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RANCE • Notary Public, Conveyancer 1 Financial, Real Estate and Fire In- surance Agent, Reptesenting 14 Fire' insurance Companies. • Division Court Office, Clinton • Frank Fiftgland, B.A., LL.B. •Barrister, Solicitor, 'Notary Public Successor to W. Brydone, K.C. Sloan Block — .C1inFrn, Ont D. 11. McINNES CHIROPRACTOR Electro Therapist, Massage Office: Huron Street. (Few Doors west of Royal Bank) Hours—Wed. and Sat. and by appointment. .FOOT CORRECTION ay manipulation Sun -Ray Treatment Phone 207 PROLOGUE TO LOVE By Martha Ostenso • SYNOPSIS "Yes," Jarvis prompted. "Sit down, Atitumn Dean's destiny was sealed in a moment of • moon -lit magic. Leoking. into Bruce Landor's level eyes, she knew that she loved him: But love between these two was, it seemed, a forbidden thing—a hen- thge 'from her‘mother, MillicentD- 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, A.utunin 'Dean returns from her schooling among the Continental , smart set, to find herself inescapably'faced with a fate- ful secret and a conquering love. After she and Bruce Lander hail de - Oared their love to each other she learps that her fathee felt that! he was the murderer .of Bruce Landor's sit ,down." He waved a hand to a vacant chair and Bruce seated himself and glanced quickly about the room. There fol- lowed an awkward pause which Bruce sought to break at once. "I hope you'are well, Mr. Dean," he ventured with determined cordiality. From beneath his shaggy brows, the Laird's severe eyes pierced Bruce with a, look that would have brought discomfort to any one With a lees easy conscience. "Well enough—well enough," Jarvis replied. "A man of my years doesn't find, fault if he's taken with an ache or pain now and then." • "You're good for a long while yet, Mr. Dean," Bruce said. "Quite possible, quite possible/' the Laird said, taking a cigar from the box on his table and nipping the end that yet, sir." A livid vein stood out upon Jareis's forehead. He got to his feet with astonishing and fiery swiftnesa. "That, Landor, is—is sheer impu- dence!" he gasped: Bruce, who had risen: promptly when Jarvis stood np, loeked steadily into the older inan's eyes. "Are you not being a bit unreas- onable, Mr. Dean?" lie asked. e The Laird snorted. "That's enough, sir—and more than enough!" he re- plied. "I have made you a gentle- man's offer—and you have efused it, Do 1 understand you aright, sir!" "I couldn't think of accepting it, Mr, Dean." "Very . well, Landor — very well! You may have it your way, then. But from this day forward there will be no dealings between us, 'do you un- derstand? You are a stranger to us --to me and my claughter—for the rest of our days." He stepped toward Bruce and thrust his great head for - 'ward. "Do you understand that?" he demanded. "Perfectly, I think," Bruce replied, and fumbled .in his ,breast pocket for another cigarette. , The hand that struck the match Was not altogether' steady, but he knew now that he had his feelings under &etre]. When he turned to- ward Jarvis Dean again, he was startled quite off his guard at the shocking change that had come twee the old man. The Laird was leaning heairily with one hand on the back of his chair, hishead bowed forward, his other hand' passing uncertainly a- cross his eyes as though to brush from them something that obscured his vision. Bruce took an apprehen- sive step toward him, but immediate- ly Jarvis drew himself erect. Al- though his face was drawn and white, he made a curt bow'. father, though his death is' supposed with his teeth. "Better smoke, Len- to have been suicide. .1-1e was shot dor," he said then. "We'll both talk by his own revolver When struck by better. I'd offer you a cigar, but you' Jarvis Dean in a quarrel over Dean's young fellows—' etille, who was loved by and who lov- ei have some cigarette , with me, ad Landor. This knowledge casts a, thanks," Bruce told him as he took a gloom over Autumn's . horizon and package from his shirt'pocket and se - for the time, at lest, renders her leeted one. He struck a match and despeeate. She allows herself .to be held it to the Laird's cigar, oddly led by a wild crowd into wild par- moved by this Momentary intimacy 'des and dirang eseapades for which with a man who' had been a myster- •the ,has no relish. Bruce Lander de- ious and forbidding figure to him as Sends her honour when her name long as he could remember. comes up in a drinking. house and "You have lost some sheep," the 'mitre the enmity of a 'rancher. 