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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Signal, 1928-1-19, Page 6-Thursday, January 19, 1938. The Wreck of the "Redwing" By Beatrice Grimshaw t'w,tinued from last week) CHAPTER VII. • By this time the weather had begun to change. it was still bright. but a ,mart tweeze was springing up from a quarter unusual tit that tips. of year, the s.uthward. Now 1 tvuld cease • from the labor of paddling; could eft cross legged at my ease on the plat- form (,f the canoe, hold the sheet m my hand. and send ber flying. No na- tive mat it was that leaned and Krtattied afore us. but a good canons sprit sail which I had bent on myeeif only a feK defy5 Before. An outrigger canoe. with a good Safi, and a fair windlit one of Jho fastest things that x111 the tropic ocean. i.aurie, re- leased from enntealmeut, laughed with Joy as we leaned far over to the pure miff MOM l)es outrLuter IJflln and slap - Ping ping until she had to sit on the p forut-cdgo to prevent a cwpsiae. "Daddy Bertie." she cried, througa the noise of the sail and the sea, "you're the best man of them all, ex- eept 1'aul. I think." she added. with a sudden dart of Intuition, "I'll stop calling you Daddy from today. It ihwsn't se•t•tn te. ttt. You've grown all shouldery and br\\w'u and your face 1. ns'hard as teak. and there's not very much grey In van hair, when one rooks close at it ; it only seems grey. if ;you know what mean. I shall call you Bert, after th . . . . You've gat nice eyes. $•+tet- It wn, like poor Aunt :totem's. I don't wt der she was *peon, about you. No, uu needn't glare at me like thee yo 're not my tutor new'. and rel never in the schoolroom.. any more. of nurse I knew about you and Aunt. 1 Wilt turn knowing alt those things. "You were. indeed." I said. h ❑ilpg In Hie sheet a little. ("Keepour place; Its freshening . . •" ) •d, sine the relationship of tutor sad f 11 - NI Is at an end, 1 don't mind teltlt • Yon that I'm uncommonly glad to iio rid of the responsibility of keeping In - order a young Indy like yourself." "You talk like n tutor still." she said, making narrotti her eyes. "Do It" i answered her. 'Then i'll drop the habit, and tell you right not that you're the most dsnger'usly pretty ltttk devil I ever had anything to do with, and as full of mis.•hlef as an egg is full of meat; and If rani Bowen doesn't take yon on his voyages with him. he'll be like to knock your head off for you when he comes back from the first of them." Laurie gasped It little. I think she had never quite renllaeed there was a man beneath the tutor -shell. "I don't know how he's to do that," she parried, "when I'm not free to marry him or anyone." "Get this straight." 1 answered. "if i hadn't helped you and hindered Pas- coe. with that bit of stuff from the -oral reef. you would have bail to 1,•t the mirringe stand. for your rove sake. As it Js, there's no reason human or divine why you shouldn't pleats e•yer- -inn and get out of It at the first op-. Ilnrtnnitr.' YUtr--and'--Parti. Kent a little patience." "Patience!" Abe aati1 Rimed furi- ously. "If there's 5 vice In :hl+ world walking about " ander the 'name of a virtue, it's that. 1 hate pati•nc,..111.1 prudence. and taking etre, and all those told-iorridge qualities. llko 1 he -like the devil. If PIM] roosts rni M have them-" "Neither Paul. nor any other mon. Kill want you -to it• any'tlitngdiferen, from what you are. Laurie." "You talk. hilt gent know nothing"of me," she said. with those long litre braves of hers low drawn over her_ burning eyes. "More than yeti dream of-mneh more." 1 told her. And it tens true. For thn-Runt I hall been adding up an long was tMw all , but tanmiriete. "it only needed its ploof" to use n terra taken from the schoolroom that filed left iehind. her long body and fluent ilmbs stretched 'nflue outrigger. and one hand arched over her eyes. she wile staring at something that pricked end - misty up tont of green .1m11'ws a long way ahead "%-hot is that'!" she• asked nhniptly. I crafted round the Fall to look. "Why. It Is n wreck," I said. "Not the Suwon." 