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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1941-08-21, Page 2avgvst imi TOE EXETER TIMES’ADVOCATE “A Cruise for Cinderella” by Bentley Ridge iwteh xxiii Into the Uixkxnown No. 3 boat was getting more and more into difficxjlties; the men aboard, her were bailing and her stern was continually awash, *‘There must be forty of them in her!” cried Bridget. Mrs. Garforth wrung her hands. . “Mark should have come with us! I thought these boats were sup posed to hold fifty people,” An instant later they saw one of the crowd in No. 3 boat splash over the side; others followed until about a dozen were swimming in the sea. No. 2 boat with about twenty in her was nearest, some swam fpr her, the rest came toward No. 1 boat. Mr. Trennie, the second officer who was in command, had put her about and manoeuvred her in the direction of the struggling men. A growl of dissent went up from a bull-necked, shaggy-haired A.B. in the stern: “We’ve got enough— W edon’t want them aboard!” A hum of discussion arose among his mates—some in agreement with him, some against him. He stood up and bawled hoarsely at the mate: “We don’t want those!—we can’t take ’em!” The mate, a nervous, irritable- looking man, gesticulated angrily. “We’ve room for another six! You shut your* trap, Kelly, and sit down!” His mates pulled down the shag gy-haired man and smothered the rest of his remarks. A hush fell on the passengers, chilled by a sense of elemental forc es at work in the boat, as well a3 all around1 them. Wet and chilled, and dazed by the suddenness of what had happened, they sat help lessly watching the little dark heads of the swimmers appearing and dis appearing in the swell. Heaving perilously in a cross sea, the boat went to meet them. Four of the six men were dragged gasp ing and dripping over the side. One of them was.Mr. Mills. The sixth man was nowhere in sight, but the fifth could be seen forty yards away. “He can’t make it!” someone said. Bridget tried to see; the man would sink away behind the swell, then be lifted high, struggling...... “It’s that flying chap!” shouted one of the men suddenly. “Him'witlj the one hand! It’s his one hand that’s stopping him!” The boat veered towards him, but was flung back °by a sea which drenched everyone with spray. Mr. Mills, coughing in the bot tom of the boat while his wife strip ped him, cried: “It’s Salt! He went over first—gave us the lead!” “Do something!—do something” Mrs. Garforth was half-weeping, wringing her hands. Bridget was silent, white as a sheet. The swimmer came into view; the boat was nearing him again. But now, as they looked, they could see him, not struggling any more, but washed helplessly in the trough of the seas. “You.........shouted one man. “Don’t leave him to drown like a rat! I’d get him myself, but I can’t swim!” A short, hatchet-faced man, one of those who had just come aboard, stood up, and a youngs steward, a thin boy with long hair, shouted that he would go; but the hatchet faced man pushed him back fiercely and plunged over the side. Eight minutes’ heartrending sus pense! The two men, now in sight, now lost in the surges; mixed ejacu lations of “Go to it, Joe!” “He’s got him!” “No, he ain’t!” and “They’re gone!” Boat and men were alongside at last. Hands, were reached down and dragged Mark Salt in, streaming water, limp as a sack. The hatchet faced man was hauled in after him, gasping and spitting, shaking with exhaustion and cold. The sixth man was lost! CHAPTER XXIV •' “My Husband” “One—two! One—two!” Painful Boils Bad Bload the Cause When boils start to break out on different -parte of the body it is an evidence that tile blood is loaded up with impurities. Just when' you think you are rid of one, another crops up, to take its place and prolong your misery. ‘ All the lancing and poulticing you may do wilt not stop more coming. Why not give that old, tellable, . blood purifying medicine Burdock Blood Bitters a chance io banish the bolfef Thousands havo used it for this purpose during the past 60 years. Take B.B.B. and get rid of the bad biood and the boils too. The* MUbufh Co-, todU IWomM CJflA Forward, the quartermaster was counting methodically us he applied artificial respiration to Mark Salt down in the bottom of the boat. “My husband,” thought Bridget in dull agony. “Oh, how strange it all is!” ' She couldn't even see him over the men’s heads.J “One—two! One—two!” the quartermastei’ was still counting. The passengers craned their necks to see what was going on. Joyce kept saying: “He’s dead, he’s dead—I know he’s dead!” Mr. Mills, the clergyman, >was sitting up beside his wife, wrapped in a dry coat and blankets. “Don’t worry, Miss Garforth, don’t worry/’ he ,,said, “they’ll bring him round. He gave us the lead. He’s in God’s hands. The captain ordered the men over, and Salt went first to give them the lead. I came too, but it was to get to.my wife!" and he patted her trembling hand. It went on and on. “One—two! One—two!” A murmur on the wind from the bows of the boat. A ration of rum was served out all round. Bridget could not drink hers, but sat holding the little tin cup with nerveless fingers. „The meagre boat floated there, under an oppressive pall of twilit clouds. The fog had gone, and the wind had taken on a whistling note. The poor sheep had all dis appeared. Ten minutes later’ the voices of the men working ovei’ Salt took a new tone. Soon one of them stood up and shouted to those behind: “He’s cornin’ out!” Aftei’ an interval, limp and white, his body wrapped in blankets, he was dragged aft over the thwarts and deposited among the passengers. The quartermaster followed him with a tot of rum. “Give him this,” he said. “He’ll be O.K. now!” Mr. Mills forced the rum between Salt’s lips; a lantern was passed over, for there was hardly light to see. ■ Bridget, peering over her- aunt’s shoulder, saw Salt’s eyes open wide. He was very blue, but he looked far from dead. He said something she didn’t hear. “No, you’re noUgone!” said Mr. Mills. “You’re right as rain, old man!