The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1941-09-04, Page 2THURSDAY, SEPT. 4th, 19U
jersey. She realized
he hadn’t wanted her
maimed arm.
he know I must have
it yesterday?” she thought
“A Cruise for Cinderella”
l?y Bentley Ridge
Another
tossed it up,
herself -'in
THE EXETER TIMES’AOVOCATE
wave
, and
icy,
like
life-
•She hesitated to jump tn the rock,
waiting for Salt, He lifted the bag
of biscuit and flung it on. the rock.
"The boat went -down again, filling
with water through a rent at the
keel; it was- caught by another bil
low veering sideways, tossed in the
air, and washed back into the tur
bulent channel,
eaught it abeam,
turned it over.
Bridget found
swirling darkness, and ^hot up
a cork with the force of her
belt. A few yards to her right the
lifeboat floated upside down in a lit
ter of wreckage. Salt xvas there
clinging to it with his one hand.
She had swept down to it, grabbed
it, and they and the boat were lifted
by a xvaVe and flung on into the tide
running into the inlet.
“Hang on!” she heard Salt shout.
She hung on. The boat swept on
into the inlet, it sailed round a bend;
there were cliffs on either side,
and snoxv glimmering high up
against the sky. No chance of land
ing showed on either side, the cur
rent hurried them atom
lagged heads, of rocks
water; billows from the
spent waves of water
rapidly-drifting boat,
Weakened, exhausted,
g so fast;
broke the
sea fled in
before the
membered that a week before she
had seen Salt wrapping a box at
matches ip. a piece of oilskin to
keep them dry, in case any need
arose for them............
iShe stumbled back to him, search
ed his pockets, and found the little
packet ln‘ his coat. The matches
were soaked despite the oilskin.
She found a place among the
stones and laid them out to dry.
Scrambling for wood at the foot
of the cliff, a sweet smell struck
her nostrils, and she saw before
her a small tree covered with wax
en white blossoms. She stood and
stared, like someone seeing a mir
acle. And then beyond the tree she
saxv a shallow cave, a hollow face |
of the cliff, about three feet deep,
and ten feet long. The sun stream
ed into! it, and it looked as dry as a
bone.
She piled her wood in front of it,
then took off her tweed coat and
cardigan, and hung them on a bush
in front of the eave to dry in the
sun....,—Then she
back to the shore.
Salt had rolled
had left him, and
side. He groaned
his shoulders,
him up the beach towards the cave.
Resting every few yards to get her
breath, she got him there at last,
and laid him down on the warm
rock in the sun. She took off some
of his wet clothes and chafed his
body. But then the sun began to
fade, and she
ches, put her
and stumbled
With dried
built up a roaring fire before
cave, before night fell, She spread
his clothes to dry over the edge of
the cave, in the heat of the
and then sat there in the flow,
aching body expanded to
xvatmth.
Salt coughed and groaned.
wealcly hurried.
over since she
noxv lay on his
when she lifted
and began to drag
Salt. “Kick!”
wildly, trying
away 'towards
their fight, but
on
to
the
the
almost par
alysed xvith cold, they clung to the
boat while the current carried them
half a mile, a mile..,...Mountains rose
on either side, cliffs near at hand,
a low beach was visible.
Then they saw rocks coming
the far side.
“Kick!” said
They kicked
steer the boat
clear water on
boat sbun round, the current car
ried them in, the water* r.oared round
half-submerged rocks, guarding a
stony shore beyond. Bridget scream
ed, Salt xvas, flung round against a
Salt was
rock, struck
and his hold
Bridget let
grabbed him;
the waves washed them past the
rocks. She kicked out desperately
for the shore, something tangled
in her legs, sea-xveed long and hair
like; then she found herself clear
and floating in calm, shallow xvater;
she struck out with her legs,, and
towing Salt on his back, .pushed
herself in until her feet found land.
Panting, shivering, exhausted, she
•dragged Salt onto the shingle beach.
* *'
She looked about, her in an ut
ter silence of snow-topped hills,
backed by other and higher, frozen
peaks; a desolate shore, and- a
hurrying tide on which the white
dot of the capsized lifeboat drifted
rapidly out of sight. She went down
on her knees and made cretain that
Salt was breathing, took off his life
belt, and chafed his hands..
His eyes were closed. He never
moved.
At the end of hei* endurance, she
sank down on the stones beside him,
and lay there nerveless, hopeless,
mindless.
She must have rested for almost
half an hour before she began to be
aware of the sun. on her back,
warming her through her soaked
clothing, and it brought her back
to herself, and the realization of
life still to be lived,
Sunshine—warmth.. Here it
quiet, calm, silent; no noisy,
.tering sea.
