham Times, 1909-07-29, Page 74k) THE NYSThRY Hip STEWART EDWARD WHITE And SAMUEL IHOPKINS ADAMS COPYRIGHT. 1907 BY MCCLURE. PHILLIPS & CO. Selover drove them with slight regard for their opiuions or feelings. "You're getting double pay," was his • only word. "Earn it!" They certainly earned it during those three weeks. The things they brought up were astounding. Besides a lot of scientific apparatus and chests of chemical supplies, everything that Gould possibly be required had been provided by that omniscient young man. After we had built a long, low structure, windows were forthcoming, shelves, tables, sinks, faucets, forges, burners, all cut out, fitted and ready to i t together, each with its proper tiler e, nails, clamps or pipes ready to ; hands. When we had finished {,w• •ad constructed as complete a 'let. .ttory on a small scale as you eeou..1 find on a college campus, even 'Jto the stone pillar down to bets rock 'for delicate microscopic experiments ,and hot and cold water led from the springs. And we were utterly unskiil- 'ed. It was all Percy Darrow. I was toward the last engaged in screwing on a fixture for the genera- tion of acetelyne gas. "Darrow,' said I, "there's one thing ;you've overlooked. You forgot to bring a cupola and a gilt weather- cock for this concern." I After the Iaboratory was completed eve put up sleeping quarters for the two men, with wide porches well screened, and a square, heavy store- room. By the end of the third week ;tee had quite finished. Dr. Schermerhorn had turned with enthusiasm to the unpacking of his ,chemical apparatus. Almost immedi- ately at the close of the freight car- rying he had appeared, lugging his precious chest, this time suffering the ;assistance of Darrow, and had camp- ed on the spot. We could not induce ;him to leave, so we put up a tent for ?nim, Darrow remalued with him by 'way of safety against the men, whose 'treasure, I believe, he had taken. Now ;that all the work was finished, the doctor put in a sudden appearance, "Percy," said he, "now we will have 'the defense built." He dragged us with him to the nar- row part of the arroyo just before it rose to the level of the valley. "Here we will build the stockade de- fense," he announced. Darrow and I stared at eacb other blankly. "What for, sir?" inquired the assist- ant. "I hat come to be undisturbed," an- nounced the doctor, with owl -like, Teu- tonic gravity, "and I will not be dis- turbed." Darrow nodded to me and drew his principal aside. They conversed ear- nestly for several minutes, Then the assistant returned to me. "No use," he shrugged in complete return to his indifferent manner. "Stockade it is. Better make it of fourteen foot logs slanted out. Dig a trench across, plant your logs three or four feet, bind them at the top. That's his specification for it. Go at it" "Bat," I expostulated, "what's the use of it? Even if the men were dan- . gerous that would just make them think you did have 'something to guard." "I know that. Orders," replied Per- cy Darrow. We built the stockade in a day. When it was finished, we marched to the beach, and never save in the three instances of which I Mail later tell you did I • see the valley again. The next •day we Washed our clothes and moved .ashore with all our belongings. "I'm not going to have this crew ,aboard," stated Captain Selover poli- tively. "I'm going to elean her." Ile himself stayed, however. We rowed in, constructed a hasty fireplace of stones, spread our blan- kets and built an unnecessary fire near 'the beach. Suffered Agony Treatments prescribed' had no effect— OR. CHASE'S OINTMENT made thorough euro. Many a mother's heart has been torn by the sufferings of her little one who Lae fallen a victim of eczema. Only tee hvaltollof Dr.ers pChase's Ointmentto the ttas a cure for this horrible ailment. Mrs. Oscar Yaneott, St. Antoine, lasts,, writes; "I have found Dr. Chftee's Ointment and of E ezem a o to be a permanent erre p other skin amasses. My eon, while nursing, broke out with intuiting wet• ery sores allover hit head and Around the cars. Marty salves were prescribed to no effect, The child's head became "a eines of scabs, and ho +suffered agony untold. Ile beettfnt .Weak anis frail and would not eat and era thought we would lose etinn "Provide iall we heard of Dr. Chaise' t Ointinentand it soot. thorough. ]y cured . him. lie is creed years old t 0W and strong and well, We hope more alearn about it, their little peoplewillay be saved front suffer - mired' t 61) eta. a box, all dealers, or Eti;nt:it- *onf Bate* s Co, !Eeronta. "Clean her!" grumbled Thrackles. "My eye!" "I'd rather round the cape," growled Pulz hopelessly. "Come, now, it can't be as bad as all that," I tried to cheer them, "It can't be more than a week or ten days' job, even if we careen her." "You don't know what you're talk- ing about," said Thrackles. "It's worse titan the yellow jack. It's six weeks at least. Mind. when we last 'cleaned her?' " he