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LOUIS ARTHUR CUNNINGHAM
CHAPTER X
"Lies and. deception and — and
cruelly," said Merilel, "it is all
tical: and more. It is—" she looked
about her. "I shall leave the chil-
dren with you, please, Miss Car-
rick. I must talk to my uncle at
once.
She was waiting at the foot of
the stairs when Rudolph came
down after conducting the visitors
to his mistress' Nutriment,
"Why, Rudolph?" she said at
length. "Why did you do this?"
Ile gazed fixedly at the carpet.
Ilia voice was very ]ow, very hum-
ble.
"1 knew t'rorn the start it was
wrong, Meridel. But hear me —
hear me and try to forgive."
"You were butler In this house.
You never ware anything more
than that, were you?"
"No, Meridel."
"All the lettere, the pictures, the
glowing stories you sent to us,
your kinsmen and kinswomen in
Gratzen -- all Iles, Rudolph?
"All lies. I thought, you see, that
no one would ever find out, This
WAS another world and I did not
dream that the two worlds would
soon be hurled together, The first
Intimation I had of your earning
was when 1 saw• the piece 1n the
paper and Your pictures and the
story about your rich uncle in
Canada. I confessed to Madame
Fabre-Lusignan at once. She is so
kind and good. She would not hear
of any telling you that 1 was only
a servant, only a poor failure. She
was once the famous actress, Mi-
mi Fabre-"
"We must go from here at once,
you understand."
* * *
"But of course. I will go with
You. if you will have me. I have
some money saved. I wanted mar
dame to use it for you. She would
not. Now we shall go and we shall
be happier, I know I shall sleep
better at night. I'll do anything.
I'm sure 1 can find work in the
city as a waiter or doorman or the
like. I can keep you and Rosine
and Pot Martin. I know I can.
We shall be not rich' maybe,
but.--"
"Poor Rudi! Go now, please, and
ieclae ready. We shall carry with
ns only the things we brought. We
shall thank Madame Fabre-Lusig-
nan, Yes, I have heard of Mimi
'sabre as a great actress. f have
proof of it now."
"Thank you, child." Madame
spoke from the dimness of the
landing. "I could not help hearing
Yea, though I would make no apo-
logies for listening. And it is well
I did hear; •I think I can under-
stand now why You feel as you do
about — about the little game of
make-believe we played, Believe
me., it was never staged from any
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motive othcr.than kindness and the
desire to spare you further pain."
* * *
"You are, as always, kind, ma-
dame." Meridel smiled up at her
and curtsied. "And it was -a lovely
play, for which I thank you de be-
half of the little ones and myself:
But now the play is ended, you
see. And tbie time the princess
really sloes become Cinderella.' -
The train whistled drearily and
its light shone whitely through the
darkness. The silent children,
elutehing -their little suitcases,
were shepherded on to the dingy
train; then Meridel got on, and
finally Rudolph,
But harm was their welcome at
the Cory d'or. "Stay with me to-
night!" Jules stepped back when
Meridel told him they would shel-
ter with Trim until tomorrow.
"Slay with me always! I have this
big house -- three floors. Ali
warns. All furnished, MY business
is good here. 1t is well here."
Froin then on there was a new
partner, a. new maitre d'hotel, at
the sign of the Golden Cock. Rudi!
Emil and Magda played euch
evening while dinner was being
served, sometimes Meridel sang,
and when 'tbet sweet contralto
came stealing into the ears of the
guests - the sound of cutlery, of
clinking glees, of busy tall, died
out and everyone listened raptly
and marveled and gave the full
meed of applause. Who was this
lovely girl, they wondered, who
looked like a queen, who made the
beauties of the screen look artifi-
cial? What was her history?
Rosine had written to madame
to tell her how they fared at the
Coq d'or:
"To say we are as happy here
as at Philibert would be no he,
macrame, and no reflection, 1 trust,
on the wonderful kindness you
showed to us. We shall.always re-
member that and bless your gen-
erous heart, But here too we are
happy; here we have found a true
and loyal friend and honest wel-
come. Uncle Rudi has invested
the money he hall saved, with
Jules, and is now part owner of
the 00(1 d'or. ide is maitre d'hotel
and how prmnl you would be to
see him in that role! °
* * *
"Pol Martin enol Rostne are well.
They love their school and they
are happiest when they go skating
or skiing or on the toboggan with
their playmates, But they are al-
ways asking for you and when
will Roger cone back and when
will they go to Phtlibert, And nil 1
can answer is soon, and I hope
that is really the truth. You aro
good friends,' our first friends in
this country and you have a place
in our hearts. -
"i guard the picture you gave
me., I think I shall always tree -
sure it. Have you had any news
of that one?"
