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She ren'x‘aned standing there in the water for a while, a prey to black despair, and then she slowly turned and made her‘ w'ay with ‘dragging steps back to the beach. She was facing the worst now, for all hope had died within her. She had no vestige of faith in Becker‘s promise that he would arrange for help to be sent. It seemed in the last degree unâ€" likely that he would give them anâ€" other thought when once he got safeâ€" ly away with his spoils. And as no one else knew where they were, the future held only the grim prospect of ia linzerng death by hunger or thirst. f It was a hideaus thought, but oddly enought the full realization of her desperate plight had the effect of reâ€" viving her flagging courage to some exâ€" tent. Its very finality called forth a kind of despairing spark of resolution, and as she walked slowly up the beach towards the first sand ridge, she even felt dimly ashamed of her late outâ€" burst of hysteria. It was a bitter reâ€" flection that their high hopes should end in such a fashion, but now that things had come to this pass, she found herselif begnning to face the facts with a certain calmness and deâ€" tachment. She ran down the beach crying out hy:terically, and came only to a halt when she was standing kneeâ€"deep in the water, but the launch continued on its way steadily, diminishing in size with every minute as its powerful enâ€" gine drove it southward. She continued to wave and cry out to the men for some little while, reâ€" fusing to ‘adimit to" herself that her efforts were utterly unavailing; but gradually the futility of hoping that they would turn back was borne in upon her, and she fell silentâ€"gazing blankly and hopelessly at the fast reâ€" ceding boat. _ They had goneâ€" and she was left alone with a dead man and her sorely stricken father for company! The next moment she was flying down the sandy slope to the beach, waving frantically to the distant launch. "Come back!" she called ingly.. "Come back for God‘s swke!: You can‘t leave us like this! You can‘t!" Cl B h e eE Ec SE CC "Daddy!" she exclaimed, as she daropped to her knees beside him. "Are youâ€"are you feeling better?" He looked up at her face vacantly for some moments, and then she saw a faint light of recognition come into his eyves. "Lucy!" he breathed, scarcely above a whisper. "I‘ve been â€" wanting you. ‘The sunâ€"draw the blinds." She half turned and looked down into the vailley where the two prone fizgures lay and her nerve broke. He had addressed her by her mother‘s name,. and she looked down at him with a sinking heart. "It‘s Diana, Daddy," she said, movyâ€" ing so that her shadow fell across ng s3 his face 'Hir:-. mouth was curiously distorted as he spoke,. and the words were mumbed "It‘s Diana, Daddy," she said, movyâ€" ing so that her. shadow fell across his face. "Your daughter, Diana." "Diana,." he repeated vacantly. And then with a feebie flicker of impatience. "Never mind ‘bout the child now: Wife‘s firs‘ duty to husizand. Tell khidmutgar bring me whiskyâ€"peg!" PUBLISHED BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Bargain Coach excursion tlickets will be valid on Train 46, Thursday, Decembtr 12%th. Passengers will arrange their own transfer to North Bay C. P. Depot and take C.P. Train N#Q. 8 leaving 12%2.55 a.m. Friday, Tickets are valid to return leaving destination point not later than C€. P. Train No. % from Montreal 8.15 pm. Sunday, Dicember 1ith, to connect at North Bay with our train No. 4%, Monday, December 16th, 1940 December 13th, 1940 Children 5 yvears of age and under 1%, when accompanied by guardian INALE FARE Tickets good in Coaches Only From T. N. 0. and N. C. R. Regular Stations To embroke, Renfrew, Arnprior, Ottawa, Ontarioâ€" Montreal, Quebec, Trois Rivieres, Quoebec Tickets will not be honored on Trains 49 and 50â€"The "Nerthland" BARGAIN COACH EXCURSION Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway The Nipissing Central Railway Company Thursday, December 12th For Further Particulars Apply to Local Agent #r2~â€"A7 Sydney Parkman "I‘ve goi somethingâ€"yes,"‘ he said.