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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1933-09-07, Page 2Mystcr!o s Masquerade 13y J, R. WILMOT SYNOPS1s, At a London dance club Molly Car- stairs meets Roger Darling ho prom- ises to ,get her a job. The following morning Molly is stopped by a police- man and taken to the , (lice statin, where she is identified by a Mr. and lthrs..Siiver as their raising niece. That night at the Silver's home she discovers she is being used as a decoy in a gamb- ling house. The Silvers next tell Molly that Major Carstairs, her father, is on his way home from India, A fust.-er crisis develops when Melly runs into Roger Darling leaving Paul Silver's study, where there has been a. quarrel, t5ilver employs Judson to kill Bailing. Xnspector l3layton interviews Roger re- garding the suicide of one of Roger's friends, due to gambling debts. Molly meets her father and they rent a fiat. CHAPTER XVIII, The parting from the Silvers was, Molly thought, rather effusive. • "But we're not going away for ever," smiled the Major. "Molly and I just want to be alone for a little, don't we?" he added, turning to the girl, and Itlolly colored prettily and nodded her head vigorously. Flora Silver appeared almost on the brink of tears—a form of hysteria not altogether unknown to neurolo- gists. Her hasband was effusively tactful. "I know it's hard on you, old man," said the Major, si.icerely, "but I won't forget all you've done for Molly. Just give us time to settle down for a bit and then....wel1," he faltered, grasp- ing Paul Silver's plumply flabby hand, "we'll just leave it till then, shall we?" So Molly and Major Aldous Car- stairs departed from Lawn House and both of them with thankful hearts but for quite different reasons. Molly and the Major lived through a deliriously happy week. She took him to see all manner of places that bad previously been unattainable, and he had taken her to see some of the places he still remembered. Those days were sheer joy for Molly. Never be- fore had she known such happiness as this. It was a life she had never be- lieved possible, and so happy was she that she scarcely ever remembered that she was a fraud. They had had dinner at the Ritz, and had afterwards gone an to a theatre. After the theatre there had been supper at The Trocadero and a dance between the cups, Molly was agreeably surprised how well Major Carstairs danced, and she had com- mented upon it. He laughed merrily. "There, you see, I'nr not suck an old frump as you imagined. I'd hate you to think of amine ald.. , .anther '-Drat .us to. live our lives together—to keep in step, so to speak." Moil,e looked up at him as she danced. "I'd just love to do that," she told him, her voice suddenly seriots, "but perhaps some day I might have to leay. you." "I hadn't altogether ruled out the possibility of your marriage," he said geietiy, "but just for the moment, don't you think I have a greater claim to you?" "Of course you have," Molly an- swered, "and I haven't the least inten- tion of getting married—yet." When, they reached the flat Moiiy felt tired. Major Carstairs took off hex cloak. Then he switched on the 'electric grate and pulled out a cosy armchair for her. "What, not going to bed.yet?" asked Molly, surprised. "I should have thought you would :rave been ever so tired.» He stood looking down at her, a wonderfully erect figure, and smiled at her concern for him. "I want to have a little talk with you, Melly," he intimated, seating himself on the other side of the hearth, Molly felt feat: growing in her heart. This was one of the moments she had dreaded for so long, "You see," he went on, "my coining like this makes it just a little difficult fee me to get everything in its right perspective. I suspect that that's be- cause of your memory. If • it hadn't been for that perhaps things would have been different, but I'm afraid, Melly my dear, there's something be- tween that neither of us can explain. I felt it almost from die first time I eepeedipas •!0 Welae9 o�N baltirah¢s Q0illar. )Ileiiia% / our f4 fectes\les x 'ass O� i; lake a rd fee\ a fi:: +fro„'- evsore ;�3' ealt p is 33. n•'•�!