inquired of Handy Solomon. "You can kiss the book on it," re- plied he. "Down by the line in that little swab of a sand island. My eye, but don't I rememberi i sweated my liver white." They smoked In silence. "That's a main queer contrivance of the perfessor's--tlfat stockade -like," ventured Solomon after a little. "Fie doesn't want any intrusion," I said. "These scientific experiments are very delicate." "Quite like," he commented noncom- mittally. We slept on the ground that night, and next morning, under Captain Sel- over's directions, we commenced the task of lightening the ship. Ile de- tailed the nigger and Perdosa for spe- cial duty. "I'll just see to your shore quarters," he squeaked. "You empty her." All day long we rowed back and forth from the ship to the cove, land- ing the contents of the hold. These by good fortune we did not have to carry over the neck of Iand, for just above the gravel beach was a wide ledge on which we could pile the stores. We ate aboard and so had no opportunity of seeing what Captain Selover and his men were about un- til evening. Then we discovered that they had collected and lowered to the beach a quantity of stateroom doors from the wreck and had trundled the galley stove to the edge, where it awaited our assistance. We hitched a cable to it and let it down gently. The nigger was immensely pleased. After some experiment he got it to draw anel so eooked us our supper on it. After supper Captain Selover row- ed back to the ship. "Dagen," he had said, drawing me aside, "I'm going to leave you witb them. It's better that one of us—I think as owner I ought to be aboard"— "Of course, sir," said I, "It's the on- ly proper place for you." "I'm glad you think so," he rejoin- ed, apparently relieved. "And any- way," he cried, with a. burst of feel- ing, "I hate the gritty feeling of it un- der my feet! Solid oak's the only walking for a man." He left me hastily as though a trifle ashamed. I thought he .seemed de- pressed, even a little furtive, and yet on analysis I could discover nothing definite on which to base such a con- clusion. It was rather a feeling of differ- ence from the man I had known. , In my fatigue it seemed hardly worth thinking about. The men had rolled themselves In ,their blankets, tired with the long day. Next morning Captain Selover was ashore early. He bad quite recovered his spirits and offered me a dram of French brandy, which I refused. We worked hard again. Again the master returned at night to his vessel, this time without a word to any of us. Again the men, drugged by toil, turned in early and slept like the dead. We became entangled in a mesh of days like these, during which things were accomplished, but in' which was no space for anything but the tasks imposed upon us. The .men for the most part had little to say. "Por Dios, eet is too mooch work!" sighed Perdosa once. "Why don't you kick to the old mail, then?" sneered. Thrackles. The silence that followed and the Sullenness with which Perdosa read- dressed himself to his work was sig- nificant enough of Captain Selover's past relations with the men. And how we did Clean her. We stripped ber of every stitch and sliver Until she floated high, an empty hull, even ber spars and running rigging ashore. I understood now the crew's grumbling, We literally went at her with a nailbrush. Captain Selover took charge of Cls when we had reached this period. He and the nigger and Perdosa had long since finished the installation of the permanent eamp. They lead baht us Mite from the wreck, collecting state- room doors for the sides and hatches for the roofs, huge and wild, with iron rings in them. The bronze and iron ventilation gratings s to the doors s s ave us glimpses of the coast through fret- work. The rich inlaying of. weeds surrounded us. We Set up on a solid rock the galley stove, with its tails to hold the cooking pots fr'eei :upsetting in a sea'ivay. In it we burned the de- bris Of the wreck, all sorts of wood, some sweet and stromatic and spicy as an incensed cathedral. I have seen the nigger boiling beans over a Matte of sandalwood fragrant int en eastern shop, Ti'irst we scrubbed the Laughing Lass, then we painted her arid reeized and tarred her standing rigging, re- rat: WINGrliAM TiMJS, JULY 29 Mu sized and rove her running gear, slush- ed her roasts, finally careened her and scraped and painted her below, When we bad quite finished, we had the anchor chain dealt out to us in fathoms, and scraped, pounded and polished that, These were, indeed, days full of labor. Being busy from morning until night, we knew but little of what was about tra ate evening sometimes we bit a big bonfire. us. We saw the open sea and the waves 'tumbling over the reef outside. We saw the headlands and the bow of the bay and the surf with its watching seals and the curve of yellow sands. We saw the sweep of coast and the dowels and the strange huts we had built out of departed magnificence. n.nd that was