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Walker Furriittire unci Undertaking THE WIN GI -IAM : DVANCE-TIMES Synopsis: Joyce Ashton, poor sten- ographer, suffered loss of memory ina skidding taxicab acctd enc in Chicago, One morning two years later she woke, after a fall from her horse, her memory restored, to find herself, as Frills, the wife of Neil Pachard, rich California fruit packer. She de- termined to tell nobody ofher pre- dicament but set about learning what she could of her life in the interval. From the conversation of her friends and letters in her desk she gathered' that she had been a heartless, pleasure - loving young' woman; One letter that troubled her was from, a woman sign- ing herself as Sophie, blaming Frills for not giving a home to a baby Sophie was caring for. Could it be her baby, Frills wondered! She also found herself involved in an affair with a man named Maitland. In San Francisco, where she went while her husband was away on. business, she met Robert Ainsworth, a poet whose, work she : had always admired. When Joyce returned home, she decided to be pleasanter to Neil than Frills had been. But this line was dangerous, too for Neil was pathetically anxious to win back Brills' .love. At his re- quest they call upon Neil's mother, whom Joyce finds adorable. Later, she met the poet, Robert Ainsworth, and several times stopped for lunch at his cabin when she was horseback riding. One day he started to make love to her. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY "Do you know, dear, I haven't had • ness to the many that Frills had in- ing glance turned to the couple on flicted upon hiin, Hiseyes haunted the ground, His eyes met Joyce's her, and she felt more Ymsr utterly � i e •- t able than she had at any time since she bad awakened to find herself oc= cupying another woman's shoes, She could not contemplate failing Neil Viand his mother that way. Riding off with Joyce that after- noon, Neil was inhigh spirits, with an elation in his manner that filled Joyce with shame. She rode in sil- ence, hardly answering his questions, and not looking at him. Neil soon fell in with her mood as they rode along and no longer both- ered her with conversation. Gradual and a quick smile of recognition spread over his face. Then his look dropped to the figure of Neil' lying with his head in her lap.. A quizzical shade passed over his face, "Hello, Joyce-" he shouted. His horse leaped forward under the spur, of his heel, and they galloped up the Slope. Before Neil could stumble to his feet Ainsworth was drawing rein nearly upon them. "This precisesituation," he said easily, "demands a galloping retreat an my part, but I'm too inquisitive to be so gallant. I prefer to advance ly then she began to feel remorse, and see what. happens instead!" and wished she could be less surly Joyce's self-possession' left her en with Neil. He tried so hard to .please her in everything, to adapt himself to . her moods. It struck Joyce sud- denly how much of that sort of thing he must have been doing in his mar- ried life. "Sam says McBready has a new lot of horses in," remarked Joyce, "did he tell you there's a man from Salin- as who would like to buy Fire Queen?" "Yeah," replied Neil, eyeing her sidewise,'perhaps to see if her gener- al expression matched the friendly casualness of her voice. "I said I'd like to consult you about the matter. I hate the sight of the damn' brute after what she - nearly did to you, dear.,, A flash of amusement curled the corners of Joyce's mouth for a mo- ment as she remarked, "You needn't a ride with you in a dog's age. I ccnsult me. I'm quite satisfied with think P1 cut out the golf today and Rosita, thank you." go with you. Take me on, will you?" ",Really? Gosh that's great. Sure Neil spoke with smiling carelessness but the look in his eyes gave him away. "Of course, what time will you get here?" She spoke casually. Neil would never guess the turmoil of un- happiness under that calm. Did men ever divine things the way women did'- One man perhaps . . Robert? as the name stabbed her she turned away quickly, scarcely hearing Neil's answer,"I'll come' home to lunch, I think. Then we'll"have the whole af- ternoon together." Even in her pain Joyce heard the change in Neil's voice. That last. word was spoken with so touchingly. confident and happy a note.. "All right, I'll be ready. Good- bye," and she ran upstairs and shut herself in her room. There she, sat down on the edge of the couch -bed and clenched her hands, staring dry- eyed ottt of the big window to the distant mountains. Joyce waswrapped' in a mood: of warm compassion for Neil. She felt she could not add another unkind- ?relieves my mind." A little later they dismounted and f . i sat down an a slope overlooking the valley to eat the package of sand- kviches and fruit Joyce had brought. To her relief Neil talked about Man- zanita topics: his mother's cenditian, 'Paul's departure, Sarrfs progress in the, correspondence course,, plans for the new subdivisicin north of Man- zeolite, and so on. He finally, stretched out on The ground and put his head in her Tap. Joyce had just stroked back a lock i of hair front his forehead, thinking `absently that Neil ought to be dor ing something about the increasing thinness of hie hair,when the thud of a horse's hoofs !'n: the distance: caught her ear. She stiffened and glanced up with an apprehensive fear' .