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The story thus tap* Lesley Saun
ders takes a leave of absence from
her secretarial job in New York
following a siege of pneumonia and
takes a South American, steamer to
Guayalagos to visit her sister, whose
husband is a pilot for Bretf Haw
ley’s airline there. She is met at
the dock by one of the airport men,
Hennessey, and 'driving out to the
little “American colony” near the
field sbe sees the covered body of
a man being carried into
cottages, Horrified, she
press her curiosity when
Edifh, her sister, but
I
one of the
can’t sup-
she meets
if is her
■brother-in-law, Nick, who leads her
away from the others at the house
and explains that Red Waring,
whose wife is among them, was kill
ed during the night when he crash
ed in the mountains. He insists
that she must not mention the trag
edy; that she must conform to their
policy of staunchly ignoring dis
aster.
his1 plane the next
that night while 'he
the dark, houses, the
went to its regular
dance at Little
sullenly.
swell answer!
for the dead
the living feel
never
what
when
Brett
table
while
and
Hurpn,,
as they
winning
and the
Bayfield
CHAPTER II
Lesley discovered how soon the
dead were laid to rest and all fatal
accidents struck out of the conver
sation at the airport at Guayalagos.
Red Waring was killed Friday
night and his body recovered in the
wreckage of
morning. And
lay in one of
whole colony
Saturday night
Mama’s.
The only reference Lesley heard
,;to the wreck was when she was
dressing in her tiny room next to
Edith’s. She could 'hear Nick talk
ing through the flimsy wall and she
heard him tell his wife, “Brett
hasn’t told everybody yet. Maybe
he won’t. But when he examined
the gas tank on Red’s ship he found
it empty.!”
S'he heard Edith’s sharp breath.
"But Nick, he was not more than
seventy-five miles from here, and
he had gas enough for five hundred
miles!”
“I
didn’t
trying
know it,” Nick answered.
"Now we know that Red
crash accidentally. He was
to land in the fog.”
To Lesley the accident seemed
even more horrible now. To run out
of gas seventy-five miles after the
take-off. Even she knew there was
something wrong with that acci
dent!
At Little Mama’s a native band
was playing American-made rhum
bas and there was an air of Latin
gaiety. Everyone in the colony was
there and severed people from the
oil company. Mary Waring was the
only one absent,
the right to stay
Lesley met all
Barker, Who was
with a kind of careless, daring air
about him; Swede Nelson, who was
big and blond and never talked,
even when he drank; Ernie Smith,
who was ugly and likeable; Mur
ray, who was too handsome and a
little aloof, and, Of course, Hennes
sey, who came from Texas and was
reputed to be the best pilot south
of the Rio Grande. Except for
Brett Hawley. Swede and Ernie
were really mechanics, but they
Herg alone was
.home an'd weep,
the pilots; Jerry
small and. witty
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sometimes made emergency flights.
The other mechanics and ground
men were all native talent.
They gave her a rousing and
regal reception, foy a good-looking,
unmarried- American girl in 'Guaya-
Iagos was an event. Little Mama,
the mound of flushed flesh and
finery behind t,hq bar, set up
drinks in her honor and they drank
her a toast. Everybody was drink
ing tonight; even those who seldom
drank much. Of course, they all
did drink mere than they should.
They did nothing in moderation.
They were bush pilots; the pioneers
in their field with pioneer blood in
their veins and they could drink
harder and fly better in their old
crates than any Pilot at home who
jockeyed his big safe ship home on
a beam. Some of them couldn’t
have been pilots back in thq United
States, many of them had lost their
licenses. But a lot of them were
spread on all the frontiers of avia
tion, pushing their planes through
the bush, cutting new trails in the
sky, taking all the danger, because
they wanted to. They were the
breed of men who would
stay safe at home no matter
age they were born in.
Lesley felt all this vaguely
she got her first glimpse of
Hawley. She was sitting -at <a
with Nick and Jerry Barker
Edith danced with Murray,
when she looked up and saw some
one standing in the doorway, she
i knew at once who it wias.
