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Show j Calling Upon Bermuda's Varicolored Finny Tribe I water will not rise above his chin, the newcomer in Neptune's realm is ready to look out of the glass window in the front of the helmet and enjoy the strange spectacle of being at home with the fish. Underwater View of Fish Ideal. "Wandering through this twi-light, underseas world one has the queer feeling of being a disem-bodied spirit, of pressing against warm wind, of wading, not up to one's ankles only, but with one's whole body. Distances under wat-er are strangely deceiving. The diver progresses through sunlit water for what seems a city block only to be told on his ascent that he has covered no more than score of feet. "Those who think all fish are silvery and torpedo shaped are surprised by the variety of beauti-ful colors and the strange shapes of Bermuda's fish. While one gets some slight Idea of them by gaz-ing down through a glass-bottom-boat towed slowly over the reefs, one can see them still bet-ter, without distortion or fore-shortening, through the helmet. Colors of birds and butterflies are lasting, but the radiant, iridescent Colors of fish fade at death. Many fish, pale and uninteresting looking on ice in Bermuda's markets, appear full of brilliant coloring that flashes and changes when seen alive under the water. I Trip Underseas in Diving Helmet Lends Thnll to Visitors. Summer visitors and budding scientists have found a new thrill in Bermuda. One of the most pop-ular diversions of the summer is amateur helmet diving, made pos-sible through the government ao quarium on Harrington sound. "Although not a new idea, this Is the best opportunity the public has been given to enjoy this unique sport, and hundreds of sightseers, including many wom-en and children, are taking ad-vantage of the privilege," says a bulletin from the National Geo-graphic society. Heavy Helmet Becomes Light "After visiting the aquarium, one of the finest in the world, more adventurous Ichthyologists add to their acquaintances among Bermuda's fish families by de-scending beneath the clear, calm waters of Harrington sound t o view them in their natural sur-roundings. It is an Alice in Won-derland experience feeling fish frisk about you unseparated from your touch by a tank's glass walls. "Divers on their first descents are apt to be nervous. Clad only in bathing suit and sneakers, the novice may eye with apprehen-sion the strange-lookin- g metal hel-met with its 6nakelike air hose. The helmet, flanked with lead weights, rests heavily on the shoulders, but as soon as one ven-tures to descend the gently sloping sea-floo- r, and lower one's head under the surface, the air-fill-helmet seems much lighter. In fact, its weight is scarcely felt. "Water rushing in under the open helmet almost to the mouth may cause alarm, but air pres-sure holds it at about chin level, and one soon relaxes again. Should the diver feel ear pres-sure, as in elevators, it can be alleviated by swallowing. Once he becomes accustomed to the sil-very bubbles, and the gentle gurgling of the air as the pump forces it out under the bottom of the helmet, and assured that the You can advance me what I need. " a not much. Oidy a few hundred a mcnth. Will you or won't Her you?" sharp question put Warren on the spot. He dared not make good the allowance, for she would use the money to keep the com-muni- ty house operating. Already don their ?' " men wou,d "ban-- Dynam eCB y' A do2en f reariv i al-- were on .1 r g00d' and other, Srasessmprnt,allitn8 behind and another face. CwU,tep Etared the" to sign of all, they losing fa thin the claim. an ftS cs;bniettVl.thiSfield w tolt never be worth a thin Canadfan When she entered Warren's tent JfinWsstendinS before a chart that ridgepole, the same big chart which she had seen at La Salle street headquarters in Chi-cag- Then it had been white; but now It was sprinkled with several dozen squares and oblongs of red Many times Patricia had wondered what those red splotches meant. They looked mysterious and a bit sinister. "Warren" - she gave him the bank statement-"th- ese I m people say overdrawn, and I know perfect-ly well I'm not. They forgot to en-te- r my September allowance." mat Kock-Ho- g Den, plus the quiet word which Tarlton had passed out to the prospectors last summer, had stalemated him for three exasperat-ing months. On the other hand he hesitated to antagonize Patricia by an outright refusal. On his work table stood a desk calendar with "October 8" staring him in the eyes. Their wed-ding date. The day on which he was to have married Patricia Wel-lington. That marriage, almost a certainty once, was a raging doubt with him now. And he was not blind to her stormy emotions toward Craig Tarl-ton. "Are you going to side with me or dad?" Patricia pinned him down. "Can I keep my community house going? Yes or no!" Warren made a swift decision. If he stood Arm, Patricia would have to go home. Doubtless she would be furious with him, might even break their engagement; but with Patient effort he nroh&hlw j SYNOPSIS k) thirty-three- . Junior .7 1 . Wellington. Incorporated Mines of H .tt h enSeTln questionable 1. make secret