-fir." 4stopping- its o. r el tching at her heart: and stypping its beat for a moment. There, in an opening between two clumps of oak trees about sixty yards away, on the trail they had just left,. rode Robert Ainsworth! He did not see her at first. Then his idly rov- tirely. She started numbly at the two filen, miserably aware that they were both looking to her for explanation, and even more miserably aware that she knew not how to begin. Neil was the firstto come •to Joy ce's rescue: "I beg your pardon," he said, courteously, "you seem to know ny wife?" The quizzical smile deepend on Robert's face, "No; I seem rather to have made e mistake-" he began. A new,' almost insolent note in his voice whipped Joyce into anger. All at on- ce she knew what her course must be. It mattered little to her what the outcome of this meeting was; she was determined not to be led into furth- er deceptions. "No mistake at all," she said quiet- ly. "Neil, he's lying if he says he doesn't know .me-" She looked from one to the other of the men. ' Neil's expression was that of the same partly -expressed hurf that he had shown when Mait- land's name had been mentioned. She knew at once that he thought Robert had taken Maitland's place in Frills' life, but that his value of decency and dignity was holding him in check'. Neil's immediate, unconscious reac- tion to" this situation did not surprise her; he was showing no reversal of his personality. Robert, however, had suddenly be- come a stranger to her. Was this her "Perfect companion," was this the man whose sublety and sympathy she had so deliriously counted on? He sat on his horse coolly and looked. down on them with an expression of amused cynicism. If this attitude were a cloak for his hurt feelings, Joyce thought swiftly, it was a less lovely one than Neil's!' These valuations passed. through Joyce's mind in one 'galloping sec- ond, while she stood. there helpless- ly, wondering where to begin. "May I have the pleasure of meet- ing your husband?" Robert asked, smiling. Joyce looked at him. "Get off your horse, please," she answered, "there's la lot to be straightened out and it`ll take some time .. Robert Ainsworth „this is Neil Packard, nmy. husband .." t The men asknowledged the intro- duction, Neil curtly, Robert with the same hard amusement that so offend- ed Joyce. "Charmed" said Ainsworth: lightly. 'Oh,, done talk that wayl" Joyce. cried. '1 don't know you at all in this mood—you're making it terribly hard for roe--" Robert bert threw back his head and laughed. "Think, Joyce, what a lot I'm going to learn from this meet-' frig( Think of the value of it all to a novelist: Why,. 1 wouldn't, be miss- ing it for a+zrythingl I only wish I ;had the Petr of Elinor Glyn to write it: upaderitrritely" Neil drew forward. "I don't think my'wife and 1 have time to. Stop and listen' to that sort of damn' drivel from you—" he beganhotly, when Joyce interposed, "Oh, this is all so faptastiel Please —please, don't begin :a fight over it, when neither of yott really knows :a bit what it's all about . . Neil, I've beep trying to make tip my mind to tell you—Robert, there's a good deal due to you ,too! 'I hadn't expected to tell you both at once, but since it's happened this way, for Heaven's sake don't make it so difficult for me- I want to, tell both of you the truth!" She turned to her husband, "Neil, you never heard of Joyce Ashton,id d you? Answer me that, Neil?" "You don't mean Joyce Abbott, do you Frills?" "No, no, I. don't . , . tell me this, Neil, what was my name before you married. me? . . Don't look at me as 'if I were craaA What was my name before you married nae?" "Why, Frills, this is nonsense! Don't you know your own name? It was Florence Hilton, of course. What has that go to do—" "Oh, will you please let me tell you? Sit down, both of you; this is going to take a long time. Please don't begin with thinking I'm crazy, You've both heard of amnesia vict- ims, of course? Did you know you'd. married one, Neil? Did you know that Florence Hilton was a girlwithout a past, without a life? :You've got to help me tell this story, Neil, because I remember nothing before the morn- in:g after Fire -Queen threw me on my} head1" Neil was staring at her dumb -foun- ded. "You're not serious, Frills? Why —what—when—" Robert Ainsworth