Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 February 1938 — Page 18

| prison hold of the brig Sunrise,

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By RACHEL MACK

CAST OF CHARACTERS POLLY CHELSEY, heroine; stranded in London when war breaks out. JERRY WHITFIELD, hero; the Yankee who sees her through. 1 CABELL BANKS, privateer captain...

Yesterday: Recovering somewhat from the shock of losing Jerry, Polly starts for Dover, while at home in Connecticut her relatives face the crisis of her position.

CHAPTER XIII

T= young. matron - whose stage . name had been Mazie Miller and who now served ~behind the bar of the Sheaf of Wheat Tavern, owned by her husband, was having a spell of nerves. She had broken half a dozen tumblers in that many days, and when a customer asked for a stein of stout she was as apt to give him ale or porter. - The reason wgs, she kept thinking of that pair of young lovers she had separated. It was the first time she had ever done a thing like that, deliberately. A half dozen men she had Jufed into the clutches of the “press gang,” for it paid very well, and who was Mazie Miller to question the way the British navy was run? . But never before had she lent her talents to making a girl think her sweetheart had deserted her. So today she faced her own soul and said, “I've got to make it right!” She meant with the girl. ‘Let us now be introduced to Mazie’s husband, a common man and a mean one, flashily handsome and sometimes given to blackening Mazie’s pretty eyes when annoyed with her. Suffice it.to say that Mazie had reason to dread asking the day off of this lord and master. Yet she did so. Quite as she feared, he refused, and so she was compelled to slip away against his orders. = ” # ” she reached the Unicorn and. Crown Tavern (which she regretfully conceded to be much more respectable and pretentious than the Sheaf of Wheat) she called the landlord aside. “Mr. Toby,” she said, “you’ve got a -young lady staying here I must talk to. I don't know her name, but she’s the betrothed sweetheart, I take it, of one Jeremiah Whitfield.” The innkeeper scrutinized Mazie more closely. Though she was not wearing the sky-blue dress, he now recognized her. “Why!” he exclaimed accusingly, “you're the lady he went off with that night! What have you done with him?” J] “They say he was a deserter from: His Majesty's Navy.” Mazie explained briefly, “and I set a press gang on him. He didn’t go off of his own record. He was carried off. I'd like to explain that to the girl I saw him with.” ? “You mean Miss Polly Chelsey? Well, it’s too bad you put off your explaining so long. She left for Dover yesterday. She hopes to get home to America by way of France if she can cross the Channel. She had no plans when she left here.”

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“QHE'S an American, you say? ‘WJ And she’s gone? . . . Oh, my! What was her state of mind, Mr. Toby?” ; “For several days, Miss, she seemed fairly crushed. Took to her bed and refused food. But all of a sudden, like, she recovered. As my wife says; she seemed as hard as nails, tossing her head and acting like she hadn't a care to her name.” ; “Oh, the poor creature!” Mazie exclaimed. She could: read Polly Chelsey’s behavior very readily. It was prompted, she guessed, by a proud hurt heart that seeks to hide its wounds. She asked anxieusly, - “Do you know where I could find her in Dover, Mr, Toby?” “No, Miss. Though, she’d doubt3 go to a decent tavern. Yes, that’s likely what she'd do.” #Well,” said Mazie, “I must do what I can. I must write a letter and leave it for you to give the coach driver in the morning. He'll remember her—who wouldn’t! He'll know where he put her off with her trunk. Here's four shillings to pay him for his trouble. Tell the coach driver, Mr. Toby”’—Mazie paused and fixed the innkeeper with compelling eyes—“tell him to deliver this letter to Miss Polly Chelsey if it’s. humanly possible, because it will right a great wrong.” _ When Mr. Toby had fetched paper and ink and a quill, Mazie Miller sat down at a table ‘and began to compose a letter.

