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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1934-08-30, Page 2THE EXETER TIMrS-APV°CATETHURSDAY, AUGUST 30TR, 1931 by Agnes Louise Provost TRAIL’S END SYNOPSIS Three weeks after a vieam colored roadster had been found wrecked in the sea at the foot *’f a cliff, a girl calling herself Anm- Cush ing appears at the desert town of Marston. She has bought, sight jUnseen, a ranch located 30 miles away. Barry Duane, her nearest neighbor and his man Boone Petry procure a reliable woman for her and in Barry's car, loaded down with suppli*", they start across the desert. In Mar ston her reticence has aroused suspicion. Barry and Anne be come more than neighbors, and when J^une is lost in the hills and rescued by Barry, each realizes that something more than friend ship exists between them. SIXTH INSTALMENT des>-A quiet moo-d seemed to have cended on Barry. When the coffee was fini.-hed he smoked for a few moments in silence, his eyes com ing back every few seconds to the clear little him. Anne tiny. “Weren’t denly, “going to tell me about the town of Duane?” “So I was.” He shifted his posi tion. “It’s just the story of a man who wanted t-o turn a desert into a garden. He was my uncle, Robert Duane. He worked like a giant for it, and died borken and ridiculed, and discredited.” His face was black as he stared' down at the table. “He loved this country. He came here from the East years ago, and he came across this lake and took over a big tract of land, that this lake was the biggest body of water in miles, but useless to those dry plains below, and he be gan dreaming of the things that could be done.’ “I see,” said Anne softly. “It was a big dream.” “Ye.-, it was big. It was partic ularly big for one man to swing. He built this place, and after that 1 came and lived with him every sum mer.” He stopped, frowning cently. “When they actually work on the dam, people take serious notice. They remem bered what was being done in the Imperial Valley. Eagle Lake swarm ed with workers, and the dam grew. And then the big day came. “It was a great day. No matter what came of it, it can never be anything else than that. The sig nal was given and the water rushed down the sluiceways to make his wilderness blossom. Everyone cheer ed, and Uncle Bob (gripped my shoulder and said, ’Barry, you and I believed in this when other people laughed. When I go., this is to be yours.” Barry looked at ! ed grin. “So this is my anybody down in tell you that it’s no For after the first tragedy came. The there, but it irrigate. The valley was full of gravel sinks- that no-one had suspected, and the water drained off as fast as it was run in. It was a complete smashing failure.” “Oh, how dreadful.” that she found ‘herself Barry threw away a ed cigarette and arose. “The Pinos isn’t the of arid land around here the Junipero, bigger and better and with a soil—it isn’t really sand—- that will give it very heart to you for a steady supply of water. I want to use this dam to ipero.” He ran a brown hair and laughed “I suppose you think I’m chasing an elusive rainbow?” “Why shouldn’t you, if you’re found one that’s worth chasing?” “You darling!” His eyes kindled. “For these kind words . . .” She jumped up and gave him a prim little marionette’® bow. ‘Come on, lazy, I want to go down by the lake again.” He arose obligingly and followed her, overtaking her in two strides. They went down side by side, and pofile turned toward felt that restless scru- you,” she asked sud- He saw reminis- started began to her with a twis't- inheritance, and Marston would better than1 junk bg moment, the irrigation was It was all able to say. half-consum- only stretch There’s irrigate the Jun- hand through his abruptly. juu any more?" The voice was careless, but her »ye- were brilliant with excitement as .-he came to the kitchen door. She tied the package up swiftly, and then vanished ■ The newspaper I Once behind !-piead it out lingers, ; t aiefully word for lief was warm and lovely. “Thank God,” she don’t have to be afraid of that!” The last words were shaky . . . Mustn’t get hysterical. When she came out a few moments later there was a lilt in her voice which Martha had not heard for days. I “I’m going foi a little run before - supper,” she called, and tvent out I towards the corral. A few moments ’.later pinto and girl flew past the recollection flooded ■ kitchen window with a clear call over her like an oily wheie tilt’ pitch wa- steep he caught her atm in his. within a ft‘>v turds of the water's edge he spread cut his coat for her to sit on and dropped down beside her. “Anile, will you marry me?" “You’io a sudden person, Barry." She hedged for time. “Do you real ize that we’d never met until a few weeks ago? Just four—” “Four days was enough for me. i Anne darling, 1 don’t want to rush you. hut you know how I feel, don’t you? I love you here all every hour. . . Anne!” Warmth flooded over her; there was a singing tingle in her Why not? Who in that outside world would ever Just the two of them, here secluded place. Temptation tugged at her. “Take your chance!’