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THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 21st, ,1943
“Secrets in Love”
to know the sweet fulfillment Qf
ecstatic promise*
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He had only to
holding her and holding her .
(Foiled
he hadn't. Somehow he had
her arms away, beating down
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by Phyllis Moor^ Gallagher
Last Week’s Action
When Anthony called saying he
was coming to her house at once,
Beg toid him that Count stranyan
was there and that she was going
out with him. Paul and Peg went
on to a night club and Peg was hay*
ing a gay time, drinking too many
cocktails in pn effort to drown
secret trouble over Hewitt
Thalia. Then Nadeja Damara
tered the room, accompanied
several men. When they were seat
ed, Peg saw one of the men clande
stinely slip a piece of paper to Na
deja, who put the missive in her
purse. Peg had a sudden crazy
idea that it was a Jove missive and
she formulated plans to get it so
she could show it to Duncan and
thus delude him of his ideas about
Nadeja. So, as she started dancing
with Paul, she slipped and partially
fell against Nadeja, She got the
paper she was after,
her
and
en-
by
laugh and weep at the same time.
Everything had. crowded her mind..
The old woman in the garage, the
dull thud of a body and no explana
tion for it.
she was crazy or that she had Play
ed a joke on him. And Thalia and
Hewitt, Nadeja Damara and Dun
can and a little white card with a
strange message on it.
She laughed and wept and laughed
and wept. Aunt Mehalie had hur
ried out into the kitchen for water
and up the stairs for smelling salts,
Anthony’s hands were on hei‘ shoul
ders shaking hei’ furiously. He was
saying: “Peg what is it? Peg!”
And his voice was a shout in her
ears. All at once she wasn’t laugh
ing any more . . just weeping un
controllably on Anthony’s shoulder
, , . her cheek stinging where
thony’s hand had slapped her.
she was no longer hysterical.
Mr. Nelson thinking
An-
But
The Message
a little gasp of disgust at
she sailed in the dressing
Her fingers slipped shakily
With
herself
room,
down the deep V of her blue dress.
They were still shaking when a mo
ment later she stood there reading
the strange words on that little
White card. They were very strange
words, indeed. She read it
through, third time. The
said simply:
Not much business on your
give market quotations as
169/30
765/21
187/45 1983/21.
the stock I suggested.
SAM JONES
ings. I
follows:
25/19
176/23
you buy
18i8«/l-0
839/45
twice
card
n 01 ci
250/11
176/00
Advise
CHAPTER XI
They didn’t tell Reg anything
about Duncan until she was quite
calm. Aunt Mehalie had hustled
her into bed with all speed,
thony was sitting beside her
small, uncomfortable
looking young and
frightened. He had
between his palms,
hated to strike you
You knew I had to,
Before she had time to say any
thing Aunt Mehalie was plying her
with questions. What on earth had
happened to her? Why had she
come home without a coat, hysteri
cal? Where was Count Stranyan?
Anthony said with a grim calm
ness: “If he did anything to
you, Peg ... I'd kill him.”
An
in a
now,
and
chair
miserable
her slim hand
He said: “I
like -that, Peg.
didn’t you?”
hurt
clearly, how-
country club
night dance,
Something
HiiuiniiinuHiiiiiiniiHiiuBiuiiiiinnihi;
the bed and sat there, his dark head
buried in his fingers. There was
a strange muddled emptiness in his
head. It was difficult to think, to
try to piece together the events of
night before last, There were some
things lie remembered
ever » . . too clearly.
He had gone to the
to the usual Saturday
knowing that Nadeja would be there.
That Emanuel Damara would not.
He remembered leaving the club
early, standing there op the park
ing grounds beside his car and Na
deja, her blonde head hooded in
black velvet and a black velvet cape
swirling about her slim body, com-*
ing to him through the moonlight.
They had gone to a dozen places.
Drinking too much all the time be
cause of something he had seen in
Nadeja’s violet eyes,
which had told him that tonight
was going to end everything. He
hadn't really been surprised when
Nadeja had suggested going to her
apartment. “I want to talk to you,
Duncan, and I can't in dark cor
ners, hiding around like this, And
it’s too late to go out to your place.”
It was his first time in her apart
ment. He remembered Nadeja stand
ing in the mauve shadows of the
hall, leaning against the wall, her
curls and the yellow of her gown
lost in the darkness so that only
the white of a long throat, and of
a slim arm at her side, marked the
woman whose voice came as a whis
per to him.
