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Lafter the first freshness. and relief, Sonia found the season extremely disâ€" agreeable. She went out as much asg she ccuid on the muddy broken roads to look at the cultivation. There were ma.ny days cf pouring rain, when she could only watch it gradually submergâ€" ing the countryside. The sunny days made the air like a Turkish bath. Patches of bright green fungus apâ€" peared on the outer walls of the bunâ€" galow, clothes smelt horrible, and grew mould overnight. In the evening hordâ€" es of fiying insects fAluttered round the Ooil Jamps, fell in one‘s soup and down the back of one‘s dress. The broken roads and swollen rivers cut neighbours off from each cother. Philip Brierly had been spending many spare moâ€" ments at Mynpore lately, and without his visits life seemed very monctonous. She was increasingly worried about Mr. Gedge, who had beeon having regâ€" ular attacks of low fever, which nothâ€" ing seemed to check. He did not take much notice of them, but was beginnâ€" ing to look drained and exhausted. CHAPTER XII GOLD HAIR IN MOOXNLIGHT A: the rains wore on, Nursingh Lal, wagging his head with satisfaction, quoted to Sonia a Behari proverb: "If the west wind blows in early August, rice will grow even behind your hearth." +â€"west wind was blowing, and everyâ€" one was content. Almos all the rain of ‘the year foll between June and Ocâ€" tober,‘ and the next year‘s prosperity depended on it. Ssonia took advantage of a dry interâ€" val to ask Dr. Bluett out. ‘"The quinine he‘s taking is getting him down as much as the malaria," he told her. "If I can persuade him, why not com»e to us for at leass a long weekâ€"end. A change, even a few miles away, might do the trick. ‘We‘ll exâ€" pect you toâ€"morrow." Mr. Gedge was too tired of feeling ill to refuse a possible remedy. He and Sonia arrived next day at the Bluetts to find Mrs. Bluett wading as usual in Mailtese pocodles, delighted to see them, but apologetic. Dr. Bluett had entirely forgotten that they w@re having the Piggotts that weekâ€"end. There hadn‘t been time to let Sonia know, and, anyâ€" way, Mr. Brierly wanter her and Gedge to stay with him instead. LATIMER, having lost her parents in India, was brought to Engâ€" land as a child by her uncle and aunt and left in the charge of her schoolmistresses. JUSTIN GEDGE: Her uncle, a planter in Beéhar, India. EMILY GEDGE: Her aunt. RONNIE EASTWOOD: A captain in the Indian Army, who meets Sonia on her voyvage to India to stay with the Gedges. PHILIP BRIERLY :A Deputy_Commissioner of the Indian Civil Service, stationed at Siswa, in Behar. The characters in this story are entirely imaginary, No reference is inâ€" tended to any living person or to any public or private company. PUBLISHED BY sSPECIAL ARRANGEVMENT Anuthor of "STRANXGER THANX NA T ION AL WAR LABOUR HE ATTENTION of all employers in Canada, subject to the. Wartime Wages Control Order 1943 (P.C. 9384), is directed to the provisions of the Order requiring them to establish for each of their occupational classifications, not above the rank of foreman, a single wage rate or range of wage rates as prescribed by the rules set out in Schedule "A" of the Order by adding to the previous authorized single wage rate or previous aguthorized range of wage rates the amount of previous authorized cost of living bonus, and that such established single wage rate or range of wage rates shall be effective for the first payroll period beginning on or after February 15, 1944. Employers who may not be paying previous authorized cost of living bonus as required by General Orders of the National War Labour Board, issued under dates of August 4, 1942, and Novemâ€" ber 3, 1943, pursuant to the provisions of the Wartime Wages Control Order, P.C. 5963, are required to include such amounts of cost of living bonus in the establishment of wage rates of their