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"Do you expect ole t4 dente at-
tendance on yo;t anal Grier. and M s
'Cheveley, now my work's finished?"
demanded Dick snappily,
"And do you exp,.t me to stay tit
the cottage al„ne with them?" de-
manded Gerda in her turn. "I won't.
And I ought to have been told in
good time so I could have got Come•
body in your place."
For a novice. to stamp her foot m
a snowshoe is not easy, but she con.
hived to do it. then would have
fallen if ) '., had not caught ber.
'?Don't be slily:'. ue.said Ina:•.rg-
ly. "Nobody expects you to May.
The doctor intends to get :Mks Chev
Way home by ambulance In the
middle of the day"
"Nobody tells me anything,' com-
plained Gerde.
'lits Clheveley doesn't know
herself yet," explained Dick. "The
doctor doesn't went her told until we
see what the weather is like."
"You take a lot on yourself," cried
Gerda hotly.
"We both do, he grinned down at
her, his teeth showing very white in
the moonlight.
CHAPTER VII.
Cinderella and the Prince.
The day after Mists Anne was
comfortably installed in her own
Thome. came Betty.
As usual, no one knew she was
coming until her taxi drove up to
the door in. thw early evening.
The dining -room had been teen's -
formed into bedroom for Miss Anne
and she lay on her eolith before the
tire, still a hh,ade 'blue about the
lips, but otherwise her customary
self_
"That will be my elder niece," she
said dryly to Dick, who bad dropped
in to see show she had stood the
move. "There is always• that com-
motion when Betty Comes homes"
Gerda shot a startled glance across
the room at Dick, and she was sure
her heart dropped in one instant to
the level of her slippers. She want -
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rave
meet Petty, iii UOUrse, but
- )t t; tt jtu-'t yet. It would
t :l:,:Iu m+;.in the end of ail her
\i. t r. •r c,i,rov i int_, to her
flint she 11 ' no thauge to
my for her taxi,' went on, Miss
t'heveley, listening to We sounds
from the ball. "She never has. Dick,
may I trouble you to settle with the
man for me "
She nmbled in her bag for her
Purse. but cu the instant the d•tor,
burst open, and the most entrancing
vision Imaginable flitted into the
room.
Psachcoond-cream skin; wide,
heavily -lashed blue eyes and feath-
ery gold hair gleaming against a
great silver fox stole. Betty's hair
never needed a "Perm," and the
more disordered it became, the more
delightful it looked.
"Darling, darling," she cooed, two
smell hand outstretched making M
stra:Lght for the couch that any per-
son who dddn''t know Betty •Cheveley
would have vowed she was unaware
of the pre.,en'ce of the big, broad.
shouldered young man. This sweet,
swift flight to her suffering aunt was
beautifully done.
"Darling!" cooed Betty again, on
ir-r knees beside the couch, and she
drew Mfrs Clbeveley close to the
deliciouaIy-perfumed silver fox.
"Darling, what have they been
doing to you while your Betty was
away?"
"Kindly stand up, Betty," said
Misr' Anne, firmly releasing herself
frau contact with the silver for. "I
•1>+,like this sort of thing."
;Betty knew that, and he would
have treated her aunt to nothing of
the kind if site had been alone. She
r'ese to her feet heroically trying to
conceal he" hurt feelings, torget-me-
nat eyes slowly brimming, rose -hid
I!^s acgriver.
(lerlr^-
.e.Ontliine in the background
Ler invariable piare whet, Getty n s
,ebaut. :�iw Dick Seliwyn's indignant
ei^nce at Miss C`h,eveley, cave 111s
stare at Betty. 'Hs looked at her—
tierda—then back agein at Betty.
"f`"wnemir v n. already." she
thought ii"tterly. "T know it would be
like th's."
She *.^,^1c her aunt's purse and
west out to pay the Cabman, Pride
woeid not 1 ' .' .r fly up to her own
^'•,. •'^ she telt the , purse hack
9'e roan.
"Gceda. why didn't you lot me
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.now how 11I this darling has been?"
la dried nepiwachfully, sitting on
se r.dge of her aunt's couch and
''iug her meet unwilling hand.
