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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1940-11-07, Page 2PAGE 2 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD Fifty Miles of Coal mut In One Year By Scottish Robot Four coalcutters, built by a Scot- tish firm, have just been stripped to 'Chile to join the 17 already at work there, . These machines, the most powerful of their kind, carry a chain -armed with picks whieh can cut not only coal, but harder material, in - ,eluding some building stone. The endurance of the machines, which are at work in all the coalfields .of the world, can be gauged by the fact that one such machine has for a whole year been cutting 320 yards -of coal in every working day of six .and a half hours. Another, after cutting 18,000 tons in a seam three ::Feet six inches. high, was brought a out for overhaul. It was sent back into the pit without the need for a penny's outlay on replacement costs. 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Division Court Office. Clinton 'rank Fingland, B.A., LL.B. alarrister, Solicitor, !Votary Public Successor to W. Brydone, K.C. Sloan."')3loei — Clintnn• Ont. PUBLISHED BY .SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT THURS., NOV. 7, 1940 COPYRIGHT GENERAL SIR WESTON 1YIARRIS, a highly -placed officer of the General Staff visiting New Zeal- and on duty. LORNA MARRIS, his pretty, luxury - loving, daughter. PRINCIPAL 'CHARACTERS MISS IIILDA IYIA•RRIS, sister of the General, accompanying him to New Zealand and giving Lorna such supervision as a high-spirit- ed girl will tolerate. CAPTAIN ALLEN RICHARDS, the General's Aide -de -Camp, who is engaged to Lorna. T. H. HAWKSFORD, chauffeur to the General's party. A New Zealander, "handsome in a rug- ged, arresting fashion. SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS GENERAL SIR WESTON MAIL- RIS, sent to New Zealand to report on certain aspects of imperial de- fence, is accompanied by nis daugh- ter, LORNA, and his sister, HILDA, who, as an aunt, gives an eye to the high-spirited Lorna. The daughter„ is engaged to CAP- TAIN RICHARDS, the General's Aide -de -Camp, but Richards does not arrive in New Zealand with the party, he having been delayed on may •m Australia. One characteristic of the country which rather startles Lorna is the al- most class -less state of society which allows the official chauffeur, loaned to her father, to adopt a friendly, al- most familiar, attitude towards her. Intrigued by the man's manner and captivated by his good looks, she goes on a country run with him, in the course of which he kisses her. (Now Read Un) CHAPTER IV THE MAN IN RICHARD'S ROOM "How are you, darling? Beautiful as ever, and as alluring as they make 'em!" was Allen Richard's private greeting to Lorna when he landed in Wellington tune days later. "And I suppose you're as fascinat- ing to the other sex as ever?" was Lorna's flippant reply. "Honestly, darling, I've missed you no end!" Richards said. She gave him a cool cheek to kiss. "I've missed you, too. Captain Mills, who is following Father about, hasn't anything like your charm!" Before Sir Weston, who had the H. G. MEIR Barrister -at -Law .Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Ontario. Proctor in Admiralty. Notary Public and Commissioner. Offices in Bank of Montreal Building, Hours: 2.00 to 5.00 Tuesdays and Fridays. D. H. MCINNES CHIROPRACTOR Electro Therapist, Massage 'Office: Huron Street. (Few Doors west of Royal Bank) Hours—Wed. and Sat. and by O nnnint,,'.^ret FOOT CORRECTION eby manipulation Sun -Ray Treatment Phone 201 HAROLD JACKSON Licensed Auctioneer Specialist in Farm and IiousehoId .Sales. Licensed in Huron and Perth Counties. Prices reasonable; satis- faction guaranteed. For information etc, write or phone Harold Jackson, 12 on 058, Seaforth; R. R. 1, Brumfield. 06-012 GORDON M. GRANT Licensed Auctioneer for Huron County. 