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The Wingham Advance Times, 1929-10-17, Page 6Ai WINGHANI ADVANCE -TIMES Thursday, October 17th, 1929 Wellington Mutual Fire Insurance Co. y Head Office, Guelph, Ont, Established 1840 Risks taken on all class of insur- ance at reasonable rates, A.BNER COSENS, Agent, Wingham J. W. DODD Office in Chisholm .Stock FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT. AND .-- HEALTH INSURANCE -- AND REAL ESTATE' P. O. Box 360 Phone 240 WINGHAM, ONTARIO 1 W. BUSHFIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money to Loan l Office—Meyer Block, Wingham Successor to Dudley Holmes. R. VANSTONE BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. Money to Loan at Lowest Rates Wingham, - Ontario J. A. IVli9R'I`G N 1 BARRISTER, ETC. Wingham, Ontario ISR . G. H -i. ROSS DENTIST Office Over Isard's Store 11. W. COLBORNE, M. D. Physician and Surgeon Medical Representative D. S. C. R. Successor to Dr. W. R. Harnbly Phone 54 Wingham DR. ROBT. C. REDMOND M.R.C.S. (ENG.) L.R.C.P. (Long.) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON ART DR. R. L. 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WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE Palmyra Tree and her parents -With alniyra's two suitors, Van- Buren ILutger and John Thurston and some other friends,' are cruising:' on the Yacht Rainbow. Palmyra's startled by seeing a hand thrust in through the port of her cabin, makes a secret investigation and discovers a stowaway—a man so nild in appearance that she is dis- appointed-- and tells him so. He commands her to glance at the door. She obeys and see a huge, fierce, opper-hued matt—with a ten inch knife held between grinning lips. Now read on. CHAPTER II Slie stood, waiting, listening. She could feel' the darkness move with unseen menace. But the dead sil- ence of that prisoned space gave no sound of life. She might have swept the ray into all the corners, but she hesitated to repeat the vision of the night before. Rather, she held the blankets up in- vitingly and, in silence, turned the jet of light on thein. For almost a minute she waited,thus. Then, sud- denly, without warning preliminary of sound, there appeared within the outer circle of light the ends of four great massive square fingers. Almost, the girl sprang back, cried out in panic. A moment the fingers paused. Then they came thrusting toward her from the dark. For a flash it seem- touch and cross the life course of ed that it mast be herself they meant Miss Palmyra Tree of Boston. But it was not a pop bottle that; the fat horizon -burster flung into the bird's. nest fern. It was a bottle which had held olil acs. There, as the olive bottle had fal- len, the island mother, her' babe aipon hand that had been sent through the her hip,'"had found it. She had held port; square, sinewy, brown; adorned the etnpty bottle up before the eyes, of the naked brown baby that he might admire the bright red and green of its lithograph. She had tried to make out the incsription up- Next morning Mrs, Crawford and tier guests were gathered in lee of the deckhouse, bundled intheir rugs. The sun, only at intervals, had been blinking through, bringing a touch of warmth to the surface of the sea, charming the spreading canvas into life. As, presently, Palmyra roused from her preoccupation to join the others in a laugh, the luminary glanc- ed down again and printed on the deck, black and sharp -edged, the lift- ing shadows of the sails, Such a shade lay across the girl's face. When the Rainbow rose to a surge, the shadow moved, as a cur- tain u and the sunbeam caught in p a turn and illumined perfect teeth,"` °`�' ,' . •- a L' ' { � Samples, eyes that danced with fun; set a -flame the crown of bright hair, her most noticeable endowment. x'w`�•' n".'•+min ' 3ri But soon she was somber again, She had been shaken by that fierce visage leaping out at her from the : 1 dark. She should have suspected a sec- and presence. One glance at, Burke's I hand, gloved though it was, should ✓ �'' ;, x is Tyr have sufficed. It was small, psidgy, never th thick e t is sinewy paw that had -•• , fastened upon the cabin port, Her "•. wits about her, she should not have waited to be told afterwards that he was chanting; "Silent, go, stand a- gainst the door, knife in teeth, and look terrific." At this point the shadow of the sail came swooping down again a- cross Palmyra's eyes and she awoke to find that Mrs. Durley, the stew- ardess, was regarding her with an amused and curious expression. The girl flushed guiltily. Mrs. Durley stepped forward, hes- stated, held out a card tray. "A gen- tleman to see you, Miss Tree," she announced, "A gentleman to see Miss Tree?" inquired Mrs. Crawford in amused acceptance of the play. "Why, how unexpected." "Airplane or sea horse?" question- ed Van. At this moment she caught sight of the man himself, standing in the ally between the house and the rail. "Mrs. Crawford," she introduced,' "this is Mr: Burke, the well-known. pirate, Will be pleased, yo ho ho, to demonstrate walking