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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1935-01-03, Page 6SYNOPSIS Ellen Church, 17 years old, finds herself alone in the world with her artist mother's last warning ringing in her ears, to '`love lightly?' Of the •i world she knew little. All her life she had lived alone wit;! her mother in an old brown house in a small rur- al community. All her life, first as a new baby, then a bubbling child, then a charming young girl . .. she Had posed for her talented another ivho sold her magizine cover painting through an art agent in the city Mrs. Church's broken life . the unfaithful husband, his disappearance. . and after seventeen years of sil- ence announcement of his death was at last disclosed to Ellen. The news of the husband's death killed Mrs. Church. . .. Ellen, alone, turned to WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES sitting. The waiter brought forward two extra chairs, laid two extraplaces on the table at which Tony and his guest had already started their dinner. Then the music began. And Tony said, "Dance?"—looking at Ellen. But Ellen wasn't dancing withTony, not tonight. Dancing with Tony always had a ruinous effect upon her. "Sandy broguht me," she said, "I'll have this ane with. him." It wasn't a jolly evening. But it managed, to be adequately conversa- tional and very polite. No reference was made to the last evening that the four spent together. And then, after the dinner had been drawn out as long as possible, it was time to go home! There wasn't any- thing else to do. It was Sandy, not Tony, who de- cided the situation. "I think, Jane," he said (they'd. never gottenpast the first 'name stage), "that it's up to ane to take you home, even though I started the party with another gal! After all, you know, we're on the outside, looking in." Jane bit her lip sharply. "I've got my car downstairs," she said. "I can take you all home, you know." And at last, after detailed 'direc- tions had been given .to the chauf- feur, the scar came to a stop in front of Ellen house. The moment had ar- rived—and Tony rose to it nobly. "Thanks, Jane," he said, as lie helped Ellen out of the car. "You were nice to come to dinner with me —and nice to bring us home."' "Marriage," she said, "hasn't chang- d niy ideas about that, Sandy." But she was all ready when he cavae for her in an hour (she met him, at the door, he mustn't come up to her obviously unchanged apartment!) Sandy ,did it all very well! It was as if that evening he were planuaing to outdo himself—to make the party memorable. They rode in state to one of the larger hotels that boasted a dance orchestra and a roof. garden. They were shot, in the the hotel el- evator, to the roof garden. They were shown to a table close beside the dance floor. "It's a nice roofs" she told him -- and tried valiantly not to tell herself that it would have been perfect if Tony had been the one to hold back her chair, to seat himself' opposite the only contact she knew, the art her! agent in New York. Posing, years of "I suppose," said Sandy, as he posing, was her only talent so she studied the menu, "that the boy friend was introduced to two leading ar- isworking or something. Well, more Macin- ,:, Lists, Dick Ah -en and Sandy power to htm: tosh. Both used her as a .model .arid And • Elen echoed: both fell in love with her . but "More power to him," as she fold - Ellen, trying to follow the warped ed her hands tight beneath the dam - philosophy of her mother to "1°ve ask table cloth, and let her 'eyes wan- lightly" resists the thought of love. Her circle of friends is small, artists and two or three girl models. Ellen der across the room. As he glance wandered from table to table, she felt her body stiffen. For there, directly attends a ball with Sandy.: While across the dance floor, immaculate in 142116'11g a tall young man claimed her dinner jacket, and with his blue eyes and romance is born. A ride in. the btuer than ever,' sat Tony. Tony park, proposal, the next day marriage wasn't alone, either, for Jane in a to Tony, and wealth. But she'd "Loge: wisp of devastatingly cut flame -color - Lightly," Ellen told herself. She'd ed chiffon, sat opposite him. never let him' know How desperately ""whya. Ellen 'whispered, and her she loved him, even though she were breath came in startled little gasps, his wife. Ellen insists upon living her, own life, maintaing her home in her "why, there's Tony, now!" It wasn't that her voice carried, it small room, even though Tony is .a,as that her thought carried! Tony wealthy . . Jane, of Tony's wealth looked