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The Brussels Post, 1938-4-20, Page 2THE BRUSSELS POST WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20th, 1838 ' BNTITLED "Out of the Storm" By. Peter Munday SYNOPSIS :Gale,Eesmand huts gone to Kerte% as governesg of the two children of Maripp; .and Alec Redfern, She Clears .front diem of Major McAllist. et- called by Marlon • their local asystery man of whom they know' TM' little. While out riding her horse bolts during a storm. Seeking shelter at the only house 10 sight she finds hereeltf the guest of McAllister. She finds him most hospitable under his shell of reserve. She is much attracted to him, A few days later Ile calls at the Redferu's to .t,ouire for her. McAllister calls frequently at the hone of the Redfern& once the break is muds, but continues' his 1'e - serve to the rest of his neighbors. Though 0. thing is said Gale is t,nl=ci<,us of his deep regard for icer and she freely admits to her - his attraction for her. -lie reveals his love for her but suss trere is something he must tell her. "Won't, you sit down?" he asked. Gale staled a hysterical desire to laugh. The atmosphere was heavy with tenri:oll, and he was making it more difficult. To give herself time, she seated herself and took a cigarette from the box on the arm of the their. Her fingers shook slightly, but McAllister did not ap- pear notice, He held a light for her In the same detached manner that had characterised his,.. attitude from the begiuning, Gale watched him as one watches the process of a crisis one is' power - 'CHILDREN of all ages thrive on •'--GROW N BRAND'! CORN SYRUP. F They never tire of its delici- ous' flavor and it really is so good for them -so give the children "CROWN BRAND" every day. Leading physicians pro. flounce 'CROWN BRAND" CORN SYRUP a most satis- factory carbohydrate to use as a milk modifier in the feeding of tiny infants and as an energy producing food for growing children. THE FAMOUS av, �O FOOD ENERGY *#' � Q 41 0�1�y .0CANADA TAR H LOW ROUND TRIP R•AiL FARES Follow summer to its ail•year home. Thrill to golf under blue skies, relax on warm sands For a winter vacation or a longer stay, there is never a dull moment, And living costs are very moderate. Choose your own route. Fares apply direct or via the Canadian Rockies, Vancouver end Via toria to San Francisco 10 one or both directions. FULL INFORMATION AS TO ROUND TRIP •• STANDARD FARE TOURIST FARE • • COACH FARE On Appllcaflon fe 005Agonf CANADIAN NATIONAL less to treat, That he had been on 'the lack until she came was ob- vious, abut she said nothng; only the rising and falling of her breast betrayed the agitation ,slle was feeling. At length he broke the intolerable silence. "I asked you to come hers," he said slowly, "because I wanted yon to get the story fleet hand. Id I had told you yesterday, you would have had only my version of it all—" He stopped, his features cold, "Mus you tell me, Jock?" 't must." She wished passionately that she could make it easy for him. He went to the desk, and opening a drawer, took out a newspaper folded open at the main page, This he handed to Gale.. 'I've carried that around with me for live and a half years," he sad, "Heavens knows why -unless 1t was that I felt I ought to be remind. ed of it all—'' She stared at the page, the print swimming before her eyes, scarcely conscious of anything except the defeat in his tones', and had hard work to refraia from bursting into tears. :blinking back the tears that threatened to overflow, she forced herself to look at the paper. In the centre of the Ipege, two photographs stared at her, In slate of the blurred repro- duction, she could see one was an excellent likenese' of MoAJtiSter in the uniform of an officer of the army. the other showed a beautiful woman. With fingers that trembled so that the paper kept up a little whis- pering, rustling noise, Gale read the flaring beadlines' above the pictures. Then she read down the column. The woman's name, it appeared, was Muriel Hemingway, and bed committed suicide by taking poison. The report was a detailed account of the inquest, and McAllis'ter's evidence was given in full. It was such an ordinary, such a very sor- did story. A young officer, a keen sportanan, moderately wealthy, and a bored, sophisticated, beautiful woman. Married, true, but to a man who apparently was too busy ,to give her