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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1931-11-05, Page 2thursdan,.. November stu, w THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE i’- Si “The Silver Hawk BY WILLIAM BYRON MOWERY Illlllllllllllll SYNOPSIS James Dorn, aerial map maker, as­ signed to a territory in the north­ ern Canadian Rockies lives alone in his camp on Titan Island. Kansas Eby, his friend for the past six years w.as stationed at Eagle east, night were platform ‘ train pulled in he seen a girl come out and glance hurriedly around and then disappear into the darkness, hurriedly but trace Dorn Here rived The girl, Aurore McNain, asks • Dorn to go <to a lonely lake in search of her father and she wish­ es to accompany him, ■ ' When they arrive at the cabin there is no sign of habitation. Nest, two hundred miles Kansas came over one to a dance that the Indians having on the station When the midnight of her, about it i Bergelot, with the Kansas followed failed to find any He told his friend and the same night a trusty metis ar- > girl. . CHAPITER VI The Slipper on Dorn’s Table , In the boat, with old< Bergelot yowing, Dorn went out to the. Silver Hawk, swung its nose toward the open lake, stripped, the canvas off the cockpit, and pumped a drum of gasoline into the tanks. Back ashore, waiting for Aurore to dress, he asked a few questions ‘of Bergelot. “You seem to have known Mam- •’selle Aurore before to-night, .is it true?" “Ou’ ”—a single grunt from the darkness. “I suppose Mam'selle Aurore— gibe is bush-wise as an Indian—that she must 'have gone with her father much on the mountain trail, is it true?" Again that single grunt. Berge­ lot plainly did not want to talk about her. Dorn felt that to ques­ tion him ’further would be prying into something not his business. As he walked up the path alone, old* Bergelot staying' ill the boat, he knew beyond all doubt that there ,was something more to this affair than a mere rescue trip. What was back of Aurore’s fear, her desper­ ation, he would probably find out When they reached that wilderness lake two hundred miles north. . Outside the tent he cracked a etick. Aurore recognized liis meth­ od of knocking at the door, and hade his come in. She had certainly dressed in a hurry, Dorn thought, as he stooped through the flap-front. That same trembling haste to be gone! 'Sitting on the chair, she was already lacing up her shoes, skipping every other hole. Her clothes were tossed upon the cot. One slipper lay against the tent-wall where she had kicked it. The other brazenly violated the monkish austerity of Dorn’s work table, which never 'before bad held even a girl’s picture. It struck a strange- and disturbing note, that small dainty slipper with the big silver buckle, lying there on bls hard board table (beside his solitary pipe and disarranging those order­ ly pages of the slipstream, problem she had interrupted by her coming. Aurore finished and stood' up, brushing the crumples out of her dress. “I’m ready, if you are. Will these clothes , . , I’ve never been up jn a. plane before." She had on jacket, heavy Alpine shoes, trying to be He remembered the suspicion in her eyes when she first took his meas­ ure. Perhaps- she was thinking that he might presume intimacy on the strength of doing her a favor. With studied matter-of-factness Dorn remarked. ‘They'll do, I guess,’ Aurore glanced up at him, a sharp ■surprised) glance, a somewhat crest­ fallen glance, Evidently she was not used to so callous a remark. Evidently she did not want to be treated as though she were a man. “But they’ll need additions," Dorn went on, sorry he had. been so brutal. “Here”—he reached down his spare -helmet from the ridge­ pole—"this’ll help. That strap goes ’round behind; this one buckles under the chin ...” “Maybe you’d better," gested, tilting very still. Dorn never wealth of hair tried to get it iall into that helmet. It simply would not go in. to split the neckpiece at with her knife. But he she wasn’t bobibed; that hair was worth ruining dollar 'helmet for. Oddly his thoughts flashed to Kansas Eby winging home to Eagto Nest. If Kansas could look back into that tent he had a while ago, could see those filmy undergar­ ments on the cot and that girl’» slipper on his work table and see him fitting a helmet on the “pretty ghost" herself—well, Kansas would go higher than a spruce tree, that was -all! ’ His fingers were clumsy with the bu^kl’o under Aurore’s chin. - She stood very still and patient, looking up at him. with a glance as candid and innocent as a child’s. In that close intiTmacy Dorn .noticed that her face was -a little thin and* wan. There were telltale lines under 'her eyes, and-the lashses drooped heav­ ily. She was tired, poor girl-—des­ perately tired. Only her purpose and the flush of excitement her. going. To take her mind from trouble Dorn asked: “Are you