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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1934-03-08, Page 6THE: WINGI AM ADVANCE -TIMES i! Wellington Mutual Fire Insurance Co.' Established 1840, ki:lcstaken on all ,class of itlstzr vete at reasonable rates, e Head Office, Guelph, Ont, ABNER COSENS, Agent, Wingllam J. W. EUSI'IFIELD ldarrister, Solicitor, Notary, Ete, Money to Loan Office—Meyer Block, Wingham Successor' to Dudley Holmes R. S. H E T HE R I N G T O N BARRISTER And SO.LICITOR Office; Morton Block, Telephone No. 66, J, H. CRAWFORD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Successor to R. Vanstone Wangham Ontario DR. G H. ROSS DENTIST Office Over Isard's Store. DR. A. W. IRWIN DENTIST -- X-RAY. lifiee, McDonald Block Wingham, DR. O. W. HOWSON DENTIST Office over Bondi's Fruit Store. H. W. COL.BORNE, M.D. Physician and Surgeon medical Representative D. S. C. R. Successor to Dr. W. ' R. Hambly Phon 54 Wingham, DR. FORT. C. REDMOND 111.R.C.S. (ENG.) L.R.C.P. (Loud.) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON F. A. PARKER All. SYNOPSIS To get fifteen thousand dollars to save the family hanor; Nancy 'Gordon promises to marry- the evell=to-do Dr. Richard Morgan. Her beloved broth- er, Roddy, 'has conte home from New York to confess that he has taken that amount from the bank where he works—because a: woman needed it— and that he will be jailed if he is found out 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 marry hint 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 Richard looks at her the pitiful little secret of her love for Page is reveal- ed to him: Nancy Gordon. trades herself .iu marriage for fifteen thousand dollars —the price of her family honor—and the freedom of her brother, Roddy, who stale, for a woman, that amount from - the bank in which 'hcc works, Nancy desperately in love with young Page Roemer, nevertheless agrees to a secret elopement with Dr. Richard Morgan, and with the money he loans her prevents Roddy's arrest. Dr, Mor - gaze is loved by Helena ' Haddon, . a sophisticated young married woman, but he .adores Nancy and hopes to win her after tnarriage. In Washing tctn they are married. Nancy is Rich- ard's bride and afraid of hint. 2 OW GO ON WITH THE STORY. OSTEOPATH "I don't .call him a decent man nor, Sarah: I thuu^•h hewas.s , Diseases Treated. t It _ Office adjoining residence next to int decent, its not honest to take 1 Anglican Church on Centre Street. ladvantage of a viid girl beside her - Sunday by appointment.self with grief . about her brother. I'd Osteopathy Electricity —well. I'll tell him what I think of °r hone 272. Hours, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. j him 1" "Nancy did it herself, Papa." "Nancy had lost her mind—he's a A. R. & F. E. DUVALdoctor and he hadn't," CHIROPRACTORS CHIROPRACTIC and ELECTRO THERAPY North. Street — Wingbam • Telephone 300. J. ALVIN FOX Licensed Drugless Practitioner CHIR.OiPRACTIC DRUGLESS "He's in love with her; when 'a man's in love—" The door opened abruptly and. Amanda's round black head came in. "Doctah Morgan ter see yo' sub." Mr. Gordon's eye gleamed. "Tell him to come in here, Mandy." Mrs. Gordon half rose from her seat. She wanted to run, but if she did—? She had never seen her bus- band like this before and she had THERAPY - RADIONIC swift and. horrid visions of murder I EQUIPMENT and sudden death. She cast a startled i glance at his drawn face and stopped' s crying. me before. I've loved her for a long time. That vas ally only reason." "Fiddlesticks! roared Mr,,.Gordon, "How cab you love a 'girl and let her do a thing like •that? She, doesn't love you -she told 'tne she hated you "Oh,' .pap!" protested his wife, "don't!, Richard Morgan said nothing; he turned deathly white. itfr,- Gordon stared at him like an infuriated buff- alo about to charge. "Do you happen to know why: she wanted that inoney?" he demanded fiercely. Mrs; .. Gordon half rose from her chair. "Oh, -Papa, don't -don't