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"They are grand machinery," said olc Carlos, "but I have never asked them to do impossible things, and so there is always a little might hid in them t< respond if the call should come." "Meantime we jog along at eighi knots," said Tom. "And who that is sane desires to gc faster upon the sea?" asked Carlos. They carried a wireless, yet felt th« new sensation of being separated from civilization so completely. Pelice apâ€" preciated this and Jane declared suct an experience worth having; but To and Angus did not share their satisâ€" faction. iss *# # «4 w# _ w# _ mm B 3 _ IP. P JB w# ‘“‘“ ‘“.“.“ w# w# *# # welualaalecteale stee?: festestes # h. k. h # Resteatestaste PUBLISHED BY SPECIAL ARRANCGEMENT COPYRIGHT TABLE TOP * The prospect of gigantic and nove! vegetation attracted Aylmer more than any possible treasure, while Maine‘s interest centred in the approaching island itself. Felice had brouzsht his photographic apparatus and professed to be principally interested in such reâ€" cords as he might make. Jane decided that some birds would have to be shot if it proved impossible to catch them. in in dindis din it din in dinalin din dn dip dip dep ie dn din lin dis dn in in den en dn ie en dn dn ds dn den dte dn dep en a en d e ts Te t Be l ds e3 + _ + i o PUBLISHED BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT COPYRIGHT % Already the question arose as tc which one of them would write an actâ€" count of the voyage, and it was decided that while Felice illustrated it, the other three would contribute the letterâ€" press between them. They kept inâ€" dustrious diaries and compared notes. sSuch close companionship awoke common discoveries as to character, and both Tom and Angus found their third friend had in reality changed Each doubted at first, then they talkâ€" ed together and the suspicion was con firmed. "Couldn‘t tell you what it is, but there‘s something," decided Maine "He‘s himself by fits and starts, and one allows for his funny moods which are familiar; but he‘s different, too radically different. T‘d say he has got something on his mindâ€"not just the old sense of injustice with the world at large but something inside him that you can‘t get him to talk about." "He has altered", admitted Tom, "and the bisgest symptom is that he prefers to be alone and give us all a miss when he conveniently can. That‘s not like him for he was always by nature sociâ€" able chap." ‘"What does Jane think of him asked Angus. "She thinks a lot of him and, at the same time, doesn‘t know what to think IRVIN ROSNER, R.O. BUCOVETSKY BLDG. 23 Third Ave. Timmins EYESIGHT SPECIALIST For Appointment Phone 1877 To Wit: By virtue of a warrant issued by the Mayor of the Town of Timmins bearing date the ninth day of March, 1939, sale of lands in arrears of taxes in the Town of Timmins will be held in the Council Chamber, Municipal Building, Timmins, at the hour of two o‘clock in the afternoon on the sixth day of July, 1939, unless the taxes and costs are sooner paid. Notice is hereby given that the list of lands for sale for arrears of taxes is being pubâ€" lished in the Ontario Gazette on the first day of April, 1939, on the sixth day of May, 1939, and on the third day of June 1939, and that copies of the said list may be had at my office. EYES EXAMINED CGLASSES FITTED Treasurer‘s Sale of Land for Taxes Treasurer‘s Office, this 18th day of March 1939. CHAPTER TV "YOUR TSLAND‘ tifia Acssuracy Bceien C TOWN OF TIMMINS District of Cochrane Eden P hillpotts of him," answered the other, ‘"That sounds rather mad; but its true, Much that he says and hopes may happen some day sounds very noole and fine to her; but there‘s always a fly in the amber. Jane finds Pardo a tremendous egotist, and like all egotists, he hates people to think differently from what he does himself. He‘s always out to convince her ,and he makes almost a personal matter of it, so that when he can‘t convince her and she tells him so, he gets rustyâ€"even rude sometimes. They have long yarns, as we all do one with another, living this idle ship life; ut they differ as often as they agree." "He‘s sizes bigger than any of us," ‘he said, "but his ideas and the thought f the greatest good to the greatest aqumber don‘t seem to comfort him as much as you‘d expect. He appears :o think that he was born to put £hinzs right, yet can only help an the good work by putting himself wrong. He talks about "divided loyalties," but who hey might be divided between he doesâ€" n‘t say. I told him that his trouble was really a form of selfishness and that he was worrying about his cwn soul a wreat deal more than the bodies Cof ther people. That annoyed him very much. All the same, if he‘s not worâ€" rying about that, what