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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1929-07-18, Page 3[H. •se; -ill lli?; THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE [’HURSI)AY, JULY Wth, CHAPTER V (Continued) The Carrington household, al­ though composed of many different elements, was a' wholly united and happy one. And the wife and mother, impossible as she might seem to out­ siders who judged her -only by ex­ ternal appearances, occupied a sure throne in the hearts of those wRo Joved her for her real goodness. ‘‘On se'cond thoughts I believe I shall take to the Dirdurn, Mrs. Flem­ ing. It will cut off half a mile for me,” said Harry-at the doorstep. ”1 Rave to go- round by the back way to strike it, if "Mr. Carrington will allow me to trespass so far.” ‘‘Surely, But thhy can drive you, Mr. Kerr. I wish you, would come in again and let them put a horse in the dogcart. None of the cobe have been out to-day.” “Oh. no, thank you. I shall be home in ample time for dinner, and I a-m already too deeply in youi' debt I hope I have* your permission to come again, Mr.’ Carrington.” The tone was so significant that Bentley Carrington 'perceptibly star­ ted. . . “Oh yes, certainly—pleased to see ■you at any time,’ he answered frank­ ly and even warmly. ILionel Maurice, always on. the j alert to hear words that were not meant for his ear, caught this little passage,'- and his--eyes blazed again With ill-concealed wrath. • At the moment, of farewell Harry had taken nd notice of him except by giving him'a cui’t nod, and b.eing after all, it is tile ^national sport that wholly given up to sweet dreams in. ' which Blanche Carrington, was the “central figure, he forgot all about him the moment after he had left the house. The world was now a brighter "'place to him than it had been in thfe," morning, and whistling cheerfully, iM plunged into the twi­ light of the "Priory.'-woods, ' After a few * moments, fancying that sonreone wa's.’following- him, he halted and glanced .-behind him.1’ Yes, sure enough a big "form hovered in the distance, and lie stood quite still ’waiting .to be overtaken. To his surprise lie^ presently recognized 'Lionel Mahrtce. To, show his con­ tempt for tlRi^maii >Avho seemed to possess the fXSiltyv^of rousing all -that was worst irf-liim, he was about to pass on .again wRen he was call­ ed to .somewhat peremptorily. He stood still in the middle of the path itnd waited. “What do you want,” .he asked “ViHiat tiight have you to shout at me like that?” ' “Just a word with you, Mr. Kerr,” replied Maurice..in a tone of studied ■insolence. “K$ep off the grass in -the garden, that’ all.” - “What do you mean?” hope,” he broke in going to give R up never ”qnd now, never Exeter Lake and Man is Drowned Lady Writes of a Recent Experience The SecraTof Coolness Is in Light, j^asily Digested Foodssp his acquaintance would he only too glad to grasp the chance of becom­ ing Mrs. Lionel Maurice. Blanche’s reluctance merely showed that she was of finer clay, and It made her even more desirable in his eyes. ‘‘I’m sorry, Lionel, but I can’t. I don’t care for you. Don’t you un­ derstand that1? I have done every­ thing I could to show you my feeling in the matter, and I have never let you say the sort of things that you. wanted to say. I thought that you would understand from that— “A man who feels- as I do gives up I’m not Blanche,’ ‘‘Well, you ought, far I’ll marry you, Lionel, and that’s my last word on it.” ‘‘Why won’t you marry me?” I’m not bound to give you the rea­ son again. I have told you already that I do not care for you in that way. Why can’t we go on being good friends apd cousins as we have al­ ways been? The impossible,” ‘‘You didn’t When we were spring you were ‘‘Or you imagined it. I was quite i all right always if only you didn’t make love to me.” I It was some other fellow that has made you change—that empty head-: ed, brainless fool-that was here yes­ terday. You have been impressed by his cheek and his airs, but he hasn’t a penny to his name. It’s only a question of weeks or months as to when they will be turned out of