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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1939-02-23, Page 2a PAGE 2 THE 'CLINTON NEWS -RECORD a By KAYE FOX. THURS., FEB. 23, 1939 1Euclid's .their third and second-class certifi-' hastily put on, his face was flushed ' Taught Same Huron School soPhy, algebra, bookkeeping, and his hair rumpled. I` .ei�x books of geometry (not the cotes, and also for their matricula- "Hallo, Christine," he staid, , and for 50 Years geometry of later years), spelling, tion. r IIe devoted many extra hours began to laugh. etc., that he was granted a first out of school to them and in school "What are 'you .doing up here, Ar -class certificate ,of the highest grade. they helped him to teach. There -was thur?" she asked. "It's'aftei eleven" Ar-(., class Century , Beloved Master for By 6 o'clock he had the coveted ser-. a quiet enthusiasm ex(,cing in his Half Centat S. S. No. 1, "Just came to look you up, Chris- tificate in his -pocket and then be- school" that was difficult for some to Stanley Tdwaship. tine;. and have a talk. After all, gan on the long walls of 18 miles understand. they've ng such jolly home. He arrived before,. midnight Oni Sunday afternoons a Sabbath all been taker By W. H. JOHNSTON good care that we shouldn't have a and, we can imagine the joy :that school in connection with the Pres talk that I thought it would be a filled the hearts of - the pioneer par- byterian church was conducted in the A record of 50 years as teacher lark to give them • the slip. Don't ents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Baird, at schoolroom. and history records that in: the same school, section o2 Stan - you see, Christine? It's a sort of -the success of their first born, still the general assembly has granted ley To 'ship was the mais es - game we're all playing, and you andtablished by the late George Baird in his 'teens. more diplomas to pupils inthis school I score if we manage to meet in of �Trucefineld•Scatland m 1841In Jarniary, 1361 he began to teach for repeating the shorter catechism spite of 'em." his in school section Na. 1, Stanley. The correctly th tn• probably in'any other "Anyhow, we have met, if that's people came to Canada .while he sections was large and populous and in Ontario.Mr. Baird Was superin- any satisfaction to rn you, so you can \vas brut a loci and located in Stan- he found himself sometimes -in charge tendent of this Sunday school until. go to bed now with an easy mind: ley. There there was plenty of woxlc.of almost 120 pupils. His school his death. It is still .continued. Good -night, Arthur. to cls clearing the' farm but as he room was crowded to the door, but • As indicative of his love of learn - Butt she was not to get rid of ing it can was a sure, studious lad his par-, the evident sympathy of the teacher t be told that he secured him so easily as all that. Ile lounged ents who were wise sent pini to for his children and his untiring. zeal first-class certificate standing under the edge of the table, very close to across the hospital and leant against the public school , as•regularly as in thyir behalf carried him trftimph- tihe new regulations though he did not possible, but as he grew older the L antly ,through and for half a and Heb- °witury need to do so and for a better under - her chair. �tvixtter, months were'the only ones he was re-engaged year alter year standing, he studied Greek"Yoij're rather sweet,. Christine," they could give hint to study. l until' December 22, 1910, • he retired he lsaid lightly, putting out his hand In 1860 at 19 yeaxis of age he from his labors in the schoolroom. i Towards the end of his long career to pull the little curl which would slanted out one cool morning to, Knowing how.well he had. done in school he was teaching the grand - bob forward from under her cap. Goderich to try his : examination` himself hs the public ,school he in children of his first pupils. TO all "Yau:re:rather drunk, Arthur;' she for a certificate to teach. He was, spired his older pupils to study for he wasaffectionately known as "The said, her voice very cool and quiet.Master." Of a quiet, reserved and there waiting for the examination •to teachers' .standing and soon his school "I've just had a few drinks,, Chars- begin at 9 o'clock. Between that and became famous for the number of lovable disposition 'and yet so honest tine --been. drowning my 'sorrows four o'clock he