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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1928-10-3, Page 7P e r` ! r1 y 61 1, gt Cream Grading 1bl0tln5 ETTER CREAM E'I"l'ER 13UTTER ETTER PRICES We nee now prepared to Grade your Cream ilonearly, gather it twice a week and deliver at our Creamery each day we lift R. We gather with eovered truck to keep sun off it. We pay a premium of 1 cent per lb. butter fat fur Specials over that of No. 1 grade, and 8 cents per Ib, but- ter -fa' for No 1 grade over that of No, 2 grade, The bask principle of the improvement in the quality of Ontario batter is the eliininatlon of second and off grade cream, Thin may be accomplished by paying the producer of good (ream a better price per pound of butter -fat tame is paid to the producers of poor cream. We solicit your patronage and co-operation for better market. t ar-Wo will loan you a can. Seo our Agent, T. C. McCALL, or Phone 2310, Brussels, The Seaforth Creamery ."„,.,=r,,.,,. a.e.v-..."... ,. N. ..,,�„o.=mss 0 CHAPTER 1. Blind Samson. It was perfect weather along the San Frnneisco waterfront, and Rai- ney reacted to the brisk eolith of the trade -wind upon his cheek, the breeze tempering the sun, bringing with it a tang of the open sen and a hitt of ori- ental splees from the wharves. The dull thump of a heavy rune upon the timbered walk end the shuffle of un- certain feet werned him from blunder- ing Into 0 mon tapping his way along the Nmbareudcro, a giant who halted abruptly and faced him, leaning on the heavy stick. "Matey," asked the giant, "could you put a blind man In the way of finding the southSchooner 1Carluk1" The votrt luted Its owner, Rainey thought—n basso voice tempered to the ()eversion, it deep -sent voice that could bellow above the roar of a gale If needed. For all his shoregoing clothes and slnelte, the inan was cer- tainly a stiller, or had been, He wore dark glasses wltlt side 100500, over which heavy brows projected in shag- gy wisps of red hale. 4 Blind as the man peeeelalmed Mw - self with voice and netlot, Rainey sensed something back of those col- ored glasses that seemed to be ap- praising him, almost as If the will of the man was peering, or listening, fo- cused through those listless sockets. "You're not fifty yardsl,.from the Narluk," Rainey replied, "But you're bound In the wrong direction. Let me put you right. len going that way my- self." y- self" "That's kind of ye matey," said the other. "But I picked ye for that sort, hearth' you w'htstlin as you ratite swingin' along, Give me the touch of yore arm, matey." Rainey wonderingly sized up his con- sort. The stranger's bulk was enor- mous, Rainey was well over the aver- age himself, but ho was only,a strip- ling beside this hulk, this straurlecl hulk, of unudhood. And, for all the spectacled eyes and shuffling feet, there was a stdmp 01 co-ordinated strength about the giant that bespoke the blind Samson, Given eyes, Rainey could imagine him agile RS a panther, strong as a bear, His weight was male up of thews and sinews, spare and solid flesh with- out an ounce of waste, upon a mighty • fry ff. s Ji 014 ireelS ..; i eee !Merrill Co. seeteion. His Carr was nenvy-0earnee it hair of flanllug, curling red, from high cheekhnnee down out of sight be- low -the soft loose collar of his shirt. About thirty, Rainey judged 111111. Buffeted by time and weather, but in the prime of his strength, "Snow -blinded, matey," said the man, "North o' Point Barrow, a year an' more ago. Brought me up all stnndin'. Whitt are you? Steamer man? Purser, maybe?" "Newspaper man," answered Rainey. "Waterfront detail, For the Times." "You don't say so, matey? A writer, eh?" Again Rtainey felt the tug of that something back of the dark lenses, some speculation going on in the man's mind conceruing him, And be felt the lirm fingers contract ever so slightly, sinking Into the muscles or his forearm for a second with a hint of how they could bruise and para- lyse at will. A faint sense of revul- sion fought with bis natural Inclina- tion to aid the hnndleapped mariner, and he shook It off. "The Kariuk sails tomorrow," lie said. "I hail a short talk with Captain Simms when she docked. Not 10uc:9 of It ,yarn. She didn't have a good trip, you know." "Why, I didn't know. Bnt—hold a tninnit, will ye? You see, Simms Is 011 old shipmate of intoe. Ile don't dream I'm within a hundred miles o' lithe. Aye, or n thousand." He gave a deep -chested chuckle. "Now, then. 'tuatey, look here." Rainey was authored by the com- pelling grip. They stood next to the slip 10 which the sonier lay. The Ktu•luk's decks were deserted, though there wtts smoke coming from the gal- ley stovepipe. "Shuttle Is likely to be aboard, went on the other, "Ye see, 1 know his ways, An' I've come as long trip to see hint, Nigh mis5ed him. Only ' got in from Seattle this utornin', ile ain't expectin' me, ,tri It's in my mind to surprise him, By way of a joke, How's the tlec'tt? Clear?" "No one In sight," said Rainey. "trine, Do rue a favor, matey, an' pilot me dower into the cabin, if so be the skipper's there. If he ain't, 1'11 wait for him, I've got the Hetet un' run o' the Karluk's cabin. 