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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1934-03-15, Page 2THURSDAY, MARCH 15th, 1934 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE ■ SHINING PALACE by Christine Whiting Parmenter Nora was right, he admitted. The fellow had changed deplorably. Queer that he hadn’t observed it what Jamessooner. Don looked called "peaked” and pale; not paler than but shockingly paler been six months ago. Still, was there any reason .for alarm? ‘ ~ ' pallor was merely the result of*anj indoor existence. Absurd for Nora j to worry about his health. In an-1 other month or so he would become ■ acclimated—get used to it — stop1 champing at the bit as be did now. And there was no doubt that Don Mason needed discipline. He’d been his own master since he was eight­ een. It was high time he learned to meet responsibilities, or how was he to take care of a girl like Leon­ ora? And they were both young enough. It wouldn’t hurt them to wait a little longer. He’d give them a trip abroad as a wedding gift if Don would agree to settle down af­ ter they got back. ■James smiled to himself, pleased at this new idea. It should be a trip de luxe, by George! A trij> such as that young vagabond dreamed of. She appreciated travel. Only and uness quitter. He arose, of Nora’s music. She something, Daddy?” "No, I’ve left my somewhere; but it’s not here.” Don, too, had risen. He said smiling: "Won’t you stay for a while, sir? I haven't the exclusive right to Nora’s evening.” "Perhaps not.” responded James ■"but I haven’t entirely forgotten my own youth! Besides, I want to turn in early. Lost sleep last night and the music has made me drowsy Good-night, daughter.” He kissed her; nodded pleasantly to the young man, and went up­ stairs, while Nora sat for a while with brooding eyes. "I don’t wonder your father hates to give you up,” said Don. "If ever I have a .daughter as sweet as you, Nora, I’ll be forced to- stifle murderous intentions toward any fellow who makes love to fier.” "And yet,” she answered, "Dad hurt me last night, rightfully.” "How, dear?” iShe told him, that momentous “It was cruel, left him. I came to you and begging you to run away with me.” "I’m not the sort that runs, Nora,” he said. She considered that. "Not even if I asked you to, my dear?” Don shook his head. "Never—unless things get more desperate than they are now,” "But Don, you’re sick! I don’t mean sick in body altogether, but sick every way. Because you don’t complain do you imagine for a mo­ ment that I don’t know it?” He looked up at that, meeting her grave eyes steadily. "Tell me the truth—do you des­ pise me a little?” But I’m despising myself, Nora— a lot. Am I a mere good-for-nothing to mind so terribly what other fel­ lows accept as part of life?” "You mean the drudgery, Don?” “I mean everything, Nora. The wThole ghostly scheme that sets a man’s feet in a treadmill and lashes him on till there’s no chance to breathe, to look anout, even to dream—just to keep going—going. The same deadly routine each day. The same monotony. Oh, I’m a piker to tell you how I feel, darling; but know it anyway and perhaps it help me to let off steam a little. I shan’t marry you, Nora, with- your father’s consent. We’ll stick it out.” "But you’re nearing the end of your rope, Don,” she protested. "What good will it do us to stick! proaching footsteps. Now the bright starlight showed him that a girl had spoken her small, thin, pointed face looking up at him without fear, yet without boldness. "Not seriously," he answered, as if there were nothing unusual in her question. "Is that what you were considering, this time of night?” The girl shrugged the cyncial shrug of a bored flapper; an imita­ tion possibly, o£ some cheap actress of the screen. "I tried it once,” she confessed simply. "Honest I did; but a po­ liceman got in the way.” Don turned to look at her more closely, his interest rising, “So you find life as desperate, as that?” he questioned. "Sometimes I do. Some days. I don’t care nothin’ about livin’. Say!' she broke off suddenly, "have you got a girl—I mean a steady?” He nodded thinking how Nora would appreciate the appellation. "But you ain’t married. Anyone with half an eye could see it. You don’t look, tied.” Qtye Ifetrr aJhtm?-Abunrair Established 1873 and 1887 Published every Thursday mornini at Exeter, Ontario SUBSCRIPTION—-$2.00 per year Id advance. RATES—Farm or Real Estate for sale 50c. each insertion for firat four insertions. 