The Brussels Post, 1939-7-26, Page 2THE BRUSSEI,:S POST
A New Modern Romantic Story
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ENT IT LED
Missing The ' "ark
BY LIALIAN IVERSON
The stream was. feel by the river,
leaving it about a mile above, and
rejoining it a balle mile below Hole
colt, In many of her moodts Budget
preferred it to the river, for it Wa.s
so clear, wasthe'd up the pebbly
beach any full of diversion.
Presently site was :aware that her
sister Anne, who wes two Yates her
senior, was belvind ben, seated on
the heal trunk of a parntlally severed
tree.'The girls bore a close re-
semblance to each other, except that
A.nne was taller and slighter, with
brown eyes instead of bine, and
hair a shade darker than Bridget's.
"1 knew you'd be paddling," smil-
ed Anna. "What a babe you are!
You'll never grow tip."
"Oh'" Bridget drew out the ex-
clamation to its utmost limit.
',What on earth have I been, pray,
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ever since Easter, if not just pre-
cisely that? Could a child work
and slave as I've alone. Could a
child bare undeetaken all the r.-
sPeneitelity Cite had heaped on me?'
Anne soaped a twig off a nut
bash close by and peered into its re-
cessee exploringiy. Whereupon she
was informed that it was of no use
hoping to crone across a nut for
miles around, as the visitors had
depleted their coveted Store for the
winter, unblushingly,
"And a good riddance to the ab-
ject thieves,! Ien't it just too
ioeavely for wardts without them,
Anne? the paddler. urged, "and to
be able to get hack to ourselves
again, and feel normal and self-
respecting?"
She half turned in order to view
her companion better, for Anne's
silence surprised her. Last autumn
Anne had skipped for joy when
quietness settled down• on the farm
an dthe frantic rush of never-ending
work had stopped for at least six
months.
"Darling," sore gasped, "what is
it? Arenft you glad of this rest,
What has happened Da you en-
joy all that hurry and scurry and
hideous muddle,"
Alnne slit -egged her deoulders.
One get used to anything. It was
nicer this year somehow, We bad
such a different set of people. They
were willing to be pleased and satis-
lied, last year they were not, so
many of them were Batty and want-
ed well-trained madde to want on
them. They could find no fault
1 with anything else, so centred their
eiepaproval on that one lack, and
' ourselves, you and me in particu-
lar."
Bridget sniffed. She had ter -
gotten all about such molhlls, now,
they were left behind, ,past griev-
ances were of no moment to ther
whatever,
"What hes altered you, Anne? she
p•reseed, detenminodly,
I Anne's brown were contracted.
"Lots of things," she confessed,
somne'wtbat dully. NeWe get a thin
time of it from now on; recollect.
1 We may have less work sand far
more leisure, but nothing happens.
We ere just mewed__ up with the
grandparents and Lydia, Its an
event to go over even to Hard-
wicke. We mnstn'•t join anything,
Geandme, would be horrified dI I
suggested I'd like to belong to the
Pendle Badminton; Olub,"
Bridget stared across into- the
esacioue meadow oppoedte, where,
in season, luscons mnwhroosna. were
plentiful and wild flowers held sway
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1n rich abundance, She rarely
argued with Anne and had-, cravings
for more society. Anne and She
were not hitt the same Way. Anne
ted no patience with fairies, and
believing that terns and flowers had
persoirality. Anne was matter of
41 Pact end bringing over with logic,
her dainty, !eremite appearance was
far Brom being the index to her tree
self.
Bridget plickell up her ears smd-
denl.y, "That's Robin," she said,
with assurance, "I wonder if he'll
not us. It's ever. so Bong since be
came by Hopcolt."
"How can you know," Anne re-
marked, sceptically. "He may have
haunted the place for all we're'
aware of, ht's ween a and weeks
ago that you were able to paddle
last here, isn't It? And the work
with the visitoris who have prevent-
ed your doing it ,have also kept you
from noting any passerby."
