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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1932-11-10, Page 2THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1932 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE Retirement .. . With PayOhe J^ouse of breams Come Orue 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 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 Englishman meets her at the station » and proves to be a son of Lady Anne. CHAPTER XXIV “May I come in?” said a voice— a pleasant voice with a gay inflec­ tion of laughter running through it as though its owner were quite sure ■of his welcome—and Burke, big and in his immaculatestriking-looking evening kit, his ruddy hair flaming wickedly under the electric lights, strolled into the He shook hands all round, his glance slightly -quizzival as it met Jean’s, and then Lady Anne present­ ed him to the Comtesse de Varigny. It almost seemed as though something, some mutual recognition of a kindred spirit, flashed from the warm southern-dark eyes to the fi^ry red-brown ones, and when, a minute or two. later, Burke established hlm- seld in the seat next Jean, vacated by Nick, he murmured in a low tone “Where did you find that Eastern looking charmer? I feel convinced I could lose my heart to her without any effort.” Jean could hardly refrain from smiling. This was her first meeting with Burke since the occasion of the scene which had occurred between them in the little parlour at the “honeymooners’ inn,” and now he met her with as much composure and arrogant assurance as though* nothing in the world, other than of “ a mutually pleasing and amicable nature, had taken place, exactly like Burke, she helplessly. “Then you had better, go and make love to her,” she suggested. “There happens to. be a husband in the background—a little hypochon­ driac with quite charming manners —but I don’t suppose you would consider that any obstacle.” “None,” retorted Burke placidly. “I’m quite certain she can’t be In love wih him. Her taste would be more—robust, I should say. Where is she stopping?” “At Claridge’s. there this evening. ^Switzerland.” “Well, you shall per with me to-morrow—the Coun­ tess included.” Jean shook her head demurely. ’ “We shall all be back ay, Staple to-morrow—the Countess excepted. You can take her.” | “Then the supper must be to­ night,” replied Burke serenely. "What are you doing in town, any­ way?” asked Jean. ‘ -------- ----- you?” “No. Came up to see my tailor’ —laconically. He crossed the box to arrange box. lie, the knowledge she had gleaned bore fruit. Burke never quite knew what im­ pulse it was that had prompted him as he made his farewells alter the supper-party, to murmur in Madame de Varigny’s ear, “Dine with me to­ morrow night,” It was as though the dark, mysterious eyes had spok­ en to him, compelling him to some sort of friendly overture which the shortness of his acquaintance with their owner would not normally have inspired. It was not until the coffee and cigarette stage of the little* dinner had been reached that Madame de Varigny suddenly shot her dart. “So you come all the way -up from this place, Coombe—Coombe Eavie? to. see Mees Peterson, and hey, pres­ to? She vanish the next morning!” Burke stared at her almost rude­ ly, The woman’s perspicacity an­ noyed him. “I came up to see my tailor,” he replied curtly. “Mais parfaitement!” she laughed’ omable Player —low, melodious laughter, tinged with a frank friendliness of amuse­ ment which soniehow smoothed away Burke’s annoyance at her summing up of the situation, see your tailor. Naturellement! you were not sorry to encounter Mees Petersno also, hein? You joyed that?” Burke’s eyes gleamed at her. “Do you think a dog enjoys look- her ing at the bone that’s out -cf reach?’ aside, avoiding a meetin; he said bluntly. ' “And is Mees Peterson, then, out j which not even so close a friend as of youi* reach? Me, I do not think she could tread without violation, so.” | To Jean herself the week in Lon­ don had brought a certain new tran­ quillity of spirit. Quite naturally and without effort—-thanks to Lady Anne's skilful stage-management— she and Blaise' had been constantly in each other’s company, and, with the word “Bel-oved” murmuring in her heart like some tender unaer- long after that first shrewd “To But the en- Burke was moved to sudden can­ dour. “She might not be, if it were not that there is another man------” “Ce Monsieur Tor-mar-in?” “Yes, confound him!” “We-ell”—with a long drawn tion compect of gentle irony. in- “You Usually, as fife goes on, there pomes a time when we realize that we cannot draw indefinitely pn the bank of earning capacity, and that some day we MUST retire . . . and then we begin to think ahead. Think . , , but, all too seldom, do we plan. The years pass swiftly and, before we know it, the time for retire­ ment arrives and finds us unprepared. But this can never happen to ypu if you plan now'to provide for the needs of later life. 