the •attentioh she thought she required. Reading between the lines, Gale could sense that much. Then -the .husband's' discovery of the guilty love, followed by Bwtft tragedy. The coroner's comments to Ma Alister were reported in heavy black type, type that stood out from I'he page and danced in front of Gale's eyes. "It is a great pity," that °Oficial had said, 'that such conduct as yob have been guilty of is not punish- able by law! You and you alone are morally responsible for this woman's death, and I should imagine that in the Suture your society will he shunned by all decent men and women—" Slowy Gale Laid the paper down. She wanted to cry out, to scream She dared net look at McAllister, He was standing at the window lookn:g across the valley, his two hands grasping the window -frame on either side. "Tell me about 1t, .Tock," she said quietly at length. "I'd better know -now," 'He turned and faced ber, She avoided his gaze, half afraid of what he might read ill her eyes, She must not let him see -not yet at any rate, notuntil she had bad time to recover from the shock. It would be better to let him tell her. In the meantime she would be. able' to think, "Ws not a -pretty story" he said', leaning bask agaln,st the sill, With a sound between a sob and a groan he ,clenched his fist's and rats• ed' them to his head. Bret/Ping his arms again after a moment, he look- ed up, and spoke, "re never met him -the linsba:nd, i mean," lie attic'. "Not that that's any excuse, I'm merely stating the faot, I was infatuated with her, anti T believed her when she, said be negleeted her -was a brute -and tilt that, I'll have belleved anything she told me -then. Ln the end I- 1 became her lover.. We were found out, How, 1 don't know, But -here husband wee anything but the brute he was re'p'resented to be -he was a decent fellow, in fact, And she-sbe wasn't worthy to lick hits boots. I know it sounds a rotten thing to say, but I've got to give you the whole truth. - It seems) she had given lelm a raw deal at times. The scales fell from my eyee and I realised what I had done, I told her I was finished with her, Put that if he discovered her, I would give her my name -marry her and then clear out. But he didn't. I think he loved her in spite of everything. And, strangeiy enough, I think she loved him. otherwise I cannot account for the the fact that she killed herself, She wasn't the sort to do that kind of thing. Nothing but the most des- perate fear would bring her to such I pass. It's still a mystery to me why she did it—" He fell e'llen't. Gale sat motion- less, looking as if she had been carved from stone. 'SI sent in my papers, of course," he continued presently. 'After that, I went to Northern Rhodesia, but when I had been there a couple of years', the story followed me, So I came here -and met you," The. silence that followed his' con- cluding words wee so profound it seemed It would never be broken. again. The &hock to Gale was ter:!fflc, but never for an instant did it enter her bead to condemn hiss. It was as' she had said the past was dead. It had been resurrected because she had to know -but together they could bury it again. Only -she require& time, Time to .readjust her mental forces, to carry them against the fight tbat she knew was coming, a fight in which she would stand alone, striv- ing to erase the shadow of this other women, It was not alone he bad been her lover. Gale would condone a mis- rake of that kind when it was a genuine mistake. It was the treachery of it all. A married woman -lit seemed worse than stealing. And Jock had done it with his eyes' open! It was that which was going to matte It hard for her to blot it out of her mind Bet it had'to be blotted out, There must be no question of forgiving, She ha& to forget -otherwise when they were .married, the spectre would arise to jeer at her, to bring the shadow of the past into their most sacred moments together. Slowly her eyes tilled with tears, and she put down her head and commenced to weep silently. McAllister never moved. HIs eyes were blank with bitterness, and his' mouth twitchsd. But that was' all, "I don't expect you to ender. attend," he said at last, his words dropping into the silence like: stones into a pool. "I fail to see why you s'houid. You've never come into contact with anything like this ye - fore --I would have spared you the hunt of knowing, IS I