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CHAPTER 11 •
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SYNOD
Althou•gh the contracting busi-
ness "of the Craigend Engin-
eering Co. is in a slump, Leonard
Borland has enough money' put
aside to pay his tirife's expenses
when she decides to resume her
singing career, which was inter-
rupted by her marriage and the
birth of their tsVo children. His
wife, Doris, Insists that he has al-
ways thwarted her ambitions, in
spite of the fact that she invar-
iably .gets her own way. Doris'
singing teacher, Hugo Lorentz,
encourages her to give a recital.
Hertz, a famous music critic, has
vaguely 'promised to give her a
notice; and 'when Doris learns
that he has the wrong date, she
persuades Leonard to of) to his
apartment. Hertz .is courteous,
but uninterested. On the way out
Leonardis embarrassed by the
laughter of two women who have,
apparently heard the tonversa-
tion. • One • of • the women is
Hertz's wife. The other is . un-
known to Leonard, but he _noticee
that she is wearing a hat:" The
recital, which is politely received
by their friends, proses, as Leon-
ard himself suspected, that Doris
can't sing. After the recital, an
opera singer named Cecil Carver
palls Leonard and tells him she
overheard the conversation in
Hertz's epartment
-"Were you the one in the hat?"
Leonaid asked.
"Yes, of course," replied Cecil.
"Well, I've got a• little -quarrel with
you."
"What for?"
• "For laughing at me. What was
so funny?"
"Why, you're quite mistaken. Mr
"Hertz and I were talking; I may have
been laughing, .but not at • you.
Why-"
"All right, then. What is it?" •
"Nothing, only -well, I judged from'
what you said that you wanted a
competent opinion on your wife's
in
•sging. I dropped in at that recital.
Perhaps you'd like to know what I
thought?"
"I'd be del
"Then why not drop. oVer„and see
delighted."
me?"
"I don't know any reason why
not . ."
She had a suite up on the tenth
floor with a grand piano in it and
music scattered all over the place,
and •she let me in' herself. She was
good-looking, all right:- She had a
pale ivory skin; but her hair was
"Naas anasse,..wete 'her eyes. ,
She had a drink ready, and asked
me if I was a musician.' I said no, I
was a contractor, and next thing I
knew "had had two drinks and was
gabbling about myself like some
drummer in"achair car. ,
After 'a while, though, I pulled-up,
and said, "Well?"• and she switched
off to Doris." Your wife has a .r,e,1
markable voice, and iter tone is *ell
produced. Of course .
"co on, What else?"
"I would .critfeize her style.,_;But
good style doesn't -come in -a -day: lf,
she works at -it, that ought to come
around"
"Then you think she ought to go
on?"«.
• "With such looks and, such a voice,
certainly."
With that we dropped' it. In spite
of all' she •said, it added up' to faint
praise. A boy carne in with a note.
"Something wrong?" ' .
"I'm sorry 1 said. she was no good.
She really has a voice. She might
improve . • (Maybe I was jealous
of her."
She started to laugh. "You could
have knocked me over with a straw
when I saw Hugo Lorentz coming
out there to the piano."
"You -know him?" •-••••••
"Known him for years. I hadn't
seen him since he played for me in
Berlin last winter."
"I've had my suspicions about Hu-
m.
"You needn't have."
"I thought he was taking he; for a
ride."
• "He's not. She's, taking him for a
ride. He said she does nothing but
torture hint- aitd every other man -she
gets into her clutches,"
'What• about these other men she's
got her clutches on?" 3 •
"For heaven's sake, can't a woman
that good-looking have a little bit of
a good time? What do you -,care?
You're having a good -time, aren't
you? Right now? I'll sock ,you if
you say -you're net" • •
"Believe it or not, this is tnY first
offense." •
"And you've got her, havenn.you?"
"No. I'm just one other man she's
got her clutches on, one more sap to
torture."
"You noel. dear, You are crazy
about her, 'aren't yoh?"
"Come on; what about these other
men?"