Bridget smiled unconwinced. 'Rob-
n'e whislte would pierce thorough
Toon walls. It he sees us I'll prove
that I'm right- By the way„ did
you quarrel the last time he was
whit us?'
Before Anne could reply a tali,
broad -shouldered young mancame
striding towards diem and pretend-
ing to snap theme with an innasginary
camera.
"Three cheers for the departed
guests," he said, boisterously, "And
now far the season of Infantile
amusements,"
'Sone be a silly ass" giggled
Bridget, and threw a pebble at him.
"I've just been saying you haven't
passed IIo'p'colt for a week or more,
That's rght, isn't it?"
'1Mdssed me? he queried, and his
keen blue eyes wandered from one
girl to the other.
Anne yawned, and still hunted
for nubs that were centatinly not
there. "'Neat shows bow little you
take in all we have to do in the
summer,' she emphasised, with a
note of soathndg in pier tone.
"I2 you want the 'honest truth,
I've been away," he stated, quietly,
CHAPTER II,
Down By the Stream,
"Been away," repeated Bridget,
melee overbalancing herself on her
rooky perch fa iter 'amazement.
"Batt I tihouglht you were at Pendle
for two Yeeue, minus aria' hol'day at
all. You said old Burleigh only
took you as a pupil on his farm on
thiat understanding,"
"Ile did," and Robin .Cardew
Waited a brief moment before ,sup-
plementing, "but dad wrote rather
agitatedly, so there was no other
alternative. I've been away for
ten daye,"
"Ali that While?' chimed in Anne,
with the aloof little air she often
adopted when this young neighbour
of theirs• wags anywhere in ebidence,
"Glasgrow ie a far cry to one of
my meagre allowance," smiled
Robin, "Some may •count it a small
matter, but I have to look tyice
before I .tan contemplate such a
Journey, so I deeidett to retain there
until dad could dispense rwith my
services."
"Is he ill?" asked Bridget, with
her usual dlreetnese,
Ischia shook Itis head. "Quite the
contrary, the ds in the rmdest of
health and hiss married again, for
whicti I ern grateful"
"Ohl Sa you were one of the
WielfelelleDAY, JUCLY 261111, 1939
'The Porte tone 1* whisk
Woe.* cse be .nokod"
bridesmaids; Bridget shot et hdqrs
wickedly.
"Pages," correcte dA'nste, sedate -
le, "Xis a violet suit wee a broad
silk gush tometcb, preferably
bronva-•-gcyden, brave,,'
It was Robin now wino !threw a
ptblee at Cutfi c8 them, but he did
not carry oa the const ution, and
teeatee this was so, Anne glanced
at hint fuielvely. Thele was
•omething s'.tange abscit Robin
Cardew That dray. Ito enc Ity •
means his itransparent, jolly sols.
led he onjec't to Lltis s.irt ut ,tamer?
Scarcely! Robin minded: not,iting
with regard to tet hug teem theist.
Besides, this was his father's. third
wife, for Robles own mother died
at his birth. He had told!...hem
that much of ltes'fantdty h(,story, and
how he had neves been fond of his
stepmother, wsLcse death hail occur-
red nine months or so batk,
Robin Cardew had come to a
large farm at Pendle ten months
before to study farming, and slmoa,t
.it once howl become acquainted• 10lt
Anne and Bridget, along very un-
conventional ,litres, obviously ac-
cepting teat lntrodiuoticee were
superfluous between residents of
neighbouring farms.
Their youth and; the girls' social
status on their mother's side' were
acocmutai$le, far tanning straight-
away a Perfectly frank and con-
genial comradeship, which Bridget
had brigihtly prophesied would help
immensely to enliven the winter.
