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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1929-08-29, Page 3EXETEli: TIMES-ADVQCATg THURSDAY, AUGUST igith, 102,9 i-11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111;.: .1•••••• ilmumm 1111MNI .01.1 '11•11.10110 IBM•••• 11•••=•• 411101•11•IR py E. 44 ANNA S. SWAN KL—, CHAPTER XI (0011tillated) "my people live in Surrey. I go deem at the week -ends, but I like JO be in the heart etthlngs in the Interval," remarked Maurice as they rolled througlt the traffic of the hrightly-lighted streets. "When first went to business they had a house in Russell genare, Blooms,. bury. That was convenient too. Well, stands Sootland, 'where it die?" Harry was astonished et the pleas- eeseant. bonhomie o,f. the -man .whona he ,e had loifg'since set down in his eta - Wile; boor,' and. an otherwise impos- slide man. '.He was geod-looking in a somewhat showy, flashy style, and there was undoubted power, though o a rather sinister kind, in his, face "I left' It in *4 snosistornf, and there won't ..be any. more hunting 'for a bit. Where does Mr.,Carring- ton's son live?" ' "He's, one of those who believsOn the suburbs," observed Maurice drily "You'll find him on the heights of Hampstead, and hiswalk over the Meath every morning is part of his* religion—perhaps the only. reeigiou e has, got;" t "Tie knew that 1 was corning to- night, didn't he?" asked Harry, -Won- dering a little, perhaps,that the friendly -office of rneeting him had mot been performed by Jack earring - ton. Of the two men he certainly was the one from whom' he would more readily have expectea it. '.11 mentioned the fact to him this eno'rnifig„at-business, but he did not make any remark. You'll find Care rington a very close chap, not given to talk much of his .own .affairs or to meddle in yours. He's not a gen- eral favorite, It's a, goodthing for some men that theyhaverathers bee fore them." • should have thought him very different from that.• He seemed very affable at Bellenden."' "There he was at play. In busi- ness he's keen -eat times a bit too keen. Now you saw me et ely woret: at Bellenden. That kind of life doesn't suit me. I think you'll find e • that in basiness I'm a little differ-. ent." . . "No, a should preaf to go out al - "1 began to be a little anxious. so. I have been sitting all day, and about busjness. I know ' nothing, I would like uncommonly to stretch Shall I be under Mr. ,CarringtoWs •my lege autside after it,. bait don't * on?", let me be in your way or become e • "You won't come much into con- an encumbrance: Perhaps you have. • tact with him. My uncle charged had enough of me." me with , your business training. So "My 'dear fellow—no. Aud if I: yon .see•it is necessary for us to be had had, you'd pretty soon have frienele. thought•ethat AresIseinaele aciceen . it. ....There isn't anuelteo.f.„the, the first advances we should per- ,embroldery of life about me, and I seldom disguise my feelings. Have• another cigar, then, and let Us go.", The cod] fresh wind' met therm at the door, and Harry drew a long breath, remarking that it was good to be alive, '—"You'll like London, you think? It will be 4 mighty change." "I must Mee it—I shall like it. I have come here for a definite pur- pcise, and I Mean to apply every a • shabby black silk frock came for- ward and bade them a pleasant good-eveuing. To Barry the house seemed in.- creclibly cramped awl narrow after the spacious wideness o Essention, but it was comfortable and clean. "Mr. Kerr will stay here to -night, Mrs, Briscoe, and we snail talk over things in the morning," said Mau- rice easily, • The next minute Harry was Mounting the stairs to his new quar, ters—a large, if rather Tow -celled mein at the very top of the house. It was sparsely furnished, but a cheerful lire gave It a homelike look, and he was on theewhole well Pleased with his surroundings. .. "Yes, the cooking is good. It is only in a house such as tnis,that you get it, They're accustomed *to cater for people who have learned how to eat. • Try the ordinary suburban eine ner, slabs, ot underdone Meat And Vegetables swimming in water thetre the ideal of cooking there. Couldn't ..face it. Jack. Carrington doesn't care. Goes in for what he calls 'the simple life. 1 like to do myself well—very pleinle, but it must be just so. Try the Heidsieck. I'm aeareful man, but weeought to celebrate the occasion and drink suc- cess to the man from the Nprth." Under the genial influences of the hour Harry Kerr iu the guilessness of his nature. laid -bare his heart. Liopel Maurice, an „,,accomplished man of the world, played upon it as if it ere a harp of ten strings, and soon arrived at a fair conclusion as to the kind of a mail he was. "Poor' beggar," he said in his in-. .ward soul; "he's about as fit as the average infant hi, arms to be let loose in London,. only a quee- tien of time." Only one, subject was barred be- tween thane 'The name of Blanche Carrington was never once mention, ed. About half -past nine Maurice rose, yawning, tram his chair. .., • "I must go out and get a mouth- ful of fresh ,eir. Perhaps you would like to tura in after your long Jour - Daps know where we "stood. Here eve: are.." They drove up the quiet little street to a green door which opened le'lliallemoothly' from within, and Harry' was seeprieed ,to behold a man -ser- vant ill the aarrow rpaeSage. 