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THIRSTY RUM LAND
ROM the Cooling of Skyo we
had admired the peaks of Rum rising like pyramids of tur- quòlse out of a sen so blue that to have labelled Mediterranean " would have been to flatter those southern waters.
no
For some reason convenient, doubt, to the Ordnance Survey, but exasperating to tourists, the Isle of Skyo is divided over four maps. It so happens that the one covering the Coolias also includes the tale of tłum,
Bo, one day, while resting on Baurr Dearg, and gazing perom to the tempt- ing Isle, we studied its possibilitlen as revealed by the map. There was, we discovered, added attraction in the very place-names — Norte-sounding words such an Halllýat and Askiva), Tvalival. Ainshval and Ruinslynl.
The mountains so rinined appeared from the tap worthy of investigation. for the upper contour-linics were mig. ing and the shading, which replaced cuggested peaks and cragRY ridges calling for conquest.
them.
Rum f privately owned, and, being preserved as a decr forest, visitors are got encouraged, but we discovered timi it was not likely any objection to our presence would be raised in June.
Subtle Colours
burly/
John Campbell, Eynort, Istander with laughing eyes, agreed to take us in his fishing boat Minerva. On a breathlem morning, with a cloud- less sity. we walked down Glen Drittle to the boat. The Coolins were suffused with amethyst: the lower mour!ands were quivering brown and green, while the banks of the burn were golden with flowering broom. All these hues and countless more sublle tones seemed blended in the men that morning.
For over two hours we bnaked on the deck of the Minerva, ndmiring the re- crding Coolina, the indented share of the mainland, the dim outines of the Outer Hebrides the slowly nearing brights of Rum.
Baked beneath the Inescapable sun Wo succumbed to the chorms of Idle
with
Tom Stephenson
| Admiring the receding Coolins,"
ness, and by the time we reached tho cons of um we were more in the mood of dreamy lolus-enters than that of energetic mountaineers eager to be plodding to the topmast heights.
Urged possibly some foolish pride In our prowess, or some other equally malicious sprite, we set out in the fall blaze of mid-day to climb Halliyal and Ankivnil.
At funeral pace we trudged up the moor, which offered not tilt of shade. Some crags gave a brief spell-
we
bana ng well as foot-work, and then. still with Dead March tempo, rounded a shoulder of Hallivat to begin the climb to the first penk
The deer we disturbed were also apparently feeling the heat, for it was with a very leisurely trot that they drew away from us.
On the summit of Hallival, with the nea now aver 2,000 feet below us, we reated and looked over the Inle of Egg to the mountains of the mainland, aud
through the haze saw a mocking patch of snow on Ben Nevia.
A short descent led to the saddle between the two peaks, and then came the climb up Askivall, whose craggy flanks provided scrambling sufficiently interrating to banish temporarily all thoughts of the heat
Welcome Isle
Across the head of Glen Divid!! 'we admired the peaks of Trailval, Alash- val, and Sgurr nan Oillean, for Rum also has a peak of the same name na the better known height in Skyc.
On another day, we decided, we might have included those other foun- tains in the round, but now our thoughts were centred on the cooling water far below,
Bo 'down Caire nan Grund we turned, and, as the Minerva cbug.. chugged its way to Skye. John Camp- bell busied himself with a primus stove and soon was serving welcome ten to parched mortala who had found Rum
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BACK TO THE BICYCLE
N Immediate result of our going "fhty" for the first time was renewed fealty to cycling. We put it to the meeting, two in number, and unanimously resolved not to sell our bicycles and buy an aeroplane aplece; no,
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30, having recovered. our sinunch supporters from the steamer, we set off westward. In pursuit of another old friend the constat rond of northern- most Scotland.
