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The Wingham Advance Times, 1925-08-13, Page 6trl find illlSll!l Mllfmium1111>willomo nmoup 'fie it urs. everything but Governments. They must take.•thei ' harlo A,DNBR COSENS ,� W. 'T 'UOOTH Ilorf ImNNfii pl l ata rl t t t t � t __! 111� ! ■ r �n11rr+! 1r� nor ra W1 BUSINESS CARDS WELLINGTON MUTUAL FIREE INSURANCE CO. Established xSeo. Head Office, Guelph, Ont.. Risks taken on all classes of insur- ance at reasonable rates, ABNER CQ19ENS, Agent, Wingham J. W. DODD Office in Chisholm Block ►IRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT AND HEALTH -- INSURANCE — AND REAL ESTATE P. O. Box 366. Phone 48. ''t2VTNGHAM, - ONTARIO DUDLEY HOLMES BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. Victory and Other Bonds Bought and sold. Office—Meyer Block, Wingham R. VANSTONE BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. Money to Loan at Lowest Rates. Wingham, Ontario; .. J. A. MORTON BARRISTER, ETC. Wingharre - Ontario DR. G. H. ROSS Graduate Royal College of Dental Surgeons Graduate University of Toronto Faculty of Dentistry. Office Over H. E. Isard's Store. W. R. HAMBLY B.Sc., M.D., C.M. Special attention paid to diseases of Women and Children, having taken postgraduate work in Surgery, Bact- eriology and Scientific Medicine. Office in the Kerr Residence, bet- ween the Queer's Hotel and the Bap- tist Church. All business given careful attention.. Phone. 5l. P. O. Box 113. Dr. Robt. C. Redmond M.R.C.S. (Eng.) L.R.C.P. (Long,) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Dr. Chisholm's old stand. 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. Margaret C. Calder General Practitioner Graduate University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine .Office—Josephine St., two doors south of Brunswick Hotel, Telephones: Office 281, Residence 151, F. A. PARKER OSTEOPATH All Diseases Treated Office adjoining residence next to Anglican Church on Centre Street: Open every day except Monday and Wednesday afternoons. Osteopathy Electricity Telephone 222.' J.. ALVIN FOX CHIROPRACTIC OSTEOPATHY ELECTRO—THERAPY Hours io-to.. 5-5. 7-8. Telephone xgz D. 11 MeINNES CHIROPRACTOR MASSEUR Adjustments given for diseases of all kinds, specialize in dealing with children. Lady attendant. Night Calls responded to. Office on Scott St., Wingham, Ont., in the house of the late Jas. Walker. Telephone es°. Phones: Office 1o6, Resid. A. J WALKER »URNEti RE DEALER and FUNERAL DIRECTOR Motor Equipment 'iG'lCliGIdAM, ., ONTARIO iMNOl'AN 11,.D VANOEMMES Theiry, August xgth., .. `verge of tears size sought her room. She was genuinely sorry for Archie and her sorrow was not easedby sense that she had been rather less than fair to him. She had known that it was Cal Beach' -that' it must be Cal Beach -for ever so long, but she bad used Archie to soothe her pride against the pangs of Cal's sus- peeted flirtations with Annie Frawdie, he ��c*�X�� By Robert j, C. Stead' They were swinging up Beach Bou-'sistently lighting and relighting his That Hadn't been quite fair, and she levard, the signboard, "Beach. Bu!le- pipe, which as insistently went out be- took herself sharply to task for it, but yard—Speed limit io miles," ' caught tween matches. As Minnie's Fingers after half an hour's introspection: she their headlights for a moment, In :rippled over the keys and the white eonceuded that it couldn't be helped, front of the granary they stopped and sheets flowed through her typwriter and it might have been much worse. sluickly loaded their few effects into he blessed his stars for the one jewel Archie would presently forget her al - the back of the car, Then,' by the above price in any office—a compet- together, or think of tier only as a light of a lamp Mrs, Stake had sup- l ent stenographer. At noon he had pleasant incident, and marry some oth- plied for his room, Cal :made a hurried lunch sent up from No Sing's; at mid- er better suited to :be his wife. The calculation, arriving at the amount of afternoon he had tea; at seven, he bad idea was not so comforting as she had his wages which had been overpaid, (;supper. He seemed almost to stand, hoped to find it. He put the sum in bank notes in an) guard over Minnie lest a "bank clerk' "At any rate I've got Cal --my Cal," envelope; addressed , it to Jackson