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THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 1943 Ab ?
“Secrets in Love”
by Phyllis Moore Gallagher
. Visit to Thalia
Stop
had
time
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If he had thought that wpuld
him from thinking of Peg, he
been very mistaken. After a
he gave up and drove back
town, a little too fast and more than
a little recklessly, “Think about her
all you please, you fool,” he had
thought bitterly. ’’But don’t ever see
her again.”
He pulled up in front of Thalia’s
home. He had been passing, he told
Mrs. Polk, had heard the music and
had been bold enough to come in.
His charm cloaked the real rudeness
of the thing he was doing and he
knew it. Mrs. Polk had never liked
him particularly. He was no more
the match she had planned for Tha
lia than Peg was the match he had
determined upon, long ago himself.
Mrs. IPolk wanted some one like
that Anthony Covington she was al
ways prattling about. “Tony’s sure
to be an Ambassador one of these
days. Such a brilliant boy, my dear,
so terribly handsome. Splendid fam
ily, too, Sons of Cincinnati, old
Knickerbocker stock. , that sort of
thing.”
Mrs. Polk had talked to. Anthony
and had wondered wher^ on earth
he was keeping himself; she had
talked to* Roosevelt and of the
chance of a third term or a Repub
lican Administration, He had lis
tened dutifully, sitting there on the
sofa beside her, but not really hear
ing. He had just sat there looking
around the spacious drawing room;
a long, beautifully furnished room
with indirect lights, quite subdued,
with shadows pale and dappled on
the Oriental rugs. This was the
background he had always seen for
himself. Money plus culture plus
family. Not an old family like Peg’s,
not branching from cavaliers and
members of.the House of Burgesses
and Signers and certainly not eligi
ble for the Dames . . but old enough.
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peared together and there she was,
, ,r . j with Axitliony’s -blue eyes on her,They told Aunt Mehalie standing | his inout,a smiling in a sort of
side by side in the living room. The,
little old lady sank back in the cliaix*
aghast. She didn’t say a word and
Peg could almost feel her thoughts,
darting “around in her head H&e
small frightened mice, Searching fpi*
something to say that would hide
completely how she felt, Peg’s blue
eyes begged her aunt to know that
she was all wrong about Hewitt, beg
ged her not to spoil something that
was so perfect, so completely beau
tiful that she could
it herself,
‘’We’re going to
February or March,”
ly.
Mehalie. There’ll be a preidieu under
that arch with candles in tall silvei*
holders behind the minister. That
archway is almost identical with the
one at Arlington House and Mary
Curtis and Robert E. Lee stood un
der it fox* their marriage ceremony.
I remember granddaddy was there
that day. He told me all about it.”
Her voice rushed on excitedly. “I'll
have Mary and Bahs and Doris Ann
up from Richmond fox* bridesmaids,
Joan the maid of honox* .
It was not until she spoke Joan
Covington's name that Peg remem
bered that Anthony was still in this
room. £Still standing ovex* by the
window. She turned and looked at
him now. Saw the
back, his face blank
ment of a man who
without warning.
She said, “Anthony . .”
Breaking the News
hardly believe
be married in
Peg said swift-
Right here in this house, Aunt
rigidity of his
with the arnaze-
has been struck
The Door Slams
denly, going horribly sickeningly
cold, Peg knew, just as plainly as if
some one had told her, that Nadeja
bad missed the card out of her bag.
That it was the men with hex' who
had attacked Paul Stranyan and the
waiter, They were loo-king for that
card with the queer message. A card
so important that they would stop at
nothing, not even a muderous
tack, to get it back.
She was in .a sort of a daze as
left the newspaper building,
fouhd herself Ipnkixxg at every man
on the street . * seeing in each of
them something dark and foreign
and sinister. She thought, in a, panic
of indecision: “What shall I do?”
And of course, being a woman, she
thought of the wrong thing,
would realize that later . , too
But now she hurried into a
phone booth, called her office
told Mr. Nelson that she wouldn’t he
back until after lunch,
“Certainly, certainly,” said Mr.
Nelson, sarcastically. “Take a day
off, take a week—a month. This is
i only an office. 'We just have work
I to do here. A small unimportant
at-
she
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Public Relations Army
hurt tenderness.
