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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1932-08-11, Page 24 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATETMVIWPOt AWST Oi- 1Q33 HELP YOURSELF and you help your country Help yourself today to Shredded Wheat and .you help others eat too, for Canada’s leading product, wheat, is back pf this great food bargain, Just a few tents for twelve big biscuits. pathy leaped impulsively to her lips. ‘Don’t say that I” she began. Thea checked hei’Se^if, flushing ,a little. “I hate to hear you speak ip that way,” she went on more quiet­ ly. “It sounds as though there were nothing worth trying for—-worth waiting for. I like to believe that everyone has a house of dreams which may ‘come true’ gome day, She paused. " Tf we fard straight on, come fine, come wet,’ ” She re­ peated softly. Her eyes had far away look in them, as though they were envis­ ioning that narrow, /vinding track which leads somewhere, to the place where dreams^—even the most won­ derful of them—shall become.real­ ities. Glorious faith and optimism of An instant later it was overborne, yiuth! If we could only recapture ! by her spontaneous sympathy for (it in those after years, when time odds and ends of gossip which one woman had confided to another. But here, in the mhn’s curt brevity of speech, surely lay proof that he had suffered. And if he had suffer­ ed, it followed that he must have cared deeply for the woman, who had thrown him aside for the sake of another man. Jean’s first generous impulse of pity as she realised this was strangely intermingled with, a fleet­ ing disquiet, a subconscious sense of loss. It was only a momentary and not definite enough for her to express in words, even to herself— hardly more than the slightly blank SYNOPSIS Glyn Peterson and his twenty-year old daughter Jean are dining to­ gether in their home in Beirnfels, Austria, Glyn was of a noble Eng­ lish family and against the -wishes of his family had married Jacquel­ ine Mavory, the beautiful half­ French opera singer. They had liv­ ed very happily together travelling around when they so desired but always returning to Beirnfels. One year ago Jacqueline had died and Glyn can stand it no longer, he is going away somewhere just wandering, and has made arrange­ ments for Jean to visit his sensation produced upon anyone friend Lady Anne Brennan, m jn tbe sunshine when a cloud England, Jean remains at Mon-, suddenly intervenes and drops a tavan awaiting a reply from Lady. sbadow where a moment before Anne, Mie meets an Englishman fjiere bas been warmt* and lighfi and spends the day at ins cabin j ...... .. on the side of the mountain in j the pine woods. When she goes tbe man Reside her, and recognis- to visit England this Englishman ■ meets proves $l|t txetrr (JimeH-Abnaratr Established 1273 and 1387 Published every” Thursday morninc at Exeter, Ontario ✓ » SUBSCRIPTION—82.00 per year In advance. RATES—-Farm or Real Estate tor saip gOq, each Insertion for flm .four Insertions. 25 c, each subse­ quent insertion. 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And you, being Jacqueline Mavory’s daughter, will come in for the resi­ due of her bitterness. t Unless’’— call Biernfels his ‘House ironically—“you can make friends Come-True.’ ” with her.” • | “Glyn?”' —'Suddenly he r use of Peterson’s name. She sniiled. “I never called them mother. They -would have loathed it. Glyn used to say that anything which savoured so much of domes­ ticity would kin romance!” “That, sounds like all that I have ever heard about him,” said Tor­ marin. smiling too. “So does the 'House of Dreams-Come-True’. It’s a charming idea.” “He took it from one line’s songs. She had her at the station and to be a son of Lady Anne. CHAPTER XII i! “They were wonderfully happy together there. I suppose they ought to have been —an awful example of poetic jus­ tice!” she declared. ‘‘Glyn used to ; oj j)reams Not in the least—as remarking Christian / Tormarin “I shall try to,” said Jean simp­ ly. “Is Major Craig living now?” “No." He died in India, and after his death Judith Came back to Eqg­ land. She has lived at Willow Fer­ ry with her bother, Geoffrey Burke ever since.” There was a long silence, while Jean tried to fit in the new facts she had learned, with her knowledge of her father’s character. She was a little afraid that might misunderstand her impulsive outburst of indignation. “Don’t think that I am judgment on my father,” she said- vo^®> you know.” at last. “In a way I can—even un­ derstand his doing such a thing. You know, for the last two years of my mother’s life I was with them both constantly, and anyone living with them could understand their doing things that ordinary people