is he worrying about? He‘s got some secret up his sleeve and would rather like to let me haye a peep at it; but he‘s frightened to:" "I‘l1l bet he‘s not frightened," said Angus. "He doesn‘t know the meanâ€" ing of fear. Tom will tell you that, Pardo is physically braver than any chap we ever saw." “I:Ie is said Aylmer. "And its a sort of bravery that nothing can shake. I could tell you things". "He‘s frightened all the same," she answered. "It must be somethingâ€" inside himâ€"something he can‘t see how to fight perhaps. No doubt what he calls "divided loyalities" might be jolly difficult, because he‘s great on right and wrong, and justice and so on butâ€"well, there it is; conscience makes a coward of the bravest man or woman sometimes." "You never know exactly a person‘s deepest loyalties," she answered. "LOyâ€" alties are queer things. Often we couldn‘t put a name to them ourselves though we feel them deep down in us "She doesn‘t like himâ€"not as you ind I do. He makes her uncomfortâ€" because his ideas are bigger ‘han hers, or his ideals different, but yecause he‘s always making things perâ€" onal to himself. f "What are these loyalties he harps upon I wonder?" asked Tom. "All very difficult and tiresome," deâ€" clared her lover, ‘and I wish he‘d chuck rads Sometimes the whole party would meet and talk far into the tropic night. when day was done and the ‘Iguana‘ pioughed ‘her steady way through seas that glittered with the white light of phosphorescence. o ie e oys L P o Jane herself threw some light on the nystery when the three were together ind Pardo had turned in. For he spent nuch time by himself in his cabin. Angus Maine was in the natural questions that awaited them, and especially as to what sigâ€" nificance might be revealed by the "Maneater Gorge." "It‘s interesting to remember what Darwin had to say a hundred years ago," he told them. "On his voyage in the "Beagle," he was tremendously impressed with certain facts. In the Pampean â€" formation he â€" discovered many fosisi remains of gigantic °xâ€" tinct creatures, and marked how closeâ€" allied animals seem to emerge from "You wouldn‘t say she liked him xactly then?" asked Angus. ly allied animals seem to emerse i1129.} each other and replace each other. He worked in the Galapagos srchipelago, A, L. SHAW, Treasurer ine was chiefly interested ral questions that awaited especially as to what sigâ€" aicht be revealed by the and no doubt studied the giant torâ€" toises and their kin as they were never studied before. And he found a queer thing:; that every island in the group had something distinctive of its own. "A brand new isliand might have brand new beasts and plants inâ€"it at that rate," said Tom. "And since the equator seems to have suited enormâ€" ous monsters upcommonly well, we may find ourselves up against something not only equal to the Galapagos Torâ€" toise but uglier customers altogether â€"not so amiable and a good deal quicker on their paws." "If the <island is old enough, we might certainly find monsters of the prime _ upon it," continued _ Angus. "Conditions there in the eternal heat if abundant water also existed. could have supported the life of old saurian creations that have perished off the rest of the earth in the struggle for existance. And shotâ€"guns would be rather futile against them. But that doesn‘t seem very probable, because these volcanic outlets in midâ€"ocean are â€"probably not very longâ€"lived, speaking geologically,. Since 1570â€"onâ€" ly yesterday you may sayâ€" there have been â€" nearly four score big earthâ€" quakes on the mainland, and the worst of all was in 1745, when Callao went down under a tidal wave the like of which was never known in historical time. These fearful catagtrophes haunt the coast and are called merâ€" iodinal; but the earthquake iine is known to jut out into the Paciic at right angles to the great mountalin chains and the centres of many huge convulsions probably lie in midâ€"ocean far out of sight of land. Such things may explain the mysterious disappeatrâ€" ance of not a few great ships, for any vessel caught in a seaâ€"quake would never live to tell the tale." "Always cheerful and hopeful," said Jane. "We trust a blaze on the equator isn‘"t due for the minute," added Tom but Angus continued to take rather a sombre view. "As a matter of fact it is overâ€"due," he said. "The Pacific is beginning to earn its name and lull mankind into security; but nature will go its way." â€" On another night they all clustered round the chart and studied it togethâ€" er that they might mark their proâ€" gress after a week at sea. Only two steamâ€"ship lanes cut across the lone cruise of the Iguana, and they had alâ€" ready passed the route from Panama The little ship steamed