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And .t. , Majestic's beautiful tiew cabine, are in keeping with the perfection of the set it lf . . ,--,, Let tig give yo FREE Deptiolistration iI See and hear this marvelous Majestic Lo bo in your Own home. Judge the Majestic on its welt gladly abide by your decision. W. ID BEE Mijesticittlis Dealer r Main Street Exe(er • ounce et energy that I possess to .learning the businese. yog think that it was most ItnoofpntiMIY good of Mr. Carritneton to give ane this chance.'! "yes—perhaps that is how It Strike the average intelligence, but depend upon It, he's going to get sentlething out. Of it. I have never known I3entley Carrington net with out a motive—pever." "I3pt his motive is not k Selfish one surely, He appeared to me one of the most generous of men—it not the most generous man—that I had ever met," said Harry a trite werm- 1Y. "He's playing a* role," obserred Maurice carelessly as if this matter were of the most Muni importance. "Ana in the course or time, believe me, he has played mane!. He could not have been where he is to -day Unless he had 'been a consummate actor. Well, here's life, Isn't It?" They emerged from comparative shadow into the glare and throng of Regent Street, and Maurice, having dropped the first 'piosonous seeds, skillfully diverted the conversation into a lighter vein, Harry Kerr was very young; he had seen nothini, and his eyes. now very wide open. Maurice knew a good deal of the night side of London life, but, it was not his intention at the beginning pt. their acquaintanceship to shock his Young companion, .0n the coptrary he meant rather to interest him and to whet his,eppetite for fresh expel.- ienees.' • . — • - "Care to look In at the Empire? There's an uncommonly good dancer there. 1 think 1 saw somewhere that her turn it at ten. Perhaps, however, you'd rather not. We can just stroll through Leicester Square, It will be lively eelottglisthere for the next five or six flours." • "Five or six hours! Why, it,' e ten, o'clock now," exclaimed Harry in amazement. • "Right ybu are, my boy, but itis only from now till dawn that the half of London—the underwarld— begins to live. I otten come out tier a stroll about this time. I'm not h theatreegoer, but the 'life of the streets interests me a lot. Some- times I think I'll write.a booke---"Obe servations of a tafae about Town." You see very queer things if you malce a habit of sauntering about in the same area night after night. All eorts of unrehearsed 'effects. come to yen evithout seeking. It's more amusing than any theatres that I have ever paid to go into, but then the drama's played out in this coun- try: and will never be revived again.' "Do ybubelieve 'that?" asked Harry intere4edlY:. 'Yes, Just leek at these two im- mense music halls, and there are dozens like them in London. It is such performances as you find there that hit the popular taste and are played. to crowded .audiences nightly, Care to 'leek in?" "Yee, peould," seidetierry eage17- 1y; one "the iiext, moment they had .passedeeetheeeglettering eturnstileaerof the Empire and wore A$Gendittg the luxurious staircase to the lounge. • Somebody was singing on Ihe there before. He bade the officer geoil-eVening civilly, and whiting Until a halleCeri had Tamed hire. into Clare Street, he turned after U. jle observed Wirt it stopped at the house which he wished to enter; but, par - Vesely slackening stee, he ilia not' reach it until the eliettering .QC- cupants had left the cab and passed within. Xis knew who they Were—two lesser stage -lights returning home iate after their arduous day. Ile gave them 'time to reach the flat on the top -floor which- they occupied; then he followed "up the illelighted .stairand knocked lightly on the door. While lie waited for admission the °deur of tried .onions greeted his noStrils rather pudgently, Knowing the babies of the inmates of thehouse, house, he could not forbear a slight smile. The figures which had look- ed so romantic and so illusive an hour ago would be regaling them- selves with steak and onions and probably 'beer as a sequel to the la - bora of the day. Xis lorock, familiar to the in- mates of the house, was answered by a middle-aged woman with a somewhat harassed care -worn tace which still hore traces or former beauty. "Evening, Mrs, Vanclom, --Can I come in?" celVliy, yes,. ale. Maurice, sure," sh0 answered pleasantly enough. i "The girls have just