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“Secrets in Love”
by Phyllis Moore Gallagher
Joan on .Scent
Rut Joan hadn't come home late.
She had been sitting on the back
seat of her taxi, thinking absorbedly
of Puncan, when she became
conscious of the dark figure that
stumbled out of Aunt Mehalie’s
door.
The taxi was at the corner then
and she leaned forward watching
the man stagger against the picket
fence. She said quickly to her
driver: “Wait here!” and she leaped
put of the car, crossed a neighbor’s
yard and hurried up on Aunt Me
halie’s porch, In a split second she
had seen that Peg was lying on the
floor
thony
She
blood
a trail down the street,
moment
curiosity
ed and
bleeding
pulse.
Back in the cab she said, quickly:
“Follow that green car, driver. Pull
ing out from the curb down there.
There’s five dollars
if you don’t lose it.”
CHAPTER
with Aunt Mehalie and An-
bending over her.
turned swiftly, saw flecks of
staining the snow, making
For one
she was torn with wild
to know what had liappen-
an impulse to follow the
man. She accepted her im-
can slowly and hud stood quite still
and smiled up at him, Their eyes
were almost level with Duncan leap
ing negligently against the table,
the back of Ills palms on the edge of
it, bracing his weight,
She h$d said, abruptly; "For a
long while now I have wanted to
kiss you, Duncan, May T?”
"That,” Duncan had said easily
enough, "sounds-like a very inter
esting proposition. Indeed, my lass,
an inspired one. Shall .we be off
in a cloud of dust?” He had leaned
forward, grinning at her and she
had kissed him on the lips.
For a moment the kitchen was ab
surdly still. The clock ticking evenly
on the shelf over the stove, the Feb
ruary wind wailing around the house
and the fluttery hush of snow flakes
melting against the warm window
panes. But there was no other
sound. Then Duncan said, his hands
falling away from her shoulders:
"Look here, brat. . . I’m a cad
to say this, maybe,
guy like that is very
into trouble ope of
wouldn't go around
were you. I’d sort of save it up for
the right guy, some one I loved . .”
She had looked into his eyes
then, Steadily. There had been no
imp of mockery in her gaze . She
had said, very evenly, very softly:
"I don’t go around kissing men,
Duncan, With the exception of a
few impersonal pecks gathered in
Uncle Nathaniel’s vestibule I have
saved, up for the right guy. I have
202, gave
the door,
thought
who had been a small red-
"speaks1
then
” were
the door
jn it for you
XX
the green cai*taxi trailed
Street through the dark
night. The driver did not
Joan’s
down P
platinum
let it out of sight once and Joan
was confident the man did not know
he was being followed. She had
seen him lean out the window and
eyes,
gasp.
her breath
She saw
there in a
but kissing a
apt to get you
these days. I
doing it, if I
She
real-
look back *at~Aunt Mehalie’s house I known, ever since I was old enough
before starting away from the curb; ' to understand about love, teat some
and again as his car
corner.
cab.
. turned the'day I would kiss some one exactly
But he did not notice her like that.”
I “Joan, you can’t mean . . .! Now,
As she rode, Joan fingered hastily | look here, I haven’t done anything
in her bag for something on which] or said anything to make you be-
to write a note to Anthony, She lieve that I . .to write a note to Anthony,
wouldn't, she supposed, be able to
telephone him. But she could find
nothing save a small card on which
she had scribbled a shopping list
a long while ago. She had stuck
it in the compartment with her mir
ror and had not thought of it again.
Joan Has Missing Card
remembered ’ makingShe
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HENSALJk W* I. ADDRESSED
BY W. R. GOULDING
The February meeting of the Hep-’
sail Women’s institute was held on
Wednesday evening at the home of
Miss Gladys Luker with a large at
tendance of members and visitors
present, The president, Miss Gladys
Luker, presided and the meeting
opened with the Institute Ode, fol
lowed by the singing of "Abide With
Me” and the Lord’s Prayer in uni
son. The first number on the pro
gram was a demonstration of a li
chen band arranged by Miss Greta
Lammie and led by Mrs. G. M.
Drysdale, with the following taking
part; Mrs. Kerslake. Mrs. Sanni.-•
Mrs. Hess, Miss Beryl Pfaff and Prs.
Smale. Their opening seieetian
was "O Canada”, a number, ".’"ai /
Birthday”, dedicated to the pw1-’-
dent and "In the Heart of Texas’.
