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<L '//' TREASURE OP THE SEA By George E. Walsh SYNOPSIS CIIArTi:il l! Wlicii a steamer bound for iho llnited States from South America sinks In the Carib- bean sea, Dick Jordan asslstK the pasiiOnRers Into lifeboats. He Is coiiimonded for this by Hen I'ettl- grew, a U.S. federal officer, who was relurnlnK Hick to the States aa a convicted felon. CHAPTER U Dick was surprised into stam- mering by tlie question. Until then there liad been no choice. He still considered himself PettiRrew'* man; he had not thought of mak- ing a break for liberty. Ever since he had left the South American port in Hen's custody he had been a model prisoner, and it seemed slightly dishonorable to take ad- vantage of the disaster to escape. '•\\!iy, the one you choose for me," he answered. "It makes no difference. Is there room for both of us?" "No, not in the same boat," came the unexpected reply. "That's wliy I'm giving you a choice. You de- serve itâ€" after this." He waved his hand around to indicate Ins meaninp. Jordan \ as more astonished than ever. Pcttigrew was eyeing him as a man, and not as an officer of the law; he even placed a hand faniiharly on one shoulder. "We're just man to man now, Jordan," he added. "We're not go- ing to leave this ship together â€" can't you know â€" captain's orders, you go your way, and I go mine. If we meet again â€" on shore â€" I'll pinch you. It's my duty. But just now we're â€" Well," laughing quietly, "friends, I guess. I don't mind calling you tliat. I wish you good lurk! If you reach shore and I don't I wish â€" wish â€" " Dick never knew what he in- tended to wish, for at that moment the liarsh, grating voice of the first male interrupted, and Jordan tumbled into one boat and Hen Pctligrcw into another. .•Miiiost instantly tliey were sep- arated in the blackness of the niglit. Dick was free, in truth, then â-  â€" not on probation. He had the wliole world to roam so long as he didn't run afoul of Hen i'cttigrew. As tlicy drifted tlirough the dark- ness of the night, he smiled broad- ly, whilp the others sat and moaned or spoke in awed frigthciicd voicei. [Would they ever reach land? How far were they from the nearest shore? That was the l)iirden of their conversation. At first an effort was made to keep the boats together, but this was soon abandoned by the sea- men. There was always the dan- ger of collision in a rough sea. * * * In a couple of hours each boat- load was a separate unit, depend- ent upon the skill and exertion of its own crew for safety, with no knowledge of what was happening to the others.' The black pall of night descended upon them, ob- literating the rest of the world, and . circumscribing for them an exist- ence bounded by the gunwales of^ the boat. In this narrow they huddled, awed and as much by the sense -._- as by the roar of win|j|!n'"'''"^'^'' Jordan wa« notV"^^ ,'"''" i"' when the «cci^^^f"'^'J »''« <n- llicir adventure, c'viinhle^ffifUaMe. A gian. wave !i?t% ''"'â- ''" '^^'''^'^ °"' °^ *''* ^^^" »r»*" lipid the frail craft, rolling it over and over before allowing it to (Icicciid into the trough to be trampled upon by the moiuitain of .siirglii), green brine. After that it was every man lor himself. There was no further op- portunity for team work or mutual co-operation. Dick Jordan found himself clinging to a few boards that had been in the bolloin of the boat. It made an excellent rafl for one, but hardly of use for two. In his eagerness to take full pos- session of it, a fat man climbed upon it, overreaching himself by hit greediness. The slender raft sunk out of /i/e^c^ctt^ sight, and when it finally came to the surface again the fat man was gone. Jordan rclrieved it; clung to it; clutched it with both hands, re- fusing to yield his hold even when tlie waves rolled it over and over and buried him fathoms deep m the sea. He had been three days on the raft before the will to live had fin- ally cracked, and then, fortified by the raw food washed up to him by the mass of drifting seaweed, re- vived, and once more struggled to reassert