all. That constituted our world. In the evening sometimes we lit a big bonfire, sailor fashion, just at the edge of the beach. There we sat at ease and smoked our pipes in silence, too tired to talk. Even Handy Solo- mon's song was still. Outside the cir- cle of light were mysterious things— strange wavings of white hands, bend- ings of figures, callings of voices, rus- tling of feet. We knew them for the surf and the wind in the grasses, but they were not the less mysterious for that Logically Captain Selover and I should have passed most of our even- ings together. As a matter of fact we so spent very few. Early in the dusk the captain invariably rowed himself out to his beloved schooner. What le - did there I do not know. We could see his light now in one part of ber, now in the other. The men claimed he was scrubbing her teeth. "Olcl Scrubs" they called him to his back, never Captain Selover. "Re has to clean up after his own feet, he's so dirty," sagely proffered Handy Solomon. And this was true. The seaman's prophecy held good. Seven weeks held us at that infernal job—seven weeks of solid, grinding work. The worst of it was that we were kept at it so breathlessly, as though our very existence were to de- pend on the headlong rush of our la- bor. And then we had fully half the stores to put away again and the oth- er half to transport painfully over the neck of land from the cove to the beach. So accustomed bad I become to the routine in which we were involved, so Habituated to anticipating the coming day as exactly Iike the day that had gone, that the completion of our job caught me quite by surprise. I had thrown myself down by the fire pre- pared for the same old half hour of drowsy nicotine, to be followed by the accustocued heavy sleep and the usual early rising to toil. The evening was warm. I half closed my eyes. Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Colic and Cramps Nearly every one is troubled with bowel complaint during the summer months. But, do they know what to do to cure it. Thousands do, many don't. WE CAN TELL ' 'OUI DR. FOWI ER'S Extract of Wild Strawberry WILL DO IT I It has been an the Market t# yesrst and is uni l'ersaily need in thousands Of ffsmiliee. There are many imit'ationt of this sterling remedy, Aso do net ,be led into tasking n&ttet ►ing "ju$tas good" wbieKi soma unacnipulous druggist trice to `calk you into taking. De. Fowler's is -the original. There are note jrnek• M good. It eared summer Cotnplsittt, Cholera I.Corbus, C1boleas In - brawn, raven, geasieknres and all Eofarel Loris • plaints. flirt 35 tenths, Manufactured only by The T. Milburn Co., Limited, Teton!** Ont. To cheek early colds or Grippe with " i'a venties" means sure defeat for Pneumonia. TO stop a cold with Preventics is safer than to let it run and be obliged to cure it afterwards. To be sur,•• pre. treaties will curd even a deeply seated cold. but taken early—at the sneeze stage --they break, or head oil these early colds. That's surely better, That's why they are called I'revcntics. l'reventiesat•e little Candy Coles Cures. No Qufn- Iue, no physic, nothing sickening. Niro for the children—and thoroughly safe too. If y'rt feel chilly, if you sneeze, If you mho all over. think of I'reventles. Promptness may also save half your usual sickness. And don't forget your child, it there is feverishness, night Or clay. Iterein prob. ably lies Prevcntics' greatest enicfeury. Sohl in ',le boxes for the pocket, also in 2i0 boxes of 48 l'reventics. Insist 0n your druggists giving you reventics WALLEY'S DRUG STORE. Handy Solomon was coming in last. Instead of dropping to his place he straddled the fire, stretching his arms over his head. He let them fall with a sharp exhalation: "'Lay aloft, lay aloft,' the jolly bo's'n cried. Blow high, blow low, what care we! 'Look ahead, look astern, look a -wind- ward, look a -lee.' Down on the coast of the high Bar - bare -e -e." The effect was electrical. We all sprang to our feet and fell to talking at once. "By God, we're through:" cried Pulz. "I'd clean forgot ft!!" The nigger piled on more wood. We drew closer about the fire. All the interests in life, so long held in the background, leaped forward, eager for recognition. We spoke or trivialities almost for the first time since our land- ing, fused into a temporary but com- plete good fellowship by the relief, "Wonder how the old doctor is get- ting on?" ventured Thrackles after awhile. "The devil's a preacher! I wonder?" cried Handy Solomon. "Let's make 'em a call," suggested Pulz. "Don't believe they'd appreciate the compliment," I iaughed. "Better let them make first call. They're the longer established." This was lost on them, of course. But we all felt kindly to one another that evening. I carried the glow of it with me over until the next morning and was there- fore somewhat dashed to meet Captain Selover with clouded brows and an un- certain manner. He quite ignored my greeting. "Eagen," he