The Wingham Advance Times, 1934-11-22, Page 6re
WING -HAM ADVANCE -TIM S;.
SYNOPSIS swift panic, "Don't let hien cone. i
Ellen Church, 17 years old, finds can't pretend with hint much longer.
1�,erse f' alone in;the world with her And if he Comes, I'll never be able
artist mother's Iasi warning ringing to do anything else but pretend!"
in her ears, to "love lightly." Of the The taxi turned sharply through
'world she knew little. All her life the dawn, and made for the nearest
she had livedalone with her mother • Park exit.
in an old brown house in a small rur-
al community. All her life, first as a Tony came the next day, slightly
new baby, then a bubbling child, then before noon, looking a trifle older
charming young girl :. shehad than he had in his tousled Pierrot
posed for her talented mother who rostome. 'Seeming less sun -browned,
sold her magizine cover painting , less sure of himself, but somehow
;through an art agent in the city . more dear than ever—infinitely more
Mrs Church's broken life . •. the ; dear! Ellen; starting forward to meet
unfaithful husband, his disappearance him, could Hardly hold back her arms
and after seventeen years of sil-1—They seemed to be on springs -
erace announcement of his death was on spring that dragged them forward
at last disclosed to Ellen. The news toward him.
of the husband's death killed Mrs. Ellen—she wasn't looking quite so
Church. .. . Ellen, alone, turned to , t iv id herself, as she had in the brief
the only contact she knew, the art costume of a page boy. Her hair was
agent in New York. Posing, years of parted demurely in the middle, and
posing, was her only talent so she she wasn't made up, She wore a
was introduced to two leading ar- plain little dress of navy blue crepe,.
.fists, Dick Alven and Sandy Macin- with white linen collar and cuffs, and
tosh. Both used her as a model and small, strapped black slippers. . She
both fell in lovewith her . . but was like a school girl in appearance.
"Well?" she asked.
The red rushed' up under the brown
of the boy's cheeks, but he managed
to speak just as nonchalantly as she
had.
"Very well, indeed!" he answered.
"Oh, very-"
And then, without quite knowing
how they got there, they were in each
other's arms, and he was kissing her
oddly shaped winglike eyebrows. And
she was quivering, close' to sobs,
against his shoulder.
For a moment they stood together,
so. And they Tony spoke.
"I guess," he said, "that settles itl
We will be married as soon as pos-
sible. How," his voice was close to
breaking, "how could you send me
home as you did, last night?"
"This morning!" corrected Ellen.
Tony's face had •a high, uplifted
look. He paid no attention to the
correction'.
"You had me worried," Ed said;
"stalling that way. Pretending that
you hadn't' fallen for rue, and that my
bank account was all that mattered."
Ellen raised a slender hand-lialf
in protest, .half in a gesture of with-
drawal.
Alen, trying to follow the warped
Philosophy of her mother to "love
lightly" resists the thought of love.
Her circle of friends is small, artists
and'two or three girl models. Ellen
attends a ball with Sandy. While
dancing a tall young naan claimed her
and romance is born.
11TOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
"But now," said. Ellen, "you'd bet-
ter take me home. And then you'd
better go home yourself, and go to
bed and get some sleep. And when
you wake . up, have black coffee—
lots of it. I'm not saying have cof-
fee," she endeavored to laugh, "be-
came I think you need it, because
I think you've been drinking or any-
thing. You said you hadn't, and I
believe you. Attd---" It was such a
long speech, Ellen wished that she
'might give up the effort, that she
'might just stop talking . and let her
head lie back on the broad shoulder
:beneath the f'lerrot suit, "And, after
`youIve had your coffee, sit back' and
go over the facts in the case. And if
you still feel the same way about
marrying me, by noon tomorrow,
come around and we'll get down to.
cases. My name? It's Ellen Church.
„I've been forgetting that you didn't
Itnow who I was; either, You'll find
that name below a,bell atthis—" she
gave him a street number, "address.
And if, after the sleep and the coffee
and the thinking, you still want to
go on . Well, a marriage license
can be had, they tell me, up.toifaur!
If we should happen to get together
"Listen," said Ellen. "Stop and
look and listen! You're going too
fast, Tony you're assuming to much..
