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absurd.
of girl who can think for
Just think for a moment
see if you can look me In
and say that it was pure
why
when
othei’
this, evening,’’
he torch as she
she hoped she’d
sent her love to
Ten minutes later she was seated
I opposite him and the waiter
'’s • taking their order, A table
le certainly been booked for him,
maitre d'hotel clearly new’
“Darling,
last night of
asked a hun-
through her
make arrangements to
or other of them. She
it was since her break
that she’d found she pre-
unless
con-
she
side
was
that
Stella said for the third time; “I
Wish you’d tell me where you're go-
ing this evening.”
Jane leaned forward for a better
view of herself in the tripld mirror
on -Stella’s dressing table, She
pulled on her little new blue hat
thinking that if she had only known
she would not have bought it, Heav
en only knew when she would have
the chance to wear it again I Or the
new blue dfSss that went with it, •
“Please tell me, Jane,”
Jane laughted gently,
can’t a girl enjoy her
freedom without being
dred questions?”
Stella ran a comb
hair, She said unhappily, “I wish
I didn't have to go to this wretched
first night. I’m feeling perfectly
miserable about you.”
Jane sighed, “You needn’t be. I
assure you I’m “going to have the
time of my life.”
Afte-r all, Jane reflected honestly,
it was entirely her own fault that
she was going to spend the evening
alone. There were a dozen people
she could have seen if she had only
chosen to
meet one
knew that
with Tony
ferred her own company,
perhaps she could be w-ith Stella,
There had been, it was true, that
brief hectic affair with Clive
Forbes, but the less she thought
about that the better,
Jane was a’ fashion artist, and
Stella, a free lance journalist. They
had shared an apartment together
for some three years. Neither was
making much money in those days.
Jane was at the bottom of her par
ticular ladder and Stella trying val
iantly to* get a foothold on hers.
Ljittle by little Jane had learned
what life had done to Stella. Ja'ne
only knew .that there had been a
husband who had let her down so
badly, that he had completely robbed
■ Stella’of her belief in human nature.
She had divorced him ...after a brief
six months of marriage and even
though he was fairly well off she
refused to tqke a penny from him.
Though Stella, in her worldly
taicts was hard and caustic,
had a gentle understanding*
that no one -else ever saw. It
Stella who sdw Jane through
ghastly time when her engagement
to Tony Rees was broken. It wa^‘
Stella who, a year later, brought
Jane up with a jolt when Clive
Forbes who had been running
around with her had very nearly
persuaded .her to slip across to
Paris with him for the week-end.
She prevented it by the simple
expedient of quietly appropriating
Jane’s passport. They had had a
bitter quarrel and Jane threatened
to apply for a new .one, but some
how she didn’t and before many
days had goue by she thanked
Stella, a little shamefacedly, say
ing that of course she'd been right.
She hadn’t really known tvhat had
come over her.
Now Stella would be going to live
alone, and Jane would be leaving
her because tomorrow slie was join
ing the Women’s , Auxiliary Air
Force. Always Jane had said that
if war came she’d feel she must
do something more worth while
than sketching hats and dresses.
The blitz only strengthened her de
termination, and at last she said to
Stella, “I’m going to join up in one
of the women’s services. There
must be some useful work that I
can do.”
The W.A.A.F.’s were appealing
for girls of good education and ir
reproachable integrity for ‘ special
services. She went to Victory
House, was approved ,by the. board
there and told to undergo a medi-
feal examination, which she passed
Al. Now she was to report for duty
at ten-thirty tomorrow morning,
There remained only this last eve
ning of freedom . , ,
“May I borrow your flashlight?”
site asked Stella,
mine is dead.”
“Yes, of course,
for me and he’ll
here.
wish you’d dine with Rupert and We're going on to ’Black Velvet’
me. You know we’d love you to, after,”
And we could probably get an extra'
seat for ’Wild Strawberries.’ ” *
Jane shook her head,
company,’ she said with
smile.
Stella told her not to be
“Rupert Grant , . she began.
“I know, He's an old friend. Three
won’t be a crowd, and you think it’s
a grand idea. No, thank you, my
pet. As I said before, I’ve made
my own plans for
She picked up
spoke, told Stella
enjoy the theatre,
Rupert Grant and left the apart
ment. Down in the hall the door-
man sprang to open the door for
her. “Taxi, miss?”
“No, thank you. I’d rather walk.”
