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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1916-4-6, Page 65 4514i Ct N't A N AN EXCITING PRESENT-DAY ROMANCE 13Y WEATH RlBY CHESNEY �fYtiS` CHAPTER VII. (Cont'd,) Scarborough. paused, and Elsa, who had matte no sign or movement whilst he. was • speaking, asked quickly: "It bad gone?" "Every penny of it, I am told." "Poor girl! Hew she must have loathed 'the Varneys! What did he do?" "Made up her mind to untrue her living. �ieu E l5utE u r cm plis ment in which she Excelled, and she resolv- ed E tu-ed to put it to account. She became a riding -mistress." "In London?" . "No, in Boston, A man who had known her father kept a big riding - school there. He happened to be in England on a holiday, and he offered her a. post in his school, She had a few pounds of her allowance left, and site made up the money for her pas- sage and outfit by selling her trinket,,. A month after she landed, Val 13. Moe- tague saw her ride, and asked her to join the troupe he was getting up to' tour the Atlantic Islands. She did so.' "It was an extraordinary thing to do," said Elsa. "I fend- she is not a very ordinary' gizl, Besides, she had a reason. And Montague was not a stranger. Shed haul known him out West as one of her father's stockmen, and she be-, Iieved he was to be trusted." "Still," , •t 1 wasa mac said Elsa "it f I thing, unless her reason was a very strong one." "I believe it was." .A. faint smile flickered over Elea's; face, and she asked hint something! like a sneer: "Was it Phil Varney? So she did; not hate him, though his father had ruined her?" Scarborough shook his head ,:crave-' eyes fixed oa hint with horror looking. • out of their depths. "Go (m," she 'tti(1. "Tell me quirk - 'It was believed that the .partner who had tied had taken this money with hint fur his own use. He had! taken the orphan's inheritenee, not with the inteutiou of paying it bade,! if by its means ha could save his firm from ruin ---but simply and solely for himself, to swell his crime -gained plunder. It sounds incredible, but; many believe it. and amongst them the girl herself. 1 have told yon that M in sumo ways .•she is 0 strange girl, a girl from whom one would expect strange things. She took a fantastic) vow of vengeance, dedicated the next five years of her life ---if the task! should take so long-- to tracking doe. n Delgada. and punishing the man who had ruin- ; Mona de ed her. She became a riding -mistress; "What for?" asked Varney quickly. because she knew no quicker way of ,'You are not going to be ass enough earning the nnuney she \youth, need;' to suspect her of murder are you?" , ' 'rLl ` beetltl3e ` r, DRIVE YOUR COLD AWAY For cable in the throat brut quest your 1110St co>tveaie remedy is 'itndeA0t k SI unt Petro@um ,Telly Contsius the active principle of Capsicum ( Iced Pepper. ) Easy to apply. Will not blister the skin. Said in handy tin tubes at chem- ists and general stores every- where. Refuse substitutes. Erre booklet on request. -;n2senae APSICI�AI CHESEBROUGH MFG. CO, (eonxotidated) 1880 Chabot Ave. Montreal I want to be introduced to la Mar." she joined Val. 11.:',I ntag e. I Ara, ' m •he could he'riil }ler seaz•ch at once, and earn murrey as she went.; "Then what do you want with her?" She had heard that the object of her! "I want to know whether she saw )ter; tit was hiding in one of the is -1 ciz' spoke to Richmond Carington yes - 1 s of the Atlantic." tez•dtty. I want to know Whether the land Horace,' cried Elsa, suddenly, and private business which ntacle her re - there was a note of heart -breaking fuse to perform last night was an rob - grief in her vui:e, "D' you believe 'al) interview with the man who had rob- s , i bed her. Is she the sort of girl who tulle t'orred himself to attar, l . ( will be sensible enough to see that 1 I questions will beput,and that she'll "I don't know what I ulicte, rut, it' it is true, it gives us what has teen' have to answer for her movements?" , the Fes, said Varney, "And she's htlle done-ltit'> is) vowbusiness onsensible enough to have forgotten that murdergives if mturdhater,even ha, ee fantasticlong ago. It "lt onng not true," said Elsa quickly. `•She be -i was a only a piece OT girlish froth in lieved it, and she owed resist„;v.” :the beginning, nothing more than a Again Scarborough had to fore burst of natural temper, expressed in himself to say ; a romantically violent way. f course arktzne luthertu—a n1',tne tut. "I cru not moan that. I don't thine: she soon dropped it." that urs t It the