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The Huron Expositor, 1939-03-24, Page 6} " • lr: CONTAtes Vt7AMIN at ' 'SECOND INSTALMENT • SYNOPSIS When the wealthy foster par- ents of Marjorie Wetherill both dpe She finds a letter telling that 'she has a twin: sister, that she was adopted when her own( par- : eats couldn't afford to support . bath of them and needed money to save her sister's life and that her real name is Dorothy Gay. Alone in the world, but with a fortune of her own, she considers looking up her own family whom she has 'never seen. A neighbor, Evan Bower, tries to argueher out of it and tells her he loves • her and asks cher to marry him. She promises to think it over but at the time is more concerned with finding her fam;ily- She looked up at him quietly, and smiled a cold little wistful smile. Then she added: "I'm sorry to seem so--uncentain— anxd so — unappreciative — of your —love. But I just can't seem to think to -night!" He was a wise young man and he saw that he couldn't get any furthe. tonight. He studied her for a moment and then his lips set in a firm line of de- termination. "Very well," the said quite cheer- fully. "I am just. your friend far new, but a very special friend, you know. One whom you can call upon for any- thing. Will you feel that?"% She smiled with relief. "Yes," she said. "Thank you! Good migrhtl" and she put out her hand and gave his a brief impersonal clasp. Marjorie found she was too excited to ,sleep when she laid her head on her pillow.. But strangely enough it was not on the eager protests of love that her mind dwelt most during that night's vigil, but more on his insis- rtenee that she should not search out her people. And the more She thought of it, the less she thought ,of Evan. She awoke in the morning with the definite purpose in her heart to get the matter over with at once. Sthe would start right away before any - .thing else could possibly delay her. If any more people came in and tried to turn her from 'her purpose she would become bewildered again. She called up the station and made her reservations on a train that left the city a little after si. that night. She took her check book and pier.,,, -'_money, carefully stewed as she had been eeeeht to do when travelling. She left no r.1dress with anybody. She did not wane anyone coming after her to try and titre::'_ ber in whatever she should deckle to do. And so at last she was on her way, quite worn out with the tumult of her decision and herr preparations The next morning she arrived in the strange city and went to a 'hotel. After attempting a sketchy break- fast she took a taxi and drove to the address she had been given in the letter. It seemed a very long drive, out through a scrubby part of the city, and then into a sordid street 'of lit- tle cheap houses all alike. brick houses with wooden porches in an endless row, block after block, with untidy vacant lots across the street, ending in unpleasant ash heaps. It was before the last house in the row that -the taxi stoppedt, The driver handed her her check, opened the door, and she got out her purse. "I think perhaps you bad better wait for me a minute or two until I make sure this is the right place," she said hesitantly, as she eyed the house with displeasure. So, on feet that were strangely unsteady she got out and went slowly up 'the two wooden steps to the door that stadly needed paint. There was no bell so she knocked timidly, and then again louder as she heard no sound of life within. She was just about to turn away, almost hoping they were gone, and she would have no clue to search further, when she (heard hurried eteps on a bare floor, and the door was opened sharply, altrios t im- patiently. Then she found herself face to face with a replica of herself! "Does Mrs. George Gay live here?" Sthe said the words because she bad prepared them on her lips to say, but she was so startled at the apparition of herself !n the flesh standing before her that she did not realize she had asked the question. She just stood there and stared and stared at this other girl who was so like and yet so unlike herself. The other girl had the same cloud of golden hair, only it was flying in every direction, not smoothly waved in the way it aught to lie; the same •brown eyes, only they were full of . bitterness, and trouble, and a kind of fright in the depth of them; the same delicate lips, only they were set in hard lines as if the grim reals- - ties of life had been too close to her. : "Well," she said with a finial little shiver, opening the door a trifle wid- er, "I suppose you must be my twin sister! Will you come in?" Her voice was most ungracious, but she stood aside in the tiny hell to let the other girl pass in. "Oh! Are you—? That is— "I didn't know -el" said Marjorie in confusion. Then she turned sudden- ly to the taxi and nodded brightly. "It's all right," .she said. 