1 nailed, qulckly, "not nearly large enough --and there has been. no weftlher-" • ei didn't think it was the Susan," she said. And then as If changing the subject -•'Couldn't you get a little more speed on? i think we eould thresh another )calf knot out of her." "You'll tw teal( drowned 1( I do." "Very well. I've clothes .wlth me." I did not quite understaltd what she wonld he at, hitt I slacked the !beet a bit. The outrigger lifted and shipped worse than over; foam gabbled along the keel. We were certainly going. Laurie. half drenched, hay out along the logs. and said not 0 word. Her high spirits seemed to hare evaporated. We were itotng . full Mit; every- minute veryminute the wreck beenmc plainer. i (sludd now stew that It was a launch: e n foremost in Meer. *hallos Crater, and left three or four feet of her bows sticking up like a beacon. i ran the canoe ns,•losee as I dared. in order to read the lettering painted on the Mw. It was Natant), the name of ITerisl's fast launch. (loth of us, 1 think. suffered the same sickening throb of ttlsmay at that right. WP . "Stared tet emelt other with a wild surmise•' while the cantle, brought to, lay rock- ing cking and flapping on the ocean swells. Then T.aurle spoke. - "What's ilappenetl?" She sruefpwd it oat as if 1 were to blame. Her inns was white. ane! her breast heaving like the. u tlitifi_wavt•. "Tom )las tried to take flee narrow passage thrnngh 'this reef.".. told, " and he's. cut It too Ane.' with the tide." e ' We cool,/ wP(e the whole islay of tis Imnbeh, foreshortened. slanting away. below. In water clear as chrysolite. We eouhd nee s+•mefhing else. Myatt. anti about the launch, like n aenrry \keeping Ms rienrals, went ertese•1es+ly a ,tusky-green, long shape with cruel ri'ple. �ume in ret( that outrigger," i Feld, shary,ly. She tame. without parley or delay. One dote not trifle with the sea -t1 rs of Tortes. "Ree steads till I stand tip and look phot t," I told her. 1 nose to my feet on th gunwales of the ean.s.,and. balancing fere with the aid of the mast, 1 era Pd the briliant_see-plain all shalt ns, \ Small waves, innumer- ably rippling. t ei'edlbly blue; (-hips of white foam; a like spilled -pea - of stet -Ilse drift marlads-tont neve wide yellow stains P. where companies In uncountable a small, black swimming heed, ne er a sign of the isoys who had gelled •Ith Tom. or Of Tom himself. '110'S gone." i maid. 'That hrnte down tiere knows tett a ut it." "Gone!" she cried, with a note of terrnr on her 'voice. "Then -et -then-" "Don't think it." 1 intrrupted. "Don't eve fn, Laurie. We' do It Olirwetre'. We'11catch him." "How-- can-- yen3-_-Bow-tee (canoe-" "Flinty enough. Bowen only nn r- ty miles north np to last night, since h had to nal oft' and leave those Mim- i-spired ime-explreed lays. „ "11e was to amber at Two Brothers. It's also)? ten now, and Two Brothers is in sight ; we'll make it in annthet couple of hour.. Ily that time he'll he forty miles er sit ahead of us. and sty three ''eIotk he'll mnkr ihtni. Prob- ably rotably he won't start tip the Fly at that hour; he'll anchor 1111 next morning to get as much daylight as possible when -going up the river. We'll catch him, if this weather holds. I.r nine oiglock t. night, or nnyhow Nome time before sun -Up tomorrow. Don't worry, wed, do 1." "Do yon think sol Do ionr "1 know It;" "If I thought we shouldn't" she Mild. her face the (nine of the danrin_ t Jump overboard thn t-" pointing nt the gilding horr- underneath-"end end it all in ,., moment." "A lot of good you would do to anyone, wouldn't you?" 1 answered. flailiing on the sheet. "Don't sit otlt rm the pkltform again; It's not Ante, with these beggars rlewly-fedeabouh Ile. Just keep on the gunwale Now " ns The carver took the wind again. And went flying 1110 n bird neroes the 1 QUICKLY BANISHED "I suffered years of agony through blind itching piles," says Mrs. W. Hughes, of Hochelaga St., Montreal. "Pain, loss of strength, complete misery, was my daily lot until I came across Zam-Buk. I know now that there is nothing on earth e- . to equal this grand t>)erb healer. Since it lifted me from misery my earnest wish is to make Zam-Buk known tol Il sufferers," as. Dean Moves Pain Like Magid NA T /Rf Y ' °Rd/ BAI M THE SIGNAL, answered, cautiously hauling in the sheet. "When would he be all right again?" "You ask me antnethiug nobody rv,uld tell. Those poisons haven't been scien- tifically studied. He might be perfect- ly well. or he might be deed, or any- thing else to between." -'1 hope be's dead." "Ideertd would take a lot of killing; Tie's that kind." "I cern tell you one thing." she told, her eyes suddenly widening and fixing tltetii.a Ives in a curlous stare. "He wwl't diet/ quiet death, whether ft's tos. day or In ten years," -Well, certainly, his character and d.:it eti t "ltata about character. 