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CHAPTER XV—Continued
and eddied about the decks like a I eiUicr. ’ He peered off across ths
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school of fish meshed in a net try­ water through narrowed eyes.
George caught her to him. held her ing this way and that to be free.
George, looking at the green
close, the thin muscles in his arms It tore out bulwarks here and there. slopes rising from the water, the
It ripped one of the boats from the brown-flanked mountains to the east,
tightening in nervous spasms.
Then George freed himself and gripes and left it hanging stern said: "It’s all forest, isn't it?”
stood erect again and turned to down against the ship's side, bat-
Isaiah shook his head. "That’s
Richard, while he still held Mary’s tering to splinters there.
tussock grass you're looking at It
arm like an owner in possession. He
When that sea caught them, Mat grows ten-twelve feet tall, and from
spoke haltingly.
Forbes and Gibbons were at the here it looks like trees
for a fact
“I’m sorry, Cap’n Corr.” he said. wheel together, but Gibbons was
but it ain’t. There ain't no trees to
“I was wrong.” He coughed twice. torn away by the solid water and
mention, just vines and bushes.
“You must lie down," she said. flung forward head overheels, One
Corkran stopped for a moment
“I'll tuck you in. You're cold and of his booted feet smashed through
sick and tired.”
a pane in the skylight; and his foot and spoke to George. “Reverence,
“Come." He tugged at her. “I’m in the hole it had made and held his you'll be needing sun on you, and
not tired. I'm strong now. Mary.” body hanging head down.
Mat warm days again to set you right.”
“I’ll be fine, yes." George as­
The cabin was small, with a high Forbes held to the wheel, Richard
bunk against the Chip's side, a lock- and Peter were saved by the life- sented. “Caught a little cold, that's
fast at one end. drawers beneath lines to which they clung; and the all; started me coughing again.”
the bunk, a seat and a drop-desk watch on deck forward had warning Mary, watching Corkran. saw the
Then he
where his Bible and his two or three enough to give them time to grab at solicitude In his eyes.
other books lay. George shut the hand-holds.
turned to her, cheerful, smiling
door and turned to her and caught
As the stern lifted. Richard leaped boldly.
her hands and whispered hoarsely: through water that was still knee
“Himself here, you and the sun
deep to help Mat with his one are the medicine he needs,” he said.
“You do love me, Mary?”
She said mechanically: “Of course good arm. The Venturer had begun “He has you, anyway.”
to broach to, but the foretopmast
I do."
She felt as she ofteu did with
He threw up his head, half laugh­ staysail helped pay her off; and they Corkran something unspoken pass
ing. “There's no ‘of course’ about held her. The splitting crack when between him and her; she thought
it!” he cried. “I know you do, now; the foretopmast broke a foot above incredulously that somehow he had
but I never knew what it meant be­ the cap warned Richard what was guessed her secret and Richard'»—
fore, Mary. I love you too, today. happening forward. The stick as it which George must never know.
I always have, without knowing it fell caught Eddie Few a sidewise “He'll always have me,” she said
crack that stunned him or killed him simply. “All of me. All my life.”
I love you, Mary.”
“I know you do, George dear! I outright He slid overboard as the Her eyes met Corkran's fairly.
great sea. sullenly relinquishing the
know you do!”
“Aye,” he said. "You’re fine.”
Then George began to cough attack, drew off from the decks of Mat Forbes summoned him. George
again, and had to release her; and , the Venturer.
! looked after the sailor as he moved
she stood, watching him as remote- | Gibbons freed himself from the i away.
ly as she watched herself, thinking 1 skylight and. heedless of his lacerat­
“You know, Mary, Corkran likea
how little he was, and thin, and ed leg, returned to duty at the me.”
wheel.
Richard
kept
the
wheel
with
weak, and frail.
“I know.”