could, that's why I was going away. I thought it would hurt -less. But, after yes- terday. I had to tell you -because I love you. I would like you to re-, member that. That I loved you too much to live a lie with you—" He gave a savage laugh, a brittle Sound, like the rubbing together of pieces' of broken glass'. "It's almost funny," he said with bitter irony. "Because I love you - I've got to inflict on you the great- est hunt a man can inflict on a w'o- man-got to spell everyihng. IR I've smmshed your life --•I've smash- ed' my own in so doing—4 Oslo lacked at him. "But -I understand, Jook," She said, 'Perhepe better than you re- aliae. In any case who am i to judge?" She gave a shuddering sigh, "l'm glad you told me, tiny dear, Oiacl and proud, We been a shoat and I can understand' all hue one thing, I think, That is, the feet that she wee --married, and yt)tl-yon--•--' He bowed ha head before 111:,2 loop in her eyes. Ile offered no word in his defence, however, no word in extenuation, 'Soule men world have pleaded youth, inex. perlenoe, passion -lett nos, rock Mc. PICOBAC PIPE TOBACCO FOR A MILD COOL SMOKE - Allister. And Osla appreciated that, It was like him. After a short pause, she went on: "I must have timle to think it out, Jook, et isn't a masher of loving you, or not loving you ---you've got Inc love for all time." She went whiter duan before, and half closed hes' eyes. "When a wonion-loves fl man, t doesn?t ,mattes' what he's done -,she just goes on loving hint all 1110 same, But --+there are things' to straighten out -in here-" She touched her breast with slender fluger tips, Iie watched her, fascinated. "I know, It may be too big a milt s" Sime stoolwallow--d u1) and came to his side. %Standing in front of him, her hands at her sides, she faced him squarely, "I don't think -S know -it won't be too big," she sad steadily. "It's not altogether that, But I must have time, You do understand, don't you?" "Of course. And I shan't Ibieme you 11—" "Alt! Don't!" She swayed and put out a hand, "1 have, no right to cast a stone, Jock." He looked at her with the look of a mans •condemned to death who sees the chance of a reprieve, You mean -you. think you can- forgive me?' 'he asked slowly, W- end uously. She smiled through her tears, "It isn't a question of forgive- ness', my dear. If it were only that tbere would be no need. I've for- given you -ii I have the 'right -al- ready, -I've got to find a way to -to --forget!" .Site picked up her riding switch, and turned away. "I don't want io talk about it any more for a little while," she said pain'fuliy, "I want to be -alone, Will you give me until tomorrow?" He followed her with his eyes: "Until tomorrow—" he said, as if repeating a lesson. At the defeat in his voice Gale almost broke down, but with an ef. fort site controlled herself. Her Grain was working furiously none, and she realised the clanger of giv- ing way at this Juncture. If site did, they would only succeed in patching it all up, covering some- thing that would be below the sur face of their minds, eating like a canker into their hearts. It all had to bo cut cleanly out of the pat- tern, and she knew that. if it could be done, she, and site alone, could do it, But she had to find a way. She rested ber hand for an in- stant on his sleeve as he came trite her to the door. Then she went out and down the steps. A moment later she was riding blindly along the road to the ford, her mind a eeething tumults of buil and sorrow, pain and gimlets—set "Utltil tomorrow—e" s * 1 Early ,the following morning Gale was brought from the depths of a troubled sleep to find Merlon steak. img her furiously by the shoulder. She had pleaded a headache on her return to Mahemga the previous afternoon, and retired to her room, there to lie dry-eyed n the dark, wrestling with her problem, It bad been after five in "•'^ morning when she had fallen es - :1 And now Maition's' voice was in her ears, calling with a note of urgent? that brought Gale upright with stark Pear in her eyes. "G ale- plerese—'' (TO BE CONTINUED) • Friend - "I ,Canted in life with, out a penny in my pocket." Brigltt - "And I started in life Licensed Auctioneer for the County witrout a podket" of Huron, Sales attended to in all Parts of the country, Satisdaetion Guaranteed or rio pay, Orders left at The 'Post' promptly attended to. 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