He didn’t stay long. They talked
of a few completely safe topics, Then
he got into his big coat and stood
there ixx the hall, twirling the snapbrim felt in his fingers. “Try to talk'
some bat’s brains into Joan, will you,
Peg?” he said evenly. “That job of
hers is pretty tough. Eight to six.
On her feet all day, She’s still a grow
ing girl, Needs rest and outdoor exer
cise.” •
He paused and smiled a little. “It’ll
be. a hard assignment for you, of j course. I understand Duncan took/, . .
her to a club one night and to the | thing like running a brokerage ottice.
She
late,
tele-
and
movies another. On the strength of
that you probably won’t be able to
blast 'hex* out.”
Then he was gone, closing the
door softly behind him. She had
stood there a long time, not looking
at anything in particular. Just feel
ing his heartbreak; knowing that lie
loved
wasnt
it.
, I suppose you’re about to tell me
you’ve had a relapse!” Peg wheedled
and cajoled and Mr, Nelson finally
said: “All right, then,” and hung up
with a bang.
At the Hospital
WESTERN ONTARIO DENTISTS
ANSWER COUNTRY’S CALL
Military
the Can-
in every
Ontario
her! Knowing that
anything she could do
Hewitt Promoted
there
about
Nelson did want Peg back in
Almost proposes
Thalia had walked up to the sofa,
shattering his thoughts. She had
taken his hand, had said: “Mother,
darling, don’t you know that this
Administration doesn’t approve of
monopolies, “aniT *’that’s precisely
what you’re doing.” In the conser
vatory she had sat down on a sofa,
making a place for him. She had still
held his hand, touching first one and
then another. She had said, rather
softly, “Hewitt, you’re different this
year. :
marry
week,
tioned
with a
n’t been really gay at all— if
was some one else.
He had said: “No, of course,
isn’t, darling. There’s never
any one but you.” He’d said that
last year, too. It had been time then.
Futilely true, because she was only
interested in him as some one who
amused her, who kissed her as she
wanted to be kissed when She want
ed to. And now, suddenly, he knew
that it was no longer true. He knew
that some time during the Summer
he had quit handing Peg a line so
that she would say a good word
about
begun
knew
cause
him these days as she
looked at him before.
He’d almost said: “Thalia, marry
me, darling. I’ve asked you a thou
sand times. You’ve said no a thou
sand times. This time you’ll say yes.”
But he hadn’t.
Now he was in a Georgetown kit
chen with a small, fair girl in his
arms. Kissiffig her. Talking about
love. About marriage, because you
couldn’t talk about anything but
marriage to a girl like Peg. If you
cOtild, everything would have been
so much Simpler. . .
Peg was laughing a little as she
stood back from him after that kiss.
This is what she had hoped for,
prayed for, and yet it Was a moment
too shining to be grasped. She hadn’t
answered Hewitt at once because she
couldn’t.
When she finally Spoke she said:
“I thought you’d never aSlt me, dar
ling. I thought you really didn’t
want me—after all.”
Last year you asked me to
you about six nights each
This year you haven’t men-
it.” She had wanted to know
, gay young voice—which had-
there
But he did not look at her. He was
looking at Hewitt instead. At the
possessiveness in Hewitt’s eyes, his
confident, arrogant dark charm.
Anthony’s face paled with a slow bit
ter look. It was half wretchedness,
half incredulity. He turned and faced
Peg at last.
“I hope you’ll be very happy,” he
said in a suffocated voice.
He went out of the room rather
slowly, through the hall. He didn’t,
Feg knew, mean to slam the door.
But when he opened it a gust of wind
rushed, through the house and the
door slammed with a terrific -bang.
The old walls reverberated. Peg took
one step as if to follow him, for
something outside of her was reach
ing out for Anthony, calling him
back.
Hewitt caught her arm, held her
close to. him. And Peg standing there
wondering why the crash of that
door
ears,
cry.
kept ringing and ringing in her
Wlhy suddenly she wanted to
there
been
CHAPTER XIV
that last lovely week of No-
him to old Otto Nelson, had
to mean what he said. And he
also that he was
Thalia Polk was
a fool. Be-
looking at
had never
In
vember, with pure white snow cover-
. ing the city, hanging on the trees like
fleecy blankets, Feg hadn’t thought
anything more about the card which
she had taken out .of Nadeja’s gold
chatelaine. It had floated around
, hex* room, more ox* less . . on a table,
, in a drawer, on the mantel.
