OCR Text |
Show LEHI FREE PRESS. LEHI. UTAH MMiM mm &BEN SYNOPSIS a-- vcAusland as 38 years old hen 1a America to undertake fan A . mii':onary in Uiein Fiji tIslands of- excite-cruc- e pusl had committed in confidence red all his xnenl ,.r HesM'tfforced to avoid pretty Mary j,.;t who boarded the ship at a5 en route to visit her parents. missionaries on GUead Uland. wB0 c'!:.,.racMKi by George's attempts to fell 1 o-- e day George accidentally avo:an: Mary unhesitatingly dove Into In fell love who er. to rescue George, Wnen the boat approached her wUb kmthev learned that r ieadhadInland, both died. George vol- J?m ,2.rd to take charge of the mission and ""JS Mary to be his wife. She accepted sv proposal, and they left the ship if;.' in' hr former home on the island natives shocked JL sca"'v' dress ofhe the soon become recon- a' 'first, but S to 'h"ir customs. Maryof discovered fCVT George s, r.,'krai a sailor friend ro";e 'here to help George and Mary If h needed him. Their peaceful life was fiir'UL'ed one day when a ship stopped in rl, harbor in search of pearls. They see their schooner til oearl d:ers attacked and The pirates head mink bv a pirate ship. near their village their boat toward the bay cLree 'ends Marv inland for safety and down to the beach alone and defense's Natives carry him back to Mary hours liter shot through the shoulder. Natives lolled the pirates that night and set their The whaler, the jzjlt afire Venturer arrived. Mary was told that its eaDtam had died, and that his sons, Richard nd Peter Corr, were now in charge as and first mate. She liked Richard, but publicly laughed wis told by Peter that he was a sick man affection. George her at George agreed when the Venturer arrived. saw he when that the island the to leave caused by epidemic among the natives was A hTi consumptive condition. native gave as a farewell Mary a small bag of pearls present. The attitude of the crew toward Peter bothered Mary, so she decided to find cut if he was really responsible for the death of a seaman who had been killed while . ht ,r PATTERNS A MLS mere was at that a quick d mstant st.r upon the Venturer. Mat Forbes at a word from Richard ran halfway up the mazer rathr.es and shouted to the men. aloft to make haste with the topgallant sails. R.ch-arcame to the pert r&il to look off across the leaden sea. Mat Forbes spoke quietly to Richard on the deck - Hono-DonM- -; ? rr'r Vt d below him. "Sharks at him, Cap'r. Corr." Richard nodded. "All right. Clear beats and stand by to lower." Feet moved along the deck to obey. Mat Forbes, descending to the deck, said quietly: "Whale's moving this way, sir." Richard looked at the weather to the westward. He watched the wi.rk, watching the Venturer come to and fall oi: lazily. The whale drew nearer and even from the decks they could see now his efforts to beat off his attackers. He surged to and fro, flukes now and then rising ponderously and as the fight came steadily nearer them, they could hear the thrash of the flukes, the sigh of the spout, the broken water when he drove this way and that. Peter, standing with George and Mary although his men were ready by his boat yonder, moved restlessly. "There's something wrong with whaling. him," he muttered, "or he'd have driven them off by now. Might be CHAPTER X Continued he's hurt or sick or something. May11 be he's got an iron in him." He Richard said grimly: "I've nolicked his lips in a nervous tremor. ticed a lot of trouble made, more Richard said just behind them: than once, by trying to be responsi"Weather coming, Peter but we'll ble for other people's business." "Do you seriously mean to bribe WW your men to obedience by turning them loose like wolves on these help' .77' ' V::f irs, J RVKV less girls?" George's eyes were hot. on their weaknesses, just "Playing "I'M, as you played on my weakness at Gilead, told me I was killing the islanders in order to make me come cap-Ui- n away." Richard said after a moment quietly: "Maybe I was wrong. Maybe I'd best have let you stay." He hesitated, said at last curtly: "Mr. do as you like; but I'll have to run the ship my way." He turned away. Peter had joined them in time to hear the last word. "Dick takes his job too hard. He's all blown up with it!" Mary ignored him, urged: "Perhaps Richard's right, George. And even if he isn't, he must do as he thinks wisest. Come down to the cabin with me." But George declined to do so. "I'll not shut my eyes," he said. "I'm not a coward." So they stayed on deck that day while the work of provisioning the ship went forward. They could not be ready to de- part that afternoon; and the boats stayed ashore well into the night. Next morning they made to sea. Mary hoped that once they were away George would forget his anger at Richard; but he did not, and for days after they left the island, the few minutes they all spent together at the table were made awkward by her husband's wrathful silence, and by Richard's defensive dignity. The stop for provisions had altered not only the humor of the crew but the very appearance of the Venturer. They had