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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1928 GRIMSTEAD, aalied "th oi () » millionaire is stranded xhen bs ear breaks down om a Call fornia mountain aide, : BURTON GRIMSTEAD, his daughter, fis with him, She Is Vgpoiled" and not overly pleased because he's brought with them. ROSS GARDINER, Grimstead's "second in command," a young man of ability, whom Burton sus- pects her father is throwing in her way. SIMMINS, the Grimstead's Eng- fish buttler-chauffeur, whose ga; spirits are repressed by his dignity. DAVENPORT, a youth, comes by and astonishes them first by saying all car runs on electricity so he has no "gas" to give them and next by winning a $10,000 bet from Gardiner by predicting a rain storm, : ud Be] \ CHAPTER VI Eo Simmins Brightens Up 'A tiny fire blazed merrily at the edge of the, shelter, a marvellous sight in all this deluge te Burton when she turned out in the morn: ing Her father and Gardiner sat leaning against a log in the back- ground and Simmins fussed with a coffee pot over a small gasoline stove, Grimstead looked good-na- tured, and amused by the turn of events; Gardner was company manners polite, which meant that he was disgruntled; Simmins was bright and chipper, ' There was no douht of it; some- thing had happened to Simmins. His manner was free and Inde- endent and human; on longer did I conceal rigidly his naturally frivalous proclivities, "(offee, Miss," he should have enunciated mechamieally, Tnstead of which he remarked: 'That'll .warm you up." That morning Davenport found gimmins clad in a maeckintosh, delving in the pockets of the larg- er car, ' . "You certainly did call the turn! maid Simmins. "I congratulate wou, sir! And to vonk his nibs does my heart good! I'll buy me a little souvenir with the tenner you let me in for, I suppose that . goes sir?" ' 'Certainly," laughed Davenport, "You'd better make yours a Lib. erty bond though, Simmins, If you take my advice." "Liberty bond, sir, with a ten. ner?' puzzled Simmons, "Tenner," repeated Davenport, also pretending to be puzzled, Oh! he simulated enlightenment, { gee! Did you imagine for a mo- ment I'd bother with a sum like ten dollars?" "What else, mong uneasily. "Phen hundreds, of course,' res plied Davenport, "Good Lord! If it had not rain- ed 1'd have been out a thousand dollars?" "Most certainly," Davenport 8s- sured him seriously, 'As it is, you shall haye my check for a thou- sand the moment Mr. Gardiner ays his deht." 4 {eh yo you know why Sim- mins passed thegoffee in that care- free, swashbugkling spirit that would warm her up! "Looks as if it .might rain for- ever," remarked Grimstead after a pause, Davenport glanced at his wrist watch and made a rapid caleula- tion. "It will stop at ten minutes to ten." he stated. "I'll acknowledge that you called the turn on this storm, but you'rs cutting it too fine," sald Grimstead. 'Be reasonable!" "Nevertheless, if you'll allow me five minutes either way," smiled the young man, "I'll lav anvbody another bet." He glanced at Gar dienr, who did not look up, The millionaire laughed. Well, you are a good sport; I'll say that for you. I'm no heavy gambler, like you young fellows with * lots of mopey. I'll bet yon a box of cigars, just to make it interesting." "All right." "By the way," added Grimstead. #didn"t you say something about a tree--7" "It's dows, square across the woad," interrupted Simmins eager- . gir?" asked Sim- Iy. "The deuce you say!" Grimstead sat up. "How many others ars down?" he inquired after an in- stant. "Nope, #ir, not ope!" eried Simmins triumphantly, as though the glory were his own personally. #1 took especial pains to 'ook.' "This is the most extraordinary exhibition of either fantastic bull luck or propheey or a mixture of both I have ever witnessed!" sald Grimstead. "It's--it's almost un- canny!" "Not at all, The story was the sxact product of a whole sefies of eauses and effects working out; and as the causes and effects are all subject to physical law, which is unchangeable, any prediction as to the time or the direction or the strength or duration of a storm can be entirely exact, provided it is based on those causes and ef- fects." ------ x . A Startling oy 'At the hour predicted by Daver- port the rain ceased and the clouds broke im the instantaneous Call- fornia fashion to admit a bright shining sun. The whole world wae p-glitter with jewels, and little mists, eddying through the forest drifted in and ut of steady, broad shaft of light. Gi stared curiously at Davenport's little ma- chine. : "Make - her yourself?" inquired Grirsstead. "Such as ghe is." acknowledged ~ "I didp"t use much venport. Brine ath her Jooke. 