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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1933-08-18, Page 7ser `i$ fl i.! au, al LEGAL Phone No. •91 ua JOHN J. HUGGARD Barrister, Solietor, Notary Public, Etc. Beattie Block - - Seaforth, Ont. HAYS & MIIR• S* ei eeding R.•13,, Hays • Barristers, Solicitors, Conveyancers and Notaries Public. Solicitors for the Dominion Bank. Office in rear of the Dominion Bank, Seaforth. Money to lroa h. t 1, • BEST & BEST Barristers, Solicitors, Conveyan- cers and Notaries Public, Etc. Office in the Edge Building, opposite The Expositor Office. . VETERINARY JOHN GRIEVE, V.S.' Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin- ary College. All diseases of domestic animals treated. Calls .promptly at- tended to and charges moderate. Vet- erinary Dentistry a specialty. Office and residence on Goderich Street, one door east of Dr. Mackay's office, Sea - forth. A. B. CAMPBELL, V.S. Graduate of . Ontario Veterinary College, University of Toronto.' All diseases of domestic animals treated by the most modern principles. Charges reasonable. Day or night galls promfptly attended to. Office on Main Street, Hensall, opposite Town Hall. Phone 116. Breeder of Scot- tish Terries. Inverness Kennels, Henson. MEDICAL DR. E. J. R. FORSTER , Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Graduate in Medicine, University of Toronto. Late assistant New York Opthal- mei and Aura stitute, Mroorefield's Eye and Gorden , Square Threat Hos- pitals, London, Eng. At 'Com'me'rcial Hotel, Seaforth, third Monday in each month, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. 68 Waterloo Street, Sbuth, Stratford. DR. W. C. SPRAT Graduate of >;'aculty of Medicine, Vniversity of Western Ontario. Lon- don. Member of 'College of Physic- ians and Surgeons of Ontario. Office in Aberhart's Drug Store, 'Main St., Seaforth. ''Phone 90. ' DR. F. J. BURROWS • Office and residence Goderich Street, east of the United Church, Sea - forth.' Phone 46. Coroner fon.. the Comity of Huron. Dr. C. MACKAY C. Mackay, honor .graduate of Trin- ity University, and gold medalist of Trinity Medical College; member of the ..College of Physicians and Sur- geo'ne of • Ontario. DR- H. HUGH ROSS Graduate of University of Toronto ?Faculty of Medicine, memfber of Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario; pass• graduate. courses in Chicago Clinical School of Chicago;, Royal OphthalmW Hospital, London England; University Hospital, Lon- on°don, England. Office -•--Back of ' Do- don, minion Bank, •Seaforth. Phone No. 5. Night calls answered from residence, Victoria Street, Seaforth. ' ' • DR. S. R. COLLYER Graduate Faculty of Medicine, Uni- versity of Wlestern Ontario. Member College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Post graduate work at Herm York City Hospital and Victoria Hospital, London. Phone: Hensall, 56. 'Office, King Street, Hensall. DR. J. A. MUNN Graduate of Northwestern Univers- ity, Chicago, 111. Licentiate Royal College of Dental 'Surgeons, Toronto. Ocoee. over Sill?, Hardware, Main St., Seaforth. Phone 151. . DR. F. J. BEC ELY Graduate Royal ICallege of Dental t3mrgeons, Toronto. Office over W':`' R. Smith's Grocery, Main 'Street, Sea - forth. Phone: Office, 185 W; resi- dembe, 185J. AUCTIONEERS r -- OSCAR KLOPP !Honor Graduate Carey Jones' Na- tional School for Auotioneering, Chi- cago. Special course taken in Pure Bred Lilvice Stock, Real Estate, Mer- chandise and Farm 'Sales. Rates • in keeping with prevailing markets. Sat- isfaction assured. 