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The Brussels Post, 1928-12-5, Page 7A. 1.2 11 Cream Grading NI cans ETTER CREAM 'ETTER BUTTER ETTER PRICES We are now prepared to Grade your Cream honessly, gather it twice a week and deliver at our Creamery each day We lift it, We gather With covered truck to keep sun off it. We pay a prentitnn of 1 cent per lb, butter fat for Specials over that of No. I grade, and 3 cents per lb, but- ter-fni for No 1 grade over that of No, 2 grade. The baste principle of the improvement in the quality of Ontario butter is the elimination of second and off grade cream. This may be accomplished by paying the producer of good &ream a better price per pound of butter -fat teem is paid to the producers of poor cream. We solicit your patronage and co-operation for better market, i' -We will loan you a can. See our Agent, T. C. MCCALL, or Phone 2310, Brussels. The Seat' rth Creamery -culnitto..MaararamxVinran'aveAsAxaCKVane. A Man To His Mate Ey J. ALLEN DUNN Illustrations by Irwin Mycr3 Core/right Zobtio Merrill co. /ccacccusc.cc,,acccracctsAccirscocc ".; believe e• et would," he said at last. "An' I'd bate to fix you the way I would Tommie. But, mind yeu, if I don't git a definite promise out of him that rings true, ru have to stow him somewberes, where they won't find him. An' that wont be on board ship." The girl's face softened. "You said you played fair," she said with a sigh of relief. She stepped to the door, opened It, gnd called for Ta - made. The Japanese appeared almost Instantly. Lund closed the door- be- hind him and locked It. "You know there's a patrol comin' np, Tamada?" he asked. "A Jap pa- trol?" "Yes." • "What do you intend tenin, 'em if they come on board?" "Nothing, if I can help it. I think I can. 1 am not friendly with Japanese government. It would be bad for me If they find me. One time I belong Progressive Party In Japan. I make much talk. Too mech. The govern - went say I am too progressive." Rainey imagined he caught a glint of humor in Tentacle's eyes es he made his clipped syllables. "So, I leave my country, Suppose I go on steamer I think that govern- ment they stop me. I think even in .Callfornia they may make trouble, If they find me. So I go sampan. Some- times Japanese cross to California In sampan." "That's right," sold Rainey. He had handled more than one story of jap- anese crews landing on some desolate portion of the coast to avoid immigra- tion laws and steamer fares, Generally they were rounded up after their perilous, daring crossing of the Pacific. Tentacle's story held the elements of truth, Even Lund nodded In reserved affirmation. A "Also I ship on Karlek as cook be- cause of perhaps trouble it some one know me in San Francisco. I think much better if they do not see me. I have a plan. Also I want my sharp of gold. Suppose thee eninbont find me, find out elm& geld, they will not give me reward. You do not know Jterneee They will put me In prison. 7t will be euggeet to me, ln-thee T 0(11 dolma) blood"---Trimada drew 1110e01' tip slightly ns he elnimed his tweet- -"thrie 1 meke harl-knri. They 1 (11, not evisle 1 me Peep:Tessier,. T awe', rather cook 011 hoard Earlialt faul gel my slink, of geed," Lund eurveyed him moodily, 11(11" convinetel. The girl wee ell 011111" approvnl. "What is Mtn pinn, Tatunda?" 1.maavommemmammumam.mmummerommtrgamattemees, Letterheads Envelopes Billheads And all kinds of Business Stationery printer! at The Post Publishing /louse. We will do a job that will do credit to your business. Look over your stock of Office Stationery and id it requires replenishing call us by telephone 81. The Post Publishing House "We're losin' time on that loe," cw In Lund, "Git busy, Rainey. Loot; among Carlsen's stuff. Ile may hove kept one. Dope up one or erne nil burn the other. Now then, Taluitilll. dope out yore scheme; It's got to be e gond one." Both Lunrl and the girl were laugh- ing when Rainey came out into the main cabin again with the records. Tamada had disappeared. "ne's some fox," said Lund. "Miss Peggy, you better superintend the theatricals. It's got to be done