•But
palled
the stridency of the clamor in his
brain, the -furious hungry lash of
his blood* So long he hail wanted
her like this. Somehow he had got
ten out of her suite, out of the hotel,
into his car. He couldn’t remember
how long he had sat at Tony's Bar,
how many times Tony had filled his
glass. He had sat there knowing
drunkenly how close a woman had
come to changing the whole course
pf his life. She’s selfish, he had told
himself, bitterly, She’d sell her soul
and honor, my soul and honor for
money, He hated her with a violent,
implacable hatred even as every
nerve, every instinct of his senses
tugged at him to go back tq that
gold-aud-white drawing room, But
he didn’t go. He was driving through
• an opalescent dawn, drunker than
he had even been in his life when
blackness liad closed in, The next
thing he understood fully was An
thony Covington carrying him up
Aunt Melialie’s stairs.
He lay back on the bed then, pant
ing, as if he had run a long way, one
arm flung
Downstairs
hall. Peg
one else,
cided wearily,
who had visited Anthony this sum
mer. He put his palms against his
ears to shut out the voices. He had
to think. He had to get things
straight in his head.
(To be continued)
Peg couldn’t understand it. It
must mean simply that Nadeja Da
mara was gambling in the stock mar
ket without the approval of her
husband; or it might mean that the
young man had had one of those
broker’s tips which always excited
Hewitt. But what kind of quota
tions were these? She had been in a
brokerage house for six months
and these just simply didn’t make
’ sense. And she was perfectly furi
ous with
a scene,
perfectly
never in
hadn’t had so mapy cocktails;
Hewitt hadn’t been in the
shaft with Thalia,
nothing whatsoever
can to his senses;
instead a riddle.
All at once Peg was
any-
Au-
herself. She had created
she had done something
mad which she would
the world have done if she
if
stair-
found
Dun-
found
She had
to
she
bring
had
All at once Peg was too humili
ated to go back into that cocktail
room. And too frightened. Suppose
Nadeja had discovered the missing
card? Suppose . .? Peg could almost
■feel herself turning pale, the rouge
Standing out in ugly glaring spots
on her cheeks. Her eyes seemed de
tached from the rest of her, some
how; they were staring blurily at the
pale green walls with the silver cor
nices.
, “If I live to be a million years
old,’’ she thought, sickly, “I'll nevei’
live this down in my conscience.”
■She knew what she would do. Go
straight home without seeing Paul
Stranyan again. He would think
she was insane, of course. As per
haps she was. But it didn’t mat
ter what Paul Stranyan thought.
She took a taxi in front of the
hotel. She was thoroughly sober
now, cold and shivering. She was
half way home before she realized
that she had left her coat in the
cocktail lounge. The only coat she
had in the world.
Peg’s Explanation
Peg said, quickly: “It wasn’t
thing like that. I swear it,
thony, It was simply that I—I had
seven cocktails. I never had more
than one before in my life. I—I
guess I didn’t know what I was do
ing when I left,
and came home and that—
about all there was to it.”
wasn’t a very convincing liar
she knew it. But somehow
couldn’t bring herself to tell
the truth. Not now. Not tonight.
For a moment ’ after that Aunt
Mehalie looked as if she were going
■toz faint. Her faded little
eyes moved to Anthony’s face, stay
ed there. And Peg remembered all at
once that when they had come out
into the hall they had meant to -tell
her something.
The room was very quiet for a
minute,
tel. A floor board, rebelling
the furnace that had been
that day, creaked a little.
Peg’s fingers stiffened
thony’s palm. “What were ;
Aunt Mehalie going to tell
thony? Please tell me.
right now.”
He said: “I don’t know what
into you Pattersons tonight,
and Duncan. You see, the police
found Duncan in his car, just a lit
tle off the Canal Road, almost out of
sight in the woods. He was dead
drunk behind the steering wheel. He
had probably been there all day.
Peg, don’t look so ghastly,
hushed the whole thing up.
won’t be a
Duncan’s in
off.
“I happen
doesn’t drink,
think
more
spree.
You know that.”
I just got in a cab
•that’s
She
and
she
him
blue
A clock ticked on the man-
against
started
in
you
me,
I’m
An
and
An-
all
got
You
I’ve
There
scandal or anything,
liis room sleeping it
to know that Duncan
Peg. I can’t help but
that there was something
to it than just going on a
He ain’t the spreeing type.
Home at Last
In front of Aunt Melialie’s she
paid the driver, ran quickly up the
steps, opened the door and locked it
carefully behind her. She stood
• there'then, leaning against it, pant
ing. She didn’t hear Anthony and
Aunt Mehalie come out of the living
room. She didn’t even know they
Were there until they suddenly loom
ed up in front of her.
