HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1934-11-08, Page 2THURSDAY, NOVEMBER Sth, 1084 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE
TRAIL’S END
by Agnes Louise Provost
over
The
“I’d
beat
FINAL INSTALMENT
The mutter dwindled to a whisper
Nancy lay quiet again, Barry sent a
miserable glance at Martha.
“Don’t worry. I’ve nursed sick
Stalks before. You go see wlrat you
can do for that man. He’s hurt bad.”
His jaw tightened, but he went.
The outer room was quiet. Ken
nedy’s eyes were closed, but he open
ed them as Barry entered.
“Anything more than the leg?’’
he asked curtly.
“A rib or two, maybe. Landed on
a rock. Horse stumbled and threw
me.”
“I’ve sent foiv a doctor, but you
may have to wait several hours."
“I’ll stick it. Might have been—
still on the rock—if it hadn’t been
for Nancy....... I could do with a cig
arette."
Barry gave him one, and held the
match.
“Thanks. That’ll help.”
“Anything else?”
“No. The old girl fixed me up
pretty well.” He grinned again in
that tight fashion, made an involun-,
tary movement and winced, “If you
want to hear what happened I’ll talk
Barry nodded. Gage came
and sat down.
“Go on.”
“I’ll begin at your place.”
black eyes were fixed on Barry,
seen Nancy first here, but she
me getting there. I guess you know
the rest of the story by thisi time—
if you got the truth.
His glance flickered cynically from
Barry to Gage. “He knowe."
“Ail right. I was afoot, because
my lights had gone wrong and I*d
pitched over a bank. But I arrived
in time to hear all the commotion.
Then Nancy came back running for
.that calico horse. She sort of stagger
ed when she got to him saying things
ito herself, not very lo-ud', but it scar
ed me. I’d asked her before I left
here if she was sick, and she said’
no, she was all right. But she wasn't.
“I tried to stop her, but she sail
ed right on past, and I grabbed a
horse, and followed her. When I
caught up with her she didn’t know
me at first. I tried .to make her turn
back, but she was bent on running
away from something. And then my
horse stumbled and threw me, and
she came back and sat down along
side of me for a while.' She seemed
to get the idea that I was sick and
she had- to take me home—poor kid.
I don’t know why, and I don’t know
how we ever got here , .
pretty stiff trip.”
He scowled at the end
arette. “I guess we’ve
Nancy a rotten deal. It’s
she got a break,”
Martha hurried out, and paused
on her way to the kitchen.
“BaTry, you might bring in some
wood. I want good fires andi plenty
of hot water. She’s all choked up."
Barry made for the door. Gage
was left alone with the man who had
meant to blackmail h;s wife,
nedy broke a stiff silence.
“Listen.’ he said abruptly. “I’ll be
laid up for a long time. I don’t like
you and you hate me, but I like to
.pay my debts, and this one won’t
wait. Bull up closer—I’ve got to
talk fast.”
. It was a
of his cig
all given
about time
Ken-
The young doctor from the coun
try seat said it was pneumonia. He
spoke briskly of health and youth
and vitality, but on the second day
he asked some odd questions, and
added a guarded remark about re
duced resistance and evidences of a
long emotional .strain. He agreed, af
ter a brief hesitation, to stay with
them for the first tweny-four hours,
■provided someone would return to
(his1 office with a message.
Petry almost lived in the gray car
News trickled in to Marston, careful
ly edjted.
Late in that first day the rich vis
itor had come in with Petry, visibly
tired and brief of speech, and tele
grams 'had smoked along .the wires in
some kind of code. Later a fast air
plane brought a secretary from some
where out of the East. A big new au
tomobile appeared in an incredibly
short time and went snaking Out
over the Junipero. you’ve let yourself in for blackmail,
While all these things were hap- he’d pack you *off somewhere. Am-
pening Anne tossed and muttered, brose is pretty easy with you, but he
struggling to get up and get away has his limits1.”
somewhere, Broken scraps came to I “I shouldn’t think you could af-
then, about Paula, who was not to ford to talk about blackmail!” Cleo
worry because Nancy would find a blazed at him. “I suppose you mean
way out—Jim—murder—a
man—mustn’t be arrested,
everything yvould come '
must hurry, and send her
over a cliff,
And presently Anne did
ble, and they dared look
■ether again. Gage had Petry ----- -;him up to the Perch, and took Mar- jDuane about your attempts' to rail-
tha with him.
