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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1935-02-07, Page 6PAOlt IX Icy ARGARET & S'AAIG'S'i", 'a FINAL INSTALMENT Ellen wasn't thinking for herself any more. "Let's go quiekly, Dick," she said. That was all. "Let's go!" There was •t knock on the door. It was a knock that carried hysteria with it, whish is a c' rious thing for a, knock to dol It made Dick turn -with a nervous start--the'unexpected- ness of it. Dick, with a muttered ex elamation, strode over and flung the portal wide. "Oh," he said, rather weakly. But Jane, standing in the doorway, wasn't looking at Dick. She was look- ing past him toward Ellen, "I rather; .thought I'd find you here," she said bitterly. "I went first to your house, but you weren't there,,' I think you'd better conte with me, to Tony." • Ellen had advanced a step forward, toward Jane. Her hands were out- stretched, pitifully, to the other girl —she ?night have been a child beggar asking for bread. Her eyes were great wells of apprehension. "Why should I conte with .you to Tony?" she asked. "Did he send you for me? Does he want me? Why did he send you?" Jane's face was verywhite under the dark peak of her hair. Her eyes,. also, were great ;wells in her face. "I don't know whether Tony wants you or not," she said. "And he didn't send me f,or you, either. I carne of my own accord, I'm that sort of a fool , . . Tony isn't up to sending for anybody, but you're his wife and you ought to be with hint. . .I've got my car`. down stairs... - I'll take you to the hospital!" :But he hadint been ill, just a few hours before. He'd been well enough to talk with her over the phone. She couldn't speak, at the first moment of horror—she couldn't ask questions. She could only hold fast to Dick's :hand with one of her hands and, mir- acle of miracles, to Jane's hand with e d s to to badly he's hurt, . ," Ellen spoke through a haze. ".f," she said mistily, "at least, I didn't know anything about crashes — but if you've got securities to give him — it was the crowning agony -;that Jane should have something Tony needed — something to give hire. But Jane answered, What was it Tony had said of Jane -.that she was a gentlewoman! "You've got something more im- portant than securities to give him," she said, and her voice was sharp be- cause every word was hurting her, "That night, when we were dining together on the roof, he told me Ihow he Melt about you. That other ni at my party, when lie found that had gone—well, he told inc 2,gain I -it's killing me to pass it on you—I'm no plaster saint! But must . , He cares for you. And y --you've got love to give him. You his wife, Remember that." Through the traffic the car darting. Every light that delayed progress was like ga flamings w thrust into Ellen's heart, Every , c that crossed their path was like angel of deliverance. "Perhaps one of the . cars will us," Ellen fund herself saying, whe • some vehicle did come perilo ly close, "And then maybe P11 killed. I'll want to be killed if To dies." And then centuries later — or w it just five minutes later? — the c was drawing up in front of the ho pital, and Ellen was telling herse that it Iooked just as dark and glu as the building, to which she ha once gone with Tony for a marriag license, had looked. "1 won't cry," she said aloud, she stepped out of the car. "I'm a right; you needn't help mel" Her feet made a terrific clatter o the bare tiled floors, and her vote sounded unnaturally loud, in her ow ars, as she asked at the informatio esk where Tony might be found. Sh roiled mutely at the attendant wh IdI ler the floor on which Tonycava e be found. The elevator was made of polishe eel and smelled of disinfectants. I opped at several floors and white wned nurses stepped into it, They so smelled of disinfectants, but one them had lovely red hair like Gay's ir. The elevator stopped at five floors, se • floors, nine floors, before it Pa • at the floor to which they d been directed—before Dick was nding aside to let Ellen and Jane ep out. Walking rapidly, with Dick and e sowehow falling in behind her, went to a desk, She smiled mute - at the attendant who gave her a m number and asked.a questoin. s, I'm his wife]" she said, heer,was a long corridor, It was c, and there was a strong smell of r. As she walked through that €'' dark corridor,-. with its ethery I 11, filen began to talk, Nobody ! had spoken for quite a long 1 ght you to I ou ,Ye was its and ar an I e11 u5 be ny as ar s - If 111 cel as 11 n e n n e the other. The ride to the hospital, in. Jane's care, would always be a nightmare to Ellen. She'd never grow ow old enough nor placid enough to forget the horror of that ride, A 'hospital? The very name a meant t that Tony was iii, She could only. hold fast to Dick's and Jane's ..hands and try to keep from st st go al 'talking, from crying, and yes, from of screaming. ha She" was hardly conscious of Jane's voice explaining matters, brokenly, to s Dick. P "He felt that he'd lost everything i ha in the crash, yesterday," Jane wasieta saying. "And he got the fool idea i st that the world was against him, or { something, I don't know what hap- Jan pened, but his secretary said he had she a phone call and that after talking' 1 'WINGIiA ' ADVANCE -TIMES bled, "Tony asked me about my house in the country, Ile said if he were destitute` maybe I'd let him come up there, Wasn't that a funny thing for Tony to say?" Dick was speaking. "Steady,. Ellen!" lie said, ' That was all. But Ellen was babbling, now at Jane. "There's a big garden full of flow- ers," she said, "Maybe he alight get well if we could sit together there. among the flowers. Wouldn't that be funny?" "Hush !" said Jane; They had stopped walking along the corridor, they had paused in front of a white door and on the door was a little placard that said "oceatp- ied," It was a door which bore the number of Tony's room, Ellen forgot that there might be such a thing as hospital etiquette and hospital laws; she forgot that any- thing might be happening behind that door! She forgot everything except that Tony, the roan she loved, and whom she had denied so long, was somewhere behind the white, silent 1 head was suddenly lowered above he knitting, For among the flowers she had visioned a tall easel and a white- haired woman working upon a canvas that the easel held. • "Lea's not talk about my mother,,' said Ellen, "'not just now. It's enough to know that we're here and she knows we are and that she under- stands. We've done enough going backwards. Tony,' let's go forward for a while." Perhaps five minutes passed. Pee - haps ten. The cigarette was thrown away and another cigarette was lit, And then Ellen was conscious of the opening click of the garden gate. She stepped forward and stood waiting and, as she waited, she saw an ap- proaching figure coming toward her down the garden path. It was a mes- senger' boy in the rural idea of a uni- form --the village had progressed in. three years! Ellen recognized him as the youngster who worked around the post -office. "It's a letter from, the city," she told Tony as she took a square en- velope from the boy's Hand. 1•ager- panels of it, p n, g ancec oug 1 Without any hesitation, she reach- It's from Claire," she said, "and it's full of news. Nice of Claire, isn't it, to be writing? She says site and Gay are sending me a weddingpresent." "It's about time somebody did,", said Tony. He spoke complacently. Ellen went on, ignoring the in- terruption. "Claire e r says,"she told Tony, "that she's taking Dick out for the week- end to Long Island to meet her mo- 'ther. I didn't know she had a moh er. . , r " ".I wonder what that means 1" said Tony. Ellen anoved over, very quiety, un til site could rest her head against Tony's cushion -propped knee. She sighed ever so gently, but Tony heard the sigh. "Happy?" he asked. "Darling—" Ellen answered, "1 wish everybody in the world," she said --and as she spoke her small` world, Gay and Sandy and 'Jane and Claire and Dick, were passing her, in review—"I wish that everybody were just one-half as happy!" A little leaf, gallant and golden and frail, came floating clown from one of the autumn trees, It touched El- len's cheek in passing. Perhaps it wee the first promise of another spring! THE .END. r were amazed and at a loss to account for this, for they, knew the disciples were Galileans, Among the different= nationalities thus hearing their own languages at Jerusalem were Parthians, Medes, Elamites, de elicrs ie .Mesopotamia, in Judea, Sappadocia, in Pontus, Asia, Phrygia, Patnphylia, Egypt, Libya,. Rome, Cretes, Arabians, Some of the crowd mocked: "These) men' are full of new wine," It was about as intelligent an "explanation of the miracle as some. other explan- ations of miracles given by cynical and ignorant unbelievers. Drunken men cannot converse correctly in :lan- guages they never spoke before. Then' Simon Peter did a difficult thing—so difficult that . only God could have enlightened him to do it, He was a frilly forgiven and restored Peter now—not the cowardly man who had denied his Lord with oaths and curses, but a new creation in Christ, He preached one of the greatest sermons in the history of the Chris- tian Church, The Scofield Reference Bible shows what an inspired master- piece of skilful t t ed out a small, quivering hand and turned the, knob and walked in and shut the door behind her. "Well stay here," said Dick to Jane. The cigarette was thrown away, an- other n other one lighted, o At first Ellen could not see, be - s cause the room was s o bright ht after the dark t5 arh