The Wingham Advance Times, 1934-08-30, Page 6ffiniU IM 11
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SYNOPSIS
Three weeks aftera cream colored
raodster had been found wrecked in
the sea at the foot of a cliff, a girl
calling herself Anne Cushing appears
at the desert town Marston. She has
bought, sight unseen, a ranch located
thirty miles away. Barry Duane, her
nearest neighbor and his man Boone
Petry procure a reliable woman for
her and in Barry's car loaded down
with supplies, they, start across the
desert. In Marston her reticence has
aroused suspicion. Barry and Anne
become more than neighbors, and
when Anne is lost in the Bills and
rescued by Barry, each realizes that
something more than friendship exists
between then, After a hasty wedding
they go East to Barry's home,
"Certainly, if you wish." Mrs.
Duane agreed politely. "Thank you
for the book, my dear. As for your
driving, I am sure that it is better
than having no one with you but that
new chauffeur. I don't like his looks,
Cleo."
"Oh, I know Kennedy looks wick-
ed. I think he isn't used to this kind
of work, and taking orders from wo-
men makes him sulky. I think he'll
soon be settled down, for he seems
to be very much interested in one of
your maids. I'm sure I caught sight
of him waiting outside when I came
tonight."
"I must look into that" Mrs.
Duane's voice was edged.
"What's the use? They'll only deny
it." Cleo shrugged lazily.
"Dear me, I believe we're going to
see the clandestine meeting. How ex-
citing.
Down the shadowed path a girl's
figure moved quickly. She skirted the
far end of the garden and went with
slower steps toward the hedge.
The hedge was lower at that end
of the garden. On the other side of
it a man nodded slightly and saun-
tered along toward the rear gate, The
;girl in the garden followed bine
Cleo ' as On her feet, breathing
apologies. ,
"Oh, Mrs. Duane, please forgive
me. I didn't dream—I didn't mean to
intrude like this. I'll never 'forgive
myself .. I'lI go now."
"My dear Cleo, you have not in-
trtided 'art the: least. I shall speak to
Bertha,. of Mute
Gf y -faced in the darkness, Mrs.
Duane held- her head high. No one,
not even • Cleo Pendleton, should be
,allowed to discuss this shameful thing
'with het,
Cleo g'niinaced slightly, unseen. The
lights flashed on. But after Cleo had
gone she plunged the room in dark-
ness again and stood rigidly unyield-
ing.
"My ° son's wife!" Her face was
white, in the darkness.
Barry was reading when his moth-
DOROTHY
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er entered the library.
"Still up? But °I suppose you had
callers,"
"It was Cleo," said his mother
briefly. "Barry, I wish you would
come with me to my rooms. Quickly.'
"Of course; I will, Anything wrong
there?"
"Everything is wrong," said Mrs.
Duane bitterly. "I have had the hum-
iliation of seeing my son's wife steal
out through the garden at night to
meet another man."
"Mother!" There was a note in
Barry's voice that she had never heard
before. "I ani afraid," he said care-
fully, "that I shall have to ask you
to explain that -extraordinary state-
ment."
"I have told you. Come and see for
yourself."
"Nancy and I don't spy on each
other. Besides, she went to her room
with a headache. Why do yott assume
that it was she?"
"Our maids do not appear hi even-
ing dress."
"Nancy gave Bertha one of hers
last week. Someone had spilled coffee
on it."
"It was not Bertha," said Mrs.
Duane coldly. "I know it was Anne.
The man was obviously waiting for
her. I did not see his face, but I have
the unpleasant knowledge that a com-
mon chauffeur -that insolent creature
who drives Cleo was hanging around
outside only a little while before."
"You didn't even see them meet?"
He laid a pleading hand on her arm.
"Mother, why can't you be kinder to
Nancy? Do you think that it has been
pleasant for me to see that my moth-
er refuses to accept my wife as her
daughter?"
"Do you think that it is pleasant
for your mother to know that this
place is buzzing with sordid innuendo
because Barry Duane's wife never re-
fers to a single day of her life before
she came to that barbarous place
where you met her?"
