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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1934-10-04, Page 6AOt SIX WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES VISITS CANADA ��' lair* SYNOPSIS Three weeks after a cream colored roadster had been found wrecked in the sea. Anne Cushing appears at the desert town. Marston. Later she mar- ries Barry Duane, Her life is compli- cated by rumors about her past life, which she has kept secret. This sec- recy 'eventually leads to her separa- tion with Barry, after they return West. John Gage, wealthy mill own- er, and his wife, visit the Duanes at their ranch. Cleo Pendleton, in love with Barry, joins them, Jim Kennedy a part of Anne's past, appears and says he, has business at Barry's ranch. Anne follows him to warn Paula Gage. Paula becomes hysterical on hearing Anne's voice. * * * * ".`Oh, no, no! I can't come, Nancy, I can't! I'll tell! I'll make it right for you. I didn't mean it I didn't!" On the upper road walking horses thudded into a run. Some distance back along the road to. Marston Petry straightened up from his inspection of the ditched wreckage of an old black car,` listened once more for that thin sound of terror and jumped for his wheel. Nearer to the house Jim Ken- nedy, five minutes too late, dodged back among the trees and cursed un- der his breath. "Paula, don't be frightened! Don't scream. It is Nancy. I've come to warn you. Jim is here. Paola, don't you know me?" "No, no, Nancy's dead! She under the water -I see her all the time — and it washes over her eyes. Oh, Godl" . , , e , . She .screamed again. The pounding 'horses were at the top of the slope, and Barry flung himself off and raced down, with Gage running heavily af- ter him. A slim figure was backing away,turning, running, but Paula Gage was huddled in a terrified heap at the foot of a tree. Barry bent over her and jerked his head up again. Nancy was just 'dis- appearing. She had looked at him, for one long, steady moment, and had turned back on him. As though they -were two: hostile strangers. Know- ledge crashed and clamored •in his brain. He bent reluctantly over the .huddled woman, but Gage was beside him now. • " 'John, Nancy's ' down there! She came out of the water! I can't go— I'm afraid! I only asked her to go away! I didn't mean her to die! And rim—Jim—". Overstrained emotions cracked — ?atila hinted. . l; ",!o, 'cl A, s:4e°' "We'd better take her into the Souse," said Barry constrainedly. He wanted to go after Nancy. Those in- credible revelations were clamoring in his head; they were accusing him. Now he saw Petry's long legs hasten- ing toward them. he was just a gambler, and we began "Petry, help Mrs. Gage upto the traveling all over the country and—I 'house. Pll be back as soon as I can." left him and got the divorce. I never His nervous stride quickened to a saw him again until last May. And run. Gage looked heavily after him. then I got a letter from him, from Tia Barry ran along the edge of the Juana, He said the divorce wasn't le - lake, his eyes darting enxiousiy. To- 0 gal—and I was so frightened, because ward the back of the house he swerv- that meant that I wasn't really mar - ed and caught sight of a flitting fig- . ried to you. But it wasn't true at all uTe, I—I found it out later." AGlaES 'LOUISE PROiOS1' "Nancy, wait! Just for a minute! She paused in mid flight, looked back just once and went on ,again. The light figure vanished around the edge of an outbuilding, Long before he reached it Barry heard the scurry of hoofs and saw a piebald streak flash across an open space. Nancy had gone. He took it standing, but his face whitened. Nancy had made it pretty plain that she didn't want to see him, just the set of her chin as she had flashed across that patch of light had been enough to tell hint that, He set his jaw and went back to the house. Back of him Jim Kennedy edged cautiously around toward the smaller corral, where two saddled horses, left to themselves, had wandered back to wait patiently. In the house Barry found. that Paula had regained consciousness. Petry had just edged out, and Gage was standing a little away from her. "She's gone," said Barry briefly. "Was it—really Nancy?" Paula raised. herself ,..on ane hand. "Is she alive? I didn't kill her? ... I mean —I-" She broke off with a frighten- ed whimper. "We'll finish this—presently," was all the reply he gave her. He turned a heavy stare on Barry. "I'd like a few words with my wife in private." "I'm staying. We'll finish it here. It's my business as well as yours. Nancy is my wife—and you can keep your spur and your damned money, but I want to know what you've all been doing to her?" Gage glared at him. "And what have you been doing to her? The girl I saw out there is Mrs. Gage's sister, who is supposed to have been drown- ed five months ago, and if she is your wife why isn't she in your house, in- stead of wandering around in the woods like a demented. woman?" Barry whitened. "I'm beginning to think that she has had enough to drive anybody insane. I've done my own share, and I'm paying for it. But the jam that we're in now is due to some- thing that happened before I met her —it's due to you, or one of you , And that damned Kennedy—" He bit it off suddenly, but Gage caught the name up. "Kennedy; It always comes backto this Kennedy," He turned back to Paula. "You'd better tell