up from across the room as set, is disappointed in Tony's sudden ,harp as did Sandy from across the marriage to EIlen. table. And then, without a word to the girl in flame color Yvho at op NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY posite him, he was gap on his feet, was coming over the polished square 'We're modernists, Sandy," she of dance' floor. said. , "Every night is a night out as "Say," he began, 'this is a sur far as either of us is concerned. We're prise!" notlaying the marriage game ac- Sandy had risen, and was fingering P cording to the old sentimental stand- the silkiness of his Vandyke beard. her party. She was forced into ask- ing me, you realize that; . She doesn't, want me -why should she want ine? It's .you she warts!" Tony answered. "I'd like, Ellen," he said, answer- ing the first part of her remark, "to make all of life very easy for you, if'I could. That happens—" his voice also had lost its casual tone, "that happens to be the way I care about you, He paused. And .then he was answering thelast part of what she had said to huh. "But," he added, "I . do wish aw- fully you'd come to Jane's party. She may have been forced into asking you -I'm honest enough to admit that she was—but the important thing is that she did ask you. Under the cir- cumstances, if you don't go, I could not go either, now. And if .I don't appear on Janes' birthday, any crowd will think it's strange. And so-" ev- en through the dark Ellen was aware of his smile, "and so it would seem that we're in a box. Fortunately we are in the same box. Not—" the smile had grown into his carefree young laughter, "not that it isn't very nice to be in a box with you!" Ellen was turning again; they were getting nowhere, She started to move wearily toward the steps of the house. in which she lived. Tony followed her. They climbed the steps togeth- er, slowly. "I don't know what to do, Tony,„ she said, and her voice was vague. "Don't you think we'd better let it ride — all of this business about Jane's party? Let's .not worry about it tonight. Let's just wait and see lvliat happens.” Tony was speaking. "Whether you go to Jane's or not," he said, and his tone was wistful, "I wish we might have a few evenings together. This has been sort of grand, hasn't it? To me it's been kind of crazy not seeing you since—" his voice lowered, "our wedding day." For just one second—one second ottt of all life -Ellen dared to be eag- er. She did not draw her hand away, even though it was held so loosely. "Sometimes," she said, "during the last two weeks 1, too, felt that wt were silly. I'd be glad to see you just as often as you want to see me, you know." She said the last with r rush. She tried not to emphasize the: words "just as often as you want tc see me. Tony answered very seriously. "That would be suite a lot,", he said. "I guess we won't go into that. I guess you understand." He hesitat- ed slightly. "Well, Iguess it's good- night?' oodnight:' Ellen was faltering there in the doorway. She took a step forward Tonyavas very close, it was a short step. But despite his closeness, he couldn't know that she was near to yielding — to making crazy, sweet admissions. "Won't you come up," she asked, "for just a minute?" But Tony was moving away from her, down the steps. It seemed as if the distance was automatically widen- ing between them. "I'd like to," he said, "but I don't trust myself to come up with you. Unless—your invitation means more I than I think it does. You must real - ards, not Tony and I." Sandy's eyebrows came down, and his eyes narrowed. "In that case," he said, "we might have dinner together, tonight—I'd en- joy feeling like a husband -robbing Lothario for a change. I'm sort of beginning to lose ,confidence in my- self Ellen felt just a little icy, inside. It was the first time since her wed- ding that she'd actually made the break—that she'd put herself, mar- ried, in a position of accepting social favors from another man. 411'tl meet youanywhere you say, The gesture was sophisticated, per- haps, but the eyes above the beard were frankly apprehensive. "So it is," said Sandy. He grinned nervously. "just what does one do in a situation like this?" he asked. "It's all out of order!" Ellen was laughing. She tried to make her laughter sound casual "One says, 'Hello'," she said, "and `go odby, „ Tony wasn't as brown as he had been when Ellen first saw him. "You're all wrong, Ellen," he said. "At a time like this, parties join to- gether! If' yott haven't ordered, come 'Sandy," she told him, "at any time over to our table." you say," There wasn't anything else to do. "Let's snake it a real party," he Ellen, as gracefully as possible, and said. "We'll dress, and I'll stop for wishing that her dress were pink or You at your place in about an hour. blue or orchid or anything but white, I :don't suppose, by any chance, that rose from her seat, and was escorted you'd haere a cocktail waiting for by the two men back to the place me?,� where the girl in flame chiffon was BEAUTY HINT "Just what does one do in a situa- tion like this?" asked Sandy. It would have been all right— if Jane had let it go that way if she had just said a gracious goodnight. For a moment one imagines that she meant to, and then she leaned out of the car and her slim, beautiful hand rested lightly upon the sleeve of Tony's coat. "You'll not forget," she said, "that it's my birthday Saturday, and that the crowd is coming down to our country place for the week -end. You said you'd be there, you know." Tony mumbled something. It sounded to Ellen like "I'll remember." And then he was starting to slam shut the door of the car. But his move- ment was arrested by. Sandy's gay, ! ize why Ican't" tactless voice. Ellen was fumbling with her latch "Trowing a party," Sandy asked, key. She knew in her soul that she "and not inviting rhes How come- -must open the door quickly, before Ellen should have somebody along she told Tony how much she want- who talks her language. She'd be lost ed him to come in, how much she with all of you folks—who are Phil wanted him not to trust Himself. She istines.". couldn't make that move—she could - Sandy, you see, was asstuning—the n't. He wouldn't be given a chance other three, Jane and Ellen and Tony, to hurt her pride, or to break her realized it at the same, horrible sec - heart She .must open the door, now oncl—that Ellen was to be a member —and go inside, alone. of the party! The birthday house In the morning Jane's 'letter came, party to which Jane had invited Tony i as Ellen had kncewn that it would. -Tony evidently, to her mind, was ,"Mylparty," read the pseudo- still playing the role of bachelor! original letter, "is going to be very "Of course, you can come, Sandy," informal. Just a few of my oldest she said, sweetly, "if you want to. It and most intimate friends have been knight be much more charming for asked down. Of course, I do hope you Ellen to have one of her own --sort: can came incl that youWon't find it thatMaybe ,you have the right idea at too dull - being among strangers." that." As Ellen read the edged words, she And then the car had gone flash - Was suddenly more bitterly annoyed ing down the ,street, than she had even been in her life. "And now'," she said, `'what are we '"I. wont go," she was storinills, going to dol ""I won't! 1 won't! I won't!" Tony laughed boyishly. That resolution ,carried her through "I guess," he said, "that it's all set! the first half of the day. Carried her It begins to look as if you're coming along until Sandy's note arrived. with me to a hoose party. Sandy cer- I,m wondering," Sandy Wrote, '`if tainly put Jane in an odd position, I can go up to Jane's party with you didn't he? 13ttt, as usual, she carne through one hundred per cent." and Tony, on Saturday? Drive up ayes," said Ellen "yes, sac did, with you, I mean I've decided to Jane olid come through. As usual" accept the gal's invitation—it ought She spoke so softly that for all Cony ea be fun."(Continued Text Week) knew she was sighing. He didn't know that all at once there was a Seething anger in her heart. Thursday, January 3rd, 1935 ri y k lassifi T eA v e es S411, it r u • Don't think that Buyers are as hard to find as the proverb- ial roverb- "needlehaystack". Not if you ADVERTISE! People, in the gal- these days, are "Bargain Hunters", and, nearly 2000 Families in this district are constant readers of this paper, and snake it a prac- tice to watch the Classified Want Ad. Column for the 66Buying Op- portunities" listed there. RATES P/2 CENTS PER WORD WITH A MINIMUM OF 25c. ere 9 Y+• one 3 Oi Equesing Society, 431 points; 1th, London Township Society, 430 points, 9th, Markham Society, 427 points; 9th, Wellington County Society,; 425 points; 10th, Camden Society. Oth- er contributing Societies were as fol- lows: Scott, Society, South Huron So- ciety, Brooke and Alvinston Society, Peel County Society, Cookstown :Soc- iety, Richmond. Hill Society, North Middlesex "Society, Flos Society, Moore. Soicety, Comber Society and Powasson Society. Silage Crops For ten years the Field Husbandry Division at Ottawa has been conduct- ing experiments with the ensiling of various crops. 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