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OIF THE SEA
By George E. Walsh
SYNOPSIS
CHAPTER IVs Tucu agrees to a
deal, accepting one -u un rtes interest
M the stones. The lugger heads tor
the wrerked steamer, but on the
way they sight a schooner,, obvi-
ously adrift. Its masts are broken
and it is wallowing heavily. Tucu
seta out to board the schooner, but
when halfway to It, an old man
appears onthe deck. Re la obvi-
ously crazy.
CHAPTER V
"Crazy!" muttered Captain Tu -
cu, "Left alone, an' gone crazy.
Pull away!" he added, addressing
the Caribs at the oars.
The boat started in the direction
of the schooner, but it hadn't
covered a quarter of the distance
. when another figure appeared
on the deck. If the sight of the
old than had surprised the board-
ing crew, the second apparition—
for it seemed like an apparition to
many, certainly to Dick Jordan on
the deck of the lugger—created
amazement and consternation.
The newcomer was a woman,
lightly clad, and with her hair
streaming down her shoulders and
back, half way to her waist. She
had the appearance of one who
has been interrupted in the midst
of her toilet, rushing on deck to
ascertain the meaning of the com-
motion. She glanced in the direc-
tion of the lugger, shading her
eyes with one hand, and then back
at the old man on the deck. She
spoke to him in a low voice, which
he heeded, for he withdrew from
sight, and permitted her to do the
talking.
"What boat is that?" she asked
in a clear, bell -like voice.
* * *
Tucu hesitated for a moment be-
fore replying; then in his most
persuasive voice, he informed her,
"The San Miguel, Of Limon."
The girl or young woman—it
was difficult to estimate her age
at the distance, but to Dick she
seemed young and comely—sectn-
md in doubt, hesitating before re-
plying, but her eyes were busy
studying the boat's crew and the
lines of the lugger. Finally, as if
alt, had made up her mind, she
retorted in a sharp, peremptory
way:
"Well, what do you want? You
can't come aboard!"
Captain Tucu smiled a bit craft-
ily, "We took her for a derelict—
abandoned."
erelictabandoned."
'You can see now she isn't," re-
plied the girl quickly. Then, as
if anxious to pacify them, she add-
ed in a pleasanter voice, "Thank
you for coming; but we don't need
any help. We can manage."
Tucu was a little nonplussed,
but the grin hadn't left his ugly
face. "Y'can't get into port with
that wreck. We'll help y'ter rig
her up.'
"No, thank you, was the cool
retort. "We can manage,"
The small boat had been drift-
ing nearer all the time, and as if
alarmed by this the girl added
ssharper than before: "Keep away,
please! You'll get tangled in the
wreckage."
Tucu turned to his mate and ex-
changed a few words with him,
and then addressed the girl again:
'Who's that old man aboard?"
She drew herself up and frown-
ed. "You mean my father, Cap-
tain Bedford?"
"Is he cap'n?" There was a
smile of derision on his face,
which the girl caught. Resenting
it, she nodded curtly, and said:
"Yes! Now if you have no fur-
ther business here, go back to
your own ship."
"I'd like to speak to the cap'n,"
was the cool retort, motioning to
the Carihs to dip their oars again.
"You 'can't!" was the frightened
reply. "He's not well, and has
gone below."
• * * *
Dick caught the note of alarm
in the voice. He gave .a start and
giancctl around him. The handful
of Caribs left on the lugger were
grouped forward, intently interest-
ed in the schooner and the conver-
sation going on between the skip-'
per and the girl. No one paid the
!east attention to hint.
"If Tucu goes aboard," he mut-
tered under his- breath, "I'll go
too."
He walked toward the stern and
measured the distance from the
lugger to the schooner. It was
not great. Once under the pro-
tection of the overhanging stern
he could swim almost unobserv-
ed to the mass of wreckage drift-
ing on the port side of the dere-
lict.
But once more his attention was
drawn to the others. A shrill, bab-
bling voice came from the forward
shrouds of the schooner. Captain
Bedford was standing in them,
waving and beckoning to they Ca -
ribs. Instead of going below, he
had crept forward where, out of
reach of his daughter, he was in-
viting Tucu and his men to come
aboard.
"Come aboard, urates! You're
welcome! Throw me a line and
I'll catch it! Hal Had Ye missed
it that time. Heave again!"
