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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1937-02-11, Page 2THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1937 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE “REBEL BRIDE” BY VERA BRQWN ‘'Linda, I’ve come to the end.” His voice was dramatic. “You know I love you!” “Yes, Miklos.” “I have lost (faith. I thought you loved me. But the belief is over. Now I go." “Go?” “I am going to Vienna — to my summer (place there. It is useless to remain here.” iLinda spaced up and down the room. She did not want Miklos to leave her. “I won’t stay here longer, Linda, I have much to do in Vienna. I am going—tomorrow. Will you come?” CHAPTER XXH Linda did not go to Vienna with Miklos. He went the morning fol­ lowing his final appeal to her, risk­ ing all on the advice of Bertagon. And Linda was alone in Paris. Her mother "was in Maine. Jimmie on a trip to Alaska. Mimi was up in the mountains and Linda could not reach her by wire or telephone, although she tired. Even M. Ca|pi- tano had left for the holidays. In desperation Linda mooned about the .great city, unable to de­ cide what she wanted to do, She tried to reach Karl but he had gone to the country to visit his parents. M. Roget she could not face. /The days she could endure, but the nights drove her mad. With­ out realizing it, she drifted into the ha’bit of tabling extra highballs with hex’ dinner. (She hated the beauti­ ful apartment in which she lived. With the going of Miklos the crowd in which he traveled scattered for the mountains, the hills and the seashore. There was no more free entertainment. Linda would have followed 'but she could not endure the sight of them. Her piano had been closed for days. Then at last one morning there was a letter from Miglos, begging ■her to change her decision. "Go to M. Bertagnon. Then come to me here. It is beautiful. We shall be very hap>py.” He gave a glowing account of the old castle where he was stopping, of his friends, the glamours of Vienna. The ■ stationery on which he wrote was heavily crested. It would be nice being a Princess. A' real Princess. Linda, in these days had made sure Miklos’ title was im­ peccable, It was an old one, one of the oldest in his (Country! There w.as, not word from Keith, only the old gossip. Linda’s letter to Miklos was wav­ ering. He could see it. The day he received it he telephoned her at •her hotel. The next ten days went by with Linda in a state of panic. Miklos wrote her every day. He1 painted a marvelous picture of what their life would be, carrying on the old tra­ ditions of his house, rebuilding his Vienna estate. “I am not a rich man, Linda. Not as you are rich. But there is enough. You have love to see this old castle became again a .place of beauty. Its gardens are superb, al­ though they are in a bad state of neglect.” To which Linda replied: “Money­ makes no difference to me, Miklos. I have so much! But I am desiparate- ly lonely.” Afterward, looking back at it, the days in Paris alone seemed lost in a haze. Linda Acts Suddenly But it was Mimi’s letter from the mountains which finally pushed Lin­ da off the deep end, although Mimi had no idea of any such thing. “Now for the gossip, wrote Mimi. “Mary Lou wrote me that Keith is giving a great rush to a beautiful blonde; you know, I wrote you about her before. Well, Mary Lou says Jim­ mie think's he's serious afbout her. She works—now listen to this—in Morris’ office where Keith has been spending a lot of his time. No won- dei’ Keith had taken a sudden liking to the law profession! Amusing, isn’t it? Do Ou know anything about it? Let me 'klnow if you’ve heard any­ thing. Mary Lou says Iris seems to have passed out of the picture. And for heaven’s sake don’t let Mary Lou know I wrote you about all this.” Linda dropped the lettei’ to the floor. So that was it! All that afternoon Linda had been Kidney Weakness Responsible For a Lot of Suffering Your kidneys are literally sentinels of your health. They are the filters of your blood, there­ fore it is well to keep careful watch over them. If they fail to fully perform their function, body poisons are left in the blood and without their proper elimination good health is not possible. Doan’s Kidney Pills being a stimulant ditiretie, adt directly bn the kidneys and assist them in flushing away irritating body poisons. Give them a trial. sitting in the apartment toying to yead a French novel. Odette’s eye­ brows had gone up at the number of highballs her mistress had ordered. Linda sat down suddenly at her desk. Her hand trembled as she phrased a cable to Keith, She called Odette, sent it Ibefore She could change her mind. Then she threw herself on hex* bed and lay there until it was dark and Odette came back and tried to get hex* to get up for dinner. The next morning Linda telephon­ ed M. Bertagnon, .Her interview with him on this second occasion was vast­ ly different than it had been before, Bertagnon asked her to come foi’ luncheon with him and they went to an amusing little .place with tables set outside undei* awnings, a res­ taurant which the French liked and patornized., Together they talked over the table. “And Prince Miklos, he is a really important man in his own country?” 