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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1938-06-16, Page 2THURSDAY', JUNE l«th, 1038 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE h> “AFRAID OF LOVE FREE From SCIATICA FOR 35 YEARS by Phyllis Moore Gallagher Tony slit that picture out, too, and grabbed a paste-pot and a fountain­ pen. With the others watching, fascinated, Tony went to work with the pen and the paste. Little bal­ loons went up from ‘the mouths -of the three .people in the illustration. They were named Lee Cavendish, patsy Warfield and Kitty Cavendish —-Patsy being like scantily clad girl in Lee’s arms, and Kitty the -woman with the revolver. He took the gos­ sip paragraph, pasted it below’ the illustration. Then laughing raucous­ ly, he hurried out front of his par­ lor and stuck his finished work of art on the wdndow, The men gathered around him, laughing, exohanging revolting jokes Some one said ‘ You better be careful Tony. You’re gonna get in trouble for this. Tony swung -round his face darkening, his fat hands fingering the glittering stilleto. “Oh, yah? Sez who?” “Break his “Go to it. on the dirty Tony’s face. teaching his head ar;und as though .o wring it from his shoulders. Al the toughs in the room backed away to i..e walls and stood there shout­ tig: “Kill ’im, Tony!’ damned neck, Tony!” Pony!” The two men rolled boards of the floor, hideous with hate, was beneath Lee’s His eyes showed murder, his mouth was drawn until the gums of his yellow teeth showed red and fiery, his one free hand sliding along his side. Ted cried: “Look out, Lee! He’s got a -knife! Suddenly, with the spring of a panther, Tony was on his feet, blood running slow and slimy over his dark face, mingling with the sweat. In a flash his stiletto was in his hand, glistening in the dim room. Ted made a lun.e, but not quickly enough, and Lee slumped to the floor with only the pearl hnadle of the stiletto showing in his shoulder, iTony, who was more powerfu than Ted, knocked the young lieutenant ba. kward against the plate-glass window. The g!a s gave way and Ted crashed throurh to the street, where he lay unconscious. A Hurry Chll After Ted went out of Patsy’s room, with little Oscar wagging his tail merrily and trailing behind him she lay there rigid for a moment, her eyes wide, refusing to shed the tears that lay back of them. She thought: “I won’t think about what .happened last night. I won’t think of Lee being courtmartialed. I won’t! .*er, chut her whole body had became .qu*u. She thought, “This must be ..ue dying. This awful .celing, this lightness, this choking .ad Ok .ng unable to move—-to even ..mk!” Somehow or other she managed to get into the car, Marcia behind her. Blindly she fumbled for the ignition, stepped on. the starter, whirled the little car -from under the portico. CWP'JLW IX sinking Naval Hospital Patsy learn- neither Ted nor Lee was wounded. Ted had severe Lee is Stabbed not fifteen minutes later and Ted passed the Hot the window and the little knot of gig­ gling men around it attracted then* attention. A frown appeared on Lee’s forehead and he stepped 'doser and looked at the drawing. Suddenly his face was livid, his jaw a band of steel, his fists clenched. He rip­ ped the picture down from the plate glass and stepped into the Parlor, Ted behind 'him. They stood there looking around the It was that Lee Dog Parlor. The picture on in the door __room. There was a"hushed expectancy. A glass Like lightning, Lee’s fist shot out . . . crushing the jaw of Tony. The latter tumbled to the floor At the ed that critically cuts, bruises and a sprained back, and Lee had only a superficial knife wound in the shoulder, Neither Tippy nor Grandfather would tell her what had happened and bright coins of annoyance burned on her cheeks. If the brawl hadn’t been oyer her, she reasoned, they would have told her all the details, Gtiindl'ather, T.ppy and Marcia vent into Ted’s room. Patsy opened Lee’s door. Lee was sitting up in bed, waiting, with one tanned arm half bare beneath his bandages. He .miled at her and she tvent over to him smiling too—just as if last night and all the unhappiness of to­ day had never been. She gave him her hand and said, lightly: “Aren't you ashamed! Fighting! Ted looks like an Egypt­ ian mummy all tied up! When are you two going to grow up?” But he felt her