Es- sendon just as the Playfairs were turned out of the Priory, Heavens! you don’t want to attach yourself to a sinking ship, Blanche. It would be against all the traditions of your j father’s family.” ‘‘Our traditions! I didn’t know we had any. Thank you for nothing, ] Lionel. I don’t admit your right to dispose of me or to be arbiter of my future. Let me pass, and I hope that if you come back, just—just j;o tor­ ment me like this, you’ll go away, soon, for, if you don’t, I won’t prom­ ise to/keep my temper.” ‘‘You’re quite heartless,' Blanche. J You don’t seem to realize what this ! means to me! Why, I have simply Maun, j lived for you the last two or three What years, waiting till yo(u should be old j anj till ' everything should! got j a first-rate position in the firm now, other thing is quite always think so. at Cannes in the different to me.”' a ten her steps. He overtook her, how­ ever, on the little moss-grown bridge where, by a curious coincidence, the altercation between him ond Harry Kerr had taken place on the previous evening. “J thought you and Jack were shooting pheasants this morning,” she said rather shortly. “Jack is, and1 Mr, Lindley, but I didn’t care to accompany them. Why didn’t you let me know that you were going out for a run with the dogs? I wanted to go with you, Blanche?” “But I didn’t want you,” she ans­ wered quite calmly. “I don’t need company when I have the dogs. They take up all my attention.” Maurice ignored this extremely pointed remark. “I dare say they can find their way home now. Let them go Blanc and take another turn with me, want to speak to you.” But she seemed unwilling. “I’m tired. I nave been quite long way—-to the other side of the woods. There’s a wonderful view from the edge of the open field there Have you ever seen it?” “No, but if you’ll take me I should like to see it.” “I couldn’t possibly go back all that way, but the path is quite straight. You simply keep on and on till you come to the other side of the “wood; then it is before you. Good morning. I hope you’ll enjoy your walk. There’s little Tim; he hasn’t had enough exercise. You mayHake him if you like.” But Tim, a wiry-haired terrier, kept strictly to the side of his mis­ tress, and did not second the sugges­ tion. “It isn’t likely that I’ll go back there without you, Blanche. 1 has made you so disagreeable to me! enough lately? You were much nicer when;be comfortably arranged. I have I was here before.” “Am I disagreeable? Perhaps you Blanche. The governor told me just have come back too soon, Lionel,”.]’ she answered with a small, smile. j “That isn’t a very kind thing to , with his blessing.” say to a chap who—who—well, who thinks nothing a trouble that will1 can’t fall in with your plans, please you.” “But I don’t want you me, Lionel. I simply want alone, and I have told you so heaps of times,” she said petulently.' (“But I’m not the man to take a'past him with her. small head high reibuff like that. Besides you can’t in the air. be serious. You and I have always | “You are very rude and impertin- been pals and, you know', it would ent, Lionel, .and you make- me hate please everybody.” [you,” she called back to-'him as she “What would please everybody?” t sped towards the soft slopes of the 'She drew herself iip with a sudden’( haughtiness ■ such as he had never seen in her before. It seemed to add inches to her slight stature. “Oh, don’t pretend, Blanche—you can’t, you know, after-all these years Why, wb have simply been promised to one another before we knew what it meant. The mothers arranged it between th'dm.” “I am sure that my mother never did anything of the kind, and, if yours did, why, she took too much upon herself—that’s all. But I don’t believe it of aunt Rachel. She never so much as once hinted it to me.” “But she expected it all the same. We all have, and .1 most of all. Won’t you marry me, Blanche?” “No. I won’t.” “But why?” “Well—-because I don’t want to. That ought to be enough reason, Lionel. If I were a man I should not go on begging and praying a girl as you do. If she said “No” and meant “No,” as I do. I should simply go away and leave her in peace.” ; “No, you wouldn’t, if you felt as- I do, Blanche,” » “I don’t want- to know how you feel, Lionel. Let me pass. I want to get home; I've been out quite a long time.” ‘‘Not just yet. I want to get to the bottom of this,” he said deter­ minedly, and his swarthy face seem- _ ed to darken. “Blanche, you can’t . .