employees under P.C. 9384 effective for the first payroll period begianing on or after February 15, 1944, as stated. Ottawa, Canada ONIA GOEKS EASI Incorporation of Cost of Living Bonus into Wage Rates PRIXCIPAL CHARACTERS By MOLLY THORP NATIONAL WAR LABOUR BOARD FICTIONX," "WHY BE AFRAID®" Etc, ‘ "‘That was lovely," she said, Ttather ‘expecting encouragement. "I was afraid he‘d go faster if T came up behind you," said Philip. "With ithe road as slippery as this, T congratuâ€" ‘late you both on being the right side _It was easy to talk in that quietness and easy to be silent. Sonia, at twontyâ€" four, was fairly familiar with the effect on young, and not so young men of her blue eyes and pale gold hair in moonâ€" light. Philip kept it severely out of his conversation.. Because he felt her loveâ€" liness, he expected the more of her. It was worth while to be at one‘s best with him. He took her for an early ride round the lake on Sunday morning. rode the quieter o0‘ his two ponies, who was by no means so passive at the Macâ€" farlane‘s Ali Baba, and took accidental digs in the ribs as a welcome sign for breaking into canter. Sonia found his canter easy and began to enjoy herâ€" self. After a prolonged scamper, she gradually persuaded him to walk, while Philip caught her up. Mr. Gedge was Seeling better, and after the weekâ€"end, he and Sonia went to the ‘Bluetts for a fsw days. The friendliness of everyone in the little station was very pleasant and Sonia was much relieved to see Uncle Justin picking up. She went back Seecling able to face with equanimity the last few weeks o‘ the rains. THE EARTH SWAYED The cold weather set in, fresh and sparkling. A very busy time began in the factory. The rice crop was good and harvest time coming. Sonia‘s z°aâ€" lous supervision had put some life into the work. The place looked tidier. The carts and gear were in good repair, and the draught bullocks in condition for the work of harvest. The factory acâ€" counts were beginning to balance themâ€" selves. Sonia cherished a scheme for ~ **Look at Matty," he ~remarked, at lunch. ."She always goes on like that when a storm‘s coming." "It aoesn‘t feel in the least like it," said Sonia. "No. She usually knows, though." He went out into the compound after lunch and Sonia sat down in her own room to write letters Suddeniy her chair seemed to heave. Looking round "I hate giving you up to him," she said, "but he didn‘t even pretend to be sorry for me. Very selfish I call that, don‘t yvou, Sonia?" a small sugarâ€"cane contract with th Shahdia Mill for next year. A day came in January which began just like other days, clear and sunny. The only unusual circumstance that Ssonia could remember afterwards was the restlessiness of Uncle Justin‘s foxâ€" terrier. Philip‘s bungalow had a wide terrace at one end, from which a broad flight of steps descended into the lake. If there was any bresze it could be felt there, cooled by the water. Mr. Gedge was not well enough for people to be asked to dine, and went to bed early. Phillip and Sonia had their coffee on the terrace and sat talking and watchâ€" ing the moonlight coming and going on the lake. Sshe and Uncle Justin spent Christâ€" mas with Philip. The time was too gay for them to see much ¢of each other, but those evenings in the rains had brought their friendship to a stage in which it was pleasant to drift. C. P. McTAGUE, Chairman She secrambled out someh debris and struggled to ke The whole great house was an ark on the sea. The coolies gave anoth jumped away is a huge lapart the lawn where the column of mud and wa llike a geyser. |landir I read iront Ccrumpied up, bringing daown tae roof with a crash, at her feet. The coolies who had been working in the garden were running about, shoutâ€" ing some word sh> didn‘t know. One of them caught sight of her and yelled, "@uickly, Missahib. Come out! Come out!" to think of Siswa with its