The minutes and eollectnn were
followed by the roll call answered
by "A Favorite Hymn”. The busi
ness followed and the president re
ported as having packed twenty-one
boxes for local boys ov* ’• e.-s
sum of $9.35 was realized from
the sale of fats and bones which
were collected by the Miss5on Band
children of the United Church un
der the convenership of Mrs. Lee-",
the same to be handed in to the Red
Cross Society, The total proceeds ’
of the rumage sale amounted to over
$95.00, ,A motion was passed that
a check for $25.00 each be given to
the Russian Relief, the Chinese Re
lief and the Queen’s Fund. The mot
to, entitled, "Music Hath Charm”,
which was very ably prepared by
Mrs. Robert Cameron, was given by
Miss Jrene Hoggarth, Miss Ellis, in
her usual pleasing manner favored :
with a reading entitled "A Racing!
Story”. The guest speaker for the 1
evening was W. R. Goulding, of (
Exeter, who gave an interesting ad- j
dress on "Music Appreciation”, to
which a hearty vote of thanks was
extended. Mrs. John Shepherd gave
a recipe for buns, and Miss Beryl
Pfaff gave some interesting cur
rent events. The lucky draw for ■
the war savings stamps was made ■
by Miss Consitt and was won by Mrs.
Eric Kennedy. The meeting was
closed with the National 'Anthem
and refreshments were served by ■
Misses Sally Manson, Florence i
NATIONAL SELECTIVE
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often or to wonder about the future.
But moving about as a nurse in these
last few minutes had made the years
fall away. She was seeing herself as
she had once been. In 1914. A very
young and a fiercely, beautiful pat
riotic girl; with a burning patriot
ism that had made her tremble with
fear for her native land when the
first cries of EXTRA told of the as
sassination of Archduke Franz Fer
dinand, heir to the Austrian throne,
and his consort at Sarajevo, People
clamoring through the cobblestone
streets that day had cried War, War!
And there had been war. A war in
which she had served her country
as a nurse andJ(i later, the audacious
and dangerous service of spy.
For her country she had stood
once before a firing squad, had re
fused a blindfold and had stood
there, too frightened to cry, too
frozen in terror to plead. Only at the
last moment to hear that her sent
ence had been commuted to im
prisonment because of her splendid
nursing record, because of her tire
less service to the enemy wounded.
Later she had escaped.
She had known what it was to see
enemy secret service agents gather
ed around her on -a train where she
appeared to have fallen asleep, hold
ing in theii’ hands the little cameo
in the back of which they had found
the military information her country
had sent her across the
get.
She had ’klnown what
leap off of that iroaring
black night, to drag her broken and
tortured body to a small creek, to
submerge in it as. men lit torches
and beat bushes looking for her.
She had known what it was to
trick a „very young officer into be
traying his country;
her hands crushed
mouth as he stepped to the window
of her room, stood there one moment
looking at her through eyes that
were already dead and then flung
himself to death. . .
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include any man—
born in any one of the years mentioned, who has not
previously been medically examined for the military call-up,
and described as follows;—“who was on the 15th day
of July, 1940, unmarried or a widower without child
or children or has since the said day been divorced
or judicially separated or become a widower without
child or children”
It is pointed out that any man unmarried at July 15th,
1940, even if married since that date, is still classed as a
“single man.”
Registration is to be made on forms available with.
Postmasters, National Selective Service Offices, or
Registrars of Mobilization Boards.
Penalties are provided for failure to register
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Humphrey Mitchell, A. MacNamara,
Minister of Labour Director, National Selective Service
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the alley# pressing along close to the
wall, She saw the man park his
green car, stagger blindly to a back
entrance and disappear into it,.
Dike a flash Joan was behind, him.
On the fire stairway she heard his
leaden tread, heard the second-floor
exit open and close. Joan waited a
second, her heart thumping furious
ly. Then she went up the remaining
steps, her nose pressed against a
slice of space at the door.
The man wept to Room
a strange staccato tap on
"Old speak-easy stuff,”
Joan,
headed child when
flourishing. And
opened.
Joan blinked her
came in a short
Nadeja Damara standing
soft light, her golden hair flowing
around her shoulders, her face turn
ing a sudden star'fc white. She cried
out in a stricken voice, “Emman
uel!” Then her pale arms were
around him, helping him through the
door, closing it quickly after them.
Foi’ a long moment, Joan couldn’t
move. She thought, wildly: “This
can’t be—true. This is some night
mare. I’ll wake up in a moment and
realize I dreamed the whole thing.”
Flashing a Message
But it was no nightmare,
stood there feeling the strange
ity of it moving up and down her
spine like icy fingers. What on
earth did it mean? Emmanuel Da
mara and his wife in this strange
dump? Emmanuel emerging from
Aunt Mehalie’s with blood dripping
from an obviously wounded shoulder
In her panic she could think of only
one thing: Emmanuel Damara, in a
raging fit of jealously, had gone to
Aunt Mehalie’s looking for Duncan.
But that didn’t fit somehow. No man
who had gone off to murder his
wife’s lover would return to her
arms in just the way Emmanuel Da
mara had. He wouldn’t, she thought,
return at all. And find this cheap
little hotel? W|hat did it all mean?
