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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1941-07-24, Page 2
THVUSMY, JULY Wh THS OTO t “A Cruise for Cinderella” „ by Btfittey Bidge W«» “No reason why she should find out ’ I’m afraid I consider it our business, exclusively!’ “I don’t want her to know/* Brid get said, awkwardly* She looked at him, not knowing how to convey what she meant. She meant to say that It would he ©m- barrassing to he publicly married— yet not married, But he said noth ing, and in a moment they were in the foyer of th© Tasman Hotel. She sat, in th© ddep armchair, be side the small modernistic glass tab!© with its ashtray full of cigar ette butts. He seemed abstracted. He glanced, at her with an odd look in his eye, then turned away, as he said; "Yes, since your aunt has decided to gp ahead, I don’t see that we have anything to worry about, I agree that it would be awkward if people knew that we were married. WeTl Just go on as ordinary acquain tances, as though nothing had hap pened.” ■"Yes,” said Bridget. She wanted to tell him how much she felt he had done for her, and then ask him if he believed in her innocence. She was trying to find words to begin when he turned on her suddenly, throwing away the cigarette he had Just lighted. “But there's just one thing in which I do intend to exercise the pre rogative of a husband'” His voice Was emphatic, and stern, as she had never heard it before. The hot col our in her cheeks expressed an in credulous doubt, a wild surmise. What he said was far, far removed from anything she expected. The old-fashioned duty of a hus band was to keep his wife in order and improve her mind as best he might,” His tone took on a certain grim liveliness. “I want to make it quite plain to you that though I think you’ve got a great deal of physical pluck, you’ve a lot to learn in other ways. Next time you take a; fancy to somebody’s property, it may be a book, or a pearl neck- ■ lace, or perhaps it will be a hand bag—1 want you to remember that no one can get away with things like that indefinitely!” He came round the table towards her; she got up, she wa5 stunned with horror. “No!” she cried. “No! You don’t believe that! X, didn’t—it’s-' true!” “Now listen” he said. “You may think because I got you out of a hole that I think nothing of these things! A theft is a theft, and It’s a mean thing at any time. "What’s more, the next time you do it, I may not be on. hand to fish you out of the soup!” “No!” she cried wildly, sobbing* with the shock of it. “Kot No!” CHAPTER XVI A Discarded Bride With a cry of dismay, Bridget left the man who had married her to rescue her from, prison, but who now announced boldly that he believed her guilty. She fled blindly across the hotel foyer, and out into the Street....— she ran, at first, running from in tolerable memories, unbearable facts. She turned aside out the main street into an empty side street and dropped her pace to a hasty walk, ‘He believes * I’m a thief!” she kept saying to herself. “He did that to me! He believes I’m a thief!” Against such, injustice there was no argument. “No!" she cried aloud in a shak ing, terrified voice, in the empty street, “No!” and it was as though some demoniac voice In her ears replied mockingly “Yes! Yes!” She would never go back. Very likely they all believed it of her* her aunt, the girls. She would nev er go back to the hotel, she would never see that beast of a Mark Salt again! She drowned in shame ful recollection.....She was a wo man, ,a human being,wrongly ac cused, bitterly hurt. She would hide somewhere that night, and get on the first ship leaving for home...,........Her slender handbag, containing two English Another Bad light Could Bet Ko Best Yw W tbwmmto w tofi®, ni£>t alter night, <» itowpleea and to whoso eye® ifcabta wSl not coms. Te fStcm who in to kind of W wfesta tart to Wtofc fey bad dmms Md totghtetnm. •• To Ihota wto wlto tJ# U th® morning ta ttowd M going te bad, • we offer