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From what he had told her on the previous night, it seemed that this mysâ€" terious American had deliberately set out to sow mistrust of the little priest in her tather‘s mind at their first interâ€" For the next half hour Diana reâ€" mained at the tiller, with the breeze blowing through her hair and an occaâ€" sional drift of spray stinging her cheeks in the hot sunshine. The sloop was beautifully balanced, and she had no diftficulty in holding to the course she had been given. Forward the two negroes kept up an intermittent, lowâ€" vaiced conversation of which she could hear only an occasional word above the crisp sound of the little vessel cutâ€" ting through the water and the steady hum of the trade wind. As far as she could see the Major appeared to be studying the chart again on the cabin table, and she marvelled anew at his credulity in having embraked on this crazy expedition on the word of this man Becker. : From what he had told her an the He rose stiffly to his feet and she took over the tiller from him and checked the course from the binnacle. The Major stood for some little while. staring out anead under the foot of the mainsail and then slowly descended to the cabin. for a few moments, Diana turned to her father. ‘"Wouldn‘t you like to be relieved for a bit?" she«asked, and as he looked at her doubtfully, she added, a trifle imâ€" patiently: "It‘s all right, you know. I‘m not going to try and head back or anything like that." "I didn‘t suggose you would," he reâ€" turned gruffly. "Very well then, you know the courseâ€"norâ€"norâ€"west, a half west, And if you see any signs of land let me know at once." The two negroes were squatting forâ€" ward, smoking and talking together in low voices, and after looking about her for a few moments, Diana turned to her father. "Oh, don‘t let‘s start the argument again, Daddy!" she interruptéd wearâ€" ily,. "We thrashed it out last night, and we won‘t get any further now. Is there a bucket anywhere about? I want to wash myself. . And you want a shave." "I daresay I do," he retorted sulkily. She found a canvas bucket and havyâ€" ing filled it with sea water, she retired to the cabin azain and made a someâ€" what sketchy toilet. Then she boiled a kettle of water on the reeking oil stove and made herself a pot of tea. A number of tins of preserved meat and fruit were stacked in one of the lockers in the fore peak, but she ‘conâ€" tented herself with nibbling two or three hard ship‘s biscuits which she found in a tin box, and having thus broken her fast, reâ€"emerged into the ocpen feeling considerably better for her. efforts. "Some time before midâ€"day,"" he told her. "And when we do get there, you‘ll realize just how pigheadedly wrong you‘ve been. I would never have beâ€" lieved you could be so idiotically obâ€" stinate about anything as you have been about this. Just because you happen to like this fellow Maloney. . ." "No Daddy; I can‘t say that I am," she returned calmly. "Not what you‘d call reasonable anyway. I still think the whols thing‘s completely and utâ€" terly mad. Still, there‘s no use talkâ€" ing about it now. We‘ll find out which of us in right before long, so we might as well forget it for the time. When do you calculate we ought to arrive at this island?" Nor did his first words serve to alleâ€" viate the tension between them. "Well, you‘re awake at last, are you?" he grunted. "It‘s "to be hoped you‘re feeling a little more reasonable this morning." The Major was seated aft in the cockpit, with one arm over the tillsr, and as she emerged from the hatchway, he glanced at her with eyes redâ€"rimâ€" med from want of sleep. â€" She felt a pang of remorse at the thougzht that he had beemn.sitting there all night while she slept in relative comfort below, but the recollection of the manner in which he had tricked her into accomâ€" panying him on this trip, and their heated argument overnight did something to temper this fesling of compass10n,=>~~~ "Laws. Missy, yo" sho‘ does sleep when yo gits down to it!" .the man told her with a wide grin. "De Majah. he ain‘t never close his eyes all de night. Me an‘ Zach Ooffer fo‘ to give him a spell but dey ain‘t nuthin‘ doin‘." "What‘s the time?" she demanded. "Hit‘s gittin‘ along fo" nine o‘clock" the negro answered. "We jes‘ done had brekfufs, but de Majah he say fo‘ to let yo‘ have yo‘ sltep out.