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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1940-11-21, Page 2PAGE 2 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD INJURED DURING STORM Mr. F. A. Rogerson, lineman for the Blyth Munl-oipal Telephone Sys stent, has been confined to his home, suffering from an injury received while repairing damage to the tele- •yhon.e line miTinsley street, in Mon- day night's store: A limb of a tree, which snapped •off, became entangled in the wires, and being informed of the trouble, Mr. Rogerson proceeded . to clear up. the trouble late Monday night. In some manner the limb struck him, :and although the injury was nit ser ious, iL• has confined him to his resi- deuce ever since. "Look here, Sarah," said the mas- ter of the house, "how many- more itintes have I to tell you about these .00bwebs? I've just had to sweep ono -off the ,bed -rail and throw it in the fire myself." "Good gracious, sir," exclaimed the maid. "That's the misses' fancy dross for tonight's dance!" The Clinton. 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Parties desiring to effect insur- ance or transact other business will the promptly attended to on applica- -ion to any ,of the, above officers ad- eliessed to their respective post offi- •res. Losses- inspected by the director who lives nearest the scene. • 'CANADIAN .k AT 0, A' W :YS TIMETABLE Trains wilt arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows: Buffalo and Goderich Div. Going East, depart 6.43 a.m Going Fast, depart 3,00 p.m. Going West, depart 11.45 a.m. Going West, depart 9.50 p.m. London,' Huron & Brnce Going North, ar 11.21, Ive. 11.47 a.m. Bloing South ar. 2.50, leave 8.03 p.m. PUBLISHED COPYRIGHT GENERAL SIR -'W STON MARRhd, •a highly -placed officer of the General Staff visiting New Zeal- and on duty. LORNA MARRIS, liis pretty, luxury loving, daughter. SYNOPSIS OP PREVIOUS CHAPTERS GENERAL SIR WESTON MAR: RIS, sent to New Zealand to }report on certain aspects of 'Imperial de- fence, is accompanied by his 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 IRLICHARDS, the General's Aide -de -Camp, but Richards does not arrive in New Zealand with the party, he having been delayed on duty he 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. folly of her action, and, meeting cold and reserved. He has learned Next day, she feels acutely the HAWICSFORD, she finds him very that she is engaged to Richards, and scorns her for allowing herself to forget that fact. Richards arrives, and as Lorna is walking on the veranda of the coun- try hotel where the party is staying, she hears a noise in Richard's room. Investigating, she sees Hawksford with Richard's notecase in his hand. Confronted by Lorna, he begs her not to tell Richards. He would rather she told the General. After some hesitation, she agrees that she will not tell anyone. but she adds that he must not speak to her again except on matters of duty. (Now Read 'On) CHAPTER VIII LORNA DECIDES TO INVESTIGATE That evening Richards and General Marris left for Wellington on the steamer express. Determination to investigate Hawksfeird's real char- acter came to Lorna as she and Miss Martis prepared to go to Harmer next day. Among the, things that she packed to take with her was a brown and white plaid coat, which she had had at thb bottom of her cabin trunk which had carne by rail from Auck- land; also a hat, gloves and shoes which'Hawksfeed had never seen her wear. She liad her own idea about the possibility of her needing them. Fran that impulsive action grew the scheme she finally Involved. Hawksford, she found, had arranged with her father to drive herself and her aunt to Harmer, and leave the car with them; after that he had ask- ed for the weekend. off. During that weekend, she assumed, he would be going about his own business. It would be the best possible opportun- ity to find oub what his activities really were. When they arrived at the Shanes' white -painted, timber house in the foothills of the mountains, looking over the pine forests and the wide Plain of the Waiau river -bed, Lorna seized an opportunity to ask Hawks- ford stiffly as he put the scar away: "I shall be using the car myself; you sometimes have trouble with the ignition, don't you? Shall I be able to get into touch with you if any- thing goes wrong," He looked a little sexprised, but fell neatly into the trap. "Well, as •a matter of fact, I in- tended to go down to Christchurch on the service -car int the morning." "Oh, well," said Lorna carelessly, 'I suppose there's a garage in the town. I could get a man up from, there if anything goes wrong;" "You're not likely to have any trouble, everything is in good order." "Ohl" said Lorna, "Thanks," And she rejoined her aunt and Mrs. Shane on the glorious, wide sun -porch with its view over the long vista of the Waiau Valley. That first little success in her investigations increas- ed her confidence; while the stress of her uneasy conscience about Hawksford made the maddest scheme seem reasonable if it would give her any certainty about him. She throve down into Hammer that evening, and went to the local gar- age, and asked if she could hire a sight car. "I want to drive