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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1941-02-13, Page 2PAGE 2 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD .2'UBLISHED BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT COPYRIGHT 'GENERAL SIR WESTON MARRIS PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS , MISS HILDA MARRIS, sister of the CAPTAIN ALLEN RICHARDS,.: the a highly -placed officer of the General Staff .visiting New Zeal;' and, on duty. :LORNA MARRIS, his putty, luxury - loving daughter. General, accompanying him to General's Aide -de -Camp, who is New '.✓,ealand and giving Lorna engaged to Lorna, such supervision as a high -spirit- T. H. HAWKSFORD, chauffeur to ed girl will tolerate. the General's party.. A New Zealander, "handsome in a rug- ged, arresting fashion." The Clinton . News -Record with which is incorporated' THE NEW ERA TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION 41.50 per year in advance, to Can- oe -alien addresses; $2.00 to the U.S. or ,rather foreign countries. No paper ,discontinued until all arrears are ;paid unless at the option of the pub - =fisher. 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CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK CHAPTER XXHI HAWKSFORD DRAWS BACK Hawksford Was there with ,the car at 2;p.tn. He wore his livery. "Good, afternoon, Miss Marris!" "Good afternoon!" Miss Martis looked at him as if she were afraid he might whip an 'automatic from his sleeve. The events of the last twa days had upset her very much; she blamed herself for not having insist- ed on Lorna's explaining. the mystery to her at Harmer. But for that•sho would never have let Lorna run into the terrible risk of that visit to Gal - liver's Bay. Lorna's face was on fire. She look- ed at Hawksford, but he did not look at her. His face was impassive, if anything gloomy. And why had he put on uniform again? With all the doubts produced by his not having come near her for the last two days a hundred times increas- ed Lorna got into the back of the car beside her aunt. She had dressed with such care, so as to look her best but not so smartly as to annoy hint; now it seemed a futile waste of time and she lay back in the seat feeling quite ill and miserable. The General took the front seat be- side Hawksford, and they set off for Christchurch. • There sat Hawksford as he had done so many times, speak- ing sometimes to her father but nev- er looking around, Even the driving mirror was turned at an angle so that she •could not see his face. On and on over the winding roads until, when they came to Waipara, Miss Marris wanted to stop at the hotel for some afternorn tea. They crossed the river to it, and pulled up, and she and the General and Lor- na went inside into the sitting room, while Hawksford, though asked by the General if he would join then, stayed outside. "That I'•m not going to hold you to what lee agreed the other day in the bush!" She lifted her head in an effort to take the blow molly. But shame ran through her like fire. So he had thought better of it! All those things he had said about her, her snobbery, her superficiality, her heartlessness! Had he not said: "A man with any sense wants something more." The discovery of Richard's real at- titude to her had been more of a shock to Lorna's faith in her own charms than she had realized. To Hawksford, too, she was not worth while! The discipline of her upbringing was there to be called upon at need, even though she so often dispensed with it when she felt inclined. She managed a cool little smile; her voice was a miracle of condescending friendliness: "You said at the time that we were carried away by the situation. Per- haps you were right!" She turned and began to walk back towards the hotel; he was looking a- way along the river, and he swung round to follow her with something like a start. Lorna took her courage into her; hands, and while they were waiting for tea to arrive, she walked out. All the way from ICaikoura she hacl' been thinking out a pretext on which 1 she could speak to him. Speak to 1 ' him she must, though her heart was a bewilderment of misery. He was pacing up and down by the car, smoking a cigarette and stncly- ing the gravel underfoot moodily. "Mr. Hawksford!" He turned with a start, and the col- our came into his face, "I wanted to consult you about a little difficulty," Lorna said, trying to look at ease, "Olt yes, what is it?" "It's something I haven't explained to niy father, and thought you might be •able to help me." She spoke hur- riedly, not looking at his 'face. "When I had that hired ear in Christchurch, I parked it overtime, and found a notice on it telling me to .call at the City Council office, I haven't done • it yet, of course. What do I do?" He smiled, though he still looked ill at ease•" "You can go in there to -morrow morning." "I shan't be there to -morrow morn- ing we're going to Wellington to night." 1 "Ohl"•He showed some surprise and frowned. "You had better write, then, explainnig why you left the car so long. They may summon you, and they may not." "I haven't an excuse that I can very well give!" she said colouring. 