taken on tremendous of fresh quantities fruits. A huge cask lashed to the port rail was full of green coconuts. Bunches of bananas hung under the boat house and wherever else room could be found. The potato room where Tommy Hanline slept was so full of yams and plantains and breadfruit that Tommy had to crawl over them to reach his bunk. Another change took place in the routine aboard after they left the island. George remembered his calling, and with the air of one expecti- two of this fighting, he closed with his antagonist. Under his strong commands, the men hauled in on the line till the boat was close against the whale's side. Richard reached far over the bow to grip the line and draw the boat further forward along the whale's body, and while close alongside, Richard drove the lance deep and deep again, searching for that huge reservoir in which the whale stores fresh blood for his long stays under water and which whalemen call the try for him anyway. er?" The Venturer, Ready to counter-brace- low- d, still made a little way. He called to Mat: "Back the yard, Mr. Forbes." The men leaped at Mat's comcro-jac- k mand. "Dick, he's a crooked jaw," Pe"He's ugly. He'll be a fighter; and if he busts a boat, the water's full of sharks." His voice cracked as he spoke, and Richard looked at him briefly. "Mr. Forbes and I will lower," he decided then. "You keep ship, Pe- ter exclaimed. ter." Peter cried sharply: "He'll bump us, the way he's headed!" The Venturer was almost motionless, the whaie now close aboard. sick Mary had been watching Peter, and ashamed at what she saw; but at his word she turned to look and saw the whale, close now, rolling she blindly on its back to bite; and saw the thrashing body of a great shark caught in its jaws and cutter-in two. She cried out in awe and ror at the sight. breathe through their leaves. It is, therefore, necessary to keep house plants free from dust. simple just the type you like best and wear most a basic style appropriate for general wear and afternoon. The skirt is slim and paneled. The bodice is made with smooth shoulder yokes and just enough gathers to ensure correct bust fit. And the neckline of this dress (design No. 8877) is unusually good, at the same time adding a definite note of interest and nar- rowing your face. When you see how beautifully it fits and how good it feels, you'll repeat this pattern time after time, in flat crepe, spun rayon, silk print and sheers. Cocoa should always be cooked in a small amount of water before milk is added. To make celery curls, cut inner stalks into three or four inch lengths. With a sharp knife cut each piece down into thin stri?, stopping when within an inch cf the end. Drop into ice wpter. Strips will curl up as they become chilled. Plan for an earlier and lor-- r season of bloom by planting indoors or in flats, ageratum, salvia and aster seeds. Pattern No. 8877 Is designed for sizes 36. 38, 40. 42. 44. 46. 48. 50 and 52. Sue 33 sleeves, 4a requires, with three-quarte- r When ironing dresses, blouses or jackets, have coat hangers in material; short sleeves. the kitchen and slip the garment jards of 45, yards; 2'j yards trimming. Send or on as it is ironed. This prevents der to: any unnecessary folds or wrinkles &t IK and after airing they are ready for the closet with no further han- SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. 149 New Montfomrry Ave. Calif. 8aa Fraaclsco Enclose 15 cents In coins for Six Pattern No Name , 3 J dling. Use shallow boxes (cigar boxes are excellent) for flats in which to plant seeds. Firm soil well and make surface level. If there are depressions in soil, water will gather in them. Address Corrupt Stagnation ililel ll"' A Better that we should err in ac tion than wholly refuse to perform The storm is so much better than the calm, as it declares the pres ence of a living principle. Stag nation is something worse than death. It is corruption also. Simms. Never trust to memory in giving doses of medicine. Read the label at least three times and if you are not sure the dose is correctly measured, throw it away, rinse the glass with cold water and measure over again. You may save a life by being careful when measuring medicines. "life." The whale could not bite them, nor could its flukes strike the boat. But if it rolled toward them, they must be crushed under its body and left helpless in the water. Big Pip bawled: "Ware roll, Cap'n!" Richard, braced and firm, as much a part of the boat as though he were nailed to it, drove his lance again. Tommy screamed: "There he rolls!" But the whale rolled away from the boat, not toward it; and in s& doing, its under parts were for a moment exposed. The whale rolled over and over in a smother away from them; and suddenly its flukes lifted high and then it was gone, and the tossed water began to quiet where it had disappeared. "Sounded!" Tommy cried. Mary could see the line now snaking out over the bow of the whale-boathe bow sagging downward and then rising with a jerk as Joe Sassnet kept a strain on the line around the loggerhead, yielding only