All along the rail, three and four deep faces, izleaming eyeballs, yelling pushing heaving, striking. "Room for three more!" Struan cried. "Threeâ€" dash it!â€"not thirty. Stand back, you othersâ€"ycu‘ll drown the lot!" ~The boat heaved and swayed with the impact of the thrusting bodi¢s, listed inwards, so that she alâ€" most touched the ship‘s side. THE GIRL WITH A GUN With a sickening shudder through the ship‘s whols fabric, her bows dippâ€" ed, the list became more pronounced. ~There was a movement, following this, towards the other side of the deck, but Hall and Struan remained to help the one or two sailors who were still struggâ€" ling to free the last boat, while Chrissie and Leonie Valence watched in silence, "I wish it would stopâ€"that band," Chrissie said under her breath. "It se:ms indecentâ€"horrible." er ugly rush had followed bling up to jump from the "Stand by to stop a rushâ€"women and children first!" Struan, with the habit of command, had taken control. "Keep off you fellows!â€"confound you â€"set back! Hand over those babiles Is that the last of the and children? yes!" "Devils!" one sailors ejaculatâ€" e@d. "Like a dogâ€"fight; and they‘ll jump in and swamp us if we don‘t clear. Be careful, guyâ€"nor!" "Lower away, men!" Struan shouted. "We‘ll be capdfled if we don‘t g°t clear. . Keep back!" They were in the boat: the fall ropes creaked in the sheaves, then for a sickâ€" ening moment ceased to run at one end, so that the boat hlung in midâ€"air, stern raised high. Then she was righted, deâ€" cended steadily to B deck level. A bare halfâ€"dozen women remained here to be taken off, but the deck below had still a surging crowd, and they arâ€" rested thie boat again. "I suppose so. Come along, Hall. We can clear out again if there are many woman left below. Are we ready to lower away?" "We‘ll load up down at B deck, I exâ€" gect, sir," one of the sailors said. "But you two gentlemen had best get in to help at the oars. We‘re about the last boat offâ€"it‘s madness to wait any longâ€" "Get in dearâ€"and you, too, Miss Valâ€" ance. Everone else seems to have clearsd out." "I suppose so. Oh they‘ve got the beat clear!" Chrissie cried, whilst at the same instant Struan turned toâ€" wards her. ; ‘"‘There would he panic if it stopped, though," the other girl said. "As long as it goes on playinz most people conâ€" clude that everything is all right." same old symptoms. But there‘s one thing that acid can‘t face. That‘s the neutralizing power of Vange Salts, the alkaline remedy ‘with the natural mineral spa action. A teaâ€" spoonful in warm water surges through your system just like the medicinal spring water far away in England where Vange Salts come from. Excess Some people are what are known as acidâ€"makers. They can‘t help itâ€"and often they don‘t know it. The results of an excess of acid may seem just like ordinary stomach trouble â€" but they can‘t be put right by ordinary stomach remedies! Excess acid may be the reason why you wake up flat, sour, blearyâ€"eyed, bilious â€" and the reason why fierce purgatives only leave you in the grip of a weakening habit and the acid is neutralized quickly, painlessly. Your blood is purified of poisons. Your sore stomach walls are soothed. And that mass of hard, poisonous waste matter lying in your intestines is gently, and passed out of your body. Thes do you feel good! It‘s marvellous! But the most marvellous thing is that Vange Saits are only 60 cents a tin! At your drugâ€" gist nowâ€"but if you‘re wise, on your STAR TRANSF ER Acid Indigestion, Colds, Headaches, Bilious