1 "(now ev'ry 10011 of her. You'il see when we go aboard. Let's go." Rainey led him down the gangway to the deck of the sealer, still chit- tereel a bit with unstowed gear. Once aboard, the blind man seemed to walk with 11551101100e, guiding himself with toilettes here and there that showed his familiarity with the vessel's rig, Ile approached the cabin skylight, lift- ed it on the port side. Through it came the murmur of velees, The Mimi man nodded in satisfaction and widened his grin with a warning "hush-sh" to his guile. "We'll fool 'ern proper," he lipped rather than uttered, The companion doors were closed, but they opened noiselessly. The 1 stairs were carpeted with corrt,gated { rubber that muffled all sound, Two men sat at the cabin table, leaning forward, hands and forearms out - 1 stretched, fingering soinetlling, One Miley recognized as the captain, Simms—a heavy, Square -built man, gt'ay-hatred, elean-shaven, his flesh , tanned, yet sotnehoW unhealthy, as if the bronze {vas close to tarnishing. THE BRUSSELS POST WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 3rd, ,1.112S' 1'13" olhvr was yu,l,ut"r. 1:111, tow v- coly melee, with darl, eye•, 4.11l a •Itrk mustache and beard, the letter trimmed h, a vurd,he leevwe them t? 0 lout;, 01110 41101: a! 11', Itaf, it ''lIIte1•'s polit'. It was hair 11,11 of :nn,etldag that r'inlled it• e�- trrtld1y solid, tvlthent 4,114i.t th1' n+nun athsIanee that gli. entei je UI mouth of th .ask told the pains or the two 1101 ,,Id --c' 13.0 dine f :4.1.1' Rainey felt him—11' three. io one .140 as he Mho' mon • +I ilea across the bottom of the Neol,,ddotb •.vay, eying lu the e,tb11, while' he 1hru11. Ids stlrk with 11 Ilnnllp on Ihe floor and thundered. 111 tl lee! ,w that seemed to till 111- eieer and eeme tum- bling batik In deafening echo: "Kerluli ahoy';,, The Increer CiteiIQn !riming paled, the ion turned to a eleely gray, end I08 jaw dreppe'l. Rainey sew teetr 0,1010 into his r;0+, ills cent eenion diel not stir tt nlll:n•I„ (Avoir 1'm• the (Mich shift of lib, glance, but went en sitting at the t Ible, the gold In ono pain, the fingers of 1315 ether hand 1•,ethig 1,11 the grains, "Jim 1.1111(4 1" gasped the captain hoarsely, "That's me, you skulking seulpin 1 Thought I was heat' meat by this didn't you, blast yore rotten soul to h--11 But I'm back, Bill Shams. Back, en' this time you don't slip me!" Jim Lund', face was purple -red with rage, great veins startling out 111011 It so swollen that it seemed they must surely burst and discharge their congested contents, He looker!, Rai- ney thought, like a blind Berserker, re- strained only by his affliction, "You left me blind on the floe, Bill Simms:" he roared, "Blind, In a driv- 10' blizzard with the Ice breakin' up 1 If I didn't have use for yore carcass I'd twist yore head from yore scaly body like I'd pull up a carrot." Lund's fingers opened and closed convttlsively. "I looked for you, Jim," pleaded the captain, and to Rainey his words "What's That 1 Hit?" Asked Lund. lacked conviction. "I didn't know you were blind. I heard you shout just before the blizzard broke loose. There's others present, Jim. I can ex- plain it to you when we're by our- selves. When you're a mite calmer, Tim." Lund banged his stick down on the table with a smashng blow that made the man with the vandyke beard, still silent, keenly observant, draw back his arm with a catlike swiftness that only just evaded the stroke. The heavy wood landed fairly on the filled half of the poke and caused some of the gold to leap out of the mouth. "What's that I hit?" asked Lund. "Soft, lilte a rat," He lunged forward, felt for the poke, and found it, lifted it, hefted It, his forehead puckered with deep seams, discovered the open end, poured out some of the colors on one palm, and used that for a mortar, grinding et the grains with his finger Inc a pestle, still weighing the stilt with n silgllt Morn -down utavement of his hand. Ito nodded as he slipped the poke into a side pocket, and the cabin grew very silent. Lund's face was grimly terrible. He stepped back across the companionway. "So," he said, his sleep voice tnuf- tied by some swift reetratnt, "you found it. And yo're going back after more?" His forehead was still creased with puzzlement. "Wal, I'm going with ye, eyes or no eyes, an' XII keep Ohs on ye, 13111 Simms, by day and night. You can lay to that, you sliny-hearted swab I" t. 1115 voice had risen again, Rainey saw the sweat standing out on the captain's forehead as he answered: "Of course you'll come, Tim. No need for you to talk this way." "No need to talk( By the eternal, What I've got to say's bin steamtn' in me for fourteen months o' blackness, an' it's comin' out, now it's started 1 Who's this man, who teas talkin' with ye when I come aboard?" "That's Doctor Clarisen, FIe's to be surgeon this trip, Jim," said Slating deprecatingly, though he darted a loots at Rainey half suspicious, half resent- ful, Rainey, on the hint, turned toward the ladder quietly enough, but Lund had hipped him by the bleeps before to takes„a_atatt...:. 