squeaked, "can you think of anything more to be done?" I straightened my back and laughed. "Haven't you worked us hard enough?" I Inquired. "Unless you gild the cabins I don't see what else there can be to do." Captain Selover stared me over. "And you a naval maul" he marvel- ed. "Don't you see that the only thing that keeps this .crew from get - tin' restless is keeping them busy? I've sweat more with my brain than you have with your back thinking up things to do. I can't see anything ahead. and then we'll have trouble. Oh, they're a sweet lot!" I whistled, and my crest fell. Here was a new point of view and also a new Captain Ezra. Where was the confidence in the might of his two hands? He seemed to read my thoughts and went on. "I don't feel sure, here on this cuss- ed land. It ain't like a deck where a man has some show. They can scat- ter. They can hide. It ain't right to put a man ashore alone with such a crew. I'm doing my best, but it ain't mein' to be good enough. I wish we were safe in Frisco harbor"— He would have maundered on, but I seized his arm and led him out of possible hearing of the men. "Here, buck ups" I said to him stern- ly. "There's notbing to be Scared of. If it comes to a row, there's three of us, and we've got guns. We could even sail the schooner at a pinch and leave them here. You've stood them oft' before." "Not ashore," protested Captain Sel- over weakly. "Well, they don't know that. Don't let them see you've lost your nerve this way," He did not even wince at the Accusation. "Put up a front." He shook his head, The sand had completely run out of him. Yet I am convinced that if he could have felt the heave and roll of the deck be- neath Mw he would have faced three times the difficulties be now feared. However, I could see readily enough the wisdom of keeping the men at Work. "You can wren. the Golden Horn," I suggested. "1 don't know whether there's anything left worth salvage, but It'll be something to do." Ile clapped me on the sboulder. "Goods" he cried. "I never thought of ft" "Another thing." said 1, "you better give them a day off a week. That can'tfatt het and it'll wastee just that mach more tinge. "Alt right," agreed Captain Selover. "Another thing yet. You know 1'rn not lazy, so It ain't that Pie trying to dodge work. But you'd better lay me off. It'll be so much more for the others." "That's true,"wild he. I could not recognize the man for what 1 knew hint to be, Ile groped, as one In the dare or as a sea anima. taken out of its element awl placed on the sands. ("enrage had given plat* to s Mir, taw Waveringr, deerskinWaveringaands1nX,r e• itess 04' +tnrp0se to a di%icted counsel. He who hail so thoroughly EIOminateTi the entire ship eagerly accepted ad- vice of me, a man without experience. That evening I sat apart considera- bly disturbed. I felt that the ground had dropped away beneath my feet. To be sure everything was tranquil at present, but now 1 understood the source of that tranquillity and bow soon it must fail. With opportunity would come were scheming, more speculation, more cupidity. How was I to meet it, with ;lone to back me but a scared man, an absorbed man and an indifferent man? CIIAI'TEIt XV. ERCY DARROW, unexpected, made his first visit to us the very next oe,+ening. Ire saun- tered in with' a Mexican corn husk cigarette between his lips, carry - lug a lantern, blew the light out and sat down with a Careless greeting, as though be bad seen us only the day before. "hullo, boys," said he, "been busy?" "flow are ye, sir?" replied Handy Solomon. "Good Lord, mates, Iook at that!" Our eyes followed the direction of his forefinger. Against the dark blue of the evening sky to northward glow- ed a faint phosphorescence, arch shap- ed, from which shot, with pulsating regularity, Iong shafts of light. They beat almost to the zenith and back again a half dozen times; then the whole illumination disappeared with the suddenness of gas turned out. "Now, I wonder what that might be?" marveled Thrackles. "Northern lights," ha2arded Pulz. "I've seen them almost like that in the Bering seas." "Northern lights your eye!" sneered Handy Solomon. "You may have seen them in the Bering seas, but never this far south and in August, and you can kiss the book on that," "What do you think, sir?" Thrackles Inquired of the assistant. "Devil's fire," replied Percy Dar- row briefly. "The island's a IittIe queer, I've noticed it before." "Debbil fire," repeated the nigger. Darrow turned directly to him. "Yes, devil's lire, and devils, too, for all I know, and certainly vampires. Did you ever hear of vampires, doc- tor?" "No," growled the nigger. "Weil, they are women, wonderful, beautiful women. A man on a long voyage would just smack his lips to see them. They have shiny gray eyes and lips red as raspberries. When you meet them they will talk with you and go home with you. And then when you're asleep they tear a little hole in your neck with their sharp claws, and