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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1939-11-16, Page 2WAGE2 THE CLINTON NIiWS-RECORD THURS., NOV. 16, 1939 apture `fie, yona' by KRTNRRIIIE tIEWUh BURT p ELEVENTH INSTALLMENT SYnopsie Jocelyn'HarIowe, raised in a French nxinvent, at the age of eighteen joins Baer mother, Marcella, in New York. Worried about .her safety, because she is unfamiliar with the modern world and has developed into a /beautiful woman, her mother's Erse wish is to get her safely married. Attending her first ball, Jocelyn Meets Felix Kent, rich, handsome and 'nineteen years older than herself. En- Icouraged by her mother, she and Felix quickly become engaged. Alone in her apartment one night, a cripple, Nick Sandal, enters .by the fire - 'escape, confides in her that he is her Sather and that her real name is Lynda Sandal. Visiting her father en his apartment, Jocelyn meets Jock .Ayleward, ' a gambler. When she men- tions the na'ine on Felix Rent, he tells Ins •story of how he was a mining en- zineer, worked for Kent, and was sent to jail for making what was adjudged a false affidavit. One night ,Jocelyn goes to a party with her • The Clinton News -Record 1 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 16e. 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 has a stroke from excitement. Lat-'dumb with terror and with'pain.'She er Jocelyn asks Felix about Jock and hurried out again into the street and he tells her that he's "iso good." Jock, I gave to a new driver Nick Sandal's meanwhile, has made up things with first address. Nick and tells Niek that he doesn't But the Japanese boy pattered glia - love Jocelyn. ly, "Mr. Sandal he give up room. No cam back, lady, Mr. Ayleward no come back. 'Nobody in room now." "I must go up and see for myself, I can't believe they would—" "Better not do that, lady." He ac- tually tried to keep her from. the stairs' but as she'pushed resolutely past hint he surrendered with an or- iental shrug and giggle. Lynda opened Nick's old door and found herself looking down upon Joek Ayleward: In the midst of a great confusion of things, of scattered clothing, of trunks and boxes, he knelt, busy with packing. Lynda went weak and breathless. "7s Nick here? I thought — I thought— she closed the door, fal- "What were you doing, 'saying, there—on your confounded knees . , holding her hands?" "I was teaching her sotnething abort my automatic pistol. I lost my head for.a second; but she do'esn't lose hers. I tell you I don't love Ther." Nick looked at him hard but could make nothing of the cool set .smiling face. ' The telephone on' the Wall across the room rang and after a second's hesitation and a glance at Nick, Jock answered it. "Yes; Ayleward. He's much bet- ter, thanks. . . You're phoning from a drug shire?' . , No, he won't see a doctor. No, I've tried that a thousand times. . Quite comifort- able now... No, he can't speak to you, Phone's too far from the bed. Yes, Pll give him your message. Certainly. Word for .word.", He istenecl for a longer interval and repeated slowly in a raised voice for Nick's/ benefit, "You will see him again before you are married, And if he sends for you you will come : no matter what the conse- quences to any one." "I am to tell ns:n what? Oh, yes, You want him . to know that you believe with all your heart — in — Felix Kent. Good-bye." Jock hung up the receiver, stood for an instant as though conten>- plating it and then returned to the foot of Nick's disordered bed. "That means —" Nick faltered, "that she will marry him." "Unless you stop her." Nick's ghastly face flushed pain- fully. "You expect me to stop her What business is it of urine? She is her mother's child, isn't she? Brought up by her mother on Jo- siah's money, Why should I inter- fere with a marriage arranged by her mother with a respectable man worth a million or so who happens to be in love with her—and to have made her love him, She loves him, Jock. She wouldn't marry him ir she didn't. Suppose that we do know, you and 1, from our worm's - eye view o of the underworld, son dirty facts about the man; would that justify me in smashing up her p.ospects, in hurting her, in hand- ing her hack to her mother for pun- ishment? unishment? Can I kidnap her, drag her down here to live on what you make, to share our most secure and delightful existence? Did you see Lowe and Drury looking at her? If I can't stand you touching her—" "That's all right, Nick. - Pipe down, will you? You'll be bringing back the pain. It's not my affair Whom Miss Sandal marries, I'd like to spoil Kent's prospects, though. I know him and I don't trust him to make any woman happy. After he'd got me put out of the way back there in Rappel, there was a girl... but, as you certainly know her situ- uation better than I do. We—I mean yon, haven't much