For nearly four days
been virtually alone
Perch, All her neat
tumbled once more, blit
bright little thought winked up out
of the ruins. Nancy might die.
The first day of isolation she had
endured, because one could not open
ly do much else when people are sick
but the second day was less excus
able, and now her eyes were bright
with repressed temper.
Added to that was the fact that
she was finding it difficult to get
away. There were two cars now but
they where always in use. And the
saddle horses had been turned out
somewhere.
Cleo.saw the new car come in and
Petry ,and that woman Martha go
around to the back of the house.
She met Gage with a- pout.
“I’m awfully glad you’ve come.
I’m getting 'terribly lonely up here.
How is Nancy?”
“She's going to live.” His1 voice
was dry. “Come in, I have some
thing to show you.”
In the living room he took a wal
let from his pocket, iand from it ex
tracted a neat oblong of paper. Cleo
came close to a gasp of surprise, but
she 'checked it in time.
It was a check for five thousand
dollars, dr,awn to the order of James
M. Kennedy.
“Kennedy! Why, that’s my name
on it! He’s been forging it f-or five
thousand dollars! He was one of our
chauffeurs, but I discharged him.
Thank you so much!”
iShe held out her hand, but Gage
tucked the check back in his wallet.
“No thanks. I’ll keep it as evi
dence. I have a signed statement
from Kennedy, too. I’m going to put
them both in safe deposit.”
For ia few seconds Cleo felt very
cold. And very angry, but she mere
ly moved a petulant shoulder.
“You’re terribly mysterious,
afraid I don’t follow you.”
“Think hard," he suggested, *
maybe you’ll remember. It’s
such a.n everyday matter to
somebod'y ten. thousand dollars
get another woman out of the way."
“You are simply outrageous!" Her
face was flaming now, but fear was
crowding her close. “That’s ridicu
lous thing to say. And do you think
that anyone would d-oubt my word
against that of <a discharged chauf
feur,—a broken-down gambler and'—
She stopped, realizing that she had
said too much. Gage gave her a
brief smile.
“You’re well posted on his record,
aren’t you? And you didn’t discharge
him, he left, I have evidence of that,
too. I also have detailed affidavits
covering some of your conversations
with Kennedy. One of them is par
ticularly instructive, That was
time you tried to buy back
check from him. Maybe you recol
lect that you’d ha.d a new footman
recently, who didn’t stay ve'ry long.
He was' an operative from a detective
agency.”
“Really! Perhaps you’ll tell
that Kennedy was a detective
It’s too bad that he was shot
same night that your wife’s sister
staked a front page exit over that
cliff!”
“Maybe he was. But be a little
more careful with your speech,
please.”
“Young woman, you’ve been play
ing a risky game, and you’ve lost it
It was worse than risky, it was a
dirty game, and if the story ever
came out you would be a long time
living it down. And if your father
should get wind of it, and the way
. police- j that you are going to hold your pre- because | cious documents over my head to
out—-she keep me from telling.
contract; “Call it anything you like. But
j get this idea firmly in your head—
not bab- this thing' iis going to stop right here,
at each ! You are going to keep quiet about drive' the whole business. I 'haven’t told
road his wife, but at the first indis- had'eretion he is going to get the whole
Eagle’s 'nasty story. If I die before you, the
pealed papers will go to Nancy. Have
I made myself clear?”
Gage had found the one weak spot
in her hard li'tle armour. Of all the
people in the world, she could least
endure to have Barry know that she
had done to get him.
At the door he paused. “There’s an
express that goes through the Junc
tion at seven. I’ve wired for a com
partment for you, and Petry will
take you over. Martha is. packing
youi' trunk now. I told her to.