right. Rainey, not to interrupt you, what do you know about enteric fever?' "Nothing." "Well; It's the same as typhoid. There'll be a surgeon aboarfl that gun boat. Vett got to bluff him. Say little an' look wise ns an' owl, Don't let him mix in with yore pallent." "IlEy pa tient T" "Timindit Ile's got enteric fever. It there's time he'll give you all the dope." "Bat I don't see how that—" ' "You will see when you see Teaneck," Lund grinned, "How about them lops? n you fix 'ern?" "T think so." "Then hop to 11. Pm goin' to wise up the men and arrange a reeeption com- • mittee. Don't forgit yore nittne's Carl- son, an' mlne's Simms." Rainey wrote rapidly in his log, erasing, eliminating pages without trnee, imitating the skipper's phrasing. Fortunately Simms had mule scant entries at first and, later on, as the drag held 111111, none at a11. Carlson had kept no record that he could find. The girl had gone forward to aid with Tarnada's plan which Lund hail evidently accepted. Before he had quite finished he heard the tramp of men on (leek and the blast of a steam whistle. He ended his task and went up to see the gun- boat, gray and menneing, its brasses glistening, rnen on her decks at their tasks, oblivious of the schooner, and officers on her Midge watching the progress of a launch toward the floe. It made landing smartly, and a I !elite]) ent dInlInutIve but highly effective In appenrance, led six men toward the Kurlult. He wore a sword and revolver; the men carried carbines. Their disciplined rank and smartness, 'Ile whiting launth, the gunboat In the iffing, were =Mons with the eugges- 'ion of power, the will to falminister It The officer In command Parried his rift at an arrogant tilt, Lund had rigged a gangway and stood at the Head of It. entitling the lieutenant ns the latter snappily answere.c1 the greet- ing. Ttniney found the girl and put a hurried question. "Wlutt about Tanteeict? Where is be? What's the Men?" She turneO to him with eyes thnt daneecl with excitement. "He's In the gelley. Doctor Carlson. But hp Tanuela any 0101.0, ITe's Jim Currey, nigger cook, sick with enteric, fever, net to be disturbed." Rainey stnred, ft was a clever de- vice, 11"raninelti could carry it out, and, he heat, his men pnrt 111 the mitsquer. ule. The willingness of Tentacle to risk the disguise wee assuranee of bls fidelity. "Lend 01)11111(1 have told me," be sold. "I've got to (Stange big 1111010 on the papers, It won't take a minute flume; 110 doese'et nppene In the log!, The :Tamest. einem' wasted no thne on deck. For prep:teflon, Rainey made 1110 nileration in the skipper's eaten, leaving the log there on the bellt-in desk. "This is Lieutenant Ito, Doctor Cerlsen," said 1.11(111. "You want to two our mem, Lieutenant?" "My oefleee are to examine the schooner," said Ito, in lenglisb even more perfect than Tentacle's, His fare WELS officially severe, though his slant eye's shifted constantly toward the glel. Evidently elle was an un- expected feature of the visit. "PII get the papers fit -al," said Lend, "Doctor, YOU an' Peggy entertain the ileetenant." Rainey set out some Whisky, whin the Japanese eefueed, some cigars that he passed over with a motion of Ills hand. He sat down stiffly and ran through 11(0 teepees. "We're yeilagie, you know," said Lund. "We ain't trespessiie on por- peee, Didn't even know yeti owned the island." "It Is on out chartit," said Ito crisp- ly, as If. that settled the right of do - 1111111011. did You come here at all?" 1 THE BRUSSELS POST "We was brought," said Lund. "Gut froze in north 0' Wrangell. tittle 10.1 1114 0 0141 als We mine out o' the strait, Mere 1)1)111111 for N1,t11111' emitraleutti. Alt reglar. hes. huntere, two damaged In the gait), (hough the doe's fixed '0111 up. 