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him. Then she saw his thirsty self-
forgetful face. Her throat contracted
at the sight of him. The last soft
chord went singing into lovely
silence.
IIe stood up and came to the piano.
"Will you go on?"
With her eyes, upon h i m she
played and sang Le Petit Bossu. She
had a purpose. i.
"In heaven's name, what a hor-
rible song. Who taught/r you that
"I made the music /myself. The
Words are an old French nursery
rhyme."
"Vient se placer derriere moi," he
murmured. "You let such a monster
haunt your mind? I wish you'd play
Fine something else of your own, to
set the sound of that humpback's
step out of my ears."
She played a dancing melody.
- That's better. You play beauti-
fully. Do you know 'May Night'?"
She played it, still fascinated by
his face which she watched steadily.
As he turned at: the end of her play-
ing his shoulder struck against a
£iamed picture and be knocked it
down to the floor. he hastened to
pick it up and stood still, with : a
changed face, staring at the photo-
graph of Felix Kent.
Youth and the peace of his listen-
ing were smitten into the likeness
of demonic' hate. He controlled, the
convulsions, set down the picture
and moved down the full length of
the room to stand by the window,
his back turned.
"How terribly you hate that man,"
said Jocelyn. "I wish you'd tell me
why."
He turned from the window
slowly. rofesisosial
"I told you I was a p
gambler," he said, "so I think I may
tell you why I have become one. I
know the chances aro against your
believing me, It doesn't matter."
'Why doesn't it matter, Mr.• Ayle-
ward?"
"What' canmatter. between ybs
and me?"
To this she said nothing.
"Kent came from my town—Rap-
pd. In Illinois. My father was a
clergyman there. Kent was ten years
older than I. He took a big -
brotherly interest in me, a sort of
senior warden's interest. When I got
outof the school of mines—mining
engineer was my original profession
—he got me my first job. An im-
portant one. • .
"Kent had me sent down to in-
spect a zinc mine. I went over the
mine with its owner, a man named
Talley. Game back to Rappel) with
my report. It was a first-rate mine.
J. sure-fire investment. Everything
the owner had showed me was O.K.
I was optimistic and cocksure. Had
no reason that I knew of not to be.
I had made a straight report on a
good, mine. I believie, Miss Sandal,
ahal,
the name Felix Kent in front of him can come into your rooms and call
SI VEIVTTH INSTAY L1VIr T he acts greatly shocked but says no -'1 you. by your name!"
f th The young man stood before her
Syaopsis thmg, Oue g He had
t whomlhellvlessly dl
Jooelyn Harlowe, raised in a French
,onvent, at the age of eighteen joins
her m,
other . Marcella, in New York.
'Worried about her safety, because,
she is unfamiliar with the modern
averld and has developed into a
beautiful woman, her mother's first
•wish is to get her safely married.)
Attending her first ball, Jocelyn
meets Felix Kent, rich, handsome and
nineteen years older than herself. En
•covraged by her mother, she and
Felix quickly become engaged. Alone
in her apartment one night, a cripple,
'Nick Sandal, enters by the fire-
•eseape, confides in,her that he is her
father and that her real name is
Lynda Sandal. Uncertain about
whether she wants to get married so
quickly, Jocelyn goes to talk things
waver with her mysterious father.
There she meets Jock 4.yleward, a
gambler, who gradually interests her
;more and mere. When she mentions
night, alone in her a no answer to this.
er's rooms, a stranger enters — da sadly
she sees going .through the desk. She Nick found them
ems,Land
speaks to him and in 'answer to his , contemplating
disor-
question says she is waiting there fodder d hanipi Nick when he had lis -
her' father.n.
toned to her experience, "that's the
"I ani Mr. Sandal's daughter•\ end of your visits to this delightful
move to
, my dear. Where'll we
Since he is not at beano I will take' spot •
your message, Mr. •Quayle. Perhaps
he will see you if , you call again
When he comes back. He probably
will not be very late."