'They still live here!" "But they probably won't for long," added the ether girl grimly. "Oh, are you going to move? Then I'm glad I came before you did, for 1 might have bad trouble finding you." "Yes," said the other giri un - seining, "you probably would." Then she,euotioned toward a single wooden chair`' in the middle of the room. Won't you sit down? We still have one -chair left, though I believe Ted is going to take it to the paveshop this afternoon: There isn't any heat here. Will you take cold?" There was something contemptuous in the tone of this +hostile sister. Marjorie gave her a quick troubled glance. "Are you really my sister?" "1 suppose I must be," said the other girl listlessly, as if it didn't in the least .natter, "there's your picture up there on the mantel. Maybe you'll recognize that. If you had waited till afternoon ,that would probably have been gone too." ' "You know, I 9/6&I 911abw4 'A WHET. WELL CONDUCTED, CONVENIENT. MODERN t00 ROOM 11U0YEL--•8S WITN BATH MR$TE POI! ,FOI;bEFI. TAKE 'A DE LeekTAXI l tiara Own Oa INHARP-25o ale didn't even know I had a sister until day -before yes- terday!" The other booked at her with hard unbelieving eyes. "That's odd, isn't it? How did that come about?" "No' one told me," she answered sadly. "Oh, yes? Then how did you find out?" "I found a letter—from Mother— that is from my adopted mother after she died. She left a letter to tell me about .thy people." "You mean Mr. and Mrs. Wether- ill are both dead?" The tone was in- credulous. "Yes, I am alone in the world now, except for you—my own family." The ' other girl's face grew • very hard and bitter now. "Oh!" she said shortly. "1 won- dered why you came after alt these years when you haven't paid the slightest attention to us. You with your grand home and your aris- tocratic parents, and your fine edu- cation! What could you possibly want with us? But I see it now. They 'have died and left you penni- less, I suppose, after all their grand pretensions, and you have come back on us to live. Well, we'll take you in of course. Mother wouldn't have it otherwise, but I'll say it's something like the end of a perfect day to have you turn up just slow." "Oh, I'm sorry," said Marjorie distressed at once. "I ought to have telephoned to see if it was con- vendent,-"but . I was so eager to find field to get g'olnle light hie for Mother? Don't you know Father hasn't had any work •fol' iii ie months, and Mother is sick Upats in bed with all the blankets we own piled around , her and a +1t,ot wator bag at her feet? She's getting pneumonia, I'm afraid, and I had to lope .ry job 'to stay home and take care .of her. Don't you know that Dad' is sick him- self, but be had to go out and beg the landlord to let us stay a few drays more till Mother is better—? And I guess Tied has lost his newspaper route, and I've had to take the chil- dren to the neighborhood nursery, to keep them warm and fed? If you stay here with us .you'll have to pawn that fur coat to get enough to eat!" Suddenly the sister's head went dawn again and more silent sobs shook her. It was terrible to look upon. Marjorie felt it was the most awful sight .she had ever seen. Suddenly she stood back and un- buttoned her coat, slid out of it and wrapped it warmly around her sis- ter. "There! There! You precious sis- ter!" she said softly, laying her lips on the other girl's. you. And you don't at all realize anything about it. I've not came home to be a burden on you. I thought maybe I could spend Christ- mas with yen. I know how you must feel. You re moving, and frightfully busy, but you'll let ole help, won't you?" "Moving!" sneered her sister. "Yes, we'd be moving right away today if we had any place to move to! And any money to 'hove wltih! And anything to mover Christmas! I didn't know there was such a thing any store!" And suddenly she drop-, ped .down M. the vacant chair, jerk- ing her hands out from the ragged pockets of her olid coat, put them up to her face and burst into tears, sob- bing until., .]ver slender body shook with the force of the sobs. Yet it w'as all done very quietly as if there was same reason why she 'must not make a noise. 'Marjorie went close and .put her arms about beer, ' her face down against the other's wet cheek. "O+h, my dear!" she said brokenly. '`My dear!" And then her own tears were falling, and she held the weep- ing girl close. "But you are cold! So cold you are trembling! Can't we go into another room where it i5 warm and let me tell you how you have misunderstood me? Come!" Then the girl lifted her face and spoke fiercely again. • ce, "Come?" the said•- "Where shall we come? Don't you know there hasn't •been a teaspoonful of coal in this :house for two days, and that we've burned up all the .chairs that aren't sold to try and keep 'from freez- ing --except this one that has to be "Oh, but 1 barer" she Cried eagerly', and put then hand into her puree, pull- ing out a nice fat rola of 'bills and slipping them into her sister's hand. "There," she said, "go quick and pay the bill and get the coal!" The other girl looked down at her hand, saw the large denominations of the billy she was holding, and looked up in wonder. Then her face chang- ed and an alert look came, prkto stole slowly up, and the taint golor that had come into her cheeks faded, leav- ing her ghastly White again. "We coulditet take it!" she said fiercely. "We