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Home My WebLink AboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1929-07-11, Page 6Established 3.840 Wellington Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Head Office, Guelph, Ont. Risks taken on all class of insur- ance nsura we at ;reasonable rates. ABNER CQSENS, Agent, Wiingham. J, W. DODD Office in Chisholm Block FIRE, LIFE, .ACCIDENT AND - HEALTH INSURANCE — AND REAL ESTATE P. 0, Box 360 Phone 240 WINGHAM, ONTARIO J. W. BUSHFIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money to Loan Office—Meyer Block, Wingham Successor to Dudley Holmes R. VANSTONE BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. Money to Loan at Lowest 'Rates Wingham,' - Ontario J. A. MORTON BARRISTER, ETC. Wingham, Ontario DR. G. H. ROSS DENTIST Office Over Isard's Store H. W. COLBORNE, M. D. Physician and Surgeon Medical Representative D. S. C. R. Successor to Dr. W. R. Hambly Phone 54 Wingham DR. ROBT. C. REDIVIOND M.R.C.S. (ENG.) L.R.C.P. (Land.) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON DR. R. L. STEWART Graduate of University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine; Licentiate of the Ontario ` College of Physicians and Surgeons. Office in Chisholm Block Josephine Street. Phone 29 DR. G. W. HOWSON DENTIST Office over John Galbraith's Store. F. A. PARKER OSTEOPATH All Diseases Treated 'Office Adjoining residence next to Anglican Church on Centre Street. Sundays by appointment. Osteopathy Electricity Phone 272, Hours, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. A. R. & F. E. DUVAL Licensed Drugless Practitioners Chiropractic and Electro Therapy. Graduates of Canadian, Chiropractic College, Toronto, and National Col- lege, Chicago. Out of town and night calls res- ponded to. All business confidential. Phone, 601-13. J. ALVIN FOX Registered Drugless Practitioner CHIROPRACTIC AND DRUGLESS PRACTICE ELECTRO THERAPY Hours: 2-5, 7-8, or by appointment. Phone 191. •r D. H. McINNES CHIROPRACTOR ELECTRICITY Adjustments given for diseases of all kinds; we specialize in dealing with children. Lady attendant. Night calls responded to. Office on Scott St., Wingham, Ont. Phone 150 GEORGE A. SIDD.AL — BROKER.— Money to lend o.n first and second mortgages on farm and other real es- tate properties at a reasonable rate of interest, also on first Chattel mort- gages on stock and on personal notes. A few farms on hand for sale or to rent on easy terms. Phone 73. • Lucknow, Ont. THOMAS FELLS AUCTIONEER REAL ESTATE SOLD A thorough knowledge of Farin Stock Phone 231, Wingham RICHARD B. JACKSON AUCTIONEER Phone 613r6, Wroxeter, or address R. R. 1, Gorrie. Sales conducted any- where and satisfaction guaranteed. George Walker, Gorrie, can arrange dated,, {'QRS. A, J. & A. W. IRWIN DENTISTS Office MacDonald Block, Wingham A. J. WALKER FURNITURE AND 'FUNERAL SERVICE A. JY W airstr' Licensed Funeral Director and l✓;ribalmerr. 'Office'; Phone 100,, Res. Phone. 224.' Latest Limousine Funeral Coach, 0 COP'YP %GNT 1927 by The BQBBS-MERRILL 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." Chapter II,—Gay finds the cottage is tenanted by an elderly lady, "Aunt- almiry," who consents to move to an- other abode, the "Apple Tree." Awak- ing from sleep, Gay imagines she sees the face of a Chinaman peering in the window, but on reflection ascribes the vision to imagination. She settles down in her new home, anticipating months of well-earned rest and recu- peration. Chapter : III.—On an exploration of the islnad, Gay, standing on the set shore, is horrified by the appearance of the drifting body of a drowned man, which she nerves herself tc bring to the shore. A bullet wound in the temple sit ws the man to ha re ,been murdered. Gay covers the dead face with a handkerchief; and makes her way to the "Captain" with the story. returning with him to tee shore they find no body there, and Gay's story of the incident is down to an attack of. "nerves." Chapter IV—Gay, unable to con- vince her neighbors of the truth draws a picture ,of the face of the dead man, intending to send it to the authorities as evidence of the appar- ent crime. She meets a stranger, ap- patently another visitor, to whom she ,tells the story and shows the picture. He asks her to let him take it, but Gay refuses. Next day,, after a night spent with "Auntalmiry," Gay finds the picture has been taken from the cottage. "Rand" Wallace, wanderer and considered something of a "black sheep," by the islanders, expecting to find "Auntalmiry," surprises Gay at household tasks. She likes him at