itself over exhausted, tor- tured flesh. It was a real sail that his red- riinmcd eyes saw this time, but he refused to believe It for a long time, laughing at his own incon- sistency in hoping and praying that it was not an optical illusion, and declaring in the same breath it could not be anything else. It was not only a real sail that he saw, but it was coming in his direction, bearing down upon him at a speed that quickly dispelled all doubts. As the boat drew nearer, Dick made out its nondescript character from its sails. A two-niastcd lug- ger, quite common in the Caribbean for fishing and coasting, with lump- ish hull and mildewed canvas, spotted like the coat of a leopard, it slopped along in the rough seas as if unwillingly propelled by a power that it could not resist. Long before any one aboard sighted Dick Jordan, he had stud- ied the craft from stem to keel with greedy, anxious eyes, taking in everything from the clumsily bent topsails to the ill-fitting jib tliat was forever shifting in the wind. "Fishermen," he concluded, speaking his thoughts aloud. "I can't be far from land." A moment later, when the lug- ger acted as if about to change her course, he raised his free hand and .shouted with all the strength he could muster. Even at that dis- tance, it seemed almost miracu- lous that they heard or s.iw him: but keen eyes had been scanning the sea closely, looking for just such derelicts. It was their busi- ness to pick up flotsam and jetsam of lllc ocean on the chance of find- inK a prize. * * • His cry brought several black faces to the port rail and Jordan's former conclusion that the lugger was a native fishing craft seemed confirmed by the appearance ol the crew. They were swarthy Caribs, an ancient type weakened and diluted by the blood of Negroes A hurley half-b with the white part of hiii^F>ot- ing in his straight hai^^oe 'n led complexion, secu|^"''ie from command, for \\\^jdK^^ np in the him to heave^^^""*'- wind an^JlCtes later Dick sal Tvi^^^^' 'I'-smelling deck of sel, greedily eating and king food and liquid that un- er ordinary circumstances would ave repelled him; hut nature's cravings had to be satisfied, and it was no time to be critical. The crew formed a half circle around him, with Captain 'J'ucu, the half- brecd skipper, and Black Burley, the lugger's mate, in the immed- iate foreground. They were in- specting him with something more than curiosityâ€" with greed and av- aricousncss, Dick thought, but he could not exactly translate it in words. * * * Captain Tucu had an evil, sinis- ter face (hat in repose was hard and sullen, as if the white blood in him was silently protesting the injustice of the trick played In mingling negro with it; in action it lighted up with a fierceness of either joy or anger that had an ele- ment of the fanatic's. (To Be Continued.) ISSTJE 35--1946 HE TALKS â€" THEY SAY Meet Ben, the famous talking dog of Royston, England, who is reported to speak intelligibly, although his vocabulary seems to be limited to "I want some." And if one is to be limited to three words, what better three could there be? Ben, pet of Alfred Brissenden, it pictured watching â-  friend pour tea, and, presumably, saying "I want some." CHRONICLES of GINGER FARM By Gwendoline P. Clark* SAIAO/I TEA BAGS The scene was Ginger Earm; the day was Saturday; the time was nine a.m., and we were more or less at a loose end following an early morning down-pour. It was also very hot and humid. We heard the motor-bike com- ing up the lane. In a few minutes Bob came in and said quite casu- ally â€" just as you might say â€" "the baker is at the door"â€" "Well, I guess the threshing machine is on its way down!" Partner made no conmient at all but for a few min- utes I said plenty. You know â€" nothing in the house to eat . . . coiddn't be done ... no pies . . . no cake ... no meat ... no noth- ing . . . and why were they coming in unexpectedly anyway? * • * Well, it appears the threshers were all set to thresh on the farm above us. And then it rained â€" and that was that. Of course, rather than lose time, threshers