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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1939-10-26, Page 2PAGE 2 THE CLINTON NWS-RECORfl THURS., OCT.' 26, 1939 lure Beyond -4) BURT a by KATw�RinE nautili s EIGHTH INSTALLMENT Synopsis Jocelyn Harlowe, raised in a French •2onvent, at the age of eighteen joins Ther mother, Marcella, in New York. Worried about her safety, because she is unfamiliar with the modern world. and has developed into a lbeautiful woman, her mother's first -wish' is to get her safely married. .Attending her first ball, Jocelyn :meets Felix Kent, rich:, handsome and eiineteen yearsolder than herself. En- .couraged by her mother, she and l'elix quickly become engaged.. Alone an her apartment one night, a cripple, Nick Sandal, enters by the fire- escape, 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 over with her mysterious father. There she meets Jock. Ayleward, a gambler, who gradually interests her ;more and more. When she mentions The Clinton News -Record with which is Incorporated 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 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 .advertising 12c per count line for first insertion. 8c. for each subse- quent insertion. Heading counts 2 lines. Small advertisements not to exceed one inch, such as "Wanted", "`Lost, "Strayed", etc., inserted once for 35c., each subsequent insertion 15c. Rates for display advertising made known on application. Communications intended for pub- lication must, as a guarantee of good faith, be accompanied by the name of the writer. G. E. HALL - - Proprietor A. T. RANCE Notary Public, Conveyancer Financial. Real Estate and Fire In• eurance Agent, Representing 14 Fire Insurance Companies. Division Court Office. Clinton Frank Fingland, B.A., LL.B. Barrister, Solicitor, N otary Public Successor to W. Brydone, K.C. Sloan- Blocs — Clinton, Oiit. D. IL McINNE1S CHIROPRACTOR Electro Therapist, Massage O tee: Huron Street. (Few Doors west of Royal Bank) Hours—Wed. and Sat. and by appointment. FOOT CORRECTION be manipulation Sun -Ray Treatment Phone 207 'GEORGE ELLIOTT Licensed Auctioneer for the County of Huron Correspondence promptly answerer' immediate; arrangements can be made 'for Sales Date at The News -Record, Clinton, ar by calling phone 203, Charges Moderate and Satisfaction Guaranteed, t('• SIE McI ..ULLOP MUTUAL .tire Insurance Company Head Office,' Seaforth, Ont. Officers: President, Thomas Moylan, Sea North; Vice ?resident, -William Knox, Londesboro; Secretary -Treasurer, M, A. Reid, Seaforth, Directors, Alex.. Broacifoot, Seaforth; James Sholdice,l Walton;' James Connolly, Goderich;' W. R. Archibald, Seaforth; Chris. Leonhardt, Dublin; Alex. McEwing, Bath; Frank McGregor, Clinton. List' of Agents: E. A. Yeo, R,R. 1, Ooderich, Phone 603r81, Clinton; James Watt, Blyth; John E. Pepper, i3rucefield, R. R. No. 1; R. F. McKee ,cher, Dublin, R. R. No. 1; Chas. F. Hewitt, Kincardine; R. G. Jarmuth, Bornholm, R. R. No. 1. Any money to be paid niay be paid to the Royal Bank, Clinton;'' Bank of Commerce, Seaforth, or at Calvin Cbtt's Grocery, Goderich. Parties desiring to effect insur- ance or transact other business will be promptly attended to en applica- ion to any of the above officers ad - aliened to iheir respective post offi- ces. Losses inspected by the director who lives /merest the scene. i ANAN TIME TABLE Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows: Rrtffalo and fiedericb Tiny. Going 'East, depart 6,43 a.m. Going East, depart RAO p,ie Going West, depart 11.45 a.in, Going West, depart .9.50 p.m. London, Thiene Brie. {Going. Nonth, ar 11.21, lye. 11.47 a.m. Going South ar. 2,50, leave 8.08 p.m, lar 'face flushed first, the clouded. "You mean she wants to put me off, to delay the marriage?" "You must remember,( Felix, that it is you and I who have tried to, hasten matters She never disputed our original date, you know. It Was a mistake, 1 think noW, to press any change, to hurry her. It is difficult for you, and even for me, to under- stand the mind or the moods of a young girl, convent bred and entirely innocent of all emotional experience, even of the warm intimacies of farm the name Felix Kent in front of him I Jocelyn's warmth fell back upon 1 1'f e he acts greatly shocked but says no- her own stormy soul like a wave from thing. One night Jock