us all of it," he said evenly. "What do you know about Jim Kennedy?" "Xie was iiiy husband. I'd divorced him a year before I met you." "Go on," he said curtly. "I was awfully young when I mar- ried him. We were poor and lived in a little town. He was there only a few days, and when he went I'd mar- ried him. And then I found out that Gage's jaw muscles ridged visibly at the mention of illegal divorce, but he went on implacably. "Which one of you met him at the beach bungalow, you or Nancy?" "I—I met him. I'd sent a telegram to Nancy. I thought it would he bet- ter if she saw him—he always liked Nancy. But she didn't get my tele- gram in time. And I went down my- self. I had some money for him. He'd said he'd tell you about the divorce— and I didn't dare to let him do that! John—it was because I loved you so." "And who—who shot Kennedy," "I did." It was a mere thread of.. sound, "I didn't mean to. 1 was afraid of him, because he was so angry with me. I took the gun with me to fright- en him. And—he just laughed and tried to take it from me, and it went' off." A deep shudder ran over her. "He • looked so queer, and Nancy came run- ning down the beach and snatched the gun and told me to go back to the house. And I did. I didn't know what was happening until Nancy came back and told me that you thought she was -Jim's wife. And I begged her to go away, so that you couldn't question her any more, and it needn't ever come out that eitheie of us had seen Jim that night, and if it did it wasn't murder, ,it was self-defense. I made her take the money that I'd brought for Jim—in case she went away—and she ran out. I heard the car start.. . And the next morning ... they told me that she'd driven it over a cliff— down on the rocks—with the tide in." Gage's mouth was a thin line, but he drove his hands down into his poc- kets and looked away from her. "I suppose I'd better tell you .he rest, as far as I know it. I'd been up- state on a business trip—drove myself —and found that I could get back late that night. I heard something that sounded like a shot, down toward the beach. I have a beach bungalow there, but the main house is back, up on the hill. I knew the bungalow was closed, but I caught sight of Nancy's road- ster with nobody in it, so I thought I'd better investigate. I reached the bungalow just in time to 'find Nancy leaning over some man on the ground, with a gun in her hand. I saw him try to lift himself and heard him give a nasty laugh and say: 'Just a little present from my loving wife!' and drop back again. "It looked pretty bad. I shot a ques- tion or two at Nancy, but she just stared at me and looked down again at the man and said yes, he was her husband. Nobody else seemed to have heard the shot, so I told her that be- cause she was Paula's sister I'd do what I' could to hush it up, and I did not want Paula in any way mixed up in it." John Gage's strong face twitched. "She didn't say much, poor kid, but she looked sort of desperate, and she stayed until I had made sure the fel- low was dead and then marched away without a word. "It looked like murder to me, and all I was interested in just then was in getting the evidence as far away as possible. I got him into the back PREMIER HONORED WITH WIFE AS PROXY Throbbing drums welcomedmem- bers of the Six Nations Indian Con- Iederaty to Oshweken` for a ceremony at which chieftainship was bestowed on two leaders of the Ontario gov- Walter C. Citrine, general secretary of the British. Trade Union Congress, who recently arrived in Canada aboard the Antonia accompanied by Mrs. Cit - rine. They are en route to San Fran - Captain and followed',the short cut.. There was no sign of Nancy. Barry went back to wait fox daylight. It was still dark' when Ling put breakfast before them. Petry, who had already eaten, came out of the darkness on a half run, "The roan's back. Kinch limps." "That means that Kennedy is on foot and probably lost." Barry moved impatient shoulders. "It's Nancy that I'm worried about; I'm going to take'. one more run down to Trail's End." Barry slid into the driver's seat. The greying drakness reeled past them. They drew up at Trail's End. Martha came running out, her placid control shaken. "Martha, is she here?" Martha nodded jerkily. "She's here,. and she's sick. She's' out of her head. She came in an hour ago, staggerin' along beside Comet and bringin' that man. Hoye she ever got him here, with his leg broken and her as sick as she is, I don't know. Boone, you go for the doctor as fast as you can." Barry strode in through the open door, with Gage and Martha at his cisco, where Mr. Citrine will attend heels. In the living room, on the built - the convention ofthe American Fed - in couch which be had made for Nan- eration of Labor. cy, Jim Kennedy lay, his lips tight !with pain, He looked from Barry to of my car and drove like the devil, Gage, and a lip curled with a fair im and left him on the outskirts of a !Gage, of his reckless grin. town miles away. I still thought he "Regular family party, isn't it? Well was dead. Anyway when I got bake tI'rn down, what are you going to do?" home Nancy was gone and the papers were full of the accident, They said it was the fog. I always thought it was suicide." He paused and added gruffly: "She'd done some good bits on the stage. Working herself up. And she'd just landed a contract out in Holiwood, a pretty