The Seaforth News, 1946-02-14, Page 3DARK LIGIITNING,
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CHAPTER XVIII
"Theyse getting rerdy to case
Z twn—,not they're not. Something's
busted: Think l'°1l reek up there.
If Hickey's in 'trouble he may need
help."
"All right, ?Witless, I''11 go too,"
Bill said,
Hickay was not an the derrick.
floor. The driller stood mopping
his ,forehead withhis sleeve,
"Stuck," he said, as Gary and Bill
came up. ''Stink in anhydrite."
"Hickey's luck was too good to
last," Gary said.
"Sent a man to call Hickey,"
the • dril or said. "Don't know
does ne wane to drill past the bit,
or what." •
Harvey cane tramping, red-.
• faced, looked embarrassed when he
saw Gary, who said quietly, "Good
,evening, Mar Mason."
"Nothing good ' about this,"
:grumbled Harvey. "How you going
to get her loose?" he asked the
driller.
"She's loose now," yelled the
roughnecks.
But after length on length' of
ripe had come up, a broken, jagged
end carne slobbering out of the
well:
"Lost your bit," Gary said. "Now
you've got • a fishing job on your
hands."
A truck came roaring up, and
Hickey fell out of it.
"Hook up the grappler," he
shouted, when he saw the broken
stem.. "Got to fish that bit out-"
"Broke at twenty-eight, fifteen,"
said a roughneck. "You could may-
be shoot it out—"
"Not with that shale above it,"
Gary reminded Hickey. "Pull your
whole well in. All right, Bill, let's
be shaving off. Good night — and
good luck."
FIc walked away without looking
back, though it was not easy to do.
Harvey had looked worried and
sick. He did not see Adelaide.
"Well, fellow, you gave 'ens the
back of your heels," Bill said. "But
Mason was trying to make up his
mind to ask you to stay."
"Which would have done him no
good at all," said Gary grimly.
He hated the job on the Grice-
Morgan derrick. But it meant mon-
ey that would make it possible for
him to leave for some far place
where gray eyes and tawny hair
would cease to haunt hint.
At night, when Bill came to his
room, he asked abruptly, "No con-
nection between Republic and
Grice-Morgan, is there, Bill?"
"Couldn't be. They're competi-
tive developers," Bill said, "Why?"
"Because if Grice-Morgan are at
the bottom of this scheme to bust
Mason, it docs. t look too good for
me to be working for then, Bill."
"That's tough — tough you feel
that way, because they're going to
put up two more derricks. Means a
few more days' work for you and
little Willie."
There was a knock on the door.
Gary opened it and saw three peo-
ple standing in the hall outside.
One was a messenger#. The other
two were Harvey Mason and. Adel-
aide.
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"Sign here, buddy — number 10,"
instructed the boy.
"Oh, good evening," Gary stam-
mered awkwardly.
"Let us in, Gary, we want to talk
to you." Adelaide bad her ',same
peremptory little manner. ,
"Oh, of course — come in.". He
scribbled his name on the yellow
slip but did n.t open the message.
Bill jumped to his f..c', said apol-
ogetically, "'There's only one chair,
Adelaide — mind sitting on the bed,
Mr. Mason?"
'Haven't got time to sit down."
Harvey was brusque. "1—Gary,
you'll hal: come back,"
"Sorry, Mr,' Makin, I can't possi-
bly come back. Not till everything
is entirely cleared up."
"Gary." Adelaide was almost
tearful. "Dad. has to leave on the
next train. It's Junior. He's in
jail"
"Ran over a kid with that new
car of his, up in Virginia, - said
Harvey: "If the kid dies, it's man-
slaughter, and money won't get him
out," he added bitterly.
"You'll come back, Gary?" Ade-
laide begged. "Oh, Gary, we apolo-
gize and everything. Surely you
wouldn't leave us in ,a terrible hole
like this?"
"All right-" Gary _ said slowly,
but a trifle loftily, "Pll cone hack.
What do you want me to do, Mr.
Mason?"
"Get the, well down," ordered
Harvey. "Get it down before it
busts me. You come along out to-
night, Gary — and when 1 get back
"Better open your telegram first.
hadn't you?" reminded BilL "It
might be a job.
"Yes — excuse me" Gary slit the
yellow envelope. "No it's not a
job," he said. "But you may be in-
terested in what it says, Mr. Ma-
son."
He handed over the message. It
read:
NEVER BEARD OF MASON
OR HIS WILDCAT WELL, WE
HAVE NO INTEREST IN
SMALL DEVELOPMENT.
DON'T REMEMBER YOU.
WHEN DID YOU WORK FOR
US? ARMSTRONG REPUBLIC
OIL,
Gary laughed ruefully. "Looks
as if neither of us is so important
as we thought, Mr. Mason," he said.
"That's not important now —
none of it," Mason said. "The chief
thing is — I've got to leave and
that well has to go down,"
The core drills went down next
day and came up again, bringing
from deep, secret places the long
gray cylinders of rock and earth
that logged the structure of the
world's heart, so far below.