comes to her ,a rock: home and• begins to. tell his story of fI "He will be back tonight. I had a how he was a mining engineer, work- message." ed under Keel and Was sent ' it "His flowers are beautiful." en to �a for making what' was adjudged a' "Yes. And, Mother, he sent me. false-affdavit,upon which worthless' this." Jocelyn touched a band of ens eralds at her throat. Marcella at that came closer and examined the jewels, She too passed Lynda, I a vas riot.' Tally a finger across their splendor. She ty l e. "Jocelyn," Felix interrupted, "Is riot Icold,"- "Far from it, For that very reason lova is more difficult for her. She feels, she will feel intensely. But it is net a facile nature. It will not be easy for her to express this inten- sity. It will not be easy for her to let ga." "You are probably right," Felix concluded.. "But my instinct is to smash through, to break down that conetentual barrier of her will against mine." "You would lose het." "Perhaps. But . I like—" Felix pondered cloudily, "sometimes I like to take chances, you know. There's something of the gambler in me." Marcella opened her eyes upon him suddenly in a fashion that fairly frightened him. • "If you -were a gambler, Felix, if. I thought you were a gambler, you should not have her, not unless you killed ma first." The cold gray woman had spoken as though fire were at•her heart and home, was shaped, in part, by the Felix carne to his feet. "My dear casual circumstance•. I had expected Mrs, Harlowe, I am not a gambler to "board" with a family, which had in any evil or literal sense. 'We are previously, for years, received the alt gamblers in one way or another." school teacher; but when I arrived on In a,mood of calm, of almost cold the 2nd of January, at the school self-possession, Jocelyn went two or where I was to teach, I was infoizned that this family did not mean to "take" the teacher. The home that did received me, and where I had an extraordinarily happy two years, with life-long impressions, was the stoek was sold to his' townspeople. Miss rmust have had instructions. Tally looked at them for a long minute. and Kent must have been in collusion. Jocelyn saw that a flush crossed her I was shown just so much . eif that' face. , mine—and just so little—as would se- She must hays some painful or cure from any engineer a good re- part." e- part „ "What de you. mean?" "I mean that Kent paid Talley one some happy association with em- eralds, the girl thought. "Excellent taste, Felix has. It's most becoming to your skin. and million dollars for a worthless mine, eyes," said Marcella evenly. "Now I received two million dollars from the will go in and -change. Tell Mary to stockholders for the same mine, clear-; serve us tea. I want to see your: ed a profit of one million, made 'MP clothes. Is everything ready?" the scapegoat and got off clear." "I will talk to you about that when Jocelyn found that she was on her you come back,' said Jocelyn quietly. feet. Until that instant she had not Marcella turned at the door,' hold realized 'how important that man ling it half -open, to look at this quiet Felix Kent was in herlife, how solidly 'speaker. he had laid hold of her interest, her But when she cameback in a trail - loyalty. She must defend him. ing tea gown of gray silk Jocelyn "I understand that you would na- waited on her with such daughterly turally be tempted to find some such sweetness, poured and served her tea explanation for your own terrible with such lovely docile hands and sat mistake. I understand that you would so meekly in the wi.ndowseat there - almost inevitably be driven to making after, that the tyrant's suspicion was three evenings later to see her it. But, since I know Mr. Kent very reassured. father for farewell. Oh she would well, I find the whole story—as you "Did you ,:like Cousin Sara, Jac- ' see him again and tell it -perfectly preposterous." I elyn ?" . e ten certainly. Jock was looking at her carefully "She's rather a darling. But hard to She would tell her secret to Felix; and coolly. He bowed. ; know. She is so deaf and so fearfully one does not keep secrets from one's "I didn't s husband; and get his+ help and symt- appose you would beaux busy. l never knew that any one pathy from Nick. This visit would be ,• r rrr r• VOUR WORLD AND MINE (Copyright) : by JOHN C. KIRICWOOD , ; 'frt}t'atVi