■For a moment he stood, looking
over the room unsmilingly. He was
magnificent even in the worn
brown breeches and open-throated
shabby white shirt that he always
wore. There was a .sweep of power
to him, he was a man born to rule,
a “Man on Horseback” and he stoo'd
with his legs a little far apart and
his shoulders at a defiant angle. In
spite of his powerful body, 'however,
it was his dark face that gave the
real impression of strength. It was
a hard, well-cut face, under perfect
ly straight black hair and straight
black brows that repeated the line
of his mouth, His eyes were dark
and
way
had
him,
she had heard about him.
When , he came to their table,
Nick introduced them but before he
had time to sit down, Ernie came ■
up to him. “Brett, there’s some
body out here to see you,” and ’he
left them and went outside.
Lesley found herself 'talking to
Little Mama at the bar. The big'
woman laughed before every sen
tence; her heart belonged to all the
boys. “When I first come here, I
am Mrs. Little.” She chuckled.
“Then after awhile I am Mama Lit
tle. And then, because all the time
I get fatter and fatter, suddenly I
am Little Mama. Such a name . ■ .
for me!” She exploded into laugh-
ttr, and Lesley, laughing with her,
turned toward the doorway and
saw Brett Hawley come 'in again.
There was someone behind him. It
was Mr. Stearne, the silent -young
man on the boat!
He came into the room as though
he didn’t want to. Brett waved his
hands and said, “This is Jimmie
Stearne, our new pilot who just got
off the boat. Jim, this is everybody
in Guayalagos! You’ll have to
them for yourself.”
Everybody was friendly
him at first but he wouldn’t
and nobody could make him
Bayfield Celebration is Success
It was a glorious
at Bayfield* Th® sup
most 2,000 moihbers
Orapge Association
Perth and Bruce counties
“walked** to celebrate the
of the Battle of the Boyne
100th anniversary of the
Loyal Orange Lodge No. 24.
.For 100 years Bayfield has been
a citadel for Orangemen, and Thurs
day every Orangeman from all the
country around turned out with his
wife, family and friends to stage
an unforgettable demonstration, It
was the biggest "walk" ever held
in Bayfield, according to Frank
Elliott, age 81, whp attended his
first Bayfield "walk” clinging to
his mother’s hand 75 years ago.
i Thirty Lodges March
; Watched by an estimated 10,000
{Visitors, the parade, with its ban
ners and standards, brilliant in
orange and blue, took almost an
hour to pass a given point on the
great walk from the assembly point
at the agricultural grounds, to the
Clan Gregor Square in the centre
of the town. Thirty lodges from
as far away as. Listowel, led by the
Lucknow Pipe Band, marched to
the tune of fife and drum.
Prominent Orangemen gathered
at the speakers’ stand, and many
were the speeches of welcome and
tribute bo the glory of King Wil
liam. "Equal rights to all and spe
cial privileges, to none,” was the
treasurer of the Grand Lodge of
Ontario West, spoke of the part to
be played by the women of the
Ladies’ Orange Benevolent Associa-
tion in furthering the principles of
the order with “neither bigotry nor
intolerance.”
Archdeacon W. H, Townshend, i
of 'London, was also one of the out-I
spoken advocates of the principles i
of the society. He was born in
Bayfield, and from earliest child
hood the tenets of the Loyal Orange
Order had been instilled into him
by his father, one of the members
of “the local lodge. He exhorted all
Protestants and Orangemen to pre
serve Protestantism.
Loyal Orange Lodge No. 24 at
Bayfield, is the second oldest in
Ontario. It was organized by the
late Wellington W, Connor in 1845,
'and its first meetings were held in
the home of John Sherritt, a veter- •
an of the Papineau Rebellion. The
Bayfield Orange Hall
years ago, and since
tion has served as
centre.
Lodges Participating
alive and unswerving in the
they looked at anything. He
great .strength, and .looking at
Lesley understood the things
meet
with
smile
talk.
They bought him a few drinks and
gradually drifted away from him.
Lesley watched 'him With a sort
of morbid fascination. He seemed
to be suffering terribly, for no ap
parent reason. She wondered sud
denly if he were afraid. She won
dered if he knew liQ was filling
a dead man’s shoes . . , shoes that
were still warm.
