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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1938-01-06, Page 2THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, ioa«THE EXETERTIMES-ADVOCATE iiij .irr-i Mother— the car door out eagerly, the* walk and WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE Basil Norton has escorted Merry Millington to a roadhouse fifteen miles out. There he and his friends, Viola Wiess and Frank Searponi, imbibe too freely. Merry meets Worth Hunter, famous foot­ ball star there, but to her dismay he leaves with Sue Williams, and Basil, intoxicated, drives into se­ dan, denting a fender on each cal' In the furious argument between Basil and the occupants of the other car, Basil is shot and thrown back into his car. Merry, alone in the middle of the night with a dying man, is relieved when a State policeman arrives. However, .circumstances are such that he takes her along p;et. freer, not wanting leaves his own car sil’s with Merry in Suddenly rounding discover a car crossway of the road. The man in it, keeping well out of sight, asks for gaso­ line. with them. agrees and discovers himself look­ ing into the barrel of a six-shoot­ er. n o ti I mdster’s motor. “I couldn’t get you .it of my mind. I knew this Ncr- n wasn’t in any shape to drive. So planned all this for1 him.” “But—-even your var is different/ she marveled. “Sure. I borrowed it because 1 was afraid he’d recognize mine. And turned up the license plates so I couldn’t owns it stage a 1111 Cl IllS She straightened suddenly. “He’s dead! Somebody shot him!” “Who’s dead?" He spoke quickly with a sharp intake of breath. “Basil!” she said, and told hastily all that had happened. Quick Thinking And while she told him, she his jaw set and his young handsome “Sure. All I got was that you wer in some trouble. I saw Noltoms white shirt front, he was dead drunk-—and of brawl/1 “Oh,” Merry shivered, gled closer. It was still still too blood on , I thought some kind She snug- incredible awful to fully realize, possibly get the kid that in trouble. I was going to fake hold-up and take you key away from him—” Hex’ Reputation at first 1 thought that The officer would him Established 1873-and 1887 at Exeter, Ontario published every Thursday morpinp, SUBSCRIPTION—$2.00 per year In advance RATES—Farm or Real Estate for sale 50c, each four insertions, quent insertion, ficleg, To Rent, Found 10c. per Reading noJces Card of Thanks vertising 12 and Memoriam, with extra verses 25c, Member of The Canadian Weeklj Newspaper Association Rome Worth was holding open. She stepped They ran together up .paused on the tiny red brick stoop of the white, English cottage. Worth glanced back toward the parked roadster nervously. “I’ve (got to hurry and get it in the garage,” he said. And Merry, eager to see Mother, felt suddenly loath to let him go— inexplicably us if a part of herself were leaving with the handsome young god who had rescued her from this night, She looked up, her eyes bright with unshed tears, “Thank you is— so little to say/’ He took both her hands and draw­ ing her toward him, enfolded her. And their lips met for a brief mo­ ment of utter bliss, a moment of forgetfulness there in the light of the lowering oon, a moment when everything that had happened seem­ ed worth this fleeting ecstasy. Sim­ ultaneously they drew’ apart • and . T7E JFb 301 is delicious insertion for first 25c, each/subset. .Miscellaneous ar* Wanted, Lost, or line of six words 10c, 50c. 8e. pet line, ope verse each. per lipe. Legal ad« In 50c Found Merry wasn’t even aware that her small feet werO* tracing and retrac­ ing- a little path across Mother’s imitation Oriental rug, that she was moving about frenziedly like a small caged animal. She was hardly aware that in one corner of her mind she was listening for sounds about the deserted house, straining her ears nervously for a police siren, for a 1 murderer who might have followed a little abashed she turned toward her> how she di(i not iqiow, the door. . Suddenly she stopped short. There “Good-ibye!” she whispered. ( I was a sound! incredulously she forc- “Good-bye!” T~ ' ' ' steps, his