—right as rain!” Bridget sat back on her thwart, and while ber aunt and others fuss ed over Salt, she turned her head towards the sea, and cried quietly, hidden by the falling dark. .Boat No. 3 manoeuvred near. The howl of the megaphone came through the wind: “We contacted ‘Gallegos’. Ex pects to arrive 7 a.m. Keep clear of the ice!” A cheei’ went up from .No. 1 boat. The light of No. 1 boat rode like a beacon of hope on the darkening sea, “Watch out for the easterly set and keep clear of the ice!” yelled the voice. “It’s my feet’s a bit cold,” said Grimson. “It’s the watei’ in the bottom of the boat.” Salt was sitting up between Col onel Kingsbridge and Mr. Mills i’l the stern. After a meal of biscuits and wa ter, the passengers settled down for the night, huddling under, coats and blankets, trying to keep warm. The maid, Grimson, had found a place on the thwart beside Brid get. There was something most miserably pathetic in the silence of this thin little woman, even her fear seemed voiceless out of respect for her betters. The sound of Salt’s voice talking to the men in the stern told her that he was recovering. Everyone was cheerful with the thought of the “Gallegos” being on the way. Once Mr. Mills leaned forward and touched Bridget on the shoulder and told her “Salt says you saved his life again!” “I?” “Yes, he says you- tied his life belt fpr him.” “If I hadn’t someone else would have!” The wind seemed to be louder, spray pattered, more frequently. “More wind now! Wind’s getting up, isn’t jt?” It was a .mjirmur echoed and re echoed among the huddled beings tossing in the dark. The boat’s en gine ticked over more hurriedly, giving the increased power needed to keep her head into the seas. Two hours later they were tossing madly drenched by rain now, as well as a continuous barrage of sipray borne by a shrieking northwest win'd. The light of number two boat was almost out of sight, and num ber three boat was growing distant on the right. Trying to edge over towards her, number one boat was caught abeam by a sea and was flung round on her course. No one was trying to sleep now, Mrs. Kingslake was moaning and crying with fear, *- “We’Ve only got to stick it out!" Mr. Mills kept telling her. “Noth ing to he alarmed about, The 'Gal legos' will be here at 7 a.m," But they never kept their ren dezvous with the “Gallegos." With in two hours all three boats were blown far and wide. At seven a.m. number one boat ^vas seven miles away, bucking along like a runa way horse in front of a scream ing gale, which carried the tops off the seas in one continuous sheet of spray. The men boiled, the wo men gripped theix* seats like help less riders tossed on a switchback. The iceberg was gone, the other boats were gone, and all chance of ever being, found by the “Gallegos” was gone/They had no wireless., To try to turn against the wind would have been to founder. They had no course but this mad ride into the succourless southeast toward the emptiness of the Antarctic. CHAPTER XXV far from of miles up theix* survived « pool’ made souls out creatui-es whom and preserved, in life of the Mills Prayer, and now jaws of from the “Humbly I i CANADIAN NATIONAL Stt «®0® ■®EVENHERBHI^Rh“^io“gof aU Canada s y’ j^eet Elsie the Cow c^a|jenge. action a’s women aremeetxng dance toSee howC^a 8WU>S Nayy Baxid an£ landing 860104 for w“ Exhibition you’ve. never swn be^ r. TORONTO * 1941 JOHN MILI AR JAMES C. SHEARER Fall Fair Dates Toronto (C.N.E.)...... Aug. 22-Sept. 6 Tavistock ....... ............. Sept. 5, 6 Brampton..................... Sept. 9, 10 Fergus ............. ......... Sept. 11, 12 Georgetown ......... . ...Sept. 12, 13 Glencoe ...................... Sept. 11, 12 Hanover........... . .......... Sept. 11, 12 Milverton ............. Sept. 11, 12 New Hamburg, ...........Sept. 1?', 13 Qslxawa ........................... Sept. 8-10 Tillsonburg .................... Sept. 8-10 Wiarton ..................... 