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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1939-10-25, Page 2er Short C tint i. Of the S arte 9 CHAPTER II. Out el the Past! E 1 '11 T Cis Ti ED .y dyn Ch cny ear: � 11.11 ,:g a lay fee - down tlta .. hea2, her ly—a -.est+ of i . tesla t11r. and n th,.? r ,1... •� ,fl, 1 r.<ahte.,- r.f40 _ t:set the tinkle of _;,,y, ,.... 'lit: ar 1.1 p cer.mrt' moves abate. 'eerier final tratelt• g to lig, arra»«ill: t" Awl a fry.. 1 ntt'la atin t1 a:t-• i bentie bad been emery save fer a , few servants and a win tttl et-•, t woman mourning the son who pre- ferred the element- of distant tinea to the peace and beauty of his lovely home. As Jack Darner had ranfesed, hr had been a mere boy when he had hfs first bitter experience of .1 shallow little gold -digger's unfaith- fulness. She bad amused herself with hist until a wealthier suitor bad conte along --one yith a foreign title, and, having wearied of her boy lover, had dismissed him without a wore of warning. When, bitterly hurt be had tried to protest, be bad pointed out with callous Indilter- E than two and twenty, there was ence that she had never taken him something in her face besides its ri 1 el h d b en me taining undeniable beauty which had lir f t,. .. f_> -w Idle v:t•i•,:_ at le At, ri t - man v:•onld have tnitr 1 Ler at her own valuation, but not so 1.,m=:. Young, possessed of a v-: ry chivalrous t:; -tale. and having 1 , n tyribly hard bit, he bad 1>•,une el rocelesely itttu weld tlissi potion, carrying in bis yang e a haw .c1 of all .womi:.ltt:n+i, beeanae of the unworthiness of one. The chance friends be had made t.. 1. 'l, ev, freat ,,i• r'• to glare n' a by 00 meat,.: i rot' him, a:id the women 1t met were not the kind to alter the ,::.rt ler had formed. wIlen owmg to a snl- drn xir'nl at er several yeol:0 0f et- i?tt wondering: he bad decided to make a flying visit to England, he ',Are. !.o tbe land of his birth nn 3nnrer the lad who had left it so hastily, but a world-weary man, erbietercl by the life he had le& And thee cbanue brought ei.av:.0 Arundel into his' life. In his pres- ent mood. country life bored him, at:cl ..v' for an occasional week -ens spent at Darner for his mother's sake, she lived in town. He was tired of hotels, and in 00na quence he took a eat in a fae•- ly quire! neighborhood, and installed' himself with a manservant in at- tendance, After he had been there several days he found Mavis. Arindel 000u - pied one of the flats directly era posite his own, and from the first moment he said he had bean at- tracted. Though she was a girl of more T i BRUSSELS POST WI+IDIv*ESID ', OCTOBER. 20th, talking tc a child or feeding a stray well liked. And then ,too, tlo arse dog, Owl always 111 the .beautir„ti wttutd have susflectee Marine Pre- et ins . . Nlaa its 0 11 Itlrl ha attraction. 111.•+.tri :'1 for line' 1 tee tinder mouth earn eta:ng wile,' fat oral weary lay fu tbe depths r,i the soft eiws, ,I. 1 titer one or 'we n e.a:nes in the hall or on tin^ eelte, Dieter ;,ad he,. :e •irrtab1 ave•rc tot 101 fate wase persue! t rr.+.t.1fai. • On ore .n'.t whr'Ip I. ;at, t.ty 01 (errs» of h,:, ff7.ttr':-. he had p:' ed hr.' h,• had caught r!.e •, .i,t.