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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1933-10-13, Page 7YrTyk AN OC(110- „AAR 18, 933. i LEGAL! • Phone No. 91 , JOHN J.'"HUGGARD 'Barrieter, Solictor, Notary Pelblic, Etc. Beattie Block' - - Seaforth, Ont. HAYS ,& MEIR Succeeding R. S. Hays Barristers, Soliciters, Conveyancers and Notaries Public, Solicitors for the Dominion Bank. Office in rear of the Dominic* Baide Seaforth. Money to Imes BEST & BEST Banisters, Solicitors, Conveyan- eera and Notaries Public, Etc. Office fos the Edge Building, opposite The Expositor Office. VETERINARY JOHN GRIEVE, V.S. -- EOM? graduate of Ontario Veterin- ary College. .A.11 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 eastof Dr. Mackay's office, Sea - forth. A. R. 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 calls promptly attended to. Office on Main Street, Hensel', opposite Town Hall. Phone 116. Breeder of Scot- tish Terries. Inverness Kennels, Hensell MEDICAL DR. E. J. IL FORSIesit Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Graduate in Medicine, University of Rioronto. Late, assistant New York Opthal- Ind and Aural Institute, Moorefield's Eyo and Golden Square Throat Hos- pitals, London, Eng. At Commercial Rotel, Seaforth, third Monday in each month, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Se Waterloo Street, South, Stratford. DR. W. C. SPROAT Graduate of Faculty of Medicine, University of Western Ontario. Lon- don. Member of College of Physic- ians and Surgeons of Ontario. Office in Aberhart's Drug Store, Main St, &eforth. Phone 90. DR. F. J. BURROWS Office and residence Goderich Street, east of the United Church, Sea - forth. Phone 46. Coroner for the County 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- -_,...geons of Ontario. DR. H. HUGH ROSS Graduate of University of Toronto raculty'of Medicine, member of Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario; pass graduate courses in Chicago Clinical School of Chicago; Royal Ophthalmie Hospital, London, England; University Respite], Lon- don, England. Office -Back of Do - =lotion Bank, Seafortho Phone No..5. Night calls answered from residence, Victoria Street, Seaforth. DR. S. R. COLLYER Graduate Faculty of Medicine, Uni- versity of Western .Ontario. Member College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Post graduate work at New York City Hospital and Victoria Efoepital, London. Phone: Hensall, 66. Office, King Street, 'Hensel'. • f DR. J. A. MUNN Graduate of Northwestern Univers- ity, Chicago, Ill. Licentiate Royal College of Dental Surgeons, Toronto. Office over Sills' Hardware, Main St., Beaforth. •Phone 151. DR- F. J. BECHELY Graduate Royal' College of Dental Surgeons, Toronto. Office over W. R. Smith's Grocery, Main Street, Sea - forth. Phone: Office, 185 W; resi- dence, 185J. •••••••••••-••••••, AUCTIONEERS OSCAR KLOPP Honor Graduate Carey Jones' Na- tional School for Auctioneering, Chi- cago. Special course taken in Pure Bred Live Stock, Real Estate, Mer- chandise and Farm Sales, Rates in beeping with prevailing markets. Sat- hsfaction assured. Write or Wire, Near Klapp, Zurich, Ont. Phone: 11111-98. ?Mr • • The Way of. Th?se-Wonieti by E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM (Continued from last week) "Exam•ine me," she answered. "I am ill." "Won't you tell me your symp- toms ?" be said, taking up his stetho- scope. "I have no symptoms," she replied looking at him with burning eyes "Nevertheless, I am ill." He examined her thoroughly. She endured everything vrithoutoither im- patience or anxiety. When he had finished, and the maid whom) he had summoned to assist her 'with her toilette had disappeared, she _turned towards him feverishly. "Well?" "There is nothing whatever the matter with you," he told her. mean that I am sound , ev_ ere/where?' "Organically, you are entirely sound. Your nerves are disturbed. I could give you some medicine; I would rather not." thtriSehe brooded for 'a brief space of "I am thirty-one years- old," she remarked. You mean, then, that I may possibly live for another twen- ty or thirty years?" 