Canadian Arctic, where . ' inaccessible ' tdUndiscovered on Res-f- l flows Into Dyna-riP,lrici-high spirited and i &of crusty old Jasper engaged to Warren. JlcMmpany him. Over her biSn.. he agrees to take r ,e, go by plane. Pat meets " . , prospec Ik tell, her there are only 300 ,V ,n in the field "d that they are hang-- L t",tt!Sd. Pat is disturbed J will not disclose what his Sn k. She visits the pro.. H 1 depressed to see S1 Sed they are. She meet, f ",11, , friend of Poleon .. U I fte plight of Bill rornter, a T though fatally ill, strug-- Lid hii claim. Pat decides to Informed by Lupe i CM-- 1 i bead of .family of haU-bree-iq, of the company, about Pat . I the prospectors, Warren tries de ker. He tells her that Craig il 1th whom she had once been i! know deputy mining inspector ' w MiiAii rli'ar aroa A hril specting all de claim in de Resur-rectio- n headwater. I don' t'ink he get back here till Christmas." The news struck Patricia like a club blow. Dynamite Bay seemed all at once empty and forsaken. She suddenly realized the stark un-deniable truth that she had stayed on and on there largely because of Craig. And now he was gone. CHAPTER V It was a raw ugly day that fate-ful October eighth. A cold wind was whipping down frorr. the Arctic ocean, and a white-ca- p surf pound-ed against the rocky shore of Great Desolation. With a sleety rain beat-ing monotonously upon her tent, Pa-tricia had snuggled deep In her warm blankets and slept till nearly noon. For several weeks the weather had been sharp and chilL Each day was shorter, each night per-ceptibly longer, than the one be-fore. In the middle of September a short "squaw winter" had blown down from the coastal hills, killing all greenery and bringing a six-inc- h warren did not even glance at the paper. "They're right, Patricia, I m sorry to say. Your credit for September-a- nd for October too-- was not sent in to them. I dislike to tell you bad news, dear, but I must. Your allowance has been cut off. Your father decided that the only way to make you come home was to stop your money." Patricia stared at Warren, dum-founde- Her allowance cut oil-- she couldn't quite grasp so astound-ing a fact. Why, her allowance had always been one of the infallible things, like day and night! Warren toyed with a letter knife on his work table. "Patricia," he her around again. Certainly any-thing was better than for her to stay on at the Bay. She would keep that Den running, to his great dam-age; and if Tarlton returned, saw what she was doing and Joined forces with her, she would be Tarl-ton' s. "Dear," he said firmly, "I'm com-pelled to refuse." All Patricia's dammed-u- p anger at Warren's dishonesty and evasion, all the bitter disappointment of her Arctic trip with him, all the heart-ache over her failure to build up loyalty with him, came bursting out. "All right, keep your money!" she blazed at him. "I don't need it I'll get along without it. You're snow. Though the snow had quickly melted and the weather had faired up a little, the lazy golden days of summer were definitely gone, and a sullen whine in the wind heralded the savage winter storms shortly to come. Just as Patricia was deciding that she ought to get up and hurry across the river to that bothersome com- - iiesuncv"""" - -- - Jit1 lioglst, ha had resigned In dls- - iiitt father', company because z toui methods. Later she meet. it he is cold, Inferring that she $ feigning interest In the pros-IH-compassion for the hapless trs growing, Pat decides to build f femmunitj' house or Den. When i lean completion. Warren tells ibandon It. She refuses after a Icene. mm m-- m i li'Fjl in exactly like dad. You dictate. You give me just so much liberty but no more. The only difference be-tween you and him is that he's blunt about it and you're diplomatic. This allowance of mine you're as guilty on that score as he is. He wouldn't have cut me off if you hadn't sug-gested It. And you you did that behind my back!" She paused for breath, plunged on: "D'you know what I think of you, Warren? You fall a little short of honesty all along the line. You're not absolutely honest with me or with dad or with the firm or with anybody or anything except your own personal advancement. If you'd been honest with me, if you'd told me the truth about this situa-tion when we first landed here, I probably would never have built that house. But you didn't. You kept me all in the dark" "Patricia!" he begged. "Please, please." "You think you can force me to go back home," she stormed on, "but you can't! I'm staying here! I'm keeping that Rock-Ho- g Den right on going! I'll get by somehow. I don't care if I do break into your plans. You never consider my plans. Try and make me go!" Warren did not argue. Argument would only make her angrier at him. His course was plain, and he held to it. "Pilot Odron," he Informed her, rather sharply, "is getting one of the planes ready now to take you south. In half an hour that'll give you time to change clothes I'll send the Chiwaughimi metis around to help Ellyn pack your things and to strike your tent." Patricia's glance met and clashed with his. The hidden threat in his words was not lost on her he was going to