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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1939-11-30, Page 2PAGE 2 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD J' by KRTNErE IIEWLII BURT 0 ariecteerawamemeaseravateleteataa SYNOPSIS THIRTEENTH INSTALLMENT Jocelyn Harlow°, raised in a Preach convent, at the age of eighteen joins her another, 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 first wish; is to ,get her safely married. Attending her- :Oast er:first ball, Jocelyn meets Felix Kent, xieh,:handsome and nineteen. years older than herself. E000uraged'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 thathe is her father and that her Teal 'name is Lynda Sandal. Visiting her father in his apartment, Jocelyn 'meets Jock Ayleward, a gamblers When she mentions the name Felix Kent, he tells his story of, how he was a mining engineer, worked under Kent, and was sent to jail for making what was adjudged: a false affidavit. Jocelyn refuses to belieVc him, but, after seeing more of Jock, and after he has kis;;ed• her passionately during moment they had alone, she "says that she will search Kent's safe for papers on the case and won't .marry him if she finds what Jock says ra true. When asleep one night, Joce- lyn's• mother wakes her and says that het jewels have been stolen and Joce- The Clinton News -Record with which is incorporated THE NEW EIRA.• ' TERMS' OF SUBSCRIPTION &1:60 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 peid "unless at the option of" the pub- lisher. The date to which every sub- scription is paid is denoted on the label. lyn suspects Jock or her father. decides to starry Felix within a week and tells hint so. Returning to her Mine shefinds a detective with her mother. He is saying that he had seen Jocelyn going into her father's apartment. Miss Jocelyn Hasiowe came into that room quickly with her proudest grace. . Marcella hi said, This is my laugh- ter, Mr. Catring. She has been told of-eny lose." "May I question Miss Iarlowe?" "Why, yes, 'I suppose you may. Sit down a moment, Jocelyn. I have call- ed a private detective. He sestet move very carefully," She sat down and directed bier calm eyes upon the strangers great expressionless and unbetraying orbs. "You were at home last night?" "Yes, Mr. Catring." "At what hour did you retire?" "About ten o'clock." "You .sleep in the small bedroom halfway down the passage?'' Yes." "I'v?e not yet examined your roam. May I go in now?" "May lie, Mother?" "Why, yes, I suppose so." Marcella's hesitation was curio It was' as though she offered a then withdrew opportunity for rn vestigation. Jocelyn went fust along the hal For' a merciful twenty minutes t She longer in his room nor was Jock Ayleward, They had really gone and had left her no .message or address. She stood on the doorsteps after Fuji had shut her out. She could think of no possible way, without police assistance, of discovering Nick's whereabouts.. Her lonely and fearful cogitation in that lonely and obscurely fearful. street was broken by the opening of the door behind her. It opened just wide enough to emit. a gran whose body for all its solidity' seemed to melt through the narrow space. She turned and faced Quayle. "(Loo; rig' for Jock Ay1'eward. girlie?" ' "I'm looking. for Nick Sandal; but --a" "I'll take you there baby, if . you sweeten the pot." f'13 simply) don't know what you mean." "What's the information worth to you, baby?" "I'll give you a dollar, two dollars, if you will tell me the address." He caught both her hands, felt the fingers through her gloves and de ped thane.. "No diamonds tonight, eh?" She was thankful she had slippe off her engagement ring when and, to make.your conscience easy and to ride clear, you've saddled Nick with some blested theft you;think you've discovered." "Stop. Da you imagine I am' haPPY -_--" "Happy?? Why should. I care?" She passed him presently and went toward the door on Which her fiance suffered ',impalement in effigy. Nick's head, high on a mound of dingy crumpled pillows, frightened Lynda, Her breath caught sharply and, not: knowing what she did, she clutched •at Ayleward's arm. "He's: asleep," Jack whispered. "But that's ` how he looks now when he sleeps. Do you want to wake him up and call him a thief?" Nick's hollow eyes opened, saw Lynda and he", smiled' the crooked charming smile. "Smart girl!" he said huskily. "How'd you find us? You're dead right, Jock. Not easy to lose a woman." • Lynda sat down beside flim and drew his hands into both of her own. She was in tears, Jock left them. "Nick darling," thief or no this she loved him, "you'v!e been sic 2 again?" "Pretty bad this time. Got:wet his face was wickedly amuse "climbing up a fire escape into. lady's bedroom window. I thought