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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1934-02-22, Page 6M -Y SIX '1�Uelliugton Mutual Fire Insurance Co, Established 1$4Q• • Risks taken on all class' .of insur- a rite at reasonable rates: Head Office, Guelph, Ont. rf3NER COSENS, Agent, Wingham J. W. BUSI-IFIELD arrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money to Loan Office—Meyer Block, Win gh.amrt Successor' to Dudley Holmes IL S. HETIYERINGTON BARRISTER . And SOLICITOR Office: Morton Block.. Telephone No. 66. J. H. CRAW FORD Barrister, Solicitor; Notary, Etc. Successor to R..Vanstone Wingham Qntarxo DR. G. H. ROSS DENTIST Office Over Isard's Store. DR. A. W. IRWIN DENTIST. — X-RAY Richard looks at her the pitiful little his passionate emotion. She had re secret of her love for Page is reveal- cuilcd horn him with such terror that ed to hint. it struck him like •a blow. He let her •NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY hands drop with a gesture of passioi- ate rage. i He could keep her. he had a right "I don't want a wife who doesn't to keep her—. Then he saw her shak- love me!" he cried with sudden fury. ing lilke a leaf. by a kind of violence The moment was primal; the tornado then buntline himself, he had marri..d of his passion and his revulsion tore a woman e -ho did not love him, who down to his very heart. TSIE VVINGIIAM ADVANCE -TIMES OPSIS To ;;et fifteen thtusuuI dollars to ksave the family honor, Nancy Gordon iproxnises to xntzrry the \tell -to-do Dr. Richard Megan. Her beloved broth- ler, Roddy-, has conte home from. New York to confess that he has . taken that amount from the bank where he works—beoause a woman needed h— and that he will be jailed if he is found tut before he returns it. So Nancy, in love with the penniless Page Roemer, decides to borrow the money from Morgan, and pledges her- self to xnarry him in return. He ag- rees to the bargain, feeling sure he can make her love him. While they are talking at his house, Roemer com- es to see him_ "Oh, Richard, don't let him come in here," begs Nancy when she hears his name. And as station, Nancy knew that it was al- ready morning, Richard had had her. sleeping -berth made up and ordered her to lie down and rest, with, the de- tached tuxie of a professional adviser, A sensation of relief shot through her, she drew her breath deeply, and then ,suddenly, abruptly, she felt the hard icrcle of the wedding -ring on her finger. She stared at it curiously,. ab- horrently. She was not even now quite clear as to what had happened, She had gone to Richard openly, 'bra- zenly, begging helpand pledging her- self, she had married him and, he—? It seemed to her that he must scorn her as tremendously as he seemed to love . her. And though she did not love him,: it shook her horribly—she had married him. Her thoughts did not come in se- quence; she had glimpses of outside things,' and swift, poignant visions— of her father -looking gray and bro- ken and her mother, of Roddy deliv- ered from Jail, of Angie Fuller's span- iel eyes, and of Page. Roemer's. the thought of him was like a sword- thrust, it made her cringe back and cover her face with her shaking hands. Would she have to tell him? .She could not -she was sure she could not:! .1 The sun was rising when she got up and dressed in a swift, absent - really been in : love 'in your whole life?" She winced with such a tremor of feeling, that the red blood mounted from her bosom to her throat. "I've married you," she said in 'a low voice, "I'll try •to do my best—I will truly, if you'll give me a little time, Rihcard." "And you take no thought of me?" He laughed 'a strangely bitter laugh. "You've married me and you forget I'n1 a nnan like other men—I have feelings, too, Nancy; I'm not stone -and you can feel how I love you!" "Ohl" she gasped, "I -I was wrong to do it! I -you love me, and I--." She wrenched one hand free and, rea- ching back behind her, caught at the edge of a heavy table and leaned against it, weakly. Her agony reached through even DR. G. W. HOWSON DENTIST Office ' over J. M. McKay's Store. It W. COL BORN E. M.D. • Physician and Surgeon S. C. R shrank from him now in terror—re- the shrank tic*fore it, clinging Medical Representative D.pulsion. He turned away, without a• white-faced — to t he table against Successor to Dr. W. R. Hambls v urd. and bev an t walk to and fray in which she leaned. 4 • Phan 54 Wingham the room. Ide did not heed it: "I'mgoang to —" he stopped take you home. You—" I he looked at her he mightyield REDMOND to the tim <ii impulse of his own love wain, unable to go on, then, master - R. ROBT. C. C S (ENG)RCP. (Lond'� heart and it wti,ula.1 be against her you can keep this marriage secret— for her he aright take her to Itis mg himself—"you're free—if you will, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON will It would be actually an act of it's no marriage except in naive. I'll violence rather than an embrace, for take 3:oti home now—tonight!" she was fraid of him,'he save it! It She caught her breath, staring at insteadrelief, she Pa mervd him, zaerahps, more thee any- him wildly, but, of r c > F. A. PARKER � OSTEOPATH !thing else. Then the tumult of his felt the sting of his rejection: All Diseases Treated.feeling drowned even thought itself. Officeadjoining residence next to He crossed the room quikcly. In a Anglican Church on o n Centre Street, moment hisarm was around her, his ' Sunday by appointment Osteopathy Electricity ''lion 2'72. Hours, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. A.R.