they suck the blood with their red lips. When they aren't women they take the shape of big bats like birds." He turned to me with so beautifully casual an air that I wanted to clap him on the back with the joy of it. "By the way, Eagen, have you no- ticed those big bats the last few even- ings over by the cliff? I can't make out in the dusk whether they are vampires or just plain bats." He di- rected his remarks again to the nig- ger. "Nest time you see any of those big bats, doctor, just you notice close. If they have just plain black eyes they're all right, but if they have gray eyes, with reds rims around 'em, they're vampires. I wish you'd let me know if you do find out. It's in- teresting." "Don' get me near no bats," growled the nigger. "Where's Selover?" inquired Dar- row. "He stays aboard," I hastened to say. "Wants to keep an eye on the ship." "That's Iaudabie. What have you been doing?" "We've • been cleaning ship. Just finished yesterday evening." "What next?" "We were thinking of wrecking the Golden Horn." "Quite right. Well, if you want any help with your engines or anything of the sort, cail me." He arose and began to light his lan- tern. "I hope as how you're getting on well there above, sir?" ventured Handy Solomon insinuatingly. "Very well, I thank you," replied Percy Darrow dryly. "Remember those vampires, doctor." He swung the lantern and departed without further speech. We followed the spark of it until it disappeared in the arroyo. Behind us bellowed the sea. Over against us in the sky was the dull threatening glow of the volcano. About us were mysterious noises of crying birds, barking seals, rustling or rush- ing winds. I felt the thronging ghosts of alt the old world's superstition swirl- ing madly bebind us in the eddies that twisted the smoke of our fire. We wrecked the Golden Horn. For- ward was a rusted out donkey engine, which we took to pieces and put to- gether again. It Was no mean job, for all the running parts had, to be cleaned smooth and with the excep- tion of a rudimentary knowledge on the part of Pulz and Perdosa we were ignorant In fact we should not have succeeded at all had it not been for Percy Darrow and his lantern. The first evening we took him over to the cliff's edge he laughed aloud. "Jove, T w boys,how soul you guess exit all wrong?" he wondered. With a fele brief words he set us right, Pulz, Perdosa and I listening in- tently, the others indifferent in the hopelessness of being able to compre- hend. Of course We went wrong again in our next day's experiments, but Darrow was dowt two or three times a week and gradually we edged toward a practical result. His expianations consumed but a few- moments. After they vera baa !shed we adjourned to the fire. Thus wo came gradually to it better 1 actuafntance With the doctor's t irlat- 7 The Trani You Ilave Always Douglzt, and which has been!. in use for over 30 years, has borne the signature of aciol----"-"""' and bas been made under his per.. sonal supervision since its infancy. • ' Allow xio one to deceive you in this. A11 Counterfeits, Imitations and "Just -as -good" are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health or Infants and Children --Experience against Experiment. What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor 011, Pare- goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant.. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worn g and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic, It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach. and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children's Panacea—Tine Mother's Friend. CENUI EV E CAST0 R 1A ALWAYS Bears the Signature of The Kind You gage Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. THE CENTAUR COMPANY. 7? MURRAY STREET. NEW YORK CITY. s ant. In many respects he remained always a puzzle tome. Certainly the men never knew how to take him. He was evidently not only unafraid of them, but genuinely indifferent to them. Yet he displayed a certain interest in their needs and affairs. His practi- cal knowledge was enormous. I think I have told y0u of the completeness of his arrangements. Everything had been foreseen from grindstones to gas nippers. The same quality of concrete speculation showed him what we lack- ed in our own lives. There was, as you remember, the matter of Handy Solomon's steel claw. He showed Thrackles a kind of lan- yard knot that deep sea person had never used. He taught Captain Sel- over how to make soft soap out of one species of seaweed. Me be initiated in the art of fishing with a white bone lure. Our camp itself he reconstruct- ed econstructed on scientific lines so that we en- joyed Tess aromatic smoke and more palatable dinner. And all of it he did amusedly, es though his ideas were al- most too obvious to need communica- tion. ;? We became in aj manner intimate with him. He guyed the men in his indolent fashion, playing on their cre- dulity, their