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Beatrice Grimshaw
O11APT1s`at IX.
Again 1 take up the tale as told to
me by others.
Whets Susan Pascoe left Farewell
island for Thursday. un the morning
that seemed so Meg ago, and was yet
but a few weeks past, she waw not
troubled about Pascoe and bis strange
manure, as she bad brew whine little
while before. He had been unusually
kind to her; bad done all be could to
wipe out any unbappy impression be
gilt have made by his brusqueness
w herself, or too-intereeted way
' Sete wee. He had giveu her some
coutld •tial businees to carry out for
him at istaud--i matter of money
tnvesee n had told her to be aure
tt and see th doctor about ber bead-
eebes as soon a she arrived; to stay
at the hest of t t hotels, and buy any-
thing she etude from the (Menem
and Japanese store
Butyn, wbo kept br M the flame of
ci ber loyalty to Herod, brough every
----bled- of unkindness. or selectmen*,
was touched by all this eo Ideration,
the more because it was n, usual.
She bed seen no very pressin" reason
for leaving Farewell at that 11 but
was content to take bis verdlet a W
tbe importance of the bank bust
and more than content to be so highs
trusted. Herod was not mutt in the
way of eoutiding his money affairs to
his wife. .
So It was with a comparatively Light
begirt that she set out in the launch,
ber only trouble being the certainty
that sbe would before long be eeeeed-
tngly sick in the way of those who nae
—but not too often—tbe sea.
She was very sick. Susan Pascoe
bad always been tbs.-worst of sailors,
and that day was among the or for Beery day she w'ed up and down
any sort of sailor that the islands had the open part of the vb, and larked
known for weeks. She became almost for mile; but none c• •t Once or
collapsed after a while, and was bare- twice she sighted a native •anoe• in the
ly capable of noticing that Tom, tbe distance. She could not nderstand
black captain, had steered the launch why no canoe ever ran ne." er than t
far out of ber natal course for Thane half -a -mile or a, to the isl . • ; she
day Island. By and by she summoned was almost wen• »Ice mart have been ;
up enough force to ark bile about the seen, two or.tbree times, but n(+ dy
matter. took any noti,e "f her frantic ha
"1 savvy my, bushes*, 1[bssna," be and arm waving...' She had turned he
answered rudely. And no other reply ankle among the rocks it gave her
would he glee. • Lying anyone -The sea- trouble at times, and she eould not
drenched cushions, upon the pitch- walk easily, but stumbled along in the
tog der<k, •sin• sew. With eves that could sand.
scarcely raise their lids, the forme of fico• day she- saw a canoe rigged.
unfamiliar islands loom, pass by and with a hermit: it stood far(—Wellllnit --
disappear. She says that this did not ran extremely fast. Site almost fan -
frighten Her greatly. She only thuugbt sled—but that mast bare been non -
that Tom was taking too much upon setter on
himself; wondered If be really knew it. Whatever it was, she was anxious
tbe best way to make for Thursday In to attract attention from it: so Phe
such weather; and was content to let ran (lard, waving her arms until her
tbe matter go. _ weak ankle gave way. flinging her
The day palmed; her agonies in- down on the ground behind a masa of
messed es time wore on. Sbe could nicks. She could not get up for some
al think of nothing tett the heave and minutes; and when she rotse again, the
horrible away of tbe rall, the climbing canoe --ao fast it travetlad—was el-
and stabbing of the bow, as it reared nowt our of right.
Sato heaven, and then sank, taking This w'aa the firer misfortune. The
with it, apperetrtly, every tormented next was worse. Water begun to fall.
organ in her shaken, oufering body. She had been In th+' habit of drink -
She remembers seeing. In the light of ing daily (runt a tittle pool deep among
afternoon, a tail island shaped 11k4 a ' the• rusks chat .Ketaeet to be fed
cup met upside down on a saucer, OR ; ewe-
ru•in from above.hett
the not fat off' horizon.. Then' there ruin. or eery little, elute ! , 'UI she came re been llo
was a frightful roll of the Munch; she d
Salt here.
the to leewanl, end the lslitnd, rind now, after a good
many du. th
called Tont to replace her on ber the pool Is•t:u, to do up.
cushions. She dud ,not know ; elle saw that she must die of thirst
what fin ?see if nothing happened, and she was
l,pene'! ne;t. There wa. a i almost g1;,,1 ,, that. though she had
moment's anguished terror, masr,•ring heard that death by thirst 1s painful.
