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Asifree from dust as tea canbe. | & THE RABBIT ~ BY DOUGLAS NEWTON. : el ah PART IL (trustworthiness. He wasn't really] He was a fine bushman, Val Grim- second-in-command of the Concession mond, and his hiss was perfect. It --Val was that nominally--yet it was was the deadly, cruel hiss of a snake the Rabbit who carried things on about {0 strike. A hiss of ghastly during such times as now, when terror, unless one knew, i Maurice was away; it was to the Rab- | Everybody there did know. AIL bit all instinctively turned when prob- save one laughéd at Vals joke. But lems had to be solved, difficulties' one knew and did fot, laugh, and that overcome and advice needed. one was'the Rabbit, He leaped at the| They turned instinctively only. Ap- sound. 'There is no other word for it,' parently he was regarded as that sort he Jeaped wildly end spun around of negative little person, the school, with a ery that was half a yell. The "swat," whose only justification for card pack tumbled in a shower on to existence was his ability to mug UD ma the table," his chair went "flying, his things that better, manlier men hands rose in an unpleasant gesture hadn't time or desire to bother about. of sheer terror, and even in the His reliability, his efficiency, did not! candlelight this face "was. mot good add to his standing; he was just a to see. {queer little brainy worm one made The others laughed at him, but-use of. Never more than that. Helen could riot taugh, and Val Grim-' Helen could not help studying him mond did not laugh. during the few days that followed her "Real man, isn't' he?" imeered Cal. 'rejection of Val Grimmond, and she "I've tried that trick on him a hun- couldn't help 'feeling that in certain dred times and he always buys it. A ways he was rather fine, fine, courageous, manly lad, eh?" ¢ There was a quietness and self- "Most people are afraid of snakes," respect about his nervous shyness said Helen, feeling rather 'sick that was rather refreshing. His mind "Quite! I am myself," sneered Val.- was alert and his brain well stocked. "But a real man keeps his funk in He wasn't limited in his talk to sport hand, Besides, that's not real-man and hunting and "shop" and the high funk, it's the sheer, panicky, back- spots of Bete, as the ¢ were. boneless terror of a creature who He knew depths beneath his work, the hasn't it in him to be a man. And folklore of the Turpl Indians about that's your paragon of all the wvir- them, the legends of the: e, the tues." | reasons why cne should go carefully He rose and stalked contemptuously with the customs of 'the and. And into the house, and,.in spite of Mir- outside that, he knew the vos fam's protest, lit ofie of their too few Val and his hunting Mihd=did hot eandles and scttled himself in a chair know it. He knew the loveliness and to read, "ugliness of tho vast, tangled, hungry Helen made her excuses nof to join tropic bush that 'surfounded and 'I'sho Oe rg . itense hot darkness of the [single night they were'in 'state already, so when Ene 2 scream "came it Mhey aH sprang up, and it came again, a wild, almost mad for help, Then there was a crash in the sickroom, and the light 'was They stood in stark and terrible darkriéss about Miriam's door, utterly |* unable to' go' to it because of the ter- ror that lurked within. (To be concluded.) pee Before-We Had Clocks. Before the invention and mentfac- ture of 'watéhes and 'clocks, our fore: fathers employed several "devices for recording the hour of the day: The sundial is the catliest. 'instro- ten of its kind, and sandglasses were d from. an early date, He ltréd the Great used graduated candles, the burning of which marked the passage 'of tine, The 'art of 'clock and watchmaking is Baligved to have originated in Ger- rhe early watches were made in curious shapes, such as pears, skulls, s and crosses. Some were set in the heads of canes, some in brace- lets and 'other pieces 'of Jewellery. These "instruments had to be wound at least twice daily, and differed from on; was not until the Batoviny of the bal ance-wheel in 1668, by which the mainspring unwinds itself evenly #nd regularly, 'that they could be relied upon to record the correct time. rm cel css Minard's 'Linlthént seothes tired 'foet. right through