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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1928-10-12, Page 7YL TOBER '.1,2n THE HURON EXPOSITOR bruwc(. ctfial M.:- kiirrio w'iLli ?1, The mot dreaded Yltx".lbe It Me4Its )IcA, l 1 �,erliapb, +f,'"'ae,UiliaL'r. 44thor oR002044ri GROSS= a' DUN New York so ay ch 0 FLEE PIT8URANO3 COT. OFFICERS: , James Evan% Beechwood - President James Connolly, Ctoderich, Vice.ei* 10). 7. McGregor, Seaforth, Sec.,Tgea,S. Alen. Leitch, R. )11, No.? Clinton ; W. E. minchley, Worth; Nur- Effncohdville; a. W. Ire0, op. rich; R. G. l'arcauth, 13rocilmi. fi fir Sas. Watt, 31Ythfi • William Rinn, R. R. No. 2, Seaforth; John ennewies, Brodhagen; James Evans, eeehwood; James Connolly, Goderich; Alex. Broadfoot, No. 8, Sea - forth; Robert Ferris, Harlock; George McCartney, No. 3, Seaforth; Murray Exeter Benson ton esboro lyth laelgrave Wingham Myth 10.36 10.49 11.03 10. 11.17 11.53 12.13 12.22 12.34 12.50 6.55 7.15 7.27 Londesboro 7.35 Clinton 7.56 Brucefield 8.15 Hensall 8.32 Exeter 8.47 Centralia 8.59 East. Goderich Clinton Seaforth St. Columban Dublin Dublin Columban Seaforth Clinton laolutesville Goderich a.m. 11.17 11.22 11.33 11.50 12.01 12.20 6.20 6.36 6.44 6.59 '7.06 7.11 5.51 6.04 6.18 6.23 6.32 7.12 7.21 7.33 7.55 63.05 3.25 3.38 3.47 4.10 4.30 4.38 4.48 5.17 2.20 2.37 2.50 63.08 3.15 3.22 5.38 9.37 5.53 9.50 6.08-6.53 10.04 7.03 10.13 7.20 10.30 Coutinued izarta 161st v7,041. wroO, too, of his rushing daya and Nancy, glagWerillff, 'hid from the utter hopelessness of her outlook, Her life'began antt, ended pith' letters and the Weekends? e 'VMS 0101649,04WAIRT:k., aP,Pcl•*. MS d'aCis that lie .414W4 fiancee; 'and Rich- ard *mild heft been less than human if he had not responded to the appeal of youth and beauty. So lie Motored with Ewe and danced with Eve, and did all of the delightful summer things Which are possible in the hig city near the ra. Aunt Maude went to the North Shore, but Eve stayed with Winifred, and wove about Rich- .ard her spells of flattery and of friv- olity. "I want to be near you, Dicky boy. If I'm not you'll work too hard." "Ift•is work that I like." "I 'believe that you like it better than you do me," Dicky." "Dont be silly, Eve." "Yell are always saying that. Do you. like your work bettea than you "Of course not." But he had no pretty *dugs to say. ' The life that he lived with her, however, and with Pip and Winifred and Tony was a heady wine which swept away regrets. He had to time to think. He worked by day and played by night. and often after their Pew there was 'work again. Now end _then as the Sunday night when he had first met Marie -Louise, he motored with Austin out to Westches- ter. Mrs. Austin spent her summers there. Long journeys tired her, and 'she would not leave her husharid. Marie -Louise stayed at "Rose Acres" because she hated big hotels, and found cottage colonies stupid. The great ,gardens swept down to the riv- el-the wide, blue river with tbe laigh bluffs on the sunset side. The river at Bower's wag not blue; it showed in the spring the red of the clay which was washed into it, and now and then a clear green wfhen the rains held off, but it wae rarely blue except on certain sapphire days in the fall, when a northwest wind swept all donde from the sky. And this was not a singing river. It was too near the sea, and too full of boats and there was no reason why it Should eay, "Come and see - come and see -the world," when the world was at ith feet! And so the great Hudson had no song for Richard. , Yet now and then as he walked down to it in the warm darimess, his ears seemed to catch a faint echo of the harmonies whieh had filled his soul on the day that Anne Warfield had dried her hair on the bank of the old river at Bower's, and had walked with him in the wood. Except at such moments, however, it must be ccinfessed that he thought little of Anne Warfield. It hurt to think of her. 