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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1932-09-22, Page 2THURSDAY, Sm'EHBER 22, 1032 THK EXETER TIMES-ADVQCATR •w r ! £* «77ie ffouse of breams $ /~i» SYNOPSIS I 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 tire 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 old friend Lady Anne Brennan, in England. Jean remains at Mon- tavan awaiting a reply from Lady Anne. She meets an Englishman and spends the day at his cabin on the side of the mountain In the pine woods. When she goes to visit England this EUglishman meets her at the station and proves to be a son of Lady Anne. CHAPTER XVII "Is that true?” He flashed the question at "her, and there was that in his tone which set her pulses athrill, quenching the light-hearted spirit of banter that had led her to torment "her. It was the note of restrained passiofL which she had heard before in his voice, and which had always power 'to move her to the depths of her be­ ing. “Perfectly true.” She faltered a little. "But”—'forcing herself to a defiance that was in reality a species of self-defence—“I fail to see that it concerns you, Blaise.” ‘It concerns me in so far as Burke is not the sort of man that a woman can make a friend of. It’s all or nothing with him. And if you don’t intend to give him all, you’d ebtter give him—nothing.” His glance, grave ana steady, liers, and she knew then, of a tainty, that he had. witnessed scene which'had taken place in the rose-garden, when Burke hail held her in his arms and the flood of his ■ passion had, risen and overwhelmed her. He had witnessed that—and had misunderstood it. She was conscious of a fierce re- senmenV against him. It mattered nothing, to her that, in the light of her nonchalant manner answers to his questions, he was fully justified in the obvious conclusion he had drawn. She did not stop to think' whether her anger was reasonable or unreasonable. She was “simply furious with him for suspecting her of flirting—odious word!—with Geoffery Burke. Well, if he ehose to think thus of her, let him do. so! She would not trouble to explain— to exculpate herself. She regarded him with stormy eyes. "Please understand, Blaise, that I want neither your advice nor your criticism. If I choose to make a friend of Geoffery Burke—or of any other man—I shall do so without asking your permission or approval,. What I do,‘ or don’t do, is no busi­ ness of yours.” For a moment they faced each other, his eyes, stormy as her own, dark with anger. His hands clindht ed themselves. "If I could,” he said hoarsely, “I would make it my business.” . He wheeled round and left the room without another word. Jean stood staring dazedly at the blank panels of the door which had closed behind him. .She wanted to laugh ". . . or to cry. To laugh, because with every sullen word he revealed the -thing he was so sedulously intent on keeping from her. Tn cry, -be­ cause he had taken her pretended indifference at its face value, and so another film Of misunderstand­ ing had risen to thicken the veil be­ tween them—the veil which h£ would not, and she, being a Y'oiman, couldn’t draw' aside. ' ies of her heart until she is very de- I finite assured that that is precisely what the man ip. the case is ach­ ing for her to do. So. she dissimulates with all the ' skill which Nature and a few odd ! thousand years or so of tradition have taught her and, pretends that the Only Man in the World means ' rather less to hei’ than her second- ’ best shoe buckles, With the result ' that he probably goes silently and ’ sadly away, convinced-that he hasn’t an outside chance, wh’ile all the time she is simly quivering to poui1 -cut ' at his feet the whole treasure of her love. In this respect Blaise and blundered as egregiously as ’ other love-befogged pair. Following xipon the quarrel ’ the matter of Jean’s attitude towards Geoffery Burke, Tormarin retreated once again into those fastnesses of ’ aloof reserve which -seemed to deny the whole memory of that, “magic moment” at Montavan. And Jean, just because she Was unhappy, flirt­ ed outrageously with the origin of (was’ therefore, not in the least like- the quarrel, finding a certain reck- ]y ©merge fr-om the obscurity of on her CHAPTER XIX Jean any over that offered, wearing a little finer under the combined mental and physical strain. < Claire, perceiving the nervous strain at which the girl was living, was. wistfully troubled friend’s behalf, .and confided her’ anxious bewilderment to Nick. “I think Blaise must be crazy,1 she declared one day ,‘T’m perfect­ ly convinced, that he’s- in love with Jean, and yet he appears prepared to stand by while Geoffery Burke completely m-onopolises her.” . Nick nodded. ' "Yes. I own I can’t understand the fellow. He’ll wake up one day to find that she’s Burke’s wife.” "Oh, I hope not!” cried 'Claire hastily. There were pacing up and down one of''the gravelled alleys tliat in­ tersected the famous rhododendron shrubbery at Charnwood and as she spoke, Claire cast a half-frightened glance’ in the direction of the house. She knew that Sir Adrian was clos- eted with liis lawyer, and that he pous gesture o.f abaudphment, There was something^. infinitely touching and forlorn* about her as she stood there, as though appealing against tbs hideous injustice of it all, awL with a little cry jean caught her Out­ stretched. bauds and 4rew her into her embrace, folding her closely in her warm young arms, Nick had turned aside abruptly, his face rather white, his mouth working. His powerlessness to help the woman he Joyed half maddened him. Meanwhile Jean was crooning, little, articulate, caressing sounds above Claire’s bowed head, until at last the latter raised a rather white face from her shoulder and smiled the small, plucky smile with which’ she usually, managed to confront outrageous fortune. "Thank you so much,” she said with a glint of humour in her tones. "You’ve been dears, both of you. It’s awfully nice to—to let go, some­ times. But I’m quite $11 right now, "Then, if you are,” replied Jean cheerfully, "perhaps ybu can bear up against the shock of too much ‘a day Each pad will kill flies all day and every day for three weeks* 3 pads in each packet, 10 CENTS PER PACKET at Druggixti, Grocyrt, General Storet* WHY PAY MORE? THE WILSON FLY PAD CQ.f Hamilton, Ont. Exeter Wfawi-ABmiaif Established 187'3 and 1887 Bubliehed every Thursday morntni at Exeter, Ontario SUBSCRIPTION*— 52.00 per year in advan.ee. RATES—Farm or Real Estate for sale 50c, each insertion for firn ’four insertions. 25e, each niib^ quent insertion. Miscellaneous tides, To $ent, Wanted, Lost, or Found 10c, per line of six word*. Reading notices. Card of Thanks vertising 12 a»d Memoriam, with extra verses 25c. Member of The Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association 10c. per line. 50c. Legal ad- 8c. per Jine. In one verse 50c, each. met cer- the joy, We want you to have ^out.’ ” / " ‘A day out’?” repeated "What do you mean?” "I mean we’re organizing Claire. less enjoyment in the flavor of ex-^jg study .for some time to come, citment lent to the proceedings by £Ut as long as he was anywhere on the fact that Burke was in deadly the place, she was totally unable to' earnest. ' 'rid herself of the hateful conscious-' Playing with an ‘‘unexploded ness his presence. bomb” at least sufficed to take her reminded her of some horrible thoughts off other matters, and en- and loathsome species of spider, at abled her momentarily to forget (times remote and motionless in the forgetting and sens- which possible everything for seemed tiie only ible prescription. $ut you can’t yourself. Solitude est.firend. So Jean, heedless of con­ sequences, encouraged Burke to help her. Lady Anne sometimes sighed a little, as she watched the two go off together for a long morning on the river, or down to the tennis-court, accompanied, on occasion, by Claire Latimer and Nick to make up the set. But she held her peace. She was no believer in direct outside in­ terference as a means towards the unraveling of a love tangle, and all that it was possible to do, indirectly, things byforget is memory's clos- centre of his web-*-that web- in which, bofoy and soul, she had been inextricably caught — but always liable, to waken into sudden activity, and then pounce mercilessly. "Oh, I hope pot!” she repeated, shivering a little. “If she'only knew what marriage to the ’wrong man means! . . . And I’m certain Geof- fery is the wrong man. Why on earth does Blaise behave like this” — impatiently. '"Anyone might thnk—Jean herself might think—he didn’t care! /And' I’m positive he does/’ "If'he does, he’s a fool. Good Lord!’”