-e llirE '.c -'.t towat't1r' hol'. the ether men, and then for a inee.. t watt hurl met her clear eyes 1,rldinr a leek of wondering ear - prise and a ball pity, which ilea very considerably startled him. 1 It annoyed hint a littl' 1111, n =o 110 told elmse:f, but 1,10 utast donli- rant. feeling had been a sense of sante. And when, on anottor ee•t ion some ue -ts who llddb »teas m g supping with hint became uproar^ Ica;, he had fancied be had heard the girl moving in her flat, and had silenced. the men with an abrupt- ness which had amazed them. After their going he bad pulled open the windows wide and sat far into the night, conscious of a new, strange feeling of weary dislike of all that made ue his present life. And then one (lay rte had been able to do the girl some trifling ser- vice, and thus their real acquaint- ance had begun. From that time onward.,'his first interest in her lied deepened and grown stronger, and with it sprang a desire to know her better. He had met her sometimes in the street coming home, and once Oi' twice he had, joined her. Sometimes he had came upon her fat's had been eohtpassion eros venue of being that sort of women, (aieetitese. nue by degreeh I must say I don't thine It wasp lova hardly knowing it Danser hats vowelvowelmoue on 'her elle, though Treven- t'1 mot»poteem her 136 some creature ea 'w01'8'1lflppt<ed ,114 groundshe 0, infinite seedness and beauty, wanted . on, but everyone . imaglue•i apart franc and above other women, then to be happy, Maris() was al - Golf, Tennis, Fishing, Riding, Yachting Victoria Sports During Winter Months Golf, tennis, lawn bowling, l� riding, hunting and fishing may be unusual winter sports for most of Canada but not for Vic- toria, beautiful Island capital of British Columbia, where snow is a novelty, flowers bloom throughout the year, and overcoats are exeess baggage. Winter golf is the sport that attracts widest notice to ViC- toria's wonderful year=round cls mate, but tbe West Coast has its Pilgrims who are drawn there each winter by the splendid wea- ther and the series of unusual sports and social attractions made possible by the fine weather, Winter fishing le a major sport ` In i3rardefeei BtY where sizeable grilse and spring salmon are caught by trolling: Ely fishing for steelhead salmon up to 20 pounds ' is found in east -slope rivers such as the Oyster, Cow- icban, Englishman's, Nanaimo, and Big and rattle 4salicum, 13est known of the winter at- tractions le the Mid -Winter Golf Tournament which will be held this year on the Royal COlwood course, March 249, Hsieh cora petition, a sporty course and good golfing 'weather, added to the matey prizes of which the most important is the trophy presented by Sir Edward Beatty, make the tourney one, of the 'most Polestar in Canada, Aiding, hiking, lawn howling, boating are but a few more sports that aro as popular in Victoria in winter as in summer, 'Fiestas are arranged from time to'time, named after flowers then in bloom. Probably the most pictu- resque celebration 10 the Christ- mas festival in Old English style, complete with boar's head, ydlo loge, weasel'. bowl and carols, Victoria and the Empress Hotel have enjoyed a growing lioptllarity in recent years. A real impetus has been given this season be the fact that foreign excbange under war pressure makes a Canadian dollar worth Considerably more in Canada than its the united Statott. 10 Istat site was lonely he hail guess- resat as popular as ', revenue ants 1 ed Whenever the had beers alone; believe elle Was eatr oat dinar sly no one ever visited her, and he he,: beautiful, I never sa' her—hardly culne to feel a real pity ler her 11. any of , .Dering'a' English friends consequence, and acquainlanees del—and you At the satue tithe he batt realised 1 rebutphotographsare 'rhea: that he, too, was lonely, very lonely, '111e light abutter et men arit. w tattten that pesse(1 t for wit tueatree--•^ha<l;;e patties -- suppers and night clubs n0 longer suffice i. 11.0 bad 0.001t dttueted with etc life he gad beau leadail, for ,-u Ia :ilwuy< !anise i:t. batt hc:eu li:�.teni:y; to the talk and the e,uriaoling ▪ I:pa of s:::.nual Alla-ed ltctu ,ir" to ., 140! lac:1 11.IIt ti1011 bene be r e:., and be lied learned to a st'n,at:on of relief ;n getttag b t0 the quiet of his roods, • t„ti1, "e hut, hi bad take:, eau .rise in ;ruck hunch and iia! ir' seat he t-. let h:ta taste her oat t a tit-tf: tea or dinner Sa1nr- had tact lee ativauros ;',rah a trait stand. air that 0.11 i;urtaz,z sops, but at 1,.:., !tall un- willingly yet wisttnilc, nl.e lead eey sit, A.