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McKercher, Dublin, R. R. No. 1; Chas. F. Hewitt, Kincardine; R. G; Jarmeth, Bornholm, R. R. No. 1. Any money to be paid may be paid to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of °Mennen°, Seaforth, or at Calvin • Cett's Grocery, Godeeich. ' orwhile he hauled • cedar posts for quizzical -long hellow —.that hollow- that she had pictured in all her tort' the frartiewoik, his mind remained ',Meeting thoughts of him. He was, waiting for her 'to speak. "Bruce -e" she began, and knew how desolately her voice faltered Gilly too' me I should find you here. I'vebeen wanting to talk to you' "Yon too ?".1eauce reeneeked. "The Dean fatally has suddenly acquired a vivid interest in me,' it seems." " • • ' (To be eceraieued) had a toed' one other night, in her heavy with the knowledge of JaVITifi black riding clothes, her manner half Dean's violent bitterness toward hint. dli'fident, half audacioub. He realized,atoo, that until now he Bruce tossed the dressing -gown and had never really given up the hope towel down upon a chair and came that Autumn might come to him at with slow deliberateness to the door. least with a fair explanation of. her He Placed one hand against the door - conduct. That hope was dead with- frame and the otber on his hip, and in him now. Henceforth, Auttunn stood looking down et her, a contem- Dean and he wuold take their sepal-- • plative half -smile about his mouth ate ways through life and the past that drew his right cheek up into a would be forgotten. Forgotten, es- pecially, would be that one mad, mo- ment in which he had held her en his arms, and in the spring night out- side—the ram falling through dark- ness. "Thirty-four," Bruce replied. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY "Your prize Merinos, they were." '"Yes, sir," Bruce said. CHAPTER XVII "Too bad, too bad," Jarvis observ- It was 'only a ruse on the part. of ed. "Gilly tells me they were pois- the Laird to despatch Autumn to oned—etrychnine in the salt trough. ;own on business that he could have You're sure of that?" attended to as well himself on his, "The vet's report was waiting for :text visit. He wanted the house to me when I got home."- aimself. He would have contrived "Aye—so I understand. He tells mine means of getting old Hannah me, too, that you suspect thie man, tut of the way as well, but there were Beeeeeee !mite, after all, beyond which a man ,"We have no proof of dt," Bruce '1! self 'respect will refuse to go. For said. aI have my own opinion, and that matter, he would have permitted it amounts to a conviction." autumn to remain at home had it not "You might be wrong, of course." seen that he feared the hurt to her ••Bruce smiled. "Certainly, sir, but 'eelings which the presence of young I don't think I am this time:" Lander in the house would. occasion. I For the Laird had asked Bruce toThe Laird leaned forward and tap- ' ed the ash from his cigar. "I ad - mete over and talk to him on mat- p mit the man would do it—he's the tees that could not be discussed kind that would, if he had any reason with any degi!ee of satisfaction ' over for it. But even a bad man doesn't the telephone. Jarvis, 'of course, 131050 act without a motive." might have gone to the Landor "I supplied him with a motive, Pin md talked with Btuce, but some in-' tenet, some sentiment, perhaps, for- afraid," Bruce replied directly. - bade that. Besides young Landor had "Aye—Iwas coming to that. You had some sort of -a, rumpus with hint tot shown the slightest antipathy tte, the suggestion that he should visit M town last 'week, I'm told." the Laird in his own house. • "I had/ Bruce admitted. I "It was over something that Bel - And now 'as ho sat and Waited for fere bad to say about—my daughter the boy, he was strangely moved. In —wasn't it?"' the Laird asked: few minutes he would be talking "I should have clone precisely what face to face with the son of Geoffrey I did, sir, whether it had been your Lender, talking as man to man, daughter or any other -woman." though it was difficult to think that Jarvis dismissed' the suggestion young Bruce had really come to man's with a wave of his hand.' "Certain - estate. Itt. all these years he had nev- ly, my boy, certainly. But that has talkedeto Bruce more than to ex- nothing whatever to do with the busi- thenge a greeting when, they met, or ners." He paused' and drew a deep lto make some polite enquiry regard- breatlf, then relaxed into his chair. ing his mother's health. In that, he "You are still a very young man, old himself, he had not been wholly Landor," he went on, "—and 1 am at blame. The boy hag been raised an old man. My °Millen may count under the influence of Jane Lander; very little to a man of your years. Whose bitterness had lasted until the But if a young 'woman chooses to lay of her death. Bruce had been' make a trollop of herself, I don't see suite as aloof as he had been. At how it improves 'matters to make it Jane Landor's funeral, Jarvis had the cause of a public brawl." been deeply moved by the boy's be -I . reavement, and had wished with all " your daughter has not inade a trollop of herself sir," Bruce protest - his heart that he might have been ' able to summon the courage to 'take ed. "Besides, I did whet I did be - hint aside and speek to him. For in cause I had little choice in the mat - Parties desiring to effect insur- ance or transact other business will he promptly attended epee on applica- ion to any of the abova4 officers ad - 'dressed to their respective post offi- ces. Losses