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Why think about it at
good,ma-
the
he’s
and
the man is Roger’s broth
still does not know the
between his brother and
he is pledged to avenge,
him can I fin a.
is no word of
Silent so long,
an explosion at
Of war-torn
and Rosine
the Madame’s
it is the man
as if
Was
non
dread
whole
were
often,
October they
Rogejr. Hje
in the Middle
may 'be home
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of the modern motion picture theatre. They wouldn’t have believed it I
In the transition from those days to this modern age we owe a greet
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ways. It will do more for us in the days to come I
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would
sorry,
speak;
but her own voice sounded
was a feel-
icy fingers
heart. “It
■saw—some
put the picture on
recall. So that was
are mistaken, chil-
the picture of my
He
because the\ truth will
soon. One day friends
forewarned, I
your-
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•CHAPTER VI
The Princess Merisel of Gratzen
and her cousins arrive in Canada
to visit Baron Rudi de Morplji, her
uncle. He had been employed by
Madame Fabre-Lusignan. who turn
ed the estate over to the Baron in
order that he could entertain the
Princess without hex’ knowing, of
his reduced circumstances. Roger
Fabre of the Canadian Air Force
and nephew of the Madame’s falls
in love with the. Princess. The es
tate is turned’ ovex* to the care of
unfortunate children
Europe. Pol Martin
■find a photograph oix
table and learn that
whom Roger has vojved to kill, They
learn that " ‘
er, Rogex*
connection
the crime
Meridel smiled, ‘‘He had beex.
■drixxking some of Jules Goujon’s
White wine in the inn—the lOoq d’or.
I met hixn right outside the dooi' ixx
the narrow street of Gratzen and
he said, ‘Are you real? Is this
place real?'—and-—.and we went to
the fair, and after that he walked
up the mountain with me .and then
lie said good-by. He did not even
tell me his name—only Michael.”
madame.
when
sure
Irish
“Like him,” nodded
“Well, if he was there
war came you may be
in it. There’s Scotch,
French in him.”
“But—but he is really
rame? He is not really a scamp?”
“A bit wild,” said madame slow
ly. “But underneath the wildness
and willfulness, I think he is .good
and strong. One could never really
know. It’s hard to know a man
who can laugh when he is crying
inside or suffer pain with a smile.
And Mike Fabre was like that. Did
you fall in love with him?” '
“I always remembered him.”
“I know, child, So did I. But
I've -often wondered if it wouldn’t
be .better to forget. I’d advise you
to put him out of your mind. Roger
is so steady,’ so reliable,
“Yes—all of that. And
think it best fox* me to
other one?”
“If you can,” said
smiling. “I can’t.”
There wasn’t much time to think
of Michael in the days that follow
ed. More children came, little Pol
ish boys, twin girls from the sham
bles of Rotterdam, thi*ee more boys,
sons of an aide of Charles de
Gaulle. There was work, plenty
of work for Meridel, fox* Madame
Mimi, fox> Rudolph. There were
lessons to be arranged. Madame,
from her long years on the stage,
had the gift of tongues. The * chil
dren loved her. It was a. sight, she
often thought, that would have sent
Michel into shouts of laughter whexx
she stood on the lawn with all the
little ones about her, speaking to
some in French, to others in Dutch,
to others in English. In the eve
nings she and Meridel sang for
thexn and led them
songs.
Madame, with the
trouper, began at
them tricks of deportment,
rules of elocution, all sorts of stage
business. She was equally at home
with Negro spirituals or Saint-
Saens. She was as young as the
youngest there and her stridefnt
voice rose above their chatter and
few were more nimble about the
games they played. It was as ’if,
in theix* wide and innocent eyes,
from which the feai* had long since
faded, she found the fountain of
youth. Nevex* in hex* life before had
she been so happy, so -at peace, so
sure that God had put hex* on this
earth fox* a purpose.
“Ah,” she said to Rudolph, “if
. iny good man Gossec could only
have lived to see this day, to see
his Mimi with all these tiny girls
and boys about her—how he would
have repoiced!”
Rudolph was silent, gazing mood
ily out at the park Where Meridel
and Miss Carrick, the new govern
ess, were giving the children a les
son in the shade of a great maple,
“It's symbolic,” said Rudolph,
'“that the maple sixould bo the tree
■so good.”
you would
forget the
madame,
in their native
zeal of the old
once to teach
the
that gives them shelter, But, Ma-
daine Fabre—”
“Madame Laurin, if you please,
Yop are becoming careless, Baron.”