'Not possibly -almost certainly." She vise to her feet a "few mum- ents later. "Thank you, my, friend," she said, a little wearily. "You -have told me what I wanted to know." tHe led her towards the door. On the way he slipped his arm through hers. "Lucille," he said, "do you want some real old-fashioned practitioner's advice -perfectly sound, mind, per- fectly sound, 0,nd in your case abso- lutely true?" "Of course I de," she assured him. "How long have you been mar- ried?" he asked. "Nearly seven plied. "Why?" Irre whispered for a moment in her ear. She stopped short. The color burned in her :cheeks and then streamed slowly away. She falter- ed. 'The physician eveatched her gravely. "Ah, you fashionable ladies!" he murmured, as he threw open the' door. "You make our profession prosperous by your whims. I think I shall send you a tonic, all the same. You needn't take it unless you like." "Do!" she begged. "I haven% tasted medicine for years. Good- bye and thanks ever so :much." ;She smiled at him from' the corner of her landaulette 'and was whirled away. Sir James, who was a :metho- dical man, returned to his study, took out his tablets and wrote on the space devoted to the following day: "To see Jermyn. Ask lunch, if pos- sible." months," she re- •tCHIA,PTER XXXVII Three times was Sybil called be- fore the curtain at the end of the second Set. The enthusiasm, indeed, instead of waning seemed rather to increase, night by night. Sir James' 'companion glanced towards him in trillIT1 ph. "Well?",•he asked. The physician was quiet but sincere in his reply. "I am surprised," he confessed. "Miss Cluley is a revelation to me in more ways' than one. Let us smoke a cigarette outside." 'They passed out with the throng. Sir James excused himself and but- tonholed the manager, who was a patient and an old acquaintance. "1Mr. Levenden," he declared, "I am charmed with your play, I find too, that you were entirely right in what you told me about 'Miss Cluley. It would give me the greatest plea- sure ti present to her my congratu- lations in person: I wonder whether it wouleLbe possible for you to obtain an intribduction far me?" Levenden was somewhat flat- tered. "I cannot absolutely promise, Sir James," he answered, "as Miss Clu- ley makes it a rule never to receive anyone in her room. 1 feel, however,' that if ever there was a case in which an exception was possible, it is yours. If you will come rouefel with me now behind, she has a wit of nearly half an hour. I will send a message into her room. This way, if you don't mind." A message was sent in to Miss Cluley, and in a moment or two the reply came -Miss Cluley would, be very glad indeed to receive Sir James Bondman for a few minutes,. Mr. Levenden himself accompanied the physician and uttered a word of in- troduction. Sybil teceived them, pleasantly but with some slight sign of surprise. As soon as the manager had departed Sir James abandoned his more conventional attitude. "Miss •Cluley,' he said, "I have vine round to see you, acting entire- ly upon an irnpultsa for which 1 hold you, however, responsible. Lt is your own words, spoken in that wonderful act to which I have just listened, which have inspired me with this -I fear you may call it presumptuous - resolution." 'She smiled at him, perplexed hut gracious. Pray say just Whatever you, like, Sir James," she invited. "You really needed no introduction to nee. I have heard a very dear friend of mine speak of you often." 'It is about that friend and his wife," Sir James continued gravely, "that I should like if I might, to speak With you." "A slight shadow crossed Sybil's face. She motioned her visitor to a chair and changed her own place. "I do not quite understand," she said, "but I am willing -el shall be very pleased -to hear anything you think it well to say to Me." "1 m going," he warned her, "to be veity unconventional. When I came, ''Metielleteeith1lieelleieteei:11.',,thheieeeteeeeeeteCet....o. „-,,,,:::...ereteetheerhelehdeeleeilieeeteeteeeeeteoeeeetete to the theatre this evening, I had no idea that 11. should find you the sort of young lady to whom I should care to say what I am about to say. But I flatter myself that 1 ani