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WINGHAM ADVANCE-11/US
HAUPTMANN'S NEW BOSS
SECOND INSTALLMENT
SYNOPSIS: Strange friends they;
were—young Ed. Maitland, whose fa-,
titer had followed the sea from New
E ngland, but who had started north,
• xnake his fortune when the first:
;news of the Yukon .gold find in '97
found him stranded on the Pacific
4coast; and Speed Malone, who told
little enough of his past but admitted
to a knowledge of all the gold camps.
With ten dollars—half of Maitland's
total wealth—Speed gets into a game
.of Solo, and semis; to bewinning.
Maitland knew nothing of the
game but was fascinated by the move-
ment of his eompanion's hands while
dealing. The fingers that moved so
supplely over the keys of an accord-
ion, seemed to lure music of another
kind from the smooth cards, as he
riffled and snapped, them into place
and shot them out with clean pre-,
gision, dropping the last of the round
and the three cards of the widow al-
,
most in one gesture.
He won the next bid with a heart
solo, This time his opponents did not
conceal their conviction that the game
was unsound. But before they had re-
covered from that certainty, he had
made his point by a shrewd handling
of low cards. The sweet singers took
a firmer „grip on their cigars and set -
lied into the game, '
Stakes began to climb. Frog bids
vanished. Onlookers edged in from
other groups to watch the play —
among them a burly red-faced man
who stood obscurely at the, rirn o
the circle with his eyes fixed intently
on Speed's face and hands. 'Me
gambler remained calm and compos-
ed as a deacon, playing good hands
and bad with equal devoutness —,, or
rather making bad ones good, for the
cards were running hard against him.
"Wotildn't surprise me a whole lot
•to hear you'd played this game afore"
the man declared, as he lit a cigar
before picking up a new hand.
Speed was busy arranging his cards
and did not answer. When he raised
his eyes. it was in a preoccupied way
in Maitland's direction, but they rest-
ed instead on someone else in the
• crowd. One of his eyelids flickered
slightly ,as if to evade a wreath of
cigarette smoke. From the gold he
had collected, he transferred two
handfuls to his pockets. The remaind-
• VA' of the pile he pushed out to center.
'This crack says .1 .zion't take
trick,", he observed. goin"mis-
„4„e
Vali Maitland 'been watching close-
ly, he would have noticed a slight
shifting on the part of the red-faced
atan among the spectators. He might
leave remembered that skill in this
game was one of the few identifying
uaits of the bandit, Buck Solo—if he
bad not believed the bandit to be a
captive in the Okanagans. He might
have notice, too, that in a lazy up-
ward glanee seemed to take cogniz-
ance of nothing, this fact had been
caught and registered by the man un-
der observation. But no one's atten-
tion is sharpened by watching a game
he does not understand, and Mait-
land's interest had begun to stray. He
elbowed his way out of the circle to
• ramble over the ship.
"...1ft of the passengers having ;
chosen a position amidships, he found
• that the crowd thinned as he went
forward of the main cabin. At the
forward raiI a lookout stood alone,
peering into the blanket of mist ahead.
They were now in the outer waters
of the Sound; the traffic had dwindled
and the hooting of sirens was muffled
in far distance.
"How does she lie?" he asked the
looko,ut.*
• "Off Port Townsend," the man
said, without turning,
The boy stood by the rail awhile,
eyeing the dim froth of water below;
and that gray essence of things un-
seerand unforseen through which the
steamer Was cleaving her blinded
course.
He was not conscious of a contra-
dictipn in his advice to the Western-
er about gambling, though it ran
deeper than his mere presence on the
George E. Starr, Men of his name
and blood had raced for cargoes in
the days of the clipper ships, and lat-
er plunged the winnings into deep -
bottomed carriers — to lose them fin-
ally in wilder games of chance with
the sea. His father had gone down in
a storm with two of their ships. This
tragedy had caused. his mother's death
when he was born, The remnant of
the original stakes left in play had
been involved by a defect in the nu-
derwriting of the lost cargoes.
His earliest memory was of a
small schooner which his grandfather
had managed to salvage out of the
general wreck. From the old man he
had learned, along with a knowledge
of ships and water. After his grandfa-
ther's death, he had found •employ-
ment with a firm of underwriters' ag-
wreck ,to salvage.