She
gloom
to be
West
that she and Stella had certainly
progressed in their mode of living
since those early days when they’d
first taken an
Then they had
a kitchen with
top floor of a
Bloomsbury,
ty pounds’ worth of furniture on the
installment plan and their curtains
had cost a shilling,^ yard and had
been made at home. Now they were
in a modern apartment hotel a
stone’s throw from
combined incomes
sible.
Jane had felt
about the financial end of things
when she had come back from
Victory House with the knowledge
that she was to report for duty so
quickly. Stella had told her in
stantly that she was doing very "well
despite the war. And if things went
against her—well, she’d just have
to find a tenant for
Whatever happened
worry on that score,
ry Stella, was how
ing to manage on one and fourpence
a day.
This was worrying Jane too. Still
there was nothing she could do
about it. What really mattered was
that deep down in her heart, once
she embarked on this new life to
morrow, would be the warm glow
ing feeling that she would be help
ing in her own small way in this
gigantic struggle that her country
was undertaking.
So intent was she on her own
thoughts that she blindly turned a
corner not noticing where she was
going. An Air Force officer, hurry
ing along, head bent, collided vio
lently with her. So sharp was the
impact that the little blue hat went
flying and had he not put out a
swift arm to catch her Jane would
have gone flying into the gutter
after it. As it was she regained her
balance, feeling bruised and shaken
and very much as if a tank had
come hurtling at her.
She reached for her hat, but he
picked it
, I’m most
earnestly.
“That’s
fault really. I
was going.”
“That’s very
was’ barging
something else?”
her gloves, laid'
handbag on the
champagne cock-
She hoped.
I
“The battery of
Rupert’s calling
bring me back
I shan’t need it, Darling, I
emerged into the gathering
of a darkening London. Nice
living in the heart of the
end, she reflected, thinking
apartment together,
had two rooms and
a bath in it, on the
dilapitated house in
They’d bought twen-
Piccadilly. Their
made this pos-
a little worried
was
had
The
him.
He had bowed them through the
restaurant, removed the little card
with “Reserved” ou It as they sat
down and asked what he could get
for them. ’
“Two champagne cocktails, please,
and make them snappy. Or would
you rather have
Jane took off
them beside her
table and said a
tail would be lovely,
that he wouldn’t think sue was in
the habit of flinlng with strangers.
He hadn’t consulted her with re
gard to what she would eat or
drink -beyond one or two crisp In
quiries, but the dinner he’d chosen
seemed somehow to comprise all
her favorite dishes.
She heard herself saying out
blue sky, “Why did
down?”
His eyes darkened,
er fellow, I imagine,
had a cold.”
“I see. One man’s
She smiled and remembered that
Tony had always told her that her
smile could harm any man. “I’m
enjoying my poison,”
He said swiftly, “I am too. Gosh,
I’m glad I ran into you, though it
was a
She
it in
some
been
He
have
she let
of a
you
“Some
She said
meat .
oth-
she
the apartment.
Jane wasn’t to
What did wor-
Jahe was go
“I
lie
?”
right. It was
wasn’t looking where
up before her.
terribly sorry,”
“Did I hurt you
all
say,
said
my
I
a
it
generous of you. But
along much too fast
. . .” Ho smiled suddenly. “To
be honest I was in the devil of
temper. I was trying to walk
off,”
She smiled too. “Did you man
age it?”
“I'm not sure. I say, are
quite sure you're not hurt?”
“Quite.”
“Well, at least you must feel a
little bit shaken. You must let me
get a taxi and drop you wherever
it is you’re going.”
Jane looked at him. She remem
bered that this was her last night of
freedom and that Sella had often
said she was far too
tiring. She smiled,
kind of you
don’t happen
where,”
He laughed.
but, you
to be
you
shy and re-
"That’s
sen, I
going
bit unfortunate for you!”
laughed softly. “I could find
my heart to wish we’d met
other way. We could have
introduced, for instance . .
shook his head. “That would
spoiled it all But we can
introduce ourselves now . , .”
She made a quick dissenting ges
ture. “No, let’s just dine together,-
go to a theatre together and then
I’ll say, ‘Good night and thank you
very much’ and that will be all
there is to it.”
She glanced up to find his eyes
fixed on her intently. They were
the bluest eyes she had ever seen.
“Why do you say that?”
She gave a little shrug of her
slender shoulders. “Does that mat
ter?”