She sat up. .Salt’s eyes were
flung round against a
the back of his head,
on the boat fell away,
go of the boat and
the boat rushed away,
remembered the mat
damp coat over
hastily away,
sticks and moss,
him
she
the
I
fire,
Her
the
A
little voice of agony kept saying in
teplh
the midst of
sleepiness:
“Don’t die!
She would
lonely.
seeasds.i
her overwhelming
Please
be
don’t die!”
so (intolerably
Ht ‘4:
*•
was
bat-
half”
•open now, gleaming queerly under
the lids. She put her hand on him,
and he stirred slightly and groaned.
She got up stiffly, and Walked
towards the broken cliff behind;
Where the beach ran back into a
kind of gully there were trees—
wood. Looking along the shore, she
saw drift wood tod. Water run
ning out of the gully gurgled among
the stones; she scrambled to it, and*
-tasted it. Fresh water.
“Tierra rel Fuego — Land of
Hires.” 'She remembered Salt saying
that, centuries ago it seemed, be
fore the Melville sank. She would
light a fire and get him dry.
And her heart gave its first little
leap of returning energy as she re
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Inttld sicknesses and ailments aeein
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seemed to hesitate, and said;
“No. not yet. X’h -change it later.
Could you get me some water?'*
She went foi' the water, and when
she came back, he had changed into
the other
then, that
to see his
“Doesn’t
seen
pain^ly.
He was just something' human
which had to be helped, nursed
back to strength. She made a pile
of dry moss and propped him up on
it, and built up the fire until the
sun should creep round and warm
the cave.
She went away and collected more
mussels and put them in the ashes
to open. She persuaded him to eat
a little, and then she sat down and
proceeded to sharpen the end of a
clij) which had remained in her
hair.
“What are you doing?” he asked.
“I’m making a fish hook to try
to catch fish,” she replied smiling.
iShe saw him gazing at her, his
eyes alive in spite of his physical
weakness, and colored, because she
suddenly xvondered what she looked
like. She could feel her hair stand
ing out, all matted on, her head.
She stole away a moment or two
later, and washed her face in the
stream and dried it on a garment
she had taken off to dry on the
previous day. She rinsed the salt out
of her hair and ’combed it through
With her fingers, and let it dry in
the wind. The permanent wave
made it fluff into a cloud.
She sang a song as she collected
xvood, and made the fire, and talk
ed to him icheerfully about how
they might make their way doxvn
the inlet and rejoin the others or
perhaps find ' settlers or Indians
nearby.
A smile came over his face when
she resumed the business of shar-
. pening her hair -clip, As she talk
ed she was conscious that his eyes
were on her. Soon the sun flood
ed in, and he dropped into a doze;
aching weariness overwhelmed her
too, and she lay down also arid slept.
When she wakened it was noon and
he was gone.
Later, when she overtook him
along the shore, he said:
“We must climb that cliff behind
and see what we can see,”
“People wlio have had a bang
on the head are supposed to, keep
quiet and rest!” she told him/
“That doesn’t apply to me, my
girl!’’the said, and she knew he was
himself again. »
It was he who collected the mus
sels for their midday meal, and
they made a hearty meal of them.
He set about devising shoes for
. -them out of tough bark, bound on
to their feet' with strips of rag. Af
terwards they made their way up
through the woods, dense and dark
and rotting, dripping with damp.1
He showed her big circular fungus
growing on the branches of the
gale-twisted trees.
“The Indians eat those. It’s use
ful that I had to read the literature
of this part of the world in order
to impart it to you people on the
ship!”
They climbed, stopping now ^nd
again to rest, until all .about them
were the snow -covered peaks, with
the inlet far below winding away
to the open sea.
The mouth was hidden by the'
hump Of a bald hill; nowhere, in
that vast panorama, was there sight
or sign of man. - .
Both were occupied then with
one thought—how to get out.
They talked without restraint of
their chances.
“We mustn’t be in. too much hur
ry,” Salt said. “We’ve got to rest
here and get fit and equip ourselves.
It may take us weeks, .possibly, to
get to any settlement.”
At sunset a bitter wind got up,
and rain storms hid
tops in hurrying veils of grey,
fire had to be lighted on the floor
of the cave itself to prevent it from
being damped out, and they sat
with their backs against the xvall
j all night, Vain dripping doxvn two
I
chill light of
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She awakened in the
an early daxvn, cold to the bone and
in a torment of hunger. The fire
had died down, and'Balt lay so still
with the pale dawn light on his face.
Fcfod Was the first consideration,
and after replenisning the fire
without disturbing Salt, Bridget
made her way down the bea'ch.
On the right the cliff came doxvn
and ended in a tumble of rocks
against which she and Salt had
been washed on the previous day.