'beanse She) That's giltersnt." A | with alacrity. 1s just an experiment. I'm trying something out." " sald she was electric driven 2" queried Grimstead. x "Yes." "And 1 Suppose charging a bat: tery costs mothing," struck in Gai diner scornfully; "and there charging stations everywhere." 'Often enough for my purpose,' rejoined Davenport with entire good humor, "I should think you'd want more eed and power,' observed. Grim- stead, 'Geared as she is I can made 5¢ an hour on & paved road, and tha: means power for anything within reason--I haven't had it brake- tested; but it must develop between 35 and 45 horsepower." "Your battery can't have a long charge-life at that rate," pursued Grimstead, "I don't see how you keep charged. How many hours do you make" | 3 "I don't know: I haven't deter. mined yet, That's what I'm ex- perimenting on." Grimstead paused to get this straight. "Do 1 understand you to say that you are running on the orig- inal charging?" he asked, "that iv have not recharged since starts ng?" "Where did you start from? How long have you been out?" "Left San Rafael about three weeks ago." He stooped to exam- ine a dial. "Been just 1100 miles." The pirate chief, like all good commanders, was always ready to climb himself to the crow's nest. This speck on the horizon was probably a mirage that would van- ish. on nearer approach but there was just a remote possibility it might be a galleon heavy with un- told weath, Or indeed, it might be some- where hetween the extremes. Some craft laden mainly with dreams, but with a trifle of metal ballast worthy of a pirate"s attention. So like a prudent chief, he bare down on the stranger. "Such a battery, if it could be well proved out, would be valu-- able," pursued Grimstead. One of the great elements in : ': success was that he knew better than to cry down the obvious. 'I eonfess 1 can't imagine the prineiple--"" "Like to look at it?" inquired Davenport, This was luck Grimgtead had not hoped for--yet., He assented All crowded curt: ously around while the young man raised the hood, They saw what appeared to be an ordinary large electric motor set across the frame. In front of it and connected te it by two thick wires was a black hox measuring about a foot along all dimensions. "There she is!" said Darenpon: cheerfully, : 'That! Is that yopr whole hat. tery--" cried Grimstead, pointing an incredulous finger. 'Why, that thing wouldn't run a kell for three weeks, let alone a car. You're josh- ing me, young man, Where's your running hattery? Under the seat?" Without reply Davenport raised the seat cushions to display a res cess occupied only by tocls; lifted the trap door of the rear to show a nearly empty interfer. "You see, I have nothing up my sleeve with which to deceive you, said he, jestingly. = "There's the whole works." On the return to the camp Grim» stead fell hack to consult lows voiced with his second' in com. mand, "What, do you make of it, Roes?" he inquired, "He's lying, showing off. thing fs fmpossible." "Well, he eertainly drove up last night from somewhere." "He probably lives quite near and recharges from water power." "Probably," agreed Grimstead, "but even at that he's got some- thing. That box isn't any larger than a starting battery. We'll have to look Into it a little. A battery as compac: as that will drive oth, ers of the market." Davenport put everybody te work, after & quick meal had been improvised and eaten, so that by mid-afternoon a comfortable and convenient camp had come into existence. At supper time Simmins, panie- stricken, claimed total ignorance of camp cookery. stated Davenport are The "I'll do it," briefly, *ou'll do the dishes, run the errands, get the water and car ry in the wood. I'll chop the wood." He looked around at the others. "That's the only thing 1) want you all to leave strictly alone --the axe. I'll do all the axe work myself." @ CHAPTER VIII Another Bet "Well, this is something like!" cried Grimstead as he lowered himsolf to a cushion of aromatic boughs near the camp fire. He was well fed and warm and dry and pleasantly tired. He glanced about the scene with satisfaction. Everything was trim and ship- shape, just the way he liked to see things. "Young man," he went on in a large paternal mapper, blowing the first eloud from his cigar, "where is your shop? San Rafael, did you say?" "My shop---oh, Sausalito," plied Davenport. "I suppose you could use a little more." "Who couldn't?" "A little addiional capital might enable you to expand to advam- tage." "Additional eapital," said Dar- enport unexpectedly, with a