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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1942-04-17, Page 7McCONNELL', HAG'S Barristers, : Solteitgrn; Etc Patt ie'k p. 11zcCoillnet1 H.-cllenn Hays QNT TePephOne i`i-t ,: E. I. MCLEM41 ssee- Barristers. Solicitor, Etc. SEAFORTH - - .ONTARIO Branch Office - Herman Hensall ' Seaforth Phone 113 Phone 173 MEDICAL SEAFORTH CLINIC DR, A. McMASTER, M.B, Graduate of University of Toronto ?Au. L. BRADY, M.D. Graduate of University of Toronto The Clinic is fully equipped with complete and modern X-ray and other up-to-date diagnostic and therapeutics equipment. Dr. F. J. R. Forster, Specialist in diseases of the ear, eye, nose and throat, will be at the Clinic the first Tuesday in every month from 3 to 5 p.m. Free Well -Baby Clinicwill be held on the second and last Thursday in every month, from 1 to 2 p.m. 3687 - JOHN A. GORWILL, B.A., M.D. Physician anti Surgeon IN DR. H. H, I!OSS' OFFICE Phone 6-W • " Seaforth MARTIN-W;•STAPLETON,;B:A., M.D. Phjlaionin and Surgeon Successor to Dr. W.. 0. Sproat Phone 90-W - Seaforth DR. F. J. R. FORSTER Eye, Ear, Noce''' and: Throait Graduate in Medicine, University of Toronto. Late assistant.- New York Opthan •mei and Aural Intititute, Moorefield's Bye and Golsen $Hoare Throat Hos- e pital, London, Sig,, At COMMERCIAL y . HOTEL, SEIAFOR.PH, THIRD WED- NESDAY in each th hth, from 2 pm. to 4.30 p.m.; also .alt Seaforth Clinic neat Tuesday of 'each month. 53 Waterloo Street South, Stratford. 12.37 AUCTIONEERS HAROLD JACKSON Specialist in Farm and Household Sales. Licensed in Huron and Perth Coun- ties. Prices reasonable; satisfaction guaranteed. ` c' For information, etc., write or phone Harold Jackaon, 14 on 661, Seaforth; I't, R. 4, Seaforth. . 8768 - EDWARD W. ELLIOTT Licensed Auctioneer For Huron Correspondence promptly answered. immediate 'arrangements can be made for Sales Date at The Huron Exposi- tor, Seaforth, or by calling -Phone 243, .Clinton. 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CHAPTER VIII SYNOPSIS Despite Leonard. Borland's pro- tests ,that. his bank account is ample,- though dead, hia pretty, opera-strucik- ee lfa Doris resumes her "careen" interrupted ba her marriage at • 19 and the 'birth of two children. Borland .knows her avowed purpose, to bolster the family income, is just another sub- terfuge Hugo Lorentz, her teacher, always around, irritates him:` Af-. ter Doris gives a Town Hall' reci- tal, Cecil Carver, opera singer phones "Borland. At her hotel, Cecil says Doris has a good ,voice .but lacks style. Cecil is to sing for war veterans but hasn't the words of a certain song, He sings it And she says he has a fine baritone voice. Cecil ,Igno a 'of . Doris through Lorentte, ,says Hugo is hopelessly.,..ig love with Doris, and that Doris tortures every man she gets in her clutches. Leonard -ought to wake her up by giving a recital, she says. "Go get your- self a triumph. Hurt her where it hurts." Cecil deinands payrirent for lessons -kisses. He pays but de-• clares he loves his wife: He spends much time with Cecil, making good' progress. 'Doris tells him Jack Leighton is getting her an engagement in a movie palace. Cecil, on tour, wires him, he sings in upstate recitals, makes a hit and she gets'him an eugage- ment•-with --an opera- -company. 8 Again he makes good and tearfully • g . Cecil, tellinhim she loves him, says he's -making a man of himself and bring Doris to his feet Leon- ard further establishes himself in opera by learning a role in Faust during one morning. At the end of the run he returns to New York. . lie. is ah home waiting: for Doris. Abouteleven, o'clock Nils came home. He was the •hortseman. He had been out taking the children to school, he said,' and buying some stuff at a market. lie said he was glad to see me 'back, and I shook hands with him and asked for Christine. Christine is his wite and does the cooking, and in between acts as maid to Doris and nurse to the children. He said Christ- ine had gone with Mrs. Borland. He acted- like I must know