'Correspondence promptly answered. Every effort made to give satisfac- tion. Immediate arrangements can be made for sale dates at News -Record ,Office or writing Gordon M. Grant, Goderich, Ont. but to her astonishment she saw the gray uniform and realized that the person was Hawksford. She stared. He was standing at Allen's dressing table. He was exam- ining something he was holding in his hands . a note case) The significance of it came to her with a queer, dull shock. The depth of her own sick horror surprised her— for an instant everything went black. Hawksford was pilfering in her fiance's room. She took an involuntary step to- wards him, and he turned immediat- ely, looking straight into her eyes through the glass door, If she had doubted at all that the notecase was Allen's, the way in which Hawks - ford made to whip it out of sight told everything. Very pale, Lorna walked in through the half -opened door. Hawksford stood there with the notecase in his hand, thinking better, apparently, of his effort at concealment. His face suspicion of aynthing else I shall. tell—naturally! And another thing —!" She raised her eyes to his then, 'coldly. "I don't want to speak with you again about this—or about anything else. I would be glad if you don't speak to me at all, except on matters concerned with the car. Do you undeustand?" "Very well!" He lowered his head submissively. Above all 'things she didn't want him to fancy fol a moment that she was being lenient because—idiot!— she had been attracted by him, or because she was afraid of him. But was that a gleam of triumph in his eyes as he straightened up, was it a shadow of a smile round the impassivity of his mouth as he looked at her—? She couldn't he oertain, as rhe turned hastily from him and walked into her room, closing the French window behind her. She heard him walk along the veranda and down the was wary, the face of a man who is steps at the side of the house. thinking hard; a faint, tense smile She stood trembling slightly, in wreathed his lips. uneasy doubt. But she had made her Her voice shook a trifle: decision, said she would not tell, and "Better give that to nie!" she would have to stick to it. "Oertainly." He handed it over quietly. She took it, and glanced CHAPTER V inside. There were letters addressed THE POSSESSIVE LOVER to Allen, three pound notes, and a "Hawksford will be able to tell us fiver. about that ... Ask Hawksford, he'll "Is there anything missing?" Her know." voice lashed him. Every day Lorna heard such "No!" phrases from her father. Now that serious view of the world of another His tone was cool enough. The Allen had talion Captain Mills' place, generation, they were more dutifully smile even broadened into a grin. Hawksford, with his knowledge of subdued in their attitude to one an- She dropped the note into the the country, was asked for assistance other. Sir Weston had but the vag- drawer and snapped it shut. A voice in all sorts of things. He arranged uest idea of their relationship; it was within her was saying over and over: accommodation for them in towns at enough that they were engaged, and "A thief—a common thief!" IIer which they stayed; and frequently that Richards, too, was a competent htimiliation.found relief in a violent performed jobs of a secretarial na- aide-de-camp, an expert manager, with brains behind his persuasive manner; Richards would get on .. . "Glad to have you here, my boy!" said Sir Weston. "I've some inter- esting problems to deal with very interesting. I'll have to do some hard said to her father: thinkingbefore we leave this coun- try." htimiltty took its place. try " "You know I must!" She lost con- "We don't know much about Richard's air was immediately one trol of her anger and burst out: Hawksford, do we? Do you think of shrewd gravity: "Don't you get a reasonable wage? you are wise to trust hint quite as "Quite so, sir!" Your life can't be so desperately un- much as you do?" IIawlcsfoid was there to drive them comfortable that you have to resort She felt that sfic must say some - to the hotel. Since the morning when to this sort of thing! Haven't you , thing, even though she said nothing they had gone to Mount Egmont, he a—a spark of manhood in you?" directly of what she knew, to put and Lorna had not exchanged a word "Why—if some people treat a reran! herfather on his guard, except on the matter of the car. The as if he was dirt?" My dear child," said Sir Weston. game ofexcessive deference on his "I beg your pardon?" I "1 trust him with nothing of import - part was over; they were two for- The grim question took her aback. ance! Hawksford could make guesses, mal, coldly estranged human beings. "You treat a man as if he was a perhaps, at the outcome of the work the Weston got