She thought a Ring"time;- and then
"Leonard, I'm not going to tell
you any more that Hugo said, ex-
cept, this: That no' man gets any
favors from her, if Nara:what you're
worried about. ' And especially Hugo
doesn't. She sees that they keep ex-
cited, but inside she's 'as cold as ice,
and thinks of nothing but herself."
"You're not telling me anything I
don't know." . '
"I 'hate that woman,."
"I spent half my time -hating her
and balf any time being insane about
her. What's she got, anyway?"
.• "One. thing s'he' S got is a face that
a man would commit suicile for. An-
other thing she's got is a figure,'
stand up and commit suicide for alt
over again. And another thing she's
got is a healthy .professional interest
in. 'the male of the species, that en-
joys sticking pins into it just' to see
it wriggle. But if you want ber, I'm
determined yeti' re going tO have her.
And really have her. You see, 1 like
you pretty well."
like you a. little, myself."
"That woman has got to be hurt."
"You think you could hurt Doris?
Listen;' you'd 'be going up against
• something." •
• "You" didn't hurt her.•aritere.41-11mrt.
In' the- -triumph department, baby:
You go get yourself •a qtriump,h, arid
see her wriggle' out -of that."
• "Oh, gosh, I 'thought you had an
idea!"
"You're going. to give a recital. A:nd
will that fix her!"
"So I'm going to give a recital.
Well, 'in the first place T can't sing,
and in the second place I don't want
to sing, and in the third place it's
just plain silly."
'Le,ona,rd, you°put yourself in my
• hands, it- yeti dok-just what I:Ay:TIT
have you singing like an angel, in any
concert hall in town. within a year.
Or maybe with one of the symphony
orchestras . Let her try and'
laugh' that off! Baby. do you want
-that womin? Do .you want her eat-
ing mit of your hand? Do-"
I opened my eyes to razz it some
more, but all of a sudden a picture
•popped in front of my eyes, of how
Her eyes Weienl wide open anymore.- 'They were halt „.„..d to a •
emits% of slinesithea she kissed Inc. and kissed bard-
.
. •
"0,h, some song they sang in the
Navy during the war. Something
about a destroyer. Isn't that annoy-
ing?" •
"Oh, that song."'
"Yon knows' !tr.
"Suite. I was a gob M the war
when I was a kid."
• "Well, for heavens sake sing it!"
She 'sat down' to the piano and
started to play it. She already inert
the tune. I sang:
She got up, •wittked o'er to the sofa -
and sat down, her face perfeotly
whita.
"Borland,'! she said, "your wl s no
gqod."
"But you have vole."
„ "You have a voice."
• Her eyes weren't wide open any
more. They were halt closed, to a
cou;ple of slits. Then she kissed me,
and, kiSSed hard.
"What made you go to-HertZ1' she
asked. "Didn't you know any bet-
ter?"
syme
"Then Why did you. do it?" .
"I had to"
She twisted het Masi ardend,
*bete• it trao oto shohlder, and
looked at me, "You're crazy about
her,aren't you?"
"More at less."
Doris would iookssut there, listening -
to ane, and I started to laugh.
"What's the matter?"
"It's the Most -cockeyed thing I ev-
er heard in my life. But -all right.
We'll' pretend that's how it's gbing
to come out."
• "You'll 'have to .work."
"I'm used to work."
"You'll have •to study tctusie, and
sight reading, and harmony, and
languages, especially Italian."
"Perche devo studiaresl'italiano?"
"You speak Italian?" -
"Nowt I tell you I 'started out, as
ah architect? We all take our two
rare In Italy, studying the old ruins.
Sure, I speak Rattan"
."Oh, you darling . . . I'll want
payment"
"I'Se got enough meney."
"Who's talking about money? I
'want kisses, and lots of them."
"Well, gee! That sounds swell."
* 0 *
It's bne thing to start something
like. that, but it's something else to
go throtigh with it. I bought a tun.