acquainted at Titan Pass? I to pitch off from here myself years ago when I loped you’ll turn around one in back.) “No, I’m not. I know a couple people ovei’ at the 'station." : You two about me out he say? . What Her eyes were frightened, and FULL FAMILY PROTECTION .A ♦ THE. *fe* a k'haki Skirt, belted wool stockings, and Dorn surveyed her, strictly professional. she sug- up her head and realized what a Aurore had until 'he He had the back wasi glad head of a twelve kept her well use a “But you’ve been here before?” “Yes. How do you know?" “Well, I gathered that from .wbat Dad Bergelot sal—■—" Aurore whirled around, men were talking there! What did- did he tell you?” suddenly wide and she shrank back from Dorn. “He didn’t tell me anything. I merely asked if he’d known you,' What is there to tell?” Slowly her frightened look faded ■and she turned around again. “Why, there’s nothing. Of course!" Dorn knew better. Aurore had be­ trayed it a dozen ways. Dorn thought again: “Somebody’s up there at that lake, iShe’s going to meet him. I’m taking her to him." He wanted to know a little more about this affair which he was but­ ting into blindfolded; he came very- near demanding who the man was to w’hom she was going. But to waste' time now was like stopping to in­ vestigate the reason when a wing' crumples a mile or two up in thej air, J He finished with the helmet. “Now goggles . . •There was presently nothing of Aurore’s face except nose winsome mouth and that small gressive chin, Dorn slipped an tomatic revolvei’ into his jacket poc­ ket, saw that the rifle was loaded’ and in working order; then drew on his own leather cover-alls with lynx-fur collar, belted at and waist and buttoning up to the shoul'der. 'Catching Up gauntlets. electric torch felt Aurore’s left and ;ag- au- the .'amides diagonally an di rifle, the dark path nearer, com­ space apd cock- he fright- Or women first trip, under Uh” a little THE CANADIAN SHREDDED WHEAT COMPANY, LTD. al reasons he wanted to watch ’her Casually necessary airplane, over that dated the globe sq Aurore and he could watch without her knowing* it, He thought she would ened, Most people—-men —were scared on their and this was a night trip usual conditions,. For while Aurore did sit very still and rigid. But presently- she stirred cau­ tiously, A few minutes later she leaned forward, and looking past his elbow,, peered conriopsly^at the mysterious levers and sticks wondrous instruments of the pit, Next she peeped over the partment edge into the giddy below them. 'She gasped and her pretty lips fashioned YIOo-oo-oh!” but she did not flinch. For twenty minutes, rapt and fascinated at this strange new experience, sh© gazed down at the lakes and canyons and mountains swirling south. Then her interests came back to Dorn. Leaking forward) and a little to one side, s'he studied his profile long and intently. Staring into that ewony panel like Perseus into Minerva’s shiled, Dorn would have given considerable to know what ‘her conclusions were. Daylight came slowly. Climbing to fifteen thousands feet, where he could sweep a vast expanse^',Dorn reached out his ‘ binoculars. He knew he cojild not be more than ten miles off his course and could) lo­ cate the lake at that distance. On the mountains west of it a huge glacier, riding the range like an oc- opus, was a prominent landmark. And he remembered the pass just south grass avens been over with intervalometer clicking. Wit'h the coming spotted the glacier, dead ahead. * A 'few when the first rosy shine were kindling Mesa, he sailed out Aurore’s lake—the Lake of the beneath them placid mountain-girt, deep unutterably lonely, having mistaken it; seven- little wildwood bare- lofty t as though It were a procedure. in piloting* an he snapped off the light ebony panel and manipu* shield of the inclipppieter that* it shone back upon 'her of jt—a big mesa of sage and heather and fiery-colored when a band of goats, had pasturing when he whirled of full day he twelve miles minutes' later, shafts of sun­ fires on Goat over the lake. How do I keep my figure?" “I .eat Shredded Wheat but instead of cream I use whole milk—just as it comes from the bottle. That kind of meal gives me pep and strength. It’s delicious and nourishing and easily digested. Sometimes for variety I add sliced bananas or other fruits, but I like it any way at all.” SHREDDED WITH ALL THE BRAN OF THE WHOLE WHEAT I he snapped off the and in the darkness hand on his arm. As they went down together, the wolf howl, menacing, quavered out over, the lake. The wind from high, snow­ fields was chill, and moaned, thro’: the spruces. The moon had inches down behind the Western Titans;, the night had turned Stygian black with its setting. “Afraid?" Dorn .askec, to break the spell; and1 the girl beside him answered with a- squeeze on his arm and a nearly whispered “No." Old Bergelot rowed them out to ■tliO- Silver Hawk.' Standing