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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1939-11-16, Page 6WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES BRITISH FLY OVER GERMANY SIX bigger word cheeks, it would Thurs.# November Ill SYNOPSIS V Anne Ordway, nineteen, is shocked when she realizes that their old friend David Ellicott, is in love with her beautiful mother, Elinor. Anne adores both her mother and her father, Fran­ cis, One night she and Garry Brooks ■find a man making coffee over a fire in a meadow—-a charming young man who. gives his name only as Charles. After Anne has left him, Charles, through a second story window in Anne’s house, sees a beautiful woman —not Anne—take something from a dressing table. Next morning Anne misses her pearls and Garry Brooks suggests that the stranger took them. Charles is injured i.n an automobile •accident—and turns out to be Charles' Patterson, member of an old and re­ spected family, in the news because of liis wife’s sensational charges in her divorce suit. Charles is taken to Anne’s house, where Vicky, her com- jianiqn nurses him. He tells her- that he believes he saw Elinor take the pearls. Accused by Vicky, Elinor ad­ mits her guilt. Vicky promises to get the pearls from the pawnbroker where Elinor has taken them and persuades Francis not to investigate. and Elinor had written: “I am going jrway—tonight—with David. I can’t face Francis^so I’m not coming back. The pawn tickets and the key are in my desk. Some day I’ll send you the You will look after Anne, I’m not sorry—except for love her." stood in the middle of the “I don't want to think. I am going to tell everything to Francis tonight, And that will be the end of it," “I will not be the end. It will be the beginning." “The beginning of what?” “Oh chaos for all of us." But Elinor would not listen, when Vicky left at last for Baltimore it was with fear clutching at her heart. She hated the whole thing, for she had had no experience with pawn­ shops but, having accomplished her errand, she returned after luncheon and took the pearls at once to Elinor. Elinor, vastly relieved, said, “You have been wonderful, Vicky. I’ll see that you get your money back when Francis gives me my allowance.” “How will you explain it all to Anne?" | “I wish you’d do it. Tell her you found them in an unexpected place.” Vicky was grim, “It was unexpect­ ed all right, so I shan’t be lying.” Later Vicky played out the little farce, with Charles aiding and abet­ ting her. She found Anne in his room reading aloud, and as she displayed the length of glimmering whiteness said, “Oh, Vicky, where in the world did you find them?" “It often happens that way," said Charles. “One looks and look's and Color flamed in her you really meant that, nice," “Nice? Isn't there a for it than that?" “What word?" “Heavenly." Vicky interposed, “Am I supposed .to be listening?" “Of course." “Then I might suggest that this is rather strong wine for Anne’s little head.” Charles laughed and Anne laughed with him. It was all very light-heart­ ed, and On the surface but Anne, dressing that night for dinner, looked starry-eyed into her mirror, Did he, she wondered, mean it? But he could not. He was married. Successful reconnaissance flights by British aircraft over Stuggart, Mann­ heim and Nuremberg were announced Nov. II. It was the first scouting flight over southwest Germany. In Danish Schleswig, once part of Ger­ many, German citizens were reported to have been asked by the Nazis how soon they could liquidate their prop­ erty and other holdings. money. Vicky? Anne. I Vicky --floor and wondered what had happen­ ed. For Elinor had not gone. She was in her room at that very moment. Then why had she written that letter? The next morning Elinor made her explanation. “David wouldn’t go,” she said, “when it came to the final de­ cision. He says that he wants to take me honestly, and that I must tell Francis. So I came back and now I’ve got to face it.” “You mean you’re going through with it?" “Yes.” “But—Anne?” “She will have to know.” "Have you thought what it will do to her?” Vicky demanded. “She must take her turn,” said El­ inor darkly, “at finding the world as it is. But J. don’t want to think of Anne. I want to think of myself. What did Francis say about the pearls?" “He is leaving everything to me. 1i am going to Baltimore this morning." “Does he suspect?” “How can I tell?” There was a hint of impatience in Vicky’s voice. “I told him nothing." Elinor made an unexpected apol­ ogy- “I don’t know what made me do it. But I was driven.” Vicky said inexorably, “If you go , with David, what then?" “I want happiness.” Elinor rose and moved about restlessly. “I want happiness and I am going to have it.” Vicky flamed, “Perhaps you call it happiness to spoil the life of a child like Anne. But I am not here to crit­ icize you. All I ask is that you take ■time to think what you are doing." I ( She did not see him alone again, but when the next morning he had gone she found a note on her dresser; /‘This is my real good-bye, my dear. I shall not see you again. I am tarred with a brush which must not smirch you. But at night when I sleep under the stars I shall look up and see you shining, too far away for me to reach, but giving always a lovely light.” With her heart beating wildly she went to bed. What did it matter, she asked herself, if he were married? He would worship afar off. Lil/e “i thought when people married it was—forever. then suddenly things turn up as if some evil spirit had whiskeBd them away and put them back again.” - Anne was philosophical. “Well, anyhow, I’m glad they weren’t stol­ en.” And Charles, with a vision upon him of that thief in rose-color, chang­ ed the subject. “I’m leaving tomor­ row,” he. told Vicky. “Oh, surely not!” “Yes, I must not impose too long- on your hospitality." Anne said, “You’re not imposing. Is he, Vicky?" “No. There’s a perfectly good' week-end ahead of you, Mr. Patter­ son. Why not spend it with us?" His smiling eyes went from Vicky to Anne. “Im afraid.” Anne demanded, “Oh what?” “Of you.” “Of me?" . “Yes. When you came to me in that moonlit meadow, it did some­ thing to me.” Dante with