—moodily kicking a pebble out of his-path—"imagine any san&-wlLdU It Wol»*5 JJ'wOwliU It? vU lAVj ILlkAJlA *£-» ■» . _ she had attempted when she reveal- m^n’ cJear roa^ before him, not taking it!” He swung around towards. her suddenly. "Claire, if there were a /only a clear road—for us! If only/1 could take you ajvay i from all this!”—his glance embrac­ ing the grey old house, so beautiful ed to Jean the history of Blaise’s marriage. She did, however, make a propos­ al which would have the effect of breaking through the present turnip ,, , . ,of affairs and of throwing Blaise i.in“ grey h°use> so beautiful and Jean more or less continuously so much a prison, which just RIDES THIRTY MILES TO VISIT PATIENT Girl Doctor In Peace River District Does Great Work (Loudon Free Press) Returning from a western trip more than 1000 miles by motor, Rev. Jas. , and Mrs. MacKay have brought- back first-hand word of the little town of Dixonville, in the Peace River District, of which Dr, Margaret Strang is medical ad­ viser, and which she serve's in a great many capacities as weft. “I hope I never hear anyone say again that a few blocks is too far to 'walk to chiirch,” Mrs. MacKay said to the Free Press recently In speaking of her -trip. The congrega­ tion at Dixonville* Presbyterian church comes from a radius -of 17 or 18. miles to attend the services which Dr. Strang conducts herself unless a visiting minister is present. Dr. MacKay was -the guest speaker on a recent Sunday when the little church was dedicated, administer­ ing communion there and at Clear- ville, some distance aya^ and also administering baptism in both places. juA vwi vi v i"i rw hi i mwmm Professional Cards ■i Ini t.i .i GLADMAN & STANBURY BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, Ac. Money to Loan, Investments Made Insurance Safe-deposit Vault for usq of our Clients- without charge EXETER LONDON HENSALL 'a pic-J'MacKay, D.D„ nic to Dartmoor, and we want to fix it so you can come too, Didn’t you tell me that 9ir Adrian was going to be away one day this week? Go­ ng away, and not, returning till the nextzday?” . Claire nodded, her. eyes dancing with excitement. "Yes—oh, yes, He has to go up to London on business.” "Then that’s the day we’ll choose. Heaven send it be fine!”—piously. "Oh, how I’d love it!” exclaimed Claire. ‘I haven’t been on the Moor for such a lopg time.” "And I’ve never been there at ; supplemented Jean. "Nick, Nick!” him excitedly. "Did this plan? And why me about it before?” He looked at her, curving his lips. "Why, I never thought of it,” he admitted. "You see’^—explanator­ ily—'"when I’m with you, I can’t think of anything else.” "Nick, I won’t have you making barefaced loye to a married woman under my very n’ose,” jprotested Jean equably. And the shadow of' tragedy that had lowered above .them a few minutes earlier boke in­ to h spray of cheery fun and banter. “You seem very gay. today.” The’ cold,, sneering tones fell sud­ denly . across the gay exchange- of jokes and laughter 'that ensued, and the trio looked up to see the tall, lean, black-clad figure of Sir Adrian ! Standing at the end of tli'e ■ path, awaiting their approach. To Jean/a's'to Claire,. occured, the analogy' of a malevolent spider oil the watch. Even the man’s physical appearance seemed in some way to convey an unpleasant suggestion of resemblance—his long, thin, sharp- ly-jonted arms and, legs, his putty coloured face, a livid mask lit only by a pair of snapping, venomous black eyes, half hidden between the pouched lids that were hardly more than hanging folds, of wrinkled skin, his long-lipped, predatory mduth with its slow, malicious smile Jean repressed a little shudder of disgust as she responded to his sneering comment. "We are—quite* gay, Sir