of the corridor. She stood d very still for a moment with her eyes t wide and blinking. She alight have been a tin girl awakening from nher afternoon nap. Then she saw a white 'bed, a bed that rose and fell dizzily, +because her pulses were so unsteady, because the tears were crowding to ii her eyes. In the bed lay Tony, with his face white against a spotless pillow, and his wide open eyes bluer than ever, ,and a twisted smile on his face, and an arni tight to his side. • "Hello," said Tony weakly. "Hello, Ellen! I'in just a rotten failure --that's all. I can't even put over a good sui- cide..,." Ellen stared at him. She didn't make any answer with words — she just stared at him. And as she stared there was something in her gaze that for a moment, he hung up the re- eever and locked the door of his pri- vate office. They didn't think any- T thing' of it until they heard the shot. { plaid Then they broke the door do• ." ethe "I—" Jane was crying, "I just hap- ' Ion pened to conte in at that time. I had sme some securities of my own --I thought :else y roo "Ye they night help Tony through a bad ; whit time, When I reached the dour, t}ley : Dte were carrying him past inc on a only stretcher.. , I don't even know how e, although she hadn't realized it. k and Jane had suddenly become shadows. eet two nights ago," Ellen b'ab- WWmsTs FIN, F „�WAY Ache and Discomfort Eased Almost instantly Now T 2 Aspirin Tab! 2. Drink Repeat Fr full glass o atment i t Water, hours. 3. u throat is sore, crush and stir 3 Aspirin Tablets in a 'third bf it glass of water and geregee. This eases tlrt soreness in your throat AImoSt instanstly. When you have a cold, remember the simple treatment pictured here .. prescribed by doctors everywhere to- day as the quick, safe way. Because of Aspirin's quick-drsinte, grating property, Aspirin "takes hold"— almost instantly. Just take Aspirin and drink plenty of water ; every 2 to 4 hours the first day—less often afterward , . If throat is sore,' use the Aspirin gargle. But be sure you get ASPIRIN. It is made in Canada and dIl druggists have it. Look for the name Bayer in the form of a cross on, every Aspirin Tablet. Aspirin is the trade mark of the Bayer Company, Limited. DOE NOT HARM tHE HEART .ate TH SUNDAY SCHOOL HO�J �u0M.P.W.PaI..oY.golygypoiRpCq WfS PETER PREACHES E A S T PE N COST, Sunday, Feb. 10—Acts 2: Golden Text: Then Peter said unto then, Rel and be baptized everyone of yo the Jeanie of Jesus Christ for the mission of sins, and ye shall res the gift of the Holy Ghost, (Act 38.) ON T E- E dent, u in re- cive s 2: • There has been but one Calvary since the world began—there will nev- er be another. So of Gethsemane: it is unique in time and eternity. We do not always realize that the same s true of Pentecost. But there is on - y one' Pentecost: it can no more be epeated than Gethsemane or Cel- ery. It was God's consurnated time or doing what He had never done, efore and will never do again: giv- tg, once for all, the gift of the. Hole pint potrred out upon the Church the • tole body of believers.. Thus the oly Spirit 'came to abide with and the Church forever, fulfilling the: romise made by the Lord to the die - plea before His crucifixion (John 4:16). From that day tr, this,"Ev- a.- believer is bong of the Spirit, in - welt by the Spirit, and baptized e Spirit, thus sealing hire for (:God The 1,orcl Jesus Christ had told the sciples that they should receive weer after the Holy Spirit had' con on them (Acts 1:8), Our lesson tells' of the fulfillment o fthis prom- .. The disciples returned to Jeru-•. ern, obeying tie Lord's command do so (Acts 1:4, 12), and continued prayer, in company with other be versuntil "the day of Pentecost was ly come." Go this day of Pentecost the Hol Spirit cameuponall the assembled believers, There was a "sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind," and the appearance• of "cloven ton - tales like as of fire:", The believers` were "."ill filled with the Holy Ghost, and :began to speak with other ton- gues, as the Spirit gave them utter- ance." The miracle character of this event appeared from the fact .that, as a re- sult of this outpouring of the Holy Spirit, men from many ahation& throughout the world who had come to Jerusalem at this time, "Jews, de- vout men, out of every nation under :Heaven," recognized their own vari- ous languages as the disciples spoke, "because that every man heard theta speak in his own language." They i I r burned. away every doubt and every f barrier and every moment of distress lb that two silly, groping young people had ever known. She stared at him s wordlessly --.just as a young Eve must ! have stared at a young Adam when !./4 wl she had first awakened in Paradise. 