exhibited such a clear scholars turned out. Many became in his convictions that he was often but I'm- not drunk. • Christine—you knowledge of grammar, geography,' ministers, lawyers, • doctors or dent-' made the arbitrator of little disputes do like ante a little, don't you? We're g amongthe people and his view of a ars history, arithmetic; chemistry, philo- ists: Teachers.were lrrepared fax g p question always accepted. As tawn- He'stooped swiftly, taking her by ��'""�'°�""' ship auditor he continued in office surprise. His hands were on her dressing gown and throwing herself for days she bad nt heard Fay's until his failing eyesight forced him shoulders, and his. lips were very down on the bed. "Martin must think name spoken ,and her sister -might to refuse the appointment any long - close to hers. when he suddenly re- I'm mad, or ask coy as a Village' have spent every single evening in er, leased her and wheeled round — maiden in a melodrama, when I the cabin de luxe without her being i As meteorological agent for the they .had both heard. John. Stanhope keep on refusing to go to his parties. any the wiser. Since that night when department his reports were most come into the room.` He's still keen on me, but I can see she had interfered by sheer chance,' carefully made. In fact the author- he's getting sick of it."she had known nothing at all about ities often gave him unstinted praise "The voyage will soon be over", Fay. I for his careful and methodical work. Christine said, more to herself than "I think you're mean, Christine, i Fax probably 30 years or more he to Fait She wasn't thinking of Fay Fay burst out. "As I told you before, led and held services for a band of and Martin at ,that moment, but of you're simply jealous because I'm worshippers in Brucefield who prefer - herself and John Stanhope—when the likely to make a good marriage—at red to have him do so every Sunday voyage was over she must try to least, T would be likely, if You morning. spoiling everything for me." get a transfer, if Perrin did not get weren't sp g yt g How he continued to be so oc- her dismissed, or she could not bear "Or stopping you from spoiling tively engaged in so many fields and to stay on the same ship. How many everything, Fay. You'll meet a bet- accomplished so much in his long and weeks, how many weary weeks, be- ter man than Martin Royde some busy life without a breakdown in his fare the voyage was over? "Too soon," Fay said shrilly. "If I can't get Martin to to say some - len like a oat. Shock is going to there. She wondered what John Stan - .A CHAT. WITH THE DOCTOR I be the real )problem for I should hope would think if she told. him ! Tittle beg- . that : her sister was a passenger 00 c1[ to 'them from the think he's a'hfgh-strung. gand that for days she Stan - John came Cb gar. Have you had a lot to do with this very ship, ,outer roam. Christine knew ahead', .m Miss Jordan?" had been trying in vain to see her. shehet Lion's1pclJJohnim was. broken, and hs ' into m see- "Is that why: you understand child- helped to set it, and to He only moved up y I r ?or John *id. q`B;ecause . your ption yesterday, but we made friends els , 'which had thorough ble on deck. 'mother was away at sea,'and you which had not been passible on last night." "You didn't lose much time;" he looked after your younger sister?" Half an hour sleep, and J was lying said and smiled at her," and Chris -1 "That's why." in a druggedstretched if tine's •heart leapt, for it was the first He looked at her without speaking, alp straight and atretched himse time that he had dropped his entirely a long thoughtful look, as if he was "The child's badly shaken and ruised of course," be said, "but I, formal manner since the night when seeing' her in a new aspect, L he had found her absent from the "It's queer," he said at last, echo - think there's no serious injury but hospital. ing her thought, "how little we really he broken arm—he must have fal=l "There's been a tiger in his room, know of one another, we sea people. • reW. he says, every night since we were All of us, from'the Captain to the The Clinton News -Record in the Suez Canal. And last night bell -boy, have friends and relations with which is lneorporated he co't., bear' that tiger alone at home, but we're cut off from THE Na;w ERA nny louldnnger." them, shut up for three and a half "So you sat up with him? It's months with a crowd of