murderess.,"Probably," agreed Scarborough. U t re 1 111 t� 1y' : B t k that h •fore he left i "But I want to talk to her." "Phil did not know of the existence of the circus troupe till three months later, when he joined it at Rio. Her motive was not that." "Do you know what it ryas?" "Yes," • He got up and paced the roam again. After all, the thing had to he told, and his delay had `not made it easier or shown him any gentle way of saying a hard thing. But Elsa was not as other gills; she was brave, and would hear the truth without flinching. He owed to her courage not to fence with the necessity any longer. He would say straight out what had to be said. "You know that there are people who do nut hold the view you du about your father's innonee?" b said. "Why do you say that?" she aeked quickly. "Because what I am going to toll you is only plausible if it is read in the light of that fact." She looked at him coldly. "What fact?" she asked. "That my father was guilty ? Is that what ;eau mean?" "That there are people t•; )O 1td!eve that he was guilty," he said. "Oh, I know that!" she said scorn- fully. "Why, we have been living here for two years in San Miguel under the false name of Page, if not because there are fools who think my father was a scoundrel? We will take their existence for granted. Go on, please," "When the affairs of Carrington and Varney were investigated," Scarbor- ough went on, "it was found that the partners, or whichever of them was the guilty man, must have known for a long time that the failure was inevi- table; and yet it was only within a period of six weeks before the crash came that the securities which repre- sented Margaret Ryan's inheritance were turned into ready money," St:arborough stopped. He had ex- pected that the thing would be hard to say; but now, with Elsa's eyes widening with a growing apprehen- sion, he found it almost impossible, "The money was taken to try to stave off the disaster?" she said. "No. It had not been added to the tit m's assets. No trace of it was found in the books. It was believed that—" Again he .stopped. He saw Elsa's u it i, n)•, n a befere all right. I'll introduce you. London Mr. Carrington invested a> large sum in diamonds. If he retained; How is the daughter taking things?" them in his possession, ae it is pros- "Bravely," said Scarborough. able that he would, they w Mad supply "Did she know the truth about her a motive. There are plenty of men in father?" the world who will murder for less. Fou told her?" i With a cry that was alit:u: t a sob, \-es, but she didn't believe it." Elsa rose and faced hint. Varney nodded. "That's natural," "You say that my father hadd those he said. "Poor girl, this is a rough diamonds?" she asked --"diamonds time for her! Andfor you too, old which he had bought with that girl s money! You say that, Horace?" man," he added quietly. "I think I I "I say that that is the story I was can understand what you are feeling. told." • What difference will:. this make to "Do you believe it?" `rc�Varney's question meant to ask 1 He did not answer. She waited for at minute,end the silence was what difference the knowledge that ! nearly i broken cinly by their deep breathing. father was an unpunished criminal Then she laughed softly, and Scar- would make in Scarborough's feelings buruuttll thought that laugh was the towards the daughter. It was a na- most desolate, sound l e had ever tural question perhaps, , but luckily ! Scarborough nlisundez :.tuotl it. It heard. never even occurred to him that sach Then she stopped, eoand with an int- a question would be put, no he answer- s pectous gesture pointed to the dour. • "Go!" she said.• ed it readily. He thought that Var- I,lsa!"• ney was asking about Elsa, not about "Go! I asked for your help, but I him, will do without it. You believe ill of father, "I hope that in the end it will make no difference." he said. my whomI loved more dearly Varney shut a puzzlers look at him, .than anyone in the world" --and the•n in a lower tone, she added:—"till you `aLying: came, and I thought I had found one "I don't quite see. Do you mean to whom I could love more!" say that it does make a difference He went to take her in his arms, now?" but she shrunk back from him. • "Yes. She refuses to speak to me, ' "Go!" she erica. "Go! I think I or to let me help her. Shall we start? Irate you now!" Your machine is in the shed." And then, in a passion "f sobbing,' Varney understood now, and saw she threw herself into a chair, and that he had made a mistake, It was covered her face with her hands. the girl, not the man, to whom the 1 new knowledge made a difference. He C'I► APTFR VIII. , was glad that Scarborough had miss- ; ed the point of his question, and he "Well?" asked Phil Varney, when honored his friend for not understand- • Scarborough returned from the ('Hine- ing him. Varney had learned in a las to the ('able Station, ' rough school lately, and he knew that "•Richmond Carrington is ;lead,", in the world's eyes, his thought would said Scarbo,•'ugh simply. :be counted the natural one; and he "Murdered?" ' knew too, how to respect a man to j "I don't know, but. it looks like it." whom that thought did not even occur. • "The diamonds?" 