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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1939-12-07, Page 2PAGE 2 THE CLINTONNEWS-RECORD THURS., DEC. 7, 1939 apture Beyond by KATNRRIIIE IIEWLIII BURT p r SYNOPSIS FOURTEENTH INSTALLMENT Jocelyn Harlowe, raised in a French convent, at the age of eighteen joins .her 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 first wish is to get her safely married. Attending her first ball, Jocelyn meets Felix Kent,' rich, handsoane and nineteen years older than herself. Eneouraged 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 father and that her -real name is Lynda Sandal. Visiting her father in his apartment, Jocelyn meets Jock Ay'award,. a gambler, 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 malting what was adjudged a. false affidavit. Jocelyn refuses to believe `him, bur, .after seeing more of Jock, and after he has kissed her passionately during .a moment they had alone, she says that she will search Kent's safe for papers on the case. When asleep one night, Jocelyn's another wakes her and says that her jewels have been stolen and Jocelyn suspects Jock or her fath- 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. m' 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. 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"You'll let me know when you are going to look into that safe"? "I will let you know. You'll be here?" "Yes." He gave her the number and the name of this' queer street. She looked about and fours' her- self asking in: a changed voice, "Why are you in such a place? Are you hiding from the police?" "No. I'd quit gambling and paid back some money. I had a job as a mechanic. But I'll pull some sort of game between now and next Wed- nesday so's I can look after Nick. Wait. I've a wedding gift for you." He took from the table drawer and handed to her the picture of his dog. "I won't want him any more after next Wednesday." "Why not?" • "Because, by the grace of God, be- fore that day it won't be only Roger but you who will be forced to be- lieve in me even if you are already Mrs. Felix Kent." She' said, looking him in the eyes, "I shall really be Mrs. Felix Kent. And I shall not be forced to believe in you. I've decided to make the search I promised only on one condition . " that you return the jewels." "Lynda!" "I shall be waiting." "Lord! I haven't got them." "You will find them if you look." "You made me a promise," "A promise to a thief!" "Is still a promise." "But you have done something - to mel" "I kissed you." "You forced your kiss upon wry mouth." She had begun to tremble now' and 'her voice shook. "For that I will change my promise to a I bargain." He was driven to a desperate jeeann'g: "So you don't triAst your Knave of Diamonds?" thinking of all day when I'm not with you. 1 was ashamed when I was in the office. I' didn't even know at first- don't laught at me! - than you were interested in mines. She boasted - yes, she really did beast, Felix _ in -a careful polite sort of way, that she' kiiew all 'about your affairs" "Which she doesn't not by a long shot." "She said you called her your `other safe'" "Well, I've got bigger and better ones whose contents are just as much Greek to Miss Rebecca Deal." "But she can get into them and find out for herself." "No, she can't, darling. Da you suppose she's got the combination?" "Oh, hasn't she?" Jocelyn whispered, "I wish - you will think I'm worse than a baby! - . but I do wish I could tell 'her that I knew that combination." Felix threw back his head ane laughed heartily and tenderly, the laughter" of an indulgent elder "Little goose! What good would that do you?" "No good of course. No practical good. but -spiritually " "Spiritually? To know the com- bination of an office safe?" "Well, psychologically then. It would give me a feeling of knowing you better, of being in your con- fidence, of being-." her voice fell, "really your wife... ." (And I ani going to be his wife, his faithful wife who,' to make amends for this one act of treachery -or is it an act of trust? -must obliterate from her mind all fanciful rebellions. So her writhing conscience justified itself.) Felix lifted the 'hair from one of the delicate close -set ears and bend- ing his mouth to it whispered, "Three -eight ... three turns to the left ... eight -five -two ...