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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1927-10-06, Page 6147. WINGHAA .A, VvAN+ s+-'"rr'1VI1E:a's Il! I LINGTQN 1V UTUA.1 bIRE INSURANCE CO.' Established x84o IIcad Office, G ue1 hOnt. Risks taken on all classes of instant, ns ur ance at reasonable nates. ABNER COSENS, Agent, Wingham. J. IJV. DODD Office in Chisholm, Block FIRE, LIFE,ACCIDENT AND HEALTH --- INSURA.NCE— AND REAL ESTATE P. O. Bost 360 Phone 240 WINGHAM, - ONTARIO J. W. BUSHFIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money to Loan' Office -.-Meyer Block, Wingham Successor to Dudley Holmes R. ,VANSTONE. BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC; Money to Loan at Lowest, Rates Wingham. - Ontario J. A. MORTON BARRISTER, ETC. Wingham, - Ontario DR. G. H. ROSS Graduate Royal College of Dental Surgeons. Graduate University of Toronto, Faculty of Dentistry Office over H. E. Isard's Store. H. W. COLBORNE, M.D. Physician and Surgeon Medical Representative D. S. C. R. Phone 54 Wingharn Successor to Dr. W. R. 33ambly DR. ROBT. C. 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Money to lend on fcrwt and second other real es- tate six farm and e tate properties at a reasonable rase of interest, also on first Chattel mort- gages on stock and an personal notes A few farms on band for' sale or to rent on easy terms. THOMAS FELLS -- AUCTIONEER *�-•• REAL ESTATE SOLD A thorough knowledge of Part Stock Phone 231, Wfngbani -' 44114004.1 K115111I1MK11111,1iMIM PAPPIII/RYI,IIt,/1KKIIle,IMRMMKKKKII1IM,• Phot s: OffICe xo6, Resi'& 244 A. J WALKER IV I Ui E outs,LZR d and d :—y MSP Ky,y GGAX.5 IJit Etr"�.1.OR otor Eggatipm Ent [AM, - . ONTARIO 1'MIYIISIMIMMIi5,ri"K5Mrl" 1111➢iiIIMPInlIMIP pettli45ki lll1+ Percival By Christopher Wren THE GREATEST MYSTERY STORY EVER WRITTEN e "Why someone else?' Don't you ad- mire our low and vulgar ways, pard.? asked Hank. "Don't you like us?" "Yes, but to be honest ,at the mo- ment I like your camels better," re- plied Digby. "Well then—you gut the lot, ain't. you?" asked Hank. "What's bitin' you now, Bo?" "Do you mean you're coming with its?" I asked, a great light dawning un me, a light that so dazzled my eyes that I was afraid to look upon It. "You shure said a iuouthfui,'• Bo," replied Hank. "Why, what did you rigger? •That we'd leave you two in nercent children du wander about this yer sinful world all un yuur ]one?" "After you bin and killed the Big Noise? And obliterised their nice lit- tle : block -house?" put in Buddy, "Twouldn't' be right, boy. 'Course tve'rt cumin' along." I really had to swallow hard as I took their horny hands. "But look here, boys," Digby rein- onstrated, after following my example and trying to express thanks without words, "there's no need for that. Give us your camels and, anything else you can safely spare, and go back in mod - et. glory. There's nuthing against you. If you're caught escaping with us and helping us, you'll be shot with us. 'It will be `desertion in the face of the enemy when sent on recon- naissance when it comes to the court martial." "Go back nawthen," • said Buddy. "Look at here. This is whit Hank wants to say. , . . Is there any In- juns around? Nope. Is those nigs from Tokotu in any danger? Nope. Hey you had a square deal in this Madam Lar Republicbouse stunt? Nope. Didn't you and yourbrother stared by your duoty in this mutiny game? Yep. Wasn't you two scrap- ping all the . time and "doing your damnedest till everybody else had handed in their checks? Yep. And then didn't this Lejauue guy start in to shout you up? Shore. And what'll happen to you now if they get you? Shout yon sig some .more. Shore:. 