"Then 1?ll wait."
"Mr. Quayle, I must ask you to
go. I am not receiving callers to
no*, Jock?"
A few days later Jocelyn wrote a
note to Nick Sandal which she drop-
ped with her own hand into a letter-
box:
"Dear Nick,
"My mother is away. Cousin Sara
Muller has to lea'me me for one day
THUD., OCT. 19, 1939
L MILLION, DEPOSIT ACCOUNTS DENOTE CONr1DEN
CE
night.
"Nick's , an old friend of mine, and night this week—Thursday I who miss. - There's another loom if you I send Mary out. The elevator boy
don't like my igars y Say, don't!. would bring you up to our floor will
he keep his cigars in that desk \ be leaving, I am told, two days after-
drawer- Nick always forks me out i ward. All this surely wo'ol,make it
one of his Havany's. May I help perfectly safe for you to come to me
myself?" I here. It ' would make very happy
"If you insist ;upon staying," she if you would do this. If I can see
said, "1 will go into the otheryouhere I think I can make you un -
room:' Lderstand me better. I do need your
"0 K., 0. K. girlie, Don't rriind advice. I could explain the question
me„ to you here. Please let me have your
She had taken a step in that di - new address and your telephone num-
rection when something told her ,ber . Will Jock be living with you in
that if she went into that bedroom 1 you new rooms! Don't write. Come
she would be made a prisoner there with your answers to all these ques-
until the outer room' had been rifled. tions and requests."
She paused. She waited for him that :Thursday
'.I have some mending to do. I'll) evening in a cruel suspense. She had
sit here on the ofa." He moved, dressed herself very carefully in the s
over and placed himself beside her semblance of Marcella's daughter,
on the sofa.• i
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Jocelyn, choosing,. however, not 'one
She started to rise. At that one of the debutante freaks but a new
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Nick's interest in jewels she wore
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1 the strength of a vast jellied Weight, chain about her neck. Since her last
incapable of rising. visit to Nick's rooms she had not been
"Now just you set there, sweet- able to find the wrist watch which
ness, and let me feast my eyes on was one of Felix's gifts. Sahe touugiht
you. You got the prettiest little --"1 Quayle had stolen it
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arcade known on application. "If you 'won't go into the beds(\ ward to answer it herself.
Communications intended for Proom, darling," he told her, "you got, She stared unrecognizingly at the
must, as a guarantee of good
to be entertainin' to Nick's friends. man who stood there
rbuln the oe hendsomt
lication mu little vestibule he accompanied by the name I tertai Hanged if you ain't goin' to be en- \mint building. During that moment,
to Lynda' to me anyway.head
a him in outline for the strong
Lynda lost her head and'struck at seeing
him. "Let me go. I will call farlght'Fw was
backaof ftranhim,
she
thought
help"
�, T. RANCE 's He seemed not to have felt herr tient o sd proud.
r s d' Lynda Sandal live that any other engineer would a
Notary Public, Conveyancer blow but at her words he wrapped handed in just such a report as that
No Y Estate and Fire In- her in one of his thick arms from here?" he asked' in a low repressed was. Kent was forming a corpora-
handed
Real which she could no more free her -1 sort of voice.
aurance Agent. Representing 14 Fire tion to take over this mine. Cap -
/insurance Companies• solf than if it had been a swathing, She recognized Jock Ayleward• italized it at two million dollars."
Rn Vexation, anxiety, alarm in swift suc-
Division Court •Office. Clinton of tough rubber. "Ile proposed to sell this mine to
2aith,
of the writer. Proprietor
G. E. HALL -
!Frank Fingland, B:Ae, LL•B.
�SBarrister, Solicitor, Notary Public
Successor to W. Bry Clinton, Ont.
Sloan- Blocs: --
D. H. MCINNE'S
CHIROPRACTOR
Electro Therapist, Massage
,'Otiiee: Huron Street. (Few Doors
west of Royal Bank)
.Hours—Wed. and Sat..and by
appointment.