-two turns to the right. One -one -one -seven .. . six turns right. Six turns left. Did you get that, my sweet foolish wife?" "Say it again, Felix." He repeated it and she, in her brain of a schoolgirl, conned it over and over, sick with her own deception. To lie so in a man's, arms and to "Absolutely. I don't care really; cajole his secrets from him for what whether I open his safe or not. It might be ... no, she trusted him. would be considerably pleasanter for "It is to prove my copfidence in him. me not to open it" 1.. This conscience must be silenced! Jock faltered nearer, fell on his It is only to prove his honor in such knees before her, put his arms about a fashion that he may never know it hes' and pressed down 'his head has been questioned to rid myself of against her. He said nothing. I this -Other . • . this Other for - She stood there. She did not know over . and forever -and forever." that she had bent down her own' Next day she wrote h line to Jock: "you forced you r kiss upon me." head until her lips had touched his hair. He looked up into her face and rose and let her go. They did not speak again. She had entirely forgotten to change her dress. She had left her parcel in her father's room. It was not until she was in her soft and perfumed room in her bed, smooth and cool, and • had her head against her pillow that she began to think again. Then she sat upstraight from her pillow in the darkness and spoke aloud the truth: "I love Whim. Why, of course I love him." A truth that did not make her situation easier. "You're giving ane 'everything, Felix," Jocelyn murmured late one evening, the wedding day .j ust sixty-two' hours ahead, "except one thing and that is what I want most." He had been about to say good night. "Good! Now I'm going to hear something worth while. Just ask me for something good and difficult to get." "It's just - your confidence." "All right. You shall have it. What do you want to know? Ask me for a secret." "I can't ask for anything definite of course, But I do feel so outside your real life, Felix, your everyday interests; I mean." "Oh, you're jealous of Becky Deal again, are you? It that it?" "In a way. I truly am. She knows you, the real Felix Kent, better than I- do. She understands what you are "I must believe you have not been able to return the jewels, If I sue- ' Beed in arranging matters as I hope I'll come to you tonight about eleven o'clock. I shall have to ask your help." This she !nailed with 'her own hand. Pleading weariness, she asked Felix to stay away that evening and to her relief he decided that 'he would take advantage of this dismissal for one of This flying business trips. "I'll take the evening express and 'get back in time to snake all our preparations, darling:" He gave her an address to wire or to telephone to 'if she should need him and kissed her fondly. Thin was at five o'clock is the afternoon., At half -past ten Jocelyn got up and locked her door. Outside the night was thick. Fog horns croaked from the river. She took her disguise from its hid - ding place and dressed herself. She ran her fingers through her hair. For this one last time she must wear the dangerous semblance of that "conspic- uous young woman." It was nearly eleven o'clock when Ishe reached the foot of the fire escape. As she stepped briskly out along the street past the awning of the ;apartment house, shethought that is man emerged from the alley she had just left and walked, not very rapidly, behind her. I She had to wait ten .minutes for a vacant taxicab. On the opposite core finer a man seemed to be waiting. She signalled and got her cab, Climbed into it. Looking back she saw that the other foot passenger was fran- • tically signalling. She dimissed her driver at the door of Nick's first residence. Another taxi swooped to a stop at the/ corner of that street and, its fare dismounted. She went into the ,unlocked dear of the tenement, ran up the stairs and entered Nick's room. Jock rose. "Speak low," said Lynda. "Is Nick here"? "No. I «sok him to a hospital for treatment. He'll be able to getout in a few days." "I'm glad he isn't here. I've been followed. A man's across this alley tin a'- doorway. My mother has en- gaged a private detective to find out who took her 'jewels. He must have Iseen me come out, Jock, what shall we :da? If we go out together now we'll bath be arrested."' Jock, said, "There's another way out." "Won't they be watching it?" "Probably. You left a dress here. Why not change.?" "Wouldn't it be better for me to put on some of Nick's clothes? They'll be looking for a woman." "Good thought. You could .wear them pretty well." His eyes imper- sonally measured her. He took her into the bedroom, tuns - bled a suit from the closet to the, bed, got a shirt, a tie and a soft bat and left her. The clothes weren't such a bad fit. The felt hat, because of her thick hair, was a tight squeeze but she pull- ed it down. When she came out Jock smiled at her appearance. I"You'll do, I guess, on a foggy, night. Where are we going when he leave here?" "Have you one of those small searchlights, Jock?" "An electric ,torch? Sure thing." "Then take