'Tain't a square deal. . . O'Neil. we: ieger that these nigs fr +m Tolson: aren't un the chutes fer b bow -wee, Nape iney're mnarch urn right new i. Linder eoi— like juin) Brut.ns b' y -ear 4a.+ it his soul?—same :meta* . . L\ a al- low you sin °t _:,t ,rye:. chance en a lone trail. ."+,t a tits nee, smell acne. Yours. two Way -up ,, caro. 'art bright buys, but yon rc: ret, road -kids tf ,u dont krietv clrapparral fr rt, a, arruye eeralk a.1 seee-brush item mri- j•et,, Yee ss n i t .1! nlesteuue hens a pinte-leso 'i'herjit,rt: kiar, -'aye., «.egotta eagle. r,:l::n.. "Shen: this, .a: red 1i:iil.l, titan i•-. all`.:`• a-1. easter, „ t} d.11`:y it ordinary desert -dweller, It.'seeined a planlittle soundif a l t c drily1 of ap- plication. ,t Cut �p plication. However, I had infinite faith in the re sourciefulness, exper- ience, staunchness, and courage of the two Americans, and reflected that if anybody could escape from this pre- dicament, it was these hien, familiar with the almost equally terrible Am- erican deserts, "1 vote we go south-west," said, Digby. ,"We're bound to strike„" Brit- ish territory sooner or later and then we're absolutely safe, and can easily get away by sea. We're bound to fetch yip in Nigeria ifwe go steadily south-west. if we could hit tli, Ni- ger somewhere east of Timbuktu---' fit would lead us• straight to it," "Plenty o' drinkird water in the Ni- ger, 1 allow," observed Buddy. "]tut there don't seem ter be no sign -posts to it. I.t shore is a backward state, this Sahara. . "' . "Anyhow, it's southwest of us now, and so's Nigeria," Digby insisted, "Starboard yer helium," observed Hank. "Nigeria on the port bow - about one thousand miles. - And that night we did some fifty or sixty of them without stopping, by way of a good start—a forced march while the „camels were fresh. l:,ruvieloutial great rock in this thirsty lend, we lay stretched on our backs, after an asL4ti4* ,a1 of bread and wa- ter. "What's the 12rograntmtae of ;sports, I3,tnic?°°, I asked, as we settled ours selves to sleep. "Another forced march for ,lain ciat tia tiie otthealthy lcrcation u' Ziuder- neuf," he replied. • "Thenwe t*utta $i41tst fer injuts6- or an 0t1Si5, S pretot out in .s four -mile line au peck over every rock and hill .,,; We'll shore fid it, ," and he went to sleep, l'ersoitally I slept till evening wilt• out moving, anal 1 \vlas 0121)' awaal gator! by the grumbling, gurgling roar t+i the carnal that Hank was girdling up, one of his feltit pressed' against its side and all bis weight and streneth i on the girth -rope. Having pat the camel -blanket on the other animal. lifted the wooden framework re•t ttia. tion saddle on to it, tirthed it lata, taken the nose -reins over the beast's head and looped thein round 2150 1)0112 tsiet,, he; :bawlc,l, "All aboard," and stood with his fuut on ;thy kneeling cancels near fore-ks ire, while. I climb• fed into the rear pari of the saduic. He then vaulted into the front stat and the camel, lurching heavily, cions to its feet with an