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TMVKSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1034 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE
g~—1 SILVER LININGS’
BY JOSEPH MCCORD
CHAPTER I
Serenity, M.D.
To“That was precious of you.
think, you might have been my very
IlllllllillllllllllllllllllllllillllillllillUlUllliil
| from the intimate lives of patients
than had the elderly physician, in
■ spite of his undeniable mission of
healing.
Minnie was by nature a mixer.
first patient! Well, we can’t .get all 1 arris a. was not
• * _ __ ... i Tncr nnw nm 1?the breaks-—-
“But—-but
“Dr. Dale
“The heck
to chuck it!
Our sort-
“If you do any more of your ‘sort
ing’ around here, I’ll-—<1’11 scream!”
was her exasperated retort. “I’m
sick to death of ou.r sort—your sort,
if you force me to put it that way.
I’m out of it! I’ve dissected paupers
who were a heap more individual—
inside and out. That’s one way to
get to understand people. The
‘Profs’ have told me that I show
seme signs of intelligence when it
comes to diagnosis, and' I’m going to
tell you what’s the matter with you.!
I don’t expect you’ll do anyhing'
about it, but it won’t hurt you much. '
Her tone became suddenly gentle.
“Here’s your trouble, old dear—
in a nutshell. I happen to be one
of the very few things in life you
thought you wanted that didn’t
plump down into your gracious lap.
Well, I'm sticking to my tree. That
goes—for the time being, anyhow.”
“But, Serenity—”
“Yes, I know. I’m passing up a.
big chance. Darn it, I told' you. I <
appreciated it—a-----— _ -----
appreciate that you and Buster and He was thumbing its -pages as Frame
I are all wasting gas. It’s nearly awkwardly climbed' over the fence
sixtv miles to them oyster beds—so and came slowly to the side of the
■nnd now I’m zoing ” I Jusfc nOw his 1<een eyes wandering
1 Serenity__” ' .afield had made discovery of a plow-
vou mean ” Imau guiding his plodding team in
I do’ Serenity you got Ue general direction of the highroad
It’s just as I told you. ’ Selecting .a point where the new
t_” i furrow must end, assuming that it
would parrallel its mates, Parrish
pulled in close to the fence line and
waited for the other man to come
up. He sat motionless in the buggy
at a rein when Minnie insisted up
on exploring the dusty weeds with
an inquisitive nose. Head bent low
over his plough handles, the farmer
finished his furrow. He started
swing his team about, without
much as a glance in the direction
the waiting doctor.
“Jake Frame!”
The man in the field lifted his
head with a jerk as he caught the
harsh hail. It was a young face he
displayed!, but gaunt and unshaven.
Patched shirt and faded overalls
hung limply -on his body. As he slow
ly pulled off a tattered straw hat,
a furtive look was plain ■
eyes.
“Oh—hullo, Doc—I (
you.”
“Yes you did. Come 1
Parrish had. extracted
or doing
Danner’s
had met
to
as
of
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casing the author of a lazy
cality.
■ When Langdon Parrish
suggested his son’s globe
I might give way to a visit
whims i-
finally
trotting
home,
’Yes, it is, Sophie. And lie’s bet- Maury was rather cverwhelmned by
, compunction. Beyond a pile of scrib
bled memorandums he had! nothing
whatever to show il’or so long a va
cation. Wit’h <a,n energy that rather
surprised himself, he began assembl
ing the plot of a novel that had held
a hazy place in his mind for the past
year.
i By the time 'he reached New York
his manuscript had reached what, he
trusted, were the proportions of aj
modest little volume.
“Knees of the .Gods”
BANK OF MONTREAL STATEMENT
REVEALS STRONG LIQUID
POSITION: CASH HOLDINGS
AT HIGH LEVEL
RATES—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 5 0c. Legal ad
vertising 12 and Sc. per line. In
Memoriam, with one verse 50c.
extra verses 25ic. each.
Member of The Canadian Weekly
Newspaper Association
Professional Cards
Of Total Assets of $759,108,178, Li
quid Assets Amount to $491,247,-
207, Equal to 71.97 per cent,
of all Liabilities to the Pulic—
Cash Holdings are up to $87,210,-
888 from $76,683,217—Excess of
Assets Over Liabilities to Public
Amounts to $76,538,8101.