Adrian. It’s a fine day, for one thing, and the sun’s What CARLING & MORLEY BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS^ &c LOANS,. INVESTMENTS INSURANCE Office; Carling Block, Main Street, ■ EXETER, ONT. At Lucan Monday and Thursdaj all’ Claire • turned you know didn’t you to of tell a slow smile , t. The Little Doctor Dr, G. S. Atkinson, L.D.S.,D.D.S, DENTAL SURGEON opposite the New Post pfflca Main St., Exeter Telephones 34w House 84J every Wednesday (all day) until further notice. Offioe Office Closed Dr. G. F; Roulston, L.D.S..D.D.S. DENTIST Office: Carling Block ■z EXETER, ONT. Closed Wednesday Afternoon But such a DR. E. S. STEINER VETERINARY SURGEON Graduate of the Ontario Veterinary College j DAY AND NIGHT CALLS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO Office in the old McDoneJl Barn Behind Jones & May’s Store EXETER, ONT. Dr. Margaret Strang, five foot-one in-her shoes, clad in riding breelfs and an open-collared short, rides 20, 30 and sometimes 40 miles to visit her patients. Last winter she took a journey of- 40 miles, accompanying a woman patient jn a covered bob­ sleigh, sometimes herself trotting with the horses to keep war.m, and .at that, she told Mrs. MacKay, get­ ting her nose frozen. journey xtfay not be a complete hardship to the little doctor, who took a practical hand in the -build­ ing of the. church and her own. log house, putting down the floor of the former building, helping with the logs and hopping down off the root to pull a tooth or take a sliver out of an injured finger. -One room of her three-roomed log house, Dr. -Strang uses a's a tiny dispensary. There is no other med­ ical help within many miles, and her "pastoral” administrations also co­ ver a large area under the direction of a minister at Grand Prairie in charge of the whole district. The .general board of missions, -under the Presbyterian Churchsof Canada, Dr. Strang serves as a medical mis­ sionary. * Dixonville, which is'35 miles from the railroad at .Grimshaw, is equip­ ped with a handful of houses and a gas station. ‘The motor roads vary’ Mrs. MacKay said, noting that the mud was of an "extremely affec­ tionate variety,” particularly in*the spring and fall, when the roads were nearly impassable. ""Tire resi­ dents are pioneers, clearing the land to grow wheat,” Mrs. MacKay said. She told with enthu'siasm of the work of the young doctor, covering her district on horseback or by bob­ sled, and beloved by all with whom she comes in contact. "Some of the women told me to say, when I''get home, that they all "fairly worship­ ped her,” Mrs. iMcKay said. "We are living in the utmost lux­ ury down here,” the Londoner said stating that the shortage of fresh water was one of the pressing prob­ lems of the Dixonville district. Dr. Strang is a graduate of the Medical School of the University of Western Ontario. JOHN WARD CHIROPRACTIC, OSTEOPATHY, ELECTRO-THERAPY & ULTRA­ VIOLET TREATMENTS PHONE 70 MAIN ST.,' EXETER showed above the tops of the 'tall- growing rhododendrons. "Oh, hush, hush!” .Claire glanaed round her -af'fright- _____ ______ ____ __ __ ____ edly, as though the very'leaveS and and Jean should all run up London blossoms hud ears to hear and ton- for a week, before the season clos-‘Sues to repeat, ed, was based on the knowledge of how much can be accomplished by the skilful handling earree. The suggestion was ceived. By Blaise, by Jean, with her natural desire to know more of the. great city she had glimpsed en route augmented by the knowledge that a constant round of sight-seeing and entertainment would be a further aid towards the process of forgetting; by Nick, the sun of whose existence rose add set at Charnwood, wth open rebellion.. "Why go to be baked in London, madonna, when we might remain herb in the comparative coolth of the country?” he murmured plain­ tively to his mother. \ They were alone at the moment, and Lady Anne regarded him with twinkling eyes. ' f "Frankly, Nick, because I want Jean for, my daughter-in-law. No other reason in the world. Person­ ally, as you know, I'simply detest town during the season.” »He laughed and kissed her. "What a Machiavelli