She had put it finally in the
■compartment of the old maple
stand in hex* room,, thinking
. some time she’d tell Duncan
. she had done and ask him what he
■ thought about it. But so many
, things had happened that week. She
forgot the.card.
First, Duncan had been found
. drunk and would give no explanation
. fox* it. Hewitt had come that next
morning, had held hex* in his arms
and had aslied hex* to marry him.
There had been night school and
t several girls up from Richmond.
■ Aunt Mehalie had her Dames meet
ing, which had meant a full day of
. housecleaning and cookie baking and
sandwich making.
And there had been a Thanksgiv
ing dinnei* with Anthony sitting
i across the table from her. At first he
had
ion,
, and
was
man
was
banquet, he had accepted.
Peg hadn’t wanted to be alone with
Anthony that night, but somehow
Joan and Aunt Mehalie had disap-
wide
wig-
that
what
declined Auht Mehalie’s invitat-
but when she had called again
said that Thanksgiving dinner
just no( dinner at all without a
to carve the turkey, that Hewitt
dining that day at a broker’s
Mr.
the office. And Hewitt had insisted
that she return. That first morning,
when Peg sat behind her desk, Mr.
Nelson had said gruffly:“Well, foi*
some one who was on the verge of
death you look downright buxom,
Peg. Just what sort of a tempera
mental jag was that, young lady?”
Peg had said she was sorry, that it
wouldn’t happen again.
'“Well, by jinks, it had better not,”
Mr. Nelson had told her. “I might
put up with such nonsense, but you
can bet your best red-topped boots
that Hewitt Gill won’t. Beginning
tomorrow,, he’s one -of the partners
around here, Peg.” His eyes had
narrowed then, waiting for hei* re
action.
She asked breathlessly, “Does
Hewitt know?”
“Nope. Not yet. But I’m going to
tell him in a few minutes. And watch
him strut. These» young squirts make
me sick, really.”
She hadn’t thought of Nadeja’s
card at all this week. She was sur
prised that morning in the office
waiting for Hewitt to come in so he
could hear what Mr. Nelson had to
tell him, to glance at a newspaper
and read that Count Paul Stranyan,
who was assaulted just a few hun
dred yards from the embassy last
Friday night and who had been un
conscious fox* a week, was
at Emergency Hospital.
Her mind took this in;
move backward to verify
clues; nor forward to anticipate a
personal reaction. But soon she began
putting the pieces of this strange in
formation together and finding that
they fit. She remembered that it was
Friday night when she had gone to
that cocktail lounge with Paul; tliat
it was on Friday she had taken the
card from Nadeja’s bag. Her blue
eyes raced ovei* the article then but
there was nothing more in it. There
must have been something, she de
cided quickly, in last Saturday’s
papers.
’’This Office Closed Fox* The
Duration.”
Tack that sign up in 90 dental of
fices in Western Ontario centres! It
would give a bix’d's -eye view of the
extent to which dentists in
District No. 1 have joined
adian Dental Corps.
More than one dentist
foux* throughout Western
and the Bruce Penipsula-M.D.I. are
“in the army now” making members
of the ai*med forces dentally fit, ac
cording >to the records of Major L, E.
Riddolls, District Dental Officex*.
Despite the fact that blinds have
been drawn on these now deserted
dental offices in Western Ontario
centres, thus cutting down on den
tal services to civilians, there is
every likelihood of an ever greatei*
dearth of dentists.
“We still need more dentists to
step into army ranks in order to help
provide this most necessary service,”
with flowers. A pretty were the warning words of Major
starchly and blondely
reading aloud to him.
thumped painfully as
chell for the emergency. These two
towns are credited with one hundred
per cent enlistments of Rs; dental
profession,,
The following table has been pre
pared to show enlistments of den
tists from most of the centres in Mil
itary pistriet Wp. 1. The table shows
the number of dentists there were
in the centres, the number who are
now “ijx” the Dental Corps and the
resultant percentage of enlistments
from these centres:
Dentists
3
2
4
3
3
3
3
3
3
11
16
14
31
51
46
,11
Mitchell ................
Kincardine .............
Petrolia ...............
Listowel
Parkhill .................
Aylmer
Clinton
Preston
Kingsville
Chatham ....,..........
