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CAPTAIN SALVATION By Frederick william Wallace

sick, heavy-eyed and weary. and
rolled into his bed.
But sleep, the blessed oblivion,
was denied him, exhausted as he
was. The curtain of the nights
events rolled back in his memory
to the incident in Mary's cabin.
He still covered and cringed
mentally at the thought of the
vision that came to him. II was
drunk and seeing things" he
tried to assure himself. But the
assurance held no comfort. He
felt that his materialistic imagi.
nation could not possibly con-
jure such visions, would not per-
nit anything spiritual or vision
airy to exist.
He remained awake for three
or four hours. twisting and turn
ing in his bed and wet with per-
spiration. His head ached, his
eyes seemed burning in their
sockets. Then when the sun.
shine filtered through the shaded
ports, he arose, overcoming the
sickness that filled him by sheer
wal RO0CAs anu dIIGE
and shaving, arrayed himself in
white duck shirt and trousers.
Toward the cabin he went,
wondering if he would see Mary
at her work and how she would
act toward him. But a glance
around the saloon showed no
sign of her. The table contained
the remnants of a breakfast laid
In the manner of men. The car
pet was unswept. the lamp globes
smoke lackened. Mary had not
been at work and it was 9 in the
morning.
Arson tapped lightly on her
door. There was no answer. He
tapped again, harder, unmistak-
ably anxious. Still no reply from
within. He next tried the handle
OF the door. It was locked. He
began to wonder, with a vague
Tear at his heart. il she had
done something to herself, or If
MS attack in the night had over.
come her. People with weak
hearts He became gen.
timely alarmed at the thought.
Mary! Mary! Are you there?''
his tones were solicitous, appre.
hensive.
fes! He caught the answer, low.
voiced, scarcely audible through
the panels, and he owned to a
feeling Of tremendous relief.
1T is me-Anson. Are YOU all
right? There was no reply and
he called entreatingly. Open
the door, Mary, and come out.
side. ! want to speak to you"
There was a moment of silence
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your" She hesitated for mo-
ment and then followed him.
He strobe over to a locker and
began bringing out bottles OF
liquor. Within a minute or so
the table was stacked with them.
Mary stood watching him wonder
ingly.
See this stuff" he waved a
nervous hand towards the bottles.
That's a weakness and
out it goesv' He wrenched open
a stern port and began thrust
ing the bottles into the sea.
Champagnes, fine wines, rare
liquers-costly vintages from
many lands, sparkling, heady,
sirupy, and Of many tastes and
colors-went Pumping into the
sea.
There! that's gone" he re-
marked languidly when the last
bottle went whirling overheard.
Now for the restp' He slid back
the door of a bookcase and began
pulling the volumes from their
shelves. Here goes the sicklv
and inflammatory literature OF
physical love erotic rub
bish fit only for squirting the pas
sions OF fools ."
With ruthless hands, he dragged
out book after book, rare volumes
many Of them, and cast them out
through the port. The collection
of years, the expenditure of thou
sands of dollars, all went in 10
minutes, and when the sacrifice
was over. he transferred his atten.
ton to the prints on the bulk.
heads.
Silent, he stood and watched
the destruction, and when the
articles Of immortality had been
consigned to the deep, he ceased
and scanned the apartment. Nov,
Mary, I've cleaned out the Augean
Stables. That's my apology to you.
Are you satisfied"
I am happy for your sake
came her answer. She paused and
fixed him with clear-eyed gaze.
He stood beside the empty book
case, smiling, in a manner as
though srnugly pleased with him.
sell. He felt that he had made
great concession to some one.
Mary's keen intuition sought out
the weakness in his sacrificial
orgy.
Are you trying to please God?"
She asked the question Of him in
quiet tones.
He flashed a quick glance
toward her. "God?" He reiterated
the word thoughtfully. mo" he
decided. "I'm getting tired Of two
failings-two weaknesses"
Then you are merely bolstering
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6GCHEE'E'S?' screamed the wind.
~ A swell rolled under the YES
sci, seeming to cast her nearer the
.'tdowsing" of the coral fangs,
but the speed of her onslaught
was too great to be arrested.
For moment she staggered in
her stride, while the watchers
on deck stood at their posts,
Eternity roaring in their ears,
their straining eyes watching the
breakers with uncanny fascina-
tion, and scare daring to move
lest doing so they halt the prog
ress of the flying ship.
stShe-e-e's-E' The sound came
low.toned and petulant and was
drowned in Anson's defiant bawl-
ing: Euchred, by the nine godsi
The old girls made it, Before
her human complement could
comprehend, the Aphrodite was
safely through, plunging and roll.
ing with lee scuppers full of
water and flying-fish, and the
breakers of the reefs Tuning
and dancing in the moonlight
astern.
Crosby met his commander at
the poop ladders. "Twas yer
fathers son what sailed the
hooker this night" he remarked