'And he was too much of a, surgeon to want to turn the knife in the wound. Marie -Louise, developing a keen in- terest in his affairs as they grew better acquainted, questioned him a- bout Evelyn. "Dad says going to marry her." "Is she pretty?" "Rather more than that." "Why don't you bring her out?" "Nobody asked me, sir, she sajd." She flashed a smile at him. "I like your nursery -rhyme way of talking. You are the husnanest thing that we have ever had in this house. Mother is a harp of a thousand strings and Dad is a dynamo. But you are flesh and blood." "Thank you." "I wish you'd ask your Evelyn out here, and her friends. For tea and tennis some Saturday afternoon. I want to see you together." But after she had seen them to- gether, she said, shrewdly, "You are not in love with her." "I am going to marry her, child. Isn't that proof enough?" "It isn't any proof at all. The big man is the one who really cares." "The big man? Pip?" "Is that what you call him? He looks at her like a dog waiting for a bone. And he brightens when she speaks to him. And her eyes are al- ways on you and yours are never on her." "Marie -Louise, you are an uncanny creature. Like your little silver cat. She watches mice and you watch fine. I have a feeling that you are going to pounce on me." "Some day I shall pounce," she poked her finger at him, "and shakje yeu as my little cat shakes a mouse and you'll wake up." "Am I asleep, Marie -Louise?" "Yes. You haven't heard Pan pipe." She was leanin'g on the sun- dial and looking up at tlae grinning god. "Men who live in cities have no ears to hear." "Are you a thousand years old, "I am us old as the cat:turtles," she told hiato gravely.. "I played with Pan valen the %Med Vas young." Thar MAW at each other, and then he said, '410 Mother Wants me to live in the country. Do you think if I were them% shattld•hear Pan pipe?" "Not If you Afel"); $411.0a because your Moiilaer 11:‘,;:e only .m. Goderich 5.50 Menset 5.55 eGaw 6.04 Auburn 6.11 Blyth 6.25 6.40 6.52 10.25 Walton MeNaught West. Toronto M Naught alton BlYth Auburn McGaw Meneset Goderich 7.40 11.48 12.01 12.12 12.23 12.34 12.41 12.45 A FOR SALE. -Five acres one mile Corneae, bath and toilet; small harm; good orchard. Taxes, $15. Splendid chance to start chicken farm, bees, etc. Apply to Seaforth, Ont. -tf TICE The Inclustri Mortgage and Savings Company, Sarnia, tario, has $2.50,06le To UMW ati good farms lands, at oncesa-w. into natts. 'Part= desiring a loan will anly to D. 7. Neff.43,12GOTI4 T. MI, TIltriatrz. rt. Tara you are 1411.41Ffilltt $4, ioit' tingoell a l�:uut our a Ace^ 1. ..� Irl likes you because youa don't 00V0R 0VOrisb0aY..elec4 docs 4n4 Opt iors,7 fluive." g�cY�,t�V;mA,�7Q IAA,gR2 °$s' y,mp�,�,,�Hp, '�(P�r]' W,T1A® p 0114 r0tir °6e �S -017 P,4 yP+�+1'M ��. ,��R. ve, never Zslt 444 4. 40 ,,Fgut to feel it, too ,gin +h . Z. rahe dnc and 1 dad 't lova enough 1 Should iha lar s "You ; a� queer child, 'Marie - we, �'• a°$ not a. child. Dad thinks I am, and matter. ]But they don't knout." There were day lilies growing a- bout the sun -dial. She gathered a handful oil white blooms •a .d' laid them at the feet of the ,Pipin Pan.. "I shall write a poem. About it,"' she said, "of a girl 'u loved a marble god, and who found it -enough. Ev- ery day she lead a dower at his feet. And a human came to woo her, and she told him, °If Ilk loved you, you would ask<.arnore of me than mar- ble lover. He asks only` that 1 lay flowers' at, his feet." He could never be sure whether she was in jest or earnest. And now she narrowed her eyes in a quizzical smile and was 'goner He spoke of .Marie -Louise to Eve. "She hasn't enough to do. She ought to .be busy with. her fancy 'woa'k and her household matters." "No woman is busy with household ]natters in this age, :Dicky. Nor with fancy work. Is that what 'you expect of a wife?" He didnt know