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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1947-03-06, Page 7Page 7 face north and sounds cold and winter is coming your- come LGULATIONS ON [t’SKHAT TRAPPING THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 6th, 1947. have to getreally ? any GrantonPhone .12 CANADIAN INDUSTRIES LIMITED ' The T. Milburn Oo() Ltd,, Toronto, Ont. she you my Mereditli glance at up merri- last word send hex* at Enid’s “You’re 'And yen turned from the window little sigh of rapture, and walked over to her with a laugh. “Come and see your she said, slipping her two weeks, to be found for bed with some day pa- we we. they most certainly would, what Enid then? (Continued Next Week) Next Week: Agatlia fears the out­ come of her interest in Hugh} yet she does nothing to forestall it. In next week’s installment Hugh takes matters into liis own hands. than little the year; just ex­ for ins*ance'!' _ rievef awl liar^ Live, disra»'=-c“tt’- a <tair»euw. <jhrodBBy -rt comes up is resource to the a « ■ a tasteless p°xs° industries 4th"'Rodaut ,axuo f Canadian lnuus Exeter District .Cooperative Phone 287 The story thus far: Agatha 'Be Claire, row 42, was the daughter of a wealthy Montreal family. 'She has been .married twice and twice divorced, and although she is dis­ illusioned by marriage she still la­ ments the lack of love in hex’ life. Her friend, Fanny Wetherall, per­ suades her to go to a meeting of the 'Press Club, where Agatha meets Enid Walters and hex’ fiancee, Hugh Meredith. 'Enid is a newspaper’ wo­ man and author, Agatha is attract­ ed to both, and especially interest­ ed in Hugh. CHAPTER II Fanny’s voice broke into Agatha’s thoughts: “Enid, what about that dear little apartment of yours on Union avenue? Do you out?” “Yes, in less And there is so at this time of pensive apartments. Do you know of anything?” “Not a thing,” returned Fanny cheerfully. “It had such a nice sitting room, with a fireplace,” Enid explained to Agatha. “I suppose I shall never find such a treasure again.” She looked over at Meredith wistfully. Afterward Agatha found it hard to determine just why she broke the moment of silence that fol­ lowed. Looking at Enid and Hugh, both so alive, so vital, hex’ own loneliness seemed to engulf her in a wave of longing. “I have a rather foig house with rooms going to waste, Miss Wal­ ters,” she said suddenly., “It’s on ixppei’ Mountain street. Won’t you come and stay with me till you’re settled—oi’ even longer? You could have your own rooms on the second floor—with a fireplace,” she odded smilingly. “No one would disturb you.” There was a question on each face turned to Enid. “You are really too kind,” stammered in surprise. “Why, haven’t even a reference of character!” Meredith was the ifirst to recover, “Why not think about it, .Enid? You’re shut up almost all days in that stuffy newspapei’ office. A bedroom on a mountainside would be wonderful fox’ you.” “If you and Mr. Meredith will come to dinnex’ some night soon we can talk about it,” Agatha pursued. “What about Thursday or Friday?” “Friday is my hard-working at the office, when Saturday’s pex* is made up. But I think could come Thursday. 'Could Hugh?” “Of course!” He implied that number of masculine engagements could go hang where two such charming women were concerned. The little group foroke ly, Agatha pausing ifox* a with Enid, promising to cai’ to pick the two up apartment on Thursday. “You were really a brick about that, Agatha,” was Fanny’s com­ ment as they walked out to the •car. “Enid is a clevei’ girl, and needs to be taken up by interest­ ing people.—like yourself.” “Thanks—twice,” Agatha smiled. “But she’ll probably be marrying Mr. Meredith soon,” she continued wistfully. “He’s charming.” “He is charming,” Fanny ap­ proved. “But he has only a small position with one of the big insur­ ance companies. 1-Ie can’t afford to be married yet.” “Can’t 'he get anything better?” “He lacks ambition or luck; I Highland Cedar FENCE POSTS ON »HAND Anthracite Coke and Coke ON HAND A. J. 