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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, I THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1928 BEGIN HERE TODAY ! other three. may have been right," he said, things have changed since them, the old days, if a gent had said to me what you've just said now, I'd of had my gun out and working. But I'm changed, Dud. Have you heard of any killings being chalked up against my account late'y?" "You were always a smooth, quiet worker," answered Rainey. "What's plain to me," Martin, "is that there's s here. Some of the boys war Some don't. We'll throw a cide. Is that square?" They agreed th; l>t heroes «t ^torm and Spray | Thrills of the Irhi-h Pilots Dangerous 'iiede Our sea pilots are a little-known j body of men, but their work -,s vital lid Sliver to tne trade and prosperity of the difference cou.ntry' . Joe back. M&re ships enter and have the ports mouth of Gr Britain than %f any other country .n ,ntl the world; and a greater volume of of all kinds arrives at ur shores than any others, j • harbor entrances are in-! complicated; the estuary fever great. These i , , £2,000 a year, l who make 'mx____J up to one finds about a uni- two partners at their gold-mining versity, :ted in study rooms, .ielv-camp, Harry Gloster flees southward, mg mt^_x>st graduate courses, heap-knowing that he will be accused of the ing up degrees for no other purpose , * -«»--~7 ........ -~ .....j ~™h„„h, crime. On the way Gloster saves the and constantly gathering materials J^t. And Snver, producing a broad ™ ! life of a stranger, Lee Haines, from for constantly unwritten books. ' sllver dollar from his pocket, spun it leu*eb the murderous hands of a scoundrel. He had a towering and nobly form-!"1 the alr as high as the roof. There cr ° %£^rTjS^°\_&^"_ into^f reh«ad" " WhhihhHhiS ^i^ASS^^S^^ °f the ^mes, "the ^-atest port a figt with several men over f girl. j£jves eh^ werethin and pa't sw^ It did £f strike te floor *»» . ™Id, is extremely difficult to Lee Haines and Joan Barry, daughter glasses. His cheeks were tnin ana pa.e r navigate, of a famous rider of the old plains, to match the deep furrows of thought a* however. \Vith the oily ease * assist Gloster to escape. Haines is that creased his forehead. The weight W practice, Macarthur slipped studv of lc^al conditions at each The earnings of the P^ots of British shot down. Joan, several nights later, of his head was poorly supported by a h,s weapon from its holster and fired. ^ *e s™ QV ' !ll!l!rnf P01^ vary greatly. At Liverpool, the ---------J ^ hollow ches*. The dollar disappeared, clan>wd * ftTP i - ^ « second P01* of Great Britain Md me was low and a^t the farther wall, and dropped of the greatest shiPPin« centres in the monotonous and his diction pure. | heavily. One side of it was torn,Bma"'° rl"SJnnAarr ! world, there are 135 pilots and thirty-euard'an- thev finallv call a truce This was the 8TO»P which had '"VS" , J wv, !u ^ ™ 1 five aPPrentices. The first class pil- howevei ' Now Joe Macarthur comes gathered about the table. They werej There was a general uproar, not of. When the present Prime Minister cts, who navigate the largest ships, - playing poker. And ragged as wcreanger. but 01 admiration. jvvas President of the Board of Trade earn> on an average, £800 a year, the their clothes and poor as/ was the! "By gad, Joe!" cried Fatty Guiness, m the Coalition Government, an M.P. second class £600 a year, and the third room in which they sat, their stakes | "y°u have been practicing!" took a deputation of pilots to see him ciass £550 a year. At Bristol the consisted of stacks of gold pieces, fives! "Boys,' said Macarthur, keeping and discuss with him, in his position thirty-one pilots average about £60C and ten and broad'faced twenties. The back a smiIe of pride with an effort, as the Minister primarily responsible, a year each; eighty-six pilots at Car-ante was five dollars. The bets on the j "this here th>ng means too much to certain difficulties they were exper- ■ diff about £300. The Manchester pil-sm-illest hards were apt to run into alme- I cant leave it to chance. I ask iencing. Iots, who take ships all the way up the few hundreds. Moreover, they one and, J"ou again: will you take me in?" J j Mr. Baldwin was walkii.g^ up and ! canai to Cottonopolis^ make about "Orange Pekoe" is only the name given to a size of leaf--Some good, many poor, Orange Pekoes are sold--The most economical and yet the finest flavoured is "SALADA" Orange Pekoe--Sealed in metal pure fresh delicious 43c per §-lb. tain," Haines huge