tell! Her husband ignored her. So did Richard, "She didn't tell me, .I didn't ask-- I don't wantto know.". Mr. Gordon' stopped long enough to loosen his collar .button; and then went on furiously. "I'll tell you all about it. My son's in the'.Greenborough Trust Company in New York. You know it? He's got the get -rich -quick fever and he picked up a handful, fifteenthousand dollars—an spent it in five months. He's a promisingboyat spending—" "William Gordon, I'll leave you you don't stop!" his wife wailed. "You hush up, Mother, it's t truth, isn't it? vVell, he took it an he etas in danger of going to jail,. H came here instead—ran away an carne home, and we're all broken u You see, we've aln'ays .loved the boa* —Mr. Gordon choked a little -"lie an Nancy, as kids, were as thick as pea It broke her up altogether. She wan ed to save her brother, to_give hi another chance. She went out like madwoman and went to you. And yo —by the .I-ord Harry, sir, I'd like t have you explain yourself, How dare you take a gift like .that—at her Ivor -and tie,her up! You're—you're—" He didn't finish. Mrs. Gordon' trembling hand was over his moutl "He's crazy, Richard!" she sobbed clinging to her husband.. "I'm sur he's going to have a stroke!" Richard turned and looked et Mrs.. Gordon and then at her husband, and his look was.astonishingly full of light and beauty. "I trusted to the power of my own love for Nancy- I thought I could make her love rue, If once she was my wife_ I think so still." Mr. Gordon still stared at him. He began to understand that this man oved Nancy deeply, irrevocably, but t did not stop his heartburn and hame. "You'll get it baek—every cent,' e said, "you cannot put me under his obligation, I won't endure it." Richard's mouth shut hard. He id not answer this, he ignored it. "You say that Nancy toldeyou she hated me?" he said slowly, turning to Mr. Gordon.. Mr, Gordon nodded. Richard's shoulders «seemed to square themselves like those of a man who had resisted a heavy blow. "I've already put it up to her," he said, with forced quietness. "I've told her we needn't announce' it if she wishes a quiet release. Of' course; 1 " he was speechless a momerif. and then added: "I've loved her ever since she was a child, I think._ I'1l put it all up to her again, 1 -" words were seeming- ly difficult "—may I see her now?" Mr. Gordon rose and. went to the oor, opened it, and. called up the airs, There was no answer.' Mrs. Gor- on stumbled out' of her rocker. "I'll go up, Papa, she—perhaps she. fresn't hear you."" "Nancy Virginia," , bawled her fa- res, The kitchen door opened and Am- news black face ,appeared. She was lowing the whites of her; eyes pro- gzously; she had heard all -the rac- et and knew ae much as they did, "Mis'a'N1'attcy •ain't in, sub. She dont* one down ter de river, 'Slie wits yin, 3, "Oh, Papa, you—you broke her art!" wailed Mrs. Gordon, careless Amanda's ears, "sh•c's-she's gone kill herself!" Mt. Gordon's l flushed face grew ile, his eyes started, "".I-•" he snatched his hat off the ck m the hall and uzade for the or, Btrt Richard Morgan was before tm. Without a word to either of if he d e d P• If d se t= m a n 0 d cl think you knoev what I had to say: Ithen, and I can't wait. any longer. I s must say it now. Nancy Virginia, 1. trill you marry me? I'm coming to- night for my answer," e To -night? She looked- at the date; he had : written it the day she - was married. The: crumpled. paper fell'in her lap and she sat and stared at it for a while, : Then, very slowly, she picked up the drooping violets and kissed them. She. sat there for.a long time without moving;. then, the wind blowing from that direction she heard her father's voice and Amanda's in their garden, and, nearer at hand, the crackling of twigs. In an instant she divined the situation, they were look- ing for her, her father, and her hus- band! This might he Richard himself in the brush across the; river! She rose trembling, and ran up the path. She. knew her way