(’ it whispered. “Take it! . . .’’ And then back, crawling wave. “Anne, look Her throat felt stiff and dry. ‘Oh, Barry, please. We’ve been such good friends. Don’t spoil it.” “Oh—-spoil it ” The -warmth died out of his face. He looked stung and hurt, and suddenly tight lip ped. “Sorry!” he said curtly. “I must have got the wrong idea. I thought —well, it’s been rather nice, going around like this, I had a feeling . . a hope . . .it was getting to mean something to you, too . . . my con ceit probably.” The words came jerkily. He look ed up cause cause She anybody else, you talk that way. possible to like—to be awfully fond of somebody without—” “No-t for you and me.” Barry look ed at her moodily, softening .a bit because she really did looiki unhappy about it, and because she was so lovely—s-o damnably lovely “All right,” lie said, and forced a smile, things. It’s- think”—-lie firm clasp think”—-he firm clasp think that' everlastingly good try.” She would not look at not he -see that he was heart out? It no use, B'arry, I you awfully, but— “I don’t want to be liked,” savagely. “I’d want you to be as crazy about me as I anr about I’d never be satisfied with possessing—I want all of you.” All of her! She felt desolate and a litle frightened. It occurred to her that no matter what came to her now—love, friendship, trouble she would always have something to hide. A restless week crawled by. An other, flat and uninteresting trudg ed -solidly at its- heels.. The days were just days, one of them plod ding stupidly after another. Barry 'still came down to Trail’s End, he seemed 1 somewhere - Playing dangerous, a 'blank emptiness. __ violently, indoors and out, but the zest had gone from it. Warmth and color had gone. The day had been -of the kind to encourage a stiff morale. A het wind had been blowing in from the the desert for hours. Anne sat for a while " beside her tinkling brook. “Miss Anne, are you -out there?” “Corning, Martha. Anything I can do?” “I wish you’d ’do up that package Boone's going to stop for. I’ve left some paper on the table.” Martha had left a sheet of news paper spread out for her. Anne look ed down at it, idly. A heading caught her eye. It a Los, Angeles paper, and it two months old. ©lie leaned the spread-out sheet. Then- very still. To Martha, out in the came a ^harp sound of paper. "Oh, Martha, I’ve torn this! Have into her owy room, went also. a closed door she again with shaking read again, more time, scanning each hidden She this some creeping all meaning. Re- through her, you. the You I keep seeing time, every day, and I together . whispered,“I at me!” said just you. just veins, distant know? in this suddenly. “-See here, isi it be- of somebody else, or just' be- I’m myself?” shook her head. “There isn’t And I hate to hear Barry, isn’t it “We won’t let it spoil not your fault if I don’t reached out and laid a on his wrist—“don’t reached out and laid a ■on his wrfet—“don’t I’ll give up without an him. Could tearing her like he always to be on his else. around with Barry but letting him go Atone but way was left wo riked she was was over was kitchen, tearing Looseness of the Bowels During the Summer Months It is seldom,'during the summer, that most people are not troubled "with some form of looseness of the bowels. Generally it develops into Diarrhoea, Dysentery Or Summer Complaint, and has a tendency to weaken the system. Do not check the discharges too suddenly. Do not experiment with a now and untried remedy, but take Dr. Dowler’s Extract of Wild Strawberry, « a remedy that has boon used by thousands of families during the past 88 years. , Do not accept a substitute, Bo sure and got "Dr, Fowler’s” when you ask for it. Put lip only by Tho T. Milburn Co., Ltd., Toronto, Ont. down contentedly, “I’ve tried too, Barry and it doesn’t work at all.” “Anne! Do you mean it?’ Anne looked at him. “You darling!” he said huskily and gathered her into his arms. Time lost it’s meaning. She looked up and eaught his eyes on her. “There isn’t the least reason why we shouldn’t be married right away is there? How about-—tomorrow?” “Tomorrow!” Anne sat up I wont! feel en- crackle/ CoAZ Established 1873 and 1887 Published every Thursday morning at Exeter, Ontario SUBSCRIPTION—2.0101 -per year in advance Anne that. “Indeed a minute to Jost you once, any more Barry? you WHAT FOOD RATE'S—Farm or Real Estate for sale 50c. each insertion for first four insertions. 25c, each subse quent insertion. Miscellaneous articles, To Rent, Wanted, Lost, or Found 10c, per line of six words. Reading notices 10c. per line. -Card of Thanks 5iO'C. Legal ad vertising 12 and 8c. per line. In Me-m-oriam, with -one verse 50c. extra verses 251C-. each. and I’m chances. Without straight at Do give me gaged.” “I nearly not taking Wednesday then. “Just quietly, any fuss at all?” “As quietly as suits me. We’ll have a at the Perch and take a “I don’t want a trip. stay right here.’ “No trip? Maybe you’ll i There’s lots of like, That honeymoon trip I’d later.” rather these morsels be Member of The Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association and a scurry of hoofs. “Somethin’s cheered her up mighty’ quick," she commented. At one side of the irorm hung two of Anne’s dresses, freshly ironed. Martha went into Anne’s, room to put them where they belonged. Then arms akimbo, she looked around. On a chair, half concealed by an orange cushion, lay a folded news paper, Martha picked it up. “I do wonder what started her off like that. Well, if it’s in print it can’t be any secret.” t Martha sat down to read. There were only two sheets of it and the news would be stale, but she plodd ed through it carefully. There was political news, which she -skipped. Somebody had been brutally shot in a hold-up. A bold head-line fea tured the latest divorce scandal, and a “mystery woman” who had van--, is-hed into the blue; a much small er one noted the death of a once prominent financier. Some young girl had ‘been drowned and the body had not yet been recovered, an'd a very rich man had offered a reward for it. A brief two inches of type said that the man found badly wounded on the outskirts of Ven tura had been identified, but refus ed to name his- -assailant. A screen luminary had just received his final decree of divorce. Martha read patiently. ' “Murders and suicides and vorces'I” she -sniffed. “I don’t much in them to c’heer anybody Hmp!” ‘ There was a spot on Barry’s home ward way-—or rather, out of his way ! —where Trail’s End was in full view. He detoured until he reach- * ed it and pulled up> half tempted to ! turn and ride down-. : Out from the modest group of J buildings, a dancing speck came, a girl and a pinto horse. How Anne did love to ride. ’ The pinto was sweeping on glori- ► ously. They would pas-s almost be- ! neath him. He turned Captain about. “Old man, if we go round by the trail it will take half an hour at your prettiest, but' if we take the old s-lide we can join the lady pron to.” Pronto was a word that Captain understood. He took the steep plunge valiantly and without a pause. “Hello. Any objection if along?” “Reckless cowboy, aren’t Do you usually slide down mountainside to meet your friends? “No, this is something special Movie stuff,” he added deprecat- ingly, half ashamed of his dramatic plunge. “It was a real thrill, anyway, but for the first few seconds, you had me well scared. Suppose Captain had tumbled, -or anything?” “Captain doesn’t stumble thing.” “Comet doesn’t stumble, Barry glanced up with frown. “Pinto, two beat us, can we?” “Don’t think -of -trying such a thing!” His voice w-as rough with anxiety “You did it.” “I’ve done if doggedly. “It’i One misstep and ed or crippled for the rest of your life. And I’d .always- have to remem ber that it had come about through an -act of mine.” Barry swung close, reaching for 'her hand. “You’re precious- to whether you want to Please promise that you won’t try it. Not unless it’s life or death.” “I might promise that. I wasn’t really going to anyway,” she did not take her hand away, and he gathered up the other and held them together, “Is that all you can promise?” She looked up slowly at him, “You won’t just be friends Bar ry?” “No, there’s nothing to it, I’ve tried, but it won’t work,” The hands seemed to snuggle change your mind. There’s lots of time . . .About that wedding day. , .” “Likes his own way, doesn’t he? I’m taking an awful chance. . . . Monday?” “Monday. You know, . . it’s go ing to be pretty, nice, isn’t it?” She nodded quickly. They sat there together like two children suddenly shy. Kellogg’s Rice Krispies have a delightful taste-appeal. A treat for the whole family. So crisp, they crackle and pop in milk or cream. All the nourishment of wholesome rice. Light and easy to digest. Ideal for breakfast or lunch. Fine for the children’s supper. Always oven-fresh in the patented inner waxtite bag. Made by Kellogg in London, Ontario. Professional Cards GLADMAN & STANBURY BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, &o Money to Loan, Investment's Made Insurance , .Safe-deposit Vaults for use of our Clients -without charge EXETER and IIENSALL (Continued next week) Sunday School Lesson OPPRESSED Sunday, Sept. 2.—Micah 2 6:1 to 7:6. Golden Text hath showedl thee, is good; and wli'at to 4, and oh, man, doth the He what Lord (require of thee, but to1 do just ly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with God? (Micah 6:8.) Listen! CARLING & MORLEY BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, &c« LOANS, INVESTMENTS-, INSURANCE Office: Carling Block’, Mun Streec, EXETER, ONT. At Lucan Mondays' and Thursdays whose di- see up. Like Hosea and Amos, brave and burning messages to Is rael -and Judah we have been study ing, Micah bodly declared the con troversy that the Lord had with His people. The Book1 of Micah is only seven short chapters, but it is an in spiring masterpiece of polemic and irenic—-that is, of God’s law" 'and God’s grace. He showed without reservation why God must bring terrific judgment upon persistent sin. And he showed with equal clearness that “where sin abounded grace did much more abound.” Idolatry was the chief sin of both Israel and Judah, the northern and southern kingdoms. They* had fal len into the popular ®in of their Canaanite neighbors and were