Aunt Mehalie, Peg saw, was trem
bling,
and
taut
She
else
pening to my life . .
Afterward she remembered hazily
that before either Aunt Mehalie or
Anthony could speak she bPgan to
next
He didn’t, he told them
idea
” he
Anthony’s eyes were bleak
■tired and there whs a Strange,
expression around his mouth,
thought, miserably, “Oh, what
has happened?” What is hap- n
Duncan Tempted
But neither Peg nor Anthony nor
Aunt Mehalie could get any infor
mation out of Duncan the
morning,
stonily, have the remotest
what happened. “I suppose,'
said, “I was drunk. Stinking drunk.
I remember I had a hell of a lot to
drink last night.” When they re
minded him that it wasn’t last night
but the night before last, he sat up
against his pillow glaring at them.
“All right, it was the night before
last. So what? Can’t a guy over
estimate his capacity once in a life
time without bringing on an inquisi
tion?”
Duncan did not lie down again
when those three left him alone,
He swung his feet over the edge of
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To help overcome the cause' of headache it is
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and biliary organs, neutralizing acidity, regulating the constipated bowels
and toning Up the sluggish liver, and when this has been accomplished the
headaches should disappear.
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SINGLE MEN *
‘ required to formulate the by-law
confirming such appointments and
salaries and to notify all appointees;
Clerk, A. W* Morgan; treasurer, N.’
G, Clarke; assessor. W. J. Routly;
collector, Wm. Johns; medical of*
ficer, Dr. Dunlop; road superinten
dent, W. J. iRoutly; relief officer, H.
G. Clarke; sanitary inspector, Thos,
Bell; caretaker, J. Kellete; livestock
valuator, B. Williams; school at
tendance officer, William Johns;
weed inspector, John Herdman; in
spector re. livestock at large con
trary to by-law, W. J. 'Routly;
poundkeepers, Earl Whiting, Wm.
Prayne, Wi; C. Heddy, Frank Ryck-
man, James Anderson. Wellington
Kerslake, John Brock, Harold Hern,
Heber Shute, Thos, C. Allen; fence
viewers, Clarpce Down, Wellington
Kerslake, John Prance, Wm. Donpe,
James Heywood,
A By-Law was passed giving the
treasurer and reeve authority to
borrow at the Bank of Montreal,
Exeter, as required, up to $25,000.
j A iResolution was passed author;
j izing prepayment of county rates by
. the treasurer,
1 Bills and accounts were passed
amounting to $437-53. Council ad
journed to meet on February 13, at
1 p.m.
USBORNE COUNCIL
The municipal council of the
Township Of Usborne for the year
1943 met at the township hall for the
inaugural session on January 11 at
11 a.m. The members subscribed to
the Declaration of Office as follows;
Reeve, Percy Passmore, Councillors,
Hugh Berry, Bruce Copper, Clarke
Fisher and John Hodgert. Minutes
of December 15, 1942 were adopted
as read on motion by Cooper and
Fisher,
On motion by Hodgert and Cooper,
Council decided to join the Ontario
Good Roads Association and the
Ontario Municipal Association. Mem
bership $5.00 each. On motion of
Fisher and Berry, $10.00 each was
granted to the War Memorial Child
ren's Hospital and Queen Alexandra
Sanitarium, both of London.
Communication was received from
Director General-Priorities Branch,
granting the Municipality an IA-10
rating for repair, maintenance and
operating supplies. Clerk reported
that he had made application for ai
serial number under preference rat
ing order.
Communication was received from
the fuel-wood Administrator of the
IW. T, P. B, showing new schedule of
price ceiling on fuel-wood through
out Ontario.
Clerk was instructed to formulate)
a by-law, appropriating the sum of’ZURjCH RESIDENT DIES $7000 for superintendence and main-1
tenance of Township roads in 1943,'
to be submitted for consideration at
the February meeting.
A resolution was passed that the
reeve and clerk be hereby authorized
to sign the application to the Depart
ment of Highways for a subsidy on
$6,363.28, actual net road expen
diture in the Township of UsbornejOf Kitchener, one sister, Mrs. Amos during 1942, clerk to affix corporat-’ Gascho, Hay Township, and two
ion seal. i brothers, J-ohn and Joseph Brenne-
The Tax Collector presented his (man, Detroit,
roll, $1,115.56 being uncollected. He
was instructed to continue with col
lection of 1942 taxes until Febru
ary 8.