“Yes. If we’re not going to meet
again, we may as well be frank
with each other. We’ll have to
get enough for a lifetime into a very
little while.” He paused,
said gently, “Please tell me.
don’t believe it’s just a whim.”
She hesitated. She made little
patterns on the tablecloth with her
fork. She said slowly, “There’s a
little saying, a burnt child . .
“You’re very honest.”
“I was very badly, burnt.”
“So was I, once.
The girl who let
was nothing.”
merely put me
but if I were to
you . . .”
She shook her head. “You’re not
going to.”
“Please.”
“No.” And more insistently, “No,
no, no!” She gave a low laugh.
“And that being settled, let’s talk
about ordinary sensible things. Tell
me, do you like flying? Will it be
a long war? What’s your rank? Not
your name-—your rank.”
He leaned nearer to her. “I
flying. God knows if it’ll be a
war. I’m a flight lieutenant,
where shall we lunch tomorrow?”
The waiter removed their plates
at that moment. She said when
they were alone again,
last question: “I -see.
dering what those two
cated. What sort of
you fly?”
“A Spitfire as a rule.
Honed up in the north,
down in town for'a few days
know
Then ne
I
You should have. You look like
the kind
herself,
and then
the eyes
accident that made you come round
that corner the very moment that
I was hurrying along in such a filthy
temper’ that I nearly knocked you
over. Everything ■;
world. You can
me. Life’s like a
pet. All set before
ing cap be altered,
pens at the right time,
believe me?”
“About things happening at the
right time? Perhaps you’re right.”
“Of course I am. That’s
you can’t say good-bye to me
this evening’s over, We've
plans in mind, you. and I,”
“If so they are very onesided
ones,” she said with a smile, And
changing the conversation: “Did
you say we w'ere going to Black
Velvet?”
“Yes, To the second show. We’ve
plenty of time.”
All the same it slipped by very
nicely, as did the show. The whole
performance, when the final curtain
came, seemed to
the audience was
away. He said,
arm, “Don’t run
my coat,”
She watched him move from
side till he was swallowed up in
the crowd. There was something
about his leanness and the swing of
his shoulders as he disappeared
from view that she knew she would
never forget,
pushing her
crowd, came
ness of a
London.
She raced
rnnd along Picadilly,
ried down Duke Street she wished,
loo late, that she
foyer.
She
when
while
into her room,
awake, Jane?”
and Stella switched on the light.
She looked at Jane anxiously:
“Daring, you’ve been crying.”
Jane assured her that she hadn’t.
Then she said, well—perhaps she.
had just felt a little depressed. But’subject to attack from, enemy air-
she was quite all right now,
Stella drew off her long black vehicle was camouflaged after its
velvet coat and said she wished arrival in Wiarton.
In the convoy were 750 soldiers
“I didn’t want you • in charge of jeeps, motorcycles, staff
i cars, 8-cwt., 15-cwt., and 30-cwt.
I enjoyed myself trucks, an ambulance, huge mobile
workshop and pickup trucks. Everv-
I thing was taken on the trip to make
that the convoy self-sufficient. The train
she ‘
“I ---------------—---------------------------
■is meant in this
take that from
figure in a ear-
i we start. Noth-
Everything hap-
Don’t you
be a blur. Now
struggling to
a hand on
away while I
very
just
any-
“In that case--look,
shall I tell you? You were juot on
your way to meet me. And' I was
hurrying to meet you and we were
going to dine at Kettner’s. I’ve al*
ready booked a table.” He stopped
a passing taxi as he spoke and held
open the door for her. “Hop in!
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b onajpfwQ most painful of all Skin troubles.
The intense burning1, itching and smarting, espe-
___ _ _ght, or When the affected part is exposed to
heat, or tho hands placed in hot water are most Un*
This evening,
down . . . that
laughed. “It
a bad temper,
me
He
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see very much of
love
long
And
ignoring his
I was won
stripes indi-
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sta-
I'm
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leave.’
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DOUPE FAMILY PICNIC
Hdqrs. M.D. 1, London, Ont.
which will
of Ontario
for army
ancillary
of vehicles when all together is al
most 20 miles long.
The entire scheme,
cover almost 400’ miles
highways, is designed
drivers, mechanics and
troops who are now completing
training at Woodstock and who will
be despatched to the fighting fronts
from Alaska to India.
Virtually the entire staff of the
Woodstock school were engaged tn
the manoeuvres.