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At a quar­ ter to 7 Enid and Meredith arrived in a * flurry of November snow­ flakes, and at 7 the three went in to dinner. Enid was wearing the same gold­ en brown gown, the same topaz necklace as on the previous Tues­ day evening. “I was afraid you wouldn't remember me without the some color scheme,” she said, laughingly to Agatha as they sat by the drawing room fire for a few moments before dinnex’ was announ­ ced. And Agatha knew it was the girl’s one evening dress. Looking at Enid, Agatha realized how she had looked forward to hex' coming, The girl, sitting at her fireside, looked as if she belonged there. If she could only persuade her to stay! Meredith too seemed to have the quality of being at home. How handsome he was! His slight, tall figure had an unmistak­ able aix' of breeding. ■She knew that she was looking her best as she sat at her beauti­ ful oval table, with Enid on her right and Meredith at her left. “I hope this is the fitting place and time for.the story of youx' topaz necklace,” she said to Enid when the fish had gone and Howard be­ gan to carve the roast chicken foi’ them. “You made me curious about it the other night.” “To make a long story short, par­ ticularly for Hugh’s sake, as he knows it all to 'begin with”-—Enid smiled ovex* at hex* fiance—“I had once upon a time a wealthy aunt who had traveled to all the rich bazaars of the earth and had ■brought back many gleaming jewels, cut and uncut, mounted and un­ mounted. She was t'he only one of our family who had married money and she made the most of it. The money, I mean—not the marriage.” “How often a day did you break the commandment about coveting neighbors’ goods, Enid,” Hugh in­ quired. “Not to mention the ones about stealing and killing?” “I’m afraid I’m going to foe heckled, Mrs. LeClaire,” Enid laughed, “so I’d 'better hurry. After her husband died Aunt Alice invited my sitsei’ and me to her house of­ ten. She wanted to adopt one or the other of us, but somehow neith­ er of us could see it. We never were mercenary at t'he right times. “But my sister, Maibel, and I gave up all hope of necklaces when Aunt Alice announced that she was to be married again,” Enid continued. “She’d been devoted to the missions, but we soon enough discovered that hex’ real devotion was to a returned widower missionary ten years youngei’ than herself. Did you ever notice, Mrs. LeClaire, how true that saying about 'no fool like an old fool’ is? Aunt Alice was like a schoolgirl. And finally, in a mo­ ment of sheex’ rapture the night be­ fore her marriage, she gave me the necklace.” An old fool! Agatha looked sharply at Hugh Meredith, at Enid. Obviously neither was following her own train of thought. How very near to her own case, Agatha was musing. Could she evex* be that— an old fool? “Was youi’ aunt—very old?” she asked softly. Enid turned quickly to hex’ and a slow, soft flush crept into her face. • “Why, you dear!” she exclaimed suddenly. She arose quickly and ■walked over to Agatha’s chair, sat down on the arm of it and took b.oth of “She “Surely oh, I’m coining to stay with with me for a while,” Agatha said, her hand on the door knob. The two followed her into a small sitting room with a fireplace. The walls were creamy tinted, the hang­ ings blue chintz lined with buff. Only Agatha knew how very new those hangings were; but in the midst of her pleasure at Enid's de­ light, she found herself coloring at Meredith’s intense admiring gaze. He had guessed hex’ secret-—knew that she had gone out of her way to have this room done over in the last few days. But Enid did not guess. “What lovely things you have!” she said with rather childlike glee as she went ovex* to the bay window, where scarlet geraniums and fuchsias were growing in boxes. Enid fouried hex’ face in them. “You are really too good to foe true,” Hugh whispered to Agatha. “You’ll have 'both of us believing in fairy godmothers again.” Agatha laughed in appreciation. She looked over to where Enid stood by the window, holding foack the curtain now to enjoy the