1.fA 1 4 4 0 4 WANTED } •S I [ igli 'st market 1alike paid f'4. )'our J Jens M8 Ylltiek 0+0+0+040+0+,0+0+0+0+0+0+0, "You'll st:ly rt;;h1 here," Nair! Luud, "t 1111e, 1 tell you nil' this Dee Carlson fiat kind of a 0 1)1 Siunns Is, 0i111 his p0i full of gold told 11143 with the 111.1'•4 ui 11y Met areal spent two 11041135 sego. 1 0, 11 1 sp11) 0111 tite yarn. "I l'es*ued 1111 Aleut 41 a bit o1' to berg 000 11,1,0. 'IYorre %varlet unu•h 0t' 111111 left Le resale. Ilnnds ani fe'•t au' hose was frozen so It, lost 'ate, but the pore devil w'us grat0ful un' he told the something. 'relit about un 131111)1 north of Bering steitit, west of Meer, 11110 sound, ,where 111o1,' woe gold rot the brach rirlo•r Imd 1ldt•ker than it ever lay at Nilo,. 1 makes rot' 1t, gill./ close enough for nay AIo•nt to recog alma it—h ain't an euay plow)' to for- get for one who has egos --a n' than we're blown 0,0311, »n' we Olt Into ire an' trouble. The Alt'llt dle,s, art!' 1 lune 1111' ship, But I leas ''1e0e enough t0 get the reel:uuht' of that !shoo!. "Finally I lend ut Seattle, broke. I meet up. with the roan they r'atl Hard - Melt they railed him Honest Shuns tIlt,) nays, i 111:" him, an' I finally tr 11 him 1 nhottt my island. I put up the reekrmn1', an' he supplies the liarluk, grub, an' crow, "Slmm lut'k h still :min' him. The learluk glis into lee, pits nipped .111' carried north, 'way 101111, with wind an' r•urrent, frozen tight In a floe. It looks like ("leve got to winter there. Mind ye, I've given Hewett Simms the reckonii' of the island. We go out ou 11143 ice It.:er bee un' we 13111 a Iiadink hear. Mo ---I'll never etattd for the shootlu' of tuanher beat' if I can stop it. "I've loin Navin' trouble with my eyes right along. I'm un the floe not eighty yards trout Simms. No, not sixty! It was toe killed the bear, an' we're goin' buck to the Schooner for a sled. I stayed behind to bleed the brute. Ali of a sudden, like it always hits you, snow -blindness glts me, an' I shouts to Honest Simms. "Along comes a Point Arrow blister. That's a gale that breeds an' bursts of a second out of nowhere. It gath- ers up all the loose snow an' Ice crys- tals an' drives 'em in a whirlwind. You lose yore direction even when you got eyes. I'm left In It by that bilge. blooded skunk, blind on the rockin', breakin' floe, while he scuds back' to the schooner with his men, That's Honest Simms! Jim Lund's left be- hind but Honest Simms has the posi- tion of the Island." "I didn't • hear yon call out you were blind, Lund. The wind blew your words away. I didn't know but what you were as right as the rest of us. We found the schooner by sheer luck before we perished. We looked for you—but the floe was broken up. We looked—" "Shut up 1" bellowed Lund, "You sailed inside of twenty-four hours, Honest Simms. The natives told me so later, when I could understand talk ag'in. D'ye know what saved me? The bear! I stumbled Over the carcass 'when I'3vas nigh spent. I ripped 11 up and clawed some of the warm guts, an' climbed Inside the bloody body an' . stayed there till It got cold un' clamped down over 01e, Waith' for you to come an' git me Honest Simms 1 "That bear was bed and board to me until the natives found It, an' tie in It, more dead than alive. Never mind the rest. I get here the day be- fore you start back for more gold. "An' I'm goin' with you. But first I'm goin' to have a full an' fair ac- countin' 0' what you got already. I've got this young chap with me, an' he'll give me a haul to'ard a square deal" Lund propelled Rainey forward a few steps and then loosened his grip. The captain of the Karluk appealed to Mm directly, "Mr. Lunt! 1s unstrung," saki the captaln• "He Is under the delueIoti that we deliberately deserted hint and, later, found the gold he speaks of. The first charge Is nonsense. We did all that was possible In the frightful weather. We barely saved the ship. "As for the gold, we touehed on the island, and we did some presenting, a very ltetle, before we were driven offshore. - The dost in the punt' Is 2)11 we secured. We aro going hack for more, quite naturally. 