1 "You mean that it happened when you were shadowing me around the town?" , ! She made no reply, and he said abruptly: "I've been Wanting to speak to you! May we walk a little way along the road;" "Very well," said Lorna quietly. He three away his cigarette, and they began to stroll down the road towards the bed of the Waipara TIME TABLE 'iTraine veil) arrive at and depart from Clinton aa follows: Buffalo and Goderieh Dia Raiding East, depart 6.43 am Going East, depart R.00 p,m =Going West, depart ,' 11.45 am4Going West, depart 9.50 p.m Lozfdon. Huron & Brace Going 'North, ar 11:21, Ire. 11.47 a.m 'siting -South Jaz. 2.60, leave 3.08 p. river. "I didn't want to butt in at Kai- koura when you were at the hotel," he said. "No," Lorna moistened her dry lips with her tongue. They came to a grassy space .by'the road, out of sight of the hotel; below them was the civ- , er winding through its wide stony bed; on the left the near hills were. golden brown, and on the right, far off, they were purple and blue. Hawksford stopped, looking down 1 at the river for a monment before he spoke. m., "I wanted to say," he said at last, "I mast thank you .for saving my lite, though, mustn't L" site said, Now it was he who seemed to find it difficult to speak. Uncomfortable, she had no doubt, because he had changed his mind! "I only did what I had to do. I'm not proud of that piece of work by any means," he said finally, They came to the hotel, There was cold, Clammy moisture on her fore- head. She smiled at him graciously. "I shall never forget that terrible afternoon!" she said. Goodbye—and thank you!" "Goodbye, Miss Martis! d< IIis voice was level, his face invisi- ble to her through the haze blinding her eyes. She turned away grace- fully—or, so gracefully, she was a- ware, through a sound in her ears like the thunder of falling water— and walked into the hotel. She went into the sitting -room, sat down in an armchair, and lay there like a stone. "Tea, Lorna?" asked Mios Marris, who was pouring it out. Lorna didn't reply. The General glanced at her, then bent to look more closely. "Aren't you well, Lorna?" be said. Twenty minutes later Lorna went out with them, looking just as usual, and they all set off for Christchurch. Hawksford took then to the United Service Hotel, where he Ieft therm, and took the Cremorne to Lyttleton to put it aboard the ferry. ' ed heavily on her mind. At night she Orad terrifying dreams about those last moments in the bush. There was nothing to look forward to but Eng- land, the friends he and she had 1known, her life there was inextric- ably mixed with memories of Ititn. The round of amusements she would have to face When 'she retue ped to London seemed horrible. Year after THURS., FEB. B. 13, 1941 year she would go on, getting a little 'wearier and a little more haggard under the make-up, pretending° to be alive, pretending to be amused, hid- ing the bottomless weariness of her soul. And beyond the windows of .stunp- tuous flats, brilliant night clubs, and ballrooms and restaurants; beyond the windows of taxis and cars and dress salons, the fog would drift in a pall of gloom, over the real life of London, the life the rich never really know. • She wanted to be real, to live a life which was not filled with the shams and stupidities of which Hawksford accused her. Yet with himself, she had to admit it, Hawksford had taken away her one incentive. She would never find another Hawksford. And how could she look for real life away in the dark north, when her Heart yearned for the sunlight on the roll- ing plains and yellow hills, the arelr of the limitless, wind.:filled sky? LORNA CHOOSES EXILE The days went on, She wore out the first force of her emotions, Her aunt persuaded her to see a Wellington phy- sician who prescribed rest and quiet. They took a furnished house by the sea, and Lorna bathed and lay in the sun all day. It was impossible not to regain health and strength; though at night she lay and soaked her pillow with tears of remorse. The General carne back from an in- spection of the east coast of the North Island, and found her looking her us- ual self. Except for a slightly more subdued manner, and a new thought- fulness. She didn't bother so much about her clothes, but wore the sane summer coat day after day. She seemed, in fact, to have matured a great deal—which was not surprising when one considered what she had gone through. The extent of her maturity was not fully borne upon General Martis until the day before they were due to sail from Wellington for England. She came iato his room in the hotel in the evening and began packing sante of his things for him, which was in itself unusual, as in the past she had left such things to her aunt. "It's pleasant to book forward to a sea voyage," said the General, "I'm told the Rangimoana is a conifortable shap. Much better than that flight out to Sydney! By ,Tove, I never was so stiff in my life as I was after sit- ting in that machine Clay after day!" Lorna laid some shirts in his dress- ing case before she replied, then said quietly: "I don't want to go back to England with you and Aunt Hilda, father. "Eh?" said the General, staring. "1 don't want to go back to Eng- land, I went to stay here for a while." "Because -because of young Allen, you mean?" It was a point which had been worrying General Martis some -what. "You think people at hone will ask questions? But there need be nothing said. His relatives have already been informed that he was killed in a shooting accident. Everyone will accept that—! "Oh, no, no! I haven't worried a- bout that. I just don't want to go back to England and take up the life I have always led." "Ohl" Her father looked blank. Evidently the business of young Richards bad had a considerable effect. He could undostand it. But as to not going Ito England! "Thera are other things you could do in England besides pursuing the l usual social rotund, and so on," he sug- gested. "I think I would be happier out here." "But what would you do out here, my dear?" "I have my small meanie," Lorna said. "And I could find a job. My life has been so limited, I want to develope some independence and abil- ity. I want to learn how other people live." The General, impressed by her set- iousness while he thought her ex- tremely foolish like all young people, could only enquire: "What sort of a job?" "I would try to get a job in the country, I don't want to be in the town." "But are there any jobs in the country available for women?" Ho attempted a joke: "You don't know how to shear a sheep do you?" "There are jobs for women, teach - int children, and so on, or helping in the house, in the country." "I don't think you would be very happy developing a capacity for help- ing in the house," her father object- ed mildly. "I don't mind what I develop a cap- acity for. It's just that I want