out of the car at stick or a stone in your road—then we're doing. But you yourself know ask him if he has a spark of man- as much as he does. Any official secret which Hawksford has picked up are known to any officer in the Department of Werke. Hawksford was given his post by the Depart- ment of Defence, so I presume they think he's fit for the job!" "What a country!" said Lorna, drily. "I've noticed you don't care for the man," Sir Weston said, casually en- ough. "It's no use trying to keep an Overseas man in his place—they don't understand it here, In Route, y'lcnow—!" "Quite so," Lorna coloured a little. What would he say, conventional and decorous man, if hes: knew the free- dom she had allowed Hawksford al- ready! She ended by repeating: "1 don't think you should trust Hawksford too much, that's all!" Sir Weston repeated his statement that he trusted no one, and she had to be satisfied with that. Meamvhile she felt she had warned him, and "If you' must tell someone, tell Sir could be lenient in not giving Hawks - Weston, then—but not Richards!" ford away with a better conscience. THE McKILLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company Read Office, Seaforth, Ont. Officers: 'President, Thomas Moylan, Sea :'orth; Vice 2resident, William Knox, Londesboro; Secretary -'treasurer, Ivl. A. Reid, Scaforth. Directors, Alex. Broadfoot, Seaforth; James Sholclice, Walton; James Connolly, Goilerich; W. R. Archibald, Seaforth; Chris. Leonhardt, Dublin; Alex. McEwing, Bi-'th; Frank McGregor, Clinton. Liss of Agents: E. A. Yeo, R.R. 1, Goderich, Phone 603r31, Clinton; James Watt, Blyth; John E. Pepper, Rrucefield, R. It. No. 1: R. F. McKer- eher, Dublin, R. lt• No. 1; J. F. Preuter, Brodhagen; R. G. Jarmuth, TB,ornholin, R. 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Richards immed- iately began to talk about mutual friends at home, each smart nick- name followed by some jest, inter- rupting his drawl to look out of the car window and say: "Good heavens! This looks pretty crude!" Lorna wondered if it would irritate Hawksford to hear his capital city so openly despised; and wondered how Hawksforcl liked it when Rich- ards wanted to take her into an hotel for a sherry, and addressed Hawksford peremptorily: "I say, you— stop here!" The situation was uncomfortable, hood in him. I think that's a bit inconsistent!" She could think of 110 rep y, and glanced at the door, afraid that some one might come in. "Come out here!" she told Hawks= ford hurriedly, and stepped out on to the veranda. He followed her. 'there was no one in the garden at the back of the hotel, no one to see them talking on the, veranda. ire seemed to realize that her ac- tion was a sign of weakening re- souutlou because he said with a sud- den urgency: "Don't do anything about it this time! If you understood, you'd let, she blamed herself more than ever mo off. Don't tell Richards—you for having been indiscreet. Hawks- I,won't regret it!" ford sat in the car for fifteen min- ! I must tell him, how can I let utes, waiting while she and Richards you continue driving us on this tour, had their sherry, until she insisted none of the ethers knowing that you on going with the excuse that she —that -their pockets aren't safe from would be late dressing for dinner. You, in fact?" Two days later found there all on. the other side of Cook Strait, having crossed with the car by the ferry to Picton; they were all staying in a small hotel on the Picton—Nelson road, in rugged country, doted only at infrequent interval* with sheep farmers' homesteads. To luxury -lov- ing Lorna and Miss Marris it was decidedly the most primitive hotel they had ever stayed in, though clean and prosperous enough. Built of wood it had a veranda running 'along the back of the upper storey, and on this the spartanly as' if he were really curious to know: Maoris and a dozen other subjects furnished bedrooms opened out. If "Did you ever have to ask anyone could be a mean thief—.1 And more Lorna had not stepped out en to that for a second chance, than that—worse, in fact—as the balcony to look at the long afternoon. She paused. She never .had; but next ten days passed, she got the a ows, softening clear e ort o, a lines of the chaotic yellow hills, what had said about her treating him like • curl of the lip now and then, that followed in the