in petti* coats! I’d never have beleived it of you, madonna, S’elp me, I would* n’t!” "Well, you may. And don’t for­ get you’ve got to help me, Nick. No philandering with Jean, mind! You’ll leave her severely alone and content yourself with the company of your aged parent.” '■ "Aged fiddlesticks!” he jeered. "If it weren’t^for that white hair nf yours, youngest sistex*, lieve*’- really, ders it for you every morning, because you wbre born in sin know that it’s becoming. So it w^s settled that the week of July should witness a eral exodus from Staple, and mean* while tlie June day slipped away, and Tormarin Sedulously occupied himself in adding fresh stones to the wall which he thought fit to. inter­ pose between himself and the wo­ man he loved. While restless* and afraid, and self Into every kind o£ into each other’s company. She was worldly wise enough to give its due value to the power of propinquity, and her innocently proffered sug-. gestion that she and her two sons, ate the S0> the The Spider Probably masculine obtuseness* and the feminine faculty for dis­ simulation are together responsible for more than half the broken hearts with Which the highways of life littered. 'The Recalcitrant Parent, Other Woman—be she never guileful—or the- Other Man, as —ease may be, are nphe of them as potent a menace to the ultimate happy issue of events as the moun­ tain of small misunderstandings which a man and a maid in iove are capable of piling up 'fieri themselves. The man is prone to see only tliat which/ the woman, intends he shaft —and no self-respecting feminine' thing is going to unveil the myster- of a partle variously re- indifferently; I’d tote you round as my And I don’t be* •severely—-"that it is white, I beiieve your maid pow* just and first gen* Jean grew tiling her- amusemont ‘‘One never knowtf”—she whisper­ ed the words barely above her breath—’’where he is. He might easily be hidden in one ,of the alleys that run'parallel with this.” "The skunk!” muttered Nick wrathfully. “What’s that?’-’- Claire drew suddenly closer to him, her face blanching. A sound)— the light crunching of gravel ben- neath a footstep—had come to her strained ears. "Nick! Did you hear?” she breath­ ed. A look of keen anxiety overspread his faqe. For himself, he did not care, Adrian Latimer could not hurt him. But Claire—hfs "golden 'nar­ cissus”—'what might lie not inflict on her as punishment ,if he discov­ ered them together? The next moment it was all he could do to repress a shout of relief. The steps had quickened, rounded the corner of the alley, and reveal­ ed—Jean. . "We’re mighty glad to see y$u,” remarked Nick, as she joined them. "We thought you were—the devil himself”—'with a grin. "Oh, he’s safe for half an hour yet,” Joan reassured them./‘‘I ask­ ed Tucker”—the Latiiriers’ butler, who worshipped the ground Claire walked on—“and his solicitor is still with him. Otherwise' I wouM- n’t have risked lookng for you”— smiling. "I knew Nick was over here, and Sir 'Adrian might have fol­ lowed mfi.” "You^re sure lie hasn’t?” Claire^ nervobsly. "He is so ning--so stealthy.” „ "Even If he nothing wrong,” stoutly, "Everything I his eyes,” returned Claire bitterly, "That’s what makes the misery of it, If I Jyere really wibked, really unfaithful, I should 'feel I deserved anything I got. But It’s enough if I’m' just happy for a few minutes With a friend for him to want to punish me, to- evili—Sometimes not bear it any 0he flung out shining, and we’re more do we want?” (Continued next week.) young. ARTHUR WEBER LICENSED AUCTIONEER x For Huron and Middlesex FARM SALES A SPECIALTY PRICES REASONABLE .* SATISFACTION GUARANTEED Phone 57-13 Dashwood B. R. NO. 1, DASHWOOD asked enn- had, you're maintained doing Jean do is wrong—-in •to suspect me of any I feel as if I can­ ton ger!” her arms in a pit* EUGEL—GIELCK The marriage of Lucina, daugh­ ter of Mrs. Louis'a Gielck of Mitchell to Fred Eugel, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Eugel, of Monkton, book place itf Grace Lutheran Church, Mitchel, recently. The ceremony was performed by Rev. H. 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