The girl in the stern gave one
horrified glance and then hurried
to her parent's side. Captain Bed-
ford meekly dropped down to the
deck at her coming and mumbled
thickly a mild protest. Dick saw
the girl lead him away, and then
return to the rail.
* * *
By that time Tucu and his crew
had made fast to the schooner and
were preparing to climb aboard.
"Stop!" she cried. "I forbid you
coming aboard!"
Captain Tucu looked up and
leered at her. "It's at the capn's
invitation we're corrin'," he said.
"It ain't against the law, lady, to
accept the skipper's invite, is it?"
"My father's not responsible for
what he says," she cut in sharply,
"I'm in command here, and I for-
bid—"
Dick didn't hear the finish of
the sentence. He had quietly drop-
ped over the stern of the lugger,
and was once more battling with
his old enemy—the sea.
Swimming slowly, with his head
low down in the water, and mak-
ing a wide detour around the stern
of the derelict, Dick reached it with-
out attracting attention. Nobody
on the lugger had noticed his de-
parture, and those aboard the
schooner were too interested in
their prize to give heed to any-
thing else.
Dick climbed up the rigging
hanging over the side opposite the
lugger, and secured a firm grip on
the deck rail with both hands. Tu -
cu and his men were still for-
ward, arguing with the girl. Dick
could hear her high-pitched voice
raised in remonstrance,
* *
"If you put a foot on this deck,
I'll shoot! she was saying. "The
law allows it. You're boarding my
ship against my will."
Dick thrust his head above the
rail. The men hadn't reached the
deck yet,but were hanging over
the side, with heads in view.' The
girl was facing them, with a defi-
ant glitter in her -eyes, and an ug-
ly -looking automatic in one hand.
Her eyes were deep blue, but
just now they were dark with pas-
sion. The face, tanned by Iong ex-
posure, was set in hard, deter-
mined lines. Perhaps in repose it
was beautiful, but there was a fe-
line strength and passion in it that
rather suggested the tigress at
bay. There was not an ounce of
fear or cowardice reflected in the
eyes and face.
"Y'father asked us aboard,
lady," Tucu replied after a pause,
an insinuating pleasantry in his
voice, "an' we came because o'
:hat. Where's he gone?"
"I told you I was in command
here," was the short, curt reply.
"That's sufficient. Now get back!"
Tucu glanced aft and then for-
ward, 'Where's the crew?" he ask-
ed, smiling.
The girl woman paled slightly ,
through her tan, but answered un-
hesitatingly. "There's no crew
aboard. No one but father and me.
Now you know the truth."
(To Be Continued)
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NG ICL.ES
of GI ER FAf
By
Gwendoline P. Clarke
5 * • •
Last week Joy and I were ab -
so utely moved to tears. We just
couldn't keep our emotion under
control at all. You see we were
making mustard pickle. Not just a
pint, or even a quart, but twenty
jars of it. So why wouldn't we
weep?
Why is it that onions make one
weep—and is there any preventive?
The best thing I have struck so
far is peeling the onions over the
kitchen stove with one lid off, The
fire doesn't have to be alight either
—the draught will carry the fumes
up the chimney, It isn't a hundred
precertt but it does make the job
a little less sorrowful.
Here is another remedy you
night like to try. Bob told us
that if you kneel on the floor while
peeling the onions the fumes will
never bother you. So Joy and I
tried kneeling on the floor -and
the kitchen looked like a miniature
prayer meeting. But we soon found
the idea didn't work—it was just
about as crazy as it looked. Bob
said we didn't do it right—that
while on our knees we should still
have kept the onions above the ta-
ble level. Another way ]; have
heard recommended is to stick a
piece of raw potato on the end of
the paring knife—but I never found
that worked very well either.