strangers, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION just as well, as it happens, for he el whose lives we know nothing ex - 41.50 per year in advance, to Can- trusts you, and if he runs a temp- sept what they tell us." , .adian addresses; $2.00 to the U.S. orerature vi IA he will poor little1 "And they tell very little` — if beggar -and there's a whole zao in they're wise. You'll find that most the room with him, .you'll be able people who have been at sea for some to keep them off. Well, I. suppose time hardly speak of their homes, I'd better go and look for his moth- because—because their homes are the er and break the news to her." only things in their lives which don't other foreign countries. No paper discontinued until all arrears are paid unless at the option of the pub- ilisher. The date to which every sub- scription is paid is denoted on the xlabel• "She'll take it very calmly indeed, change perpetually. Friendships at ADVERTISING RATES — Transient if 'I know anything of her," Chris- sea are so fleeting—if you make a :advertising 12c per count line for tine said drily. friend at sea, next trip you may be 'first insertion. 8c. for each subse- It was a long time before he re- on another ship, or your friend may nuent insertion. Heading counts 2 turned with the news that no one have been transferred, and you'll dines. Small advertisements not•., to had yet been able to find Mrs. Far -never meet again," .exceed one inch, such as "Wanted", rant. "I've found out why the boy "Is that your rule? Do you never "Lost, "Strayed", etc., inserted once climbed over the rail," he remarked make friend at sea, Miss Jordan?" 'for 35c., each subsequent insertioni casually he asked. 15c. 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FOOT CORRECTION ay manipulation Sun -Ray Treatment Phone 207 GEORGE ELLIOTT /Licensed Auctioneer for the County of Huron 'florrespondence promptly answered Immediatearrangements can be made Tor Sales Date at The News -Record ''Clinton, or by calling phone 203. ' 'Cha.rges. Moderate and Satisfaction Guaranteed. " youguess why the I She was opening her lips to speak Yes Uut cane y Y y when Radlett came hurriedly into the did it? His mower got annoyed with hospital, after knocking at the outer him for some reason, this morning, door. and taunted him with being such a"Will you come at once, please, baby that he was afraid of the dark Doctor?" he sad. "One of the cooks —fn front of a whole lot of other has" just knocked a pan of boiling Lida. One of them has been teasing water over himself, and his foot and .he life out of Dion all day, and in leg are rather badlyscalded." the end dared him to climb the rail, °'I'll be there in a few moments," and of course Dion had to do it." John promised, and with a nod to When Mrs. Farrant strolled up to Christine he swung out of the hosp- the hospital at last, about five o'- ital,• clock, it was quite clear that she Before he came basic, old Mrs. expected Christine to do all the nuts - Bugle bad come bustling up to sit ing. Dion was still asleep when she with Dion for a time, and Christine came in, and she glanced at him in had returned to her ordinary duties an indifferent way, said, as Chris - two or three of the passengers titre had expected that was a were helping her by sitting with Dion naughty little bay to give so much at her busy times. But though her trouble, and then strolled out again, conversation with John Stanhope had to join the two men who were wait been interupted; he had said enough mg for her outside the hospital. 'to make her happy, to make her sing Of course Dion's illness meant a under her breath as she ran down great deal of extra work for Chris- the companion. lino, but she did not mind the work, She could . bear ,'anytiiing now, for she was set free, to a certain Perrin's bullying, and the hostility of extent, from Perrinis persecution, the others. How could she be og tiVhile ,Christine was 'working 'with pressed by the sour silence of Mrs, the ship's doctor, he dare not detain Parr. and Miss Crane when she could her for ane moment after inspection,' look forward to talks with John Since she had to go up to the hosp- ital Se? J tanhope, brief though they might when her bedroom work was b finished, and he dare not harass her, It was at night that Dionneeded test the doctor should notice that she Christine most. Ile was a little fever - was looking over -tired or nervous. ish then, and, as John had prophes- "Nursing