're eke. ',mutant, one bey, fill' a Mime. teed( 1,0111- 011041 11111131elf With las ov:11 etroklif. Doc'et britiglie him rotted, toe, iletugh he don't deserve it. Weldto make yore Inspection? We're itt 110 hurry Lo git away until the tee teethe Take yore 11,110," The mtie, I app e r °Meer with his leen, high-eheeked fame lind bis shoe - brush hule, got up and hewed, with side glance at 1'1'(5y Simms. ''11 Is not usual for 7(111115 hiding to he eo far north." Him 011t1 -elver at git ry Was obviona. "1 11111 With my ferher," said the glee 1001(1(15 at Rainey, eejoying the el 11.1- 1111011, "Where I go site goee," said Limit And looked in tarp nt her with relleh In his doable suggestion, Ire, e,o, W110 playing' the geme, gambling, be- lieving in his luck, reekless, now he had ern the heard. They passed through the corrhlon, Lund opened up the strong room, and Hain the galley. It was orderly, and there 'was a Moaning figure In Pe - matte's bunk, a tossing figure with a bend bound in a red bandanna above the black face and neck that showed above the blankets. The eyeu were closed. The black hands, showing lighter palms, plucked at the cover- ings. "Dellrious," said Lund. "Serves bine right. Die's a rotten cook." "Have you all the medicines you need?" asked Ito. "I can send our surgeon." "I can manage," returned Rainey. ' Delirious," said Lund. "Serves Him Right. He's a Rotten. Cook." alias Carlsen. "It's enteric. I've re- duced the fever." They passed on through the hunters' quarters. The girl fell behind with Rainey. "A good makeup and a good actor," she whispered. "I helped him to be sure he covered everything that would show. It was my idea about the ban- danna. just what a sick negro might • wear, and it hid his straight hair." The lieutenant appeared fairly sat- isfied, but requested that Lund go on board Ills ship. He stayed there until sundown, returning in hilarious mood. "We've slipped it over on 'em this time," he said. "2 left 'eat asevlin with sake, an' bubblhe over with polite re- grets. But they'll be hack In three weeks, they said, if the Ice is open. An', 11 the luck holds, we'll be out of it. I don't want them searchin' the ship agein." He slapped 'remade on the beck as he came to serve supper after Sandy had laid the table. "A reg'lar vodeville skit," he ex- claimed. "You're some actor, Toe made 1 But why didn't you say the island was down on their chartS? ',They've even got a mune for It, tityanut," "It means hot mountnin," said 'emade. "The government names many Islande." "You can bet yore life they do," said Lend. "They're smart, but they overlooked that beach an' they'v0 glv- en es three weeks to cash in." Lund himself had imbibed enough of the sake to make hint loose of tongue, folded to his eta Mon at the success he bad achieved, The gun- boat was gone on Its petrol, and lie had a Tree hand. He half filled a glass with whisky. "Here's to hick," he cried. And spilled a part of the liquor on the Root before he set the glass to his lips. "Here's to eou, Doc," he edged. "An' to Peggy!" He rolled eyes that were a trifle bloodshot at the girl. "Our relations have gone back as usual, Mr. Lund," she said quietly, Lund glared at her half truculently. "Pm agreeable," he said, "As daughter, I disown you Ltom now on, Miss Peggy, Here's to ye, jest the Daniel" CHAPTER XII. My Mate. From the day following the arrival and departure of the japaneee gun - beat, they attacked the lIttle Illhaped ,m( c • a WANTED `l• • Highest market price 6 paid for your Fe; tilers M0 Yo/lick veer% tnut 1117 tee %seep two 0111 resses of the vOlviino end sloped sharply down to the sett. 2'1111'1>l7113'men. 11 lad and ft Wornan, they 10001 al du despoiling of it with a ti oft of °Loses. slim, led, rather than driven, by 1,1111( 1. • worked among the rest of them. Like it Herculeg. The Men's fanny estimate of a mil- lion dollars began speedily to seem small us the work pregressed, system- atically stripping the rocky floor of all Its shingle, foot by foot, 1111(1 cubic' yard by cubic pull, (Tattling; it 111 crude roceers, Iluming it, vaporizing the amalgam of gold and tnereury, and adding pound nI'ter poun4 of virgin gold to the sucks in the scitoon- Ws strong. rOoln. They worked at Best In alternating shifts of four bent's, by day and night, under the sum the moon, the stars and the flaming aurora. The crust was drifted here and there where It had frozen into conglomerate, and explod- ed by dynamite, earefully placed so as not to dislodge the messes