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Principal Characters RCGER KENT: Young ambitious priâ€" vate secretary to E. C. Smallbridge, a business magnate. Kitty Smallbridge: Daughter of Roger Kont‘s employer., She is somewhat spoiled and very Oobstinate but charmâ€" ing in her more rational moments. GEOFFREY PAISH ; Kitty‘s cousin and accomplice in rash exploits. CAPTAIN CULLEN: Master of E. C. TEN MINUTES LATE: | Rotund and comfortable, Monsieur LeMann leaned hselbows on hs desk dialed a number and conversed in rapid French. That produting no informaâ€" tion, he dialedâ€" again. After a conâ€" versation with yet a third person‘ he turned to Roeoger and explained regretâ€" fully. "The "Glorious Kate" was there, she was in the yacht basin taking on fuel and water. Unfortunately, I am sorry to say, she left teéen minutes ago!" Roger‘s heart sank, but he spoke without hesitation : "Then I shall hire a launch and cvertake her!" "The Transport Maritime de Marâ€" seilles has a launch which has twenty five knots, Monsieur. We could obtain the us> of that perhaps. I can teleâ€" phone the company‘s office for you." "I would be very grateful",; said Roger. "I have no time to lose!" Monsieur LeMann â€" dialed _ again promptly. Roger thanked heaven for Smallbridge‘s good sense in having sent him to this knowledgeable man. â€"the fare he was certain was quite exorbitant, but he had no time to argue absut itâ€"and hastened along the waterâ€" \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\: Four minutes latér he was tearing through the traffic in a taxi again on his way to the Old Harbour, where the launch was lying. He paid off the taxi MONDAY. DECEMBER »#23RD, 1040 V//I./IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIII.II/././I.II’III.IIII./VIIIIIM PUBLISHED BY sSPECIAL ARRANXNGEMENT PHONE Lt Cw DISCOUNT for PREPAYMENT of TAXES The Town of Timmins will accept payment of 1941 taxes on and after January 2nd, 1941, and will issue Tax Prepayment Receipts to apply thereon at a disâ€" count rate of approximately 3 p.c. per annum for the period prepaid. Clean Rooms Due dates for payment for 1941 taxes will be as follows : First Instalmentâ€"50 p.c.: Tuesday, June 3, 1941. Second Instalmentâ€"50 p.c.: Tuesday, Sept. 9, 1941. After these dates 4 p.c. penalty will be added to unâ€" paid balance. Tax Prepayment Receipts will be issued in amounts of $5.00 or any multiple thereof from January 2nd to May 15th, 1941. No Tax Prepayment Receipt will be issued after May 15th, 1941. Details of cost of Tax Prepayment Receipts for each semiâ€"monthly period to May 15th may be obâ€" tained from the office of the Treasurer. The King Edward Hotel Cor, Spruce St. Third Ave. Day or Week A further discount of 1 p.c. on amount of second instalment will be allowed if the 1941 taxes are paid in full on or before June 3rd, 1941. Timmins. Dcte. Very Reasonable Rates Quiet Atmosphere TOWN OF TIMMINS TTMMINS But _Celestine II the launch,< was capable of at least twentyâ€" three of her reputed twentyâ€"five knots. She soared and plunged over the mild flashing swell, her bow wave spouting from her sem. â€" The blueâ€"shirted bulletâ€"headed young sailor at her wheel put her due southâ€"wes‘t on the course to Major. ca. ~Roger scanned the distance beâ€" fore them anxiously for the yachf It took thirtyâ€"five minutes and some searching before they sighted the "Glorious Kate" a mile off the course front until he found the launch; a smart grten and white streamâ€"lined affair lying between two aged siailing barges, a young sailor in a Basque cap already aboard her. Another four minutes was spent in starting up the engines; by the time they had wormed their way out through the entrance of the Old Harbour, the "Gloricus Kate" had twentyâ€"five minâ€" utes start. It took thirtyâ€"five mi: searching before they "Glorious Kate" a mile to Palma in the easitt . . had studied thos> elegant streamlines of hers in mechanical magazines for onz enough to know them at a glance. Was that a feminine figure, so upâ€" right on the foredeck gleaming white in the sunshine training a pair of glasses on the pursuing launch? As soon as they two hundred yards n‘t any mistaking The launch veered to the left and a minute later, running beside her, twen.â€" ty feet away, they had dropped to the speed of the yacht. Roger waved . . .. He had a good vision of the girl then, lissom and straight, with dark, wind blown curls. A kbig man in grey flanâ€" nels had joined her on the deck. Almost immediately the yacht began to lose speed, and a minute later yacht and launch were at a standstill, heaving side by side on the swell.. Roger grapâ€" pled for the rope ladder they threw to him over the side. He looked up into two brilliant dark eyes, a young face tanned brown, with a spot of rose in either cheek . . .. Hands reached down to help him, and Roger smrang aboard. A Smallbrigde‘s yacht ("Glorious Kat:") Synopsis of Previous Chapters Roger Kent is summoned urgentlyl from London to St. Raphael, where | hi E. C. Smallbridge is taking the sun.