"And who has been spreading such
precious gossip as that?" The mo-
ment of pleading was gone. For the
first time Mrs. Duane was afraid of
the thing she had done.
"I overheard it," she said with dig-
nity. "The very way it was said
showed that it was common gossip?"
"Who said it?" His eyes were blaz-
ing.
"How should I know! It is enough,
that ie cold be said at all,"
He did not answer immediately.
"I suppose it is impossible to es-
cape the malice of other women's
tongues."
"It is useless to argue with you.
But I know what I have heard and
what I have seen tonight. Once more
Barry, will you come and see for your-
self."
"I will not."
Mrs, Duane went stiffly back' to
DOROTHY MACKAILL RETURNS
Wearing the iotitngbig pyjamas that
are now becoming fashionable for
deckwear, Miss 'Dorothy 1vCackaill,
English actress, is ,seen returning to
,New York aboard the 'United States
liner Manhattan, Miss Mackaill is en
route to Hollywood for further mo-
tion 'tlieture Work,
the door.
"You are your own master, and I
-am only your mother, pushed aside
for a woman you scarcely know. Bu
the time will conte when you will re-
gret this night as long as you live;"
For several minutes after his mo-
ther left him Barry paced gloomily
tip and down the library. The whole
thing was sickening, and that his mo-
ther should have been the one to
bring this precious story to hint had
left him worried and depressed. Why
were women so hard on each other?
Even his another.. .
The trouble probably was that ran-
corous gossip. He flushed darkly at
the recollection. So Nancy's name
was being bandied about like that? A
whispering devil of suspicion slyly
jogged his elbow and was thrust out
of the way.
He could easily settle this. All he
needed to do was to go upstairs and
look in at Nancy. He sinned to him-
self and swung quickly toward the
stairs,
Barry let himself in quietly. Anne
was not there.
He turned toward the door, blindly.
There was the slight sound of its
opening. Anne stood there, staring at
hint.
"Oh—Barry!" She said it breath-
lessly. "You startled me."
His eyes swept aver her swiftly,
suspiciously, and dropped to the slim
perfection of her slippers. On the side
of one of them, marring its delicate
sheen, was a long earth stain,
The blood sang in his ears again,
so that he scarcely heard his own
voice. "Anne, where have you been?"
Before that hard note she stopped
short. , ,
"Why, Barry, what is the matter?"
"Where have you been at this hour
of the night?"
"At this hour? Why, it isn't late.
I've been in the garden. Barry, what
is the matter?"
"Within the past half hour I have
had to listen to a sickening story that
you were meeting somebody's chaufe
feur out in the garden."
She felt suddenly sick and tired.
Barry's mother must have seen her
and carried the story tohim in bit-
ter triumph. Who else hated her en-
ough to do that? She wanted'to tell
him The whole hateful story, but she
must not,
"Som leoidty must have been willing
to carry tales 'about me to have hur-
ried the news to you as quickly, as
that." She saw him flush, but she
went on bitterly. "And whether I was
there or not, I won't talk about it! I
wont.! I'll say things that well both
be sorry for." Her hands went up to
her throbbing temples. They really
did throb now. "Ring for Bertha,
please. And stay until she •comes.".
He looked at her uneasily. He rang
hastily and came back to her.
"I'rn sorry if you're not well," he
said jerkily. "Perhaps I'd better send
for Dr, Carmichael."
"No, please. It's only my head."
They waited for Bertha in uncom-
fortable silence. There was a tap on
the door, but it was Ellens' broad face
which appeared.
"I rang for Bertha. Isn't she here?"
Ellen was a new maid. She grin-,
ned companionably.
"Yes'm, in a way, but it's her night
out, She's been to a party, Ma'am,
lookin' as pretty as a pitcher in the
grand dress ye give her, and this good
half hour she's been standin' at the
end of the drive sayiri' good -night to
the young felly from Quinn's Garage.
IS there anythink I- can do, Ma'am?"
"Bring me some ice cubes, Ellen.
I've a headache."
The door elosed on Ellen. Anne
scarcely breathed.
"Nancy, forgive me! I've been a
brute and I ought to be kicked for
it.ir.