angry hungry rear; Buddy. and Digby use'uutt;t the uns- er beast, and once more we were off, not to stop until wecstirnated that there were at least ;a hundred resiles between us and Zinderneuf. This was, of course, too good to last—or too bad, from the camels' point of view. .At the end of this second ride they must have food and a day's rest, if not water. Again :I slept spasmodic - and strong, As we padded steadily ally, towards morning, especially of along, we took stock of our resourc- fer Hank 'had insisted upon my ern- es. With my bottles of water, and the 'bracing hies round the body and lean- regulation water -bottles, we had en- ing against him, T was awakened ough for two or three days, with care- from a semi -slumbrous state of coma: fol rationing. Similarly with food. I by an exclamation Thom Reddy, to had a haversack full of bread, and the realise that it was day again, the cam- other three had . each an emergency els were standing still, and the riders ration as well as army biscuits. Of iwere gazing at what Buddy was indi- ammunition we had plenty, and wed eating with an outstretched arm. Over hoped to shoot dorcas gazelle, bust- the level stretch of unblown sand ard, , and hare, if nothing else. Had ;which we were crossing, ran a broad Michael been with us, I should have !and recent trail of camel footprints. been happy. As it was, the &eche !This trail crossed ours, though not at ment, the mental and aihysical activ- right angles. If we were going south a,'I y sail low they gutta lend us a couple u' hued camels, too," ar the first, t 4 1 GriO ns lee] been arxifluatosecure Arab' dress, both on account of possible . ptir' nit front Zitadei•tttutf, oini as bein:g;' less conspicuous and less : lilAy to .bring every wander'litt, Arab band dot: s sils- un us, diretitly they caught sight of of and recognised us fur hated !'; 11'11: 'lThry \vert doubly nt'Itsie:Mtis to pp .l „ ity, the hopes and fears attendant on west I should think the riders were our precarious situation, and the corn- going south—or north. panionshipf of my .brother and those •Hank and Buddy brought the cam - two nine Americans combined to help <els to their knees with the gentle, in- nse to postpone my defeat by ,the, sistent "Ostia, baba, oosha; adar-ya- giants of misery, pain and grief thatyenf' which is about the.only order fi were surely ozzly biding their time, 'that aa camel obeys without cavil or lurking to ' spin; when I could no' protest Followin the footmarks and longer maintain srss defences. garding them carefully, they decided Digby, I think was in rnucit that there were about twenty camels t sates: mental t+.andition as myself, and in the party, that they were eeing 1 1:'', -idem:(] if i to _ had aged ten south, and that they had passed years in a alight. As Ike jagged :'st: ad lie..ata, :ill: treen:..tG' . •:3t movement. al -scene, aa'J aound, ,eat 'list: t lee;', and every r.+'w and titer, I eels- ' ' saved IE) SCit tr .: i mailing by a wild r i+t,:n at Hank, behind whom I 1, inn a one apeke, and it i.: ,...t_1S abie tlea all .f us ,ir;,t 152 brief ezetta.:(trs _.,. thee—reit thee ::11i't to been very brief t.".r theas ale. ear) e..,silta. pte:n'...r1 di -tat t *1 zl• t€a a. t1t; t•rt u:- it t quite recently. "14Vhat We len lookin' fur! obsr rv- • ed Hankwith grim satisfaction, as he stcttn hin;:st:ii back free the saddle. '*The nearer we kin cit to them In - jams, the quicker -but we don' wants tread on 'cin Keep yer -eyt skirinod, borya. )end the others having re- m':,unt ed, on ..e went I si.