crowded Inâ€" dian quarter of â€"brick houses. It hardâ€" ly occurred to her to fear for Philip. sh> thought of him working as she was working. .On the third day, a plane appeared cver Mynpore, circled, and landed on the grass stretch near the river. Airâ€" craft were still myths to the peasants. The whole neighbouring population dropped its tool and ran to the scene. Ssonia and Uncle Justin following met the pilot walking up the avenue. Noâ€" thing could surprise them now. "Are you all right? I‘ve got some medical stores if nesd them. I wias His calmness made Hosain realze that his own turban was half off his head. He straightened it and began calling the name:; of all whose housts had fallen. As they answered, they came crowding round. Even the childâ€" ren were quiet. All the patient, frightâ€" ened eyes wore on Mr. Gedge. He looked round them, and picke out the old mali, an habitual grumbler, now too dazed to complain. "Sudan! For how many years have you told me you wanted a new house? Now you will have one." PHILLIP‘S ROMANTIC MESSAGE In that day and the days following, Sonia saw what Uncls Justin was. His calm and his disregard for material The whol walls grcan rocked und she way. As front crum IIKG a SeVysEet. Staggering rcund came up against I shouted to each ott Sahib?" They were acor of his room. H for it. Sonia saw, ju sagginz, and haulkd arm, asjit fell in. Sh that Uncle Justin ha office, and she, too, n the trees that had 1 With a shock of ri coming towards her, and on> of the peo the office was a ‘he bullocks had got loo peding senselessly stuck out. Some o6f were running and round them up: round them up: ‘"‘Thank God, you dear," sair Uncle Jus! ment, not an excl nothing only a knocl a falling beam. Ts e vou know?" They hurried towards the back of the houss, where a crowd of servants and their wives and children were standing, looking holpleSLIy at their collapsed houses. The g1ound was settling with a few quivers. Streams of mud cozed from wide cracks. Hosain cam> riunning and fell on his knees at Uncle Justin‘s feet, with his fcrehead to the ground. "By God‘s mercey, you are Huâ€" zoor. All is destroyed." ‘"‘"Come on, Hosain," said Uncle Jus,â€" sent coinmne damage Latime! for vou get to yC tor here Whil What | Rather table Philip al stores ip from from Sis Oll mease write me a line. I can‘t till things are a bit straighâ€" e peons. neyond Them, a heap of debris, The ot and were stamâ€" essly with their tails ne of the factory coolies and shouting, trying to made Hosain realize rban was half off his htened it and began :: of all whose housts they answered, they und. Even the childâ€" All the patient, frightâ€" she knew before shel'}‘. bazaa 1¢ _ â€"the house, Sonia Hosain, and they her, "Where is the e near the outer Hosain made a dash ust in time, the roof d him back by the he remembered then ad gone towards the made for it, dodging fallen on the path. relief she saw ‘him , with Nursingh Lal ons. Beyvond them, tin making a stateâ€" lamation. ‘"No, its ‘k on my arm from outside, do i‘ there‘s a likely r Dumraon? I‘m d eventually back ke any letters Oof he almost fell erandah doorâ€" . the pillars in ring down the have noyw fissut w over th p her feet W taAae serâ€" rom the a t2nts, i at the . Sonia 0d hot 11 THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TTMMIN® lot of ' z Miss letter and toreé like | .m\x\“sxsxflx\x\\\\\\\\'\\\\\\\x\\'\\‘\‘\xsxmsxxsxxss On â€" Saturday afternoon, February lith, 1934, Chief Rich called five of the police force to him and informed them that their services would be required no longer and that he was following the plan adopted some weeks ago when the resignations of all members of the force were required to asisist in the easior reâ€"organization of the town police. When asked for a reason for the dropâ€" ping of the five members of the force, Chief Rich‘s reply was to the effect that they did