HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1936-09-03, Page 2THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATETHURSDAY, SEPTEMBER; 3, 1036
“GOOD PENNY”
)BY BARBARA WEBB
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CHARTER XVII
At the Golden Bubble Judith »vent
through her first show*. The crowd
was small, a Monday night crowd,
more interested in eating and drink
ing than in the show. It chilled
her a little to have the applause so
desultory. She made an effort and
later Poppy Allen said to her, “Don’t
waste your time, Penny. They all
sit on fheir hands Monday nights.
No pep at all. Take it easy.”
'Gilbert was missing from his cus
tomary table, Judith wasn't sur
prised at this for th® first show.
But when she went out for the 1
o’clock revue and saw the table still
vacant she felt troubled. She was
so wound up over Chester, so ready
to throw herself to whatever dragon
waited to devour her that Chester
might be free, that Gilbe:t’s ab
sence gave her a ridiculous pang.
She went to Sami in an interval of
dancing with one lone man who
said nothing, just danced as though
it were a grim duty to disport him
self.
“Gil’s not here?*'
Sam shook his head. “He’s got
•business somewheres, went out of
town this afternoon.”
“When -will he be back?”
“Couldn’t say.” He grinned
her.
about him if 'he calls -me up?” j
“You may, if you think he'd be I pleased.” I
iSam's fat sides shook. “Who i
wouldn’t be?” he countered, then,
“Don’t you get the jitters, Penny.
Gil’s coming 'back. Maybe he’ll
bring you a present. I'll tell him
you’ve been a good penny while he
was away.”
She had to be content with this.
At 2 in the morning she started
home. She walked through deserted
.streets, unheedful of the two cars
that stepped to let smirking men
lean out and ask if she wanted a
ride, then drive on without molest
ing her further when they saw s'he
was indifferent. It was queer to
think' that many mornings she
would walk this way, lonely through
the streets. The other girls had boy
friends, steadies or casuals who
■waited t° take them' home. Gil
might take Judith now and then, or
Sam, or even when he came again,
Spencer.
God help me, I
She
I’ll
this
she.
Spencer’s heart beat harder. He
was close to the core of the mystery
now. This was a record of torture,
not of guilt. Of triumph, not of ab
jection.
“Why do I wait?
even gloat over him, over her.
think he is fine, honorable,
tell her. I must. I can’t stand
much longer, and neither can
HI tell her m,w.”
Again there were dates missing.
And then on line, “I have told her,”
Spencer felt sick with disappoint
ment. He turned to the end of the
book. The last page had writing on
it. The wonds began waveriugly,
grew stronger and more legible.
The Last Page
at
“Shall I tell him you asked
The Diary Revevals—?
■She wondered about 'him. He was
steeping, she* hoiped. (She oughtn’t
to think of him at all. It was per
haps as well for her that she could
not know -what he was doing at that
same moment. Alone in his room
he read, page after page, of the out
pouring’s of Chester Pennet’s heart.
It tore1 at Spencer’s vitals to read
these naked words, for all that had
been denied him in his
with Clio, Chester had put
this diary.
The entries varied in
Some dates were missing
But it was almost completely the
tragic history of the inner life of a
man ardently in love with, (married
to, a woman whose coldness kept
him on fire, gave him no peace. He
recorded her kindnesses, dilating on
them. Here and there
written in- despair. “She
I must not bother her.”
Spencer read on. The
intimacy
down in
length,
entirely.
he had
hates me
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Stevens is getting a divorce
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break it pretty soon.”
“Do yon know the
another’s, I mean?” Judith asked.
“Sure, but you don’t think we
could get anything there, do you?"
“No. I want to send a letter to
my mother.”
Teller gave her the address,
talked a little longer, repeated that
he felt he was on a wild goose chase, and left. *
Judith sank down on the sofa,
feel pretty sunk,” she admitted
Aunt Mary, and a woebegone
lence fell between them. It
broken by the clamor of the
phone.
“Long distance calling Miss
net," said the operator and
blurred by the many aniles between
them, '“"Gil (Saunders, Penny. I’ll
be back tonight. See you at the 1
o’clock show. I’ll have news for
you.”
“Good news?”
