Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 102, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 September 1923 — Page 8

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BEGIN HERE TODAY Ned Comet jc>€6 ou a voyage to northern Canada and Alaska to ex change two thousand silk and velvet gowns with the Indians for line furs. Ned is accompanied by his fiancee, hrnore Hardenw-irth. and the later s mother. Bes Gilbert goes as seam stress. The crew consists of Captain Kmitzen and his asistams. McNab and Forest. Lenore and her mother suffer front the increasing cold because they are unsuitably clothed for a sea voyage. The craft runs into a gale and because he is imbibing too freely of liquor, the captain becomes an unsafe guide. Bess and McNab steal into Ned’s cabin and confiscate his remaining stock of liquor. This they throw overboard and when Ned goes to replenish his supply for himself and guests he suspects Bess. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY ti, 'SUPPOSE you did it?” he deI T jmanded. 1 * [She nodded. "I did it—to save you—from yourself. Not to mention perhaps saving the ship as well’” His lip drew up in scorn. Angry almost to the verge of childish tears, he could not at first trust himself to speak. “You’ve certainly taken things into your own hands,” he told her bitterly. His wrath gathered, breaking from him at last in a flood. “You ill-bred prude, I wish I could never lay eyes on you again. It was by far the most bitter moment in Bess’ life. She had done right, but her payment was a curse from the man she had hoped to serve. All her castles had fallen; her dreams had broken like the bubbles they were. This was the answer to the calling in her heart and the longing in her soul —the spoken wish that she might pass from his sight forever. But at his post McNab had already forgotten the episode of the liquor cases. Indeed, he had forgotten other matters of much greater moment. At the present his mind was wholly occupied by two stern realities—one of them being that the storm still raged in unabated fury, and the other that a drunken captain was driving his craft at a breakr ck speed over practically uncharted waters.

THE BEAM WAS BRIGHT UPON BESS' DRAWN, HAGGARD FACE. v Once more McNab lifted his head through the hatch into the pilot house; and for long seconds he studied intently the flushed face over the wheel. "What now?” Knutsen asked gruffly. "You've forgotten all the seamanship you ever knew,” McNab returned angrily. "There’s no hurry about reaching Tzar Island. And you're risking everybody’s life on board, sailing che way you are.” "Are you captain of dis boat?” Knutsen demanded angrily. "No, but —” "Den g£t out of here. T know exactly what I'm doing. You’re, just as safe as—” But it came about that Captain Knutsen did not finish the sentence. McNab was never to find out. from Knutsen’s lips, just how safe he was. Ail at once, he cried sharply in warning. Before ever Knutsen heard that sharp cry, he knew what lay ahead. Dulled though his vision was. slow tlje processes of his brain, he saw that curious ridge of white foam in front —an inoffensive-looking trail of white across their bows. At the same instant his keen ears caught anew sound, one that was only half-revealed in the roar and beat of the storm. There was not the pause of an in-