Rudolph lifted his hands in a ges
ture of futility, “No, jt is not that*
It is just that I do not see how this
caxi go on. The longer I continue
this fraud axxd let them think that
I am a great man, the harder it
will foe for them when the fact is
revealed, when they learn that the
baron is—is merely the butler,”
“Pshaw!
all?” w
“Simply
be known
of yours will come-
“They shall ,,be
promise you that. You trouble ,
self needlessly.”
Rudolph bowed, but lxe
away unconvinced. Better
madame he knew the quiet
that underlay the sweetness,
gentle character of Meridel.
them now she was just a girl,
let circumstances change and,
knew, she could be very much* the
princess. He trembled for himself
when he thought of what would
happen if exposure came to him.
And come, ho knew ixx his heart, it
must.
Still, the days went on, joyously,
goldenly, at Philibert, Othex* littiu
Strangers came toddling in, seeking
and finding the warmth, the love,
the sanctuary that theix*; own world
had denied them. In
received word froxxx
was flying somewhere
East. “I pray that I
soon—will you please all pray too.
I have looked everywhere fox* Mine
but never a sign of
Always when there
him, when lxe is
there is a devil of
the end. And just now I feel, right
or wrong, that it’s building up fox
a thunderstorm—”
The day aftex* that letter came,
Philibert heard the first x’umblings
of that storm. Madame was sitting
on the terrace with Meridel ana
Rudolph when Rosine and Pol Mar
tin came to them. Rosine was cry
ing; Pol Martin’s face was very
long. He drew Rosine by the hand
until they stood in front of ma
dame. The little girl hung her head
and her shoulders shook with
weeping.
“You must speak, Rosine,”
Pol Martin.
“I—I cannot—”
“Now what is this, hein?”
laxne’s bony fijxgers were crookea
on the silver knob of her stick.
“What has happened to you,
sine?”
“I smashed the s picture.”
words were mumbled against
frill of her dress, but presently she
lifted hex* chin and looked with
near defiance in hex* tear-reddened
eyes at madame. “I threw it on
foot* and ground my heel in
face. I did! I did! And I am
sorry.”
“I told her not to do that,’ said
Pol Martin. "I tried to make her
see that it is not
dame Laurin, that
“In the name of
Madaxne hammered
hex* stick on the tiles. “What then
is this! Have you gone mad, you
children? Speak now. Whose picture
have you smashed, Rosine?”
“His The one who
homme Fricot.”
Madame
del "Stood
away, but
quely and
Meridel obeyed her.
with puzzled eyes
to Rudi, who kept
grass, his fingers
fore him.
“Where
madaxne
thaxi anv
her speak before.
“Ixx youi* room,
Pol Martin. “It is
bright
it was
name
he is
not be, madame. Sa^y it is not so.'
Madame looked at them with tile
eyes of an ancient eagle, tier fin-
went
than
pride
the
To
but
he
her
said
Ma-
gers moved no longer on the knob
of her stick.
slowly*
“You mean,
you think—I
is it again you think?”
“We know,” said Rosine, “He js
the one. W/hen we saw hixn
wore the German uniform
there were ribbons on his tunic
he had shot Bonhonxme Fricot,
he is the same man, We
know him axxywlxere. I am
madame. I meant nevex* to
but I—I could not help it.”
“When did you first begin tv
think this—this crazy thing?” Ma-
dame's voice was flat now, lifeless,
and she looked old and tired as
slxe leaned back against the cush
ions. “It was the day of my party,
wasn't it? The day you couldn’t
seenx to eat, Rosine?”
“That was the day, xxxadanxe.”
“Yes, I had
the dresser, I
it! But—you
dren. That's
nephew, of Roger’s brother,
could not be---”
She stopped, closed hex* eyes
the sun were too much for her.
this xnadness, phantasy, child’s
sense? Or was there some
kernel of dismal truth in the
bizarre business? Children
sometimes mistaken, but not
not very often, and these two, bred
of wars and perils, were wise in
their generation and estate beyond
most of their fellows.
“You are mistaken,” said Meri-
idel,
strange to hex* and there
ing in her breast as if
had closed around her
was some other one you
Nazi who looked like—like Michel.”
They shook their heads in unison.