Jobless, and with his small capital
dwindling, be had been roving the
wharves of that misty -Western port
of adventure when the news of'.the
gold strike on Bonanza. Creek burst
on the world like a rocket—promis-
ing him a means of recovering more
than he had lost.
"If you wasn't a gambler, Bud .
Something the Westerner had said re-
curred to him now. He had been care-
ful in. buying his outfit, weighing the
value of every purchase against his
resources. His having drawn a pass-
age on this derelict side-wheeler was
a queer mischance, but he believed the
old tub' was a little stauncher than
she looked. Wether it was a wild
gamble depended rather, he thought,
on himself.
The pistol shot that cut the thread
of his revery came from the region
of the ship where he had left his pack.
As he turned, he obtained a sheer
view of the ship's side, and saw, out-
lined sharply in the fog, the figure -of
a burly, red-faced man who was peer-
ing over the rail with a smoking re-
volver in his hand.
Someone 'touched his elbow.
"Man shot your parcluer," a voice
said. "He's overboard." •
He picked up the words on the
wing and shredded them for sense.
A handful of cards held by one of the
watchers at the rail gave him the ink-
ling of an answer. A gambler's quar-
rel aa quick fingers not quick enough
"e
• A dak wavering in a shaft of light that fell into the cabin from the
cockpit .caased iiint to look up.
ents, reporting on wrecks and salvage.
It had. led him into the study of -ad-
mirality law—a vocation his sea -go-
ing fathers would not have, admired.
He was sent west to investigate
wreck ,off the Farrallones, near San
Francisco—his first important com-
mission. But he had found the own-
ers in a position rather like that of
his own people when they crashed.
His sympathy and the rights of the
case were with the stranded adventur-
ers as against the. bankers_ He hag
wired a report as fair to both sides
as he could make it.
The return wire had virtually ac-
cused him of being bought by the
owners. In a gust of anger he had
resigned, though the whole stracture
of his plans went foundering nn that
reef. He was unwilling to return
home until he had regained his foot-
ing, but his career was not an easy
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Follow Directions to Ease,
Pain and Discomfort
Almost Ins.tantly
When you have a cold, remember the
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prescribed by doctors everywhere to-
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Because of Aspirin's quick -disinte-
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3nsl take Aspirin and drink plenty
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•first day --less often afterward . . If
throat is sore, u the Aspirin gargle.
But be sure you get ASPIRIN, •it
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DOES NOT HARM
• THE HEART
—a shot, a rush . . .? He had often
seen men take that plunge for much
less, but this inan—?
Heads were craned back toward the
blank space the ship was leaving,
"Wounded? Probably not much of a
swimmer, if he came from inland. The
boats would be slow. . ."
Maitland's leap from the rail was
so swift that the engines were not
reversed for a minute after he dived.
When he came to the surface, hard-
ly knowing in that gray murk -heti
er he was breathing fog or sea, th
steamer was out of sight.
I Unable to see through the blur o
1spray and fog, he paused to listen fo
a cry. Relaxing was an effort; th
cold brine had teeth of fire. Soon h
caught a splashing sound not fa
ahead, Swiftly as he went, the sound
receded. He stopped again. Hearin
a sound once more, he shouted. a
There was no answer, and he kept ar
on, losing count of the space he was et
putting between himself and the
steamer. The ganibler, if the sound,
he heard was his swimming, might
either be trying to make his way
ashore, or might have lost his bear-
ings in the fog. It seemed inure prob-
able that he had drowned,
lie halted to tread the water in the
icy swell and shouted . 'rho cry rasp.
ed itt hie throat, This pine he seem
ed to hear an answer, but 'in the sante
inStant his.. body was pierced by it
searing stab. muSelps1 higbaek
twisted in a paralyzim, Isnot that Vf
brtath, '1 'in Jttgir 110.
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with every re,..erv,, el'ttill, a 11 doe' ell
eell impetent, into shad it
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limn,, heaved; drams :roared in 111,:,
eats; itis 'heart seennal to wedge in in'
throat.
