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"`Robins treats his staff properly, can be like . with a bullying Chief funnels circled with scarlet of the
:and they work well for him, and he Steward, and with half the men try- Hay Tor, and 'a maze of masts and
always has a clean ship, but Perrin ing to keep on the right side of him, osiers outlined against the blue sky.
has different methods. Oh, Chris- and the rest up against Iiim all the On the wharf, half a dawn men and
tine, I'm afraid you're going to have time: You don't know--" i boys were talking together, and they
a bad time. 'You've been so lucky on "For goodness sake, mother,- stopped talking and stared curiously
the Brent Tor, with that nice Mr. Christine laughed, "don't be sueh a at Christine as she passed them and
Robins, and with Mrs. Trimble and Job's comforter. You know I hate went up the long gangway.
Robins, and with Mrs. Trimble and leaving the Brent Tor, where I'm "Signing -on in the 'smoke room?"
Miss Scott so ready to help you be friendly with everyone—if you, make she asked the quartermaster, who
.cause of being old shipmates of mine, any more dismal prophecies about lounged at the head of the gangway,
You don't know—yet—what a ship Mr. Perrin, you'll have me wiring to his elbows on the rail.
the Company to say I've gat scarlet "This companion -way is shut," he
fever, and can't sign on te-day." said, uncivilly enough. "You'll have
The Clinton News -Record "I'man old fool, Christine," Mrs. to go along the deck to the iron
' Lind said,, trying to smile. "After companion to the smoke -room terrace.
with which is Incorporated all, you may be wrong about Perrin Know your way?"
THE NEW ERA being Chief on the Hay Tor, or he 'I thing so. I'm from the r Brent
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTIQN may have changed a lot since I knew Tor, and this is the sister ship,"
11.50 per year in advance, to Can-
him—it must be close to fifteen. "Then you don't want me to show
adian addresses; $2.00 to the U.S. or years since that trip, and a man may you", he said, turning his back on
other foreign countries. No papex mellow in fifteen years, Someone her. ' . I ' '
.discontinued until all arrears are told me once that even Robins was a,iIt wasn't a very friendly welcome
flair) unless at the option of the pub- bit of a tyrant when he was Second." to her new shift, but Christine was
4isher. The date to which every sub -
But she hadn't really succeeded in determined not to be discouraged.
scription is paid is denoted on the reassuring Christine, though they After all, the quartermaster's surli-
dabel: •went on talking cheerfully about Mr. ness didn't matter to, her, since she
ADVERTISING RATES —Transient Robins and other people they bothlmight never speak to him again dur-
advertising 12e per count line for knew. Christine knew well enough ing the whole voyage.
first insertion. 8c. for each subse- that she had been lucky in her first)
quem insertion. Heading counts 2 ship; for the Brent Tor was a very'
She walked along the deck, past
lines. Small advertisements not to 1", the closed and shuttered windows of
•exceed one inch, such as "Wanted", happy ship from the palm of view'
I the passenger's state -rooms, and
"Lost, "Strayed", etc., inserted once of the staff. Sometimes, when she • climbed the spiral iron companion
,for 135c., each subsequent insertion listened to the tales told by those leading to the smoke -room terrace,
15e. Rates for dismay adverttising two experienced women, Mrs. Trimble which was divided off from the
•made known on application. and Miss Scott, Christine had been
Communications intended for pub- overwhelmed by sheer ,panic, know- I Olce-roam is -sir by glass does,.
For one panic-stricken moment she
3icatioi must, as a guarantee of good ing that sooner or later she was paused before pushing open the door
'faith, be accompanied by the name bound to be transferred.nearest to her, and then plucked up
eif the -writer. Even on the Brent Tor, with a full her courage and went in, to face the
G. E HALL - Proprietor ship and stormy weather they were; men and women with whom she was
•------- so overworked that they were too' to spend the next three and a half
tired to sleep, but at least Mr. Rob -I months. t
H. T. RANCE • ins was kindly. Miss Scott had told' The chairs and settees were still
'Notary Public, Conveyancer Christine about a Chief Steward who, covered with dust' sheets, and the
Financial; Real Estate and Fire In- had stormed at her because a fork little tables. were piled in a heap
surance Agent. Representing 14 Fire on the tray she was carrying was against one wall, except for two
insurance Companies,
Division Court Office. Clinton crooked, though the ship was in the) which were covered with papers—
Bay of Biscay, and she had eight three bored looking officials sat be-
trays to carry up to passengers who
'rank Fingland, B.A., LLB. were in bed.