when he must. Richard in the bow was leaning forward to look straight down into the water, lance in hand. The bow of Richard's boat rose suddenly as the strain upon the line was eased. "Haul hard!" Big Pip shouted. Sassnet took line hand over hand. Richard spoke over his shoulder, not turning his head, watching the water under them. "Ready oars!" he said crisply. Then men poised. Suddenly he cried: "Starn all! Hard astern!" The oars bent like bows; the boat darted backward like a squid. Then for a moment from where Mary stood on the Venturer's deck, boat and men were alike blotted out of sight, hidden behind a vast black column with a blunt end which rose ponderously out of the water, the white mouth gleaming, the bent jaw opening and closing in a vicious futility. That black mass that was the whale's head rose and rose, slow and slower till it was above the level of ng a refusal, asked Richard's perthe Venturer's decks, till Mary mission to hold a Sunday morning thought it would never stop ascendXI CHAPTER service on deck. Richard consenting. It seemed to poise and hang ed, and the thing was done. Mary for a moment, and then ponderouscame and itself The whale righted a in suspected that Corkran was responly toppled forward, parting the wabow toward their quartering sible for the ter like a plow; and she saw the forquiet and respectful sudden rush. Richard leaped demeanor of the men when they asboat safe, secure, beyond the flukes. with as though ward into the waist sembled; but when George began his own hands to fend the creature Then the whale spouted, and its to speak, he held them. George, off- and an instant later it shoulspout now was a thick crimson facing an audience, had a spiritual Mary saw Richard strike dered against the Venturer's side. cloud; andblow at the line with a a authority and dignity that were fine saw the sharp great down, Mary, looking to see. She realized, while she lis- black bulk in the water, and the hatchet, saw its free end disappear. tened, that her attitude toward her She cried, sick with sudden disslender gray shapes of the sharks be-in husband had always been protecappointment: "Oh, he's let it go!" attendance. George clung hard tive; her tenderness a little conde"It's dying!" Tommy Hanline told side her, and Peter gasped: us! scending. sink her, proud of Richard. "He always "Godfrey, Dick! He'll where his cuts She told him afterward how proud before the flurry unless there's toward aft ran Richard she was, and Richard also spoke to boat that might get fast. another ciroff, drew whale boat hung. The take chances when there's as don't He head George gratefully and appreciativelhis lifting of it." need no y. She hoped the constraint be- cling slowly, the locate ship to effort an in tween them would be forgotten. But though new attack. Richard called The spout was a fountain of blood for a the whale again began to move, as George did not relent at all; and there was no long flurry. Too but matters were still thus tight and briskly Forbes! Peter, Mr. "Lower away, of the creature's strength was much into strained in the cabin, on the day bomb a Sock get the Brand gun. It surged a little when at last they sighted a whale. him if he comes near the ship already spent. seemed to turn still, lay forward, A whaler in may kill and save again." on righted its a side, half laboriously with the course of a water His boat struck the voyage two or three were itself. boats The dozen whales; and she othkill smooth precision. may "Fin out!" said Tommy Hanline, ers and lose them Richard s farthest by sinking or in carried to port, he looked up at Mary with shinand a sudden gale. Most of her captures aft, Mat's forward. Hanline ing eyes. fire routine; but now and then a Mary felt young Tommy She tried to speak and found her his smal hands whale makes trouble. What haphanging to her arm, boat throat s dry and constricted. She Mat pened to the Venturer today was one tight as a tourniquet. al"Is it dead? Did Richhad whispered: Richard of those but extraordinary and isolated hit the water; kill Venit?" ard the from Phenomena which become legends; ready darted away as George, at her tone, looked at her and it would take its turer's side, the long oars bending place in but Tommy said in high ounce quickly; them every into the men put That was pretty won"Yes! moa for pride: One of the sailors aloft, a New of strength. Mary thought it?" wasn't whale derful, the meet Bedford man named Gibbons, called ment the boat would she said, not seeing her a voice "Yes," heard she and dwn to the after deck: head on; was husband's eves. scream a warning, and knew it "Sparm whale on the port quarI (TO HE COST IM ED) ter, sir. about two miles off." her own - QUESTIONS Plants Then she saw Richard swing the steering oar in a great sweep, and the whalebcat swerved on a to let the whale slide by; and pivot instantly it darted in again till she thought tne bow would ride up on that huge body just awash. Richard's great voice was l.ke a trumpet. "Sock him, Pip:" She saw B:g Pip, knee braced in the clumsy cleat, the heavy