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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1945-09-06, Page 7IF you’re worried about tires, the best thing is to drive in and get expert advice. You may not be eligible for new tires, but there are many other ways we can help you. We specialize on repairs that will make your present tires last longer* THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1945 First Huron Picnic in Five Years Heid I I for some Mr. and ROYAL SNELL BROS. & CO phone 100 Let us assist you with your applicationsthat time, even Wm. and visit- PERTH PRESBYTERXAL IV,M.S. WILL RALLY IN WOODHAjM the airport from Bretr dazedly, shocked silence. She was ■pain of imagin- be glad to hear kindly mockery “I hate to see the look of a Gad hexp in the village. Whitlock. Mrs, Freeman Horne Mrs. Harry Ford of Inger- with Ford H, Dickey said with a faded eyes. you’ve got Wife already, tty Rita Hanson“thunderhead The story thus fgr; Lesley Saun­ ders arrives in Guayalagos to visit her sister, Edith, whose husbana, Nick, is, a pilot With a new airline, an American concern headed by Brett Hawley. To beat down coma­ petition Hawley has had tp sign contracts providing for freight de­ liveries on schedule regardless of weather, and the day (Lesley arrives one pf his pilots is killed. Evidence in the wreckage indicates sabo­ tage but Brett doesn't reveal this and hia other pilots don't know of it until just before an important transmountain flight, The airline weather expert advises cancella­ tion of the flight but Brett insists that it go through, He assigns Jim Stearns, his newest pilot, to the job and when Lesley, fond of both Jim on Jim’sand Brett intervenes behalf, Brett takes the flight him­ self, Lesley waits in radio room for reports and begins to realize how much she really Cares for him, He is report­ ing a severe electrical storm when his transmitter suddenly goes dead. Mary Waring, wife of the pilot who was killed, becomes hysterical. CHAPTER Vni When Mary calmed down a little, picked up her knitting and put her shawl. She was ashamed shy now and she wanted to away. Lesley said, “I’ll an n while. Windy patted “If yeu knew you wouldn’t “He could She pressed his “I’ll take your she on and get walk home with you, Mary” Mary nodded silently. Hennessey offered to go with them but thej declined his offer, knowing he wanted to stay there. The rain had stopped for a little In the doorway, Lesley’s shoulder. Brett like I do, worry,” he whispered, fly through hell!” F’ hand gratefufly. “I’ll take word for it, Windy.” They left the warm bright room and moved slowly over the wet grass, clinging together for comfort and support. At the house, Mary said, “I’m glad it’s clearing up. It’ll be a fine dawn.” : she was hysteria. Alone dressed, lay on top of the covers staring at the ceiling. Her eyes weren’t heavy at all; she had never felt so wide awake, so aware. o But gradually „ her mind drifted into idleness where snatches of ’ scenes and words followed through her consciousness without any pat­ tern. The harbour of Guayalagos,! seen for the first time, and the way she had felt in the first moment that her -boat h,ad started to move away from the pier in New York harbour . . . Mr. Richardson’s emotionless voice dictating in dim 'quiet of his -private office, was years and years ago . . . chief engineer on the boat, whose father’had once watched an escap­ ing conyict from 'Guinea be dragged under by long cruel river fish . . . what were those fish called? Brett Hawley standing in the doorway of Little Mama’s and the-* way Jimmie had cried with his head dowff on the table in Little .Mama’s . . . and the moment at Red Waring’s fu­ neral when big, silent Swede had got up and stumbled out of the lit­ tle church . . . and a tiny airplane Lesley knew that was how trying to apologize f-or in her room, (Lesley put on. a warm robe her un- and setting off alone into the vastne^s of the night , » .. She saw the silver gray night that meant daylight soon, and heard the first wooden cart go by on the road. There was a sound like somebody moving outside her bedroom window. Then a tappins on the screen. She sat up nervously. Windy was standing there, his head just visible over the sill. And he was smiling! She move. “What “He Windy engine commission." “Oh, Windy!” "I thought you’d it,” he in his it, but pilot’s you!” She knelt down because her knees felt funny. “Thank you, Windy. I guess you’re right.” When he was gone, she put her head on the window sill and watched the slow light grow oyer the trees. The dawn wind was cool and still wet. She breathed it deep­ ly and closed her