'Write or wire OSear Klapp, Zurich, Ont. Phone. ]12-411_ J. • 1 e Way. o These Women by E. PHILLIP& OPPENHEI_M (Continued from last week) • "But I'' do," Lucille interrupted. "Jerrttiyn and I are going to be =tar- ried very soon indeed.," There was something in Jerinyn's eyes for a moment which would have itartled either of his two fellow -call- ers if they had been looking his way. Lucille saw it and went cold. After all, had she made a mistake? "(My dea-'my dear Lucille!" Lady Florence cried, holding out her hands, "You have taken my breath away. I'm sure I congratulate y^qu.Hboth most heartily: I. am delighted." "And I, dear Duchesse," ,Mrs. Starr Hamilton echoed sweetly. "I cannot pretend, unfortunately,, that I know either of you as well as Florence does,, but you must let. me wish you every possible happiness. Such a suitabletm.tch, too! Really, I cannot imagine why we never thought of it before, excerpt, of course, that no one ever' does marry the people you ex- pect thein: to." Lady Florence, had hurried to Jer• myn. "My heartiest ---truly, my heartiest congratulatiepe,•,deaa•-.Jermyn!" ehe exclaimed emphatically. "You know what I think of Lucille, don't y6u? There is no one quite like her. You are indeed fortunate." Jermyn had risen to his feet. There was nothing left of that aglitter in;•his eyes but his 'voice •sounded hard, there was no real feeling 'in his words. "Thank you very much, Lady Flor- ence," he said. "Thank you', too, Mrs. Starr Hamilton." Not a word more, no reference. whatever '•as to his good fortune. There was a certain grimness, also, about his appearance which had a repressing effect upon the storm of questions which the two women were ereps,red to launch. For a few mom- ents 'he was left outside the cir;,1c. Lucille, apparently quite at her ease, ante with just a shade -of most becom- ing colour in her cheeks, chatted with her callers almost in an undertone, Presently, the latter took their leave. Jermyn esicor•ted them to the door and under cover of a second edition of congratulatory speeches they at last departed. Lucille was awaiting Jermyn's re- turn, standing upon the fheartrug, her elbow upon the mantelpiece, her head resting upon her hand. She turned eagerly towards him as he ei..- tered: "Jermyn, you ate not- angry with 'me? Tell me that you are not angry with me?" she,'pleaded. "It had t• be done soon, you know, and I have waited. I had hoped that it might have. comae from you." He dosed the door deliberately be • hind him. Then he came over to her. Her 'heart began to sink. She was at her best and he had failed to move him. There was not a single spark of admiration, or feeling of any sort save suffering in, his 'hard, thin face. "You mean to take your pound of flesh, then?" he asked, wondering a little at the sound of his own avoice, which seemed to camms from a great distance. "You are ,not polite," she murmur- ed. He flared up. The sudden impulse of passion was good for him. Even she was not. sorry to see it. The icy tension of the moment Was broken. "What, in God's name, has polite- ness to do with it!" he demanded. "Truth is the only thing worth count- ing between you and . me. I do not want you, Lucille. 'I am not a wo- man's man, and your good looks and your -subtle 'poses are leo-thing to me. I am one of -the people of this generation in whom you don't' seem to believe. I love ope 'woman, and I can love' no other." "A murderess!" she whispered. "Call her what you like," he went on fiercely. "You call yourself a wo- man of the world, you pttetend to know things, you talk always as though life had yielded• to you the keys of her secret chambers. Don't you know 'as much as 'this, that when a man's in earnest, the woman he loves May be a murderess, a sinner, a very. Borgia, if you will, but she is none of these things for hine-not for him! She is just the woman he loves -that's all that counts. There isn't anything else." A little breath canng,.,through her teeth. Her face was verywhite, her eyes shone. "I should' like to be loved like that! she cried softly. "Then find soime one 'who'll do it," he retorted, with a note of savagery in his tone. "Don't you know me well enough, Lucille, to 'understand that I haiven't the gift of partition? Where love is concerned I 'am the narrowest person who ever breathed. Syabil is the first woman I. ever cared fol• and she will be the last" " The light was passing from. Luc- ille's-face. She seemed suddenly tir- ed and older. "Do you mean, Jermyn, that you would marry Sybil Cluley to -day?", "If she would have me, I would," he answered readily, "In the study at Annerley, the day she left, I would have asked her hut