r1ntirta rr emcee err r•r'!n•■•r r OtaVat'V rr•rr ea•rrr^r r m -r letth Lifefor most of us is 'a hit -and- the failure of our faintly's effort to Thus it will be seen that these miss affair; or, to say it differently, sell .my father's business after bis major matters, in my life have been the life of, meet of us is along. series death: buyers of busimesses in that consequences of the casual cireum- of accidents; it is not a charted or year were hard to find. And failing stance; and were I to tell Of lesser,. planned course.' It is the casual cir- to find a buyer, together with the matters, then I ,would require' niudh cumstance • which explains the path- I circumstances of myabs d • s ace for the telling of myor way of, anost n onmercct of pg story. persons. ` Int, plan to takes a university course, And' if I set out to tell of the casual I suppose that my own life is a'I carreied sit my father's' business fes circumstance as it has affected the typical one in regard to the part a period of seven years. lives of eny children, then the etory which the casual ciecunmtances plays It was according to pattern, how- could be stretched, to greater lengths. in in giving one's life its direction and over, that I gave up; the business of Let ane tell of but .one such circum- shapo, its friends, and friendships, its retailing to enter the publishin busi- stance, related to m son's life. g y fortunes and misfortunes. Perhaps if nese; and it was this kind of business He was attending a student's con • - which took me in 1900 to Halifax, It ferenee in France er Switzerland. was in Halifax that 1 met a man who There he- met a man connected with ter which. I wrote to the principal of a laege'publishing: house a year ago which led him to'sug'geet to me Haat I should becomea contributor each week to one of this newspapera —an invitation which ;was most glad- ly accepted. I tell, in this contribution to the News- Record about :,casualcircumstances in my own life, I •m;ay cause my read- ers to check upon their own:individ- ual lives is a purpose to see how the ]tad in later time a very' considerable International College in Smyrna, Asia; part to play in deterriiining the course Minor. The contact then and there. of my pathways. , It was this man, established led to my son's going to casual clresnvstance has been a main in December of 1900, who persuaded Smyrna a few years later—on leis Amboy in. shaping their course in life, me . to go to Philadelphia, and who graduation from Toronto University. perhaps, also, hs determining the later secured me an appointment in Id was the material which he gather - quality of their life. Cleveland; who later secured me an, ed there, about Turkey, following on For the early years of my life appointment in Philadelphia; and who Turkey's conquest of Asia Minor and. ups to the period. of 20 or so my eight years later took me away from the expulsion of the Greeks, which life was lived according to the pat- my work in London, England, ta man- led to "my sones: collaboration with tern- chosen for me by my parents age a business in Toronto of which,Dr. Arnold Toynbee, famous British and myself. -I went to school; I be- he was managing director. professor -author -editor, in the pro- caine a school teacher; I began at- It was the circumstance that while duction of the book on Turkey in the tending university. Yet it was not in Philadelphia I saw an advlertise "Modern World" series It was this in accordance with the pattern when ment in a Toronto, trade newspaper book and his part in its making which I went to live with a certain fancily which led me to apply for an editor- I led to my son's being given a post when I began teaching school; and that period of my life, in that farm me. I- merely wanted to explain to could be so excited over clothes." you my hatred of Felix Kent. I hoped "You aren't excited about your that it might damage him with you." trousseau?" "Your hatred belongs elsewhere i "I love pretty clothes. I have a red Mr. Ayleward; and it is you that have dress that you will love to see me been damaged' in my eyes. I should in." She added with a slow drag to think that rather than spend your her words, strange, startling to her strength in hatred you would try to mother's ear. "That is, if you can make a more — a more honorable love me in anything," fresh start. A. gambler