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THE BRUSSELS POS'
W1?DNi;e'DAOt, MAY 940, 1880
ENTITLED
The Doings of Diana
"Oh, well," said the ?woman re
grefe-117, "I suppose you know crest
But I thought that ,perimps you
alright be wanting to send him some
'message of thanks. The men who
were rowing iig the boat said that he
was holding on to you with one
lame and on to the oar with the
Other,"
''Pel thank him wben I sea him,'
announced Diana in tones of the
utmost finality, and with that the
sentimental stewardess had to be
content,
As things turned out, however, it
was some daysi before she was in a
position to thank Ian• for what he
had done. 'Total immersion in
cold 'water ;had not Proved advan-
tageous in her delicate state et
health, and she was not allowed to
get out of her bunk, till they were
actually in the English Channel.
Once she was assured that no one
on the ill-fated elarielta, nor on the
strip which had rammed her had
perished in the catastrophe, Diana
was quite content to remain in her
bunk, spending, most of her time
sleeping. At intervals during the
day the door of the cabin would be
thrown open to admit Mrs. Nairn,
who had recovered from the shock,
much more easily than the more
self-controlled Diana,
Now that tic:e ,chipw-reok was a
thing of the past, Mrs. Nairn was
dlepcsed to look back on it as
something rather exciting, and an
event in which she had played a
not unheroic part. She would
spend hours sitting on the end of
Diana's bunk going over every de-
tail of the wreck, a habit which
Diana, who was anxious to forget all
about it, found rather trying.
Whew at last, with the white
cliffs of England actually in sight,
Diana was allowed up an deck, the
first person she met was Ian Mar-
low.
He raised his hat. and with his
'very serious smile, asked whether
she was quite all right again.
"Cdr, yes, thank you," Diana as-
sured him, and then cast round in
.her mind to discover some words
in which she might abandt him for
:what he had done for her.
Before she had. time to find any.
3.e continued
"I am afraid that I was very rude
its you the other night, and what is
afore I realised later that my rude-
ness was quite unjust."
Diana, looked at him in some
surprise.
'When: were you rude to me?"
she enquired.
"On the night of the wreck," he
told her, "I accused you of being
prod, because you had come up on
deck without your lifebelt, but I
remembered afterwards that I had
seen you with one on only a few. s
By Pat Moore
minutes before, then I caught sight
of Nast. hysterical little Nairn wo-
man, without one, The 'Kart time
I saw youboth she was wearing a
14febe1t, and It was you who were
without. Thinking matters over
afterwards it wasn't very difficult
to put awe and two together, and
see that you bad giveu her your
I apologise for the mistake I matte
It was a very plucky•ahing you to
do."
"That was what I felt about your
giving me yours," said Diana softly
His lean• fare went suddenly
crimson under Wry tan.
"Thad was quite ' different," he
hastened to assure her, " a swim
neper weleiea m,,
e,
There was silence for a moment,
they were standing side by sit
watching the waves dancing in the
brilliant sunshine of an early spring
dray.
Diana took sidelong glance at
her companion, it was quite impos-
sible to tell what tboughsts were
preesiu; behind those level .eyes and
that self-contained face. Her own
mind went Mark to the night of the
shipwreck. and all that had happen-
ed passed before her is a series of
vivid Pictures, as it had done so
many times since the collision.
vents fond: of swimming, thought I
might be able to help."
'Diana flutreecl hotly, as she tried
to tbink of some means of changing
the sahjrat. It was quite obvious
that he found her gratitude embusgassing, ami she felt snubbed' by lits
somewhat pointed statement, that
s• he did not leap into the water' es-
• pt-caully to save her.
The silenee was beginning to
lengthen, uncomfortably, when a
diber'edon arirved on the scene 1n
, the shape of Mrs. Nairn.
Site hold out her hand. to Captain
Marlow, and then• spoke to Diana
over her shoulder."'There you are, dear," she said,
"I have just been down to the
cabin to look for you, Child, how
e frieretul yen leek in those burrowed
el 1.es.
Diana glanced down at the knitted
coat and skirt, and heavy coat,
w :.ch had been lent ber by one of
the passengers, all of them a trifle
too large.
"1 ant afraid they don't lit partic-
ularly wet,'' she spoke apologetical-
ly, though in her heart of hearts,
she was really furious with M•rs.
Nairn for calling attention to the
shortcomings of her garments.
Greatly to her sutpeise, Captain
Marlow iruterevened with—
' I think they suit you ratber
welt"
Mrs. Nairn made no reply to this:
She never discussed the same sub-
ject for very long dt a time, and
had apparently already lost all In-
terest in Diana's costume.