was stealing a march on my jailor Jock Ayleward, and all the while h had the lady to himself." "Father -- Nick - something ha happened," 1, 'Kent's found out about me an o thrown. you ower?" "No. On the contrary. I've decide d to 'marry him almost at once. In she 3 few days." "Good. That s very sensible of you. "1 must tell you, Nick." "Oh sure. The something that hap o pened to you!" "It didn't happen to me, Nick, but s to my mother. And it happened last THURS., NOV. 30, 1939 •YOUR WORLD Ni MIN: ' - (Copyright) j by JOHN C. KIRKWOOD arrn°""',r""a°m°"",T 'o"u"s`e°.v01rPa'� A book which I have been reading whether rich or poor, where ideals starts off with; a very vivid deserip- and love of learning and culture have tion 01 a very ugly, American city- sovereignty. or section of a city, presumably Pitts -1 --�_ burg. Steelburg• is the name given What is in my nand is this:: all, to this city, or section thereof -,i of tis have, to fight daily against' that part of the city where the` steel environments and backgrounds, and: mills are. Furnaces and the gases' conditions olid influences. which are and the smoke make the city foul hardening and depteessing, and and .destroy verdure and foliage and coarsening• pollute the air,' The filth of every -}We may:not be able to esea pe from thing has its deadly and deadening our • enviromient and background, sans effect of human beings, Houses and' if this be the case, then we ought, homes are filthy;,;also faces and in all piossble' ways, to try to neutral- not try to alter his lot lie change has clothing. Probably also, minds. It ire their bad effects on our minds cnctunstances, or that should ce t 'without p tivr u pi: crest ev°n 'cam lac- ee- ls a ver terrible spurt, mariners ' P Y. le pictuire which is ,habits:- Mast Berta painted in the o enin ch lY, we ought not all Certain- eTtly his present environment. What, book.` P g chapter of this be conqueredg . ovv Ourselves td Loan trying to say is: if one's present by our environment and lot or• cireumst stance: environment 'background. Nor ought we to let no-- 1 .• ori s. oa nvnronanent As I read this chapter and tithes tures be roti is prejudicial to rho attainment of a ed di the circumstance higher cultural and intellectual and' chapters, I had'borne in on me that we are handicapped heavil b afresh y y spiritual life, then one should not ler - Y �gOU �Rr E S i A -p E if you want a prompt, economical,' business- like.administration ni Your' vita#e, none 055 your EXECOTQR T H TERLIN .� r�p�a �4�aST CORPOI ATIOi'l 372 BAY ST., TORONTO OVER 20 YEARS EXPERIENCE the part that environment and ' 'background play in our lives. I sup - 't pose that most of us reflect our en - vi onmelnt-in our minds, our charaw ters, habits, manners. Environment of others known to us, and to allege d' stamps itself on us as a seal im- quer and to escape -to- become fiber- ' that there is great injustice in; both presses wax -it leaves a replica of earth and heaven. There is viery little ated from coarsening and debasing I itself on us. if we are brought up evenness in Nature. In all creation things, f a -of co to reach higher e in homes where is coarseness, unxo- there are inequalities, but who is to levels of life -of fortune ort, of educe - e021 by any beauty or gentleness, say that inequalities represent z kion, of worldly fortune and of ex - comfort, of which we cannot alter. It is woi.•se than foolish to compl'ai n that our lot' chid eiretumetance are worse than the lot and circumstances his handicaps defeat hint. There is a call to the handicapped person 'to fight against what holds him down and back -this in a purpose to coma had changed her clothes, 1 '"What you got in that bundle then we are pretty certain to shout r justice or even misfontuno? In caret P games there are low' cards and high Man does not allow horses and cards. If all card's were identical, cattle end pigs and fowl and sheep there could be no game. If all race to remain at low levels of breeding: horses had equal 'speed, there would mato breeds and cross -breeds in a be no Horse -racing. If all men had purpose to improve his animals •and equal minds, there would be no gen- fowl; his wheat and other cereals, Ids fuses. If all men had equal mental fruits and his vegetables. He does ability, there might be no schools, no I not let his soil alone, but cultivates books. If all men had equal daring, and fertilizes it in a purpose to make there might be no adventuring. It it more productive: Man is not can - all men had (equal fortunes, there tent with huts and sheds; he devises might be no employers, no businese structures incomparably better. So enterprise. If all the wood of trees why should man not strive, similarly, had equal hardness or softness, there and