[really mean what you say. I can’t do He felt his tamper getting the ‘"Y work Pi-operly, and my governor innlete masterv-of him. and. know-*sai(1 that I had better ^go back and Lionel,”.] before I left that I’should be made J faint a junior partner after Christmas,] | and he practically sent me up here "I’m sorry,” she repeated; “but I ] “Blanche, tell me. if you hadn’t to please met young Kerr would it have made to be left J any difference?” The colof' 'ruslfed to her 'face in’ an indignant flood, and she rushed A despatch from Ottawa Sat­ urday stated that the treaty flight .aeroplane flown by Fly­ ing Officer R. K. Rose, of the Royal Canadian Air Force, had crashed on Lake St. Joseph and) that a man by the name of Mor­ rison had drowned, Dr, E. Mar­ garet Strang, formerly of Us- borne, writes of a recent exper­ ience when Flying Officer Rose and his party were forced down on a lake near Edlund'. aall the bran 1of the whole wheat With whole milk, does not heat the blood or tax the diges­ tion, It is not only cooling but satisfying—saves kitchen drudgery and expanse. Ready-cooked, ready to eat. t New "Million Dollar Automotive Building to be officially opened as part of the Empire Year Celebration. ' asked Harry, and the hot color rushed to his face. ‘•‘What I say. She’s not for you, ►nor theyiike of.;-you, do yoti. under­ hand? It’s a .family affair — been arranged since We were so high. So I thought it.- would, be the kindest tiling I couiddip to warn you, though you . don't deserve it.” ‘‘You’re a liar,”retorted Harry .promptly, all the fiery anger of the Kerrs leaping upon him in a sort of wild passion. •He was'.surprised that this insult was not fdllowe'fihby ta! knock-down blow. But •,Lionel .Maurice was ex­ tremely careful of. his skin, and lie liad not failed'-to*-observe the well- .Inijt. muscles of.-‘young Kerr’s ath- , letterform. “DoJa’t say -that I haven’t warned you,” ?,said Maurice, “They dO'n’t want y.ou ronage. Wa. could buy up the whole hungry crojvkl of you. -Carrington did not bring his only . girl here to be-^happed up by a beg­ garly whipper^h.apper like you.” ‘‘If you say another word,” 'cried Harry thickly, ‘‘if you don’t get out of my sight, you unspeakable bou.n- <ler and cur, I'll—I’ll finish you here and now.” , . ■ still quietly' or your pat- and Bentley •complete mastery-of him, and, know­ ing- if he’stopped to‘bandy a single word more;; with the objectionable creature, he must Use Iris fists— 1 which would llie'a decidedly unpleas­ ant incident tC^,ccur„in Bentley Car* xington’s grounds—'Harry simply htipled' another opproibioug epiteth at tlie man, and turning on his heel, pluiiged into tlib depths of the Wood. “I fiatter myself that I have set- ^Xled his little hash,” reflected Lionel ’Maiirice.' **fiut Fihust get something definite OuR of Bentley or out of ‘Blanche, for things are r.ot id a very (satisfactory stht.e, and I’m gick sdawdlliig ahdut here,” Of t CHAPTER VI • . . Unrequited Love , *■ » Blanche' Carrington, with her dogs, ■was out in the woods tiext morning, when /Maurice followed heA She did not look pleased,OS she heard his -familiar footsteps: approaching, and •slid quite percepHbly began to lias- park behind the house. Maurice stood, still with his arms folded, her with concentrated his soul. Her’ refusal blow to him, for he had been within the mark when he had avowed his devotion to her—-she represented to him at the moment neither more nor less than the sum of his existence. Without her everything else would pall. He was ten years older than I his,cousin, Blanche, and. although his record in the past had not been quite undimmed, he had honestly tried to keep straight and steady for her sake. The type of men from which his friends had hitherto been chos^Ii entertained a rather lax code of morality, but