to lead a different life, any life so long as it's different from the one I'm us- ed to!" It was impossible for him to under- stand her completely. But he was patient with her, The matter of { Richard's treachery had affected him too, had shaken his faith in many things that he had hitherto taken for granted. He thought it might be as well for her to spend a few months in New - Zealand, adjusting herself, getting ov- er the shock. Ile lead no cloubt site would tire of it, and come home be- fore very long. What troubled him most was that he was compelled to leave on the morrow hi order to be home by the end of January; and he could not see her settled in her pare. verse career before he left. "Perhaps Hilda had better stay be. hind with you," he suggested. CHAPTER XXIV POOR RICH GIRL They lift for Wellington that night, and they did not see hint. again. "The affair of Allen Richards must have been a great shock," said the General to Miss Martis, a day or two later, commenting on Lorna's wretch- ed appearance. "It's only fortunate that she didn't for him more than she did!" re- plied Miss Marcie, They were to spend another three weeks in New Zealand before they sailed for England, via Panama, on the 23rd of December. Lorna spent the first days in Wellington lying on her bed in the hotel. Life seemed to go on far away, while her spirit lay inert and bleeding in a desert of shat- tered hope. She did not exactly blame Hawks - ford though sometimes her wounded vanity stirred her to hatred of him. Why had he said' those things about loving her if he had not meant them? That was 'wrong. And yet due had been wise if he felt Ile had acted too nnuoh on the impulse of the moment to repent in time. She had one consolation, which was that she must have made him thirty she had thought better: of it, too, She had not let him see how vitally she was hurt. But everything now was black and hopeless. Richards and their relat- ionship, and his horrible end weigh NO ROAD Motor -cycles armed with Bren guns are part of the equipment of a British infantry regiment. Here one of the units is being helped to take a short-cut across country. Lorna smiled, and told him firmly. "I couldn't begin a Iife of indepen- dence with an aunt to look after me! You know it would be quite absurd!" He proposed to leave her money to supplement her three pounds a week. She did not object to his depositing it to her account in, the Bank of New Zealand, because she knew it would only make him more uneasy; but she made a resolve not to touch it, She packed to move to a cheap boarding-house—she did not tell them how cheep—and she was ready to leave the hotel next morning when they sailed. They said good-bye to her on the deck of the ;Rangitnoana, with no more than a vague uneasiness, be- cause they could not believe that she would not soon follow. She walked away from the quay after the boat had moved out, and the last flutter of her aunt's handerchief was lost to sight, with her heart hea- vy at parting, but her spirit indomit- ably resolved. A young women journalist accosted her politely as she turned away. "I shan't be staying with friends," said Lorna, in reply to questions a- bout her movements and plans. "I don't know when I shall be leaving Wellington." The girl looked slightly apologetic, as though she fancied she had offend- ed. "I only mean," Lorna hastened to say, trying to put her at ease, "that you need not bother about me. My doings are not likely to have any soc- ial significance in future." And she set off for her boarding- house on foot. The indifferent traffic swept past her on Lambton Quay, She was alone —though perhaps she counted Hawk- sford as a significant entity in the background—alone in a strange coun- try, twelve thousand miles from home. She had no definite plan; time only could show her how to reconstruct the pieces of her. shattered life. Hawksford had said site was a snob; she would take the humblest job a- vailable, He 'tad said she was self- ish; she would try to have more sym- pathy for others. He had said she had no ideals; she would try to discover them in life: He had said she had no heart; she would learn to have one— But that was not true. She had a heart—and it was aching. (CONTINUED NEXT WEEK) International S. S. Lesson February 16th Lesson: Luke 17:1-4, 11-19 G.T. Eph 4:32 by REY. GORDON PEDDIE, B.A. 1. Does not Christ's teaching that we ought to forgive seven times in a clay (i.e. en unlimited number of times) open the door to human vice, causing people., to say, "It does not matter what I do I shall be forgiven any- way?„ Answer: Titere could be no greater misunderstanding of Christ's purpose than this! No one who had been re- buked for his offence, had really re- pented and been forgiven, could pos- ily DESIRE to continue in sin (Rom 6:1,2), But just as God's judgements and mercies are boundless in Christ, so ought we who have known His forgiveness to forgive one another in stern, but patient, longsuffcring. 2. In what way does God bestow upon us His blessings of redemption? Answer: As the ten lepers were commanded to fulfil the required dut- ies of their religion(v 14), and in the peocess of fulfilment found them- selves cleansed. so also tate miracle of God's grace in Christ is given to us as we fulfil the outward and ord- inary requirements of God's Word, es. pecially reading and hearing the Scri- ptures, receiving the sacraments, and prayer. 3. Why was it that one only return- ed to give thanks to Christ and to glor- ify God? (vv16-18). Answer: One only perceived that the work of healing was of God's grace, and although bestowed upon him as he fulfilled the recjuirements of religion and the law, yet he luiew his healing was not a reward of his obedience, but a sign of God's free grace. The one therefore was grate-, ful; but the nine others took their healing as a due reward of their own religious works. 4. Would you say that all ten lepers were "made whole?" (v 19), Answer: No! 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