He coughed and coughed, half­ him, and since Peter was useless he
"I think he’s the first man who
sitting on the bunk, clinging to the
ever liked me." Her hand lay in
edge of it behind him with both
his arm. “I value his liking me;
hands, trying to stand, till he be­
and yet by all the tests I know,
gan to bow forward; and she real­
he's a graceless, sinful man.'* He
ized that he was slipping down, low­
smiled at himself, at his own in­
er and lower. Then suddenly he was
consistency.
a sprawled heap, all legs and thin
At dinner next day Richard said
arms in a coat too big for him on
they would be ready to depart by
the floor at her feet
evening if the wind served. “We
She was strong enough to lift him,
might have to wait,” he admitted.
with what help he could give, into
"It'U need to come some easterly
the bunk; and to wipe his stained
to help us out of the Bay.” He was
lips gently, and to loose his gar­
sending both the remaining boats
ments and take off his shoes and
ashore to fill the casks from a pond
cover him. She brought blankets
the men had found not far from
from her own bed to warm him;
the beach; and he and Peter would
but when she felt his body under the
take one of the guns from the cabin
blankets he was cold, cold, cold.
to try for geese as an addition to
Sometime, minutes later or hours
their stores.
later, Peter came down to speak to
When a little later the boats were
her. He stood in the doorway, asked
gone, the Venturer was almost de­
warily: “What happened?”
serted.
“George is sick.”
Mary became conscious as the
“What happened to him?”
afternoon drew on of a change in
“Nothing. I think he caugfit cold.
the wind, and looked out through the
He started coughing.”
small square window above the
“Anything upset him?”
bunk and saw that the ship had
“No, no. He's just sick, Peter.
swung so that the southern shores
Peter said, watching her narrow­
of the bay instead of the northern
ly: “Dick’s gone crazy!" She looked
were now on that starboard side,
Up at him in quick concern. “Crazy
Richard had said an easterly wind
as a coot,” be said, in a fretful
would favor their departure from
“Mary—Richard's dead."
anger. “He came on deck and piled
Hoakes Bay, and she thought with
every stitch on her. He just said sent Mat Forbes to clear the wreck­ a lift of spirits that they would de­
he was in a hurry to get home.”
age forward. Holding a precarious part tonight, as soon as the boats
Richard did not come below for footing against the pressure of the returned. When after a while she
dinner or for supper.
screaming wind. Mat cut away the heard the first boat bump the ship's
topgallantmast and let it go over­ side, something in her quickened.
CHAPTER XVI
side; and under his driving, men She would be glad to be away, glad
secured the fragment of the topmast to come north out of this rotting cold
Mary stayed beside George's bunk to stop its banging, and caught the and be warm again.
all that night She thought the mo­ tangled web of rigging and con­
She heard feet on deck, and lia-
tion of the ship had eased. There trolled it with many lashings. The tened for Richard’s voice. She
was no longer much roll. Once next reefed foresail began to draw again, beard Peter giving orders; then the
day Mary went up the companion­ they got other useful rags of canvas creak of the windlass as the first
way. She saw, standing somewhat on her; and an hour after that great cask of water was swung aboard.
sheltered by the companion, that 4ea, Richard went below to reassure Someone came down the compan­
the great seas astern were forever Mary, he had the Venturer in hand. ion into the after cabin, and she
about to overtake them. Solid water In that hour the gale, having done thought it was Richard, and won­
piled up behind them higher and its worst for their destruction, had dered whether he would come to the
higher, seemed to hang above them somewhat relented. The pressure door here to speak to them.
for a while, moving nearer and near­ of the wind began to ease, and be­
Richard was coming into the main
er, till its crest broke into wind- fore daylight, though the seas still
cabin now, passing the head of the
driven foam, and the mass subsided. were mountainous, the immediate
table. She heard his steps, and
There were two men at the wheel, danger was over.
looked through the door and saw not
Later
that
day
they
dropped
an
­
fighting it hard.