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Member of The Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association CLARICE,—TINNING- The visit to London, if it had not been prolific In he results which Lady Anne hadxhoped for, had at least accomplished certain things. It \had acted as a brake upon the swiftly turning wheels of two lives precariously poised at the top. of that hill of which no traveller zcan see the end, but which very surely leads to heartbreak and disaster and had sufficed, as Jean had sug­ gested that it might, to restore Nick to a more normal and temperate state of mind. He and Clare had passed a. hour alone together the day his return to Staple, and now the first violent reaction, the instinctive impulse of unbearable re­ volt from Sir Adrian’s spying and brutality had spent itself, they had agreed to shoulder once mere the burden Fate had laid upon them, to fight on again, just holding fast to the simple knowledge of their love for one another and leaving the ul­ timate issue to that great, unfatn- who “hither ana thither moves, and mates, sind slays” not with the shadowed vision of oui finite eyes but with the insight of eternty. Jean had seen hem coming hand in hand through the cool green shades of the wood where the great decision had been taken, and some­ thing in the two young, stern-set faces brought a sudden lump into throat. She turned swiftly' g, feeling as though here was holy ground upen should be able to win against this j tone of melody, the hoiirs they had LX—" Tor-mar-in. I think” | shared together were no longer a intently—“I think ‘ mingled ecstasy and pain, marred by J torturing dcubts and fears, but held that tery—transmuted into a wonderful land of phantasy, cavernous with shadow were undreamed-of dragons lurked, lambent with opalescent fields of splendour whence- uprose the glimmer of half-visioned palaces or the battlemented walls of some ethereal fairy castle. More than once Jean’s thoughts' •turned wistfully towards the Moor • 'Carlingford United Church, officiat- which che had ao longed to see b? 'X,°“ “*',r rBtu™ they wlU reslde moonlight—U-udlth’s “holy ot holies Jln “ • 11 ya- that God must have made- for His | spirits”—and she felt disposed to blame herself for the robust attack of caution which had impelled her to refuse the invitation to gal-cw. “One loses half the best life by being afraid,” she self petulantly. “And a' chance to take them doesn’t come!’’’ She felt almost tempted to write to Judith and propose that she would join her at the bungalow for a few days after all if she still had room for her. And then, as is often the way of things just when we are con­ templating taking tlte management of affairs into our own hands, the second chance offered itself without any directing impulse on Jean’s part. The telephone bell rang, and Jean who was expecting an answer to an important message she had ’phoned through on Lady Anne’s behalf, has­ tened bo answer it. Very much tc her surprise she found that it was Geoffery Burke who was speaking at the other end of the wire. “Is that you, Geoffery?”'-she ex­ claimed in astonishment. “I didn’t know yqur bungalow was on the telephone. I thought you were miles away from anywhere!” “It isn’t. And we are,” came back Burke’s voice. From a. certain quality in it she knew that he was smiling. “I’m in Okeampton, tele­ phoning from a pal’s house. I’ve a. message fcr you from Judith.” “Ye-es?” intoned Jean inquiring­ ly. “She wants you to come up to­ morrow, just for one night. It’ll be a full moon and she says you have a hankering to see the Moor by moonlight. Have-<you?” “Yes, oh ves!”—with enthusiasm “Thought so. It certainly looks topping. Quite worth seeing. Well look here, Judy’s got a party of friends, down from town, ...who are coming over to us from the South Devon sie—going to drive up arid stay the night, and the idea is to de The home of Mr. and Mrs. W. J Tinning, Carlingford, was the scene of a quiet wedding when their youngest daughter Ella Louise, be- came^the bride of Walter A. Clarke son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Clarke. St, Marys,. Rev, H. Hagelstein, oi the bun- things in told her- r second GODERICH COMMISSION PAYS POWER BILL LESS AMOUNT OF EXCHANGE •GODDRIck—The water and light commission has passed for payment the September monthly power bilb as rendered by the provincial com­ mission less the amount of New York exchange on bonds which it was asked to pay but which it has so fcr refused to do. A second let­ ter requesting payment wa.s tabled for futher consideration. ’ In othei words the Goderich hydro commis­ sioners are “sitting tight.” Professional Cards GLADMAN & STANBURY BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, &c. 