She .-climbed out on the rocks to
wards the deep water—and it xvas
then that she saw the mussels in
shallow pool. Hundreds and
hundreds of closely clinging mus
sels,, their shells gleaming black
ish blue. . . • •
In an instant she was -pulling at
those nearest her; they clung so
hard that she had to smash them
away with a piece of rock, and
there was no opening them.
She took off her cardigan, spread
it out and threw a dozen or so into
it, then gathered them up, and
scrambled back up the beach to the
fire. She flung them down into the
hot ashes on the edge, and waited-
for them to open.
• <So intent was she that She did
not notice Salt sitting up, watching
her. 1
/
CHAPTER XXVIII
Back to Life
I get a knock or
*$ alt’s voice, weak
drew her attention.
were thrown against a
some-
and
the mountain
The
“Did.
thing?”
puzzled,
“You
rock,' t__
here. We have food too—
thousands of mussels. I
found them.”
He lay back weakly and
eyes. ‘
/‘We’re aloneJ here?”
“Yes,” she said. “Alone.”
The word echoed in her mind as
she scraped for mussels in the ash
es, repressed her repulsion and ate
them, after he had refused to eat.
The fire* leapt up xvarming her, and
the majestic snows glowed with the
promise of a beautiful day. New
strength and life crept through her,
and with It a sudden, recollection of
other things than the primitive ne
cessity of scraping an existence.
They were saved, and sooner
Hater they would find their way
icivilizatiom
“Is this your jersey I’m wearing?”
he asked,
“It’s very small for you, but yours
Was wet.”
He turned his head.
“But what have you got?”
"I have my cardigan,
sweater is dry now. You’d
put it on. That must be very tight
and uncomfortable,”
The food had made a great dif*
feronee to her, She took his sweat
er to him, and would have helped balance, and fell back’in a fright,
to put it on; but he took It from zpropping herself on her elbow on
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But the realities of the situation
between them could not be kept
out of their minds for ever; next
day when the sky had cleared, per
sonal recollections were disturb
ingly vivid in Bridget’s mind.
To judge by his preoccupied ex
pression, she knew that he too was
remembering and' thinking, as they
sat by the fire, waiting While some
of the fungi he had brought from
the woods, xvas baked in the ashes.
CHAPTER XXIX
“You—In Love With Me?”
“Well, I suppose one of as must
risk it,” said Salt xvitli a wry
smile when the leathery morsels
of fungi lay raked out of the ashes
before them, t
He put out bls hand’ to take one,
but Bridget, with an impulse more
lively than heroic, snatched up a
* scrap and put it in her mouth.
She swallowed it, shut her eyes,
clasped her arms over her middle,
and said.;
“Now wait ha,l£ an hour,1' and see
whether I die, and if I don’t then all
will be well.”
Before she knew what was hap
pening, his hand was gripping her
shoulder and shaking her, ■'as she
sat; she opened her eyes, lost her
the ground. His eyes blazed with •
certainty, and his hand gripped '
her shoulder still, as though he
xvould wrest the truth from her.
His voice was tense:
“You didn’t take Mrs. Wert
heim’s pearls, did you?”
She gazed at him astounded, all
the perfect'- innocence of her heart
looked out at him from her eyes.
“No!”'The xvord fell from her
softly.
It was strange as she looked at
him to see in anyone’s face such a
mixture of extraordinary
and extraordinary pain.
“I never saw them until
put of the lining of that
suppose someone may have put them
there to hide them,” she said faint-
and her voice quivered With
ended: “I only told you
I daresay I’m a fool—
lots of ways—but I’m
pleasure,
they fell
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pain as she
the truth,
an idiot in
■not a liar.”
He said-with an odd look in his
face:
“Arabia Deserta!”
“Is that—Latin—or something?”
Her laugh was bewildered.
“No, 'Arabia Desterta’, the name
of a book—I don’t suppose
heard of it though?”
“Yes, I have. That one
had on the deck, belonging'
Marcus. Do you remembei* you.
asked.if I’d seen it?’.’
Hei* voice died. Why did he
talk about that, she wondered xvild-''
ly? Was it nothing to iijm that he
had disbelieved her for so long?
.But his next words enlightened her.
r “Joyce, of course,” he said With
w, bitter little Jaugh, “I might have
known. I thought you’d lied, that
it was you who
book.”
“Joyce said I
“Yes. It was
made me mistrust you,
He rose to his feet suddenly, as
though to escape the intolerable.
He xvalked away. She wondered
where he was going.' He scooped
up an armful of wood- and brought it
to the fire. Then he sat down
again, leaning his back against the
rock, a
rHis face
thought.
