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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1929-08-22, Page 7TlilKSJUY, AVOTBT SM, 1#2» T— jl8 - by Economy was hateful of Dreamers that perhaps for quarters. own de- the unrebuked, little hand estrain the CHAPTER XI Tlie Unexpected pierced a heart for the common u sur- turn had had Harry Smiled tenderly. It pleas- to hear such praise of his from Blanche Carrington’s added a fresh lustre to the already so brilliant with looked quite straightly at frank face of the man North. look here. 1 have rooms Street, St. .James’s, Do Harry. “I CHAPTER ■ X—(Continued) THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE eas «d him mother Tips. It future, promise. “Yon will win them all,” he said 5n a low voice full of moaning. :“No more nonsense. What shall we do now? Would you like to go to the stables and find father? He is dull because Jack has gone away? ‘Let ,us go into the woods. We ®an conie back by the stables, plead­ ed the lad. “I want, of course, to see your father, because I owe him so much that -I shall never be able tQ pay my debt to him. But I think he would not grudge me half an hour ’with you* upon this, my last day in Bellendale.” “No,.. I don’t think that he would,” Blanche, answered very low. “Would'you grudge it, Blanche?” *he asked, bending -his handsome head humbly and eagerly towards her. She shook her head, her icolour rising, and then ‘she darted from him, saying that she, would put on a wrap to keep out the chill of the .December air, which had ushered it­ self in on the wings of the snowfall. But they were indifferent to the snow; they took no heed of frown­ ing skies as they walked along the bridle-path through the Bellenden woods, coming all too' soon to bridge that so long had beep a lovers’ try- stinjg-place. And there they together—he, very quiet and est, she wearing a pathetic Neither knew of any reason they, should hide from each the fact that, tomorrow would _ „ different and a sadder day because there would be many miles of .strange country between them. “Blanche;* are you sorry that I am going, away?'”., he asked in a low voice. “Yes; I am. We seem to have known you such a little time.. It is really only five days since the meet at Essendon, and to think that be­ fore then we had never met!” “Unthinkahle, isn’t it?” “Oh, quite.” He was silent for a moment, look­ ing down oh- the bright hair escap­ ing in little tendrils from her cap and making- so bewitching a frame Model 91 (Above) LESS TUBES Model 92 Wt) ‘ 1ESS TUBES Easy Terms if Desired will find me here. But now let us go home. A sudden cold seems to have come into the air, and perhaps they will be wondering that we have come out here alone.” He bent down and, pressed his lips to the and, hard put to it to eager ardour of his tongue, he walk­ ed by her side back to the house al­ most in silence. For the rest of tin wqs distrait. It might li shadow of the future clouded, that some from out the coming ready tuned world. stood earn- look. why other he a for her sweet, serious face. “You can’t think what this means to me, Blanche. It has opened up another world—a heaven I never knew existed in the world before.” “Oh, London is not very like heaven,” she said with a small de­ mure smile. “It is grey and frimy, especially at this season, and there is no time l'or anything. Every­ body is in a hurry. You, too, will have to be in a hurry if you want to get on, I sometimes call the place at Cornhill the Maelstrom. . I have been there a few times to wait for father, and there are always rushing about, the doors seem be- seiged by telegraph boys, and tele­ phone bells are ringing all day long. It would drive me distracted in a week. I wonder how the rush and the noise will affect you after all this delightful silence?” “It will 'be least, is as gard stand “Oh, going help them at h.ome. mother has told me; she is about it, and how proud she is of you! You will always give her reason to feel like that about you, won’t you?” . She did not know what impulse prompted her to say such words, to advise or dictate being very foreign to her nature. “Yes, of course. That is my primary object—to ease their minds at home and to carve out a way for myself, but after that there is some­ thing else.” . . ’ She did not ask him what is was, but remained silent, watching the spllen flow of the little stream be­ low the mossy bridge. And he could not see her face. “I have not the right to speak yet. It would not be fail” to your father who has clone this mighty thing for me, but—when the time comes and I can return with something to show l'or my efforts, will you.come here with-me again, Blanche, and hear what I have to say?”. ■She was still silent, and he did not see that her eyes had filled with tears. Suddenly she turned, and with a quick gesture laid her small hand 011 his, where it gripped the mossy parapet of the bridge. “Yes, when you come back you day Blanche that the had already sharp arrow years had al­ um sensitively of the something new at but at the present moment it a means to an end that I re- the change. Do you under- me, Blanche?” yes. I know that you are to try hard to make money to because your and how sweet Harry Kerr did not know London well, The old mansion of the Rid- dell-Kerrs in St. James’s Square had long since passed into other hands, just as their name had passed from the lists of those attending courts and taking part in all the gay pag­ eantry of tlie season, several brief vists he had paid to the Metropolis as a flying tourist might hight have done, but he approached it that dark December evening with such feelings as many another youth has exper­ ienced When leaving his home