HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1940-5-1, Page 2THE BRUSSELS POST
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Retribution
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By
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Shameful Revenge.
When Giles. Reydon left the office
at rix o'clock he was in a thorough-
ly'bad. temper, .for be had found he
"could nut return to Sand!bays for lie
belated 'holiday for several days, •
He hoped that oddly roaseivating
little film girl would still be there,
and a tender smile twisted his lips
as he wondertd if she were keeping
up her maedluerade.
His car turned into Oxford. Street
and, as if in. 'the twinkling of an eye,
Gile'a ,whole life was changed.
'lSuioide of lemons, aviator!"
seemed to screens at him from a
newspaper placard.
There are mlany famous, flying
men in the world to -day, but some-
thing told Giles' Reydon that the
young aviator who had killed 'him-
self woos the only .airman of distinc-
tion intimately known to him—his
closest friend, young Billy Swanage,
Yes, his eyes plucked the name
out of the paragraph the moment
Susan
Redgrave
the paper was in his Bands, It
was true! - Billy, the gayest, most
lightlieauted young dere-devil ever
to loop a loop, ,h"ed put a bullet
through his brain; Billy was dead—
he
he wase'rt in the world any more.
Billy, the most alive person he had
ever known!
There was only the hart state-
ment that in a hotel bedroom Billy
--Billy—Mad taken his o'wn life!
It was an, eel's :a -faced, stern'
llpmed man Who drove his car
mechanically that afternoon, For
Giles Reydon, the next fe'w days
were spent in a haze of misery
during whish., though the attended
to •all necessary business details,
nothing seemed really clear to him.
Ugly whispers' crept round Loa -
don, There were rumours of a
diamond sear, the plilncipal stones
as big as peas, paid dor with a
worthless cheque—all connected
with young Billy's name, Billy,
iw1io had always been the soul of
honor,
These rumours never actually got
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it
mote pa reit.` itt,:the' persieJteflt
Whet could Billy, Whose heart
was in, lois work, want with a dia-
mond' staff? '. And why, ii he
bought one, couldn't he pay for it?
He rhadi r good deal of money, and
there shou1nn',t have been; trouble
ion
'ending enough to pay ,for 1111'10
diamond orn'amelkt.
What had heeome of his money
that he should! sink to so 'low a
levet—become a common seat?
All but the bare outlines of ,in-
(pleat
in
(beset and biudal disappeared from
the Press and people began, to for-
get the pitiful tragedy of Billy
.Swanage, but not Giles Reydon.
On •the first day's freedom he
could, snatch he ran .down to the
little country village of Banifold to
see the ,only. relative he knew of
Biliy's, and she only a great aunt—
and by marriage.
He was shocked at the change in
Mrs, Swanage.
The tragedy end the shame,
quickly veiled though it bads been
had hit her hard. Prom being a
handsome, middle-aged woman she
had: all at once grown old, drawls
and shrivelled, with every hair In
her head snoly white,
'hSend me away if you'd. rather
not talk," said Gd1es.
"I want to talk to you," ehe said.
"How much do you know?"
"00017 what ,was' dn: the papers,"
he told her.
"Them. very little, and that 0)1110
what related to my poor boys
death, not to the other—thee cis
honour! They brought it in sui-
eide whits stelnporarily insane. I
paid the money into his bank so
bloat the cheque could be honoured.
I couldn't have that merky scandal
round his name as well as the other.
We ageett—the bank, the creditor:
and I—that it was a mere oversight
on Billy's• pert; but we all knew it
was nothing pt the kind."
"I guessed at something of the
kind,," said Giles• gently, his heart
racked for the grief that wag s0
much greater even than his own.
"Put I don't understand why Billy
was so hard -up. It was, of course
a woman?"
A film girl," said Mrs. Swanage,
a note of terrible vindictiveness in
her voice. "A girl with the face of
a sweet and candid child, but with
the soul of a harpy. A woman. who
for her amusement sets out to break
meal's hearts and stealth .honour.
had{—I1ds heart, his {bones Ills
had lie ,h earl., is in on es; bis
onour and finally his, life. She
threw him over, )laving nothing
more to g-,ifn from h•]m, for anatlrtr
mans. That was the last straw!"
"I hearth something of this in the
sub," said Giles gently, "The name
f a Jean Wetherden seems to come
nto It."