«� K GM1 9I h.., a� r 1 a> 7;y9si�a liar'>sz ISSUE No.. 35----'3 set eyes on you, but I've never yet been able to define it, Sometimes I fancy you're afraid of me—that I'm not quite what you expected ane to be. Isn't it poesible that our hearts could come a little closer together?" Molly's face had gone paler. She felt that at last she was face to face with reality, but alsu she realized that the time for confession was not yet. "As you say, if only I could remem- ber, everything would be all right. And please, I won't have you saying that I ani disappointed with you. If only you would understand how much you really mean to mei" she ended with a deep sigh, He leaned across and impulsively took both her hands in his. "I'rn sorry Molly," he whispered, and she could see that his eyes were reisty as he uttered the words. "But I did se want to talk to you, You know as I looked at yell often to -night I have been vividly reminded of your mother. Perhaps I'ni a sentimental old man," he mused, tenderly, "but T loved your mother more than anything else on earth, and now that I've found you, the joy of being with you is the joy I seem to have recaptured from the dimly veiled past. That's why you mean so much to me, Molly.' The girl's throat had grown lumpy —she wanted to cry --wanted to fling herself out of her chair and escape to her bedroom. The beauty of the man's wards only added increased horror to her own thoughts. What a despic- able being she was! Oh, why hadn't she made another desperate effort to escape from that house at Hampstead before this had happened. Mutely she gazed at him. If he had not locked so happy, the breaking point must surely have come for her at that moment. Yet how could she disillusion him now? He had made it all the harder for her—but he was not to know that. "I do so want to make you happy," she burst out, suddenly. "I really do. And please don't take any notice of niy moods. I'm afraid I'm one of those awful people who possess a tem- perament," she told him, regaining her lightness of tone. "If ever I fail to make you happy, you've got to be stern with me. You've got to say: `Molly, you're forgetting yourself, and I'll understand." He laughed. "But tell me, were you really ser- ious when you said tonight that you "0f course I was, deadly serious, What girl isn't when it's a question of marrying?" "What I mean is—is there anyone in view?" The note of eager appre- hension in his words amused her. "There is and there isn't," she Laughed. "I'm not at all sure yet. You see this memory of mine is ra- ther awkward. I can't remember whether anyone's proposed to me or not, and when you realize that, at this moment there may be some forlorn swain walking up and down his bed- chamber wondering what has hap- pened to his betrothed, the problem assumes • really forbidding propor- tions." But instead of smiling, Major Car- stairs' face was a study in seriousness. "That is rather difficult," he con- ceded. "But do you really think that something of the kind may have hap- pened in the interval of your losing your memory and the policeman find- ing you in Chelsea?" "That's just what I don't quite know. Why I might even be a mar- ried woman?" she exclaimed with horror. "Let's hope not—let's sincerely hope not that," ejaculated the Major with equal alarm. "But what can we do about it?" "Nothing," replied. Molly, briskly "We've just got to wait and see what turns up." "There':, another natter I wanted to mention to you," he went on, heed- less of the lateness of the hour. "I havo been thinking that I ought to make Paul Silver and his wife a little present for all their kindness to you while I have been away. They must have been very good to you, you know." Molly realized quickly that here was something she might do; something eminently practical. nether you didn't do that—at least not yet," she told hire earnestly. Major Carstairs stiffened with sur- prise. "But why not, Molly?" "I don't know—I Irish I did," she 'said. "You see if only T could•remem- bei it would be different, You see," she pursued quickly, "that is some- thing I can't remember. I ean't place the Silvers. It may be as you sug- gest that they have been good to me--" "You surely doh't suggest that they weren't?" There was a sudden fierce- ness debut the man's words that startled her, yet it gave her an unex- pected glimpse of yet another side to his character that she had not, as yet,' suspected. It revealed to her the man Who could be as firm as a judge—as ruthless as the taw and as exacting in taking toll. "I'm not suggesting anything," she hastened to assure him, "but .don't you see how unwise it would be of you to do anything you might at some future date regret?" For a minute he did not answer her. He was telling himself that there was a great deal here he did not under- stand, Once again the shadow came between then.