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Home My WebLink AboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1940-02-01, Page 61 PAGE SIX ILLS OF DESTINY 7IGNE5 LOUISE PROVOST WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES SYNOPSIS Lee Hollister, returning from a trip abroad to the Circle V ranch, owned by Matt Blair, who for twenty yeans had been like a father to Lee, decides to surprise the family, He sends them no word of his coming and rides oyer the hills- to the ranch on horseback. When he finally sees the wide ranch land before him, he is astonished at the unusual aspect of the place. He is troubled, too, when he meets Slanty Gano on Matt’s land. Then Joey—old prospector befriended by Matt—tells him Matt is dead by his own hand. . , Joey says the ranch Is going to ruin tinder Lawler, manager appointed by Virginia, Matt's daughter, who is liv ing in New York with her aunt and <uncle. Lee goes east to get her. ♦ . . to tell you it was Lee Hollister,” “Oh—Lee!” Virginia sat up sudden ly. “Why didn’t you tell me before? Tell him—no, help me, Anna., I’m in a frightful hurry.” Downstairs Lee looked critically aroungl the room into which the maid had reluctantly shown him. Every thing spoke eloquently of well served ease and idleness. Not at home! He was- certain she was and he meant to stay until he saw her, He stationed himself at a window looking out on the semi-circular drive. “Making sure that I don’t run out?” He swung about quickly. “I wasn’t taking chances,” he drawled. Outlined against the, dull blue hang ings he saw a slim and lovely figure, a girl with hair of burnished copper, dark-lashed eyes of clearest grey and a vivid mouth. She met him .with both hands out, impulsively. “I had just conje in,'* she explained confidentially, “and told Anna that I wouldn’t see anybody.” Her mouth dropped suddenly. “Oh, Lee, I have n’t seen you since—since it happened.” “I didn’t know anything about it, or I'd have come before this, come to take you home, Virginia.1 “Oh, no!” She looked faintly led and drew back. I’ve start- your responsibility now. The Circle V needs somebody with a real inter est, and not a shiftless loafer who ei ther can't or- won’t see that he is run ning it into the ground.” “Really!” Virginia was angry and hurt. “I employed Mr. Lawler on the advice of my friends and see no rea son to question either their motives or his, However, it scarcely matters. I .have a good offer for the place and I expect to sell, L suppose that you will at least concede my right to dis pose of my own property?” “Absolutely. But I have a right as Matt’s friend -to tell you that your loyalty to him can’t amount to much if in a few months yott can throw a- sjde the work of his lifetime, the land he labored and fought for, and loved better than anything on earth—except you!” ’ • He heard her quick gasp. “And you’re going -to >sell him out for a little pocket money—for this!” His brief gesture contemptuously indicated the room, the house, all of her life here. “That's the best you can do for him, after all that he sacri ficed for you.” “Oh; you’re intolerable!” Her eyes blazed; she spoke in a breathless, un natural way. “Whatever I may have done, or failed to do, is between stared would of the All day long she had been rushing from one thing to another, riding, swimming, aquaplaning, lunching with a crowd at the beach club, off to the country club to watch the tennis try outs, dancing, meeting new men, off to somebody’s house, and more danc- ang, and everybody drinking too much. In a little while she would, be dressing again -for dinner and a moon light cruise on Mr. Bradish’s new yacht. She tossed her hat on a chair, kick ed off her pumps, slid out of her. dress and left it in a heap on the floor, and for the first time relaxed with a long .sigh, of relief. What was the sense of tearing around all day, meeting a lot of peo ple you only half liked, and never hav ing a. minute to yourself? She moodily at the floor. Although no one outside Jiave guessed it, this was one grey days, when everything was flat and futile and there was a sickening emptiness where one part .of her life ■had been. On the table beside her bed lay a little pile of papers. There was a scrawled report from Lawler, the new manager, there were bewildering col- jimns of figures which represented Matt Blair's