to offer her if we . . , if you should smash up her life. Myself, I thought from the start we ought to give her the slip, make a quick getaway and leave her as she was. And what with the joys snatched hien back front death. of matrimony and all that — she'll H. T. RANCE Notary Public; Conveyancer Financial. Real Estate and Fire In- sarance Agent. Representing 14 Fire Insurance. Companies. Division Court Office. Clinton :Frank Fingland, B.A., LL.B. teamster, Solicitor, Notary Public Successor to W. Brydone, K.C. taloa( Blocs — Clinton, Ont. D. H. McINNES CHIROPRACTOR Electro Therapist, Massage c4titce: Huron Street. (Few Deans west of Royal Bank) Hours—Wed. and Sat. and by appointment. FOOT CORRECTION to manipulation Sun -Ray Treatment Phone 20'1 GEORGE ELLIOTT 1L1censed Auctioneer for the Counee of Huron 'Correspondence promptly answered Immediate arrangements can be made 'for Sales Date at The News -Record /Clinton, or by calling phone 203. 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Parties desiring to effect insur- 'ance or transact other business will the promptly attended to on applies• ikon to any ,of the above officersad- elfessed to their respective post offs ccs. Losses inspected bythe di rector who lives nearest the scene. BAS titit ' LAT, t b ''11,. TIME TABLE, 'Teraina 'veils arrive at and depart from, Clinton as follows: Buffalo and Goderich Div. 'Going East, depart 6.43 a.m. hong FI*st, depart 1.00 p.m Going West, depart 11.45 a.m. Going West, depart 9.50 p,nr. London, Huron & Bruce 'Going North, ar 11.21, Ivo. 11.47 a.m. going South ar, 2.60, leave 3.08 p.m, can't begin ' to knave him' as I ' do, We're beaten men; Nick and I; but we'll hang ;together. If you dove this Felix Rent better not meddle with his records. Let him start fresh with you, (MI my soul's honor, I ]mow that ;:ww1'.•.'.:'J!Yrr.'4rerev.v.m.v..Si .•iv r.'.•■wr5i:'dweve.wooY.r.o YOUR WORLD AND MINE s ■ (Copyright) he did me a black wrong, but if you n' by JOHN C. KIRKWOOD "Wait. 1. will not starry a dishon ,V1-; .r.WS•■„ . ....ni i i a'a'ro.YrWINA ri MR•r1°r°y of■yWrr ee: o2ed moor.Y our ma y comes ! too late. Now I must snow all the Most of us, I fancy, talk and think minims; Hes feeling• about his troops truth there is to know about Fellx seems to have resembled a miser's Kent." feeling about his money: he loved to "And if you. find out-" collect them, and to count them, to "Then I will. never marry him, see them . increase. "And and I shall have spoiled your happiness." "Thai can't be helped. I could not be happy in my life if I were not satisfied of—your dishonor."" "As against his?' It is a sort of duel. I wish l- could fight it out with him myself." His face was dark and his hands worked. "I am going now. I' won't wait for Nick. I don't believe you will be cruel. enough, now to take him away from me. Let me go, Jock." "Yes. Yes. I will. Yes. Go away. Go as fast as you can. There is wine - thing in your eyes. . . I shall be kissing you toi death ::." • She fled front hien. She heard her- self laugh'•ing breathlessly as she ran down the stairs. When Jocelyn arrived back in her loam by way of the fire escape. she switched on. her light and saw at: once tered over to the old sofa and sat'lthe tracks of a man's feet across her down there as though 'her legs refused I carpet and the door she had left now to hold her up. 1 standing wide. Nick had been there "You thought we'd given you the to see her! He had repented of his slip? We were foolish enough to' flight and.wit'hout daring to tell Jock think so too. Fuji down there had of his weakness had come back to his orders." a lot about the cent war. And most of us are deeply interested in revelations °i the character of the German people. It is gnanimilt element both possible and probable that there is no. uni- Frederic, surnamed the Great son versal German character, f or Ger-' of Frederic Willem, wasborn to mamy's, people are a composite o2 Jan. 1712. Oliver Twist in the par - several races. Just as we in, Canada ish workhouse, Snake at Dotbeboys distinguish between the eharaoter of Hall, were petted children when conn those living in the Maritimes and pared with this wretched heir appar- those Eviing in the Prairie Provinces, ent of a ero'wn. The nature of Flatl- and' between fhe character of those eric William wan hard and bad, and living in Ontario and those living. in the • habit of exercising arbiinaa'y Quebec, so it is probable that the power had made hits, frightfully tsav- Germtans thzmselves consider them age. His rage constantly vented it - selves • as having differing characters'. self . to right and left in curses and Thus', the Prussians regard' them- blows. When his Majesty took a selves• es being different, in many, walk every human being fled before many ways, from the Germans. living hint, as if :a tiger had broken loose near