eyes eloquent, and, turn­ ing, hurried to the car. Merry opened the door softly. “Mom!” se called. “Mom!” A soft light from a floor lamp the living room showed her the em- ’ pty hall, the vacant room. “Mom!” She slipped back to .her mother’s bedroom, relieved at the thought that, after all, Mom had not waited. iShe had finally gone to sleep'But her mother’s bedroom was' empty, In the kitchen? Merry sped quickly. The kitchen was s ” * and empty. | And as Merry went from one rooni ’ to the other calling her mother she became more and more alarmed. They were all empty. • But she couldn’t give up, Mother must be here! She looked in the basement, called at the door of the attic, peered out into the wan light of the backyard, straining her eyes 1 over each enigmatic shadow. j The neighbor’s .houses were dark ! and quiet, too. Mother wouldn’t be j in any of them. At fifteen minutes until four in the morning, where was she? John Professional CardsHensail Library Fiction was get how you “Well, all right. you home. Then I remembered it is with police. Might get mixed up in a scandal- especially if he were badly hurt/ “You thought you were saving my reputation," Merry said wonder- ingly, IHe had done that for her, He turned abruptly at the first corner and was silent a moment as I he steered the roadster in and out and down seldom-used streets. | “One blessing about driving a black ford roadster," he said finally, I thought as a murder sus- Basil has died and the ot­ to move him, and drives Ba­the front seat J face became determined. The road- U1U<1V Wl.u stuu iUUUi, t theyister shot ahead and at a branch ot | but Ue fl.QWU Qf WQn.y had not left Hoine- for Christinas Pinkney’s Garden Swift Waters A City of Bells New Wine at Cock-Crow The Crooked Furrow Ruebin Galleries A Lantern in Her Hand The Hrail of the Conestogasaw Douglas Bell Parmenter Goudge Ellis Farrol Tarkington Aldrich GLADMAN & STANBURY BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, <Sto Money to Loan, Investments Made Insurance Safe-deposit Vaults for use of out Clients without charge EXETER and HEN SALL a bend, That denied, asks to ride The officer finally He backed down the e(| herself to listen. Footsteps! Ainnupnt- anri. turn- jjei, feet ^ecanle leaden aqd para- j lyzed. Footsteps coming toward iher j She couldn’t move. (To be continued) CARLING & MORLEY BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, &c LOANS, INVESTMENT'S, ; INSURANCE Office: Carling Block, Mjain Street EXETER. ONT. 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We’re iu real trouble, now,” | He stopped long enough to drop the. license plates, to throw the key he had taken from the wcods. “That explans ed." “W’hat shot?” “The one that ter we started. The cop must have used the gun that shot Norton. Oh, boy!” he settled back under the i wheel and shook his head gloomily. “WeTe in real trouble now— a murder!” In the little roadster they bumped carefully down the miles to the river road. to walk own car. back Then his face, “the town is full of ’em and the police don’t know what number J hope—” I But there were many things which j neither Worth nor Merry could fore­ see in the mysterious working of a “ I great police force. CHAPTER VII in Tested Recipes was fired at us af- His Intention There was a quality in his voice I which made Merry stop sobbing. j Basil’s car far into What of the Future the Hight burning in the he said, my fog she and had know!” scared. switched off their Worth sounded And Merry felt together in the two frightened from Thought I’d recognize the man i- lights. a police car?” Merry GO ON WITH THE STORY But with handkerchief to her eyes Merry was sobbing softly. Why should she look at him. And she shivered with terror as she felt his hand pulling on her wrist. With all the strength she had left, she re­ sisted the pull, keeping her eyes covered in sheer dread. His hand relaxed. “—iDon’t be* afraid,” he begged. 