confused affairs; there ■was a letter urgently advising her to $qll b?for? deterioratipn <?f a <?nce prosperous property became too evi- -dent. Beside "them was a memorand um of Mil ton Bradish’s offer, the whim of a rich man to lavish money -on a show ranch in the place where he had once been poor. There was a tap at the door. She said “Come!” and Anna appeared vis ibly- flustered. “There’s a gentleman downstairs, Miss Virginia—■” “But I said that I wouldn’t see any body.” “Yes, Miss Virginia, but—” Anna hesitated and looked worried, Callers at the Archer home politely accepted the dictum delivered at the door, but this one, in spite of the fact that he bad come on foot instead of in the latest model roadster, and wore a good but undeniably ready-made suit of clothes, had somehow an air of tak ing it for granted that his wishes would be complied with. “He said he hoped you would be h®me pretty soon, because he had icome a long way .to see you. He said my “I’ve come to take you home, Virginia. with a brief stare. Unconsciously ,in* voluntarily, it was a measuring glance on both sides. Each would know the other again. In her own room! Virginia hurled from her the dress that she had chos en so carefully. Lee had been brutal, abominable! How dared he say .-that she was unot loyal to her father’s me mory? A shirker , , . The land Matt Blair had labored and fought for-’-had died for. The words spun around in her head, around and around, endlessly persistent, Over there was the bell (that would .bring Marie, the maid that she and her aunt shared between them. Marie would pack for her swiftly, if she real ly decided to go. . . . “Marie, I want you to pack these JI She looked up.from a reckless hurl ing of silken garments. It was not Marie but Anna who stood in the door,- . i* - “Mr. Stanley Bradish -is below, Miss Virginia.” “Oh, Tell him I'm sorry, but I can’t go” . . . Mrs Archer was coming down the hall. She interposed quickly. ' “Surely you can get ready, darling. It’s only a little early. I’ll send Marie to you right, away.” “No, thanks, Aunt Adele. Just tell him I’m sorry, Anna, but I can’t come at all. IJ1 write him and explain.” "Virginia, what can you be thinking of!” Virginia’s hands clenched at her sides. The tears still shone on her lashes. “I’m agoing west tomorrow. I’ve got to. Please don’t ask me to talk about it.” The days' and nights on a transcon tinental train were monotonous but they gave Virginia time for thought. Her first anger at Lee dwindled and receded as a clear little brook -returns to its banks after a freshet. She was coming back, not to obey Lee Holl ister's high-banded commands, but to show him that he was wrong. After that she would do as she pleased with her own property. At Saunders Lawler was there to meet- her, so was C-urly, sunburned and grinning, waiting to take .her ■checks and help pack her hand bag gage into the old car that had been good enough .for Matt while Virginia* was away. Only once did Lawler, a lank, big boned man with jiale eyes and. a strag gling moustache, proffer a remark of any moment. They were jolting over a peculiarly atrocious bit of road. “Bad goin’,” he jerked. THE CONQUEST OF PNEUMONIA The American Public Elealth Assoc iation, meeting in Pittsburg, labels pneumonia, as "public health enemy No. 3” indicating that this affection comes third, .in the category of life de stroyers and being only exceeded in this respect by heart disease anti can cer, < There are signs that ppeumonja may^be conquered at an early date. Heretofore, ihq qse of serums, oxy> gen tents and careful nursing have been principal agencies in treatment, Last year that of dagenan or sulfa- pyridine was added with spectacular results, The mortality, in closely checked experiments, came <jown from 25 to 8'per cent, Last week the Mel lon Institute pi Pittsburg announced the development of another new anti pneumonia drug known by the over powering name of “hydrOxyethylapCH cupreine.” It is. made from quinine and is said to be more effective than dagenan, not causing the nausea, vo miting and other nasty effects of the latter. Needless to say all these new drugs are potentially dangerous in the hands of the inexperienced. They must be carefully used and applied in the pro per dosage. They are emphatically not remedies to be sold to everyone over the drug counter. Another