1 "You mean to help her, none the I "Oh, I suppose so. Have you an Kee," was what he said. hour to spare?" 1'•Oh, yes," said Scarborough, and "Yes: If I am in the circus twenty they rode off together. minutes before my performance be-'. The rode to the pine -grower's house gins it will do. 'What do you want passed within a. few hundred yards me for?" ' of the Caldeira de Morte, and the "I want you to help me probe this turned aside to see the place where thing. I am going first to that girl, Richard Carrington had met his death. who, so far as we know, was the last person to see hint alive; and after- pression in the hillside, formed by an wards 1 shall go with you to Ponda e t' t t 1 the had to leave The Caldeira lay in a shallow de - :c Inc ct•a er, and ey May we seed you a copy of our new book, "Deeserts andCandies"? "Mother Says We Couldn't 'Lull The Farm Without IT'S dow ri<•ht scandalous., the number of 20 pound tins 1 buy. Rut, as Mother says, we use it for 'most everythir.g. "Nothing :'lac tastes quite so good on all kinds of Hot Bread, Johnny Cake and Griddle Cakes, "Mother uses it for all her cooking—for Cooki•.s, Cakes, Gingerbread and Pies. "And I am almost a.hamed to mention the � t: quantity of 'Crown Brand' and bread that my youngsters consume. This syrup certainly is a favorite in, my home", o The 20 :osn 3 stn c,nveniont r,- ectnomical for Lime —praotioal—helpfular.d free. (lroagh you ran get "Crawl, Brand" 5 and I0 Write for it to our Montreal pound tins, and' 3 Fotnld etas tars, Ask your dealer. Office. THE CANADA STARCH CO. LIMITED Z'll MONTREAL, CARDINAL, SRANTFORD, FORT WILLIAM. dhrkr,,- r.j Life 117i11," lb, n •S,rnb—Enn,'n, 's Corn bra; h—' .511ver Cilam" Leon,,,, S[alxh, y sntaiusgrows.ups. i\l 860804 tt)i' g th 'i> l.icy:'ics'to. get to it. There wee. . a ntrtrow fig sur.; ill the lip on ire ctttt- cr through which the traria, slt;tliow strenln from t.la, ( x'i lt't,t F x lf' i`'' retry to the lot v et• lata . "v ht meth and the `ttl'eatrt uetu'nsed the s'hulc :f ihira s(;nre,n o rig+ stream, toil up all the t..C'ih. , sem: e. foe itself and left no t) .tt; tine, 't wusl. necessary to }utt>p f,-oen rock to roek in its beth, ui• to eplaele b,>lt!ly t`llrough it, Walls of grey pumice plashed with irregular patches. of red lichen, rose for rutty feet t tt !either • side; and ecot•iegrs aid tv, teem:.E1a on, their flanks, ehott•ed that tits ;'e t4 Ore times when the ehallow str&'teal was u rapid torrent, (Te be Continued). Qa•9s•+�•'W.•Qt'i',r"ST<:.•�,..'Ch•rA'la•' •111.'41 �• thc ��v art •'� y '>'Y � 1 Sbt / �, es � a•'ca .Home-Groivn Feeds—The Basis of All Rations, Some men entertain the idea that in order to make a high. record with a cow, she must be particularly well bred, fed on specially prepared feeds, • and stabled in the host modern. stables. Such is not necessarily the case. 11Iany cows, that are a credit; to their owners, leave attained the; pinnacle of fame in the dairy world by having the right blond in their veins, and then converting feeds, such; as are grown on the average farm,; into milk and butter fat. True, the dairyman plays an important part in securing the best from his cows by1 his ability to study the requirements l of the individual animal, and to com binethe various feedst utu a balance) ed ration suitable for the dairy cow.! The methods of raising calves and; feeding high -producing cows, as peace! tired by a noted Ayrshire breeder, of Norwich, may convince breeders just! starting in the business that breeding,' careful feeding, and proper attention, are the essentials in building up a show herd. The herd referred to consists of: • from 30 to 35 animals, in the pink of condition. Individual yearly re-! cords are kept, and mature cows pro- duce from 10,000 to 12,000P oullds of high -testing milk during a lactation! . period. In years past, animals from; this herd have won laurels in strong. competition at many 'of