or farm hand or something'.' should she breathed, and in the joy of her Stake, senior, and secured it under the snatch her from him: • The long Sun- possession she fell asleep.,` lamp. day was at an end and the light in the She was awakened by the June sun "All ready, Reed," he said, quietly. law office glowed brazenly and alone pouring- through the eastern window "Climb in." amid the dark windows of the block of her little room. Her alarm clock With all lights out the buildings and before the brief was completed and still allowed her fifteen minutes, min familiar objects of the farmyard bulk- all the documents neatly 'filed .in Mr., utes which she nursed and clung to ed vague and shadowy in fhe general Bradshaw's despatch bag. in blissful, lazy, idealizing contempla gloom. The sighing of"the cows in "Thank yon, Miss Stake," he said, -tion. With her bare round arms up - the corral; the shifting of a horse in as he buckled the straps. "Don'tstretched she linked her fingers until the stable; these were the only sounds know. what I should have done with- the light shone pink in their delicate that stirred under the tranquil stars. out you. You can have two days off intersections; then she drew them Irn his mind rather than by sight, Cal or two days' extra pay, whichever you down upon her eyes and lay dreaming. defined the regular order of the farm -'prefer. There won't be much doing in an ecstasy of tenderness. Cal- 'yard, so changed since his arrival until I'ni back, anyway." they were Cal's hands that closed her there less than two months before. It I As Minnie' walked to her boarding eyes; . . . The pulse of young life beat had been his whim, his hobby. Well, house, too tired almost to sense the strong within her, and the world was he had left his mark. They had been romance in the gathering dusk, she so good—so good! She forgave it all exhibits—A, B., C. Hehad used wondered whether she would take its buffetings; she'forgave it' Mrs. them, mined therm, rioted their reac-,two days' leave or the extra. pay. The Goode's boarding house; she forgave tions, until almost he had exploded would her an opportunity it the drudgery of the farm; with a p � give the lot, They were exhibits—let it to go back to the farm; evenings. witheemile she forgave it Annie Frawdic; go at that., 1 Cal, and escape from. the intolerable she even, almost forgave it the'. insuf- He tried to tell himself that Minnie eMr. Tonnerfeldt, junior partner in the ferable Mr. Tonnerfeldt. !Stake had been an exhibit, but the lie firm of Bradshaw & Tonnerfeldt, in -1 As she -dressed she 'studied herself would . not down. It stuck in his sufferable on account of his freshness in the one uncertain mirror her £urni throat, swelling, choking him, Minnie towards hei and doubly insufferable 'cure afforded. She caught the round . , . Minnie..' .That was the price. in contrast with the genial and of her face, the curve of her arm, the trhat the , smoking flax might still i bantering Mr. Bradshaw. On the gentle contours of her neck, the warm smoke on;filling the air with its sten- ,other hand was two days' pay, and ` glint of her near -bronze hair, the gra- th and its pollution. That was the'she found herself in the grip of a sud- ce of her firm; strong, supple 'body. price. Well, he had resolved. Aden and growing appreciation of the They were charms, she supposed; He started Antelope . as quietly as value of dollars. The economic side charms which man •appraises with an her clattering motor would permit, , of the business of marrying was al- instinctive • eye. They accounted for 'and, without lights, felt his way gent -ready beginning to intrude, itself. Not " the glances—the not wholly unwel ly out of the yard and into the life that Cal had actually asked her, but, come glances --of admiration which that lies beyond renunciation. .their leve 'was acknowledged; marri- she sometimes surprised in the office, CHAPTER NINETEEN 'lege must follow as a• matter of course. on the street, in Sempter & Burton's 1They.would need all their dollars, she store. But they failed to explain so. The week for Minnie Stake had and Cal. , ... ' amazing -`a. phenomenon as that Cal been both long and short; long in its In the: shadow of Mrs. --Goode's ',Beach should fall in love with • her. absence from Cal, short' in the rare in- 