since he had seen so much o,f-Blanche and had felt the charm of her purity and her high- souled ideals of life, a great change had come over him-. He had honestly tried to attain her standard—to live a .more unselfish, upright life, to be all to in the path gazing after bitterness in was, a great that he thought she desired him be. All, however, to no purpose. (To he continued) the ____________ uavn. uhu get it all fixed up, as a nlan in love and uncertainty is of no use to any­ body in this world. He was pleased' about it all the same, and he’s going to be generous, Blanche. He as good as told me so, We can have a flat in town and a house in the country, or a bigger mansion in town and take our turn at Dorking with the others, whichever you prefer. And I’d be awfully good to you, Blanche. .Yoh know I can be if I like.” tShe shook' her head. Some note of sincerity in,, the man kept silent the sharp, decisive words that she wish­ ed to speak. He looked his best at the moment—‘pleading for that he desired most on earth. - Lionel Maurice was’inately a eel­ fish man who had never had a whim crossed by his Rio-indulgent parents, and the difficulty lie had experienced In his wooing had'been an excellent, though a diumilling, thing for him. He did nOt;Ti'kn ft, but still he had no doubt that’ his persistence would Win in. tho’long run. Many girls of CREDITON (Crowded out last week) The induction service of Rev. Mr. Hagelstein was conducted in church on -Thursday evening last. Rev. A. Sinclair, of Hensall, presided and Rev. J._ M. Colling, of Grand Bend, preached a very eloquent ser­ mon. Rev. White, of Elimville ad­ dressed the pastor while Rev. An­ thony, of Thames Road appealed to the congregation. The service throu­ ghout was very uplifting and inspir­ ing and a large crowd was: present from Shipka and BHn^.ley appoint­ ments, Mr. Hagelstein occupied the pulpit here on Sunday evening last and made a very favorable impres­ sion on the large congregation. Mr.' R. E. Bechtel, choir master of the United Church, is at present on his vacation at his home in New Hamburg. A number from here attended the funeral at Exeter cemetery On Mon­ day of Mrs. iMatt, Chambers, who died at her home in Sandusky, Mich, on Friday, July Sth. Mr. Elgin Woodall, of Detroit, is spending his vacation at the home of his patents, Mr. and Mrs. James Woodall, Miss Evelyn Lawson, of Exetefr is visiting friends and relatives- In and around Credlton. For a few hours of Friday, June 28, the Jittle community of Edlund, Ont., fifteen miles west of Kapusk- asing on the main line of the C.N.R. was.all agog with interest. Canadian Government history was being made right in the midst of this outpost of civilization. The government plane, carrying treaty money to the Indians in the district around James Bay was forced down on Bear Tooth Lake near Edlund, at noon that day. Tho plane took off from Lake Remi, six miles east of Kapuskasing and was headed for English River, three hundred miles to the west. The day was cool, almost cold; the bush dripping wet, and the clouds hang­ ing. almost in the tree-tops. Slashes of rain were sweeping down out of the northwest on the wings of a 35- mile-an-hour gale. At 11:30 a yellow hydroplane marked W X roared up the line of the C.N.R. from the east, flying so low, that every rooster along the line was sure that he and all his harem were coming to a bad end from the biggest hawk in history. Following the line of steel the plane disappear­ ed to the west. Half an hour later, it was back, flying even lower. It swung around just east of Edlund and flopped hastily but safely on Bear Tooth Lake, a shallow mud­ bottom sheet of water of about 69 acres, 80 rods north of the track. The five men on board the com­ pact little craft were helped ashore by Paul Brissette, a French-Canadian and the local fire-ranger, in the Frontier College rowboat. The com­ missioner, Mr. Aurey, was sea-sick from the pitching of the plane. Oh! wasn’t he sick? and cold, and glad to set foot on solid ground again? He and his four fellow-adventures were helped up. to Frontier College, "which is occupied bv