HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1942-06-18, Page 2June 18th. 1942
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All That Glitters ANNETEDLOCK BROOKS
hands on hol-
He stopped at the public tele
phone and put in a call for Shad-*
well. The first thing he must do
was to let Tamar’s father Know
that she was safely on board the
plane bound for Atlanta.
Was it Thews®?
The long-distance operator said
the line was busy and he had to
wait for a moment. He saw a girl
in the next booth talking earnest
ly into the telephone. He guessed
that she was sending a wire as he
watched her read from a paper, She
was small and pretty with blonde
curls framing her oval face.
Even through the glass he could
see that she seemed nervous. She
hurried out of the door and across
the lobby. Ranny’s call was put
through and he had Knox Ran
dolph on the wire. “I have just
seen Tamar enter an airliner for
Atlanta?’ he said in a shaking voice.
“Yes,” said Randolph. “Tamar
told the hostess who she is and the
radio operator called the local po
lice. I just had the message. I’m
meeting the plane at Atlanta. Dick
is flying me up.’’
“I’ll be on hand, too,” Ran
shouted.
Two hours later the airliner with
Tamar on board was set down on
the ribbon of concrete at the At
lanta field. The gates were throng
ed with reporters and bystanders
who gave a wild cheer as Tamar ap
peared in the doorway of the plane.
Police stood by,
sters.
Tamar was so weak with sheer
nervous exhaustion
crumpled and refused to move as
she took the first step.
Strong arms gathered her up.
“TamarI” A vise-like grip pulled
her to a rough tweed-clad chest and
giant strides carried her past the
curious.
Excitement at Airport
Tamar laughed to keep from cry
ing. It was heavenly to be with
Dad and Ranny. *And good old
Dick Sheridan in the front seat with
the driver.
“Where are we going?” she man
aged presently.
“I’m taking you to a hotel.
You’re going to get about 12 hours
Sleep before you go back home.”
“Oh. but Dad, please don’t I
want to get back to Shadwell. I’ve
never wanted to see home, so badly
in all my life as I have the last two
days. Let’s go home, ‘ Dad.”
“Are you flying back with me,
Ran,” Dick asked, turning in the
seat. “It’s not far to Tahlahneka
by plane.”
Ranny looked at Tamar. He had
held her briefly in his arms, and
that short moment knew that he
would never be happy if he could
not always have her.
News travels fast! Ranny thought
as they pulled up before a small
restaurant. He had decided that he
had more work to do before he could
go back to Tahlahneka. For one
thing, he must go and telephone
the office at Tahlahneka. Randolph
had barely had time to say that a
wire had come from Atlanta just as
he left the house stating that Ta-1
mar was on the transport. The;
wire was being'traced as he left.
Perhaps Taylor would have some
definite news about it.
Tamar Calls Phoebe
Tamar drank hot coffee and ate
a thin sandwich. “It’s good, but
I’m too excited to eat,” she said.
“May I call Phoebe and have her
get dinner?”
In another moment she could
hear the sound of Phoebe’s warm
voice ejaculating and sobbing with I
joy. Tamar could see her there!
in the wide old hall with its wal- '
nut paneling, her feet spread and
head wagging in its bright red ker
chief. Aristotle would be scratch
ing his back in the open kitchen
door and grinning with delight.
“Ah knowed it, Honey. Ah’s so
happy mah black hands is playing
Hallelujah on de sides of my kettles.
De whole house am a singin’ Chile,
we is waitin'!”
Tamar’s blue eyes glistened with
tears and the color had‘started back
i rio her pale cheeks. Ranny had
r tudied her closely all of the way
into town. He must get them,start
ed before the reporter^ got to her.
She was in no condition to talk
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about her experiences just now,
He had chartered u private plane
and had flown, down to Atlanta,
getting there just before the airliner
lauded. He had counted on its
stops giving him time to beat it in
to the field. His pilot was still
waiting, in case he wanted to go
back to the first field.
A few minutes later they were
all on their way again. Ranny
called Taylor, who asked him to
come at once to Tahlahneka, fly
ing down with Richard,
Tamar's dark head nodded on
her father’s shoulder as they left
Atlanta. The drivei1 of the rent
ed car kept the speed down until
they left the traffic. He began to
open it up now and they were speed
ing toward Tahlahneka and Shad
well.
Worth the Cost
Tamar looked up once to find
her father’s eyes upon her, anxiety
written on his face. She could
see the marks of sleeplessness and
the fine lines etched on his brow.