1 As Merry gave Worth her address the thought of returning brought back visions of home, of Mother there alone, waiting and John work­ ing. She had promised to be there at 1. It was nearer 4 o’clock. What would Mother he doing? Poor, tired Mother! “Listen." Worth was saying “there is just one thing to remember if we get there safely. The police don’t know your name. They don’t know my name, They didn’t see my face. They’ll be sure to try to lunk us with Norton’s killing. We’ll just sit tight. No need to worry about the des­ sert problem for the holiday festivi­ ties. In fact there is no problem when such a delicious dessert as ice silent . cream iS so readily available. Even plain ice cream, which is sold in a variety of flavours, as­ sumes a festive air when served as ” ) suggested by the Milk Utilization Service, Dominion Department of ' Agriculture. t Dr. G. F. RouIston, L.D.S.,D.D.S DENTIST Office: Carling Block EXETER, ONT. dosed Wednesday Afternoons might know. Calling For John fingers that fumbled in their she dialed the garage C--"' tSl /.j 'MBWh'S Merry shivered. She snuggled closer. It was still incredible, still too awful to fully realize “What are you going to do?” she asked and her voice, small and me­ tallic, convinced her this was a dream. “Do?” He was laughing! “Take you home if you’ll tell me where you live!” Take .her home? T’hen—why? But no! A bandit wouldn’t hold up a ■car to take some one in it home! It was crazy! It was impossible — like everything had been tonight! Merry looked up. And at the sight of his face her eyes widened. No, it couldn’t be. But he had slowed down enough to squeeze her hand reassuringly, to smile apologetically and even, by the dim dash light she knew she couldn’t be mistaken. He was Worth Hunter young law student, the fam- our' football star she had mistaken for a waiter at Palm Gardens. For a moment she stared and then with a little shivering sob she drop­ per her head against his shoulders, clung to his arm, bright tears com* ing buck perilously close to her lashes. “Qih!” she murmured and felt the reassuring pressure of his arm about her. “I left Miss Williams as quickly as I could,” he explained, and there was no sound about them but his voice and the purr of the little Relieve Weak, Lame and Aching Backs jffe Get Qoan^s “But we didn’t have anything to do with it!” Merry protested and in her relief at being with Worth, she found it hard to realize that she was a fugitive from law—that in a few minutes from all points of the city, police cars would dart out into the night in search of her—of her, in a yellow evening dress and very droopy ^orchids; in search of a young man in a black roadster with whom she would be riding, and who might be an accomplice in the murder of Basil Norton. ' But Worth Hunter knew it— Worth, who had studied criminal law, who had sat beside his famous father through trials, through con­ victions— “Maybe I’ve made it worse by getting you,” he murmured. “But I— “How did you ever find me?” Merry asked suddenly and the strength of his bronze face, the de­ termination in his clear eyes made her feel suddenly safe because was with him, suddenly warm friendly and thrilled that he done this for her. “It wasn’t ’hard. I came cut main road, thought I might have to rescue you fi-om him anywhere along the way. car in time because a 'drunk would 'be at the wheel/’ “Yes, but we didn’t—*4” “You didn’t go on that road/ 1 stopped at Palm Gardens long enough to make Sute you’d left, and then I came down the only other way to town/’ “I see/’ They had swung Out on the river road now and with the city lights ahead only a few blocks. From there they could lose them­ selves in a maze of streets. “A*nd then I saw you,” “Did you see me playing light on the hat?” r.ZOT f tri..