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[ERRY WHITFIELD and his ~- companion, Cabell Banks of

Boston, were in the small &arf]

Playing a game with hemp strands. .was a childish game, but it kept them from losing their minds. There was in the prison hold a great deal of massive coiled rope, an overflow im the cable tier. From this stout yet rope that smelled so reekingly of bilgewater and the sea they - pulled hemp strands with infinite cace and these they pitted against 3 other in various ways. They were particular about the rules they ~ made, and events were conducted - very sportingly. Whoever lost an paid two pence to the winner. “At times Jerry would interrupt " game with an outburst of and would climb the ladder joward the open hatgh. Always and t once a marine’s bayonet. would him down again. “If you keep that up,” Cabell nks complained irritably, “they’ll € [She hatch. A little daylight ps. “Yes,” Jerry agreed. “But it eens like I've got to keep trying. thing drives me to keep try-

| “Why?” Cabell asked. “What do | you hope to gain?” so 2 a» freedom . . . Listen, Banks, I don’t mean to boast, but a good swimmer. I'm one of } best swimmers that ever came of Gloucester. It would be hing for me to swim ashore now. morrow may be too late.” 1 . Tomorrow would be . because your head would be ger healed. You've got a nasty there, near the crown.” : hat!” said Jerry disdainfully. you, Banks, tomorrow ‘may

for it, youll be shot. It's that simple.” ; “I wonder you can be so reconciled to this floating jail!” Jerry exclaimed bitterly. . Cabell Banks shrugged. “I can afford to bide my time. I've got no fiancee who thinks I've deserted her.” z 8 s ” N the long watches of several I sleepless nights they had ex-

changed life histories; ill assorted though they were, these confidences had given them admiration

and respect for each other. Jerry knew the rich man’s son to be brave, loyal, and shrewd; Cabell had dispovered ' Jerry. Whitfield . to be brave, loyal, and obstinate. Both had a streak of recklessness, but in Jerry it was far more pro-

state begets a special form of ness all its own, > They were confined in the prison hold continuously except for half an hour a day above deck for exercise. It had been so since their interview with Captain Steel. That

mad-

nounced; he was in love, and that:

irate officer had no sooner recovered from. the shock of their insubordination ‘than he had had them returned to prison quarters, with all privileges suspended. He’ called them “the seagoing peasant and the rich Boston fool”; and when he thought of the Boston boy’s insolent boast that he would outfit a privateer against England and make the Gloucester sailor his first mate, he all but had a stroke of apoplexy. - Yet !that order of his for 20 whip! lashes .on Jeremiah Whitfield’s bared

back had not yet been consummated |

«eo Not yet. . ... In the prison hold Jerry was looking upward toward the open hatch. “Listen!” he said to Cabell Banks. “Something’s going : on.” They climbed the ladder, part way, to catch the sudden shouting in the .forecastle. It was Jerry who interpreted it: “We're going. out with the tide!” he said bitterly. “Bound for the North Sea.” : &

(To Be Continued)

(All events, names and characters in this story are wholly fictitious.)

; Daily Short Story

EVERY DOG—By George M. Hunter

Doon glared at his skipper. “Flora’s a gentle, well-bred dog, the best sheep dog I've ever seen.” “Yes, yes,” the skipper said tes-

tily. “Better send her ashore. Dogs, cats and women are unlucky, a nuisance. aboard a ship. Besides, she’s no more a sheep dog than I a Sid Magill in Buenos es had mixed wine and whisky—a. morning with Flora sitting on the couch in his room. Whether Flora brought Magill aboard or Magill

Her name was on her collar. But she became a prime favorite with everybody except the skipper. Flora followed Magill to his room. From his bottle of McCallum Dhu he poured out a three-fingered drink and told Flora that the skipper and

juicers. “No class whatever,” he confided after another nip. Draining the glass, he assured Flora her pedigree must be longer than the flagpole. When the Bonnie Doon. sailed Flora was barking farewells to the tug boats. She disliked spouting water and fled to the chief’s room whenever

One morning the mate soused her with the hose. He laughed and forgot his act of lese majeste. But] collies, boys and elephants have long memories for kindness and cruelties.

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EXT day he pulled her tail and asked how she liked her bath.’ She growled. He did it again and she snarled. He kicked at her. She seized the leg of his pants, held on and backed away. He hopped after her on one leg, slipped and fell flat on his back on the deck. The sailors laughed. He swore fear-

the skipper. Flora was a dangerous brute and should be shot. “You have my permission to shoot her,” the skipper told him. But Magill was big, heavy, strong;

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be impracticable to construct one of large horsepower output because of the excessive quantity of materigi required. A spring motor of 1000horsepower output, designed to run for one hour, would require 12,000 tons of -steel for the springs alone.

Q—When did the United States recognize Soviet Russia? : A—Normal diplomatic: relations were resumed between the United States and the U. S.-S. R., Nov. 16; 1933, in an exchange of letters between President Roosevelt and Maxim M. Litvinov, Soviet Commissar for Foreign AfTairs. >

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dent ‘Coolidge receive the franking privilege and a pension from the Government? . A—By the Act of Congress ap-

proved June 16, 1934.