what -she expected, and he told her so. But he knew he was expecting more than she was pre- pared to give. Eve had an off -with - the -old -and -on -with -the -new theory of living which left hila. breathless. She expressed it one night when she said that she shouldn't have "obey" in her marriage service. "11 never expect to mind you, Dicky, so what's the use?" There was no use, •of course. Yet he had a feeling that he was being robbed of something sweet and sac- red. The quaint old service asked things of men as well as of women. Good and loving and tine things. He' was old-fashioned enough to want to promise all that it.asked, and to have his wife promise. Eve laughed, too, at Richard's grace before 'meat,.,."�'ou mustn't embar- rass me at `formal dinners, Dicky. Somehow it won't seem quite in keep- ing with the cocktails, will it?" Thus •the - spirit of Eve, contending with all that made. him the son of his mother, meeting his spiritual revolts with material arguments, banking the fires of t'fi.aming aspirations! Yet he ra J r let himself dwell up- on this aspect of it. He had set his feat in a certahl path, and he was prepared to follow it. On this path, at every turning, he met Philip. The big man had not been driven from the field by the fact of Eve's engagement. He still asked her to go with him, he still planned pleasures for her. His money :made things easy, and while he included Richard in most of his plans, he look- ed upon him as a necessary evil. Eve refused to go without her young doc- tor. Now and then, however, he had her alone. "Dicky"s called to an ap- pendicitis case," she informed him ruefully, one night over the telephone, "and I am dead lonesome. Come and cheer me up." He went to her, and during the eve- ning proposed a week -end yachting trip which should take them to the North Shore and Aunt Maude. "Is Dicky invited?" "Of course. But I'm not sure that I want him." "He wouldn't come if he you felt like that." "It isn't anything you know my manner I'm with him." "Yes. Poor Dicky. Pip we are a pair of deceivers. I sometimes think I ought to tell him." "There's nothing to tell." "Nothing tangible, -but he's so straightforward. And he'd hate the idea that I'm letting you -make love to me." "I don't make love. I have never touched the tip of your finger." "Pip! Of course not. But your eyes make love, and your manner - and deep down in my heart I am a- fraid." "Afraid of what?" "That Fate isn't going to give me what I want. I don't want you, Pip. I want Dicky. And if you loved me -- you'd let me alone." "Tell me to go -and I back." "Not ever?" "Never." She weakened. "But I don't want you to go away. You see, you are my good friend, Pip." She should not have let him stay. She knew that. She found it neces- sary to apologize to Richard. "You see, Pip cares an awful lot." Richard /had little sympathy. "He might as well take his medicine and not hang around you, Eve." "If you would hang around a littl more perharp's he wouldn't." "I am very busy. You know that." His voice was stern. "If I[ am a busy husband, will you make that en excuse for having Pip at your heels?" "R1char°d." knew that personal. And is perfect when t with ap1 X10%-' IA t• to ¢a:�t•r ld " tlC4a :A1 01' dgnit . � aur. .: Evo ,s a4' 1 ty . : 40 ee0 l 100 3.141 alae t 14,e1t. i.. 91 don't ,lbelieY you know au g. abo* a , Miad o1se119 tdl l down , fl e was fat and uu R hut, he bad n sort of large dagaukty' 'Which i her .. nudeness. IViademoiselle wail write it dot a, she will 'n t say--Tneast year -% E de not he- , liever"� She shivered.. "1 wish 1 hadn't come, Dicky boy, let's go end ploy. Pip and Marie -Louise can stay if they lake it. II don't." When Marie -Louise had had her imagination onee more fed. on punts, kings and previous incaruatiena; ate and Hp went forth to:seek the others. "I wonder what he told Eve`:" ]Pip speculated. ,1Viarie-Louise spoke with shrewd- ness. "He probably told her that she would marry you -only he wouldn't put it that way. He ,would say that in reaching for a star she would. stumble on a diamond."' "And is is rooks the star?" She nodded, 'grinnin'g. "And you are the ditaanond. It is what she wants --diamonds." "She wants more than that" ---ten- derness crept into his voice - "sloe wants love -and I eafil give it." "She wants Dr. Brooks. 