He drew her around with coaxing
hands.
"Don't you know I love yott, Bar-
ry? There isn't anybody else but
you. There couldn't be."
"I know," he muttered. "It's be-
cause you're so much to me, Nancy
I think I'd go mad if you ever
let me
She tried not to shiver, quaking a
little at the narrowness of escape.
Luck had been kind to Cleo, Mrs.
Duane, outraged and bitter, would go
straight to Batty with her story. Cleo
felt brightly contented as she snuggled
down behind the wheel.
The driveway wound toward the
end of the grounds in a double curve.
The lights of the roadster stating
around and picked up -two startled fig-
ures, hastily beating out of their flar-
ing range. One of them was Bertha.
WINGHA.M ADVANCE -TIMES
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"Alibi!" Cleo said under her breath
-"Damn!"
It was close ,to midnight when Ken-
nedy strolled back. to that smaller
chateau. which housed the Pendleton
fleet of ears and their attendants, and
he was met' by a message that Miss
Cleo wanted to see hint, Kennedy was
half sulky about it. Some deviltry, or
he imssed his guess.
Cleo .received hint in the Chinese
* *
room;
thlnkitt of getting a new car,
Kennedy. Do you know anything of
racing cars?
"A little." Kennedy's eyes narrow-
ed slightly. He hesitated, and the de-
sire to show that he had not always
been at an employer's beck and call
was too much for him. "I know their
points pretty web," he added careless-
ly. "I've driven my own now and
then."
"Really?" Cleo smiled encouraging-
ly. "That was before you-er—gave
up the Forty -Ninth Street . house,
wasn't it?"
All the lines. of Kennedy's .face
sharpened.
"About that tine," he said briefly.
"So you've been looking up my re-
cord?"
"It wasn't necessary, Kennedy. You
are quite well known."
He stared back at her, suspicious
and half truculent. "Web, you know,
I didn't try to get the job under an
assumed name, : anyway."
"Oh, yes, I'ni- perfectly satisfied,
Kennedy. But of course I know that
a man of your experience isn't taking
a chauffeur's position except for some
special reason: Does John Gage know
that you are in Granleigh?"
It must have been a sharp jolt for
Kennedy, but this time his face—the
gambler's face, after all—was absol-
utely expressionless.
"That's too deep for me," he an-
swered indifferently. "If you mean the
big . fellow, I don't know what he
knows. I've never met him."
"Not even that night last May when
this happened?" Cleo's hand rested
for a moment against the filmy tur-
quoise of her gown, just below her
heart.
"You've had a busy day," he said
dryly.
"Things have a habit of coming my
way, Kennedy. And I know you went
out tonight to, keep an appointment.
with Mrs. Barry Duane, and just
where you, met her . . . and by the
way, how very much she looks like
Miss ,Curtis! You're a wonderful driv-
er, Kennedy, but you have7i't any in-
tention of staying on here as a chauf-
feur. You're here for money, Ken-
nedy, big money. I'm afraid the courts
would call it blackmail."
Kennedy listened; outwardly un-
moved but taking lively account of
this new situation.
"What's your game?" he asked
bluntly.
"I'm not playing, Kennedy." Ken-
nedy took the hint.
"My error." He temporized astute-
ly. "But I got the idea that you want-
ed me to do something for you"
"Perhaps you could." She consider-
ed him thoughtfully. "There is some-
one in Granleigh -whose presence is
going to bring danger and unhappi-
ness to some close friends of mine.
Some day there will be a scandal, and
she will be forced to leave in dis-
grace. It would be better for every-
body concerned if she went away
quietly, before her -her past became
known."
"You want me to get Duane's wife
out of the way—"
He had an unpleasant' way of strip-
ping facts naked and making her look
at ahem.
"I wish her to go away. Alone."
"Reno, or a Mexican divorce?"
