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The Clinton News Record, 1939-03-09, Page 2PAGE 2 THE CLINTON NEWS RIS COI H THURS., MARCH 9, 1939 01, SWIFT DESERTION Swiftly, in the bathroom, she put, on a tussore coat, and exchanged her cap for the Wide-brirnaned hat which she had brought for wear' ashore in the tropics. Under the coat, her uni- form lookel like an ordinary white linen frock, . for her apron was hid- den, and her (tibio white stockings and black slippers were not do the least unusual: Her heart was in her mouth when The Clinton News -Record with which is lneorporated THE NEW ERA TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION $1,50 per year in advance, to Can- adian addresses; $2.00 to the U.S. or other foreign countries. No paper I discontinued until all arrears are paid unless at the option of the pub- lisher. The date to which every sub- scription is paid is denoted on the label. ADVERTISING RATES — Transient I advertising 12e per count line for 1 first insertion. 8c. for each subse- quent insertion. Heading counts 2 lines. 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But I will tell still toe early for passengers to be' them myself, madam, the moment coming on hafted, and the stewards that they retnen—your mind can be on watch were probably taking ad- at rest abort% that." vantages of their leisure by lounging I "I should prefer to wait,' she said.. round the bar, talking_ to George. l'"They They may return too late to get to Christine sped along the alleyway , t'he ship in time." to the companion -way which led out'' "And the young lady has no to 'the head of the gangway. This friends in Penang?—ah, I understand was perilously close to Chief Stew- you, madam," he said suavely. "You ard's:affice, but Perrin gsually stayed will have coffee while you wait"? in his own cabin for at least ale hour A silent -footed waiter brought after dinner, and tiih office was dos- coffee and cigarettes to the little ed now., table at which Christine established The quartermaster was leaning herself, close- to the door. Because over the rail, with his back to the cleric at the desk was watching Christine, watching something on the ber,. she forced herself to appear wharf. She 'stood well back, her head very calm and collected, and not to bent so that her face was shadowed glance too often at the big clock over by her hat, and waited until he' the desk, but it was difficult to keep stretched himself with a mighty her eyes away from that clock, at yawn, and then, strolled aft without the hands which seemed to be moving glancing in her direction. When his found the dial at incredible speed. footsteps grew faint in the distance,) If Fay and Martin Royde did not she darted' out of the companionway come back until ten o'clock could and down the gangway to the wharf.' they possibly get to the ship before She had been so busy planning her ! tch thirty? Even if they did, only escapefront the ship that she had by the moat amazing luck could no very clear idea what she should do' Christine herself got on board unob- when she got 'ashore. It was only, served, since in the half hour before when the driver of a ricketty car cal-' sailing time the gangway would be led to her that she decided to drive crowded and the quartermaster would straight to the Palm Tree, the hotel; be most unlikely to leave his post. at which Fay had had tea with Martin; But she could not worry now Royde and Doria Smythe. 1 about herself or her own future. As She jumped into the car just int the urinates passed, she was wonder - time to avoid the Second Steward,, ing whether Martin, Royde had who had evidently been ashore with' changed his plans perhaps, while a message. she was waiting here for them, they The Palm Tree was quite small, were in some other part of Penang but she saw as soon as she went upland she would never be able to find the wide steps into the hall that it, them. Though they had gone for a was a luxurious little hotel, one of drive in one of the hotel cars, it was those places which experienced tray- quite possible that they had been put ellers, of a certain type, recanunend dowsomewhere, instead of coming to one another. There was a secredownback to the Palm Tree, ive air about it, and through the open! "Would you mind fielding out doors she gimpsed dimly-lit roomst—.I whether the car has returned?" she a dining room with softly shaded asked the clerk, at. a quarter to ten lights and white clad waiters proving "It has not returned," lue said. "The about very silently, a drawing room chauffeur would have phoned through with a wide verandah beyond it. from the garage if he had conn She went straight to the desk, and