for our compact." She turned her back upon him for a moment. Then she laughed shortly. "You amaze me," she declared. "Jertm'yn Annerley, ;scholar, man of letters; en aesthete, a humble, d'isiciple of Epicurus, an aristocrat! What a- bout the obligations 'of race and char- acter now, my dear ,Jetriryn?" "There is at least no obligation for me to stay 'here and listen to your taunting!" he exclaimed, turning a- way. "L. have discovered what ' I came to fled out --you mean to hold me to your infernal bargain?" "For your own sake, without a doubt," she answered firrn'ly. ' "You' shall never marry •Sylbil (Olden. Fur- thcirm'ore,' she added, "if yon take my advice you will keep away from 1Y1,8,.'.,, ?hrty'ri axr� her. tI suppose you know that she is watched night and day?" "Is that part of your work?" he demanded. She shrugged her shoulders. "My dear Jermyn, if I opened airy lips at all, the .watching would soon be over! .If T did my duty and spoke just half a dozen words, 'Sybil Cluley would spend to -night in prison. Be careful -that you don't try me too far. Be careful, Jermyn!" For a moment they both etood quite still. Her bosom was heaving, her eyes flashing. She faced him without quailing and there were cruel things in her face. He turned and left the house. CHAPTER XXI Jermyn had rooms in Mount Street to which he made his way immedi- ately after leaving Lucille. The house in which they were situated was an old one, and .the rooms themselves were unusually large and sombrely furnished. When he was in residence for some time, the abundance of topi- cal .literature and reviews; the flowers which were sent up daily from An- nerley, the general air of halbit"a'ble- ness produced by these ,means, pleas- antly relieved the severity of, his study. It possessed', even, an air of its own, which•he found sgothing and into which ire seemed to fit. ,His servant met him • in' the hall. Parkes, too, was an importation from Annerley-a serious -faced, conscien- tious servant, ,.but a confirmed pes- simist._ ''RMr. Levenden, sir, has been ring- ing up from the theatre three or four times,' he announced. "Ile would like to speak to you at once en the telephone." .Jermyn allowed himself to be re- lieved of his hat and stick and made his way into his study. The tele - Phone almost the only note of mod- ernity in the apartment, stood by the side of his easy -chair. !He rang up the theatre and asked far Mr. Leven - den. "I understand you want to speak to me, .Mr. Levenden," he paid, as soon as, a familiar voice from. the other end had:'answered his first in- quiry. "That's so, Sir Jerntlyn," was the prompt reply. "I do want to speak to, you particularly -?matter I am most anxious about." "Corteerning the • play?" Jermyn asked. The voice` at the other end hesitat- ed.- ' "Yes, concerning the play-indi, rectly. I wonder whether you could possibly +come• round' for a metreht. I called to see you early this after- noon, and I ape ',so infernally busy just now. .Besid'sys, the rehearsal isn't over." "I will be round in ten minutes," Jermyn promised. .Action of any sort was a relief to him. Ile walked to the theatre, and made his way towards M'r. Levenden's rooms. As he crossed the back of the stage he came to a sudden standstill. The ,rehearsal was still in progress. He heard the sound of Sy'bil's clear, mocking laugh, followed by his own Iines. " `Dear Henry, for a man of your experience you are certainly very ig- norant of women and their ways. Na- ture paid us an unkind trick when she dealt out the counters, when she made men ingenuous and wotmen sub- tle. You trust too easily, my friend. The best woman in the world will look you in the face and lie for the sake of the man she loves, and the better woman she is, the more con- vincingly she will do it!'" Jermyn stole on tiptoe to (where he could catch a little glimpse of the company upon the stage. With' a sudden thrill he passed the end of a,scarcely getting on, but 'he thought ,pieee of scenery which hail concealeu of his closed theatre acted as a stim- Sybil. She had just completed her speech and w'•ee"s laughing into the face of the man to whom she had made it. From where he stood She seemed un'chan'ged. She was fashion- ably dressed, and the little fur toque with its scarlet quill sat jauntily on her wealth of soft 'brown hair. She had thrown herself entirely into, her part. She had forgotten. For a moment he almost envied her her profession. Jerreern found Mr. Levenden in his room, signing letters, and Mr. Leven - den was unfeignedly glad to see him. 