The clips parted with a gesture of indignant dismissal, as though Quebec, glittering under her snows, were casting out these light and unworthy lovers. Our signal came from the Heights. Tim turned and floated up, but surely then it was with passionate appeal that the great tower arms flung open--or did I think so because on the upper staging a little hooded figure also opened her arms wide towards her father? * * * * * In ten seconds the coach with its clerks clashed down to the receiving-caisson; the hostlers displaced the engineers at the idle turbines, and Tim, prouder of this than all, introduced me to the maiden of the photograph on the shelf. "And by the way," said he to her, stepping forth in sunshine under the hat of civil life, "I saw young Williams in the Mark Boat. I've asked him to tea on Friday." [Illustration: "I'VE ASKED HIM TO TEA ON FRIDAY"] AERIAL BOARD OF CONTROL BULLETIN Aerial Board of Control Lights No changes in English Inland lights for week ending Dec. 18. PLANETARY COASTAL LIGHTS. Week ending Dec. 18. Verde inclined guide-light changes from 1st proximo to triple flash--green white green--in place of occulting red as heretofore. The warning light for Harmattan winds will be continuous vertical glare (white) on all oases of trans-Saharan N. E. by E. Main Routes. INVERCARGIL (N. Z.)--From 1st prox.: extreme southerly light (double red) will exhibit white beam inclined 45 degrees on approach of Southerly Buster. Traffic flies high off this coast between April and October. TABLE BAY--Devil's Peak Glare removed to Simonsberg. Traffic making Table Mountain coastwise keep all lights from Three Anchor Bay at least five shipping hundred feet under, and do not round to till beyond E. shoulder Devil's Peak. SANDHEADS LIGHT--Green triple vertical marks new private landing-stage for Bay and Burma traffic only. SNAEFELL JOKUL--White occulting light withdrawn for winter. PATAGONIA--No summer light south C. Pilar. This includes Staten Island and Port Stanley. C. NAVARIN--Quadruple fog flash (white), one minute intervals (new). EAST CAPE--Fog flash--single white with single bomb, 30 sec. intervals (new). MALAYAN ARCHIPELAGO lights unreliable owing eruptions. Lay from Somerset to Singapore direct, keeping highest levels. _For the Board_: CATTERTHUN } ST. JUST } _Lights._ VAN HEDDER } Casualties Week ending Dec. 18th. SABLE ISLAND LANDING TOWERS--Green freighter, number indistinguishable, up-ended, and fore-tank pierced after collision, passed 300-ft. level 2 P.M. Dec. 15th. Watched to water and pithed by Mark Boat.