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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1941-02-13, Page 2Thursday, mt i3th. mt THE EXETEH TIMES-ADV-QCATE WOODHAM ANNUAL | “Money Isn’t Everything | g= LAWLER ‘ ■ g liiiOM SYNOPSIS Jilted three days before her wed­ ding to Lyle Putnam, Jill Morton, spoiled daughter of wealthy John Morton, plans a trip with" her Aunt Lucy to escape the subsequent scan­ dal, Jill and Lucy go to New York to sail for Rio, At the last minute, Jill decides not to go, She an­ nounces to Lucy that she will take a letter of recommendation John Morton has written for Joan Mer­ rill, a schoolmate of Jill’s, and get a job. She persuades Lucy to sail without her, Then, having her red hair dyed blond, Jill goes down to her own father’s store and secures a position as a model, under the name of Joan Merrill, She meets T-oni Drake, another -model, and eveptually shares an apartment with her. Mike Daly, photographer, ar­ rives to take -photographs of the models for the newspapers. Jill, terrified at the thought of exposure, tells Mike she has a prison record and the pictures will ruin her, Mike promises to withhold the plates and asks her to dinner. She accepts, and tells him a fictitious tale about her supposed prison record. GO ON WITH THE STORY “Then, one day, she sent me down town to buy a rather expensive piece of jewelry. I thought it odd that she didn’t go herself, but she was a lazy person. I—was arrested for passing bad money. The police had evidently been watching me for weeks. I was frantic. I called the house and Estelle promised to -come right down and straighten -things out. She never came. She and her husband got right out of town ” Mike whistled. Jill's Hiding-Out Story “I was desperate. I knew then I had been a blind to pass forged notes. J was afraid to let my father know. One afternoon a man—a lawyer that I’d never seen—came down and posted bail for me. I was set free. “He told me my friends were in hiding and I’d have to get -out of town or the police would make a case against me and send me to prison. He .gave me some money. I grew panicky. I came to -New York, changed any name, dyed my hair and got this job. I can’t go back. And I -can’t afford to have my ■pic­ ture in any newspaper. .Do you understand?” Mike sat very quietly. Then he said, suddenly, “Who forged John Morton’s signature on the letter of recommendation that got you this job ” CHAPTER XIV Jill clutched at hei’ slipping san­ ity. Mike’s voice had been so casual, so -conversational, yet his quick-spoken, ‘‘Who forged John Morton’s signature on the letter that got you this job?” seemed to echo and re-echo -down the dining­ room. “Nobody forged that leter.” Jill said. He waited patiently for an ex­ planation. “That letter was auite authentic. Jill Morton asked hei' father to write it for Joan Merrill. Then Joan got herself another job—” “And how did you get it?” That Letter ■She faced him squarely, twin, ■patches of scarlet seeping around the carefully rouged blush on her cheekbones, ‘‘I stole it” Well, hadn’t she? Mike lifted ah eyebrow curious­ ly. “I stole it.” Now ideas -came, flooding faster and faster. She sift­ ed them hastily in her mind. “Joan Merrill lived in the same boarding house I did. I went in to see her one night. She was moving. I wanted -to hay gOod-by. She had been—kind to -me. She was throw­ ing a lot of Stuff away. She took the letter -out of her hag -and said, ‘Well, I won’t need this any more, now that I’Ve got a job.’ I Said, ‘You’d better keep it, You might need it Bilious Attacks Liver Complaint Biliousness is just another name lot a clogged or sluggish liver. It is a very common complaint, but can- be quickly remedied by stimulating the flow of bild. UhiS softens- the accumulated rihsa, the poisons are earned out of the system, and the liver and bowels ate relieved and toned np. Milbum’s Laxa-Liver Pills quicken and enliven the sluggish liver, open­ ing up every channel, by causing a free flow of bile tad thus cleansing the !it0r of the clogging impurities. They are taihit tad easy to take. DO not gripe,, Weaken or sicken, Th® X MlUnxm C-a, Unt, 'ater,’ she Uughod and threw Ife in the waste basket. 