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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1939-03-23, Page 6THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATETWHSPAy, MARCH 23,. 1039 BY EVELYN SHULER the verge of i /rs a boy/hotel leave I want to talk to GEO. W. LAWSON the to sev- had but her and had She She go to sleep mind at the far- himself To Grandparents as well, another chapter of Family History begins. Their grandparents may have waited for days before they had good news like this, but that was before the telephone — and Long Distance — became part of our everyday existence. the door for at her thin were visible were dull she decided better go to What right have 1 together? sadness tug- hurried immediately to her Eloise greeted nim with r The worst heat of the Sum­ over. Gusty winds brought of early Fall to the city leaped back wanly in the it was “acres Mary wished that not so blindly stupid, see the adoration An- him, she wondered, 1m- the con- wealthy, scarce.” There joyful piled questions mind raced at the prospect— at his side and the whole to explore. He would get to sign a paper. "Will he have any trouble getting a backer?” David finally asked. "Say. this thing is worth millions of dollars. His trouble will be keeping people away from him. I wish I could get in on it with him. I’d invest everything I’ve got—-that is how sure I am.” David looked at the plans with a new respectful interest. “You’re not kidding me?” he asked dubiously. "Kidding you? Be yourself, man. You’re holding in your hands this minute a million-dollar treasure!" As he rode out to Sandy’s, David turned over in his mind the pros­ pects of the invention. If it really ran into big money, he could share in it, if he held the right to it. He knew intuitively that Eloise would marry him if he had all kinds of i money. His Eloise world Sandy When Andrea opened him. he was appalled figure. Haggard lines in her face. Her eyes with fatigue. "You've been working too hard, young lady,” he scolded, turning her around as he looked at her. “Lost quite a bit of weight, haven’t you?” “Not so much,” she answered. “You look a bit worn out yourself.” The curls were damp on her fore­ head. “She is working too hard,” Sandy interrupted, but nobody can stop her. Mary and I have been begging her to go away for a 'few weeks, but she won't pay any attention,” ‘‘It’s just the Summer heat. Now- tell us about yourself, David. How’s the show going?” David’s Proposal “Fine. We’ll open in a month if nothing happens to hold us up,” Da­ vid answered enthusiastically. He told them about his work. Andrea’s glance was prideful as she listened with whole-hearted interest, watched Andrea and David were Couldn’t he drea felt for patiently. “Before I you, Sandy,” David said. “Let’s have it now,” Sandy offer­ ed anxiously. They went into the din­ ing room where they held a low­ voiced conversation. “I’ve had a couple of people af­ ter me wanting to invest in the pa­ tent,” Sandy began. “They must have seen the description of my equipment filed in Washington.” “Don’t you do business with any­ body,” David warned sharply. “You are likely to get cheated—especial­ ly by pepole who will find out you don’t know a great deal about busi­ ness. You do the inventing side and let me end.” “I’d Dave,” all along that you would be able tc handle this for me, because you know the radio crowd.” “I’ll need your O. K. before I can make a move,” David said. “You’ll have to give me some sort of paper showing that I have the right to act for you.” ■Obediently Sandy went to the small desk and brought paper, pen and ink. He wrote the date and then looked at David questioningly “What shall I say here?” he asked. “This is to certify that David Ma­ son has sole rights to the sale, lease, rental or use of my television patent and that I have this day assigned all such rights to him.” tated slowly as Sandy copied down the words, had finished, he signed and handed it to David. “This patent will be money to you,” David said tucked the precious paper into his wallet. “I talked with McVeigh our chief engineer, and he’s very enthusiastic. Before long you’ll al- be living on Easy Street.” Sandy’s thin face lighted with ea gerness. “If only for Andrea’s sake I’ll bo glad. She's been such a good sport, never complaining one word, but I guess she’s wondered if I was ever going to get a job again or sponge on her the rest of my life.” "Andrea would never feel that way, Sandy,” David said sincerely. “Do you think I could tell them take care of the business appreciate it if you would Sandy said slowly. “I felt David dic- laboriously When he the paper worth real as he BOILS—Bad Blood the Cause Boils are simply an evidence Of the contaminated blood within com­ ing to the surface. Just when you think you are rid of one, another crops up to take its place and prolong your misery. All the lancing and poulticing yon