GLADMAN & STANBURY
BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, &c-
Money to Loan, Investment's Made
Insurance
Safe-deposit Vaults for use of our
Clients without charge
EXETER and HENSALL
It was a rare -occas-
into
and1
interesting
late years,
a closed
Mill.
not to be
her
The Annual Statement of the Bank
of Montreal shows the Bank in its
usual strong liquid position. Of total
assets of $-759,1018,178, quickly Labeling it | available resources are $491,247,-
he entrusted it 207, equal to 71.97 per cenit. of all
to a suspicious-polite publisher and liabilities to the public,
went his way, feeling that he had,
at least, scored a talking point in ’ afforded by cash holdings of $87,-
any needed defense for so long an 210,888 up from $78,683,2117 a year
absence. To his unbounded amaze
ment, the publisher expressed a •
canny willingness to speculate upon eminent
the author’s first-born. Soon after, ‘ which now amount
there was a formidable' .contract
blank with mention of royalties, “if
and when,” all of which Maury found
agreeably puzzling. It was unbe-
livealbly clear, however, the book
concerned intended to take care of
the initial outlay of
young man signed; on
with joyous abandon.
| but one stiplation of
that was the pseudonym
Lorane under t'he book’s title.
There was some doubt in Maury’s
mind just how the “Knees” would
stand! up in the presentation cere
monies at Penny Mill and he liked
the .idea of being able to share any
unforeseen
Loraine.
Parrish,
CARLING & MORLEY
BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, &c-
LOANS, INVESTMENT'S,
INSURANCE
Office: Carling Block, Mftin Streep
EXETER, ONT.
At Lucan Mondays and Thursdays
A feature .of 'the liquid .assets is
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were occasions when .a pent-up de
sire to hold communion with her
kind forced Myra into brief conver
sations with village housewives en
countered at front gates
their daily marketing at
store.
Only this morning is'he
Sophia Jennings’ .ingratiating:
“Must be pretty nice for you and the
doctor to have Maury home again
after all this time,” with an almost
gracious:
ter lookin’ than ever—smart too.”
Then ishe hastened to cover this un
intentional burst of pride with an
aggressive; “Land knows, he oughta
be smart enough—what with his
fatlien sending him to all them for
eign places.”
“You know, it seems (funny Maury
hasn’t taken up docto.rin’ like his
pa.” Sophia resigned her broom
to the care of one of the white gate
posts and moved her own bulky form
a little more effectually into the -out
er path with a hope of prolonging
the interview,
ion when My-ra was betrayed
any informative digression
Maury Parrish was an
■in the jiale i topic of conversation. Of
his life had been rather
book to his native Penny
But Miss Sanders wais
caught napping. She hugged
further confidences, together with
the pot roast s'he vas taking home
to dinner, even tighter to her lean
breast. “They’s doctors—and doc
tors,” she offered enigmatically, as
she furtively maped' -out a detour.
But Mrs. Jennings persevered with
a hopeful:
“Everyody knows the oild doctor
is all wrapped up in that boy. He’s
been father -and mother both all
these years. I hope—”
“They manage well enough,” ad
mitted Myra dryly.
Then she forced
passage.
At this moment,
village’s solicitude
didn’t see
here.”
1 a worn
^and I do. And I sUso memorandum 'book from his pocket.
buggy, to- stand in silence as he
The roadster forged ahead very Picked a 'piece of dried mud on the
slowly. Hammond withdrew his foot (nearest wheel. Suddenly, he burst
from the runningboard by way ottOut:
preserving his dignity and balance.
“Give you six months in that'
dump,” he challenged. “Six months terrupted the other,
and then I’m coming to bring you ahnri-
home where you belong. And you’ll
like .it!”
“You never can tell.” She flashed
him a little smile over her shoulder.
“You will come back—say you
will!”
“Maybe.”
To complete Mr. Hammond’s dis
comfiture, he now beheld the yellow
Buster maneuvering skillfully about
the rear end of the blockading ca-r.
The roadster’s outer tires flirted
perilously with the brink of a weed-
grown ditch; the wheels straighten-;
ed suddenly, swung back in a twist-' pai@ eyes widened .in childish fear
ing climb to the shoulder of the pike now. One grimy hand caught -ap-
But not until the arrogant trunk i pealingly at the seat iron.
made rude and sounding contact, <^But—but> Doc—,, ke stammered,
with one of the big machine’s shin- “ycU wouldn’t—you don’ mean you
ing fenders. ; —you know yourself Laura’s right
“Hey!” shouted the dismayed (j-)ad o££__>>
owner. !