â€" But now I guess yo‘ll want sumfin‘ fo‘ to sorter stay yo‘ stummick?" At that moment she cpened her eyes and for a few szrconds lay blinking sleepily about her. Then, as she beâ€" came aware of the negro‘s presence, she sat up abruptiy and thrusting the blanket from her, swung her feet to the floor. R XTX, "LAND AHEAD" William Ewart Gladstone descended the companion way cautiously and with a sidelong glance at the sleeping girl, padded forward on bare feet to the fore peak where he deposited the dirty plates he was caming on the filoor boaras. PUBLISHED BY SPECIAL ARRAXGEMEXNT Sydney Parkman "It‘s sufflicient, if we keep our course," her father told her confidently.. "It‘s all your uncle had to go by. The only thing thats been wOrrying me is the tidal factor, but as I‘ve made this landâ€" fall successfully, I‘ve no doubt I can "That‘s not much," she commented| doubtfully. The sooner they arrived | at the island they were seeking, the‘ better, she felt. She cherished no kind; of hope that it would actually prove to;’ be the site of her uncle‘s cache, but to miss it would be to prolong the search . â€"and their subsequent return to Carâ€" bonaras. : "We pass San Domingo within a mile, and then alter course to nor‘â€" west by west," he told her. "Our parâ€" ticular cay lies dead ahead then, at about six miles. We shall pass several others on the wayâ€"if we can see them. They‘re only a few feet above seaâ€" level though and the one we‘re looking for is slightly higher. About fifteen feet at its highest point." "How much farthner away is it now?" she asked after a few moments.. With the wind on the quarter, the slocp was driving through the water at a good six knots, and already the island was beâ€" ginning to assume a more definite shape against the blue of the sky. "T‘ll take over again now," the Major| told her as he made fast the sheets;' and she relinquished the tiller to and sat up on the coaminz of the| cockpit. | "No; but we get our bearings from here," he told her. "We should pass to the south of this, and when it‘s bearing due north from us, we course again. Hi! Slacken off thosel jig sheets a bit, will you?" He was already payinz off the main sheets as he spoke, and Diana put the: helm up and brought the sloop on to a| sourse which would hring the island| l on to her starboard bow. "‘Is that were we‘re making for?" Diana asked, halfâ€"impressed in spite of herself by his evident satisfaction. ch + "That‘s it!" he declared. ‘"‘That‘s San Domingo islandâ€"at the southern end of the Columbus Bank. But we ought to have it on the starboard bow. We‘ve been heading up a little too The Major stared hard at it for some moments, and then he turned to her with a light of excitment in his eyes. CHAPTER XIX (Continued) "wWHAT DO YOU SAY, NOW?" A vague yellow blur was showing in the distance azross the blue waste of tumbling waterâ€"a blur which mizht easily have escaped Diana‘"s notice had not her attention been called to it. She leaned out and peered under the foot of the mainsail, and at that moâ€" ment the Major emerged hurriedy from the cabin. view in Havanaâ€"an interview of which she had been completely unaware at the time. What the man‘s.aim had been, she could not think, but it seemed evident to her that his interest in their ‘affairs could not be ascribed to sheer !altruism. "Dar‘s land ahcad, Missy! Ah guess de Majah‘ll want to know ‘bout dat!" "Where is it?" she called back; and he pointed out over the port bow. Her train of thought was interrupted by William Ewart Gladstone, who turned round sudddenly and called out: She fell to wondering what Toby and Father Maloney were. doing about it now. They would have no idea of what had happened, and she pictured their consternation at finding that she and her father had vanished in this way. They would know of course that the absentees had gone out to see in the sloop late at night and they would probably imagine that some disaster had overtaken them. What else could they think in the circumstances? Proâ€" bably they were even now searching the coast for the wreck of the slOop! | "What‘s that? Land?" he demanded ‘Where is it?" "Off the port bow,"" she told him, But "IL can‘t see :. . Yes, I can! There it is!" | _ a sandâ€"spit running out to ,’the southâ€"west that we‘ve got to clear," he said. "That‘s all I remember about [ those instructions in the letter, but I‘m hoping you still remember the rest?" , "Yes", she assented; and nothing imore was said between them. Despite her lingering doubts she was beginning to tingle with excitement now that they were so near their destination and she | **Yes; and you‘d better get some ‘chain up on deck," he ordered. He |stared out ahead of the rapidly nearing lisland, and then descended into the cabin again to have a last look at the ‘chart. "Does you want me‘n Zach should cast de dory loose?" Gladstone‘s voice [enquired from forward; and the Major |turned and nodded assent. | _ "I don‘t know what to think," she admitted. "If this is really the place.." l ‘"There‘s no "if" about it!" he interâ€" l'rupted with a kind of impatient triumph | "It is the place and if you‘re ready to |do your part, the money‘s as good as l When he returned on deck five minâ€" utes later they were within half a mile of the island, and he took over the tiller once more and altered course slightly to port. ‘at the tawny mound of sand which slowly heaved itself above the intervenâ€" iing stretch of sea. **Yessuh!