good, nature, even their forbearance. They alternately grinned and scowled. He left always a con- fused impression, sa'that no one really knew whether he cherished rancor against Percy Darrow or kindly feel- ing. The nigger was Darrow's especial prey. The assistant had early discov- ered that the cook was given to signs, omens and superstitions. From a curious scholar's lore he drew fantastics with which to torment his victim. We heard of all the witch- es, warlocks, incubi, succubae, harpies, devils, imps and haunters of Avitchi, from all the teachings of history, sa- cred and profane, 'Undoo, Egyptian, Greek, mediaeval, Swedenborg, Rosi- crucien, theosophy, theology, with ev- ery last ounce of horror, mystery, shiv- ers and creeps squeezed out of them. They were gorgeous ghost stories, for they were told by a man fully inform- ed as to all the legendary and grew - some details. At first I used to think he might have communicated it more effectively. Then I saw tl}at the cool, drawling manner, the level voice, were til reality the highest art. He told his stories in a half amtised, detached manner, which imposed con- fidence more readily than any amount of earnest asseveration. The mere fact of his own belief in what he said came to matter little. Ile was the vehicle by which was brought ac - Curate knowledge. Ile had read alt these things and now reported them as he had read Each nian could de• Bide for .himself as to their credibility. At last the donkey cosine was clear• ed and 'elnetalled fttop the cliff. The 'nigger built under her a fire of black walnut, Captain Selover handed out grog all around, and we started her up with it cheer just to see the wheels re - wive. Next we . half burled some long hatches, end up, to serve as bitts for the lines, hitched our cables to them and joyfully commenced the task of pulling the Golden Horn piece `by piece up the Side of the dlirr. The stores were badly damaged by the wet, and there was no liquor, for which I Wats eincerety grateful. We broke into the boxes and arrayed our. tlelvei In 'FAMOUS garments ---which speedily tell to pieces—and appropri- ated gimcracks of all sorts. There were setae acme but the ammunition bad gone had. Perdosa out of forty or fifty misfires got one feeble sputter and a tremendous bang which blew up his piece, leaving only the stock in his band. A few tinned goods were edible, but all the rest was destroyed. A lot of hard woods, a thousand feet of chain cable and a fairly good an- chor might be considered as prizes, As for the rest, it was foolishness, but we hauled it up just the same until nothing at all remained, Then we shut off the donkey engine and put on dry clothes. We had been quite hap- py for the eight months. It was now well along toward spring. The winter had been like summer, and. with the exception of a few rains of a week or so we had enjoyed beauti- ful skies. The seals had thinned out considerably, but were now returning In vast numbers ready for their an- nual domestic arrangements. Our Sundays we had mostly spent in resting or in fishing. There were many deep sea fish to be had, of great palatability, but small gameness. They came like so many leaden weights. A. few of us had climbed some of the hills in a half hearted curiosity, but from their summits saw nothing to tempt weariness. Practically we knew nothing beyond the mile or so of beach on which we lived. Captain Selover had made a habit of corning ashore at least once during the day. He bad contented himself with standing aloof, but I took pains to seem to confer with him, so that the men might suppose that I, as mate, was engaged in carrying out his di- rections. The dread of him was my most potent infiueince over them. During the last few days of our wrecking Captain Selover had omitted his daily visit. The fact made me un- easy, so that at my first opportunity I sculled myself out to the schooner. I found him, moist eyed as usual, lean- ing against the mainmast doing noth- ing. "We've finished, sir," said I. He looked at ire. Fill you come ashore and have a look, sir?" I inquired, "I ain't going ashore again," he mut- tered thickly. "What!" I cried. "I ain't going ashore again," he re- peated. obstinately, "arid that's all there is to It It's tog much of a strain on any man, Suit yourself. Yon run (To be Continned.) Highest price paid for hides and potty try et T. Fells' bateher thOD, GIRLS WANTtn.--.dor work on power sewing machines in knitting ]mill or on dty work. Olean, eteady work sad good wares Appljr, ruts Waxso t MFG. Co Limited, Paris, Ont. 60 VEA RV ' EXPERIENCE, PATE.011.S Tnkoiw MArutst OC$IGN$ Ccwvtetetera &C. Motto to elmain. s eltetbh and dieecrintlhn we au kartintenilonn IN idrnh rir opinion etmsmaual tlonestrictly oontdent .i. srti oo Patents en tree. mien f eeeU n ! twtetr p1r� Patents taken thrones Mon1I*%AarMIMS tomtit sow. withoutseerk., mthe Oda Mint IL V ArnliadeonMliterr11lmetr4.awjoowaldiy Cbndeiltmt/1PaO lf' ek.t �ira�ar