the plank. I'm sure if you could see him scuts su tle a ship,you'd feel we'd been great ly distinguished," By daylight the pirate's face had lost its cherubic aspect. Still singu- larly undeveloped ingu-larly'undeveloped as to line and fea- ture, there was now more visibly up- on it a maturity of significance that could only have been stamped by diis- sipation, hardship ..arid danger, : or some more violent temperamental urge than, at first view, could have. beenu. s spected. T But if Burke's face had gained in "Excuse me, miss," Panope Burke. significance, his figure had not, said, "but didn't 1 hear this gent 'a- lhroreover, he, now verged on the calling you `Palen -Tree'?" pathetic, shaking with cold... Palmyra She assented, recollected, with a stab of pity, that "But what, what kind of a joke.';" brown creature down below. "It isn't a Jake," she affirmed. Thegirl s M F started,' impulsively, r 1 anvil name g e, p s ve y, to Y Yars Tree and--- she rise, then sank .back again. ' She had glanced amusedly at Constance—"my seen the steward below, a short time given name is Palm," past, overhauling 'blankets, a reserve The stowaway stared,' grinned, re- supply for the men forward. 'If she peated the name, He turned to his could manage to get one or two of savage, spoke animatedly, nodded these coverings. . Compassion his head toward: her: The brown urged the deed. But -she was afraid, malt's eycis sought the; girl's face :Presently, however, a well-authen- once snore and she felt sure he had, ticated chin settled into place and ill some obscure way, been moved. two lips grew arbitrary. She mars There was certainly a something new died down the companionway.','es, upon that strange countenance, the blankets were sti11 there. She As the savage sat upan- the hatch, snatched two, secured her torch and 'a corner of blanket touched the teak - reached the bulkhead door, unchal- wood, When he reached down to lenged, rescue the fabric itis thick right fore She e tn'Si S1 c swzched on the torch, forced .ir l of out'from cover 'anl so re - herself forward, Then after a mo- Mained. The w;irl became aware of naefit's l csitatioin "Hetes-MO Area line of blue -black niarkihlgs along you cold? l have two bi:nkets;" covered'with surprise that these tat- tooiiigs were letters—her own alpha- bet.. At first she did not catch the word because two of its symbols were upside down, "Why," she cried, impulsively, "what is that he has tattooed on his aim?" Here the pirate took up the'story. of his brown companion's name, If it had been a pop bottle that the fat horizon -burster (white roan) flung into the bird's nest, fern beside the spring, this lion of a man would not now be here. Far away on some somnolent speck of coral he would be drowsing through the years; ig- norant as to white man's ways, safe forever from the questionable leader- ship of Ponape Burke; never to to seize, Then they closed upon the blankets, rested there an instant, withdrew with their, prize again into the night whence then had come. But, brief as the interval, it had been enough. Here at last was' the even to the great-grandmother mitts. And only now did she belatedly realize that these mitts were not of: silk, but of tattooer's ink. ®rrwmr kiln* -yrt.. 3,_gin,e When the girl came on deck next morning there the savage sat, cross-legged on the fore -hatch, huddled under his blankets in the sun. When the girl came on deck next on it- Mgr!nn' ^' • " anorning there the savage sat, cross- ONYX BRAND legged on the fore -hatch . huddled un- gg The Hubbard Extra -Choice der his blankets in the sun, QUEEN As Palmyra and her parents ap- OLIVE peered, Ponape Burke was explain- ingwas that the remote intelligence at his yet baffling unreadable, as a sentence feet knew no word of any white in Russian would have been' to Pal - man's language. ntyra. For in the mother's alphabet If the savage recognized her she there were but fourteen letters; el - was unable to note any change w even of our consonants unmeaning his countenance. :[ndeed, she saw character. that this copper;mask would seldom, But as her glance fell upon the if ever, yield to the civilized eye any word "Olive," she smiled, Here was useful indication of the mood within. a combination that spelled; every let - Ponape Burke,'showman, had seiz- ter as familiar as if it had been the ed a double handful of the bush of name of her own village. hair on the native's `head, and was "Behold, chiefly son," she had saying: cried to the baby on her hip; "here , "'Tisn't so much that he's got is a so -island word—`0-1-i-v-e.' What hair," Burke was .saying, "as that his to it, think you,;is a meaning? And hair ain't black, as you'd expect, but set forth upon a horizon-burster's a pretty gay species o' tan. Which, strong -water bottle (to her all bot la-adies and gents, is South Sea beau ties meant. liquor). ty-parlor stuff." Presently the mother's face had "'Tis dee-lightfully sanitary,, la- lighted with inspiration. There, tins tidies," the showman added, "and col- doubtedly atnong warriors, was the. ors the hair up