The gray above his temples was
spreading fast now and these past
few days had not done him any
good.
“Dad, I’m so sorry that you wor
ried about me.”
“Let’s not mention it for a while,
Tamar. I’m so thankful to have
you back safely.”
“Did you pay ransome?”
Randolph smiled. “You won’t
be put off, I can see, ' I’d have
given everything I owned
hope to own to keep one
or ever
hair of
It was
the ab
ductor was very lenient. I put a
hundred thousand in bills of large
denominations in a metal strong
box and placed it in the hollow of
the shaft at the saddle horses’
graves. Tahlahneka I, you know.”
The Money is Gone
“Was it removed?” Tamar ask
ed, her eyes wide. Some one who
had known the estate of Shadwell
had suggested that place! Who in
the world would know that there
was a hollow in the base of the tall
white shaft? And, why, of all places,
would anyone risk coming to Shad
well for the ransome?
“Yes, the money was removed
some time during the night or early
morning. I went down to the ceme
tery the first thing this morning
after daylight. It was gone. Tamar,
someone knew that shaft was hol
low.”
“It couldn’t have been Louie,
Dad. Why, he was a stranger, here,
I know. He simply couldn’t have
known such a small detail as that!”
Knox Randolph shook his head.
“I hardly think, though, that he
would trust anyone else with the
money. I drove into Atlanta yes
terday to get it ready.”
More Questions
Tamar was silent. Louie could
not have taken the money from
Tahlahneka I’s shaft because at
that time he was sound asleep in
the cabin at the foot of the moun
tain where she was held captive.
He had an accomplice. Now there
were three mixed up .in it. The-
rese, Louie and some one who
knew Shadwell.
Taylor was waiting for them at
Shadwell, Dick’s plane had landed
sooner, and Ranny and he had al
ready talked with the investigator.
Tamar looked hungrily about the
terraces and the open vista that
stretched down toward the 'Ches
tatee. It was late afternoon and
shadows of the great trees were
already darkening the rolling land.
Home Again
The confusion of waddling geese,
clacking guineas and the sight of
Waiting police threw Tamar into a
nervous tension once more. She
wanted to get up to her room and
I close her door and lie on her big
four-poster bed.
. She wanted to see the move
ment of the sheer white curtains
blowing in and out of the case
ments and watch the hands of her
clock creep slowly about its funny
old face—‘the clock that had watch
ed the first Tamar Randolph in this
same room for so many years.
She wanted to walk softly in that
room that hui belonged to Maris
Randolph and which would in-
delibly carry that dear possessor
till its walls crumbled.
Something gripped her as she
took the turn at the first landing
of the stairs. Her lips froze and
her slender body grew taut. She
and Christopher had once stood by
the shaft of the famous race horse,
the week he had spent here, She
had thrust her hand in the hollow
at the base and said: “Ranny and I
used this for our mailbox years
ago.”
CHAPTER XXXII
Tamar opened her eyes and
found Dr. Dennard Forrester bend
ing over her. Reality returned
with a rush, for this was no usual
incident in her life. Dr. Forrester
was called in to take care of her
measles, mumps and whooping
cough; but those days were so far
away they might never have existed
at all,
She heard his pleasant voice say
ing: “She’ll be all right, just needs
some of Phoebe’s good chicken broth
and about ten hours’ sleep.” He
leaned over her again. “It was
like you, Tam, to wait until you got
home on your own bed to faint. I
don’t see how you held up so long.
Lie quietly. Here’s Phoebe com
ing in. We’ll let you sleep in a
minute.”
Afterwards they told her that
she drank the broth hungrily and
dropped off to sleep for 1% hours
without stirring, She couldn’t re
member it, try as she would.
First Morning at'Home
The next morning Tamar open
ed her eyes to a room bright with
sunshine that had crept in between
the slats of the blinds. The old
cherry chest that held the minia
tures of her father and mother;
the quaint clock upon the wall; the
pretty paper with its pink dogwood
■blossoms smiling profusely; the
swinging white curtains; the hand-
loomed throw-rugs—all of these
dear possessions brought a lump to
her throat that ached’painfully.
Shadwell—each stone in its rocky
.untilled acres; every hillock in its
wooded lot; every rolling inch of its
browning terraces, she would love
forever. Today she would. like to
throw wide the gate, and sweep out
of the meadow upon the back of
Tahlahnekh II. If Ranny could
join her on one of their saddle hors
es, they could race until time to eat
breakfast.