'He wheeled up an easy chair for his visitor, placed 'cigarettes at his elbow and himself closed the door behind his secretary, whom he bustled out of the room. ' "This is rather like the mountain coming to Mohammed., Sir Jormy'n," he declared. "It's afully good of you to come round sjike this. I can't tell you how much 1 have to do these days.' "It was perfectly convenient for me to come," .Jerm'yn assured him. "I can't 'pretence to be a busy man like you. What's the matter? Anything gone wrong in rehearsal? Perhaps you'd like nee to take one this week?' I suppose I ought to, really." "It isn't that," Mr. Levenden re- plied. "We are always glad to have you here, you know, 'but just at first, while we go through the groundwork of stage directions, that isn't so im- portant. Your manuscript a°nd auth- or's notes are always so clear. It's another little matter that's bothering me." Jermyn took up a cigarette and lit it. "If I •can be of any service," he murmured. • 'the part of `Nora,'" Mr. Leven-' den pronounced, "le an exceedingly difficult ore." - "Surely not too difficult for Miss Cluley?" Jermyn interposed smiling. ' ;Not it.• the least," the manager assen'te'd .hastily, "Please don't mis- understand ane. On the contrary, it bids fair, so far as one can tell at present, to be one of 'her greatest 'successes," "Then what is the trouble?". . "/It is such a good .part," Mr. Lev- enden teontinued, "and it suits 'Miss Oluley so marvellously well, that I am at my wits' end to find an under- study who could even speak the lines, march more act themt, So far, I may tell you, Sir Jermyn, .I haven't come across' any one who'd be the slight- est use, and .without going to the `stars' I scarcely see where I am go- ing to find her. 'Nora' is Mies Clu- ley and Miss C'luley•i's `Nora.' With- out her it would be simply hopeless." "W_e1l ?" The'maneger moved uneasily in his Chair. He was always a little afraid of this strange young man, who seem- ed to have wandered into theatre - land from some region which he, at any rate, knew nothing about. Jerm- yn's face during the last few mom- ents had grown very austere. He had, perhaps, some premonition of what was conning: "The long and the short of . it is, Sir Jerrnlyn,'" Mr. Levenden said at length, "that there's 'been, a lot of talk ab.ou`f., that unfortunate affair down at " Annerley and during the last few days there have been per- sistent rumours, rumours one can't afrd to altogether neglect." ''Concerning wheat ?'", '"Concerning Miss 'Cluley. I was told this morninigby some one upon whose word I can generally rely, that Miss Cluley would be in prison with- in a week,°' Jermyn stood quite still. The fin- gers whi'eh' held his cigarette did not even .tremble. 'You can't believe such rubbish as this, Mr. Levenden," he protested. "I don't want to •!believe it," Mr. Levenden replied eagerly. "I arm bound to face facts, though, and there is this big, black, ugly one standing straight in front of me, and that is that if this rumour should turn out to be even founded upon the truth, then all the money .I put into the play will be lost. I can't afford to risk such a situation, .Sir Jermyn, and that's the truth. • I've had other loss- es?' "If this is how you are ,feeling, Mr. Levenden," Jermyn said, "I am glad that you have sent for me. Let me tell you, as one who should know something shout the facts, that your fears are entirely ridiculous. There is no more chance of Miss Cluley's being arrested on this charge than there is' of any being called upon to answer for it 'myself. I am surpris- ed,that you should have listened to such foolish rumours. It is absolute- ly