FOOT CORRECTION
tei manipulation Sun -Ray Treatment
Phone' 207
GEORGE ELLIOTT
(Licensed Auctioneer for the Country
of Huron
Correspondence promptly answered
Immediate arrangements. can be made
for Sales Date at The . News-Record,
ewne-.R g ord,
Clinton, or by calling p
(Charges Moderate and Satisfaction
Guaranteed,
THE McKILLOP MUTUAL
Fire Insurance Company
\Head Office, Seaforth, Ont.
i Officers:
President, Thomas Moylan, ; eax
,forth; Vice 2resident, William Knox,
Londesboro4 Secretary -Treasurer, M.
his townspeople -my townspeople '
--"at par, that is, two million dollars)
for the entire issue.I o ng nowthate
Algernon Talley was
ell
the mine to Kent for one million dol-
lars. My report — you see my name,
my father's name, was good — was
printed and circulated. I was elected
secretary' of the corporation and con-
sulting engineer. They gave me a
small block of stock. I fancied myself
suddenly rather a big man.
"It isnecessarybefore a stock is
actually sold, Mis Sandal, for an of-
freer of such a corporation to make
an affidavit to the Secretary of the
Commonwealth based on his personal
knowledge and setting forth the exact
value of the assets upon which the
stock is issued. Kent got me to make
this affidavit.
"The making of such an affidavit
falsely or heedlessly subjects the
maker to fine and to imprisonment..
"That mine " turned out to be no
good, Miss Harlowe. The stoekhold-
ere - my townspeople, my father's
friends, my friends—lost the rovest-
Com-
monwealth
ment. I was prosecuted by the
under a law, you may
have heard a it. It's called the Blue
SkyLaw. I used to think of its name
often afterward. I was found guilty
of false or heedless affidavit and
i j°iw, ho, o f
AT CANADA'S PIONEER
Here is a letter from a school
teacher recently received
among numerous others by
one of our branches obsery
ing the 50th anniversary of
its establishment:
ANI{
the C branch of
„ rite congratulate its
to tong celebration of
I- w on the continued
the k of Montreal and, to wish it.
ubilee anniversary: rs in your
J and success. depositors
prosperity - smaller dep of the..
of the s there for most „As one enrolled reciated
bank I.hava been certainly app
and )?ave the .staff—and
fifty Years; gaff of
courtesy and friendliness
name,
the c of safety wlhich
feeling always meant to me. "ally
the tions may be e4
Montreal' has relations be added
"lining sat,our future
that many new frtend:s
may pleasant, and that
to your lista sincerely;
I
am, !'Yours very _„
"_ B-
Y „B_
MONTREAL
y�STABLISHED IBANK OF SIY
Clinton Branch: H. M. MVIONTEITH, Manager
Londesborough (Sub -Agency): Open Monday and Thursday,
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"A HANK WHERE SMALL ACCOUNTS ARE WELCOME'
THE PACT SIGNERS
Hitler
Say, how about a pact with me?
It won't hurt much, because, you see
A pact to nue, if old or new,
Means no more than it does to you.
HOW HE KNEW
NeW Organist for Goderich; „About •the greatest man that suer
Presbyterial, Church Ilivecl in this community was ever
Miss Eleanor M. Sntder, A.T.C.l4I.,_. broad-minded, big-hearted, and
organist and choir leader of Knox, brilliant—and yet he died with all
Presbyterian Church, Ifincardune, for' his faculties unsuspected." How did
the past nine years has tendered her'you tomo to find out about it?" "
rest ration, effeetivle November 1, at nrmried his wid°�!
to Goderich j
BELIEVE IT Olt NOT
William West, Marlborough street,
east, reported to the Post and News
the first of the week that a one -
legged blackbird that had been saes
in his yard for the past seven
last
ye
had again put in an appearance
'est says the bird
Stalin
This is so sudden, Adolph, that
It takes my breath and knocks ine
flat,
Your books and all those things you
said
Convinced me you were anti -Red.
which time she will go at Knox
to act in a similar capacity
Presbyterian Church there.
