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Show f i j THE PROGRESSIVE OPINION ' - J?EH AMES WILLIAMS Sp W.N.U.FEATUP.ES XHE STORY SO FAR: Robin Dale, a young artist, goes to Moose Bay to see ber fiance, Will McPhail. When WiU Is accidentally killed, his brother Angus blames Robin. She goes to Angus' fish. HI cruiser to see him. While she Is on i board the boat sails, Pat carrying her, Angus, Donohoe and Romeo toward Labra-dor. The boat Is seized by a man named Jenkins who is trying to escape from a government patrol. The boat runs aground and sinks. When Jen kins tries to steal the last of the food, there Is a Bght. Coming on Jenkins lying on the ground, Angus has Just asked, "Are you hurt?" Jenkins looks at him in contempt and fear. Now continue with the story. She whispered, her lips close to his ear: "My being here makes it extra hard for all of you. I'm sor-ry, Angus." "It's my fault. I should have tak-e- n you back to Moose Bay that first night. But that can't be mended now." After a moment she said softly: "Angus, I'm glad you're not here alone. If this was going to happen to you I'm glad I'm with you." He said, after a little hesitation, in a defensive tone: "Don't be afraid. We'll come through." She felt chilled, rebuffed by the remote impersonality of his words. She knew she loved him; yet even in her arms he seemed infinitely far away. She said: "I'm aU right in daylight." Night was full of ter-rors; and sleet and rain came on a howling, hungry wind. They were, silent for a while, and she felt his shoulders against her breast relax in weary stupor that counterfeited sleep. Her eyes were wide, star-ing into blackness. Once she felt Pat stir and mutter; and she whis-pered: "All right, Pat?" "Sure, ma'am, fine." She thought presently that she was the only one of them still awake. She held Angus closer, brooding over him. Somewhere outside the shelter a rock slid and rolled down the slope below them, the sounds growing less as it bounded toward the sea. That sharpened aU her senses. Something had set the rock rolling. It must be Romeo, prowl-ing near. But she did not rouse Angus till a little later she saw a darker shape in the darkness a dozen feet away. (' f Ji '' CHAPXER XVI Angus jumped down beside the other man. "Hurt?" he muttered. Mr. Jenkins grinned at him. "What do you think?" he countered in sardonic question. "Think I'm lying here to watch the pretty clouds?" His lips twisted venomous-ly; his words were vitriol, cursing Angus, cursing Pat, cursing Robin Robin most of all. "If she hadn't been along, we'd be all right," he finished. "I'd like to get my hands on her, just once. Just long enough to give her neck a twist." He grinned. "I got the Irishman through the leg. That's something. Where's Romeo? He'll butcher the lot of you!" He had not moved at all, lay flat on his back in the beating rain. The raging anger boiling out of his help-less body was a terrible thing to see. Angus said gently: "I'll get you un-der cover, Jenkins." He bent to lift the man, and Mr. Jenkins' hands flew up and fastened weakly on his throat Angus caught the other's wrists, tore those hands away, flung them down. Jenkins had no strength In him. His hands were as weak as a child's. "Be sensible man," An-gus said. "Let me take care of you." Jenkins spoke in sudden full sur-render. "All right. I'm done. My back's broken, McPhail. Do as you please." "We'll do what we can," Angus said. He lifted the hurt man, man-aged somehow to carry him up to the shelter. From weakness or from pain Mr. Jenkins lapsed into un-consciousness again on that short journey. Robin moved aside when Angus appeared and he laid Mr. Jenkins in the shelter. He told the Irishman: "I am sorry to put him In with you, Pat; but he'd die in the rain." "Aye, sorr," Pat agreed. His voice was gentle. "The poor man saved my life for me, whether he meant it so or not. And whatever he's done, he's paid for now, full and running over. I'll tend him all I can." Mr. Jenkins opened his eyes. He ' was, clearly, paralyzed from the waist down, yet there was life in him. When Angus gave him a bit of chocolate, he gobbled it without a sound. Robin said: "Now we must band-age Pat's leg somehow, Angus. Isn't there anything?" "Handkerchiefs not big enough?" "No, not nearly." "My underwear, then." Angus started to unbutton his shirt; but. Mr. Jenkins spoke. "Take my shirt, McPhail," he said. His tone was mild enough. The fog of battle rage