'boarding house she almost collided g That she should love Cal was under- toxication which sped the feet of ev- With Archie Hale turning from the standable enough, but that Cal should ery hour. Mr. Bradshaw had been door. love.her-that was the thing that baff- apologetic _ for requiring her to work "Oh, it's you, Minnie," he said, when led her reason. Now, Archie Hale— on Sunday. "Very sorry, Miss Stake" they recognizedeach other. "They she could understand that, But " Cal he had said, "Quite unusual circum- told me you hadn't come back from Beach—Jt was too wonderful for ex - stances—" • the farm. planation. "I wish you wouldn't call me Miss "I was at the office all day, Archie, i : During the absence of • Mr. Brad Stake, she protested. "Sounds too— Some:special work for Mr: Brad- `sham she made the best of the situ'a- too appropriate." shaw." - tion in the office; establishing a "I'm sorry, Miss—Stake, But real- "All ;day Sunday! The slave driver! strictly business attitude toward Mr. ly, ,it's not my fault. If you don't like I've a -mind to have him up for breach Tonnerfeldt, and maintaining it in the your name-" he raised his shoulders of the Lord's Day Act. Then he'd face of his elaborate attentions. She expressively, have a slippery ..client, wouldn't he? 'wished she might have talked with "I've been thinking of that, : she It couldn't be helped, Archie," she Cal over the telephone, but she knew- blurted out. She was, happy enough i said, wearily.- :She was feeling, out a how deadly are the ramifications of to have told Old Brad the whole line of defence. "But I'm about all the rural party line system.. When, story. Or at least the essential parts. in. I don't think I can see you to- on Tuesday, she called her mother, But she pulled herself together. I night." she could hear the surreptitious lifting "Subsection D of Section Four of 1 "A run in the car is just what; you of receivers, and she chose her words the same Chapter provides—". The 'need; fresh.air after being shut up all accordingly.' Everybody well? •.Yes. keys 'of her typewriter clattered on day in that dingy hole. Wonder old What was she doing? Preserves. under the ripple and dance of her Bradshaw wouldn't rent a decent of- What was Dad doing?' Nothing like-. wonderful fingers. Mr. Bradshaw !flee. But it will -soon be over, Minnie, ly, What were the men doing? Gan himself declared, in romantic nxo-1I've great news; just spoiling to. tell der, she _didn't know; likely helping Merits, that Minnie's typewriter did not;it. , Won't you come?" Dad. Cal was summer-fallowing— clatter; it 'sang, it hummed, it poured "I'd like to, Archie, but—Don't you She broke off the conversation at that like tinkling water, it splashed like Ni- see, it isn't quite fair?'.' ,word. It was sufficient to have heard agara, it crashed like broadsides of , fair?'"Howquite-No, I don't see :Cat's name. rifle fire in answer to the moods of it at all, Conie along" ! She wished she might have gone out Minnie as she tripped her fantasias i He took her arm and they swung. to the farm for an evening,but there or banged upon it in double forte dia- ,around in the deep twilight thrown by was no opportunity. A wild thought pason. Mr, Bradshaw, when the wor- the screened veranda. "Come along!" that she should > ask Archie- Hale to id did well with him, and there was' "No, I can't," she protested. "Ar- drive her darted into her mind, and, little doubt that his clients, winning chie, I don't want to make it any hard- finding the changed conditions 'there,: or losing, would be able to pay his fee,er than I must, but I can't go with darted out again as- suddenly. sometimes would lean back in his you—any more." , Wednesday evening Archie , called chair and listen with serene joy to the! He dropped her arm; Even in the a ain. He said he felt he metallic hail with which. Minnie's t ' had tied type- darkness she could see his face hard- rudely the other night:and he didn't. writer poured its message upon the en and whiten. ? ? (k of him that way— g p tivant her. to thin embosseddsta Ito was a sory of Bradshaw rad h w&"Noteany more? Why?" She said she didn't thing of him that pure"We've ve been good friends, Archie, :way—never had. It was she who had artistry of which gladdened his heart. and I'd like •to keep on being good been rude;. she