got home, dead tired. aetey had two performances tt] ana pantomine rehearsal to -clay' and now they are ready for a bit tiff 'a hot supper." "Come in, Lionel," sang out a clear voice Qom. the hackground. I '''Bibby thought ,she saw yeuf phiz , at the croes-roads," er. The owner of the voice,. an ex- treinely pretty girl • with' ape enor- mous hat, stuck at a particularly daring angle on the • masses of her golden hair, came out into the pas- sage and blew him a kiss through her fingers% • Maurice nodded familiarly. e "How are you, Dolly? oughtn't to come in really. It's 'too late, hilt I • "If you don't mind seeing its. stow„ U10 needful, we should like you to. We shan't be going to bed for a good hour yet. Ba"..by's bowled over. She ain't as tough ,ap pee". Maurice followed the faded wo- man into the sitting -room • where the younger daughter, who had flung Herself on the broken-spriaged couple smiled languidly at him, She was readly pale, great circles under her, eyes accentuated eier deep pal- lor, And her lips looked contracted with' pain. Her face was very. sweet if a trifle less brilliant than her sis- ter, She smiled across the table at Maurice, , who approached ' the sofa and looked down at hh y. er wit,a really.. kind smile and an expression of an- xiety. • "Yopr very tired,•one?" he d Sai' softly. cleadebeat, tell youee-seldc 10011y'e• more strident voice. ,"How she'll ever be.able to stand the Christmas racket I don't know. Will stage—an impossible creature, teen- she, Mune?" tily attired, and possessed of a voice "Sit up, darling, and eat A, bit resembling nothing "so much as a of something," said the mother, screeching peacock, as Harry observ- leaning her arm on the table and reideeto.,tne. evident amusement of Mau-: lOoking coaxingly at the girl on the sofa. "Otero comeeen next turn. *Well "I couldn't tackle steak' and on - only -stop to see her, and rheil we'll ions, mother, even to please you." be getting 'back, 1 feel that you "It's the liver wing of a chicken might to be asleep now." anda glass .of fizz that she needs, Harry was too deeply interested Mrs. Vandom," said Maurice. "Just ia the stage to observeethat 1Veaurice pop down to the corner and get,,helf Seemed to have a good many ac- a bottle. It will set her up in a quaintances in his immediate vicin- moment," ity and that lie was kept nodding But Baby shook her head. Almost continuously, The next turn . "No, I won't take it. I'll be all was that of the 'famous Spanish right when I have selpt .all theOugh dancer, and Maurice was pleased to the night. We have a hard day, see ,that Harry Kerr was entranced. haven't we, Doll?" He talked of nothing else. but the '"*Uncommon, answered Dell with poetry of motion as they walked her mouth full. "This is jolly good, brick to Ryder Street. Baby, really. Sample it." -"Yes—I suppose there's some- She stuck a morsel on a fork and thing in the expression. If only held it across the table. . the poetry could be *detached from Again Baby shook her languid its connection with all the ghastly head, and Maurice intercepted the trumpery of, these places it might mersel and ate it himself, to the be all -right enough. But remein- amusement of the Small company. bet, boy, that this sprt of thing is "It is, 60, Baby. Won't you Only for a very occasional fillip. It try it, just. to please me?" quickly becomes nauseating and "Not to -night. I'm hipped, Lion- nancial success is not built. on' the el, and old Moseley was. horribly poetry of motion though the same crags, and we have another rehear - poetry that we have just been sal to -morrow, but thank goodness 'watching 110 been known before it isn't till two o'clocer, so I needn't now to dissipate with lightning re- get up early" pidity." "Well, have you anything to tell WIth Such gleams ot cynicism, us, Lionel?" asked Dollywho, hay - worldly wisdom, and good advice ing partially satisfied the cravings did Lionel Maurice ' make himself of hunger was getting livelier every entertaining to young Harry Kerr, miunte. "We haven't seen you for ever so long. Why have you gone back on the crowd?" "1 haven't—I have been in Scot- land again, Dolly." "Have you? What's,the draw up there? I've once been at Glasgow, and 1 never want to see yon again -- beastly cold, damp place, and the worst digS,I've ever seen. What's the draw, I say?" "Nothing particular. I told you that My Uncle 'Carrington had house. bought a big place there,: didn't I?" "Yes, you did. But none of the family Money Will conle this way. They don't- like it bit s' tun," said Dolly rather spitefully, "Why don't It was now ablest midnight, but, you bring that big, solemn -faced Matirice liad not a long distance te cousin of Mtsto see 'us one night? go. Patentee With every byway in He looks as If lie wanted a bit of that part. of LOnclon, he mtickly waking 'up. I'll de it, it you give Made his way to a small, quiet me the chaede. Plenty Of oef, hasn't