1 ran prove all this to you by the log." Lund had been minding with his ' great head thrust. forward as if 10r1- centeating all his rtmniniug 5eust's in an attempt to judge the captata's talk, The doctor sat with one leg crossed, smoking a cigarette, his expression sardonic, sphhnxlik0, To Rainey, n little bewildered at bring dragged into the affair, and annoyed at it, Captain Shams' words rang true enough, Ile did not 1111ow wlutt to sty, whether to speak at all, Lund supplied the gap, "If that ain't the truth, you lie well, Simms," he said. "But I don't trust le. You lie when yeti say you ditltt't hear me call out I was blind. Sixty Yards away, 1 was, at' the wind hadn't statted. You deserted me—left me blind, tucked in the bloody, freeztlt' oarcass of a bear. Left me like the t'...,Ftra, are. Why, . The rising freeze of letiel'n vWre we... 4vddeuly breb..n by the el,•:cr nota' r4 a pines volt,•, t net "1' 434', d'»., N. ill tit alter eitti o1' the unite rablu to d epeuc>d, and she :mod lit tl'e gi,f,, slim, yeelew-hahr'l, %Ott, grey eyes th"e blazed lie they 10,4011 rw 111. 111 110 tableau. "Who "ays my father is a ell ?" slut 1lnuundr d, "Putt r And do. tue0d. 1,1111)1 WWI sueli Intrepid ea ..bee/epee of e' knelt eIilln!1 ('41nae tem 411,1 her vohv. su 1 h ! 1140 01 Allo ul,.:.,h1g, I " : ''d "91' 1 114,1111 hu3'' relo(• ,4.11 1(,•r=.1 11 0•11 see 1ny nether deee led pee you I11 1 1'ametin 1ttltue.; larl'd t• I I 4,, C:u'Isen 13:01 o1o., d tewlyd her. liar w:l.1.••'l h, ,,, on the deck, "Go into your .etedt , the captain, "Tbl is lee. ).1,1•. - you. ., you. l *1341 handle the a;at,•r. 1,43:.. 11110 111Use for 00) Orme' : hl. 1 e.. 51,11011 hitt." Lund stood from. 1 lIL" , I"' •0r e,t s"eat, all his feeubles 14..,,, 1. 11 tc•ntlen toward the gee, '11(0 doe l0r crossed and spoke to her in a ler: voles. Lund spoke, and his 001er. wus sod- denly mild. "I didn't know there was a lady present, tales," he said. "Yere father's right. Yin let us settle tills. h'e'll come to an agreement.' But, for all bis swift change to placability, there 3.44 a sinister under- tone to his voice that the girl seemed to recognize. She hesitated until her father led her hack Into the cabin, "You two'll sit down?" said the doc- tor, speaking aloud for the first time, his voice amiable, carefully neutral. "And we'll have a drop of something. 311', Lund, I can understand your at- titude. You've sntiered a great deal. But you have misunderstood Captain Simms. I have heard about this from him, before. Fre has no desire to cheat you. He is rejoiced to see you alive, though afflicted. He is still Honest Sinms, Mr. Lund, "I haven't your nan10, slr," he went on pleasantly. to Barney, "Tire cep- tain said you were a newspaper man?" "John lieln0?', of the Three. I icnecv nothing of this before I crone aboard." "And you will understand, of course, what Mr. Lund ov,'rloekeel in his natural agitation, that this in not a story for your paper. We should have a fleet trailing us, We must ask your confidence, lir. Rainey." There was a strong personality in the doctor, Raluey renlized, He did not like the man from first appear- ances. He was too aloof, too sardonic in his attitudes. But his manner was friendly enough, his voice compelling In its suggestion that Rainey was a man to be trusted. Captain Simons came back into the cabin, closing the door of his daughter's room. "We are going to have a little drink together," said the doctor. "I have some Scotch In my cabin. If you'll excuse me for a moment? C,tptnin, will you get some glasses, and a chair for Mr, Lund?" The doctor came back with a bottle of Scotch whisky and a siphon, The captain had set out glasses and a pitcher of plain water from a reck. "I imagine you'll be the only one who'll take seltzer, 11Ir. Rainey," said the doctor pleasantly, passing the bot- tle, "Captain Simms, I know, uses plain water. 1 eupp'sc' lt1r, enol fines the same. Anil I prefer n et 111 drink," Rttlney toile Li 1 ll4 10 his t•1(,*y, Phe caltln wee last, and iv cas ltdrsly. 'Phe seltzer meted 1, 1!,N, let or the e wr e ut whlslcy wile of an a 11 f r•rh. F.,• fowled. And teen teeetie eteelet.tv Seised hit. lie lee! the lee, of lois 1310115, of his ton,e, whet, 4' tried to cell! out. 110 filtv,le• 101'ni s s.1ydt1111t' eyes Watlhhtg tan 4, he stroll• to sh11110 off a loft 1 ^y the! 501111v merged 1144 diSailt ,. (Dimly to, hoar!! Ile• 1,•.,11.,, of 11„ eat,n,tri e chat!