4It‘s dated,’ she •?aid» ‘If I need another I can ask *or it,* “I just sat and watched her throw ’way a jqh. It was a good letter. I needed it desperately. Somebody ••ailed her to the phone, and-—when ihe got out of the room—I reached Ip the wastebasket and took it.” “I see,'” Jill was unable to tell from, the -’x-presslqp in his eyes whether or not ,ha believed, her, “Shall we— ’ance?” They danced. Mike said nothing, simply held her in his arms, a far­ away, contemplative expression in his eyes, His dancing was not so Rure and sweeping as Lyle Putnam’s but jhl found to her own amaze­ ment that she had never enjoyed dancing so much before. Mike Does Some Talking ....The perspiring orchestra halted, Mike clasped her elbow, politely steered her back to the table and an excellent dinner of -spaghetti and chicken Guisseppi. He talked of many things — of plays and politics, of books and boats, of pictures and people and paintings. But not one word about Joan Merrill. They might have been, Jill thought, any young man and wo­ man on a casual date. He was amus­ ing and witty and thoughtful, all in a calm,,, detached fashion. After dinner, Mike suggested a motion picture,- consulted her wish­ es, bought the tickets and ushered her to viewable seats. His man­ ners were impeccable. His manner was impersonal Later. Mike took her to a quaint little cellar restaurant for -sand­ wiches and coffee. He remained at­ tentive — and aloof. At midnight he consulted .his watch and said, “Time for Cinderella to be on her way.” Mike found another cab, asked her address, instructed the driver. Not. a word, not a syllable to indi­ cate what .fie was actually thinking. It was not until they stood on Toni’s shabby -doorstep that he said, while Jill fumbled for the key, “It’s the silliest damn story in the world, but I believe it” Jill looked at 'him breathlessly. “Why?" Unexpected Kiss “Because you’ve got the right kind of eyes.” He took the key from her hand without ceremony, wreqtjed with the door, swung it open. ’“We won’t mention it qgain, unless it’s necessary. As far as I’m concern­ ed. you’re Joan Merrill, and I’ll poke the nose of anybody *who says you aren’t. I’ll be waiting for you at 6 on the same -corner, Thursday.” Mike bent down suddenly, brush­ ed his lips against her forehead. “Good-night, kid,” ,he said, and ran lightly .down the stairs to the cab. leaning wearily on the curb. Jill’s heart leaped up absurdly : She silenced it with unwonted stern­ ness. “Good heavens,” she told her­ self in exasperation, “he’s nice and all that, but he’s nothing to get all excited about.” It took Jill a long while to go to sleep. It was the first night since she -had left home that her thoughts had no place for Lyle. They were, oddly enough, centred around a certain yqung photographer with wild hair and a Wicked grin. And a strange way about him with wo­ men. Thursday she found Mike wait­ ing on the corner. And Saturday. And then, suddenly, he was there almost every evening. * Toni took a devilish delight in What she termed Jill’s “great ro­ mance.” “Mike,” she said one afternoon, when Gay was within earshot, “Seems to be taking root on thaf corner.” The twins yawned luxuriously. “Imagine' the Daly taking an in­ terest in woman, I thought the camera was his only love.” As usual, Gay dropped the seed of malice. “Mike hasn’t a dime ” Toni Sh'rugged, “Neither has Joan. It’s all very fitting.” But several days later, Gay made it a point to Waylay Mike as 1ip waited for Jill. “You're a fast worker, big boy,” she commended. “Meet a girt and date her all in one day.” Mike remained unruffled. “I met Joan years ago,” he -said smoothly, “When her fathei* was In the mon­ ey and I used to work on the Globe.” Gay lifted emaciated eyebrows. “You didn't tell me that the day I was talking to you.” “You didn't ask me,” Mike grinned'. But her skeptical expres­ sion Worried him. Later Mike said to Jill, “I -don’t- like that business of Gay being eo curious about you. She's slippery/1' “I know,” Jill agreed. "But what pan I do about It?” “Nothing much, t guess. Only it i§ suspicious that pphady ever comes to. see you—-except me- Gay’s harped on that a couple -of times,” ‘ Jill said, startled, “Believe me, I certainly don’t want to run into anybody I know, The fat would be in the tire properly if I did,” And she added to herself, with unwonted grimness, there’s no doubt about that, A Stranger ' About a week after Gay had her little conversation with Mike, a strange thing happened. As Jill and Gay and Toni and the twins stepped -out ontq the sidewalk that banded the Morton store, a tall, rather effeminate young man with a bland, blue stare virtually swarm­ ed over them. He murmured a few words of apology, caught sight of Jill, and exclaimed in a nasal Brit­ ish voice, Joan, old dehr, bow per­ fectly topping. I haven’t seen you for eons. How have you been?” Jill gulped in horror, The man must be mad, utterly and complete­ ly mad. He rattled on, “You’re looking simply in the pink, How’s the pater?” She forced a stiff-lipped smile. “Dad died three years ago.” “I’m sorry,” the amazing appari­ tion said ruefully. “I didn’t know. Ever see any of the old crowd?” “Not any more.” This