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The latter took a large truckload of poultry and apples to Timmins. Mr. -Sielves accompany­ ing him for the trip. They had a highly interesting trip. The men re­ port the Ferguson Highway to be in excellent condition all up. Unfortunately they make a detour owing to truck having gone through This meant twenty-five miles of very bad country roads, taking four hours of the hardest kind of slugging to get through. The season up there has been very wet and a large amount of crop still stands uncut in the fields of the Clay Belt. At tne present time there is a lot of snow, At Timmins, through the-' courtesy of a relative is an official they enjoyed cending into huge underground works, which is reckoned the second largest gold mine in the world. It is a vast en­ terprise, requiring a tremendous amount of handling of machinery as _ _ the ore taken out is very low grade, a moonlight scramble up on the top'average on^y about ^six dollars in of one of the tors aftet supper. Are ^°ld to the ton of rock. Some 2700 you game?” i men are employed in the Hollinger “Oh! How heavenly!” This, ecs- m\ne ancl these workers are all tatically, from J.ean. i 011 fhe pre-depression basis, so “How what?” ' j-with the present lower cost of living “HeaV’enly' Heavenly’1—with ,in-1 ^\ese m.en are surely in clover. Tim- creasing emphasis, “-Can’t you hear?’| a ^ar^e foreign foment. ‘Oh, ‘heavenly’—yes, I hear. Yes ............. it would be rather—if you came.” Even through the ’phone Burke’s_ voice conveyed' something of thaf upsettingly' fiery ardour of his. ' “I won’t come—uriless you prom­ ise to behave,” said Jean warningly. Bubbling over with pleasure at the prospect unfolded by the invita­ tion, she found it a little difficult to infuse a befitting sternness into her tones. “Do I need to take any fresh vows came back Burke’s answer, spoken rather gravely.” I made you a prom-, ise that day—when we drove back from Dartmoor. I’ll keep that.” “I’ll never kiss you again till give me your lips yourself.” (To be Continued) Monsieur regarding him you* will win.” Burke shook “He had first abread somewhere—rescued her in the snow or something. That resett­ ing stunt always pays with a woman. All I did”—with a short laugh,— “was nearly to break her neck for her out driving one day recently!” ‘ Is she engaged to Monsieur Tor- asked Madame de Varigny his head gloomily, innings. He met her marin?” quickly. “No. affair in She nodded. “You shall marry her,” she de­ clared with convicition. “See, Mon­ sieur Bewrke—aie,aie, quel nom!— I am clairvoyanter prophetesse, -and I tell you that you weel marry zis leetle brown Jean.” Her foreign accent strengthened with her increasing emphasis. Burkerlooked dubious. “I’m afraid your clairvoyante will fail this journey, madame. She’ll probably marry Tormarin— unless” i —his eyes glinting—__ by force.” Madame de- Varigny shook her head emphatically. 1 “But no! I do not see it like. Eh bien! If she become fiancee—. engaged to him—-you shall come to me, and I will tell you hdw to make sure that she shall not marry him.” “Tell me now!” “Non, non! Win her your own “Is Judith with way- Only> if you do not succeed , if Monsieur Tormarin wins , why, then, come to visit me Chateau Varigny.”J That night a lettei’ written matters with Lady Anne, and berore Comtesse de Varigny s flowing ror- the curtain rose on the last act it handwriting sped on its way to was settled that they should all have supper together after the play. Later, when Burke had once- more resumed his seat next Jean, Madame de Varigny, whose hearing, like her other senses, acute, caught breathed Anne. “Now darling? fery Burke have turned up in on our last evening? I was hoping later on—if you and I Vrere very dis­ creet and effaced ourselves—that Blaise and Jean might settle things.” Madame de Varigny’s eyes retnaip* ed fixed upon the stage. There was no change in their expression to in­ dicate that Lady Anne’s plaintive murmur had at that moment sup­ plied her with the key of the whole situation as it lay between Jean and the two men who were sitting one each side of her. But the following evening when the Staple party having left town she and Burke were dining alone to­ gether at a little restaurant in So- It was so reflected We met her I knew her in ail come to sup- into was preternaturally