Something tells me that anyone
who could invent, or propagate, an
odourless onion might live in clo-
ver—sweet-scented clover—for the
rest of his natural life,
* * *
I say "itis" advisedly because
many household inventions are -
doubtless the result of a man be-
ing left with some ordinary every-
day job to do at some time, which
his wife, without giving it a
thought, has done every day for
years, putting up with the incon-
venience because she thought it
was just one of those things that
couldn't be prevented. Then some
twist of fate puts her husband on
the job.I He works at it for pos-
sibly half -an -hour, gets fed up
with it and starts figuring out some
easier way of doing it. And thus
another invention is born. Experi-
ence is a great teacher. Give a man
half-an-ahour with a galky washing
machine, or a kitchen stove that
has to be humored, and you ac-
complish more in that way than by
weeks and weeks of grumbling or
cajoling, Of course it is just as
well while preliminary experiment-
ing is underway to do the disap-
pearing act,
* • *
Yes, experience is a great teach-
er in more ways than one. Partner
was fairly chortling early in the
week because Joy had an appoint-
ment to have a wisdom tooth ex-
tracted — an extraction being an
entirely new experience for her.
"And now, my girl", said Partner,
"like the rest of the nurses, you
have done plenty of needle stick-
ing in your time, now we are going
to see how you like being on the
receiving end!" Tomorrow came
and neice Joy didn't like the nee-
dle—or rather the efect of it —
any better than the rest of us. But
Partner, very generously, desisted
from teasing her until she was bet-
ter able to take it. Afterwards he
really enjoyed himself.
This week -end was much as us-
ual—the only way in which it va-
ried from any other week -end was
that everyone was down to break-
fast on time Sunday morning. Sat-
urday night we really thought we
were in for a comparatively quiet
time but just as Partner and I were
thinking of retiring for the night
Daughter and friend Bert blew in.
Partner was sensible, after a lit-
tle while he went, to bed. The rest
of us talked away until well after
midnight,
And now for a little animal in-
stinct—or bird instinct whichever
you like to call it, The other morn-
ing Partner looked out the kitchen
ISSUE 38-1945
window and called to me to "come
quick". I came, and what I saw
was a great big hawk perched
calmly on the top of a fence -post
right by the chicken -pen which
houses the smallest of our chick-
ens. He was just sitting there,
}watching his opportunity to swoop
down on his prey. He might well
be watching because there wasn't
a chicken to be seen anywhere. Joy
said from her room she had heard a
wild scurry of wings and wondered
what on earth it was. The chickens
were not all in the pen. They were
hiding under shrubs, trees, a roll
of fence wire and anything else
that came handy. It isn't unusual
for things like that to happen of
course, but I still marvel at the
instinct which tells chickens that
danger is near. And chickens are
usually such stupid things,
Sunday School
Lesson
The Practice of Neighborliness
Exodus 22: 21-23; Dent. 24: 14. 15;
Matthew 25: 34-41,
Golden Text,—And the King
shall answer and say unto them,
Verily I say unto you, inasmuch
as ye have done it unto one of the
least of these my brethren, ye have
done it unto me,—Matthew 25: 40
Against Oppression
The word "stranger" is the
name for foreigner. The children
of Israel as foreigners in Egypt
knew 'what oppression meant. Out
of their sufferings was to come the
wisdom which should reveal to all
mankind that human relationships
are to be governed ,by love and
not by tyranical cruelty.
It is a-christian duty to care for
widows and orphans. Their prayers
will be heard by the Lord if they
are neglected. If we are truly
christian in our sympathies we will
be tender and thoughtful to such
who are poor and burdened.
Einployers of labor are in -
instructed not to oppress those
who work for them nor to with-
hold from them their due wages.
Against slavery and economic op-
pression God speaks in no uncer-
tain terms. As for the worker, he
is to do his work with all his
might, in good conscience, render-
ing service as to the Lord and not
toman As for the employer, he Is
to have due regard for the wel-
fare of '. the worker as one who
must give an account of his trustee-
ship to God.
"Blessed of the Father"
The inheritance of the kingdom
is not somenting we earn, it Is a
gift. The kingdom has been; pre-
pared from the foundation of the
world and it was prepared for ua.
Jesus '.gives as a reason for invit-
ing them, to an inheritance in His
kingdom' the fact that they had ad •
ministered to Him in His need,
The whole destiny of man hangs
on his faith, but the proof of .faith
is conduct.
It is, deeply significant that the
righteous were not conscious of
the good deeds they had done.
Jesus so identifies Himself with
His people that any act done to
then He regards as done ,to Him-
self.'
The real test whetherwe love
our brethren is—do we minister' to
their need? The one thing that
shows whether or not we have re-
ceived Christ is our reception of
those who belong to Christ. Christ
identifies Himself with the least of
His brethren. What we do for
Christ's brethren we should do for
Christ's sake.
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