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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1944-06-16, Page 7• Berrlstersa Soliattors► Ei P* Oor D. McConnneil s. B. Glenn Hai; ...aohei*ORTfi ONT. Telephone 174 K. I. McLEA14. ,. Barrister, Solicitor,,,E . ; •" . - SEAFOR'T$ - ,ONumIQ, Branch Office -= fi'ic Seneall Homan SeafortIi Phone 118 ' Phonp 173' MEDICAL SL•EORTR CLINIC - r R. E. As MoMASTER, M,B. Graduate of University of Toronto e• The Clinic is fully equipped with complete and. modern X-ragend other asp-o•date diagnostic . and therapeutics equipment. Dr. T. d: R. Forster, Specialist in diseases of the eat, eyes' nose ' and throat, will: be at the Clinic the first • Tuesday 1n. 'every ,month front 3 to b p.m. Free Wellala'beieClinic will be held'. on the second 'and last Thursday in ever y month from 1 to .2 p.m. JOHN A. GORWILL, B.A., M.D. Physicianand Surgeon IN DR. ° $.H. ROSS' OFFICE 'donee; Office. 6-W Res. 5-J Seaforth • e. MARTIN W. STAPLETON, B.A., M.D. Physician and Surgeon. Buccaneer to Dr. W. 0. • Sproat Phone 90-W - Seaforth • DR. F. J., R. FORSTER' -• Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Graduate in 'Medicine, University of "Late assistant `New York Opthal- mnei and Aura,!- Institute, Moorefield's Stye and Golden.'Square Throat Hos- pital, Iendon, Eiig. At COMMERCIAL. HOTEL, SEApORTH, THIRD WED- NESDAY in each, anonth, from 2 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.;, also at Seaforth Clinic drat Tuesday of each, month. ,53 Waterloo' Street South, Stratford: AUCTIONEERS HAROLD JACKSON Specialist in Farm and Household Sales.: ' Licensed in Huron and Perth Coun- ties, rices reN nable, satisfaction uara teed; For iftfo�-►atioa, etc., write or phone HAROLD 'JACKSON, X14 bn 661, Sea= forth; R.R. 4, :Seaforth. ' . ... • EDWARD W. ELLIOTT Licensed Auctioneer For Huron Correspondence promptly answered: immediate arrangementscan be made for Sales Dates at The Hurcin Exposi- tor, Seaforth, or by. calling Phone 203, Clinton. .Charges moderate and satis- faction guaranteed: v, r PERCY C. 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Together, without another word, they left the •room, ig- nored' g-nored' the lift and walked up • the noble staircase, passing under what seemed to ' them -to be the curious eyes of men and women who had gone over, gone up and'gone oh, and who had had their own troubles, .mis-. understandings, and 'made their own mistakes. They entered Helen's dressing, room together, parted with one long hand- shake and eyes that didn't meet. The same name 'was in, the hearts of both -'-and that was', Jean. • PART IV It, seemed to Gamlingay.that; as day after day went ,by,. the invisible Jean wag'holding the sword of Drifeiscles oven that Park Avenue house. With the instinct 'for drama • and thekeen uclouded eye that are just as essen- tial to A. novelist as construction and technique; .he found himself watching Farquhar and his wife with ;almost bated breath. , And. an the while, by loving the wife ,and. liking the husband, he: was rY ••story tin himself. ' • Before the arrival of Farquhar, with the trouble in his eyes, he had made up his' mind to -storm Helen's citadel with every one of his guns. He had :many batteries,' too: He possessed, and of •course he knew it, distinction, charm, whimsicality, hunger, the cun- ning of words and, above all, a fam- ous;;iiam.e. The.eombination of, these, and especially the last and biggest, was sufficiently powerful to break down the Weak defences of the aver- age 'woman any day of the week. They had already borne down diose of the many .with whom he had been men- tally in love. • By throwing his plans into chaos in order to follow Helen, he had 'com- pletely ruined the yearly: delight of 'watching the wonders, of. spring in his lovely garden.. in the heart of the Surrey Hills: -Not for years • had he permitted anything to drag him away from this delicious excitement, when, Whether the weather was goodorbad. and it. was generally bad, he had de- eted all his leisure to watcbing• the arrival of the crocus, the return •of the swallovf, , and 'the determined' bursting of 'hedges with all their lit tie red,.eyes. Work and philandering, the social push in London; the arrival - of his friends" in the old and changing city from every part of the world, like homing pigeons, never had been•able to hold-, him. But Helen had proved herself to be an -irresistible magnet, and.. for'ehe'firs!t. time iii the whole of bis life she had made him miss the yearly sensation of rural life - • the courtship and mating of birds, the slow lengthen(ng of the days Which so gladly emerged from winter, the re- awakening of those glorious English' trees .which .stood out .against the sky as living tributes to a courageous country -the proofs of heredity, .of tradition, of pride and of the survival of the fittest -the yearly tragic scene' of the devoted hen who, having brought to life a brood of' ducklings, screamed in horror and fright on the edge of a weedy pond when they.