do will not stop more coming. Why not give that old, reliable, blood purifying medicine Burdock Blood BittCrS a chance to banish the boils f Thousands have used it dur­ ing the past 60 years. Take B.B.B, Get ria of the bad blood and boils too. Ths T. Milburn Co., Ltd., Toronto1, Ont. about the patent now?” Sandy said eagerly. "Sure,” David replied as they went back into the living room, followed a small tumult of conversation as the woipen Sandy and David with about the patent. Long after David had gone, An­ drea and Mary still pondered over the possibilties. Wouldn’t it be won­ derful if it really all came true, they said happily. They could move into a small house in the suburbs—-then little Sandy wouldn’t be in all this unbearable heat. Andrea could buy a small car and drive in daily to shop. Mary and Sandy retired rosy dreams. Perturbing Pictures After they had gone, Andrea brought out the Sunday paper. She had been planning all night to read it. She had saved it from the day before, because Sunday was a good work ing day for her at the shop, un­ harassed by customers and saleswo­ men. Glancing idly at the rotogravure section, her attention was suddenly arrested by a picture there. It was taken on the French Riviera and showed Dean Gilthorp and Libby Vandersill supping together on the famous beach. They were smiling in the picture, apparently enjoying themselves. Andrea was amazed at her own reaction as she studied the picture. She felt inexplicably de­ pressed. "Whatever is the matter with me?” she thought shamedly. "Am I a dog in the manger to object to their being But a dismal haunting ged at her heart. "The heat’s got me, with a wan smile. “I’d bed.” But she coulun’t as she thought of Dean. Far away in a luxurious room at Bretton Woods, Eloise, too, was wakeful with troubled thoughts She descended on the hotel, but her arrival had gone unnoticed for eral days. Moneyed men later been flatteringly attentive, something was lacking. Could charm be waning? She rose from bed, switched on the lights and studied herself chitically In the mirror. Her beauty had not haded, but there was faint shadows of dissipation under her eyes, the strain of the last months brought tiny lines to her face, would have to begin treatments, decided after her close scrutiny. Losing Her Charm For two days after her arrival she had been left pointedly alone, although she had sat hopefully in the lavish lobby, eyeing the male population of the hotel as it passed to and fro before her. She saw no likely prospects, however. On the third day Malvin King, her elderly cotton broker friend from Miami, registered at the hotel. When she spied him in the lobby. Eloise was effusive in her greeting,' and with a courtly bow he led hei’ to the cocktai] bar. "Haven’t seen you since you be­ came Mrs. Burchette with such a flourish down South," he said good- humoredly. "And divorced in Reno,” she add­ ed. “What’s that? I hadn’t caught up with that news,” he replied, ordering drinks. “Tell me about it.” Made vivacious by his interest, Eloise told an amusing account of her sojourn to Reno with “scores of disgruntled ladies.” King laughed appreciatively at her vicious com­ ments on her own sex. “And now?” he asked, a tolerant smile on his lips. ‘‘Still Diana, the huntress?’ Eloise shook her head responsive­ ly. It was such to be able to talk freely to some one after her two days of exile here. His artful praise brought a gleam to her dark eyes. She relaxed and began to enjoy herself. They chat­ ted pleasantly of impersonal things —current books, the tion, even politics. But this night, as herself in the mirror, tain of hei' own powers, who had squired her during the last few days had been gallantly imper­ sonal in their attituae—adopting 'a camaraderie toward her which she found annoying. “I don’t want to be pals with men,” sho thought as she climbed wearily back into bed. "I used to be able to drive them mad,” With a sudden showing of defiance she whispered in the darkness. "I’ll drive them mad again — and make them pay — plenty.” CHAPTER XXII Overanxious, driven by a force inside herself which she could not explain, Eloise Mowbray started in desperate pursuit of a money man. She dared not fail. Sne regarded her vacation at Bretton Woods as a last . frontier in her attempted conquest of the world of wealth. With a do- Spanish situa- she looked at she felt uncer- The men I’ll | or-die spirit, he donned her most he- J coming outfits and daily descended I into the hotel lobby. I She was wined and dined by the wealthy, unattached men, but found herself committing inexcusably awk­ ward acts, guilty of a strange gauche frenzy. She was ill at ease and her own intense uncertainty seemed to transmit itself to her escorts. It was Malvin King who inadver­ tently put her own fears into cold words. They were having a frank discussion one night on the veran­ da. In the midst of their talk, he