Street lying between Longacre and he?" St. Martin's Church. "Meats, but he is an extremely It was not 5.. fAslihmmbla etreet, peeper young man,' Dolly, and don't neither was it a shim. It was rather you fotget it, May 1 light up?" a kind of hackiWater where aI tent "WhY„ yes---sjuet going •te• reyeelt Of odd menages Were to be. found, Past the matelies, mann. That was respectable sone the reverse. But a geed bit Of grill. Our 'Old tears it was a street Willett seldent gave haed to beat ..tit the p111, Ise% She, the pelled any trettble. There was ledisel?" member of the force etatiened at There Was a. Veit teal, affection at the SonieWhat abrupt underlying the gJel'a kliPpant Men- et:Whet* at :Which Maiurice berriedoff, tier as the patted her ktiother'S attn. Ws was tif neW face to Menefee, who (To be 0011th:tiled) did net tenieniber hevifigeseeet him who a little later fell asleep in his attic chamber to the confused nem- ory of all the unusual sights 'and sounds which he had 'witnessed dur- ing the few heirs that he he'd been in London. .Mitateee bade, flim good -night, and retired into the SIttingerobm, where he remained zonly until Harry wae Safely out of sight upstales. Theri,putting on his overcoat again and a soft slouch hat, he lett the CHAPTER XII In a Date:water . 9 oe, Donot be tempted by the price of cheat,' teas. only fine teas will give continued enjoyment 4- sh from the irdensl TOWNSHIP CLERK .AN IMPOJITANT JOB' groups would be of no interest to - ,our readers we are publishing only the results in the Winchelsea and One of the most iMportant and Crediton group.The following is exacting positions in a rural the standing of the first ten contest- munity nowadays is that of the ants ,in this group; Township Clerk, The fact that' Mel Lorne Elford, R. R. No, 3, Exeter is, more complex today than it was 95; Laverne Skinner, R. R. No. 3, a few years ago, affects municipals Exeter 94; Margaret White, R. R. ities just as it does individuals. The No, 1, Crediton 93; Mildred Neeb, farmer who used to flounder around R. R. No. 3,. Dashwood 92, Jean in a democrat and burn candles now Cameron, R., R. No. 7, Lucknow 91, drives a ear on a good township road David McKenzie, Kintail P.O. 91; and ha,s hydro, All this spells Earl Ratz,•R. 12,"No. 3, Dashwood. township road superintendent, hy- 90; Joseph O'Keefe, R. elt. No. 3, dro-by-laws, drainage by-lws, eeporte Goclerich 90; Russell Mills, R. R. No to the- Highway Department, the 1, Wooelle,ne 89; Audrey Prance,' n. filling out of questionaires fee' Goy- R. N�. 1,;Woodham S. ernment departments. in addition to. the old-time duties of the Clerk. The Clerk has to be guide, cohnsellef LOW TOURIST FARES and friend to green Councillor an Reeve, and in order to do* 5o, he •must. have a knowledge of the law,. book-keeping, mathematics, togeth- el.' with the wtsdom. of Solomon.. If. he does not keep Ws eye on the con-, stant chIntes in the statute books his 'council get tangled in regal dif- ficulties and he will likely get the blame. For instance, in 1895„ an Act was passed repealing the author- ity of the Council to name one of t the municipal auditors. In a muni- cipality not a head of the 'Connell HELP YOU SEE CANADA • Of cOuree ymed like td vi Coast and on the way s places -; you've :dreame cities like NV' egina, Sasl on, Vance weeding Perk i i', the bees ev tli frowin Edinon —the timial splend1 he fa perhan end o Low went on 'laming .an auditor the same t as before for over twenty'yeara bee , fore the error was discovered. • To measure up fully to the reqUire- ments of his Sob, it will be seen that the Township Clerk,should be a man the all the of—busy nipeg, Bran- oon, Calgary, er and Victoria ta1rles, Jasper .Na - all its mountain ombre Skeena River, helfered Scenic Seas, Alaska, the alluring Midnight Sem. rist Fares help you 's,ee he utin�4t at least possible expense. Ask your neareat Canadian National Agent, Ile will give you rates 'and help you in making your trip abso- lutely worth while. of 'somewhat unusual attainments and "as a matter of fact he usually Is. , Some of the Clerks, who have served, and are serving in this dis- trict, are real pillars. in the neunle. • cipal structure. They ser-ve fors simnel salaries, Ear too smell in many eases. , The importanee 'of their position should be recogpized and more generally appreciated by the... Township. Councils and by the rate- payers.—Mileerten. Sun. • RESULTS OF HURON COUNTHOIE .GARDEN CONTEST There were 15 contestants in- the' Home Garden -Competition conduct-. ed .in •Huron County this year. Tlie County was 'divided into three groups of 25 contestants each and' 4 prizes were awarded in eacn group. ow- ing to the late spring and dry sum-, mer, conditions were rather unfav- ourable but on the whdle the gar- dens were very good and showed, en the majority of cases, excellent case and attention. 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