THE AUTOCRAT AFLOAT
,.tlarrister, Solicitor, Notary Public
Successor to W. Brydoppe, K.C.
;Sloan Block — Clnrtrin. Ont.
A. E. COOK
Piano and Voice
Studio—E. 0. Mettle, Phone 28w.
08-tf.
The Chief Steward was an autocrat
against whom there was no appeal,
from whom there was no escape dur-
ing the three and a half months of
the double voyage. He was in sole
control of the staff which served the
passengers—stewards and steward -
her for ri moment, and limo r picked
rip a lint which lay on the treble. She
gummed th:il; he wart looking for her
mane, but he wont away without
speaking to her.
"I'VE WARNED YOU!"
So she had boon right aloin
Perrin shohig Chief StoWard mat
from the look of him he hadn't Wet.
lowed vary emelt slime her mother
sailed with him. no had attired at
her with: the lowering exproeslon of
the true bully, as if he wanted to
impress 4ter, to make her tt llttk
afraid of him even before they had
anything to do with one another. But
she wasn't afraid of him. That look
had aroused the fighting spirit in her
so that she was less upset by him
that she had, been by the hostility
of •the two women. He couldn't
scare Christine Jordan by scowling at
her.
"You'll find Mr. Perrin a bit of a
change after Mr. Robins of the,
Brent," Mrs. Parr,seid acidly. "Miss
Crane and I have sailed with ;him for.
three tripe now, and we've settled
down together, as you might say, but
he's not one to atand any nonesense.
He believes in being master in his
own. ship, 1 can tell you."
The smoke -room was now nearly
full of men and boys, for it was al-
most the hour appointed for signing
on, though it was rumoured that
some of the necessary papers had.
not yet arrived from the office.
Christine, glancing at the newcomers
as they came in, wondered which of
them she would know quite well 'be-
fore a week was over. They all look-
ed `so
ook-ed"`so much alike on signing -on day,
just a herd of strangers, but some
would soon be her friends and some,
perhaps, her enemies.
A. cheeky little bell -boy elbowed his
way into the room,•and called at the
top of his voice: "The Chief Steward
wants to see Miss Jordan at once, in
his office." -,
Christine startled by this very
unexpected .summons, hesitated for a
moment, but Mra. Parr gave her a
sharp nudge, and she stood up and
went out of the coon tithe men press-
ing back to let her pass. The bell-
boy joined a group of other boys and
left her to go alone.
The ship had just been re -painted,
and there was a smell of new paint
and soap, and stale air, in the alley-
way which led front the smoke -room
to the main companion. On sailing
day, the gleaming white paint, and
the greet. rubber flooring of the
alley -way would look bright and
cheerful,but the closed shutters,
through which only a little light filt-
ered, gave the place a strange, ghost-
ly look, as if it had been deserted
long age.
Perrin was standing outside the
Chief Steward's office, at the foot
of the main companion. He watched
Christine coming down, his slow,
scornful glance traveling from the
wandering curl which had bobbed out
from under her beret to her small,
neat shoes, but he did not speak to
her until she stood in -front of him.
"Were you the only stewardess
available?" he asked her. "The of-
fice sent a note co say they were
sanding one of the Brent Tor women,
but I expected someone, of the usual
age."
"The others don't live in Liverpool,
Mr. Perrin," she said quietly.
"You're Miss Jordan? Axe you
related to Mrs. Jordan, who was with
the Company for some time?"
"I'm her daughter;" Christine told
him.
"1 femember her well enough, and
I'll bet that she remembers me even
better. Has she told you anything
about me?"
"She said that she once sailed with
you, on the Jamaica run on the
hind them. At one end of the room
was a mixed crowd of stewards,
chefs, pantrymen and boys, some of
them in ordinary street clothes, and
some, who had been working on the
ship, in dirty white coats.
Christine, looking round desperat-
ely for the stewardesses, for every
eye was upon her, saw them sitting
on one of the sheeted settees, two
elderly women in dowdy hats, one
eases, chefs, bakers and pantrymen, stout and one very thin, but both
------ waiters and bell-boys—and so long with the detached expression which
D. H. MCINNES as there were no complaints of bad experienced stewardesses do assume
CHIROPRACTOR service, no one enquired into his at signing -on, as if they had. just
Electro Therapist, Massage methods. dropped in by accident.