back alone." - the half-caste clerk who sat behind it stared at her with bold black eyes, appraising her simple coat and hat, as if he saw at a glance that she Christine ran down 'the steps to meet was not likely to be an ordinary them, and she saw Fay turn deadly patron. pale at sight of her, and gave a little "I am looking for two people who gasp of dismay. had tea here, and who may have "Mr. Royde," Christina said swiftly come back to dinner," she said, "a "one of the passengers overheard you middle-aged man and a very fair girl telling Miss Lind that the ship sailed at midnight — she only discoverer] after 'she got back to the ship that you had made a mistake over the time. The ship sails in a little over half an hoar". Almost as he spoke, a big blue car drew up in front of the hotel steps, and Martin Royde and Fay got out. wearing a flowered silk frock—pas- sengers from the Hay Tor. "I don't know thein, but 1 will enquire for you, madam," he said, standing up and walking towards a room at the back of the hall. Although he had said that he did not know them, she had seen his face ehange when she said that they were passengers from the Hay Tor — he had suddenly looked wary and alert. It was easy enough to guess that this man, or someone else in the hotel, had heard Marcia Royde give the false sailing time to Fay, and had known what his purpose was. "Are you sure of that?" Fay ask- ed, pulling herself together. "Marlin, you went and looked at the notice beardand came straight back to us —you can't have been mistaken," "Loolc at the notice board yourself, Miss Lind;" Christine eaid. "Be quick—there's na time to lose." THE "MISTAKE'_ EXPOSED Until then, it had been no business Fay ran un the steps and along of theirs, but if thisquietly-dressed) a short passage to the notice board, girl was going to make trouble the and Martin Royde stared at Chris- tine ha•istine: "By Java," he said, "you're the stewardess — the very same stew- ardess who came to the cabin de luxe one night with a message about my gramophone. I thought I recognised you—and that you were not a pas- senger." "Martin—it is 10,30," Fay cried, running back to them. "It's written as plainly as possible on. a notice headed 'Hay Tor Sailing Time. Not- ice to All Passengers'. I don't see how you can have made a mistake. "I'm most desperately sorry, Fay," he said, "There are several notices on that board, and I must have look- ed at the wrong one—the one I read stated that the ship sailed at mid- night, and was on the shipping. agent's letter paper. I , don't think it gave the name of the ship." There was no time for Fay � to go back to see whether there ream, was such a notice. The proprietor of the Palen Tree, Who was hovering in the background, had prevented the chauffeur from driving away, and now Martin Royde and Fay and Christine hurried to the waiting car. They had just half en hour in which to reach the ship. For a long time not one of them spoke. Fay leant back in her corner, proprietor of the Palm Tree had bet- ter be warned. Two minutes later, a big man with sly eyes came from the room at the back of the hall. He was a foreigner of some sort, but Christine could not guess at his nationality, but he spoke English with only the faintest accent "The people wheat you seek aro not in the hotel at present, madam," he told her; "Can you tell me how to find Tatem?" she asked quietly. "I have caene from the ship—we have learnt accidentally that they believe that the ship does: not sail until midnight, so that there is some risk that they may be stranded". He hesitated only for a brief mom- ent. Hos face was inp'assi' , but Christine knew that he was making up his mind whether it weeld be best to deny all knowledge of Martin Royde and Fay or to be as helpful as possible. Perhaps some dim idea that he might find himself mixed up in trouble with the shipping company made him decide to be frank. "They have gone for, drive through the jungle in one of the hotel cars and they are coming back to dinner at ten o'clock", he said "Naturally, We did not know that her face very Palo and her eyes be- wildered, and Chrtilaine knew' 'bast she was trying to make up her )thud whether" Royde really had made a mistake. Perhaps, if C'hr'istine had not been there, Royde works have made some farther atbempte to de- fend himself, but as it was, he left her alone. It seemed to Christine that she had never driven in a 'slorer ear than that big blue car which looked so powerful and that pro traffic bud ever been more congested than the traffic in the narrow streets through which they passed, At one place 'a native cart, rdrawn by a wretched horse, had overturned in the middle of the read,' and