a judge of character. I believe,•that I am doing a wise thing in yielding to an im- pulse and in seeking this interview." "Of course," Sybil reminded him pleasantly, "I am finding all this ver mysterious." "The mysteries will disappear very soon," Sir James went on "in fa,ct, am going to speak very plainly in- deed' Jermyn Annerley is the son of my ,oldest friend. I brought him in- to the world, I have known: him all his life. Lucille, his wife, I have known, too,' since she was a baby. You can understand, therefore, that I 'take an interest in them both." "I can understand that," Sybil ad- mitted. "What I cannot understand if 4'Wait," the physician begged. "Miss Cluley, be patient with me if I ant clumsy.„.,I am an old man, and :such gifts as I have are not of the tongue, and although in my profes- sion it is supposed to be unfashion- able, I have a heart. These young people have been married -what is it -less . than a„ year at any rate. A few days ago Lady Annerley came to me as a patient. ,She came to ask only a few weary questions. I exam- ined her. There was nothing Wrong. Yet, Miss Cluely, I ani going to place my whole professional position in your hands when I tell you :the truth -the truth which I did not tell her. Although my actual words were true tones when I told her that there was nothing the matter, it is never- theless also true that unless some change takes place in the manner of her life Lucille will not live." ISerbil looked across the room at him steadily. For several moments she said nothing. In the distance they could hear the orchestra tuning up; :outside, the rumlbling of feet in the corridor, fragments of conversa- tion, the creaking of ropes as the scene -shifters attended to their du- ties. But in the room there was sil- ence. Sybil was looking intently in, to the stern, calm face of the man who had seated himself on the ecTge, of an easy -chair a few feet away. "You must- please go on now," she said at last. "You have told me so much -more, I should think, e'ilhan yon have any right to tell me. You must tell me why ,you are here." 'I have:came to you, Miss Cluley," Sir James continued, "because when I sat in the :stalls just now and watched you, I said to neyself-"I :know little of the stage, I know no- thing of the art_of acting, but I be- lieve that this woman is a real wo- man and has a woman's heart, or the words which- she speaks -beauti- ful words they are, too -would never come So naturally to her lips." And then the impulse came to me to tell Iher that a woman whom she knows must die of that ,Most impossible, most incurable „thing, a broken heart,' because-lbecause-" "I am afraid that you must finish, Sir James," Sybil insisted. "Because her husband is either faithless to her" -the phYsician con- cluded firinly-"eitheefaithless or, for some mysterious reason, not- withstanding their recent marriage, remains her husband in name enly." "Why not go to him?" ' ' "It is a reasonable :question. I have already made several efforts to see Jermyn. I think that he has been out of town. I shall see him, and very soon. I am only waiting for his return. And then, only this afternoon, 'I felt that impulse to come and look at you from the stalls. Although I am an old Man and de- voted to my profession, Miss Cluley, I go' sometimes into' the world. I frequent my' club, 11 know vety well that people neer quite understood Jermyn's marriage. There are some who say now that th,ough, he mar- ried Lucille he loved Sybil Cluley, and they ask themselves why." "Do you know why?" Sybil asked. "I do not," Sir James answered, "but I do know thit-that unless Jer- myn treats' his wife differently she will die." Sybil shuddered. Her fingers play- ed for a moment with some of the appliances stretched out on the &este- ing-table by which she was sitting. "So you carne to me," she sarid. "That seems so strange." "And to me," he replied, "after I had seen you, it seemed so natural." "I will give you confidence for con- fidence," Sybil declared quietly. "I will tell you a secret known only to three people in the world. I was en- gaged to marry Sir Jermyn 'Anner- ley. I lowed hint and he cared for