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fists. So Flora lived. Off Cape Hatteras, in a beam sea, with pots and pans clattering, a stove smoking, floor slippery, a burned arm jarring the cook’s nerves, ‘Flora put her head inside the galley door. Cook. swiped at her with the hot-water ladle. Some drops landed on her nose. Her sniffing and pawing amused the cook and he threw a ladleful at her. It burned. She jumped at the cook. He rushed to the port door. Flora sunk her teeth in his shirt neck. | Flora trotted to Magill with the remains of the shirt." It took $1 to buy a new shirt and another to soothe the cook’s feelings. | Flora got a lecture about keeping away from low-bred cooks and 'scullions. . | When the Bonnie Doon sailed for Aberdeen the skipper and all hands swore Flora would never see Europe. But how to get rid of her? Magill fed her, afraid she might be poi'soned. Her teeth saved her from

open: assault. She never left him | and no one dared touch her in his |

presence. J u 2 HOWLING winter gale of northwest wind that followed the

hands busy and their minds off

Flora. Close down on the Hebridean Islands the wind died down, giving birth to a blinding fog. In a long smooth sea the Bonnie Doon slipped through the mist like a wraith ship in a haze of white. Near land and not sure where they were the skipper and' mates kept the bridge, sailing “by God and by guess” down on the rocky islands, hoping for the best. Magill, uneasy as the skipper, kept close to the engine room door, ready for any emergency. He was staring into the fog, listening for signals, when Flora, curled up at his_feet, rose quickly; ears erect, head§but, she looked along the foredeck. “What's the matter, Flora? Smellin’ Scotland?” She started along for'rd. : ; “Come here, lady. The skipper on the bridge wouldn't like you on the foredeck.” Flora came back slowly, stopping to bark over her shoulder. Off to port a ship’s whistle gurgled like a man clearing his throat, then bellowed into the fog. As a sharp whistle answered from the Bonnie Doon Flora darted back along the foredeck. Magill called her. She halted, half turned around. He whistled and she came back slowly. Puzzled, Magill patted her, asking her if she smelt the heather. A faint gust of wind blew over the

rail to peer:into the fog. 2 f J 2 | LORA, released from Magill’s eyes, darted toward the bow. She

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ran after her. The lookout man tried to block her passage. She leaped aside and, running to the farthest point in the bow, put her head through the rail and barked furiously. Magill grabbed her collar to pull her pack. With both hands on her collar he stopped abruptly and peered ahead. : Letting go of the dog he wheeled around, cupped his hands over his mouth and shouted to the bridge: - “Full speed astern! Quick! God’s sake, quick!” Sharp orders rang out, bridge telegraphs clattered. The quartermaster spun the wheel over. The Bonnie Doon stopped, backed and swung around. Like a rolled-up curtain the fog lifted, showing a drove of sheep grazing close to the beach. Flora barked at them as all hands stood speechless, watching to see if the ship would clear a row of black jagged rocks sticking out of the blue water. She cleared by a few feet. Magill walked aft. The skipper met him at the bridge stairs. : “Lor’, Magill, that dog saved us.” : complacently.

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By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN - American Medizal Journal Editor UR knowledge of the intimate character of the blood is a matter of fairly recent development.

For instance, the condition called leukemia, which represents a vast surplus of white blood cells in the blood, was first described scientifically in 1845 when Virchow, most

famous of German pathologists, and.

Hughes Bennett, an Englishman, observed that the blood jn: people dying of leukemia on whom they had made postmortem examinations, looked peculiarly white instead of

red as it should have been, and |.

that in these patients also the spleen had become large. It was not until much later, however, that other scientists discovered that the white cells which accumulated in the blood were not of the usual type of white blood cells which multiply greatly during infections. The real character of these cells first became apparent when the famous Paul Ehrlich, who is credited with the discovery of salvarsan for the treatment of syphilis, introduced methods of staining these cells in

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horses, cattle, dogs, rats and mice. |

The condition is not very common in human beings. In fact, one case may appear in about every thousand patients who come to a hospital. EHowever, because of its serious and usually fatal character, it attracts far more attention than many common” diseases. : Recently encouragement that something specific had been discovered appeared in announcements that an investigator of the disease in’ chickens had discovered a serum which might also be useful in human beings. The exact evidence in favor of the usefulness of this serum in human beings is, however, so slight that it has not been ac-

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