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No. 1, DASHWOOD of all torments, thirst. Bridget fought’ suspense with an outward facetiousness. “Aunt Miriam,” she said, “if ever we get ashore, I’m not going to type for you any more. I’ve learned a lesson from all this. I’m going to get a job selling hot water bottles; I’ll never feel easy in my mind in future, unless I have a hot water bottle in reach. And I shall save and save, and when I’m fifty I shall found a Research Institute.” “What for?" asked Joyce wanly. “For research into h’pw to soften ship’s biscuits.” At this kind of laboured humor, Joyce would laugh,; and ■ even Mrs. Garforth’s spray-batterfed counten ance would quiver into a sad smile,, while Diana would say, “Oh, do' shut up!” with unexpected energy. It was wonderful to Bridget how all of them could sit cramped and damp for days, without becoming' actually ill. The desperate eagerr ness to survive, called forth a resis tance, unknown in ordinary life. Early on the morning of the sec ond day of their run fox’ land, the engine was stopped to save fuel for manoeuvring the boat wjhen they came to the coast and the men took the oars. They then had some three hundred miles to,go; the sea was moderate, the sky cloudy, and a light rain fell, filling the blan kets spread to catch it....... Hope rose high in everyone that • day, after two nights’ progress in fair weather; one of the stewards produced .a mouth organ, and the little boat laboured slowly the men sang, BUt in the later afternoon, northwest wind rose again and took them i talk and wonderful could still Five Hundred Miles to Go The lifeboat and its ghastly-look ing occupants floated undei' an J evening sky, where the reft clpuds showed the last rays of the sun, and the. wind had dropped to a quiet breeze; an enormous swell, last legacy of the storm, rolled in great surging fields of gray out of the west. Foi’ two nights and two days, they had run before the wind, stern awash, everyone soaked and shivering, expecting every moment to be7 their last; and now all help, and .hundreds from land, they offered thanks because they had so much. “We, the Thou hast holding our rescuing us tdeath,” read Mr. Book of Common present, ourselves again before Thy Divine Majesty, to o-ffer a sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving for that Thou heardest us when we called in our trouble.” Exausted, they uttered theii' Amen to Mr. Mills’ prayer, theii' hearts sick at the prospect that still remained. « The sight taken by Trennie, the second officer, when the sky clear ed for the first time, showed them to be in the '62nd degree of latitude, some 500 miles S.S.W. o,ff Cape Horn. To make that 500 odd miles, they had fuel for some 48 hours.' running at a speed of eight knots— the rest must be accomplished by sheer manpower on the oars, in this open, unprotected boat, in the face of probable gales and storms, across one of the worst seas in the world. Trennie stood up and explained what they were ’going to attempt— To all of them it seemed an appal ling undertaking, but at least it was a hope—their only hope; and after Mr. Mills had offered up his prayer the engine revved over, and the lifeboat headed into the north east over the slowly-travelling mountainland of the swell. The mere existence of hope show ed its inspiriting power,, and the worn-out creatures who < had lived through five years of anxiety in the last five days, began to even to laugh. To Bridget it seemed that the people about her retain theii* odd individuality. Mrs. Kingslake' refused to her condensed milk, and wept her biscuit; Joyce worried because she had no comb to get the tangles out of her matted hair, and Diana ! refused the one that Conners, the steward, found in his pocket. Mrs. Garforth wanted a pencil and paper, to write what, Bridget never dis covered. “Worse trips than this have been undertaken,” said Mr. Mills. "Bligh of the Bounty sailed three thousand miles in an open boat; and Captain . Slocum, you know, went round, the world single-handed. We have only to keep our spirits up!” Salt, sitting forward by the sec ond officer, had contracted cough through his adventure five days before, sat alternately coughing and pulling at an empty pipe; in the worst of the storm lie had shown an unmoved cheerfulness, bailing with a tin dish in his one hand, in spite of his weakened state. Had Bridget wished to speak as she had wanted to when they were parted on, the deck of the Melville, it would have been difficult to talk without being overheard. But pride had had time to resume its sway, closing her lips with sullen bitterness; better let him think as he chose about her, than that she should risk his disbelief again, she thought. In the meantime, liei* people at home in England must already be thinking hei* dead. To Bridget, young and robust, the misery of this thought outweighed 'the misery of cold, and w.et, and. fear. The inadequacy of the small portion of biscuit, bully beef, con densed milk and cold, water, which was the daily ration, began to be a gnawing discomfort. The twelve gallons of .water which had been in the boat when they started out, div* id^d dally among twenty-three people was getting very low, and coats, blankets, tarpaulins, anything that would hold it, were spread out to catch the ralii. That first night of the long fight back to land, there was no rain, and the comfort of getting dry at last Was mitigated by the. fear in every one’s mind that a few more days’ fine weather would mean no water-*-* they tvOuld be -faced With that worst eat over. i I back a hundred miles.-..,. (To be continued) ----------V---------- “I don’t see Charlie half as much I. used to.” “You should hayea;married him when you had thb chi .nee.” “I did.” I ; The World’s Finest Anthracite COUNTY CLERK’S SON GETS FREE VACATION Kenneth. - Miller, County Miller, legiate for a camping out under the auspices of the Ontario Athletic Association, one of six boys of the province to be given the outing. Ken was' a meniber of the Clinton Midgets Jiockey team, champions 1940-41. ---------V—------ young son of Clerk N. W. 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