impossilble to connect Miss CIuley with •the death of Lord Lakenham in any (nay whatsoever." Mr. Levenden seemed somewhat re- lieved but he was not wholly convinc- ed. "There's a great deal of talk," he insisted, "and I don't see where it al:.. comes from." "It comes from people who know nothing whatever about '.he matter," Jcrenyn declared. "Lord Lakenham end ,Miss Sybil Cluley were, to my certain knowledge, on the friendliest of terms. They had only met the day •before, and Lord Lakenham, was already her admirer." The manager drummed with his fingers upon the desk 'before which he was sitting. a et , Or if it 'las lit aP 0, throug anything leeeiptenti. o Dji,s's eeey of the nature, you ell • 'take the losses epon. my shots deps t; will he content to accept a tern froin your accountant,' as to the. amount • Levenden drew a sigh of re- li'etf. "Sir Jermyn," he said, "you are be- having like a rirince. You have tak- en a big load off my' shoiu!)ders. Jermyn rose to his feet. "You have •'been anticipating trou- ble quite. needJl'essly, 'Mr. Levenden," he declared 'confidently. "By the way,' I propose, attending rehearsals myself next week. 'Will you see that I get the calls?" "With pleasure, Sir Jermiym - with pleasure!" 1 Mr. Leivenden assented, making a note upon a memorandum taiblet, "Mount Street still, I sup- pose! I am only too glad you are coming. To tell you the truth, you know, that was another point, which was exciting a little comment. Be- fore her visit to Annerley Court - this very unfortunate visit -you and Miss Cluley were a 'great deal to- gether. Since this affair we have scarcely seen you at the theatre. I have heard it said that since that time you have not been seen to speak to her." Jermyn frowned. "'I had no idea that such comments would have been made;" he said. "I have not been in Londori very ,long, The reason I have perhaps seen less of Miss Cluley is that I have recently become engaged to the Duchesse de Sayers. If such remarks as those to which you allude have been made, however, I shall take an early oppor- tunity of setting matters right." "I congratulate you, L am • sure," Mr. Levenden ventured, "congratu- late you most heartily. Upon my word, it's rather' a relief to hear ygu• so confident about Miss Clui'ey... ASS nice a young lady as ever breathed, quiet and a real worker. It would be a horrible shame to have her upset in any ,way." Jermyn took up his hat. "If they haven't all gone," he re- marked, "I should •like, • after what you have told me, to see Miss' Cluley for a few minutes.." "An excellent idea," Mr. • Levenden agreed. The two nten walked cull together. The rehearsal itself Was over, 'but ev- eryone was talking cheerfully. to- gether in a corner of the ba-ely-lit stage. Sybil had just taken leave of the others and was on her way out. Jerilyn, with a word of farewell to the manager and a wave of the hand to the rest of ehe company, hurried after her. ' "Miss Cluley-Sybil!" She turned quickly around and stood for a moment quite still. In the_..g1oom of the ill -lit place, with its cavernous shadows, sheseemed to him to look like a ghost. He realiz- ed in that moment something of the anguish through which she had pass- ed. They •held hands for ;a moment almost in silence. Thep, conscious of the little grpup at the further end of the stage, they commenced to talk 'banalities: In the narrow passage outside, Jermyn felt suddenly weak. The slight perfume of her hair, her familiar clothes, her close presence, all affected him powerfully. He t=ook her hand and drew her unresistingly towards hint "Dear!" he murmured. "Dear'"Sy- bil!" 