had not congraulated' Moreover, were not the charges based friends, but --I know what you want, .him on his promotion, nor asked him on so much per folio? and I can't give it to you, ever, . , , anything about it. She was really "Now, forP- me, a typewriter is sin' !Please don't misjudge 1 ge tae. I've told ivory interested, she told bin% Archie ly a hunt -and- peck machine," he .you as soon as I knew. said of course he was glad, but it did - would say on occasionto an office He was :silent, and she nmurinured n't amount to much after all, now that caller. ":taut for Miss Stake -;-wiry, again, "Please don't misjudge me, the bottom had fallen out of every- She just piays on it. I sometimes feel Archie. I. like you, awfully, really, thing. She assured him that it hadn't I ought to charge her ; for it, I've but not that way. I didn't know—the really; he just felt that way, blit he'd seen girls—had 'en, too :who' used difference—myself, until. just lately." soon ,get over it and 'marry some their lily white hands more for patting 1 His hand had sought the railing.of much nicer girl— their store hair than for romping -up the veranda, and when he spoke it "Would you soon get over it," he and down the alphabet. What I'm 'was not with the voice of Archie demanded,"if Cal Beach were to pass afraid of is that soine gazabo--sorne Hale, but of some one strange and you up?"• bank clerk or fare hand or something far away, + She whitened at flie . thought, and —'11 ramble her off to the altar some "It is Cal Beach? he asked, ,felt her ribs gripping about het heart.. day, and put the law business of "Yes," she whispered.. , . "Oh, Ar- "But Cal wouldn't—he wouldn't do Brad & Tanner on the blink, By. chie, I'm so sorry." p (that;" she whispered. "Oh,Archie George, if it come. to that I'll apply , "I eongratulate hint," she. heard the I'm sorry". , . When heleft ',she for a writ of habeas corpus or ipso strange voice say. ;Then 'it continued, ',would have paid him the tribute of a facto or whatever may be necessary to "I just called to mention that I have final kiss, but he exacted no such divert a catastrophe, And I'd he do- been appointed manager of one of the honor. .. ing the young rooster a service; sav- Saskatchewan branches of our bank, ddua- 1 It was Satun day when Gander, ing hint from his miss -stake, so to I—I used to think. you would inter- y u d bety and flurried burst into the office, speak." To -day Mr. Bradshaw was too much engrossed with business in hand to in- dulge any lengthy -play of banter, He walked about his little office, dictat- • 112.41-W.9X1"A"Z\siJRVINVILO/JAs/J1Y10.!.4.W • \. LksJJ 94‘94l9lJV_9 F\s,W.!141kwM !J6x►ly��/1 v-�llasm& 'Customers, Cash Regism titers and Profits It takes a steady flow of customers to your store to keep the cash register tingling with profit-making regularity. ADVERTISING INthe Advance -Times would help to keep ,old customers interested in your store and bring new ones. It spreads the news about your store and its merchandise far and wide to the women of this community. Advertising is the most . efficient, economical business -building force at your command. Why not investigate the possibilities? Progressive Merchants Advertise ` Issued by Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association 1f(a11Ri171Yi11iYs111Yi a'• - s1 • h • r £1V s •111itm , •1 a1 s1 •1 s stall• 'iii iii\� over -due account, ,in connection wit which our client— "Maybe nothin'," said Gander, wi a sheepish' laugh to cover his . agit tion. "Maybe a good deal. Can talk to you a minute, Minn. "Take your brother into my priveto office, Miss Stake," Mr. Bradsh suggested. "This can wait." She led Gander into the little bo which Mr. Bradshaw designated hi private office. Closing the door sh turned to her brother, a sudden, and fined fear trembling through he limbs. "What.is it, Gander? What' wrong?"' "Where's Cal?" - "I don't know, ` Where is he? Ha anything". happened?"Her hand wa on the knob of the door. She wa trembling so she steadied' hersel against it. "Sometin's happened, , sure enough but not jus" what I figgered. Yo ain't seen Cal?" "ljot since `Saturday—Sunday morn ing, when I left -the farm. Gander, tell me!" "Well, he's gone. Him an' Reed an their old boat of a' car. Las' night some time. Didn' know, none of us till th' morning. When he