wouldn’t do.” She paused, ’as though seeking words that might make her meaning clear. “They would never really mean to hurt anyone, but they were just like a couple of children together—glori­ ously irresponsible and happy. I always felt years older than either of them. Glyn used to say I was ‘cursed with a damnable sense of duty, ”—laughing rather ruefully. “I suppose I am. Probably I inherit it from our old Puritan ancestors on the Peterson side. I know I couldn’t have cheerfully run off and taken my happiness at the cost of someone’s prior right.” A look of bitterness crossed Tor­ marin’s face. “Wait till you’re tempted,” he what you the sitting in ans- mat- said shortly. “Wait till you want wars against what ought to have—-what you’ve right to take.” For a moment she made no wer .Put bluntly like that, the ter suddenly presented itself to her as one of the poignant possibilities of life. Supposing'—supposing such a choice should ever be demanded of her, She felt a vague fear catch at her heart.' an indefinable dread. When at last she spoke, the eyes she lifted to meet Tormarin’s were troubled. In them he could% read the innate honesty which was pre­ pared to face the question lie had raised, and behind that—courage. A young untried courage, not sure of itself, it is true, but still courage that only waited till some call should wake it into fighting actu­ ality. “I hope,” she said with a wistful humility that w$s rather touching, “I hope I should stick it out. One’s ’ ideals, and duty, and ether people’s rights—it would be horrible to scrap the lot—just for love.” "Worth it, perhaps. You”—his voice was the least bit uneven—” you haven’t been «p against love yet.” Again she was 'conscious of that little catch at her heart—the same convulsive tightening of the mus­ cles as one experiences when a tele­ gram is put into one’s hand may, or may not, contain bad news. "You haven’t been up against love yet,” , The Words recalled' her know­ ledge of the tragic episode that Uy in Tormarin’s own past .The Whole history shp did hoi know—only the GLADMAN & STANBURY BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, Ac. 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The mellow warmth of the afternoon tempted her to the more restful occupation of mere day-dreaming and as she lay tucked up snugly amongst her cushions, enjoying the-street-scent­ ed airs that played among- the trees and over the .surface of the water, she allowed her thoughts idly back across the two she had spent at Staple. The time had slipped quickly that it was hard to believe and a few minute's later the abruptly somewhere edged the had led there—dictated” by her par­ ents’ whims and the practically un­ limited wealth to gra.tify) them Peterson’s flair for successful spec­ ulation had achieved—seemed very far away and Staple, with its peace­ ful ,even-flowing English life, near and enfolding. (Continued next week) very * » CARLING & MORLEY BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, &c LOANS, INVESTMENTS ’• INSURANCE’ Office: Carling Block, Main Street, EXETER, ONT.' At Lucan Monday and Thursday “LOOK OUT FOR HESSIAN FLY THIS YEAR” The Hessian Fly is the most de­ structive 'insect attacking wheat in Ontario. Some years the insect is scarce and hence very little damage is done. Other years it may destroy 50 . per ..cent, or more of the grain in heavily infected -fields. Present indications are tjiat unless control measures are taken this fall, there will be a serious outbreak of the fly next year. Control Measures Recommended Weather • and parasites play a great part in control, but man can do nothing to better these two fact­ ors and must rely on the following methods where the inject is abun­ dant:. * z 1. So far as practicable, all wheat stuJbible should be plowed un- i dei’ completely as soon as possible after the wheat’ is cut. This buries- al lthe insect left in the field. The ground should be worked after .plowing so as to firm it. Plowing ‘ and firming prevents the flies from -—‘"5 up as they cannot go through even three incnes of weH .firmed soil. I 2. If the plowing cannot be done promptly it is a good plan to run a, cultivator or disc over the field to cause volunteer wheat to come5 up. This will attract the flies to lay eggs in it and thereby lessen the num­ ber of eggs laid in the new Wheat fields. Such volunteer wheat, how­ ever must be plowed under aftei’ about September 20th because if it were left nplowed'it wojild simply breed flies for the next spring. 3. Prepare the seedbed as well as possible so that it will\be in excel­ lent condition for razpid growth,- and sow only good plu'mip seed which will germinate quickly. 