1 feel it." "How do you hal It?" i asked, look- ing at her eurinnsly. 1 had never been bitten with the mania for occult studies that takes itttseesalotl, of 80 many; but In my reading 1 had stumbled semen things that set me thinking. tate of them was the fart that youths and young Innocent girls RV. into the future, at thorn. in a way to ustonlsli middle age. that has known. and forgotten. so much. The Power Is uncertain, and. at best, brief in its reign; but its existents, cannot be denied. Laurie looked at me out of the eoruer+ of her a+oeg, "i know," she "flew do you know?" "Conehits and 1-" "Well? "t`gtehita knows thlugs. with her-" "Yes," I thought, "you would. Well? I'm quite Interested," "We made all image of him." "Oh? Wax?" "No. Net wax. That wouldn't have done. %'e made it --of clay and bread." ---_ -_ "Why the bread'!" 1-2.air*. pislly Interested; the Itnnge• was of course I- get on MINIM GODERICH, ONT. familiar to soy student of anthropo- logy. but this seemed to be a variation from the commonepattern, -Comdata knotti. We made It. at night. In the buah-sed yes Wilt is na arrthlll "A running stream's the usual-" -elf (volt -set Ilut Colatitita, ktaotws more than that." -And do you- really---buI$ev thin charm of yours will wont? . '•1 don't believe, d tell you, 1 know." "Tet you were unt'otamooly glad to get the shellfish. charm oe no charm, and It didn't turn out badly." "Ah. hot." she said. seriously, "tbn- chlta's chlorin takes time -and there was no time" It was an extraordinary converse - Him for the plater and tevaston--two white people, in s ,cranky tithe, 011 005 of -the most dangerous narrow seas in the world, (drversing ellmly about witchcraft -rids ton. In the nineteenth century's latter end when wltehcraft Is supposed to be as dead as the• dodo. 1 thought. for a moment, that my own for T • 1 Imagination bad been touched by the strange, talk and surroundings, when I caught • glimpse of etrmething on Two. Brothers that looked almost like a woman; there where no woman could tta:tihl) be, sine* no m1e 11vtd, er lives today. ou that suustruek pile of Hon -colored rocks. "Did you sit•''" 1 loketl Laurie. She was taking ger turn at rolling the• 111114e•; she had not notecj au)' - thing. 1 ninlost thought 1 taw the figure of ■ n-omoit in a white dream." i said, "but I can't ser anything now." "%Viten• teas it:•" she aaktnl 'taring at the wnu-.-r shaped beach, with its piles of hare nock and scanty tufts of dark -grog bush.' Birds were planing slowly ohne the central dome of the lalsnd J a flurry of little ash made n sudden pattering and sparklinz in the shallows. ether life there was none. "You must have Imagined It; you luntglne all sortsof things 1n that great head of yours." mid Laurie. "Vie gut no head and no imagination, and 1'11 lw'ettr there's nothing on Two Brothers, except mnylse gh.sts-ghtets of people 011' wrecks, like the Red- wing." •',;lutets ,4 what?" "People isle oR wrecks. \)111' do 700 hook queer, Bert? What are wrecks to you?" -1 env e'nst'iuus of staring at her, Ili I e e 11 bat alwpy• seemed to me at curiously weak simile. but like a startled rant When you tome to think of it, the oto holds the record for staring. "N., more than they are to you." I found at last. ('She locant nothing," I asasred mystlf.1 I brought back the mnversetion to Two Brothers, with a %t rench. It must hare been imagination," I , aitowel. -11,. great head, as you no uuliabil' suggest." "i'nu're being sarcastic," she said. AcesCa! Cakes baked with Purity Flour keep fresh for three or four days. Purity is a vigorous, "dry ' flour that absorbs and holds more water or milk. Tasty cakes, rich pies, and large, light buns and bread are