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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1946-11-07, Page 9THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, .EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 7th, 1946 T Selle By WALLACE K. NORMAN * Region THE MARK OF DEPENDABILITY spjcaoE ;pEao::oiexoe: CHAPTER XII A gray, tangled beard above which were a -pair of piercing, ’ hawhlike eyes loomed out of the sea °£ flailing knives. Xerxes’ breath caught in his constricting throat. The owner of that beard and those eyes was Aben-el-A'kr, The old outlaw’ stood watching Xerxes being torn to pieces as calmly as if he were contemplating the glories of a desert sunset, The fraction of a second Xerxes spent glancing at /Ahen-el-Akr proved his undoing, The sword was knocked from his hand*; and a staggering blow on the head bowled him from his feet like a tenpin. As he struck the floor he heard Curt I Sawyer yell frantically to the na- tives * ° ’’Kill the dog, and run! Quickly, you sons of mongrel ‘hyenas! Kill him, and run!” .French, German, Russian and Po­ lish oaths suddenly rang out above the pandemonium raging in the room. The pressure of the natives swarming over him lessened abrupt­ ly, and Xerxes heaved himself to his knees. Through the blood streaming down his face, he saw a wave of kepis sweep through the arch from the passageway. “■Stand where you are, or we'll shoot you down like rates!” The voice of a German noncom bawled and without stopping to wonder how they’d got there, Xerxes knew that a patrol squad of Legionnaires had somehow come to his rescue. On his feet in a jump, Xerxes saw Sawyer and Aben-el-Akr plunging for the rug-draped door­ way. Almost walking over the backs of the scrambling natives, Xerxes hurled himself at Curt Saw­ yer. His fist caught Sawyer full on the chin, spilling him . like a sack of grain. Whirling, he wrapped his arms around Aben-el-Akr, and dragged the old scoundrel to the floor. “This way, sergeant!” he yelled. “This way . . .!” Xerxes staggered ■drunkenly to his feet, dragging the old 'kaid, Aiben-el-A(kr, with him. Curt Saw­ yer lay senseless where he had fall en. “Here you are, sergeant,” he said. “These are the two we want. Take ’em to the commandant, and tell him the war’s over.” The sergeant, a (huge glowering fellow, picked up Sawyer by the nape of the neck as he would have a. puppy. “Sergeant,” Xerxes panted, lean­ ing against the wall for support. “I want to thank you for getting here when you did. About two sec­ onds more and these gentlemen would have had their initials carved in my heart.” > “There is no thanks fox’ me, lieu­ tenant,” replied the sergeant. “The thanks should go to the mademoi­ selle who had the quickness of wit to call me.” . « ‘“The .mademoiselle?” XerXes mumbled weakly. “What mademoi­ selle?” He looked up ias the sergeant the into for- :OE3O CREDJTON Service in the Evangelical church next Sunday evening will be withdrawn and a union service will be held in the United church. Rev. J will be address interest Society.The |L. _ _ . group of the United church held their initial fall meeting on Tues­ day eyenin,g of last week at the home port Plans work joyed Mr. have Listowel after spending two weeks' vacation at the home Blackwell’s parents, Mr. S. Wuerth. Ml'. Bruce Keilizle is enjoying a hunting trip, Mr. and Mrs. K, Baxter, recently returned from their eymoon, spent the week-end at the home of the latter’s parents. Mr. and Mrs. S. Wuerth. Mr. Austin Fahrner left on Tues­ day for Toronto where he will take a course in Radio Electronic. Misses Audrey Yearley and Ruby Church, of London, visited ovei’ the week-end at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Tlios. Yearley. Mrs. Jno, Hirtzel ond son Maur­ ice and Mrs, Emmerson Wein and family, who spent several days in Detroit, returned home this week with the exception of Mrs. Hirtzel, who is remaining in Detroit for a visit, Mr. Herb Haist, of Detroit, spent the,week-end with his sister, Mrs. Emmery Fahrner and Mr. Fahrner. Mrs. Wm. Smith and son Gerald are spending a week in Pigeon, Mich. Rev. and Mrs. Yates, of New Market, spent a few days in town last week. Misses Marguerite and Agnes Lamport and Gertrude Beaver and friends, of Detroit, spent the week­ end at the homes of their parents, Mrs. Margaret Lamport and Mr. and Mrs. H. Beaver. Mr. arid Mrs. Thos. Trevethick visited for a few days last week in Exeter, Mrs. Lloyd Gaiser spent a few days this week in Detroit. Mr. Howard Beaver, of Welland who spent a few days at the home ■of his parents, left on Monday ac­ companied by his mother, Mrs. H. Beaver, Mr. __ Mr. and Mrs. Ray Morlock daughter are visiting with fives in Detroit. ' Mr. Ted Wright, who