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carried him
lay him on
n’ in the ambpl-
decided quickly.
Upstairs in the little room, Tex
opened his traveling bag and took
out his pyjamas and robe, tooth
brush and toothpaste. Smoky sat
on the bed watching him, and it all
seemed like a dream.
Their Wedding Night
to
at
off
A strange man was beginning
undress in her room. She stared
him childishly and Tex, taking
his shirt, told her:
"You can undress in the bath
room, Mrs. .Stacy. I won’t peek.”
Automatically Shamrock obeyed
hex- lord and master. Morning was
bathing the sky when Tex fell asleep
with his dark head in the curve of
her arm. His passion
and he breathed softly
little boy.
Smoky had recovered
confidence. She lay glorying in
power of her womanhood.
He saw through her, did
Well, she’d show him! She’d chain
him to her and hold him just as
long as she needed him. It was easy
if you didn’t let your own emotions
become involved.
And there wasn’t a man alive who
could ever get close enough to stick
a knife in her heart again. Of
Shamrock was very sure.
a mighty hand that was to change
all their lives.
CHAPTER XVI
you
the
ask
was spent
like a tired
some of her
the
he?
** They were sitting down to the
table when the door-bell rang.
Smoky jumped up to answer it.
She almost fainted with shock when
she saw it was Jim Chance, the
press agent of "Snapshots’ and four
other men,
"Why, Mr. Chance!” she stepped
back in amazement. "What are
doing here'?”
Jim laughed heartily. "This is
bride boys! Aren’t you going to
us in, Mrs. Stacy?”
Before Smoky knew quite what
was happening they were inside and
Jim was introducing Macy, of the
Globe, and Stewart, of the Tabloid,
reporters. The other two men were
photographers.
Smoky looked up to see Tex stand
ing in the dining-room door.
"Hello, Stacy!” Chance rushed
over and shook his hand. “I guess
you two little love birds thought you
were pulling a fast one when you
snuck into the Marriage License
Bureau yesterday. But if there's
one thing Jim Chance always keeps
an eye peeled for, it’s the licenses.”
Tex looked uncomfortable. “We
don’t want any publicity, Chance."
It was 11 o’clock. For a long time
. Clancy had been lying on the bed
in his room staring at the Hetrick
house plunged in darkness.
Since Karl’s marriage to Dagne
Olsen it had been a house almost
without light. Early in the even
ing there would be signs of life
downstairs. Then, for only a short
while, a light would appear in the
upstairs bedroom. There was an air
of tragic mystery about the place
since Mrs. Hetrick had
and Clancy felt certain
a house of happiness.
Why should a young
herself up never to be
after her marriage
come and go like a
as Clancy knew, no
the Hetricks since
Dagne there to live. Not even the
girl’s own father. Clancy was not
given to spying, but
worried curiosity he
the place next door,
pressed him.
gone away
it was not
bride shut
seen again
her groomand
shadow? So far
one had visited
Karl brought
often out of a
lay staring at
Its silence de
that Publicity A-Plenty Clancy to the Rescue
CHAPTER XV
When it came time for Clancy to
have his breakfast, Smoky got up
and slipped into hkr favorite blue
house dress and went downstairs.
He was still in his room and she
knocked on ( his door timidly. He
was up and fully dressed, sitting by
the window. Clancy held out
arms and Smoky ran to him
knelt beside his chair burying
head in his lap.
"Oh, Pop,” she said in a little
choked voice. “Tell me you forgive
me.”
He patted her shoulder, forcing
gayety into his own voice. "And
what is there to forgive, baby? I
guess you’re not after bein’ the first
one to elope in this
your mother and I
thing?”
"I—-I couldn’t tell
to,” Smoky sobbed,
you’d try to stop me.”
Their First Breakfast
"Don’t be
ed. "You’re
Stacy. You
That’s what
with gettin’
Now he lay thinking of Smoky
his
be-
If
of
to make up
what to do. He didn’t
he should be with them,
were to make a success
marriage, they should be left
his
and
her
said firmly: "I don’t want a
made of our marriage.”
spoke up soothingly: “There
be anything like that, Stacy,
You
back,
mind
family. Didn’t
do the same
you. I wanted
“I was afraid
as-
me.
out
like that,” Jim laugh
in the show business,
got to have publicity,
it takes. What’s wrong
married? It ain’t as if
you’d gone out and murdered some
body.”
Tex
circus
Macy
won’t
We just want a litle yarn about
romance blooming backstage at the
Larimer, and some pictures of you
and your wife around the house.”
