Daily British Whig (1850), 11 Nov 1926, p. 5

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§ 2 : . THE DAILY BRITISH wWHIC oo. | i ~"THE-GIRL IN THE ~ Anthracite SECOND CABIN" s Cont Br E I RATH The old reliable D. L. & W. Scranton Abt of he ah Anthracite. ervous Wreck," etc, We have been handling this Coal for forty yours, and this year's stock is fully equal to the best we ever had. , Nicely prepared, evemly sized and containing only the = minlisu of slate ad hones 'S. ANGLIN CO. LIMITED COAL, LUMBER AND WOODWORK. a BAY AND WELLINGTON STREETS, KINGSTON, ONTARIO. © Private Branch Exchange "Phone 1571. [Eas SUMMER AT HARLOWE 1 : A. Nanos, Men, Beton. Wehlern. Work Being S Harlowe, Nov. 3---The "pesutitul '| Indian summer weather is much ap | preciated. All are hoping it will {last a good long while as the wet, stormy weather put the farmers | back with their fall work. Some of i the boys who left here to work at | Flint, Mich., bave returned, work of the storm Trask caught the faint! / [oes very slack there. Theodore and ho of & voice shouting commands. | Damcourt, ThompsSn are home and "Do you know," he said, "1 am|{ { others are expected as they are lay- rather glad Captain Blodgett is the | | ing off men every day now, Mrs. C. boss of this ship. I don't like him: | Huffman with Miss B. Babcock are put he impresses me, in a way." | visiting at Frankford with Mrs. Babdb- "1 was thinking the same thing | cock's parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. Bab- 'only a minute ago," she answered {eock. Mr, and Mrs Robert Cuddy quietly. "If there is anything to bo {| spent Sunday at Mr, W. Cuddy's. done Captain Blodgett will do it." { Mr. J. Flake has gone to Toronto They were nearer to the derelict | with cattle and sheep. Some of the sow, grimly drifting upon It De | people from here attended the con- side. News of the new peril seemad vention at Tamworth. to have spread through the ship | by a sort of telepathy, Scores of paie-face passengers were crowded at the portholes watching the haif- crippled ship and the wholly dis abled one narrow the distance be- tween them. Suddenly the girl clutched Trask's band tightly and cried: 1f the branch should break-- 'ENDURED AGORY FROM BRUSFE 22 Gruman rent -o TiAl Hurt in bad fall, Your Grocer Sells it! E.W. GILLETT CO. LYD. TORONTO, CANADA with the southern island, Kyushul, involving am undersea length of. they also constituted his money more than two miles, when metal coins were Introd in the-early days when flocks and ! many had cattie stamped on them. herds were man's oaly po ---- a a-- A railway tunnel will be built soon way slowly afi, pausmg several | { to connect the main island of Japan times as the seas tried to saoatch him from his precarious footing. Aboard the Gulf Stream there was | an agony of waiting. He stooped and groped for some- "There is somebody aboard it!' {Ing om the deck. An instant later He looked, but could see noth. he began to retrace his steps. Fal- ing. teringly, he made kis way back fo _ "Up on one of the masts!" she the shrouds by which he had des- sald, pointing. "I saw something cended. He began to-climbd. Another move." figure separated itself from the Now be made out a huddled mass | SToup and crawled down to mesl clinging near the top of the omly him. whole spar that was left in the The line had reached! vessel, which had been a three: The Gulf Stream was still bear- master and apparently a square-|ing down upon the hulk that men- rigger. As they watched it thers | aced her; it seemed _that only a was a movement. Dozens of watch- miracle could save her from colli- ers caught the signal. sion. What was Captain Blodgett There was a murmur of awed |trying to do? [voices in the saloon. The peril of Suddenly the steady throb of her the Gulf Stream herself was for- remaining screw ceased. Trask and gotten in the new discover. the girl exchanged anxious glances. "Will we try to save them?!" sho This meant the end, perhaps. Then whispered. the ship shivered as the engines "God knows," answered Trask. |started again. Imperceptibly at first, "We may have all we can do to save then with ominous slowness, tha ourselves." | Guit Stream began' to edge crab- *R would be a horrible thing to| wise out of the course which was leave them.' | bringing her down upon the wreck. Scarcely 300 yards separated the Blodgett was giving her full speed vessels, for the Gulf Stream, wifh | astern but it was a puny and criy- her high freeboard, was drifting far | pled effort. more rapidly than the half-sub- The men on the derelict hauled merged hulk in hér lee. on the line as the vessels steadily x 'Let's go farther forward," neared each other. A heavy hawser Trask. "Ye can see better." attached to it went "over the side He gripped her arm tightly, ana and into the