for the first time. The arrangements for his new ca­ reer having been hurriedly made, there had been no attempt at find­ ing lodgings, for him, and. acting up­ on his father’s instructions, intend­ ed to go to the Langham Hotel and remain there until he should find a suitable permament shelter. The Laird of Essendon still entertained some of the lavish ideas which are supposed to go hand in hand with high estate. to him, and when it took the shape of living in a second—or third— rate hotel, it was unthinkable. I-Iarry had no expectation* that lie would be met at Euston. He did not, therefore, even glance along the platform, but, alighting quickly and laden with his portable luggage, he hailed a porter to come and seek his trunks from the van. As he was walking briskly along in the porter’s wake, his thick plaid of shepherd tartan over his arm, some one behind, spoke his name. He turned swiftly, and he was im­ mensely surprised to behold Lionel Maurice, attired in a long, dark over­ coat and on immaculate silk which suited him admirably, smiling affably, like tlfe man, it was pleasant to b greeted- with his smile. It cheerless thing to city terminus and welcoming face. “How very kind Mr. Maurice!” he ___ ___ __ the proffered handshake quite warm­ ly. “I suppose Mr. Carrington ask­ ed you to come?” hat, and Though he did not ie smile. It is a arrive at a great to find there no qpHEY said it couldn’t be dond rbut Majestic engineers tackled the job ad 1 did it! Power Detection with the nei r developed to its highest font ' Electric Radio Sets, has elimin of A.C. hum or oscillation at an Gone are squeals, whistles, background noises that detrac reception. You only hear th reproduction of speech and mus undistorted, true to life! 1930 HUMLESS Majestic l^todel 91 is housed in an Early English cabinet of Amers- caitSWalnui with instrument patxl overlaid witb\ustralian Ldcetvood. Impr DynamafyS peaker. Escutcheon plat&tnd knobs finished i atenuine silver. f .45 Tubes, ■in. Majestic ted all trace rave length., and other from radio marvellous rich, ed Super- 7 si 92 is a Walnut, overlays ustralian Doors of match butt walnut, wit on doors and; Lace wood. Improvd^Super-Dynand^peaker; hardware finished in *—!----J"twine silver. At last HUMLESs/electric r waiting for such a fat, you ne —Majestic 1$ IT! ) Ask for a FREE Igome Demons? prove this to you. ! If yi not wait have been ny longer md let us tiEcmcwwo “No—I came on my own/’ replied Maurice lightly, “I thought that probably you would not feel very gay the first night, and you would be at a loss. Have you got any?" “Not yet,” replied thought of going to the Langham. It is where my father always puts up when in London,” “Very good place-—and handy; but it seems a pity to take all tliis stuff up there when it isn’t to be your permanent quarters. You’ve nothing in view in the way of digs, then?” “Nothing.” Maurice took his cigar from his teeth and the open, from the “Well, in Ryder you know London well?” “Not at all. My people used to have a house in St. James’s Square, but, though I have peen the outside of it, I have never been in it. It was sold years ago—I don’t even know to whom.” “I see. Well, I’m very comfort­ able in Ryder Street, and it’s con­ venient and central. My landlady could accommodate you, and if you don't mind going up three flights of stairs, I don’t think you’d quarrel with the price.” ; “It is really very kind of you to take this trouble,” said Harry, more and more astonished. “Last time we met—-” “We were- at loggerheads—yes. But I have got over it. It’s in the limbo of forgotten things,” said Maurice easily. “Well, what would you say to putting your big stuff in the cloak-room and coming along with me in a hansom? My dinner will be ready, and there will be enough for two. Then you could see the rooms and the landlady and •arrive at a conclusion. It’s only if you can’t find anything better, of course.” “If they are within my means I should like the arrangement very much,” replied Harry frankly, all suspicion disarmed by the totally un­ expected and friendly front of the man whom he had been dreading to meet again. , “I never understand the craze that some men have for suburban lodg­ ings,” observed Maurice. “They wear themselves out getting to and fro, and the season ticket eats up the difference in price. Come along, then. Here’s a good hansom.” The smaller luggage was stowed in the hansom, the trunks which • Alice Kerr had packed with her careful and loving hands were posited in the cloak-room, and two men drove off together. No one could have been more prised than Harry was at the affairs had taken. When he thought of Maurice at all, it been as of something unpleasant which he .would have to put up with in London. Yet lo! Hero he was apparently full of interest and sym­ pathy and offering every kindly of­ fice. But he was not'in a mood to cavil at or quarrel with it. He was only too glad to find that his arrival in London should have been marked by so pleasant an episode. (To he continued) Rev. A. A. Trumpet, Windsor, livers Inspiring Sermon Al Paul’s Cathedral (London Advertiser) The dreamer and the visionary were staunchly defended by Rev. A. A. Trumpcr, Windsor, in an inspir­ ing address at St. Paul’s Cathedral bn Sunday morning last. The dream­ er, Rev. Mr. Trumpcr averred, was the most practical man in the world.’ He pointed to the great figures in all branches of endeavor today, class­ ing them among the men of vision. A modern, even local, example of the result of a lack of vision was shown by Mr. Trumpcr. Years ago, 1 he said, people did not realize that the automobile would make wider roads a necessity. 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