is not much "You are reproaching me, Joce- better than a thief." Ilya?" "You are in love with Felix Kent?" "I don't think so. But you did tell he asked her quietly. me not to look to you for warmth "You are asking me—" of feeling." , "For the hundredth time, I beg "I love you, my dear. Your hue-, Your pardon, Miss Sandal. I will say band will love you more warmly, as goodnight. Thank you for the music is quite natural and right. But I am, and for your patience in listening to -after all, your mother." Marcella held my—fairytale-May I take a message' out her two long hands mild her to your father?" I daughter fell at onee on her knees, Jocelyn said, "What is his new ad- drew them to Ater and hid her face dress?" Their words seemed to be upon them. . • spoken above a sort of tumult as of "Olt, please love me. Warmly. A hurrying water ... a tumult that be- lot. And, Mother, don't let Fells near - longed to some other sense than hear- ing. A tumult of the soul. Jock tended her' a slip of paper. "Isere it is. With the .telephone num- ber. You'll come to see him?" "Yes." ry me so soon. I want —. before we are married," her eyes came up, flam- ing, wet, magnificent, "I want before we are married to love his kisses. "He is very kind and he is the first Man to love me. That means so much Marcella was the first of Jocolyn's inmy life. It moves me deeply to be two guardians to return. She ]et her- loved by a man, And he is strong self in quietly with her awn latchkeyland handsome. I like his strength and to find the large room beautifully his hardness and his gentleness to "Why do I have this horror of him?" filled with flowers by Kent's constant orders and with the sloping light of a ' warm April sun. Marcella went straight over to her shrine and shut herself in. While she was .kneeling there she heard Jocelyn come In from the other end of the apartment. Before Mar- cella revealed her own presence she Partly opened the leather doors, drew back her curtain and for a long in- stant observed her daughter unaware. The girl stood near a vase of red roses and bent above thein a maenad wistful Paco. With one of her fingers she doubtfully caressed the flowers. It seemed to Mas cella that this child was older, thinner and mora vexed with thought. What had the gill ,been thinking of during the past two weeks to make h,er look like this? Perhaps it had been an error to leave her so alone with her half -scared, half -ecstatic uie t1toughts. Marcella came out q kly as though to remedy her mistake. Jocelyn caught at her breath, cried out a stifled word, turned, and in a tremor of relief ran to her mother. "Oh, I didn't hear you come in, 05, Mother, I'm so glad. Cousin Sara left me this morning'." "I. know. 'It was 'the day and the time of day when I had expected her to leavle you. I e'ee no reason for hysteria, darling, I am glad to, see you. IS Felix back?" me, He is always so clean and wears such lice -clothes, But, Mother, I do not understand why it is that when he kisses me—really kisses me—1 have this horror of him." Marcella spoke with authority, in an even vpiee. "Why can't you trust tie, Jocelyn? I have told you already 'That this horror as you insist so ab- surdly, so childishly, so ignorantly in calling it is perfectly natural, that it will some day explain, translate it- self. If you are fond of Felix, ad- mire him, trust him, like his touch, that is all you need to fees. But your reaction is, I am perfectly certain, Ithe dight one." "And have you ever felt—that 'a 'lover's kiss 'might be a sort of—of ecstasy?" Marcella shoed rep with. abruptness. ' Her face was. flushed. The telephone rang; a question from the dressmaker. While Jocelyn !was answering it Marcella, glad to escape those eyes, went in to dress for dinner. She would see Felix alone, talk to him, warm him. Marcella had her opportunity that same evening to diagnose for Kent's benefit the state of mind of his ,be- tht•othed. Felix came in while they were at dessert and Marcella asked Jocelyn to leaule thcie alone over their coffee afterward. Marcella explained her uneasiness to Felix Kenft. The man's fairregi- the last one she would make in secret. She had freed herself, it is to be seen, of any sentimentality toward Jock Ayleward, even of that senti-y gifts; it was the circumstance mentality of an overemphasized die- been for his presence