grin, "wouldn't enable me to expand an inch." "But you just Ter said you pould "I don't how it's different," sald Grima a lttle impatiently, "but it crossed my mind that it you needed a little -- buy in a share, you understand, Of course an investigation" "So you are interested ia my battery, after all," sald Davenport. "Kono!" Grimstead ackmnowleds- ed. "At least 1'm interested in what you say about your battery. The state of Missouri isn't big enough to hold me when it comes to what you claim for it. I shrewd. ly suspect that in that you're try ing to spoof me. But it's obvious you've come fiom somewhere, and it's obvious that little battery brought you. Even if it's only five or ten miles, and you expect to get home again, you've got some thing big." Y "Of course," Davenport pointed out, "I haven't tried to sell any-' thing nor make you believe any- thing. And I don't suppose, in| view of your technical knowledge.| I would have any right to resent your doubting my word. Never-/ theless, I repeat that with that; battery as my sole motive power, I{ have'driven about 1100 miles," "Without recharging?' demand- ed Gardiner, 'Without yecharging," repeated Davenport, A .polite but restrained silence! succeeded this remark. Davenport! himseM relieved the situation, "Don't feel embarassed!" he! laughed, "Say it if you want tog) I won't be offended. It may re lieve your minds, There's no way to prove it to you right now, sol there's no sense worrying abou gt" "Padon me," put in Gardiner suavely, "I think Jour statement could be at least partially tested with the facilities at hand." \ "What do you mean?" asked! Davenport, "I mean that if you are willing to allow your battery to carry a load for any specified length of time I can arrange the load." "If it's not beyond the power of my battery, go to it," agreed Davenport, "I figure she'll give about 40 horse-power.' "That is more than ample. how long--" 'Long as you llke--until we get out of here if you please." 'Is it another bet?" asked Byr- ton, "I'm willing," sald Davenport, "doubles or quits, Is it a bet?" "I don't bet that heavily against another man's game," said Gard- For. hundred that I can produce a le- gitimate test vight here, and that this thing won't stand up under it, It is understood that my test myst be met, and that the time limit is four days." Well," that's rather an "un- sight unseen proposition itself," rejoined Davenport, "But just to show you I'm a sport I'll go| you, provided that it is not beyond the strength of the pattery. It's endurance within its strength is all I claim," "What I propose," said Gardin- eh, "is that the terminals of this, battery be connected with the self starter of our car; and the starting pedal be locked down, Then the battery, through the self-startef, will be turping over the engine against the compression, I don't know the exact power required but it is considerable, Tomorrow I will compute it exactly. It is suf- ficient to exhause the ordinary starting battery in from 10 to 20 minutes." "That's ingenious," acknowl: | edged Davenport, "but {t's going | to be as noisy as a street ear, It's | going to destroy our peace and quiet, and will end by getting on our nerves, I'm afraid." "It's begun by getting | nerve, I'm afraid," sneered Gar | diner | Gardiner leaned back with a tri- | umphant glance at his chief "Oh!" cried Burton indignant. | *You aren't going to give up like | that, Mr. Davenport. Were you bluffing? I didn't think you'd do that!" | "I wasn't bluffing," said Daven-| port quietly. "Then do it!" "Well, I'll tell you," suggested the young man, "there's no use in getting excited or disagreeable about it, Let's be reasonable. To- morrow morning we will move | camp a little to get away from the, racket, and then we']l start her| up. Stay an extra day if you want | to; it's worth it." i "I')l agree to that," acquisced Gardiner, "as far as the genera) camp is concerned. ' But person- ally I stipulate to stay here within| sound of the motor." Burton exclaim indignantly; but Davenport was unperturbed. "Well," said be eheerfully, "vou encourage me. A little while ago the battery couldn't last over 10 or 20 minutes; and now it's night- time already. I'll agree you shall stay here, if you want to, provided Simming stays too." "Simmins!" exclaimed Gardiper.