• took to the water witii,quaeks of glee. Farquhar had ruined the attack. This man, with his curious reserve, was decen.t.. He played •cricket. His friendship and fairness made it im- possible for Gamlingay to cheat. Then too, he was moved .to• deep sympathy as much by what he saw under the surface as by the -little that he was told of the parental disappointment and despair, perplexity and bewilder- ment which Farquhar was undergo- ing The worst of, It was that, in .spite of the fact that when he had ltiesed Helen anti- found 'her marble, poured out his love with eloquence and earn- ed her laughter, there bad leen Indi- cations -by looks, by an oecasional lingering touch and by ,a sometimes regretful retreat -to • make him be.: Neve that if he had.pressed forward with all his'. reserves he, might have carried the barbed wire entangle- ments behind wliicli she had canning, le placed herself. When in her car .the' night before Farquhar's arrival, she had. said "Don't,"• and drawn • herself away, there had been a contradictory invi- tation in het voice wblch had sent the blood, to his brain, -' That very night, hoe, when he had withdrawn his tanks and athlete guns after that talk with the grave -eyed Farquhar, she had let him see, as' nev- er•before---by a gesture, by a broken sentence, by a sigh -that he .had made his mark on -her heart, . , , And so ,he gee esented Jean. The armistice w her achievement, at the bottom of i 1. Nothing was plainer than that s, , and only She, had brought about' the arrested devel- opment of his fiery Dien, tied those of his host, and Helen. All three were afloat in the • same beat, drifting and impotent, Waiting to. receive from Miss Mussolini a gracious and patron- izing obit which would give seine iin- ti n of wh t e e was s dic o a hu' a tferill front. g Outwardly it �seefned hd though notT%ing !tad lyatiiieia'ed ,' Helen �i+erit as what into • Otho wort a ex -and duly' bonne ,out , again ::She. laughed and *Wed, went grow 4pbtrtst tavtz „frena• otOta to 'concert, irom dinn�ar'to euPPer,and wore her usual ercpression of ironic enigypzent.' "When in` New York do as New York does," was.••' her motto and she did' it to the •hnt. Farquhar spent aimless hours with his books, standing with his bapi*,4',�o the _fireplace with an empty pipe in his,.teeth, thinking. backwards and for wards -and round" In ,circles --not of himself, bat of 'Jean.......- And in.se f -defence aryl Auger Gam- lingay shut-iimself up in, the sitting - room and lived with. his_churacters„ In what •way, and hew. soon, would the sword fall.?.. Wealth and the won- dere of "wireless could do not'bing •1 this case. On went. that house and its routine, the roar of the city • and the strange events of the world. But these three peoples; . father, mother' and .lower, were prisoners of hope. . • Finally came a,..cabie--addressed to Helen. And in this Jean 'was affable enough to announce that she was with Aunt ,Anastasia. Love-. In the course of posts, days.later, a, letter arrived bearing an English stamp. This also was addressed to Helen. Farquhar carried it to the breakfast table which he shared with Gamlieeay. He knew the handwriting --so upright and round -though Jean bad been an infrequent correspondent. on. her way up the ladder of life. ;He would have given his ears to open it, to have received. it. . He kept his eyes on it throughout the meat, and wished :to' God that Helen had-. gone to bed reasonably early,,, instead of at four in the morn- ing, so that, .without inconsideration, he might have taken , it' up to .her room. Being unable eventually, to bear the appalling strain, 4 amlingay said: "Open it, why don't you? Damn it, you're a partner in this deal." And Farquhar was sorely tempted. The, handle of a •butter -knife itched in his eager hand. "' But . he said: • "N,o: There may be things between Jean and her mother that I ought not to know. They've.;a1- ways been together