4. Sow just as late as is safe in your district without running the. risk of having too short a growth to winter safely. Late sowing is the most ''important Of all, the control measures, but if the wheat is sown too late winter may do more dam? age than the f4y. Experience in each locality is the best guide as to how late sowing of wh^at can be delay­ ed. The better the ground is7pre­ pared and the better r«e seed sam­ ple, the more rapid the growth, and so later the crop can be sown with safety. For bes’Kresults everybody in the neighbourhood should co-op­ erate in the above control measures so far as possible. . Safe dates for sowing would probably be about Sept. '5th east of Guelph and about Sept. 20th to 25th tn Essex and Kent, and about half way between' these two dates should be suitable for the intervening- districts, , but has only added tolerance and a lit­ tle wisdom to our harvest’s store, the houses ,_where dreams come true might add themselves together un­ til there., were whole streets of them — globing townships—instead, of merely an isolated dwelling here or there. As Tormarin listened to- Jean’s yong, eager voice, his face soften­ ed and some of the tired lines in it seemed to smooth themselves out. “Little comrade,’’ he- said gent­ ly, and she felt her (breath quicken as he called her again by the name which he had used at Montavan— and once since, when they had come suddenly face to' face at Coomfoe Eavie Station. But that second time the words had escaped him una­ wares. Now he was using them de­ liberately, withholding no part of their significance. “ ■S another lazy af- to drift months by so ng no paj-v i that rather more than eight weeks „ ^tle c0“rad®’'had elapsed since that grey Febru- I think the man who ares s 1 S i^ry evening wften she had alighted 01}. y+BU '2r ' on the lifctle> deserted platform atwill find the House of . Dreams-1 Coom,bie Beavie station. They had Come-True. But it isn jus y'been quiet, happy weeks filled with! man who may start that journey,^ leasant .building u,p of new with you It mustn’t be’—his grave friendghips> and Jean reflected tliat ^^ eyes held hers \ntently— a man, ghe had almad. .yn tQ loQk througl who'has tried to find the road oH6e gtaple ^mogt ag uboine?, - before and failed. I posesssed in a large It seemed to Jean that, as le, capacj(-y f0 adapt herself to ^poke, the wall which he had built up between them sintee she came to, Staple crumbled away. This was the same man she had known at Montavan, whose hands reached out to hers across soine fixed dividing . line which neither he nor she might I pass. ,She knew now what that di- . viding line must ibe'—the shadow | flung by a past love, his7 love for \vhich had ended in song? I’m rather curious1 hopeless tragedy^ - father and o<f Jacque- gloriousa I suppose“Yes, so I’ve heard, you have inherited it?'*- Sihe shook her head. “No, I wish I had. line insisted on. trying singing, all the same. I was a dreadful disappointment to her. I’m afraid.” ' “Couldn’t you sing the ‘House of j Nest Freyne Dreams’ to hear the remainder of it.” | There must always be a limit set Jean rose and crossed to the piano.to any friendship of theirs. So much “Oh, yes, I can sing you that Jac-• he had implied at their first meet- queline always used to say it was ‘ ing. But since theft, he had taken the only thing I sang as if I under-(<even that friendship from her, sub­ stood it, and Glyn declared it was ’ stituting indifference against which because it, agreed with my ‘con-1 she ljad struggled in vain, fouhded principles!” | And now, without knowing quite She smiled up at him as her fin-j how it had come about, the barrier gers slid into the prelude of - tiie ' song, but her litle joke against her­ self brought no answering Smile to his lips. Instead,? he stood waiting for the song to begin with an odd kind of expectancy on his face. ; Jean had most certainly not in-, ing more, was unconscious of any t + lierited her mother’s exquisite voice ■ further wish. The woman in her still slumbered, and, .to the girl,, this friendship seemed enough. She did not realise that something deep- ( er more imperative in its ultimate demands, was mangled with ” was indeed, unrecognised by the very essence of it. CHAPTER XIII Jacque-But to teacn me Poor dear! wast down. They were comrades once. more.—.she and the* English­ man from Montavan—and she was conscious of a great content that it should be so. For the moment she asked noth- Dr. G. S. Atkinson, L.D.S.,D.D.S. DENTAL SURGEON opposite the New Post Office Main St., Exeter " Telephones 34w House 84J oevery Wednesday (all day) ..until further notice. Office Office Closed but she had a quaint litle pipe of het own, with a clouded/ husky quality in it that was not without its appeal, it lent a wistful charm to the simple words of the song. “It’s a ^strange road leads to the Hou^e of Dreams, To the House of Dreams-Come- True, Its hills are steep and its valleys deep,1 And salt with tears wefep, . The Wayfarers'—I tlie? Wayfarers and you. way to the it— her, Dr. G. F. Roulston, b.D.S.,D.D,S. DENTIST Office:. Carling Block- EXETER, ONT. Closed Wednesday Afternoon 1 'V-g!