inspected by the director who lives nearest the scone. CANADIAN NA I NAL, AI %II It • TIME TABLE Teains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows: . Buffalo and Goderich Div. I Going East, depart 7.08 lam. Going East, depart 3.00 p.m. Going West. depart 11.50 ant. Going West, depart 10.08 park London, Huron & Bruce Going North, ar. 11.84. lve. 11.54 a.m. Going South • 3.08 pare e spite of all that had kept them apart. ter' 1 "Would it not have been better if he had never been free of a desire to play the part of a father to Bruce vou had left well-enoagh aleh' e in- stead of making both my daughter Lander, . I and yourself the laughing stock of Well, he would talk to the boy now. the countryside?" How he might have talked had things "I'm afraid we can't agree on that, ;one differently with them all. Per- sir," Btuce replied. "I anh of course, haps he had been unwise, after all,' sorry for any unpleasantness it may in telling Autumn of the tragedy that have caused either you or Autumn." had shadowed his life. Far better to Jarvis Dean's face darkened: "Be have let the knowledge die with him that as it may, Landor," be said. "I'd and leave to youth the heritage of prefer to look after such things my happiness it deierved. The hurt to self, in the future, when they con - his own pride would have died then, cern me or one of my own house." too, and that would have been an end . "Very good, sir," Bruce returned, to it all. 'Andyet—there was no way his lips , tightening. of telling about such things. Destiny "In: fad, my boy, I mean to do had a way of forcing its destructive whatever I can to wipe out the larder - way into the lives of the innocent. tunate results' of this affair. How The iniquities of the fathers! Better, much do you figure those Merinos undoubtedly, to tell the whole truth of yours were worth to you?" ' and pay the cost, here and now, and Brure flushed. "I haven't figured bequeath some measure of security that out, exartly, Mr, Dean," he re - to the future. plied. • The sound of a car coming to a "Put your own price on therm then, stop bef4e the house brought Jarvis and let me know what it is. I want to his window. He saw Bruce step to Make it good to you." from his car and approach the door. Bruce looked at Jarvis aware of a He turned from his window and seat- quick serge of feeling within him. He ed himself in his. big chair before was silent fel a moment. There were his desk. Presently he heard old times when a man might pardonably Hannah's voice in the hall below give way to anger, but this \yap not and in a moment Bruce Landor pre such a time, he told himself in a re- sented himself in the library door- solute effete; at self-control. After way. • all, the Laird was making what he Jarvis looked up as his visitor an- undoubtedly felt to be a generous flounced himself. .It Might have gesture. , , been. Geoffrey Lander himself ' he "I understand what you mean, Mr. carried himself with such ease 'of Dean;" he said at last, "hut my loss manner and a bearing so erect and is my own. I brought it on myself challenging. He was dressed in rid- and Pll foot the bill." ing breeches and a soft gray shirt The great hands, of Jarvis, Dean '.hat was open at the throat. .leame down heavily upon the ante of "Good -morning, Landor," Jarvis his chair as he leaned 'toward Bruce recibq hen, without getting up. "You don't mean—you are not depart• entered the room and remain- 13ruce laughed outright. "You "Conic in and sit down." Thy offer?" he demanded harshly. id standing before the Laird. "You surely didn't expect inc to accept At the end' of the day he found him- self' on edge with his men and his work and himself, and in an altogeth- er unadmirable frame of mind. He hurried through his supper with scarcely a word to Gilly, who sat opposite him. The motionless heat of the evening droned in his senses; in- eects crawled up and down the win - dew screens with tiny, unpleasant ac- tivIty; against the violet -tinted rec- tangle of twilight beyond the screen door, he could already see the bats swooping down in black and noisome parabolas.. When he 'had finished his meal, he got up abruptly and with a brief word or two to Gilly, left the table and went out if the house. "Good day, Landor " he said, and stood awaiting Bruce's withdrawal. Bruce looked at bit for one brief moment in frowning perplexity and with a feeling of some unfathomable uneasiness. Then he bade the Laird a quiet good -by and turned away. As he left the room, Jarvis Dean slumped theavily into his chair and sat listening to the sound of Bruce'.; fodtsteps descending the stairs. The Laird was still in his library an hour or so later, when Autumn returned from WWII. When he heard her mounting the stairway presently, he closed the large, leather-bound journal in which he was writing and laid it carefully away in the drawer of his table, He locked the drawer ancl returned the small key to its wonted place above the desk. He turned as Autumn came into the room. "You're back," he said. "It didn't take you