in Milburrt Health -tad Ncryts Pflto t remedy to Wp soothe mad ctoliu the rnrrta ‘tad bring ttota back a perfect ©©uditwty whta iMs to done Ito iilfebpleto' nlgW <fe® io wtat- btaad nertBz OtaXM* tes. pound notes and a ymntBul of Australian silver* reminded her that it was impossible. She could cable them at home, for money, fox’ the fare............B:it no; they hadn’t got it, she could never put them to the trouble, and difficulty of get ting it* She would get a job, stay in Syd ney,* not let anyone know where she was, save the money to go home. •But to go back to the hotel—face it again! “I’d sooner drown myself!” she said aloud. And she found herself, after some distracted wandering, on one of the ferry wharfs. Th© moon made silver ripples on the water, and the lights of th© bridge winged away in. a span of twink ling stars, She moved away from the group of people waiting to go ■ on the ferry, and stood looking down at the water. A wave of hate swept over her, the only real hate that she had ever known in her inoffensive existence. She hated Mark .Salt. She hated him because of his disbelief. She wanted to kill him—the impossibil ity of doing that .made her want to kill herself. She wanted to throw herself into the quiet black water, and finish what she could not bear. But after a time, much aimless walking up and down and staring into the harbor, her sense of her own personal integrity began to bear her up. After all, she was innocent. She was at peace with herself, except for one regret—a bitter one—.which was that she had accepted Mark Salt’s help. She was no more a coward than a thief; what peace could she find in running away? Hei' aunt had spent a lot of money in bringing her so far.-* Her next, two novels had to be finished by Feb ruary. Besides, how could she ad- OHAPTEB XV Salt Speaks His Mind Mrs. Garforth, having found her own explanations 4 for things, Brid get was in no need to say anything. She had no-1 opportunity for explain ing that Mark Salt had married her, even if she wanted to; Mrs. Garforth talked so fast. Now, it wag all over, she began to lamept, because the tour had been spoil ed. “We shall have to hide our heads, go back to England. Impossible to go on now. Really, I can’t for give that beast of a woman, even though she did do the decent thing in the ©nd!” “I suppose Mark will go on with the tour,” said Joyce, coming down from the 'heights to which she had,risen on the thought that her impassioned letter had saved Bridget from the law. “Well, it’s his job, isn’t it?” said Diana, irritably. ‘ Mrs. Garforth looked deeply thoughtful. Bridget took the op portunity to step into the room and close the door. It was over—over for them. But for her—-her thoughts were still a tumult, everything an unsolved prob lem. Who had put those pearls in her coat? How had it happened? She was free, but she wasn’t clear ed. Many people might Still think she was a thief. What she had done in letting Mark marry her so that she wouldn’t he tried, was al most an admission of guilt. Now the first relief was over, she felt as badly as ever. But he had been so insistent, so certain. Now she be gan to feel that if one was innocent, things might be very terrible, but it was best to face them. Mrs. Garforth tapped on the door and came in. Bridget, I have been thinking!,” Her manner was positively regal. “Really, I feel it would ’ be wrong to run away. Besides, Mark as sures me that no one in the tour knows anything about this affair. Your name was suppressed by the papers. I see no reason—-” “No reason what?” “No reason why we should not go on and rejoin the others at Mount Kosciusko, It shall never be said that we ran away.” • “No,” said Bridget. “No. Per haps you’re right.” “I know I’m right. My mind is made up. I shall ring Mark and get him to book our seats immediately.” “Yes, I think I should gb. Hut ;I don't think I can. I —-I don’t feel ; I could, Aunt Miriam,” “What do you mean. Of course, you can! Besides, what* will I do? I