(Office: Huron Street. (Few Doers Early • that afternoon, Christine She sat down by the stout one,
west of Royal Bank) changed into the plain navy blue suit who turned her head and stared at
Hours -Wed. and Sat. and by which was her shore -going outfit, and her for a full minute before she
appointment.,
FOOT CORRECTION which she believed made her look at spoke.
aby manipulation Sun -Ray Treatment least twenty-eight—though no one "Are you taking poor Mrs. Tait's
Phone 207 else had ever told her so. She put place?" she 'asked ab last.
—
on+ her beret almost strfaight, and "Yes -I'm Christine Jordan."
GEORGE ELLIOTT tucked in the soft little curl of dark "I've heard of you. You've been
s.icensed Auetioneer' for the County hair which always bobbed forward, on the Brent, haven't you, and you're
of Huron even when she was in uniform. Mrs. Jordan's daughter? There was+,
correspondence promptly answered Shall I give your love to 'Mr. Torquay.
l areediate arrangements can be made a lot of talk, I remember, about the «Aye, and skids said a good deal
for Sales Date at The News -Record Perrin, mother"? she asked, putting Company taking on anyone so young more than that, I'll be bound, for
Clinton, or by calling phone 203. her head round the sitting room on considering the length of the wait- there was no love lost between Mrs.
*Charges Moderate and Satisfaction
her tray out. ing list. • How old are you?" Jordan and me,or between en and
Guaranteed. "You won't be seeing Mr. Perrin," Jordan
Christine said, any of those sackers who were en
Mrs. Lind declared. "You'll find knowing that it was hopeless to add the Torquay when I took over from
THE McKILLOP MUTUAL When you get there that you're a few years on to her age, since it old Mr, Collier --• they'd done what
Fire : Insurance Company wrong about Mr. Perrin being Chief was written clearly on the signing-onthey liked with hint, and they thought
Steward of the Hay Tor. Dont you sheet. they could do the sante with'me but
Head Office, Seaforth, Out.
Officers: start getting in a panic; Christine." "And you've been at sea two years they soon found their mistake. I got
President, Thomas Moylan, Sea- Christine, waiting for the train already! Well, 1 suppose the Cont- the most of 'em transferred before
'Porth; Vico ?resident, -William Knox, which would take her to the ferry pany knew what they were doing, I'd been on the ship a year, and your
Londesboro; Secretary -Treasurer, M. across the Mersey, guessed that her or thought they did, but in my ex mother among the first She told you
A. Reid, Seaforth. Directors,' Alex. mother. knew exactly how she was perienee — thirty years at sea — a drat?".
Broadfoot, Seaforth; James Sholdice, feeling. Twenty years ago, perhaps young stewardess always means a "Yes, she did tell me that she was
Walton; James . Connolly, Goderich; only the thought of her little girl at lot of bother for everyone else. Don't transferred after the first trip with
' W. R, Archibald, Seaforth.; Chris. home had driven the young widow you agree with me, Miss Crane?" your
Leonharclt, Dublin; Alex.' McEwing, to plunge into a life which was "I do, Mrs. Parr, but perhaps Miss "And that sho was glad to go," he
;Blyth; Frank McGregor, Clinton, strange to her—and'-joining a new Jordan is, the exception that proves guessed. "Your mother was too much
List of Agents: E. A, Yeo, R.R., 1, ship was almost like starting all over the rule," MissCranesaid gloomily, of a fine lady for me, Mise Jordan—
odeiich, Phone 003x31, Clinton; day perfectly never forgot that she was a captain's
dames Watt, Blyth; John E, Pepper, again. Signing -on was worse, as if she were erfectl sure Christ-
Brueefieid, R. R. No. 1; R. F. McKey- far worse, than sailing day, because inc was no exception. first—
widow. You and mo had bettor un -
'Cher, Dublin, R. R. No, 1;. Chas. P. there was no bustle.and excitement They both lapsed into silence, and derstand one another from the first—
Hewitt, Kincardine; R. G. Jarmuth, to make things easy. - Christine sat with her hands tightly and if you're too scared to sign ore,
i8ornholm, R. R: Na. 1. She knew her way, of course, to clenched in her I
Any money to be paid may be paid y 1 ap, as if she were the Company cern wire for another
to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of the wharf .alongside which the Tort holding on to her ,courage. How on stewardess to take your ,place. If you
Cemmeree, Seaforth, or at Calvin liner's were -berthed, before they 'eros- earth was she going to endure the put on any airs with me you'll be
Cvtt;s 'Grocery, Goderich. sed the river to the Liverpool land-)complany, night and day, of these two up against it, as you mother was,
Parties desiring to effect fuser- i
ing stage on sailing day. Almost old women who obviously disliked her
ante er transact other business will and ,you'll be as glad as she ryas to
Too promptly attended to en appl4ca- as soon as she left the ferry, shelalready, only because she wa:; young? get a transfer at the end of the trip
ion. to any .of the above officers ad- found herself in that , strange no-, The two kindly women in the'Brent - -if it's t, rrns;for and not the sack.