said, "Lord! Tell us what you're driving at, Joyce!' Joyce suddenly found it possible to talk to these two Wien. It was as if her mind had for some time been,'pre- paring the story' it had to tell, sthat the . words came swiftly, tensely, dramatically. She told . themof being born Joyce Ashton, of her early life in New England, of her aunt and un- cle, of her work in Philadelphia and then of her start toward. the Coast in search of adventure. "I remember getting intothe taxi- cab in Chicago in the snow—that sort of light snow when the streets still aren't quite wet, but the dirt makes them sticky. The taxi skidded .vio- lently—there was a crash -and when I woke up I was in a bed, on a sleep- ing porch, looking out at a tree on which oranges were growing. A man' came onto the porch and asked me how T felt! That was you, Neil, whom 1 in my first appalled state fancied to have been my kidnapper!" "Why on earth -say, how on earth have you kept this all to yourself? How long ago was all this, Joyce?" It was Ainsworth speaking. Neil seemed too stunned to take in the significance of it all. "I don't know just how I have kept it al ..:Of course at first I was 'so terrified I couldn't think, much less act.'' Then I've always been awfully. reticent—hated. scenes—and I usually followed the line of least resistance. Neil ivas just leaving :to go on 'a business trip to Chicago. He kissed me good-bye while I was still in that, paralyzed state, and I was left to fig- ure things out for myself! It evas all terrible, of course, but insome ways it was fascinating. Your house, Neil, is so lovely, and the outdoorness ap- pealed to me -it all was so different from the pinched, dark, meagre life I'd been leading in the Philadelphia boarding-house that I hung greedily on... And then, of course,.1 found out about Frills. . "Frills was the vicious imp that had taken possession of my • body while I was an amensia victim.. I found out that as well as having got- ten Joyce .Ashton a good husband and a beautiful home, she had made. that husband desperately unhappy, been a cross little beast." D Neil looked up, "Do you mean to tell me you don't remember having married me?" "Yes, Neily,. just that. I'm trying to tell you that I remember nothing between th:e time bf the taxi acci- dent in Chicago two years ago, and Thursday, June 29th, 193 the recent accident on Fire Queen!". "Humph," Neil looked closely at his wife, asif trying to fathunr some hidden reason slle might have for making a fool of hini, "Neil, haven't you noticedthat I've been different lately? Look back to yam. return from Chicago that last. trip. Haven't I been Jess reckless, .less troublesome generally, than the Frills you married?" (Continues! Next Week) SCHOOL LESSON S CH _ TH ESUNDAY LESSON I — JULY 2nd, 1933 JOSHUA J OSHUA 1; x'=`9; 23:. 1,2,14 Golden Text.—Be strong and of good courage . for Jehovah, thy God, is with ghee withersoever thou goest.—Josh. 1: 9. THE LESSON IN ITS .SE'T'TING. Time.—Birth of Joshua, about B. C, 1544. Victory over the Amalekit es, B.C. 1498. Reports of the twelve spies, B.C. 1497. The death of Mos- es, B.C. 1450. The fall of Jericho, B. C. 1458. The death of Joshua, ac- cording to Josephus, B.C. 1434. Place.—The land of Moab, Gilgal, Jericho. sltccesscs to every faithful cirild, of: 1His. Sueli a promise does not lull a. true servant of God into lazy seetrr- ity, nor make Minx careless; on the contrary, it is the very' means of nerving hint for sustained exertion. As 1 was with I•Ioses, so I will be with thee. hid not Christ say to his. feeble disciples that after he, the Son. of God, should be taken from them. they would do ;greater things than he had: done? I willnot fail thee, nor forsake thee, These glorious words , are quoted iri the New Testainent,. Heb. 13:5. , Bestrong and of good st of „ a coua'age Faith is always the best ground of:, courage; faith in one's self, the. ground of physical courage. For thou shalt cause this people to inherit the land which I sware unto their fath— ers to; give there. Unselfish aims al- ways bring strength and courage. Only be strong and very courage- ous, to observe to . do according to all the law. Law -observance requires. strength and courage. Which .Moses• My servant commanded thee. Law is divine, and so is to be revered, al- though it comes to us through the• agency of men. Turn not froiri it to the right hand or to the left. • A straight character does not mean a., strait one, but a determined, prudent, and achieving one. That thou may; est have good success withersoever- thou goest. The gates of succes r do not open like doors which swing back:. on their hinges. when the fingers soft- ly press an electric bell. They only- open nlyopen to those who have faith, and_ energy, and trust in God, and, ability. to bear hardship, and spirit that nev- er despairs, and some of the patience