didn' out to tend his horses I thought may be he was sick, so I. went over to th 'granary., It was skinned out—ever'- thin' gone. Old car gon; hadn't miss- ed it. till then:" With contracting heart the girl lis- tened to her brother's words. At fir st the sense of Them numbed her, •as the .shock of a wound momentarily paralyzes the) feeling of pain, but as Gander's recital continued'' a consci- ousness of what it meant began "to burn home upon her. • She waited a moment to speak, gripping herself. "Oh Gander, it can't be! Surely— he must have gone only on some lit- tle trip; he'll be back by night;'` per- haps he's back now. He wouldn't go —he couldn't go-altogether—without leaving a word." "I repkon he's gone," said Gander, doggedly. "He'd made a bit of a ta-. ble— You was never in his' room, Minnie?" "N-no—no, Gander." "Well, he'd built a little table, nail- ed to the, wall, an' o' course it was stil there, an' a lamp on it Mother had lent him. Well, under the lamp was an envelope. It was sealed an' ad- dressed to .Dad, an' I figgered here was news." "Yes—what did it say?" "Nothin'—not a word. Jus' solve money init, Seems Dad had overpaid hirn' on wages, 'an,• he left the diff-' rence. Straight, so far as that goes. But it shows he don' figger on comin' back." She let herself.down into .a chair and sat staring at the rows:of books across the room. There was a vacan- cy in one of the rows; 'a book which Mr. Bradshaw had taken to Winnipeg. She wondered if he had forgotten to kinkinit back. "I reckon this hits'you pretty hard." said Gander, with a•clumsy•attempt at being sympathetic., and she was back inottg realities. "Pretty hard, Gander," she murmur - d. '"Pretty hard). , :There's a ren- on—1 know that. I'll never :believe rmyt' ng else until I know the rea h th a- I aw x s e e- r s s s' s n e ested," 1'Minnie was taking dictation from Mr. a He paused a rninrient, then turned l Bradshaw when, raising her eyes, she quickly away, 'arid before she realized saw Gander in the door, e what had happened lie had passed "Why Gander, what's wrong'?" she, s through gatedisappeared,tried, disregarding the voice engaged ting fragrriernts Of memoranda, and in- down the street. Sobered and on the in threatening suit unless this long son," "I always liked Cal," Gander con- ceded. "He was a queer guy, but de- cent, an' I reckoned how the land was beginnin' to lie between you an' him,. That was why I" didn' phone you. Might be all jus' a mistake, an' the• less said the better." "Oh, I'm sure it is—it must be—a mistake." • "Besides, I didn't know—I was a bit . afraid, Minn, that you an' him had run: off together. I'm sorry, Minn, but that's what I thought—" "Gander!" "An I didn' want nothin' said about it if it could -be helped. We've always• been decent, Minn, an' I didn' want. nothing'—" "I understand, Gander," Her voice• was suddenly calm. "We're decent still. The family honor has -not been: compromised," Came a tap on the door. "Miss. Stake wanted on the telephone," said,. Mr. Bradshaw. "That will be news." she whispered to Gander as she hurried to her desk., It was Jackson. Was Gander there? Yes. Any news? Not yet. Well, here was news. Annie Frolic has dis- appeared, too. "What! 1 don't' belive--" "Yes. Last night, through the night. ` Went away in an auto— "I don't believe— "Told Erntons she was staying up for friends ''kho were to call with an auto. An' Cal was there last night, sitting with her in a hammock, after dark-" "I don't believe- She could hear the lifting of receiv- ers on the party line; she could almost - hear the . salacious . lip -licking of the delighted eavesdroppers. The world`, spun; the telephone, swam away into distance, then smashed against her head. "I don't believe—" "Water!" shouted Mr. Bradshaw. "Water! Damn it, Tonnerfeldt, can't: you see the gi'rl's fainted?" (Continued next week) STOP YOUR KICKING A horse can't pull while -he's kicking,; This fact I' merely mention; And he cannot kick while pulling, Which is my chief contention. Go irritate the good old horse And lead a life that's fitting. Just pull an honest load, and quit Your everlasting kicking, ToN, Tomorrow AINgr f ?4R 'tablets stop' Wok hoadsehoa relieve bilious liminat ve ®gong make yen fOel finb. "Setter Than PIU For Liver ill's" Got a 2se. Cox.tossist C. H. McAV O'il", DRUGGIST