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Cepyâ€"ight by Framk 4 CHAPTER XIV. ; The Voyage of the Merry Widow. T bad stopped raining eutirely now and the south wind had Lecome a warm and welcome reality 1 wentâ€"down to the cove. As I bad rather espected, 1 found Bill Jobuson there with bis motor scow, the Merry Widow, with ber nose driven up on the beach. Bill‘s father was Danish, 1 believe. »ud his motber was a Freoch Canaâ€" dian. His speech is a combination of patois that be beard at bome. G Amonnl es o9 9e | pobbainiie iesns "Quite a sga out there." 1 Indicated the lake. "She shall run pretty bigh," replied Bill. "but not so high like she do "g’ fiqj‘m of Mturfis, Tukin% ;-miem of the # yfkne other and â€" |B 'afl e_.n:“bg mad :ut _most drug lngdon‘s ?" "Ill tell you later after 1 think up some interestinz exp‘anation. At pres. ent 1 shouldn‘t be able to do the subâ€" Sect justicc, | How about it?t Will you uke me ove. there?" e hesitated. ‘ ‘Here‘s a dollar," 10 said, "The torim is quiéting down a good deal, and, anyhow, you. know the . Merry [‘.\"nluw is the best sea boat on the lake." â€" The flattery won him. What owner, . even of the veriest motor monstrosity,‘ Is not susceptible to praise bestuwedi "I gness she shall run all right. One walve she shan‘t work yust so good as she ought, but 1 got some wire. 1 tix him up." 1 helped him shove o®, and Bill tinâ€" kereq with the one cylinder machine gun which propelled the barge until he induced it to bark at irregular inter vals. . Have I forgotten to mention that the Merry Widow is an opeun boat with no superstructure or canopy of any sort? If 1 have, let me state bere that her lines are very decollete,. and a large wave meets with little obstruction save the passeugers when it starts to travel from the bow to the stern. "She shall be, by yiminingy Christ mas, sure choppy," Bill commented. "The wind sbe shall haul to the south and make cross waves." He was absolutely correct. As soon as we left the mouth of the cove we went through some evolutions which 1 would bave said it was absolutely impossible for a inau of my build to Canadian women are right beliind the. ’Cnaldl.n troops in the trenches. _ Women nurses are now installed in hospit als @ miles in the rear of the actual fighting line. Many of our @anadian won.en are un able to take up the duties of nursing at the front, but they should know how t« take care of their own at home and for this pnm no_better book was ever brinted the Medical Adviserâ€"a book itaining 1,008 pages, ; chapters on First Aid, Bandaging eare of Fractures, Taking care of the E"-wunen'" m at home, who. are worn take‘that reliable temperance, al tomic, Dr. Pierce‘s Favorite Preâ€" or send 50 cents to Dr. Picrce right St., Bridgeburg, Ont. F ies . . ce ud e »p=* > lV@ x43 w\ \ \ j \% \t .â€" z8 N* a ' # s <hp #% *~% 6 g\i\;\ i 5?":":‘)" :” worn‘ We felt our way to the door, which "mbf',.m;‘,f:fl‘,f’,:"{!: ,:;::'n':::::‘.onc of plalu weod with no i arant m 1.“"(‘ou;9 lymh ‘:nm‘k that off from Its '.'..'.'.'.'.'m‘{:’i".""‘;.‘{m; 3“ ?l‘ube(." f;ll m: "cany." g:“:!:"hr&:iw:;fil“;:l:hx?t then. Get ready. One, and built me ap severa) | _ Crash! Bill sprang at the door, and years mgo whem | WA# /.. 600. puward 00 > ing with a chrome~It fell in ward. &':'amfl'e' and *% -l';] 1 stepped across the threahold and bogk rdmeg ‘mpesc leveled my monkey wreuch like a reâ€" . , I take great volver. %‘!W'I Wihectw un efur Renda®‘ 1 sem. and bound in cloth, Preree‘s Fuv rank R.A4 A. Munsey Compan» perform. i was favorauiy considering the idea of being seasick when a larger wave than usual wasbed over and struck the engine. It erpired peacefully on the spot. _**What has happened?" I asked, with a landsman‘s justified terror. ‘"‘The engine bus stopped." . Bill‘s calm stattmept of the obrious exas perated me. "Of course It bas stopped. Can we ever start it again?" "Rure. She shall run some more. The wure. she sbort ctrculit the spark. See," Bill pointed, "sbe all wet." RHis enthusiasm as a lecturer on the gasoline engine made bim for get the lake outside. It was brought to his nttention by a large ware which tipped us on our beam ends and dropped Bill and myâ€" self in an affectionate group into the stern of the boat,. where we were joinâ€" ed presently by a collection of oil vans, wrenches, grease cans and other marine itopedimenta. Bill removed his elbow. from the pit uf my long since hopeless stomach and scrambled to the eugine. "She bauin‘t burted a bit," be anâ€" nounced. "Jend ime your bandker chief." 