in our town at of a man's coming to Toronto in 1905 like. She had freed herself too irom that time, I mould have gone tot from the great 1iarmswarth publish - sentimentality toward Nick; but not Toronto University. It was an attack1ing company in London that led Inc FORTY-THREE YEAR OLD STOVE of her affection, She would carry of typhoid fever that required nee to�to go to • see him, to show him my PIPES STILL IN USE leave the university. It was my sist- work and to inquire about the pos- er's exceptionally fine achievement, sibilities of work for me in London, On the kitchen range at the home two years later, in her nuatr}ettlatien It was that man'•s action, after he of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Ward are to be examinations, that led nae to give up�ltacl seen 'my book of collected adver- scan ttvo stove at that they appear to be "as good pips that have bean my university plans, in order that she tisements, which led him to send me se continuous use for 43 years. And could go to the nnivarsity-to become to the London Daily Mail—at the bee gold medallist in Classics at the end ginning of 1906. new" asand show no signs of rust - It was friendships made during my' ing out. Thy don't retake 'ere, like six years' employment on the London that today. Daily Mail which led to me being Mrs. Ward can tell you the exact wiled to return to London in 1919 tot month and year they evere purchased perform a certain job; and it was at Thomas Lawrence's hardware in marrying this young lady; ,and to the another one of these friendships • Luclaiow—it was in November 1896. ial post on the staff of this news- paper's publisher, and which led to my going to this company. It was on the teaching staff ` of Columbia University. It was this sojourn at Columbia wiele led to my san's taking the circumstance of one of the ad- the examinations •set for entrance iib° vertising managers connected . with Canada's diplomatic service; which, in this company asking me to write a series, of advertisements for him which led to my being assigned in this company to this class of work writing advertisements, and in; this meeting with the man from Inter - way building up a leage beokful of national College, Symrna,, my son's . examples of my work. It was the career would have been a wholly dif- circumstance of the Boer War which ferent one from what it has been led a young Englishman to emigrate and is. home of a former school mate. Had to'Canada after that war and to his We talk much about fate and luck it not been for this circumstance, I becoming connected with the same and chance and destiny, but few of might not havie been asked to go to publishing company which employed us are perceptive of influence of the this home. me It was a• friendship established carrel -A.9 forces and contacts of The university which I entered with this man which led him to ad -I every day in relation to cur own life. was selected because it was favoured vise me to go to England to practice Life for most of us is a chancey by our kcal minister: Had. it not m t • and thing. sequence, sent hint to Washington; thence to Tokyo; and thence to The Hague. Had it not been for that' casual him away from Jock, from the de- gradation and obscurity of this asso- ciation, from the miseey of his pres- ent humiliating circumstance. In. this mood of fiery deliverance did Jocelyn Harlowe in one of her own gowns—for Lynda Sandal had been condemned to •death—approach her father's new abiding place. Tho respectable quarters gave a first turn of the screw to Jocelyn's imperturbability. They were to her taste so pitifully second-rate, so much Iess endurable than the shabbier and more adventurous setting in which she had found Nick before; a drear- ily clean lodging, the second floor of what once had been a.privlate house downtown and far •over on the west side. Nick was obviously ill at ease ill its stiff ugliness but also just as obviously proud to receive her in a room of respectable cleanliness, new- ness and unsullied past. There was no sign of Ayleward's presence. She had removed her hat and coat and Nick was staring at her. Instead of answering her question he seowl- el. "So you're Miss Jocelyn Harlowe tonight, are you?" "No," said Jocelyn quickly, scent- ing trouble in the air, "although you once said you would like to see me again with