Joan fished in her bag again,
hastily, and began writing on the
card in a tiny scrawl:
“Give this driver $5 please, An
thony. I followed the man who came
out of Aunt Mehalie’s. I thought he
was the one who had been breaking
in lately. But he’s Emmanuel Da
mara, which you probably already-
kmow. and lie’s with Madame DU-
mara in Room 20 2, Imperial Hotel.
I’m here on the indoor fire stairway,
and I’ll wait here until I have some
word from you. I’m probably a
screw-ball, but I followed an impulse
and am still following it. I have al
ways wanted to trail some sinister-
looking
a swell
Welsh, Mrs. Blowes and Miss Gladys
Luker.
Robert: “Very few women have
any knowledge of parliamentary
law.”
Harold: “You don’t know my wife.
She’s been speaker of the house for
25 years.’’
Phone News Items to the Times-
Advocate. Tips on happenings are
always appreciated.
Joan’s Confession
She had interrupted quickly: “No,
Duncan. I managed to bring this on
myself, quite by myself. You aren’t
in the least responsible. You see,
I know about Nadeja Damara . .
and you. That for some reason you
have stopped seeing her . . even
though you haven’t forgotten her,
I’m not asking you to
marry me .
He would have spoken then, but
she put a slim forefinger on his lips,
silencing him: “You’ve liked dash
ing around with me, haven’t you,
Duncan? You’ve forgotten to re
member Nadeja a little when you’ve
been with me, haven’t you?
you liked kissing me just then.
188-10,; liked it almost too much, didn’t
that
shopping list, of having found the'Duncan,
card in Peg’s wigstand
had been searching for
on which to write. She
to ask Peg if the card was of any
value but had forgotten it until
She looked at the card again
and read the printed words.
Not much business done on
holdings. I give
tions as follows:
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00, 176-23, 187-45, 1938i21. ,
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when she
something
had meant
now.
now
your
market quota-
160-30,
■Duncan?”
Duncan’s jaw had shot
“Maybe I did. But that hasn’t
Any
And
You
you,
out.
any-
inau
------- ------ -------- ---- ------ you
began asked him to—and liked it. He’d be
J a blithering jackass if he didn’t,
j Joan, look . . you’re just like a baby,
j You don’t know what you are saying.
I You don’t even know what you really
j want. And you don’t even mean this,
jsee?” His hands were on her shoul
ders now, shaking her roughly. “You
don’t mean it, see!”
She had smiled at him suddenly.
“You’re being very kind, Duncan.
Well it couldn’t have been any thing to do with love,
importance or Peg would have men-j would have kissed you when
tioned missing it. She 1
promptly to erase the message to
make space for her note to Anthony.
But the writing seemed to be indel
ible so she erased her own pencil
marks and was sitting there ready
to jot down her message when the
man 'reached his destination and
she had something definite to report
to her brother.
It was after 7 o’clock now. The
downtown traffic was snarled and I You’re trying to save my pride, but
impatient, moving slowly behind the fit’s a wasted gesture. You see, I
‘ really don’t have any pride where
you’re concerned. I happen to love
you very much. And I shan’t out
grow it. Naturally, I’d like for you
to marry me, but if—if . . well. I’d
do just about anything you wanted,
Duncan always.”
Joan closed her eyes for just a
moment as she sat in the cab and
let herself drift back to the feel of
Duncan’s lips on her own, of the
pressure of his arms around her.
When she opened her eyes, she
jerked erect on the seat, Duncan
suddenly very remote in her mem
ory.
Finding the Hideout.
Ahead of her the green car turned
into an alley running alongside a
cheap four-story hotel. O.Ver the
door in electric lights was a sign
which read: Rooms 50c, 75c, $1,
$1.50'. Aero?" the second floor, in
neon lights, blinked the incon
gruously impressive letters "Imper
ial Dotel.” Peg instructed the cabbie
to /top and wait, and she darted into
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The iroiible is nob so/much physical pain, but the.
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pulsing red and green lights. Joan
fixed one eye on the car ahead and
sank back on the cab seat with a
sigh, conscious of how tired she was
after a day at the Salon catering to
the whims and the maddening in
decisions of wealthy women. (
Joan smiled at the memory of1
Duncan’s husky ringing laugh. It
was fun to make him laugh and to
watch that sober light go out of his
eyes. She sat uo a little on the seat
then, her attention on the car they
were following. But it was Only with
half her thoughts that she watched
it; other half clung to Duncan.'
Memories j
And all at once she was remem-j
herihg last night with her heart
stirring gently. (Living over again
those moments in Aunt Mehalie’s
kitchen Where she and Duncan
been washing supper dishes,
had closed tile cabinet door on
last carefully wiped dish and
gone over to the sink to wash
hands. She had come back to Dun-
know of cases where a
character,
chance.
she sped
and this seemed
You know me.