must be a dream, thought Jill, Things like this just don’t happen to people. Gay was staring, open-mouthed, “I’ve just hopped over from the auld sod,” he said. “Perfectly fear­ ful over there. All this war busi- , ness and blackouts and everything. England isn’t England anymore, what? Lady Wallingford was ask­ ing about you. Yes, and the Duch­ ess—whatever the devil is .her name—the one with all the chins?” Jill’s sense of humor seized her, and she heard herself saying with commendable eagerness. “How’s Clinton?” Now, she thought, let him trump that. She never knew a Clinton in her life; “He’s in the flying force. So’s my brother Brandon. And old Bever­ ley—he died in Finland, poor .fel­ low.” No, thought Jill, he isn't mad. I am. I must be. This is all ridicu­ lous, impossible, incredible. I nev­ er laid eyes on this man before.. And if I did, my name wasn’t Joan Merrill. He babbled on, “And .how’s Lois?” Lois? Lois? “The pretty little thing with all the curls and the silly South Caro­ lina drawl.” ' “Oh, that Lois.” Jill decided to let herself go and enjoy this night­ mare while it lasted. “She’s mar­ ried, Has a baby. No—two ba­ bies.” “Oh, wonderful, wonderful. Must push off now. Meeting a man. Give me a ring at the Pld&a. I’ll be in town for a few weeks.” As sud­ denly as he had arrived, the mys­ terious stranger had -gone. Explanations Toni spoke up. ‘‘What a voice! Imagine being married to it.” “You never. introduced us,” Gay said reproachfully. “I — was so surprised to see him I couldn’t even think of his name,” Jill said, still feeling dazed. “Rich­ ard—no—Ronald—Ronnie’ Farra- day.” The twins looked interested, “Has he any money?” Jill smiled wickedly. “Tons,” and waited for Gay to say the expect­ ed thing. Gay purred, “Then of course you wouldn’t want to introduce us, dear.” As an afterthought, “What will Mike -say?” Before Jill had a chance to tell Mike, .he said, ‘‘I hear you had an English visitor yesterday.” “I suppose Gay told you,” Jill was pardonably annoyed. “Hon­ estly, Mike, I never saw the man lief ore in all my life. He just rush­ ed Up to me, called me ‘Joan’, and started to babble about people I’d never even heard of. I thought I’d perish on the spot.” “Was Gay impressed?” “Gay was overwhelmed. The mere mention of the Duchess and Lady Whoosis simply Slew her.” “O.K. Tommy earned his five bucks/’ Jill . blinked in amazement. “What are you talking about?” Mike enlightened her airily. “Your English pal. He’s a dovrii- at-the-heels" .actor by the name of Tommy Vernon. He gets give bucks for to-day's performance. All in the name of art, That -ought to hold Miss Gay Roberts for a while.” Jill began to suspect that young Michael Daly was a power to be conjured with. She Said so, to -his Intense delight. CHAPTER XV Dating trom the apparition of the Ehglfs'hman, Gay’s manner toward JIH at the stere underwent a subtle change. She alluded to the stran­ ger daily as Lord Bercival Flatbush* but it was evident that she was im­ pressed. 'Gay asked innumerable questions that Jill answered gravely, tongue in cheek. Had be gone back to England? Did be have a title? Was he married? How old was be? When did Jill' meet -him? Where? The mythical aura of wealth trans­ figured him. Gay was insatiable for informatien. No, Jill informed her loftily, “Reuald” had not returned, to Eng­ land, He was, she announced, with a wicked twinkle, visiting friends —wealthy friends- -in the Middle West, Thea on tQ Hollywood, Hollywood? Gay lingered greedilv over the syllables. The Imaginary Ronnie Hollywood, of course. Hadn't Jill told them he was connected with Graumpnt-British? Yes, hq was in the motion-picture industry, No- he wasn’t a director, No, he wasn’t a director. No, he wasn’t an actor either. > Gay was avid for further news. Had Jill seen him before When would he be back? ever discover actresses? Yes, Jill admitted coyly, seen Bonny several times, was in the motion picture might come back to new New York. On the other hand he might sail for England via the Orient. Eng­ lishmen were odd. They did things impulsively. Whether or not he ever “discovered” actresses, Jill did not, know. Nor did she care. Only Toni was worried, “Gay’s got her hooks out for your English pal,” she told Jill one night. “Who cares?” Toni cared, apparently. “She wants to meet him, and if he ever gets back in town, she will meet him, mark my words,” Jill -laughed. “Ronny looks dumb, , but he isn’t, He’s met lots of Gays in his time.” 