could never pay it •back. Theme le no use!" and she held it out, to Marjorie. "Nonsense!" said Marjorie. "You are my family, aren't you? It's my mother who is cold, isn't it?" "After all these years? You stay- ing away and never sending us any word? No! You're adopted and be- long to that other woman, and it's her money, not ours. We can't take it!" "Look here!" said Marjorie, her owns eyes flashing nova till they re- sembled leer sister's even more strongly than at first, "I didn't ask to be adopted, did I? I didn't have any choice in the matter, did I? I was adopted before I knew what was going on, and L didn't •know anything about you. You have no right to blame me that way!" Then suddenly the other girl jumped up and fiun+g Marjorie's coat back at her. "Ail right!" she said. "Put on your own coat. Maybe it's all true. I don't know. I've hated you and the Wetlherills se long that I don't know whether I can ever get over it or not, but I've got to .try and save my neether's life, even if it is with that ether woman's money ! " (Continued Next Week) But her sister struggled up fierce- ly, her pride blazing in her eyes, her acrn's flinging off the coat. "No!" she said, "no I won't wear your coat even, for a minute." But Marjorie caught it together about her again and held it there. "Look there!" she said with au- thority. "Stop acting this way! I'm your sister and I've come to help you! You can't fling me off this way! And we• haven't time to fight! We've got to get busy. What's the first thing to do? Make a fire? Where can I find a man to trend for coal?" "You can't," said her sister sul- lenly, "they won't trust us till the bill is paid, and we've nothing to pay it with." Her eyes were smold- ering like slow fires, and her face Was filled with shame as she con- fessed this, but ,Marjorie's eyes lit with joy. "1 shall be everlastingly indebted to you, old man, if you'll lend me a dollar." "Yes, I know. That's the trouble!" • The Proposed Increase of 33'/3% in GASOLINE TAX 'I'I= IT IS proposed by the Goverrirhent of the Province cel (.)t:,ario to increase the tax on gasoline from six cents to eight cents per gallon. This increase, if nladc means that the average motorist, driving 10,000 miles in a year and getting 18 miles to the gallon out of his car will pay over $10 ad- ditional to the gasoline tax of $33.33 which be is now paying. Figure it out for yourself. From six cents to eight cents a gallon means this : • Takes Now Proposed Proposed (excluding Taxes Increase license) After Anr. 1, 1939 334% 10,000 miles* per year $33.33 $4.4.44 $11.11 15,000 miles* per year 49.98 66.66 16.66 20,000 miles* per year 66.66 88.88 22.22 * (18 miles per gallon) Gas Tax per Week Per Car $ .85 1.28 1.70 The average car owner is not a rich man. He does not drive a new car. Out of 582,212 passenger car registrations in Ontario in 1938 but 48,561 were new cars. Yet the automobile owner is the most heavily taxed man in the community. In 1936 he was already contributing 30% of the provincial revenue. Here are the figures for 1936 and 1937, the latest official figures from the Government. 1936 1937 1938 The Provincial Revenue was $90,321,896 $99,838,595 The Provincial Taxation on gasolinet16,049,857 17,644,164 *818,318,171 * This figure is based upon the, percentage increase in gasoline consumption, which percentage figure was obtained from government sources. f Coupled with license fees in 1936, this TAX represents 30% of the Provincial Revenue. Since the motorist already bears 30% of the taxation burden of the Province, it is manifestly unfair to increase the burden. Provincial Revenue from the taxation of Motor Vehicles, Ontario, 19:36: Paid by the public in Gasoline Taxation 816,049,857 Paid by the public in Licenses, etc 11,144,956 Spent by the Government in Highway Construction and Maintenance: (All Provincial Expenditures) $ 9,419,509 Interest and Sinking Fund 13,630,543 $27,194,813 $23,050,052 Diverted $ 4,144,761 In 1936 money collected for highway maintenande was being diverted from this purpose to the extent of 84,000,000. - There is not available from official Government sources Expenditure on Roads, Interest and Sinking Fund charges, etc. subsequent to 1936. It is now proposed to secure an additional 86,000,000 from the motorists of the Province through an increase in the gasoline tax from 'taix to eight cents per gallon. While the motorist, as a citizen, has been willing to assist the Government in problems of administration, a limit must be set to the burden imposed upon him. If you, as a car owner, are content to assume the added burden represented by a 2 -cent increase in the gasoline tax, there is nothing you need do. Your silence will be interpreted as consent. If you are not content, and wish to place yourself on record to that effect in the only quarter where your objection will carry weight, call at your regular service station, whether it be a B -A station or any other,, and ask for a card which has been distributed for yoiir convenience. , Just sign it, fill in your address, and leave it Wsith the station attendant. 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