'Mast any' woman would," said Marie -Louise cruelly. "We all know he is different. You know it, and I know it,'and Eve ka} ws it. e bigger in some ways and better!" They found Eve and Rickard in a pavilion dancing in strange company to raucous music. Later the four of them rode on a merry-go-round, with Marie -Louise on a dolphin and Eve on a swan, with the two men mount- ed on twin dragons. They ate chow- der and broiled lobster 1i a restaur- ant high in a fantastic tower. They swept up :painted Alpine slopes in reckless cars, they drifted through dark tunnels in gorgeous gondolas. Eve took her pleasures with a sort of feverish enthusiasm, Marie -Louise with the air of a skeptics- trying out a new thing. "Mother would faint and fade a- way if she knew I was here," Marie - Louise told Richard as she sat next to him in a movie show, "and so wod Dad. He would object to the germs and she would object to the crowd. Mother is like a flower in a sunlighted garden. She can't imag- ine that a lily could grow with its feet in ,the mud. But they do. And Dad knows it. But he likes to -`have mother stay'in the sunlighted gar- den. He would never have fallen in love with her if her roots had been in the mud." She was murmuring this into Rich- ard's ear. Eve was on the other side of him, with Pip beyond. "I've never had a day like this," Marie -Louise further confided, "and I am not sure that I like it. It seems I know that even with Austin's help I'm so far away from--Pan-and the trees not going to be a Croesus. There won't -and the river." Her voice dropped into silence and Richard sat there beside her like a stone, seeing nothing of the pictures thrown on the screen. He saw a road which led between spired cedars, he saw an old house with a wide porch. He saw a golden -lighted table, and his mother's face across the candles. caldfa÷70(1211676-47144*,,, 4. 52 "I -can't go back. I have burned my bridges. Austin expects things of me, and I must live opato his ex- pectations. And, besides, like it." "Really. There's a stimOus about the sush of it and the bignikings we are doing. Austin hi a glian%. My aasociation with bins is Ike biggest thing that has ever Com* inte "Bigger than your love for me?" Thus she brought him ba,Ck to it. Making alWays demands "Ilipion him which he could not meet. He found hisnself harassed by her Continued harping on the personal point of view, yet there were moments when she swung him into step withtber. And one of the' moments came when she spoke of the yachting trip: It was very het, and Richard loaed the sea. "Dicky, I'll keep Pip in the back- ground if you'll promise to deome." "How can you keep him in the background when he is our host?" "He is going to invite 11/ramie-Louise. Arid he'll have to be nice te her. And you and I ! Dicky, we'll feel the slap of the breeze in our faces, and forget that there's a big city back of us with sick peeple in it, and slums and hot nights. Dickael-I leve you - and I am going to be your wife. Won't you come -because I want you - There were tears on her claseks as she made her plea, and he was al- ways moved by her tears. It was his protective sense that had first tied him to her; it was still through his chivalry that she -made her most pot- ent appeal. Marte-liouise was glad to go. "It will he like watching a playn ' She and Richard were waiting for Pip's "Mermaid" to make a landing at the pier at Rose Acres. A man- servant, with their bags stood near, and Marie-Louise's