'Other Worries Toni remained unconvinced. “Don’t give her a chance to get at him, I remember reading that the British are sort of gullible.” Jill merely smiled. Ronny was the least of’her worries. The appearance of Englishman had settled osity about Jill, for the at least. JBut Jill remained rightly or pot, of Toni's swain. Slick Allen was ever punctiliously polite, but Jill had the continued impres­ sion that those chill marble eyes were watching her every movement, piying into her very thoughts. Actually, as -she told Mike, she had no firm basis, for her, dislike, but „ Slick’s very presence in the apartment, bothqje^l^i;.. She felt ! that his thoughts, TOhind those cold he left? Did he she had Yes, he industry the fabled Gay’s curi- time being, suspicious, opaque eyes, were vaguely sinister ohes. Mike jeered at her timidity. You've got a guilty conscience. If ‘Good morning’ to you. town,” remained something a cop said you'd skip But Jill There was ...»whful quiescence little warning shivers her spine. Mike’s presence at the employee’s ,pn'T 'o Morton's seemed grad’ ually to become permanent. An pc* *nw and movie jqqreqs- almost nightly meetings, when business wap, goQd« h in his expenditures they merely walked nark, or topk $ bus w« nt back to the apartment lull ed. The Past Fades to Jill that with Toni, at Mqrtpn’S. was migty and inqe- unconvinced, about Slick’s that chased up and down ed o Sometimes It cure, was this, •she hud had al- All that seemed lived *r’?ed fore All that would come after jumbled and obscure. Only, each turning hour, wap rgql- Lyle Putnam -and -all he repre­ sented were fading rapidly. The bitter heartbreak and disillusion— the humiliation and grief—had she ever really experienced them? It came upon Jill with a sudden and abrupt sense of shock that Lyle Putnam had become only a name to her, a name that gradually grew 'to hold less of meaning and worth and significance. It she realized she was with Mike. -Or had love with him. that months ago, tyhen she had stood under the hot floodlamps, a fright­ ened' figure in a borrowed wedding dress ? “I’ve told .him so many.lies,” Jill shivered, ‘‘he won’t think anything I say could be true. And if he should believe me-—” ’ (TO BE CONTINUED) was then that falling in love she fallen in dreadful day, CROMARTY COUNCIL CALLS TENDERS 'ON WOOD SUPPLY The Hibbert Township Council at the regular monthly meeting in the Township Hall, Staffa, appointed Joseph Atkinson and Frank Allen to attend the good roads conven­ tion in Toronto. ’ ' Frank Allen and Lloyd Colqu- houn were instructed to receive tenders for 10 cords' of.hardwood, beech or maple, to be delivered at the Township Hall, tenders to be received on or before February 15, and wood to be delivered on or be­ fore April 1. » . ’ ' A donation of $40 was made to the Salvation Army. CHURCH MEETING The annual -congregational meet­ ing and supper was held last Friday evening, Jan, 31, with a large at’ tendance. The tables - were attrac­ tively arranged by a committee in. charge and around 150 did ample justice to the good things -provided, after which busines* .proceeded with Rev. A, Laing as chairman and Mr. Cgeil Cann acting as secretary. The meeting opened by the singing of a hymn and prayer by the pastor. IA short program, consisting of vor 1 cal solos and readings were inter­ spersed between the various re­ ports. Jas. Squire, sec.-treas., re- ‘ ported having met all financial ob- i ligations and has left a good bal- • ance to start the new year, p treasurer of the Sunday ‘ William Rpdd, repprted ance of $131,00. The M. repprt presented by Mrs. J, showed that $211.95 had been rais­ ed, an increase oyer last year. Mrs. Milton reported having raised $169.04 for the W.M.S., an increase over last year of $2.57. The re­ port read by Rhpda Thompson showed great activity, having do­ nated in the neighborhood of $10'0 to piano, M, and» M. and Church4 funds, qnd still leaving a balance of $38.14. Laura Rundle reported for the Mission Circle,having raised $46.85 and a bale was sent valued at $15. The Mission report, given b,y Marion Mills, ed a decrease from last year. Wilbur Wynn presented the W.A. re­ port with good work -done. The organized classes in Sunday School gave reports with splendid givings, after which the officers for the com­ ing year were elected as follows. The retiring elder, John Camm, was re-elected for a term of six The four retiring stewards James Squire, Cecil Camm, Camm and Arnold Hern. were re-elected and John Camm re­ placed by Leonard Thacker. The auditors, Wilbur Wynn and Wm, Mills, were re-elected. A commit­ tee was put in to elect a new choir leader. « Mr. Ray Mills has resigned this position. A hymn was sung and Rev. A. Laing closed this very well spent evening .by prayer. The Exeter Times-Advocate Established 1878 and 1887 at Exeter, Ontario Published every Thursday jnornin,! 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