nie. His present wife took him from me by a scandalous trick. Jermyn discovered it only an hour or so af- ter his wedding" "So that is the story," the physic- ian murmured. "You have given me 'the clue now to what has puzzled me so much, I was right, then, in my surmise. It is for your sake that Jermyn keeps his wife at arm's length." "The wife who deceivedeleiene" Sys' hit interposed, -"the wife who tricked hint into a marriage he never desir- ed." 1Sir James rose to his feet, and came over to Sybil's side. He took .her hand for a moment in his. "Dear 1Miss Cluley," he said, "I think now that :I understand. "It is a very sad position. Lucille is tweak- ing, her heart. ' Jermyn is suffering. You, too, I am sure, are suffering. 'Don't you think it would be a great thing if one of you were to set the others free?" "I do --not understand ? " "Ah, but I think you must under - Mandl Think! The key of the whole situation is in your ha,nels. What was it you Beide set somewhere in the midst of those wonderful sent- ences of yours an hour ago? "Self- he stopped ehot, the 171(terruptlion Which came was so sudden andli so • o altogether unexbected. The door of the..room had been quietle opfted, unheard by either of them. Sybil's maid was announcing a visitor. "Lady Anneeley!" Ineille had .entirely the air of a casual caller. She shook hands with S'ybil and had established herself in 'an easy chair before either of the two women had realized exactly What was happening. Then Mrs. Levenden completed in somewhat hurried fash- ion bee farewells. "All I. can say, Sybil, is that I hope you'll think better of it," she ideclaeed: "I shall perhaps see you at the theatre to -night. Relay wants me ,to corne.up, if I can, and have supper with some people. Good- bye! Wm. Lelvenden departed, leaving behindeeer a faint atmosphere of patchouli and powder. Sybil, who had walked with her visitor to the door, chiefly with the object of gain- ing a few seconds' time, came slow- ly back. Lucille waited until the door was closed. before she spoke. "I imagine," she began, " • thatI am an unexpected visitor." "r did not expect to see you here," Sybil admitted, without attempting to sit down, "now or at any time. I .cannot imagine why you have con* Doyeu mind telling me?" "I have come," Lucille replied, "be- cause' I want something from you." "You want soinething from me?" Sybil repeated. 'Lu,eille nodded. She leaned for- ward in her chair. She was rather wonderfully dressed in a white vel- vet gown, and notwithstanding the somewhatadvanced spring, she was almost smothered in ermine. Sybil's uncuotained room was, without doubt trying for .her. The sunshine shone fully in, upon her pale face and thin feature. ,. Sybil was conscious of a little shock. (Her visitor was .still .beautiful but there was something almost startling in the 'transparency of her shin, the brilliancy of her log, luminous eyes. eI want my husband," Lucille said slowly. "Your husband?" "I suppose he is mine• although . I stole him," Lucille continued lightly, unfastening her furs. "We can't go against facts,, can we? On paper I won; in reality, you and I both know that I lost." , (Sybil was beginning to tremble. ,Somehowor other she felt herself no match for this self-possessed, de- termined woman, who seemed to speak so easily and without even a quiver in her tone of this tragedy which lay between them, "I don't think that I can discuss this," Sybil said. "I wish that •you had net come, I wish that you would go away." "Naturally," Lucille answered smoothly. "Ours could scarcely be a pleasant meeting, could it? It took me a long time to make up my mind to come. Now I am here, well, -I am going through with it." "Going through with what?" Sybil demanded. • "My prayer to you," Lucille told her. "Can't you see that I have come a supoliant? I want me husband.' "Is he mine to glee?" "Entirely, if you choose. I staked a good deal on ,my vanity. I thought that if II once won him nominally I should succeed in the rest after- wards. You see, men have rather spoiled me. I shall never he rain again! Jermyn has broken my spir- it. 1 have failed. We have lived together all these months as 'strang- ers. I have tried everything. This is the last resource. Look at me -I am dying of it. I don't exactly ask for your pity, but for heaven's sake. girl, think! Won't, any other man do?" "You can drift away from him," "Hoes could any .other man do for she 'cried, speaking quickly and in a me?" Sybil asked.