Gerda has had something better
to do." snapped the invalid.
"I'd have loved to help, you
-hruld have lot me know." persisted
Betty with pretty reproach. "I
wculdn't have let you spoil your
hands so badly, Gerdes darling PA
have loved to do my bit"
Tf was Gerda's hands she now held,
every little blister and roughness
1^oking worse than ever against her
own beautifully kept hands.
"Gerda has been cooking and
working for three or four people
while you have been enjoying your-
self snapped Miss G`heveley, "Stop
fiddling with people's hanpa. I am
not impressed, 1 assure you!
But somebody else was impressed.
Gerda. her heart aching, realised
that Dick dill not for five seconds at
a time 'keep his eyes from the charm-
ing spectacle of Betty being repulsed
by her aged and disagreeable rela-
tive.
"Datiling." Mummified Betty, e
pathetic catch in her breath, rising
and taking the nearest chair.
"Darling, you are always, so amus-
ing!" And She tossed the exquisite
*errs carelessly aside.
"Amending!" snorted Miss Anne,
looking as if she wanted to throw
things, at her elder niece. "Dick,
come here and be introduced to my
great-niece."
Dick, but of Gerda and not Miss+
Cheveely, would have been prepared
n swear that up to this moment
Betty had. not been 'aware of his
exigence,
Fite looked round with startled
eyes. a lovely rose flushing her
peaches-and-cream skin.
"Aunt Anne darling," she murmur-
ed in soft confusion, "how could you
say all those horrible things to me
with a stranger here Ile might
think you meant them."
"He ciouldn'''t," said Miss Annie
ironically, cynically regarding the
gnowila-ke of a hand held out to Dick
"R4chIard, you'll never believe it, kat
Betty is years older than Gerda."
"Darling, it can't interest Mr. Sell.
wyn' to know I am a little alder than
Gerda.," cooed Betty, resolving not
to provoke her terrible aunt further
by "tushing" her for Dick Seliwyn's
beret t.
That wog the beginning of a time
of bitter desolation for Gerda Chev-
eley. It was Betty now who talked
to hdnn when* he paid his daily visit,
Betty who met 'him in the town for
morning coffee or afternoon tea,
Betty who was driven. by him in her
aunt's: car to a matinee one Saturday
aften•noont Betty who— But the
C.P.R. Shopmen Give Glue For Freedom
Canada's mounting share in the
fight against the Axis was
emphasized by Brigadier F. M.
W. Harvey, V.C., Officer Com-
manding Military District 13,
when on Saturday afternoon, May
28rd, he received the 100th naval
gun ;produced at the Canadian
Pacific Railway's Ogden Shops, at
Calgary, as a gift from the muni-
tions workers there to the nation.
"Let us hope that it goes into
action soon," he said, "ori a Cana-
dian ship, with Canadian gunners
behind its sights."
.Although rate of production at
Ogden bas not been revealed by
authorities, the 160th piece of
war ordnance came off the as-
sembly line there some time ago.
Paying all shop costs and cost of
material on this particular gun,
the employees presented it to the
country in a simple but impres-
sive ceremony marking, as one of
the speakers said, a Rine spirit of
natienal and industrial solidarity.
The gun itself is an aU-purpose
naval weapon, designed for use
against submarines and surface
craft, as well as aky raiders,
throwing a shell of approximate-,
ly
proximate -
1y 12 pounds from ita long barrel.
In receiving the gun from R.
Alderman, representative of the
shopmen, Brigadier Harvey rep.
resented Hon. C. D. Howe, Min-
ister of Munitions and Supply for
Canada. The Canadian Pacific
Railway Company was represent-
ed by W. A. Mather, vice-pres-
ident of Western lines, who offi-
cially received from the employees
a cheque for shop costs on the
gun, and by H. B. Bowen, Chief
of Motive Power, from Montreal.
J. L. Gubbins, works manager,
acted as chairman.
The Guard of Honor was made
up of war veterans among the
abopmen under Capt.McLennan.
Pictures show Brigdier Harvey
inspecting the Guard .f Bono;
the gun and a glimpse of lir!!
actual presentation ceremony.