their car' came to a standstill behind a block of cars; taxis and bicycles, with a man pushing a wheelbarrow- just in front of it. "Stewardess,"' Martin Royde said, leaning forward to speak to Ghis tine, "tell me—it was Mrs, Smythe• who avercheard my remark to Miss Lind about sailing time? There was no ether -passenger present, as far as I remember." "Yes --it' was Mrs. Smythe," she admitted. He would conclude, of course, that Dacia had developed conscience qualms at the last minute, or that she had given him away, out bf sheer spite, but Doria herself would tell him later exactly what had happen, - ed. There was no reason for Chris- tine to pretend That she had got her information from someone else. "And she sent you ashore? It is not generally known amongst the pas-engrs that Miss Lind and I risk- ed mf..sing the ship—if, indeed, we have not already missed it?" "Na one knows except Mrs. Smythe and her friend, Mrs. Collins." Royde hesitated for a moment and went en: "Stewardess,, yon are ex- perienced enough to know -that if this story gets about it will be greatly exagerated, and it may even be sug- gested that I deliberately made a mistake over, milling time. I•m not worrying about my own reputation, out Miss Lind is a young girl, going out alone to Shanghai, and if she is mixed up in n scandal—" "The story will not get about through me," she said, "but I pray have to make a report to the Chief Steward, to explain. my absence from the ship." I oan deal 'with the Chief Steward --and with Mrs. Smythe and her friend," he said easily. "And I will make it worth your while stewardess, to mention this matter to no pas- senger—" "1 ant not taldng any money from you, Mr. Royde," she said, and there Was such anger in her quiet voice that Royde flushed a dull red and leant back in his seat. He must have guessed, of course, that Christine know perfectly well that he had tried to trick Fay into staying in Penang with him. Christine glanced at Fay, who was staring at the people in the street, and who seemed to have taken no notice at all of the talk between her sister and Royde. Fay still looked bewildered and a little frightened, but it was impossible to tell what she was thinking about,- for she was watehing the •busy scene as though she was wholly absorbed in it. "We'Il never get— there in time," Fay said suddenly, turning her head and meeting Christine's eyes. "We still have a quarter of an hour," Christine pointed to the il- luminated face of a clock on a tall building, And at the moment the car began to move forward slowly, though it seemed an eternity before they were clear of the block, and in the long street which led to the wharf at which the flay Tor was berthed. As soon as the car stopped at the wharf, Royde jumped out topay- the Malay 1 driver, and Christine and Fay got out together. "Christine," Fay said hurriedly, under her breath, "Will it all have to. come out—I mean about our being sisters?" "If I can get .onboard without being seennothing need came out, and if I don't—well, I shall lase my job, but it'll be a staff matter, and the passengers won't know anything about it. You go on ahead with Mr. Royde, and I'll fallow," Up to the very last, Christine had hoped that sailing time would be de- layed, after all, for it was quite usual far. a ship to sail half -an -hour or more after the herr at which pits' sengers had been, warned to be on board. But one glance at the Hay Tor told her that the Captain meant to get away dead on time, for al- ready meet 'were standing at the gangway pulley -ropes, waiting for the order to haul up. She paused for a few moments in the ehadaw; ,of a warehouse, to give Royde and Fay time to go on ahead, for she did not want it to be obvious to anyone at the head of the gang- way that she had been with them. Royde, after one swift fiance at her, clearly understood what her inten- tion was, for he took Fay's -arm and walked towards the gangway with a very casual air. "We've run it pretty fine this time, quartermaster," Christine heard him call: up, and the man answered: "You have, sir two minutes later, and It's a Boy! Even as you read this, some Father somewhere is rushing this news to relatives. No matter where they are or what time it is his first impulse is to let them know! It's Boy. And that is also true of Aunts (and Uncles) and all the in- laws. Before Baby is half an hour old his arrival is cele- brated far nand wide—and he is 'endowed with a dozen names. To Grandparents another chapter of Family History begins. Their grandparents may have waited for days before they had good news like this, but that was lief ore the telephone—and Long Distance—became part of our everyday existence