leaned back, puffed at his cigar speculatively and said: “You know', Eloise, I have been thinking of your problem and have come to elusion that susceptible, unattached men were very 1 New Advice She nodded absently, her the moment engrossed with fetched possibility of King as her victim, but his next words re­ called her abruptly to reality. “1 think your best bet,” he con­ tinued, his voice rumbling.on with pleasant intimacy, "would be to at­ tach yourself to a young go-getter— a young man just on making his fortune.” In a flash her mind to David. She smiled semidarkness. Perhaps of diamonds” all over again. She had searched the whole world for dia­ monds only to find them buried in her own back yard, But she would not admit defeat, even to herself. She would go home, she determined, chin high and her pride intact. David wanted to marry her, She had procrasinated long enough. Besides, David was "on the verge of making a fortune,” and she could go along with him and share it. “You have just voiced what I have in mind,” she said in hearty agree­ ment. “I will go home because there is a young go-gettei’ there waiting for me. I think I’ll leave tomorrow. True to her word, she packed her bags and returned to New York. The season was beginning to wane any­ way. mer was a breath streets. David hotel, warmth he had never received be­ fore. As he came into the room resplendent in an expensive suit, she reached up ardently and kissed him “I’ve been so lonely for you, Da­ vid whispered. It was only a half­ truth, but he hugged her so tightly she 'could scarcely breathe. In her ■absence he had discovered anew his own gnawing need of her. He press­ ed his lips against hers with fever­ ish ardor. All the doubts she had en­ tertained about her own charm van­ ished in his embrace. Once again she was a woman, wanted and desired. Her response to his eager, hungry kisses was immediate. "Marry me, Eloise,” David plead­ ed earnestly. “We can find great happiness together.” “All right, David,” she replied slowly. “We’ll be engaged, but we won’t marry until the Spring after your show has had its run.” David’s heart leaped with unre­ strained joy as he realized his dream of love was about to come true. "We’ll go and pick out a ring right away,” he said, tucking her hand masterfully under his arm. Leaving her hotel, he hailed a taxicab. They stopped briefly at his drew from his savings whirled to one of the ry shops of the town. David selected an expensive ring far beyond his means, but his hopes buoyed him into reasonable ecstacy. After they were married, Eloise would belong to him forever. Back in her room after their happy shop­ ping excursion, David, his blue eyes intense, lifted her hand and slipped on the sparkling, blue-tvhite dia­ mond. Greed Again Beckons He chatted happily of his hopes for the future. He told her of *Sandy’s invention and its possible value. He showed her the paper Sandy had signed, "This may be the means of bring­ ing us real money some day,” he said, as he returned the paper to his wallet Swift uuiculation rowed Eloise’s eyes, going came "A ing,” brate Later that day, David telephoned Andrea to tell her ms happy news. The engagement of David and Eloise stunned Andrea beyond words. She had known all along that David lov­ ed Eloise, but there was something definite and final and irrevocable in' their engagement, It seemed as if ! fate, against her will, had written 1 finis to a lovely chapter in her life. Dean Gilthorp learned of the en-1 'gagement from iSandy the first day bank while he and then were leading jewel­ nar- So Sandy was to come into money? She be- quietly thoughtful. splurge dinner tonight, darl- David was saying, "to cele- otii' engagement.” Even as you road this, some Father somewhere is rushing this news to relatives. No matter where they are or what time it is — his first impulse is to let them know! And that is also true of Aunts (and Uncles) and all the in-laws. Be­ fore Baby is half an hour old his arrival is celebrated far and wide — and he is endowed with a dozen names. Manager. ■even had dared to show you my went on. “A while story when he was home from abroad. At the news, a slow contemplative smile lighted his lean 'face. So his experi­ ment was beginning to work- more quickly than he hope. “And now I want to patent papers,” Sandy lot of things have happened you were away.” Gilthorp followed Sandy’s with unfeigned interest—but Sandy told of signing the- paper for David, Gilthorp’s face darkened. “What did the paper say?” he asked, his voice sharp with concern. As nearly as he could remember Sandy repeated the wording of the paper. “Do you realize you have virtual­ ly signed away the whole right to your patent?” Gilthorp demanded, with a showing of temper. “No, I only did it because I thought David knew more about business than I did,” Sandy answered, his voice woe-begone. “I know you can trust David—but you