inte Christchurch ;amorrow and I don't like driving this thing, it's too heavy," she ex- plained to the individual with the mask of black grease who was in charge. She waited awhile until the garage pi'opr•.ietor arrived to consider the question and when she stated that she was staying at the Shaves, thele was no further difficulty. The prop, rietor had a light car he drove him - PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS MISS HILDA MARRIS; sister of the General, accompanying him to New Zealand and giving Lorna such"supervision 'as a high-spirit- ed girl will tolerate, CAPTAIN ALLEN' RICHAIRDS, 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," self; and she could hire that. Lorna drove back to the Shanes with her course still further decided. She was lucky also in having 210 in notes in her handbag, It was more her habit to be short of money, be- cause, though she had two hundred a year of her owe and her father made her as allowance of a hundred in addition, it went very fast on clothes. But in this part of the world, where fashions followed six months behind, like the seasons, she had spent less than usual. She ascertained that the service car n left 7 .6 ext morning. r at nHe only remaining difficulty was how to get away from the Shares'. She had only just arrived to stay; how could she go off to Christchurch next morn- ing without a very good excuse ? What had seemed' the most trivial objection of all, suddenly appeared the most serious. What was she to do so as not to offend Mrs. Shane? She had to cudgel her brains while she dressed for dinner, and had al- most lost hope before she thought of the solution. She joined her aunt and Mrs. Shane with a pensive expression, and fing- ered her jaw thoughtfully from time to time. "Have you a toothache?" inquired Miss Marris, at last. "It isn't very bad," said'Lorna. She looked more and more pained., and sighed deeply now and again while they played bridge after dinner. "You must really do something about it," said Miss Marris, and Mrs. Shane proposed aspirin and a hot mouth mash. "I really should have gone to that man you recommended to Aunt in Christchurch," said Lorna.' The suc- cess of her mild deception made het' feel guilty. But after all, what else was she to do. It was a matter be- yond such small Considerations. She went to becl early, with a look of patient martydrom, and allowed herself to be dosed with aspirin. She lay awake not with toothache, but with excitement, and at six o'clock, when the sun was brightening the sky behind the mountain tops, she dressed hurriedly, tiptoed into the room in which her aunt was sleeping, and wakened her: "Aunt Hilda, I'm going to drive down to Christchurch now, I can't stand this any longer." She clasped her jaw in pretended agony. "But must you go all that way?" said the Startled Miss 1M1ar1'is. "There may be a dentist out here, or one somewhere nearer than Christchurch.' "I don't believe there is," moaned Lorna, "I'd better go to the one Mrs. Shane recommended to you -- don't wake her up, just let me get away quietly, for heaven's sake, Aunt. I don't feel I can stand a fuss." "But are you fit to drive with a toothache like that. Hadn't you bet tea' ring Hawksford? He said he would be at a boarding house in the teem until this morning; he can give up his weekend in a case like this "No, please don't! Just let me go! Goodbye - I'll be back soon, don't worryl Apologize to Mrs: Shane for me!" And Lorna was gone. She let herself silently out of the house, hastily got out• the car, and drove off down the avenue between the pines, before anyone could come out of the house to make any more difficulties. Her heart was beating fast with the sense of daring action ahead; the sun was peeping over the pines, the mountain tops were gold, and the air was like wine. The time was six -thirty, the service car diel not leave Hamner until seven forty-five, and Hawksford was not likely to be about in the town to see her chive through. But she hurried as she drove to the garage, left the big Cremo'ne. and set set off in the carr she had hired. It was a make she had often ch•iven at hotels, and she had no trouble with it. She put the town behind: her as fast as possible, then drove slowly across the plain of the Waiau. Her plan was to di:ive some way ahead on the Christchurch Road', wait for the service car to pass her and then follow it. .A.e the Feted elong under the cloud- less blue sky, she felt excited by the adventure she had embarked on, lint it was nota pleasant excitement: re often as not it made her wish to turn ba,clr. It seemed a mean thing to be spying upon Hawksford. But it was that after ell, or she must tell how she had caught hint with AIlen's notecase, which would be worse for him. Five miles from Hamner the road crossed the Waiau by a narrow bridge and then followed the river gorge; winding through great i•ti.gged. hills, until it came upon antothee wide plain set round with the battlements of distant mountains. Here; on the rib- bon of road which ran between pine plantations into the tremendous dis- tance, Lorna pulled up the car and prepared for her enterprise: She set upa mirror from her case rase on the steering wheel, and set about