r—en • i _ his tormented her so
tpwash of cold wares—et Med gnat. -
thus site . ,u d not.
ing at hands that r tune t t ; • ,
eptrlRed end bore it.
en
Ler down on lot otherdarkness
ad died o those from human
:t a thortght that
that Nos pad ;. that It is impossible to tell those who
she wast bare never ykut the dark hours swiss
ktud what night (some
gr'M gates that all men tear. There i
was in her mind a cenantion of almost to the ...•!star, to the ,its way.uwe
triumph, in that it was no woe- places, ((beet all to the l ataway.,
Light smote ber lout 1 Lard. hot. glaring; day
eyes. ,SOmethlr:c .a•nrrhe. •rhe cruder skin, shows, with
touched her body, bruahingtlt from
underneath. She trwayed alsntt : ; merciless clearness, all and empty lone.
again rhe struck. sensation began r„ liu.•ss ••1 -ea 1111,1 sky and sand. Ily
return. She O t1i - ;it, bind- that are free to thy,
pend her etre. fully teat
Plane low overhead, as if they
and saw that she wets lying under the lenY w au11 m.,eked at ooe'a ham,
sky, with shallow sea !lowing mese -•r1 `—
her. Again the water came and lifted
P,^ones., hpttitp rutin and. wing-
rn- -
her, carrying her some way before It ing settle far. for out to see Lay
set her down. it M•lpert her to raise seta the shipwrecked to a hundred
,crap tank,+: gathering wood,
fetching water, seeking food in the see
and out of It, a servitude that never
e�n1?E sleeks or ceases; day brings strange
IILat:ddent, there far removed
from help; nes kee 'I letefeleeererr-----
rihle, an l wbiapera ugly warnings
about dlifs and pools. Lay 1e a
misery—hut night is horror.
tun. h- afraid. 01111 uta' (:u1114t name
or identify the fear, so kb to tike it by
the throat, and crust the life out of it.
It seems unreesonahle. lanes not
every city bold a hundred dangers, for
; one npon u desert Island? liens there
are no hurglars, no flying cars, to tweet
Ione at s dusky street corner, and wipe
lly lite out of one, as a stamping foot
wipes out the life of a beetle. Here is
nn diem.' that lurks unseen. mote
' perilous by far than talef or acr•Ident;
' hore there are no wild levies, to leap
- behind two Wow of glowing eyes, and
send death burtling through the dark.
i i►esert isles are barren ;'where there
la
balminess, there 1s no life. What
could be safer?
Yet. always, In the dark. or by the
light of feeble homemade lamps, the
e*Ptaway shrinks, and wishes it were
day. P'or risers 1s that In the dark to
which he eta give no name; before
wh4M inessafty, since the dawn of
ennsclousneen, ha* cowered. Alt the
lig'hti a shies, the musk- and merri-
ment, are just so many ways of
whistling to it *op Trp the spirit of the
rnrm, In the dark that is always, sit
the sato... chore. . ,
RUMS, in those days upon Two Bro-
thers, had nearly hoot her 'ergine,
patient mind. It nothing bad bap-
ptetled to take her out of herself—
But snmathing did happen. The
canoe cams.
elnt a carne to tate her Rafe away to
Mendel or Tarewell; maimed by
aotive dart people, able to crow the
was. Just a *small fishing canoe, gore
adrift as ao many fishing epee., go;
floeMag
afIlleasty shout the shallow
Torre* arae, 1/11t11 ft came to Two Bro•
Huth mad was taught ap by the heal
eerreab, sad goever d, like bought
her head; she sot up, iu the midst of
lee 'moving tide, dust saw 10 fn,at of
H er a atony yellow teach; a talc, nar-
row hill; *mptluess, :,Dud and w'a.
She drew herself further, *ntu(1 tip,
and waded usbore. site was weak,
and felt that someiheatteustihuppened;
but 1t was some tine before the re-
called the launch. the sickness, the
rolling over into deep, wild water.
