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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1936-09-17, Page 2TIH’ItSlW. SEPTEMBER 17, 103«THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE ~ll CHAPTER XX iiiii BY BARBARA WEBB || lllllllllllllllllllllllllhllllllllllllllllllli ed alike, did. alike. I don't knew why’ I stayed with him. Cowardice maybe. I liked comfort, luxury. And I was proud of you. I wanted you to grow up differently from the way I had. So I stayed, for many reasons “Then . ♦ . how can I write this to you, Judith? How to make you understand even a little of it? I fell in love, Judith. I won’t say more ,__ I was 35 years old. mar­ ried, a m.’ther, a cold, unhappy wo­ man. And suddenly I was warm and young as I had never been. And I was happy. I don’t ask you to understand. I don’t understand my­ self. It just happened. I was alive. Years later when Judith thought back to that crowded Sunday noon and evening she knew it a turning point in her life, stars were good to me,” she say, and smile. But the stars i ed only evil as she waited, after Gil left, heard the outer door close be-. ______, hind him. She went to the window; titan" that? and looked down to the street. His car waited there, Joe, the bodyguard slumped over the wheel. Gilbert got in. “Tomorrow," thought Judy, “I'll be married to him. I’ll be in that ear with him. going somewhere, alone ‘ x a,n' aifVe. with him. Daddy won't be free, but j lie’ll be almost free. Funny. For a mj- nfe n0W( little while we’ll both be in prison.' Daddy and I. Then he’ll be free, and jt- yl)U w;Sh, I’ll------” She didn’t pursue the but it remained with her, consciousness of walls closing around her, a daikness bearing down. Idly' she saw a messanger boy come round the corner, enter the hall of the apartment house. Without wonder < „ slis wsnt to answer the ring at her I pyjng a man you can’t love, door, signed for the special delivery letter he brought, took it, retreated to the living room to open it, like1 some one in a daze.It was a strangely thin envelope, I wrfte this to you. The handwriting was familiar. The mariy Spencer Owen. I wake in stamp was foreign. It was from Clio. I the night sometimes, cold with fear, Judith knew without opening it that that for some reason you ‘ it was from no sense of sheets were Clio’s handwriting was small, had covered many pages with it. Ju­ dith began to read. Letter from Clio “Please read this, Judith. Please, have every right to hate me, mis­ trust me. You probably’ believe I did not love you, have never loved you. But I do. I’ve no right to say’ it. but I must say it. You must read what follows, please, Judith. I’ve wanted to write to you for so long. I couldn’t until I had some word f.otu you. Now your note here. I know I have Chester thank for that, as I have thank for so many' things. “I know so little of what doing now, Judith. There is I can do to help you. may feel. Something I must do. The thing I. as your mother can tell you what that knowing my mistake. “What has story I don’t from Chester, capable of an ignoble thought. I can tell you only the way things seem to me and let you judge for yourself. I ■was your age, Judith, when I met Chester. I was poor. My family was poor. Not respectably poor, with a neat house on the wrong side of the tracks and the wolf a few steps from the door. The wolf lived with us. We had two rooms in a tene­ ment. My father drank terribly, my' mother drank, too, and when she was sober she washed for people. “I clerked in a store, a cheap store. I went home at night to lines full of wet clothing, brawls, dirty talk, every kind of misery you could imagine. I hated it. I had no way cut of it. I didn't earn enough to live alone. No man I knew before Chester would have treated me any differently’ than my father treated my mother. Marriage “But because didn't want to it was wiong. My parents berated me for no: tak-| ing him. I lived in one kind of« hell. I knew I'd only be going into j another kind to marry Chester, butj it would be a clean hell, pretty j clothes ir. it. kind words in it, polite > manners in it. I married him. You I were born. I “Judith. I hope you never know 1 what it is to have to live intimately, in the st»me house, the same room with some ne who adores you, whom you >.an’t love. If I thought theI She didn’t cry. life my parents lived was dreadful, ■ consciously. I knew a worse one. I was untidj always late, to read, to pany, liveliness, him. He was good to me. “There wasn’t an hour of lives together, unless at times thro’ ' phone, took down the receiver, you, when we thought alike, want-1 “Miss Judith Pennet?”I at'ter- to be “The could seem- “This letter has nothing to do I couldn’t write to you. to any