I didn't mean .to worry you last night
and I wasn't stalling, either. I wasn't
pretending not to like you, for I do
like you far better than any of the
other men I know. But I suppose it
was, really, your bank account that
finally sold me—on marriage, I mean.
For," her heart thudded sickly at the.
tomorrow, perhaps I'll let you buy falsehood, "I don't love you, not as
me one. But if you," she was able, L love goes in novels. I won't ever love
by gritting her teeth, to make her Llove
that way. I've always said
voice. seem: casual, 9f you don't show ;anyone
marriage would have to be sort.
up, I'll know you're completely nor-; of lukewarm to interest me, and I
trial again; I'll probably be that way, haven't changed my mind! What I
myself. No," all at once she was mean is, 1 don't Iove you madly. T.
shivering violently, "don't kiss me— don't believe in love, not for girls,
not now. Don't you dare kiss me! It's all right for men—with a man,
If you come tomorrow, there may be love's only a gesture any way!"
years of kissing ahead of us . If • "Most women," said Tony, and he
you don't come, well have one less spoke with the conviction that every
moment to forget." rich young man possesses, "would be
Her heart. said, "Oh, God, don't let' afraid to talk as frankly as you do,
him stay away." It said, also, in Ellen, if they really didn't care!
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my bank account—"
Ellen tossed her head until the
curls of it were all a -dance.
"I'm not afraid!" she boasted. How
could a boy guess that the boast Was
so hollow?
"I suppose," Tony went on, "that
I'm sort ,of :old-fashioned, in some
ways. But my mother and my father
were married for thirty years. My
father died just two months before
nay mother went away, and when she
followed him (and say what you will,
it was heartbreak, for she hadn't been
ill), she was calling—" the boy's
voice shook, "calling his name. I be-
lieve in that kind of marriage, my-
self."
Ellen's eyes were staring far away.
"My mother loved my father until
they both died," said Ellen. "And
that," her imitation of Claire's shrug
was piteous, "and that's why 1 don't
believe in that kind of marriage. I
want to get what I can out of life—
I want to squeeze life dry, like a
sponge. If you mary me, it will have
to be on those terms, You're not to
expect too much from me. Not too
much love, or too much gentleness,
or too much loyalty. Pll try not to
do anything to put any sort of a blot
on your name, you canpretty well
count on me, there, because I'm; not
the type! But I shall continue to
have my own friends, and to go out:
with them. And I'll keep on with
my work, if I find I'm not busy en -
Without quite knowing how they got
there they were in each other's arms.
ough, running my marriage. I'll—"
One of the first things she had
noticed about Tony was the strength
of his jaw line. It widened out now,
in an odd manner. It became blunt.
"What," said Tony, "if I make a
few remarks and stipulations? As
long as this seems to be a mutual
contract we're drawing up! What if
I say that I'll have as many womet.
friends in my life, as you have men?
What if I say that I'll find my ex-
citement elsewhere, if you don't keep
my home peppy enough? What if I
say I don't care about the blots that
I put on the family name, as long as
wearing the family name can be •held
so cheaply by my wife? What if I
say I:thoroughly agree with your
theories? That what you've said can
go—double!"
Ellen's hands were folded in her
lap. They looked like calm little fin-
gers, but in reality the nails of them
were biting into her pink palms.
Tony—oh, he musn't go about with
other women! Not when he was ler,
husband. She— reversing a single
standard to fit her own quaint mea-
sure—could be less fastidious. Be-
cause she knew that other men would
never matter to her. But how could
she be sure that some other girl
wouldn't matter to Tony? She start-
ed to speak, changed her mind, and
said something entirely different
front the thing that she had intended
to say.
"At that, our marriage should work
out better," she said, "than most mar-
riages. It's being built on a perfectly
honest, '. fifty-fifty, cardslon-the-table
basis,"
Some of the buoyancy seemed to
have gone out of the heir to the Bran-
der millions. Only his doggedness,
the strong line of his chin, was left.
"It'll work out all right!" he told
Ellen. "Say when!"
Oh, the throbbing of the heart in
Ellen's breast! Oh, the persistent
beat. in her temples:. .
"Why," she said, and her voice
sounded like a stranger's voice, even
In her own ears, "why, the sooner
the better! It'e just'' after twelve, now.