<ri\yards sbe pew W knurl tea better; she head thawed and hail Le. cuute 1itilshly tal;t:r fpr the Iden ll:*te he cud oft., ed. alta seals preeed to be uelta'etd, (salty -ea, a prY v.Oy chichi:,tui txtittpanien, 400' by glees 1 e tele her about ltiinstrf of her c,rt:i,..ity and e»ger to-.„ it. She had Clever spoken ole hetsot+, sate to admit (tree that she .tad known 1111.0 01 happiness, and t;.t0 tertibiy- Irately. But she had actin - ed to realise the held some 1uf;0- encs for good over him, and thee,- interest, and again Mavis's finger tee►! el' Th. port,! ienn In which tot es. set tie .melted'" nottoed llleir intimacy and spoke to bits wife about it, It was through Goldett,ing that the •end cause, Goldetrfng by aro means : 'liked hit (now ry lu . wile's sister; ho "etas Perfectly wail I .saw made her look a very ordinal, aware that site respired 1!1111;, and, human heln'g, But, as I say, l'ye being the mean little brute he 14 hear dshe was lovely. She was the rte eluted her in consequence More• 0ter,-Treve1lna only tolerated ItOn. niece}' of Nano). Goldeuleg, Virago Dotdening tbe millionaire's wife.. because he was' Nancy's husband, 1t was pretty hard on her, too, 1 Goldelting knew it and resented 11 Ih nritt as, she was awfully found 01 bitterly; tons0queetiy - he liked Marlse, She, Nancy was. younger, itevcltna even less titan he liked I believe, but she marrfeti' sir t. Trevenua''s- wife, It is not very tt'he^.1 site tvtrs only seventeen, anti surprising—when one remembers it was at the Ootdenings' th't tite 111311 Goldeatng ie—that he was Marisa met Doing 'l'revenna, Yon ttntdy 10 411 ,tis 1.4011 slues!, Us 11 know Nancy Galdeniag, 131 course. • w000. It chanced one 1110111 when '1'11310 00100 a little lnur.h, h0 had been dining extrtsll1')' well, and the Behind woman s.Poke I1(010 that he, hairilned to Pass the distinctly Chit time, building In :which Julian Forrest'S Me- \011ssituated, and Silty a woman enter who, he vvas quite certain, was Mrs. TreveUna. Like the abonlinaele little cud lie is, ha went to Dering with the laterata- tion. The iatt.'r toed sats he vete a lar; and ft was a miracle how he Iter 1 aped having tyres,: bone In h1. hely breis». Sot he replied he wa perfectly willing to Prole) the truth of his statement if Travent/a would come then and there to P It• rest's flat With hint, and Trevertna. went: Of enu"sel Ancl Getee ting 1e th 'biggest bounder unhung. ho anet would endure him but for N :,L y s 'Kake. Ilut go eon. 1 eel - :et t t:a111 site had a si star. 1've bend of DeringTravenna, but I've never met him, and I did not even know be, bel been married. We11, what happened?" "There was another num. Ira was quite young, a little older than efarise, and it seems he had known hath the si:stars before they were married. His name was Julian Forrest, and he was an awfully good looking boy, wile a charm TO BE CUXTINUED. about hint that few women could •'0- sielt, And—well, Mrs, 1Preveena w ,1 proved to be no aceelltlen," a *Nr ,S}Eit'4; "obi" �Aq , The exclamation held a deepened •„sll p + �” !mgrs, ,ea 3 H,, E .01itlia n St ,eat, Brunsols, Ontario quite suddenly haduotne to them both the realisutiou that they level The rest had been a question of time. ' At :first Mavis's manner had been suillcieutly bewildering. She had refused to listen when Deaner had tried to tell her of 'his love, she had done her best to avoid him. but he wanted her as he. never wanted anything 10 hie 'life before, She meant everything to him, but once he had forced her to tell him tha- 0he, cared, he had refused to listen to anything else. tightened on the banister as she listened. "Dering Trevenna liked mem Forrest, who was always in and out of the house, He and Marise Tre- venna were everlastingly meeting somewhere, either at her house or at the Goldeoings' and people began PERSONAL ATTENDANCE. 