|PO Smallbridgs tells Roger that Kitty has| E* taken the motorâ€"yacht without permisâ€" th sijon has gone off with her cousin |lik Geoffrey to rescue a British prisoner in | ple Majorca, a man interned for his palt' in the war in Spain. * Roger is instructed to fly to Marâ€" |tel seilles and recover the yacht. Smallâ€" m i 1 ] 3 Roger focussed his glasses on 2 A. L.. SHAW, Treasurer ran level at about distance there wasâ€" the yacht. Roger elegant streamlinegs 1\7 â€"99 It ‘"My nams is Kentâ€"â€"" he began. "You‘ve come from Father?" The ligh‘t of battls sprang. into her eyes. She was challengingly lovely, in an untamed,, gipsyish way, which put an instant spell on him. Out here under the blue sky she was utterly different from the remote creature he had seen pass through the office in â€" Scuthampton ton Row. "Exactly!"" Roger adopted a friendly, smiling attitude. "I have come from St. Raphael. Your father has sent me on a mission that I‘m afraid you won‘t like very much!" "I see!" The girl didn‘t smile. "He gave me instructions to take over the yacht from you, Miss Smallbridge. and bring it back to St. Raphael," Roger explained. The tall, flabby young man in the srey pullover who stcod beside herâ€" unquestionably cousin Geoffreyâ€"utterâ€" ed a short sardonic laugh. "I‘m afraid my father is wasting your time," said Kitty. "He knows that I dcn‘t intend to give up the yacht just now. I‘ve told him that he shall have her back in St. Raphael in four days‘ time. Until then I shall need her." ; Hoer voice was calm,. but the force of suppressed passion trembled in it. She was in deadly earnestâ€"he could see |that. «o mm mm o uoi t e se o e e e Et bridge gives him a note to the Capâ€" tain, who is in the yacht, authorizing Roger to take charge. Wtihâ€" typical ~efficiency Roger sucâ€" ceeds in cvertaking the yacht, and boards her. "I‘m sorry. I have instructions, and I have to carry them out." Her eyes flashed. "I‘m afraid you won‘t be able to!" "I‘m afraid I must try!" Roger, on his mettle, slipped his hand into his pocket. He had noticed a face under a peaked cap watching them â€"curiously through the wheelhouse window. . "T‘d like to speak to Captain Cullen, if you please!" Face aflame she burst out: "I must ask you to leave, immediately 1 refuse to give up the yacht! You can tell my fatherâ€"!" Her voice halted, the anger in her face died out into ominous quiet under Roger‘s adamenient gaze. There was a strained pause, and then she said: "Very well!l" It looked like surrender. It was surrender. It was so sudden that it took Roger aback. "I‘m awfully sorry!" he said lamely. To clinch his intention of staying on the yacht he tuned from her and waved a cgnal of dismissal to the man in the launch, waiting for him twenty vards away. The water received Roger stingingly. quenching his astonishment, five feet below. Green translucency streamed ypward past his eyes . . . it broke water and thoug "The little devil!" He was not too wet or toO0 taken aback to be convulsively furious. Th« rope ladder dangled over the yacht‘s side a few feet from his face. H¢ grabbed it and hung On, and not J moment tco scon, for the propellors began to churn, and the yacht begar to move. He was dragged some yards in the water. Then the screws stopped their churning, the yacht lost way, and almost immediately a lifebelt splashed into the water a few feet away . .. Disregarding it, he began to haul himself up the ladder Reaching the deck he found himself in the midst of a heated altercation. CHAPTFR IIâ€"(Contd.) A CHILLY WELCOME _ was fate to face with Kitty ‘ father gave me a note for him, him to hand over the yacht to ras dragged some yards in the Then the screws stopped their TAKE COMMAND" eamed ypward chot up again, THE PORCUPTINE ADVANCE, TTMMINS, ONTARIO up!" And Kitty gazed at Roger in thwarted rage and indignation. ‘My dear Kitty, you can‘t do it! You can‘t do it!" Geoffrey put in. "This violence is no useâ€"â€"!" "Isn‘t it?" She showed a row of perfect white teeth set fiercely toâ€" ather. Iznoring her, the cold fury inf his round his feet, Roger took out his dripping noteâ€"bock and extractâ€" ed Smallbridge‘s note to Cullen. "Captain Cullen? Mr. Smallbridge asked me to give this to you. I think cussion." Culltn tcok the sodden paper, and pushing back his cap scratched his head and read slowly. Kitty watthed rebelliously. it ought to settle the matter under dis. "S3 you‘re t, take over?" said Cullen at last, looking up at Roger. ‘"‘That‘s the idea." "You‘re working for me, Cullen," said Kitty, her voice quivering with determination. "I tell you to take no "No." she said,. with a still more deâ€" liberate astonishment, as much as to say, "What