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WINGHAM AD'V'ANCE -TIMES.
Thulreday, June 6th, 19!29
•copYRIGsT t927 by
The BOBBS--MEARILL CO.
SYNOPSIS
Chapter I.—On the verge of nerv-
ous collapse, due to overwork, Gay
Delane, successful New York artist,.
seeks rest at. Idle Island. She rents.
a cottage, the "Lone Pine" from an
island character,: the "Captain,"and•
his sister, Alice Andover, "administra-
tor."
THE STORY
She closed her eyes again.
The little yellow face receded' into
the dusk,' the small figure faded
noisely into the shadows, and there
was not: the slightest sound from the
small, swift moving feet as he stepped
over the sill of'. the window on. the
forest side, and padded' away among
the trees.
Hours after, when Gay wakened
from her sleep, the house was still
and dark. The greatness of her re
laxation pleased her.
"T shall go on like this for weeks,"
she thought blissfully, "smelling
sweet scents of sea and woods, hear-
ngistrange noises' of ghostly breaths
and of fairy fingers— Oh, good ilea-
,ens, I wonder where the matches
re!"
Roused
Roused by this rude thought from
the swee fantasy of d
sweet a tasy reams, she got
up from the couch, and felt about
rer with outstretched hands. De-
ciding logically, to follow the walls
until she came to the kitchen door,
vowing she would. find matches over
theleitchengas stove, she crept along
the Wall to the left, working her way,
I • following hand, until she found
thein at last, struck two together,
hurriedly, and was glad to have the
full light of electricity flooding the'
I • •Doers and windows stood'
open to the night as when Auntalmiry
eft in the afternoon, But on con-
sulting her watch, Gay was amazed
o find it was the hour of: midnight.
"1Ve11, I slept," she said philosoph-
calIy.
On the kitchen table she found her
basket of groceries, and feeling
,omewhat refreshed she took a real
nterest in unpacking its contens and
rranging them neatly on shelves in
he little wall cupboard. Carefully
he closed and locked the doors and
indows.
She opened a can of prepared soup
nd heated it, made toast, opened 'a
ar of pickles.
For the' first' time since she left
New York, she was' sufficiently rest -
d to feel a mental reaction to her
nvirontnent.
She arranged her modest supper
n a tray, and look it to the wall -
eat by the window which looked
own over' the bay. The wriggling,
(inkling lines of many little colored
ants in the black showed where
oats rode out the night at anchor.
itertttittc;ntly the black was mellow
d, turned to white frnlst, by the slid -
g rays of a lighthouse' searchlight.
"Ni'ee," she said to herself,"1 like
I'm glad I carne, Auntalmiry is,
dear, the Captain is a lamb,' and
tat administrator Berson who • tries
o be so bossy is a kind, sweet, gen-
coria fraud."
Remembering then that she had not
t so much as aeon the upper storey
f' her thew hot'ne, she left her tray
t the window, and, cup of souls in
c r hand, went op at once to explore,
switching on the lights of the stair -
ay from the lowest step. She found
modest enough above . the stairs,
tit clean and fresh, all to her liking.
here was a large closet on the land -
g, and to the left, a nicely appoint-
cl bathroom. rhe bedroom was
rge' and cheerfully bright in fur-
rshhig, a bed, an old bureau, a corn -
ode and two small chairs tnatchittg.
Her nature.' energy somewhat re-
ored by the long' sleep, Gay carried'
crbags upstairs and unpacked them,
Wing the little silken garments away
to drawers that srnetled sweetly of
dar, Site had brought with her no
-
Mg' but the sheerest necessities for
°acing,`,. ;(ler weariness had been so
eat that her only desire, her only
tmight, had been to escape, escape
en work, escape from the city, find
Gay :Delano, not st New Yorker by
rth, had become one by la'bor.Worlt
xs hoe daily bread, She cottnted a ,e-
ttiplislttttettt the trtd of lifer suceess
great re wterd, With Gay Delete
there was no interest as to one's pos-
session, from whence one came, ,nor.
from what family line had sprung:'
The sole point of personality to her
was this; "What is he doing? What
has he done?"
Tlce death of both parents in quick
succession bad thrown her upon her
own resources at the age of seven-
teen. 'The last of the family funds,
the insurance, all had gone" into a
final year of practical preparation for
life -work, in which, with the incon-
gruously blended driving of necess-
ity and desire, she had studied steno
graphy,,and at the same .time contin-
ued her classes in art under the best.
teachers obtainable,
She Counted Accomplishment the
End of Life,
<`T've got to work—but I am going
to paint," she said.