Stewart reminded him: “It’ll be
in the papers anyway, Stacy,
might as well give in now.”
Chance slapped Tex on the
"Maybe this’ll change your
Stacy. Melvin is going to tell'you
tonight that you’re getting the top
spot in the show. He’s sending our
so-called leading man out with a
4-oad company and giving you the
break opposite Gogo.”
"Oh, Tex!” Smoky gasped. “Isn’t
that wonderful?”
"Very nice.” Tex said uncertainly
"But I still don’t like the idea of
pictures. Can’t you do a story with
out the pictures?”
"Your wife isn’t that hard to
look at,” Chance grinned. "Come
on, don’t be so shy.”
and Tex trying
mind
lieve
they
their
to themselves to work it out. And
yet, feeling certain Shamrock had
not married Tex because she loved
him, her father wondered if she
would not be better off under his
influence.
Clancy groaned in agony when
the pain in his back seemed un
bearable and the heaviness of his
heart \vas like a stone in his chest.
What use was he in the world now?
He was a burden to Shamrock and
her husband and never again would
he be able to work. A man not yet
in his fifties, white-haired, broken
in health. The fire department had
been his life, and when the bells
clanged and he heard the trucks
leaving the station he felt he could
no longer bear the lon'eliness of
being idle.
Staring at the
Clancy was lost in
lay on his bed in
he saw the first
flared against the window of the up
stairs bedroom next door he thought
it was his imagination.
But when the
brilliantly. Clancy
Automatically he
bedroom slippers,
the window to make sure his imag
ination was not playing him tricks.
In his pyjamas and heavy bath-robe
and exerting all his strength Clancy
made his way through the kitchen
and opened the door. By the time
he reached the porch flames licked
the window above. Forgetting that
he was not supposed to walk around
or exert
dow'n the
Hetrick home,
memories as he
the dark. When
faint light that
New Honors For Tex
Smoky
coming
one
He
he
"Come
of the
was in
looked
"I know, I know,” Clancy sooth
ed. "You don’t have to be offerin’
any excuses to me, darlin’. If you
are happy,’ that’s all’ that matters
to- your old dad.”
"Oh, I am happy!” Smoky
sured him. “Tex is so good to
I know everything will come
all right.”
"•Of course, it will,” Claucy rais
ed her head and kissed her cheek.
"He’s a fine young man, your hus
band is. I’m proud to have him for
a son-in-law.”
They heard footsteps and
got up hurriedly. “Tex is
Pop.”
Clancy called out loudly:
in here, Stacy! You’re
family now.”
Tex opened the door,
robe and slippers and
sleepy but cheerful.
"Good morning, Pop,” said Tex
as he walked over for Clancy’s
hand-shake. “I was getting to be
such a star boarder I thought I’d
just move in and save hotel bills.”
Clancy pumped his hand heartily
“And ’tis mighty happy I am to
have ye. son- That was quite a
surprise when the kid telephoned.
But I’m wishin’ ye all the happiness
in the world.”
Smoky was looking out the win
dow. Tex bent over and kissed
her cheek airily.
“Good morning, Mrs. Stacy, You
are looking very beautiful this
morning. What, no curl papers!”
The tension of the room lessened
and Smoky said briskly: "Well, I
guess I’d better get breakfast."
"Make it a big one,” Tex grinned
"Remember, I married you for your
cooking."
Eventually Tex gave in, but he
winced when they posed him at the
kitchen sink wiping dishes while
Smoky washed them. When they
tied a towel around him and tried
to get him to pose with the scrub
bing brush on the floor, he drew the
line. Clancy hid in his room and
kept out of the way.
“Next week,” Chance informed
Tex, "we must have a lot of shots
of you on a horse, the boss says.
But that can wait till the honey
moon pictures cool down.”
"I don’t see why that's necessary,’
Tex objected. "I don’t do my sing
ing on a horse.”
Chance laugnea: "At least you got
to admit, boys, the guy isn’t a cam
era louse."
That evening when Melvin, the
director, saw the publicity resulting
from the
and the
ghter, he
the "Go
sketch with Tex.
Even if she wasn’t much
dancer, and couldn’t sing too
she had a lot more sex appeal
Gogo La Maine. The French
would probably hit the ceiling,
Melvin, was used to that.
The director felt that in
dull flare burst
raised up swifty,
reached for his
still looking at
himself
steps.
He Saves
Dagne! ”
The News Gets Out
A Help To Those
Past Middle Age
■When men and women get past
middle age their energy and activity,
in many instances, begin to decline,
and their general vitality is on the
wane.