Ing' folk and iionie exetchie
*iamb 71111 , on the third flbor of •
MiteltfOrland Building, and hit -ha
ed o -r" &tithing; hoping snob'
40WAkOar then .the aft
hoe 'go -dizVii and tali a, lest'
Mid Make some --Ipaynnetirts. I 1
"
paying better than learning, and I
felt plenty like a fool. •
But then Cecil sent me over to a
music school. .fer course in sight
.reading. 11 *as taught by a French-
man named Guizot, and along with
the sight reading he gave us a little
harmony. When I found out that
music has strticture to it, just -as a
bridge has, right away I began to get
interested.. I took Guizot on for some
private lessons, and began to work.
He', gave me exercise's to do, melodies
to harmonize, and chords to unscrane
lake; and I rented • a piano and, had
•that moved in, so I could hear what
I was doing.I couldn't play it .. _but
I could hit the chords, and' that was
the main- thing. ,
Then he talked to me about ,sym-
phonies, and of course I. had to dig
into them. .1 bought a little phono-
graph and a nook of symPhony al-
bums, and got the' scores and began
to take them apart, so I could see how
'they were put together. The scores
you don't buy; they cost too,-ttruch;'
But I rented them, and first I'd have
one for a -Couple of weeks and -then
I'd have another.
The sight readin was tough. You
just stand up there and read it, with-
out any piano to give ,yoii the tune,
or anything else.' ••I never heard of
11 until Cecil began, to talk about it,
didn't. even know what it meant. But
took it on, just like the rest of it,
and heat intervals into my head with
the piano until I could hear them in
my sleep. After a while I ;knew I was
making progreas, but then when I'd
go down to Cecil and try 'to .read
something off while she played the
accompaniment; I'd get all mixed up
and have to stop. She spotted the
reason for i. "You're not watching
the words," she said. "You can read
the exercises, because alt you have
to think about is the music.- But
songs have words too, and you have
to sing them. You .ean:'t just go la -
la -la. Look at the words; don't look
at the notes. Your 'eye will half see
them without your looking at them,
but the main thing is the words. Get
.them 'right- and the music? will sing
itself."
I tried the way she said, and sure
enough it came a little better. I kept
doing harder exercises all the time,'
and then one day, I knewil wouldn't
have to study sightreading any more.
could read anything. . Y
' The 'ha-ha stuff was the worst. I
did what Cecil told me, and she seem-
ed satisfied, but to me it *as just a
pain in the neck. But then one day
Something happened. A sound came
out of my throt.that made me jump.
It was a big; 'round highiktone that
shook the room. I tried Wegain, and
Aval_LIdza, ,yooffeLsiter-
time that day, trying tn it °bank,
•-and. was about to • give up when, It
came again. I opened ft up; and
stood, there listening to it swell. Then
I began going still- higher with it. It
got an edge on it, like a tenor, ,but
at the same time it war big and
round land, full. I went upkevith it
was afraid to go any higher,
and then 1 checked pitch •on the piano.
I. was an A.
• That afternoon Cecil was iSo es-
cite(I by it she ,almost forgot • abed'
payment. "It's hat -PVC heetrWatt:
ing for. But I had no idea it was
that good."
"Say, jt sounds great! How did
you kntiw it was 'there'!"
, "It's my business to, know. What
a baritone!"
"Hey! Come here." . '
"Sing- me one more song."
(Continued Next Week)"
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WinTo
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Alex Crawford, of town. wtho is.. in
terIng-in-rlorida, St. Petersburg, is
up to his old trick on the bowling
green. .Recently Alex won.. the Mer-
cer singles tournament turning aside
all opposition with ease until he went
into the finals. ''"Ilere is what Prank
Curran has to say about the final
game in the Si. Petersburg paper
"The Mercer singles tournament came
to an end when Alex Crawford de-
feated Arthur Hartley 109-81, in an-
other game in which the Winner
showed complete mastery of his set
of bowls. • The score seesawed back
and forth, fcir nine ends. 'and was a
tie at that paint, but the rest of de
-
way Crawford had the better of it
and kept inereasing his lead on each
end. One surprising feature of the
game was the 10 -point end that Hart-
ley scored •ou the fifth end, only to
have Crawled duplicate It two ends
later."-Winghnm Advance -Times.