—the same old shadow that had haunted him since he aad landed in England, Yet he had to ad- mit that what the girl had said was true, He'd better wait. His mouth became suddenly firm and his lower jaw obtruded. "I'ni glad I mentioned it to you," he said, quietly, but deliberately. "I. was thinking that if they'd been de- cent to you and carried out all my instructions that a little cheque for five hundred pounds wouldn't be miSS." "But you woe!.t do anything—just yet? You'll promise me that?" she pleaded. "I'd promise you anything, Molly," he told her, as he climbed out of his chair, "anything at all." Molly arose, too, and glanced at her watch. "I Wunder," she mused, with a smile, as she kissed him. "I wonder if you would." For a moment he watched her dis- appear towards her room, end there was a perplexed look on his tanned face. "Now what the devil does the minx rnean by that?" he asked fintself: (To be continued.) Essay -Writing As every scheme of life, so every form of writing, has its advantages and inconveniences, though not mingled in the same proportions. The writer of essays escapes many embarrassments to which a large work would have exposed him; he seldom harasses his reason with long trains of consequences, dims his eyes with the perusal of antiquated volumes, or burdens his memory with great accumulations of prepara- tory knowledge. A careless glance upon a favorite author, or transient survey of the varieties of life is suf- ficient to supply the first hint or seminal idea, which, enlarged by the gradual accretion of matter stored ih the mind, is by the warmth of fancy, easily expanded into flowers, and sometimes ripened into fruit, It is indeed„ true, that there is seldom any necessity of looking far, or inquiring long, for a proper sub- ject. Every diversity of art or na- ture, every public blessing or ca- lamity, every domestic lain or grati- fication, every sally of caprice, blun- der of absurdity, or stratagem of af- fectation, may supply matter to him whose only rule is to avoid uniform- ity. But it often happens, that the judgment is distracted with—ae,igp„ "tu-aaottrelyane the hours pass• imper- ceptibly away tel,, the composition can be no longer delayed, and neces- sity enforces the use of those thoughts which thenhappen to be at hand. The mind, rejoicing at de- liverance on any terms from perplex- ity and suspense, applies herself vigorously to the work before her, collects embellishments and illustra- tions, and sometimes finishes, with great elegance and happiness, .what in a state of ease and leisure she never had begun.—Samuel Johnson, in "The Rambler,,, To Rupert Brooke Fleeing at noon the towers of Samar- kand, You sought the field, your golden head held high, Nor deemed it wrong to heed within the sky The crimson planet's passionate- com- mand. Mars in the sky! What did your god demand? Is it not dark enough that men must die, But that in madness and without a cry You hurl away this life in war's black land? What is the evil webbing back of war That it could twist your heart of .white desire And arm your hand with bleeding scimitar? You, who ioved life with such a leap- • ing lire, Who tore your fingers from the surg- ing lyre? Why were you blind and followed that red star? —By Robert Priem'. "Ear Gymansium" Aids Deaf An "ear gymnasium" for the cor- rection of deafness tial been started at Grand Rapids, Michigan, Its pur- pose is to exercise the ear drum and train It to register sound. The con- trivance combines lite' principles of radio, phonogfaph and telephone • Doom `Pall Signposts' London —Britain's tall highway sign- posts, relics of the Old horse -coach: days when they were put at a level convenient for the driver 'on bis high box, will disappear in favor of indicat- ors not more than 3 feet 6 inches above the clown of the road if the Minister Of Transport adopts the recommenda tfoim of a deliartntentai Committee on traflle signs. The main objection to the present signposts is that it cannot be illumin- ated by motorcar headlamps, and is. therefore almost useless to drivers at ]light, Swedish Prince Now Manager Renounced Royal Title and Privileges When He Mai^ ried Against Family's Wishes "Tavart--Advertising .agents." . Behind this bald annolincemetlt on an office door lies the romantic story of a. Prince who renounced his title and a • life of luxury for the sake of the