for similar reasons, to improve would be no tropics, no temperate his own lot? zones, no exotics. If one asks, Haw can I overcome Right-minded People accept the my bad or handicapping environmens fact of difference in the make-up of and background?, then the answers this world -in the fields of intellect, I could be many. One way is to• have fortune, character, spirit, environ- a high purpose or objecticge of pur- ment, society. And it is not proven suit -where one lives and works. This that great worldly fortune is a better ,purpose or objective may have reIa- ot for anyone than is low worldly tion to books or study. Another way ortune. It is not proven that the is to give oneself to good works, for possession of a brilliant mind is bet- it is in self -standing for other's good er than the o' I that we ptuify our livres, and assure s' coarseness in our conversations and' habits and manners. If we are an brought up, in homes where is no love of books, of fine things, of fine ways d of living, then the character of such a a home is pretty certain to be• trade visible in our way'and speech. Fort- unately, however, we can change our ways and speech -by changing our ` environment and background, and by purposeful seeking ' for something better. he How much swag you got with yau? inspection of her own room was d layed. Catring stayed first to amine Mary's quarters, . Marcel having told him that the woman gone out for half an hour and th it might be well to take advanta of leer absence for this purpose. During that twenty minutes Joe yrs took down her skirt and tam -o shanter and jacket from the dos hanger and hook, folded them flatly as she could and laid them b tween her mattress and the spring Later, she thought, she must t them into the river. Mr, Caring came in at his leis and made a quick and sharp exam nation of her closet, her bathroom her window and her fire escape. ooked down for some time at the had left, Quayle turned into a pat- "Ten dollars - ,cis my word _ honor." is "Bologney! A swell dame like you „ had Fork it out then, girlie,.Pll delive goods " th"Not yet. First tell me where Ni ge 15?,r e_ "No, baby. But I'll take you ther 'on my word of honora" H et mimicked her swift proud young TM as so perfectly that she was startle e_ "Come on now. Have same sense. For a. a dime,, I'd frisk you, bundle and all. brovr She gave him her money. He wen past her rapidly and she followed him are She knew that she was in danger t- even in great danger, but she co think of no other swift and certain. )ie way of finding Nick, the At the cornea of the building th court below with its openings into ADVERTISING RATES - Transient 1 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 1.5c. Rates for display advertising . made l,-nown on application. Communications intended for pub- lication must, as a guarantee of good 1 faith, be accompanied by the name of the writer. er night. Same one broke in." "Don't tell me some one has stolen hex jewels." Nie "Yes, Nick. They were hidden be- hind the little altar in her shrine, e that alcove where, she prayed, and roe last night some one entered the apartment, found that difficult hid- ' sing place and emptied it. The jewels must be very- valuable. I saw them once, a sort of web of stones, diamonds, and emeralds and sap- phires and rubies too." uld "You snake my .mouth water. We could live 'like kings, couldn't we, Lynda, if we only had them. I could the kidnap you and take you to Bo- hemia on the other Side of the sea,' e She rose in panic, in contrition n "Nick, you're tired. Can I get you something?" a He' gestured faintly to a glass of medicine besile.iiis bed and she heist it, pungent and: Cloudy, to his lips , He drank it and lay back. "Good nig+tire he whispered. You'll be married -7" "Next Wednesday at noon, S Peter's." She discovered tears pour- ing down her face. "God bless the bride! I hope you catch the thief .in time to wear the web of jewels on your wedding day: le I can hobble I'll be at the church step la scare the color from your poor. little Lynda -face; but unlike , most fathers I wont' give you away. Good -by to Lynda Sandal." She kissed 'him with wet salty lips. He touched her cheek with, his; hand and smiled teasingly. She went out, feeling her way.. She would have gone straight through the outer room and from it if she had not found Jock barring her exit. "So you think you can just walk mar me and out like that, Miss Harlow°?" "Naturally: I think I can walk out of my father's rooms when I please." "Well, you. can't. You must learn something. Thieves are not •suc;i easy gentlemen to deal with." "It was you who took the jewels? Jock, give them to ire!" "What'll you give me for them?" "What have I got to give?" "One thing you haven't got, an imagination. But I believe that I can stimulate it." She found her hand captured in one of his, herself caught up against his hardness, her face turned: forcibly and she was kissed upon ;she lips by, a mouth" so fierce, ea starved, that all .memory of Felix's lover - kisses was burned at once away. She turned faint in his tight arms. When she could see and hear, Jed Was bending' over her. He was holding water to her lips... "Please let me go." "Are you -can 700.