Doubt
fused ‘ turmoil of her
ready.
you’ve
Joyce
to Sir
had ^picked up the
it
had taken it?”
a trivial thing,
fl
but
few feet away from her.
was a mask of intensive
had crept into the con-
mind al-
(To be Continued)
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A. Mi POWELL, PRESIDENT
R.A.F. SCHOOL COMMAND
AT PT. ALBERT CHANGES
Gi’oup Captain P. D. Robertson Bids
Farewell. to Staff; is Succeeded
by Group Captain R* L. Crofton,
Recent Arrival from England
FOR 1.942 PROV. PLOWING
‘ . MATCH IN HURON
A meeting of the general commit
tee in charge of the International
Plowing Match to be held in Huron
county in- 19 42 xvas held in. the
agricultural board room at Clin
ton on Wednesday evening of last
week. Chairman of the general
committee, J. D. Thomas, of Goder
ich, presided.
Hugh Hill, Colborne, vice-chair-'
mnn of the general committee was
appointed to assume the additional
duties of chairman of finance. Ross
.Scott, Brucefielri, and Morton Reid,
Seaforth,. were added to Mr, Ross
McGregor’s billeting committee;
Thomas, Pryde, Exeter, coordinator
of five important committees, re
signed. His successoi* will be named
by the executive. Mr. Pryde, who
served with, the Royal Air Force in
the Great W.ar, has enlisted for ser-,
vice-with the R.C.A.F. In a motion'
by L. E. 'Cardiff and J. M. Eckert,'
the secretary was instructed to
write to Mr. Pryde, extending the,
good wishes of the committee for a
safe return from his duties.
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A change of command xvent into
effect today at No. 3 Air Navigation
'School, R.A.F.J Port Albert. Group
'Captain R. L. Crofton, M.B.E.,
A.F.C., a recent arrival from Eng
land, succeeding Group Captain P.
D. Rob.ertson, A.M., who has been
transferred to * British Columbia;
where he Will take charge of Com
monwealth Air Training School.
Group Captain Cobertson has
been O.C. of the Port Albert school
since its inception last October and
was a genoral favorite with liis men.
“In saying good-bye, I wish all
ranks the best of luck. My period
of command in this school has been-
an honor which I Shall never for
get,” he said in parting. “The
school has now reached maturity af-
ter many vicissitudes and we have
won through to the maximum ef
fort only because of the fine team
Spirit of all ranks and a common
determination that ours shall be the
best unit in- the finest
world.”
The appointment
Leader 0. 0. Mosse,
jtttant of the Port Albert station,
also ha§ been posted; He lias seen
active army service in India, id
the Great War and in Mespotamia
and Persia, and was wounded cm
two occasions, xvas mentioned In
dispatches four times and was
awarded the Military Cross, in
March, 1940 he joined the Royal
Air Fbree Volunteer Reserve, Ad-
ministration Branch.
service in. the
of Squadron
M.U., as ad-
Equipment Purchased
J. M. Eckert, chairman of main
tenance committee, reported that.
the Huron county council has pur
chased the salvaged material and
equipment from the 1940 match at
-St.. Thomas and that it’ is safely
stored in Hullett and adequately in
sured. It was' decided to write a
letter of -thanks to the council.
. Three members of the executive
will be appointed to attend the 1941
International at Peterborough a’s
the official delegation from Huron.
Wilmot, Haacke, chairman Of the
grounds committee was instructed
to have a blueprint of the ‘match
site prepared. The condition of the
toxvnsliip roads xvas an important
subject of discussion., George Fea-
gan, chairman of the traffic com
mittee has the matter well in hand
and’splendid progress’by the town
ship councils of McKillop and
lett is reported.
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Vice-Pres.f...... T. G. BALLANTYNE
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JOHN HACKNEY ... Kirkton R. 1
ANGUS SINCLAIR ... Mitchell R. 1
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Hul-
itGives Valuable Advice
Jack Wilson,\ secretary of
Milk Control Board of Ontario,
was secretary, for the local committee in 193 i‘ when the big match
was last held in Peterborough, was
present and gave the committee
the benefit of* an outline of their
organization at that match. He also
offered many, valuable suggestions,
Mr, Thomas, in his opening ad
dress, suggested that the present
officers or their successors be re
appointed at a meeting this Rail.
Mr. Thomas also gave the com
mittee an outline of the reception
of the Huron delegation at the an
nual meeting ol the Ontario Plow
men’s Association held in Toronto
hi -February last.
the
who -V-
Two actors who wore jealous of
each other-met in a pub. They ex
changed frigid nods,
“How are yon getting along?”
asked one presently,
“pretty well/’ replied
“Still keeping alive,”
The first., mun eyed
steadily for a second and
od icasually. “What’s your motive?”
the other.
his rival
then ask-*