- "I love Jermye, harsh dry tone. "You know his pre - Why should you ask me such an ab• juelices. You can mix for a little ominable question? Why not another time with those people he hates. man yourself?." 'Mind, you are living at unnatural "Because I love him too," Lucille life ---Let him see that you feel it. replied simply. "We can't both suc- Accept this invitation, to America. ceed-reputably. I happen to be in Afterwards, he will understand. I possession." will see that he shall understand. "1-te Was mine before you took hiri Does this hurt? Do you hate the away," Sybil reminded her. thought of it? It isn't only my life; "1 had loved him for years," Luc• it's the other part of myself the Me declared, "before you came upon part we don't understand-it'srny the scene. Never mind that. It's to soul. I eatuld die once and die.quick- alisurd for us to sit here and bandy ly. as bravely as anyone. but I can't ,.vorch like two schoolgirls. I have die like this, unblessed, with the come to plead, not to .arg-uQ. Will great hunger in my heart. I have a you make a bargain with me?" horrible feeling. that I couldn't rest "What sort of bargain could there -.anywhere. There couldn't he a be?" grave' dug deep enough to hold me," "Send him away for a year or two. Sybil moved suddenly to the bell. Co to America -I see the papers are She stood there with her finger upon all talking about a wonderful offer it.: you have had from, New York-. Let You had better go away. please, me .lia.ve, him for three years. Three at -once," she begged. "I dare say years will soon pass. You will he that I shall do as you ask. I cannot on the right side of thirty thc'n un- tell. I only know that 1°'want you less the newspapers all lie about your to go away now. You have said ev- age." erything that could he said. If T do "Are you talking seriously?" Sybil it -if I do it, nrindLI don't want you demanded. "If so, 1 cannot think to come near me or to thank me. If how you could hiring yourself to you do--" make such a preposterous sugges- 'She stopped short. Her teeth were tion. I have not the power to send clenched. Sybil herself for a mon- Jermyn back to you, any' more than ent, had the look of a tigress in her :it would he possihle for you to give eyos. him up when the three yeast have passed. It is absurd. You talk as though we were Being in, the Fiji isia TllsLucille once more leaned a little forward in her chair. Her eyes were fixed upon Sybil's. She spoke slowly and her words seemed somehow to have become charged with a certain mystic-Inality, so that they •brought with them neither offence nor won- der. "Are You .Ternryn's mistress?" "I am not," Sybil answered. Lucillee fingers touched her throat for a moment, Vvihen she continued, however, her voice was quite calm. "SoniehoW, I believed that," she said. "I don't understand if - I don't understand that sort of affec- tion. I don't uncleretand what sort of a woman you can be, but I believed it. You can never he happy, then, unless you are his wife. Why doesn't my offer appeal to you? It seems to me to be your only chance. In three years he shall he yours. Don't ask mehow-iI peomise it." "You cannot promise anything of the sert," Sybil declared. "It is an ahmerdity. Besides, tea, you think that anything in the future could recompense for those three years? Why should I voluntarily give up elle friendship which, is the only joy in iny life'; a friendship which both he and I have actepted as the next sacrifice is the major note of love around which the women of all ages have entwined their fluttering souls. Send him, away, Miss C1uiley. Ii time he will be the happier for it; you will have saved her life. Think, for a moment, what can happen if you go on as you are going now. Think! Is there any possible cnitlet? Is there any hope? Can you,, when the time comes, place