eignificantly, his scanned face
vvrAathed in a smile. And she
buckAd to it like a good one"
He patted the oak rail affection
ately, q. a good one, by
Godfrey
CHAPTER 40
sick, shaking. his nerves a
sAngie, Arson staggered into the
charthouse. Fetching out his
eextant, he called Mr.. French to
stand by and take down the
chronometer time. and while the
Aphrodite ploughed booming to
windward in the squally Trade,
he took a lunar observation.
when the calculations were made
and the position fixed. he called
the mate into the room.
Your RoeAs are a long away
e-eR AasA.S ne said tonelessly.
AAAt'a the Recife to loo'ard and
were jammed down on the Bra
lillian coast between Calcanhar
and Cape San Rogue"
Throughout the dark hours of
the morning, he kept the deck,
driving his ship offshore until a
sufficient offing was gained to
keep clear of the long reef that
skirts Brazil from Calcanhar to
Bahia. And when daylight came,
hot and rainy, with the wind
Pickering for a shift to the
southeast, he stumbled below,
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mas night went glowing. Late,
after Jackie and Dearie were in
bed, she and Michael sat in the
living room. The dwindling flame
of the logs and the candles flick
ering so elfin-like on the tree filled
the room with poetry and shad-
ows. They toasted buns over the
embers and crunehed on these
fine thick slices Of turkey. They
grinned at each other--this was
better than the dinner. They had
a cup of chocolate and made
table Of the firebox. Roen picked
up the crumbs that fell. 1t il
sad, always, when q sweet, happy
day draws to an end.
There were many things she
wanted to tell Michael-out she
stared dreamily into the fire, her
hands clasped across her knees.
''WelI, pilgrim soul?" inquired
he. and quoted teasingly:
Others may love your moment
Of glad grace.
And love your beauty with love
false or true.
Here's one man loves the pilgrim
soul in you
And loves the sorrow of your
changing face"
I'm so glad 1t was you, Mich.
ael."
That did what?"
Loved me-"
Som !.
IF it had been another, he
would long ago have tired. Then
I'd be LEFT alone. For I'm the
kind that will only love once.
It's well for me, Michael, that
you come of that steadfast race"
'Roeny, 1 think I'm going to
get raise. 1 think III soon be
making $780,"
She fixed her eyes on his that
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were bluer than sapphires and on
his soft, black curls. "A
hundred dollars, Michael? That
makes $780,
What do you mean?"
1--WE have 5000 together. oh,
Michael, we have enough together!"
He clasped his hands tightly
about his cup, burning spots com.
ing to his cheeks. 'tRoeni Do you
mean it? Do you want to do this?
Shall we?''
do you. Roeny? Shall we?
Shall WEI"
She sIumped down. feeling
queerly exhausted. 'Oh. some
times. I'd risk anything. 1t would
be insane. 1t would ruin every.
thing"
He came to her and made room
for himself on her chair. He put
his arms about her shoulders and
pulled her hands down from ler
face. He looked with tears in his
eyes at the tears in hers.
He said with a sudden catchy
laugh: I'VE can stand it. Roen.
A little longer. We've waited this
long. What would we have IL you
keep on working there? In few
months I'll be earning $3.50. AMI
il you run this house on 800. we
can manage on $3.50 even with me
thrown I'M He laughed again.
Il don't eat so much, Roeny. do
/? can be awfully economical in
lots Of ways II I've got to.
ashore. will you say we can be
married when I'm earning $3.50?
Will you let me come and live here,
too? You won't have to change
single thing
She trembled and wondered why
she. who seldom wept, now longed
to wall loudly-tc cry with all her
heart. You would have four to
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the little tree in its improvised
stand. If all the world wept today
she couldn't yield a tear. Michael
had given her a gift.
1t hung about her neck. Last
evening he brought it. He was -
thrilled that his eyes bInked wnen
she took the box. He said huskily:
"Hurry-then I'll tell you"
1t was ring in an old. dulled
with fine, numberless petals grow
ing up and closing about an i'm.
mense, blood-red ruby--a thing of
life and passion and fire. Within
the band was carved infinitely, To
Macushla, 1877. To ASHORE. 1912"
The betrothal ring Of Michael's
mother and now Rooms. She look
ed into his blinking, tender eyes
at his trembling lips. He
laughed softly. II only got it
month ago. / could hard
ly save it till tonight.
That stone is the blood of hearts
that never change, Roen."
This was the rapt undertone, that
today ran in music through her
thoughts. The blood Of
MichaePs heart crystallized into a
jewel and bnrning in secret ecstasy
above her own.
For such thing well might one
wait an eoni
She stepped back from the tree,
surveyed It critically.
isn't it strange. Roen. that Mr..
Burton gave you nothing?"
Roen jumped. "Why, he did
the same as usual-half my salary
added to my check. ="
but last year he sent you the
candy and the flowers and all those
books and the gloves"
Hes in New York, dearie.
Didn't tell you? He's always
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S60H did he take you to din
" ner?''