“Depends on how you take it. I’ve
seen tihe Govenor.”
“Is he friendly?”
“So-so. But I’ll tell you tonight.
Are you O. K.?”
“Yes, Gil. And crazy to see you.”
“That’s a break for me. Take
care of yourself.”
“I will.”
She hung up and went to her
room. So much, so much depended
on what Gil would have to tell
that night. She looked
clothes. She’d change
Good Penny costume
talked with Gil. There
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Clinton Emerged winners of the
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B.A.A. on Friday evening last, de
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6-2. Zurich tied all the way but
could not match Clinton’s air-tight
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I Hovey, pitching for Clinton, al
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batting with two three-base hits,
which resulted in rims each tilme.
Heideman "went the route for
Zurich and passed out only eight
hits, but they came at bad times.
He fanned five. L. O’Brien for
Zufrich played well, getting three
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flawlessly. Hawkins made the best
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only tQ third. Lee O’Brien pinch-
hitted for .Schilbe in the ninth and
came through but was left strand
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centre field and Johnston at short
played a good galme.
Zurich made a final gesture at the
end by cheering Clinton’s team and
showed good sportsmanship in ad
mitting defeat to a superior team.
Clinton—Pickett, lb; Holmes, rf;
McDonald, 3b; Kagg, if; Hawkins,
2b; McEwen, c; Glow, cf; Johnston,
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Zurich—'Disch, 3b; Gascho, c; O’
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............... " -..laugh at him, an’ that’s something
different.”
“Aunt Mary
you."
Sam laid his
“(She makes <me
■dumphing,” he
used to fall for apple dumplings
when I was a kid. Give her my
love, Penny, and mind what she
says.”
It was on the tip of Judith’s
tongue to- tell 'him Aunt Mary dis
liked Gil, But she kept silent.
Nothing would be gained. Sam was
probably shrewd enough to find this
out for himself if it interested him.
So, I’ll mind her,” she said and
went on -to dress.
The creamy yellow satin frock did
all -she hoped it would do for her.
Make-up (hid her fatigue, and if her
eyes were shadowed with anxiety,
the smile on her lips denied it as
she went into Sam’s office, both
hands held out to Gilbert.
“I missed you last night,”
said.
“Me too,” he answered. “I
stepping out in Albany, but
had a dull show and a dull crowd.
Want something to drink?”
“If you do.”
Gilbert shook» his head. “Don’t
touch it more than once in a month
of Sundays,
a fish, but it
ness. Where
“Any place
dressed up.”
“You ought to go ihome,” he said,
*‘You aren’t used to this turning
night into day yet. Suppose I take
you there. I ought to know where
you live.”
Supper for Two
,An- unreasoning disappointment
seized her. She had pictured herself
sitting across the table from him at
some all-night rendezous, using
her charm on him, making her bar-
vain with him. Gilbert called out to
Sam.
“Tell that punk of mine to take
some sandwiches and coffee over to
Miss Pennet’s
fast-”
“Okay, Gil.
"‘Yeah, I’m
•come along.”
what she
To hurt
I cannot
“I told her. I shall do
I have been mad.
strike at her,
I asked for time. She
me. I know now what I
Judith . . . but she is
Clio ... I must burn this,
my-
till
and
asked,
him is to
hurt her.
gave it to
must do.
young.
It will be like burning part of
self. I shall wait till the last,
the blow falls. It will fall soon
I shall be glad . . . Clio .
Clio. . . .”
Spencer gazed at the page before
him. This was the end. To know
what had prompted the writing of
these final entries would be to know
the truth. He sucked at his empty
pipe. Why hadn’t Chester burned
the diary as he had meant to?
Spencer thought back to Judy’s de
scription of the night of Chester’s
arrest.
She had gone upstairs with him,
an officer following, while he col
lected his clothing. He had refused
bail. Perhaps he 'hac rorgotfen the
diary. There was, after all, noth
ing actually incriminating in- it.
Perhaps he hoped, with the sick
egoism of hopeless love, that Olio
might see ifc- There was
ing the human heart.