long." "lase been gone three hours," she remarked. "There west* much to lee" e "Did you see Snyder?" "I found him in his office. He'll 'be out to see you to -morrow after- ternoon." Jarvis got up front his table and stood before the fireplace. "I had young Lander out to see me," he said abruptly. "Hannah told me," Autumn' replied. "Was there some—some trouble be- tween you? Hannah says—" "Hannah talks too much," the Laird interrupted. "Whatever trouble there was was of Landor's own mak- ing. He's turned out to be an impu- dent yotmg whelp, that" Autumn moved to the window and looked out toward the west where Bruce Lander's ranch lay. "Ave you sure you are being quite fair, Da? she asked quietly. "He doesn't need you to defend him, my .girl," Jarvis reproved her. "I know theta! Autumn replied, "told I. don't mean to defend him, either: After all, I know nothing of what passed between you." "I offered to pay him for the Mer- inos he lost," Jarvis informed her. ' Autumn turned from the window, "Ile didn't accept it, did he?" "What? Why shouldn't he accept 'it?" the ' Laird demanded. "Whose fault was it that he lost thein'?" Autunin regarded her father silent- ly for a moment. "It was my fault, Da," she said at last. "I admit it. But the score bewteen us could not be' settled—like that." ' "Perhaps you can suggest the pro- per form of settlement, then," Jarvis said scornfully. "I'ra not sure that it can ever be settled," she said. "It's settled now, then," Jarvis re- plied. "From this day forth there will be nothing, between young Lan - dor ancl the Deans." ' , • Autumn looked quickly at her fath- er. "Did he accept that?" she asked. "a didn't ask him," -the Laird said. "I told him it would be so --,- and I have• a right to demand compliance with my. wishes, my girl." Autmnn smiled patiently. "You have always hazi it, Da," she observ- ed, then turned away and went to her room, WISTFULNESS No longer do I feel:inspired Dear Gad, I'm young and' very tieed, The hopes that lived in me lie crush - 7 ' ot a at An 40,6114110.!1,13.6%011.1......41.11..400.6.0. z ess Moncton, Feb. 17 — "What would level of say 1927, it would disappear. you think of a business that came At higher levels the System would through the greatest depression, in not only easily pay interest on its history paying all' of its cash ex- bonde but would ease 'return a divi- penses, except a return on capital, a dend on the capital invested in it by property which in 1928 had earned the Government." $45,000,000 as a return on invested "Even in the somewhat dubious capital and which, should the general distinction of 'income defieits the conditons of 1928 come back, would Canadian, National. deep not rank yield a return of $60,000,000 on in- first among railways by any manner ' vested capital by reason of improve- of means,—the contract .operation of merits in the property and in effi- French Railways party by the State °Miley. Weald you say this property and partly by private interests, last is defunct—it is no good — it will year resulted in a deficit of $4,000, - never pay its way?" These were 000,000 francs, equivalent in our mon- among the questions which • S. W. ey. to upwards of .$300,000,000, Fairweather, of Montreal, Director, "Some people associate the large Half a hour later, he tied his horse Bureau of Econorracs, Canadian. Na debt of the Canadian National Rail - to a birch tree near his herder's cab- tional Railways, asked of Canadian ways directly with the policy of pub - in in the ravine, rubbed the animal's bainysincelsusbmehneti.en today. gHtios theRot- ignore the fact that at the time the - lie ownership. They either forget or muzzle affectionately, and gave him a lump of sugar in response to a per- was Some Misconceptions of• the properties were acquired they were in emptory whinny. Within the cabin, Canadian National Railways." debt to the extent of $1,000.000,000. Bruce undressed quickly, threw about "It is not generally realized," eon- It was because they had this huge himself the old bathrobe he had tinned Mr. Fairweather, that the debt and could' not pay even their brought along, and with a towel on Canadian National Railways in 1928 operating expenses that bankruptcy his arm, emerged and walked down into the ravine and up the 'creek to where the mountain stream narrowed and deepened. stood fifth of all railway systems on threatened and the Government took the North American Continent in or- the properties over. Nor is this the der of net income available for inter- complete story; the properties whett est charges. Can anyone who has a in the hands of their private owners After a dip in the cool water and knowledge' of such a demonstrated had been bled white in an attempt to a brisk toweling, he tied his robe performance and has any faith in preserve financial solvency so that bout him and stood for a moment lis- Canada have any doubt as to the real the new owner had to put into the tening to the mountain voices that value of the Canadian National Sys- properties large sums of money to drew from