Regret was general throughout the
community on learning of her decis-
ion, states the Kincardine News, as
e 'has taken am active part in many
Hitler
I like to do things .by surprise
And sock the world between the eyes.
A pact would make an awful fuss
And still not mean a thing to us.
"What can matter between you arm mel"
kick cession sent all her pulses jumping.
"I'm going kiss yet If you ! "Please come in." She moved back
up a row Mr.. Quayle will 'be vasty,
vurry rough with you, baby." \ into the room before him but neither
He dropped her like a hot coat sat down herself not offered him a
Jock white as chalk, was in the room sea
witht.
them, "My
father is ill? He sent you?"
After Jock's, entrance Ayleward laughed. out in al Miss
quick
neither '
' said a syllable or low' tone. I didn't you.
know
Jock ist• I at Sandal—it's extraordinary."
A. Reid, ,Seaforth. Directors, Alex.
Br
ce
,
ho1di
t Seaforth; nth
- James S
oadfoo,
Walton; James Connolly, Goderich;
W R. Archibald, Seaforth; Chris.
Leonhardt, Dublin; Alex. McEwing,
Bl^the Frank McGregor, Clinton.
List of Agents: E. A. Yeo, R.R. 1,
+Goderich, Phone 608r81,,Clinton;
James Watt, Blyth; John E. Pepper,
Brucefield, R. R. No. 1; R. F. M Ker-
Chas.
ether; Dublin, R. R. No. 1;
Iewitt, Kincardine; R. G. Jarmuth,
Bornholm, R. R. No. 1.
Any money to be paid may be paid
to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of
,Commerce, Seaforth, or at Calvin
C btt's Grocery, . Goderich.
Parties deairicg to effect insur-
ance or transact other business will
be promptly attended to on applica-
ion to any ,of the above officers cer offi-
ces.
to their respective p
Losses inspected by the director
who lives nearest the scene.
made a- •s00nd.
Quayle's china -doll face. It snapped "Please tell me quickly ... •
veryclevcrIy. "He is ill --not seriously—but too ,sentenced to three years ra state s
againand
risen•
"
backa
'pain p
andgof
'delc
aside attack diffi-
culty:
on the) ill to came. An atf Lynda spoke with a certain dr
culty: You had made
guilty. xe Y
"You we g
the report."
.
organizations.. Under her leadership Saturday. Mi.
Knox °hutch choir built a reputation ' was seen several times each season
as kin of the hist organizations ed(until last Y
its kind in the district. Tt presented penance. eaHoweveJ afmake yea, s
a number of light operas in addition ed fter his year
to regular church work. absennce, the one-legg d rd this yer
Miss Snider displayed a willingness is again frequenting active t' yatd
to contribute her talent to various and appears to be as
organizations requiring the services r.
Leamington Post and News.
of an aecoanpanist.1gd,,'.}
Not the least delightful of the
presentations under her direction was
that of her piano pupils in concert
recital.
Miss Snider is a sister of Mr, Mel-
vin Snider of the Clinton Public
School staff.
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'_, It react this way:—
,0 Don't Delay'
Stalin
But what of John Bull? He and I
Are waiting now to ratify;
While. I sit here and hesitate
His envoys wait and wait and wait,
Hitler
Well, let 'em wait; that is their way;
They never mind a long delay;
and
John wants his pledge p
clear—
He's not like you and me, old dear.