wor shiping other gods than God. It has 'been kind day. were many the work of men's- hands., Anything that' comes between us and God is idolatry. -Such idolatry is the great est sin of -Canada and the United States, and of most nations- today. Micah declared God’s sure coming judgment, in the destruction of Sam aria and Jerusalem, the capitals of the most p'opular sin of man* since Adam fell, land is» so to- The idols that were images the work of men’s hands; and idol's1 that are not images- are thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the Lord straitened?” Therefore God’s love and grace and power, which are ‘the same yesterday, and today and for ever,” are more than a match for the sin and unrighteousness and He will' yet right wrongs. The second coming shines out in Micah’s prophecy as it does repeatedly in- the 'Old Testa ment as well as the New. God was not through with His people when the judgments' infallibly- dieted by Micah fell, nor is through with those people, the yet. “But in the last day it come- to pass, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be es tablished in the top of the mountain and it shall be exalted above the hills; amd people shall flow unto it. And many nations shall come, say, come, and let us- .go up to mountain of the Lord, and to house of God of IJacob; and he tea.ch us of His ways and we walk in His paths.” Dr. G. S. Atkinson, L.D.S.,D.D.S. DENTAL SURGEON Office opposite the New Post Office Main Street, Exeter Telephones Office 34 w House 31J Office closed all day Wednesday until further notice ................. ■JJ.S.................................- ,IMI Dr. G. F. Roulston, L.D.S.,D.D.S. DENTIST Office; Calling- Block EXETER, ONT. Closed Wednesday Afternoons of all of men, these Christ pre God Jews shall the two kingdoms, “And all!the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces . . . and all the I ride you?” half a or any- either.” a quick we can’t' let these before,” he said 's a fool trick anyway. you could be kill his fingers me, Anne, be or ’not. idols thereof will I lay desolate.” Two expressions in the first chap ter are' significant: “stripped and naked”: “having thy shame naked.’ Finom the time of the, fall of man, nakedness-Ms always shown in the Bible to be 'a matter of -shame. This is sufficient exposure of the anti- chris-tian folly of the so-called phil osophy of nudism, which is but one of the many current expressions of man’-s revolt against' God and God’s laws. Sinners can no more stop sinning when left to themselves than can le-pe’rs, by will power, put an end- to their leprosy. Micah shows the na ture of sin in his divine denunciation of -the nation: “her wound is incur able." But what man cannot cure, God can. “With man this is impos sible, possible.” ing and kind 'as a. when he -said 'that Judah’s, was “incurable,” and then went to point the way to the miraclte divine cure. There are vivid, pen pictures this book, dramatic descriptions the photographic accuracy. For ex ample. Woe to them that devise ini quity, and iw-ork evil upon their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand, The heads- thereof judge for reward, and tho priests' thereof divine the money; yet will they] lean'upon the Lord, and say, is not the Lord among us? none evil -can come upon us. God’s judgment must follow 'upon persistent and corrigible sin of this sort, and it will'-, declares Micah, Rulers are given their power from God in order to rule in •righteous ness;’1 if they will not, they must be punished, “Then shall they cry un to the Lord, but He will not hear them.” Oyer against the terrific and per sistent failure of men stands the un- swerving righteousness of God." “0, but with God alii things are The prophet’ was- as lov- true physician wound on of in of and the the will will This is one of the many prophecies of the Lord’s return as Israel’s Messiah, to rule over Israel and the whole earth from the throne of David in Jerusa lem. When the Prince of Peace comes again, then indeed will premanent peace be established among the na tions. “And they shall beat their swords into plowshares- and their spears, into pruning hooks; nation shall not' lift up a sword 'against no tion, neither shall they learn war any more. But they shall sit every man under his vine and his -fig tree and none shall make them afraid for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it.” s As the second coming of Christ is predicte d by Micah, so ■ wa.s His first’ -coming. “But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, among out of to Me whose of old, from everlasting.’ And what is the conclusion of the whole matter? In’ the seventh and last chapter of this brief prophetic book, after repeating some of his unsparing denunciations- of Israel’s sins, the prophet says, showing that' there is no hope in man but every hope in God: “Therefore I will look unto the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me. Rejoice not against me, 0 mine enemy; when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness; the Loma shall be a light unto me ... 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