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DISCIPLINE

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he

"League a Farce!”

"Port telegraph showing 'stop."."Closing a bit, aren't you?” sir!" came sounding up to him warned. through the wheelhouse volce-pipe, And as the first lieutenant bent even as he bent angrily to the again to the voice-pipe, ordering a mouthpiece. He straightened then, slight reduction of engine-revolu saying nothing-for he knew that tions, he found himself wondering- in due course the engineer-officer not for the first time whether this would make his report. But for a man under whom he served could be and moment his face had been terrible. moved by anything warmner He looked now at the southern more human than King's Regula- breakwater, horribly solid. appall- tions and Admiralty Instructions. ingly close: as he thought on what It was at such times as this that might have happened a light aweat Merriman would recall his captain's broke out on his brow. Suppose he off-duty moments of wardroom and had fumbled over that correcting the Nineteenth Hole. He could be

{quite jolly over helm-order of his? Hell!

a gin-and-bitters. The diver's boat was clear astern. But which was the real man and He ordered the engines ahead again, which the false? Or was he two) gave them the revolutions for the men, quite separate and distinct, a prescribed ten knots. All clear sort of maritime Jekyll and Hyde! now. But there might have been a The flotilla duly carried out the har- nasty mess.......

day's exercises, returning to As the ship felt the life and move-bour in the mellow glow of mid- ment of the open sea the order to afternoon. Leave was piped and fall out was given. The first-lieu-liberty-men inspected and dismissed. tenant accordingly

his Lieutenant-Commander Arnold shift- foc'a'lemen and came

the ed into his golf clothes and per-

Bonality. He had a match on withi bridge.

"Carry on, please, Number One," the captain of the "Salisbury." He said Arnold. "Course and speed-went up the brow to the wharf with ah!"

his oldest pipe between hie smiling For simultaneously there came a lips, for all the world further outbreak of bunting aboard nothing had happened. the "Bulawayo." In response the Merriman had no quarrel with flotilla split into two sub-divisions him for that: one ought to take off that morning and the quarter-deck line ahead and increased speed to all matters connected with service was clear of junior ratings. It is With the non-cua-duty with the striped and buttoned not seemly that sesmen and stokers twenty knota.

went with should look on at a senior's shame. lance of long practice Lieutenant monkey-jacket which Merrimon brought the "Belingwe" them. But somehow the first licu-) A stocky, pale-faced man stepped up into her new station. With his tenant felt that he could never have forward, removed his cap, and stood *first musical cry down the voice-pipe gone ushere quite so light-heartedly. quietly to attention before the

somehow to Neither could Turner. the sun had seemed

group of officers. His eyes were brighten on the bridge-planking; n The engineer-officer came up pre- quite expressionless, but it was chill had left the air.

sently from his cabin and fell into veiled blankness. It seemed to

Merriman Again that step with

(who was Merriman that behind the vall narrow there might be something that- ought to have been revealed. In s

"S-a-steady-y-y-y!"

27th Nov,that look 24th Dec.

Tue!.. Thure..

7th Nov. 7th Dec.

silence.

dismissed to Up

**

though

the

Henri Barbusse, French apostle 'er Communism and one of the mort famous pacifists in the world, pic tured as he arrived at New Yor! to speak at the opening of th United States Congress Againe Wer

Barbusse, who knows some thing about war, having been badly wounded in the last one, in which he won three medals for bravery. anid the League of Nations is "L farce."

im

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ing voice, with a flash of teeth in officer-of-the-day) on the brown of his face, Then he quarterdeck. turned with his captain towards the "I'm worried badly about Mack-fiat official voice he read the charge ladder, from which came the sound Ln." he blurted out without pream-and then called Turner to witness.

The chief en-ble.

The chief spoke briefly and im of ascending feet. gineer, 11 two-and-a-half-striper "So'm I. A good fellow like that personally enough, but his gaze named Turner, swung himself into chucking himself away......Was he never left the mechanician's face, sight and saluted. His features troublesome drunk?"

and in that long look was A last But Macklin never once und appeal. were very grave, reflecting also the "No just quiet and queer 18th Nov. aftermath of emergency. And there blundering--as though he didn't met it

was something else in his eyes, a care. As though he simply didn't The facts were confirmed by the shadow which looked like pain. care," emphasised the engineer. rating who had been at the tele- Lieutenant-Commander Arnold met "You know. Submitted to arrest graph-pointer, and then there was a with coldly-questioning like a child. Seemned-stunned in brief silence. Macklin stood quite I've been talking to him still and steady, looking stolidly mind.. "It was Mackling, sir," said the since.

I thought there must be over their heads. There was an oc- "He was at the something at the bottom of it, but casional convulsive movement engineer quietly. port stop-valve under the influence he just keeps on repeating that he's his throat, but that was all. Merri- of liquor, sir."

got nothing to say. Quite respeci- man found himself watching for it, "What?" The question was like|ful, but-sullen. As if he thought with a helpless enthralment,

"Anything to Bay?" that-nothing was any good any

If there jan ley whiplash.

"Yes, air. He must have got that{more. One can't go on hammering had been anything the captain's way-ashore, sir. He was in the at a fellow who meets you like that. tone and attitude must have blast- watch for leave yesterday afternoon.......I had to give it up in the ed It on the man's lips even an he

AL Must have come aboard seven end......."

moistened them.

"Giri, this morning, sir, with it still on

"No, sir," he answered storily. him.

A cold gleam shone for I've put him under arrest Merriman. I'm putting him in your report, sir. "Married. Two kids. The Chief ment in Arnold's eye as he glan- | ... ... But good God!.....Macklin E.R.A. Bays there's nothing the mat-ced at Turner. Then, without fur-

One of my best men.......

ter with his home-life, as far as he ther pause, emotionlessly, in curt that "We'll talk about

Įmonotones, he pronounced his de- the knows." quarterdeck," answered the caplain "If it was a girl I suppose you claion. MarkMn would be Bent shortly. "Might have killed that could say the whole thing served him ashore, under cscort, pending 20th Nov. diver to any nothing of ramming right."

court-martial orders from the Of UA U# to the breakwater!" He "But I'm convinced it isn't," fice Commanding the Flotili. turned away.

maintained Turner doggedly. **I "On cap, left turn, quick march [" Turner hesitated, irresolute, star-say, d'you think the 'Owner' might said Merriman. For a bare in- ing at Arnold's broad blank back; get the truth out of him?”

[stant they faced each other as the then he made for the ladder and "The Owner! Good Lord! You man obeyed; and it was as though 12th Nov. dropped down it again. Merriman know the Owner'! Even assuming the first lieutenant had had

watched him go, fascinated by the there's anytning to bring out....tingling glimpse of bell.

"Mr. Merrimant" came the grind. memory of his strained face as it

There was a silence.

"Have bad jerked round and out of sight. "Clean record?" asked Merriman of Arnold's official voice. When the white-crowned cap had "Liquor on it once before-years the papers in this case sent over to disappeared he glanced cautiously ago, though-when he was only the "Balawayo at once, please." towards his commanding officer. stoker. Still, it' weigh against

Half an hour later the flotilla put But Arnold was looking at their him."

to sea again. At the "Belingwe’o": next-ahead, checking his own sta- Turner sighed. "D'you think it port turbine-controla stood a lead |tion-keeping. Presently he spoke, might be any use talking to

without moving.

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the ing stoker. Ashore, In a cell of the dockyard detention barracks, at the wreek of a man past caring. ¿Continued on Page 11).

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"Well, try it if you like......But he won't be aboard to-night. You'll have to get him in the morning."

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