eyes. Suddenly she felt strange She was weak and trembling and her cheeks were hot against her hands and there was a sort of dim exultant wonder all through her. He was safe! He was safe, and she loved him! It was almost noon before she was dressed and out to the field. She wanted to be there even though she knew Brett couldn’t possibly be ■back before the next morning. Everyone was looking cheerful and everyone talked of Brett. Lesley( clutching her new and wonderful secret, found these conversations .particularly enjoyable. Nick took off for Caracus on a passenger job, She saw him off, then wandered into the hangar. Jimmie was there working on a ship. He had a dark bruise on his chin from Brett’s fist. She spoke to him, then wandered outside. She had last night, might have house, she wandered over and went in casually. It was nice just to be in his house, to touch his careless masculine things. She picked up a shirt from a chair and hung it in the curtained-off space that served for a closet in his tiny bedroom. .She looked at his dresser. reached the window in one “Windy!” she whispered, ,?” just landed at Batista,” whispered back. “With ■ one dead and the radio out of lost her handkerchief On the excuse that it ■been dropped in Brett’s A bright-eyed brunette, ."esweet smile, looked back low, the that The Highland ’Cedar FENCE POSTS LARGE BUN Sound, Straight and Peeled AT LOWER PRICES also Lumber and Shingles A. J. CLATWORTHY We Deliver Phone 12 Granton Stubborn Cases of Constipation Those wild keep a mass Of impurity pent up in their bodies, ■day after day, instead of hating it removed aS nature intended, at least once in every twenty-four hours, iii- variably suffer from constipation. The use of cheap, harsh purgatives will never get you any whefe as they only aggravate the trouble and in- jure the delicate mucous lining of the bowels, and are very liable to cause piles. If constipated take Milburn’s Laxa-LivCr Pills and have a natural movement of the bowels. They do not gripe, weaken and sicken as many laxatives do. ■'■■• The t. Milburn Co., Ltd., Toronto, Oak ly. J hit my head on the Instrument pauel( but I was only sort of stun­ ned. My po-pilot had gone through the glass; he was bleeding .ter­ ribly.” He paused again, and Les­ ley said nothing, afraid to break the spell of his story. He was look­ ing out toward th© sea away from her, “I only thought of one thing; to out, I got out and ran In a of stupor , , . I’m not blaming blow' on the head for what I though, Anyone should have get sort that did, known enough to shut off the igni­ tion, any high school kid would ■know that. I didn't even do that!” There was such a tortured look on his face that Lesley couldn’t stand it. “Jimmie,” she said very softly, “Jimmie, don’t talk about it! at “Jimmie,” “Jimmie, ’ He didn't hear her, ok look her. ‘TheVe was an explosion then,” went -oh, “and flames that seem- to go up to the sky. The dry with a ■ at her writing “Come back you, Anne.” picture and time. Anne! a nice girl, from a silver frame. The in the corner said, soon, darling. We miss Lesley picked up ’the looked at it for a'long She looked like such such "a swell, understanding person. She had wide, steady eyes and brows and her -black hair was pie and straight. For the first (Lesley realized that there other worlds for Brett beside the small one of the airport; that there were other girls in these worlds, and th&t her love was the only thing she was sure of- There wasn’t any sensible reason to believe that he was in love with her. She put the picture down and went out of the house quietly. 'She walked away from the path into the hills. Someone called her name. Jimmie wiping the grease from -his hands with a rag as he ran. “Lesley,” he called. “Do you mind if I walk home With you?” She said, “Don’t you have work to do?” wishing to be left alone. “Ernie took -over my job. I was just puttering around anyway. I’d1 like to talk to you, Lesley." As they walked, along, she could almost hear him struggle to begin talking, “What was it you wanted to tell me, Jimmie?” she asked. “Well, it’s something I should have told you a long time ago. It ... it all came to me last night. I mean that I should tell you. It’s sort of hard to begin.” She kept looking straight ahead so as not to embarrass him. Fin­ ally he said, '"Before I came here, I was a passenger pilot for a small Western airline. I was a pretty good flyer, too. I had ambitions, lots Of them.” He paused to take a ddep- breath. His voice had be­ come toneless and without expres­ sion. “One night We were flying ovei’ the Arizona desert. There was no sigil of anything wrong. Then sud­ denly