From the strictly clerical work' she
had been obliged to accept at first;
bread-and-butter . work she called it,
she had gradually worked away from
it, wetting intoethings more to her
taste and her talent, and at last, when
she was able, abandoning :it altogeth-
er. 131ack and white copies of style
figures, fashion pages, hack work of
illustration„ all grist to Gay; and al-
ways, through the formative years,
she kept some hours, mostly at night
and on Sunday, for more advanced
sl udy.
For the definite business of earning
a living, she had a remunerative con-
nection with the advertising house of
Burnham and Morey, for whom she
did conventional paintings in bright
colors at their order. The work not
only paid well, but was varied in
type, usually interesting, and exer-
cised the artistic virtues of a quick
eye' and finger for striking color ef-
fects. Put ahvays, besides this, she
kept on, studying better things, paint-
s, all her hours p'f :leisure the
tw
t1..ttgs her heart desired. ".
From the day, 'she had entered upon
the study of stenography, in her
seventeenth year, Gay, had never al-
lowed herself time for a full and com-
plete vacation, sufficient to give both
soul and body recttperatiore. She said
she hadn't time, there was too much
to learn, too'rnuih to do, :Even her
one memorable trip abroad, although
it continued over a year, had afforded
her no rest, for in addition to hdr
studies she had taken with Iter also a
contract for a series of pictttr+es kr
the Sunday Magazine, so that she re-
turned to New York at last afire with
zeal, aflame with ambition, and far
less rested than whet; she went.
13ttt outraged flesh and violated
nerves claimed their revenge at last
for the eleven years' defiance. For
folly six months before the final June
tot of heat forced her into full
skurrender, she had been a' prey to
quivering nerves that jangled in a
jaded body, and when the inevitable
forced itself upon her, she accepted
it with a eertaio joy. If she must
rest, she would make that rest a
sport. If she must go into retire-
ment, the exile nlcould'be a ltnatrlotts
one. Perhaps—who knew? ---even on
a good little island of idicnese might
lurk some stimulant for ' au ardent
though (flagging spirit, Adventtt•e'
perhaps,;ttnusentetrt certa.iely, or even
—ah, Romance! A '
Gay, most ardent of free -soul advo-
cates, decrying tliough . she did the
scampering confines of marriage,
touted always sensitive heart -string
to the strumming fingers of Romance.
Marriage, Gay argued, was not de-
signed for the ambitious worker. For
the complacent,, for the self-satisfied,
for the indolent,' all very well; per-
haps; but marriage and ambition, pas-
sion for accomplishment, were never
rtiessniates. Gay's first romance, ten-
der sweet blossom of her ardent
young womanhood, joyously promis-
ed the full fruitage of marriage "when
the war is\over," lay buried with the
soldier who did not conte back. And
Gay's first passion of grief soon sub-
sided into a philosophical reflecton
that perhaps after all it was better so,
that she was not domestic, not the
type for 'humdrum hona:e life:- That
experience confirmed her in her de-
termination to live alone. Alone, but
not lonely. Free; but not' unloved,
Ali, if on the good and idle island
should come a fresh awakening for
her 'stilled affections!
"Lumley Lane, or instance, she
thought :whimsically. "Lumley, the
lobster -man. A stern and silent na-
ture, bronzed and bearded,"
She smiled to 'herself as she "turn-
ed out the lights and slipped into bed.
The room was seeped in the essence
Of evergreen, Gay slept,: glad for the
silence of the Idle island.
Next morning_ she wrote a note to
her friend, 'Nancy Moore, asking to
have her easel crated and shipped to.
her, with her paints, her canvases,
and many of the pfetty useful things
of her studio wt'hicli would add to the
charm of her new home.
"It is the Land of Leisure," she
wrote, "the Land' of Emotional Lei,
sure. It is Idle Island, the World of
Wasted ,Effort, the Center of 'Silence.
Every ;one works, but the work a-
mounts to nothing. Every one is in-
tensely busy, but it is the business of
passing time. Every one is persist-
ently intent on doing, but it is the do-
ing of nothing at all. 'Soft, slow, un -
hu rri ed---"
n-hurried—"
"Hallo'!" It was a human voice
that boomed out upon the silence like
a neighboring foghorn that aroused
Gay from the mellower :mildness of her
picture.
She ran to the, door startled: at the
sudden vocal crash in the stillness.
startled more greatly when she. saw
the ferocious : ,rnarition at her door.
An immense man, a monster of a
man, with a tuft of bristling orange -
colored beard, and a great shock of
bristling orange -colored- hair, and a
great round face like a giant orange,
with pink -rimmed pale blue eyes.