does this person want?" wWith his unseremonious reception on ncotite of this man." "This here yacht belongs to Mr. Smallbridge. Miss Kitty," said Cullen "I take my orders from him the same as usual;: and hers‘s his orders for me here." He tapped the paper, his lean andi sombre fazre set in lines obtuse as wood. He folded the remnants of Smallâ€" bridge‘s letter and handed them back io Roger. Roger returned ‘the letteri to his notebook, and tried to re'tum.j without blenching, the passionate anzer of Kitty‘s dark gaze. "And now what?" she inquired. "I take command!" said Roger. The girl folded her slender glowing arms. and tilted on her heels. Her eyes threatened Roger coolly. "I don‘t know that we‘re beaXÂ¥en yet!" she said; turned superbly, and marched away aft. Geoffrey Paish followed her. Roger turned and signalled to the man on the launch. He indicated by sestures that he was staying where he was. The man on the launch startâ€" ed up his engine, and a moment or two later was heading back to Marseilles. "And now," said Roger to Cullen, "I want you to take the yacht back to Marseilles. I want to send a wire from there. After that we‘ll head for St. Raphael." | "Ay, ay, ‘sir!" And is there anywhere where I can get dry?" ©â€" Mr. Smallbridge‘s stateroom | is And I can give you a change shirt, maybe." ‘"‘Thanks!" Roger followed Cullen aft. As they nassed the wheelhouse and came to ‘he companion,. they met Kitty Smallâ€" ridgze. Geoffrey had disappeared. _shoes, and sunâ€"tan silk stockings made !her stim legs look more shapely than ever. â€" Her shining dark curis wenel neatiy combed in place:; she carried a. 'small hat in one hand and a white handbag tucked under her arm. ‘ At the sight of her Roger became mors painfully aware than ever that ; , Cullen‘s dungarses ended somewhere m. the regicn of his calves. She dropped her chilly psse and was all sombre fire again:"You can go back and tell my father that I‘m going to Spain. The yacht is my father‘s; he‘s within his rights in taking it but I‘m still a fr¢ée agent. If I can‘t use the vyacht, I must do my best without it. Very prebably I shall fail," she added dramatically. "It‘s true our plans are ruined, but Mr. Paish and I both feel the same. Our best weapon is gone, but we‘ll fight bareâ€"handed. I‘m going to meet him at the station now and we‘re going on to Barcelona." with yvou!" She was on the wharf then. She Icoked at him across the intervening space, then turned, with her chin lifted, to walk towards the highway beyond the sheds. But. after all, confound her, she was responsible for thatâ€"! on the gangway before he could find|spftcial session to discuss the organiâ€" anything to say: ;zaticn ¢f Junior Red Cross branches. "You‘re going ashore Miss Small. Delegates unanimously decided to try bridge?®" to organize students one hundred per "I had thought of doing so," said cent., in Junior Red Cross work before Kitty in a tone of freezing amiability. : the end of the year. "Will you be back before we sail?f "It was a gréat cccasion in the hisâ€" We‘re sailing in halfâ€"anâ€"hour. Or|tory of Junior Red Cross", Miss Browne would you like us to wait?" commented. "Of course, we have had "No: don‘t wait. I shan‘t be sailinghhe enthusiastic coâ€"operation of Deâ€" and attention was given him, with the| partments of Education in other proâ€" result that he is now in a fair way to|vintes for some time but this is the the yacht still rankling in his breast, first time high school teachers have Roger did not know if he wanted most: met for the sole purpose of discussing to shake her or smack her. Junior Red Cress." Professor A. E. "I only asked if you were returning Mowat of Dalhousie University and the to St. Raphael because I think your| Principal and members of Normal Colâ€" fathar wanld rathar like vou tn"" nellege staff also attended the conference, "I only asked if you were returning to St. Raphael because I think your father would rather like you to," he explained. At the ‘sight of Roger by the gangâ€" way Kitty chbviously made preparations to pass him without a word. He was so much abashed that she had her foot on the gangway before he could find anything to say: "No: don‘t wait. I shan‘t be sailing and attention was given him, with the result that he is now in a fair way to the yacht still rankling in his breast, Roger did not know if he wanted most to shake her or smack her. When he crossed the plank after her she stopped, and turned with a calculated air of surprise. Her little gleaming smile as she looked him up and down was a barb in his ‘vanity. t tÂ¥ e * :t t s esnc ataate a*e ataaote ate ate ate ate ate ate ate atastaate ata se * s * ***,* 000000000ouooooooooooouo000000000000000000000 stt * * * * *e * * * * * e *s* * 0( "I beg your pardon, but â€" you are returning to St. Raphael I stuippose?" 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