The grandg3aren'ts were not averse
to. It, indeed encouraged It, as long
as it kept to oust -of -dooms chatter,
Mr, Gray having satisfied 'himself
that Robin Cerdrew was an apt
scholar andhard worker and as
straight as a die, '
Ma's, Grey thought o'f tete fixture
and concluded he might make
eventually a desirable 'husband for
Anne. It would be as web to
marry one off, but at present she
did not mean to have any 'ticket
about the place in• the quiet months
of the year, it would change the
complexion ore the whole household
if that was allowed.
weedee so quiet?" remarked
Bridget, studying both of her com-
panions,
Somehow it had been .borne on
her that Robin had a weakness for
Anne and thet Anne knew That
gave ten this flinty little manner
when site was with him, and yhiclh
decidedly annoyed: Bridget. She was
eonry there was anything of that
nature about to happen yet, it would
have beets se much nicer to have all
been just chummy and shared all
the fun equally •together. Like
this, it spelt ,that the winter's
frolics would be rather a ,two-sided
affair, and that she might find her-
self hopelessly heft out altogether.
"Wlho's quiet?" jeered Robin.
"Vello could be when you are melt-
ing all that spineiting mess? But I
mustn't linger here at .thds early
hour of the day. I'm. bound for
Godhurst arm. We are buying
calves, and I'm to give the casting
vote on their desirability. See you
later, on perhaps,"
Bridget gazed after his retreating
figure• with a tirip 'frown. ',Some -
'thing is the matter! What is it?
Did It happen while he wee away,
or Jolt his, wo•rtk, or 10 it you, Anne?
Have you two had a difference?"
Anne pursed) her pretty pouting
lisps together, "Don't be stupid.
WLo could quarrel with Robin,
there'd not enougi of him, I
/neon there, "and she tapped her
bead,
Bridget started—to her Robin's
twenty-one years groaned with
knowledge and the importance of
doing a inane job, Samluel •Bus.
leight sbo knew, deltnianidied much—
at any pension under ]are rule,
whether the pails the mor they him
for all he coned teach •thein.
"You see," went on Anne, bend-
ing forward and apeakdng condld.ent,
tally, "Robin, ie really little more
than a boy. I hope the won't go
further and seriously fall In love
with me, because it would be of
no use! If I ever nacaw I should
he of no use! Ifff I ever marry I
should wank a man mmMh odder than
trysail not a ,beginner, and a
struggler, but one who has reached
,his goal anti could gibe me a decent
home and, no slovens',"
Bridget smote the Water with her
foot :.now and giowet•e1, ,Amore
could' be so deadenthgly practical
and sale assertive. Site Could rob
beautiful dreams of all their
.aplendbttr, She could rob concrete
sense into hopes and Teem that
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were so appealing in the abetraot.
Wee craved for the tutsure to be all
luencirein wdsdlonn, saki webbing the
beat out of things for oneself?
"1 sawn trying to show hint,"
Anne said, penslivo!y, "that It is all
silly anti' that he must rnrtt his at-
tention elsewihere. Can't yeu read
1t in my tone when I am with him'(
I give hire no quarter. He may
not appreciate it, but it's fairer bo
a man in the end, if you are posi-
itdvele sire, Pike I• amt, thee I could
never( marry Lim,"
aI .havenit read =ebbing of the
Jointly?' Bridget snapped, "I've
tlhought just die opposite. I quite
imagined you did approve of •him
and you were showing. 6rim that
he'd be successslul if lie conttntied
to woo you.
Anne flushed angrily, but the next
minute lien (Meeks were pale, with
the softest of pink resting on its
whte sunt+ace. "Biddy," sh'e whisper-
ed, tensely, "Ori, Bliley! it Is Mr,
Falkland, the ,head, master of Hard
wiclte School, avant can he want?
He is making straight tar the
house!"
"Mpy be he doeenit realise that
our psping-guest season is over,"
suggested Bekiget, "What If •he's
got an'oiih•er rich friend or relative
who is keen to come to use!. Would
grandma stretch a point and take a
winter boarder? I doubt it, and I
most frantically hope site won't,
don't you?"