'Phone tie Day or Night Calla MOTOR HEARSE B Q WALKER to talk. Trevenue did not take ' Embalmer and Funeral much notice at first, but it came out Director, afterwards that presently, 1>e, too, ismajeamaziaimimat And' in the end she had ceased to struggle, The strength to deny bine had gone from her, and she had, yielded. Since she was without Mends, Domle2• ,had taken her to his mother wl10 after one long look into the beautiful face, had taken her to iter heart. And in the warmth and affection that surrounded her now, in the knowledge of Damer's love, the szd- nem faded from Mavis's face, the wistfulness went completely from her eyes, sere sometimes when J she wile alone. She was like some caged bird set free suddenly, in the full sunshine, brimming over with jopousness and content, Now, in a few days, she would be J ack Damer's wife. I101' eyes' grew misty at the won- der of the thought; she paused in her singing, and a tremulous 0»143 danvned en her lips, ,She coned scarcely realise it even yet, Could scarcely imagine teat in a few days the past would be thrust behind ho utterly; and the path stretching aheadwould, be straight and clear, leading to a golden future, loved and infinitely happy. The little, god of dove had stretch, ea his, hands forth to her, the little god of love wbose, toudh she heti never known till now, And in her heart was a cry of thanksgiving, of almoejt overwhelm. ing joy. She had xea,ebed the last stair when a woman's voice, slightly rais- ed, came floating from one of tett alcoves in the ball 'below and broke upon her musdngs. "It's a 'sad story—yes. • Dering Provenne wee quite one of the nie- eet men I've •ever known and the happiest, before it happened," Mevts .paused, her handy tightening on the banister, her oyer widening, Another voice murmured sometbing questioningly, which she could net saheb, and the first woman went - • "You don't mettle it? I thought everyone knew . the story. Tett them tt happened itt A.merlca, audit was years ago—nearly six; t think.. 1 expect you were in India at the .time, Of course, one reader of the same thing in. the papers neat'!' every. day, And 1 don't suppose it would have aroused much notice it e Dering Treeetulla had soy been se Remove bones and flake one small con of salmon, MIX with 2 table- spoons horseradish, 1 teaspoon lemon juice, 4 tablespoons mayon- naise seasonings, Spread gener- ously between broad sucest spread outside of each sandwich with melted butter toast on both side. under low broiler hent until brown. Sour over the sandwich a sauce merle of melted cheese. - POTATO AND FISH CASSEROLE clake oneooked fishpound and place inncabse- role. Slowly melt % ib. cheese in double boner; stir •hi is cup milk, Pour this over the fish. Cover the mixture with mashed cooked potato, and lino the rim of the t0asarolo with unbokod blecuito. Bake in hot (421°) oven until blscuits are done. Department of Piiheris, Ottawa. Please send me your Is -page liookiet, "100 Tempting Disk Recipes" Alamo (pulmo mixt LETTea9 I,LAMLY) Address There are so many delicious varieties of Canadian FISH available all the year round, no matter where you live, that you can add pleasing new dishes to the family menus. And remember, Fish is nourishing, and is easily digested. Ask your dealer about the different kinds of Fish he can get for you, and arrange to serve Fish to your family often. DEPARTMENT OF FISHERIES; OTTAWA„ t>RRLLrCCd,• •WR/PE ,OR PRI, BOonor CW -I0 I