+..uld t},111 ,;e fell .ived tisie tray: M44, nitease .o :-1. i.. . 111:1,.; bet the ei.ernal da -tri -and -arid re e. For seine time.. i t.?. -..CB 3=4' si }i be d': and herr .r7 `11114 "este, t tt'• t tl ,aria .. tlriiltii i.;,5 si e".ills '^i i'tl' L1 "011 ,l,:.li-•»• a' ' ✓f•-•;-1. .. :,1 a' t 't":4` tit..55.- 1,-"i' ,•rl 1 .. '4:r 1S s: t "Ii 1,i-tl ell Ul lt,itli'. <r111'a. - iiltossie. ' .ahk r et.. :.i: a t.., ei a;Iir,t Of a1,•1a0:_ A nlliat I.. la,tvr s e 1 ..i tl._ ea:.z:6 t hey lJ _Lave; that i'a i `ti=,r, fro -,.i fl ,it rt;ncwad to s as:far herr. tw•. fide 1' . end ee were. 1,adrlin 1 ., ,.tt' 511 i. ,1,,21•2.,,, .<sa ,,iutt r, r in like. i it: hsr„i ht the 4ss1:'::1 , jiff :it steathi. ;Ass 1 Lee ' at'iy VL.rtit,.icr di1, eti•.;n 'rk1. 1- sei.1 li.s i 1,•. ,i:el, °,,r,... 1 tt< ir... .:r:• ate. i,.ts:'ll •ar. t'ir 1..• ; , bt: ill. • ..1:^. . c:.1,a1 all• .t', 11 l,i. -u» 1 tIlly tin alie�l `\�"eL t _ .i 5• t4' 'lireneh 5e.t'±'itt.=r-s. . flow 411,..46: 1:+Ik: t: rlil�b .'Loth-e•'ia:+l. "'Arai tcl,ert s wets. , ri V. "1 -51' : ,l • ta' ti< 1i ;ars 1 ori ibc it anal d• tbje rt.lvo' It flet r,-:: it 1,I.IYstltl, 1 1,e,dd talc: the line for \lo,lr,ccu for ,cir•tain, 1 -limed, • ' ' 1 fronded out. ''l. vote Iter tilt. VP. bin ;Old ,i bt Ml •' I;,e ,. ra seer t iltev-inset, it at set! ..s,. lees \Where• tlu ri: :II \r',ib the re'li b teri ter eulnc.v,'dlurt: 0.1O111, 1 ,111.11)b "hi,1 t aid Bank. "We'll pursua 1111: gn.re lujtin. What's gr,ud x 11i,u:.lr iter luny ia bad en",uelt fee t' . }"rig say \t110cr you wants ter"•ret 'ata"'1'si1- tri tr well t" r, v :f, ,, a 11st rf•---bul it itiaY t tki• ';i fess year' 'What we woes, 'lo • ,. .11:,t is turn anima set.' - . (it In - dun glad rah::;, and live like they does. Vadt' c wtsll armed and gr,t Dur healt11. and strength au' boss -sense. When' in the desert do as the deserters doe), . Yep. We gutta 10151 Injun." From whiell I gathered that Hank the Wise firmly advocated our carl,y. metamorphosis into Arabs, and the adoption of Arab methods of 5ubsi,s•- tence in waterless places. "Injures lives by lectin' other, folks projuce an' then coilectiin', put in Buddy. "We gotta collet," said ;Hank. . "Prom the collectors," added Buddy. Prortl wlticl'1'7'gathered •further that our friends were proposrrig not only that we sho ld tune. Arab, blit super. Arab, and should prey upon the Tett- areg as the Touareg preyed upon the :,l I l 25. :1:1 11 : l ; .il,tl i udd. . ;i Jcd a rein' i' . t l,. ten v.'e d.+,s s, eii ii ., irir+.e.t lletat what i.a-, tare t ,it;g,it.i:a 1 , ,ir.}i n 1111'.. +'el I.'1 dltt.. 1111.5 It r , 11,1111 : i:itt.l•r ti,',u::-lea` 1,'t. tl�-1t a) h 11:511 ;-giOUd l:iy l:l 1l Lr dt i'a;' tL it 11, A:11 1f 1, the 'frail I (1 >li t t,t:015 ., t.. hnn,ta/1111111 tis, ,L'.i -alt, ,b••;.12 of Hank, "but i iilll,25 y:'.,11 e,1712 , ,t 41,1y" Lar "'.r..rl,:. 11 1 :•a:. tint as 155;.',55:4,' a:. r, c(1 1Muddy, "'colt that tilt•. 44't' nie,r, ei,reti ,1 (,1: their pas- <rens 111{u. Per 5,12, Et.1(f1, if:r Sa• 1iti' up the drinks, tt11yhuw. 'l"11cy can lice +15 ltatr51leet,. ,.1l' r21 that':, jtlst what weperviikd ft.i 'ern, 'Illey e,uthta thrive. " • "'We'll have to duel something fer them, said 1)ieby, "if it's only newti- paler or tbc: thatch of a nigger's bus:" "1 hey. 