the motor conked, the stick went dead . » I was out of control before I realised what was happen­ ing. I fought the plane' all the way .down. 1 was scared to death; it Was the first time I'd ever been in a real tight place. J got the leveled out but We were too by that time. We headed over a clump of sagebrush in a dry level sim- time were field toward the stony was running after her, Members and officials of Huron County .Council with their families and friends numbering more than J50 people enjoyed a picnic at Har­ bour Parle Wednesday afternoon of last weeh. Many enjoyed a ride on the lake on boats chartered for the oc­ casion- A fine picnic lunch was served in the pavilion, Warden A. Alexander was chairman for the after-supper speeches made by the following: Exwardens, George Arm­ strong, of Hay; R( j, Bowman, Brussels; Wilmot Ilaake, Goderich Township; John Eckert, McKillop; Louis Rader, Stanley; N, W. Tre­ wartha, Clinton; B« W, Tuckey, Exeter; Mayor Mooney, of Goder­ ich, extended a civic welcome and other introduced were Mrs- Epk- meier, county librarian, Rain Stew­ art and Gerald Nelson, agricultural representatives; Miss Helen Gard­ ner, senior nurse of the Huron County School Nursing and the school nurses, Miss Mildred Haber- er, and Miss Jean Falconer, - Miss Aubra cleaver, public health nurse of Goderich, was the winner of* a draw made by Dr. J. W. Shaw, of Clinton, and was pre­ sented with a silver cream and sugar set, Dr. Shaw won the prize for the oldest person present and Baby Eckmeier for the youngest. TJris was the first annual picnic held for five years as during tm war the function was discontinued, he ed sage caught fire, too. And I heard a woman scream once.” He put his face in his hands. “There were three women and five men, count­ ing the co-pilot. Eight people dead because of me!” Lesley walked and horrified into wracked with the ing what he had gone through. He looked up again and started out toward Guayalagos. She looked at the young, thin line of his jaw and the terrible intenseness on his thin face. She was trembling when she tore her eyes away. “Your friendship and belief in me has been the only thing mattered to me for a long That’s what made me tell you, though I knew I’d lose you Because I loved you too much not to tell you.” “Jimmie,” she said gently, find­ ing her voice at last. “I think that what you just did now, was one of the 'bravest things I have ever seen.” He looked at her with be­ wilderment in his deep eyes. “You didn’t have to tell me all this; the cowardly way would have been to have told ime you hope that I would Jimmie, there are of courage. There would have rushed ing airplane to try and save the passengers because they have the kind of daring bravery -that makes heroes. But those same men pro­ bably. couldn’t have gone on living under the burden you’ve* carried.” , "No!” he burst out. “They would have committed suicide. I was too much of a coward even to do that!” "No, Jimmie,” she contradicted. "You were too brave, really brave to quit when there was a chance of going on. Gosh, I don’t know what, to say to show you what I mean, but you shouldn’t let one thing that happened when you Were half-conscious and bewilder­ ed, ruin your whole life. It was a terrible thing, but. you’ve paid for it now, more than if they had put you in prison. You will be free •of it some day. Look at you now, you’re flying again.” "Even though I’ve been scared to death every time! Even though x acted like a fool the night of the ■oil well fire and last night when I thought I couldn’t stand whole mess any longer!” “Maybe that was the turning ■point, the crisis, and now you’re on the road to recovery. I think it was, Jimmie. And now that you’ve told it ail to somebody, it’ll be eas­ ier from now on." “Oh, darling,” his arm I would thought me, you. ever sinde that first day on the boat when I wanted to talk to you but didn’t dare." Lesley’s brain Was spinning with her own whirligig of emotion. He evidently' took It for granted that she loved him, to. Why shouldn’t he, when she herself had believed that she was a little in love with him? Now that she knew without any doubt, that it was Brett she loved, what could she do? Especial­ ly when it meant reason (further loved was involved now worse than Edith or Mary, With ail their warnings, had imagined it, Jimmie was looking at her with Shy adoration in his eyes. He looked happier than she had ever seen him. around against jacket, ■almost loved me, and never find out. different kinds are men who •into the burn- the ship low into gul* and he said, slipping through hers. “I thought lose you. But I didn’t! I you