(Continued Next Week)
A HEALTH SERVICE OF
THE CANADIAN MEDICAL
ASSOCIATION AND LIFE
INSURANCE COMPANIES
IN CANADA
FEARS
Unless you have a good memory of
your early life, you will have forgot-
ten the fears which beset you as a
child, 'laking your life miserable and
ttnhapper at times. According to cer-
tain authorities, the child, is born with
but two fears— that of loud noses
and that: of loss of physical support
It would appear that most fears are
acquired o:redeveloped,
A feeling of insecurity is the under-
lying cause of many fears, while, on
the other hand, feelings of security
banish fears. If the adult expresses,
or shows concerti over something, the
child will sense danger hi the happen.
ing which caused the concern. So it is
that the child builds tip his fears from
parental attitude and from the influ-
ence of the behaviour of other adults,
We are concerned over a child's
fear of the dark, or of animals, or
over his shyness and timidity, because
these fears and attitudes are symp-
toms or signs of unhealthy mental de-
velopment which, unless it is correct-
ed, will bring the child into adult life
as a comparatively unhappy person,
who is restless, sensitive, ineffective,
and, what is commonly called "nerv-
ous",
Because of their fears, children have
bad dreams or night terrors. It is easy.
to say that .these are due to indiscret-
ions in diet, to excitement or over-
fatigue. Such physical states to inter-
fere with the child's normal rest and
may cause dreams, but the real night
terrors experienced by the child arise
out of fears. When •such cases are
loked into, it will be found often that
the child has had some frightening
experience, but, more commonly, that
an adult has threatened him in some
way.
Parents and others often resort to
threats as a means for stopping bad
habits. Po rexample, a father may say
"Do that again and I'll cut your hands
off". The child goes to sleep, and in
his sleep, the fear aroused by such
threats from an adult who to him is.
all-powerful and able to carry out his
threats because a reality, andhis night'
terror is a dream that the threat is.
being applied to him.
'Ve should strive to help children by
developing tseir ability to face new
situations through an understanding,
and this means' that parents must take
the time to give an honest explanation
of 'each new situation to the child,.
Give your child seourity by becoming
for him a dependable source of infor-
mation and assuring him of a sym-
pathetic
consideration of his problems.
Questions concerning Health, ad-
dressed to the Canadian Medical As-
sociation, 184 College Street, Toronto,
will be answered personally by letter.
Against Giving Aid to
Beer Parlor Patrons
The Relief Committee of Harriston
has recommended that no relief be
given to any person frequenting the
beer parlors and is seriously consider-
ing the discounting of relief to resi-
dents.
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Seeing Ontario by Bicycle
Two Toronto boys who desire to
"see Ontario first" are visitors with
Mr. and Mrs. W. Harold Barrager
this week. The boys, whose names
are George Hurford and Norman
Thursday, August 30th, 1934
HE TAKES UP LIPTON QUEST
Taking up the quest of the -Ameri-
ca's cup where the late Sir Thomas
Lipton left off, T. 0. M. Sopwith,
British aeroplane builder, is grooming
his yacht, the Endeavor, to meet the
defender, the Yankee, Rainbow or
Weetmaoe. Sopwith's •boat is fitted
with duralamin mast and other gad-
gets adopted by some of the Ameri-
can skippers.
Kyle, aged 17, are on an extended bi-
cycle tour through Western and Nor-
thern Ontario.
The boys left Toronto on Sunday
evening at 6.45 and arrived in Kincar-
dine Monday evening at 8 o'clock.
They will visit in town for a few days
when they will leave- for Owen Sound
an'd points north.—Kincardine Review
Reporter.
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Money to Loan.
Office - Meyer BIock, Winghann
Successor to Dudley Holmes.
H. W. COLBORNE, M.D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Medical Representative D. S. C. R.
Phone 54. Wingharn
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DENTIST
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CHIROIPRACTORS
CHIROPRACTIC and
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BARRISTER and SOLICITOR
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PHYSICIAN. AND SURGEON
DR, G. H. ROSS
DENTIST
Office -- Over Isard's Store.
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OSTEOPATH
All Diseases Treated.
Office adjoining residence next to
Anglican Church on Centre St.
Sunday by appointment..
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Successor to R. Vanstone.
Wingham Ontario
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PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Phone 19.
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DENTIST X-RAY
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