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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1938-07-21, Page 61'WDAY, J VI^Y 21 st, 193«THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE “AFRAID OF LOVE” by Phyllis Moore Gallagher “Oh, I don’t believe you! A Navy girl like you! I bet you couldn’t have kept Ted and Virginia and your grandfather home. X bet they’ll make plenty of whoopee tonight, all right.’ Patsy thought: “She’s wondering about Tippy and can’t bring herself even to mention his name. But she’s dying to. hear about him.” Aloud she said: “Ted and Virginia are flying back tonight if Navy loses. Tippy, too, I think. Grandfather is staying over with friends, no mt it ter what happens." “Oh,” said Charlotte, her little crimson mouth a round O. Patsy saw the color that burned in 'her cheeks. She thought, sympathetically, “She shouldn’t look so thrilled. Navy might win, despite this foul day. And Tippy hasn’t asked her for a date in weeks. I doubt if he ever calls again.” Finally luncheon was over the current news of Annapolis been exhausted, go, and Charlotte the door. must as if if he love her Patsy got followed and had up to her to Face to Face I so utterly precious—untouched— I Being in love with her was the sweet- I est thing in his life even it he stand there before her and act | she was nothing to him, even must protest her against his which could bring no happiness now. Kitty .probably wouldn't divorce him, though he couldn’t understand it. And if she did, what had he to offer Patsy—a man kicked out of the navy and ■under suspicion for trying to murder hie wife, a smash ed reputation—no future. No. he couldn't tell her .he was in Annapolis now to see Kitty, to plead with her once more to give him a divorce. He couldn’t tell her he had selected this day because most of his navy friends would be in Philadel phia for the game, and the embar rassment of encountering them would be spared him. Nor could he bring himself to tell a job on have luck than York the were neg- She Said: “Oh, forgot! Guess who stairs this morning? lance! Premier Pictures is making that Navy picture The Yard, and I don’t know here. But if you ask me, almost drooled at never saw slowly to- Patsy, I registered down- Courtney Val- all thro’ over in why he’s X think it’s because of YOU! That night over at Virginia’s cockstail party, when you met him, he actually the mouth over you. I anything like it!” Patsy left and walked ward the staircase, conscious of the •cloud over her heart, just as thick and cold as the clouds outside, which she didn’t dare try to think through. •She turned down the next flight leading to the lobby, unshed tears blinding her a little. Suddenly her heart seemed to stop and she knew Lee's face that to stop.. For stood there on breathing, not speaking. by the whiteness of his too, had seemed a full minute they the landing, hardly CHAPTER XVI spoke both Patsy and eager to make casual that they interrupted When they Lee were so conversation each other. Patsy said: “I—-I'm so surprised finding you here on these stairs I—I just can't believe it’s you, Lee!” At the same time Lee said: ‘Think how nearly I came to taking the ele vator to my room! If I ihad, I should have missed you.” Patsy recovered slightly, though a little ipulse was pounding hard in her throat, did, Lee. And her and and betto smile. “Couldn’t be he said lightly. “I have a job newspaper in New York—avia column — and I have a little her he’d lied about having a newspaper—that he didn’t one and if had no better he’d already had in New prospects of finding ligible. He said; “I d<5nX mean, Patsy? What dodging?” Patsy’s laslies winked quickly. She thought: “He wants me to think he doesn’t care any more at all. I mustn’t make it hard for him.” She things to go alone, him up in New York when she was there so he could cook her one of those steaks and prove that re was not a downright liar over his culin ary talents. He didn’t offer to give her his ad dress and she didn’t ask him for it. He held out his hand and she laid her palm in it. “Then it’s good-bye, Lee?” she said as she looked up into his eyes, trying to read behind their blue gravity. He nodded, his young face sol emn. But Lee was no Victor Cald well who could clamp a lid on all his emotions and show nothing of what -he felt. She saw through his solemnity, down deep into his tor tured heart. She left him then and went out in to the