&F.E.DUVAE. CHIROPRACTORS :CHIROPRACTIC and ELECTRO THESI Y' frorth'Street • •i W°ui�ham ..Telephone '304. J. 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"I -I didn't pretend I did!" she said Ivery low, her lips twitching painfully with the effort to force speech -"I I didn't mean to cheat you—I told you —I pledged myself, I've kept that pledge I've married you." "Oh, have you?". he mocked. He was shaking with fury. All the pent-up passion and misery of the; love he was crushing down to spare her broke loose in.his anger. He caught one of her hands in his again and kissed it passionately, then, when he felt it ;ie there, unresisting,, as if sl.el dared not take it away, he flung it from hiin.. "I'm gcing to take you home --there is a night train, or rather a morning one, at half -past two. We'll go on it. "Meanwhile—" he swept the space about them with the gesture of dis- dainful courtesy -"these, rooms areyours. Lie down and rest, I'll have you called in time. I'm going out— good night until—the train goes.. hand on her shoulder. She did not answer, she stood quite "Nancy," he said softly, "my wife!" still, watching him with startled eyes. She tried to answer him, but her She only half understood; she felt as white lips refused to move. She could if a great hot whirlwind had blown not even lift her eyes to his... He felt it, felt that she actually shivered at his touch. He let her go, his arms, fell as his sides, and he stood still, ; egarding her. "I don't want a wife who desn't love me," he cried with sudden fury. past her through the rooms and scorched her. She only half glimpsed the disappointment, the wrath, the mortification he felt. Then, suddenly, he returned. He "I kneve you didn't love ,me," lie flung himself on one knee beside her said at last; "I gambled on the chance chair; she felt his hands, hot and that I could make you—I--God for-ltiliak}ng, closh on hers, and she lifted give me, I took advantage of you, 1 i11er eyes and n'iet the passionate paid —." He turned away, and then at in.his. last, hurriedly. "I'm going to take you home!" "You t'near1---?" her lips shook. "I mean I. don't want you to hate me. Nancy, this thing can't go on, I see it! This marriage—" he stopped, unable to go on. "Richard—" she begain faintly, tak- ing a step toward him. He looked around at her and their I.:34,, met. She was shaken again by the power and passion of his glance. She had never really known tite lean and isow, in the depths trf those strange, green -brown: eyes of itis, she saw love and possion and rage, not untouched, too, by compassidn, t compassion a man might feel for a spoiled child. Naney's face burned suddenly. She, came nearer, holding up her head. 'Forgive me, Richard," she said faintly, "and give me a little time," His face 'softened wonderfully. "Nancy!" he gathered her trembling hands into his, "you don't knowwhat love is, yeti child, you t" he drew a little nearer. "1 wonder if you've ever Tbwsday, February 22 aside his own gate and stood there, waiting to watch her, She feit his eyes, gave one glance back, whitened to her lips and fled. Richard was a proud pian end he reddened under his tan. He hacl seen the agony :in her face when she shiv- ered at his touch, she, his wife ---in- credible! The the flame •ef passion leaped up again. "She's nx'ine—niinel'" He was startled at a voice. "Richard, I've been waiting ever long for you!" It was Helena Haddon standing at his door. He was taken aback without .reas- on. It was no unusual thing for Hel- ena to come, He was the Haddon's physician and she came -sometimes with bold excuses, sometimes in real need of something to quiet her nerv- es, but today—! "What's the trouble?" he asked, striving to be natural; "Nerves again, Helena?" "Oh, it's everything!" she smiled at him. "It's nerves and King—and the spring weather." "Principally thespring weather, I fancy," he said reassuringly, opening the door for her. He meant to take her into his office. but she walked straight into the lib= rary. He saw her model and he had begun sometimes to fear its conse- quences; today he was thinking hard: "At least I don't have to tell her now!" "I hope you haven't 'gotthe same old headache, Helena?" "No, it's not my headache," Heelna laughed, looking around at him open- ing her green eyes wide and lauthing. at him. "I see there's been a visitor here before rte," she added mocking- ly, "She's mice! he thought cruelly. "She's mine -111 never let her got" SU Keeps Hotel at 93 Seaforth-Hale and'hearty, Thomas ("Dad") Stephens of the Queen's Ho- tel here,celebrated his ninety-third birthday, and from early morning had a steady stream -of, callers; among