remedy for pneumonia ap pears under the head of a -vaccine and Dr. Felton of the-National Health In stitute of Washington, D.C., .says that it constitutes,, a preventive of “great promise.” Its effects last ..only for about one year, but preliminary exper iments show it to be quite effective in preventing pneumonia. Perhaps \vhen the edming winter is over, we shall be able to speak with more confidence regarding these new remedies.J r "Why not?" he asked bluntly, “It doesn't need me!” She shook her head vehemently. “It needs fath er, and he’s gone. What do I know* of ranches and cattle?” “You’ll learn, and you’ll have friends’ to help you. I can tell. you some things about the Circle V right now. I don’t think you can possibly know about tliem, or you’d never let them go on!” There was a shade of annoyance in the lift of Virginia's delicate brows. “You’re just the same Lee, aren't you? All right, let’s sit down and get' It over. What am I to be scolded about?”, The light tone warned him that Vir ginia didn't mean to be scolded at all, and he grinned back at Ker. Virginia hadn’t changed much. He leaned for ward and began to tell her of the con ditions that he had found at the Cir cle V. “I know it needs^your father,” he finished, “but Matt is gone, and' it’s „ . , ....... I* .. father and myself/* “All right," he said laconically. “I see I was mistaken. Mistaken in you. But before I go I want to give you one question to ask yourself. Why is’ it that the Circle V, one of the best ranches in the state, should be going to pieces now/ just when somebody else wants to get possession' of it? 'I’m going back to find the artwer, if you won’t. Good-bye!” , He turned with a brief .nod, not ev en waiting for a reply, and went out As the outer door closed after him he paused with a deep, releasing breath and a frown for his own hot headedness. » A car flashed into the drive and a a young man stepped out. The new comer looked with casual ihterest at the man who had just come out, at the straight figure, the ready-made suit, the bronzed face—weather bronze —not sunbath tan — small things that stamped him as an outlander, and an alien here. Lee returned the glance “I hope the millionaire that’s buyin’ yo-ur place “FIRST UP WAS BEST DRESSED Private Owen Lewin of the Royal lamia. and Palestine, This time he .Lewin was the sanie height- will fix Up this road.” “I haven’t Sold yet,” coldly. “Oh, 1 thought you. was going to.” A glaze seemed to have come, over Lawler’s pale eyes. • She did not reply, and they rattle and lurched on. The foot hills were opening Up before them;, they dived suddenly from prismatic brilliance in to shadow, then climbed again, through a narrow defile to a suddenly widening sweep, into the Valley *of the Sun. Up there was the old ranch house,.and, on the porch, hobbling ex citedly .on rheumatic feet, a little, wiz ened old man. “I knowed ye’d come back, Honey! I knowed it! There, there!” For a proud young head that bowed for no one had dropped suddenly against Joey’s deplorable flannel shirt. “There, there” Joey crooned. “You’ll be glad ye’ve come. It’s been awful lonesome Without ye. If that ornery young nuis ance of a Lee Hollister hadn't come pesterin’ around here again, I’d have gone plumb out of my head/’ The moment of abandon* was briqf. She raised her head. ..*• “Oh, ts Lee here!”* “Well, he ain’t exactly here, -but he drops in on me now aftd then/' Joey- shot a shrewd glance at her, but Virginia made no comment. Law ler, for the moment disregarded, had come up with her bags, and was evi dently waiting to go in with her. She dismissed “him carelessly. “Thanks, Lawler. You may leave the bags here — Ling will look after them.” She left him, glowering and discom fited, while she greeted Ling. Joey followed the manager w+th malicious glee. “Pretty fine to have the boss back) aint it?” he asked slyly. * * * The afternoon had been long, Vir ginia had worked energetically, set ting herself to unaccustomed tasks. In the'midst of unpacking there had been atf interminable hour of going oven dreary details and bewildering ac counts with Lawler, The Circle V was not making enough to cover operating expenses and <the interest on a bur den of debt. ( This was the story again, leaving Virginia depressed and dispirited, and glad to see Lawler leave. She called back to Ling that bhe was going to