Maybe, if we took a taxi, we 'could
catch tts a license right off, and be
married, and have a bite of luncheon
together, before three, At three, 1
have a date to pose kr Dick Alvin,
in his studio. Hee dolog a mural , ."
She broke off before the torrent of
'.cony's words.
"Do yott mean to, tell tine," he was
shouting, "that you'd go off, right
after the eeretnotty and pose for some
artist? Do you mean to toll me you'd
leave your husband to go to another
man, so that he can put you into a
dirt' little Indian picture?"
Ellen was interrupting,
"Long after our marriage is aver,
Tony," she said hotly, "long after
we've stopped being, Dick's mural
will go on, giving beauty and fine-
ness to people. It's not a dirty little
Indian picture, Tony—Dick is a
great artist."
"Great artist be hanged," grated
Tony, "I bet he's in love wit1i you,
theEll—"
en's face was burning,
"If it's going to be like this;" she
said, "when we've known each other
less than a day—well, then, I guess
we'd better call off the whole busi-
ness."
But, suddenly, she was in Tony's
arms again, and his mouth was
against her mouth. And the whole
earth whirled' dizzily about them.
And then with ` her hand tight in
Tony's and a blue, small hat clamped
down over her ears, and a white,
strained smile on her lips, Ellen was
being whirled away—toward lower
New York and the niarriage license
bureau.
Only they weren't going in a taxi:
Tony was`. driving a scarlet. Rolls-
Royce roadster with a special body
and a mean 'way of nosing through
traffic.
a
The ., document which gave two
yoting people the right to join their
lives together was properly authenti-
cated. It was witnessed and sealed.
And then the man behind the bars
was speaking.
"Want to be married here, now?"
he questioned. "The clerk can do the
job_,,
Ellen' had a desire -a keen desire—
to scream. No, she didn't want to be
married in this dark, 'dusty room. Not
to Tony -to Tony whom she loved
-to Tony who would be her hus-
band.
But Tony, with a blush creeping
down until it covered his firm, tanned
neck, was stammering out something.
"No," he was saying. "Not. hese.
I want to be married in a church.
Only married once, y'know."
The man who had sealed the -pap-
ers saidsomething, here, about being
an optimist.
"As for that,"• Tony added, as if he
were speaking in hisown defense,
"we haven't a ring yet!"
Ellen, glancing swiftly down at her
slim, ringless hands, was flushing,.
too. Why, she had quite forgotten
about a ring! Of course, they'd have
to buy one, wasn't it all a part of
the marriage service?
"With this ring—" something like
that?
Her embarrassment made her for-
get to be dishonest,
"I want to be married in a church,
too," she told the man behind the
bars, and the man laughedat her ve-
hemence.
It was only when Tony had slid
into the driver's seat of his car, and
slipped in the clutch, that he sighed
and spoke.
"Thank God, that's over!" he said.
Ellen sighed, too.
"The first hundred licenses are the
hardest," she told him, but he ignor-
ed her flippancy. Instead, guiding the
car deftly through the traffic, he
reached down and briefly patted her
hand.
"Such little baby fingers,» he said.
"Wonder if we'll find a ring small
enough to do any good?"
They did find the ring. All the.
way up in the Fifties. A slim little
circlet of sapphires ("because they're
more like you, believe it or not, than
diamonds!"), And a great single sap-
phire on a gossamer hoop of 'platin-
um.
"Y,our engagement ring!" Tony re-
marked.
"We're on our way," Tony said,
as they paused in the heavy early
afternoon traffic on the avenue, "to
the Little Church 'Around the Cor-
ner. It's a bromide, I suppose, to be
married there. But I've always liked
itsgreen handkerchief of a lawn, and
its green shrubs—"
Steadily, to keep the panic from
rising, from .submerging her like 'a
sea. Ellen tttrned her eyes from
Tony's face.. Somehow, when her
eyes were on his face, she couldn't.
see, or think, clearly,
The car turned, sharply, into the
side street, And there stood the
church about which -so many legends
have been built, the Little Church set
friendly -wise in its green oasis of
lawn.
(Continued Nutt Week)
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Dental caries, - or decay of the
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If there is one primary or essential
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It is at such a point that decay be-
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The prevention of dental caries and.
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