Peter came to
Richard but Peter. Peter went into
Richard's side and shouted some­ chor in a large bay which Peter
the cabin which he And Mat Forbes
thing; but Richard, staring stonily identified as Hoakes Bay. Here Rich­
shared; and after a minute or two
ahead, did not even nod. Peter ard planned to repair the Venturer.
he came out with his arms full of
Next morning after breakfast was
turned to the companion, and Mary
his belongings and carried them
backed down into the cabin with served, Richard was asleep, and Pe­
through the door into the common
ter did not wake him. “We’re bet­
him following.
room aft. Into Richard's cabinl
He said, hoarse with panic: “He's ter off if he stays asleep,” he said
She stared after him and her heart
harshly. "He’ll wreck us before he’s
crazy, I tell you.”
She rose, and
She saw that he was shaking with through. He's crazy!” Weariness began to pound.
simple fear; but she was not afraid. was on them all, crushing them; and George waked and asked quickly:
“What is it, Mary? Don’t leava
No emotion could touch her now. after they had eaten, and after Mary
She went in to George, to sit be­ had warmed George’s bed with hot me.”
side him, holding his hand. He would water in the jugs again, they all
She nodded in submission, yet she
be better when the sun shone again slept. It was midaftemoon before stood in the door, waiting for Peter
and they were all warm. ij£e Richard roused, and waked others, to appear again. Why was he in
thought she had been cold for weeks, and the worn of repairing damage Richard’s cabin? She could hear
could not remember when she had began.
the sounds of his movement there.
They lay three days in Hoakes She began to tremble, not now with
not been stiff with cold.
Time
passed. At intervals, Peter or Mat Bay; and most of the time the wind cold. She wished to call to Peter,
Forbes came below for a brief mo­ held steady and boisterously strong, and her lips were dry and her throat
ment of rest in their cabin across and the cold ate into them deaden- ached. Then he appeared.
from George’s. The lamps were ingly. But on the second day the
He did not speak. She forced
lighted day and night, swinging and sun shone fitfully between spats of herself to do so. She asked:
flaring crazily; but night ran into rain; and when George saw the sun
“Peter—where’s Richard?”
in his cabin window, he wished to
day without division.
He shook his head, not in negation,
Mary and Tommy
She thought of Richard, never go on deck.
but in a sort of submission. He said:
leaving the deck, his face set like helped him up the companionway; “Mary—Richard's dead.”
granite, staring ahead yet seeing and on her arm he moved out of the
Mary for a morr.jnt could not
nothing, forcing the ship along this shade of the after house forward into
move. She heard herself whispering
road that might have death at the the open waist of the ship. Mary saw
monotonously: "No. No. No.” She
end like a man fleeing blindly from one of the ship's boats on its way to
knew she was shaking her head in
something dreadful. She knew what the shore; and when Isaiah joined
a gesture of denial, a refusal to be­
it was from which he fled. Her them, Mary asked where the men
lieve. Richard could not be dead.
were
going.
thoughts kept him company, hov­
He had been so alive. So much in
“Mate’s gone to get some fresh
ered over him, wished she might
him had spoken deeply and clearly
comfort him, while the tortured meat,” he said, “and to look for a
to so much in her, even when no
chance to fill our water casks. Is-
Venturer drove on and on.
words passed between them, nor
Disaster struck them in that hour land’s full of wild hogs, thin as a
even any glances. She braced her
deer,
not
a
mi*e
of
fat
on
’
em
any
­
dawn
when
between midnight and
where. You’d think you was eating hands against the sides of the door,
men are at low ebb.
looking at Peter. She stood there,
J
For it was then a sea overtook the veal. Real sweet meat.”
shaking her head like one whose
"You've
been
here
before?
”
Venturer, solid water like a wall, so
His Adam’s apple pumped violent­ mind is adrift, whispering, mutter­
high that it becalmed the fore
ly.