view up the mountainside. “'She’s such a joyful child,,” Agatha murmured. “I’ll love doing things for her.” “You’re doing something to both of us,” Hugh returned. “I never dreamed even fairy godmothers were so lovely.” She turned quickly, looked full into Hugh’s eyes, eyes that still twinkled with little mocking lights, but held something else now, an eagerness, perhaps, an apparent ad­ miration— Enid with a Agatha nervous ■bedroom,” hand into the girl’s arm. ' As they turned toward the ad­ joining door Agatha was conscious of the blood beating warmly in 'her temples. She glanced at Hugh again and let her eyes fall when she saw his gaze upon her. But her confused thoughts were interrupted by Enid’s little cry of delight at the bedroom, and while Enid exclaimed over the beautiful decorations Agatha regained hex’ composure. The hangings here were figured mauve chintz lined with canary yel­ low, two easy chairs being uphol­ stered in the same. A tiled 'bath­ room opened out of the room. ■Enid sank into one of the chairs blissfully. “Are you quite real?’’ she asked, looking up at Agatha happily. Agatha raised the blind and they looked up the 'mountainside to lights twinkling above them, and 'houses made sharply visible in the night ibecause of the feathery pow­ dering of snow. “These rooms northwest, which dismal now that on. But you get the mountain view —Enid. May I call you that?”" “Of course. But—if you really want me to stay we must discuss ways and means at once. Let’s ex­ cuse Hugh for a few moments, Mrs. LeClaire. You can’t imagine how he will revel in your library down­ stairs.” But aftei’ the dooi’ had closed upon Enid’s' fiancee Agatha broke in quickly: “It would foe a wonder­ ful pleasure fox’ me to have you here when I am So lonely, but I don’t want you to feel yourself bound in any way. Won’t you look upon self as a guest who is free to when she wishes?” Enid insisted on being Hibbert Couple Wed 50 Years Owing to stormy weather and blocked roads, Mr. and Mrs. David Bruce, of Cromarty^, who were mar­ ried fifty years ago, February 24th, 1897, celebrated the occasion on February 25th, Mrs. Bruce was the former Lavina Sillery, youngest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Wm, 'Sillery, of Staffa. Driving to Hensail by horse and cutter ovex* high snowbanks, the couple were married by the Rev. Charles Lester Mills, To this reunion they were blessed with six children, three of them still living. The oldest, Char­ lotte Balfour, of Windsor; Frank, on the homestead; and (Becky; Mrs. Jackson, of Wallaceuurg, Ont. Mr, Bruce was born and has lived his entire life on the farm where he now resides. Attending the dinner were the family, Mrs. Wm. Sadler, Mrs. Robert (Sadler, sisters of the bride, and Mr. Robert Sadler, all of Staffa. The dining room was prettily decorated with gilted, golden stream­ ers and roses. The table was centred with a three-storey wedding cake and was flanked with lighted candles and spring flowers, all in golden, shade. The flowers were the gift of the four grandchildren. The family presented the couple with a bed-side table apd lamp woolen .blankets and Mr. Bruce. The six them with an electri< were also showered other gifts. In the eighty friends and xx ered to show their n seated the couple with a gold chen­ ille bedspread gold-plaid gold ring for ers p e toaster. They 'itlx numerous 1 '■ M. ;■ b n ilglibors gath- SERVIN lamps also in gold shade. Fourteen tables of progressive euchre were in progress followed foy a short pro­ gramme and presentation. The gifts were presented foy William Harper and Filmer Chappel. (Following is the address read by Bert Butler, which was presented in the form of a lovely wedding book, tied with gold ribbon and made by Mrs. Fil- mer Chappel, ’ assisted Mrs. Calder MeKaig. Dear Mr, and Mrs, Bruce: A Golden Anniversary is a rare and beautiful occasion and we could not let yours pass without sharing it with you. As the years have sped, you have seen a community grow, and in its growth you have always played a willing and active part. We know you have experienced many joys together and, too, that you have found the truth of that old adage— Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark, and sad, and dreary! but that these troubles shared have wound you more closely together, and made this day one of greater happiness for you both. May this gift do its small part to express the hearty congratulations and best w.shes of— Your Friends and Neighbors. The open season for muskrat this year in -.Ix.ron County is from March 15 th to April 21st, inclusive. xt. is strniigly ur ed that trap er.