of ice that overhung the et:howler. Fires to thaw out the ground were unavailable for sheer leek of fuel; there was no driftwood between these forestless shores. What fuel could be Reared was conserved for use under the bon- ers that melted Ice to provide water for the Cradles and flumes, and help to conk the meals -alit Tornado, pre- pared out-'11edoore for the workers. Buckets of eoffee, stews, and thick soups of peas and lentils, masses of beans with plenty of fat pork, these were whet they craved after hours uf tremendous endeavor. Despite the cold, they sweated profusely at their tasks stripping off over -garments as - they .picked and shoveled or crow - barred out the rich gravel. Through all of It Lund was supreme as working superintendent. There was no job that he could not, did not, haadie better than any two of them, and though .Rainey could see a shrinkage, Or a compression, of his bulk, as day by clay he called upon it for heroic service, he never seemed to tire. "Got to keep 'eat at it," he would say in the cabin. "No time to lose, an' the odds all against us, in a way. Barring Luck. That's what we got to count on, but we clou't want them thlnkln' that. If the weather don't break—en' break jest right—as soon es we've cleaned up, we're stung, Though P11 blast a way out of this shore ice, if it comes to the worst. I saved out some dynamite on Pueleose." With Lund handling all og the men as g unit, It was not long before the shovels began to scrape on the bare rock that 'underlay the gravel at tide edge, and work swiftly back to the end of tbe U. The outdoors kitchen bad been established on top of the promontory between the schooner and the beach, a primitive arrange- ment of big pots slung from tripods over fires kindled on a fiat area that was partly sheltered from the sea and the prevailing winds he outcrops of weathered lava. At dawn the men trooped from the schooner to be fed and warmed, and then they 111111g themselves at their task, The more they got out the more :nem was in It for them. But Lund was their overlord, their better, and they knew it,. Only Deming worked with one heed the handle of the force bellows, or Ped the tires, and sneered. On the fifteenth day, with the work better than half done, with more 111111, a ton of actual gold in colors, Dint ranged from flour dust to neggete, in the strong -room, the weather began to change. It misled coutinually, and Lund, rejoicing, prophesied the break- ing up of the cold :male By the eighteenth day a regular Chinook 8118 111001115, 1115111115 the shurper outlines of the ivy erags and pinnacles, end providing streams or moisture that, In the nights now grad- ually growing longer, 51110011 every yard of rook with peril. The men worked in a muck with their rubber een-boots worn out by constnnt chafing, sweaters torn, the blades of their shovels reduced by the work demanded of them, the drills, shortened by steady sharpening, gone like the spare flesh of the laborers, who, at last, began to show signs of quicker and quicker exhaustion with occasionni mutterings of discontent, while Lund, intent upon cleaning off the •rock ne a dentist eleans a crumbling tooth, Coaxed and cursed, blamed and praised and bullied, and did the actual work of three of them. Dead with fatigue, ailed with food, drowsy fromthe liberal grog anose- !ince at the end of tIte (ley, the men slept in a torpor every night and Showed, less inclination to respond, though the end of their labors was al- most In sight. "What's the tese, we got enough," was the coinment beginning to be heard more and more frequently. "Lund, he's got omen he can vend It a lifetime 1" Rainey could not trace these mut- teeinge to OeMIng`a Instigation, but 1111:1115,14.11S5Weil the 113(1,3 3'0. There wa "Als).):::11:11,4egligy1118";:ins!):::.:143,e1,;(1',1tini:eitd 51'"si the pellsh ef her niiiinie. She was 111 way» feminine, even tittiety at Gams despite ber tio11 NOM] not lielp 1,111 ire elotrce to a pertain extent, 141), was 1'1111 V1101.1% S110 14'o,'1 1111ex peeled .drongtli, she was a source of Ojtvolirsmorupni to the 141011 ag t•11t1 11:1111 011 011 theta, And also 11 eonree 1,4 undieguised 10111111W 100, 1111 Or 15.1110h Ale sited sr 14 duck eleele weeee Ttailley gainett un inereesitte revere In 111.1. 