the borders.'of Italy, from a menagerie, If he meta lady In this contribution to the. Newse in the street, he gave her a kick and Record I wish to copy from an essay told her to go home and mind her of Lord Macaulay's on Frederick the brats. But it was in his own house Great wham he had to !say about the that . he was most unreasonable and character of Frederic Wilhelm, father ferocious. His palace was hell, •and of Frederic the Great, I imagine that he the most execrable of fiends. His what lelacaulay wrote about 100 years own mind was uncultivated, IIe dfa- ago is not being widely read' today, seised literature. The business of life and so what I copy may be new to according to him was to drill sand bo most of my readers. drilled. The recreations suited to a prince were to sit in a cloud of to- bacco 'smoke, to sip Swedish beer be- tween the puffs of the pipe, to play backgammon for three halfpence a rubber, to kill wild hogs, and to shoos • partridges by the thousand. "I went past Fuji, Nick—?" "He has gone out." "And you were going to leave with- out a word to me? Nick was going too . ." "It was my plan" "I'nt sure of that. From the begin- ning you've tried to separate us. C'an't you see how wicked that is! And how selfish. I can help 'him, save him." "Save him — from what?" She flushed but went on bravely, "From you, Jock Ayleward. From this life of his with—you." Jock began to move up and down the littered room. "If I truly thought it would be pos- sible for you to take care of him, to snake him happy, Lynda—" She lilted —she could not help liking the way ho spoke her name. "But When you are married, when you are Mrs. Felix Kent .. ' "When I am Mrs. Felix Kent .I shall be much more able to take care of him, to make him happy. Then I shall be free." "Oh, Oh, you will be free?" Felix is very generous and very her. To find her gone? She callee softly, "Nick! Nicks" No answer. She :searched the apartment. It was empty. She went slowly back and locked herself in and. got herself to bed. Sleep. tante unwillingly and fitted her mind IightIy, without ease. "Jocelyn. Wake up. Wake up." It was Marcella, half dressed and crying huskily. Marcella, shaking her. "The jewels'—the jewels are gone. Get up and help me. Tell me where you've hidden them." "Mother, Mother, please! 'What is the matter? What have I done?" (CONTINUED NEXT ISSUE) THE MERCHANT • Generally an all round good fellow, Frederic Wilhelm — or William - was a prince so writes Macaulay --, whose character was disfigured by odious voices, and whose eccentricities were such as'bad never before been seen out of a madhouse. Tee mind of Frederic William was so i11 regulated that all his inclinations .be- came passions, and all his passions partook of the character of moral and intellectual disease. His parsi- mony generated into sordid avarice. His taste for military pomp and order became a mania. While the envoys of the Court of Berlin were in a state of such squalid poverty as moved the laughter of foreign capitals, while the food placed before the princes and princesses of the blood -royal of Prus- sia was too scanty to appease hung- er and so bad that even hunger loath- ed it, no price was thought too ex- travagant for tall recruits. The ambition of the king was to but of necessity se gambler. He tries to form a brigade of giants, and every guess what the price of merchandise Country was ransacked by his agents will be six months ahead. If he ,lays for men above ordinary stature. These• in a big stock and the prices go up researches were not confined to lie is a "wise guy.". But if he guesses Europe. Na head that towered above wrongly and prices go down, his cus- the crowd in the bazaars of Aleppo, toners buy somewhere else and he is or Cairo, or of Surat, could escape the crimps of Frederic William. (Inc Irishman more than seven feet high who was picked up in London: by the Prussian ambassador received a bounty of 21300—very much more than the ambassador's salary. Though a poor business manager. kind. I will tell him about Nick and But whether he guesses rightly or I know that 'he'll help me to make wrongly, he has to pay a good share him comfortable." of the taxes to keep the sidewalks and "How, with both eyes shut you, roads in good repair so that his cus- must love and trust this—Knave of tamers San ride or walk to send their Diamonds:" money from the post office to a mail his dominant passion was the love of "I forbid you to speak of him to order house a hundred miles oz' so military discipline, Frederic William me except with the respect you owe away. was yet one of the most pacific of him!" However, Ise is always the first re- �' •— "The respect I owe him!" membered when the subscription list "Asks Kent. then about your father is passed around, His presence is mis- now. Tomoavow. Tell him about me. sed when he doesn't