she replied LIGHTER FOODS AF- - TER FESTIVE DAYS 'Holiday food can play havoc with even the most ‘rugged, constitutions, and after the feasting is over, most people are glad to- return to simple,1 'easily digested fare. Here is where fish will come in handy. It'is easy to. digest, nourishing, and the housewife gets a break too be.chuse fish iis easy, to prepare and cook.' These sugges tions for fish in salad combinations should appeal to -the family at this time particularly. Moulded Salad 1 tbsp, gelatin 1 .2 >/2 2 trivate uwen. Lewm of the Royal tamia. and Palestine, This time he Lewin was the sanie height* and Canadian Army &Weal Corps has joined up and found his 21-year-old weight. And the sergeant declares this J see Joey, and walked slowly toward seen a lot W fighting. During the last son was his sergeant But it didn’t is one private he’ll stay on the right the horsO cOr-rak “**“"—*-.... - ... . f (Conriwed Next Week) filft Thursday, February 1, 194# it By BETTY BARCLAY With all of us cooks agog to make new-fashioned jellies from old-fashioned herbs, it’s fun to re call the legends connected with the favorites , , , Basil, for instance, is the sacked- plant of households . throughout India — and so highly is the herb regarded by rustic Italians that no lover would think of going courting without ;a sprig of basil hung over his ear. Then there’s rosemary, once brewed into a drink to ’‘strengthen” the mem ory — that’B Why the herb stands for remembrance today. In addition to the romantic back? ground of the fragrant plants, we know that gentlemen love the taste of such new and different jellies When they accompany beef, pork or fowl — and as long as the road to a man’s heart is where it is, you can’t go wrong, on making up a batch to try! bellies like these are foolproof, require but a 30-second boil", and have al! the summery flavor of sun- dried herbs. Please note, too, that from three cups of sugar you get four medium glasses of the finish ed spread. : Basil Jelly (Makes about 4 medium glasses)- * * 1 cup basil infusion % cup vinegar ‘J. 3 cups sugar ' ‘ Coloring , ' % bottle .fruit pectin . Pour 1% cups boiling water over > tablespoons basil. Cover, let stand 15 minutes, strain to remove* herbs. Measure infusion into 3-quart- saucepan,, adding water if neces sary, to make 1 cup. Add vinegar and sugar, and mix. Place over hottest fife and while mixture Is coming to a boil, add coloring to give desired shade. Use coloring which fruit acids do not. fade. As soon as mixture boils, add- bottled fruit pectin, stirring con stantly. Then bring to a full rolling boil and boil hard % minute. Remove from fire, skim, pour quickly. Paraffin hot jelly at once. Rosemary Jelly > (Makes about 4 medium glasses) 1 cup rosemary infusion % cup vinegar 3 cups sugar . Coloring % bottle fruit pectin ■’ Pour 1% cups boiling water over 2 tablespoons rosemary. Cover, let stand 15 minutes, strain to remove herbs. Measure infusion into 3-quart saucepan, adding water it neces sary, to make 1 cup. Add vinegar and sugar, and mix. .Place over hottest fire and while ^mixture is coming to a boil, add coloring to give desired shade. Use coloring which fruit acids do not fade. As soon as mixture bolls, add bottled fruit pectin, stirring con* stantly. Then bring to a full rolling boil and boil hard % minute. Remove from fire, skim, pour quickly. Paraffin hot jelly at once. . . . ' s £ ■ egg cups milk cup vinegar cups any kind, flaked fish (cooked dr canned) cup cold water tsp. flour' tsp. mustard tsp. salt tsp., sugar Mix flour, mustard, % 1 1 1 1 Mayonnaise: sugar and salt, and add to beaten egg, then add milk and vinegar. Cook JO minutes. Soak gelatine in cold water for Jive minutes, and add hot mayon naise. When .lukewarm add the cook ed flaked fish, and pour in moulds which have been rinsed in cold water. Salad Combinations z 1. Diced -pineapple, apple, celery, flaked lobster, mayonnaise and lettuce. 2. Any fish (flalcdd), celery, dress ing, lettuce. ' 3. Flaked fish, sliced or chopped egg, diced celery, dressing, and let tuce. 4. Flaked fish, peas, cucumber and tomato sliced, dressing, lettuce. 5. Flaked fish, stuffed chopped ol ives, dressing, and lettuce. ' 6. Flaked fisHj chopped celery,, dressing, and lettuce. * 7. Flaked fish, sliced dressing, and lettuce. 8. 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