--.?" "Yes. I'll be well when I am - when you are -not .so close to me," She got . herself shakily to the door and opened lis `I shall be . married to Felix Kent next W edu'esday. Between now and Wednesday Pll go through the safe to his office where I've round our certainly that any sueh papers as you imagine may exist would races arily be kept I will promo tin you that I am not, afraid of finding thein, And by g decision to marry Mr. Kent so quickly I'hope that I have proved to you that I did not hest - ate because of anything you've ever aid to me. Also you must kn.oev of course , that there was never any question of -of a duel -for -for me. I am engaged to marry the 'man I want for my husband. You are to me -a convict and a thief. I have - are horror of yam." (CONTINUED NEXT ISSUE) G. E. HALL - - Proprietor ' H. T. FIANCE Notary Public, Conveyancer Financial. Real Estate and Fire In :eurance Agent, Representing 14 Fire 1 alley. He went forward again with M cella and the endless tormenti patter of his questions continued 1 an hour. Thereafter he' made anoth inspection of her apartment and sage that without his guidance sh would not have seen at all. It ra Ma • between blind high walls and smelled ng of sewage. or It debouched presently into a al er ley -way almost as narrow and, atter a few steps along the gutter of this e- Quayle stopped at a door. "Nick's up there, first landing, the n door under the light. I'll wait for of . you," said Quayle. ook fingerprints of all the hous Insurance Companies. h Division Court Office. Clinton Frank Fingland, BA., LL,=B, dlerrister, Solicitor, Notary Public Successor to W. Brydone, K.C. ISloar; Bloch Cluiree. Ont, a old and' at long last departed, No sooner had he gone Cha Jocelyn came quickly to- the sound Iter niothel"s terrible weeping. Marcella crouched down on th brocaded sofa and cried as a vict` of long torment might have erie is abrupt cessation.' Jocelyn kne beside her. "Mother, dearest! Don't, pleas on't. Can't we let the jewels go be Happy? We have each other, we have Felix." "Marry him, Marry him," gaspe Macella. "Yes, I will. As soon as you lik Next week. ,I've told him so." "ASI Thank God! Then you'll safe." "Mother, what are you afraid of I can't leave you in any danger." "There's no danger:. Nothing rea I am not afraid." "Mother, you're ill with fear!" "No. No. It's what I Bate with al ways. Jocelyn, let me 'go now. Fil- m calm myself. Catring will fin them, Meanwhile I must forget. We'l talk about your wedding." "You won't tell me then., Mother the story of your jewels?" For an instant she thought s h e would' be struck. Her mother's arm was lifted. "Go to yam room. How dare you question me? I'l] tell you nothin Not a: word. There ie no story. Why shouldn't I. have jewels? Why do you think such things? Leave me alone I don't want any one; I want to be alone." Jocelyn remained alone at her win- aw to stare out at the strange tight - Inocity ... of Mars, of Martian , . , of her own strange race; and to ink out coldly:and .fiercely what ust new be done before her wedding ay, She said to Lynda Sandal, "You st find Nick, if he is to be found d persuade him to return the wels." She said to Jocelyn Haslowe, "De- e you marry Felix Kent you must eve to Ayleward and to yourself hat you do not fear the contents at t 'safe.' Arid spealcing in the character of Mrs. Felix Kent she said • to both these S, "You must be very careful and must not be afraid," The least careful thing she did was dress that night in. the tam and the Iret and the pleated skirt and to m out of her bedroom window. She ant to find Nick if she could and ersuade him to return the jewels. would also leave with him the er semblance of Lynda Sandal for astruction and return in the:clothes carried in `a parcel under her ht arm. ut she found that Nick was no Children cannot, in their eariy years, change their environment and background -no more than they can their parents; but when they grow into adolescence and into their 20's, then they are likely to have the power of choice. It is to be hoped that also they have the. will' to change their ways -this when these are law grade. I aur not throwing any stones at 1 Meares where there may be great plaiimess, find even poverty. Perhaps most of us --especially those of tis now in our 