It hod been very lonely for the
old lady after the Morpins had
left her, Never before had she re-
alized' how much she was depend,
ent on Rudolph, how much the
smooth running of the great house
had rested with him; True, Gee-
ner was capable and willing and
the government officials had sent
a IVY file man, Gerard Chamber-
Ian7i, to help look after the chil-
dren, and another governess, Miss
ICightly, had come to assist gentle
Miss Carrick, But there was no
one like Redt, no 0116 like Meridel
and madame often wept when she
thought of little Rosine and Pol
Martin, ,
The noisy honking of a motor
horn aroused her from her dream-
ing. Roger! The sight of that tall,
spare, blue -clad figure brought a
rush of gladness to maclanre's
heart. "You — you young Ilene!"
she called. "Stop that horrible
noise al; once and come up beret"
(To Be Continued)
Sow Had 6 Reasons
For Staying In Hole
Two marines d''n Okitiawa who
divot into a foxhole in a night air,.
raid had the company of a sow
which would not budge.
blaster Sergeant Joe Tyson,Jr.,
Oregon, Mo., and Pfc. Walter
Dahl of Tapotll', 11fien., stayed ,
with the sow that night and the
nest morning found site had six
reasons for not moving—six littie
pigs
Sergeant Tyson and Private
Dahl chug themselves another hole,
CHRONICLES
By
®$ GINGER_ FARM Gwend*oline, P.
larke
IL is said that we should count
thaot day as lost on which we
learn nothing new.
Well, last - Wednesday I. learnt
plenty—but to say 1 was scared
inthe process is to put it mildly,
You see I act out to do another
big washing --with my electric
washer, you understand. The first
time 1 used it Daughter was
helping me but on Wednesday. f
went at it alone. Everything went
fine at thrst. I started the motor
and left the gyrator to do the
'work while I fed the chickens,
thinking how marvellous it was
to be elite to do two jobs at one
time—and with such ease. On my
return there were the "towels end
thingsall ready to rinse. But -
then my troubles began.
No. 'Ie didn't get my fingers in
the wringer... I had had enough
warnings about that... but no one
had warned me how a loose thread
or a fringed edge can result in
towels twisting themselves around
the wringer worse than anything
I ever saw, In my ignorance I saw
no reason why the cotton begs I
was rinsing shouldn't drop down
on the other side of the wringer
unassisted. Go i went merrily on,
feeding bage and towels to the
wringer without paying much at-
tention to what they were doing.
I was too busy diving for the next
one to put through. Suddenly I
noticed the rollers well padded.
I knew very well what I
wee supposed to do—release the
rollers ---but before I could do it
something happened—and the
wringer slopped working. I think
Illy Least stopped too—or if It
didn't it was somewhere up in
my mouth. "What have you done
...what kind of a stupid fool
are you?" I asked myself. You
see I really thought I had brok-
en something. however I sprung
the release and then 1 sudden y
realised that not only the wringer,
bet the motor had stopped. I
tried to remember all the things
I had over heard about what to
do when a fuse blows out because
by this time it had dawned on me
that that was what had really
happened.
5 *
I didn't want to bother the men
because they were still at the barn
milking. So I went down cellar
and tried to figure things out for
myself.
"Shot off the power." I ex-
perimented with that idea until
I was certain I had it right. And
glad I was it was dayligbt so
that what I was doing didn't make
itself felt at the barn!
"Remove burnt ora fuse—re-
place with a new one." Yes, but
which fuse?- There were six of
them. I studied the direction of
the wires in my mind's eye I
connected them with the fuse to
which' I thought they belonged.
Decided which was which, put in
new fuse, turned on the power,
came upstairs, pugged in the
washer—and presto! away she
went. The towels and bags were
finally untangled and in about
twenty minutes my heart beat
had returned to normal, But what
a lot I learned in half an hour!
Experience is a good teacher. In-
eldentally, had I examined the
fuse more closely I would have
seen that the burnt out one had
turned black in the centre so
I need not have worried about
which was the one to replace.
But that, of course. was something
else l didn't know.
* * - 5
01 course we are right into the
haying—end it was such good
drying weather most of last week.
Towards the end of the week we
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had more bay ready for the barn
than Partner and young John
could handle alone—than is if they
-were Lo get it in before rain came
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for a Farm Commando. The 'elan
who came was strong, willing and.
knew what he was doing, so the
men got along fine—that is, until
five o'clock when rain put an end
to haying for that day.
Before he went our Command°
remarketl--"You don't know what
those' two home -cooked heals
have meant to me, Mrs. CIarke.,
I live in restaurants all the time
and I'm telling you, yon people
in the country havesno idea what
that really means and how sick
and tired we get of it all."
I thought It was very nitre of
the fellow to Paige his apprecia-
tion that way. He could easily
have taken it all for granted.
German Submarines
Had Our Tide Tables
The U-889, first. German sub-
marine to surrender in North Am-
erican waters, contained a lot of
very interesting items. One was
a set of tide tables for the St.
Lawrence River mouth and the
Bay of Fundy. Printed on bine
cardboard, the German charts were
marked "Addendum to Naval At-
lac
tlac 2911."
Naval offleals pointed to this
diecovery as an example of the
thoroughness of German Intelll-
gence surveys, and stressed the
need for continued observance of
security regulations.
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