â€"Ah ‘clar to goodnests dat‘s de cay we done call at wid de Cap‘n!" ;Gladstone pronounced suddenly. "Aint ! dat so, Zach?" "Well what do you say now?" he deâ€" ; manded in a low voice. "Do you still think Becker was trying to mislead | me?" The morose Zach was understood to grunt assent, and the Major nodded and, clambered down again into the cockpit. "This ought to be it!" the Major exâ€"| "Now how do the instructions go?" claimed. ‘Here! Take the tiller while he demanded in a voice palpitating I have a look at it!" with excitement. He climbed up on the cabin top,| "We‘ve got to make for the centre steadying himself with a hand on the Of the island to start with," she said backsitay, stared out long and earnestly "There are the ruins of a shack there At the end of another halfâ€"hour, they 'étand?" passed within sight of one of the sand | _ "Sho, cays which the Major had referred to somethi It was a lorg low ‘bank, rising hardly kled fac more than five or six feet from the surâ€"| _ As th face of the sea. *ha ho9 Diana made no answer to this. It seated herself carefully right aft. certainly began to look as though there: A few moments later they were being was something in Becker‘s story after pulled in to the beach. all, but she was far from admitting all| As the boat‘s keel gratedâ€"on the sand its implications. There was something the Major scrambled out and turned to here which she could not understand at the negro. 4 all, and it seemed to her that her best| "Don‘t wait for us," he instructed plan was to say nothing and abide the |"Get back to the sloop, and we‘ll call result. [f¢Ar wA tthon twa_ wantâ€" ITITndar. He says it help "You heard what that fellow said?" he asked. "Without knowing anything atbout it, he‘s already recognized that we‘re on the right track.\ _ _"Dis per‘s somewhere near de place| In anot whar de Cap‘n call on dat las‘ trip,| rounded Major", he announced. "Hit was jes‘ heading t around dese parts, ‘cause de look o‘ dat paratively . island dar sorter stick in my min ." were no m ‘*‘Oh you recognize it, do you?" the;beach, the Major said glancing at his daughter , and brougt to see the effect of the announcement.| "Let gol! ‘‘Well, presently, you‘ll see the place plunged ov where he went ashore. ~I suppose you‘d "Never n know it again would you?" Ivas now! _ He came aft and leaning on the edge of the cabin skylight nodded towards the island. They were within a couple of miles of San Domingo Island now and closâ€" ing it rapidly. As far as Diana could see it appeared to be nothing more than a large mounrd of yellow sand. risirg some thirty of forty feet above the surface of the sea, and she wonâ€" dered why it had been thought necesâ€" sary to endow it with such an imposing name. In the course of the next ten minâ€" utes, Gladstone unexpectedly provided confirmation of the Major‘s‘® theory. manage the rest easily erough COPYRIGITT THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO a slcpe to take breath and was lookâ€" ing about him when his eyes fell upon an object which protuded from the sand half way down the further slope It was a~ blackened piece of timber ons of several halfâ€"rotted beams which lay partly concealed among the riotous hills. These, together with the knowâ€" ledge that they had landed at the south western extremity of the island enabled the to keep going in an approximatey straight line; and as it proved this served sufficiently for their purpose. The Major had paused at the top of Lacking a compass their only guides were the sun and the mastheod of the sloop, which rose some few feet above the height of the highest of the sandâ€" It was difficult going over the loose sand in which they sank ankleâ€"deep at every step and matters were not renâ€" dered any more easy by the network of tough creeper stems with which the surface of the sand was! covered and in which their feet were being continually: caugh?t. It was a species of convolâ€" vulous, with small striped purple and white floweys, and the Major cursed it breathlessly as he plunged forward. He had turned and was already ploughing his way up the shallow slope of loose sand, gnd she followed a pace or two