cne of that. Wicked You’ve every right to say’ and think and believe hard But whether you be- I lieve it or not the wickedest thing I ever did was to marry Chester. The next wickedest was to stay’ with him. “That’s what I must say to you, Judith. Must make you see. There’s no wrong on earth so great as mar- , .. . . It is like a y ison. It’s like a pestilence, betraying and destroying you and the man, and even any children you might have. I hardly’ know why I . I know you did- thought, things of me. a con- her mother. She felt1 surprise. The letter I thin like the envelope. ’ She him you is to to are so little Nothing, you But there is something, only do— happened to me, pray it you may not repeat been told you of my know. Nothing evil I am sure. He is in- a Will tonight?” me to drive I want to go the ear right can get there, alone. Will away?” Ju- felt so clear hat and coal. “Wait of She for TEA txeter ©unen-A&mirate Established 1873 and 1887 at Exeter, Ontario Published every Thursday morning SUBSCRIPTION—?2.00 per year In advance RATES—Farm or Real Estate for sale 50c, each insertion for first four insertions. 25c. each subse­ quent insertion. Miscellaneous ar­ ticles, To Rent, Wanted, Lost, or Found 10c. per line of six words, Reading notices 10c. per line. Card of Thanks 50-c. Legal ad­ vertising 12 and 8c. per line. In Memoriam, with one verse 50c, extra verses 25c. each, Member of The Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association it," he said. “Daddy,” Judith leaned close to him. “I want to get you out of here. I want you to come where I can take care of you. You’ll come if I can ar­ range it, w’on't you, Daddy?” “Why, yes,” he answered, as tho’ the matter of little moment, “I sup­ pose I would.” He about the method, used. “Why, yes, I he repeated, “Clio my being with you.” Clio. Judith wanted to the word. It beat like a toc­ her brain. Chester reached touch the letter, secure be- Professional Cards -j, “Yes.” 'This is an official of the State Prism calling. Your father is very ill. The Warden think3 you should come to see him at once. He Is in the hospital. We will admit you any time you can get here. Do you hear me?" “Yes. I will come at once.” She broke the connection, lifted the receiver again, called a number. “Spencer? This is Judith. you loan me your car “Yes. Do you want you seine place?” “No. you bring “As soon as I dith.” She had never head. She put on sent Gilbert a telegram, me at the apartment. I will be back by evening at the latest. No one is with me. Judith.” Spencer came. He asked no ques­ tions. One look at her face told him she was far away. She slid under the wheel, leaned out. “Spencer.” “Yes, Judith.” “Sometimes, later on think ol’ this. When I -was in trouble, ter­ rible trouble, you were the first per­ son I thought of, the person I ask­ ed to help me. Will you remember that, Spencer?” “Yes. Judith. Always.’” ’ » She smiled at him, the smile. “Always?” she said, long, long time always is.” Then she was gone. watched his car moving him. tnent. His hands tightened. His mouth was grim. He didn’t know what had happened. He trusted her. He knew without knowing how he knew that this errand of hers had nothing to do with Gilbert Saunders Spencer tuined away. In the morn­ ing he had work of his own to do. strangest “what a Spencer away from He looked up at the apart- His hands tightened. had no curiosity the means to be could come now,’ wouldn’t mind He’d come with her She with Por- Jen- Its Made r use of our charge GLADMAN & STANBU BARRISTERS, SOI^CI Money to Loan, Iqj Insur Safe-deposit Vauli^ Clients without EXETER and HENS S, &o NTS, CARLING & MORL BARRISTERS, LOANS, IN INSUI Office; Carling Block, Minin Streep EXETER, ONT. have been employed at Grand Bend have returned to their homes here, as the season has closed. Reports say there has been a large number of touiists this year. We regret to report Miss Annie McGregor is very ill in London Hos­ pital. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kearns, son and daughter, of Detroit, were the guests with Mr. and Mrs. A. Gollen over the holiday. Donald McGregor is employed at the J. M. Gibbs Co., Parkhill. Schools opened last week Misses Gagen, Kleinstiver and tice in charge again. Miss Edith Taylor, Miss M. nison and Mrs. R. Webb, of Grand Bend, spent Friday evening with Miss Mae Wilson. We omitted the names of Miss Helen McGregor and Mabel Harlton from the list of High School students last week. Mr. Claude Fallis, Miss Muriel Fallis and Miss Hutchinson spent the week-end with Mrs. Lloyd Bro- pliey. Edison Pollock and Bruce Steep­ er spent a vacation in Detroit and other points in Michigan last week. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Behr, of Michigan, spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Curts Miss Doris Hicks visited friends in London over the week-end. Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Hutchinson have returned to their home in Park­ hill after a visit with relatives Mrs. W. Young is a guest her sisters in Windor. Mrs. John Pollock with her sister Mrs. Brussels. Mr. Claude Fallis iel Fallis have returned from a vaca­ tion in Ontario, Calif. Mrs. J. H. McGregor the flu last week but is Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Arva, spent Sunday with Mr. Mrs. J. Romphf. Miss Elaine Oliver nurse-in-train­ ing in Victoria Hospital, has been a guest with the past three weeks, London on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Clio, scream sin in up to neath his pillow, and at the look on his face Judith’s heart softened. She couldn’t understand. She’d never un­ derstand. But Chester was at peace. He’d not resist her efforts to get his release now. when the pardon was ready. told him goodbye, went out of that grim place, got into Spencer's car. A guard spoke to her sympathe­ tically, “You look tired, Miss, Hadn't you better rest a bit before you start driving.” “No.” said Judith, “I have to get back.” Dr. G. F. Roulston, L.D.$ DENTIST^ Office; Cariinjfl^lock EXET """ Closed Wednesday Afternoons .....................-.--.......,4 Dr. H. H. COWEN, L.D.S.,D^S. will do what I did . . . marry without love. A Warning “Don’t Judith. Stay single. Be poor. Work, suffer. Do anything, but turn aside for love. Theie isn't one single, possible, situation that ever justifies a loveless marriage, not one. It’s been hell for Chester as well as for me. It would be hell for any man you might marry, even if he thought he would die without you. Again. I don’t know why I write like this to you. I feel hurried, as though I must •write, send it to you quickly, wain you. “Perhaps we are closer than know. Perhaps some intuition guiding me now. Whatever it there can be no harm done in writing this, perhaps some good, have a message for Chester, will take it to him, let him read this letter if you think best. He will un­ derstand it, better even than you do, I think. “But tell him this for me. With every breath I draw I am grateful to him. Every unhappy moment we knew together is blotted out by what I have now. I am sorry to my soul for his unhappiness. I don’t know why a man, so good as Ches­ ter is, should suffer as he has suf­ fered. I am soiry for it. But always he said he wished me to be happy. I am happy now. I think it bring him peace to know’ that. “That’s all Judith, is a very terrible letter, 1 be written. I ■write it ditli. Suffer anything, never, never marry any not love, who does not wish I could write it in blood for you. I believe, Judith, I know the truth of what I say.” The letter slipped from Judith’s hands to the floor. Horror seized her. She hated the letter. What frenzy had goaded Clio to write it? It was inhuman for one person to speak to another like that, burned gather name, letter. Chester. She picked them up carefully, ar­ ranged them on the table, lapping one sheet over the other to make a pattern. Pattern. The word clung in her mind. People made patterns of their lives. Her life, Judith’s was to follow was to love, a wrong. tions—Judith slipped to the floor, 'laid her head in her arms against a ' chair. I Without Love Chester loved me I marry him. I knew He kept after me. I CHAPTER XXI we is is my I You will thisI think but it had to again, Ju- but never, man you do . love you. I Anger in Judith. She stooped to up the sheets, saw Chester’s No. she couldn’t destroy the She had promised them to her mother’s pattern. She marry a man she did not man who loved her. Clio was There were times, situa- 31 ore Grief She didn’t suffer She waited there, all He was neat, | feeling suspended. She saw nothing, y. He was punctual, I was ’ heard nothing, felt nothing for a . He liked to be alone, long, long time. Then a sound, in- be quiet. I wanted cam- ’ sistent, not to be denied, called her I was hateful to ’ back. The telephone was ringing, monotonously, over and over our • over. She dragged herself to and the Dysentery Most Dangerou Of Bowel Complai/its Back Koine She never knew how she made it. Mile after mile sped past, the seemed to catch up with her. made every turn correctly, but did one strange thing. Late in afternoon she stopped the car looked out. She had driven to old home, the big house Chester built for Clio. It was empty. Judy sat; at the curb looking at it. She shed the first tears she had shed in weeks. They’ rolled rown her cheeks unheeded, and after a little she started the engine again and drove on. city She she the and her had here, with DENTAL SURGEON^ Successor to the late Dr. Office opposite^the Pc^Office, Main Street, Exeter Office 3 6w TeBp^ffes Res. 36J Closed Wednesday Afternoons ;insua the Prescetor to publicly.” good deal of scan- i to a of Mr. Steven’s brok- and any bookkeeping department Mr. Ste- headed that he may He looked again to depend on you to out­ lied pre­ oxy­ accep- Judith/ here.’ ” behind thin He ghost of a smile.n -watched. (Continued GREENWAY (Intended for last week.) The Y. P. U. of the United Church will hold their anniverary services next Sunday at 2.45 and 7.30 p.m. Mr. George Taylor of Wingham, president of the Huron Presbytery Y. P. U. will be the guest speaker. Rev. J. B. Moore B.A, and Rev. L. Lewin have returned from vaca­ tion and conducted services in their respective churches last Sunday af­ ternoon. The annual anniversary services in the United Church will be Sun­ day, October 11th and the Fowl Sup­ per October 15th. Last week Mrs. Carlton, of Pick­ ering, Mr. and Mrs. Crawford and babe representing four generations and Mr. and Mrs. J. Horner were guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. Young. The folk from the community who spent last M. England, of week and Miss Mur- was ill with recovering. Romphf, of and JOHN WAjRD CHIROPRACTIC, OS^'EOP ELECTRO-THERAPY^ VIOLET TREATMENTS PHONE 70 MAIN ST. London, relatives for returned to Curts and family enjoyed a pleasant outing at Grand Bend last Sunday -when they celebrated their fiftieth wedding an­ niversary of Mr. and Mrs. William Curts, of London. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Webb of St. Catherines, were week-end visitors with Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Webb. Miss Erma Goodhand was in Exe­ ter last week. 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But unless I can get it from you willingly’ as a private investigator, then I shall ask reopen the case “We’ve had a dal here.” “You will have more if what believe is true and you refuse help me.” The president sighed, pressed button, spoke to his secretary; ‘Miss Bennett this is Mr. Owen. Let him see our record erage account files from the vens formerly wish to see.” Spencer. “I’ll handle the affair a5 quietly as pos­ sible, whatever you find.” “I can promise you that,” Spencer replied, and went in the wake of the efficient Miss Foster. !Far up-State Judith waited side a -white screen. Chester collapsed at his work the day viously. They’ had given him gen. He would be conscious soon, they said, Meantime she must wait She sat on a hard chair. In her hand was Clio's letter. No one could tell her whether Chester would live or not. She felt as though a slow fire burned in her breast, con­ suming all the confusing factors in her life. There was movement behind the screen. An orderly took a tray’ with coffee back to the patient. Chester’s feeble voice, “Thank you.” The doctor’s, “Your daughter is here; would you like to see her?” “Judith? Yes.” There was no en­ thusiasm in the voice, just tance. "Suppose,” thought “the doctor had said, 'Clio is Presently she, too, went the screen, took her father’s hand, kissed the sunken cheek, smiled at her, the He said, "Little Judy The doctor -watched. “Quietly,” his lips formed the word. "Daddy,” Judith leaned close. "I have a letter—it came yesterday.’’ Effect of Clio’s Letter “From Clio?” His face was trans­ figured, his voice stronger, She put the letter in his hand. He did not try to read it at once. His fingers stroked the paper and suddenly, like a child, he fell asleep. "You’re a magician,” the doctor smiled at Judith. “He’ll sleep natu­ rally now for an hour or more, real relaxation. You may wait if you like I'll have some breakfast sent in to you.” “Will he.get well?” “Perhaps. He’ll get rate." “He should be out said. “Yes. And soon.” It was midmorning woke again. He read Clio's letter. He winced at none of it. At the end, reading over and over her message to him, he smiled contentedly. "This makes it worth while," he said to Judith. Strange. He made no comment on Clio’s warning to their daughter. All he saw, all that was significant to him was Clio’s word addressed to him. He put the letter under his pillow. "I think they'll let me keep I better, at any when Chester AND NEW FURNITU order, of ca- at the DASHWOOD PLANING MILL -----J DIED IN CLINTON By the death of William Ruby Counter, Clinton loses a much es­ teemed resident. His death occurr­ ed on Saturday afternoon after a long illness. Mr. Counter’s health had been poor for some years and he bad been confined to his bed for about five months. He was born In Simcoe in 1862.'W. R. Counter was in business in Seaforth for about 20 years and came to Clinton 31 years ago. 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