fingers, tense and cold, and knew that she was putting on a front. He said: “Patsy—” and his voice trembled. .She didn't mean to do it. Fol­ lowing the starcsily dressed nurse down the corridor, learning that Lee wasn’t badly hurt, that he would be dismissed from the hospital in an hour, she had promised herself that she would be gay and casual and re­ mote, That she’d let him know now that everything between them was all over. That the insuperable barriers between them were too great to bridge. But now she felt herself sliding to the floor, burying her face against his breast. She heard a soft, sob­ bing little voice which must be her own—“Oh, ILee—Lee!—If anything had happened to you! I love you so —oh, my darling!” Presently she was partly in con- roi of herself, sitting pale and a little shaken on the chair at the side of the bed. He took her hand in his and held it tightly. “Patsy, ran you ever forgive me for coming into your love—for causing all this trouble?” he asked. Again Fears Love He saw the blood rise under her smooth clear skin. “I should never have forgiven you if you he said. thought: him that than I’ve Ivory balls ceased to only sound now was grinding of one claw- tumbled off the counter and crashed on the floor, rattle. The the metallic machine. Lee said between clenched teeth: “Who—did—that?” No one spoke. He said again, the veins in his neck swelling to livid welts: “Who —did—that?” Tony came from behind the coun­ ter then, taking off »nis white apron. His face was gray and his black eyes and hair seemed like splashes of In­ dia ink against that starkness. He snarled: “I done it—so what?” Lee didn’t answer. Like lightning his fist stru..k out and Tony Fre- netti went backward over a wooden chair, groaning. He was stunned for a minute and lay there beneath the shattered wood, his eyes dilated, his head sagging. Lee waited while he clambered to his fee She got up then and dressed, re­ membering suddenly that she was to be in Washington al i o’clock to as­ sist at the debut tea of Lois Hughes, whose father had been stationed at Seattle when Commander Warfield was there. She didn’t want to. go, but doing things with her bands, seeing people might help to make her forget. She wondered then abou? the people she’d meet. They would ■have read the papers that morning, they’d think—Her small jaw be­ came determined. She’d go. She nothing to be ashamed of; nothing to hide. Driving did help and the tea was lovely wi‘h Autumn flowers banked against the walls and silver spark ling and a stringed orchestra play­ ing softly behind a screen of palms. Washington was surely the mos; colorful city socially in the world. There .had been diplomats at the tea Congressmen, Justices, the news­ hadn’t,” She meant it too, but she “This is no time to tell I’m more afraid of love ever been. That I’m going o ask Richard to marry me or get Cuur.ney Vallance to give me that scieen test. That I’m going away. I didn’t know before I came in here that I was going away. But I am. I wouldn’t stand being near Lee and not having him. I couldn’t think of Kitty being always between us.” “Lee, when is your court—or do you know yet?” she asked aloud. “A few days from now. The fast­ est one on record. Why?” “You aren’t going to plead guilty, are you? It isn’t like you to give up.” “Plow do you know that, Patsy— how do you really know what I’m (ike? I’m a little juzzling to my­ self these days.” Tne look in his blue eyes hurt her heart. She said sobbing: “Lee, don’t- please don’t blame yourself much. It wasn’t your fault—all mix-up- it was just—” She groping for an explanation. He said, stumbling a little tween words: “Patsy, you’re a darl­ ing. I’ll always love you. Remem­ ber that, no matter what happens— I'll always love you!” And he lifted w........... ...................then he swung - Senators, Congressmen, Justices, j into his face, hit a^ain. Tony, recov-' fa<ms one saw daily in the news-1 , her fin eriiv-- from the blow struck out and 1 pupm And no one had seemed to i ” 1 hand t olns lips, ki.