had left him, and he was sane again. "It's white, and I don't need it. There's no warmth in it, anyway; not enough to do me any good." Robin felt her eyes sting. She thought she could almost like Mr. Jenkins. Pat spoke for all of them. "You had the makings of a man, Jenkins," he said. "It's a sorry end you've come to." Mr. Jenkins chuckled. "I'm luck-ier than the rest of you," he said with grim humor. "You're cold all over; but I'm only cold from the waist up. Can't feel It, in my legs, i at all. I'd trade my shoes for a ' flannel shirt, right now." Robin still wore McPhail's leath- - er jacket, with Pat's great stag shirt over it. She began to strip them off. Mr. Jenkins should have the j one, Pat the other. They protested; i but Angus supported her and she had her way. By the time Pat's leg was band-aged, early dusk was settling around ' them. Angus distributed bits of chocolate to each of them. Robin, chewing her morsel, making it last as long as possible, felt warmth and strength run through her body like a flood. For the night they all packed into the shelter, side by side; first Mr. Jenkins, then Pat, then Robin, then Angus himself In the open end, with Mr. Jenkins' oilskin for protection against the rain. Dark came down, and Robin pressed nearer Pat. An-gus sat like a wall between her and the weather. After a while she spoke to him. "Come closer," she said. "We , can all get under here." "I've the oilskin. I'm all right." "I need you to keep me warm. Lie back against me. Take it off and tuck it around us." He hesitated, then obeyed. She drew him back against her, in her arms. He spread the oilskin coat to cover them both. "There!" she cried, almost con-tentedly, but he felt her trembling. "Cold?" he asked. "No. Just scared." j "Don't be. Keep your nerve. We'll manage. The rain can't last forever. And we won't starve. I'll get some fish tomorrow, trap them in the shallows when the tide goes out Then there are shellfish, snails at least, in the seaweed. We'll find food, something." , "I'm not so terribly hungry." His voice was quiet and steady in w the darkness. "Being hungry's not 'o bad after the first two or three days, as long as you're not scared. People have lived a month without food." "I'm not scared," she told him. She asked: "Do many people live longshore here, Angus?" "Not many 'way up here. Five or six families, Pat says. I don't suppose there are fifty people in , fifty miles." He added quickly: "But Gloucestermen and the Nova Sco--r tan fishing schooners come up this ( way. We'll be able to attract at-- 9 tention as soon as it clears." r. r-- Robin felt her heartj pound. Mr. Jenkins began to swear in a still, vitriolic way. Angus explained: "When I came up on the cairn, I could just see the boat, a dory with a sail. It was half a mile away to-ward shore, just going out of sight in the rain: I yelled, but they didn't hear me." Pat asked, as though anxious to be sure: "A fisherman?" Angus nod-ded. Pat frowned in a puzzled way. "Now what would a fisherman be doing off here so early in the morn-ing?" Angus suggested: "Maybe they saw our monument last night and came off to see who was here." Robin looked at him. "Then Ro-meo would tell them he built the monument, wouldn't he? So they'll not think anything more about it when they see it still here. So they won't come for us." Angus said: "He'll tell them about us." Mr. Jenkins spoke in a quizzical amusement. "You trust men too easily, McPhail. Romeo won't tell them anything. Why should he? I beat him up. Miss Dale there cut his cheek open. He knows you don't like him any more; and he won't want to see Pat again. Romeo's well out of it. He'll keep his mouth shut and go clear." "He'll have to tell them how he got here." "He'll say your boat bucked the ledge, say you and Pat went down with her, say he got ashore alone." The rain began again, in a little spiteful sprinkle that came hard and harder. Robin spoke. "Then we'll have to make ourselves at home, won't we?" She tried to laugh. "At least we won't have to carry rocks any more to build the cairn." After a moment Angus said: "I'll try to catch some fish today, find something to eat." He distributed another morsel of chocolate to each one of them. "We'll make this last as long as we can," he said. Mr. Jenkins refused his portion. "Give it to Miss Dale." he directed. "I'm done, anyway. No use wast-ing it on me." Robin protested. "Please! Eat it, Mr. Jenkins. You mustn't give