here as no lei one. else knew it. She slipped behind some cedars, climbed a steep rock, and carne out, by a short cut on the, main street, below MacDougall's drug store. She crossed Main street and went down Meadow Lane. At the end of it Was an old or- chard; no one would find her there! She only wanted to he alone, She strayed along under the ,bare•. trees of the old orchard. The; ;,host turf was soft and green and gave ,un der her feet. The wind was wonder- fully fresh:and keen, and it was the only thing 'that revived her, She felt alive when it 'blew in her face, But she did' not know what to •do. What could she do? She had married Rieli and Morgan and -according to her father—even Richard would despise her for it. It was true then what her father said, he did' not want leer! She ° went on wandering under the trees, sure that they .could • hot find her there. She wanted to hide, oh hide so that no one.would ever find herb Least of all Richard, Yet, all the while, she felt his ring hard and cold on. her finger. Tt felt heavy there, ,but she dared not take it off. In the lonely orchard Nancy's face burned with shame. She had .asked; him- for :fifteen thousand dollars, She had set a' iii•ice on 1 ei•selfl' ' The sun had set long ago and a mist was rising over the meadows. It ran along the edges in circling wreaths like smoke, Nancy shivered. Nancy hurried on. Anotiter half hour brought her face to face with the old courthouse, deserted now and; dark, Ott the opposite, side of the street were some small old-fashioned houses given up to lawyers and their clerks, In one of these Page Roemer 0 had his rooms, He lived there in two them, lte fleet§ the door open and started clown the garden path. ' Nancy fled from the house when her husband entered. Herr father had painted a-convilrcing "picture. She saw herself a brazen creature, offer- ing' to marry a pian fora price-- without. ei euse, 'Where the river was little, wider than a strewn a heavy log spanned it, laid from boulder ti) boulder at the ford. Nancy, creased. on it, She had gone that way a thousand times with. Roddy. It. was one of their childish feats, Nancy sat down, took off hei- hat and let the spring wind blow her soft hair about. At het feet, in a sunng nook, bloomed the first wild violets, . She looked do*n at thein in dull misery. Page always picked the first violets for her; , no doubt there were 'some folded into the letter she had in her handbag. She bad found it in her room. Now she remembered, tool: it out and opened It. She, wase right, the first wild violets of ; the season fell Out:. of it; She looked at them va- cantly, It was a moment before, site' began` to' read. "Dear Nancy. Virginia: Why cpulcl- n't you come down to see me?. That headache wasn't , excuse-, enough --1 rooms behind his Nary. office, and ti' windows ta'ere light now. Was Page g, ttinl,' ready to go f Ills arrsweri' Al'tvave of emotion sleet over her, an intense longing for sr pathy, ford kindness. Page loved. he The temptation was too 'keen to i silt, the longit.g to see him, to spea m; to tell hint bur troubles.; Pe Baps he would. hate her, too, then, an it would stake it easier for him, :. She turned, went into the narro hall and ascended the stairs. The do e at the top stood - open and.she stop Ped, leaning . against it; and'l'ookin into the room beyond, herself unseen It was an office, plainly and sinrpl furnished,. As she looked, the nine door opened and Page Roemer carni in, went to his desk and sat down faking up Inc telephone, 't She could see him plainly; be wa already dressed, and he' had some o the; wild violets on his coat. Th light from the green shaded lamp fel on tlr,e handsome 'arch of his young head. He was younger than. Richard Morgan, better looking, more pliable and gifted with a grace of manner. What would he think of her? Wha of her. corning here at this hour? The wave of ,emotion. that had borne her up ,the stairs to his threshold, swept beck' upon . her and stcbinerged her. She