always yours when you use PURITY FLOUR Send 30c in stamps for oar 704reripe Purity Hoar Cook Book, 263 Weston (:.arta Floor Nide Co. Limited. Taroeto• series... Oa•w.. Beim John., "I know that by the way you lift your map 1 carried; nerapd over others. eye -brows. . . . Oh; Bert, Inert, to trusting to the light draught of the think rte taught we torso many years, and turned Inc gut knowing, nothing at all In the end." , "i did my hest." 1 assured her. "1 think that's a reef ahead; keep her 'R a toil." "We!I," she cold dreamily, her ryes fixed on the northern horizon. behind which burning Papula lay lilddeen-"I know one thing; I'm good for one thing. Bert." "Yes." I answered her, "and 1 did not testa] you that." Two Itr,•thers was hehlud. (ince. twice I turned, and looked at the rooky dntae� mt u,.,.l.•s,:nee el.orip_the lim-- greeeii, emlet}' shallows. I was sure, now. . that my eyes had misted me. Ilalf the Journey was over, we flew on, iu silent'. 1 will not tell how very weary we were. sun scorn heti and sea -battered, when, after dark, we glided. twaddling painfully. Into Iktru roadsteads. hWe had dente a feat that is nemem- tlered yet ---no [allele Inas ever ni11 a hundred miles so favi in Torres Straits the terrible. We had escaped must of the reefs, by the use of a nide o•anoe; guessed at tate position of Dart, i pocket compass helping out -and at bug last, we sighted the island Just be- fore Clark. It was easy after that. The wind was flying. but laturie and I took the paddle In turn. and got along sonte•how. ]hart same ilow•u qulckly; with telly the diet tamp of a trading !tom to guide us, he ran. tm a clear high Ilde, to the' beach, and felt the keel of the 4.11 floe kiss the welcome land. !loth of us stumbled, going up the '.asset. It had been a long, long day. . . , 'Fite light of Ike lone, trading stun• tmrnett-std m' :-a- swhlghng from invisible rafters. 1'uder- tooth. beside the counter, with Its 1.c1d f shilling knives, red collo.. head, and Mirrors. lay a white man, on a lounge, reading ancient newslwls•rs. At the sound of our feet on the steps, he Juniled up. and evilest! a shotgun. "Stop there." he shouted. We stop- ped. The man came forward aid peered cautiously-thrtaigh the doorway, hold - (Continued on page 7). Y Butt err, Noy, ■ proJet Het cultur wild l rttltl The Janus young Louis year. rya n- Afte W11110 away of the -u yes iia r Howl, pose l e power yule t nitie u At I .111111111 ter of Stool sept the t 11 red(' ersm i A 1 shin pers. at t" 11er ago. 4nnI pat' h wdi. , „f e; , 1t Th 'Blue pity ou a gs t't• toad CAIRO (IGYPT) CARNP AL r rr weever r rrrrrrrr rrrrrrrr rrrrrrr r rrrrrrrr r rr ��rrrrr r rr 11 t' e1a1 -tin unit Bier w blot dovish away from those threaten - fog green shallows with the sen tlRen standing by -"If you'll get nt some of the fond. we'll breakfast as beat tee con; we have herd work before us." No one who has not tried a Pnpnnn canoe, properly rigged, could 1011 , wheat a spoof! can be got out of the -e rough hollowed Ings, with their choosy platform and nntrigger. The wind frtevhenei n hit After we (eft the wreak of 1lerod's launch behind: within f$I' ?ern minutes, we were doting near fmtrtetn miles an hour. The twenty mile. to Two Brothers we covered in a isetple of bourn. It can be seen a long way off ; It is a curiously shapes) IsIflnd; liken gigantic clip sect npetlde down on et wide, flat saucer. You can not well mistake it. Imnrle and I. as the rental rnsh(sl nearer and nearer. strained our eyes for the Might of a ahlto-tw.Inted hall 1111,1 a maple of toil masts: tont not on one side of the Island, or the outer. wale the Qtisan * 1slble. "1 didn't think slur ,vwtl,1 he," i.enrls m11'11 e"t, sitiftirtg her ftnsltlntr---44tH had tome hack Into the canoe now, and was somewhat uneasily pereho4 on the narrow- ems. plank that makes np The .rating sovnmmntlstfnn of these roiteh little ,•rafts "i don't leulrites4' would nee the engine with a fate wind like thin, hit nnybow the Simian must • he doing (wren or eight knobs. 1)o yam think they'll have foetid him yet?" A bare evbltelaptllerlfa pr•nntwln was all the name she chose to use for Paseo* fn those days. 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