'Her eyes shone into. his like stars. They were alone and he seemed caught up on the ravings of a new passion. A splendid recklessness pos- sessed him. He held her tightly to him and kissed .her on the lips. "Don't, dear Jerrnyn," she implor- ed, "don't!" He released her at once. She was nlakin•g a piteous little face at • him, but so'rnehow he felt the 'better for that single wild moment. Be felt, too, that at the bottom of her, heart she also was glad of it. "I an/ sorry," he said, "or rather I am not sorry. I want to_ talk to sJ.t 1I}TAtt�dR Jin $tau 4t1' i•. I► fi" �y ter ta at tlti xixt ,wi Q'c1P(�.aa FX couldn't .'het aPelree'' explained, "and airy Beni, vi''a gii 11 e et such slaves as men also rieeia at regular hours." Jer"#ny'n smtn?led. "Well, a peep'ase neer,' say, at the Milan, in the gr611 recti',, with heels ,and rboiees of c'hocol'ates , a;E'. tea -wards.. What' do you ,sky to that, Mary? Isn't that better than tee, an'd sugared cakes?" �`I say yhs!" ry die djeud prompi:- 1•yl: "I think it would be just lovely, I've had tea, really, hours 'ago.' "Are you sure ,that you can spare the time?" 'Sybil asked. "Aid what about your own 'engageim'ents•? Areal you dining anylwhere?" "Poi dining with you," Jermyn de- clared. '''Somehow I felt an undue sense of exhilaration creeping over me a little time ago. I must have known. Come along -here's a taxi." "Couldn't we go to a quieter place than the Milan?" Soleil suggested doubtfully. "The child , will like it," Jermyn. said. "Besides -I have another rea- son for going there. Let it be the Milan, if you please, and let us," he went on, lowering his voice, "let us make believe a little longer. Sybil. You' and I and Mary are just going to forget." 'Mary's ears and her intelligence were alike sharp. She overheard and'. clapped' her hands.. "Yes, yes!"'she cried eagerly, "let us forget all about Lord Lakenham! I don't think he could have been really nice or he would'nt have made so much trouble. -Sybil Iooked at her, reproachfully: "Mary!" l "Don't 'be' shocked, 'Please, Sybil," the child continued. "I can't help it. Everybody was so beautiful 'before and everything has been so dull and miserable since:" • "To -night," Jermyn interposed quickly, "it is going to be beautiful again. I agree altogether with Mary. It is our duty to be cheerful. While Mary drinks ginger beer, we will drink Pommery, We will eat and &ink and be merry and forget the encu of the quotation." They reached the cafe and were meoeived at once by the chief maitre d'hotel with many bows and expres- sions of pleasure. They selected a table in a corner which was not too inconspicuous, and Jermyn .took up the menu. • ("We will consult Henri here about our dinner," ' he, declared. '`There must 'be chicken, • of course, and choc- olate ice, and for us sensible people, Sybil, what .do you say? Sole a la Normandy? What do we eat?" ' "I am not sure that I have not for- gotten,'" Sybil' answered. "I think that Mary mostly .gives the orders at home." - Jermyn gave some brief instruc- tions to the waiter. "And Po'm'mery Brut 1904," he wound up. "And' now tell me about this young Iady? When doe's• she 'go to that boarding school?" Mary made a wry face. "I 'wish you hadn't reminded .me," she complained, a little dolefully. "Mary is' going to Brussels to- morrow," Sybil said. "I know that she is going to be very happy and I am sure that it is 'best for her. Of course, 1 shall miss her more than I can say; but tbere is nothing for her to do at all when I am at the theatre, and there is so much re- hearsing just now." "There are always holidays," Jerm- yn remarked cheerfully. "There arealways, too, trips to Brussels. One can get to Brussels very easily nowa- days." 'Mary clapped her hands. "You will conte." she cried -"you and Sybil, too? Oh, you must!" " We will come," Jermyn promised. "Don't he afraid of that, little lady. "There is a persistent rumour, Sir you, Sybil. May I, take you home?" We will come and charm you from Jern," he poihted out, "that such She shook her head, behind those 'grey stone walls snit miy ;was not the case. I have heard it "I am not going home," she toll show you some of the vanities of life, stated most confidently that ' Lord him "1 ani meeting Mary at a tea- I dt is, I presume, a modern 'establish- Lakenham had known Mks Cluley in place, and afterwards we are going her less prosperous day. in the. days to the Gaiety." before she came to London.". "Where is the tea -place?" he in - "We can none of us he responsible quired, "I can take you there, at for rumours, Mr. Levenrlcn," Jermyn any rate." said coldly. , -Mr. Levenden felt that he was /' r ulus. "I can assure you, Sir Jermyn," he went on, "that I most sincerely hope that it is so. No one could have a greater, respect and 'rt_enrd for Miss Miley than I have. and her behaviour et all times, both in the theatre and out of it, has been entirely and ex- ce•ptiortally irreproachal'k'. At the same time the police make mistakes sometimes and I cannot afford to put all my eggs in one basket. 