must get that paper back at once. There’s no time to lose.” The men were smoking in the liv­ ing room when Andrea arrived home package-laden and weary. “Welcome home,” she said cheer­ fully to Gilthorp. Dean sprang to his feet to assist her with the bundles. “Have a nice time?” Her voice was friendly, but he detected a cool, im­ personal undertone. “I had a fine time—but you look weary, Andrea,” he replied, “and much thinner. Rou didn’t take my advice about a rest, did you?” "Nope,” she retorted, an jmpish smile on her face. “But I’m proud to announce that the shop is well out Here is a cicart, stainless flfltisefltie oil flow disflenSed by chemists at trifling cost, that will do more to help you get rid of ydur trouble than anything you’ve ever used. its action is so powerfully penetrating that the itching is instantly stopped; and in a short time you are rid of that bother- gphie, fiery eczema. The same is true of Barbers Itch, Salt Rheum, Itching TOCs and Feet—other irritating unsightly skin troubles. You can obtain Moone’ii Emerald Oil In the original bottles at any modern drug store. It is safe to use-—And failure in any of the ailments noted above is rare indeed. Spread Good News by LONG DISTANCE! Look in your telephone directory and you’ll find that hy using Low Night Rates (also applying all day Sunday) and placing “Anyone” calls you can talk to nearby towns or Provinces for much less than you expected. c^o&L1 ___ NARROWLY ESCAPES ASPHYXIATION 'Tb« parent l«r« I* whlck tabaaca <•* ba *«alta4“ of the red—and that’s better than a rest.” “Your health is more important than the shop,” he answered abrupt­ ly. Andrea felt suddenly impatient with him. Couldn’t ne realize what it meant to her to pull the shop out of debt? He had always had money. The struggle to earn it was unknown to him—and the thrill of achieve­ ment. The old feeling that they liv- Eighteen children and adults were overcome by furnace fumes while sitting down to a mission band sup­ per in the basement of Blyth United Church, it was made known, recently Two were treated by doctors. All recovered over the week-end after a narrow escape from the asphyxia­ tion. A blocked chimney caused the fumes from the hot air furnace to< filter into the room where the sup­ per was in progress. A slight odor was detected prior to the start of the supper, but no attention was paid. About half-way through the meal, children and adults reeled in their chairs and several fainted. Persons outside the basement ed and moved in ali,en worlds assail- rushed in and helped carry or assist Dean would never under- she her ed her. stand the personal satisfaction received from making good on job. “Tell me all about Europe,” said, patting a space on side her invitingly. He well she thought, ruddy filled out. The trip had good. she be-the sofa was looking and a done To be continued THE LATE MRS. WRIGHT little him JohnFuneral services for Mrs. Wright were held from the family residence at west .McGillivray to the conducted by Rev. W. Kiteley, of the conductd by Rev. W. Kiteley, of the Lieury United Church of which Mrs. Wright was a member. Mrs. Wright, whose maiden name was Isabella Glendenning, was the daughter of Agnes and John Glendenning. She was born 54 years ago in McGillivray Township. Twenty-eight years ago she married John Wright and moved to West McGillivray where she has since resided. Surviving are her hus­ band, four daughters and one son, Mrs. James Zigsfortlu Lucan; Mary- belle, of London; Jessie, Margaret and James, at home; also one sister, Mrs. Ernest Thompson. The pall­ bearers were Albert Armstrong, Gor­ don Thompson, iStuart Wright, Bel- vin, Roy and Laverne Allison. Flow­ er bearers were Robert Robinson, E. Wright, Guthrie Reid, Garnet Hod­ gins, Arthur Thompson and M. Al­ lison. the fumes victims. Miss Ida McGow­ an, who had been helping to super­ vise the children, was taken to the office of Dr. C. Kirkpatrick across the road and was quickly revived. Mrs. Charles Grasby managed to stagger out of the basement an< collapsed on the sidewalk. Rev. A. Sinclair, the minister, aided in bring­ ing others out into the fresh air. BRUCEFIELD FIRE DEPART­ MENT ELECT OFFICERS. , The annual meeting of the Bruce- field Fire Department which was held in the Odd Fellows’ Hall, Bruce- field, was well attended when the following officers were elected: Hon. president, Hugh Aikenhead; pres. J. McCully; Vice-president, J. K. Cornish; directors, H. F. Berry, John McIntosh, John Snider, J. Pepper, Lyle Hill; treasurer, W. J, McIntosh secretary, Ross Scott; chief, W. H. Dalrymple; captain, H. F. Berry; first lieutenant, W. D. Scott; second lieutenant, D, I-I. Wheeler gineer, A.Patterson Sturgeon, W. D. first en- ailditors,■. A. G. Scott. The fire brigade which is a very active and enterprising organization has com­ pleted a successful year financially. 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