them in old" horror. | the correct time by about an 'hour a: were drinking '¢aps HE museums of the. oo hold: hold: lections of cups. w! sly om ie duiusnte ga es = Al ing i Borns ang horn, ink t : SARLY 4 ph Ba Sontainers) of many m The early Goi had were horn-shaped 'a oH be held in the hdnd Subsequently, with "legs so itself. Seandigav] olk lore tells 3 Then, em "god of 'thunder snuff, an ---- oe required BY 4 © The Cremona Violin, gant fo drink a horn dry at a t th 8 ne Tr The three greats makers of the har to his lips, Thor Cremona violin were Nicholas Amati, oa ghty drink which he thought Josurh Guarnier! del Geet nad 'Aton 'would 'drain the: t cupithat-ever: nius They: were simple, was, but he was to find that lard-working artisans' who sold thelr the horn was almost as full as'before. [Works of genus for a few florins. Again he tried to empty the thing, '* but in vain; for one end of it was in| . the sea, which 'he had noticeably lowered. ' THus did the old Saxons ac- count 'for the rise and 'fall of the tides. There 'is 'evidence that the people of 'England snd Western Europe used drinking horns long after the Greeks These tours: are so varied in itineraries, in interest; in duration and in cost, that: Fy ebiooss: one that + particularly meets your requirements and purse, jr Star Standard of Service is assured in cash, ¢ men to handle, it -- He a week: before headquarters. could be com- raunicated with and a force of mem i brought to the scene. Twit sms, RE y. the aeroplane Hon Js: In the first. on valans 1a number of lookout stations «on: mountain fops of in. bo towers, vr all stations have telephone connection with the forest quertérs, ; 'During. 'the danger season a lookout man, with | fire-finder and map niyo v is ly on duty. When a fire is hiad he at co telephones head: 'Thos. Reade's to England Return fare. ' Fi , third" q Clase, personally i i fl ND date optional with- $155 = rk to don. d trails are perso 8 Go oine: Bo Pe ok ig is and Bt but May 21s! - ) d lakes ae landing places. - past" re iplanes which "make 'patfols 'mre: fitted -with- radio f p+ Round Trip Tour tus. When a fire is detected $155 "Royal National Eisteddfod (he msn i oy Drcatior sected Holyhead, Theat. Anglesen, } North 'Wales, Aug. ot po 0th "Bailing back to: the base. Here a latger the card party and went in her room, threatened them. To #im his work and there, sitting in darkness, for she at Chitipa wasn't merely a "job"; $155 was unwilling o wane oven hes ay it was a romance and ad enthusiasm. night light, she found herself obs: Outside that again he was cultur- by Val's words, . creature Who ed; books, plays, pictures, philoso- in"one year, Bailing tor lh on magnificent hasn't 'it in him to a man." phies, movements were interesting to Megantic, | May; ist And the Rabbit, she had seen, had" him, and he could make them inter- e lacked it. esting. An attractive and interest. Old Londoners' Re-Union The knowledge wined out the fleet- ing little man when one broke through $155 0 ersbnally: conducted. An sxcellent opportunity to ing impression of fineness she had his shyness. Time and time again thought she saw in him. Had put Helen caught herself being fascinated cross with home folks on the magnificen & "| plane, called the-suppres sion: plane, is han "in readiness, and upon receipt of the 'report. this is flows to the him back into the rather contemptu-' ous place in which the others on the Chiripa Concession held him. He was a feeble, effeminate, impossible little man, She could not alter that opinion, though, now that her attention had been so markedly dawn to him, there seemed many. things helping to make her alter that opinion. There was, first, his Handling of the native workers. As she had said to Val, he got more out of his workers with his appareptly mild ways than all the hazing.and bullying of Val Grimmond and his' muscular compan- . fons, And 'it wasn't coddling 'or backing down before them, either. He could keep even the most truculent workers: up to the mark in a way no one else could. Queer that such "a little runt," as Miriam called the Rabbit, should yet be able to handle difficult, tricky and sometimes dangerous brates with bet- ter Buécess and without any of, say, Val's effort. It spoke of chariicter, it spoke of something in him they coulda't