any shade 'o' blonde great word, And here, upon her hip, 'lit1 e. But—"he: •iman alive. list Y tittered and glans- was the greatestv W. ed audaciously at Miss "Tree's own better, then, than this for,>a name? head --•-"the very foxiest and most en And so it was the brown baby, vied hire some of 'elm succeeds in to be known forever to all white getting up is a `real or•angey near- men as "Olive," and to his South red." Sea kinsmen, according to their read - Van laughed. "Oli, admirable," he ing of its'letter, as "0-lec-vay," cried. "An' t 'l admirable effect. And Burke's glance took in the silent never till the moment did T , suspect, motionless inass' of man on the hatch . Why,Palm with pridefulownership.:. Then lie a n res. . p cls broke again into his oddly tined -tilt mirth. "Look at hint, now,,' he cried. "Look at him. diad clear through," They turned' their smiling eyesup- on the browrirnan, "Mad clear through," repeated his master. "Since Miss Tree pointed to his arm we all beenlaughing a lot, He thinks it's at hint." down with blankets when a brown being was in misery with cold. As regarded the hand: The stow- aways, precariously hidden on deck in a boat, 'had taken the first' chance to sneak below, Burlce had got to cover, but a seaman, unexpectedly starting that way,' would have caught Olive. The 'islander had slipped ov- erside at that point, dangling from a stanchion, onlyhis hands visible. He had put one down to the port, in- tending to hang trailing from that if the sailor came near, A roll of the yacht thrust his forearm through. Then the seaman had turned away and Olive liftedhimselfback to deck, But far more important than •Pal myra's Tree's courage and kindness. was her name ,. To the white man it had seemed interesting, to the brown astonishing,. "In the low islands," said Burke, "the palmtree's the most important thing they got, . Couldn't live with- out it a day," Here, aside from fish, there was often no food except the pandanus-- scorned elsewhere -and the cocoanut, The nuts were eaten atevery meal; cooked or 'raw, green, ripe, germin- ated. For all the accessories of life the palm could be made, if need were, to furnish the material. "But, lady,* Burke persisted, "taint the things I've mentioned—not even yer name—which counts so much as —" he paused calculatingly—"as that hair o'yours, that red hair." She was again annoyed, but decid- ed to laugh. Burke was silent for an interval, his oddly undeveloped features rath- er absurd in their maturity of thought. "I suppose," he began at last, "y' haven't no idea how a Mary like you hits us islanders, kanalca or white?" "Oh," he added with a shrugging gesture acquired from the natives, "you'd never guess—never." He hes- itated in a diffidence strange to his nature. "But think, miss. Here we are, maybe ten, fifteen years never seeing any woman's face except these silly brown critters or perhaps the wife o' .some missionary or trader, here too long—sickly, pale, done for. And then of a sudden, along you comes; a—a vision, . , ," He stammered in his effort to find words that should do justice to his sentiment, but not offend. "All pirate and white, peaches and cream," he went on recklessly; "a living being as beautiful as a painted. picture. I ain't meaning no disres- pect. But that, Miss Tree, as I rec- kon you'll understand, just fair knocks us, white and, brown alike, dead in a row." • "But do you really believe Palm Tree's pirate has Seen in gun battles and all that?" Constance Crawford was asking, Palmyra now spoke. "It's non- sense to take that little man serious- ly," she affirmed. " There was a general assent. "When he says such `things," she added, "it's like hearing a baby swear,. awful, and you ought to be shocked, but at the same time comic. I de- light in his efforts to make himself out something brigandish." John Thurston had not joined in the accord. As he stood holding to the main shrouds, the big muscles of arm and shoulder swelling under his coat, he was never quite the yachts- man on an idle cruise; always, in- tangibly, a 'something of the constru- ction engineer on his way to the Phil- ippines to takecharge of government work -the Rainbow to put him a- board a transport at Honolulu, or, possibly, if time permitted, at Guam. "You're all probably right about Burke," he said presently, "But did. yon ever thinlz' how thoroughly we're bounddown by theold conventional nonsense in character ' reading— phrenology and all that? A stripling develops a big square jaw. Presto— we recognize a determined character, a 'human bulldog. Really, it's only more bone in his jaw• And if he has a broad high forehead. " "Solid ivory again," said Van, "Pahn's pirate couldn't; be further from our fixed idea of a cutthroat: fierce' moustachios, hawk nose, -deep- set, piercing, evil eyes. Yet in real life your cold-blooded, murdering brute is catit`e as likely to be some effeminate youth selling soda` water wiPt 1alam Y'iir5ap., ha d eabe<e, n wondering why everyone` on board—everyone except Constance—wanted her to marry Van. She saw that they all did, and she felt that their reasons imust tie good. Constance, of course, said it was only ancestors. The Tree fam- ily worshipped the .family ince. `.