must have a secretary. You know I have two»books to finish before February.” * “Yes, I know,” Bridget saw how impossible it was to insist. Who was to pay her fare horn© except her aunt? “You must face i.t too,” Mrs. Garforth looked at her dramatically. “This is your regeneration, Bridget. * "My regeneration?” ■ "Fart of your regeneration.” And Mrs, Garforth walked solemnly out I of th© room, “What on earth does she mean by that?” sighed Bridget, not knowing whether to laugh w ©ry, The pain ful thought struck her that her ! aunt really did think her a criminal; but on consideration she decided that Mrs. Garforth was only trying to make a dramatic effect Salt was staying xound th©* corner at another hotel, and Mrs. Garforth rang and made arrangements with him. *He rang hack latei’ to say they were to leave for Mount Kosciusko on the following morning. »• What would he think, Bridget wondered. She was haunted now < by a perpetual question. He had j never said a word which could make her sure that he reglly believed her about the pearls. Did he believe her? Had he helped her purely be cause she had saved his life? Was it possible that he really thought her a thief? Mrs. Garforth decided to make a fresh start by going to the theatre that night, but Bridget felt too tired to sit through a play. When her aunt and the girls had gone she sat down in th© lounge to write a long-overdue letter to her mother. She had written nothing about th© matter of the pearls and she decided that she had better leave the unhappy story until she went home.. She couldn’t ^forget her uncertainty about Salt. Her heart gave a leqp of relief when she saw him come in suddenly through the doors of the lounge. He wore a dinner jacket; she ■was sharply aware of how splendid- looking he was as h© came briskly across the lounge towards her, Thought of the situation made her colour hotly, in spite of the anxiety in her heart. “Your aunt is out?” he.asked. “Yes, they’ve gone to th© theatre,” she told him nervously. “I want to have a word with you. ■Could you come over to my room at the ’Tasman’, where we can talk?” “Yes, of course,” ©aid Bridget, folding her lettei* into its envelope, and rising at once. She was thank ful for the opportunity. She told 1 herself she would ask him outright what He really thought. She was -’ ’wearing a light sum mer coat, over her “old navy blue” and she went out with him as she was. She began at once, as they walked along the street where the crowds moved to’ and fro in front of the lighted display windows: • “I wondered what you would think about my aunt deciding to go on with the tour!’’ “It makes no difference,” Salt said. “No, I suppose not. She knows nothing about us.” mlt such u wreckage of her „ life to ' her parents?- T’ , <■ ’ ’ Instincts told her that she could do nothing but carry on in the face of fire. It was past 'midnight when she finally walked into the Service. Ho tel, and dragged herself upstairs. OTfAPTER XVH “She Looks Like Death!” Joyce arose next day convinced that Bridget must be desperately ill after the ordeal she had under gone in Court. She swirled into j all flying chiffon Goodrich Silvertowtt ALL THIS—-AT NO EXTRA COST. • Avoid messy tire changing and costly de lays. Equip your car with Goodrich Seal-©- matics — the tubes that can be punctured without losing the air! GOODRICH SEAL-O-MATIC The never ending spiral bars of Silvertowns sweep wee roads dry , * . make a dry track for the rubber co grip . , . stop you quicker thaiP 1 ypu’ye ever stopped before, AND you get extra protec tion against blowouts I Bridget's room, neglige©, swirled out again, and told her mother that Bridget “Looks simply frightful, my dear, she’s go ing to haje a nervous breakdown!” The result was a respite for Brid get., Mrs, Garforth agreed that she really didn’t want Bridget at thelCUii.y u “ t Mt. Kosciusko, and that She could] just as. well stay quietly in Sydney and rest. . ’ So Bridget stayed'in her room and was spared the ordeal of having to see Mark Salt. Only When they met him at the station did Mrs. Garforth explain that she’ was leav ing Bridget behind iri Sydney to rest.. Perhaps Mark" Salt looked faint ly relieved; however, in the obser vation car soon after they lfeft, Joyce explained to him: “My dear, she looks absolutely ghastly this mornitig! sheet... Such T. J. ‘ awful affair must have been, for her!” ‘ Mark Salt showed more concern than she had hoped for. Hi© face was a. mixture of surprise and em barrassment. 