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same flowers or bouquets that they
wore when first married, although
somewhat dried up in _these years,
but they ,had, been carefully preserv-
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On. a peaceful August evening 23
years ago, the 8th Battalion of Winn-
nipeg debussed near Amiens after a
fast and secret move to the south
from the Vimy sector. They marched
toward • the line through a darkness
that was mumbling and talking with
surreptitious traffic. All the world
seemed to",be tip -toeing, and on the
mova_ixt_the Sur -rounding night: Tanks
whirred and lurched across country,
but their voices seemed to be muted.
Every crossroad was a clutter of
horse and motor transport, but the
extensive vocabularies of revilings,
possessed by all harried mule -skin-
ners, Were stilled by the 'prevailing
liiish."„Long ammunition columns and
battery gun -limbers shouldered heav-
ily -laden files of infantry to the ditch-
es, but the usual inter -service expos-
tulation was strangely subdued.
It was the historic,. lastrinittute as-
sembly of the Canadian Corps for the
surprise attack at dawn on August 8.
Everything was streaming eastward
through 'the night for the assault
which has since become famous in
history as Germany's "Black Day."
Watching the shadowy files of the
8th Battalion moving past the dark-
ened doorway of his new Headquar-
ters, was a big man wearing a Lieu-
tenant General's rank -badges. 1e was
suddenly thrilled to the sole -studs of
his dust -covered field boots. ' , •
The- Little -Black Devils were -sing-
ing on the mareh! . •
' It was not that the Canadians bad
stopped' the' cheery habit, of easing.
weary miles with their marching
songs that their strident Chorus now
elated the Corps commander. They
had missed all the shock and attri-
tion of the German's powerful offen-
sives in the spring of 1918, which for
k time infected British infantry with
a vengeful gloom so that they had.
taken to plodding the •Frencb cobble
..a.nr1 Flernt.sh! pave in stalitl---sirence.•
But singing soldiers had been almost
a rarity in recent dark weeks, and
Sir Arthur CArrie heard the voices
of the 8th Battalion stalwarts as an
omen of victory for file morrow. He
tuned to an 4i(le and impulsively eN"
claimed., "Nailing wilf stop thse..
boys!"
Leading the, 8th Battalion's noc-
t rnal 'rendition of "Mactiaiara's
and' 1 bat memorable August 'night
'as a youth who 'had been born op a
Manitoba farm, and who had been
named for the 'nearby prairie village
of .Aletander-Corporal Alex Brere-
ton, of the Lewis guns.
It. was an historic march for the
untie Black Devils, though' they, did
not realize that they were • heading
for the di -et Canadian battle of me-
chanized. • war, and an assault -which
so clearly marked the turning of
war'tide that the entire British Army
would start singing again. It was ev-
en more memorable' for Corporal
Brereton though he, too, did not know
its portent and that he actually„In as
marching toward immortality in, the
story of the First German War..
When the first hipt of sun heraltted
historic August itl3he green un-
shelled countrysi east of Amiens. -
was guileless and uiet. shrouded and
dripping from the heavy dawn mists.
The surprise attack had been so well
organized that it was moUnted and
launched while the German, trench -
holders were still confident Nat the
Canadians were in process pf taking
over trenches near Vpreei, 40 miles to
the north. Behind the enemy's lines,
impressed French peasants roused to
just another day of early harvesting.
The concerted crash of hundreds of
unregistered guns spoke out at 4.20
a.m. Low-flying airplanes helped
drown the engine -roar of 127 light
and '324 heavy tanks, which had sud-
denly debouched from their hides
live minutes before the barrage broke.
In aii-incredibly short time groups of
prisorierS in Qerman. feld grau were
being herded down the Amiens-Roye
road under the menace of armoured
oars and solitary infantrynie'n.
That first day's battle Was such a
startling triumph that it marked the
end of 'fighting with our eyes look-
ing over ourshoulderti to the sea."
"How you must love yotir 'husband!
