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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1936-02-27, Page 2PAGE 2 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THURS., FEB. 27; 1936 The Clinton News -Record' With which is Incorporated THE NEW ERA TERMS Ols SUBSCRIPTION' el.50 per year in advance, to Cana- dian 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 publish- ' er. The date to which every sub- 'scription is paid is denoted on the label, ADVERTISING RATES -- Tran- sient advertising 12c per count line for first insertion. 8c for each sub- sequent 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 t'Sc. Rates fdr display advertising wade 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, M. R. CLARK,. Proprietor. Editor, H. - T. 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CANADIAN' LATIDNAL AI W YS TIME TABLE Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows: Buffalo and Goderich Div. Going East, depart 7.08 a.m. Going East, depart 3.00 p.m. Going West, depart 11,50 a.m. Going West, depart 10.08 p.m. ' London, Huron & Bruce Going. North, ar. 11.34. lire. 11.54 a.m. Going' South 3.08 Iran. PIZOLO;GUE TO LOVE By lYIartlia Ostenso. SYNORSIS Autumn Dean's destiny was sealed in a moment of moon -lit magic: ',poking into Bruce Landor's level eyes, ,she knew that she loved hirn. But 'love between these two was, it' seemed, a forbidden thing -a herr Inge from her mother, Millicent . 0 dell . forever loved, forever lost. The setting of this splendid story. is the Kamloops Valley of .British Columbia, midway between the vast arches of the •Rockies and the color- ful 'Cascades. To this ;region . of great sheep. ranches, Autumn' Dean returns from her schooling among the' Continental smart set, ,,,to find herself inescapably faced with a fate- ful secret ate.ful.secret and a conquering love. After she and Bruce Lander had de- clared thein:' love to each other.` she learns that hes father felt • that he was the murderer of Bruce Landor's father, though his death is supposed to have been suicide. He was shot by his own' revolver when struck by Jarvis Dean in a `quarrel over Dean's wife, who was loved by, and who :lov- ed Landor. This knowledge casts a gloom over Autumn's horizon and for the time, at least, renders her, desperate. Site allows 'herself to be led by a wild crowd Into wild par ties and diving escapades for which' ells has no . relish. Bruce Landor de- fends her honour when ..her name conies up in a drinking` house and incurs the enmity of a rancher. omatommueroammona y , ZURICH: At the very urgent re- quest of the people of Zurich and the surrounding district Dr. W. 13. Cox - on, has 'postponed the acceptance of his Government position at this time, ,:so this community will not, be left e a without •i o Veterinarian. narzan. Dr .Goren is worthy of much kind consideration by his clients for remaining with us at this most needed time. We' trust that Dr. Coxon will enjoy many years of successful professional practice with the people of Zurich and vicin- ty. TREAD THE ADVERTISEMENT;: ,'IN THE NEWS -RECORD —IT WILL, PAY YOU I,TOwr GO ON WITH ,THE STORY Autumn was 'amazed at- Linda's sudden garrulity. ,At the quick glare of the old man's eyes, however, the girl ceased abruptly, and biting her lip, looked rather hopelessly toward Autumn. "I'll not have my daughter's name bandied about the country as though she were a common strumpet!" the Laird roared, and brought his bands down resoundingly upon the arms of his chair, • Linda got to her feet with charac- teristic languor, and begging to be sxcused, left the room and went up- stairs. Autumn surmised with a cynical affection for the girl, that it was 'the desire for: a cigarette that sent her off, rather than any marked distaste for the scene., "You are carrying on quite unnee- essarily, Father," Autumn observed quietly when: Linda had gone. "It sn't good for you—and I'm surpr'is- :d that you should treat such a sins hie situation so seriously." "Simple? Simple 7" Jarvis 'Was al- most. inartieulate. "Have you no, sense '02 decency, girl? You put yourself in a position where men en- gage in a brawl over you in a gamb- ling dive—and you call that simpler;"I have tried to explain, to you,, Fratlmer, that it was an accident," Au- tumn persisted. "We were