couldn't ever forgive I was so afraid of losing I’ve loved you so hopelessly very was by someone .ELIM VILLE Miss Joy Whitlock, of St. Thom­ as, and Ronald Spry, of London, returned to their respective homes on Monday after visiting time with relatives here, Mr, Carman Herdman, sol, spent the week-end and Mrs. Jno. Herdman. Mr, and Mrs. Harry ( Gordon, Mr. and Mrs. W. and daughters were Sunday visitors with Mr, an Mrs. Newman Baker at Welburn. Pte. Harvey Sparling, of Ipper- wash, has enjoyed two week’s leave at ‘his home Miss Joy Spry, Mrs. children also ed one day last week with relatives in Logan Township. Miss Florence Bell, R.N., of Lon­ don, spent the holiday week-end at her home. Mr. Laurie Stephen spent the holiday at his home in the village. Mrs. J. MjcFalls and - Miss Leila, of London, Rev. Silas McFalls, i of Pontiac, Mich., were Sunday guests of Mr., and Mrs. Wes Horne. Mr. and Mrs. Ken Hogg and son, of Thorndale, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Routly and family, of Aylmer, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Routly and Muriel, of Kirkton visited with Mr. Mrs. Wm. Routly on Sunday. Muriel Routly also spent a days with Mjiss Anna Routly. Mr. and Mrs. Wellington and daughters, of Detroit, spent the week-end with Mr,’ and Mrs. Thos. Bell and other relatives. * . Mr. and Mrs. Howard McLean and Mr and Mrs, Bob. Galbraith, of Strathroy, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Johns. and Miss few Bell Representatives from the United Churches in Stratford and this dis­ trict will attend the twentieth fall rally of Berth Bresbyterial Woman’s Missionary Society of the United Church of Canada in Woodham on Friday, Sept. 21, Mrs. W. I, Gar- roll, Mitchell, presbyterial presi­ dent, will be in the chair. The speaker of the day will be Mrs. W, Campion, Toronto, formerly of St. Marys, secretary of the women’s work of the United Church of Can­ ada. The program will be opened at 10:00 o’clock in the morning with a devotional period. Mrs. J. Duns­ more, Harmony will offer prayer. A welcome will be extended by Mrs. E. J. Camm, Woodham. This will be followed by group conferences. Discussions will be held by the presidents, members of mission cir­ cles, Canadian girls'in training and mission bands, in which all those interested may take part. Mrs. G. L. Ratz, Tavistock, will speak on ; the literature available to the so­ cieties. The members of .Kirkton society will be in charge of the ■devotional exercises at noon. The afternoon session will be opened with exercises by Zion East society, Granton. The financial Statement will be given by Mrs. A. E. Robinson, Mitchell, treasurer. Mrs. A. Oairns, St. Marys, will call the roll. The offering will be dedi­ cated in prayer by Mrs. G. J. Men- ielly, West Monkton. After the ad­ dress by Mrs, Campion, the reports'- of the various committees will be submitted. The meeting will be closed with a hymn and prayer. The officers are: President, Mrs. Carroll, Mitchell; past president, Mrs. Campion, Toronto; first vice- president, Mrs. George Moore, Dis- towel; third vice-president, Mrs. Hotson, R.R. 2, St. Pauls; fourth DOMINION vice-president, Mrs. H. Dunsmore, Harmony; fifth vice-president, Mrs. Warren Brock, Granton; recording secretary, Mrs. N. F. Illman, Strat­ ford; corresponding secretary, Mrs. A. Cairns, St. Marys; treasurer, Mrs. A. E. Robinson, Mitchell. ’I TRY A WANT AD—THEY PAY! By the end of the war in Europe at least 150,000 magazines were being sent overseas monthly from Canada. Requirements of merchant seamen and the Canadian armed forces stationed in the Western hemsphere were also met. This was all done entierly by voluntary citizens’ committees and clubs. codld she do? Especial- was doubtful' that she much to Brett. What there to hurt Jimmie telling him that she else? Everything ‘ than she had ever She let him put his arms her the smooth leather of his His shining happiness was more than she could stand. and closed her eyes (Continued next week) Pel Santo’s fiesta is nwo than exciting;. The output Canada forces of the Allies with all the rubber they need. combined synthetic rubber of the United States and has supplied the armed come rancid in four months if the temperature gets up to fen degrees Fahrenheit. The British American Oil Company limited makes THREE of interest to every Canadian motorist in Washington, .D.C., gives promise. Refrigeration units to be available to farmers, say, Will elevate the rural Farm Refrigeration took ages of atomic research only two of the resulting bombs to pound the so called sons of heaven to their knees. 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