dressed to their respective peat offi- man's -land of warehouses and Tor had been all the mare gentle Do you it trentand?"
ccs. Losses inspected by the director wharves, of narrow streets with with her on account of her youth, "1 undavet,uui perfectly, Mr. Por-'
who lives nearest the scene. cranes (swinging above them, with teasingher as "the babyof the "
1 g g l tin, she said, mooting .his oyes
which she had grown so ;familiar 'Line", but rather proud of their vary bravely.
': e during her two years at sea, lox difficult baby.
�ANb�iAN•�AT�DitbL AiL1hfA5 docks all over the world have more "There's Mr. Perrin,' Mrs. Parr
TIME TABLE points of remembrance than of dif- muttered, without turning her hoad,
grains will arrive at and depart from ference. Christine, going ashore from' A very big mm). 111 the dark blue, VHS PLAN an follows: 'the Brent Tor at Singapore, Shang -1 gold braided Chief Steward's uniform
Buffalo and (faderick Div past such warehouses as these, 'thea at the door, and crossed the moire- T* through,
shines
Going East, depart.6 58 a.m. a p i p '
hal or Rairen had to make her wa ushed his waythrough the crowd mn the natio where God hn
Going East, depart 8,60 pm
,Going West, depart 11.45 p.m, open doors givingglimpses of huge room to speak to one of the officials: For He and I are one not LWe
,Going West, depart 10.00 p.m. Piles off unknown goods. the walked with a rolling gait, like Ho wants inc Whore and as 1 salt,
London, Huron it Bruce 1 When she had walked a mile, shale sailor on the stage. 1 will not ,fear or flet or plan,
eSoing North, ar, 11.25 lye. 11.47 p.m. turned down a narrow lane between) As he turned to go out again he If I'll bo unrelated, t t'eo—
G:loing South ar. 2.50, leave 8.08 p.m. two warehouses, and saw the grey,caught sight of Christine, stared at He'll carry out Dia pion 'through me.
F'i"dW' f1' "^"rYWiYAMAMAN redegili .'.WeeesiVee.'.W"•Wo sin`
YOUR WORLI) AND' MINE
(gop'rirht)
by. JOHN C. KIRKWOOD
life he held her in esteem and regard,
and she, on her side, retained her af-
fection for Jack --. even after they
were, divorced. Jack contributed gen-
erously to her financial requirements
to the end of hiss, days.
On day Jaok informed his wife than
r■'".".M1r"1'.'S1'.'b'■".'.Y:■Y.f'1'.'.o.'.Y. they were going to a new home, A
�'�`�'�'�'%..%c%o d'..'. at*".Y.Y.Yti few hours later, he told her that he
X suppose that it is a very'common dressed. ITe could not mix with oth-I Was leaving •her — to live with a
thing for lads and youths to drawl ers, because 01 his
unkempt attire' woman who had been a guest in their
of having complete freedom to do' and appearance. He read much about home. Later on he 'moa tied this
Just Whatever they want to do—un- socialism, and became rather famous'woman, who like his first wife was
restrained by con. eience, or parents, as a spokesman for socialistic tenets,' able to help him in the matter of
or' the Ten Commandments. They) When the Klondike Gold Rush be- his literary life, •
dream of going all ever the world 10 gait,, Jack went along, ,and because'
quest of adventure. They dream 01 of his strength' and his skill a a' •Jae][ •Lopentndon spent money li1se want
1 X s er. He spent the'money due from
becoming tramps -this ,.to have ad- sailor, he was able to get to Dawson' publishers for his stories before the
venture without work, They dream City. But he never had much inter-' cheques arrived. He was always in
of unchained Lust. They dream of 'est in actual mining. He made,money! debt. Toward the end of his life his
making a great fortune magically. in other ways. All the time he was income froon his writings was $75,000
They may dream of power—of fame filling note books with material which a year, yet he lived at the rate of
-of great honours. he later turned into stories. $100,000 a year. He kept open house
Occasionally we read of someone His sojourn, in the Klondike was _and he built himself a spacious
who had freedom to do exactly as not long. When he got back to Oak- house that he might entertain lav -
he wanted to do -or if he had net land, be began writing stories, and 'ishly. He let it be widely known
freedom, then who took it. Such a tried to sell them --but without sue-
mananywho wanted visit was .Jack London, the author cess, at the beginning. But he' per -,would be welcome—and to remain as
of White Fang, The Call of the Wild, sisted, and by study he learned the long as they wished. These far-flung
Martin Eden, The Valley of the Moon, art of short -story writing. The time invitations were widelyand largely
Y
John Barleycorn,, and many. other camg e when he "cracked" some of the accepted, He lent money to all who'