Spencer turned back
again. As he read he
names for the pronouns Chester had
used. Step by step Spencer built up
this hypothetical case, fitting each
part neatly to fhe one that fol
lowed,
writer
water.
way.
his
wouldn’t be easy to prove. Chester
would refuse to help. The bank
was anxious only to hush the matter
up. Spencer would have to wait,
work patiently, bide his time. Hard
to do, but necessary. With a long
sigh he locked the book, his own re
construction of the tragedy, a table
of dates he had made into- the safe
he kept in his room and went to
bed.
At noon the following day Aunt
Mary admitted Harvey Teller to the
apartment. “I hear you saw your
father,” the detective said, after
Judith had greeted him.
“Yes. But he won’t help us
much. He still says he is innocent.
I still believe him.”
Harvey spread his hands out.
“Somebody’s gotta come through
with some help,” he said. “I’m sty
mied.
every
. out is
no fathoan-
and read
substituted
Then he sat at his type-
and set it down. It held
It could have happened that
But he must have proof. If
theory were correct, but it
I run against a blank wall
place I turn. All I can find
that your mother was extrav-
but to check that I find your
opBU(,e uh. x ie “v11 father always -paid the bills. Therebeen posted in Chester’s fine hand- . ., „ „ . i,.--,... . , . , ~ Tl „ isn’t a cent standing against him,writing m a huge ledger. It cov-' , „„„ „„, ° , and more than that, he didn’t ac-a,"d..SP“X^ tually spend .mere than he made.
jkow ’reached the last months of
Chester's association with his wife.
“I don’t believe it. I can’t.”
That entry, stark and bare, was
dated two years earlier.
“It is true. She
self. What can I
It was simple
that this referred
oovery of Clio’s- infidelity.
“I pity her,” read a later entry.
“He is married, too. I would let her
go. But she wants to- keep on arf
we are, for Judith’s sake, for his
too, I suppose. I am in hell. But
at least I can see her.
work for her.”
Some dates were skipped. “What
shall I do? I know the full truth
new. I know what he has done. I
shall tell her. I’ll tell her tomorrow
while Judy is at the club dance
with young Spencer
break it up. I have the power now.
He shan’t mack me any longer,
smile at one behind his hand. I’ll
end this torture for us all. Clio will
be glad when it’s over. I know she
will.”
He was some manager, if you ask
me.”
“You’ve talked with his friends?
“If you can
as I can see he
that bank and
close-mouthed
gambled he did it in disguise, for
there isn’t a brokerage house in
town has any record of dealings for
any one who even looks like
Detective Gets Letters
Judith went to the desk.
I can still are the letters I told you
[You might find something in
I read one or two. I couldn’t bear
to go on, and then I wouldn’t ex
actly know what to look for.
the letters are here together,
they, Aunt Mary?”
“Yes, my pet,” said Aunt
conveniently forgetting the
she had given Spencer,
Teller took them. “I’ll give ’em
the ohce over,” he said, “but, in
. my opinion, you are wasting your
time, Miss Pennet.
has told me her-
do?”
enough to guess
to Chester's dis-
call them that. Far
lives for two things,
his wife. He was
as a clam. If he
him.”
“Here
about,
them.
All
aren’t
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her
her
her
she
through
from
before
was a dress
of Clio’s made over for Judy
cause she loved the color, but
hadn’t liked her fo wear it.
makes you look so old, Judith,
that makes me seem old,” Clio
complained.
“But I don't want to lock
be-
Clio
“It
and
had
like
a baby tonight,” thought Judith, “I
want to look like, let us say, the
wife of a futuie Governor.” She
held the dress up to herself. It
was a lovely fbing, dreamy yellow,
slim lines. And then she
away and threw herself.on
weeping for the very good
now in sight.
GHAPTER XVIII
flung it
her bed,
that was
The 1 o’clock show was nearly
over that niglht before Gil appeared.
Judith, finished with her solo,
watched the door nervously, felt an
upward surge of her heart when he
did appear. He seemed in- pleas
ant mood, nodded here and there to
acquaintances, stood laughing and
talking with Sam for a few minutes
before he went to his table. Judith
waited for a sign from him. He paid
no more attention to her t^an
the other girls mailing their ser
pentine way among the tables.
Piqued and a little frightened, Ju
dith accepted tihe invitation
noisy party and sat down
them.