"It was Jean Wetherden•!" said
Mit'. Swanage, and thrust a studio
ontrait into Giie's hand, quickly, as
f the mere contact with cardboard
burnt her.
"This the girl?"
The words shot from Gile's lips,
eel his, dank face set like iron. For
here smiling shyly at him, was' the
0e' of .blue girl he had seen lnass-
tiereddng as a ,waitress at The
Glebe.
"So she's Jean Wetherden?" y,e
id, below hiss breath,
"That is, Jean Wetherden, the
le creature who ruined m.y boy!„
aid Mrs•. Sm'anage, w0t11 concen-
ated, venom. "iSho',s gone into
ding, they tell me, and well sole
ay—and may she stay there for
Iver!„
et now picture of hens: were shown
eete00 ' the5"d his' it 'off the
said, Giles; "Dark as it
as all been kept, enough is known
make that certain.'
'No picture with that young wo-
n in it will ever appear again
the screen, either here n
ericaj," declared Mrs. Slwannge,
faded Oyes those of an avenging
ri r "Money can, deo a. great deal,
have take/ steps to assure the
°n trade that bide nurdress of MY
r bey mus never be Permitted to
w her face again to the world by
medriusn of pictures My doctors
1vomY life is, not likely to be a
and i have arranged with
1a^AYean that they whale fight to
{asst penny to )seep 'this rwo-
ottt of her tarofeselon. it is not
t, that ma a being whetted go
u5dmhedy tree' to break and wreck
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promise you that!" said Giles
grimly.
'1Seelt Women can only be but in
their vanity and their Aurae," went
on, the indomitable old woman.
'"People have short memories, but
they shall not be allowed, df the
needaxises, to forget :th'at. Jean
Wetherden haft. murdered .a plan
She shall never come back! Film
plague*, 111.0die1'stand; fear nothing
MOM than a sandal reline ,their
stars' name, so it will be made clear
to theme that 5. scandal of the 'first
magnitude well blaze round this
woman's frame if elver they give her
work again."
Giles never sew . Mrs. Swanage
again, for She was found dead, in her
bed a day or so later,
There was something ' formidable
about the dark leanness of Giles
Iteydron;s face when he drove his
Week Bentley again in the direction
of the East Obese.
He grad' gathered every available
scrap Of information about Jean
Wether,clen1 and a plan for avenging
his friend's death was already, form-
ed in his mind,
He had, learned that she was: per-
Iiaps the most promising young
actress, in the Mnglish studios, with
a great future before her, if this
,daltas!brophe brad not dntelvem•ed.
Hoilynvood had made her .many
offers; but so far she had accepted
none.
Now, thought Giles grimly, she
would not have any more of these
tempting offers to consider,
One thing surprised, him, Jean
Wetherden was said to be . twenty-
two, but, he could: have sworn that
girl drnwar at Sanbays: wee not a day
over eighteen.
But then, end again hie face
hardened, these filen stars have.
ways' and means of looping any age
they -please.
The girl was not for on
out of his thoughts.
stili be at Saadbays? If
might be trouble in ge
Johnub—w
anesho were na
the secret—to tell ]nim.
was hiding,
e moment
Would she
not there
dingthe
turaliy in
where she
But R d, her ,he would, and Miss
Jean. Wetherden, going under the
name of Meryl Valliant, should, he
grimly promised get a taate of what
was comflng to her.
As tt chanced Meryl was the first
WYMIZOl7AY, WAY jet, 19¢9
'e0aout he saw when. he stepped oat
01 Ilia oar at The Glebe, for a slim
figure in bine, 'bright head bare,
dashed in at a side doer,
Giles halted oddly shaken at atg"lit
Of the girl, and he had to make an
effort to pull himself together s'af•
iloiently to give directions for
"ga:rraging the ear !before mb ;Negt
into the house,
'Missy Meryl you know you slioeld
...let cane into thin part of the
' l}iQuee,!' lie heard Mia, Johns ons
den:Vain, and against his face hard-
ened..
"May 1 come in" he asked{; tap-
, ',big at the open, door of the office,
I. ^;,"Oh," said, Meryl, and the pansY-
blue eyes were eloquent, "It's you!
You've some back!"