Anne was not listening, all iter
abtelnition• was ri'velted, on this un- I
expected. visdit, Never once bad it 1
crossed her brains that Mr. Faulk. !,
land would favour Hopcolt now hits
friend: had lath the farm. Would
he see her? 'Gould she, dare site
attract his notice, of course without
letting hint be aware of the fact?
•
Her heart was all of a flutter and
for one shalbtering moreeat,t site was
afraid he had not caught sight of
them, but that he Would choose the
Path that went straight octose the
meadow an ditiuus reach the 'house
without toucbdng .his angle of the
garden a't all.
For he ,had seledted the route lie
hall' used so often wdien his frilled
had been, at I-topcolt, he baci pre-
ferrelsl ties casual apnroaeh Instead-
of
nsteadof ,the ,lance and stiff front entrance.
"If he goes on gran,Gmta will in-
teeview him and there won't be a.
ghost elf a dh'anoe for anyone else,"
Anne fumed, disltraotedly, and then
her pudsee raced anew, for slate
recognise that their presence had
been noted and the caller was mak-
ing for their shady retreat in very
teeth now.
"Ohs! get out od the water, do," -
She implored. "Biddy, you're.
enamel to desgtiace anyone. It's.
too bad to me, mean and cruel,"
Brndget seized her shoes and
sttoa sings and ,started to fly. Annd,
sine thought, ruefully, was a very
queer zttiiaeture, and wholly beyond:
her power to understand, Why all
bids fuss and hysteria? What had.
come to her? Did she need a
change? People 'generally did
when they acted foolishly and said
wadi tbinge. What was it to Anne -
if Mr, Falkland felt disgusted with
paddling or not? Wiry did she
speak as if he belonged' to her, or,
as, 11 it would reflect on her how
tea• elder behaved?
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CAMERA ON THE FARM
Better farm records can be kept with the camera. One clear picture is
worth many words—and record pictures such as this are easy to take.
CAMERAS as farm implements—
that seems a novel idea. And
yet, on any progressive farm, a cam-
era can render unique, highly prac-
tical service.
I am not referring to snapshots for
pleasure. Of course, everybody
knows there are innumerable snap-
shot opportunities on a farm—beau-
tiful sunset shots across the tilled
fields, pleasant pasture scenes with
stock grazing or drinking from a
cool stream, story -tellers snaps
such as a hen mothering her brood
all sorts of chances, at any season.
But there's another aspect to farm
photography—the extremely valua-
ble, practical aspect of keeping farm
records.
Clear, detailed records play an
important part in farm operations
today, and usually pictures can
make these records even more clear
and serviceable. If your lower sixty
acres makes a good crop this year,
a picture will prove 1t. If hail dam•
ages the roof of your new barn, a
picture can show the exact nature
and extent of the damage. Records
of livestock growth, new building
construction, crops and crop dis-
eases, planting and harvesting oper-
ations, new equipment—all these,
and more, can Well be kept in pic-
ture form, •
Such records are especially useful
because a good clear picture 1s more
informative and convincing than a
written description. Pictures are
easier and quicker, too. For example,
see how long it takes you to write
a description of your prize bull that;
is as good as one clear picture--.
which you could snap in short order!'
You don't have to be a skilled!
photographer to take good farm rec-
ord pictures, and any well -made„
moderately -priced camera will do,
the job. A focusing model is most.
convenient, as with It both "close
ups" and general views can be taken
easily. An anastlgmat lens is pref-
erable, but it need not be an ex-
tremely fast one, The camera should
take pictures of convenient size for
viewing.
Excellent booklets on farm pho-
tography are now available through
various sources. The best of these,
booklets not only give easily -under-
stood instruction on photography,,
but also provide detailed advice on.
how to keep picture -records of cer-
tain types—such as livestock and,
crop growth. They are extremely -
useful for the beginner at farm phq-,
tography,
'Start now to keep picture records:
of your farm operations, supple-.
renting your written records..
They're inexpensive, easy to main.
tain, and have real value—both cure
rent and future,
245 John van Guilder