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.0 young Se:liwyn,' Miss Anne swept
an. "I thought the had more sense
than to be carried off his, feet by a
pretty fa^e with nothing behind Al"
The telephone ball rang, and Miss
Anne took down the receiver,
"Certainly, Yes, 'Gerda will ,wane,"
she assured the invisible speaker.
Po:? herr; up the receiver, looking
triumphantly at Gerda.
"That was 'Connie AAsihtleld. It
seems her father is running a Party
down to the lake. Old Ais'hfleld seems
ford of cha'rteri'ng buses," she added
tartly, never having forgiven 'him
for having spoken of her as poverty-
'=tri'eker,. "They'll be here for you in
a quarter of an hour."
"I don't want to go," said Gerda
instantly. .
"You eon skate, can't you?" de-
-'+-sudetl 3l::as Cheveley.
"Y -yes, I can skate," she owned
mnavillingly.
"Then you go to the lake, my girl,
Skate your best, cut out that minx
Betty, and—ah, for mercy's sake
show" a little spirit!" she ended
exasperatedly. "Danl't sit moping
here, you go!"
Out out Betty? This was in en-
thralling notion; and Gerda felt a
tiny stirring of hope.
Me ran upstairs to don a pleated.
skint and Short fur coat, perching a
Cossack cage to match on her i'air
head.
She really did look nice, she
thought, lacing on the' strong little
hoots, and she really could skate.
Alas: it,Phe skated well, Betty
skated superbly, She had spent half
a d'oxen wintem et sports places, and
no one on the ice, with the exception
of Dolt Sellwyt:s with, his Canadian
expea•.entoe behLnd blkn could com-
pare with her performance on skates.
The shining lake lay !n the moon-
light, flanked 'by snowy banks all
seeming created for the sole purpose
cf elowtri; off Muss Betty Cheveley
at her best. Flaming torches, equally
flanning naphtha la.mips, were placed
at' short intervals round the lake,
and they, as well as the moon, acted
like the lights in a theatre, ,giving
Betty's 'slian, glittering shape the
opportunity of 'being admired bT
the ring of fa;soinated spectators,
wmp forgot to do much skating
thepnselves,
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hearted Gerda knew every item by
heart
Every day the sum shoneand made
the ice soft, but every evening it
haedened again, falsifying all •pre-
d';ct'one and breaking all records for
to rete a 'cosh On a moonlight
night it was Betty whom Dick took
"skating on a lake thrown open, to
the public. True, oto this occasion,
he had invited Geda,,,too, but Betty's
calm warning. -"You're bringing
along a mon for 'Gelds?" made the
WWI refuse the invitation in a hinny.
Miss 'Cheveley and Gerda sat in
silence when the pair had departed
for the frozen* lake, Betty enveloped
i gars foam head to foot, Diok's eyes
as usual, glued to her lovely face.
M's Anne looked up from her
hook to see Gerda stating blankly
into the fire.
"I was never in love," she vegan
with startling suddenness, to that
Gerda {posid.ively jumped. "No man
ever cared a scrap for me, though
many a one would have been glad to
marry me for any fathers money.
But I'd have pat up a fight for any
man, Na girl would have stolen
him 'roan under any nose without a
mighty big struggle,
"I wouldn't watt any ratan who had
to be 'struggled' fol," said Gerda
proudly.
"Tut, tut!" Miss Anne reproved
her lYrtslkly, "You'll live and diean
old staid like me, If you're not care-
ful., Even in any Young days, when
there wasn't :such a scarcity of Men,
it cildr t do for a girl to take no
trouble in, the matter, and nowadays
T
understand there is still more need
for her to be wide awake.
The .Shatip old voice broke off
short.
''Dont let pride stand dol the way .01
the hent thing int life," she said, in a
very cllifferent Atone,
!I d, don't know What you Mean,
Aunt Anlne," :tattered Gerda.
"Don't flb, child," Miss Anne re-
torted im' her Usual atidula'ted man-
ner, "Td you Lot that !Betty carry off
Diok Sellwym without stirring a
Anger to prevent her, you'll deserve
to be as lonely all Your I1Te. as I've
been,"
"But—" brake i'n Malta.
"I admit 1 ant a trifle diaallrpointed
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