maid was coated and hatted to accompany her mistress. "It will be like watching a play," Marie -Louise repeated. "The eternal trio. Two men and a girl." She waved to the quartette on the forward deck. "Your big man looks fine in his yachting things. And your Eve is nice in white." Marie -Louise was not in white. In spite of the heat she was wrapped to the ears in a great coat of pale buff On her head was a Chinese hat of yellow straw, with a peacock's feather. Yet in spite of the blueness and yellowness, and the redness of her head, she preserved that air of amazing coolness, as if her blood were mixed with snow and ran slowly. Arriving on deck, she gave Pip her hand. "I am glad it is clear. I hate storms. I am going tt ask Dr. Brooks to pray that it won't he rough. He is a good man, am' the gods should listen." Whatk kale 44,70tr40. that the ii0er: calls and Yon fa&r-tlio won't come tet �'a e. a° oy Ore mat '= �1 ? tas� $1ae said •alas utl *, awn.. a •tufty. tot Pad. le alas oxu', digit.. gas neper 101#41 seat 014 t or puddings. So 1 a used to fetet earioaas1y- on may' . aa7osery' ,y acs>ns 'hey l�auganed; ' as she' lt.d nn4aan e the 'should, M Pip,_said,• �d ve lua% another,n' so she chanted with mets Mg dramatic' effect 'the story af'~l Zing "A bag pudding tbe king did make, And stuffed it •well with plums, And in it put great honks of fat, Ae big es My two thusiabso,---" "Think a the effect of those hunks a fat," She escpained amid their roan of laughter, "on my dieted mind." "I hate to think of thbags to eat," Eve said. "And emit imagine my- self cooking -in a Idtchen."- "Where else would you cook?" Marie -Louise demanded practically. "I'd like it. I went once with my nurse to her mother's house, and she was cooking ham and frymg eggs and we s dawn to a table -with a red cloth and had the ham and eggs was frantic -with fear, and as ane with great slices of bread and strong night wore on, Richard found hims'elar much concerned for her. She insisted on staying on deck. "I feel like a rat in a trap when am inside. I want to fees it?' (Continued next week.) t. e 41 31017011gitiatetrAt, of ,her yOuth nd ale Odd, '‘vitela ore art going to OW YOU tlatca young life. All urvrk will make pc* boY0 In the 'night the 4044s, _ er the moon, and when th.S lazy party appparad on k "I hate it this way. There's gOin Therewas a storm before night: blew up 'leeringly from the south• there Vat' lacenOc' In it mid 3041 Ps; " Winifred and Eve were good sailorafi. ut Marie -Louise went to pieces:Sher- tea. My nurse let me eaeall I -want, ed, because her mother said it would not hurt me, and it didn't. ut my mother never knew. And 'alwaye af- ter that I liked to think of 'Loxes mother and that warrn Mee kiteheiat, and the plump, pleasant woman and the ham and eggs and tea." She was very seriouso hut they roared again. She was so far away from anything that was homely and housewifely, with her red hair peak- ed up to a high knot, her thick white coat with its ;black animal skin en- veloping her shoulders, the gleam of silver slippers. "Dicky," Eve said, "I hope you are not expecting rne to cook in Arcadia." "I don't expect anything." "Every man expects something," Winifred interposed; "subconsciously he wants a hearth -woman. That's the primitive." "I don't want Pip announced. Dutton Ames chuckled. "You're a stone -age man, Meade. You'd like to woo with a club and early the day's kill to the woman in your tent." A quick fire lighted Pip's eyes. "Jove, it wouldn't be bad, would it? What do you think, Eve?" "I_ like your yacht better, and your chef and your alligator pears, and An hour later Eve and Richard were alone on deck. The others had gone down. The lovers had preferred the moonlight. " "Eve, old lady," Richard said, "you a hearth -woman," CHAPla,R. XVII In Which Fear Walks in a Storm. The "Mermaid," having swept like a bird out of the harbor, stopped at