Shar!ows '0,1'141114
mistly daylight, S mcthina was sup-,
porting 1,thfl1y choked and-mti111),' on,
the summit of a swaying world of wae.
tors, and he beard a voice saying be.
tween breaths:
"'Well, I'll be doggoned. 'So' WS
you . you ornery young son of a
sea dog. Last dive most got me .
winded , Reckoned yOu was the
deputy,"
Even the sight of the rambler's
d
Major Mark C. Kimberling, has
been named warden of the New Jer-
sey state prison at Trenton, -where
Bruno Richard Hauptmann has been
taken to await execution,
clear.
"Don't figure I could swim ye
ashore," the voice continued. "And
I'm locoed if I call that boat". Yet
this was exactly what Maitland heard
him do a few moments later, but there
was no answer.
Maitland knew too well the disad-
vantage of a buoy as a refuge for
drowning men in a fog. Passing ships
give it as wide a berth as possible.
'With this thought he realized the full
irony of what had happened. His at-
tempted rescue was worse than use,
less; he was actually dragging down the man he had, tried to save. That
final detail struck him as unfair.
He tried • to wrench himself free.
But though thegambler's hold waver-
ed, he could not loosen it. When he
struggled to speak the arm, only grip-
ped him tighter. Then everything
was drenched' in a fantastic ether,
through which floated images of boy-
hood things long forgotten, and he
sank into a billowing haze of dark-
ness.
He was recalled to semi -conscious-
ness for the last time by what sound-
ed like a cry from the other; then he
heard waves pounding against the hol-
low prow of a small boat, and the
familiar creak and thump of oarlocks.
When he opened his eyes, the gam--
bier was sitting at a table with a
steaming cup. in one hand- and a cig-
arette in the other, watching him. He
found himself swathed in blankets in
a dim enclosure. The floor rolled
slightly and at first he did not know
whether he was dizzy or at sea.
Before he had time to observe any,
more, ;the 'gambler was landing .him
a cupful of hot wine with the cheer-
ful suggestion,
"Hoist yerself round this."
The drink helped to clear his head.
"Where's the steamer?" he asked.
'Hell and _gone by glow," said
peed, watching the boy's face darken,
nd then light again with an illusory
ripe.
Maitland stretched himself painful -
y, "Whose boat is this?" '
"Some frog fisherman front Seattle
vas headin' for the halibut banks but
he fog stopped him. He pulled in
lose to the buoy to be clear of the
hippin' track'. Now he says he'll take
s ashore when he gets.a wind, Don't
eckon heti get one for a piece, but
won't hurt ye none to thaw a while.
A dark wavering in a shaft of light
tat fell into the cabin from the cock -
it caused him to look tip. 'Through
le aperture two heavy sea boots
ante into view, followed by a pair of
n-duroy trousers, a blue, close -fit -
lig jersey with shrunken sleeves and
plump and swarthy face, bluish
ound the chin where the beard was
raven and topped by a black cap
with a 'shining visor,
"How does she. blow, floss?" askcal
Speed, as the man entered.
'Ze win' Ile draw ver' slow, I tek
you ashore, feefteen dollar. Non?"
"No," was the gambler's dry corn-
meal. "With the price of wind goi n'
up this way I reckon we'll stay where
we set."
The fisherman sprayed his hands,
.'est la blague, mud? I melt ze
eslien' f,ne, twit zree day. lle'eu,"
added ie a 'quieter tone. "1 tek
11.111.1heel: to Seattle, feefty dollar,"
"Go on, yon bor,,e thief," Speed an..
%Ted fl huttiot%,dly, "VotAk, p,' '1
111.e1. p1ton-11 in this wagon to ride
to the li.itintrdss and hackand , it
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stap,e to. assist bin) with his
xt• performance.
"No*, my boy," he Said kindly,
11511lir Mother 4,7aimot get eggs without
ns, can she?"
site tan," said the boywith-
hesitation,
lite, conjurer looked atarded,
'How's that?" be asked.
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Tlyuroday, February 21, 1935
Boy Scouts' Campaign
•
A HEALTH SERVICE OF
THE CANADIAN MEOICAL
lsESOCIATION AND LIFE . .
tNSLIRANCE COMPANIES
IN CANADA
CANCER
Of all the questions which mial
be asked about cancer, the one whic
logically should be answered first i
WHAT IS CANCER? There at
many diseases which are unknown t
the public at large; unfortunatel
cancer is only too well known an
feared.