o Spread Good News by LONG DISTANCE! Look in your telephone dime. tory and you'll find that by using Low Night Rates (also applying all day Sunday) and piacing "Anyone" calls you can talk to nearby towns or Prov - ices for much leas than you expected. we'd have sailed without you." As Christine went forward, know- ing,. that she would have to go up the gangway ,alone, and that she would certainly be recognised, two :cars drake up to the wharf with i horns sounding furiously, and half - a -dozen of the Hay Tor passengers tumbled out of them. They were all strangers to Christine, for the two girls in the party came from . Mrs. Parr's .soden, and they .wore far too excited to notice her, for they were all chattering about the clock in the hotel, half -an -hour slaw, which had nearly caused them to miss the ship. I Christine was elate behind them when they made a rush far the gang- way, so close behind that she hoped it would look as though she was one 1of the party. She sli_epled past the quartermaster with her head bent, and once through the companion -way I bit was easy to slip; away unobserved from the group of passengers who had come on board with her, and to hurry down the deserted alley -way to the bathroom. When she strolled into her awn I cabin, a few minutes later, Mrs. Parr Iwas still playing patience and Miss Crane ,knitting. 1 "Been sitting with that child again, 1 suppose?" Mrs. Parr said' to Chris- tine, looking up from her cards. (To be continued) DESCRIBING A KISS A kiss, is a peculiar proposition. Off use to no one, yet absolute bliss for two. The entail .boys gets it for noth- ing; the young man has to lie for it. and the old man has to buy it. The baby's right, the lover's privilege; and the hyprocrite's mask. To a young girl faith; to a married woman, hope; and to some dames, charity. Application For Forest Trees The following i abcopy of the official information form to be- need by fanners when applying to the Ontario Forestry Branch for free young trees for the purpose of reforestation, planting wind- breaks, etc. Official forms and further information can be •secured from the Department of Agriculture, -Clinton or the following can be used and will be accepted by the Departinent the sante as an official application form1, The Ontario Government desires to emphasize that the free distribution of forest trees is restricted to the following purposes: The reforestingof suitable lands for the production of forest crops. The improvement of existing woodlands . which have been depleted. • The reclamation, of unproductive wastelands which are lying idle and which would support forest growth. The protection by forest planting of slopes and hills, which are subject to erosion and of light soils which are subject to blowing or drifting, The conserving of water flow by forest; plantingon the slopes at the headwaters of streams. The planting of shelter belts and windbreaks for the protection el agricultural crops. . Trees cannot; be supplied for decorative or ornamental planting about homes, clubs or.. other private properties. Sir: APPLICATION FOR FOREST. TREES 19.... I beg to make application°for forest trees. Name (Print This) Post Office Address (Print This) Express Office Address Name of Railway (Print This) Express Office must have agent. Trees cannot be sent to flag station. County , Township , Con. ......, Lot If you wish to call for trees at a Govermnent Nursery, state which one here: If one or more of the kinds of trees asked for are exhausted, do you' want us to substitute the next best kind? Do you wish to plant in your woodlot, make a new plantation, or Plant a windbreak? . Is the soil gravel, loam or clay? STOCI{ LIST — 1939 Fill in below the number of tree of each species wanted. Do not ask for trees not on this list. For forest planting any number will be supplied free. For windbreaks 500 are supplied free. TREES F,OR FOREST PLANTING 'Rrhite Pine Elm Red Pine ...... White Ash Jack Pine Soft Maple Scotch Pine Hard Maple Larch Red Oak White Spruce Rock Elm White Cedar Basswood Balsam Carolina Poplar Cuttings Hemlock ............ Carolina Poplar (Rooted) Walnut White Willow Cuttings Butternut TREES FOR WINDBREAKS White Spruce Norway Spruce White Cedar I hereby agree to give trees received reasonable care and protection from cattle and fire and also to use them only for forest •planting' and windbreaks and to pay express charges on them from Government Nursery to my railway station. Signature of Applicant. Applications must be received before April, 1st of year in which trees are wanted. ONTARIO FORESTRY BRANCH PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS, rl_I�I,1.II i I,• t fi I i TOROIV'rOG.'