When the gray columns, the size
of a child's arm, were laid out on
the ground, Hickey and Gary stud-
ied them anxiously. "No showing
yet," Gary said, sighing. "Nothing
to do but go on down."
"Don't reckon we could have
Passed then sands?" Hickey de-
bated, at lunch time. "I've got a
good notion to run Schlumberger
on her, anyway."
"Have to case down farther,
then," Gary reminded him, "and
casing costs money. So do electri-
cal tests, PcI 1 leer t.1k to Mrs.
Mason about it."
Mona Lee was frankly upset. "1
wish Harvey hadn't gone off and
left vie so much responsibility, You
don't really think this is wise, do
you, Gary?" she went on.
"Well, 1 wish we could have a
chance to talk to a geophysicist
first. I'n, satisfied tette if there is
oil structure out there, it lies very
deep Wells have been drilled past
the oil sand, but not often. But of
course if we go on drilling, and
then fail ... well, we'll be sure if
we t .n the test."
(To Be Continued)
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BOUNCING, NOW
When Kathleen Ann Busse was
born she weighed only 24 ounces
and spent the first three months of
her life in an incubator. The bright-
eyed, alert husky above is Kathleen,
pictured as she recently celebrated
her first birthday in her Chicago
home, weighing 16% pounds.
Modern Etiquette
• By Roberta Lee
1. Is it really necessary to re-
peat a person's name when beiag
introduced?
2. What should a girl say to a
young man when a dance is finish -
cd and he says "thank you"?
3. When fruits are served at
dinner, what should immediately
follow?
4. Is it ever permissible to leave
the spoon standing in the cup?
5. What are really the require-
ments of a good conversationalist?
0. When the guests are leavi-ig
an afternoon affair, is it accessary
fot the hostess to go to the door
with each departing guest?
Answers
1, It is not exactly necessary, but
it is customary. It merely shows
that one has heard the name cor-
rectly. 2. It is not necessary to say
anything; a smile, or a friendly
nod, is sufficient acknowledge-
ment. 3. The finger bowl. 4. Never.
s, FIc should be attentive, spon-
tt•neous. natural, sympathetic, and
possess the friendly spirit of good
will, 6. No, she may receive their
farewells in a group, going to the
door only with the last guest to
apart.
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SUN.
MON.
TUE.
WED.
THU.
FRI.
SAT.
Pot
Roast'
of
Beef
Sheph-
erd's
Pie
Maca-
roni
Scallop
Veal
Stew
Corned
Beef
&
Cab-
bage
Fish
Corned
Beef
Hash
with
Parsley
Sauce
Group C
left-
over
unrat-
toned
Group C
Group C
unrat-
Toned
left-
over
4lbs.
2
coupons
11/¢ lbs.
6 tokens
21bs.
1
coupon
2 tokens for I0 oz. sausages.
A pot roast of, beef animated with colorful vegetables Will get the
week off to a savoury start. On Monday it can be revamped, as a
Shepherd's Pie. If you haven't enough left -over gravy moisten t to
ground meat, try a tin of tomato or vegetable soup and top tie
combine with fluffy mashed potatoes. Aside from these two meals, you
may find that the four pound roast will leave you with some use ul
remnants for lunch box sandwiches. Meatless days are ideal ones on
which to carry out your New Year's resolution to introduce a new dish
at least once a week, For Tetseday's eating a macaroni scallop is
suggested. Just alternate layers of cooked macaroni, hard cooked eggs
and a well -seasoned cream sauce, top with buttered crumbs and oven
heat until bubbling and browned. .Along with it you might serve
vegetable vitamins in salad form and wheat germ muffins hot from the
oven. A fine dish to make one glad that winter is here is a good stew.
Six tokens worth of veal from Group C will allow generous servings
all round, aand a cornmeal biscuit topping will give it both eye and taste
appeal. A one coupon expenditure for corned beef should bring sitis-
appeal. A one coupon expenditure for corned beef should bring satis-
fying returns. Served hot on Thursday it teams well with jacket -boiled
should be sufficient to mince and combine with mashed potatoes. Then
individual cakes can be browned in a small amount of fat and served
piping hot with parsley sauce. Friday is yours to make a fish selection.
The two tokens remaining from the week's purchases might be devoted
to 10 ounces of sausages to highlight Sunday's breakfast eggs.
011IO11ICLES
of GINGER FARM
By
Gwendoline P. Clarke
« « «
You remember I mentioned a
few weeks ago that mail -time was
my favourite hour of the 'day. I
should have qualified that remark
by saying—"If someone else goes
after the mail." When I trail down
to the road for it myself, that s
something else again. I don't have
to—if Bob isn't around Partner
tells me to leave it until noon an I
he will get it. But I never matte
promises because if I see the mail-
man stop a the gate—well, l
can't wait -I just have to get that
mail, Maybe you wonder what all
the fuss is about; why I mention
any difficulty in getting it at all.
Well, if you had a lane nine hun-
died feet long, filled with snow,
end had to face a strong north-
west wind at anywhere from zero
to ten above, you would know whet
T am talking about.