good one for a newcomer. She was to sign the next day. Chucked it all up." There was a shuddering sound from the couch. Paula looked drearily up and dropped again. Barry felt moved to a reluctant compassion. He couldn't stand it any longer. He was going down to Trail's End. A hovering shadow in the rear hall resolved' itself into Petry. He looked nervous—for Petry: "Thought you ought to know that somebody's been around here. There's a ditched car a piece down the road and one of the horses is gone, the big roan Mr. Gage was ridin'. I know the car license. It belongs to a fella who's been stayin' at the hotel in Marston. Kind of daredevil lookin' bird, dark complected." Kennedy! Barry felt a little chill at the thought of Nancy, somewhere along the lonely road, and this titan with his dark grudges roaming loose. There was a sound behind him. Gage had come back. There was an envelope in his hand. He had started to open it, but he put it back in his pocket. "What's the matter?" "Kennedy's around. He has just gone off with one of the horses. He wrecked his car down the road. I'm starting for Trail's End." "I'm going with you," At the end of the passage leading to the kitchen Martha appeared. Her mouth was set primly, but her eyes had a snapping brightness. "Ling says there's a kindof funny pounding going on in the garage. Who's out there, Boone?" "My gosh!" Boone swallowed hast- ily. "I plumb forgot the lady. Miss Cleo—she rod. in with me." "What the devil is she doing in the garage?" "Well you see, Barry, comin' back up the road I heard somebody scream, and I just shot the car straight into the garage and bolted out to see if I could do anything, and I plumb fogot everything else. 1 inusta been so ex- cited that I give the door a slam after me, and that bar drops awful. easy. Gets kinda second nature to shaft that door. Martha, you let the lady out, won't you?" "I guess I'd better, l3oone." The car roared down to Trail's End. There was no one there. Gage said little, but his deliberate gaze roamed curiously around this shabbylittle place where Paula's sister had come to hide. He read his letter, looked grim over it. At the end of an hour Barry was nervously tramping the floor. They started back again, and met Petry on the way. "I've been scoutin' a little. Some- body rode pretty reckless for a ways,. I found this, but whoever lost it was headin' the other way, North," It was a man's felt hat and the in- itials in side were J. M. K. Why had Kennedy been riding away from the one road which would take him back to town, unless he had been following Fancy? And wiry had:Nan- cy gone that way, when Trail's End lay hi the opposite direction? "If we follow him," Barry muttered "we may find Nancy, or at least pick up her trail," ht little until daylight They could do y .> came. Barry fumed over lost tune and occupied some of it by having Petry drive .Martha to Trains ii nd, again, and leave Martha there, while he took erntment. Premier Hepburn, ill at his ing hint." Irt this photograph 'Mrs. home in St. Thomas, was represented Hepburn is shown with Mrs. George by Mrs.Idepburn, who received as his Green, wife of the chief who conduct proxy the title'. of Chief ttoe-Ne'liren- ed the ceremony. Also honored was Ne, rrleaning "The people are follow- tion. Harry Nixon. "Yes, you're down," said Barry be- tween his teeth, "and that's all that saves you from being thrashed clear off your .feet. I'll talk to you later." He went on, toward a partly open door. "Nancy!" At the sound of voices outside a slim figure had stirred suddenly, push- ing away the blanket which Martha had tucked around her. She struggled up, her bare feet found the floor and she swayed on them, talking ,in a hus- ky whisper. "Must get away! back." "Nancy, it's all right now! Every- thing is all right. It's Barry, darling. Please." He caught her as she slipped down, but she fought him with surprising strength. "You're not — Barry! Go away! Won't go back." A capable hand thrust him aside. "There, it's all right, Miss Anne, It's just Martha. You know Martha, don't you? You get in bed now, and have a nice rest." Hurry! I can't go Thursday, •Ockobe 4th, 1934 • • CHILDREN'S LIVES 'THREATENED Threats again the lives of Ross and Derek Newton, sons of Norman F. Newton, acting crown attorney ' at London, Ont., have resulted in a guard being assigned to the boys on their way to and from school. Signed "4X Spike", letters have been received by Mr. Newton warning him to abandon his prosecution of alleged blaclmail- ers in the London area if he - aluecl±' the lives of his children. On. Sept_ , 28 a box of candy, bearing no send- er's name, 'arrived at the crown attor- ney's home. The sweets were rushed' to Toronto for analysis on the chance they might contain poison. Another, death -threat note was received by Newton on the same day. "Yes, know Martha." Resistance wilted, but she clung to Martha's sleeve. "Make him—go away. He'll tell Barry I'm here. Barry hates me. . . Never go back. Never!" "You needn't do anything you, don't want to. You just lie down. . ." Martha coaxed and soothed. Barry drew back, white lipped, and the dark head on the pillow tossed and mutt- ered. "John! Mustn't let John see me.. . Paula screamed . . . everything's — ruined , .. Got to get home -get home —can't let him -die." (Continued Next Week.) 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