-sed Iiei tin enn. fiom the blow, snuck out and4tn Wfdtftr J M-r-tips and knew, for the first time in twenty-four hours, relief. The touch of his lips on her fin­ gers flamed dowji through Patsy, warming her, frightening her. A more minutes with Lee and knew Bhe’d never be able to away—-She got up quickly bent down and kissed his month briefly, is going the tears Leo reeled bark against the marble •counter. His head hit one sharp corner and blood wet his temples and matted in his blond hair. For a second Lee fought against a crushing blindness. He staggered un- seeingly toward the weaving bulk of human flesh before him. As his head cleared he grappled with Tony and wrestled him to the floor, Nagging, Dragging Pains in Back Many women have to do their own housework, and the constant bending over, lifting, making beds, sweeping, ironing, sewing so necessary to per­ form their household duties puts a strain on the kidneys, and the back­ aches are undoubtedly caused by some derangement of the kidneys, for if there were no kidney weakness the back would be strong and well. Doan’s Kidney Pills help to give perfect relief and comfort to all weak, backache suffering women; and make their household duties a pleasure instead of a burden, * The T. Milburn Co., Ltd.', Toronto, Ont. ay any attention to Wally Walter’s story. When she reached the Three Tops a little after 7 o’clock her headache had ceased and things did not seem so black. Perhaps Kitty would divorce Lee after all; perhaps the Court would f*ncy. But when she door and Marcia the stairs, putting on her hat and coat as she ran. Patsy’s hand flew to her heart. “Marica, what earth?” Marcia had that wild eyes that was so much these days when things She said, running her flier, excitedly: “Grandfather and Tippy just call­ ed from the hospital. Ted and Lee Cavendish are there. Ted’s critical­ ly hurt and Lee has a dagger wound. Some kind of brawl in town. I didn’t get the details, ’ Oh-h-h-h hurry, Patsy!” Patsy wont dead white. F* that her legs had collapsed beneath part. recommend clem- went through the came flying down on look in her part of her upset her. words toge- She said: “Everything to be all right, darl- gathering on her cheeks. Quick Decision Once long ago Patsy remembered her father having said: “If you make up your mind, do what you plan quickly. Its usually best.’’ Her mother said: “You’re wrong, Carter. One should always sleep on one’s problems.” Patsy was torn now be­ tween these two exhumed opinions. (To be Continued) “The next war,” says the ex­ change, “will be with insects”. Well, I our memory of the last war is that She felt Insects played a mighty important A, “ """"....... Inperfect Health at 73— Thanhs to Kruschen Thirty-five years ago this septua- • larian wa» helpless with sciatica. ! en he heard of Kruschen. Since lut day, he has enjoyed perfect wealth. Here is his remarkable story: “Thirty-five years ago, I had a ,-vere attack of sciatica, and could ■careely move for about six weeks, .hen I started taking Kruschen— about half a teasroonful every morn­ ing in hot water. In a few weeks 1 d rid of the awful pain in my hips. [ have never had to consult a doctor in e, and am still in perfect health 13 years of age. which I can only attribute to taking Kruschen Salts evening morning.”—T.A. Most people grow old long before their time because they neglect one vital need of health, the need of in­ ternal cleanliness. Eventually, they tart Then, their lives, they start getting rid, every the healthy Kruschen habit, probably for the first time in day, of all waste matter from ‘he system. The result is renewed health and vigour. Ailments due to -logged systems vanish, youth re- torns and life becomes really worth living. 50 YEARS AGO June 21, 1888 The engineer of the proposed cut at Grand Bend was in town Tuesday. The work of excavation will not be commenced this year. The wool market has opened this year at 20c. per pound, already been around lambs at from $4 to $5 D. M. Buchanan, of passed his third year at Toronto University, to his university work he has a full year of theology in College. The thermometer registered the nineties for several days week. Hickey-Hurley -At I r i s*h t Church, on the 12th :nst., by Very Rev. Dean Murphy. Mr. Hickey of Brantford, to Maggie, daughter Buydrs haye purchasing a head. Exeter, has examination In addition taken Knox of Mr. Jos. Hurley, st Hibbert. A gun. club has been formed in Hensall with the following officers elected: president, Vice-President, G. Sec’y.