utiles 'rent anywhere. What on earth were we to do, at three o'clock in the morn- ing?" The Laird drew himself up and his nostrils flared in the magnificence of his indignation. "You had no busi- nese being there -or anywhere else but in your bed at three d'clock in the morning. And I'll have no more of it!" Autumn's eyes narrowed. S h e glanced sharply at Hector, who was slumped wearily in his chair. "What .lo you propose to do, Father?"' she asked filialiy in a cold voice. "Keep me under lock and, key?" • A dull flush lay like a sultry sha- dow on the old man's cheekbones. Autumn knew that her words had started the ripples of an old and, :rue] memory in the depths of his consciousness, and for 'a moment, she was sorry for what she had said. Pot some moments Jarvis did not reply to her question. Then,: his mouth grimly set, ire pronounced his ultimattmi. "Yon will conduct your- self from -now on like a Lady—or back .you go to where you came from! I'll. not have the Dean name made the cause of drunken` brawls in public dives!" Autumn got angrily .to her feet. In that moment, all the wretchedness of those long summer weeks came back upon her, those weeks of striving to tear the love of Bruce Landor from her heart, attad instantly her regret forthe pain she was causing her father retreated. She confronted him now with wide, blazing eyes. "The Dean name!" she said. "That's what's behind all this! It isn't, what will happen to me that. you are thinking about. 'Yon lnmow I can Iook after 'mnyself. ;I've doneit for years without giving yoti anything to' worry about. But the Doan name must' be defended! It hurts your pride to see it 'defended by 'Bruce Landor. You have been living in the past so, lengthat it's more real to you and more important to you thitn your own daught n'. Well, let me tell you, Da - I don't •give a damn' fon: a name that needs defending. I've suffered 'what you Will,never, know --ever since I came back -defending thesDean name. I can'tgo ems -1 won't go on! Let the name of Dean-" The Lard was on his feet instant, ly, his huge flame trembling"' with emotion. "Stop 'it!" he cried.' "Stop t!' You've gone far enough. You've, sone—fa r—•enough! r' Autumn ' f o r i lilt instant star - Ing at him. ide :seemed' to have gone suddenly feeble, defeated. IIe turned away :front her and stretched his` hand 'out to support himself by the mantelpiece. His body appeared to crumple forward, to sag and dwin- dle as though shrinking from a blow. In that moment Autumn's compas— sion for him rose 'again, and her im- pulse was to go to him and throw her ai'nts about him in an effort to make peace between them. But Hee.. tor was already beside him and was Waving her away., She turned silent- ly and left the room: Long after Linda was asleep 'in the room next her ,own, andthe house stood in its dark silence, Au tumn lay awake, turning over and over in her mind the restive thoughts that had had their incipience in that disconcerting clash with her father. At Iast, unable to bear any longer the confining darkness of 'her own. room where thinking had become 'a torment, she gotup and put on a dressing -gown and slippers. She stood for a moment in the darkness gazing out of a window in- to the hot night.. Above the velvety spread of the midsummer darkness, the stars .hung large and soft and heavy, unsharpened, as tears behind a veil, You lowered your eyes,• and there was the engulfing blackness of the mountains, into 'which Millicent must have stared on nights like these, with eyes vacant of all but de- spair. • You drew in 'a deep breath, and the sweetness of the darkened earth that was meant for love caught fiercely at your heart, as it must have caught at Millicent's in her de- solate unhappiness. Noiselessly, Autumn went out into the hall. - Her father's hound, Saint Pat, who slept on a mat outside the Laird's door, rose at her approach, but she caressed him reassuringly, and he flung himself down again and Autumn continued on deem the stairs and but of the house. i ' She stole quietly to a secluded nook in the garden where,- within the cir- cle of flowering mock -orange trees, Iyer another's bronze sundial still stood on its low pedestal. Here the smell of roses lay in a still, dark pool of heavy, sweetness; in the pur- ple field of the sky overhead the