—==^===S=====2^=—-TW.'1— "■ DR. E. S. STEINER v VETERINARY SURGEON Graduate of the Ontario Veterinary College DAY AND NIGHT CALLS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO Office in the old McDonell Barn Behind Jones & May’s Store , EiKETER, ONT. She measure the j her surrounding and realising'that Lady Anne,had been perfectly sincere in her expressed ’ desire to play at having a daughter; Jean had, at • first a little tentatively, but after- i wards, encouraged by Lady Anne’s obvious delight, with more ' assur- ' ance, gradually assumed .’the duties that would naturally fall to the ' daughter of the house. | | Day by day she had discovered j an increasing pleasure-and signifi­ cance in their performance. They were like so many tiny links, .knit­ ting her life into the lives of those i around her, and already Lady Anne had begun to turn to her instinct­ ively in the small difficulties and necessities which, one way or an­ other, most days bring in their train. Jean appreciated this as-only a girl who had counted for very [ little in the lives of those nearest ' her could do. It ;seemed to make her “belong” in a way in which she 'had never “belonged” at Beirn-fels. There, Glyn^and Jacqu&jine had ■ turned to each other for cortnsel in the little daily vicissitudes of 5 ’ life equally as in its larger concerns ' ‘ and Jean had learned to regard her­ self a&‘-'more or less., outside their lives. She had had one letter froin Peterson since her arrival at Sta­ ple, a brief, characteristic note in whiqh h£ expressed the hope that she liked England “better than her father ever could” but ^suggestedag sta-ted eacb man lbust judge the that if she were bored she should dat0 fOr hiblsetL t return to Beirnfels, .ahd ask some woman fMends to stay with her;' he.warned her not to expect further letters from him for Some time to come as, according to his present plans—of which lie volunteered no particulars—-he expected “to spend | the next fhw mouths "as far from ' civilization aS the restricted size of. this world ■ permits.” With this letter it seemed to Jea’n aS though th’e last link with her former life had Briapped. She ’ felt no regret. -Beirnfels, and th^ uhconvential, rather exotic life she ' JOHN WARD CHIROPRACTIC, OSTEOPATHY, ELECTRO-THERAPY ULTRA­ VIOLET TREATMENTS PHONE 70 \ t EXETEBMAIN ST., I ARTHUR WEBER . 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April had been, as it too com­ monly is in this northern clime of ours,'the merest ttaversity of spring a bleak -cold month' of penetrating wind and sleet, stolen upon the wares, opening tent fingers the curled ’against the nipping winds, and misting all the woods with a shimmer of translucent green. Overhead arched a sky of veiled opalescent bine, and Jean, staring up at it with dreamy eyes, was re­ minded of the “great Book of Revelation foundation” was of This soft English sky third foundation, she decided whim­ sically. But the occupation of sky-gaaing did not combine well with that of steering a straight course down a stream whose width hardly entitled I The reason for these late seed- iqgs is that the flies, have ftbput completed their fall egg laying In in different districts before the dates mentioned and thus the wheat largely escapes infestation. “But theres’ sure a House of Dreams, JTo the House of ''Dreams Come* True. We shall find it yet, eve the hhs set, we, fare straight- on, come 1 come wet, Wayfarer—-I and you.” The soft husky voice ceased, for a moment there was silence. Then Tormarin said quietly,- “Thank- you. I don’t think mother 'need have felt,, any disappointment concerning voice. It has its own (iualitiefe, tf it is not suited to the concert hall "But the words of the song?” questioned Jean eagerly, “Don’t you like them?” "It’s a pretty enough idea, laid a faint last word.B ‘■House of never been *ve lost the way there.’* There was a note of rigid accept­ ance in his voice, as though he no longer strove against the decisions of destiny, and. Jean’s eager sym- sun for It fine, N and your great your even but now May had world almost una- with tender, insis- sticky brown bud'.i Automobile license plates i next year will be black figures in • a yellow background. This color scheme will’be familiar to Ontario motorists as it was last , used in 1930. 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