1 ■ / "Your mother didn& tell' me that She was ill!” “She looks like death this morn ing!” “Then was it wise to leave her in ■Sydney by herself?” Salt said un comfortably. ' ' "Oh, Bridget's not ill!” scoffed Diana, She puffed cigarette smoke down fastidious nostrils, and mur mured sarcastically: "It's more pro bably her conscience that’s worry ing her!” . ; “Don't he a fool, Diana!” said Joyce, angrily, she said no mor© shout Bridget, and Mark Salt said no more either, ■ Later in the day in the hotel at Kosciusko, when they 'had rejoined ?the rest of the party, Joyce said to her mother: "For Heaven's sake tell Diana to be more careful what she says! She actually implied in front of Mark to-day that she thought Bridget had really taken those pearls! what Is the use of your" talking to' Mark about it all being ‘Wert heim’s malice, Tf Ditoria says things .like that?” Mrs, Garforth scolded Diana bit- White as a a frightful strain that ■HAY COUNCIL ■ The regular mouthly meetiug of the Council of the Towuship of Hay was held on July with all mem bers present, The minutes of the June Sth and June 30th meetings were adopted .as read: After disposing of the eommunto cations, the following resolutions were passed: I’hat by-law No. V 194'1, provid ing for the method of preparing the I94f Gollector’s roll as per R.S,£U 19'39, Chap, 3, Section Clause (2), b© read three times and finally passed. That by-law No. 3, 1941, consol idating 'the Rules and Regulations of the Hay Municipal Telephone Sys tem be read three times and fin ally passed. That by-law No, 9, 1941, ap pointing T, R. Paterson, C.E., to make a survey and report on the North Branch of the Black Creek he read three times and finally passed, That th© Reeve and Treasurer be authorized to borro^ from the Bank of Montreal money©5, to meet pay ments. andwthat By-law No. 10, 1941 providing for same be read three times and finally passed. , That '1941 .budget for the Town ship of Hay b© adopted by the coun cil. That 1940 dog tax of Wm. May and Len Bender be cancelled by the council ■ as same are uncollectahle. That accounts covering payments on Township roads, Hay Telephone, relief and general accounts be pass ed as per'vouchers: Township Rpads—Dominion Road Machinery Co., repairs, $7'8.05; W. F. Jennison, crushing and (rucking, $1,544.03; pay list, labor, $218.03; F. Turnbull, moving crusher, $35.20; T. Welsh, gravel, $1,841.48. Total; $2,160',78. Hay Municipal Telephone—-H. G. Hess, salary and extras, $258,78; T. H, Hoffman, salary and extras, $240.81; Northern Electric Co., ma terial, $359.00; Clerk-Treasurer, quarter salary, $i87'.5O'; T. Klumpp, on contract, $500; excise etc, $27.63 $9.50; tories, tax tolls, $45.77 . . . Relief—J. Supblat, allowance, $10. General Accounts—Whillier & Co,. 1941 Statutes, $2.00; Clerk-Trea surer, quarter salary, $90; E. Wil- lert, inspector N.B. drain, $5.00; postage, (excise, etc., $28.23; Sararas, ditching, St. Joseph, total, $135.23. The Council adjourned to on Monday, August 11th, at 7/p.m. A. F. Hess, Clerk. Tiws-Adv^a^ Eto^bllsMd 1873 and 4t Exeter, Ontario Published ©very Thursday morning BpBSCRIPTIONr-?2.Ph per year U „ advance RATES-—Farm or Real Estate for sal© 60c. each insertion for tir»> Jour Insertions. 