Mr. John Fitz­ patrick, and there royally entertain­ ed to dinner. flake is barely half a mile across and; Mr. Fitzpatrick was entertaining! the bush is thick and' close to the j the new doctor-teacher, stationed’ at [ water’s edge all around. Some of» ^ary McKaig the College for the summer, Margar-( the crowd were allowed out in the ’ et Strang from Exeter,_ to dinner in boat to inspect the plane riding at his bachelor, quarters. .When the five ' anchor. The passenger and pilot I airmen walked in, machinery took on speed in its history, source’s of both the bachelor’s and the teacher’s digging’s were called upon. The big cookstove was crammed with wood till it' fairly roared. The rest of the .boiled potatoes, a plate of fried eggs (fresh laid that morn­ ing) tins of boiled beef, the one and only jar of pickles, the last can of condensed milk and the biggest can of preserved pears were set before the famished airmen. And they did eat thereof with appetites a<s hearty as if they hadn’t just escaped perch; ing on the top of some tall tree half an hour before. Even Mr. Aurey re­ covered enough to eat a substantial dinner. Every available knife, fork, spoon, soup plate and cracked cup in the place was hunted out for the occasion. The Provincial photographer, Rutherford, of Toronto formed the light the others, Mr. Rose, a big, fair- whose chief feMPIRE YEAR at the eWorld's t LARGEST EXPOSITION TOMOMTO ONTARIO ' AuglS*: The 1929 Canadian National Exhibition . . . the fifty'first . . . celebrates Empire Year, and the brilliance of the entire two weeks1 presentation will provide a magnificent, inspiring and long" to^be-remembered spectacle for the more than two million visi" tors. Low rates by rail and boat. Ample accommo- dation. Send for illustrated bookjets describing entire Empire ■Year Celebration. THOMAS BRADSHAW, H. W. WATERS. President Central Manager 'O fourth Wrigley Marathon SwnK in two events (Friday, Aug. 23?k for women, and Wed., Aug. 28, ’ for men and winners of women's ' race") for the world champion-1 shif> and $50,000 purse-the great' est international sport spectacle. Competitive Displays of Agricul' time in all its Branches. Trots and paces featuring Standard Bred Society Futurity. International Outboard Motor Boat Regatta and Yacht Races. Government Exhibits from praC' tically every Country in the World. Grand Stand Military and Nwal Pageant, "Britannia's Muster”; by 1500 performers on the World's Largest Stage. “ First Showing of 1930 Motor- Car Models. National Aircraft Show and Car' nival of the Sky. 4 Concerts by 2000 Voice Ex' hibition Chorus^ off, It was a ticklish business. The; I lalrc kni-nlv half a vnila a nrnea nnrl : I I LUMLEY (Crowded out last week) of Hensall, was a guest at Mr. Noah Horton’s on Sunday. seuus, uune m lbulucl >yClC Miss Maud Millar hasreturned to ed compactly and closed1 in like the her home from teaching school at body of a motor. car, with c....- space for luggage. There was one, . . __ big official-looking sack that appar- her son Dick in Lucan on Sunday, he ently contained the $60,000 for the having had blood-poisoning in his Indians. Cameras clicked busily, hand. during the inspection. Mr. Ruther- ___ ______ ____ _ ford snapped the" rescue party and a week’s holidays with her -cousin, the rescuers got the plane and crew from every possible angle. All aboard!' The boat cast Mechanic Shaw stayed outside to the anchor. It was so far down in _____ The passenger and pilot, the domestic J seats, done in leather were arrang-1 the greatest All the re-extra j Washago, Ont7 Mrs. Wm. Wilkinson visited with her off. lift Miss Bernice Harris is spending- Miss Beatrice Dayman. Shower for Bride Elect Last Wednesday evening friends of Miss Florence Venner, bride elect. Mr. one of the party. He was weight and according to just carried for ballast, of Ottawa, the pilot, was haired Englishman, source of joy seemed to be that they hadn’t been forced all the way back to Lake Remi to land. Mr. Shaw, the mechanic, .backed up to the stove to dry out his wet trousers. Dr. Bell, of Sioux Lookout, was the fifth and most cheerful member party. He, is