660H did he take you to din.
~ ner?"
ST should hope so. seeing that
he kept me from food till 8
o'clock. think I'll go to bed.
I'm tired. Come along, dearest"
She helped her mother. AS
she stopped down for the good.
night kiss, Dearie clasped her
hands at Rooms neck. She put
her cheek on Roen's and said
with faint, happy sob: RON
ME, dear!'
It caught Roen with a pang
and long afterwards she remem-
bered her mothers look and tone.
When she reached the office
building that next morning, a
sunny May morning. her steps
dragged. he did not wish to go
in there and sit all day in the
same room with James Burton.
There would be all these CULVER
ing admissions between them
sad, embarrassed things. She went
in, reluctant.
BY noon he had not arrived.
AT . u ClOCk Sn0 IOSclfCu q 1SA'
ter by messenger. Burton was
on his way to New York. He
thought that was better !. take
this trip now instead of next
week, as he'd planned. By the
time he. returned, in six or seven
weeks, she'd forget what he said.
She read it and was filled
with a warm. grateful admira.
ton. She read it again with a
flood Of glad relief. AS though
q thing ponderous and dark
were suddenly plucked by the
roots from her heart.
And not for a moment did it
occur to her that she had flouted
Life-had turned her back on a
fine and shining gift. She want
ed no other between her and
Michael. If Michael's love failed
as the world seemed to think
1t would, then she would accept
the grief this would bring and
this grief would be thing
richer and more sublime than
the shallow Joy Dearie would
have her claim.
She meant to stake everything
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, taking trips between the home Of.
flee and here"
This was the truth-since that
night in May, Roen had been alone
three weeks out Of four. She took
work from Burton's assistant.
There was talk that Burton would
be given charge OF the Eastern
office.
Dearie stuck the needle through
the popcorn. Her lips were very
white. To Rooms dismay. Jackie
now went out to fill the coal scuttle.
Dearie said in a quick, frightened
way: HE hasn't taken us for q
ride in months--not since that
night you went to dinner with
him."
He went away then. Dearie-
the next day."
"oh, the next day. The day
after you had that dinner with
him"
''She knows" Roen thought.
For an instant there flashed
through her every pulse a wither-
ing, reSentful hurt. Dearie wished
her to feel guilty. Dearie thought
she had no right to refuse James
Burton. Thought she had obsti.
nately put SELF first.
OF course she had!
She took Jackie's garlands and
began draping them on the tree.
Yes-Dearie said a girl had this
golden hour when the world lay
at her feet and she might beckon
to whatever man she would. Roen
had stood in hers and without a
lettering regret swept away its
shining privilege.
She shut her eyes suddenly and
smiled, feeling Michael's ring
touching against her skin--blood
OF a heart that would never
change
Down many a year that Christ
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that again" He spoke falter.
ingly.
She looked straight into his
drawn. lined face with her clear
gray eyes and the spiritual jur.
ity reflected in their depths struck
hard into his turbulent soul. Here
was "a woman he could not break
or bend to his will, and the ex-
preston in her features revealed
to him a something he could not
fathom.
Il believe you, Anson," she
said simply, and his visage fell
before her steady gaze.
As though suddenly coming to
a new resolve, he turned and
caught at her hand. please
come into my cabin a minute or
two," he blurted out. ''I'n show
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CHAPTER XVII