all about it and I hated him to show I didn't, so I said, oh, of course. About a quarter to twelve the phone rang. It was Lorentz: "Borland; you'd better come down and get your wife." "Where the matter?" "Ell tell you," "Where is she?' "The Cathedral Theater. Come to the stage door. I'll, meet you." I had- a glimmer, then, of what was going on. I went out, grabbed a cab, and hustled down there. He Met me outside, took me in, and. showed me a dressing -room. I 'rapped on the ,door and went in. She was crouched on the floor leaning her head against a ohai: and a theater nurse was with her and Christine. She 'was in an awful -state: She had some kind of theatrical -look• ing dress, and her face was all twist- ed and her hands were clenched and unclenching, and I"'didn't need any- body to tell me she was giving every- thing she had to fight back, hysteria. 4.35 4.41 4.49 4.58 5.09 5.21 6.32 9.45 not enough, You try to stop. Doris when .: she gets set on something." "Couldn't you tell her the truth,.?" ',Trend you?" That stopped' me, but I was still sere. "Maybe not. But •` you started this, just the same. If you knew all this, what did you ,egg her on for? You're the one that'e been giving her lessons, from 'way back, • and tel'' -lig her how good she is, and-" "All right, Borland; granted. I'm in love with your wife. And if egging her on is what makes her like me, I'm Asuman. Yeah, I trade. on her weak- ness." • "I've socked guys for less than that." "Go ahead, if it.. does you any good. I've about got to the point where a sock would, be just one more thing. If, you think being chief lackey, to Doris is a little bit of heaven, you try it - or maybe you have tried it . This finished .me with her, if that interests you. Not because I started it. Not be- cause I egged her on. No -but I saw it. I was.thete, and saw them until' her to the cross, and rip her clothes off, and throw rotten eggs at her, and ask her how: vinegar tasted -and all the rest of it, That's unforgivable." He walked off and left me. I found a pay phone, put in a call fora private ambulance. When it came I went in the dressing -room again. Doris was up and -Christine was helping her into her coat. She was over the hysteria, but she looked like something broken and shrunken. I carried her to the ambulance, punier in it, made her lie down: Christine got in.. We started off. . At home, I carried her upstairs, un- dressed her, and put her to bed,: and called a= doctor. _ Undressing 'Doris is like pulling the petals off a flower, and a catch kept coming in my throat over how soft she was and how beau- tiful she was, and howl' she wilted into the gybed. When the doctor came he said she had to be absolutely quiet, and gave her some sleeping pills. He left, and l closed the door and sat down beside the bed. She put her hand in Mine; "Leonard." "Yes?" "I'm no good." "How do you know? They didn't ev- en give you a chance to find out." "I'm no good.". "A morning show in a picture house-" '"A. picture 'House, a vaudeville house, 'an, opera house -it's all the same. ,They're out there, and it's up to you. I'm just a punk who's been a headache to everybody she knows and who's got wise to herself at last. I've got voice, figure, looks -every- thing but what it takes. Isn"t that funny?" • "For me, you've got everything .t takes." "You knew, didn't you?" "How would I know?" "You knew. You knew all the •time I've been just rotten' to you, Leonard. All because you opposeti' Amy so-called career." "1' didn't oppose it."