“Well, you might say! I've ing: “No, Peter, No, he isn't. Ha
course; and before the topsails could
can’t be.”
lift her, it came aboard over the heard my pa tell about it, too. It
But Peter told her soberly: "He
stern. The mass of it boiled through used to be there was a lot of ships
is, Mary.”
come
here
for
seals,
skins
and
blub
­
the after house; the stem was
Mary insisted, stupidly reiterant;
pressed down by the weight, and ber and the like. They don’t come
the ship’s way checked. Then, as so much now. Not seals enough to “Peter, he’s alive.”
(TO HE CONTINUED)
the stern rose, the water swirled pay you for the trouble, nor whales
Friday. Feb. 7, 1941
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.!
EW
YORK—Adam Smith de­
N scribed economics as a science
and then added, “Science Is an anti­
dote to tile poison of enthusiasm."
It is possible
FDR’» Economist that Presi­
An Antidote to dent Roose­
‘Poiton of Zeal* velt's person­
al economist,
rarely heard or seen, serves as such
an antidote when impulsive action
is indicated. He is the somewhat
dimly outlined Dr. Lauchlin Currie,
graying at 37. clothed in gray, as
though in protective coloring, a
shadow-shape in the Washington
fogs of doubt and uncertainty.
Dr. Carrie not only delve« into
mountain« of detail, aa did Hay
and Nicolay for Lincoln, in an­
other critical hour In March,
1860, but he 1« a deep fount of
economic doctrine. He has not
been credited with the Inspira­
lion for the lease-lend gli for
aid to Britain, but It 1« interest­
ing to note that in April, 1938.
he pul forward a plan to solve
railroad troubles by a leasing­
lending procedure in which the
roads would gel equipment
much in the manner in which
Britain would get war goods un­
der the new bill.
As the “last of the brain-trust­
ers,” he is an advocate of the full
utilization of technical resources by
clearing them - of financial entan­
glements and commitments, so far,
as possible. The late Tborstein Veb­
len foreshadowed these techniques.
Dr. Currie is a native of Nova
Scotia who became an American
citizen in 1934. He joined the New
Deal in that year, three years after
taking his doctorate at Harvard, as
an assistant economist under Jacob
Viner of the treasury department.
Later he was taken over by Mar-
riner Eccles of the Federal Reserve
board as an assistant in the di­
vision of research.
He is not only the President’s
personal economist, bat his liai­
son man in economic matters,
appointed as one of those six
White House assistant., “with •
passion for anonymity,** which
passion seems fairly authentic
tn his case. He was a teacher
at Harvard and an Industrial
consultant in Boston before go­
ing to Washington.
All of which is a reminder that
the average man's wife is his per­
sonal economist and that she fre­
quently is an “antidote to the poison
of enthusiasm.”
F ADAM SMITH were alive, he
would note that Mlle. Eve Curie's
had
not
scientific
antecedents
dimmed any of her enthusiasms.
i
The daughter
Science Hat Not of Marie Cu­
Curbed Emotion rie arrives on
Of Mlle. Curie the S. S. Ex­
cambion boil­
ing with enthusiasm for free France
and for democracy and civilization
in general, science or no science.
Her previous trips over here had
made her a favorite in this country
and her charm, intelligence and
beauty have been eloquently ex­
tolled.
Her burning black eyes might
be called “an antidote to the
poison of indifference."
She
qualified in science, at the Sor­
bonne, but turned to music In
1928, a gifted pianist, praised by
her friend Paderewski.
With
all her other gifts, she is an ath­
lete and a first-rate bowler.
And with all that, women rave
about her clothes. Writing has sup­
planted music as her chief interest
and she has been highly praised for
her biography of her mother, pub­
lished In 1938. Her proficiency in
higher mathematics rounds out a
perfect score for one of the most
highly esteemed of our gang-plank
celebrities.