while- I've been mostly away." "Oh, yes.' Well. Excuse me, will you? I'll buzz off to my room. •Far- gnhar, ,this ` thing's .getting on my nerves, I may tell you. Dash it, I'm beginning to feel almost as much her father as• you are, man." "Well That's not saying much. You're a dirty dog to desert me." But •Gamlingay sprang to ,his feet, pounded three times round the table in that enormous room, and collided on the way out with a footman, who received his bursts of"hurses with an open mouth. , " • Having tirade a habit of controlling himself as a matter of form and caste, Farquhar remained at_ the table, `hdugh- he let his 'coffee grow cold. He (balanced the morning ; paper against the most convenient thing'and read it with grim determination trona the front page to the last. The name of Caillaux was in headlines and so was . that 'of Cook. He saw that the franc had fallen again, that tate num- ber of unemployed in England had risen, that the British coal 'owners hail. refused to meet the miners' re- presentatives, and that -Mr. Baldwin was being persuaded to avert the trouble in May.by granting another subsidy which must come out of the leaner and-Ieaner pockets of'the men who worked without striking - the long-suffering honest men. Every- where disturbance, unrest, danger, the feeble and'almost dishonest ut- terances of the world's politicians, the stultification of republics, the epidem- ic of •feeble dictators, the unsporting rivalry in. sports. What a mess! What a farrago of chaos. What an amazing exhi6itfon• of racial jealousy and hat- red, and the frightful lack of faith - Farquhar had two new words. He had added faith to compensation and grpped for the meaning cif both. At last he went into the morning - room, taking the letter with him. He marched up and down like a caged animal. A poor beast who should be in the open, free, with elbow room. Andit was not until ..half -past eleven that Helen put -in an appearance,' ac- tually as fresh as paint, Had she man- aged to sleep through wars and riots and earthquakes as she said she did? There was a small :suspicious line on her forehead, it seemed 'to him. '"No wonder you have such an ad- mirable waits," . she said. "I believe you take as much exercise as I do: I've rowed my beat for two miles this morning, galloPe,d my mechanical horse several tunes round the park. and pedalled a bicycle into the village and back without getting off at the hills." He pointed•to the letter which •fie had • placed against the face of the Clock. , Her eyes flickered -And- without the slightest camouflage she permit- ted herself to gasp. "From Jean?" she asked eagerly, though with a strange hesitation she held her place at the door. `"From. Jean." • • "Why didn't you open it?" "Because it's addressed• to you." "Sir, Erskine Daibeattie, Farquhar," she said, with a break in her voice; "a very white knight indeed." She bowed quite gravely, though he suspected her of sarcasm, and then, made a• rush for the letter. "I'll read it ,aloud," she said, break - ng ,it ,.open.... "No, look it over first." Good, heavens, this man was fair. A really most excellent sportsman. It 'has a thousand pities.that they had been brought together like royalty 1 stead of wimple oouls. 4There might have been a son Wry ry d`eltbernte1y she started to read the 10n� u g dbpect letter 'aclthorit the slimateSN d �nrs mean Utile 1V1 ' t , 1i" ill. 440' alt tkii d0'il pigectl, tot" Barton `Squad: , Br, a. strdkke asf Iti l31 remembered -4,e. e 'Aunt Anastasj a wi. e1 .__.r.. ft .esti , � �re ship, Rather brainy', I think. , i hadn't titer wouldn't . ha ' v "•oo ' eb'e m . e .. n n a. the house My . cousins seear, to' regard it as kind of cheap lintel- and bring thei Iriends in shoals. , - e.' mucso force a 'elgarh'ette as p it1z'ove h ``;Lh' ah 1401 -OIL It? l9asi'. trtt,til lata evenin In Yact after 'the coni b,i4eu assault . of the .4011y ' Oen., Unele and: his,- iI,Sxitltton",-that she boca?pne nob a:l OVA. p. It'was then tha4 the eai'led life itiarzist,.a cita•r;<at an.. the Coue of musico and went -pff to • the Cafe ., de ratio to. c1,a14co wj'•th her little sot 1 didn't ,go Soden w it seeme. 