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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1946-09-26, Page 6The Quality Tea !SALADA!� SQA ASU PE 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) JAPS' FOOD' OUTLOOK BRIGHTENS With the best rice crop in four years being harvested a month early, Japan looks forward to escape from the starvation which ruled the country last winter. Above, Jap workers begin processing the first bales of rice to arrive in Tokyo. 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. Kellogg's All - Wheat is Canadian whole wheat in .its most delicious form. Flaked, toasted, ready-to- eatt Everybody loves theheartening fieven! SAVE TIME . 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