Attacks; Constipation OFTEN START THIS WAY tonight ! We Can Take It ! MOVING " THE YELLOW FLEET " through water which seemed to offer a dull resistance, as though he was trying to row through liquid mud. It was a "All boats pull awdy from the ship!" the voice cried, and the thud of rowlocks told that the order was being obeyed. end became plainer. The "Gldoriana‘" was visibly settling by the héad, now that her whole fabric coud be seen. And still the band played. . . . Someone on the ship shouted; the hoarse, strained tones were almost unâ€" recognizable, but onme of the sailors muttered that it was the Captain. runs with clogged feet, whilst someâ€" “B'tvxviâ€"élï¬xvrmg the moments that. followâ€" ca all personal matters lost weight. As they pulled away, the imminence of the boards as a paddle I-Ie wox'ked lt stnanuously, although his eyes stlll look- ed dazed. The urgent need for haste seemed to spread electrically from one to another. Struan used one of the boat‘s bottom He still stood in the bows, turned stiffly to stare across the : heads between at Lconie Valence. His eyes hnad a dazed lock, his lips had parted without speaking, until an abrupt movement from the girl herg>lf seemed to break the spell. She dropped the revolver into‘ the pocket cof her coat, sat down upon the thwart and spoke brusquely: "I can rowâ€"give me an oar." . â€"Her words were flung over her shoulâ€" der; Hall found himself meéekly acceptâ€" ing them as an order. â€" He passed his own oar to her and noticed that the hands with which she Kl‘asped it showâ€" ed not the faintest tremor. By changing places with his neighbohrs and shifting along the thwart, he himself took an oar upon the farther. side of: the boa,t and began to pull feverish)y : "Give way, all!" Hall found himself responding mechanically to the hoarse orders of the sailor amidship and pullâ€" ing heavily at an oar. There: were four men rowing, dragging .the boat out slowly from under that slnister shadow, but Struan was not one of / them. is" side reared cliffâ€"like and list» Ing outwards high above her. There was a heavy,. thudding. aplash as his body met the water; in the inâ€" stant of tense silence which followed, Wilson Hall found himselt staring at the figure of Leonie Valence, halfâ€"risen from the thwart in front of him, braced against the gunwale, her right hand still raised, holding the small revolver from which a film of smoke floated aâ€" way into the night darkness. 4 CHAPTER V e STILL THE BAND PLAYED Those nearest the ropes Began to lower away at once more in feverish haste, but there was no further attempt at a rush. The . boat touched the. water, sank almost gunwales under, with the"Glorâ€" The negro‘s upraised arm dropped, he spun round, his hand at his throat plunged backwards the blackness overside. P "Look out, sir! Look.ont! . Hz'is‘got.’ ‘ a knife , . . Oh, he‘ll heve him .. 26 Momentaruy the negro had mnchad himself from Struan‘s grasp, there was the flash of a blade, and atmultnneous ly a sharp report slashing across the turmoil.. "Ranny . . . . Ranny!". Mn'oni_a sailor amid ships burst a yell of warnâ€". rail, dragged: back, trampled dm by others who fought to take thetr places. First one, then two, locked . leaped for the boatâ€"miasedâ€"fell. tnto the water between her and the ship: . All those who could help . were 1ower- ing away frantically, but at the last moment a huge negro unatchpd at â€"thd fallâ€"ropes, leapt.ontothebaw atoad there swaying. f He grabbed at Struans shouk;ar. tryâ€" ing to push him aside by sheer weig'ht and force his way into the boat, snarlâ€". inz and spitting ‘like an: arimal, But: the Englishman opposed. hisâ€" purpoae with all his wellâ€"knit ltrength Gasps and frightened ~cries _ came from the women in the bost:;. «~from Ohrissie‘s lips : : low moan. The overladen boat lumbered heavily "Heâ€"elp!