your hand in Jermyn's with the ghost of his dead: wiffei haunting you?" IThe call -boy's shrill voice was heard down the ..corridor. • ' "Curtain going up on the last act. Mr. James Rawson, Miss Ellen Sin- clair." Sir James rose to his feet. Sybil shook her 'head. "I have still a few minutes," she said. "Is this indeed an impulse ef yours, Sir James?" "It is entirely an irnpulse," he' as- sured her. "Supposing I accept that truism of yours, supposing I admit that self- sacrifice is the major part of love? There are two of us women. Why should not she give him up? H be- longs to me, he loves' me. He has known her all her life but never dreamed of, marrying her. Ile has no real love for her. Is it a good thing to force him into the stems of a woman whom he does not love? Is that morality?" "Ah, my, dear," Sir James answer- ed, "1 fear that you have come up against the walls of something very old fashioned, something very peimi- tive, but which, so fars I am con- cerned, 1 can never lose sight of - she is his wife, you are not." "His wife by a trick!" Sybil cried passionately. "She stole him -delib- erately stole him! She lied!" -'Even then they have ,stood to- gether in church, they are man and wife.," he insisted. 4I know that people to -day are inclined to think more of circumstances and less of sacraments. You will think of course that I am a Philistine. I suppose I am. But there are certain conditions of life which seems to me to belong to the inevitable order of things. There isn't any honourable way, there hasn't been evolved out of the brain of man throughout all the ages, by which a human being can rid himself of these obligations., however they come about. She is his wife. She can take from no other man what it is his duty to give." 'Once note they heard the call -boy outside the door this time. "Call for Miss Sybil 'Cluley." She was on her feet, peering into the looking -glass. Sir James held out his hand. "Will you shake hands with me, Miss Cluley?" he begged. "I do not ask for .any answer from you; I do not ask even, for any expression of opinion. I only ask you just to think over what I have said and to believe that, coming from a man who is over seventy -years of age, they cotne at least, these words of mine, without impertinence. Good-bye!" She was busy with her make-up. She held out her hand but she did not look from the glass. He passed quietly eut to find the manager wait- ing at the corner of the corridor. As they turned away he heard once more the thunder upon her door. "Second call for Miss Sybil Clue ley!" •OHAPTBR XXXVIII 'Mrs. Levenden was on the point of becoming irritable. She:remembered, however, her husband's final injunc- tion and she refused to discontinue her entreaties. "But, my dear Sybil," she protest- ed, "we all know, of course, that you prefer to live an *xtraordinarfly quiet life, 'but there are just one or two occasions, as Harry was saying, when you really owe it to the the- atre to sho* _yourself a little. This artists' ball is going to be' quite the biggest thing of . its sort that has ever been attempted. We do want the Imperial to be well represented. Lord Lakenham is giving us all sup- per and has taken the best box int the place. He doesn't seem to care what he does so long as you came." "It gives me no pleasure to go to those sort of things," Sybil replied. "I am sorry, but that is really the truth. I wrote and, told Lord Laken - ham eo this morning." "It's for charity," Mrs. Levenden persisted. Sybil smiled. "Most of these things are: If a subscription Levenden made a face at her. "Bother your subseriptions! You know very well that is not what we want. Noev‘he a dear girl and change your mind -.just for my sake 4-nci Harry's," she added., "Where is the- supper to he?" Sy- bil asked. "At the Milan. Lord Lakenham has taken the great centre table there and is going to have some wonderful eiee'orattions. 