altering her appearance as much as possible. She scraped' her hair back from her face into a tight knot be- hind; wiped all vestiges of make-up from her face with cold dream, and left the grease shining on it, With a sticky powder foundation cream she lightened her eyebrows, eye- lashes and lips as much as possoble; a pair of spectacles slue sometimes used for reading on her nose, an un- becoming brown felt hat pulled over her eyes, the collar of her plaid coat turned up round her chin, and, she thought it would take her best friend more than a casual glance to recog- nize her. At eight -twenty-three a Cat• app- eared in a little puff of dust on the road behind her. Lorna started off and was doing about twenty-five miles an hour towards Christchutich, when the car overtook her; a glance showed her that it was the service ear, and as it' had whizzed past in a yellow cloud, she accelerated and fol- lowed it. There -after she was hard put to it keep it in sight. It pulled up at the hotel at Wai- kari, she went on past it, and flashed a glance at the passengers emerging on to the road to stretch their legs. Hawksford was there, wearing a light-coloured tweed suit. She .vas on the right trail! She tried to get as much ahead as she could, the hired car was newish, and she dashed perilously round the bends of the winching road through the limestone pass at forty miles per hour. On the straight wide roads of the plain on the other aide she put down the accelerator, and rushed to- wards Christchurch at a steady fifty- five. The service car picked her up again on the outskirts of Christchurch: she fell behind and followed it in to its final stopping place, a garage in the centre of the town. She pulled up at the kerb opposite the garage, and *saw Hawksford come out, carrying a Suitcase. He turned to the right and walked away. CHAPTER IX HAWKSFORD UNDER OBSERVA- TION Lorna nerved herself to the job and, getting quietly out of the car, walked after Hawksford a distance of about 20 yards. He walked no fur- ther than round the block, into an hotel called the Leeston. A.cross the road from it were grass lawns and seats in a public garden. Lorna strolled across and sat clown on a bench from which she had the hotel door in view. And there she waited, looking at the tulips and wallflowers. Presuen- ably he was going to put tip at the Leestoi. Time—much—time-passed presumably he was now having lunch, Lorna had had no breakfast either, and she was well aware of it; she be- gan to realize that investigation has its arduous side after watching the hotel door for about an hour and three quarters. At 12-30 pan., Hawksford emerged from the hotel, minus his suitcase, glanced at his. watch and began to walk rapidly towards Cathedral Square, the centre of the town. Lorna took up the trail again, warily. She must not on any account get too near to him. Suppose, an a close scrutiny, die were to recognize her? Ise disappeared into the priv- ate bar of another hotel in Cathedral Square. She managed to .Get a packet of chocolate, and then loitered by the cathedral. A certain depression had fallen noon her. Did any investigat- or ever' find out anything' about any- body by this sort of thing? After ten minutes, Hawksford came out of the private bar with another man, a shoot, dark 'individual,. care- iesslydressed, cut in the manner of a gentleman. Lorna trailed them discreetly,and they disappeared into a plane called the "Canterbury Na- tional Club." If Hawksford was 'a chauffeur, what was he doing going into a club which she understood was reserved for the 3nflnr itial members of the Christchurch society? That in itself was odd. Loitering within sight of the club Was difficult: But the Caime out after half an hour. In the corn's° of the afternoon, she followed him to the Post Office; a man's shop, a tobacconist's, a telephone call, box When he came out of that call box he looked along the, street at her; or so, it seemed to her. Dia he suspect something? Had he noticed her before? Was the plaid coat conspicuous, had it drawn his attention." She pretended to be look ing at the stills outside a cinema theatre, then Walked quickly away in the ether direction. She lost him then, But she, went into a popular draper's and bought a plain navy blue coat, and an ugly but inconspicuous blue hat . She put them cn instead of the things she was wearing, and then bad a good meal in a small restaurant. Going back to her car, she found a white paper stuck to the windscreen bidding her roped at the City Council head- quarters for allegedly parking her ear overtime . . . She took it to the garage for Pet- rol, and shifted it to a place just down the street from Hawksforcl's hotel; there she sat in it reading a sneeespape , hoping that he would come back. He came a few minutes before six o'clock. At 7-15 a taxi drew up outside the hotel, and it was Iiawksford Who came ant to get into it. Blessing her luck for having sat in her car andnot on a seat in the square Lorna started it up quickly, and when the taxi drove away with 1•Iawksford in it; she was able to follow immediately. She followed it out of the city along the North Road into the sub- urb- of Papanui; it turned to the right about two miles