sea. together they staggered toward the There was amazement and con- bow, pausing now and then to cling | sternation among the watching pas- to some support when the ship | sengers. It seemed that the master cateened perilously under the om- of the Gulf Stream was deliberately slaught of the wind. t¥ying to lash his vessel to the very There was a booming noise from peril that threatened here! Yet the somewhere on the deck, projectile. ship backed steadily, crawling far- followed by a long sinuous line, ther and farther out of the line of shot out from the Gulf Stream. It her former drift. described a high arc, poised for a} They had the end of the hawser minute above the derelict and then | aboard the wreck now, and several plunged downward toward the sea. | men sérambled recklessly down to Had It reached? the deck and seized it. Although the | One of the figures clinging to the ships were close, it was almost im- | mast detached itself from the group possible to see what they did with it. and began a slow and painful des-| tor the seas buried them from sight cent of the shrouds, his body fiat- | for more than half of the anxious tened against them by the pressure minutes. of the wind. For seconds at a time And now came the final momen! he "was hidden from sight behind which would tell whether the sheets of water and spray, but at| steamer was to live or dle. If the re- each - reappearance he WAS nearer maining screw failed her collision | the wave-swept deck. was certain, for she was not yet we He reached it and clung des-| Of the deadly path along which ths perately to the rail for a minute, ap- hurricane drove her. | parently trying to regam his "Pray for that engine!" Trask+ strength. Then he began to work his/| called into the girl's ear. 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She studied tLe derelict again, then looked up at him, "I'm glad father isa't with us, Billy," she said. "He has years of work ahead =f him yet." Trask's heart leaped. He knew she was that kind! - i ton "Of course we probably won't hit ? peculisc sex, it at all," he told her, trying to put a confident tone in his voice. "But 1 thought you ought to understand - . ~ the situation.' «DR. RUPERTP. MILLAN Jr Te Tot DENTIST - say I'm not afraid. I am, of course. But just because I'm afraid, 1 won't 41 Princess Street. 'Phone 1830 Eafraction erumple up; that is, I don' t think I & pain rT ING oY will. It wonldn't help any.' APPOINTMENT George Clark Wright said CONGOLEUM CANADA LIMITED Montreal, Quebec again, We Carry All the Latest Patterns and Colors in Congoleum Rugs 'PHONE 147. J AMES REID 254 PRINCESS ST. sion of figures mn sou-westérs along Civil Engineer and Contractor, but her steady eyes never ceased to watch the struggle. Tastes good and IS good! *| the deck. 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The Gulf Stream was | clear! » 1 Not all the power of the hurri-| cane could drive her upon the hulk! are not tasty or appetizing. ®Pmow. They were abreast, drifting in | parallel paths, and although not | more than 100 feet separated the | bow of the steamer from the stern of the dismasted wreck, they would |. | never be nearer. Then the distances began, to widen. The engine stopped again,lthen was driven full speed forward, and the steamer edged her way into the lee of her companion 5 in peril. "We're leaving them!" cried Sid- ney, her face white with pity. But Captain Blodgett was nol leaving them. 'The gun on the for- ward deck boomed again and an: other line cleared the short space of water between the vessels. It was seized and hauled upon, and present- ly another hawser went out through the bow chock of the Guif Stream. Minutes passed, and = new mo- tion was apparent in the ship. With her single screw threshing the sex at top speed, the dow began to head slowly into the gale. Something more than the power of her engine was moving her now. It was the pull of the two hawsers that linked her to the drifting bulk. A third time the gun sent a lime, and still another hawser began to pay out. Captain Blodgett was making sure. Their was a furious pitching aa the steamer's head slowly, yet with certainty, swung to face the terrific seas. Now directly over the point of her bow lay the dark! form of the derelict, almost hidden"again by the fiying froth, Three great hawsers, drawn taut by the drift, went ou! trom the Gulf Stream and disap into the sea. There was ithe jangle Bf the Vell and the throbbing of the engines ceased. = ° Captain Blodgett's ship was rid- 10g to A ses anchor! SBut--aboard - the other ship--- what becomes of them?" asked the girth, as the Gulf Stream steadied down 38 a rhythmic plunging, her prow poiatea into the teeth of thal LICK! Once more the lights are on. 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