Joan.”
down the stairs,
had
She
the
had
her
(To be continued)
HURONDALE W. I.
Then
through the-alley and sent the
whirling off to Georgetown. In
than two minutes she was back
the second-floor landing, her
cut
cab
less
on
nose pressed to the crack in the
door . . waiting. She felt com
pletely absurd and a little afraid
but somehow it seemed the thing to
do.
CHAPTER XXI
Nadeja Damara helped Emman
uel into the small, dirty room, half
carried, half-dragged him to the low
iron bed. She was trembling violent
ly as she drew off his coat and saw
the bloody mass of his shoulder. For
so long now every instinct had been
alert, trained for danger. She said
swiftly: Don’t try to tell me what
happened. Tell me only—were you
followed?”
Emmanuel groaned. “No’,’ he
whispered. “I made sure.” He gritt
ed his teeth then and closed his eyes.
Then he said weakly through lips
contorted with agony: “Thank God,
you’re a nurse. . .”
In the next ten minutes Nadeja
did not speak at all. A bullet had
cut sharply through Emmanuel’s up
per arm, he had bled profusely. She
stopped the bleeding with a tourni
quet made of a torn sheet, she jjath-
ed and washed the wound and soak-
ed the arm with iodine.
Nadeja’s Past
little while later she sat be
tlie bed, feeling Emmanuel's
A
side
quivering pulse, checking his respi
ration, assuring herself that she had
done everything she could. He was
too weak to talk yet. He could not
tell her what had happened. 1-Ie just
lay there with his eyes closed, his
mouth a little open,
She sat beside him just as she had
sat beside endless wounded men in
the years between 1914 and 1918.
And suddenly she was trembling
again, cold with a terrible spiritual
The February meeting of the .Hur-
ondale W.I. was held at the home of
Mrs. W. Welsh. The meeting was
opened in the usual manner by the
president, Mrs. Kirkland. Roll call
was answered by “What benefit do
we derive from our community acti
vities?” There is to be a collection
of good used clothing for the Red
Cross, clothing to be left at Mrs.
Reynolds, Mrs. F. 'Down’s, or Mrs.
Becklers. Canvassers were appointed
to collect for Red Cross fund during
March. The play, “Mystery at Mid
night” is to be put on March 17, at
Hurondale School, at which the
lucky ticket will be drawn on the
quilt displayed in Exeter. Mrs. Rufus
Kestle gave a Red Cross report.
Mrs. 'Clarence Down, convenor of
social welfare took the chair for the
program. Mrs. A. Rundle gave a
splendid paper on “Health Insur
ance”. Miss Margaret Dougall fav
oured with a piano instrumental.
An instructive paper was given by
Mrs. Strange on “Preparation of
Vegetables.” Mrs. W. D. Sanders de
livered an interesting and educative
address on “Home nursing and first
aid treatment of shock”. Mrs. W.
Sillery sang a delightful solo, and
Mrs. Kernick gave a pertinent paper
on “Hot School Lunches.” The meet
ing was closed by the National An
them. Lunch was served by the com
mittee in charge.
W. H. GOLDING, M.P.,
TO SERVE ON AVAR
OUTLAY COMMITTEE
W. H. Golding, M.P. for Huron-
Perth, was named one of 24 mem
bers appointed by Prime Minister
Mackenzie
inittee on
committee
pendituro
provided by parliament for the de
fence services, and for other
Vices directly connected With
war, and to report what, if
King on a House Com-
war expenditures. The
is to "examine the ex
defrayed out of moneys
iciness that lay ike frost throughout} economies consistent with the exe-
her body, cution. of the policy decided by the
Nadeja Damara didn't permit her-1 government may be effected thete-
self to think about the past very in.”
f '
it was to
train into
to stand with
against her
border to
theatre
Russia,
0h rtc&ve
Service »
g
ji
ser-
tlio
any,
tbUMtls
J:
adian forces m every
of war.
Money and supplies to aid the
Cross Societies of Russia,
Greece, Norway, China and
other Allies in desperate need.
Survivors' bundles—warm cloth
ing to rc-equip rescued naval
and merchant seamen.
10 MILLIONS for MERCy
Needed by the Canadian Red Cross in 1943.
The work must go on-give generously now!
awKw I Tfe
JL ast the barbed wire of prison
camps in Europe and the Far East
and into the eager hands of every
captured Canadian, the Red Cross
delivers a box of food every week—
ten pounds of nourishing food from
home to supplement stringent rations
and cheer lonely men with the knowl
edge that they are not forgotten. The
Canadian Red Cross needs $5,500,000
for this work alone .. . millions more
for many other urgent needs, in
cluding:
£r-~ Life saving blood powder and
blood plasma for war casualties
—soldiers, sailors, airmen and
civilians.
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