it . We're going ro Felix's office downtown." Three blocks away from thetall narrow tenement they took a taxican. She said to herself, "After this ride I shall never be alone with him again. And I love him. And I have never given him . a word of kindness. Ile will remember me only as one of many wounds." And the longing to speak softly to him took possession of her almost irresistibly. It was more difficult than Jocelyn had forseen, to locate the spot they wanted. But finally they found it. At the foot of the fire escape they stood together looking up. "You must wait here, Jock. I know just where the safe stands. I have memorized the combination. Let me have your torch." "I must go up with you. You don't imagine that I'd let you take this chance' alone?" "You have to. If I am caught I've only to let them know who I am in order to be released. But if you are found in there , .." She took the light from 'him and felt the ice of his fingers. "Keep the light low. Lynda. Be careful" "I will. You'll watch down here. If -if I should find any papers I'll throw them down to you and as soon as you get them, go. Don't wait for me. I may not come down this way. I may wait and tell the night watch- man that I had a wager -some silty society girl's explanation. That would give you more time. If I find no pa - papers, as of course I won't,. I will come down and join you." She had started her dizzy climb, She found the window open. It moved up silently and she let herself down upon the office floor. She went softly over to the safe. The electric torch, as she pressed it, gave out a round white spot which startled her with its precise revelation of the glit- tering knob of the safe. She repeated to herself: "Three - eight . . . tha'ee runs to the left. eight -five -two. Two, turns to the right. One -one -one -seven. Six turns right. Six turns left." The thick door opened noislessly. The small compartments were label- led, not with letters or numlvara; but with hieroglyphics which mean noth- ing. - She took out bundles of papers and stealthily examined them. Bundle after bundle, with names and titles utterly unknown, contracts, letters, signed papers she took them out, re- turned them. "Algernon Talley, Lost Valley Mine." • She thought she had imagined the werds but her eyes had really picked them off a folded stiff sheet. She be, gap now to shake. "I agree to give your engineer the kind of look -in you suggest, provided you come across with the million." Her sick eyes `randown the page. She saw his name, "Jock Ayleward." Another letter: "I've got him where we want him.' Itwasn't such easy do- ing either. He's a .shrewd chap and knows his job. But I kept him away from a shaft and let him go over-" It was true. Felix Kent had made that murderous bargain. Felix Kent had baited a trap for an unsuspecting friend, a bay he'd played with. Felix Kent had paid a million dollars for a worthless mine in order to sell that same mine to his townspeople for two million. Felix' Kent had sent his scapegoat an innocent man, to prison. The proof lay in her two cold hands. It would mean, for Kent, destruc- tion. By her treachery. And he had chosen her to be his wife. She must either put the papers back and be silent for all her life, loyal to a knave, or she; must stand up naw and go over to that window and then down to the honorable man who wait- ed at the bottom of the wall. As she leaned out she heard a sound behind -her terribly close. With no further hesitation she threw the theasp bundle of letters in their band down to. Jock Ayleward.. "Get' out. Be quick," she called ur- gently. She had swung her leg over the sill when heavy hands clutched as her and pulled her back and •a weigh crashed down upon her blinded head. The room .where Lynda Sandal sat waiting for the arrival of Jocelyn!. Hariowe's fiance was neither' corn. fortable nor luxurious. It was on the contrary, incredibly grimy, dingy, depressing, and suggestive of down trodden, guilty, and hunted lives. Three men were in attendance upon her. They ringed her life a wolf pack and like a wolf pack ,they snap- I ped and snarled. I She still wore Nick's shabby suit but her collar had been torn. open.' "I won't tell you anything-." Jock must be given his chance, her will doggedly repeated. A voice in. the room beyond her' torture chamber put a : question.! sharply and Jocelyn opened her, strange and lovely eyes to their best width while the calor swept across her face. That was Felix Kent. She forgot her attendant inquisitors. She sat up straight, commanding the cruel, be- wildered throbbing of her head, and. as the door opened, she rose slowly to her feet. Because of her guarded and se- cluded life, Jocelyn had had even fewer opportunities than most people for