[ "It isn‘t much, but it‘s something. I, gave them the description of this fellow , ‘with whom Major Salter was seen to; spend yesterday afternoon, and they 'promptly started asking me questionsz!' It seems they‘re anxious to meet him on their own account, for he was one of a party of four men who stole a motor launch from over in Banes Bay , learly this morning. â€" Naturally, they ; She remained crouched at his side, shifting her position occasionally to prevent the rays of the sun reéaching his face, and after the first shock of the discovery she hardly knew whether ta be‘ "glad or sorry that the had far recovered from the blow that had felled him. For it was obvious that it had left him completely paralysed down the one side of his body â€" and it was equally clear ‘that his brain was serlously affezcted. "No: and that seems to upset your theory, doesn‘t it?" the Consul said. "It shows he‘s a crook all right, but I can‘t see that it links up with the disappearâ€" ance of the siloop at all!" "But I‘m dead certain there‘s some connection if we could onlyâ€"â€"" Toby began. Then he stopped short, staring ntently at the Consul, as another thought entered his head. "Look here! wWas this launch a seaâ€"going affair?" he demanded. f "All right, deéar," she said in a mufâ€" fed voice, and she soaked her handâ€" kerchief with tepid water from the can and squeezed the moisture out beâ€" tween his lips. He choked a little over swallowing it, and almost immediately his eyes closed and he seemed to fall into a natural s{eep. so that she could hardly comprehend their meaning. s . ~â€"CHAPTER XXIII f _ WINGS® OF HOPE "Sorry to have kept you so long!" the Consul told them. breathlessly, as he closed the door of his office and went over to his desk. "But you know what it is dealing with Cubans, don‘t you, Padre?" s 'i?he Consul subsided into his chair and fanned himself with his blotting pad. "Yes, quite a biggish cabin cruiser," the other answered. "I know her quite well. â€" She belongs to an American living here, and she was moored off the Yacht Club jetty. It seems these four fellows d@rove over there in a taxi loaded up with cans of gasoline, and they actually got the watchman to ferry them out in his dinghy." "A mighty slow business!" . Father Maloney agreed gazing at him expectanly. "But ye‘ve got something?" wanted to kn in him and â€" "This morning!" Toby exclaimed. "Here, in Antilla? Then he couldn‘t have been aboard the sloop!" ‘I think I se the gatme now!" Toby exclaimed jumping suddenly to his feet. "When did this happen?" "About nine o‘clock this morning," the Consul said, staring at him. "But what 2" "Nine o‘clock!" Toby groaned. "And here we‘ve been wasting all this time in useless inquiries along the coast! Why didn‘t we know this before?" "Now wait a minute, me boy!" Father Maloney put it. "Easy does it! I don‘t know what yve‘ve got in your head now. but we had to make those ing@uirâ€" ies, didn‘t we?" "Now listen, Father!" Toby said wWILh forced calm. ‘"We agreed yesterday, didn‘t we, that the chances were that the gang who murdered the Captain were now out to get this cash. They‘d got the position of the island, but they didn‘t know where the stuff was hidâ€" denâ€"and they staged that burglary in the hope of getting nold of the other half of the clue. Well, they failed there; so they had to think up something else. They‘d been keeping us under obserâ€" vation ever since we arrived in the country, and this one chap had alâ€" ready made contact with the Majorâ€" for I‘m pretty certain frota his deâ€" kn w w_hy I was interested No Baggage Checked ing on to that letter, and it‘s a safe bet thatt he Major wouldn‘t remember what was in it. But there‘s another fairly obvious way of working thingsâ€" !and that‘s by the old confidence trick. Supposing this bird announced that he had come into possesion of the secret of the island‘s position, and generously gives it to him. He‘ll have some exâ€" planation of how he came to know of it, of course, and he‘ll make it a condition that the Major is not to tell anyone else about it." Maloney interrupted him. "And why would he be doing that?" he exclaimed. "Wouldn‘t that be giving everything away?" "Well, is it?" Tony retorted. "LOok 6at the facts and see if you can explain ‘them any other way? There‘s the landâ€" ‘tlord‘s story of the old idiot‘s agitation when Diana didn‘t turn up to dinner; and the way he rushed her off for a moonlight . sail the moment she did appear! A moonlight sail!l I don‘t supâ€" pose it was part of his original plan ‘to take her at all, but when he found ‘that the clue only existed in her head he had to take her. And then, when !we pick up the trail of his mysterious [pal here,. it‘s to find that he‘s working ‘with a bunch of fellow toughs and they‘ve just stolen a seaâ€"going motor 'Iaanh! What for? You‘re not going to it-ell me that all this is just coincidâ€" ence, are you?