once. CHAPTER V -Gay's acquaintance with Rand ripens into affection. She sees the Chinaman again and this time it sure it is not imagination. Rand leaves the island on business. Gay de- termines to stay for the winter. THE STORY "Oh! I am sorry." "He was a gypsy' boy, Buddy, like his father. His father was a singer who came here one summer -a fine singer, But he was a gypsy. He went away, too. But I didn't mind that so much." "Didn't he ever come back? ' "He died, dearie. Died away. But I had Buddy then. But Buddy went, too. Could I have a little more sugar, dearie?" That was all. They talked of other things. Auntaltniry's gentle interest was just as it had always been, her easy amiability, but after that flush of feverish hope she seemed pale and worn with her age. The neat day Rand came, and they two, Gay and Rand; drifted into a rou- tine of joyous companionship and love. Frankly and trustfully they professed full sympathy and under- standing in each other's whims. Gay joyed to be in love, but brooked no thought of marriage, demanding free- dom, she said, freedom, for work, Rand, too, admitted satisfaction in the arrangement, craving freedom from the very thing that she desired, free- dom for freedom's sake, he called it. If sometimes Gay wondered if love built on foundation so slight' could long endure, she hushed her doubts. She was very happy, and she dreamed of long years of this same happiness for. both, :freedom for each for the things that each desired, She would coarse to hint, he would come to her, they wc,uld' summer together in this cool artd icvely place. September drew swiftly, goldenly toward its dose, September is the death of cumene in ' the nort;h14nd, '1.'he hotels on the i argl°were alreade closed for the , easce. the stun 'ter shops locked into their storm ''rrn-' does, the shore er ttages des,.:r:; :,t.. `;till Gay lingered. , Between hlr, ,tf told Rand had been no stt'ggt sti"n cf parting, no hint that the season wars over, the time of rt l oration at nand. Lite island was lovely in September lr+ Lovely and wistful s r d wiltimg. Gay would not let herself think Of leav-• ing. She sat ;,lone r•i her witadowe:eat one afterno ea and et: eched the st,, ct as it faded swiftly and darkness crept over the land. An hour passed, tv,c, hours. The dusk had.deepened too night And then, ',.,th one of her im- pulsive changes, elle sprahg to 1(.1- feet, orfeet, wanting bi gi.tness, wary=ng: li ;itt, With her IL nd outstret:'_ed to press the button, she stopped, sud- denly motionless, holding her br; c' ii. Pressed hard egg inst her wi e on the eastern side, the side of 'i+e forest, she saw it si.iin, that face cf yell.nv parchment v ah , the seamed scar beneath the slanting eyes. As she, looked it faded away into the darkness from which it had conte. With its disappearance carie sud- den activity, flaming anger. She, ran to the window and .flung it wide. "Hello," she ca:led. "Hello there!'' There was no answer to her call, batt, staring intently, sh.e saw among the shadows of the wood one shadow that moved silently tart}ier in to :he "Didn't He Ever Come Back" recesses of the forest, and merged a'• last into black. She closed the window thoughtfully, locked it and lowered the blinds (ay had a pi,tu:• a handsome inon. ogrammed one, which it was her pleasant conceit to keep loaded, web Conditioned, t ead,T. for emergency use in the drawer ,t her desk near at hand. She h bought it during Coat i:rtntorable veer abroad on one '.f her vei;luresotne visits to London paten. shops, and with a sort of boyish van- ity had carried it with her ever since., But it .is indicative of the absolute confidence of her nature that in an emergency she always •:rtirely forgot the weapon, reverting to the more fenti,nine detenee of scraming•, call- in,; or locking doors. ' When she saw the yellow face ;,.t h.~ window she clid not s,, mu::i as think of the boasted pistol', which slie affectionately dubbed the =Baby, until she was safe behind the lowered blinds. Then she opened the drawer and looked at it. • "You're a asetess old thing," sl,r• said impatiently. "Why don't you go off when there i, some occa•hnt for :ma, and scare tile Peeping 'roms?" Expecting, Rand, who came at his own caprice and kept. her alert with expectation, she was not, Startled w,'ern, an hour later, there was a liglt k reek at her door, It was past nine clock, .but as his hours always 'Suit- e i leis conveeience, site only sniit,^d tolerantly at his tardiness as she Opened the duo,. but when she stw_ in the -shadow,: notRand, but. Rol:, al,l 'Ingrain, the was startlers