It is natural for us to fear eanee
It will not help, however, if our fea
leads us to shut our ears to warning
on the subject. Fear can be 'mad
useful if it brings us to learn wha
is known about this disease, so tha
we may act wisely for our own pro
tection,
The specific, or direct cause of can
cer is not known. 'All over the worl
men and women are devoting thei
lives in the endeavour to wrest thi
secret from nature. In the course o
time, they will succeed in doing so
The specific cause of cancer must b
found, because when the cause i
known, it is likely that prevention an
cure will be available.
In the meantime, we have som
knowl•edge which is of practical value
It is know that long -continued
teflon of any tissue leads to change
in the tissue which may develop into
cancer, As an example of this, there
is the cancer of the month which de
velops at the point wherd the cheek
was irritated for a long time by a
broken tooth.
Chronic irritation is not always due
to a mechanical irritant such as a
broken tooth. Such forms of irrita-
tion may follow upon the presence of
bacteria or gerrns which, for example,
may set up a chronic inflammation
in the lower portion of the uterus
whch has been torn in childbirth. It
does not seem to make any difference
what is the nature of the irritant
if it continues, it may lead to cancer.
Cancer begins at one spot. Just as
long as it remains in that spot, it can
be removed. It is for this reason that
any sores which do not heal and stay
healed, or any lump or swelling in
any part of the body should be in-
vestigated -without delay. Of cotirse,
many of these conditions are quite
harinless, but by giving prompt at-
tention to all of them, the dangerous
ones are found, treatment is given
'and the -patient is -cured.
• Any unusual discharge from any
body .opening de3nands aWntion. It
is easy to say, for example, thattdood
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League of Nations. "They say I've got no array; but why should I want one with
• °these allies?"
[By courtesy of Punch,
• Lits Excellency, the Governor-
," / General of Canada, challeng-
$
ed Canadian Boy Scout leaders to
celebrate the coming visit to
Canada this spring of the World
Chief Scout, Lord Baden-Powell,
by initiating a drive to increase
the ranks of Canadian Scouts
from, 65,000 to 100,000, thus ex-
tending the benefits of Scouting
to hundreds of Canadian com-
munities now without an organ-
ized programrae of any kind for
their boys. The Scout movement
as a whole accepted the chal-
lenge, but expansion demands
more traineli leaders and more
field work. To ensure the suc-
cess of the enterprise and fin-
ance the Scout movement in 'Can-
ada for the next five years, a
Campaign to raise $500,000 was
inaugurated with a nation-wide
appeal on February 18th by E. W.
Beatty, K.C., LL.D., Chairman and
President of the Canadian Pacific
Railway, who is also President of
the Boy Scouts Association. in
Canada.
• This Campaign has the hearty -
support of every thinking Cana-
dian citizen.
in the stool is due to haemorrhoids,
but is it? An examination will furnish
the answer. It is difficult for most
people to believe that, to begin with,
cancer does not usually cause pain.
They find it hard to credit that a sore
lump or discharge may be serious and
yet not cause any real pain.
Question s concerning Health, ad-
dressed to the Canadian Medical As-
sociation, 184 College„.St. Toronto,
will be answered personally by letter.
British Events in .Silver jubilee Year
The story of what is happening in
the British Isles during the • Silver
Jubilee Year is told briefly in the
Calendar • of Events for 1935. ..This
48 -page „booklet contains, .in addition,
information about Alinabe and -health,
customs, camping, folk dancing, gaga
dens and flowers, musk, passports„,..
family ties, hotels, sports, youth hos-
tels and, other topics of interest to
visitors. Copies of the Calendar may
be obtained free of charge from ke
Travel aod Industrial Development
Association of Great Britain and Ire-
land, British Empire Building, 62
Fifth Avenue, New York City.
Isaac --"Abraham, vy diki you go,
.and tell my wife that I stOle the shil-
ling you lost?"
Abraham—"Isaac, you make a ter- •
rible mistake. I only said that if yot
had nothelped.nie to look.for.it,..sure-
iy I vvotildhave found it"
Isaac—"Then, Abraham, we still are
old pals. Shakehands!'
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