BOARD CHANGES
Then she turned and,
own way through the
out into the inky dark
moonless blacked-out
aross Leicester Spuare
As she hur-
was back in that
has returned
of the Bruce
warlike aspect
AT SKY HARBOR
was in bed
Stella came
later.
and the light out
home some little
The elder girl crept
, She said, “Are you
Jane sat up in bed
After the most ambitious mechan
ized scheme ever undertaken by the
Canadian army in practice manoeuv
res in Canada a 250-vehicle convoy
from the Driving and Maintainance
School, ■ Woodstock,
i home from Wiarton.
The rocky terrain
peninsula took on a
for two days as army vehicles rolled
over bush trails and rough highways
carrying out activities similar to
those they will undertake when they
reach enemy territory.
Col. R. B. Crouch, officer com
manding the Woodstock school, who
directed the operations of the con
voy, gave orders to his men to
assume that every foot of the high
way over which they travelled was
The was a sharp turnover in per
sonnel of directorate at a business
meeting held on Goderich on Wed
nesday of Huron County Flying
Training School, Limited, operator
of No. 12 Elementary Flying Train
ing School at Sky Harbor, Goderich.
Only two members of the old baord
remained when the election of the
new board was complete.
The new board consists of J.
Beeton, Waterloo, president; G.
Parsons, Goderich,
with directors as follows:
Tuckey, Exeter; T.
Agatliat; K. Hueston,
N. Schneider, Kitchener;
Sims, Kitchener;
manager; K.
treasurer, who
han who held
foundation of
has been called to
The late board
eluded: W. L. Whyte,
president; directors, George Fea-
gan, Goderich; K. Hueston, Wrox-
eter; Hugh Hill, Goderich; B. W.
Tuckey, Exeter—Seaforth Expositor
At the Doupe family picnic held
recently in St. Marys the following
officers were elected* Honorary
president, Amos Doupe, St, Marys;
Nathan Doupe, Kirkton; president,
Miss Eleanor Doupe, Stratford; vice-
president, Mrs. Lloyd Walkom;
secretary, Marion Hazelwood, Strat
ford; treasurer, Mrs. Fred Rogers,
Kirkton; lunch committee, Mrs.
Robert Hazelwood, Mrs. William
Harding, Mrs. Fred Roger, all of
Kirkton; sports committee, Evelyn
Walkom, Munro, Elva Hazelwood,
Stratford, Alvin Harding, Kirkton,
Roxie Doupe, Kirkton. The oldest
member present was Amos Doupe,
of St. Marys, who is in his eighty-
second year and the youngest mem
ber was his grandchild, Beth Doupe,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William
Doupe, of Kirkton.
craft and ground forces. Every
she’d not let Jane go off on her own)
that evening.
to, darling.”
“I was fine,
enormously.’’
“What did you do?”
Jane hesitated. She knew
what had happened tonight
would always keep to herself,
had some food and then went to see
Black Velvet.”
“That should have cheered you
up.” Stella undressed, put on a
dressing gown and returned with
her jar of cold cream and a box
of face tissues.
(To be continued)
MUSTARD—HEY
The United church, Brucefield,
with a floral background of summer
flowers and ferns, was the setting
for a charming evt
Saturday, July 24th, i
Norma Margaret, you
of Mr. and Mrs. Sa
Blake, became the hr
Archibald Mustard, son of Mr. and
Mrs. John B. Must;
The marriage., was
Rev. A. F. Atkinson,
music was played by Mrs. H. G-
Hess, of Zurich. Given in marriage
by her father the lovely bride was
il floor-length
.beer over taf-
•k line, three-
, fitted bodice
. She wore
gift of the
abeth finger
ming wedding,
it 8 p.m., when
ngest daughter
muel Hey, of
ide of Clarence
ird, Brucefield.
solemnized by
and the bridal
charming in a grace!-
gown of white triple s
feta styled with V-im
quarter length sleeves
with, a full flowing skirt,
a heart-shaped locket,
groom. Her Queen
tipped veil of white french net was
tipped with rose buds, and her bou
quet was bridal roses
breath. She was
sister Kathleen, of
in pale pink styled
of the bride with
she carried pink
breath.
attended the groom, and
were Aldie, brother of
and Mervyn Stelck, cou-
During the signing
Mrs. H. G. Hess
accom-
and baby
attended by her
Toronto, gowned
similarly to that
matching head
roses
James Burdge,
“Tell me more. I
tie.”