Littld sicknesses and ailments seem
harder to shake off than formerly,
and, here and there, evidences of a
breakdown begin to appear,
Now is the time when those who
wish to maintain their health and
vigor, and retain, their energy un
impaired should take a course of
Milbum’s Health and Nerve Pills,
They brace up and invigorate the
system, and help stall off ths decrepi
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The T. Milburn Co., Lid., Toronto, Ont,
Clancy hurried
Dagne
he called, but
marriage of the cowboy
Astoria’s fireman’s dau-
decided to put Smoky into
West, Young Woman,”
of a
well,
than
star
but
for
any
the
her
Tex
Stacy he had a fortune, and altho’
he was sorry the young man had
married one of the Ginger Snaps it
was too late to do anything about
that, now. The romance probably
wouldn’t last long anyway when
Stacy saw his name in lights.
An Impending Tragedy
At the subway when they left
the theatre. Tex and Shamrock
bought papers. Smoky was thrilled
beyond all words when she saw her
picture^on the froht page. She won
dered why Tex seemed so upset. Af
ter all, success on the stage depend
ed almost entirely upon publicity.
But she decided not to ask
questions as to why Tex felt
way he did.
Smoky wondered how many of
old friends and neighbors had seen
the papers, and what they would
think .of her now. Karl and Dagne
and Mrs, Hetrick, and all the people
who know that Karl had turned her
down to marry her old enemy.
It was a long time before Sham
rock had the chance to find out. For
that night tragedy visited the little
street in Astoria and struck it with
“Karl!
the March wind was blowing so that
no one heard his voice ip. the gale.
There was no time to run to the
fire station, even if Clancy had pos
sessed the strength. His first
thought was a prayer that the kit
chen door was unlocked.
It was. And Clancy, his. bedroom
slippers filled with snow that stung
at his bare feet, rushed inside yell
ing:
“Dagne! Karl! Fire. Wake up.”
But there was no sign of life. With
the smell of smoke in his nostrils,
Clancy forgot his aching back and
his pounding heart. He was on the
job again, fighting a fire, and he
fought his way almost happily up
stairs through the smoke that blind
ed him.
At tne top of the landing he
stumbled, but would not give up.
Holding his robe against his mouth,
he found the knob of the
door and opened it. The
in flames.
Dagne lay on the floor
flames licking at her nightgown
When Clancy grabbed blankets from
the cedar chest and rolled her in
them. Then, staggering from the
room with his heavy burden, he
fought his way painfully through
the smoke.
He would have been unable to
go on, hut he heard the siren and
the sounds of his old hook-and-
ladder company below. With super
human courage, Clancy made z his
way down the smoke-filled stairs
and through the hall with the un
conscious girl in his
ROSS Aids
arms.
Him
The Chief took Dagne from
Clancy’s arms, and ordered one of
his men to send for an ambulance.
Outside Clancy fell to the snow
and Ross and O’Rourke
into his own home and
the bed.
"Clancy’ll
ance, too,”
"Have them
But Clancy opened his eyes and
shook his head wearily. "Never
mind Chief. I won’t be needing a
hospital.-”
"Of coure you will," Ross said
crisply. "You’ve swallowed enough
smoke to fill a barn.”
"No. I’ll not go to a hospital. Go
back to your fire, Chief."
"Bill took over.” Ross refused to
leave. “Not much use, anyway.
The house is going up like a pine
box,”
"What about the girl?” Clancy
breathed heavily.
"You got her out in time,” the
chief assured him. "She’ll be O.K.
Where’s that damn ambulance?”
” Clancy closed
i me last fire,
bum lieart of mine. The doc
if I ever took any exercise I’d
in me chips.”
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"Forget it, Larry,’
his eyes. "This is
This
said
cash
♦Clancy’s Last Words
Ross, looking at his best fireman,
knew he was telling the truth. And
he could see very little use in try
ing to deceive him. "Clancy,” he
choked, “is there anything I can do
for you?”
■Clancy coughed weakly: Then he
smiled. "Tell—the kid,” he said
a great effort, “that her old
died wih his boots on, after
Even if they are me old bed
slippers.”
with
man
all,,
room
Those were the last words Clancy
O’Toole ever spoke. He closed his
eyes wearily and, still smiling faint
ly, went to sleep.
Ross was not ashamed of the tears
that rolled down his cheeks. When
an interne from the ambulance came
in with his bag, the chief shook his
head. ’
"Too late, Doctor. How’s the
girl?”
“Pretty far gone, I’m afraid.”