"Isn't It lovely to see dear old
England once more after years of
India?" she remarked sentiment-
ally. "We shall be at Tilbury in
a very shout time now, I must go
and say good-bye to everybody, I'll
begin with you, Diana, in case I
This time, however, there was a
fresh: one, wbich she had never
realised was there before, and
which threw an entirely neev light
on the part played by Captain Ian
Marlow during the disaster.
7w her memory she lived again
through the few seconds which had
elapsed between the, time he had
put his lifebelt over her head, and
the time when she bad got into the
boat. Quite clearly she saw him
again turn on his heel and stride
back to the boat to which he be-
longed.
She turned a pair of eyes, brown
and accusing, full upon him.
,'You weren't in our boat at all,'
she said.
"No," he replied briefly. "Mine
was the next boat"
'Then how did you get into the
water?" she demanded.
This time his reply was still more
brief.
"I dived in."
"Do you mean to tell me that you
lived into that awful seaon pur-
pose, just to rescue me? I thought
that you were in our bort', and fell
into the water, like the rest of us,
when it overturned. I didn't
thank you a bit properly--"
"Please don't talk about it any
more," he interrupted, "As a
matter of fact you make me feel an
awful fraud, when you thank me,
because, when I jumped into the
water, 1 hadn't the faintest idea
-whom 1 was going to rescue. I
simply saw a whole crowd of people
truggling in the water, and as I'm
don't see you in all the fuss and
commotion of landing. God -bye
clear, I'll drop a line to your parents
next mail, and tell them that in
spite of all our excitements, I mane
aged to look after you all right and
get you safely to Engiand. Good-
bye, Captain Marlow,"
She fluttered, off down the nearest
companion way, and Diana glanc-
ing of her companion, detected for
the first time a glint of purest
amusement in, his eyes.
"'Ye gods," he ejaculated in a
voice of gentle irony, "'does she
realy imagine that it was any
thanks to her that you were not
drowned during the shipwreck,"
"Apparently," replied Diana.
CHAPTL'R V.
The Deserted Boarding -House.
Diana thought that she hal never
taken a more tiring and trouble-
some journey than Lhat from Til_
Locomotive of Royal Train Ready
S Cheduled for the biggest job
ever assigned to a steam loco-
reotive, Canadian Pacific engine
2850, photographed at the Angus
Shops in Montreal, is ready to
haul Their Majesties the Icing and
'Queen on their 3,000 -mile trip
across Canada. The royal tour
wlllmark the first time one engine
has made a continuous journey of
this length, and 285O's record will
riot be equalled on the tour.
Specially re -fitted and decorated
for the occasion the big Canadian
Pacific locomotive 1s a mass of
shinbine
silver as geldssThe ssteeleemro! stream,
lined engine bears the royal arms
ovbeen the
nk flush -with
of the boiler -casing; Imperial
Crowns decorate each running
board; the crest of the Canadian
Pacifie appears beneath the win-
dow of the cab and, on the tender,
the royal arias fifer feet high are
blazoned in relief,
Thcomprig sgeneral
abackg ound rave of deep
blue on the enderframe, smoke -
box, front of engine and all mare,
glnal work on engine and tender.
The sides of tender, cab and run-
ning boards aro painted Royal
Blue,
A panel of aluminum leaf laid
In diagonal squares matching the
panel on the ears of the royal
train extends half way on the
tender. The panel is outlined in
gold.
The jacket on the locomotive,
handrails on It and the tender and
other trim is of stalniess steel.
Gold leaf has been employed on
the engine numbers,
Engineer Eugene Leclerc, of
Quebec, 'who was fireman on the
royal train in 1901, Willbe the
first Canadian engineer, He has
been In regular Canadian Paclfie
service between Quebec and Mont-
real for approximately 018 years.
C f"
c GARETT
no purest torn la wheel,
tgbscco can be ,Poked"
bury to Nowebaan, the village in
Tent whet* Ws. Meet's 'bearding.
house wase situated.
Pli's't 01 all there came the dreary
Journey in the bunt. Uatu, past
miles of dirty riverside buildings,
then she had to get herself across
town is Vkdot'la, and 'wait there
nearly as hour and a hall 102 a train
to ('an'lerbury.
When eat last she reached Canter-
bury sire was wort' out, and lean-
tn•g batik in the taxi which was tatt-
ing her to N•ew,:ham, dosed off to
sleep,
:She was waked Iry the taxi•
dri,.,er's sticking his head in through
the window and enquiring in acs in -
lured Lone of voice, "isn't Ibis
where you. 'want tit go, raise. This
is Ailerdyce House,"
Very sleepily Diana stumbled out
of the taxi and loked around her,
The short 'spring twilight wile
closing in and the biggish house,
rrstside Wilke) the taxi bad stopped.
showed up dark and shuttered In the
dusk.
Diana paid the driver with part
of the money which had been lent
her by the purser of the Trireme,
and as she waked up the short
drive to lite front door, she heard
the taxi chugging away into dire
darkness.