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stant before his great, muscular arm made response. At the same Instant Forest tried to apply the power of his engines in obedience to the sharp gong from above. And then both Knutsen and McNab braced tnemselves for the shock they knew w-ould come. The craft seemed to leap in the water. shuddered like a living thing, and the swath of the searchlight described a long arc into the sleeet. and the storm. It may have been that Knutsen shouted again—a meaningless sound that was lost quickly in the wind—but for seconds that seemed to drag into interminable centuries to drag absolutely without outward sign of motion. His great hands clutched his wheel, the muscles were set and bunched, but it w-as as if the man had died and was frozen rigid in an Instant of incredible tension. His face utterly without expression, Forest crouched beside his engines, There was-nothing that either of them could do. The waves and wind were a power no man could sfliy All their efforts were as useless as Knutsen’s shout; already the little ship was in the remorseless grasp of a great billow that was hurling her toward the ridge of white foam in front. For another instant she seemed t <y fjang suspended, as if suddenly taken ; wing, and then there was a sheer drop, a sense of falling out of the world. A queer ripping, tearing sound, not loud at all. not half so terrifying as the bluster of the wind, reached them from the hold. Cold sober, Knutsen turned in his place and gonged down certain orders to Forest. In scarcely a moment, it seemed they were pulling the battens from the two little lifeboats on the deck. ” Knutsen s brain was entirely clear and sure as he gave his orders on the deck. His hand was steady as iron. Ills failure to master himself had brought disaster, hut h& knew" how to master a ship at a time like this. From the instant the Charon had struck the reef, he was the power upon that*"* storm-swept deck, and whatever hope McNab had lay in him. Almost at once the four passengers were on deck, waiting to take their meager chance in the lifeboats. The stress, the raging elements, those angry seas that ever leaped higher and nearer, as if coveting their morttil lives, most of all the terror such as had never previously touched them, affected no two of them alike. Os the three women, Bess alone moved forward, out of the shelter of the cabin, to be of what aid she could. Her drawn, white face was oddly childlike in the lantern light. Mrs. Hardenworth had been stricken and silenced by the nearing visage of death; Lenore, almost unconscious whth terror, made strangling, sobbing sounds that the wind carried away. And in this moment of infinite travail Ned Cornet felt his man hood stirring within him. Ned came up, and Knutsen’s cold gaze leaped over his face. “Help me here,” he commanded. “McNab, you help Forest and Julius launch the larger boat.” There was not much launching to do. V aves were already bursting over the deck. Knutsen turned once more. ”We want four people in each boat.” he directed sharply. "Comet, you and I and Miss Hardenworth in this one. The other girl wrlll have to fret in here, too. The other boat's sflightly larger—Mrs. Hardenworth, get in with McNab, Forest; and Julius.” “Put Mrs. Hardenworth in your boat, so she and Lenore can be together, Bess told Captain Knutsen. “I’ll get in the other.” The captain did not seem to hear. He continued to shout -his orders. In the work of lowering the lifeboat he had cause to lift his lantern high, and for a moment its yellow gleam was bright upon Bess' drawn haggard face. Farther off it revealed Ned. white-faced but erect i0 the beat of the storm. In one instant's insight, a single glimpse between the storm and the sea. he understood that she was taking him at his word. "Get in with us.” he said -hortly. “Don't be silly—as I was.” Then, lest she should mistake his sentiment: "Mrs. Hardenworth is twice your weight, and this boat will be overloaded as it is.” The girl looked at hirrt quietly, nodding her head. He helped her into the doty. Ju lius. who at the captain’s orders had been rifling the cabins, threw’ blankets to her. Then tenderly, lending her his strength. Ned helped Lenore over the wind-swept deck into the bow seat of the lifeboat, nearest to the seat he would take himself. “Buckup. my girl,” he told her. a deep, throbbing note in his voice. “I’ll look after you.” Already the deck was deserted. The dim light showed that the larger dory, containing McNab. Forest. Julius. and Mrs. Hardenworth, had already been launched. There was no sign of them now. The darkness and the- storm had already dropped between They could not hear a shout of directions between the three men, not a scream of fear from the terrified woman who was their charge. It was as if they had never been. Only the Charon was left, her decks awash and soon to dive and vanish beneath the waves—and their little group in the dim gleam of the lantern. Knutsen and Ned took their places at the oarlocks, Ned nearer the bow,- Knutsen just behind. A great wave seemed to catch them and hurl them away. Both girls sought refuge in troubled sleep. Ned sat with his arms about Lenore, giving her what warmth he could from his own body. Bess was huddled in her seat. Could their less rugged constitutions stand many hours of such cold and exposure? It was a losing game, already. The North was too much for them. Life is a fragile thing at best; a few hours more might easily spell the end. But that hour saw the return of an ancient mystery, carrying back the soul to those gray days when the earth was without form, and void. Darkness had been upon the face of the waters, but once more it was divided from the day. J Wen hem, seemingly at the edge of the ancient AM