The Auditor's report for 19 42 was | was held in Goshen Line Cemetery,
presented by T. A. Wiseman, licensed
municipal auditor. The report show-1"
ed revenue assets amounting to?
including tax arrears of
and a cash balance of
capital assets, $11,900;
none. Statement of rev-
MILITARY CALL-UP
A proclamation recently
issued by His Excellency, the
Governor-General, requires that
every single jnan, born In any year
from 1402 tq 1923, both years
inclusive, who pas pot already re
ceived a notice or order to report
for medical examination under
compulsory nt/Jj tary service, must
fill out a special form at the office
of a Postmaster, a Registrar of a
Mobilization Board or an Em
ployment and Selective Service
Officer not iater than February
1st, J943.
For this purpose the term “single
man” also Includes any male
person who was a widower, or
legally separated pt divorced, and
without a child or children de
pendent on him at July 15, 1940,
or any such male person who has
suffered the loss of his dependent
child or children after that date;
and any male person who, though
married at July 15th, 1940, since
that date became a widower,
legally separated or divorced, and
is now without a child or children
dependent on him.
Please observe that single men
who have received notices to report
for medical examination under
the military call-up and who have
been examined as required, or
men who are now in the Armed
Forces, are NOT included in those
to register by February 1st.
Penalties are provided for failure
to register
across his closed eyes,
he could hear Peg in the
and Anthony and some-
Antliony’s sister, he de-
The little red-head
A. W. Morgan, Clerk.
Hensall Red Cross
I Mrs, Dan Gascho, well-known
| Zurich resident, died of a heart at-
l tack Saturday at the home of her
! daughter, Mrs. Harold Rader. She
was born in Hay Township 53 years
ago.
She is survived by a daughter,
Mrs. Beatrice Rader, one son Alvin,
In Spider’s Web
“Duncan, I can't see you again.
Not after tonight.”
There in the darkness he could
feel the' strange, wild look in his
own eyes; part fear, part misery,
part shocked despair. He had
reached out and caught one white
arm in his tense fingers.
“Please don’t Duncan, Don’t make
it any harder for me,” she went o>,
unsteadily. “Surely you must see 'as
clearly as -I that it is madness to
go on like this. Emmanuel is bound
to find out. It's dangerous, Dun
can.”
The wild look in his eyes had be
come wilder, but the fear had been
displaced by rage, He said, furious
ly, “I understand!”
And for a moment, in his gather
ing anger, he thought he did. She
had been playing with .him. He had
cried out savagely at last, “Why
don’t you tell me the truth. Why
don’t you say you’re sick and tired
of me. That you want to call it
quits. That’s what you really want,
isn’t it?”
Her face
Even there
looked old,
mouth, a coricature of her beautiful
self. She had turned then, had
walked into the long gold and white
drawing room. Had pressed the but
ton of a light. Then she had open
ed a wall cellarette, poured a drink
for herself. One
ed and faced him
green glasses in
said, not moving:
thing, Duncan,
use trying to fool ourselves any
longer. I’m not cut out for the
heroine role . . women with little
houses and gardens and a husband
coming home at night with "a bundle
of groceries in his arms.”
Temptress at Work
She cauglit her breath. “Duncan,
don’t you see what we’d do to each
other then? And you don’t want to
leave .the Service. You’ve told me
that -a thousand times. And only if
you did leave the Service would you
be able to give me the sort of life
I’ve grown Used to. That I couldn’t
get along without) You could be a
wealthy man, Duncan. My father is
a director of one of the largest muni
tion factories in Europe. If I had
some of your patents that are being
perfected at Wright Field > . and
you have access to the files at the
Munitions Building, every plan and
specification for
His eyes had
you know what
had cried out.
“Yes, I think I do,” she said,
softly. “I’m thinking of us, Duncan,
I’m thinking that I’ll go mad with
out you . . that I couldn’t live the
sort of life you’ve offered me. I’m
thinking that nothing in the world
really matters, but us and ottr hap
piness and .
He took a step toward her, loving
her and hating heF; despair and
misery, robbing him of the ability'
to think clearly. He couldn’t remem
ber now, sitting in the quiet peace
of Aunt Melialie’s home, just what
had happened after that. He had
talked like a madman, out 'Of his
head. Wild with despair, sick With
love for her and hate for her. And
then Nadeja had boon in his arms
and there was a green liquid spilled
over the flowing black of her skirt.
Two .shattered cocktails at their feet.
