JULY 13. 1953
THE GUARDIAN; CHARLOTTETOWN
PAGE NINE
Exit Tony
Blount
CHAPTER XXIII
Continued
Gradually his scattered senses returned to him, and his first elearl thought was an almost incredulous feeling of surprise at finding hini- self still alive. He was aware of having been involved in a fight against the unbridled forces of the nether world, and from what scraps of recollection his bewil- dered mind retained of the strug- gle. he found it little short of a miracle that he had survived it - at any rate so far.
With the dawning realization of his temporary safety. he raised his head cautiously and looked about him for the first time.
To his astonishment he saw that the darkness had lifted and the setting moon was now paiely ii-l luminating the scene from the balls to the westward. At some time. he became aware
the roaring sound in his ears was III 1'1 realm 01 Submfifine
not due to wind, as he had sup- posed, for though a breeze had sprung up, it was more than moderate sounded more like the
it came from somewhere close hand.
With an effort he rose slowly and uncertalnly to his feet. and turned to look down and at the sight which eyes he stood rooted to in sheer incredulous and horror.
The widening valley in which the plantation had stood now presented a scene which almost convinced him he was dreaming: for where the long serrled rows of palm trees had stretched away from the foot of the slope to the distant shore of the lagoon. a swirling flood of turn and broken water was now raging between the rocky walls on either hand.
He gaped down at it blankly. his already dazed brain, shocked and stupefied by the appalling magnitude of this catastrophe. He found it almost impossible to real- ize that in the period that had elapsed since he and Miami had been flung apart by that first sud- den upheaval, the low-lying val- ley had become an am of the sea. and the plantation had been coin- pletely wiped out of existence.
Yet. even as he stared down in-
met his the spot amazement
aredulously. he saw that hundreds dulled and muffled the
over ocean, and the the seemed to be that the entire island that had sunk below its former level as
blowing at no ly that it was still sinking for to force. It now his horrified eyes it appeared that continuous each towering sea that came driv- thundering crash of water - and Inn: in raised the flood to 8 hiither at.level. and
the slope -l
of uprooted palms ..:re being driv- en iorward in the flood like logs in a mill race. and the pale moon- light showed him towering ridge alter ridge of water sweeping in from the ocean beyond.
Here and there the head of a palm still rose above the raging flood, but almost all the trees had been uprooted or snapped off by the first tremendous rush of the water, and already the foot of the slope below him was piled high with their wreckage. This was be- ing added to at every moment as each successive wave came racing in between the narrowing walls of the valley and hurling its floating freight of trees on to the heap. and the grinding and crashing of the splintered trunks and the roar of the water combined to create a clamour which was as hideous as it was awe-inspiring.
. . .
As he stood staring down at the wild scene. its sigiiiiicance was gradually borne in upon him. It was obvious that the whole of the settlement must have been wiped out almost immediately by this sudden ghastly invasion of the only explanation
volcanic
activity. , Nor was that all. It seemed like-
clots of spume were spattering the hillside. a bare fifty feet below him with gouts of yeastly foam.
The grinding. crashing uproar sounded in his cars like a prelude
to the utter annihilation of the is- lland; and as though to confirm this impression, at that moment
there came another earth tremor. which threw him off balance and Isent him staggering sideways help- lessly.
He dropped on to his hands and knees and remained in that atti- tude for some minutes in a. condi- tion of sick apprehension. The tremor was not repeated. but while he waited in trembling anticipation of a resumption of the hideous up- heaval of the solid earth a great mass of black cloud which had been spreading swiftly across the sky from the southward. passed over the moon's face, and in an instant a pail of inky darkness blotted out the entire scene from his sight-
Then almost before his bewilder- ed mind had had time. to register the abrupt transition from light to utter blackness. came the rain
it. fell without the slightest wgming -- a hissing torrent that crashing
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To succeeding genera
sold you those clubs with a
Lorne Valley ancli Vicinity ..'Mr. Wilbur M-1:)-onald and Mr.
Reuben Maccannell were biisiiiessl visitors to Montague on June 3.
Mr. and Mrs. Alex Macintyre were visitors to Red Head on June 23.