• '"No, but you didn't belie`t^e in e it. That was what made me so furious. You were willing to let me do what - She Was in rel. awful state. She had on 'sone kind of theatrical- , looking dress, and her face was all twisted. • I went out in the corrittor with Lor- entz. "What's this about?" "She got the bird." There it was again, this thing that Cecil had said if I ever heard I'I never forget. "She sang here, then?" "It didn't get that far. She went out there to sing. Then they let'her have It. It Was murder3' "Just didn't like her, hey??" ' "She „got too rpuch of a build -up -- in the papers." ' "I haven't,, seen the' papers. I've been away." "Yeah, I know , . Socialite em- braces stage career -that kind of stuff, It was all ' wrong, and they were ready for her, Just one of those nice morning crowds." I began to get sore. "It would seem to me you sh'otild have had more sense than to put her on here." -;'T didn't." "Oh, you did your part." "1 pleaded with her not to do it Listen, Bor•ltnd�: I'm, not kidded boat borne and 1 dofr't think you are, either. She can't sing for buttons. I tried my best 'to hemi her off. 1 even Vent to Leighton. I scared hipl,. but ever -I. wanted to do, but you wouldn't believe I could sing. I ,hated you for - it.' "Only for that?' "Only for that . . . Oh, you mean Hugo and Leighton and all my other official hand -kissers? Don't be silly. I had to tease you a little didn't„ I? But that only showed I cared whether you cared." "Then you do care?" - "What do you think?" Doris took my .head in her hands, and kissed my eyes and my brow and cheeks; as, though I were something to holy for her to be worthy to touch, and ll' was so happy I couldn't even talk. 1 sat there a long time, my heard'' against hers, while she held my hand against her cheek, 'and. no* and then kissed it. " . '. . The pills are work - nig,' "You ?went to sleep?" "No, I dont want to. I. could. stay this way forever. But I can't help %a, "I'll leave you.' • , `IfisErlete'.' t itisSed liht', and she i)ut her arms .around nte, and sighed .d sleepy Tittle sigh, Then •she Stnxled, and X tip grid out, I hen a bite to eat, Wo.t down,to the office, and' had• a look at what mail there was. Then I sat;, down at the desk, hooked my heels on the top, and tried to keep my head from swim- ming till it would be time to go back to Doris. I was so excited I wanted to laugh all the time;''but a cold feel- ing began to creep up my back, and 'pretty Soon I couldn't light it off any more. Items about Cecil..I had to see her, I knew that, I had to put. it on the line 'hoiv I felt about Doris. and ,:how she felt about me, and there could be •but one answer "to that. Cecil and I, we would have to break. I tried to tell myself she wouldn't aspect to see me for a day or so, that if I just let things go along she would make the move anyway. It was no good. I• had to see her, and• -I couldn't stall. I walked around to her hotel. She 'had the same suite, the same piano ,the same piles of music lying around. She had left the door from the lobby, and when I went in she was ly- ing the sofa, staring at the wall, and didn't even say hello. I sat down and asked her how she felt after the trip., She said all right. I asked her when her rehearsals started.' She said to- morrow. I said that was swell. "What is it, Leonard?" Her voice sounded 'dry, and mine was shaky when I answered, "Something hap- pened." I ... "Yes, I heard." "It -broke -her up.' "It generally does." "It's -made . her feel different - about a lot of things. Aboutuite a. few things." "Go on; Leonard. What -•did you, come here to tell me? Say it." "She wants me back." "An.d .you?„ "I want her back, too." "All eight." ,She closed her eyes. There was no more to say and I knew it. I ought to have walked, out of there then. I couldn't 'do it. I at least wanted her to know how I felt about her, how much, she 'meant to me. I went over, sat down beside her, took her hand. "Cecil, there's a _lot of things I'd like to say." "Yes, I know." "About how ' swell ybu've been, about how much I-" "Good -by, Leonard." "1 wanted to tell you--"- . ;`There's only one thing a man ever has to tell a woman. You -can't tell me that; I know you can't tell me that; we've been- all over it - don't offer me consolation prizes." • • "All right, then. Good -by." I bent over and kissed her. She didn't open her eyes, didn't move. "There's only one thing 1 ask, Leonard." "Then answer 'is yes, whatever it it," "Don't come back." "What?" "Don't come back . . . You're going now. You're going with all my best wishes and there's no bitterness. 