`And Van," Constance had said eon ster- ciaily, "has the .finest line of ances- tors put out by any hoose in Amer- ica." It was nothing in Van person- ally, she had added, "Jolttt does things. Btiit: Van only �s things. The girl got tip restlessly and stood at the rail gazing out over the sunset sea, As John Thurston went oft to 'amplify his thoughts regarding Burke she glanced ovt:r lien shoulder. to Later in the day Palmyra Sound her pirates alone, They sat side by side, gripping stolidly the khakifabric that strug- gled, flapping to the wind 'behind their backs. "Speaking o' this big brute," Burke began, indicating Olive; "he don't do nothing now but ask questions about you," The girl did not know eg o owwtlther to� like that or not. `:['o beginwith, said Burke, it was her courage, She hadn't squawed at the hand in the port liar the fgee un- the inner side of this arm, She disc der the spotlight. And sac's tome Oar jD e if IRE ND WEATI1EIR Put it on with PRESTON LED -HED NAILS (shown above) s' Specially adapted for use in putting ow:natal roofing. The lead on the head positively seals the nail hole - to ti Hand making it weather-. ent; easy to lay on any roof. 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"I don't doubt our stowaway's a little man, suffic- iently blunt as .to his moral percep- tions, but quite 'harmless, making himself the hero of every gory story `he picks 'up, eager to pose as a deep- sea bad man. But still--,„ During this idle chatter the girl had felt, growing with every moment a fuller perception of herself aboard this yacht. Never until now had she had a complete realization of the in- timacy of this cruise with Van and John; of the incredible nearnes's of these two to her, Thus they would go on through every waking hour, unescapable in their demand upon her love. She had had a suffocating sense that never, for one instant, could site protect herself from thein and their problem, And then, as an ispi.ration, it had conte to her that Ponape Burke should be her refuge. Until she was sure about the two—oh, so sure l— she could always fly to him. She'd demand her pirate's stories, and force Van and John also to sit and listen, no matter how rebellious. She had a sudden curiosity con- cerning this -:Ponape Burke in her new dependence :upon •hitn. She was eager to ,look at him. And she 1 new n thefore-, o be tet c d he would 1 hatch, 'his brown man as ever at his elbow, -silent, motionless, a pagan joss. Shewhirled aroung to gaze, then caught her breath in dismay. l Unexpectedly, startlingly, thesav age, unbeknown to any one of thein all, had materialized himself here, was sitting almost ' within their cir- cle, • And his eyes were leveled upon her in a profound unblinking stare that seemed to have been going on for hours. Continued next week) HEALTH SERVICE ofthe CANADIAN -MEDICAL ASSOCIA- TION "HOW OLD IS ANN?" We do not profess to give an. an- swer an to the number of years which Ann has lived, or the 'number of birthdays she has celebrated, because We are quite willing to leave the sol- utionthat of robleto the ttiathe- p m maticians or to those who enjoy struggling with such puzzles, The reason why we i•trfer to Ann's age opportun- ity because t1r'is gives +u .s the a to point to our readers that there are more ways of determining age than by totaitiog;.years..13y this we mean that the real . age of a person is not represented, by the number of years passed since his birthday, but rather by the condition of his body at the present time. The body is frequently likened to a machine or an engine. The body dif- fers from any other machine in that. when a part is worn out, it cannot be replaced. The true age of the b,:dy- bythecondition f tli var- iousfs shown 4 o e essential parts. If they show "di signs 'of wear, then the body is grow- ing old, regardless of the number of• birthdays passed. Old age is merely: the wearing out of the body machine, and health work seeks to prevent a- premature old age by protecting the body from needless strains, and by- warning against the over -indulgences which are responsible for many of- the breaks during the years when fit- ness should be maintained. If we • were asked to determine - Anti's age on this basis, we would want to know the condition ofher- heart, her arteries, her kidneys, her lungs, and of these, particularly, we• would be interested in heart, arteries. and kidneys, because it is in these - organs that the first signs of wear are usually seen. We would then. want to know how Ann lives. What. does she eat? Does she get suffic- ient rest and recreation? In other wards, does she live a hygienic lffei” Knowin • the, actual conclit% n. 8 c o ofher body and her manner of living, would alien know much more about ;• her true age than does the mathema- tician athe _ g. nag-. tician who 'solves the problem. Questions, concerning. 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