'Linda asked the question at last. “Of course! A fine family a great ! name and a great title. Yiou may be assured of that Madam!” And Ber­ tagnon spoke with conviction, re­ lieved that he could tell the truth. Fox* it was true. M. Bertagnon ask­ ed L'inda to stolp by his office to sign a few papers. It was all over Without a hitch and Bertagnon breath a siglx of relief. “You will want a deposit fox’ ex­ penses?” Linda asked, taking out hex* bankbook. “As you wish, Madam!” Linda took out her checkbook. She did not hesitate at the size of the sum he named. Out in the bright afternoon sun­ shine, Linda walked back toward hex* apartment. .She would wire Miklos she was coming to Vienna. Tomor­ row! Odette would 'be pactoinig. The tickets fox* the Oriental Express were ordered. It would be more comfort­ able driving through. But Linda wanted to get there, to Miklos, away from this city! Back in the apartment Odette handed hex’ a cable. It had just ar­ rived. It was from Keith. Linda’s heart skipped a beat. May­ be he would beg her to 'change her mind. But Keith had wired only: “The best .of luck and happiness always.” “So that’s over!” Linda. laughed hysterically. Hei’ first wedding anniversary! iShe’d spend it in Vienna, with Miklos, at his palace! This year. It seemed li'kie ten. “I feel ten years older!” Linda went and leaned ovei’ her dressing table. But somehow she ■could not see clearly the image in that mirror. Vaguely Linda wonder­ ed if she had changed so much. She asked Odette fox’ anothei’ drink. “I must wire Miklos.” ■ -Somehow she got the wire writ­ ten and off. But Miklos already knew. Bertagnon had -kept him post­ er. A Call From Mike Miklos telephoned hex’ immediately hex’ wire was relayed to him. “Come tonight. The train leaves at 8. Come! Then you will get in here at sunset tomorrow!” It was 5 o'clock, Linda called to Odette. “Are you packed?” “Yes, madam, all but what I can finish in a few minutes in the morn­ ing.” “We’re leaving tonight!” Linda said to the astonished maid. And Miklos said he would be wait­ ing for her. The next three hours were a mad dash. But Linda and hex’ maid got to the station in ample time. It would kill time, foi’ the ride would be long—twenty-two hours, and hot. As they came out into the station there (stood the train puffing away. “Oriental Express” >read the letters on the cars. The words seemed magic tn Lin­ da. That train was taking her into a new world. She’d come back to Paris for hex’ divorce. She felt she never wanted to see Paris again. Somehow it was spoiled foi’ her. She hated its soft twilight that even now bathed t'he prosaiic. station, the train bound for Istanbul in such a roman­ tic glow. “I’ve burned my bridges behind me!” Linda thought as she stepped onto the train and the porter found her apartment. Odette’s was next to her. The compartment was stiffling and to Linda it seemed as if it were going to squeeze in and crush her. Outside t'he blue smocked porters rushed about on last-minute er­ rands. A whistle sounded. Sudden­ ly the train was moving. She was off into her new lite! Odette had. settled Linda comfortably and was about to go onto her own compartment, whicHx was shared with another woman tra­ veller. “Don’t leave me!” begged Linda. “I can’t be alone.” “No, Madam.” Latex* Odette ordered dinner fox* Linda and fussed over ihex* as though she were a little igirl. The heat was intense, Odette got Linda into a white chiffon negligee, batlhed her forehead. Later the French girl read to hex’ mistress, trying to per­ suade Linda to sleep. But it was no use. “Odette, sometimes I’nx afraid!" “But, Madam! That is natural. You will be a stranigex* in a strange country; But you are an American Nothing can harm you.” “Nio, of icoux'se not.” Linda moved restlessly. Odette got Linda settled for the night, But she could not sleep. She lay looking out at tlhe flying countryside. Then 'at last she wept, wept desperately and with abandon. ■She was like a hysterical child. But the more she tried to reason with herself, t'he more desperate she became. iShe thought of jumping off the train, of throwing herself out the window. “Why did I do it?’ she repeated ovex* and iovei’ as the cai’ wheels rumbled on, carrying her farther and farther away from the Linda Laird who .had left hex* -home less than a year ago. Into Strange Lands Toward morning Linda fell into an exhausted slumber. When Odette came to awaken her, Linda opened her eyes on the lovely countryside of the Tyrol. Gleaming flowers, the ever-changing green of the valleys, the distant hills, the glittering lakes were beautiful beyond words. This wais a soft, lovable country; “I must not be afraid of it!” Linda thought as she raised herself on' an elbow to see a quaint winding road. All day Linda watched the quiet old villages clutching to the moun­ tainsides, the peasants toiling in the tiny fields cut out of a fertile valley. And s'he wais ha|p(py. Hei* fears were gone. Why had she been sc desper­ ate last night? “Just my nerves and too many highballs!” When lunchtime came Linda took no wine with her dinner. “I’m beginning all over again!” Linda proxnised herself as the Ori­ ental Express carried hex’ on to Vien­ na and Miklos. CHAPTER XXIII The train puffed into' the great bahnof at Vienna. A .clatter of stran­ ge tongues, German, French, Rus­ sian and that amazing language, Hungarian. Linda, trembling, clung close to Odette, who tried to talk to the por­ ter in her stumbling German; Then suddenly there was Miklos, hand­ some as ever, bolding 'hex’ hands, kissing them one after the other, and sputtering in that queer tongue. He lasped to English, to French, to Viennese in a confusing way. “Linda, mien liber kind!” He looked down into1 her glowing face. She did not see that his eyes sought eagerly the jewel case which Odette was carrying so carefully. “Now everything is all xig'ht, yes?” He laughed softly, “Gome, Hilda is in my car! She is my cousin! Castle Edeleiss is her home! Come! In grand ipro’cession they went out of the great dark station. In a large limousine with the top down waited Hilda, buxom, blonde, friendly. She chattered to Linda in German ear thusiastically, utterly disregarding Miklos’ announcement that Linda understood no German. Old Vienna Then 'began the drive through the old city. And Linda, sitting back in the car, was perfectly happy. She liked the way the soldiers they pass­ ed saluted Miklos, the way people bowed to him. He was a (personage here certainly. But she had been sure of that! “The castle, Linda darling. You will find it sadly in need of repair, Ibut you will ilove it, for you under­ stand. it has been very unhappy for me and for my people since the war!’ Miklos saluted a passing officer as a company of soldiers were marching along the ring. Ahead of them was a 'bugle coijps. How 'handsome Mik­ los would be in uniform! Perhaps he would wear one, one day, fox’ her. It was almost an hour’s drive out into the hills to Edelweiss. And a beautiful drive it was. If the roads were rough and narrow, Linda no­ ticed them not at all. Finally the manor house loomed up on a hilltop bathed in tlhe sunset. Its towers, its clinging ivy, made a beautiful pic­ ture. “It is wonderful, Miklos!” “Yes, but very sad.” “I shall ibe haippy hero!” Linda declared. “I hoipo that you may be!” When the car (pulled up before the great entrance the servants were Exeter Horticultural Society MEMBERS ARE ENTITLED TO TWO CHOICES Choice 1—'New Korean Hybrid Chrysanthemum Plant Apollo (salmon) or Ceres (yellow) or Mercury (salmon-red) or Diana (pinta) ex’ Mars (deep-red) ox* Daphne (lilac-rose.) Choice 2'—{Hybrid 'Rose—Charles P. Killxam ’(red) or Radiance (xiose-ipink) or Rev. Page Roberts ('bronze) or Margaret M'cGredy (carmine) Choice 3— 1 Climbing Rose—Amercian Beauty (rose-pink) or Breeze Hill (flesh, tinted apricot) MEMBERS Choice 4—(Year’s Subscription to Canadian Horticulture and Home Magazine. Choice 5—12 Gladiolus Bulbs—IHalley (salmon-ipink) A. W. 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And she was a lovely picture in her soft tan travelling frock and tiny matching hat pulled dawn over hex* blonde hair. Hilda lea Linda inside the great hall. It was dark and gloomy. Al- bout as musty tapestries, fine needle point, heavy, towering furniture. There in the dim light Linda could not see how faded were the chair co­ verings, nor the holes in wall hang­ ings. B'ut it did not matter. Hilda went with Linda and Odette to t'he quar­ ters flor the iguests. In the high vault­ ed room, Linda ran first to the win­ dows. They gave out ovex* the val­ ley and way down below, faintly, Linda could see a ribbon of a river winding its way across the plain. (To be Continued) Indulge in your favorite Summer sport —all Winter—in the balmy, invigorat­ ing climate of Canada’s Evergreen Play­ ground. Golf? hiking, riding motoring; yachting, tennis . . . enjoy majestic mountain scenery—see snow-clad Canadian Rockies en route. Special Winter rates at hotels. 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