was rush­ ed to the hospital in London last week for an appendicitis operation is, we are glad to report, sing favourably. Ted’s friends and neighbors this week rallied to his assistance and with ■tractors and plowg completed his fall plowing^ a kind and thought- . ful act, which reminds us we are ■ still living in the days of the Good Samaritan. Fahrner—Hawk A quiet but pretty wedding was ■ solemnized on Friday evening at ■ the Evangelical parsonage when . Rev. M. E. Reuber united in mar- - riage, Lois Hawk, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Hawk, of Raymond, Alberta, to Wallace ,S. Fahrner, ■ son of Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Fahrner of Crediton. Following the cere- • mony the happy couple left on a ; short honeymoon trip to Windsor ' and Detroit. On their return they • will reside in London. Their many . friends extend congratulations best wishes. Presentation to Class Member The Dorcas Band Class of ' Evangelical church at a recent Sunday School session presented ” Mrs. Arthur Aany with a floral ’ picture and an address. Mrs. Amy . who has been a valued members of ‘ the 'Class has since taken up resi- Gordon address GRAND BEND Miss. Varda Page visited; over the week-end ’at Ravenswood, Mr. and Mrs. Scott, were visitors with terson, , Mr. and Mrs. grandchildren, of • are spending with them. Mr. and Mrs. Parkhill were Sunday visitors with Mr. and Mrs. .Carlyle Taylor. Miss* Muriel Fallis, visited with Mrs. W. •over the week-end. The fishermen are few fish hut have to way up the lake. Mr. Wm. Glen Johns Manville house which is building. Quite ,a giving Rev. new home of Sarpia, Will .Pat­ ;Si Mrs,Ppnny Bright, of London, ) the guest speaker and will the congregation in the of the work of the Bible Pollock’s Mich., s.Is There a Cold in Your Hprw?Sol Lansing, a couple of weeks Wampoles Cod Liver Extract $1.00 Groves Cold Tabs 25c & 45c 1OJC3OEX his face in his hands. • Hie awoke an hour or so later to the odor of antisceptics and a feeling of being houpd hand and foot, After a moment he realised lie was lying on a hospital cot, swathed in bandages from his an­ kles to the top of his head, “Hello," a voice said above him. He looked up into Constance Barteau’s face, then closed his eyes again. ’Hello,” she repeated. “The nurse said I could talk to you—and must talk to you,” Xerxes wondered hazily why she hadn’t been arrested, but he was too sick to asl< or tell her he didn’t want her tp talk to him.“I don’t* know how much you’re going to believe,” she said, “hut I’m .going to tell you this any way, You think I’m -a spy, don’t you?” Xerxes remained quiet, He (knew she was a spy. “Well, I am,” she confirmed. “At least, I was. My brother and I both were spies—of a sort—for Curt Sawyer.” As sick as he felt, flared in slightly, closed, “Raoul Constance went on quickly. “He was Mr. Sawyer’s ‘special secre­ tary.’ In other words, he handled all the old man’s private business matters. Matters so private iMr, Sawyer dared let no one else touch ■them. And when he died, with his affairs in a terrible muddle, Raoul was made the goat. They said he’d stolen the old man’s money and ■doctored the books to fool the banks. Raoul didn’t do it.” Her voice was vehement. “But he would have been sent to prison if Curt hadn’t stepped in .and protected him. After that, Raoul was prac­ tically Curt’s property,” Xerxes found he wasn’t as sick as he’d thought. Every mention of Sawyer’s name had heightened his anger ,a degree.' Abruptly he opened his eyes. “Why are you telling me?” he' asked weakly. I don’t want to hear about 'Sawyer or your brother . . . or you, either, for that matter.” “But you’re gping to,” Constance replied almost relentlessly. “When Curt came over here • he brought ■us with him. At first we thought it, was to be a pleasure trip. We found out differently. There was all sorts of information, he wanted, and as Raoul and I speak French—- our parents died in France at .the beginning of the war—Curt pressed us Vito service as spies. He Ihad that embezzlement charge to hold over Raoul’s head, and Raoul, never strong willed . . .” “I see,” Xerxes managed a sar­ castic, amused laugh. “Reminds me of the movies I used to see back home. The handsome villain hold­ ing the weak brother over the I weeping heroine to make her steal Lady Wheedle-de-dee’s diamond -hatpin. But 'did you have to carry on your spy’s work so—thorough­ ly?”Constance was silent a moment. Her red lips tightened as she look­ ed down on him. “I didn’t do it at all!” she burst out. “I did get some information from you that second ,day in Tlaba but that is all I ever did. Every­ thing else, no matter how it seemed to you, was to try to help you. I ■asked you to