Sarnia ....................
St. Thomas *...........
Kitchener-Waterloo
London ..................
Windsor ..............
Galt ..... ....
Guelph .........................13
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What She Learns
every word of
Paul Stranyan
walking back
a little before
Peg went straight to the hospital.
She had to talk to Paul. She had to
know if he had seen the men who
had attacked him.
Paul Stranyan was sitting up in a*
room banked
little nurse,
efficient, was
Peg’s heart
She looked at Paul’s bandaged face.
He was glad to see her. His dark
eyes smiled at her, but his mouth,
caught tight with bandages, did not
move. She asked the nurse to step out
of the room for a moment, and when
she was gone Peg went up close to
the bed and began asking questions.
“Was there more than one
Paul?”
He nodded yes.
“Tall and" dark—maybe
men?”
lHe shrugged his shoulders.
“You really didn’t see them, did
you? I didn't think so. Came up'be
hind you?”
He nodded. His dark eyes were
puzzled now, asking her what she
knew about all this. She said quickly,
“I can’t tell you anything just yet,
Paul. But I think I know what hap
pened. Who .was responsible? I’ll
let ^ou know everything later. Just
as soon as I’m very sure.”
She stayed fifteen minutes. Then
she -bent swiftly, kissed him on the
crown
aching
would,
across
partment and see Anthony.
man,
i
three
I
of his head with a guilty,
compassion, and left. She
she decided, go straight
the street to the State
An Old Women
De
She hurried out of his room
down the corridor. Turning the
ner, she collided with a small, wrin
kled old lady carrying an enormous
bunch of flowers wrapped in green
cellophane,
excuse me .
Out on
behind her once,
that no tall sinister figure was fol
lowing her. She didn’t even see the
little old lady come out of the hos
pital door, stand there in the shad
ows of the massive doorway until
Peg turned the corner and then,
tossing hei' flowers into a refuse can
near the curb, quietly pad along at
a discreet distance behind her.
She said: “Oh, please
. ” and hurried on.
the street she glanced
satisfied herself
(To be continued)
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they had fallen into the hands
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At least a dozen dentists are ur
gently needed to attend to the needs
of members of the armed forces in
M.D.I. while continued enlistments
in the dental ranks are required be
yond this, it was explained.
Before any sailor, soldier or air
man leaves this district for overseas
his teeth are thoroughly checked
and made dentally fit, So much work
has to be done within so short a
time by the present dental staff that
sometimes men are sent overseas
Without having their dental work
completed. In this case
overseas is called upon to
job.
At present there is a
mountain of work to be done by the
dental staff in M.D.I. Records show
that on the average every member of
the armed forces has to have at least
seven operations
his teeth are in
These operations
tions, fillings and
One by one the
saking their built-up practices to
serve their ‘Country’s needs.
In Mitchell and Kincardine, for
example, not a dentist remains,
three having enlisted from the form-
ex* town and two from the latter. It
is believed, however, that one den
tist came out of retirement at Mit-
the staff
finish the
In % I
3 100
2 100
3 75
2 66
2 66
2 66>
2 66
2 66
2 66
4 36
5 31
4 29
9 29
12 23
5 11
1 9
1 8
dentists
from Western Ontario •centres draw
down their blinds and march off to
join the Canadian Dental Corps. As
they have come into the services of.
the armed forces othex* dentists, al
ready in, have left M.D.I. to assume
new posts, mostly overseas, although
a number have gone to other mili
tary districts in Canada where they
have been needed, “As <a matter of
fact,” stated Majox* Riddolls, “ a
complete complement of dental of
ficers have left M.D.I. in the past
yeai* for duties elsewhere, making
way for an almost entirely new staff
of officers in M.D.I.
Majoi* L. E. Riddolls was, at the
outbreak of war, called to Ottawa
as Record Officer* for the Canadian
Dental Corps. Previous to this he
practised his profession at Brant
ford where he was -assistant ajutant
of the Duffevin and Haldimand
Rifles and fox* six years, adjutant.
In October, 1941, he .was appointed
Dental Officer fox* M.D.I.