• Nene 1(0! ha' i,. Fronr fur off he 1301'1•,1 1 coir: her v0100 i,00n lug, 'here. wh.,1 s Ido " and the rloetot b rutting iu, tory elei neve; then he , t,!lr,ps 1, his betel 1 fulling forward ea i,i;•t Dalt si retched arms. CHAPTER 11, A Divided Company. ft was lot the first time that Reines had been on a ship, n sailing ship, and at son. Lacking experience in setnui navl:atlon, he was a pretty haar•tnunr anenr. I;4.,ndy nsshiloe camefonustt 0latnthetgrip of the drug that had been given him, slowly, with a hralnpan that seemed overstuffed with cotton and which throbbed with a dull persistent oohs,— with a throat that seemed to be reeled with aRhes, strangely runtrarted—a nauseated stomach—eyes that saw things through a haze--limhs that ached as if bruised --the Pounds that beat their way through his sluggish consciousness wore familiar enough ti. place him altaos: Instuutly. As he lay there in u harrow hunk, watching the play of light that casae through a porthole beyond his line of vision, lieteuiug to the 1(130 been of waves followed by the swasb :tlol,rC- side that told law the Karluk was bucking heavy seas, a slew rage mas- tered him, centered against the doc- tor with the 01,rdenle smile and 1'ap- tain Simtus, who Rainey 111 sure lied tacitly approved of the dtc•tor's 01' - tions, Ile remembered Lund's eeei uuatiou of, •'Here, whet's this'?" —the wee., len of a blind n.. 11 who ,.:I!d 1401 ; ..1y what wets 10rn,enia --ant! acquitted (Continued Next Week) e. '..LOOK AT YOUR LABEL W. D. S. JAMIESON, MD; CM; LM.,CC; Physician and Surgeon Office McKelvey Black, Brussels Successor to Dr, White Phone 45. T. T. M' RAE M. 8.. M. O. P., d! S, O. M. 0, E., Village of Brussels. Physician, Surgeon, Aceonchenr Meant residence, opposite Melville Church, William street. DR. WARDLAW Honor graduate Of the Ontario Veterlueny College. )ay and night oalls. 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SUTHERLAND & SON LIMITED ¢a Ti KW CAV PEA PE eiVelrfiRit ..190010 Letterheads Envelopes Billheads And all kinds of Bueinese Stationery printed at The Post Publishing house. We will do a job that will do credit to your business. Look over your stock of Office Stationery and it it requires replenishing call us by telephone 81. The Post Publishing House • fry ff. s Ji 014 ireelS ..; i eee !Merrill Co. seeteion. His Carr was nenvy-0earnee it hair of flanllug, curling red, from high cheekhnnee down out of sight be- low -the soft loose collar of his shirt. About thirty, Rainey judged 111111. Buffeted by time and weather, but in the prime of his strength, "Snow -blinded, matey," said the man, "North o' Point Barrow, a year an' more ago. Brought me up all stnndin'. Whitt are you? Steamer man? Purser, maybe?" "Newspaper man," answered Rainey. "Waterfront detail, For the Times." "You don't say so, matey? A writer, eh?" Again Rtainey felt the tug of that something back of the dark lenses, some speculation going on in the man's mind conceruing him, And be felt the lirm fingers contract ever so slightly, sinking Into the muscles or his forearm for a second with a hint of how they could bruise and para- lyse at will. A faint sense of revul- sion fought with bis natural Inclina- tion to aid the hnndleapped mariner, and he shook It off. "The Kariuk sails tomorrow," lie said. "I hail a short talk with Captain Simms when she docked. Not 10uc:9 of It ,yarn. She didn't have a good trip, you know." "Why, I didn't know. Bnt—hold a tninnit, will ye? You see, Simms Is 011 old shipmate of intoe. Ile don't dream I'm within a hundred miles o' lithe. Aye, or n thousand." He gave a deep -chested chuckle. "Now, then. 'tuatey, look here." Rainey was authored by the com- pelling grip. They stood next to the slip 10 which the sonier lay. The Ktu•luk's decks were deserted, though there wtts smoke coming from the gal- ley stovepipe. "Shuttle Is likely to be aboard, went on the other, "Ye see, 1 know his ways, An' I've come as long trip to see hint, Nigh mis5ed him. Only ' got in from Seattle this utornin', ile ain't expectin' me, ,tri It's in my mind to surprise him, By way of a joke, How's the tlec'tt? Clear?" "No one In sight," said Rainey. "trine, Do rue a favor, matey, an' pilot me dower into the cabin, if so be the skipper's there. If he ain't, 1'11 wait for him, I've got the Hetet un' run o' the Karluk's cabin. 1 "(now ev'ry 10011 of her. You'il see when we go aboard. Let's go." Rainey led him down the gangway to the deck of the sealer, still chit- tereel a bit with unstowed gear. Once aboard, the blind man seemed to walk with 11551101100e, guiding himself with toilettes here and there that showed his familiarity with the vessel's rig, Ile approached the cabin skylight, lift- ed it on the port side. Through it came the murmur of velees, The Mimi man nodded in satisfaction and widened his grin with a warning "hush-sh" to his guile. "We'll fool 'ern proper," he lipped rather than uttered, The companion doors were closed, but they opened noiselessly. The 1 stairs were carpeted with corrt,gated { rubber that muffled all sound, Two men sat at the cabin table, leaning forward, hands and forearms out - 1 stretched, fingering soinetlling, One Miley recognized as the captain, Simms—a heavy, Square -built man, gt'ay-hatred, elean-shaven, his flesh , tanned, yet sotnehoW unhealthy, as if the bronze {vas close to tarnishing. THE BRUSSELS POST WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 3rd, ,1.112S' 1'13" olhvr was yu,l,ut"r. 1:111, tow v- coly melee, with darl, eye•, 4.11l a •Itrk mustache and beard, the letter trimmed h, a vurd,he leevwe them t? 0 lout;, 01110 41101: a! 11', Itaf, it ''lIIte1•'s polit'. It was hair 11,11 of :nn,etldag that r'inlled it• e�- trrtld1y solid, tvlthent 4,114i.t th1' n+nun athsIanee that gli. entei je UI mouth of th .ask told the pains or the two 1101 ,,Id --c' 13.0 dine f :4.1.1' Rainey felt him—11' three. io one .140 as he Mho' mon • +I ilea across the bottom of the Neol,,ddotb •.vay, eying lu the e,tb11, while' he 1hru11. Ids stlrk with 11 Ilnnllp on Ihe floor and thundered. 