‘" The appeal came from beside the boat; within a yard of his oarâ€"blade Hall saw a floating lifeâ€" belt, the body in it sagzing over from theâ€"knees rather than the armâ€"pits, the head sunk forward. Hall drew in his oar, reached out and grasped the dripping shoulder; the sailor. nearest him helped to drag the dmwmng body aboard. He lay across Hall‘s knees, a lad of nineteen or so, gasping,‘ limp. : . TOWARDS MORNING In spite of the danger of swamping, they took in a few more, until onz of the sailors protested sullenly: "What‘s the use of sinking the boat so that we‘ll all drown? There‘s no sense in thatâ€"don‘t help anyone." me was gone: teaving avast anid "grastâ€" "Blut we can‘t,‘"‘ a woman cried from beside him. "There‘s no roomâ€"we shall only ke swamped if we take in any more." "All the same we must do it," Struan said harshly, and those at the .oars obéyed him. The sea was inkâ€"black undor the dsep blue sky; only here and there floating hummocks and cakes of ice showed deathâ€"white. And then appeared other objects, darker than ice, lighter than the sea, masses of wreckage, and a lifeâ€" raft with people clinging to it, a bundle of canvas deckâ€"chairs supporting two men and a woman. The "Gloriana‘" was erect in the water, her stern pointing upwards to the skies like a dark tower rising from the sea. She remained thus for what seemed centuries. Then .. . she plunged, went down in one swift, silent movement which seemed scarcely to disturb the surface of ths sea around her, In a second ly emptiness of sky and ocean. souls!" Struan brought round the boat‘s bow with a sharp movement of his improâ€" vised fBaddle.. "It‘s the *engines falling down through the shipâ€"Hgven nelp hner!‘ the sailor near Hall muttered and a woman cried out sharply, shrilly: She had listed to an angle of fortyâ€" five when suddenly and without warnâ€" ing every light in the ship went out. A scund followed the clatter and clang, the gigantic crash and rattle of metal. t ~All ‘the portholes â€" still blazed with light; the band‘sâ€"music stillâ€"floated out across the sea. Everything about the huge:liner seemed normal, except that gradually incrsasing downwards list of the: bows « Then with the same slow and terrible dignity of doom, the stern of the "Glorâ€" lana" began to rise; the rudder, the motionless screws were clear of the water, gradually blotting out star after ""Look! Ohâ€"look!" <He heard himâ€" self/epeak . without knowing that any word had escaped him;, but in respons:e all those at theâ€"oars pulled round. i~And even as they looked the great vessel was sinking, slowlyâ€"â€"slowly, with aâ€" movement at first only perceptible by its relation to the starâ€"studded sky beâ€" ‘Vaguely Hall triedto picture what weuld happen whenâ€"the ship sank; he visualized a vast whirlpool!,â€"an area of swirling sluction (dragging down the Could anyone hope to escape? He glanced at the ship and, as he did so, ceased rcwing. "Oh! all those poor soulsâ€" those poor Copyrighted. FALLEN STRHNGTH AND RISING CHARM Troquois Falls, Aug. 26â€"(Spzcial to The Advance)â€"Swesping him completeâ€" ly coff his feet, Jack Brown was the guest of honcur at an enfjfoyable surâ€" prise stag party given in the Rod and Gun Club Hut her> on Thursday eveâ€" ning, where his many ‘chums gathered to wisch him future