the steeps above him, tem? I would not have you feel thatrehabilitate them or to make good plaintive, spaced i n piquant i n- I consider the present financial diffi- makeshift construction: The exact amount cannot be ascertained, but I would venture an opinioa that it is not less than $260,000,000, all of which is included in the debt charge- able to Government ownersbip, but is properly chargeable to private ownership." Mr. Fairweather said that amounts running into hundreds of millions of dollars occur in the accounts of the Government, which owns the Cana- dian National System, and reappear in the accounts of the Railway. A wholly false idea had arisen that Canada has two national debts, the one shown in public accounts, the other shown in the balance sheet of 'the Canadian National, and that to get the total one needs to add the li- abilities of the Canadian National to the not debt of the Federal Govern- ment. "Gut of the distorted statement of (Continued on page 6) The song I would have sung, is hush- ed. •' Defore'my high ideals are sold, Before my tale of life is told— May I forget all sordid truth And tread the carefree, ways of , youth. May life hold laughter -- love, per- chance Be colored with some sweet romance; Light-heartedness—some joy supremcv Fulfilment of one treasured drearn. May 1 have happiness to hold 'Before I'm old—before I'm old! tervals, sometimes all but unheard: cuties of the Canadian National as a hoot -owl's reproachful enquiry, the insignificant and as something which sleepy, last note of a bird dropped can be lightly brushed aside. The like a soft jewel into the twilight, the ,System, in order to meet its interest scurry of some small animal into the payments to the public, in 1934 had underbrush, the sigh of a dyingwind to obtain $48,407,900. front the Gov in the tall pines. But the beauty ernments and for 1935 the amount re - and significance of the night conspir- quirecl will be approximately $47e - ed against him; tore down the defen- 000,000. These are very consider. sive structure he had erected about able amounts, which in 1934 made ur his. being. It had all converged sud- 10.2 per cent of the total Feciera' denly into an intense desire for Au- Budget outgo and 5.2 per cent of thc teem Dean. Inaa rage at himself, he turned brusquely and made his way,back to the cabin, where he dressed hurriedly in the half-darknesa. He was gath- ering up the things he thacl brought with him when he heard; his horse whinny, and a moment later a sound at the doorway caused him to glance isp quicldy. Softly outlined against the deepen- ing dusk, Autumn Dean stood, as she 11. 0.1•1111MIIIIMMIMM10•111111P total tax burden of the country. Bu' I wish to emphasize that when this cash deficit is included in the Feder- al budget there is nothing more tc be added. The remainder of the bool deficit calls for no additional cast outlay and is non-existent in the sense of being an additional burden With any considerable increase ir traffic, one may confidently look for- ward to the cash deficit' diminishing until, should we return to the traffic 101111MIMMIIMOVIMITIVOISONIMUMM4, CHAPTER XVIII For the remainder of the day, Bruce was unable to shake from hie mind the oppressive thought of the virul- ent and altogether disproportionate resentment which the old Laird bore toward hint.' He gave it as little thought as he could, however, and went furiously to work on the build- ing improvements he ' had planned earlier in the season., With the help of his foreman, Andrew Gilly, he laid out the, ground for his new clipping plant. While he helped to prepare —Joan Frances' .Auston.. -,vanied to tatk to me," he prompted. lit?" he replied, ' I haven't come to the ground for excavating, however, • • •, . , , • , , , , .weemegmnrragrxxver.ameet INVITATI NS COUNT Many a non -advertising retailer keeps back front advertising just because he feels that it is necessary to advertise in a big -way and because he is not ready to advertise in a big way. To keep back from our newspaper until you are ready to usa big space is just as foolish as would be keeping a child out of school until it had the ability to pass its matriculation. Beginners in every form of enterprise need to go warily; until experience and practice and growing ability warrant them to attempt larger things, they should proceed cautiously. It will pay some retailers to use classified advertisements and small spaces' of 2 and 8 inches. These little advertisements will •surely get seen and read by newspaper readers. Make small ad- vertisements offer special merchandise. Change them frequently. A quick succession of little advertisements, everyone of which is alive, will of a certainty effect sales—will attract new customers. The thing to be frightened of is dumbness: a retail store which does not talk to the pubic by moans pf newspaper advertisemerits misses a lot of business. The public goes where it is invited to go. • ill .1 Nitirk711 pemn-nal Th.0 UlillL011 A FINE MEDIUM FOR ADVERTISING—READ ADS IN THIS ISSUE. PHONE 4