25c. each subse­ quent insertion. Miscellaneous ar­ ticles, To Rent, Wanted, Lost, or Found 10c. per line of Bix word*. Reading notices 10c. per line. Card of Thanks 50c. Legal ad­ vertising 12 and 8c. per line. In Memoriam, with one verse 50c. extra verses 25c. each. Member of The Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association To Comfort SPRAINED JOINTS Rub inyears, my dear.” "She’d be a fool not to, with all that money into the bargain.” Co­ rinne retorted. "Nora is a fool more ways than one,” observed Ned with brotherly candor, "but she’s perfectly aware that dad’ll never let her suffer from want of cash. And there’s more to Don Mason than I supposed, Corinne He’s got uncommonly good manners, too. Did you notice)—t” "Oh, yes, I noticed.” broke in Corinne impatiently. "He simply monopolized the guest of honor, if> he was very, R out if you lose your health?” | Ned, perhaps, j The young man laughed, confess- than he had ing: "I’m a lot more likely to lose | my temper! Sometimes—” j was there any reason .for He stopped abruptly, and Nora James thought not. Don’s'asked: "Has Ned been bothering?” "Oh, let’s if to put an "I’m going sleep better don’t see how you put up with me—a ■ girl like you. I never show you any, yOu call that manners, sort of a good time, ‘ when I promise to ■dance! I—honestly, dered lately . . , "What have you wondered?” she'polizin. questioned as he looked away. “I’ve wondered if it might not be' better for us to—to part, Nora.” The girl caught her breath, then said, her voice unsteady: "Better for you or—or me, Don?” Sensing her hurt he took her into his arms with tenderness. "For you, Nora! For you, of course sweetheart. For me—well, without you there would be nothing left, nothing at all. Don’t cry, Nora, I’ve never made you cry before. It hurts me. Things will go better after this. I promise to buck up1—take life more calmly—try to remember that nothing really matters if you don’t despise me. . The biggest part of the year is over now. We’ll stick it out, as I said before. We must, you know.” Nora looked up, winking away the tears as she said gently: "We must try, of course. It would be so ter­ rible to hurt father. But it’s the last straw that breaks the camel’s back, Don. Don’t forget that.” It seemed to Nora that things did go better for a time. Don appeared less tired. He even accompanied her to one or two informal parties with some show of enthusiasm; and was according to their hostess, "a perfect life-saver” at a dinner given in hour of a renowned explorer re- I cently returned from the Arctic. "The affair would have been a complete washout if your young man hadn’t been here, Nora,” she said with gratitude. "No one else pres­ ent could talk1 intelligently with our lion on the subject nearest his heart, you know. Where on earth hasn’t Don Mason been?” "Ask him!” laughed Nora, never been able to find out!” That evening was something- of a triumph to the girl. As she watch­ ed her lover conversing so easily and naturally with the guest of hon­ or, comparing experiences, putting questions, answering others which the great man put to him, her eyes shone with happy pride. Even Ned, sitting across the table, was obviously impressed thought he essayed to hide the fact. And Cor­ inne, observing that others appear­ ed to be listening with interest to "that queer boy Nora has taken up with,’ listened, herseir ana wondered if her ears deceived her when she heard the distinguished guest invite Don to dine with him next night. "And can you tell me,” she asked Ned petulantly as they rode toward home, "what a man like that can have in common with Don Mason?” Indeed, she had to repeat the ques­ tion before her husband, who was deep in thought, roused himself to reply: "Possibly he wants to book him for his next expedition.” Corinne "I wish Don could portunity, sort would settle Nora! Did you see that Kemp Corless acted extremely struck with her to-night? They say he’s worth ten million if he’s worth a cent.” Ned shrugged. "I can’t see our fastidious sister falling for a bald head and fifty II forget it!” Don rose, as end to the discussion. * home, Nora, I seem to, when I turn in early. I Sales Ajants s Harold F. Ritchie * Co., Limited, Toronto I even forget! appear6 t0 me," maintained take you to a’ her husband with honestly which dear, I’ve won- j Through Church Relationships was given by 'Miss Lavona Cooper. The meeting closed with hymn 3 47 and the Mizpah benediction. had never Trust Nora for that! the luxuries of a few months to* wait; Don plroved hinjjsef. a roused by the cessation said: "Want book ’round not all, but part of conversation. Don. I—I almost near going straight you will But out wouldn’t be fair to either of That you. "I've brightened. to goodness he would! never resist such an op- and in absence of that Mrs. M. Dukart, Bradwell, Sask., writes:—"For a long time I suffered from a terrible cough which seemed to hang on despite numerous medicines I took. I was fold about Dr. Wood's Norway Pino Syrup, so started taking it right away. I took two bottles and my cough was gone. Now I always keep my medicine cheat well supplied with it,” Price, 35c a bottle; large family size, 65c, at all drug and general stores; put up only by The T. Mil­ burn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. would have astonished’ Leonora, "that the guest of honor was mono- g, Don!” For a while there