“Your fault,” floated back a faint,
retort. The yellow car was now;
shooting swiftly down the highway,,
A small hand fluttered a good-bye. j
Muttering inaudible things, Syd- |
ney stared ruefully at the gouged i
■fender. With a pettish .gesture, he
produced his cigarette case and snap-•
ped it open. It was empty.
All of which was rather as it
should have been.
“Doc, you know—I been .aimin’—’
“It’s fifty-seven dollars now,” in
clipping the
words short “And thirty-two cents,”
he added. “Well?”
Frame picked nervously at the
dried mud.
“I’ve warned you often enough,”
came the frosty voice from above.
“After the first of the month—”
Parrish’s eyes wandered from the
small ledger and appraised the list
less team with its dropping heads
and rope-patched harness—“Guess
I’ll have to take steps.”
The implied threat in the last
words seemed to penetrate the numb-
! ed intellect of the plowman. The
the homeward j
I
the object of the might have been I
CHAPTER II
Tire Trouble
For Parrish’s heavy
was rigidly erect in the seat
open .buggy; his stiff hat was
forward at an aggressive
while from under its rim a
cash and the
he dotted line
He ventured
his own, and
of John
trouble with the unkown
______ _____ _ ___ ___ Sr., was privately a little
discovered'in an upper room oif~ his , bewildered by his offspring’s newest
father is house, staring morosely from
one of the long windows.__________|
'The -stiff draperies had been push
ed ruthlessly to one side, allowing
the mellow sunshine to play unre
buked with the started roses that
adorned he ingrain carpet. Stifled1
resentment to such exposure seemed
also to- be expressed by -the other,
furnishings—the massive bed of I
black walnut that lifted its hear ■
haughtily from a choker -of istarched
and embroidered pillow .shams, the I
gloomy wash-stand and' high dress-,
er, even to the table with its carved
legs 'and mortuary slab of doleful
white marble.
•On the wall, over this same table,
were two of Maury’s lifelong friends
—o-r four, to be exact.
I It was a steel engraving
central figures were those of
tand a somewhat smaller girl,
pantalettes were courting the
ago.
The principal holdings
•bonds! and
to
912, as compared wiith
3715 at the end of the previous year.
The excess of assets over liabilities
to the public has increased ito $76,-
538,810.
The report makes its appearance
at a time when it is contain 'to be
studied closely by all who are anx
ious to get a betiter understanding
of the strong position in which the
leading bank has maintained its re
sources.
Notwishstanding general evidence
of more active manufacturing con
ditions, current loans are slightly
down ait $243,477,041 as compared
with $2511,885,262 at the end of the
previous year. This would indicate
that a number of Canadian compan
ies still find it possible to finance
business in its present volume with
out leaning heavily on banking ac
commodation.
Deposits Well Maintained
Deposits are well maintained
pecially in view of recent
eminent bond offerings,
posits payable on, demand
notice are $630,218,835,
with $641,346,710. Noltes of the
Bank in circulation are up to $35,-
2515,876 from $1313,819,807, doubtless
reflecting a greater measure of gen
eral business activity.
Of special interest is the showing
of total assets of $759,108,178 with
which
to the
ing an
to
are in gov-
debentures,
$317,936,-
$316,967,-
Dr. G. S. Atkinson, L.D.S.,D.D.S.
DENT/1L SURGEON
Office opposite the New Post Office
Main Street. Exeter
Telephones
Office 34w House 34J
Office closed Wednesday afternoons
until further notice
Dr. G. F. Roulston, L.D.S.,D.D.S.
DENTIST
Office: Carling Block
EXETER, ONT.
Closed Wednesday Afternoons
K. C. BANTING, B.A., M.D.
whose
a boy
whose
brink
“Certainly she "is. And who’s to
blame? Another child in your cir
cumstances is an outrage,” supplied
the other man. “You both ought to
have better sense.”
“But, Doc—”
“I’ll expect to hear from you the
first of the month.”
Parrish closed the book with -a
snap, thrust it in his coat pocket and. of a yawning chasm as the wearer
clicked sharply to Minnie. The lat-' reached (for a tantalizing bloss-om.
ter gave .an obedient heave -against The boy was either bent -or saving
her breast strap and the 1
creaked and rattled on its way.
Frame stood staring helplessly un
til a turn in the road removed the
grim creditor from view. Then he
made his way back
where his dispirited
in the hot sun.
over the
animals
and his
stately
Physician & Surgeon, Lucan, O^t.