seems to suit you, Mise led there was a whole. zea in, the Jordan;" John Stanhope said, on the room with him, second day of Dion's illness—he had conte up to the hospital in the of-' That night, Mrs. Farrant made '.crnoon and found Christine telling things worse by coming up to see, Dion a fairy-tale. "You ought to be the child when he was fallingg off to resting 'at this time, but you don't sleep—she had hardly been near him look tired. all day. She came in so noisily, her "It's so peaceful up here,". she high heels clattering on the deck, said, "away from everything." that he started up in bed with a "Away from everything?" he said little cry of dismay. thoughtfully, lighting a cigarette and, "Well, how's the patient, stew- swinging himself up on to the edge ardess?" she asked, in her hard, of the 'table, "I suppose that is one brazen voice. "You don't look very of the big drawbacks of a stew Pleased to see me; Dion, I must say." ardess life -that she can't get away. "He was nearly asleep'," Christine Why did you come to sea, Miss Jord- said quietly. an? Was it because you were rest- "Do you have to sit up with him less, wanted to see strange places, all night? They ought to have a instead of settling into some dull job trained nufise on board—I believe at home? I've wondered sometimes they do on the big liners." —what attraction this sort of life has "Dr. Stanhope will be sleeping up fax a girl like you." here to -night, in the outer room, but "I came to sea «because the pay'Dion will probably sleep through is fairly good," she said with a little until morning if he once gets off." Laugh. "My mother was a rstewardess "'I'll leave you to it, stewardess," before me, Dr. Stanhope, and I had Mrs. IF,arrant said . ,indifferently, no illusions' at all about the life— clattering out of the hospital again. I know that it meant hard work, When at last the boy slept, breath - and not much amusement, and that ing softly and evenly. Christine her. there's nothing very romantic about self was sleepy, so sleepy that she places like Marseilles and Singapore hoped John Stanhope would not, be and Penang, when all you see of very late that night. As she knew, them is the wharves. But, the Camp- he had a dressing to do far the ,}Han any .pays my mother an allowance all who had been scalded in the after- the time that I'm away.". noon. "There are just the two of you -1 She was leaning back in the big you and your mother?" he asked, his armchair, when she was aroused by blue eyes' alight with friendly int- light footsteps in the outer room, crest. and a moment later; Arthur Grant "And a sister—younger than I am, stood in the doorway, looking at her But she's independent now."with an' amused twinkle iii his eyes., Her face clouded when she spoke now."(with saw at a glance that Ar sf Fay, for the thought of Fay was thur had breen drinking. He was not an ever-present worry to her, pushed drunk, but there was an air of reck- nto the background when she had lessness about him: his white coat other things to think of, but always was buttoned awry, as if it had been CHAPTER IX THE DOCTOR'S REPORT "I must apologise for interrupting you," John said, and his voice was so icy cold that Christine: shivered, "but I did not, of course, expect to find you in the hospital, Grant." Arthur Grant, completely sobered by the shock of seeing )rim, stood at attention, but Christine could only crouch back in the armchair, her eyes on John's face. He . did not look angry: his face was as cold and ex- pressionless xpressionless as, his voice. "If you make a report, sir," Ar- lhur Grant said hoarsely, "it • will mean finish for both of us—for Miss Jordan as well as me. I was in a silly mood tonight, and I came up here—I've never even tried to kiss Miss Jordan before and she would have pushed me away now, if she'd had time. But Mr. Perrin wouldn't believe that, Doctor." "Whether I believe it or not, I shall say nothing to gr. Perrin," John said. "It's not my business." "It's quite true that he has never tried to kiss me before," Christine whispered. "You must believe that." "I've said that it's not by busi•• ness," he told her curtly. , "If you had wakened the child it would have been another matter, but the way in which you — amuse yourself is no concern of mine, Miss Jordan.". She knew then that his thoughts had lept back to -the night when she had been absent front the hospital. The chances were that her had heard some