‘ "I begin to think you‘re right!" the ilittle priest told him, with an expresâ€" sion of almost ludicrous dismay on his ‘chubby face. _ _"I sincerely hope you‘re not!" the Consul said emphatically. "I‘m thinkâ€" ing of Miss Saiter‘s poasition in that case. | | | i "Here‘s Antilla â€" and there‘s Carâ€" ‘bonaras. away to the east." _ . "Good!" Toby â€" returned, studying the chart intently. "Did I see a pair of compasses on your desk? Oh, thanks! : Now, what‘s the scale? All right, I can | work that out nearly enough. A degree ‘ of lonstitude is roughly sixty sea miles, t I * *# ‘isn‘t it? P seription he‘s the same merchant I saw him talking with in the hotel at Havâ€" ana. Yesterday he got hold of him againâ€"and you can imagine what hapâ€" pened. He‘s evidently got his confidâ€" ence, and no doubt he started by tryâ€" ing to get the information out of him direct. That wouldn‘t be any good, of course, for Diana was hangâ€" "Sso am I!" Tony interrupleu, here! have you got a map Or aA showing these waters. Between and the Bahamas, say?" "There‘s an Admiralty chart i next room," the Consul began. fetch it." And he rose and lei room. "No it wouldn‘t!" Toby told him. "It probably wouldn‘t be the right island anyway. But if it came off, it would ensure that the Major would be at this placeâ€"with the rest of the clueâ€"some "You mean that these toughs would then go to this placeâ€"wherever it isâ€" and help themselves to the other half of the clue by force?" the Consul sugâ€" gesited slowly. "Yes, I see the idea. But of course, that‘s only a theory, isn‘t it?" timse today getting at? He was AgdjuUstIng U he spoke, and a mome the point into the tilla and described a q1 in pencil, from north west of the port. "That‘ll do to Strt while the others Wi puzzled silence. ‘*NC one other point. You that launch that they nappen to know her 81 "Yes;; it‘s wDoul UWC knots." the Consul told ly. "Why?" "Say twelve then;". "That means it would least five hours to re on that pencilled lin« the fact that they‘d amount of time in get bay into open water is about right, I sh what does that give over the chart fC The little priest leaned down and studied the â€"chart shortâ€"sightedly. adjusting the compasses as and a moment later he dug into the spot marking Anâ€" escribed a quarter circle line ‘northâ€"east to northâ€" NP o to start with!" he said others watched him in nce. "nmow,. there‘s just point. You say YOU know that they stole? Do you now her speed?" â€" about twelve or thirteen Consul told him wandering Now do you see what I‘m Tony interrupted. "Look red at him uncompreâ€" then the consul said: you getting at? What sose they‘ve headed in Toby muttered. would take them at to reach any point ed lineâ€"allowing for nhey‘d lose a certain in getting out of the rater, and sixty milés I should think~ Now COPYRIGHT | chart in th@ began. "T‘ll and left the a chart 1 here THE PORCUPINE ADVANCTE, TTMMINS, ONTaARIO "Yes, but where does that get you?" 'the Consul asked doubtfully. "Even j supposing yOu are right, you‘re no nearâ€" knowing which particular cay he |vxsxted out of the hundréds of ‘¢@m 'thexe And in any case, it‘s too late to do anything atout it now. On your ‘own showing. these fellows would have arrived there somewhere around two "oclockâ€"â€"and it‘s nearly five now. Of 'comse I‘ll notify the authoritiese to lkeep a lookâ€"out for them .. .‘ ’ "Oh, never mind the authorities," | Toby interrupted with sudden harsh !1mpatlence "I‘m not interested in ‘them or the cursed money! It‘s Diana |I‘m thinking about! The odds) are that swine will have left her and her \father stranded on some ghastly sandâ€" ‘dump while they make their getaway, ‘and I‘ve got to get to her somehow!" ‘ "But how can you?" the Consul exâ€" I postulated, eyeing him sympathetically ‘"I appreciate how you‘re feeling, but what can we do? I could arrange to ‘have a boat sent out there, but it‘ll be idark in little more than an hour, and couldH‘t do anything till morning. Archbishop of Moosonee Guest of Honor at South PorcupineChurch Supper q cocs o on n South Porcupine, Dec. 7. Special to He spoke of his work among the The Advance. * | Indians and gave a few stories, some The anniversary supper (fifteenth) humâ€"crous, conserning his early work held by the congregation of S; Paul‘s among thom fifty years ago. The anniversary supper (fifteenth) held by the congregation of S; Paul‘s in the Parish hall on Wednesday last was attended by nearly a hundred parâ€" ishioners. His Grace the Archaishop of Mcosonee, Metropolitan