He had known dizzily t hat he could Phone KeWs Items to the Times-
loso himself in her golden calm now J Advocate/ Tips on happenings are I
to promise what she had asked and always appreciated.
Funeral service was held at the
home of her daughter on Tuesday at
2 p.m, Rev. C. B. Heckendorn and
Rev. S. Peachey officiated. Interment
A> MacHAMARA
Director National Selective Service
Ottawa
had gone starkly white,
in the shadows she had
lines about her eyes and
-Accounts payable:
donations,
$137.59;
$271.45;
liabilities,
for him. She turn-
with the glittering
her fingers. She
“I’ve meant every-
for us. There’s no
Report
RECEIPTS — Balance of cash
January 1, 1942, $8-10.33; general
donations, $150.50; campaign, $2,-
146.40; fund-raising events, $536.99;
salvage, $271.22; designated funds,
Russian appeal, $2.00, blanket fund,
$4.00, Chinese war relief, $37.26;
emergency nursing equipment, $4.12;
total, $3,962.82.
EXPENSES—To Toronto Division
for war work, $2,045.61; Designated
funds: Russian appeal, $2.0 0; blan
ket fund, $6.00; Chinese war relief,
$42.26; emergency nursing equip
ment, '$4.12; comfort bags for sai
lors, $22.27; wool and materials
purchased from division, $919.71;
local purchases, $129.73; workroom
expenses, $4.67; general adminis
tration, $5.43; miscellaneous ex
penses, $23.30; balance of cash, De
cember 21, 19 42, $757.72.; total ex
penditures, $3,962.82.
ASSETS (as at Dec. 31st, 1942)—
Inventory of materials on hand,
$467.00; balance of cash, $757.72;
total, $1,224.72.
LIABILITIES-
Division, 70 per cent of
etc., $133.86; materials,
total accounts payable,
surplus, $953.27; total
$1,224.72.
* * # *
Approximately 500 contributions
were received in the campaign; the
largest from one family was $5 0.
Some of the groups to whom par
ticular gratitude is due are Hen
sall Chamber of Commerce, Ladies’
Marathon Bridge Club, Hensall Wo
men’s Institute, Hensall South Red
Cross Group, the W.A. of Chisel
hurst United Church and the Jun
ior Red Cross of Hensall School.
The„following supplies have been
completed and shipped: Knitted ar
ticles: 431 pairs socks, 138 sweat
ers, 104 helmets, 139 pairs mitts,
126 sundries; total, 938. Hospital
supplies: 350 bandages, 337 towels,
144 sheets, 298 handkerchiefs, 252
sundries, total, 1,381. Refugee
Clothing: 297 blouses, 113 pyjamas,
112 slacks and skirts, 230 sundries,
137 handkerchiefs; total, 889. Blan
kets and quilts, 116. Jam: Women’s
Inst., Hensall, 1,72»8’ lbs.; Kippen
East Women’s Inst., 576 lbs.; total,'1
2,3 04 lbs. Total number of articles
made and shipped in 1942
(In 1941, 3,435)
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3,324.
Twelve sailors’
comfort bags were also filled and
shipped.
COMMITTEE CONVENERS—’Fin
ance and publicity, W. R. Davidson;
buying
W. O.
Miss M.
dleton;
cutting
nolds; knitting committee, Mrs. W<
O. Goodwin; sewing and work, Mrs.
Dick, Mrs. T. Slterritt, Miss E,
Johnston, Mrs. M, T, McKaig; pack
ing and shipping, K. Hicks; salvage,
George Hess.
To those cooperating groups or
individuals contributing time or ma
terials to the making of the above-
mentioned quilts „ and jam, sincere
thanks is extended.
The only definite sources of reve
nue for your Branch, in sight at the
present time and to help carry
through to the next campaign are
from the Hensall Junior Ladies’
DAnces and the Ladies’ Marathon
Bridge Club. More funds than the
approximate $150 from these groups
could be used,
is to use
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search for more business.
$8,079.17,
$2,873.49
$5,132.93;
liabilities,
enue and expenditures revealed a sur
plus on the year’s operations of
$1,313.57. The tax levy for local pur
poses was 1.5 mills. The report was
adopted on motion of Fisher and
Cooper and instructions given to
print 100 copies.
On motion of Berry and Cooper,
the scale of pay and allowances for
all township officials was set at the
rate paid in 1942. WUges were set at
35 cents and team labor at 60 cents
per hour. The following officials
were all reappointed on motion by
Hodgert and Fisher; The clerk was
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