harpoon poised, drive it in and down; and instantly, before the boat veered elf again, he sank the second iron. B.g Pip swept the loose coils of the box warp overboard. He and Richard changed places, scrambling over the oarsmen, who bent low over the thwarts to let them pass. By the time Richard was in the bow and B:g Pip at the steering oar, the whale saw the boat riding there, and lunged toward them; and the men swung hard on the oars, and Big Pip dodged out of the whale's path and in again. Mary saw Richard drive home the lance, deep into that black side. Mary saw only a smother of confusion, action too swift to follow; but the men on the Venturer and in Mat Forbes' boat, watching more wisely, knowing without seeing what went on in that fury of torn water, saw that Richard was as wild with the heat of battle now as was the whale. For after a desperate minute or t, "Sock him, Pip!" HOUSEHOLD "pHIS is the kind of dress in which large women look best, because it is skillfully designed to accentuate height, place emphasis at the top, and make curves look attractive, not heavy. It's very A$k IAq Q Jlnother A General Quiz lWnlK gpf 1. How far back has the existence of cheese been traced? 2. What animal in that kingdom has the largest brain in proportion to its size? 3. Who is known as the father and liberator of six countries? 4. What two major religions ah solutely forbid the use of wine or Sii -- I Star pi rtie Son I ,, j.Hl f MtAKFAST" big bowlful of Kellogg's Corn Flakes with some fruit and lots of milk and sugar. A other intoxicating liquors? 5. What language was spoken by Jesus? 6. What is the Quirinal in Rome? FOOD ENERGY! VITAMINS! MINERALS! PROTEINS! The Answers 1. To the year 2000 2. The ant. " Aqoocods" frantiuo fah B. C. plus tht famous flavor of Kellogg's Corn Flakes that tast to good l sharpens your appetiti, 3. Bolivar (known as the father makes you want to eat. and liberator of Panama, Peru, Ecuador Colombia, Venezuela, and Bolivia. Copr. 1941 Ktllogs Company 4. Mohammedanism and Bud' dhism, whose adherents constitute are too sensitive of their faults; Late to Understand of the human race. We never know the true value when we have lost them, we only 5. Aramaic. While they live, we see their virtues. J. C. Hare. 6. The royal palace (also the of friends. name of the hill upon which the palace is situated). one-fourt- h Dad Can't Take It Any More! FERRY'S He used to be able to put away big meals and laugh and joke all evening. Not so good now, after 501 If acid stomach, "fullness," heartburn cause discomfort get ADLA Tablets. Your druggist has them. Alt YOUR 0SEl NEEDS IN SEEDS Pofromxe Your tocol ferry' Dor Few Accomplishments that leaveth nothing to Unbidden One The Imitator chance will do few things ill, but He that comes unbidden goes he will do very few things. Hah Nobody so like an honest man as an arrant knave. fax. away unthanked. He Heaviest Precipitation Tillamook, on the coast of Oregon, has the heaviest average yearly precipitation. Connects Montreal With Sea The St Lawrence river connects the Canadian city of Montreal with the sea. Cats Without Tails The Manx cats, native to the Isle of Man, la a breed of cats having no tails. Blind Woodcutter Although blind. Ivar Johnson of Stambaugh. Mich., is an expert woodcutter. Never Climbed Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world, has never been climbed. Ten Million Unemployed According to the 1940 census there are 10,000,000 Americans unemployed. Most Cotton Snow and Rain On the average, ten inches of snow are equal in water content to one inch of rain. Panama Oldest Settlement Panama is the oldest settlement on the continental Western hemi- sphere. Dardanelles Strait The Dardanelles straits connect the Sea of Marmora and the Aegean sea. Gins Filling a Bathtub It takes about 45 gallons of water to fill a bathtub of average size. Dallas, Texas, manufactures nearly half the cotton gine used in the world. Obtain Arnica Arnica is obtained from the roots, flowers or leaves of the arnica plant Species of Whale The cachalot is a species of the whale and is found under the sea. Coster's Last Stand General Custer made his last stand against the Sioux Indians. a Substitute for Olive Oil The oil of peanuts can be used as substitute for olive oiL National Forests There are 158 national forests the United States. Farms in C. S. There are approximately 4,000,000 farms in the United States. 'Sick Man of Europe' Turkey was once known as the "Sick Man of Europe." The buzzard can be found throughout the world. flow Lonf la 'Length'? "length" of pipe is approximately 14 feet in length. Largest Island in Mediterranean The largest island in the Mediterranean is Sicily. Bad Lands The "Bad Lands" are Dakota. Rooms in Capitol The Capitol in Washington, D. contains 430 rooms. in Bnzzard Everywhere A whal-g.lor- In South Shipboard Watch shipboard watch consists of four hours. A C, India FirRt The game of badminton was first played in India. Weight of Water One gallon of water weighs 8.345 pounds. Kind of Giraffe The okapi is a relative giraffe. of the |