She didn’t even notice when
Btett Hawley sat down at their
ta'ble again and started <a conver
sation with Nick. The .horror that
she had felt when she had first
heard of the crash began to come
back to her. This was a carnival
of death! Any of these men drink
ing here might be dead tomorrow.
And nobody cared!
choking
that she
been ill.
and she
She put
shoulders shook helplessly.
A voice ill her ear said, “Miss
Saunders, won’t you show me how
the rhumba is done in New York
now?” and ail arm lifted her out of
her seat before she even had time
to answer. She looked into Brett
Hawley’s face, expecting to see
sympathy there, thinking he was
sorry for her and trying to make
her feel better, instead he looked
angry.,
"I’ll give you till this dance is
over to stop that snivelling. Or else
you go homo.”
She stared at him, too shocked
tell her what he
the days went by,
resent his attitude
and because no one
the boy very much
a protective fond-
"PACH YEAR before the war, more than 150,000 people
thronged the Indianapolis Speedway to witness the
supreme test of tire mileage and safety, the annual 500-
mile race.
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SYNTHETIC
RUBBER
was built 80
its construe-’
a community
Orange lodges participating in
■the celebration, were as follows:
Lucknow, Amberley, Bethel (West
Bruce), Beulah (Listowel), Milver
ton, Listowel, (Atwood, Trowbridge,
Maple Leaf (West Monkton),
Third Concession (Derry L.O.L.),
Harriston, Lucknow, Blyth, Gorrie,
keynote of the speech of welcome ' Auburn, Newbridge, Belgrave, Blue-
iby the chairman of the day, the I vale, Exeter, Woodham, Hensall,
county master of the Orange lodges ] Victoria L.O.B.A,, Greenway, Huron
Lodge (L.O.B.A. Clinton), Murphy
Seaforth, Varna -F'uturu,
of Huron, H, Mervyn Hanley, tot
Clinton.
For Thomas Appleton, of the
Exeter Lodge, it was the 66th time
,he had "walked” on the glorious
12th, and for Thomas Culvert of
Dungannon it was the 72nd time.
Mr, Cuvert and Mr. Appleton
both
hale
two
the
9 0 years of age, and both
and hearty. They were
oldest Orangemen
gathering. Both
prize, because they had
recollection each only
“walk” on the 12th-
to illness.
are
are
the
at
the
Recently, under the supervision of the American Auto
mobile Association, Wilbur Shaw drove the 500 mile course
at an average speed of 100.34 miles per hour in a race car
equipped with STOCK Firestone synthetic rubber tires, the
same as you can buy at any Firestone Dealer’s*
Imagine the punishment those tires took as they pounded
over the rough brick and grinding asphalt,,. 500 miles at
speeds up to 135 miles per
hour... equal to 50,000 miles
of ordinary travelling!
When you buy new tires,
remembtw-—Firestones are the
only synthetic rubber tires
made that are safety-proved
on the speedway for your
protection on the highway.
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to answer, or to go on crying,
“That’s better,” he said. "Only
now I want a smile, Come on. You
know, you’re not doing anybody
any good. We could sit around the
coffin, too and talk about what a
great' guy he was, but would that
make Red any happier?”
She dropped her eyes before the
directness of his gaze. "I was
taught to have a little respect for
the dead,” she said
He said, "That’s a
What does respect
mean . . , making all
miserable? How do you know how
we all feel? I only know one w^y
to run this jungle airline, and this
is it.”
She said, "You’re hard, aren’t
you, Bretf Hawley?"
“Maybe I am. Anyway I’ve ec-
qpired the right outlook for this
place. And that is, it isn't impor
tant that men die if what they work
for is accomplished. We’re helping
to keep the vital oil that’s in this
ground for the countries of this
hemisphere, guarding it against the
greediness of a nation that has no
right to it. We have to stay here
and keep up that work. That’s
what’s important.” Then he looked
■contemptuously at Jimmie Stearne
as they danced past him. "And
don’t shed any tears for him. He’s
not worth one of them.”