attend every Pitt him to the test" meeting or gathering, and Ise is a "I will." Her heart labored. "Yes, cheap skate when he doesn't buy a I will. I've ;already asked him about half dozen tickets for every local pro - you." "Did you ask him to prove be ease?" "Why should I? To me it's proved by his word." gram staged. IIe dresses itis windows with nice displays, tinct he is' called a grouch when some organization asks for space for a poster to be pasted in "Then ask him to show you his I the window in front.of his display correspondence with Algernon Talley and is demures. during the summer of 1920. He heel Ile must also gamble on the weath- them somewhere, in sense loekcd er. If it is cold in the spring, his drawer—in some safe. .Jove! If I! shelves are piled high with summer could find them!" goods, and should there be a nice fall, "If there are such papers, I'll find, he carries most of his goods over un - them for you, Joek." 111 next season.She spoke icily, contemptuously butt: Only those who are in business he caught at her speech as though it know what it's all about in trying to please the public, Thus this little article. So give the merchant and business man a break. Ile deserves it. morethan many appreciate. forget nus fast enough." "We? Us?." Nick jeered, jerking about for he was again in pain on body and .his mind was tormente'l liy jealousy. "Where the deuce do you come in? Go get my' coffee. I'll work this thing out for myself without your advice, you meddling "You will? You'll do that? You'll look' for them? Without his knowl- edge?" "0f course. But I shalt find path- ing. "And if you find 'the letters?" "If I . find even a scrap of paper Thirty Million Tons More Ierttaiit flans to Meet Enormous that has, anything to do with your young fool. If it Weren't for -you,i case, I promise you that you shall Coal Demands Lhe matter would be simpler. I have it." Britain is planning to increase her won't see her now as. long as you're "You'll give me evidence that will output of coal about 30,000,000 tons with 'me. For there'sone thing I put your --husband the man you love; a year, won't let her do; I'm blasted if I'll let her fall in love with Jock Ayle ward." Jock went off to got the coffee. When he came back five minutes' later In danger of a prison sentence?" "If the man I love were capable of seeding aninnocent man to prison for the sake of stealing a million dollars from his friends, he could never be Nick was white again and still and my husband" the result of negatations now being humble, I -Ie moved up and down, up and actively pursued with Italian Govern - "Look here, Jock. You're right, and down, opening and shutting bis stands. rent. I'm the fool. We ought to pull up She said, "Ah, now•you're nob quite Tinder the terms of the Anglo - stakes and get out of the poor girl's se ready to desert ,me,, to carry Nick Polish Agoeemrent, now at eon encs away, now that you think I may have because Polish mines are in Ger- something, myself, to give you, even many's possession.,: the valuable if it is at the cost of my own hap- Scandinavian 'minket was divided resp' loving her. And we -can't do her Please?" almost equally ,between, Britain and any good. Only it makes, rue writhe IIe looked at that, again bewildered Palmer'Britain is maldng'a bold ef- to think . . • that she will belong at- and in pain, "See mire. Sit down. fort not only to retain 'its share of ways now—to—to her mother. . I've got to 'think this oat." this market, ' but to increase it. I'm tempted to steal the girl, to came She did go back and sat down by Proposals whereby Britain's coal her off . . to marry h• eY to you.' r l z rYY the table. Jock lighted ' J 1 nL d. C a Cl f 1 R. P n oLte and production can be bd gu early .expanded kIere Jock tln'ew the tan ail Much of the extra coal will be used to meet the increasing demands of the export market. Bigger supplies are required by France, and large orders are expected from Italy as life. If you don't love her now, you if she keeps running in on you. I can't believe that any man coda 1 Y with its contents straight across the moan It was the fresh dark satin: of this coffee on the blue flowered wall paper p Loud cr • 'L•: p .feu ly still ;emceeing ie turd nate beeng submitted to the Govern - thinking. She found herself, longing mein; by the coal -owner's and coal - for Ayleward's touch, She wanted 01iher IS organisations. The coal" is hint to icneel down. before bee tool. there, and so are the men who can that the landlady Mrs• Gillie sard'oni-, press his :forehead to her 'hander to win it from the earth, Bally pointed out to Lynda Sandal say, "I love . I love . ." The Government is anxious to when, on the following Tuesday highs, ":Lynda, yon'cl better ehucic the achieve the additional output because she carne to see her father. Iwhole complication, I was, eight