into a° little frightened Ory, for which she geickly apoio:gh tact with f.t icndly laughter,• "Oh, 'yoti star .red rite, h—.1 was ele petting some one else. Do come in. I ant glad to ace you again." "What luck: to find you," 'Ronald Ingram said with a wartnth'tltere was no mistaking..' "I had no, -idea yoti world, still •be here. ,, ° 'ott b..t.di rather, outstaying the •sutniner; are ytett nd?"; "Well- yes -a littler perhati But; I was Dane iii;• ,and ';f •necti!'eadh, ;a,, fly WING) A1%i ADVANCIr-' IWBS; greet :deal of rest." Her faceflushed with her' feverish explaiations, and. Ronald Ingram studied her keenly. "So"ananie of thee' summer people have gone," he said slowly "I should. think'yott would be afraid to stay' on alone. Espe:ially after your experi- ences' here. xperri-ences'here. Was it in this room you saw :tlie light.--tha.t Might after you found the body in Ilio cove?" "Yes, In that window, right there." "And the hand? Are you sure of that land? Stretched ottt—" ' "hf .courseI ant sure. And whoa 1 came up in the morning, the sketch was gone. It was here, in this drawer." She lightly pulled out ,the drawer of the desk. Her pistol, busi- nestlike, important, lay in, full sight. "It was here. And the next morning it teas gone. Doors 'locked, win tows barred,: just as I :left' them,, :But the ;ketch Was gone, So I knew the poor dear wished to be left in peace and undisturbed." "Ly George, you' make nt.y hair stand on end. And after all that, you stay on here, alone, unprotected--" "Oh, he was a gentle spirit. He would not Barin toe." He smiled anddropped the subject. He said he had come to Portland .on business, and had come to the island with only a faint hope' that. he might find her, or,^ failing to find her, to get her address' in the city. He said he could not bear to drop the little ac- quaintanceship, which to hind had proved so sweetly cearming. There he'went quickly away, -waving back to her as she stood in the 'light- ed doorway beneath the tall nine. Gay waited about for while, hop- ing still that Rand would come, but filially she went upstairs and kicl,:cd. off her slippers rather crossly. When, a little later, she heard his quick knock on the door below, and his blithe whistle above it, . she caught up hen slippers in 1 er hand• and ran downstairs, laughing, to let him in, "Oh, good!" she cried. "A minute later and I'd have been' in bed." ' "I'd have been earlier, but --I was de(ained.,You are all right, are you? Nothing has happened—you haven't seen anything ususual?" Gay sensed an undertone of anxiety beneath the lightness of his voice. `''vVhy, of course .'•'m all right. Of course nothing has i;appened. Why not? Or why?" "Well, I saw a chap hanging about in the woods near your. windows, sort of . 'ting, Soca ,,-1„ L round. I started up to see who it was., and he ran. Of course I chased hint, and the two of us have hot -footed it' all over the island. He was playing with me..Got me down to •tlie city landing, and dropped me like a hot cake. You haven't—" "Oh, that must have been the. Chi- naman!" "The Chinaman!" Rand's amaze- ment was unbounded. "The China- man! ,What under heaven—" "Oh, I must have told yon about the Chinaman," she said evasively. "You know darned well you never have. What` about him?" "Well, come and sit down. It's a long story— You are quite sure I. haven't told you?" Rand laughed. " uite sure, you little liar, and so are you." "Well, you weren't here when I came in. I was so tired, and sick, 'I was a, perfect wreck. Auntalmiry was here, and while she packed up I lay down on the couch here and slept. Slept! It was the sleep of death for weariness.—She wakened me for din- ner, and I ate, and went to sleep again. So she went away and left me sleeping.—Well, it l';as evening. And. I felt— You know how on feels things in' one's sleep?—I felt ceas looking at unc. I ( .1,d hardly sctueez: a lc ole out banea,11, my lids, f, r the weariness. Ent I did. And in •the dusk, faint and,yellow, I saw the face of a Chinaman, thin pinched features, slanting eyes and a small seared scar beneath one eye. As I looked, the face hist melted backward int) the darkness, so I knew it was 'a dream,; and went to slaep again." Rrnd lighted a cigaroitt hastily but said nothing, and Gay went on, '. Weli, you know how sometimes T. sit, jtist dreaming, as the sun sets, tnttl it is dark—I did tonight. And 1 jt rnped up 'suddenly` t s light : the lights, although it was ^,.riot entirely 4.. dark, and I saw it at roti t1dw, that wtridow—m sae face, , th i) 4'• sante. S9 it could not,have bee ra reain," "When was =that?','' anci`3 • "Oh, .hours a;x t" b&re the final darkness!' ui "But it wa;S. l 1 � �l .