1 silently _«ssed bim the article be lesired. He ~nrefully wiped of a urge part ot rbe engine with it beâ€" fore Le offered it back to me. 1 deâ€" clined and told him to consider it my clined and told him to consider it coutribution to the equipment of boat. "Now. sare." he directed, "you must hold the cout over the spark so sbe «hall not get, by yee vizz, again wet." He shtowed me bow to protect the engine from the elements by interposâ€" bg mg cout mul my saivering body »etween It ind the waves ‘This being gccomplished, he started the machinâ€" ery. and we Jdurched forth into the right onee more L tS split his time between steem7g ind mending the enzine. keeping up a running fire of conversation,. not with ime. bot with the motor, When she‘d coughâ€"weakis â€"Rill _wouldâ€"Lit â€"herâ€"in some apparently tender spot with the flat of a munkey wrench and say: It Was Brought to His Attention by a Large Wave. "Come on, Merry: you shan‘t stop. 1 knock the carbon off your walves. Now you feel better." | A turn of the path brought us in ‘range with an iluminated window. 1 ‘leg the way of from the path and through the sbrubbery to a position near the bouse, but a little to one side of the window. |\ Cleatly it was up to me to look in ;andg sce what was in that room. 1 \itept to the lower corner of the win dow and quickly raised my bead so as ‘to bring the interior of the room with in range of o: > eye. After 1 bad flled my lungs with a Yttle undiluted air 1 picked up a heavy wrench to use as a weapon, and. diâ€" recting Bill to arm himself fikewise and follow as quietly.as possible. 1 set out up the patth feading from the doek, which doubtless ended at the Hunting: don domicile. â€" Finally we remched the dock at Huntingdon‘s Island. The lamp showed surroundings and furniture which .proclaimed the room to be the kitchen, % 1 crent back to BHIL "No one in sight," I reported. ‘‘There is sotme one in there 1 want to surâ€" ’prise. to play a joke on, so 1 am gbing ‘to break in The door." â€""Ha, ba!" laughed Bill "She sball be rery funny yoke." _ se _**~ "Throw up your bands!* 1 comâ€" the To my surprise, 1 found that L was addressing a whiskered individual clad in white swimming tights ouly, who was backed up agmiust a door in a far coruer of the roow. He threw up one hand, keeping the other one behind bim. Ailter a T "Up with the other band!" I sbouted, advancing into the room to get a better view of its occeupant, but keeping sufâ€" ficiently in the shade of the lamp so that the real nature of my weapor would not be immediately evident. "Throw up your other hand!" "CALADA" "Because I‘ve got my thumb over the keyhole and there is a woman on the other side trying to peck through!" 1 grabbed the lamp from the table and held it so the full light fell on his face. ~ "Lipton S. Clair!" 1 exclaimed. "I admit that 1 did not expect to be recoguized in this island wilderness," he began pompously, careful to gesticâ€" alate, bowever, only with his free band, "but why sbhould 1 not be here ab well as any where else?" is the best flavored and the most economical tea 4T o us ever offered for sale, asos “ Iu?t .'::"o. Germign soil, aeeou:u to l2 aÂ¥istal cablesram received © from "Can‘t?‘ ~1 repeated in surprise. "Why can‘t you?" â€" W ho are youX"‘ he demanded in turn, trying to see past the light which I held in front of me. "Montmorency Blainey." I replied. "Yes, yes; 1 understand." Then sudâ€" denly be shrauk more e*sely into the doorway. "Is that womanâ€"my tiancee â€"Miss Dunmoreâ€"with you?" But y On getting the ie Hhaiet | Genkine ge "Because when I saw you last you were going to swim to the mainland." 1 reassured him '..'.JE' ;éfed him bow he came to be where 1 had found him, "1 found the swimming a trile more strenuous than 1 bad txpected," be beâ€" gan. "I discovered that it was pracâ€" tically impossible for me either to reach the maiuland or to get back to Green‘s island. ‘The general trend of the wives w»s iu this direction, and 1 was forced to go along, suving my strength for keeping my head above waler. s# "The rest of my story is absurdly simple. 