stallion. Gloster when he ke his retraces his steps to Joan's cabin and is confronted by Buck Daniels, Joan's ; they finally call a truce, Now Joe Macarthur comes to the mountain camp of a bandit gang with a scheme to rob the Wick-son Bank. "Fatty," the lookout, is escorting Macarthur to the gang head- NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY The gorge narrowed as they went, i- opened into a strange hollow chopped out of the head of the D landled the yellow i if it I Perhaps Dud had been swept off down the Terrace of the House of £700 a year. In the Humber, where j nis feet, like the others, by this timely , Commons. The pilots, from half-a- navigation is particularly difficult, l"what Macarthur saw last in the" They were" betting now before the exhibition of skill, or perhaps he had j dozen different ports, were ready wait-; the pilots only average about £360 a hollow was a cabin among the trees, draw, Lew Cambridge forcing up the noted^ the change in the faces of his i >ng when the M.P approached the year each. built at random of squared logs and draw on the strength of three jacksj fiends. At any rate, he now stepped future Prime Minister and said, 11 xhe pllobs m the cutters work unsquared, of piled rocks and rocks and Babe Coor.ey, still laid in courses. It was a mysterious because of a straight, confident to Macarthur and offered his hand. Itinave a number of pilots to whom 11 rotation while waiting for ships. They d when the was accepted at o He offered his hand to Macarthu hodgepodge such as might have bi thrown together by a madman with a giant's strength. The interior was as strange as the exterior. There was no chimney except an irregular hole which had been broken through the roof. There was no stove, no oven. Instead, a circle of fire-blackened stones of many sizes surrounded the smoking coals. As to furniture, there was little in the house save the saddles and bridles which hung from pegs along the wall or had been thrown aside carelessly in the corner. Around a table, on other stones, sat four solemn men. Their faces and characters were so unusual that one might have skimmed all the villainy in the wild west without finding a more dangerous quartet, and justice should ■ be done to each in turn. Foremost in avoirdupois was Babe Cooney, a swarthy skinned n smoothly shaven, always, that ii lights his face seemed to have the texture and lustre of youth, not more than thirty, perhaps, at the most, but the double battering of years and a hard life had reduced him. The lines around his mouth and eyes would have done credit to his elder by twenty years. And there was a cynical lifelessness in his eyes such as usually does not come until later middle age, at the earliest--1 scorn of the world and the people he found in it, so much as profound Weariness with what he had met. Such was Babe Cooney. If he had been carved in two, each half would have been as large as his left-hand neighbor at the table. This was | What the black, sharp feyes of Mac-'Sliver" Martin. The Sliver was so arthur say first, as he passed through named because the word was most the door of the cabin, was the yellow appropriate. All of his body was gleam of the gold which was scattered shrunken skin and bone. There was upon the table. But he did not give purple of cold under his cheek bones.'i: a second glance. His eyelids were puffy and red, and: "Hes come up with a 'plant' on the all the flesh around his mouth wasjwickson Bank!" Fatty called out sunken. | cheerfully, entering behind Mac- To the left of Sliver appeared Lew arthur. "I guess were glad to see Cambridge. Lew made a strange an- him, boys?" pearance with an abnormally small, "The Wickson Bank!" shouted Lew head and a large body. The face had .Cambridge, and smote Cooney h»av-one large feature, which was the ily upon the shoulder, enormous nose, overshadowing all 1 But the other three showed no en-else, the childish mouth, the dwarfed thusiasm. and slanted forehead. In the expanse | "Its all worked out," said Mac-of those wide shoulders the head arthur. "I got an inside man on the seemed like that of an infant. job. He's cheap and safe. And that's The fourth and last member of the what we want. All I need is some' --l quite different from the men that can be depended on. And! two hai been forced out of the hand, Cooney suddenly stood up, agape, and pointed through the door. The beautiful straight fluttered from his hand and strewed the floor. The others crowded nbout him. "It's Joe Macarthur come back to us--now h'll will be popping aga cried Du<t Rainey. CHAPTER XXIV. THE DOVE IN THE HAWK'S EYE d Rainey, "you know that I always say what I think. I said it in the first place. I suppose the rest of the boys will think that if you come back into the gang I'd better get out if I care to keep a whole skin. But they're wrong. I've taken the privilege of changing my mind. We need men with an eye and a hand as fast as yours. Besides, you learned when would like you to give an interview." I cannot refuse to pilot a vessel and "What?" said Mr. Baldwin. "Pi-'take all in turn. There may come rates? I didn't know any existed." 