| "Why should Simmins stay here?" "For the same reason you do," replied Davenport blandly; "just to hear the motor go." i "Well," sighed Grimstead after! a moment, "this trip certainly pro-! mises to be interesting. If the thing works evep partially as you. say it dos, you must have a brand- pew principle in battery comstruc- tion." "It is @ mew principle," sald Davenport. "Would you like to hear about it?" (Continued tomorrow) your Snowflakes found at Candia, N. H., measured three and a half in- ches by two inches. Attempt to start a fire with coal oil resulted in death of B. McGinnis. Carbondale, Ill. Next thing we'll hear of will be some notoriety seeking ariato use more money." a seeking to best the "Bremen's" NS) KIDNEY PILLS |START WORK ON WINDSOR TUNNEL Hon, Mr, Finlayson Offici- ». ates at Ceremony at the Border Windsor, June 4.--Because the Windsor-Detroit tunnel is a Cana- dian enterprise in its conception and in the promotion work, which was done™by red W. Martin, form- er Toronto Salvation Army offic- er, Hon. William Finlayson, Min- ister of Lands and Forests in the Ontario Government, was this af- ternoon given the honor of start- ing the actual work on the vehie- Yww' tube, which will he a mile long, and connect downtown De- troit with downtown Windsor, Bad weather, with §heets of rain driven hy a strong northeast wind, did not prevent a large and enthusiastic crowd from gather- ing at the (Canadian National yards at the river brink for the ceremony, A lengthy program of speaking was provided, with Lieut.-Col. Walter I.. McGregor, a Vice-president of the Detroit and Windsor Subways, Limited, the Canadian Tunnel Company, as master of ceermonies. Before the ceremony, a teleizram from President Calvin Coolidge of the United States, addressed to Mayor Jackson of Windsor and Mayor John Lodge of Detroit, was read It was as follows: "I ex- tend to you and the Mayor of Windsor cordial greetings on this occasion of the brinking of ground for tha construction of the new tunnel hetween Detroit and Windsor. This moins of communi- cation hoiween Canada and the United States will add to the al- ready good understanding hetween the two peoples, and serve as fur ther evidence friendship and good-will for all time." For State and Province The State of Michigan was rep resented hy W M Brueker, the Attorney-General in the absence of Gavernor Fred Green, who was nnable to be present. Mayor C, E. Jackson spoke b lefly for the Cie of Windsor; (icorge Hanahan spoke in hehalf © of {he Border Chamber of Commerce, and Pres- ident Bradway of Detroit for the tunnel company nf poke { from the tron trans; Atlaptic time-tecord. _s~/ The speaking over, Mr son and other party tor, anchor Directed by the dredge operator, the Ontario Minister pressed the throttle machinery aroaned craked, and slowly from the bottom of the river, came the fst seoopful of mud h which is later tn receive the Made tunnel tions, 250 feet and 32 in diameter, the 'under Finlay memhers of the hoarded the dredg red at the lever and The up long Eec- feet will make up gection of the whict hich river | tube, Ceremony Across River Later the entire party boarded the dredge for ceremonies on the other gide of the river. Thexe finished, e took up its position there to begin the task of excavation. It was promised today' that the tunnel would be open for traffic in luss than two years, the drelg YOUNG ANGLER DROWNED Cobalt, *Ont., June bastianf, 19 years of age, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Sebastiani, Cobalt, was drowned in the Mon- trea] River this morning, when he fell from the Government danr at Latehford while fishing. Sebastiani had heen asked to gnove away while a dynamite charge was fired by river divers breaking a jam, and apparently he did not notice how 4.--Gusto Se- close he was to the edge of the | parapet and went into the stream as he complied with the request, UNION ADOPTS SILENCE POLICY Striking Iron Workers Fol- low Example of Com- Montreal, June - 5.--Striking structural iran workers in Mont- real are feeling dissatisfied with the situation, in which they admit that to date there has been mo change. They feel, in the words of one of their leaders, that "they have been trampled on by the Do- minion Bridge Company," which so far has persisted in its refusal to have .any direct communication with the union, In view of this sit- uation the union has adopted the policy which the Bridge Compan: has maintained since the outset of the dispute--silence, Meanwhile unions affiliated with the Building Trades Council of Montreal, have withheld action. pending dnswers to two questions. The Council requesied the George Fuller Co. (Canadian) contractors in charge of construction of the Bell Telephone Company's new headquarters, Lagauchetiere Qua Beaver Hall Hill, to remove non- union iron workers, tyo gangs of which are employed there in the place of striking organized. work- ers. 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