-Treas., J. T. committee, Messrs. McArthur, Evans, of about 30. Mr. Donald Patterson, who has been sojourning in Marquette, Mich., for over a year, surprised his friends -n ‘Creditou by putting in an appear- a nee again. Messrs. Isaac A- Wilson and Willie Uleus, of Greenway, started for Stratford last Monday, where they are engaged for a week or two to play in the 32nd Battalion band. Robt. Patterson, of Rodgerville, died on Saturday last at the age of 82 years, James Betty; ,1st J, Sutherland; Wren; managing Hood, stoneman, McDonnel, Coad and There is a total membership Mr. R. G. Seldon is the represen­ tative to Grand Lodge at Ottawa from Lebanon Forest Lodge. The Isaak Walton Fishing Club drove to Grand Rend on Friday for the annual fishing contest. Mr. Jas. Beer won the prize by catching largest number of fish. the 15 YEARS AGQ June 3L 1933 Young Ladies’ Bible Class JJp Exeter {£itn?c--A&tHicutt Eevablished 187 3 and 1887 at Exeter, Ontario Published every Thursday mornin« SUBSCRIPTION—$2M per year in advance RATE'S—Farm or Real Estate tpr sale 50c. each insertion for first four insertions, 25c. each subse­ quent insertion, Miscellaneous ar­ ticles, To Rent, Wanted, Lost, ox Found lQc. per line of six word*, Reading notices 10c. per ljne. Card of Thanks 50 c. Legal ad­ vertising 1? and 8c, per line, I» Mem or jam, with one verse 50c, extra verses 25o, each. Member of The Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association The and the Comrades Bible Class of the James Street Church held a social evening. During the course of the evening Rev. M. J. Wilson and Mrs. Wilson received a presentation. They were presented with an ad­ dress and an electric floor lamp. Mr. W. Pomfret has taken over the duties as Express Agent at Exe-' ter succeeding Mr. W. 'Sims who re­ signed. Mr, W. D. Sanders returned Sat­ urday from the Algoma District where he spent the week addressing meetings in the interest of Mr. Hig­ gins the U. F. O. Candidate, Mr. Stuart Stanbury is attending the Gillwell Camp for Scoutmasters near Ottawa. Miss Georgina Taylor, of Chicago, is holidaying with her mother Mrs. M. Taylor, of Exeter North, for a few weeks. Professional Cards GLADMAN & STANBURY (F, W. Gladman) BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, &c Money to Loan, Investments Made Insurance Safe-deposit Vaults for ubg of our Clients without charge EXETER and HENSALL 25 YEARS AGO June 19, 1913 The hay crop does not give prom­ ise of even an average yield in this section. Every Indication is for1 the lightest crop to harvested in years. On Friday last the death occurr­ ed of Mr. David Uobbledic-k, who has conducted a general store in Exeter for the past eight years. Misses Wetherill and Edmunds, bf the Exeter teaching staff, have gone to Toronto to ass.it in the marking -f the departmental examination papers. The new system of buying eggs by the pound went into effect in Tor­ onto on June 2nd, How it -will work out remains to^ be seen. Mrs. Geo, Powell, of town, acci­ dentally fell while attending the household duties and broke a small bone in the wrist of her left arm. Misses Gladys Bissett, Winona Ho­ ward, Florence Hunter and Edna Follick took1 part in a recital given by Mr. Qharles Percy in London, on Tuesday evening. - No. 6 Company of Volunteers with Capt. Heainan, Lieut. Stanbury and Sergeant Harold Bissett in com­ mand joined the other companies of the 33rd Battalion at the station here and went into camp at London. Mr. Wes. C. Welsh went to Lon­ don on Monday and is now confined to St. Joseph’s Hospital undergoin treatment. THIEL—LANNIN 4 The marriage took place quietly at the home of the bride’s brother, Morley Lannin, Hibbert Township of Georgina, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Lannin, of Hibbert and Har­ old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Thiel, of Fullarton. Rev, L. Hussey, pastor of Main Street Church, Mit­ chell, officiated. They will reside in Fullarton. CARLING & MORLEY BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, Ao LOANS, INVESTMENTS, INSURANCE Office: Carling Block, Minin Stree* EXETER, ONT. Dr. G. F. Roulston, L.D.S.,D.D.S DENTIST Office: Carling Block EXETER, ONT. dosed Wednesday Afternoons F0ROjtf>TELS Dr. H. H. COWEN, L.D.S.,D.DS. DENTAL SURGEON Office opposite the Post Office, Main Street, Exeter Office 36w Telephones Res. 36J <,Closed Wednesday Afternoons own the up in this CH005CT PATES1 ♦1.50 / to 250 Phone 12 “Not r Irene: could lie be time?” Itrei!! first. 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