stars leaned down, a white flower, stooping to the fainter nimbus of the white and yellow roses. Here Milli- cent Dean had counted out the days and nights of her last summer. It was because of Millicent that aid 1 Hannah had kept the retreat un- changed; it held still the spellbound air of plaintive sanetuary. Autumn seated herself on a bench beside the sundial and gatheredher robe closely about her. A curious vacantness seemed to possess her mind now, a receptivity to some strange reassurance, to some strong and calming influence that drifted in upon her from the sweet. cloistered gloom of the flowery crypt that had been her mother's. A quieting aff;r•- nation was growing upon Autumn. Millicent"Odell was living again, ris- Mg above her own tragedy and that of Jarvis bean and Geoffrey Landor, ;and the poor, unhappy Jane„Autumn closed her eyes in the buoyancy of her spirit, where -the knowledge ha: dawned that her love for Bruce wa., an inevitable anti inexorable prede- termination of life that ,Jarvis Dean's !opposition couldneither change nor .destroy . ' She was startled suddenly out of her absorption by sound behind, het. Turning quickly, she saw Hec- tor Cardigan standing within the ' denness of the' crypt. 1 "Hector!" she said softly, "What- ever brings you out at this time of night?„ I He chuckled in an embarrassed way. - "It isn't the first time I've pr owlet around here," he said in a low, oddly I strained voice, "but4'it's the .first time 1 I've been Caught at it." ' She did net have to ask why he had come. Millicent lived for hint 1 here, as she was living for Autumn herself. "I couldn't sleep," she told him, "—after that scene with father.'.' Hector came and 'seated himself on the bench beside her. "It was cath er bad, wasn't it?" he said heavily: .'But I think I warned' Yost that your father would be difficult, though I had not forseen — quite this, I con- fess;' "What ant I to do?" she asked him "You will know that yourself — better than I can• tell you," he ro plied. - . Autumn plucked a blossom from a low -hanging, branch and held it to her lips.. "I love father," she said simply,. "and I love everything I have come home to, I don't want to Ieave it," Hector was' silent for a mmomentThen, as though he were talking to some third person who was present beside them, he said, "Autumn is an love with Geoffrey's son," She straightened herself involen- teriy against the weird sensation that had come over . her. :H - "Is. it so evident' us that, Heater ?i. she said. "The past is repeating itself," 'he ;,,aid. "Mq'eyes are not tooold to see that ". ,. "It is the past that has come be- tween us, Hector—between Bruce an'' me," she said. Hector leaned forward and patted die back of one hand against the, palm of the other, "I shall have something to say about that, my dear, •when the time comes that I must." Autumn stared at the ghostly blur of a 'heavily -flowered white rose bush. "If you had told me all you knew—when 1 first came home," she paid, "we might have been spared much, of what happened to -night." I-Jector drew a deep and unhappy" breath. "You forget, my child, that there. is such a thing as loyalty still left in the lives of some of us," he said. "I.f I did not tell you every- thing I knew, it was because I could not tell it."' 'It doesn't matter, after all," she said. "It is too late now." "On the contrary," he replied, "it is still too soon." Autumn shifted impatiently. "How tong must you hold your silence; then?" she asked him. ' "Until' I can hold it no longer," he replied. - A slight wind stirred in the tree a- bove them; and a shower of white petals ;f ell on the grass.at their feet. CHAPTER XVI On the following morning, when. Linda telephoned to the Landor place with the intention' of paying Bruce a visit during the ,day, the foreman, Andrew Gilly, informed her that Bruce had gone to Vancouver on busi- ness and would not be back until the end of the geek. "So that will be that!" Linda ob- served, stretching herself on the couch in the sunlit drawing r'ooni and opening a volume of French verse which she had brought down from Autumn's room, T li e announcement that Bruce had gone to Vancouver filled Autumn with an unaccountable Joneiness and impatience that annoyed her as she thought at it. Site knew now that throughout the