dismal her roadster, she rode off 1 rain and sleet humble her poor bruised little pride and beg him to take her with him; to love her and keep her always. And she never knew that he stood at the window of Carvel Hall watch ing her golden-haired, light, swaying figure hurry away from ing until the small car sight. She never knew that cold comfort for him to know that he was man enough co let her go and that he loved her far too much to permit -her to throw her life away on him. pull out of it/’ Patsy swung around and faced him angriy. Her voice was hysterical “Then—then you don’t want to marry me? Is that It? Oh, Richard, Richard, I never though that you-—” She gave an odd« strained little laugh. “So you’re trying to make me be lieve that you wanted to marry me and that you still do! But when. I come to you, asking you, begging you—" Then all at once hei' voice broke on a choked sob. Richard took her gently in his arms, pressed her golden head against his shoulder and prayed for strength not to marry her now, not to take advantage of her like this. For a long time his lips were on her hair ai\d he waited pa tiently for the storm that raged in her to subside. She hadn’t confess ed just why she had come to him like this, but he was cure that she must have seen iLee again—that she was desperately afraid of love—her love for a married man. bring her more misery ever endured? Patsy said; “Hello, Nice to see you again. “Mr. Vallance is a casting directory Marcia, to hear me sing. Remember I told you about meeting him at Virginia’s cocktail .party in the early Fall? I have been, practicing every morning this month just hoping he’d not for got me and come back.” Then she went into the library to call Courtney Vallance. As she pick ed the telephone, gave his num ber and heard hts voice on the other end of the wire she had a strange feeling that she had taken some ir revocable step. He had beeu sitting he told her by the telephone waiting for her to ring him. She asked him to come out to Tree Tops and be said “Right-o J By the time you reach the front door I’ll be there! I'm that, anxious!” thau she had Dr, Proctor. ” And then: motion-picture He wants Call From Ted work what you Richard Asked Her to Wait know subject are we Patsy wgs calm, he lips near her ear: want to marry me from the Antarctic •there’s noth- CANADA’S BIRTH RATE DOWN CONTINUOUSLY FOR 17 YEAR'S said one or two irrelevant and then told him she had home because Marcia was Lee suggested that she look Finally, when said, softly, his “Patsy, if you when I return -—if you’re very sure- ing on earth that would make me happier. But don’t you see, dear, that I couldn’t let you do this on some wild impulse. I couldn’t let you do something you might regret afterwards. You see I love you. Patsy, and knowing always that I had only a part of your heart, that deep within it there was Lee—I will not take it. But when I retui'n if yoVre sure then, very sure—” “I’m sure now,” she said and her voice was muffled and low against his coat. But even if you won’t marry me tonight I’ll be sure of wanting to marry you—as long—as I live.” .She thought: “It’s ture, I do want to marry Richard. I’d be safe—never hurt. But I can’t trust myself to wait three years for him. I’ve got to do something now—I’ve got to!—or I’ll knees to Lee.” Suddenly and membered that was at Carveil Hall, a bright oasis in her mind, she could see heu future if she married an im portant man like Valance. She could see a life made easy by influence— the right contacts—the breaks. Sure ly if a girl was afraid of love, if Richard, whom she .had known and had been fond of all her life, refus ed her, she was justified in grasping the next hand held out to her. And Courtney Vallance’s was a kind one, laden with money and power. Patsy was still smiling as she iput the receiver down. But just as it touched its cradle a burst of bells shattered the room’s silence, Ted in an excited voice calling over long distance told Patsy that he and Virginia tying on their way back from the Army-Navy game had bad to make a forced landing because of engine trouble. They were at a farmer’s house—a Mr. Silas Carroll about twenty-five miles north of An napolis and would Patsy drive out for them. As he gave her the dir-1 ections Patsy scribbled them down on the back of an envelope and said she doubted if she could find such an isolated place. Besides she told him Courtney Vallance was -coming to call and she wanted to sing for him. Wouldn’t the farmer, if he paid him well, drive them into An napolis? Ted laughed, ‘Tatsy, listen,” he said. “I know you won’t believe me. But this farmer is throwing a .party in his barn. He calls it a husking bee.’ ” “A husking bee?” Patsy’s voice was puzzled. “Now wait a minute! Don’t keep interrupting me. (To be Continued) OTTAWA—Canad’s birth rate has beep declining almost continuously during the past 17 years, it was dis closed recently in figures prepared by the Dominion Bureau tics. In 1921, the Canadian per 1,000 population was eluding the Yukon and Territories, while in 1936, the last in which 12-mouth figures are avail able, it was 20. For the first nine months of last year the birth rate was .30,(1. W. R. Tracey, head of the bureau vital statistics branch and one of Canada’s greatest authorities on death and birth rates, said the chief cause of this decline in the birth rate was lower fertility in marriage. “The decline is a phenomenon com mon to the post-war years in British countries and in Western Europe.” he said. “It has been one of the most prominent features of vital statistics in the past 15 or 20 years.” Quebec, had the highest birth rate from 1921 to 1936 and showed the most rapid decline from 37-6 to 24.3. Last year New Brunswick had the highest birth rate in Canada, 24.7, while Quebec took second place for the first time in 17 years with 24.6. British Columbia is the province with the lowest birth rate-—14.1 in 1936 and 14.9 for the first nine months of 1937. In 1921, the rate Next lowest is Ontario, declined from 25.3 in 193 6. In the “BE WISE WITH SPEED” Early in the 18th century, Edward Young, an English poet, wrote these lines: of Statis- birth rate 29.4 ex Northwest was 20.3. whose birth rate in 1921 to 16.9 first nine months of last year, the rate was >17. Despite this decline in birth rate the population has increased from 8,556,000 persons in 1921, to 11,- 028,000 in 1936. This increase is explained by immigration. 1 feed the Oats is the most important grain grown in Canada, and maintenance of adequate reserves is a matter of paramount importance in preserving a proper balance be tween feed supplies and the require ments of the livestock industry. be crawling on my desperately she re Courtney Vallance And now, like PARKHILL CALLS VOTE ON RINK DEBENTURES day and climbed into Lee never knew that very quickly in that lest she turn back and him, watch- was out of it was very sum “Be -wise with speed; “A fool at forty “Is a. fool indeed.” Young’s twelve simple wards up very neatly what many safety experts have been trying to put across all during the 20th century, We know that excessive speed is always dangerous. But we must also realize that any speed, if combined with a foolish a of violation of the traffic law or reckless flouting of the rules common sense, may be just as dan gerous. . 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L'ots of atmosphere— flower pots in the windows, sky-lights, mice playing, hide-and-se=x through the walls. I’m doing my own cooking, too. You ought to see what I can do to a steak. Look herq, have you, ever seen a steak about two inches thick, browned to a turn, smothered in mushrooms, with just a dash of tomato sauce in tl» juice? That’s a Cavendish special, and you haven’t started to live until you’ve had one.” A few other trivial subjects occu pied ten minutes or more. Lee telling her now that he liked work on the newspaper; that he going to be another G. B. Shaw knew it, and that if he wasn’t dead sure of it he wouldn’t be in Annapo lis gathering together all his belong ings to move permanently to New York. But, looking at him closely, Patsy new that for alt his bantering he was unhappy, and that his cheer fulness was obviously forced. She laid her hand on his arm and said, a little breathlessly: “Lee, we’re talking about everything—-anythinn ■—we're deliberately dodging the one subject was I his was and we want to discuss.” Why Lee Was Here Lee’s face went suddenly His blue glance on Patsy She was so lovely, For white. Was thoughtful. Patsy Visits Richard Patsy didn’t go home to Marcia, She went straight from Carvel Hall to Richard Bowie’s home on the Severn. Sihe came running down the basement steps into the labora tory and found him on his hands and knees before a row of wooden’ screened and slatted crates, looking first at one chart and then at the inert caged