was silence, a thoughtful silence on the part of Co­ rinne before she ventured: "I won­ der if the man would dine with us if he understood that Don would be there. It might be worth attempt­ ing. I-Ie’s tremendously sought af­ ter, you know.” Being not utterly blind to his wife’s social ambition, Ned threw her an ironic glance. "Better not try, my dear,” was his advice, "and save yourself a dis­ appointment. I’ve heard, he turns down almost everyone.” Strangely enough. Ned had reached the as to what this wanted of Don years later did amazing fact that for her sake Don had refused the chance to be a mem­ ber of an Arctic expedition that was to make history. If at mat time she had proof of his devotion, it would have been, revealed in the knowledge of this astounding sacrifice. And he had never told her! The revelation came with the finding of an old let­ ter; and, reading between the lines, Nora shed tears over the struggle her lover before he have been venture. I iSo things went better for a time. What Nora did' not suspect was the heroic effort Don was making to conceal his unhappy state of mind. He was bitterly ashamed to hav^ her know how let-down he really was— how intolerable the situation had become to him. Often he felt that could he talk freely!—get the sense of rebellion at this, way of living out of his system, it would ease the strain; but Nora was worried enough as it was, he argued. Why add to her troubles? Let her think1, if she could, that he was at last becoming inured to this hectic existence which his fellowmen regarded as the na­ tural thing. Don felt that the fault was all his own. And to make things harder, spring was in the air and on the treetops—spring, which always played the devil with him! Just the scent of a blossoming lilac .Stirred something in the very depths of his being—a almost irresistible desire to be away—it didn't matter where—just away . . . And he was chained to a ledger, as securely as were those slaves in the old gal­ leons . , . To Don, filled with spring’ wander­ lust, the long day seemed intermin­ able, and the office little better than a prison cell. There came an even­ ing when he could not go to Nora for fear she would suspect the ter­ rible unrest that had possession of him. Instead he tramped for miles into the country, trying to find peace from the stars— Ahe cool ening—the wild, sweet growing things, It was 1 late when he steps toward town. Peace had elud­ ed him. He could not find it. At intervals the shrill whir of an alarm clock, that piercing sound which roused him every morning, rang in his ears so realistically that the young man wondered if he were go­ ing mad. Reaching a bridge he 1 paused to rest a moment, gazing down into the infinite blackness of , the moving water. Peace must be there, he mused. Peace and cool- ; ness; release from this ghastly ; treadmill that men called Life. Af- | tor all, did the cowards have the best ■ Af It? Or in fhaf aftrnftwliero Imvnrt/f Lambert correct conclusion eminent explorer Mason. Not until Nora discover the must have gone through relinquished what would to him so thrilling an ad- "Don’t I?” Don smiled at this de­ scription. "The truth is, I am tied to a ledger—an immense and hor­ rible black book chuck full of fig­ ures that persist in dancing before my eyes when I want to sleep and getting into the wrong colunrs day­ times, just to be spiteful.” "You better be thankful they don’t smell bad,” the girl retorted. "I work in a dye house. Some days I can’t hardly eat my lunch. How long you been goin’ with your sweetie, anyhow?” Don was beginning to enjoy him­ self. To be revealing his life his­ tory to, an utter stranger, with no thought of the conventions, brought back the days of easy vagabondage that had once been his. Besides, this encounter would be something to tell Nora—something amusing. He answered, dropping with ease into the vernacular of his companion, a habit which endeared him to chance acquaintances: "We’re been goin’ together more’n a year now, sister.” "And you ain’t tired of he£?” "Not so’s you’d notice it!” grin­ ned Don. The girl drew in a breath which seemed somehow, laden with disap­ pointment. "I bet she’s got a lot o’ swell clothes then, boy.” Not moving his head, Don turned his eyes a little. The moon had come from behind a bank of clouds, and he saw distinctly the much-washed, sleazy frock the gin wafe wearing. Even a patch under one arm was visible as she raised her elbows to the parapet, arid, looking, down in­ to the dark water, repeated the statement she had just made: “I bet she’s got a lot o’ clothes.” Don said, a vision of Nora’s silver slippers and gay chiffons rising be­ fore hm; "I’ll say she has! But be­ lieve me, girl, I’d think) as much of her without ’em.” "A lot you would!’ (To be continued) of the scent turned ev- of his of it? Or in that somewhere beyond 1 did they look back regretfully, sor­ rowfully, wishing they’d played the game--wishing . , . . "Thinkin’ about ending it all?” chine a voice close at his side. Don started guiltily, having been too lost in thought to hear ap- r i ELIMVILLE (Crowded out last week) The Live Oak Mission Circle held thei regular monthly meeting last Wednesday afternoon at the home of Miss Helen Murch. (Miss Lavona Cooper had charge of the meeting which was opened with hymn 223 followed by the Lord.’s Prayer in unison. The Scripture Lesson Luke 18:i35-43 was read by 'Miss Helen Murch. The Devotional Leaflet "Among the Multitudes” was given by .Miss Audrey Prance. The roll call wds answered by a quotation on "One of God’s Promises.” The minutes of the last meeting were read and' adopted. Readings were given by Miss Laura {ford on "Tem­ perance”; Miss Marjorie Delbridge entitled, "Pan Chen” also by Miss Wilhelmia Ferguson entitled "A Chinese School Girl Writes” Miss Marparet Johns gave tne chapter from the Study Book "Training the Sharers” after which (Mrs. Peters led in Prayer. The meeting closed with hymn 168 and Mizpah benedic­ tion. The Y. P. S. met on Monday even­ ing. The President opened the meeting with hymn 226 and the Lord’s Prayer repeated in unison. The minutes of the last meeting were read and adopted. .Some busi­ ness was dealt with and Miss Mar­ jorie Delbridge took charge of the worship period. Hymn 174 was sung and the Scripture Lesson Exodus 20:8-11 and Matthews 16:13-19 was read by (Miss Mary Herdman; the second part Lukie 22:19-20 and John 10:14-16 was read by Miss Gladys Johns. Miss Laura Ford gave the Discussion on the lesson. Mrs.John Brock then road n* poem "Hope,” Prayer was offered by Mise Margar­ et Johns. The topic "Enrichment SHIPKA (Crowded, out last week) Congratulations to (Mr. and Mrs. leaiah Tetreau on their recent mar­ riage on .Saturday, March 3rd. The Y. P. S. held their regular meeting on Monday evening. Last Sunday was missionary day in the Sunday School. A piano duet was given by Mieses: Lorraine -Baker and. Lillian Lovie and a song by a class of girls. Miss Ruth Lamport, who has spent the past six weeks at the home of her sister in Ilderton returned to her home on Thursday last. A large number attended the auc­ tion sale of the late C. Finkbeiner’e estate on Thursday last. Mr. Al­ bert Gaiser bought trip 100-acre farm and IMr. Lome Finkbeiner the 50-a;cre farm. , Mr. Gordon Ratz has been under the doctor’s care with an attack of appendicitis. His friends hope he will recover soon. Eddie Yearley from Crediton is spending a few days with his uncle anri aunt, Mr. and Mrs. A. Keyes. Mies Iva Baker from Grand Bend is visiting with her cousin Miss L. Baker. Miss Dorothy Ratz ie visiting with friends, in Melbourne. Mrs. Percy Mollard has returned to her home after a few weeks’ visit with relatives in Kitchener. (Mir. and Mrs. Hodgson from Brins­ ley were visitors at the home of Mr. and1 Mrs. W. Lovie last Thursday. Mr. W. Witzel and Irene have re­ turned after spending a few weeks with her daughters, Mrs. H. Pfaff, near Crediton. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon McNair and babe spent last Thursday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Lamport. Mr. Wm. Sweitzer attended the Fire Insurance meeting at Zurich Saturday last. GREENWAY (Crowded out last week) •Mrs, Hotson, of London, spent a few days last week with her son John and 'Mrs. J. Hotson. Mr. and Mrs. John Gill, of Grand Bend, visited Mr. and Mrs. L. Pol­ lock, last Thursday. Miss Mary Corbett returned on Saturday after spending several weeks in Fordwich nursing her father who was ill but is now quite recovered. A message was received, here last week of the sudden passing of Mr. I Albert C. Wilson in Spingfield, Ill. The community extends sympathy to the bereaved ones. The young people of the United church gathered at the home of IMIr. and Mrs. J. Romphf last Tuesday and spent a pleasant social evening with games and music. During the evening (Miss- Fern Luther read an address and Donald MlcGregor pres­ ented Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Romphf with a handsome case containing silver forks and knives with blades1 of stainless steel. Mr. and Mrs. Al­ onzo Romphf both replied express­ ing their appreciation. Refreshments were served and the young folk in leaving expressed many kindly wishes for the happiness of the youthful couple. Mr. Seibourne English, of Detroit, was home for the week-end. Miss Ellen Hicksi has returned to Stanley after spending a week at home. The milder weather came just in time to permit a good crowd to at­ tend the oyster supper in the United church last Thursday. The supper left nothing to be desired and Rev. S. J. Mathers was chairman for the program of music and readings which followed. Local talent was assist­ ed by Douglas Gill, of Grand Bend, who gave violin solos and Norman Turnbull also of Grand Bend, who sang two numbers, Miss Nola Des- jardine acting as accompanist. 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