weeks of . their es- trangement, the mere . fact that he was always there, just a few . miles from her, had been a comfort to her, and that in the depth of her con- sciousness she had never really re- linquished the hope that somehow, somewhere, they would come togeth- er again. Autumn sat at the piano and play. ed softly while Linda real'. Jtrvms had left the house immediately after hreakfast,"cleep in the solitude of one of his unapproachable moods. Hec- tor had returned to town, and the girls had been alone ever since, Suddenly Linda tossed her book across the floor. "What a fine oh: inflict I'm getting to bel" she exclaim- ed, "What's the natter now, Lin?" Au- tumn asited, turning from the piano: "It's a bail sign when a girl begin to live vicariously in erotic poetry," she said. "At least it saves one a b* oI trouble," Autemn remarked. "Anel leaves you where you start- ed. There's a little satisfaction • in trouble, at any rate. It has the spice of variety in it, if nothing else. I'm dying of nothing to do, Autumn. You can at least work up a good fight in your own family now and then." .Autumn stared moodily at the floor, "I'm not particularly prouo of that," she said: "It was rather a mess—time whole affair --innocent as it was." In her preoccupation with the new evidence she had had of her father's strange fixation, she was scarcely a- ware of what she said. But Linda must be given on inkling of the sha- dow that lay over her mind. "I'd love a mess," Linda comment- ed dreamily, "so long as I could have Bruce Landor to champion me. You'- re an unappreciative ',wench, Au- tumn." Autumn got abruptly to her feet and went over to the window anti stood looking out into the garden, where she had experienced so strange an exaltation the night before. Now, In the spread of the midsummer morning, she, knew that that almost supernatural assurance of the night in the garden had been a delusion. There was nothing for her to de but carry on, for her father's sake as well as for Bruce Lander's. "How can you be anything but. head over heels in love with him, Au- tumn?" Linda asked. "I? With whom?" Linda clicked her tongue in exas- peration against the roof of her mouth. "With whom? You know very well 'whore." Autumn did not turn from the window. "You're getting, positively tedious, ,Lin," she said mochanically. Linda rolled over on Iter stomach and looked narrowly at Autumn's straight back. "Do you know what?' she said at last. "I honestly believe you've been in love with him from the very 'first." . "You must have your own reasons for thinking so, Lin," Autumn evad- ed. "I have, my dear. In the first Piece, yaur cutting up doesn't ring true ir . to to n e. I cut becaus , I like up it. But you—you dant like it." Autumn turned and' walked to a table, picked up a • magazine, ani; seated herself. ,She thumbed the pages slowly. "I don't ,know what you're talking about," she said in- differently. Linda refected for a moment. "Well --you have no .heart in it. You're absept-minded — and' you're. downright •inattentive .et bridge'.''' She paused and ,rooked et Autumn. "My dear," she said at last, "you're' 'irt love -or I'M a 'mental defective." ' Autumn reached across the table and helped herself to a cigarette. "You're a dear imbecile, 'then, Lin," She smiled carelessly. "I'm a fool in more ways than one," the girl replied. "But even a fool may have eyes. Why 'don't yeti cut .Florian and .his gang? You're not in love with the boy and you nev- er will be—and you're bored to death with his friends." "Not all of them, Lin." "I'm the single eseeption, my dear —and I'nm catty as the devil. 'I could have cut your pretty throat that night when Bruce hauled you oat iii that mess in the biliiar'd rom and carried you into the, garden. I ancy any man doing that for me! And 1 could have Cheerfully put poison in your coffee yesterday moping when Flerian tole] ns that Brace had taken it Upon himself to defend yeur honor against Curly Belfort. • In this day and age, my dear! Any man I have ever known would die laughing be- fore he could bring.hilnself to doas much :For me, But you—you take it out in nursing aegrudge." "Lin, you're positively idiotic!" Au- tumn protested. ' "I know it=l know it! But there's one particular kind of idiot that T am not -and never intend .to . be. I