CHAPTER XVII
Usually on Christmas they went
about with subdued joyousness be-
cause the holidays were hard on
Dearie. In Christmas week Bobby.
dad had died. The cottage was
haunted with this thought. Dearie
would lie in the great old-fashioned
lounging chair watching with re-
mote, sad smile their tense, expect
ant faces Roen hiding things from
Jackie-Jackie wanting her to take
bundle and in that.
And always at this time Roen
went softly down the hall, remem-
bering the night fat Maggie pushed
her to her fathers room, remem:
bering the kind. wondrous look
suddenly vanishing and his dear,
teasing eyes darling about like
little animals terribly scared.
She would come back to the hv.
ing room, kiss the tears from her
mothers eyes, whispering: "Dearie,
he'd want US to be glad. Can't you
smile, Dearfe? Pleasep' Dearie
would answer with a look of gentle
accusation Could she forget?
So at Christmas time there was al
ways this, like sad undertones run
ming through music. Putting red
berries in the vases they seemed
too chipper-too brightly pol
ished.
But today the undertones were
lost. Jackie knelt before the fire
popping corn He'd bought
a tree-bought it all by himself
that very morning. He got it for
20 cents because it was the asst
one and scrawny thing. He was
decorating it with cotton dipped in
silver powder and with garlandS
of popcorn.
Roen came beside him and gave
his arm a shove: Shake it quicker
quicker With a laugh she put
the bowl in Dearie's lap: String
itr'
Dearie looked astonished at her
blooming face and the glow of her
dreaming eyes. Roen turned her
back quickly. pretending to steady
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followed by the turning Of the
Key In the lock. The door opened
slowly and she stood before him,
dressed in the black uniform Of
service, pale-faced and red-eyed.
At the sight Of her. Arson felt
a strange sense of shame within
him-a sense utterly foreign to
his nature. He bowed his head
contritely. I'm sorry, Mary, and
] hope you'll forgive me-" he
said quietly.
Il have forgiven your Her
answer came without emotion.
II was mad drunk-crazy,"
added the other. 1--WE been mad
for years, Mary blind fool,
and--and / want to assure you
that I'll never do anything like
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keep, Michael. That's all that
would be changed"
All, don't say that. Listen, As
thore, with the automobiles becom-
ing more and more numerous,
therel be big boom in oil. I'm
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A Gripping Serial Of the Love Of a Girl
and Her Great Sacrifice, by the
Author of 'Chickie."
Read This First:

In first great love-
Scott hearted college
month the California redwoods
ael returns Berkeley where in
gineng goes private secretary
her invalid mother, "Dearie winsome little brother Jackie
dad entrus these two to the girls She struggled baveH
She stricken, looking
down the future just when she aggerg under her burdens
win HIM Roen cannot sacrifice Michael The night Of Miches
marriage The next day Burton also He outlines glowing
oppressed but longing only Michael refuses Burton She
that he viii fail her.
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Origin Of the Word "SpOoning''