sleek hair and in an eve- ning dress. But to you I am al- ways Lynda Sandal". • "I suppose you are. You would hardly, except by accident, expose Miss Harlowe in contamination. Isn't that it? I see you don't Iike the new apartment much better than you did the old ane. I'm afraid, my dear, that living up to you i$ just a stretch beyond us." "Nicht I think this beautiful aied much, much pleasanter.' And nearer for one too. May I see your other roans?" • Bent into the likeness of her first fearful glimpse of him he hobbled thrrongh ramble doors into a large bed- room and showed her a bath and a dressing -room beyond. "Axe you well again? Jock told me you'd been sicic with pain and fever:' "I'nr well. Come back and .sit down and ask me about my symptoms and my finances. Isn't that what the Lady Bountiful does when; she visits the poor?" "Fatherl You have no right to say such a cruel thing to me." (CONTINUED NEXT ISSUE) SIX MONTHS' TERM AND FINE FOR RIDICULE Henry Attder•sen's ridicule for uni- formed members of the 97th Battery at Walkerton brought him. a six months' term in the Ontario Reform- atory last week as well as .a fine of $200 or thea months more. The 42 -year-old .Norwegian incl- iner, edeller, who has made his home in Can- ada for twelve years, was convicted by Magistrate E. C. Spereman at Hamner last week under the Defens°, of Cana& Regulations. Andersen's ridicule of the recants for joining the army was intended to cause 'disaffection :to, His Majesty and likely to interfere with recruit- ing of His Majesty's forces, the mag- istrate ruled. of her course. It was the circumstance of a visit to our 'home of a young lady attend- ing Toronto Normal School when my sister was a student there that led, in the eaurse of the years to my circumstance of her convalescense af- ter a severe' illness which led -to : a correspondence between her and me that led to the ripening of a casual acquaintaneeship into eventual mar- r'iage. It was the eircumstance of the "panic" year of 1893 which led to which led to my remaining in Eng- ! Can anyone beat that record?—Luck- land until 1930', 'very happily tent- now Sentinel. played. It was e. Toronto friendship begun in 1903 which led to my being invited to return to Canada—to Toronto—in 1930—to become editor of a business paper —• a paper with which I have Maintained a connection ever since. It was the circumstance of a 1et- %NEE APORA CIGARETTE$ "The pate,, form 1n which tobacco can be ,molted" Golf, Tennis, Fishing, Riding, Yachting Victoria Sports During Winter Months E4 `a31"? olf, tennis, lawn bowling, riding, hunting and 'fishing ,nay be unusual winter sports for most of Canada but not for Vic- toria, beautiful Island capital of British Columbia, where snow is a novelty, flowers bloom throughout the year, and overcoats are excess baggage. Winter golf is the sport that attracts widest notice to Vic- toria's wonderful year-round cli- mate, but the West Coast has its. pilgrims who are drawn there each winter by the splendid wea- ther and the series of unusual sports and social attractions made possible by the fine weather, Winter fishing is a major sport in Brantwood Bay where sizeable grilse and spring salmon are caught by trolling. ,Fly fishing for steelhead salmon up to 20 pounds 18 found in east -slope rivers such as the Oyster, Cow- ichan, Englishman's, Nanaimo, and Big and Little Qualicum. Best known of the winter at- tractions is the Mid -Winter Crolf Tournament which will be held this year on the Royal Colwood course, March 2-9. Ram com- petition, a sporty course and good golfing weather, added to the many prizes 'of which the most important is the trophy presented by Sir Edward Beatty, make the tourney one of the most popular in Canada. Riding, hiking, lawn bowling, boating aro but a few more sports that are as popular in Victoria in winter asin summer. Fiestas are arranged from time to time, named • after flowers then in bloom. Probably the most pieta, resque celebration is tho Christ- mas festival in Old English style, complete with boar's head, yule logs, wassail bowl and carols. Victoria and the Empress Hotel I have enjoyed a growing popularity,. in recent years. A real impetus bas been given this season by the fact that foreign exchange under war preesure makes a Canadiart dollar worth considerably more in Canada than in the United States.