"Hallo," he boomed again,with a
broad pink smile of greeting
"H-hullo," stammered Gay.
"Lobsters" he shopted.. "Autitai-
rriry says lobsters."
"Ah, yes." A fleeting reminiscent
smile for the Lobster -man of her fan-
cies. "You are the I: obster-man?"
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D. MacDonald, Wing4am
•.COACH
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Roadster $1420; Tourin
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Coach $1220; Sedan $1345..
Prices F. 0.B. Factory,
Toronto, taxes extra,
the chilly little islands of the North.
Every day the Community .house on
the bay shore beneath Gay's grassy
hill slope was open for bridge and
tea, and every Saturday night offered
its New England shore dinner,' fol-
lowed by dancing to the strains of a
real jazz orchestra with saxophone
accompaniment, playing the popular
song hits of the season not more than
twice removed. There were auto par-
ties, beach parties, bathing parties.
At dusk every fine night she could'
count the slithery' fires of half'a doz-
en or more shore parties, where clam
"Yup. That's ice. l umey ,Lane. ' were baking, potatoes roasting, or
How many?'
She told him to bring her a lobster
twice a week.
"Lobsters," he shouted,' "run about.
fifty or sixty cents."
'Lunney said his woman would boil
them for her without extra charge.
He frowned portentously, "She'll
boil them, that is, long as she's able,
She's expecting.
"Expecting?" Gay echoed faintly.
"Yup. Increases" His facetious
grin was' illuminating.
"Oh, hose' nice!"
"Well, yes.- unexpected. Very,
Been married twenty, year' now. No -
thin' dein'. All of a sudden—yup,
there you are!—She's skeered," he
volunteered ,cheerfully. "She's afeerd
o' dyin'. She says it a'n't' according;
to tater',"
"Oh, tell hernot to be frightened,"
Gay comforted. "It often happens.
And is there a hospital on the is-
land?"
"She won't go to do hospital. She
says she don't trust these new (angled
nurses, highty-tighty.. She'd rather
trust to the wotnetr cosnin' in, the old
way."
"If. 1 ane here then I'll be .glad to
help, if 1 can," Gay offered generous-
ly,
enerous •Ty,' "1 was in, the hospital for five
months during the war," in training,.
and I'm not a bit lttghty-tighty,"
'Melt, tow, "that's real neighborly,
miss. Firsterate. I'll tell tidy woman
yolt said so, She'll be countin on ye:"
"Oh, t •am quite e*pert with babies.
ft was the, only thing they had time
to teach us before the war ended.
They seemed to thiole the army was-
'tt't going to do much bat increase the
population"
Lumley Lane burst into a loud
haw-haw, acid set off down the hill,
Gay ran to her desk and added a
postscript to her letter to Nancy
Moore.
"I aria not going to havo an affair.
with the lobster -than, after all, .:dear.
He is not as stern and silent as 1 ex-
pected. Resides, ho is expecting."'
CHAP'T'ER III
Midsurm'ner was gala there for ;ti11.
lobsters broiling.
But Gay did, not share in the gayety
and the summer holiday life of the
island. She reveled in rest, in free-
dom .from • the, nervous pressure of an
impatient city jogging her 'elbow.
When her easel paints arrived,
she installed a studio in one corner
of the big bright living room of the
Lone Pine, and felt at peace with' the
world,
Auntalmiry eves her friend. Auntal-
miry was everybody's friend. She
was a sort of • unendowed institution,
she went with the island, , l?,trt al-
though Auntalmiry no longer worked
for a living, not as we; speak of work-
ing
for a living, she earned her keep,,
because' she did what, she could..
Whenever there was fruit to can ire
the house of a native islander, ,jelly
to make, or tornatoes,to pickle, Aunt-•
almiry,'although not Hired for the oc-
casion, was always there, always at
work
For fifty years, she had presided at
the arrival of all the small expected -
ones around Evergreen; : She had sat
up with the sick, mourned with the
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the dead. She
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everybody's children while mothers,
went shopping, played bridge, or had
more children:
(Continued Next. Week;)
Both hands
on the wheel!
BoCh eyes
the road
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Never forget .. a single moment's careless.
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ness while, driving may a easily involve you
in a bad smash.
A little inattention may
mean serious, even fatal, injury to ourself
� ry y
and others'
lou are a passenger, for your own safety's
sake,, leave the driver free to watch the,. road
and traffic undistracted.
Let us all, work to Beth
,� er to prevent accidents.
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