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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1934-09-20, Page 6PAGE SI 41 tek SMiTla ' LOOUISE . , �l / SYNOPSIS Three weeks after a cream colored raodster had been found wrecked in the 'sea at the foot of a cliff, a girl WINGHAM ADVANC-TIMES my wife over somebody's' chauffeur, the' same train it's for appearances, not nor have my mother's name and mine for any joy ride, You'll probably find dragged through a tabloid scandal, that one or the other of thews will go We'll go on for the present es we are, on to Reno," he added significantly, calling herself Anne. Cushing appears and at least maintain the outward civ- "Why?" eat the desert town Marston. She has ilities. And then if you still refuse , "Oh, Duane barbed in while we ,She'd rather be ordered out of the bought, sight unseen, a'ranch located to clear this sup satisfactorily, you and were talking. At a place where I'd hoose than treated like a child in dis- t' 'I are through," asked her to meet nee. 'thin miles away. I;arry Duane, her g grace, nearest neighbor and his man Boone She made no attempt to answer Kennedy looked sharply at Miss She went back to her own loneli- Petry pi•octire a reliable woman for him. There was something in her Cleo Pendleton. The small childish ness,. and presently Barry came in, he and in Barry's car loadeddown eyes that hurt trim savagely. Ii he face wee lit for a second with a srrt saving little. She. was dropping her with supplies, they start across the :stayed he'd be sweeping her into his of greedy joy small efforts at cheerfulness now. She '.desert. In Marston her reticence has :arms and pleading; with her. He jerk "Now that they've gone, I'd better must have it out with him and end aroused 'suspicion. Barry and Anne led the door open and went out, with- hold myself ready to follow up and this, one way or another. become more than neighbors, and lout a backward glance see that it goes through. I'll need "Are you busy, Barry?" when Anne is lost in the hills and ; After the door had c1<.,sed Anne still 'money for that. How about letting "No," He put down the book he rescued by ;:Barry, each realizes that stood there sick at heart. Parry -ex-eine have the other five ,.'rand now:' iwas reading. something more than friendship exists pected her to stay, but Jun Kennedy !Cash this time," "Don't you think it is time we came between them. After a hasty wedding ;had said that she must go. Just for a i Cleo considered it, "I will give you to a different understanding;, Barry? they go East to Barry's home. Tittle, lying back with cored eyes, she 'the ten thousand in cash and you may {You know we can't go on this way." Three weeks after a cream colored ;wondered what would happen if .lie !turn over the check." i "I agree with you entirely. I am :roadster had been found wrecked in .defied Jim's aiders -if she stayed and "i couldn't think of asking it." 1 ,+u- ready, and have been, whenever you the sea at the foot of a cliff, a girl ;let John Gage meet her here. Up-!nedy bowed politely. "Five thousand ;want to do your part," calling Herself Anne Cushing appears ; heaval and ruin, and a slimy hail of twill be plenty. When the job is com- ! Her eyes closed for a moment. "hut at the desert- t yon 3larste,rt. +F, ria, di;; race. She laughed with a rising' ; pleie I can come back for the other 1 have told you that there are things 'bought, sight un sen, a ranch located :note of hysteria, choked it back and five, and trade it in for the check." ,that I cannot explain, without—with- thirty miles away. Soon after her ar- , abruptly pulled herself out of the 1 Cleo could have tailed him. "Very 'out involving other people. I've pro- - rival she marries Barry Doane, Iter 'chair. 'well. I will have it for you tomorrow 'raised—you shouldn't ask me to break :that." nearest neighbor, Against her better i She moved quietly around the room, at noon." judgment she accompanies her bus- ; openin;g drawers and closets, choosing The doe=r closed on Kennedy. ";~lost escapades do involve other band East. Mrs. Duane is bitterly re- iarticles here and there and dropping4 In the hall the new footman appear- people," he retorted. sentful of Anne. Wealthy Clem Leu- `them on the bed. Indecision was gone. ed from a cross, corridor and obliging- "I've done rash things, 1 ktioy ,but dlt1obvious choicevows re-- There was a tap on the door. It was'ly let Kennedy out. They exchanged;nothin�g that I am ashamed of. Won't tion. Ling's bland face never betrayed anything, Anne was glad that Martha Larrabee had gone back to Marston, Martha had closed the little house at Trail's, End only a week before their return. It was quiet and .peace- ful, Sometimes she wished bitterly that she had never seen Barry Duane,, She rode Cornet often, but always alone. Site saw Barry in the distance one day, sitting Captain at a jutting point in the trail. Comet whickered a shrill greeting and. Captain replied, but Barry merely turned his head, raised his hat and turned back. Anne's face stung with angry heat. Thursday, Sept. 20th„ 1934 professional Directory J. W. EUSHFIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money to Loan. Office --Meyer Block, Wingham Successor to Dudley homes.. H. W. COLBORNE, M.D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Medical Representative D. S. C. R. Phone 54. Wingham DR. G. W. HOWSON DENTIST Office — Over Bondi's Fruit Store A. R. & F. E. DUVAL CHIROPRACTORS CHIROPRACTIC and ELECTRO THERAPY North Street — Wingham Telephone 300. venge. Anne recognizes a man loiter- Bertha, with a message. a word or two, and the door .closed. :you believe that? You've got to, Bar- ogeee, ing on the Duane grounds. Later Bar- "fir. Barry sent me up to pack for .Kennedy paused for a second on the try. All the rest of our lives depends ry tells Anne John Gage is the real ;you. He says he's called back to liar- ;steps. son it just having some—some faith head of the Duane mills. He fails to sten, and can you be ready to leave "There's something phoney about ibetween us. If you can't have that, `note her frozen silence, tomorrow morning on the seven -forty- that bird," he reflected. "He was out ;I'm going, I won't stay in your house three? He's just 'phoned for reserve.- ' of breath. I'll drift, as soon as I get :like this," 9 can't tell you. It—it isn't mine tieing., the five grand." to tell. Can't you understand that. A filmy garment dropped from He got it the next day. Inside of $arry? Why don't you believe it?" Anne's fingers. "The seven -forty- an hour he had sent in his notice, re - He was on his feet now, tramping impatiently up and clown. "How can you expect me to accept He wanted to believe, but that dark three," she repeated blankly, "' es, ,ceived his wages and was on his way a situation like that blindly?" "tormentingsuspicion was tearing Bertha, of course I can be ready. Here to the station. 1 He stopped in front of her and Both of them to pieces. are some of my things. I've just been , A few days later Kennedy's eye caught her arm ih a close grip. "Believe that you can't tell? Oh 'gathering them together." picked up an item in the paper. 1 "Don't you know that I'd give up yes, you' dont leave me in any doubt Anne went toward the window anti � "Mr. and Mrs. Gage will leave next everything I have on earth to hear of that,". looked out to conceal her face from Friday on a trip to the Pacific coast."' you say something which would set "Barry!" Anne quivered and' stiff- 'the maid's too -friendly eyea. Kennedy's eyes narrowed thought- this hideous thing right? To have you ened.' "I've' told you all that I can ` "I'll sight for him!' she thought fully. Gage had business interests out {back as you used to be—and •to be tell." She turned on him in passion- .fiercely. "I won't let both of our liv- there. It was not likely to be more able to take my wife back among my ate appeal. "Don't you trust me cis - .es be wrecked like this. I love him than just coincidence. "I don't see:friends without—" ough-don't you love me enough to -and when we're et the Perch again ;how there could be anything ;n it," = If he only hadn't said that, about believe me when I tell you that no °I'll get him back." he reflected, "but it wouldn't hurt to ;his friends! Anne shivered. matter what appearances may be, * * * * be cn hand." i, "I have told you all I can." there was nothing, nothing wrong in! Cleo's blue roadster swept reckless- Cleo saw the same item. She sat She swayed a little, stiffened and my going to meet Jim Kennedy?" le- up the drive. A watchful footman up suddenly. Nancy and Barry had stared at hint bitterly. She knew the second it came out sped down the steps. gone West. The Gages were going "_As for your friends, they needn't that the familiar "Jim Kennedy" had "Send Kennedy to me," she ordered. ,West, ostensibly to the Coast, but `natter so much now, Marston is a been a mistake. Barry looked shaken, The footman was a new man, but Marston was on the way. Jim Ken- :long way from Granleigh. Tell them a man almost persuaded, but at the he seemed to be well trained. nedy, if he kept his word, was going I'm dead, if you want to, That's quite last words hot suspicion flamed again. Cleo waited impatiently in the: lib- West also. respectable, isn't it? The best people "Trust you! I did trust you. I rary. Here Kennedy came, an inferi- ' ''I don't suppose there can be any- ;do it, Barry." trusted you that night when you came ating eight minutes late. thing in it." ehe thought. "But Barry "You're talking ridiculously! What in fresh from keeping a cheap rende- vouz with this same man And you lied to me!" "I have told you all that I can." "Well, you've bungled your work knows the Gages, and he l.ad been 'do you mean?" nicely, haven't you?" 'trying far years to get John Gage in- 1 "Oh, nothing. I'm not going to "Think sol" He was defiant in an itere_ted in that fid valley. It's queer. 'commit suicide. Not because my bus- instant. 'I wish I had a decent excuse to feel -'band refuses to believe I'm decent." "You've answered me. He turned "I do! You undertook to see that lrw theme' She walked slowly toward the door, abruptly and walked toward the door, Mrs. Duane left here within a week. * ,:pausing to look back. "I'm going— With his hand on the knob he paused. She was to disappear completely, and Anne was discovering that not ev- ;back to Trail's End. Good-bye." * * * "I have this much more to say. There are some things which can't be overlooked or forgiven — not be - alone. And early this morning they en the beloved Perch could banish a "You can't go now," he said sharp - started back to that ranch. Together! ,tormenting devil of jealousy and sus -Sly. "The Gages are coming. They'll Imbecile!" picien. Things grew worse instead of ibe here next Tuesday" tween man and wife. But I am not "I've done better than you think. If better. A,s a slow week dragged by, She stared at him in a shocked sort going to have any open break with she and Duane are starting West on 'each day held less hope of reconcilia-t of way, and said "Ohl" half under her TIME TO THINK OF COLD WEATHER (1) A sport ensemble in beige and gray woollen coat with cape arid sit- trrowe tweed, trimmed with :'griped Iver bu.ttohs....,, (8) an interestin rI`3. brown kashe btowtt, white and beige; (L) ti; (atelbeige.tweed ensemble. 'Brown and beige tweed seems to predominate the scene, as far as winter coats are con- corned, "though shades of datk grey are also popula R. 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Whatever our personal differences may be, they expect a hos- tess." "I'm sorry, Barry. Truly I am." Her eyes were desperate. "But I can't stay. L—" "Don't trouble to apologize. I'm not. a jailor, to keep you here against your will. But if you leave me now, I'm through. Don't ever try to come back again." She put her hand to her throat. "I understand. I shan't come back, Barry. Good-bye." "Good-bye," he said curtly. He was cruel with anger and savagely hurt, He heard a door close softly, and light footsteps that died.. Silence af- ter that. Empty silence. * * * * Many miles to the East a number of small things had happened. • The new footman' had left after less than a week of service, a circumstance which vaguely disturbed the colorless Mrs. Pendleton. Cleo looked content- edly at her own image in a long mir- ror and decided to contrive a call CM Mrs, John Gage. At the Gage offices Winston called to make a personal report and foiled that Gage had been called away. A secretary admitted that Mr, Gage was due to start shortly on a trip West. Winston kept his verbal dynamite stored in his own cautious head, In his comfortable hotel Kennedy was studying plump time -tables and discovering possibilities, He also dfs-. covered that at odd moments hewas seeing the same face with suspicions frequency. Being resotitceful •he con- sidered the situation and took reserva- tions for New Orleans, where he had no intention of 'going. Then by car and plane and modest day coach he shook off his exasperated shadow and zig-zagged his way to Marston.. The Junction's best hostelry was the railroad hotel, Kennedy registered as Frederick Janes, acquired a.slight but convincing cough to account for his aimless presence, anda battetedold cat: He Might have been int'erestcd if he had known of Gage's absence from town This time Paula' had been left behind in their huge hotel Apartment. Nevertheless she pouted at the thought of having to go to some do le- ful ranch in a rough' mountain valley. She had just received a telegram from John, too, saying that he would have to join her at Chicago, but had made all arrangements for l tersby wire. Paula was feeling just a little sorry for herself. Miss Cleo Pendleton could not have chosen a better mo- ment to ask for Mrs. John Gage. A few days later, when Gage board- ed his own car in Chicago,; his first glimpse was of a head of snug, shin- ing gold, very much at home in one of his chairs. In the privacy of a stateroom he jerked an expressive thumb and said "How come?" "You don't .mind, John, do you? She is a friend of this Mrs. Duane's and she told me that Mrs. Duane had been asking her to come out and visit thein. I thought it would be niceto have. somebody along, and she's frightfully amusing." "Olt, yes . yes, honey, it's all right. Old Anibrose's girl, is she? How did she know we were headed for Duane's place?" "Why, I don't know, She just seem- ed to know it. You're not angry, are you? I diel want somebody with nee, and I had to start all alone!" "There, there!", He smoothed a rose leaf cheek and kissed her. (Continued Next Week) 124.* A HEALTH SEPtVICC O5 ,THE CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION AND L•ISE i,NSURANCE COMPANIES tN CANADA HALF-DEAD Our `sympathy goes out to that large group of people, mostly wainen, who drag out a miserable and uncom- fortable existence year after year, They are not sick in the ordinary sense of the word; if they were, they would be receiving some attention, which they deny themselves because they have no obvious disease of the heart, lungs, kidneys, orother vital organs. These are the people wlto are half- dead., or more dead than alive, They are not like some who "enjey poor health" because their supposed poor health is used by them as an excuse to get out of doing work, and to se- cure for there attention and service;, either from someone who is fond of them, or because they have money to, pay for it. Women suffer more than men from poor nutrition. In the first place, the mother will deprive herself, of food, if necessary, to feed her children anct her husband. In the second place, the mother is often more tired, and after having prepared, the meal, she is so, worn-out physically that she cannot digest her food properly. The woman who feels "half-dead" is very .,ften, an undernourished, fatigued mother. It has been found that among wo- men, particularly those in the tower - income group,,who have borne a .iuri- ber of children, many are dragging• themselves about, more dead. than alive. These women do not, as a rule„ complain; they have come to accept. this condition as their normal, and they go on, year after year, only half alive. Needless. to say, these women cannot be good housekeepers as they have not sufficient energy to do their housework. In many cases, these wo- men are anaemic; there is a lack of haemoglobin in their blood, These women, however, can be cured. by proper treatment. We might go on to enumerate a number of other conditions which sap the health without causing serious dis- ease, The person who feels 'half-dead' recittires tnedical care just as much as does the person with typhoid fever or any other evident disease. The need is not as argent, but it is just. as imperative, Health tneans happi- ness, and the person who feels "half- dead is missing' the happiness of life. to which he or .she is entitled. This problem will not be solved' by dosing with so-called "tonics". It is necessary, in each case, to get at the eause of the condition and to re- move the cause; otherwise, there wilt not be any irnproventent Do not live half a fife; secure health and happiness through proper treatment. Qiiestions, Concerttittg Health, .ad- dressed to the: Canadian Medical As- sociation, 184 College St., `.Toronto,' will be answered personally by letter, Visitorin Museum: "Say! don't start' looking at things or we'll never get arottedl"