-, co-operate and abide by the regu­ lations governing muskrat trapping. Three of the most important regu­ lations fvi’ ue protection of musx- rats are as follows: 1. It is unlawful to set a trap closei’ than five feet to a muskrat furrow. 2. It is dogs fox* oi’ to dig rows. 3. rats. unlawful to use spears or the taking of muskrats muskrats from their fur- It is unlawful to shoot musk­ A beyond his intelligence. highbrow is a man educated STOCK-GRO CONTAINS oo 07 LACTOSE^70 (Milk Sugar)12%^dTIC CONCENTRATED CULTURED BY-PRODUCT OF MILK Flies Mould Mixing Freezing ® No Filler ® No Fibre ® No Waste • No Stabilizer @ No Mess OUTS FEED COSTS — PRODUCCS BETTER STOCK Feeding Molasses by the Barrel Agatha’s hands in hers, was over 60!’’ Enid cried, you don’t think I meant— awfully sorry!’’ Enid’s face was brightly flushed now, her eyes .misty with self- reproach. Hugh Meredith arose and stood behind her. “That’s absurd!” he said. “In the first place Enid doesn’t think you’re old. 'She (thinks you’re beau­ tiful. And in the second place, if she included you in the category of old fools she’d have to include me too. I should turiDhei’ over my knee if I thought she even entertained the idea!” He said it with a perfectly proper inflection, but Agatha’s heart leapt with gratitude. She smiled at both of them, patted Enid’s warm hands affectionately. “You musn’t mind me,” she said. “Really, I gave myself away when I asked that. We matrons just can’t ibeai’ to face the facts.” She sought to lessen Enid’s embarrassment: “I’m 42,” she said with mock severity. “If this be old age, make the most of it.” Enid laughed relievedly. hot old/* she protested. ‘ are beautiful.” “Beautiful,,” Hugh agreed, Agatha flashed a him; she thought that he was really looking at her for the first time. After coffee in Agatha’s library— all mahogany and dark red leather »—the three went upstairs to see Enid’s little suite, as Agatha already called it, “These two rooms are idle all the time-—I never have visitors now—‘So I hope you will think seriously of more practical. “I should .have to pay at least $3 5 or $40 for a small apart­ ment in the heart of the city. I must pay something for this beautiful one.” Agatha sat down before the fire­ place and lit a cigarette. “Make your new apartment $30, then, if you will if eel better about it. You may 'breakfast here when- evei’ you wish—you can ordex* it the day before. I always have mine up­ stairs at 9, but that would be too late for you. Howard, my foutler, will foe delighted to have something to do in the mornings. Only—I must reserve the right to invite you to dinnex’ every evening if you feel like coming.” ■She looked away fox- a moment, then flicked hex’ cigarette ash care­ fully into the grate. “And—I want Mr. Meredith to feel free to come to dinner with you whenever you don’t want to go off somewhere else together. You can arrange that to suit yourselves.” And so it was finally settled. Hugh and Enid left shortly after the toux’ of Enid’s 'rooms. They both pleaded an early-morning ris­ ing, and Agatha at last reluctantly let them go. She insisted, though, on ordering the eax* for them. As she turned to the staix* she was smiling softly. 'She felt that she had managed to get hex’ own >way week ago I them,” as she pretty successfully. “A never knew eithei’ of murmured in surprise cended to her room, Before she undressed looked into her mirror approval. There was a soft flush on her cheek merging into the rouge. 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