am not the kind that goes on forever when I know there's no hope for me," Autumn laughed dryly and got to her feet. "Let's take our ride before it gets too warm," she suggested. Linda stretched in sinuous luxury and rose from the couch. "Which— being interpreted -means, for heav- en's sake, lay off!" sbe,said, anci went with Autumn to prepare for the ride. On the following morning, Bruce Landor's foreman drove his car in at the gates of the Castle. Linda Parr had departed for Home only an hour before, and Autun n was cutting roses in the secluded recess of the garden. [t was no usual thing for Bruce, Lan- dor's foreman to visit the Dean ranch, and a swift shock of apprehensive - nese for Brice passed through her. She gathered her bowers together at once and went to the house. ; In'the yard before the door, Bruce's foreman was talking with Tom Will. mar. Autumn hesitated for a mo- ment, but et an odd glance from Tom she stepped down and approached the men. Andrew Gilly turned ,his cap awls warcily about in his hands as she cane. up to him, His expression was Otte of utter distraction. "Good morning, Miss Dean," he greeted her. In a fleeting, moment of intuition, Autumn felt that there was something vaguely resentful in his attitude toward her. "Good morning. Mr. Gilly," she ve- turnccl with a smile. "rias Bruce come back from Vancouver yet?" The question bad slipped from hes tongue before she had time to think of what she was saying. "No," Gilly replied, "he hasn't. And I'm in no hurry to see him, ei- ther. I'll have very bad news for him when he collies." "Bad news? What has happened?' Autumn asked. Tom Willmar 1 c. c1 his throat. "Gi11y found over thirty of his sheen dead in the pasture this morning," he told her. - Autumn Clutched her flowers eight ly in hands that had gone suddenly cold. "Note,—his prize sheep - the Merinos he was experimenting: with?" she asked breathlessly. "The same," said Tom Willmar,, "Poisoned, they were... Poisoned with' strychnine in the salt trough." "It'll come!` near to breaking the boy's heart," Gilly observed in a voice that was shaken with agitation. "Oh!" " Autumn felt an abrupt stricture in her throat and made fur- ther speech impossible; "I come ever to see if you folks had hacl any trouble," Andrew Gilly went on, "but Tom tells me there's been none of it have." "No," said Tont quietly. "There's been a bit of vetch about that's—" "Nature had no hand in this," An- drew interrupted.' "It was a sneak that slid it—and he must 'a' crawled on his stomach during the night to get to the trough or the dogs would have been at him." "Have you any idea who did it?" Autumn asked faintly. It seemed. to her that her heart had sunk entirely out of her body. The man had the sensibility to a- void her eyes. He looked away, but the expression that came . to his weathered face was one of bitter fury,. • "I have my own opinion," he said significantly, "and I think I'm not far wrong. I think the boy will agree with me, too. Though a lot of good that will do either of us. There's no proof—hot a whit!" Autumn knew what he was think- ing. "You suspect Belfort, don't you, Mr, Gilly?" She asked bluntly. He gave.her a direct look from eyes that wore angrily misty. "You eau snake a shrewd guess," he said. "There's no doubt in my mind --and that's something more than a suspic- ion." Tom shook his head. "It'll be a tough 'job to get anything on Curly Belfort's gang," he'remarked. "Gosh, what a shame!" Autumn stood for a moment help: lessly trying to beat back. the tears that sprang to her eyes.. Then, her emotions collapsing" within her, she turned and fled into the house. ' As she did so, Jarvis Dean came slowly up the path from the corrals, Saint Pat at his heels. (To be continued) READ ALL THE ADS. IN THE NEWS -RECORD , The advertisements are -printed for your convenience. They inform and save your time, energy and money. Special n From All Stations Bargain W elm in the East GOING AMY 'FEB. 28 to MAR. 12 inclusive Return Limit: 45 days Approximately CENT AMILE — Each Way GOOD 11,1 COACHES ONLY - SLEEPING CAR PRlVlLEGES. Where sleeping car space is required the following slightly higher fares apply: (a) Tourist Sleeping Cars at approxi- mately 1%c per mile, plus regular berth rate. 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