10 me that ;pdzz; , was 'b1'a•sphemy atl:er a wilts I lin d `heard that :dal', 1 stayed behind to Wait, Think! There • a e queer. word •for roe! -Lying on the s,9fa in tae drawing -room I heard my-unele a talklug through a sort of mist, }Je WAS' r a prophet of gloom. He talked nbmt. standing on. . the. edge of a precipice, t of a revolution, of dying industries,. t anarchy,, strikes, the sucMng, of his a- blood by taxation, the, pitiless extract - tion of, _English money' by the people d • in Washington. Aunt Anastasia was cross-stitching during this harangue,. She seemed te, • be like a comfortable hen who per- ' sists in laying eggs :and going on r_ with . her duty in spite of droughts or rain. At the end of it I heard her say; 'I think you're .wrong, my -deer, Read Pepys;: arid! you will see : that Precisely the same conditions existed in the reign of. Charles II, or whoever was king at that time. Cheer up; and oon't fret S•ourself to fiddleestiings by the movement°•of the world. I'm not going to. I've got tar too' much to do.' 'Chen she rose and rustled her fea- thers, wobbled ,across• to the piano and played^ `Tonnmy, make roam for your uncle,' which she sang the whole way through. Uncle endured it to the bitter end, 'being a good old sport, then threw his cigar into the fire, said "My God!' and left the room. He probably went into the library, wrote a letter to the Morning Post and doped himself with whiskey before -groping. his way to bed..._ A ..queer thing, life, I. wonder 'why we were born! • Good night, my beautiful alutesie. Look out for. Gam- lingay, Jean. P.S.1, can't ask you to kiss Father for me. It would disturb the set of his hair. So I shall put one for' him in this, although I feel that. it's'ra- ther like my kissing a man at a par- ty who didn't, catch my name. There was "a very long moment' of silence, during which the rhythem of New York, that hard, staccato rhythm vibrated through the city. Then Far - Y.. quhar spoke,, and. his voice ' Was flat and dull. He said: "You might have skip- ped the postscript." "Yes," said Helen; "I'm sorry. But I suppose it's perfectly natural that chickens come home. to roost." Ii Farquhar .went up to his . dressing room. It was his 'intention at that Moment to' give orders to his valet to bring out the necessary :-bags.; for, a trans-Atlantic crossing. He was' in the .mood to get on the telephone im- mediately, much as he hated the •thing, to ring up the office. of. the White Star.Line. and find out which 'of their ships was sailing at the end of the week. He was resentft l• -as well.a;s-as It seemed to him to ,be damned stupid to have burned his boats to no par, pose, to have• chucked happiness and beauty• and found that all his good in-. I don't know whys I'm here. I don know anything abdut anything, leas of all myself: Bur,, here I am - an :have. been for several amusing days •Same • old life, saw old people, an preciSely the same, cid jazz. But no the .life or the �periion, whom I begin to think is a max Aunt Anastasia LL'gobbled like a turkey when I found her at afternoon tea and my name ons cousins received_ me as though I Hied next door.•Nolte of them shook hands., They nodded with frozen fac es and carried .onµ 'They were having a :bloodless battle over the Sitwell tosh4 And when 'Uncle, standing with his 'legs apart in front of the fireplace the usual Enghnln •perch -gave out gloomy, waxwings o ,imipending revolu- tion and national disaster as he al- ways does, they nali1i no more atten- tion than if he lied been talking over the radio on how to.tar the roads. There were one or;,two `young things. there whose facer# were entirely new, and as Aunt is a precipitate woman, I didn't know whether I ought to treat them as cousins or nr t. She might se easily. have added to the population since I sew' her a •few months ago. For alt Uncle's talk about being broke'. and ready :for the dole, the house has three huge cars, an army of servants, and food all over the place. There are tee and biscuits be- fore breakfast -though the boys have a glass of champagne-eiinore `tea and biscuits at eleven o'e,;.ock, after a breakfast of baked meats,. and the sort of lunch that we had at Oxford when we went to • see Bill last year. Then there is the regular tea with muffins' and crumpets, shrimps, wa ter' cress, and gorgeously gooey toast. Then dinner, .a rite; an'affair,, a function, at which, every night, so ar, Uncle has delivered himself, quite unnoticed, of .a' biter lecture on the decay of the manners of the younger generation, because ` they smoke be - ore port. He •id the: only person- who as lectured me about coming away, lone --poor old, despised and ridicut= d person who. is d missed by his family as a die-hardl;:•a Ainotberiur,, oiig ago extinct. At first he didnt seem to realize., I