'I give you 'my word on that. You've been decent to me and I've no complaints.. You haven't lied to me, and if it hasn't turned out as I thought it would that's not my 'fault',, not yours. But -don't come back. When you go -out of that door, you go out of thy life. You'll be a Memory, nothing more. A sweet, terrible memory perhaps -but I'll do my own grieving. Only -don't come back. • "I had sort of hoped-" "Ah!" "What's the matter?" "You had sort of hoped that after this little honeymoon blows up -say, in another Week -you could give me a.,ririg, and come on over and start up again just as if nothing had happen- ed." - "No. I hoped we could be friends." "That's .what you think you hoped. You know in your heart it was some- thing else. Ali right, you're going back to her. She's had a bad morning and been hurt, and you feel sorry for her, and she's 'whistled at you and you're running back. But remen ber what I say, Leonard: .You're going _back on her terms, not? yours. You're still her Tittle whimpering •lapdog, and if you think she's not going to dump you down on the floor or sell you to the gypsies just as soon as this blows over, you're mistaken. That woman is not licked until yoti've licked her, and if you think this is licking her it's more than I do." "No.' You're wrong. Doris has had ]ler les`son." "All right, I'm wrong. For your sake, I hope so. But --don't come back. Don't come running to me again. I'll not be a hot towel -for you or any- body." "Then friendship's out?" "It is. I'm sorry." "All right." "Come\ here," She pulled me down ,hod kissed« me, and turned ,away quick and motioned me out . . (ntinued Next Week) Never despair; but if you do, work on in despalr.-Burke. No posgesston is gratifying without _comiralnion.-Seaneea:.•- •., the.' t=lorine ,1'rarit 1.. The Prime "it/ininter a,nd' mens. heirs of :the G•oveu Uneut urge eleetore to, vote for ".yes' in' April 27 plebis- c1=tf!• l neetion before electors; "Aire you in .favor of releasing the government from any obligation arising out of, any past commitatents. reetrictiug the methods of.. raising men -tar military service?" . - e. Headquarters of Canadian Army in Great Britain formed under Lt.- Gen. t:Gen. McNaughton, Officer Command- ing, Army consists of two corps. Act- ing Lt. -Gen. Crerar, former chief of General Staff, commands one of the corps. ,Officer commanding other corps" not yet appointed. - 3. 'Maj. Gen. B. W. Browne appoint- ed Director -General of Reserve Army in Canada. Reserve Army will have most modernr•'equi'pment.and weapons with eleven brigades across• the coun- try, equivalent to approximately four divisions. This year, Reserve' Ar•rpy will train 40 days, over week -ends, and at mili- tary camps during the summer, with 55 days for officers; N.C.O.'s . and spe- cialists. It trains men 19 to 35 in medical categories lower than "B"; men from 19 to 35 granted or en- titled to postponement of compulsory military'. service, such as farmers .and key, men in essential industries; men from 35 to. 50, and men -from 30 to 35 in medical categories "A' or ".B"; young men below the enlistment age for the regular army. 4. Forty guerilla units organized' 'among outdoors men along the Paci- fic coast. 5. Canadian soldiers to receive in- tensive training in commando add an- ti -paratroop tricots. . 6. Financial aid up to approximate- ly $300 a year per'student to be giv- en science, engineering ;and medical students in Quebec's universities, through 'plan worked out by Training Branch (Federal Department_ of La- bor), the Provincial. Government and the Defence 'Department. Offer to participate in plan made' to all pro-- inoes. So far, Quebec alone has ac- cepted.• 7. Income tax collections during fiscal year ended March Si totalled $652,344,801, an increase of $380,492,- 114 over collections in 1940-41. 8. Five -cents -a -bushel, maximum in= crease in prices of potatoes to be per- mitted in ,each of the three . months of April, May and June. Increase is to cover waste in storage from sprout- ing, rotting and shrinkage. 