a graduate of and a’ classmate of Dr. M. ham, lately of Exeter. He practice in Sioux Lookout when the town was a howling wilderness of shacks and stumps with neither roads nor sidewalks. Now he is one of the chief doctors in the Municipal Hospital in Lookout, and is taking this trip into the north to study the health’of the Indians, With a good dinner under their belts, the party sat down to smoke and wait the pleasure of the weather. It began to -clear .at 2 o’clock. At 2:30 the sun wad shining and the spirits of the party rose higher and higher. It seems they had a bet on With the other plane, a Moth, which they left at Lake Remi, that they wouldn’t be forced back to their Starting point. The Moth was pilot­ ed by Captain Maxwell, the famous pilot who brought but the sick Rec­ tor from Hudson Bay last winter. Anything, to win that bet. They had gotten as far west as’ Hearst, 50 miles and were back thia far. , At 8:30. a small crowd escorted them down to'the lake' to See then: of the Toronto G. Gra- entered --- --- ---. ■■ ------ ------ V) U V eilUCJL , U'X JUtf the mud he had to get the pilot out j met at her home, and showered', her. to help him. Then they let the with "many beautiful gifts. Little AI- plans drift in to the south-eastern c,-.x., shore fill its rudder was within a' few feet of the trees. There was a sputtering roar and a cloud of spray The plane tore across the lake dipp­ ing, rising and dipping again. Just when the watchers were sure it was going to run foul of the woods on the far .side, the plane began to rise, just cleared the tree-tops, turned and disappeared The plane one of very 3500 pounds pounds with crew, luggage and fuel. Pilot Roe wanted to refuel at Ed­ lund but feared’ the extra weight would prevent a small lake, spend about a Runners have through the district warning the In­ dians. in to the various posts where each one is due to receive his $4.00 of treaty money. ! Edlund watched all the rest of the afternoon for the other plane, but it didn’t pass, probably took some other route. , vin Cole and Shirley Fairibairn acted, as bride and bridegroom. After re­ ceiving the presents Florence thank­ ed everyone .and invited all to see her in the future. Music was -rend­ ered after which refreshments were served. i I to the west. was a Fairchild Wasp’, latest make, weighing alone and about 5000 him rising from such The party expects to month in the north, been sent out all USBORNE . & HIBBERT MUTUA1 FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY Head Office, Farquhar, Ont. President Vice-Pres, I KYLE—-VENNER NUPTIALS \ The Hensail United Church par­ sonage was the scene Qf a pretty ceremony on Saturday, July 6 th when Miss Florence, only daughter, of Mr.- and. Mrs. William Venner, or Chiselhurst was united in marriage to Mr. William Kyle, eldest son of the late Thos. and Mrs. Kyle, of Kip­ pen, by Rev. A.. Sinclair. After the ceremony the happy couple motored to Parkhill Where a dainty luncheon was served, after which thfey left amid showers of confetti on their honeymoon to Detroit and Niagara, Falls. On their return they will re­ side on the groom’s fine farm at Kippen. There many friends join in wishing them a happy and prosper­ ous future. SIMON DOW FRANK McCONNE IRECTORS LAIR, J, T. RRIS, AGEN ANGUS SI ROBTt JOHN ES U3 OLIVER Mibb Agent f-th ISOH, ROCK ralia, Biddulph IS, MunrS, Agent to ullarton and Logan A. TURNBULL Secretary-Treasurer Box S3, Exeter, Ontario GLADMAN A 9TANBVRYSolicitors, Exeter KHIVA ' (Crowded out last week) Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hanover, of Buffalo, visited a few days last week with the former’s parents,, Mr. anti Mrs. J. Hanover. Mrs. J. Hanofer accompanied them back to Buffalo. Miss Grace Nixon is re-engaged to teach Black Bush school for year. Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Mafa, of called on Mr. and Mrs. Art. last Friday, Khiva ball team with Greenway last mg th© score- being of Greenway, « . Mr. and Mrs. Ky. Ron* spent Sunday with Mfr Alfred Tilley. another Detroit, Willett aployed Thursday 18-11 “hi game eyen- faver pfaff',Gred-'Of .arid' Mrs,