good luck and During the evening, Jack was preâ€" sented with a cutlery and tea set, in memory of the many pals with whom he used to chum. (From North Bay Nugget)â€" . With Mrs. Maria Roy, of Timmins and Napoleon Galipeau, Jr., of Sturâ€" gecon Falls, free on bail of $10,000 each, the cases of receiving stolen goods in thr Kewagama Gold Mines gold theft, are apparently at a standâ€"still. = Mrs. Roy and Gallipealu werse scheâ€" duled to appear before Magistrate J. H. McCurry here Tuesday last on the receiving charges but did.not show up. As far as could be learned they are on an indefinite remand. Singâ€"songs were by Lionel Richier on his guitar, and Edâ€" ward Martineau, who struck up a musâ€" ical note when the necesity arose. happiness. hand were all dealt with in a stealihy way, and not until Jack was in the building did he know what the whole affair was about, Hut on arrival at the Hut, ho felt something was amiss. Once there, he was given hsarty hand shakes and slaps on the back, congratulations being in order on his recent marriage to Miss Patricia Hay. Refreshments were served to the lads, and added to the memorable ozccasion. It seemed natural enough that it should be her voice which spoke sudâ€" denly: "Look! Isn‘t that smoke over there â€"tlue smoke from a steamer?" â€" Peering under his hand, one of the sailors answered ; Games, chatting and a social getâ€" together of old timzs was the order of the evening, where everyone enjoyed themselys immensely. Kewagami Gold Ore Cases Apparently at Standstill Except that of Leonie Valence. Hall realized that he had bzen »vividly aware of her the whole time, as though of a spark amongst grey ashes.. Party and Presentation for Iroquois Falls Groom Lcoking around on that desolate sea, it was hard to distinguish between icz hummocks, wreckage from the Gloriana or other ships‘ beats. It was rather the in their own boat, Hall thought; the disaster seemed to have tended to obliterate individuality ‘for th> time being. They had been suffering in community, as it were, through that long night of cold and misery; only very occasionally and for a few moâ€" ments, had any ‘personality .amongst them stood out with any clearness. "Hammond heraeâ€"â€"But he wouldn‘t ccmeâ€"went on signalling." Rcobins‘ veice died away into vagus mutterings; Hall felt the lad‘s thin shoulders trnse across his knees, as the beat lurched and wallowed on. They dar:d not le‘; harldrift, for fear of colâ€" lisicn ‘with ice or â€"wreckage; even in that still sea it was necessary to be alert all the timz. And it was bitterly, cruelly cold. . Gradually: it seemed to numb them all; evensthe arms of the rowers ached so‘that they could hardly move them, and so hours dragged on. moved feebly from side to side as i: The boy across Hall‘s knees stirred and b:gan to mutter: Slowly dawn returned ~to thir sky, tumlng it rrom deepest, indigo to a dim grey.* ammwwdmwdm "We‘d better mnot go too far away," Hall sugy:sted. "Burely thoere will be ships coming up soonâ€"we must have we rent themâ€"}y3 sent themâ€"â€"â€"" The sailor leant forward. "Why, it‘s young Robins," he said. Crown Attormay E. A. Tilley said toâ€" ‘"Aye,â€"that‘s about it. An‘~comin‘ they drew slowly and reluctant!y (To be «Continued) esâ€"Robins. But it ough} ond+â€"" The boy‘s head molished by a fallen tree. Eldorado ............,..... Falconbridge ................ j Gillies Lake ....... ... Goldale .....:.............. Hardrock Hollinger °.............. s FIFWEBEY! l Hudson Bay ... s Intsrnational Nickel Jackson Manion ... Keyr Addison :..:......; s Kirkland Lake ............. Leitch ... ie Lake Little Long Lac .:.......... MAC@SSR lsnls MclLeod Cockshutt ....... Manitoba and Eastern ‘MecelIntyre{ ... PM ie ' McKianzie ‘Req Lake 1 Mining Corporation . McWatters MOonNe@t® es McVittie Graham ........ NAYyDObD . Noranda Nipissing |.............. vay | in Pamour _ Paymaster Pickle CrowW ....;s............ Preston East Dome ....... Premier Rsad Authier ... 2MO San Antonio ... Sherritt Gordon .......... ‘ §t. Anthony ... Sullivan Consolidated Sudbury Basin ... ............0.0.. Sylvanite ... i e SISCOGR c o. Teck Hughes ... ‘TTODULIY: ssmÂ¥A ie i. Ventures Wright Hargreaves ... The death ocurred early :toâ€" day in Schumacher of Walter Klirch, threeâ€" yearâ€"old son cof Mr. and Mrs. Tony Klirch, 23 Firth avenue. The little boy had been ill for some time. The funâ€" cral will be held from the family reâ€" sidence to the Roman Catholic Church in Schumacher toâ€"morrow. Bralorne Buffalo Ankerite . Canadian Malartic Castle: Tretheway GCentral Porcupine Central Patricia ... Coniagas ............. Coniaurum .............. Caon. CThibousamau Threeâ€" Yearâ€"Old_Boy Dles in Schumacher Early Today would appear in court until he was to contact Dean Kester, K.C., of mins, solicitor for the accused to arrange a suitable date for Mr, Till:y said that no further had been laid and that the present charges wore unchanged. Mrs. Roy, her 18â€"yearâ€"old crippled son, Albert, Napoleon Gallipeau and Joseph Renaud of Val d‘Or, Que., were arrested by G:iekze provincial polise near Field on Aug. 11, where they were alle:cdly br:aking up highâ€"grade ore allegsdly stolen from the Kawagama Gold Mines on Jujy 31. They were takâ€" <n td Amos, Que., to face charges of alismpting to defraud the Kew'agama Gold Mines, the Siscoo Gold Mines and the O‘Brien mine, all properties in the new Val d‘Orâ€"Lamaque gold fislds in Northwestern Quetoz. ' 553 °H Mrs. Roy, her son and Gallipeau were brought to North Bay on August 18 by Provincial Constables N. C. Bmaill and H. J, Morel of North Bay, and the Sturgeon Falls man qnd the woman wera charged with receiving stolen scods.‘ They wera remanded on bail until August 23 but did not appear in sourt, _ With Crown Attorney E. A. Tillsy cut of the city, it was impossible to learn at that time what arrangeâ€" ments had besn made. f w’â€"l‘_o-day’s Stocks _ SV *b Shores, Sac Kenora A â€"Wiandigo. The valu marketed : mines in O tario Depatr 877 as aga $8,252,574 11 monthly ou pared with 1937 ($7,58 showed an 18 per cent 47.25 .104 70.00 ..1.70 52.50 15.25 124 7.60 3.05 2.01 2.01 1.14 1.37 1.13 1.31 1% June July Porcupine camp is well in the lead this year in gold production for the year, leading in value of â€"ountput by.good margin, and with a tonnage almost double that of Kirkland Lake. Theose and other interesting facts are shown by the July Gold Bulletin issued by the Ontario Department of Mines:â€" :; Ontario producing gold mines by fields for the. month of July follow:â€" Porcupine (14) â€" Buffaloâ€" Ankerite, Coniaurum, Delnite,. Dome, Hallnor, Hollinger, Hollinger (Ross), Mace, Mcâ€" Intyre, Moneta, Naybob, Pamour, Pay- master, Porcupine Lake. Lac, MacLeodâ€"Cockshutt, Magnist, N« thern Empire, SandRiver, Sturge River, St. Anthony, Tombil} _ The value of the crudeâ€"gold bullion: marketed in July by fiftyâ€"btwo cgold mines in Ontario as reported to the. Onâ€" tario Department of Mines, was $8,894,â€" 877 as against $8,203,082 in June and $8,252,574 in May, and was the. hizhesb monthly output yet recordged. â€"Ag comâ€" pared with theâ€"corresponding month of 1937 ($7,530,304) â€"July