Every time I come here you are writ-
ingt� him!"
"Don't distract me or I will get the
total wrong!"
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The combination of surprise and 1was certain to be annihilated. The
tanks made the advance so rapid that , line desperately huggedthe ground,
it outraced tb,e barrage in the early ;except for, one man -Corporal Brere-
atagase and - then drew beyond field- ton.
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gun range. In two hours 16,000 pris-j., At once appreciating the hazard of
onera had been captured; by noon.. their position, The Lewis -gun corporal
tanks and armoured cars were nearly defiantly stood erect. With -• • con -
12 miles into German held territory.' temptuous disregard for the seething
But ,Priday, August 9, was a differ- flail from the guns, he • coolly observ-
ent story. The advantage of Surprise ed that there were six of ,them, that
was over. 'Many. tanks had beeh they were sited* roughly in a row, and
knocked out: The advance was cotn- that if the nearest heavily -manned
inginto country :that could be more post, were overcome the balance could -
strongly defended. The opposition also be captured.
stIddenly stiffened and all around. won A cautious mat 'would have sought
was conquered • only with difficulty cover after that triose -lip strvey; he
and. heavy. casualties. It Was dui!ing would have been entent leave!,the.
this day of heat, dust and' .olistitkate; initiative tohis superiors-. But Brere-
fighting by the defenders, that young ton, with a• surge of the ,hig.h gallan-
Alex Brereton rose to .the height:4 of try of which only heroes' are made,
valor. ! rushed headlong for the first post -
The' 8th Battalion took position ard the gin which kk as 'causing tbe great -
sheltered i.n , a wood, while the day.' est havoc. ' •c
zero hour was moved forward again Armed 'with 44 rifle now. Brereton
and aza in as they waited fin;tanks shot the nearest flerman through the
arid it'riillery- to, get into -place. In, head. !As a second runner franpcally
front was a German position whose trlvd to slAw, tha.muzzle-to*ards'the
banked. machine•guns pinned •dawn-Ilrine atts,!ker, Tirereton Wed him -
the 4111 Division at the end of 1;hei.r.1 self into 1he trench, bayonetting the
attack the day before, ! It had to be tnan as he jumped. The nine men re -
overcome before an advance in depth maining in the post were so discoa-
could be achieved. • ' ! certed by the corporal's impetuous
But the tanks .failed to arrive and bravery that they surrendered.
the light harrage, which • was put The reaction to Brerettm's gallant
down at 1 p.m. when the assault was act was immediate. Inspired by his
finally launched, 'failed to crush the audacious. courage and answering his
deadly menace of the machine guns directions and commands, his platoon,
in 'the 8th Battalion' a centre. It was swiftly rushed the remaining, five
to the infantry to deal with' their paa'ts, the whole position falling a
obstacles themselves, without aid matter Of moments after Brereton's
from stIpporting arms. • sin.gle-hamleil success.
With •"B" and "C" Companies in Later that day,. when the final ob-
the lead, the Battalion moved reso- jectire hail been consolidated, Con,
lutely into viewand started across para.1 Brereton ' found that he had.
open ground. The fire' at once iticreas; ..plissed death so narrowly that a ma -
ed to a murderous hail. Man after chine -gun bullet had slashed a note -
man went doWn, hit, With a erash of book carried in the breast pocket of
equipment. They took it in , short his tunic, 'Pretty closeV" was, his
'rushes and still the- casualties %KEW' la-C-Ottle comment as he sent it to his .
appalling. The first -wave platoon mother for a Souvenir.
wris, suddenly caught on an opeu slope - Brereton. who enlisted with the
under the veritable noses of a raw )*4th -Battalion in January, 1916, was
of 'Maxims, which opened on them. back in service at an early date in
with a Irancerted sweep. the present' war. He is new a Gom-
The remnants as suddenly , took pany Quarter Master Sergeant on
cover. 'here was to little protection et. h e staff' of the Military Training
on the exposed slope, that in a mat-, Centre at Grande Prairte. Alberta.
ter of moments the entire platoon
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