strange and troubled tick or stone in the road had gone as he had laughed at her once be - months to come anight have been home. S`ne had beencallous enough, fore, he was laughing at her again.: very different . . without the ruthless of exposing him ' Gould it be? Did he crow over her She shared her own room with her as a thief and losing him his job. because he fancied that she had been aunt; on the left was her father's She turned back to him, and with too afraid, or worse still, too mueh. room; and on the right was Rich- her eyes very dark in her white face, ' attracted by him, to give him away? ards'. Hawksford slept downstairs, I its aureole of red hair aflame in the It was a humiliating fancy. Her only Glancing through the glass door of slanting sunlight. I course was to ignore his existence, Richard's room she saw a man in -1 "Very well," she said, not looking which with Allen there to claim her side with `his back to her; thinking up at him. "I will let you off this attention, was easy enough to seem to it was Richards she looked again— i time! But if I have the slightest ; do' M. Service Barkin Locker Service Was ]Designed, Engineered and Construction Supervised Wright Piano =: Company Limited STRATHROY =� �� �H�H�W�H�H�NIat�M%tMe�M«���.�•s'H� �««�«, �H�HtHTH�HyHt..�H�! The People of Clinton and District are also to be congratulated on the opening of this most Modern Enter- - prise. For here you will hae the greatest convenience of modern liv- ing at a cost within the reach of all. Kelvinator Precision - Built Refrigeration Used Exclusively SPECIFY THIS SAME EQUIPMENT FOR TOUR HOUSEHOLD REFRIGERATION REQUIREMENTS. RIG KELVINATOR DISTRIBUTORS STRATHROY — PHONE 95 "Why not Captain Richards?" He said, with a sort of dogged obstinacy: "I'd rather you told Sir Weston." "Very well then, I shall tell Sir Weston. It's not in my hands to 'let you off,' as you put it." She turned away from him, and On the way down through the South Island to Christnhurch, she some- times looked at Hawksford for signs of shame. 'Hub she could not see any. He adhered rigorously to her com- mand not to speak to her. But he still had the same dauntless bearing. Sho sometimes looked at him and "What do you say to our being married when we get back to London in March?" Richards said to Lorna. "Tony Blescoe told me that he and Stella would be leaving their flat in Mount Street when he's shifted to India; we might think about taking it. Anyhow, I think it's time you made up your mind to a definite date, Lorna!" "I suppose we should," said Lorna, in a tone of ennui. They were in Christchurch and the Marris's were staying with a retired officer of the New Zealand Southern Command, 'Colonel Shane; Richards had dined with them, and he and Lorna were sitting alone on a wide sun -porch overlooking the Shutes' exquisite garden. It was a night for softer sentiments, the air was sweet with the fragrance of stocks, and clear stars shone above the still trees, moved towards the door of her room, wondered how a man who held him - only wanting to end the conversation. self so straight, talked so intelli- His voice suddenly spoke behind her, gently about the country they went low, not humble exactly, but rather through, New Zealand history, the NADI, N` �T ON Al WAYS f ... F1IME TABLE %Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows: Buffalo and Goderick Div. 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Lorna caught sight of Mrs. Shane emerging from the house, and said hurriedly: 'I'maft'aid this is hardly the time or place to arrange it!" Richards drew back but added earnestly under his breath: "Anyhow, I adore you more and more every day!" Lorna, meanwhile, was surprised by an unmistakable sense of relief. She went to her room a few minutes latex to put on her wrap, for they were going to a Red Cross Ball in Christchurch which the Governor- General was attending. Miss Marris was in the room, and was surprised by a violent sigh from her niece and the impatient remark: (CONTINUED NEXT WEEK) %%zeJtc ca ria c#t &rracza JUST LIKE upon the opening of this, the newest type of community service. Co t ti l�►S ns t Clint 111 ast upon the opening of the most mod ern in Refrigerated Locker Plants, All Cork an Insolation were Sup :Yl lied by MUND ter i I T Cork and Insulation Ltd. 35 Booth Ave., Toronto: