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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1934-09-06, Page 6PAGE SIX. WING AM ADVANCE-TXMES Thu sday, . Sept. 6tb, 193 - \MI* D„mons n aafi. .✓, ars SYNOPSIS Three weeks after a cream colore raodster had been found wrecked i the sea at the foot of a cliff, a gir calling herself Anne Cushing appear at the desert town Marston. She ha 'bought, sight unSeen, a ranch locate thirty miles away. Barry Duane, he nearest neighbor and his man Boon Petry procure a reliable woman fo her and in Barry's car loaded dow with supplies, they start across th desert. In Marston her reticence ha aroused suspicion. Barry and Ann become more than neighbors, and when Anne is lost in the hills and rescued. by Barry, each realizes tha 'something more than friendship exist between them. After a hasty wedding they go East to Barry's • home. SMITH, "Do you think I'd better go in an d see her Barry?” "Ole no!" He flushed. "I think i I would' be just as well for her to b s --completely quiet." s He slipped an arm around her. 'I d was, she knew, a gesture of protec ✓ tion as well as of affection, and sh e loved him for it. ✓ "Let's get in the roadster and g n off somewhere," he said abrutply e "We'll make it a day." s Mrs. Duane's alleged illness laste e still another day. In spite of increased devotion, Bar ry was not without stray moments o t unease. Poison had been instilled, and s poison works secretly. An unexpected invitation brough relief to both of them. Barry brough it to her eagerly. "Nancy, the Tom Hallidaysare go ing up for the weelc-end to their Lake George camp, and they want us to came." "I'd love to go." She jumped at the chance of respite from Granleigh. They motored up to the Halliday's camp. A little after three they were running through the outskirts of a small city, and presently Halliday's car turned off toward the railroad. "He's probably going to the sta- tion," Dick volunteered. "Ward Rid- dle is coming up by train and I sup- pose it's due here about this time. Tom thought he might be able to flag him somewhere. Let's get out and help " HalIiday marshalled his party at various strategic points along the platform, where they might catch Ward Riddle's eye. Anne, who did not know him, found herself midway between Westbrooke and Atwood. The train came in. •Dick whooped at a face in a window and raced in pursuit. Anne looked after him, her face alight with laughter,: and did not notice a group of people descending from a nearer car. There were half a dozen of them, women and men, and it would not have taken a particularly initiated eye to see that they belonged either to a cheap road company or a small time vaudeville turn. One of them, a blonde, looked • curiously; her widen- ing eyes fell on Anne. "Why hello, dearie! Where've you been all this time?" Anne saw Barry's headturn quickly. "I'm sorry, I think you must have mistaken me for someone else." She tried to be nice about it, and saw an angry lip curl. "Oh, really!" The blonde flushed and her voice went a little higher, "I thought you were a friend of mine. We were in the same company a few years ago, but p'raps I'd better not mention names. Pardon me!" "It was a natural mistake. I've been told before that I look like someone on the stage." "I should say. You could double for her, easy." "That's interesting." Anne smiled disarmingly, but her lips felt stiff. The blonds girl moved on, still flushed and far from mollified. Dick called out as Anne approached. "I thought the blonde was going to make a touch, Nancy." There was a tight barrage of chat- ter as they went back to the cars. "I'm afraid I made her angry." Anne sent a quick glance after the vanishing group. "It was embarrass- ing for her," "You can't embarrass that kind," said Halliday comfortably. Anne looked around for Barry. "Silly, wasn't it?" she asked ner- vously. "Ridiculous." He looked ashamed' of his ill humor, and shook it off. The blonde girl looked after them as the two opulent looking cars curv- ed away from the station. An older woman beside her laughed under her breath. "You made a fine break, Tess. Didn't you know?" "Did I know she'd throw down the folks she used to workwith because she was with a lot of swells?" 'de- manded Tess angrily. The older woman laughed again, "Tess, you're funny, But I thought 1 was seeing ghosts myself for a min- ute, Hadn't you heard that Nancy Curtis was dead?" "Nol" The girl staredunbelieving- ly. "When.—' "Last spring. She was killed in an automobile accident." "lime. Are you sure? She's the stage of Nancy." , "Of course I'rtr, scare. Don't be a goofy Tess, and don't hold any grudge against Nancy Curtis. She was a goodl kid, and if she got on letter than the 'rest of us I guess it wee d because she had something that we didn't." t "It's easy to talk," said Tess sal- e lenly. "Maybe she had and maybe she hadn't. You might have been furth t er up the line yourself, Connie, if you'd had a John Gage to back you. e Money talks, all right, and what's more, it can make folks listen," o Halliday had sent servants ahead to .. open the house, Welcoming smoke was curling from two chimneys. d "Oh, I love it! It's like the Perch, isn't it?" Anne gave Barry's arra a - squeeze, and they looked at each oth- f er with the bright, secret glance of understanding. "Oh,' that's your Western place, t isn't it? Didn't Gwenda say that that t was where Romance began?" Ward Riddell smiled pleasantly, but he look- - ed at Anne in the curious, reflective way that she had noticed before, "It's not safe to toss me careless invita- tions. I might come," "Me too!" Tom Halliday called , over his shoulder. "Make it next summer and you can all come. It's a party." Anne felt as though she had escap- ed from prison into glorious freedom. She made a quick change and slip- ped into a coat. She went on out to the veranda which ran the full length of the house and faced the lake. Bar- ry was there already, pacing up and down with a pipe in his mouth. "Great, isn't it?" "Heavenly." She nodded happily and fell in step with him. "T like this," Barry said contented- ly, "There's a motor boat down in the boathouse, and two sailboats, and you and I are going out in one of them, first thing tomorrow morning." It was the beginning of three zest- ful days, crisp mountain mornings, sun -warmed days an devenings with a nip in them. They came back late one afternoon. Something had gone wrong with the engine, and the Wild Duck fluttered in slowly. Riddle and Halliday and Dick Westbrooke were waiting for them at the dock. "Hello, Water Babies, I thought we'd have to come out and tow you in." Halliday caught their line and made them fast. "You must be froz- en!" "That's nice of you, but I think Barry needs something more than I do. He's going to stay and work on_ the engine." She made a movement to slip it off, bt;!t he checked her with firm hands. "You keep it on," he said flatly, "I'll get Tom's sweater for your man." He turned an impish grin on Bar- ry, already absorbed with the perverse engine. "I don't know why I should be so darned careful of your health, Barry, because I've picked myself out for Nancy's second husband. Catch a cold any time you like." Halliday laughed, but Barry, jerk- ing his eyes toward Westbrooke for a brief second, did not even smile, "No thanks," he snapped irritably. "Sorry to disappoint you, but. I've liv; ed too much out of doors to wrap myself up like an old woman." Halliday's portly, chuckle subsided rather suddenly. _ Dick was blankly silent. "I think I'll locate the trouble in a minute," he added, a trifle more graciously. "No need for the rest of you to shiver around here," They went on and left him, Anne walking with Halliday and Dick trail- ing along with Riddle, Duane went back to his work wanting to kick him- self for his senseless irritation. Since the night when his mother brought those damnable stories to him there had been as raw spot in hint which had smarted at the lightest touch, Anne went directly to her room, and, the three inen returned to the billiard -room to take upe the game. which the Wild Duck's fluttering ap- proach had interrupted. Riddle, chalk- ing his cue, proffered. a : word of ad- vice, "Better go easy with your little jokes, lick. Duane seems to be some- thing of a Turk about his wife." "How was I to know that he'd go early'Victorian on rite?" (Continued Next Week) Her foot tapped impatiently. "Ei- ther." Again that curious, speculative glance .on her. "What's the induce- ment?" "To you? I suppose you could use money. And of course you wouldn't want rimy father to know why you are here. Or Mr. Gage." He Iet the threat pass. "It's worth ten thousand." "That's a high price for just giving somebody an order." She seemed startled. Kennedy waved the suggestion aside, "I'll take your check for five thousand on account and hold it un- cashed until I've finished the job. Then I'II take the rest in small bilis." "Five thousand before you've done anything? That -would be very fool- ish." "Those are my .terms." Kennedy shrugged unconcernedly. "I'm not worried about my end of the job. This is a game where I hold the cards," For a moment a cold feeling crawl- ed over Cleo. Kennedy did hold the cards. He could hold them against her, too. "I agree. But it must be done quickly." "A week or ten days ought to an- swer." In five brief minutes he had hie �clteck. Once out in the grounds, Kennedy .Ii# is cigarette. "The little devil!" he mused. "The little yellow -headed devil!" He flung the cigaretke away and ground it under his heel. It was tough, he reflected moodily, but if Duane was any good he would follow Tier, and if he didn't, Nancy was well rid' of him. Besides, she'd have to go away before the Gages came, or there would be the devil to pay all around. * * * ' The Gage house was nearing com- pletion. About the middle of the morning a glittering black car shot smoothly along this highway. In the back sat a big man of about fifty, with iron grey hair, a strong jaw and grey eyes. He was not in the least handsome, but nobody ever overlook- ed John Gage. Strength and will and a bull -dog tenactity showed plainly in the square lines of his face. His per- sonal office staff agreed that the old man was as hard as nails, but fair. A few years ago he had startled his few intimates by suddenly marrying a girl who had been appearing in the Fol- lies. No one would have expected a thing like that of John Gage. He was at the entrance to the drive into his own grounds, and another car had just shot recklessly out of it. For a split second sharp grey eyes niet devil-may-care black ones. Then the other car was gone. "'Whose car was that?" he asked the architect waiting for him by ap- pointment, "Must have been the Pendleton car. It was just the chauffeur. He said he was killing time." "Pet a guard at the gates," said Gage crisply, "This isn't an amuse- ment park. Keep 'em out." Within half an hour after he had arrived at his office, Gage sat back giving minute instructions to one of the best operatives of an excellent de- tective agency, "Alt I want you to do is to watch hint and report to nie. Don't get in the game, whatever it is, unless I telt you to. If you can get a job at Pen-. dleton's, so much the better," "I' can manage that. Do you know his name?" "At one titne he went by the name of Kennedy and was a gambler." The operative arose. Mrs. Dnaite, it seemed, was not feel - kg well and would have her luncheon and dinner trays taken to her room, 'That's because of me," Anne• thought Miserably. Aloud she said: Struggling Artist (being dunned for rent, and trying to put a bold front oti things) : "Let me tell you this—in a few years' time people will look up at this miserable studio` and say, "Co- balt, the