He told her a lot
flown, it seemed, since
ty. He’d joined the Air Force on a
short service commission and after
ward had been on the reserve. He’d
flown in Spain in the civil war and
in China. If there was a scrap go
ing on, he liked to be in it.
“This scrap,” Jane said grimly,
“seems likely to be a sticky one.”
“I know. But we’ll get through
all right?’
“I hope you will,” she said, and
knew that from the Very bottom of
her heart she meant it.
ever crashed?”
He laughed. “Lord,
times. I smashed up a
the other day. But
charmed life,
have been dead long ago.
met hers,
guardian ahgel was looking after
me,”
The color crept into^her cheeks,
Her hands trembled,
“You don’t believe in fate?” hej Will take up residence ifi Goderich,
asked. ' , .....“■..........
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groom,
of the bride,
the register, Mrs. H. G«
“I love You Truly”
“Have you
yes. Thi’ee
Spitfire only
I
By rightso
“Now I know
have a
I should
His eyes
why my
dress and
and baby
of London,
the
the
sin
of
sang,
panled by Miss Jean Hey, of London,
sister of the bride, at the console of
the organ.
After the ceremony the bridal
couple received congratulations from
th eh’
town
were
don,
triet.
was a cabinet of silver,
wadding trip they are
through Northern Ontario,
travelling in a pale blue dressmakers
suit with white hat and matching
accessories, On their return they
relatives and friends. Out of
guests attending the wedding
from Toronto, Stratford, Lon-
Goderich and surrounding dis*
The groom’s gift to the bride
For their
motoring
the bride
R.
L.
vice-president;
B. W.
Dietrich, St.-
Wroxeter;
W. H.
J. R. Douglas;
Stothers, secretary
replaces Ben Straug-
the
the
office since the
school but who
the colors,
of directors in
Seaforth,
Engagement Announced
The engagement is announced of
Miss Marguerite Madeline Maire, of
Toronto, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Adolph Maire, Winnipeg, to Leading
Aircraftman Kenneth Stewart Manns
R.C.A.F., son of Mrs. Manns, Heu-
sall, and the late F. Manns, the
wedding to take place in Bloor Street
United Church, Toronto, at 4 p.m.,
August 14.
\ CUT COARSE FOR THE PIPE ]
OLD CHUM
CUT FINE FOR CIGARETTES
C.P.R. Beats Obstacles to Move Wartime Shipments
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PARTICULARLY adapted for
handling outside and odd
shaped war shipments, Canadian
Pacific Railway flat cars shown
above — empty and with loads of
boilers for corvettes, a huge trans
former and a weldcd-steel boat •—
have been of great aid to the war
effort of Canada and the United
States. Recently the company’s
largest depressed-centre flat cars,
one of Which is pictured at the
bottom of this layout, were the
only Ones which could handle a
150-ton tank — 16S feet long and
12% feet in diameter — from
Lachirte, QuC., to a synthetic
rubber plant in southwestern
Ontario.
Two of these huge cars now are
Cm loan in the United States haul-
ing* marine engines for the Kaiser 'T
|i||M g-4
shipyards, a typo of shipment in
which the Canadian Pacific pion
eered, as illustrated upper right,
where two smaller depressed-
centre flat cars are shown, each
loaded with a corvette boiler,
These important shipments tow
ered 21 feet, five inches above top
of rail when blocked up to get
them by certain half-deck girder
spans on many bridges and at
some bridges this blocking had to
be removed, while the boilers were
held up by jacks, and the shipment
lowered to clear the bridge.
The company’s engineering
department laid down the special
moves necessary to get the Cor
vette boilers from Toronto to
Quebec, listing all permanent in
stallations which had to be re
moved temporarily^ The technique
initiated by the Canadian Pacific
for this movement has since been
copied by other roads to the great'
profit of the war effort.
in the matter of the transformer '
(Upper left) the main considera- '
tion was to get equipment heavy '
enough to carry it from Toronto ’
to Milton, Ont., With its Weight of
134 tons being Ohly one ton less
than the maximum load capacity
of the biggest depressed-centre
flat car the company has in its
freight rolling stock of 77,710
pieces, all in War service. Tho boat
(centre) was an awkward load
With a maximum Width of 12 feet#
10 inches. It was 61 feet, six inches
long and was transported from
Owen Sound, Ont., to Saint John,
N.B., on tWO machinery fiat cars.
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