THE origin of the word pooning" goes nearly years
In those days young would his marital
tenons by giving the girl lovespoon" hand-made uten
with two bowls single STEM
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NO1O Go On With The Story

win or lose-on Michael. Wom-
en- such as Roen have made
this choice before.
New Britain herald., 1927-12-09

der water. Sheets of quarter-inch steel plate were bent into half cyl finders 40 feet long and six feet in diameter, to become the side forms hy which a six-foot collar of cement was run around the joints to make them water tight.
 Deep sea divers did the plumbing under water and supervised the placing of cement poured down to them through Q 60-foot pipe from the surface above, The helmet crew, working in three hour shifts, helped seal the points. and after they were made fast the water was pumped from the tube.
 Precasting the subway sections made it possible 10 Use less cement than when moulded under water, and greater strength is claimed for walls only half the ordinary thick ness because of the method of con- struction.
 George A. Posey is chief enei- ncer of the project, Ned D. Baker office engineer and Lochiel N. King construction engineer.
 The subway not only enables 100 ships and some 10000 motor cars to cross daily at the intersection of seaway and highway without in terrupting each other. It elimi- mates three railroad crossings at the site.
New Britain herald., 1927-12-09
GIGANTIC TUBE
 UNDER WATERS
Oakland and Alameda Are Thus
 Connected

Oakland, Col, Dec. g. Pl-Con- tlict between 30,400 ships and A. poo, GOO automobiles yearly for the right of way across the inlet which separates Oakland and Alameda has led to construction of the largest single-tube underwater tunnel in the world between the two cities.
 The $4,500,000 tube is 37 feet wide and d,436 feet from portal to portal and it will replace an an- cient drawbridge connecting the city of Oakland and the island mu- nicipality. The federal government has condemned the bridge as an impcdimcnt to shipping, and it is to be removed next July ], when the tube will be opened.
 The tube is built of precast con- crete segments, moulded into 203- foot lengths in a ship drydock, tow. cd ten miles across San Francisco bay and sunk in position. All of the segments have been sunk, and only some sealing and interior work remains 10 be done.
 New engineering principles were involved in building the underwa- ter subway, in addition to the prob lems involved in pulling the twelve sections of tube into place behind two tugs, operating Tn tandem. A new type of coffer dam was em- ployed and an ingenious method was used for joining the tubes un-
New Britain herald., 1927-12-09
NATIVE RUBBER IS
 BEING TESTED NOW
Auto Tires Are Made From
 Home Grown Plant

New York. Dec. 9. LP-The first automobile tires ever made from American grown rubber are now be- ing tested by the lntercontinental Rubber Company.
 The rubber for the tires was ob- tained from guayule shrubs grown at Salinas, Cal, The plant. q na- tive of Mexico, was imported some time ago into rhe western United States where 1t is being success fully cultivated. Many refinemeuts in production methods were neces- Sarv, however. before the rubber could be made into tires, but years of patient experiment. have been rewarded.
 There is every indication from he work already done and in prog r,ss." says Dr. David Spence, vice president Of the company, that the product from the guayule shrub will be manufactured al a price that will compare favorably with hat of plantation rubber grown in tropical climates.
 We have not only gone further in improving the quality of rubber obtained from the shrub, but we have actually succeeded in manu- featuring tires made entirely from the improved product of guayule shrubs grown in Salinas, Cal. On the basis of laboratory tests, these tires promise to give a good ac- count of themselves"
 The company also has experi- ment stations In Arizona and Texas. Eight hundred acres of shrubs are under cultivation at Salinas and an additional 2o,oQo,o0o plants will be set out there next spring.
 Success of the tire experiment, officials of the concern believe, will mean that vast areas of land in the United States may be used to produce rubber thereby reduc- ing the importations necessary each year to supply the demand. America at present buys all her rubber abroad.
 The guayule shrub will thrive and produce rubber under broad climatic conditions, for rain, frost and drought are necessary to its cultivation. It is an erect woody shrub, usually not more than two feet high. and under undisturbod natural conditions lives probably 40 to 50 years. Its power of vege- 1ative reproduction are weak, q fact that added greatly to the diff culties of evolving practical cultu- ral methods.
 Production Of g1layule rubber on a commercial basis IS possible only because all the stages Of CultiYa- ton can be handled by machinery, thus eliminating the factor of labor in country where that commodity is expensive. The guayule seeds are planted by mechanical drills the little plants are watered. weed cd and transplantod by machines, and the seeds are removed by vacuum cleaners. Thus large scale production is possible with q mini mum of human effort.
 Tests made by the United States Bureau Of Standards at Washing