1. saw land here and came ashore. It was not quite dark, and I came up the path to the bouse without noticing the light in the window. 1 tad uo thought of thereâ€"beingâ€"any inâ€" "I can‘t," said my prisoner stub habitants, and my iutention was to rummage around until 1 fow.d someâ€" thing to eat and some dry clothes. "Ag soon as 1 opened the door I saw that L had conimitted # social blunder. There was a woman standâ€" Ing at the telephone, and when she saw me she screamed and ran through this door, slamming and locking it aft er her. lt was useless fo try to exâ€" plain to a frightened female the inâ€" nocuous uature of my visit, so l‘re frainéd. 1 was abont to partake of some of the food | found on the taâ€" ble there when 1 beard the key being catefully withdrawn from the lock on the other side. Quick as a flasb I asked myself the question, ‘Why do people. withdrawâ€" im keys from locked doors? The answer struck me inâ€" stantly. ‘So that they may look through the keyholes, of .course‘ I recollected my costume,. With one bound I jumped«to the door and put my thumb over the keyhole, where It bas been ever since." bell ringing." "Yes, it has been making an inferâ€" nal racket ever since I arrived, but how could I leave my post to answer it?" He belplessly waved his free hand in the direction of the keyhole, "Ouch! Stop!" be yelled, jJerking his thumb away and dancing up and down frantically. "What has bappened?" "She jabbed a pin into my thumb. I‘m bleeding to death. Put your thumb orer the keyhole a minute while I swear." I was about to do that, foolish as it was, when there was the sound of a rie shot somewhere outside, and alâ€" most simultaneonsly the lamp which 1 beld fell upart in my hand and crashâ€" ed to the floor. "HMa, ba, ba!" laugbed Bil! Johnson in the darkness, / "I see the yoke now." "What happened?" Clair asked, "Some one shot out the light." "What for?" "I can‘t imagine." Any furtber conversation was cut short by a scattering fusiil«de of shots, some of which came throngh the winâ€" dow, as we could tell by the tinkle of glass. "This is a regular attack." Clair may hbave been an egotistical ass, but I must gite him credit for not showing fear under fire. "What shall we do?" "Surely you bave heard the telephone ; or. scandiag .. domestic science. This «cholarshin !s founded in memâ€" ory of Dr. and Mrs, Bothwell‘s daugh ter, Muriel, who recently died and who was greatly ‘Interested in . the Collegiate Scholarship. Conlumer;;fc possessed with a faith and enthusiasm entirely lacking before the quality was actually demonstrated, s (To be continued : 6.000 PLMNES _ LOST BY GERMMS Surrender of Aircraft Allies Proceeding With London, Dec. 8. â€"The surrender of the 2000 German airplanes required under the terms of the armistice conâ€" vention has been proceeding during the past week and it is expected the full complement of enemy machines . will shortly be in the allies‘ hands. . The taking over, examining and parking of so vast a fleet of machinâ€" es has necessarily taken time, as the German armies in their retirement are leaving the planes behind in their evacuated airdromes, Certain dif® culties and attempted evasions conâ€" ‘uected with the precise proportion of the various types of aircraft _ to be turned over and the air worthiness of some of the machines surrendered are now being adjustedâ€" in response to firm representations by Marshal i Foch on behalf of the allies. _ Some light 4s thrown ypon . WNat this gigantic surrender of â€" aircraft means to We Germans by the official British figures of air fighting upon the British Western front from Janâ€" uary 1, 1918, to the date of the armisâ€" tice. These figures show the num:â€" ber of enemy machines destroyed in ‘aerial combats by the British to have. ‘been 3.060, while enemy â€" machines driven down out of control numbered 11,174. y * ,Germany is known to _ haye lost | we‘l‘over six thousand, airplanes deâ€" ‘stroyed and surrenderéd during the present year. Onâ€" the other hand, | the resources oT tWe alltes are being reinforced by 2000 German machines ‘of modern type and in good serviceâ€" \ 1t is worth noting that the terms of the armistice include the giving up 'nt the complete equipment of the \ variousâ€"reconnaiasance and. bomhing | machines, this taking in a large num: i ber of German aerial cameras, bombs ! sights, machine guns, wireless trans ‘ mitters, ete. . LARTE ORDERS | ARE EXPECTED IN CANADA Ottawa, Dec. 7.