Evening Star Newspaper, September 13, 1937, Page 28

SHIPPING NEWS Arrivals and Departures at New York ARRIVALS, - BioopAL FluanlA~Lhermol & ROQUOIS—Jacksonville ANDIE—Havre 5 R, NASSAU--Paramaribo UEEN OF BERMUDA— uda 2 SANTA MARIAValparaiso VIRGINIA—San Franoisco.._ Tomorrow. ALGONQUIN—Galveston __ AQUITANIA_-Southampton Y OF CHATTANOOGA— s-v-nmh i RIZABA—Vera Cruz hlt'r E. LEE—Nor{olk RO AM. WESTERNLAND—Antwerp VEENDAM—Rotterdam Wednesday, September STERN PRINCE—B'nos Aires AMBION—Mediterranean SSA—Demerara LUA—Santa Marta ______ Thursday, September m ACADIA—Nova Scotia CHATEAU 1 THIERIY-—CH:!OBM GTON—Norto MUNARGO—Havana MUSA—Puerto Barri PIESIDE\T HARDI! mbu VOLCANEA—Tries: WASHINGTON—Hambure rrldny, Senlenbtr 17 LPA—] 8:00 NG om—oomenbuu 'H OF BERMUDA. No sailings scheduled Tomorrow. EXETER—Beirut KUNGSHOLM —Gothenburg PILSUDSKI—Gdynia Wednesday, September 15 TAMBURG mburg Midnigh - 4:00P.M 2 N 001 Midnight ‘Hal {ORMANDIE— Havrr 1:00P. \RGOSY—Gothenberg 8100 A ILACK OSP] RE\——Ror\erdlm EXCHANGE—Costarya Thursday, September 16. \QUITANIA—Southampton OUNDRUM CASTLE—Beira Friday, September 17, ANER, MERCHANT—London. JERLIN—Bremen ALEDONIA—Glasgow 222 Midnight RANCONIA—Liverpool __ 5:00 P.M, ‘day, September 18, avre ‘asablanc —Trie: v!srlnwLAhn_Amnm Noon Noon §:00 AM. 4:00 P.M. - Midnight Noon No time 11:00 A M. Noon 4:00 P.M, SAILING. 'South and C!nlr-l A-erltl‘ West Indles and Canad Todl!. TONHEUR_Pars 850 ARUBA—Aruba To \CADIA—Yarmouth SUERAVENTURA Coristol AEXICAN—Pacific ports Wednesday, September 15. TARACAS—Curacao 3 TN OF “BERM ed iz Ul'l _ 500 AM. 30 P.M. 30 AM. 1:00 JORINQUEN—8an Juan - RIZABA—Vera Cruz_.___ a ASSAU—Paramarib: lnu—valpnum 5 sn-rl-v. u-unb« 18, "MAPALA—La Ce T T ASTERN P’llNCE—Bueno. %w BouvAl-Aru T AMHERST. llh s IONARCH OF “—s DA~ Noon Japan is shipping thousands of cases °f sardines to the South Sea islands. 12-tube Phil- co, was $17450 ____ 6-tube Philco, was $84.50___ Noon | *|ing about the camp’s isolation. 563.75 \ THE - EVENING - DAILY SHORT STORY had said wouldn’t LINDA she ‘M. | be afraid. “Even s0,” John | declared, “I don't " | like the idea of go- | ing off and leaving you alone up here in the woods.” “Silly,” she laughed. “What would harm me? Now stop worrying. | 1t's going to be too -/ bad if you can't | stay away one or | two nights a week |because of me, after we've leased this camp for the Summer. Besides,” | she added, “I won't be alone. There's Mr. Brock, who lives less than & d quarter of a mile " down the shore.” | “A big help that old duffer would be!” “Oh, he isn't so old. If I need help Tll call him and he would be here in no time.” So John had gone. Linda spent the afternoon finishing up her iron- ing. She ate her supper out on the screened-in porch, and then sat there smoking a cigarette. The lake was very still. Distant sounds were easily distinguishable. She heard footsteps on the rocky shore and glimpsed Mr. Brock taking his evening stroll. She m | wondered if she'd better call and tell him she was alone. “He'd probably | think me silly,” she thought, dismiss- ing the idea. As the twilight deepened a breeze sprang up, chilling the air. went inside to wash them. ‘When she had finished she switched off the kitchen light and headed for the living room. Suddenly she became aware of the darkness. She groped for the light and was aware of a re- lieved feeling when brightness flooded the room. She stood still a minute, listening. The wind had risen. It sighed through the trees and slapped | water up against the pier. The slap- ping sounded curiously like some one treading on the porch. “Silly,” she said aloud, laughing. But she turned the key in the lock on the door that led to the porch, and did the same to the kitchen door. Then she settled herself in a chair and prepared to read. * *x k% A BRANCH cracked and crashed to the ground near the porch. Lin- da sat up with a little cry, her heart pounding. “How perfectly ridiculous of me,” she reproached herself. But, try as she would, she couldn’t concen- trate on her book. She fell to think- It was 2 miles to the village. There wouldn’t be any other cottagers up until the week end. There was only Mr. Brock. Curious chap, Brock. Lived alone since he had lost his wife two years ago. Pleasant to meet, though. He seemed.to like John and herself. Must be about 45, she guessed. It was comforting to know he was within call. Something scratched on the screen door. It was all Linda could do to cross the room and switch on the out- side light. A hedgehog waddled down the steps. The discovery was reas- suring. She turned off the light and went into the bed room, pulled the shades down tight. Curious how different it WOODWARD Linda gathered up the dishes and | JUSTIFIED FEAR By Stanlay Cordell. ‘was when you were alone. You heard things and imag- ined things that never before en- tered your head. She sat on the bed awhile think- ing. Should she \ get undressed or lie down with her clothes on? It \ would be best to be dressed in case anything hap- pened. But that was foolish. She began re- moving hairpins, And suddenly her hands froze. A sound had come to her from just be- yond the window, a scramping sound. And something else—the sound of breathing. Her blood congealed. This wasn’t imagination. Some one was there. She remembered with a horrible sink- ing sensation that the window was open. She had neglected to close it when pulling down the shade. . Her eyes darted widely about the room. Presently they fixed on an ob- ject in the corner—John’s golf clubs. Involuntarily she reached out and drew forth a driver. The weight of it gave her a sort of courage. The breathing outside the window became | louder. She fancied that the window ‘shadfl moved. Well, she was going to | die fighting. The driver swished through the air, | smashed against the shade, tearing |it down, striking something solid. Simultaneously there was a sound of splintering glass, then blackness, Sit- ting with one hand over her mouth, Linda remained like a statue, fear- ing that she might scream. It came to her that she had caught the cord of the bedside light when she swung and knocked it to the floor. * ok X x ROM outside came a sound like something dragging itself along the ground. Then silence. Linda crept to the bed, sat on it rigidly, holding the club in her hand. Time passed. Hours. Gradually she re~ laxed, leaned against the bedpost. The next she know sunlight was streaming in at the window. She blinked, remembering, suddenly brave and unafraid. She ran to the window. Outside was nothing. She stood still and laughed. There was assurance in the laugh, provoked by the thought that tonight John would be home. “I won't tell him,” she said. “He'd get a great laugh out of me socking hedbehogs with a golf club. I won't say a word.” But before breakfast was over her experience seemed so funny she felt | she had to tell some one. She decided to tell Mr. Brock, first making him promise not to breathe a word to John. Brock had probably had experiences with hedgehogs himself. There was no one about Brock's camp when she got there. She knocked. “Who is it?” said a strained voice. “It's I, Linda.” She pushed open the door and was about to step inside. But she stopped short, staring, horri- | fled. For Mr. Brock, looking guilty and frightened, was reclining in a chair, a blood-stained bandage about his head. (Copyright, 1987.) STAR, - WASHI Nature’s Children BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY UT of the five species of skim- mers, one anly has become an American citizen. He has established himself along the Gulf of Mexico from Texas to Key ‘West, and northward along the Atlan- tic Coast to Virginia. Skimmers are very handsome birds from 16 to 20 inches long. They are clothed in glossy black and glistening white, with splashes of crimson. Standing upon one of the great rocks to be found along his range, looking well out to sea, the | black skimmer gives you an impres- sion of being a larger bird. He is a seafarer, though his hunting expe- ditions do not take him far out to sea. He never goes inland, but fol- lows creeks through great marshes or fishes at the mouth of rivers or bays. 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