Seen then, she did not quite under- r
stand; obs only knew that she had,
somehow, been washed to an island,
that she was certainly not dead, or
likely to die, and Mat there was not e
anywhere at all a trace of the hunch
or of Tom,
'It was Two Brothers upon w'hkh a
she bad beau cast away ; and a w,.rse k
selection the Fors could hardly have a
trade. Tber.' 1, no pertnan'af water
on the plane, and very ;lute 1❑ the oat'
of shellfish. only the fart shut turtles h
were laying just then. and that there
had leen r..•.'nt rain. kept octant
froti cling of tlir-t :sad'tungcr'Ate
bad no meet, or-mairistaettoesee her,
BO sats for a shelter. She (Teti atl-
night, and in the neat of day, Into the
crannies of the rocks, thankful for
even so leech comfort ; thaukful that.
at least, she had eau cold to fate. that
there were no uatiree ou those far-out;—
rreu island, tier in those de's, the
of Torres :emits were little to
sted), thankful that she could
• • from the eggs in the turtle
inee she wit, not young or
gh to lame captured birds.
a -Holing. Those who have
r 1) 144)). 111 .114'11 pt:t,ws as
u,•w' how' litt:c. in any
r can depend on that
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and ordered goods, upon the shore at
Susaa'a feet.
She knew extremely little about
canoes, but aloe knew 'that to Ray Up-
on Two Brothers was death, and
t.bere were Iolanda, a little further
west, with water on them. Sloe hoped
to lied one of these. by elfin/ninths
herself to the little craft, end paddling
towards the setting sun. And, by the
providence 01 God, In ao more than a
day or two, she did.
There was water on the hand that
"he (01111(1 ; there was something more
there, too, than turtle eggs for food.
Susan found wild yams, growing et
lite end of climbing vines covered with
(crow -shaped leaves; she found' little
wild grapes, and tamarinds, and won -
gat plums, and there were oysters on
the rocks in shallow water. Bae could
not have' tire, for she did not know
tow to make it with two meta__
scarce any white person knows as
uu.h. or ran perform the difficult feat
-von it he does know—nor bad she a
cutch with her. to use the glass as
hipwn•('kcd tweets. do. But she got
nuugh foot) to keep the life in her,
,nd Lest of all, there was now hope.
.41.1111 Pn-roe had not lived years
ming the Torres Islands without
nuwing how important water 1a. on
ny of them. how surely it brings call-
ing, boats. sooner or letter.
Alt would have been well with her
std she not 'Ilpta'ei, when climbing up
net
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the spire of r„ i. to look for boats. and
fallen, through the weakness of her
injured ankle down into a pit from
which there .tr'tutd 110 escape. That
day she heard the rattle of sails being
lowered on the sumo as we came in;
she heard the roar of the anchor chain,
sounding, to iter eager ears, loud as
thunder in tee stillness. But she fell
insensible wit;, t, tin and weariness,
and when she teetered it was dart.
She called ;,,.,I called through the
darkness, and at the last, after a long
night of fruit'•'^, crying and calling,
dawn found ti r so Wearied Out, e0
weak that again she fainted away.
The crow* knew the rent.
It was not till we bad ber lite on
ber namesake ship; not till Lamle
bed clothed her, and tended her, and
fed her, with a passionate care that I
had scarce thought was in the child.
that Susan told ber story; and even
then she was weak, and only gave 1t
to n. In Mtn. It way a long time be-
fore we knew the whole of it. That
Slut day, and the succeeding, she lay
11:1 a long deck chair, contentedly
watching the quiet sena glide hy. en-
jollag—tf that L - not too strong a
Word for ber quiet pleasure --the ani♦
t7, the ►irrugth, of the good ship that
wag brioalni ber back tome. In these
past wird.* she bad had to fight the
hostile tortes of alt Nature, with her
own teeth; lands; elle terrible power
of ocean, the cruelty vi,barrea desert
land, bad twat loosed upon ber like
wild bun -1, freed from chains. By a
miracle -1,• had survival; and now.
the -boars held once titre la the
shackles 1' rged for them by Deena of
clvillautl, a she rested, and was 'r-
etire.