come out to the well ■that night 'because I knew they planned to kill you on your way back to camp from the cafe . . .” “Granting that—which I don’t,” Xerxes cut in cautiously, “I Sup­ pose youve forgotten getting me to leave my men ...” “But I did that only so I could tell you of the attack!” Constance ■cried, tears welling up in her eyes, “There was .no other way I dared get word to you. The .attack simply came before I thought it would. You can’t blame me fox' that, can you? And 'I locked you in the old jail to keep you—” she hesitated an instant, “to keep you from being killed. I knew you’,a try to go back to your men regardless of .how many natives there were. And then when Curt, who had followed me from Tlaba, came along I- can’t you see if were in that hut you!” The sound of I resentment Xerxes. His face flushed but his eyes remained worked for Curt’s father.” I®■oSOKMERI ■■■■ CANADIAN GENERAL ELECTRIC % yon 'accomplished more than the entire intelligence 'bureaxx did in ten days.” Xerxes gaped stupidly at the Young Married People’s Jim Wilson, of ■of Mr. an4 Mrs. Roy Lam- with a large attendance, were made for the winter’s after which games and lunch served. and Mrs. R. J. returned to their pf Sarnia, A. Mollard were ca- Blackwell home in -I Mrs. Mrs. of and this week who’ hon- catching a go a long is putting shingles making on thq on a :his fine are his while .the Beer are in Exeter numhex' of mexi 'Cleqve a boost oil in Pt. Edward trying to get it all closed in fine weather lasts. Mr, and Mrs, Wm. spending a week pr so with rjMr, M. Quince. Mr, John Mousso is getting along fine with his new home. Mr. and Mrs. tWes, Nichols, of London, were Sunday visitors with Mr. and Mrs. L. Mason, Mr, and Mrs. Gordon Mrs. W. .P. Lovie, of London week-end visitors Mrs. J. W. Holt. 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Co., Ltd,, Toronto, Ont. heavy footsteps sounded outside the hospital ward, Constance turned hastily. “Please— please believe me,” she said. “I must go now.” ■She hastened out, and when Xerxes had squirmed around .to see where she had gone he was look­ ing squarely Col. Duroc. were several whom, oddly an American “All, Benedict! “Alow me to congratulate you!” Despite bls mummy-like .casing of bandages Xerxes sat up in bod. “Congratulate me?” he grunted warily. “On and of try man Duroc replied. “A most extraordinary piece of Work* Benedict! Especially after having been removed from active duty for-—” The colonel coughed in some confusion, then started on a different track, “I mean, for a man in your unhappy position to ferret out the leaders of this nasty mess and single-handedly bring them to justice is most extraor* dinary ,lieutenant. In ten minutes into the red face of Behind the colonel Othex’ officers, one of enough, was dad in uniform. Duroc exclaimed. “On ’what?” the capture of Alben-el-Akr this not too pleasant cou'n of yours, this Curt 'Sawyer/ colonel for fully a moment, Then a terrific desire to laugh him. “Thank you, colonel,” was could manage with a straight face. He hadn’t ferreted out Sawyer ana Aben-el-Akr; he hadn’t even in­ tended to. He’d simply stumbled over them. “But I hardly feel I deserve your praise, sir,’’ he went on, biting his lip. “I—I simply 'did •my duty as I saw it, sir.” ’Wh!” Duroc exclaimed proudly to the officers with him. “You see, gentlemen? Of such stuff as ILieut. Benedict is our Foreign Legion composed. Thus do we dispose pf our problems. With Sawer and old Aben-el-Akr locked up in .prison, this revolt of the natives will col­ lapse in its tracks.” He turned to Xerxes. “And that, all due to your energy, lieutenant, and to the integrity of your coun­ trywoman, Mlle. Barteau . . .” Xerxes straightened up so quick­ ly ihe nearly toppled off his cot. “You mean you’ve caught her too?” he demanded. “Caught?” The colonel’s eye­ brows went up sharply. “But no, lieutenant. It seems I misjudged the lady in our conversation in El Grimgau. This afternoon she qame to headquarters and, informed us of the plot to destroy the food and ammunition. Through her fearless-- ness we spiked the plot, saving <a fortune in supplies.” The colonel sighed, charming she is! As the intelli­ gence officer ” "7 _ against either her or her brother it seemed qnly fitting that we re­ ciprocate by offering them their freedom.” Xerxes sank back on his pillow, mopping bewilderedly at his face with his bandaged hands. “The lieutenant is tired, gentle­ men,’” Duroc announced, looking at him closely. “Let us say good day.” “Benedict,” the American officer said, lingering as the' others with­ draw, “I’m Draper, the military at­ tache sent over from (Paris to cover this scrap you’ve just broken up. I’d no ideaf who you were, of course, until Col. Duroc told me.” Xerxes squinted up at Draper, a clean-cut, typically American lieu­ tenant. “TnlA vaii wlia.f?” 