behind him. Under the lee of the sandhills the heat was intense, but as they breasted the top of the slope they met the cool strong breeze again and for the next five mmut s their proâ€" gress was through aiternate belts of baking heat and airy coolness as they: made their way across a series of ridges and miniature valleys. have brought a compass!, oughtn‘t "Never mind about that!" her father jerked out impatiently. ‘"I can get approximate bearings from the sun." "‘There are the ruins of a shack there somewhere and we take our bearings from that. By the way, we ought to something liKe a Taint grin on hJs wrinâ€" kled face. *"Ah‘s gwine straight back." As the man thrust the dory off again the beach, the Major turnded to Diana "Don‘t wait for us," he instructed "Get back to the sloop, and we‘ll call for you when we want you. Underâ€" standa?" "Sho, suh," the man replied, with something like a faint grin on his wrinâ€" In another five minutes they had rounded â€" this obstruction and were heading towards the sMore in comâ€" paratively smosth water, and when they were no more than fifty yards off the It appeared to be about a quarter of a mile in lengthâ€"a yellow hummock of sandhilis. The sea was pounding on its golden beaches, and at its southâ€"western extremity, a long line of broken water marked the sandâ€"spit of which the Major had spoken. eyed the cay ahead with the keenest interest. By the year 2,000 A.D,, serentists have prophesied, tuberâ€" culosis will be eradicated if the present rate of progress in the drive against the disease conâ€" tinues. Thus, to our children and our cluldâ€" ren‘s _ children, the white plague that has beset mankind since the earliest days of recorded history will be but a memory. We, to whom tubercuâ€" losis is still a dread fact, that threatens our dives and our security, can help bring nearer that bappy day by purchasing Christmas Scals. For Our Children we?" ‘‘Coming be dashed," he spluttered furiously. ‘"They‘re going. They‘ve got under way again and there‘re headâ€" ing out to sea." But the Major was already plur=â€" ing. down the opprsite slope towards her. ‘"What is it Daddy?" she called out starting to run towards him. "Are they cominz after us?" She thought the negroes must have landed and were following them for the mcinent, and it flashed through her mind that they had guessed the purâ€" port of this visit and were preparing to take a hand in the game.. ‘"What the .. â€"she heard him exâ€" caim; and then he raised his voice to a sudden bellow:"Hi: You there What are you doing?" Then he turned towards her and reâ€" mained for a moment or two staring in the direction from which they had come. He set off straight away and she watched him as he plougzhed his way up the opposite slope. He gained the crest and stopped and she saw him glance down at his abbreviated shadow and dig a furrow in the sand with his heel. "Sixty yards due north," the Major repeated. "All right Now you stop here for a moment,.and I‘ll climb the next ridge and get a bearing from where you‘re standing. It‘s just on eleven o‘clock now, so the sun will bear roughly south by eats." ‘"We go sixty yards due ncrth from here," Diana told hix’:.l now almost as excited as he was himgelf. "It doosn‘"‘t say from what part of the shack, but it isn‘t any great size. There wo‘ll find the fluke of an anchor stickinz up amorsg the weedâ€"and that‘s the spot.‘ ‘"This 4s it"‘. the: Major jubilantly. "And what next? weeds,. They formed a rough rectangle with gaps where the sand had drifted over portions of their lengths, but there was sufficient to show that some kind of a building had stood there at some time. FPor instance, tharse may be a hisâ€" tory of thyroid trouble in the family and the youngster may be nearly thyâ€" roid case. Should this be so, the amout of food eaten my be quits larze If abundant amounts of meats. veseâ€" tables and fruits have been given to maintain body structure and also liberâ€" al amounts of bread, butter, milk and cream to provide energy and store up a littie fat, with no proper amount of increase in Weight, there is something wrong with the youngster and he should be examined by the family physician and dentist. More Than Extra Food Needed o Incroase Weight Some mothers are naturally distressâ€" ed when they find that despite the amount and the variety of food ecaten by their youngsters they still remain underweight. If the youngster is wiry or resembles one of the parents in beâ€" Ing underweight at this age, not much is thought of it, but often there is no history of extreme underweight on either side. ((To Be Continued) By lames W . 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