of "this year showed. an improvement af mop‘:thah" 18 per cent.. : iA \ EL0 Matachewan (2)â€"Matachewan Conâ€" solidated, Youngâ€"Davidson. Sudbury and Timagami (2) â€"Lebel Oro, New Golden Rose. Algoma District (2)â€"Algold, Algoma 40 _ Among the mines lisbed a.bave the newcomers are, Hallnor and i‘orcnpine Lake in the Porcupine belt, mo in Patricls, all of which started progucing in June and are now mcluded the q en o M y t i n ue 4 429 _2 bwa. 4 AF h t first time; and Magnet in the Little Long Lacâ€"Beardmore grega, ~whichâ€"shipâ€" ped ore to the Tombill axd Nim:ham Empiri2 mills for treatment. / _ m : Monthly Output of Ontarlo Gild Mlnes 1931â€"88 â€" < > > ~1937 Value. 1033 Yalue Porcupine Well in Lead in Gold Production Th is Kirkland Lake (10)â€"Bidgood, Golden Gate, Kirkland Lake Gold, Lake Shore, Macassa, Morrisâ€"Kirkland, | Sylvanite, Teckâ€"Hughes, Toburn, Wright-Harâ€" Porcuping Belt-- -.~â€" Pirst Qna.tter Fourteen Producers in Porcupine Camp Omega, Raven River. Thiunder Bay District: (11)â€"Bankâ€" field, Hard Rock, Leltch, Little Long Total ... ... Kirkland Lakeâ€"Larder Lake Beltâ€"..... PFirst Quarter ... 8,726,179 _ 8,526,454 ApHil _.:â€"...:â€"....... 2911265 2,941,015 MAY 3,023,121 _ 3,133,104 Junie : ~2,040,535 3.101,128 tsld ~8,002,529 flzgg Lé,i‘dér Lake (3) â€" Kerrâ€"Addison, Total ............._. $20,603,649 Year. ST. REGIS DAILY E #P. above é«hw) * uit tmA .-:.m ._. . STOCK BROKERS Tlmmins, 19 Pine Street North Toronto | _ Kirkland Lake . 203 Bay Street 34 Government Rd. â€" _ ; 9,602,508 â€"$10,8098,005 ~8,0723.8071~ g,m.us ............... ~3,200,201~â€"~$;,588,219 ~~~9.245,556â€" â€" ~ 3,597,067 L. 9 340497 _ ~4,174,770 Stocks ce Comminiou basis only > Local Pl\ones‘ 1200 and 1201 Market Qnotatlons Bmaout each day at 12.20 noon andâ€"520 p.m. Direct Private Wires for fast and accurate quotations and executions in all 1+ HOTEL ut dich WHEN Y@.U RE IN TORONTO nb is EVMY ROï¬Mis an outsideroom, highâ€" ceilinged and good size. Eac h room Accurate Marketg and Executions in Industrial and Public Utility Stocks Mining Stocks For full information as to rates, train service, .limits, etc., Apply to Ticket Agents T. N. O, and Nipissing Centrnl Railway. ~TObRL â€".*:..,.......5s. ..$: 6,456,073 Total for Ontarioâ€" First Quarter ... :$21,824,008 ©6,979,588 MRY .. s ... ~7,915,799 TUNA .cesc T 404,834 Tuly..!....."". ... ... ©T,530,394 * CANADIAN PACIFIC A. W. Hodg:tts, Toronto, assistant secretary and treasurer; J. Bradley ‘Btreit, Willard M. Gordon ‘and H. D. 'Rpthwell Toronto. â€" Mr. Walker will act as managing director., Total ...... 1,627,857 Norbhwmstern Ontarioâ€" First Quart;ar .$ 2,595,512 NA e > 850,877 MBY 922,275 JUNG ...A 1,062,435 .. 1,024,974 Pembroke, Renfrew, Arnâ€" prior, Quebec and Ste. Anne de Beaupre and return * GoIN G Thurs., Sept. 8, 1938 Gillies Lakeâ€"Porcupine Gold Mines Limited announced yesterday a new directorat> had been named at a special meeting of the board of directors. John F. Conroy, Jr.. New York, succeeds Frank O. Tidy, Toronto, president, who resigned because he could not devote the necessary time to the position. Other directors are: Viceâ€"president, Hï¬Walker Toronto, president of Paymastar Oonsolidated Gold Mines; Try The Advance Want Advartisements BARGAIN FARES Grand Total ....$50,554,6023 $55,061,020 Canadian Pacific o4 O TT AW A MONTREAL rooms, suites Directorate Named by Gillies Lake Mines 1, $=1,171,320 $22,802,318 7,748,169 8,252,574 8,203,082 8,894,877 3 458,352 1,109,702 1,369,185 1,327,550 1,416,551 485,457 162,210 167,066 177,639 178,942 S 1e se‘ k