Coney Island. Marie -Louise wanted her fortune told. Eve wanted peanuts and pop -corn. "It will make me seem a little girl again." Marie -Louise, cool in her buff coat, shrugged her shoulders.. "I. was TI.CV- er allowed to be that kind of a little girl," she said, "but I think I'd like to try it for a day." Eve and Marie -Louise on very well together. They spoke the same language. And if Mari e -1,ouise was more artificial in some ways, she was more open• than Eve. "You'd better tell Dr. Brooksr she 'Lehi the older girl, as tho two of them walked ahead of Richard and. Pip on the pier. Tony and Winifred had elected 'to stay on board. "Tell him what?" "That you are .keeping the big man in reserve." Eve flushed. "Marie-T,ouise, you're horrid." "I am honest," was the calm re - Hp bought them unlimited peanuta and pop -corn, and 3/Lexie-Louise pilot- ed them to the tent of a fat Armenian Who told fortunes. In anite tpf his fatness, however, he was inamaculate Enropean clothing; arged exorbitantly and athieired aordinary results. "He said the last tisne that shotdd marry a post;" Marie -Louise inform- ed them, "which ion% true. tun not going to be married at all. But it amuses me to -hear him." • The black eyes of the fat Arilaellil Itk twinkled. "There •will be time When you will not be amuse& Toil will be nittrria." Ile pulled out a chair for her., "Van your friends stay while I tell Oen the rest 't "No, they wee disiltdren; thOy want The ore lattraeol. Btai..,Ao fat "1 beg your pardon otildn't have said -eh t, Rat marriage to me means IlatOre "that, good tintaa. I arn here in, New York it 'sterna to me sometimes that It em dimeged by work and pleasure. That there IfIn't a moment in Vales to live in a Islamic- be yachts -and chefs -and alligator pears." "Jealous, Dicky?" "No. But you've always had these things, Eve." "I shall still have them. Aunt Maude won't let us suffer. She's a good old soul." "Do you think I shall care to par - A treat in the Peppermint-fiavore& sugar-coated jacket and another irt the Peppermintallavored gum inside - utmost value in ilong-lasting delight ULAR he National Parks of Canada are growing, in popularity, both with Canadians and with visitors from other countries accordineto a report from the Canadian National IRailwaya hotel de- partment, based upon the number of visitors accommodated during the season of 1927 at Jasper Park I.aalge, the rail- ways' hotel which is situated in Canada's largest National Park in the heart of the Canadian Rockies. Not only are the numbers of United States citizens greates than in psevious yearo, but the registra- on the part of Canadians themselves to take advantage of the ma ' cent play- grounds which have been oet aside for them. Of total refri, aerations, forpericdo . longer than one day, anninbering 6,500, approulmately 2,600 registered from asints in Canada, a- greater registeat!nn of Canadians than in any previoua year. Of the 6,500 guests who register:4 at the Lodge during the 1927 season, 3,600 wer% from pointo ki the United States the state of California leading with 840 registrations. Other gates largely repre- sented were Illinois with 460; New York State, 546: -Minnesota, 251; Ohio, 208: ikrusayirMivia 361 and Ikai wan 85. Veare from Dalt as; 978 from Ontarl yo• 465 Vag 336 221 frota ularity 412 ,IfssarPrrg m- ew g to A. Wriaota„ Oe5sthitsottot 03sityalan Na nal .11stcls. Theta god additionalhigh- In ways and trails in the park, making tho distant beauty apots more accessible tis, visitors, the construction of chalet) at such beauty apots as Medicine and ma goe Likes and the spreaallog fatale among them. At Medici= and Maligna Lakee-ahe latter the lament gisehl lake in the Canadian Rankles, cheileta havu been built for the oconveniente htliR without hardship. There algotha fact that ttluab/ ta tar past season Oleo= off the ht, ma, riteozei; cotg 0 oh,- ma OttliiStitstt