�mtttyd r M rilllitata . , him -about aNi,, on wLl the menritime 3 t t wit �The 'ore y itt afraid --e' a'• "No, : Mr.111 it,, ,as,ay and 14,E Rarid Maki;, t!/old There W � it G r�3,fr luso. cigarette them 111, 1`t�'• ,1ng-` y, ram,-.1iir,. Inga .I tthe. �• )tla etyee' told tit all t otiit " 4 0b. '°(vlay ori?; rt gnrre, Who is' Mr, 1414-tift?"'x ," ' ;t . ' -T 1s !Ole mita ' ...o- �. '.1:� he. � t wt wh ,� �. a+vas 'wifo— It was Mr. .Ingrain/who-ea." 'Gay, cosed her lips atirbbornl;y. She had often wished to,:'tell ping of tli af(ain in the cave, blit `ecr it:i 1ett,t trail titways forbiddatt the ile0ei rdcttcc. ]'ie I+A should bave ask.ecl �lacr. She glar eed et Lim +furtively. ;Elis chin was set, and his eyes were ,anxious. Gay re- Jo:ted. "Wsl1, Rana, I suppose*, the fanniiy females told you—what happened in the cuve?" Thud smiled faintly, his fingers ca- "•essed her arm.. Gay hardened again. "I know they thought I was out of my Bead, but you surely 'do not be- lieve anysuch nonsense," • "Ti ey thought you saw driftwood, a log cr a barrel." "Prowabout any handkerchief:' Did they think I put it on a piece.of drift- wood?" "They tli.ought—. Now, rem ember. Gay, you did not mentior, the hand- kerchief until, they reported there was no body, Th ry, thou;;tt--.well, they thought you made it up to sort of carry out your story, make it )told water " "What did you think?" "I thought," he said tenderly, "that some time, in a moment of great con- fidence, my Gay -would tell me about herself, and then I should know all" Gay laughed, bent suddenly and kissed his hand. "You work me, out- rageously," she said. "And Mr. Ingram—" he prompted softly. "Well, then,—No the cove comes first.—The reason I like Mr, I'ngram. is because if he is interested in any- thing, he,talks•about it. If he wants to know anything, he asks, He doesn't think other people are crazy just be- cause they- happened to see something he didn't happen to see hiniself: Like the state of Maine," she said vindic- tively, "And the cove—" ,"Well, then. I slid down the rocks into the cove." "Why, Gay, why? With a whole island, frill of accessible shore, why slide down the worst cliff in the bay?" 7Because I thought I couldn't," she answered -•promptly, "Because every- body- said one couldn't get down.—So I did." • Rand rolled his eyes heavenward. "A woman, he said devoutly, "is heaven's greatest, miracle.—She did, because she couldn't,—Go on.—Like your Mr. Ingram, .I. understand per- fcctly,,, " VVell, I tried to get into the club- house,. and I couldn't. And into the be alhouse and 5, couldn't. ou should have burned then to the ground.—If you couldn't .get in, you should have." Gay laughed. "Don't be silly:•- Well, it was lovely in the cove, and ? st 'd there and saw—It—coming in. --Rand, it was a matt. He carne in and with my two hands I pulled him UP '.he sand. There was a rope about one ankle,, a stout rope,. with one, end dangling loose. lie had been 'shot 'n the temple --here." She'etouchcd her brow with a slender finger. "The blood was washed away, but the hair was clotted about it. I laid his hand upon Itis breast, and put my hand- kerchief over his face. I called for THURSPAY, JUIN' 11TH; 9 9: vein R•o•tos..• Many users of long' distance overlook' the fact that reduced' Evening Rates now begin at 7 p.m. These reduced rates (about 25 per cent less than day rates) apply, of course, on Station -to -Station calls. After 8.30 p.m. the reduced rate is still lower—about 50 per. cent off the day rate. (The minimum reduced evening rate is 35c; and the minimum reduced night rate 25 cents). And an additional convenience—charges on Station -to -Station, calls may now be reversed, where the rate is. 25 cents or more. Remember — evening- rates begin now at 7 p.m. by your local time. THE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF CANADA Delco -Light builds profits and cuts expense p VER 325,000 successful farmers have " found that Delco -Light, the dependable farm electric plant, saves time and labour that means money .. actual dollars and cents profits. What Delco Light is doing for other farmers it will do for you.Letme give you a demonstration. H. JOHANN, Glenannan. J. J. FRYFOGLE, Wingham J. A. YOUNG, Belgrave help, but of course nobody heard me.what happened." So I went; for the Captain. Yoteknow (Continued Next Week.) Have your headlights tested frequently,' or test themourself: Be sure they �do 'not glare. 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