Good-bye.
The door closed behind him.
Cleo
at
plans had
one hard,
I’m
the
this
me
too!
the
1
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When Nancy awoke it was midday
and someone was sitting on an ab
surdly low stool beside her bed. He
was bent over, with his head resting
on his hands, and the stool was so
low that the lowered head was only
a little way from her finger tips,
where they rested limply on the bed.
It was a brown head, with thick
hair roughened in the way that she
had loved. It couldn’t 'be real. She
moved her hand to touch dt.
“Oh—hello!” He tried so hard to
frighten
see you
it with
be matter of fact—not to
her. “It’s pretty nice to
awake again.”
“Nice.” She repeated
dreamy content. Her 'hand went up
slowly, and touched his cheek, and
he caught held of it and held it clos
er, turning his head to bury his lips
in a soft palm.
“Sweet little Nancy! If you will
just get well—and come back—
there’s nothing else in the world
that’s going to matter.”
“Nice!” she said again; and
leased a happy sigh.
Under her groping fingers1,
cheek was wet.
‘Trail’s End,” she murmured
tentedly. “I was hoping—it
be.”
She dropped off to sleep
holding his hand.
There was still much to. be
before life could go its normal way
again. There was, as Gage bluntly
put it, publicity to' be thought’ of. A
girl named Nancy Curtis, who had
been drowned last May, must come
to life again. The young doctor
would be discreet. Cleo haid gone,
but Gage assured them that she
would be unable tot tell anything
more than the version which they
would give out. Barry received it
without comment.
He went in to1 see Kennedy.
“Getting in practice for a trip.”
Kennedy explained
“The doctor is going
ibulance-.rigged truck
start me off.
. . How’s Nancy?”
“Better. She—asked after you.”
“Good little trouper.” The hard
black eyes softened for an instant.
“They don’t come any better than
Nancy. You might—no, I'll say it
in a letter. You needn’t mind—it’ll
be perfectly proper.”
“I don’t. I’ve—learned things.”
Kennedy broke the silence.
“I saw the former Mrs. Kennedy
this morning,
not to look this wa,y.
they’ve made it up, and
is all rosy again?”
“I think so.” Barry was
it. He could not discuss
affairs with Jim Kennedy.
Barry wondered what Gage really
thought of Pan'la. Gage was no dot
ing fool, but he loved his w’ife,
Barr'y thanked God for
swung off for a walk.
re-
his
con-
would
again,
off-handedly,
to get an am-
•out here to
She was very careful
I suppose
everything
curt about
the Gages’
Nancy, and
the Perch
contentedly
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They were
again. Anne
in a big chair
ing fire.
Publicity had swept over them
like a wave and had gone, leaving
them breathless but safe. There
might have been privacy fori some,
but not for Nancy Curtis, who had
glittered for a brief time and whose
brotherdn-law was a multi-million-
aire.
Anne gave the whispering fire a
little secret smile. Barry had been
sweet about it.
Now the tumult had d'ied, and life
was their own again. Letters and
telegrams' had been pouring in and
lay In drifts on the table and In her
lap.
And finality there was a letter from
Mrs, Dhane. It was addressed to
B,amr,y and it was .restrained and fru
gal of OmotiOh, but Anile knew liOW
back in
snuggled
in front of a whisper-
had been. “I’ll do my share,' Anne
thought, and felt a twinge of pity.
“She is Barry’s mother. I’ll do al'l
that she will Jet me.’
Aloud she said: “It was nice of
your mother to release you from
your promise about living in Gran-
leigh. I know it is hard for* her. But
she’ll be terribly proud of you. If
you can get away, perhaps we could
go back for a ltitle while, maybe at
Thanksgiving or Christmas—if she
would like it.”
“Why—that sounds good to me.”
His eyes warmed. “With the salary
that I’m to1 draw as president of the
new company, we can make it a: real
party.”
His eyes went back >to some tele
grams which lay open on the table.