'He has intritied every one of the company, Harry and my- self, and a few more theatrical peo- ple.'' 1-SyliiT sighed. , "Dear Mrs. Levenden," she begged, "please don't bother about me. I really shanft be missed in all that eompany." "Wont you!" Mrs. Levenden an- swered gloomily. "It's just to get you there that young Lakenham has been making all this fuss." "I have already written and told (him that I cannot come," Sybil re- minded her. "Of Course you have," Mrs. Leven - den agreed. "Isn't that why 1 am here? I meter saw anyone so dis- appointed in all leer life. • You did give him a half promise, you know." "I didn't, know that it wasgoing to he a big affair like this," Sybil protested. "I hadn't any idea " beet Wine.2r)toitgr in Rfactagse MA Ala NO*. I. al* Luellie replied eewiftly. VIA • eim eserneet!' 1 eletiVeielefe'en4 eoodnes as yours very mlieele bog q4141.3. after all, it Is a InraiAlter. teMPVtra^ri ment, but I hAvenfit ;the leOese. doubt it's there. You'vetoo Many virtues to be ever really feminine. Loop a • me. I am Idying „siMply tkec4sp I love him uncontrollably and .beeause be won't touch me om look at me The ,ssime roof shelters us at night For nionehe I . have not slept. Ile slava .in the next room. I hear him oome to bed, I hear Win get up. We sometimes luneh or idioe together', we meet on the stairs, we drive to dinnenparties or an,y other sort of entertainment and occasionally re- turn together. He greets me and parts from me in the same manner; his speech of greeting or farewell is in the same, toile. Try and imagine what it is like yourself, • But then you couldn't -you could never -care as I care." ' "Do you think not?" Sybil mur- mured. "Perhaps I am wrong," Lucille con- tinued. "Mine is the love of the tigress. Perhaps in time I should tire of him. But while I live -while I. live it is torture! He gives me not a word, not a look. Sometimes I have cried and, sobbed all night. The very 'tissues of my body are wearing= away. • I lie awake end I ache, rny heart aches, for the touch of his fin- gers, for even a sight of hint Some days I am so weak thattI can scarce- ly crawl about. One would :think that he could see it, that for pity's own sake he would- pretend. He nev- er does. There's nobody in life can be so cruel as .the men who doesn't care can be to the wo,maie who does . . , I went to a doctor the other day. He told me that there was nothn)g e matter with me. I could have lau hed when I came away!" • `/Sir J mes Bondman is your doe - ter,' is not?" Sybil asked quietly. LUC]: e glanced across at her. "Why do you ask that? , Yes, he is 'my •dlecter. Nothing the matter with me -that is what he said! And I know -I know that my heart is breaking. Have you ever thought of death, .Miss Cluley? No, you needn't trouble to, answer me, It doesn't really matter. Of course you've thought of it! Only wish• I could make you realize what a •horrible dread' one can feel of death when One has never for one second been happy in lifetime. I said just now three . years. If Jermyn were mine for one week I could meet death more bravely. But to feel yourself grow- ing weaker and weaker, to feel your- self getting worn hunger gnawing at your heart -.strings --that's what I am going through day by day! There isn't any ranting Calvinist with the gift of tongues who ,could portray hell to a hysterical audience as I am feeling it. u see, I am not trying to e myself. I am not trying to that I am sorry - I don't •kn . a 'I am. But I am in such a state that I can't bear it any longer. You have a career, you are only a child yet. This state of things can't be the happiest for you. Give me my three years. A little suffering won't do you any harm. the best way out."' ''Eteen if I were willing," Sybil said slowly, "I do not see that any- thing which I could do would help you. , You know very well that Jer- myn Le not the sort of man to. be easily deceived. We have made our wonderful corn:pact. If I were to tell him to-merrow that I desired to break it, he would never agree; he would insist upon explanations." Lucille leaned eagerly forward. freaelert vfh.v , • , (Continued next week.) A' HEALTH SERVICE OF THE CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES IN CANADA It 14440 'IA, L ,e• , s • ' HMI, leen REPO ,O9130 „ leeei*e•ofiISAN INEVENSOCIOQ APP:P.41/4 Fekr,ILITI47, IffAniVIOES OKY 'eta Mireed r %%LK. ATTENDANTS ca CA GARAGE anntialaRN40,10400. . Quinn .KENTY OF 0.1inPAjmniasp4a ' g Rates', kI:140 HOTEL WAVERLEY Spading Avenue and Calicos Strut 1w410 1.4 faldas. We know that health is to he found by following certain simple rules of, hygienic living. We do not Mean that we Must live according to rules, but rather that these rules should( serve us as guides. The first rule tells us that moder- ation in all things is good for us and that excesses do us harm. Regu- larity in living promotes the-seneeth- er running of the body. 