and perseverance of the saints. This book of the law shall not de- part out of thy mouth. Joshua is. bidden to become so familiar with Holy Writ that the sacred words shall spring readily to his lips on all occasions, But thou shalt medi- tate thereon day and night, Long. and prayerful -thought over the sac- red Volume is necessary to draw from it the blessing it is . so abundantly able to bestow. That thou rnayest. observe to do according to all that is written : therein. What do your want to accomplish? Your Bible reading will mightily aid yo uto do it. For then thou shalt inake thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. The. -essence of success is the perception that to de- serve -to succeed is to succeed in the eyes of the Great Taskmaster. Have •I not commanded thee? Ah,. but if God. gives the reason for cour- age; anti the means 'to its attainment,. then he has the right to command it,- and we have the duty to obey. Be. strong and of good courage; be not affrighted, neither be thou dismayed. "Let not thy heart be troubled," so Christ commands us. Anxiety and. worry are sins against God, against our Saviour. The true child' of: God. has not right ever to be discourag- ed. 'For Jehovah thy God is with. thee withersoev"er thou goest. There is no such., thing as luck in any world.. that God presides over. If we are .on God's God's side, we must succeed. If he is ;our leader, fear and anxiety are treason to him. JOSHUA'S COMMISSION. Now it came to pass after the death of Moses the servant of Jehovah. The great leader had died in the land of Moab, and was given burial by Jehovah, so that no one knew his grave. Joshua's solemn appointment to this important post is related in Num. 27: 15-23. (Saying) Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise. Death of some conspicuous church worker ought to stimulate others to take up his work. . Go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people. How was Joshua to obey the Lord's command and get a whole nation, men, women and children, across this torrential stream? Unto the land which I do give to them, even . to the children of 'Israel. It is not difficult for us to realize these things, for God our Father hathblessed us all with spir- itual blessings in Christ: -Jesus, but they are not ours to enjoy until we have claimed and appropriated them by a Iiving faith.. They are only ours as we avail ourselves of them. Every place that the sole. of your foot ;shall tread upin, to' you have I given it. "Here is, a great promise witha 'sharp limitation." Every place is yours—but every place only as you tread upon' it, occupy, subdue, possess it. As I spake 'unto Moses: See God's words in Deut. 11:24; compare Josh. 14:19. From the wilderness. ; The desert of Arabia, in which the Israelites were encamped, lying to the south of Palestine. And this Lebanon. The mountain region of Lebanon visible to the north; to be seen from all parts of Palestine. Even unto the great river, the river Euphrates.. So great that it was called "the River." And the land of the Hittites. The Hitt- ite empire lay far to the north of Syria, but Canaan was .subordinate to it. And unto the great sea toward the going down of the sura. The Mediterranean on the West. Shall be your border. It is precisely so: }with. us in our lives: God has'°a vast do- main ready and waiting fbr us, in contrast to what may the be con- tracted limits within which We now move; but with his help we, must make ourselves worthy of it and able to administer it. JOSHUA'S STRENGTH G TREN�TH There shall not any many be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life. What a promise was that, for ag eneral who was to lead. an untried host against many tribes of seasoned warriors! They were all to fall before • his onset :,not necessarily at once, but Ultimately. The Book of Joshua is a chronicle of steady saiccesses, and God promises just such THE FAMILY. NEXT DOOR There's a Big Difference foR PeTY 6AK'E6r NWT 'stip./ f3U,D COMM mutt j HEY y D • v 3EiRE Y' Go1N To 1» 'aud4 A tAuCkR`t r. HIGHWAYS SAFETY CAMPAIGN" g Again :the .Minister, of Highways, vi The Hon. Leopold Macaulay, through is inaug- urating the Motor Vehicles Branch, an aggressive, widespread: publicity campaign in an effort to 'stern the tide d e of disaster on the streets and S' hi hwa s of the Province. g Despite an educational program which _ the Highways, . Department have carried out . over a period of years, deaths and injuries, caused by motor vehicle .traffic are alarmingly, unnecessaril • high, Y .The Highways Department this year is utlizing daily and weekly newspapers, the trade press, school teachers, the radio --revery available means—to improve conditions. This publication bespeaks the thoughtful is co-operation of every Motorist and t ofevery pedestrian in the: interest safety. Alt4tT oOIN NO PLACE UNK".