Every mother’s son in
forces can rest assured
getting the very best in
vices fox* the simple reason that
authorities consider it of the utmost
importance that he be dentally fit,
Not only are his immediate needs
attended to but a Research Depart
ment, has also been set up to study
the solution of dental problems of
the future. It has been discovered,
Ifor example, that even shallow met
allic fillings in cavities, which_ or
dinarily do not pain an airman on
the ground, break into pain when he
is up in the air at great heights. The
jolts received by army men in rough
going tanks sometimes result in the
men biting their teeth with harmful
effects. Thus, the use of some kind
of biting blocks to insert between
the teeth while on such operations
is being studied. These are only two
the armed
that he is
dental ser-
veritable
performed before
first class shape,
include extrac-
dentures.
dentists are fore-
Perth
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of this
trustee
Usborne;
Presbyterial of the
held at Stratford on
week.
board and elders of
I Zion on Mitchell
WOODHAM
The annual Red Cross meeting
for the election of officers was held
Tuesday afternoon of this week.
The
W,. M.
Friday
The
Zion,
'Road and Woodham will meet on
Thursday evening of this week.
Many around here were without
mail for five days owing to weather
conditions, and many were without
bread for a few days, as the bakers
were unable to deliver it.
Some who visited friends* a week
ago Sunday and Monday were
Storm-stayed and had to wait till
the roads were open to traffic.
LUCAN VESTRY MEETING
The 76th annual vestry meeting
of Holy Trinity Church was held in
the parish hall, when the following
appointments were made: Rector*
warden, D. Ashworth; people’s war
den, T. A. Hodgins; Board of Man
agement, U, F. Stahley, Dr. Wl Bant
ing, T. A. Hodgins, R, Coleman, W
Haskett, D. Ashworth; lay delegates
to synod, D». W» Banting, V. F.
Stanley; substitutes, J, Mttrdy, R,
Coleman; vestry iclerlt, A. Sceli,
auditors, IL S. Stanley, Thomas Mc
Farlane; ushers, William Dignan,
She put on her hat and coat and
ran swiftly out of the office, a strange
fear moving like a shadow through
her mind. At the newspapex* office
she hurried through the piles of
newspapers on the counter. She
found the Saturday edition, stood
staring strickenly at the headlines.
At the photo of Stranyan on the
first page. She read
the detailed account,
had evidently been
to the Embassy just
midnight. Some one had given him a
bad crack on his head, had beaten
him unmercifully, had dragged him
up an alley where the police had
found him at dawn. The motive, the
papers had decided, couldn’t have
been robbery. Nevertheless, he had
been searched. His pockets were in
side out, the lining of his coat slit,
his trousers cut. There was a girl’s
coat near him, too. It bore a Rich
mond, Va., label. The newspapex* al
leged the theory that there might
have
that
of a
cies.
On the same page, just a little to
the left of the Stranyan article Feg
saw a small paragraph with a tiny
picture of familiar face. The ar
ticle said that Homer Tate, night
club waiter, had been slugged in the
alley back of a hotel and been robbed.
After treatment at a hospital, he had
been returned to his homo.
Fog’s hand closed over her mouth, Don Banting, E, Hawkshaxv, A. Sceli
Paul Stranyan beaten and searched, j sidesmen, Eric Hodgins, Kent Stan-
The night-club waiter, who had ley, Wilson Hodgins Charles Cor-
mopped up the havoc of'hex* acci-’bett, William Hedging, Lloyd Hod
dent, beaten and robbed. Tlxoh, sud- gins,
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HARPLEY
:(Intended for last week.)
Mrs. William Love visited for the
past week with friends in London and.
returned to her home on Saturday.
Mrs. Ross Guenther1 spent a few
days last week in Dashwood with Mrs.
Guenther,
Miss Oestreicher, teacher of S. S.
No. 10, spent the week-end with Miss
Shirley Murray and owing to the con
dition of the roads could not return
to her home in Dashwood.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred McLinchey
spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Eagleson.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Murray cele
brated their "26th wedding anniver
sary on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Maurice-
Murray and Bobby, Mr. Hector Mur
ray and Miss Lillian McLinchey, of
Corbett, were their guests for the
evening.
Miss Eleanor McLinchey spent Sun
day with Miss Donna Hayter.
The conceited young man was
being even more boring than usual.
“It’s a fact,” he said with .pride,
“that people often take me for a
member of the Guards.’ His fair
c o, m- P'an i, o n wasn’t impressed.
“.Really?” she drawled. “Eire —
shin — railway
black?”
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