Meridel’s lips thinned. “How can
you be so sure? You are stubborn
children and I am ashamed of you
fox* causing this pain to
Laurin. Do you not know
ten two people caxi look
much alike that one can
taken for the
“There was
on this one's
tin, > rallying
cling to hex* hand and thinking of
Bonhomme Fricot’s crumbled body
in the dimness of the hut and the
the German soldier’s face
left the lonely cabin.
blue
She licked, her lips
Ro-
The
the
the
his
not
your fault, Ma
li e—”
the good God!”
the ferrule of
rubbed her
up to take
madame
princess
was this
softly-
of them
killed B o 11-
Mer i-eyes.
the children
gestured brus-
or no princess,
But she looked
(from Madame
staring, at the
intertwined be-
picture?” asked
■for more
had ever heard
softly
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Madame
that of-
alike, so
mis-be
other?”
the same small
chin,” said Pol
to his sister’s
scar
Mar-
aid:,
The following account of an ad
dress given by Mr. George
son of Mr. and Mrs. B. W,
ers, of town, will be read
terest by our readers. It
in a Cornwall paper.
Beavers,
F. Beav-
with in
appeared
Beavers,
grin on
as he
showed
chin,”
“No
spoke
“You 1
ever,
cause
has been so good, so kind, so gen
erous to you.”
“They are young, Uncle Rudi,”
Meridel came quickly to their de
fense. “They did not know what
they were
I am sure, will forgive them. And
it is to you, aftex* all, that they owe
their gratitude.”
“To me!” Fox* a
off guard, Rudolph
himself. “Oh, I see
But please take them away now,
Meridel. They have done enough
mischief foi* today.”
Whexi they had gone he bent ovei*
the old lady, who seemed to see
nothing of what went on about her,
Madame!” .he said earnestly. “Ma-
not something I,
take them away
have caused you
It is folly, some
They play games
"It
on the side of his
of this!” Rudolph
unwonted authority,
right, no right what-
to
i more
with
have no
you ungrateful children,
pain to Madame Laurin, who
Morrisburg—George El.
B.A., owner and manager of that
Church street establishment where
tooth brushes are manfactured,
gave an address before the Lions’
Club of Gananoque, in which the un
folded considerable matter of inter
est concerning the factory, a fac
tory which has been closed to the
press and public up to now, when
the war is in its closing stages with
the enemy on the defensive. The
factory, being busy on war contracts
nothing could be niade public re
garding new" contrivances and new
doing. Madame Laurin, | products there, though all the while
moment caught
almost betrayed
what you mean.
madame,” said
the one in the
■silver frame. Gesner said
of your nephew and that his
Was Michel Fabre, and that
Roger’s Brother. That can
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dame! Is there
can do? Let me
from here. They
this mortal pain,
childish nonsense!
of pretending so much and so long
that they think the people in them
are real,
was such
F*ricot—”
Madame
God you
like to think that it is what you
—-some of their make-believe.
I am afraid-—”
“But I knew Monsieur Michel
he--”
“You know the Way he used to
talk, Rudolph—Wild things he’d-Say
and wilder things he’d do. Re had
three years at Heidelberg. And he
was so quick to identify himself
with anything revolutionary. But
my God, I cannot think that be—•
why, his father and two of his un
cles died in the battle of the Somme
and Roger wears the cross his king
gave him for bravery. No—no—”
“Blease, madame. I tell you It
is some child’s mistake, ft is noth
ing.”
“I shall try to think so, Rudolph.
The other thing would drive me
mad, Why, he was as dear to me
as my own—I could never think
this of him, .never*”
(To Bo Continued)
I am sure there nevex*
a one as Bonh’omnib
shook her head. “I pray
are right, Rudolph,I’d
SUS'
But
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much curiosity prevailed in respect
to its ways and works by people of
Morrisburg and adjacent territory.
Also there were many enquiries
(from outside points touching it,
seeing that something new of no
slight importance was under manu
facture.
Mr, Beavers spoke at the regular
semi-monthly meeting of the Gan
anoque Lions' Club, at which there
was a 100 per cent, attendance, as
well as the local dentists and out
side guests. Subject of the address
was ‘‘A New Industrial Development
fox* Canada.”