though, to be sure, her Drother. Masrice seemed to see it, for he trusted the Rabbit absolutely. And that was another thing, his ee by him. But she always caught herself. She always realized that lack in him that absence of real manliness. His very | interest in cultured things seemed to! insist on it. He was so. interested because he wasn't a man, because his lack of manliness drove him back on such. things. . His very attractions made her miserable about him. If he . Were only a real man, could prove that he had the courage and fibre of a man like Val, she could honor him. Yet she almost hated the Rabbit, too, because he was the only altern. ative to Val, a backboneless, panicky thing, as Val had called him. A wo- man couldn't like a man like that. When Miriam fulfilled her threat and became really ill, dangerously ill,' 'the Rabbit's effeminacy seemed to be- come more pronounced. It was he who! saved Miriam's life. The others were sympathetic, "cut | up" about it, eager. to help in any way, but it was Calvin Boldre who did things. He seemed to know how to tackle her peculiar brand of jungle fever at once, though he had rather less experiende "of local conditions than Val. He had Miriam in bed and prescribed the drugs and treatment that pulled her round. He 'sat up with her for three terrible hi : With his own hands and will, it seem- ed, he pulled her right out of fhe jaws of 'death. "He's rather wonderful, Calvin," said Mrs. Frew, the third woman on the station. "The way he tackled the danger, absolutely like a doctor." "Or a trained nurse," said Val Grim- mond with a s&nedr, and, though Helen: hated him for that, the truth of it seemed to stick in her mind like a bor, Since Calvin Boldre wasn't like a. man, a doctor, his handling of his patient, his gentleness and sureness, . seemed womanly. Perhaps it wasn't * fair to think that. A doctor would [have acted in the same way, but her mind, obsessed by his lack of courage, | prejudiced her against him. If the Rabbit had only proved him- '| melf a real man. If he could prove 'himself that now, things might be different. = But she doubted that he iy Ay with brother neces hg A 'Bel H of 30-44-58 or 65 days with 'costs ranging from $425 to $850. Leaving Montreal on ers of Isabella end Father Thoma Pe Shisd Cavin for ws pices ans Megantic, May 21st $170 'Manx Society Excursion Manx ans Romecoming Tour 1927. Lands at' ' the call to. all Manxmen from: their E "Tourist Thir: mpgnificent \ Albertic, June 3rd Hone Tours 7 Megan $375 Special Tour of Ireland -32 Days By popalar ec joauest, Fader zu ices of the Daught- ng on pect White Regina, July 7th, Pitman Tours other 'Manxmen on Williams, Now Liskeard, O: 57 days, $875, Cabin class, all Visi ies "parien Tafied a" Bh 3 Rr aie Moret nel re faa, 1 , France, Switzerland, and Italy a a 331s an nes cent independent tic, May 21st or. if paid if paid in if spiri direction of Réver- a Choice of Teur- - LY, Sabin for $500 to $650 ac- . eX ; "En France, supeth, White ed oe Sages * 'Dorie, duly ; 23rd y EE tnt | fining mthods Unies the auspleaiof the Canadis Legion uring Europe) $260 24 Tours (study French h while or ding 'on open of tour and a h tod for 32 days. expenses included. Both, Race oi big eg York on Famous Red Star Liner Lapland, July 7th ils tio. July 16th 18th International Rotary 'Convention - - 30 Days + Ostend June '5th to 10th. Optional cxiension tours in up, E ). Visiting Canadias ti and i : 'work 1s {ne "between the Royal Canadian. HE REESE | 28 sodne 'of the fire with a ndmber of | Are-fighters: and their equipment: In 'addition 'to the-advance in fire- : pment. has also been - ji impr a Sesant years. udes 'which, though oa 'eno J reid on a man's back; ---- 34 ¢ . cap! capacity fo pump. water | Brough mare' than half » mile of '| hose, In th ational forests the aero-, on by co-oper-: Air Force and the Dominion, Forest Service." ie forward has been made . use of the areoplane. It might be thought 'that with such progtess 'little would remain to be done as regards forest probectiop in Canada, but what is rgently rigeded is that these methods - ch now apply to nly a:small part fof our forests be extended until all 'are covered. | need is causing 1 nine all walks of life | to give mh stings' o to the vériou; | forest authori ties in their fire-p