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fail. A grayness, like a mist, spread slowly; and the curtains of darkness slowly receded. The storm was abating swiftly now, and the dawn broke over as easily rolling sea. Captain Knutsen, who had sat so long in one position—his gaze fastened on one point of the horizon—that he gave the impression of being unconscious, suddenly started and pointed his hand. His voice, pitched to the noise of the storm, roared out into the quiet dawn. “Land!” he shouted. *We're coming to land!” (Continued in Our Next Issue) LAYMAN WORKJ3ISCUSSED Bishop Fout Addresses United Brethren Conference at Winona Lake. Bu Times Special WINONA LAKE. Ind.. Sept. B. Scope of the work of laymen and methods for its enlargement were discussed Friday at the United Brethren 'conference. Bishop 11. H. Fout of Indianapolis appealed to the laymen to consider first their importance to Christianity, then to the church. Final reports were to be given today and a Christian Endeavor rally will be held this evening. Assignments will be made Sunday and the conference will close Sunday evening. Stolen Car Headed Here The chief of police at Milwaukee, Wis., has requested the local department to be on f the lopkout for a stolen Stjidabakar automobile, last traced to Decatur, UJL, *nd headed this wav.

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THE OLD HOME TOWN—By STANLEY

A benefit movie show' is to be given at Aurora for the Japan relief fund. The Adams County council has created the new office of county probation officer to deal with juveniles. Twenty candidates reported to Coach "Buck" Howard, Decatur, for the initial high school football practice. Members of the Fairland Christian Church, Fairland, have planned a homecoming at the church. Sept 9. Miss Anne Kaufman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Kaufman, Shelby - ville, has been honored wdth a scholarship at the College of Music of Cincinnati, O. Rush County is planning to have a county community picnic Sept. 20. Plans are being made by the County Farm Bureau and the Rushville Kiwanis and Rotary Clubs. Practically all the crippled children of the city attended the annual picnic given for them at Vincennes by the Klwanls Club. Jasper County citizens have contributed SBOO for the Riley Memorial hospital for crippled children at Indianai>olis. The Dewey Biggs post of the American Legion was the largest contributor, donating SIOO., Protestant churches of Warsaw have joined in a plan to hold a union re-

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liglouei revival to be conducted for four weeks beginning Sept. 30. Anew motor speedway at Bloomington with a. half-mile dirt track will open with a race Sept. 22 in which there axe stakes of SI,OOO offered. The local horseshoe pitching association at Bluffton is planning a big

In the Great Out-Doors

GIRLS: . Now comes the time of year when the great outdoors is most attractive. When summer lingers in the lap of fall, and the evening breezes call for a sweater, that’s when * the smell of crisp, frying bacon over the camp Are is a delight; that’s when the sizzling. fresh-caught fish just out of the frying pan, tastes beet; that’s when the campfire is most jolly.

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reception for Lester Ires’ anh Ro> r Murrast members, who won the Indiana horseshoe pitching championship at the State Fair. F-\ansville Banker Candidate Bu Time* Spedil EVANSVILLE. Ind., Sept B.—Marcus E. Sonntag, president of the American Trust and Savings Bank, will be a candidate for representative for Indiana on the executive board of the American Bankers’ Association at the meeting of the Indiana association in Indianapolis, Sept. 12.

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OUT OUR WAY—By WILLIAMS

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS—By BLOSSER

AIRPLANE PARLEY TO SAVEU.S. WOOD American Spruce Now Used in Europe, Solon Writes, Nations of Europe are exhausting America’s supply of spruce timber, the only, material available in this country for construction of airplanes, Representative Elton Watkins of Portland. Ore., has stated in a letter to American Legion national headquarters, indorsing the Legion’s efforts to obtain convocation of an international air disarmament conference. Representative Watkins wrote that the international gathering is necessary “not only for protection from immediate war but from the standpoint of preservation of our only available material in cases of future necessity.” "The only material for the making of aircraft armaments in the United States is to be found in the States of Oregon and Washington,” he reminded. “It requires from 300 to 500 years to grow this material and at the present time the supply is being cut and exported to foreign countries.” Representative Watkins urged In

SATURDAY, SEPT. 8, 1923

By CAP HIGGINS

addition to the conference an embargo upon exportation of this kind of lumber as a means of conserving the supply for future national emergencies. Ninety-six-year-old woman won a beauty competition for elderly women at Turin, Italy.

Don’t Get Bald Cuticura Does Much To Prevent It Dandruff, itching and scalp Irritation point to an unhealthy con 4l dition of the scalp which leads t m falling hair and premature ness Frequent shampoos with Co-1 ticura Soap do much to prevent I such a condition, especially if pro-1 ceded by a gentle anointing with) Cuticura Ointment.