'i want to take this opportunity of asking you, Sir Jermx-n, how y,oa would re- gard a proposition to it,,nsfer Miss Cluley's part to Ida Hamilton, pr'o- Harded, of course, we rank! induce Miss milton to accept it?" "I can answer you v. ry briefly.' .Jermyn replied without a moment's hesitation. "I would so'r'er put the manuscript of my play n'rnn the fire than have it appear under such cir- cu'mstaniees." . "Mies 'Hamilton has a large follow- ing," the manager persisted. "She is, as you knots, quite on, of our most brilliant actresses, and she has had experience. I Believe thae she would stake a huge success of the .art." "The question of Miss Hamilton's capacity does not interest nae," Jerm- yn remarked, "My play was written for Miss Cluley and ;,.ho alone Will play the part of 'Nora.' i trust that you have not hinted anything of this to her?" "I have not 'Raid a ward," Mr. Lev- enden assured him hastily. "Of course, if that is your feeling there is no more to say alhout it. We must hope for the best, although • I must admit that I ami anxion'." "What would your loss be in the event of the theatre hieing to 'close for the reason you suggest?" Jerm- yn asked, 'Mr. Levenden shrugged his shoul- ders. "Anything up to four or five thou- sand pounds. "I stake the responsibility," Jermyn promised. "If the run of the 'piece stent to which Mary is going?" "Fairly modern, I think," Sybil a- greed. 'Mr. Levenden passed by with a, party of friends and stopped to greet "in St. James's' • Street." I :hem in some surprise. Otter re of IIe sent the commissionaire for al -the company 'wer: thore, too. and at taxi -cab and handed her in. i a table only a few yards away, a "It is quite time I saw Mary my-' hard -featured, cont+:. nnplare-1'tt'nl'inaz self," he declared, "and before I go' man with a black moustache, Who I have something to tell you." !looked a trifle out of place in such "News?" she asked, suddenly 'pall-a-urr•oundings, sat eating his dinner ing. w ith a paper propped up before hint "Not that sort of views." -he ,an- yet with his eyes wandering often steered hastily. "Nothing about- around the room. Ile never seemed to glanee towards either Sybil nr' .lei'myn, hut once they exchanged a look and they know. ,omen tossed c•il a glass of wine. "My altendant," he whispered. She shook her head. "Surely rnine! I see him where- ever I go." • Ile ioanc'd to yr r'd,s h• r. Mai'n's at- tention ha,1 been distracted by the it." 'She ieaned hack in the 'cab with a little sigh of content. "Don't let's talk at all just set," she begged. "Sit by my sine --like this. i want to re.,t, to try an•l im- agine for a moment that nothing has happenell• at all except a nightmare -a lying awful nightmare. humour me, dear, please.' .He obeyed at once, only he took entrance of some American children, her hand and held it in his. So they with bows of enormous size in their rode in silence through the busy- . sttret=, her cy-•. s shining as she look- ed steadily ahead, he most of the time watching her, so slim and quiet -to-night, it seemed to him, ro fro- !hey nnay watch and watch a't 1 srs- gile. T]Ytt'v they drew up suddenly he- nrct, hitt the thine tr dead. Thor fore R.unt'peer:ayer's. She looked like no more evidence to •he swept up. The a child awakened from a dream. A eh <'rest Wren in the worid would policeman, walking slowly by, glance ,ed into their cab. His heart ached as he saw- her little start of fear. saes the old look crcep momentarily into her eyes. Then she saw hi:it watch- • Mg her and a little smile, piteous though it was, parted her lips. "1 ant foolish, am I not? Never mind," she added bravely, "those