Office in Centralia
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
from 2 to 5 p.m. or by appointment
Telephone the hotel in Centralia at
any time. Phone Credit-on 30r25
achievement. Huron' knees were well
within his province, to be sure, but
this divine anatomy was something
else again. He devoted one evening
to -a silent scanning of the author’s
carbon copy, after which he express
ed 'his approval of the pen name and!
let it go at that. The House of Par
rish could, ill afford 'to- meet Penny
! Mill in any new and untried footing
‘ | and, besides, Maiury was now engag
ed with a second novel.
This latest effort, however, was
not meeting with any great measure
of success. Each morning after
breakfast the author seated! 'himself
at his improvised desk and pounded
industriously on .the little portable—-
scowled, concentrated, leafed fever-
! isly through his notebooks. But his
earlier inspiration seemed! to have
deserted him in this new atmosphere
One by one, the manuscript sheets
wafted their way into the waste bas
ket or lay in crumpled wads on the
carpet,
It was this last desecration that
brought reproof from Myra, uttered
in her usual direct discourse.
“Sa-ay!” she ejaculated1, entering
Maury’s -sanefcum in (her morning
round of bed-making.
“What’s the idea, of messing up
my carpets like that, I want to know
And you’re got them curtains looking
like fury. I hate to think wha,t they
look like from outside.”
Maury, relighting 'his pipe, gazed
reproachfully over his match flame
at the woman who had dropped to
bony knees and' was stabbing at the
offending wads with nervous fingers.
“Myra, dear,” he observed re
proachfully, “you do well to bow be
fore genius. But why irk me with
your conundrums? Carpets were;
made to trample on—to throw things'
on if need be. In the same way, cur-! g]iareholders at the annual general
tains weie made to muss up. I don t moetjng which will be held ait 'the
know what s kept me from tearing I Head o££ice ,o£ the Bank o£ Mont.
them down for -that matter.” ' , „„ a,.,.
, es-
large gov-
'Total de-
and after
compared JOHN WARD
CHIROPRACTIC, OSTEOPATHY,
ELECTRO-THERAPY & ULTRA
VIOLET TREATMENTS
PHONE 70
MAIN ST. EXETER
the
ARTHUR WEBER
LICENSED AUCTIONEER
For Huron and Middlesex
FARM SALES A SPECIALTY
PRICES REASONABLE
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED
Phone 57-13 Dashwood
R. R. No. 1, DASHWOOD
to meet payment of liabilities
public of $682,569,368, leav-
excess of assets over liabilities
public of $76,15138,810.
Profit and Loss Accoiuilt
Profits for the year are reponted
at $4,105,024, .from which are de
ducted Dominion and Provincial gov
ernment taxes totaling $900,65 4,
leaving net profits at $3,204,3 69,
equal to 4.23 per cent. on the com
bined capital, rest and undivided
profits. From this amount has been
paid $2,880,000 in- dividends to
shareholders, as compared with $3,-
0.60,0010 in the previous year. A fur
ther deduction of $100,0 00 as reser
vation for bank premises, the same
as last year, leaves an amount of
$224,3 69 ito be applied, to profit and
loss account. 'With the addition,
the total credit of profit and
carried forward is $1,809,820,
from $1,585,451 a year ago.
As- has been the practice for
buggy big companion's life >or was pushing
I her to certain destruction, according
to t'he fancy of the beholder. Two
worried-looking angels, appeared to
cherish similiar doubts and had de
cided to stand by for any emergency.
This sprightly situation, a>s ex
plained by a faded title on the en
graving’s margin, was an episode .in
the life of “The Orphans.” As a
child*, Maury had always associated
t'he scene with his own motherless
state and cherished a wistful, secret
love for the lady angel.
At present, the room’s one discor
dant note was represented by a bat
tered trunk that had been pressed
into service as a work table. On its
rounded by a letter of papers and
rounded by a letter of papers and
books. Cue blank (sheet, .inserted
fence
dozed
son,
Ibrick
Penny
hidden
was as
10S1S
up
FRANK TAYLOR
LICENSED AUCTIONEER
For Huron and Middlesex
FARM SALES a SPECIALTY
Prices Reasonable and Satisfaction
Guaranteed
EXETER P. O. or RING 138
Doctor Langdon Parrish was driv
ing slowly homeward behind his an
cient sorrel mare Minnie.