A sudden feeling of nervausnests
took passesion of her, It was in
any case going 'to lie something
of an ordeal to face all these
gtl'angers at the iboatrding-Louse,
Mrs. Hurst and all the rest of them,
but it was terrible to have to go
ihto the house like this, with no
luggage and very little money, for,
of course, though her possessions
were safe enough on board the
battered 'Marietta, it would be some
time before she could get hold of
any of them,
The house loked particularly
dark and uninviting, for all the
blinds were closely drawn and not a
gleam of light appeared at any one
of the windows. Even the hall was
in dtarkuess, Diana noticed, through
the glass panels. sof the front door,
as she rang the he'll,
No notice was taken of the sum-
mons. and after waiting for a couple
of minutes Diana rang again. This
time her efforts, met with success.
Somewhere at the back of the hall
gleamed a faint and uncertain
light, which grew gradually strong-
er as it approached nearer to the
front door.
The newt moment the door was
ipened and a man appeared on the
threshold, holding in one hand a
candle, which he shaded ,with the
other,
"Yes " he queried, and his voice
was none too plea5ant.
"Is Mos. Kunst at home, please?"
flattened Diana.
The mann wile was dressed in g
shabby tweed snit, the waistcoat of
which was decoartee with a multi-
tude of grease spots, evidently the
mamentos of bygone meads, looked
at her rather suspiciously,
"What do you went with Mrs.
Hurst?" he enquired.,
"Poe come to shay here," said
Diana,
"Well, you can't stay here, not
now,' 'he told her sourly,
"But it was all arranged weeks
and weeks ago," cried the girl des-
perately. c'IWg come 'from India,
especially to stay here,'
,He shook his head.
"You can't stay here," he repeat-
ed. "No one chtn't stay here,"
Diana felt divided betnveen anger
and a strong desire to buret into
tears.
In the encl anger prevailed, and
she said ].aOIgbtilY—
"I must see Mee. Hurst, 'will you
please bake me to her at once,"
Her haughtiness had' absolutely
no effect me the shabbily dreesed
man,
"I've tole you once that you can't
see Mrs, Barret," he announced
doggedly, then he added as though
it were an aSterthouglat, "she ain't
here',
Diana thotrght she saw daylight,
and slair'posedl that she had come to
the wrong berme,
'hint this A1lerdlyce Reese, New-
+sham, near Canterbury?" she asked,
The mean nodded his• head slowly
wh and down,
'"Yes," 110 replied, and :he gave upl
sheeting the dandle is otrder tet
punctuate his reply by dabbing a
very grimy forfnger against the
Janie oS the firont bo;,, "tbie
A1i(erlyoe Haute, but you caret see
MMst Hurst, because she ain't here,"
TO HE CONTINUED
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A special train will arrive at
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aside for the use of school children
o11dy. Peelic !School children
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with tickets. No children under
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readily. see their Majesties. All
persons going by the special train
will require to bring a lunch with
them as return trains will not
leave until 4 pen. its the afternoon
Parents must sign a release to the
Village of Brussels and the Sea-
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Bell to distingdislu Brussels citi-
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Huron County
Council Meeting
The next meeting of the Huron
County Council will be held at 2
P.m., Tuesday, May SOtlt, 1939,
Alt Accounts; Notices of Depute-
ttins; Appticatioue or any other
business rehutring council's aaten-
time should be in .the hands of the
clerk not later tluan. May 26th,
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BLYTH
The Citizenship Committee spon-
sored the Young People's meeting
in 'United Church for their weekly
meeting, the president, Jamie Sims
presiding. 'Scripture was read by
Luella Taylor and a solo sung by
Marion Mason, The tonic, "CiU-
zentehip' 'wets ably taken by Miss
M. Holahan while a reading :was giv-
en by Doris Moody.
elerebauibo of town are decorat-
ing their store windows this week
kr honor of Their Majesties' visit to
the adjoining cities.
errs, Nellie Leslie, lIiss Lena
Livingstone and Mrs, E. Willows
motored to Toronto on Friday;
Mrs. Mary Robinson, who has spent
the winter with her sister, Miss
Dodds, returned to Winghanc tbis
week and will reside with her
daughter, Mrs. Tervitt; Mr. and
Mrs. Benson Cowan moved on Wed-
nesday to the /louse leased by them
on DInsiay street, awned by Miss
Craig; carpenters are busy this
week building a sun por'ch on the
verandah of 1. 13. Watson's resi-
dence; Miss Cassie Dodds is spend-
ing some weeks with her niece at
Windsor- Tack Thompson and. his
mother have moved to the. apart-
ments over R. D, Philp's drug
store reeenbly vacated by Eruest
Deer anal family.
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