'bluntly, of West “Well flushing you’d like to 'know that months after you left the 'Point they discovered- that Sawyer him­ self had stolen that money. iSeems he was short and didn’t his old man for more, the authorities wanted things up for you but appeared.” Draper saluted, you later, fella,” he said, parted after the others. (A peculiar lump formed in Xerxes’—in Bill Harvey’s—throat. It was over; the finish. The cur­ tain was down. 'HiS slate was clean. For a moment it seemed lie could hear the wild cheers of a football- mad crowd as a broad-shouldered, .phantom-hipped Army halfback plunged over for a touchdown. A cool hand touched *.his face. He looked up into Constance Barteau’s brown eyes. “I didn’t want to be here when ■they told you/’ she Said. “I Wanted you to think it over alone. Do1 you believe me now?” Bill Harvey didn’t answer for a moment. He was trying to find the right thing to say. But would he couldn't find didn’t say anything. He took Constance by aiLd drew her down to him slowly, The nurse standing across the ward sighed and looked out the window. From the distance came a blare of 'bugles and the steady tramp of feet as a company of Le­ gionnaires came swinging smartly up the parade igrdttnd. (THE END) seized all he “Ah,4 and so could find nothing “Tola you what?” he asked “That I’d 'been kicked out Point?” — yes,” Draper replied, slightly. “So I thought a few dare wire Naturally to square you’d dis- \ “See and de­ try as he it, so he ■the hand Small Sister (busy at homework) "What is harder than a diamond?” Big Brothbi*: “Baying ifoj* it,” for a visit in Pittsburg, and Mrs. Garnet Hill and and rela- progres- many dence in Exeter. Mrs. Morlock read the following To Mrs. Arthur Amy: Dear Friend: The members of the Band Class wish to express appreciation of your many of faithful service to' their ization and to the church. Your example and has been an the members, and Mr. Amy munity and blessing in your new home. Un order that you may Mr. and are visiting Detroit for a Miss Doris in London. Miss Velma Baker, of Hamilton visited Baker Mr. of the new Southcott ing up ready If you want a are Mr. Bring it to us ..... Have no Reg J Mrs.her mother,,, over the week-end. Harmon first to Ettie 'Gill, who was one buy .property in the subdivision .is clean- to build a cottage. _...... nice lot while going better get in touch J. W, Holt. HENSALL A. J. Spellman, Mrs. and the they with Spell-Dr. _ . _ man and daughters, of Kitchener, were recent visitors with Mr. and Mrs. ,E, >L. Mickle and family. ■ Mr. and Mrs. Norman Stanlake, of Exeter, visited recently with Mr. and Mrs. Roy MacLaren and Donald. Mrs. J. Reid, of London, visited during the past week with hex’ son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Case. The1 many friends of Mrs. Wm. Foster regret to hear ing at her home and fractured hex* arm. Mr. Milton Ortwein, visited over the week-end mother, Mrs. J. W. Ortwein. Mrs. Wm. Brown returned home from the hospital in, London on Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Bobbie .and Billie spent the week­ end with relatives here. They were accompanied home by Mrs. Louise Simpso'n, who has spent the past number of weeks in Detroit. Mrs. H. Lawrence returned after spending a week with fives in Detroit. The Ladies’ Aid of Carmel byterian church held a most suc- cesssful rummage sale and tea in the Town Hall, Hensall, on 'Satur­ day. Mr. and Mrs. John Farquhar and family spent the week-end in Exeter with Mrs. Bawden. 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Exeter District Cooperative Phone 287 'Jf to where in the Mr. few The Hannah Craig are. pleased to hear that she was able to be brought to hex* home here after being confined to Scott Memorial Hospital, Sea­ forth, fox* the past .three months due to a fractured hip. Mi*s. Daniels returned to her home here on Saturday aftex- spend­ ing the past several weeks in Lon­ don. Died in London Mrs. Marion Elber, a former resi­ dent of Hensall and Zurich, passed awriy in, London on Monday fol­ lowing a lengthy illness. Surviv­ ing is one sister, Mrs* John Mitchell of Hensall. A private funeral ser­ vice was held from the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell on Wednes­ day at 2 p.xn. conducted by Rev. R. A. Brook. Interment wag in McTaggart’s cemetery. Choir Meeting The United Church choix’ was're­ organized Friday evening last with the following officers: Pres., Miss Gladys Luker; Vic^-president, Mrs. Geo. Hess; Sec.-treas, C. Cook; Social Entertainment Com., Mrs. G. M. 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