was not surro'iieded, as usual., y a maid, a dragositand you. When Phis dawned upon 'm, some hours iter my arrival *lame up to me r. the drawing -room; piit his hand on my shoulder, an 1 onsternatign an e said, 'am I to unde ave madethat tong .. d dangerous visaing wholly Sh ttendedl?' I said, Of course. Why not? My cousins hink nothing • of going about alone, anteing off for week -ends: with bright oung people. _Why shouldn't I cross u one of the sea hotels.?' He groan - d and threw up his hands. `Don't alk to me about my children,' ire aid 'They're nothing but lunatics. hey are all as mad as hatters. They re wild.' and uncontrollable. I could et. more obedience and discipline roma sheep -dog than from any one f them. I sometimes wish I were dead.' His voice trembled and. his eyes filled with tears. He lookedr..rather pathetic. It was no good arguing. He's lived beyond his time. He ought to have slipped away in the days of stage coaches and feudalism. I let it go at that. • I went to a concert this afternoon at tbat crumbling old building near Regent Street. It was crammed to the ceiling with women. The pianist might have stepped out of• one •of those gorgeous pictures in. the . Pitti Palace. I have never seen such. a,face nor have I ever heard such. playing, such clarity of tone, such electrical technique, or slich intense and poetic feeling. No wonder all, the . women round me made funny little noises like birds disturbed by a storm. -I did, had to, I couldn't help myself. x' can 'ainiost hear you laugh from here when I say that he did some- thing to my soul. He didn't pay the slightest attention to hit• audience, and didn't seem. to know that anyone was listening, oar care a 'hang. As soon as be began to play •he. went out of this world and into another. He seem- ed to hang between Heaven and earth and to have' been specially rhos• en•' as an instrument for the interpre- tation of the Works 'of' .those compos- ers who had passed oier.intol what Conan Doyle called that night when we heard him lecture, another plane, r didn't know whether I .w,as on my head 'or my heels when -a1 went into the street, and for the first time In my life• r douldn't go to'.sleep. I belle that it's the first serious thing that has ever happened to me. I am riot suggesting that' this revolu- tion was caused by the man himself - I mean as a man --but that it was the result. of the sounds he made, `those waves of melody.- At school we used to make what we called":jokee. ,about the remarks of a visitinglecturer, far above our heads, on the question of vibration. For the first time I under- stood something of what • he meant. ,Every note that was struck on , the *alio.' came on a direct lite to the innermost part of ane;- 'Went right through my hardened little skin, sent a thousand questions °sflying like a great flight of eighths,. Uncertain Where to ' o, It was perfectly hopeleag..ao attempt to sleep or even to lie itIOWn. I Spent the • ' hole night walk* 'about my NthedieuM AM the tips 0.411yaltoess. I - was Just as much fill* with echoes a's, the wit after.* pe ty, belts,, When that m •3i':play utaln nd L hear him, affil a bet our";: y�l�'. 14 J , . isofrail . 1 y ia til . ''6e abbe';; � q{r. t 'i ante. lie, s" ,1,ethlnr ,1s edit le�, ,°tarry, •,hon t'ho, •'nifet! a . 1Keo.0, ori sa l , .kno* t f f h a e 1 that b a c h h c t d y e T 'a f 'o e with y wear,' lid that you ,40 ;OP,';fo `4 in seal• of the .' , yle t slits Ise 400 I stun. oberlrent paronts 1f they even, a s crane 9f eaxl s to never ;bceu ab1:e.:,tp, -ti such a`; Incliner .aa the one which >x nope Slid .:ne;ster vwqld'` have tree; basal,. It m gh riot be too late to gp to Lii1,jtan She+preth and ray; To heli with beinggood�, -to heli ,with, increta-; ing Years and resppnsibWtiea; tit heli with conscience and youp • lige- Thae4e me back again." But would site?;.'That was ,the point, He had arrived at that sad ,period oP a mail's life when passion was bur-nld gut,, love •a friendly Beta ks meat, a - mere Companionship in.. his bitterness he waszi't sari that Lillian, with all her anibitioiis' and starved, maternal instincts now given up to that boy, could do with, hint again. That boy had all her thoughts. But, at least, he tonight head at once for London, join on with Jeane;do h's best with .patience to discover 'whet young pain it was front'' which, she was -suffering, and, unless she treated him with contempt,. lend a' helping hand. The agony, theirritability, the impotence