artist, used to work there'" Landlord, "1f you don't pay your rent by tonight, they'll be able to $ay it tomorrow'" THi SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON HEZEKIAH LEADS HIS PEOPLE BACK TO GOD; Sunday, Sept, 9; II, Chronicles 30. Golden 'Text: God is gracious and merciful (II. Chron, 30:9). Is a nation-wide revival possible to- day? Many are praying for it, and it is reassuring to have such a lesson as this, where the King of a good people led his nation back to God. Conditions are not very different, af- ter all, in various nations and various ages. Sin is always sin, and righteous- ness is righteousness, and human nat- ure is human nature, and God is un- changing, and eager to welcome and forgive and restore all who turn to. Him. God's people, Israel and Judah, had wandered far away from Him. The father of Ring Hezekiah, his prede- cessor on the ;throne, Ahaz, had led the people in idolatry, immorality, and the abomi%ation of the heathen whom the Lord had cast out before the Children of Israel." , The record of Ahaz was a shameful one, and so was that of his nation, and God had to bring them into a place of humilia- tion and suffering before their en- emies. Then young Hezekiah came to the throne, at 25' years of age. "And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that Dav- id, his father, had done." He began well, for in the very first month of the first year of his new reign he "opened the doors of the house of the Lord, and repaired them." People are ready to stand by a new ruler, when he takes his responsibilities seriously, and a good start means everything. The young King called upon God's appointed representatives, the priests and the Levites, and asked them to work with him in leading the nation back to God. Honestly and unspar- ingly he confessed the sins of the na- tion, and he showed that this was the reason why God had been dealing severely with them all. The royal pro- clamation made by Hezekiah in the beginning of his reign, given in the chapter before this lesson chapter, is a notable national document, which nations and rulers today would do well to take to heart. There was no white -washing of national' sins, no evading of responsibility. And, said the King, "it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the Lord God of Is- rael." The response was quick and com- plete. Priests and Levites set to work "to cleanse the house of the Lord," for it had fallen into neglect and un- cleanness, After this first move had been made and a report had been brought to the Ring that "we have cleansed all the house of the Lord," King and priests and people went forward to obey God's law as to temple worship. The blood sacrifices of animals were of- fered, as God had commanded long before, "and they made reconciliation with their blood upon the altar to make atonement for all Israel." There followed music and rejoicing --this is always the way. No people can know the real meaning of true joy until they are doing God's will. Musical instruments sounded with their glad notes, "and all the congre- gation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded: and all this continued until the burnt- offering was finished." Ring and peo- ple bowed themselves before God in true worship. It does not take long to do what God wants us to do, and we read that "Hezekiah rejoiced, and an the people . . for the thing was done sudden- Now comes the heart of the lesson, in the chapter before tts. Hezekiah sent royal letters throughout all Israel and Judah, "that they should come to the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, to keep the passo'ver unto the Lord God of Israel." The passover was that blood sacrifice ordained of God the night lie brought the Israelites o out of their bondage in Egypt, when He passed through the land of Egypt to bring the awful judgment of death upon all the first-born :there, The Is- raelites were to take a lamb without blemish, one for each family or house- hold, ousehold, and slay it, and put the blood over each doorway. For God had de- clared: "And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon yon to des- troy you, when 1 smite the land of Egypt." The observance of the passover, which had been continued by Israel at first, had been neglected and ig- nored, and, its restoration by Hezekiah markedthe real spiritual revival of the nation, Por the passover was a symbol or type of "the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world," andstood for God's plan of ,redenrp- SOMETHING NEW IN FASHIONS Something new -- something diff- erent — (1) A two-piece dress of beige and brown plaid wool for morn- emeetooMbeeeaVi ings in town. The silk crepe bow, but- blue with polka dots, hung over with tons and leather belt are brown. (2) net. Note the sheath -like lines and An interesting evening dress of deep the ruffles at the bottom of the dress.. tion whereby lost sinners could be saved, through the shed blood and death of his only Son, Jesus Christ. Some eight centuries after Hezekiah's time, Christ Himself ate the passover supper with His disciples the night before He, Himself the passover Lamb, was sacrificed on the cross for the sins of the world. Hezekiah's royal proclamation and invitation to the nation was accepted gladly by most of the people. A strange note of unbelief and rebellion, however, is heard as we read that two of the tribes, Ephriam and Manasseh,. when the messengers from the King came to them, "laughed them to scorn and mocked them." Except for this it was a , nation- wide revival and return to God in true worship and repentance. The altars of false gods that were in Jerusalem were broken down and destroyed, and God was given His rightful place. Such blessing .came to Israel then as. can come to any nation only when it turns to seek God with the whole heart. 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