the big shows.: This herd is housed in a well -sighted, • frame stable. Silage forms the basis of the ration, 'and about forty pounds is fed each animal per day. Corn for ensilage is sown quite thickly, i as it is believed more feed, and bet-; ter feed, can. be gown per acre than! ; if corn is sown with the aim of pro- ducing matured cobs. In filling the silo, the corn is cut very fine, and it; , is believed to make better silage than' !the coarse -cut corn. A few roots' i are grown on. the farm, and are con- • sidered excellent .feed for dairy cows. If it were not -for the extra labor en tailed in handling a root crop, a larger acreage would be grown. Clover' hay is fed night and morning. The concentrate part of the t•atio)i is c•om posed of oat chop and bran, •in equal proportions, the amount fed each; cow depending on the mill. flow. '1 he i heaviest milkers are giver, from ten'. to twelve pounds per day. Two or three pounds of oil -cake or c'otton- • seed meal, are fed per day. Prefer- ence is given to feeding oil -cake one meal, and cottonseed the next. The; cows are watered in the stable, but t are turned out for exercise, when the weather is favorable. j The 1\'Ii1k From This Herd goes to a cendensary, consequently; t _ere is no skim -milk on which to raise the calves. When possible, the' cows are bred to freshen in the fall, as there is usually more time during the winter for properly attending to the calves and heavy •milkers, than! there is in the spring and summer; months. Whole milk is fed the cal-, ; ves for four or five weeks, after which the quantity of milk is gratia., ally reduced and prepared calf meals used. At four months of age, the calves are fed only four pounds of whole milk, and are entirely weaned from milk by the time they are three • months old. Oat chop, oil -cake, si-' lage, and clover hay are kept before the calves. On the above feed, young 1 animal' appear to he thrifty. Other breeders in Norwich dis-+ trict, who have made big milk and) ! butter -fat records with their herds, ' rely on silage, clover hay, oat chop,; bran, and oil -cake or cottonseed meal,1 to form the ration. The first three feeds mentioned can he grown on al-: most any farm, and the quantity of the last three feeds necessary to ba-' Iance up the ration is not large. Cows„ in many noted herds are raised on a limited amount of whole milk, along' ;with oil -cake or calf -meal- and home- i grown roughage. i It is believed that the average farmer with his grade stock can in- . crease the returns from his cows by! 1 judiciously combining the feeds !grown on the farm with a small quan- I tity of purchased concentrates, t'ich yin protein, to form a balanced ration. l The cow is a manufacturing plant, end the finished product will be in • keeping with the capacity of the plant and material supplied. le or E greatest returns, both the plant • and i'aw material must be good. • In Borne districts dairymen are raising choice calves without skim - milk, and with feeding only. a limit- ed :,mount of Whole milk. Dairymen with a supply of skim -milk have the ttrul Garden tfi,*e Flavoro Quality Unchallenged kge Twenty-three three Yeai'$r advantage over those selling whole milk, iu raising calves. A good (teal of success the. in feeding f.' old r f v(nyoung1 k animals depends 0n the feeler. Feed- ing stock, so as to keep it in good eondition all the time, it is not an ea;'y task. Simply putting the feed in the mangers is not enough, but the animals must be watched closely to safe that the teed agrees with them. There are many little attentions given to the stock by a real stockman that would never be considered important by an amateur. Yet, it is paying strict attention to details that brings success. It is necessary to know each individual animal in the herd, and endeavor to supply its wants. A variety of feeds to form as near a balanced ration tis possible, regularity in feeding, and strict attentions to details, are items of importance that are considered by the successful stockman.