Just for one long moment it was
fun to feel this nostalgic happiness
engulf her, then she sank back
wearily upon her bed.
Tamar was to have ridden down
the bridle paths in the woods
along the Chestatee with ' Christo
pher Sande one day this week.
She had sent him a note just be
fore she went to the Fettens on the
errand of mercy for the mother.
The memory of her walk and con
versation with Christopher when<
he was staying at Shadwell after
his injury at the mine had stabbed
her last night. Christopher Sande
knew about the hollow in the shaft
at Tahlahneka I’s grave. How many
others knew about it? She laugh
ed shortly. There were dozens of
people, of course, who might know
of it.
A Bit of Thinking
Ranny and she had used it for
a mail box one summer when they
were 8 and 9 respectively. She could
yet remember the .penciled notes
they had written to one another and
placed inside of it. Ranny had sent
her some purple pansies one day,
done up in a shoe box, with their
green stems soaked in water from
the Chestatee. She could see them-
yet. She had taken them to her
room and put them1 in a little glass
flower-basket on the night table.
And remembered Phoebe’s chuckle
as she made the bed. “Mist’ Ranny
done sent you dese flowalis, Kitten?
He’s goin’ to tuhn out to be roman
tic lak his pa. I membahs when
he’s cou’tin’ his ma . . .”
It was ridiculous to think that
Christopher had anything to do
with her kidnaping. She took Up
the telephone from her desk and
gave the number for Pinecrest. She
must talk to Selby.
Selby’s thaid said that she was
sleeping late and took Tamar’s num
ber for her to call back. An over
whelming desire to talk with Chris
topher came to Tamar and she
breathed his number to the opera
tor.
She Calls Sande
Now that it was done and she
heard his deep voice ringing over
the wire, she was glad. “Christo
pher? This is Tamar,”
“Tamar! I’ve been out of my
mind. I want to see you. May I
come right out?” Impetuosity was
in his voice, trembling eagerness
that sounded sincere,
Tamar was taken back. She
had not expected this from Chris
topher, not after she had talked
with Selby that night she dnd her
THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE
6<My HUSBAND and the children say that
now there’s so much money coming
in, I should have all the things I’ve
always wanted.”
“But I say no thank youI My Freddie
gave up his job willingly and lives in a
tent. The least each of us at home can
do is to go without this and that and
buy War Savings Stamps every week so
the boys over there will have everything
they need for victory.”
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book stores and other retail stores.
National War Finance Committee
brother had come for dinner, Be
cause she knew that Selby consider
ed herself engaged to him. She had
not allowed herself the pain of an
alyzing the undercurrent of all that
she felt lay between herself and
Christopher. Somehow that had
seemed so real and alive tha't she
could not believe that it was a mere
flirtation that he had indulged him
self in. And yet, what of Selby?
These things flowed swiftly
through Tamar’s mind as she sat
there giving him an answer. The
slow beating of hei' heart warned
her that she would let nothing in
terfere with seeing him once more.
Suddenly she wanted no one else
about when she met him. There
had been a night that she would
never forget. The moonlight lay
about them on the terrace and
they had left the benches t.o wan
der down the old path toward the
river. Christopher had leaned
a little heavily upon her arm and
laughingly placed his about her
waist. She had trembled under
his touch and kept herself in hand
by sheer will power. She must
not let him know how much she
I cared. She had only seen him three
times before he came there after
his accident.
(To be continued),
H. S. WALTERFOR
SALE
WITH THE CANADIAN
WOMEN’S ARMY CORPS
Miss Mayme Pridham, daughter
of Mrs. Frank Pridham of
dale and the late Mr. Pridham, is
a member of the Canadian Wo
men’s Army Corps attached to the
staff of No. 10 Basic Training
Centre at Kitchener. In civilian
life Miss Pridham Was a school
teacher at Mitchell, but serving!
His Majesty’s forces’ at present as
a cook. Miss Pridham received her
public school education at Mount
Pleasant and later graduated from
the Mitchell High School and Strat
ford Normal School. She taught
school at Exetei' for several years.
LOVE—AMOS
Aiisa 'Craig United church was the
scene of its first wedding Ph Satur
day afternoon when Elizabeth Jean,
elder daughter of Mrs. Amos and
the late J. Ernest Amos, was unit
ed in marriage to Arthur Leslie?
youngest san of Mr. Abraham Love
and Mrs, Love, of Wilkie, Sask.