books • and of hundreds of short magazines, but many magazines paid sought it from him. Once when he
stories. j him hardly anything at all—$5 to was -urgently in need of money, he
Jack London was an illegitimate $7.50' for 5000 -word stories. )tried to collect $50,000 front those
child. His mailer was aremarks- l All the time Jack had to support owing him money. He.got only $50
bre woman, possessed of remarkable his mother—to the extent that he from his debtors! Ile built himself
powers and of great initiative. She was able. He was good-hearted— a mansion on a ranch, and it was
was not a woman to admire. She far beyond most men. Yet he lived burned down the very day that it
was unstable—and perhaps most per- precariously=and lived roughly.was' ready for occupation—a $70,000
sons ;possessed of unusual genius are i l loss: Jack said that an enemy had
unstable. She was extravagant and He got as far as London, on his set it afire.
thriftless. She had a temper. She way to South Africa, to be a war
was not a good housekeeper, and not' correspondent, belt his engagement_,
a very good mother. She married a, was cancelled. While. in London, he
man named John London, and her. • lived in the East End, and to a Jack wrote with an assiduity rarely
small son took his stepfather's name. wonderful book about the•peo le who equalled. He received $750 for his
lived in this notorious part of Lan- short stories and thousands of dol-
don—The Children of the Abyss. He lars by his pen. But the candle be -
As a lad Jack London was unusual. r was able to mix with the riff-raff gan to burn out, and literary pro -
He was handsome and strong, though 1 of the East End, and to understand duction became increasingly difficult.
not tall, and never grew tall; he had them, because he had gone almost• At age 40 or 41, Jack died—from
average height, but more than av-iround the world in a sailing ship an overdose of some narcotic—a case
erage strength. He had exceptional 1 as a member of the crew. Later'of suicide. He was a heavy drinker
courage. He was brought up in Oak- Jack London went to the Far East' of whisky toward the end of his life.
land, California, and in San Fran- to report the Russian -Japanese wail Jack London was a wayward man.
cisco: He was a good student, and for a Hearst newspaper. Later still,
quite early showed that he had the he and his wife -his second wife— He did pretty nearly everything that
writer's gift. He was an omniverous he ever wanted to do. But the end
went to the far South Sea and the
reader—of good books—books select- East Indian'Islands in a leaky ship l of lifeyre
s a �udgement of him and his way
ed for him by the public librarian— which he had had built for him, and It jus doesn't do to have unfettor-
a woman, Yet Jackwaspretty much Jack himself was navigator. He suf-Jed liberty. The right way of lire
of a harum-skarum lad. He had a fered much from the skin, diseases of
passion for sailing, and bought a the tropics, and had torequiresbmitourselvesus toe harnesso ourselyes—to thete
boat before he was 15 years old. He p ' go to Aust -submit mndn the laws of
rolls to enter a hospital there. Ten Commandments; to discipline
became an expert sailor on San
Francisco Bay. He bought. a larger ourselves; to conquer our animal
vessel—with borrowed money, and be- Sack's first true love was a highly appetites.
came a sort of pirate, joining with cultured English girl. They were
others as rough as himself in raiding tenderly attached to each other, but
the private oyster beds in the vicinity Jack would not marry if his betroth- If only Victor Hugo's great proph-
of SanFrancisco. He drank like the ed's mother was to live with them. ecy might come true before this
others -got drunk like the others-- So the engagement was broken. Then century dies:
fought IA the others—•lusted like he .tarried a very fine woman, able] In the Twentieth Century war will
the others. Yet always his love of to help him not a little in his liter- be dead, hatred will be dead, dogmas
books remained. I ary development, and 'who made a will be dead; man will live. He will
He went to the high school, and good home for him. There were two possess something highe>ri than all
after a period. of working, he startd children — daughters —born of this these—a great country, the whole
ed to attend the university, but he marriage. Jack was not faithful to earth; and a great hope, the whole
never graduated. Ile was never well his wife, yet to the very end of his heaven.
,
(To be continued)
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