“She’s
a girl at
looking
of a
with
she?”
an older
smartest
had,
new
like
Johnny.’ ”
Gilly,” one of the
to Judith, “How about
men
awfully sweet, isn’t
the table asked her escort,
at Jiudith as though she
were from the zoo.
“Tell me,” another girl * leaned
forward, lher eyes wide with curi
osity, “Did you really go up to see
your father when you went off with
Gil Saunders Saturday night?”
“You wouldn’t expect her to say
she didn’t, would you, darling?” a
man drawled.
“I saw Daddy,” Judith told them.
“He’s all right.”
“Like it up. there, eh?” the most
drunken1 of the party stated with
an imbecile laugh at his own 'hum-
■or.
“It’s very q'uiet,” Judith replied,
and they howled at her exquisite
joke. “I’m paid for this,” Judith
told herself and sparkled further for
them. It was just a line, a line
they liked, and she did it well. That
it cost her anything no one guessed.
“You’re tops, dearie,”
woman declared. “The
thing the Golden Bubble’^ ever
but they ought to get you a
song, something snappy
‘Frankie and
k“Judy and
offered, then
a dance?”
Sihe danced with him, declined his
offer to take her home after the
club closed’,' saw with relief that the
various parties were breaking >up. A
better crowd than on Monday night,
she had a good-sized percentage
coming to her. “And I’ll need it,”
she tho’Ugiht, “If Gil is going to let
me down.”
A Gall From Gil
For it seemed to her that his ig
noring of her presence cold mean
nothing else. She was on her way
'back to her dressing room when
Sam intercepted her. “Gil’s gonna
wait for you in my office,” he said.
“Don’t . be too long. Tihe boss is
cold ugly when he’s kept sittin’.”
Her weariness vanished. “Oh,”
she murmured, “I thought he’d for- .
got me.”
Sam grinned, “Not anyway
hardly,” he paused, looked at her
admiringly. “If you thought t'hat
then you gave a damn good imita
tion of not caring £ damn, Penny.
Little thoroughbred, huh? Well, that
ought to suit th® boss.”-
Judy leaned against the doorpost,
“You like him, don’t you Sam?”
“He’s been any friend,” said Sam,
“thro'Uglli hell and high water.
Ain’t any one else I’ve over known
stayed on the up and up like he k
has. Don’t you never believe every
body loves a fat man, they love to
Used to lap it up like
. interfered with busi-
shall we go?”
yoy like . . . I'm all
house, and
Supper for
jipt asking.
Continued '
ELIMVILLE
made it
two?”
you to
of Mary
had charge
was opened
Divine, All
her
last
met
the
Johns, Dorothy
of the meeting
with the hymn
Love Excelling”
Ina
and the roll call
twelve members.
Up, Stand Up for
Devotional Leaf-
(Too late for last week)
Miss Doris Elford, entertained a
nuimiber of her girl friends on
birthday on Wednesday of
,week.
The Live Oak Mission Circle
on- Wednesday, August 26th at
home
Jolhns
which
‘1Love
and prayer by the president.
Ford read the Scripture lesson. The
minutes of the last meeting, were
read and adopted
was answered by
The hymn ‘‘Stand
Jesus” was sung.
let “Spiritual Growth” was read by
Gladys Jolhns. Hazel Johns favor
ed the girls with a guitar selection.
Several leaflets on “Our Contact
With Newcqmers” were (given by
Gladys Skinner, Helen Murch, Mar
garet Johns and Eula Herdman.
Mary Johns gave a pian-O' instrulmen-
tal which was much enjoyed. The
meeting was closed with the hymn
“Rescue tihe Perishing”, and the Miz
pah benediction. Lunch was served
at the close.
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fox* August were reported recently
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a new record.
At the Legislative Buildings most
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given to the new checks on bootleg
gas. These involve checking of all
gasoline (moving in the province
and entering or leaving Ontario.
The month _ of August and Sep
tember are
viders” of
which will
of winter,
peoted to be fairly
estimates. How
tax can be gauged was shown
year, when the total tax came to
a few thousand -dollars more than
tihe $15,000,000 estimate made by
Premier Hepburn before the yeai’
began..
always the “best pro-
the gasoline revenues,
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