up. Somebody's sure to find us soon." He grinned at her, looked at An-gus. "You're a sentimental lot, tak-ing me in, taking care of me. If I were in your place, I'd dump me off the cliffs below here. I'm glad to have your company for a day or two, of course, so I hope you won't do it till I'm dead. But I won't eat your chocolate." Angus scanned the sky. "No sign of better weather," he said. "Pat, we've got to have a fire as soon as we can. I'll go look for more fire-wood. You try to dry our matches." He had a box half full, of the safety type, and Pat and Mr. Jenkins had each a few. "Put them on a dry rock, Pat. Maybe the air will dry them. .If we can have a fire tonight we'll all feel better." He brought under shelter the few scraps of fire-wood they had already collected. "You can whittle off the outside of these sticks, Pat," he suggested. "Get at the dry wood inside, shave enough kindling to start a fire, if our matches ever dry." But when he and Robin left the shelter, he decided to add a few boulders to the cairn. "Just on the chance," he told Robin. "Maybe they haven't seen it from shore. Maybe Romeo won't speak of it." It was raining hard and the wind was icy cold. He had made her wear the oilskin coat. They worked side by side. Hunger was a cry of pain in her, and she was cold, and her hands were bruised and sore; but she did what she could. At noon, Angus decided the cairn would do. It was eight or nine feet high, wide at the base, tapering to the top. "If the weather clears they may see it," he said. "Now I'll try to make us more comforta-ble. Let's see if Pat's all right." They went down to the shelter to-gether. Pat was cheerful, but Mr. Jenkins was as silent as a trapped animal. Robin thought him weaker. Pat had shavings ready, but the matches were not dry. Angus told Robin to stay here and rest awhile. "I'm going to bring seaweed to chink the cracks in the wall," he ex-plained. "I'll fix it so the wind won't come through." She was too tired to argue so she obeyed him. He returned presently with a great armful of seaweed. The stuff was wet, but it did im-prove the rocky barrier across the closed end of the shelter. Pat and Robin put it in place while Angus brought more and more, till there was enough to make a sort of mat-tress on which they could lie. Also, he walled up part of the open end of this cranny under the ledge, and before dark they had a compact ref-uge with walls and a roof to shut out rain and wind. They ate the last of the chocolate that night. The matches were still soggy, so they did not try for a fire. Robin slept against Pat, with Angus between her and the pitiless rain. Once in the night she heard Mr. Jen-kins making meaningless sounds, ei-ther in his sleep or in a delirium. In the morning she was a little light-headed. The world was become un-real. She looked out through gray dawn light at shapes that moved and changed their form, that were blurred and strange. Angus was still asleep, and her arms tightened around him. She wanted to pro-tect him and to comfort him and shelter him against all these adver-sities. (TO BE CONTINUED) "Be sensible, man," Angus said. Then dreadful terror filled her; and she spoke in McPhail's ear. "Angus!" She felt him. wake. 's sneaking up on us. See him, there, in front of you." McPhail sat up. He cried in sharp challenge: "That you, Romeo? What do you want?" Romeo without answering, raced away, scrambling up the slope. They heard the rattle of rocks dislodged by his flying feet. From the safety of the ledge above where they lay, he flung imprecations back at them; yet even while he cursed them all, he moved farther and farther away till the sound of his babbling rage grew faint and died. Robin said wretchedly: "Poor man! Maybe he just wanted to get warm. Can't we take him in, give him a chance to get out of the rain?" Angus did not reply. She thought of Romeo running to and fro like an animal, pitifully questing in the night for shelter. Cold crept into her; and somewhere far below them she heard the growling of the hun-gry sea. Robin woke before the others in the morning. It was daylight when she roused, a gray hopeless dawn. She would not wake them; but while she lay cramped and stiff, holding herself motionless so that Angus might not be disturbed, she heard, far away across the island, a cry. She knew it must be Romeo; and she shuddered, thinking he was like a coyote howling from sheer loneli-ness, thrust out of their