your with mother, the lib- both of 1 and Beatrice. It would be wonderful to think of Charles as Dante. To Anne, dressing for a ride on the morning after Charles’ departure, was brought a message from her She was to come at once to rary. Hurrying down, she found her parents waiting. She kissed her father, then her mother. “Why did you get up so early, darling?” “I’ve been up all night.” Elinor was lighting a cigarette and her hand trembled. “Anne, we have something to tell you." The fears that had assailed Annt in the garden swept back upon her. She looked from her mother to her father. “What is it, Daddy?” When Francis had spoken Anne stood very still, the color drained from her face. For the thing that her father told her was this—that he and his wife would no longer live togeth­ er. “Do you mean there’s to be a di­ FIGHTING HITLER A FAMILY AFFAIR WITH THE SAPPERS Sat ’fez If‘11 If the Royal Canadian Engineers 'Ever decide to stage a father-and-son Banquet after the present unpleasant­ ness is over and Herr Hitler disposed of satisfactorily, they won't have to go out side their own ranks to find biiO family combination. For Provost- has two sons with him in the outfit. They're Lance-Corporal W. H. Ruff- ell (LEFT), and Sapper Leonard Rttffell, and the whole family seem scornful of superstitions as they get three lights from a match, But that’s not all, for the engineers have the who plans to join up as soon as 18, and the Hancock brothers, R. L. and Sherwood, who hail from Tim­ mins, The 97th Battery at Walkerton he’s voice/ Daddy?” “Yes.” Elinor interposed. “We may as well tell her the truth, Francis,” He lifted his hand’ impatiently. “Why weigh her down with it?” “She’ll have to know sometime. It’s this way, Anne. I’ve found someone else. What has happened has happen­ ed. But I won’t take all the blame. Your father is no better than I"— venemously—“only he has not been quite honest about it.” “It’s true, my darling,” Francis said hastily. “Our world isn’t your world. But we love you.” Anne, frozen with horror, manag­ ed to say, “I thought when people married, it was—forever." Out of a dead silence Francis said, “Don’t judge us too harshly." “I’m not judging.” He was stand­ ing close to her and she turned and hid her face against his shoulder. When at last she raised her head it- was to ask with a note of desparation, “What are you going to do about me?” Elinor hesitated. “We had thought you might like to go away Vicky for a time and make up mind about—us.” “Make up my mind?” “Yes. Whether you will live me until I get my divorce? Or go with your father? He insists upon my staying here until everything is set­ tled." ~ , To Anne it seemed in that moment as if her father-and mother had re-' ceded from the foreground of her life where she had always placed them, to some dark region where her mind could not follow. She murmured unsteadily, “I love you both and now I’ve got to give you up.” Her father’ said sharply, “Give us up?” “Yes. When I go with Vicky 1 shan’t come back. I shan’t come back —ever.” As she went away Elinor and Fran­ cis' stared at each other. This was what they had done! This was their punishment: that the daughter whom they adored would have none of them. Yet when the moment of separation came, Anne wept in Francis’ arms and clung to her mother. “Can’t we all go back," she wailed, “just as we were? Can’t we?" And Francis said, “Can’t we, Elin­ or?” “No. Not even for her sake.” So Anne said farewell to all the happy things -which had belonged to her girlhood and went by motor to the Eastern Shore. There, in a long low^rumbling farmhouse lived Vicky’s parents with their three daughters. There were two sons; older than Vicky, married, witlr farms of their own and ’ with children growing up about them. When they were all as­ sembled at the Hewitt homestead, John Hewitt, the father, seemed a patriarch among them. Lt was a warm and comfortable houehold. Mrs. Hewitt, plump and pretty, loved her family and lived for it. Of old Maryland stock, she carried on the tradition of expert housekeep­ ing and epicurean cookery. Her three daughters—Lettice, Lois and Mary- Lee—'Were neither plump nor pretty. They had, indeed, more than mere prettiness. Their hair was bright and their teeth were white, and their skins tanned by sun and wind. Lettice# the oldest, was engaged to a yoting en­ gineer at wdrk nearby1 on a govern­ ment project, They would be married as soon as Lettice wound up certain matters of business for her father, Lettice kept the books and handled correspondence; Lois had managed; , the stables and barns the youngest, raised ducklings and squabs for the market. The contrast between life on the farm—so warm, so flowing# so flex­ ible — and the artificialities ' from and Mary-Lee , # \ ; r —• u aiuncranucs irom^,,uc*<bow brother# John, which she had come, seemed to Anne Neil and George Mclnnes, Sergeant Alpha Rnffell (CENTRE) three Twigg brothers, with another amazing. Why couldn’t all families be like this? Elinor’s tension, Eram els’ surface composure with a volcauo boiling underneath, David's surrender Of his ideals, the glitter and brittle­ ness of people like the Ducsays. Were they not all puppets pulled by a string? “What makes the difference?" she demanded of Vicky. “Well, perhaps it’s, because my family believes in things," Vicky said. “Your family don’t. They live sensations. For excitements." “I shall never go back," Anne Glared, Vicky wrote to Francis; “Let her alone for a time. You a part of something that has hurt her dreadfully. But she loves you and she misses you. Be very sure of that, was her love that made the truth painful." (Continued Next Week) for de- 1 are It so Lemons Check Pain of Rheumatics in 48 Hours Oh, what joy awaits the suffered from rheumatic or neuritis pain who uses this simple inexpensive home re­ cipe. Just get a package of the RU-EX PRESCRIPTION from your druggist. Mix is with a quart of wat­ er, add the juice of 4 lemons. It’s easy. No trouble at all and pleasant. You need only 2 tablespoonfuls two times a day, Often within 48 hours — sometimes overnight — plain leav­ es, stiff joints are limbered. 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