111 tl lee! ,w that seemed to till 111- eieer and eeme tum- bling batik In deafening echo: "Kerluli ahoy';,, The Increer CiteiIQn !riming paled, the ion turned to a eleely gray, end I08 jaw dreppe'l. Rainey sew teetr 0,1010 into his r;0+, ills cent eenion diel not stir tt nlll:n•I„ (Avoir 1'm• the (Mich shift of lib, glance, but went en sitting at the t Ible, the gold In ono pain, the fingers of 1315 ether hand 1•,ethig 1,11 the grains, "Jim 1.1111(4 1" gasped the captain hoarsely, "That's me, you skulking seulpin 1 Thought I was heat' meat by this didn't you, blast yore rotten soul to h--11 But I'm back, Bill Shams. Back, en' this time you don't slip me!" Jim Lund', face was purple -red with rage, great veins startling out 111011 It so swollen that it seemed they must surely burst and discharge their congested contents, He looker!, Rai- ney thought, like a blind Berserker, re- strained only by his affliction, "You left me blind on the floe, Bill Simms:" he roared, "Blind, In a driv- 10' blizzard with the Ice breakin' up 1 If I didn't have use for yore carcass I'd twist yore head from yore scaly body like I'd pull up a carrot." Lund's fingers opened and closed convttlsively. "I looked for you, Jim," pleaded the captain, and to Rainey his words "What's That 1 Hit?" Asked Lund. lacked conviction. "I didn't know you were blind. I heard you shout just before the blizzard broke loose. There's others present, Jim. I can ex- plain it to you when we're by our- selves. When you're a mite calmer, Tim." Lund banged his stick down on the table with a smashng blow that made the man with the vandyke beard, still silent, keenly observant, draw back his arm with a catlike swiftness that only just evaded the stroke. The heavy wood landed fairly on the filled half of the poke and caused some of the gold to leap out of the mouth. "What's that I hit?" asked Lund. "Soft, lilte a rat," He lunged forward, felt for the poke, and found it, lifted it, hefted It, his forehead puckered with deep seams, discovered the open end, poured out some of the colors on one palm, and used that for a mortar, grinding et the grains with his finger Inc a pestle, still weighing the stilt with n silgllt Morn -down utavement of his hand. Ito nodded as he slipped the poke into a side pocket, and the cabin grew very silent. Lund's face was grimly terrible. He stepped back across the companionway. "So," he said, his sleep voice tnuf- tied by some swift reetratnt, "you found it. And yo're going back after more?" His forehead was still creased with puzzlement. "Wal, I'm going with ye, eyes or no eyes, an' XII keep Ohs on ye, 13111 Simms, by day and night. You can lay to that, you sliny-hearted swab I" t. 1115 voice had risen again, Rainey saw the sweat standing out on the captain's forehead as he answered: "Of course you'll come, Tim. No need for you to talk this way." "No need to talk( By the eternal, What I've got to say's bin steamtn' in me for fourteen months o' blackness, an' it's comin' out, now it's started 1 Who's this man, who teas talkin' with ye when I come aboard?" "That's Doctor Clarisen, FIe's to be surgeon this trip, Jim," said Slating deprecatingly, though he darted a loots at Rainey half suspicious, half resent- ful, Rainey, on the hint, turned toward the ladder quietly enough, but Lund had hipped him by the bleeps before to takes„a_atatt...:. 1.fA 1 4 4 0 4 WANTED } •S I [ igli 'st market 1alike paid f'4. )'our J Jens M8 Ylltiek 0+0+0+040+0+,0+0+0+0+0+0+0, "You'll st:ly rt;;h1 here," Nair! Luud, "t 1111e, 1 tell you nil' this Dee Carlson fiat kind of a 0 1)1 Siunns Is, 0i111 his p0i full of gold told 11143 with the 111.1'•4 ui 11y Met areal spent two 11041135 sego. 1 0, 11 1 sp11) 0111 tite yarn. "I l'es*ued 1111 Aleut 41 a bit o1' to berg 000 11,1,0. 'IYorre %varlet unu•h 0t' 111111 left Le resale. Ilnnds ani fe'•t au' hose was frozen so It, lost 'ate, but the pore devil w'us grat0ful un' he told the something. 'relit about un 131111)1 north of Bering steitit, west of Meer, 11110 sound, ,where 111o1,' woe gold rot the brach rirlo•r Imd 1ldt•ker than it ever lay at Nilo,. 