I
RICA
MORIN!,
whose
recent
E concert drew an overflow crowd
to the Town Hall, frequently has
been called "The greatest woman
violinist." She doesn't like it. While
she notes that there have been, in
nearly three centuries, only 73 dis­
tinguished women violinists, as
against thousands of men, she in­
sists that the lag is due only to the
fact that women have been too busy
with homes and children to bring
through their talents. She thinks
the above accolade is patronizing to
her sex.
When Adolf Hitler's tanks rolled
into her native Vienna, the comely
young violinist moved out, with her
>45,000 Stradivarius. It was in 1921
that she first came to New York, a
child prodigy in pig-tails, making
her American debut with the New
York Philharmonic in a recital
which one critic termed “the great­
est violin sensation since Kreisler.”
Her father was Italian, one of a
long line of musicians, but none so
gifted as she. She defies snobs and
highbrows by playing Victor Her­
bert and Stephen Foster along with
the violin classics.
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THE AUTO HORN NOl.l'TION
Mayor LaGuardia of New York is
in another campuign against auto­
mobile horns, but hlzzonrr makes
the sume mistuke others make when
he thinks anything can be done
about auto horns except abolishing
the darned things. Campaigns to
soften the notes, decrease the vol­
ume and dilute the pitch are silly.
An auto horn is an auto horn any­
way you take it, the human thumb
being what it is today.
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• • •
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fathead with the manners of a dic­
tator and the ethics of a gangster.
• • •
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• • •
"It is the horn,’* said Elmer
Twitchell today, “that gives an auto
owner the Nero complex, shucks
him of all remnants of civilized im-
pulses and makes hlm a plain
damned fool, filled with the idea
that all he has to do is to press
the button to make the whole world
jump.
*1 don’t care whether it la a loud
horn or a soft horn, a bass horn or a
canary, a blaster or a boop-a-doop-
er, nothing can prevent the owner
from making a nuisance out of It,
and Mayor LaGuardia is suffering
from drooping intelligence if he
thinks otherwise.
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LEARNED BY EXPERIENCE
“All the reckless driving, al) the
violations'of automobile laws, all the
disrespect for the rights of other
highway users, and most of the auto
accidents are due to the horn, and
to nothing else. Take that horn off
the car and the driver would be
forced to depend on common sense.
• • •
“Back in the horse and buggy
days you didn’t see teams crashing
into one another at every crossroad
or wobbling ail over the road at
breakneck speed, did you? And why
not? Because they never had horns
on horses!
"Yes sir, this world started go­
ing savage the day the first horn
was clamped to a gasoline vehicle.
It started swelling up with inconsid­
erateness, self-importance and the
to-hell-with-everybody-else spirit the
first time an auto designer put a
button under a car owner's calloused
thumb. It converted a nation of tol­
erant, easy-going, kindly folks into
a country of bad-mannered, jittery,
wild-riding, mean and homicidal
dogs. It made bigger and better
hospitals the never-ceasing need of
America.
• • •
“And there will be no change un­
til the horn is removed, made un­
constitutional and plowed under for
all time. Man won’t be so reckless,
■o selfish and so pigheaded once he
has to depend on brakes Instead of
breach of the peace!”
• • •
CHILBLAINS?
“Don’t rush the season!" says the
man
Who claims he likes winter sports;
But yesterday I caught him with
A folder on Southern resorts!
—Doris Irving.
• • •
SHORT STORY
A motor car,
A little horn,
A human thumb . . .
And peace is "gorn."
• • •
Women's hats for spring and sum­
mer are being taken from the old
family album. Instead of out of old
numbers of “Puck” and “Judge.”
• • •
A New Jersey court holds tiiat
anybody walking on a moving esca­
lator does so at his or her own risk.
Not only that, but it looks so darned
silly.
• • •
Elmer Twitchell, in our opinion,
always had the right idea on esca­
lators and energy conservation. He
always sits down on them.
“How is it you let your wife have
her own way?*’
“I once tried to stop her.**
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