not fit in with his plans for reâ€"organization. He told the five that he would be pleased to give them reâ€" ferences as to their ability in case they wished this in looking for other places. The following announcement apâ€" peared in The Advance ten years ago: No one you know here is hJ bungalow is mostly in the lake for my successors, but with the of you on the terrace in moonl got the best of it. That‘s a | from you. Philip." She looked up and remembered t offer the pilot another cup of tea. "The note was from Philip Brierl Uncle Justin. He says things are goin on all right." peared in The Advance ten years ago "Major L. Ursaki, recently appointec Division Commander for the North and Midâ€"Ontaria Division of the Salvatior Army, will visit Timmins, Saturday an Sunday, February 24th and 25th. _ 4 lantern service will be given by th Major on Saturday evening at 8.09 p.m to which all young people are ‘invited On Sunday, 11 am., 3 p.m. for people, and}7 p.m. special meetings wil be conducted by the Major. Everybodj is welcome." She did not say, "He says he rememâ€" bers m> in the moonlight. It took an earthquake to make him say It." 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Heffernan d in ronto where he 21st, illness of Mrs. . nard pleased to knoy very is making prog Automobile Insurance t10 the be bri is making p Hoffernan ha still confined place Hail( town wservice aerâ€"inâ€" nouncn mhrey 1 To Bring Into the Open Proâ€" blems as They May Bear on Each Particular Region 4| Ahe m her a A pI Ves h ional Selective Service Advisory s, designed to facilitate the reâ€" operations of Naticnal Selective e, have been established by Orâ€" â€"‘Council, according to an anâ€" ment made today by Hon. Humâ€" Mitchell, Minister of Labour.s here Mr. Galbraith will carry in ofession in the mining line. Mr. irs. Galbraith have made many s in town and district during their ce here, and will be much missed al and other circles, espscially in i sport in which Mr. Galbraitn oth enthusiastic and efficient." Heffernan has returned from Toâ€" where he was called owing to the of Mrs. Heffernan. . All will be d to know that Mrs. Heffernan king progress to recovery. Mrâ€" nan has also been ill, but while mnfined to the house, is also makâ€" agress to recovery." "The fiags c buildings and other places in re at halfâ€"mast toâ€"day as A f respect to the late King Alâ€" Belgium whose funeral took â€"day.‘ "Myrs. W. R. Lowery, of iry, was the guest last week of K. Massie and other friends in "John Mortenson, i3 years old, byâ€" a car while crossing the schumacher last night and had resent Ordsr provides Boards ish Columbia, the 'ljrairie Proâ€" Ontario and Quebec. A fifth ill be sot up later in the Mariâ€" t] .. ..l .‘ 0‘0 .t .. * i t AA AAQBA it ts ) $ 91¢ {from the base radio section looking ahead. Last week rl in her early teens, gave 1. and said, "Call me up 19". â€" The Flieder, Stout 1i a small cash box inâ€" hether the burglar was it is a fact that the estigating the robbery i on the floor not far where the money had dropped aifter the box The burglary wns the baker want on ity and he notified the stigation was at once No # 00. o eA l.O ... .0 0.. .. 11 TVMMIXS, ONT, EasternPorcupine Branch of Red Cross Shipped 2,214 Articles Last Month ! â€" Last June on the King‘s birthday, the !O.B.E.. was conferred upon Jack Mineéer \by King George VI but‘ his ensignia [and warrant of appointment arrived ‘just recently. The ensignia is of solid gold hung on a light salmon ribbon and the Warrant of Anpointment reads: George the Sixth by the grace of God and Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the seas, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India and Sovâ€" ereign of The Most Excellent Orâ€" der of the British Empire to our trusty and well beloved JOHN THOMAS MINER ESQUIRE GREETING Whereas we have thought fit to mnominate and appoint you to be an