* * *
Saturday, for instance, 1 kne'v
there was a parcel coming by trail
so rather than face the worst wind
of the 'week I decided to take the
car. Bob had been getting in and
out of the lane so I thought I could
f,
I backed the car out got is
tro. ,
far as the corner of the house—
onrr, stuck, good and properly. The
Inc would neither go backwards
no, forwards. Partner was busy et
the barn, and I wasn't prepared to
co any shovelling, so I just left
it there. I went back to the house
am this time 1 took with me an
umbrella as protection against the
wind. With it 1 struggled down
the lane, stopping once or twice 'o
get my balance, so strong was the
wino. No, I didn't let the umbrella
brow inside out, if that is what
you are thinking.
,1" * *
12cturning the wind was in my
tack-b,eit I still had plenty of
trouble, 1 had a big box to carry,
e shopping bag that l took to car-
ry the mail home in, and the um-
brella to manipulate. 'Phe ruts en
the lane which the truck wheels
bac made were deep and narrow;
the wind drove are along so tast
that 1 lost my balance, Over I
went out to the snowhank—pare is
and all Tippy was with: me and I
an, sure she thought "Now this is
fun," for she cause bouncing along
and was all ever, 00 before l knew
where 1 was. And That `didn't beep.
Eventually I reached the shelter
o, the house. So row perhaps you
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will understand that while I s '11
ray mail -time is the best' hour of
the day—it is with reservations.
NJw we have had a real taste of
v,irter I am beginning to think
tl,e ground -hog and I have some -
when a period of hibernation does-
n't seem such .a bad idea. Come to
thing in 5pmnton. There are times
think of It I have been in a state of
semi-hibernation—that is to say I
haven't been off the farm for two
weeks, but, unlike tht ground -hog
1 haven't been sleeping my time
away. No I have done a bit of
writing, a bit of sewing and simp-
ly scads of mending. There were
thirteen patches and two new
pockets on a smock I fixed up for
Partner. It still has the original
buttons and button -holes. There
are work pants for Bob that be-
long in pretty much the same cate-
gory. After all, why spend money
on new things that are of shoddy
material and poorly made? Thank
goodness, the outlook in that re-
spect is at last becoming a little
more hopeful. My authority For
that statement is a U.S. publication
which says that thread counts and
dyes are getting better and a
steady improvement in quality and
quantity is expected during the
summer. It also said experiments
have been tried to make clothing
without stitching, Some kind of
resin is used so that dresses can
be pressed together instead of
sewn,
Sunday School
Lesson
February 17
'True To a Great Heritage
Deuteronomy 4:1, 32-40
Golden Text''
He hath made His wonderful
works to be remeinbered. Psalm
God Speaks Through Moses
proses exhorts Israel to hearken
unto the statutes — laws referring
to the worship of God " — and
onto the judgments - laws con-
cerning duties to one's fellow hien.'
Both together make up the code of
the whole duty of man.
Moses reminds Israel that they
are a privileged people, for since'
the day ,of man's creation none has
had such amazing 5evelations' of
God's power, goodness and mercy.,
What other people, Moses asks,
ever heard the voice of God as Is-
rael did through the lightnings that
reverberated down the ravines of
Sinai? Not another exodus is coin
parable to the Exodus of Israel
from Egypt.
Saved To Serve
1t was the band of God that took
Israel out of Egypt. It was done'
by tests and signs and wonders and
gr eat terrors, as in the ten terrible.
plagues; and by war and a mighty
hand and outstretched arm, as at
the Red Sea when the army of
Pharaoh was overthrown and the
power of Egype broken.
.The calling of Israel to be God's
chosene people was an act of grace
— Israel was saved to serve. Moses
declared that it was not, bcause, of
their numbers that God called
them, but because he chose to love
then.
Moses impressed on Israel the
mighty power of the nations yet
to be driven out of Canaan before
they can enter upon their inheri-
tante.. But the sane mighty hand
which brought them out of Egypt
will bring them into Canaan.
The Duty of Israel
The divine program was defined
in the duty of Israel — implicit
and constant obedience, The Com-
mandment of God must be kept.
Then the people would be blessed
with prosperity and peace. Their
posterity would enter into a goodly
heritage. The country would be
secure against the greed and ra-
pacity of other nations.
Thus Jehovah gave thetas their
land with the understanding that
they should use it for His glory
and return it to Him with rich
fruitage in the fulness or time.
Books of Remembrance
The sixty -thousand civilians,
men, women and little children,
killed in the cities of Great Bri-
tain by bombs of German aircraft,
now 'have their navies commem-
orated in Westminster Abbey.
Four 'Books of Remembrance"
have been placed in St. George s
Chapel, neon the tomb of the Un-
known Warrior, in a beauti:ful'y
carved and electrically -illuminated
shrine, there to remain for ever,
Ladderless Hose
The dream of a Iadderless stock-
ing has been brought a step nearer
to realization by the production of
a rayon fibre that is stronger than
nylon, according to tests made by
Professor W, T. Astbury at the
textile pbysios laboratory of Leeds
University. A product of British
Celanese, Ltd.; it is called fortisan,
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