of Ontario, was guest of honour on this occasion. A bountiful repast. cocked by the men of the church and served by memâ€" bers of the AY.P.A. was enj;syed by all. Dr. B. H. Harper acted as chairâ€" man and introduced Archdeacon Woodâ€" all, who, in a short address introduced the Archbishop. As Bishop Anderson His Grace has often addressed the congregation of S‘%. Paul‘s, but this was his first speech at an anniversary, since his accession to dirnity. He gave a short history ¢f the Anâ€" glican Church in S.. Porcupine, and referred to all the ministers from early daysâ€"Mr. Wilfred Trivett (now orâ€" dained and in Montréal), Rev. Wakeâ€" field, Mr. Brtwn (1914), Mr. A. H. Acland, Mr. T. Jones, Mr. J. J. Callan, Mr. A. Marchant (now ordained and living in Gateshead, Northumberland, England) Archdeacon Woodall took over the duties as rect>r in 1920 from Porquis Junction and has resided here for six yvears. ‘"But how can you?" postulated, eyeing him "I appreciate how yo what can we do? I C "Never mind about a boat!" Toby cut in, turning to him. . "That‘s no good, anyway. But what sort of a pull have you got with local flying crowd?" "I mean that I want a machneâ€"now! And I‘m prepared to buy, beg, borrow or steal it!" Toby told him curtly, "What you do about it?" (To be Continued) The first Church was buillt here durâ€" ing Mr. Trivelt‘s curacy, but the first Anglican Church in camp was burned down in Golden City in the fire of 1911. He referred also to many of the wardens whs> gave noteworthy service: J. Boyle and G. Brooks, C. B. Morgan, H. Warren and H. Wilkins, W. Freeâ€" man and W. Pairhurs:, T. Neil and Maxwellâ€"Smith. $ “Tfie local fiying crowd?" the Consul echoed, staring at hm. 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Come in today. _â€". _He told of an old savage Chief at _Lac Seul who was chief of a tribe of pagan Indians, and who was an Cbject of fearful interest to young missionâ€" aries. This story was told in sconnecâ€" titcn with reference t> long and short ‘texts for sermons. In one instance, he said, he took a long text but the choice | was not his In visiting this district, said the bis‘m:p, he was taking a cup | of tea with a friend, when in walked [ the old chief who told him all was : ready. "You are in for it now," cheerâ€" \ fully remarked the friend, and the ;young missionary meekly fcllowed the ‘ old chap, in trepidation. There was no iwel(:ome from the band of Redskins, no smileâ€"they were seated and waitâ€" ing fr him. ; Thrusting a bible into his hands i(ma.ny young ministers had tried to Christianize the TChief, hence the book) ! the old man said "Come and tell us gwhat is in big book from beginning to en(c‘‘~â€" ! "That," said the bishop, "was the ;longest, text l‘ ever took." He gave a 2'talk, was well received, and parted the ‘ best of friends,. Unfortunately, the old chief later died a pagan. To be ‘Candleâ€"Light Service by Y. P. U. at South Poreupme After the opening hymn the presiâ€" dent led in the discussicn of business. It was decided to change the night of meeting to Monday, commencing on Dec. 9th. It was hoped to increase the attendance by this change. The comâ€" mittes in charge of reading plays stated that they would have: a report in the near future. A special Christmas proâ€" gramme will be put on at the Decemâ€" ber 16th meeting which will be in charge of Ken Davis. The president then turned the meeting over to Mr. Lyvttle, who took charge of the election The regular weekly meeting of the United Church Young People‘s Union was held in the church on Wednesday evening, President Trueblood in charge. Hon.~ President (Pastâ€" Presidént)â€" Jerry Trueblood. Presidentâ€"Ken Davis Viceâ€"presidentâ€"Elmer Williams secretaryâ€"Gladys Stitt A ~"Candleâ€"Light" service is to be held on Sunday at the United church at which installatizcn of officers of the Y.P.U. is to take place. This will be the first time such a ceremony has â€"f officers. Following are the results whith will comprise the 1941 executive C:mmunity singing, solos by Mrs. W. H. Johns and Mr. Billings, finished the evening. His Grace the Archbishop was the guest of Archdeacon and Mrs. J. E. Woodall during his stay. taken place here Ssouth Porcupine, Dec. 7th. Special to The Advance. Officers to be Installed at Ceremony. Santa says: "Make the whole family happy with a _ this Christmas G E NERAL â€" EL EC T R1C b.\.\\" . ‘ 448 48 % * a 4* Barnett. ___. Christian Pellowship â€" convener â€" Wynne Appleby. 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