“How can you say that?” she de
manded. "And why did you hire
him, if you think that?’
“He wrote down here two months
ago and asked for a job. I took him;
We -take what men we can get. But
I know who he is, and know that he
couldn’t get a job anywhere else.”
He wouldn’t
meant, but, as
she began to
toward- Jimmie,
seemed to like
she developed
uess for him. The unknown tragedy
that she felt was somewhere in his
life, became very Important to
Jimmie seemed to like her,
even with her he was quiet
reticent about himself.
Before a week was over, she
part of the life at the airport,
knew the schedule;
the weather reports
Little Mama’s every afternoon and
knew everybody by his first name.
Jerry Barker gave her a flying
lesson ail'd she developed <a deep
interest in planes, especially Win
dy’s experimental racing ship. Win
dy was the radio man. He wag 55
and he had been a good pilot once.
> He dreamt now of building a plane
that would break all existing speed
records. For the .last two years he
had been building it in his spare
time. It was almost finished. The
pilots would come in and shake
their heads and declare that they
would rather straddle a bullet than
take that rocket up. But Windy
didn’t care. He said he’d test it
himself. Nobody thought it would
really ever be finished. Windy
and 'Lesley got along fine, for she
loved to listen to his ideas about
speed ships and to his stories of
real pioneer flying. She spent a lot
of time in Windy’s little hangar or
up in the radio tower. The latter
adjoined Brett’s house which was
right on the field. There she saw
him often. She tried to dislike him.
But in spite of her 'dislike, there
was also admiration in her for
way he handled the mqn and
planes.
Edith worried about her.
talked to Nick about it one
ning when Lesley was up at
airport waiting for Jimipie to come
‘T’ni afraid if she stays here
her heart either
fellow or Brett,”
her.
■but
and
was
She
she followed
s'he went to
present
shared
in all their
missed one
•and that due
Nelson Cardiff Speaks
Nelson Cardiff, of Brussels, Con
servative member for North Huron,
spoke of the highest traditions of
the Orange Association and how
they must be applied to the reha
bilitation of the men who are re
turning 'daily from overseas. “It’s
a big contract,” he said, “a con
tract that each and every one of us
should have a, hand in to bring to a
successful conclusion.”
Mrs. Nellie Ryan,, deputy grand
Lo.dge,
Varna, and Bayfield.
The prize list follows: Best liter,
M. M cOort, Donegal; best 'drum
mer, Lindsay Slim, Bayfield; lodge
coming the longest distance, Har
riston; largest lodge, Murphy, of
Clinton; best-dressed ladies’ lodge,
'Lucan; best-dressed men’s lodge,
Woodham; best-decorated house,
Mrs. M. Gemeinhart. The honor of
being the oldest Orangemen partici
pating was shared by Thomas Cul
vert, Dungannon, and Thomas
pieton, Exeter, each being in
91st year.
The ball game scheduled for
evening was postponed because or
rain.
'Firestone batteries
over the rou5>b brick
A. O. Elliot
Dealers in Exeter
Graham Arthur
FORMER ELIMVILLE GIRL
MARRIED IN SARNIA
Street United Church,
decorated with palms, or-
was the
on June
of Miss
youngest
Leonard
for-
Ap
his
the
the end of 19 45, the war
cost every Canadian an
By
have
■timated $1300.
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will
es-
tlieColchicine, a drug with
strange ability to double or triple
the number of chromosomes in
most plants, is being investigated
by Canadian biologists.
AVANT OP WATER
MEANS LESS EGGS
Water for hens is an important
item in egg production, particularly
during hot weather Hens require
an abundance of clean, fresh watei
before them at all times, and espec
ially at laying time—the early
morning and. afternoon. Hens ’have
no sweat glands. They 'depend on
their lungs to throw off bocfy mois
ture. Prolonged lack of water en
tails parched lungs and suffering.
» Lack of sufficient fresh water (re
sults in lowered egg production,
and egg quality is lowered when
hens are forced to drink ’dirty stag
nant water. A hen seeks a (drink,
of water the first thing after leav
ing a nest and she will drink more
water when it is kept fresh than
when it is changed only once u
■day. Every egg is wanted to meet
the demand.