are only too glad to pull into a barn on a wet day. And we cer- tainly needed to thresh so there was only one thing for me to do â€" make the best of a bad job and get on with it. Mentally I pre- pared my dinner menu . . . saus would cook about as quick as thing . . . potatoes . . . Iwiced the |)ressure cooker ^esauce â€" tomatoes . . . lots ojj^d, thank (it was alreaJjlira pies? Well, goodness) ^^nttie to make pies there wa^fuy a few down town but I^^lraybc . . . yes, I think six enough, that's where I met my ,'alerloo. Pie â€" there wasn't such a thing in town. I wocid just have to make some after all. "Sez you" I said to myself after shopping around for lard or short- ening and wasting my precious time. No lard, or shortening any- where. It was ten a.m. when I left town. It was about 12.30 when the din- ner was served to ten hungry men. Don't ask me ho.v I did it for I will never know. However I cer- tainly did have very timely and welcome assistance fr im Partner and neice Betty. They were busy peeling potatoes when I got home. And the electric stove was also a great help. The warming oven is grandâ€" it saved me that last min- ute rush because I was able to lift tilings ahead of time. I kept every- thing delightfully hot and yet did not dry anything out. » < ♦ After dinner it was back to town again for more supplies as we were having the men for supper as well They also survived that meal successfully. Around six- thirty neice Joy arrived by bus to stay the weekend and nothing would do but I must sit down and she and Betty would do the dishes. I sat ... it was an easy order to follov." . for a while anyway. But soon there were chickens to feed and on my way to the chickens I had to take a squint at the gran- ary. And was it ever good to look into - such a nice lot of wheat, and a good size bin of barley. Yes, on the whole the day had been quite worthwhile â€" and I'm hoping the men didn't feel to3 badly because they didn't get any pie. They were very nice about it anyway. Given time I niiflii have thought of something as .i substitute but at the moment iiu wits refused lo fuuclion. • ♦ • Now iet us leave the thrcshiui; and stop back througli the wcet. to last Wedm-day. Thai <\as an other big day. It was the <lay on which presentations were made in our Ward to the boys who had served in the armed forces during the war. The council, the people of the community and the Wo- men's Institute had gone all out to remember the boys in a big way. To each was given either an in- scribed gold watch and chain, a watch only, or a signet ring ac- cording to the type of service each had seen. To the father of the only boy who did not return a clock was given. But how we wished that Davie â€" happy and carefree as we remembered him â€" could have taken his place with the rest of the boys. When the young "vets" marched up to the grandstand the old "vets" were called on to bring up the rear. And there was Partir marching with the rest, prOM^g punch because he and S^rade the only father and sqp^ jj ^„. I got quite a kicjj^ff ncyjr ,,3p. self. Probablyj^_.,~gj„ pen in our >; ^^ the presentation the holk)><»^ both wars and their vcj^y'wcre treated to a swell ban- by the W.I. And believe me, ere were pies for that meal any- way. Sunday School Lesson Right Uses of Property Exodus 20: 16; Proverbs 30: 7-9; Matthew 6: 25-33. The Eighth Commandment The principle underlying the Eighth Commandment is the sac- redness of property. To take any- thing from another, secretly or op- enly is to break this command- ment. Falsehood and vanity arc coupled together in the Scriptures. To walk after vanity is to walk after that which is false. To be vain is to have a false opinion about our- selves, to be ignorant of ourselves. Two Dangers Extreme wealth and extreme l>overty each have their dangers. The wc,-iltliy man is tempted to be proud and to think he owes all to his own wisdom and ability. In ad- versity man cries unto the Lord, in prosperity he is apt to forget Him an<l even to deny Him. On the other hand extreme pov- erty has its temptations. The man who is