of waiting for her de'eision, for her own discovery, was more .than he could bear. It was appalling' to' be obliged, wiiiy nilly, to ,find himself day 'after day . under the 'same roof as the woman whom he had. deliber- ately avoided for twenty five years, if no purpose could be served. This feeble, ' anaemic attempt at reconciliation - what did it ' mean? Where "could it lead to "iikcept a ser- ies of . Mutual.: hidings behind hedges of• regret? He had given up . Lillian, but Helen had never said that she in tended to retire from the affair with FGamlingay. Nor ,did she appear to realize that • although it was impos- sible to duplicate their own, case •and force Jean into a convenient marriage it was vitally important to be at hand to -guide and encourage. tier into mar- rying Northrup ' or an equally desir- able lad. • The, future of the family was entirely in her_ hands. He felt like a Brigadier -General who, in the midst of war, .had had.hua command taken away by a cursed Pol- itician: itician: Or worse,, perhaps, than that. Like` a man whose luxurious private train had been signalled off the main line and shunted into a siding. But he came to .no conclusion. All his lines of thought ran' into blind alleys. He wound up an hour of inde- cision by saying: Dani, damn!" If he could have seen then. by those people who had always accused him, of living for himself, what a yell of laughter k><e would have provided. them. with! Helen had gone out. Her list was as •full; as ever. An hour of music at the Plaza arranged by de Segurola, a lunch "with twenty women, bridge,. a the danaant. Not even Jean had. been able to put a dragoon her wheel. She was running round and round af- ter her tail in her astonishing way - her most foolish and wasteful way. He wished to God that he had some - Dr. Chase's O intmen for Chofinq Skin /rr'tations Eczema thing• to dos.'it wag ing to do' and no;mrh.ei lgnged 1 o ,:zrumeroui 0] ,ba11dly .kuona lo.`tl bad 'beeii "in Du"rt mien W.*.workin was ta: afiy `F ,,•,, to. • vthose i? ,, �1 time not 'Ute ,d s os' in a game, It'_ woe;;,, alter•' having kic04 dressing -room, he dared about alruless'iy Poi m raozan Ile was p t off Carse treasu es,: 44;to ng,. e,4 'pc. for the only one„ that ever hail re nattered •T,,iiljat--fa,r 'away..' t• ",,,,. But just as. he •had •taken. inns• yta in front of•. the Srepincq' •i then' r ing-room, of which he" was coli "bet ly fed=up, Gamlingay carie in He waw- not gam'bolluig, ?and gay at • ;: that moment. 'Far from it, ta;duce . face wore an expression of melan , choly -and dejection His comic;`tlou' ble' tie was wdthout its''usual Iran He , was untidy. Hie • thick black haWwrtte ': streaks of grey showed' the marks off restless fingers.. Be douched tri; ^shot >- a glance at his host and, having 'nethr ing to say, turned hiss back and 'cross -M b ... . ed to one' of the window:. Thiel -Km of` apartment houses 'opposite no longer! seemed amusing' by their fantastic'. height. They were, on the contrary, full of menace. They bore down up •° ott his spirit. He resented:'. the way its }yh'ich they cut off the light and inter. fared with the sky- The 'g Been patch. down the• • middle,. of the street ye- -minded him, though onlyfaintly, ofx - -- an that he was Missing. What an ass hehad been to leave his garden has frees; his. dog, hist chickens, Luis-: view . • of Hindhead, his rambler roses,`'. and>• the swallows that • scooted round the • ancient gables of his house. Finally he wheeled about. "I say," he said, "I'm lonely." "So, am I;"- said Farquhar. "Are you? Oh. Weil, that improves the state ofthings and makes one feel better. Itra always rather .cheer- ing to meeta man who's= suffering from the same disease.". "Think. so?" "Sure of it." Be eras:. . distinctly more cheerful. "It's jolly to talk about . • mutual symptoms, .especially if'. y thetoy're nerves. Which bell do Tofu' ring for cocktails? It's 'never too ear- 1drink,' Feeling better, too, Farquhar put s' -'finger -en -th eronly beltrthereWas and gave orders to the ftiotnean for half ' a dozen Martinis. They could easily drink three apiece. (Continued Next Week) GJ • Before you order dinner at a restaurant, you consult the bill -of -fare. 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It is time well spent . . always! • YOUR LOCAL PAPER IS YOUR BUYING GUIDE Avoid time -wasting, money -wasting de - ours on the road to merchandise valtu,e. Read the advertising "road maps" McLE;AN RHOS tin she s • +1