Total oasualites in Canada’s
■armed forces, as of May 31, 19 45
were 102,954.
the
tire
She
eve-
the
colonial
neckline,
•tapered
and the
style with sweet-
Her leg-o-mutton
to points over- her
fingertip veil was
with a crown of
•She wore silver
She felt the
sensation in her throat
hud known when she had
But this time it was tears
knew she couldn’t stop it.
her head down 'and her
in.
long she’ll break
over that Stearne
she worried.
"And what are
about if, darling?
Edith had a plan. "I met Miguel
del Santo yesterday down in the
plaZa and he mentioned seeing Les
ley. I-Ie’s very interested in meet
ing her.”
"So,” ,Nick cried. "You’re going
to do some match-making between
Lesley' and the wealthiest man this
side of Brazil!
interesting!”
(To Be
Lesley makes
That ought to be
Continued)
a hit with the senor
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Parker
Sarnia,
ange blossoms and roses
scene of a pretty wedding
30 th, for the marriage-
Thelma Alethea O’Reilly,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
O’Reilly, 256 Nielson street,
merly of Elimville, and Alfred Ed
gar (Buster) Belanger, eldest son
of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Belanger,
Waltham, Quebec. The Rev. J. N.
Gould officiated and the wedding
music was played by Mrs. H. Mor
ris. The .bride, given in marriage
by her father, Was lovely in a
white chiffon gown with lace in
serts,
heart
sleeves
wrists
held in place
matching chiffon. She wore silver
slippers and her only orament was
a three-strand pearl necklace, the
gift of the bridegroom. She carried
a bouquet of orange blossoms, red
roses and bouvardia with satin
streamers tied with forget-me-nots
and a white satin bow. Mrs. Maizie
Allison, of Toronto, matron-of-
honor, was attractive in a powder
blue taffeta gown with matching
headdress and shoulder-length veil,
and carried a bouquet of -pink roses
and White carnations. James Dunn.
Rose
groom, while Robert Chambers and
Keith
ed as
Miss Edra Woolly sang
For her daughter’s wedding,
O’Reilly chose a blue sheer dress
with White floral design, white ac
cessories, .
sweetpeas,
matron
rings,
■to the
and tq
tion tie and collar pin. Following
the ceremony a reception for 28
guests was held in the church base
ment after which the young couple
left bn a wedding trip to Toronto,
Ottawa and Waltham, Quebec, the
bride traveling in a lime green silk
jersey dress with white accessories
and orchid corsage. On their return
they will reside at SIS south Vidal
street. Miss O’Reilly was entertain
ed at six showers at which she re
ceived many lovely gifts.
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*Another Move Forward for Agriculture
street, assisted • the bride-
Johnston, Devine street, act-
ushers, During the ceremony
Because.”
Mrs.
and wore a corsage of
The bride’s gift to
of-lionor was silver
and the (bridegroom's
best man, a fountain
the ushers, a gold combine
the
ear-
gift
pen,
New developments in machinery have
always had a marked effect upon farm
ing. The reaper, the binder, the tractor
and power farming equipment, and the
combine all have helped farmers do their
work easier, quicker and more profitably.
The latest development in farm equip
ment, the self-propelled combine per
fected by Massey-Harris prior to the
war, has revolutionised harvesting. It
has also opened up new possibilities to
the implement engineer for developments
in other types, of farm machinery that
Will bring increased advantages in the
saving of time and labor.
With the MaBsEY-HarRiS self-pro
pelled combine, one man with the grain
tank model can harvest sixty acres and
upwards in a day. Costs are less, too,
because one motor operates the mecha
nism and propels the machine* Grain is
saved, none being knocked' down and
shelled in opening the field. Anyone who
can drive a car can learn to operate a
self-propelled combine.
Good farm management employs the
advantages of modern equipment to'
speed up the work, save labor, increase
production and lower production costs.
It is easier to farm profitably with good
equipment. Your local dealer will be
glad to give you full particulars about
tile self-propelled combine and Other
machines in the Massey-Harris line
engineered and built to meet the needs
of modern farming.
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