Despite the latter’s ambling pace,
there was no hint of listlessness
transmitted along the reins to her
elderly driver,
frame
of his
tipped
angle,
pair of cold, gray eyes studied the
road ahead.
Happily for Minnie, her owner
had never acknowledged the com
ing of the automobile, which ac
counted for her still sharing his daily
excursions about the (
As a matter of fact, the pair seemed
as indifferent to competition as when
Minnie first felt the weight of har
ness—some twenty years earlier.
And during all that time t'he mare
had held herself rather less aloof
Langdon Parrish
Maury, occupied a
dwelling on the outskirts of
Mill. The house, well-nigh
by a screen of somber pines,
stiff and forbidding in appearance
as its tall owner.
If the front doo.r, .flanked by its
dingy gray pillars, ever swung on its
hinges, it was not for the casual vis
itor. A side entrance, opening into
, a combined library, office and recep-
countryside. J tion room, served for reluctant pa-'in the idle machine, apparently re
tients and the two men of the house- presented the state of mind of the
hold. Angular Myra Sanders, Pa,r- young man at the window He had
rish’s domestic, used the kitchen por-, puned- one o£ the uncomfortable,
tai for her own tight-lipped excur- stuffed chairs to the sunny opening
sious to the outside world’. I and was staring through clouds of
Being a woman, however, there pjpe smoke at the nearby pine
i -
Perhaps the most common of all
human diseases is stomach trouble,
such as dyspepsia or indigestion,
and one which causes untold misery
after every meal.
The groat point in getting rid
of stomach trouble is to got back
bounding health and vigor, and
this may be done by using Burdo-k
Blood Bitters, as during the; past
56 years it has boon on the market,
it has brought joy and hope to
thousands of dyspeptics, helping
them to oat throe square meals a
day without suffering for 4»it, by
toning up (ho stomach, and making
easy the work of 'digestion and
assimilation.
boughs.
Since leaving university some two
years before the opening of this
story, Maury had been wandering
about the Continent on funds his
father had subscribed with no little
difficulty, but all without comment,
Nursing the fancy that he was pos
sessed of literary talent, the young
graduate had employed this supposi
tion as an excuse to loiter in ou-
cf-the-way
characters
lie was at
notebooks.
There was a considerable origin
ality expressed in those small vol
umes. If Maury's undeniable good
looks, abetted by parental indul
gence, had! endowed him with a sup
eriority complex, it was reflected in
a quaintly humorous way in his
dally jottings. That collection’s sa
tire was saved from harshness by an
ever-present vein of fun, silently ac-
manyplaces, observing
and backgrounds which
pains to record in many
As- has been the practice for the
past few years', ithe bank has issued
the (statement for the public in an
easily understandable form, with ex
planatory notes for each of the read
ings under which the figures are
> grouped.
i The report will be submitted to
meeting which will be held ait 'the
i real on Monday, December 3rd. Myra, I
occupy
her mind now to the exclusion of.
the insulted furnishings.
“Even so, faithless nurse,” Maury
insisted'. ‘You know, Myra, I think
I’ll let you in on a little secret.” He
picked up a bound transcript of. his
completed work and held it out to
her.
“Genius—you!” snorted!
that admission seeming to
Continued next week
PRESENTATION
A surprise party met at the home
Of |M:r. and Mrs. C. H. Haugh, Bruce-
field, in honor of Mr. and; Mrs. W. A.
Haugh and daughter Miss Hazel. Mr,
end Mrs. Haugh wore presented with
a beautiful four-piece silver service
walnut table and hand painted china
piece. The address was road by Mr,
G, S. Howard', of Exeter, and the
presentation made by Mr. G. Hess,
of Zurich.Miss Hazel Haugh, who
has left fo.r South America, was pre
sented with a decorated club bag,
filled with beautiful gift®, by Betty
Allan and Ruth Hess.
“How long did it take .you to learn
the multiplication table, Mummie?”
“Oh, nchti very long, dear.’’
“H’m, it must have been easier
then than it is now.”
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ALVIN L. HAIRRIS, Munro, Agent for Fullarton and Logan
THOMAS SCOTT, Cromarty, Agen<
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Secretary-Treasurer
Exeter, Ontario ,
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Amount of Insurance at Risk on
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Total Cash in Rank and Bpnds
$213,720.62
Rates—$4.50 per $1,000 for 3 years
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