-, 1’ 1 ly,, 1 A bright light from a car behind shone suddenly upon them. Worth turned a corner abuptly, again sped around the block, came back on the same street, Somewhere they had lost the car “Was it breathed. “I don’t young and they were .huddled little roadster like children, two children fleeing the 'police. “Yet we haven’t done a thing,” she murmured, and Worth, looking down at her for a moment, had a fleeting memory of something, he had heard his father say; Youth pro­ testing against life—'idealistic youth .In that brief iglance he had al­ lowed himself to take from the street ahead the image of her wag etched on his mind—'fragile young loveli­ ness depending on him. With im­ pulsive tenderness, he touched her hand, squeezed it briefly, 'resasSur- ingly. The reply, Half formed in his mind, “Dm afraid we have done something. I have, holding up a police officer, taking a murder sus­ pect away from him,” remained un­ spoken. The streets were very quiet and empty out here among neat rows of Well-kept houses, houses that like respectable grandmothers seemed to offer sheltei4 and quiet. Worth turn­ ed abruptly to avoid meeting the only car for blocks, and with a great sigh of relief, own lights at the cottage u Merry pointed out, There was a living tooin. Merry could have Wept thinking of Mother waiting there*— growing more and hiore antique as the night crept on velvet khees to­ ward dawn, Her daughter had broken With impatience, and waited interminably .listening to the low buzz of the phone. Final­ ly a. .gruff voice answered. “Jahn?” she breathed. It was good to be talk-fng>to John—good to hear the voice of anyone t-hat was close to Mother. The voice hesitated momentarily. “This ain’t John,” it said. ■Oh! .She didn’t know they had two on duty nights. “May I speak to John Millington, please?” She tried to control her voice, make it sound natural and calm, though her heart, swollen and multipled ameba-like, was beating in her ‘..ears, in .her mouth. i “Well'—he ain’t here.”“Not there?" Not there! Futility | tugged .at her throat, left it dry, tor- ' tured. “Wasn’t this his Baked Alaska 1 qt brick, ice cream Layer of sponge cake 1 in. thick 4 egg whites 6 tablespoons fruit or icing sugar Cc-ver a board with paper and place cake in centre. Unmould ice cream on cake, leaving about T in. of cake extending beyond brick bn all sides. Cover ice cream and cake with mer­ ingue of whites of eggs and sugar. Brown quickly in hot oven (450 de­ gree ,F.) Slip from paper on serv­ ing dish and serve at once. Meringue may be sprinkled with shredded co- j coanut before .browning. i 2 Chocoftite Sauce oz. (squares) unsweetened chocolate ■cup cold water cups sugar 1 2 Pinch of salt 2 tablespoons butter j 2 teaspoons’ vanilla Melt chocolate in water. Add sugar ’’ and salt and stir until- sugar is dis­ solved. Cook 5 minutes. Add but­ ter and vanilla. Serve hot. Meringue Glacees with Ice Cream 4 egg whites i teaspoon vanilla’ 1% cups fruit or fipe granulated sugar_L !L1_ 1.L night to work?” •“Yeah, it was, but—'See, life’s not g6at egg whites until very stiff. Add j two-thirds of sugar very gradually, I and continue beating until mixture * will hold its shape. Add flavoring here.” “Why? Where “,I don’t know. He didn’t tell me. .See. He called me ’bout an hour (then fold in remaining -sugar. Shape ago, and said somepin had happen- 1 with spoon >or pastry bag and tube ed at home-. iHe had to go, iSaid would on wet board covered with I come down and relieve him.” | “Oh!” (Merry voice was almost ghees F.) about 50 minutes. ina-Ujiible, hut she clung to the I phone, loath to release this one con- I tae+ <<'Vr>n art uAir atmf’ she asked, her voice far away, hope- , less, -the risorganized, chaotic little ‘ drums of her heart almost deafening j her. j “Nc. See. it took me a while to git woke up an’ dressed an’ git down here. He ain't been gone so long, Whyn’t you call up his home, lady, if yo.u want to talk to him-” “I——” Merry silenced herself in time to" keep back the answer. “I am at his house/’ “All right. Thank you,” she said intead. And she held the phone a while helplessly. Then Mother had worried so,, much , she had phoned John. She and John- had gone to. look for her! It was aw-j n __ full Would they go out to Pa1/11 (salt, and sprinkle lightly with cook- Gardens? Maybe they would find the - - stranded police and Basil . . Merry sat dry-eyed, picking ab- (has Tost its watery colour and no sently at the frayed orchids, tear-. juice escapes when the slices are pierced with a knitting needle. The length of cooking, time required de^ pends on the thickness of the fish; not more than ten minutes in a hot oven is needed' for a piece of fish an inch thick,. Over-cooking“ is the most common mistake in fish cook­ ery. Canadian Fish: Foods, rich in nlouidshment and health-giving sub­ stances, are unexcelled anywhere is he?” . LZ1X WV5U M, bWIVlUU. VYAVA.1 j Bake in a very slow oven (2'50 de- * I if tact. “You say he left an ho*ur ago?’ Mrs. Fisher Suggests Robinson of England History of the Canadian Lane McClung Drinkiwater Pacific Gibbons Haliburton GO'dsell Seven League Boots Arctic Trader 10,000 Leagues Over the Sea ■Robinson Juvenile By tihe Light of th.9 Study L.amp . Keene Keene Keene Porter Porter Porter White The Clue in the Diary The Secret Stair Case Miss Billy Miss Billy Married Miss Billy’s Decision Adventures of Bobby Orde Raggedy Anne’s Magical Wish Gruelle Raggedy Anne’s Wishing Pebble • Gruelle Sunbonnet Babies in Mother Goose Laud - Grover Sunbonnet Babies ABQ Book Grover Wide-Awake Rhymes Fo.hr Little Kittens Wilhilimina’s Wish Little Ph-illippe of Belgium Brandeis The Dutch Twins Perkins Patsy Anne and Her " Happy Times King Ting Ling and Me Too' Keto Herring Frees Wilson FOR DINNER— Canadian Oven-fried Fish Using fillets or steaks ,of any de­ sired kind ’of Canadian fish, wipe each piece carefully with a damp cloth- wrung, out in cold salt water; Dip each ipiece in egg, beaten slight­ ly with a tablesipoon of cold water, c-r in salted milk. Toss the fish in­ to a pan or bowl of finely-sifted, dry bread crumbs, coating each, piece of fish with-the crumbs. -(Use one .hand for dipping, the fish in the liquid and the other flor Working with the crumbs.) Place the pieces .of fish oh a greased baking pap, add ing oil. Leave the fish in a hot oven*—500 degrees far.—until Ut I ing them bit by bit, dropping them—* bruised blotches on* the pastel dress. She mustn’t phone Worth Hunter.4 She mustn’t. But what could sihef do? Suddenly (Merry crumpled a. whole orchid in her tense fingers, dropped it to the flooi’ and rushed frantically to tihe front window. The moon was low on the western hrizon now and a faint, eerie light rimmed the east, 'there was no sigh of course, of Mother or John and the night still haribdred menacing shadows. Wouldn’t Mother go to the police? Wasn’t that what one did when one Worried about Some ohe? Merry cringed, picturing Mother and John describing her. “Dlonde, Eighteen, wur.a uawu. tier uaug-urer u«u utun.ox* , Wore d yOllOW formal. Went to the a promise. Regret staged at Merry’s Balm Gardens—-*” conscience, tore at her heart. iShe! And the police; “That fits the must hurry—hurry and explain, Mo* girl we’re looking for, sb^ wore a the” had b44*1’ .iboiyf bush, vellnw dw* *»• " Canada Sends Christinas Trees To, The United States Besides suppyling her own needs of upwards of 1,000,’000 Christmas trees, Canada sends more than three times that amount every year to the United States. Five years ago the number of Christmas. Trees 'exported from Canada to the United .States was l,920;443, valued at $175,'0)89, but since that time the demand has more than duplicated. In 193'5 the shipments of Christmas trees total­ led 3,57-3,1642, valued at $364,|li3'5; in 1936 more than 3,500,0’09 trees were dispatched, and this Christmas the demand showed no diminution. Chain store® in New York. and other large centres in the United States' do a .bigi trade in Canadian Christmas trees; the- trees favoured by 'the trade being as per ’ specification, “7 to 9 feet in height, packed in bundles of three, and trees 6 to 7 Leet in height, packed, in bundles’of four, the trees to be folly branched double needle balsam/” FARMERS ATTENTION WE REMOVE DEAD HORSES AND CATTLE Cail us for prompt sendee. Our Men Win Sheet old and Disabled,Animals ONTARIO TALLOW CO. EXETER. TELEPHONE COLLECT—EXETER 335 ONTARIO Dr. H. H. COWEN, L.D.S.,D.DS, DENTAL SURGEON Office opposite the Post Office, Main Street, Exeter Office 36w Telephones Res. 3Gj Closed Wednesday Afternoons ■* ARTHUR WEBER LICENSED AUCTIONEER For Huron and Middlesex FARM SALES A SPECIALTY PRICES REASONABLE SATISFACTION GUARANTEED Phone 57-13 Dashwood IL R. No. 1, DASHWOOD FRANK TAYLOR LICENSED. AUCTIONEER For Huron and Middlesex FARM SALES A SPECIALTY Prices Reasonable and Satisfaction Guaranteed EXETER 1*. 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