white rats that had been inoculated the day before. He had, Patsy saw, an excited ex pression as if something he had worked for all his life was about to materialize. He didn’t hear Patsy rush through the door, but when he became aware of her coming up be hind him, breathing quickly as if she’ had run a long way he forgot all about the inoculations and the one white rat that was now trying his wabbly strength after having looked as if he were dead. Patsy didn’t wait for him to get | to his feet. All at once she said, her j eyes shining: “Richard, you’ve asked i me a dozen times to marry you. You ! asked me in Seattle, in China, in ■ Bermuda and Maine. I can hardly I think of a place in th-e whole world ; that you haven’t asked me to marry iyou! Richard—will you ask me } again—here—now?” j A slow, dull crimson flush crept ; in Richard’s face, then faded. He got to his feet and lit a cigarette and ! stood smoking, looking down into [ her eyes. Patsy was still thinking of Court ney Vallance when Richard drove her back to Tree Tops that evening. All afternoon she and Richard had listened over the radio to the Army Navy game, and Patsy, betting a dollar with Richard on Navy, had lost. Then they had had dinner to gether at Log Tavern on the Severn and Richard had talked most of the time about Admiral Benson and the South Pole trip, Though she had once suspected that he had joined the expedition solely to get away from her, she was convinced now that he was genuinely interested in it. But now, back at Tree Tops-and Richard Bowie gone, all of his ex citing words of the trip to the South Pole slipped from her mind and only thoughts of Courtney Vallance re mained. She put the key in the lock of the big front door and stepped into the hall. ill Have You Ever Seen Your Home=Town NEWSPAPER thrown into the gutter Another Bad Night Could Get No Rest Ito the thousands who are tossing, night after night, on. sleepless beds, or who pace the floor with nerves unhinged, to those who wake up with bad dreams and nightmares, we offer in Milbum’s Health and Nerve Pills a remedy to help soothe and calm the nerves and bring back the shat tered nervous System to a perfect condition. Then no more broken rest, no more nightmares, no mote getting up in the morning feeling as tired as when you went to bed. The T« Milburn Co., Ltd., Toronto, Ont. with that come Her Offer She began pacing the £lo»r nervous restlessness. .She said: “Don’t you see, Richard, nothing in the world can ever of what I felt for Lee? That’s all over! Forever over! Don’t you un derstand? Oh, I know it's not very sporting of me, coming to you now, offering wliat little there is left of iny heart." “I’m sure there is a lot left of your heart, Patsy,” the answered, crushing his cigarette under his foot “Just give time a chance. Give Lee a chaime. That hoy has been thro’ hell. He’s in hell now. But he will New Love Budding Marcia and Dr. Cole Proctor were sitting on the sofa in the front of a softly pulsing fire, talking so low that Patsy could hardly hear their voices. In the last three months Dr. Proctor had come to the house often enough professionally. But lately, it seemed to Pa(sy, he was coming every day—and not quite professionally. Now, seeing them alone and un guarded like this, Patsy realized for tbe first time, that the famous spec ialist was in love witn her sister and that under his .care and devotion she was improving noticeably. Late ly Marcia had started using rouge and lipstick again, which made her look more like the lovely girl that dashing Tom Kane had escorted from the Academy Ciiapel beneath crossed swords that glittered in the sunshine of June week. Marcia heard Patsy in the hall, She slightly turned her head and said: “Is that you, Patsy? A Mr.. Courtney Vallance telephoned. He’s at Carvell Hal and would like you to give him a ring as soon as you can." She smiled—such a soft, ra diant smile that Patsy’s heart re sponded to it warmly. Could it be possible that Marcia, too, was in1 love? That after two years of wid-j owhood—of. hell—that she was to find a reprieve in this doctor's de votion? Or would love ultimately or waste paper basket before it was thoroughly read e But gutters and waste baskets are filled every day with unopened, unread expensive direct advertising sale ammunition shot into the air* and cheap pub lications promoted by fly-by-night artists. 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