He knew them 'by heart. One was
from Mammoth Pictures Corporation
whose hard-won contract Nancy had
once had to let go. It offered a stai’
contract now, iwith nearly twice the
salary. The othdb was from Amal-
gatmated, adding a bonus on every
picture.
He fingered the yelloiw sheets and
looked, soberly across at her.
“You know,” he said hurriedly,
“it’s' alll right, Nancy—4f you want
to. I mean—I wouldn’t stand in
your way.”
S'he knew how much that had cost
him, how he hated the very thought
of her living a life like that—and of
losing her.
“Thanks for that, Barry. I’ve been
thinking about it, of course. It seems
as though I’d never really finished
anything that I began. I had a job
in a little town, and then Paula' went
away and I gave it up to follow her
and got another in a big toiwn. And
I let that go for my first part in a
new play, and after two years I left
the stage to go to Hollywood—-and
I han away from that and bought a
ranch. And then I tried being mar
ried for a while—just a- vety little
while. If you don’t mind, I think
I’d. rather like to stay around and
make a good job of that.’*
Something swooped. Barry picked
her up out of the big chair, and the
letters and telegrams went swishing
down like rain.
The End-
EDDIE, THE AD MAN
A POTATO RATE TEST
The most profitable rate at whieh
fertilizers may be applied-' to pota
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the Department of 'Chemistry, On
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potatoes. An analysis which has
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They are as follows:
4-8-10 at 500 lbs. per acre yield
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One of the difficulties in conduct
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fertilizers are carefully applied so
that the increased rates do not in
jure the vitality of the potato seed
pieces. Apparently this has occur
red where 1000 lbs. of fertilizer was
applied, on Mr. Moon’s farm, for
there is a constant increase from
5010 to 15 00 lbs. otherwise, Whether
•or not this heavy application of fer
tilizer can ibe made at a profit de
pends largely the price of potatoes.
Just at present low prices are rul
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Potato growers will be interested
in the results obtained, which are
largely in line with the experience of
the Department of 'Chemistry
other years.
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in
On the eve of his departure from
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James and Archie, D. L. Jones, the
roundhouse fo'remah superannuated
from the C.P.R. service after 25
years, Was presented with an address
and a club bag by fellow workmen,
Mrs, Jones was presented with a
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where a happy time was spent. Mr.
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slat's diary
Friday—well even if Ant Emmy
and pa and all so ma does say that
the wirld is> gro
wing wirst all the
time I don’t think
much of the way
kids was ejucated
away
they
•kids.
tulff.
ritlimetick & oney
one kids pa got it
right.
Saterday—wile
we yas out ride-
ing this afternoon
Ant Emmy red a
sine
Bord
Girls
Wear
she sed poor girls
I spose they are just waiting until
they get a job mebby.
Sunday—Well this afternoon the
skool house cot on fire agen and
for a wile it looked like a.s if we
mite half to miss iskool for a wile
but the far department got there
and put out the Blase, before it done
much good.
Munday—Mr. Twelip is home
from a Toor ini India and we was
a awking about how insivilized th9
people in India is and he says they
are Rappidly becomeing civilized
just like in America becuz he got
held up by a bandit in
of India.
Teusday—Clem Litch
Dr. to see whut w.as the
him and the Dr. sed he was Enne-
mick and he shud ought to take up
plenty of Xercise .so now he has tuk
up Cheer leading.
Wensday—Pa a st Jim Feeny why
he started to going to church all at
Once ,and Jim sed sence they got a
Radio down at his home it is im
possible to sleep any more.
iThirsday—'Ant Emmy got Stung
on a Add she answered again. She
sent a $ bill to get a preventative of
Old Age and the Co. she sent the ?
Bill to sent a bottle of Carbolick
Acid marked poison.
back when
was little
(We had a
kweston} in
on a
witch
Reddy
Closes
Bill
sed.
to
and
the jungles
went to the
matter with
Not Ignorance
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“Why, it will shoiw you how t,o be
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“Listen, son,” said the old man
impressively. “I’m noitl half as good
a farmer now as I know 'how to be.”
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