'heard of ''ern ratio' people's ” list; et thane ,heJ'ws and znt:i:nat;Grie;,, said flank. "tly Aunt 'Mandy went to Ole Lien iiarnutn's show nn her gold» cin yw.elaird day, an' a camel brows;"d' her hat and all leer back hair, an' she never knuwed it lentil she felt a draught.. , Yep. They kin het our kepis if they wait till we get some lnjttn shappos an' pants an' things." 1 was aware that camels had erica - gree appetites and queer, limited tastes, embracing a narrow sclectlon ratlg, ing front bran :to the twigs of dead thorn -bush, but I agreed with Digby that we should, have to' gille them sonsething, and something other than our caps. Our lives depended upon these two ugly, unfriendly beasts, for without ,thetas we should either be quir:kl'mecaptured or else we should die of thirst and starvation, long be- fore ti - fore We 'could reach ,.any oasis. In the rapidly narrovving shadow of a 1' i. !ten nnri lati,el a,. earthly eters- up b,.: id .1 \ s +: had c o:+ae: t+. tli' 'bank 'i! a! .. T.0 ti'dflt' Tinel vat t• it,:i e , dry 111 t bed, whose '14 fives. sell- 54:(1 (]4114,: 1 ravt•i and 2157'- ' tr }111 1s tat ;,21(: ti:TleY 11111::t 141(\'e be1.11 M111)1 t'1 trs the tilri '.i rttntln \Cit- ter. The pla. t 10',uh0tl so, though a M .- 1, river lsaerl iI ,t (:d -.1.,11 • 11 teal thtrtastaild ri years ate, 11121 e hat Eland. was peiet- 1ti;4,..1e, A.'ti the. �t�,-,t au. l4'141C11 tl,i frs„i_ l,riut2 led. Beneath a hul4t: h1;;11 rush; that ruse from rite middle ref the riv. (sr -bed, tl, was a dark , in:itiire shadow :enamel which were: dry-ltt,kilet tints etsirstr gray;,, stiited;dwarf 210aciae Viand b w thorn -bushes. 'file camels were perceptibly e01 ur to get to this spot. "1\Vater, said Hank, "May have t,, 'dig,,. 13tu there was no need 'to dig, :lle- nc.at]i: and around the ruck '\ vasa pu4,1, fed prestunably 1rum a-subterrataean source. It wasn't the sparkling water of 111.' I1t ''fish spring; <rlrii lu In ?., t t, >bb1 us 1 atnon' green hills, anymeans, is 4 y en was rather in the water, but we were not fastidious, and certainly the camels were ntit. On the contrary, we were delighted and deeply thank- ful. here were shade, water, and .cam- el -food, giving its a new 1eage of life& and encouragement fon our wvay, It, was evident that a party of travellers had, recently halted here, "Gond old-rottaregs," said 'Digby, as we distnoiinted in the gloriosa shade. "Obliging lads, We'll folllrw them up just' as long as they arc' rrw In„ oar way hostre." "We gotta do l5lore'll hiller 'ern 1215," saki Hank, "'Vet gotta catch deed tip, They gotta lend Ira some '002500' det- ,et-wear striped gots' suitings, 'Like- wise< 'Like- wisegrtil7-static us soots," �,'Shorc," agreed Buddy. "An', we a'l i't no' floss -thieves neither, but i' al - 6 ,,, this ;disguise ,on learning that, in the; i4nll:h, towards N1be1'ia, there were numerous f ris ,and outposts of the French Niger Territory, garrisoned b Senegalese, and that between these posts, numerous patrols would care- fully watch the caravan -routes, arid visit such Arab towns acid settlements Os existed. (To b Continued) , Thursday, October dthn 1927 • Rene xrber the sale rf itirnittlre ^at A. G. 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