whom were Mayor Sutherland and the Town Council. "Dad" had served on the council for a number of yeats. He was born in London, Ont.; and came here in 1865 going in to the grain bus- iness. In 1876 he built the Queen's Hotel, which he conducted ever since. Among the reminiscences of the early days, he told of the farmers who re- fused a big price for their grain dur- minded way. She diel riot know where Richard had 'gone: He had been mer- ciful, he had left her alone. She was very pale when he came and, in his authoritative way, made her go into the dining -car. , "You can't starve yourself," he said grimly, and added in an undertone: "don't hate me so much you can't eat, Nancsil" She raised her eyes suddenly and looked full at him for the first time. She was shocked at the 'change in him in one night., He looked old. He was ten years older than she was, five years older than Page—he might be fifty now in the Crude light of the swaying train. He was looking at her and their glances met, niet with a shock of mutual feeling. He put his hand out involuntarily and took hers and felt it icy cold. "You poor child!" he exclaimed softly. ` Sitting opposite her in the dining - car, with the little white -covered table. between them he had another change of heart. He could not give her up! "She's mine!" he thought cruelly.; "she's mine—l'll never let 'her gol" and then he was ashamed: "Eat something, Nancy," he urged,' "you've got to." • She tried, choking down her food, but her hands shook. "Listento me, Nancy," his voice passionate still, had sotfened, it was shaken now by a new emotion, a deep- er one, his tenderness for her. Not even anger could drive it out when be looked at her bowed head: "I love yott--never dream but that I love you, But I won't take a wife who shrinks front me -like a pestilence! I'r:n set- ting you free. You can even say no- thing of this marriage, if you will. I've made no announcement. P11 make none without your sanction. I've mar- ried you—I'm going to try to win you. now, When you can come back to me with love in your heart—then, Nancy, myheart is waitin for that day -until then—" He caught her hands and kissed thertr, pressing them: against his breast. She felt his passionate lips upon her two hands, she felt the termor that ran through him, and then—almost as quickly as it reached her — lie was gone. She was atom, in the strange room, alone and free—and yet not free 'When the train ACTIVE IN BRITISH POLITICS eseeNeeeeile Lady Ashley, who is being sited for divorce by her husband, who named Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., in his action; has taken an active part in politics, this picture having been taken while she was helping in a recent campaigire... She is a former actress. It is stater that Fairbanks' and his wife, Mary - Pickford, were on the verge of are- r conciliation just 'before the Ashley viii voice suit was initiated. ing the Russian war, only to take a much smaller price for it a couple of year later, "Dad" says he "does not know what a five or six hour day. means; too short a time to get. any work done; his wort: day was from daylight till dark, and lots to do af- ter that." Prohibition Union Changes Its Name With a brand 11ewv name, but with no definite plans for the forthcoming Ontario .election, the official prohibi- Itionists of the Province closed their annual convention at the King Ed- 11- 0 rI :,-•..itb„ , ...ants.06, Ciim►/JUei ward Hotel. The Ontario Prohibition Union —a name that, for years has echoed over the Province's hustings—passed froze the picture with the adoption of a, measure that the organization in fut- ure be known as "The Ontario Tena--. perance Federation: TIse topic which aroused the most - heated debate of the afternoon sessiom and which incidentally left a some- what disgruntled offshoot of the con- vention in a secret huddle after the rest of the delegates departed, was:: "What is this convention going to din about the coming elections?" • 01=101=0=0==== O=Oi -_- OSO) 0 He saw it, saw that she would not 0 —or could not—even look at him now and choked down his own food and took her back to her place it the sleeper, and left her to herself, "I think you want to be alone," he said. She assented without words and they made' the rest of the journey apart. It was late afternoon when they finally got home. There were only a few people at the station and Richard and Nancy 'walked up the street un- molested, They did not speak until they reached his gate and Richard stopped there. "Won't you come in, Nancy?" . His very tone appealed. For an instant bis pride broke, there was littriger and longing in bis voice. She gasped. "I—I'd like to go to Home first--- I-what do you mean, Richard?" ,, ni 1 0l•, "r Ill gave her�a tense o k human—God, I'm human!" he said, "you know what I mean!" She hung her Head, she did not know what to do, batt -unconsciously —she wrung her hands. "Can I come hone with you. now," Richard pleaded, "and see your father and mother—or am 1 to stay here?" "Oh, I niiist go!" she gasped, "1 must!" "Go? 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