a whispered plaint Nick’s ear by isn’t Why on earth need Lady that provoking,Nick Geof- town j torturing dkiibts and fears, but | once more the old . magic of wonder-day at Montavan. Somehow, the dividing line not seem to matter very much, that she was sure that Blaise, on his side of it, was loving her just as she on hers, loved him. Indeed, at this stage Jean made no very great de­ mands on life. After the agony of uncertainty -of the last few months the calm surety that , her seemed happiness Other sharp edges did now of Mr. Hogarth's who in the. Hollinger Mine, the privilege of des- the shafts of that JOHN WARD, CHIROPRACTIC, OSTEOPATHY, ELECTRO-THERAPY & ULTRA­ VIOLET TREATMENTS PHONE 70 EXETER Blaise loved enough. ____ JU- of existence smoothed, themselves down—as the sharp edges have a knack of doing if you wait long enough. Burke seemed to have accepted her last •answer as final, and now spared her the efofrt of contending further with his tempestuous love-making, so that she felt able to continue her friend­ ship with Judith, and her consequent visits to Willow Ferry, with as little gene as though the episode at the “honeymooners’ inn” , had never __| taken place. Sihe even began to be- ■“I carry her" off lieve that Burke ^ras genuinely re- ■ morseful for his behaviour on thai particular occasion. Apparently he had not made a con­ fidant of his sister over the matter ■ for, it was without the least indica­ tion of a back thought of any kind that she approached Jean of spend-, ing a few days with herself and Geoffery at their bungalow on the Moor. “Geoff and I are going week’s, blow -on Dartmoor,, just by way of a ’pick-me-up.’ Come with us, Jean; it will do you good arter stuffy old London—blow the con- webs away!” But here, at least, Jean felt that discretion was the better part of val­ our. It was true that Burke appear­ ed fairly amendable to reason just at present, but in the informal com­ panionship of daily life in a moor land bungalow it was more than probable that he would become less manageable, for a repetition of that inn parlour. N Therefore, although with its great stretches purple, its fragrant, heathery breath an its enfolding silences, appealed to her in a why in which nothing else On earth seemed quite to appeal pulling at her heartstrings almost as the nostalgia for home and coun-, try pulls at the heartstrings of a wanderer, she returned a regretful negative to Judith’s invitation. So Burke and Mrs. Craig flacked up and departed to Three Fir Bungalow without her, and \llfe At Staple re­ sumed the even tenor of its way. The weather was glorious; long, hot summer days melting fnt balmy nights when the hills dales amid ’which the old house wasi set were bathed lh moonlight mys- j Luckily, therein some old the past holds him back.” has still its own relief problems. St. Marys Journal-Argus tor a MAIN ST., 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 her— at the in the 1 France. I “Matters work towards, comple­ tion,” it ran. ' “My visit here has chanced bien a propos. There is an­ other would-lover beside Blaise Tor- marin. I have urged him on to win her if he can, for if I have not very wrongly esimated Monsieur Tormar­ in—and I do not think I have——ne is of the type to become more deep­ ly in love and tess able to master his feelings if he realises that he has a rival. At present he from declaring himself. refrains The op­ position of * a rival will probably drive him into a declaration very speedly. When the dog sees the bone about to be taken from him— he snaps! tSo I encourage this red­ headed lion of a man, Monsieur G Burke, to pursue his ‘affaire du ccetir with vigour. For it Blaise Tarmor- in becomes actually engaged to the Mademoiselle Peterson, it will make his punishment the more complete I pray the God of Justice that it not now bo long delayed may I CHAPTER XXV Arranged by Telephone you Pain eases off I NEURITIS One thing that helps is to warm a dish, pour in Min­ ard’s. Then rub the liniment gently in. , FRANK TAYLOR * LICENSED AUCTIONEER For Huron and Middlesex FARM SALES A SPECIALTY Prices Reasonable and SatisfacUr* ' Guaranteed EXETER P. O. or RING 138 And she had no scene desire in the Moorthe of ’gold and the and INSURANCE ■ LIFE, ACCIDENT & HEALTH ------------------I When Studying your future Life, Goderich who smeared Income or Pension program, consult ARCHIE T. STERLING Representing METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY EXETER, BOX 277 St. Marys plan to hold their mun­ icipal elections December .5th with1 nominations November 28th. i OSCAR KLOPP LICENSED AUCTIONEER Honor Graduate Carey Jones' Auc­ tion School. 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