The church was attractively de
corated with pinl; and white peon
ies banked with palms. Rev, Jas.
Blair, pastor of the church, perform
ed the ceremony and Miss Alice
Hodgson was at the organ, Arthur
Palmer, boy soloist of St, Paul’s
Cathedral, London, sang “'Through
the Years” and “Because”,
The bride was escorted and given
in marriage by her brother, Mr,
Carlton Amos. She was charming
in her nuptial gown of white mar
quisette em/broidered ;in dhenllle"
bridal roses, long, tight-fitting
sleeves, sweetheart neckline and
• long train. She wore a sweetheart
headdress bound in satin, a finger
tip veil of finely embroidered French
net and carried deep red roses with
long white satin streamers.
Her matron of honor was Mrs.
, Carlton Amos, wearing a floor-length
gown of embroidered organza in
heavenly blue with- matching head
dress trimmed with bridal roses.
Her flowers were Briarcliffe roses
in florettes of Piccardy gladioli. The
bridesmaids were her sister, Miss
Phyllis Amos, wearing a floor-length
gown of petal pink sheer with, in
sets of madeira lace and carried
Jphanna Hill roses in florettes of
gladioli, bonnet headdress and
Shoulder veil and Miss .Terry Coady,
of London, who wore a similar gown
in forget-me-not blue and carried
pink Delight roses in florettes of
gladioli.
At the conclusion of the cere
mony the bride was presented with
a white leather-bound Bible, a gift
from the congregation.
The reception was held at the
home pf the bride’s grandfather,
Mr. J. H. Amos, McGillivray. Mrs.
Amos received in a gown of Queen’s
blue sheer with white accessories
and a corsage of Better Times roses.
About 45 guests were present. The
dining tables were pretty withvpink
and white flowers and streamers and
large baskets of pink peonies and
lupins decorated the rooms. Fol-
) lowing the reception the happy
j couple left for eastern cities, the
, bride traveling in a costume of Brit-
! ish tan and white with white ac-
cessories. On their return they
j will reside in London.
i ~
• HODGINS REUNION
The annual Hodgins Reunion was
held at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Harvey Godbolt, of 'Centralia, on
I Saturday evening, June 13. The wea-
i ther being ideal, the event was a i fine success. A sumptuous supper was
served on the lawn to fifty-six mem
bers. A number of sports were en
gaged in with Mr. and Mrs. M. Col
bert, of Ilderton, in charges. The
results of the races were 'as fol
lows: Children under 5 years,,
Louise Colbert, Lenore Godbolt;
girls 5-i8' years, Edythe Abbott, Al-
marie Davis; boys 5-8, Billy Abbott,
Russel-j Albert Cplbert; -young girls’ race,
i Pauline Abbott, J. Davis, E. Abbott;
I young men’s race, D. Abbott, H. Da-
vis, A. Abbott; spot race, Mrs. M.
Abbott; dress race, M. Abbott and
Mrs. H. Carroll, H. Godbolt, Miss
D. Pring, C. Fletcher and Mrs. W.
J. Davis; dinner call, Mrs. H. W.
Hodgins. A game of horseshoes
i was played by H. Carroll and C.
Fletcher, G. Pring and M. Abbott,
the latter winning and Mrs. H. W.
I Hodgins and Mrs. C. Fletcher were
i Winners at bingo.
A short program was enjoyed by
all and a business meeting followed
with Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Needham,
of Ilderton, elected as president and
i secretary. The reunion next year
• is to be held at the home of Mr. and j Mrs. M. Colbert, of Ilderton. Mr.
{and Mrs. Fred Davis, Centralia,
I were the oldest couple present, and | Master Cameron Davis the youngest,
j Those present were from Hamilton,
| London, Ilderton, S.aintsbury and
; Winchelsea. The evening was
; brought to a close by the singing of
the National Anthem.
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APPOINTED TO BOARD
Among the new liaison officers
appointed by the Western Ontario
Women’s Regional Advisory Com
mittee of the Wartime Prices and
Trade Board, announced by Mrs.
J. D, Detwiler, London, chairman
of the group are: Mrs. A. R. G*
Smith, New Hamburg; Mrs. George
Mathieson, Goderich; Mrs. Harry
Collins, Brucefield.
Seaforth council has adopted 4
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two mill reduction from 1941*