‘'`I've come back," said. Giles, and
if he had been an actor he could not
hao slid more easily into the part
he had' mapped out for himself;
He gave Mrs, Joitnistone'a 11511.d' a
brief •shake then turned to Meryl.
"Didn't I say I was coining back?"
Ise said, an undercurrent of wain
interest running through the idght'
words,
, He .took her hand, gazing, deep
down into the welcoming blue eyes.
"You got my wire, Mrs,. John-
stone? You've a room for me?"
he asked.
It was queer but he had, an odd
feeliulg that he was: still holding in
hie exquisite lirttle hand' ,he had
ilroluped.
"The room you had last time, sir;"
sadd Mrs. Johnstone, "I think you
were satisfied e-itll dt?"
"More than satisfied," he told her
pleasantly. "And with everything
at Sanbays, ' he added in an under-
tone that reached' only Meryl's ear.
The dear little. face flushed, and
the pansy eyes glowed into even
greater beauty.
"Were you?" said Meryl softly,
and the suspiciously lovely lashes
drooped' and lay ton' a moment, two
falls, on the pure outline of her
cheeps,
"Glad to see me?" he probed, his
gaze mercilessly fixed on the en-
chanting picture.
No marvel she had made such a
name for herself as the screen's
Perfect ingenue; he thought. The
genuine article ecudd not appear
more real.
He intended making no long fob
r
?Tate oto oda.
''*ifaccv JUST LiKE
OLD CHUM
oft 11115 vengeance, 5(0 the 'must go
in for a bold; Swift wooing, Then, .
when, he had accomplished his end,.
and )3111y was in some small.
010115ure avenged he, Reydon; could'
sweep his, Mind cleat)' of the whole
thing, be db•nle with Mies Jean
Wletherden for ever ,and get hack
to his nvbrk•
"You know I'm, glad!" min'neured'.
tlierylt ithos,e incredible lashes
sweeting unwa.edsr "You see" she
went omy a hint of mischief in her
pansy eyes` "R've, been so fright-
fully b'on'ed."
,Giles) laughed, She was, not go-'
ing to' be too cloyingly sweet, and
that was all to the good.
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Good Farm
For Sale
being the West half of Lot No. 32,
Concession 6 of the Township oR
Grey and County of Hhilon1 owned
by the late William J, Beirnes—
colnlfortalrle frame house and barns;
50 acres' of good land all clear three
miles from Ilthel. Price reason-
able.
easonable. Apply to
ELMER D. BELL, Brusesls, ,Ontario
Solicitor for the administrator
NOW IS THE TIME TO HAVE
YOUR HARNESS REPAIRED
"i CHAPMAN
Brussels. Ont.
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ARCM'N:
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The demands of our Country and Empire, occasioned by another Great War, cause us.
to pause and recount the progress made in the quarter-century since the beginning of
the first Great War.
Then but 10,000,000 acres were sown to wheat in contrast to over 25,000,000 acres
now; then we exported but 25,000,000 lbs. of bacon and ham to Great Britain in a
year, whereas this year our shipments will total over 260,000,000 lbs. Then the average
yearly production of a dairy cow was 4,500 lbs. of milk which now has been raised
to 6,500 lbs.
Farmers have been alert to the findings of science and the better practices developed
by our agricultural colleges and experimental farms. Changed methods have brought
vast improvements; higher standards of products have been attained and maintained.
Science, too, applied by practical men of knowledge has, through the solving of
many of our immediate problems, greatly increased the productivity of our farms and
added immense sums to the farmers' yearly revenue.
Rust -resisting varieties of wheat have now ended the annual losses occurring from this
perennial blight which is estimated to have cost the farmers of Western Canada in the
62 years of wheat growing, an amount in excess of half d billion dollars.
Grasshopper control efforts have been perfected to the point where the damage
from these pests has been greatly curtailed, one authority placing the saving from this
work at several hundreds of millions of bushels of grain in the last seven years.
And the agricultural implement engineer has been busy designing machines to meet
the specific needs of the moment, Speed, less man -power, and lower costs of operation,
have been the goal and as a result most machines have undergone great changes.
Tractors have been tremendously improved. New machines have been made available.
One -Way -Disc Seeders—till' and sow in one operation, cutting the cost of these operations
by 40% to 50%. The new Small Combines extend the use of this new low cost harvesting
method to farms of all sizes—saving upwards of $1.60 per acre in harvesting costs.
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