In opening his talk, Mr. Beavers
remarked it was an honor to be in
vited to Gananoque and that this
was the first time any mention had
been made to the public of this new
Canadian industry. Work had been
going oix for three years in Morris
burg, but the entire production ca
pacity thus far had gone to the
Armed Forces for war work. Within
a short time it is expected part of
the production capacity would be
released to civilian dentists, and
how the story could be told to the
public. Mr. Beavers paid tribute to
the co-operation of Gananoque
manufacturers whose help had been
invaluable to him in establishing
this new industry,
First Time in Canada
The particular products now be
ing made in Canada for the first
time are scientific instruments com
prising an assortment of all types
and styles of dental burs with which
dentists open and drill tooth cavities
—-a basic part of the modern px*ac-
tise of dentistry in tooth care, In
tracing the development of this in
dustry, a short sketch was given
of its past history, Up tin the out
break of the present war over half
of the entire Canadian supply of
dental burs had come from Ger
many, with the balance of Canadian
requirements comihg front Czecho
slovakia, England and the United
States. It was pointed out, also,
that a large part of the U.S, re*
quirenxents prior1 to the war had
come from Europe. With the cut
ting off of European sources of
supply, this had left the quantity
of dental burs for civilian use in
Canada in a very precarious posi
tion, so much so that Canadian den
tists were
doing their
conceivable
has had to
available and existing
the wax' began.
New Industry for
In establishing this
try fox- Canada, considerable fore
sight and care had been given to
ensuring as fax* as possible that it
contribute a permanent basis for its
contixxuance, growth and develop
ment during the post-wax* years as
a service to the Canadian dentists
and „ public. In -other words, with a
small population to catex* to in
ada, it was readily seen that
comparable quality product
made in Canada it would find
in a difficult -position to compete
with other dental bux* manufactur
ers during the post-war years due
to the greater productive and con
sumption
countries
tributing
on price
tures by
pre-war years. Therefore, the logical
solution for an enterprising (Cana
dian manfacturei* would be to
manufacture a better quality prod
uct than had beeix heretofore made
in any country in the world and
within a competitive price range
that would justify its purchase even
If cheap supplies Were dumped on
the Canadian market with the un-
fair advantage of depreciated cur
rency and
after the
nearly all
factoring
never re-opened.
Thanks to the technological pro
gress, particularly in the metallur
gical lines, during war years many
improvements, greater efficiency
products and manufacturing opera
tions had been pioneered and made
available and these are now incor
porate in Canadian Super Bxirs for
the first time. These have resulted
in a better dental bur being pro
duced in Canada than in any oth-
6i* country in the world today, It
was the speaker’s contention that
to win and keep markets manufac
turer’s products must merit confi
dence mid! buying support by its
consumers laud this must be capable
of definite proof, not based on ad
vertising claims or other merchan
dising “frills”,
The Important Advantages
Specifically, there are three im
portant advantages to Canadian Su
per Burs: (I) As their cutting
edges are sharper they cut faster
and save upward of 25% of a den-'
greatly handicapped in
regular work and every
conservation measure
be taken to stretch out
stocks since
Canada
new indus-
Can-
if a
were
itself
tist‘s time in drilling operation. (2)
A new manufacturing process for
making dental burs has been evolv
ed, and in the Morrisburg plant the
flutes or cutting edges of dental
burs are ground from solid, harden
ed, tempered blank steel shapes. In
the past, in othei’ manufacturing
plants, the method, of manufactur
ing prevalently used is to mill the
flutes with a metal cutter when the
steel is soft and before it is heat
treated, which is a less expensive
process and results in an inferior
type product. This new process
gives Super Burs a longer life than
previous types of dental burs. (3)
Most important from the patient's
point of view is that the new Super
Burs have contributed another step
to painless dentistry and there is
less pain and discomfort to drill
ing operations which in the past
have been the dreaded part of visits
to dental offices. Design improve
ments and sharper cutting edges
combine to minimize heating
the tooth and bur while
and reduce the chattering
moveable instrument parts.
In talking about these
technical manufacturing , processes
and showing the superiority of iCan-
adian .Super Burs, Mr. Beavers used
an array of illustrative proofs of
the steps in manufacturing and
these helped the audience to follow
each point as it -.was discussed by
the speaker.
At the conclusion of his address,
Mr. Beavers was presented with an
engraved and framed plaque of ap
preciation by the Gananoque Lions
Club. While in Gananoque, Mr.
Beavers was the guest of Tom. Del
aney, general manager of Parmentex*
Bulloch of that town.
capacity of the larger
in the world. Another con
factor was the stress laid
rather than quality fea-
imported materials in the
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