turned softly, felt' for. the banist- ers with a groping gesture and tried to .escape unseen, But the liad just hung .up the receiver and in the en- suing stillness, he heard the rustle of her garments. He` turned quickly, trying to look out of , the lighted room, into the dime hall beyond. She had to cross his vision to reach the head of the stairs and he saw a wo- man where, as a rule, no one but nten. appeared at this, hour. His curiosity, took him to the door. Page took 'a step forward and turn- ed up the old' fashioned. gas jet in the hall. As he did .so she turned her head away, but he had already recog- nized her. "Nancy! Good heavens, Nancy!" he cried,. "what is it?" He caught her in his ai-'ns and lift- ed her like a child, carryang her into his office. But she disengaged herself, pushing him off with both hands, her` white lips shaking. "Don't touch me," she cried wildly, on't touch mei" 1e or zt m-. el e- k r or - g y cr e 'l s f e 1 Richard t "d "Miss Nancy -ain't in, sub.. She done He . stood dumfounded, looking at gone dewy. the river. She was cryin'." Hours by. Appointment. 'hQn� 191, Wingham. THOMAS FELLS AUCTIONEER REAL ESTATE SOLD A thorough knowledge of Farm Stock Phone 231, Winghant: 7* Will Pay You to Have An - EXPERT AUCTIONEER to conduct your sale. See T. R. BENNETT At The Royal Service Station. Phone 174W. R. C. ARMSTRONG LIVE STOCK. And GENERAL AUCTIONEER Ability with special training en - table me to give you satisfaction. Ar- sang,ements made'with W. J. Brown, 'gingham; or direct to Teeswater. Phone 45r2-2. THOMAS E. SMALL LICENSED AUCTIONEER: • 20 Years' Experience in Farm Stock and Implements. Moderate Prices, Phone 881. A. Walker FURNITURE and FUNERAL SERVICE Wingliai' Ont. Ambulance Service h t d d st "My daughter has told, me that you .d bought and paid for her---yesl" d The hall door opened quietly for tl Richard Morgan. 'There was a moment of terrible a silence, At a glance he' took 'in.the si situation.- Perhaps his own" heart- di searching had prepared him for it. k He glanced at Mrs. .Gordon but he faced her husband, 1-xe spoke appar- entlywith some effort; "1 pec that Nancy has told you, sir, that we were married yesterday in Washington," . "fly daughter has tont me that you bought and paid for her-•-yeslfWhat I want to know is ---how you flared to' take advantage of a yotttlg girl' in such distress as she was? How'did you dare to marry her?" "I married her because 1 loved her, Mr, Gordon, I've asked her to marry l' cr he of to pa ra do tri. 0 0 p 0 Thu ..day, March 8th, 1934- BRIDE RETURNS TO FATHER Mrs. Nol'ma Brighton Millen, 19 - year -old bride of Merton Millen, al- leged gangster, shown at her old home in 'Natick, Mass., with her .dad, Rev, Norman Brighton, with. whom she" now finds peace during her trouble. She was arrested in New York with;:,': her husband, •his brother, Irving, int.' connection with a series of holdups and murders. The brothers are held`,:'. while Mrs. Millen was released on bail as a material witness. her,almost as pale as she was: (Continued Next Week) Grain Feeding. In all grain feeding it .must be kept in mind that the product being used is an ^expensive one and can under no,. circumstances "be used in the, feeding or finishing of low grade or indiffer- ently bred 'animals. Not only must the animals' be of approved' types, bet experience has clearly shown that cer� tain kinds of farm aninials'greatly ex- cel others in the ability to utilize the the feeds provided. Especially is this true in connection -with the feeding of grains. Poultry would . probably- head robablyhead the list, in. this regard; with the pig standing a close second in its, ab-, ility to manufacture feed grains in- to meat economically. The dairy co*,, because of her ability to give front .her body immense quantities_ of milk during a long lactation period, would rank third, followed by beef cattle` and sheep: Doctor—"Where shall, I vaccinate you?" 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