'Work and play are both desirable. Hard work does not kill, but when work interferes with the rest which is needed, then it becomes overwork and is actually harmful. The same may be said of play. Play is health- ful, but play which goes on and takes up the hours which should be spent in sleep is anything but good far the health bf the player. 'Moderation and regularity should govern our eating. Regular meals which include, in addition to meat and' cereals, fresh vegetables, milk and fruits, provide the balanced diet which will keep the body strong and well. To this should be added fresh air and sunshine. Take an.....hour's 'walk or other exercise out of doors every day is advice which is worth repeat- ing. Keep the body clean; wash the hands before eating and 'brush the teeth night and morning. Healthocrats will tvisit their family doctor each year for a periodic health examination. Early detection of any abnormal condition means prompt correction and the prevention of more serious conditions. Advice on per- sonal habits of living is needed. There is no secret about health. It is a personal matter with: each one. You can secure the largest measure of health if you are guided in your living by the simple rules which have been mentioned. Attention, Cattle Shippers! • Hon. Thomas L. Kennedy announces that the 'Government has been fortun- ate in securing offers for spaces a- vailaible to Ontario cattle raisers wishing to export suitable cattle to the Old Country. Shipments have to be made in,car- lots and the ideal weights for export are from 1,000 pounds to 1,300 pounds. Farriers in different districts are arranging to make up shipments to Old Country markets. Cattle may be shipped freight collect and laid down in Birkenhead or Glasgow at a cost of $24.50 to $25.00 per head. Sales costs in Great Britain are around $5 per head additional. Colonel Kennedy announces that cattle shipments to Great Britain will be met on arrival in the Old Coun- try and every thing done to promote sales to best advantage, reports 'bre- ing made back to the shippers by the Agent General's office, in London. En- quiries for space should be addressed to the Ontario 'Marketing Board, Parliament Building, Toronto. LONDON AND WINGHAM South. P.M. Wingham 1.55 Belgrave 2.11 Blyth 2.23 Londesboro 2.30 Clinton . . 3.08 Brucefield 3.27 Kippen 3.35 Frensall . • e 3.41 Exeter 3.65 Exeter Hensall Kippen Brucefield Clinton t:- Londesboro Blyth Belgrave Wingharn North. C. N. R. East. Goderich Clinton Seaforth Dublin Mitchell West. • • Dublin Seaforth Clinton Goderich A.M. 6.45 7.08 7.22 7.33 7.42 A.M. 10.42 - 10.55 11.01 11.09 11.64 12.10 12.19 12.30 12.50 P.M. 2.30 3.00 3.18 3.31 3.43 11.19 9.32 11.34 9.46 11.50 9.59 12.10 10.25 C. P. R. TIME TABLE East. ItEALTTIOCRATS . Technocracy is a neve term, lau t the Menset 6.56 6.50 ,, condition which it describes has ex- Maw isted siiice' the invention of the first Auburn 6.04, ' 6.11 machine. Those who believe that Blyth 6.25 our lives should be governed by uhYs- Walton 6.40 ical and mental health might he call - McNaught ed healthocrats. This is a new term Toronto AM. . tions, we are better able to secure -Toronto has always striven to preserve health. , To -day, in spite of economic condi- 1670...42552 toobut not a new idea, for mankind West. 0 .. .. health than we hafee ever been 'be- McNaught the nature of disease and the funda- Blyth mentals of health, we have greater Auburn opportunities to avoid disease and to McGaw 34 12 ple of any other thne. • Goderich ,.... . 1122.2486 12. enjoy good health than had the peo- Menset .41 1121- 1 45 fore. Because more is known about Walton 12.121 11, rn i • le • \• d••' •