Truly. we ride, 11) our daily Urea.
upon the peeks of tamed dragon., and
do not kt: ov 11. , , .
i(atnnic;, fere, over light blue seas,
for 'F`ar.,t•il Island, tate ship was,
during that abort trip, a very theatre
of ew,•,t,aie—se('rets. reserves, re-
venges' ate Bestrew, burning In every
breast. 1 was hiding wy knowledge
of Vertete whereabouts, and beyond
that, the secret that 1 had carried for
ao long. and meant to carry until I
multi tinea;y prove or disprove its
trtit'lt. .11: of us three --Lourie,
Bowen. An. myself—were hiding from
Susan Pascoe the knowledge of ber
busiuuoi - crimes. actual and at-
tempt.•,d. Laurie was biding—or try-
ing it. hale—the rather ignoble anxi-
ety that tirade Ler tend :Mean with
such 1µt- ante care; if 1 guessed the
true cane ut her devotion, 1 am sure
no one e;•c did. Paul was hiding no -
tides, least of all his love. I do sat
thing 1 have ever seen a conn more
wrapped pp 1n a girl than our young
captain; the pointer of the ship's com-
pass did not more surely follow the
north, than those blue sailor eye" the
eyes, the feet, the prtgente of dark
ewiet Laurie. His besrt seemed, 11)
these days, a bubbling spring of Joy;
with closed, lips, he was always softy
humming some lover's song about the
ahtp--'MvtlQ+t Boole O'Oeady"-=Bell
Ilei 1 Love Her 9o"—"Queen or the
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Two Brother -
case, the demi
resource.
SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA
ASSURANCES IN FORCE (net)
An Increase of $231,500,000
New Assurances Paid For -
An Increase of $62,518,000
-"dotal- Income - - - - --
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An Increase of $23,801,000
1,487,990,000
328,408,000
1,.
102,774,000
ayments to Policyholders and
Beneficiaries 77,c--- 42,224,000
Total, Payments Since Organi-
zation-., a a - .t:a - 300,040,000
Reserve for Unforeseen Contingencies 12, 500,000
ri3= Surplus over all Liabilities and.
Contingency Reserve - An Increase of Si 1,269,000
ASSETS at December 31
45,280,000
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Dividends to Policyholders increased for
eighth successive year
EXTRACTS FROM DIRECTORS' REPORT
Substantial advances have been made in ail
departments during the year. , .
The total_net income for the year exceeded
one hundred million dollars .`
The strength and resources of the Company
have been further enhancer} . . .
The high earning power of the Company's
investments has been again demonstrated.
The net rate of interest t'.arned on the mean
invested assets, after fully providing for in-
vestment expenses, was 6.47 per cent. This
gratifying result has been made possible by
dividend increases, bonuses and stock privi-
leges accruing on many of the Company's
= holdings.
The wisdom of the Investment policy which
has been consistently followed in past years, in
favouring long term bonds and the stocks of
outstanding and very carefully selected cor-
porations, has been once more emphasized.
The appraisal of our securities shows that the
mess of market values over coat increased
during the year by $19,23.5,889.99. In addi-
tion, a net profit of $5,028,033.20 accrued from
the redemption or sale of securities which had
risen to high premiums.
The quality of the investments listed in the
assets is testified by the fact that on both bonds
and preferred stocks not one -dollar. due either
as interest Ir dividend, is in arrear for even
one day, while the dividends accruing to com-
mon stocks are greatly in excess of the divi-
dends payable on the same stocks at the time
of purchase.
The surplus earned during the year amounted
to $38,511,029.67 from which the following
appropriations have been made:
$5.000,000 has been deducted from the
market value of our securities as a further
provision against pore.*bit future fluctua-
\ttons, increasing the amount so set aside to
$t0,000,000.
$1,500,000 has been added to the account
to provide for unforeseen contingencies.
which now stands at 112,500,000.
$1.000,000 has been written off the Com-
pany's Head Office building and other
properties.
$500,000 has been set aside to provide for
the greater longevity of annuitants. bring-
ing the total provision under this heading to
51,000,000.
*50,000 has been set aside to provide for
laims in respect of total disability as yet
unreported.
$11,090,056.61 has been paid or allotted
as profits to policyholders during the year.
In addition, 116,205,573.00 has been con-
tingently allotted to deferred dividend poli-
cies issued prior to 1911, and to five year
distribution policies, to provide for profits
accrued but not yet payable.
After making these deductions and alloca-
tions, $11,269,330,89 has been added to the
undivided surplus, bringing the total over all
liabilities, contingency account and capital
stock to $45,280,896.14. -
Ytntr Directors are gratified to announce, for
the eighth successive year, a substantial in-
crease n the scale of profits to be distributed
to participating policyholders during the en-
suing year,
SUN LIFE `ASSURANCE
COMPANY OF CANADA