The young man took out his steth
oscope and listened
heart. “She's just about ready to
have a baby.”
Clancy was dead. The doctor pub
his stethoscope back in his bag and
prepared ’to leave.
"A—baby?” Ross said, incredu
lously. "Why, the girl’s only been
married about six weeks.”
The doctor shrugged. “Well, the
preacher just beat the stork by a
coat-tail then.”
Thompson Reunion
The annual Thompson family re
union was held at Grand Bend with
about 23 present for dinner and 69
for supper. Guests were present
from Caperol, Sudbury, Thornhill.
Stratford, London, Ailsa Craig, Den-
field, Parkhill, Mt. Carmel and
Lieury. . In the afternoon a good
program of sports was carried out
consisting of races for young and
old and ending with a lovely game
of softball. Prizes were awarded to
each of the following: The oldest
person, Eli Thompson; the young
est person, Rita Ann Thompson; the
person coming the greatest number
of miles, Master Glen Fauliner, of
Sudbury,
After supper the president, Ben
Thompson, conducted a business
meeting and election of officers
which resulted: Honorary President,
Mrs, Ellen Connor, Mrs. A. Thomp
son and J. Arthur Thompson; presi
dent, Ben Thompson; vice-president,
Ernest Thompson; sec’y-treasurer,
Mrs. William Thompson. It was de
cided to hold the next reunion at
Grand Bend on the second Saturday ■
in July.
to Clancy’s
A teacher was instructing her
class in the use of antonyms. "Now
children,” she said, "what is the op
posite of sorrow?” “Joy," shrieked
the class in unison, "And what is
the opposite of woe?” "Giddap!”
Mystery Explained
So that explained the mystery of
why Karl Hetrick had suddenly
married Dagne Olsen instead of
Shamrock O’Toole. Ross wondered
if Clancy had known the truth, and
if Smoky knew.
How Smoky would hate Dagne
Hetrick now, the chief thought,
darkly. First she had taken the
man she loved; then her father had
given his life to save her.
(To be Continued)
Jefferson careless with his
"Is he! . I’ve known him
“Is
money?”
to buy bread when he didn’t have a<
drop of gasoline in his car.” '■
bedroom
bed was
with the
the door lead
ing into the kitchen, and when he
saw Clancy he could not believe his
eyes.
God’s
doing
Ross met him at
He yelled franctlcally: "For
sake, Clancy, what are you
here?"
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A. Mi POWELL, PRESIDENT’
That Ottawa is an exclusive name
would be the guess of many inhabit
ants of the Dominion, particularly as
it is the Capital. Yet a railway
agent' might well inquire of the in
tending traveller which of eight com
munities was meant when asking
for a "ticket to Ottawa.” Transpor
tation salesmen of the Canadian
National Railways know that in ad
dition to the seat of Parliament
there are seven Ottawas across the
Border in Georgia, Illinois, Kansas,
Minnesoa, Ohio, Pennsylvania and
West Virginia.
Nor is the repitious use of place
names confined to the Capital, even
Montreal which would appear quite
safe beause the title clearly desig
nates Mount Royal, the central phy
sical feature of the Metropolis, has
its counterpart in Michigan, altho'
on somewhat smaller scale.
Quebec, too, is definitely Cana
dian but communities in Louisana
Montana, North Carolina and Texas
have borrowed the name.
Halifax, Nova Scotia, with its posi
tive English name was so called from
a patriotic motive. It is not clear
what motives stirred those in Mas
sachusetts, North Carolina, Penn
sylvania and Virginia who gave the
name to towns.
A traveller who entered an office
of the Canadian National Railways
in Toronto, Capital of Ontario, was
surprised
after his
Toronto.”
was only
destination
there are seven Torontos across the
border.
The record for repitition goes to
Hamilton. The Ontario steel city
has relatives in New Brunswick and
Quebec, and twenty-four in the
United States, Wisconsin heading
the list with two. Victoria, British
Columbia, comes second with a Vic
toria in New Brunswick, thirteen
in the United States and three in
Mexico. Windsor, Ontario, is third
with one namesake in Nova Scptia
and sixteen beyond the internation
al boundary.
Calgary has a rival in Texas, Van
couver has one in Washington, while
Fredericton, Capital of New Bruns-
wich, shares the name with a place
in Prince Edward Island.
Ten cities and towns on th'e con
tinent are called St. John but there
is only one "Saint John.”
mark and privilege of
Bjunswick port.
■Canadian cities which
names exclusively are
Edmonton, Regina, Saskatoon, and
Moncton and Charlottetown.
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