starving is sorely tempted to sto.il to satisfy his hunger, and in his liiltcrncss of spirit to bias phiiiie or cliargc God foolishly. The God of Nature ihc God of Nature, the same (iod who reveals Himself in Jesus Chri.vt, i)rovidcs for the birds; cer- tainly tlien he will provide for His children. While "the birds of the heaven" will teach u. not to be an- xious about food if we will look at them, the lilies of the field will teach IIS not to be anxious about our clothes if wo will "consider" (learn thoroughly from) them. "Be Not Anxious" An.Niely is a foolish thingâ€" it never accomplishes anything. When wc worry, we have "but lit- tle f.iitli " Our Kathcr knows what our real need is and we can trust llini to sujiply it. If we will only put tiods kingdom and God's righteousness first. God will see to it that we shall not lack any really good thing. ,\lost of our an.viety about the future is about troiiblos tint •"e'dom r Miie. and God will like cro of our lroiil>les when Ibex <Io come. 4-5. The Farmer Pay* "Farm products cost more than they used to." "Yes," replied the farmer. "When a man is supposed to know the botanical name of what he's rais- in' an' the zoological name of the insect that eats it and the chemi- cal name of what will kill it, some- body's got to pay." TABLEJALKS . . A Long, Cold Drink A jar of ready made syrup in the icebox for use at a moment's notice will prove to be a great time and su.c;ar saver. Quite often when sugar is added to a cold drink, some of it does not dissolve and is lost. The syrup is made in the proportion of 1 cup of water to 1 cup of sug^r, brought to the boil- ing point, scimmcd and stored in a covered gUss jar in tlie icebox. Any syrup or fruit juice left over z(*:r canning may also be used. Jjiinpic cold drinks like lemon- ade or orangeade are very much im;,Toved by the addition of a few fresh berries or berry juice. The home economists of the Consumer Section of the Dominion Department of Agriculture suggest a few recipes for long cold drinks. Blueberry Quench 1 cup blueberries 1 cup boiling water ^ cup sugar Pew grains salt 1 orange, juice and grated rind 1 lemon, juice and grated rind 3 cups cold water Pour boiling water over blueber- ries. Add grated orange and lemon rind and simmer slowly for 5 min- utes. Press through a sieve. Add sugar and salt and stir well. Add orange and lemon juice. Cool. Be- fore serving add 3 cups of co'd water Six servings. Peanut Butter Shake % cup peanut butter 2 tablespoons honey or sugar l/i teaspoon vanilla % teaspoon salt 3 cups milk Place peanut butter, honey or su- gar and salt in a bowl with H cup of milk. Beat with rotary beater until smooth. Add the remaining 2% cups of milk with vanilla an!* beat well before serving. Se"^* Banana Shaky/^ large ripe bang' (1 cup masb^ . 1 to 2 j^°"* *'°"ey °'- ""^''ii^ilk poon vanilla easpoon salt Mash bananas with a fork until mooth. .-Xdd to the milk and mix thoroughly with rotary beater un- til 'veil blended Add honey or su- gar, salt and vanilla and shake well before serving. Serves 4 to 5. Raspberry Egg-Nog eggs cup raspberry juice cup milk tablespoons honey or sugar yi teaspoon salt Va teaspoon nutmeg Cursh 2 cups of raspberries with Vi cup of water, bring to the boil and boil for 2 to 3 minutes. Drain through a moist jelly bag, add wa- ter to make a cup of juice. Beat eggs with salt and honey or sugar until light. Add milk, raspberry juice and nutmeg, and beat well with rotary beater. Chill well be- fore serving. NOTE: Other unsweetened fruit juices may be used instead of rasp- berry juice. If sweet fruit Juice is used, reduce honey or sugar. Farmer Group Is Still Largest At the last census that of 1941, there were over a million Canadians engaged in agricultural work, or 31.7 per cent of the total gainfully occupied people of the Dominion, states the Hamilton Spectator. .Manufai.tnriiig had the second larg- est group with 501,001, or 16.7 per cent, this group included bakers. tailors, maciiinists, etc., whether employed in a manufacturing in- dustry or not. 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