1 along a foreign fishing trawler for "No," said the M.P., "Pilots. Men which the fee earned is only £3, or who pilot ships in and out of our har- she may be a 20,000-ton steamer, the "Oh," said Mr. Baldwin, "pilots. Of course I will see them immedi- These men are in key positions. Ships become larger and faster, but with us, poor devil, that | the tides, the ocean currents, you couldn't bully the gang, and I shoals, the rocks, the fogs, the mists, biggest to enter the Humber, which the fee for taking her some twenty-seven miles up the river and berthing in the docks is £23. A ship in ballast^lthough the most difficult to navigate, pays only half-fees. A 600-ton coaster fully loaded pays only don't think that you'l again. I'm with you, for After that, there was nc ient voice, and when the eli Painey spoke again. (To be MUST BE THE ANSWER "Why do they call bootleg whiskey Moonshine'?" "It's the way they test it. drinking some If you can still 11 shine, it's good; if you c it, it's bad." try it the storms, and the darkness remain.] The pilot is never off duty. If a If the pilots were to go on strike, the j licensed pilot is walking along the whole commerce of the country would | street and the captain of a vessel mded, be held up. But that they have never, wants to go to sea and has forgotten done, and never will do. | to engage a pilot he can stop him in Their position is so important that | the street and the pilot is bound to it is specially regulated by Act of take the vessel out. Parliament. Their remuneration is I There are two methods of entry into fixed by local Boards, composed of | the Pilot Service. The pilot must pre-ship owners, pilots themsel\&s, and i Pare himself for service at a particu-the harbor authorities; and in the | lar port or locality, as it is a life study London district by Trinity House. If to qualify himself and obtain the they are dissatisfied they can appeal, in the last resort, to the Board of Trade. Ships, British or foreign, approaching our shores with cargoes, rarely know the port at which they will unload. This depends on the markets and other conditions, and they often hav^ to wait until they rttteh the first signal station on the coast to be told where they are to go. 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I as a marching ground for foreign The worst task a pilot can have is to armjes, asked the war appropriations tnk<» over a big steamer in ballast; committee to set aside $1,000,000 in which means that she is light, and in the War Office estimates for the pur-a strong wind is blown about like a chase of these defensive shields, bladder on the water. j stressing the decisive part which - If the pilot makes a mistakes, is in-1 sas and chemicals will Fla>' in future ' volved in a collision or, through an wars, former Premier Friedrich, who J error of judgment, touches a hidden ;s now a member of Parliament, said: ! rock, he may have his certificate taken "j believe in war, because mankind away and be ruined. It is obvious nas no law which can check it. For jfrom the foregoing that the pilots hundreds of years Hungary has bee.i must be men of particular attain-1 devastated by wars, and the country's iments, great skill, and knowing every ' destiny places it among the warring ■inch of their localities, the tides and ' nations of Europe Sooner or later the intricacies of our coasts. j we shali be dragged into a war, and I Sometimes the pilot has to pick up we must not leave our peopli la ship in the Thames and take her all j tected." ' the way through the English Channel, ' MOST people know this absolute antidote for pair., but arc you careful to say Bayer when you buy it ? And do you always give a glance to see Bayer on the box--and the word genuir.e printed in red? It isn't the genuine Aspirin without it I A drugstore always has Bayer, with the proven directions tucked in every box: BARONESS VON POPPER The former Marie Jeritza, fa The anger of Macarthur turned his face purple. 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