out, into a dark side street. It drew up at a corner a hundred yards along; Lorna pulled in to the kerb abruptly, fifty yards behind it, and switched off her lights. In the dusk she dimly dis- cerned Hawks£ord's tweed clad figure on the pavement; the taxi drove away and he began to walk down the street towards her. There was nothing to be done, but to huddle down by the steering wheel, and tenet that he would not notice her in the dusk as he passed. But he did not conte so far. He turned in at a gate in a fence which gleamed dimly white in the gloom... Lorna waited an instant or two, then slipped out of the car, and stepped into the shadow of the hedge: She edged her way along it, and look- ed over the fence in time to see the front door of the house thrown open by a man in shirt sleeves, and Hawksford stepped into the lighted hall... It was a small, neat wooden bung- alow, not shabby, but not over - prosperous. The door was closed. She saw a light go on in the right front window, and she saw -the two step into it. The man in shirt sleeves who had opened the door came to the window and pulled down the blind. In a trice Lorna was inside the gate, tiptoeing round under the shad- ow of the hedge towards the house; for the room had a second window on the side, and the shaft of light falling through it on to the shrub- beries told her that the blind had not been drawn and she would be able to see in. She stooped under the overhanging branches of a mulberry, and creeping behind their shelter, edged into a position from which she could see through the screen of leaves into the room. Iiawksford was standing alone in it with his back to the fireplace; the man had gone. In a moment or two, the door opened again, and he came in, carrying something white which he gave to Hawksford—a letter, she judged. Hawlcsford tock it, rind lift- ed it up, looking at it against the light. "Queer!" thought Lorna. Ise look- ed at it this way and that, not open- ing it. (CONTINUED NEXT WEEK) LEGION CHIEF URGES INPROV- ED MEASURES FOR REHABIL- ITATION OTTAWA—Adequate measures for the rehabilitation of mon returning to Canada following discharge from the overseas forces should be adopted at once to prevent aggravation of an acute situtatiot, it is urged by Alex Daiker, of Calgary, Dominion Pres- ident of the Canadian Legion, in a letter submitted last weelc to Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie Ring: Describing the matter as one that "is giving the Canadian Legion a great deal of concern," Mr. Walker said through discussions between 'the Legion and the Minister of Pensions and National Health have resulted in assurances that a satisfactory plan will be formulated, the great problem is provisions for the men immediately ups•,their discharge. The process of adjudicating on claims for pensions and medical treatment for those physically unfit takes time, particularly if there is delay in getting documents from their units in, the United Kitngdomn, and Mr. Walker urged that action be con- sidered that would not make it nee- esary for returned men to seek as- sistance through relief offides. Suggestions with a veiw to alley- THURS., NOV. 21, 1940 Won't You Het in the War On Tui cru de A&. RA EA 1.51 d d� � `.til JYt t. ; �u(tdiwzrA,Nei IV Ira Ur 1121, Your contribution will. assist Queen Alexandra Sanatorium in its fight against youth's most dreaded foe. CHRISTMAS SEAL COMMITTEE, 299 Dundas St., London, Ont. E A L fa t: F, P. I bot t >e; a 9 Y Jeer, aa, .-,s . ..� fHiiH �•!i e% 1� � i�f ..�iHrH,Hi f .�i�.'i i fHiW N 11� wH,.H, �H�M�Hi �iwiHi �H! �HiHi. , i fiHA' M�F BEFORE THE MORNING WATCH of the waves as they curved and broke in gleans of grey foam. Oc- casionally a- look -out gave tongue. Once a floating mine was reported and avoided, and the warning flashed astern to the flotilla. Once the dark outlines of a convoy glided past, un- der guard of its escorts, silent and dark as ghost ships. At midnight fannies of hot cocoa arrived from the galley.. Men strip- ped themselves and drank, grateful for the warmth of the thick sweet brew, and lapsed into their thoughts again. Canadian sailors are in the North Sea playing a heroic part in the struggle against the hordes of Hitler. The British Ministry of Information sends a story which reveals some- thing of the hard task they and others are performing so nobly. The summer dusk deepened slowly over the North Sea as the destroyer flotilla reached its patrol area. In an overcast sky a bar of smoky or- ange light held out for a while against the darkness, and faded at last. The long low shapes of the destroyers glided tlu'ou.gh the night like grey wolves whose hour for bunt- ing had come, and presently merged into the darkness. In the half light the destroyers had gone to action stations. Their crews had done it all se often that they gave the impression of an al- most mechanical efficiency. The orders, conveyed in. peace time by pipe and shouting, were given in un- dertones, almost superfluously, and the reports when they reached the bridge—such and such a gun ready and closed up—searchlights and tor- pedo tubes crews at their stations— were tttade and acknowledged in undertones, pitched just loud enough to over core