oh a port® toon, Dorn litfed Aurore into the real' cock-pit, tucked a wire-weave blanket about her, ,and snapped her safety belt. Very carefully he ad­ justed the straps of the pack-chute over her shoulders, across, her breast, and around her waist. I-Ie told 'her that she was .sitting on a “Guardian Angel"; and he explain­ ed'—making a joke of the matter, as he and ,his brother birdmen al- : ways did with passengers—how in case of emergency she should jump clear and count four and; jerk rip-cord. He reeved up in short order, cast the Bergelot boat. For a plane taxied over t'he water swan taking wing; then knocking the tops of the wavelets, lake, gave to the ail’ ■Circling climbed steadily till he wag higher than the lofty dolomites crowning old Titan Major. Then with a iglance and,1 reassuring .smile over 'liis shoulder, he straightened his direction out, pushed the throttle wide open, and roared away the north, alone in the night with Aurore McNain. the just happen to mooring lines when had backed away in hundred yards or Dawn! It lay as a mirror, and blue and No chance of there were t'he islands that he rememibered- ly garden? plots from, his height. (Continued Next Week) SECOND FIRE IN DOGAN Fire again visited Logan Town­ ship for the’ second time within a week1, when the large, bank barn of Mr. John A. Nicholson was destroy­ ed. 'The origin of the fire is a mys­ tery as Mr. Nicholson was. plowing in the field at the time and before anything could be done- it was a seething mass of flames. and old the so t'he like a 'began, gentle Dorn swerved it up the it the gun; it leaped in- and rose, over. Lake Titan, he in re- H. in 25 YEARS AGO Hay sold for $14 a ton in London on Friday owing, it is said, to the farmers being to (busy to bring it in to market. Mr. Chas. Tebutt, who was recent­ ly re-engaged to teach in S. S. No. 3, .Stephen, has since resigned, to fake effect at the end' of the pres­ ent term. Mr. E. Jory and family are this week moving from their farm Stephen towns’hip, to the house cently purchased from Mrs. G. Bissett on Huron. Street. Mr. Samuel Sample is now temporary charge of Miss Vosper’s room at the school. 'Mr. and Mrs. Sample are residing with* the lat­ ter’s parents, Mr. aiid Mrs^ William ’ Bagshaw. IMr. Chris. Rau, who lias- been- en- ■ gaged as shoemaker with Mr. Alf. • Walter, is now engaged for a couple 1 of weeks at Hansail after Which he 1 will resume his duties here. The large smoke stack on the grist mill having been partly blown i down d'uring a recent high wind, • Messrs. Harvey Bros1, will have it : replaced by a large brick chimney i. erected to the height or 615 feet. PARKINSON—KELSEY A very pretty wedding took place at the home, of Mr. and Mrs. C. Sly, Sanfd Bay, Ont., when their daughter Mildred ( Marion, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Kelsey, be­ came the bride of Rev. Robert A. Parkinson, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Parkinson, of Granton. WINNERS IN JUDGING HURON COUNTY COMPETITION judging competition farmers of Huron 16 to 20, to decide A Life Income for Your Wife! An Education for Your Children! A “dean-up” Fund to Pay Off Debts! These are the three valuable protective features offered by The Great-West Three-Way Family Protection Policy • • • • features embodied only in this special form of life insurance, and at moderate cost* It is actually three policies in one . * * . a plan that gives a large amount of insurance at a cost within reach of the average man. < Ask for Complete details. It will place * you under no obligation. . R. E. PICKARD C. V. PICKARD Extlet, Ont* Representing c assurance company* HiAt> orocfc/*** wihmipcg into sky CHAPTER VII Lake of the Dawn. « D. not the for still Silver A brisk head wind Was blowing at eleven thousand feet, but the air was velevty smooth. Clear and and starry, the night, was dream­ beautiful. A wilderness of peaks with only t'heir rocky spires moonlit lay beneath the Hawk, fading into the dim horizon. Glaciers and neves swam away into the south; it was not the ship that moved, but the earth. Under keel yawned deep mountain valleys—* profound depths of utter blackness, but lakes and river-widenings glit­ tered and danced myriad stars, Now and then whirred low over gatherei’ it scudded into a bank of fleecy cloud-pack where for a few moments earth below and sky above wore blotted out, and thin-spun drib­ bles of mist flowed past the lights of the instrument board like rib­ bons fliittfering in a wlhd, Before the trip was many minutes old, Dorn happened to discover that In a shiny black panel of the instru­ ment board he could be could see a reflection of Attrore’'s head and shoulders, If was blurred awd very unsatisfactory reflection, For sever- with reflection of when the plane a towering cloud- 15 YEARS AGO Mr. W. Treble purchased t'he Hartleib house on Friday at the auc­ tion sale. Mrs. Hartleib and fam­ ily have moved to Pt. Huron. ■Onion growers in Exeter are at all satisfied this year with price of 5c. they are receiving their onions. Mr. George Atkinson was up from London on .Saturday for the auction sale of their effects and. they left this week for the city to reside. Mr. PerCy Hewitt jias moved into Mr. C. Heywood’s house on. Andrew Street. Mr. Payne 'has moved into Mrs. Sutton’s house on Main Street, .and Mr. Lutman into the; house va­ cated by Mr. Payne in Exeter north, has taken an Dort automo- choice ono at Mr. T. H. Newell agency for the Grey bile, This car is a $885.00 in Canada. Miss Carrie Knight went to Lon­ don on Tuesday morning to attend the funeral of her aunt Mrs. Alfred Drew. The Ladies’ Guild of Trivitt Mem­ orial church on Thursday afternoon last was Of unusual interest. A dainty afternoon tea was served and during the proceedings Mrs. George Atkinson was presented with * beautiful pudding dish land spoon, prior id, her leaving Exeter for pew home in. London. Mrs. Percy illness tinues The annual among Junior County , ages the winners o the trip to. the Royal Winter Fair, was held at Clinton Thursday last under the supervision of the local department of agricul­ ture, with Ian McLeod, Huron Co. agricultural representative, ’ and the assistant representative in charge. There were 42 entrants and the standard of pudgin,g was very high. Judging in general farm subjects was held in the board room of the agricultural offee. The .sheep and beef cattle were judged on the farm of Roy Pepper, in Tuckersmith Tp., and the hogs on Howard C'nch’s farm in the same township. Prior to the announcement of the success­ ful competitor, each of* the presid- ing judges addressed the contest­ ants giving a reason of. the various efforts and pointing out the most Common errors in judging. last of Winners ■Frank Archibald, of Seaforth, with 560 points out of a possible 650, was the high boy of the com­ petition and as he hadl never enter­ ed a judging contest before he also won the shield presented by the Canadian Exhibition, for the high­ est novice. Other winners of the Royal Fair trip and points secured were; son, Lucknow, 5’44; •ner, Centralia, 544; Brussels 542; Tom Hern, Woodham 5(3'8; Jack Ferguson, Clifford, 532; John Broadfoot, Brucefleld, i5i25; George Hetherington, Wingham, <521, Stewart McEwen?; Clinton, be­ cause he had not reached .his 16th birthday was not eligible ■Royal Winter Hair trip, but second highest competitor total of 548 points, while •Vincohtt of Belgrave, who ■547 points, was aisd Ineligible ow­ ing to his being arhong last year’s ■Winners. Mr. McLeod also announced that two winners of ’Home Garden Club contests, Harold Picket, of Goder­ ich and Tom Andersen, of Ashfield Township, had, also been awarded a- free excursion to the winter fair. Banished by Kruschen “ I had acute neuritis in the shoulder and left arm, due to exposure in bad weather,” writes the Rev. II. E. T. “ It was impossible to lift the arm to dress or to use it in any way, and, of course, the pain was dreadful. AU external applications were useless. 1 got it completely normal again by keep­ ing the parts affected warm and. (.'iking daily, early in the morning, Kruschen Salts in a tumbler of hot water. It took nearly'ti month, but every vestige of neuritis has gone.” . Neuritis is typical of a dozen other complaints—some minor, some very .serious —- which all result from impurities in the blood. And it.is impure .blood, circulating all over the system and setting up inflammation in the tissues, that causes those excruciating pains. Kruschen Saits can be safely trusted* to set the matter right. Because Kruschen contains just what Nature needs to persuade your internal organs back into a healthy, normal conditions MARRIED FIFTY YEARS 'Mr. and Mrs, Joseph Johnston, of Blyth, celebrated the fiftieth anni­ versary of their wedding at the home of their daughter Mrs. Colin Fingland, Walton. Mr. Johnston was born in McKillop and Mre. Johnston was born in East Wawa- nosh. Beautiful gifts were present­ ed 'by the family of two sons an!® one daughter. A, COLDS Head Colds: Heat Minard*»« and inhale it. Chest Colds j and Sore Throat: Heat, then J 31 rub well into affected parts. J Real relief . . . quickly n her Mr. the MoArter, of Brussels and Moir ate here owing to of Mr, Johh; Mbir# Who cOh* Very1 low. the number of Alfred P'atter- Delmav iSktn- Jim, Turnbull, for the was the with! a Harold secured USBORNE & IHRBERT MUTUAIf FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY Head Office, Farquhar, Ont. President FRANK McCONNEtli Vice-Pi‘OS. . ANGUS' SINCLAIR. DIRECTORS J, T. ALLISON, SAM’L NORRIS . SIMON DOW, WILLIAM BROCK. AGENTS JOHN ESSEBY, Centralia, Agent ; for Usborne and Biddulph OLIVER HARRIS, Munro, Agent ' for Ilibort, Fuliarton -and Logan ' W. A. TURNBULL Secretary-Treasurer Box 295, Exeter, Ontario GLADMAN & STAXBURY Solicitor^ Exeter i