Trece began to appear again, even if short of stature; but after Orkney you notice treca with surprise. There was even a tunnel of green abade from the hot kun to ride through, made, by alunted trees which had contrived to mock across the road, for the hondur and glory of Caithness
The nice hamlet of Reay "gave me a home feeling on the spot,” as Steven-. son Bald All you readers hereof, who were born under the surnames Reay,
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We lunched in a nice angling hotel at Melvich. When you enter the lounge of an hotel in remotest Britain, you are likely find there several elderly Rents with pale bald heads, rusty-red faces, necks like turkey-cocks, crimson 110sts, and snow-white moustaches. If they ignore your entry with 2110 frosty silence of disapproval, they aro English. I they return your saluta tion affably, and rise to get the lady a chair, they are Scou
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But there was only a mile of villainy. The same Aberdeen fem that mado such a fine job of the Ord of Colthness was on, redemptivo work in Suther land; and that Melvich-Tongue sinne of the north coastal road of Scotland in cent. per cent. better than when last it carried us.
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wilder, and the unfenced rond plunged about as if trying to escape from the menace of converging moors; in front rose the familiar fantastic forms of our farthest mountains.
At tea-time we drew rein at a road- alde collage whost sign invited us to do so. A young Indy emerged wearing trousom, and her mouth painted a-la- modo in faithful semblance of a stabbed tomato. We were do- clined because she "ind a party in already."
Another house which we by-passed willy-nilly had tried to conceal the notices of Teak Made and Board-Rest- dence will makeshift maaks of card- board. because it was the Sabbath This is Scotland at her worst.
Memorable
Ample amends for these two anubs were made us by the hotel at Betis- hill, whose glorious site challenges of the Eccles at Glengariff, that Co. Cork, these two being the most beautifully altuated holes in these islands.
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Our evening ride from Bettyh!l! westwarda
memorable. Dork cumulus hnd massed up against the wind, coming from the Atlantic, but the falling oun blazed through the weak places in its armour!""atid"Buch was the background for magnificent mountains-Ben Hope, Ben Spichn and, above all, Ben Loyal.
Loyal'a creat is fanged like Tryfan's, but wider and more fanged, and its northward bastions are awfully sleep. I count no man's life complete tilf ho has seen Tryfan, Suilven, and Bea Loyal.
DOLLAR
Audre writes seldom to Suzy and his adoring father. While at the fying field, he meets and becomes interested in beautiful Madame de Chabris. He is decorated for valour.
CILÁPTER EIGHT
34
NOVELLIZED IKOM The
Meira Goldeya Aayer LUCY HUFFAKER
Baron Charville would not allow Suzy to write of his Illness. It was nothing serious and he would not have Andre worrying about home affairs. He needed all his thought for his work. He was not forced to Ile in bed, he was only confined to the house for a little time and every day found his strength to write. a loving, gossipy letter to nis son.
Suzy agreed with him that Andre
have no should ha
Captain Terence Moore stood at clded also the horrica, She de-
attention before his colonel,
"Do you think I'm collecting auto- graphi," the superior officer asked in a rather authoritative voice. "If
baron should have Any
fear or anxielles she loneliness or heartache she kept bravely to herself.
none,
felt,
any
it was a few
Ent
with the Baron, riot, why do you continually bom-f crash, that a hours after Andre's bard me with applications for reading a letter aloud. transfer? I have already received, had refused nine. Let there be a hard says he's fac. but working
that's why he can't
write
1
end to it. You are needed right every day. But he hasn't been in a here in England. You must abide moment's danger. And he says
the decisions of your superior am to tell you he thinks of you
often and always with pride because
by
sit well, sir. Anything else, he is your son. Oh, and here's
he
a threat to me. He says I'm all very You are to take seven of well, but if I'm not a good daughter Fourteenth to you, he's going to pack me off to the new ships to the French Squadron Sri three days. New York," They've been losing theirs with un- She hoped it sounded all right.
regularity. There Canny
may be Every time she read these letters foul play involved. Whatever the to the baron, she was afraid cause,
we are sending them new might guess this the paper she was ones. And the special model you holding in her hands was blank will deliver to
Captain Churville. I
She had just Onished reuding the think you've met."
imaginary letter, when Albert en- "Several
He is the best tered with a telegram. ral times. Aller I've ever seen."
"Captain Andre Charville wound- "He has a reputation for being ed in acilon-condition not sericus". reckless," said the colonel, speaking Suez read.
"Albert, sald the baron. now as man to man, with a Hitle
"Picasc knowing smile. "I've heard rumours help me to the telephone. I must that he is a great success with the get in touch with the War Omce. ladies."
at once to arrange for pass Do "He is continental in his charm | Madame may go to her husband."