1 makes rot' 1t, gill./ close enough for nay AIo•nt to recog alma it—h ain't an euay plow)' to for- get for one who has egos --a n' than we're blown 0,0311, »n' we Olt Into ire an' trouble. The Alt'llt dle,s, art!' 1 lune 1111' ship, But I leas ''1e0e enough t0 get the reel:uuht' of that !shoo!. "Finally I lend ut Seattle, broke. I meet up. with the roan they r'atl Hard - Melt they railed him Honest Shuns tIlt,) nays, i 111:" him, an' I finally tr 11 him 1 nhottt my island. I put up the reekrmn1', an' he supplies the liarluk, grub, an' crow, "Slmm lut'k h still :min' him. The learluk glis into lee, pits nipped .111' carried north, 'way 101111, with wind an' r•urrent, frozen tight In a floe. It looks like ("leve got to winter there. Mind ye, I've given Hewett Simms the reckonii' of the island. We go out ou 11143 ice It.:er bee un' we 13111 a Iiadink hear. Mo ---I'll never etattd for the shootlu' of tuanher beat' if I can stop it. "I've loin Navin' trouble with my eyes right along. I'm un the floe not eighty yards trout Simms. No, not sixty! It was toe killed the bear, an' we're goin' buck to the Schooner for a sled. I stayed behind to bleed the brute. Ali of a sudden, like it always hits you, snow -blindness glts me, an' I shouts to Honest Simms. "Along comes a Point Arrow blister. That's a gale that breeds an' bursts of a second out of nowhere. It gath- ers up all the loose snow an' Ice crys- tals an' drives 'em in a whirlwind. You lose yore direction even when you got eyes. I'm left In It by that bilge. blooded skunk, blind on the rockin', breakin' floe, while he scuds back' to the schooner with his men, That's Honest Simms! Jim Lund's left be- hind but Honest Simms has the posi- tion of the Island." "I didn't • hear yon call out you were blind, Lund. The wind blew your words away. I didn't know but what you were as right as the rest of us. We found the schooner by sheer luck before we perished. We looked for you—but the floe was broken up. We looked—" "Shut up 1" bellowed Lund, "You sailed inside of twenty-four hours, Honest Simms. The natives told me so later, when I could understand talk ag'in. D'ye know what saved me? The bear! I stumbled Over the carcass 'when I'3vas nigh spent. I ripped 11 up and clawed some of the warm guts, an' climbed Inside the bloody body an' . stayed there till It got cold un' clamped down over 01e, Waith' for you to come an' git me Honest Simms 1 "That bear was bed and board to me until the natives found It, an' tie in It, more dead than alive. Never mind the rest. I get here the day be- fore you start back for more gold. "An' I'm goin' with you. But first I'm goin' to have a full an' fair ac- countin' 0' what you got already. I've got this young chap with me, an' he'll give me a haul to'ard a square deal" Lund propelled Rainey forward a few steps and then loosened his grip. The captain of the Karluk appealed to Mm directly, "Mr. Lunt! 1s unstrung," saki the captaln• "He Is under the delueIoti that we deliberately deserted hint and, later, found the gold he speaks of. The first charge Is nonsense. We did all that was possible In the frightful weather. We barely saved the ship. "As for the gold, we touehed on the island, and we did some presenting, a very ltetle, before we were driven offshore. - The dost in the punt' Is 2)11 we secured. We aro going hack for more, quite naturally. 1 ran prove all this to you by the log." Lund had been minding with his ' great head thrust. forward as if 10r1- centeating all his rtmniniug 5eust's in an attempt to judge the captata's talk, The doctor sat with one leg crossed, smoking a cigarette, his expression sardonic, sphhnxlik0, To Rainey, n little bewildered at bring dragged into the affair, and annoyed at it, Captain Shams' words rang true enough, Ile did not 1111ow wlutt to sty, whether to speak at all, Lund supplied the gap, "If that ain't the truth, you lie well, Simms," he said. "But I don't trust le. You lie when yeti say you ditltt't hear me call out I was blind. Sixty Yards away, 1 was, at' the wind hadn't statted. You deserted me—left me blind, tucked in the bloody, freeztlt' oarcass of a bear. Left me like the t'...,Ftra, are. Why, . The rising freeze of letiel'n vWre we... 4vddeuly breb..n by the el,•:cr nota' r4 a pines volt,•, t net "1' 434', d'»., N. ill tit alter eitti o1' the unite rablu to d epeuc>d, and she :mod lit tl'e gi,f,, slim, yeelew-hahr'l, %Ott, grey eyes th"e blazed lie they 10,4011 rw 111. 111 110 tableau. "Who "ays my father is a ell ?" slut 1lnuundr d, "Putt r And do. tue0d. 1,1111)1 WWI sueli Intrepid ea ..bee/epee of e' knelt eIilln!1 ('41nae tem 411,1 her vohv. su 1 h ! 1140 01 Allo ul,.:.,h1g, I " : ''d "91' 1 114,1111 hu3'' relo(• ,4.11 1(,•r=.1 11 0•11 see 1ny nether deee led pee you I11 1 1'ametin 1ttltue.; larl'd t• I I 4,, C:u'Isen 13:01 o1o., d tewlyd her. liar w:l.1.