—The Farmers' Advocate, Why Succulence Pays. • Numerous s ' s czetltificri I and a s a d com- mon experiences on farms have abun- dantly demostrated the value of add- ing succulent feeds to the rations of farm animals. The beneficial effects of succulence, whether supplied as pasturage, silage, soilage, or roots, are many. Just as our own appetites are stimulated by fruits and green vegetables, succulent feeds are re- lishes for the animals of the farm, inducing them to consume more feed and convert it into useful products. It is reasonable to hold that such palatable feeds stimulate digestion, and it is well known that their bene- ficial laxative action aids greatly in keeping the digestive tracts in good condition. There is no doubt that, for breeding stock, less tense and more watery flesh, a natural- sequence of feeding succulence, is more conducive to vigorous young at birth and to their hearty maintenance after birth than is the condition of hard, dry flesh produced by feeding only dry forage through the winter. The dairy cow gives her maximum returns when she is supplied with succulence. Such feeds tend toward rapid sturdy growth with the young of all farm animals. Some succulent food is especialy beneficial in keep- ing the horse in condition, to which the thrift of the work horse when turned out to pasture bears witness. But the horse at hard or fast work should receive only a limited allow- ance of these feeds. Steers and sheep make rapid and economical gains on pasture, and grass-fed animals are in the best possible condition to make rapid gains when plaeed in t11e feed lot. Among the most important con- tributions of the experiment stations are their demonstrations of the economy of- feeding silage to fatten- ing cattle and sheep and of the pos- sibilities of cheapening the cost of producing pork through the utilization of pasture.—Wisconsin Experiment Station. Domestic Dilemma. "Charley, dear," said young Mrs. Dawson, "would you enlist if your country called rat?""I don't kl'ow what to say. If I answer `No,' you'll say I don't love my country, and if I answer 'Yes,' you'll say I don't like to stay at home." .1-IUST :SLAY OR BE SLAIN. , Father Vaughan Defends His "Hill Enemy" Advice. Strong criticism has been voiced against Father Bernard Vaughan, the famous preacher, for having advised the British soldiers from the pulpit to kill the Germans instead of being kill- ed by them. Several letters of pro - nest having been printed in the Lon- don Daily Graphic the following re- ply was sent to that paper by Father Vaughan from Manchester; "A clipping from your enterprising and clear sighted paper contains let- tors from the Rev, F. B. Meyer and the Rev. J. H. Newsham -Taylor blaming me for advising our troops to kill the enemy instead of being killed by him, rl'z'uth to tell, till I read Dr. Meyer's letter I had no no- tion that we considered it a 'misfor- tune' to kill Germans. "In my stupidity I had always felt it was a misfortune to miss them; 1 had no idea that soldiers in war were ,• to be regarded aspolice on then beat; g , in my simplicity I was under the im- pression that our troops had gone to the front, not to take up and handcuff the aggressor, but, on the contrary, to wipe him out and do for. him. In- deed, in my reading of the situation I had never regarded the enemy in the light of a burglar bent on `swag' only, but rather as an assassin under or- ders to murder, massacre and man- gle widows and children, leaving them nothing but their eyes to weep with. "Of course if Dr, Meyer's conten- tion is right I must confess to being quite wrong. In other words, if our artillery is not out primarily to find the range for killing our foe, but only to shoot or frighten black beetles, rabbits and mosquitoes, my advice to kill Germans is altogether out of place. "As for our friend the rector of St. Peter's, Hatton Garden, the Rev. New- sham -Taylor, and his rooted conviction that it ill beseems ecclesiastical lips to advise killing Germans, I must make bold to say to him in reply that the only reason that I can discover for the unseemliness of 'such advice is that it is unbecoming a minister of religion to speak the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. "Sir, with Joffre and Kitchener, French and Haig, I beg once more to raise my voice reminding my country- men that victory can be ours in one way only, by artillery attrition, And I find that the chief reason why our war lords to -day are so sanguine about peace rooted hi triumph over the foe is that our artillery is • now better than his. As a plain English- man, I understand this to mean we can kill off the enemy quicker than he us. "If our Nonconformists ministers had only exhorted their followers to join the colors in the language of Jof- fre and Roberts instead of in the hesitating terms of Meyer and New- sham -Taylor I venture to think we should now still be under the volun- tary system instead of saddled with a compulsion bill. "Sir, unless our troops are out at the front to kill Germans let them come home and get killed with us. They won't have to wait long." Idleness is an inlet to disorder. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. 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In Scotland I saw out mein -„rasing regimentals, We encountered evidences tim-�e` "grim realities” of war' at. 0 .• :i tltr"- northern ports, Vessels were +..•c)l:tin- rally loading heavy amnnuiiti'••1, in- i.•cluding 13 ,4 inch and 16 inch ,:hells, ' and heavy chain booms for the Flees and telegraph material for France. fEarly one morning the fastest de- stroyer in the Fleet bore us quickly across some boisterous water to a certain bay where w• e cooler •tiatin- guish from afar the outlines c41 Brit- ain's Grand Fleet, so well named. All i sorts of scouting and atixilia v ves- sels dotted the intervening waters. A ; whole. flotilla of mine -sweeper e was • hastening towards the North Sea, De- stroyers plotted the bay in neatly di- rections. Our first sight of what was only a part of the British FIeet willlong remain in our nCn01ie S. Within a framework of snowelad bilis the giant forms of Dreadnoughts rose n' t of the heaving bosom of the rott1-ttead; but when we had penetrated t" the very heart of the Great Arme,in our imagination was spellbound ley the sight of the colossal shapes that seem- ed to eat up the ho•izon. The i• grim sides, frowning turrets, and rapacious - mewed guns all bespoke al relentless purpose. At Target practice. A couple of light cruisers hoeing quietly slipped their mooring_, des h - ed forward to give us a display of gun practice. As they attaint: i their . Sight of the Fleet, peed lacy pi 0500(150 i;our out a stream of projectiles at the tar- gets moored for away. The -ht'I1s hurtled through the air and i t es ept- ly the waters around the tart _•'s were splashed with columns of snoe -:white foam till the targets themsel` es suf- fered. Like great steel falcons sweeping on their prey four destroyers ap- peared intent on torpedoing ;t fan- cied enemy. Faster and fast e they sped towards the mark, their ;'i,ten- ing hulls obscured in clouds of .;pray. Snakelike they turned and ;'•,cited, preparing to surround and atm .% . their foe from all sides. But fasten still swirled our destroyer, easily over- hauling the attackers and eni0 i:ilg us to follow every movement. re.hlike the torpedoes darted from their• -ides, speeding like thunderbolts on their deadly mission. The spent torpedoes betrayed their presence thanks to a simple and ingenuous contrivance, and were easily recovered. Through the spray. raised :r our fast ship we caught sight of a great white vessel bearing the • Red e'ress; it was the hospital ship of one the squadrons. Greeted by Jellicoe. One after the other we reviewed the enormous steel structures. Fin- ally we came alongside the .-gator flagship. Admiral Sir John Jellicoe greeted us on the quarterdeck. IIis spare, clear cut face and youthful figure breathes strength and confi- dence. Beside hint was Vice -A imiral Sir D. Sturdee, the hero of the Falk- lands fight, and the whole staff. Our meeting deeply moved us, and, I believe, our hosts also. We weee t.ne. first Russians to visit the ;,rand Fleet. - Britain's Inventive Genius, Everything was shown tis ' -- the heart of the, great Dreadnoug1: and its smallest arteries. Below ,vr saw a huge war torpedo latnncht.1 from a submerged tube. About we i aspect- ed the monster guns inside the tur- rets whence they protrude their bun- , gry jaws. We had ocular evi tenet; ! of Britain's inventive genie,+. ,,amu , of the newest devices were w;,rlced by the inventors themselves. 1 Our party separated inn, two groups, the first of which, int ling Nabokoff, Egoroff, and myself, ith !some of the officials who ate tnpan- • led us, remained to lunch with the Commander -in -Chief. hief. On eitLe - ide or Admiral Jellicoe sat \ a )tcoff and myself. Inc toil;fel with u> ,,out Itust:ia—a subject •tha.t a,ppt`ee •1 to , ! afford him inexhaustible i :tag e crit ' and pleasure. While he was •. •epn:t- ing the health of his gue-y.tA we listened' with no sli+_:1116 cm•)til•0 to his references to the possteility of joint operations by 000 t t +settee fleet.:= Il is words of gratitcr•i to Russia for "raving the Allies" were ' delivered with nvLch feeling.- ' eeling,i A Spirit of brotherhood pJtr n.:ated • our reecption by the Grand Iflc',t. Otte host:; treated us lire leen whit pur- sued ova common aim and o<.,,ieet. '1 hr•h cordiality wa:, soilletin>t 'most. c1:1j ;,VMS!')t1r,•, I think our fi4'iti:th ft;c :d; tried l0 ct :ptlusize .\ '•miral '( 1 >>'s et et:int:ie of gl'atiztele to-. • •