girl he loved. "Tavart'," is the business name of a Stockholm firm whicn has been established by the 22year-old Prince Lennart who married Karin Niss- vandt, trio daughter of a Swedish business man, despite the opposition of his grandfather, King Gustav of Sweden. As a result Of his family's attitude he decided to cut adrift and take up a profession, The .name "Tavart" is derived front the last letters of his name, Gustav Lennart, He insists, hewever,° on being called plain Mr, Berna- dotte. Skilful and Efficient The advertising agency he has founded at present occupies only small offices and his staff consists of himself and three employes, • He does the lay -outs and provides. the ideas—work which requires con- siderable skill and efficiency. "I am particularly anxious to have a real profession," he said. Tile love story of Prince Lennart and his bride was one of the most touching romances of the past de- cades. "We are just an ordinary boy and giri very much• in love," said the Prince when the engagement was known. They had met at a party when he was 15 years of age and she 13. Two years later he had made up his mind to marry her despite what he knew would be opposition from the family. He was informed that he would have 'to renounce his Royal Title and privileges if he carried out his inten- tions," but it made little difference to him. He simply called himself Mr. Bernadotte. The young couple were married in the simplest manner possible • at a London register office. Problem f Trained Nurses in Australia Too Many Girls are Being Trained—Supply Ex- ceeds Demands The woman's page editor of the Mel- -Mae' .Argus- devotes much space" to the consideration of Australia's nurs- ing problem: "A subject which is caus- ing muck concern to many women Who are interested iii the training of nurses is the present lack of employment for private nurses and the prospect of a still more acute situation as the num- ber of community hospitals increases, The position of the older women among the private nurses is serious," said a friend in conversation recently: "it Is pathetic to see them moving from the nurses' homes to cheaper rooms, and 'even selling their small possessions in order to keep going, I cannot help fearing that the new de- velopments in our hospital system will make things even more difficult, "Just now the fear is that if the pre- sent system of recruiting nursing trainees is continued the number trained will soon be found to be in ex- cess of requirements. The ultimate effect would be to discourage trainees. Girls` are not likely to enter upon •a long course of training unless there is a reasonable prospect 61 employment at the end of it, and only those with a genuine vocation for the work, or with strong confidnece in their own ability, would think of taking up nurs- ing as a profession, But in the mean- time there- would almost certainly be for some years a superfluity of trained nurses, with consequent disappoint- ment and unemployment. "The community hospital plan is obviously destined to be adopted 1 throughout the state. One large coun- try town already has its community ward; three others are about to estab- lish them, :and two more have the mat- ter tinder consideration. Throughout the country districts there is spreading a network of bush nursing, hospitals provided by the people Of the various , districts, with the assistance of the Bush Nursing Association, for their own use. The common sense and fair- ness of the plan ensures its wide ac- ceptance. It would be futile and fool- ish for anyone to set his face against a system which is based, upon self- help." British Publishers Active London, ---The publishers have kept the book stream flowing well this year, Tip to the end of June, 7,584 books were published in Britain, in addition to 2,31.3 new . editions 224 translations, and 31 editions de luxe. Fiction., of course, leads, with 2,518 novels. Second on the list comes "children's books and minor fiction," 537, Books on education number 509, religion and theology 431. There is apparently more interest in polities than poetry, with the former 293, against 258 of the latter. Biography and memoirs total 302, The Dances of Fifty Years A. history of fifty years of ballroom dancing, compiled by Oscar Duryea in connection with the golden jubilee con- vention of the . Dancing Masters of America, Inc., now in session here, de- picts the evolution of dances from the so-called elegant Eighties 'o the