make her leave by pulling her tent down. White-face- d with anger, she stared across the work table at him, defiant, her dark eyes flashing. "You won't pull any raw trick like that on me, Warren Lovett!" she cried. "I'll show you some-thing!" AFTER lidn't allow me. It was my a. In fact he ordered me to mean" l irdered you to stop," Craig I ed her slip. "Hmmph! So ie lay of the land. I'm not surprised. I've been think-- 1 1 be'i kept you all in the II j it what?" Patricia demand- - liew you'd better ask War-- u ought to be on good enough ith your fiance for that So your own idea. Hmmph! I you're getting a real kick V " ! j ik out of what?" ; out of taking up a new T 3d giving it a twirL The ? arian game. Being Lady ; J to 300 men instead of one, Bill Fornier. I'm won-J- - w long it'll take you to get to new toy and Junk it l': t'iing else." "i a'l hope for a kindly word 4 friendship from Craig g. His remarks made y w There was a small ele--I truth fa his "Lady Bountl- - 'it, mi this infuriated her pre. Once again she lost pet completely. -- you're horrid!" she Ping her small boot ;.. l "ay kind word if it ' N Who's taking up the hu- - P game and giving it a let tired and throw it 1 ;7,fllJn't you yourself do J I men? You just sat 7ur cabin and did noth- - ' Jen when I pitch in and 1 can do is look munity house of hers, some one rapped at the front of her tent "Come In," she bade. The stony-face- d Lupe Chiwaughi-mi entered, shaking the rain from his slicker. "Mail plane come from Fort Smeeth dis morning," he informed. He handed Patricia a small packet of letters. "Dese are for you, Mees." When Lupe had gone Patricia snuggled into the blankets again and read her mail. Her mother, her sister Frances and several gos-sipy girl friends had written. There was also a note from her Chicago bank advising that her account had been overdrawn. Frowning In surprise, Patricia studied the attached statement "Why, darn 'em!" she exclaimed. "They didn't enter my September allowance. I'll have to get War-ren to wireless 'em or my checks will start bouncing back at me." She hated to ask a favor of War-ren, after their sharp clashes of the last two months, after her postpone-ment of their marriage; but this bank mistake was serious. She threw aside the blankets, jumped out of bed, dressed hurried-ly, flung on her belted trench coat and started for Warren's tent Through the rainy gloom she could see the "Rock-Ho- g Den" in the drogue of pines across Resurrec-tion. Very cheery and homelike the big house looked, with lights shining through its windows, and blue wood-smok- e streaming from its four tin chimneys. She wondered how the 75 rock-hog- s over there were making out with their noon meaL Without her supervision it was probably one big scram-Jam- - Hlft rntifAn1 hrga fpllnw flnV- - "Dese Are for You, Mees." said finally, "you surely must real-ize that I'm here at Dynamite Bay on business for the company, and that it's very important business. If my plans go through the firm stands to make an extremely hand-com- e coup. I presume you know by now, I presume Tarlton told you, that Dynamite Bay is an ex-traordinarily rich mineral field" "What!" Patricia broke in. For a moment this sudden revelation, settling a question which had plagued her for three months, made her forget all about the allowance. " 'Rich, extraordinarily' Warren, is that straight?" "It's straight," he stated. "The whole story isn't yet known, won't be known till complete surveys have been made; but we do know positively that the field is of the first magnitude." "Now. dear," Warren went on. in She whirled on ner neei, maae for the door and dashed out into the rain. Warren stepped over to the flap-fro- nt and watched her as she ran down toward the bank of Resur-rection. Her threat puzzled him, and he could not Imagine where she was going; but neither ques-tion worried him very much, for he knew that in the last analysis he held the power. At his work table he wrote a stra-tegic letter to her mother, intending to send it along with Pilot Odron so that It would reach Chicago as soon as she did. As he was finishing the note, Lupe Chiwaughimi appeared at the tent door. "M'sieu Lovett, come here. Look-se- c " Warren stepped over, looked where the metis was pointing. What he saw took him a staggering sur-prise. Where Patricia's tent had stood, there simply was no tent. It had vanished, magically, as though the ground had swallowed it 7A and ke ar- - A l!mvyplaceI Getaway backllh-hateyoul- " a a? her caim,y tor A o?t,.toyouand If 21 you've built. U Poor fellows need (lnL ,river ede- - 1 jwamotor. whatdid he mean by ! d cook-ie JeCnrJrad shouWers. ,aiendown and mopped ti:n?;e8 Pat- - s j UeJ?,redd for heavy 1 aneled "t ifjf eam tlanf was chug-- , De he tomorrow ,J ;JmanvUnotbeback j 1 hnyBnmy night. I? for t,ree- - yeirc. way! weren't they ever going to learn how to run that place by themselves? When she wasn't on the job, managing and directing, they were just 75 bewildered big clumsies. In a few minor respects the com-munity house, now almost two months old, was a disappointment to Patricia. So far she had been forced to manage it herself. And she had had to keep putting money