seeing the faces of her intimates as they looked to other eyes than her own. Ini the first unrecognizing moments, Felix now showed her a face she did not know. It was not the soft ingratiating countenance of a lover with indulgent smile and in- candescent eyes. (CONTINUED NEXT ISSUE) SCOUTS HELP CANADA AT WAR Canada's 100,000 Boy Scouts are being organized to do their bit while the war is on. Sir Percy Everett, Acting - Chief Scout, who has just been in Canada, has advised the Canadian General Council of the Boy Scouts Association how the services of the lads may be best utilized. To a large extent these services will take the form of supply- ing messengers, attending telephones, assisting in kitchens, and helping' the Red Cross.' In Novla Scotia and New Bruns- wick, the Scouts are already engaged in helping to patrol the coasts and to keepa look -out for submarines and other enemy craft. Members of t'he sister organization, the Girl Guides, in those provinces have been preparing bandages and doing other preliminary first-aid work. WE'LL TAKE A CHANCE We learn that the number of bact- eria on a dollar bill will run as high as 142,000. We'll take a chance, how- ever, and willing to accept any num- ber of these germ -infested greenbacks in payment of subscription accounts. rz��`u�Cttum������y114v,1, itp\\NN11ir"i"r�m „"mr ; !/Lhysiisv ii��//1/l////�r� Y • a - Fr�� //,41/�! , �/ as iA91 1 ,tpi pli i T , _ ;...i� 2)i�,/// Allan Burt, Toronto -born baritone,. who gave up a mining career in the', Oriel t in favour of a concert career in Europe -and America, will be heard in recital from the C B 0 Toronto studios on Wednesday, December 13, at 7,30 p.m. EST. At 22, Ma', Burt was engaged an a job for the Cana- dian Pacific in China and Japan. A year later lie was in London. At a private party he was prevailed upon to sing. Among the guests was the great Calve and she it was who advis- ed the young. Canadian to abandon mining for singing. A scholarship at the Eastman School of Music was fol• lowed by a Fontainebleau Scholarship and a year's study in France. Mr. Burt joined the American Opera Company and subsequently :toured with Madame Schumann-Heink. He made his radio debut in the United States several seasons ago and has since sung on many network pro- grammes from OBC's Montreal and Toronto studios. With consumers thinking about Christmas fowl and producers begin- ning to : market their chickens and turkeys, the weekly interview on the GBL Farm Broadcast of Thursday, December 14, at 12.30 p.m. EST, will be paticularly timely. Fred Present, of Toronto, Chairman of the Poultry Industries Committee of Ontario, will inform producers of the marketing situation facing them this year and by what means they may secure best prices for their poultry. Reminiscences of the great singing stars of earlier days will be given by Hector Charlesworth, music critic of "Saturday Night" in a broadcast from the CBC Toronto Studios on Friday, December 8, at 7.45 p.m. EST. Mr. Charlesworth, one of Canada's leading journalistic figures, has interviewed and known personally many of the world's most famous artists. He has been a concert -goer all his life, and for over forty years has written about music and the theatre. In addition to his other activities Mr. Charles- worth has found time, to write four successful books. These include: "Candid Chronicles" and "More Can - did Chronieles'; "The' Canadian! Scene'; and his latest book, "I'm. Telling You:" The best-known waltzes of the last fifty years are to be heard on a series of CBC presentations, Thursdays at 17.00 to 7.30 p.m, EST. "Waltz Ser- enade", er-enade', under the direetion of Russ Gerow, will be heard first on Tkiirrs- day; December 14, from the Torcesto Studios, with "Wihen You and I Were Seventeen" . asits theme music and charming Pat Bailey as vocalist. "YOUR HOME STATION" C E N X 1200 ken.' WINGHAM 250 Metres WEEKLY PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS' FRIDAY, DEC. 8th: 8.30 a.m. Breakfast Club 11.45 a.m. "P. T. Barnum" 12.45 p.m. The Bell Boys 7.00 ppm. Ink Spots SATURDAY, DEC. 9th: 10.30 a.m. Shut -Ins 12.45 p.m. Hill -Billies 7.00 p.m. Wes McKnight 7.45 p.m. Barn Dance SUNDAY, DEC. " 10th: 12.45 p.m. Wayne King 1.00 p.m. Guy Lombardo Orch. 6.45 p.m. Pym at the Organ 7.00 p.m. St. Andrew's Church MONDAY, DEC llth: 8.30 a.m. 'Breakfast Club 11.45 a.m. "P. T. Barnum" 12.45 p.m. The Bell Boys 7.00 p.m. Four Showmen TUESDAY, DEC. 12th: 11.30 a.m. "Peter MacGregor" • 12.45 p.m. Cactus Mac 7.00 pan. Bruer.'s Orch. 8.00 pan. Empire Songs WEDNESDAY, DEC. 13th: 11.45 a.m. "P. T. Barnum" 12.45 p.m. The Bell Boys 7.00 p.m. Landt Trio THURSDAY, DEC. 14th: 10.00 a.m. Harry J. Boyle 7.00 pm. 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