••'l h, ,,, on the deck, "Go into your .etedt , the captain, "Tbl is lee. ).1,1•. - you. ., you. l *1341 handle the a;at,•r. 1,43:.. 11110 111Use for 00) Orme' : hl. 1 e.. 51,11011 hitt." Lund stood from. 1 lIL" , I"' •0r e,t s"eat, all his feeubles 14..,,, 1. 11 tc•ntlen toward the gee, '11(0 doe l0r crossed and spoke to her in a ler: voles. Lund spoke, and his 001er. wus sod- denly mild. "I didn't know there was a lady present, tales," he said. "Yere father's right. Yin let us settle tills. h'e'll come to an agreement.' But, for all bis swift change to placability, there 3.44 a sinister under- tone to his voice that the girl seemed to recognize. She hesitated until her father led her hack Into the cabin, "You two'll sit down?" said the doc- tor, speaking aloud for the first time, his voice amiable, carefully neutral. "And we'll have a drop of something. 311', Lund, I can understand your at- titude. You've sntiered a great deal. But you have misunderstood Captain Simms. I have heard about this from him, before. Fre has no desire to cheat you. He is rejoiced to see you alive, though afflicted. He is still Honest Sinms, Mr. Lund, "I haven't your nan10, slr," he went on pleasantly. to Barney, "Tire cep- tain said you were a newspaper man?" "John lieln0?', of the Three. I icnecv nothing of this before I crone aboard." "And you will understand, of course, what Mr. Lund ov,'rloekeel in his natural agitation, that this in not a story for your paper. We should have a fleet trailing us, We must ask your confidence, lir. Rainey." There was a strong personality in the doctor, Raluey renlized, He did not like the man from first appear- ances. He was too aloof, too sardonic in his attitudes. But his manner was friendly enough, his voice compelling In its suggestion that Rainey was a man to be trusted. Captain Simons came back into the cabin, closing the door of his daughter's room. "We are going to have a little drink together," said the doctor. "I have some Scotch In my cabin. If you'll excuse me for a moment? C,tptnin, will you get some glasses, and a chair for Mr, Lund?" The doctor came back with a bottle of Scotch whisky and a siphon, The captain had set out glasses and a pitcher of plain water from a reck. "I imagine you'll be the only one who'll take seltzer, 11Ir. Rainey," said the doctor pleasantly, passing the bot- tle, "Captain Simms, I know, uses plain water. 1 eupp'sc' lt1r, enol fines the same. Anil I prefer n et 111 drink," Rttlney toile Li 1 ll4 10 his t•1(,*y, Phe caltln wee last, and iv cas ltdrsly. 'Phe seltzer meted 1, 1!,N, let or the e wr e ut whlslcy wile of an a 11 f r•rh. F.,• fowled. And teen teeetie eteelet.tv Seised hit. lie lee! the lee, of lois 1310115, of his ton,e, whet, 4' tried to cell! out. 110 filtv,le• 101'ni s s.1ydt1111t' eyes Watlhhtg tan 4, he stroll• to sh11110 off a loft 1 ^y the! 501111v merged 1144 diSailt ,. (Dimly to, hoar!! Ile• 1,•.,11.,, of 11„ eat,n,tri e chat!• Nene 1(0! ha' i,. Fronr fur off he 1301'1•,1 1 coir: her v0100 i,00n lug, 'here. wh.,1 s Ido " and the rloetot b rutting iu, tory elei neve; then he , t,!lr,ps 1, his betel 1 fulling forward ea i,i;•t Dalt si retched arms. CHAPTER 11, A Divided Company. ft was lot the first time that Reines had been on a ship, n sailing ship, and at son. Lacking experience in setnui navl:atlon, he was a pretty haar•tnunr anenr. I;4.,ndy nsshiloe camefonustt 0latnthetgrip of the drug that had been given him, slowly, with a hralnpan that seemed overstuffed with cotton and which throbbed with a dull persistent oohs,— with a throat that seemed to be reeled with aRhes, strangely runtrarted—a nauseated stomach—eyes that saw things through a haze--limhs that ached as if bruised --the Pounds that beat their way through his sluggish consciousness wore familiar enough ti. place him altaos: Instuutly. As he lay there in u harrow hunk, watching the play of light that casae through a porthole beyond his line of vision, lieteuiug to the 1(130 been of waves followed by the swasb :tlol,rC- side that told law the Karluk was bucking heavy seas, a slew rage mas- tered him, centered against the doc- tor with the 01,rdenle smile and 1'ap- tain Simtus, who Rainey 111 sure lied tacitly approved of the dtc•tor's 01' - tions, Ile remembered Lund's eeei uuatiou of, •'Here, whet's this'?" —the wee., len of a blind n.. 11 who ,.:I!d 1401 ; ..1y what wets 10rn,enia --ant! acquitted (Continued Next Week) e. '..LOOK AT YOUR LABEL W. D. S. JAMIESON, MD; CM; LM.,CC; Physician and Surgeon Office McKelvey Black, Brussels Successor to Dr, White Phone 45. T. T. M' RAE M. 8.. M. O. P., d! S, O. M. 0, E., Village of Brussels. Physician, Surgeon, Aceonchenr Meant residence, opposite Melville Church, William street. DR. WARDLAW Honor graduate Of the Ontario Veterlueny College. )ay and night oalls. 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