on an avetrâ€" age some two hundred knots in twentyâ€" four hours, but it seemed a very tiny distance charted on the waste of the ocean. Then came three consecutive days of strong head wind that slowed progress considerably. It was the first rough weather they had been called to face and the fierce, fiery storm showed the boat‘s quality for, slowed down a little, she rode like a seagull. Ten men manned her and the voyagers had made good friends with most of them. to New Zealand, but seen no sail; while that followed by vessels running between Salina Cruz and Melbourne and Sydney, lay yet far ahead of them. "Best," said Jane, "I love Costa and the cook; but only because they know English, more or less. I should like the rest just as much, for they are most engaging and kind; but we can‘t understand each other Carlos PaZ may not be so wise as he looks, but probably he is. Engineers are generâ€" ally pretty deep." Felice continued to be enigmatic; but then it seemed that the black monkey haunting his shoulders sudâ€" denly departed and he became more like himself. Three days later they awoke to their supreme experience, and out of the brief blaze of a setting sun came a eood landfall at last. Captain Costa called them up to his little bridge, swept off his cap., and paointed into the sunset. "vour island, lady and gentlemen!" he said, as though he were a conjurer and had just summoned Tabletop from the depths of the Pacific. CHAPTER X ARE THEY SIGNALS? The island looked like a small black crawling with lifted horns along the edge of a purple sea. . But above the twin peaks that ascended to the south there hung a heavy cloud of vapour spreading fanwise and dimming the of the western sky. The watchers exclaimed at the minute size of the place, but Captain Costa reâ€" minded them that it was still fiveâ€" andâ€"twenty miles distant. "It is small without doubt," he said., "Perhaps seven or eight of your Engâ€" lish miles long. Save where the mounâ€" tain ascends to its summit, the place is not more than three or four hundâ€" red feet above sea level:; but the great plateau, that made Benny give the Night quickly hid Tabletop, but sigâ€" nificant phenomena attended the darkâ€" ness, The island revealed its own pharos, for, like some lighthouse might lie uplifted, a dull red glare outlined the crown of the crater when night fell. It was no steadfast solitary gleam, but a pervasive glow cast up from the imme to it, is higher than the rest. That is where the smoke rises, and you are looking at a burning mountain. , ONTARIO Then came dawn. Stars and flameâ€" light from earth alike vanished and the squat island stood revealed as the sun climbed swiftly into heaven,. All the travellers came on deck at dawn to find their ship at anchor a couple of miles from shore, and the first thing they noted was a sulphurous tang in the morning air. A dense black cloud capped the tableland and threw curious shadows upon the plain table beneath; but the sun penetrated its fringes and revealed the formation of the islet. Everything above sea level appeared to be black or heavy green, save where her peaks and crags ascended and shone palely gold in the morning light. "All cinders and pumice and heaped up lava,‘‘ said Felice, "Just a spot of drvy mud on the nozzle of hell." The Iguana slowed down and crept forward through the nocturnal hours, as she approached, the inner blaze from Tabletop‘s cup of fire burned brighter. black earth into the starry skyâ€"a light such as blazes from the furnace door door when it is flung open. Air more fiery than any they had yet breathed drifted to them from the land, and Tom noted it. "This is going to be a Turkish bath," he said. "The heat ashore must be terrific; but we‘re tuned up to high temperatures iby this time. Only we shan‘t feel tremendously energetic when we land." black. Beyond the forest, ruled in harsh, stark line across the rising ground, was a band that marked the end of any vegetation; but while beneath it the green persisted, growing denser as it reached sea level, above it only livid crags and precipices Of volcanic rock arose to the central tableland of the island. Maine judged the crater to be four miles in diameter. "A tremendous vapour rises out of it," he said, after a survey through Coâ€" sta‘s telescope, "but there‘s no lava moving on this side anyway. It may have a vent to the westward." 