additional O©fficer of the civil division of our said most excellent Crder of the British Empire, we do by thess presents grant unto you the dignity of an additional officer of ‘our said Order and hereby authorize you to have, hold and enâ€" joy the said dignity and rank of an additonal officer of our aforesaid Order, together with all and sinâ€" gular the privileges thereunto beâ€" longing and appertaining e U T n _ Special Emergency Appeal Made for Turtlieneck Sweaters This Month. Work Convener Hopes that Branch Will be Able to Meet the Quota. New Directions for Makâ€" ing Sweaters. South Porcupine, Feb. 23rd,. â€" Special to The Advance. Shipment for January from Eastern Porcupine District Branch, South Porâ€" cupine, Ontarioâ€"2,214 articles. Knittingâ€"142 articles Sewingâ€"268 articles Dres:ingsâ€"1,800 articles Quiltsâ€"4 «articles. Warrant of Appointment _ ; Received by Jack Miner Kingsville, Ont., Feb. 16â€"Little did Jack Miner‘s friends realize. in 1994, when he started his worldâ€"{famous Bird Sanctuary, that before he died he would be rated as Canada‘s best known private citizen and receive recognition from the Roval Family of England. $00004000000000000000000000000000 8000040680006 6 00000000. MONKEY BUSTINESS Employment Agent â€" What is your occupation? Applicant â€" I used to be an organist. Employment Agent â€" And why did you give it up? Applicant â€" The monkey died CGlobe and Mail. “““WWOOO“O“Q““”““OOOQQQO)Q00000“ Langdon Langdon MacBrien Bailey 21 Third Avenmue JAMES R. MacBRIFEN FRANK IH. BAILEY, LLB. Given at our Court of .Saint James‘s under our Sign Manual and the seal of our said Order this second day of June, 1943 in the seventh year of our reign. By the Sovereign‘s Command (Signed by) Mary R. Grand Master. George R. I. Grant of the dignity of an addiâ€" tional Officer of the Civil Division of the Order of The British Emâ€" pire to John Thomas Miner, Esâ€" quire. BARRISTERS and SOLICTITORS Dean Kester, K.C. John W. Fogg, Limited YARD sCHUMACHER PHONE 725 Barrister, Solicitor, Etc. Bank of Commerce Building Timmins, Ont. $. A. Caldbick Barristers, Solicitors, Etc. MASSEY BLOCK TIMMINS, ONT. and South Porcupine Barristerâ€"atâ€"I1 Lumber, Cement, Building Material, Coal and Coke, Mine and Mill Supplies TVMMINXS 1JEAD OFFICE YARD BRANCH OFFICE TIMMINS . KIRKLAND LAKE PHONE 117 PHONE 393 «14 â€"‘») 4 large Totalâ€"4 articles A special bulletin has been received asking for turtleneck siweaters. These sweaters are urgently needed, and this branch has been asked to make as many as possible. This is an emergency quota. The suggestion has been made that parts of these be done by more than one person and then assembled. Our Knitting Committee hopes that this branch will be able to handle our quotia. The sweaters are made of heavy wool on large needles. New directions are now available. (signed)â€"Florence M. Dye, Work Convensr. 1 girls‘ sweat 2 girls‘ swoeat 4 girls‘ sweat 1 pair mitts 3 boys‘ scarvt 1 pair socks Totalâ€"12 art 5 wash cloths (knitted) 4 hot water bag covers Totalâ€"75 articles Civilian 35 pairs boys‘® long trousers, 10 yvears 40 women‘s skirts, size 18 70 girls‘ pinafore dresses, 6 years 20 girls‘ blouses, 6 years 10 women‘s blouses, size 18 18 baby nightgowns Totalâ€"193 articles Compresses 23 PAalrs! 3 scarves 5 tose caps 1 ribbed helmet Totalâ€"32 article 1,800 compresses Totalâ€"1800 articles Quilts Knitting Quotaâ€"seamen 23 turtleneck sweaters 43 pairs 18" ribbed socks 18 pairs 26" ribbed stockings 14 ribbed helmcots Totalâ€"12 articles sewing Quotaâ€"Hospital 25 bed jackets 18 dressing gowns 23 pillow cases Phones: Offices Arch.:Gillies,B.A.Scâ€",0.L.8. Want Normal Pep, Vim, Vigor? P.O. Box 1591 46 Fourth Ave CRECORY T. EVANS, B. A. Swiss Watchmaker Graduate of the Famous Horologhal Institute of Switzerland Thone 1365 Building Plans 23 Fourth Ave., P. H. 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