â€"It is _understood that if he can accept, Sir Charles Gorâ€" don will head the Canadian end . of the new trade mission being formed to work in conjunction with the Canadian mission in London. ate with the London body, headed by Mr. Lloyd Harris. From the latâ€" ter. heavy orders are expected as a result of the reconstruction of the devastated parts of Europe and the trade commission at Ottawa will atâ€" tend to the placing of the business and generally aid in trade and indusâ€" trial development. Theml;-er;(')-r;;l_e'lâ€"oifl-the commission will be decided and announced in a few days. It is designredrm eoâ€"operâ€" Sir Charles Gordon has been in charge of the Briiish Government‘s purchases of munitions in the Unitâ€" ed States and as well is . the viceâ€" chairman of the Imperial Munitions Board. ; Qirle! Try It! Hair gets soft, fluffy and beautifulâ€"Get a smail bottle . of Danderine. 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Proâ€"| m ) > x . , * § _ m s| * nemain oo es . cotad from Lendon . |To CARRY OUPTHEAOT | ez LJY cala hh avus. cfastbbvenes 1 7 an ~official cablegram uedm from Cm W Inâ€" foi received in the cablegram stated, indicates that the Canadian cavairy brigade, together with the first and second Canadian divisons entered Germany, and are today close to Boun, the German Rhine city, which is one of the fam ous University centers .of Germany, situated _a few miles from Cologne. Boun, if®is understood, will be . the headquarters of the Canadian corps. C se lom m the :::m" cablegram stated, indicates that the pensiot Canadian cavairy brigade, together [ , with the first and second Canadian r divisons entered Germany, and are today close to Boun, the oen'nnm Rhine city, which is one of the fA0M) op fuy ous University centers . of G@FMARY, goryi, the TEREE TNE Soe c use es een o . The Canadian forces now in Gerâ€" many include the Royal Canadian Dragoons, the Fort Garry and Strathâ€" Dragoons, the FoMC.h cona Horse, and the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery, forming the Canaâ€" dian cavairy brigade; the 1st 2nd 3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, 10th, 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th battalions. of the 1st Conadian division, and the 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 25th, 26th, 28th, 29th and 31stNinfantry battalions of the second Canadian divisions. j WThe third and four Canadian divi‘ sions are remaining temporarily in th vicinity of Mons, until transporâ€" tation facitities in Belgium are fully restored Chaplain Arthurs Dead. o omg o mm ooo en snn The death from pneumonia is offiâ€" cially réported on December 6, at Havre, France, of Capt. the Rev. T. A. Arthurs, B.A., Chinese _ Labor Corps. He was the foreign pastor of Knox Cburch, Woodstock, and was ordained in this city in 1912, at which time he went with his bride to China. 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The Acting M states that while oo the sus pens hostilit % up on tqif-wlc- which! has arâ€" with a view to !-z submission enemy of terms permanent o moade B2 underl the Mifftary : of lurtfl s under the Military Service Act, and consequently leads .to the restriction of the activities of "the mflitary police, there is no amâ€" *mesty in respect of offenses commitâ€" ad against the Act or regulations, d the policy of the Goverament to rproucut,o rigqorously these offenders temain steadfast and in full effect. by NOW IN GERMANY mw"'_m J. E. "'lf"f-’: oub:’.."pdxzn_'..fi;;' &E@E;E,,’_’;aé"& 7 Pneggare of the: 1 forced London, Dec. 9.â€"(Reuter‘s)â€" The Olympic sailed Saturday from Southâ€" ampton for Halifax . carrying 5,000 Canadian war veterans. The Corporâ€" ation officials of Southampton and a number of â€" distinguished _ generals gave them an enthusiastic send off. upstairs Economical BK West, Kitchener, | > . Notary, Conveyank St. East, Kitchener, etc.. Money to loan. 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