4 "There must plenty of water," deâ€" clared Tom. "Lock at that sheet of vegetation where the forest runs east to the brink of the sea." The forest spread over the entire eastern fringes of the island in one unâ€" iform sheet of sulky green touched here and there with colour. It extendâ€" ed to within a hundred yards of the "Water no doubt," said Angus, ‘but it will be hotâ€"how hot we don‘t know. Old Pedro Floris said the water under the woods was wholesome but not cold," "There are birds anywayâ€"I can see them with the naked eye," said Jane. "So they must be pretty big. And I believe they‘re yellow." . They spent that day in cruising slowâ€" ly around the varied shores of Tableâ€" top.. The prevailing, silence of the islet impressed Jane and also depressed her. "The yellow birds on the tops of ‘the trees flit about slowly. but they are dumb," she said. "Everything seems to be dumb and silent, as if invisible life was listening and hiding and hardâ€" ly daring to move." "I will fire a gun," answered Pardo He fetched a rifle and fired towards the land. The explosion woke sharp echoes from the cliffs. A cloud of large birds rose above in 110CK (O5CLULICL, aJRC yellow mist, across the green foliage. Then they sank down again without utâ€" tering any sort of call or cry. 4 * _ "They look like pigeons but must be as big as peacocks," said Jane. Soon they went below for the noonâ€" day meal and something to drink. But they were quickly on geck again and all desirous to land. Tom, however, stuck to his intentions. ow Cw EC They looked to land, but it was now past noon and Tom directed that a complete circuit of the island should be made and any nearer approath postâ€" poned till the following day. He told the captain of his purpose 'and- Costa trusted that they would ‘make no long stay. "I am not very happy," he explained "because the glass does curious things, and though no threat is visible upon "Wel just get a clear idea of the hang of the place," he said, "and drop anchor when we come abreast of the gorge. My only fear is that the heat ashore is going to knock us out." "To work by night will be best, once we locate the cache," thought Pardo. The gorge musts con show up.. ‘ As they steamed slowly west, a chasim opened in the low precipices and a black pathway penetrated amid the ovâ€" erhanging rocks. It struck into the heart of the hills and was quickly lost us rctadiie TeE under their shadow. Above it towered the volcanic crags and from its depth there came a definite sound At last. Through the cleft, at intervals of about five minutes, burst a hollow hissing rattle that rose to rOT, bellowed like a steam hooter then sank away into silence only to break out again a little later. \ 4 6 "That‘s the geyser," said Angus, just the row a geyser would make.‘ They took soundings every few minâ€" utes and crept inshore. Then a steam became visible emerging from the cleft and running out to Sea, while steam hung over its passage. _2 L e CC "There‘s one bright thing about the ghastly hole," said Tom. "Whatever made, Benny call it "Maneater Gorge" hnas long since cleared out, else we should see the signs. We shall probabâ€" ly ibe the only living being to visit this godforgotten furnace since he did." "It‘s boil'mg Qnywéy," said Jane, ‘but probably no good for a cup of tea. You can smell the sulphur even out here." 8 â€"\Andvd;ben came a whiff of sulphurous heat from the shore that set their thoughts in a new channel. ‘Suppose we can‘t land at all?" askâ€" ed Angus. "It may be a case for gas masks, or something of that sort, we haven‘t got any with us." "The sulphur comes from the stream," answered Pardo. "If we keep clear of that boiling water, we may breathe all right. The treasure is at the geyser, and that cannot be very far."‘ and intervening space was cinder must be top towered above them in twin peaks | aAnd then, when the sun began to near the hnorizon and shoot final, dazâ€" zling rays upon the islands face, a (by James W. Barion, M.D.) strange and startling thing happened and all four of the watchers Xâ€"RAY BEST SINGLE TREAT eously marked it. MENT FOR ACNE â€" PIMPLES Already the base of the great clifts had lost the sun and a dark shadow I write frequently about acneâ€"pim began to creep up from the sea level to | this skin eruption occur began to creep up from the sea level to hide the land, but still the upper crags and turrets shone red as blood, and while the "Iguana" moved slowly south a great plane of the cliffs was opened revealing something new. Upon this region appeared a definite design that, at first glance, could only have been placed there by man‘s hand Two, great, eightâ€"pound stars were sei aloft in perfect alignment. Even at the distance of half a mile they apâ€" peared of no great size, but the regulâ€" larity of their shape indicated plan and purpose. They stood out very clearly twin stars, pitch black in colour against their sunâ€"lit back ground and visible to any eye. â€" Costa joined them while they stared and soon shared their astonishâ€" ment. But he expressed no doubt as to what they saw. 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