when of the importance of maintaining "Maybe you'll believe now that told Nick we must get' out oi' your export trade as as means of paying they've, gone." Lynda had insistae I life be'for'e we do more damage. Liston ;for increased, imports duo to the de - upon seeing the empty apartment for to me, dear. This is s t:silent. Nick mends of ware a ftnal proof of Mrs. Gallo's elate- wouldn't let you help him. He couldn't mesa, "They paid their rent and dame bear to touch a penny of bent's ages. Then the two of diem wasted I money, even lame yam blessedfing- out on me." fors. _I know Nick, And with all the Jocelyn hardly listened. She wsua election in 'the World, you don't; and II•ome industries will also want more coal than formerly, now that munition and other factories involved in the country's war effort are corn- ing into maximum production, The Prince Royal showed little in- clination either for the serious em - his father. He performed skillfully on the flute. His instructors had awakened in bim a strong passion for French literature and French society. Frederick William regarded these tastes as effeminate and contempt- ible. The ordinary malignity of Fred- eric William was not bad enough. He now thought that malignity a pars of his duty as a Christian man. The flute was broken; the French books were sent out of the palace; the Prince was kicked and cudgelled, and pulled by the hair. At dinner the plates were hurled at his head; some- times he was restricted to bread and water; sometimes he was forced to swallow food so nauseous that he could not keep it on his stomach. Once his father knocked him down, dragged him along to a window, and was with difficulty prevented from strangling him with the cord of the curtain. The Queen for the crime or not wishing to see her son murdered was subjected to the grossest indig- nities. Driven to depair the unhappy Youth tried to 'run away. Then the fury of the old tyrant rose to madness. An accomplice of the Prince was mercilessly put 'to death, It. seemed probable that the Prince himself would suffer the same fate. - After months of cruel suepenes Frederic leeenecl that his life would be spared.m He reained, however, long a pris- oner. • The old king's 'health was broken; hie end was approaching. Ile l nsI only one pleasure left -that of seeing tall 'soldiers. He could always be, propitiated by a present of a grena- d�ier of six feet four os.' six feet five and such presents. were from time to time judiciously offered by his son, I Early in the year 1740 Frederee William exist death with a fnunneie and dignity worthy of a Netter and a wiser man, and Frederic, who had just completed his twenty-eighth year became King of Prussia. It sooty became plain that, in the most im� octant points, P p the new euro- ereiga bare a 'strong family likeness to his predecessor. Te both were Sem- i/non the love of order, the lave of business, the military:taste, the parsimony, the ineperiows spirit, the temper is'ritable even to ferocity, the !pleasure in the pain and humiliation of others. Frederic was, we fear, nee malevolent as hie father. Frederic by no means relinquished his hered• itary privilege of kicking and cudgel. ling, I do not propose carrying on the foregoing extracts from Macaulay's essay on Frederic the Great—to tell of the developing character and power of this sovereign. Yet'I would. point out that many of the qualities and characteristics of Frederic William' and of Frederic his son were trans- mitted' to Germany's last emporer, William II—the kaiser, who is now in isolation at Doom in Holland. William II had the same intoler- ance, the same love of fine soldiers. and of military display, the same are ragance, that his forebears had. Germany's kings has not been very admirable. There was evil blood in them. To this day the shanty, the contempt of their subjects, the lust for power, the roughness of manners of German kings have been com- municated to the German aristocracy, ' and in particular to those who coo.- stitute the military caste, Those Ise high places in Germany have to this day a lust for power and authority', and a dream of a Germany whose domain wilt widen to India and far- ther. It will take centuries of humiliating and corrective experience to eliminate ,from the German character its ar- rogance, Yet' eve are hoping that the sahrtary disciplining of Germany hay begun—thanks to Britain and France. t richtEET "The purest Form s, which tobacco est be stoked" E "Oh, dear," sighed the first, "I'in so tired. I finally found what I wanted, but I'm worn out" "It's' lovely," sighed the second, "but I paid more than I wanted to." "It's easy," said the third. "I've been studying the advertisements for days, and I knew where to look for what I wanted—and how much I'd have to pay." It . 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