51.0.1V0gg. and 11 mnift to the thatitily tit0104, Tlattrit were 1111401-1 W11011 110 iloithied 131-4 own fiottality. 1111,1 lit. 1001 111.11 01. his own emend, in his 0011 1'00101 011 1 ennsidereci 111;r1101,-, tp. Mama, . 3.10111111 have 11'.111/1111 0 100,101W 000 1- 110W lacked. As It eue, ehe nvereete sex that AIM eie11101111314. higher, and 14131' 111,11 an nkreelion 11 Here waa a gerl who weetd eertain etandards in (lie nom wilt ew01111(1)1nmit. neyhe n ftLev Nines 'when Rainey felt Irresigt tidy the elm= of her us a emulate longed for her In the powerful sex renetions that inevitably follow hard lubor. There were titnee when he felt that elle did not eonsider that he measured up to her guages, and he would strive to change the atmoephere, to dominate the situation in which Lund was the greater figure of the two men. Lund waft centered on one achieve- ment, the gold harvest. He ordered the girl with the rest; there were even times when he reprimanded her, while Ratney burned with the resentment sh.e4„ redital anv,otn. tlttle 8ohnarethe eight. eenth day of the work up the beach, Lund was oat upon the floe ex- amining the condition of the ice. He bad- declared that two days more of hard endeavor would romplete their labels, What dirt remained at the elle.: of that time they would transship, Rainey bad joined the girl and Tamada et t111110slyw 0 cocokilarsbright with the aurora borealis that wouid pale before the srue The men 1'14:0 flotp1 out of their bunk,. They were bone and muscle tired, and Rainey doubted whether Lund, gaunt and lean himself, could get two days of top work out of tbetn. Near the tires for the ceotc- ing, the melting of water and the forge, that were kept glowing all night, the tools were stacked to help preserve their temper. The aurora quivered in varying In- candescence as Rainey watched Lund prodding at the floe ice with a steel bar. The girl was busy with the coffee, and Tatnada was compounding two pots of stew and bubbling peas pudding, for the breakfast, food for heat and muscle making. Sandy appeared on deck and came swiftly over the side of the vessel and up the worn trail to the fires. He showed excitement, Rainey ftineled, sure of It as the lad got within speak- ing distance. "Where is Mr. Lund?" he panted. Rainey pointed to Lund, new ex- amining a crack that had opened up in the floe, a possible line of exit for the Karluk, later on. The men were beginning to show on the schooner. They, too, he noted somewhat idly, acted differently this morning. rsaidis, WED1S1'181)AY, D1C. 81/1, 11)28. 11 they wttri) sitig,6•4L eti11 1(1'? Mai eaten, 1.16ce1'5' 1111,1 l 1,101 ;nig 11,,' eoffee ('(111,0(411, 1) lliont, 1n.114 8 115 111111 (41110,11115 1.11,0,g1 it 1r, 11 1131111t, ,,T 'lid, 1 101'1101 1 1,8Y 'u/11,''I 11/70.1.0111•*,. 111/1101101111:. :101 Nit "They're 'ee ;rola' on ',They're Drunk, an' They're Goin, on Strike," Said Sandy. strike," said Sandy, "You know the big demijohn In the lazerette?" Ratney nodded. It was a two - handled affair holding five gallons, a reserve 'limply of sirong rum from which Lund tilspentied the grog allow- ances and stirnulatiens for extra work toward the end of the shift, the night- caps and 0rta1S1011111 rewards. '"fhey've swiped le'he said. "PM an empty one from the bold in its plaee. We got plenty without ushe that one for a Nebr.. an' I only Imp- pened to notice if this morning by chance. They've 11111 drinkin' alt nieht (Continued Next Week) W. D. S. JAMIESON, MD; CM; LM.CC; Physician and Surgeon Office McKelvey Block, Brussels Successor to Dr. White Phone 45. T. T. M'RAE 111. 0. H., Village of Brussels. Physician, Surgeon, A000noheur ()Moe at residence, opposite Melville Church, Wililant street. OR, WAROLAW rac2:;.. greayuaatedonfigti:e.fir..tareffiLetaelfpirpug Flour M111.11thel. VP. AV. Sixarz,ar9 AUCTIONEERS THOMAS BROWN Seeforth, Ontario Licensed auctioneer for misname of Huron and Perth. 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