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Myers. Newl Perth, were recent visitors of Mrs.l Myer-is parents. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Shaw.
Mrs. Francis Maclntyre enter-' tained the Lorne Valley w. 1. ml June 24.
Miss Chris Shaw, Charlottetown, visited her parents. Mr. and Mrs.l Daniel Show over the week-end of: June 27.
Master Gerald Macbougail. Mon- tague, is vacationing with his grand - parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Malcolm MacLeod. i
son and daughter Bennet and Is- sbell were visitors to Hazlebrnok
tumult below him and beat down upon him with the force of a cat- aract. He found himself gasping for breath under its sudden slaught, and he bowed his head al- most between his knees and re- mained huddled helplessly where he was. while the water sluiced over his back and shoulders and thrashed the earth all about him with drumming, relentless fury. To be continued
William John Rankine. a Scottish engineer and physicist born in 1820.
of thermodynamics.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Crane, alldjMOHi,8gliC.
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is considered one of the foiindersl
on June guests of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Crane.
Mr. and Mrs. Caleb Nieholsonre- cently motored to the Island from
Dr. And Mrs. Rice Mark Anniversary
Mass. to visit relatives and friends. While in Lorne Valley they are!" gueszs of Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Mc-l --- -- Cannell. The many friends of Rev. Dr. H. C. and Mrs. Rice. who are Mr. Raymond Show was a re- now living at 59 Boustead Ave..
Toronto, will be interested to know that t.liey.ceiebrated their golden wedding fIlllllVEl'SBl'y on June 24. Mrs. Rice was the former Blanche E. Pier-ner of Jacksonville, N. B.. where they were married by the late Rev. Geo. A. Rose. D.D. Through. the years Dr and Mrs. Rice were stationed in various cen- tres in the Maritimes, ainong other places, Hariland, Sunny Brae. News-asile, Hampton. Sussex and Baihurst in New Brunswick, also Summerside, P. E.I.. and Amlieist. Mrs. James Callaghan and sons. N. S. Dr. Rice was minister at the George and Kenneth V'.SlV.Edpl0liniEl" Queen Square Church. St. Mount Stewart on June 26. John, from i925 (0 i931. l The iillilllE?i'Sril)' vias celebrated Her friends are pleased that Miss quietly with a family dinner galli- Marlon Mcaulay has retiimedlering at the "Guild of All Arts", home from the Memorial Hosp'ital.lToi'oiito. They were also presented lwith gifts appropriate to the occa- --- - - lsion. Miss Jane M;icGraiii. MOlli1igllP.l Dr. and Mrs. Rice have two eliil- speni a few days of June. with her dren living, (ieitrude. wife of Car- parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Mac-l leion Ware Page of Richmond. In-
cent business Stewart.
visitor to Mount
Mr. Llnyd M:icl)niiald was a vis- itor to the City on June 27.
Miss Anna Goodwin. Bangor, re- cently visited her grandmother, Mrs. Mae MeAuilay.
Mr. and Mrs. Murdock MacDon- ald and Miss Gloria Macbeod re- cently motored to the city.
iGraih. diana, and Miss Mary Rice who is iassoeiated with the Fisheries Re- The teacher, pupils and several Search Board of Canada at Torr. liate ))Jl)6i'S of Lorne Valley Schonlfonio. p had an Piiioyablc picnic at the Dr. and Mrs. Rice ('HllV3 l0 '1'”?- 1Nm'th Share on June '23. Sand- onto two .VP:u's am from Charlotte- lwiches and rake were served alidllnllll. P El. Where Dr. Rice was in pleasant afternoon was speiii. -'ilSSlSl,allL minister at Ti'inityUniir(i V7,; .Cliurch, retiring because of ill Valley Y. P S lhealthk Brundcil
Ciirdigaii-Lorne held 21 wieiier mrist at .Point on June 2n.
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-we 7- F-YDNEY, 4CPvvEuccne Bmid- Miss Adele Shaw recs-ntlyv Wr0lP.i'PRll. l3. siiiir-red a cramp and; pp. W. C. Entrance Examiiiatioiis at drowned Friday while siximmingj Montague. luilli three, young companions on "ul)iirl)aii Bi'4ui's lake.
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