Into It Not a great deal, true, but a little bit right along. And then she had built too small. Big as the lodge was, It could not quite cope with the demands made upon it; and a few of the prospectors were living in overflow tents. But in her main hope that the place would be a substitute home where the man could have a real rest and a little human comfort the Rock-Ho-g Den had come through smashingly. Her womanly instincts had been a true guide; she had sized up the great need of those men unerringly, and had filled it The proof of her success was as overwhelming as an avalanche. They had taken to the Den so avidly that at first they had completely swamped and. buried her. They were so keen now to get in to the Bay that she had been compelled to make out a rotation list in order that every man might have his turn. To watch them come In all tired and spiritless, spend their allotted fortnight In the "warm clean place," and leave again with belts tightened and their courage up that was the finest experience of Patricia's twenty-fou- r years. But for all the unexpected suc-cess of her idea, she was more his patient logical fashion, "this community house of yours broke into my plans very badly. Your whole project runs counter to the best interests of Wellington, Parkes & Lovett here at Dynamite Bay. Personally I had nothing to do with cutting off your allowance. I merely kept your father informed of the situation, as I was duty-bound- " "But but wait a minute," Pa-tricia interrupted, all perplexed. "I don't follow you. What is this 'coup that you're talking about? How am I damaging your plans? What are these plans of yours?" Warren sidestepped. "We cant details, dear. It's a go into all the dry business matter." "But I Insist on knowing! I m do-ing a good job over there among needed job; and those men, a badly I won't drop it without a solid reason why!" Warren shrugged. "I don't see that you've got any choice. Now that your father has cut off your al-lowance, you'll have to give in and go back to Chicago." toe That "give in" was deeded? wrong expression to use on Patricia WS6bendamned if I'll go!" "Dad can't order me SndTike that! He's not going to Somineer over me. I'm a human the same as he is. I ve got fdeas and wishes of my But he's got the power," War- - TemaS drew Patricia's fire hL "You've got power too to in he firm. You re Z leal partner brains of the Arm Look to . and for ere, are you going this? You've got money, lots ol To the Point No man can be made a fool of if he doesn't possess suitable material for the Job. It is not how fast an automo-bile can go that counts, but how quickly it can stop. It takes some people so long to be sure they are right that they have no time left to go ahead. There Is a lot of parking space on the straight and nar-row path. If you haven't time to read, you haven't time to succeed. The man who goes out and paints the town red feels blue in the morning. Red Squlrrelfish, striped Yellow Grunts, Sergeant-Major- s, Angel-fis-h, and many others dart past the helmet's window. "Many forms of sea life, other than fish, attract the attention of the diver. On the rocks are chitons, related to snails, whose shells are arranged in overlap-ping plates. Pulled loose from a reef, they curl up like miniature armadillos. Lovely sea anemones wave pastel-colore- d tentacles to and fro like the languid arms of odalisques. "On the sand are puffy black sea puddings, tiny scuttling crabs, crawling starfish, and spiny sea urchins. Stepped on, the spines of these so-call- 'hedgehogs of the sea frequently break off in one's foot. "Bermuda is an ideal place in which to observe fish by means of helmets for two reasons. The Gulf stream, which flows like a warm sapphire river through the Atlantio north of Bermuda, pro-tects the islands from cold and insures a teeming supply of semi-tropic- al fish. The islands are coral formations on the top of a sub-marine mountain, and thus scien-tific dives may be made very near ' shore, to observe both deep and shallow water species of fish." Cecil Rhodes Knew Little Aboout America The fact that there are today more Rhodes scholars from the United States at Oxford than from all the British dominions put to-gether, is due to an extraordinary error on the part of Cecil Rhodes. "He believed there were still only the original thirteen states in the Union of America," says Sarah Gertrude Millin in her bi-ography of Rhodes. "Nor did the solicitor who drew up his will, know better." In assigning his scholarships, Rhodes alloted so many for each state and colony and a compli-mentary few for Germany. Kan-sas City Star. 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Good mh m U.S. A.) 500 Women at Science Meet Not a single man among the 500 scientists at a conference in Mos-cow, Russia. All the speakers as well as all the members of asso-ciation were women. One was V. p Lebedeva, a professor of medi-cine. Another, Professor M. L. Rokhlina. stated that the number students in the univer-sities of women had grown from 19,700 in the total num-be- r 1914 to 183,000. Half of doctors in Russia are wom-en Mos. of the women "scientists are found in medicine, chemistry and biology. |