6O's and 70's and 80's were brought up in. homes where there was no abundance, and had parents but poorly educated, accord- ing to echoed standards. Yet in the very poorest homes of past days there• were born, children who in their later) years attained to fano and honor and' eminence and power. Robert Burns I is an illustration. In many of.tliese� ptior •homes'vvere parents of lofty! ideals, and there was a love and esteem of books and learning. Blea- d St sed' are they who are born in homes, t p session of a very ordinary mind. It is riot proven that the inflow of cleansing and ennobling eminence is better fol• its possessor and exalting forces Another way is than is obscurity 00 partial obecuittyito formulate fine ideals and to at - hall another man. And is speed the tarur them by resolution applied to chief desideratum in a horse? May pa pose and effort. Another way is not the percheron havfe a value equal 1 to keep ourselves sensitive and re- n to that of the thoroughbred? And sponsive to all agencies -al -lumen and n fundamental things, may not the inanimate - which can protect us so-called' pogr, man be rncher than the{against rho coarsening corroding and ultra -rich' man? What are values, f debasing factors of our environment anyway? Are they always to :red and employment. measured only by the yardstick of I am hoping, of course, that some ollars? of my readers will be •heartened and "No. They - they will take me o home." tin "Just as you say, baby. You're as d. cute as they make 'eni, anyway." It She draped his hands and fled up- stairs. D. H. i1ICINNE�S i d Y. CHIROPRACTOR Electro Therapist, Massage Office: Enron Street. (Few Doors west of Royal Bank) Hours -Wed, and Sat, and by appointment. FOOT CORRECTION ae manipulation Sun -Ray Treatment Phone 207 • GEORGE ELLIOTT Licensed Auctioneer for the Couute of Huron. Correspondence ' promptly answered immediate arrangements can be made for Sales. Date at The News -Record, (Dilutor, or by calling phone 203. 'Charges Moderate and Satisfaction Guaranteed. THE McKILLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company Head Office, Seaforth, Ont. Y Officers: President, Thomas Moylan, Sea - forth; Vice- President„ William Knox, Londesboro;- Secretary -Treasurer, Td, A: Reid, Seaforth. Directors, Alex. Broadfoot, Seaforth; Tames Sholdice, Walton; James Connolly; Goderich; W. R. Archibald, Seaforth; Chris. Leonhard, Dublin; Alex. McEwving, 81 th; Frank McGregor, Clinton. o The room was lighted by one his- s sing gas jet on the wall. It was bare, dirty, silent, but showed traces of recent occupancy. - Facing her d against another door, a playing card was fastened to the panel by a knife e' 'This card was the Knave of ` Diam- onds. She saw that on a sort of cot be against another wall, with his face in his ;arms, Jock Ayleward lar asleep. . • She wanted to Nee only Nick and 1, stepped softly forward to look for him in the, room behind that murder- ously decorated door. But Jack started. and rose up, dis- beveled. Ile was dressed Iike a work- d ingman in a_ flannel shirt and cord - 1 uroy trousers, 31e hurried: toward her, saw than , she: looked from him to the card against the. door anti flushing faintly he laughed in a key of triumph. "Got him, haven't I? You've brought the letters!" She forced herself to' a cold and g, measured utterance. "I didn't come here in your interests, Mr. Ayleward, I haven't anything for you. I came to get something of value, Is Nick here?" "He's asleep inside there. He's been 01 again. That night, when you were here -no, not there-.," "You mean last night?" "Saints in heaven, was it only last night?" "Yes. It was last night while you kept me in your roams that Nick went to see me. Perhaps you both knew that I had gone out. He carne and stole my mothers jewels." Jack came at her round' the corner of a table. Hie right 'hand shot out and snapped about her wrist. "Now call Nick a brief again, you lying---" "I'm not afraid of you," she said evenly although his face close above hers was' almost terrible, "I've called 8 Nick a thief because, though it has hint live horribly, I absolutely believe. that he is one. I know he took the jewels." "Don't let thin hear you say that. i; Don't let him know you think it. s You'll kill him! ii he took jewels they're his own." "Do you know that?" "I don't know anything," he had abruptly lost his• voice and could speak only in a whisper, "except that I am in hell loving' you." "You've decided to throw us' over d: List of Agents: E. A. Yeo, R.R. 1,• ed odorich, Phone 603r31, Clinton; ln ames Watt, Blyth; John E. Pepper,Ith rucefield, 31. R. No, 1; R. F. McKor- m d mu an je. far pr t tha girl you to jac oro. Eli b °her, Dublin, R. R. 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