25c. each subse quent insertion. Miscellaneouc «•- ttolesL To Rent, Wanted, Lost, or Found 10c. per line of sjx worfla. Reading notfees 10c. per line, pard of Thanks 5hc, Legal yertlsJug j? and 8c. per line, I» Memoriae, ^ith, one verse fide, extra verses 25c.. each. Member of The Canadian Weekly Newspaper Asfiodatton Professional Cards ;;■■■ ji. . r GLADMAN & STANBURY (F, W. Gladman) BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, &c Money to Loan, Investments! Made Insurance Safe-rdeposit Vaults tor'use of our Clients without charge EXETER and HENSALL CARLING & MORLEY BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, LOANS, INVESTMENTS, INSURANCE Office; Curling Block, Main Stress*, EXETER, ONT. NEW KIND OF TUBE SELF-SEALS PUNCTURES WHILE YOU RIDE YOU CAM HAMMER NAILS INTO THIS TUBE AND IT OOES'NT 60 FLAT/ W. G. COCHRANE, B. A. Barrister, Solicitor, Notary1 Phone 77 Exeter 1 Dr. G. F. Roulston, L.D.S.,D.D,S, Sunoco Service & Garage Phone 200 Exeter muoi .. , . '•> Exeter Hydro, 30-ft, pole, .Bell' Telephone Co., direc- $11.25; National Revenue,. Total, $1,534.24. DENTIST Office: Carling Block EXETER. ONT. Closed Wednesday Afternoons Len $10; meet terly. “You noticed how cordial everyone was to us when we ar rived here! They either don't know, or they take Bridget’s part. What ever doubts we may have we must •do everything we can to put a good face on things, or’ we might as well pack up this moment and go home!” ' : “So you have doubts?” said Diana coolly. “Bridget.^has not been proved' ' guilty, ‘and as she is my own niece. I believe her innocent!” was all Mrs. Garforth Would say, and there the matter ,was dropped. Meanwhile, in Sydney, Bridget Was shifted into another, less ex pensive room on the top floor p£ . the - - - - 1 it/ out her one of the officers from the tralian Monarch” as she came out of the theatre. i • He was one of those who. had been so attentive to her on the last night on board. He recognized her with a startled look, and passed on rather hastily, > He knew. His look convinced her beyond question. ’ After that, even at meals in th- | dining-room, Bridget fancied one looked at her askance. Three days later a wire from Mrs. Garforth, “Come George ’ Hotel, Melbourne, train.” Bridget packed and Service’ Hotel, and stayed in The only time she ventured to go to a picture to distract tormented mind, .she ran into “Aus- ... .he every- came to St. noon w.ent. She looked out of the carriage win dow without seeing the gum trees, their white peeled stems and rag ged leafage, flying past on a back ground of blinding blue sky. She was hardening herself, deadening her sensibilities. The dread meet' ing with Mark Salt obsessed her, At^ Melbourne, "when she got down off the train, stiff with ’ fa tigue, She was walking off the plat form, intent on getting to the St. George Hotel, when she found him. suddenly beside her. ' ■ She knew that she went scarlet. He was cool enough, though his eyes were searching her face with a faint embarrassment. “I began to think I had 'missed’ you!” he said. (To be ' Continued) AO&H E'STEP-'&U rFAI-O-ERIE • » :*» J*/fireproof .• • « .! ’ ^COXVEMIDO LOCATED StJCR A SHORT BOill—With Certo you need give only a one-miniito to two-minute fall, rolling boil for jam—fof jelly only a half-minute to a minute. ECONOMICAL^OOI *—Iri thia short boil Very little juice can boil away. Yon average op© half more jam or jelly from an equal amount of fruit. NATURAL TASTE AND COIOGK-Iristead of going «off in steam, all the fresh, riatttfal flavour Stays right irt the fruit. The colour, too, to never darkened br spoiled. , NO UNCffRtAfNTY-^Thdre’s ho guesawork with Cesto. Follow exactly the Certo recipe for the particular fruit yori ar© rising arid you’ll have firm, luscious jams r mid jellies every titae. ' . . Book of 72 TestedRecipcs under LaM of Every CERTO Bottle* Local Board Listed For Trainees’ Information . 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He is requested to re turn it.” * Th© next edition, this reply was published; “NOTICE—Th© recognized man who picked’ up your wallet requests the loser to call at any time and collect It” —Galley Slave * >N * Simile As excited as a young pullet hunt* Ing for a place to lay hbr first egg* J