five, minu2Ee.s wcre worth having." hair. . -Dear," he 'ni'l, "<ometimes I wish i had talked to you n•.ore openly. What I wont ynit to 'relieve is that ('RAFTER XXII Mary and a severe -looking maks were waiting for them upon the 'pave- ment. The former welt ened'.Jermv t with a little cry of delight.. "You bad, had .Termynl" she ex• claimed, with real reproach in her tone. "But oh! it is good to see you again!" Jermiyn held the child's harcls tight- ly in his. "You'll have to forgive rte, Mary dear," he begged. "I haven't :tee's in ',onelen so very long, you see, and here we are together accein at last, anyhow." 5 almost mad with terror. *roll shad know, Jermyn, and you shaall judge, Ater all, it doesn't matter eery mnuch now, does' it?" mer, Mary once more claizNed their at- tention. !From that point their lite tie feast (ijecalmce almost uproarious. They chatted of the play and its possibilities; they talked nonsense as they might have done a few months ago. For that hour, at any' rate, they had stepped out of the 'shadow. The man who looked over his paper and watched them every now .and then saw nothing in their faces of brooding care. To all appearance they were the lightest -hearted little group in the place. At a few minutes past eight Jerm- yn drove with them to the Gaiety and then left them at the door. Sybil turned round to wave her hand as they disappeared. The old delight' Did smile had ,partezi her lips, her eyes shone'into his. There sat even a dash of the old coquetry in the way she carried her head, in the 'swing of her exquisite figure. Jermyn stood on the pavement fora moment or two '•after they had. disappeared. Then he. turned away and drove '"to his rooms. That night a very demon of unrest possessed him•. He had no engage- ments and he had proposed to spend the e,•ening over some rwork which he was doing for a review. His ef- forts to settle down, however, were all in vain. His brain was full of torturing thoughts, Out of the sha- dows Lucille seemed continually to , come and mock him with her smooth, cold voice, the curve of,,her lips, the gleam of her eyes, passionate yet minatory. Then he saw Lakenham, cold and dead; saw the small ivory pistol which Lucille had secreted; saw the fragments' of 'Sybil's gown upon the floor; saw her crushed roses ly- ing by the side of the murdered man's hand; saw her still, cold face the first time they had met afterwards. All the happiness of the evening seemed to pass away like breath from the face of a mirror. Isle thought of her , asr she had stood upon the steps of the theatre, smiling at him innocent- ly, joyously, with that wonderful lure in her eyes which a. French critic had once raved about. . , (Continued next week.) ?`raveling Salesman - Was Almost Ruined Greenville, Miss. -W. A. Huber, recently said: "Traveling- day and night and eating in cafes and Ho- tels had it lot to do with my case I know, but i was in mighty bad shape. Constipation had practically ruined me. I took every kind of laxative 1 ever heard of, but they only aggravated my trouble. When I started taking Sargon and Sargon Soft Mass Pills I just had to drag myself out of bed and through the clay. The treatment not only re - !loved me but I have actually gained 85 pounds es weight." C. A-BERHART LONDON AND WINGHAM South. only fnd.all the dome- locker]. The bedew is terrible. lying' across our path all the time, but the danger is over -there is no more danger." "You really believe that?'" she ask- erl. with a little gasp of relief. "T am cure of it," he answered For the rest, 1 ,wish I could take away avert those other land darker thoughts. You know as well as I do that Lakenham w•as net a good man. You know as well as I do what sort of a bargain he was try- ing to drive. Such a man invites re- prisals. It is part of the game he }liars and part of the risk he runs." '?he closed her eyes for a moment. 1Vhen she opened them again, how- ever,• something of the haggard suf- fering seemed to have passed from her face. "1 ant glad' we have spoken -o£ this," she said. 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