the dfone of the fan exhausts and the sound of the sea. "Very gond," carte the low answer to each report. It was in truth very good. The flotilla, the ships themselves, every bit of machinery, every weapon, every officer, and ratan, the whole co-ordin- ation of discipline and efficiency and experience, seemed to lock together like a breech -block slanted home. On the bridge of the flotilla leader the captain levered himself on to a high wooden seat theft the compass, turned up the collar of his coat and stuck an .empty pipe in his mouth. All about him were the forms of men motionless itt the darkness. He was conscious of them not so much as in- dividuais but as functions, parts of himself as it were. It was as if he were simultaneously staring through half -a -dozen pairs of eyes into the darkness, listening with other Care to the sounds of the sea, calculating the set of currents, reading a tiny beam of light 'fliekering a message on the bridge of the next astern and at the saltie tune 116 was estimat- ing itis fuel requirements when he returned to harbour, wishing he could smoke, and hoping he could somehow keep at bay for the next six hours a longing for sleep. For the first few hours nobody talked very Hutch. The sky held a pale diffused light, with patches of stars alternately ob- scured and revealed inthe shifting ceiling of thin clouds. This light sufficed to show the clark shadows iating the situtation were advanced to the Prime Minister by the Legion prosident, It was submitted that meta returning from overseas through physical disabilities should automatically be taken en the streng- th of the Department of Pensions and National Health at a rate of pay eq- uivalent to their army pay and allow- ances and retained on that basis until a decision as to treatment or pension is given, or adequate rehabitation treasures are applied. It was :finally suggested by the Legion president that before men of lover category are discharged from active service, .efforts should be rade to determine if they are sufficiently fit to be employed in any one of the three services in capacities suitable to their physical condition. It was submitted that special officers should be appointed to carry out such in- vestigations. , _, i The First Lieutenant unfastened the belt of his goatskin coat and nulled a biscuit out of his pocket. He ,stood leaning against No, 3 gun nibbling the biscuit and thinking about his goatskin coat. It was the type of garment worts by Palestine shepherds and he had bought it at Alexandria. It smelt Iike nothing on earth when he bought it, but he hung it in the sun and the wind on board bis destroyer "up the straits" and that made it all right. Shep- herds had probably worn coats like that in the time of Christ, guarding their flocks from wolves on the bleak hills of Palestine, He felt that there was some sort of connection between hint and the shepherds although it was a far cry from Palestine to the North Sea. Anyhow they both had mach the same sort of job and they were both wearing the sante sort of coat, and it was a good coat for keeping hatch in, once you got the smell of goat out of it. 'T The loader of the foremost gun had toothache. He'd been a fool to drink lust cocoa because that made it terse. He wanted to bank his head against the gee shield. He wondered how anybody could be unhappy who hadn't got toothache. The world was just composed of two lots of people, those who had toothache and those who hadn't. The ones who hadn't ought to go about dancing and bashing cymbals together like the Salvation Army and shouting "I haven't got toothache! Hursah! I haven't got toothache! hallelujah!" Most people didn't know when they were well off, and that was a fact. IIe wondered what the captain would say if the ship's company started beating tam- bourines and shouting "Hurrah!" be- cause they hadn't go toothache. He wished they would go fate action and then perhaps a shell would come along and blow his head off, That was about the only thing that would erre him. The second hand of tate signal watch was thinking about his bed at hone. His home was a farm house in Hampshire. There was lavender growing in ,the front garden. His mother dried tate flowers and hunt them in muslin bags in her linen cup- board. His pillow and the sheets smelt faintly of lavender. A down pillow. Yew head sank into it and the scent of lavender went over you in a soft wave. He tried to stop thinking about it, nodding where he stood. He thought of waking up in the morning instead, en the first day of Itis leave. His mother bringing him a cup of tea, and tins noises of the. farm coning through the win- dow. The clang of a milk paid, The cock crowing. Solomon, his name was -. . The Chief Yeoman stuck him in the ribs with his elbow, "Come on—keep your eyes skinned. You're half asleep." The light in the sky strengthened imperceptibly. The wind blew chill- ier. The shadowy fomes on the bridge became individuals withfeetnres and identities, tired men in need of, a shave. Cups of cocoa were passed round again. Eyes were raised, to the sky. The captain filled and lit Itis pipe. "Keep a good lookout over- head," he said, "This is I-Ieinkei time —just before the morning watch."