Before Suzy's train left, a and behaviour, certainly," answered Terry. "lio le attractive to women, phone call had been put through to I suppose, and lionized by everyone, the hospital. The word was reas- But he is brave and* gnilunt. I suring. Captain Charville had been admire him very much."
badly shaken up, that was all. A
tele-
"Anyway, his private life is no day or two of rest and he would be concern of yours or me. I should all right. So Suzy went off in good not have mentioned it. perhaps. spirit, laden with a big hamper of Now sco that the planes are ready delicneles for the patient. A young and are delivered within three days.offeer met lies at the train. You will slay to test them, of course. "Captain Charville said 'You'll re- And if it is any satisfaction to you, cognize her easily. No matter how who seem determined to risk your many women get off the train, just precious neck, test pilots have been go up to the prettiest. That will known to break theirs."
be my wife'
the
Andre was thrilled when he heard The words brought a glow 10 that the new planes were
Forgotten were coming Suzy's face, from England. He knew the one tour, weary days when there had he was flying was in bad condition, been no letters from Andre. In her and the mechanics heart was only happiness-that and despite all be
love. could do. He left the field, mean-
She was wordicsà when she en-. Ing to go to his quarters and write home, telling the
news. Nelther tered the room, but her face and Suzy or his father had ever heard of her lender Kiss as she went over to the brilliant Terence Moore, of him as he sat in a wheeled chair course, but he would explain that told all she would have said. what he had done for planes made "I hope you weren't scared out flying
much safer, But he found of your wits--you and father," he Madame de Chabris waiting for him said gently. "They shouldn't have and drove off with her instead. The sent you word." letter could wait until
In horrible fear that she his
Suzy had n ful new plane arrived and then he would cry from rellet and from joy, could write them all about it. so she took refuge in the common-
the
wonder-
The letter was never written, for place. She pulled up a little table next morning something went beside him and ran to the hamper. The chef and Albert ransacked wrong with his plane which he was taking
up for the last time.and it the larder and the cellar," she said. fell just as he was taking off from "They've
cent you every delicacy the flying Bold.
ney could find. And your fathe ---If ~~~ Andre “had known his father suddenly she became serious. was ill, he would have written every dre
dre, I must tell you something-- day;
he would have tried to get warn you.
There is a secret you
from him. I've
permission to go to see him. For in and I must R: I didn't know
This own
way, he loved his father grown to love and he loved Suzy. But it was in there were people in the world like his nature to live in the moment and I won't let him be hurt, even for the moment. If it had not been when the hurting comes for that, he might not have made to such a brilliant record as a pilot.
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tly. "I don't understand."
"Andre, you've written us every day-usually to me, but always with a little message to him. He lives for those letters. He must never the truth. Do you under-
know
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"I can't thank you, dear, but I do from the bottom of my selfsh
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Suzy laid her hand gently across his mouth.
"You're not selfish," she said. "I understand, darling. I'm young and can take
all he har but he is old and you're
"No, dear, he has you too. Ho writes me how wonderful you are. You have found a home in his
heart."
In drawing back her arm, Suzy knocked
"Oh dear vase of flowers.
she cried. "What a
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minute now you have never She is Madame Andre Chorville and
seen, your wifo any uneasiness.**
They heard the knob of the door since our marriage, she has been turn. living in Paris, with my father," "Come in, dear," Andre sald,
"All right, if you say so."
Suzy besitated at sight of a strange "This is the truth. And--I'm no man in the room. "I want you to. saint, as you know, but she is the meet finest, squarest girl in the world. 1 Moore." As Terry wheeled around my good friend, Captain don't want her hurt by any care to acknowledge the introduction. Ho "For heavens sake," interrupted less joke she might overhear." Anid: Andre. "Not to loud. She'll be
"Terry, my wife, Madamo "Of course not," said Terry, "Na-Charville." back in a minute. Get this straight. turally, now that I know you are in (To-morrow: Suzy - onlists Ter- Im not joking or trying to put any earnest, I will be most careful. You ru's aid to rescue Andre from thing over on you. The young wo-know I would not say anything man who will be with us any which would embarrass you or cause
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