1, And then all at once she eves flying 1> across the room, and had dropped on ' ci her. knees beside the bed. And her ;1 ! ]itis were pressed down hard upon the hand that lay outside the, coverlet. I'd v The left hand ---tire one that wasn't ! tit !taped down, "That's taking an unfair advantage said Tony, Weakly, "when you know po up ! I` can't get up darling. , . ," '1 ' 1; by 11. Ellen was sitting in the autumn is garden. Her hands were folded, idly, !eel 1 in her lap. Her eyes, with their odd -1g, 11". .4haited, winglike brows, were. fix- i ill ed upon her husband's fate. • Tony was sitting beside her in all 1fie n1d stuffed chair, transplanted from, fill the living rr,om Nis legs were stret- ched out on bright, chinte-covered cu•;lliens, His face was a little paler illan usual; thc:rcr was ;still a hint of. brown in it. Only his arm, iei a white sling, spoke of what might lave been tragedy, • „It's iricc out bore," said Tony, "isn't it?" "Nicer' than it ever was before," said Ellen, She whiled swiftly, "Nic- er than I ever knew it could be." "I was afraid," Tony voice was ser- ious, "that you'd be unhappy, Ellen, corning back this way, I mean, with nee, I was afraid that your mother. . he fumbled for words, "would be just a little too close. That you might be' lonely for her." "Not too close," said Ellett, but here t cons •ru `ton, unan- swerable logic, and convincing truth this sermon was. Peter's theme was: "Jesus Is the Messiah," And "No message could have been more unwelcome to the Jetve" who hail rejected Christ and crucified Him—the Jews whom Peter was addressing. 'Peter, therefore, does not announce his theme until he covered every possible Jewish objec- tion." These were orthodox .Jews; • they believed their Bible,• the Old Testa- ment Scriptures. Peter quoted these Scriptures, and proved conclusively that the Old Testament prophecies had beeo fulfilled before their eyes. What was occurring at that mo- ment, in the outpouring of the Holy Spirit; was in fulfillment of the Pro- phet Joel (2:28-32), said Peter. Then Peter talked about the man who hacl been crucified a few Weeks ago, Jesus of Nazareth, But He was "a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God dict by Him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know." Christ's divine credentials were the miracles -let us never forget that. God had. foreordained that this Jesus should die: "Him, being deliv- ered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of Gad, ye have taken., and by wicked hands have crucified and slain. This was straight, terrible languagewas Peter using. But God had also foreordained that this Jesus should be raised from the 'lead: < "Whom Whom God hath raised up, 'laving loosed the pains of death: be- cause it was not possible that He. ;Mould be holden of it" - Their great king, David, prophesied .n°. Thar Y► February 7 193 MAKES FRIENDS WITH IAB". TIGERS The famous zoo, a feature of tl California-Pacific-Internatinoal Exp sition at San Diego, Cal,, and alreac the world's second largest in varier of specimens, will be first during th fair which ?pens May 29. It wi range from m the only y gorx1la s in ca he tivity, captured by. Mr. and Mrs. Mar– o- tin Johnson in Africa, through almost ly -every know variety of wild animal, y even to gigantic sea elephants, pen - e gums and other denizens of little 11 known seas. Here is Mrs. Johnson p- !with baby tigers, r God shall call" They heard, and they answered, - and "about three thousand souls" were t saved that day. all this. And Peter quoted familia pasages from David's Psalm (16:8 11). The Jews were perfectly famil tar with this Psalm, and they mus have been startled, shocked, amazed as they realized how identically it fit- ted' the itted'tlhe facts of the death and resur rection of Jesus. A full quotation and application of David's prohpecy is given in verses 25-35 of this lesson. It 'was crushing evidence; no Jew could honestly deny it. Then came the climax of Peter's great sermon. He now declared' his theme, after working up to it step by step: he mad the tremendous, daring, overwhelming and unansweP1 able prononcement: "Therefore Yet all the house of Israel know assuredly that God hath made that same Jesus, whorl ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ." Peter's hearers were cut to the heart. They cried out in agony under conviction of sin: "Men and breth- ren, what ...shall we do?' Straight, ght, saw>Yng1y, came the .answer: "Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar. off, even as many as the Lord our "Help! I'm drowning!" "I will pick you up, but my hire- charges for this boat are two shill - tugs an hour," -Moustique, Charleroi. Smith: "Ha veo y u noticed that old' Jollyboy has the habit of talkin to himself?" Jones: "Yes, and so has•young Bor- 1eigh; but he doesn't realize it. 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