9.. J. R. Nicholson, 'Deputy Control- ler of .Supplies, will manage Polymer Corporation Limited, the ewly" form- ed Government com any charged with age to veor 'long h9t rs c t�h>?2 able,: They •a,dviged. hila to Iger aq a , r turn to s4n1ethiug that �U.ouidt Al' 'him forget- the war for ;an: Noll '`, two. . For this sort of relief both in, Tax;, taro " and in Canada, -gardening " bas been universally recommendedf and surrounded .by grass, flowers, • shrub. bery or trim rows of thriving vege tables,'a man', or woman will soon have tired nerves restored. One `can get out and weed, hoe or trim the greet when it would be impossible to sit down and read or keit. Many doc- tors declare there is sereething .heal - :re 'tbout digging in the clean, fresh earth, aed one doesn't burn up a lot of gasoline in finding it. Cultivation a Major Factor eana1Iy all the difference between a fire, thriving garden that one likes to show-off to the the neighbors and the kind a man slinks- away from -to play golf, is one or two thorough cul- tivations. 'Before the garden is planted it should be spaded or plow- ed thoroughly, then just as the seeds or plants go in it should be cuitivat- a production of synthetic rubber in Canada. 10. George S. Gray appointed Tran- sit Controller in succession to W. i. Lynch, resigned. Mr. Gray was for- merly deputy Traffic Controller,. Jules Archambault, Montreal, appointed As- sociate Transit Controller, 11. All orders on books of Canadian steel producers at Dec. 1, 1941, still unfilled, have been cancelled and must be treated as new orders subject to approval of Steel Controller, About 500,000 tons affected by cancellation. 12. To ensure maintenance of essen- tial communications in • war emerg- ency,. telephone services placed un4er stringent priority ratings. To conserve Canadian -supplies of„ essential materials, over 800 addition- al commodities placed under export control regulations. 13. Bureau of Statistics index of physieal volume of business for first two months of 1.942 stood at 157.5, representing a gain of 7.2 per cent. over same months one year ago. ,14. Further slight decline in em- ployment of 0.3 per cent. on Febru- ary 1, as°against January 1 Crude index on February 1, however, 22 per cent higher than a year age 15, Dominion Bureau of Statistics cost of living index increased from 1.15.7..on'-February 2, to 115.9 on Mar. 2. Wartime increase: 15 per cent. 16. Operating revenues of Canadian railways for 1941 amounted to $533,- 332,774, the second largest revenue earned 'iii'"any year' and'eely 4.6 per oent below peak year of 1928. - • is 111 11: �sY>j4 P x 00f5.7 ed or raked fine ''When plants are comrnb through,' old ggr,,`. deners advise another - thorough out., -eivation, and. a couple More at ten, gd1_s'.ant21 a1S late?. '.an.. ' This May sound like a lot of works, but it is surprisittg . now .easy it is' carried out early and regularly Th weeds never get a chance to grow ani. the soil to bake. On the other hand, even in dry weather most vegetalbles. win come' right along,.if the ,soil about them is kept fine -and crumbly. This work will be much easier if one has the proper tools, ,a fairly 'nig, hand -drawn cultivator .for small vege- table gardens, a wheel hoe o • even small tractor for. the larger ones. , Thinning Will. Pay Another i/mpoi•tant job that looks harder than it realty is is ,thinning. No vegetable can devel'op .properly unless ,it has plenty of room. Small things like carrots need about three inches between, • beets 0o'it 'fork. corn three sprouts to the hill: -With tine seed enrich drudgery Qan be say - ed' by soiling thinly in else first place. With flowers that ate, l Gown freer. seed, thinning its oquail; r important. They must hale ;,caul•ave ,p" will grow spindly and brew; sews prob.rb- ly in the first windstorm, . Spread Sowings Modern gardeners spread their sow- ing over two or three weeks.. -The . old habit of putting in the whole gar- den on one Saturday afternoon was not a good one. 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