at least of the gossip about herself and Grant and that he be- lieved now that she had left Miss Robins because she had arranged to meet' Grant -that night. No wonder that Arthur's statement that he had never tried to kiss her before seem- ed to John Stanhope simply an at- tempt to defend. her. It would be hopeless to tryto convince him that he had make a mistake—that everyone on the ship was equally mistaken. Even if he did not believe the worst of her, he would think her silly and deceitful. "Has the boy been asleep long?" John asked formally.. Grant, with an apologetic glance at Christine, went out of the hospit- al, and she stood up and made her report about Dion in a lifeless voice. She felt crushed' and utterly hope- less, and her impulse to try 'to ex- plain, to force John'. Stanhope to be- lieve that there was nothing between her and the steward, was quelled by the stormy look on his face. It was no concern of his: they were not friends. And it was' on that night, of all nights, that she 'net Fay in the alley way when she was an her way to her own cabin. They met face to face, and though at first Christine thought that Fay would pass her without speaking, Fay paused with an angry little shrug. "I've been fetching a book from the lounge," she :saki sulkily. "It's too hot to-sleep—it's as hot as a fur- nace even out on deck. I expect it's cool enough in the cabin de luxe, with the big fan going, but thank to your prudishness, I can't jojn th party there I've got to wander about the ship by myself." "So you're still so angry with me,. Fay?" Christine said wearily. She followed Fay to her awn rooms. Pussyfoot, she knew, was playing cards in the . party Grant had left. \Fay's room was actually cooler than the alley -way -and much cooler than the erowded stewardesses' cab- in—for the electric fan was going there, too. Christine went to the window and with unseeing eyes watched the flying fish leap above the waves, faintly phosphorescent in the moonlight—she had crossed the Indian Ocean so often that flying. fish no longer caught her attention, "Of course hm still angry with you," Fay said, slipping off her FT -1E McKILLOP MUTT:TAL. Ore Insurance Company ,,Head Office. Seaforth. fiat. Officers: President, Thomas Moylan, Sea-, forth; Vice ?resident, William Knox, Londesboro; Secretary -Treasurer, M. A.. Reid, Seaforth. Directors,' Alex. Broadfoot, Seaforth; James Sholdice, 'Walton; James Connolly, Goderich; W. R. Archibald, Seaforth; Chris. $,eonhardt, Dublin; Alex. 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"Just look at are tobe found in the facts that he fixing definite before the end of the the other men on board — the ones was a farmer as well as a teacher, voyage. .And if only I had a free that have any money are all as dull that he lived two and a half miles hand, Christine, if I wasn't hampered as ditchWater. : But Martin — You from his school, a distance he walked by a prude of a sister, with a per- just can't understand, You've never night and morning to these we must fectly mid-Victorian ideas—" 1been in love—you don't know any- add that he was the possessor of a "Perhaps the mid -Victorians got thing about it." 'calm and serene assurance that he those ideas from their own exper-1 "Perhaps not," Christine said was one of God's children whose pur- ionce," Christian said, with a bitter quietly. pose in life was to help others. little smile. It sounded a .trifle smug With all her heart, she wished that • Today his remains and those of but she was thinking of her own Fay was right, and that she had lits good wife lie at rest in Ba'rd's very recent scene with Grant. 'never been in love. Cemetery among those of scores of "It's all very well for you to smile, "You're not even listening to me, his old pupils and of the early pion- Chir.:iltine,5' Fay :snapped, "when Christine," Fay said, in an injured eers. One son, William, is a teacher you're ruining niy chances. Are you voice. "You're just standing there, 'in Toronto; two are successful farm - still determined to give me away un -'watching the fish, and I don't be- era in Saskatchewan, and George oc- less—unless I keep Martin at arm's lieve that you know or care what'eupies the old homestead in Stanloy. length'?" 1I've been saying to you." I " "Sill. determined, Fay," Christine "I've had a long day and I'm very! to remember, said quietly. kited," Cluistine said. 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