pre- sent day. In 1883, Mr. Duryea recalls the Vir- ginia reel, or Sir Roger de Coverley, as a finishing dance, still was lingering in the ballrooms, The following year marked the beginning of round dances, when published instructions set forth that "it is not necessary for one part- ner to actually support or control the other," and that "it is a sacl mistake for a man to hold his partner closely." The next year the barn dance, im- ported from Ainer•ica, was popular in England, and three years later society here was dancing a mixture of steps, the schottische, waltz, galop, lanciers quadrilles, Virginia reel and, as a finishing dance, the Highland schot- tische. From 1593 through 1898, 1111r. Duryea shows, the cotillion was popular. This was the stately dance of New York's "400," with young society dandies act- ing as leaders. The favors for the co- tillions often were costly. The richer the hostess, the costlier the favors, which frequently were of gold. At this time the heel -and -toe polka was a great favorite. The two-step and waltz, the New York, Caledonian and Saratoga lanc- iers, as well as the Yorke and gavotte, all had their share of popularity in the clays of the cotillion, and then, in 1900, came ragtime music. The cakewalk became the rage in exhibition dancing, and intruded into the almost secred provinces of the cotillion. In 1903 the cotillion was going out of fashion, The schottische, two-step and lenders were dropping out, too, A new barn dance was introduced, an then came the first publication of "Thil Merry Widow" waltz in a New York Sunday newspaper, and, this music waa' picked up and largely used for waltz: lug. ' It was in 1911, according to Mr. Dud! yea's compilation, that the first turkey trot music was heard in the East, •a1I though the step may have been danced . • in the dance halls of San Franciscok where is originated several years be,. fore. When the World War broke out in 1914 the New York dancing public was indulging in all sorts of turkey trots,' the reg two-step, one-step, hesitationt and the tango. A year afterward came the influence of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Castle on ballroom dances, with the came duck innovation tango, centre waltz, walk trot and ntaxixe. The fox trot came into the dancing scene about this time, with the turkey; trot, bunny rag and grizzly bear still going strong. In 1919 the shimmie was' introduced in a Ziegfeld midnight. frolic. The Pall of 1924 saw the beginning of the Charleston, which developed fad, to a craze that swept- America and Europe. Then it dropped out of sight' as suddenly as it had begun. "Blac1 Bottom" then enjoyed a stage popul larity, but never had any considerable' place in ballroom dancing. In the Summer of 1930, Mr, Duryea points out, America suddenly became conscious of the Latin-American music as a source of dance numbers. "No matter what name we apply to it, the Cuban rhythm has apparently come to stay," Mr. Duryea declares4 "This rhythm seems to be the real contribution to ballroom dancing of the decade." Want Replica Of Scotland Yard Also Suggest Sending Rack- eteers to Some In- land Prison . New York.—TJniversal finger -print ing, whipping post, exile tight parole laws and a sort of American Scot- land Yard, were urged on a Senate sub -committee as methods to curb racketeering. The committee headed by Senator Royal S. Copeland, held its first re- gional, open hearing with more than 200 interested spectators. Among the first speakers were Senator Copeland, himself; Edward P. ittulrooney, ford mer police commissioner of New, York; Joseph Keenan, special assist.' ant attorney general, and James Bd. Ian, present police commissioner of New York. • • Keenan urged a federal bureau td co-ordinate its efforts; Mulrooney ad3 vocated universal finger -printing, "2G lashes with 20 'years," and federaa control of fire -arms, The latter aisd thought • parole laws should be tigh ened and agreed that exile of rack <,w 0 1 island prison u eteers to an rs n help." Experience has convinced me that there is a thousand times more good& ness, wisdom and love, in the world than 'men imagine.—Gehler. BUY MADE -IN - CANADA GOODS aims Try this Easy..to-1VTake Recipe fb:r FORM CAKE Cream % cup sugar .with t/. soft dough tabout 4 cups), cup butter. Add to 1 beaten Knead well. Cover and set egg and heat urate light Add aside in warm place fres front 1 cup lukewarm milk. 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