•
He landed a fist somewhere per
-
blow
body which ' took that heavy `fever;, the exertion of moving guar -
it,
as rubber might have taken haps. a We're cry respectably q
found Jock's ten p
its ownerswiftly
fist ofsw Y
had Thes
't e
hise
e,
thou
ht
She
saw
thatY
Lynda g
secondapart-
against
For a.dYu
he was knocked out. Ile Went back taken in all the details of the spa
against the.wall, gray and
change dowt and They
looked moved
'over
Sheothe win -
heard his
came forward with a dee breath catch•
upon his mouth and eyes. During
p d i "That's beautiful."
a e
: 1 m
Quayle Y e
Q his respite, h b
that instants he for of her annoyance at
\ S g
Stalin
You've said some hitter things of me,
And said 'ens pretty candidly;
To team with you I. must confess
Would make eine feel a mild distress.
the door.. in here, at his encountering her in
"See you again one of these days,; g' lance of Jocelyn. Harlowe,
Boxy. Nice little bag of tricks you and shehe wentover to stand beside
got there.,, be-\ him.
Then she heard Jock. saying
"Don't come He looked back at the room and
haven hard breathing. „ I stayjust for
here again. Hearapre Don't tome! again little while? It's been an age since
here again," and presently under- a
stood that, he was saying it to her. I 1 was in this sort of place talking
"I won't," she gasped apt him vio-Ito ths sort of
girl." n't take this
lently. "Perhaps
"I got scared about you," he sort of gildto dance rito' speakeasy."isToni Pa -
panted. She felt his hand touch. her idronnehas,pps not. Miss Sandal,, has
hair. "Something told me to come,your father ever seen you like this?"
ba ".. , is •
"Hehe meant to rob you," ' '
She. smiled. "Yes. Twice. Once
..
"Sure thing. You got him. The when I waS conning out:from: my
male's a crook. And h'e'rs got it in first ball and when he came
for Nick." \ here. I wasplaying."
is nit . . he cannot ibe 'Playing? Oh, the piano. Would
"He')you play now?"
Nick's e friend
Lynda! He's one He was so .eager and so curiously
"Friend? Miss Lthi
of those colorless things that live simple in his eagerness. that she went
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cGoing 'East, depart
t,oing East, depart 8.00 p.m
West, 'depart 11.45 a•m•
;Going. W 9.50 p.m.
(Going West, depart
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Going South at. 2.50, leave 8.08'p.ui,
(CON'PINED NEXT ISSUE)
WHEN GOOD LIE IS'
ED
APPRECIAT„
oli
Hdne3�ty is a, p cY
That .pays one best, they .say,
To tell the truth and, stick to it
At every tune of day.
But golfers. must -be diff'rent folk
For. oft they're heard to cry
There's nothing pleases .,them so
•
.much
As a really` pretty "lie"
104 YEARS YOUNG
"The pu,e,t iorm in which
tobacco can 61 smoked"'
Hitler
Say, lissen, I'm no more for you.
Than you're for me—and that is
true—
But pacts, we sign 'em by the
score—
So what he deuce is just one more.
Sfialin'
I guess it's all,in good clean fun—
one.
t ret
enol
xhis fact
is but
Your name's hese, if mine goes above
it
I trust you'll not remind me of it.
under
over with answering simplicity and
stones:'
"But you . . . you live in a worldsat ,for asomnebtime efore twithout looking at,
where such things can touch you,
Hitler
I understand jrist how you feel,
Al
But sign and bring the proper seal,
The newsreel cameras are grinding
You havb my word this WON'T be
binding!
Stalin
Heigh ho! Mere goes with fountain
pen!
But never bring this up again;
I'm now for you and you're for me—
Until we think we shouldn't bel
On Thanksgiving' Day, October 0,
Mrs. Margaret Hamilton, Listowel,
• 10
4th
birthday Dur g
r
d.hc
celebrate
the day she was visited by a number
01 friends; Who extended congratula-
tions, and she also received a large
number of cards. She was presented
with a large birthday cake, which
she shared with her ,nay visitors.
During the ;afternoon she was sere-
naded by the Salvation Army Band.
In spite of her age, Mrs.. Hamilton is
enjoying splendid health.
Hitler
'Tis done! The Russians and the
Dutch
Are now in one embracing clutch—
We're buddies under one bright star!
We're bosom pals—Like fun we are)
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