small so-ciety into the naked emptiness of this rocky, rain-swe- world. She pitied him, and wished they might take bim in to share their slight shelter, and when Angus woke at last, she suggested this. "I heard him crying, just a few minutes ago," she said. "It was pretty terrible. Can't he be with us?" Angus stood up, stiff with cold. "I'll have a look around," he said. "I'll talk to him." He scaled the above them and slope to the ledge went out of their sight. A moment later they heard him shout, and shout again, the sounds receding. Robin thought he was trying to find Romeo, calling to the man. He was gone what seemed a long time- and when he came back, she 'in something like de-spair. saw his eyes He squatted facing them and said quietly: "Romeo's gone. A fish-erman took him off." Released by Western Newspaper Union. DIET FOR THE AGING It is true that as we grow older we need foods easy to digest but many as they grow older still have physical work to do and need nour- - i - ir ishing foods some of which require chew- - ing before they will digest readily, Therefore if the in dividual has but a few or no chewing teeth grinders he should be fitted for artificial teeth by his dentist. In his book, "The Patient Past Fifty," Dr. Ernest Dr. Barton p- - Boas states- - is most important to see to it that every aging person has dentures (plates) that will en-able him to chew varied and ade-quate foods. An old person com-monly restricts his dietary to cere-als, soft breaci and tea and coffee because he cannot chew most of the food that is set before him." The most important item or items of food for the nourishment and well being of the, elderly individual are the protective foods. The protective foods as described some years ago by Dr. E. B. McCollum, Johns Hop-kins, are milk and other dairy prod-ucts, meats, fruits, and green vege-tables, because of their vitamins and minerals. Vitamin A is, found particularly in milk, butter, eggs, cheese, liver and green vegetables; vitamin B in whole wheat bread, beef, mutton, and many vegetables; vitamin B-- 2 in milk, fruits, and leafy vegetables; vitamin C in fruits or-anges, limes, lemons, tomatoes and melons. , Another suggestion is that elderly individuals should try to eat three meals of about the same size in-stead of making the evening meal the largest and heaviest one. In fact, the large meal of the day should be eaten at noon, with a light supper in the evening. A rest of an hour after eatipg, instead of walking or working immediately after eating, aids digestion and avoids overtax-ing the heart which otherwise would have the duty of increasing its work to take care of digestion and exer-cise or work at the same time. If tea and coffee agree, one or two cups daily are allowed. Nicotinic Acid Relieves '.Tic' Pains In past years treatment for the relief of that terrible pain, tic dolo-reu- x (trigeminal neuralgia), was surgery. While surgery must still be considered the most effective treatment, other methods have giv-en relief for months and even years and are preferred by patients and physicians before surgery is used. Recently I spoke of a sinusoidal current as reported by Dr. Ben-jamin Ulaski of Philadelphia, which gave relief in a number of cases. What causes tic doloreux? The cause is unknown, but it is known that very little is needed to set off the nerve trigger causing the out-burst of severe pain. Two British research workers, Drs. W. E. Adams and W. 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On its face is the Roman V, symbolic of vic-tory and the torch of sacrifice. Around the border appears this telegraphic code: "We Win When We Work Willingly." Made of tombac alloy, this new coin will save about 60 tons of nickel annually. Gems of Thought The press is the best instru-ment for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral, and social being. Thomas Jefferson. The soul of man is audible, not visible. Longfellow. Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act act in the living Present! Heart within, and God o'erhead! H. W. LONGFELLOW. Employment, sir, and hard-ships, prevent melancholy. Samuel Johnson. It matters not how long you live, but how well. Publius Syrus. To Prosper and Live To live, to work, to help and to be helped, to learn sympathy through suffering, to learn faith by perplexity, to reach truth through wonder, behold; this is what it is to prosper, this is what it is to live! Phillips Brooks. |